1. Why Jehovah compare e self to mama?

FOR the time of prophet Isaiah, Jehovah ask say: “Mama go fit forget e pikin wey de suck?” E come tell e people say: “Even if them forget, I no go ever forget you.” (Isa. 49:15) No be everytime Jehovah de compare e self to mama. But for this Bible verse e do-am. Jehovah talk say the love wey e get for e people just be like the strong love wey mama get for e pikin. Jehovah do this one because e want make e people know say the love wey e get for them really strong. Plenty mama go fit understand wetin one sister wey e name na Jasmin talk. E talk say when mama de care for e pikin, the two of them “go really dey tight for special way wey de last forever.”

2. How Jehovah de feel when one of e servant stop to preach and go meeting?

² Jehovah know when one of e servant don stop to preach and go meeting. So, e de really pain Jehovah say every year, plenty of e servants de become inactive * publishers.

3. Wetin Jehovah want?

³ Many of this dear brothers and sisters wey don stop to preach and go meeting, de come back. And we de really happy when this one happen! Jehovah want make they come back, and na wetin we want too. (1 Pet. 2:25) How we fit help them come back? Before we answer this question,  e good make we know why some of them stop to preach and go meeting.

4. How some people work don affect them?

⁴ Some people don put their work as the number one thing for their life. One brother wey de live for Asia wey e name na Hung, * talk say: “Before, I think like person wey no get sense. I use plenty time de work and I too put my heart for inside. I think say if I get plenty money na that time I go fit serve Jehovah well. So I come de spend more time for work. Small-small, I start to miss meeting and before I know I no come de go again. E just be like say the way Satan arrange this world na to make us de leave Jehovah small-small.”

5. How problem affect one sister?

⁵ Some brothers and sisters get plenty problem wey don make them stop to serve Jehovah. One sister for Britain wey e name na Anne, get five children. E talk say: “When I born my last pikin, e get different-different serious sickness for body. After sometime, they disfellowship one of my daughter. Later, my first son come get brain problem. Life tire me sotey I stop to preach and go meeting. At last, I become inactive publisher.” We really de feel for Sister Anne and e family and other people wey de face this kind problem!

6. How person fit stop to go meeting small-small, if e no follow wetin Colossians 3:13 talk?

⁶ Read Colossians 3:13. Some people don vex because of wetin brother or sister for congregation do them. Apostle Paul talk say sometimes we fit “get reason to complain about” brother or sister. And e fit be say they no treat us well for congregation. If we no dey careful, we fit start to vex for our brothers inside our heart. And as time de go, this one fit make us stop to worship Jehovah with e people. Think of wetin happen to one brother for South America wey e name na Pablo. Person lie say this brother do bad thing. And because of that one, they discipline this brother for congregation. How the brother feel? E talk say: “I really vex and small-small, I stop to go meeting.”

7. Wetin fit happen to person if e conscience still de worry-am for the sin wey e do before?

⁷ Or e fit be say person don commit serious sin before, but e conscience still de judge-am for wetin e do. And the person fit de feel say God no fit love-am again. Even if the person don repent and receive forgiveness, e fit still feel say e no good reach to be servant of God. One brother wey e name na Francisco feel like that. E talk say: “They reprove me because I do something wey concern sex wey God hate. Na true say I first de go meeting, but after some time I come really dey sad, and de feel say I no suppose dey among servants of Jehovah. My conscience really worry me and I be dey sure say Jehovah never forgive me. At last, I stop to preach and go meeting.” How you de feel about brothers and sisters wey de face this problems wey we don talk about? You de feel their pain? And the one wey dey important pass na, how Jehovah de feel about them?

8. Jehovah de forget people wey don first serve-am? Explain.

⁸ If person de serve Jehovah but e stop  to worship Jehovah with e people for some time, Jehovah no de forget the person and the work wey the person don do. (Heb. 6:10) Prophet Isaiah use one fine example show how Jehovah de care for e people. E talk say: “E go care for e group of sheep like shepherd. E go gather the lambs together for e hand, and e go carry them near e chest.” (Isa. 40:11) How you think say Jehovah, the better Shepherd, de feel when one of e sheep stop to go meeting? Jesus talk how Jehovah de feel when e ask e disciples say: “Wetin wuna think? If one man get 100 sheep and one of them lost, e no go leave the remaining 99 sheep ontop mountain and go find the one wey lost? And if e see-am, I de tell wuna the truth say, e go really happy for this one wey e see, pass the 99 wey no lost.”​—Matt. 18:12, 13.

9. How better shepherd for Bible time de treat their sheep? (Check picture for front cover.)

⁹ Why we fit talk say Jehovah be like shepherd? Because for Bible time, better shepherd de really care about e sheep. For example, David protect e sheep from the lion and bear wey want chop them. (1 Sam. 17:34, 35) Better shepherd go notice-am even if na only one sheep de miss. (John 10:3, 14) This kind shepherd go keep the remaining 99 sheep for place wey nothing go do them or with another shepherd, and go find the one wey lost. Jesus use this story teach this important truth say: “For the same way, my Father for heaven no go like-am make even one of this small ones die.”​—Matt. 18:14.

10. For Ezekiel 34:11-16, wetin Jehovah promise say e go do for e sheep wey lost?

¹⁰ Jehovah love each of e servant, even the ones wey don stop to go meeting. Jehovah use prophet Ezekiel promise say e go find e sheep and help them be e friend again. And e talk the things wey e go do to save them. This things just be like wetin shepherd for Israel go do when e sheep  lost. (Read Ezekiel 34:11-16.) The first thing wey the shepherd de do, na to find the sheep. This one na big work and e de take time. Then when e see the sheep, e go take-am go join the other sheep. And if the sheep don wound or de hungry, the shepherd go help this weak animal. E go bandage the wound, carry the animal and give-am food. Elders need to do this same things for anybody wey don stop to preach and go meeting. Na them de care for Jehovah sheep. (1 Pet. 5:2, 3) The elders go find them, help them come back to congregation, and help them become Jehovah friend again to show say they love them. *

11. Wetin better shepherd know?

¹¹ Better shepherd know say sheep fit lost. And if any sheep leave the other sheep them, the shepherd no go treat-am anyhow. Make we talk about wetin we fit learn from Jehovah when e help some of e servants wey no do wetin e talk for sometime.

12. How Jehovah treat Jonah?

¹² Prophet Jonah no gree do the work wey Jehovah say make e do. Even with that one, Jehovah no just reject Jonah. Just as better shepherd go do, Jehovah save Jonah, and help Jonah get the power wey e need to do the work. (Jonah 2:7; 3:1, 2) After, Jehovah use one plant help Jonah understand say the life of each person really dey important. (Jonah 4:10, 11) Wetin this one teach us? Make elders no just forget people wey don stop to preach and go meeting. Instead, make they try to understand why the person stop. And when this person don come back to Jehovah, make elders continue to show the person love and care.

13. Wetin we fit learn from the thing wey Jehovah do about wetin the person wey write Psalm 73 talk?

¹³ When the person wey write Psalm 73  see say e be like say wicked people de always succeed, the thing really worry-am. E come de wonder whether any gain dey when person de do wetin God want. (Ps. 73:12, 13, 16) Wetin Jehovah do? Jehovah no condemn the man. E even allow make wetin this man talk dey inside Bible. But as time de go, this man see say the best thing wey person fit gain for this life na to be friend of God. (Ps. 73:23, 24, 26, 28) Wetin this one teach us? Make elders no just condemn person wey start to think say gain no dey to serve Jehovah. Instead make elders condemn the person, they must try understand why the person de talk and do this kind thing. Na after that one, elders go fit use Bible encourage this person.

14. Why Elijah need help, and how Jehovah give Elijah the help wey e need?

¹⁴ Prophet Elijah run from Queen Jezebel. (1 Ki. 19:1-3) Elijah think say no other person be prophet of Jehovah, and say the work wey e don do dey useless. E tire for life sotey e want die. (1 Ki. 19:4, 10) Jehovah no condemn Elijah. Instead, e make Elijah know say e no dey alone, say e fit trust the power wey God de give, and e still get plenty work to do. Jehovah sofri listen to the things wey de worry Elijah and e give Elijah new work. (1 Ki. 19:11-16, 18) Wetin this one teach us? Make all of us, especially the elders, de treat Jehovah sheep with love. Even if person talk say e de vex because of wetin happen or e de feel say Jehovah no go ever forgive-am,  make the elders still listen to the person when e de talk how e de feel. Then they go try help the person see say Jehovah still love-am.

15. As John 6:39 talk, how Jesus feel about e Father sheep?

¹⁵ How Jehovah want make we feel about person for congregation wey stop to preach and go meeting? We fit learn from the example of Jesus. E know say Jehovah no de play with any of e sheep at all. So Jesus do everything wey e fit do to help the “sheep wey don lost for the house of Israel” make they fit come back to Jehovah. (Matt. 15:24; Luke 19:9, 10) Jesus na good shepherd, so e still do e best make any sheep no lost.​—Read John 6:39.

16-17. How elders suppose feel when they think about Jehovah sheep wey don lost? (Check the box “ How Inactive Person Fit De Feel.”)

¹⁶ Apostle Paul advice elders for the congregation wey dey Ephesus say make they copy the example of Jesus. E talk say: “Wuna must help people wey no strong, and make wuna de always remember wetin our Lord Jesus talk, when e talk say: ‘Na when person give, e go dey happy pass when e receive.’” (Acts 20:17, 35) That Bible verse show say elders get important work to care for servants of Jehovah. One elder for Spain wey e name na Salvador talk say: “When I de think of how Jehovah really de care about e sheep wey lost, my heart de move me to do everything wey I fit do to help them. I know say Jehovah want make I care for them.”

¹⁷ For this article, we talk about some people wey stop to preach and go meeting. Now, they don help them come back to Jehovah. As we de talk so, plenty of this kind people still want come back. The next article go talk about other things wey we fit do to help them come back to Jehovah.