God bless you everyone my name is Lawrence Oyor and I’m here to thank you number one and I appreciate you for your time that you’re about to give to this amazing work that God has commissioned us to give attention to in this season that is the work of activating blessing you know healing delivering and teaching and empowering the Next Generation and I want to thank you once again for volunteering to towards this cause I believe very strongly that your heart is starred and that everything you’re going to hear today is going to get you ready to Be an Effective volunteer in the house of God not just for this meeting you’re preparing for or even within your circle your church Circle or your ministry some of you are Ministry heads some of you are probably pastors and you know ministers in several denominations I want to thank you for tuning in and for watching this broadcast and I trust that as you listen the hand of God will rest upon you for Mighty results in Jesus mighty name amen so right into it this is a training like I said for children volunteers the first thing I want you to take note of is that there is war against the results that we have in our meetings all over the body of Christ this is no news that we have several meetings going on on a daily basis and little fruit to show for all these meetings what is the secret to these problems it is one thing and that is what I call distraction and so I wrote here in my notes if you’re writing please write the first thing to take note of as we prepare is that we are at war against distraction all right the enemy is not as powerful as our distractions in fact he needs our distractions to Aid his work in our lives all right it’s not going to appear with HS and destroy the results that we are expecting our meetings or to obstruct the results that we are expecting our meetings but there’s one thing it’s going to do it’s going to create room and reasons for distractions and um even while the meeting is on you can expect this to continue to be the case that’s the reason for this teaching the whole thing I’m teaching you right now is to arm you against this number one enemy of progress within the body of Christ and that is what distraction say with me distraction distraction and um why are we teaching on this we don’t want to just have another meeting again and just tell ourselves that we had a successful meeting because we gathered crowd and they have finishing singing and they finished praying and they have gone we want deep encounters that will last them a generation we want people talking about what happened to them you know in this meeting for the next 10 years 20 years 30 years if that is going to be the case the encounters have to be deep and thorough that’s why we’re dealing with this matter of distraction all right what is distraction distraction is anything that prevents focus and the eventual result which is an Encounter With Jesus all right this is my definition as far as this context is concerned distraction in this context is anything that prevents Focus anything at all it can be anything people of God it can be a good thing anything that prevents focus and the eventual result of an encounter with Jesus Christ is what I am referring to as distraction if you understood what I just said now you realize that it’s possible for even the volunteer themselves to serve as distractions and this happens all over the place but as we are teaching now you will see what I am saying skills will follow off some of your eyes some of you watching will suddenly realize why you’re not getting the results your desire is to get all right um I wrote here the volunteer himself can be a distraction I’ve said that already and even as you do your work of volunteering that is serving uh these young ones I want you to realize that the anointing present in the meeting is also for you all right so the distraction is not just to prevent the children from having encounters it’s also to prevent you as a person so even in your service to this beautiful precious children it’s important you’re not distracted so that you can have all right an encounter as well because the anointing does not know child or adult we’ve seen it happen in many meetings where even the volunteers themselves come under the power of God and start manifesting demons all right so um the anointing can heal deliver and you’re not supposed to be Exempted from that experience so please take note of that distraction is the number one enemy of any of these meetings or any meeting at all that holds in the body of Christ and so our volunteering is with the aim or the hope that this number one enemy can be shut down to the beest minimum let’s get right into it how do we of course prevent distractions Simple Rules of Engagement number one volunteers must be weary of frequent movement all right that’s number one please write volunteers must be weary of frequent Movement we have persons who can be restless they don’t know how to stay in one place for a long time all right so when you’re standing up moving around around in the name of of in the name of um keeping the crowd quiet or in the name of whatever service you’re doing what you don’t realize is that you yourself will begin will begin to pose a distraction to those who are trying to focus on the word of God or focus on the minister who is speaking to them so as much as possible we want to avoid walking around reduce it to the beest minimum all right number two will be minimized raising your voice in a to correct the child all right some persons Will shout keep quiet keep quiet and and you are distracting the message that is going on or sometimes even beat the child keep quiet hold your lips and the child cannot even focus on what you’re saying other children are distracted by the way you’re choosing to correct one child the whole row is distracted so please as much as possible don’t forget the aim of volunt is to shut down distraction I’m saying it again and again to any kind of activity that constitutes distraction is wrong even though sincere which is the truth many times these teachers are doing it sincerely but the truth is still that it is a distraction and that means the enemy can use it to keep children or keep you know anyone who is present in that meeting from a deep encounter because once you focus the scripture says be still and know that I am God once you you focus you’re on your way on encounter so don’t raise your voice don’t beat the children in a beat to correct them keep things as UND distracting as possible don’t create a sin that’s basically what I’m saying number three minimize children crying it’s a simple matter of of discernment you are seeing a child beaten by another child and they’re looking like they’re fighting quickly separate them don’t let it get to the point where somebody screaming shouting and buy beat me buy like quickly take note of of um of U what’s the word now of um of any troubles that is brewing in the midst of the children as they sit together if you need to separate them separate them all right when you see that this one cannot sit in a place without distraction take that child move to a place where they cannot be distracted the easiest way to do that is to put them in the midst of adults that’s the end of the query all right so there are ways to deal with those things and when a child begins to cry stop telling the child not to cry a baby cries it’s as simple as espe when we have little children in the midst of us take the child out of the hall and pet the child and bring the child back when the child is now calm every distraction is an enemy to encounters don’t forget what I am saying I get the point I’m making I’m not saying that all right it’s possible to minimize distraction to 100% you know minimum to the minimum but the truth is that if we understand all these things we are armed to be able to minimize it to the beest minimum and will give us results that we desire right so minimize cran cry number four would be to minimize phone distractions we have people who will come in with their phones and their phones will be ringing sometimes even the teenagers that are coming in their phones are ringing all right so from the point of registrations to the point of arrival let them know their phones should go off the media team also have the duty to make sure that these things are projected on the screen so that when people arrive they can see put off your phones as ushers you can also instruct when you see people with their phones because those things are going to cons distractions in your churches some of you know these things happen man of God is ministering somebody’s on WhatsApp man of God is ministering somebody’s watching football somebody’s watching a movie you know and all these weird things that happen in church if you shut down those distractions that teenager that child is likely to have an encounter children are not stupid they’re not to be pushed aside and given a tablet for them to wash COC melon while encounters are coming their way so please take whatever phones from them I would even advise if they came with their parents their parents will take their phones from them what they do with their phones when you entering into a meeting all right their parents can hold their phones keep it in their bags shut down all distractions and phones are one of those ways Satan you brings distractions to meetings and to persons the next one I have here is that some children might need to be isolated I mentioned that earlier once children come in you can tell those who are friends and familiar with each other there’s going to be any disturbances or noises or whatever is going to come from those angles those persons so on arrival um an intelligent you know user knows that they should quickly split those friends or sister SS or neighbors or roommates or classmates or whatever you know is bringing them together and helping them to um aiding their you know their familiarity um they’re coming from a place where um they know each other and then they entering into a hall where they don’t know anybody they be most comfortable with each other and they’ll find themselves you know from time to time commenting on what’s going on distracting each other and we don’t want that to happen so we simply separate them if need be sometimes might not be necessary if they’re serious but many times um you might have to separate them once you see them coming in you can tell they already coming in laughing beating each other you know he you can tell this person’s are going to be talking in this meeting so you just say hello there move this way you move this way please bear with us all right we want you to have the best of experience I want you to focus so don’t sit with someone you know all right some of these things if you explain they will understand and they will follow through all right the next one I have here is um carrying and placing them carefully to avoid them logging out of encounters so this has to do with when the encounters have started and the prayers have started and the intense portions of the meeting has started and you know the atmosphere is climbing to a climax what you don’t want to do is distract that child in the bid to carry the child to a place of comfort and safety sometimes users can be so violent they are so violent the person is shouting leave me alone and you’re thinking it’s a demon that is speaking the person is just crying out for help because of the way you are holding the ladi’s neck or holding the guy’s hand and twisting it and you know sometimes we are considering distraction to the process of Encounters in the way we are handling the people so please let’s make sure that people are carried as carefully all right as possible let’s do it with a lot of compassion and mercy um knowing that if we’re in that position would love to be treated in the same way some of them also are having encounters as you are carrying them so nothing as painful as somebody is having an encounter and the next thing the person is jacked or yanked and you know locked out of the encounter because of how forceful and aggressive the usans are not all of them will be so deep and blacked out in the encounter that they will not be able to log out through distraction many of them might log out how many of you have had encounters maybe a dream and you in your room and somebody knocked the door and you came out of a very exciting encounter maybe about to be told in an important secret and then somebody came and knocked your door and said food is ready you know how painful that is you think that was just random that was Satan using an innocent person who was simply yed in that in that POS in that you know that scenario to be used by Satan to distract you from an encounter like I said he won’t come with horns and come and threaten you and say you cannot have encounter it’s going to use what distraction say it again it’s going to use distraction all right Rules of Engagement let’s go into the next portion the first one we did was what distraction is and what it means to this meeting what it looks like all right in the meeting that we’re about to have now the next one is Rules of Engagement and the first thing you have to write is that we are dealing with children and for this reason we need to be extra sensitive and Discerning all right for many reasons children are very sensitive and because we’re dealing with them we have to be extra Discerning extra sensitive it’s important that we realize that they are young they are fragile not just bodily their minds as well so it means the way we will treat an adult not the way we will treat a child The Strokes are different so we have to be extra sensitive for that reason number one all phone recordings video or audio are prohibited in these meetings it’s not a meeting to video how somebody was under the power you know how somebody was manifesting a demon just the official media unit you know is allowed to do that those videos are not permitted all right to go online for obvious reasons you’re dealing with children all right these are people’s children these are people with a very long way ahead of them and future so certain information is sensitive so as much as possible we don’t want volunteers trapping any of the meetings whether by Audio or by visual or by video so please take note of that number two our demeanor must be warm and friendly always smiling in bracket always smiling to a a relaxed an atmosphere once again we’re dealing with children some of these guys are coming from broken homes some of them are coming from very painful scenarios and situations in their homes and when they come to this meeting we must Ed be used by God to disarm them from all that hate and closed up disposition by our warmth our love and our intense you know um honor for them they must feel the warmth and the love they must see that this auntie this Uncle truly cares truly loves me notices me all right and there are many ways to go about that ask for their names ask for a detail around their lives how are you what’s your name where do you school all right and so on and so for how many siblings do you have wow what are their names all the things make a person realize that they are they recog ized that they are paid attention to that they are noticed and all of that so put on a smile put on a lot of warmth and you know your hospit be as hospitable as possible so that these children can have a very relaxed atmosphere to be vulnerable with Jesus you know to remove the Garment of being tense on they get into a new environment young people usually can be very tense and observ they’re watching to see how to behave and all of that but as volunteers we can make that process very quick by the way we help them losen up I hope you’re getting what I’m saying the next thing that you should write number one was all phone recordings shut down number two is our demor our disposition all right our courage must be warm must be loving must be sweet and calm all right friendly and then number three now our job is to project and protect and preserve I say that I take that again our job is to protect and preserve we must observe them carefully and not get carried away all right nobody should just come and carry somebody and take the person out and nobody’s watching all right because we just carried away speaking in tongues please as much as possible don’t get carried away by your service or get carried away by your your your trying to participate in a meeting that you forget that we are there number one to protect and to preserve the whole process must be smooth if that’s going to happen and everyone has to be conscious of the fact that these guys are fragile these guys are sensitive these guys can be very funny and interesting funny story we had Christmas party um last year um in my in my um son’s school and my wife and her you know sister-in-laws were there and I think the whole meeting was over and parents were moving around and um they were all settled initially and then now they were all moving trying to get back to their vehicles and all of that and the second born just walked away just walked away just started moving and it didn’t he didn’t notice when he just walked they all thought he was standing right there you know in the midst of them as they were having conversation with the other children about maybe four five six children in total last one just started moving and they can be so fast they just started moving and within 5 10 seconds by the time they looked around where is this guy where is this guy he had walk almost to the gate of the school thank God for one of the the staffs that carried and was looking for where the parents and then they jammed each other anyways I mean it can happen to the best of us when you are dealing with very very young children I know these meetings are usually from age five age six and it’s intentional so that our issues will be as less as possible but even then you know children develop differently so as much as possible we might have children that don’t that are so that are so independent in the way they grew all right with their parents that they just believe they can step out to go and buy something by themselves and that’s how they are in their houses and so they step out and walk past adults and go outside and I mean those are children that were handed over to you by parents you get the point I’m making now you have to be conscious be aware that these guys have been handed over to us and nothing must happen our job is to protect and to preserve by the mercy of God in Jesus mighty name the next thing to write is to carefully carry and and drop them when they start reacting to the power of God this is so important I’ve said that in the area of distraction that has its place I told you to carefully carry earlier when it comes to distraction but this is a different context this is the context of avoiding injuries all right and under this I want you to see different ways to achieve that all right to achieve um careful courage and um um and dropping of those children we have to take note of a number of Rules of Engagement please take note number one the child is wearing an eyeg glass remove it ey glasses should be removed as well as any sharp or breakable object that might be seen on the child whatever it might be all right I leave room to your discretion once you see something that can break something that is important something that is sensitive to them that needs to be taken out so that they don’t break it or or enjoy themselves because of dting on them just take note of that take it off so that their experience is free from any hitches all right that’s number one next thing under that is to watch sensitive parts of their body watch sensitive parts of the body what does this mean it means that all right 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