I Nearly Died This Week. Here's What Changed Everything.

I found someone who really cares. So Jesus came my way. He took my hands and said, this is your day. And the word that I love is to pray from day to day And the power that I want is to keep you on my way But I kept holding on and on I'm holding on. I'm holding on to you. I feel so good on me myself. I've only found someone who really cares. So Jesus came my way. He took my hands and said, this is your day. And the lesson that I learned is to pray from day to day. And the power that I've learned is to keep me on my way. But I kept holding on and on I'm holding on Holding on to you But I kept holding on and on I'm holding on I'm holding on to you. I holding come to you in the mighty name of Jesus This morning, I just want to give you the praise, the honor that you deserve, my God, for you are God. There is no one like you. No one can even be compared to you, my God. that is why this morning I just want to thank you I want to thank you for a time where we can gather in your name and exalt your name because your name is worthy to be exalted especially seeing that I had a tough week after or let me say behind my back a week that almost sent me to the so as ons sê, David die Witlippe in Postmansburg a week wat my amper Witlippe toe besteed het maar al wat ek weet is, ek kan nie die Heere dankie sê dat die Heere is getrou die Heere ken sy weer vir my en hy weet wat leg voor vir my maybe you think you think that he is a winner but he is actually a winner he was a winner on the Christ of God and that's why we can stand and say that Jesus is a so as you my and my last time geseen het, Ivers, is alles oor Jesus. Dit gaan nooit rarig oor myself nie, want ek is maar net a mere vessel. I'm only but a vessel. I'm a vessel that God is using in a time like this. And the vessel that God is using is somebody that goes through a lot and still surviving a lot. Because if I can say to you that we are alive because of the grace that Jesus has for you And remember I need you to understand this and I need you to get it thoroughly or to get it clearly that Jesus is the one that has made me to stand here. Jesus is the one that this is all about. And I want to greet each and every one of you under the sound of my voice, whether you are a leader, whether you are just a member, whether you are just a visitor, I just want to greet you in that name, the name that is above every other name, the name Jesus. So as much as it sounds like I'm bragging, but I'm not bragging in myself but I'm standing here because of Jesus Jesus the altar and the finisher of my faith the altar and the finisher of my faith the one that took me out where I've been and set me up where he wants me to be just a little bit of a testimony I went to I went to Free State this week and I went there when I went to Free State I was such a ball of joy I was I was I was happy man you know when you are happy doing things and then suddenly my life just changed in a blink of an eye. And when I say to you in a blink of an eye, I literally mean within a few minutes I found myself in a hospital fighting for my life. About three head wounds. arm that was scratched but God has been faithful he has been faithful and being faithful I mean he literally was faithful The only thing I could think of when I was in that hospital bed, what about my children? Imagine, if I would have died, I was just thinking of the children. And I'm grateful, so grateful, for being alive. But with no further ado, I want to take the time and reiterate to you, last week we were speaking on a topic that you are not lazy, you are a lot more. And for some, I can say you are really lazy. because when your family has taught you that every Sunday you should be in church, but up till today you're not. You know, we grow up in a family where on a Sunday, whether you are drunk, babalas, or whether you have just come in now from wherever you were, but by the time it's church time, everybody goes to church. When I look at today's lives, no wonder Jesus has been taken out of the schools. No wonder Christianity has been taken out of the schools because you're taking Jesus for granted. That is the reason why you're not in church. It's the reason why you are where you are. It's the reason why you literally have so many things happening in your life. And you keep on asking, why is things not going? Or why is things not going according to plan? but I can tell you now the reason why things is not going according to plan is because you don't put Jesus in your plans and I might sound harsh today I need to say this because of this is the things that makes you to go down or be lifted. Jesus says these words, I will be lifted. And as I'll be lifted, I will draw men unto me. So who are you drawn to? Is the one that you lift up. and the one that you lift up is the reason why life is so hard, because you keep on lifting up Satan in different ways. You keep on lifting Satan up. You keep on making him the one that you keep on talking. Whenever you say, oh, Satan, this, it's a call unto him. And that call unto him is actually putting the emphasis on him. The Bible says, let the weak say I'm strong. So when the Bible says, let the weak say I'm strong, even though you are in the situation where you are, even though you are weak, confess that you are strong. Even though you are poor, confess that you are rich because in doing that, you're glorifying Jesus. You're glorifying Jesus. So when you glorify Jesus, it's like I don't know if you ever heard about this the saying that says that when you are when you are praising God inhabits the praises of his children so when you're complaining, you're not praising God. So, when you're complaining, you actually pushing God out or Jesus out of your life Because when you complain the glorification doesn go to Jesus So the emphasis today is to let you know that when the weak say I'm strong, it means that it draws the strength from Jesus. You know, when God inhabits the praises, it's like, let me explain to you this way. When you praise Jesus and God is inhabiting the praises of his children, but remember the Bible says that the earth is his footstool. So when he's happy with your praises, have you ever heard when your best song is played? Or did you ever see that? For some reason, you just tap your feet on the beat. Because you are happy with that sound. now when I come back to God inhabits the praises of his people it means that where he's sitting with the earth being on his footstool and inhabiting the praises of his people it means that his feet goes like this with every sound oh God you are so good oh God you are awesome And his foot will stem. And then that's the reason why when you as a person that doesn't know God, suddenly your world is shaken up. And when your world is shaken up, you don't understand, why is my world turning upside down? Why is things not going? is when Jesus is actually inhabiting the praises of his children so that when he hits that, the world starts to shake. And the ones that is not in unison with the praises that goes on to God you are the one that gets shaken off You are the one that feel the pain You are the one that feel the tremble. You know, when somebody is in a situation that you feel like your world is upside down, Nothing is coming right. You should be asking your question. The question, I mean. You should be asking the question. Am I at the right place? Am I at the right place? Because when you are inhabiting or when you are praising God, it's where you cannot be shaken off. You cannot be shaken off. And when you cannot be shaken off, it's because you are in unison with the beat of God. Because if you go down and God go up, it means that when He comes down, He will shake you up. It's like a rhythm. If I can speak to you about a trampoline, When there's a few people on a trampoline, if they don't jump all of them at once, it means one will break his legs or will fall off the trampoline. It's the same thing with God's people. When they're praising God, it's like that trampoline. When all of them go up and all of them go down and all of them go up and the trampoline does not make a difficulty in them jumping, is how God is actually stepping his foot on this earth. by inhabiting your praises and keep on bouncing. Oh, bounce, bounce, bounce. And for some of you don understand why life has been so hard It because you forget your first love And Jesus should always be your first love. Whatever you do should either be a question, am I glorifying God or am I not glorifying God? So whenever you do something, when glorifying God, it will not hurt others. You will not be able to do things in a manner of being out of alignment with God. So when I say to you this, I want you to understand the urge to be in God's presence. Because for far too long, you have not been going even to a place where somebody glorifying Jesus. whenever you go to your table when you eat it's almost like as if you just want to just want to take the food and start eating and for some reason you are actually killing yourself you are killing yourself so let me go back to the the thing that I was saying to you, I said to you, you are not lazy. You are a lot more. And this is the part two of my last week's message. But I want to reiterate to you the fact that I said to you, you are not lazy. I said to you, you have not get into a situation of life and death and that is the reason why you're still not following christ you have not come to a path where it's either jesus or dying it's the reason why you have come to a place whenever you are how do you call it um when you you see some people say okay life is good I have money I have a car I have a house everything is still fine but do you know that the moment God remove his hands it has something that I can tell you that will shatter your world. Jesus just needs to lift a finger and said, this one is not glorifying me in whatever you have. So I just want to lift my finger and all things come tumbling down. everything will come tumbling down but because god is still showing mercy and grace towards you is the reason why you are still where you are now you might be asking me what do i mean by this i said you are not lazy because there's certain things that is not inspiring you to move towards where you want to be or where God wants you to be. I mean, getting up in the morning, there should be something that should motivate you to get up. If there's nothing to motivate you to get up, you will not get up. You know, one thing I can brag about, and I brag about it because I want Satan to know that he doesn't have a hold over my family. And when I brag about it is that when I wake up in the morning, I sometimes don't have a drive to get up. But just the mere fact that I see my wife is awake and doing things make me feel bad make me feel motivated to also get up and start doing something because she already busy But some take it for granted All my kids take it for granted. That I can guarantee you. They think that when they wake up, the food must be there. They think that when they get up in the morning, there must be electricity. they don't have a clue where all these things come from or how much effort we have, or not we, but myself and my wife has put in to get this. They're not lazy. Their life has never been shaken to wake them up, to see that there's something that I can tell you That might be of a difficulty. And for some reason, I love the way that things happen in life to wake us up. like the thing I've told you about me getting into Bethlehem, the next thing, finding myself in hospital, sitting there with three wounds to the head, dizzy, can't remember a thing. These things need to happen to get us to wake up and have gratitude. gratitude towards how do you say what we have in life you know some of the things we don't have but the things that we do have if we are more grateful for that there will be more things to be grateful for it's just because we're focusing so much on what we don't have is the reason why what we have sounds too small or it feels too small. It really feels small when you wake up in the morning and there is a pub you think it there it's just it should be there but have you ever waken up in the morning when there is pub but your mouth cannot chew because of the injury in your mouth you can't swallow you will be grateful for the pub that is there but you will realize that healthy is better to have recap to our last meeting or our last week's message I said to you go to the end and be wise. And what I mean is not go to the last part. I mean the end, which is an animal and be wise. And this can be a double meaning. Because if I say to you, the end, go to the end, Look at when you chose to blow out your last breath. And you see what you are doing now does not make sense. You will really feel like, wow, if I love my life to the last and I hear the... Eulalie. What do they call that thing? Eulalie. Is that thing that you are by the funeral and they sound your praises or they... It's Eulalie, I think. Okay, but that doesn't matter. The thing I'm saying to you is that imagine here is your coffin and somebody speak about you. Picture this. this one I've never seen him in church but today I must come and bury him this one you know the last time I spoke to him he just said through his teeth and I couldn even hear the last time I asked him to do something he said to me no Imagine a praising eulogy I think it's eulogy, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know what they call that thing. But imagine somebody standing at your funeral and talk so much nonsense. That is the truth. not to say they're talking nonsense Mark remember everywhere in a funeral you will always hear he was this good person but what if there's somebody that is asked to come and speak on your funeral but only know the bad side of you he only know the way you hit him and the guy will say you know that day I was just asking him for a piece of bread and the next thing, I was on the floor. He hit me so hard because I just asked bread. A mere bread. I didn't ask bologna or I didn't ask meat. I asked bread. Then you're looking at the end and you start thinking to be more wiser today. So that when the end comes, I have lived my life fulfilled. I have lived my life to the best. But getting back to the scripture that says the following, Go to the end, your sluggard, consider it ways and be wise. go to the ends meaning to say that you should go and observe what the ends are doing daily and by doing these things that the ends are doing daily or looking at what they are doing you will learn a few things you will learn number one to be diligent So you work tirelessly. Then to go to the end, it's seeing how they cooperate with each other and working in unity. That's the looking at the end, what is happening. Then when you're looking at the end, you're also looking at number three. They overcome the obstacles because sometimes they have to pick up things that is even triple the size that they are. And they don't stop there. They keep on moving because that's what they have to do. Then I said to you, you also need to work in humility and serving others. So you need to be humble like an ant, not knowing that or not working selfishly. that's what I said to you because the Bible says in Philippians 2 verse 3 it says do nothing out of selfish ambition and vain conceit then I said to you number 5 which is the one I said to you I need a whole sermon for you it's to utilize your planning and foresight an ant plant I mean an ant gather in the summer knowing winter is coming but have you ever look at your life and ask yourself life is there something that I need to look forward to Is there something I need to look forward to? I feel a little bit dizzy. Would it be fine if I sit down and preach It's one of the reasons why when life gives you lemon you make lemonade. Amen. When life gives you lemon you make lemonade. you make lemonade. So now today let's take it to the next part. And I said to you the second part will be About how would you overcome this laziness? How would you overcome this laziness? So now you understand you need to go to the ends. And see the ends ways and be wise in it. But if you, as a person, want to go there, how do I do this? How will I be able to not be lazy? Let me say it that way. Not to be lazy. Not to be lazy is sometimes had to do with a lot of things and a lot of things that can help you I'm trying to see if I if I put anything here but I see I have not done so. How to overcome the laziness concept. is number one, which I have not noted on my things. The number one is to have a vision. If you know where you are going, any obstacle that gets thrown in your way will stop you if you don't have a vision. Because that obstacle is the one that will now not letting you go forward. So you have to have that. If you want to go to Joburg, if you can't find a taxi or you don't have a car, does that stop you from going to Joburg? It does not stop you. Because you know for a fact that if I get to Joburg, somebody will give me a hundred thousand rent. Would I then be saying I don't have money? Because I know I'm going to get a hundred thousand rent. The motivation behind it will make it so nicely. You know, the motivation will be like, ah, let me go to next door neighbor. Go to the next one. Please, my man, I just need 10 rand to go to Jovig. When I come back, I'll give you. You are so motivated knowing that you'll get 100,000 rent. And when you come back the 10 run that you have borrowed. It doesn even matter because now that 10 run you will then use it and somebody give the guy a 20 run You see it motivating you to go forward But what is it that is motivating us today It's the things that does not make sense in God's eyes. And that is the reason why we are lazy. And another reason I can help you to overcome the laziness is to start small and build up a momentum. When I say starting small, do you know it's the hardest to start? Let's start a business. Bishop, it took you very long to start a business. You were contemplating, you were contemplating, and every time, whenever you start a business or wanting to start, There's always some sort of a I think and you think yourself out of it. So when you start small, the starting small is overcoming laziness. Because sometimes you can feel overwhelmed with the bigger steps. You know, to get to Job, it feels overwhelmed. But when you break it up into smaller pieces, it will be easy. How do you break it up in smaller pieces? It's to start saying, what can I do now to make the trip better? Start planning. Start getting, let's say, finances or a car or a hike. You know that these days you can take the dame and say, please, I'm going to Joburg. Nobody will even charge you. Sometimes when you come, they will tell you, look, I need to go to Joburg, but I don't have money. No, get in the car. So you have to break it up. let me just get up and let me just get up and how do you call it? Wash yourself. Because if you want to go to Joburg smelling like yesterday, already you're not confident enough. So build a momentum. In terms of smaller incremental steps. Because like ants, ants are carrying small objects. But they keep on doing it. They constantly. Small, small. So it begins with manageable tasks. It begins with gradually increasing your difficulty from where you are using how to become a bodybuilder. You start by a 5-kilogram or even 2-kilogram dumbbells. Moving from that 2-kilogram to 5-kilogram. Moving from the 5-kilogram to 10-kilogram. Moving from the 10 to 15 to 20. And so it goes on. That's how you build. it. That's how you overcome your laziness. That's how you overcome. And remember, I said to you, laziness, it has nothing to do with you not wanting to do certain things. Because when I talk about laziness, I'm talking about the person that sits in a relationship for the past 10 years and thinking that this person will change and the person has been hitting them him or her, for the past 10 years. You are lazy. Get out of that relationship. Because that relationship will kill you. Laziness is you sitting in a job and you see that you're not going forward. So I'm not talking about laziness, who is the one that doesn't do the dishes. That's the type of laziness. It's not the type of laziness I'm talking about. You know, Philippians 4 verse 13 encourages, like it literally provides us with encouragement. It says, I can do all things through him who strengthens me. So whenever you start doing something, it just for you to start It just for you to start because the moment you start is the thing that will start oiling the wheel. Bishop, you know when there's no grease in certain places it goes you see. So you just put small bit of oil or grease and it will start moving. What's that thing called? Wheel bearing. A wheel bearing. It might be having problems, but if it's dry, it will not go. If it's rusty, it will not go. Start with getting rid of the rust first. then that's number one i said to you to have number two i said to you start with small increments or start with small and build up momentum then i said number three you know sometimes i want to do something, but I keep it for myself. In my mind, I'm going to be this huge person, but now I'm keeping it to myself. Nobody knows. And because nobody knows, you fall back in your old ways again. so find yourself an accountable part an accountable person who can support you a person that can tell you hey bruh you're in the wrong you're in the wrong way so when you when there's somebody who can say to you in the morning, wake up at 7 o'clock. It's easy to wake up because there's an accountability partner. Just as ants work as a unit, they find supportive environments or individuals who can hold you accountable for your goals. Because remember why a worker ant works that hard is because he knows that if he doesn do it the queen will die The queen will die. There's a song I love so much. I think it's Junita or Payne-am or Junita something, something, Payne-am or something. I need you. You need me. We're all a part of God's body. Stand with me. Agree with me. You are important to me. I need you to survive. You know, that actually means that As I am about to win, you will win as well. You will win as well. Proverbs 27, verse 17 says it so nicely. It says, as iron sharpened iron, so one person sharpens another. But now you get the naysayers that says, but you're not going to be able to get a million dollar business. Why not give up? That is not an iron. That is a plastic. Burn it. Burn it. That person, you need to take the lighter and burn him. Because it's a plastic, it's not an iron. It's only iron that can sharpen iron, not a plastic that can sharpen another plastic. They will rather, I don't know, but whatever. So surround yourself with people who inspire you and motivate you. Who inspire you and motivate you. and then you know you know what is the nicest part is that you have set yourself a vision you start moving slowly then you get a partner who will will push you but it no use of having all these things in place if you don have the first winning to celebrate You need to identify your rewards and celebrate those milestones. I want to go to Joba. I'm telling my wife I'm going to Jobek. Me and my wife, we start speaking to some people, start borrowing us the money. The moment we have the money, we start celebrating. So you need to celebrate that small moments. Because those small moments is the one that makes you to go forward. Because you are celebrating it. So, when you go to Proverbs 13 verse 4, Proverbs 13 verse 4 says the following, lazy hands make for poverty. And I'm not talking about the one that doesn't wash the dishes and I'm neither do I talk about the one that doesn't wash himself. Neither am I talking the one that smells like like whatever. I'm saying lazy hands makes poverty is the one that sits in that relationship, gets beaten up, almost died, go to hospital, come back, and still sit in that relationship. Lazy hands make for poverty. But diligent hands bring wealth. What does diligent hand mean? in our time of today it doesn't mean like slavery before you were working for the master and only the master eat bishop that thing that says uh hey i like that that saying um it comes from your west african site where it says monkey chop Yes. They work baboon, they chop. Which is such a nice thing. You sometimes don't work smart enough to eat with what you are working for. So, this monkey has been working, but somebody else is eating. So, your hands need to be wise to do things. And as you go along, celebrate progress. Because by celebrating progress, it will reinforce your efforts and keep you motivated on your journey towards greater diligence. Because if I speak to you today and I'm saying to you Do you remember a time when life was best you were winning? Some of us doesn't even have that memory. We can't even remember. Can't even remember. You can't remember. Do you know why you can't remember? is because of you have not penned it down or marked it, making a mark. The very first time I got the opportunity to buy a house, I marked that time as a changing time in my life. You remember Miss Kat, we couldn't even get a loan for 4,000 rand from a bank. I marked it as a day of change. And I so much celebrate that day because that is the day that makes me to realize that anything is possible. You don't need the systems of the banks today to get what you want. It's a milestone that you have to do. Then I go to number 5 I think Where I said to you Now you have put down the vision Number one you have put down the vision You have started working. You have built the momentum. You get yourself an accountable partner, accountability partner. You keep on celebrating. Yes, yes, I made it. and then just as you made it is something happening now you know what sometimes happens the moment you start bragging I've done it then Satan comes with his small voice you have not even done this on your own you know, moo moo and this is where you come and speak to the one that is within you know greater is he that is within me than he that is in the world greater is he that is in me that is in the world now you need to find that one in your life is to keep on motivating yourself. Keep on speaking to yourself. Then you need to now take the negative thoughts and reaffirm it with positive affirmations. And this might sound like... I don't know. Okay, there's a guy called Tony Robinson. Now, Tony Robinson says something that when you speak to yourself in a negative way, you will always have a slouching posture. Because I'm a useless. I'm a nobody. I don't fit in society. by the time you realize you are you are crawling under the baggage that you have put yourself but have you ever used something called positive words and body language? If I talk about positive body language, I talk about somebody, I'm a useless, head will be going down. I am made in the image of God. To lift it up. It's like I'm walking nobody can touch me. You see, it's a different thing. The moment you start speaking positively to yourself is the moment you start taking your chest out, your shoulder blades together, and you are. It's also one of the things that will take out that laziness out of you. Because it's that laziness that keeps on bringing a negative self-talk in yourself. Because the Bible says it. Bishop, do you know the Bible says that, let the weak say I'm strong. I said, nah, it's not me. It's not me that says, let the weak say I'm strong. So what does it mean? It says, even though I'm weak, I am strong. And the nicest part of it is that, when the Bible says that, in our weakness, his strength is perfect. So even though you are weak, remind yourself, his strength is perfect. This is affirmations that you need to do because you need to literally combat those sorts of laziness and use mantras like like like i am capable i'm hard working each step forward brings me closer to my goal just one small step forward bring me closer to my goal these are the things that you need to tell yourself You need to go back to the Bible Let the weak say I'm strong. Let the poor say I'm rich. You need to use those things. There's therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ. You need to tell yourself, I have made a mistake. yes I admit I admit it God I've made a mistake I'm sorry I'm asking you I'm begging you I've made a mistake I admit I'm at fault but this is not going to bring me down because if we go back to Proverbs 23 verse 7, it actually suggests to us, for as he thinks in his heart, so he is. As he thinks in his heart. So as he thinks in his heart. Meaning to say that it's a deeper thought than the mind thought. Because your heart is deeper than your mind. Your heart pumps the blood to every part of the body. Your brain sends the signal, yes. But the blood pumps it back. And it means that when you have something in your heart, you know in our African culture, Mamruti, you know that one? It says, Pilo, as he feels, it's like your heart is the worst mootie that you can find than anything, any concoction than what a herbalist or you call it sangoma can put together. your heart when somebody says I carry you in my heart you are gone because the heart they use to speak wrong out to you and that is why When you say into your heart, I'm going to make it, and it goes deep within your heart, you will make it. You will make it. Because when you positively put things together, when you positively put things together, you are helping yourself. The head is not really too sharp. So let's go to number six. And I will, I say this one is the last one. do you know that in history is a lot of things that happened that will make us the person that we are today. If I speak to you about overcoming challenges, I say to you, To stop laziness is to go and look at others who have been where you are. And they've managed to triumph. So you go back and look. Because somebody, somewhere, sat in your shoes before. They sat in your shoes and they went through the exact same thing. that you are going through and today they are triumphing you need to find inspiration especially find it in the bible because if you go to the bible the bible have a have a solution for every problem that you ever had in your life there a there a solution for the for you Because if I go to To David defeating Goliath David was a mere small ant In a giant field But that ant put an end to a blasphemy the one that swore, you call it blasphemy. Don't know that English word but that word. Blaspheme. He blasphemed the children of God. And because he did that he put a curse on himself. he put a curse on himself so when somebody tells you you are useless and you know you are a child of God just tell them please rewind those words back see it how do you call it reverse them yeah try and rather put a blessing than a curse because that words that you are using is the words that will kill you. If I go back to the Bible and we're talking about Jesus being our forerunner. You know like the one that we follow. It's me. I'm running after Jesus. I don't follow no man. You can be the what? The miracle worker. You can be the whatever, whatever. I want the Jesus in you. I don't want the anointing that you have because your anointing is just mere for you and for the person that is surrounding you. But do you know Jesus impact the yellow world Like he impacting the whole world Who is somebody that had more people mentioning his name than him Let's talk about today's prophets. Let's talk about them. before they were alive, which was, let's call it 60 years. Before 60 years, were they ever mentioned by somebody else? No. If I talk about your T.D. Jakes, 60 years ago, were he even mentioned? No. He hasn't been mentioned. so how do we overcome our challenges is to go back to our bible and study Jesus because through studying him remember he said these words just before he he said you will do better things than what I did so he said your impact will be better because today I'm having social media let me see okay there's no okay there's somebody watching with us now no there's no one watching with us but what I'm trying to say is that we have social media to reach the world quicker those years there was no social media that goes fast fast and still in one meeting 3000 people came to God 3000 people if you would have taken social media and add all the different social medias and add the media as well with the cameras how many of them would have done that be? So how do we overcome our challenges? It's to go back to the drawing board and ask Jesus what we can do. How can we overcome our laziness and things that we go through Because these stories it shows how faith and determination can overcome seemingly unsurmountable obstacles And it also cultivates diligence in our own lives. Diligence, it makes us want to do more. and and and and and you know that i i was so happy this morning when i wanted to put on clothes and i realized the clothes clothing will will scratch me and i could easy put on a short trouser and a t-shirt because we are not cultivating the how do you call it the culture of making sure you have the tie and you have the jacket long trouser nice shiny shoes because those are the things that make so many people to be lazy because they don't have if I'm speaking to you today hundreds and hundreds of people didn't go to church because they didn't have the proper dress they're watching us now online because they didn't have the proper dress it's one of the reasons why so many people are going astray because of the cultures that we have put in place. Ministry is not about us wearing those tie, paiki. And you see, the head, you see the old people, they had that thing that clothes, big hat, with one tail that stands like this. If you're not going in church with that thing. You're not allowed. Cover your head. But today, God has helped us That we can stand here today and have no laziness because of what has happened. David defeated Goliath with one of the nicest things. You know what David was given? Panzer. What is Panzer? that thing that is heavy armor they gave him armor like to put on ah you can't go into war without this thing this thing if you don't have it you'll be and how for a small kid now he had to put on that thing imagine how he would have been killed if he sticked to the norm because the norm for any soldier to go was to put on that armor. But he break the norm and not even use what he has been given as sort. Use something totally. He changed the whole concept of us sticking to one plane we can fight the enemy with different planes not just with one plane If the armored guy comes there, the enemy would have known this one is a soldier. But because he comes as a civilian, no armor, he started laughing. You come here. you wanna you wanna kill this stick like a dog huh the guy was totally out of out of out of head because to him this guy comes with a stick thinking that he's a dog that he would not knowing that that was his famous last words famous last words and then it was go gone you are not lazy I'm telling you you are not lazy you are a lot more because when you would have been lazy you would have made up your bed and go to work or go wherever and today as I speaking to you my heart is painful because of I almost lost my life and still I have not reached half of the people than what I'm supposed to reach. I am going to put my reach out more. Amen. because if I don't do it, tomorrow might be my last day and I have not done so. God bless you. So Heavenly Father, I know we sometimes are so lazy just to do your work, but that is not the laziness we're talking about. that is the devil trying to stop us from doing your perfect well Father I pray now you said most in your word that this the harvest is so big but the laborers are few and we need to ask you to send the laborers and here I'm standing as a laborer I've already availed myself but Satan is trying to kill me So I pray in the mighty name of Jesus protect me so that we can do your work Not just protect me but protect every member of Fountain of Grace Ministry and anybody that is connected to them. Because if they are in problems, we are in problems. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. As I'm asking Lord Jesus, as this week goes, protect us in all our doings. Let us be diligent. Let us be so quick in doing good that Satan doesn't have a hold on us to still tell us what to do wrong. In Jesus' mighty name I pray. Amen. In Jesus' mighty name I pray. And now may the grace of God, the love of God, and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit rest and abide with us all until Jesus comes. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us for the days of our lives. And we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen and amen. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you.