02. Know That You Are Going To Suffer

Welcome to track number. Two of the sufferings of Christ. Now, the first suffering is to know that you are going to suffer. Do you understand? It's a very terrible psychological trauma. Amen. And to know that you're going to suffer and to go towards it. I'll, I'll mention, you know Juanita a lot because it's just happened. So I always talk about things that have happened. When she died, we didn't expect her to die. Even on the morning that she died, we were going to play golf. We didn't. There was no, there's no sign or anything that something like this was about to happen. It was Christmas time. We're getting ready to enjoy Christmas when all these things came up when she died, our problem was that we were so shocked that this had befallen us. So now we were debating. Would it have been better to know that you are going to die and then you just go through it knowing that the person is going to die, is going to die, is going to die, is going to die, going to die, or it happens suddenly. Which one is better? Huh. Who? Who will vote for suddenly and who will vote for You know you are going to Which one is easier suddenly or you know, OK, look, we are voting. It's only you can only be here or here. Who is voting for suddenly? OK, Who is voting for you know you are going to. OK, now that will be up to you to discover. Yeah, you can't really tell. Maybe if you have cancer or somebody has cancer and they tell you you're going to die. You don't know what you will go through the experience. Have you've seen one before? And they tell you and you are going through the motions. You see yourself in a coffin. You think about the funeral. You think about those who will come. And I know somebody who died. He had planned, he said his obituary. He said when he died, this person shouldn't bath him. These people shouldn't bath him. And these people should be on his obituary. These people should not be on air. This one shouldn't happen. He should be buried here. These people shouldn't come. Yeah. One time I told somebody that, you know, I told him, listen, you are going to die because he was going to die and he wasn't being told clearly that he was going to die. He was just saying so many things. I said, look, I need to tell you so that you understand what is happening very clearly. I said you are going to die unless God heals you, you are going to die soon, very soon. When I told him look at me and best out crying a grown up and because a certain emotion sweeps you when you or sweeps over you. When you think of that, do you understand it is that that keeps people away from full time ministry? Well, when I am inviting to full time ministry, I'm inviting you to suffer. Yeah. All the old layers, the old lay people, those who have been lay, lay ministry for a long time. Yeah. That it is that suffering that keeps them back, the knowledge that I will suffer. Yeah. The old layers, they've been lay lay chiefs, lay ministry chiefs for years. Because I explain it to you. I said, look, you have been what you call it a lay person for years. You have secured yourself, you have done everything to make your life as comfortable as possible, you understand, for so many years and you are coming to work in the ministry now. Do you want to be paid more than somebody who since he finished school or since he said that he has been there for so many years and you have been searching through the world to find everything you can find for yourself. And you've now come and you want to be at the, you are going to start at the bottom of the ladder. That is it. I mean, yourself should want to start at the bottom because if you don't start at the bottom, later on when you are at the top, somebody who is supposed to come from the bottom will come from the top. Yeah. The most 2 successful old layers that I have seen who have seen it and been able to breakthrough are pasta and TEFL and Pasta NIA Jedu. Both of them were wealthy, successful rich people with high, very high incomes in high, very high brackets of income. And they left what they were doing knowing what? Because we'll tell you before and when we tell you, see, it's a long jump like that. As soon as you say that in the middle, they fall into the sand. That's a long jump before they get to the triple jump and then the pole vault. How can you come? A lot of presenter for who he tried to secure both cars for the future, for this this for that car, for himself, his wife, 4 wheel drive so many things to secure himself for the future before he suffers to to avoid the suffering. Now all those cars are spoiled. But you see, and I was saying, do you want to know what is going to be or you don't you want to come without knowing? As soon as you know, you stay back. As soon as you know, you will not go. If I was to sit down, offer you and I'll tell you, look, how much are they paying you there this how much you earn in the ministry. It's far better. This, this, this, all of them would say, oh, after I mean, you know, I wanted to work for God already. God, God called me. God called me. God has called me for years. It's not. No, it's not. It's not just last week. God, God has called me. I mean, I'm an ancient of days with a call, with a calling of God on my life. God has called me long time. What is this? I'm suffering here. But they're analyzing. They're analyzing. Yeah. Because even your tithe that you paid today as your tithe may be more than what you earn and I will never change that standard. Those who have the ability to suffer for Christ to come and now and anybody says I want to be put. I don't listen to that. All I say is that the office for application is in Accra. When you arrive there with your family you apply. We we are not likely to reject you. So come, don't stay here and be saying God has called me, God has sent me to you. Anytime you come, we discuss it. That's the place where we are employing. That's the head office. We are not likely to reject you. Easy. Yeah, but that is it. That judge entry, he was here and he came to see me and he said I want to be in the ministry, came to see me privately. He said I've not, this is what I've I've not told anybody in the world. So the way you tell people is very dangerous. I said my wife does not know what I'm saying, but I want to. What's up? You are welcome, you are welcome. When you come, you come. He arrived and he's there. But now that now when we call you and you say you have to go, then you start to hear all sorts of other things. I have a subject called pastoral hypocrisy. Maybe I'll talk about that. I don't know. Oh, you don't get what I'm saying. I'm talking about the suffering of knowing that I'll be poor, knowing that I'll not have this, knowing that I'm losing this, knowing that this is going, knowing that this is what I'm going to experience and I'm going for it. Jesus said here, he says, do you know that after two days this is what I'm going to experience? You see it, after two days this is what I'm going to experience. I know what I'm going to experience and I'm going to experience it fully aware that this is what I'm going to experience and I'm going for it. I know it and I'm going for it. I don't get what I'm saying. So you see, many of us must now begin to embrace things that we know we are going to suffer. Yeah, we know. We know. When I go witnessing, they are going to slam the door on me. But you still go. You know, when I talk to the people that are going to be rude to me, you know, when I talk to, they're going to look down on me as if I'm some inferior human being. But you still go. You know what? You are going to suffer, you know, when you give this money, you will, you will be broke, but you still do it. But most of our giving, we do it with the mind to avoid the crucifixion. We will give when there will be no pain. But if this thing I give is going to lead to any kind of pain, no giving, you see, and that's what the Bible says that don't think it is strange, but I want us to always remember this scripture. It says for where is it? But to the degree, to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing. To that degree that you see something that is going to be difficult. To the degree that you still go for it, To that degree that you have been able to do what Christ did, which is to see pain, but you still go for it. You see poverty and you go for it. You see that this thing is difficulty and hardship for my children, but I'm still going for it. That's what I did in the ministry. When I came into the ministry, I knew to myself that I would never travel again. I don't know. I didn't know what could make me travel on an airplane again anywhere. I thought maybe there will be some. I don't know what kind of program that would ever give a free ticket for me to travel anywhere again. I knew that I would never own a house. So can you be in your life? You know that in two days I'll be crucified. In two days I'll never have the house again in my life. In two days time, I'll never be able to eat conflicts again. In 2 days time I will not be able to eat Nando's. In two days time I will not have Rice Krispies anymore. In two days time I'm going to be in a village. In two days time I'm going to have difficult. My children are going to start having difficulty of where to go to school. In two days time I'm going to have no more money. In two days time I'm going to suffer. And then you say, but I'm going for it. I know what my Father has sent me to do and that's what I'm going to do. I'm talking about the sufferings of Jesus Christ. That's why I said that perhaps you have to ask yourself that is it better to know that it's going to happen and it happens or you don't know that it's going to happen, it just happens. And I think there is a certain suffering that comes when you know. That is why when I told that man we are going to die, he started crying. But I never told Mrs. Saki that because she didn't know she was going to die and I didn't know she was going to die. At least I didn't know at that time that she was going to die. All of you, if you'll be honest with yourself, I'll tell if I sit down with you. I say, Doctor, how much are they pay you? 2000 lbs. Look, in the ministry you're going to get £6000 a month. What are you doing here? Immediately you say, look. The call of God has always been there. Arise and go. Arise and shine, for that light is come. The glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Arise and shine. So it means that it is because the sufferings of Christ have been laid in front of you, and you can see it, or even you suspect it is there. Then you see that everybody comes up and has a different reason. My mother, my grandmother, my father, my wife, my children. I have had each one of these before. I've had my mother before my mother, another one. I've had my grandmother recently I had my father and then I've had my child, my children. I've had one my child and I've had one my children. Mother-in-law. No, I've not heard that one before. I've not heard of mother-in-law. So God is calling and is is is asking you to value suffering rather than value the amount of money that you have, rather than value the number of degrees you have rather than value the amount of of houses that you have rather than value where the the street address of where you stay. You value suffering for God. That something is clear that when I say I'm going to fast, I will suffer, but you still do it. Amen. All right. Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest named Carefas, and they plotted together to cease Jesus by stealth and to kill him. But they were saying not during the festival, otherwise a riot might occur among the people. Amen. Now these are sufferings to have people planning against you. Have anybody plan against you before? Has anybody plotted against you before? You haven't experienced it, but you see it is a realm. That's as I said, all these are credentials. You get it that you must know. Amen. That are great to have if you have if if you have ever been at a certain place, you will see and experience oranges where people now discuss you people dislike you people don't want you and they are it's it's part of the level and you see that when you start to obey God at a certain point you will see this thing if you if you haven't seen it because you haven't reached a certain place, but at a certain point you will meet up with people who actually meet about you. Is there anybody who has had some people discussing me before? Raise your hand if you have some people. Not that you were discussed by you. I've had. Yeah. When people discuss and plan about you, you have reached somewhere in God. Many of my pastors don't understand even the book Loyalty and Disloyalty. They don't understand it, but as they progress in the ministry, then they experience it. But as you follow God, you are not greater than Jesus. If Jesus experienced Judas, you will also experience Judas. Amen. So I have experienced people plotting. When I was in school, in the medical school, I started a church. People used to have meetings about me all the time. Some of the people in my church now, they feel even shy to tell me of the meetings that were held. They discussed me. They analyzed me, whether I was called, whether I was not called, all kinds of things. One time somebody was in a bus and so many people in the bus were analyzing me, saying so many things about me, you know, and it's a very, very difficult thing to to know that people are just talking about you and saying whatever. But you see, as a Christian at this camp, you must hope that a day will come when. You know you'll be a topic who will be talking about you when it happens. You should say, wow, I've been promoted by God. I've been promoted by God. You're having a discussion about me. Even if it's you're just your family which are discussing about how weird you have become. It's a great day. You should be. I mean, you should have a party. These are what you should celebrate. No, not your birthday. It is these days, suffering days. You should have parties and call people. Come. What? What event is my suffering day? I'm having a suffering day. Party. Yeah. Although what I'm experiencing, you get it. What? Because of what I'm experiencing, All right, I'm so blessed. People are discussing me and they, they are plotting how to eliminate you, plotting how to remove you. The next one. Now, when Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper. You see, let me tell you, I'll give you another example. I remember when David was going to Jamaica, I somebody, I met somebody in Accra who told me, do I have somebody in London who is going to Jamaica and his family are not happy at all. I said what? I don't know. Who are you talking about? There's somebody on time, you say he's going to somewhere. Their family people are not happy at all about all the you see, it's a rank. I'm telling you, and this is I was talking to some people and I was asking, I was saying that look, why do you think somebody would choose this person will not choose this person. There are some things that people have experienced. Once you have not experienced it, somehow you are there. You have a nice person who has read a lot of books, but you haven't experienced certain things and you need to experience it. When you experience, you realize that this person has experienced that is still believing what he's believing, still doing what he's doing. He has earned himself a certain rank. How many are going to embrace and look for the rushing for your sufferings? Amen. Now the next one we go on. Now when Jesus was in Bethany at the House of Simon the leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster box, a very costly perfume, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at the table. But the disciples were indignant when they saw this, and they said, why this waste? For this perfume may have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor. All right. But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, why do you bother the woman? For she has done a good deed to me. For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me. But when she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial fully. I said to you that where this gospel is preaching the whole world, what this woman has done also will be spoken of in memory of her. Amen. Now what's the meaning of indignant, huh? You don't know. Is that? Is that what you're what you call it says, huh? Indignance If you are ignorant, you are shocked or angry, shocked or angry because you think that something is unjust or unfair. Hey now, another of the sufferings that you are going to that you should hope to experience, which Christ suffered all right, was the suffering of people thinking that it is unfair for you to have things. You see, where people think that it is unfair for you As for who you are and what is happening for you to have things. Amen. You see, when you get to a certain level in the ministry, people think that it is unfair for you to have maybe a certain kind of car or for you to live in a particular kind of house or for you to wear certain kind of clothes. But you see, if you work for yourself or you work at the bank and you have a certain kind of car and you have a certain kind of house, it's not a problem. After all, you work hard, isn't it? You're a hard working guy. You go to work every day, you do whatever. And so everybody knows that you are hard working. So you deserve it. That's why Pastor Richard drives the car that he drives. It's not that he doesn't deserve it because there are a whole lot of people, including some of you here who think it's unfair. Like, like, like I like who think it's unfair for him to drive a certain kind of car. Like I, I also know that the, the best car is Benz or Mercedes-Benz. If I was to choose a car that I think is a nice good car, I would, I would use a Benz. Yeah, that's a car that I'll use. But one of the sufferings that I experienced is that I am, I, I, I am constantly aware that I am surrounded by people who think it's unfair for you to have certain things, for you to end certain amounts of money, for you to have certain privileges and so on. They're all around. And in order to just continue existing and doing well in the ministry, there are some of these things you just cut off and you just stay without them because that's how they think. They think that if you are doing this other job, you should have it. I was playing G1 day when a man was standing there once Bishop Saki was tying his two laces and he was talking about me, that this guy, look, I didn't play golf there. He use a touch whatever to come and play golf. If he was working as a doctor, would he be playing golf at this time and so on. That's how they talk. That's how people think. So it takes you time because you said that people, people don't think that you should have certain privileges. So much of my life is hidden. They even they don't even think you should. You should even buy something from the shop or that usually sometimes eat it. That's why you you'll not you'll never see me shopping when you if I see you, I won't shop if I see you back. That's it. I'll never buy anything. I will never when I see you know, as oh, how are you? I'm just walking through window shopping. Hey, lest I'll be surrounded by shocked and angry, indignant members one day our the one president of a certain country's name begins with G his wife went to a particular country. Yeah, there are many countries. Germany, Guyana, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gabon. OK, now and of course Ghana is one of the countries, so Gold Coast is also there. Now his wife went shop and then some people from that country whose name begins with AG, where with this wife as she was buying a couple of things and later on I was somewhere in the country, somewhere in the country that they that she had happened to just buy some. They were discussing what she bought. Nothing. I didn't buy anything strange or anything but the discussion. And you see when sometimes, when sometimes when we come across, oh, can I, can I come with you to help you, how to help you to go shopping? No, no, no, no thank you. No, you can come. But you see many Ghanaian pastors don't know that those type of helps that you allow people to help you. You are rather staring up hatred because just like this guy, they're indignant, They, they think it's unfair that you should have something or you should do this or you should have that. And they are rather happy. They're rather happy. One time when I, when I, I bought an, we got an Audi, an Audi that I was driving. Somebody, somebody I got a message to somebody, somebody said, oh, I have lost that I had a lot of respect for Bishop. He would be, but I've lost the respect that I had for him when I saw him driving that a six yeah, that he has lost the respect. He was indignant. So you see that is why if it's one time recently I was driving my car when even you you he was somebody came was looking. So whose type of car is this? What type of car is this? Because you can't see the name of the car on my car so that I do not stare up something on you. Oh, there's no name on the car. Stay nameless. So he said what type of car? They went all around the car. So what car says Oh, he said no. He said no name car. There's no name for this car. Hey, so you see that in in the ministry, it's also a certain level of suffering where it's like what you mean you would have been my father brought one of the first smiling Benzies to Ghana, you know, smiling Benz GZ 4317. That was the car number. Beautiful car, light green. What does the, I think the first one or the second one in the country, He was driving it and it was like an aeroplane in those days. I remember sitting with him. We'll go to the racecourse in that car. I mean, what is the best? My father only drove Mercedes-Benz and my father-in-law, my wife's father only dragged Mercedes Benzes since we were we were children. You go to Germany, it's a, it's a taxi. But no matter the thing, the argument that you make, they still think it's unfair. They are happy to. They are happy to see that. Oh, I like your Bishop. He's very humble. Oh, very, very humble. Yeah. No, he's just the old car that he's drives. Oh, he's very, very humble. But oh, he's down to F. All they are trying to say is that we are happy that he's not. We we can't. We feel that he's not. He doesn't have certain things that we think he shouldn't have. One day I went shopping. I was in a particular country and I was coming. When I got to the House of where I was going, where where I was staying, I found out that some Czech members had come to the house. Now I was I would hold my shop because now an emergency where will I hide my shopping because they shouldn't see me holding a shopping bag. But that's our that's our portion. That's that's our portion. And so for me, I said to myself that my Jesus came to this world. He suffered for me. If today I don't have to drive this car, I don't have to do this. I don't have to go there. If that's what I have to do, it's nothing to me. It's nothing. I can do it. I told Pastor Richard. I said drive this old Passat. It's OK. You'll be all right. These people, I know them. You'll be all right. Don't worry. Yeah, he's happy with it. We are all happy with it. When I see I drive. My old Isuzu Trooper with the windscreen has been broken since it came. And he was, oh, humble. It's very humble. Where people think that it is a waste, well, it's just a pasta. It's just a pasta. That's when I see unbelievers. I don't talk. I know I just made my face. That's what they think and I don't have any intention of joining them. Amen. Another form of suffering is where people always suspect you of evil. Who is this girl who has come to pour hair love on Jesus? Can you live a life where you are constantly suspected? Yeah, because most men of God are suspected of evil. They're suspected alone. They must be doing something wrong. They must be sleeping with somebody. They must be doing something on the side stand that there's rarely a man of God that you hear of who you don't hear that they're suspecting of sleeping with this girl, with that girl, with this person. I remember one time I was going on follow up many, many years ago. When I got there, it was the girl was in the shop. When I got there they said they told a message, they said your your boyfriend has come and I had it. Your boyfriend, oh boyfriend IBA my boyfriend has come. He said, oh, I'll become a boyfriend. Well, whatever you are doing, there is always some question if you are a woman who is doing well, ministering to say, ah, she's, she's, she has emotional problems. Her marriage is not working. That's why she's preaching a lot. She cannot have a child. That's why she's preaching a lot. She has her own problems. Amen. Jesus said when she pulled this perfume and body, she did it to prepare me for my burial. Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached, Amen. Now the next kind of suffering is where you have just a few people who really appreciate what you are doing. Just a few people appreciate what you are doing is another form of suffering. I don't know how many people I appreciate Pastor Paul going to Venezuela. Just a few people will think that he's done a great thing. They will even ask, So what is the use of all this? And if they don't see any huge church, maybe after 10 years, maybe there's 10,000 people in Venezuela are coming to say, oh, is that a good? But what about if he doesn't see that? What about if he see 60 people there after 10 years and somebody say, ah, what is he really doing? And it's it's, is he in the ministry? You have to do things because God appreciates what you are doing and not a lot of people. And out of all these disciples, it was only this woman who appreciated what Jesus was doing. And that is how it is sometimes you find out just a few people seem to appreciate that what the man of God is and what he is doing to be a blessing to you. Amen. All right. Now one of the 12 named Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests and said, what are you willing to give me to betray him to you? And they weighed our 30 pieces of silver to him. And from then on, he began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus Christ. Now, on the first day of the unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover? Amen. And he said, go into the city to a certain man and say to him, my, the teacher says my time is near. I am to keep the Passover at your house with my disciples. Then Jesus, the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover. Amen. Another thing in the ministry, when you are serving the Lord, you'll find out that you get to a point where you don't have things yourself. You have to depend on people. Amen. You have to depend on people, he says. Go and go into a city and to a certain man and say to him, I have to keep the Passover at your house with my disciples. Are you with me now? The ministry? One of the things about the suffering is that it takes away your independence. You see, to do well with God you have to grow to the point where you suffer, to the point where you lose your independence and you are depending on others. You depend on somebody to do what you need to do and it never goes away from you. For you to do well now you need to depend on your past and some of you. You are so independent and detached, you understand, from what is going on in the ministry. So you are not close enough for you to benefit. But for you to do well in the ministry, you need to become dependent, just like Jesus depended on this man to have the Passover. That famous picture that we saw that we see with Jesus and his 12 disciples all around him, it was a picture of him in somebody's house with somebody's table and somebody's plate and somebody's food. For me to do what I'm doing, I depend on people. I depend on people giving. I depend on people suffering going to work and coming back and bring money to give offerings. And that's how the whole thing is. And and and can you get to the point where that's how your life is? Many of us in them don't want that. We want our independence. We want our own. We want to be able to point to everything and say that I got this from here. I have this from here. I have my my Passover in my room with my my own room upstairs where I made, I built my own whatever. Everything I have and everything I use is mine. I don't have a car today. I don't have a car. I just use a car that are they all belong to the church. I've written my will in my will. There's no I give this car. I give my car this to whatever because I don't have one. But some of us want to own everything. Like the first. I was coming full time. Had to buy so many cars. Yeah, one of the things that God needs to break in your life is independent spirits. You need to break that. Independent. I don't need anyone. And the people quarrel sometimes in Europe. You didn't buy my ticket to come here. I, I bought now. I've started here. I've done this this year. I did this year. In other words, I say that you didn't give me any room to have my Passover. I have my own Passover in my own place. But you must come to the place where you realize that you depend on. And as you go ahead in the ministry, you realize how you depend more on people. You know, one of the things I wish I would never do again is fundraising because I don't like it. It's the part of the mystery that I don't enjoy, but I enjoy it because I know that it's part of the sufferings that we are supposed to experience. Where you depend on these people give you have to go and beg them for money. You know, when I became an evangelist, I was asking a lot. So what does an evangelist do? And I started to look at Benny Hinn and Bonky and so on. I realized that they do two things. One is that they come and raise money and the other they go and preach. So one and you are begging for money and the other and you are preaching because the people that you are preaching to, are you listening to me? The people that you are preaching to, they cannot give you anything for all that you've preached to them. They cannot. And if you want to continue preaching to them, you need to get money to be able to go and preach to them. Messi I do understand this. So I realized my life is made-up now of two. It was like you have two main things. Go and make partners, go and get people to help you and then go and preach to the lost. That's that's my work. And it's like I can't preach to the lost without depending on the people and begging them for some give me money, give me this, give me this. Like it's some kind of humbling, something that is combined with that thing. That's how it is and it starts and God always makes you depend because depending on somebody humbles you when you, when you, when you, when you need somebody, you realize that you, you need to be nice to the person. You can't just cast the person out. The person has to be in your life. Hey, you wish you would not be in your life again. Wish you didn't have to see this person and look at the person and be nice and be kind. Oh, but, but, but, but you need to you need to come and you need to be nice and to flow, smile a lot, be friendly. Bishop Blake told me. He said to me from a board and then put me on your board. And I want you to say from a board and put me on your board and make board, get board members. I have to have to ask people help me, give me. Then when I going to give me that I'll go and preach like what Jesus said at the Passover. A lot of the scriptures were from what he said at the Passover, but he has to ask somebody go and tell there's a certain man tell him that I'm it's time. I need food table. There's that. I'll be coming with 12 guys, 12 solid guys who like eating Pasa Fifi. You depend now you depend. I depend. I depend on you too, because I, I live off your offerings. That's I live from offerings. And you see, when, when, when the Lord was leading me to and carry my wife to also be in the ministry, it was also to take away even further my independence, to increase my dependence because I'm a highly qualified professional and so is my wife. She's a lawyer and my wife need not work in the ministry. She was working and she was doing private work and she was working whatever as a lawyer. She was working and earning her own money. Come and work in the ministry. All of us. We are nothing. We need people to help us. That's it. It's a further level of suffering and dependence. I used to be proud to be able to say that this came from this. This came. But look, everything I have is from offerings. My shed is from offering everything right to my pants is from offering. No, that's the truth. I depend on you to buy socks. I thank God to the degree. Where is that? This, to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing. What did he say? Keep on rejoicing to the degree that you share the sufferings of crack. So those of you who are so independent, oh, you need no one to survive. All your money comes from this, this and that and that and that. You get you, you have not experienced that. So you see your credentials. You need a lot of things to gain such credentials. Chris, you don't think so? Yeah. He can point you out. You know, this is from here. This is from here. That's from here. Then I got this from here. So when I work here, I have this, This is this. And I've suffered. You know how I've suffered in, like, London. I've worked very hard. I'm a this, I'm that. God says you are nothing. Nothing. I want you to beg. People depend. John Wesley used to do begging. He used to go on begging. Like how you go on witnessing he goes on begging for the poor, go with the what do you call it a basket or whatever. And he goes to stand to do begging for the poor. Can I have some money for the poor? And he will go back when he goes begging. He will get a certain amount of money and bring it to look after the poor. And he said when he dies, 6 poor men should carry him his body, and each one should be given 1 LB. Yeah, not pastors, poor men 6 beg. Poor beggars should carry his coffin. Yeah, those should be the pallbearers for six form beggars, and each one should be given a pound. But for us, super sophisticated, independent, I can do it by myself. I bought it myself. I end it myself. I've worked all my life. You didn't buy my ticket for me, no. But Jesus said when till I have a settlement, it is. I have my house, one of my houses go upstairs. So I am sharing with you about the sufferings of Christ so that you also decide how many have decided to how many have decided to also suffer. Are you ready to give up your independence? Yeah. How many are ready to be poor for for Christ? You know that this thing I'm going is poverty, but I'm going. Yeah, that must be your mind. This thing I'm going. Somebody's going to insult me, but I'm going to do it so that you know it's not going to work. But I'll still do it sometimes. Sometimes God says you to do something that will not work just so that you suffer the experience of doing something that doesn't succeed. It's also a form of suffering. That's 20 now. When evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the 12 and as they were eating he said, truly. I said to you that one of you will betray me. Now you see, the next thing is that the next form of suffering is that in your rest and relaxation there is still tension. When you are resting and when you finish working, the work goes on. Jesus has now gathered his men because you see, as a minister also when I preach it, so sometimes I just like to be with some particular people to be relaxed. Others will come to you. So I had a dream, I dreamt about this. I dreamt my dad saw this and I would say I come, had a vision. Someone said pray for me about this. Somebody said there's so many things that after all that sometimes you just need to sit down, recline. He said he reclined, he reclined at the table with some particular people with whom you'll be relaxed. And even at that moment where he was relaxing, there was a problem there. When you take up the ministry work, you are taking up a work which never goes away, even in your house and in your room and it will never go away. Pastor NIA Jadu said to me said I've been for Santigo for so many years, but since I came to work in the church I've never worked like that before. He said when I used to wake up at 5:00, I drop every finished, I'm up, I'm going. I said this one, there's nothing like you've dropped it because you'll be in the house, they'll call you, you will be in the toilet, they will call you on the toilet, you'll be poo pooing and you'll get a call when you are reclining in the room. But you must embrace it. You must be ready to to speak in on the way home. You must be ready to speak at home. You must be ready to work for God from the house. Even in the house there's tension. They are called my house. I've had to at the point off the phone, off the phone and my wife to off the phone. At first, she used to criticize me about the phone, and now she's more on the phone than me. Hey, So that you realize that you are reclining. Oh, time to relax because you sit down for two minutes, then they'll come. Bishop, I I had a dream last week. And as a pastor, you cannot say. Look, look, Claire away with you, you say? Yeah, What was your dream? Tell me your dream. You have to be nice and you have to share. You can't tell me if somebody said I will never tell you. Look, this is not the time to tell me a dream. Tell the person that. Look, what was your dream? Bezel will be telling me the dream. And this happened. Then I went here. Then I went very high. Then I came down and I went to the left, I went to the right. Terror. If I realized I somersaulted, then I have to show that I'm interested. Jesus reclined at the table, and when he realized that, he look and said, my goodness, one of the guys yesterday I finished the camp. I finished the camp in America. And we were driving from the camp, we drove to the airport straight and from this airport straight to this camp. So when I was going, I was reclining at the back, finished the camp and I got a call. I look at her number. I thought it was another number, but it wasn't. Hello. Hello, Bishop. Yeah, Bishop. I had a dream. Hey, I had a dream. I've finished talking to everybody I'm on my way in the car tired sleep. I said I've had a dream. I said what was your dream tell me your dream. She told me all that dream so when she feel I said So what is the meaning of the dream? So well, I told my husband. My husband said I should tell you. So I've tried to tell you. So what does it mean? Oh, no, no, no, no. She doesn't put this and that. OK. Thank you for your dream. I'll I'm going to think about it in prayer. God bless you. Bye. Hey. I had a dream. One time I was texting in the house, my wife said go and bring them to come and sit here. The people that you are texting, go and bring them to come and sit in the room with us so that we will all be here. Oh. As I was reclining with my wife, I was having to respond to texts. She said I should please bring them to come and sit in the house so that we will all be in the house together. It's all come and be here with us. When you are reclining, yeah, but you must or you cannot be a Christian and not get involved with the work, which is too much for one person anyway. No one can handle the burdens that come with one human life. Look, you people, it's only because you are shy. But if I was to bring the people who are sitting here 1 by 1 and bring them here, say, tell us things about your life, you'll be surprised how complex one person is. The issues that are around just one person, you have no idea. And that's why the bedding of the people is so high. And God wants you to become pastors. And it is when we start to embrace the sufferings of Christ that we can fill the UK in Europe with hundreds of churches. Churches. Amen. Are you listening to me? Yeah, with hundreds of churches. But if you're not prepared to do anything, you just want to sit in a church and receive, receive blessings. No, it's a time to give, a time to give something that we have received. There was a time to receive, there was a time to get. There was a time to obtain. But a time has come that even in our reclining, we'll see that we are still working, that we are also pastors. We are also working for the for the Lord. We are also giving something. It's not just one person who is listening to every problem that there is in the world. Hey, the problems in the world are a lot and we need help. Come and sing it. For me, there was a time. To every purpose there is a time. The One who made the whole world has everything in his hand. He wants the world to know Him in all His righteousness, and He has called us into His Kingdom for such a time as this. It's our time to believe. It's our time to love and live. There was a time we received, but now it's time for us to give. Standing hand in hand, together, let's reach out and touch our world. Can you hear the Spirit calling? There was a time when we were learners, now it's time for us to teach. There was a time we used to follow, but now it's time for us to lead. There was a time we used to borrow, Now it's time for us to land. It's our world, it's our nation. It's a time of destiny. It's our time to believe. It's our time to love and live. There was a time when we received, but now it's time for us to give. Standing hand in hand, together, let's reach out and touch our world. Can you hear the Spirit calling? It's our time. We have an obligation to reach this generation, to let His Kingdom come within our world, and we know we can't succeed simply because we do believe. He's given us what it takes to carry on, carry on. It's time, a time to believe. It's our time to love and leave. There was a time when we received, but now it's time for us to give. Standing hand in hand, together, let's reach out and touch our world. Can you hear the Spirit calling? It's our time. It's our time to believe. It's hard time to love and live. There was a time we received. There was a time we received, now it's time to give something. Together, let's reach out and touch our world. Can you hear the Spirit? Can you hear the Spirit calling? Can you hear it? Can you hear the Spirit calling? Hallelujah. Look, the highest way God speaks to you is in your heart. That's what Rejoiner says. I'm sure it's true. In your heart, you hear him calling in your heart, He touches you in your heart. He edges you in your heart. He speaks to you, even things that have not been said. You sense the Spirit pushing you, calling you, telling you you must do something. You can't leave Jesus alone to carry the weight of this world on His shoulder. Amen. He can't carry the weight of this shoulder. We are supposed to take His yoke and join. He said take my yoke. My yoke is easy. If you do my will and my work, it would be easier than if you work for yourself. Hallelujah, Amen. All right, now. As they were eating, he said, Truly I say to you that one of you will betray me. Being deeply grieved, each one began to say to him, Surely not I Lord? Now the next difficult thing is to to suffer, knowing that not everybody who is with you has the same agenda. You see, as I preach, it's sometimes far easier to minister when you know who you are talking to and you know that the people who are listening to you have a certain mind, isn't it? Are you there? But when you get to you realize that not everybody has the same mind and they have some other agenda. And every good general knows that the people in the army don't have the same agenda as the aim of the some have an agenda to survive. I will never die in this thing that I have come to join. The mind is that I will never die. By all means. Others have joined the I mean, a lot of people in the US Army, they joined it to go to school, to pay their school fees. But not to die, not to save America or to save England or the aim of Tony Blair to go and capture Iraq or to give a democracy to whatever. It's not his aim at all. He wants to get his papers. He wants to settle, That's somebody's aim, going to get papers, going to get money. Somebody has money, somebody's going to get papers, somebody's going to get a school, be able to pay the school fees. Some money is to survive, some wants to just get a higher rank, a pension, different ideas. And they are all together with you and you are leaving all these people with a different mind. And as Jesus was sitting at the table, he knew that there here we are. And some some people here have a mind of money. So like as I'm preaching at this camp, I'm preaching as if we are all so much in love with God and we all really want to serve God. We all really want to fight God. But as we are here, everybody has a different agenda and a different mind. Some have even come to find their beloved. Zigzag. They started before I started, before I started preaching. They started the agenda, why they came here? Hallelujah, how difficult it is. As you are going, you know that everybody has a different mind. And for years and years and years, he'll be going along with people. Not this one. His mind is this, this one is mine is this, this one is mine is this. Someone just wants to survive. And that is why I think Jesus never lowered the standard for ministry. You see, yes, there are a lot of people. I know if they were to work in the ministry, they will be better off than they are. But me, I should say, I should tell you that you'll be better off. I would tell you that you'll be worse off. And I'll show you that you'll be worse off financially. So that you fear there will be fear in the church. Yeah, because everybody has a different mind. Yeah, there will be trade that cause at any moment. Some people when it comes to setting things, one of the things that really, really got to me when we were attacked in Ghana was when I realized that even though it was a very clear, clear case of the government of that time attacking us directly, using their superior military powers and political powers to attack us, that my own pastors continue to support these same people. It was it was difficult for me to because this is that he was sitting at the table and they were they were grieved that each one he was grieved. You, some of you hear you. But it was a difficult thing because that is where I saw that we were under the cost for us to know that now the government or some kind of higher powers are now interested in us for whatever reason. It was not easy and for me to see that sometimes even the tribe was more important than your church. I was shocked. I never knew that your tribe can dominate your or super, super supersedes your Christian commitment. It was a shock to me. And then some people had contract, I mean government, but they were interest in their interest in that government because they were get benefiting from them. All those things I can, they all came into play at that election and I was shocked. Now, one day I went for dinner with some pastas. When I go for dinner, I go secret places because some people think it's not fair. Oh, yeah, sometimes I want to go and eat, sometimes with my wife or I mean, whatever. And you know, I have to send somebody to go and see how the places because it's not that I'm dreaming. I've been to a restaurant before where somebody met me sort of shouting. You've come to use the offering. He said it. He said it openly. And out there in the restaurant, in one of the main restaurants in in Accra, you've come to use the offering this morning. I don't know whether it was a Sunday or so. This way you've come to use the offering to come and eat a small rice soup. They don't want you to eat that small rice and a small piece of chicken. How much can I eat anyway? So one time an election was coming up and I went for some dinner. There were fifteen of us, different people. So I was asking the people, you know who they are going to vote for. Now another suffering is to know that everybody is pretending is there, is it? And they were all grief saying is it? Is it? I surely not. I know that a lot of people are not saying what they really think. So I did a little poll and I realized that everybody was not saying what he really thought. So I took pieces of paper and I put I pass it round small piece of we are finished. We are going, so let's let's try something. So we did a small voting and I give it when I said right, The Who you vote for. Of course I could. I was everybody was saying, surely not. I surely, surely not. I surely not. I Hey, Chris, my pastors, my own pastors, These people came to fight you. They couldn't kill you. Now they want to ask them to come back and finish their job. I was watching you see, we, some of you were not there. But you, I'm telling you, we are talking about higher powers in the country that break hotels, walls, arrest people, people disappear, all kinds of things. So when I did the election, then I gave it to the electoral commissioner and I said counted. When they counted, it was 7-8, yeah, 7-8 or eight, 7, something like that. So I said, wow, half of you here who are saying surely not I, Lord, I actually want this whatever to come and continue. So later on I asked the particular people that I would you, who did you and I, of course I knew. Then I got to know, I said, wow, it's very wonderful. But you, you carry on with, with them and you have to just flow with everybody. So wow. So your mind and my mind are different, your agenda, my agenda is different. But you have to just be moving and flowing. And that's how it is to lead people. And when God is calling, you are going to lead people who have a different mind. Even what I'm saying. Now, some of you have a funny mind about what I'm saying. Oh, I was, I was not. Maybe I was born on Tuesday or Wednesday, but not last Tuesday or last Wednesday. But you just have to flow. Just keep on flowing. Amen. So let's go on. He who dipped his hand with me, huh? And he answered, He who dipped his hand with me in the bowl, it is the one who will betray me. Amen. The Son of Man is to go, just as it is written, by woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would have been good for that man if he had not been born. And Judas, who was betraying him, said, Surely it is not I, rabbi. And Jesus said it to him. You have said it yourself. Now another very, very difficult thing is to deal with liars and hypocrisy. It's not real, but that is it. And you are dealing with that. It's not real. You ask people for money, they say, oh, they are, they are looking, but they are not going to give it. And everybody, I mean like human beings. When you read Rejoin Us latest book, you wonder as he talked with various angels who are moving around and the angels were discussing among themselves why God is interested in human beings. 1 Angel said, look, I've been on this earth for 4000 years. Human beings have become worse, more wicked, and they don't understand God's interest in in the human beings. That's what the Angel said, understand his interest in the human beings. Still interested, still interested in the human beings. They tell you, you are going to betray me, he said. Surely up I you've just gone for 30 pieces of silver and you say it's not you. It's in your pocket too. You put it in your account. You say it's not you. So at that point you wonder whether people are telling the truth. When you become a pastor, you see a whole Church of people who don't pay tithes, people bringing envelopes which are not tights, but they say that it's tights. You deal with pastors who don't pay tithes. Pastors who don't pay tithe. Pastors who are lying. Everybody pretended, Amen. What do you think? How many understand what I'm talking about? OK, so Judas was betraying him, he said. Surely it is not I, Amen. Stunt your feet for a moment. How many break to get rid of all your chewing? Gum. There are so many gum chewing congregants. All right, OK, You have a break for. 5 minutes. You have. All right, now where were we? Verse 26. Now the next one is. OK, now while they were eating, Jesus took some bread and after a blessing he broke it and he gave it to the disciples, and he said take, eat, this is my body. Amen. The next type of suffering. Is the. Suffering of your flesh, your body. It's this is my body. I know one friend of mine was attacked by a dog and the dog bit him terribly. So I asked him what? Did you do? He said. I lay down. And I covered myself like this. And the dog was biting me. Eat my body. It's not a small thing for your body to be eaten by a dog. You get it. So this speaks of. All. Kinds of. Bodily, fleshly sufferings. OK. You have to discipline. Yourself in all your appetites. Your appetite for food. I believe that every. Christian must have. What do you call it? 200 churches? Is this new? Did it just come OK? That's the theme of the campus. What? Sufferings. Of Christ, the vision. Yeah, it's a suffering that will lead to these 200. Churches. You see, some people will not go on the mission unless. They are told when you go on that mission, the house there is even bigger than your landing flat. You see, that is what makes. People. Interested in the mission? The. Motivation is wrong. You must. Embrace the concept of losing something and suffering. You should be you should not be happy when you haven't suffered for Christ. Now I'm back to the the take it. This is my body. So you the suffering that offers your body. OK, so your body is the giving of your flesh. Jesus gave his flesh to be beaten and whipped, so your bodily. Appetites are. Fasting, and I believe that one thing that all Christians must experience, you must experience fasting to a certain degree in your life. At least once. Because fasting it's not a. Small thing and you'll find that you see the pattern of Christ was that He fasted 40 days and nights, but you never hear of him nor of the others who fasted 40 days and nights, fasting in that way, like as part of their life. But it was something that they did, you see. And so I remember one time I was. Talking to some of my. Young, younger people who were very zealous for the Lord, and I told them to fast. Fast for 40 days. Fast 21 days three times a year and 40 days twice. There is a there is a time in your life if you fast like. That you would die. But those people who are running? Around here. You can fast 21 days easily three times. In a year, five days Dr. Fasting. Without food, without any drink. I mean without any. Juice, Coca-Cola, just water three days water only, morning to evening to the night. The morning, evening fasting. How can you amount to much if you have never had a season of fasting for the ministry? How you cannot. We have fasted to the point of death. Before I almost died, I couldn't move. I fasted to the. Point where somebody asked me, do you think you'll go to heaven by being a skeleton? When he saw me, I was a skeleton. And I was in school wearing. Shorts and a shirt so you could see all my legs like a spider and my arms and there. Was nothing left of? Me, because I was fasting almost every day and I became very small young men who How many believe God has called you? Oh, I said, how many believe God? Has young men, how many people God has called. You young men, if you believe God has called you, I'm back on a fast. This type of fast where they say the whole church is fasting, those are not proper fast. Oh, you are waiting for the church that we are fasting. 14. Days when I was growing up, nobody declared a fast food. I've never been in a church where they declared a fast and I I was in the fast. I was never in a church where they declared a fast for us to. I first said because I felt that in my spiritual quests I I need to have a fast. That's why that's what made me fast, but not that they say we are fasting. Then you are just trying to survive to six. Italy, 4656. And once again, everybody has a different. Agenda for fasting Some are trying to lose weight. And God, God in his. Wisdom make such people sometimes increase weight when they fast. I've seen people grow, grow fast when they fast, they actually put on weight because it's not a proper fast, that six to six is not a real fast. Yeah. So see I want to. Say that if you say God has called. You you know, these are some of the things that you need. To embark. On yourself without informing people? No, I'm on a 40 day fast. I'm on a 20. One day fast Oh, you're just you're fasting a personal. Quest for God Jesus was taught in a synagogue where they had declared a fast all members of this synagogue are fasting for 40 days. He on his own fasted, so you on your own you have to have a. Three day fast. On your own, A5 day fast. On your own, a one day fast, On your own, 40 day fast. Yeah, I've never fasted 40 days before. I mean you can. Fast 40 days I don't. See why not? You are supposed to do greater works than I have done. I encourage my. Sons and daughters in the ministry to do greater things, yeah. One or two times. I almost died when I was fasting. So after when I became afraid of it because he had a certain age and a certain whatever, you got to be careful. You can actually die. I know people who have died before from fasting. Yeah, so you. It really but at. A certain point. A lot of things don't matter. You get it. And Jesus. Was about. 2930 years old when he was doing this fast. One time I had one great man of God. He was going in a fast. And I mean, I don't know whether it's Maurice Cerullo or somebody or whatever, It's going to fast with his Milo, his orange juices, everything. Like Daniel, he said he ate no pleasant bread. Is it why It's a? It's a realm. And you reach a certain. Place the fast is to be a fast without any pleasant bread, Yeah. But I tell you all those things. Fashion your life. They fashion you. They fashion. Your future. Especially your future because I tell you when I was a student at mother's was a teenager, I fasted so much. All my life was fasting, fasting, fasting, fasting, fasting and I learned how to fast in the mornings. Later when I found out that breakfast was supposed to be the healthiest meal, I was surprised because eating breakfast was something that because of reading of the Bible and of prayer that came first before eating any form of eating, you know, it made breakfast become something that was very decent. So living without eating breakfast, you know, even call it a fast. So when they say oh extend it to sex, it has often not look really like a fast I. Fasted where I couldn't move my arm. When I say move my arm, I mean my arm couldn't be lifted up the arm like this before the leg. I mean, I know that you can. You may not understand what I'm. Talking about, but I'm talking about and I remember that on that, on that on a particular day, I fasted it was I think Saturday. Or Sunday. And I was in school and my mother came to visit me. And they came to call me from my box room. I was I was in sixth form. And I was lying on the bed. Me and my friend, the two of us were lying. We were almost dead in the room. And they came to call me. Your mother is here. And I couldn't move my. Leg to the side I couldn't. Move my leg and the door. I lie at the. Window so the guy was standing there. Are you not coming? Your mother is out there. I couldn't move. He spoke through. The window and I said make you take that. That thing. Take that thing. From here for me, I can't come because I couldn't move. I couldn't move. My mother come from the. House to visit me. She was just outside the house. And I was in the room I. Couldn't move. I couldn't open the door. I couldn't move my arm on my leg. Hey. So I'm telling you, if you. Are a young man and you believe that God has called embrace the idea of suffering and dying for Christ's thought about just singing songs and just being happy in the church. Christ died for us to say that to the degree that you. Share the sufferings of Christ. Keep on rejoicing to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ. Keep on rejoicing being happy because you are experiencing something like what Christ experienced. Many, many prayers are for the future. Many, many prayers are for the future. Many prayers are about the future. Many tongues that you pray are about the future. Keep praying them fast about it. Fast when you got the strength to fast. You don't have a wife. Any young man here you don't have a wife. Raise up your right hand young man, Stand up to your stand up for Jesus. Let me don't have a wife. Is that Richard? You don't have a wife? Are you serious? Are you guys serious young ladies who don't have a husband? Stand up. No, no, stand up. Brothers, young ladies who don't. Have husbands stand up or ladies who don't have husbands. OK, what? Do you want? What do you want? From this life. This is your time to fast. It's your. Best time Some of us have got wives talking in the house, children talking in the house, cooking all over the place, frying things. Even when you say you are fasting, they are they are trying something for the children. I saw the small thing so. This is your time. Of solitude, it's a good time. Amen. Sit down. All those men, brothers who feel that you are called by God, stand up. Brothers who believe that you are. Called married. Or unmarried brothers, you believe that you are called stand up where is. Your offering of your body. Where you say this is my body, this is my body, this is my body given. For you, that's the suffering of. Christ, you are. Supposed to follow the. Example where you also offer your body to God, a body to. Suffer. Bodily. Physically. Yes. And I'm talking about fasting. Amen. Sit down. Hallelujah. Are you listening to me? OK then another offer of your body. But offer your body sexually. Your sexual aspect of sexual capabilities must be offered to God. Amen. And that. One too is suffering. You get it. And the devil knows how weak we. Are and how the feelings that we have, how we are tempted, how we want it? Is it not true, brothers? Is it not true, sisters? Is it not true or it's not true? It is true or it is not true. We want it. Sisters. You want it before you are married. You want it. You want something. You don't know what you want, but there's something that you want. The mysterious Quest. You must offer it. You must. Contain. Whatever you have to contain within. You until the right time, and when the right time has come, you must direct. First you contain, then after that you direct to the right center. Oh, you don't understand what I'm saying? I'll say. It again first you contain. It contain your sexual organs contain your sexual. Desires. OK. And a lock and. Key and a zip. You zip them up, say no entry, no exit. After you get married, you have to now direct it and exercise it in a direction so that there is no strength for another direction. What? What do you, what do you think about what I'm saying? A good Christian and a good pastor must have sex regularly. Regularly when you stop having sex. Regularly your Christian life. Is going down. Write it down when just. Reduce having sex. Your Christian life is going down, take it from me. How do you think we can have two? 100 people in 200 places in in Europe is when I say Europe, I've changed this. Thing to euro not. UK because some of you have to go out of England. Yeah, I've asked some of the old layers to go. I'm watching them, yeah. And we're just watching them because now. I don't believe the layers until I see them on the move. When you move, I'll believe. When you speak, I will not believe. Yeah, God wants to use us. Amen. But how can that be? 200? You need 200 people who know how to stop having fornication. 200 people know how to stop doing bad things because you you need is he spiritual? You see in this new book that Rick Jenner had Jesus. He was there, he was watching a vision. Jesus met James and John and he took James and John followed him and he turned around and asked what are you looking for? I said we want to know where you, where you stay and when he's when they spoke to Jesus, when James sat down with Jesus, Jesus told him you I'm going to make you one of my evangelists. And he said, he said to him, one day your words will have power, like my words have power. One day your words will also have power. See How can you be converted to become a person whose words have power if you have not suffered? As you are supposed to suffer. It is suffering that gives you that power, that your words. Have a certain. Effect and I need just 200 people whose words have a certain effect that have been able to to control yourself able to fast. That's why I said that there is a certain level of fasting of your life. Then it it it has to happen. Oh yes, what amount to something that there's something like when I say fast. It's like a quest to seek God, a quest to find anointing, a quest to find the power, a quest to search for something, no matter what, that can never be declared by a church. A church fast. That's why the church fasting doesn't create pastors. But when we have camps, people are touched by the Holy Spirit and they decide to work for God. But when they fast, they don't decide to work for God because the. When they fast? When I said when they fast. When a fast is declared that they fool, they are just showing submission and humility to the leadership which is also good. But what God wants is for you to be touched. By His Spirit and I agree that I'm going to endure what I need to endure. This is my body that I'm also giving my body to God. Ladies, your flesh doesn't. Desire sex as much as brothers, but you are full of bitterness, wickedness, jealousies, quarreling competitions and what ladies tell me ladies don't but that should speak at this time talking about biting gossip that that your your flesh naturally is that way. Do you understand my message? And you have to get to the point where you say this is my body, this is my my flesh. My natural jealousy. My natural quarreling, my natural behavior of a certain kind, This is it, Lord I'll that's it to you. You see, when Juanita died, some people were quarreling in their in their houses, saying that if I had died, you wouldn't have been sad, you would have been happy because you see. Because because when Juanita. Died. We were so moved and everybody could see that. We were genuinely sad about losing hair, you understand? So one brother. Told his wife he said look. If you had died. We would also have been sad, but for a different reason. It is true, yeah, but one of the. Things that made us sad about Juanita was that she was somebody who tried very hard to obey the word and then present her herself to God. Oh yeah, Because our, our, our friendship and our relationship where they didn't start just recently, long time ago, before she was even married, when she was even in school, before she came to 1st university. That's a long time ago. And I've seen her through the years. I remember 1. Time I had AI was having a meeting with her at her at their. House, I mean, not a meeting or we're in the. House and I was talking with her about things to do with. Life and marriage. And so on. And I was, I tried to show her from the word of God how to what to do. I'll never forget that particular day and always her husband said from that day when you spoke to her, she changed. She she just turned because he saw that it was in the word of what she changed. You see, you can see that here's somebody who. Took a natural body and presented it to God. If this is what I have to do, this is what is going to be done. Oh yes, yes, but there are some people. It's not that when you talk to them. They wouldn't change, but it is that you wouldn't even talk to them because you know that they wouldn't even change, so you don't even talk to them. One day a sudden brother came to see me with a. Marital problem. And I said to him, your wife, I will not speak to her because. She will not listen to me. I know, I know those. Who will not listen to me and as I grow that I. Should also learn a good general has a supreme strategy for war, and that supreme strategy is that you don't engage yourself in battles you know you will not win when you see that, you know when you say no, I'm going this this direction. There's no problem at all over here. Just you just move around as a good general. Do you know Stratumi? No. The art of War. Yeah, Paul told Timothy that thou might test war, a good warfare if there is chance. We'll talk about Stratumi, the art of war. Amen. Some of you we can. Talk to you about. Your flesh about your. Jealousy about your gossiping about your useless chatting about your pettiness. In Ghana we have a. University, University of Ghana. It has a ladies hall, balta hall and other halls in the brothers halls. Your brother comes. He put his. Clothes here put this here put there's no. Problem and in the ladies hall. Always. Quarreling as you based on that, all ladies should be able to be able to say that most of the beasts that are coming are from them because they they cause the beasts, they are always having the beasts. They, they should honestly say that. Oh yeah, we know amongst ourselves we are always crying. You guys don't seem to bother about anything. But one of the sufferings of crisis to be with people who. Say, is it I? Is it I? They don't. Recognize themselves in the preaching. Amen. Are you listening to me? So I said to this brother. I will not. Talk with her, with your wife, because you will not listen to me. But I'm saying that I spoke to Juanita and she was somebody who would listen to me. She would listen to me. If I said this, she would listen to me. The person would present. That's. Very. It's very difficult As for. A flesh mood to take care and present it. It's very difficult. Everybody wants to go. Oh, Bishop. Oh, Bishop, Oh Bishop, Oh Bishop. But if I tell you do this, will you do it? And they love to go Oh. Bishop. Oh, referend, referend, Bishop, referend. And they will not do anything you tell them to do. They won't do it, Vanita. Tried. She tried to. She did what she could. So I told this brother who was having this marital problem that because of the situation that we find ourselves in, where when I speak to your wife, she will not mind me because I know when I preach, I see her and I know that she's not minding me. 60% of communication is non. Verbal, you better learn it. So I said to him, Brother. I'm going to give you a. Key called a unilateral key. That unilateral key will help you to overcome in your marriage is a kid. I have to deploy that key because you will not listen to me. I have to give you a key that will help you to survive on your own without hair changing. Unilateral key Stratumi. A unilateral key because this is when I. Tell the better. Present your body. She will not when I tell you presenter, but you will. But because he also does into no work. So I have to give you another kind of key. Unilateral key. That it's a master key that does it on its own. Yeah. So brothers have to present their body. You know your problems. We know ourselves. In this. Book Regina wrote about. When God walked the earth in the vision, he was when Jesus was going. To the wilderness. The angels had come, So many angels were around. Michael was himself guarding Jesus. All the angels that were guarded and. You see the things that were. Happening. It was like the Holy Spirit was speaking to them. Angels were moving. Jesus was going to the wilderness and he was talking with Mike and Michael was asking him, he said. Michael said we have received instruction that we must not go with you to the wilderness. We have to leave you they. Didn't like it at all. You see, one time the angels were discussing and the Angel said that because the attempt to kill Jesus failed through Herod the the Dark One, they call him the Dark One or the evil. The Dark One was very, very angry. So he has come all the way himself from Rome. He was staying at Rome and yeah, yeah, with hearts of demons. And as they were coming, there were windstorms, boats were over 10, waves were moving, various things. You know, as all these things, they are demons. Even some of the Hurricanes and things, they are evil spirits. So as the demons were coming, the cows were tagged, the boats were and the demons were. So the angels were saying, look at what they are doing and they are so happy doing it. And why do these demons like tormenting human beings? And they really liked it because the people think that God is the one doing it to them. They're very happy because all the things that are happening think God is doing it. So they said. Because he failed in the Herald. The plan to kill the Holy 1. He has come to tempt the Lord, that's why he has come from Rome. And that when that fails. He would tell his. Attention to kill the Baptist they called in the Baptist and the Angel was discussed when they said we have received instructions not to intervene when he. Tries to kill the Baptist we have received. Instructions not to intervene. So when you are supposed to die, the angels will receive instructions not to intervene in the in in your removal. But until then, there are angels. That's why when they were about to kill Jesus on the Christ, do you not that I can call on my Father to bring me legends of angels that would come instead. Or angels intervene in physical things. All that they are, they are here. I came when I was taking up on all the British Airways. As I was going on, I could somehow see the angels holding onto the plane as they were just just moving in there that day. They asked to step back. That would be it. Step back. Leave it. And then? If the devil could just kill us, if Juanita could just die, then all of us would die because he's aim. It's not, it's not, it's not a, it's not a game. It's about killing. It's about life and death. The enemy wants to kill us. So when they got to the wilderness, Michael. And Kost and Michael said give us the permission to just deal with this guy. Said to be a very short fight. Very short, but. He said no, I have to go and he said. I have to meet him as a man. So when he was in the wilderness after 14 days, then the the evil one saw that he had become weak. And he said, this is my chance because now he's feeling like how men feel. He's feeling what men feel, my friend. God knows what you feel and you feel it how many sometimes feel evil in if you feel evil within you sometimes just raise right and then left the right and then left and then your left leg and your right leg. You can also raise them up. Hey, you can also stand if you. So your body. Your body. Jesus said this is my body. I am offering my body. I'm going to suffer with my body. What aspects tempt you and. Harass you some that even depression. Look when Satan was tempting Jesus, he told Jesus you have been abandoned. Like how the Father abandoned all the other prophets got to be killed. All of them were abandoned in the middle of what they were doing. So what happened to Jeremiah? What happened to Isaiah? What happened to Malachi? You have also been abandoned and Jesus was quiet. I Satan is very wicked. Though he talked, Jesus was quiet. So just ease yourself. Now have some bread. You are hungry now, but God is saying. How many are going to offer your body to God? OK, one brother said. I really feel so when I see a man, I really feel an attraction to a man. When I see a man I I, I, I feel love and attraction. That one too you miss of you may not understand. It but it is a problem that some. People have that one too, is the flesh that says that's what I want, That's what I feel like. So that one too, you have to control it. OK, OK. And don't laugh at somebody because Peter said that. Me, I'm not 4 in the evening, I'm sure. He was thinking about even in the future for. Life and the laws OK, within 24 hours I will demonstrate you're falling to you. Some of you can become. Homosexual in 24 hours. To your surprise, so before you start making comments about somebody. But what I'm saying is that it is a matter of your flesh. So, OK, you also feel a strong desire for a woman, a strong desire for pornography, strong desire to watch the film, to put on the television. How many have seen pornography before on television? Raise your hand, raise your hand, raise your hand, raise your hand, all your two hands, if possible. Yes. And you want to see it. You want to look. To see whether there is a new style that you you have not experimented with. The channel is frozen. You cannot change the channel, man of God. What are they doing? Look at them. They. Are bad though. You are watching. This is my body, my body. I give you my body. Another way your body is offered is when. You have to go through some. Physical to to to live in a village, To live in a poor. Place. Where your physical life changes. The Cornflakes. The Rice Krispies. The Honey Loops, the Mars bars are gone. You are left with cassava. You are left with grass cutter meat. You're left with dust. You, you remember. You remember. Irene and and. Danielle, they were in Nottingham, Yeah. When she got to mileage, I said how's mileage? She said it's hot temperature 42. Degrees 40. 2 Celsius during the days hotter than your body in the desert and God says go there. So this is my body's heart. And So what? There are souls there, you see, and and that's what God. Is calling us. It's. Saying that, I want some people who will say I have, I have received some stroke for Christ. I have sweated in my room for Christ. I have suffered for Christ. I have stayed awake for Christ. Amen. This is my body. To stay. Awake also for. Christ and pray when you should be sleeping is it? Can you see that we are not taking the sufferings of Christ. That is why we are weak and that's why I'm talking about the sufferings of Jesus Christ. That you that to the degree, the degree to which you experience the suffering is the degree to which you are getting. Nearer his will. And it's the degree to which you should be rejoicing, not rejoicing. Now I've got a new car, I've got a new house, I've got a new desk, I've got finished my degree and the degree to which you experience what Christ has suffered. That's why I was jealous when David said a hurricane blew off the roof. They were in the house when the roof was off and the out was the rain. Was coming in. Jamaica and the room was getting full like a swimming pool. And they went there with his family. What do you do? And you cannot. Go out for Christ. 'S sake, no, he didn't go there to get anything. You see, to that degree you aim yourself credentials, yes. So, brothers and. Sisters. God is calling. Us to suffer and those of you when you see your brother experiencing some of the sufferings of Christ, don't think that he has been demoted. He has not been demoted, he has been promoted. You shouldn't really kill him and say you are you, are you OK? Why are you doing that? Is there some reason why you are doing this? Have you thought about it? Very well. Some of you God has called you to be missionaries. Some of you God does not even it's not even calling to be full time Mr. But just leave the UK, go to France and do a church there. Leave the UK, go to Italy, do a church there. Go here, go out, go to where there are people where you can win somebody for Christ. Amen. Look, I know one pastor, he said. I. Cannot receive from a pastor he cannot listen to or watch a pastor who is overweight, who is fat I. Can't receive it if the person is fat. It's like, it's like it's a sign. That the person is not cannot control his appetite, he says I cannot. Receive it I. Mean that's another extreme. This is my body. Sons of God hear his. Holy. Word gather around the table of the Lord, eat his body, drink his blood, and we'll sing a song of hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, Hallelujah. Everybody write down the words if you don't know the words. This is our new communion song in the church we always sing it for and we are going to have communion. You have your wine ready. Have your wine. We are going to have communion, the sufferings of Jesus Christ, sons of God, hear his holy word, gather around the table of the Lord, eat his body, drink his, and we'll sing a song of hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, Hallelujah, OK? Sons of God, hear His holy Word. No Sons of God, sons of. God. Hear His holy word #3 gather around the table of the Lord. Have you got that? Gather around the table of the Lord number. The next line is eat his body, drink his blood. Then the next one, eat his body, drink his blood. And we'll sing a song of love. And we'll sing a song of love of love. Hallelujah, hallelu, hallelu, Hallelujah 3 hallelus and one Hallelujah. Did you get it? Have you got that, Sons of? God hear his holy Word, gather around the table of the Lord in too high, too high. Go back, sons. Of God hear his holy. Word gather round the table of the Lord, eat his body, drink his blood, and we'll sing a song of love. Hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, Hallelujah. Then the next verses or the next line. Brothers, sisters, we are one and our lives have just begun in the Spirit. We are young and will live forever. Sons of God, hear His holy Word, gather around the table of the Lord, eat his body, drink his blood, and we'll sing songs of Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Amen. OK, brothers, sisters, we are one and our lives have just begun. Have you got that? And our lives have just begun. I write it and our lives have just begun. In the Spirit, the next line. In the Spirit. We are young. Are you young or you are old? In the spirit we are young. We are just born again. We just began our new life in the spirit. We are young and and we'll live. Forever. And we'll live forever. That's the last. And we'll live forever the sons of God. OK, actually that's the first. Part of the song. Brothers, sisters, we are one and our lives have just begun. Heal the Spirit we are and we live for our sons of God. There is Holy Word God around the table of the Lord. Eat his body, drink his, and we'll sing songs of Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah brother. Sisters. I want, and our lives have just begun, heal the Spirit. We are and will live forever. Sons of God, you're His holy Word. God around the table of the Lord, eat his body, drink his blood and sing the song of Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah, Amen. This is that communion, but we are not going to have it right now. Did you think I was going to have it right now? Are you ready to self communal to everybody right now? No, I'm asking answer, you are ready. OK, just. Hold on to it. We'll do it at a point. Amen. Hallelujah. Take it. This is my body. Christ gave up his body. Oh. Because of Christ, you cannot. Leave it with another type of chair in your sitting room. You can't. You must sit on a leather. Special one. That's the only chair you will sit. On In the World. When there's a throne waiting for you. If you can only accept this wooden chair, huh? You. Must you must live in a. Certain place. You must have a certain comfort for Christ. You can't move from just London to Edinburgh or just London to Manchester or you can't make you can't move just across the Channel with your British passport to a place where they are waiting for somebody who has the word of God, who has received the word of God like you have received for the last five years and know so much of the word of God. Have a Macanair, have all these books, have the videos, the CDs have been for so many camps and they are just waiting for you to come and offload some of these things that you know. You can't go, you see, because you leave just London to move to Lisbon or you can't move to just to Ukraine, Kiev, You can't go to Kiev. You see, Kiev is below you, it's below, it's below your standard. You see, it's below your bodily standard. Why don't we have churches in? Kiev And what about? Romania and Russia and Paula, why don't we, some of us here, you are here all the time, receiving, receiving, receiving. It's our time to give. It's our time to help. It's our time to offer. It's your turn to also preach. Jesus cannot bear the bedding of the. Whole world by himself, huh? Must Jesus bear the cross? Alone. That is why I said take up your cross and follow me. It's not a song, it says command we. Must also adjust our lives. For him, then, another thing. Is REST. Take my body. That means that when it's time to rest, you get it. And I can't rest. I'm not going to get. Angry I can't sit. Down for a long time, I can't hear preaching. Without sleeping, without yawning, without sleeping in the chair. Hey, I can't do anything for. God, my body once my body will be. Touched when Jesus said. Take it it chew, chew. Chew my body. Take it my body. He was showing them what was happening. Hey, whippings and things were about to happen to him. No, Look, all of you here, you form a part of an army of people whom. God wants to use. Desperately, it is his greatest desire to employ you and to deploy your services in His Kingdom. He wants your face to be out there. He wants to use you, your mouth, your tongue, your way of speaking, your way of talking, your type of preaching. God wants to use you. He likes you, and He wants to deploy your services. If it's not too much to ask of you, Mr. Gentleman and Mr. Dear Lady, if it's not too much to ask of you to suffer a little for God. If all of you sitting here were pastors. You know that it's a camp of passes and shepherd and other miscellaneous members, but rather this should be a camp of soldiers, soldiers so that we meet and. We pray together and encourage. Ourselves and we go back far. We should be we should from here we should be going to every country in Europe. There shouldn't be any place that is left whether Eastern Europe, Western Europe, anywhere where we have not gone to suffer there for God. It's, it's lower than your standard, you see to go to Romania, right, or Budapest, it's lower than you see because you, you only know Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Street and, and whatever is below, I see that it's below your level. It's below your level to pack. Your bag and your. House and clear out of this place to go and do something for God. God is not. After your money, but Zoby. Was here and I'm also not after your money I don't know anybody in this chair who. Comes to sow seeds. In my life, like Pastor Obi did when he was here, I could come to London, but not. Even London or wherever. And Pastor Bukal could give me thousands of pounds as an offering that is giving to me. And I said because it's the. Highest you can ever give to. Someone go out there. I'd also love to have a rich businessman here who's always blessing me. I say, oh, be blessed, I want to honor you because he really appreciated me and just be blessed. I would like him to stay here so that he will always, ah, when I go to London, I know who is in London. No, I know something he told me. He said to me, you know, since I came to Kenya, I've said I've seen that you can never be wiser than God. He said the amount of money that has been raised in the Kingdom of God from Kenya is more than he could ever have. Given or organized for. The church from London, the amount of money that has been raised. In the work. There the work there you see, you would have thought that when. I stay in England giving my 5. 100 lbs and Tony Pound I'll be giving creating more money for God, but to his shock. And surprise. Rather, being there, he has raised much more money for the Kingdom and the work of God there. Definitely you can be inconvenienced slightly. Mr. Big Man. Who do you think you are? Mr. Big Stuff? Mr. Big Shot, Mr. Gentleman? Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. Bond, Mr. Pleasantino. Sister, nice sister. Beautiful. Missus Londoner. Mr. Good moral man who has not done anything bad before, Mr. Kind gentleman. Mr. Pleasant to all your relatives, Mr. Please your in laws Mr. Please your parents, Misses, Please everybody. Mr. Nice to your teachers, Mr. Nice Guy. If only you can please also do something for God. Jesus said this. Eat it, eat it, chew me, I'll die for you. Take my body. You know the part that I just said. You see the word recline? What does recline mean? To relax? To take it easy to chill. It means to. Move into a position. That is more comfortable when he just. Tried to be a little more comfortable. And he looked and said, Judas, no one. Can bear this bedding alone. God needs you, and God wants you to give your body. And it's possible.