UPRIGHTNESS VS. WICKEDNESSS

from our our chief elder

and um we went to see him last week, myself and

the leadership of the church to visit him. We are grateful that we went. Amen.

Um we will visit him again if God allows us this week. Um uh Sister FY isn't is

under the weather. So those of you that can call and check up on her after service, please do so to show love and

support at every stage. Lift up one hand. Let us pray.

Father, I give you praise and glory for the opportunity to be used by you to

teach your word to the generations. I am grateful and thankful for your hand and

power over my life. Lord, let your spirit flow through me. I submit my

ability to speak and every instrument of use for your purpose this day within my

body into your your obedience. That Lord, you would use and influence every

diction, every word, and every action and every context used for your glory.

Take charge of the atmosphere. influence every afterthought and every critical

thinking, every rationality, anything that must back this sermon for our uh good cause.

In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Can I have the second microphone as a

backup just in case? Hallelujah. This morning I want to speak on a very

important topic God laid on my heart. Um the word is uprightness versus

wickedness. Tell somebody uprightness.

Uprightness versus wickedness. What is uprightness? Number one, it refers to

the quality of being honest. I can go ahead, right? It refers to the quality

of being honest, honorable, just, virtuous, and morally

correct. The word uprightness is the same in

meaning to the words decency, honesty, respectability.

What does respectability means? You do what is right so nobody can just

insult you. Amen. Or accuse you. Amen. So respectability, morality,

a proper defined sense of right and wrong. Honorableness,

not the political honorableness, but the honorableness. Hallelujah. Of life.

Worthiness. Some of you are not a politically appointed honorable. Some people when they are coming to speak to you they are they are almost ashamed or

afraid. They say hey you are a big man p you and him knows that this grace that

has kept you. Hallelujah. I'm talking about the honorableness of God the worthiness of God.

Uprightness is the same as righteousness. Tells of righteousness.

The book of Psalm 15:2 says, and I read, "He that walketh uprightly

and walketh righteousness and speaketh the truth is in his heart."

Let me try and rephrase the statement properly. The Bible says, "The people who are on God's heart, the people who

God keeps in his heart, the people who are extremely important to God are those

who walk uprightly." Tell somebody uprightly and do the works of righteousness.

So to attain divine premium, to attain divine respect from God, to be so

important to God, one needs to practice righteousness. One needs to be able to focus on God.

Another definition or lay man's definition of the word uprightness is looking up to him. You upright, you

uplook to, you depend on him on every stage. Your reactions, your actions,

your reasons, whatever you do is focused on God.

Hallelujah. So if you want to be very important in this life, so important that no enemy

can afford to touch you

and no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

You see um until now the major focus of Christianity has been let us pray. Let

us fast. If we don't pray, God will not do it. If our focus has been as if God

is a man who has forgetfulness and we need to remind him. Our focus has been to bombard God until he's forced to do

what he said he would do or what he said he would even do. Then we can pray to

enforce that will on earth. That isn't Christianity, brothers and sisters. Any concept of that isn't

Christianity. It is the devil's way of wasting your time.

Hallelujah. Up to now, people's biggest focus if

they want a husband, they want something. Let's wake up at night and pray. Let's us go to prayer camp. Let's

see the biggest prophet in town. Let's receive prophecy. Let's run with prophecy.

And so many have crashed their destiny, fallen to sickness and death. So many people have met their untimely end

because they have never sought to seek where God will put everything aside and

come for you. He may leave the 99 for one 99 righteous

for one unrighteous person, but the person who God's heart dreams about, I

don't know how many of you are in love, but when you're in love with a girl, when the phone rings, your heart skips a

beat. When you see her picture, you forget all your problems.

When you are busy doing anything and you remember her, you

put everything down and call her. The same with men. Some of you women, when you are in love with a man,

it's like the sweetest joy you can have that he's remembered you that day.

Some of you when your husbands call you in the afternoon to check up on you, then

say, "Yes, your husband has called you." You know love is that sweet but it is not the

love I'm talking about. It's the way you place importance on that person. If a

person wants to be so important to God that the whole of heaven's resources is at his beg and call that person needs to

walk uprightly. That person needs to practice uprightness. That person needs to adapt righteousness in life.

The Bible said all has been done so we could come. The Bible didn't say we are going to come and do it all ourselves.

He said all has been done so we can come to God so we can be important before the Almighty.

Am I making sense to somebody? Amen. What is wickedness? What is wickedness?

Wickedness is the quality of being evil or morally wrong. When a person is evil or morally wrong,

that person is equally also morally bad or evil. So wickedness is the same in meaning

with the word evil. Evil representing Satan,

mischief, tom foolery. When you say somebody is tom foolery, it means the person likes

it's just beyond stupidity. suggest that the person has no respect for other people's emotions. They are they are uh

on a high octane of joy at the expense of others. They can endanger your life

so that they will laugh. They can destroy your life so that they'll go and sit somewhere and make fun of it. They

are tom foolery. They common sense doesn't play a role in what they do.

It's getting the kick off what they want that that makes it okay for them.

The word wickedness is synonymous with words like naughtiness. You're naughty. You don't know when your child is

naughty. They are doing what is wrong. You know, you are trying to seek what is good for them. They still want to do

what is wrong to them. They don't care what your good intentional. You want to beat the hell out of them. They are

still determined that they want to maintain their wrong status. Wickedness

is deceit. When a person loves to deceive others and is deceitful, that

person is called wicked. Psalm 37 the 1619 said, "A little that a

righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked."

Tell somebody, the little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many, many

wicked people. And I know modern day Christians don't agree with that nonsense. Hallelujah.

They don't care the color of your money. So far as is money they can spend, it's good money. I rely

so far as they can afford to enjoy life to the fullness, forget about it. But

the Bible is saying that the little that a righteous man has is far better in

weight and value than the extreme wealth of wicked people.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord will uphold the

righteous. The Lord knoweth the days of the upright, and their inheritance shall be

forever. Two things, the unrighteous or the

wicked person has lots of money, but God is not their help in time of trouble.

Number two, God knows their end must come soon or

God promises the end their end to come soon. And finally,

the Bible says he would break the strength of the

wicked. God himself says when the wicked feels comfortable, when they have planned everything thinking that

everything should work their way, he God will destabilize and destroy their

works. The Lord knoweth the inherit the days of the upright and their inheritance shall

be forever. They shall not be ashamed in the time of evil. Please see if the

Bible is just underline that part. Underline that part. You see evil people love to scheme and plan bad things. They

never stop. And and I remember one day we were sharing and discussing things of scripture and somebody said that if if

evil people conspire to fight a good man they will always win. I said no. They said it's not possible. He said he said

because the wicked person would do everything outside the book to get you

and the righteous man is always sticked by the sticking by the law and by the rules and so he's kept there. That is a

lie. When I was growing up, there was a there was um a law a law show called Matlock.

I don't know how many of watch before. Matlock. So Matlock was a lawyer who didn't believe in lying.

So it didn't matter how your case is, he must find a truth about your case for

which he must sell to the jury and to the judge to take you

off the case. And I love that show. I loved watching that show as a little boy because then

it gave me a better perspective of understanding what right really is and

how you can use right in its context to break through.

So many Christians in the heat of struggles listen to bad advice and do

something that in the end causes them more trouble. I promise to share with you something

someday very soon. But the truth is that for example if you had a legal case and

they tell you oh if you say it this way they won't understand so you have to say it that way and you think that the

counsel they are giving you is good because telling the truth may end up in trouble. The reality brothers and

sisters that truth tell somebody the truth sets free. It liberates. It makes

it possible. Hallelujah.

Because when you lie, you need to now find up many, many other evidence to prove your lie is the truth. And it

makes it impossible to win a case. Are you with me, church? And so the Bible says that the righteous

shall not be ashamed, not in the day of evil. Listen, the Bible said that God

created evil for the time of evil. And we know that the devil has some power to

execute when it is within his time. Are you understanding me? And this is what

God is promising. He said, even in the time where the devil has the biggest hand over you, he wouldn't win the

battle against you. I don't know whether you get it but even when the enemy feels that he has enough

evidence to bury you for life, God is going to wipe your clean your slate

clean with the blood of Jesus and redeem you for a good purpose. Hallelujah.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. In the day where

every other person should struggle, you will find sufficiency in your situation.

Somebody lift up your hand and say, "I receive it. I believe it." Amen.

When a person is upright, he is known to have these qualities. Number one, he has

faith in God as compared with a person who is wicked,

who is self-centered. There's no faith in anybody. The only person they trust is themsel.

He doesn't believe there's a God anywhere. A wicked person hates God.

He hates everything about God. He hates the law about God that says be kind to others. Be be nice, give to others.

Everything that has got to do with godly principles seems to annoy them.

Everything infurates them when it comes to God. Forgiveness infurates them.

Kindness infurates them. Love infrates them. kindness, if everything

makes their blood boil. When a person's upright, they love

humanity. They are not racist. They are not tribalist.

They are not nepotist. They are not narcissist. Huh?

Not what? Narcissist. That word is interesting. Narcissist.

Huh? That means if it's not them, nobody can have it.

Huh? They say political narcissism. A party believes they are the only

person fit to rule at a certain time. Every other person is is incorrect except them.

And so if something is good, they must see it bad.

So, so when a person loves humanity, he cannot say because you are black, you

are less a human. Because you don't speak my tongue, you don't deserve life.

Let me say this. A lot of the time we see videos of how Africans trying to

cross through the desert have been met by the Arabians who have killed and and

mutilated our people and treated them badly and beaten them to death. These same people go into their churches into

their mocks and claim that their God is love and their God expects them to be kind to strangers.

Which better stranger than the refugee who is coming to your country who is seeking a place of refuge?

So if a person wants to walk uprightly, he must love humanity. That's the reality. He cannot love his kind only.

He must appreciate every kind of human being God has created. Black, purple,

red, blue, Indian, whatever color, brown, whatever you are, you are human

enough. You are worth every opportunity of life. You are worth every right and

human rights to life.

When a person is wicked, they have no fear of God. The fear of God isn't

walking around fearing that God would strike you with a thunder or with a hammer and kill you. But the fear of God

is acknowledging God in everything we do. that the opportunities God gives you in

this life, he is part of that opportunity. And that the people I deal with when I

meet them, I am dealing with God. And so if I'm in a place of authority and power and I abuse a stranger and I

hurt somebody because he's not my clan man, he's not my tribesman, he's not my

religion, that it wouldn't matter. It matters. Tell somebody matters.

So the fear of God is making sure that anybody we deal with, we deal with them

as if we're dealing with Jesus. Sincerity, truth, love, appreciation,

acceptance. An upright person fears God.

An upright person perseveres in doing good. They don't give up doing good.

They keep on doing good irrespective of the hedles, the challenges they keep facing.

A wicked person is deceitful. He says A and means B. He declares

so but it is no.

He is full of malice. Every intent is for your destruction.

Even is offering food. He has a plan to destroy you through the food.

He's full of pride and having a propensity to lead others astray.

They can't help themselves. They must lead others away. They come and they tell you, Dick, are you sure the Bible

is not been watered down? Are you sure the words in the Bible, they are true? If men copy the interpreted, are you

sure they have not changed the words in there? They have wisdom to lead you as three.

They make they give you probable cause to justify the wrong you do to justify

the things you do that are not right. Yeah. For those of you been looking at

my hand and you don't see my favorite wedding band, I've lost so much weight it keeps falling off my hand. Forgive

me. Your wife wants to join me and be slim like me. Now I'm a role model. I I used

to have belly on my sides and everywhere. Hey, my thousand is I'm still waiting for it to

show you suck if I want to. Hallelujah.

So um they will lead others astray

intentionally. They come and they tell you you know this we when you smoke this weed your brain go make w your brain you

can learn

apparently I learned that when somebody says that they take drugs to feel good

it only numbs them they don't feel it they are high for almost between life and death and they pass out.

I thought actually it's like when you take a painkiller and the pain goes. That's actually not how it is. They go

on a higher level. They can't even feel themselves and they pop off between life and death until the body struggles to

recover them back in consciousness. And yet they will go back for that high

for that feeling and the problem doesn't go. They wake up to the problem. It's like somebody going

to quaff their problems away. Alcohol and then they get so they get so drunk.

They feel like they sleep forever and they sleep and it lasts only two hours and they wake up and the problem comes again in the morning. They have to face

the problem till morning. Then it's worseer than when they hadn't drunk alcohol.

You hear people say things like alcohol is good for your body. The body needs some 2% alcohol. If you take it, your

heart work better. People drink alcohol bow now they have pot belly

they look at at first people look at me and say you are taking away sugar and eat it that's why you are this fat I

said hey it could be true oh then as we grew I could see people who regularize

their beer and everything they were now looking rich in their tummy look as if they have been storing their money

inside their stomach hallelujah they are handsome and glorified there

hallelujah Yeah. Amen.

Let me laugh at them small. They may laugh at me for years. Let me laugh small. Hallelujah. Amen.

I pray I never go back. I pray I never I never go back. Otherwise, I laugh at my own self.

People who are wicked have little or no regard for the well-being of others.

You see people willing to take bad decisions that will affect every other person. They don't care because they are benefiting

because they are benefiting to hell with everybody. So they have little regard for the

well-being of others. People who are wicked are arrogant,

egotistical. Why are they arrogant? You see

they cannot accept fault or wrong. You see they have an imaginary honor in

their head that is able to cloud their judgment from right and wrong.

And so they are wrong. Oh, but to admit they are wrong in front of you, heck, they will die.

to allow their own conscience to structure them to know this is wrong. They should pause. They will go away

into destruction. An an aggressive person is also a wicked

person. I know sometimes people think being aggressive is just being wild. But no, the aggression we are talking about

is when you enjoy putting others through pain and suffering. Don't worry, it has nothing to do with that. Just leave it

this is the current surges. Are you with me?

So um they are aggressive

but a up an upright person loves to obey God. They love to find the rules of God

and to obey them. An upright person loves an honest God. He trusts in God.

Because he trust in God. He knows that the rules and regulations, the call of God to worship and every other thing God

asks for is for their own good and for their own purpose.

The book of Proverbs 11:18:19 says, "The wicked workketh a deceitful work, but to

him that sweth righteousness shall be a sure reward."

So the wicked, all the wicked does is that they plan to bring trouble

pretending as if they are solving problems. Now when I look at these things and I look at the the

geopolitical status of our world where people want to give you a loan only so that they'll bankrupt your system and

make you a sovereign nation when people want to organize espionage come and support your opposition with money so

that they'll destabilize the good things you want to plan for your own country you realize that evil doesn't live far

it is inhumity are you with me

so the Bible says that uh that wicked person is always working a deceitful work. But those that do righteousness,

they sow it. And because they sow the righteousness, there's a sure reward. It says as righteousness tends to life,

so that so he that pursue evil pursuit to him death. So in the same way as if

somebody does righteousness and it it brings forth life and good things so

does any man who practice wickedness does it to his own detriment and

destruction. Let us read the Bible together in the book of Psalm 1. We are reading 1 to

three and I read, "Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of the

sinners, nor sits in the seats of the sconeful, but his delight is in the law

of the Lord, and in his law does he meditate day and night. He shall be like

a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his

season. His leave also shall not wither and whatsoever he does shall prosper.

Whatsoever whatsoever he does shall prosper.

The Bible says that if someone decides not to walk in the counsel of

the ungodly, someone decides to walk away from wickedness and not to make his

place with wicked people, that person is blessed. It is a blessing.

That person puts his delight in the law of God by being righteous and meditates

his on the word of God day and night. He said that person shall become like a tree that is planted by the rivers of

water. He has no season that fails. When there's a dry season is abundance.

When it's a raining season, there is abundance because he is not supplied by

one source of water but by many. Hallelujah.

Amen. And amen. Wickedness puts one on the broad way to

hell and destruction while up on the broad way to hell and destruction while

uprightness keeps one on the narrow and straight path to God. Jesus puts it this

way in the book of Matthew 7:13 to 14. And I read said, "Enter into that.

Enter in at the straight gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that

leads to destruction, and many there be which go in there.

Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and

few there be that find it.

Jesus is saying that to find righteousness only few people will find it. To find the path of light, to find

uprightness, only few can find it. But the crowd, the large numbers, it is easy

for them to find the part of wickedness that will lead to their destruction.

Why? Because there are many roots to wickedness. There are many roots. They

are abroad that leads to one's destruction. Isaiah

3:10-11 says says that ye say ye to the

righteous that it shall be well with him for they shall eat the fruit of their

doings. Woe unto the wicked, it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his

hands shall be given. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to state for a fact that God hates wickedness.

God hates wickedness. And God has committed himself to destroy wickedness on the face of this earth. He takes

respons. He doesn't send his angels. He takes responsibility to untie the knots of wickedness

to remove the schemes and plots of wickedness

from succeeding. If a man chooses to walk in wickedness,

he makes himself an enemy number one to God.

Proverbs 11:8 says something. It says that.

I will cause a wicked man to suffer in hisstead. Ah

substitution. God has determined that every time the enemy plans or your friend plans to

scheme wickedness against you that he will deliver you. But quickly as he's about to deliver you, he will make sure

a wicked person stands to suffer. Every time they skin evil and skin

wickedness against you, it cost them a lot more than what they have planned.

The book of Micah 2 the verses 1-3 Bible says, "Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds. When the

morning is light, they practice it because it is in their in the power of their hand and they convert fools and

take them by violence and houses and take them away. So they oppress a man in his house, even a man in his heritage.

Therefore, thus says the Lord, behold, against this family do I devise an evil

from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall you go hortily, for

this time is evil.

God is saying that if you're a man who loves to plan and scheme wickedness and to love to work evil against people, the

Bible says that because you think you have the power to, you have the connections, you have the influence,

spiritual and physical and political influence to cause harm to others.

You have the financial might to frustrate others. This is what God is saying. He says

because you think like that and you are working like that I God I am going to plan evil against you and trust me

nothing will be able to deliver you from that evil. So he says nothing you cannot be able to remove your necks. No amount of prayer, fasting, prophetic

revelation, no amount of demonic powers and authority will be able to save you

from the evil eye God plans towards the wicked.

You would need to make a choice in life. Brothers and sisters, make a choice to walk uprightly

so that every good thing due will come. So that the walk with God, the journey

with God will be good for you. So that it doesn't matter what the enemy throws at you, you will always come back

stronger, come back better, come back prepared.

Proverbs 12:3 says, "A man shall not be established by wickedness."

So you are a wicked person. You are walking wickedly. You think that you and your generation will be rich forever.

God will break the cycles of inheritance. God will break the the piles of storage of wealth you have stored. God will destroy the cycles that

you think you have planned because you made a choice to walk in wickedness.

This is what this is what God said. But the roots of the righteous shall not be moved.

When you walk in righteousness, you create a security for your children's life.

Let me let me say this for a truth. If you're a pastor and you walk after righteousness and preach righteousness,

you bring a divine covering to your children. Not your home, the children in your church, the people in the the floor

God has given you. You bring a unique covering to them.

Listen to me. This is not the only church in Ghana. Trust me, there are bigger, financially

stronger churches who are sharing gagantra messages every day, sharing gagantra testimonies every day.

But the life of the people in that church doesn't depict there is a God. It depicts there's a mighty man there.

It doesn't depict there is God because Bible says where the presence of

God there is peace, there's protection.

People can be under mighty men of God and they are beaten down to destruction.

Sickness ravage their body to death. All manner of things happen.

But the secret to the strength of that church isn't prayer, isn't fasting, isn't more prayer. It is righteousness.

Righteousness allows you to be hidden in Christ Jesus, then hidden the Holy Spirit, then hidden in in God himself.

It makes it impossible for the enemy to touch you because the Bible says that the enemy cannot touch you without a cause. The same way a curse without a

cause cannot work. The force of darkness cannot touch you because you have come

under the fullness of the redemption of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

True covering comes by adopting and growing and developing yourself in the

skill of righteousness.

Look at what Bible says about the wicked and Isaiah 48:22 said there's no peace for the wicked.

Another version said there's no sleep for the wicked. Another version said there's no rest for

the wicked. If you choose to live in our in our old

African palace, in our Ghanaian proverb, we say,

have you noticed? Have you noticed that you are more fearful when you're a

wicked person? Let us hear a very strange sound.

The person who is running faster among us is a wicked person.

not just fearful. They always believe something bad is going to happen because they themselves

they accustomed to bad. Just as the Bible says that praise is becoming of the righteous.

I don't say the righteous doesn't fear but the Bible say the righteous as bold as a lion. When some things look deadly,

they face it in the face of it and don't worry about it.

It's true. And wickedness isn't only evil. Wickedness is also depicted in the sense of less trusting in God and

trusting in God's way. If you choose not to trust God and trust his way, you are walking in wickedness.

Isaiah 55:7, "Let the wicked forsake his way.

and the unrighteous man his thoughts, let him return unto the Lord, and he

will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Ladies and gentlemen, wickedness is like a bad character. You go nowhere until you change it. It's like a flat tire in

your car. Until you change it, your car will not move anywhere

without you causing permanent damage to yourself. God calls us to walk away from

wickedness and to walk away for the presumptuousness of thinking that wickedness is an alternative to life or

is the easiest way to succeed and that it is good. Proverbs 11:11 says that by the bless by

the blessings of the upright the city is exalted but it is overthrown by the

mouth of the wicked. My wife sent me a certain

photo clip and I just place it on the church group that in Japan

the road toll system, the entire computer system in that area shut off

for 38 hours, one day and

14 hours. Huh? But after these people passed through the toll boots free of charge, they went

back home online to go and pay the money to the government.

Brother, you and me in Ghana won't do that, will we? I'm sorry if anybody feels offended, but let's be realistic.

You see, uprightness isn't unique to humanity.

Even to a nation that claims it does not know God, uprightness is a very important thing that builds societies

and build homes. The Bible says when a person is upright

or righteous, it brings blessings. It bring blessings

upon the nation he dwells in. When a person upholds the values of

morality and the fear of God, it brings blessings in their home.

How many of us here in Ghana sleep without locking our rooms? If I tell you there's a place,

if I tell you there's a place in this world where people sleep without locking their main doors, you will not tell me it is true.

in this world common

but certain societies have advanced to the system whereby when they are going to sleep they don't lock their doors

certain societies have advanced in right uprightness such that when you commit a crime they don't take you to a prison

they imprison your own house and people are crying when they being sentenced to to live within their own

house and never come out of their house And it's like hell for them. You punish people like that in Ghana, everybody

will commit a crime or or in Nigeria, wherever it is in Africa, they tell you that Lydia, if you

go and steal the bank, the punishment is to stay in your house for 20 days and you are crying. You will steal the bank

and come, you yourself will steal the bank and tell the court, don't worry, I'm home. I'm waiting 20 days before I spend the money.

But certain societies have pushed themselves in uprightness such that everything they do brings blessing to

their nation. We need to be able to see the gospel in

a different light and not see it as a way of manipulation and control but to

see it as a way that God has set for men to live and to bring grace and glory and

blessing to every generation you can find. Bow down your head and let us

pray.

It is possible to be upright. I share the example of Japan with you. A

nation that doesn't serve God but serve a living king. They believe their king is everything.

I'm not saying Christianity is not there's Christianity in Japan but I'm saying that as a nation as a national religion they are not Christians

but they don't practice unrighteousness.

You see we are quick to think that unrighteousness is prostitution gambling. We are quick, we are quick to

actually point certain things as being wrong as Africans and point the things that matter to God

as if it doesn't matter.

We make a promise. We don't care if we don't keep it.

When we commit ourselves to something and say we'll be there at this time, we break that time and don't care. It

doesn't bother us to put our best foot out for God and for others.

By doing that we can't practice righteousness. When we can't practice righteousness we are not walking uprightly.

We all want to be rich as Solomon. But Solomon was upright.

Solomon was upright. We all we all want to be as blessed as David is that God will forgive him

anything. But David was upright. That's the secret. David wasn't sinless, he was

upright. Solomon wasn't sinless, he was upright. He looked up to God in every circumstance of his life.

These are men who commanded nations and wealth and people, shaped generations, shaped the way of life of societies.

They were men who made a mark in history and they were not even holier than us.

But the enemy paints the picture that you focus so much on the things that will never matter in heaven or matter

with your walk with God because he needs you to waste your time

like a dog chasing his tail. You need to just go around chasing your tail. No, you can never catch it. And so long as

you feel it is religious, you feel there's time invested in prayer and other things, your pursuit for life

fails. There's so many women looking for a husband, they need to be upright,

not prayerful and holy alone. They need to be upright. They need to show the qualities in scripture that determines

of a virtuous woman. Because the same God who created every

man, including the evil man, all of them responds to virtue.

You go and find the most evil of people, they want to go to church and marry a good woman in the church. They don't even trust their own kind.

You know, look at their mentality. You are busy thinking you can pray any man into your life. I laugh. I know

people wake up 12 midnight prayer in the morning go to work and the guy still disappoints them because they are filled

where to build the character of righteousness. So see this woman if I let this woman go I am finished. Look at

the qualities he raised my children. Look at the look at this woman. She's just different. [Music]

[Music]

[Music] fearful

[Music]

[Music]

building friendship, righteousness. shapes everything in our society.

If we tell you the truth, see the truth and walk with it. Don't be other man to the fact that that

is because if there was a solution in that

young ladies, young ladies, you are not yet married. You have never cooked food

free of charge to give to a guy to chop something. It's bad. [Music]

who said those who are married today every food they cooked was the man's

money. You don't have money but you people you

buy the latest phones buy the latest hairstyle consistently.

Ah you have money have money. You see a nice guy, you do something

that guy's life, they sit there and compare you to others. Yes.

[Music] This is what I know. You don't know. You

are not there. Me and her we in one. I know what is happen. You don't know. Shut up. This what I want to marry.

But if you make things the way you are making it, no prayer. You see, listen. God can never force a man to come and

God can never force a woman to come and marry you. Do you know why? It's a matter of choice.

[Music] We're creating all the qualities in you.

There's a reason why if you bring a certain lady for Kaiser, he will never like her.

It's not because the woman is not attractive. If you force him probably he will go out the woman and leave her and

run. But every woman, every man knows what he's looking for to marry. Trust me. Even the player.

You ask him, he tell you what he's looking for. The worst kind of those people they can even add virgin to it. Meanwhile,

they're the virgin. Meanwhile, he's making sure every other one is not virgin in the church. But

he's looking for a virgin. Hallelujah. So everybody, including an evil person, knows what he's looking for. Don't be

fooled. And already God has wired that in their heart and their spirit.

God has wired that.

This is what I say. a certain taste in his body. It responds

to a certain kind. Instead of spending the hours of prayer praying ah from morning sharing links

and prayer to the end, why don't you build the qualities

that attract everyone based on God's word. It's as simple as that.

I don't want to mention something but I just recently I saw a group of young

girls. They are busy sharing links by 12 midnight. Everybody seems to be praying.

You look at them on the face value. Some of them would take videos of themselves praying at night and even

share it on their stat to say

they are organized criminals walking around using that as a front.

Hallelujah. So be not fooled by this kind of face

you are showing. Every man, big small, knows what they're looking for.

You need to present yourself as irreplaceable in man's life.

The patience, the joy, the way you speak with wisdom, seasoned with salt,

even your ability to show care and love.

A man said one time the reason why he married his wife when he when he hugs her the way again hugging

[Music] he feels so welcomed.

Another person said the woman smells great every time she hugs her.

Why don't you vex yourself in such knowledge? Because you can't pray. You can't pray

ah for God to come and tell me at night, Kaiser, you go and marry this one. If you don't marry this one, I'll kill you. God will never do it. I'm a pastor. I'm

telling you the truth. 10 years from today, you will come and realize that you lied to your own self,

but I didn't lie to you. So build the qualities of how to sustain

relationships, but don't do it openly.

Don't set traps of accusations for yourself. Learn how to relate with people

for a minute. I want you to pray in your heart. So, Lord, set my heart on the

path of uprightness. Let my heart respond to the things of

righteousness. Create in me a hunger and a test for

righteousness. Set me on that path

where even when I make a mistake and I sin, the enemy cannot touch me. Not because I have not sinned, but

because I am in your heart and I matter so much to you.

And again and again, you will save me from my shame and my disgrace because of

the constraints of your upright love.

Hold this church, oh my God, on the part of uprightness. Let a culture of righteousness be

established in this ministry. long even when I'm gone, now and long after I'm gone, sustain this ministry in

righteousness. Let men serve and love God and fear God.

Let nothing be done to show off. Let nothing be done in wickedness, but let all things merit

your uprightness. In Jesus name we pray.

Amen. [Music] Somebody give a clap offering to Jesus.

I want you to take an offering. I want you to take an offering.

[Music]

Brother, brother, you cannot pray enough about any woman. You have to choose.

Let me ask you a question. From Genesis to Revelation,

did you see anybody pray to God that God should make them cause

somebody to love them or to choose them? [Music] No, there's nobody.

There's nobody. There's an account of Esther in scripture. Esther wasn't chosen because

God told the king to choose him. Choose her. Who knows how Esther was

chosen? Who knows? Who knows?

[Music] Modai had schooled her, taught her how

to dress, how to treat her body as a woman

[Music] before they added prayer

and the favor of God upon their lives

because marriage is a physical enterprise. Please invest in your physical

acutments necessary for marriage. Amen.

You do know that we are in a marriage man soon. So I pray that this month we'll learn

things that truly matter that will transform our lives as fathers. Pick out

your offering and pray over it. Declare over your offering.

Declare over your offering.

[Music]

Father, I speak a a female daughter in the family. Yahwa has come for him to be

a big brother, a baby. There has to be a big brother in Jesus mighty name.

Speak a beautiful baby girl. Beautiful, intelligent,

serious, determined, wise baby girl.

So much that it will challenge him to be a grownup at once

in Jesus name. Speak over your offering. Father, we

bless the sand that we go and come back as we have said, measures pressed down,

shaken together and running over in Jesus' name. Amen.

Should I invite Antia to take our offering from us

the Lord reigns. We give glory to the Lord. He reigns.

He reigns. He reigns. He reigns. We give glory to the Lord. He reigns.

We give glory to the Lord. He reigns. We give glory to the Lord. He reigns.

He reigns. He reigns. He reigns. We give glory to the Lord. He reigns. He

reigns. He reigns. He reigns. He reigns.

We give glory to the Lord. He reigns. We give glory to the Lord. He reigns.

We give glory to the Lord. He reigns.

He reigns. He reigns. He reigns. We give glory to the Lord.

[Music] Yeah.

Heat.

Oh sh [Music]

He He raising rain.

We give glory to the Lord. He raising.

We give glory to the Lord.

Shall we be on our feet as we share the grace? May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the love of God, and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forever more. Amen.

The Lord bless you and keep you.

Make his face shine upon you and be

gracious to you. The Lord turn his

face towards you and give

you peace.

The Lord bless you and keep you.

Make his face shine.

May the Lord bless us and keep us. May the great I am cause his face to

shine upon us. May he be our pill of cloud by name and

our pill of fire by night. May the Lord be our sun and shield

as we walk uprightly. May he keep all good thing away from us.

May he satisfy us with abundance. May he lay a table before us in the presence of

our enemies. May the Almighty turn

every plan, ploy and work of the enemy

around. May he destroy the traps and the works of darkness against our lives. By his

mighty right hand, righteous hand, may he establish and build us financially.

May we walk in abundance, extreme goodness and wealth in the name

of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen. And amen.

Heat up [Music]

here. [Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

Heat up here.

[Music]

Heat.

[Music]

Heat.

[Music] [Applause]