Latest / Selah Media House / The School of Faith (Part 2) by Apostle Joshua Selman (His Treasure House, Abuja–Nigeria)
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- 0:00Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
- 0:06This is truly a winning church. Let's give Jesus a big hand.
- 0:10Big hand of praise. Hallelujah, Pastor, thank you
- 0:15again and your dear wife. My goodness, I was so blessed
- 0:19listening to Pastor Godman. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 0:23Hallelujah. My prayer is that after this
- 0:27conference, if I were you, I'll get some of these teachings and
- 0:31listen again. Again, there is something you
- 0:34will hear then that you did not hear.
- 0:36Now, Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
- 0:41So let's lift our hands to heaven.
- 0:43Father, we thank you for this opportunity to speak to us yet
- 0:48again. We honor you and we thank you
- 0:52because the entrance of your word gives light and even
- 0:56understanding onto the symbol. Speak to our hearts, grant us
- 1:00wisdom, expand our capacities tonight in the name of Jesus
- 1:07Christ, please be seated. God bless you again.
- 1:15I just want to take it from where Pastor Godman stopped
- 1:19incredible perspectives. And the truth is that you can
- 1:25speak from a standpoint of a theoretical understanding and
- 1:30then you can speak out of the abundance of your experience.
- 1:33When you hear a man who is speaking from a standpoint of
- 1:36conviction, the difference is very clear.
- 1:39We thank you and we honor you Sir.
- 1:41Thank you so very much in Jesus name, the School of Faith Part
- 1:462. Yesterday we began our
- 1:49discussion from Part 1 and our subtitle Tonight's Teaching,
- 1:56Obtaining Promises, Hebrews 1133.
- 2:00We took our time yesterday to challenge ourselves by
- 2:05redefining our understanding of faith.
- 2:09Hallelujah. If you recall yesterday we said
- 2:11how that the Bible starts by defining faith for us.
- 2:14He was one says now faith is the substance of things and also the
- 2:21evidence of things. So the first definition of faith
- 2:25is in relation to things, but the second definition of faith
- 2:30that we did observe that not many believers pay attention to
- 2:34is found in verse 2. The Bible says that same faith
- 2:38is related to a good report, Hallelujah.
- 2:42And that the elders who the Bible says were fathers and
- 2:48heroes of faith, not all of them had the opportunity of obtaining
- 2:54promises, but the Bible says every one of them obtained a
- 2:58good report. And then I did tell us yesterday
- 3:02that faith number 1 is a platform that can help the
- 3:06believer obtain promises. But #2 that faith is also a
- 3:12school and a journey. Are we together?
- 3:15And that when the end of that journey is not something you
- 3:18receive is something you become, and that in God's priority
- 3:25becoming is greater than receiving.
- 3:27Are we together? Yes, it is impossible to be
- 3:30bankrupt of certain spiritual provisions when you have become
- 3:35so that many times in our faith walk, we we gauge our progress
- 3:40or the presence of faith by checking whether we have been
- 3:44able to receive things. But I'm saying that in the
- 3:47economy of faith, sometimes you may not have anything present as
- 3:52at as at that point, but then your transformation is also
- 3:57proof that you have faith, Hallelujah.
- 4:01And that God is more interested in you becoming than in you
- 4:05receiving because you're becoming will help you sustain
- 4:10whatever it is that you receive. It is possible to receive
- 4:13without becoming and then you will lose it.
- 4:16But when you become in fact, Daniel 1132, the B part says,
- 4:21but the people that do know they are God, you notice the
- 4:24progression. It starts with knowledge that it
- 4:27says they shall be, then they shall do.
- 4:31They shall know that knowledge will cause them to be, and then
- 4:36they shall do Hallelujah. Before we see Jesus receiving
- 4:42anything, the Bible tells us that he grew, He increased in
- 4:47wisdom, in stature, in favor with God and with men.
- 4:52And what a very profound perspective that Pastor Godman
- 4:57brought this evening. How that life is in seasons,
- 5:01Very, very powerful. You know, while I start
- 5:04listening to him, my mind went to the dream of Pharaoh.
- 5:07Remember, Pharaoh had a dream and Joseph came to interpret
- 5:11that dream and Joseph said it's not about cows and it's not
- 5:15about farm products, it's about seasons.
- 5:18You have seen the same thing expressed in two ways.
- 5:20There will be 7 seasons of abundance and then afterwards
- 5:25will be a season of famine and drought.
- 5:27This is established. It will not change, Hallelujah.
- 5:32In fact, that preached a message on that called the Law of
- 5:34seasons. So it's a very profound
- 5:36revelation how that seasons are part of God's design in the
- 5:46earth and that you must know when seasons come to an end and
- 5:50then know how to transit into prophetic seasons.
- 5:54Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
- 5:57There are many blessings in the life of the believer that are
- 6:00connected to seasons. When the prophet spoke to the
- 6:03woman, he said according to the time of life.
- 6:07Amen. So Hebrews 11 and verse 33.
- 6:12Now we want to look at the other part of faith.
- 6:15The Bible says, who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
- 6:20righteousness, and then he says, obtained promises.
- 6:26So a man can use his faith to obtain promises.
- 6:30Hebrews, chapter 6 and verse 12612.
- 6:33Hebrews. The Bible says to not be
- 6:37slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and patience,
- 6:44it now says, inherit the promises.
- 6:47Hallelujah. I like the way scripture puts it
- 6:50is according as his divine power have given us all things that
- 6:54pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him who
- 6:58has called us to glory and virtue.
- 7:01Are we together. The Bible says whereby are given
- 7:04to us this exceeding great and precious promises, that by them
- 7:08we might be the partakers of His divine nature, having escaped
- 7:12the corruption that is in the world through lust.
- 7:15And I rounded up yesterday by telling us that it is important
- 7:20for us to obtain things. My teaching yesterday was not in
- 7:24any way pushing away the desire to reach, the desire to press,
- 7:29the desire to increase, to expand.
- 7:32In fact, one of the proof that God is with you and His hand is
- 7:38upon your life is that you never remain in the same position.
- 7:42The Bible says the path of the just is that is, that in your
- 7:45Bible is as a shining light, that shining more and more onto
- 7:50the perfect day. And we did learn yesterday also
- 7:54that God is glorified in our results.
- 7:56John 15/8 it says, Hearing is our Father glorified, when ye
- 8:01bear much fruit, so shall you be my disciples.
- 8:05John 1516 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and
- 8:10ordained you that you should go and bear much fruit, and that
- 8:15your fruit should remain. Ephesians chapter 2 and verse
- 8:2210. We are his workmanship, it says,
- 8:26recreated in Christ Jesus onto good works which God had before
- 8:32ordained, that we should walk in them.
- 8:35Hallelujah. So God is glorified in our lives
- 8:38to the degree to which our lives command results.
- 8:42It's important for us to establish this so that our
- 8:45hearts are prepared to be enlarged tonight in the name of
- 8:49Jesus. You believe that the first
- 8:51miracle that was performed by Jesus according to John's
- 8:55synoptic account is found in John chapter 2 and when you read
- 8:59verse 11, the turning of water to wine.
- 9:02The Bible ends that story by saying this beginning of
- 9:06miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested forth his
- 9:13glory, and the disciples believed on him.
- 9:17Then you go to John chapter 20 and verse 30.
- 9:21The Bible now says there were many other miracles that Jesus
- 9:24did that were not captured in this book it says, but these are
- 9:28written. 31. Now that ye might believe in
- 9:34Jesus as the Son of God and that in believing you might have life
- 9:38through his name, Hallelujah. So it's important for you to
- 9:42know that results matter in the Kingdom is only that in order of
- 9:46divine priority, your encounters should be greater and richer
- 9:51than your results. But like you will be learning
- 9:53tonight, whether faith operates in your life as a journey or as
- 9:57a platform, the starting point of your journey will always be
- 10:02your encounter with God. So journey with me as we begin
- 10:06to explore faith as a platform for receiving.
- 10:10There are a few keys that the Bible leaves for us to as far as
- 10:16manifesting Bible faith is concerned.
- 10:19And I submit to you by the integrity of Scripture that most
- 10:22believers do not understand the dynamics, the operation of
- 10:27faith. Most believers know
- 10:29instinctively and by listening to preachers that faith is a
- 10:32potent force that produces results.
- 10:35But the dynamics as to how faith, the faith that wins, how
- 10:40it works, many believers are at a loss.
- 10:43So if you sample an average believer and you ask the person
- 10:47describe for me intelligently how Bible faith works, they will
- 10:51guess pieces of the principle. Some will say pray, others will
- 10:55say give, others will say speak the word.
- 10:57And these are all pieces of the truth.
- 11:00So imagine someone who wants to make a delicious meal and you
- 11:04ask them how do you mix a fried rice or jollof rice?
- 11:08And the person tells you, I don't know, but I know salt is
- 11:10part of the ingredient is right? Another person says I remember
- 11:14Pepe. Another person says the rice
- 11:17itself. Another person maybe recommend
- 11:19the the pot, you know for cooking, but all the pieces of
- 11:23ingredients themselves do not make what you are looking for.
- 11:26So you can carry a bag of pepper and be angry that you're not
- 11:30making fried rice. Another person can even have a
- 11:33bag of rice. I wonder why it's not tasting
- 11:37the way that of the chef tasted. You must understand the system
- 11:41for combining it. And this is my assignment
- 11:43tonight to show you through the lens of Scripture how to make
- 11:47faith work. Hallelujah.
- 11:50The Bible tells us that this is the victory that overcometh the
- 11:54world, even our faith. Four times in Scripture, the
- 11:58Bible says the just shall leave by faith.
- 12:02The just shall leave by faith. So there are a few keys that I
- 12:08want to give us very quickly so that we work with time, because
- 12:12I hope that at the end of our discussion we'll have the
- 12:14opportunity to pray and I just speak over our lives #1 The
- 12:20first key to manifesting Bible faith according to Scripture is
- 12:24a revelation of God's integrity and ability.
- 12:29As simple as this sounds, peace, write and pay attention.
- 12:33A revelation of God's integrity and the revelation of His
- 12:38ability. You will never be able to
- 12:40manifest Bible faith until you know God and understand the
- 12:45extent of His integrity and the extent of His ability.
- 12:50These are two attributes of God that are responsible for
- 12:54planting conviction in the believer.
- 12:57The consciousness of His integrity and then His ability
- 13:03can make you a man of confidence and it is what is responsible
- 13:07for programming audacity in man. God is a God of integrity.
- 13:14God is a God of integrity. Numbers 2319 very popular but
- 13:19profound Scripture 2319 Numbers. Can we read it together?
- 13:24It's projected ready one to read.
- 13:26It says God is not a man. Stop there.
- 13:29Please let me explain this. Do you know the meaning of this
- 13:32statement? The Bible says God is not a man,
- 13:36that he should lie. That means men have a weakness.
- 13:40They lie. Are we together?
- 13:44Now you know what it means to lie.
- 13:46To lie does not just say. It doesn't just mean to say
- 13:50something untrue is to say something you may not have the
- 13:53ability to bring to pass. Hallelujah.
- 13:56Now that God is not a man, He became a man, but he's not a
- 14:01man. God is not a man that he should
- 14:04lie. That means this weakness that is
- 14:06in man, the inability to bring their word to pass.
- 14:10It is not in God that before God alters any word, He vets whether
- 14:16He has the integrity and the ability to make that which He
- 14:19says come to pass. So God is not a man that He
- 14:22should lie, neither the Son of man that He should repent.
- 14:26Watch this. Had He said, and shall He not do
- 14:30it? Had He spoken, and shall He not
- 14:33make it good? Genesis 21 one and two.
- 14:37A scripture that has ministered so deeply through the years.
- 14:40Genesis 21 one and two. Here's what the Bible says.
- 14:45And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, And the Lord did unto
- 14:52Sarah as he has spoken. The Lord visited Sarah as he has
- 14:57said. The Lord did unto Sarah as he
- 15:01has spoken. Say integrity.
- 15:03The word integrity comes from the the word integer.
- 15:07It means same within as without, void of falsehood.
- 15:13Are we together. So when we say an individual is
- 15:15a person of integrity, it then means that you are void of
- 15:19falsehood, you are original, you are authentic, worthy of trust.
- 15:26God is a God of integrity. Every time I teach about the
- 15:31integrity of God, I'm reminded about something that Africans
- 15:34celebrate a lot. We call it April Fool.
- 15:36Say it after me, April Fool. It's a way of playing pranks
- 15:41with your mind. I don't know if it happens by
- 15:43April or any other time it's called April in the joke, but I
- 15:46just know that sometimes people stretch and make expensive
- 15:50jokes, like a gift of a house has been given and while the
- 15:54person is rejoicing, you now say April Fool.
- 15:58Are we together? People have collapsed because
- 16:01the jokes were taken too far. People have heard news that has
- 16:04depressed them even after they told them it were a lie.
- 16:08Hallelujah. Because there's a part of your
- 16:10mind that does not know the difference between reality and
- 16:13imagination. Once that thought is planted
- 16:16there to take God to help you. Are we together now?
- 16:19So the Bible says God is not a man.
- 16:21That means every Speaking of God you find in scripture.
- 16:25It's important for you to know that he's not playing games with
- 16:28you regardless, unless how high, how wide, how beyond your
- 16:33imagination that statement is. For instance, Deuteronomy 28 one
- 16:37and two, the Bible says it shall come to pass if thou shalt
- 16:41diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to do want
- 16:45to observe all that I command you this day, that you shall be
- 16:48exalted above all the nations of the earth.
- 16:52How many nations? That was not a parable.
- 16:56It was a literal statement that a man can believe God and gain
- 17:00ascendance. Above every nation is a
- 17:02dimension of influence that is incontestable.
- 17:06And then that all these blessings shall come upon you.
- 17:10They shall overtake you. If that will happen diligently
- 17:14to the voice of the Lord. How about the Scripture that
- 17:18says no weapon fashion against you shall prosper?
- 17:22How about the the scripture that says that you are rise and shine
- 17:26for your light is come is God helping somebody already and the
- 17:29glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
- 17:31I simply call them exceeding great and precious promises.
- 17:36A compendium of God's commitment to the believer.
- 17:40But you need to know the one who spoke before you know what he
- 17:44said. If you don't trust me, you
- 17:46cannot trust what I have said. Are we together?
- 17:49Your encounter with me is what gives you the fortitude to
- 17:54believe what I have said. God's integrity, God's
- 17:59integrity, God's integrity. The Bible says in Hebrews 11 and
- 18:07verse 6 it says without faith it is impossible to please Him
- 18:13because everyone who comes to God must come believe in that
- 18:18number. 1 He is the Word, He is means, He exists, and then #2 He
- 18:25is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
- 18:30God can be trusted. You need to tell yourself this
- 18:35tonight. God can be trusted.
- 18:37I can trust him with my life. I can trust Him with my dreams.
- 18:41I can trust Him with my pain. You've trusted people of lesser
- 18:45quality, lesser levels of integrity.
- 18:48It's time to give God a chance with your life.
- 18:51God can be trusted. He can be trusted with your
- 18:54ministry. He can be trusted with your
- 18:57finances, your children. Are we together?
- 19:00Bible faith is not built on blind believing out of nowhere.
- 19:04No, you don't just believe what He said.
- 19:07You first must believe who said it and God.
- 19:11The Bible is full of God's, God's character scattered from
- 19:16Genesis to Revelation. He gave you room to probe and
- 19:19vet His person and that if at the end of your search you find
- 19:23Him wanting, you have a right to reject Him.
- 19:28Hallelujah. His dealings with people from
- 19:31nation to nation, season to season is there in scripture so
- 19:36that you will see and come to a personal conclusion that God can
- 19:41be trusted. I believe him.
- 19:46God can be trusted. Say integrity one more time.
- 19:51Say integrity. You read the Bible and you will
- 19:54see scary seasons like Pastor Godman taught us scary
- 19:58situations that people found themselves in and you would
- 20:02think they would never come out. The worst that I know according
- 20:05to scripture was the story of Job.
- 20:08I'm not aware of any man who had that kind of tragedy to that
- 20:11degree. In one day you lose your estate,
- 20:14you lose your business, a mysterious demonic wind comes to
- 20:18wipe away your house. And at the end of it, the Bible
- 20:21says Joe bought himself and worshipped.
- 20:24And then I see if that were not enough boils and all kinds of
- 20:28infirmities just came out of his body to an extent that the wife
- 20:32looked at him and said, why do you still hold on to your
- 20:34integrity? He says cost God and die.
- 20:37And Job said all the days of my appointed time, he said though
- 20:41he slay me, yet will I trust him.
- 20:47Then I love Genesis, I love Job. 42 one verse 10.
- 20:51He says God turned the captivity of Job.
- 20:54You will think that part of the story should never come because
- 20:57of the extent of the tragedy. God turned the captivity of Job
- 21:02when he prayed for his friends. Then the Bible says the Lord
- 21:05gave Job twice, twice, twice, all that he had twice.
- 21:17Hallelujah. I believe God, He can be
- 21:20trusted. Your situation is not the first.
- 21:25You are not the first to go through that situation.
- 21:27As emotionally connected as you are to that situation, I can
- 21:30tell you the Bible says the thing that was is the thing that
- 21:33is and is the thing that will happen under the sun.
- 21:36There is nothing that is new a time came women and their
- 21:40children. It's not become that bad in our
- 21:42economy. I want to tell you that
- 21:44everything that has is happening now has its parallel in
- 21:48Scripture. The things that were written
- 21:50aforetime they are for our learning.
- 21:52The Bible says so that we through patience and the comfort
- 21:56of Scripture might find hope is someone learning God's
- 22:00integrity. God can be trusted.
- 22:02Say God is not a man. Prophecy to your spirit.
- 22:06God is not a man that he should lie.
- 22:10Yes Sir, when God speaks, it is because he intends to make it
- 22:18good in your life. God does not play games with
- 22:20people. If he tells you, I will lift
- 22:23you. It doesn't matter what
- 22:25situation, what condition that leads to the second revelation
- 22:28of God that we must have His ability.
- 22:31Now you see, without ability it is impossible to remain a person
- 22:36of integrity because integrity demands that you have the will
- 22:41and the resources to remain consistent.
- 22:45I can intend to do good, but not have the wherewithal to make it
- 22:49happen that will make my integrity questionable.
- 22:53The issue is not the guile in my heart.
- 22:55The issue is that I do not have the resources to remain
- 22:58consistent. So the Bible says Ephesians 320
- 23:02Now unto him who is able to do is someone learning faith above
- 23:09abundantly above all that we ask or think.
- 23:13The key expression there is the word able to do.
- 23:15Please say able to do. There are people who are able to
- 23:19say, but they are not able to do.
- 23:22There are people who are able to wish, but they are not able to
- 23:26say. The Bible is full of many people
- 23:28who were able to say like the prophets of Baal in Mount
- 23:32Carmel, but they were not able to do.
- 23:34There have been gods and idols that were able to propose things
- 23:38they did not have the wherewithal to defend.
- 23:41Here comes the revelation that Pastor Godman again brought the
- 23:45name El Shaddai is a very mysterious name.
- 23:49It literally means the multi breasted. 1 is an attempt to
- 23:53show the extent of his self-sufficiency, that God lives
- 23:57in an economy where he does not outsource anything to support
- 24:01him. There is no human who lives in
- 24:05that kind of reality. We all have to depend on the
- 24:09external to support ourselves. But that God exists in a reality
- 24:15the Bible says in the beginning God mysterious statement in the
- 24:20beginning, not from the beginning.
- 24:22In the beginning, God the self existent. 1.
- 24:29God is all powerful. This is an attribute of God.
- 24:33He did not share with man. As much as we are powerful, we
- 24:37are partakers of His divine nature.
- 24:39He did not give us the privilege of omnipotence.
- 24:42We are not all powerful. No, our authority and power is
- 24:47limited. It has His jurisdiction and then
- 24:51its modus operandi. But this God that we serve is
- 24:55all powerful. Convince yourself the Bible is
- 24:58full of the wonder. Walking power, he says.
- 25:01I have spoken once and twice. Have you heard that power
- 25:06belonged to God? Power belonged to God.
- 25:10Listen, it takes power to bring things to pass.
- 25:16Are we together now? Yes, modern desire.
- 25:19So when God says I am lifting you #1 He has the integrity #2
- 25:25He has the resources. I like how the Bible puts it.
- 25:30It summarizes God's resources on earth in a very fearful way.
- 25:35Psalm 24, verse one. The earth is the Lord's then #2
- 25:39it's fullness thereof #3 the walls and #4 the inhabitants,
- 25:46all they belong to Him. The person who owns the earth,
- 25:51it's resources, are men, is someone to be feared and
- 25:55worshipped because there are about 8 billion men on earth and
- 25:59he's called the father of spirits.
- 26:01You know what that means? He can manipulate any human
- 26:04spirit to work out his purposes. It is impossible for him to be
- 26:08stranded because someone of this 8 billion must be open to
- 26:13cooperate with him. If there were only two people,
- 26:16you might say, well, if one says no and the other says no, God
- 26:19might be stranded. Impossible El Shaddai.
- 26:22So when you know him as the all powerful God, you can dare
- 26:26things that doesn't make sense. And the basis of your confidence
- 26:30is the one who stands by you like a mighty terrible one.
- 26:35Moses is afraid haven't brought them out of Egypt.
- 26:38Now they are stranded, the Red Sea before them, the Egyptians
- 26:42fuming with boiling anger to come and return them back to
- 26:45yesterday. And Moses, you can imagine as a
- 26:47leader having people with all kinds of things going on.
- 26:51The Bible says he calmed them down like any wise leader would
- 26:54do. And then he rushed to God and
- 26:55say, what do I do? And the Lord said, why are you
- 26:57crying before me? He says tell the people that
- 27:01they go forward and then he spoke and stretched his rod.
- 27:04But when the psalmist was giving us perspective, he said God
- 27:08breathe upon the sea. We did not see that recorded in
- 27:12Exodus but that the the sea did not just path, heat and teetha
- 27:16because of the rod, it was the breath.
- 27:19A man who can breathe and split the Red Sea left and right and
- 27:24his breath will create a fence around and make dry ground.
- 27:29I hope you know that the Red Sea did not just part, the ground
- 27:32had to elevate to a position where they could walk through.
- 27:35Because if it part you are intelligent enough, they will
- 27:38still fall and die. I have searched and searched all
- 27:49the earth, searched and searched all the earth, had found that
- 27:55Babu Wanika Maruka. I have searched and searched all
- 28:03the earth, searched and searched all the earth and found that
- 28:10Babu Wanika Maruka, the Almighty God.
- 28:17There are professors that will say I have one like you.
- 28:20You are an authority. There are four of you on earth.
- 28:22There's one in Africa, there's one in this, there's one in
- 28:25that. There are even certain people
- 28:27who have the status of being fest for a while.
- 28:31But there is one who is in a position where nobody is
- 28:34incontestable. He's not just the first, he's
- 28:37the only. Find a way of convincing
- 28:41yourself otherwise you will fall like a pack of card.
- 28:44Life has a way of bullying your conviction.
- 28:47When you see challenges, they stand as though they will never
- 28:50move. But there are times that you
- 28:52need to clear out of the way and let the one who backs you show
- 28:55how powerful he is. The confidence of the believer
- 29:01is predicated upon your understanding of who God is, His
- 29:05integrity. And you see, when you know this
- 29:08about God, you will not fear when He speaks to you, because
- 29:12God speaks to men like he's speaking to himself.
- 29:15God will never tell you what you can do.
- 29:17He will tell you things only Him can do.
- 29:20One of the ways you know you have had God is that everything
- 29:23around you on your current level that hurt Him would not be able
- 29:27to bring that thing to pass. So when God is speaking to you,
- 29:31he will say go and buy the land. I understand it is 10 billion
- 29:35naira when you buy it, build an auditorium this way.
- 29:38And while he's talking, he will never mention provision.
- 29:41He will never mention trouble. He will talk as if the
- 29:44government will not harass you, as if Satan is not part of the
- 29:48discussion. And at the end of it, you will
- 29:49say right and that's it God for you, Hallelujah.
- 29:57Because you see leaders in this end time need to be people of
- 30:00strength and understanding. Most times people lament and
- 30:04sympathize with themselves and and command PT as though God
- 30:08decided to embarrass them and waste their lives.
- 30:10God never speaks to you as do it to be by your strength to make
- 30:14it happen. God has integrity, but my
- 30:18goodness, God has ability. If you doubt that God has
- 30:22ability, fill in the blunt who turn a king to become an animal
- 30:27for seven years with the brain of a human being to teach him
- 30:30that there is a God that rules over the affairs of men.
- 30:35Are we together now? The prophet came upon the
- 30:38strength of that God and said, by this time tomorrow, you don't
- 30:42risk your ministry by making such a stupid statement.
- 30:46It's better to say those who want to believe move this way
- 30:49and those who don't believe, that's all right.
- 30:51You don't come and risk yourself.
- 30:53And the man who the king leaned upon said, ah, ah, what are you
- 30:56saying? Don't complicate these people's
- 30:58pain. And he said, really?
- 31:02Do you know the God that has sent me?
- 31:04You will see it as a witness that God does not lie, but you
- 31:07will not eat of it. I'm here to shake somebody's
- 31:10unbelief. God is trust can't be trusted.
- 31:15Are we together? I don't like to give too much
- 31:24stories of myself, but my life is full of instances where God
- 31:29spoke things that at the time He said it, there was no human way.
- 31:33You can stretch your imagination from border to border and know
- 31:37that there's no human way that will come to pass.
- 31:41One of the assignments of the spirit of faith is to remind you
- 31:44about God's ability. That's how God primes your
- 31:47faith. He begins to remind you every
- 31:50time you are in unbelief. God shakes away your unbelief by
- 31:55taking you through memory lane. He uses the Word.
- 31:57He also uses your experience. That's the reason why you do not
- 32:01waste the dealings of God in your life.
- 32:03You archive them because they become the tools that build your
- 32:06faith for the next season. So a woman who, for instance, is
- 32:11wondering if a child has any glorious destiny in light of the
- 32:15kind of person he's becoming. Then God reminds you, where is
- 32:18the God that gave you that child after five years of waiting?
- 32:21And they said you would not be able to get pregnant.
- 32:24And now when, when that memory comes, it does something to you.
- 32:28Now your faith is alive. Bible faith is predicated upon a
- 32:37revelation of God's integrity and God's ability.
- 32:43Say God's ability. It is true, there are things
- 32:49that men can do. There are things that systems
- 32:52can do. But ladies and gentlemen, there
- 32:55are things that only God can do. An example, lifting men.
- 33:00Only God can lift men from a dung heel and place that
- 33:04individual in the place of grace.
- 33:07Another example, only God can give men rest.
- 33:10He says, Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy leaded,
- 33:14and I not I and other people not choose any of us.
- 33:19I will give you rest. A man can never enter his
- 33:23Sabbath if you do not trust the God who is able.
- 33:26Are we learning already #2. Let me rush for the sake of
- 33:29time. So Bible faith is built on #1
- 33:34the revelation of God's integrity and God's ability.
- 33:38Number 2. Are you ready?
- 33:41The second key to manifesting Bible faith.
- 33:44Faith that will grant you grace to audaciously produce
- 33:49extraordinary results, giant strides in life, and to obtain
- 33:54promises. Faith is very, very vision
- 33:58dependent. This is a part of faith that
- 34:01many people are not taught. Please write this down.
- 34:03The second key to manifesting Bible faith is vision, a clear
- 34:09picture of your desired expectation.
- 34:12There are many people who are hoping for things that have no
- 34:15form and shape in their minds. The second key to manifesting
- 34:21Bible faith is vision. Clearly defined expectations.
- 34:26Mark 11/24 please. Jesus is speaking and here's
- 34:30what he had to say. After he crossed the fig tree.
- 34:33He used the situation to teach them a lesson on faith.
- 34:36Therefore I say unto you, that what things so ever ye desire.
- 34:43Can you see that there that is a starting point, What things so
- 34:47ever ye desire, you must give it form, you must give it
- 34:51description. It says when ye pray, so you
- 34:55don't just pray blindly. There must be a form, there must
- 34:58be a frame, something that defines your expectation so you
- 35:03will know when it is answered. It is amazing how many believers
- 35:06cannot receive from God because there is no clearly defined
- 35:09expectation. So when they come even to seek
- 35:12help from men of God, they say things like my life is not
- 35:15moving forward and you ask them what exactly do you want?
- 35:18It's a general problem, every aspect of my life.
- 35:22That kind of vagueness does not allow for the kind of
- 35:27breakthrough and specificity that you need.
- 35:30When Jesus was teaching to pray, he said pray in this manner.
- 35:34Our Father, which art in heaven hallowed be your name, your
- 35:37Kingdom come, your will be done. Are we together?
- 35:40Yes. And then he says, give us this
- 35:43day, Our Daily Bread. No vagueness, clear description.
- 35:48What is your daily bread? All that is required for your
- 35:52sufficiency and your excelling per day, per season.
- 35:56He said give us, don't assume when you ask.
- 35:59Isn't it amazing that when Jesus performed the miracles that he
- 36:02did, sometimes he met people who had obvious situations and you
- 36:07would think it was sarcastic that he was asking them, what
- 36:09would you want me to do? How do you see a blind man like
- 36:13Battinio and say what should I do for you?
- 36:15It is a costly assumption to assume that the person wanted
- 36:19healing. Acts chapter 3 remember the man
- 36:23was at gates beautiful and you would think a man seeing such a
- 36:27powerful apostle passing. The Bible says he begs for arms
- 36:33and when Peter and John said silver and gold, I do not have.
- 36:36I'm sure the man said please go and pray, go and pray and leave
- 36:39me in peace. No, no, no, no, I'm not leaving.
- 36:42There is something that I have that is more superior to what
- 36:45you need in the name of Jesus, the Son of the living God, rise
- 36:49up and walk. The man remained there.
- 36:51The Bible said he was Peter who held him and lifted him by
- 36:55force. You must leave this place today
- 37:00are we together. Save vision one more time.
- 37:03Save vision. There are pastors that have no
- 37:06vision, no clear expectation. The assignment of the Word of
- 37:10God is that you can use the Word of God with the wisdom of an
- 37:14artist. You can use Scripture literally
- 37:16to paint your tomorrow. The spirit of wisdom, the
- 37:20creativity of the Spirit is supposed to help you design
- 37:23tomorrow that you can piece from Scripture literally.
- 37:27Are we together now like you use scriptures, like the brushes of
- 37:31an artist upon a canvas, and you start painting something that is
- 37:36not the character of faith, even God who quickened the dead, and
- 37:42call it the things that be, not as though they were.
- 37:45So you are in your lowly estate, and you begin to design with the
- 37:49Spirit, the lens of Scripture, the power of vision, seeing
- 37:52things as they are or as they should be, not as they are from
- 38:00where thou art. Lift up your eyes, he told
- 38:02Abraham, and look northwards, southwards, eastward, westward.
- 38:08And it says as far as your eyes can see, not as far as your hand
- 38:12can reach, as far as your eyes can see.
- 38:15Is someone learning now? Vision, Vision that is in line
- 38:20with God's will. You see, let me tell you this.
- 38:23I told us yesterday, The character of faith is that it
- 38:26does not just obtain everything you want.
- 38:29It has to vet that your desires are consistent with the will of
- 38:33God. Because the assignment of the
- 38:35power of God is to bring to pass the will of God.
- 38:38Did you get that? Now the power of God does not
- 38:40walk outside of the jurisdiction of the will of God.
- 38:44Its assignment is to bring everything in conformity with
- 38:48the will of God. So first John, I think it's
- 38:51first John five, first John 5, give it to us 14 and 15.
- 38:55Very profound lesson on the will of God.
- 38:58This is the confidence it says that we have in him that if we
- 39:03ask anything but that anything has jurisdictions according to
- 39:08his will. He here at 15, he says.
- 39:11And if we know that he here at us whatsoever we ask, then we
- 39:15know that we have our petitions that we desired of him one more
- 39:21time, say vision. I do not know anyone who is a
- 39:25champion of faith, indeed, that does not have at every given
- 39:29point in his life as an individual, as an organization,
- 39:33clear prophetic descriptions according to Scripture of where
- 39:37you are trusting God to take you to.
- 39:39Do you notice that that was the one problem why Abraham could
- 39:43not believe God? The problem was vision.
- 39:46And one night God had to help him.
- 39:48He said, Abraham come out, you are not able to believe the
- 39:51extent to which I want to make you a father of nations.
- 39:54And he said, let me walk with your imagination, count the
- 39:56stars. He would start to count and then
- 40:00he would lose out. He would start to count.
- 40:02And when he had stretched his mind, he says, so shall your CP.
- 40:06Finally, the Bible says Abraham believed God.
- 40:09The moment God introduced vision, Abraham now had the
- 40:13capacity to believe. It is difficult to believe God
- 40:17when you are blindly saying God will do it.
- 40:19We have all kinds of African white sayings that stop us from
- 40:23doing daring things. I know one day God would do it.
- 40:27No form, no fashion. The first thing God dealt with
- 40:31was formlessness and the absence of fashion.
- 40:34Genesis 1 verse one. The Bible says now the earth was
- 40:38void and formless. The Hebrew word to huabuhu, it
- 40:42says God brought form. The Spirit of God began to hover
- 40:46around the face of the waters and the first thing God put in
- 40:49place was to take away formlessness.
- 40:54Hallelujah. Right from when this ministry
- 40:58started, the ministry God had given me when it started, I had
- 41:03certain pictures with God and it did not make sense at that
- 41:07point. Are we together now?
- 41:09And I began to press set in my gaze.
- 41:12Because you see, you will become what you focus on.
- 41:15That was the secret that Jacob used to command multiplication.
- 41:19He knew that this was a law that will work even for animals.
- 41:25Hallelujah, the Bible lets us know.
- 41:29According to Ephesians 3 and verse 20, you may have heard me
- 41:32say that both your mouth and your mind are prayer warriors
- 41:36and God answers their requests. Your mouth is a prayer warrior,
- 41:41your mind is also a prayer warrior.
- 41:44And your mouth can be saying, God lift me and your mind.
- 41:47A bankruptcy of creativity says God, don't take me serious, I'm
- 41:50not going anywhere. Is someone learning vision,
- 41:58Bible, faith that produces results vision.
- 42:01At every point in my life there are specific things I dream with
- 42:06God because dreaming of things that are outside of his will is
- 42:09wasting your time. You cannot secure his backing.
- 42:12This is why he left us Scripture.
- 42:15So God is challenging someone. You cannot be audacious if you
- 42:19do not have a vision, a representation of the new you, a
- 42:23representation of the new place. That's why they went to spider
- 42:27land when despite the land it was to expand their mind, they
- 42:31returned back and others gave very foolish.
- 42:33The Bible called it an evil report.
- 42:35He was not even soft on the people.
- 42:39A report that was inconsistent with God's will and expectation.
- 42:43He called it evil, Joshua said. And Caleb, let's go up at once.
- 42:48We are well able. Is someone hearing now?
- 42:53Do you see the next level that God is taking you in ministry?
- 42:57Do you see the next level that God is taking you in your
- 43:00finances as a man of God? Do you see the next level of
- 43:03grace and glory and power? Do you see yourself moving
- 43:07across the nations? Let me tell you a story.
- 43:10When it was time to move down to Abuja and God began to speak to
- 43:15me, I began to pray and ask the Lord to direct me.
- 43:21At one time, in the place of prayer, Sir, the Lord asked me
- 43:24to buy the map of Abuja, the map of Nigeria, the map of Africa
- 43:32and the map of the world. I would place all four of them
- 43:36at my prayer altar and pray like a madman.
- 43:40What was God doing to me? Let me tell you this.
- 43:42And I said with all humility. One day, in the place of prayer,
- 43:46I looked at the map of Abuja and it became small.
- 43:52It's something I cannot explain and I hope you don't take it for
- 43:55pride. It became small, very small,
- 44:01honestly, very small. Something had happened to my
- 44:08face. It became very small.
- 44:14Then one time I looked at the map of the world.
- 44:17For a long time I wasn't praying, I was just staring at
- 44:20it. And I said, this is the whole
- 44:21world. What did Zuckerberg see that he
- 44:26believed you would not reject his product?
- 44:29What did Elon Musk see? They don't know you yet They
- 44:33build their businesses upon the confidence that you cannot
- 44:36reject them. They don't know how the Yoruba
- 44:39culture works. They don't know how the Ashantis
- 44:42think. They don't care about your
- 44:44history, but they believe that they have such sense of dominion
- 44:48that they come up with an idea that it will be important to
- 44:52veto your cultural experience and you must embrace it,
- 44:56including the updates they bring.
- 44:58What guarantee did they receive? They did not respect the fact
- 45:03that you will change. They did not even seem to factor
- 45:06your will. They sat down from their rooms
- 45:09and saw the possibilities. Listen, if you believe what I'm
- 45:13teaching you, your life will be a sign and a wonder.
- 45:17Hallelujah. When God sent us to go and have
- 45:21a conference in UK, among the many things did you know?
- 45:25When we finally arrived at the auditorium, I saw the size and
- 45:28they told me that was the largest indoor center in the
- 45:30whole of the United Kingdom. Are you crazy as an African?
- 45:35It's not like you have a branch somewhere, and it's not like
- 45:38you've been visiting the place frequently.
- 45:40But I know what it means to dream with God.
- 45:42Do not downplay the power of God when it comes upon a destiny
- 45:46that has vision. When you do not have vision, the
- 45:51power of God will keep hovering. What do you desire?
- 45:54I just desire to go forward. What does go forward mean?
- 45:57At what point will you know your prayer has been answered?
- 46:02Step is go forward. Are we together now?
- 46:09Many of us desire to be audacious.
- 46:12Many of us desire to make giant strides in the Spirit.
- 46:16But there is no definition for our expectation.
- 46:20Your expectation lacks definition.
- 46:24How do I know? Do you know one of the reasons
- 46:27why the healing ministry is very powerful?
- 46:29Because sickness has a definition and it has a name, so
- 46:33it's easy to administer the power of God.
- 46:35When people say I want to prosper, it is very vague.
- 46:40I want to prosper means what for someone.
- 46:42I just want a condition better than where I am now and God will
- 46:47honor it. For someone, I want to have the
- 46:50capacity to have financial abundance.
- 46:53For others, I want the intelligence to design systems
- 46:56around my life that perpetuate wealth and bring continuity.
- 47:01Transgenerationally speaking, that is their definition.
- 47:04The moment. Listen, it is in this area that
- 47:07both psychologists, Satan, God, and men agree that the mind has
- 47:12a cardinal role to play. The moment you give definition,
- 47:17form and fashion to things, you see that now.
- 47:20Those who are not of faith will tell you that the universe will
- 47:23begin to cooperate with you and compel things to happen.
- 47:26But we now know that that creative power is called the
- 47:29Holy Spirit is true. Write your tomorrow on paper and
- 47:36watch yourself live in that reality.
- 47:39This is why many people's prayer in Africa becomes a waste of
- 47:44energy. I say this sincerely.
- 47:46I'm a man of prayer. You see that.
- 47:48But for the average person who is praying, they pray making the
- 47:52mistake that is in Acts chapter 12, because they were praying
- 47:55that Peter should be released and they had no idea how the
- 47:59liberty looks like. The Bible says on account of
- 48:02their prayer, an Angel cameo brought Peter out.
- 48:05Peter now came and knocked the door when they opened.
- 48:08This was their answer. They said no, he's his Angel.
- 48:10They shot the door again and kept praying.
- 48:13Peter had to knock and say are you OK?
- 48:15What were you praying for Then How do you pray so much that
- 48:18your answer comes and you do not know?
- 48:22Learn this. After this service you should
- 48:26come and thank your pastor. This is what happens in a
- 48:29conference vision. I learned this years ago.
- 48:34I would write before phones came out.
- 48:36I would put pieces of paper and write dreams and put it in my
- 48:40pocket, bring it out and look at it.
- 48:44All right, I said I'm going to buy a book.
- 48:48Total of 1000 naira. What do I have home and abroad?
- 48:515 naira. God is faithful.
- 48:52There is a vision, there is God. There's a willing hand to
- 48:56receive. Mysteriously, the power of God
- 48:59seems to honor vision that when people put things on ground.
- 49:04If you are waiting until you have the resources, you will
- 49:07never do anything worthwhile. Did you hear what I said?
- 49:09If you are waiting, and by resources I don't just mean
- 49:12money. For as long as there was no more
- 49:18vessel, the oil stopped. Capacity increased the potential
- 49:24of the oil. There was nothing wrong with the
- 49:26oil. The oil had to remain assuming
- 49:29the shape of the vessel carrying it.
- 49:33Hallelujah. As for me, I made-up my mind
- 49:38that there is no nation and there is no individual born of a
- 49:41woman. That I will stand before and
- 49:43feel ashamed of myself. I will be inspired, I will be
- 49:47challenged, but not at the detriment of myself.
- 49:49Worth It was a vision I gave myself and that vision will
- 49:53sponsor the energy to develop yourself.
- 49:56That even when men are clapping, God refers you back to the
- 49:59vision and you see how far of that standard you are and then
- 50:02you keep pressing. The reason why people settle
- 50:05down is because they never had a template, so anything higher
- 50:08than where you were looks like a place that is worth being called
- 50:12a destination. You would always hear me say it
- 50:16and I've told my people compared to where God is taking us, we're
- 50:19only one step out of The Cave. I was so blessed when the man of
- 50:23God came and was stretching the church and telling them that
- 50:26this was a Manger to the next level.
- 50:28I pray and hope that you believe that.
- 50:31Hallelujah. When we started looking for land
- 50:40for ministry, I have, I have in my office the map of the whole
- 50:44Abuja. The whole Abuja said bring it.
- 50:48I'm not talking of the summarized map, map that is as
- 50:51long as a carpet, fold it and place it there.
- 50:57There is no body. There's no body that says you
- 50:59cannot. Land originally belongs to God.
- 51:02Everybody met land. And according to God's word, it
- 51:07says the increase of the earth is for all and that even the
- 51:10king is fed by that which comes from the field.
- 51:13That means there is a portion for everyone.
- 51:15God is a God of portions. Whether you step into your
- 51:19portion or not is your own concern.
- 51:22Believe what I'm telling you, everyone of you here, there is a
- 51:26portion for you. God is a God of portions.
- 51:31Are we together? But there are giants on every
- 51:34mountain, don't forget. So when you are drawing that
- 51:37map, if you draw an empty one by fate, that means you have, you
- 51:42have found a way of dealing with those giants.
- 51:44Look at how those guys were sharing lands.
- 51:47You read the Bible. You've said these Israelites
- 51:49were stubborn people. They were allocating lands as if
- 51:52it was empty. There were giants there Imagine
- 51:56as a giant you are sleeping and you're sharing your land.
- 51:58You this tribe here is your own this other one take this one
- 52:02this other one take I think this land you can take this one.
- 52:05They are giants but not a concern.
- 52:07You take this I prophecy to someone here in the name of
- 52:13Jesus. Every manifestation of
- 52:17mediocrity that has kept you small, that you will not enlarge
- 52:21and do much for the Kingdom. May your face be enlarged and
- 52:25expanded in the name of Jesus Christ.
- 52:29Hallelujah, listener. There are few calm grounds by
- 52:33the grace of God that have not visited in this nation.
- 52:37Campgrounds that belong to ministries have had the honor of
- 52:40ministering across almost every major denomination in this
- 52:43nation. And when I go to visit, I don't
- 52:46just go as a man of God, I'm a man of God.
- 52:47In the afternoon when all the protocol go, when they all go
- 52:50back home, I now become a wise student of destiny.
- 52:55In the night, I come out when everybody has gone to sleep.
- 52:59And sometimes I walk around these campgrounds.
- 53:01Lord, what did you show these people?
- 53:03How did they believe? Who signed the register that
- 53:06members will come? Which bank gave them a guarantee
- 53:12that you just keep dreaming? Bigger will come.
- 53:15The signs follow. They don't go before.
- 53:17If you don't have a vision, the signs will never follow you.
- 53:22Hallelujah. Is God expanding you.
- 53:25Remember we're doing Part 2 now. This is the school of faith.
- 53:29Most people pray, but they pray without vision.
- 53:35Every time I study Acts after 12, I'm really very disturbed
- 53:38how a corporate people came together.
- 53:41They were praying. I wish I would be taking in a
- 53:44vision to that scenery. Let me watch what they were
- 53:47saying. God, you are.
- 53:48Elsa died. Release Peter.
- 53:50We kept quiet and James died. We will not keep quiet over
- 53:53Peter. Do you agree?
- 53:54Yes or yeah. Pray.
- 53:55And then they began to pray and the Angel of the Lord came in
- 53:59response to that prayer brings Peter out.
- 54:02Peter is rejoicing and then he knocks the door in the midst of
- 54:06hot prayer that is going on. He opens the door.
- 54:09The time to say let's give thanks that he has arrived.
- 54:13They open and say, impossible. No, you can't, it can't be you.
- 54:16How did you leave the prison? No sound.
- 54:18We didn't close the door and say let's keep praying.
- 54:23Vision. Vision helps you recognize your
- 54:26answer. Vision helps you recognize your
- 54:30answer. Vision helps you recognize your
- 54:34answer. You need to know what your
- 54:37answer looks like. What does it look like?
- 54:42What does increase look like based on scripture?
- 54:45What does progress look like based on scripture?
- 54:49What does restoration look like? Based on scripture?
- 54:52What does joy look like? So when you sing and pray things
- 54:56like he's turned my morning into dancing, my sorrow to joy.
- 55:00What does sorrow look like and what does joy look like?
- 55:03How do you know the difference? I have to rush #3 the school of
- 55:11faith, Jesus is someone learning.
- 55:19So when you have an encounter with God, learning his integrity
- 55:22and his ability, number 2 is clearly defined expectations
- 55:26that are in line with the will of God.
- 55:31Can I give you #3 the third key to manifesting Bible faith
- 55:35according to Scripture? Now please listen.
- 55:38This is again an area where many sincere believers miss out in
- 55:43manifesting the faith equation. The third key is an
- 55:47understanding of the demands and the requirements to manifest
- 55:53their expectations and understanding of the demands,
- 55:58the requirements. Listen carefully, every faith
- 56:02process will always demand that you walk in partnership with the
- 56:08Word of God. There is always a role and
- 56:11understanding of the demands, the requirements you must
- 56:15fulfill to commit God to perform.
- 56:18You see this now many. This is where, with all due
- 56:20respect, especially the charismatic circles, most people
- 56:24believe that the moment you find what God has said, it must come
- 56:28to pass. No Sir, no Sir, no Sir, no Sir.
- 56:33Midwifing prophecy and manifestation is a role that
- 56:36every responsible believer has to play.
- 56:39There is always something you do as a commitment of your faith.
- 56:45Are we together? You must know it first before
- 56:48you do it. An understanding of the demands.
- 56:51This is the assignment of meditation.
- 56:53Your meditation is not complete until your role in manifesting
- 56:58your expectation is revealed to you.
- 57:00The purpose of meditation is not just to know what God can do,
- 57:04but to find your place in committing God.
- 57:07Until your role is found, your meditation is not complete.
- 57:15Are we together John chapter 2 and verse 5, we read the 11th
- 57:19verse earlier on, but let's see what happened.
- 57:22So now the wine is finished. Are we together?
- 57:25The wine is finished and then the people, there's no wine and
- 57:28they came to Jesus and Jesus said, woman, what I mean, why
- 57:31have you brought this? Not yet my time.
- 57:33And she made a profound statement.
- 57:35The mother sayeth unto the servants, If it is a miracle you
- 57:39desire to see, if it's the power of God you want to see, there
- 57:43will always be something. And he said, make sure you
- 57:46listen, because among the many things that will happen for
- 57:49water to turn to wine, or for wine to be made manifest, there
- 57:52is something. He will tell you whatsoever He
- 57:56sayeth unto you, not just hear it, not just recite it.
- 58:01He says do it. He says now that He know these
- 58:04things, happy, blessed are you if you do them is someone
- 58:11learning and understanding. So there are many believers who
- 58:16stop at knowing what God can do, no doubt.
- 58:20And then sometimes they just fold themselves and say, I know
- 58:24God would do it without knowing the participatory role they have
- 58:28to play. You read your Bible from Genesis
- 58:31to Revelation. The only exception were dead
- 58:34people. And even among the people who
- 58:36were dead, they were those who were alive that play the role of
- 58:39responsibility. Man participated.
- 58:41In bringing him alive was Jesus himself.
- 58:44Every other person who came back to life.
- 58:46Watch this now. There was something that placed
- 58:49a demand. There was a demand.
- 58:51There was a demand. It was always in the presence of
- 58:55men that that resurrection happened.
- 58:59It was only. Jesus, are we together?
- 59:01Now who resurrected by the glory of the Father?
- 59:04No man playing a role in his resurrection.
- 59:11Do you know what you need to do? To produce that dimension of
- 59:16prosperity promise, that dimension of healing promise.
- 59:20So this is how it works. This is how it works.
- 59:22Lend me your attention that the Kingdom is a compendium of
- 59:27limitless possibilities. But for every possibility in
- 59:31this Kingdom, number one, there is a mystery that governs its
- 59:35manifestation. And within that mystery is a
- 59:38commitment. There is something the believer
- 59:41must do. Are we together?
- 59:43So you want to be healed? For instance, there is a mystery
- 59:47in the Kingdom that releases the healing anointing.
- 59:50Are we together? In learning that mystery, you
- 59:53will always find the role you have to play.
- 59:56The key to being healed according to Scripture is the
- 59:59hearing of faith. Every time healing is to happen,
- 1:00:02their first is the hearing of faith and then you listen for
- 1:00:07Spirit inspired instructions upon acting on those
- 1:00:12instructions. Even if you were among the 10
- 1:00:15lepers, the Bible says as they went, as they went. 9 suddenly
- 1:00:21found out that. Healing happened, one returned
- 1:00:24back to be thankful and then he was made whole.
- 1:00:26So the person who does not have the patience to receive the
- 1:00:30hearing of faith will most likely not see miracles manifest
- 1:00:34and the one who hears but is cold and not faithful to take
- 1:00:40steps. How do you see someone who has
- 1:00:42never walked and said get up pick your mat, it is a relatives
- 1:00:46come and help him. You stand up by yourself.
- 1:00:49Lame from birth, pick up your mat and walk away.
- 1:00:58Many believers do not understand that there are demands.
- 1:01:01There are demands. There are times you will say,
- 1:01:04Lord, I want to rise to higher levels of finances.
- 1:01:07I want to rise to higher levels of grace.
- 1:01:10And whilst you are praying now you have a revelation that God
- 1:01:14is able to do all things El Shaddai, you have a clear
- 1:01:17vision. You see yourself lending to
- 1:01:20nations, blessing the program of God you know, and so on and so
- 1:01:23forth, working in abundance or in blessings or in the
- 1:01:26anointing, whatever it is that you desire.
- 1:01:29Then the next thing is to find out what is my commitment?
- 1:01:32For instance, Lord, I desire higher levels of spiritual
- 1:01:36power. Now you consult with the Word
- 1:01:38because the Word is the compendium of the wisdom of God.
- 1:01:41What are the keys in Scripture that control the manifestation
- 1:01:46of superior levels of power? You can take a study on Jesus.
- 1:01:49He was never born with power. So what happened?
- 1:01:53What transited? The ordinary.
- 1:01:55Carpenter's son to become one who was filled with the Spirit
- 1:01:59without measure. You now begin to study those
- 1:02:01moments and you would see things that he did that even after his
- 1:02:05baptism. You see the foundation for
- 1:02:08Jesus's ministry to become a person of power was he invested
- 1:02:1118 years of his growth period learning the world.
- 1:02:14That was where he started before the issue of anointing came into
- 1:02:18the sea. From age 12 he started studying
- 1:02:21Scripture. It is written when he was filled
- 1:02:24with it is written by age 30. He now went to John submitting
- 1:02:29to authority. Are you seeing that now and
- 1:02:31then? As wonderful as Jesus is and as
- 1:02:34powerful the Son of God as he is, and he was, He walked under
- 1:02:38a close heaven. It took a prophet to open his
- 1:02:41heavens. Now you are learning the keys
- 1:02:44that the Word Incarnate can still walk under a close heaven
- 1:02:49and when John prayed. For him, the Holy Ghost came.
- 1:02:52Upon him and the Bible says Jesus went to the wilderness.
- 1:02:56So you are putting the keys together, the responsibility as
- 1:02:59a teenager of learning the word. Now when you want to be
- 1:03:03anointed, you see that timing matters in your paying attention
- 1:03:07to the things of God because it takes time to build capacity by
- 1:03:12the word. From age 12, even for Jesus, it
- 1:03:15took him 18 years to be prepared to receive that anointing.
- 1:03:20The same formula he used for the disciples.
- 1:03:22The ratio of teaching to impartation was 3 1/2 years to
- 1:03:26one day. Many people reverse the process.
- 1:03:29They have almost zero ward and yet they have gallons of
- 1:03:33anointing oil. I'm not being sarcastic.
- 1:03:37Now you you pour. The oil on your head.
- 1:03:39And you find out that it does not work that way.
- 1:03:42It's the abundance of the Word that qualifies you for the
- 1:03:45ministry of the Spirit. This is always the formula that
- 1:03:49produces the kind of anointing that produces results.
- 1:03:52Now Jesus fasted, Jesus prayed. You see that now?
- 1:03:57So you. Take that responsibility.
- 1:03:59In fasting and prayer and consecration, building your
- 1:04:03spirit man. When you walk in keeping with.
- 1:04:07That truth. But you see.
- 1:04:08You have to know the rich young ruler came to Jesus and said
- 1:04:12good master, what must I do? No wonder he was rich even
- 1:04:16though he was young. I appreciate teaching on that
- 1:04:18rich young ruler. 3 Things that are not easily combined to exist
- 1:04:23in the life of a man. It takes time to be rich.
- 1:04:27So when you find somebody who is rich and has an advantage of
- 1:04:30time young and he's still ruler dominion, respect that
- 1:04:35individual. The Bible does not.
- 1:04:38Give us his name, but it summarizes.
- 1:04:40The discipline of that man's life.
- 1:04:42Rich young ruler. He had everything life could
- 1:04:46offer. And when he heard that there was
- 1:04:48something Jesus was proposing that he did not have, he came to
- 1:04:51Jesus and said, Good Master, what must I do?
- 1:04:55I know that it will always demand me doing something I'm
- 1:04:58not here to say dash me eternal life, what must I do?
- 1:05:02I'm ready to be responsible. Jesus said you are not far from
- 1:05:05the Kingdom. This guy you are, you are close
- 1:05:07to this thing and understanding. Are we learning now and
- 1:05:18understanding there's no time but just write them?
- 1:05:22For reference, Matthew. 14 from 19 to 25,000 remember feeding
- 1:05:28the 5000. You would think that in feeding
- 1:05:31the 5000, because he was a mighty God, automatically and
- 1:05:36magically the miracle would happen.
- 1:05:38Number one, there was a young lad who needed to bring 5 loaf
- 1:05:42and two fish, remember, and the Bible says he broke it, He
- 1:05:45blessed it, then he gave the disciples.
- 1:05:48The multiplication did not start with Jesus.
- 1:05:51The multiplication started when the disciples took it and they
- 1:05:54started doing the distribution. Hallelujah, we see a similar.
- 1:06:01Operation in John chapter. 1143 and 44 John 1143 and 44 Lazarus.
- 1:06:08Now verse 43 tells us the miracle that happened when he
- 1:06:11had spoken. He cried out with a loud voice,
- 1:06:14and he said, Lazarus, come forth, read 44 for me, please.
- 1:06:19Let's read together. Ready one to read.
- 1:06:21And he that was dead came forth, but he was bound hand and foot
- 1:06:28with grave clothes, and his face was bound with a napkin.
- 1:06:34That does not look like a miracle.
- 1:06:37That did not look like what? Mary requested for.
- 1:06:41And he now said, O Martha, Jesus said unto who them here is your
- 1:06:48own role. Now take the responsibility.
- 1:06:50I have brought life to him, but lose him and let him go.
- 1:06:54That means if he remains in that condition, it's no longer my
- 1:06:57issue. I have brought him out from the
- 1:06:59grave, but his advancement is your responsibility.
- 1:07:03Lose him. Lose him can mean teach him.
- 1:07:07Lose him can mean. Mentor him.
- 1:07:09I have brought him to a church now.
- 1:07:12Lose him does not just mean remove the rope.
- 1:07:15Everything that ties men, it is within the power of.
- 1:07:20Men to reveal the. Truth that lose men to let them
- 1:07:23go you can have people who are born.
- 1:07:26Again, that's the. Type of coming out of the grave,
- 1:07:29but their advancement in life don't just leave it to God.
- 1:07:32God has the power to now he's given them that life, but you
- 1:07:36must lose them. He say you pastor, you preacher,
- 1:07:40you apostle, lose them and let them go.
- 1:07:47Is someone learning #4 Let. Me.
- 1:07:50Hurry up, blessed be the name of the Lord, He's God blessing
- 1:07:53someone. Are you ready for #4?
- 1:07:58The fourth key. Number one being a revelation of
- 1:08:02God's integrity and ability #2 vision, a clearly defined
- 1:08:08expectation #3 an understanding of the demands and the
- 1:08:13requirements that commit God to perform #4 actions of obedience.
- 1:08:22The fourth key. That fulfills the faith.
- 1:08:25Equation is taking actions of obedience.
- 1:08:29Matthew 1427 and 28. Please give it to us.
- 1:08:33Matthew 1427 and 28 My God, but straightway.
- 1:08:41Jesus. Spoke and said, be of good
- 1:08:46cheer. It is.
- 1:08:47I remember the storm when Jesus was walking on water, they saw
- 1:08:50him and they thought he was a ghost.
- 1:08:52And he said, if it be, if it be thou bid me come.
- 1:08:56And he says, come 28 watch this now give us 28 please.
- 1:09:00And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come
- 1:09:05on the water. And he said, come.
- 1:09:07And Peter got off. Do you know if he had said come,
- 1:09:11Peter would have known what he needed to do to walk on water,
- 1:09:14but knowing it was not enough, he needed to take the step of
- 1:09:18faith. Ladies and gentlemen, there are
- 1:09:20no guarantees in life. A generation that has an
- 1:09:24appetite for guarantee will be losers perpetually.
- 1:09:29You will have to walk on water. Even if alone.
- 1:09:32You are going to have to trust God.
- 1:09:35Are we together now? Yes.
- 1:09:37Yesterday I shared with you my story about raising the dead.
- 1:09:41Make no mistakes, it's not like that again.
- 1:09:43I've grown. That was a story.
- 1:09:47That. Happened years ago, but even the
- 1:09:52devil knows that my. Former self is not what?
- 1:09:54He is here now again, because every time you take actions, it
- 1:09:58is not about the results, it's about what it does to you.
- 1:10:03There's something called failing forward when you are in a plane.
- 1:10:07Watch this. If a plane is going forward and
- 1:10:11you get up from CC-2 and you walk backward to use the
- 1:10:15restroom, based on what is happening inside the plane, you
- 1:10:18are going back. But based on the overall motion
- 1:10:21of the plane, are you going back?
- 1:10:23You are going forward. Even if you go to the last seat.
- 1:10:26In the plane, with respect to the assessment of post in the
- 1:10:30plane, you've left your seat and you are going back, but the
- 1:10:33overall movement of the plane is taking you forward.
- 1:10:35Can I tell you, do you notice that in life, those who don't
- 1:10:39have time to mourn failure, they are the ones who, the ones one
- 1:10:43door closes while you are crying, they force another one
- 1:10:45to open. They don't have the time for
- 1:10:47this sympathy. You see them banging at all
- 1:10:50kinds of doors. They Force One to open and that
- 1:10:53one that opens, they chain it and keep it open forever so that
- 1:10:56their children will come in, their children's children.
- 1:10:59Whereas others are there trying to play everything safe, wanting
- 1:11:03guarantees. God, can you just put an uncle
- 1:11:05close to me so that if for any reason I fail somebody, life
- 1:11:09does not work that way. An audacious generation must
- 1:11:13learn to. Trust God.
- 1:11:14Enough to take steps of faith and don't mind the naysayers who
- 1:11:19laugh at you. You see, in church, because of
- 1:11:21the presence of the Holy Spirit, people assume that pragmatically
- 1:11:25speaking, when you take steps in destiny, it should be flawless
- 1:11:28victory all through. And every time you record
- 1:11:31momentary failures, here comes believer saying, did you really
- 1:11:34hear God and you feel stupid for obeying?
- 1:11:38God I. Thought he was OK.
- 1:11:41I started the business. Now I've discovered that I
- 1:11:43started the real estate business.
- 1:11:45My first two deals I was scammed.
- 1:11:47This went wrong and people said to go back.
- 1:11:48He's not God. If he's God, you must always
- 1:11:50succeed. Now ask the person who is
- 1:11:52talking like that how much he's had from that venture.
- 1:11:55It is a reason why most believers do not have
- 1:11:58intelligence as far as walking in the cosmos is concerned.
- 1:12:02There are times. That you feel as.
- 1:12:05An event, not as the end product, the conclusion of your
- 1:12:10journey. Unlike you were told, pain is a
- 1:12:12gift. There is something called the
- 1:12:15gift of pain. There is a lesson only pain can
- 1:12:18give you. Are we together?
- 1:12:21We stand today. Upon our many failures that's
- 1:12:25what has given us the confidence run away from people who have
- 1:12:29never failed their risk around your life there is a perspective
- 1:12:34about. God and life they do not.
- 1:12:35Have and it will be dangerous to your group, even in terms of
- 1:12:39organizations when when real leaders who have been trained
- 1:12:43sit down and they're speaking to people, prospective people that
- 1:12:46they want to bring on board. They don't just want key of
- 1:12:49their strides, they want to know have you failed?
- 1:12:53Nobody insulted you before. No, I've been a friend to
- 1:12:55everybody. You are at risk not in this
- 1:12:57company because the first person who insults you, you will not to
- 1:13:00lend that kind of lesson in this company.
- 1:13:04You would deflate our productivity.
- 1:13:06You need people who have built stamina.
- 1:13:08They have a balanced understanding on life.
- 1:13:11Is someone learning? Learn to take steps.
- 1:13:14A risk a vast generation. I'm not talking of careless
- 1:13:17steps. You are guided by the word.
- 1:13:19Remember that you have vision. The person who takes steps is
- 1:13:23the one who has vision and has discovered the responsibility
- 1:13:27component for his action. You don't just act blindly, but
- 1:13:31even at that, that if you act and things don't work, you go
- 1:13:34back, you retreat, you give Jesus thanks because the one who
- 1:13:38arrives is listen, the fact that you fail is proof that you are
- 1:13:42moving. There are people who don't fail
- 1:13:45because they are never moving. Are we together now?
- 1:13:48When you find someone in the traffic is because he had the
- 1:13:50courage to leave his house and then he got trapped in the
- 1:13:53traffic for a while and nobody just starts crying in the
- 1:13:56traffic. They know no matter how long it
- 1:13:59will move, there can be somebody waiting in his house and
- 1:14:03wondering and saying, Can you imagine?
- 1:14:05I told you not to go anywhere and that person never arrives.
- 1:14:08Beware of people who do not have the courage to take steps.
- 1:14:13You want to start a school? Here comes someone looking at
- 1:14:16you and saying you start a school.
- 1:14:19I know your father's house, I know where you're coming from.
- 1:14:22You better sit down and don't embarrass yourself and you will
- 1:14:25watch your vision because visions are like rain.
- 1:14:28Whoever brings the bucket will receive it.
- 1:14:31You will be surprised. There are many people biting
- 1:14:33their fingers in anger because what God showed them, He didn't
- 1:14:36show them alone. The one who took action is the
- 1:14:39one who materialized it, and the reward came the one who took
- 1:14:43that step when God was speaking several things.
- 1:14:46There are people who had it, not books that are full of several
- 1:14:49things but never took steps of faith.
- 1:14:51Yet others continue to build on their failure, reinventing
- 1:14:55themselves and sustaining the stamina to continue motivating
- 1:14:59themselves and leaning only to the comfort of Scripture until
- 1:15:02they emerged. Herein lies the fallacy.
- 1:15:06No, great man. Comes out of nowhere.
- 1:15:09Just because you are not aware of the story does not mean there
- 1:15:12was no story. We live in a generation that has
- 1:15:15such disrespectful mastery and results.
- 1:15:18We just assume that because people have been anointed they
- 1:15:21magically jumped a lot of process.
- 1:15:24My goodness, remove the shirt of any champion and seize cars that
- 1:15:28will scare you. Don't the the glamour of the
- 1:15:31palace sometimes can make it look like they were never in the
- 1:15:33wilderness. There are.
- 1:15:37Cops that you cannot pray with you.
- 1:15:40Only receive grace to drink them.
- 1:15:43The disciples came to Jesus the mother and came to negotiate a
- 1:15:46position for our children left and right.
- 1:15:48And he said the position is vacant, but can you drink of my
- 1:15:51cup and be baptized of my baptism?
- 1:15:57Action action when God brought pastor here.
- 1:16:02I'm sure Pastor Godwin said this place.
- 1:16:05Was a Bush. Can you imagine that do?
- 1:16:09You know that for every. Time you succeeded, you would
- 1:16:12have still failed. It's only that when we see the.
- 1:16:16Other side of success. It is so beautiful.
- 1:16:18So we say things like you are lucky, you are lucky.
- 1:16:23Show me a football team using pastors example that has never
- 1:16:28failed. Even the greatest footballers
- 1:16:30have had to carry themselves in shape sometimes and walk out of
- 1:16:34the stadium and they go back reinventing themselves,
- 1:16:38reinventing themselves, reinventing themselves.
- 1:16:42Jesus as the Son of God went to certain places as a man of God,
- 1:16:46laid hands on the sick, and nothing happened.
- 1:16:49He never said from this day I cease to be a Son of God.
- 1:16:52I'm embarrassed. God should score 100 / 100.
- 1:16:55He left them in peace and went to continue his name.
- 1:17:00Every time you fail, cry with. Courage.
- 1:17:04Rise up with courage, reinvent yourself with courage and know
- 1:17:08that God is faithful. Did you hear what I said?
- 1:17:11God is faithful. You have lost money in an
- 1:17:14investment, God is faithful. The time it takes to grumble and
- 1:17:18complain is the same time it takes to summon courage and
- 1:17:21continue. Remember, destiny is a function
- 1:17:23of time. Hallelujah, I know someone who
- 1:17:28once was. Building and I think.
- 1:17:31Was it that rain wash it or one story like that?
- 1:17:34And for a long time, one time, with all due respect, I had to
- 1:17:37tell him you, I've had this story before, don't tell me
- 1:17:39again. Every time we meet you are
- 1:17:41making reference to this. Whereas from that time while you
- 1:17:44were saying that story, someone was in primary 5.
- 1:17:47This person went, graduated and has built a house.
- 1:17:50Now you have refused to build a house using the same energy to
- 1:17:54attract sympathy. My tears are expensive.
- 1:17:59I will not cry anyhow. No, I select the location.
- 1:18:03Not everybody deserves to see my tears.
- 1:18:05I will cry before His presence, but I will not waste my tears.
- 1:18:11Are you learning tonight? You need to take steps of faith,
- 1:18:14no. Matter what you.
- 1:18:16Receive from this conference, no matter how powerful the
- 1:18:19impartation is that comes upon you on Sunday.
- 1:18:22Ladies and gentlemen, victories at the other end of action, the
- 1:18:26steps of obedience. If it be thou beat me calm
- 1:18:30naman, go and wash yourself seven times in Jordan.
- 1:18:34Mister man, you are blind, but summon the courage and inventive
- 1:18:38strategy to get to Siloam, because if you do get there and
- 1:18:41wash your eyes, you will see. He would have been angry in
- 1:18:44offense and said, this person, I doubt if you are Jesus, the Son
- 1:18:47of the living God, and remain there blind with more than his
- 1:18:51eyes, the potential for miracles.
- 1:18:54I made-up my mind that once God gives me the matching order, I
- 1:18:58will take the step. Let me fail in victory.
- 1:19:01Those who are not afraid of failure are those who win
- 1:19:04perpetually. Hallelujah.
- 1:19:08Perpetually. Perpetually.
- 1:19:11Perpetually. The first song I ever wrote in
- 1:19:20my life. One day I.
- 1:19:21Was thinking about it and I laughed.
- 1:19:23I said, my goodness, what kind of inspiration came to write
- 1:19:26that song, I mean. Youths, if I sing that song, I.
- 1:19:32Think he's nice, I hope he's nice.
- 1:19:34If I sing that song for you, you would ask me to go and ask God
- 1:19:39for forgiveness. That was the first song.
- 1:19:43I did my best, wrote everything. That I understood.
- 1:19:46Was a reflection of my revelation.
- 1:19:49Wrote all kinds of things. But if I stopped there and I
- 1:19:53said I. Know this this this thing is.
- 1:19:55Terrible. Maybe.
- 1:19:57First listen, let me tell you this.
- 1:20:00Every time you fail, use it as a ladder.
- 1:20:05Climb higher, climb higher through that.
- 1:20:09Failure and see. Higher and tell yourself the
- 1:20:12next time it will never happen this way again.
- 1:20:15Are we together? Have you seen a learner driving
- 1:20:18on the road? He puts a Big L and he's just
- 1:20:21swinging Putin trafficator where there's no way, he's not even
- 1:20:25aware that there's trafficator until someone says what are you
- 1:20:28doing with this? And he tries and you know
- 1:20:31wanting to press the brake and he's accelerating and
- 1:20:34everybody's clearing the way. You are laughing at that person.
- 1:20:37In 1-2 years, that person will be driving as fast here to Lagos
- 1:20:41and he will be driving while he's doing other things and you
- 1:20:44will look at him and say how long have you been driving?
- 1:20:46He said I just started last year, whereas you've been afraid
- 1:20:49of the road for 10 years. You got your driver's license 10
- 1:20:52years, but never had the courage to come out.
- 1:20:58Are we together? Someone went to farm and lost
- 1:21:04his crops because of the bad season.
- 1:21:08And while others were crying, he went back, reinvented himself
- 1:21:11and started again. And in the midst of that
- 1:21:13failure, he now he now got connected to people who are into
- 1:21:19export at a very at a wholesale and change his life, whereas
- 1:21:24others were there blaming everything but them.
- 1:21:27Make up your mind. Say in the name of Jesus
- 1:21:30shouted, say in the name of Jesus, I obtain grace to take
- 1:21:35action. I'm wrapping up.
- 1:21:36Say I obtain grace to take action one more time.
- 1:21:40Say I obtain grace to take action.
- 1:21:43To take action. What will they say?
- 1:21:46They will still talk. If you fail, we talk about
- 1:21:50Jesus. We talk about Satan.
- 1:21:52Everybody in between will be talked about, so settle it once
- 1:21:56and for all. Whether you are Jesus, whether
- 1:21:58you are Satan, somebody will talk about you.
- 1:22:01Make up your mind to throw away this ego and all of that and
- 1:22:07start making giant constructive. You see people never believe in
- 1:22:11you until they see the vision. Imagine then someone will say I
- 1:22:15knew you were going to be great. They didn't know anything.
- 1:22:18It's your courage and your faith.
- 1:22:21You forced doors to open. The name of Jesus Christ.
- 1:22:27I like Paul. Paul.
- 1:22:28Is in the prison and he's writing letters to people I hear
- 1:22:31you guys are misbehaving receive this letter 1st and wait for me.
- 1:22:35I will come out of this prison and I will come out.
- 1:22:37What kind of a man was that? This is someone who you would
- 1:22:40think he's not even sure if he should leave.
- 1:22:43He's in the prison and he's saying I word that you guys are
- 1:22:46doing this. No, no, it ought not to be so
- 1:22:49you have allowed people to bring another gospel take this letter
- 1:22:521st and tell so so so and so I'm I'm coming and truly he will
- 1:22:57come. The guy refused to die die came
- 1:23:01back to life and said no way I'm not I'm not dying at the end of
- 1:23:04his life. He said I have fought a good
- 1:23:06fight of faith I have finished the course.
- 1:23:10You can weary failure you can weary naysayers.
- 1:23:15The greatest way to respond to all of these things is to keep
- 1:23:18moving. Keep moving, keep moving, keep
- 1:23:21moving, keep moving. I always wondered how a snake
- 1:23:26that does not have obvious Look at how men run away from snakes.
- 1:23:32They prefer running away from a snake down from a dog.
- 1:23:34Are we together? Or a cow down as horns, The
- 1:23:39horns that can cheat you and yet we will prefer a cow down a
- 1:23:42snake. What kind of attitude?
- 1:23:46It crawls. It looks.
- 1:23:48Slow looks. Sluggish but very visionary,
- 1:23:51does not have the power to dig holes yet.
- 1:23:54It can get into any hole. Drive whatever rat that is there
- 1:23:58and eat it in fact, and go and stay there.
- 1:24:01It becomes his habitation. A serpent, he said be wise as a
- 1:24:05serpent. There are many lessons you can
- 1:24:07learn from a serpent. A serpent looks like a hopeless
- 1:24:10creature. Anything can match it.
- 1:24:12But you gonna hate no. Excuses whatsoever, doesn't
- 1:24:19give. Excuses.
- 1:24:20I may not have hands, I may not have feet, I may not have other
- 1:24:24constructions that are an advantage in my body.
- 1:24:27But I will move anywhere. I will climb trees, I will climb
- 1:24:30through the fence, I will smuggle myself through a house.
- 1:24:33A snake can live with you for 10 years and you will not know it
- 1:24:36is eating eating the eggs of your chicken and you will not
- 1:24:40know you know that and it's not so fast and when it's time to.
- 1:24:47Swallow, have you seen the things that.
- 1:24:49Snakes swallow. What's your television?
- 1:24:52What kind of courage? Is that?
- 1:24:55When the antelope is dead. Then it starts small.
- 1:24:58You will be laughing, you just keep watching.
- 1:25:00It starts to expand in a fearful way.
- 1:25:06Plus the. Horns.
- 1:25:07It will swallow it. Before it swallows it, it's
- 1:25:11already. Planned way to go and lie.
- 1:25:13Down for the next one year and not move.
- 1:25:16It will swallow that antelope bones and everything.
- 1:25:20And they have survived. Yet there are.
- 1:25:22Men who have hands. They have feet, they have a mind
- 1:25:26that can think and they keep giving excuses.
- 1:25:28What if people say in the name of Jesus, I'm speaking to an
- 1:25:32audacious people, The grace that needs to come upon you, that you
- 1:25:36kill these excuses and begin to take giant steps.
- 1:25:40Receive that grace now in Jesus name, Amen.
- 1:25:45Allow me give you one last. Key and.
- 1:25:47Then we wrap up actions of obedience.
- 1:25:50Can I give you the last one? I consider the last one one of
- 1:25:53the most important keys. I do not want to end my session
- 1:25:57with you missing this. The last key that completes the
- 1:26:01faith equation is called patience and Thanksgiving Your
- 1:26:08Faith. Equation is not complete.
- 1:26:11Until you have patience and Thanksgiving, these are the
- 1:26:15components that give you the staying power because when all
- 1:26:19is said and done and your part is done, you will need patience
- 1:26:24and you will need Thanksgiving. Patience is proof that you trust
- 1:26:28God, that He will come through for you.
- 1:26:30Thanksgiving is investing in advance knowing that this is a
- 1:26:34God of integrity. Show me a man who has manifested
- 1:26:38faith perpetually void of patience and void of
- 1:26:42Thanksgiving. My Bible says to follow them,
- 1:26:45who through faith and patience. Abraham, father of nations.
- 1:26:52You know how long? He waited from the time God
- 1:26:54spoke, not from the time his trouble started.
- 1:26:57From the time God spoke, Jesus was patient to allow the.
- 1:27:02Fullness of. Time come for him to manifest as
- 1:27:06Messiah. Hallelujah there.
- 1:27:09Are things that cannot be. Adjusted.
- 1:27:12They are programmed already two seasons.
- 1:27:15God will not fast track it. He will only give you grace to
- 1:27:17go through it. Are we together?
- 1:27:20Yes. It is 9.
- 1:27:22Months for a child Nine women who are pregnant will not make
- 1:27:27nine months become one month. You will have to wait.
- 1:27:30It is nine months according to the time of life, and Jesus
- 1:27:35grew. You would think being the Son of
- 1:27:37God there should be a supernatural way because the
- 1:27:40King's business requires haste. In two years he should just grow
- 1:27:42into an adult. And then the Bible says this is
- 1:27:45an exemption because he's the son of the living God.
- 1:27:47But that did not happen. He had to wait till he became a
- 1:27:50teenager according to the time of life, went through the
- 1:27:54rudiments of the law for 18 years till he became 30 by the
- 1:27:58Jewish calculation to be called a man to attain unto full
- 1:28:02masculinity. Then he began in his ministry
- 1:28:05and for 3 1/2 years when Jesus died it had to be 3 days
- 1:28:10according to scripture and then he resurrected.
- 1:28:14There are things you cannot change.
- 1:28:17God grants you grace to go through them.
- 1:28:20Sheer Notice said. I have redeemed you, I have
- 1:28:23called you by name and you are mine.
- 1:28:25It says when you pass through the waters, I will be with you
- 1:28:28through the rivers. It will not overwhelm you.
- 1:28:31It says when you walk through the fire.
- 1:28:34It never says run through the fire you walk through.
- 1:28:39How do you walk through fire? The speed has been programmed.
- 1:28:43It is grace that is given to you.
- 1:28:46Are we together now? Yeah, this is very important
- 1:28:53every. Man on Earth is given 24.
- 1:28:56Hours, those who experience setbacks and those who increase.
- 1:29:00God has never, never given manned intelligence to invent a
- 1:29:04way of having more time. Wisdom gives you the ability to
- 1:29:09manipulate your 24 hours to multiply it into several hours.
- 1:29:14There are people who have 300 hours in 24 hours, but 24 hours
- 1:29:20is fixed and it will not change. Is someone learning?
- 1:29:25This is very important. You must learn to be thankful in
- 1:29:29Ecclesiastes 3 and 11 very popular scripture that is
- 1:29:32largely misquoted. The Bible says he makes all
- 1:29:35things beautiful. Not in KJV says his time, but is
- 1:29:41an error in translation. When you use the newer versions,
- 1:29:45new King James, NLT and the rest.
- 1:29:46He says in it's time because he's speaking in context that
- 1:29:50for everything there is a time and it is are we together a time
- 1:29:55for everything under the sun. So he makes all things beautiful
- 1:29:59in it's time, it's time. There is a time for it, it's
- 1:30:06time. And as long as he's a child
- 1:30:08different not from a slave, even though he be Lord of all, are we
- 1:30:12together now? Yes, he's under tutors and
- 1:30:14governors until that time appointed.
- 1:30:19John remained in the wilderness until his.
- 1:30:22Season of Appearance There is something called the season of
- 1:30:26appearance. Even for John the Prophet there
- 1:30:29is the season of appearance. Right now is the time is getting
- 1:30:33close to the time of harvest for many people to reap from the
- 1:30:36seeds that they have sown somewhere early enough.
- 1:30:39They started sowing by March, April and now they are ready,
- 1:30:42preparing, getting to the final phases of the rainy season and
- 1:30:46ready for a bumper harvest. Others who are complaining and
- 1:30:49giving all kinds of excuses, now they will have to live without
- 1:30:53any harvest because they did not sow patience can.
- 1:30:58I tell you it. Takes time to know God.
- 1:31:02It takes time to build wealth. It takes time to build your
- 1:31:06faith. It takes time to become a
- 1:31:09leader. It takes time to surmount
- 1:31:12failure. It takes time to encourage
- 1:31:15yourself in the Lord. It takes time, you must learn to
- 1:31:19be patient. We live in a world that wants to
- 1:31:22hurry everything. And it is true that God gives
- 1:31:25speed. You'll be receiving the grace
- 1:31:26for speed on Sunday. And the nature of speed is not
- 1:31:30hurrying you through. The training is bringing an
- 1:31:33acceleration to face your yieldedness.
- 1:31:36And then when the season of training comes to one end, it is
- 1:31:39the manifestation that comes speedily.
- 1:31:42And when the day of Pentecost was fully calm, the suddenly was
- 1:31:46not the day that suddenly was a matter of time. 50 days had to
- 1:31:51come. It was the rushing of the Spirit
- 1:31:54that came suddenly. There are things that cannot be
- 1:31:57programmed. Suddenly.
- 1:31:59There is no sudden wisdom. It will take time.
- 1:32:03There is no sudden growth. The cheapest.
- 1:32:06Dimension of growth is biological growth.
- 1:32:09Every other kind of growth is painfully outsourced to
- 1:32:12patients. Intellectual growth.
- 1:32:15Spiritual growth and even that cheapest 1 requires time.
- 1:32:20You have to grow as a mother. You will run away from a child.
- 1:32:23You just give back to a child and the doctors just watch the
- 1:32:27child bath the child and the child starts talking.
- 1:32:29Hello my mother, I'm a child of God.
- 1:32:31I came from heaven and I'm ready to start my life.
- 1:32:34You will run away as courageous as you are, because it is not
- 1:32:37consistent with the law of life. Hallelujah.
- 1:32:42If a baby. Is well fed.
- 1:32:45He does not become an adult, he just becomes a properly
- 1:32:48nourished baby. If an adult starves himself to
- 1:32:52death, he will not die as a child.
- 1:32:54He would die as a malnourished elderly man.
- 1:32:57There are things that cannot change.
- 1:32:59They are paid to time. We have to stop here, so we pray
- 1:33:08the. School of faith, it's good to go
- 1:33:11to school. Hallelujah.
- 1:33:15So let me do a recap. Bible Faith.
- 1:33:19Is built. Upon these one a revelation of
- 1:33:25God's integrity. And ability. #2 Vision clearly
- 1:33:30defined expectations #3 An understanding of the demands and
- 1:33:36the requirements to manifest the expectations #4 Actions of
- 1:33:42obedience. And then in all your doings, the
- 1:33:45staying power, the ability to give thanks while you wait, the
- 1:33:49ability to be patient, knowing that having done all to stand is
- 1:33:54a stand. Are we ready to pray?
- 1:33:57Please rise up on your feet and we.
- 1:34:04We will never. Settle for less.
- 1:34:09We know there's more that's found in you and we will never
- 1:34:18settle for less. And we know there's more that's
- 1:34:24found in you here. We will never settle for less.
- 1:34:34We know that's all. That's family.
- 1:34:39Hallelujah. Can we take 2?
- 1:34:41Minutes to pray. Just one prayer that you will
- 1:34:44pray and then I speak over you. I'd like you to pray from the
- 1:34:47depth of your heart. Father, I obtain grace to be
- 1:34:52audacious towards my life and destiny.
- 1:34:54I know that you are great, You are mighty.
- 1:34:57You are able. I shake away every limitation
- 1:35:00that has pegged me, every limitation that has tied me down
- 1:35:04in ministry, in destiny, someone is praying.
- 1:35:08I obtain grace by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- 1:35:11Go ahead and pray. Invest a minute or two and just
- 1:35:19pray you are speaking over your destiny here at this Discovery
- 1:35:23conference. In the name of Jesus Christ, the
- 1:35:27grace to rise higher for the Kingdom, to do much for His
- 1:35:31Majesty of His glory. My life will never be limited.
- 1:35:40My life will never be packed at the level In the name of Jesus
- 1:35:44Christ. I have received the manifested
- 1:35:48by the face that works, the face that produces.
- 1:35:53Someone is praying. Just a minute.
- 1:35:55You are praying, stretching in the Spirit, in the name of
- 1:36:10Jesus, in the name of Jesus. We're out of time, but just lend
- 1:36:15me a minute, please. Your hand.
- 1:36:16If you are trusting God for healing in any part of your
- 1:36:20body, you can stand in for your loved one.
- 1:36:21I just want to speak a word. You may not have time for
- 1:36:24testimonies and all of that for just a minute to pray over the
- 1:36:28sick and then to join faith with all the servants of God here
- 1:36:31speaking over your life. As I wrap up my session with you
- 1:36:34tonight, Go ahead, please your hand.
- 1:36:36We believe in the healing Jesus, the one who heals every time he
- 1:36:40gathers a people to himself. Among the many things that he
- 1:36:44seeks that they experience is his power to heal, to save, to
- 1:36:48deliver, and to live. Father, in the name of Jesus, I
- 1:36:52pray over your people here at this Discovery Conference.
- 1:36:56I stand in faith and in agreement with every servant of
- 1:36:59the living God here and under this corporate anointing.
- 1:37:02I speak to everyone who is seeking your body here on site
- 1:37:06and those falling on line. In the name of Jesus, the Son of
- 1:37:09the living God, I bring you life.
- 1:37:11I bring you healing. Now be healed.
- 1:37:15In the name of Jesus, Amen. From the crown of your head to
- 1:37:19the soles of your feet, I decree be made whole now.
- 1:37:22Amen. I rebuke every spirit of
- 1:37:25infirmity, and I command it to leave your body.
- 1:37:29Terminal diseases be healed right now.
- 1:37:32Infirmities and yokes of all kinds and all sorts be healed in
- 1:37:36the name of Jesus. Be healed in the name of Jesus.
- 1:37:41Be healed in the name of Jesus. Now I join faith with the Angel
- 1:37:45over this house, and I prophecy over you in the name that is
- 1:37:48above all names. The grace to rise to an elevated
- 1:37:52dimension in your life and destiny according to the word
- 1:37:56that the Lord gave the man of God.
- 1:37:58The 99 days left between now and the end of December.
- 1:38:02May that grace elevate you, the courage to take giant steps of
- 1:38:08faith. I release that grace upon you.
- 1:38:11And for someone like the man of God preached, you may have
- 1:38:15fallen, things have gone down, you may have failed many times.
- 1:38:19The grace to arise, receive it now in Jesus name.
- 1:38:23I decree and declare by the power of the Holy Spirit that as
- 1:38:26you take giant steps of faith, believe in God for new things,
- 1:38:30New Horizons, impossible dimensions.
- 1:38:33May my God back you up. May your life become a sign and
- 1:38:38a wonder. Let this be true for a pastor
- 1:38:40here, let it be true for a businessman, let it be true for
- 1:38:44a family man. In the name of Jesus.
- 1:38:48Everything that represents shame and reproach in your life by the
- 1:38:51power that raised Christ from the dead, I declare you are
- 1:38:55separated from me forever in the name of Jesus.
- 1:38:59By this time next year. Return 10 times better.
- 1:39:03Return 10 times better in the name of Jesus.
- 1:39:09Amen. Would you lend me a minute to?
- 1:39:13Make an altar call. My sincere.
- 1:39:15Apologies for stretching your time, but it's usually my
- 1:39:18culture and I believe that is consistent with the belief in
- 1:39:20this ministry. Every time God gathers a people
- 1:39:25like this, there is always someone in the midst of God's
- 1:39:28people who needs to say yes to Jesus.
- 1:39:31Now listen to me. Salvation is beyond an
- 1:39:34initiation to become a Christian.
- 1:39:37It is a call to experience the life of God.
- 1:39:40Are we together now? And I do not want to assume that
- 1:39:43in the midst of this precious people inside, I believe others
- 1:39:47outside and the many following online, There has to be someone
- 1:39:50who number one is making a genuine decision and is an
- 1:39:54apostle. While I listen to Pastor Godman,
- 1:39:57I listen to Pastor Godwin and I listen to you.
- 1:39:59The Spirit of God began to convict me, telling me that the
- 1:40:03season, the season to live in sin, in backwardness, in shame,
- 1:40:08in defeat, serving the devil. And serving the flesh you must
- 1:40:12discern when that season is over and the Bible says now is the
- 1:40:16accepted time for another person.
- 1:40:19You may be saying I want to rededicate my life.
- 1:40:21I remember and I recall once making this decision, but as it
- 1:40:25is right now, I cannot say in truth that I'm in right standing
- 1:40:29with the Lord. I want to give you that
- 1:40:31opportunity. I'm working on borrowed time.
- 1:40:33My apologies. I will count 1 to 5.
- 1:40:36I need just one courageous person who will come to stand
- 1:40:40here and say apostle. I'm not ashamed.
- 1:40:42I know that I need Jesus and I do not want today to end without
- 1:40:47coming. I count 1 to 5.
- 1:40:49May God bless someone who has the courage to come and stand
- 1:40:52here. I begin my counting one.
- 1:40:55Let's honor them as they come. I need.
- 1:41:04Every hour I need thee. Come, Bless me now my Savior, I
- 1:41:12come, come, come to Jesus. I need.
- 1:41:18Thee. Oh, I need.
- 1:41:20Thee every hour I need thee power.
- 1:41:26Bless me. I have two more counts win that
- 1:41:39War of Destiny once and for. All Don't sit back when the
- 1:41:42Spirit of God is convicting you. You know when He speaks.
- 1:41:47Look beyond the friends you came with.
- 1:41:49Look beyond your ego. Come to Him.
- 1:41:51He will give you rest. You can step into your Sabbath.
- 1:41:55Indeed. I salute all of you.
- 1:41:56Let's celebrate those who have taken the time and the courage
- 1:42:01to come here. Hallelujah.
- 1:42:03Now, for those who are watching by way of television, here's an
- 1:42:07opportunity to make Jesus Lord of your life.
- 1:42:09You're watching by Internet. The Lord is giving you an
- 1:42:12opportunity to make Jesus Lord of your life.
- 1:42:15As I lead these precious ones in prayer, I'd like to request that
- 1:42:18you join and then you can let the church know that you just
- 1:42:21made Jesus Lord of your life. I believe that their social
- 1:42:24media handles are there for you to reach them.
- 1:42:26Just let them know that you've made Jesus Lord of your life.
- 1:42:30For those of you who are in front, thank you very much for
- 1:42:32the courage. May I request that you lift your
- 1:42:35right hand high above your head as a sign of surrender.
- 1:42:38Please do say this after me, Say Lord Jesus tonight.
- 1:42:42I have heard your word. I believe in you that you are
- 1:42:46the Son of God. Right now I receive Jesus into
- 1:42:52my heart as my Savior, my Lord and my King.
- 1:42:59Say I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell and the grave
- 1:43:07is broken over my life from tonight and forever.
- 1:43:12I am a child of God. I go for whatever and back
- 1:43:16whatever. Amen.
- 1:43:18Keep those beautiful hands lifted Father.
- 1:43:19Thank you for this ones, you have drawn them to yourself and
- 1:43:23scripture says as many who will come to you, you will in no wise
- 1:43:26castaway. We agree with them that this
- 1:43:29begins a new experience for them and that they go from glory to
- 1:43:32glory, grace to grace in Jesus name, Amen.
- 1:43:37Now here's what I want you to do for me.
- 1:43:38Ladies and gentlemen, please, I want you to follow the
- 1:43:41counselors. There's a pastor who will be
- 1:43:44leading you. They will just have a word or
- 1:43:46two with you and then you'll be back.
- 1:43:48Let's honor them as they go. Thank you.
- 1:43:51Thank you, Pastor Godwin, thank you so much.
- 1:43:55Thank you his treasure house. Thank you so much for this
- 1:43:57opportunity. May the Lord.