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1 11TH OCTOBRE 2017 THE MAKING OF OUR MINISTRY 6 THEODORE ANDOSEH CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL THE LEADER S OFFICE

2 Why do I shout Halleluiah every day? I want you to stand up if you are still fasting and thank the Lord for the privilege to offer it to Him as an offering of joy, praise and thanksgivings. We decided during this crusade, to review our ministry for thanksgiving. Yesterday we ended in 1994, in the chronicles of our ministry. But we were introducing you into what went into the making of our ministry. I said yesterday that between the period of 1986 and 1994, God had delivered us from the shackles of mixtures, and that the period between and 1994 was a defining period. During that period, we were now on our own, so we had the call of God on brother Zach and us and what god demanded on us, and during that time, God made clear what he wanted from us. What was defined? What became clear? During this period what exactly was defined? What became clear? So, in the next few days, we are going to be thanking God for what had become clear. *what was clearly defined, clearly spelled out and that has remained clear. What is clear to us? For all of us who were included in that call of brother Zach, the call of him and the call on us, what is clear? It is important to know what is clear, what cannot be changed, because it came from God. It is important to know what came from God, for which we do not have the liberty to alter or to change. The Bible says: can two walk together unless they agree? " you cannot be a coworker without knowing the things that we cannot change, the thing that are binding on all of us as co-workers. Five people to thank the Lord for all that God has made very clear, in our ministry and for our ministry. Who here likes cold greetings? Who here likes cold love? Who here would like to be in a meeting with cold joy? Cold joy, cold love, cold greeting, cold smiles, who enjoys such? Why do you think God likes your cold prayers? If you want God to enjoy it, I mean put some fire into it, put some pepper into it, some spices into it, make it appetising. Say amen, alleluia. So, when you

3 stand up to pray, send God soup that he can eat, full of pepper, full of spices, and with heat. God is a devouring fire, give Him something ho. Alleluia! Pray that God will give us many people like brother George Tang, so that you will be very happy to be in a prayer meeting with him. Some of you, you can be in a prayer meeting for 20 years and no one will notice, because even the flies will not move. s, we were asking, what has been made clear, what is binding on us? All of us who have decided to pursue this call. I want to look at five things that have been made clear for our ministry, and also to clarify spiritual jargon. We use many words and with many meanings. We need to all make clear some words that we all use. 1. OUR VISION 2. OUR GOAL 3. OUR MINISTRY 4. OUR WORK 5. OUR MISSION 1. OUR VISION Whenever I start a new meditation book, the first seven meditations, after I start the book have to do with redefinitions. I ask and answer again the same questions. What is our vision? What is our goal? What is our ministry? What is our work? What is our mission? What is my role? What is clear to me about my future? The broad canvas and then my relevance, my personal relevance. Where do I fit into all these? I redefine it in every meditation book, because after a long time, you may have decided where you set out to go. Things that were very clear for you in the beginning becomes blurred.

4 When I was younger, I read the books of C.S Lewis, at least I read many series, in the Narnia series, I read one of the books, I think it was "the Silver chair".in that book, Aslan, the great lion from oversee which in C.S Lewis represented the lord Jesus, Aslan told Gill : Gill you are with me here on the mountain top, the air is clear and your head is clear, the things I say to you now make a lot of sense, but when you go down in the valley, the things and instructions I gave to you will not appear as clear, the air is thick and your mind will be doll, repeat my instructions every night before you sleep, so that you may see the things when they come. Gill, repeat my instructions. And one of the instructions was: you shall listen to the person who plead with you in the name of Aslan". Eventually he landed in a cave where a sorcerer was manipulating the conscience of a prisoner, he used to be tied on a silver chair, so when Gill and the others got to that place, the witch will tell them: that this man is a dangerous man, that is why she tied him up, and that they just never listen to what he says, every day, at a certain period, the man will start talking and will tell the children around: please help me, it is now that I am in my true sense, when that witch comes, I will again start saying that she is a wonderful person. But one day, the young man on that chair told them: I employ you, in the name of Aslan, then he said: Aslan told us that we must help. After arguing, they cut the rob and the young man rose, he took a sword, cut the silver chair and told the children: thank you, I am prince, prince of Narnia, and this green lady is just another appearance of the ancient white witch, she is about to come, I must save you people, because her witchcraft has already started working in you. Then the with come, she flew into rage and asked the children: why did you do it, then they said, he begged us in the name of Aslan, then she asked, who is Aslan? They said: a lion is a great cat. She said: where have you seen lion? She said up there, where the sun shine because they were in a cave. She asked them: what is the sun? They say: so, you don't even know the sun? They, the sun is a big lamp in the sky..c.s Lewis is writing for children but he is actually describing atheist. Finally, one of them told her: you cannot fool me, you witch, at least I know Aslan, I come from the land of the sun. When they became very sure and they were sure of Aslan and of the sun, she changed her form and became a big green snake. But I learn a lot from the silver chair: when you are in your DDEWG, there are many things that are clear that it comes from God, but when you leave there and go in the day and mixed wiht men, the things that were clear suddenly do not appeared clear as they were. So, when I start a meditation book, write again, so, what is our vision, I answer again for myself. I don't copy from any past book. It is for me not a mental exercise, it is a spiritual exercise, I answer from my heart: do I still see? What

5 do I see? And then, after I have clarified the vision, I clarify my role, who am I? what is my assigned task? Where am I going? What have I covered so far? Where am I now? What is my burden? At this moment? What burden am I pursuing? It is true that I set out to serve God, but what is exactly is my burden now? What do I know for sure as I am sitting here is God's will for me now? What? So the first seven meditations, I redefine things. I wish many of you do that, especially many of the arrogant young people. They started up with a lot of zeal, and now they don t know where they are going, they are just ordinary young men, common and profaned, with the same worries like any other young Cameroonian, who is not even a believer, : my wife, my children, my future, what exactly is the burden you are carrying now? What did you set that you wanted to do? When you started to serve God, what exactly did you say you wanted to do? If you judge yourself, nobody will judge you, God will not even judge you, but if you don't judge yourself, God will judge you. Many people set out to serve God, and they are lost in transit. They are in" lambeaux", they are neither going to hell, nor to hell, they are just in limbo. So, it is important to review what is settled, to thank the Lord. To set your navigation "coordonnées". Even I know I have a clear but when you talk with many people, the need of others starts leading you. When a problem is very urgent, it absorbs all your thought, and you no longer know where you set out to go. The only way to keep a grip on the call of God is by constant obedience, that is why it is important for me to know the next step I must obey. recently, the Lord made is clear to me, that I must prepare for Phase 3., but that we must consolidate phase 2. But, from the many messages God has given me on phase 2 and phase 3, a pattern began to emerge. There is a pattern to every life, and I beginning to discover the patterns of my own life. The dates of my next year will be the exact same dates for the Pentecost of 2009, it is going back to Bethel, the place where you did the transaction with God. To know the call of God on your life, it is to describe very clearly the finish product what God would have finished with you, because every other thing is a stage, what is the finished product? I must carry the work as far as leadership can carry the work, but the gift of leadership will not be the final perfecting gift, it will be a pastor leader, he must be a person who has produced at least a church of one million, so that he may help all the churches in our work to multiply, so that we offer Jesus the

6 one billion. I am not going to resign as a leader, but I will appoint him as my field commander. So what is the final product? You look like what when God is through with you? Many people here don't know, that is why the react. A problem comes and a problem leads you. Somebody annoys you and it becomes your dominant problem for that moment. What does the final product look like? And the final product is not a matter of ambition, it is where faithfulness will carry you to. I am just planning to be faithful to my call. So, what is your call? It comes down to what work every day? Taking you towards what? You see, that is why went we come to meetings and people keep repeating all declarations they made in their book for the ear of man and to mask the empty life, going nowhere, but with a mouth ready-made answers, what is your goal: I am brother Theodore's servant - there is no meaningless answer like that. And such people do nothing, if they were doing something, they will not be looking for an umbrella, people only look for those words when they are doing nothing, that is why they have problems left and right, empty words. What do you look like when God is through with you? When you know the answer, then you know the call of God in your life, and an awaken mind cannot help you, it is either you know or you don't. For many of you, if they ask you: what is your work each day, they don't know. They are available for Headquarters' gossips and nosing into people's lives and comment on the hardworking of others. Ten people to come and thank the Lord for everybody in our ministry who knows his assigned task clearly. John 1: Now this was John's testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. 20 He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, "I am not the Christ." 21 They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No." 22 Finally they said, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" 23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the desert, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.'" 24 Now some Pharisees who had been sent 25 questioned him, "Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" 26 "I baptize with water," John replied, "but among you stands one you do not know. 27 He is the one who comes after me, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie."

7 28 This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing. NIV The Pharisees asked John: who are you? Did John know who he was? He did not fit into religious platitudes. Il a balancé tous les titres, il a décrit son travail. Est-ce qu'il connaissait qui il était et ce qu'il devait faire? Il connaissait qui il était et les limites de ton ministère. Les gens ne définissent pas leurs vies par rapport au travail qu'ils font, ils le font par rapport aux titres. Est-ce que tu vois alors que tu ne veux pas servir Dieu? Who are you? Are you this? Are you the provincial? Are you the departmental? Are you the pastor? People are lost in transit. John knew who he was, and John knew his ministry, and John knew the limits of his ministry, and John even knew the limits of his prerogatives and rights. He had worked very hard so that he may have men to give to Jesus. He worked for the greatness of Jesus and even some of his disciples felt that Jesus had not been fair. They felt that Jesus had used Joh, but John was not disturbed, he corrected his disciples, those who saw him as a great leader. He told them, I know who I am and I know who he is. He told them, I baptise in water, they must go to him to be baptised in the Holy Spirit. How can you know such joy when you don't know who you are? As far as many people are concerned, if this person can have his own assembly, let me have my own, you are sick, actually we must create a spiritual "Centre Jamot" they have lost God and they don't know who they are. Who are you? John knew who he was, he knew the limits of his ministry and the role he had to plat, and he knew his position he was the friend of the bride, they had the same purposes, he was a great man. His entire ministry became the foundation of Jesus take-off, and he did not feel cheated. They had never been his. Many people to come and thank God for what is clear for you so far in your relationship with God and your service for God, what is clear so far, as you are sitting here, even if it is only that you must finish the fast, that is a beginning point.

... Daily Devotions. Sunday, December 14. By Dan Litzner. Text: John 1:6-8, 19-28

... Daily Devotions. Sunday, December 14. By Dan Litzner. Text: John 1:6-8, 19-28 ... Daily Devotions Devotions December 14-20, 2014 By the Confirmation Students and Teachers of Bethel Lutheran, Cedarville and Zion Lutheran, Allenville Sunday, December 14 By Dan Litzner Text: John 1:6-8,