30. People Who Did Not Finish 3

Welcome to track #30 of finish what you started. And when I say prophetic things, the the type of prophetic means it's not only pastoral prophetic. I'm not solving pastoral problems here, even though sometimes I think last year I told you. What did I tell you? I didn't even remember. Huh. Yeah, last year, just just at the end of the camp, you called me outside and then you said we should, myself and my wife, we should believe God for a child. I mean, and this is just happening. Yeah, because they've been married for some time. Yeah. So that's maybe a pastoral prophetic, something visual. Pardon. Yeah, just just the year before, because the year before that was when we decided to have children. I think she miscarried the year before. Yeah. All right. So have children and then you start to have children. Hey, it's like a command. Begin. Are you listening to me? Yes. So sometimes all these things, they are prophetic. So as we are preaching, you see there's a lot of prophetic things that are mixed in it. Sometimes we are laughing as if we are playing. If you like, listen carefully to the thing. You see. As we are laughing, serious things are being said. See, one day I sat in lawyer, he came to sit in my office and he told me he said you, you are very deceptive. I said no, why? I said no. You see you, you are sit, you sit. Now you are relaxed as if you are not doing anything, but you are very serious. There's nothing that you are doing that is by accident, as if you are just joking or you are just whatever. Everything is serious. You may not know that it's serious If you listen to the message. You see that seriously. As if we are jumping, we are dancing, we are playing. Something is being said and people's lives are turning around and changing. How many realize that your life is twisting around? Yeah, as if we are joking, but it is happening. Are you listening to me? So don't me, I I don't, I don't have a drama. I can have the most serious meeting with you on the staircase. I can stand at the door and say, OK, come, come, just come. And that's that is it. If you think you'll see me in a suit and tie at the bottom. I don't even like such things. The when I started to wear suitors, when I started the church, I wanted people to take me serious. So I I made three suits. Yeah, but now I I don't wear suits much really. If I don't even have I have to go and see what I have. I just wear my shirt. I go. Yeah. But I'm serious though. I'm, I'm, I'm managing a multinational organization. Yeah, I don't think so. This are my multinational chief executives all all around here. Are you not Chief executives? Chief Executive, You, you can. You can say 19/19/99 I was just. You became a missionary through what? A prophecy. In 1999, not the first time I I saw you physically, I just joined the church that you came to Kumasi and preached about the missionary church in Kumasi. OK. So when you finish the message, you give an. Altar caller, anybody who wants to be used. As a mission should come and I was less than 20 years old and I came forward and I was the youngest among the people who were standing in front. Then you came and touched my heart. Lord, may you use this young guy won the as a missionary and he's 10 years now. 10 years. Wow. Amen. So you see, you never know what is a prophecy. Now let me show you why some prophets are not dramatic or spectacular. You want me to show you why when they prophesize as if they are not, they are just chatting? Because there are different ways in which the prophecy comes to them. One of the ways the Bible says, and the word of the Lord came unto the prophets say so for some of them they actually hear a word or see something. They have audio visions or video visions. But some of them the Bible says, and the burden of the Lord came unto the prophet saying not the word, the burden or the concern. So some prophets they are, they don't have a word, but they suddenly become concerned about something. And I have noticed that in my life and my ministry, when I become concerned about something, usually there's some kind of direction. Yeah. I remember one time I was working on the golf course with some friends, and I stopped and I turned to one of them and began to discuss their life and the health of somebody. Within a few months, the person was dead. I stopped under a tree. I said come and let's discuss something I said I, I said, I'm very concerned about this. Within a few months the person was dead. Hey, the Bible says and the bedding of the Lord came unto prophet, not the wed. You go and look it up in your Bible. See that doesn't prophet. They don't have weds, they have burdens like Jeremiah. He was burdened for the people of Israel. Amen. That they were going to perish. So go and look for that phrase. You see it all through your Bible. It's not very common, but it's there. And one day I realized that this seems to be how I am prophesying about things by becoming concerned. So take note. Amen. Follow anything you hear God telling you, especially if you feel you are being drawn. If you don't follow those things, you will never fulfill your ministry. Hey, you know how I first came to South Africa to preach in Devon and so many places? I I felt myself drawn to somebody who was building a big church that is Yongicho. Papa says that I will draw him. So I felt myself being drawn, being interested in Yongicho, even though his magazine was the most boring magazine I'd ever seen before. And in the magazine they were always talking about goals and visions, which I didn't understand. And you'll notice I rarely preach about having goals and having visions, but I don't seem to understand that thing much. And I felt drawn to him. I went to a program in Switzerland where he was preaching. I was not able to see, but I decided to go to Korea in 1994. I think it was 1993 or 4. Hey, and I've been going, it is true, going to Korea that almost, almost, I mean maybe 70% of the international ministry that I am involved in or maybe even more, 90% maybe comes from having gone to Korea. Yeah, I kept being interested. I never knew there was even a board before I realized I was recommended unto the board. I was on the board before I realized I've been recommended to do this before I realized this. Since then, as to my certain point, every year I've been invited to preach there. This year I've been invited to preach in the Olympic Stadium. Yes, with younger children. So it's a blessing. It won't be on crusade. Everything I was in a lifting Korea and a young a South American man can say I want to invite you to Panama. I thought he was. I just look at it, I want to invite you myself. Well, OK, I mean, why would you want to invite me? You're standing there. I want to invite him. And before I realized, he sent me an invitation with a picture of a huge church. And the next thing I knew, I was in Panama when I was arriving. But he has bought tickets for me to Colombia. The next moment I knew I was in Colombia. The next time I well, he has bought a ticket as soon as I arrived in Panama, finished pushing there three times. Then I was in Argentina. The next time I was in Bolivia. The next time I was in Paraguay. The next time I was in Cartagena, the next time I was here, I was in Mexico. Now I have a Mexican girl who works for me. I was in Korea, I stood in Korea. The man said I will invite you to and he knows everybody in Latin America, but he has one of the largest churches and connections in the whole place. He took me from place to place like that, sent me paid, bought ticket. Go, go, then preach, go have crusade. The crusade where I saw the dead race is from the lift where the man said, I want to invite you to Cologne. And he called me in Cologono from Panama in Spanish. And we need you to come. Will you come in January? Hey. When God is drawing you and you reject those prophetic things, before you realize you, all that he has planned for you is not happening anymore. Then I started getting openings to Asia, you see? Are you there? Yeah, Malaysia. I was there and I got an invitation to Malaysia from one of the right hand men of Korea, of Yongicho. All this from just being drawn to Korea. He invited me, invited me an invitation, come to Malaysia and preach. When I got there, I, the person who picked me, picked, asked my wife and I from the airport. I asked him where we were going. I didn't know he was going to tell the senior pastor. I said why did they invite me? I asked why did you invite, why did they go? I didn't know him. So when when I got finally to see the senior pastor who invite me, he said, I hear you were asking why I invited you. Loyalty must not withhold information. Hey, I was so embarrassed that he was asking because I was just I was just wondering why on earth is not mine. I don't know him from anywhere. Hey. Then I was invited to Indonesia from the same connection to preaching the largest church in the world building in Indonesia, then to Korea. I'm preaching different churches in Korea, then to Singapore. Now I've been invited to Philippines. It's all from being drawn to one thing. Books are all over the place. It's it's interesting. So the bedding of the Lord I started, I used to go with Bishop Sakito. I went to a town called Suhum to pray with Yong Chicho's tapes who were playing Church growth and prayer. That's the topic Church growth and prayer in his broken English and will play church growth and prayer and will fast and pray and listen to it in soon because that's why I called the analogy. So I thought there was something in Soon. So I said, let's go back to Soon and after that we'll play another tape check. Growth and Miracles by Yong Chicho. I play. I was interested in the man, not in anything else. Church growth and fasting Church growth and cell system. Oh, I was listening to them soaking church growth, church growth, church growth, church growth, church growth Church can grow. Church can grow church can grow. Wow, are you listening to me? Can I ask you, what is God drawing you towards? Perhaps he's drawing you towards your destiny. What is he making you interested in? Who is he making you like? You don't easily like people. When you start to like somebody, usually that desire and that liking is from God. That is what I believe. God makes you like people. One day I was talking to a certain person who works for me, and I realized something that God had not given me a lot of people who like me, but he has given me some people who had drawn to me. And God told me, be careful with the people who have been drawn to you, because not so many people have been drawn to give up everything and follow you, but this one of the people. So handle with care. Handle with care. Yeah, because many of you, you could help me. You could do so. But you have not been drawn to help me. You have been drawn to watch me. I have been drawn to listen. I've been drawn to say it's great. But you have not been drawn to help me. You are not giving yourself to help me, but a few people have been drawn to do that. Are you there? So you see, not everybody's going to be drawn to you, but some people will be drawn to you. Look at Rick Joyner. God drew me to him in a bookshop and I became interested in what he was writing. That's changed my life. Most people don't understand his books. Even the cover of his book. The first time I saw his book, I read it. When I went home, I realized I had two copies in my books. I never The cover even will not attract you. It's so mystical. The final quest. Even the title is mysterious. What is the final quest? Are you there? Yeah, So when some publishers took over his book, they renamed the book The Vision, which is a more attractive title than the final quest. And he wrote in his one of his book called Shadows of Things to Come. So there's a book I hope a lot of people will not reach because this, this, this is. I don't want many people to read. You've written a book. You don't want people to read it. What kind of prophet are you? It's fantastic. One day I was talking to my friend, he said please read it and explain to her to us. We don't understand it. And I I could understand because we must say when I was reading his book, I gave it to my wife. I was flying to South Africa. I gave her one of her joining us, but I don't understand. I read it after about 30 minutes I said what has he said you understand? I don't understand. It's not easy to understand. So brothers and sisters, who what is God drawing you to? God is trying me to accept him, brother in the church. I am not talking about marriage, desire or last. I'm talking about drawing to something spiritual. Jesus said unless the Father draws, you cannot come. So he didn't struggle with people. That's a Cliff. Your people can never follow you to Ethiopia unless their father has drawn them. Never, never, never. It will never happen. Their father has to draw them, otherwise they will never come. Amen. Are you listening to me? So I want to encourage all of you to believe prophetic things. And when you are relating with me, be careful. The joke may be about your life, the example may be true. Some of the examples are true. So I say, for instance, this brother, this is this is sometimes it's true, sometimes it's not true. Sometimes it's actually a prophetic. So sometimes people who know me, they don't like being used as bad examples. So they have seen people being used as bad example who became that bad example that it was actually a prophecy of the persons behavior and he fully went into it too. Yeah, yeah. Tell us, Help me preach. Hallelujah. You know, recently. They cannot look and your police look. Get to the job now because this guy. Yeah, yeah, somebody should get water ready to pour it on him, OK. Yeah, I mean, this is just something that happened just a few like a two months ago. You know, my wife has been having high high blood pressure, but every so every time she checks, I just jokingly check mine. But mine was very low. So everything was perfect. But then I called you and you were talking about something totally different. Then you asked me that Obi, have you been playing the golf? Then suddenly I had not been playing for some time. But suddenly your father is giving you a warning. So when I went back home as usual she was checking her. But I went to check my suddenly had increased and I I said, this is the warning that your father was giving you. So I just went to a new Golf course, paid for the year twice a year, twice a week, I'm there. Please say Lord. And I asked the Lord to forgive me. But. The Lord told me when you just ask, because the question came out of the blue from what we're talking about, we're talking about something totally different, you know, and just that sentence, you ask that question. Hello. You just you want something that's working. Echo hello. When you asked me, then you continued with the original topic we're talking about as if you didn't even wait for an answer. I just said. And then you say, OK, So what we're saying, it's like I didn't hear the rest of the conversation. It's like this is the warning that what your father has told you to do, do it. So I repented. Seriously. Mess there was a little boy, and he wanted to prove that the old man was not right always. Hey, so brothers and sisters, sometimes the prophetic word in the midst of preaching, something strikes you, bends on your hand, touches you, you feel it, you want it, you get it. You have to learn it. Most of us are not going to get prophetic word by an Angel that you see with your eyes or an angelic visitation. Now it's not common. You know why it's not common? Because God wants to give you a very big reward. Do you know Stevie Wonder? One day Stevie Wonder came to our church, the one who said, I just can't God to say I love you. Yeah, that guy, he came to our church and we said, oh, he should at least play, sing something. So he held his hand and he climbed the stairs blind like this and was brought to the piano. And he played the piano, all right? And when he played the piano and he sang something, now later on, somebody who played the piano said that he's not like, so good at playing the piano. But The thing is that because he's blind, it makes what he's doing far greater than what it actually is. Do you see? And so God has intentionally made you blind not to see spirits, angels, all these things happen. You can't see anything. Then he just tells you something and then you are able to do and to win and to succeed even though you can't see a thing. That's what makes you so. Why the angels are watching at this guy? He hasn't seen heaven before. Look at how he's what about if he was to see it as I saw that God prevents you from a vision. I tell you pray and pray and pray. I say that no vision worker, It's just for your reward because the blinder you are and the more things you are able to accomplish in the midst of the darkness, the greater the achievement and the greater the reward. So don't worry if you are not seeing some of these dramatic dreams and visions and whatever. Ask you hear a word like this and it just wraps in your spirit, wraps in your spirit. Before Juanita died the first time we have what we call shuffling conference, I put on my agenda death of a spouse that a spouse or somebody dies. What will you do? Then after that, anytime we have the meet, I always put it on and one day I went to a place that we prayed and I saw the people there death. I had come to that place to pray and I've written that my secretary had given my I had given her the things to remind me what to do. She had printed all I'd give it to. I went, I pulled the door at that time she had died. I pulled out and I saw the notes there. Death of spouse again about five times. Every time I look at the people at the beach, I thought these people don't understand what I want to talk about. Then I'll say I won't discuss it. Every time it was a bedding that was on me. And I always say we need to talk about death. If your husband dies. So if your wife dies, what will happen? What will you do, blah, blah, blah, blah. I kept on bringing all the time. I kept talking about it. It was I was professor, I was prophesied. This is something that is going to happen to you. It's something that is coming. But I see the prophecy was not. I see something. I see a brown coffin. The person inside is very tall. No, there was nothing like that. They were just calling my secretary. Mary, come write this down. Remind me 1234 death or if somebody dies. This, this, this, this. Every year, Jack, do you remember? I would bring it up. We have to talk about it. Very, very important. We were there and it came on us. Are you there? Sisi Mukai. He died. There are many of you. I don't talk. May not speak to you personally or even remember him, but last year I came here on Simukai. I spoke to him. Is it not true? Yeah. Then I told him come to Ghana. Come to Ghana. He's our pastor, one of our pastors. Then to show you that, I remember when I went back, I called one of my secretaries who worked. Yeah. I said, Serena, there is somebody in Zimbabwe. It's just after the campus. Some weeks pass. I called. I said there is somebody in Zimbabwe called Simukai. I remember the name Simukai. I think that is something, something, something. But he's from Zimbabwe and I want him to come. So I said send him a message. Did they call you? They called. I said call. She, she she will not forget. She called. Tell him this. He should come and then I told her do anything for him to come. That's what I said. Anything that needs to be done, do it and let him just come. I didn't know he was going to die. Maybe prophetically. You see God was trying to extract. It was a last attempt. Come out of that place because you are destined to die there. I could not believe my ears when I heard that he was dead. I said so. I called after I said, did you do everything that I said you should do to make sure? She said I called him, I spoke to this. I think she spoke to you. She spoke to you, she spoke to him, she spoke to me. I spoke to him. He phoned, he phoned her. And. They they, they made arrangements and that was the last communication. Hey, you see, I'm just trying to say that it may not come in that wait. And I'm saying that like a company. I know I have so many people, but I just remember that guy. I said no, there's a guy and he told me he said I work on tracks. I can't work. So I asked him what type of track can you work on? What kind of tracks can you work on? Can you work on He healing Jesus trucks and so on. I said anyway whatever it is just come. And we all our tracks are brand new now so we don't even need somebody to work on tracks. And from last day we decided but I still wanted him to come cause me. I always want you to come nearer, come closer, come closer, come closer. You always, I want you to come nearer. Don't be far closer to closer to me. I want to heal you and I want to touch you. All those doubts and all those feats that you've had on through the years, I wanna hear you, says the Lord. Come closer to me. Closer to me. I wanna hear you and I wanna touch you. All those doubts and all those fears that you've had on through the years, I want to hear you, says the Lord. You've tried so hard to hide all the pain you feel inside. You hope nobody sees through your disguise. Instead, you wish somebody knew what was really hurting you when you're too afraid to let them see you cry. But it's time to dry your eyes for today you will hear the Father say, Come close unto me, closer to me. I want to heal you, I want to touch you. I won't tell nobody else, I will keep it to myself. I want to hear you say is the Lord, when I want you to know there's the place you can go, place that's not so very far from here. For every light that's torn apart, for every broken heart anybody else needs not to fear for your healing, isn't it? For today you we'll hear the Father say, come closer to me, closer to me. I want to heal you and I want to touch you. If you come to me today, I will wipe your tears away. I want to heal you, says the Lord. I want to heal you say Is the Lord. Come, let me heal you Say Is the Lord. Come, let me touch you, Say is the Lord. Come closer. I always want you to come closer, Amen. Even when you live far away, you can come close. Come closer. You will hear the Father say come closer, Amen. Are you listening? So don't, don't joke with this prophetic thing. I'm just giving you a special. That's what that lawyer was trying to say when he sat in my office. He said. You are, you are deceptive about your style is deceptive you, you are just as if you are casual. You are just sitting there as if you are just not serious about anything or doing any having a board meeting or anything. But you are very serious and you are doing things and making executive decision, moving things, doing things. But you will not know riders. Watch out you Bible says Jesus walked with them, but they did not recognize him because he came in another phone. All right, So if all you are used to saying that says the Lord shabba Pala shiba shabba. No, it may be a very simple question that your pastor will ask. Are you all right? Everything OK? You all right? Amen. OK. Good, good. Second, how many people? You may, you may, you may, you may sit down. How many people do you have? How many people do you have #1 is who Demas? Hey, what happened to Demas? Examples of people who did not finish. Examples of people who did not finish. Number one is who Demas and why did he not finish? He forsook his ministry, Amen. He abandoned #2 Judas. Hey #3 we've talked about Judas, isn't it why Judas betrayed Christ? And we talk about what, what Jesus did for Judas. So many things, isn't it? He called him, He said come, wow. And then what else? 3 is Lucifer. What ministry did Lucifer have? Worship ministry. Did he finish it? Did he start it? Did he finish what he started? Now that is number 4, right #3 #4 is who? 4 Is who #5 #5 is whom Elijah's first servant? And he said to his 7th 1st Kings chapter 18, verse 43, go up now and look towards the sea. And he went up and looked, and he said there is nothing. And he said, go again seven times. This is the servant who saw the cloud when Elijah prayed and it reigned. This is the servant I'm talking about. Elijah had two servants, Gehazi and the first guy who is nameless. Nameless servant, isn't it? Elijah had Elijah had two servants. Is it Elijah or Elijah? Elijah. Elijah had two servant. The first was the first was nameless and the second was Elijah. Yes. So the nameless servants even did not get his name registered because he did not finish his work. He is the one who saw the prophets of Bao being slain. He saw all the power. By the time Elijah came, there was no more power. Elijah. Elijah was just running around. But the guy who saw the power, he did not enter the ministry. You must decide. I will never let you go. Tell your neighbor I will never let him go. And 1st Kings chapter 19 verse 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger and to Elijah saying, so let the gods do to me. And more also 19 verse 2 If I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow, that's the prophets he had killed. And when he saw that, he arose and went for his life, and came to be a sheba which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die. And he said, It is enough. Now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my father's. But notice that that vest three, I think it is. He left his servant there, but he himself went to this journey into the wilderness. That is the last time you hear of this guy, hey? And the servant too. He was being left, and he allowed himself to be left. When you are being left behind, don't allow yourself to be left behind, huh? You got to heed the call. Amen. You got to not allow yourself to be left behind. You have to decide. I will never let you go. You must say to your church, I will never let you go. Lighthouse. You brought me up. You helped me to know the Lord. You've changed my life. Why should I let you go? Why should I allow a Satan to come now, to work on my heart and my soul? No, I'm going to survive. What have you been through? What have you survived? What? How many years have you survived? I will never let Jesus go out of my life. Amen. Search for me, draw me closer to you, reveal your secret hearts design and stare me up until they give to me. It's pure heart and all consuming fire. You always know me. You always hear my cry in the shelter of your arms. I'm satisfied, Lord Jay Horver about shut die. Guess you are the Lord Almighty. Have I long seek your face? Lover of my soul, I will last sing your praise. Tell the world about your witness and how good it is to know you never let me go. Never let me go, look for me with all your heart and soul, making me the center of your joy. None like you. My heart and my soul I give to you. Mother can't compare. You always know me. You always hear my cry in the shelter of your own down satisfied Lord Jehovah should die. Yes, you are the Lord Almighty. Have I long to seek your face? Lover of my soul, I will ever sing your praise. Tell the world about your greatness and how good it is to know you. Never let we go. Loving you, trusting you keeps me in your perfects with securing your purpose. Here's my destiny. Lord Jay Homer, I shall die. Guess you are the Lord Almighty. How I long seek your face. Lover of my soul. I will never sing your praise. I'll tell the world about your greenness and how good it is to know you. Never let me go. Lord Jay Homer, I shall die. Guess you are the Lord Almighty. See how long to seek your face. Lover of my soul, I will never sing your praise. I'll tell the world about your greatness and how good it is to know You never let me go. You never, never let me go. Oh, never, never let me go. Never, never let me go. You never, never let me go. Holy though I know I break your heart, But you promised I could start all over. And all the things I've done, you placed them, each and everyone into the sea. A forgetfulness You placed a love. My sin, I'm the one who keeps reminding you over and over again to the sea. A forgetfulness as far as this from the West 17 * 7 You forgiven thee, you keep planting thee. That's in my sin. To the sea I forgive you. Welcome me with open arms of mercy. Spite of all I've done, you still keep loving me and I only need to ask you be raised. I love my past forever. My deaths will all be dead, and they have all been washed away into sea. A forgetfulness. You placed all of my sins. I'm the one who keeps reminding you over and over again to the sea. A forgetfulness as far as these from the West. 70 * 7 You forgiven thee, and you keep planting thee, cleansing my sin to the sea up again. It's your unfairly love that covers me and all my multitude of sin. It's your step of love that keeps reminding me I'm forgiven. Into that sea, a forgetfulness you place the love my sins, And I'm the one who keeps reminding you over and over and over again. Into the sea, a forgetfulness as far as needs from the West. 70 * 7 You forgive and leave.