21. Discouragement

Welcome to track #21 of tasters or partakers, your love and your healing. We receive healing. We receive healing from the thing that have hurt us, receive healing from our pain, receive healing from the thing that confused us. We thank you for your blessing, for your mercy and help that has been given to us to do better in Jesus name, to overcome. We thank you, we have overcome, Lord Jesus name, Amen. Whatever hurt you, you have been healed of it. Today is your day of healing. You have the healing that comes to your life, healing from the thing that hurt you, in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated. There are two ways to use the powers that God has given you, isn't it? Is that not so? What are the two ways? Confessions and then prayers and the keys that you have learned? You will always, all your prayers will be answered, isn't it? Isn't it? That is why I'm not going to ask you for certain things so that I always have 100% answered prayer. I'm going to gauge you before I ask you for certain things. I'm going to analyze you very well. I'm going to analyze the word of God very well and analyze my situation. See what God can give me because He loves me. So I want to give me everything that I ask for, isn't it? My children have gave me, they say when I'm on the phone and they asked me for anything. He just said yes, yes, yes. I heard them discussing one day. So when he's on the phone you say yeah we have it, we can have it. So you need to get your father very well at the right time and then what he wants to give you the things you know that he won't give you, then you just ask for what you really want to ask. Then bingo, you are enjoying it. Receive all your prayers being answered in Jesus name. Hey, you are going out of this place with certain powers. How many umbrellas are your powers have multiplied? Because I fear for the devil not going busy for him in this town again because you are going with new powers. You have the powers whenever you couldn't use them very well. How many realize that now you are about to start releasing those powers? In a way, release faith is something that increases. It's something that grows. It's true because when I was praying for people in America, you get it. When I was thinking, when I was going to pray for the sake in America, the kind of struggles that I had was about 5% of what I had when I was going to pray for the sick in South Africa, that's outside Ghana for the first time. It's just, I mean like less than even 5%. It's true. The struggle I'm talking about my you not see from the outside. You see the way I am. You don't see when I'm struggling, isn't it? It's called presatura. Do you get it? Yeah. You wouldn't know. Yes, but I'm talking about my internal struggles. You wouldn't, you wouldn't know, but the struggle was less. So it's actually that, not that I was struggling, but I had more faith. I've gained by trading. So I'm, I'm at a different level, a higher level of faith. That's not what I'm trying to boast. But the Bible says there's weak faith, there's strong faith, there's little faith, there's great faith, there's wavering faith, unwavering faith, shipwreck faith, great faith, all kinds of faith. So it's, I'm explaining from the Bible point of explanations of things rather than saying I was not afraid, all my fears were less so I had more experience. Those are English ways of speaking. I'm trying to speak according to words in the Bible that I had greater faith and I was explaining things by using the biblical terminology and the Bible understanding of what was happening rather than using my own this and that. I was my experience and you know, I mean, I didn't really care and this and no, I had more faith. I had greater faith, stronger faith because I've gained by trading the faith that I had. A small one that I started with because the first of all, I almost died out of confusion and stress. Are you listening to me? Look, I see a healing. I don't know, but I see a healing in your life. God has healed you, power. This, this program that you came for. Hey, God has healed you, power tell you you came to. I mean, you thought you were coming to kill yourself, but you're right. Alone. It has turned into a healing. The hotel has turned out to do something else. It's true. That is how serving God is. It's not as if you are about to die. If I realize you are more alive than those who they didn't come. Yeah. It's not as if you are going to be prepared. You are richer than those who are working with. Hey, I see you on an island. You are moving, you are trying to find a new routes. Where do taxis go? Where do cars pass? I see you in a new car moving over there working for the Lord God. God himself has blessed you. You know you are surprised. I said you are surprised at how God has blessed you. The whole thing has turned into a surprise. Receive your surprise in Jesus name. How many enjoy nice surprises? Now we're expecting something different. Let's starting something different. Now. The whole thing has turned into a blessing. You see, when you pray for knowledge, the spirit of those 7 ones, you pray for their wisdom, understanding, counsel, might knowledge, fear of the Lord. Spirit of the Lord, you learn how to pray for them. Now we expecting something different, respecting knowledge. Now again it turn into riches. You pray for wisdom. Now we expecting wisdom said the whole thing. I turn into a house. That's what I'm telling you. The things to pray for. The things to pray for are the ones that are going to work there. Well, especially understanding I didn't turn into promotion at your workplace because you know, the other day I was talking to someone and I was talking to a brother, a certain brother who's who said he doesn't like his wife again. And then he said that he doesn't like his wife again because one among different reasons his wife was recommended to him. He said I don't, I don't. I didn't love her because she was recommended and not I didn't choose her. She was recommended. So I didn't feel certain feelings. So he said he's going to, he's going to leave her. So I was advising this brother. Now I asked him, where did you learn that from? Where do you learn it from? And as I was talking now, there was another sister standing by. Now that sister also spoke to him. Then she answered my question. She said have you had other relationships before? He said yes and she asked him did any of those relationships end up in marriage and he said no. He said this one, the one that you tried to do yourself, it didn't end up in anywhere and the one that was recommended as ended up in the highest kind of relationship. Which one of these is better? And she started to talk to the person. And I was just standing by listening. I said, hey, God, it has never occurred to me. So as the person was speaking, I rather the person has a certain understanding. And the person now began to be promoted in my in my perception. Yeah. So I realized that when you are with somewhere regular, this person understands certain things and the person is going higher. So instead of praying for promotion, for Speaking of understanding for a real life, I get to turn it into something different, turn it into promotion because I understand. Because when you are working with someone regular, this person will not understand. When I bring out money and I buy this, then you will not work with that person because when the person see that you have got enough money to buy something like this, you disturb the person rather the person doesn't understand it. You just leave the person. Yeah. Or you realize if you take this person to your house, the person will not be will be confused. So you don't take the person. So when you realize that once a person doesn't have a certain understanding, he's left out and demoted. When you realize that person has a certain understanding, so he's going higher. So when you prefer, we understand it's in a way expecting something ethereal. Now they're not turning into what something different promotion. As I said, those spiritual prayers, you see them as if they are weak. Those are the main prayers, the main prayers of praying for a kind, pray for this, pray for wisdom speech of everyday wisdom speech, of wisdom speech of understanding. What is the use of understanding? What will it do for me when I need money? You see, but when she asked and said have you have you had she asked have you had that other relationship before? He said yes. Did any of them end up in man? Where did how did they end up? No, the one that was recommended that ended up in man. You do not see that that 1 is better than it's a higher. It has rather ended up higher. The ones you were engineering for yourself. How far did it go? Nonsense. Their brother said I've made a mistake. You're joking if you do lie down just now and then there's something different. You said. You said you were young and you you, you are strictly enough to be sad. And The thing is becoming worse. Unless the person come to apologize, our manifestations will get worse. OK, how many reasons have I given why people are not able to enter into partaking? We are only on #4 So now let me give you one more before the campus over. #5 discouragement Now Deuteronomy chapter one, verse 28. Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt saying that people are bigger and taller than we. How many are going to be praying for the right things? Yeah, tell you how many are going to be saying the right things? I've given you 3 or 4 times during the day when we are going to we, we, when we are going to bath and I'm going to poo poo and when I'm going to sleep. When you wake up, when you wake up. So I'm blessed. It's a good thing. Good things are happening always. I'm better, I'm promoted in Jesus name, I'm attractive. A lot of people are calling me, texting me. People need me, they need my services. I'm so busy. I'm so blessed. I don't know what to do with myself. Shabba E Malaba Then add one or two tongues in Kaya so that in case you miss one or two, the spirit will also say for you, hey, hey, your powers are becoming more, more more powers in the world after going powers are increasing. One day when I started playing golf better and better, that's when I saw that spiritual powers. It's not a small thing. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's me. I saw that spiritual power, I said, I said there is any area, but people use spiritual power to play soccer. They'll put a glove inside the goal posts and there's a power in the team to close the goal posts. They have closed it, yes. Why do you live any aspect of your life without a spiritual power? Ish. Deuteronomy chapter one verse 28 Our brethren have made our hearts smell, saying that people are bigger and taller than we and the cities are larger, fortified to heaven. Besides, we saw the sons of the Anakin there. Now discouragement, it's something that can really affect you. It's something that keeps occurring to me because I saw it in Rejoiners book when the pastors were marching along and they were attacked by accusation, by different things. But one of the key attacks on servants of the Lord was discouragement. It was something I kept noticing it kept. So by the time pastors have fallen, they are falling from some are falling from lust, some are falling from pride, and some are falling from discouragement. Yeah. And they had. They were the things that had wiped out the people because the idea is that you should not be around. So whatever it is that makes you to not be around, it works. Then it is used. So I realized that discouragement was the very powerful body to Australia. Join this book that I sort of saw that a lot of people don't do the work of God well because of discouragement. Yeah. So you see that people are three, people are 4, This is not working. This is this, look at my books that people were buying thousands and thousands of dollars of those books in these two days. When I went to give it, I see I went to a Christian bookshop, CLC Christian Literature Crusade in England. That's the main, it used to be the main bookshop. I showed them my book. They said no, I sent whatever I said. It is not impressive. So I printed loyalty and disloyalty in hardcover. Do you remember there was a hardcover? Yeah, because of all those, the presentation and everything. And I sent it there. I mean, good to myself. They look at it. Oh, yeah. Sorry. You cannot. Yeah, I I will be discouraged. It's like it's not a then I took it to and Nigeria, there's another bookshop in London run by Nigerians, a big bookshop also run by Nigerian. I went there even I saw the owner and everything he gave the book, he said, you know, it's like nobody knows. I mean, nobody knows you. Nobody knows this book, you know, that's it. It's fantastic. So because of that, you can easily say, I don't know, right? So, so now when you meet people, I mean, yesterday, the other day, I saw people with my textbook that they made the textbook old Americans old. And then I saw the principle of this. We said that when we look at it, we said why should we invent something that has already been invented? They are mentioning the signs of discovery and different things that they have learned from the thing. You would be amazed if you were with me in Russia. That's where you'd have even been more discouraged. I say more encouraged, but you can easily stop the book. I remember when I was writing, I wanted to stop writing it more than any other book was. The book transformed your pastoral ministry. It is the most difficult book. Not the most difficult, but the most discouragement I had as I was right every time. I kept asking the person who was sitting by me. Your brother called Jason. I said would anybody read this book? They won't read this book. All these things. I'm tired. I'm so tired. Like I can't play this. Then after I sit down with him and we will be waking the night, the night, not that he will be tired, his fingers will be frozen. You see that person sleeping? We are all sleeping. I'll be writing books so that I've fallen asleep and they will call me Transform Your Pastoral Ministry. But that book, through that book, I was invited to a church in Abuja. I've never been there before. Somebody, I've read your book, Come Four Square Gospel Church, I went there. I've never seen there before. When I went to fridge and then they invited me to their National Convention, all their pastors, thousands of them. And for the next three to four years I was there every through that transform book. And recently some Americans wrote to us in the company. They said that we have seen this particular book on transform. We want to promote the book. Would you like us to promote this particular book? Of all my books, they want to sign a contract with you to promote that book. Remind me about that. Yeah, you get it. It's amazing. But I see discouragement can stop you in your trust. You won't do what you have to do again. But discouragement is something you are going to overcome, and I see you overcoming it. You may not see it as a powerful thing like last one. Oh pride. It's a wild thing. You see that you you just stop doing what you are doing. Honestly, when I write books on, I really look and say people, would they read this? Would they read this book? These people, would they read it? Occasionally you get some small glimpses of encouragement when you sing can easily be discouraged. It's actually glimpses of encouragement which keep you going. Amen. If I was to follow the discouragement I had by praying for the sick, I will not pray for the sick again. It's true. Number one, discouragement is the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles. #2 To discourage someone is to deter him from an undertaking, is to deter him. Satan is trying to deter you from an undertaking, trying to deter you from taking up something that God wants you to take up, wants to deter you from going ahead to serve him was trying to discourage you and say that this is not something that you should give your life for. How many know what I'm talking about? It's like, oh, give your life to any other. This one is very, I mean, it's not something you should give yourself to. You'll be surprised. Oh, they'll tell you are not like Ben, you are not like this. You are not like this. You are not. Don't give yourself to this thing that's interesting. Amen. To discourage means to deter, to weaken someone's confidence. To do what? To weaken someone's confidence isn't a fantastic. You see, I weaken your your confidence. So maybe you go out of the camp. You are so encouraged. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. Sit down will bring something to weaken your confidence. Yeah, I see that you are becoming discouraged your confidence to do it. You are being detained from taking that thing up. You haven't fallen into any signal. You have been become proud. Oh, you are not struggling from last from anything, just some psychological movement within like then you see that the person has slowed down. Satan has that thing, but it's like some tear gas that he's been throwing at people. Say you are feeling sleepy. Spiritual tear gas. It is to prevent. The next one is discouragement is that prevents you from the prosecution of anything to prevent you from the prosecution. You see, when you have to prosecute that issue, you become discouraged. Amen. No. Now the key trick or strategy, all right, for discouragement, all right, are you there? The main weapon that Satan uses to discourage you is to pick something weak about you and then magnify it, circle it, give it a label and align it, Put some arrows. Everybody look and frighten you so that the main way in which you have to now recognise is the highlighting of your weaknesses. Amen. Now as the devil is highlighting your weaknesses, there are some things you can do that you must do to prevent you from being destroyed by the highlighting of your weaknesses. Amen. Now if you turn to Nehemiah chapter 4 verse one, it came to pass. When Sambalaid heard that we built the wall, he was wroth and took great indignation among the Jews, and he spoke before his brother in the army of Samaria, and he said, What do these people use? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? Now to buy out the ammonites was by him. And he said, Ho, even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. It is some way, is it not? Some way. Yeah. If a fox go up, he will break down the wall. Amen. So you see, sit down will highlight some aspects that is real. I remember one of our church members right now, his church has between 200 to 300 real people. And he's he's got his own church building and everything, but he is the only pastor who has ever told me something, the only pastor who has ever told me something that I have mentioned. And people laugh, but he's the only one I've ever had. And yet he is one of the most successful missionaries. He told me that Bejop one day he that he had a church somewhere else in another country. He went to church and nobody came to church except one person. Single one. Yeah. Single one and he said I preached to the one. What will you do? You can't say let's go. You can't say you can't hold his hands. Let's go. There's no chest today. What do you mean, man? Let's have dress and he's coming, sitting there, but he's the only one. And he preached his son, took off him, did Alta call, prayed and closed. And he told me when I went to my house, feet down, down, down, down, down. You're useless. But you see, there was another church in him. It's a church that he started when he went to the Bishop. He stayed in a house with the, the walls of the house was roofing sheets. That's the house that he stayed. The walls of the room was roofing sheets. Yeah, he was describing it. I said, hey, you know, it's fantastical, but the the devil wanted to discuss. So anytime you are greatly discouraged now begin to wonder about the thing that hey, maybe The thing is a very great thing. You know, there's some tricks somewhere. Wow. Because what you are greatly discouraged about actually, if I look at my ministry, the Lord has told me that I will bear through through books. Now if I look at what the the the part of the ministry that's most discouraging for me. If you do books, like when we are writing books, the people that I work with when we are writing books, I was talking, I asked, I asked one of them, I said, is it difficult to write book? And one of them said very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very difficult to write a book because I make them all come with me to the office because we are there in the night. So all of you come, we are all going to see them struggling, sleeping, to have slept here, to have slept, and we are waking to wake up every night, will be there till the morning. Nobody knows what we are doing instead of sleeping, struggling. So very, very, very, the people don't have any idea what it means to write a book, but that the place that is fruitful and that is the place that is discouraging. So now from today, from this preaching, we have realized that the thing that is discouraging, that's the main thing. I'm not getting what I'm saying. That's the main thing. So may you overcome. Don't let anything discourage you from today, whatever is bringing you down. Amen. OK. How to avoid discouragement, Number one, look for that weakness in other great people and encourage yourself with that fact that that weakness is in this person that I respect. You see? Yeah. Oh, you don't understand the message. Look, let's say they, they, they laugh at you and they say, oh, you don't have a child, so you cannot do this. So look around carefully and see you soon start to see so many people who don't have children. And then you, you will start to have the encouragement within yourself. Why? Why do you want to be? Why should you say I can't do it, but I don't have a child because this person doesn't have a child. Now look at what he has been able to do. This one who doesn't have a child, that's what the person is going to do. This one doesn't have a child. So how come you are saying that? Me in particular in my case. Why are you isolating me? Hey, I said why you are selecting me when they say Africans cannot do this, look around carefully and find any other African. One day I was going to pray for the sick and I was feeling sick myself. So when I finished taking my medicine and the devil was explaining to me that you see, your prayers are useless, your prayers do not work. Physician, heal thyself. If you say you have healing heal yourself so that we can all believe we will believe in you, but practically when you look at it, you see that it's not working for you, then that's one thing that have made me discover that recently when they announced Benny Hinn as he was getting divorced or whatever somebody wrote an article on it's called Physician Heal Thyself. He has splitting all they say he evangelist this how they all died. They are not able to heal themselves. This one he had the sickness. This one had the sickness. There is splitting all pastors from he started in alphabetical order A-Z. So if your if your name is with A and how they died and, and, and he was saying that when he said he would die at the age of so according to what he's seen there, he can never die at that age. He would die before because all the evangelists died this and that they had. I mean, that's the kind of person that was writing that thing. But you know, so I told my secretary, look, print that thing for me. I want to read it. So when I read it, I started to laugh to myself, myself. But this guy should have seen me for information. There are so many things he doesn't know. Because that research I have done it already because the devil has already told me that I shouldn't bother because of my own problems. I shouldn't bother to pray for anybody, so I to overcome that this character I've already looked for that weakness is the research I've done. So when I read this out about this one, he doesn't know, I said, but he doesn't know about this, doesn't know about this, doesn't know about he wrote this people, I know things about them. I said this one, he didn't have the hard this and this and that. This one, I have this condition, this condition, condition. So I have this. I know all the conditions already more because long ago, not yesterday. I've been spying to see others with my problem, to see whether they are able to pray for people. And I saw that. Oh yeah, yeah, yes. I shall not allow you to discourage me again. I said mention the mention the man of God. I will tell you his sickness. If it's mid wiggles I'll show you kidney stones. I used to scream in the night. If it's a island, I was told arthritis that I couldn't walk. If it's catching Kuma Mitra valve incompetence with cardiac congestive cardiac failure with Mitra valve repair followed by complication abdominal plenty. She will lie down. I see she's dead and she wake up and go and do miracles. See people are being healed. Cancer, this guy said. Emmanuel, who is not his his wife, he said that he could, you could see her heart and her breast. You could see it moving on the chest like that. Yeah, that's the kind of cardiac feel like that she had. You see the the hat moving like this through the dress. You see the the breast and the hat moving. You see when she come there, when the miracles are happened, even the wind will be blowing. Yeah, somebody who has worked for Benny Hin before, he said that. Look, he said there is. Yeah, there is nothing. Has never seen anything like this. He said that there will be a wind on the stage with Benny him. Yeah, he said that like a wind. He said I was his. I told him I was his interpreter in South America many times. He said there is nothing like a presence. That is the movie. And because of that, Katharine Coleman was, hey, you see, the Bible says that we have this treasure acting person so that you will not be confused that that person has power. He doesn't have power. He's a vessel, he's a pipe. So as I was listening to the pressure, I said, oh, these guys, he didn't do his research. Well, they didn't know. I should have contacted. Now, without giving him the details, they say you cannot wait for God because you are not married. Begin to do your research, Shia. You see all of them there line up like that. People who never married. You see that they are begging for God. You see that you are. You say, You say, but we are a lot. We are a lot. You say. We are not mine. We are a lot. Yeah, you say that we are a lot. So I cannot forgot because of this. So I cannot. I cannot forgot because I've slept with somebody before start to do a research, you see, and those type of research you have to dig quietly, quietly, quietly, quietly, you discover. But when you I start to look for something, you start to see, yes, when you, when you want to buy a car, you start noticing that particular car. So what is your weakness? What is your weakness that they are saying a fox climb the wall you have is so weak that a fox the the world will fall down. So what is it that they say about you? I said somebody from his social. So with such an accent. That's why when I preach, if I'm preaching whatever, I don't bring accents. No, because I could also bring some accent, even glory like that. I mean, I could come up with. Yeah, but for Africa, with Africa assets, Shabba, if you don't take care, he said, he said so when somebody is young, God cannot use him. You shouldn't have said it. You know what you say, We will start to do research. When we start to do the research, we see that we are a lot, we are a lot in the tank and God is using US. Yeah, of course has to do research. I cannot pray for the sake because I'm not feeling well. One day I was in South America. I've heard them say the word flu, flu, flu, flu, but I've not experienced 1 before, only malaria, but not flu. That is why I came to respect it. Now they said it's a crusade in the evening. So I went. I was dying my nose, my head, my eyes. So I preach bodily pains. Hey, so I preach, Jesus is alive, healing Jesus, healing Jesus, healing Jesus. Because I've done my research, I said I've done my what research that guy on the in the what you see, tell him to see me so that I give him the more details as I was there. I said miracle time I receive it. I receive it. Oh, the people were healed more. I said come to the left, come to the right. They were come in the left then, but now I couldn't even control it. So I brought out my handkerchief. You say what I couldn't say. You guys say what? I couldn't do this. I was I couldn't say my handkerchief. You had a tumor and I was like, I had a tumor on the tumor. He was holding his child. So look, my child a tumor on the face the tumor has gone was holding the child. Look, glory be the God this way next one, because I've done my research, I've seen that people with my problem God has also used them before Maya. So start to do your research when you see that there is a fellowship, an unspoken fellowship of fellow sufferers, fellow companions. God has used with your same weakness. Kaya balama sandala Baba, they say you are young. So because of that, this if you have said it well, so that it has made our manifestation more now you should have said that way. Yeah, just say something else. You should have said another one, that you should have said something else so that we will be more, more, more dignified. Sure, you're talking if you like, say another one. It will get worse. Just now is that people who have small churches with 20 people, they cannot grow. God has not called them start to do research to see how many people had 20 check 20 members for years with 20 members and then it began to grow because you don't do research. That's why discouragement works on you like that. It works so easily on you because you don't do your research. Do your research. Well, you see how somebody, somebody like you, we just exactly do. 20 people like that time. For years, he almost left the church. Certainly one day that thing starts to work. Go and ask Mosasuno. Go and ask Mosasuno how big his church was. Yeah, go and ask him. He will tell you that church that is now the problem of that church is oversize. Oversize. There's no dress to carry that. No Brazia to contain all those things. No dress to contain all these academic things. Why see people and ask them how it was? That's what I mean. I don't watch Benihina, so if I show you the Benihana, I'm watching 1993. It's that last weekend. When I'm watching, I'm working, looking at the earlier ones. Those are what I used to encourage myself. But I'm not doing your research. Well, that's why the Skyman is working on you all the time This should not allow me to work on you like that Research, research. So Briders and sisters Zhou, if you are a doctor, you cannot be a. When I was starting in the ministry, he said, Doctor concentrate on your studies. When you start to do we said you see so many doctors have become pastors in all over the world. Not not lighthouse in in Nigeria, many doctors are for time pastors with large churches. Yeah, doctors have become pastors, large churches. So I'm a professional. So you cannot go to Ukraine. You see, professional pastor, I mean, our friend President Mandava, huge church there. He's a pastor of a, he's a aeronautic engineer, a church that I went to preaching in in Ukraine. Vinita, the pastor is the medical doctor. Oh yeah, medical doctor. He has done that the last time he saw even paracetamol to share or panadol or whatever. He said you see the check for white people. So I cannot have white people in my, you see the church, there's no black man in the church, only white people. Like a huge cinema hall full. I've preached that before. Now somebody told me, I said when you're a doctor you cannot do this, when you're a woman you cannot. Let's start to do research on the women #2. So what is the first point I gave you? Do your research, look for that weakness in other great people and encourage yourself. Amen #2. Here, avoid the negative reports, Amen. Avoid negative report, Amen. Are you listening to me, Amen? Avoid negative reports, negative reports, negative discussion, negative people. It you see, it has an effect. Me, I've even noticed that the news has a negative effect. The news it has, it has even even if you're not in the room, even if you're not in the room. And if I'm not in the room, I don't leave CNN on in my room. I don't leave those things on in my room because I I it's almost like they are evil spirits. Yeah, it's true. So you have to learn, you understand, to avoid. I mean, that's why I travel with my own atmosphere, television, whatever it is. I have my own teeth in my small bag. Yeah, I rarely put on the television in that place. I've learned not to. I've had some experience. I've put on television. I realized that. What am I looking at? Hey, that is what even made me realize. God, then if you don't put on a television, the whole place is silent, dead, very, very, very some way. So I've learnt to have my own created world, even on a plane. I I rarely watch them things. I have so many things I have not yet watched, not even just preaching, but important things from the spirit of knowledge that I am yet to go through. Yeah, and they are all waiting. I don't have even time for their things that they are, that they have. I'm not saying I do not ever, but it's unlikely. It's not like I don't even bother to even open their things. You get it? Yeah, but what I'm saying is that you may not know that negative reports have the gradual effect of fighting you. Negative people. Amen. So the sons of God, they came, They said the land with the Lord is a land for livestock. Amen. So avoid the negative reports number two. Number three, look out for the positive. Look out for the positive and in #32 Bible says and the land with the Lord conquered before the congregation. Congregation of Israel is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock. It is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock. Amen. Now, did they not say that they found grapes in the land? They found grapes, They found trees. Was that milk and honey in the land? So why don't you think about that one? I am now going to think of the Giants. So let's talk about going to the mission field. There are positive things and negative things. Negative things, you know, loneliness. There's that, whatever. But I always remember an American missionary whom I met in Paraguay, and this American missionary said something to me that I've always remembered. He, he, he, he, he himself is. I don't know where he's from. He's from America. He's an American or I don't know where exactly he's from, but he was a missionary there and he has a big church and his wife and they, they used to be in America. And he said to me, I asked him, would you not consider going back to America? He, he looked, I was like, why should I go back, Strawberry? Then he started to point out to me the advantage of being in that South America. He said, look at my house, I have house help in America. I never have somebody to help me to do anything. I can never help say here I have made, I have this, I have that driver, this, that, that, whatever. I will never have all those things because I was thinking about it. Even you look at somebody who said, doctor, I mean, you do not have somebody to be an eye on your shirt for you, even though you are any whatever, whatever. I mean, I have secretaries, servants, chefs. I'm singers. I have my own singers. I have three stars sitting behind me when I'm preaching. 3 stars. Yeah, I love Vivaldi. Abana. She's yes. I'm sure her name will change at a point. The stars I can say sing. When I say sing, then they sing. When I'm even having a private meeting, I just call. It's like Solomon who used to call his singers. Now I cannot have that in America because I know my own classmates. They are still ironing their own shape. You better set up an iron because it cost you about $1000 to get somebody you better even buy. It would be better to even buy a new shirt every day than to employ somebody to iron it. Might as well go and buy a new shirt every day. Disposable. Or you employ somebody to come and iron your shirt or to cook for you. Now joking. So you you see, there are there are giants in the last Oh yeah, but this place is hot. Oh, but the people are this oh, there's armed robbery. Oh, there's this all the hospitals are not all the we can see 1000 negative, but we can also see some positive things. You see. But because people don't think that they just have one block. America is the best. America is the greatest. America is the this America is this America? Yeah. You see, one day I visit a certain brother in America. When I got to his house, I saw a big box. So I said, what is this box? He said. It is my television that I have bought. So I said, why is this in the box? I I don't have time to open it. You see, you have N money, you can buy the television, but you don't have the time to even open the box before you even watch it. Hey, it was in the box. A box in the sitting room. Is it not fantastic? Is it not amazing? Yeah. Swimming pool. When are you going to swim? You are joking when we are serious. When you say you are going to swim, Get to the job. Get to the job and start work. You say you are going swimming. Sure. What is the first point? Amen look for the weaknesses in other you know and then do it and garage yourself and garage yourself with it. Amen. What's the next one? Avoid a negative report. Avoid a negative people. Negative reports and #3 is what look out for the positive things. Amen. Now the next one, very, very, very important. In Numbers chapter 32, you see another aspect of this whole beast which is not in numbers 14. Remember I was telling you that the beast came in Numbers 14, and then Moses recounted all the issues in Deuteronomy chapter 1 and chapter 2 and so on. He was recounted. But this whole beast, there is another passage in the Bible which also brings another aspect to the whole trouble that came to the taster who were trying to become partakers but were not able to partake. And that is another passage that I want us to look at as we are getting to the end. Amen. Are you listening to me, Shia numbers 32. This whole beast of testing but unable to partake. There is yet another dimension to the whole thing. Now the children of now listen. Listen to the story. Let me tell you before we read it, when Moses and all the people 20 years and above had died, and now Moses, Joshua, Caleb and the few older people who are alive were now moving and heading towards the promised land with a new group of people. All the black people were dead. Some people rose up again who almost confused the whole thing again. The things almost started again for the second time. Yeah, I tell you, Moses said. This is the same thing that no people did. Yeah, the same thing. You are coming to do the same problem that everybody has died. We have thousands of funerals in the desert, and you are about to do the same thing again. So in this passage, you see why that thing was coming up again. This is the third time it is mentioned with another dimension, with a new group who we are bringing another problem. And this time, you know what it was that they were bringing? Discouragement. Yeah, you did discouragement. It's a very powerful thing in the Bible, Discouragement. We're about to spot the whole, the mission again through discouragement. Discouragement was what prevented them from grumbling this, this, this, this. Now Discouragement was now about to end everything again. That's what I said from today, actually, you people should watch out for discouragement because I've come to see myself as I'm preaching them. Then it's actually done the thing that you are discouraged about. That's what the main thing. Tell someone. That's the main thing. Yeah, the thing that is discouraging you. That's the main thing. Now, Are you ready to see what happened? How many are ready to see what the guys were about? You listen to something now. The children of Ruben and the children of God had no give us in in America. America. Is it bigger? Can you see? You cannot see. A little bigger, please. Now. Yeah. Now the sons of Ruben and the sons of God. Oh, you see, there were 12 tribes now, Ruben and God, 2 tribes had an exceedingly large number of livestock. They had a lot of cattle. See the cattle there, that blessing had made it become a lot. So when they saw the land of Jazzer and the land of Gilead, that it was indeed a place suitable for livestock, they were just about to cross that Jericho. We could see the walls of Jericho there. We were all marshalling our forces here. Then suddenly two out of the 12 came with another agenda. Our cows. Our cows are a lot. And he said it was indeed a place suitable for livestock. The sons of God and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eliza the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying, you see, Atarov, Dibon, Jaza, Nimrah, Hesbourne. Remember Sai, the king of Hesbourne, they have killed him already. Hesbourne, Ilia, Sibam, Nibon. And beyond. The land which the Lord conquered before the congregation of is the land for livestock. And your servants have livestock. Have you seen it? Your servants have what? Livestock? We we have cows. We are into cows. We are into beef. We are into beef with onions. We are into beef kebab. We are into army kebabs. No, they said. If we have fun favor in your sight. Let this be given to your servants, land be given to your servant as a possession. Do not take us just as the two of us. That's our section. We are, we are about to cross our section. Our section have decided that even though we were all at the meeting, we have all decided to go our section. We said we don't want to. We don't want to cross across the Jordan. But Moses said to the sons of Gileon and to the sons of Reuben, shall your brothers go to war while you yourself sit here? Why? Why are you discouraging? Why are you discouraging the sons of Israel from crossing over into the land? Because it's like you are saying we won't go, so you go, bye. You, you are going on the mission, so bye. I'm not going. Will you go? We have decided that we are still you go. Why are you discouraging the sons of Israel from crossing over into the land which the Lord has given unto them? Listen to what he said. Now He's going to continue. Next one. This is what you're.