Your Labour Will Not Be In Vain (Officers' Appreciation Day) - Mrs. Elizabeth Osei Akosah

Amen. I'm grateful to the Almighty God

and I want to thank my husband and the entire Escape Baidu

English Assembly Presbytery and for giving me this great

opportunity to share the Word of God with you.

Hallelujah. As as we all know, we've

gathered here for a special reason, and that is to

appreciate our offices. So once again, I would like us

to give a round of applause to our officers.

I want them to humbly rise on their feet.

Our officers, please humbly rise on your feet.

Yes, and let's bless them. Let's bless them too.

Please. You can sit, be steadfast and

immovable, abounding in the works of the Lord.

Your labor won't be in fame, and your reward will be great.

Hallelujah your. Labor won't.

Be in fame. And your.

Reward will be great. Hallelujah.

Beast and a moveable. OK,

there is this song in I Can and I also want to sing it Ofre Yeah

ofre Chron Chrome of Sorrow, Frey.

Now they are Freya. Hallelujah.

I would like to say for the fact that being an officer of this

church is not an easy task, as we've all said.

But on the other hand, it's a great privilege and an honor to

be chosen by God, Hallelujah. After I told my message, your

labor will not be in vain. Your, your labor will not be in

vain. And this message is to encourage

all our offices, our able offices, and to also encourage

our members to do something in the House of God.

Hallelujah. So our key test is taken from

First Corinthians chapter 15, verse 58.

1 Corinthians 15:58

First Corinthians chapter 15, verse 58.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always

abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour

is not in vain in the Lord. I want to repeat, therefore, my

beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in

the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain.

Hallelujah. So I want to look at the

background of this chapter. First Corinthians chapter 15,

1 Corinthians 15 · chapter mention

verse one. No, First Corinthians chapter

1 Corinthians 15 · chapter mention

15, yes. Want to know the background.

The one who wrote this First Corinthians is Apostle Paul, and

he wrote to the church in Corinth that is current.

It's a it's a large Greek city known for trade, wealth, and

they were so much immoral. So the purpose of this letter

was to correct the divisions among them, the moral problems

and the confusion. They had confusion about

Christian doctrine, especially resurrection.

So the church in Corinth, they had many questions and some

confusions about life after death.

So some thought only the soul matters and the body will not be

raised. Some people also even doubted,

say, is there any resurrection at all?

So Paul addressed the believers who are doubting the future

resurrection of the dead, that Jesus Christ died.

Jesus Christ died and he was buried and he rose again and

appeared to many witnesses. So truly Jesus rose from the

death. And because Jesus lives, we

believers will also be raised to eternal life.

Hallelujah. So from verse 12 to verse 35,

Paul argued that if Christ is rising, believers will also rise

and from verse 50 to 57 that is First Corinthians chapter 50,

chapter 15, verse 50 to 57. He also explained that death is

swallowed up in victory through Jesus Christ and he said thanks

be to God who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hallelujah. So in verse 58, that is so after

celebrating the setting victory over there, Paul gives a

practical conclusion that therefore, my beloved brethren,

be steadfast, immovable, always abounding the work of the Lord,

knowing that your lab is not in vain.

So Paul meant that since Jesus rose from the dead and is alive,

we too will forever live with him, and so we shouldn't give up

and that our present service is no wasted.

Hallelujah. Therefore, what I want to say is

that everything or every act of service you do in the House of

the Lord, it has a reward in heaven.

God keeps records of everything we do in His house, and so we

want to go back to our quotation.

So we are called to be steadfast, to be steadfast.

So steadfast means that to be firm, to be faithful, not to be

easily distracted in this ministry or in this church.

If you are an officer, you can be easily distracted.

But the Word of God is saying that we should be steadfast.

We should be like a three with deep roots.

Our faith should stand strong despite the stones that may come

our way. Hallelujah, it means that our

minds and our has to be anchored in the truth or in God's truth.

And so Colossians chapter 2, verse 6 to 9 to 7, Colossians 2,

Colossians 2:6–9

six to seven says that just as you receive Jesus Christ as

Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and build up in him,

strengthened in the faith as you were taught.

So when you are rooted in Christ, you are not carried away

by any storm. Hallelujah.

And the next one to is we should be immovable.

That is not to be moved or shaken.

As we've all said as church leaders, sometimes if you are

not careful, things can move you.

There are so many factors or so many issues that confront

officers. And if without the help of the

Holy Spirit, they can be distracted or they can be moved

or they can be shaken. So we want to look at one or two

things or three things. That's if care is not taken.

If you want officer, it is likely you'll be moved.

One is criticism. Criticism, yes.

So if you are an officer, criticism is bound to come.

It may come from your colleagues, one cuz our

colleagues offices. It may also come from the church

members. And if you are not careful,

you'll be discouraged. You'll be discouraged.

But this morning the Bible is telling us not to be moved.

Hallelujah upon all what Moses did for the people of Israel by

way of rescuing them from slavery, giving them God's law,

interceding for their sins, and guiding them towards the land

God has promised. He was criticized by this same

Israelites, even his sister Miriam and their brother Aaron,

they criticized him. We saw Paul.

Paul also was faced with so many criticism.

But the word of God is saying that whatever, whatever the case

may be, don't be moved. So my dear officers, being an

officer, you'll be criticized. Shahuuddin, hello.

So if criticism comes, don't just hold on or just be strong.

Amen. Another issues that can confront

officers, one is opposition, opposition.

Opposition. Opposition is when people work

against you. Yes, they can.

Also, if care is not taken, you can be moved.

And another thing is also discouragement.

Discouragement in the sense that maybe you want to have a program

as officers or maybe an officer, a leader.

You want to have a program. You've made announcements, we've

hyped the program media fly a swan wine echo.

But yeah, but starting. No, no be.

Anyhow, it's really disgusting. But because of the call you've

received from God, don't be moved.

Hallelujah. And Amuzu.

Evangelism. Evangelism a leader.

Oh yeah, we'll be going for evangelism after church.

Maybe let's say 4 O clock you'll be here and no one will be here.

Why ensure your beaker say I'll resign But the word of God says

elder Amuzu, don't resign, move on because there is a reward for

you and one another. One other thing that confronts

officers is balancing personal life and family pressure.

This is also one thing that confronts them too much.

And there are times as Elder Emma said, they spend long hours

having meetings and there are times do they skip their meals

and children may feel neglected. That they be our new fear.

They be our new fear. They may feel neglected.

And even there are some 2 whose spouses are not members.

Some somebody may be a dickness, but the the husband is not a

church member. And when that person goes home,

there's always tension at home. But because of the Word of God,

don't be moved. Hallelujah.

And one other thing too is false teachings.

No matter who you are in Christ, if you are not grounded in the

Word of God, false teachings can take you out of the House of

God. I remember 1 Dickness.

She left our church and she said she has now found the truth and

that she said that she has now found out that wearing earrings

and eating style more is the same.

So out of it, she left the church.

Oh, she's an officer, but she left it.

She left the church. So being an officer, you have to

be rooted in the Word of God and with the verse that we read it.

So we should abound in the work of the Lord.

Abound in the work of the Lord. That is giving yourself fully

and continually to God service, that is doing his work with

enthusiasm. So if we say you are to abound

in the work of the Lord, it means we must save, serve with

reverence, save from our hearts wholeheartedly.

We must respect God and honor him.

And Please remember that's we are serving the King of kings.

Hallelujah. We are not just serving people,

we are serving the King of kings.

So as leaders or as officers, we must treat every duty or we must

do everything as we are doing for the Lord.

And we must also be faithful to God.

We must also be faithful to God. We must obey God when it's

convenient or unseen. And one thing that we can do to

abound in the work of the Lord is to rely on God's strength.

As they were saying, some said it's because God is helping

them. Yes, with being an officer.

You can't be be an officer without the help of the Holy

Spirit. So it's always good to rely on

the Holy Spirit to help you in all your things.

Hallelujah there's one verse that's when I read in fact it

shakes me Jeremiah 48 verse 10 Jeremiah 48 verse 10.

Jeremiah 48:10 Jeremiah 48:10

He says the a woe unto anyone who does the work of God

carelessly, carelessly. So please, although being an

officer is not an easy task, but aim at doing its war and I know

God bless you. Hallelujah.

So the last part says that your labor won't be in vain.

Will pray and yaqua be be in the House of God will pray and

yaqua. It means every prayer, every

prayer, every act of kindness, every teaching and every giving,

every giving. Whatever you do here, whatever

you give here will be recorded and God will reward you.

Every encouragement you give somebody, somebody may be going

through some kind of troubles, but that you're aware of.

Encouragement will also mean something good in heaven.

Visiting, if you are here and were able to visit members, it's

also your labor. That thing you do will not be in

vain. Helping people quietly.

There are people who help people secretly.

They give to people secretly. All the things we've been doing

in the House of God, the Word of God is saying that our labor

will not be in vain. God, notice everything that we

do in the House of God and that he will reward us.

Hallelujah, so the rewards we have eternal life, all these

things. If you do, you have eternal life

and there are heavily crowns for us.

Everything you do Debiano facial team say because of the crown

that you are waiting, you work for the Lord and there are

heavily crowns, so many crowns in heaven that awaits us.

Yes, and what I have realized is that whoever serves the Lord

faithfully, God blesses his generations.

Hallelujah, whoever serves the Lord faithfully, God blesses

their generations from generation to generation

generations. You know the obey and just go

back you trace that the Father was they be was helping the

House of God the father helped someone the father was committed

Christine and that blessings passes through the generation's

heart or the last generation Hallelujah and to everyone of us

here our congregation here. I just want to say that save God

do something in the House of God or be or her she he or she is

just an A spectator or BA Sorry you're upon no Co there's

nothing you you can't even point of doing something in the House

of God. Please there are so many things

in this House of God that you can do for God.

Hallelujah. We are like 1 body.

First Corinthians chapter 12 verse 27 says now you are the

1 Corinthians 12:27

body of Christ and each one of you is part of it.

Yes, we are. We are body of Christ and each

one of you is part of it. Yes.

So we are one body with many parts.

So every Christian is like a different part of the body.

We bet, we bet, we bet 9. So if we are here and open the

corner on 9, say on my own choir, you can't move, Yes, you

can't move. Everybody here.

God has deposited so many things in us.

We have the spiritual gifts, the natural gifts.

Ah, God expects us to use it in his house.

Hallelujah. So please by the end of this

day, I want you to decide if you are not doing anything, just

anything in the House of God. And they say you just come, you

go, you come, you go. We are to mean pointing out,

say, Oh dear, we are this, you are doing this.

Please change your mind. Hello, please change your mind.

God has deposited so many things in you.

Whatever you are doing at your workplace, you can do it.

Yet there are some people who are creative, they are artistic,

they can create, they can draw and.

We are praying for our officers. You see, even as we climb as the

Appreciation Week, one of the best things we can do is pray

wholeheartedly for them. First we are praying that God

should grant them wisdom, knowledge and guidance.

The last time God asked Solomon that what do you want and

Solomon said I need wisdom and in the time of Solomon Bible

says that silver and gold was very common and Solomon became

successful because God gave him wisdom.

We are praying for wisdom for our leaders that every point in

time they will know the will of God and what to do.

Open your mouth and pray for them that they will never miss

their presidential way. We are praying for the wisdom of

God, the knowledge and the guidance of God in the name of

Jesus. In the name of Jesus, open your

mouth and pray for them. Pray for them that the wisdom of

God, the wisdom of God, the wisdom of God will kill them.

The knowledge of God will saturate them, that God will

guide them at every step of the way.

They will never miss their providential way in the name of

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In the name of Jesus, can we stretch our hands upon them?

If you can, let's stretch our hands upon them again.

We are praying for an infilling of the Holy Ghost upon them.

We are praying God telling God that He should pour out his

spirits on them without measure, that there will be men and women

whom the spirits of the Lord dwells.

Open your mouth and pray in the name of Jesus and in feeling of

the Holy Ghost, and in feeling of the Holy Ghost and in feeling

of the Holy Ghost, that God should not be aware.

God should grace the accountant. Open your mouth and pray.

Open your mouth and pray. There will be men and women in

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especially pray this one for them, that divine obedience and

that their faith will not feel. You see, being a leader is very

stressful. The last time Moses was so

stressed out and worn out that the commandment God gave him, he

disobeyed and because of that single one, he couldn't enter

the promise of law of the promised land.

We are praying for our leaders that these ones, it will not be

said of them that they work tirelessly in the House of God

and because of a single disobedience they couldn't

attain what God had prepared for them.

We are praying for special obedience for them that their

faith will not fail. This is 1 prayer that I always

want to pray that my faith will not fail because the Christian

work is a walk of faith. If you don't have faith, you

will faint. Let's pray for them.

Open your mouth and pray that their faith will not fill.

Their faith will not fill. Their faith will not fill in

tiring times, their faith will not fill.

When all odds are against them. They will trust the words of the

Lord and they will not disobey. In the name of Jesus, open your

mouth and pray. Open your mouth and pray.

Pray for them, pray for them, pray for them in the name of

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hunter song. We are praying once again for

our officers. The last time the woman who

broke the perfume on the feet of Jesus and clean with the hair,

the disciples began to talk and complain.

This thing you have done, we could have sold it and we'll get

a year's wages. But Jesus told them, listen,

leave this woman alone because of what she has done.

Wherever the gospel is preached, her name will be mentioned.

We are praying for our officers because of their service to the

Lord. Wherever Escapade Worship Center

is mentioned, their name will also be mentioned.

Because of their service to the Lord.

Generations will come and they will remember them.

Because of their service to the Lord, Their household will be

established and their name will never fit.

I will lift up your voice and pray.

Lift up your voice and pray. And even as they take care of

the House of the Lord, God Himself should take care of

them. God Himself should take care of

your household, God themselves to take care of your business.

Pray for making their businesses into the hands of God.

Oh, that they will work under open heavens.

That they will work under open heavens.

The Lord will bless them financially in your household.

They will experience peace. They will experience what it is

to be a people of God. Open your mouth and pray.

Open your mouth and pray in the name of Jesus.

Open your mouth and pray wherever escape.

The Wassup Center will be mentioned.

These ones will not be left out because they have said the Lord

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In the name of Jesus, our last prayer.

This one is an open check. The officers here, I want you to

specially in this atmosphere, lay your request before the

Lord. Even in this atmosphere, we are

trusting the Lord that whatever proclamation you make today will

be established. The same for the congregation.

If you have any wish for any of the officers, mention their

name, proclaim it. In this atmosphere, in this

altar, the Lord is here and you will grant our request even as

we celebrate them. Open your mouth and pray.

If you have any special requests, this is an open check.

Confess it. And in this atmosphere it will

be established in the name of Jesus, in laba soul, the

brother, the heart to side. In the name of Jesus we are

praying. Father, in the name of Jesus, we

thank you this morning. We have every cause to thank you

because you are a faithful God and you've dealt with your

church graciously. We are thankful for the lives of

our officers. Indeed, you have kept your word

true to us. You said you will give us

leaders after your own heart who will feed us with your word and

with knowledge. And indeed, in our day we have

sent it from time to time. You continue to raise leaders

for your church, and even as we celebrate them today, we say

thank you. Even as we thank you and

celebrate them, we want to pray for them.

We pray for wisdom and knowledge and guidance.

Father, for the sake of your church, grant them divine wisdom

and guidance. For the sake of your church,

grant them divine wisdom and guidance.

For the sake of your church, grant them divine wisdom and

guidance. For the sake of your Church.

Whenever they go on their needs, answer their prayers.

Whenever they need help for the sake of your church, answer them

quickly and send them help from Zion.

We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Ghost upon them.

Oh, we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Ghost upon them.

We pray that you release your Spirit on them without measure,

that they will indeed be men and women in whom the Spirit of the

Lord is found. We pray that by their heads

never run out of oil. For the sake of your Church.

When they go on their needs, answer them, we pray, committing

them into your hands once again, even as they are taking care of

your church. We pray that you cater for them,

their businesses into your hands, their household into your

hands. David said that I have been a

child and now I'm an adult. I've never seen a righteous man.

Descendants beg for bread. Officers, for the sake of your

work for the Lord, your descendants will be blessed,

your descendants will be blessed, your descendants will

be blessed in the name of Jesus. And now may the Lord bless you.

May Yahweh Himself whom you serve, look down on you and

smile at you. May the Lord cause you to stand

before kings and Queens and stand before presidents.

May all nations come to you and call you blessed.

May the Lord cause you to walk under open heavens.

A week today you will hear good news.

I said A week today you will hear good news because of your

service to the Lord. A week today you will hear good

news. May the peace of God that

transcends all understanding God your hearts and give you joy.

No harm will come near your dwelling.

No harm will come near your dwelling.

Surely the Lord will save you from the foulest name and from

the deadly pestilence. You will not fear the terror of

the night, nor the arrow that flies by this.

May the Lord give you rest on every side.

May the Lord give you rest on every last side.

May the Lord make you a happy man.

May the Lord make you a happy woman.

And as we have blessed you and pray for you this manner, so

shall it be. Let's all the congregation say a

big Amen.