When Life Knocks You Down, Does Integrity Actually Matter

We are on the series of not serious series Zinglish not serious series Because I'm saying see the series series series. Yeah, we on the series of of Joseph the principles of Joseph the Joseph principle and Navigating your detours To your dreams and your destiny And as I said last week I said to you that we what we do is we look at Joseph's life Joseph life, I mean and you see and You can almost call events off Looks like nothing is going to be Going right If I can say that way, but through this There was principles that Joseph lived by And when he lived by these principles It made His life So much easier And and and and I must not say his life so much easier. I must actually say It makes his life Just a little bit Expecting to become better Yeah, let me rather say that way and I can tell you now Don't put your trust on this electric things Because this thing I I did this sermon I did the sermon on on the laptop Lo and behold The the the thing that I did it on is called I can't recover it So i'm like How am I going to do this because When I did it, I just typed it on here. I didn't make any notes anyway You know like making the notes and thinking uh, and then I can remember a little bit of the things And so I had to restart it And And I thank god for for redoing it because now there's even more Than what I was I was at first seeing Now I even see more than those ones that I was Looking at so I started I started Uh putting putting it together and If I can say to you forgive me because I won't be able to tell you So I think we only did three last week three principles I don't think we even went to four or five because the the the thing that I can Literally remember It had to do the principle of of trusting god's plan I think that's the one And because I don't have Have all of them I will just have to go From what I have now So let me Let me say Let god be be god Let god be god So if you could if you look at the principle Surrender control to god and trust in his timing. It's a different. It's differently how I've said it to you last week But I just want to recap Even when life seems unfair Just surrender control to god Because if you can if you can give control over to him Like he's taking the steering wheel of the driving It allows him to be able to See a cow in the road for argument's sake knowing that the cow will kill you And then steer away from the cow Makes sense what i'm saying giving control over That's the principle and I I i've given you the the specific scripture that said and and we know That in all things god worked for good for those who love him Who have been called according to his purpose And I also gave you the scripture that says that You intended to harm me But god intended it for you. I mean for good to accomplish What is now being done the saving of many lives? imagine Joseph I want to tell the story quickly just a brief now just so that you can understand Joseph got this nice What can I make another example of Let let let me call it Armani outfit, you know what an Armani outfit is Okay, now it's good Let's call it polo outfit. You know that one like polo t-shirt polo nice and then When he got this outfit We call it the coat of many colors And his brothers was jealous for this Nice clothes that he got If I can call the clothes in today's life, it's maybe like a Levi jean. It's a Nike techie It's a adidas whatever it's a puma, you know all those expensive ones so it looked like They now see this and thought uh-uh This one is is our father's favorite We have to make plan for him So they throw him in the putt and when they throw him in the putt They realize But we not we not really want to kill him, but we want to make sure that he is no longer in our territory and what they then do is They took him out of the putt and sold him To the king's Servant as a slave And then they took this Nice Polo outfit And they put some blood on it And when they put the blood on it, they gave it to the father and say You know your boy is finished. It's gone I think some white animals probably Ate him so in the father's mind This boy is gone because here they come with clothes but in the interim the story play of Where this guy Get to work for the for the king And then as he was working for the king And imagine coming from a putt being sold You thought that it all happened now now you are If I can make it into that today's life now number one You you you suddenly got the job and you thought ah, this is the best job that I can find Ah then retrenchments happen Now when retrenchment happen, you don't have money anymore And then what happened now the story ended up you Losing your house and your car So, you know, you see how it happened now you get from putt And then you get to to be sold and you sold all your your things And then the moment you got the money Suddenly you thought life is up and high again You see because once you have money in your mind you're thinking ah God is making it happen And then as god is making it happen suddenly you have the money suddenly You know what happened to joseph the The potiphas is potiphas yeah potiphas wife now come in and and and and Accused yeah So now potiphas wife accused him of let's call it right you see now They put him in jail. So you if you take from today's life now you got the money and suddenly This money is just finished And they say because you didn't pay one two three you you you're facing a lot of things And it's down again You see how life plays and to us When something like this happened We tend to think it's the end Ah, it's the end now things is no longer But in the meantime To joseph when that happened It is what we call an intervention From god to put him in the right place Place And I will tell you what what this principles is that i'm giving you as we go along but one of the principles that I want to For mention before I get to that Is to put yourself In a place the principle of putting yourself into right conversations And and I I might be not saying it the right way, but i'm just telling you Do you know that? There's something that says that if you count the five people that is close to you You will be the average of what they talk about around you That you will be if they are Scunnerbeck momko boss You'll be the also You you are the let's say you are five You are the the fourth one To be the the one So if you surround yourself with millionaires You will be the first one to be a millionaire If you surround yourself with thieves You'll be the fifth thief So depending on the people that you're surrounding yourself with I'm just giving you i'm not saying this is part of the uh The principle but it's one of the principles To get yourself in the right people with the right people Now getting back to the message of principles One of the one of the principles Is to live a life of honesty to live life with of honesty And i'm going to add purity Faithfulness live a life of honesty purity and faithfulness And this is regardless of the situation Regardless of the situation because if you if you are honest, you don't have to You don't have to remember Anything because it's true Proverbs 11 Let's go to proverbs 11 Proverbs 11 And i'm going to read i'm going to read for you the verse three So this is the the the the the principle of integrity The integrity of the upright shall guide them But the perverseness of transgressor shall destroy them I gave you the the the The thing so when you face with temptation or any opportunity to take shortcuts, right? sometimes To to be a big become a millionaire It's easy To just go and steal a million rent But that's a shortcut that's a shortcut That will make you to lose it again Because this is what happened I've already mentioned to you that for somebody who has a hundred rent mindset He will take a million rent And bring it back to a hundred rent But somebody who has a million rent mindset will take a hundred rent to a million rent So you need to get yourself your mindset first settle and and and there's a saying that they say easy come Easy go So which means that money that you've gotten easily It will easy go as well So that's the one also Then we said another principle Is about serving others The principle of serving others now Imagine if you if you serve others That principle will help you to sit with the hand That is open more than a hand that is closed Makes sense It sounds like today. I don't know if it's me or do I sound like I I make things confused No, i'm not It's still right It's just that because I I I lost the notes now. I'm so I'm so dear macar as to what did I Already gave and whatnot So when you serve others, ne This is what normally happen is that i'm just making an example If you have a plate in your hand And you give it to somebody Your hands is immediately empty to receive You see because through serving somebody You open up your hands to gain more and that's the principle of serving now if you go and you look at the the way Oh, sorry the way this Worked out for joseph It had nothing to do with him Gaining a lot because if I was in joseph's shoes, the only thing I would have seen I lost my family And when I thought I had nice clothes, I lost my clothes you see so There's nothing in his mind That will take him back to a place Where he was having some sheep Now he's a slave But still serving Because if you go back to to to mark Mark 10 verse 45 For even the son of men did not come to be served but to serve And to give his life as a ransom for many So imagine a joseph Get sold to a potiphar For his friend I mean for his family To be saved I didn't tell the whole story I was still busy telling the story. I'm now reminded Remember I said he's now sold potiphar's wife Tell him hey, bro They he he raped me he got thrown into jail And then when he was in jail Somebody had a dream and he interpret this guy's dream And when he interpret this guy's dream He The guy was closer to potiphar So anytime whenever Potiphar Had to ask something this guy have some way of of he can explain So this guy told potiphar this guy was was giving me the dream and he interpreted the dream for me And then when he interpreted the dream the dream came came to pass So go and get this guy And let him explain this dream to you And then when when he explained the dream to to the guy this guy then So the opportunity oh if if the Because this is the thing that you should know net Can I tell you? most people Buy things that they saw others bought before They will not buy something they've never bought before Because of what will happen is that if I buy This t-shirt the name the name say relay jeans If I buy this t-shirt I bought it because I I know the name really Is a good make so When you when you take somebody's word But If somebody comes and he doesn't know you especially when you are in jail They can't trust you But because of the trustee of the king told him that you can actually Make use of this guy to interpret your dreams And then what happened is that? because of social Uh Perception This guy is trustworthy and therefore the king could trust him And then he took that specific dream that he had When he interpreted when joseph interpreted it for him. He somehow said to joseph. Okay, so you somehow ran with this Because this is the interpretation that you've given And he was made to be Uh, how do you call? He was made to be the king's Spokesperson you see do things do that do that do this that you see So now What then happened is that now the king? Has made all these plans and the the the the whole let's say World was hungry And because the world was was hungry at that time Everybody came to these people that had more of everything and they come to now ask Joseph who was the in The the two i.c at that time To give them the food you see and they sold firstly they sold Their their livestock Whatever they could sold to them and afterwards Not having enough money or nothing anymore they sold themselves to these guys And that is when what happened is when they no longer had anything just picture this man Imagine there's nothing nothing nothing left that you can brag about There's nothing left You can't even tell the guy I have these clothes on my back Just take the clothes and i'll and give me the food What else can you do? You have to so sell your soul To this person And that's what happened is they say then all right Now that we don't have anything take us To work for you so that you can give us food and Can you see how it played? it played joseph what joseph slave joseph rapist joseph gelberg joseph advisor joseph sailor How do you call? After he advised potiphan he he then Joseph being in charge joseph the two i see yeah, let me call it that way joseph second in charge Then from joseph second in charge Joseph the rich one the one that there's all this up All the money all the food everything Now picture this Now you get to a place Where joseph now had to serve others You see And by serving others he got through serving His father back his brother's back So that is why You need to look for ways to serve But do you know it doesn't stop there Imagine somebody sold you The bitterness that comes with it Imagine that Unforgiveness that comes with it It brings us to another principle the principle of forgiveness The principle of forgiveness because forgiveness frees you from bitterness Forgiveness frees you from bitterness And it allows you to forward Uh, I mean to move forward with god's plan So if you don't forgive I can tell you now There's somebody that says Unforgiveness is like somebody Trying to Poison others But you're actually drinking the poison yourself that's unforgiveness Unforgiveness kills you more than it kills others Now picture this If you if you look at it there my brother Sold me out How many of us sit with with uh Uh What what they call it siblings that they they haven't been seeing for many years because of They're not forgiving their siblings I remember that That there were some some people there that The whole family split Because somebody did something and now the the family is into two parts Because they couldn't forgive the person For what they did I know when the guy That bumped my sons When I look at him I thought I can never forgive him But it did more pain to me than what it did to him Because every time whenever i'm thinking of him Bishop Imagine You know that that that anger It comes from a Your it's a it comes from put of hell. Let me let me just say it that way Because the only thing you think of if I can find you As much as you kill them, I will kill you too so Have you ever gotten to a place where somebody Hit you so hard The only thing you want to do is hit back Just picture that pain Like when they hit you Picture that thing now picture that pain times hundred million times When they kill your loved ones Just just just picture that how can you be able to forgive somebody who takes Your inheritance The person that will take that will inherit your things How do you how do you handle that and when my sons died I had this bitterness within me But I ended up saying lord I am of you and not of the devil So take away this bitterness So that I can forgive this guy And lo and behold today if I can find him I'm telling you now I will have the best of conversation with that guy I can tell you now I will be like I will even motivate him Even whatever you have done I have taken it upon myself to forgive you Picture this your brother sold you picture this net Just imagine joseph's father The pain that he went through for years Knowing the son is gone That is kind of a pain That when you see your son standing in front of you Knowing that your boys were lying What kind of forgiveness is that? It's not going to be easy But the principle of forgiveness Makes you to move forward in the plan of god Collosions collusions three verse 13 Says as follow collusions three verse 13 says Bear with each others So if I baron clap you Does it mean I must bear with you? If I if I stole your car Does it mean I must bear with you? Because he says he doesn't say bear like bear each others For the small team No, he put a white line now. I can bear with him He said bear with each other and forgive one another If any of you have grievance against somebody Forgive as the lord forgave you heaven bear with you The one that that stole my wife from me That guy is my friend keeping chapter. We were together. He took my wife They are together now Let me let me bring you back to real life Let me bring you back to real life My my my sister the one that comes behind after me She's 40 41 43 44 I think she's 43 43 or 42 44 somewhere Or it doesn't matter This sister of mine lost Her mother and father at the same time Then what happened is that She had a husband and the the the girl That my mother took on For adoption you call it That way you take the child From another family and you You make the child your own adoption. Yeah, so my mother took this this girl for adoption You know what happened the girl that she took for adoption Went to Take my sister's husband now I'm asking you bishop Just picture this thing that you just lost your mother and your father same time few months after that You lost your sister Because this is adopted sister now you lost your sister And your husband at the same time Who in in their real mind? would be able To move away from that And this is not Bishop it's not a fable. It's not a it's not a story from a a a magazine or a Fiction book It's facts so now when i'm talking about this fact of the matter is that How do you bear with each other? knowing You took my Husband And your husband you took my sister between the two of you You have a child now Not a child child children. I think they are tuned by now probably two How do you navigate life through that? If the principle of forgiveness Is not with you You took my son And you sold him to slavery For all these years of pain that I went through joseph's father He had to forgive his his sons Because he got his son back Yeah Cool, it's it's it's cool Now matthew 5 verse 44 tells you the following But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you Hey, it's easy Easiest easiest said than done bishop Love your enemies Easiest said than done It's so easy to say I love my enemies But let them throw that Muti Once they throw that muti telling the devil how they want you to be down and out And yet You have to pray for them yet You have to forgive them work so hard In my life and you come with your Scheming you scheme me out of my whole life by going to this witch doctor And stop my destiny How must I forgive you It's not how It's you have to It's a part of the thing that will set you free The principle of forgiving the principle of forgiving We need to go past We need to go To let go of the past hurts And ask god to help you to forgive those Who wronged you So that you can walk in freedom and i'm telling you This is just One of the things that I can tell you but if you if you go into my life There's so many things that I can tell you about forgiveness That I might be feeling the worst Hypocrite to say to talk about forgiveness You know why I say worst hypocrite to talk about forgiveness The reason being is that when my father Went to go and buy soap And he slide away Never to return It was hard And here you get this step that that make you make you a punching bag Every time Whenever you do some things wrong This guy will hit you like nobody's business How can you forgive your father? For running away How because your step dad is the one now every time whenever you You know, it's weekend You know monday your mom is not going to go to work because your mom's globes Is out You know my mom Was a teacher How do you stand in front of a class? With eyes that is blue And not blue from makeup Hey, it's me makeup It's how do you forgive a guy? for that It was not easy It was not easy. I can tell you now ma Bishop it's not easy But today as i'm standing to you here now Me and my father and i'm talking about this one that went to go and buy soap The soap dried up so he He got away back to me again You know soap is very slippery When you look for him here, he's there when you go there. He's there when you go there. He's there When you go here, ah, he's not there again Picture you look for your dad all your life Can't find him It's here That's how we say in northern cape in northern cape once we say it's here It means he went to go and buy soap and he slipped away. How do you forgive this guy? But today as i'm standing to you now I can tell you now I forgave him Every single night that I cried wondering where he was Today I have his phone number I can I have his home address Every month I can even go to his house without Phoning him first to say can I come? His door is open at all times The same guy That I didn't want to forgive at first and forgiveness made us to be closer to him now Hey But let me not stop on this one Let me take it one step further And we move into the next principle the next principle of joseph is that Joseph worked as unto the lord So the principle is work As unto the lord Work work if I can call it work like you working for god I work for bishop bishop doesn't pay me. I don't care Because I work for god Hey this thing there I work for out-surens They don't pay me enough I don't care I work as I work for god So the principle of work as unto the lord At the same time striving for excellence in all you do So the principle of work as unto the lord striving for excellence in all you do Is such a nice thing to have Do you know that? when you work And not bothered about money Not bothered about the rest Uh, I must not think I'm trying to think I think Okay, this is the whole story now When my wife started this job that she's doing now We were still pregnant I think it was with cliche Yeah Yeah with cliche Now picture this somebody Who doesn't have a job? Went to a place Take taxi money To go to So going to roslyn Not having taxi money And at the end of the day knowing you're also not going to get money Who said man celery you call it celery man. Yeah But yet You do your work diligently My wife went to to work A new company a startup company Where there's no promise of a salary They just said Let us see how far we can push this thing until we gain salaries And the place that they were at There was not a lot of people coming there bishop If you go behind Ochet spa Or let me say not behind Let me say in front of ochet spa because ochet spa is here the route come the road come from pretoria not like this You cross the bridge Once you cross the bridge the first left You enter into industrial area there And then once you in the industrial area Their offices were there big place Enough I mean any part you can buy you can party there But the business is not about the stock that you have it's the stock that you sell They were struggling at that place and lo and behold My wife's Uh, uh What do you call it? My wife's uh, let's call her boss Decided they will take a place here in vulnerable and they hired that place that is 100 times I can't say 10 times because that place is very big It was huge From where they are now so The place being big Hasn't didn't make the money But the place that is small make the money without Having a promise of a salary she worked diligently She worked as if she worked for the lord Never to bother about salary and here you are highly pregnant You are highly pregnant there's no income Yet you work as if you work for the lord. I'm not saying it's me because uh bishop I don't have that grace to work for mahala. I don't have that grace My wife did it And lo and behold the first paycheck First paycheck It's the paycheck was not bishop. Listen to this. The paycheck was not Not Here is a 2000 rent for the four months that you worked No Here's a 2000 rent for now Not back pay next next back pay Thank you That's that's what it was called a donkey It was just to say thank you It was not a salary And if I can if I can be in the books of that company now Telling you what they are making now and what they are paying my wife You won't believe it work as unto the lord So whenever you start doing something never think About what you will receive Because the reward will be bigger because some of the things Bishop do you know do you know what what? What engine teach you An engine It doesn't teach you how to make money the engine teach you how? To make people happy to go to work Some people see mechanic wrongly They just think of a mechanic is somebody who fixes cars But do you know that camera that mechanics fixes lives? Because if you think of it now if you are a taxi driver How will you be able to make money without the taxi? So why do you say? Is just a mere mechanic is fixing people's lives picture this now How would you be able to make commission? Commission when you have to drive to your places where you must go and and and and and Earn your living if you don't have a car So work diligently as if you work for the lord Makes make it easier to understand that the moment you fix somebody's car You fix his marriage Although in some places You fix his nazis transport but still You're fixing More than just a car More way more than just a car Do you know that working in a place? Teach you more life skills Than what it you get taught in other areas How to work with people it's not an easy thing to do So imagine telling the shanty Do one two three And the shanty tell you ah i'm doing it this way. Don't do it that way By that time it teach you how to become Because if you jump and say yeah, yeah, yeah, you do what i'm saying you It teach you Yeah It teach you patience That you can't find somewhere else if you didn't work Work as if you work for the lord it teach you this kind of things picture this You are in jail You are in jail Yet The calling that is upon your life Is to interpret dreams And yet you don't want to interpret dreams because somebody's not paying you How much you lose because now You can't get into contact with potiphar What is a better pay? Than to be in contact with with potiphar Isn't that a better pay? It's a best salary Because the king have the say how things must be Let me go back to collusions and explain collusions 3 verse 23 Whatever you do Yeah Did he say only when you're at work? No He say whatever you do so the the the the The tiktoks you make Whatever you do The instagram post you make whatever you do Is it about is it about you? Taking a bath Whatever you do It's also included in that Cutting hair Whatever you do He says whatever you do work at it with all your heart even work at it With all your heart He doesn't say Half-hearted With all your heart If you walk to work Walk with it as if You work for god with all your heart but You know when you When you walk from your house To your workplace It's something you are doing Do it with all your heart This is kind of a principle that Doesn't allow us To do things that we don't want to Because if you kill kill with all your heart Imagine You can't be doing things that you don't like It means that whatever you do not just The things that is right the things that is wrong Is also whatever you do Imagine Swearing at people Ah, you must not do it Half-heartedly you must swear that one Whatever you do Work at it with all your heart as as working for the lord not for human master Hey If you are a jailbird Do that jailing with your whole heart Because it's whatever you do Now this guy joseph is sitting in jail interpreting dreams With all his heart Gaining access To be in front of the king Ah I think i've opened up a worm a worm a can of worms here Description needs something Description need a whole message on it Now if you go to proverbs 22 verse 29 Do you see someone skilled in their work? It's a question They will serve before kings They will not serve before officials of low rank Let me go to proverbs 22 verse 29 Maybe maybe I must I must give you the the king james version as well just so that you can see What we're talking about here sees thou a man diligent in his business He shall Stand before kings He shall not stand before mean men if if if that doesn't make it If that doesn't make it I want us to go I must start giving my wife's bible back bishop this bible Is my wife's bible And I make like looks like it's mine what did I have 22 I wanna I wanna read for you out of the amplified viral Amplified bible says as follows He says do you see a man diligent and skillful in his business? He will stand before kings. He will not stand before obscure men That's the amplified for you So Whatever you do Do it with your whole heart And the ceo will call you in Ah, you've been working. Oh, I can see You've been working I want you To be My second in command the boss of the of the company Will even know you the principle of work Is unto the lord Work is unto the lord I don't have a clue of time. Okay Did I did I go Ma I didn't even touch Can I take 20 minutes? So I want us to go to the next principle remember I said this is a series it's not a I'm saying like serious again Serious series As a series not a serious I'm saying series series It's going to be I want to make sure that you understand Because this is why i'm i'm doing this number. Let me explain to you why I do it visual The reason i'm doing it is i'm breaking it up so that If I preach it in one day You don't have enough time to ponder on it You see because if you can ponder on on on what we've got thus far And try and and and make it a part of your life try to apply it You see then when you apply it it has more power than me pushing it into one day And then once I do it in one day you got all the knowledge, but you forgot half of it You see because if you do it Let's say work as unto the lord From this week, whatever you do you do it with your whole heart and And take the things that you don't want to do and Because those things if you do it you must do it with with all your heart as well If you don't do it with all your heart it means that You might as well just leave it So let's let's leave the the conniving. Let's leave the the stealing. Let's leave the lies. Let's leave the the the backbiting Because if you backbite Do it with all your heart Don't do it half-hearted So for this week if you have that things taking care of if you forgive If the principle of forgiveness if you use the forgiveness think of You know the last time the teacher was hitting me with the ruler You were also then miss cut The ruler You were also in those years They take the ruler They take the ruler And and and then the girls were You remember that The girls will stand like this and ask boys now You must hold the chair like this if that guy You go That's how bad it was so When you look back at those years You don't forgive this Teachers that hit you like this Go back and forgive them I remember the guy One of his arms With this two of my arms And this guy will will will take The english word I will not get it, but I just know rotang It's a kind of a wood Thing that can bend So what you do is you take that wood thing he will put it in the water and you must Till the water comes in your mouth it makes this rotang to be Soft that it doesn't break So you do this And the same thing that you did is using that thing to hit you And when he hits you it lands with water splashing all over I couldn't forgive this guy for years. I couldn't Bishop, but do you know that it's that guy? How do you call it is that guy's subject I did the best in Huh, but I couldn't forgive him for how he teaches So this is teaching serve selfishly It's another principle. So let us take these principles And just apply them Even if it's just for one And and and why i'm saying You should apply it is that it's no use of me Saying serving your brother and then The next thing I hear You are fighting Because he didn't want to do what you ask him to do but you did what he asked you to do Serving is not like that serving is like I don't care what he is doing I'm doing what I am ought to do doesn't matter If I ask him now, i'm just making an example, man Oh I I almost thought that this thing is not If I ask you bring me water I don't expect Him To think that the next time he can also ask you water and say to you But I brought you water as well So there's no count Like there's no I did it so you must also do it I do it because i'm done with it. I've done it and i'm done. I don't even bother asking him That's serving And I didn't even mention this Imagine I would have I would have missed this important point If I didn't come back to this because serving is always something Of not expecting Anything from others That's serving for you I'm I'm giving you 500 rent But i'm not expecting To have it back Jesus You're the principle of of of these things Of this guy joseph guys If you can read this guy like read And and and catch some nuggets from him You will understand that the reason why this guy Made it this good or this far It's the principles that you live by I'm of the opinion That If he didn't have principles He would have just been another person that were never mentioned ever ever anyway But because of his principles how many of How many people died? When they were went to slavery you see There's so many people that died during the slave the slavery times There was a lot of people They were not even mentioned up till today Because there's there was nothing to mention from them because they just went and do slavery and Until they died They didn't do it with diligently or they didn't do it with as if they do it for the lord Therefore their names are not mentioned but this guy You must know one thing about the bible man The bible doesn't mention any name anything in vain If there's not a cause for it Why would the bible say? Uh, uh, uh, come on, uh, jezebel is jezebel Who's that? Who's that woman man? Not not not jezebel the one that had the long hairs, uh Girlfriend if I can call it the one that say where's your strength samson's delilah Delilah imagine delilah head her hands on samson's head And samson's head on the lip Do you know the significance of that? You're making him a baby on the lip It's it's like it's like when when you when you want to Bishop I don't know about you, but let me talk about me Because if I tell you what I do sometimes My my wife's love language Is to to put the hands through the hair and and and scratch a little bit so sometimes I must take her head And put her head on my chest or on my lap to scratch it nicely Uh, I'm I'm I'm because she like it samson didn't like it Do you see that thing No, let me not get into because this is now Diverting from the message but what i'm trying to say is that when the bible mentions something There's something significant about it About it anything that is mentioned in the bible There's something significant about it There's something significant about it Let me not be The one I think let me leave you on this one Let me give you the last one Now the last principle for today is seek god's wisdom In decision making and in leadership don't seek Don't seek your own wisdom Seek god's wisdom if you I would love to have the scripture, but I won't find it now I will I will get it for you and then I will explain you what I mean the one Interpretation of the dream was the dream was interpreted. This was the dream in jail But the other dream Was interpreted this way bishop god Gave me the interpretation That's what joseph said Huh I mean imagine No, I I think I think maybe I should I should I should get the the the scripture for you Because it sounds like sometimes when when we say things we say things That we just want you to make it sound nice Let me let me go to genesis 14. I don't want to To sound i'm i'm i'm looking for the scripture and I can't remember where I see the scripture button Genesis 14 verse 16 14 verse 16 says when the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good He said unto joseph I also was in my dream and behold I had three white bakes of my head No, no, let me Let me do this this is Yeah, but this is the one Looks like all right When faro asked joseph if he could interpret dreams joseph replied I cannot do it Joseph replied to faro. No, it's 41 16. I mean, yeah 41 60 And joseph answered farot saying it is not in me Me god shall give faro an answer of peace you see Hey, he said Don't give me credit God shall do it, but god will give faro the answer Yeah, joseph credits god but does not explicitly say during the interpretation that god is giving him the answer But he credited to god Can you see? While on the other side, he just interpreted the dream without crediting god so Going coming back to my my my Principle see god's wisdom now When you see god's wisdom that makes you to Sometimes take longer Because of us Not hearing god's voice quick enough god give answer easy Jeremiah Is it? Jeremiah 33 verse 3 Things that you did not know of I will answer Can you see? but He didn't say I will answer you in 10 years time No He says honan no immediately I will answer thee But due to our own Ways of seeking answers The answer sometimes has been given but you're looking for something else You you you Must I wear the blue outfit? No. No, I think the black one will suit you better You want to wear the blue one? No, man. Don't you think the blue one will look nice? You got the answer already But you keep on God gave you the answers, but it doesn't sit with you You like the black one, I mean the blue one more than the black one But god has answered you long time ago These principles Sometimes sometimes i'm wondering how come how come it be me that When you when you sit in front of god and talk alone like on your own There's so much time spent with god Not getting answers Then when you come to church and suddenly you realize Ah I should have done it that way. It's easier that way It's easy to go with god's answer First time up James 1 verse 5 Let's let's go to james 1 verse 5 Now james 1 verse 5 He says if any of you lack wisdom He doesn't say If you are a dumb cop You you you need to he says if any Regardless whether you are wise whether you are a dumb cop whether whoever If any of you lacks wisdom you should ask god Who gives generously to all without finding fault? And it will be given to you as well You will be given to you as well It doesn't say as well. I'm just saying to you. It will be given to you So regardless of whatever decisions is there to make Ask god to give you the wisdom to execute it Because this is the thing there God i'm thirsty I share water Lord i'm thirsty Uh look in the cup Lord i'm thirsty Hey man Can't you see there's water? Lord i'm thirsty He gave you the answer long time ago But due to the fact that You're looking for water in the river You can't find it in a cup Let us start listening to your wisdom lord i want a house A house Yes, I can give you a house Did you ask for nice house double story house triple story house you said house He has been given it to you, but the way you want it Makes you to think it has not been done seek wisdom He said the fear And verse 10 says the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom And knowledge of the holy one is understanding So the principle of seek wisdom In decision making and in leadership That principle is about you Seeking god's wisdom. How do you seek god's wisdom? This thing is called bible This thing It's called bible. There's so many things that this thing Teach us There's so many things that this thing have answers for But do you know what we do? We don't spend time with it if you want to see god's wisdom I mean yesterday I've read something That made me It opened my eyes That solomon was seen as the riches not because of How god gave him The riches It's how god gave him wisdom To apply the riches or to apply how to get the riches Do you know how he got it? He gave people Him for that advice and they didn't pay him once off they paid him yearly Every year They will pay Now me and you If we give you an advice, you know what we do Uh bishop if if I can give you advice on your car Um, I think the best way is No, let me make an example of the business I'm giving you advice bishop the next time when somebody comes to you Tell them that you ask a consultation fee Of 500 rent without speaking anything Only consultation fee. That's it now Once the consultation fee is paid The guy think He paid for fixing the car No It's wise to ask the consultation fee or the callout fee like we call it And say it somewhere straight up front It's near is a non-refundable It's a non-refundable Do you know just by doing consultations you might be able to do your whole Money income just by consultations And i'm just i'm i'm i'm saying to you this I don't know maybe it might be god telling me something, but I don't know but what i'm trying to say is that When somebody comes to solomon They gave him gold They gave him Nice Uh things man What's that scripture now? Okay, but doesn't matter what they gave him gold For advising them And every year they come back and every year they get charged again So anytime when ever somebody comes to me asking me for advice Yeah, i'm giving it freely Do you know how many how many free advice i've given? Things that I could have made money from solomon wasn't rich because of he god just gave him God gave him the wisdom to multiply it yesterday when I when I Went through that I was like yo Hey jesus, this is wow you I I got so excited You know like, you know that thing where you you you you're thinking Can't I change this message and change it to this one today? And i'm like, ah, we're not in that message yet. We that message must must marinate So that when we pray it The juice must be nice You see so so the wisdom So before making big decisions Ask wisdom from god and he will give it to you only only a few But the time is gone But I want you to go and ponder on it as well So that it doesn't just sit with you in mind But sit with it with you In action as well Heavenly father I don't know Even a piece of who you are of what you can do of even What you are capable of? Because the things that I see daily It's like as if you're only showing me Just a small bit Of the things that you have in store for us and yet I feel like I don't know you I want to know you I want to know your ways And as we are all sitting here together Anybody that's under the sound of my voice They yearn To be able To get these principles that joseph Has been setting apart to be so successful than joseph was Let us not just hear This word of the principles of joseph, but let us apply it into our lives so that our lives can be a quicker Fast forward Things that we should have done In 20 years May these principles help us to do it in 20 minutes God the things that we thought that we will be able to use Or to wait for for years before we will be able to do it Let these principles Be able to do it instantly God the things that we think That takes years Is not years because your time is different from our time stamps You said like a thousand year Thousand years imagine Is but a mere Is probably a second in your time And we think we need to spend millions of years To gain certain things While you say your time Of a thousand years is but one day Lord jesus Please help us through this in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior. I pray amen and amen Now may the grace of our lord jesus christ 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 all the days of our lives And we shall dwell in the house of the lord forever and ever in jesus mighty name