09. 35 Qualities Of Becoming A Shepherd 1

Welcome to track #9 of the Privilege. Any book that you want free, that's an extra blessing just for just for today. Amen. So make sure you make your those who have already bought. It's too bad. Thank you for your business. You can buy it again. No, I'm serious. There's no you bring confusion. Sorry. Thank you for buying Ellie. Ellie bed catches the worm. You may get a special blessing that somebody the late group doesn't get. OK, OK. Good, good, good. Now the next I'm going on to chapter 4. Shepherding is how many messages do you have? This is my 4th message. How many messages do you have? Number one is what? Yeah, what it means to be called to be a shepherd #2 the privilege of being a shepherd, isn't it then #3 the privilege of a high-ranking job, isn't it? And then #4 shepherding. No, no. You OK? You can have as many chapters as you want. I am on chapter 4 of my book here. Shepherding is a privilege because it involves becoming a member of the government. First Corinthians chapter 12, verse 28, chapter 4. I'm on chapter 4 of my camp. We have about 11 chapters so when we finish them we can close. Go and look at the animals. OK? First Corinthians chapter 12 verse 28 the Bible says talks about the gifts of government, Amen and the word government. Means to guide, Amen. To pilot or to steer something, Amen. To guide or pilot or steer something Amen. Now when? Oh, you got it there first. Apostles, prophets, teachers, gifts of healing, governments. Now pastoring involves running a government, the government of your church. That's why it's not a small thing to be a shepherd. That's why you're going to get a crown of glory. If you can be a Good Shepherd, it's government. So when a you see to be called to be a, you will even learn everything that you need to know about management and leadership for secular work. You learn it in the church. I have people who work banks. They use Anakazo, loyalty, different books. I remember one guy, he has an investment bank or something. He told me I use Anakazo. I use Anakazo to do to create more business. I taught the people in the bank because the principles of the word of God, they they extend the over. They go into other areas. You see, working for God makes you rich without even realizing how it's working. So I'm going to encourage you to rise up and decide I'm going to be a shepherd because you have been elevated to be part of the government. So that's when I look at these presidents and so on. I mean, I just wonder how do they do it? Be a president of a country. You have to run the army, education, schools above all. You have to be able to stay on the seat because if you don't stay, you're going to go. You can't do much, isn't it? So it's not a small thing. So when I pastor, one of the main things to be able to stay as a pastor, there are so many things I want to remove you from being a pastor, but you have to, you have to know how to still be the leader. As I've been preaching for years, a lot of people have grown up. This year, by the grace of God, we are going to be consecrating some bishops, some bishops in the new bishops, now some bishops, apostles and so on. Now I mean. All these guys are also. Good people when they say Bishop. So which Bishop do you want? So there are several bishops here. That's what they will now be saying. So we are, we are quite a number of bishops here. Which of the bishops? So you see, the people are coming. As a leader, you have to keep moving forward, otherwise they overtake you. So that I had my own messages being preached. I said, hey, this message is Waldo and I go and get the book and I start preaching it. Do you get it? Yeah. So you need to be able to stay there and be able to stay on top, stay in charge, stay as the leader, stay ahead. Not just to stay ahead for staying ahead's sake, but you as a leader, you must be one step ahead of the people. Otherwise you are not their leader. To a pastor is the is the whole government that is moving? That's why we see pastors are not interested in certain things, you know? The other day, you know when you talk to people, they all say, oh, we are interested. We are interested, but it's not true. They are not interested. A pastor, you must be interested in history. Napoleon, one of the things he spent his time doing was studying history. His he had history books, he was reading, studying. To be a leader, you need to know what happened before you came, how things turned out. And you see people are not interested in history. They don't read. How can you be a leader? You don't read. You don't know the material. You don't know what is being taught to you. You don't know what is being said because you don't. You don't. You don't really know it in depth. Are you there? Yeah. But you call yourself a pastor. You don't know history. So I tell. You, you need to know a whole lot of things to be a good as I'm here. I'm, I'm, I'm in control of, I mean not in control. I'm in charge. I'm involved in so many things. Even apart from anything else, I'm I'm also in charge of your, your, your welfare. I cannot let you go when there's a resident leopard in the middle of the night. That's why I'm not. I have no intention of taking this camp deep into the night like I usually do. I don't. I can't tell. So a leopard has eating one of the shepherds. So how, how can I be? I cannot have a shepherd to be eaten by a leopard and people would blame that. Why? We could have had a camp in Nairobi. You say come all the way here. Now leopard has eating 1 shepherd. And so on. What are we going to do? That's how people talk and you see the same people. So, so I know if there's a resident leopard and a visiting lion or visiting hyena, we cannot do that. So I have to think of so many things. So Pastor, you have to be so broad minded. You have to be interested in history. You are in a country, you don't know how the country came to be, how it is there. What is going on? You have to know, say you are a missionary to Kenya and you know the history of Kenya. You say you are a missionary to to Nigeria. Do you know the history of Nigeria? Even my book leaders and lawyer to the history of Nigeria, you will not read it. It's in the in the small history of Nigeria is there you will not read it. Why do you think I read about Stalin or I even learn about that Hitler, Mobutu, all these kind of people, all these characters, they are all. Representatives of different things, what leaders did, how they did, how they behave and so on. One day I had a meeting of some full time people and so on and I put on a film of Mobutu SE SE Kukuku. Bendu was a banga. Then as we are watching the film, I said, I know, you see, I said, oh, some of these people, they are not even interested. Well, we are not even interested, but we want to be. Government. Do you know that in the White House, as the president, he has historians who did their job? They have history said that this person did this and this. What happened? This person did this and this. What happened? This person did this and this. What happened? You don't know, you don't care. That's why biographies, history, those things exist so that you know this what this person, what you are doing exactly They did it and this is how it became but you don't know. So I went to the back to look come and see the people fly asleep. If you talk to them. Oh, after me I'm. Interested in Oh yeah, this? Especially if they want to marry you. They will claim to be interested in searches, but they are not interested at all. When you marry them, see that they are not interested. As I said, oh, we like it. Oh yes, these are what I didn't like. You know, don't like any start thing at all. Dressing, shopping, that's all. They were all. Sleeping out of the bag so I was standing when I was go and check who is that sleeping There it is so and so. OK. Go and check who is that one? It's showing history, history in the making. I look at somebody no interest. Sometimes when you marry people who are so empty headed, when you sit down you are sitting want to have somebody to have an intellectual discussion with. See, the person has no person is like a bouncing ball. When the information is going back empty, only dressing. No interest. Yeah. Government, history, economics. The same factors that make people rich make a church rich. Yeah, the same thing that make a church rich makes an individual rich. Makes a nation rich. Same. So a pastor will be interested in economics. I'm not just a pastor. You are a fool. You are not. I'm not interested in anything and I've not mentioned your name. So don't, don't, don't start, don't start trying to attack me. Have I called your name? What is your name? Have I mentioned I've not mentioned your name? If you are just snoring anything snoring, no interest in anything, how how do how do how do rich countries become rich? How do poor countries become poor? How does it happen? How do rich churches become rich? How can I travel with 12 people and come what, what, what, what capacity do I, what, what do I do? You cannot even. First of all, you cannot. Move before even you move with somebody, you take somebody with you. You cannot move. I shouldn't say it say it, but you see, most people are not really interested in how things happen, you see? And so if you want to be a Good Shepherd and a good leader, you need to. Rise up in your thinking. It's not just who I have to know John 316, John 37. Even the singers know John 316. They know John 317. Even singers who are not shepherds. They know and they are not estimated to get a crown of glory. Crown of glory is reserved for shepherds of governmental shepherds. Shepherds who are into government does not give the Kubernetes means a pilot steering a pilot a pilot as a pilot. You you think the one sitting in the front of the plane is an empty head full of porridge? Do you think his head is full of, as he's in the plane there, Coochie? You think it's Coochie in his head? As soon as you don't know one thing, it can finish you off just one thing. Oh yeah. That's why the person sitting up there, I tell you, a lot of those girls serving tea and coffee, they can never fly a plane. Never. They don't know the slightest wink of any idea of those dials and flashing things there. Not at all. Even if the plane, the pilot was to die and the copilot was to die, none of that, it will be some of us who will have. To go and land the plane. Some of us will have to go and land the plane. Because at least I know how. To steer. I know how to steer a plane. I'm a lay. I'm a lay admirer. No, no, no. From watching films. It's from watching films. Air Force One, at least. By watching Air Force One. No, you let it. You see, because you see when they do this, then the plane goes up. When they do, then the speed comes down and it starts to go down and you push it this way, it goes down. I think this one it comes up, isn't it? And there is a a few times I've been, I've been into the cockpit, I've. I'm. Interested because I've told me. I think about, look, you know, in case I have to one day fly the plane or something, you know? In case, yeah, but some of you are not. They say a knob when you turn in the direction, you just turn another to come 112125 if it's one, you put it there and you press it. The whole plane will just turn like that to go to the 125. Yeah, straight test goes zero to 360, I think. Yeah. And it goes out of 10 and another. The plane will just turn. You got to know, at least you have to know how to direct the plane towards Nairobi or towards wherever this one go. Mercy, may the Lord deliver us from any such evil in the name of Jesus. Flaps down, flaps down. How to bring the flaps down, How to bring the wheels out, How to even speak on the radio. One time I was almost on a plane. The pilot. The pilot was my friend. We were coming to land as we were putting the airport. Then he switched off the autopilot and took the. Steering. Then, he told. I said, what are you doing? We're we're coming speed. Hey, I didn't know that it was so fast. When you're at the back, you don't see. Top speed, they have that kilo. People are approaching the earth. I said what I said I'm. Stretched up there controversy, I said how? I was almost disturbing him then he had the plane now was now controlling the plane to land it. He said that when we do it manually Manuel when their land is Manuel landing while sitting there sleeping at the back. You don't know what is what is happening to your future. You don't know if you you see do not even guide your prayers that the guy has moved the thing to a man walking picture. You are asking for tea. You are joking, but you see our minds need to be bright. Think you've got to be a leader of people is involved a lot of things. Yeah, Fundraising. That's what he's telling me. He's got your permits to build a church. You need a. Permit. You don't do fundraising when you don't have permits you need permit can take forever. You'll never get it. Yeah, it's a. Very important thing, so many things build architecture, engineering, they singing. Music, they stop that. They just sit. They don't know anything about anything. Just I know John 316 and John 317. Broaden your mind. So now you hear me talking about certain things. It's not that I don't know what to do or the out of entertainment. I cannot watch Hitler as entertainment Hitler. When I watch him, I'm watching the characters of Satan. They are missed. They are examples of Satan embodied because. Satan is a mass medderer. Satan is trying to kill everybody and take everybody to hell and that is what they did. Hitler killed. And by the time he left, 50 million people were dead in this world. By the time he got out of this world, Stalin killed twice as much people as Hitler. Mobutu killed thousands and thousands, one minister said. I saw him drinking blood with my own eyes, human blood, he said. I saw with my own eyes, drinking blood. See the delusions. All of them are like that. All of Bocaster are mean. They start whatever. Oh, you have to learn it. You have to see. Amen. So shepherds, that's why we encourage you to go to school because you are going to be a shepherd. You shouldn't go to school. The most useful people are educated. That's why even though I would like my children to be in the ministry, I want them to go to school first. They show, I mean, you finish school, University education is important because you cannot easily lead people. You see, one of the reasons why I'm not intimidated by people who have these high sounding jobs. I've had the highest sounding job. It's not easy to be a doctor. Most people when they go to university, they cannot get medicine. The two highest jobs are medicine and law. Usually. I don't know who they are some other things now, but medicine and. Law used to be. And those who don't get medicine do pharmacy. They do a Greek, they do biology, they do this. It's true. You can ask them. They were not aiming for pharmacy, they were aiming for medicine. They had to do pharmacy, laboratory, technology, this and that and that. Most people who didn't get law, they said they do philosophy, doing English. We are doing this, we are doing social science. It's true. I got the highest level of course to do so. When I see somebody say you are we are doing exercise and So what you are doing some and So what I'm going to work and So what which work you see, but when you are not that somebody tells you, oh. And we are, we have, we are going to a meeting of the surgeons and meeting of the professionals. Oh, yes, please. You see, the pastor is good. Yes, please. You. You can only imagine that that person can be a committee chairman of the finance or committee chairman of building. I've never had a building committee in my church. I'm the building committee in the church. I do the building practically. Yeah. I'm sorry if it sounds proud, but I don't mean it to sound that way. I'm sorry. I don't intend to sound proud. I'm very sorry if that is the way it looks like, yeah. Are you listening to what I'm saying? Yeah, but I don't want to sound proud. No, I'm trying to encourage you to to rise up, bright mind, open your mind, read, learn. Because what? To be a shepherd is to be a. Government. One man government. Who is governing? Yeah. To be a shepherd is to be a government. It's a high thing, I'm telling you. It's a government, you know, in the church, as I'm the pastor. I have an equivalent of a finance minister. I do. I have a minister. You are what do you call them? A Kenya minister or secretary? Minister of Finance? Yeah, minister. I have an equivalent person who is like a Minister of Finance for me. I have an equivalent person who is a Minister of Education. Yeah. And if I was to ever be a president, which I will not be, if I was to be a president, I would choose those same people to be minister of final, Minister of Education. I have somebody who is The Who is an equivalent of a minister of works and housing. I don't know what what you have here for building roads and building things, public works. Is there a minister like that? Minister of Public Works? I have an equivalent of that. I have a minister, minister for health, I have information, I have equivalent. I don't call them that, but it's like a government and with some people that work, it's true. Are you there? Yeah. I have equivalent of chief of staff. I may not use the word chief of staff, but I have. What do you think? So when when you become a shepherd, you are rising into it's not it's not something for just dull people. Now ask your neighbor, are you dull? Are you dull? Because it's not a dull job? It's not a dull job, but it's a very high level job. What do you think? Can you broaden your mind and become a great shepherd? Wow, I see you becoming great shepherds and powerful in the name of Jesus. Amen. In Africans, we must be interested in some things. You see, it's white people who are interested in these animals, those. White. People who are interested in this. We are not interested in such things, I said. Hey, I'm afraid, hey, hey, it will come and catch us. Why? That is what we did. And white people came all. The way across the sea and told us that they've discovered us. How do they know that they were there before we were here? But the only reason we allowed them to build their boats and sail when they saw us, they said they have discovered us. And of course we have to allow them to say that they discovered we should have built their boat. And when we go there, we say we discovered them. They gave us mirror, salt, whatever and took us away and. Made us slaves and we have Oprah Winfrey and all these Michael Jackson are their descendants. You need to. No. You see, you've come here. You're not interested in a zebra, you see? Don't you know? If you want to see the zebra, why don't you want to see a zebra? Why have you brought us here? Have you brought us here? Look at the question you are asking. I'm trying to broaden the latitude of your mind. The latitude. You are Kenyans, but you have not been here before. You are from Kenya, but you have not been here. You have never been here. I have come from Ghana to carry you to come and see what Kenya is famous famous for. Oh. And you are rather saying, why have I brought you to come and look at monkeys? You are forgiven. I have forgiven you for your thoughts, the bad thoughts that you had. From the start, you had a place in my heart. OK. A place that no one else could feel. But sin kept your spirit from working in me. I couldn't look at it lie honestly until the day my will give way to the truth that I found in you. I never knew just how good it could be to stand in your prayers and totally free. Now I'm forgiven. Now I have a reason for living. Jesus keeps giving and giving. Giving till my heart overflows. I'm forgiven. Now I have a reason for living. Jesus keeps giving and giving. Give until my heart overflows. Oh. I. Can see me as a personal dreams even when I slip and fall. You are a God who forgives and forgets. Now I want to give you my heart, so I'm forgiven. Oh now I have a reason for living. Jesus keeps giving and giving. Give into my heart overflows. I'm forgiven. Oh, now I have a reason for living. Jesus keeps giving and giving and giving to my heart. Overflows from the start. You have a place in my heart, a place, and no one else could be here, but sin kept your spirit from working. Indeed, I couldn't look at life honestly until the day my will gave way to the truth that I found in you. Now I have a reason for living. Oh, Jesus keeps giving and giving. Oh, giving to my heart overflows. I'm forgiven. Now I have a reason for living. Oh, Jesus keeps giving and giving and giving. Giving to my heart overflows. Say not forgiven. I'm forgiven. Now I have a reason for living. Hey, Jesus keeps giving and giving. Giving to my heart over close. I'm forgiven. Yeah, now I have a reason for living. Jesus keeps giving and giving and giving and giving to my heart over love. Oh, I'm forgiven. Oh, now I have a reason for living. Oh, Jesus keeps giving. Giving, yeah, Giving to my heart over love. Oh. I'm. Forgiven, forgiven. Now I have a reason for living. Jesus keeps giving and giving girl. Giving to my heart over. Blood. Come on, give all of us I'm. Forgiven. Now I have a reason for living. Jesus keeps giving and giving. Give into my heart of the blood. Sing. I'm forgiven. Yeah, yeah. Now I have a reason for living. Oh, Jesus gives, given and given. Give into my heart of the blood. I'm forgiven. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, All right. Sit down. 35. OK, Now Chapter 6, I'm going in chapters. How many chapters have I given you? Four. OK, so you can make it about this chapter 5, because I'll give you chapter 65 later, but this is Chapter 6. Shepherding is a privilege because of the stringent qualifications you must meet. Stringent qualifications you must meet. Do you understand stringent, strict. You can't just become a pastor. And that is what makes it great. That's why all over the world doctors are respected, because you can't just be a doctor when they ask you a question, Where in the body do you produce saliva? And you say the stomach you cannot pass, isn't it which organ produces urine? You say the intestines, You couldn't remember all these, so you are feeling is it not true, it is true or it is not true? You have to know so many things. In Ghana, one time, 3 doctors had a terrible accident on the highway and they died. 3 doctors, I tell you, they were coming from a town, they had done some surgery on some people and they were coming back home and they had a terrible accident. All of three of them died. There was a state funeral which involved the president and the past president. They didn't know them personally, but you see, it was such a tragedy and there was such respectful doctors, you see, because it's so difficult to be a doctor seven years you've been in. School. Did you get it? But if 3 bankers were to die, say no wicked people, they've taken all our money. 3 accountants. Three train drivers 3. Lawyers No 11 rich man was on his deathbed. Then he made a special request that I have one special request. I said what is it said I want to ask for my pastor and my lawyer to come together. So when they came, he said I want my pastor to stand on the right side and then I want my lawyer to stand on the left hand side as I die. So. As the man was dying, they asked him, why do you want your pastor to stand on the right and then the lawyer on the left? And the man said, I want to be like Jesus. I want to die between two thieves, Mercy. I want to die between two thieves. I want to be like Jesus. It's very serious. What somebody's thinking, they're insulting us. It's a pity. It's a pity, but doctors are really respected. It's because the training is difficult, very difficult. It's difficult to get it. So what I'm trying to say is that to become a pastor is also equally difficult. And I have 35 important conditions for you to become a Good Shepherd or a. Lay pastor or shepherd or whatever. Amen. Are you there now? If there were only three qualifications, then that would be it, But I have 35 stand up, my dear, stand up 35 conditions. It doesn't not make it difficult. It's. Difficult. Yeah, it's difficult. Is it difficult 35? Yes, it's difficult. Yeah, it's not easy. If it's just one thing, come to a camp and then you are a shepherd, then you are almost there. But there's more than that. Amen #1 Let's start. And now when does the president leopard come out? When it gets dark. OK, it's not yet time for the resident leopard. Hey, those of you who are the resident leopards, stand up, Let me pray. Especially a special prayer for you KWS. You didn't know that there was a resident leopard at your your end. Father, we assign terror angels into that vicinity. Hold back every resident leopard in Jesus name. May he find something to eat. Before we come. In Jesus name, Amen under visiting lions. We will pray about that one before we go. Number one, you must have the desire to become a shepherd. Yeah. We must have a desire. All of us in the church must have desire to be shepherds and pastors. Amen. The Bible says in First Timothy 3-1. This is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a good work now in the church. The church must have the desire to be church members must have a desire for the highest possible position in the church. You see, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm trying to be a pastor. I, I have the desire to be the highest possible. That's why some time ago, I, I, I had a dream. I said, oh, let's have 1000 churches. I mean, I never thought we would even accomplish it, but we've, we've passed 1000 churches. So I have a vision now to have 10,000 churches. Yeah, why not? Why should I not have a desire for something better or something greater? I mean, come on. And I'm having crusades and I have AI have a desire to have 1,000,000 people attending in one night. Yeah, we've seen over 400,000, around 400,000 people before. We are, we are believing that's almost half a million in one night. I'm believing God to see millions. Time will come. 1,000,000 two million attending, thousands and thousands coming to the Crusades and being saved. Why should I desire something less? Now you you've come to the church, why do you desire to just be an usher? Is Asher the highest job in the church? Ashes are not going to get the crown of glory. You may get a crown of life for some other activity, but for shepherding work it's only crown of glory for shepherds. How come you don't want the beautiful crown crown that is reserved for shepherds? What do you think? What do you have to desire? So you can't be that as I want to be a singer. Me, I can play piano, I can play drums, I can even sing if I'm forced to. I can sing. You've not heard me singing. Before I Can't Sing. If you forced me to, I Can't Sing. Oh, look. But my desire is not ending there. I want to be a pastor. I want the highest job in the church. And the highest job is not singing. It's not ushering. It's not being in the choir. There's more. So why did you sit in the church and just say, oh, I just want to be in the background? 111 of our one of the church members. You know, when they were finally out, the pastor was shaking all the hand. The pastor says, hey, where have you been? You've not been coming around. You've not been part of the wagon. You know, you're not part of the army of the Lord, the guy said. Oh. I am. I'm part of the Secret Service. That's why you've not been seeing me. Instead of joining the main army, you have joined the Secret Service department of the church. That's why we don't see you. Hey, don't desire. To be undercover serpents with something to hide. Flow undercover. Come out, come out of your shell. Come out of your shell and become what God wants you to become. I want you from today to desire to have the greatest desire to be in the greatest position. I don't have any small vision in my life. The book that I've written, I want it to be read. By every language possible. I don't have a desire though, I just want English. No, that's why my book is in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian. In fact, the people who are pre if I have not translated it into Russian. A lot the people who appreciate my book The Art of Leadership most in the world are Russian speaking people. I'm famous in Russia for my books. Especially the art of leadership. So if I just depended on you English speaking people look at that one, I'd have missed. The Russians would have. Yeah, Chinese. Indian languages. Madar, Mama. No, no. Mandarin. What is it called? Indian. Marathi. Hindi. Oh yeah, I'm translating. Even Swahili. I'm translating now. Swahili. Yeah, Amaric, when are you going to print? You have not printed any yet. Yeah, Amaric. You'll be surprised. I married people, may they may fall in love, in love with lay people in the ministry. Something I realized that I said, I don't have any small you. You've come to the church with a small vision, But when you went to the bank, you had a vision. I want to be the managing director. When you went to the other people I had, I want to be this, I want to be that. When you were getting married, you didn't want to marry a laborer. You wanted to. I want to be the president's. Wife. I want to be the. Pastor's wife go right I got. I want to be so coming gloriously. And Jay, I'm the pastor's wife. I'm the first lady of Lighthouse Chapel. Kisumu. Is that the first lady? Shabaya. You are the first lady, Kisumu. First lady. Wow. Huh. So I want you to have how many are increasing your vision now, your desire? Let it go a bit higher. It's too low. Amen. If you're preaching in. Kenyan language that believe God. One day you preach outside Kenya, one day I went to preach somewhere in the country and they put me in a room without windows to sleep. When I say without windows, the windows we were sliding with you which were permanently closed with permanent curtains and I was in the room, very wild room. So my pastor who was with me said. How can you come here to stay here? This is the second time I come. And in the evening I go out to breathe. When I finish breathing, then I go into sleep. When I finish breathing, then I go into sleep. Hey. So my person was asking me why am I staying in this place? And I asked him, have you been invited ever in your life outside Ghana? Well, we were in Nigeria. I asked him have you been invited outside Ghana to preach before? He said no. I said that is why I've come. It's an honor to me to preach outside my country. It's an honor. I see it as an honor. Whether this window or this moving. When I breathe, I come inside. What? I breathe and I come inside. They gave me a chicken. I tell you the leg is that. They say, hey, Nigerian chicken you. You would think that is the special Pelican. It's a privilege. So have a high vision that one day somebody invite from here, I'm going to Singapore. I've been invited to Singapore to preach. They will pay for everything for me to come there and bless me when I'm leaving. When I went there, they told me we want you to come and preach. They have started churches in Philippines. We want to come and preach to pastors. 3000 pastors in the Philippines. I said I'll. Come, this is to me. It's an honor. My vision is not just to preach in Accra. No, no, no, no. I have to bear fruit everywhere. In any language, anywhere. Yeah, you are. Sitting there with small vision, No, I see your from today your vision is gone higher in Jesus name, Amen. Have a desire, deep desire within you to do greater. You become what you desire. You become what you have a vision for. Your vision doesn't make you you, you. You don't make your vision. Your vision makes you into what what you are thinking all the time. You become that thing #2 There are 35 and I'm on #2 You must have a divine call. Wow. Hebrews chapter 5, verse 4. We've read it already. It says no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God. Now. That's why I wrote this book. Many are called now. I don't need to. I mean, unless we want to go through all that. Now this chapter talks about how different people we're called chapter 3 there. I think there are only about 40 or 50 copies there. So if you want 1, you get get one free. You get out of Shepherdie and then you get one free of this easy. Now make sure you get it. Those who've already bought you need to buy a second one in dash to somebody. But it shows how different how Ezekiel was called, how this person was called, how this, when you, when you read it to help you to know how your calling is, because this is how Zika was called. James was called, Peter was called, everybody was called in a different way. That's why I say many are called. And when you look, you see some of your pictures before you realize your picture is on this. And there's a small place here with a question mark. It says you, your picture belongs here. You too. You are. Called many. Many are called. Many Kenyans are called. And I'll tell you the fact that you came to this church, Lighthouse Chapel, this church is a calling church. You can't imagine that you are called, cannot just easily just be around. You say we are just, we are just in the committee. We are in the hospitality committee to welcome the Bishop. We are making the meat pie. These ones are bringing Alvaro. These ones are bringing Malta, Guinness. These are bringing Coca-Cola. Look, let me tell you so between you and I can make my own Alvaro. I can wait. I don't need you your whole life to come and pour Alvaro for me. Do you know Alvaro? You have Alvaro here. I don't need you to pour Alvaro. I can't do it. What do you think? My house. I make tea. I make tea for my wife. I don't need you to make tea for me. I can't do. When I'm in my house, I do it. I make tea. My tea cup for my wife, for myself. Then I make for. Every in the morning. I make wire myself here anytime she doesn't drink bad at least I make it. She's forgiven. I don't need, I don't need somebody to make it for me. No, no, no, no. I teach myself the problem at all. At all. God has called it for something more than making samosa or meat pie or something. Yeah, I'm trying to encourage you to see something bigger than that. Oh, believe God. Amen. Are you there or you've gone home? OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, good, good. So you need to hear the call of God. So please get your book. That many I can see, whether yours is like this or like this. But I have one little thing to tell you. I'm very jealous of people who have had visions for their calling. Oh yeah, I'm jealous of them. He's one of my main jealousies that I had to meet. Somebody says he has seen Jesus. I wish so even if I sit down questions. But can I think? He says when you see him, you forget all the questions because he's seen him eight times. He says you. Forget when I see him, I'll ask him this. I ask and so that when I see people, I rather the ones when they see me, they've forgotten what they wanted to say. And I look and I said you are forgiven. It's true. They say you forget when you see new beer, he said. When? Jesus walked into his room. His hair, he says. His hair. Stood up. I don't think actually stood but. He was so. Fried he was fried any you just said you're not expecting somebody today and somebody's there as long as you can easily die if you are not healed immediately by Jesus, but you can easily die one day I heard a pastor describing how Jesus. Called him Jesus appeared to be and I look at his ministry, struggling ministry. So the Lord told me. You see, it's not necessarily that if I have appeared to you. It will make your ministry work. It doesn't. It doesn't mean that so the ministry was struggling. He meet he was calling me to help him and he thought Jesus I had I never knew that he said Jesus called me, appeared to be and called me and told me to listen. That's why I'm doing what I'm doing. Wow, struggles are what? You are joking. One day I saw him. He had grown very lean. I said, what is wrong? He said, oh, every year my church in Germany will break off my church here, will break off my church, everybody. So he said I'm fasting 40 days, another 40 days, 30 days because of these people. So I told him I've got a medicine for that thing. True, true. But when? He said. Jesus had appeared. Jesus may not have appeared to like me, but you see, look at what I'm doing. You know how I know that? I'm called just believing. I just have a belief. Up to today, I'm still having that belief. All the things I do, I believe. When I see people I believe God, I tell them I feel this. And I've learned how to be a bit sort of sensitive. So when I sense God telling me something, I start to talk about it so that somebody see the things we've done, like how obese here in Kenya. I mean, it looks easy now, but when the Lord is staring me up, I had to Dreams, visions, different things. I feel go here, do this, do this, do this. Let's make this move. It looks OK now. But I tell you, it's not been easy, huh? Yeah. But you got to flow today. If you hear his voice, that's the only one thing I can tell you today. If you hear his voice, do not harden, do not stiffen. That Scripture is for Christians who hear the voice of God. You see, you can. Liken the hearing of the voice of God to a husband who is lying by his wife in the bed and in the in the night. The husband has a desire to behave like one of the donkeys, lions, any of the other animals. Around so he taps his wife's bottom and he taps it and when he taps it instead of the wife to tell. You see that she's now killing up. Have you seen a snail That is now The thing is going inside that scripture today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart today, today, today, today, today. If you hear, don't. Most of us when God is speaking just like that, it's just a gentle so if you're not very flowing, you never hear you see like I just working. If she doesn't flow, I cannot work that time I've shouted at her. We have blasted her there she comes, but she knows I love her but. You have to, you have to be very sensitive. If you are working with me, there are so many things I'm doing as I'm doing many things. I'm doing so many things. It's not only what I'm not only preaching, my phone is on and I'm communicating. I'm doing things. You don't know what I'm doing. I'm doing different things at the same time. So you need to be, you need to be sensitive. So today when you hear slide tap. And your sense God saying, you must work for me now. I said, this is the time I'm calling you. Now don't, don't say, OK, let's sing a song. Now let's not sing a song. Think about what God is saying. Flow, flow, flow, flow. Don't. Don't change the topic. Don't change the topic and don't stiffen. Don't stiffen. That's good time we use it to preach to unbelievers. It's not something for Ambri, for Christian. Today. If you hear his word, do not have it. He was speaking to his own people. Don't stiffen up. I don't understand what you're saying. Can I see you in the evening? Can I see you after check? Can I see you tomorrow? Don't stiffen. You will regret it. They tap you on your bon toss. You must understand the meaning. One day I tapped my wife in jail. She's as if she did. I said. My friend, I said we have been married for 20 years. After 20 years, don't understand. After 20 years, you don't understand what is going on. You are behaving like it is a mystery. A mystery. After 20 years you are still finding it mysterious. If it was in the first few years you can claim ignorance, but so many years have passed, you are still claiming you don't understand that time of ignorance is passed. You don't understand the message. You are joking. You are playing well. Cup, Africa Cup. If God is speaking. If God is speaking, I've learned to just. Flow, flow. Most of the things I'm doing are flow. I had a dream one day, you know, and then something. That's how come Obi is here. Pastor Obi, the first time I sent him, he's stiffener. As if he had. Convulsions. Because I I never sent him to Kenya, I sent him to South Africa. So instead of saying yourself, he's going to. South Africa to survey, There's no need of the survey. He's going to survey the land. Are you God? He was surveying the land and after he surveyed, I didn't hear from him again. I said look at somebody you see. I've been doing it for a long. Time I see them so that they think I'm angry, I'm angry with you. It's like a game to me. I see, I keep sometimes out this year, next year I'll come and say again another time. You see, now we have got a church in Kenya. A pastor is somebody who can pastor people that are out of the way. You like all of them business like this, but you like this business like this. You like like all they're all your children. That's why that smoker. Did I tell you about that smoker, my smoker member you have sat here. I was with the I like my smokers. I like all of them. One day you see you stop smoking. Don't sack my people somebody in Christ has died for you are sucking the person you don't sack sheep like that we don't sack sheep people that we. Struggle to see. We don't, we don't suck like that. It's precious. Amen. So gradually. Amen #2. You must have a divine call. Have I told you that already? Yeah. So find out how God has called you hey #3. You must have a willingness, willingness and a commitment. Willing commitment, willing commitment. Now, do you know that I have a great desire to be a pilot? Do you know that? Oh, I do. And maybe you can see from what I'm telling the I've been interested. I've been in cockpit, Lufthansa, Ghana Airways, KLM, all of them. I just go into the cop, They'll be showing me what is this now They don't allow it since September 11th. When I look at my mustache, I look like a Palestinian. So I realize they're not allowed me. So that when I go at the Plaza that they will be looking at me and I look at that and say, yeah, we are here. Because I'm a .5, isn't it pointee? But you see, I'm not committed. I haven't made any effort. To become a pilot, Do you know there's a pilot in school in Ghana at least there was something once and I could go even in America, it will not cost so much. I can go register even for vacation. I'll do it. A pilot take off small planes, the plane is even cheaper than a bus. Just pilot, go up, come down, practice. But I'm not serious. I am not serious about my desire. I am not serious, you see, And many of us, we have a desire to work for, but we are not serious. We are not committed. That's why you are nowhere near becoming a pastor from the first time when you started desiring to work for the Lord as a king and our Tanzanian, you are not serious. You can have a desire and even a call, but if you are not committed and you don't show commitment towards it, you are just talking. You cannot just sit there and say, Oh yes, God has, I want to. How many of you are you lifting up your hand? It's not like that. You have to take steps. Towards that thing that you desire to be. And if you don't take steps, you cannot become what God has called you or what you claim you have a desire for. So it's not just a desire. You have a call. You have to have a commitment. You see that you are making steps. I remember when I was in the hospital working as a house officer, or even though I was working as a house, that's when I wrote the marriage vows. The vows that we used, I was writing them, transcribing them, writing, organizing them. I was working. Even though I was on cover. I couldn't leave there before 8. That's the work I was doing. I'm seriously on my mission to be a pastor. I have a mind to officiate weddings, to do certain things. Oh, not just, I mean, saying something with your mouth. Are you there? Stand up. Ha. It's our time to do something for the Lord. Amen. OK, gentlemen, you need to give her my sound. Just that. OK? Sit down, sit down, sit down. Everybody arrange yourself, those of you in the whatever, with this microphone and all that. Sort it out. OK. We don't have time. The leopard. The resident leopard is waiting for us. We cannot allow it. Number. How many have you got? Three. Wow. What's the first one? Edison, Vanco. #4 You must have a godly character. Amen. You can't do anything you want to do that you used to do. Amen. Did you hear me? You cannot do what? Just anything that you want to do at any time. In it, in it or in it. You can't just behave anyhow. OK, so you need to have a godly character. Ask your neighbor have you stopped fornicating? Just tell your neighbor have you stopped fornication? Tell your neighbor I'm very specific this evening. Have you stopped committing fornication? Now ask your neighbor, have you stopped telling lies? Ask your neighbor. Have you stopped stealing? Are you? Have you started paying tithes? Have you stopped robbing God? Where's Pastor Richard? Come, come, Pastor Richard. Put your hands together. Welcome, Pastor Richard. 24 Hallelujah. Well, you are just confessing some sins there. You stopped number one. You stopped something. OK, So what? Those who have stopped from today forgive. I believe we are being blessed, isn't it? And I believe that we are coming through and they're going to be good shepherds, good pastors. Hallelujah. So I think somebody was sharing something with us the last time we took a break. I think I was about to call Reverend Cliffier to share something with us. So welcome Reverend Cliffier to share something that he has learnt at this camp and tell your neighbor that you might be the next. So get ready, OK? Just want to be honest, if you'd like to hear what someone has heard, what has administered to somebody at this camp, it's a very, very, very, very powerful camp, isn't it? Yeah. So, Reverend Cloufiel, say microphone. Hallelujah. I've learned quite a lot. I mean at this camp, like from the beginning about not having a vision for riches, but rather going the way of the Lord, having the desire to of living in the fear of the Lord and all those things would automatically follow. And also having learned or have learned about the the the privilege, the honor that is done to to me in giving being called to serve the Lord. The different I mean explanations and how I need to walk appropriately or worthy for such an honor done unto me. I've learned about the various crowns, the crown of life, the best of all, the crown of glory. That therefore I've desired in my heart to strive to be an excellent shepherd so that my crown will be multiple and bigger than than most of my colleagues. Hallelujah. Amen. Club forever. And Cliff, you. Well, those of you who came to Suckas, I see. We should see what they have learned, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, since you came. So, my brother, I was sitting here some few moments ago. Could you please come and tell us your name, where you've come from, what you do in church and what you've been greatly blessed with at this camp? Because because of you, now I'm at the back. OK. Well, my name is Steven Kilela. I'm, I'm from Nairobi Apache, but I'm Nairobi West Branch. I'm assisting Pastor Dennis at the moment as a law minister. Wow. I'm assisting in a branch, Nerby, West Branch. My pastor is Pastor Denis. Yeah, I've learned a lot this camp about the privilege and all just one hour being not being arrogant assumption, taking things for granted. Yeah, presumptions and arrogant taking things for granted. Really. Well, OK, it's true. I've not been taking my pastors the way I supposed to take them. It's as especially my my we take. I take Reverend for granted at times. Yeah. Yeah, I'm forgiven. He's my daddy. I appreciate him, and I should put more effort in appreciating him. I will forgive him. Yeah, it's true. So it's not. I'm not ashamed of. Yeah, Yeah. I believe I should appreciate him more and more. Yeah, yeah, Yeah. Wow, That's fantastic. God bless you. Hey, my sister here. They're one of those who came to Sakas. So come. Which branch are you from? Nairobi. Apache. OK, This messy. Yeah. Tell us just one thing, one thing that you've really, really been ministered to others camp. I've learned that having a desire and having commitment are two different things. I've been having a desire, but I was telling myself since once God's word goes forth it does not come back empty. So I was waiting for it to just. So I've learned that I have to work, work on it and have commitment. Yes, truthfully, yes, yes, No, I'm saying quiet time. I have 5 minutes, thirty minutes. It was late. So I I'll try to be consistent on a daily basis. My quiet time. Yes, God. Bless you God. Bless you, God bless. You. Thank you, Sister Mercy. Well, I think there's somebody here also who moved us. This brother. Would you like to come? Yeah. Come. Here's what Chief. Are you from Apache? OK, You tell us very quickly just one thing that you've been blessed with, OK. Yeah, I've learnt about. I've learnt, I've learnt about the privilege of becoming a Good Shepherd. Yes. I've learnt about having an honor, being honored and joining a family. Yeah, Anna, to be part of the family of ministers. OK. God bless you. Thank you, love for him. Please welcome the Bishop back. All right, all right, all right. Are you there or you've gone home? Godly character Have you overcome wickedness, jealousy, bitterness, lust, discouragement, unhappiness, depression? Strife #5 Your wife must be qualified for ministry, or if you are wife, your husband. If you want to serve God, you must, You must not just marry anything. Do you get it? You can't just marry anybody anymore. You have to marry a type of woman. You can't just have anyone. You get it because some women don't help in the ministry. You know, most, most of the missionaries that we sent out who, who, who did not succeed or who have struggled is is, is from the marriage. Usually the wife is not helpful. If she's not negative, she's not helpful. Usually that is it. So the pastor has himself to carry and then an extra weight to pull along this difficult woman. She may be. Pretty. But it's not by prettiness. It is. It is by much more so Almost every mission that has not worked, there is a wife who is not a flowing, good, helpful wife, I can tell you that. That's true. So sometimes you're a young man, you really want to. I mean, when I was in in the university and I knew that I wanted to be in the ministry, I mean, I was really, really concerned about who I would marry. I was so afraid of the of marriage. Yeah, so even though I knew that I was going to marry now, at least I liked her. I wanted her. I felt she was beautiful. I like her. Everything. I said I would not trust my feelings. So I decided to pray about it for another one year. I told her, look, me, I like you because I like to be honest and I feel like I can't tell. I have to pray for one year. I can easily marry somebody else or be in a religion. I'm informing you so that you don't say that broken heart or that something, something, something I don't want to hear. I don't want to hear that at all. Let this be your last time. Don't say that again. Almost every ministry that is not working, usually the wife. So really the best is not to marry the best in the ministry. The best is not well, there's no act to tell the mind's construction in the face. There's no way to see from a woman. No matter what they say, you show them Mobutu, they will say, oh, I like, I'm interested in them. If you look careful, you see that they are sleeping. You show them. So we like this, but in reality, I'm not interested at all. They are totally undressing. Really. In ministry, no, when there's, oh, we really love the church and you know. Something. But when you marry, you see the whole. Just there, it's like you are carrying an albatross through your whole life. Your whole ministry is ministry plus your albatross. It's true almost every mission and Mr. does struggle. It doesn't. It doesn't easily work. So Pastor Obi's wife is one of the good missionary wives that you have. You get a tap. Another good missionary wife is Elaine, Pastor Crucus, a wife. She's got it. He's giving her a tap already. Hey, they didn't mention my name. I've decided to mention only two names. But you, you know yourself if you are difficult. I don't need to say it here that you know that you are a difficult woman, but your husband has made a mistake in even marrying you. You should know by now. I don't have to tell you that's true. So brothers, we are going to marry. Pray, don't look at hips and thighs. One day I went to a certain church. And I saw that the one of the pastor's wife was not there. Then I found out what is going on and she was around, I mean not. And then the other, one of the other wives said when it was time for him to marry, he was looking at hips and ties. That's why I had that statement. This is not from my age. I had it from another church and Bottas was looking at hips and ties and now it's not easy for him at all. That girl, she has six or five or Seven Sisters. All of them are divorced except here. Yeah, there's protest in them, trembling ties and hips and those ties and hips where you are tapping the center of the cross, you see it is still, it is not moving. So you went for the ties and hips, you didn't get it. And then your ministry is no way. No. Oh. Double double toilet trouble because usually a good ministry wife is usually good sexually. A Good Wife in the ministry, like the Word and the ministry is also usually good sexually because she's flowing a tap at the center of the cross and then. She's immediately calibrated, she's immediately calibrated. But those that are difficult, even publicly, we can sense the resistance. How much more at home when there is no referee, when there is no referee, A match without a referee, just argument. When you say I scored, no, you didn't score. The ball didn't go. I said why do you tell it? Don't touch me, Why do you touch me? Look at it. But there's no. Referee so difficult. In English language use the word can't cross which means. I'll Natured. Quarrelsome never say die, never agree, never yield. Never bend when you want to. Never. Bend, never give in. One day I saw a certain pastor. He had reached the limit. I told him. I told him that Satan has entered your wife in the form of an adversary. You see, Satan enters in different formats depending on the format that he's using. If he can, the form of accuser, she will accuse you. If he can, the form of an adversary, she will oppose you. Anything you do should be against you. One day setting man said today my wife has agreed. If my wife has agreed then because she never agrees to anything. Not that somebody thought I had. Yeah, the fact she never agreed. So she has entered the wife in the form of the adversary. Adversary means the person is adverse to. You is opposed to you, Yeah. So when I see the flowing wives, I'm always great for some. Then you get your reward in heaven because your husband does well, because you help him and allow him to do well. It's true. So we need to go. So is that that you need a spiritual woman is that you have seen somebody with size 14. You must be silly to go and marry somebody by their size. Do you know what will happen to her when she becomes pregnant? She will taste of size 14 to 24. She can no longer wear pants. There is no panty that fits that sucks in the shop. You don't understand what I'm saying. No, you don't use, you don't use size to. One day I saw a young pastor full of anointing. I said, which type of lady do you want to marry? He said Bishop, do you really want to know? Yeah, what? I mean, what type is it? This is somebody with big. Breasts. Oh, this annoyed look at what we are choosing. You need, you need somebody who who can speak the word, who can share the word, who knows the word, who obeys the word. But the people who know the way, but they don't apply it to themselves. Revelation Chapter 3 responses and 14 they would ever do it. They are hard like iron. You need somebody who flows. Look at me. My wife has followed me all these crazy years. Everything I'm doing has been new. Everything I do is new. Can you imagine if she was just opposing me? Everything I do she see we are starting it where somebody was in a Methodist Church, established church with priests following this half caste boy pointy going to start a church. She's following me start a church. Hey, I'm preaching, she's there, listening, following, writing notes. Good. This. Now say I'm doing this. Now say I'm gonna say I've got the church now. I'm not the church. She's in the church. I'm not in the church. I said I'll be punctured. I'm doing this. I'm doing this this. Hey. Suppose if she was to fight me, huh? It will not be easy in the church. Yeah, cannot. I cannot even do what I have to do. Mostly I'll be battling and actually to affect you see that I'll be ministry at a certain lower level may not know so that the. Announcement is made-up. They are divorcing. That's how that's how you see all these ministries a lot of time when you see their main announcement so many years. One day I saw one pastor who has made an announcement that he's divorcing. Everybody was sure. Then I met somebody who knows him, who knows the person very well. So I said, do you think these people will come back? He said he said. You know what he said? I'm surprised that they have been together after today. I'm surprised that they have lasted up to this point, but you will never see it when you see them on television. So brothers and sisters, God will punish you beer when you oppose somebody's ministry. The worst thing you can become is to become a stumbling block. Go and read the final quest, the guy said. I became The worst thing anybody could become in this world is to become a stumbling block. A stumbling block is something that makes you fall down. Let's say I'm going then. His foot is here, then I go by, then I go down because I wasn't originally down, I was originally up, but because of his leg I'm down. So he has made me go down. So you see that your husband would have been up. You've made him go down. You've made him leave the mission. You've made him do less. You've made the person lower than he would have ever been you. He said. I told that. It would be better to. Hang the stain here and drag you through the river that you make you cause any of these ones to stumble when read your Bible and see people are trying to so higher you are bringing them down. You are using your body to let a man of God fornicate. I became the worst thing you see there are there are people and there are people who bring people down. I am sure Monica Lewinsky was not the only lady moving around in that White House, but she's the woman that made him calm down. Make sure that you will not be the woman that will make somebody calm down in this world better. Die first. Somebody was he would have. So I look at one of my pastors. I had to withdraw him from. I say come home as I look at somebody because of. AI see, that's why. The ministry of man, if you are not strong, you cannot work for God. You have to be strong. Hey, you have to be strong. You cannot be a pastor without strength. Yeah. I love my wife, but she knows that I'm strong. Yeah. And I'm ready, if necessary. What action I have to take. She knows I'll take it. You won't say, man, it's true. It's true. You are there behaving like a woman when you are a man. You are a. Man, you are behaving like a woman. One day I went to see a certain man. I said I wanted to buy his house about 30 years ago, he said. So I said, how much is the house? He said. I don't know. How's the women? He said. Ask my wife or my daughter. Any of them can tell you what about. They say so. Ah, what type of man is this? In the house you say you don't know how much the house is. Anything your wife says and your daughter said that the women are in charge, Fine, but don't be sad if your ministry goes another way. When asked Abraham the day that he listened to his wife, Abraham hacking unto the boys of his wife. Sarah. We are into Al Qaeda now, the Bible says Adam hacking onto the voice of his wife and then here we are. So in the ministry, don't follow waifu. I told my wife, Lord, I said I will never follow you. I will follow God. I promise you with all my heart, I will never I will follow God. If what you say coincides with God, I will follow it, but I will not. I am a woman. You see, women are so angelic. Women we. See, they are so pure and so holy looking. We brothers, we know we are bad, so we feel. They are so angelic, but you have to. Recognize even though the person is so nice, it's not God, it's not God and a man of God at my where I am, I cannot follow a woman or a wife. I will not be here. You will not be here. None of us will be here. We can't. We would not be here. You will never do anything if you follow any other voice apart from the voice of God. Ultimately is God. It's you, God. What does God say? What does God? That's the voice we follow. If the voices go into the fire, the voices walk into the fire. Walk like that and you bend for God. Do you understand? Wow. Oh, you. Don't understand what I'm saying. I'm talking. To brothers who claim that you want to be sharpest Empress, if you cannot lead your own woman in the house and fight those battles and control that inconsequent, reconsequent, or what is the word transcendent, stubborn person in the house, you cannot control it. You cannot control a church. The church people, they are wider than any wife. If I give you 5 minutes, let's go for a break. You won't come now. I know you. That's why I didn't give you any proper break today. So let's all be here because the visiting leopard is waiting. I know you guys. OK, Come in one hour. You see that most of the afternoon will be spent on a break like that. If you are not yourself, we will be here when I came. As I will be here till the night. When I finish, I'll go. I don't want Leopard to eat anybody or Hina to bite somebody's leg. I hear you can remove your leg. So I said I will be here. That's why I'm here. Since I came in the morning, I've not eaten. I've not. As I'm standing here, I'm preaching. I'm almost 50 years old. Yeah, you see me young? I'm almost 50. Not almost, but I'm on my way. It's true. Many of you are younger. I'll be here when I finish and I've closed and we go. If I'm not strong, I cannot do. I have to do what I have to do. So if you. Play this weekly kind of whatever hope you could be surprised you would never accomplish especially missionaries you would not accomplishment you are following woman go read the Bible all. Those who fall. That's why Jesus never married. When you marry, you subject yourself to a certain woman's power. She has a. Certain power over to say this this. One of my missionaries, he came back where I called him for a meeting. I said, you were on the mission field, isn't it? So I want to send somebody else there now. So what do you think he said? Oh, yeah. He said it pays him so much that he came back. So I said, why did you come back? I mean, what happened that you had to come? He said, Bishop, we had a meeting. He said it to everybody. My wife. He said you will not know that she's leading you. She will ask a question, so when will we also? Have a. So, so when will be? So will there be So how are we? So when, So what? So why So? Is he also? He said the mission was working. Then she came to join me. Then she started. We'll be carrying our babes. So when you say pin me, pin him, you see them one after the other knocked down by only this particular point of the 35 point, this one, all the missionaries who don't succeed, this one to the point it's not that they are, they are not doing this, this prayer. No, no, no, no, no. This one. Oh yeah. And he was standing there. So when we do this, one day I was with my wife Ellie. She said something, something she made a comma. I said, you know, never say again anything about the ministry. Negative. It is good. It is a privilege, a blessing from today. It is finished. It is a blessed is their honor. That's all. Nothing, no further word. And she has never said anything negative. Even our children. Should never, even if we have suffered or there's anything they should maybe hear that there's something bad about, about the ministry. Hey, no. No, no. To teach them so that they also dislike God and they will dislike their ministry. No, no, no, no, no. Are you listening to me? You have to be strong. Ministry is not easy, but we give ourselves to it. Amen. At this point, I tell you, is that crossroad? For most people. And when you are a good husband, sometimes you look wicked. It's just like a good father, a good father. Somehow you have to take your belt and beat your child properly. Hey, As for me, I lash my children, fish, take a belt and beat you to that thing was one day I beat one of my boys. I begged him Madam when I saw him he saw I saw that his face was not I said then I I pretty make for the face to to go out of those that face to go out so correct the face. The face must be corrected later. They will grow up and they will thank you. They are all Christians today. The other day one the same one was saying that he says if daddy says it's not ever then it will not work. They have now become to see that I'm wise. I said they didn't know that I was wise. You see when you are at a certain age you think you know every as you grow that I realize that no he seems he knows something. As they go, they realize that he knows everything. It's true. Most of you find out that your father was right when he spoke. He was right, but you thought he was wrong. Is it not true? If you are not strong in the house, I like this from Fred Price. One day he was preaching and his daughter had gone out in the night something. When he was preaching he said I will sort it out and when he said it I said. Hey. Because you have to pick, you know, you won't get them to talk to your person. But I saw it, he said sort that thing out, sort that thing out after Hey, I saw there was no, it was not easy in the house. All of that. They are all working with him. The ministry. Yeah. Are you there or you're not around? I'm talking about point #5 South wives. Those of you are bringing your husband down, down, down, down. I don't want to swear, but when you get to have you before you realize you have been transferred, Fuck fuck. You will be so dishonored. In heaven would be shame would. Be just of disgraceful person. You brought down, you brought down. You brought him down. You, you. It was because of you he couldn't do this wicked man. You brought him down. Talking and comment and way of behaving did you? Maybe you did it. That's why he couldn't do all those things. Because right now it's like it's just you and your husband. So it's like as if there's no God, there's no referee, no one can say the most ugliest behaviour. Uncle James told me some years ago I went to visit him and he was telling me, he said, look, one of his friends, he travelled and then he met the wife and the wife confessed to him. He said I was a very. Difficult. Woman to him she's a Christian. She's now confessing it. Because to my father, Christianity is here to penetrate our tribal character, tribal elements within us. You cannot cook and you won't cook. You have written it. Can't cook, won't cook. I cannot and I can't and I won't. One day a certain pastor told me, he said, look, I am a scavenger in my own house. Yeah, a scavenger. And one day I saw him scavenging. I was surprised. Like the hyena, Everything he eat, see that the children, there was something made for the children. They didn't finish it. He ate it. There was something else he ate it. Bananas. He. Ate me pea at all there was There's nothing. And me, when I travel, I often don't. I don't eat in people's houses because I don't want to talk to somebody's wife about something. I like to be independent of those things. So I asked him when I got, I said. Let's go, I'm going to eat somewhere. And I saw that, Charlie, you see hyena after everybody has it, then they. Come to eat. Foxes are also like and jackals man of God. Oh nothing to eat. Scavenger can't cook him because she doesn't know how to cook. You see that the Stew that the person has made. I don't know what to eat in Kenya, but I see that they. Cannot eat it. Will not be. Hospitable to visit us when they come visitors will come and hunger. I've learnt to travel with food. Sometimes you see what the briefing thing that there are there are fast there's nothing it's only foods, but there was I was holding by me when I got to my hotel, I opened it the. People that were doing were shocked, he said. What you thought was some files and some document as well. Only bread. One day one of my pastors went to visit another pastor. He was in the house, no food. Then he began to get also. Out of starvation as a visitor. As if you are joking. You would think that it's a joke. I tell you. See Philly? Philly, you won't get anything to eat. The man himself doesn't get it. And he's also like a hyenas. Before. You a visitor. Oh thank God for flowing flowing wives. Flowing wives flow allowed the ministry to work. Flow, flow, flow. They flow. They allow the ministry. You wouldn't know. Till you meet the opposite and you see how difficult it is. A lot of people don't talk oh you see them like that. One day I read a biography of a man of God. When I read I saw oh so that's what was happening. You would if you are not me, you will not know if you like get that biography. I will take you through. I will open page. I said you see this read it. Then I will explain that statement to you all the statement I said I know this thing because of certain reason. I know it, but you will never know when you see the. Person on the outside. So only this. Point can make you make it. Are you there? Are you still around? All right, so marriage. So the best is what? Don't marry now if you know you cannot. Then go and Weld yourself to the trouble number six. Blameless, Blameless in conduct. Amen #7 You must be the husband of one wife. Amen. How many wives do you want to have? Only one woman can be your wife and even that is almost too much before you are going to get 2. 3 yeah, 1 is enough. More than enough for your whole life. It's enough, I tell you. Don't need more than one woman. If doctors prescribe 2 tablets, one God has prescribed 1 tablet. You want 2-3 you are taking overdose. Ask your neighbor, are you having an overdose? The. Things I'm talking about, do you understand them in Kenya? Kenyans, do you understand what I'm talking about or it doesn't apply? Does it apply? In Kenya, does a wife cook for a husband? Because in Malaysia it doesn't. No, no, no, they don't cook anymore. Oh, I know one Pasa. The pasa cooks the wife. The wife doesn't have never cooked since they married. They buy food. They don't cook anymore. They are. They are busy and it's cheaper to buy food than to cook. So just bring food. I asked the person, He said no, it's not a problem. Since we marriage, he has never cooked. I cook sometimes and then we buy food. It's not a problem. We have been married for many years, we don't have a problem. We young people, we don't have that. So that's why I was asking whether you do still do that in Kenya because you are nearer Malaysia than Ghana. It's on the way. There will be mountains that I will have to climb and there will be battles that I will have to fight, but victory or defeat, it's up to me to decide. But how can I expect to win if I never try? I just can't give up my world of I'm too far from where I started from and nobody told me the road would be easy and I don't believe it's probably this far to leave me. You know, he never said there wouldn't be trials. He never said I would. He never said that everything would go the way I wanted to go. But when my back is against the wall, when I feel like hope is lost, I'll just lift my head up to the sky. I'll say help me to be strong world. I just can't give up now. Can you give up? Now I've come too far from where I started from and nobody told me the road would be easy and I don't believe it's from me this far to live be.