We've been looking at the Godhead. We've been looking at probably what's commonly known as the doctrine of the Trinity. We're trying to understand God but better.

Most people, they know, they don't even know the doctrine of the Trinity properly. How do you know God properly? Most people have this kind of problem. When I pray, who do I pray to? Should I pray to the Father? If I pray to Jesus, will the Father be offended? Or what about the poor Holy Spirit? I keep leaving him out.

Shouldn't I be praying to him as well? I kind of wondered that. Who gives us supernatural abilities? Is it the Father? Is it Jesus? Is it the Holy Spirit? Now, I've been trying to show you the roles of each one of these. And we started by looking at the Holy Spirit.

And we saw that firstly, the Holy Spirit as the comforter, is the one who teaches us what we need to know. And he's the one who reveals Jesus to us and makes him real. But the Holy Spirit is also the agent of all divine activity.

Everything that God does is done through the Holy Spirit. Right in the beginning when God looked down on the earth and spoke and God said, let there be, he sent his word into the earth and then the Holy Spirit made it happen. So, as the agent of God's divine activities, he helps us to love and to develop through the Spirit.

We looked at that in some detail on love. He enables some of the lower level ministries. And we didn't look at that now, but we've covered it elsewhere.

And he also enables us to flow in the gifts of the Spirit. These are all the role of the Holy Spirit. Now we come to Jesus, the eternal word, the Son of God.

He is the one who calls. He's the one who rose from the dead and then sent down the power of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. He's the one who calls the fivefold ministry and sets them in place.

He is the one who empowers us to do our ministry. He takes the gifts that we've received and he develops them and he takes those gifts and he focuses them into specific ministries. So, what's the role of the Father in all of this? Where does he fit? There's not much left, is there? We kind of covered everything, sort of.

So, you might be wondering, well, you know, the poor Father, he's supposed to be the main guy, but we've just kind of left him out, right? Well, by the end of today, you'll understand where the Father fits into this. First, we need to look at the Godhead itself and we see that the Father is the originator and the initiator of all things. He's the one who starts things going.

He's also the director. He sets it in motion and then steers it and controls it. Now, when it comes to the ministries of the church, the Father creates specific kinds of operations.

You see, a gift of the Spirit can function in many different ways. How does God give a word of knowledge? You may be standing there and you feel a pain in your arm and you know God's showing you there's somebody in the meeting, there's a pain in the arm. You might see a vision of an arm and God says somebody got a problem with the arm.

You may see words printed out on a screen saying, pain in arm. It can happen a whole lot of different ways. It's the same gift, has the same effect in the end, but it doesn't always operate the same way different people.

Sometimes we hear people give testimonies of how God's used them. I've never had that. That's a strange way to have a gift.

I mean, God's revealed things to me, but I never had it come that way. Why is that? What makes the difference? Each ministry has unique characteristics and I'm not talking about the five-fold ministry. I'm talking about your ministry.

God has called you to do something that is unique to you. It's different. Then God gives specific mandates to apostolic leaders.

Included in that is a unique way of ministry that's different to others. It may include a specific way of functioning in the gifts of the spirit and in the end what it does, it creates a ministry that becomes like a specific family. You are different.

Ever seen a family that's different? Just look at somebody else's family. They're different to yours. Oh, you know, I grew up this way.

My mom always taught me to do that and my dad taught me and you know, this is what we do. You know, we pray before our meals and we say, say what? Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub. I don't know.

People have different ways of saying grace. What we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful. My dad always prayed, Lord, bless this food to our bodies.

That's how I always said grace. See? You visit somebody else and they say, please will you say grace over the meal and you say grace and they go, never heard grace said that way before. Each family has their own unique characteristics and when it comes to ministries, the exact same things happens.

Now, you've been, all of those of you have been in different ministries, been involved in different ministries. You've seen this already. Each person operates in a very different way.

What causes this? The father. The father creates different modes of operation and when a specific leader is raised up by God to function, all of those who come under that leadership become part of a family who all tend to follow the same way and you'll find within that group, people all seem to get the same kind of revelation. Sometimes they even speak the same tongue.

See that happen even. You see people who operate in a certain way in ministry, just trace where they came from. Who was their main influence in ministry? Oh, you know, this guy spent a bit of time in Brazil.

Go and see what they're doing in Brazil and you'll find that he brought it back. Exact same thing. I thought this came from God.

I'm about to show you how it works. The father is responsible for creating different modes of operation and they're all God, but they're different. So let's look at the results and the effects of the father's work.

The father changes in the way things are done. So each church under a leader is unique, as I said. These characteristics are now passed down to their spiritual children.

So we get brand new kinds of ministries coming out. We have a group who have a specific flair of their own that seems to characterize them and they function differently in the gifts of the spirit to what other people should do. They're different.

Well, is it valid? Is it the same gift? Is it God? Absolutely. But it's different. Now in the church, the final effects are seen in the disciples and the spiritual children of that specific leader.

And all the branches under that leader that he may form, they all look the same. They all look the same. So you say, now hang on.

Does that mean that a man has taken over instead of God? Does that mean that God's no longer in control? That a man is a God? And sometimes we look at that and we think, you know, this person is just a dominating leader and he forces everybody to do things his way. And that can happen. And it does.

But a person who's really being led of the Lord in the way I'm about to show you will do these things naturally. Spiritual and apostolic fathers, they receive their mandate direct from the father. Now this word mandate's been thrown around a lot these days.

Every Dick, Tom and Sheila's got a mandate these days. I never heard anybody use the term until I started using it some 20 years ago. And God showed me that every true apostle has a mandate.

And that's what I taught. In fact, I even created a whole series called the Moses Mandate. Of course, I like alliteration.

With the David dynamic, the Moses mandate, the Joshua juncture, and the Solomon succession. This sounds good, eh? It's a mandate. What's a mandate? I'm not going to get into that now.

We've talked about it elsewhere. But a mandate is a unique, a unique package, if you like, that God's given to a specific leader. And it only, I believe, takes place at the apostolic level.

So we hear people talking about the prophetic mandate saying, rubbish! Prophets don't have mandates. They're not at a high enough level. They're functioning within an apostolic team.

They take the mandate of whichever apostolic team they're under. And God raises you up to become an apostle. As you'll see, you don't have a mandate yet.

That mandate is then passed downwards to the spiritual children. Now, most believers follow this exact pattern. They receive from their spiritual parents.

But they never actually enter into the throne room of the father, which we're going to show you about today. They don't need to, because they receive it via the person who has been in the throne room, who has received the mandate from the father, and then takes that mandate and passes it down to others. Now, what happens if everything's going good? You've got a spiritual father or apostolic father.

You've received his mandate or possibly her mandate. I prefer to see apostolic couples rather than apostolic women standing on their own, but God does use women. And you're functioning in that mandate.

You have received from that person. You received of their spiritual DNA. You received of their anointing, and you're probably even functioning in the same kind of anointing, possibly even with the same gifts, and you fit in perfectly with the group that you're in.

What if, what if God or circumstances demand that you be spiritually adopted into a different family? What happens if God moves you out of that family? What happens if your spiritual father dies and you now have to move to be adopted into a new family to come under a new spiritual parent? Well, in the natural already, we see the problems. Well, I'm used to doing things this way. In our family, this is the way we did it.

But now you're adopted into a new family, and they're saying, but we don't do it that way. We do it differently. Oh, but I like doing it this way.

You see, you're part of a new family now. And in this family, this is the way we do things, because our head, our father has laid that pattern out for us, and that's the pattern that we follow. So, you've got to make a choice.

Am I going to truly become one of this family, be so totally one with them that people won't know the difference? Or am I going to be like a stepchild who says, I'm not going to see him as my father? He's not my father? Oh, you see, it's not quite the same thing, is it? And if God is going to use you in that family context, under that leadership, eventually you must come to the place where either you fit into that family and you change to fit in with the mandate that God's given to that group, or you go somewhere else. It's not easy. It's not easy to give up your previous spiritual DNA.

It's not easy to give up the unique manifestations of ministries you had before. Now, I faced this very early in my experience as an apostolic father, as God began to bring me people to be trained up to an apostolic level, starting with the prophetic office and upwards. And some of them had already been trained by another ministry, and they were already functioning and flowing and operating in their gifts, according to the way they were taught by that ministry.

See, now this person, specific person I have in mind, had not yet reached the apostolic office, but was already trained as the prophet. And I said to him, I can't move you beyond the prophetic into the apostolic until you're prepared to come under my prophetic anointing. That means you're going to have to give up what you got.

Well, was what he had from God? Absolutely. It was anointed. It was done by the Holy Spirit.

But it carried the DNA and the mandate. The person he received it from originally, well, he was open to receive that. And he said, I renounce what I've received, the way I operate in this ministry, and I'm ready to do it.

No resistance to change is what it is, I think. Yeah, we had a guy come in, become part of my spiritual family, and he used to play drums in a band. And he was a pretty good drummer.

Any of you know anything about drumming, you'll know that the way we drum, nobody in the world drums this way. Because I didn't take drumming lessons, God taught me how to drum. The way Nadine drums, yeah, nobody else drums like that, because she learned to drum according to the way God taught me.

And so I had to say to this guy, look, can you play the drums differently? Well, it's not easy if you're a qualified drummer and you've been playing in bands. See, it's not easy. But you know, when he was prepared to do that, something amazing happened.

He picked up my anointing. It wasn't just the drumming, but he picked up my anointing. And he played perfectly, exactly according to the technique that God had given me.

And we flowed in perfect harmony. I had one brother in one of our branch churches. He really didn't have much of a teaching ministry or anything.

In fact, he was probably trained more prophetically. But he began to take over leadership of the church. And he felt that he wanted to reteach my stuff because it was a Swiss church.

And he wanted to reteach it in the language instead of in English. So he took a series of my teachings and he retaught it almost line for line. He didn't translate.

He actually retaught every principle. He took out maybe skeleton notes exactly according to mine and began to preach, re-preach the exact same thing. But you know, an amazing thing happened.

He picked up my teaching anointing. It began to flow amazingly well. He stood up to teach.

He sounded just like me. And he didn't have to. Nobody forced him to do that.

I didn't force him to do that, but certainly if he'd come under my training as a teacher, he would have to function that way. See, now I've found that there is specific anointings. Those that I've trained to flow in the teaching anointing, I've had to take my teaching mantle and place it on them.

But we have one classic case. You know her. She just took it to a new level and teaches better than me.

But she teaches with my anointing, with the same mandate, the same style, same everything. And if you compare the notes, if you compare the whole methodology, it's the same flow. It's the same flow.

See, now the time may come when God will take a person out of that group and move them out. And I'll cover that shortly. I want to look now at how we come to the place where we actually meet the Father.

And this actually does not apply to most believers. This is a very high level thing. Your communication from the Father that you received is via the leader that God gave the mandate to.

And that person should have come to the place where they entered into this experience that I'm about to share with you now. I didn't have this experience for many years. I was already flowing in ministry and in office quite a long time, running all these trainings, and I still hadn't experienced the Father in this way.

Now, I shared with you in the past how Jesus became manifested to me via the comforter and how afterwards he brought me to a manifestation of the risen, ascended Christ, and how I learned to move into a new relationship with the living words. But I didn't stop there, because shortly afterwards he said to me, I'm going to show you the Father. Well, what does the Father look like? I said, I'm ready.

Where is he? He said, you see that flight of stairs there? He's thrown rooms at the top. He said, but you don't get to climb the stairs until you've learned each one of them thoroughly. You are about to go on a training scheme, on a program, stage by stage, stair by stair, and you're going to have to learn and qualify for each one of those steps before you can walk up.

And I saw this whole flight of stairs, and I saw God began to take me through a process of training, through death processes, through testings. It wasn't easy, but as I made each step, each progress, he said, this is where you are. That's how far you've got to go still before you reach the top.

Each step was a unique learning experience. And then when I was finally ready and I reached the final step, then it was time to enter the throne room. Now, that was my personal experience.

I'm going to just go through this now and teach you the principles involved, and then along the way I'll share with you what my experience was as this happens. Okay, first you're going to have a set of stairs going to be placed before you, specific phases of preparation and training, and God is going to direct that training. He's going to use circumstances, and he's going to use other people to train you.

I don't think you're so super spiritual you're going to do this all on your own. So I don't need somebody else's help. I pity you if that's the case, because then God's going to use the world and they have no mercy.

So rather find somebody who loves you, who can smack you gently, and correct you. It's much easier that way. Now before you get to meet the Father, you've got to qualify for it.

Jesus is the one who initiates it, and Jesus is the one who qualifies you. And when he qualifies you, he then introduces you to the Father. When you get to the top of those stairs, you finally open the door, and you walk into the throne room of God.

Now you're probably wondering, what does the throne room of God look like? And many of you are thinking, well, you know, I know what it looks like. I read it there in the book of Revelation. You know, you've got all the angels and the 420 elders.

I can't even bear this. I said, Lord, you know, it's not fair. You gave us a description of the throne room that's wrong, because that's not what the throne room looks like.

He said, anyway, look up the word throne. And I found a verse that I knew but forgot. I'll read it to you.

Revelation 20, verse 11. I saw a huge white throne with someone sitting on it. The whole earth and sky were fleeing from his presence and were nowhere to be found.

Ah, that's what it looks like. That's the throne. At least that's what it looked like the first time I saw it.

Now, as I've got to know it better, it kind of looks like coming into a courtroom, where the judge sits in his booth up there, and you, the little guy sitting at the bottom there, your honor, that's what it looks like. Now you enter into the throne room alone. Jesus opens the door, sends you in, but you enter into it alone.

And your first experience, when you walk into that throne room, it's going to be devastating. It's going to be devastating. When I walked into that throne room, I saw this huge, bright being sitting there on the throne.

I wanted to fall on my face. I felt so unworthy. I didn't feel that way when I met Jesus.

Even when I met the risen Christ, although I had fear, I didn't have that sense of unworthiness, of awareness of my own sin. But as I came to the presence of the Father, I felt vile. I felt unworthy.

I felt unqualified. If you look up, it's like I couldn't look any higher than his throne. It just seemed so big, so holy, so awesome.

I could hear his voice speaking to me from up there. I just didn't dare to even look. After a while, I got to know him a bit better, and I could come into his throne room with more boldness.

So I learned a few things. Hebrews 4, 16 says, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. See, Jesus showed me originally what Abba Father looks like.

And the scripture says that God has given us the Holy Spirit to help us to identify the Father. Galatians 4, verse 6, and because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying, Abba Father. Now, if you want a scriptural example of what I experienced, you'll find it in the book of Isaiah chapter 6. Isaiah the prophet is worshiping in the temple.

He's standing there in front of the brazen altar, where they're giving the sacrifices. And he says, I saw the Lord high and lifted up, and his train was coming down into the temple, and the smoke and the presence of God began to manifest. And what was Isaiah's first response? My mouth.

Lord, I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell amongst people of unclean lips. Lord, I'm a sinner. This man was a prophet, one of the major prophets.

You know small friars. This is a guy that God had set apart, who'd spend time in the presence of God. But when he sees the Father, wow, wow, wow.

See, when I first saw Jesus, I knew there was sin there, but I didn't have to worry about it, because he didn't point it out. When I stood in front of the Father, oh, they all just stood big. And then the scripture says that God sent an angel to take one of the coals off the altar, and to put it on his lips, and to purge him.

He said, your sin is removed now. And then Isaiah heard the voice of God speaking, and he said, whom shall I send, and who will go for us? God says, I'm looking for somebody to give a mandate, a calling, a life purpose to. Well, Isaiah had the sense to say, here I am, Lord.

Send me. Send me, Lord. See, you're going to go through those phases.

When you come into the throne room with the Father, you're going to have to learn to deal with your sin. All those little things that you thought were so small, and so unimportant, because we're under grace, you know. Yes, we're under grace.

Your sins will never take you to hell. You've been redeemed from the guilt and consequences of sin forever. But if you want to move to that level of ministry, folks, you can't afford to have these things in your life.

Scripture says, let's lay aside the weights and the sins that so easily beset us, and run with grace, and run with patience, the grace that God has given us. So if you're not ready to make that kind of commitment, don't be in a hurry to ask the Lord to take you into the throne room with the Father. But after that first experience with the Father, I had further experiences of coming to the throne room.

I had now access. I'd qualified in those steps, and I could walk back up into those steps again. But I couldn't do it every time I felt like it.

The book of Esther, we have the story of Mordecai, of Esther and the King Ahasuerus, who when he was sitting on his throne in the throne room, unless he called for you, you didn't dare go in. Esther put her life in her hands when she walked in there, and if the king hadn't held out his golden scepter to her, she would have been killed. The Father works that way too.

You better be led when you initiate coming into his presence. You better knock at the door and listen. Can I come in? I just barge in.

Or when it's time, he'll call you. You'll feel that call, and you'll know, and he'll bring you into his presence, and you'll go up into that throne room, and when that happens, he'll have something to say to you, something very specific. Now, how do we come to that place? How do you experience it? You can experience it in different ways.

You may be worshiping the Lord, and you feel yourself being lifted up. Have you ever had that happen? While you're praying, you worship, you feel like you're coming off the ground like Jesus ascended, and you're going up, and you see the clouds below you. You're going higher and higher and higher.

You're coming up into the throne room of God. You might see yourself walk in the stairs, and you know you come to the throne room of God, but the biggest sign is a deep sense of awe and reverence. We just got a slight touch of that today at the end of worship.

I invited the Father to show himself, and he did. It was a quietness. There's no loud worship, no praise.

It quietens down, and there comes a sense of holiness, a sense of awe, and almost fear. Scripture speaks about fearing God. It's reverential fear.

When you come into the presence of the Father, you're trembling. You're in awe. You're not coming arrogantly.

Usually, when he calls you into his presence, it means he's planning to initiate something new. As soon as you come, he may place something in your hands, something new that he's giving you that you didn't have before. It could be a specific gift, specific ability.

It could be a mandate. Sometimes, it may be a scroll, which is a plan for what he's going to do in your life from now on. Now, he may just speak to you directly and say, this is what I'm planning to do.

I was in the throne room with the Father not long ago. I began to move into this new realm of ministry now. The Lord told me to hand over my teaching mandate, because I'd completed it, to hand that over to somebody else.

Now, what am I going to do? The teaching is what I'm good at. Teaching is what I've been successful at. What am I going to do now? I tried to figure it all out.

I'd have him call me to the throne room and say, here it is. This is the next step that I have for you. This is the next stage that I have for you.

That's what it was for. Once I'd received that, I could walk out again. I'll wait for the next time he calls me.

I can sense his presence, as we did in worship today. You can all sense his presence. In a way, I can bring other people to the throne room, but not all the way inside.

I can bring you into the presence of the Father, but I cannot take you into the throne room. I made that mistake once. I was ministering with somebody that I was mentoring and training, and I felt the presence of the Father.

I thought, oh, God's calling us to the throne room. I boldly stepped into the throne room to the Father, and I looked, and this guy was outside. I said, and now, Father? He said, I'm not letting him in here.

He's got sin in his life. Well, he had a lot more than I realized. There were a few things there that had to be dealt with before he was qualified to step into the holy presence of almighty God.

Well, I wasn't exactly perfect. God had dealt with so many things as I climbed those stairs that I was more ready to stand in his presence. So, sorry, guys, I can't give you an invite.

The first time you step into that throne room, you're going to do it all on your own, and you better be ready and qualified, and you'll know because Jesus will show you. Father may give you a message for other people when his presence comes. I find that sometimes when that awe of God's presence comes, I get afraid because God has something he wants to say that I don't want to say.

There could be a word like this to somebody here today. God has been dealing with you. He's been speaking to you.

He's been wooing you, but you've been fighting it. You've been kicking against it. You've been rebellious.

The Lord says, this is your last warning. This is your last chance to listen and obey. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've had those, and I hate giving them.

When the Father says it, man, man, man, it's powerful stuff. It's frightening stuff. See, Jesus is full of grace and understanding, and he'll overlook all your sins and your failures.

You see, we're dealing with the kingdom of God here. We're dealing with the lives of other people. When God has called somebody, and they kick against that call and refuse to move to where God wants them to be, time may come when he has to give them some stern warning and say, no more.

Scripture says, God says, my spirit will not always strive with me. You may have got away with it for years, but listen, the time's coming. He's going to pull the rug out under you, and he's going to say, enough.

Make up your mind now, because people are failing to enter into what God has, because you have failed to obey the call. I pray I won't ever have to give any of you a message like that. Don't worry, I didn't feel that today, but I did have to give it to somebody, and it's frightening.

Scripture says, it's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of a living God. Okay, in conclusion then, God is the initiator and director of all ministries, and he gives specific mandates and unique ways of doing things. This is only offered to higher level leaders in the body of Christ, starting with the apostle.

Now, you receive your place in the body of Christ in one of two main ways. Firstly, you could become part of the mandate of somebody else, and this is what happens when you become a spiritual son or a daughter, and then you flow in that same anointing and same mandate and same way of doing things as your spiritual parent. But if you're a leader, you could receive a unique mandate as an apostolic leader in the body of Christ, and then you can take that mandate and you can pass it down to those that come in as your spiritual sons and daughters.

And everybody that you pass it to will begin to function in that exact same mandate that God's given to you. As I said earlier, you may be called upon to change spiritual fathers. If you are, then you must be prepared to give up what you had.

You must embrace the new spiritual DNA and mandate of your new spiritual father. So where are you right now? You're not sure where you fit? Then you're looking for a spiritual parent and a spiritual family to become part of. Perhaps you're already part of somebody else's mandate.

Learn how it works. Get involved. Commit yourself to it totally.

Perhaps you've moved into a different spiritual family already. You better identify what needs to be replaced. You're going to have to give up the old now and embrace the new.

You have to make that choice. God's not going to force it on you. He's offering it to you.

Perhaps the Lord's calling you to start a new spiritual family of your own. If that's the case, get ready to walk the stairs. Will you finally qualify and walk into that throne room? You will receive your own unique mandate.

Then you must look for spiritual children to pass it down to. Now, sometimes there's problems when we try and do that. You're used to doing things the old way.

You have a spiritual DNA that you received from somebody else and you're going to have to replace that old DNA with a new spiritual DNA. It's a lot more difficult than it sounds because the moment you try and do it, your old DNA is going to fight back. It's going to kick back big time.

You're going to be filled with doubts and confusion and say, did I make a big mistake? Did I make the wrong choice? Is this really of God's? Struggle takes place within you. You say, well, I'll add the new DNA in. You can't do it.

You've got to displace and replace. It's put off and put on. It's a scriptural pattern.

It's going to have to be done. If you're under a spiritual father and God is leading you out to move to another spiritual father, you've got two things to deal with. Firstly, you're going to have to make the choice and then the chances are your existing spiritual father's not going to be happy about it and he's going to try and get his hooks into you and hold tight because he doesn't want to lose you.

You better know what God wants. If God is leading you to come out from a family that you're in because he wants to move you out to be a leader in your own right for you now to become a spiritual parent, like a child leaving home, you have a similar situation. You're going to have to give up your dependence on your current spiritual parents to step out into that throne room by yourself now and receive a new mandate.

Now you're it. You better make sure your existing spiritual father's ready to let you go or else you're going to have a struggle. It's a two-way street.

I just feel to emphasize this whole thing more because I sense there's quite a few here today who are facing this conflict. See, we all have our times of influence. There are men and women that we have looked to in the past and admired and respected and perhaps even said, actually I want to be just like that person.

I want to minister just like them and now God's saying, I'm bringing you into a new environment. I'm bringing you into a new family. I'm bringing you under new spiritual parentage and I have to let the old go.

It was so good. I liked that. I enjoyed it.

I feel comfortable with it. Well, would you like to go back? Would you like to go back? Please feel free. God's not forcing you to do anything.

He's offering you something. He's offering you something. He's going to take you higher and further.

Or you heard him wrong and he's not offering you anything. It was not a big mistake. Maybe you had a fight with the other person and you went off in a bee in your bonnet and said, that's it.

See, there's so many circumstances you have to work. You're going to have to take them to God. But in the end, where are you at right now and what are your next steps? Your next steps now are to decide, where does God want me to be? Where has God put me? Where am I going in the future? Well, he may have called you to an apostolic level to move out on your own.

And you may be feeling a bit insecure about that. I'm comfortable being under somebody else. I don't want to handle that whole thing by myself.

Don't worry. He won't give it to you until you're ready for it. That's why we put our apostles through several levels of training so they can learn to do this.

God has blessing for you. It's time you get to know the Father. It's time you get to know that unique, special something that he has for you.

And he may have led you to be under another kind of leader in order to go to that next stage and receive that something special. He may be leading you to move off on your own into his presence. But I wouldn't do that in a hurry.

I was in ministry and training people for some years before I took that step. Hey, it's much easier to do it with somebody else's help. Move towards it.

And that's what we do, of course. We train and we release. Don't ever think that if you're part of us, we're going to hold on to you.

I've always believed that my job is complete when I do myself out of a job. I think I've proved that enough. I've already stepped out of my whole teaching mandate, which was my pride and joy, my boasts, handed it over to a woman.

My goodness, why did I do that? Because he said so. Very often I've given up everything I was doing, even if it was working, because he said so. See, those are the kind of tests you're going to go through while you're climbing those stairs.

It's not going to happen overnight. And oh, what a joy it's going to be when you finally come to the place to find out who you are and where you should be and what God wants you to do. And you can just set your goal for the future and aim for that target now and be everything and more.

I think I'm speaking to everybody now because we all want that. We all want to find our place. I get weary when I hear people saying all the time, I don't know what my place is.

What do you want me to tell you? And will you like it? I'll tell you where your place is. Where can I start? Can I sweep the floors? What? I'm called to be an apostle. You know, the apostle's like a CEO who started as a janitor and worked his way up.

If you don't know how to sweep floors, how are you going to direct the floor sweepers? If you don't know how to clean toilets, how are you going to supervise the toilet cleaners? See, there's always a price to pay. There's a price to pay. And when God sees in you the heart of a servant, he says, there's my king, there's my queen.

That's somebody I can trust. That's somebody I can give something unique to. I'm tired of what everybody else says.

I want something unique. He's got something unique for you. Start being faithful in what you've got and what everybody else is doing until the time comes when he says, now I've got something special just for you.

You've got to be different to everybody else. There are some of us who don't like that either. You know, we want to go with the crowd.

We don't want to be the odd one out. We don't people say, well, you know, you're just different. We don't like to be different.

Except me. So, sorry, if you hang with me, get ready to be different. Because we don't do things the same as everybody else.

Do it the way God showed us. Okay. So, I hope I've challenged you.

I hope I've inspired you and motivated you. I hope I've helped you to understand where the father fits into your life purpose and plan. And now you know where the Holy Spirit is the comforter fits.

You know how to walk into that love relationship. You know how to come to the place of experiencing the dynamic power of the risen Christ. And you know how to come to the place where you are ready to receive whatever unique thing it is that the father has for you.

And maybe God's called you to business. Don't go around and do business like everybody else. He may have called you to do business differently.

Find out, what does the father want? What is he giving you that's unique? And yes, there, there are business apostles and there is business mandates. Same thing applies. That same thing applies.

You ask the Lord where he wants you. And if you're not sure, find somebody that you can trust to submit to. Get in there.

Become involved. Become part of the family and move on from there. Amen.

Father, I thank you for your word. I thank you for each wonderful person that's here today. And for those that are watching now from a distance, Lord, they're all so special to you.

And at the end of the day, you do have a unique plan and a unique purpose and a unique calling for each one. May they find their place, Lord. May they step into that place until such time as you then move them out of that, such time as you change it, as time as you change their mandate and give them something new.

May each one be faithful to follow through to the end. Lord, one day we all stand in your presence together just to glorify you and praise you and thank you for your wonderful wisdom and the way you did it. I thank you for it in Jesus' name.

Amen.

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