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Fulfilling your God-Given Ministry | Rev. COS Fawenu

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  1. Who is? This a.

  2. Wisdom Bible Church the. Church of A.

  3. Distant Christian narration forgetfulness can make you miss

  4. blessings Forgetfulness can make you.

  5. Miss opportunities. Forgetfulness.

  6. Can deny you the best that God has ordained for you

  7. forgetfulness compress you as somebody irresponsible whereas.

  8. You are not. I pray in the name.

  9. Of Jesus, whatever. Is important that you are

  10. supposed to give attention. To.

  11. So. The reason?

  12. I have come to remind you. Is.

  13. Because I don't want you to live in the.

  14. World of forgetfulness. Forgetfulness is a common

  15. tendency in every. Man, you may.

  16. Say it is most common with. Old man.

  17. Very common among young. People among young people.

  18. What are you thinking of? Not much.

  19. Responsibility yet if you think that you have to give attention

  20. to. You are ignoring them.

  21. I don't blame. You.

  22. It's a common tendency in every. Man the.

  23. Worst form of? Forgetfulness is to.

  24. Forget your purpose. In life.

  25. Purpose. Just many.

  26. Of you that are not living in the consciousness of your

  27. purpose is reminder. Bring back the consciousness of

  28. your purpose in the name of. Jesus.

  29. One of the antidote or medicine or solution to forgetfulness is

  30. to have a man in your life who reminds you.

  31. So reminder. Is the antidote to

  32. forgetfulness. You must not lack in your.

  33. Life people that are always there to quicken your memory to

  34. your purpose. In life.

  35. So my ministry this morning is a very simple.

  36. One is to. Follow after the pattern of.

  37. Apostle Paul one. Of the things he did in his

  38. letter to the church in Colus. You wear it 17.

  39. So quicken the memory of that. Man.

  40. So that. We give.

  41. Attention to that which is very. Paramount Chapter 4.

  42. Verse 17. Colossians 417.

  43. You will, Colossae. And say to Archipos, Are you

  44. there? And say to Archipos, take it to

  45. the ministry without as deceive in the Lord that thou fulfill.

  46. It is a message of reminder. Yes, he said.

  47. I said he what he? Said to aquifers.

  48. It means. In that church.

  49. Or too much, depending. Me, Johnny.

  50. Aquifers was a man with calling upon his life.

  51. But it's so clear. That his ministry was missing in

  52. the church if you look. At this church.

  53. If you look at 6 church. About with joy and.

  54. It. Appears certain things are

  55. missing. Is very very possible.

  56. You are a ministry. You have a.

  57. Duty. But you are.

  58. Yet to wake up to that duty. You have.

  59. Been endowed with certain giftings.

  60. But those gifts are not. Being used to.

  61. My web money OH. Look in.

  62. This church. Help me to inform that you

  63. should take what was been sent and sure you do that duty

  64. diligently and in full. Hallelujah.

  65. Amen. I said to Hakipas.

  66. Yes, before Hakipu. Take him to the ministry without

  67. us. Receive in the law that thou

  68. fulfill it. Yes, he said.

  69. He said better. Than many of.

  70. US. And.

  71. He has done better than many of us.

  72. How do I say? That.

  73. I said that because he has an awareness, he has a

  74. consciousness that is. Calling upon.

  75. His. Life.

  76. They. Are not there to serve.

  77. So I am here to. Tell you natural.

  78. Talent and spiritual they. Are meant for.

  79. The work of. And God is counting.

  80. On you. Take up the ministry.

  81. That. You fulfilling tell.

  82. You and. Let you know that when we talk

  83. about the church, the church is a worship center.

  84. But. The church is not only a worship

  85. center. Hello now.

  86. That you come here regularly to worship.

  87. But. There are other dimension of the

  88. purpose of the church that you need to fit.

  89. Into the. Church is also a training Center

  90. for both Kingdom service and. Community relevance are.

  91. You with me so if your relationship to the church is

  92. only to. Worship, you have not.

  93. Fulfilled all right. Thank God.

  94. That you have seen the church as a worship center.

  95. But it's not yet excellent. Am I talking to?

  96. Somebody. Relate with the church as a

  97. worship center. Relate with the Church also as a

  98. training Center for both Kingdom service and for community.

  99. Yourself. Yeah, your sense what?

  100. Are. You doing your?

  101. Best Kingdom. Service.

  102. Where are you? Standing.

  103. In community relevance. On.

  104. What scale can we? Put you so.

  105. As a Christian. Christian.

  106. As a child of. God, you come.

  107. To a charter. But in addition.

  108. To burn Yeah people. Must present yourself.

  109. To be. Trained for Kingdom service and

  110. for community. Relevance.

  111. Thank God. We have sang and danced very

  112. well. In church.

  113. You. Know.

  114. You are not in charge to only sing, you are equally here to

  115. serve. You are not in charge to.

  116. Only sing you are. Equally, you have to do what?

  117. So I love the way you dance so well.

  118. You know. What else are you useful for?

  119. Here. What else can we say you are

  120. adding to this church? As a value.

  121. We got to try to pray is part of our.

  122. Worship and I. Have said.

  123. We see. We come here to pray is part of

  124. our. Worship and.

  125. Always to pray and not to slack, let me tell you.

  126. After. The.

  127. Prayer. You are also here to participate

  128. in the other activities of the. Church so we.

  129. Pray in church. The church.

  130. Also has a responsibility of evangelism to.

  131. The world outside there. Hello, we play church.

  132. The church. Also have that responsibility to

  133. take the gospel to other people that are not in church.

  134. To what? Degree are you involved in other

  135. activities and obligations of the.

  136. As you come, do you see it as a necessity to bring others?

  137. With you, you. Come, you hear?

  138. Messages, you scream. Wow, we've never had it.

  139. In this dimension before. People, are you sharing those

  140. messages? With and the charge has made.

  141. It so comfortable for you and the charge has made it so

  142. comfortable. For you that.

  143. This message. Is even.

  144. Before you leave. Your phone they.

  145. Still make such snippets of this message.

  146. I am a banker, therefore I cannot join evangelism on

  147. Saturday. I'm a.

  148. Medical lab student every time I enter the laboratory so.

  149. So. Much stress that I cannot be

  150. available for some. Little things.

  151. That you can do that can turn out to become a great available

  152. on your phone that you can just spare some data and spare some

  153. meaning to just press. So you are not just here to

  154. pray. You are.

  155. Also here to participate in other activities of the church.

  156. When you worship God, God committed himself to blessing

  157. you. So one of the things we enjoy in

  158. the ministry of the choice that every time we come we are

  159. blessed. You have been.

  160. Blessed thank you Jesus, blessing upon all.

  161. However, you are not in charge to just receive blessings.

  162. You are to equally. Become a blessing to others.

  163. Don't. Just live the life of a consumer

  164. Christian. Also the life of a producing and

  165. propagative. Your smile can be a blessing to

  166. somebody your. Smile.

  167. Hello, Isa. Party party with 1000 out of

  168. 20,000 OK as a gift to somebody can be a blessing to.

  169. Other AM. I talking to somebody your phone

  170. call brother, how are you doing? How is your study can be a

  171. blessing to somebody? Your short.

  172. Text message my. Pastor for the.

  173. Messages we are preaching to all this is my testimony your

  174. ministry is a blessing to our life can be an encouragement to

  175. our pastor to be more diligent in.

  176. This ministry. Stepping out of your room,

  177. crossing the road to visit a sister in church, to visit a

  178. brother in church can be an employment to a brother that is

  179. not alone is not forgotten. You may not know that, brother.

  180. You see, dancing and jumping in church is an offer.

  181. Oh, OK, so if. You can testify that

  182. administration of the choir is blessing your life.

  183. In what way are you blessing the?

  184. Choir back. So coming to church on a Sunday.

  185. You. Buy a pack of soft drink and

  186. after the after the church. You said this is for choir.

  187. You have been a blessing to all that is wonderful.

  188. Hallelujah, Amen. Hallelujah, Amen.

  189. That is a way that you that cannot stand with them in Riazza

  190. all night. Riazza pray out fasting.

  191. OK. That's on that way of you also

  192. encouraging them to be more effective in their. 100,000

  193. naira. Oh 100,000 naira.

  194. Come by. All of them.

  195. AM I talking to? Somebody.

  196. And I'll tell you that there are people in this church.

  197. Most use of our company. Fashion designer.

  198. For them. Free in the in the way that

  199. angels we see them. And salute

  200. them. So for all of this, we happen if

  201. you have a mind to serve, if you have a mind not to just be

  202. coming to watch the to warm the. So you are in charge to receive

  203. blessing. Wonderful.

  204. But you are. To equally become a blessing to

  205. all this the Church is a city of prosperity.

  206. And I want to believe that God has blessed a number of you in

  207. this place. Mostly better, but we pay a

  208. loyalty buku. But you need to also factor into

  209. your, into your thinking, into your principle that the Church

  210. is equally a Kingdom for responsibilities.

  211. To buy and you know Latiman, you can.

  212. Testify that indeed this is a city of prosperity.

  213. You must also know that it is a city of prosperity because some

  214. people have accepted responsibility to join the

  215. prayer squad. They have accepted the

  216. responsibility to join the evangelism team.

  217. They have accepted responsibility to to join the

  218. chorister. They have accepted

  219. responsibility to be Bible study teachers.

  220. They have accepted responsibility to do one thing

  221. or the other. They have accepted

  222. responsibility to be among the sanctuary keeper is the reason

  223. you come here. And the atmosphere is convenient

  224. for the man of God to minister and for the Angel to distribute

  225. prosperity. You working?

  226. You working? 9:30 AM. 11:30 AM You are out of

  227. here some. People.

  228. Have been here earlier than 7. AM and they.

  229. Are not living here until past 2:00 PM.

  230. If every. Other person behave like you.

  231. This place will. Be dirty.

  232. Will not function. Am I talking to somebody?

  233. It's a city of prosperity. Those who?

  234. Have committed themselves never to fail in their time, never to

  235. fail in their house. Never to.

  236. Finance the Kingdom. You want everything to be there,

  237. but you are not ready to give anything to.

  238. It. Is God.

  239. Reminding somebody. However, the problem we have,

  240. why we have that wrong attitude, is this.

  241. We talk about ministry it. Means become a.

  242. Pastor that he should not forget to fulfill the ministry that God

  243. has. Called him to.

  244. It was not likely a ministry to be an apostle.

  245. It was not likely a ministry to be an evangelist.

  246. It was not likely to be a ministry to be a pastor.

  247. It was not likely to be a ministry into any of the

  248. fivefold offices. But the truth about minister.

  249. Is that? Support Ministry.

  250. Is wider ministry is bigger than just becoming?

  251. A pastor. So ministry is not limited to

  252. becoming a pastor or serving in only spiritual capacity.

  253. There are several. Capacity in which we serve.

  254. Not necessarily. Becoming a pastor, what is my

  255. understanding of military? Which I.

  256. Want you to? Embrace ministry is.

  257. Enlisting. Take it down, write it down.

  258. Ministry is enlisting into the divine purpose of God for

  259. humanity and do so with. Eternity in focus.

  260. So ministry is enlisted. Into the divine purpose.

  261. The purpose of God is not only to build a cathedral.

  262. The purpose of God include visiting the prisoner, include

  263. feeding the offer. Is part.

  264. Of divine purpose. Picking the from the street and

  265. giving them education is part of the divine purpose.

  266. Educating the youth and mentoring them to to identify

  267. their career and not be useless on the street it's part of.

  268. Divine purpose to. Protect the environment.

  269. So that we. Don't have natural disaster that

  270. we make people to die in mass and go to hell fire.

  271. It's part of divine purpose. Services.

  272. Social Services. Economic empowerment all.

  273. Of these are component of the divine.

  274. Purpose in fact. May I tell you, even serving in

  275. government? Imagine the ancient Egypt.

  276. So when you release into the different purpose of call for

  277. humanity and you do so with eternity in.

  278. Focus. You are in ministry.

  279. Come to this understanding easily it is it took a billion

  280. of the holy. Spirit, how do we bet you?

  281. Oh yeah yo. Yeah, me borrow super minimal.

  282. Sometimes I attend high profile programs.

  283. And. For special treatment, they give

  284. a special package of food. Food he told you I get pataki to

  285. pataki and. So I drive you home by the time

  286. I got. I.

  287. Get home. You give it to them.

  288. Was really giving unto you but to release it?

  289. Ministry is enlisting to the purpose of God for humanity and

  290. doing so with. Most.

  291. Of the junctions where I pass regularly.

  292. They already identify me as I'm coming pastor, pastor, pastor,

  293. pastor, pastor because. They can you give me some 43 yes

  294. yes, yes, give me. Some 43 it should be.

  295. And if it is not, is it for three or 41 Where the scriptures

  296. talks about those who give to the poor, He will help, He will

  297. make their bed in in sickness. Is it 40?

  298. What is it 41? Blessed is he?

  299. Yes, blessed is he that considered the poor.

  300. The. Law will deliver him in time of.

  301. Trouble you? Think to be delivered from

  302. trouble, you must. You must organize all that

  303. prayer and do white fasting. You think, You think.

  304. There are needless, needless to play approach to victory.

  305. Blessed is he that considered the poor.

  306. You know the reason why I. Can't die young, but there are

  307. many young people who will not discover divine purpose if I'm

  308. not. Around to teach them for.

  309. The fact that I am serving the Lord in this capacity here and

  310. on the global space, the Lord will deliver me in time of

  311. trouble even when I don't remember to pray.

  312. Next, the Lord will preserve him.

  313. I. Keep him alive.

  314. Yoshimu Allah. And he shall be blessed upon the

  315. heart. Thou.

  316. Will not deliver him unto the will of.

  317. His enemy. It was our mommy here that

  318. shared a testimony. Many years ago when I.

  319. Was serving the capacity that some people envy even when it is

  320. all label. Before we hold our.

  321. Meeting come in and put spell spell on the.

  322. Chair that we sit. Hallelujah and AS.

  323. I walked in. I went and sat down on another

  324. city. At the end of the day, look.

  325. I'm not ordinary. Am I Ordinary, truly?

  326. As many as are led by the. Spirit of Gold.

  327. If you are useful you you can't just die anyhow.

  328. Am I talking? To somebody less.

  329. The law will strengthen upon the bed of.

  330. Maybe he has. Actually, he has some.

  331. Jams. Maybe some jams, maybe stressed

  332. of himself. Maybe.

  333. Because of ignorant or carelessness.

  334. And somebody was just very sick for a day, died. #4 I said,

  335. Lord, be merciful to me, heal my soul.

  336. So let's leave that Press the name of the.

  337. Law. So ministries enlisting into the

  338. divine purpose of goal for humanity and doing so with

  339. eternity in focus. Like ordinary humanitarian

  340. service for the purpose of the gospel.

  341. Transcend preaching. From the puppies to conference

  342. services to your community. In your neighborhood, in your

  343. community, in your state, in your nation, even in the global

  344. space. Say I have a place.

  345. What these are said before he. Left.

  346. Was that Occupy? Occupy.

  347. The. Education Sector.

  348. Perspective of life that is not self-centered but service.

  349. Let me begin to wind down today. Then we are continuing the same

  350. subject. Next week, you.

  351. Cannot be an accomplished. Christian.

  352. Without recognizing your ministry and fulfilling it.

  353. Give it to the ministry. Which you have received of the

  354. law. So an accomplished Christian

  355. performing a service that is profitable to God and is making

  356. positive impact in the life. Of fellow men I.

  357. Repeat myself on those two. Points again you.

  358. Cannot be an. Accomplished Christian.

  359. Without recognizing your ministry and fulfilling it and.

  360. I divide and accomplish. Christian.

  361. To you the. One that is performing a

  362. service. A service that is profitable to.

  363. God and at the. Same time it is making positive

  364. impact in the life. Of fellow men.

  365. The topless skates some really rather and I do.

  366. Christian is. Not a responsible Christian.

  367. Here am I use me as the Lord needs somebody use me.

  368. If you don't want to be used by the Lord, you can sit down.

  369. The. The.

  370. Yeah, my Jesus, I want to be used to.

  371. Oh Jesus, I am yours. Jesus.

  372. I am just Jesus. We are going.

  373. To raise another one. It's coming to my mind, it's

  374. register my mind, but my memory cannot.

  375. Break it out.

  376. For those of you that. Have been attending the

  377. breakfast service in the last two Sundays.

  378. You can use. Anything you can.

  379. Use. Hallelujah, next generation,

  380. please. Let's go back.

  381. Let's go back to Don Muer, late Ron Kinoli.

  382. They have left us a legacy of songs.

  383. I think it's one of them that did that song.

  384. If you can use anything, Lord, you can use me.

  385. So God can use anything. You use the donkey.

  386. Or not only don't go out of penalty and look at that.

  387. He can use you. If you mean it seriously, can

  388. you step up? And let me pray with you.

  389. The. Jesus.

  390. Lord, here are your people before you.

  391. They have heard your voice. What about?

  392. Some of them in a degree they have been useful, but they have

  393. recognized that they can be much more useful.

  394. Father, I pray as they make this decision, you will open their

  395. eyes of understanding to discover the areas where you

  396. need them, in the church, in their family, in their

  397. neighborhood, in their community, in their workplace,

  398. in this generation, on the global stage, on the national

  399. stage, and they will start to serve you effectively.

  400. The. Empowerment you need receive it

  401. in Jesus. Name.

  402. You receive it in. Jesus name the.

  403. Resources you need, receive it in Jesus name.

  404. You will fulfill your ministry, your God.

  405. You will be a blessing to people.

  406. The. Blessings that God has

  407. pronounced in some. 41. Will begin to become your

  408. experience. The one you pronounce in Exodus

  409. will also be your experience. Exodus 25, he said.

  410. You will serve the Lord your God.

  411. You will. Bless your bread, you will,

  412. bless your water you will take sickness away from the midst of

  413. you. And so I pray in the name of

  414. Jesus, all the covenant blessing that goes with service will

  415. begin to manifest in your. Life in the.

  416. Name of Jesus Your life will Your life will be useful, your

  417. destiny will be. Fruitful.

  418. Your life is useful. Your destiny will be fruitful.

  419. In the name. Of the Father, and of the Son,

  420. and of the Holy. Spirit in.

  421. Jesus name. Now, as many of you that have

  422. volunteered to be useful to God, you will take a small pieces of

  423. paper, write your name, you write your phone.

  424. Number. And you will write what you want

  425. to be doing. Else you call and then.

  426. You will drop it in the offering.

  427. Bag your phone number if you don't have paper.

  428. Please let ushers go around with paper and buy and give them.

  429. If you don't have. Your Honda we use call them they

  430. will give you paper. And then?

  431. You drop it in the offering bag. Your name.

  432. Your phone. Number.

  433. This is the. This is the first Test, so if

  434. you came out you don't write something and put it in the.

  435. Offering bag Disappointing. God, you definitely.

  436. Will not be disappointed. Hello ordinary paper your name

  437. because I will pray for you and then I will know how to guide

  438. you, how to help you to do. That.

  439. Then Sister Miracle, you will be the one that will collect the

  440. wallpaper and then you put everything on record in the

  441. tabular form for me to be able to to read and understand and be

  442. able to guide them on what next step to take.

  443. So your name, your phone number, what to either in the church?

  444. Or in the society. Being in the society.

  445. But it is good that you are useful on both sides, both in

  446. the church and in the. Society.

  447. So when? You're collecting offering.

  448. I love you. With the love of.

  449. Jesus, you. Clap yourself.

  450. Hallelujah. Thank you for joining us in

  451. today's service. Hope you have been placed do

  452. well to join us in our various weekly services.

  453. Every Sunday, 7:00 AM Leaders Breakfast where we are equipped

  454. fully for Horan success. We'll learn on, learn,

  455. contribute and ask questions, and 9:00 AM, our main service,

  456. Wonders of Wisdom Banquets. Every Tuesday by 10 AM solution

  457. Mountains where we bring all our partitions to the Lord.

  458. Trust me, all prayers shall be answered and 5:00 PM Drammary

  459. Others. Every Wednesday by 6:00 PM by we

  460. study where we sit at the feet of our Lord Jesus.

  461. To learn. Every Friday, intercessory units

  462. meet to intercede for one another and for the church at

  463. large and. Every Saturday, various units

  464. and the church meets for preparation.

  465. Such as U.S. Media Choir, Sanitation and Pray

  466. mothers. Also, every first day of the

  467. month at 5:30 AM Grace for New Beginning where we receive fresh

  468. anointing to run the month. Every last Tuesday of the month,

  469. 4:00 PM Austral Department gathered for their meeting.

  470. Stay blessed as you join us in the services.

  471. God bless you.