BE USEFUL

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Pastors, stop trying to be popular. Learn to be useful in the hands of the Holy Spirit. People don't need popularity. People need power for people to be free. People need to be People need the gospel to be saved. If you're preaching without the unction of the Holy Spirit, who will believe? Because it's not an intellectual battle. It's a spiritual battle. It is the spirit of God that convicts the world of sin.

Not your good sermons. Not your intelligent words. Because if your words cannot bring freedom, liberation, [clears throat] and bring somebody to total submission to the Lord Jesus, that they will be saved and set free, you're not preaching at all. It's entertainment. Stop trying to be popular. Reels don't make a ministry. Usefulness does. The Great Commission is go preach the gospel to all creatures, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers.

That's the mission. Raise the dead. People can't be sick in our churches and we're saying Jesus is Lord. Where is his lordship if sickness is reigning in your church? If people are dying of cancers in your church, if people are bound with witchcraft in your church, dear pastor, I say this with love. We are not enemies. We are co-laborers.

Let us be useful. Not popular. You can be popular for even the wrong reason. But you can be great only for the right reason. Let that reason be Jesus and his anointing, his spirit.

In Jesus' name.

That Englishman.