Prepare Yourself for Your Assigment - Rev. Funke Ewuosho
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00:00 I want to speak to you today about preparing yourself
00:02 for your assignment.
00:03 Prepare yourself for your assignment, amen.
00:09 Prepare yourself for what?
00:13 In Jeremiah chapter one,
00:18 can somebody help us to put that on the screen?
00:21 Go to verse two, please.
00:23 (wind blowing)
00:25 I've left Henry.
00:39 Verse four, sorry, verse four.
00:47 Then the word of the Lord came to me,
00:50 that Jeremiah saying,
00:52 before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.
00:55 Before you were born, I sanctified you.
00:57 I ordained you a prophet to the nations.
01:00 Then said I, our Lord God,
01:03 behold, I cannot speak for I'm a youth.
01:05 But the Lord said to me, do not say I'm a youth,
01:08 for you shall go, amen.
01:10 To all to whom I send you,
01:13 and whatever I command you, you shall speak.
01:16 Do not be afraid of their faces,
01:19 for I'm with you to deliver you, says the Lord.
01:22 There's something they say where I come from.
01:24 You should not be afraid of the people
01:26 you are delivering the message to.
01:27 It is the person that sends you
01:29 that you should worry about.
01:33 Are you listening to me?
01:35 That's why God said, if you are afraid of them,
01:38 I will dismay you before them.
01:39 But let's jump to verse 17.
01:43 This is where I'm going today.
01:45 So it said before I knew you, isn't it?
01:48 Before you were formed, sorry,
01:50 before you were formed, before you were conceived,
01:53 before you were born, I knew you and I called you.
01:55 Is that not true?
01:56 Then verse 17, therefore, prepare yourself.
02:01 Can someone say it, therefore?
02:05 Prepare yourself and arise.
02:09 I'm dwelling on prepare yourself today.
02:12 This morning, and thank God it was one of the Ps
02:16 that my husband mentioned.
02:18 Yes, before you were born, before you were formed,
02:21 I knew you, I called you to be a prophet to the nations,
02:25 but it said, therefore, do what?
02:27 Prepare yourself.
02:29 I'm not talking much about how you're gonna prepare yourself,
02:34 but it's gonna be inferred in some scriptures
02:36 I'm going to refer to.
02:38 You are gonna prepare yourself.
02:40 One of the ways to prepare yourself
02:41 is also through relationships.
02:42 That's not true.
02:43 Where you understudy someone,
02:47 where you are serving somewhere,
02:49 part of preparing yourself is through study.
02:52 Is somebody listening to me?
02:53 Reading up things, part of preparing yourself,
02:59 praying, spending time in prayer,
03:02 spending time with God, can somebody say amen?
03:05 I remember when the Lord, you know,
03:07 spoke to us about relocating to the United Kingdom,
03:10 I think it was about 1994-ish,
03:14 because I had some documents, some things that,
03:16 you know, when we're looking around,
03:18 we went to Oxford, we whatever,
03:20 so there was a time I ran into some things
03:22 that we collected, like looking for a house
03:25 and all those things, so I knew that
03:26 it would have been 1994 or 1996-ish.
03:30 But we did not go until year 2000.
03:34 Is that not true?
03:36 Not because we were in disobedience,
03:39 but because there was a period of preparing yourself.
03:43 How many people believe that there's time for everything?
03:46 You have to believe it because the Bible says it.
03:50 In Ecclesiastes, that's not true.
03:52 For every purpose under the earth, there is a time.
03:56 There's a time, amen, and at every time, there's a purpose.
04:02 That's what I'm gonna share with them in the Lagos Church.
04:07 What is it?
04:08 If you remember your theme, I will still come.
04:13 What's your theme?
04:14 I know Pastor Remy's hiding now
04:19 'cause he knew how he was hounding me.
04:21 Eh?
04:24 You're Jew?
04:26 (laughs)
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05:12 When I came back to him,
05:38 I've heard people say that,
05:39 "Oh, you know, maybe he was in disobedience."
05:43 One thing I don't do is to read into the Bible
05:45 what the Bible doesn't say
05:47 because there's no scripture
05:49 that is of private interpretation.
05:51 I believe that if Abraham was in disobedience,
05:53 God would have said it.
05:54 What I believe is this.
05:58 There's a time for everything.
06:00 What I believe is that the Bible says,
06:02 "Eternity is written in the heart of man."
06:04 So the Lord spoke to him.
06:08 But you could see that relationship.
06:10 Are you following what I'm saying?
06:12 There are some things that you are not ready for.
06:16 You remember my book?
06:17 I wrote the book 20 years ago,
06:19 "Determining Your Juiciness."
06:21 And the Lord said to me prophetically,
06:22 it was in this place.
06:24 That message, I first did it
06:27 before I made this into a book.
06:28 There are four things will determine your juiciness.
06:31 I'm able to remember.
06:32 Number one, your readiness.
06:36 How prepared you are.
06:38 Number two, the timing of your assignment.
06:42 I was gonna come down to preach
06:46 and the spirit of the Lord
06:47 just brought those things to me.
06:48 Pow, pow, pow, pow.
06:50 And I developed into a message with scriptures.
06:54 Every message has a timing.
06:58 God told, and every assignment has a timing.
07:01 God told, what's his name?
07:02 Moses.
07:03 Is that Moses?
07:05 No, he told them, what's his name?
07:06 Abraham.
07:07 He said, this is what I'm giving to you
07:09 and your descendants, but not yet time.
07:12 Because the cup of the Amorites.
07:14 So Abraham knew that this is the place,
07:18 but in that place he dropped in things.
07:20 Because he knew that that was not the time.
07:23 And I said also that,
07:27 I said the timing of your assignment,
07:28 I said also the people that God is sending you to.
07:33 This Moses, whom they said,
07:35 who made you ruler and a judge over us.
07:38 The same Moses.
07:39 When Moses first jumped out,
07:43 the Bible says in the book of Acts,
07:46 that he thought his brethren will understand
07:49 that God was going to use him to deliver them.
07:53 He stepped out prematurely.
07:56 And I was saying in that book,
07:58 by what God had showed me,
07:59 there was a time that women's ministry
08:01 were not accepted.
08:03 Are you following me?
08:06 I don't want to mention names,
08:10 but as I say this,
08:11 I remember what somebody shared with us.
08:13 That we are in relationship with.
08:18 The man of God that prayed over me,
08:19 the video that we shared.
08:21 He said he was in a meeting in the US,
08:24 years ago, I don't know when,
08:25 he was doing a meeting.
08:26 And then when it was time to pray for people,
08:30 a lady came, covered up.
08:32 And he began to speak over the lady.
08:36 He began to speak over the lady,
08:39 word of knowledge, prophetic word,
08:41 everything, word of knowledge.
08:42 And he did not know
08:44 that she was the wife of a popular minister.
08:49 When everything finished,
08:51 people came to meet him.
08:51 Did you know that that was,
08:53 he said, I didn't know.
08:54 The words of course were accurate.
08:57 And part of it was that,
08:59 the call that God puts on the man,
09:02 he said, I called you,
09:04 but because people are not ready to receive.
09:06 Are you following what I'm saying?
09:09 Can someone say,
09:11 suffer to be so for now.
09:12 Even in the world,
09:17 in the secular, whatever,
09:19 there was a time that women,
09:21 the first university for women
09:23 in the United Kingdom was what year?
09:25 There was a time that women
09:27 were not even allowed to vote.
09:29 There was a time that women
09:32 were not even allowed to go to university
09:34 and all of that.
09:35 Are you following what I'm saying?
09:36 Everything has a timing.
09:39 There was a time that to be a woman
09:41 and you are standing to people
09:42 who don't want to receive.
09:44 But now things have changed.
09:47 Are you listening to what I'm saying?
09:49 So due season, determined by what?
09:51 Talk to me, your own readiness.
09:54 But it doesn't stop
09:55 with just your own readiness.
09:57 How ready are the people
09:58 that God is sending you to,
10:00 to receive your ministry?
10:02 And I said the readiness of the people,
10:10 I said the people that are directly related to you.
10:15 Is somebody listening to me?
10:17 Thank God for Pastor Bola Bankole.
10:24 She's in, thank God, Pastor Doctor.
10:29 Praise God.
10:31 Imagine when she wanted to do her PhD,
10:34 Pastor Bola was throwing tantrums
10:38 all over the place.
10:39 Can somebody say amen?
10:40 I hope it's not a prophetic word.
10:43 I said imagine, 'cause some of you,
10:45 you don't hear the imagine.
10:46 You say, "Ah, hey, I didn't know Pastor Bola."
10:48 I didn't say it was.
10:50 Imagine if it was making life miserable for me.
10:53 I'm miserable for her.
10:54 Would she have been able to?
10:57 Now, every week she's in those days, Abby.
11:04 Because if I didn't use these natural things,
11:08 but when we talk of ministry,
11:09 everybody is thinking ministry.
11:12 Every week, Abby, this woman is a tough woman,
11:15 very strong, she drives herself from Lagos.
11:18 Comes back, goes every week.
11:23 I remember Kenneth Copeland.
11:24 He said when God was calling his wife,
11:26 he said, "God, who will fry my eggs?"
11:27 God said, "Fry it yourself."
11:29 By virtue of Doctor Bola being in that place every week,
11:35 there are things that Pastor Bola had to do.
11:39 Are you following what I'm saying?
11:41 Because some of you, if it's church, you say church.
11:46 What I'm saying is,
11:50 what I'm saying is that her being able to do that
11:55 is facilitated by her immediate relationship.
12:01 Her kids, they're all making sacrifices.
12:07 And she's making a sacrifice.
12:08 If somebody listen to me,
12:10 I was at somebody's 50th birthday,
12:12 a close relative of mine, I don't want to mention,
12:17 and he said, "We have two kids."
12:20 Now some people think it's because of me.
12:22 Maybe I'm the one that want just two kids.
12:24 He said, "My wife."
12:25 Said, "Because my wife says
12:27 every time I have to go on maternity leave,
12:30 have the baby and all of that,
12:31 it affects my career development."
12:34 He said, "Left to him he wanted four."
12:37 Thank God for such men that they still exist.
12:39 Put your hands together for them.
12:41 The people around you can hamper you.
12:46 (congregation laughing)
12:49 Is that not why some women today are getting divorced
12:51 who say they want to face the call of God?
12:53 Or face what God, but it ought not to be so.
12:56 I don't know about their deep things,
12:59 but people like Paula White and the husband
13:01 holding hands and telling the church, you know,
13:03 because the ministry grew to that point where, you know,
13:06 like when Abraham had to say to Lot,
13:08 "If you face this way, I will face that way."
13:11 Why? Because the heads have increased.
13:15 Are you listening to what I'm saying?
13:17 That we thank God for your life,
13:22 that you are holding it together on all fronts.
13:25 Front of ministry, front of your mind.
13:29 Our kids paying their price, everybody.
13:31 If you think you are going to get anything done
13:33 without paying a price, you are wasting your time.
13:36 Are you following me?
13:40 We talk about Gloria Copeland today, her husband.
13:42 If he said that there are places inside the 10 years ago,
13:45 that there are places that he goes to,
13:47 that it is his wife that they know.
13:49 Talking about ego.
13:51 That they will say, they will finish greeting,
13:53 they will not say, "Oh, I'm YouTube Mr. Gloria Copeland."
13:57 And don't tell me because he's Caucasian,
14:00 he had to die, that's why he shared the test.
14:03 He had to die to certain things.
14:05 If any man will follow me, let him what?
14:09 First of all, deny himself.
14:10 This is why people are not fulfilling destinies.
14:13 He says, "God, you are calling my wife,
14:16 "who will fry my eggs?"
14:17 God said, "Fry your eggs yourself."
14:20 Can somebody say amen?
14:21 If you are still struggling to cope with footmen,
14:25 how can you run with horsemen?
14:27 You cannot even fry one egg.
14:29 There's a price to pay.
14:33 If destinies will be fulfilled, you must understand that.
14:38 (congregation laughing)
14:42 That's why I brought the example from secular,
14:44 whatever first.
14:45 Thank God today we celebrate the courage of this woman.
14:49 She's done her PhD.
14:51 And somebody will come and say,
14:52 "Oh, we thank God that the reverend is allowing you."
14:54 For risk, to start with, choose well who you marry.
15:06 Go and see one yam head.
15:07 Somebody who has no vision.
15:10 You like to tell you the story of somebody
15:13 looking for a wife.
15:14 He has no documentation.
15:17 They were helping him to toast one lady,
15:21 a British citizen.
15:22 The lady was like, "Okay, let's not be like my own,
15:25 "it's too much, let me even calm down."
15:28 But when they got them to meet,
15:30 you know what he asked her?
15:32 "Do you know how to cook yam potage?"
15:34 (congregation laughing)
15:36 He was editing local, whatever, Asaro.
15:38 All the way in London,
15:43 the girl said Asaro call.
15:47 The girl said, "Nonsense, I like girls like that."
15:50 'Cause you want to eat beef, you call it cow, brother.
15:55 The morning shows the day.
15:59 Somebody who saw you and he's how to cook like you saw,
16:02 who barely don't you know the Akaka relationship?
16:05 You better look well.
16:09 If you're single, you better hear me.
16:12 Don't let your desperation push you to one Asaro person.
16:15 There was another lady, you know the person?
16:22 Top lady.
16:23 I remember when we used to read France-Africa,
16:26 I remember we read France-Africa.
16:29 (speaking foreign language)
16:32 He's rich because his wife is rich.
16:41 You know, you are coming from a village,
16:45 there's one highbrow, forward-looking lady.
16:49 They're not brought together,
16:51 I said, "Can you make Asaro?"
16:52 There's someone in this Nigeria,
16:57 another one in this Nigeria.
16:59 As he was conducting interview with the lady,
17:04 he said, "Can you be under a man?
17:07 "Can you cook?"
17:11 In this day, it's somebody to be under somebody,
17:14 that your head.
17:15 Thank God she picked race.
17:17 But some desperado ladies.
17:22 Yes, I can, in fact, yes, I can.
17:26 I don't even use blender to blend pepper, I use stone.
17:29 This is a girl that is well sought after.
17:34 This is a girl that is, in the secular world,
17:36 the job she holds down, what she's doing,
17:39 well sought after.
17:40 Is how she will be under a man.
17:43 What kind of man is that?
17:46 Thank you for your thunderous silence.
17:52 This is how you put on for your destiny.
17:54 Both you and the one, both of you.
17:58 But if you hinder somebody,
18:02 you cannot make progress yourself.
18:04 That is the truth and nothing but the truth.
18:06 Let that set yourself loose.
18:11 Who will fry my egg?
18:14 Look at Gloria Copeland today.
18:17 Now she's in her 80s.
18:19 But thank God for her healing ministry.
18:22 That is also enhancing Kenneth Copeland ministries.
18:25 When you put somebody down,
18:29 you are pulling yourself down.
18:31 But there are things that the person
18:33 is meant to contribute to your life.
18:35 Is that why you're a graduate,
18:39 you go to the village to pick a wife?
18:41 You're not speaking English, she doesn't understand.
18:46 Say this to myself.
18:48 She doesn't understand what I'm talking.
18:52 Huh?
18:53 You've just started.
18:55 But you have changed, haven't you?
18:58 When you pull people down,
19:00 you are pulling yourself down.
19:03 Let me tell you,
19:05 if you don't allow people to fulfill destiny,
19:08 you will not fulfill destiny.
19:11 What I'm saying that the Lord said to me 20 years ago,
19:14 four things determine your due season.
19:16 Amen?
19:17 Your preparation, how prepared are you?
19:20 Then what?
19:21 The timing of your assignment,
19:23 I'm not putting it out of the book,
19:25 the book is there, you can go and get it again.
19:27 And then,
19:27 I said the timing of your assignments,
19:31 your preparation, what was the third thing I said?
19:34 The people that you are sent to,
19:37 and then the people that are,
19:41 they just thank you, my love.
19:42 Heaven.
19:45 Amen?
19:47 Your preparedness, heaven.
19:49 The timing of your assignments, amen?
19:51 And then I said,
19:53 the timing of your assignment has to do with whatever,
19:55 I said the people that are connected to you.
19:57 They can hinder you.
20:00 Praise the Lord.
20:03 That's why unfortunately you see marriages
20:05 breaking down today, relationships breaking down,
20:07 and it does not have to be.
20:09 If somebody says God is leading them, amen,
20:13 and they are prepared,
20:15 they can be an extension of you.
20:19 Not because they are bearing your name,
20:21 are you following what I'm saying?
20:22 But they are still a part of you.
20:25 Because we are meant for connectivity.
20:29 Are you following what I'm saying?
20:31 Not because they are bearing your name.
20:33 It's not about franchise.
20:35 It's not about KFC.
20:36 It's not about, what do you call that thing?
20:39 McDonald's.
20:41 It's not about the name.
20:43 It's more than the name.
20:45 Sometimes all this bearing of name,
20:46 God, is causing problem.
20:48 Can somebody say amen?
20:50 Hallelujah.
20:51 You have relationships with people,
20:54 sometimes that are deeper,
20:55 relationship that is deeper
20:57 than even people bearing your name.
20:59 Talk to me somebody.
21:01 Most man has somebody in the US,
21:06 we have relationship in the US like that.
21:09 Pastor Kenny and his wife, Pastor Kenny.
21:12 They don't bear word of faith.
21:14 They don't bear fountain.
21:16 But I don't know how many times
21:18 it caused my husband.
21:20 For mentoring, questions, for this.
21:23 Some people God bearing your name,
21:25 God, they are just bearing that name.
21:26 They should remove that name.
21:29 And the sign board.
21:31 Are you following what I'm saying?
21:35 You know I told you last Sunday
21:38 that my husband and I, we are two different people.
21:40 Some people have removed the sign board.
21:42 I would have.
21:45 But thank God.
21:47 I can't see my husband's face, this light is.
21:49 I just see his phone.
21:52 It's true.
21:55 There are people that are not bearing your name.
21:57 They are doing more.
21:59 They are listening to you more.
22:03 They are more teachable.
22:05 Are you following what I'm saying?
22:07 Hey, keep quiet now.
22:09 I'm not saying everybody that is bearing name.
22:12 Couple of hands together for Pastor Kofi.
22:14 And Pastor Haraba.
22:15 Those ones, they has the name, they has the car.
22:17 Amen, I'm sorry, you know that's all good English,
22:22 but you know the story now.
22:24 The man that visited his friend,
22:25 that just bought a Pathfinder.
22:29 The friend say, ah.
22:31 He say, yes, I just bought this.
22:32 The man say, I bought Pathfinder.
22:34 His friend say, it's not Pathfinder.
22:36 It's Pathfinder.
22:38 The man say, you has the name, I has the car.
22:43 To show that he doesn't even have English too.
22:46 But you know that money does not speak English.
22:49 Money speaks its own language.
22:50 Have you never heard money talks?
22:53 If you want to buy a Pathfinder,
22:55 they don't take your 2 renchi.
22:56 Nobody takes your English.
22:58 It's your cash.
23:00 Show me the money.
23:01 So the man say, you has the name, I has the car.
23:07 But thank God Pastor Kofi has the name,
23:09 and Pastor Haraba, and they has.
23:11 (audience laughing)
23:14 You know one of the things I see
23:15 about Pastor Kofi and Pastor Haraba?
23:17 You know my husband and I, we are parents about this work.
23:22 Everybody that came from,
23:25 not the people that knew us directly,
23:27 people that did not even know us directly,
23:29 everybody that came out of that Ghana,
23:31 there's somebody presently in our church in the UK.
23:34 There's that, that's how you know people.
23:37 The heart of people.
23:38 You know I'm a heart person.
23:41 People that we didn't even know directly.
23:43 Not like people like the Amish.
23:46 The Amish, we knew them, you know what I mean.
23:48 But people that we didn't know directly.
23:50 But by virtue of being members
23:52 of that fountain of wisdom ministries, amen?
23:55 Whenever they see us, they respect their call to us.
23:58 That's how you know.
23:59 Like Josephine that is in the UK church now.
24:04 I know you people, you're always watching us online.
24:07 They always take our messages, they always watch.
24:10 But the way, and when Dr. Mrs. Julie Oye Ame was coming,
24:15 and I saw Josephine sweeping and cleaning,
24:21 I said, "Hey, hey, hey,
24:22 God, you know somebody's coming from Ghana."
24:24 But it's such a joy to see that.
24:28 Is that not true?
24:29 But when you see people lining,
24:31 launching for their own pockets,
24:33 and they disconnect, but that's not so with them.
24:37 So sometimes the name some people bear against
24:39 is causing confusion, but that will not be your portion.
24:42 Somebody says, "Is she doing her message?"
24:44 Yes.
24:44 Yes.
24:47 Am I not doing my message?
24:50 I don't know if I've received anything.
24:53 Therefore do what?
24:56 Prepare yourself.
24:58 The NIV says, "Get yourself ready."
25:02 New Living Transition says,
25:06 "Get up and prepare for action."
25:09 Get up and what?
25:12 Prepare for action.
25:14 How many people are ready to prepare themselves?
25:17 You must prepare yourself.
25:18 I always say to people, before I came,
25:20 I was speaking to our ministers back in the UK,
25:22 we had a meeting with them.
25:23 I said, "You cannot just turn up at meetings."
25:26 I'm not saying they were turning up,
25:27 I was just sharing with them.
25:28 You must, if you are the one to preach,
25:31 you prepare yourself.
25:33 You are the one to lead worship, what do you do?
25:35 Prepare yourself.
25:37 There must be preparation.
25:40 You can't just what?
25:42 Turn up.
25:43 Whatever you're gonna do, there must be what?
25:48 Preparation.
25:49 Message Bible says, "But you, up on your feet
25:54 "and get dressed."
25:56 Hallelujah.
25:59 Another transition says, "Jeremiah, get ready."
26:03 What does it mean to prepare?
26:05 Make something ready for use or consideration.
26:08 To prepare yourself means to make yourself ready for use.
26:12 It also means to make someone ready
26:16 or able to do or deal with something.
26:20 God said, "Prepare yourself.
26:22 "My power will make you strong."
26:23 Contemporary English version.
26:25 "Like a fortress or a column of iron or a wall of bronze,
26:30 "you will oppose all Judah."
26:32 They will fight back, but they won't win.
26:35 Prepare yourself.
26:38 I, the Lord, give you my word, give my word.
26:41 I won't let them harm you.
26:43 Can someone say amen?
26:44 It's that prepare yourself.
26:46 Stand at attention.
26:47 Message Bible, "While I prepare you for your work,
26:51 "I'm making you as impregnable as a castle,
26:54 "immovable as a steel post,
26:57 "solid as a concrete wall, block wall.
27:00 "You are a one-man defense system against this culture.
27:05 "We must stand against the beast of the land."
27:09 Paul said, "You do not wrestle against flesh and blood,
27:13 "but against principalities and powers,
27:15 "against rulers of darkness,
27:17 "prisoners of wickedness in the heavenly realms."
27:19 Is somebody listening to me?
27:21 God said to Jeremiah, "Prepare yourself.
27:23 "Yes, I knew you before you were formed.
27:25 "I called you before you were born,
27:26 "but you must do what?
27:28 "Prepare yourself.
27:29 "You must get ready,
27:30 "because you are going to stand against the whole land,
27:32 "against the whole culture."
27:34 Do you know that it's very easy to swim with the tide?
27:38 But when you're going to stand against the whole culture,
27:43 against the whole belief system, can someone say amen?
27:46 I just told you about when we got to the United Kingdom,
27:48 there was a system we met in place.
27:50 Can someone say amen?
27:51 Pastors are seen as this.
27:55 You are going to stand against the whole culture,
27:57 not because you are attacking people,
28:00 but you are standing against the whole culture.
28:04 Do you know that you are in Abuja?
28:07 There's a whole culture you are standing against.
28:09 Mindset.
28:13 Some people think that their role
28:15 is to go somewhere and conform.
28:18 The Bible says don't be conformed to what?
28:20 This world.
28:22 Can you put that on the screen very quickly, please?
28:24 The Romans chapter 12.
28:26 I think it's the New Living Translation
28:29 that puts it, Romans chapter 12, New Living Translation.
28:31 If you can do that quickly
28:32 so you can save me turning into stuff.
28:35 Can we get there quickly?
28:38 Wow.
28:40 You are still not there.
28:48 How long does it take?
28:50 Wow.
28:54 Did it freeze?
28:55 (audience laughing)
28:58 Amen, oh.
29:03 God is good.
29:06 - Amen.
29:07 - This is part of why you need to prepare yourself.
29:11 Romans 12, verse one says,
29:15 "I beseech you therefore, brethren,
29:18 "by the mercies of God,
29:19 "that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,
29:22 "wholly acceptable to God,
29:24 "which is your reasonable sacrifice."
29:26 Verse two, "And do not be," what?
29:29 "Conformed."
29:31 This goes to why you should prepare yourself.
29:34 Why do I need to prepare myself?
29:37 It's not enough.
29:38 I told somebody, I think I mentioned it with Dave.
29:40 Oh, I want to go into ministry.
29:41 I want to go into ministry.
29:42 And sometimes you think only of the glamor.
29:45 God, we are living in the day
29:47 where ministry has been glamorized.
29:49 Not in the time where we are going into ministry,
29:52 where I thank God for Reverend Oyedepo
29:53 as he was then, now he's Bishop Oyedepo.
29:55 He told me, he said,
29:56 "You want to marry a full-time minister,
29:58 "it's life in the wilderness.
30:00 "Don't make friends with wives of businessmen."
30:01 God, when they are buying television,
30:03 you might not be able to buy television.
30:04 But thank God these days,
30:07 ministers have jets.
30:08 So the downside to that is that
30:11 when somebody says they want to go and do ministry,
30:13 they are thinking of what?
30:14 The glamor.
30:15 Is somebody listening to me?
30:19 The glamor of it.
30:22 And then when you are thinking of yourself,
30:23 my husband is going to ministry,
30:24 you see yourself as, ah,
30:26 mommy will know your affair.
30:27 Mommy, she had grace for us.
30:30 Amen, no?
30:31 So you just say, "My daughter."
30:33 Look, look, forget that daughter thing.
30:41 When we got to the UK,
30:42 it was by name they were calling us, Abbey.
30:45 A small child will come like this,
30:46 "Color, Funky."
30:48 If we were not ready,
30:51 you will remember the garlic, the cucumbers.
30:55 Do you understand?
30:56 Call you by what?
30:59 Your name.
31:00 Not even pastor.
31:02 Even here, people when they call them pastor,
31:04 they don't want pastor,
31:05 they tell you I'm a reverend.
31:07 If you go and mistakenly call a bishop a pastor
31:09 in this country,
31:10 you will be in trouble.
31:12 Go there now.
31:16 I didn't say London.
31:19 Go to that place, the area where,
31:22 Funky, this, ah, color, this, yeah.
31:27 We have to leave all of that behind.
31:30 From having a car to walking around.
31:35 The Bible says that Abraham dwell in tents.
31:39 Even in the land that you do,
31:40 that is where I'm inheriting.
31:41 Hallelujah.
31:46 This is what hinders people from fulfilling their spirit.
31:49 This is what hinders people from fulfilling their destiny.
31:51 I had a picture, a small picture,
31:54 nothing to be compared with what just went through.
31:56 But Philippians 2 came alive to me in my own way.
31:59 Where it says that he left,
32:00 he took the form of a servant.
32:02 He became a man.
32:05 That's why in John 17, it says,
32:06 "Father, the glory I left with you,
32:09 that I had."
32:13 We didn't carry a car there.
32:15 We didn't carry a reverend motorism.
32:18 We didn't say, "Do you know who I am?
32:23 Who am I?"
32:24 Jesus said, "I'm among you as one that serveth."
32:30 He said, "The one that serves is the greatest among you."
32:34 He left his glory.
32:36 He took the form of a servant.
32:38 Can somebody say amen?
32:40 Like a book we read when we were in,
32:42 was it form two in those days?
32:43 He stood to conquer.
32:45 That's what they were telling Reverend Boyer.
32:47 They were telling Reverend Boyer,
32:48 "Serve them today, they will serve you forever."
32:51 You can't even humble yourself for one day.
32:53 You appear there, as they call you,
32:55 "Kiniko," you start fighting them.
32:57 You better calm down.
32:59 It's not the glamor of ministry.
33:02 Is somebody listening to me?
33:05 Do not be conformed to this world,
33:08 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
33:10 that you may prove what is good and acceptable
33:12 and perfect will of God.
33:13 You cannot fulfill destiny if you are not ready to do this.
33:16 You are gonna stand against the whole culture.
33:19 Jesus said, "By your tradition,
33:21 "you have made void," what?
33:23 "The word of God."
33:24 You are coming against some things.
33:27 The beast of the land.
33:28 Paul said, "I fought against the beast of Ephesus."
33:31 So you need to prepare yourself.
33:33 It's not a walk in the park.
33:35 It's not a great joy, it's open unto me,
33:37 and there are many what?
33:38 Adversaries, many people who oppose me.
33:41 It's not about smelling of roses.
33:45 Thank God for such.
33:46 Is somebody listening to me?
33:47 Let's see how it says in the New Living Translation.
33:50 I'm looking for something.
33:52 This thing, don't let it take time now.
33:55 Can somebody who is prepared go down and help us?
33:58 Now, wow.
34:02 Oh, you don't have New Living Translation?
34:05 It says where?
34:16 It says, "Don't copy the behavior
34:20 "and customs of the world," of this world,
34:23 "but let God transform you into a new person
34:26 "by changing the way you think.
34:28 "Then you will learn to know God's will for you,
34:31 "which is good, pleasing, and perfect."
34:35 You're gonna stand against some things.
34:37 That's why you need to prepare yourself.
34:39 It's not gonna be a walk in the park.
34:41 That's why you need to prepare yourself.
34:42 Is somebody listening to what I'm saying?
34:44 A lot of times, people are more into,
34:47 "Oh, I'm going abroad, I'm going abroad."
34:49 There are things that are gonna come against there.
34:51 Are you following me?
34:52 I'm going abroad, I'm going abroad.
34:53 There are things that your children
34:55 will be exposed to there.
34:56 Prepare yourself.
35:00 Don't just do what?
35:03 Think of the glamor.
35:05 Don't just think of the games.
35:12 There's a need for you to prepare yourself.
35:14 Like I said, my major thing today
35:16 is not to talk about how to prepare yourself,
35:18 but there's a need for you to prepare yourself.
35:20 I want us to go to, is it Luke chapter two?
35:23 No, Luke chapter four,
35:24 looking at the temptation of Jesus Christ.
35:26 'Cause Jesus was one example
35:28 of somebody who prepared himself.
35:30 When Jesus was baptized, amen,
35:34 the spirit of God came upon him as a dove, amen.
35:39 And the spirit of God, God spoke from heaven.
35:41 What did God say?
35:43 What did God say now?
35:45 - My beloved son.
35:47 - Eh?
35:49 This is my beloved son in whom?
35:52 In whom?
35:53 Had he done anything?
35:55 I mean ministry wise, but he was a carpenter's son.
36:00 Why he didn't know that he was a carpenter's son?
36:03 They saw him in the shop.
36:04 At age 12, you remember what happened?
36:08 I was saying this to the kids in England.
36:10 Remember what happened at age 12?
36:12 When they went up, he stayed behind,
36:14 not, you know, he was just, you know,
36:17 caught up with asking questions,
36:19 answering questions and all, interrogating,
36:22 investigating and all of that.
36:25 And then his parents left him behind, they didn't know.
36:28 So there must have been that throng, you know,
36:30 going to Jerusalem and all of that.
36:32 So it was after three days in the journey
36:34 that they remember that they discovered,
36:37 that means they thought he was with one uncle.
36:39 Maybe it's with uncle Solo, you know what I'm saying?
36:42 So because they knew he wasn't with them,
36:43 but they thought he was in the, you know what I mean?
36:46 Then three days after they discovered and they went back
36:48 and they said to him, "Son, you have troubled us so much."
36:53 And what did he say to them?
36:54 "Must I not go about my father's business?"
36:58 So Jesus knew who he was in the spirit.
37:01 But the Bible says he went back with them.
37:04 Can't just say went back with his parents.
37:06 That's why I was telling kids,
37:07 when I called them out to pray for them
37:08 to go to their classes.
37:09 And he did what?
37:10 He subjected himself to them.
37:15 So when Jesus said in whom I'm well,
37:16 God said in whom I'm well, please,
37:18 it had nothing to do with miracles.
37:21 But there was no record.
37:22 And by the way, in the Hebrew culture, the Jewish culture,
37:26 you step out at 830, okay?
37:30 You see how?
37:31 Because he was a Jew.
37:33 Born a Jew, lived under the Old Testament.
37:37 See how God also does.
37:39 Can you see?
37:41 We talked about Mr. Abraham,
37:45 when his father was still alive.
37:48 You understand?
37:49 What a...
37:50 I have a ministry.
37:51 Somebody came to my office sometime ago.
37:54 Hey, he just got married.
37:56 You know, maybe like, you know, these people, you know,
37:59 we are all there, we are all there.
38:00 We're also in our twenties.
38:02 When people ask me, "Oh, how is Sam? How is Sam?"
38:05 I said, "The age of Sam now,
38:07 you're already married with children."
38:09 So those children, that's how they run away from you.
38:15 You keep looking at them, they've grown.
38:18 So balance.
38:22 Is that okay?
38:23 My husband got married the week before his 27th birthday.
38:26 We got married.
38:27 Sam is 34 this year.
38:31 Amen.
38:32 Even me, I gave birth to him.
38:33 You get what I'm saying?
38:34 I said, "I really want to pay his flight tickets."
38:38 Okay, that's understood.
38:39 Okay, go on.
38:40 So, "Hey, hey, hey."
38:43 I said, "How old were you when you got married?"
38:45 He went back.
38:49 So this person came to my office.
38:52 He just got married.
38:53 "Hey, mommy."
38:54 And then brought the new wife.
38:56 Well, that was the first and last time I saw her.
38:58 I said, "What's your name?"
38:59 She said, "Pastor."
39:00 Let me use my daughter's name.
39:01 Let's say Pastor Tess.
39:03 I said, "I mean your name."
39:06 (congregation laughing)
39:10 I told her, "Pastor Tess."
39:13 I said, "Your name."
39:15 I said, "Tess."
39:16 You know even the fear?
39:19 The person who brought herself, "Mommy."
39:24 "Ah, hey."
39:29 Pastor Goffey.
39:34 Some of you from the day they made you pastor,
39:36 when you are asking your name, "Pastor."
39:38 There was one I had to burn like that.
39:41 If I see that pastor when you are talking to me,
39:44 I don't want to see it again.
39:45 I don't want to see it.
39:49 I'm not told, I said, "Your name."
39:51 These are the things.
39:55 When you are 24, somebody's asking you,
39:58 "It's okay on pulpits."
40:00 You get what I'm saying?
40:01 That's the official title.
40:03 But don't go around.
40:05 Somebody just said, "Meet Mommy."
40:07 Mommy not say, "What's your name?"
40:08 They say, "He's a young one that knows how to wash hands."
40:13 You know when I preach, I do many things to help you
40:18 to reset your brain.
40:20 But what you don't know can hurt you.
40:22 When they are slamming the door in your face,
40:24 you don't know what you did.
40:26 Maybe this can help you to know what you did.
40:28 They are wearing skirts,
40:30 where you are going, you carry trousers,
40:32 and they didn't give you the job.
40:34 I bind the devil.
40:37 It's not the devil.
40:38 I will tell you when it's the devil.
40:40 You don't have sense.
40:43 One of the ladies I used to invite here,
40:50 I don't want to mention her name.
40:52 She said she used to go somewhere,
40:54 and she would go like this, she would go like that.
40:56 She just so that when people get there,
40:57 they will kneel down, they will greet this woman,
40:59 Mama Balagba.
41:01 But she would stand.
41:02 She said, she used this word exactly,
41:04 you know, like an Anambra woman.
41:07 I will just come, greet.
41:08 But she saw that a lot of things were passing her head.
41:11 'Cause she said the woman is half Shekiri, half Yoruba.
41:20 So she doesn't need to kneel down.
41:23 And when she doesn't need to kneel down,
41:25 some things, amen.
41:30 Not everybody will call you aside
41:33 and say this you're standing, you're standing.
41:35 It's not helping you.
41:37 It's not the devil.
41:40 Devil has all that important things he's doing.
41:43 She sat on this poopies.
41:50 Said she would die.
41:51 You know, some of you, that's your English you speak.
41:53 Fuffa, go and keep it somewhere.
41:55 Nobody's interested.
41:58 He said she get there, you know.
42:00 She said like an, you know,
42:01 you know they say that thing, the Anambra.
42:03 You know what I mean?
42:04 Anambra woman, whatever it means.
42:06 Anambra woman, she said it by herself.
42:08 You Anambra woman, you are poor.
42:12 Those are shot in your face.
42:18 She said she now saw that.
42:19 The way this thing is going,
42:25 I better keep this Anambra thing.
42:28 (congregation laughing)
42:31 He said prepare yourself.
42:38 Jesus Christ, I'm well pleased.
42:45 He had not healed a fly.
42:47 But after that, the Spirit of God led him to where?
42:52 The wilderness.
42:54 I will say this and you are going to pray.
42:56 'Cause I want you to pray as some spirits.
42:59 You have not known the truth.
43:02 I was somewhere.
43:05 You know, somebody was telling me,
43:09 said, you know, I just thank God for your life, mommy.
43:12 I thank God for your life because, you know,
43:14 when you spoke one time that you don't impose on people,
43:17 I thank God for your life because when I first came
43:19 and I saw people help you carry your bag,
43:21 I'm like it has to come from my heart.
43:23 I thank God for your life.
43:25 That's you, and I said, look.
43:27 I didn't even notice her that time.
43:31 I said, well, if you go somewhere
43:33 and they are doing something,
43:35 it's such a sin, do it.
43:38 Don't stand like a sore thumb.
43:43 Stick out like a sore thumb.
43:46 She was thanking me about how, you know,
43:50 I was so magnanimous, gracious.
43:52 Are you getting what I'm saying?
43:54 And that when she now had the revelation by herself,
43:58 she was not doing it.
43:59 Sometimes I can't wait for revelation.
44:01 Yes, wisdom means if you are in Rome,
44:06 behave like Romans, as long as it's not sin.
44:10 Are you following me?
44:11 And if you cannot behave like Romans,
44:13 what are you looking for in Rome?
44:15 It's very simple.
44:18 Don't go somewhere and stick out like a sore thumb.
44:23 Do you want to tell you the truth?
44:25 It will affect your promotion.
44:27 What would JB Maggi be?
44:31 I don't know if my boss is still alive.
44:32 I'm sure he should be.
44:34 He was the first African president
44:36 of International Rotary.
44:37 I worked here.
44:42 We'll get to the office, of course,
44:44 Ogah will come later.
44:45 We used to call him Ogah.
44:47 And whenever you heard Ogah has come to his office,
44:50 all of us will go and greet him.
44:53 Are you following what I'm saying?
44:54 Imagine me saying, I'm here, I'm a lawyer.
44:57 It's not part of my contract.
45:00 Are you following me?
45:02 Number one, you'll be out.
45:04 Do you know what they did to people?
45:07 They'll just be giving people assignments,
45:08 you just know they don't assign anything to you.
45:10 By the time they stop assigning things to you
45:12 in the circular, well, go and check in England.
45:14 You know that you're on your way out.
45:16 They won't sack you,
45:16 but just so that they don't go giving you,
45:18 I don't know if they do it here,
45:20 you have started losing relevance.
45:24 And our closing time officially is six,
45:33 but you don't stand up at six, so,
45:35 even if you are doing that,
45:36 as if you are doing something.
45:38 Are you hearing me now?
45:40 By the time it's six and you stand up and say,
45:43 they will start taking notes.
45:44 This one stands up exactly as,
45:48 when they are promoting people,
45:49 are you the first one they think of?
45:51 You are not even the last.
45:53 Then another thing,
45:55 when we are going and our guy is in his office,
45:58 I'm not talking Churchill,
45:59 but when we talk about Churchill,
46:00 some people think it is Churchill we are talking about.
46:03 When we are closing,
46:05 except our guy is not in the office,
46:07 you cannot leave without going to say,
46:10 good night, sir.
46:11 My old guy, are you following me?
46:17 I'm not talking about where you work with Shell,
46:19 but even if you work with Shell,
46:20 you have immediate or guys.
46:23 If you want to know what is hindering your promotion,
46:26 because that's our guy is a human being.
46:28 They have their idiosyncrasies.
46:34 They have their likes, their dislikes.
46:38 I was sharing with somebody who was in school,
46:41 you know, I cut across different generations.
46:43 He was in uni, he was in, sorry,
46:46 whatever school he was.
46:48 He had teachers that all they wanted to see was his work.
46:53 But he had teachers that in the class,
46:56 they wanted to be participants in.
46:59 Put up your hand when there's a question,
47:01 you know, even if you go and form one question,
47:03 even if it doesn't have sense,
47:05 just to be like, ah, you know,
47:07 when you were talking that time,
47:09 you said, you know what I mean?
47:14 God, those teachers, when they are marking your papers,
47:17 they are not marking what you wrote to.
47:19 Have you noticed that where they decide on promotion
47:23 is not in the office?
47:24 It's in that place where they are having drinks.
47:27 Martha said, "Master, why don't you care
47:34 "that my sister left me to do the work?"
47:37 Jesus said, "Martha, Martha, you worry about many things.
47:44 "Only one thing is needful."
47:45 And what was that?
47:46 Say, look at Mary, sitting at the feet.
47:49 Are you following me?
47:53 Some people like Martha are very busy,
47:57 but your boss will come around.
47:59 They don't see you 'cause you think you are very,
48:02 you are a good, you are a hard worker.
48:05 Are you following me?
48:06 Where they decide who gets promoted is not there.
48:13 This is what they call (speaking in foreign language)
48:18 If I call pastor, I mean I will be wasting my time.
48:21 A child does not know herbs.
48:25 He's calling it vegetables.
48:27 It's not your hard work alone that brings you promotion.
48:35 Jesus has, Jesus said, "Martha has chosen."
48:41 When your boss start saying, "Did you come to work?
48:43 "I've not seen you in a long time."
48:46 You know he's saying something.
48:49 I don't know why I'm saying this to you.
48:51 Am I helping somebody?
48:52 When they start saying, "Ah, I'm, hey,
48:59 "is that bad guy sitting there?"
49:01 You will say, you will be thinking of the work you are doing.
49:10 Ah, ah, ah, ah.
49:13 What brings promotion is more than that worker.
49:16 That is why in spite of how good you are on your job,
49:21 your promotion is not measuring up
49:25 because of these little things,
49:27 the little foxes that destroy the vine.
49:31 What did I say?
49:32 If you cannot be like Romans, you have no business in Rome.
49:37 Maybe you should try England.
49:38 (congregation laughing)
49:42 Prepare yourself.
49:44 Jesus was driven to the wilderness.
49:46 The major test he faced were to prepare him.
49:52 You know, I said to us, I read from Jeremiah,
49:55 "You are going to stand against the whole land."
49:59 So Jesus went to the wilderness, driven by the Holy Ghost.
50:03 The three temptations he faced, very instructive.
50:08 The first one, please put it back, Luke chapter four.
50:11 Very instructive, what did they say?
50:13 What did the devil say to him?
50:14 "If you are the son of God,
50:19 "command this stone to become bread."
50:21 Jesus answered, it is written,
50:24 "Man shall not live by bread alone,
50:26 "but by every word of God."
50:27 If you don't know how to conquer and handle your hunger,
50:30 eh?
50:38 Me, I have to eat breakfast before I come down.
50:41 Maybe if I wake up at six, yeah, or five.
50:44 But even then, even then, if there's something higher
50:49 that comes upon you to do,
50:51 if you cannot take care of your mouth,
50:54 your eating food, I want to be real with you.
50:59 I'm not trying to do, you know what I mean?
51:03 Spiritual connotation.
51:04 This one is not spiritual connotation.
51:08 Your appetite.
51:09 Eh?
51:13 Before we came down, there was food they prepared,
51:18 but when I look at the time,
51:20 I told Pastor, I told Dickiness, Donald, I said,
51:23 "Help me bring malt."
51:26 Even the malt, I have not been able to take.
51:28 Man shall not live by bread alone.
51:32 The pastor was hungry.
51:34 Even though he was hungry when the tempter came,
51:37 you have to, Pastor said, "I put my body under."
51:41 Less after I put too many others, I become disqualified.
51:45 You must be able to manage your hunger.
51:47 Put your body under.
51:49 Control yourself.
51:50 Can somebody say, "Amen?"
51:52 Man shall not live by what?
51:55 Bread alone.
51:56 Anything that has you, you don't have it.
51:59 Anything that you cannot control,
52:01 Pastor said something.
52:02 He said, "I will not become a slave to anything."
52:05 Everything is lawful,
52:06 but I will not become a slave to anything.
52:09 Can somebody say, "Amen?"
52:10 What's the second temptation quickly?
52:13 I'm telling you about this temptation as preparation.
52:16 I'm being prepared to handle my appetite.
52:19 I'm being prepared to go without.
52:24 If somebody listens to me, it's part of your preparation.
52:27 That is what the Lord ministered to me,
52:29 to bring that angle from this temptation of Jesus Christ.
52:32 We have looked at it from different angles,
52:34 but the Lord ministered it to me
52:35 as I was thinking about this preparation thing,
52:38 that that temptation of Jesus Christ,
52:39 see it from a preparatory angle of,
52:42 we all knew he went to the wilderness
52:43 before he went to do ministry.
52:44 But look at it that man shall not live by bread alone.
52:48 What is putting people in trouble today in ministry?
52:51 Or no food or no room?
52:58 They say the way to get to a man is through his stomach.
53:02 You better go and get serious.
53:04 What's the second one, quickly.
53:07 He took him to a high mountain,
53:12 showed him all the kingdoms of this world for a moment.
53:15 Concerning the kingdoms of this world.
53:18 Now, Jesus Christ said, "My kingdom is out of this world,
53:20 "if it's where my servants will have fought."
53:22 Then the devil said to him,
53:24 "All this authority I gave you and the glory
53:28 "you must die to glory."
53:30 As you are preparing yourself.
53:34 God said, "I will share my glory with no man."
53:39 All the kingdoms of this world, greed.
53:42 Are you following what I'm saying?
53:46 Greed.
53:47 Money.
53:50 Like I said to them in Abuja,
53:55 don't be a rich fool, a fool.
53:58 Build, pull down to build a bigger one.
54:00 What are you doing?
54:01 How many cars can you drive in?
54:03 Are you following what I'm saying?
54:07 Less freedom.
54:08 I deliver to my Lord, I give it to whoever I wish.
54:11 Therefore, if you will worship me, all will be yours.
54:15 All will be yours.
54:16 People are worshiping money today.
54:18 People are slaves of money.
54:20 Don't tell me that,
54:22 "Oh, I don't have a shrine in my house,
54:24 "where I go and bow down to money."
54:25 Look at your lifestyle.
54:27 Some people will do anything for money.
54:30 The love of money is the root of all evils.
54:33 They will do anything for money.
54:35 Why don't we speak the truth again in church?
54:38 Why don't we speak the truth again
54:39 to the person you are discipling?
54:41 Money, looking for glory, looking for fame.
54:45 Is somebody listening to what I'm saying?
54:46 Worshiping money.
54:48 Let's go on.
54:49 Get by me, Satan, for it is written,
54:51 "You shall worship the Lord your God,
54:53 "and Him only shall you serve."
54:54 What's the next one?
54:55 "Then the brother of Jesus sat on the pinnacle
54:57 "and said to him, 'If you are the Son of God,
54:58 "'throw yourself down from here.
55:01 "'For it is written,
55:02 "'"You shall give yourself a charge over you to keep you,
55:04 "'"and in their hands they shall bear you up,
55:06 "'"lest you dash your foot against the stone.'"
55:08 By the way, to let us know,
55:09 he quoted it verbatim.
55:10 There was no error.
55:11 It was the spirit of it that was wrong.
55:14 The letter was right.
55:16 You know, the devil knows the Bible.
55:17 Is that okay?
55:19 Jesus answered, "It has been said,
55:21 "'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'"
55:24 The enemy is going to,
55:25 that's part of what you are going to face in life.
55:28 Are you following what I'm saying?
55:30 That is showmanship.
55:31 Is that not true?
55:32 Just to show yourself.
55:36 The other, the first one is about your appetite for food.
55:43 The second one is seeking glory.
55:45 You see, you are going to face all these things.
55:48 The third one has to do with what?
55:51 Showmanship.
55:52 Praise the Lord.
55:54 Why do you do what you do?
55:55 And also, I tie it to the fact that, you know,
55:59 a lot of times when things are not going your way,
56:02 don't, don't, don't, don't, don't be offended in God.
56:06 But it has to do with that showmanship.
56:09 Putting God on the spot.
56:11 Is somebody listening to what I'm saying?
56:12 Doing what God did not send you.
56:14 Can somebody say amen?
56:15 God did not tell you something.
56:17 He said, "God told you this.
56:19 "You are not a magician.
56:20 "The gifts of the spirit operate as a spirit.
56:23 "We use."
56:25 That woman showed up,
56:26 Elijah said, "And God had not told me."
56:29 We got to a point, you know what people were doing?
56:32 When the prophetic was moving.
56:34 You know what they were doing?
56:36 They would say, "Bring cassette players.
56:38 "So record what I give you, prophetic word, each of you.
56:41 "Stand up on your feet."
56:43 That shall know what?
56:45 Tell the Lord your God.
56:47 Instead of you stand, you know what?
56:50 Bring your cassette, you know those days now?
56:53 I'm recording prophecy.