High
Light
Yeeeeeeah
Simon
I'm frightened amidst fire burns
My heart is captured tonight
I have in me the burning fire
The sound of cravings
I have in me the burning fire
Hallelujah! For the word of God to work
Now this is called the parable of the sower, but I really don't think it's the parable of the sower
I think it's the parable of the word, Hallelujah!
Or it's the parable of how to get the word to work
So he says that
When the seed was sown, the first land it fell was what?
The wayside. Is that what you have there?
Okay, so what is the wayside land?
Look into your Bibles and tell me
Okay, so read that part, aha
Read, read
Uh-uh, read the parable itself
Uh-huh, uh-huh
Some fell by the wayside
And the birds came and devoured them
Alright, now what is the meaning?
When one hears the word of the kingdom, uh-huh
And does not understand it
What happens?
Wicked one comes to take it away
Uh-huh
What was sown in his heart? So the ground is the heart
So it means that we have a wayside heart
Alright, we have a wayside heart
Now for your faith to be audacious, we are not talking about walking in the air
We are talking about just the word of God working
Hallelujah, because you see Christianity is not a practice of magic
That we will be seeing Christians flying in the air
We are talking about getting the word of God to work
So the parable of the word can be said it is the parable of the functionality of faith
In other words, it is the parable of, hallelujah
In other words, it is the parable of the audacity of faith
Now do we understand that? Good
So for us to get our faith to work
We must make sure that our heart is not a wayside heart
Hallelujah
What is a wayside heart?
It is the heart that receives the word
So it means that a wayside heart also receives the word
Are we together? And what is the word? The seed
So a wayside heart also receives the word
And what happens when he receives the word? What happens?
Come on, uh-huh
He does not understand it
So the word has come, but he does not understand the word
When he does not understand the word, what happens?
Then the wicked one, which is the devil, comes to snatch away what has been sown into his heart
Now so it means that as we come to church and what you are hearing right now
I am like a farmer who is planting on a land
But the problem is that the land is not the same, the lands are not the same
Come on, are we together? Are we together?
Come on, ask somebody, what land are you?
Okay, don't get that answer now
So a wayside heart is the one who receives the word
See, it means that a preacher should not discriminate who to preach to
Preach to everybody, sow the seed everywhere
Are we together? Yes
So that land that is a wayside land or soil is actually a wayside heart
And a wayside heart is the heart that does not have understanding of the word
Hallelujah
Alright, let's look into it again
That is verse 1
Are you reading Matthew 13 verse 1?
Okay, all of you read it
Come on, read it, 1, 2, go
1, 2, go
So what is the wayside heart?
The heart that does not understand
And because of the lack of understanding, he loses the word to the devil
Now you see, I believe you know that there's a problem, it does not mean that the devil comes and picks the word and runs away with the word
I used to battle with that thought a lot, I'm like, but the word of God is so powerful
How can the devil take the word?
But that is a figure of speech
The person loses the word, hallelujah
Why? Because he does not understand it
Now the word understand there is from the Greek word, tsunami
S-u-n-i-e-m-i
Tsunami
It means to gather together, to assemble
Did I say I'm giving you a short exhortation?
Now, that word, you know, means to comprehend
To have comprehension
How many of us did comprehension in school?
So comprehension
Now we are talking about the ability to bring together scattered things for them to make sense
Hallelujah
So it is the ability, let's take for example, this one is here, this one is here, this one is there, this one is here, this one is there, this one is here
The whole thing is splitted up, scattered around
Tsunami is the bringing together to form a perfect picture
Now it talks about the ability to form, to crack a puzzle, to make a puzzle sensible
Hallelujah
Come on, are we together?
It means that if we want our faith to work, we will need to understand the gospel
What it means is that we will need to be able to put the whole thing together
Hallelujah
Assemble together, to bring together, that is Tsunami
That word has a relationship with Tsunesis
Alright, Tsunesis, which is wisdom
The ability to bring together, the ability to bring together, to gather together
Hallelujah
Alright, so
It also talks about consideration
To consider
Now I think that is more understandable
So the one who has a wayside heart is the one who does not consider the word
What is consideration?
Who does not have his heart on the word?
Please are we together?
So if the word comes to you
And you are a wayside hearted person
You don't have consideration of the word
Think about people who act without considering the word
Hallelujah
One time
I was asking myself a question, why don't you want to do this?
Is it because it is wrong?
Or the Bible says you don't do it?
Hallelujah
Because it is just about the fact that it is wrong
If you get to a place where it is accepted
Then you understand what I'm talking about
Because there are some things that are wrong in Ghana
That are not wrong in Togo
There are some things that are wrong here that are not wrong in America
You understand?
So if you are considering the fact that because it is not culturally accepted
For example, I mean
Piercing my ear
I'm coming to you and I pierce my ear and I pierce my nose
Now you see all of you, you just can't imagine how my face is going to look
But I mean in the state it is very fine
I can go out and put tattoos all over my body
And I'm looking like something
You know, there is nothing wrong with that
In America
In Europe, they don't have the culture of polygamy
Alright?
So you marry one there, they can say you have cheated on me
I mean that is, the man can say the lady has cheated on me
But when it comes to Africa
The culture of, in fact, the marital culture of Africa is polygamous
It's polygamous
Africa don't see polygamy as a sin
A man can marry as many as he wants as long as he can take care of them
Are you understanding that?
So just imagine, Ryan, as you're seated here
Your husband gets married to you, five years later he's marrying two other wives
You don't have a say
Because that is the culture
That's why when you're going to marry, you must marry somebody who believes the same things you believe
Are you understanding that?
Yeah
You don't say, oh, it can't happen to me, you are joking
Somebody can tell you, that's our culture
Weak men marry one
Strong men marry many
What are we going to do?
We can't do anything about it
But you can't carry that culture
Yeah, but the word of God gives us universal solution
You can't be a Christian and want to marry two
Hallelujah
You can't be, because what is the end of a Christian?
To be in ministry
To do ministry
And the Bible says a bishop must marry one
The Bible says in Corinthians, it says that you let every man find his wife, not his wives
So we don't do polygamy here, we don't do polygamy in church
But if somebody comes and the person has married two
We don't tell the person to go and divorce the last wife
No, come with all your wives
But remember, notice you can't be a leader in the ministry
I know some churches will tell you that when divorce the first wife is your original wife
No
If you give birth to a second wife, bring all of them to church
Their souls will be saved by you
Your hand is bloody, that's what the Bible says
Are you understand that?
So why am I not going to sleep with somebody that I have not married yet?
Or why am I going to say no to somebody I'm in a relationship with who wants to sleep with me?
It is not just because it's wrong
Are we together?
Because if it's wrong, why don't you go to America?
It's not wrong
In fact, you have to see if you are sexually compatible before you walk down the aisle
The, yeah, I mean they tell you, the counselors will tell you
Are you sexually compatible?
How can you know you are sexually compatible if you have not had sex?
So then you say, yes, we are sexually compatible
Then they ask you, how did you know?
They say, oh, it's been awesome so far
So far
That is awesome
So if you say you are not going to do that because it's wrong
Then you are talking in a cultural context
That means that you were a wayside hatter
Hallelujah
But if you are going to say that I am not going to sleep with a woman that I claim I'm in love with
Or I'm not going to sleep with a guy that I claim I'm in love with
Then it means that your heart is not the way you are considering the world
Come on, hallelujah
See, that's why the Bible says it is in that that we get our feet to work
So it wouldn't just be about reading and Jesus died, he was very far, he was very far from the dead
Oh wow, oh wait, no
It comes by the consideration of the word of God
In fact, whatever decision that you make, you consider the word first
What does God have to say about this?
Ask, what does that mean?
Consider
Come on
So you get that
So the word that was shown, the wayside hatter
It's not just, you see, it's not just a hat that is a wayside hatter
That you can't do anything about
No
The one whose hat is a wayside hatter or the one whose hat is a wayside hat
Chose to be a wayside hatter
Come on, hallelujah
For example, when I have a cause to be angry
I must first of all consider the word
I must first of all consider what the Bible says in this matter
Hallelujah
Come on, you see, then life will become very simple
So it is when you consider what the word would have to say
Then you can give a word oriented answer
It's not just about telling people don't do this, don't do that, no, no, no
But it's about considering the word
Listen to what, what's his name, Joseph said
When Portiphar's wife was enticing him
The first thing he said, he said that
I cannot sin against God
Number two, I will not sin against my master
So, Joseph's consideration was God
Are we together?
I mean, he could have done it and ghosts got free, he could have just, because nobody was there
And he wouldn't have even gone to prison in the first place
We are just back to back
What I say is that I will not sin against God
Why? I am considering God
And you know at that time they didn't have the Ten Commandments
They didn't have the law
They were living in the dispensation of grace
Law came in somewhere in Exodus 20 and this is somewhere in Genesis
Hallelujah
Come on, please are you here with me everybody?
So he says no
God will not be proud of this
And my master will not be proud of this
So I will not do it
You see, you see their contour
He could have said, oh no, no, no, he's wrong, he's wrong, he's wrong
Our culture, you know, in social studies they told us culture is dynamic
Alright, what does that mean?
It changes with time
So as time goes on, culture changes
I mean, you couldn't, maybe from 40 years ago you couldn't wear makeup and go to church
I mean it was unheard of
You can't, I mean for example, you can't be walking with your husband in public
And give your husband a kiss in public
I'm not even saying your boyfriend, your husband
I remember one day who were in a car
This is like years ago, like nine years or something or so
Were in the car and this guy, this, I don't know
So the lady was in the car so it means the lady had gone to sleepover
And the guy is coming to see him off
And the car is loading
And the guy is standing outside and the lady is inside and they are kissing
They kiss more, they talk, they kiss more, they talk, they kiss more, they talk
Then there was a woman in the car saying, hey, hey yeah
And the woman started raining insults on the guy and on the lady
Yeah
The woman is responding based on the triggers of culture
And the woman is crying, the woman is crying
You know why? Because our culture frowns on it
If it was to be in the States, nobody would even care about them
Are you understanding that?
But, so as time moves on, now it's become normal
You can meet people there and they are just giving themselves pegs
And that's none of your business
Except if you're a preacher
Hallelujah
So there is the dynamism or flexibility with culture
But you see, the word of God never lowers its standards
Regardless of how your culture is improving or how you're modernizing yourself
The word of God is the word of God
So the one who does not want to be a wayside, hearted person
What does he do?
He considers the word first
I'm not going to get drunk because
Because
Come on, because
Consider the word of God
Now, when somebody falls down, my first response is going to lay hands on the person
Why?
I'm considering the word of God
So I'm not just talking about this in terms of sin only
Hallelujah
So when I meet that person
Who wants to collapse in my face?
The consideration of the word of God makes me know that I should move to lay hands on the person
Come on, hallelujah
So the wayside person who heard the word and the word did not make any improvement
Or did not bear fruit
And the Bible says he did not understand it
It's not really any strange thing
The person did not consider the word
He didn't consider the word
So take for example, the person just went to church head wet, head wet
But in his daily practical life, there's no considering of the word
He can get angry at the time he wants to get angry
He can beat anybody at the time he wants to beat anybody
He can gossip at the time he wants to gossip
In fact, it actually means somebody who did not bring his life under the authority of the word
Hallelujah
So the one who did not consider, who did not understand the word is the one who did not bring himself under the audacity or the authority of the word
There are many Christians who are not under the authority of the word of God
They go to where they want to go to
They do what they want to do
They think what they want to think
They behave how they want to behave
And they like what they want to like
They dislike what they want to dislike
The word of God has not come in
The word of God only comes in when it is fueling their ego
In other words, when the word goes for them
Then they can quote the Bible
Think about this guy who had been parambulating himself as a pastor
And now his heart, his true heart is being revealed
Sofuchiraboso
This guy was moving around like he is any serious man of God
Burning, shrines and stuff like that
Now this guy comes up after the wife has left him
And said that the man is sleeping with a lot of girls in the church
The man married two people at the same day
Now the guy comes back
In one of his responses
And he is talking and you have one foolish guy also
Like that thing that they do
They think church is like a hymn
Where the king is talking and somebody is you know
Then he says, when you hear that I have
You see I want to tell you something
Me and my wife we are no more
And my wife is trying to get
They call it alimony
And stuff like that
You are my wife
And blah blah blah
And he says you know what
And you know he kept on saying that
Then later in an interview comes the person
Somebody, the interviewer asked him
About the Bible
And he said no no no
The Bible
This is supposed to be a pastor
And said many damn noble things about the Bible
To the point that he says that
Now this is somebody who is supposed to be called a pastor
This same person even before the break up or the divorce
He said that the Bible is just a piece of letter
We work by the Spirit and not the Bible
And he knew what he was doing
See before a Christian or any man of God would come
And now be talking against the Bible
It's because the standards of the Bible is too high for them
They are morally bankrupt and the only way for them
The only way of escape is to condemn the Bible
So he says no
You know why? Because inside the Bible
If you want to believe the Bible you can't marry two people at the same day
If you believe the Bible you cannot tell the church members that
You can marry two people from the church
Are you understanding that?
So that is a heart that has become a wayside heart
A heart that is not under the authority of the word
Come on hallelujah
A wayside
Or bone bra
You understand what I'm talking about?
So it's just there
Anything goes
How does a wayside look like?
You see
So everybody troubles
It means that the wayside also refers to anything goes
Alright? The wayside heart refers to anything goes
You see let's take for example somebody who decides when to come to church
And when not to come to church
When to join the soul winning
When not to join the soul winning
And actually nobody can talk him out
Think about the people who say that we have our
You see I have my own mind
I have my own way of thinking
When you see people talk like that
When you see people who demand for things and stuff like that
These are way hearted people
And listen you can predict their future
You can predict their future that any word of God that they had heard
Any word that has been sown into their life will mean nothing
It will amount to nothing
Regardless how blossom it looks like
Hallelujah
Read the interpretation
Interpretation of the parable
The verse 19 I think
When anyone hear of the word
Understand it
Then understand it not
Then comment the wicked one
So it means that the person heard the word
Read that part
When anyone hear the word
Uh huh
Of the kingdom
So the person hears the word of the kingdom
Hallelujah
Oh you can see now
The person hears the word of the kingdom
So the word keeps on coming keeps on coming keeps on coming
But because he did not learn to subject his heart
To consider the word
His heart became a wayside heart
Hallelujah
See my faith works
Because my heart is not a wayside heart
Think about somebody you tell
Alright so you are doing this
You are doing this or you are going here
You are going here
And the person doesn't care
I will do what I want to do
The word of God cannot have fruit in your life
In fact
The word of God will work as much as you allow it
The word of God will not work by automasy
You have a path to play in the making of the word of God to work
Hallelujah
You understand what I am telling you?
Yeah
See and it begins by
Subjecting yourself
Do you know what the Bible says then?
Submit yourself humble yourself under the mighty hand of God
That he will exalt you in due time
You know that is in the word
Come on do you know that is in the word?
Put yourself under the mighty hand of God
Then you say resist the devil and he will flee
The first instruction is that
Humble yourself under the word
Let the word of God be
Or let the word of God direct what you should do
What you should say
Where you should go
How to behave
It is in that
That the word or your faith can be audacious
Every person we see
Doing marvelous things are people who have subjected themselves
Under the word of God
So you can't follow the word of God and ever go wrong
It is when you humble yourself
When we humble ourselves under the word of God
That the fruit of the word will be seen
Now when we get to for the sake of time we can't get there
But if we are going to the good land or the good ground
You find out that he says there are even that good ground
Some was hundred, some was sixty and some was thirty
Hallelujah
Come on are you here with me?
Say I'm not a wayside hearted person
Like you mean it say like you mean it
Say I'm not a wayside hearted person
Say I refuse to live my life the way I want
Come on like you mean it
Close your eyes and say
Say I refuse to live my life in the way I want it
You can just get out to go and get money
You can just decide that enough is enough I'm tired
Whatever will bring me money I am hoping
You can be tired and you can go for money ritual
You can even do whatever you want to do to get money
As long as the money has come you are fine
But your problem is that you are a Christian
That's your problem
You are not just a Christian
You are a Christian who has decided that I will not be a wayside hearted person
Trust me
It's really
I want to get married to assumptions beautifully
You can't go anywhere just go to the nightclub you will see skin
Skin tone
Yeah
You see the color
Maya
You just go and it will work out
You marry the person when your wife is coming it's like a mirror
But you see in the consideration of the word
The Bible tells me first of all the person must be a believer
The person must be born again
The person must be under the authority of the word
The person must be a serious person in his church
Not just a believer because we have all kinds of believers
Hallelujah
One who has subjected his will under the authority of the word
Are you understanding that?
Yeah
Do you think we also can't go out and be fornicating rough rough?
We change in like you know today Amah comes to Mwakosia comes and you know
We are firing
We are popping
Do you understand?
We can't go to the nightclubs and also you know like what they call it shisha
Okinen namuhimna we nimna
You know
And they are enjoying life
He is coming and he is there
It's not because you know like a Christian would say
So you ask a Christian
Charlie let's go to the nightclub and let's go and booze
The person says no no no no
Why don't you want to go and booze Charlie?
Charlie Charlie have a lot of things I am thinking about
Do you know what you are saying?
If you don't have a lot of things you are thinking about you would have considered it
So the Brown went to abroad with a team of his office people
And then the first night they had to do some enjoyment so they had to go to their club
And he was there and then there was a lighthouse pastor
You get a lighthouse pastor I have mentioned because that's what he said
He is a pastor either a lighthouse or something
Then so they came out like Brown let's go let's go
We are going to pop there are going to be a lot of ladies coming
And then he told them that I am an elder
No he said first of all he said I am a Christian
And I am an elder in a responsible church called the church of pentacles
We don't go to the club and I am married so I will not go
Then the other pastor said so when they went to the other pastor
He said oh today I have a very strong headache
And he was lying
So he did that two days
And then the other Brown says Master tell them that you are a Christian
You don't have a headache you are a Christian you will not go
See so two different people
All of them did not go but one was a way side-hearted person
I am a Christian I don't go to club I am married I don't have time
Hallelujah
So our daily walk that's how we get our faith to work
Think about somebody who does not give value to the word of God
Who doesn't care about the word of God
And then the person I know you didn't hear what I just said
Then the person goes pray 25 hours a day for six months
Even if the person begins to show signs of power
We are looking at the long-term effect
The person's life will amount to unfruitfulness
That is why the beginning of ministry requires people who are faithful
Who are the faithful people who are people who are constant at the word
We don't look for people who are anointed
It's not anointed people go and read the Bible
First in the Bible there is one and I think that is just after two
When Paul was talking about the credentials to becoming a minister
He did not mention anointing inside
99% of the things he spoke about was character
It means that anointing is not so much needed for ministry like character
Character is more important in ministry than anointing
Now that's a very serious statement I make
Then he says about or the person should be a faithful person
Who has been taught the doctrine and he holds fast
Someone who holds fast to the word
I refuse to be a wayside hearted man
So I bring my life under the authority of the word
Alright so next next person
What is the next land
Man I was supposed to end up in the Old Testament
The way the time is going
So the next heart is a stony heart
What is the interpretation?
Ok so finish the reading
Some fell in stony places and then
So there was not much soil
So forthwith they sprang up
And because they didn't have roots or they didn't have deepness of earth
Sun was up
They were scorched
And because they had no roots
They withered away
Let's go to the interpretation
Uh huh
So the person hears the word uh huh
And he receives the word with joy
Yet does not build roots with the word
My God I can spend the whole night on this thing
Oh relax you're going too fast
So the person receives the word
He hears the word and he receives the word with joy
Now how many of us have ever received the word with joy before
So we all know how to receive the word with joy
Ok so
The fact that somebody is joyful at the word that is coming does not mean that the person is going to stay with the word
The person may even carry a chair and run through
Ah relax
It is not the excitement, the word begins to work after the excitement
That's what it's saying here
So when you heard you healed the sick and you prayed and you shooed
When the shaking is over
And you get up in the morning and you don't feel
I remember one of the last time we went to Papai Roku
That's when I nearly cancelled the meeting
Yeah yeah yeah
Hi
When I was in the car
In fact I struggled enough to bath and all of that
Then God be so good I finally got there
Now when I got there I was just in the car and I'm looking at all these people that are not my children
They are not my family members
Why am I, what am I worrying my life for?
What I mean is that I was so exhausted
So so so exhausted
So imagine it after you have prophesied the far reaching labor
And you are looking at taking the lambs
Now when you begin to face reality
That is where there is the determination whether the word will work or not
When you have gone out to the place
Worn souls and you are happy and you are happy
We are joyful
We've seen people healed and all of that
Now where to show that your heart is not a stony ground
Is your ability to now after you have walked for a while
Three, four times, six times
Then you sit in your home and you look at the genital paricoma and say rubbish
Is when you say that, when you are in that mood
That you begin to determine whether your heart is a stony heart or is a good heart
Like you say I'm tired, I'm not going again
I'm not going again
That is the time
You understand what I'm talking about
So he says that the person receives the word with joy
With joy
But the person is not rooted
Are we together?
So understanding in this scripture number one means considering
Number two, it means that deep rootedness
Are we together? Deep rootedness
When you have to go to church and your get up and go has already gotten up and gone
And you don't have what it takes
You are tired
And you still come
Then it means that you are preparing a good ground
You are preparing a good heart
So don't let the word of God be just hearing and jumping around
Are you understanding that?
Just hearing and jumping around
We are taking over the world then you jump
We are winning so then you jump
We are here this year, the sick will be healed like never before then you jump
This year we are going to prophesy to you and then you jump
This year we are going to learn and then you jump
After the 31st night and the first January meeting
There is also the 19th October
Where you have gone very far away from the prophecy
Are you understanding that?
Then there is going to be the proof of your real heart
So the heart is seen after the excitement
Let me say that again
The heart is seen after the excitement
That's why you can't build people by excitement
We can't build this church by partying
We can't build this church by constantly visiting the beach and having dinners and stuff like that
No!
Because it is after the excitement that we see your real heart
It is when we have
Let me come to us as workers
It is when I come to church and I'm expecting this whole road to be filled
Then I have three people sitting here
My ability to preach like the whole place is full
Is a character or a show of my heart
Because you see every person when you are ministering the place is filled up
Whether you are anointed or you are not anointed
There is something I call the bonancious anointing
It's a bonanza
Just seeing the people alone
You are anointed
Come on, hallelujah
So like we are three or four here
The missanua picks up the microphone and begins to sing
Is he singing like he is singing to three people or he is singing to a room that is filled
It is in that that you can see the true heart of the person
It's not when there are people and I throw my hand and what is falling
Hallelujah
I told you one way in the classroom
Or down there
There was one time I got anointed
I think it was a Sunday morning also
I came in and the church was littered with like three human species
I just sat in the car
I was going
I got to down there
Then I heard God talking to me
Where are you going?
That's one of the voices I am scared of
That's why I am not traveling
Because he waited for me to start and end up
When I am on the way they say where are you going?
So you know what I did?
You know that when you pass that there is another way
Now they seem to say
So I just turned
So after that I went in prayer one day
Then the Lord asked me
Can you pastor a church of five people for ten years and not be tired?
I sincerely speak
I told him no
I can't I am taking over the world
My church is not where two or three are gathered
I am a global minister
Hallelujah
It is in that that our heart is truly revealed
When you are playing the keyboard
There are only three people here
We are going to play it and pray in tongues
Or it is just because
And even the three people is not ministers
It is like three species
You know and the Bible we can't cheat the word of God
The Bible Jesus says that is how your heart
The texture of their soil is revealed
When it is revealed
You see truly truly we can never have any excuse when we meet God
Yeah we can't
If we are going to have New One Convention
How is the way you come for the meeting
Knowing well that the place is going to be filled up
And you are to lead prayer
You know that one you don't stand here
There are meetings that even when you stand here to pray the prayer will not go to heaven
Because you look at just three people you can't stand on top
The Bible says condescend to their level so you just condescend
Naga rakaza, barabara, shandala, barabara, barabara
New One Convention
Even when you were coming in you were struggling to enter
Boka, boka, boka, boka
You are firing tongues
That does not please God
I should be able to let you understand when the Bible says end
But without faith it is impossible to please God
What is faith?
Good ground
Hallelujah
That's faith, faith is good ground
What is faith? Not a wayside hut
You cannot please God with a stony ground
Remember the Bible says that when it fell there it sprang up
Read that part quickly, read that part, read that part
Men, men, men, men, men
Who has a different version?
They immediately sprang up
Immediately
Whenever you see things that spring up, they can even be ministries
Then the person says we started ministry in two years
We started with six in two years, we were three thousand
You don't call that grace, you call that stony heart
Stony ministry, stony hearted ministry
That's what Jesus is saying
That guy himself started with twelve and one was a devil
Then he moved to seventy
Then we are told five hundred, that was in three years old
Three and a half years, but listen, there was a point in the life of Jesus
He preached, when he preached, when he finished, every one of them left
It means that these things are typical of ministries
A message may come forth and people will stop the church
Or something can happen, people will stop the church
And then you have to start from ground up
Such churches that take time to grow, build people and take time to grow
Watch them, they never collapse
Somebody just go and sit in one tree or in one bush
And start a prophetic ministry or a prayer ministry
And in two, three, four, five years, they are looking for a study
I'm telling you, this guy who is selling so below thirty first night
That is why I had two million people
You are here, you will see, I can tell you
In three, four years time, all of them will finish
We were here, we saw the guy who plays at the wali in his church
What has happened to his church now?
Yeah, that is how it is, fought with, immediately springing up
Immediately springing up
When your faith cannot work
When your faith is an immediate springing of faith
Think about the fact that when you heard about you shall lay hands on the sick
The first thing that came into your head is that you are going to look for sick people to lay hands on
That is good
But after that, do you have a conviction
A sitting down at the feet of the world to build the understanding
It comes to a point that even when you are building the understanding, it looks like you are joking
Oh man, I feel the anointing in the house, I'm serious
Glory to God
Glory
Dr. Casey Price said that the Lord told him to start preaching faith
The word of faith
Telling people you cannot be sick and stuff like that
When he started preaching in two, three months time, he was hit by sicknesses left, right, center
Think about that
When he was not preaching about divine healing, he was very fine
When he started preaching, he started getting sick, getting sick, getting sick, getting sick, getting sick
And then he said I'm not going to change the word
Because his compatriots were preaching about prosperity, were preaching about money, were preaching about bring money to be doubled, give God, and you know, American and their own gospel
Yeah
And he kept on pushing it
Listen, don't be tired of being tired
Because of the word
Don't be tired of being tired
When there is no excitement, that is where growth begins
When there's no excitement
Listen, I told you this year, even if I come to church and it's only one person here, I'll still preach
Yeah
And I told you we are not going to make any frenzy
Flippant calls and bringing people, forcing them to church
No
Hallelujah
So what's the Stony Heart? The Stony Heart is the heart that does not have much air
Does not have much air, does not have much root, but then it sprang up immediately
It sprang up immediately
You know, there are a lot of us here
When we are going through the process of being
The process of our training or the process where our faith is being trained
The Bible talks about the testing of your faith
The Bible talks about it, but we'll get time to look at that
So when we are going through the process, we feel like this is so boring that that's how our life is going to be
Hallelujah
And as you are sitting here, you cannot imagine how we'll be having, let's say, 4000 people sitting to be hearing the word of God, the way we are now
If you see it is in vision, it's in prophecy, that's all
Nothing looks like it
You know, in a decade, in six years, in that, all of that is a prophecy, it's just something we are all seeing in the future
But now, we are walking all the way from, where?
Are you crazy? Are you okay? Are you normal?
We are walking from this place to that, are you crazy?
Even if I'm your old father, I will not let you go
Hallelujah
But it is through that process, you get hungry, you get sick, you get this, you get that
That you learn to trust God in that way
People from the scriptures who had buoyant faith and trust in God and got their faith working did not do that, their faith was not trained on silver platter
Come on
What I will say is, when the Israelites, man, we are out of time, when the Israelites, can I push a little?
Like 20, 30 minutes, when the Israelites requested for a king, God gave them Saul
He gave them Saul
Then the Bible talks of David, that God raised David
Two different things
When God was dealing with them by Saul, God told them that, hey, so Samuel went to God and said, God, and God says, hey, go and tell them
That if they become this, they go and say, we still need, the people said, we need a king like other nations
Then Samuel said, no, then God said, alright, alright, it's okay
Then God gave Saul
He gave, he gifted them, he gave, so it's a gift
I was trying to write a book that I have paused
You cannot be okay knowing God only by your gift
Are we together? Then the Bible says, and God raised
Saul that was given, how was Saul's life?
The father's asses got messy and they were looking for the asses and he went in and they prophesied to him, you are the next king
And whilst they were going, he said, oh, it's getting late, it's getting late, my father will be worried
It means somebody who has no training
What do I mean by training? People who are thinking about their mothers, their fathers, their fathers, their fathers will be worried, mommy will be worried
It tells you the person comes from a substantial home
The day they were looking for David to even put oil on him, he was in the bush
He could not be found
He was a resident, hey, one minute of madness is going, come, come
You are looking at here, I don't know what is, what you are looking, oh, you are thinking about the white
Okay, yes, you know that thing, I've explained that to you
So that day, David could not be found
He was there and he was wrestling with lions, bears, wild animals and stuff like that
This is somebody that is, is to be a king
Are there people, animals? No
Imagine if you ever met a prophet that said David is a king or will be a king
It will not make sense
Are you understand that? It will not make sense, somebody who is in the bush fighting with wild animals and stuff like that, how can he become a king?
Yeah, you understand that?
But David is the only king in Israel that never lost a battle
He never did
And you see, there is, to me, there is no king in Israel like David
He saw all the faces of life
He saw all the faces of life, ups, down, middles and stuff like that
And that day, that he had to go and fight, Goliath
The king looks at him and says, no, you don't have any experience
This guy has been a fighter from his youth
You can't, you need a young person to fight with first, but this is an experienced fighter, that's alright, king
I have been in the bush looking after my father's goats and sheep
One time, a lion came, I chased after the lion and I took the lamb from him
Another time, I killed a bear with my bare hands
Then the king said, what?
It means that all the bush strings
The day that the guy was hungry, the day that he prayed and he didn't work
The day he needed financial support from the Lord and the Lord said, hmm
The day that he was looking for whatever he didn't get
And all of that, the culmination of all those nasty experiences is equal to kingship
Hallelujah
That is the springing forth immediately
What is springing forth immediately? When you want to get it cozy
When you don't want to go through anything, any process, you need cozy, cozy, cozy
Hallelujah
You never got into a point where you doubted whether God is with you or not with you
Hallelujah
Now think about the people who say, I don't believe in God again
Why don't you believe in God again?
I prayed to God for school fees, he didn't cancel, there's no God
Really
And you think God is worried?
He himself, the Almighty, he sat down for his own child to die
And you think your school fees can trouble him?
No!
Today, I was at a mechanic shop and my auntie called me from Germany
And then she was sounding a bit worried
She said, what's wrong?
But this is somebody who goes to Pentecost in Frankfurt
I said, ah, I'm branty
I'm branty
And I said, football will be a very crazy natural
I said, and you're making me think
I'm going to be a philanthropist, I'm going to be a priest
I'm going to be a priest in Frankfurt
And he was saying all the good things about the garden
I said, well, I'm also pained if that is true
I mean, for a good person to go through that
But it does not show whether there is God or there is no God
Who was good than Jesus?
So just relax
Is he your son?
He said, no
He was talking about Pastor Elvis
You know
We think that the presence of God means no trouble
No!
So the stony heart is the heart that is not able to go through times
Faith does not just get built up overnight
Let me say that thing again and put it in capital letters
Faith, you cannot become a mighty healer overnight
You cannot become a very powerful preacher overnight
You cannot become a great man of God overnight
That will be a heart that is stony
That doesn't have much earth
The thing does not have much earth but it grows quickly
Think about it
The growth will happen on a good ground
But no, even on the good ground, there is no immediate springing up
Hallelujah!
Oh, I said hallelujah
Say, I go through process
I can say I go through process
So number one, to get your faith to be audacious, to get your faith to work
Number one, you must consider the work that you do
Number two, have patience for process
Hallelujah!
Have patience for process
Is that okay?
How do you get your faith to work?
Number one, consider the world
In everything that you do, consider the world
Even if God is telling you to do something against his own word, you can put God where he belongs to
And say you are becoming a devil, watch out
Consider the world
Number two, have patience for process
Don't quickly get up and say, this year nothing is working
Don't get up and say, nothing is working in my life
Are we together?
You begin to hear people, you see, I used to be like that
I would listen to people who have all kinds of sarcastic testimonies about ministry
When they started ministry, they said when we started ministry, we were two, we went into the place
We prayed for six months and we prayed we would take over this land
And as we kept on praying and we prayed and prayed, the Lord brought people, the Lord brought six people
And as the Lord brought six people, in the next six months we grew to 150
In the next six months we grew to 300
Then in the second year we grew to 5,000
This is a miracle
Now every church these days is buying church growth series
How to have a mega church, how to have international ministry, how to this, how to that, how to this, how to that
That is right now, it's like people are actually going to buy stones to put on their land
Stony heart, you see we need a heart of many stones
Because it is in that that there is a shooting up
Then the Bible says continue
No, no, no, interpretation of this, I'm still on the stony ground
Uh-huh, hear the word
And anoint with joy receive the word
Have no hero, uh-huh
Do you all read for a while, who has a different translation?
But endures only for a while
Think about somebody who says, man of God I'm with you
Till death do us part
Where you die, that's why I would die
See that's what I'm telling you, I'm not in a rush for many sons because the ones I have now
They are how I have done too much
So I have to work on, I have to finish work before I accept anyone
Somebody called me and said, man of God
I said yes, God has spoken to me, you are my father
I said go back to God again
Because God has told me this year is not giving me any sons
Now this guy that's calling me his father
I've already seen him posting some on Nigerian pastors on his status, my father, my father
Go to add me to it because you saw one video
No please, I'm not your father, go and ask your mother
Because the mothers know the real father, so go and ask your father
Because there's something that is called endurance for a while
There are people, they have time limits to the level of your endurance
They can be with you for a while, but when things are getting harder
They have to use their sense, nobody can come and kill anybody in this country
Hallelujah, since they endure for a while
So it means they will be enduring at the beginning, alright
They will be there for a while, they will be okay, alright, alright
The little hashi will come and say
God is taking us through
Three months, I think it's been like two years
They got to tell us this
Three years
Because the Lord is with you
The Lord is with you
Endure for a while, continue
When tribulation or persecution arises because of the word
By and back
It means they are leaving this not immediately
It means that when it comes they leave
It says by and by they get offended
So it's a by and by
Listen, if you are a man of God and you go through the word of God
You will see all kinds of people before you see them
It says by and by
The person will come to church every day with joy, happy, wonderful, loving
When trouble begins to come
They will come to church, they have a little bit of joy
Now sometimes you get to a point where
You see when people are leaving church
This is how you know, they are sitting position change
So like Lina, they have taken this place
Like the Abunavai property
Then you see
You see it will go here
It will go here for like three weeks or one month
Then it will go here, then it will go here
Then it goes to the last seat
I knew this thing
Before I saw a woman leaving PIC
She used to sit in the first row
No, second row, second row in the corner
I didn't know anything that was happening
One day I was leading prayer or worship or something like that
And I saw the woman had moved two lines backwards
Okay, then I saw this woman
She was somewhere in the corner
This month is the last month
She didn't come again
So that's how it is
Hallelujah
He says buy and buy
When you see people who are in their buy and buy state
You know them
Buy and buy state, you know them
They don't want to be committed again
They just want to put things in the hands of people
They just want to organize themselves
You know, like when you are about to travel
You just organize yourself and stuff
But you are not telling anybody
You are organizing yourself
The place you used to go, you would not be going there
You would not be calling people like a guy who is breaking up with you
Rubbish and nonsense excuse
Or a lady wants to give a
Why, why?
I have been calling for the past three days
You didn't answer, you didn't return the call
I said yes, I was frying stone
I was busy
What were you doing? I was frying stone
I was cooking stone, it's still not cooked
Then you know that when
Talking with you becomes boring
When you are talking to the person and now the person
Ah, it's serious
I remember my first relationship
When I was living the relationship
Inside my heart I was gone
Then one time the person called
So we were talking and I said
MTN says that he is leveled with my wife and he said
But I am the one who called
It's called buy and buy
Buy and buy
I was getting
What we were discussing
Was man, man, man
I am gone
With all this rubbish you are doing, I am gone
I said listen
So we were just talking
I said MTN says that I am leveled with one minute
I said ah, but I am the one who called
I didn't know what to say again
It's called buy and buy
Buy and buy
Say buy and buy
So if you get into
Buy and buy
Relationship, just know that
It's over
What are you doing?
You say I am frying stone
The whole day
You can't even see the lady online
You can't see the guy online
You will write online
You will send message, you will not take blue
Buy and buy
It's a buy and buy
So when the person do that, just write
It's your buy and buy, I know
I am going before you go, I am leaving you
Buy and buy
And you see people who live buy
Who live buy and buy
They take thoughts
They think and it's
They are thinking that it's making them buy and buy
So when the word comes
They received the ritual, in the beginning
They were very happy and we saw results
It's not like they didn't have
We saw results, but as persecution started coming
Offenses started
Troubles, tribulations started coming
There are a lot of people who are offended at God
There are a lot of pastors
Who are disappointed in God
But they don't want to say it
They are very disappointed in God
Because what God showed them, that's not what they are saying now
You know when God is calling
He doesn't show you all this
Come and talk to 3 people, 4 people, 5 people
No, God doesn't do that, He is wise
He deceives you
With crowd
Testimonies, I have not seen that
That is like you are preaching to
A multitude, there are a lot of people coming
Start it and see
So Jeremiah told the Lord
You deceived me and I was deceived
While he was calling Jeremiah
He told him
I have called you
To be a prophet to the nations
I have made you
A pillar of iron
You shall not be afraid of their faces
You will uproot, you will plant, you will build
You will destroy
By my word, see this day, I have put my word
In your mouth
For no man shall be able to stand before the Holy Spirit
And the guy said
Ah Lord, I'm a child
I don't want trouble
He said, say not I'm a child
For thou shall go
And be wherever I send it
That's where you are going to be, you will be among princes
Your world will have power
The guy said alright
Alright, let's get
Let's get started, God said alright
Let's go and give this word to this
God said alright, go and give this word
The guy goes to give the word
And they start beating him
Then they put him to prison, then he goes to God and says please
Please don't want to show me
Please show me if you have forgotten, please
If you are giving someone this calling to me
It's not, my own is that
I will uproot, I will plant
Where is the uprooting?
No, I think it's in Jeremiah 20
Have you had to?
You had that thing to talk to God
And say Lord
I think you are giving me somebody's call at this moment
He want me to go global
And you are giving me a call
No, that's not me Lord
Please
27
Okay
Listen
Oh Lord
Thou hath deceived me
And I was deceived
Thou art stronger than I
And you have prevailed
I am in confusion daily
Everyone is mocking me
For since I speak
I cried, I cried
Violence and spook because the word of the Lord
Was made a report unto me and there isn't daily
Did you see that?
Then he came to a point and said
Then I said I will not make mention of him
Nor speak any more in his name
But his word
Was in my heart
As a burning fire
Shut up in my bones and I was wary
And forbearing
And I could not stay
Did you see that?
But when God was calling him
God didn't say they will mock you
God did not add confusion
Jeremiah 1
See
God can vibe you
The vibing God
Then the word of the Lord came unto me
And said
Before I formed thee in the belly
I knew thee
And before thou cameest forth out of the womb
I sanctified thee
And I ordained thee
A prophet
Caller by a
Unto the nations
Then the world comes to a guy who says you were a global prophet
Caller by a
You see I made you
Before you were formed I made you a prophet
Then said I
Ah Lord
God
May Pachon share behold
I am
A child
I cannot speak
For I am a child
But the Lord said unto me say not
I'm a child
For thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee
And whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak
Be not afraid of their faces
For I am with thee to deliver thee
Say it the Lord
I'm with thee to deliver thee
Then the Lord put forth his hand
And touched my mouth
And I said work
Straight forth his hand and touched my tongue
And the Lord said unto me behold I'll put my words in thy mouth
See
I have this day set thee over the nations
And over the kingdoms
To root out and pull down
And destroy and throw down
And to build and to plant
You see
This was the calling
International
Bombastic prophet
But God didn't say you are going to get confused
In the process you will speak and they will mock you
All of that is in the package
But you, when you are
Selling something, do you sell the negative side?
God is a businessman, he can't sell the negative side
Do you know that
In the lifetime
Of prophet Jeremiah
Everything God said about him
Never came to pass
When we are doing a survey of the
Old Testament or of the Old Testament prophet
I will tell you that
It did not come to pass
Uprooting didn't happen
Rooting didn't happen
Planting didn't happen
All of them failed
But do you know the fulfillment of the prophecy?
The fulfillment of the prophecy
Was that
It was by Jeremiah's
Prophecy
That Israel was delivered
From the captivity of Babylon
After 70 years
And every word
Jeremiah spoke came to pass
After he was dead
It means that when God was telling you all the sweet things
God was not talking about a person, he was talking about his ministry
So you can be facing
Exactly opposite to what God has told you
And it's not because God's word has failed
It's actually the continuation of the fulfillment
As the first part
First part
See you can't walk with God
With excitement
No
You cannot be walking with God
With excitement
When you meet God, don't be excited
When God gives you word, cry
You have to tell him please I'm not interested
You have to let him force you
And do the work, cry
It doesn't sound sweet
He never told you on the baptism
That your head will be cut off
Prepare ye the way
Prepare ye for he shall come in the spirit of Elijah
He shall tend the heart of the fathers
To children and children to the fathers
He shall not eat any food
Wild only
Prophet, he's the greatest
Jesus himself said it
Of all men, he's the greatest prophet
He's the greatest prophet
Inside the thing
God never said your head will be chopped off
He said you will carry your head on a blitz
When you are about
When God is calling to follow him
Follow him, cry
In fact, follow God
First of all, start with disappointment
Know that you have been disappointed in life
Then follow him
So that when anything comes
You know, like when you have expectations
You're expecting Lena to call you
And all of that
When she doesn't call you, be angry
But when you know that, oh, this lady I'm going out with
She's a crazy person
She will not call me
I don't even need her call
When she calls you, you're okay
When she doesn't call you, you know her already
That's how life is
So that's how you follow God
That's why Paul says that
When the people gave offerings to Paul
Listen to what Paul says
Paul says that
I have learned to live in abundance
And I've learned to live in poverty
I can do all things through Christ
It means that whether you bring it again
Or you don't bring it again
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
So I don't want any expectations
You brought me one giving today
Now I'm expecting, oh, okay
The next month the giving is going to come
No, I have my budget already
The budget are two
To go hungry or to eat
So whichever way
I choose what I want to do
I say, well, I don't
It's very important
You see, this is not a message
That we hear now
We hear, come to God and you will increase
We hear, come to God, you become same ones
We hear, come to God and you will heal the nation
We hear, come to God, you will somersault
So that's the problem
Hallelujah
Stony heart
Don't you think God could have created the world in one day
The universe in one day
He used six days
And inside the days
Are billions of years
Yeah
Hallelujah
He took his time
God did not first create trees
Before he created land
Are you understand that
Land first, tree come from the land
Where he created everything
Then he created man
Because if you are not finished with the land
And he created man, he wouldn't have seen where to place man
It means that God took his time
Although he was God, he took his time
To build from the scratch
That's how it is
Don't live for a life of Saul, live for a life of
A life of David
And like we were saying
Look at the Psalms that David wrote
When David was in trouble
It was no news
He had been in the bush
When he was in a happy state, it was no news
He would sing Psalms unto God
When he was in a lower state, he would still sing
Psalms to God
So you don't bless God
Thank you Father, bless you Lord
You are my God, you are my God, you are my God, you are my God
Oh, the last day, when everything is well
When everything is not well
Because the good
Even your tongues, you don't understand
And God doesn't understand
That is a
Stony heart
Hallelujah
If you see somebody
Where, when there
Is no joy
The person still manages to be consistent
Mark that person out
His future has been lined out in the word
It would be
Come on, hallelujah
If you see somebody who has a strong prophetic gift
Especially
Maybe the person is called to be a seer
And the person still builds
Substance with the word of God
Closes the eye
And still stays with the word of God
And builds substance
Even at the point where he can simply
Just do like this
And see two things and money will come
And still say
Word
See that person
All this
Parambulating news
And
Sporadic explosions of
Ministers
I can tell you
5-10 years to come, they will be out of their system
I'm telling you
I saw one guy
Who told me he wants me to be his father
I saw
I saw my status today
He wants to become a reverend
And he's on a
Flyer
And I'm just wondering what is
Your face alone does not fit a flyer
What are you doing on a flyer?
And he's running a program
And I'm wondering
Who is going to be in that meeting?
And that program
He has about 6 different
Flyers
Like when we do, we do one
His own different flyers
I'm not joking in ministry
Hallelujah
Think about maybe we just have a meeting
Boom, then we just
We chronicle the testimonies
See, let's not be moved by excitement
Let's be moved by conviction
Because faith is conviction
And convictions are not built
Overnight
If you are serious about getting your faith
Man, the time is gone, can I do like
10 minutes? Let's look at the other
Let's look at the other
Quickly so that we can pray
Oh, I said we were doing this one
We revisit this on
Today is what? On Friday
Continue
Some fell among themselves
There is a thorny heart
So number one, there's a wayside heart
Number two, there is
A thorny heart and number three
There is a thorny heart
What's a thorny heart?
Interpretation
The thorny heart
Is the one who hears the word
The care
Of
This world
No, wait
The care of this world
Take the phone and throw it away
That's what you do
The care of this world
Not the care of the world
The care of this present world
It means the care
Of the things that have filled
The world, this world
What are some of the care of
This world? You see the care of this world
Is not the care of the world 100 years ago
Alright?
So the care
Of this world, what's the care of this world?
What are some of the cares of this world?
He says the what? Is it the care
Of the cares?
You have care
You have cares?
Oh, okay, so the different
Considerations of this world
What are some of them?
Marriage
Give birth
Degree
Nice job
Nice car
Build a house
One girl, one boy
Good clothes
iPhone
You know, get pictures
Get a serious, very
Sensible lighting in church
Wakes, nice building
What again?
Handsome boyfriend
Six-packed boyfriend
Vincested, sensible color
Must be good looking
Must be, she must be good looking
She must have everything
In Modrish
You know, good English
Must speak well
You know
Travel abroad because the country is hard
What again?
Let's mention a lot of them, rich home
Let's mention them
Let's mention them, I really want us to mention them
To help all of us
Nice hair
You know, what again?
Nice shape
The time that we are
We are even going to start a church in Opareku
You are in Teke
You are doing your tummy and you are doing your botans
You know, what again?
Let's say this thing
Bands, you don't want any other car
Bands, Lexus
You live your life
Your whole life
BMW
So right now, if you are a man, if you are a preacher
And you don't have a solid media team
You are under pressure
If you don't have anybody who can do flyer
You are under pressure
If you don't have any son who has
Or sons who have cars to show them that
Oh, that's my son over there
You are under pressure
A good choir
So you don't have a good music in the church
You are under pressure
Your sound, you are under pressure
See, the church
Must be air conditioned
You must find a way of getting
Air conditioned
Because you don't have air conditioned
Setting caliber of people who don't even come to the church
You understand what I am talking about?
Like the guy who, the person who told Gifty that he came to start a church in Opareku
He is selling his projector
Because he is not getting a place to have church
Meanwhile, the guy went before us
But now we have gotten a place to have church
Under any tree is a place for church
You don't have a place for meeting
You need a place
The only place you need for a church
Is where there is oxygen
Where the people can breathe
You see
Pressure upon pressure upon pressure upon pressure
Social media pressure
You understand?
So right now everybody goes to studio
When it's their birthday
So if you even have a boyfriend who is a Christian
Who is good
And the person who doesn't have money to take you to a studio
And all of that
You are under pressure
Valentine is coming
People are doing money bouquet
20 to 20 to 20 to 20 to bring to you
You are under pressure
These are the cares of this world
Massive wedding
You want a wedding that would be the talk of town
It is the cares of this world
When you meet
We meet a guy who is sensible
Holy pure
Who loves the Lord serious in a local church
Under the authority of the Lord
Under the authority of a man of God
A guy who is
Who fears the Lord
Who has future
Who has plans
But because things are not set now
You don't want that
Maybe that person may be your guy
Now you say please I'm not ready now
Because you see we need
That is the cares of this world
The Bible says anyone who loves the world
The love of the Father is not in him
Massive Christianity is serious
Can you marry a guy
Who tells you that you know what
Let's go and know what your parents want
The list that they want
All the list is equal to 6,000
Garas cities
By all the list you find one
Something to wear, you go there
And then they marry you
Sunday you say our wedding
We'll come to church and give thanks on Sunday
Sunday you come and stand here I pray for you
Bless this marriage oh Lord
Our brother and our sister got married
Yesterday in their hometown
Some of us were sent there
We went there and they are done with the marriage
And you can still feel complete
In the marriage
Can you decide you want to marry
In reception you will not put bail on
Somebody's head that right now reception
Is 30,000 Garas cities
There is no reception
Count for the wedding for 2 hours and go home
Why you go to church
The pastor is talking for 5 hours do I share food
No, go home
You came for 2
You want something I'm talking about
You know
It's serious
You still wear your ring in boldness
That I'm married to the best guy
Hallelujah
In the case of this world
Like there's pressure on your head
To prove to who
So that is a turning hand
When you see somebody
Who is living
Whose concern
Is always about extravagance
The person's faith cannot work
That's what it's teaching here
If you see somebody
If you are about to marry a man or a woman
You know because marriage is a man and a woman
Alright so when you want to marry
And the person is extravagant
You just have to know that
You just have to tell the person I will not do again
Go away
Are you understanding that
Once I was saying
If you don't have a car you can't come close to me
Really
You will marry your
No soul
But it's very important
So these things
Like somebody who
Like when your phone gets missing your life is
Missing
When your phone got spoiled your life is
Pult
You felt incomplete
When you see people like that
Except they change
They cannot have a good life
A good life here I mean
A life that
Has saved results
You cannot be serious about healing the sake
And be caring about wigs
So your care for wigs
Is enough a proof
That you are not serious with the healing ministry
I'm not talking about living a shabby life
No
You are looking
Forward to building
A ministry
And
Your concentration is on car
You can't
Think about it
Anybody who enters into ministry
He is looking for a car to drive and stuff like that
Their ministries don't last
That's what we are talking here
If your
Desire
For God
Is based on things
Even if see if your relationship with God
Is based on things
You can't go far with God
Because anytime you are going to pray to God
You are talking about things
You can't go far with God
Come on
Are we together here?
And that is a thorny heart
So a thorny heart is the heart
That has a lot of
Cares of this world
When the word comes he receives it
He receives the word
For example we are going out to win souls
On the 14th of February
14th of February
Your boyfriend says let's go out
The cares of this world
Is very simple
You are birthed on your birthday
The pastor says we are fasting
They say no
It is actually
Myself and my boyfriend
We are going to chill
You know what?
Jesus is not missing words
I am not trying to make this thing fun for you
He is not missing words
Christmas we need to
Stay with family
We need to enjoy a familiar environment
And your pastor is as crazy
As qualms us when he says that we are going out
To plant the church on Christmas
On Christmas
Sir Christmas
Christmas
To go out
You let me go out
I will come
The cares
It means that such a
When we have people who make excuses
For coming to church
Joining meetings, joining fastings
And stuff like that
When we see them we are looking at
Thorny hearted people
What happens to them when they receive the word?
What happens to them?
The word cannot work
They
Choked the word
So anytime the word is sewn into their life
The word dies
They try to come up
Then something comes up
Then they go down
You can see the person is very prayerful
For a while later
Two, three, six months down the line
Every fire is dead
That word has been choked
So if you see somebody
Let's go to church, I'm going here
Let's do this, I have this meeting
See Timothy
Walked with Paul for five years
Now he has not gone home to see his family
Five
Where are you going to?
My grandmother is saying
I should come and meet her
Where are you going to?
My mother is saying
I should come
Where are you going to?
My brother is saying I should come
Where are you going to?
But listen
It's very important
I'm not saying
Estricate yourself, no
But listen
When that becomes your care
You can't go far with God
That's what Jesus is saying
If you can't wear
And old shoe
Polish and old shoe
For a new program
You are not serious
I'm not coming for the program
Are you getting that?
Like the people who give birth
They give birth to three months
Or three months
So it's not about birth
I'm talking about a lifetime
I'm not talking about the time
I was born
I'm not talking about the time
I gave birth
You have the interpretation of my tongue
Three months
You have given birth
And two weeks you are home
You will give back on Monday. Sunday you didn't come to church. What's wrong with you? My child is still small.
You will give back on Friday. Sunday we will put the baby in a baby's court. We will come to church and celebrate in church.
Hallelujah! Yeah! You'll give back on Sunday streaming service whilst you are pushing.
Look at her. She thinks I'm kidding.
Where from these traditions that when you give back, you have to wait for 3 months before you come to church.
3! 90 something days. Will your name still be in the book of life?
90 days. Home! No soul, no prayer, no bible, no fasting, no nothing. Hey! You are in hell. You are not about to go to hell. You are there already.
Think about it. The cares of this world. You give back. 90 days you are home.
The unpartnerable sin. The unpartnerable sin Jesus spoke about. That is it.
That is it. The unpartnerable sin is when you give back 3 months you are home. It's serious.
Serious. You give back 1 month you are home. Why? You marry and you are going for honeymoon. How many? 1 month.
You are going to have sex for 1 month. What's wrong with you?
Oh my God! The cares of this world. You marry on Saturday, Sunday you are in. If you want to go for honeymoon, Wednesday mid-week come.
What is so special about honeymoon? What is honeymoon?
A moon for honey. No. The cares of this world.
See the way the guy is looking at me. The cares of this world. I'm serious. That's what Jesus spoke about.
See somebody told Jesus to come and follow me and the person says that.
Anacasu, he says go and bring the people. Go and tell them to come and have a party.
One of the excuses that I have married, I have freshly married. I have married a new, I have married my wife fresh.
So I have to spend time. It's in the Bible. Luke 14 or something like that I believe.
Yes. He said I have married fresh. Someone said I have bought a plot of land. I have to go and look at it.
Someone says I have married fresh. So I have to spend time with my beloved, my love, my wife.
Spending time with your wife because you have married fresh is against the kingdom.
That's what the Bible says. And Jesus says okay if they will not come, go into the streets.
Bring the lane. Bring the main. It means that if you continue enjoying your wife by the time you come, we should take you off where you belong.
A cripple should fill the place. You know what that means? A cripple is more important than you to somebody.
Do you know what I'm talking about? A blind person is more important than somebody who has a relationship with the master.
And when the master was calling, he was enjoying marriage. That's what Jesus says.
He says bring them so that the house can be filled. Do you know what that means? When you come there will be no place for you.
You go there and I'm going to marry. Alright, you have married. Three months we are not seeing you. You are going for honeymoon.
Then you are on water. Then you are taking picture. Are you a kingdom person at all?
Say a man of God says I need to spend some time with my family. A man of God takes one month to leave.
We cannot reach him. His phones are off. Where is he going to? He's going to enjoy life with family.
Who told you if you are a man of God you have life? You don't have life. Jesus says these who are sitting here, they are my mothers, they are my fathers, they are my parents, they are my brothers, they are my children, they are my everything.
Now that you are growing, these are the messages you need. And Jesus says when you see somebody do that,
the person really has a long standing faith. The person's faith is going to be sharp.
Come on. So you will not just get up and be raising the dead. Like water. Are you understanding that?
These are things, the cares of this world. The cares of this world.
You need to look at this. This is a sister who prays in tongues. A sister who loves the Lord. A sister. Then this is a more sheikh sister in church who doesn't really love the Lord like that.
Somebody said that I don't want a wife who is on fire. This is a pastor. He says I will not marry a lady who is on fire. I like a lady who is homely.
You don't like a lady that is on fire. You like a lady that is on water.
Jesus says that those who are not born, except the man who is born of water and sweat, they shall not see the kingdom.
That statement that Jesus said, the interpretation is the person. He shall not see the kingdom.
You don't know how can you be a Christian, in fact a man of God, a preacher, and you don't want a lady that is on fire.
Say I don't want my lady to be on the forefront of ministry. You want the lady to be at the back of ministry.
What is wrong with you? What is your love life? Where are you going with it?
I don't want a lady on fire. I want a lady that says, ah! You say, ah! That's the lady I want.
I don't know. You see pastor, you are training people, using people for evangelism. Then his children are schooling in America.
When they come from America, they will come and sit in front. Not in my ministry.
As I am winning, you are winning. If you like, don't learn. Your prominence will be in church.
You can fail in your example, but you don't fail in God. See, it sounds very funny to you.
You don't know the church you are inside. Okay. Everybody's child will be a preacher.
Everybody. Your children will not go to school in America. And your Parukon people children will be there.
No. Hallelujah. You will not. No, no, no, no. As we are moving, you are moving.
Hallelujah. Mosquitoes are biting. It's Friday. The moment you finish, you finish the week.
Friday, if you are going to have Christians somewhere, you carry yourself.
Leave your assignment home. When you come, when they will beat you, you will be fine.
In the next 10, 20 years to come, you will not have such people, most of them in church.
Because it will be getting more lukewarm. So now is the time.
Yeah, now is the time. Do you know that our forefathers were ahead of us?
Their children, the way they treated their children. It's very different from how a lot of people are treating their children today.
A pastor's son got involved with me and we were doing ministry.
The guy was praying, fasting, blah, blah. And the pastor says, I want you to do medicine.
Forget about church. You will not be a pastor.
How can a pastor advise his own child against ministry?
He said, when, when apostles' children are coming, the man is in pentacles.
When apostles' children are coming and they are saying, this one is in Australia, this one is in Canada, don't you...
Pastor!
You understand what I'm talking about? Yeah.
My child will do ministry.
And listen, I will not throw people's children to the culture to go and do ministry and throw my child to America.
No.
You will feel it. Everybody will have his own share of the cake.
You will be to the culture and you will be to the north because you will stay closer to the anointing.
Go and die, we will bury you.
Hallelujah. The cares of this world.
And the next thing is that, and the deceitfulness of riches.
The unquenchable appetite for riches, the penchant for riches.
Covash Day. This is the word I'm telling you.
I will need to play this message, I will play this message even above any other lovely new creation message.
This is a real new creation message.
Penchant for money, penchant for wealth.
You have this insatiable appetite.
Now, you see, when you don't have money and you can't live, you have a tiny heart.
Faith cannot do well with you. Find another business.
If when you have money you are not complete, you begin to, it's like something is missing, you are shaking.
You can't do a lot with God. Stop all this, we are healing the sick and stuff like that. Just go and find.
You'll be fine. Collect coins, you'll be fine because you need money.
You can't serve God and still have appetite for wealth.
I want to say that again. You cannot be serving God and still have appetite for wealth.
I didn't say you can't serve God and not be wealthy. I know that's what you want me to say.
But I will not say that one. You cannot love God.
And Jesus said you can't serve God and mammon. You can't serve too much.
You can't serve God and money at the same time.
You will love the one and you'll leave the other.
So the love for wealth is the living of God.
A tiny heart. A heart with penchant for wealth.
And he says, listen, it's called the beseechfulness of riches.
Oh my goodness. First of all, in chapter 6, verse 10. Let's try in close.
Are you here with me everybody?
For the love of money is the root of all evil. Continue.
When men were looking and converting after, were lasting after, I don't know if you have a different version.
Who has a different version?
The greedy desire for. What version is that?
Okay.
They have one debt. It means that the beseechfulness of riches, the end result of a tiny heart is what?
Wandering away from the faith.
That's what I'm telling you that you cannot have the love for money.
You can't, the beseechfulness of riches, you can't have that tiny heart and still be able to finish with faith.
Like how Paul would say, I have fought a good fight.
Alright. Then he says, I've kept the faith. You can't say at the end of your life you have kept the faith if you have a tiny heart.
Hallelujah. Come on. Hallelujah somebody.
So there are a lot of pastors with tiny hearts.
A lot of men of God with tiny hearts. There are a lot of pastors with tiny hearts.
What is tiny heart?
In the case of this world. In the case of the men of God who are in competition.
Silent competition. You see the way they talk.
Oh right now, the last time we sat about 470,000 people.
The last time we were checking our membership was 350,000 people.
And in America alone we are getting close to 1 million. But you know, it's all the grace of God.
It's all the grace of God. It's all the grace of God. And you are talking about it like that.
Even our own way of categorizing men of God shows that we have a tiny heart.
Who is a successful man of God today?
One with a big chain, many branches.
He is a very big man of God in this country.
A very big man of God we are talking about. The first ascension is not the word.
The first ascension is his church.
Oh, thanks be to God. When we started church we were really struggling.
Now we are very successful. We are very successful.
We have 20 million branches in the world.
And I'm telling you that the offering alone for one Sunday is 179 million dollars every Sunday.
And that's huge. That's huge.
The Lord has blessed this church. The Lord has blessed.
In this church we have doctors, we have lawyers, we have financial pundits, we have business gurus and muggles.
We have all kinds of people in this church.
This church is a big church. The chief justice is in this church.
The president is in this church.
Every kind of rich person in the world attends this church.
We are a successful church. That's your definition of a successful church.
That's your word there. You have a Tony heart.
Think about somebody who will say that I will not go to a church that is younger than me.
But they are comfortable with doctors that are younger than them.
Tony heart. Say may I not have a Tony heart.
So if we are talking about the audacity of faith, hallelujah.
In the understanding of the gospel we must know it takes understanding.
And what is that understanding?
See, that gospel that gets our faith to be that audacious, our understanding of the gospel, this is the life we live.
It's not just because we heard the gospel, we heard the gospel, no.
No. It takes, you see, deep-seated convictions of the gospel.
Continue, continue, continue.
There are ideas. Can I do like five minutes then we'll close?
Can we do five minutes?
Okay.
They pierce themselves through and through with many sorrows.
Many people have broken hearted.
Think about it.
Right now, people, especially people of the world, your celebrities, they will say,
if you don't have a house, if you don't have a car,
you can't do business, you can't do anything.
So you can say, my business, I don't know what my business is.
My business, or trouble, I mean,
or East Ligondan Barco, or Nightclub,
or our own little camp, or Bobra, or Bobra, or Bobra Pa.
That's what they say.
Piercing yourself through and through with many sorrows.
Some pastors will die the day God says,
no pastor should take on the real. They'll die.
The day God will say that no pastor should take this, they'll die.
A man of God says, I will curse you for all the labor I've labored in your life.
I will curse you. Why?
I said,
Hallelujah. You pierce yourself with many sorrows.
So that is a thorny heart.
You can't get your faith working if you've got a thorny heart.
Hallelujah.
The business is here.
7,800 cities flat, the beginning salary.
And the business requires that you never step into church.
Will you do or you will not do?
Because you're a man of God, I'll be sending my money.
I'll be giving.
We need money.
Money maker, protocol breaker.
There's nothing you can do.
You have overdue.
Then that's such a useless job.
You come and give testimony in church.
A friend said, alcoholics company, you can't smoke.
You have to smoke.
You have to be clean.
Listen.
Our faith becomes audacious.
When number one, we don't have what heart?
A wayside heart.
It means that we don't have a heart that does not consider the word of God in everything.
Number two, I have to continue this message.
Yeah, I have a lot of things to tell you.
Number two is what?
Having patience to go through process.
What heart is that?
The stony heart.
Number two.
Number three.
A thorny heart.
What's a thorny heart?
A heart full of the cares of this world.
And number two, a heart that cares about the deceitfulness of riches.
Finish that interpretation and let's finish.
Let's close.
You know, when the Bible told us that we should lay out our treasures in heaven, that's what it's talking about.
He didn't say live in abject poverty.
He didn't say that don't do anything in life.
He's saying that let your concentration, your focus be rightly placed.
Hallelujah.
Read it. Let's finish it.
So when you have these two things, what happens?
The word gets choked.
And what happens?
He becomes unfruitful.
It means that he says he becomes.
Now he constantly, now he becomes by his constant penchant for money and deceiving of riches and the cares of this world.
Now he assumes a different state which he was not originally meant to be.
That is unfruitfulness.
How many rich people we have in churches who are not fruitful?
Plenty.
Never one or so.
They don't pray.
When they come to you, they don't pray in tongues.
They don't pray.
Like somebody is lifting up a worship, lift up your hand.
You may see them, they try and sometimes they come for Sunday services.
And of course sometimes once every three months, midweek services in their mind, it doesn't exist.
They don't go for midweek services.
When there is harvest, we go and give them letter, fundraising, and they will come and sit on this one.
How do you call it?
They are, they will sit on the stage and they are the chairman and they are coming with their pot belly, lack of fasting, lack of prayer, lack of fire.
Right now if you are a rich person and you get to church, one, two, three, no, you become an elder.
Why?
Because money must flow.
Lift up your two hands and be upstanding.
Lift your two hands up.
Yes.
blanket.
Regardless of what Ramadan says, which is a brothers prayer or a sisters prayer.
Not push.
You have to open up your mouth and pray in tongues.
Praying in tongues.
Now, open up your mouth and pray in tongues.
Lord this heart is yours.
This heart is yours.
I cannot on yours. My heart is
yours. My heart is yours. My
heart is yours. My heart is
yours.
Shant steer that stop of our
way lord we will consider we
will understand we will
consider your word we will
consider we will consider that
do have controls over the
cares of the world and the
deceitfulness of riches. We
receive the help to humble
ourselves and the authority of
the word. That our faith will
be that audacious that our também
will be that audacious that our
faith will be not audacious that
our faith will be not audacious
that our faith will be not
audacious that our faith will be
I'm
Just lift up your two hands. I
want to say something from the
word that you have received.
Make a vow. Make a promise. Set
your mind on the lord and tell
him something from the word of
god that has come to you.
The word of god. but because
shan't tell ever this.
Baber Baber Baber. Baber Baber
Baber. Baber Baber. Baber Baber
Baber. Baber Baber Baber.
Baber Baber. Baber Baber Baber.
Baber Baber Baber.
Thank you. Father. May we give
our hearts will constantly be
over our lives. May our heart
not year for forbidden fruits.
May our heart be for you all
the days of our lives. May our
heart be a good ground. Even as
we follow the word and the
word trains our heart in the
name of Jesus. That our heart
will not be a wayside heart.
That our heart will not be a
twenty-one but that our heart
will be a good ground. A good
ground for your word. A ground
where your word is able to make
us fruitful. That we will
increase and produce results in
faith. In the name of Jesus.
Thank you father. We bless you
for the help of the spirit. In
the name of Jesus. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.