LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP

madiba madiba nasi mandela said don't judge me by how i look and where i am today but judge me by the many times i fell and i got up again and president richard nixon said the other day he said a man is not finished when he falls but the man is finished when he quits tell somebody don't quit [Music] and say western church you said a sign of success is one that walks through failure to failure and yet maintains an attitude of audacity [Applause] ah tell somebody have an audacity have an audacity because in this life you're gonna face situations that you got to have an attitude of audacity see i hear you lift up your hands all over this place [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] sing it down [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] with your hands lifted up heavenly father all over this place we have come we've come from different ways of lives we've come from different upbringings we've come with different needs and experiences and belief systems this house the leadership has come that far of 25 years ups and downs times and moments of encouragement and discouragements times of adversities times of danger yet you have proven to be true and faithful to your servants to your world that fire has now brought us ebenezer now for the next 25 years we lift up our eyes and we look up to you lord for direction for the renewing of strength for the renewing of vision for a new sense of direction for fresh oil fresh fire and for fresh utterance now quicken the mortal body of your man servant that i may speak as i ought to speak by the will and unction and inspiration of the holy ghost overwriting every argument and overriding negative currents and satanic energies quenching strange fires and fiery darts intercepting every arrow of darkness in the name of jesus dismiss darkness dismiss logic i dismiss philosophy and bring every argument and thought and reasoning on that divine subjection make it obedient to christ by divine authority from the throne perspective i command all things to be silenced and every need to bow to the obedience of christ now i command demonic entities and powers sin and unseen to hold their peace stand down relinquish your powers and your weapons in the name that is above every other name jesus christ the son of the living god we proclaim above all things now that jesus christ is lord amen put your hands together and give him praise are you clapping you can't clap without shouting you may be seated in heavenly places thank you you know for a few minutes i i believe that if all i did was to just be here and pray that that is it but i will take some few minutes to speak some few words and pray and then i have to leave for another service but i must say that after 25 years there is the possibility of subconsciously relaxing and believing after all the achievement that you have and all that god has done so far by this house the leadership and this ministry is this there's that tendency of subconsciously believing that you've done well and especially when you have people who haven't seen greatness before and having achieved the level of excellence and greatness you've achieved there is the tendency of relaxing and believing that god we've come that far and it's true and we've done great and that is true but may i take the opportunity to say to all of you that irrespective of the achievement and the successes and the accolades and the triumphs triumph is different from victory victory is winning the war triumph is celebrating the victory and you've celebrated a lot of victories and we thank god for that but i came to tell you this precious sunday morning that there is more beyond you didn't hear it because if you did had it and believe it you would have done something i said there is more beyond yeah there is more beyond what you have achieved and so this is not the time to relax because we are expecting jesus you know i stand a song many many years ago over 40 years ago i used to sing a song at prayer meeting and title be back in your faith don't be tired in praying we don't know when he shall come don't be tired in your works don't be tired in your faith don't be tired in praying [Music] jesus we are expecting jesus we are expecting jesus we don't know when he shall come we aren't expecting jesus we are i don't know about you i am expecting jesus i don't know when he shall come are you expecting jesus well we don't know when he shall come so we can be tired of working the words of god we can be tied in our faith fighting the good fight of faith and we can't be tired in praying because we are expecting jesus so i want to say to you this morning pastor steve stanley and all the leadership of this house there is more beyond there is more beyond give somebody a high five and say there is more more more there is more beyond all of this we see here is great but there is more beyond just somebody dream yet another dream dream yet another dream it's time to dream another dream this is great but dream another dream so we want to look at luke the fifth chapter reading from the first to the seventh verse of luke the fifth chapter talking about peter the fisherman peter the fisherman and it came to pass that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of god he stood by the lake of genizaret and saw two ships standing by the lake but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets and he entered into one of the ships which was sermons and prayed him that he will thrust out a little from the land and he sat down and taught the people out of the shell now when he had left speaking he said unto simon launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a drought and simon answering said unto him master we have toiled all the nights and have taken nothing nevertheless as i would i will let down the net and when he and when they had done this they enclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net break and they beckoned onto their partners which were in other shape that they should come and help them and they came and filled both the ships so that they began to sink there are so many things here in this scripture that i could i can preach on and hold a camp meeting on it but i just want to be specific by picking one or two things here peter was very good at what he did as a fisherman he understood the depths and the rules of engagement of the fishing industry in his days and in his time and he had been at it for many years he fed his family paid his children's school fees and his mortgage and his taxes to the irs and did everything from the business of fishing for many years so he was very good at it and this particular time he had told all night and he came up with nothing so he he gave up and he was washing the net through in the towel tell somebody don't throw in the towel yet don't drink uh tell somebody don't wash the net yet don't wash the net tell somebody it's too early to give up now it's too early to give up because somebody's too early to quit it's too early to quit and the bible said that he has done everything he knew how to do the best he knew how to and he had concluded that it was finished there was nothing else he could do on that day and he was washing the net he was afraid to go home because he had some bills waiting for him in the house and the wife was waiting to tax him and to say we have some bills to pay how much did you bring so he was struggling with going home decided to wash his neck and just hang around while he was washing his neck and hanging around the son of god who stepped out from eternity into time stepped on the scene shifted the horizon and said hey i need your boat he said you can have it jesus used his boot to preach and impact people with the word of god and after that he had impacted people by preaching the word of god the unadulterated uncompromising word of god he said you have made your boat available to touch lives and there is no way you can go wrong when you give so he said i know what your situation is launch out into the day tell somebody what god has for you for the next 25 years is in the deep it stands to reason logically though peter said we have talked all night you know i wish i had a stage here i could have stand here to preach i feel a little barrier here so if not it's okay but anyway listen he said he said i've taught all night and had nothing jesus said i know you've taught you've tried everything you know how to you've done your best but you were at the surface you are the surface mustache 25 years of great achievement is great but may i suggest to you these 25 years you were on the surface [Applause] so if this is what suffix can achieve for 25 years can you examine the next 25 years going deep oh come on somebody come on somebody tell somebody the next 25 years of your life is in the deep jesus said peter before before this time you were doing it by might and by power but right now the reason why you couldn't touch the dick is because you were leaning on skill and you were leaning on intellectual capabilities you were leaning on the rules of engagement you were leaning on technicalities and no house and legality but he said now i want to take you beyond self i want to i want you to go past here i want you to go past your physical senses and know-how and logic i want to take you into another realm i want to take you into another depth and these depths and this new dimension and level i'm taking you to it will require remember tell somebody remember it will require advanced knowledge so he said he said i need you to launch out take a calculated risk tell somebody take your risk take your risk you see life is full of risk and folks who don't take risks don't go anywhere hear me coming here 25 years ago was a risk he said it very nicely but me myself i was worried at the time because he believed me and because he believed me i got worried at the time and i said lord i can take that risk but i don't know if this son of mine can take the same risk i can take so what happens if things don't work out for him these twins i would have messed up their future and and and the lady that did the document of this place he said i'll be there we talked few times and i said i believe never he i hear you you know i didn't tell him that that was me dealing with me are you hearing me somebody but he acted on the he said he said i have issues with your decision i have issues with going there my wife and my eldest are in disagreement but i die well somebody said i die word i die word ah thy word other word you know this next 25 years there are things you must do that are dimensions you must hit and attain and ladies and gentlemen is going to take more than skills is going to take more than the know-how and modern sense knowledge of the word of god you need some rhema word from god what is a rhema the rhema world is a word spoken to a specific individual at a specific time for a specific assignment you need a word a word in the prophetic word you need god says i don't know you need that says elohim you need that word that comes out of the womb of eternity into the womb of time to give you a sense of divine direction a word that goes beyond reasoning and the logic of men a word that overwhelms your fears your doubts and your insecurity peter said lord i've tried everything i know how to i put all the aspects together i've done all the feasibility studies i've known i've done all i know how to but nevertheless against all contradictions against my fears and doubts and against my failures and my setbacks god almighty at thy word are thy words are thy words i will reach out to the deep and where you are going from here this is a beautiful auditorium and it's great but you build this on the surface this is a surface time building go deep because the next blessing the next miracle is coming from the deep and you won't go and see it till you reach out to the deep ladies and gentlemen there are things in the deep you will never see till you reach out and tap into the deep look at somebody and say the next move of god the next blessing god has for you is in the deep sit down for two minutes the deep reach out to the deep psalm 42 deep colors onto deep and the noise of thy water spots all thy ways and i look at somebody say how deep are you how deep how deep to get into the deep you need to be deep see heavy he said be caused unto what death there are deep things in life just when you think you have achieved something just when you are beginning to relax and to to to take it easy there is something deep inside of me called dissatisfaction i'm not satisfied i'm not satisfied i've seen many achievements i've received many accolades i've worked in the corridors of power in the continent of africa and other parts of the world and yet i'm dissatisfied i've seen crowd i've seen the stadium part with 300 000 people with oral robert and idahosa in the 80s i've seen crowds i've seen great moves i've seen auditoriums i've seen buildings i've seen wonders i've seen signs and miracles in my own ministry if i have time and i pray for the sick you will see things that will blow your mind you'll see deaf ears open just experience it two some days ago deaf ears in london in america it's on youtube miracles and and blind eyes and people receiving all kinds of miracles and tumors and seeds and growth and lumps disappearing from the breasts and wounds and bodies of men and women but i'm still dissatisfied and i've touched men and touched women and prayed for them and see greatness come out of many and i'm still dissatisfied why because there is more beyond are you hearing me somebody deed calls unto him and peter was washing his neck so many of you are washing your neck because you've done all that you know how to to the best of your ability and you haven't seen the outcome the result yet and you're still struggling with that thing or the other and you still have these sense of guilt and failure and disappointment and defeat current carrying it in the deep consciousness of the fourth dimension but yet i came to tell you that there is more beyond see i hear you psalm 107 verse 23 and 24 quickly they that go down to the sea and ships that do business in great waters these see the works of the lord and his wonders in the deep where are the wonders how many of you want to see the wonders of god come on talk to me you sure you want to become a wonder if you want to become a wonder and a miracle in your time you need to go into the deep somebody say get into the deep get into the deep give somebody a high prophecy let's go to the deep let's go to the deep the wonders of god are not at the surface it's not at the shop it's where in their deeps you don't go there with canon boats you need some sheep with some strong engines some rolls-royce engines you gotta go to deep and high waters are you hearing me somebody it's time to attempt something new you're used to what you've been doing all these years pastor steve attend some new things reach out to some high waters there are wonders waiting for you on the other side are you hearing me somebody i know you've been great but there is something greater i know you'll be mighty but there is something more than mighty are you hearing me somebody god said i have some wonders for you but you can only discover it in the [Applause] so many people are scared of taking risk but life is full of risk it does second kings 1930 and the remnant that is escaped of the house of judah shall yet again take root downward yet again and bear fruit upward until you take root downwards yet again say one more time one more time tell somebody one more time you gotta take your ricks one more time if you don't take root downwards you can bear fruit upwards are you hearing me somebody it is deaths that beget heights it's your death that begets your height if you want to you see that building standing at that building standing there it's the depths when i shot the devs i understood that this thing is coming up tall it's how deep you go that determines how high you rise so go deep pastor go deep go deep see i hear you deep ah ephesians 4 ephesians 4 9 and 10 quickly now that he ascended what is it but that he also descended first into the lower part of the earth he that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens if you want to ascend far above our heavens folks you gotta go deep you gotta go deep you gotta take root down you gotta go down down down to the deep that you can rise high high high to the highest come on somebody see i hear you oh you got to take root downwards to bear fruit upwards he that ascended above all the heavens first descended to the lowest part of the earth go deep what god has for you is in the deep joshua chapter 1 verse 3 but joshua chapter 13 verse 1 quickly now joshua was old and stricken in years and the lord said unto him thou art old and stricken in years there remained yet very much land to be possessed what's up 25 years you've done a lot you were younger than today by the next 25 years there remained yet more land to possess i know you have lunch here but there are yet more lands to possess beyond this territory so lift up your eyes and look beyond these geographical locations for there is more yet more land to possess and to take my servant joshua is old he's done a lot but there is more yet more land to be possessed more souls to be saved more czech building to be built i want church buildings in every community in accra in every village and community in ghana i want to see churches in every village are you hearing me and not necessarily action churches i want to see churches that preach the uncompromising word of god churches that proclaim jesus christ is lord i want to see so safe not into action but into god's kingdom are you hearing me somebody i want us to populate every community in ghana with the uncompromising word of the lord say i hear you and so far we are not doing that well because we are too satisfied with what we have to satisfy with where we are we are excited we're excited about the successes we have but i came to tell you today i'm injecting an infusion into your spiritual dna the virus of dissatisfaction that you can be satisfied with where you are and what you have when other religions are advancing everywhere and we are excited about this we can be excited about this when there are many souls out there who are not saved and dying and going to hell where there are more people staying in the house than those who go to church on sunday morning and we're talking about we are megan what mega what big we cannot be big until every show is safe put your hands together and give god some praise i'm believing that god will raise in this house [Music] at least 200 temple builders 200 people who will say i will build a church for god before i die a church of 50 people 100 200 3 4 500 people that every believer will make a vow that before i die in jesus parish i will build a church for god in my village i'll build a church in another village in another town in another community a church that sits 50 100 200 345 1000 i will build a church for god because if you live after all god has done in your life and all you did was to build houses for yourself and for your children for an inheritance you are a disgrace and you are eternally disqualified in heaven before you deal with all that god gave you is to build beautiful houses for yourself and i'm not saying you shouldn't build houses you should and i'm not saying don't build houses and give your children inheritance that is great but if all you did was yourself and your children and you never cross the boundaries of your immediate family if you did not touch the kingdom and you did not you never left an inheritance and if you made your will if you never wield anything for the church it's a clear indication that you are not going to heaven [Applause] you can look at me with any look you want to look at me with but if you are going to heaven then you are going to meet jesus the head of the church and he blessed you and gave you life and health in this world to work to get everything that you got and all you did was to build a house for yourself and inherit time for your children and you never did anything for the church and when you were making your will before you die you didn't leave anything for the church and you gave everything to your children or your grandchildren you were a user of the kingdom you were not a believer you didn't love god and jesus is waiting for you how many of you believe you are going to heaven give me a waiver friend you are going to heaven jesus is waiting for you you have unanswered questions to answer when you meet him he will ask you what did you leave behind from my church what do you do and hear me as much as it's good to live and inheritance for your kids and your grandchildren every property you leave for your children and grandchildren and all the wealth you leave behind will not count in eternity it doesn't count in eternity the only thing that goes on record in eternity is what you did for the church jesus is building he said i'm building my church not your family he said his church not your back not your business he's not building your business he's building his church and he said the gates of health are not revealed he's building his church he's not building your family or your business or mine his church and anyone that contributes to the church he's building has a portion in eternal rewards and there are clowns in heaven there are different crowns and i look forward to mine and i'm looking forward to more than one crown i don't know about you and hear me in eternity we will reign over cities some will run over five cities at this time at this moment at this level and there will be sevens in heaven if you don't study your scriptures look at the synopsis gospel carefully and look at the pauline revelation and go to revelation there are rewards in heaven and not everybody will be at the same level and not everybody will have the same reward so you better serve god and serve him well and when you are doing things for the kingdom do it well don't do it for pastor steve or anybody do it for yourself and for the kingdom joshua joshua chapter 14 verse 10 to 12. and now behold the lord had kept me alive as he said these 45 years even since the lord speak this word unto moses while the children of israel wandered in the wilderness and now lo i am this day fourth score and five years old as yet i am as strong this day as i was in the day that moses sent me as my strength was then even so is my strength now for war both to go out and to come in now therefore give me this mountain whereof the lord speak in that day for thou heard us in that day how the anakims were there and that the cities were great and fenced if so be the lord will be with me then i shall be able to drive them out as the lord said he said 40 years ago when i was 45 the lord promised me this mountain and he said i'm 85 now i'm 85. i was 45 then i'm married five now and yet i feel the strength of my youth and he said i'm 85 i still have the strength of 40 years ago and i can still go into war i can go into battle and come out of battle and he said give me this mountain at 85 when i should be relaxing when i should be taking it easy he said i feel the annoying i feel the fire of my youth i feel like i'm alive again hear me folks i don't care how many times i preach i've been preaching over 40 years now but i'm still seeing the scriptures in a new way like i've never seen it before i feel the strength of my youth that it doesn't matter what the projections are about me it doesn't matter what men are predicted and the ill wills and the evil programmings in the wombs of men and in the womb of time and in the womb of seasons and in the womb of the adversary i stand by the superior powers of the blood of my redemption and proclaim and declare that let it boomerang let it boom around somebody say boomerang boomerang you're 85. say how old are you don't don't stand please sit 75 you still got some more life in you sir you see all age is not the way you look it's in your mind and all age is connected to god's promise containing you that's what keeps me what he has said what he has promised joshua said he kept me for another 40 years because of the promise he made unto me you must be alive for one reason the promise that is that is what keeps us the promise and say i will not die by any means until i have seen the full effect of what god has promised promise me in eternity long before time began and say on that note i override i overturn i dismiss i interrupt i annoy and abase the arguments of men the philosophies of men and i silence and discredit and any accusing voice an authority of what god has said amen put your hands together and give him praise [Music] [Applause] [Music] in conclusion philippians 4 philippians 3 13 and 14. brethren i count not myself to have apprehended he said he said he said listen pastor 25 years still don't count yourself to have apprehended steve stanley 25 years is great man it's great but still don't count yourself to to have apprehended let's lose some weight together our stomach needs to go down a little bit all the three of us i'm on a special diet now you know yeah i'm not eating caps in the night you know i've reduced my cup and everything because i need these stomach needs to go down a little bit you know i need to be able to get my belt in a certain level so i'm daring the two of you my daughters cut down they are call me and kinky and no comes after 6 pm if they want if they want to give them soup but don't give them caps after sex give them give them some salads and give them give them some steamed vegetables one one of my sons came to me some years ago and said papa your daughter is killing me and i said why he said he said he he gives me too much salad [Applause] for mummy know and the footage is very very serious you know last week when i was in america for no reason this feeling of food came upon me so they asked me in the morning what do you want to say i want fufu so i eat food two times then the third time rose i said you got to stop this [Applause] [Music] [Applause] fufu in the name of jesus i declare war on fufu break the power of food lose your hold over me never jesus amen the footage is very powerful i'm telling you breakfast food in america in the winter it was snoring and i was eating food and like soup and i was sweating in the winter and i said this thing is a very very dangerous thing so i stopped it stop the no bang you got to punish them for some time the store might have to go down i count myself not too hard yet okay go ahead brethren i count not myself to have apprehended i haven't yet made it but this one thing i do this is one thing i do and you must do pastor steven stanley forgetting those things which are behind forget the victories and the achievements and the accolades and and the progress and the successes of 25 years forget it and reaching forth unto those he said now now forget about the victories and the failures because the victories can cause dissatisfaction and give you a sense of i have arrived and the failures can disorganize and can reduce sense of creativity and productivity to inactivity [Applause] [Music] when you think about the failures of the past he has a way of demoralizing paralyzing and crippling your ability to attempt new things the devil will remind you of how you feel there and you feel here and feel the other time but paul said this one thing i do and you must do forget about the achievement of yesterday and the failures of the past and he said i do one thing what do i do and reaching forth onto those things you which can be too rich you got to reach for them that's what i said the things god has for you is in the deep sea there is more beyond and those are the things you must reach out for the things that are beyond why i press the water you got the word press everybody do this put some attitude in it press fresh [Music] you see you see a woman in travail i've been to the labour world few times and lord had mercy when you go to the labor world and see how those women press if you have never respected a woman when you come out of the labour ward when you see a woman you respect it because if any man goes through quarter of what they go through in that situation you will die i'm telling you and i don't know how they go through that labor world and still come out and still go again [Music] [Applause] it's madness do you remember what i said a year a damn a damn second madness because i've seen them in the laboratory i've seen them one time i was there with one of my spiritual adults insisted that i should be there and i said i'm not coming i didn't do this i'm not coming there and the husband said papa he said you must be there so that's okay and at the point you were saying you are looking at me telling husband you think what you have done to me get out get out [Applause] and few weeks after she wanted another one and i said this anointing i don't understand it bishop pastors that is what the bible is talking about when he say i press that is pushing the last push in the labour world when the head of the baby is in the birth canal an all indicating point that today is the day and the woman needs to put in the last strength and energy she has everything must go in to download that thing press press somebody say press somebody say press give somebody a high five and say prayer you're almost there you're almost there after 25 years you still need to press go ahead i press toward the mark of the the price there is a mark and there is a price of the high calling of god the high calling of god in christ jesus there is a prize there is a mark and you cannot obtain you don't get there without pressing i want to talk about press it requires a means that it it requires some effort some some some audacity some some capacity some level of endurance and and developing the hard skin and an attitude of not being moved and not been shaken and not been derailed and not been distracted and not been moved by men and what they think about you and what they say about you and what they feel about you because some people aren't going like you some people may not like the way you look some may not like the way you sound and some may not like the way you look but you got to understand that when a woman is in travail she don't care who is looking at her nakedness she don't care whether the doctor is old or young a man or a woman all she cares about is getting that baby out and after the baby comes out she covers herself and says doctor stop looking at me come on somebody say yes [Applause] stand on your feet stand on your feet [Applause] stand on your feet say yes oh lord i feel the anointing of god in the air say us if you hear me here jesus hallelujah glory i'm true i'm true let the rhema word be released you know pastor steve 25 years you've been many places you have accomplished many things by the next 25 years god said seek me for arena because the next 25 years where i'm taking you to is better and bigger than where you've been all these 25 years this next 25 years is going to take rima it's going to take you operating by advanced knowledge knowing what others don't know you know when i move action 30 years ago to the spring tax road people said i was finished my board my board my board was scattered i fired them anyway because they disagree with me they said i can't move the church from trade fair to the spring test that place was a whole forest nobody moved there there was nothing there shop right anything you see wasn't there spring testing wasn't there that whole road there we we engineered a lot of things we were behind the scenes engineer a lot of times and we lost over 100 we lost over and one thousand two hundred people to other churches we just went down when we moved and people said i missed it because people went to other churches and i i knew they were in other churches they were all they were scattered in every church in town and the word out there was that action was down and the lord said the lord said if you move the church to the springtext road i will move the city to the springtex road [Applause] if you don't believe me find out where the city is is now on the sprintex road everything is there we have over 370 churches on the sprintex road since i came there yeah over 370. on the screen everybody is there and on the other side at eastlake on they are everywhere are you hearing me i still have been diminished by the grace of god you visit action one of these days i'm going there right now we are still packed and we have over 40 churches in the city and we have over 200 sales unit and we are going 500 this year and and i'm still not diminished they've scattered me in all angles but i'm still standing [Music] hear me this next 25 years bishop you you have a bishop picture on the front there that picture is a bishop picture that neck you are wearing is bishops it's not past test so don't put the picture there and be afraid to do consecration do consecrations [Applause] [Music] that is a bishop [Applause] this year okay five amen one of these days i'll just bring my horn of oil and call bishop doug and some of them will just walk in here sunday morning kotomo yesuba amen i love pastor steve and stanley i love i love them amen so bishop i have to leave you now but let me pray for you is there anything else you want me to do before i go okay we'll pray for you but listen today for the offerings eh this is not a sunday anybody must ask you to give an offering you should have prepared your offerings today today is first fruits and those of you who have been fighting 10 percent since you got born again you haven't increased and grown and developed spiritually if you are still at 10 percent you are still a baby christian 10 is the minimum by the standard and requirement of new testament by this time some of you should be 30 40 50 60 70. and if you want to really be a new testament mature christian 90 and you live on 10. and until you go past 10 percent you are amateur and a baby christian and you can't be trusted by god i'm telling you you think you're better than god you keep 90 and you give god 10. and you think you've done something in your shade so today i'm burying you this sunday you can look at me any way you want to look at me i'm not afraid of your looks and you don't intimidate me at all [Music] even lions have couldn't stand a chance in you [Applause] [Music] tilapia [Applause] so today offering you must make a statement you see the difference between ken and abel's offering is that a bell's offering spoke ken's offering was silent and until your offerings speak you haven't given and some of you your offense has never spoken since you got born again some of you your offerings only speak through your wife you give to your wife more than you give to god so your offering speaks through your wife when you give your wife some dreams hey my dear that's the only time your offering speaks but today you want to release an offering that will speak before the lord how many of you want your offerings to speak before the lord come on give me away boyfriend you want your offerings to speak before the lord then know the value of the person you are given to the reason why me i don't raise our friends in my church i stopped a long time ago i have a preacher from america bishop george blumen he's speaking right now he asked me should i raise an offensive no i didn't bring you here to raise an offering just preach to the people if i want to raise your friend i know what to do i didn't come here to raise her friend it's below my spiritual dignity and capacity [Music] to raise offerings i don't raise offering i'm better than that but i want to dare everybody to take an envelope today those of you who are members of this church and friends and whoever visited us and give something that speaks until your offering speaks it will never move god that's why david said i will not give unto god that would cost me nothing look at me the difference between the difference between the venison of jacob and esau was this look at me look at me i want you to get this because if you don't get this some of you you'll be giving giving giving but you'll never see a good return isaac said hear me look at me isaac said to esau this is what he said he said give me first of all he said take your weapon tell somebody to take your weapon and then he said take your ball and arrow say take bow and arrow then this is what he said he said go into the forest and haunt and bring me bring meat and prepare me venison such as i love and when i've eaten and my soul is satisfied i will bless you i want you to look at me the difference between the ghanaian christians i was telling pastor i keep saying bishop bishop be careful you be careful stop hearing me and take action i keep calling him bishop then my tongue will hold then my tongue will go soon there was a man are you afraid the minister to him that is a bishop's wife and hear me yeah you see the congregation is clapping they like it now watch this then rebecca told jacob your father has told esau to take his weapon and go hunt and bring meat and do venison go behind the house bring one of your father's sheep i'll prepare venison for you to give to your father look at me even though god said the blessing is for jacob it wasn't what god said that determined who got the blessing it was the venison who determined and some of you man some of you me i'm working with the father's blessing if you don't know i'm telling you i know how to obtain a father's blessing i learned it long time ago and when god is blessing you it comes to a father even though god said the blessing was for jacob it took a father to confess the blessing but it wasn't what god said that determined who got it it was the venison it was who brought the venice in first who got it some of you there is an offering you must give today don't delay it don't say tomorrow do it today i'm telling you look at me watch this this is the difference between the two venisons jacob brought his father's own sheep to the father as his venison some of my bishops and my pastors do bring me another friend and i look at them and i say i'm not joining you because what you have brought is from is for me miami vani and you are asking me i'm not blessing you but if you were invited to go and preach somewhere and you went and you preached and whatever they gave you you brought it to me that is true venison because you have used your own weapons to go there do business on great waters and what they gave you you brought it to your father but not when i have taught build establish give it to you and you take out of my vineyard and bring it to me and you say no no i don't bless you for that i'm telling you something listen to me some of you to take you years to understand what i'm saying and hear me look at it look at it because jacob got the blessing but he didn't pay the price for the blessing what he gave to his father was what the father loved but he didn't pay the price for it so it wasn't what the father loved so when he saw what he loved he had to work seven years for it and he was denied he went another seven years 14 years to get what he loved then even after he get what he loved eventually what he loved died and what he loved among his kids was taken away from him in his old age and his wages was manipulated 10 times 10 times because the number 10 is the number the number 10 means without luck without want that's why we have 10 commandments 10 fingers 10 tools there's a reason for 10 one thing nothing lacking nothing he had to fulfill that order because what he gave to his father was not his own penises he didn't use his own weapon for it he brought what was his father to the father so the father said i'll give you the blessing but ask for the process to obtain it you go through it [Applause] if you don't bring to god what he requires of you and you play with god and you spend more on yourself and you spend more on your children more on your loved ones and your family than you spend on the work of god you'll be subjected to tribunes there is a level of blessing you will never obtain some people somebody was asking me the other day why is bishop dark so blessed and i said that money he understands the ways of god and not the works of god or the acts of god when he was in achimota secondary school he brought me his tight and i said i said that what is this he said the lord said if i want to succeed in ministry i should honor you and bring you my tithe that was when he was in achimota secondary school when he used to play my red organ from then up to today he's been consistent and i won't tell you what it is don't ask me me in control hear me it's not anointing all and it's not gift it's consistency of understanding the principles and the ways of god there's somebody who's here right now he gives first fruit than anybody in my church first than anybody in my church and he's consistent he came to me one time he said he said my target this year is 2 million dollars before the end of the year he has gone over 5 million and people look at him and they don't understand the guy and somebody asked me to say charlie is your son and i love i don't it's not everything i'll tell you the guy understand the principle of tithing and first fruit i was in london one day he come and say where are you assuming my hotel you say i'm coming for you he took me for shopping and he said you have ten thousand pounds to shop with within these few hours so i shopped and there was still some more money so after shopping i got tired of the shopping so i said i want the balance of the 10 000. so when i finish shopping i think i shop about seven so i told my alma bear i said listen make sure you collect the rest i didn't ask him to pay for my hotel because he didn't talk about the hotel so i told her i said collect the rest but it became a metriami hotel car stand on your feet now before i pray for pastor because as soon as i finish praying i have to run take an offering everybody fast fruit tight your first rule can be a million dollars the first business you do the profit that comes in could be a million dollar if all that comes in is a million dollars first fruit if you cannot give to god money and it doesn't matter how much the money is you don't have faith in god and you don't love god because love is not what you say is what you do today let the offering check the offering you are giving on if that offering doesn't speak it will move god and how does he speak how does he speak you must feel it you must feel it you must know that at the end i wouldn't as for this giving i can feel it if you can't feel it it will move god [Music] he has to speak if he doesn't say anything heaven will respond heaven only responds to offerings that speak today let your offering speak this coming week may you come into uninterrupted blessings and don't say amen if your offering is not speaking but if your offering is saying something and i make a declaration if two shall agree it shall come to pass pastor steve please come and i want pasta stanley also to join steve i want you on my right hand stanley i want you on my left hand i need somebody to hold my microphone for me please i want you to be on your knees if it don't hurt you no yeah father they bound to you and i stand with them as they bow to you together you brought us that far after 25 years maybe our strength be renewed let every organ of their bodies be renewed let every virus and infection in every organ of their body be flushed out let them receive the strength of their youth the courage of a lion the strength of an ego a prophetic eye and a prophetic ear i quicken your prophetic senses that for the next 25 years the lord will keep you preserve you give you a fresh word a fresh word a fresh word that will catapult you into new depths and new realms and dimensions of the ministry like you have never yet known before be empowered by the laying off of hands be strengthened to receive divine capabilities and enablement for the next assignment and commissions to bring in end time harvest and the increase of the end times be preserved from premature death be preserved from every eminent danger in the air or landing on water everybody lift up your hands say we speak into the air and into the heaviness to intercept every contention manipulations programming of the powers of the dark kingdom in the air in the heaviness over this life over the vision of this house we declare let there be a boomerang a boomerang a boomerang of every contention agenda satanic destiny concerning pastor steve and stanley mensah in the name of jesus say we override the powers of the dark kingdom and we declare every prediction made programmed in the womb of time by any means but fire back fire by fire back fire back fire in the name of jesus backfire say in the name of jesus we take divine comprehensive insurance by the superior blood of jesus we ensure these lives and the vision of god that the vision of god will not be about head and that they will not see death until they've seen the full manifestation of the promise of the word of god in jesus name amen please stand now give me the mind by the shaking of hands i extend unto you the catechesis of the semionic blessings that you won't see death until you have seen the full manifestation of everything written of you in eternity in the volumes of the books before time began amen man of god be strong be encouraged have audacity go forward take new territories overcome overthrow override silence subdue have dominion succeed in all things in jesus name i send the same categories to you even as i have extended it to him may you be a beneficiary of every blessing that he carries you are not twins by accident you are twins by divine appointment and for the next 25 years may you stay stronger encouraging loving kind understanding to one another may you together fulfill heaven's mandate on your life for which you came into this time into this world such a time like this conquer stay together win battles together make a difference have dominion have divine immunity have divine advantage have the upper hand in all battles of life stay strong all the time stay together in jesus name congratulations congratulations i love you god bless you give me your prayers i will come again according to the time and season of life and until i come your way again make an impact make a difference live long and prosper [Music]

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Published: Thu Nov 05 2020