Latest / Apostle Joshua Selman / THE ROADMAP (THE PATH TO EVER INCREASING GLORY)
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Product of his grace, product of his mercy. You get
- 0:09Speaker 1: the glory. You get the praise.
- 0:13Speaker 2: You get the praise.
- 0:15Speaker 3: You take the honor.
- 0:17Speaker 2: You take the honor.
- 0:21Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 0:23Speaker 4: You get the glory.
- 0:24Speaker 1: You get the.
- 0:26Speaker 5: Praise.
- 0:26Speaker 1: You get the praise.
- 0:28Speaker 2: You take the honor.
- 0:30Speaker 1: You take the honor. Lift your hands.
- 0:43Speaker 2: And give Him praise. Be glorified. Be glorified. In my life.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Be glorified. Be glorified. Those are the voices.
- 1:04Speaker 1: So in my life. Go ahead and give him praise.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Let it be from the depth of your.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Heart. Be glorified in my life.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Turn it into prayer. A prayer of thanksgiving. A prayer
- 1:40Speaker 1: of gratitude. A prayer of acknowledgement. For someone tonight, count
- 1:46Speaker 1: your blessings. Go ahead and name them one by one. Protection.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Name them. Healing. Name them. Lifting. Name them. Restoration. Name them. Advancement. Prosperity.
- 2:02Speaker 1: The help of God. The anointing. Open doors. New levels.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Higher dimensions of knowledge.
- 2:09Speaker 3: Vision.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Purpose. Salvation. Deliverance. Is a grateful person acknowledging the doer
- 2:16Speaker 1: of these great things. We acknowledge you. We acknowledge you,
- 2:28Speaker 1: the God that doeth wonders. We declare your name. We
- 2:33Speaker 1: declare your praise to the nations. Let them know that
- 2:36Speaker 1: you are the one who has lifted us. Let them
- 2:39Speaker 1: know you are the one who has helped us. Let
- 2:42Speaker 1: them know you are the one who has shown us mercy.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Are you still saying thank you? Oh, we thank you.
- 2:53Speaker 1: We thank you. We thank you for Koinonia. We thank
- 3:00Speaker 1: you for your message. We thank you. Thank you for
- 3:08Speaker 1: your children. Thank you for your spouse. Thank you for
- 3:12Speaker 1: your business. Thank you for November. You may need to
- 3:18Speaker 1: backdate it to work for October, September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February, January.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Give him praise for the months past. He's been faithful.
- 3:32Speaker 1: He's been merciful. He's been good. He's been kind. We
- 3:37Speaker 1: are a grateful people. As individuals, we are grateful. As families,
- 3:47Speaker 1: we are grateful. As businesses, we are grateful. As a ministry,
- 3:52Speaker 1: we are grateful. As a nation, we are grateful. You
- 3:55Speaker 1: have been a Beniza, the helper, the helper. In Jesus'
- 4:10Speaker 1: mighty name we pray. In Jesus' mighty name we pray.
- 4:17Speaker 1: We're still going to pray one very sincere prayer. And
- 4:23Speaker 1: I'd like you to pray it and let it be
- 4:25Speaker 1: from the depth of your heart. Are we together? The
- 4:30Speaker 1: Bible says, hitherto you have asked for nothing. He says,
- 4:35Speaker 1: ask and you shall receive that your joy. May be full.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Your joy. May be full. Your joy. I'd like you
- 4:46Speaker 1: to pray. And say Father visit me. Everything you have
- 4:49Speaker 1: declared over my life. That is yet to be made manifest.
- 4:53Speaker 1: This is November but I still trust you. Open your
- 4:56Speaker 1: mouth and pray. Don't look around pray. Your eyes on Jesus. Everything.
- 5:03Speaker 1: You are not a God that speaks alone. You are
- 5:05Speaker 1: a God that performs. You are not a God that
- 5:08Speaker 1: declares alone. You are a God that performs. I have
- 5:11Speaker 1: heard you speak. Let me see you perform. I have
- 5:15Speaker 1: heard you speak. Let my eyes, let my hands handle
- 5:19Speaker 1: your speakings. Let it be life. Let it be reality
- 5:22Speaker 1: to me. Go ahead and pray. Our family following across
- 5:27Speaker 1: the globe, make sure you are praying. Job said I
- 5:32Speaker 1: have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear
- 5:36Speaker 1: but now my eyes see at thee Lord the things
- 5:40Speaker 1: I have heard you say about my destiny the things
- 5:43Speaker 1: I have heard you say about my destiny let me
- 5:47Speaker 1: experience a performance even now even now even now go
- 5:53Speaker 1: ahead and pray even now Even now. Even now. You
- 6:03Speaker 1: have spoken about my healing. Let me see it manifest.
- 6:22Speaker 1: You have spoken about a new season for me in
- 6:25Speaker 1: the spirit. Let me see it manifest. You have spoken
- 6:29Speaker 1: about my family. Let me see it manifest. You have
- 6:33Speaker 1: spoken about my finances. Let me see it manifest. Oh,
- 6:37Speaker 1: I trust you. You are a great God. A believer
- 6:44Speaker 1: is praying. Someone who is looking beyond the challenges that
- 6:48Speaker 1: brought you here. Look to Jesus and declare. If he
- 6:52Speaker 1: says it is within his power to make it happen.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Online go ahead and declare. I trust you. This is
- 6:59Speaker 1: November but my faith is alive. That you can visit
- 7:03Speaker 1: my family. You can give me a testimony. You can
- 7:07Speaker 1: turn my mourning to dancing. My sorrow to joy. Let
- 7:15Speaker 1: my life capture the evidence of grace. Let my life
- 7:19Speaker 1: capture the evidence of mercy. Let my life capture the
- 7:23Speaker 1: evidence of your goodness. Let my life capture your benefits.
- 7:29Speaker 1: One more minute. You are praying. Even now for my family.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Even now for my ministry. You are praying. Even now.
- 7:45Speaker 1: For the sick patient. Even now. Over my job. Over
- 7:49Speaker 1: my career. Even now. Over my destiny.
- 8:03Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let me tell you the truth. It pays
- 8:16Speaker 1: to trust the Lord. The Bible says they looked unto
- 8:19Speaker 1: him and their faces were lightened. They looked. They looked
- 8:24Speaker 1: unto him. When you set your eyes upon Jesus above
- 8:29Speaker 1: and beyond every limitation, for as long as Peter's gaze
- 8:33Speaker 1: was on Jesus, it didn't matter what happened, his left
- 8:37Speaker 1: and right, the storm was boisterous, but he was still standing.
- 8:41Speaker 1: But the Bible says when he took his eyes away
- 8:44Speaker 1: from Jesus and began to consider the situation, he began
- 8:48Speaker 1: to sink. He began to sink. Your stamina, your stability
- 8:53Speaker 1: is in your ability to look unto Jesus. Look and leave,
- 8:59Speaker 1: my brother, leave. Look to Jesus Christ and leave. It
- 9:06Speaker 1: is recorded in his word. Hallelujah.
- 9:10Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
- 9:11Speaker 1: It's only that you look and leave. I've got a
- 9:17Speaker 1: message from the Lord. Hallelujah. A message unto you I bring.
- 9:25Speaker 1: It's recorded in His Word. Hallelujah. It's only that you
- 9:31Speaker 1: look and leave. Look and leave, my brother, leave. Look
- 9:39Speaker 1: to Jesus Christ and live. It is recorded in his word. Hallelujah.
- 9:49Speaker 1: It is only that you look and live. We look
- 9:57Speaker 1: to you tonight, oh God. You are the fountain of life.
- 10:02Speaker 1: It is in your light that we see light. We
- 10:06Speaker 1: look to you because when we look unto you, our
- 10:10Speaker 1: faces are lightened. When we look unto you, you roll
- 10:14Speaker 1: the shame, the burdens. When we look to you, we
- 10:18Speaker 1: find life. When we look to you, we are changed
- 10:22Speaker 1: into the very image, even as of the begotten. When
- 10:26Speaker 1: we look unto you, like a maid looks unto her mistress,
- 10:30Speaker 1: we find help and we find mercy. Tonight, oh God,
- 10:34Speaker 1: we pray that as we look upon you, may you
- 10:37Speaker 1: look upon us. In the name of Jesus, look upon
- 10:41Speaker 1: us with mercy, look upon us with kindness. Let your
- 10:45Speaker 1: word come to change. Let your word come to build.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Let your word come to transform. Let your word come
- 10:53Speaker 1: to lift. Let your word come to heal. Let your
- 10:57Speaker 1: word come to restore. In the name of Jesus. Our
- 11:01Speaker 1: hearts are opened. And we ask that you will bless us.
- 11:05Speaker 1: To Jesus be all the glory. Amen and amen. Walk
- 11:08Speaker 1: to three people. Greet them. Tell them God bless you
- 11:13Speaker 1: and it's good to see you. In the house of God.
- 11:16Speaker 1: Are you appreciating someone? It is good to see you
- 11:20Speaker 1: in the house of God. Thank God I'm not finding
- 11:23Speaker 1: you in the police station. Thank God it's not a mortuary.
- 11:27Speaker 1: I am happy that we're sharing fellowship in the house
- 11:30Speaker 1: of God. And to Jesus be all the glory. Please
- 11:37Speaker 1: be seated. Thank you Jesus. I rejoice in my heart
- 11:44Speaker 1: every time I prepare to share the word of God
- 11:48Speaker 1: with us. This is the only way I know to
- 11:52Speaker 1: be a blessing. This is the only way I know.
- 11:55Speaker 1: You can give, give money, and that will bless, but
- 12:00Speaker 1: it will be temporal. You can give wise counsels. They
- 12:05Speaker 1: can succor the pain of the moment. But when you teach,
- 12:09Speaker 1: you truly empower. When you teach, you enlighten. When you teach,
- 12:15Speaker 1: you set people on a course to For a victorious life.
- 12:19Speaker 1: When you teach. You share out of that which God
- 12:22Speaker 1: has put within your spirit. And you will produce signs.
- 12:26Speaker 1: And wonders out of anyone. Anyone at all.
- 12:29Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
- 12:32Speaker 1: As always. My commitment. Is to help you. Make sense.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Of your life and your destiny. And in order of priority.
- 12:42Speaker 1: To help you know the Lord. To help you love
- 12:44Speaker 1: him truly. And to help you live for him. But
- 12:48Speaker 1: that whilst you are about loving the Lord and living
- 12:50Speaker 1: for him. You have an opportunity to experience what it
- 12:54Speaker 1: means to live a victorious life. To be a victorious
- 12:59Speaker 1: Christian by any definition. Satan notwithstanding. The context from which
- 13:07Speaker 1: you were born notwithstanding. The failures of yesterday notwithstanding. The
- 13:13Speaker 1: beautiful thing about the word of God. Is that it
- 13:16Speaker 1: is an equalizer. An equalizer. Without the word of God.
- 13:21Speaker 1: It is clear that some people are advantaged. Either by
- 13:25Speaker 1: reason of the families that they came from. The nations
- 13:29Speaker 1: they were born in. Are we together? But the moment
- 13:32Speaker 1: you introduce the word of God to the equation of
- 13:35Speaker 1: a man's life, every other disadvantage dies immediately. Because you
- 13:40Speaker 1: have brought in a factor that neutralizes everything that would
- 13:44Speaker 1: have left that person defeated. The word of God for you.
- 13:49Speaker 1: So you may be crying, lamenting over very legitimate reasons
- 13:54Speaker 1: as to why your life may hitherto been a portrait
- 13:58Speaker 1: of a failure. No. But as the word of God
- 14:00Speaker 1: is introduced, you see, you may not see the changes immediately.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Only a foolish farmer sows, he plants a seed today,
- 14:09Speaker 1: and by tomorrow he comes with a bag and a
- 14:12Speaker 1: sickle ready for a harvest. No matter the soil, no
- 14:17Speaker 1: matter the technological support, when he plants that seed, he
- 14:21Speaker 1: knows that there is something called patience. He will allow
- 14:25Speaker 1: the soil to act on the seed. He will allow
- 14:28Speaker 1: the seed to die. And even when the seed has
- 14:32Speaker 1: begun to produce. He can come and cut short the
- 14:35Speaker 1: potential for a very great tree through impatience. Some of you,
- 14:39Speaker 1: your lives are already budding. They are already producing. May
- 14:43Speaker 1: not have been producing fruits. But it's hopeful for you
- 14:47Speaker 1: to know that a great tree is growing. And one day,
- 14:51Speaker 1: that tree will become so fruitful. So fruitful. So fruitful.
- 14:55Speaker 1: You will never believe that it was once a seed
- 14:57Speaker 1: that was planted. Isn't it amazing that every one of
- 15:01Speaker 1: us here was once a seed in the womb of
- 15:03Speaker 1: his mother. We have people in this ministry who are
- 15:06Speaker 1: so tall. So able bodied. You wonder if it was
- 15:10Speaker 1: five of them that came together and they were combined
- 15:13Speaker 1: as adults. But no matter how big. No matter how tall.
- 15:17Speaker 1: It was a seed. Reminds me of your destiny. May
- 15:22Speaker 1: look small. But there is an ability acting upon that seed.
- 15:27Speaker 1: And with every passing day. You see you measure time
- 15:31Speaker 1: in the spirit not by the chronological passage of time.
- 15:34Speaker 1: You measure progress by every time you hear the word
- 15:37Speaker 1: of God. So you mark your calendar to victory. With
- 15:42Speaker 1: every arrival of the word of God you are growing.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Your date. You are shortening the distance between your starting
- 15:49Speaker 1: point and your point of fruitfulness. The more committed you
- 15:54Speaker 1: are to the ministry of the word and other spiritual exercises,
- 15:57Speaker 1: you are accelerating your journey to being fruitful. Are we
- 16:02Speaker 1: together now? This is very important. Most people don't know
- 16:05Speaker 1: why they come to church. Others come to church to
- 16:08Speaker 1: see a man of God. Others come to church waiting
- 16:11Speaker 1: impatiently for the service to be over so that they
- 16:14Speaker 1: can have moments of counseling. In their minds, they think
- 16:18Speaker 1: that the counseling sessions are greater than the word sessions.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Others are just there for the ceremony, just to ease
- 16:25Speaker 1: the guilt of not sitting back at home when they
- 16:28Speaker 1: should be in church. Are we together? Every time you
- 16:31Speaker 1: come to the house of God, it's important for you
- 16:33Speaker 1: to know that God has prepared for you a feast
- 16:36Speaker 1: of fat things. Among them, the capacity to access light.
- 16:40Speaker 1: Light that leads to growth. Light that translates to victory.
- 16:44Speaker 1: Let me tell you the truth. There is nothing the
- 16:47Speaker 1: devil can do about a believer who finds the path
- 16:51Speaker 1: to victory. the domain of satan ends when ignorance when
- 16:58Speaker 1: darkness ends in your life for as long as you
- 17:02Speaker 1: are in darkness satan has dominion over you so the
- 17:06Speaker 1: way to really break the dominion power of satan is
- 17:11Speaker 1: not just to assume you are free assumed liberty is
- 17:14Speaker 1: not liberty a prisoner can assume he's out of the
- 17:18Speaker 1: prison he's still in the prison we together but you
- 17:21Speaker 1: can have true liberty he says and ye shall know
- 17:25Speaker 1: the truth not ye shall want the truth not you
- 17:28Speaker 1: shall assume you have found the truth when you know
- 17:31Speaker 1: the truth the truth has within it programmed within it
- 17:35Speaker 1: the power to make you free the truth makes freedom
- 17:39Speaker 1: so every time you find a man enjoying liberty in
- 17:43Speaker 1: any area at all In any area. Just know that
- 17:47Speaker 1: his liberty is a testament that he has found truth.
- 17:52Speaker 1: Sustainable liberty is proof that you have found the truth.
- 17:57Speaker 1: You have received the truth. Listen. You have engaged the truth.
- 18:02Speaker 1: And you are now reaping the dividends of that spiritual investment.
- 18:06Speaker 1: Because like God, everybody is a farmer. You have learned this.
- 18:11Speaker 1: And the Bible says that you can sow to a
- 18:14Speaker 1: soil called the spirit. You can sow to a soil
- 18:17Speaker 1: called the flesh. That they that sow to the flesh
- 18:20Speaker 1: will of the flesh reap corruption. Death in all its
- 18:24Speaker 1: ramification by any definition. And those who sow to the
- 18:28Speaker 1: spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. So what
- 18:34Speaker 1: you do with your seeds... That becomes your concern. I've
- 18:38Speaker 1: told you that your destiny is at the mercy of
- 18:41Speaker 1: the kind and the quality of decisions that you make. Ultimately,
- 18:45Speaker 1: it is up to you. The decisions that you make.
- 18:48Speaker 1: The assignment of a man of God and the assignment
- 18:52Speaker 1: of the teaching ministry. Is to guide you with sufficient knowledge.
- 18:56Speaker 1: Spiritual knowledge first. And then knowledge of the laws of life.
- 19:01Speaker 1: So that now being equipped with sufficient knowledge. You can
- 19:06Speaker 1: make quality decisions. Hear me again. You can make quality decisions.
- 19:12Speaker 1: No matter how anointed a man is. He cannot decide
- 19:16Speaker 1: your destiny for you. He will equip you with the truth.
- 19:19Speaker 1: But eventually, you are the one who is going to
- 19:22Speaker 1: have to make that decision. Whether to remain a failure,
- 19:25Speaker 1: whether to remain a success. That leads me to a
- 19:28Speaker 1: thought that I just wanted to point out before we
- 19:31Speaker 1: go to the word tonight. I was contemplating... And I
- 19:35Speaker 1: found something that I wrote, I don't know when now,
- 19:38Speaker 1: sometime back during my personal meditation. Sometimes when I'm meditating
- 19:44Speaker 1: on the word, I just pause a bit and just
- 19:47Speaker 1: recline and think how true. the things I'm studying or
- 19:51Speaker 1: the things that I'm learning. And sometimes I'm tempted to
- 19:54Speaker 1: just scrabble a few things. And here's what I wrote.
- 19:56Speaker 1: I said here that you cannot improve in life and
- 20:00Speaker 1: destiny until you become brutally honest with yourself. You cannot
- 20:06Speaker 1: improve in life and in destiny until you become brutally
- 20:12Speaker 1: honest with yourself. The greatest form of deception is self-deception.
- 20:19Speaker 1: The greatest form of deception. That means you get to
- 20:22Speaker 1: a point where you are lying to yourself is self-deception.
- 20:25Speaker 1: You can never improve in life and destiny. Except and
- 20:31Speaker 1: unless and until you become brutally honest with yourself. The
- 20:36Speaker 1: meaning of that is that the day you really sit
- 20:39Speaker 1: down to address matters in your life. Is this working?
- 20:44Speaker 1: Not assumed results. For as long as you still carry
- 20:49Speaker 1: imaginary progress. You know there are people who live in
- 20:51Speaker 1: an illusion. I didn't know when I started ministry. Honestly,
- 20:55Speaker 1: I used to hear that people literally live in a
- 20:57Speaker 1: world of illusions. And it didn't make sense to me.
- 21:00Speaker 1: But now, having got a bit in leadership and ministry,
- 21:04Speaker 1: I can tell you, there are people who live in
- 21:06Speaker 1: a world that is very real to them. But it
- 21:09Speaker 1: doesn't exist. The medical persons will call it delusion. They
- 21:13Speaker 1: literally are in a world that does not exist. It's
- 21:16Speaker 1: like a psychology version of taking drugs. So they live
- 21:21Speaker 1: in a world where many things happen in that world
- 21:24Speaker 1: but none of it is real. And they know it's
- 21:26Speaker 1: not real. They live like that. They are making progress
- 21:30Speaker 1: in their imagination. They are building houses in their imagination.
- 21:35Speaker 1: They are growing and making tremendous progress. And once in
- 21:38Speaker 1: a while their reality reminds them that they are still joking.
- 21:43Speaker 1: Are we together? You cannot improve until you become brutally honest.
- 21:50Speaker 1: Is my spiritual life working? Is my finances working? If yes, why?
- 21:56Speaker 1: If no, why not? You see, whether you are making
- 22:00Speaker 1: progress or not, your confidence is not in the result.
- 22:04Speaker 1: Your confidence is knowing the pathway that leads to that result.
- 22:09Speaker 1: It is a very terrible thing to stumble into accidental success.
- 22:13Speaker 1: There is such a thing as accidental success. It is
- 22:17Speaker 1: usually not sustainable. It carries a semblance of progress for
- 22:22Speaker 1: a while until you find out you did not lay
- 22:25Speaker 1: hold on the principles that makes for sustenance. The second
- 22:31Speaker 1: thing I wrote here, part of my contemplations, then we
- 22:34Speaker 1: get to the word. Seek competence before visibility. Seek competence before.
- 22:42Speaker 1: before visibility. Seeking visibility without competence will leave you having
- 22:48Speaker 1: the destiny of the victory that Jesus caused. You must
- 22:53Speaker 1: seek competence before visibility. Our world is full of people
- 22:58Speaker 1: who are incompetent in very disturbing ways and yet they
- 23:02Speaker 1: have an obsession for visibility. When you sell nonsense to
- 23:07Speaker 1: your world, this world you see has And they have
- 23:12Speaker 1: such an unforgiving heart towards incompetence. When you show up
- 23:17Speaker 1: and they give you a chance and mark you for incompetence,
- 23:20Speaker 1: it will take the grace of God to erode that
- 23:23Speaker 1: memory from them. Anytime they see you, they assume this
- 23:27Speaker 1: unserious person is here again. Let me tell you the truth.
- 23:30Speaker 1: And I mean this, no disrespect. In the minds of people,
- 23:35Speaker 1: they have arranged preachers according to different categories. very serious
- 23:40Speaker 1: serious are we together less as fair jokers and maybe
- 23:46Speaker 1: evildoers so by the time they see people there are
- 23:52Speaker 1: some that their presence is just entertainment there are others
- 23:54Speaker 1: that well they are not really sure it depends on
- 23:57Speaker 1: the salmon there are others who they know these people
- 24:00Speaker 1: are always serious if they show up they are showing
- 24:03Speaker 1: up to bless I'm praying for you. May you not
- 24:07Speaker 1: join a nonsense category in people's mind because of incompetence.
- 24:11Speaker 1: That every time people see you show up, whether in
- 24:14Speaker 1: ministry or any ramification, they know that you are there
- 24:17Speaker 1: to bless. Are we together now? Praise the name of
- 24:20Speaker 1: the Lord. Seek competence before visibility. In fact, quite honestly,
- 24:26Speaker 1: when you spend time to seek competence, you may not
- 24:30Speaker 1: need to seek visibility. It will naturally gravitate you because
- 24:34Speaker 1: not everybody is that serious. Not everybody is that determined.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Not everybody is that meticulous. Are we together? That resilient
- 24:44Speaker 1: over becoming excellent and competent. I learned this early in
- 24:48Speaker 1: life from Dr. Miles Monroe. His definition of leadership changed
- 24:52Speaker 1: my paradigm. That leadership is not about leading people. In fact,
- 24:56Speaker 1: in many regards, it's not even about leading yourself. Leadership
- 24:59Speaker 1: is about discovering your gift, refining it, then deploying it
- 25:04Speaker 1: to serve so selflessly that people give you a gift
- 25:08Speaker 1: called loyalty. So you are focused on deploying your gift,
- 25:15Speaker 1: discovering it, deploying it, Now that it's refined and serving
- 25:20Speaker 1: people sincerely, serving so selflessly that you will not even
- 25:25Speaker 1: know when they have corporately accorded you this gift called loyalty.
- 25:30Speaker 1: You are influential to the degree to which you have earned,
- 25:34Speaker 1: take note of that word, earned the loyalty of people.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Are we together now? You earn the loyalty of people
- 25:42Speaker 1: through your depth of selflessness. The level of value that
- 25:47Speaker 1: you pour yourself like a drink offering. When you become
- 25:50Speaker 1: a nuisance to people, you will never, never, never command loyalty.
- 25:55Speaker 1: They will not allow you to influence them. Because they
- 25:57Speaker 1: know you are a taker, they know you are a parasite,
- 26:00Speaker 1: they see you as a nuisance, a disturbance to their becoming.
- 26:03Speaker 1: I'm praying for you. In the name of Jesus Christ,
- 26:07Speaker 1: everything that makes people perceive you as a nuisance, as
- 26:10Speaker 1: a disturbance, I'm praying that light will upgrade you. Light
- 26:15Speaker 1: will upgrade you to a point where you will say,
- 26:17Speaker 1: I am a blessing indeed. You believe that, shout Amen.
- 26:23Speaker 1: Praise the name of the Lord. Let me give you
- 26:27Speaker 1: the last thought. I wrote here, know the real gift
- 26:33Speaker 1: God has given you. Find out what really stands you
- 26:37Speaker 1: out and stay there. Know the real gift God has
- 26:42Speaker 1: given you, not the gift you want, the one God
- 26:45Speaker 1: gave you. There are many things we admire that God
- 26:48Speaker 1: did not give us. It is not part of your equipping.
- 26:51Speaker 1: You have seen it beautifully displayed in the life of
- 26:54Speaker 1: someone and you wish you had it. There's no point wishing.
- 26:57Speaker 1: When you check inwards, there is always something God has
- 27:00Speaker 1: given you. When you see another person's garden well, well,
- 27:06Speaker 1: what do you call it now? Well watered, well manicured
- 27:11Speaker 1: and fixed well. It is not by default. So when
- 27:15Speaker 1: you see your bushy scattered garden. It is your responsibility
- 27:20Speaker 1: to fix it, to make it enviable. Are we together?
- 27:23Speaker 1: Many people are about admiring the gifts of people. Every
- 27:27Speaker 1: gift in its raw state is not desirable. Every gift,
- 27:32Speaker 1: I don't care what it is, in its raw state,
- 27:34Speaker 1: Your unrefined state is not desirable. If you ever see
- 27:39Speaker 1: any gift in ministry, in business, ability to sing, ability
- 27:43Speaker 1: to do whatever it is. Let me tell you. It
- 27:45Speaker 1: is because time, energy, effort and grace has been invested
- 27:50Speaker 1: in that gift to build it to a point where
- 27:53Speaker 1: it is now desirable and worthy of being rewarded. Hallelujah.
- 27:59Speaker 1: There are many people you admire today. In all honesty,
- 28:02Speaker 1: you are by far more gifted than them. The only
- 28:05Speaker 1: thing is that you have not taken time to look inwards,
- 28:08Speaker 1: to acknowledge. I like Philemon 1 verse 6. It says
- 28:11Speaker 1: that the communication of your faith might become effectual through
- 28:16Speaker 1: the acknowledging of every good thing that is in you
- 28:19Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus. The communication of your faith, it says.
- 28:25Speaker 1: That it would become effectual. By the acknowledging. You have
- 28:29Speaker 1: to acknowledge every good thing. What did God put in you?
- 28:33Speaker 1: God gave me beauty. Lord I thank you for this gift.
- 28:36Speaker 1: I acknowledge not everybody has this gift to this degree.
- 28:39Speaker 1: And I don't take it for granted. You have given me.
- 28:41Speaker 1: profound intelligence, acumen for memory, for intellectual things. I received
- 28:48Speaker 1: that grace. I acknowledge it. You have given me acumen
- 28:52Speaker 1: for leadership. The Bible says he gave unto one five talents.
- 28:55Speaker 1: He gave to one two talents. Matthew 25, he gave
- 28:58Speaker 1: to one one talent. At least to everyone he gave something.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Are we together? So make sure you find out what
- 29:10Speaker 1: God has placed within you Everything you celebrate today... Came
- 29:15Speaker 1: as a result of discovery... Refining... And deploying... You discover...
- 29:22Speaker 1: Then you refine... Then you deploy... And you patiently stay there...
- 29:27Speaker 1: Until people vet your value... And see it needed... Let
- 29:30Speaker 1: me tell you this... I have taught you that you
- 29:32Speaker 1: are only rewarded... To the degree to which people acknowledge
- 29:36Speaker 1: your value... As being useful to their lives... and sometimes
- 29:40Speaker 1: it will take a while for them to see how
- 29:43Speaker 1: useful you are did you hear what i said it
- 29:45Speaker 1: will take a while just because you know how valuable
- 29:48Speaker 1: you are does not mean the people around you know
- 29:51Speaker 1: how valuable you are It will have to take a while.
- 29:54Speaker 1: Sometimes you will need to keep selling that value patiently.
- 29:58Speaker 1: Sometimes it is time and chance that will revolve life
- 30:01Speaker 1: to a point where they will need you. There are
- 30:04Speaker 1: people today carrying things. They have become millionaires and billionaires.
- 30:08Speaker 1: They have become great people, inspirations to many. Do you know,
- 30:12Speaker 1: even when people did not acknowledge them, they still had
- 30:15Speaker 1: that value. It's just that life had not yet happened
- 30:18Speaker 1: to make their value needed. So just because you are
- 30:21Speaker 1: tempted serving your value and it seemed to be ignored,
- 30:24Speaker 1: it doesn't mean your value is useless. Yours is to
- 30:27Speaker 1: keep refining it and stay, stay until the day that
- 30:34Speaker 1: God brings the people. You see that brings the people
- 30:38Speaker 1: around your life. And when they see you, they will
- 30:40Speaker 1: take you like a treasure and say, we have been
- 30:43Speaker 1: looking for you. We have been searching for you. Now
- 30:45Speaker 1: that we have found you, we will not let you go.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Are we together now? He said, because of the ointment,
- 30:51Speaker 1: so do the virgins love thee. There is an ointment,
- 30:54Speaker 1: there is grace, there is value you can carry. And
- 30:57Speaker 1: people you do not know, like the queen of Sheba,
- 31:00Speaker 1: they will run after you and hide their pride. And say,
- 31:03Speaker 1: now that I have found you, it took years to
- 31:05Speaker 1: search for you. And now that we have found you,
- 31:08Speaker 1: we will inconvenience ourselves. We will make do with whatever
- 31:11Speaker 1: is still not yet working in your life. And we
- 31:13Speaker 1: will stay, because we have found that God is with you.
- 31:16Speaker 1: I'm praying for you in this season. In the name
- 31:19Speaker 1: of Jesus. I prayed this prayer many times. Let me
- 31:22Speaker 1: try it tonight for someone who did not receive it
- 31:24Speaker 1: the last time. All those who need what you carry.
- 31:27Speaker 1: All those who can celebrate what you carry. All those
- 31:30Speaker 1: who can reward what you carry. May my God gravitates
- 31:34Speaker 1: them to your life. All those who need what you carry.
- 31:39Speaker 1: All those who can celebrate what you carry. And all
- 31:42Speaker 1: those who can reward what you carry. I'm saying it again.
- 31:46Speaker 1: May my God gravitates them to your life. In the
- 31:51Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ. When you find those who need
- 31:54Speaker 1: what you carry, you will be a happy person. I
- 31:57Speaker 1: tell you, your first joy is serving something that is needed.
- 32:01Speaker 1: Serving grace, information, truth, ability that is needed and useful.
- 32:06Speaker 1: And then the satisfaction that comes from making an impact
- 32:10Speaker 1: in the lives of people. I have taught you here,
- 32:13Speaker 1: referred to my teaching, what sickest thou. I taught you
- 32:18Speaker 1: that fulfillment, there is a psychology to success and fulfillment.
- 32:22Speaker 1: And that true fulfillment is predicated upon meeting certain intrinsic
- 32:27Speaker 1: human needs. Number one, significance. This is not my teaching, oh.
- 32:30Speaker 1: It's still part of my contemplation. We're getting to my
- 32:33Speaker 1: teaching now. Are we together? Significance. That is the first
- 32:39Speaker 1: human need. Everybody craves for significance. Number two, variety. People
- 32:45Speaker 1: crave for variety. That's why when another iPhone comes, you
- 32:49Speaker 1: suddenly hate what you loved the day before. Because there
- 32:52Speaker 1: is a passion in people for more. Unfortunately, the side
- 32:56Speaker 1: effect of having an appetite for variety, if untamed, leads
- 33:01Speaker 1: to covetousness. Are we together? You will always want more.
- 33:06Speaker 1: Always want more till it kills you. You must get
- 33:09Speaker 1: it to a time in your life where you can
- 33:11Speaker 1: say enough. Praise the name of the Lord. Number three,
- 33:14Speaker 1: the third psychological need of all men is growth. People
- 33:19Speaker 1: want to grow. They want to grow. When a woman
- 33:23Speaker 1: gets pregnant after six months, she's happy. Are we together now?
- 33:28Speaker 1: What is the difference between the protruding stomach that is
- 33:31Speaker 1: as a result of cancer and the protruding stomach that
- 33:34Speaker 1: is as a result of pregnancy? All of them lead
- 33:37Speaker 1: to your stomach protruding. But on one hand, the woman
- 33:40Speaker 1: is dancing. On another hand, she's saying, Lord, this thing
- 33:43Speaker 1: must go back. The difference is an awareness that there
- 33:46Speaker 1: is growth happening within her. Are we together now? The
- 33:49Speaker 1: growth that is as a result of a cancerous cell
- 33:51Speaker 1: is dangerous, is deadly. But the growth that is as
- 33:54Speaker 1: a result of a baby within the mother's womb is
- 33:57Speaker 1: a great blessing. Growth. Number four. What do people crave for? Desperately. Significance.
- 34:05Speaker 1: This is particularly true with men. All people but the
- 34:09Speaker 1: male gender. Significance. When you hear a man say, do
- 34:12Speaker 1: you know who I am? That's what he's trying to say.
- 34:15Speaker 1: Doesn't matter who he is. He may not even know
- 34:17Speaker 1: who he is himself. If you ask him, okay, who
- 34:19Speaker 1: are you? Are we together now? I am the son
- 34:25Speaker 1: of so-and-so. I'm a director of this and that. That
- 34:28Speaker 1: house is my own. Do you know who I am?
- 34:29Speaker 1: He's just craving for significance. Hallelujah. Significance. It's very powerful.
- 34:37Speaker 1: So when you acknowledge people, we have a chairman of
- 34:41Speaker 1: so-and-so in this place. And ladies and gentlemen, and all
- 34:44Speaker 1: those MC, they know how to massage the ego. Ladies
- 34:47Speaker 1: and gentlemen, without any further ado, please, let's give it
- 34:51Speaker 1: up for XY. You see the person trying to manage. Hallelujah.
- 34:58Speaker 1: May your world celebrate you. Those who don't like you,
- 35:02Speaker 1: they will keep crying every day. But as for your destiny,
- 35:06Speaker 1: you will keep going forward. Hallelujah. Praise the name of
- 35:12Speaker 1: the Lord. Growth, then significance. What else do we crave for? Impact, impact, impact, impact.
- 35:24Speaker 1: All men desire a life that is impactful. Sit down
- 35:29Speaker 1: with an armed robber. Sit down with a drug addict.
- 35:31Speaker 1: Sit down with someone who is given to alcoholism and
- 35:34Speaker 1: tell him, why is your life like this? If he's
- 35:37Speaker 1: not under that influence, he will talk to you sincerely.
- 35:39Speaker 1: He will say, even me, it's not like I really
- 35:41Speaker 1: like this thing. So as stubborn... As they are, something
- 35:45Speaker 1: within them is crying to make meaning with their life.
- 35:48Speaker 1: That's why you can give them a job now and say, okay,
- 35:50Speaker 1: I will give you 100 and I will fix these blocks.
- 35:52Speaker 1: And they will do it because something within them wants
- 35:55Speaker 1: their lives to count. It is a terrible thing for
- 35:58Speaker 1: an individual to live your life and it's not counting.
- 36:02Speaker 1: It's not making any difference whatsoever. Are we together now? Very,
- 36:08Speaker 1: very important. When these factors are at work in your life,
- 36:11Speaker 1: you will be a very fulfilled person. I taught you
- 36:15Speaker 1: in the series. What's the case now. That the only
- 36:18Speaker 1: gift you can give yourself. Is fulfillment. Success is not
- 36:22Speaker 1: your gift. Success comes by you serving others. But the
- 36:26Speaker 1: only thing you can give yourself. Is called fulfillment. It
- 36:29Speaker 1: is the satisfaction that comes from knowing. That you have lived.
- 36:33Speaker 1: Or are living your life effectively. Serving the purposes of
- 36:38Speaker 1: the kingdom. And being a blessing to humanity. We call
- 36:40Speaker 1: it fulfillment. It's an art. There is. An art to fulfillment.
- 36:46Speaker 1: And there are many successful people I've seen in my
- 36:48Speaker 1: life who are not fulfilled. It's why people can commit
- 36:51Speaker 1: suicide with billions in their accounts. They are successful, but
- 36:55Speaker 1: they are not fulfilled. Hallelujah. Are you ready for tonight now? Father,
- 37:02Speaker 1: I'm ready to receive. Go ahead and pray in one minute.
- 37:05Speaker 1: And then we'll go to the teaching tonight. Every moment
- 37:11Speaker 1: in your presence is for my growth. Every moment in
- 37:14Speaker 1: your presence is for my lifting, for my transformation. Now
- 37:18Speaker 1: your word is about to come yet again. I open
- 37:21Speaker 1: up my spirit. Wisdom is about to come. My destiny
- 37:25Speaker 1: is about to change.
- 37:33Speaker 3: You will never be the same.
- 37:37Speaker 5: You've touched his grace. Your life was changed.
- 37:43Speaker 3: You will never be the same you've touched his grace
- 37:49Speaker 3: your life must change you will never be the same
- 37:56Speaker 3: you've touched his grace your life must change you will
- 38:02Speaker 3: never be the same you've touched his grace.
- 38:09Speaker 2: My life must change.
- 38:11Speaker 3: My life must change.
- 38:37Speaker 1: I've touched your grace. I've touched your grace. My mind
- 38:47Speaker 1: must change. My mind must change. I've touched your grace.
- 38:57Speaker 1: I've touched your grace.
- 39:05Speaker 3: I will never be the same.
- 39:09Speaker 1: I've touched your wings. My life must change.
- 39:14Speaker 2: I will never be the same. I've touched your wings.
- 39:20Speaker 2: My life must change.
- 39:23Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Tonight's teaching, sit down please, God bless you. Tonight's
- 39:28Speaker 1: teaching is a very thought-provoking re-examination of the principles, the practices,
- 39:38Speaker 1: and the pathways that you have chosen to adopt as
- 39:43Speaker 1: far as your passion towards destiny actualization is concerned. And
- 39:48Speaker 1: I want you to join me. We want to do
- 39:50Speaker 1: a probe into The principles and the practices that you
- 39:55Speaker 1: have chosen to ignore or chosen to adopt as far
- 39:59Speaker 1: as becoming in every ramification is concerned. The intent of
- 40:04Speaker 1: this teaching tonight is to challenge you. So that if
- 40:08Speaker 1: in the course of this discussion you find out that
- 40:11Speaker 1: you have been following a path that is inconsistent with
- 40:14Speaker 1: your desire, that you obtain grace immediately to make a U-turn.
- 40:19Speaker 1: Many of you are going to be learning from tonight's
- 40:20Speaker 1: teaching that you are speeding off the opposite direction to victory.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Are we together now? That whilst victory is this way,
- 40:29Speaker 1: you are already gallantly and some arrogantly on their way
- 40:33Speaker 1: against the direction of victory. The Spirit of God has
- 40:37Speaker 1: brought this teaching tonight to help you. To remind you
- 40:41Speaker 1: and for others to caution you, to help you make
- 40:43Speaker 1: a U-turn. So that in partnership with the Holy Spirit,
- 40:46Speaker 1: you begin to make a triumphant journey into a destiny
- 40:50Speaker 1: of grace and a destiny of glory. I'm teaching tonight
- 40:54Speaker 1: on a topic that I titled The Roadmap. The road map.
- 40:58Speaker 1: I want to show you the path to ever increasing glory.
- 41:02Speaker 1: The road map. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
- 41:05Speaker 1: The road map. Three scriptures very quickly. Matthew chapter 7.
- 41:11Speaker 1: Where we got our text for tonight from verse 13
- 41:14Speaker 1: and 11. Matthew chapter 7, 13 and 11. The road map.
- 41:20Speaker 1: Jesus is speaking and he said, enter ye into the
- 41:23Speaker 1: straight gate. He said, for wide is the gate and
- 41:28Speaker 1: broad is the way that leadeth to destruction. He's speaking now, Jesus.
- 41:34Speaker 1: And many there be which go in there. Can you imagine?
- 41:38Speaker 1: Wide is the way, the gate, and broad is the
- 41:42Speaker 1: way that leads to destruction. He says, many, for whatever reason,
- 41:48Speaker 1: are following that path. Verse 14. He says, because straight...
- 41:54Speaker 1: Or narrow is the gate and narrow is the way
- 41:57Speaker 1: which leadeth unto life. And few there be that find it.
- 42:03Speaker 1: Many years ago I used to think he was talking
- 42:05Speaker 1: about heaven and hell. But I got to find out
- 42:09Speaker 1: that the way to the kingdom is not narrow. The
- 42:12Speaker 1: way to the kingdom is Jesus. Jesus said I am
- 42:15Speaker 1: the way. Are we together now? Yes. This was talking
- 42:19Speaker 1: about a reality that is multi-dimensional. And we want to
- 42:23Speaker 1: pick out one of such dimensions as a compass that
- 42:27Speaker 1: will help us. Job chapter 28, I believe from verse
- 42:31Speaker 1: 7 and 8, Job was speaking by the Spirit and
- 42:33Speaker 1: he said, There is a path which no fowl knoweth.
- 42:41Speaker 1: That means even though they have an advantage of altitude.
- 42:44Speaker 1: The paths should not be a miracle or a wonder
- 42:49Speaker 1: for the fowl like the eagle. Because by reason of
- 42:52Speaker 1: the advantage of altitude. They are able to see even
- 42:56Speaker 1: paths that humans cannot see. And yet Job is saying
- 42:59Speaker 1: there is a path. Which in spite of the altitude.
- 43:03Speaker 1: That advantage that the fowl, the bird of the air has.
- 43:08Speaker 1: And the vulture's eye that they are not able to
- 43:10Speaker 1: see it. Verse 8. It says the lion's whelps have
- 43:16Speaker 1: not trodden there. You know they call the lion the
- 43:19Speaker 1: king of the jungle. And I've watched a number of
- 43:22Speaker 1: documentaries on lions. They are very bold. They do not fear.
- 43:26Speaker 1: Especially when they are moving as a pride. They move
- 43:29Speaker 1: with gallancy as though they own the forest. And sad
- 43:33Speaker 1: is any creature that stands their way. Especially if it's alone.
- 43:37Speaker 1: They would tear it into pieces. Worst of is the hyena.
- 43:40Speaker 1: Let it be that any hyena meanders the path of
- 43:44Speaker 1: a pride. For no reason they will kill it. They've
- 43:46Speaker 1: been enemies from time immemorial. Are we together now? And
- 43:51Speaker 1: yet he's saying as bold, as courageous, as audacious as
- 43:55Speaker 1: the lion is, there are certain paths that with its intelligence, intuition,
- 44:01Speaker 1: and courage, it's not been able to get there. Even
- 44:04Speaker 1: the fierce lion has not passed by it. These are
- 44:08Speaker 1: parts in the spirit that only the Holy Ghost can
- 44:11Speaker 1: take a man through. Remember, the eagle and the lion
- 44:15Speaker 1: are two creatures that Jesus, God himself, likens himself. He
- 44:19Speaker 1: uses the similitude of those creatures. The lion of the
- 44:23Speaker 1: tribe of Judah and then the eagle. And yet the
- 44:27Speaker 1: Bible says in as much as he's used those similitudes,
- 44:32Speaker 1: it is amazing that there are certain dimensions that they
- 44:35Speaker 1: have not crossed. I'm praying for you already. In the
- 44:39Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ. These parts that only few have
- 44:42Speaker 1: found in destiny. And with it they have commanded enviable results.
- 44:47Speaker 1: It is your turn to finally see it. In the
- 44:51Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ. A very popular scripture here. Ecclesiastes
- 44:55Speaker 1: chapter 10 and verse 15. Ecclesiastes 10 and verse 15,
- 45:00Speaker 1: the wisdom of the preacher. He says, the labor of
- 45:03Speaker 1: the foolish wearied every one of them, because he knoweth
- 45:08Speaker 1: not how to go into the city. There is a
- 45:11Speaker 1: way to go into the city. The city can mean anything.
- 45:14Speaker 1: The way of destiny, the way of glory, the way
- 45:17Speaker 1: of grace. How to come out of a life of shame, misery,
- 45:20Speaker 1: and reproach into a life of color and beauty. A
- 45:24Speaker 1: life of glory by any definition. And he's saying that
- 45:28Speaker 1: there is a labor of the fool. He's hardworking, but
- 45:32Speaker 1: not according to pattern. And he says it will worry
- 45:35Speaker 1: every one of them because he knoweth not how to
- 45:39Speaker 1: go into the city. A popular scripture here, Jeremiah 6, 16,
- 45:44Speaker 1: the Bible says to stand in the way. And to
- 45:48Speaker 1: see and to ask for the old path. Wherein is
- 45:52Speaker 1: the good way. And that when you have found it.
- 45:55Speaker 1: He says to walk therein. And ye shall find rest
- 45:59Speaker 1: for your souls. To ask. To see. To find. And
- 46:05Speaker 1: to walk therein. And that you will find rest for
- 46:08Speaker 1: your soul. I wrote here and I want you to
- 46:11Speaker 1: pay attention. That there is a path. That leads to
- 46:14Speaker 1: glory and grace. Both in the spirit world. And in destiny.
- 46:19Speaker 1: There is a path. We are dealing with the road map.
- 46:22Speaker 1: There is a path that leads to glory. And grace.
- 46:27Speaker 1: Both in the spirit. And then in destiny. There is
- 46:31Speaker 1: also a path. That leads to failure. And defeat. Isn't
- 46:36Speaker 1: it amazing that you don't just fail. You are not
- 46:38Speaker 1: just defeated. You actually have to follow a pathway. A
- 46:43Speaker 1: road map. That leads to victory. An effect called defeat.
- 46:49Speaker 1: So there is a pathway that leads to grace and glory.
- 46:52Speaker 1: There is another pathway that leads to failure and defeat.
- 46:56Speaker 1: And this is something that everyone must come to terms with.
- 47:00Speaker 1: When people fail in their life. Whether in spiritual things.
- 47:04Speaker 1: Or in destiny actualization. Most times they settle in on
- 47:09Speaker 1: blaming Satan. They settle in on blaming the families that
- 47:12Speaker 1: they may have come from. And those factors may be there.
- 47:15Speaker 1: But very few will actually agree. That they followed a
- 47:20Speaker 1: path subconsciously or unknowingly. That led to an outcome called failure.
- 47:25Speaker 1: There are very few people who are responsible enough to admit.
- 47:29Speaker 1: That the reason why I failed and I keep failing.
- 47:32Speaker 1: It's because I have followed a path diligently. Are we together?
- 47:37Speaker 1: That means failure itself does not just happen. You have
- 47:39Speaker 1: to be obedient to something to fail. You must be
- 47:43Speaker 1: obedient to a certain pathway. You must be obedient to
- 47:47Speaker 1: certain things to produce failure. Failure does not just happen
- 47:53Speaker 1: when you fail in ministry, when you fail in life,
- 47:56Speaker 1: when you fail spiritually, when you fail in your finances.
- 48:00Speaker 1: It looks like it was just designed for you and
- 48:03Speaker 1: you became a victim. But I'm telling you it's not true.
- 48:06Speaker 1: Failure is programmed. Something plus something plus something or something
- 48:11Speaker 1: minus something minus something equals the outcome called failure. So
- 48:16Speaker 1: there is a path that leads to glory and grace.
- 48:20Speaker 1: There is a path that leads to failure and defeat. Now,
- 48:24Speaker 1: I want to present a few submissions to you and
- 48:26Speaker 1: I want you to please pay attention. Number one is
- 48:29Speaker 1: that success, victory and greatness is our heritage in Christ. Success,
- 48:38Speaker 1: victory and greatness is our heritage in Christ. If you
- 48:43Speaker 1: believe that while writing, shout Amen. Let me hear another
- 48:47Speaker 1: Amen again. Success, victory and greatness is our heritage in Christ.
- 48:53Speaker 1: Save journey if you do not believe what I just said.
- 48:56Speaker 1: Are we together? That success. victory and greatness is our
- 49:01Speaker 1: heritage in christ among the many benefits of redemption is
- 49:06Speaker 1: an opportunity while serving the purposes of god and living
- 49:10Speaker 1: for jesus to taste of true success to taste of
- 49:14Speaker 1: victorious living and to be able to attain a position
- 49:18Speaker 1: of commendable greatness genesis chapter 12 please we'll read verse
- 49:21Speaker 1: 2 and 3 the blessing that was proposed to abraham
- 49:26Speaker 1: and i will make of thee a great nation And
- 49:30Speaker 1: I will bless thee. I will make thy name great.
- 49:34Speaker 1: And thou shall be a blessing. Verse 3. It says
- 49:37Speaker 1: I will bless them that bless thee. And curse him
- 49:41Speaker 1: that cursed thee. And in thee shall all the families
- 49:45Speaker 1: of the earth be blessed. So God proposed a blessing.
- 49:49Speaker 1: He proposed a program for Abraham. That I desire to
- 49:53Speaker 1: bless the entire earth. And you have found favor with me.
- 49:57Speaker 1: To be the one through whom that blessing will find expression.
- 50:01Speaker 1: Galatians chapter 3 and verse 29. Paul was teaching us
- 50:04Speaker 1: that if we be Christ. He says then are ye
- 50:08Speaker 1: Abraham's seed. And heirs according to the promise. That when
- 50:13Speaker 1: God was making that promise. Cutting that covenant with Abraham.
- 50:17Speaker 1: It was not just for his sake and his seed.
- 50:19Speaker 1: There was not Isaac. By natural descent he became a
- 50:24Speaker 1: beneficiary of that covenant. That promise. But spiritually speaking. He
- 50:29Speaker 1: was speaking about Jesus. And that now in Christ and
- 50:33Speaker 1: through Christ. Every believer. Are we together? Has been made
- 50:36Speaker 1: a partaker of this privilege. This promise. This covenant. God
- 50:41Speaker 1: did not enter the covenant with us. But we are
- 50:44Speaker 1: beneficiaries of that covenant. By reason of being in Christ.
- 50:49Speaker 1: And through Abraham. Are we together now? This is very important.
- 50:53Speaker 1: If ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed and
- 50:56Speaker 1: heirs according to the promise. Psalm 71 and verse 21.
- 51:02Speaker 1: A scripture that is very personal to me. It came
- 51:05Speaker 1: from the mouth of the Lord to my destiny. And
- 51:07Speaker 1: it's a scripture that I continually remind God of. And
- 51:10Speaker 1: a scripture that has been ever before me. Join me
- 51:13Speaker 1: in receiving it tonight. It says thou shall increase my greatness.
- 51:18Speaker 1: And comfort me on every side. Say Amen. It is
- 51:22Speaker 1: a dangerous thing for your greatness to increase and you
- 51:25Speaker 1: do not find comfort on every side. Because I hope
- 51:28Speaker 1: you know that with greatness, what surrounds you are enemies.
- 51:31Speaker 1: And if God does not give you rest round about,
- 51:34Speaker 1: your greatness will become a cost to your life. So
- 51:37Speaker 1: it says, thou shall increase my greatness and comfort me
- 51:42Speaker 1: on every side. Reminding you again that success, victory and
- 51:47Speaker 1: greatness is your heritage in Christ. Now let me pause
- 51:50Speaker 1: for a moment and discuss this. When we discuss matters
- 51:56Speaker 1: of consecration. Matters of surrender. Matters of holiness and devotion
- 52:03Speaker 1: unto the Lord. The intent is to bring us to
- 52:05Speaker 1: a point where we prioritize Jesus Christ. Are we together?
- 52:10Speaker 1: Above the things that this world can offer. Above jobs.
- 52:15Speaker 1: Above whatever it is. And it's a very accurate theology.
- 52:18Speaker 1: to teach believers to ascend in their passion and their
- 52:23Speaker 1: drive for God beyond material things. If the scope of
- 52:27Speaker 1: your seeking God is, the end point of your seeking
- 52:30Speaker 1: God is just to acquire things, then you have been misled.
- 52:34Speaker 1: Are we together? You will get things, you will get
- 52:37Speaker 1: all kinds of blessings, but that for any serious believer
- 52:41Speaker 1: who is mentored properly, There are weightier and higher and
- 52:45Speaker 1: more serious indices that measure success in the spirit. The
- 52:49Speaker 1: greatest of them being your passion, your press, your drive
- 52:52Speaker 1: for God. The depth and the extent of your devotion
- 52:56Speaker 1: towards God and spiritual things. Here's why I brought this issue.
- 53:01Speaker 1: Sometimes in a bid to help people stay consecrated. in
- 53:07Speaker 1: a bid to help people stay in the reality and
- 53:10Speaker 1: the consciousness of holiness and total devotion to God, especially
- 53:15Speaker 1: for we preachers, we make the mistake of trivializing the
- 53:21Speaker 1: fact that the human spirit was designed to find fulfillment
- 53:24Speaker 1: ultimately through your relationship with Christ, but that there must
- 53:28Speaker 1: be consolations to your Christian experience if life must make
- 53:32Speaker 1: sense to you. Are we together now? So sometimes in
- 53:35Speaker 1: a bid to help people to not love the things
- 53:38Speaker 1: of this world, to not love material things, we produce
- 53:42Speaker 1: a lazy and an irresponsible people. People who love Jesus
- 53:47Speaker 1: but having failed families. People who love Jesus but not
- 53:51Speaker 1: ascending the kind of influence that gives the church a
- 53:54Speaker 1: voice in society. The side effect is that we present
- 53:58Speaker 1: a lopsided view of God. It is the reason why
- 54:01Speaker 1: unbelievers today have the credence to mock the church. And
- 54:04Speaker 1: they make it look like all we do is just pray,
- 54:07Speaker 1: fall down fast and we are useless to ourselves and
- 54:10Speaker 1: to society. And based on the definition we have given them,
- 54:14Speaker 1: there's some element of truth in what they are saying.
- 54:18Speaker 1: So when believers are being taught, when you bring the
- 54:21Speaker 1: subject of holiness, righteousness, consecration, living a devoted life, pressing
- 54:27Speaker 1: towards perfection in Christ, that must be a priority. But
- 54:31Speaker 1: in addition to that, in addition to that, you must
- 54:35Speaker 1: broaden the understanding of believers to see that they are
- 54:38Speaker 1: in this earth, And their lives must be useful. And
- 54:42Speaker 1: that there is a level of frustration they will experience.
- 54:45Speaker 1: Even though they are in Christ. If their lives do
- 54:48Speaker 1: not make progress. Am I right on that? A day
- 54:52Speaker 1: will come no matter how holy, how righteous, how loving
- 54:55Speaker 1: Jesus you are. If you cannot pay the school fees
- 54:58Speaker 1: of your children. If you cannot move to, you know,
- 55:02Speaker 1: make strategic progress in your life. Especially if you accent
- 55:06Speaker 1: any position of leadership. You will find out that you
- 55:09Speaker 1: are perpetually getting frustrated. And I can submit to you, honestly,
- 55:15Speaker 1: that this is what is plaguing many believers now. They
- 55:17Speaker 1: are unable to reconcile their passion, their consecration, that they
- 55:23Speaker 1: have lived a life void of bribery, void of corruption,
- 55:27Speaker 1: a life that is truly dedicated and consecrated unto God.
- 55:31Speaker 1: The Bible says to seek first His kingdom and all
- 55:34Speaker 1: other things, you see. And that scripture has not been
- 55:37Speaker 1: explained properly yet. And unfortunately there are many people right
- 55:41Speaker 1: now whose is like their passion for God is becoming
- 55:44Speaker 1: a curse to their lives. Because they are not able
- 55:46Speaker 1: to make progress in any other aspect of life. Their
- 55:50Speaker 1: wives are asking them questions they cannot answer. Their children
- 55:53Speaker 1: are asking them questions they cannot answer. Their companies and
- 55:57Speaker 1: corporations are asking them questions they cannot answer. Their finances
- 56:01Speaker 1: are asking them questions they cannot answer. And at the
- 56:05Speaker 1: end of it, the danger of this kind of incomplete theology,
- 56:10Speaker 1: like we are experiencing now, is that there is a
- 56:13Speaker 1: generation of young people who are rising. They are more audacious.
- 56:17Speaker 1: They have laws and policies that can defend their convictions.
- 56:21Speaker 1: They are asking all the generations before them, I am
- 56:24Speaker 1: not interested in this logic. This, your spiritual logic, does
- 56:28Speaker 1: not add up. Some of them will say, I watched
- 56:31Speaker 1: my missionary father love the Lord and yet he was
- 56:34Speaker 1: in debt till he died. Like the sons of the prophet.
- 56:37Speaker 1: I watched my father, he would not take bribe, yet
- 56:40Speaker 1: we never had the opportunity to do this and that.
- 56:43Speaker 1: Some of them will tell you, I got into prostitution
- 56:45Speaker 1: even though I'm a pastor's daughter. Simply because of this
- 56:49Speaker 1: kind of frustrated life. We had morning devotion every morning.
- 56:53Speaker 1: Morning and night devotion before we would sleep. And I
- 56:56Speaker 1: saw my father quarrel with my mother. They never were
- 56:58Speaker 1: able to live in peace. You see, it is very
- 57:03Speaker 1: dangerous when the whole council of God is not communicated
- 57:07Speaker 1: to God's people. I've been an advocate of meting out
- 57:11Speaker 1: the whole council of God. Because as powerful... As the
- 57:15Speaker 1: various dimensions of God are. They become poisonous and even dangerous.
- 57:21Speaker 1: When believers only cherry pick one dimension. And build their
- 57:25Speaker 1: entire theology around it. For a while it may not
- 57:29Speaker 1: seem to be destructive. Until God grants you grace to advance.
- 57:33Speaker 1: Then you begin to see the cancer that is producing.
- 57:36Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
- 57:39Speaker 1: So this is another addition. that in addition to your
- 57:44Speaker 1: loving jesus living a consecrated life following hard after him
- 57:49Speaker 1: loving him beyond things you must have this at the
- 57:53Speaker 1: back of your mind that success victory and greatness is
- 57:58Speaker 1: your heritage in christ please look up being successful does
- 58:02Speaker 1: not take you to hell living a victorious christian life
- 58:06Speaker 1: does not take you to hell are we together Desiring
- 58:09Speaker 1: greatness and attaining the same in your lifetime does not
- 58:13Speaker 1: take you to hell. In fact, there is a dimension
- 58:16Speaker 1: of God's glory you cannot capture and you cannot reveal.
- 58:20Speaker 1: If you are not successful, if you are not victorious
- 58:23Speaker 1: and if you are not great. You believe that, say amen.
- 58:29Speaker 1: You don't need to be an old man. To see
- 58:32Speaker 1: that when your life does not capture success, victory and greatness.
- 58:37Speaker 1: Eventually your Christian experience will be lopsided. You will be frustrated.
- 58:42Speaker 1: And all those who believe in you will eventually be frustrated.
- 58:45Speaker 1: Let me tell you what is happening right now. Many
- 58:49Speaker 1: of our younger people have believed some of these lopsided things.
- 58:53Speaker 1: And there is a generation that is growing very angry.
- 58:58Speaker 1: Very angry. Because some of them, if they had an
- 59:01Speaker 1: opportunity to hear the whole counsel of God. Look, let
- 59:05Speaker 1: me tell you the truth. When you are taught God properly,
- 59:08Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense to reject. him. Are we together now?
- 59:11Speaker 1: When you really understand God. And you are taught God
- 59:15Speaker 1: from the lens of balance. accuracy you will love him
- 59:19Speaker 1: with all your heart because then you will see his
- 59:22Speaker 1: plan for your life the picture becomes whole you will
- 59:25Speaker 1: love him by by choice above every other god and
- 59:30Speaker 1: above every other practice but something happens to you when
- 59:34Speaker 1: the picture of god given to you is from the
- 59:37Speaker 1: lens of fanatism or from an incomplete dimension you embrace
- 59:42Speaker 1: it sincerely usually as a young man But as you grow,
- 59:46Speaker 1: as you get married, as you get into leadership, as
- 59:49Speaker 1: many responsibilities come, there are many people who are swallowing
- 59:53Speaker 1: the software of imbalance, swallowing the software of lopsided, the
- 59:58Speaker 1: pills like a tablet of lopsided spirituality. The reason is
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: because the things that they have not learned, there is
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: somebody in their life covering it for them. So they
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: have not seen the consequence of not knowing those things. Eventually,
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: daddy goes to be with the Lord. Mommy goes to
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: be with the Lord. The senior brother goes to be
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: with the Lord. And they are exposed to a vicious
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: reality of something they have ignored for years. Some of
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: them get to learn that lesson when they get into
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: family life. They carry their childishness and immaturity and find
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: out that it's tearing their homes into pieces. And now,
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: unlearning it becomes harder. It's like a man of 40
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: years going to nursery class with a short knicker and
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: a vest. You know, I've made that example in this place.
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: That while the teacher is teaching younger people, the man
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: is sleeping. And the teacher says, number one, why are
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: you learning this at this age? Says, well, no knowledge
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: is a waste. But the man will barely learn anything there. Nobody,
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: he can't play with anybody. Look at the kind of
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: inconvenience he has to go through. This is what is
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: happening to many people. For some of you, your Christian
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: experience would have been richer and fuller had you known
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: early enough that there are other dimensions you should not ignore.
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: Some have been very fortunate you were born again and
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: immediately you did not have the.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: You did not have the opportunity to rigmarole around error
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: and imbalance. You were brought immediately to experience the whole
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: counsel of God. For such people, if they talk about
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: serving God, they will sing that serving God is so sweet.
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: And someone else will say, which God? You've not come
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: to see the God I'm serving, that's why. It's from
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: the lens of your mentorship. Someone did not give you
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: the complete picture of this God. And it's producing a
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: kind of failure. I'm praying for you in the name
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. That as we continue this discussion, God
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: will open your eyes to see where you may have
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: been missing it. I'm praying for everyone here. May your
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: children never ask you questions you cannot answer. Are you
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: receiving it? May your children never ask you questions you
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: cannot answer. Amen. may your children not tell you daddy
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: mommy this God you have been serving is it that
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: this God is so wicked that he cannot even provide
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: food for the home is it that he cannot even
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: help us to have the convenience to serve him.
- 1:02:34Speaker 5: Your life must change your life must change you've touched
- 1:02:44Speaker 5: his grace Your life must change.
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: You will never become successful. You will never become victorious.
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: And you will never become great. If you do not
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: believe that it is in your destiny. Now the danger
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: is that if all you pursue is success. All you
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: pursue is victory. All you pursue is greatness as the
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: end itself. You are already in trouble. Whoever swings to
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: the other side of the pendulum and teaches you to
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: ignore God. Just pursue success, success principles. Just pursue greatness.
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: And you alienate God from your life. You know the danger?
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: You will be successful. You will be great. As much
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: as the earth defines greatness, but because God is not
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: a factor there and he's not your greatest priority, you
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: would have brought to your life the things that will
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: end up killing you. So after years of piecing together
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: human laws that can bring success to you, you find
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: out that you begin to die by the same tools
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: you labor to bring to your life. I can tell
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: you there is an element of success, victory and greatness.
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: There is an element of it that cannot bring you.
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: It is only God being introduced in that equation that
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: makes it valuable and profitable to you. Are we together?
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: You get the balance now? But have it at the
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: back of your mind. I studied my Bible. I made
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: a determination to love God and to serve him all
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: the days of my life. But when I found in
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: scripture that success and victory and greatness is my heritage
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: in Christ. I burned it into my spirit and into
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: my consciousness. And there is no theology that will preach
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: me otherwise. I believe that it is the will of
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: God for me to live a victorious Christian life. I
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: believe that it is the will of God for me.
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: Someone learning to live a successful life. I believe that
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: it is the will of God for me. To attain
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: at the highest level of greatness. That my life can command.
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: To the degree to which it will reveal Christ. This
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: is what I believe. You believe that say amen. Number two.
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: A reminder that God is glorified when we are successful. Ah,
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: I like this. God is glorified when we bear fruit.
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: God is glorified. Isaiah chapter 61 and verse 3. It
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: calls every believer the planting of the Lord. The planting
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: of the Lord. That they might be called trees. Or
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: oaks of righteousness. The planting of the Lord. That he
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: might be glorified. Every believer is a planting of the Lord.
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: Every believer. You have to believe this. If you are
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: a believer. Know that you are a planting of the Lord.
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: That means God is a sower. Everybody say God is
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: a sower. It's not just humans that are sowers. God
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: is also a sower. And his seeds are men. His
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: seeds are men. Are we together? His soil represents the
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: various regions of the earth. God is a sower. He
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: sows men. He expects the men to grow like trees
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: and to become fruitful. And the harvest that he gets
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: is how he's glorified. Are we together now? He gets
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: the harvest of the fruitfulness of the saints. It is
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: not just in your destiny to be great. It is
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: not just in your destiny to be successful. It's not
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: just in your destiny to be victorious. You must also
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: know that God is glorified. When Joshua Selman is victorious,
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: God is glorified. When Koinonia is great, God is glorified.
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: He is. Truly he is. Jesus caused the fig tree
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: to show us and teach us a lesson. That he
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: is very, very unapologetic about fruitfulness. Matthew chapter, John chapter
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: 15 and verse 8. The Bible says, Matthew 15 and
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: verse 8. Hearing is my father glorified. When ye bear
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: much fruit, so shall you be my disciples. so shall
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: you be my disciples when you bear much fruit when
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: you bear much fruit he wants us to bear much
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: fruit to produce results god is glorified do you know
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: the meaning of that listen any results you get in
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: your life that does not glorify god is a useless
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: result any lifting, any prosperity. Are we together now? This
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: is the difference between the world's way of seeking power,
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: the world's way of seeking fame, increase and so on
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: and so forth. Listen, the reason why that happens to
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: them that way is because there is nothing that drives them.
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: Their world is governed by self. I remember years ago
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: when they were teaching us evangelism, we used a little
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: pamphlet called Four Spiritual Laws. How many of you ever
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: saw that pamphlet? A green pamphlet. And you will see
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: that there are all kinds of diagrams. The first one
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: has the person sitting on the chair of his heart.
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: Then later, the person is pushed away and the cross
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: is there as a sign of Christ sitting there. Now,
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: for the unbeliever, his whole world is about him. His
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: pursuit for success for him. His pursuit of greatness for him.
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: Usually it is to prove a point. To prove to
- 1:08:35Speaker 1: everyone who thought they were failures. But when you come
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: into Christ. The angle with which you approach the subject
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: of victory, success and greatness is very different. Everything becomes
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: for his namesake. The reason why you want to prosper
- 1:08:50Speaker 1: for his namesake. The reason why you want to do
- 1:08:52Speaker 1: well for his namesake. Once that adjustment is made. Your
- 1:08:56Speaker 1: pursuit becomes godly. Your pursuit. only becomes destructive if God
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: cannot get glory out of what you are doing. And
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: I have taught you here with endless sermons, endless series.
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: That your life, your pursuit for success, victory, greatness and
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: anything at all that men desire. You must have it
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: at the back of your mind. That everything I'm seeking
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: in this life is not just for my personal comfort.
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: But that God be glorified. Shout it from your spirit
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: through your voice. Say be glorified. Through my life. One
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: more time. Say be glorified. Through my life. Meaning be
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: glorified through my results. Be glorified as you lift me.
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: Be glorified as you anoint me the more. Be glorified
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: as Koinonia expands. Be glorified as I take my children
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: to better schools where they are taught great values. And
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: help them to become great people. Be glorified. As I
- 1:09:59Speaker 1: move from a tenant to a landlord. Be glorified. As
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: I get to a point where I am so blessed.
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: I am now a blessing. I sleep in peace not
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: worrying about tea and bread. Be glorified. Someone say it again.
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: Say be glorified. Through my life. Say it again. Be glorified.
- 1:10:18Speaker 1: Through my life. Every time I'm preparing for the miracle
- 1:10:22Speaker 1: service usually the theme of my prayer is this. Lord
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: visit your people. And then when I get to my
- 1:10:27Speaker 1: own turn I say Lord be glorified. Be glorified again.
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: Your servant is going to stand before your people. Coming
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: with various situations. Various conditions. It is not within my
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: power as a man to help them. But my trust
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: is in you. And when I begin to say be glorified.
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: I just sense waves and waves of the anointing. Because
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: God knows my heart is sincere before him. That everything
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: I'm about doing as I stand upon this stage. Is
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: to glorify him. The success that does not glorify God.
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: Is useless success. The promotion that cannot glorify God is
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: useless promotion. Now let me digress for a minute. What
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: does it mean for God to be glorified? I will
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: tell you. God is only glorified to the degree to
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: which Jesus is revealed. Through any growth. Through any result.
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: So that we are not vague in our discussion. Many
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: people say be glorified but there is no definition to
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: what they are saying. I'm deconstructing that expression for you
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: so that you are not left at a loss. Every
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: time you are saying God be glorified. What you mean
- 1:11:35Speaker 1: is through the result that come. By engaging this through
- 1:11:39Speaker 1: my growth. Let Jesus be revealed. I like it. Koinonia
- 1:11:43Speaker 1: captures it so beautifully. In fact, in my opinion, it's
- 1:11:46Speaker 1: the most beautiful expression of glory that I know. Jesus revealed.
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: Jesus glorified. Jesus revealed. So the bargain in the spirit is,
- 1:11:58Speaker 1: how is God's interest protected, defended, and advanced? That is
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: the bargain. It is the question you must answer if
- 1:12:08Speaker 1: you want to do business with God. Lord, I'm trusting
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: you to make me a billionaire. Fine and good. Here
- 1:12:15Speaker 1: is the baguette again. How will the purposes of God
- 1:12:18Speaker 1: be advanced through the millions? How will the purposes of
- 1:12:21Speaker 1: God find expression? Let me tell you the truth. It
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: is a baguette that if you cannot answer and you
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: cannot step in to forget about doing business with God.
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: Are we together? Lord I'm trusting you to give me
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: a great church. I'm trusting you to give me a
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: global ministry. And God says all things are yours. But
- 1:12:41Speaker 1: here's the question. By the time I bring thousands and
- 1:12:44Speaker 1: tens of thousands. By the time I multiply influence. I
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: multiply bread. I multiply your voice. How will Jesus be
- 1:12:52Speaker 1: revealed through it? Oh many souls will come to Jesus.
- 1:12:57Speaker 1: I will teach your word with integrity and truth. Now
- 1:13:00Speaker 1: the burden for glorifying him is there. I'm reminded of
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: what the Lord told me years ago. That if you
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: will let men see me, there is nothing I will
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: not give you. Meaning, if you will live your life
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: glorifying me, there is nothing I will not give you.
- 1:13:16Speaker 1: Be lifted.
- 1:13:19Speaker 6: High.
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: Be lifted high.
- 1:13:24Speaker 3: Oh Lord, be lifted high.
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: For you are holy. Righteous and worthy. Oh Lord. Believe.
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen. A big secret
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: about this ministry. By his mercy. The reason why we
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: are on the frequency of ever increasing glory. Is because
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: there is no room for the flesh to be glorified.
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: From opening prayer. Until we share the grace. From sound
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: of revival. To every school of ministry. Every activity in
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: this ministry. Is directly tailored. At revealing Jesus. I will
- 1:14:18Speaker 1: gladly decrease. Gladly. Gladly decrease. And let Jesus be glorified.
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: My greatest satisfaction. Is seeing people know him. My greatest
- 1:14:31Speaker 1: satisfaction is seeing people encounter him. Are we together? That
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: if you come and you are healed. If you forget
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: about Joshua Selman and you remember Jesus. It was an
- 1:14:40Speaker 1: excellent beginning. But if you remember Joshua Selman. And even
- 1:14:46Speaker 1: idolize Joshua Selman. And then you forget about the one
- 1:14:50Speaker 1: who died for you. And you focus about the one
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: who cannot even die for you. You made a very
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: bad beginning with destiny. Hallelujah. I will tell you this
- 1:15:01Speaker 1: in passing. The reason why many people do not see
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: the hand of God in their lives is because although
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: they are obeying the correct principles that lead to success,
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: their hearts are very corrupt and they are just waiting
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: for results to arrive. And then the world will see
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: another version of them. And many times God withholds that
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: result as an act of his love. So that it
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: does not tear you and add you to the memorial
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: of those who have become a disappointment to the program
- 1:15:29Speaker 1: of God. If there is any way I know to
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: move the heart of God is to hide behind the
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: cross and say, Lord, be glorified in whatever you bring
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: to my life. If you add one dollar to my life,
- 1:15:43Speaker 1: let it be for your glory. If you add one
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: more drop of the anointing upon my head, let it
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: be for your glory. Koinonia, are you learning this now?
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: We're discussing the road map. I'm showing you why things
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: don't work well for people. There are some of you,
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: this is your sermon. As you came here tonight, God
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: has been pounding it for years. Drop your pride and
- 1:16:07Speaker 1: drop your appetite to be known. Your appetite to be seen.
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: Your appetite to take the stage. If you can relinquish that,
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: then you step into a realm that only few have
- 1:16:20Speaker 1: gotten to. A realm where they are fearfully exalted by
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: the finger of God. Because they have died to self.
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: Are we together? God is glorified when we bear fruits.
- 1:16:40Speaker 1: I am the planting of the Lord. It's a revelation
- 1:16:43Speaker 1: that I have. God planted me in Abuja. God planted
- 1:16:46Speaker 1: me in Nigeria. I only came through my family. I
- 1:16:50Speaker 1: didn't come from my family. I passed through my family.
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: Look at me. I know you call yourself Yoruba. You
- 1:16:57Speaker 1: call yourself Igbo and Hausa. Geographically speaking, you are right.
- 1:17:01Speaker 1: But spiritually speaking, you are wrong. You came from above
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: through your family. Don't forget, your family was a channel,
- 1:17:09Speaker 1: not the origin. That means whatever limitation you met there,
- 1:17:13Speaker 1: you can conquer it by the consciousness of where you
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: came from. That he that cometh from above is above all.
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: So the limitations that trap Yoruba people... The limitations that
- 1:17:25Speaker 1: trap Igbo people... The limitations that trap South Southerners... Middle Beltans... Northerners... Americans... Europeans...
- 1:17:33Speaker 1: It may be true... But the consciousness of your origin...
- 1:17:37Speaker 1: Are we together? That since God will be glorified in
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: my life... It doesn't matter what comes with my natural descent...
- 1:17:44Speaker 1: I cancel it by the revelation... Of where I'm coming from...
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: He that cometh from above... It's above all.
- 1:17:51Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
- 1:17:55Speaker 1: Is someone learning? Be glorified. I have seen how God
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: is glorified in and through my life. I have seen
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: how God is glorified in and through this ministry. My
- 1:18:05Speaker 1: greatest desire for you, my dear people, is not that
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: you watch a man who is glorifying God with his life,
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: but that you become an active participant of birthing and
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: bringing glory like an incense rising from your life, rising
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: from your days. Every day you can tell God, you've
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: given me the gift of life. I want you to
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: sit back and watch glory rise from me to you.
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: glory coming through evangelism glory coming by the correct use
- 1:18:34Speaker 1: of your mind to better the lives of people glory
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: coming by drawing people to Jesus this is powerful glory
- 1:18:41Speaker 1: coming by helping the poor and the needy by next
- 1:18:44Speaker 1: week by the message of God I'm so happy that
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: the medical team you know are doing the things that
- 1:18:49Speaker 1: they are doing helping people do you know is something
- 1:18:52Speaker 1: i am delighted in my heart you have to be
- 1:18:55Speaker 1: a non-believer to be angry that next week somebody's life
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: will be changed diagnosis all kinds of things you know
- 1:19:04Speaker 1: you know humorously we discuss with our medical people that
- 1:19:06Speaker 1: there are people who wait for Sunday to go to
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: the hospital. Because they may not have the money to
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: go to, you know, a hospital. So they wait patiently.
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: And they know that everything that happens at the medical
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: stand is free. So they wait on Sunday. As soon
- 1:19:21Speaker 1: as they arrive, they march straight to the medical stand.
- 1:19:25Speaker 1: Diagnose me and treat me. This is the house of God.
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: And we're happy to do that. And we won't stop. No,
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: we won't. We won't. It's a job out there, but
- 1:19:42Speaker 1: it's a ministry here. It's a ministry. For as long
- 1:19:51Speaker 1: as God grants us grace, we will continue to do
- 1:19:54Speaker 1: everything with the strength that he has given to see
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: him glorified. Someone again say, be glorified. Through my life.
- 1:20:03Speaker 1: For every one person who eats because your finances supported them,
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: that is you revealing the glory of God. For every
- 1:20:10Speaker 1: downcast person who your counsel gave them life and hope,
- 1:20:13Speaker 1: just know that you are glorifying the Lord. Let me
- 1:20:16Speaker 1: tell you this, one of the ways we grow in
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: the spirit is by using what he is giving. Don't
- 1:20:21Speaker 1: desire more when you've not exhausted what he's given. The
- 1:20:25Speaker 1: anointing he gave is for headache. Exhaust the headache first.
- 1:20:29Speaker 1: There are many heads that are in pain. Focus on
- 1:20:32Speaker 1: healing the heads. And before you know it, from headache,
- 1:20:35Speaker 1: it moves to something else. Don't be praying for grace
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: to heal cancer when he gave you the grace for headache.
- 1:20:41Speaker 1: And you ignored it because it's too small. I mean,
- 1:20:43Speaker 1: what testimony I was once having headache and now it's gone.
- 1:20:47Speaker 1: People say, my friend, go and look for something serious. No. No. No.
- 1:20:53Speaker 1: Are we together? One way I know to grow in
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: the anointing is effective use of the current grace God
- 1:20:58Speaker 1: has given you. Use it faithfully. And then you continue
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: to grow. But the message here is that every one
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: of us, please pay attention. God is glorified when I
- 1:21:09Speaker 1: bear fruit. Listen, I have indoctrinated myself. Not just that
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: I am a blessing, but that God is glorified through
- 1:21:17Speaker 1: my life. When I come to church, I come happy,
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: smiling in my spirit. Why? Because God is going to
- 1:21:24Speaker 1: get glory from my teaching. God is going to get
- 1:21:27Speaker 1: glory from my preaching. As I'm preaching and the power
- 1:21:30Speaker 1: of God rests upon someone, I'm not just conscious of
- 1:21:32Speaker 1: an anointed man showing his anointing. No! Maybe someone's prayer
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: request has just been answered. The answer, the age-long answer,
- 1:21:41Speaker 1: when I sit back and I hear the testimony, sometimes
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: I just, my heart, I wish I could cry. You
- 1:21:49Speaker 1: see that now. And I'm thinking the wonder walking power
- 1:21:52Speaker 1: of God. Look the testimonies that were shared. Cancer whatever
- 1:21:56Speaker 1: it is just gone like that. How much can you
- 1:21:59Speaker 1: buy those miracles? That is God being glorified for you.
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ. Your life is the
- 1:22:06Speaker 1: next to bring great glory to God. I say to
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: a believer your life is the next to bring great
- 1:22:13Speaker 1: glory to God. You know how you know you are
- 1:22:17Speaker 1: glorifying the Lord? There will be a witness on earth.
- 1:22:20Speaker 1: Someone will say thank you. Thank you man of God.
- 1:22:24Speaker 1: Thank you this so so so and so. Thank you
- 1:22:26Speaker 1: my dear brother. Thank you my dear sister. The advice
- 1:22:30Speaker 1: you gave me last time. Has led me to love
- 1:22:32Speaker 1: the Lord more. The counsel you gave me. Has taken
- 1:22:35Speaker 1: me away from the way of wicked men. Now I'm
- 1:22:38Speaker 1: pursuing purpose. And pursuing destiny. Are we together? The last
- 1:22:42Speaker 1: time you took me to the prayer department meeting. Now
- 1:22:45Speaker 1: my prayer life has come back strong. And do you know.
- 1:22:48Speaker 1: Since the day I started praying. God started wiping the
- 1:22:51Speaker 1: tears off my family. Curses and yokes started living. Now
- 1:22:55Speaker 1: God is being glorified. Never live your life for 24 hours.
- 1:23:00Speaker 1: Without a direct imprint. Jesus not being revealed from that life.
- 1:23:05Speaker 1: It is terrible.
- 1:23:09Speaker 3: Jesus, you be lifted higher, higher, be lifted higher. Jesus,
- 1:23:23Speaker 3: you be lifted higher, higher.
- 1:23:29Speaker 1: Be lifted higher.
- 1:23:35Speaker 3: Let our King be lifted up.
- 1:23:43Speaker 1: Oh, salvation. Now, I want you to sit down and
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: pay very rapt attention. Very rapt attention to what I
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: want to discuss now. Number one, success, victory and greatness
- 1:24:01Speaker 1: is our heritage in Christ. Number two, That God is
- 1:24:06Speaker 1: glorified when we bear fruits. And we can program our lives.
- 1:24:11Speaker 1: Our success and our greatness. Such that it directly brings
- 1:24:16Speaker 1: glory to God. Number three. Success is not vague. Success.
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: When we talk about success. Working in success. Working in
- 1:24:27Speaker 1: victory in the kingdom. It is not vague. Please listen carefully.
- 1:24:32Speaker 1: I have taught you in this house. That success, as
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: we know, is measured across six indices. I want to
- 1:24:40Speaker 1: list those indices and then it leads us to the
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: core of our discussion tonight. Success is not vague. Do
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: not mystify success. You will never become successful that way.
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: That success is measured across six areas. Number one, spirituality.
- 1:24:58Speaker 1: The first area where we measure success for the believer
- 1:25:01Speaker 1: is the extent of your spiritual vibrancy. The extent of
- 1:25:06Speaker 1: your spiritual progress. The heights that you have been able
- 1:25:09Speaker 1: to attain in the spirit as far as loving God,
- 1:25:13Speaker 1: knowing God and serving him is concerned. The first index
- 1:25:17Speaker 1: for measuring biblical success is your spiritual health. Please write
- 1:25:21Speaker 1: it down. Number two, very quickly, the second index for
- 1:25:24Speaker 1: measuring success in the kingdom is your degree of transformation.
- 1:25:31Speaker 1: Your degree of transformation. Total transformation. But more importantly your
- 1:25:37Speaker 1: mental transformation. Your degree of transformation. Are you writing and
- 1:25:42Speaker 1: learning now? So when we talk about success in the kingdom.
- 1:25:44Speaker 1: It is not vague at all. There are six indices
- 1:25:48Speaker 1: and none of them. None of them is unimportant. And
- 1:25:52Speaker 1: the order of priority matters. Your spiritual health. The greatest
- 1:25:57Speaker 1: index for measuring success. We're discussing the road map. I'm
- 1:26:01Speaker 1: showing you a pathway that leads to ever increasing glory.
- 1:26:05Speaker 1: Number two, your depth, your degree of transformation. The degree
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: to which the word of God has designed a superior
- 1:26:14Speaker 1: belief system. A belief system beyond your cultural context. A
- 1:26:19Speaker 1: belief system beyond your sociological context. A belief system within
- 1:26:24Speaker 1: the context of your nation, the frame of geography and
- 1:26:27Speaker 1: all of that. You have been able to adopt a
- 1:26:30Speaker 1: word compliant mentality. A mentality that wins. Number three. The
- 1:26:38Speaker 1: third index for measuring success according to scripture is your
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: health and physical well-being. Don't assume that you've heard this.
- 1:26:48Speaker 1: Write it. Your health and your physical well-being. You are
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: not successful if your health and your physical well-being is
- 1:26:57Speaker 1: not added to the list. Because you need this body.
- 1:27:01Speaker 1: There's a reason why God put your spirit in a body.
- 1:27:05Speaker 1: And thanks to our medical people preparing for their outreach.
- 1:27:09Speaker 1: This is an attempt to help believers have wholesome success.
- 1:27:13Speaker 1: There are many people who are sick. I'm telling you,
- 1:27:16Speaker 1: there are many people who are not alright. We're not
- 1:27:19Speaker 1: just talking of people malnourished. We're talking of believers who
- 1:27:22Speaker 1: have been careless over their health because they have not
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: learned that being healthy and physically fit is part of
- 1:27:30Speaker 1: spirituality and is God's definition of success. Number four, very quickly.
- 1:27:36Speaker 1: The fourth index for measuring success is purpose. Purpose. Purpose.
- 1:27:41Speaker 1: Your assignment. Purpose. If you cannot answer the question why
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: for your life, to your life, then you are not
- 1:27:50Speaker 1: completely successful. Lord, I come. Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 7.
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: In the volume of the book, to do your will.
- 1:27:58Speaker 1: I come in the volume of the book as it
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: is written of me. Not to do my will, but
- 1:28:03Speaker 1: to do your will. To do your will. Jesus walked
- 1:28:06Speaker 1: upon the earth. And he opened the scroll of Isaiah.
- 1:28:09Speaker 1: He saw where it was written concerning him. The spirit
- 1:28:13Speaker 1: of the Lord is upon me. He hath anointed me
- 1:28:15Speaker 1: to preach glad tidings to the meek. To bind up
- 1:28:18Speaker 1: the broken hearted. Set at liberty them that are bruised.
- 1:28:21Speaker 1: And so on and so forth. And he said this today.
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: This scripture is fulfilled in your ears. Paul himself before
- 1:28:28Speaker 1: King Agrippa. He was given a manifesto of his assignment.
- 1:28:34Speaker 1: Jeremiah in chapter 1 from verse 5 to 12. He was...
- 1:28:40Speaker 1: receiving a blueprint of his mandate that he was sanctified
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: and ordained to be a prophet by the time you
- 1:28:47Speaker 1: get to verse 10 he is given the scope of
- 1:28:50Speaker 1: his prophetic assignment that he has been set over nations
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: over kingdoms to pull down you know to destroy to
- 1:28:57Speaker 1: throw down to plans to build The scope of his assignment.
- 1:29:02Speaker 1: Your life is as useful as the definition you have
- 1:29:06Speaker 1: of it. You were born to solve a problem. You
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: were born to add to God's program. And if you
- 1:29:12Speaker 1: do not discover your place in life and destiny. You
- 1:29:15Speaker 1: will keep escorting others. You will be angry. You will
- 1:29:18Speaker 1: be frustrated. You will pursue ambition and the fulfillment that
- 1:29:23Speaker 1: only purpose and your divine assignment should give you. You
- 1:29:26Speaker 1: will never have that satisfaction. I wonder what my life
- 1:29:34Speaker 1: would have been if I did not find my place
- 1:29:37Speaker 1: in destiny. I wonder how many people's destinies would have
- 1:29:41Speaker 1: been closed because of one man's carelessness. And then those
- 1:29:45Speaker 1: who found their purpose and allowed us to see through
- 1:29:49Speaker 1: the lens of their discovery. We are grateful to them
- 1:29:52Speaker 1: for today. I'm praying for you. That because you find
- 1:29:56Speaker 1: your place and walk in it, may someone also find
- 1:29:58Speaker 1: his place through your own place. In the name of
- 1:30:01Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. That your refusal to discover purpose and destiny
- 1:30:05Speaker 1: will not rob another person of living a useful life,
- 1:30:09Speaker 1: of living a meaningful life. In the name of Jesus.
- 1:30:13Speaker 1: Purpose and your assignment. Number five. The fifth index for
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: measuring success in the kingdom is your financial well-being. Your
- 1:30:22Speaker 1: financial well-being. Being poor, broke, needy, helpless does not glorify God. Period.
- 1:30:32Speaker 1: Settle it once and for all. God is not glorified
- 1:30:35Speaker 1: in your begging, your borrowing, going to the hospital to
- 1:30:38Speaker 1: be treated because of financial stress. It's not a demonic issue.
- 1:30:43Speaker 1: Poverty is very, very dangerous. It affects the whole man. Spirit,
- 1:30:48Speaker 1: soul and body. Are we together? Make sure you hate
- 1:30:55Speaker 1: poverty enough to walk with the word of God and
- 1:30:58Speaker 1: do something about it. Financial well-being. It is true for
- 1:31:02Speaker 1: an individual. It is true for an organization. Listen carefully.
- 1:31:06Speaker 1: It is true for, you know, a corporation. I'm telling
- 1:31:10Speaker 1: you sincerely, do you know, while I was preparing my notes,
- 1:31:13Speaker 1: I took time to meditate on the necessity of financial resources.
- 1:31:18Speaker 1: And it honestly occurred to me that money is not everything.
- 1:31:22Speaker 1: But over 80% of your needs depend on money. Hello?
- 1:31:29Speaker 1: How many? Over 80%. Whatever accounts for your efficiency that far,
- 1:31:35Speaker 1: it is foolish to ignore it. He that has an ear,
- 1:31:41Speaker 1: let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.
- 1:31:46Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ. You cannot live your life.
- 1:31:50Speaker 1: Do you know there are people who beg and borrow
- 1:31:54Speaker 1: for life? That's what they do. They beg and borrow.
- 1:31:58Speaker 1: They wake up in the morning knowing today that if
- 1:32:01Speaker 1: I don't beg, I will go hungry. They were like that.
- 1:32:04Speaker 1: They married like that. Wife, keep begging while I beg too. Children,
- 1:32:08Speaker 1: try your own friends too. Let's beg together. Now, I'm
- 1:32:12Speaker 1: not being sarcastic. This is a very serious issue. I'm
- 1:32:17Speaker 1: sorry to say, but there are pastors who live like
- 1:32:19Speaker 1: that too. And it's not a good thing. They are
- 1:32:22Speaker 1: sincere people. But you see, a life of begging and
- 1:32:25Speaker 1: borrowing and poverty, it turns you, it misrepresents you. And
- 1:32:29Speaker 1: you get to a point where your words don't carry
- 1:32:32Speaker 1: weight again. Imagine that I got up this morning and
- 1:32:35Speaker 1: I kept moving from house to house, disturbing everyone. I
- 1:32:39Speaker 1: know you're a rich man. Since you won that election,
- 1:32:41Speaker 1: you've not come to greet me. I prayed here in
- 1:32:43Speaker 1: your presence. You saw me kneeling down every month on the,
- 1:32:47Speaker 1: what do you call it? Prayer request. And now you
- 1:32:50Speaker 1: won your thing and just kept quiet like that. You've
- 1:32:53Speaker 1: not even come to say God did it. And you
- 1:32:55Speaker 1: know what it means by God did it. Hallelujah. Resources
- 1:33:07Speaker 1: can help you protect your integrity. Two, resources can help
- 1:33:12Speaker 1: you protect your honor. By the time you keep disturbing
- 1:33:17Speaker 1: those that God sent to you, you will lose your honor.
- 1:33:20Speaker 1: The garment of the priest was supposed to be for
- 1:33:24Speaker 1: beauty and for honor. For beauty and for honor. Hallelujah.
- 1:33:32Speaker 1: You imagine that kind of thing. That because of the
- 1:33:35Speaker 1: bills now. Oh, please come. There's an outreach here. How
- 1:33:38Speaker 1: much are you going to bring? Please bring this. Please
- 1:33:41Speaker 1: bring this one. Bring this one. You, you are rich.
- 1:33:44Speaker 1: How much are you bringing?
- 1:33:44Speaker 2: One million.
- 1:33:45Speaker 1: You are joking. With all this prophecy, I won't prophesy
- 1:33:48Speaker 1: over your life again. How do I prophesy? And you
- 1:33:51Speaker 1: give me your name. And then you gather everything. And
- 1:33:53Speaker 1: then you come up and say, I don't beg. I
- 1:33:55Speaker 1: will never beg. My God shall. And the person is
- 1:33:58Speaker 1: just watching you and saying, are you joking? We couldn't
- 1:34:01Speaker 1: sleep yesterday night because of your disturbance. And here you
- 1:34:04Speaker 1: are shouting on stage. And then you say lift up
- 1:34:07Speaker 1: your hands. The truth is they won't receive anything. They
- 1:34:10Speaker 1: are not sure of that grace you carry.
- 1:34:16Speaker 3: I will do your will. Do your will.
- 1:34:22Speaker 7: Do your will, O God.
- 1:34:28Speaker 5: Lord, I will do your will.
- 1:34:32Speaker 1: Do your will.
- 1:34:36Speaker 2: Do your will, O God.
- 1:34:43Speaker 1: So, I just decided to press on it a bit
- 1:34:45Speaker 1: just for you to know. that if you reject the
- 1:34:49Speaker 1: knowledge that leads to true wealth with dignity and integrity,
- 1:34:55Speaker 1: over 80% of your problems will remain with you. You
- 1:34:59Speaker 1: will go to heaven, but on earth here, you will
- 1:35:02Speaker 1: be in hell. Are we together? God warned me about finances.
- 1:35:13Speaker 1: I'm glad I paid attention to him. I am grateful
- 1:35:17Speaker 1: today By the mercies of God. As a person. And
- 1:35:21Speaker 1: as a ministry. I am happy. I'm not ashamed of it.
- 1:35:25Speaker 1: Doesn't matter who thinks what. Thank God for it. We
- 1:35:30Speaker 1: can serve God today. And shout his name to the nations.
- 1:35:33Speaker 1: Because he has shown us mercy. And that mercy has
- 1:35:36Speaker 1: come to stay. It's not going anywhere. I can tell you.
- 1:35:39Speaker 1: It's not a one week mercy. Number six. The sixth.
- 1:35:48Speaker 1: And the final index for measuring success in the kingdom.
- 1:35:53Speaker 1: We're discussing the road map. Is the quality of relationships
- 1:35:57Speaker 1: that you have and keep. The quality of relationships you
- 1:36:01Speaker 1: have and keep. These are some of the things that
- 1:36:04Speaker 1: money cannot do. These are some of the things. Remember
- 1:36:09Speaker 1: I told you money does not do everything. Does many things.
- 1:36:12Speaker 1: But there are things money cannot do. Money can buy
- 1:36:16Speaker 1: a house. It may not give you a home. Money
- 1:36:19Speaker 1: can buy several things. Can buy a good bed they say.
- 1:36:23Speaker 1: But it may not give you sleep. There are many
- 1:36:26Speaker 1: rich people who don't sleep. They swallow drugs like food.
- 1:36:30Speaker 1: And they still don't sleep. Are we together? Relationships. Relationships
- 1:36:35Speaker 1: are powerful. They are harder currencies. Than even finances. So. Spirituality.
- 1:36:43Speaker 1: Mental transformation. Health and physical well-being. Purpose and assignment. Financial
- 1:36:50Speaker 1: well-being and relationships. Now you write this down please. The
- 1:36:54Speaker 1: road map. Seeks to examine the principles. You have been
- 1:37:01Speaker 1: adhering to. Or neglecting. On your path to becoming successful.
- 1:37:08Speaker 1: The road map. Seeks to examine. The principles you have
- 1:37:13Speaker 1: been adhering to. Or neglecting. On your path to becoming successful.
- 1:37:20Speaker 1: I'll take that again. The road map. Seeks to examine.
- 1:37:25Speaker 1: The principles you have been adhering to. Or neglecting. On
- 1:37:30Speaker 1: your path to becoming successful. The intent of this teaching tonight.
- 1:37:34Speaker 1: Having given you these foundations. Is to bring you to
- 1:37:37Speaker 1: a point where we will examine. Where have you been
- 1:37:39Speaker 1: missing it? Now that you know. That it is God's
- 1:37:45Speaker 1: desire for you to be great, to be successful. Now
- 1:37:48Speaker 1: that you know that God is glorified in your being successful.
- 1:37:53Speaker 1: Now that I've listed for you that in contending for
- 1:37:57Speaker 1: kingdom success there are six areas. Never forget these areas.
- 1:38:01Speaker 1: Five over six is not success. That means if you
- 1:38:05Speaker 1: are successful financially... At the expense of all other areas,
- 1:38:10Speaker 1: you have failed from a kingdom standpoint. If you have
- 1:38:13Speaker 1: relationships and you don't have God and you are not transformed,
- 1:38:16Speaker 1: you are still a failure. Some of you, by this explanation,
- 1:38:21Speaker 1: you see right now that the only area where you
- 1:38:25Speaker 1: seem to be successful is finances. Every other area you
- 1:38:28Speaker 1: have failed. You have failed. spiritually. Failed in terms of transformation.
- 1:38:33Speaker 1: Failed in terms of assignment. Your body now as it
- 1:38:36Speaker 1: stands is not even healthy. It's just that you have
- 1:38:38Speaker 1: some money in your bank account, some business running, and
- 1:38:42Speaker 1: then relationship zero. You are at risk. It's zero. By
- 1:38:46Speaker 1: God's standard. Now the world will flatter you and clap
- 1:38:49Speaker 1: and say you're a great man chief. But I'm telling you,
- 1:38:52Speaker 1: from the economy of the kingdom, you are not successful.
- 1:38:55Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
- 1:38:58Speaker 1: Now let's run through this list very quickly. And then
- 1:39:01Speaker 1: we'll pray. Number one. What principles have you been engaging
- 1:39:07Speaker 1: towards your spirituality? I want you to listen. If it
- 1:39:11Speaker 1: is true that the first, the greatest, the highest index
- 1:39:15Speaker 1: for measuring success is your spirituality. I want to probe
- 1:39:20Speaker 1: into the principles you have been adhering to or ignoring.
- 1:39:24Speaker 1: And I can show you. It's like an examination you
- 1:39:27Speaker 1: are writing right now. And you are about to see
- 1:39:29Speaker 1: your report card that some of you have not been
- 1:39:32Speaker 1: doing well as far as spirituality is concerned. Number one.
- 1:39:36Speaker 1: I have taught you here that your spirituality is measured
- 1:39:39Speaker 1: by your hunger and your passion for God. If at
- 1:39:45Speaker 1: any point in your Christian experience, hunger is missing, your
- 1:39:49Speaker 1: passion is missing, something is wrong. You are violating the
- 1:39:53Speaker 1: principles that lead to true spiritual stamina, hunger. Who is learning?
- 1:39:59Speaker 2: Hunger.
- 1:40:00Speaker 1: That means you must always, in becoming successful God's way,
- 1:40:05Speaker 1: you must examine, is my hunger level still intact? My
- 1:40:10Speaker 1: hunger for God, my hunger for the things of God,
- 1:40:13Speaker 1: my hunger for the house of God. Number two, your
- 1:40:17Speaker 1: prayer life. These are the principles that makes an individual
- 1:40:23Speaker 1: robust spiritually. Your prayer life. Your hunger may be there.
- 1:40:28Speaker 1: But have you translated it to prayerfulness? Yesterday we had
- 1:40:33Speaker 1: an awesome time. The prayer department had their retreat for
- 1:40:36Speaker 1: two days. And oh boy, it was such a refreshing time.
- 1:40:39Speaker 1: Even for me. Great time. I think you should give
- 1:40:42Speaker 1: them a great round of applause. Some of you, the
- 1:40:50Speaker 1: only way you pray is when trouble comes. There's no
- 1:40:54Speaker 1: other way the realm of the spirit can get you
- 1:40:55Speaker 1: to pray. Once trouble comes, you'll suddenly remember that I
- 1:40:59Speaker 1: can pray. And your prayer is usually a biased, selfish,
- 1:41:04Speaker 1: self-centered prayer. Lord, if you do this for me, I
- 1:41:07Speaker 1: promise I will give you money. And the realm of
- 1:41:08Speaker 1: the spirit is a nonsense because you think God is
- 1:41:10Speaker 1: a politician. You are in trouble here that is about
- 1:41:13Speaker 1: to take your life. And you are saying you will
- 1:41:14Speaker 1: give God money. Instead of you to say, I will
- 1:41:16Speaker 1: give you my heart. Are we together? Money? Oh God,
- 1:41:24Speaker 1: turn my life around. Let me not die and I
- 1:41:27Speaker 1: promise I will give you money. No. That kind of
- 1:41:29Speaker 1: bargain doesn't work in the realm of the spirit. Your heart.
- 1:41:35Speaker 1: So your hunger level. Number two, your prayer life. The
- 1:41:39Speaker 1: consistency of your prayer life. The consistency of your prayer life.
- 1:41:45Speaker 1: Acts chapter 6 and verse 4. But we will give
- 1:41:47Speaker 1: ourselves continually to prayer. Say to prayer. Shout it, say
- 1:41:52Speaker 1: to prayer. We will give ourselves continually to prayer and
- 1:41:56Speaker 1: the ministry of the word. So your hunger level, the
- 1:41:59Speaker 1: principles that lead to true spirituality. Your hunger, your prayer life,
- 1:42:05Speaker 1: consistently praying all manner of prayers. Prayer in its entire
- 1:42:11Speaker 1: variety and I've done several teachings on it. You can
- 1:42:14Speaker 1: get it to broaden your understanding about prayer. Number three,
- 1:42:18Speaker 1: your passion for the word. The degree to which you
- 1:42:21Speaker 1: are building your life on the word of God, damaging
- 1:42:25Speaker 1: spiritual ignorance. You are not spiritual in ignorance. Spirituality and
- 1:42:31Speaker 1: ignorance cannot go hand in glove. You are either carnally minded.
- 1:42:36Speaker 1: Remaining in ignorance. Or by light. You have ascended to
- 1:42:40Speaker 1: a point of spirituality. The truth is that many of
- 1:42:43Speaker 1: us are saved. But we are not spiritual. And I've
- 1:42:47Speaker 1: contrasted for you in this place that from a spiritual standpoint,
- 1:42:51Speaker 1: there are three kinds of man. One, the natural man, unregenerate. Two,
- 1:42:55Speaker 1: the carnal man, sensual, still a babe in spiritual things.
- 1:42:59Speaker 1: Number three, a spiritual man who has attained unto stature
- 1:43:03Speaker 1: by engaging these things I'm mentioning. Your hunger, your prayer life,
- 1:43:08Speaker 1: your word life. Now when I talk about your word life,
- 1:43:11Speaker 1: look up please. It's beyond just Bible reading. bible reading
- 1:43:16Speaker 1: your passion for spiritual information that translates to knowledge understanding
- 1:43:22Speaker 1: and wisdom many people read the bible but they are
- 1:43:25Speaker 1: not growing they have finished the bible many times i
- 1:43:30Speaker 1: have a teaching i thought i'll be able to have
- 1:43:33Speaker 1: to to teach us but um looks like we have
- 1:43:35Speaker 1: to make that next year it's called evidence of grace
- 1:43:40Speaker 1: There are indices that you must see in your life
- 1:43:43Speaker 1: when the grace of God is at work. No excuses.
- 1:43:46Speaker 1: If it is true that the grace of God is
- 1:43:48Speaker 1: at work in you, it can appear unto all men.
- 1:43:52Speaker 1: And they should see certain things. There is visibility to grace.
- 1:43:57Speaker 1: Are we together? Back to our discussion. Many people read
- 1:44:01Speaker 1: the Bible. But they do not have spiritual intelligence. So
- 1:44:04Speaker 1: when I talk about your passion for the word of God.
- 1:44:07Speaker 1: It is beyond opening Genesis and finishing it. That is profitable.
- 1:44:13Speaker 1: But not enough. It is beyond opening the gospels. You
- 1:44:16Speaker 1: know epistles, acts. And you say apostle. I read at
- 1:44:19Speaker 1: least a verse or a chapter every day. That is wonderful.
- 1:44:22Speaker 1: But that is the elementary level of growth. You must
- 1:44:26Speaker 1: be able to acquire by passion. Spiritual understanding Colossians chapter
- 1:44:31Speaker 1: 1 and verse 9 Let me show you what it
- 1:44:33Speaker 1: means To immerse yourself in the ministry of the word
- 1:44:37Speaker 1: Colossians 1 9 For this cause we also, since the
- 1:44:42Speaker 1: day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you.
- 1:44:45Speaker 1: And to desire that you might be filled. Watch this now.
- 1:44:48Speaker 1: With the knowledge of his will. In all wisdom and
- 1:44:53Speaker 1: spiritual understanding. And spiritual understanding. There is such a thing
- 1:44:58Speaker 1: as spiritual understanding. There is an apportioned body of light.
- 1:45:04Speaker 1: That you may not easily learn on your own. You
- 1:45:07Speaker 1: have to be taught. Spiritual intelligence. Don't tell me I
- 1:45:13Speaker 1: am studying the Bible. Translate that knowledge to spiritual intelligence.
- 1:45:18Speaker 1: Let me see the degree to which you have understood
- 1:45:20Speaker 1: the ways of God. Let me see the degree to
- 1:45:23Speaker 1: which you can engage the principles of the kingdom. Many
- 1:45:26Speaker 1: people are priding in finishing Bibles here and there. And
- 1:45:29Speaker 1: that is wonderful. But the scope of their understanding. They
- 1:45:33Speaker 1: are very narrow and limited. You discuss with them and
- 1:45:37Speaker 1: you know that these people do not know God. Nor
- 1:45:40Speaker 1: his ways. my son give me your heart he says
- 1:45:43Speaker 1: and let your eyes incline or attend unto my ways
- 1:45:51Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 in the beginning God created
- 1:45:54Speaker 1: the heavens and the earth that is not necessarily maturity
- 1:45:58Speaker 1: children do that in Sunday school but they may not
- 1:46:00Speaker 1: be matured you can quote that before situations and they
- 1:46:04Speaker 1: will say nonsense there is no light Light comes out
- 1:46:08Speaker 1: of knowledge. Knowledge itself is not light. Light is revelation
- 1:46:13Speaker 1: that comes out of knowledge. Knowledge is the raw material
- 1:46:19Speaker 1: wherein you draw revelation from. Are we together? Ephesians chapter 1.
- 1:46:25Speaker 1: When you read from verse 17. The Bible talks about
- 1:46:28Speaker 1: revelation in the knowledge. Revelation in the knowledge. Revelation in
- 1:46:33Speaker 1: the knowledge. Revelation that resides within the knowledge. Like you
- 1:46:39Speaker 1: get groundnut, peanuts. So the shell is there with everything
- 1:46:43Speaker 1: but you crack it open and then you remove the
- 1:46:46Speaker 1: actual groundnut inside. That's how it is. So knowledge comes
- 1:46:50Speaker 1: but you have to open it up and extract the
- 1:46:52Speaker 1: light component out of it. That's why many people read
- 1:46:55Speaker 1: Bible stories, they read parables but they cannot get understanding there.
- 1:46:59Speaker 1: I'm teaching you how to grow spiritually. Your hunger, your
- 1:47:03Speaker 1: prayer life, your word study life, but then your passion
- 1:47:08Speaker 1: to acquire useful revelation that translates to dominion. Are we together? Next,
- 1:47:15Speaker 1: your passion for corporate fellowship. If your passion for corporate
- 1:47:20Speaker 1: fellowship is missing, you cannot grow spiritually. There are things
- 1:47:24Speaker 1: that God will not show you in the secret place.
- 1:47:27Speaker 1: It is when you come to the house of God
- 1:47:29Speaker 1: under a corporate anointing like this, there are dimensions of intelligence,
- 1:47:34Speaker 1: impartations that you receive. Are we together? What is the
- 1:47:39Speaker 1: next index for measuring spirituality? Service. Service. Service. In all
- 1:47:46Speaker 1: your becoming spiritual, you are not truly spiritual if you
- 1:47:49Speaker 1: are not serving in the house of God and ultimately
- 1:47:53Speaker 1: serving the purposes of God. So don't tell me I
- 1:47:56Speaker 1: am spiritual. Don't tell me I am growing spiritually. I
- 1:47:59Speaker 1: will ask you this. I will test your hunger. What
- 1:48:02Speaker 1: is your hunger for God? Versus your hunger for money.
- 1:48:07Speaker 1: Versus your hunger for other things. Do you know? You
- 1:48:10Speaker 1: should be hungry. And hunger is a general principle. That
- 1:48:13Speaker 1: drives you to pursue knowledge. But no issue in your life.
- 1:48:18Speaker 1: Should have you hungry about it bitterly. God. Above God.
- 1:48:22Speaker 1: Your hunger for God should be the highest level of hunger.
- 1:48:25Speaker 1: That should be and remain in your life. Are we together?
- 1:48:31Speaker 1: You must hunger after him more than you hunger to prosper.
- 1:48:34Speaker 1: You must hunger after him more than you hunger to advance. So,
- 1:48:39Speaker 1: your hunger level, test it now. Your prayer life, test
- 1:48:44Speaker 1: it now. Your word study life and your passion for
- 1:48:47Speaker 1: spiritual knowledge that empowers you and translates to dominion. Are
- 1:48:52Speaker 1: we together?
- 1:48:52Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:48:54Speaker 1: Your passion for the house of God. The moment corporate
- 1:48:58Speaker 1: fellowship is something that your spirit disdains, it's an attack.
- 1:49:01Speaker 1: Check it immediately. Finally, your service. I do not know
- 1:49:06Speaker 1: how people... Live their lives not serving the purposes of God.
- 1:49:13Speaker 1: Not necessarily the house of God. But that your life
- 1:49:16Speaker 1: must be about the king's business. Now listen. Tonight is
- 1:49:22Speaker 1: a checklist. You know that you are successful spiritually. If
- 1:49:28Speaker 1: all of these things are working in your life. And
- 1:49:30Speaker 1: I'm asking you now. Be brutally honest with yourself. Remember
- 1:49:34Speaker 1: my preamble before we started? You cannot be transformed. You
- 1:49:38Speaker 1: cannot grow if you are not brutally honest. Can you
- 1:49:42Speaker 1: honestly tell yourself on a scale of 1 to 10
- 1:49:45Speaker 1: that you have a hunger level for God beyond 7?
- 1:49:48Speaker 1: Less than 7, you are still playing. There is room
- 1:49:50Speaker 1: to step up. In fact, you get to a certain
- 1:49:53Speaker 1: realm in the spirit where if it is not at
- 1:49:56Speaker 1: least 8 or 9, there are certain things God cannot
- 1:50:00Speaker 1: commit to you. Number 2, your prayer life. Are we together?
- 1:50:05Speaker 1: Are we together? Some of us can wait for seven
- 1:50:08Speaker 1: hours in the office of someone, maybe a politician, and
- 1:50:12Speaker 1: you are not tired. The man will come out in
- 1:50:14Speaker 1: your presence and say, ah, you are still here, sorry. Ah,
- 1:50:16Speaker 1: no problem, chief. How about you again? I'm okay. You've
- 1:50:21Speaker 1: not eaten from morning till night and you are waiting there.
- 1:50:23Speaker 1: And you cannot spend 30 minutes in the presence of
- 1:50:26Speaker 1: one who can touch the heart of anyone and redirect
- 1:50:29Speaker 1: your life. You see how penny wise and pound foolish
- 1:50:34Speaker 1: we are in the kingdom sometimes? Now I'm not saying
- 1:50:37Speaker 1: give honor to whom honor is due. But it would
- 1:50:39Speaker 1: be stupid of me to spend 10, 12 hours before men,
- 1:50:44Speaker 1: mortal men, who were once babies in the hand of
- 1:50:47Speaker 1: a woman, waiting for favor, waiting to sign something. Whereas
- 1:50:51Speaker 1: in their hearts you can discern already that the answer
- 1:50:54Speaker 1: is no. They are just playing around and wasting your time.
- 1:50:57Speaker 1: Whereas I can go before the king.
- 1:51:00Speaker 6: I cast my crown before him. The highest royalty I
- 1:51:08Speaker 6: am undone before Your glorious majesty You're the King of
- 1:51:17Speaker 6: kings and Lord of lords You are.
- 1:51:21Speaker 4: The King.
- 1:51:24Speaker 1: Of kings You are the Lord of lords Your royal
- 1:51:32Speaker 1: majesty Listen, most of you do not know what God
- 1:51:39Speaker 1: can do. That's why you respect men more than him.
- 1:51:42Speaker 1: I honor men, but I don't worship men. Everybody was
- 1:51:46Speaker 1: once a baby in the hand of a woman. Listen,
- 1:51:50Speaker 1: Koinonia believers, let me advise you. This is the world
- 1:51:54Speaker 1: of men. But don't forget that there is one who
- 1:51:56Speaker 1: is the holder of every man's life. Any arrogant man
- 1:52:00Speaker 1: can say tomorrow if he wakes up. If he what?
- 1:52:06Speaker 1: I lay me down and I slept. I only wait
- 1:52:09Speaker 1: for the Lord to sustain me. There are many people
- 1:52:12Speaker 1: in history who did not believe they would die. They
- 1:52:16Speaker 1: themselves did not believe they would die. There are tomes
- 1:52:19Speaker 1: to their testaments that all men are like vapor. But
- 1:52:22Speaker 1: there is him that does not die. Come on. I
- 1:52:27Speaker 1: rather foolishly waste my life and waste my time in
- 1:52:31Speaker 1: his presence. It is more profitable to waste my time
- 1:52:34Speaker 1: in his presence than to gallivant around the world of
- 1:52:38Speaker 1: men that don't have the power. And then the person
- 1:52:40Speaker 1: tells you, well, I was also expecting favor from somebody
- 1:52:43Speaker 1: and I was hoping if they give me, then I
- 1:52:45Speaker 1: will give you. No, let me go to the one
- 1:52:47Speaker 1: who gives all things. I know you don't believe me.
- 1:52:52Speaker 1: Ya bone na kao.
- 1:52:57Speaker 7: Sujata Nena Kao Sarkin Salama Sarkin Aljana Yabo Nena Kao
- 1:53:15Speaker 7: Sujata Nena Kao Sarkin Salama Sarkin Aljana.
- 1:53:30Speaker 1: If anointing was stored in a library or in a bank,
- 1:53:35Speaker 1: some of us would not even have up to 10,000
- 1:53:38Speaker 1: words of anointing now because of the wickedness in the
- 1:53:40Speaker 1: hearts of men. But thank God, there is He that
- 1:53:44Speaker 1: anoints men. That we can cry before him. And he
- 1:53:48Speaker 1: can see the sincerity of our heart. And whether you
- 1:53:51Speaker 1: believe the man or not. God decides and says. I
- 1:53:54Speaker 1: have found David my servant. And with my holy oil.
- 1:53:59Speaker 1: I have anointed him. Ah. I have blessed and he
- 1:54:03Speaker 1: cannot be cursed. Cannot be cursed. Cannot be cursed. Listen. Listen.
- 1:54:12Speaker 1: Koinonia hear me. I'm showing you the road map. To
- 1:54:16Speaker 1: ever increasing glory. A man whose hunger remains. A man
- 1:54:23Speaker 1: whose prayer life remains. A man whose passion for the
- 1:54:27Speaker 1: word remains. A man whose desire for corporate fellowship remains.
- 1:54:33Speaker 1: A man whose service to Jesus remains. Is the man
- 1:54:37Speaker 1: who you cannot do anything about till Jesus comes. I
- 1:54:40Speaker 1: can tell you that. There are some men that there's
- 1:54:44Speaker 1: nothing you can do about. The only way to attack
- 1:54:47Speaker 1: them is to work in partnership with Satan to attack
- 1:54:51Speaker 1: their hunger. Attack their prayer life. Attack their passion through
- 1:54:55Speaker 1: pride and a rival mentality. We dealt with that. Attack
- 1:54:59Speaker 1: their passion for the house of God through offense. And
- 1:55:03Speaker 1: then attack their passion for service to exhaustion. You have
- 1:55:06Speaker 1: finished their spiritual life. But for as long as a
- 1:55:10Speaker 1: man's hunger remains. I'm showing you how to worry Satan
- 1:55:13Speaker 1: in your life. Don't let men look at you and
- 1:55:15Speaker 1: make it look like anybody can make you fall. Anybody
- 1:55:18Speaker 1: can make you destroy. You don't just fall like that.
- 1:55:21Speaker 1: There are things that must go wrong. When your hunger falls,
- 1:55:24Speaker 1: when your prayer life falls, when your world life falls,
- 1:55:28Speaker 1: when your passion for the house falls, when your passion
- 1:55:31Speaker 1: for service falls, then your spiritual life will fall. But
- 1:55:35Speaker 1: provided this is solid, I tell you, you are as
- 1:55:39Speaker 1: solid as Mount Zion. Mountains will come and go. All
- 1:55:43Speaker 1: things will come and go. You will stand like the
- 1:55:46Speaker 1: cedar in Lebanon. Are we together? We live in a
- 1:55:52Speaker 1: world where spiritual people are so bullied with this issue
- 1:55:55Speaker 1: of falling. People just make it look like you can
- 1:55:58Speaker 1: get up in the morning and just fall. It's a lie.
- 1:56:01Speaker 1: Rising is based on principles. Falling is based on principles.
- 1:56:05Speaker 1: There are some things that must be neglected consistently. Beyond
- 1:56:10Speaker 1: the boundary of God's mercy. For you to fall. Your hunger.
- 1:56:14Speaker 1: Your prayer life. Your word study life. Your passion for knowledge.
- 1:56:18Speaker 1: Your passion for the house of God. Your passion to
- 1:56:21Speaker 1: serve God. Show me a man who works in keeping
- 1:56:24Speaker 1: with this. You have found the key for spiritual stability.
- 1:56:28Speaker 1: In an ever increasing glory. I tell you. Storms will
- 1:56:31Speaker 1: rise and come down. You will still be standing. Standing. Standing.
- 1:56:37Speaker 1: Anybody looking forward to your downfall will waste their time
- 1:56:40Speaker 1: and their destiny for nothing. Are we together now? Take
- 1:56:45Speaker 1: your mind away from falling and destruction. Focus on your hunger.
- 1:56:50Speaker 1: If something is wrong with your hunger, go for a retreat.
- 1:56:53Speaker 1: If something is wrong with your prayer life, even now,
- 1:56:56Speaker 1: go for a retreat. If something is wrong with your
- 1:56:58Speaker 1: word study life... And your overall appetite for spiritual knowledge.
- 1:57:03Speaker 1: Go for a retreat. If something is wrong. Through offense.
- 1:57:07Speaker 1: You don't want to come to the house of God again.
- 1:57:09Speaker 1: It's an attack. I don't care the reason. And the
- 1:57:12Speaker 1: legitimacy of it. If anything affects your service. You are
- 1:57:15Speaker 1: in trouble. But if all these things are in place.
- 1:57:18Speaker 1: Let people prophesy. Let people say whatever. They will come
- 1:57:22Speaker 1: and behold and go. You will still be standing. This
- 1:57:25Speaker 1: is how God designed his system. Is someone learning now?
- 1:57:31Speaker 1: You need to have strength and courage as you walk
- 1:57:33Speaker 1: with God. God does not have hazard. There is stability
- 1:57:37Speaker 1: to your walk with God. Take away the fear factor
- 1:57:40Speaker 1: in your walk with God. You know how many people
- 1:57:44Speaker 1: prophesied things about some of us when we started? You
- 1:57:47Speaker 1: know how many prophetic words flew around they will not stand. Nonsense.
- 1:57:53Speaker 1: We are talking of the God of heaven. provided you
- 1:58:04Speaker 1: keep the principles, there is nothing Satan can do. I
- 1:58:07Speaker 1: pray for you. These areas I listed, if there is
- 1:58:11Speaker 1: any one of them that is declining in your life,
- 1:58:14Speaker 1: from the depth of my heart, I pray for you now.
- 1:58:17Speaker 1: Because the area declining is the area Satan is attacking.
- 1:58:20Speaker 1: May fresh fire be restored to your life. Sit down.
- 1:58:27Speaker 1: The road map. Number two. I hope we are able
- 1:58:32Speaker 1: to make progress. Let's see where we can stop. Who
- 1:58:34Speaker 1: is learning? Number two. What is the secret to transformation?
- 1:58:40Speaker 1: Number one. The secret to transformation. I'm showing you the
- 1:58:44Speaker 1: road map. So that you will know it and you
- 1:58:47Speaker 1: can guide others. I've shown you how to be spiritual.
- 1:58:50Speaker 1: It's not vague. There is an exact pattern to spirituality.
- 1:58:59Speaker 1: What is the key to transformation? Listen carefully. The ultimate
- 1:59:04Speaker 1: key to transformation is your awareness, your recognition of your
- 1:59:10Speaker 1: current condition mentally. The knowledge that a lot happens in
- 1:59:15Speaker 1: your life as reflected by your mindset or otherwise. That
- 1:59:20Speaker 1: if your destiny will happen, you have a mental contribution
- 1:59:24Speaker 1: to your success or a mental contribution to your failure.
- 1:59:28Speaker 1: I have taught you here that your mindset and your
- 1:59:31Speaker 1: belief system is your contribution to your success or your
- 1:59:35Speaker 1: contribution to your failure. If you fail in life, it's
- 1:59:39Speaker 1: not entirely the devil. If you succeed in life, it
- 1:59:42Speaker 1: is all God in truth. But in terms of his dynamics,
- 1:59:45Speaker 1: you participated in many ways among them through your transformation.
- 1:59:51Speaker 1: How do we contend for transformation? Number one, an awareness
- 1:59:55Speaker 1: and a recognition of our current level in terms of
- 1:59:59Speaker 1: our belief system. You must get to a point where
- 2:00:03Speaker 1: you are honestly aware that the reason why my life
- 2:00:07Speaker 1: is like this, the reason why my influence is diminished
- 2:00:11Speaker 1: or not even there to start with, the reason why
- 2:00:13Speaker 1: I don't seem to have been able to make constructive
- 2:00:16Speaker 1: progress is because something about my thinking is faulty. The
- 2:00:20Speaker 1: Bible says, let this mind be in you, which was
- 2:00:23Speaker 1: also in Christ Jesus. So number one, you recognize. Number two,
- 2:00:28Speaker 1: you go for strategic knowledge. Strategic knowledge. And let me
- 2:00:34Speaker 1: tell you this. Strategic knowledge is most enhanced through structured mentorship.
- 2:00:40Speaker 1: Strategic knowledge that leads to your transformation is most enhanced.
- 2:00:46Speaker 1: Through mentorship. Mentorship allows you to hear the knowledge, the
- 2:00:52Speaker 1: body of knowledge that is relevant. The beauty of mentorship
- 2:00:57Speaker 1: is that sense has been edited from nonsense. And you
- 2:01:00Speaker 1: can trust what you are hearing. Are we together now?
- 2:01:06Speaker 1: There are certain products that if you get from the
- 2:01:08Speaker 1: farm directly, it's profitable but you can't consume them immediately.
- 2:01:12Speaker 1: It's not been refined, it's not been worked on. You
- 2:01:15Speaker 1: can go to the mall and you find the same
- 2:01:17Speaker 1: product but maybe it's been dishelled, you know, it's been
- 2:01:20Speaker 1: prepared and all of that. You pick it and immediately
- 2:01:22Speaker 1: you can consume it. That's what mentorship does. Mentorship goes
- 2:01:26Speaker 1: to the farm of destiny, brings a harvest, cleans it,
- 2:01:30Speaker 1: purifies everything, puts the seed together, creates a buffet, then
- 2:01:35Speaker 1: calls you to come. You learn without the pain factor.
- 2:01:40Speaker 1: Listen carefully. So I am trusting God for transformation, knowing
- 2:01:44Speaker 1: that my mind has a lot to play with my,
- 2:01:47Speaker 1: as far as my destiny is concerned, or my overall success.
- 2:01:51Speaker 1: I recognize honestly without being ashamed that where I am
- 2:01:56Speaker 1: today is a product of my mentality. My next assignment
- 2:02:00Speaker 1: is to go for structured knowledge. Not any and every
- 2:02:04Speaker 1: kind of knowledge. Knowledge that drives away darkness in the
- 2:02:08Speaker 1: area of concern. And that is where mentorship comes from.
- 2:02:12Speaker 1: Mentorship helps you. It distills knowledge. It serves you with
- 2:02:16Speaker 1: knowledge that has been tested in the life of the
- 2:02:19Speaker 1: individual and gleaning from those who have commanded results, consistent results.
- 2:02:26Speaker 1: When you get knowledge, what is the third thing to do?
- 2:02:29Speaker 1: You meditate. You meditate. You meditate. There cannot be transformation
- 2:02:35Speaker 1: without meditation. The hearing and hearing again. The hearing and
- 2:02:40Speaker 1: hearing again. I have taught you in this house that
- 2:02:42Speaker 1: there are two levels of hearing. There is hearing that
- 2:02:45Speaker 1: brings awareness. And there is hearing that brings conviction. You
- 2:02:49Speaker 1: need both. You can have the hearing that brings awareness
- 2:02:54Speaker 1: and not grow. But the hearing that brings conviction, that
- 2:02:58Speaker 1: thought is now embedded in your subconscious. It's gotten to
- 2:03:02Speaker 1: a realm where it must act out its physical reality.
- 2:03:05Speaker 1: It is true. And the key is repetition. Faith comes
- 2:03:10Speaker 1: by hearing. There are materials as I've listened to without
- 2:03:14Speaker 1: exaggeration for thousands of times. Hundreds of hours put together.
- 2:03:19Speaker 1: One material. The purpose was not knowledge. The purpose was
- 2:03:22Speaker 1: to transport it into my spirit. And when it resides
- 2:03:27Speaker 1: within there, no wonder the psalmist said, I have hidden
- 2:03:30Speaker 1: your word in my heart. You literally can carry your
- 2:03:33Speaker 1: heart as a soil and bury something within. Program yourself
- 2:03:38Speaker 1: to victory. Are we together now? Transformation. Look at me.
- 2:03:43Speaker 1: Many of you here are still victims of culture. You
- 2:03:46Speaker 1: are still victims of the pain of yesterday. You are
- 2:03:49Speaker 1: still victim of the mindset of yesteryears. Even though you
- 2:03:52Speaker 1: are in Christ, God cannot trust you with greatness and victory.
- 2:03:56Speaker 1: The reason being that your mind is not yet transformed.
- 2:03:59Speaker 1: You cannot become a leader thinking like yesterday. You will
- 2:04:02Speaker 1: punish the people God brings to you. Are we together?
- 2:04:05Speaker 1: I have taught you that there are many of you,
- 2:04:06Speaker 1: because of the mentality you have, you are easily angry.
- 2:04:10Speaker 1: It's not that you are an angry person. There is
- 2:04:12Speaker 1: a mindset, a software that is cancerous, eating up your mind.
- 2:04:17Speaker 1: If you are not healed from it, God cannot bring
- 2:04:19Speaker 1: people to you. You will hurt and wound the people.
- 2:04:22Speaker 1: I have told you it is only those who are
- 2:04:24Speaker 1: healed that can heal others. Wounded people wound other people.
- 2:04:31Speaker 1: When you become a father with a poisonous mindset, a
- 2:04:35Speaker 1: mother with a poisonous mindset, a principal, a director with
- 2:04:40Speaker 1: a poisonous mindset, a pastor with a poisonous mindset, it
- 2:04:44Speaker 1: is the reason why all leaders, as a matter of urgency,
- 2:04:48Speaker 1: must contend for transformation. That exalts you beyond the negative
- 2:04:53Speaker 1: grip of culture. Beyond the negative grip of your past.
- 2:04:57Speaker 1: The negative grip of failure. The negative grip of your
- 2:05:00Speaker 1: small minded association. You rise to a point where you
- 2:05:04Speaker 1: think like the eagles. Where you think like lions. Where
- 2:05:08Speaker 1: you think like a winner. You think like a champion.
- 2:05:11Speaker 1: Let this mind be in you. Which was also in
- 2:05:14Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. Who is understanding this? So when you see
- 2:05:17Speaker 1: that you are not transformed. By the way, how do
- 2:05:20Speaker 1: you know you are not transformed? The quality of your decisions.
- 2:05:25Speaker 1: The kind of results and testimonies that recycle around your life.
- 2:05:28Speaker 1: Are a report card as to your mindset. A report
- 2:05:32Speaker 1: card as to your belief system. Let me tell you this.
- 2:05:39Speaker 1: Every level of possibility in the spirit and in life
- 2:05:42Speaker 1: requires a certain kind of mindset. Oh, I want to
- 2:05:47Speaker 1: be a millionaire. There is a mindset. If you don't have,
- 2:05:51Speaker 1: you cannot prosper God's way. I want to be a
- 2:05:53Speaker 1: man of God over thousands of people leading them. There
- 2:05:56Speaker 1: is a mindset, not just a heart desire, a mindset.
- 2:06:00Speaker 1: I want to be Esther. Esther is a mindset, not
- 2:06:03Speaker 1: just a woman. Are we together now? Ruth, Deborah is
- 2:06:07Speaker 1: a mindset. Paul is a mindset. Gideon is a mindset.
- 2:06:11Speaker 1: Abraham is a mindset. You must have the mindset. I
- 2:06:15Speaker 1: taught you here that the mindset to rise up and
- 2:06:18Speaker 1: walk is what produces the miracle of rising up to walk.
- 2:06:22Speaker 1: You will never have the miracle of rising up to
- 2:06:24Speaker 1: walk till you first have the mindset of rising up
- 2:06:28Speaker 1: to walk. What do I see in my mind? A
- 2:06:33Speaker 1: glorious koinonia. What do I see in my mind? An ever-growing,
- 2:06:37Speaker 1: ever-increasing ministry with vibrant people serving the purposes of God.
- 2:06:42Speaker 1: What do I see in my mind? That the arsenals
- 2:06:45Speaker 1: of darkness, the gates of hell, the conspiracies of men
- 2:06:48Speaker 1: and demonic assaults cannot stand. What do I see? Victory.
- 2:06:52Speaker 1: What do I see? Greatness. What do I see? Success.
- 2:06:55Speaker 1: What do I see? Our children rising to become greater
- 2:06:58Speaker 1: than us. This is what I see. He said, what
- 2:07:01Speaker 1: seest thou? I see the rod of an almond tree.
- 2:07:03Speaker 1: He said, thou hast seen correctly. For I will hasten
- 2:07:07Speaker 1: my word that you have seen to perform it. There
- 2:07:12Speaker 1: are things I will never see. I refuse to see failure.
- 2:07:15Speaker 1: It's a choice. I refuse to see weakness. I refuse
- 2:07:19Speaker 1: to see defeat. Are we together now? Yes. Don't bring
- 2:07:23Speaker 1: yesterday's photo to me. I don't want to see it.
- 2:07:25Speaker 1: I look forward only. Are we together now? Yesterday had
- 2:07:29Speaker 1: its chance when it was my today and tomorrow. Now
- 2:07:32Speaker 1: that is my yesterday is gone for good. God did
- 2:07:36Speaker 1: not give me eyes at the back. I will not
- 2:07:37Speaker 1: create one. I look forward and I go forward. Is
- 2:07:42Speaker 1: someone learning now? Mindset. If someone looks at me now
- 2:07:49Speaker 1: and says, Apostle, you are stupid. I won't even pray
- 2:07:51Speaker 1: about it. Because I have transited myself. Do stupid people
- 2:07:55Speaker 1: serve God like this?
- 2:07:56Speaker 3: No.
- 2:07:58Speaker 1: Are we together now? Yes. so you have a mindset
- 2:08:02Speaker 1: there are battles you don't need to fight transformation takes
- 2:08:05Speaker 1: you out of the ring so that you are not
- 2:08:07Speaker 1: there waiting for needless battles it's children that fight those
- 2:08:10Speaker 1: kinds of battles Listen, Koinonia, if you learn this, you
- 2:08:15Speaker 1: will be at peace. There are many sicknesses that are
- 2:08:17Speaker 1: mindset dependent. The reason why the sickness can plague you
- 2:08:21Speaker 1: is because there is a thinking that partners with that disease.
- 2:08:26Speaker 1: Are we together? Number three. What is the secret to
- 2:08:39Speaker 1: health and physical well-being? I'm not a doctor. Come next week,
- 2:08:44Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday. And you hear a structured explanation as
- 2:08:50Speaker 1: to how to be healthy. But I can tell you
- 2:08:53Speaker 1: a few things. Number one, gluttony kills. Hello? Gluttony kills.
- 2:09:02Speaker 1: Number two, if you don't eat well, you will die.
- 2:09:07Speaker 1: I can tell you that one. If you don't eat well,
- 2:09:10Speaker 1: you will do what? And I have scriptures. Scriptures. Genesis 42,
- 2:09:16Speaker 1: 1 and 2. Jacob met his sons and said, why
- 2:09:20Speaker 1: do we sit and look at one another here? I
- 2:09:22Speaker 1: hear that there is corn in Egypt. Verse 2. Get
- 2:09:27Speaker 1: you data and buy for us that we may live
- 2:09:31Speaker 1: and not die. So when people don't eat and when
- 2:09:35Speaker 1: they don't eat well, they die. Everything taking bread from
- 2:09:39Speaker 1: your table, I curse it this night in the name
- 2:09:42Speaker 1: of Jesus. While I'm telling you that gluttony is bad,
- 2:09:48Speaker 1: if you do not have sufficient food, you are malnourished,
- 2:09:51Speaker 1: you will die. I can tell you that. Are we together?
- 2:09:54Speaker 1: Number three, inactivity. Medical science will tell us inactivity for
- 2:10:02Speaker 1: an indefinite period deadens your organs till you die. Medical people,
- 2:10:10Speaker 1: you should buy me a gift after... Buy me a
- 2:10:14Speaker 1: gift after koinonia. Because I'm doing part of your next
- 2:10:17Speaker 1: week work now. Inactivity. That means laziness is death calling
- 2:10:22Speaker 1: your name. Laziness is not a sign that you're a
- 2:10:26Speaker 1: big man. Now let me tell you how it happens
- 2:10:28Speaker 1: in Africa. As God starts prospering us, we start dying.
- 2:10:32Speaker 1: Because we stop doing many things, including thinking. In Africa,
- 2:10:37Speaker 1: if you're a big man, it's a taboo to drive
- 2:10:39Speaker 1: yourself crazy. It's a taboo to trek out. It's a
- 2:10:42Speaker 1: taboo to buy anything. Sometimes it's even a taboo to
- 2:10:45Speaker 1: eat yourself. And we think these things are a sign
- 2:10:48Speaker 1: that you have suffered. This is your time to enjoy.
- 2:10:51Speaker 1: And before you know it, sicknesses that have no business
- 2:10:54Speaker 1: finding you, they find a lazy, inactive person by a
- 2:10:59Speaker 1: negative culture-driven software. Wrong definition of prosperity. There are people
- 2:11:05Speaker 1: who were healthier when they were poor. Their real problem
- 2:11:08Speaker 1: started when God blessed them. Are we together? And this
- 2:11:13Speaker 1: is something that all of us must repent from. Your house, AC.
- 2:11:16Speaker 1: Your car, AC. Everything, AC. You never take fresh air
- 2:11:21Speaker 1: for the rest of your life till you die. You
- 2:11:24Speaker 1: call it enjoyment. sitting before a big screen morning till night,
- 2:11:29Speaker 1: hurting your eyes, hurting the various parts of your body.
- 2:11:33Speaker 1: One leg up, one leg down from morning till night.
- 2:11:35Speaker 1: You have all kinds of servants. John, go and get
- 2:11:38Speaker 1: me water. Ruth, get me this. And I'm not being sarcastic.
- 2:11:42Speaker 1: I am telling you, it's an African cancer. Sometimes because
- 2:11:46Speaker 1: we have suffered too much, you want to draw me
- 2:11:48Speaker 1: to destiny that I've arrived. It's unnecessary. Are we together now?
- 2:11:53Speaker 1: You must make up your mind that this body, you
- 2:11:56Speaker 1: are hosting my spirit for a long time. Who is
- 2:11:59Speaker 1: in agreement with me? You are hosting my body for
- 2:12:04Speaker 1: a long time. If I wake up, every part of
- 2:12:08Speaker 1: my body must wake up. I won't wake up and
- 2:12:10Speaker 1: my hand now refuses to rise up. Hand, wake up.
- 2:12:16Speaker 1: There's work to be done. I won't wake up and
- 2:12:18Speaker 1: then my eyes will not wake up. No. No. Speak
- 2:12:23Speaker 1: to your body. I'm telling you. As a principle. I
- 2:12:27Speaker 1: learned that from Kenneth Copeland. Speaks to his organs. And
- 2:12:30Speaker 1: say in the name of Jesus. You are functioning healthy.
- 2:12:33Speaker 1: Nobody will call me one day. And say one part
- 2:12:35Speaker 1: of my heart has collapsed. Let the devil go to hell.
- 2:12:38Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ. Keep at his bones.
- 2:12:42Speaker 1: Keep at his bones. Now please don't feel bad if
- 2:12:44Speaker 1: you are sick. We are here to pray for you.
- 2:12:46Speaker 1: I know that there are people. But I'm challenging you.
- 2:12:49Speaker 1: This is how to be successful health wise. And then,
- 2:12:54Speaker 1: there are many things you need to painfully take out
- 2:12:57Speaker 1: of your life. Huh? I don't want to kill anybody's business,
- 2:13:00Speaker 1: but let me tell you the truth. I've taught you
- 2:13:03Speaker 1: that there is death in the pot. Some of you
- 2:13:07Speaker 1: have been eating death many times in a day. Make
- 2:13:10Speaker 1: sure you verify, am I eating life or death? You
- 2:13:15Speaker 1: know how we do it in Africa? Two wraps of swallows.
- 2:13:20Speaker 1: With soup all around. Are we together? And literally one
- 2:13:25Speaker 1: quarter or half of chicken. Only you. And then two
- 2:13:28Speaker 1: bottles of minerals. No water. No water. You drank water
- 2:13:33Speaker 1: when you were poor. Now you're a rich man. No water.
- 2:13:38Speaker 1: Are we together? And then you eat everything. And while
- 2:13:45Speaker 1: you are doing it, you are listening to my message.
- 2:13:49Speaker 1: He's right. Apostle is preaching powerfully. Plus one minus one
- 2:14:00Speaker 1: is what? Help me. Plus one minus one. That's the
- 2:14:10Speaker 1: reason why fasting is good. Aside from the spiritual benefit,
- 2:14:14Speaker 1: fasting helps you. There are times you just shut down
- 2:14:17Speaker 1: and give your body peace for a while. Let it
- 2:14:20Speaker 1: work on the things you are already damaging those things.
- 2:14:22Speaker 1: Let clean out those things. I'm telling you, if you're
- 2:14:26Speaker 1: under medical advice, don't fast as the doctors recommend. But
- 2:14:29Speaker 1: I'm telling you, once you are alive and healthy, if
- 2:14:31Speaker 1: you eat every day and every time, you will still die.
- 2:14:34Speaker 1: If you don't eat, you will still... You see how
- 2:14:36Speaker 1: everything must be in moderation. As for me, I plan
- 2:14:42Speaker 1: to live long. And among my many strategies is to
- 2:14:46Speaker 1: eat well. As God begins to help you, please live
- 2:14:49Speaker 1: yesterday and start eating well. There are some of you
- 2:14:52Speaker 1: to buy clean water. You say, no, I won't spend
- 2:14:55Speaker 1: this kind of money. God forbid. You see that something
- 2:14:59Speaker 1: about yesterday still wants to drag you. You will not
- 2:15:02Speaker 1: mind fetching water directly from the well with cup and drink.
- 2:15:05Speaker 1: I said, this is not a kill. You know, all
- 2:15:07Speaker 1: those kind of things. I hope you are not just laughing.
- 2:15:15Speaker 1: When people are dying in your presence every day, say,
- 2:15:18Speaker 1: I will be healthy. Say it again, I will be healthy. Wives, ladies,
- 2:15:26Speaker 1: learn how to cook healthy food. Learn how to cook
- 2:15:30Speaker 1: healthy food. Don't kill your family. Because they married you
- 2:15:34Speaker 1: into the house. I'm giving you an honest advice. Don't
- 2:15:37Speaker 1: be offended. I'm sorry. This is koinonia. But learn how
- 2:15:40Speaker 1: to cook healthy food. Are we together? Learn how to cook.
- 2:15:45Speaker 1: Learn how to cook healthy food. And I'm praying for
- 2:15:48Speaker 1: you in the name of Jesus Christ. If there is
- 2:15:51Speaker 1: anybody here that the devil has already put a death sentence.
- 2:15:55Speaker 1: That before the end of the year. Maybe because of carelessness.
- 2:15:58Speaker 1: Some of you were smoking before. Some of you were
- 2:16:00Speaker 1: drinking before. You damaged your liver. Damaged your organs. I
- 2:16:04Speaker 1: pray for you. By the power that raised Christ from
- 2:16:07Speaker 1: the dead. May the mercy of God bring a resurrection
- 2:16:10Speaker 1: to your organs. May the mercy of God bring a
- 2:16:14Speaker 1: resurrection to your organs. May the mercy of God bring
- 2:16:18Speaker 1: a resurrection to your organs. May the mercy of God
- 2:16:21Speaker 1: bring a resurrection to your organs. In the name of Jesus.
- 2:16:29Speaker 1: Number four. Your purpose and assignment. I won't speak so
- 2:16:33Speaker 1: much there. There are only three keys I will give
- 2:16:37Speaker 1: you here. Discovery. refining and deploying. That is the key
- 2:16:43Speaker 1: to working in purpose. I refer you to the book,
- 2:16:46Speaker 1: Discovering Your Potentials, by Dr. Myles Monroe. Then I refer
- 2:16:51Speaker 1: you to my teachings also on purpose. I've done a
- 2:16:54Speaker 1: number of teachings on purpose. But here's what I will
- 2:16:56Speaker 1: tell you. You are as fulfilled to the degree to
- 2:17:00Speaker 1: which you discover, refine, and serve with excellence. Make sure
- 2:17:07Speaker 1: you pray that you'll be taken as part of the
- 2:17:09Speaker 1: school of ministry students. By the way, soon we'll give
- 2:17:12Speaker 1: the announcement for the next session. And make sure that
- 2:17:15Speaker 1: you start praying right now. Prayer works. Hallelujah. So that
- 2:17:21Speaker 1: you are absorbed. And there you have an opportunity to
- 2:17:23Speaker 1: learn very strategically the matters of purpose and destiny. But
- 2:17:28Speaker 1: the key here, a rule of thumb. Is that you
- 2:17:31Speaker 1: have to discover. It's been there. You don't invent your purpose.
- 2:17:34Speaker 1: You discover it. You were sent with it. And there
- 2:17:37Speaker 1: are many ways to discover it. Number one. The use
- 2:17:39Speaker 1: of your potentials. When you discover your potentials. Potentials are
- 2:17:44Speaker 1: pointers to your purpose. I would always say it this way.
- 2:17:48Speaker 1: If you see an individual holding a statue. what do
- 2:17:50Speaker 1: you call that individual? A doctor. When you see an
- 2:17:53Speaker 1: individual holding a knife, I mean a hammer and a nail,
- 2:17:58Speaker 1: that person is called a Thank you. You see that now?
- 2:18:01Speaker 1: So you can use your potentials as pointers to your purpose.
- 2:18:05Speaker 1: Number two, prophetic revelations and confirmations. God comes to you
- 2:18:09Speaker 1: in dreams, visions, prophetic confirmations. Number three, a byproduct of service.
- 2:18:15Speaker 1: Sometimes service in the house of God is how you
- 2:18:18Speaker 1: really discover what he's put within your heart. Right? Right?
- 2:18:23Speaker 1: So this is just a summary. When you discover your potentials.
- 2:18:27Speaker 1: Even if you don't know where you are taking it to.
- 2:18:29Speaker 1: The next thing is to contend to refine it. To
- 2:18:32Speaker 1: refine it. Oh God has given me the ability to speak.
- 2:18:35Speaker 1: You refine it. God has given me the ability to sing.
- 2:18:38Speaker 1: You refine it. God has given me the ability. I
- 2:18:41Speaker 1: have very high intellectual acumen. Refine it. And then. When
- 2:18:46Speaker 1: you refine it, begin to serve. Look up please. The
- 2:18:49Speaker 1: easiest way to begin to serve your purpose is the
- 2:18:52Speaker 1: house of God. As a worker. Are we together now?
- 2:18:56Speaker 1: Philip started as a welfare person. But he eventually became
- 2:19:00Speaker 1: an evangelist. The Bible acknowledges him as an evangelist. But
- 2:19:04Speaker 1: he started with welfare. From there he discovered his place.
- 2:19:09Speaker 1: You can start as an usher and eventually end as
- 2:19:12Speaker 1: a mighty apostle. Because as an usher, your gift will
- 2:19:15Speaker 1: now be seen. And one day they will say, lead
- 2:19:18Speaker 1: a small prayer here. And they begin to descend the
- 2:19:20Speaker 1: hand of God upon your life. Gradually you begin to scale.
- 2:19:24Speaker 1: Proving through faithfulness that God can take you higher and higher.
- 2:19:28Speaker 1: Until one day he will now commit to you your
- 2:19:31Speaker 1: own work. That's how it works. Let's go to number four.
- 2:19:34Speaker 1: Very quickly. Who is learning tonight? The road map. I
- 2:19:41Speaker 1: won't talk much about finances, number four. Or number five now,
- 2:19:44Speaker 1: am I right? Number five is your finances. I wish
- 2:19:47Speaker 1: I had time to drum it. I hope I will
- 2:19:49Speaker 1: take one of, I promise you, it's a promise I'm
- 2:19:52Speaker 1: giving you. Between now and when Koinonia is done, we'll
- 2:19:55Speaker 1: talk about this money thing one more time. Maybe one
- 2:19:57Speaker 1: of this week we'll come and just touch it again.
- 2:20:00Speaker 1: Are we together? Because this finance thing is not something
- 2:20:02Speaker 1: you hear once and understand. It's a very stubborn subject.
- 2:20:05Speaker 1: You need to hear and hear again. And file this area,
- 2:20:09Speaker 1: file that area, file that area. Finances, the teaching of
- 2:20:13Speaker 1: finances comes with a lot of pride. Because most times
- 2:20:16Speaker 1: people hear it and say, you mean it's this simple?
- 2:20:18Speaker 1: Until they try it. Then they find out that they
- 2:20:20Speaker 1: were trying to hold water with their hands. Everything just
- 2:20:23Speaker 1: went out. There is a skill to it, to make
- 2:20:25Speaker 1: it work. Are we together? But generally... I will tell
- 2:20:29Speaker 1: you this. You prosper to the degree to which you
- 2:20:33Speaker 1: are valuable. You prosper to the degree to which you
- 2:20:35Speaker 1: are favored. You can rest on that. You prosper to
- 2:20:39Speaker 1: the degree to which you are valuable. And you prosper
- 2:20:42Speaker 1: to the degree to which you are favored. The two
- 2:20:45Speaker 1: principal keys that control wealth and abundance is value and
- 2:20:51Speaker 1: favor through relationships. Take this as a rule of thumb. Value.
- 2:20:56Speaker 1: Turning your gift, your ability to products and services, packaging
- 2:21:02Speaker 1: it with excellence and serving it to a targeted consumer base.
- 2:21:06Speaker 1: You call that business, we call that value. Are you
- 2:21:09Speaker 1: seeing that now? The degree to which you are valuable,
- 2:21:13Speaker 1: serving solutions that are needed and useful. The reason why
- 2:21:17Speaker 1: certain professions look more profitable than others is because they
- 2:21:21Speaker 1: solve greater, weightier problems than others. Are we together? If
- 2:21:26Speaker 1: a doctor and a carpenter and architect is here, most
- 2:21:29Speaker 1: likely the doctor will have more clients because humans are
- 2:21:33Speaker 1: prone to being sick faster. They need health solutions better
- 2:21:37Speaker 1: than even a housing solution. Are we together now? So
- 2:21:41Speaker 1: when it has to do with prospering, there is a
- 2:21:43Speaker 1: spiritual side to it. And listen to all of my
- 2:21:46Speaker 1: messages that I preach around finances. But I must tell
- 2:21:49Speaker 1: you this. If you are not valuable and you do
- 2:21:53Speaker 1: not refine your value and serve it with excellence, I
- 2:21:57Speaker 1: hate to be a bearer of bad news. You will
- 2:21:59Speaker 1: be poor or you will not be sustainably wealthy. There's
- 2:22:04Speaker 1: a lot of superstition around wealth, especially as proposed by
- 2:22:08Speaker 1: the church. And it's the reason why a lot of
- 2:22:10Speaker 1: non-Christians are laughing and mocking and spiting the church. Because
- 2:22:14Speaker 1: it looks like our entire theology about wealth is centered
- 2:22:18Speaker 1: on giving and giving alone. While giving plays a very
- 2:22:21Speaker 1: major spiritual and even psychological role to wealth, it is
- 2:22:26Speaker 1: not limited to giving alone. Principally, value. There are spiritual
- 2:22:31Speaker 1: laws that connect you. But I have taught you here value.
- 2:22:34Speaker 1: The degree to which you are able to serve products
- 2:22:37Speaker 1: and services that are needed and useful. Are we together?
- 2:22:42Speaker 1: This mic was bought. This puppet was bought or fabricated.
- 2:22:46Speaker 1: This Bible was bought. This phone was bought. Are we together?
- 2:22:50Speaker 1: The dress that I'm wearing, somebody put this together. Whoever
- 2:22:54Speaker 1: was part of this value chain has had a portion
- 2:22:57Speaker 1: of our finances. It doesn't matter whether the person was
- 2:23:00Speaker 1: a Christian or not. Are we together now? That's how
- 2:23:03Speaker 1: it works. Immediately after service, you are going to a
- 2:23:06Speaker 1: restaurant or you are going to cook at home. The
- 2:23:08Speaker 1: one you bought food from, you paid. The one you
- 2:23:11Speaker 1: are going to, whose restaurant you are going to, are
- 2:23:13Speaker 1: we together now? That person will continue receiving your money
- 2:23:17Speaker 1: provided they are providing value. And then the second angle
- 2:23:20Speaker 1: to it is favor through relationships. Question, when a millionaire
- 2:23:24Speaker 1: gives birth to a son, what business solution did the
- 2:23:27Speaker 1: boy solve to prosper? It's called inheritance. It's not called profit.
- 2:23:32Speaker 1: It's called inheritance. Are we together now? Eventually his inheritance
- 2:23:36Speaker 1: can be transferred to profit. But at the time it
- 2:23:39Speaker 1: is called inheritance. So relationships are very powerful. Anybody you
- 2:23:46Speaker 1: sell value to can reward you. But the person that
- 2:23:49Speaker 1: likes you too can bless you. It's not called reward.
- 2:23:52Speaker 1: But it's still money reaching you. And that's the most
- 2:23:54Speaker 1: important thing. Now when God really wants to power your life,
- 2:23:59Speaker 1: he grants you access to do both. That you are
- 2:24:02Speaker 1: both valuable and he connects you to strategic, profitable, pro-destiny relationships.
- 2:24:08Speaker 1: It doesn't keep you lazy, but it becomes an acceleration
- 2:24:11Speaker 1: for you. There are many people who relationships can give
- 2:24:14Speaker 1: them capital. And wisdom can help them do business with
- 2:24:17Speaker 1: the money. And they begin to scale. If you ask them,
- 2:24:20Speaker 1: how were you blessed? They will tell you both relationships
- 2:24:23Speaker 1: and value. Don't depend on relationships alone. It is the
- 2:24:27Speaker 1: way of a lazy man. Even if relationships give you resources,
- 2:24:31Speaker 1: it is wisdom. And learning how to transact that grows
- 2:24:35Speaker 1: your resources. But if the only thing you know is
- 2:24:37Speaker 1: how to transact value, your growth rate will be very slow.
- 2:24:43Speaker 1: Are we together now? Because transaction from an economic standpoint
- 2:24:47Speaker 1: is tampered by many nuances, many biases. Relationships are a
- 2:24:55Speaker 1: great leverage in life. Don't ignore them. I am a
- 2:24:59Speaker 1: product of the financial blessings that have come From relationships, largely.
- 2:25:05Speaker 1: Relationships are powerful. Are we together now? You can build
- 2:25:08Speaker 1: a house. You can own an estate. You can have
- 2:25:11Speaker 1: a property, whatever it is. But by the time you transact,
- 2:25:15Speaker 1: there are people who have written books. It has blessed them.
- 2:25:17Speaker 1: There are people who have sold their materials, their intellectual property.
- 2:25:21Speaker 1: It has blessed them. Some of you here make clothes.
- 2:25:24Speaker 1: My assignment is to release grace on what you are doing.
- 2:25:28Speaker 1: If there is nothing you are doing, releasing financial grace
- 2:25:31Speaker 1: on it is profitless. Are we together? Lazy people shout
- 2:25:34Speaker 1: amen with empty hands. Visionary people carry their value up
- 2:25:38Speaker 1: and receive blessings on it. When people are lazy, they
- 2:25:43Speaker 1: just shout amen. For what? What are you going to
- 2:25:46Speaker 1: do now? Say nothing. All I know is that somebody
- 2:25:49Speaker 1: will not sleep. We need to be careful. Are we
- 2:25:55Speaker 1: together now? There are others who truly believe that they
- 2:25:58Speaker 1: wouldn't do anything in this life. Just because they love Jesus.
- 2:26:01Speaker 1: Somebody must give them his house, his car, his clothes.
- 2:26:06Speaker 1: Pay their children's school fees. While they just sit there
- 2:26:09Speaker 1: and say God is faithful. It's the way of fools.
- 2:26:11Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say it but it's the way of fools.
- 2:26:15Speaker 1: Even as a man of God, I don't expect that
- 2:26:17Speaker 1: kind of result. That you are immune by priesthood. But
- 2:26:23Speaker 1: I still believe that my hands are blessed. My mind
- 2:26:26Speaker 1: is blessed. That favor will come. But I will not
- 2:26:29Speaker 1: abuse the grace of God. Is someone learning now? In
- 2:26:33Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. The spirit of laziness around your life.
- 2:26:36Speaker 1: I curse it right now. Hear me. If you are
- 2:26:41Speaker 1: troubleshooting your financial problems. The first area to go to.
- 2:26:45Speaker 1: Is whether or not. Whether or not you are valuable.
- 2:26:50Speaker 1: Are you valuable then to who? If you are only
- 2:26:54Speaker 1: valuable to yourself, you are flattering yourself because you cannot
- 2:26:57Speaker 1: pay yourself. You will have to serve that value to
- 2:27:00Speaker 1: another outside of yourself. And if the person does not
- 2:27:03Speaker 1: need the value you carry, then unfortunately there will not
- 2:27:06Speaker 1: be a reward. Some of you are valuable enough to
- 2:27:09Speaker 1: be commended, not to be rewarded. Are we together? We
- 2:27:14Speaker 1: can clap for you for the value you carry, but
- 2:27:16Speaker 1: it's not exceptional enough. It's not refined enough. It's not
- 2:27:21Speaker 1: packaged enough. Value must be translated to productivity. Productivity is
- 2:27:26Speaker 1: when value is translated to goods and services that are
- 2:27:30Speaker 1: now refined, served with excellence to a targeted consumer base.
- 2:27:36Speaker 1: Then you are rewarded, not just commended. And then favor too. relationships.
- 2:27:41Speaker 1: I have taught you sincerely so that the easiest way
- 2:27:45Speaker 1: to prosper is through relationships. Who hates you does not matter.
- 2:27:49Speaker 1: I will say this to you endlessly. But who likes
- 2:27:52Speaker 1: you matters. May someone like you before December. Enough to
- 2:27:57Speaker 1: contribute to your financial laughter. Are we together now? I
- 2:28:04Speaker 1: expect blessings from favor every day. Including finances. I'm saying
- 2:28:09Speaker 1: it without shame. I'm saying it without any sense of apology.
- 2:28:14Speaker 1: Are we together? But then... After you check the issue
- 2:28:18Speaker 1: of value. Check the issue of relationships. Now let me
- 2:28:21Speaker 1: tell you this. I'm not teaching you to be parasitic
- 2:28:24Speaker 1: in your relationship. Or to say you are poor. You
- 2:28:27Speaker 1: can't be my friend. I've also thought that prosperity comes
- 2:28:29Speaker 1: from relationships. I've found out that I have too many
- 2:28:33Speaker 1: poor people around me. Don't do that. Because the person
- 2:28:36Speaker 1: you are laughing at today. God can exalt the person.
- 2:28:39Speaker 1: But I will tell you one truth. I will tell
- 2:28:42Speaker 1: you one truth. I will tell you one truth. When
- 2:28:44Speaker 1: you are transformed. your relationships will also rise to match
- 2:28:49Speaker 1: your transformation. If everybody around you is poor, I'm telling
- 2:28:54Speaker 1: you sincerely, I'm not insulting them, but it's a report
- 2:28:58Speaker 1: card to how your thinking is. You can steal the
- 2:29:03Speaker 1: contact of a rich man from somebody's phone. Call the
- 2:29:06Speaker 1: person and see whether he will pick your number. The
- 2:29:08Speaker 1: fact that he's not picking your number means he does
- 2:29:10Speaker 1: not recognize you. You have not gotten to that realm.
- 2:29:13Speaker 1: So rather than embarrassing yourself, content by light to a
- 2:29:17Speaker 1: level where those who you call great today will also
- 2:29:20Speaker 1: call you great. Is someone learning now? Yes. I didn't
- 2:29:25Speaker 1: even know when the contact in my phone changed, quite honestly.
- 2:29:29Speaker 1: It was not something that was intentionally done. And I
- 2:29:31Speaker 1: can't remember deleting the old ones, but I can find them.
- 2:29:40Speaker 1: That somebody you desire will be the one to collect
- 2:29:42Speaker 1: your phone and say, let me type my number to
- 2:29:44Speaker 1: be sure you are there. You see. Everybody blesses according
- 2:29:49Speaker 1: to his riches in glory. If somebody is poor, he
- 2:29:52Speaker 1: cannot bless you. You get what I'm saying? He may
- 2:29:55Speaker 1: pray for you. He may intercede for you. He may
- 2:29:58Speaker 1: wait upon the Lord for you. But as far as
- 2:30:01Speaker 1: financial blessing is concerned, you will not get anything. Let
- 2:30:03Speaker 1: me tell you sincerely, don't waste your time. It is
- 2:30:06Speaker 1: wealthy people that can help give you the leverage of wealth.
- 2:30:10Speaker 1: It is the truth. It is the truth. Pray for
- 2:30:13Speaker 1: everybody to be around your life. But in this season
- 2:30:15Speaker 1: pray for quality people. Established by the mercy of God.
- 2:30:20Speaker 1: That they will look upon you with kindness. And extend
- 2:30:23Speaker 1: benevolence to you. Whilst God helps you to solve their
- 2:30:26Speaker 1: problem too. These are very uncomfortable truths. Especially because you
- 2:30:33Speaker 1: are saying it in church. But the truth is still
- 2:30:35Speaker 1: the truth. A poor man can pray for you. But
- 2:30:39Speaker 1: a poor man cannot help you financially. Are we together?
- 2:30:49Speaker 1: If everybody around my life is poor, I would just
- 2:30:51Speaker 1: believe I'm sent to them. And I'll start praying for
- 2:30:54Speaker 1: my real helpers to come around.
- 2:30:56Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
- 2:31:02Speaker 1: Do you believe what you are hearing? But then I
- 2:31:04Speaker 1: will tell you this. And even if this is where
- 2:31:06Speaker 1: we stop tonight, that is still fine. There is a grace.
- 2:31:14Speaker 1: That prospers. There is an anointing. That prospers. I have
- 2:31:21Speaker 1: proven it with my life. It is true. If it
- 2:31:24Speaker 1: is something someone told me. You can say you are
- 2:31:27Speaker 1: just talking nonsense. But the things we have seen. The
- 2:31:30Speaker 1: things we have heard. By the message of God. The
- 2:31:33Speaker 1: things that our hands have handled. Are we together now?
- 2:31:36Speaker 1: Honestly speaking. Believers hear me. There is a grace from heaven.
- 2:31:41Speaker 1: That comes on the head of a man. And redefines
- 2:31:45Speaker 1: your financial possibility. And for someone tonight. Whilst you are
- 2:31:49Speaker 1: seated quietly. In the name of Jesus. Like the dew
- 2:31:53Speaker 1: of Hamon. In addition to the value you are providing.
- 2:31:57Speaker 1: In addition to the strategic relationships. You are at a
- 2:32:01Speaker 1: point in your life now where you need help that
- 2:32:03Speaker 1: men cannot give. It will take the God of heaven
- 2:32:06Speaker 1: showing you mercy. Otherwise you will wake up early in
- 2:32:09Speaker 1: the morning. You will sleep late in the night. You
- 2:32:12Speaker 1: will roll the doors of destiny. Even the doors of value.
- 2:32:16Speaker 1: And it will still not work for you. I pray
- 2:32:18Speaker 1: for you now wherever you are. Provided you came here
- 2:32:21Speaker 1: with hunger. This grace that can help men. That becomes
- 2:32:26Speaker 1: an accelerator to your financial journey. May that grace rest
- 2:32:31Speaker 1: upon your life. May that grace rest upon your life.
- 2:32:39Speaker 1: May you become a financial wonder. In addition to your value.
- 2:32:44Speaker 1: In addition to relationships. May that grace rest upon you. Oh,
- 2:32:53Speaker 1: rest on me. Oh, rest on me. Oh, rest on me. Hallelujah.
- 2:33:10Speaker 1: The goal of the teaching tonight is to connect desires
- 2:33:15Speaker 1: with outcomes. It's like a spiritual troubleshooting. Are we together now?
- 2:33:20Speaker 1: I'm running for you a list so that you will
- 2:33:23Speaker 1: go back. As you are listening, this is what mentorship
- 2:33:26Speaker 1: is about. You can now examine what area of your
- 2:33:29Speaker 1: life that is not working. I wish we had time
- 2:33:32Speaker 1: for me to touch a bit on relationships, but we
- 2:33:34Speaker 1: have to pray now. But relationships are very vital. Some
- 2:33:38Speaker 1: of you are alone. You are lonely. Nobody to help you.
- 2:33:42Speaker 1: You know many people, but you did not connect to them. Listen,
- 2:33:46Speaker 1: the one who helps you is the one you connect to,
- 2:33:49Speaker 1: not the one you know. You can know the person,
- 2:33:52Speaker 1: but if you are not connected, help will not flow
- 2:33:55Speaker 1: from them to you. Are we together now? I know
- 2:33:57Speaker 1: this senator. You may not be lying, but you will
- 2:34:00Speaker 1: never receive help from them. I know this man of God.
- 2:34:03Speaker 1: Knowing people does not benefit you relationally. You must learn
- 2:34:08Speaker 1: how to connect. Connect. And the way you connect, let
- 2:34:15Speaker 1: me tell you this. Live tonight knowing that relationships are investments.
- 2:34:20Speaker 1: The same way you do real estate. You do oil
- 2:34:23Speaker 1: and gas. My brothers, my sisters, relationships are investments. It
- 2:34:28Speaker 1: is fraud to want a return over any investment you
- 2:34:31Speaker 1: did not do. Are we together? Are we together? When
- 2:34:35Speaker 1: you are catching 419ers, catch those who want a return
- 2:34:39Speaker 1: from relationships they did not invest to because it's fraud.
- 2:34:43Speaker 1: It's amazing how many people do not invest in lives.
- 2:34:51Speaker 1: They just show up and want a stake. No, it
- 2:34:54Speaker 1: doesn't work that way. If you were not there when
- 2:34:57Speaker 1: I'm crying, when you see me smiling, rejoice from afar.
- 2:35:00Speaker 1: Don't come near me. Are we together now? You can
- 2:35:04Speaker 1: earn a living believing in people. You can earn a
- 2:35:07Speaker 1: living believing in people. That I take the risk to
- 2:35:11Speaker 1: believe in you. If you fail, I have nothing to lose.
- 2:35:15Speaker 1: But if you succeed, I will become part of the
- 2:35:18Speaker 1: foot soldiers that believed in you until your rising. There
- 2:35:21Speaker 1: are people today, whether they do business or not, the
- 2:35:23Speaker 1: truth is that they have done the business of risking
- 2:35:27Speaker 1: their credibility to believe in those rising. And fortunate for them,
- 2:35:31Speaker 1: it worked.
- 2:35:34Speaker 5: It worked.
- 2:35:34Speaker 1: It worked. Are we together? It worked too. Some of
- 2:35:41Speaker 1: you don't believe in anybody. You run away from people
- 2:35:44Speaker 1: while you are checking with the side of your eye.
- 2:35:46Speaker 1: Once you see a crown on your head, you run
- 2:35:48Speaker 1: and come and say, remember I was here. They say,
- 2:35:50Speaker 1: no sir, that is fraud. Show me the sign of
- 2:35:54Speaker 1: blood from my tears. Show me the nails, the sign
- 2:35:57Speaker 1: of nails. Did you help me carry the cross? Let
- 2:35:59Speaker 1: me tell you this. Make up your mind that you
- 2:36:03Speaker 1: will start believing in people As you come for koinonia,
- 2:36:07Speaker 1: you may see others, no car, no nothing. But they
- 2:36:09Speaker 1: are shouting amen every day. You see them rising. Don't
- 2:36:13Speaker 1: laugh at them. The day fire falls on their head,
- 2:36:16Speaker 1: in one month they will come and testify. And say,
- 2:36:18Speaker 1: I got a job, somebody did whatever. And you tell them, sir,
- 2:36:22Speaker 1: that man that helped you, do you know he's the
- 2:36:24Speaker 1: one I've been trying to give a contract to? And
- 2:36:26Speaker 1: you say, I don't know you. I don't know you.
- 2:36:28Speaker 1: Joshua Selman, I know. Are we together? And let me
- 2:36:39Speaker 1: say this with all due respect. Even for men of God,
- 2:36:42Speaker 1: don't appear in the life of a successful man and
- 2:36:44Speaker 1: just call him your son. What did you do in
- 2:36:47Speaker 1: his life? Don't show up in the life of people
- 2:36:50Speaker 1: and just claim a stake. They are not idiots. They
- 2:36:53Speaker 1: may respect you, but they are not stupid. They know
- 2:36:55Speaker 1: where the anointing came from. That's why a lot of
- 2:36:58Speaker 1: people say, can you imagine, I did this and nobody
- 2:37:01Speaker 1: came back to me. It's a lie. It's impossible to
- 2:37:04Speaker 1: invest in building people. And selflessly, and God leaves them
- 2:37:08Speaker 1: and they forget you. Don't go around stealing sheep and
- 2:37:11Speaker 1: claiming you invested in people. As men of God, is
- 2:37:18Speaker 1: it not funny how we are? We don't call any
- 2:37:20Speaker 1: sick person son. We don't call any person who is
- 2:37:24Speaker 1: having a mental problem son. We only pick, cherry pick
- 2:37:28Speaker 1: successful people. and say you are my son you are
- 2:37:31Speaker 1: my daughter How don't you believe in the person who
- 2:37:34Speaker 1: is sick until he is transformed to become a sign
- 2:37:38Speaker 1: and a wonder. And you can say, I remember when
- 2:37:41Speaker 1: I came, I was weak. I was in debt like
- 2:37:44Speaker 1: the man of David. Look, you have transformed me to
- 2:37:46Speaker 1: a mighty warrior. We become your foot soldiers. You will
- 2:37:50Speaker 1: never be hungry, not when we are standing. Let me
- 2:37:52Speaker 1: tell you the truth and I submit to you. There
- 2:37:55Speaker 1: are people, even preachers, who have spent their lives investing
- 2:37:59Speaker 1: in lifting people. Today that those people are lifted, no
- 2:38:02Speaker 1: matter what you say, those people will die defending the
- 2:38:06Speaker 1: ones who were there for them. Relationships are investments. Don't
- 2:38:12Speaker 1: waste it. Some of you see our little children and
- 2:38:15Speaker 1: push them away. You are pushing your house. You are
- 2:38:18Speaker 1: pushing breakthrough. You are pushing a A position for your children.
- 2:38:23Speaker 1: Mutual respect is the way of the wise. Are we together?
- 2:38:26Speaker 1: I'm showing you a road map today. I have learned
- 2:38:29Speaker 1: this from people. And God has placed wonderful senior mentors
- 2:38:33Speaker 1: and people in my life. And one of the advice
- 2:38:36Speaker 1: they gave me. I've seen it in their lives. That
- 2:38:38Speaker 1: they spent their lives investing in quality relationship. You will
- 2:38:43Speaker 1: never mention any ministry in Nigeria. That they don't have
- 2:38:46Speaker 1: someone there. Someone they raised. Someone they blessed. Someone they
- 2:38:51Speaker 1: fed when he did not have food Now he's a
- 2:38:53Speaker 1: governor Now he's working somewhere And he can come and
- 2:38:56Speaker 1: say I'm still your boy They call me excellency but
- 2:38:59Speaker 1: I'm still your boy What do you want me to do?
- 2:39:01Speaker 1: Please give this person a job Consider it done To
- 2:39:04Speaker 1: you it's a sign and a wonder To them it's
- 2:39:06Speaker 1: a destiny they programmed Listen Leave Koinonia tonight with this consciousness.
- 2:39:17Speaker 1: Start programming your 2025. Don't allow it to come and
- 2:39:20Speaker 1: meet you alone. Don't allow your heaven to be brass
- 2:39:24Speaker 1: and your earth iron. Because you ignore people. As pastors,
- 2:39:28Speaker 1: respect people. Don't look down on them. Just because they
- 2:39:31Speaker 1: are listening to you. God is working on them. God
- 2:39:34Speaker 1: is lifting them. If you are a rich man today,
- 2:39:36Speaker 1: respect those who are coming. Because you don't know, you
- 2:39:39Speaker 1: have reached your plateau. But the people who are rising,
- 2:39:42Speaker 1: you don't know how far they will go. Are we
- 2:39:46Speaker 1: together now? If there is anything I've learned is that
- 2:39:50Speaker 1: relationships are investments. If people really matter to you, then
- 2:39:55Speaker 1: invest in their lives. If you don't invest in their lives,
- 2:39:58Speaker 1: don't claim they matter to you. And stay away from
- 2:40:01Speaker 1: their success when God leaves them. Because you have no
- 2:40:04Speaker 1: stake there. Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord. There
- 2:40:09Speaker 1: are people today, I don't expect them to take me
- 2:40:12Speaker 1: so serious because I cannot remember making any kind of
- 2:40:16Speaker 1: direct strategic investment in their lives. I didn't make any
- 2:40:19Speaker 1: investment in that kind of relationship. It would be stupid
- 2:40:22Speaker 1: of me to expect certain levels of returns. Whatever I get,
- 2:40:26Speaker 1: I'm grateful because that spells the kind of investment I made.
- 2:40:30Speaker 1: But there are relationships that were intentional. They are still intentional.
- 2:40:35Speaker 1: God brought somebody to learn. All your destiny helpers are
- 2:40:38Speaker 1: around you. They are not yet destiny helpers, but they
- 2:40:41Speaker 1: will be destiny helpers tomorrow. Don't ignore them. That house
- 2:40:45Speaker 1: boy in your house, don't ignore them. That lady washing
- 2:40:48Speaker 1: your plate, don't ignore them. They may not have money now,
- 2:40:51Speaker 1: but they are listening to the word every day. God
- 2:40:54Speaker 1: is lifting them every day. That neighbor... Pay attention to people.
- 2:40:59Speaker 1: Scatter your seeds. Give a portion to seven. Yeah, to eight.
- 2:41:04Speaker 1: You do not know the disaster that shall come upon
- 2:41:06Speaker 1: the earth. Are we together now? You see somebody, good afternoon, sir. Oh,
- 2:41:11Speaker 1: you're an architect. Oh, God bless you. Something falls on
- 2:41:13Speaker 1: the ground. Let me pick it for you, sir. You
- 2:41:15Speaker 1: may think it does not matter. One day he will
- 2:41:18Speaker 1: look at you among the crowd and say, you are
- 2:41:20Speaker 1: looking for a job. I remember you. What did you study?
- 2:41:24Speaker 1: You will say, I'm even ashamed to say it. Say
- 2:41:26Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You were the one who were kind
- 2:41:28Speaker 1: to me in Koinonia. Come, you have the job now.
- 2:41:30Speaker 1: I can tell you testimonies of people. And I say
- 2:41:33Speaker 1: that with all humility. And I thank all of you
- 2:41:36Speaker 1: here who have given people jobs because they belong to
- 2:41:39Speaker 1: this family in addition to their competence. On their behalf,
- 2:41:42Speaker 1: I'm saying God bless you. But there have been people,
- 2:41:45Speaker 1: they didn't have to do any interview. The moment they
- 2:41:49Speaker 1: mentioned koinonia, I said, that's it. Provided the value you
- 2:41:53Speaker 1: can do all of that, come on board. May your
- 2:41:58Speaker 1: name be a key, not a padlock. I say to
- 2:42:02Speaker 1: you as I ask you to stand now, may your
- 2:42:04Speaker 1: name be a key and not a padlock. That if
- 2:42:07Speaker 1: your name has locked the door of destiny over your children.
- 2:42:11Speaker 1: Locked the door of destiny over everyone. That when people
- 2:42:15Speaker 1: want to succeed. They have to deny you to succeed.
- 2:42:18Speaker 1: They can't tell people they know you. Because the moment
- 2:42:21Speaker 1: they mention your name. A door that was open becomes closed.
- 2:42:25Speaker 1: I pray for you. Whatever has made your name a padlock.
- 2:42:28Speaker 1: May mercy scatter that padlock now. In the name of Jesus.
- 2:42:37Speaker 1: The road map. Next time you see God lift people
- 2:42:41Speaker 1: and you see people succeed in the kingdom. Don't say
- 2:42:44Speaker 1: it was a mistake. These are the kingdom principles. Among others.
- 2:42:49Speaker 1: For tonight I did a troubleshooting for you. Across these
- 2:42:53Speaker 1: various areas of your life. Go back and listen to
- 2:42:56Speaker 1: this message again. Point out where you have not been
- 2:42:59Speaker 1: practicing it or where you have not found light. Add
- 2:43:03Speaker 1: more material sweet and pray in the spirit and watch
- 2:43:06Speaker 1: your life rise. As for me, this journey I've begun
- 2:43:09Speaker 1: with the Holy Ghost. This journey I've begun with destiny.
- 2:43:13Speaker 1: It is from glory to glory. From glory to glory.
- 2:43:16Speaker 1: I'm speaking to myself now. It is from glory to glory.
- 2:43:20Speaker 1: Never having a better yesterday. In the name of Jesus Christ.
- 2:43:24Speaker 1: Open your mouth in one minute and begin to give
- 2:43:26Speaker 1: God praise for what you have heard tonight. A thought
- 2:43:33Speaker 1: provoking examination. Of your true state. Take time to pray.
- 2:43:42Speaker 1: The road map. The road map to excellent spirituality. The
- 2:43:47Speaker 1: road map to transformation. The road map to health and vitality.
- 2:43:53Speaker 1: The road map to purpose. Destiny. The road map to
- 2:43:57Speaker 1: financial vitality. The road map to strategic pro-destiny relationships. Bible
- 2:44:08Speaker 1: says narrow is the way. Straight is the way. Narrow
- 2:44:11Speaker 1: is the way. Very few people go there. And yet
- 2:44:14Speaker 1: it leads to life. Broad is the way that leads
- 2:44:17Speaker 1: to destruction. Go ahead and pray. Thank God for what
- 2:44:21Speaker 1: you have heard. And pray for grace tonight. I obtain grace.
- 2:44:25Speaker 1: I obtain grace. I obtain grace. Someone pray, I obtain
- 2:44:30Speaker 1: grace to be vibrant spiritually, to contend for transformation, to
- 2:44:38Speaker 1: be healthy and physically vibrant, to walk in purpose, to
- 2:44:44Speaker 1: walk in my destiny. I obtain grace to excel financially.
- 2:44:49Speaker 1: I obtain grace to invest in strategic relationships. In Jesus
- 2:45:00Speaker 1: mighty name we pray. Do me a favor ladies and gentlemen.
- 2:45:04Speaker 1: I want you to please promise your destiny. That you
- 2:45:08Speaker 1: will listen to this message again. Please. Just believe in
- 2:45:13Speaker 1: what God is making out of your life. Don't assume
- 2:45:16Speaker 1: you got everything. Go back with childlike faith. Listen again.
- 2:45:21Speaker 1: Prayer fully. Listen again like a student. Get your iPads,
- 2:45:26Speaker 1: get your notebooks, your laptops and listen and write. And
- 2:45:30Speaker 1: pray every one of these aspects one by one. One
- 2:45:35Speaker 1: by one. Tonight I was like a lecturer. Go back
- 2:45:38Speaker 1: and pray it. The area not working in your life.
- 2:45:41Speaker 1: Then you return with thanksgiving. As you see the various
- 2:45:44Speaker 1: facets of your life finally answering. And you can tell
- 2:45:48Speaker 1: people that growth and success and excellence is not a mystery.
- 2:45:53Speaker 1: That there are principles in the spirit that can help
- 2:45:56Speaker 1: a man here and now to command an indomitable and
- 2:46:02Speaker 1: enviable level of life. You believe that? Give Jesus a
- 2:46:06Speaker 1: big hand clap. Tonight is someone's hour of salvation. And
- 2:46:17Speaker 1: while standing everybody. I want to give one person the
- 2:46:21Speaker 1: opportunity to at least begin. I have given you a
- 2:46:25Speaker 1: list of six areas. Someone has one area to start
- 2:46:30Speaker 1: with at least. Your spiritual life. As it stands, you've
- 2:46:34Speaker 1: never truly made Jesus Lord of your life. Or you
- 2:46:37Speaker 1: have not taken your spiritual vibrancy, your spiritual vitality, a
- 2:46:42Speaker 1: serious issue. But now on hearing me speak, the Lord
- 2:46:46Speaker 1: is convicting your heart. And you are saying, Apostle, I
- 2:46:49Speaker 1: want to start afresh. Wherever you are, I want you
- 2:46:52Speaker 1: to leave your seat very quickly. Your bags, your Bibles,
- 2:46:55Speaker 1: everything you came to church with. Give me the honor
- 2:46:58Speaker 1: of leading you to Jesus. God bless you as you come.
- 2:47:01Speaker 1: Wherever you are. Please keep clapping. Let's not distract them
- 2:47:03Speaker 1: as they come. Someone has to come to Jesus tonight.
- 2:47:07Speaker 1: And wherever you are. Please make your way very quickly.
- 2:47:11Speaker 1: If you are around the balconies. I like you to
- 2:47:13Speaker 1: make your way to the front quickly. And if you
- 2:47:15Speaker 1: are saying. Apostle. I want to rededicate my life to Jesus.
- 2:47:18Speaker 1: I want to make things right. Please be on your way.
- 2:47:21Speaker 1: God bless you my sister. I see a few people coming.
- 2:47:24Speaker 1: God bless you. Those coming from outside. Come quickly. Come quickly.
- 2:47:27Speaker 1: God bless you. Koinonia let's keep appreciating them as they come.
- 2:47:34Speaker 1: God bless you.
- 2:47:36Speaker 4: I want more of you. I want more of you, Jesus.
- 2:47:48Speaker 1: The more I know you, the.
- 2:47:52Speaker 3: More I want to know you, Jesus.
- 2:47:56Speaker 1: More of you. Is someone still coming? I want more
- 2:48:04Speaker 1: of you. If you're joining them, come quickly. I want
- 2:48:07Speaker 1: to lead them to pray now. I want more of you. Jesus,
- 2:48:15Speaker 1: the more I know.
- 2:48:16Speaker 2: You, the more I want to know you.
- 2:48:21Speaker 3: Jesus, more of you.
- 2:48:27Speaker 1: Thank you so much, brothers and sisters. Let me speak
- 2:48:30Speaker 1: to someone who is following online by way of internet.
- 2:48:35Speaker 1: And you're saying, Apostle, you may not see me, but
- 2:48:38Speaker 1: I'm part of those who have made this decision. I
- 2:48:40Speaker 1: want to make Jesus Lord of my life. I want
- 2:48:42Speaker 1: to salute you right where you are, in your home,
- 2:48:45Speaker 1: across the globe, anywhere at all. As I lead these
- 2:48:49Speaker 1: ones in prayer, I want you to participate. Make sure
- 2:48:52Speaker 1: you pray that prayer too. And the Lord Jesus Christ
- 2:48:55Speaker 1: will be ministering his life and his power to you.
- 2:48:57Speaker 1: Lift your hands for those of you who are in front.
- 2:49:00Speaker 1: I salute you for coming. Say this after me as
- 2:49:02Speaker 1: loud and as clear as you can. Say, Lord Jesus,
- 2:49:05Speaker 1: I love you with all my heart. I believe that
- 2:49:10Speaker 1: you are the son of God. I believe that you
- 2:49:15Speaker 1: died for me. I believe that you rose again for
- 2:49:20Speaker 1: my justification. Right now, I receive Jesus into my heart
- 2:49:28Speaker 1: as my Savior, my Lord, and my King. I declare
- 2:49:34Speaker 1: that I'm a child of God. I'm the righteousness of
- 2:49:38Speaker 1: God in Christ Jesus. I obtain grace. To live the
- 2:49:43Speaker 1: victorious Christian life. And I go forward ever and backward never. Amen.
- 2:49:50Speaker 1: Father thank you so much for my dear brothers and sisters.
- 2:49:52Speaker 1: The many who have come declaring your lordship over their lives.
- 2:49:56Speaker 1: According to the authority of scripture I declare their sins forgiven.
- 2:50:00Speaker 1: And I pray that today is a new day for them.
- 2:50:02Speaker 1: I call them the righteousness of God in Christ. They
- 2:50:05Speaker 1: are bona fide recipients of eternal life. And I pray
- 2:50:08Speaker 1: the grace to walk in victory, to serve the Lord
- 2:50:11Speaker 1: all the days of their lives. Let it be released
- 2:50:13Speaker 1: upon them. I decree and I declare that they go
- 2:50:16Speaker 1: from glory to glory, grace to grace. For in Jesus'
- 2:50:20Speaker 1: mighty name we pray. Amen and amen. God bless you.
- 2:50:23Speaker 1: Please look to my right. That will be your left.
- 2:50:26Speaker 1: I want you to have a word with the counselors.
- 2:50:28Speaker 1: They are waving the placard. And then they'll have a
- 2:50:30Speaker 1: word and a prayer with you very, very quickly.
- 2:50:34Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
- 2:50:36Speaker 1: Lift your hands and receive the blessing for tonight. Father,
- 2:50:40Speaker 1: thank you so much for the word you have brought.
- 2:50:43Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, we receive this roadmap. And
- 2:50:45Speaker 1: with it, oh God, we declare that we will war
- 2:50:47Speaker 1: in prophecy. We will war with your word. Until our
- 2:50:51Speaker 1: destiny speak. Until we step into levels where we command
- 2:50:56Speaker 1: enviable results. I decree and declare over everyone under the
- 2:51:01Speaker 1: sound of my voice. The grace to follow this roadmap
- 2:51:04Speaker 1: until you are victorious. Let that grace be released upon you. Amen.
- 2:51:09Speaker 1: The discipline by the spirit. To walk in keeping with
- 2:51:13Speaker 1: these principles. Until the results speak in your life. I
- 2:51:17Speaker 1: release that grace upon you now. For those of you
- 2:51:20Speaker 1: who have diligently followed this road. I declare that your
- 2:51:24Speaker 1: profiting appears speedily. Speedily. Speedily. In the name of Jesus.
- 2:51:31Speaker 1: For someone this week beginning is your week of appearance.
- 2:51:35Speaker 1: Your week of manifestation. Your week of favor. All of
- 2:51:40Speaker 1: these areas I listed in my teaching may you begin
- 2:51:43Speaker 1: to excel in those areas. Excel spiritually. Excel in the
- 2:51:49Speaker 1: area of your mind. Excel in your health. Excel in
- 2:51:54Speaker 1: your assignment. Excel in your finances. Excel in the area
- 2:51:59Speaker 1: of relationships. In the name of Jesus. I prophesy over
- 2:52:03Speaker 1: you that no weapon fashioned against you will prosper. And
- 2:52:07Speaker 1: every tongue that rises up against you will fall in judgment.
- 2:52:11Speaker 1: You are blessed in Jesus name. You are favored in
- 2:52:15Speaker 1: Jesus name. You experience increase in Jesus name. Help us
- 2:52:20Speaker 1: arise for your sake. The Lord brings resources to you
- 2:52:24Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus Christ. The wisdom needed for
- 2:52:28Speaker 1: the next phase of your life, receive it. The favor
- 2:52:32Speaker 1: needed for the next phase of your life, receive it.
- 2:52:35Speaker 1: The anointing needed for the next phase of your life,
- 2:52:38Speaker 1: receive it. In the name of Jesus Christ. When men
- 2:52:43Speaker 1: say there is a casting down. I speak over you.
- 2:52:46Speaker 1: You will say there is a lifting up. In the
- 2:52:49Speaker 1: name of Jesus. For someone from Sunday till next week Sunday.
- 2:52:53Speaker 1: Let it be testimonies every day. Testimonies every day. In
- 2:52:58Speaker 1: the morning testimonies. At noon testimonies. In the evening testimonies.
- 2:53:05Speaker 1: Even in the night testimonies. Your going out is blessed.
- 2:53:09Speaker 1: Your coming in is blessed. The mark of favor is
- 2:53:12Speaker 1: upon you. The mark of honor is upon you. Go
- 2:53:16Speaker 1: and excel. You are an ambassador of the kingdom. May
- 2:53:19Speaker 1: signs and wonders be wrought through your hands. In Jesus
- 2:53:23Speaker 1: mighty name we pray. Amen and amen. And together let's
- 2:53:28Speaker 1: share the grace, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 2:53:31Speaker 1: the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
- 2:53:35Speaker 1: Let it rest and abide with us now and forever.
- 2:53:37Speaker 2: Amen.
- 2:53:38Speaker 1: Surely together. All the days of our lives as we
- 2:53:44Speaker 1: dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. Amen.
- 2:53:47Speaker 1: God bless you. Please hug someone by your left and
- 2:53:50Speaker 1: right and then see you on Sunday. Ooh Ooh
- 2:54:10Speaker 2: Hallelujah.