SESSION 1 - WHAT IT MEANS TO PREPARE

let's your hands father thank you for today thank you for your word thank you for your presence Lord as we come before you and become before your word Lord we ask that you open a heart minister to us that your will be done Lord we thank you in Jesus name Amen you may be seated Ephesians 6 verse 11 put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand stand therefore having your loins Girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God amen alright and verse 18 trained always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all things amen let's 13 it says take unto you the whole armour of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand and then it goes on and says if you are having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace some years ago I was casting out Devils from a young man young boy in school and when the demons were coming up no no the young girl not up case and I asked demon why he came there and then she said the demon said because the belt of truth was loose that is what the demon said the belt of truth was loose on this young lady's life so that demons were able to enter you know that is the longest case of casting out of Devils that I have ever been involved took many hours until the person was eventually set free but it also brought to my mind this reality about the ammo of God that it is actually a real thing do you see that there is a real thing called a belt of truth and there's something real called a breastplate and there's something real called the the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit that even though we cannot see them naturally they exist and they are realizing you know one of the things about the Bible is that it's literally cute you know but we sort of tend to feel that it's not true it's like poetry or some kind of literature that we are reading and Bruce is just to give us an idea of to say things you know in a sing-song fashion instead of just saying it directly you know but you will find out as you go on and on and on that the things in the Bible are literally true do you understand and so it is important to believe things that they actually even though you cannot see how they can be true but they are king amen and if we do that we will be better Christians and we will do better because our eyes will be fixed on real things you know you see any one of us here can be diagnosed with something and be dead in six months three months four months two months I'm telling you yeah your your beautiful cheeks you see can turn into whatever overnight and you can just became advantage today I'm a world which is far more real than this well we are so thrilled if you have one bump or one hit on your body you'll be surprised how weak you are and how nothing you are you know so it is important to believe the Bible and to believe the spiritual things that God has given to us in his word because we will only discover that they are key now you listen to me so this is also true that there is a shield of faith you know there is a sword there is a helmet and there's something for your feet there is a belt they understand they are literally true and that is why you see the more earthly money that you become the less the more deluded you are that is why the last Church in Laodicea the Bible said you you think you are rich and you are days and you have need of nothing but you do know that you are poor you are naked and you are blind so usually the more we consider earthly things and consider them as a sign of God's blessing upon us or with us the more deluded we are are you listening therefore we must look up to spiritual things this is a spiritual camp most of you here are shepherds so we are going to talk about spiritual things and pray and pray for spiritual things so happened amen do you believe in the anointing okay so now there is one piece of the armor which Paul spoke about and he said is the preparation of the gospel of peace you know we normally you know say the gospel or the you know prepare your message the preparation of your message of the gospel you get it in a sense that is it you know because to prepare a message you must prepare yourself another way you could look at it is a preparation for the gospel do you see you must have the necessary preparation for the gospel you must be prepared for the gospel your message must be prepared you must be prepared for what it what involved what is involved in the gospel there is preparation without which your son will be different your preaching will be different your church will be different you will last less longer than you would have if you have been prepared you all know what it means to be prepared for an exam and not repaired for an exam when you are not prepared in you sit in the room you you feel like we win in your your sauce or your sketch and then also you're frightened is that also how many have been frightened in an exam before how many have been frightened before an exam [Music] before and after and during I was just recently remembering you know one exam I did many of the exams I did I was kid before I didn't know what I would be able to pass and then you always meet people who seemed to know everything if they're not true they've read the whole thing they know everything they are very cool and you do not even know whether you have the loot before even you read the notes and before you didn't understand what it's saying so he becomes care and that is how the ministry is you need to be prepared for ministry do you see and you need to be prepared to be a preacher and you need to be prepared for all that the devil is going to throw at you you see if you haven't seen an evil day it doesn't mean there is no evil days left in the Bible as in the Bible in the evil day there are there is something called the evil day a day of evil a day when things are not going as you think they should go it's going to friendly from how you planned and the devil seems to have taken over and it's now living the way to destroy you that's what we call an evil day how many have seen an evil day before well if you have seen one now then you start at a lead [Applause] and there are more evil days come in then you can imagine are you listening to me so it is important for us to be prepared to go through what is coming your way amen and so we are going to be talking about that and we'll see how the Lord will lead us about being prepared making ourselves ready to be prepared means to make yourself ready for whatever amen so let me give you what it means to be prepared all right no one it means to lay a foundation now how many of you are less than 25 years old very good my father told me that what you do with the first 25 years of your life will determine what you would do with the next 45 years that's what he told me and he was advising me to be serious about whatever and to do the right thing and he wanted me to do medicine and other things we get it and it's true and this is the time to lay a foundation not in the future I was reading a newspaper somebody has set has gone into the Guinness Book of Records for being the oldest person to go to class one is 84 years old now if you are 84 years or when you're going to class one or I think I think it was even go to kindergarten I'm not sure and he went last night with taxi of his grandchildren so if you are if you are 84 years when you are going to class one you are you are laying a foundation for way for which future there's no more future the future is over when you are 84 people may not tell you but they are waiting for you to die yeah they may not say it but they are thinking about this do you know that even when you are serving tea they are thinking about when you die it's true but it's not nice to say so nobody sees me so there is a time to lay a foundation do you see and if you lay the foundation the foundation is always there for you you will always depend and go back to that foundation are you listening to me you will always go back to that foundation the foundation that was laid amen now I'm talking about the preparation of the gospel if you lay a foundation very well you will find out that there are many more things you can do that you cannot do if you don't lay a foundation are you listening to me yeah if you lay a foundation well you will discover many more things I always remember when mobile house was being built do you know mobile house in a crowd all right since we some eleven plus three if a mobile house was being built it was I was used to go nearby and see this know no matter how seedy house huh yes it was it was those a huge deep hole you know and I was always wondering what are they doing in here you know but they were building a very tall building and that is why there was this big hole some 11th verse 3 says if the Foundation's be destroyed what can the righteous do the understand if the Foundation's be destroyed what can the righteous do in other words if the foundation of what we are called to do of our Christian life is not there what can you do nothing because you can't do much without a foundation amen are you listening you cannot do much without a foundation and that is why I have noticed that people who have a strong Scripture Union background do better in the long run than people who just had a charismatic background this what I've noticed because the so called charismatic we don't know scriptures we though we don't know quotations we don't know the mundane information that you need as a foundation to build upon other doctrines and those would ask you those who did real Scripture Union this they memorized scriptures the understand they studied the lives of Moses the life of Jacob the life of Isaac some of us don't know the life of David some well we don't know all these things we don't have any idea what the life of David was about where it started and if you have to speak now you understand you don't know much about all these people and if you are going to be a pastor Jonathan you need to have an idea about David because Jesus Christ is established on the throne of David the throne of David is an everlasting truth and David's life is one of the best teaching guides for all of us so you must have you must have an idea so when you don't know you don't have these foundations there's not much you can do that's why he says that the foundations are destroyed or if the bandages are not there what can the righteous do not much say and that is why I am here to tell you to prepare or to make preparations for the ministry because I'll tell you anything to learn it is more difficult to London older you become if you send a little child to France at the age of five or six he will start to speak French almost instantly and almost immediately send that 25 year old he will speak French but he to be with more difficulty send a 35 year old even more difficulty send a 45 year old then you are beginning to get into difficulties and over 50 it is going to do start to tell you lessons I cannot do it I can unlearn it you understand so this is the time to lay a foundation amen and so to prepare or to make preparation for the gospel or of the gospel to become a preacher and to prepare your message because your message is also you do you know that yeah your message is you you are part of your message that's why people look at who you are you know sometimes the people write to me and say oh god bless you for your life and for the because they are not just looking at what I'm saying we are looking at my life they said because you are a doctor and because you are days and god bless your family and your wife and your children we are looking at Roma and that is why when a man of God divorces it affects his ministry because what he's even doing and having at home a part of the message although although you don't come and son here tend to my marriage now tend to my life tend to my financial I tend to my prosperity touch my bank account look people have tend to it already people can't do it before you say time to get chapter Genesis yeah they tend to your life they can to your marriage they tend to your relationship before you you start tend to officials after say they are 10 already to various places tab media's coming and then they decide based or what they read how much to receive of what you are saying yes it's true that is why your life and who you other is why it is good to go to school it's never a disadvantage to come to the University you are not delaying anything there's no delays if anything know Jesus he preached for three years and he prepared for thirty years we will go into that at a point so there is no delay the fact that you are going to school that's no it's not delay anything it's not delaying marriage you need to be stable in your mind before you marry it marriage is not between just a male and a female animals do that it is between no no a wife is different from just a female yes if you marry with the chicken head you know a chicken head so you see that the head of a chick is much smaller than the body then this bill that that brain is very small you will not do well in marriage there is more to marriage than just boyfriend and girlfriend amen are you listening so to be prepared is something you need to let foundation for the future things you can rest on I really found God for some of the Bible knowledge that I had from my days as a scripture Union now if I the games I used to play I had a friend and we used to play games one of the games we used to play was with caught scriptures until he cannot cut or I Chemical then the one who caught and then I one cannot could has one that's the game we used to play so we stayed down and he caught I could you could I could be good I could be code a code code code code code code code and tell you cotton I cannot code again than if one that they came we were playing the data foundation and so many of those creatures are in there and I always see this building always falls upon the foundation you will always color it so when you don't take those things seriously and you don't have things that are Scripture foundations and other foundations of even honesty it's difficult to build upon it for instance if you you have not built a foundation of honesty hmm there are many foundations now if you have done a foundation of honesty I used to tell in life do you see actually go higher like you there are more reasons to tell lies as you grow older you may not know you may think that is when you are younger that you have to tell lies but as you grow older there are more and more reasons why you would tell lies not tell the truth peel and things like that so if you don't have something as an ingrained in built rock upon which you are going to go higher better you can go far and that is why people can't go far in the ministry character diligence perseverance how to go through when you start a church and you have only thirty members it's not easy to get to 50 and to get to 100 it takes years I say it takes years like the way you don't have a good foundation soon as the wind blows and the storms come you've changed your minds you are going to London now this is not for you are you listening to me so it means to lay a foundation number so it means to foresee problems preparing to phosphene problems amen now that's what it means to prepare those only the preparation of the gospel is the fifteen of problems visa there are many problems you must foresee in proverbs 22 verse 3 the Bible says a prudent man 4cs the evil and hided himself but a simple pass on and a polished the preparation of the gospel is the preparation of you and the preparation of your message that is what it means that is what the preparation of the gospel is is the preparation of you and your message because you are part of your message you are the unspoken part of the message before the spoken part comes so you are preparing the T so you prepare yourself and you prepare your message and so part of this preparation of the gospel is to one of the meanings of preparing yourself and preparing your message s q4c problems amen you see one day I traveled and then I was in some country I don't know where I was and I had malaria you know many years ago and I tell you pray that you never be in a country like say Belgium they don't have malaria and then secondly you cannot buy medicines like how you can buy a tea in Ghana I mean you can just go anywhere again and buy chloroquine is that also and paracetamol is that also yeah whatever you have now I don't know what you have but it becomes a very complicated thing to get any kind of medication if you are abroad it depends on where you are so I learnt at that time to foresee because you can have malaria parasite or any kind of in disease you'll be well as soon as you get where you are going and you'll start so I learned to foresee some of these all the places that I traveled to are very very fast and if I when I land somewhere at the second hour and a second day one father was telling me he went somewhere he became sure he was admitted at the hospital and the past two weeks in hospital or the first whatever number of days in hospital before even running stomach if you get you know you must talk to prepare you see that many people have some medicine bag the other thing is because they are foreseen problems and so when they are packing you get it or they are preparing to travel they are foreseeing crop problems that possibly even on the plane the plane they foresee problems before they take off behalf medicine every time you sit on a plane you have a headache you have whatever as format is therefore seen all those including you having a heart attack who here they have even allies they are going to have if they don't have disabilities and others to revive you and so on on board they foresee poor running stomach and so on I mean because you can eat one of their things and have a run is to muscle you get to America where you are going okay are you listening to me so to prepare means to foresee problems problems in the future Oliver enjoy you are going to marry up foresee problems and when you can foresee problems you you you are you are blind and you are not getting ready and so when that day comes when the problems weaker because you didn't foresee them you didn't prepare for them usually I just yourself for them you didn't lay a foundation so the problems can go you didn't foresee so it's very important to foresee oh yes you have to foresee troubles tribulations that church work and the ministry where is not problem free is not at wealth of that if you ask me what my life is my life is war one battle after another that's my life you also describe my life my life is a life of continuous battles I miss a continual I don't know I can't see where there is a break I tell you and when I say battle of army all kinds of battles that's my life and it's a life of ministry he says fight the good fight this is a when Paul was about to die love thought the photo good fight I've run another way you can describe your life is running running throughout because that is what cry didn't make it that way God made it that way because it's just a period with this the Abraham told the which message remember remember that down in the life time if it has a lifetime a period remember that thou in thy lifetime is you have got a lifetime I don't know how long your lifetime is maybe 45 years the other end for this lifetime we have to run our very best fight our very best to our very best and that's why it's a fight because the devil will constantly try to deceive you present you oppose you leaves you misguide you and that's why he said remember in their lifetime so this is my lifetime this is your lifetime and it's not an easy life time it is it is a lifetime of fighting the good fight of faith and if you are not prepared to fight you can do something but I tell you once you set your eyes on the hook that has been given to us in heaven you start to fight because your deceptions will be gone so for seeing problems if you know to foresee that if you're going to be poor if you want to serve God it's something you must foresee when I was coming to full time insight I foresaw that hour before so any blessings I have today are surprises oh yeah I knew I was going to be the poor my vision of where as you live was down someone's neck like that was my dream that is the Lord who only bless me in my life so that I will be able to stay at dancing instead flat no I'm serious I even went there with my wife you can ask err yes because I could foresee that there is the road that I was taking was this kind of route so all the blessings that I have to Prem those blessings you understand they are not what I was foreseen no because I'm not in this business for money and I am a preacher I'm a pastor and trying to follow my Savior the understand and I'm trying to be like him so if through that things that I didn't even have written out of my life come to me I mean I I sound goddamn I'm surprised it's extra it wasn't what I thought about it do you understand but you must foresee bus because people are not foreseeing that and they are foreseen well and money and crowds I'll be going here and I'll be flying here and I'll be coming here and I'll be going here and things like that you understand they don't do well in the ministry when they are faced with some of those realities well you don't foresee that what you're up to see that real gospel is a life of poverty it's a life of sacrifice and if the Lord blesses you is all extra that you didn't calculate for you shouldn't foresee all those three foresee riches is you foresee problems when you are getting married you must foresee problems that's why we have a long merica sling that's what we call marriage counseling we prepare you for a long time preparing to wash your husband's pants as well as your pants do you understand what I'm saying and prepare you to cook for your husband and repair you to provide and prepare you to do all these things which will come up and prepare you to be spiritual and prepare you for whatever problems you have that is what we do we don't come and tell tell you is it marriage you all be singing I love you this rejoice not true there's nothing like that or you don't think so yeah we prepare you for problems so where somebody's going to my I prefer to put I prepare our telling so much William I prepare for darkness amen prepare for darkness prefer for tribulation it's better to think that way and as you're going oh if you're always nicer it's better than I thought than to go saying ah I have found was a name the most beautiful whatever and is the most handsome wherever it's not real amen the next thing is it means to provide properly for something that's what it needs to prepare to provide properly for something to provide provide provide amen what things are you going to meet you see the Bible says if any one provides not for his household he is worse than an infidel is that also investing with each of the five are you there 1st Timothy 5 verse 8 it says if any provide not for his own and especially for those of his own house he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel message pathetic they say if you do not provide amen if you do not provide for your own and for your own house you have denied the Christian faith so the fact that you are becoming a preacher and you are going to do the work of God does not mean that you should not provide for your own family you understand and in fact if you do not provide you have denied the Christian faith it's wrong you can't say that you are practicing Christianity amen so you must provide for just for the ministry and for things that you are going to be doing if you are going to do something in the ministry you must learn to provide for all those things that are going to come up amen the next one is it means to rehab ahead of time to rehearse ahead of time rehearsal amen David and the story you know of David and Goliath had had many rehearsals of fighting with wild animals and was busy so when he saw Goliath he said you are just a modified lion you understand that's what it means to have rehabs out to rehab ahead of time and that is what many of us do not have that's why if somebody will see that's why we're when I look at my elders of the campus churches I see them as different from even Shepherd because they have rehearsed ahead of time in terms of preaching the pre frequency is different it is one thing to have knowledge and it's one thing to share the knowledge the understand and it's wanting to have the opportunity to preach two people are you listening to me and so it is it is it is a wonderful it is a wonderful and amazing experience to preach as as you preach you rehab ahead of time amen as you preach you rehab ahead of the time that you will really resolve many people don't know is it that actually what they think when people think they're the Messiah actually do rehearsal oh yeah they actually do rehearsals that is why there are things that I don't shy away from because I know that I have to do several of it before the real one I remember when I had a miracle service in Colombia huh when I got out there can you imagine being put in front of almost a hundred thousand people in the stadium you know with cripples people on stretchers ambulances I mean they really have facilities to bring sick people [Applause] and here I was I was put there and it wasn't like I've been preparing for the last few months when I arrived in Panama they told me I'm good to Columbia and I said I'll go that's after I do choose I was flying to Columbia from some plane some strange aeroplane and then I was arriving in Barranquilla and here I was walking into a stadium a very very I've never seen that occur so students are not compared to the stadium oh yeah a castle stadium would be at least one set of that stadium because it was in three levels it was round like that and then another cook big round and then another group round life and then the space around the pitch on the straw because the creepers I saw today we should be about 5000 on death row open you know it's very very very very large amen and so when I stood there you know what do I do but I've been having rehearsal they have eerie hazards in my chest so sometime on I look at my people and then I'll be organizing and realizes that the dog comes I don't mind because I know I'm doing my own rehab and it's not only for them but is for me and I'll pray for the sick and I will not see certain types of mayor because they are not even there because the people cry they will not even believe but I still preach a dog there other blind people are there pocket area to rehearse ahead of time so so that was about I see people shy away from these responsibilities not knowing that a theory has to teach you how to preach how to teach how to do the work that's why you may wonder why is it that I seem to have confidence in more confidence in somebody who has been an elder of a campus and that is why I insist that another someone who preaches every week that's a definition so if you are not as wise that you can have many elders of a church on campus because I have to know that the person has done very has now the other son the father hasn't done the rehearsal then I know the face is not really prepared do you see so how can I just send you even though you have the zeal and the interest you haven't done any rehearsal any time you do rehearsal I'll be teaching about the principles of the bridge any time you do we have that's always better a choir that has rehearsed before is better I've been invited now to a shepherd camp the others are not in Ghana by organized by a foreign country of pastors in a city in a foreign country to do a shepherd come it's called Shepherds campaign is a program for pastors leaders Shepherd 3 this super Aviva Chapelle camp all the time here the understand so as I've been having rehearsal over and over and over and over and over and over the understand those who sing there will be many times when you starting in a doesn't work you need those rehearsal to prepare you so that when you are really standing in front of yoga 2 or some other how you don't make that mistake because you know that if you stop singing and they give you the wrong key you see on the keyboard they can they can change the keys so maybe s is not s it use a computer to change f2g because the other organ is cannot play the only playing one killing it is fee or death death as the only thing they can play so if you start playing in E flat or you start playing G whatever they use that for pizza 210 dancing so that the F definitely plain as Bacchus as though it is a flat the E flat E place in F so you will start singing el shaddai el shaddai and then you see eachother present after he places ever his f is really if like you get it so when you get to the pleasure and I are thank you sir you look at the guys and look is it s it is but we use complex I have another the F was a flat so that is hardware haze' you tell the person as proper as make sure that it goes to have employment s FS so that you don't discreetly now be disgraced before at one Reza so sons got all your disgraceful times there are rehearsal you can witness with somebody and then they throw you away a part of your hey sir are you glad your beer ahead so you see people who don't want to preach who feel that they are avoiding something or who don't want to do the work of all the witnesses or whatever they are all rehearsal that God is giving you and that is what it means to prepare means to rehearse ahead of time and David you see look do you know that Goliath sort was kept as a special national artifacts in the museum it was it was the one with debited which catapulted him into fame and into the eye of everybody up till today you know when you say David at the end they will say the next another Aeschylus because it was the most famous and the probably the most important thing that they did ever did for his public ministry was to kill Goliath because that brought him from being and nobody even to becoming somebody whose name was known in Israel absol today that one thing and so to be - for that one thing that God used to do there must often and often in areas of the understand and so in the day that he was keeping the Sheep check the ship those few ship with his brothers used to insult him about where her rebel fuchsias I didn't those few she went that David was coming to the bath about that he left them with a kippa didn't just throw them away and when he said when he started to stand in the mists of the Amazon who is the man senator saying all these things his birth as a hot we know you about is whatever the usual things that they have to say any good leader one of the typical ganya's don't know good leader so initially called good leaders proud so he's very proud 20 shares of our Vedas are very secret man I prefer difficult man it doesn't a sentence at all day usually he's a good leader so you just take us as I write it somewhere anytime you hear those Calipari difficult man that's understand anything at all usually play difficult woman she doesn't establish therefore usual decisis principles and a good leader well we don't know good leaders we don't usually vote for the best leader vote for the most popular our tribe or whatever are you dear so David took those sip as the most important thing and God said okay it is now the nation of Israel then a lion came and took one of the ship away look you people don't know what an ion is and then I bet you don't have any idea I want you I want to show you a film i watch a film was about a bear what is a film a bear bears are one of the most frightening animals huh you would never want to make a day and you would ever want to make a lion I've been bitten by a lion before yes I've been bitten by rely on a baby one but it's still a lion and as we were in the little place with whatever the Lions you see we went in there and we were with Argos a little child and then the Lions began to see the little child as meat so they were really together the person was keeping eyes we should go out you know because they were little ones and there was these ones which were bought with little bigger and they were also there and the guy was saying within a few weeks you can't come in again and then to became whatever and then started to bite and to attack our legs or my legs so one was able to get me haha so when I fell the strength of it or there are two animals whose jaw splendid measured one is a shock and one is a lie on the table bite you wouldn't want to be between when it comes together huh yeah I think the shock is even stronger than Elana now forget it to go after a lion oh man not even I was told but even he went after the lion and he caught this ship out of the lion's mouth huh I see you he so you realize that what about great sin a person does a song Rodri has are behind it so Vadra has ow so this Goliath which was the single most important he ever did publicly have not worried her behind it but many many many rehearsals and so that's all I look at you don't want to do it all you see people who come out and I'm happy to do nothing just as a while since I came from school you know we are just yeah just then you're gentle you are very funny to me and you say you want to be a minister no and you see people who run away from churches which are starting as a small church or church is starting so I don't agree I want to be where you know it's whatever and you just want to join a choir and you the practical work you understand is rehearsal for the spiritual preparation to become something to go out with testing to people to bring people to practice an acausal to do crusade to preach when there is nobody there look I remember even one time I went somewhere I went to a foreign country to preach the heart strike because I used to grow cocaine and they didn't want them to grow cocaine anyone so that everybody want some struggle does the main way that they do so they closed down there they closed down the city coca they call it coca so when we work for the program they were not many people day I priests with all my heart and with all my I pray for the sick I call first outpatient and took testimonies people were here well we're going by the pastor Sarah I have a very great respect for you the way you preach so powerfully with just a few people here and you ministered with all your heart Rosetta even if they are not many people there is a rehearsal for me it doesn't bother me at all it's a good experience as well as to fall down in front of a few people and so far down in front of many people so sometimes I wonder whether you really want to be in the ministry I say I want to be a pastor what it is and you you run away you withdraw from work they withdraw from what I call rehearse out no don't withdraw from it give yourself to it look there are many things look natural to Street regularly to the same people same group you preach to them it's not easy it takes something and you are always talking to them Sunday after Sunday after Sunday after Sunday a midweek is I you have to have something to say but it differ from going as a visitor you bring your best data is also another thing you bring your best messages the best jokes your best whatever you just give them they've ever had it before then they are blessed to preach at a camp it's also a different thing the Anderson so don't run away from rehearsal to prepare means to rehearse ahead of time and one day there's just one thing maybe that you would do in your life you see huh just one thing all your life is a rehearsal for that one thing all you're going through sara has a for that one thing one day one act amen the next thing it means to train for a specific task amen proverbs 22 verse 6 what does this tell us train up a child in the way he should go when he is old they will not depart from it you see to train you for a specific task so when I say people who are running away from training so what are the specific tasks that you will have in the future as you Minister you will have a task of preaching that task of sacrificing the task of train you understand so a lot of our prayer must be to even is training that's why we need low prayer meetings I was speaking to one of our missionaries when I traveled abroad recently and he's alone and also am I alone so what do you do one mister was asking me was going to a foreign can score should I do Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday what should I do the understand because there are not many members it's not like this there are so many things to do visitation marriage counseling there's an odd office where there's nothing if you are the one who is the you add everything you are the church what should you do you need to be trained you need to train yourself for that task of being and learn with God and you alone have to do something what do you do if you are not used to being alone some of us cannot be alone you have to learn how I always have people always talking and so on you have to train yourself to be quiet and to be alone just one day you may be alone and you have to just be alone it's a specific task and loan in a country somewhere what will you be doing what will you be saying the understand and how to be alone pray for a long time you understand yeah so easy now now that one holiday now that you are Christian you should be able to take day oh and pray just you from morning to evening and even if you sleep during the prayer or whatever at least you've tried Renison it's a form of training rather [Music] for a specific task the specific task of being alone being in the ministry working for God pray for long hours you need to do the rehearsals and need to train yourself so that when you grow up you don't depart from it hallelujah so don't run away from the training you see as you are sitting here you are being trained as many of you are going to be great ministers how many want to be great ministers yeah all this is part of your training and I'm training you for a specific task that's why I'm asking you whether you accept that what I want to be a pastor because I'm not here to teach our prosperity I'm not here to teach you how to be successful I'm not your everyone's we don't get last year's camp tips last year at least a lost camp agree on the way you have all the wisdom for life you can use it amen we are here to prepare for the gospel of Jesus Christ amen we are prepared for a specific task I'm not here to prepare you for marriage and here to prepare you for the specific task of the ministry amen then it also means to educate with special knowledge educate with special knowledge that's what it means to be to prepare the preparation of the gospel it means to to prepare means to educate with special knowledge you see apart from the general knowledge which everybody has to do well in God and to do well in the ministry you need stress knowledge you need higher information you need privileged information that will help you that will gave you that is why anytime I have a chance to talk to a smaller group or even smaller group and smaller and smaller and smaller I always try to give them special knowledge I try to tell them things that you can't hear elsewhere because I'm trying to educate them with personal knowledge and that is why we are here that meeting even though all the compost edges are then so those of you who want to be in the ministry I'm trying to educate you with personal knowledge because you need the special knowledge to do well you need to you need inside information you need higher details more information if you are going to do well and so if you think that you just stay at the level of everybody in church you're going to become a minister and you're going to do well you are deceiving yourself you need to really educate yourself with special knowledge some of you are doing architecture now they make you notice to know what it means to be a doctor to be a doctor means to be educated with special knowledge for seven years special you can even order dosa you can never even imagine what knowledge I have as a doctor you can't even think for me to have start with a particular dead body and dissected it in pieces for two years from then arm the right arm towers and decided with a little knife and tweezers piece by piece open the screen from here take out one piece by piece they set until I go to the whole body up to the toes I mean there is no way you don't have that pressure knowledge you don't have it no matter how you've done biology in school or you've had that stomach is out sides caused by whatever the way I know what estimate is because it's operations that I've also been reading popular summer bring out the storm is about that countries are differently I have dissected dead bodies for uh not only their living bodies have to take the whatever out and then dead bodies to invest fresh ones to investigate why they died it died yesterday died two days ago they are trying to see there are different things healthy dead bodies sick dead bodies living bodies you can't ever know so that's like that's why doctors have a certain way of thinking doing things talking sometimes that sometimes it's the sound offensive is because they are there is a setting where we are used to I remember one day our centers in the in the in the world with our professor dr. Suzanne American lady you know we're studying slides histology you know this is a they even know what this knowledge is before you will study histology itself the understand it's not history no you see and we were looking to stolid you look at it and you look at their the self if you something big then you go down and we see look at itself so we were looking at it across every I could see our mouth cells what's on your skin what's in your heart different paths so she we had different slides and she had a slide she was looking for a slide of the histology of the vagina so she was standing and becasuse she said there's a who has a vagina who has a vagina slide can I have a vagina and she was confident about it he's nothing to us dennis know what I'm saying by you oh yes I was but she was she was standing at one end of the laboratory the lab was about as big as from here to this the other sense you are sorry who asked about the inal four others see so you can see we are educated with special knowledge special knowledge people's poop I have looked at it under this life if I do it for an exam dennis is my examination to look at your poopoo the understand and in my eggs are I will fail if I cannot see what I'm supposed to see I'll fail I'll actually feel I was able to take your poopoo put it on a slide mix it a little with whatever and then look under the microscope and see things moving said this one is of courage this one is this this one is that is that this is what she has and because he has this particular and more microscopically this is the medicine that you have special knowledge here huh special knowledge you understand special special knowledge if you can't be something different or something great without special knowledge so I don't know why you will run away from exams or run away from reading the books or run away from a separate camp or run away from maybe wasting four hours to have five minutes of special knowledge our school was closed down the University for one year by the government now we waited for the whole year we all came back for special knowledge we didn't say look if you carry is given you six vasilica obviously but you've lost the chance of giving a special knowledge now we waited and whether it is four years we will come back and I was in England when they reopen the universities and I came back to come and get my special knowledge so you see how people pay a price for special knowledge for this for that so sometimes I see people who don't want to pay that that is why it is insulting when people don't learn for the Exile so that they can't visit I have an interview to become pastors and they don't do anything you are actually saying we don't value what you say because where they are studying for something else I remember one person coming to school study so much whatever then when it came to doing oral exams or even examine is it transform your pastrami or something else I don't have time I couldn't have done also kissing my sister my daughter my dad I see all those are indications of a person's having no value for the special knowledge which is needed and you can see it you can see you can see in some of our postures you can see in some of the leaders they don't have a special knowledge that is needed they don't have rehearsals they don't have that preparation they are not ready but they are doing a job would you like it if you went to a few had a hack problem and a dentist is the one coming to look after you would you like would you like if you're good to sit on a plane and the guy who is flying the plane tells you well haven't flown one before back you know I'm going to do my best [Applause] hmm I was quite scared one day when I went into the cockpit of a plane and the part of the pilot told me that the first time he said the first time I flew a 747 a very very first time it was full of passenger about 400 people he said the first time I said that all my rehab I was on the simulator they have this simulator machine I use systems like a clean and you / you are not flying but you're on the gurney you think you are flying so the first time he did a real one with people on board fully you know if you know that a guy is flying the plane it's his first time he is taking you through so you see you see how we are not prepared for the ministry if we don't even a fellowship a group we are not preaching you're not teaching you're not doing something how can you say that you have prepared for it amen the next one it means to cultivate for fruitful production amen how they are sent verse 12 says break up the fallow ground amen break up the fallow ground all right so to cultivate if we are preparing the land for the firm what do you do you break up the fallow ground now one of the ways you could describe it is to come out of idleness not being idle amen because idleness is a sign of not being prepared the more active you are the more you preach the more you do the work of God the more prepared you become for it amen the next one is to mellow and mature the character of something amen - mellow mellow you see the more prepared you are the more mellow and mature you are so - mellow and mature what does this mean - mellow cooldown huh is that also yeah if you you have a lot of veal and fire but you need to mellow really become mature yes because that's why you're not allowed to be a president before four if he went Rawlings came to be the president was 29 years old you see you get it you see so sometimes we have various ideas so many things but God takes time to below you and make sure you so that you are ready for his work in a special way amen you need to know that you come preach your very best like I am pretty but a few people will be touched in a special way but when you are immature you may preach I say that I have brittle all these people look at that this group but he wants to even do the work of doesn't screw them melot melot and mature that's how it is I thought I'd do a lot of marriage counseling and I realized that people they go through what you are telling them to do so I stopped doing my counseling the end I used to think that people really wanted to you wanted to have you know I used to see people smiling very nice that they would do well in mine now I have lost all those ideas because I realized that it's more complex than that people are if people are nice before they marry and after they married another spirit comes into the thing are you listening to me and I have seen people smile you after will you do this with oh yes but I will oh I like this of God is enough after they Myers you see that look then early do you want to see you so after a while you make sure you are mellow you see whatever if you're a young lady and the air man comes to see you I want to remind you I wonder whatever when you are immature just because he's a nice sa he has nice wet you see you will be moved and so oh what a nice person and like him I love him but as you grow older you become more mature more mature this way you are a liar you see you are alive [Applause] it's not is so real I can't follow you and I can't follow this yeah you become cooler it's a more mellow if you have had a couple of seniors in life you become very mellow and very whatever where we started fishing face message if you take medicine you are seen as a sinner it's like anyhow because it's just true the thing is that if you have faith right then you believe you are here you are healed and if you are healed why you need medicine but it's just one catch 47 people died including the pastor and the pastor was in this wheelchair he was pretty nobody nobody shooting man nobody's Allah till their loss as a child with diabetes screaming for the injection that I know you are you know not going to take any medicine and it's out that 47 people died including the pasta he was the last person to die before they mellowed a bit on that understanding who the other son you become mellow they become mature even the last election I was seeing some of the presidential candidate I look at one on one guy he was still too many fear to this a macroeconomic sub something of the economy up whatever then you put this year to the desert and I was with my mother-in-law I don't mention his name a mother-in-law say oh and she's in France IDO an amateur is not amateur leader he cannot be the president yes ideas he stays away Gallo Beatrice then at all you see president who fights more mature he said autumn and if they get into 70d is his early years old you know one day I was sitting at a table with a president before and some somebody was talking about something that has to be done do this to this vision he would this he says he said he said to me he said it's not like that isn't it I said yeah they're like eww it's not like that so these people they need whatever we have to forgive we have to provide sanitation for them they need a toilet they need whatever so we are going to provide for them you're going to help them build whatever it's not it's not like that we are built one before yeah before but when you are no mature you think that because somebody meets it and really mix it in it's like when you go with it they will welcome you know when you are macho you know they will attack you and so yeah that's why the West has stopped trying to help Africa this left us to help ourselves those help ourselves and democratize ourselves and help ourselves they also watch us Lucy yeah because we have more than 200 years behind Europe more than 200 years I'm telling you so - mellow and mature some of us need to be mellowed time alone will mellow you mature you you see and so sometime we criticize people that are ahead of us is because you are not mature that's why once ambitious mixer to me said one day they will see something they cannot control it's cause enhancer so when they see what they see that came with the date they don't have control over moving in their life then they will see something see it does a mature person he's mellowed and matured by the relative of having seen things which are beyond his control but one day he went from with her during the PLDC time they are rested in a shed his hair fully the path of the judge and he came to chat wearing a hat I'm telling what have you been to the set is that fully he kept to chat with that a big lie my work you to death coming to bridge with us is that even you should know that I'm serious a salad not ham all right the next one is it means to armed with the necessary weapons to prepare means to armed with the necessary weapons amen that is what it means to prepare to arm you with the necessary weapons that you are going to need in the evil day hmm but I know that you're going to make it are you going to make it twenty years from now you shall all be ministers I'm telling all of you all of you should be Minister all of you should be Minister preachers pastors no matter what you are doing in life whether lay or full-time or whatever all of you if you are here and you don't become a minister you have wasted the porridge that the Lord saved you with you have twisted your milk that your mother gave you you have with the food and the meat that was given to you and one day when you get to heaven you will be surprised that to whom much was given much was actually expected and required yeah amen amen are you listening to me God will require from the women what he has put into them women listen no God is not just required from you to get married in fact that is you wonder whether that is even required to have children these are not the functions that God is required tension with me two collisions I want to show you about the collisions of the world Colossians idea chapter one verse three says we give thanks to God and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ praying always for you since we had of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which we have you have to all the saints with five for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven where of you have heard before the word of truth of the gospel notice this verse it says for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven all that we are doing is for the hope which is laid up for us in heaven that is all that we are doing that is what we are doing it for for the hope that is laid up for us in heaven lo for the hope that is leyla for us in America and the hope that is better for us in England let me just throw this in here let me tell you something look you are a gamine you will never be an American you will never be an Englishman you will never be a Canadian you will never be a German no matter how much you learn how to speak the language the Germans will never accept you you can very very few ghanians who ever rise in the in the ranks of those countries don't defeat yourself you are what God has made you to be I say you are what God has made it to be and you can only do some things in this world but in heaven there will be no restriction no demarcation there will be nothing like you you are from Ghana you are from here you are from here sometimes when I see the people preaching on TBN I say to myself these guys they had a lot of responsibility because when they preach once America is his head all around the world on TBN so they should better look at their responsibility is very high very great you know but I've got an anger on American if I was an American my books that I'm writing the understand and I have written probably would be sold all over the world in soap memories and I see the world in some part of the world but I'm not an American I mean I am again in does it and I'm not trying to be an American do you see it many of you would do well in life if you can realize this is it unfortunately you see people who go to the investor are going to lay breaks in England libros in Belgium they are going to school forever in Germany learning Spanish learning whatever quaint all over trying to be things you are not spending their whole life the lesson on small voice I have been sitting joins an esophagus whoa boy why plant again international small boy and rather let's do what you can do with your with your with your with your with your life instead of having a hope for America because instead of hope that is later for us in heaven not a hope that is laid up for us in England a hotel estate were operas in Germany a hotel is live for us in America a hotel is a buzz in Canada well as our hope that is labor up in heaven exacting should guide you that we should guide your life Hey well God be won't be a duck time in in waver you never be accepted say they see you this won't be a lawyer forever that you are not as even your when you street you can you think when you think I need a broaden their triangle distinguished Americans it oh yeah okay I was going to come there so I told you you all right okay so it's not a proper action I thought I should have realized that you don't have the real accent of the people you are forcing tu-tu-tu-tu-tu to add imagine they always know they know you are not from there and because you're the way you speak is different when you speak it looks as if you don't know how to speak no I do know how to speak very well but in your own normal accent by the way the past whatever goes you sort of look almost like you are not good with the language itself oh boy why let us rather have a hope that is laid up for us in heaven not a hot that is laid for us in London and a hope that is laid for us in Germany and a hotel researchers in Canada and a hotel is live for us in New York but a hope that is later for us in heaven when you have that ninth you are well-prepared to be what God has called you to be and to do what God has called you to do you need it you need it you need this mind you need a mind for hope in heaven not hope I will try the method is best what is a method in sense I was talking to somebody says my child goes to a French to other what is a French what is French what is friends and language of one of the most godless dishes in this world even in Africa where you have french-speaking Africans they are the most godless they detach cannot grow that the work of but remove on that what is fresh your channel to go and speak so many thousand dollars to grant peace in this environment and this what is it these are groups of imaginations and delusions of things which I'm not practical and I'm not real why why are you worrying yourself we don't have hopes real things that God has given God has not given us what he has not given us as I tell people I cycle I was telling one but I said if I go and I preach to Americans there is a special grace or some special something that maybe God has given on a particular time or whatever for me to go by I expect the best I was expecting but now I've come to see that look God has mocked out everything what you can do what you will you will not do everything your life is very short you may not know soon you'll be checking out so when I was coming for this committee I said to myself how many more companies would I preach up I'll preach my best I'll say whether I won't skip anything that I have to say I'll say it the understand I don't know when I'll preach again other committee amen the hope you have is for what the hope of what you think what Akito exactly - when you go it's not respected you and even the architects in Ghana is it I was in South Africa we went that they were showing a church that they are going to build then they showed us I think the church is built already assist the church is built already with you we are now in this hall we are now into the in the lobby this is the lobby area then we are going now into the main hall we are now moving through a corridor this was architect of the gamma architects you see Brian lines showing whatever purpose then they'll be showing you they cannot even show you what you are going to build then they say they are going to make a box with cardboard making the thing for you to ghana doctor you have not still mu so that guy gets before imaginations I remember one lawyer he went abroad when he went he went and did postgraduate after he did a post graduate then as he was trying to get job they always ask you what lost who did you go to so he realized he got a France I know the law school that will help you so you have to go to law school again I thought yeah if you never fit and even though you may have others world they shall hear they when they taught her monitors they say he's got an accent that's how they call he's got an accent 1l so I was talking with a blind man a blind American man and he was talking said oh that person has got an accent did they immediately know you are not fully part of them and they will never accept you Shia stood a thousand years you see that you you don't belong there but we belong in heaven I said we belong in heaven it happened we will never be inferior Jesus our Savior was a carpenter or yes he was a cop inside the apostles were fishermen there well II they were unlearn that man if you want to know there were nothing's and nobody's I was preaching about Jesus Christ and student of Scripture and you see that at the book I was reading say that Jesus in his condition could not have had a Bible in his condition of poverty okay you think that when you go to heaven is going to be America white man Germany there's a BMW where a shop your hope is to try to be a what is a BMW what is the fear when you sit in it and you move out Shiva is old when somebody comes to knock your paw last time I was in a class and there was somebody there who had a new car we're driving we had a petrol station when the guy ran instead of him going out of the station he was coming in and we're also going on so we got colliding either when our car he discovers our car was an old cows just assumed that somebody was driving a thousand and he was a new shiny pen the color was like this green yes by this beautiful green beautiful and oh we have spotted masks it's pneumonia it's gone in a moment that's why Jesus a lay up treasure for something heaven where moth rust do not corrupt it cannot be spoiled by anything that is on this and that is falling things are you listening to me so I want us to have a hope for heaven young people listen to me listen to me because if you don't hear me something else would teach you what I'm saying not me but something else I was talking to one sister and I said to her listen you are not laying down what you ought to lay down but even though you are not laying it down it has been taken from you because I should at your profession has been taken from you your job has been taken from you the way life is for you now so if you had laid it down it would have been better because you still don't have it the Jesus that no one takes my life from me I lay down I am laying down my life nobody is taking it from me many of the things we are hoping for we will never get they will never happen so you will not get it but you also not get the spiritual blessing because you couldn't see in advance and decide that this thing I'm not going to base my life on it I'm going to base my life on something in heaven how can you believe if you want to receive the honor of man hallelujah so to prepare back again to our topic to fit yourself with the necessary weapons the next one it means to plan over a long period alright and the next one it needs to make arrangements to make arrangement how many are making arrangements to serve God hmm I mean I am making arrangements for heaven why wait for the doctor to tell you you are dying stop making you don't need a doctor to tell you to prepare God is telling you prepare to meet your God are you making arrangements for heaven are you making arrangements for heaven make arrangements for heaven a mosque photos that prepare to meet your God prepare that sounds very much for let's read it have you found it that's really together ready go because I will do this unto thee prepare to meet thy God are you making arrangements to meet God huh I said are you making arrangements to meet God or you are making arrangements for everything else it's time to make arrangements to meet God set your house in order set your house in order prepare to meet God I said prepare to meet God I said prepare to meet God in other words make arrangements to meet God arm yourself foresee evil foresee the evil of being cast away for see the evil of being thrown away somewhere foresee the evil of regretting all of eternity that you didn't do what you could have done in your lifetime make arrangements to not regret all the rest of your life make arrangements how do you make arrangements that is where we are at this camp and the last point is to become anointed be anointed you need to be anointed the anointing is part of your preparation before David could preach or do anything or become anything he had to be anointed and that is part of the reason why we are here to be anointed hallelujah stand to your feet everybody lose your hands to the Lord and just as a lord lord prepare Lord prepare to the [Music] [Applause] [Music] we ah [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] you're right in Thailand where [Applause] we [Applause] for three pennies [Music] long heavy my van shoes Oh me [Applause] thank you it's your hunger not give laundry coming [Music] thank you why the truth Oh [Applause] happy thank you Thank You Larry - run no bad [Applause] thank you Jesus just ask the law to protect preparing the Lord is trying to prepare us for heaven he says the hope that we have of heaven our hope is in heaven he's trying to prepare us for the days of new walk then they said place a real place with people huh real place and he's trying to prepare us for the data we walked in the day I was stunned before the gates of hell they are very huge gates made of hell you see what the ladies wear sometimes I have felt one be you gigantic maybe bigger than this is one side of the gate two of them open the gates of hell one big pearl huge the day I will walk there with a lot of people and there will be a real difference between those who were prepared and those were not prepared that'll be the greatest you see the deception the world was so great somebody went to heaven I was reading my wife was really naturally and telling me she said he met with King David and David said I wrote a lot of songs and I wrote a lot of songs about my troubles but I wish I have written more songs about God and about my big trees like I said when I wrote Psalm 23 always had within more songs live house say my troubles too much if you went to get to heaven you look back and you wish you you wonder and I've done this done this that's why it's the only Jesus who said that LS tyre it's good finished I can add anything else let me tell you switch your mind fully to heaven I have the Benzes that you are dreaming of I don't physically have a band I can have one if I want if I want my mind is fully tuned to heaven my mind is not tuned to those things those things are given on to me I wouldn't be surprised if somebody gives me a Benz one day I know what I'll do with it huh lift your eyes and tune prepare when you stand before that gate huge gates of Hell small person and then angel stands as a dog will you be welcome in or will it be asters because now all of the things is whether we can even enter for there are certain scriptures talking about forgiveness and other things they are very worrying scriptures to me I said I was hungry you didn't feed me I was naked in within days I was in prison they are very worrying we understand salvation everything but these creatures disturb me they make me scared about my future so I'm always praying for mercy and forgiveness if I'd rather that a lot told me that my judgments will be based on messy that is the only way I can survive at the Judgment Day is that they should be messy so I was asking the Lord if that is the case then how does one get a Crone do you understand this your whole life nice a mistake you get it how does a crown also come this is in the mistakes and it's like the whole thing they just had invested on you and the Judgment Day the weft where will a crown pass to come I still don't have the answer to that question messy squared well sorry maybe you have the answers I do have the answers your judgments will be based on blessing so what is the basis of giving you a crown or what have you done hmm for just before he died decide I'm the chief of sinners but then he also said that crown is laid up for me [Music] [Applause] chief of stillness is going for a crown hey maybe we are supposed to think about the sinfulness to keep us humble while we are here to give us mellow mellow and my cure are you becoming Bello I becoming mature you see when I used to preach at weddings when I years ago ten years ago it's different from the way I preached at weddings now I still preach salvation but then it was hunger and I think I did it with the thought that they would be saved and they were not some some of the weddings especially gown weddings when the families are gone [Applause] [Music] the different I feel very typical girl family very quarrelsome coming I just I don't have a mind that they will be sick one day I preached very strong the woman was a girl afterwards we went those days I go for a reception I go for whatever after is this I don't go because I'm more mellow am I sure when we went for the reception and then after I think on the next day dose and lunch or something and we went a certain old man came to me who was a gamma who was at the wedding and he said to me I am 80 years old and I want you to know that I will never change and then and then he continued and he said and I want you to know that I will never be born again I will never change I am 80 years old I am a language and I will never change and I will never be born again and then he went on as time has gone by and I'm not expecting them to be saved see because even God when he was sending two people said even if they don't listen to you you know that they won't listen to you so when you are speaking while you are speaking in a macro with knowing that they will not listen to you if are exactly become a president you must know you becoming a president without being able to change their country you try and do this one or two things but you can't change much hallelujah mature

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