GOD AS CEO: MAKER, MASTER AND MONARCH by Bernard Avle

[Music] um i've been struggling with what to say when uh euclid asked me to speak he asked me for a topic and i i this was like two months ago i'm not that long term in fact yesterday i was supposed to give him a congregation speech and i i wrote the speech on monday but i wasn't convinced about the speech so doug and brandon and euclid came to my office at seven o'clock and so i left air after newspaper review to meet them and i still wasn't sure of the speech to give because this is vice chancellor chairman and you know i'll be walking behind the vice chancellor i'm speaking for 20 minutes so i have to nail it so they finished talking they shared everything and on their way out brandon says we have to pray and then he says so in the prayer he says god i want you to help benner that even if he's um his speech is not the way he's supposed i didn't tell you all my speech may you change the speech and i mean he basically prayed for me and something they shared in that 20 minutes we met was actually the subject of my speech and i'm told it was a good speech so let's give you the glory to god put your hands together for the lord now so look i'm going to see you right so it's a bit complicated i mean god i see you everybody here says you i'm going to see you i only recently became general malaysia so i'm sitting in this very interesting place where i am i have an earthly boss and a heavenly boss right so i am balancing being a follower being a leader and it's a very interesting place to be in because i feel the greatest training to be a leader is learning how to follow and so i'm in a very good place and i'm sure there are few of you here who are not your ceos how many ceos are here let me see the ceos oh only 12. okay how many almost see yous one step to see let me see your hand that's like 15. how many people are like middle level cry they see you you have to take torture to come to your office let me see your hand that's like 50 how many of you are like national service you just started you just started a few of you great look don't worry the truth is it's not the position you occupy it's the impact you have it's very important so we are in a very position-conscious society and so like at city now they say i'm the gm so like when i'm coming italy gm you know they they give you a lot of because of the position i said look since i came back from my mb in 2009 my work hasn't changed my i have been doing the same things i do i've been holding meetings running the newsroom it's only now they give me the title now don't wait for the title to up to to play the role are we together now i have been doing gm things over five years so that the title is just a confirmation and because the person who employed me is not my boss necessarily and the one who's going to promote me is not my boss are we together so far so you need to understand that you haven't heavily mastered your account to are we together so i'm not working because samus is going to raise my salary i've been working at ctfm since end of july 2004 i have never asked him to increase my salary once he's always increased before i've thought about it are we together my first salary when i finished lagoon may 31st 2004 was 150 ghana cities if you divide that by 5.4 which is the us dollar equivalent that's 27.77 are we together so far and when i qualified for that salary after my first month salman said you look so committed we're going to pay you 250 cds so i never took that 150. so my first salary i had 100 cd raise it may not look big for you guys it was very big you know 250 cities 2004 national service i'm 23 years old a lot of money so if you do your work as if you are doing it unto the lord he will promote you in due season are we together now i also need to say this before i go into my presentation god is a planner god doesn't waste anything he's not going to bring these two men to ghana to meet patrick four years ago come back here if he didn't have a plan god is one of the few personalities who doesn't waste anything but god doesn't waste anything before jesus came he had prepared 42 generations ahead of jesus if you read matthew chapter one if you i mean a lot of you when you take the bible matthew chapter one is very weird right the book of the generation of jesus christ the son of abraham the son of david abraham begat isaac isaac we got to go just they were just begotten you know just i was like aunties aren't they do anything they are begotten begotten begotten you know but in reading that recently some i i noticed that god is such a meticulous planner that he prepared the vessels that will carry his son 42 generations in such a beautiful way so from abraham to david there were 14 generations from david till zerubbabel and they're carrying away into captivity 14 generations and from the carrying away to jesus 14 generations this is how meticulous god was and in that lineage there were harlots there were moabites they were killers they were crazy guys all those people god had to prepare for christ to come what am i saying this program would not happen if god didn't have a big plan to start big businesses god doesn't want to make you a millionaire before he tells you what to do with your money so he's preparing you now anytime god begins to put a hunger in you it means he's preparing you to give you something so when i'm then i feel a hunger to pray over something it means that god is going to feed me that thing so god has seen where god is taking this continent and he needs to bring people to help prepare us to manage the wealth you see there is a level above faith there's a level about faith it's called management because it takes faith to get a thing because it says whatsoever things you believe when you pray believe that you receive those things and you will have them but in this continent we don't manage the things we receive so now god is saying i will prepare you before i give you the thing that's why they are here so god is going to raise great business modules out of this meeting and he wants to prepare you are we together so it's not a wasted effort he's if he doesn't prepare you because it says don't cast your pearl before swine why would god give you a business that will transform lives in africa if it doesn't show you the purpose for giving you that wealth so you are being schooled in how to qualify for that expansion so you need to ask god to help you you need to sit through the program don't leave after lunch stay through if they sell books by the books drink from what they have i always say to people people say ben i want you to be my mentor and i said well i am just one person but i've been mentored by people who i've never seen before i read everything they write i listen to everything they say they are men of god in america if they see me i can cut the assembles from beginning to end i don't need to be near them to draw from them these guys will be here for only two or three days you guys need to tap in make sure they go empty like the woman the issue of blood don't let them go with all they came in remove everything receive it because they came to and you see if you don't receive what they brought they can't get the next feeling if they go back with what they carry god come they have a bedding to empty it are we together from here they're going to nigeria when you get to ghana they get to it you did the right thing if you start from africa you don't start in canada you won't do well ghana is a starting point are we together so you you came through the gate now you're free to go everywhere else and and i have a theory for this everything ghana did from the first substance independence when ghana did red gold green everybody went to red gold green if you look at west african flags all right go green when chroma went socialist everybody went socialist when he says i'm not aligned they all followed so ghana is the prophetic eye of africa i'm telling you i'm telling you so you certainly had god and it's not a wasted effort now you are free to go to nigeria and god is going to bless you so what i'm going to talk about today i i changed the topic around a bit so i'm going to talk about god as ceo but i say um make her master and monarch i like to rhyme i'm a journalist right make up master and wanna it simply means it's my father he's the man i report to and he's my king but i'm gonna do it in a very interesting way i'm going to share some of the my my biblical convictions about business and then i'm really related to that how i have lived my life as a journalist and a media person and how we've built ctfm november is an interesting month ctfm started on 5th november 2004 so last um 11 days ago was our 15th anniversary and on friday morning when doug and the others came to my office the exact time we have in the meeting which was yesterday a week before that my ceo asked me to lead the prayer meeting for all staff and myself and pastor maoli mauri prayed to thank god for the past 15 years and then i led a prayer to ask god to establish city for the next 150 are we together because we also need to start businesses not outlive us the days of one man businesses that collapse when the founder dies are over god is also going to establish things in africa that will outlive us hallelujah and i have good news for you there's no company in the world that is older than god there's no company that is older than god i'm told jack ma is in town he has the one of the biggest businesses in the world it's called alibaba but how many of you know that jack ma's business cannot meet even half of what is in god i mean jakuma's business is working in the space god created if you read the book of hebrews which is my first reading i mean it's a beautiful reading i like the amplified classic version it says in many separate revelations each of which set forth a portion of the truth and in different ways god spoke of old to our forefathers by the prophets but in these last days he has spoken to us in the person of his son whom he appointed air and lawful owner of all things and also by and through whom he created the world this is the part i like the riches of space and the edges of time so no matter how big google or apple is they are working within the space god created so god is much bigger than your business people so don't let anybody's business intimidate you i mean they when we started city we were very small in number very few and there were pillars in society that vowed that would never stand but they were only operating in the space god gave them so if you're a small business you are only one employee there's nobody you pay guys no the only permission you need to enter a space is god's mandate because he created the riches of space and the edges of time so there's no business that can use age to intimidate you we competed in 2007 in the africa radio awards we started in 2004 that was only three years of being a radio station my show by the grace of god was voted the most interactive show in africa after three years of operation we had competition from kenya nigeria and even bigger stations in ghana it doesn't matter that we were three years old because the guy who created the ages of time was on our side he's a timeless god so don't disqualify yourself because you are young you go for bidding for a contract you say how long have you been doing this we're only six months old it doesn't matter how old you are in the business if the one who created the space for you is with you there's nothing that can stop you i hope i'm inspiring somebody today he made he produced he built operated and arranged so god is bigger than your business he is also the owner he is legitimate authority has one or two dimensions you you cannot have authority if you don't own something you must own and provide before you can have authority amen so when i go home and my kids run to me and my wife hacks me i'm also a provider in that house that's what legitimizes my authority it's not the length of my trousers amen so god is the owner because he made it now if the owner of the universe that's the prayer she prayed when she was in trouble says god you own the universe so we ask we are we are working with a god who owns everything are we together so far so he and in that reading as well god is much bigger than your business there are there are two sins with work two sins we commit with work one is the idolatry of work and the other is the immorality of work the idolatry of work is where we make our work everything we make we convert our work into god people work from morning six to nine p.m hard work is great but don't make a god out of your business that's idolatry it says don't make an image of anything so for some people they have no time for family no time for god their only time for their business that's the idolatry of work then the other opposite is the immorality of work they don't want to do any work i thought they just want to end as much money as they can so they just want to sit home gamble they just want to pray for somebody to give them money but thessalonians says if anybody does not work let him not eat so balance is in between the two don't make work your god but don't also be unemployed hallelujah am i making sense so far so god is bigger than our business now your business can never be too big for god neither can he be too small i was reading a book recently it describes the immanence of god a lot of times we think of god as very huge but i'm so grateful that even though god was so big he reduced himself into the seed of the woman i mean if i were god and i was coming on earth i would come as a fully grown 33 year old because satan is very bad i wouldn't come and say spam i wouldn't come access no but god is so powerful he reduced himself and fertilized an egg in a vegin an untrusted lady and still satan couldn't stop him so there's no issue too small for him that's what i'm saying so don't just see god as this huge beast god can be so small that he's even concerned about whether you brush your teeth or not simple things like a pain in the patch of a body you can't describe god is concerned about it so your business is not too small to get god's attention are you together a lot of times we talk about size we talk about business and success you don't need to be big to be better it depends on god's calling for you you god's calling can be for you to remain of a certain size but you make global impact are we together so you can never be too small for god as well because size is found in god hallelujah and god pre-exists and will outlast every business this is very important introduction now let's move on one other belief i have is that except the lord built the house and this is the scripture we used last friday when we prayed that this building that we are standing on if god doesn't build it we are wasting our time the media business we are running if god is not the originator on the starter is a waste of time and i like hebrews 3 4 he says for every house is built by someone but the builder of all things is god i love that it means the builder of the builder is god so god uses men in this realm to build things god don't come down and talk to us in person we can't handle him that's why i came as a man the same way he brought doug and brandon and esther he is speaking to us through men but it must be initiated by god for except the lord built the house the labor inventor building i wish together so far that means that if your business is not founded on him he is the word he is the truth if you if the foundation of your business if there be if the foundation be destroyed psalm 11 what shall the righteous do guys if god is not part of the institution it is a wasted effort are we together so i believe that the reason my business city is moving forward is because it was founded on a clear word in march of 2004 in prayer time the law spoke to me about the radio station he was about to start because i bought a bible in level 200 with my students loan for 90 cities and i wrote the top seven things i wanted god to do for me at the age of 22. and this is 2003 and at the time there was only joyful so i wrote in the bible that god i want to work at the biggest commercial english station in ghana which is joyfm now i didn't know that god had a bigger plan because god was going to start a radio station that he was going to use me to be part of i mean look at it so and when i look i was speaking at the what you call it pencil last week and i opened the seven things i wrote in my small bible in 2003 which was so big i used to fast and say god do it now 10 years later god did those things 2000 degrees that when i look at those things they were so small one of my prayer points in that bible was that i wanted to preach at power service our tuesday service lpu because i didn't no student got a chance to preach and it was my lifetime group that i'll just preach before those 40 students and i prayed about it but he's able to do exceedingly more and abundantly than all you can ask for a thing are we together now the reason you must document your size is when you are small you remember that is god do me what you are so if if i had to pray to preach at power service and yesterday i'm speaking at congregation think about the depth if i knew that god was preparing for me to come and talk to you maybe i'd have been too complicated so sometimes ignorance is good because sometimes when god shows you too much of what he wants to do you become arrogant so he reveals it in chapters so that when you obey you qualify for the next level are we together so that's why sometimes when god doesn't tell you so much because if i knew that i'll be standing to speak to you mind i would have said hey girl you got to marry me man because in 10 years i'm going to be speaking at ghana it's got to see your conference in front of people and i'm going to be the best morning show host in the world you gotta follow me man so it but but god is so kind god is so great and in the story of my media life he's he's prepared me because when i came to ligon i was the first show i went on it was a a radio drama and my friend maximus asked me to come and act a radio drama and he was like no we have a meeting you have to be part of the students like no no i don't want to be a journalist it's not part of my vision my plan and god always gives me a second chance so first he took me to maximos he took me to read universe to read radio drama but i didn't see the connection then my friend invited me to come for a debate on friday's show hosted by dj blacks oh there's a debate you're going to argue between men and women something something i go on the debate and i lose okay all the phone calls only one phone call supports me right because the argument was funny actually says many women who are not promiscuous in relationships that's the argument right and i said that women were more promiscuous right and almost all the phone callers were against me so i lost the debate but in the losing of the debate the station manager said look i like something about you i like the way you speak do you want to be a journalist i said i've never thought about it say look if you're free tomorrow you can come we'll make you a broadcast journalist this was francis ankara in 2000 i was only 19. god gave me a second chance to put me into media i went together so far so god has a plan for everybody and he's so kind that sometimes even though you disobey him he'll still give you a second chance hallelujah put your hands together for the god of a second chance amen so the foundation has to be god whatever you do should not be on the basis of an itch we are not running ctfm because we want to make money for ourselves we are running ctfn because god has given us a mandate at the time we came there were 21 radio stations in the system god wanted to raise the level of broadcasting there was one big joy doing very well they needed competition there was no proper focus on business news god saw that vacuum and pushed us in you have to start from something that is on god's heart it's not about ambition it's not about simply wanting to do business to be proud i've met middle-aged men who up until age 60 are still trying to prove to their fathers that they are independent so sometimes when they do something big and nobody commends them they begin to cry because they were damaged in their teenage years because they were never good enough for their father so some of them have built billion dollar companies but they are still babies inside because the whole effort is to disprove their father but that's not our story we are not doing business because we want to disprove anybody it's because we are following he says we are not following carefully or candidly device fables but we have a word of prophecy confirmed this is peter talking so we are following a confirmed word you must be convinced in your spirit about what you are doing whether you are an architect a teacher a painter a driver you must have conviction that god has called me to do this this is very important when i send somebody to the newsroom to do something for me sometimes when they go they say please give me the photocopy paper they say i don't give you this oh bennett sent me they say ben okay get the paper which means that the authority of the messenger is determined by the strength of the person who sent him so when they mention my name it opens doors because i'm the gm now think about it if i'm going into media just because i feel like disproving my father when the test of time comes my father's anger cannot support me but when the one who called me backs me he says write the vision that he runs who reads it it is for an appointed time you see he said he said i will stand upon my watch and set myself on the ramparts and i was stunned to see what he would say to me habakkuk 2 and what answer i will give when i'm reproved which means that when you are in trouble it is the quality of the messenger the message that bugs you as a messenger so guys establish the right foundation for whatever you are doing it shouldn't be for personal ambition it shouldn't be to disprove anybody it shouldn't be for the spirit of competition it should be because you have a clear message from god and you are carrying a mandate so i see our media job as a mandate it's not just a job it's a mandate so when we face politicians we face them squarely we are not afraid because they are like oh you people you you are trying to be pro ndc pro and people we've done this for 15 years they've called us all kinds of names we are still here governments have come and gone we are still in the middle path because we have a mandate so if you don't if you are not clear about your mandate when the test comes you fall as he said look at the recession there were years where he had recession but he still stood why because the messenger was with him the message was with him are we together the one who sent you the one who will back you so before you start make sure you have the right foundation this is what i'm trying to say let me move i'm wasting time on this good now god is a builder god uses human agents but god is a builder he said to moses see to it that you built the act according to the pattern that was shown in the mountain which means god is particular about how things are built god is very particular about how things are built there are two things you do with soil you either plant or build now if you plant it must go in first before it comes out the part of the seeds life you don't see is the most important part because you see when you put a seed in the ground for the first few weeks you'll not see anything but the seed is connecting itself to life now the quality of that process determines how far the seed grows into a tree so the years of obscurity don't rush to go on media don't rush to be on front pages value your time under the soil that's the right foundation because if i was when i started my breakfast show for the first four five years i wasn't getting listeners there were days i would be on air and my producers would be listening to other stations because what i was discussing nobody was listening i'm telling you richard mensah still there can ask him you could you know which i mean i don't feel that you can ask him there was a day called most interviewing community on some huge scandal everybody at the station was listening to joy him and i was on radio talking you know but the truth is that god has to hide you first and prepare you because the kind of mistakes i was making if i had all those listeners i would have destroyed myself so cherish your time under the soil right make those mistakes when you are small don't be in a hurry like a lot of people come to me and say look i have a small business i want to just go on the radio and i'm like are you sure do you have the right phone number are you sure you have your taxes in order because if you don't get those things right and you come on media to kill you so the time of isolation and the time of obscurity is a precious time to build your connection to life are we together because the root of the tree is the tree's connection to life a lot of people admire the fruit people smell the flowers but what determines the quality of the fruit is the connection of the roots to life which is the soil so your years of being underneath the radar are crucial foundational times to decide whether if you're having problems you go for a loan and yes that we advertise banks but we i don't remember going for a bank loan in 15 years we've run ctfm god has always come through he's always been in the booth they are these salaries are due and we don't know what to do but somewhere somehow we said we cannot build a business because you see the interest rates here are different from your country interest rates are about 26 percent now if i have a company of 56 people young people and i go for a bank loan it will the business if i'm not if i don't have the connection to get a lower interest rate so we've always managed to pay we built that tenacity when we're small and now we have 200 people we don't need to go so even if the month is ending we don't have money to pay when we were only 50 we knew that god could come through for us so cherish those moments when you are under the radar are we together no god initiated project to ever be in vain once god has started it god to build it hallelujah the third foundation god formed man out of the dust of the ground he breathed into his nostrils and man became a living soul then god planted a garden eastward in eden and he put the man whom he formed god is a beautiful god he made places before he meet people that means there's a place reserved for you he didn't create adam and say what am i going to do with this guy he already prepared a place so he said when he formed adam he placed him in the garden he has planted for him that means that no matter how crowded the industry is there's a place for you that's the prayer we should visit god you have given us a place in media now we have 358 radio stations but you're giving us a place the fact that they are 400 radio station doesn't mean there's no place for me so just like you give adam a place you placed him in the garden lord place me in this ministry maybe you are training musicians maybe you are into music or whatever god is the one who creates space for you so you need one of the prayers to pray for yourself and complete god create a space for me i like psalm 66 he says we went through the water we went through the fire but the lord brought us into a large space when god created space for you no matter how small it is it will be large enough for you hallelujah now there are principles here the next verse says the lord took the man and put him in the garden to tend and to keep it now and then the lord commanded him i like what god did he didn't just put him in the garden to have a floric he says tend and keep the garden what does it mean you must to tend means to dress to enhance it amen tend it so look after it raise this level then keep it so there are two dimensions there when god puts something into your hand he expects you to improve it that's leadership vision forward-looking then keep it maintain it sustain it don't don't mismanage it are we together so far so leadership is forward-looking management is backwards looking leadership is about people management is about things these are all principles in the bible so he said to adam tend and keep ceos in this room must always vacillate between the two where sometimes we are visionary we are planning what to do we are looking at the future we are getting to new markets creating new websites entering related businesses but other times we must subject ourselves to the process of keeping the bottom line okay making sure we are not wasting resources making sure the photocopy machine is off making sure we are not wasting power you must if you if you don't learn how to oscillate between future and now between people and things between leading and managing you can never be a successful person hallelujah so there's a principle in there he put the man in the garden and says tend and keep it but look at it in the first creation god made man on the sixth day he met places before he met the person right and on the seventh day he went to rest but in the new man he's forming in the new creation jesus says my father works till now and i work so from the time of jesus christ god is building a new man that's why i said the first adam was a living soul but the last adam is a life-giving spirit so now god is more interested in making the man that's why he says i'll go and prepare a place for you so look at it jesus christ is the divided line in history before jesus christ came god made places and then he made a man and put the man in there but since jesus christ came god is creating a new man and when that man is ready he will prepare him for the place it's going what does it mean our priority now is to build the man before the business that's what it means since jesus christ came god is now interested in building you so in the new creation look at it he said god will build the man he says till we all come to a perfect man in the image of god so now he is building you first so as he said god's priority is people since christ came god is not as interested in the size of your business as he is as interested in the size of the person you are he makes the man before he makes the profit are we together he feels the person before they fulfill the assignment that's what i'm saying he saves the person before he sends the person he's not interested in you quickly going to start something he's interested in you he's interested in you the scripture you read i loved it when you said you're official person look at it he met peter andrew and his brother and they were fishing then he says follow me and i will make you fishes of men which means that it's not about the fish anymore it's about men i want to study men and fish then he met john and his brother the sons of thunder and they were mending their nets and he said follow me so it's not about the tools of the trade and look at it he said when he said follow me he didn't mention anybody's name but their father the sons of zebedee this bible said the two boys left their father and they followed jesus and i always say to people sometimes we think that youthfulness is about age it's about how invested you are in the system because these two boys were not invested in the business so when jesus said follow me they left everything and followed him so jesus must make you first he says if you follow me to become a fisher of men it's not a one day experience he says if you follow me i will make you a fisher of men that's a process so to become a a person that god will use to do something you must spend time with him are we together so the focus of my my message is i focus on what god does with me first as a person what he does in me before what he does with me let me repeat that what god does in me is more important than what he does with me hello he feels me before he sends me out he prepares me before he uses me he saves me before he sends me so our focus is to build the man build the woman build the heart now let me shock you with some very interesting thing here listen to this god cannot be the ceo of your business if he is not the king of your heart that's what i'm trying to say that's the message right there god cannot he's not even interested he's not interested in your tithe now these days we preach and people can go and do all kinds of crazy businesses and come and sit in church and when they come we change the message because the title will drop when the tide drops and it goes you can preach a normal message those days are over where people bring money from wrong sources and because of their contribution to church the pastor cannot read the right message those days are over because god is not looking for your money he says for what can a man give in exchange for his soul all the money in the world cannot buy a person's soul so we need to change this doctrine where because we need to build a church building we are now advertising the church to attract all kinds of people to bring money which is ill-gotten wealth i mean the politicians are in our church you can't speak the truth to them we come already and say oh ghana is getting divided politicians go to church pastors can't tell them the truth because when it drops the tights it shifts the offering ball the offering bulk it has to shift but we we need men and women in pastors who can speak truth to power and say we don't need your money you can perish with your money you cannot buy the things of god with your money this is what god is talking about so we are not interested in just giving our business to gold where we and this program is not about another success school for for creating the next one million dollars no if god is not king of your heart he's not interested in your money so let's not even mess around with that at all are we together so far and let's tell the guys in our churches who are bringing ill-gotten wealth if you don't repent now you're going down and let's not cuddle them and give them nice messages because we want money from them hallelujah personal development before business development personal development before business development when we bring a manager into our company we give them a few months to develop the person we give them books to read we try to imbibe them into the culture of the station we have a new guy for business development because kao chow it's your strategy for breakfast so if somebody comes with a new culture and you have a nice strategy and the person is not aligned inside we it's not about how much bottom line we spend time and say look you are here we'll give you three months we're going to show you how we do meetings we eat together in the kitchen here the only there's we don't have seniority i'm the general manager i argue with guys about football we are all the same we give him three months to get into the culture of the place because if we don't develop him he will misrepresent us in the marketplace are we together so it's not about whether he was a superstar seller where he came from and therefore we just unleash him in the market he will do damage to the business if he doesn't know the culture so guys in hiring people make sure you you work on their inside first are we together work on their inside we're a small company but we are moving very fast because we are people who are aligned we are aligned are we together personal direction before business direction he spoke about that as well he gives you his spirit so you can get the right spirit let me move on i've spent a lot of time on this so are we making sense so far is somebody aligning their heart to what god wants to do is somebody preparing himself for god wants to do with them put your hands together for the lord amen great so i these are the principles we've run by let me let me run through the last one the last one and i think i made a reference to this jesus walking by the sea saw two brothers simon called peter under his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fishermen look at what jesus was interested in not the sea not the net not the boat the person the person human beings are the crown of creation now i say this to say that no matter what business you're in oil drilling politics football the purpose is to benefit people to benefit people to make them better people people over profits guys this is critical people because we are in an era and this is a western thing where think about it if a company lays people off i'm a business journalist immediately their stock begins to appreciate that cannot be from god where you have a company they're on the stock market and they decide to downsize they call it operational efficiency they suck 200 people immediately the market's response is to say let's raise their value because now they are thinking of profit that's not from god because the purpose of the business is people he met james and his brother john he was interested in the two or three people a lot of businesses are sacrificing human lives for money and profit look at the banking crisis think about nine banks collapse nine banks collapse in ghana from august 2017 to now 22 savings and loan companies and finance houses are gone 347 micro finance companies gone 53 fund managers gone if you put those companies together from august 2017 to today we've lost 473 businesses even if those businesses employed even 10 people those 10 people they have wives and kids they have husbands and kids they have relatives to depend on them we're not talking about the messengers the people who cook for them the cleaners the security people who don't have work we have a lot of people are going down yet we are saying we in in and you see this is what we do as media we use numbers to justify so the finance member said we have pumped 14 billion cities into the banking sector cleanup we don't humanize the story so it's just about numbers and figures 14 billion do you know how many people are committing suicide somebody said a guy who used to be a deputy md of a bank is driving uber in london he's driving he's driving uber in london he used to be the deputy member of a bank in ghana he's opening doors when he wants to sit in cars if that is not disgraceful yeah we sit here and we say we only use money so for us everything's about money no it can't be it's about the person so we should think about the human cost of what we do are we together so far that's why you must spend time to build the right foundation the reason we work hard is that we have 200 employees all over the country we cannot waste their lives some of them have wives and kids some of them are have kids who are necessary if we mismanage the company they are going home so we need to be we need to be right with our taxes jesus says i sanctify myself for them not for myself i don't need that money for anything why do i need money for but it's because people depend on you so if you want if you want god to bless your business align yourself because you want to help people you want to bless people look at how he he did a three day fast to fire one person three days fast to fire a person three guys three they fast some bosses in ghana don't even have the honesty and courage to have an exit interview with you when they fire you they can't even sit before you and tell you why you're going home they can't even be bored enough to give you the letter they give the letter to some manager and then they check out of town yeah he had a three-day fast to fire one person from his company god doesn't discriminate he says the same god is rich unto oh if you are righteous in your heart he will bless you are we together we need to get our priorities right as a people people are using company money to fly first class and there are people who come pay school fees in their company some come parents in the company and you are flying business class to a conference to discuss nonsense and then you go and give the title god to bless you you are not serious you are not look at that look at the difference in pay that i was interviewing the snit md he says that some people take 300 see this suspension 300 ghana cities divided by 5.4 less than i don't know 47 to to do national health to to do what with so if if we don't have that mindset and i'm not saying go and become a rebel and go on strike what i said to god is god i want to use media to change things if you give me a place to stand i will honor you i will because the purpose of your ministry is to establish righteousness and you can't establish righteousness in the marketplace if you're not righteous in your dealings with your staff so why should i say to god interview the finance minister and put him to the sword and then come and mismanage my employees god did not bless that so if your heart is right righteousness begins from the heart it says with their heart man believes unto righteousness so righteousness is the heart issue so they cannot that's why i emphasize look we can give you 10 strategies for success if your heart is wrong you can't succeed i mean so we should spend time giving the right heart because that's the ending guard your heart with all issues with verse 423 for out of it are the issues of life we have positional leaders who have learned to win bonuses and win elections they don't know how to lead and it shall not be so in our generation it shall not that is why we have to stay and learn that is why we have to ask god to prepare us i'm spending my time on this let's move on i think i've made this point already now god's priorities people are not profit his focus is catching men not fish his interest is not the tools but the people now this very important point you must follow him to be made you must follow him he says go and make he said he said go and make disciples of all men not christians there are two meanings for disciple a disciple is a student so which means you are ever learning right but not like janice and jambresu is never coming to knowledge of the truth you are a disciple because you are a continuous student i approach life as a student number two a disciplined follower discipline follower what is discipline the the appropriate use of time energy and resources you cannot super impose a development model on an indisciplined people so christians must be disciplined look at what is happening in the church of jesus christ antiesta somebody can be in a church for three months and start their own church divine like there's no other we are just not serious god cannot he can't bring revival like that look at what an anastasia saphire there was so much order that when they broke the order they were killed yet we are praying for revival yet we are so disorderly we are to be disciples that's the issue so a christian is a disciplined follower people must see us and glorify god because our god is a god of order let the traffic light go off at here she let the traffic light go up there and see how we behave yet we are praying you see if we don't change our heart god cannot bless us so the the generation that is gone have and i'm saying is a lot of humility they've made some mistakes but we are learning they are bad examples we shouldn't i'm saying to you under 40 people you have to change your heart if you don't gonna not be blessed we have people who studied masters in ghana who are working in subway cleaning dishes in new york it's not it doesn't glorify god because we've messed up the country and everybody's running away we have to restore hope how do you restore that hope fix the man on the inside fix the man on the inside fix the man on the inside fix the man on the inside look at it matthew chapter 6 where your heart is that's what your treasure will be that whole reading you see the whole of matthew is about the kingdom matthew 5 and matthew 6 is about the lifestyle of the kingdom i always say to people no true christian running a business will ever fall far of any law in any nation no it's not not possible the standard that christ brought i mean think about it he said you have heard it was said that if you if you uh you know you should not have fornicate or don't commit adultery but i say to you if you last after a woman in your heart you already committed adultery and he said if you even hit somebody without the cause you're a murderer now that is a higher standard now for christians to be breaking the law not paying their taxes and suing each other they don't know christ because the standard of christ is there so if you follow that's what i said my boss amends he's not the holy term is my p because i am answerable to somebody who created him but i can't violate summons and say i'm honoring god god is not author of confusion so i can't say well i have to go to prayer meeting i'll come to church i don't come to meet him because i'm serving god no god made me a deputy authority to him so if i don't i have to pass through him to go to god in that sense do you follow me so the truth is that the lawlessness is what is destroying the country and until we go back to the biblical foundations of business our business cannot do well when god does something it lasts most businesses fail after the first person starts it because it was not really founded on anything proper hallelujah i've run out of time i started as a salesman when i left i was thinking about my career the first job i did when i was in jss we were selling meat myself and my brother michael and he was carrying the beef and i was holding the bell and walk the whole of madina selling beef that was my first job as a sales salesman from gss from class 6 our gss too because we had my dad we had eight kids and my mom and dad were civil servants there's no way you're going to cater for all of them so when we left school we had to sell that was my first job i was selling and that's not child labor that's just helping you to understand life so a lot of people say well kids didn't work well i mean i can if i have money i'll make sure no kid works but for me there's no corner of madina i don't know there was a day i was selling beef and they were playing football at roman catholic park and i was i we put the beef down and watching the football and a football came to hit my stomach and the people carried me and told me yeah my mom also my mom was so angry she almost killed people in the park but but that kind of danger but it also teaches you things my parents were grateful they are still alive beautiful people but that was the time this was the 80s everybody in the 80s was farming right then my next job when i finished secondary school i sold science textbooks for an eight percent commission every time god must qualify you from the first people gives you a second so i saw science textbooks walked around secondary schools in accra selling those books because there was a strike when i finished secondary school in 98 we had to wait for two years to go to university 99 i started teaching teaching maths and science if you can teach class for long division and they will understand it there's nothing you can do in the world if you can teach class four students long division and they understand it that was my struggle as a teacher teaching me patience when i was investing first i was still teaching before i i stumbled into broadcasting which was god's plan for my life for now are we together so that's how it's been in my life it's always been god never changes your room he always takes you to a bigger room in the same house his room is his mansion has many many channels if you obey and qualify from room 1 he opens room 2 for you are we together and i know there are some of you here you are standing at the precipice of the next room just go through that door right things are hard now don't measure your experience by the size of the door the business says something he said he had a dream and he had two two doors one door was very big and one door was very small and god said go to the small door he said he was like this door is bigger he says no go through the small door because behind the big door was a big steel wall and just in the small door was an open space so don't judge god by the size of the door so somebody comes to you you have a small discussion he wants to start a farm he has only five thousand cities he's like this is a small door you want to follow somebody to uk to go and make 50 000 pounds because that's a big door big doors may have a big barrier behind small door may have an open channel let the lord lead you let the lord lead you guys start small it's very important i started selling before my head yesterday i was speaking at congregation and my sister took a photo we have a family page so my big sister took a photo and says ben they called me a lovely alaska on show and then my brother in the u.s said is he the mc or is he the one speaking and i said you think i'll be an emcee to hold the rest of my life you don't know that i can also speak at the congregation and i give glory to god right because now and i was like wow this is the vice chancellor this is the whatever the council chairman and i'm supposed to walk like this and we are walking like some big man it was just nice i gave the glory to god so then i was a trainee broadcaster your years of training a lot of people who want to study at companies and i have to wrap up quickly i love you and start your companies learn under somebody learn about somebody don't just go and start your own company look at it jesus christ his assignment was to save the the world he had three years to do his assignment from age 12 to 8 30 he was a carpenter we don't you understand apprenticeship the savior of the world was working with his hands from age 12 for 18 years think about it for 18 years he was working with his hands cutting wood and for three years he came to fulfill his final assignment yet everybody wants internship with pay nobody wants to do cleaning nobody wants to do washing nobody wants to do any job everybody wants to be given ceo personal assistant to do powerpoint and drink coffee and fly first class he that is faithful in least is also faithful in match luke 16 11 and he that is unfaithful in this is also on patrol in match he said if you have been unfaithful with unrighteous mammon who will give you true riches and if you have not been faithful with another month who will give you that which is your own right i'm making sense so apprenticeship for 15 years we work for the city of fm brand apprenticeship is critical because a lot of us here are trying to start things and it's very difficult in ghana if you go to registration department it says a lot about who we are sole proprietorships 80 percent partnerships less than 10 percent source of funding loan 90 equity less than 10 percent everybody wants they call it e-commerce everybody wants to eat i mean doug if you look at the register you see sometimes when i see numbers i translate that into mindsets right if a country has most businesses self-owned including somebody in the kiosk in front of his house nobody wants to share equity capital there's money available just give me 10 of a business and take a million they don't want it they want to take a loan and pay back that mindset is not developmental we criticize indians lebanese and jews they know how to open up you get me god is blessing them we have to change our behavior we are too incoming for i don't know the english word for that when you look at it so we need to understand training apprenticeship then we need to understand sharing so national service show producer i was producing the money should i started hosting it broadcast generally talk show host operations manager director of news general manager none of these things have changed me none of these things have changed me hopefully and i don't need the position because before i became gm i was doing gm things you can ask amends i wasn't i wasn't it's not the position now i've spoken to this already it's a lot of things right in media i have to stay authentic i've struggled i'm a christian i believe in jesus christ but i don't convert my radiation to a preaching program because it's my fruits that they look at not just the words i speak right so when people see me and they see my diligence and my excellence no politician can say they've given me money to do an interview they can't plan their things with me i'm not in it for money so when they are planning they can't involve me because i won't even play that role that's my that's my my i don't say i'm a christian and we don't support this and we are the christians i'm not religious you know so it's like in ghana when you stop setting waters these people they are sinful people we are the christians no christianity is not about fighting militant fights bear fruit bear fruit right before you you play reggae on your show and you play right on your show okay don't like rick it's bad you don't play just go to church he spoke of the seven mountains don't you prefer a regular plane breakfast show who's too fears god ministry is not going to change ministry is establishing righteousness that's ministry it says cyrus my 745 god is no interest look at look look at even daniel chapter two look at nebuchadnezzar right when he was ranking that ultra nebuchadnezzar was the head of gold god is looking for who established righteousness not people who will be using jesus's name to make money and hijack us to believe them because that's not my anointed no what was the meaning of that that's not my for what no so look two things i always say i'm already ministering what say bernard you know the way i'm preaching become a pastor i'm a ministry i am in the media mountain my job is to establish righteousness there [Music] that's my job right if you are i was watching tyler perry and i was in tears he was talking at the tuskegee university commencement this is my testimony this is this is the way i see business this is this is how i see it should be done i'm not perfect i'm only 38 years old i don't know much but i'm saying to you that if your heart is right with god you don't need men to give you space people vow that will never succeed advertising will never give us money we are still here some of them have collapsed some people wrote articles about me that i'm not qualified to be morning shows i have no humor i have no personality i don't go to the clubs i'm still here it's not there who sent me you need those experiences for you to win yourself out of emotional reaction every day you go on facebook what are they saying about me hey hey they sent me look at this hey god they are wicked forgive them no no you need some of those things to to make you strong so praise doesn't do so much to me now because i've had a lot of criticism huh so now when possible you are like best i said no it's because of my time don't let that enter because if i took the criticism to heart then i'll take the praise to heart the glory goes to god thank you very much for your time [Music] you

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