-Bishop Tudor Bismark
IGOC 2021, KICC, Prayer City, UK
Day 1
*Generally people that never progress are sleeping most of the time.
*Their bed is growing, but they are not growing.
*It is time for you to pick up your bed and walk.
*It is time for you to pick up your coins and build.
*The race is not to the swift, which means we have to RUN
*The battle is not to the strong, which means we have to FIGHT
On COVID-19: … Pastor Matthew and his phenomenal Ministry, particularly the alarming numbers in the city of London and Great Britain itself: Thank you so much for displaying faith and displaying the grace of God to so many so far. Thank you for your well wishes to African countries, for us to keep on pushing and forging ahead. Chichi and I don’t take that lightly as leaders of this Church and Founders of Jabula but also as Patronists, Zimbabwe first and Africa second. We pray God’s richest blessing on this Conference and the remaining days of the conference.
And to all of you that are watching please contact somebody, get them on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook platforms; on the KICC website, Tudor Bismark Ministries; send a message to somebody that can participate in this Conference.
Our goal and our wish is that your faith would soar and that through your faith, you will achieve and accomplish very much. God bless you.
I want to draw your attention to the anchor scripture of this Conference which is Isaiah 28:20-21
My scriptures are basically Acts 15:18 and Matthew 9:1
You can’t have Pastor Matthew leading a Conference without reading from the Book of Matthew
Isaiah 28:20-21
Acts 15:18 – In the middle of discussing salvation as a means to Gentiles, James says this, “known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.”
Matthew 9:1-8
Prayers: Father, we thank You for your blessing, Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, Pastor Yemisi, the KICC Church and the International Gathering of Champions Conference around the world in Jesus name.
You may be seated. If you are at home, put your tea down.
The Bible says that, “God knows all His works from the beginning of the world.”
THE MYTH OF REALITY
God knows an outcome before something actually takes place.
The question is why should one pursue anything if God knows the outcome:
If God knows you are going to have a PhD or be a medical doctor, a lawyer, a housewife, a missionary, whatever the case might be. Church Gist. If God knows that and He does, He is Omniscient, why then should anybody pursue excellence?
OR pursue being an Achiever?
Why should anybody train for the Olympics games?
Why should anybody sign for Liverpool football club?
Why should anybody want a marathon?
Why should anybody want to exercise or lose weight or gain weight?
If God knows the end of a thing?
This then becomes for me a paradox or oxymoron because if God knows that something is going to be complete and knows the end from the beginning, beforebthe individual that is introduced in the world, why should you do anything? You can just be a potato sitting on a couch and just allow your 6 packs to grow, allow your millions to come in, allow your Television programmes to be carried on various channels around the world etc. There has to be an act because God rewards acts. “God is the rewarder of those that diligently seek Him” and so I sense as a 64 year old man, I sense that my good days are still coming. I know that my good days are not past and so the onus is on me, the onus is on Chichi, for us to get better in time, to get better in life, to get better…while knowing as experienced as we are in life issues and in Ministry that the race that is essential is not to the swift which means we have to run.
The battle is not to the strong which means we have to fight.
When we look at the scriptures that God has strange acts, that God will bring to pass His various acts. He needs a player, the player needs a stage. There is an event that is necessary for something to be accomplished. Greatness is earned, greatness is also given. It is genuinely given by one’s prayer or by one’s acts.
In Matthew chapter 9, Jesus entered into a ship and as he passed over, he came to his own country. It is necessary that all of us wherever we are from, whatever town or village we are from. I am from Zimbabwe, of course. My home town is Bulawayo which is about 450/500 km south of the capital city Harare, the most beautiful city in the world. It is necessary for me, occasionally to go to my home town, to visit everybody there but also to make sure we give back as God has blessed us.
A lot of times when you go to your home town, you would meet people that you have not seen for decades and they remember you from the way you used to be. They have lost track of your development, your growth, your progress, your achievements and they tend to date you from the way you were. But when you come back to your home town, you are not coming back as to the way you were, you are coming back to as to what You have achieved and the things you have accrued materially, financially, academically etc.
Going back there, you have to then make sure that you give back. It is almost inevitable that when you get back, you are going to see people who have not progressed, they have not progressed.
The first thing that Jesus sees there, he sees a man that is paralyzed. So genuinely, when you go back to your home town or your home city where people have not been privileged to get some sort of exposure or they have not been developed, you will see people that have not walked the walk and are still where they are from where you left decades ago. They may marvel at your clothing, may marvel at your vehicle, may marvel at the fact that you have achieved so much, may marvel at the mindset that you have acquired based on the things that God has blessed you in and blessed you with: new relationships you have gained and things you have gathered along the way. They would genuinely as is the case here (Matthew 9)bring those that are needy: give us a job, give us a dollar, pass me the…or whatever the case might be. Looking at your past and analysing your present and bring immediate needs hoping and knowing that you can meet those needs, that you can cure the maladies of their area.
Generally, people that never progress are sleeping most of the time. Church Gist. They are on a bed and the fact is that the bed is growing and they are not. The bed is growing.
There is a saying that if you make your bed, you have to sleep on it. The truth of the matter is that as the years go by, your bed grows.
For example,if you are planting seeds, they call it a seed bed. If you are going to be productive and be a person that exports produce, you cannot increase until you grow your seed bed. The bed that you lie on is constantly increasing because sleep is brought into the system. It is necessary for a person to sleep and so if you are a Jacob, you will find in an unusual place a time for you to sleep and you have to make your bed based on the earlier part of the day’s transaction.
…to a transaction, Jacob, put together by your Mum and you have served and taken the blessing from your brother Esau and Esau has been been threatening that when Dad dies I am going to kill you, now that you are fleeing from your brother and fleeing from the threat of him taking your life, the first thing you are going to have to do, you have to sleep on the bed that you have made. So the bed is ever increasing.
This man (in Matthew 9:1-8) is unfortunate, the Bible doesn’t name him as scriptures named individuals such as Mary that had 7 demons cast out of her, such as Lazarus who was raised from the dead. There were those who were named because it was specific to them. This man that is un-named is generally as the scripture would cover any time you have an act or a miracle of an individual that is un-named, it is synonymous to humanity’s journey from Adam to where Jesus was.
Here they brought a man who was paralyzed, who was mankind. It was Adam who became paralyzed in the garden of Eden who was unable to work his salvation, was unable to work his prosperity and so Adam was on a bed and the bed kept on growing. Adam couldn’t keep up with Noah’s bed, couldn’t keep up with Abraham’s bed, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, the Prophets and the bed was so big but the man was small. So when Jesus comes, the shepherds are told, “you will find the baby lying on a bed” (Luke 2:12). And so the way to identify the Messiah is by the type of bed He will be in. He is a lamb lying on a bed of straw and it is this lamb that will take away the sins of the world.
Adam didn’t have faith to raise himself, the first man, Adam. Neither did the prophets, neither did the law and the Bible says that they mix the Word with faith. They had the Word but they didn’t have the faith. Jesus when He comes now, looks back to Adam, 4000 years before and seeing the faith of all those that had gone before: Seth, Methuselah, Noah, Shem, Joshua, Caleb. When Jesus saw their faith, He looked at the crippled man on a stretcher, unable to walk and Jesus said to mankind, “Pick up your bed” because everybody has a bed.
… I am running in the mountains because I believe I can run an under 2-hour marathon.
Why are you doing it? I haven’t done yet but I know I shall do it.
Turn to your neighbour, you need crazy faith.”
Faith will push you to the impossible!!
I’ve not only told you that we need crazy but we need crazy and faith.
Crazy is facing an armed soldier that is 9 foot tall, trained as a military man from his youth.
Crazy is picking up a stone and thinking you will kill that giant: that is crazy and Faith. I am preaching to somebody here who is crazy but your faith is backing it. You know within yourself without any coins in your pocket:
That you will build houses for those who don’t have.
That you will feed millions who don’t have food.
That you will find the cure for COVID-19
That you will win something that people say you cannot win.
Shout, “I AM CRAZY AND I KNOW I AM CRAZY”
God is looking for someone that is crazy where you have had a baby and hide that baby for 3 months; crazy when you take that baby, put him in a river with giant crocodiles.
Oh my God, I have not met so many crazier people, crazier individuals than Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, he has written so many books, climbed so many mountains, preached so many sermons, raised so much money, gone beyond the level. I love the kind of crazy we see in your leaders. Bought land which they said you couldn’t buy, build buildings where you couldn’t build, walk journeys you couldn’t walk.
Shout, “I AM CRAZY AND I LOVE IT.”
They say I can’t walk but some one is telling me I can.
Jesus send me people that have faith, send me people that can believe. Send me people that can work with me.
When the man realised that Jesus had faith in him, he had to use his faith. Somehow, strength came in his ankle bones, somehow, strength came in his knee bones, somehow strength came to his spine. Maybe it was scoliosis, his back was straightened out. It is one thing to get up and walk, if he ever walked before but it takes greater faith to pick up your bed. You couldn’t pick up yourself, you couldn’t pick up your mind, you couldn’t pick up your life but now:
-It is time to pick up your bed and walk
-Pick up your life and walk.
-Pick up your coins and build. Take 2 bricks and build a mansion. Take a little candle, open an electricity station.
-It is time for you to have a wife and marry.
-It is time for you to find a husband.
-It is time for you to nurse a baby
-It is time for you to take your rod and throw it on the ground and challenge Jannes and Jambres.
-It is time for you to feed your dreams, interprete your life.
-Somebody, pick up your bed and walk.
-Somebody, pick up your life and walk.
-Somebody pick up your destiny and walk.
It is time to walk.
-Walk where no one walks.
-Walk where giants dare to walk.
-Walk and fight where others couldn’t fight.
I am raising an army in my life.
Everybody believe God, it is crazy time.
It is time to walk.
It is time to make money.
It is time to be a Millionaire.
It is time to be a blessing.
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