Thank you, Pastor Lawrence and blessed Sunday, church!
Indeed, today, I have some exciting, good news to share with all of you.
You know, since the launch of the Gospel Partner initiative
in January 2022, Pastor Prince has taken the step of faith and began
making his messages available for free on YouTube.
And so far, based on the data
from YouTube, the latest messages have reached 5 million views.
Praise the Lord!
2 million watched hours and 150 countries all around the world!
Praise the Lord! Hallelujah.
And not only that, while Pastor and his family were having
a family vacation in the month of June 2022.
Pastor's YouTube Channel has crossed over 1 million subscribers.
Hallelujah. Let's give Jesus all the praise.
Hallelujah.
So while Pastor was resting, God was accelerating
the gospel of grace all around the world.
Praise the Lord.
And here's a snapshot of some of
the testimonies that we have been receiving.
Ndolo Kimweli from Kenya in East Africa, shares with us:
"I can confidently say this Gospel Partner vision
"is the doing of the Lord."
"Thank you for adding the sermon notes."
"It is helping me preach the same message here in Kenya."
"Thank you Pastor Prince and the team."
Joseph Agyapong shares: "These messages are"
"pure truths and vitamins for the spirit!"
"I'm only midway through but I already feel so blessed!"
"A huge thank you to the Gospel Partners who are"
"helping to bring these full sermons to some of us who"
"could otherwise not afford them as at the moment."
"God bless you all! All praise to Jesus!"
And finally, this other person shares:
"I have had shoulder joint pain for 6 months. I watched this service"
"while I was in the bathroom and when Pastor Prince said"
"'Touch where you have pain in your body.'"
"I touched my shoulder and I believed the pain was gone"
"so I moved my shoulder into the position that caused me pain"
"and the pain was gone!"
"I spent a few minutes looking for the pain but it was totally gone."
Alright, and he says:
"Thank you, Lord Jesus for your finished work at the cross"
"and healing my shoulder!"
"I am so grateful for your great love and the divine exchange at the cross for me."
"Thank you, thank you, Lord Jesus.
"All the way from London, my name is Ivan."
So praise the Lord, that the gospel of grace is
restfully accelerating all around the world and
to 150 countries.
Let's give Jesus the praise! Hallelujah.
And right now, church, please join me
as we welcome Pastor Prince!
Praise God.
Isn't that wonderful?
All those testimonies,
and what the Lord is doing in the ministry?
You see, you're all part of this because you belong to this church,
And just like every pastor, every church
is unique around the world. And each one has a specific
purpose for which God placed them there.
This church has its purpose.
And I believe it is to uncover,
dust off, and bring to the forefront the gospel of grace.
The way Paul preached it. Amen.
We have done this for all these years now and
last year, something happened. Middle of the year,
I remembered that I couldn't sleep at night.
Now sometimes, when you find you cannot sleep at night,
don't always blame the devil. Alright?
Or don't blame the Nasi Briyani you ate last night, okay?
Sometimes, if you try your best and
you find you're not sleepy and all that,
especially when there's kind of like an awakeness.
You know?
The enemy's attack of sleeplessness comes with oppression
or a headache or things like that.
But when it's God, you feel alive,
you feel fresh, but you only slept like, one or two hours,
then you wake up and you wonder why you can't go back to sleep.
Maybe He wants to talk to you.
Alright? So ask the Lord! "Speak, Lord!"
Remember Samuel, the boy?
When he learned to hear God's voice? Amen.
God spoke to him, but he did not know that he was hearing God.
So he needed someone. So I am that someone.
I'm that Samuel that tells you. The next time, ask Him.
"Lord, speak. I am listening." Amen.
And He might reveal to you then and there.
He might show you an inner vision.
He might give you a hazon vision.
He might give you just a word. Or He might just drop
into your heart a desire to do something. Amen.
But ask the Lord.
I believe that many a times
we miss God because we do not know
the ways of the Lord, especially in hearing God. Okay?
Some of you had a recent experience of that, I'm sure.
So somewhere middle of last year, 2021,
I couldn't sleep and I asked the Lord:
"Lord, are you saying something to me?"
You know, during the day, especially, like Job says.
God says to Job that it is in man's sleep,
in deep slumberings, when man is on his pillow,
that God opens up the ear and seals the instruction.
I think it's because
many a times we are too busy.
It's not that God is not speaking during the daytime,
it's just that we are too busy. We are running around. Amen.
We are looking at our phone all the time, especially today's
you know, today's world, it is just, it's like there's an
invisible chain to our phone.
And any free time we have, we don't meditate.
We just look at our phone.
And I think the enemy has succeeded.
The phone itself is not wrong. It is amoral. Right?
But what you do with it.
So the thing is that God speaks to us at night.
And I'm just reminding you of that.
But let me tell you what happened then.
So I asked the Lord and
the Lord began to show me
that something has been brewing in my heart,
something has been growing in my heart
a desire to see the gospel go faster.
And this was the words the Lord placed in my heart:
"That the gospel should go faster, louder, and stronger." Amen.
"Go further than where it has gone."
And I know that missionaries of times past and all that,
they had to go physically to bring the gospel.
They had to learn the language of the people there. Amen.
And they had to surmount hurdles like high cliffs,
mountains, and even traverse deep valleys, gorges,
and even through the seas and all that. It takes time!
But I believe that God ordained technology.
That's why I said the phone is not wrong. Amen.
For the gospel. Amen.
In fact, the Bible says, you know: "We ought to"
"exhort one another daily." That's why we have WhatsApp.
We have messages, we can encourage each other daily.
Use it for the glory of God, amen.
So God said to me: "He wants the gospel to go faster and stronger."
But then I felt like, you know, I have an intellectual property,
which means the messages, alright, are sold. Amen.
And that's the lot of all the pastors and leaders
all over the world.
Still I felt in my heart the gospel must go out.
And I felt also that you know, if you sell the messages,
even though our price compared to, you know,
some other places
is competitive, it's a very good price.
And I felt like the Lord is saying: "Give it up. Have no wall."
God says: "Let there be no walls."
And I saw the walls all being broken down.
"Let it go forth stronger, further, louder. Are you willing to?"
I know Him by now.
I know He loves me. Amen.
I know I'm not dealing with a tyrant.
I'm dealing with a Father who loves me.
Who loves you.
Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Amen.
And He knows. Number zero also, He knows.
He cares for us. Every detail.
He's concerned for every detail of our lives. Amen.
There's not one thought in your mind the Bible says,
that He doesn't know.
And yet He loves all of us. Amen.
So there was a silence for a while.
"Will you do it?" I said yes.
Alright. So the next day, I spoke to Pastor Darren,
who is the one that's running the ministry
but at the same time, Pastor Darren had his
own experience with the Lord.
And what he heard was this word "wall."
To remove the wall around the latest messages.
Now how can that be?
How can he hear, you know,
around the same time that I'm hearing,
unless it is the same Lord.
That was the time I knew that Pastor Darren was truly born again.
No, I'm just teasing.
He is someone with what I call Solomonic wisdom.
And so we both talked.
And I shared. I shared with him some other things at first
and then I told him that last night, I couldn't sleep and all that.
And he started sharing with me what he received from the Lord.
And then I started to get excited.
And I started telling him I was about to tell you
to look into this because—
I'm not going to go into the details and all that because my job
is always to prepare messages, you know, and you
prepare a lot of messages because Sunday comes very fast.
Very fast! You know, and I'm preparing messages then
spending time with my pastors, sharing messages with them,
sharing the Word with them,
and it's always like things to prepare. Amen.
That's my life! And that's what I am called to do.
I'm not called to administrate or govern.
So I told him to look into it and what a job
he has done in a short time.
You heard the testimonies just now. Amen.
Now, I did not do all that because I saw all that. Amen.
I didn't even know about YouTube hitting 1 million subscribers
and all that. And it happened when I was on holiday.
Remember what I told you last week?
As you rest.
Amen.
Enjoy the Lord, the Lord provides for you.
Here's another example.
I come back to this.
So the best of all are the lives that have been impacted.
These people are wanting the gospel to go out.
Actually, the people themselves are
sponsoring the gospel to other people.
They are getting books like Destined To Reign,
and putting it in the hands of all these people.
So instead of one person, my messages are there.
And then something else the Lord showed me
that night was that—and I shared this with Darren the next day.
It's like all these years of my sermons,
all these years is like Joseph's storehouse.
It just so happens that my name is Joseph.
Joseph's storehouse.
The seven years of plenty that he is to save. Amen.
At the right time, when the seven years of famine commenced,
God says: "Open up the treasure house."
I felt like the Lord is telling me:
"Open up the treasure house." Amen.
And so it'll be given to anyone that asks.
We'll just bless them and the people become a blessing.
So I just want to thank everyone that has become a Gospel Partner
here in this church, as well as all over the world.
You are truly, truly my hands, reaching out. Extended hands.
As if my hands are not long enough, you know,
and you're reaching out to all the four corners of the earth
and the gospel will be preached. Amen.
To the four corners of the earth.
And then Jesus will return. Amen.
And you are part of this. Praise the Lord.
So that means, by the way, this is not unique
because Paul talked about his partners, amen.
Time and time again, read the Bible.
Paul talked about: "Your fellow partner in the gospel."
"My fellow partner." My fellow partner.
It is the same thing. We call it Gospel Partners. Amen.
So whatever blessing, amen, whatever rewards even,
that I receive, you will receive. Amen.
Because it is fellow helpers and gospel partners,
that's what partners get. Amen.
Praise the Lord.
So we are seeing the gospel spread all over the world.
That's why in a short time now,
we are seeing people wanting more.
But you see, there's something that we cannot do,
which is to make people want to hear.
That's the Holy Spirit.
But what we are hearing now is that people want to hear,
so that's really something good. Amen.
And by the grace of God, by the grace of God,
for the next 60 years,
we'll still be providing the people. Amen.
Amen.
I want to be around.
Alright, how many want to be around with me?
Amen.
Stay strong, stay young, stay blessed.
Amen.
And all the people that say "amen" receives it.
Amen! Praise God.
Praise the Lord.