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Ministries of the Believer Pt.2

Apostle Michael Orokpo
August 22, 2019 46m 5s Ministries of the Believer

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I will see I've a praist, I will praise, I will seeing the songs outside him to be on it. I will see I've a braid. I won't see the songs outside him to Oh, thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. As we continue, Lord be asstatute, take three evidence in the name of Jesus, God, bless you have me. See John has tried to montimize the little time that we have. We're still looking at ministries or the believer. And the reason I said it's very important. It's very important we look at the subject of ministries because everything we talk about media is just a platform to give expression to ministry. So it's important for you to know the aspect of ministry that you have been designed to give expression too. So when we get to media and then generally in life, you become very conscious of what the Holy Ghost wants to live out through you. A lot of people think ministry is all about the five fold. The five fold, so whenever a wave begins, everybody begins to be a particular kinds of Titus. In the last fifty years thereabout, there was a revolution, a church revolution. Everybody was either a pastor or a reverend, reverend. Title of reverend became a title that people pursued, s

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I will see I've a praist, I will praise, I will seeing the songs outside him to be on it. I will see I've a braid. I won't see the songs outside him to Oh, thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. As we continue, Lord be asstatute, take three evidence in the name of Jesus, God, bless you have me. See John has tried to montimize the little time that we have. We're still looking at ministries or the believer. And the reason I said it's very important. It's very important we look at the subject of ministries because everything we talk about media is just a platform to give expression to ministry. So it's important for you to know the aspect of ministry that you have been designed to give expression too. So when we get to media and then generally in life, you become very conscious of what the Holy Ghost wants to live out through you. A lot of people think ministry is all about the five fold. The five fold, so whenever a wave begins, everybody begins to be a particular kinds of Titus. In the last fifty years thereabout, there was a revolution, a church revolution. Everybody was either a pastor or a reverend, reverend. Title of reverend became a title that people pursued, sorted after. Then they became bishops, you know, from pastor to reverend, then to bishop. Now it's a it's a prophetic and apostolic wave. So every young man is an a post post post. But we don't understand that it's more about giving expression to the life, the essence, the nature, the will and the mind of the Father. So it's important we look at this subject very closely. Glory to go. So we stopped at the ministry of profess sign. And if you've not learned anything, don't worry. When I talk about sound, the mystery of sound, I would I would dig a bit deeper into it so that you see the spiritual dimension to what I'm saying. You understand how energy is conducted through your words. You understand how spirits are carried through your words, and then you understand how you summon spiritual authority through your words, so that when people don't think we are talking about positive thinking and optivism where you psych yourself. It's not about psyching yourself. If you take time and check very carefully, you discover that your words I project a proponent of your belief system, and if you look a bit deeper again, you discover that your life is going in the direction of your words. The things you've said predominantly and consistently are the things that define your reality. A lot don't understand because we don't take time and tax talk and appraiser of our lives and the direction of our lives go. If you change your words the direction of your life, it's a proven reality. So we are going to proceed from ministry of prophesying to the next ministry, which is also very close to professcying, but it is more specific. It's called the ministry of exhortation. Talk about the ministry of exhortation. You know professy and also covers exhortation. The thing we professying is that it's a bit broad. It encompasses building up, It encompasses comfort, and then it encompasses encouragement. Exhortation deals particularly with encouragement. I may come to prophesy to you, but you may not be comforted. The idea is to build you. So sometimes the ministry of professying comes as a rebuke, so you will not enjoy it. But if you follow the instruction after some time you will discover that you are built up right. But when we did, particularly with exhortation, we are dealing with consolation. We're dealing with encouragement. There were people that were so given to this kind of ministry, like Bannabas. He was called the son of encouragement and asked for the forest decision. It was called the son of consolation. Bannabas was a king in this kind of ministry. It was Barnabas that sold this land and brought to the church. When the church was in lack, and the Bible said something. He said, because of what Bannabas did, every other person brought their possession and dropped it at the feet of the apostles. And he said they were distributed evenly, and there was none among them that lacked. So it's a ministry that encourages people to do the will of God. It's a ministry that encourages people to go in the direction of the will of God. So when a man of exhortation speaks, or if you stay closely to him and observe its lifestyle, it will become natural for you to begin to do the mind of God word. Because he carries that ability and spiritual possibility. It was because of men like Bannerbas that many were and courage to begin to do the will of God. Paul, after his conversion, went to the wilderness of Arabia, and he was there for a long time. Paul wanted to be in the cave like my brother. Here. This man is a fire, is a fire. There is only one thing. His Interestine is made up of fire. Both large interestines more interestine fire. You people, any day you want to give this one microphone, be ready in case, because he may begin to charge. The man charges. So Paul went and locked himself in a cave. He wanted to pray there he goes to heaven. So Bannabas went and looked for him and brought him. He said, come to Antio, we need to change. Here. You see how the news of exhortation work. He helps people to realize their destiny. He helps people to realize their ordination, and then he motivates, encouraged and pushes them to walk in it. There are three dimensions to the operation of this ministry. The first dimension is the dimension of a soul winner. The second dimension is the dimension of a psammist, and the third dimension is the dimension of an intercessor. And I will show you from scriptures because you don't understand where does the samist fall into They are also called help us, but more predominantly the suammist is in the minister of exhortation. If I gives me to the mic, now I begins to sing. After a while, the place will be charged. You doubt they are tired. Now a week you will begin to worship God and live your hands, and if he wants to praise you, begin to dance. If you're not careful, the place with cutter because it's part of his operation. Exhortation is cardinal in the Salamist ministry, so they are referred to in scriptures on that. So we ask they are the ones that the Bible always called day day day. Have you read the ministry of Jesus you hear and they brought all that way saved? Who are they? They? They are the people that walk the ministry of exhortation. So they go there their brothers. He said, there's somebody in town on if you see come, you'll be healed. So they motivate people to come to God, to flu in the direction of God. Their sou winners. In Man chapter eight, verse sixteen, he said, when the evening was come, he said, day broth. They sick didn't come themselves. There were people that brought them to the Lord. Are you seeing that? That's how the Sauvinas were. He said that brought them. They brought them. You see that? And the Bible said Virtue left Jesus and healed them all that it may be fulfilled. It was spoken by Isaiah's the prophet. He himself took our informaties. So they carry out the ministry of so winnings the air exorters. If you don't have that ability in you, so winning for you will be frustrating. It will be very frustrating because when you are talking the people who do not want to hear. I've been going to prey to somewhere before and they say, oga, before I hear with you, they talk, hunger won't came in now if either your Bible would make a job or no way carry you are veg, veg. If I'm what re access, you will understand better. You talk a god. Now do they talk? Now, go show up? Last way you will go back. I'm praying tongues for some time You need to have the ability to exhort. So when you speak to people, something in their spirit begins to yeend for God. You know, the Bible said in Juhn chapter one, that's fine. He said that light is the true light that lighted every man that comments into the world. Everybody that is in this world has a measure of discernment in his spirit, and that descerment makes that person to recognize God and desire him. The ministry of soul winning gives you the ability to speak to that essence of humankind where God is. So the person may not be in trusted in God. He may even say he's an atheist. But when you come by that spirit of so winning and you begin to speak to that person, that element of God in his insight, we begin to we begin to ye end for God, and that will cross the person to the Lord. So soa we needs not just to go with scriptures in your head or to go on threatening people and say you we die, you will go to hair, you will go. I will see all those people that do money cry and the market cry. Most times they are most effective. No body will have their time. Some don't even pray, They just come around. Hey, is we are you the one for me? That they are already aware. Some are peoplen't dream and seen themselves in hair. You understand it takes so much to be able to convert a soul. And we don't understand this thing because we're in a religious environment. People already afraid. So somebody backslide you one the person you're threatening the person. It comes back to the kingdom. You think you're winning soul, go and talk to you Muslim, go and talk to our natives. That's why you understand what it takes to win a soul. It takes a lot. There's a ministry dimension to it. And if you find yourself having bodyings for souls, having bodiings for soul, you need to build this aspect of your life. You need to learn how to penetrate people, get into their spirit so that you can talk to their essence and then their eternal reality will begin to cry for the Lord. It is those people that drew most people to Jesus. Jesus didn't have needs for many evangelists. It was only twice Jesus sent out his disciples, but every time Jesus moved there were multitudes they. These are the ones that brought the people. It's not the disciples. The days. If they tell you a debut is calling now, the statum will be packed. They are the days. Oh boy, you don't hear the posse sule Mine is coming on the sixtinct and seventeen. The whole population of Omega fam ministry in this thing. It is not up to one thousand, but that place will be packed because the days we go at work, they will be put to work immediately. So there are many people that have that dimension is a ministry of exportation. And then you have the ministry of a psalmist. The psalmist he helps our operation in the spirit most times through worship. If you study Second Kings of the three fifteen, Elijah particularly asked for his psalmist. He wanted to professor. He is a prophet, but for him to operate in his element, he needed somebody to help him as scent. So he called for a ministrel. That's explortation. Most times you come to a meeting dry. You have only preacher, but your spirit is low. You are flat. You didn't have time to pray for the meeting you came. You didn't have inspiration, even though you have prepared your message, but the favancy of the spirit is not yet activated, so you need That's why most times we have them minister before we come up. They help you to assaying so that you can operate the spirit. That's what is captured in second king is three fifteen. So it's the ministry of exhortation. And then you have the ministry of intercessos. The intercessos are also under this category. They build people up. I told you colosions of the fourthest twelve poor, said a Paphoras. It's one of you, a bond savant of Christ, laboring fervently for you in prayers that you stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. So the prayers of a Paphoras defied the church in another territory indued verse twenty, it said, beauty up yourself in your most soly faith, praying in the Holy goos. So the prayer dimension does something to the spirit of a man, either for self or for others. It is part of the ministry of exhortation. Somebody is weak, you on your house, and then you receive a body for the person, and then you began to pray, and then the person becomes strength in the spirit. It's an economy in the divine And that's why most times we're encouraged to praying tongues, because when we pray in tongues, we pray away of our selfishness. We pray beyond the borders of mortality. We enter into the womb of the motives, and then will begin to communicate the mind the bodies in the heart of the Father. That's where God has to be batty. What God, the things God does in the world that looks as if he's violating the loss of creation, is not necessarily violating the loss of creation. Spiritual resources are supplied in the spirit, so he has to be bad it. Sometimes when you speak in tongues, those usuances you have released, those mysteries you have released, gives God permission to send an insurer to win another soule. So the Angel may go and confront somebody. But it is you that give the clearance. So when need is a function of humankind. But when you praying the spirit, you make a lot of spiritual possibilities available. Hope below it was God himself that I want saw and he became poor. Either. There were mysteries that were at work. It's got the ministry of intercession. So as much as you can engage that ministry for you, yourself and for others, that ministry may become the only thing you are called to do in the Body of Christ. Say people like Smith, every time they come, they just their section, you know, they come and lift the church up. And then it's growing rapidly now in this in this phase of the apostolic move of God, see a lot of people, people like Lawrence Oil, Theophilos, Mike k say, they're just everywhere. And when these guys come, you will know that God what you will labor to preach and speaking terms for two hours, the place you will take the congregation to after two hours of preaching, they will do it in five minutes. My friend Michael say, if he comes here, honey, they don't know what they have in that their voice. No one that the Bible said, be not drunk with wine officials five eighteen. Where in needed excess, he said, be feeled in the Holy gooths. Speaking to yourself in psalms, it makes you to be drunk in the Holy goths, in hims and in spiritu us songs, making not in your heart the Lord the guy. We all say, and I just want to be where you are before you know it's a crime. And then if you light down and is not trying to go, is that may? Why are you? You will sing that song? Are you will be washing? Clute you? But somebody has sings the song and your spirit flies. It's a ministry. It's a ministry glory to go. So if you find yourself in that dimension, be died, develop it all right. It will save the soul. Some people will never stand unless you pray the church and collusions their faith dependent on the prayer of a papalos. Jesus said to Peter, looky two, it's a simon, simon, it's a certain desires to have you to sift you like with. At that time the statue of Peter compared to certain was with the guy, not the Holy goes. You had not gained understandings with it. What teens you know? The devil preas on your ignorance. Any area you are ignorant. You're puppet in the hand of the devil. Say certain desires to have you to sift you like with. It's a but I have prayed for you that your faith failed not that means the faith of Peter, the ministry of Peter, the calling of Peter, dependent on the intercession of Jesus. That's how important it is. You know, most times people who are into the intercessaray ministry, it's as if they're not important. Sometimes we will never see them hold the mic. They're never on the scene. They're always at the backside. You will go to heaven or you may be shocked. There are some of the people you don't see on the scene. They have the greatest reworld with God because where they are hiding, it even makes it easy for them not to operate in the flesh. If God locks in the room to be praying for ten hours every day for the move of God, nobody is even to see you. When you came out, they way will say come and say hallelujah. You are just there praying. And then the guy who knows little it just comes and shine. You say, oh boy, this guy they're annointed. You didn't know that somebody has displaced the principalities. Did you read in the Bible before Jesus sent out the seventy eh he said I saw s and for like lightning. So when he centered the seventy even the beaves they were raising the dead. They cast out devils. So they ran to Jesus. I say, ah, the devils are obedience. The devils were after our command. Jesus just laughed. They didn't know what happened in the heavens. So an intercessful shift the atmosphere, and then you enter a territory, you say, holy Spirit, five people, five hundred people go under the power. Then after the meeting you walk like this. You are connecting to heaven. You are connecting Tom You didn't know that nineteen percent of that labor was by somebody who is never known. It's when you come to heaven. Then say, see your senior brother, all the three you were doing, he generated it. You said, oh, you know, there may be a pastor in Ephesus who got that one hundred thousand people. I say, he's an anointed pastor. He didn't know that it was the path of us that is making the choice to stand perfect and complete in all you know, the will or God. The guy just gathering people and teaching their the ways of God, he did. It's so annointed. They did a perfect us leave his church with the plate. They are important things that are dynamics in the spirit. So anywhere you find yourself. That's why there's no room for competition. Some people will shine among men, others we shine among angels. There was important thing is that when you are caring. He let the club of witnesses say welcome, because they saw your labor. Did you read about James the Just? They see church history. They said, the guy we need towards a war, and he will pray for three days. When he stands up the war we crack. They according the man with the camen knee, he will meet down for three days, and the vibration he will create when he leaves the place, the war cracks. So there are persons we are going to the nationals and doing dangerous thing. James the Just was in Jerusalem. It's not popular. I don't know him. His place is on the knee. It's got the ministry of intercession. Those are ranking entities and territories. If one of them leaves the territory, that's they vacuum. In the spirit. A hundred preachers can die. They doesn't take so much to raise a preacher, but for a man to become an intercession it will take the dealing of the Holy Coast, because only dead men do the office of intercession. They have died to everything evil. Financial game is not it does that to it. Nobody is socials to you. They don't know you. That's how it works. But we live for reward, not for our wards, not forget Hallelujah. Yes, we have to be moving far. The ministry of giving. The ministry of giving is one of the most important ministry in every dispensation and operasion of the Spirit of God. Let me tell you something I did a teaching in the Navy last week, the four Wings of Reviver. I told them, Reviver walks majorly on four. On four wings. One is prayer power, two is wisdom power, three is the miracle working power, and four is a financial power. The financial power look as if it's the most canner, but that is what publishes the gospel to the ends of the head. Say you can be raising dead man in your village. No body we know you, and the world will not be blessed by it. But the day one millionaire comes to say Kai, you need to be on TBM that day you may have been reaching hundred people in ten years because of the ministry of that man. One day you can reach one hundred thousand people. You may have one fifty souls in three years. One day you can win three hundred thousand sold Because he went onward on Tibm, the Bible said something. Ecclesiastic Chapter nine was fourteen to sixteen. He said, there was in the little village, and this village a king came and be sieved it with a bluewok. He said. But in this village there was a poor wise man, whom, through his wisdom, the village was delivered. He said, But he was not remembered, and the Bible said something. He said, Wisdom is a defense, he said, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised. So for the Church to stay in its position of glory in the last day, the church must be full of wealth and financial power. That's why he said. In Exodus eight eighteen, he said, and that shall remember the Lord that God detron me eighteen. For it is seen that gives a deep power to get to wealth. Why that you may establish his covenant, which he has promised thy father, even on to this day. So the covenant of God is establishing the exrem through financial power. In Zacharias one seventeen, he said, my kingdom, true prosperity shall yet be spread abroad. So prayer power is what downloads spiritual possibilities. Wisdom power is what views it in the air realm, but financial power is what publishes it to the ends of the earth. Your ministry will never get to the ends of the earth unless there is the ministry of giving. So those who give, they are very significant in their agenda of God, very significant. The ministry of giving also comes with a great kind of wisdom to manage because the givers are managers of kingdom financial operation, so they have a lot of wisdom to manage their resources and to manage the resources of the kingdom. So it works hand in hand. For example, Joseph worked in the ministry of giving. Did you remember that he was the one feeding the whole world, even his family when they came, he gave, so he condinated it. But it was not without wisdom. It was wisdom that brought him there. In fact, what impressed Pharaoh was not necessarily his ability to interpret his dream. What impressed Pharaoh was the wisdom he had to manage decisions. So Pharaoh said in Genesis forty one thirty seven. He said, for as much as God has shown you these things, there is no one in your class according to the world should the nation be ruled. What did Pharaoh say? When you read some one o five from verse seventeen to verse twenty two, you would discover that it was the wisdom of Joseph that impressed Phero, not his ability to interprevisions. He had wise men, he had magicus. They had sorcerers that had those ability. But there was a wisdom he had that separated him from the class of men. So the Bible said something. He said, he sent a man before them, even Joseph, whom they sold for a savant. He said, his feet was banding fetters. He said, he was laid in iron on to the time. That is what came the word of the Lord. Tried him, he said, and the king said, unto him. Even the ruler of the people, He said, you there were fourteenth Pharaoh given one. He said, this be the ruler of his household. He's a bid the manager of his system, to teach his senators wisdom and to bind his prices at his pledgure. So Pharaoh was impressed by the wisdom of Joseph. That's why he brought him to teach his senator's wisdom. How do you manage kingdom resources? It is part of the me issue of giving and in man that God begins to trouble to give, to give. God wants to bring him to a place of affluence. If you remain sting, you remain small. But if you become liberal, you will become fat. He said, the nebras So share what the nebras So is a man that becomes fat. It's a him. The water it shah by himself what the water don't. So giving is very important in the gospel. Then as a people that say, hum, well, that will give to the poor. There are why the way I always give to church. You are not giving to church. You are a trust. God passes money through you to develop the kingdom. The money is not your own. The money will only be your own where you yourself don't belong to God. If you belong to God, everything you own plus yourself is God. So you will be jealous about the House of God. So what we give, we don't give to church. You know people who are babes, they give for self gratification and self exhortation. That's why they want to give. They want the man is when the Man of God is seen, that they will bring the envelope like this, and then they write their name, their full names, so that they will call them later and say, ah, God savant. If you'll say, nobody should write their name, just drop it to the basket. People who change their offering. But when you say, come and drop the offering on the athar, you see one, one thousand, put the offering in the basket, you see fifty fifteen er you can't talk to your hand will become. People don't understand the thing they give to men. They think they give to pastorm. If we need the Man of God is hearing you every day? What we need add to you? That's the question we don't ask ourselves. The man is a man I add anything to you. So you grow up and you understand that this thing is about kingdom. It's about what kingdom. Kingdom. Financie Us are the people that determine the largeness of the kingdom. Men of prayer the people that determine the dimension of God that civilization can conduct. Men of wisdom are the people that determine in the dimension or the civilization that each generation can work in. But men of finances are the people that determine the scope of every dimension that God brings to the eternal. The did you know about Hell? Is because it was published and the systems of the world they understand it. That's why they take advantage of the media so much. You think the media is all about ah alvera. You upload this deep, you change it in the morning, put another one in the evening, and then hm well as the people that created it. The ambition is far from what you are thinking. They're only taking advantage of your naivity. They have a kingdom at heart, Glory to Jesus. Ministry of administration, this one is for technocrats. The word administration is the Greek word kug, and it means to steer, to direct, and to pilot. So this one is a ministry for leadership. Anybody that has administrative intelligence is somebody that naturally were operating leadership. And it's God himself that wordain. Such people are we together. It does not depend on human wisdom, however, but the wisdom of God. And that is why administration was particularly included when God was when the Bible was talking about spiritual gifts. Is an operation of the spirit of God. In First Conventions, Chapter twelve is eight and twelve twenty eight. You see the Bible talking so much about administration. The same word use for word or wisdom is the same word useful administration. It's a kind of the charisma and the flow of the Holy Spirit to give men capacity to direct. And that's why I told you that word or wisdom is a revelation of the future. Prophet is not a revelational gift. It's a vocal gift. It's for edification, for exhortation, for comfort when you see into the future. It's called the world of wisdom. The reason we we mistake it sometimes is because most prophets either have word of knowledge world or wisdom dissermental spirit in addition to the gift of prophecy, so we don't know the difference. So it's for direction. Anybody that works that has the grace for administration. The ministry of administration is somebody that is brought naturally by ordination into leadership. That's the kind of person that'll tell the child, don't invest in this, invest in this, don't go into this, do this rather. But you will not be the position to say that unless you're in authority. So people with this kind of graces, they are in leadership. So you are in church. Somebody came after six months. It's in leadership. You don't need to be jealous. These things are ministries. Your own ministry may be intercession. So you're in that charge for five years. Nobody appreciates you. What you are doing is to generate with it, to have power for the things walking, to stand in the spirit. It's in heaven that men are ranked, not on it. The ranking system we have on air does not really know the true major of humankind. It's in heaven that men are ranked. That's why didn't bother himself so much. Paul returned from Arabia. He went to their position in Jerusalem. This is what God showed me, so that I'm not being error. They say, come on, they gave him a hand of friendship, so go and pray to the gentiles. It didn't bother to say Peter, no, no, no, it's not about who men celebrate. Peter was celebrated as the head of the church. It didn't move for it was pretty It was fourteen years later he went back in galations to this. We say, I went on to Jerusalem by revelation. So even when he had to go to mingle with them, it was by revelation. It was not a man struggling for leaderships, aid me to I have no no. This stature is leading people a straight So you come to church, somebody, as the ministry of administration is the leadership. Celebrate God at the end of the day's a body life. The system would be preserved if your place is intercession, Hi damned, pray and enjoy yourself. Enjoy yourself in God, and forget about the applause of men. Strive so that dangers will clap for you angels. The club for men, but for men who are called over commerce, Over commerce, over commerce, Glory to God. You see that Joseph again manifested his grace so much. Joseph came to Egypt. He met Pharaoh the nest in. Pharaoh said teach my senator's wisdom. Ah, oh, that this guy just came to the court of Pharaoh. Why will he going with teaching senators? Do you know who the senators are? These were people that were respected in Egypt. Some of them we will begin to fight him. That was the error of Heima. Heima was in leadership. But the king what the car was at the gate because but the car didn't bound to greet him, and Heima say he we king or the Kiah and destroy his race. That's a demonic spirit. Joseph just came to the court of Pharaoh, say you you shall only be at my command. Every Body in Egypt is under your authority. Do you think do you know how many people before Joseph that time? A lot? We find Joseph a whole lot. But sustain the heart of Benjamin who saw David and knew that the hand of God was on David, and instead of fighting for the position with David, he submitted to him. That's the mind of a kingdom personality. So is the ministry of administration ministry of mercy. I will share three strong things from here so that somebody will be helped. I know a lot of people that the devil have brought into guilte. Some are guilt on account of this ministry. Most of you already know that this is your area. But I need to show you what mercy is, how it is demonstrated, and to whom. All right, go. If you don't know these three things, you may put yourself in a challenge in a challenging position. Mersy is simply the practical demonstration of God's love towards those in need. All right, the love of God is is the overflow of his nature to reach out humankind for fellowship, for oneness, for intimacy. But messy is a bit different from love. The idea of message is not just to sustain oneness. It's not for fellowship, it's not for corinonia. Mercy is to reach out the resources of God to the one in need. So it's a dimension of love. But is a love that reaches out to the one who is in need. That's why the Bible says by messy, grace came by messy. So mercy is the precursor of grace, and grace is the saving love of God. Do you see that. So it's a strange aspect, is a unique aspect of the love of God. Rather, and it's to those who are in need. This is not sympathy or zeal where they say, oh somebody has a challenge, that you cry, and then you cry after your emotional balance is readjusted, you go back home. Have you seen somebody? They sayka, people I need. They they want to kill themselves. Then answy. Okay, whatever we have, let's give these people. And then the man who was crying, we begin to check his pocket. That is is the least currency he wants to pull out. So that thing he was doing is sympathy. It's not mercy, hope. You know, there's a difference between sympathy and empathy. Sympathy is a feeling of pity towards somebody. Empathy is to take the place of that person. You are not just feeling towards the person. You are assuming the person's position, so you are currently feeling the pain of that person, and then you can't do anything that person would have done to step out of that situation. It's a bit deeper. That's south mercy operates. Who is qualified to receive mercy. There are those who are leeches in church. And that's why I need to explain this, so that the devil will not take advantage of somebody. The Bible specifically device strangers, fatherless people, and widows as people who are qualified and candidates of mercy. Okay, read the tron on me twenty four, nineteen twenty one for me quickly. Those ones Legitimately, every time you meet them. You're expected to show them message the Bible qualifies them for mercy. They turn on me twenty four. Yes, when the worry smith is with the mic. So when they are cast down, the harvest in the field and has for God has for good is chef in the field. Thou shall not go again to fish it. It shall be for the strangers and for the fatherless are using that and for the widows, that the Lord that God may bless thee in all the works of their hands. It's a allow your left of us so that those who have need, do you getther can be helped. I know some people that you'll see these young people struggling and then they will back game for ten narra with the academan. The guy doesn't have change, he'll say bring the money. They will cross over to the other side and look for a chain for forty minutes so that they will not give this man the turn nightro ha ba ba ba. Do you see that there are two things I want to show you from there? So you can only show messy from what the one you have to spare unless the law compass you. So don't carry the food that is meant for your children and say I'm sure, miss, I'm sure, mess And there you go and give to somebody else. The Bible said, the man who cannot provide for himself in his household is worse than what and infidel, and he has denied the fate. These we have many men or God, get it wrong. They literally have for their family. They give it out and then they come home their wife died. There's something that happened to Jo Jillik when he was in South Africa. You will be coming home with the need to food, he asked for his family. He will see beggars on the street and give them. After a while, the wife died in South Africa. She died of starvation. And many years later John Jilliic said he appreciates God for everything he did, but he regrets that his wife died. If he had this way, he wouldn't have gone there. Most of his family members died without believing in God. There is the evangelists that shook the whole world. There are a few healing evangelists in the history of humankind, like John Jilick. Most of the testimonies in South Africa in his books, they said, they are not recorded. It will cost controversy you can't believe it. It will cost controversy some of the teens. God did to John Jillick, but he didn't understand how to administer mercy. He said, love your neighbor as yourself. That's enough. So don't sacrifice the people that God are put on by your authority. Tea. Because you say you're showing message to other people, you have become messy less to those people. So always begin to show message from what you have to spare. And if there is need, the Holy gooes we compare you, all right. The Bibles spoke about the people in Macedonia. He say they give beyond their abilities. It's a move of the spirit, all right. So mercy is meant for those who are genuinely in need. In fact, Paul said that those who are widows indeed, who have a record of the fear of the Lord and wash the feet of the saints. He said, they're the ones they tought you take their body. So there are those who qualify for mercy. It's not a widow that has a song in America or the song is the electoral walking somewhere and then you see her say help me, help me. What about the song? There are those who the Bible say they are widows. Indeed, because there's need for administration, the Jesus said, the poor we always have. You know, if you're not careful, you will give your way into Okay, so let me let me stop here. So that's not a versatile. It's not versa. And then there are people who are liches. Be careful of such people. Go to the next verse. The next paid I termize the guidelines. I said, help must be we did the capacity of the helper, and help should bring the help closer to Jesus. Those are guidelines for helping. Make sure help is within your word capacity, and make sure that help should bring the help closer to God. I'm going to see a stranded young person on the road and say help me, and then he's smoking alcohol, smelling alcohol. So you give him money. And the next thing you see him on driving why you see you later, and anything there there you have you have destroyed him. Ensure that every time you help, you should bring the people closer to God, either as a revelation of the nature of God or as a means to evangelize them. All right, so help you be within the confides of your need of your ability and helps you bring the health Clora to Jesus. Help is not meant for those who can walk. In Second Slonians three ten, Paul said every man should live up with his hand, such as he will need to eat. In officials after four twenty eight twenty nine, the Bible say him, that's too you still no more, but walk in his hands, so that he will have to give. So you see a young man, you check him, there's nothing wrong within him. Stands in the garrite and said, brous, I better give me twenty ner. I tell them go and walk, Go and walk. The Bible said, he that cannot provide for those of his househo is worse than an infidel. So don't encourage lizziness in the life of anybody. If you see a man who can walk, let him walk with his hand. That's when God we bless him. He saidly we bless the works of your hands. So that person is denying himself the blessings of God, and he's making himself an infidel. Don't encourage that person. The Bible said, such a one have denied the faith in festivalty five, verse five. So don't help the man who can help himself, encourage them to go and work with their hands. If that, the devil will put you in a condition and say, what do you mean. Help is man for those who need help. He's not a waste of kingdom resources. In case you have so much you don't know what to do, then say please say bring you to the apostles feet. They are possible to help you to administer it. Don't throw it around for a lazy man. Somebody lies on like this. He wakes up by twelve and then you constantly say I never chalk today. That's good, go and look for something to do. We think when you are working, he's avoid the wile said this. Sorry young man will come to church and say transport. Say what do you mean, don't transport anybody to church? He said, when they are tracking whom they we think? He say, I pity no man. Every man is a function of his decisions. So if you want to happy man helping change his decisions. If he makes the right choss his life, we change. Even the people of the world know better. They say, don't give fish to people. Teach them how to fish. That way they will become independent. That's why if I come into any organization. I say, what is this structure? How does he walk? I don't ever want to be at the messy of anybody. Where you see me today, say take you see me tomorrow. I have you need I say that decided you say take or you say hope. Police were call me to the office, say take, don't do I don't need that. Don't give me money. I saw to a posible rooman I want to stand. I don't want people to carry me around. It's babies that are carried walk. It is dignity. The Bible said, in every label there's the world, and there is dignity in labor. So don't throw yours to the lazy people and want tom people who don't want to become strong. When you help the right person, you become an answer to prayers. There isn't Jesus, as Jesus is the spiritual Christ. There isn't. The Bible says, to help strangers, help widows, help the fatherless. Is because these people God calls him save their father in the law. He says he is the husband of the widow, is the father of the fatherless. So when you help them, you're actually becoming the God that they look up to and in the New Testament context, beyond the widow, a fatherless person is somebody that needs help. You become an answer to the person's prayer. You can be on the road somebody runs out of fear. He's traveling, he runs into a lot of circumstances and then he's strangled, or somebody is traveling, maybe he was robbed or something happening. He doesn't have money. You can always extend the hand of fellowship. But when you see somebody who doesn't want to help himself, don't contribute to his failure telling to go and walk. And that's why most times you need to ask you a question before you help them. Don't just see somebody crying an say take, take, Take. What is wrong with you? Is there nobody to help you? Why are you like this? Find out when I'm doing When I'm teaching your spirit spirit civilization, that's when i will teach you about demonic intelligence. You will be shocked. You will be shocked. You don't know the things, the manipulation that happen in the heaven list sit I told you the natural reem is the SoLIT realm. That's why you're so engaged. Demos are their angels are there. There a lot of manipulations take place there. And if your prayer doesn't have authority in that realm, you will not have answers. Your answer can come for heaven. From heaven, then we hold it. They will hijacket there. The Lord Jesus will help. So those are the seven ministries. Have you seen something about ministry? So which one is your area? While we're talking? Which one is your dimension? Hope you know they want God I've asked you to do. Some of you discover you are people who are called to help. Some of you discovered you are into administration. That's why everywhere you go they say, hey, come, now, come, now, come and leaders today is the grace that is speaking. Have you some of you notice that everywhere you go, somehow you just come to leadership. Everywhere you go you come to leadership. It's a grace. It's a ministry that God has given to you. That ministry is what makes people want you always to come up. Is for administration. Some of you are into teaching all of these dimensions. This society works