The Church Unleashed; Lessons from Job - Ps. Emmanuel Osei-Akosah

This song is our prayer this week, so I just want you to open

your mouth. Hallelujah.

That's open your mouth, sing, that's all from your heart, home

in spirit. Oh Jesus, we want to walk with

you. Hallelujah.

I don't feel the power. I don't feel the present.

You are telling God, God, I want to work with you.

This is an opportunity, David. I was glad when they said to me,

let's go into the presence of you can never be in the presence

of God. I can never work with you.

Hallelujah for me, I want to walk with you.

Jesus, I need you. I need you this morning.

Come into my heart. Hallelujah and the 2nd.

Everyone is English, please can you project it?

Annoying us with fresh oil. Hallelujah, we are all singing

together from the Father's golden throne.

The oil that never runs dry. The oil that never runs dry.

Go to the noted 1 flows through the night.

This is our prayer. Oh God, annoying us with fresh,

oh your fro. Oh please Lord, we bought this

morning carist on Caribbean. This is a prayer, This is a

prayer Jesus, waiting for your touch.

We are waiting for your touch, Lord, once again.

I just want you to open your mouth, speak the speak of the

language. Just blow your tongue.

We bow, Jesus. We now we need your spirit.

Oh Lord, we can never leave you the same as we came.

This is our prayer this week. Never post sucker by your day.

We bow before you, Jesus. We bow before your throne, O

Lord, waiting for your touch, waiting for your mountain, the

Lord, waiting for your hands. O Lord.

O Lord Jesus. Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah. Oh, if you are, clap and clap to

the glory of the Lord. Praise the Lord, Hallelujah.

Last week I said as we are waiting upon the Lord and we are

going to dine with Him, each and every one of us should have an

expectation, and I'm of a firm conviction that before this

morning's service will come to a close, the Lord will do

something new. You don't need to believe it

before I believe it. I believe it.

And so whether you say Amen or you don't say it, the Lord will

do it. Amen.

This morning we are privileged to have our dear mother in the

person of Mrs. Josiah Cosa. Shall we welcome here?

God richly bless you. On this note, we invite our dear

pastor, Pastor Josiah Cosa. Shall we welcome him with your

father? Oh praise the Lord, Hallelujah.

May the grace and peace from our Father and our Savior, Lord

Jesus Christ be multiplied unto us all.

We thank God for today. Today we are going to dine with

the Lord and today too is Palm Sunday, so we want to also

celebrate the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem.

Amen. Friday we began looking at the

church. Unleash lessons from Job lessons

from Job and we read from Job chapter 29.

Job 29 · chapter mention

We read from one to verse 6. So today we will read from verse

7 following. But by way of recap, we looked

at the first point. We looked at why Job and we saw

that Job was commanded by God himself as someone who is

righteous and the way he used to live his life.

So this whole chapter Job is recounting how he used to live

his life and that is what we want to learn from that.

We want to pick some valuable things from the life of Job and

that was to help us that as the church we are being unleashed or

as the church unleashed, we can draw some valuable things from

the life and the story of Job. So we want to pick from Job.

Friday we saw that Job had a personal relationship with God

and he also had a household relationship with God.

So we are saying that charity begins at home.

We cannot possess the world if we fail to possess our homes.

So Job was someone who was conscious that God was with him,

so he knew that he had the presence of God, and because of

that he built artists to pray for his own children year after

year after they had gone to have their own in a way party or

things. So Job will erect authors and

pray and purify them, saying that perhaps they might have

sinned against God and that was his regular way of life.

So we are saying that fathers, we should carry the fire for the

home, for God bless us. We saw that.

The second thing we saw from verse 6 was that the path and

the steps of the church unleashed.

Job had his path drenched with cream and the rock poured out

for him streams of olive oil. We saw that it was a

representation of how Job was affluent.

He was rich, he was he had wealth and as a church, the

church unleashed. The world is full of dryness, so

we need to let our path be full of cream so that the world will

know that every step of ours we will leave lasting impacts and

God will be blessed. And also that the rock which is

Christ Jesus himself, may he continually pour for us streams

of olive oil so that we will not lack oil.

We saw that our head should never lack oil, so the church

should always be anointed, otherwise we'll leave.

We'll become as dry as the world is.

So we are moving on to the that point and that would take us

from Job 26, from verse 7 following Job 26, from verse 7,

following. Say that when I went to the gate

of the city and took my seat in where the public square, the

young man saw me and stepped aside.

The old man rose to their feet. The chief men refrained from

speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.

The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongue stuck

to the roof of their mouths. Whoever had me spoke well of me,

and those who saw me commended me.

Why? Because I rescued the poor who

cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to

assist them, The one who was dying, bless me.

I made the widow's heart sing. I put on righteousness as my

clothing. Justice was my rope and my

turban. I was eyes to the blind and feet

to the limb. I was a father to the needy, and

I took up the case of the stranger.

I broke the fangs of the wicked and sniped the victims from

their feet. I thought I would die in my own

house, my days as numerous as the greens of sand.

My roots will reach to the water, and dew will lie all

night on my branches. My glory will not fade.

The bull will never, will ever be new in my hand.

People listened to me expectantly, waiting in silence

for my counsel. After I had spoken, they spoke

no more. My words fell gently on their

ears. They waited for me for showers.

They waited for me As for showers and drunken my words as

the spring rain. When I smiled at them, they

scarcely believed it. The light of my face was

precious to them. I chose the way for them and

such as their chief, I dwelt as a king among his troops.

I was like one who comforts mourners.

Amen. Oh, I said, Amen.

So we want to move quickly through this, and we are still

learning from Job. We are still learning from Job.

So the third thing we want to learn from Job from verse 7 to

10 is that beyond the fortress, Job's bold step of leaving the

splendor for service. So we need to leave splendor for

service. Live in your splendor for

service. Job was rich.

He could have chosen to enjoy. He could have chosen to remain

in the comfort of his home. Sometimes the church, we are

blessed. We live in the splendor of our

homes, of our church buildings. We live in so much splendor of

what God has done for us. But the church on leash, like

Job, need to live splendor for service.

You need to leave the comfort of your homes for the gutters of

the ghettos. We need to descend from the

splendor of our luxurious places wherever you are comfortable,

and descend to the to the undesirable pits where men are

locked up. So Job he did not just remain,

he left. So Job went to the city gates.

The city gate was where they used to meet every city.

The their gates was the point of transaction.

It was the point where they conducted everything.

They would accept even they will transact, buy land, buy and

sell. So everything.

So by effect, Job, as we learned from him, did not stay at home.

He went out. He went out to the center of

action. So the church to the center of

action is not here. This place is not the center of

action. This place we just spent about

two hours to three hours and we leave.

The center of action is where you work, where you spend 8

hours a day, Monday to Friday, and even go beyond, where you

spend much of your time, your working life, that is your city

gates. And Job left his splendor and he

went to serve. So Job had his own sphere of

influence, his own sphere of influence.

We too, your sphere of influence is different from mind sphere.

Your sphere could be wider, your reach could be much more because

some of us will work with students, we teach them.

Some of us we work in the business field where we meet

high profile men and women. Some of us, we work with our

friends, with our colleagues. Wherever you spend your time,

that is your city gates, that is it.

And you need to go out there and make an impact.

So he went there and another thing he did was that he had a

seat. Let's go go back to the verse

seven. Job says that when he leaves,

when he left, he went to the city gate, to the gate of the

city and took mine seats. So Job had a seat.

Job had a seat. Where is your seat?

Sometimes we may think that, oh, I don't want to worry others.

The seat that you have at your working place, you are not just

there for yourself. If at the work you do, God

intentionally gave it to you, not just to go there and to earn

a living for yourself. If for that alone, God can still

reign mana for you so that you know it, but you are there as

His representative. You are there as His ambassador.

You are there ending a living. But God has strategically placed

us at wherever we are for His own intention.

We need to go back and ask God, Lord, what would you have me do

at where I work? You are there to change

somebody's life. You are there to be a source of

encouragement for someone. Probably you are there because

of one soul. That is why God is keeping you

there. So don't just gloss over your

ministry to your seats at your workplace.

Everybody has a ministry, everybody, every believer.

You are saved to make an impact. Look at the self to the disciple

name, that his name appeared just once in the Acts, but he

was the one who prayed for Saul to receive his sight.

He was the one who God Jesus showed him that.

Go to this house, there is a man there named Saul.

He is praying. Go and lay your hands on him to

receive sight and you'll be filled with the Holy Ghost.

But that man, his name appeared once since then.

It was poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor.

So Paul cannot glory in the Lord because the person who laid

hands on him to receive the Holy Ghost was not even an apostle.

He was a disciple. So in the Church of God, Jesus

is the one who is the head. Yeah, yeah, we are servants.

So please, you are there. Probably you are there because a

word from your mouth would save a generation to come.

So don't just think that me I go work, come home, work.

No church. Don't involve yourself with

spiritual things. You are here to work.

No, no, no, no, no. Don't draw the line of secular

sacred young people and free home.

We need to take our spirituality to fill the secular spaces.

Wherever we are, we are spiritual beings.

Wherever we are, Jesus is there. Jesus must be seen wherever I

work and wherever I go. So Job carried that thing and he

went out city gates. You need to have a seat.

You need to have a seat. You need to have a seat.

And honor was not merely bestowed on Job, but you soon

see what why they did what they did.

Let's try and then read from the verse 8, the groups, the noble

groups who when they saw Job, you may think that was just

because of his money, but it wasn't just for his money.

You will see. So that he was involved in acts

of kindness service, so that the young man saw me and stepped

aside. Your young men, young men, by

their nature, they will not just step aside, they want to occupy

space, but whenever they saw Job, they will step aside.

So there are about 5 of them, so that the first one is young men

and they step word aside. The second group is old men and

then chief men. Look at how the whole thing is

progressing. Go back to the verse 8 and let's

check. Young men, old men, next one is

what chief men, next one is nobles.

And the last one, so young men, all the noble groups, leaders,

the young, the ages, the Princess, the highest city

officials, when they all saw him, they honored Job.

Job was not a priest. Job was not a prophet, but he

was a businessman, A wealthy man who loved God.

So you don't have to tell me that unless you are a priest,

you cannot serve God well. Is a lie.

Go and check the scriptures. Abraham.

Abraham was a businessman. He was what, a businessman.

He traveled Isaac and ghost Jacob go and see him.

He was business minded. So God wants to use ordinary men

and women like us to transform the world.

Only that open up your heart for him.

So he wasn't a priest, but he lived a righteous life and his

life affected the entire space. So take your sacred life to the

secular world. Hallelujah.

Oh, I said Hallelujah. Oh, why are you angry with me?

So when they saw him, it wasn't just for fun, but Job was doing

something spectacular. Job had influence even to to the

point that the young men step aside.

Young men want to occupy in Chile from abrancia Obrana on

tea. Do you know how to bra Okanisha

like a cock? If you push it hard, another

water. Why?

Because of the strength abrancia.

So the young ones are not just easily to move away, but they

step aside. The old men rose to their feet.

Old men, they wouldn't just rise to their feet unless they see

another one who is older than. So Job was doing something

spectacular for old men to rise to their feet.

Verse 9 The chief men, they did what?

Refrain from speaking. Chief chief men, they talk, they

have wisdom. But when they saw Job, they

refrain from speaking, and not just that, they covered their

mouth. Just say no, not per SE a

Casacra, don't talk. Then the nobles, the voices of

the nobles that you always hear, they even kept quiet.

Not that their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouth, meaning

that the the voice, even the sound, their voice cannot even

utter even any sound. They needed to keep quiet.

Why? Because job is in town.

I pray that the church unleashed when we hit the streets, when

you get to your work, when you move out, when you as a church

unleashed at your workplaces, these things should happen to

you. If they are not happening at

your workplace, then please go back and sit down.

If they don't accord you, eat. We need you eat.

They will be speaking something bad, but the moment they see

your face, they know that you preach against them.

They know that you won't do it. They know that you you are also

for you are for Christ. You are you are godly.

That is what should happen and the church on leash should have

the impact. I pray that will transform our

spheres. We would change it and we would

change it and change it and change it.

Hallelujah. Oh, I said Hallelujah.

And then Job and all these things because of what he did

next verse, not against that. Those who heard of me spoke

well, and those who saw me commended me.

Two things are there. Please go back to the verse 11,

verse 11, verse 11. So those who had and so don't

you see something in line with our theme for this year?

The gospel must be preached to be heard.

The Holy Ghost power must be demonstrated to be seen.

Couldn't you see there? So in effect, when they hear of

us, they must hear about the gospel being practicalized.

And when they see us, they should see the power of God

demonstrated through us. And that is when the church will

be commanded. So the church on leash, we are

being on leash with the gospel, by preaching the gospel, by

living by the gospel. And also those who see us should

see the power of the Holy Spirit demonstrated in us.

The Holy Spirit power is not for speaking in tons.

So Tom, I repeat, the Holy Spirit power, it's not the

Hiribaba. You do like Ababa Baba.

No, no, no, no, no, no. That is the entry point.

That is the entry, just the entry points.

But the life in the Holy Ghost is much more deeper, It's much

more richer. It's much more, oh, very sweet,

because righteousness, joy, peace in the Holy Ghost.

The Kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, but it is

more about demonstrating the power of the Holy Spirit and the

Holy Spirit, His presence and his active presence with you,

you would definitely carry something.

Something will be there and somebody will meet you.

Who are you? And I'm I have entered places.

You are a pastor and I would say how did you know?

No, no, no, I'm not. I'm not even the way you even

speak shows that you are a pastor.

What did you see me? You're like no, there is

something about you. So the Holy Ghost something the

glory of the Lord she shine upon you, Hallelujah.

The church needs to arise and shine for the glory of the Lord.

So let your character behead, character behead and when they

see you, they should see that correlation between what they

are hearing and they are seeing in you.

Hallelujah. Let's move on to verse 12.

Because of something certain things he did, because of what

he did. Let's see.

Because he rescued the poor who cried for help and the

fatherless who had none to assist them.

Next verse please. The one who was dying blessed

me. The one who who was dying

blessed me. I made the widow's heart sink,

and then he put on righteousness as his clothing, and justice was

his what? His robe and his Tavern.

Next verse, please. I was eyes to the blind and feet

to the limb. Next verse.

I was a father to the needy and I took up the case of a

stranger. I broke the funds of the wicked

and snatched the victims from the athletes.

I think yes. So we will look up to verse 17.

So Job did all these things because of what he did.

What are you doing? What are you doing?

Before we go to the to that list, let me say that the

church, if we remain within the fortress of the walls, the world

will label us as they see us. I take it again the well, then

they are fond of labeling and what you do is what they see and

then they label. So the church that remains

within the fortress will receive a label, and the label from the

world is what they see them do. So when the church unleashed,

when we are on leash, we determine the labeling we get.

Let's look at Acts 11, Acts 1126, Acts 11/26 and see how

they label them. And when he had found him, he

brought him to Antioch for a whole year the Panabas and so

met with the church and taught great numbers of people.

The disciples were first called Christians at where they were

called Christians first at Antioch.

So the world at first, they weren't called what Christians.

They were just the people of the way, the people of the way.

They were just there. So if we want a very good

labeling, be on list. If you want a name, a good name

at your workplace, be on list. But if you sit there quietly,

they will consider you as one of their their own.

So be on list. Let us go to 17 six the same

acts, 17 six of the same acts. But when they did not find them,

they dragged Jason and some other believers before the six

officials, saying These men who have caused trouble all over the

world have now come here. These men who have caused

trouble other would say that there were people who have

turned the world upside down. Look at another labeling.

So whenever you unleash, the world will label you as they

see. But if you remain within your

within the church, they will also give you a label.

So let the church be unleashed so that we will go and we will

transform our spheres. Hallelujah or I said Hallelujah.

So the unleashing agenda is an expression and an embodiment of

the Great Commission. Let me take it again.

The unleashing agenda that the whole church to do and transform

our world is an expression and an embodiment of the Great

Commission. Because Job went, Abraham went

and all those were unleashed. Look at the impact they now have

on us. Abraham go.

The same goal that Jesus gave to us, Abraham to went and look at

how he has been blessed till now.

So if you can choose to remain, you can choose not to be

unleashed, but you will not have any impact.

But those who will be unleashed by faith, they will go out there

and they will make impacts. I pray that we will be

unleashed. Hallelujah.

So the Third Point that we have looked is that Job he chose, he

left splendor for service. The 4th 1 is that they praise

God because of me and that is from the verse 11 to the verse

17. They praise God because of me,

they praise God because of me, they praise God because of me.

There is something good in you that needs to be unleashed.

There is something special. So the life in the church, which

is trouble within the church, cannot be praised.

If we choose to remain within, when we fail to reach out to

identify our groups within our within our reach, God's name

will not be praised. Job received the accolades

because he refused to remain within the fortress of his

abundance of wealth. He went out, he was on leaves

and look at the people he touched.

Let's go back to the verse 11 and see Job's services. 1st

12:00 please number one, you rescue the poor because of time.

I want to combine. Please bring that chart that I

forwarded to you. We want to draw some

correlations between jobs groups and then link them to our COP

and the Vision 2228, the new ministry intervention and you

truly see that the church too as we are being unleashed.

We have also grouped or we have also developed ministries to our

identify groups in our time. So we want to draw that link

Jobs Acts of service for his identifier groups in his city

and correlate them to the vision 20/12/28 COP ministry

interventions. Then you see that it will truly

follow the vision, the document that God has given to the

church. We are also following a very

good example as the church on leash.

So the first one that we want to look at is that home and urban

missions harm. You see that link to what Job

did. He rescued victims of godless

oppressions and victims of injustice.

So the church, we need to also be unleashed through harm.

We need to go there and rescue victims of godless oppressions.

We need to go out there and with the gospel, the gospel.

The gospel is not just one sided thing.

It is not a one winged thing. It also goes with acts of

kindness services. So we can be math to those who

don't have voices. We don't have to walk around

through this town and city and overlook victims of injustice.

We need to speak up for them. We don't have to just drive by.

In this church and in the agenda of being unleashed today, you

may be thinking that it doesn't concern me.

Waiting concern me. Now make a pass and go.

No, tomorrow they will do to you.

So anything you see around the church, we need to rescue

victims. The next thing Job did was he

helped the poor in their need. The church also helped the poor

in their need. We need to help the poor as

individual, as a corporate body, we need to help the poor.

You may think that means how much do I have?

Peter said that if you don't have silver and gold, you have

something valuable in you that can transform somebody.

But after giving them, what do you have sometimes also show

concern. So job help the poor, let us

help the poor. You may think that so for I

don't have much, you don't have much, you don't have much but

the little that you have, I think I had somebody quote the

late mother that Theresa that you can serve with a great

heart, give you a little, but let it be accompanied with a

great heart. So no matter how small what you

look down on, you don't have someone's endpoints or waists is

somebody's raw material for life.

So what you you don't need somebody can depend on it.

The food that you think that oh, I am full, let me go and throw

it away. Somebody would thank God for it.

Your shoe that you think is worn out.

Somebody can glorify, go and say, oh God, I think they're

not. I have a shoe.

So no matter what you have help the poor, help the poor do what?

Help the he also help orphans who required help.

So there are some orphans who don't need help.

There are some orphans who are OK, but some orphans who need

help. Let us try to help them.

So Hum, we need to go out there and help and the Church of

Pentecost through hum sometimes we are feeding those who don't

have homes in Accra and it was called Pent 5000.

Jesus fed 5000. So I think last year or so they

also fed 5000. What would be the joy for escape

the English, you know, lookout to also go out there and go and

feed those who are hungry. They will be happy.

So he he helped them and help the hopeless ones, those who had

no hope, help them put some smile on their face.

He was a father to the poor father.

Sometimes you think that by advising somebody, just a piece

of advice can help somebody. So be a father to someone who

has lost or who had no father, be a father just being there for

them, supporting them, going with them, showing up.

What did these things joke he did?

He assisted strangers who needed help, strangers who needed help.

So hum is doing all these things.

Hum. The next one is he served as ice

for the blind. And I think this one I have shed

here before true of us. Is it here on top?

It was enough for any zoo. Is he here?

And yeah, it's at the top. Is he here?

Because it's like, I've shared it here before and I was like,

no, it's not here. So.

So MPWD. Peter, where are you?

Have you seen it? MPWD Job did it years ago, you

are doing it do it well this half year you do something.

Otherwise, if we come for reports, we do know an area.

So job he served as a ice for those who were blind.

So asking yourself, how can the church now serve as the eyes to

the blind? We have the ministry to persons

with disabilities and there are several forms of them, eyes,

mouth, ears, those who can even walk and a whole lot of them.

You can just pay them a visit. Peter, they have an association.

So please organize the whole church.

Everybody come. We are going to them, they're

going to pray with them. We are going to share God's love

with them. And then you ask them, what are

some of your needs? What do you need from us?

How can we be of help to you? Oh, talk to this person for us.

Go and see this person for us. And you have honorable here.

Just walk to here and say that honorable and people, you didn't

watch them one more year and some more to me.

So please show me where they are within the and honorable will be

glad. I said, oh, they meet here, go

and meet them here. Book a date for them.

Carry all of us. We will all follow you.

We will go like joke. Then they will talk to them.

We engage them. Yeah, we'll just buy some things

for them. Some of them just need assistive

devices. They need them assistive devices

to help them move about, to move around, to move around.

Amen. So we need to serve as eyes for

the blind and feet for the limb. Where they can't go, we can go

for them. What they can see.

We can help them do them. Amen.

The next one is chieftancing again, helping victims of

injustice. The chieftancing institution in

Ghana is a blessed one. It makes Ghana unique.

It makes Ghana unique. But the church, we have not

taken, we have not gone there, we have left them.

And we see them as abosom phobia.

They are just into idolatry because we haven't been there.

They are, they need help. They need help so they can

resort to a lot of things. And whether you like it or not,

that the chiefs, they are the custodians of the culture.

So if you want to make impact, if you want the gospel to hit

every group we need to tackle called the culture.

The gospel must engage every culture so that it would draw a

line and shift the things that are demonic related aside and

put all the things that Jesus relates to Christ and Jesus can

be found in every culture. In every culture.

There are some things that points to Christ already that

that is why Paul in Acts around 17 poor in Athens saw an

inscription to an unknown God and poor could preach from the

unknown God and pointed now he is now being revealed through

Christ Jesus. So if you don't tackle coaches,

conventions will be very difficult.

The reason why some people go to church and still go and consult.

I tell you the average African nephew, you had the 1st and it

said we buddia mediba, you know true of us, the average one.

Why it is our culture. It is deep seated in us.

So if we don't let Jesus touch that whole thing in our culture,

the person will come to church. But no, no Trina or Befetro of

alcohol. So we need to go with the

chieftaincy ministry. So if you know anyone who is a

royal, anyone who who has a link to any throne, please go there.

When they choose you to come and be there.

The Canon go follow you, You will come, we will come and we

take Christ to the throne room. So we have The Chieftains

ministry and through that we are advocating for those who are

oppressed and they teach our chiefs and our Queens, mothers

and our kings how to uphold righteousness and justice.

If our chieftains institution is well in place, Galam say will

end in a day. Oh true, they are the ones who

can help us. So if we push justice,

righteousness there President, President Muhammad and they will

sleep because our chiefs, they will have the ability to end it.

So As for me, I think that The Chieftains institution can be

strengthened to help us build the Ghana we want.

So we need to go out, please bring it back.

And I mean workers living honestly, honest, living life of

integrity, workers good. We are teaching each other that

as teachers how to live honestly, as GES.

You could read GES. So how can we can influence that

place as Ghana Health Service, as nurses?

Nurses, you'll not just be there and be tik toking while somebody

is dying. Yes, of these things.

The workers Guild are there to push for it and also to uphold

it. So if we do that, we will

transform this war. So it is up to us now to also

identify groups around us that we develop ministries to meet

their needs. That is the bottom line of

Vision 2020. The Church Unleash Unleashing

Agenda simply means that every local church let us identify

groups around us that need help and we develop ministries to

meet their needs by preaching Christ as the fundamental and

then reaching out to their help. That is all the Unleashing

agenda entails way adding we can do it true of us in your own

small way, you can do it in my own small way, I can also be as

a church. We can come together and do it.

So let none of us here say that there is no work for us to do

our church. Hallelujah.

Let me add the last one and end request.

We cannot even finish because there are a lot of things.

The fifth one is that though he was unleashed, but he was

anchored, though unleashed but anchored.

And that would take us to 19 verse 19, Job 2919.

Let us check how it puts it. My roots.

Look at how you know, describing himself.

My roots reach to the water, so we'll be looking at roots and

rich and water, and the dew will lie all night on my branches.

Let's take you from the NLT and let us see that one brings

another. For I am like a tree.

This one paints its will. For I am like what?

A tree whose roots reach the water, whose branches are

refreshed with the dew. The chi one gives it another

form that Mehimu Babu amends you Mehimu the roots a bit with the

open up for what the water and and they will they will dwell on

my let's go go back to English. So this one.

The fifth thing is that as we unleashed, we should also have

our anchor. We should be rooted strength

through divine connection strength so that the source of

strength for Jacob is liking to a tree planted with roots

reaching for the water. The roots had rich, the roots

had what rich. So his roots were not Job was

not a shallow person. I say again, Job was not what a

shallow person. He had depth.

He had rich, longer rich because waters are not just found at the

shallow. As a church, we need to go deep

and draw things from the depths of God.

We need to have rich. We need to go deep down.

Any tree that is shallow is easily uprooted.

Any believer whose roots are shallow is easily swayed by

anything. But if you look at the tree when

the depths, when there's a storm, all trees will fall down,

but that tree will still be remaining.

Why? Because of Rich during the

driest season. Have you seen the palm tree in

the driest season turning brown before?

No. Why?

Because the top roots and the roots the way it is, it can go

do do, do down and so draw nourishment.

So Jub will not just be swayed by anything because he adapts.

We need to have depths. Shallowness will not help you if

you are a shallow believer. You will struggle if God, he

will cry around because when cow sheep good, especially good when

they go to eat. Have you seen a goat chewing a

mighty tree before? They will only chew those who

have the shallow roots of when some Superman refused to be at

the shallow stage. Go deep down, go deep down and

that big tree you see Once Upon a time was a sibling, but with

time, not nourishment, with space, with many things due to

become a mighty tree. So if you have been in Christ

for a long time and you are still a sibling, it means there

is something wrong with you. You are sick with dwarfism.

No, you have gone past. No, there's something wrong

because there is everything wrong with your DNA.

So if I have been in Christ for a long time.

Paul says that you ought to be teachers, but you need to be

taught church being at the shallow stage cost all of us all

my brain because you need to grow quick so that we can handle

some of those who are coming as shallow to you.

But if you always shallow, shallow, shallow scuba and

Haberkwer 10 years without a degree scuba university bank and

you are still there by it's only in church.

No, we were back 10 years nationality ABCD that's then

must stop. You need to grow.

Tell somebody grow grow grow grow grow.

God is waiting for you to grow, and because when you grow,

certain things you are facing now would disappear.

So grow, have a depth, be connected, be connected and be

firmly rooted in Him. Be firmly what otherwise certain

things can seep you off your feet.

May the Lord God Almighty bless us.

We have at least learned about 5 things is left with about two by

only another time because we have sat down for a long time.

Shall we be on our feet. Let us be on our feet as you

pray in a very brief time everything you have heard, think

about it, ponder over it. So Job did not end all that the

things that you had by his He chose service over splendor.

He was unleashed. Today I pray that we choose

service over being in our splendorous states.

Jesus chose service and left his throne and its glory and came on

earth. So living splendor for service

is the way of the Master. And we all should also choose

that path. We all should choose that path.

Talk to the Lord, talk to God that oh God, help me to be like

Job. Help me to be like Job.

Pray to the Lord, ask God for help.

Pray, Pray to the Lord, pray to the Lord, pray to the Lord, pray

to the Lord, pray to the Lord. Oh Lord, help us, help us.

Lord, help us. Lord, help us to be like Job,

The seats that you have given to us.

There's a reason for it. Lord, help me to take my sacred

life to fill secular spaces. Pray to the Lord at your

workplace. What can you do?

The Lord gave you, has given your work for a reason.

The Lord knows why He has placed you where you are for a purpose.

You may think that it's just by your own strength, no?

God allowed you to be there because he wants you to

accomplish a certain agenda. Talk to the Lord, our Lord, help

me to take my, my spiritual life to the secular world, to

influence it. Pray about your, your world,

your sphere of influence. Talk to God, our Lord, Help me

to influence it. Help me to influence my sphere

wherever I sit and work, days and weeks in a year, wherever we

sit and we work and we engage many.

Lord, help me to influence that that space.

Lord, help me to influence that space.

In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of

Jesus. Lord, in the name of Jesus, in

the name of Jesus. For Lord, prepare me, Lord,

prepare, prepare me, Lord, to be a son, pure and holy, fright and

true. With Thanksgiving.

With Thanksgiving. I'll be early.

We want to pray. The other time chairman was

saying that deep calls on too deep and he was sharing that the

deer, the deer pans for water because whenever there, there is

an enemy chasing after the deer, and the moment that the deer can

swim into the depths of the lake, no enemy can come there to

catch it. So we do.

If we dwell at the shallow, the enemy can catch us, but if we

will go deeper with the Lord, no enemy can reach to that point.

So today we are praying that Lord, help me to be firmly

grounded in you. Help me to be grounded.

I am tired of living a shallow life.

The shallow Christian life is deadly.

Things can easily approach you and you lose your faith.

So you are praying that Lord, help me to go deeper.

Help me to go deeper with you, in my work with you.

Help me to go deeper. Lift up your voice and begin to

pray to God. We are praying.

We are all praying that Lord, I want to go deeper.

Deeper in my work with you, deeper in my devotions, deeper

in my prayer, deeper in my Bible readings, deeper in evangelism,

deeper in giving all the spiritual disciplines.

I want to go deeper. Lord help me to go deep, Help me

to go deep, Help me to go deep. Lay Bakuba Satan Ababa E Masu

terrible Satanaba. In the name of Jesus.

In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus.

In the name of Jesus. In.

In the name of Jesus. One sing this song will your

uncle hold in the storms of life.

And the author say that when the clouds on food with the wings of

strife, when the strong tides lifts and the cable string, will

your uncle drifts of fame remain?

And see that we have an uncle that keeps the soul step 1st and

sure, whilst the billows roll fasten to the rock, to the rock

which cannot move grounded. That is where I want grounded

fame and deep in the Savior's love.

So I want to sing this, this song.

And as we sing, sing with with meaning the Lord.

You are my uncle. Please let me be deep.

Let me be grounded upon you. Let me be grounded, firm and

deep so that nothing will swim me away.

Go out. Please sing it.

Please sing it. In the storms.

Of life when the clouds on fall yeah, yeah, we so strike try and

sing when. The strong tides lift.

And the kill bull string will your.

We have an uncle. We have an uncle that keeps that

soul step fast and short. While that be lost fast into the

rock, fast into the road, fast which I not move grounded famine

deep in the same. We have an uncle.

We have an uncle. We have an uncle that keeps that

soul step fast and short. While the bee Los ro fasting,

fasting to the road with time, Lord move grounded, fair and

deep in the same. We are praying the Lord, ground

me fair and deep in your love. May I be firmly rooted upon you

upon the Rock of Ages, so that nothing will swim me.

Lift up your voice, having you to pray to the Lord.

Lord, we want to be grounded in you.

We want to be grounded in your life.

We want to be grounded. We want to be grounded.

We want to be grounded, O Lord, fair and deep, fair and deep, in

the name of Jesus, so that things will not move us.

In the name of Jesus, let us please resume our seats.

Shall we be seated? Shall we be seated?

And I want to humbly call my wife to come and pray over this

word. We have an uncle.

Step, step, fast and short, while the bellows roam, fasting

to the wrong which cannot move, Grounded them and deep in the

Savior's life. Our Heavenly Father, we are

grateful to you this morning. We thank you Lord, for your word

we've given unto us. Father, we pray in the name of

Jesus that Lord, as Job had good relationship with you, as Job

had personal relationship with you, we also plead the Lord, you

help us to have personal relationship with you.

We pray in the name of Jesus. We learnt that Job left his

splendor. He went out to the city gates

and preached the gospel. So Father, we pray in the name

of Jesus that as Christians, may we live our comfort zones.

Help us to go out and share your word.

Help us to take every opportunity or any opportunity

to share your word. We pray in the name of Jesus the

Lord. We want, we don't want to be

shallow Christians. We want to be Christians who are

deep rooted in you. We want to be Christian who are

deeply rooted. So help Heavenly Father, help

us. We pray the Lord we know with

the help of the Holy Spirit, we'll be able to stand every

storm that will come our way. We bless your name, we give you

all the glory, You commit our daddy into your hands.

We pray that Lord continue to replenish whatever he has lost

and give you all the glory and Anna in Jesus name, Amen.