The Comforter

Promotion begins with revelation—first about yourself, then about others. This episode explores the power of becoming a comforter, taking on the Helper mindset exemplified by Christ and the Holy Spirit. Discover how comforting words build people, transform relationships, inspire growth, and position you as a source of solutions. To do greater works, learn to build, encourage, and comfort others.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

So I wanted to first of all congratulate us for being four years old today. Most ministries don't make it to three years. And when they do, the pastor's tired. Amen. And most of the time the members will not know that the pastor is tired. It's difficult to tell. Unless you look very closely. Amen. If you look very closely and you really pray for your leaders, you can tell when they're tired. Amen. So I don't take four years old lightly. I'm a very grateful person. I'm very grateful. God has taught me from early that if you celebrate what people call small wins, the bigger wins will come. Do you understand? Doesn't matter how small it seems, you celebrate that win. If you didn't have a house and now you have a shared accommodation, celebrate. You celebrate. No matter how small. Amen. And those small winds they're called they're called uh baby steps. Tiny steps towards success. Amen. You were taking public transport and you were able to get a very small car, you celebrate. Say thank you, Jesus. You got me my car. Amen. And you know what? You know one thing I've noticed is when you say thank you to someone, they start opening up to you about why they did what they did. How did have you ever said thank you to your mom for the food?

SPEAKER_02 2:46

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

Some people don't say thank you. She cooks and you say thank you. And she'll say, You're welcome. So it took a and she'll tell you, it took a lot for me to make that food for you. I was very tired, but I did it anyway. Amen. God is similar. When you say thank you, he starts to tell you all the other things he wants to do for you.

unknown 3:14

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

Amen. So turn to the person sitting beside you and say, be thankful towards God. Say, be thankful towards God. So I'm thankful for four years. I want to tell you a little bit about how we started. Amen. Can I can I do that? We we started in uh in Woolwich. Amen. In a little, very little place called Small Street. In fact, the street was very small, so but it's uh it was on Spray Street, and uh it was a tiny room that could only fit ten people, amen. Now, when we got there, I looked and I said, God, how am I gonna fill this place up? Come on now, and the Spirit of God said to me, I will fill it up.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

Come on now, not you.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

So, in that time when I was in there, the Lord said to me, Stop going to Woolwich. Now, this is summertime. Amen. I was young, amen. Very young. I was some of your ages here now. Amen. I was in my mid-20s. He says, Go into Woolwich and stop talking to people. So I will trek to Woolwich. I wasn't driving at the time, I'll trek there, I'll walk there in the hot sun. Now, mind you, at that time my wife was nearing um the ending of her pregnancy of our first son. Amen. It was a very tough time. So I am trekking to Woolwich, I'm trekking there and I'm talking to people about Jesus. And the worst part of it all was people's attitudes. You talk to, you say, can I talk to you for a second about Christ? Why some people responded very harshly. I had people offer to for me to smoke with them before I can talk to them about Jesus. So if you love Jesus so much, take a talk of the split. Yeah, take a talk of the split first, then that's the opening for me to talk to you. Amen. I had others invite me to house parties. Say, come to the house party, you can preach to all my friends, trying to track me there. I came across all kinds of personalities, but my eyes were set on a goal. My eyes were set on a goal. Every day I would go back out. The first day I won nobody. The second day I won nobody. The third day I won nobody. The fourth day I won nobody, but I kept going.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

Come on, right now. Come on now.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

Now, in that time, I did that for some time. I even brought my pregnant wife along in the hot sun to go into Woolwich to minister the gospel. So, with heavy pregnancy, she would be walking and talking to people about Christ, and she'll come back and ask me for more advice. How do I talk to this kind of person? How do I talk to that kind of person? Amen. One thing led to another, the place went from two people, because it was myself, herself. I would say amen. And my newborn child would be the one to respond it.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

That's right. That's right, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

And you know what? It's it's cute now, but it irritated me then. I looked around and I said, This can't be ministry. No, I'm preaching to literally a newborn, not born again to a newborn. I said, No, no, no, no, no, no. I said, This I said, I was lamenting whilst preaching. Alright? In my heart, I said, God, you have to give me more souls. What do I have to do? Now, the beauty of God is when He wants to promote you, He gives you information.

SPEAKER_03 8:29

Yes, sir, yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

You understand that? He gives you information first about yourself, He talks to you about you. Yeah, He talks to you, talks to you about you. So we went from two people to five people. So we went from two to four to five to seven, and then we got to ten.

SPEAKER_02 9:02

That's it.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Ten in two and a half months, I think. Two and a half months of going out every day consistently. I preached to the gang members in Woolwich. I went right in between them. There was a bunch of them smoking, and I went in the middle and I said, I'm gonna pay for all your food. That was the last money I had. They looked at me like, Why would you do that? I said, All of you, follow me to the shop, I'll pay for all your food. There was a spirit of God giving me, you know, advice on how to talk to people. So I brought them. Went into the chicken shop. All I could hear was Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, just Muslims everywhere, all amongst them. And you know, when you're when you're around so many people who are Muslim, you get intimidated. And the Lord said, I'm with you. He said, I am with you. Tell your neighbor, God is with us. Say, God is with us. So I managed to win one of their chief guys. I'm sure you you met him. You met him, yeah. I won him over. He came to church. After two services, he gave his life to Christ. Remember? Now that gang member set off the whole chain because he went around talking to everyone about Christ. As he was doing that, God said, I told you I will build. It's not you, it's me. Amen. At a humble train station or train I was on, I met this young lady here too. I won her over as I won her into Christ, she was on fire and she went to spread the gospel. Oh, I don't know how she got to Novanton, but she got there. Four years later, about 40% or 30% of our ministry is from Novanton. Yeah, so we only have 10% locals.

SPEAKER_03 11:33

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

10%. Even the pastor in whom we're hiring our whole from, he always asks me, How do you get all these young people to come from outside London to come here and to stay here for over 10 hours and then leave the following day to go back? I said, You go ask our employer. So I said that to say first of all, thank you to my wife for being so strong. Thank you for being so strong. Thank you very much. Thank you. You've been so strong, thank you very much. Amen. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Second Kings chapter twenty-two verse nineteen. Alright, I think I'll read. If we can try and sort out the microphones as well. It says, Because thine heart was tender, and you have humbled yourself before the Lord. When you heard what I spoke against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become desolation and a curse, and has rent thy clothes and wept before me, I also have heard thee saith the Lord. In that time where I explained to you about me going out to wind souls and speak to people, in that time, the Lord was comforting me the entire time, the entire journey. Now I spoke at my spiritual mother's birthday yesterday, and I said I said to her that I've been studying and I like to study people and I associate them with one word that helps me to deal with the person. I look at the dominant behavioral trait that person has, and I associate a word with them, and that word will jump out every time I see that person, and it will help me to manage that person and manage that relationship. Do you understand that? And uh I'll come back to 2 Kings, but I got that from reading the book of John. The Bible says Jesus said something very important. He said, And I will send you another comforter. So before the Holy Spirit was given a name, he was described.

SPEAKER_03 15:32

Yes, sir, yes, sir, sir, sir, sir.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Come on now, because the Holy Spirit has a dominant trait, and that dominant trait is comfort, although he can correct, although he can chastise, although he can promote, although he can bless, but a dominant thing he does is comfort.

SPEAKER_02 16:03

You're too quiet, he comforts you.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

So the Spirit of God began to minister to me, and he said, When I want to take one forward, I give them information, and this information is about themselves and what they can change, so that where I'm taking that person, his behavior doesn't close the doors. And I can't be the only one to behave in the way he asks me to behave. Has to be all of us. Do you understand that?

SPEAKER_03 17:07

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

Say he's my comforter. What is the word that people think about when they see you? Some Christians enter a place and people see and think troublemaker.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

Ah, go this way.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

Let's avoid that person. Another will come in and people will think, ah, attention seeker, let's go this way. We go that way. Another one will come in and people will think, hmm, noise maker. Noise. You can have multiple traits, but what is the dominant trait that you have? You know why the Holy Spirit chose to be a comforter? Because comfort is directly attached to growth. You can never build anything that you're not comforted. Yeah. He said, build people. So to build a person, you must be comforting. I'll give you an example. I can say to Joel, disciple Joel here, you you miss it most of the time. You understand that? I've said you miss it most of the time. Or I can say you get it sometimes. I've said the same thing.

unknown 19:02

Come on now.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

You miss it most of the times. Or you get it sometimes. One comes with the spirit of comfort, and the other comes with condemnation. And this wisdom is so important even for marriage. If you would learn to talk to each other in a way where you're building each other. Do you understand that? You find that your partner even does more for you.

SPEAKER_03 19:41

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

Because your words are clothed with comfort. Is this too advanced for you?

unknown 19:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

In that time in Woolwich, I'll be there talking to people and I'll get their most terrible responses. You may go, I mean, the young people sometimes they think differently, you know. You may go up to someone and the person says, I got a boyfriend.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

Yeah, I got a hand, so it's a hand.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

Hand in the face of this. I have a boyfriend. I haven't said anything.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

I've told you. Somebody.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

Why? You assuming that's why I'm approaching you.

SPEAKER_03 20:27

Why?

SPEAKER_00 20:30

I have a boyfriend. Aggression. Sometimes you think I'm not come, I'm not doing this anymore. Now, the Spirit of God will not turn around and look at me and say, What kind of son are you? One rejection and you're already done. No. He looks at you and says, Get up. Dust up your top. Fight through the pain. Fight through the embarrassment. Fight through all they say about you and push forward for the gospel. Praise God. That's the ministry of the spirit. See now. Now, if comfort is the ministry of the spirit because it's his dominant trait, it would be wise for you to take up the same ministry. Don't take up a different ministry to the Holy Spirit. You say, God has called me to correct people in the body of Christ. I'm the corrector. No. No, no, no, no. You take up the ministry of comfort. So, what that does is if you see someone dressed wrongly in the church, acting wrongly in the church, you provide comfort with space for correction. You understand that? Why do you have to be like this? Because we cannot grow past a certain number in the eyes of God if you don't change your character. We may be bringing them in in numbers, and your behavior is pushing them out. Amen. Say I will take after the Holy Spirit. And I'll be a comforter. Can we go to that verse for a second? Let's look at that verse very quickly. Alright, John. Go to the book of John, chapter 14. Verse 16, I believe. Amen. So we have a synonym there, helper. Right? We'll give you another helper. Now, I don't want us to skip over that scripture too quickly. There's another key word that you may be missing there. He said, I will give you another. Another. What does that tell you? What does that tell you, brother? It means that when Christ came, his ministry was to comfort. He didn't say, I will give you a comforter. It means I came to do something else, and this new spirit will come and do something else. No, he said that that new spirit that you don't know is new to you, but not to me. That same spirit will come and continue the job I've already started. Amen. So I want you to already prepare your spirit that you will be the comforter of your family. And brother, sister, it requires for you to have a big heart.

SPEAKER_03 24:31

Yes, sir. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

Make it your mission to build people. Don't judge people, build people. God said to me, I cannot promote you past your mindset. And if you want me to take you far, you have to think like me. So he can't take you past your mindset. You have to be the voice of comfort in your son.

unknown 25:10

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

You see, children, children can't think past their bellies.

SPEAKER_03 25:21

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 25:22

Do you understand that? Children can't think past their bellies. They wake up, the first thing, the voice of the belly is the first thing they hear. I'm hungry. So they come. I want milk. I want food. Some adults are like that. I want. I want. I want. I want. I want. I want. I want. Can I have? I want me. Can I have? I want. Give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me. Some adults are like that. Listen, Jesus was preaching for days. The disciples came to him and said, Can you feed them? You didn't get that. Jesus was not carrying an off license on his back. He didn't have any baskets of food. But they all came to him and said, Can you feed them? You know why? Because he was a comforter. Now, a person who set their minds on comforting others becomes a reservoir of solutions. So everyone comes to you for solution. Brother, when you see something like that, don't stress yourself. Don't say, Why am I always taking care of everybody? You know, there's those kinds of people. I'm paying school fees, I'm doing this, I'm washing the dishes, I'm taking care of no when they come to you, say yes, come again. Because you're exercising that ministry. You're building other people. Someone in the family wants to get married. You know what they do? They come to you. How do I do this thing? Someone in the family, alright, is struggling financially and they want to know the road to wealth. They come to you. You may not have money, but you have comfort. You'll be surprised. Some elderly people don't know what I'm telling you. They have given birth to children, their children are running away from them. The children are talking amongst themselves. Ah, we can't go to mommy for this. You think we can go to mommy for this? Mommy will kill us.

SPEAKER_03 28:05

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

One of you would take it to mommy and say, you know, they didn't want to tell you because you will kill them. She says, Of course now. So when the Lord was ministering this to me, I said, from this day onwards, and you know what? He was ministering this to me from two weeks ago, but he sat heavily on this yesterday. On this, he said, I need you to become a comforter. The Lord Jesus said to me yesterday, You have done a great work thus far. Look at how nice he is. Look how kind he is. The work I've done in comparison to him is very small. But he says, You've done a great work thus far. To do greater, be a comforter. Said I will send you another comforter. Jesus knew that to walk on this earth that needs to be your dominant trait. Some people's dominant trait is ambition. They're so ambitious. And that's good. Clap for them, that's nice. Yeah, that's good. Some people's dominant trait is they want to study. They want to get all the degrees. Once a new one comes out, I must achieve. I have to go for that degree. Clap for them as well. Well done for you. Others are born just to marry. That's all they did. I must marry. Clap for them as well. Well done. It's not bad. It's not bad. But just think about this for a second. Just think. If I was born to build other people. If I was born to build other people. But if you don't think like that, there's some conversations God will be reluctant to have anything. Can I show you how pivotal comfort is? Can I? Watch this here. Comfort is so important, it affects the message. You say, God, give me a message to preach to the nations. Yet your message is not wrapped in comfort. So people keep rejecting it, not because they don't like Jesus, but because of you.

SPEAKER_01 31:37

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 31:38

So you're walking around thinking, you know, I'm I love Jesus. I'm preaching. I'm preaching. Nobody wants to take on Jesus. The Spirit of God is looking at you like nobody wants you. You know, it's not even the spirit affects the message, and the message determines whether people say yes. Amen. I'm not saying preach for people. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying teach the word in such a way that people can digest and accept it. The less pain in your message, the less brain power people have to use to accept what you're giving them. I've seen this thing I'm teaching to you now destroy marriages. Destroy marriages because wife didn't know how to talk to husband. Husband didn't know how to talk to wife. He didn't know. He thought, because I feel it, I must show it. For her, because I'm frustrated, everybody must know. I pray a lot. I say, God, I want us to grow. Give us more souls, more work to do, more laborers. I've been praying this prayer for months. And he says, deal with this. Deal with this thing. Start small, okay? Start with the way you talk to each other in the church first.

SPEAKER_03 33:45

Right. Come on now.

SPEAKER_00 33:46

Okay. Someone allocates you a chair that you don't like. You don't say, I'm not sitting there. No. Say I'm a comforter. Even if you don't believe it, say I'm a comforter. I'm a comforter.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

I'm a comforter.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

I comfort people. I take care of people's hearts.

SPEAKER_03 34:09

I take care of people's hearts.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

I build people. I'm there for people. I'm there for people. Yeah. I impart on people. I impart on people. Comfort. Sit down. Sit down. By the end of the conversation, God said to me, Let all men feel uplifted.

unknown 34:33

Yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 34:35

Even when you're correcting. Amen. Even when someone has done something wrong and you want to build that, you want to uh correct that person and put them on the right track. Let them by the end of the conversation, they say, you know, they must they must ask themselves, was I told off just now? Yeah. You know, was this a congratulation? What just happened? Let them go away thinking, wow, that was a nice that you know when someone appreciates you, they'll be looking back, they leave, they're like, ah, what a good guy. And they're going off and they're looking back, ah, wow, they're just appreciating the conversation because when you when you behave in such a manner, the message really sits. And let me give you another secret. When I was young, I'm telling you, I would rather my parents physically beat me than talk.

SPEAKER_03 35:30

Yeah, close up.

SPEAKER_00 35:31

Who can relate to that? I would say, look, just beat me, it's fine because the beating stops. Yeah, the words keep ringing in your brain. And what your parent what our parents may not have known is that we start behaving like their words.

SPEAKER_03 35:57

Am I talking to someone?

SPEAKER_00 36:01

So I ask of you, by the grace of God, change your thinking. Now, do you know why I gave you 2 Kings? Because in there, God said, Because you softened your heart. I heard my wife speak about that. Because you softened your heart and repented, you softened your heart. So some have come with their culture, with their way of doing things. God is saying, soften your heart. Soften your heart and learn how to talk. We're in our season of multiple people being married this year, all right? And you may be sowing seeds for that, or crying out to God, or praying, saying, God, I want to be married. I told you, when God wants to promote a person, he gives them information. This is the information he's giving you before that man enters your life, or before that woman enters your life, or before that job comes your way. Amen. What do your co-workers think about you? If you're a manager at work, what type of manager are you? Are people thanking God, blessing God, that they work for you? Or they work with you? Or are you a tyrant? Some believers have great characteristics for leadership, but God cannot trust their communication skills.

SPEAKER_03 37:57

Shocking.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

The Bible says, how will the people hear if there's no preacher? What is a preacher? A communicator. So if the preacher, the preacher can be passionate, but if the preacher is not good, the people won't listen. So what is good?

SPEAKER_02 38:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 38:17

What is good? Understanding what will sink. If if I want to, if I want to trauma dump on disciple Nicole, does everyone understand? Too quiet.

SPEAKER_01 38:30

But if I want reformation, change, I come carefully.

SPEAKER_00 38:41

You understand that? I come slowly. I check the temperature. How are you? I'm in pain, by the way. She did something that offended me. My heart is bleeding. How are you? She says, I'm fine. She may even be rude to me in that moment. A wise person, you notice that you leave the conversation. Okay, no problem. I'll come back when you're ready. You leave. Amen. Yeah, that's a wise person. You come back again. How are you? I'm better now. Okay, can we speak? Yes, we can. You know what you're doing? You're preparing the ground for the for the message to sink in her spirit. The Bible says the mercies of God causes one to repent. Not the anger of God. God has been angry in the whole Old Testament. He's clayed half a nation before us. God has killed people, burnt people, flooded people. Nobody changed. Nobody changed. People went back to their evil ways again. But you know what? Jesus came as a comforter. Yeah. And you know what? All of a sudden, people are changing. Jesus will witness people do the strangest things and he will say, It is well. You are blessed. He will talk them into the destiny he wants. Learn to talk like him. Get around people and say, You're a great woman.

SPEAKER_02 40:38

That's why.

SPEAKER_00 40:39

No, the person is acting the opposite. You say, No, no, no, you are a great woman. You see, this type of message is not one that will make you jump and shout, but it will promote you. Yeah, in the things of God. This message will promote you. You become trustworthy. As leaders, God trusts us to not carry our pain onto the people. Don't carry your pain onto others. Can I give you one better? Don't even carry your pain. Don't carry your pain. Take the pain and put it in the bin. That's right. Get rid of it. Ah, I'm offended. My heart. How can you talk to me that way? That can all happen in your mind. But then you know what? You take the word of God and you hush that voice. Because I know where you're leading me.

SPEAKER_03 42:00

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

Praise God forevermore. So if I want this message to sink into your spirit, I'll check the temperature. After I check the temperature, I will talk to you in a way where I'm massaging your mind and your heart whilst depositing the message in there. So this is how I would do it, or I should do it. So you know, yesterday when we spoke, I was hurt. Don't go in the conversation, say, you know, you always do this. You see that you've gone wrong. You always do this.

SPEAKER_03 42:45

No, you've gone wrong.

SPEAKER_00 42:47

You're going, you see, yesterday I was hurt. You know what you're doing? You're entreating the person's love for you. I was hurt yesterday. If that person loves you, they will ask, why? Why? What happened? Say, I was just in pain. Of course, don't be too dramatic. Okay, you say I was in pain yesterday. Okay, why were you in real? Well, I was in pain yesterday because of the way you spoke to me. And then you know what? You know what you do, you fight for them in the conversation. I'll show you how. I was in pain yesterday. How? Why? Person will ask you, is that correct?

SPEAKER_02 43:36

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

You say, the way you spoke to me yesterday was very painful, but I know you didn't mean it. You see how you're fighting for their personality in the middle of telling them how you feel, you're still showing them that I believe in you. I believe in your personality. I know you didn't mean it, but it hurt me. So please, if next time you can try a different way of communicating with me, that's it. I'm telling you, a Christian, you talk to a Christian like that, the person will start apologize. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to.

unknown 44:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 44:26

Amen. What I'm teaching you now requires control, intentionality, self-control, love at the root. The Lord was clear with me. He said, I cannot build in faith and victory if this doesn't change. Because the power of God will bring the people. And an usher at the door who is not trained will be sending people out of the door. A musician who is not trained will be offending people. I've been to events and I've seen a worship leader say, Why is no one standing up and worshiping? Is this how you worship God?

unknown 45:24

Charismatic God.

SPEAKER_00 45:27

No. Do you know what people came to church with? You know what burdens they came with? How about you say a prayer? You say, In the name of the Lord Jesus, I bless the people. Father, let your hand remove all the pain in their hearts. Then you start your worship. You'll be surprised that the Spirit of God will touch them. People will be crying and giving their burdens unto him. Amen. And some pastors talk like that too. See, some Christians are dumb. No. No, don't talk like that. Amen. You don't talk like that. Talking is the beginning of doing. Write that down. Talking is the beginning of doing. You want to find yourself doing something, you talk about it first. Yeah. And husbands, I would implore you to master this more than the wives, even. I'm telling you, if you learn to talk to your wife, she will naturally submit. Instead of pounding her into the ground with a hammer. And that hammer is the Bible, as well. You are quoting scripture. Ephesians says that you must submit.

SPEAKER_02 47:07

You know the hand is shaken. You must submit. Submit. Hey.

SPEAKER_00 47:14

Amen. No. Talk to her nicely. Do you understand? Entreat her. Another thing the Lord said to me is that inside every woman, there's a child. I don't mean she's carrying the child in the belly. I said in her heart, in every heart of a woman, there's a child in there. There's a little princess in there. Entreat that princess. Amen. Yeah. Entreat that young girl in there. Talk to her nicely. Even if she's acting wayward or behaving wayward, talk nicely. The Bible says, Let your words be seasoned with salt. So you know what that done? It gave me wisdom on how to lead people. So I took that and I asked another question. I said, God, could it be that there's a child in every human?

SPEAKER_02 48:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

God said, You've got it. Because wives or women will tell you sometimes they have to talk to us men like children for us to get the message. Oh, you're too quiet. Am I not speaking the truth? I'm telling you, there's a child in every person. Entreat that child. Now, why some of you are not responding is because of the way you talk to children. It's because of the way you talk to children. You talk to children as if they are nothing. They just, you know, so when you hear when you hear me say, Oh, talk to your wife, talk to the child in her, you're thinking, Ah, you're asking him to disrespect me. No. Do you see the way Jesus dealt with children in the Bible? He welcomed them. And then he said, It's it's the one that I like these that will inherit the kingdom of God. Amen. Let me give you a quick testimony. Please signal me when it's time. Uh, woman of God, if you can signal me when it's time, yeah. I'll give you a quick testimony before I round up. Because I don't want us to go over time, okay? Now, there was a lady that used to attend, she would attend, and she was so rude to the ushers. Every week, she'll come with three or four kids, boys, all boys, they're running around the whole church. So when they ask her to move seats, or can you get one of the children, or can you do she's unresponsive and very, very rude. And as at the time I was heading the disciples in the church, I was headed, the complaints would come to me, and they would say, How do we deal with her? Amen. And then I tried to talk to her. This lady was so rude to me, she was rude. So I thought, okay, I'll leave it. And I told the disciples, When you see her, let her sit wherever she wants. She wants to sit, let her sit at the front. It's fine. I prayed about it for some time. And you know what the Lord said to me? The Lord said, Gather the woman in the church, get them to cook for her, and bring food. So we brought food that Sunday. We put the food in the middle floor on the tables. We opened it, it was like a buffet. So in the service, when the service she arrived, two minutes in, I said to the lady, I have a gift for you. She said, Why? I said, Because I love you, come on. So she followed me. I said, Bring the kids. She brought the kids, and the food was. I said, All of this is for you. She broke down in tears. Before she could eat, we sat down and she said to me, I know I've been difficult to deal with it, but it's because me and my kids are not eating. We have no money, and I don't know how to ask you. We don't know how to ask the pastor. But my boys are starving. My heart melted. I thought, imagine I dealt with her with anger.

unknown 51:45

Yeah. Flow, flow, flow.

SPEAKER_00 51:47

We would have sent her soul away. Tell your neighbor, not everything is as it seems. Yeah. That woman ended up winning over I don't know how many. I don't know how many ladies that she brought from her community. So many of them. Almost every week she would bring at least two or three. Amen. So the Lord wanted me to give this message to you.

SPEAKER_03 52:27

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 52:28

So you can open the doors for us to grow. Amen. Deal with people with wisdom.

SPEAKER_01 52:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 52:39

Say I'm wise. I'm filled with wisdom. I'm filled with wisdom. There's so much wisdom in my spirit. There's so much wisdom in my spirit. So much wisdom in my spirit. So much wisdom in my spirit. And I'm gonna start walking in it. Right now. I'm gonna walk in it. And nothing will stop me. Walking in wisdom. In the name of the Lord Jesus. I got five minutes. Can I give you one more scripture? Joshua chapter one, my favorite Joshua chapter one from verse one. Wait, we gotta take it slow here. Amen. Stop from verse one again. It's so good. This is so good. Look at this.

SPEAKER_01 54:24

Joshua chapter one, verse one says. Moses, the servant of the Lord. It came to pass that they spoke to Joshua.

SPEAKER_00 54:35

Okay, so the Lord spoke to Joshua after the death of Moses. Okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 54:40

The son of Nan, Moses is the sister. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 54:44

Verse 2.

SPEAKER_01 54:45

Moses, my servant is dead. Now therefore, arise. Go over this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I have given to them, the children of Israel. Verse 3.

SPEAKER_00 55:00

Wait. Verse 2 was an instruction. Verse 2 was an instruction. He said, Go over to the land that I promised Moses. He said, Arise and go. Instruction. Listen to verse 3. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 55:16

Thank you, sir. Verse 3 says, Every place that the soul of your foot will tread upon, I have given you. Wait. Come on now.

SPEAKER_00 55:26

Verse 2 is an instruction.

SPEAKER_03 55:28

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 55:29

Verse 3, he starts comforting.

SPEAKER_03 55:32

Yes. You gotta you gotta take on that distinction.

SPEAKER_00 55:37

So, how how how does a wise person send their children to school? Make sure you're on time. You better be on time. If I hear another report, how many of us here have been recipients of that? Be honest. Did you do well in school? You don't have to answer that question. If God is a parent, he's sending one of his children off on a mission. He says, Go to school. Verse 3. He says, By the way, you are the most brilliant in that school. Oh you don't understand. You don't understand. He says, You are you are the most brilliant in that school. No one there has your mind. Even if you hear others saying very clever things, very smart things, your brain has never been seen before. Do you know what I said to God when you were born? If parents learn to talk like that, you will give birth to successful little babies. Some things are not worth addressing. I feel like this message is too mature. You're digesting. Should I preach about what God will do with us in 2029? Should I talk about that instead? Or should I stick to this? Or should I prophesy? Maybe that's what you want me to do.

SPEAKER_02 57:23

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 57:27

He said, verse 3. Everywhere your feet will go. He said, What? I've given to you. Let's continue reading how God comforts this young gentleman in the mission. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 57:45

Thank you, sir. Joshua chapter 1, verse 3 says, every place that the song of your foot will set upon, I have given you, as I said to Moses. Verse 4. From the wilderness and this Lebanon.

SPEAKER_00 58:01

Wait, wait, wait. There's something that we are missing there. God is so consistent. Say God is consistent.

unknown 58:07

God is consistent.

SPEAKER_00 58:09

At the end of that comfort, he said, as I also said to Moses.

SPEAKER_03 58:16

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:18

Do you think that God knew that Moses will not enter the promised land?

SPEAKER_03 58:22

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 58:23

From the moment he sent him?

SPEAKER_02 58:24

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 58:25

From the day the bush was burning. Do you think that God knew Moses wouldn't make it? Yes. Did he tell him some things are worth not addressing? God knew Moses will not enter that place, but God said to him, You will enter. So did God lie?

SPEAKER_02 58:44

No, sir.

SPEAKER_00 58:46

I can show you, God said to him, You will enter. Knowing he will not enter, God said, You will enter. He didn't lie. Moses indeed entered. He did. On the mount of transfiguration. Who was standing on that mountain? Moses and who?

SPEAKER_03 59:23

Elijah and he entered just a thousand years later.

SPEAKER_00 59:35

Amen.

SPEAKER_03 59:36

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 59:37

God did not lie. Amen. They're telling me it's time. So we're going to read one more verse. The rest you can read on your own. Let's read one more verse. I'm a respecter of time, so we have to follow the time. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 59:50

Joshua chapter 1, Proverbs 4 says about the wilderness and this level, as far as the great river, the river, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea, toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:14

Listen to this. No, he gave him one instruction. That this is this is the beauty of God. He gave him one instruction, he said, You will enter that land. That's where I'm sending you to. But the rest of the things he says is comfort. If you continue reading, he says, Do not turn your head left to right. Meditate upon my word day and night so that you may make your way prosperous. Oh, he's comforting him.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:46

Very, very, very good.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:48

So why wouldn't you take up the same ministry? Why do people know you as a sharp-tongued person? As somebody whose words only cut, but you don't build people. Your behavior harms people, but you don't build people. Yet you'll be the first to pray, God, you have forsaken me. No, you forsook him. You did. With your behavior. Praise God. Can we say some confessions? Stand up. Let's say some confessions. Thank you for listening to Pastor Max's teachings. Make sure to subscribe and for more information, find us at Faith and Victory Wallace.