LRH: Order in Our Giving - 16

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Welcome to Logos Rima R with God's servant, Rev.

Dr.

Joseph Baalbin, Head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Kumasi. And now,

to today's message.

Amen. Let's take our confession from Joshua 1 verse 8,

Joshua 1:8

this book of the Lord. shall not depart out of

my mouth, but I shall meditate in it day and night,

and I may observe to do according to all that

is written in it. For then I will make my

way prosperous, and then I will have good success. Amen.

Why don't you take your seats in this presence and say, Hallelujah.

And so, as I said, it's a month of giving.

We've been talking about order in giving. And this morning,

I hope that we can round up our discourses that

we have. Hallelujah. Amen. We've been looking at the pathway

to accessing divine wealth. Amen. And throughout the month, God

has taught us a lot of things. We went to

Deuteronomy chapter 8. And I hope that we can just

Deuteronomy 8 · chapter mention

run through the rest of the lessons that we can

pick from there. We ended verse 1 last week. We

took some time there because I believe that those are the,

if you like, anchoring truths that is going to, if

you like, put us on a course of being able

to bring order into our giving. Hallelujah. Amen. And so,

For the rest of the verses, we're going to run

through a lot more quicker. But verse 1, some of

the key principles we learned is the fact that God

wants us, if we are going to be able to

understand and bring order into our giving life, we'll need

to know, be acquainted with. and begin to practice the

truth in the whole commandment. He said, every commandment that

I give you today, hallelujah, you will be careful to do.

And so we said, you have to live and walk

in obedience. And it is based on our obedience. Number one,

knowing a lot of us Do a lot and commit

a lot of things in the church. Simply because we

don't know. We don't know. Amen. That is why it's

important to know. Because when you know, then you'll be

under obligation and responsibility. The tragedy in the church is

that the teaching ministry in the church has seemingly lost

its way. And giving way to, quote, unquote, the prophetic ministry. Now,

there can't be a prophetic ministry without a teaching ministry.

The prophetic ministry is anchored on the teaching ministry of

the Word. The logos, like we say, before the remit,

which is where the prophetic comes in. Without the logo

and familiarization with the logos, the principles, every commandment, They

can't be realized. That's why I have a problem with

anyone who calls himself a prophet who doesn't know the

word of God. No, it's not possible. It's foundational to

your prophetic ministry. You have to know the logos. So

when you hear a voice, when you hear a spirit

speaking to you, you'll be able to judge. Because there

are a lot of voices out there in the realms

of the spirit. Your own voice included. Demonic voices and

all that. How do you know that is the voice

of God? Amen. And once again, we can't even blame them.

We have to blame ourselves. On Judgment Day, God is

not going to... You know, God, nobody is going to

take the blame for anybody. It's going to be you. Amen. Yes, hallelujah.

So if you, you know, because you have 18 years,

you want to hear what is going to happen in

the next 5-10 minutes and then you, you know, neglect

the basic essential, the ABCs of the faith. And then

you just be church shopping and hopping all over the

place looking for, you know, fortune telling and all that

which has given rise to all these false prophetic ministries,

let me call them. They are good ones, they are

truthful ones. And when you meet the good one, you

know it is based on his anchor, on the authority

of the word, the logos. Because now when any spirit

speaks to you, you know that this is the voice

of the Lord. Hallelujah. Amen. And so we need the

teaching ministry to creep back into center stage in the church.

Every commandment, this book of the Lord, shall not depart

out of thy mouth. You shall meditate in it day

and night and observe to do according to all that

is written in it. For then you will make your

way prosperous and have good success. You receive a prophetic

call when you don't know the word of God. You

are not born again. You are not familiar. You don't

do your quiet time. It's not the voice of God.

You begin to operate in familial spirits and begin to

lead the people of God. But as I said, we

are to blame. Because you too, you must have the

Holy Spirit. So when you go to a place where

somebody is making a prophetic altar and you know it

is off course and you hear the voice of God

ringing in you, No! No! This is not me!

No!

You know. That's why you can't blame anybody for being misled.

Even before you walk and join the prophetic queue, he

will warn you. Say, don't go. I don't have anywhere

there for you. Hallelujah. And long before that pronunciation on

your life, you're in your quiet time. God will speak

to you. Deep impressions of that. Through vision, through dreams. Hallelujah. Oh,

I said a hallelujah. You know how passionate I am

about this. Hallelujah. Because that's what a shepherd is supposed

to do. A pastor is supposed to guide his people.

To bring our pastors where we can hear, we can

discern the voice of God. Hallelujah. Amen. You go anywhere,

then like I said, the thing that they are doing

is fetish. They give you concoctions once upon a time

like me. And then I knew when I got the

concoction to bath and to drink. Hallelujah. And to smear

on my eyes, I knew that there was something wrong.

And I still remember that. No, no, no, no, no.

I said, all the people around me, my auntie, this

I should do it. I did it reluctantly. Then I

bore the consequences. Hallelujah. Oh, I said, hallelujah. Amen. Amen. So,

The teaching ministry, once again, the logos. And then out

of the logos springs out the reamer of God's word.

We hear, we discern the voice of God. And when

God is speaking in the prophetic utterances, you know. And

when you see fetishism, it doesn't matter that the canopy

under which it's being practiced is called a church. It

doesn't matter what church, what name, what name. When you

see fetishism, you know. Because why? You know the truth,

the one and only true God. Amen. The Word of God. Hallelujah. Amen.

And once you hear it too, the other thing about

the Word of God is that when you are not

practicing it, it has a deleterious effect, The negative feedback.

You're not going to grow. And that's why you resort

to shortcuts. There's no shortcut in the kingdom. Don't wait.

You have to know the Word. And you have to

live by the Word. You have to obey the Word.

And guess what? Immediately you make your mind up. I'm

going to obey. The Holy Spirit will listen to you,

will help you, will strengthen you, will encourage you, will

empower you. Hallelujah. And will give you the necessary positive

feedback that you are pleasing the Lord. When you are

walking in the councils of the Lord, you will be blessed,

you will be rewarded by God. And He will keep

on edging you on. Go, go, go, go. Hallelujah. So

he said, be careful to do, live in obedience. And

then the third point is that you may live and multiply.

It lies in the hands of God to increase and

to multiply. Right from the foundations of the earth, we

see Adam before his dad, God, the almighty God. God

pronouncing a blessing upon him before he sent him out

to the garden of Eden. To begin his life's assignment.

The Bible says. And God blessed Adam and Eve. And

said be fruitful. Multiply. Increase. Replenish the earth. Subdue. And

it still holds. Every child of God that he received.

He blesses. Even before we kick started. There's a blessing

on you. And what are you? You will increase. You

will increase. You will live and multiply. and not die.

He warned him, on the day you disobey my commandments,

you will die. You are not living by the truth.

You see, truth is progressive. So you, some things you

don't know, but today, when I'm teaching it and you

get to know, now God is going to hold you responsible.

That's how it works. Before then, you were a prophet

hopping all over the place, chasing, and all prophets taking

concoctions all over the place, sprinkling things in your wardrobe,

sprinkling things in your food, sprinkling things in your water.

But today you are hearing me. You didn't know. He

said the times of ignorance in winter. But now, when

you go and take that concoction out of your chop box,

you still have chop box. Hallelujah. Or is it portmanteau?

Or wardrobe? Go and remove it. Go and throw it away.

And throw it away. When I used to fall sick,

fall sick, fall sick, fall sick, and my sportsmen brothers,

you know, they went, they said, we know some herbalists

in town, in Kumasi town, so they went and brought

me a concoction, you know, concoction of herbs and sugar

cane and all kinds of things, and they said, boil it.

The herbalist said, boil it. You know, I was desperate,

so I boiled it and said, drink.

Hey, hey, hey.

And I drank it and immediately, when I closed my eyes,

I saw myself in Mecca. I've not been in Mecca before,

but I knew it was Mecca. That's the only description

I can. I was in Mecca. And then I started preaching.

I said, hey, this boy. And then I started praying, God,

I can't sleep. Because I couldn't speak. I couldn't speak.

I'm transported to America. And I was scared. I said,

every day, frying pan, fire, frying pan, fire. I still remember,

I was still wondering. So I went, I went behind

the bathroom, underneath the balcony, and I was pacing up

and down. And God said, go and throw it away!

Go and throw it away! And I knew it was

the Concorde. I was desperate. I wanted healing. So I

went back to my balcony to look at the concoction.

So I went away and then I just rushed to

the concoction. Nyaa Nyaa.

Me oh sorry yeah yeah me oh sorry yeah yeah

baby yeah me or sign you know yeah oh you're

saying Cassie yes way I knew you're saying.

You yeah.

He will fight your battles for you.

That you may live and multiply. I would have been dead,

but now I'm alive. Because God assigned him. He rescued me. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen.

That you may live and multiply. You will increase. God

will increase you. He will increase you. And he will

increase your storage of wealth. He will increase you. God

is a good God. Benevolent. He owns all the wealth. Hallelujah.

But then as we said, the fourth point is that

go in and possess the land. Every blessing that you're

going to come into, God is going to ask and

demand a certain action. You connect with that and then boom.

That's why you need to know the word. You need

to know the voice of God and discern the voice

of the Holy Spirit so you can receive divine instructions.

And not like me, going around all the place, chasing

after malams and prophets and all those things, taking you

on a merry-go-round. No. And God, I remember, God says, stay! Stay!

Running from one prophetic kill to the other for healing.

Nothing happened. God said, lazy boy, lazy boy, raise up

and pray! Learn how to pray! He trains our hands

for war. Leaves us into battle. after going round and

round I said I have to pray I have to

pray and anytime I go to the stadium to pray

immediately I get there I knew that I was welcomed

immediately the energies of the Lord the stand up through

signs and cries God hear my cry so you know

it's not you The whole Christian life is not you.

It's the Spirit of God. You just healed. That's the secret.

So I'll be there. I'll be there. Maybe like 10

after 4 and I'm praying. I'm going to classes at 7. 7.15.

I pray because the energy is there to pray and

to pray and to break through. We are lazy you.

We are lazy. We are not praying. We are not praying.

When we see you, we know you are. When you

are not praying, we see you, we know. Prayerlessness is

written on your forehead. If only you knew. Wipe it off!

Why do you wipe yourself? Start praying. Not praying. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

God trains our hands for war. He's got the commandment

to go in and possess the land. If God is

not with you, you can't. It was intimidating. Look at Jericho.

The walls, the intimidating walls. It was insurmountable. I will

look at the life of Joshua. And he knew he

was a prayer warrior. He was brave. He was courageous.

Long before the church service started, The door opens. You'll

be here praying. You are praying as if your life

depends on it and indeed your spiritual life depends on

those conversations with God. Hey, we are praying though. We

are praying. I was telling the brothers and sisters on campus.

I was driving through on the course of the week

through the Mango Road and do something. As I was

driving through, you know, and I said, ah, ah, ah.

Long before, that, it was one of my prayer routes,

in the evening prayer route, my evening route, and then

I'll just descend, maybe around four something, very quiet, in

any case, there was no traffic on campus, because nobody,

nobody drives, so I'll just pass that route, that route,

it was one of my evening routes for prayer, and

as I was driving, God said, oh boy, do you remember,

do you remember, All the cries and petitions you put

before me. And I just said, God has answered all.

God is a prayer answering God. No, can't tell any

of us how done it. God will answer. I say, yay.

I used to pray everywhere, God, God. And I said, God,

you are faithful. You are faithful. You are faithful. We

have to pray as a church. We must pray. The prayer,

the clarion call for prayer. It should be an excitement.

We are going to talk to God. And he will

hear us. And he will answer us with terrible signs

and wonders. It should bring excitement. Because we invite a

power that is greater than every power. Bring it, juju power, whatever.

No power. In the name of Jesus. In the name

of the mansion. Every knee shall bow. And no matter

what chains that you find yourself in. They will be broken.

In Jesus' name. Because when I go for the prophetic, nothing.

They will pray. They were breaking my ribs. Nothing will happen.

God said, you are a lazy boy. Pray. So I

started praying. He was helping me, training my hands for war.

Some of you, you need to break through before you

can get married. Say amen. You think that we are

talking about, oh my God. And God will begin to

reveal things to you that you need to deal with

in prayer. And call on God. Your business is not

working because you are not praying. There's that specific thing

that you need. And we are talking about holistic wealth

or prosperity, fruitfulness. So we are not limiting ourselves to

just money. You are not happy. You are not happy.

Because some blessings that you think that you need, they

are not coming. Pray! Pray! So he said, go in

and possess, occupy by force, by force, by force. Go! Go!

I'm going to get married. Go! I'm going to be prosperous. Go!

I will live and not die. Go! You can't arrange

some nasty accident for me. No! When I sit in this,

I say I'm going to Tamale and come back in

peace and not in pieces. Say amen. You make those

declarations in the place of prayer. You know, you know,

you know, you know. Thy rod and thy staff, they

comfort me. And even though I walk through the valley

of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. You

go in and possess. Hey, he said you will live

and all. You start this business. You say the business

will prosper. Because God is in it. Go in and possess. Possess.

He said, you shall possess the gates of your enemies.

You possess it. Force. So every time you are praying,

when they don't declare, should I use the word consistent

prayer and fasting life? It's like Bubra. Anytime you wake

up and then you feel like today I'm going on

a fast and I'm going, then I'm going, I'm going.

That's how God trains our hands for war. When you

are being trained for war, go and ask the military.

Sometimes they will say, even when they say they are

serving food, they have served the food, and then you

are about to eat, and they say, stop! Stop! Follow!

He says you have to leave the food. He says, ahoy, ahoy. Stop! Military, stop!

Today I'll have a buffet breakfast such as my stone lather. Stop! Stop! Stop! You.

It's you or you. Everybody is eating. But you. You. You.

From the surveillance that is going on.

You.

You.

It's not the time for feasting. Let them eat. But you. You.

Go in and possess. All your relationships are broken down.

Immediately that he says that you are married, that night,

you are, rise up! Talking about these things, you think

it is. So go in and possess the land. And

the last point we learn is that the Lord swore.

He said, God has put an oath. I swear I'll

bless you. That's God. That's what he told Abraham. I

swear I will bless you and your offspring. I swear.

The Bible commentary says that what? It says God bound

himself with an oath. That's you and I. God is

on oath. This boy, this man, you, I swear, I

will swear, I swear, no weapon of the enemy that

is fashioned against your life shall prosper. And every tongue

that lifts itself up against you, it shall not prosper.

He says this is the heritage of the children of

the Lord and the righteousness is for.

You.

So God will bless us Hallelujah.

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