15. 3 Ways To Improve Your Faith For Ministry

Welcome to track #15 of tasters or partakers. Amen. There are three ways to improve your faith in the ministry. How many want your faith? How many? I realize that faith is important for life, for doing the works and all that. But so now I'm now about to give you the three main keys. OK #1 Faith comes by hearing. Amen. Now you need to believe that what you hear Amen, has an effect on you faith, Romans 1070. So that faith come by here and here by the word of God, whether you like it or not, everybody hearing something and listening to it, Amen. The more you listen to something, the more you believe it. So now the more you listen to the Makani, the more you have faith for the ministry. So people who listen to the Makani have faith. For the greatest example of this was a brother who did architecture in tech. And one day he said at a meeting, he said I do not listen to the Makani. I do not because he was in final year. So everybody tells why do you not listen? He said if I listen to that, I cannot continue my course, I cannot continue my career. He said, I've listened to it before. It has an effect and I don't feel like doing anything on my career again. That's what he said. How many? I've experienced that, Yeah. If if, if you expose yourself to that thing, you're you're you are unable to do a lot of things anymore. They become useless to you. It's true. Beside if you listen to some things, your visions, your dreams, your aspirations, they change. It has that effect. I mean, I've never met anybody who said I do not listen. He was an elder on the campus. He said I will not listen to it. I am afraid of taking it. When I listen to it will change my life. I've seen it. It will change all the things that are happening. Yeah. You can't be afraid of it. Have you been afraid of it before? Come, come. Who has been afraid of it before? Come, come, come. Tell me. Here is the microphone. Because faith is it. It's all demonstrates the principle of this faith coming by hearing what happened to you. Tell us, Wait, somebody's going to give you power? How about a humming turn off something? Glory I got. Turn it off. Whatever you turn on, put it off. OK, good. Now is there any other microphone? Any other channel? Any other options? Other microphones. Hello. All right, Lord, I got. OK. You can stand around this side. Hello. Amen. No, no, no, he didn't say yes. Go on. Yeah. Give her some violent please. I used to listen to a lot of messages and I used to before the mechanic came out, I used to order a lot of DVDs and messages from England. And brother, I could send me emails. This camp has come out. Would you buy it? And I'll place my order. And I remember one day he sent a particular e-mail and the title of our camp was Pharaoh would hardly let us go. And when I saw that I saw don't buy this message. I don't think this thing if I listen to it, something will happen to me. I remember that thought coming to my mind. So I did not buy it. But before that anytime something came and I was the 1st to buy it. But then I repented of that and later on I got it. So I, I know sometimes you can just look at the title and say this thing. I'm afraid of it and I've been there before. So I think that's. Hello. Amen. My experience is actually the opposite. Every time I listen to a message of Bishop or a part of the mechanic, I feel like my work that I'm doing is so useless. Like I feel like I have to quit my job as I'm listening to the message and just come and say I've come to Ghana. So everything, it happens, every single time I listen to my message, I feel more and more like this work I'm doing is wasting my time, wasting my life. So I see it's rather as a way for me to eat in order to do the work of God. I know that's a way for me to do the thing that, you know, I have to achieve. I don't see my work and I never used to see my work that way because my parents are very much into, as my father especially, you know, I have to do something with my life, something dignified, powerful and all of that. But in fact, my work means nothing to me as I'm standing here. My work means absolutely nothing to me. Amen. With me, my experiences, my name is Nora and every time I listen to Emma, it has an effect on me. I start acting on it like I listen to Look phenomenon and I became an evangelist. All I wanted to do is just talk to people about Christ. I started evangelizing at my workplace. I started getting in trouble. I had to quit my job and the second one that I listened to was I think 1000 micro churches and they sent us out to Leominster to start a church and I just moved from where I was living to go and live in Leominster. So I was afraid of this particular one all out because I know I knew if I listened to it, that will not be the end of me. So I was avoiding it. And just about two weeks ago, I started listening to it and I was talking about entanglement and I realized that if I were to go to school, because I was thinking of going to law school, I'm like three years, the loan and everything, so I'm not going to school anymore. And lo and behold, Bishop too was talking to me this afternoon and he told me that, you know, school, I should forget it because if I want to do the work of the ministry, why entangle yourself? So I guess I'm done. Hola Yeah. But I'm not saying you shouldn't go to school. You know, don't don't misunderstand. I mean, like Bishop said I shouldn't go to school. So I started to meet people as well. I didn't go to school because he said I shouldn't go to school. I didn't go to school. Actually, what I mean is I was struggling with it because I didn't know what course to study. I had no interest in anything. So it was, it made things a bit easy that probably that's not what I'm supposed to do. That's what I mean. Not that you shouldn't go to school. It's a personal thing. You know, God has a way of dealing with everybody. So that's not what I mean at all. All. Right, just for the sake of those who may be listening to my. Just wanted to say one thing that if you do have a fear, I remember once you were saying that do exactly the opposite. So the way I overcame that fear was doing exactly what I didn't want to do. So I don't know if there are other people like that who felt that way, but. You know what, I had this camp. I just recently had a camp in a certain country, and that camp was entitled. Why are you not a missionary? And a lot of the people, when they got into the room, they were shocked, you know, because they were, they were made When they saw that, they said, my God, I've come to the wrong place. They, they were, they were shocked. And they said, my God, I've gone to the wrong camp. Why are you not a missionary, by the way? They were OK, you know. OK. They were happy. After you get it, you know, they'll be afraid. Are you afraid? No. Is anybody else who has been afraid of the Machinae Come and tell us. I'm explaining what faith comes by hearing. Give him the microphone. Hallelujah. Yeah. I was recently listening to Sacrifice and I got confused. But as of now, I don't know what to do. I have so many thoughts running through my mind. I don't know what to do. And I know I'm. I'm. I'm cold. I mean, there's no two ways about. I know I'm. Ready to do the work? But I don't know, the messages are very powerful by the by the time you finish listening to it, you have different, you know, perspective coming to you. And that's that's my. Problem. Good. So that is it. God. God speaks to you and you got to obey, but you see that it has an effect. You know, that's all the Bible says. Faith comes by hearing whatever you hear you you believe. So that there are there are messages that inspire you to work for God. There are messages that give you faith that you can do it. There are messages that give you faith that in spite of your problem, you can also do something for the Lord. Different things you believe little different things. Some of the other messages like on the during the partition services and so on, you have faith that you can overcome you, you you'll be able to make it somehow, isn't it? So, you know, you have faith in the anointing, Whatever you listen to, it just has a way of making you believe gradually. So what you need to do is to keep listening instead of running away from things, just keep listening. And also, you know, pray. One day one of our pastors, he was, he had heard the word of God so much and he was going if if the word of God was teaching him to go right, he was going left. So one day we had a meeting and there were a whole lot of young people. It was one of these stagnation pastors. So there were a whole lot of young people, about 24 of them. And they all turned to him and they started asking him, why, where are you going? Don't you want to work for the Lord? Where are you going? Where you're going? Because he was a late pastor. He was just going along a certain line. And they were, they were amazed. And I didn't tell them to ask him. I was just, it just happened that they all just turned on him, you know, So after I called him, I said, you come, come to me. I want to drive with you in my car. So I drove with him in my car. I went home. I went home with him and I was talking to him and I said, look, I know you know what you are going to do. I'm going to buy your ticket to go to that place, but I want to ask you to do something because I'm not against a lay pastor, what he's doing. May you find what you are looking for. But I said pray always for the grace of God to have to wait for in a difficult situation. And it's not only that, many things in life, in the ministry are not easy for us to do. So that's what we call about the grace of God. That was the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared. Sometimes there's a grace that comes and you are able to do what you could not do before. You could not do it before, but now you can do it. God gives you ability. So whenever you see something, I cannot marry, I cannot stay in this, I can't pray God give me the grace to be able to do your well. Not that I believe I can do you, can't you see? So why are you standing? You see that I'm in difficulty. Pray for grace is like help. Angels are brought in. God may send an extra Angel for a well. Three angels have been assigned to come and move around certain things and some ability comes in and you are able to do what you couldn't do before. This is what you must pray. So I told the brother, pray for the grace. So when he travelled, after some time he was struck by the grace of God. Suddenly he turned around and called me and said, please, I cannot do anything in this world again except that I want to work for the law. And I said after you've gone far and you have gone to. He said, look, I cannot just have no interest. At first I didn't believe him and every time I saw him he kept saying it until I finally accepted what he was saying after some long time and I said OK because he was really said look please, I can't stand it in him, I can't stand it, I can't, I don't want it, I just want God. Today is a full time ministry working very happily and very well as abandoned all that was so precious to him that 24 students were begging him and asking what is wrong with you? So I believe in the grace of God. Any time somebody's doing something can do it, the grace of God is helping him to do it. When Abimelech took Abraham's wife and he, he, he, he was about to sleep with her. They were bathing hair. They didn't bath, shaving hair, all kinds of things. Trying to get hair ready for the king. Yeah, they were preparing. I didn't feel like I was about to enjoy Sarah. God appeared to him in a dream and said, whose wife have you brought to the house? I said, is this business I didn't know. Then the law said that is why I have prevented you from touching her there again, you see that even the fact that you did not commit fornication, it was a grace and not that it's like I'm the type you are what type you are what? Charlie, you're joking. That was I'm a virgin. That's why I said the virgin. Virgin what? Virgin witches. Stubborn virgin, Terrible virgins? Virgin pride. You may be virgin, but it is not that you were principal, you were based. You were that grace. And then maybe you did not. You are not a virgin. Maybe that grace also was not given. You see, let's say take when Moses was passing through, he said, see I'm on paid transportation and pass through buy food. When he asked them they they sold food. Moab, the same, Esau, the land of Esau, all those places. But King Simon of Heshbourne, he said no, no, no, we will not sell any food for you. So the grace for going freely was gone. Now he's fighting and there will be grace for fighting. So some things God has not allowed you to have, some things he has allowed you to have something he didn't protect you from. Some things he protected you from. I'm telling you the truth, you may not know. That's why anybody who is ascribing things to himself or herself, it's a mistake. It's a grace you've got to step you standing on your feet, Charlie. It's called GRACE. Grace amazing, Amazing Grace. How sweet the sun that say like me, I was was loved, but now I am found was blind. But now I see there's a verse in that song which says towards grace that taught my heart to fear and grace really how proud it shows did that the grace appeared here they are I first be, but this song is not the vest. There's a vest Uncle James told me about. That's my favorite vest. Do you want to know that vest? That's my favorite vest. What's the next one? Yeah, this is this is the best and the favorite line is that the James who he opened all these Amazing Grace verses and he showed me this part. He said that his grace that has brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home. This is the this is the best verse in the in the song Twas grace disgrace that's brought me say thus fire and grace will lead me home. You are not in the same key that we are you. You are not in the same key. Through many dangers, toils and snores I have already become tis Grace has brought me safe. Thy spot and grace will lead me home. Wow. It's grace that has brought you safe thus far thus far, to this camp, to this day, to this era, to this time in your life. It's grace that has brought you safe thus far, and grace will lead you home. Grace and I can remember where I was sitting in Kosu in Uncle Dame's house when he showed me tis Grace has brought me safe. That's fire and Grace will leave. I believe Grace will leave me home. I believe Grace will bring has brought me safe. That's fire and grace will lead me home. Amen. Wow. Do you believe in it? Do you believe in the grace? Hallelujah. All right, so faith is something. Give me a bit of volume on this one here. Amen. That you need and hearing helps you to really develop your faith for the ministry. So that is the first way by which your faith can be developed. Amen. The second way by which your faith can be developed is by what you see. So faith comes by hearing and faith also comes by seeing. It may not be explicit in explicitly written that way, but it is implied. In Matthew chapter 14, Peter was walking on the water and the Bible says that when in verse 30 he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid and beginning to sink. He cried, say Lord, save me. His faith filled him and he began to sink. But what made his faith start failing when he saw the wind boisterous. A few days ago I was going to board a plane. When I came to the boarding gate, the aeroplane that we were going to sit on, they had removed the nose of the plane. That place it was gone hey and they announced that yeah they announced that they are our aircraft is under maintenance and I saw that the the nose of the plane has been removed. I don't know where they are taking it to. They are now coming to connect it. And when I saw the nose of the plane was not there, I was imagining that this man is going to bring a spanner to come and fix the nose of the plane. Will he fix it? Well, so just what I saw was now affecting my faith and it was bringing all kinds of fears and questions. So when we took off with this plane, whose nose was removed but was brought back and faced with a spanner, I look at the plane and I saw that the plane was very dirty, very old, an American plane. When we landed, I heard a certain sound. I've never had it before in a place. Have you seen when a shock absorber when a place when we landed the wheels? Could it be that also the wheels were removed and fixed back just before we took off with a spanner? So Peter's faith was greatly affected by what he saw. And what we see in our lives is greatly, greatly affect. It greatly effects our faith very much. Now you see somebody who looks, that's all telling some people that they look. You suddenly you see somebody in full time ministry. The person looks very sad, very poor. You say that your faith for full time ministry gets finished. All the faith you develop from the Makani hearing is removed by what you see. We see one person though. The faith from several 7 camps that you listen to can get finished when you see the person. Your faith can get finished by what you see. It's true. One day I went to visit a certain sister who was sick. She was very ill. So I sat, I was with her in the room, I sat on on her bed and I was talking with her. And I, I come as a man of God to heal her, to pray for her. So as I sat on her bed, Ada was sitting by the bed or on the bed. I looked at her face and I looked into her eyes. And I saw something that I've seen in people who die on the ward. I saw it in her eyes. If you've been in the hospital, you know when somebody. Hello. Are you OK? Yeah. I saw in her eyes something that I know she was dying. My heart sank. My faith was going down because I have not. I know that. But I remember some years ago when I was a new medical student, I've not been on the world before. I was doing biochemistry and so on. A friend of mine came to call me that her father was on the ward, very ill. So when I went to the ward, I saw the father. When I saw the father, I prayed with her for her father. Then I came back to the Basic Sciences block and went into a room that they used to develop photographs, which has no window and no, which has no window, only a door, no lights. And I entered the dark room and I prayed powerfully and I told her your father will be OK. So the next day we went to look for her father. When we got there the bed was not there. Not that the person was not there, bed was not there. I didn't also know what it meant. So where is what is happening? So it was later that I found out that he had died. Later on, as I became a more medicals, when I went on, I saw that same scene many times. Every time you see that scene, you know the person would die. The the way the patient look exactly with the drape This, this you know how this one is finished. So you begin to develop faith of in death that this one is dead. Yeah. By what you've seen, you've seen it, you've seen it, you've seen it, you've seen it because what you've seen, you know that this is how it becomes. So I look at this girl's eyes and I took it and I said I still had a way. There's a way that it looks. See that I know that this person is going. Then as I sat by her bed, I put my hand on her. Actually I could see on her head some bump and I put my hand on her head and there was some bumps like this, like craters all over the head. Then she look at me. She said, Bishop, are you afraid? Is it man of God? Oh, now the answer. Are you afraid? And how can you say you are? You are afraid. That's how God is going to heal you. God is going to heal you. So I prayed. She died that night screaming. She screamed and she screamed screaming. She died. She died, screamed me shouting until she was dead. I don't know if it was that night, but within the next two or three days she was dead. Hey, so you see that a point when you see something now this thing, even though you've prayed, it's now what you've seen has removed your faith. That's why for me, a medical doctor to be on stage with another medical that we are having miracles that we actually believe in it. It is it is it is it is a really a miracle because it's difficult for us to believe that something you don't even believe. Well, what you've seen, you've seen this. So faith is affected. So sometimes God doesn't even allow you to see certain things. Sometimes you want your faith to be. You shouldn't even look. You shouldn't even see. Yeah. You want to fly in peace? Don't look, just sit down. Yeah, You have faith. You cannot add 1 cubits to your life by being worried. Amen. So faith comes by seeing when they saw the wind, when when the Israelites saw Goliath, he said just come, only one person will fight and then that will be the end of it. Whoever wins, you are the owner. Problem. If I die, I die. It was bigger than everybody. When the people saw him, they were afraid. Not that Goliath preached to Goliath didn't preach. You were just standing there, so you come and fight with me. He didn't say God will do this, this will do this, this will do this, this will do that. When he saw this, is it not true? Sometimes when you see a man of God who has fallen, you say that your faith for the ministry will go down. Even your faith in men of God will go down when you see this, when you see this, you say hey, this. When you see that, hey, when you see this, hey, everything we see affects us all. That's what's under. When you are even close to somebody, you see that. It can even affect your faith. Struggle to believe when the person says God is good because the person who is telling you God is good, you know his problems. Finally, I was, I was somebody was advising his sister about something, something to do with mine and she said, but Bishop 2 has problems because she has stayed in my house before. That was my mistake of him in allowing her to stay in my house. She said Bishop 2 has problems. I said, oh, is that what she said? That's why sometimes, men of God, we don't welcome you to visit. Bishop. Can I come and see us? You cannot come see me here. This is the end of the way. You can see me when you come further. You also say Bishop 2 has problems. Oh, I shouldn't have allowed. I shouldn't have. I welcome you to be near me. So that's why you see When? Like how we preach. I finished preaching. No. Then pick the thing away. I will not even stay here. You will not see where I'm staying. You'll not see where I'm staying. You'll not see where I am. Hey, I'll be somewhere. Bye. Bye then. Morning, limousine. Here's all right. Mystical. I come my life number one. This number two. Number three. When you finish, then we go. You'll not think I'll come with people from where I'm coming. You'll never not see me to interact with me. I got coming to sit in my room and I'm chatting with you and relaxing with you. Then later you tell me that I also have problems the math. One day I went to a restaurant with some people and then I was eating and there was somebody there who has not been eating with me before. Then later I heard the person saying something. It seems you are quite difficult there with food there. I said oh, why do you? Why do you say that? Because when I when the food came, I said is it cook or something? I said take it. But it seems you are fussy. I shouldn't have made you sit by me so that you are now making comment. Bishop, he likes Okro. Hey, I shouldn't have made you sit by me so that you see that I like Okro your face. And he like rice. He like rice. Everything rice. Ow ow sister-in-law. I shouldn't have let you see. I mean, I said I Bishop likes garnet. Oh, he likes garnet. He likes garnet. Why did you see me eating garnet? He said he likes garnet. Oh. That's allowed you small and I says Bishop, one day I was going to eat with some people. Then I look at them, I said no, these guys, they are not correct as I will not, I will not eat when they are here. I said all those who want to eat a bunu bunu, do you know a bunu bunu? All those who want to eat a bunu bunu shoe all up and all those who want to eat this, all those who want to eat. Then when I selected them I said OK you, you and you go. That's us. And you shouldn't come close to sea instead of the person who is a human being. Yeah, Person 2 is a human being. So the person she has gone to do her hair, he's going to do this. He's doing this. This has all those human things. The person is also one or he said the person is going has got a running stomach. Running stomach is part of life. Who has had the initial man before? Raise your hand, stand up if you have had one before, the man of that one too. If you have a stomach, you can run. Is anybody sitting down that I cannot see? No. Anybody who has known how we want to see that person. Do you want a break? You need a break. I'm three steps to the increasing your faith for ministry, and I'm just on the second one when I do the third one or then we take a break. OK, OK, all right #3 sit down. Faith increases by practically doing things when you use your faith. Luke 19. He said a second nobleman went into a 5 country to receive himself a Kingdom to return. He called his 10 sevens and delivered them 10 lbs. And he said unto them, Occupy till I come. But his citizens hated him, and send a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us. And he came to pass that when he was returned, having received the Kingdom, that he commanded these servants to be called unto him to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained. By by what? Trading how much What every man had gained by trading? How much faith you have gained by trading? How much more of your gift has increased by trading, by using the gifts that you have been given. Amen. You have gained by by what trading. Thank you. The 1st in Lord I found have gained 10 lbs. He said well done, good and faithful servant that would be faithful in very little have that authority over 10 cities. Amen. So whenever God gives you faith or you get faith, you start with a certain amount by practically doing things you have faith. You see, for instance, I remember when I had never prayed for the sick and ever called for testimony to come for it was very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very difficult. The first time I did, I sat down with pass a big Daddy after and we sat on the stage and and he said it's a good service that we did, but the tension is too much. We sat on the stairs together and we said that it was a good set, but the tension is too much. You pray for peace there. Oh, I mean, it was the most difficult thing for me to start doing that. Praying for people sick and getting testimony for people to testify. When I was going to do it again and pray for people outside my church, the devil said to me, you, you have been tuning people in your church to psychologically believe in things, but now you not have a chance and you are going to be greatly embarrassed in this church. I tell you that day I fasted from the morning to the evening, my lips, my tongue, everything not I mean nothing. When I went there, I was preaching. As I was preaching throughout the message I was hearing the boy, today you will be disgraced. Don't try this thing here. You've tried it in your chair. Don't try it here. You are going to disgrace yourself. You are pretty a nice message. That is the main thing people want there's. Don't take this thing further. You are going to embarrass yourself and spoil everything. There's nothing you can impress anybody about here. I preach. I tried to extend the same 1 so that the healing time will not come. I extended an extended. I realized that no, now extension cannot work again, you have to end. So when I ended, I did auto call for salvation. When I did auto call for something say sit down now and don't destroy. You have made a good impression. It's it's enough. But I said I would do it. So I pray for the sake. Three people came to testify. One man, he had a finger like this. He said it's called trigger finger. The finger was bent like this so he couldn't straighten it. And the elderly man, I'm not. And I remember how he came. He said, you know, I could never my thing. I see two or three other people. I went home to eat. Alexander the Great, his soldier, said we want to go back to our wives. I said I want to go to my wife. Comfort Then when I traveled abroad, I went to South Africa, the 1st as I ever prayed for the most Sonos Church. The devil said this time it's Ghanaians who are deceived by what we are doing. Outsiders cannot be deceived by but I prayed. That's when I saw somebody without tubes, tubes cut off here, here 3 * 4 surgeries to remove the tubes, 4 * 4 ectopics. They said the person himself who did it, when she went with the she's pregnant. The man said, look, I say I did the surgery 4 times. You have no to have cut off everything. You have nothing. You cannot be pregnant. She gave birth without tubes, a womb without tubes. A year later she was standing there, but she said I felt it in me. He said there was a child. He had undescended testes. The testes was testicle was not there. You know the balls, There was one. One was not there for they have tried or whatever. It wasn't there. I prayed for the child. They came. I remember I laid hands on him. She went out. They tested her camp. She brought the child. I was standing on the car park when she brought the child. I thought she was somebody was coming to attack me because I was in Soweto, you know. And then she came with her child. She said you bleed, man. I just went open the dinner's camp. Look at it. Yeah, the devil was telling me don't try these psychological tricks you are doing in Ghana. They will not work here, they will not work here. But you see, as I kept gain, as I kept trading, it became easier and it became easier and easier and easier and easier because you gain by trading. Even though you have it, you have to gain. Increase what you have by doing it. And a time came when I could actually be praying and recognize His presence there for Him and recognize the absence of His presence that I know that He's not there. He's not. There's no miracle here now. Don't even try. I mean, you actually gain by trading. Wow. So you say that God has sent me to the mission field and right here in Jersey City, you can't do nothing. Have done nothing, never can do it. What? Going across the ocean is not going to make you a missionary. It's not going to change you into anything. Yeah, If you don't actually use what you have here for us to see practically that there is something that you can you are doing. Going to any country is not going to do anything for you. So better get to the job here and gain by what? Trading. Gain faith. Increase your faith by trading and you will see that a great blessing is coming into your life. How many realize that your faith in the ministry is increasing? Hallelujah, stand to your feet. All right, let's pray. Just ask God to speak to your heart. How many are going to increase your faith for ministry? Thank you Lord, in the name of Jesus. Yeah. I. None.