Officers and Office Holders Retreat - Day 1

God willing, we have a lot of things to discuss, but we will

try and do what time allow us to do so.

We will do some discussions, so please kindly take your time and

note things down as and when we give you that opportunity.

Please ask all you want to share with us anything that God has

laid on your heart. So for today, we want to share a

word with with you. And then we'll pick some few

things about the church with respect to some things that we

expected from us. I have in my hand here the

Pentecostal songs book. Pentecostal songs book this is

our this is the the Church of Pentecost book of songs.

So we have English parts and we, we have the key fancy EpiPen

parts also following. So I will encourage everyone

here, if you are a leader in this church, it is very

important to have one because if someone sings or if someone does

not sing a song, well, how can you, you will not be in a very

good position to bring that correction that it needs.

So I will sing one song from it. I will sing the very first hymn

and is a hymn by Charles Wesley. This book has songs from

Presbyterian hymn, Presby Redemption, Human Now, and our

own as well, so you find a lot of them in there.

So I will sing the very first song of this book, the first

one, a charge to keep. I have a God to glorify, a never

dying soul to save and fit it for the sky to serve the present

age, my calling to fulfill. Oh it all my powers engage to do

my masters will I'm mean with jealous care, as in thy sight to

live and all thy servant Lord, prepare a strict account to give

the 4th one help me to watch and pray, And on thyself rely

assured. If my trust betrayed I shall

forever die by Charles Wesley MHB 578 If you can sing, want to

sing the first one only a charge to keep 1/2 tune one go.

A charge to keep. Thank you very much.

So this song too, we have the soft one which you can also have

it on your phone so that you can easily have it anytime you want

to refer to it is also good so you can help with the soft and

the hard anytime. We are looking at a topic that I

want us to have a look at partnering the Holy Spirit,

partnering the Holy Spirit for ministry, partnership with the

Holy Spirit or if you like fellowship with the Holy Spirit.

But I want us to focus more on the partners partnership.

That word carries much more meaning to us now the wits.

So read from if we're going to look at the book of Numbers

Numbers 11 · chapter mention

Chapter 11, we're going to look at the whole chapter, but we

read from verse 31 and 32. The story is there, but we'll

not read the whole chapter. We'll be looking at them as and

when I want to refer to. So Numbers 1131 we want to read

from which one do you have and if your kid is good so that

after that to try and read from other versions.

Now a wind went out from the Lord and drove Quill in from the

sea. It scattered them up to 2 cubic

deep all around the camp, as far as a day's walk in any

direction. All that day and night and all

the next day, the people went out and gathered quail.

No one gathered less than 10 homers.

Then they spread them out all around the camp.

Amen. So the wind from the Lord, The

wind from the Lord. There was a very serious demand

for meat in the camp because they had just left Egypt and

they were on their route to a land that they have not seen

before, but they are assured and they were carrying with

experiences from Egypt, 400 years plus 30 years more in

Egypt. So they left.

On their way they remembered Egypt.

So the first one he said that soon the purple began to

complain about their hardship, and the Lord heard everything

they said. Then the Lord's anger bleeds

against them and He sent fire to rage among them and to destroy

some of them in the outskirts of the town.

So the whole thing was that they, they were complaining

against the hardship and they remembered Egypt.

So there was a demand for meat. And I'm yesterday we were

discussing I was of Miami and I were looking at some of the

powerful drives in the human being.

One of them is hunger and thefts.

Hunger and theft. It can drive you to drink in the

water only we are not even in and then sex drive.

These drive drives are very powerful.

So the hunger drive and the tests buttons in them had

activated and they remembered Egypt.

So the people question God, why God had delivered them from

slavery and He was taking them into the foreign land.

Another thing that influenced them was that whilst they were

coming, some foreigners join them.

So it was the foreigners who caused that stirring.

Verse 4. Please if you can show us verse

4. So be jumping the rubble among

them, those, the foreigners with them began to crave for other

food, for other food. So they began to crave for other

food. And those, those foods, those

foods, other food, meaning that God had been, God had given them

food, mana, but they were not craving for others.

And they were crying. If only we had meat to eat.

So they were crying Oh for some meat and they exclaimed.

Then verse 5 go on to the fifth vest.

We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost.

Look at it too. Also the what the cooking vest,

melons, the leeks, onions, garligeni normal fidgini cake.

Look at them the the things that will can easily purge they were

now craving for them. So I've been sharing that

someone has said that it took God one day to take Israel out

of Egypt, but 40 years to take Egypt out of Israel.

These things the marine feeder slavery mindset.

Changing a mindset is tough. To change their mindset from

slavery into freedom, it took God 40 years and he had to bring

up a new group. So to change their mindsets, God

had a very wonderful time with them.

So they complain about manner, God's provision.

What do we have? Only this manner.

Only this what manner? But they have forgotten that

they have survived and God had taken care of them.

They had forgotten. They had forgotten that God

performed 10 powerful signs and wonders in Egypt to take them

out. They have forgotten that God had

to put the Red Sea for them to walk through and Pharaoh and his

soldiers died. They have forgotten that God had

provided them water, has given them manner.

Soon they had forgotten. May we not forget, but may we

always remember. Then came another thing that we

want to one thing that we want to look at complaining,

complaining. Complaining is infectious

complaints, rumouring, murmuring, it's infectious.

Complaint, it's infectious. So the foreigners just started

like yeast, and it spread through the camp and touched

everybody. So now Moses had the all the

families standing in the doorways of their tents winning,

and the Lord became extremely hungry, the Western good.

So Moses had the people wailing at the entrance, and the Lord

became exceedingly angry and Moses was troubled.

Then we look at Moses to became troubled.

Moses to be became one troubled. That is where leadership comes

in. Look at the weight of the

people. They were just in slavery,

enjoying it even though it was hard.

They were getting free things. Then you came from nowhere and

said that the God of our Father says that I'm taking you to a

land. Yeah, smile.

But you have said that you have met a God, so every leader

should always know the God who sent him.

Other than that, when tough times come, you can never stand.

And every leader will be tested. Leadership will be tested.

Your power will be questioned. Your authority will be tested.

They will come and test you. Tough times will come so Moses

to you can feel the weight. You even see it much more even

as we go on. So the first the thing I want us

to learn here is that as a leader, guard your hearts guard

your hearts. The Bible says that above all

things, guard your hearts for everything you do flows from it.

Guard your heart with all diligence.

Guard your hearts. In this church you need to guard

your hearts. I've been saying that I saw you

know Uber bibrim ababe for accommodation.

Freeze. Always cool it, don't let it

boil. Always have a backup fridge be

so that you can cool it down, cooling down.

Otherwise, look at Moses. You see through the effects of

the complain on him. So guard your heart as a leader.

If your heart is bad, your sermon is bad, your ministry is

gone. Have you ever met a pastor who

has been complaining for a long time?

You only hear from him in his sermon.

The very time he stands to preach.

You will see it. Or the mammal Roth when you sit

at his feet. Boom boom, boom, boom.

They say that the heart is wrong.

We pray that may the Lord help us so that we check our hearts.

Yakuma nu, Yakuma nu Eradum wine.

Because the races long. It was therefore the journey.

The journey. It is not happening, Miteso,

where you can just Sprint and get to the line.

This is marathon. There are sometimes you run and

you get a point and you are tired, but you cannot go back.

We meet me. Yeah, dear man, Only now, soon

it's here on your Hong Kong. Dear Ben, itchy and undesired,

somebody from another station will not come and harm you.

Sometimes we will be stepping on our toes.

So guard your hearts above all else.

Guard your hearts, for everything you do flows from the

heart. The issues of life flows from

the life complaints of Moses. So now Moses too has been caught

by the viral disease in camp call complaints.

So Moses also now describes the burden of leadership.

Now let's so let's go. So you know you too the man.

So he asked God, why? Why have you brought this

trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease

you that you put the bedding of all these people on me?

Leadership comes with carrying off burdens.

So as you have been entrusted with ministries, as God has

given you parts to play in His church.

Yeah, this war, this war in Pentecost in depos message

saying in COP we don't chop post, we serve.

Oh, some crowd beside Dua Tama Busan.

I wanna if you don't have a reference point to God that you

can turn to God. Moses when, if, when the wheat

and the bedding of leadership was crashing on him, he ran to

God. He prayed to God.

But As for this prayer, well, let's see what will come out of

the soul. The burden of leadership means

that he carried the burden of the people.

You know, you, you carry your own plus Abu Mudiya.

So every work that you have been assigned, you are going to carry

burdings and this one and youth leader, I had this one but we

have polished it nicely and you've asked leader.

So leadership is carrying of birdies.

If you get this right frame, you will not depend on your strength

but you run to God for help. May we not carry the in fact

yenti Minsua, we need God to help us.

May God equip you in this church when you are called and the

position you have been called to does not scare you at times that

is sometimes you'll be like this way.

God, Are you sure it's me? Do you think I can do it?

God is you now you will do it. So be settled in your spirit

that by now God has put so much trust in you and he trusts you

that you can do it. One of a young of OBM free mass

and we are going to do it. So be settled.

So he was touched to carry them in his arms like a mother.

Next verse 12. Let's move on to the 12.

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give birth to them?

Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms as a nurse carries an

infant to the land you promised on oath to their ancestors

already were in, were removed to their ancestors.

So it also means that leadership means that he's given us a

metaphor for leadership to carry people under you like baby,

baby, car, food. Babies can misbehave, they can

cry, but you don't go in and dump them.

You help them or Casa aunty, also Casa aunty.

So you need to device a means to communicate.

Then you see how good our mothers will be.

Moment no for no. So as a mother, leadership.

Media now Hassan wabe Oba time obia habits NIA baobi be apple

free. So it means that as a mother Oba

you're the baby can ease itself on your laps.

Yehuru yin Chao nai and tension. So Moses is giving us a very

powerful way that we are to carry them.

It means that, yeah, you know, we are well placed.

It means that a leader has a revelation that the followers do

not have. Leadership has been defined in

many ways and forms, but one of the simplest ones that I always

want to remind myself is that a leader is someone who sees a

vision and is able to influence those with him, though they feel

reluctant to go, but he's able to use his influence abilities

and skills, everything at his power to help them go to that

same place. And when they get there, they

will exclaim that that is leadership.

So you may need to employ several skills, several ways to

carry them there I don't know about, but they don't want to

go. They don't know that it would be

beneficial to them. So it's up to you as a leader to

carry them there. And when they get there, they

will enjoy it. So as a leader, we need to see

beyond what the two eyes sees. We need to have a vision.

So please, you need to have 1A vision.

Moses is the one who had the plan.

He was the one who would always go and receive from God.

So as leaders, it shouldn't be on the same level.

How can a baby nest a baby a baby a baby cannot nest a baby.

It takes an adult to nest an infant.

Three of us. So as leaders, we need to grow.

We mean and can grow or can be a free grow.

I can't see your your face until Izzy right and I just Lizzy.

I say what me who won't about you come and sit where and

Auntie Sarah. I can also feel your face well

and thank you so that I can easily see everybody's beautiful

and handsome face and leadership.

We have our destinations to Moses, it was the promised land.

So every leader, if you have a vision, a dream, what you seek

to achieve as a ministry leader at the end of my first term or

at the end of my term, what do I want the youth ministry to be

like? As the envy of the choir?

Five years from now, if said, will he enter Konya?

And I say until Konya and I say a year from now, how do I want

the poor to be like? Everybody should have that

mental picture. You should dream it, you should

have it. And that thing should scare you.

If your vision does not scare you, if your dream it's not big.

In fact God always he gives you. One thing you can test if a

vision is from God is that God's vision always scare you.

Go and check Obi be dreams. It was scary, it looked

impossible. Hey God me.

So God's vision for us will always scare us.

It must scare you so that you will run to him for help, so

that you know thy name. It is not by all minds, by this

God. So every leader, please write

down your vision for the women's ministry, for the men's

ministry, for every rule, everything, everything entrusted

to you. Have a vision for it.

Don't come and kill that group over by.

We are 10 Uber fish and reduce Saba five.

You have killed it. You came with no vision as far

as we will not do that. We will leave a handover with a

more beautiful and a more glorious than what we came what

we came. So Moses was now trying to

figure out how he can meet the needs of all these.

Next verse please. Next verse 13.

Hi. OK, so now I ask a very

important question. Where can I get meat for all

these people? Leadership is there to solve

problems. Leaders are called to solve

problems. If there are no issues, leaders,

maybe there will not be so much of good use to us.

So now Moses is not defining his role to meet a need.

Where can I get meat for all these people?

They keep willing to me give us meat to eat.

So the people were not just saying it for a day.

Continuous willing. Yeah.

Panam. Yeah, Panam.

So Moses is now trying to figure out how to get meat for them.

So he felt the weight. He felt the weight.

Let's go to the next verse so that you see how you feel the

weight. I cannot carry these people by

myself. The bedding is too heavy for me.

If you attempt to do it yourself, it will be too heavy

for you. So I'm showing you a more

excellent way, partnership with the Holy Spirit.

That is the easy way to carry your burden of leadership,

partnering with the Holy Spirit. If you would partner with the

Holy Spirit, then the answer, where can I get meat for all

these people? The answer is there, we will get

there soon. And you see, so most felt the

weight of leadership and leadership became a misery to

him. The colony.

If I feel the pain because when we turn left and everybody and I

saw four and I'm and everybody and I'm and I'm, there is a

need. There is a need.

So he felt the pain, the pain, the pain.

Next verse, please, if this is how you are going to treat me,

please go ahead and kill me. Look at him, Moses, someone who

could talk to God face to face. Leadership can do you.

If it's my armor, you can even you flee, you run, you run and

leave your boots, you leave everything.

So you got to that point. It wasn't him who got to that

point. Elijah to you.

Elijah to you. Lord.

I'm the only one left. Jezebel.

That devil, devilish woman has killed a lot.

I'm the only one. I'm not better than my prophet.

Oh, kill me. We're going to learn from this.

It says that if I have found favour in your eyes and do not

let me face my own ruin. Next verse let's look at the

answer God gave him. The Lord said to Moses, bring me

what? Oh, let's all try and read it.

Bring me who? Who are known to you as leaders

and officials among the people. We have strict criteria.

Let's learn two things from here.

Anytime you complain about leadership, God will replace

you. That is very sad.

When Elijah complained, it was there that God told him to go

and find Elijah and God told him to also go and anoint Jew.

He gave an instruction go and annoying this person, go and

annoying this person, go and annoying this person and that

was when Elijah faced out. Moses was carrying the bedding,

and he was the reservoir or repository of the Spirit of God.

So the moment he complained kill me then God said that OK, I will

take the Spirit on you and give to others so that they can carry

the bedding with you for him. There he was lucky that OK good,

who is doing it? You are doing it.

So Elijah, the moment he also complained, you see anoint you

son of Nimshi over king of our Israel and anoint who Elijah son

of who suffered from Ebel to do what succeed you as prophet.

So the moment he finished anointing these people, his work

has come to an end. So we should be mindful when God

is with you, the weight of leadership, the misery that can

come out of it. Why we are you resign in your

heart, but you come to church. Our dear chairman, he has been

saying it that there are some super ministers, they have

resigned in their hearts. They only come to church because

he has to come. Some of them.

It can happen to you. You can resign and come to

church. Characteristics of somebody who

has resigned and NIMCO and I am Mimco meko merely men contempt

meeting. Don't resign in your hearts,

your work is not over or you might be so don't resign.

The beautiful thing is that the people who caused him to talk

like that, they were not the ones who called him.

We can give you examples and I'll see if if I can get another

one which is very similar to this one.

So please, nobody in the Kingdom of God is indispensable.

God can dispense us and pick others easily, because he told

Elijah that I have others who have neither bowed down to bail.

How many? 7000 in Israel whose knees have

not bowed down to Bill, and whose mouth have not kissed him?

7000 So he was like. Then God will bring it happened

at before we went there there was this guy who we used to

leave chorus. Oh Charlie.

Then, out of nowhere, a young man came to his home for his

national service. Or by Aquina, what, Billy,

didn't you mean? And that was the when we went

there even trying to lead cross again, he struggled.

Honey, he has lost it. Sometimes we don't take care we

can lose it. May we not be proud because

nobody in the Kingdom of God is indispensable with me at this

car being not just who do you think you or the scandal can do

it? Because he told them that I can

raise up stones. Stop saying that we are children

of Abraham. We are some children of Abraham.

God can raise stones as children of Abraham Abu everything will

be so. Don't let stones.

And the painful thing is that when stones are praising God and

you human being, you are there when you be rough.

I give my answer me so please don't let us get that hot.

Save this Our time to save a time is coming.

Your body will not allow you to come.

You know you wish to come, but we see severe action and you are

just there. Watch your kid.

Welcome to being a go back. You cannot come.

So this is our time. May we serve God well.

Hallelujah. So when we complain, when you

give excuses, God also excuse you.

I've been saying that this is the air, me, the power.

Whenever we give excuses, God also excuses us.

Remember Elijah and remember Moses.

Moses. Has Moses had the spirit without

measure? Jesus the Spirit OK and he had

some kind of measure because it's me by Jesus.

He had a spirit without measure as John one would say it for us,

the spirit without measure. May God anoint you and may we

not be like most. Let's go back to the book of

number. So the first answer to him was

that go and gather before me 70 men and let's look at the

criteria. God, he holds a very strict

criteria always in choosing. Let's look at how he chose them.

Bring me 70 Israel's elders. So they already were elders.

They were already elders who are known to you as leaders, who are

already what? Known to you as what leaders.

So the rule here is that in this church we ordain what we see in

you. So we will not ordain somebody

as a Deacon if we don't see the spirit of dickenship in him.

Of course, as human institution, you may make room for class or

-10 B and 10B better plus or minus.

But the critical Mass like you know, dear, we always confirm

what you are doing. So it is not the dear He

ordained me as Osophono enquana, Emma me Osafo.

They saw the calling as Osafo on me and they confirmed it.

The eldership in you is already there.

So we always confirm it. It's Yahuma, we see it.

So elder only and the team and the leadership here, they have

seen the leadership in you Internet Afro eduaver you are

what a leader, you are a leader. But when the Spirit of the Lord

comes upon you, look at the difference.

There were already known leaders, elders, officials among

the people, but then the difference came when the Holy

Ghost hates them. Hallelujah.

So when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, that is what will make

the difference. Let's go on to the next papers,

please. And you told them to come and

stand. Stand.

You should stand. Stand to the tent of meeting,

that they may stand there with you.

You are coming to stand with what?

The leadership, the presbytery? You are going to stand with who?

The presiding You are going to stand with you the elders, you

are going to stand with the deeking, the deeking.

You are going to stand with the oly deeking, You are going to

stand with the deeknesses. They're going to stand.

Can 2 work together? Unless they were they agree.

So you cannot stand with them. If you don't support them, you

cannot stand with them. And have the same vision or

sight if you're looking elsewhere.

You cannot make a move with the leadership.

So they were standing with them to receive the Holy Spirit.

They were standing with them. Stand with your presiding.

Do what stand with him. I told you have some decisions

you now want supporting, but once the whole house, the bigger

house says yes, Vachoka Montier, Carano, Pardo leadership will

train you. Media me no me support you make

catch wrong. I told them that this thing they

want to do is not good. You have betrayed standing with

them. Nadine said.

Yeah, cop banging and summer, some of the areas, do you think

they are all enjoying it? They're all happy you like it by

force that is leadership until we all say that.

No, let us now change. Don't go and stand.

You know we betrays all of us, so you are standing.

Leadership here means that you're going to stand with your

presiding. So once a decision comes, let us

all try. Even if your inner man is saying

no, tell the inner man that now I am standing with him.

I cannot go and do otherwise until about meeting.

If you have another view, please say it.

Please do what? Say it.

You want more? Some of us will not talk when

you come to meetings to don't go and sit at the back, sit in

front. I don't know that there's some

kind of spirit always and you're all good.

You don't and you know why it is no you, but I'm become awesome.

So please, even if your your view was not picked, leadership

will require that when you leave this forward, don't go and see

what do you. I brought the idea that we

should do this and now it's working.

You see that near JJ by the day I'm paying for no matter how

don't be like Ghanaian politician.

I said when the Supreme Court rules in their favor.

Oh, they are the best they are the best when it goes against

them. I'm I'm not from what they're

from. I'm from, I say baby, I'm

eleven, I say I'm from so don't be you Unanimous FC.

So he's the same guys, the same guys when they were not doing it

unanimous FC. So don't be like a politician,

especially a Ghanaian. 1 Yeah, Father.

Oh, beside you, you good. But the day it chokes you

beside, please no. The interest is in the church.

Jesus is our focus. So by this I'm saying that in a

meeting not always that the entire house will agree with

you, Omar and Father Pacho. But what if God told you to say

it and they refused to follow it?

He said it that you should do this next time when when you're

talking, they will pay attention.

So when they don't take care of you, don't, don't worry.

Pray if it's from, if you had correctly from God, don't worry.

Next time they will take. Amen.

Amen. So the leadership of a local

assembly is not one man show its Presbyterian system presbytery.

We meet together and we come to a consensus.

You can in Sia near Tuaba. You are near Tuaba A paya.

Then we leave the veto to the one in the chair.

So they will say that on my uncle hadn't say so.

After all, we have exhausted every means possible.

The one sharing, presiding, whether presiding or anyone who

is sharing, will now veto. So in a meeting, when you come,

please talk. Please do what you will be who?

I will not talk if someone brings that one next time.

Meeting. Talk, talk, talk, talk.

It's better in a meeting me. I prefer a meeting where you

talk than do the in you. I don't know how it's going to

explode. It is going to kill all of us.

So please in a meeting, don't harbor if some if you feel

offended, please talk, but mind your language too.

Mind your language. Let's go on, but look at the

leadership lessons we are learning from Moses.

So God save verse 17. Let's speed up a Azamu.

It's almost time. Yeah, BBC is here.

I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some

of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them.

They will share the burden of the people with you so that you

will not have to carry it alone. So please, we have all been

called to share the burden. The Vision 2028 Apostle Yamiche

received it on Ankwa but he cannot drive and possess the

nations of the world. So he discussed it with

Executive council so that they also carry a part of it from

there. Once to the IT went to the

National House and the area House.

Then he shared the burden with them, and when they received it,

they came down and share it with all the ministers and wives all

over the COP. And when we also received it, we

came to our districts and we shared with officers every

officer, and then the presiding orders carried down to the local

and they came and they shared it with the local presbytery.

And the presbytery, we are all supposed to carry it and share

the burden with the congregants so that the vision of possessing

the nations will become a reality.

So if chairman should carry it alone, it wouldn't be a vision.

It can never be a vision. But until we all carry it and

share the burden, then the vision will come.

So we are here to carry burdens. Next verse please. 18 Tell the

people to consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow.

When you eat meat. The Lord heard you when you

will. If only we had meat to eat.

We were better off in Egypt. Now the Lord will give you meat,

and you will eat it, Sir. The Lord will give you meat, and

you eat it. Now in Kui very far, very numb,

but very the Lord will give you meeting.

So we should be mindful of what we say.

So God coming down required consecration, consecration,

prepare yourself, set yourself apart to meet God, prepare to

meet your God. So we need to consecrate

ourselves as a leader. It's not everything that you

will do. Leaders can do everything.

There are some things. There are some places I cannot

go. If you see me there, you see me

VVC 10 glucose every day. And when I'm evangelism, you,

you see me in some way there. He loves this glucose too much.

So consecrate yourself as a leader.

There are some things you cannot do and there are facts because

now you're through our software and we will open for yourself.

I'm on for yourself, I'm for yourself.

And you will be seeming the core bank and they call him also for

you also for and to wherever you go.

People are looking up unto us especially So what Church of

Pentecost. Then they begin to look at you.

Mana must see me Holy Mana must see Mana must see the reason why

that 2010 10A Trendy. I had him.

He said that it was not my new cool.

Hey, go and see the Asamancases. And they were done.

And this room where COP through machine.

It was war Second D somebody went straight to the late

Apostle Feng. The elders were agitated.

Why? Because your position is that

you holy you took her first thing to know that they had that

we have opened the gates. They were like, hey, money and

some somebody from CSC, you're called GPCC meeting and I think

minister you're Pentacles for sale.

Is that what will give you take you to heaven?

Did duku that die for you? No, these things, they are not

salivic and from Quan Jem Rain, but they help us to serve God.

Depending on your culture, there are some people they come from

the Akan background. They always cover their head to

go and see their king. A sign of respect to Budukuyen

Duku bono a resonating with our culture are very cool.

That is why a trend to her. Now that we are going to possess

the nation, are we going to impose Dukubo on those in the

wherever ever? It cannot fit, but Christianity

is more than that. Hallelujah.

And yes, honey, so consecrate yourself because people are

looking at you. You will not eat it just for one

day or two days or 5 or 10 or 20 days, but for a whole month

until it comes out from your way, no stress.

And you love it because you have rejected the Lord who is among

you and you have wheeled before him saying, why did we ever

leave Egypt? So they were telling God that

God, you don't know what your work.

You were bad father, and in pain God.

So in the same way to we should be careful the things we crave

for, be careful the things we crave for in this church.

This is the Church of Pentacles. We open truths, open secrets.

Look at how God brought those who were in house.

There was OK, so there was some kind of some kind of God brought

a very nice. Others were on the executive

committee, those who train him as overseer, those who showed

him how to be or suffer. He became their chairman.

So let us be careful when we're working with God.

Let God. He knows your need.

He knows the things that will kill you that will not be

helpful to you. So allow God to make you.

Don't run ahead of God. Those who try to amass wealth

for themselves, they died and left them for even strangers to

come and enjoy it and insult them on top.

That is what happened to them. They were craving, they were

craving, they were craving. It's like, oh fina.

The woman, it is not from your heart, true of us, but now come,

this is it, the child will enjoy it.

So now we need to have confidence in our goal.

The faithful is he who has called us and he will do it for

us. No matter your ambitions and

your plans, God can help you to get them.

But don't run ahead of God. Why did we ever leave Egypt?

God told them that Egypt don't go there again.

Now your question, God, why did we leave there and in pain?

God one month and truly God killed them when he gave them

meat, he began to kill them. He killed them, he killed them.

Let's let's go a bit faster. So OK now still Moses engine.

I said they have about 600,000 God where are you going to get

meat? But must say here man, here I

please go back. Here I am among 600,000 men on

foot excluding women 600,000 You see I will give them meat for a

whole month next verse. Would they have enough if flocks

and heads were slaughtered for them?

Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught

for them? Next rest, please, please go on,

the Lord answered Moses is the lost arm to shot.

That means the Lord is saying that.

Have I lost my point? Say that.

Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for

you. So God is saying that my his

power has not diminished. He is still powerful and he's

got the answers to our questions that we'll be asking.

Let's go on in some show, but let's go on.

So Moses went, went out and told them and told them blah, blah,

blah. But jump to let's jump to let's

see, go to verse 20. Let me check let me check key

and also something show but our time and what the mommy some few

minutes and you read it through so that you appreciate how the

whole thing. So Moses went out and told the

people what the Lord had said about your mom.

He brought together 70 of the elders and had them stand around

the tent. Please go on.

Then the Lord came down in a cloud and spoke with him, and he

took some of the power of of the Spirit that was on him, and puts

on the 70 elders. When the Spirit rested upon

them, the first signs were they prophesied, but unfortunately

they did not do so again. Let's go on.

However, two men, whose names were Elder and Midad, had

remained in the camp. They were listed among the

elders into those who are on the virtual You are the 2.

They are remaining in the camp. They were listed among the

elders, but they did not go out to the tent yet.

The spirit also rested upon them.

May the Spirit also rest upon you.

So they were listed among so yes people and they prophesied in

the camp. Let's go and pick a young man

ran and told Moses elder and me that a professor in the camp,

Joshua son of Nan, who had been with most, who has been Moses 8

since youth, spoke up and said, Moses, my Lord, stop them and

let's see. Let's see let's verse nesve

Moses said are you jealous please next verse are you

jealous for my sake, I wish that all the lost people were who

prophets this verse is it carries a powerful

interpretation. Moses like Paul come on, you

know when she come so you see the heart of a good leader.

He wants everybody to have what they have.

They don't monopolize the grace of God.

They wish that everybody is like them.

So today the prayer or the wish of Moses can be fulfilled.

That you and I will be what prophets so that we can hear

what God says, and that the Lord will put His Spirit on them.

As for us, the Lord has put His Spirit on us.

We have the Pentecost on us. It's going to say next verse

please because of our time. Then Moses and the elders of

Israel will return to the camp. Now everyone say now.

Now the author is saying that now I feel this is not now God

is going to give them the meat, the meat from Mohini ma Bano.

Now the time has come. Now the time has come for the

need. Now that God has strategically

positioned Moses and taking some of the Spirit and put on 70 and

he has dealt with their mindset and I've told them, you know

that is going to give them the meat.

Now a wind went out from the Lord, and when we went from

where? From the Lord is the same thing

as AX2, AX2 OK, a wind went out from the Lord and drove Quill in

from the sea and did what drove Quill, Quill.

They are very small and they are difficult to catch.

And then these are they laid those small, small eggs, nice

and brown, with some hair. Those were the best.

When you have me a moment and number can see you and number

lean meat, I'll move your own befilly.

That was some very numb. So he drove the quilt in from

the sea, and what scattered it? The wind or ghost scattered them

up to four cubits up to. So it was about, they were

about, they were three feet from the ground, Three feet.

Engineers knowing 3 feet maybe, I say, what do you imagine?

So 3 feet, some of us, we are five, we are 6, 666666.

Maybe they're me, BB or me or hobby.

Even the shortest 3 feet from the ground and crying

everything. Archie B.

Look at how good, how good it is 3 feet from the ground and I'll

say as far as a day's walk in any direction.

One day Walker was so crazy you can catch them next verse

please. And all that day and night and

all the next day in tomorrow year, 24 hour quail catching.

And almost out of the following day, Amanda, interestingly, no

one gathered less than 10 hummus.

No one gathered less than 50 bushels, which is about 2.2

kiloliters. Be everybody to being an amory

then almost ready almost then unfortunately, the next verse

while the meat was still in between their teeth and before

it could be consumed. The anger of the Lord bend

against the people and he struck them with a severe plea.

But when you want to make it's OK.

So my concern is that the wind from the Lord.

Let's go back to the wind. Yes, the wind from the Lord is

the same thing as Acts 2. When the day of Penteco.

Please go to Acts 2. Not young when the day of when

the day of Pentecost came, they were all together, you know.

Please, let's pick this one from the new King James.

New King James go to the best one.

When the day of Pentecost had fully come, when they working in

the town fully come, they were all with 1 accord in one place.

Next verse. And suddenly there came a sound

from where? Heaven as of what?

A mighty Russian wind. And he had the wind in it to

Tuama. Holy Ghost, you want to do some

few things and compare. So the win that brought the

answer to their need was the Holy Ghost.

And it's the same Holy Ghost. When we partner with him, we'll

bring out the need of our time. That is it.

But Moses had the Spirit upon him, and he himself was

complaining. Until you can be aligned but

complaining can be infectious that you forget your anointing.

Amen. While we are real beefy and you

will join them to complain, may we not join them?

Elijah too was anointed. Elijah, he didn't.

He'd never died. Well, but so you could have

anointed. But say, Echo, when do those

things catch on on you? You can run and leave it and run

and run and run. So please, may we partner with

the Holy Spirit so that whatever need we have, don't look inward,

look upward. Listen, look to God.

He has called you, but we're fire.

So there but no, no offer is the voice behind the human voice

calling you that. Come and be the youth leader, or

should be. Isaac, you've I went to Gaza.

He's there, he's there, he's there.

So please save God. Do your best, yeah men Afro.

So when things get tough, go to him men, for when Ibrahim was

swa the congregation. But turn unto your God and he

will bless you. May the Lord God Almighty bless

us all. Amen.

Praise the Lord or shall we bless our pastor.

Looking at our time, we have 9 more minutes to close.

We want to plead with you so that we take additional 30

minutes of your time. If you agree, if you agree so

that we can ask questions and have some time to pray.

So I'm waiting for your answer. Hey, are you here?

I can't hear you. Those of you who agree, give me

a wave. I mean you.

We want to open the floor for question.

Maybe you have a question you want you want to ask.

The floor is open. After the presentation, you have

a question you want to ask. The floor is open.

Those who join us online, if you have question you can also write

and it shall be responded. Please see any question.

So I want to ask this question. When our father was speaking, he

was saying that leadership comes with a burden and sometimes the

burdens are too heavy, that we are human beings.

Open cell Ujjai Wapen and I'm asking after praying and we are

not sharing anything from God. Can you speak to someone that

you trust that who may catch any power?

We are the person is going to help me or talk to me because

sometimes you are fed up and you need someone to talk to.

Yeah, that's my question. So can you do that?

Yeah. Any other question?

Any other question or contribution?

Maybe you you want to share some comment with us out of the

presentation? OK, Yeah.

OK, so please, I want to ask, I don't know if it's an addition

to what pastor said, but this is something that someone told me.

So she works in the church, She's a church worker.

But what she does at a point she's, she feels like someone.

Yeah, will be Internet with time, I said.

Like it felt more like a response, a responsibility, more

like a responsibility than like a work he or she was

volunteering to do for good. So when it gets to that point,

what do you do as a Christian? Yeah.

So the question is to all of us, anyone who wants to help with

the answer, Ben, help us. What do you think about the two

questions? So share your view with us.

So I'll answer the second question.

The second one, the person shouldn't feel like it's a

burden. I mean, we are.

It's a privilege to be called to serve God.

So you shouldn't feel like you are doing it for men or because

if you are not there, somebody, nobody will do it or something.

You should see it as a privilege and a grace and then give it

your all. She didn't think that if

somebody is not there and of course God can raise anybody to

do the very thing that you are doing.

So you should see it as a privilege and give it their all.

Amen. Praise the Lord and please, I

want to answer, answer all this question.

So when it gets to a time when you feel you are tired or you

are further as a Christian or as a leader, you have to go to the

Holy Spirit because He is able to give you strength.

And you ask whether you should go and tell somebody, huh.

You can go and tell somebody to make sure that the person you

are telling is a person who encourage you, but not to bring

you down because so if you get go to that person and that

person wouldn't give you any advice to uplift you.

So just go to a personal Obed like Obed and carried you

because that work. You mean we are all here, but

God chose you to do that work. It means that you were able to

do it. But when it's time, maybe when

you get worried or when you are fed up, go to God.

He will, He will strengthen you. Amen.

Yeah, maybe I also want to ask something.

You see, I believe that our understanding of leadership

counts a lot. Maybe you're a leader.

Your intention is to please men all the time.

Let me give you a typical example.

Maybe whenever you are called upon to come and do something in

front of the congregation, you are here to impress, impress the

the members. If you have such mindsets, I

hope you understand you give up early.

And so I believe that the kind of mindset we have on leadership

counts, that is the number one thing.

If you believe that you have been called by God and you have

been called to work for God and please God all the time, that

alone can encourage you. But if you think or you, yes, as

a leader, you want to please men all the time, you'll be

disappointed. So I just want to say that we

should believe and trust in the one who has called us and at

every given time we should do our very possible best.

To please him to work. For him and he will give us the

needed strength. Amen.

Yeah. Any other person?

Thank you really. OK, so since we don't have any

question, what did you hear? Maybe 5 people.

Then we bring it to a cruise. What did you hear?

Yes. What did you hear, Barbara?

What did you hear? We are not a brother, Ezekiel.

I heard that when you actually when, when you give to my many

excuses, God will also excuse you.

Yes, OK. Family is here, sort of chain,

we are not. I heard that as a leader you

need to help. You need to get have a big

heart. You have to know how to control

your temper and know how to keep secret as a leader.

I also heard that we should not relent in doing the work of God

and also the road will not always be smooth, sometimes it

will be rough, so we should endure.

If you finish, you give it to Peggy and then Sarah.

I also heard that if you think you are the only one who can do

everything, God can easily replace you when you begin to

give excuses. I also learned that as a leader,

you are supposed to have a vision for the people that you

lead. Amen.

Praise the Lord OK mine is talking about the vision as

Peggy said and I have a question to that OK so a leader is

supposed to have a vision me my main focus coming here is a

person mean one vision be I have I've been introduced to a new

leadership in this church. I don't really have any idea

about it, so I. Which said this time I hear

retreats no pastor will go a bit of better be bigger crack

concerning the I'm not saying anything about it.

OK. Thank you.

Yeah, Kingsford, So I also learned that when we are called,

we are not just called us the physical beings of the person

and what we have in US. I also said that I shouldn't be

a typical Ghanaian politician. Yes.

I also learned that in a meeting, I should voice out my

opinions. I shouldn't keep things to

myself. I should talk in meetings.

I also learned that in every position they put, you see God

as your help so that if anything happens, you run to him first.

Please. I also learned that as a leader,

if you are doing something, you should do it wholeheartedly.

Don't think if you are not there, someone will be able to

do it. OK, so as a leader sometimes

your vision should scare you and you know that God is your

strength and God is with you. So do not shake.

Not sometimes, he said. Any vision that comes from God

must scare you. Please, I also learned that when

you are in trouble or you find something difficult, we should

talk to the Holy Spirit. He will guide us and I also

learned that we shouldn't run before God.

And then please I have a question I wanted to ask.

Please tell us what you had before you ask your question.

We gave you the opportunity. You didn't ask, so tell us what

you had. Then you ask your question.

So we shouldn't like go before God, we should always make him

take the lead. And then the question is, is he

always bad or wrong for a leader to retire?

Maybe when you are looking at your other activities, the polls

that have been given to you, you yourself, you see the way maybe

you are handling it. Is it a bad for you to say say

you just want to retire or resign you?

Believe that. Oh those are the bags you talk

then pastor or or if someone has an opinion you can share.

With us, I will say mine before I go back.

Yeah. I also learned that when one

thing we can do as leaders is we should stand with our other

leaders in decision making, whatever the decision may not

favor us, but we have to stand with the other leaders.

Pastor says something about those who always sit at the back

room. I hope you heard it.

Yeah. OK, I heard that.

He said you shouldn't be a leader who always complain.

Yeah. Yeah, I also learned that

leadership comes with caring of bed, so you should just prepare

for that. Please hurry up.

OK, I learnt that the moment you start complaining, God make sure

to bring your replacement. And we learnt that from the

story of Elijah and also that of Moses.

Amen. Mr. Opuku has raised their hand.

I don't know whether he has a question, so please here is

Dennis. We shouldn't let the complain of

others affect us. Then Frank, have you spoken?

Yeah. Then Teacher Vida will be the

last person. OK, so I also heard that any

time we make excuses, God also excuses us.

So we should be relentless when we are given the authority or

opportunity to serve. It is not going to be easy, but

we have to look up to God and then not be on our own.

And I also want to ask, what does it mean if you have been

given the opportunity to save or lead and that doesn't scare you?

Amen, Teacher Vaider. Please leaders are called to

solve problems. Thank you.

OK, So we want to talk to the issues that were raised that if

you want to retire, it depends on many things.

If your if your church has that limitations for you, for us as

COP everybody should retire at 65.

Everybody we encourage if you as COV minister composed by force

you retire at age 65. But if personal things and other

things you have to also right to justify why you want to retire

or resign. So you would have to come to

that point yourself and be convinced yourself.

But if it can also come because of health, your health too may

not even allow you to go on and on and on.

And if there are issues that probably we can address it to

when you come up, we will attempt to solve it.

We'll attempt, we'll not say we'll solve it.

We'll try to to help you so if all these things feel they will

deliver to you. So if you want to retire to, but

we always want to encourage you to run the race to the end.

It is good to run to the end looking onto Jesus, the author

and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set

before him endured the shame, the pain and the shame.

You run out to the finishing line.

So if you look to Jesus, you give you grace.

We give you as grace to run to the end.

So and the other one, if your vision that does not scare you

enough, what do you do? If your vision that does not,

what does it mean? It may look very simple, but you

go and start. You see that it's not as easy as

because even Jesus Christ, before he went to the cross, the

vision of the cross scared him a little bit and he was like

Father and so he got scared. Everybody, your vision will

scare you if it's from God Air points you feel scared, but when

you encourage yourself and you get filled in the Holy Spirit,

you can do it. Thank you.

Ma, please, did you talk? Hello Enoch, your your hand is

out. You can unmute, unmute yourself

and speak. OK, thank you.

I think your question has been answered.

I was asking that. So if you tend to want to resign

before your due dates, they proceed.

Yeah, I think Pastor has answered.

Thank you. But please don't be in a hurry

to resign. Don't resign.

Please don't give up. God will take you to the end.

OK, God will take you to the there's a cheese saying which I

like that one. And you must see any Arkatia and

you must see any Arkatia until you should end so that we know

that I have finished. Jesus said that I have finished.

Paul said that I have finished the race of Copanama query.

Don't give up. So please don't resign.

Please don't do. And can I ask another question?

OK, sure. Yes.

OK, so you see, we, we, we have one leader, OK, it says Christ

is the, is the head of the church.

OK, I, I used to ask my friends that why is it that I attend

Pentacles, then they attend the church they attend If we, if

their pastors were to be my church, once the church be a

very powerful institution. We have prophets at different

churches, we have teachers at different churches, we have

apostles and different churches. If we're all to come under one

umbrella once it's be a wonderful thing.

And then I will proceed to now ask that what happens if you

have a vision, OK, be it's a vision God has laid on your

heart or a vision God has told you to pursue.

But then the church, it's it can't fits under the church.

It's not permissible under the church.

What do you do? You then tend to break away like

we have or what do you do? Let's say you are the you are

the evangelism leader. And then there is this.

There is something you need to undertake.

OK. But then it's not permissible

within the church. What do you do?

Thank you. OK, so for your first one, the

church, when you talk about the church, the church universalize

one body and we have different parts, but we are all serving

the same Lord. So it is Jesus who sees that

beauty. We don't see it.

And so for him, he's doing his work through all the groups, all

the denominations, and we shouldn't look down on any

church. We shouldn't preach against any

church as much as you can. If you are not, I'll say you

guys sent here, but restrain yourself because James Macon

warn his followers not to preach against any church, but to

preach Christ, because the Christ, the Christ, I'm

preaching against another church.

So it is not part of our work. So the beauty of the church

universal is what we are looking for.

That all may be one. We will get there, but not now.

So the second part, if your vision does not fit into your

church now, what should you do? You should explain your vision,

make it plain for us to hear it. If it does not, if you think it

does not fit into your church, you need to engage and explore

avenues. Breaking away to form a church

is tofu Massa. It's lots of work bending out to

come inside. You get frustrated, many many

started, but there are nowhere to be found, so you may have to

go back to God for better and further clearance.

No clarification and you'll be revealing.

We see in parts. So don't rush to run away, but

sell it, explain it. And I think that for COP now, no

evangelism beyond what it cannot fit because no one member of

another one God would say that we have finished what I've given

you before, I give you another one.

So when it comes, you need to also seek advice in the

multitude of counselors, there is safety godly ones of course.

So not just many other in the phobia godly ones.

Seek help and let's see how it fits into it.

But for the church, I just say via Uber communipa and then the

evangelism communipad. But for what those that will

bring souls to the Kingdom of God will give you, I also want

to guide you and help you to do it based on godly way of doing

it. OK.

And then one thing I also want to draw attention and maybe

pastor, I will want you to advise us on that.

There are some leaders who are not update officers.

And so when the bedding of leadership falls on them and

it's become so intense before you realize me and I'm a by me,

I'm a cock me, I'm a sanko and true, true before you realize it

and we're far back door. No, I think say, even though you

have spoken about it, you know, it is some some people have that

mindset. One because he he or she is not

an ordained officer. So he thinks that Obed to me.

I found one course and I just say he's not responsible to

anyone, not unscribe to anyone. So since we are learning, I will

want you to speak to it so that we can take some lessons from

it. Yes, OK.

So please you are a leader, get it into your heart.

You don't need to be ordained before you start working.

Start and work. We have seen countless number of

people in the history of the Church of COP who were not even

ordained but the open assemblies.

So go and check how the COP church spread to West Africa

along the coast fisherfolks Mukuinam and when it's on Sunday

like lost and they already did you even they they gathered just

to pray and while they were praying Holy Ghost Father now

Benin to go. That was how fisherfolks and

nobody inside Nicole Liberia and other people.

They took the church to the nation.

Some people also were schooled. They went to do pH, DS and other

things in Europe. One of them is elder lawyer,

Doctor Ken Abwa, a lawyer, a doctor, a specialist, urologist,

specialist, a paper and the way he does evangelism, the church

in Germany and Holland especially, it was through him,

Elder, our former genius Appos Camilla, he went to Germany to

go and study. He opened the churches in some

of the states in Germany. He went there to study and then

it's, you know, they open. So like I said, when you're a

posture, so you know, open a church, but they open.

So please don't wait son. Yami be chair and car, Unka

said. Because you are not ordained as

an elderly minty worker, I will pay you, even quadruple it for

you. So please don't let that mindset

say unless I am ordained as an elder, a Dick in a dickness

medium in kaho O kaho assemble with Shim.

Yeah, Jessica, even more BAD. And you might be.

So please, when it comes to food, Yeah.

Chennai. Yeah.

You feel mass and you're there. So in the same one we wait to

come. Don't.

Don't leave us. Please don't leave us.

Amen. So we want to pray, OK?

OK, pastor, I have a personal problem that I want to share

with you. To see how best you can help me

concerning leadership apart from the church that will play as

leaders outside the church I play a lot of rules or I lead so

many people in so many institutions and.

Is. So time consuming.

It takes my time. So many of them I belong to so

many community leader and they all need me.

The church also need me. So I am just on my way.

I have made-up my mind to resign from some of them and I when I

was sitting there and we were just talking about it to adjust

running through my mind whether to go ahead and resign or I

should stick to it because they also need me, but they are

taking a lot of my time. They need me as well, OK.

So the best way is to try and multiply yourself in them.

That is the best way. So train others to also be like

you so that they can share the weights together.

There is this saying that do you grow from if you stand Willie,

did you approach him from me? Please 13 as I say, will be

kind, say I should try a Baron. And then I say in English, I say

my former representative, and I see a blue which is inevitably

yours once taking extricate you from feather encumbrances.

I'm not forgetting a blue which is inevitably yours once taking

extricate you from feather encumbrances.

All right, So please, we wanted to try and delegate.

You cannot do everything. The delegation is also very

important. And then pick some, train them

and unleash them so there are some of them.

You can ask them to go and do it on your behalf.

And you pick feedback. If it doesn't go how you want it

to go, then you step in so you can throw your weight,

resources, your strength, your voice behind him so that he can

stand in your shoes and also act for you.

So please don't resign now that we are in the period of

possessing the the nation's memories and in Emma

resignation. Did you even add more to it and

do it for us? So please want this all we want.

We want you to take up this key, key key things within the

community so that with your godly advice, it can turn

around. You have no idea.

I've heard it that you are settling the disputes hard ones,

tough ones. That is what God will want you

to do so to ask all please, whenever there is the space of

keen man with whatever champagne, whatever, present

yourself vote for me. I want to now because they know

that you, you are a Pentecost woman.

You a Pentecost man on this guy. Would this guy do come to me

here or they will bring you to me and they can tackle you for

their money. So when they come, go for it.

Workplace, even if they're voting for minister for sweeping

our face, take it, Please take it.

Let's be on our feet even as we want to pray, Let's pray, shall

we Lift up our voice. I'm going to thank God.

Thank the Lord for what He has done with us today, for a time

with him. Lord, we are saying thank you.

Thank you, Lord, thank you, Lord, in the name of Jesus.

Thank you in the name of. Jesus, Lord, we thank you, bless

your name, wonderful Savior. Thank you, God, thank you that

these things happen. For example, so that we may not

repeat what they do. Help us.

So Lord, Lord, help us. Lord help us aju Mai Yi asudi da

medu E. The.

Lift up your voice and you know, pray in tongues you want to blow

some. Tongues.

Lift up your voice and pray that May God give us grace.

May the Lord give us the grace so that the bedding of

leadership He will help us carry it through.

Lift up your voice. Blow some tongues.

Blow some tongue. We have about one minute to

close. Blow some tongue.

In the name of Jesus, free, free, free.

In the name of Jesus, Lord, let's pray.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for a way that you

have given unto us. We trust you, the Lord, you help

us, help us so that may our leadership, may the vision that

you have given us. Though with humans is may seem

impossible, but with you God, all things are possible.

So Lord, we ask for a fresh touch, anoint our eyes to see

what we see. May we begin to see things from

your perspective. Cause us Energizer, strengthen

us to be able to accomplish it in Jesus name.

We pray that O Lord, your way that has come is spreading their

life. May that life transform our

ministries and our giftings to become better and the best

version that you have ordained for us in Jesus name.

We also pray that even as we depart from here, we commit

ourselves into your hands, continue to review yourself unto

us and build over us, review visions and dreams so that we'll

know and we can accomplish. We thank you for, if asked, all

these three crises. As we depart from here, take us

to our homes safely and bring us back tomorrow throughout the day

to be faithful. May we see your faithfulness in

our lives and your mighty hand also moving on our behalf in

Jesus name, Amen.