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Kingdom Service (Part 2) · Apostle Lazarus Femi

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  Speaker 1: Apostle Femi Lazarus is a man raised by God to
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate his wisdom and authority to the last day church.
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  Speaker 2: He is the lead pastor of Sphere of Light Church.
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  Speaker 1: And God told him years ago that a time will
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  Speaker 1: come where my wisdom will be needed to navigate tough
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  Speaker 1: times in the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Then I will.
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  Speaker 1: Cause your voice to be heard and all who pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to my word on your lips will not lack
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  Speaker 1: light and direction. He is a man sent from God,
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  Speaker 1: sent to raise God's end time always. With Apostle Fermi Lazarus,
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  Speaker 1: every minute counts as you listen attentively.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Jesus. We give you praise.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Please be seated in a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Please be seated.
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  Speaker 3: God bless you. Alleluia.
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  Speaker 2: Let me bring you a word of comfort this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Tell your neighbor, don't be discouraged.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, look to your neighbor again and say, don't
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  Speaker 2: be discouraged.
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  Speaker 3: Amen. Now, can I speak in my office as a
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  Speaker 3: prophet this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Are you sure?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how I'm going to do this, but
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 2: Because I can see what is about to happen, God
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  Speaker 2: will have me prepare you on how to handle complex
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  Speaker 2: structures and complex schedules.
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  Speaker 3: Because you're about to get busy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you guys.
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  Speaker 4: You guys.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm going to have to prepare you because some
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  Speaker 3: of you, the things you.
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  Speaker 2: Are having in your hands is about to become an institution.
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  Speaker 3: You don't believe. I shared with you.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking about my brothers, my friends in Brazil, we were
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  Speaker 2: having a video call. We went on an apostolic tour.
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  Speaker 2: And we were just gisting and gisting. Then he said,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute. You were with us in Enugu. And
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  Speaker 2: you said this will happen. I've even forgotten. And what
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  Speaker 2: happened was that after the door of nations just opened, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I need you to believe me.
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  Speaker 3: Is that okay?
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  Speaker 2: The least amongst us will be as strong as David.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe?
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure?
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  Speaker 2: Alright. So, most times, if you want to know what
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, check the direction of the series we
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  Speaker 2: are handling. He's always in line with It is either
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  Speaker 2: confirming it or preparing people for it.
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  Speaker 3: Are you with me now?
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  Speaker 2: Let me take you to a scripture this morning. Matthew 25.
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  Speaker 3: Follow me please. Don't be left behind. Is that okay?
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter number 25. I really wish you guys believed
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  Speaker 2: that statement I said.
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  Speaker 3: I really wished.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: I really wished. I just looked.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when what comes at the point that, let
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  Speaker 2: me give you an instance. Maybe you've not seen yourself beyond.
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  Speaker 2: Just that one time.
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  Speaker 3: In my apartment, like.
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  Speaker 2: Listen. Listen. The proof that you have a future is
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  Speaker 2: that there are words sent ahead of you.
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  Speaker 3: That's the proof. Are you with me?
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  Speaker 2: Myself and my spiritual father were comparing notes recently and
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  Speaker 2: talking about what God has said. Prophecies about the nations.
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  Speaker 2: You know, every election they always call me and say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what's God saying? So one time he called me and
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  Speaker 2: he said, hey, what's God saying?
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  Speaker 3: I said, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I said, because my emotions are involved, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I now have a candidate. I said, so it's a
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  Speaker 2: difficult twist for me.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But based on the war that has gone ahead of Nigeria,
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  Speaker 2: inauguration has not happened until it has happened.
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  Speaker 3: That's just it. Okay? So, are you saying it's not
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  Speaker 3: going to? I'm not saying so.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, okay, when it happens then, okay, we know
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  Speaker 2: where we go. But it has not happened until it has.
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  Speaker 2: Because nothing secures the future of a nation like the
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  Speaker 2: war that has gone ahead. Nothing. Do you have prophecy notes?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have notes containing what God says? Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let's leave it. Let me repeat it again. You are
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  Speaker 2: going to have to learn how to manage complex structures
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  Speaker 2: and schedules. You are going to have to learn it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying? You are about to
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  Speaker 2: get busier. That's what I'm saying. You are about to.
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  Speaker 2: And it must not meet you unprepared. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: what you are seeing now. I don't care what you
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  Speaker 2: think is the result. So some of you might have
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  Speaker 2: to take some management courses so you won't flop.
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you ahead.
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  Speaker 2: You guys don't seem to believe what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Because by the time different doors open at once, I
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  Speaker 3: will say, I won't do now.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think, can't you smell it? If what I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying is an info, then it's not for you. If
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  Speaker 2: it's a confirmation, it's yours. Because prophecy is an aftermath
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  Speaker 2: of what the Holy Ghost is witnessing to you. These
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  Speaker 2: things are not to psych people and make you feel
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  Speaker 2: excited and all that. You're about to get busy and
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  Speaker 2: it's about to mess you up, so I say prepare. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Sit down.
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  Speaker 3: Sit down.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I think now I think your faith, your faith,
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  Speaker 2: I think, I'm beginning to think, okay, maybe they believe.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew 25, please. And by the way, help me celebrate
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  Speaker 2: our resident pastor. Matthew 25 from verse 14.
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  Speaker 3: It's quite a popular story that you are familiar with.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to draw out a lesson of kingdom service.
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  Speaker 3: From this place. And I'm going to teach you some
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  Speaker 3: very important principles. Is that okay?
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  Speaker 2: Is that clear? If we are able to climb this frequency,
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  Speaker 2: then Tuesday, yes, it will be easy for me to
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  Speaker 2: continue from here. There's somewhere I need us to climb.
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  Speaker 2: Once we climb that place, I'll be excited. So, Matthew
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  Speaker 2: 25 from verse 14 says that the kingdom of heaven is...
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  Speaker 2: Like a man traveling into a far country. Who called
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  Speaker 2: a servant. And delivered unto them his goods.
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  Speaker 3: So you know the story. He gave to one five talents.
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  Speaker 3: He gave to another two talents. Five. What are the proportions?
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  Speaker 3: Two and a one. And when it came.
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  Speaker 2: The one who had received five. Had traded with it.
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  Speaker 2: It became ten.
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  Speaker 3: You know the story. The one who had two, had
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  Speaker 3: how many now?
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  Speaker 2: Four. But the one who had one. So let's go
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  Speaker 2: to verse 24. Matthew 25 verse 24 Then he which
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  Speaker 2: had received one talent came and said Lord.
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  Speaker 3: I knew thee that you are a hard man.
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  Speaker 2: Reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou
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  Speaker 2: hast not stored. And I was afraid, and I went
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  Speaker 2: to heed thy talent in the head. Lo, the elder
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  Speaker 2: asked that which is thine, and his lord answered unto him,
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  Speaker 2: Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap
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  Speaker 2: where I sowed not, and gather where I have not stored.
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  Speaker 2: Then you ought to have put my money with exchangers,
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  Speaker 2: and when I come I will have received There should
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  Speaker 2: have been Increase on it That's what he's trying to
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  Speaker 2: say Anyways This is a principle Those who are business
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  Speaker 2: owners There's a lot of principles there That anything you
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  Speaker 2: have You'll be wicked to put.
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  Speaker 3: It somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: To think towards increase But I think most times When
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  Speaker 2: this scripture is taught It is not taught in the
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  Speaker 2: light of what it is It is not taught in
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  Speaker 2: the light of the dimension of stewardship. We look at talent.
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  Speaker 2: Talent is not gifts. That's not the use of that
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  Speaker 2: word talent there. It's not your abilities.
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  Speaker 3: It's literal.
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  Speaker 2: The use of that word there is money. The reason
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  Speaker 2: why that guy said he's wicked....
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  Speaker 3: And he feels the master is very wicked and wants
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  Speaker 3: to leave where he didn't want to.
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  Speaker 2: The reason why that guy said that is because he
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  Speaker 2: did not see the blessing of God in his life.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he's living in the same street with the one
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  Speaker 2: who has five and two. And has felt the master
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  Speaker 2: is so good to them. And he must have looked
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  Speaker 2: at his life and said, no. This one that I'm seeing,
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  Speaker 2: is this what the blessing of God is? Then he said,
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  Speaker 2: so be careful not to zero what God has blessed
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  Speaker 2: you with. No matter how little it is.
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  Speaker 3: Is that okay? Be very careful.
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  Speaker 2: I remember one season in my life, I think I
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  Speaker 2: was preparing for service or two years before service. And
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  Speaker 2: something happened. everything went down. Then one day, I had
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  Speaker 2: to cook rice. And for, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: have lived in the north, for those of us who
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  Speaker 2: have lived in the north, let me see your hands,
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  Speaker 2: wave your hands. There's something they call garo-garo. Do you
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  Speaker 2: know that stuff? So amazing. You know, some things, it's
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  Speaker 2: good when you take them for fun, not like compulsively.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Say, I like garo, but
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  Speaker 2: you just take it for fun. Once it becomes your
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  Speaker 2: only option, it becomes issues. True?
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  Speaker 3: So I remember the idea.
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  Speaker 2: That you can put oil, put pepper, ground pepper, salt,
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  Speaker 2: put oil on top and stir.
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  Speaker 3: So we have the deal.
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  Speaker 2: When I have to be subjected to that condition, then
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  Speaker 2: it will go to me. I've not been grateful. Most
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  Speaker 2: people only acknowledge what they have when it's small. I say, ah.
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  Speaker 2: But the moment is big. They all say, oh, great, great.
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  Speaker 2: I deserve it. I've worked too well. Amen. There is
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  Speaker 2: nothing that we have that we have not received.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, say it again. Say it again. Say it
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  Speaker 3: one more time. One more time.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing that we have that we have not received. So,
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  Speaker 2: now this scripture here, follow me, illustrate dimension of God's blessings.
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  Speaker 2: And also illustrate stewardship. Because kingdom service is stewardship. Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: service is you serving with what God has given you. Amen?
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  Speaker 2: I'm seeing a situation. I don't know whether online or
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  Speaker 2: on site. So let me focus on online. The fellow
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  Speaker 2: can hear me. And before I say what I'm about
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  Speaker 2: to say, I have warned.
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  Speaker 3: A few times and people got into trouble. Okay? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you an instance. One Saturday morning, I
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  Speaker 2: went on the prayer walk. So I called one of
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  Speaker 2: my spiritual sons.
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  Speaker 3: I said, oh boy, where are you today?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I can call. Now, you don't get to
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  Speaker 2: see my call always. My call is one of those
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  Speaker 2: calls that when you see, you say, ah, what have
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  Speaker 2: I done? I know people who say things like that,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm used to it.
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  Speaker 3: So I called him. Where are you today? I said,
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  Speaker 3: tell me now, where are you?
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  Speaker 2: He said, let's leave that. The Lord wants me to
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  Speaker 2: ask you a question. And the question is, when was
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  Speaker 2: the last time you kissed a girl? Where am I?
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  Speaker 2: I can't talk. I said, mention the time. If you
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  Speaker 2: have never before, nobody knows what we are talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I give you time now. If I call
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  Speaker 2: this call, you won't hear from me again. So he said,
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  Speaker 2: And actually, so and so person came. Run for your life. Alright?
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  Speaker 2: The girl got pregnant the following month for someone else. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it could have been the baby daddy. But God exposed it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm seeing a strange lady around someone.
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  Speaker 2: And the person is about to be messed up. Let's
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  Speaker 2: assume God did not say it. Or if truly God
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  Speaker 2: has called me, what I'm telling you is true. There's
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  Speaker 2: an organized strange girl. God is trying to rescue you.
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  Speaker 2: Strengthen your feet so what is lame will not become dissolute.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I would not like to say what I want. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let's leave that and focus on Sunday teaching.
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  Speaker 3: I want, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Tempted to call the girl's name. So it can be clear.
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  Speaker 2: Let me share a story with you. 2011.
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  Speaker 3: 2011. I was preaching somewhere. I was preaching somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: And the Lord spoke to me that there's a guy
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  Speaker 2: here who had an affair with a girl so-so-and-so date,
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  Speaker 2: so-so-and-so time, so-so-and-so state, so-so-and-so name of hotel.
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  Speaker 3: How clever can he be?
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  Speaker 2: Come out.
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  Speaker 3: You know this, you say come out. Now I just
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  Speaker 3: say sit down.
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  Speaker 2: But the guy did not come out. So I went
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  Speaker 2: for that and said, for a fact, this is what
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  Speaker 2: you are.
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  Speaker 3: Let me not mention. Wearing.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't come out. So after the meeting, I said,
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  Speaker 2: let's assume God didn't tell me. So after the meeting,
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  Speaker 2: people were guarding around me, praying for them.
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  Speaker 3: Then he ran out.
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  Speaker 2: And he was crying. And he said, everything you said
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  Speaker 2: is me.
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  Speaker 3: He said, look at the color of my box as.
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  Speaker 2: You sell it. I said, why didn't you come out? Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: he died. One of the things God does with the
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  Speaker 2: prophetic is to rescue. I can go on and on
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  Speaker 2: with stories of just Simple service like this and the
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  Speaker 2: world will come. Stop that chat now. Block that number now.
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  Speaker 2: And go on a retreat. You see, I'm not asking
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  Speaker 2: the person to see me just in case the fellow
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  Speaker 2: is shy. So, what is stewardship? What does it mean
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  Speaker 2: to be a steward? It means to manage. It means
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  Speaker 2: to take care, to turn on behalf of a real owner.
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  Speaker 3: That's what it means.
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  Speaker 2: The word stewardship suggests that there.
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  Speaker 3: Is no ownership. So here is the deal.
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  Speaker 2: Psalms 24 from verse 1 says that the head is
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  Speaker 2: the Lord's and what? The fullness thereof the world and
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  Speaker 2: there that dwell therein. For he has found upon the
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  Speaker 2: seas and established upon the waters. So the idea is this.
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  Speaker 2: We must come to a point of understanding that there
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  Speaker 2: is nothing that we are done with.
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  Speaker 3: No matter whether material or spiritual.
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  Speaker 2: That is our own.
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  Speaker 3: There is nothing.
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  Speaker 2: What we have is the privilege of being managers. Both
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  Speaker 2: of our gifts. Both of children. And that's why you
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  Speaker 2: see some parents get into trouble. Some parents fall into
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  Speaker 2: trouble big time. Because they give birth to children that
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  Speaker 2: belongs to God. Children are God's heritage. And here is
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  Speaker 2: the call of God upon the child. And you hear
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  Speaker 2: the father say, if I give birth to you. No.
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  Speaker 2: You've been given the privilege. And how do you parent successfully?
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  Speaker 2: Thank God it's children's weekend. You find out what is
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  Speaker 2: in the mind of God concerning them.
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  Speaker 3: By prophecy. I saw my daughter in 2012.
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  Speaker 2: So when my wife was going for ultrasound scan to
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  Speaker 2: go and check what was the sex of the child,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't go.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't go.
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  Speaker 2: Normally I'd follow her there. I don't think I was
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  Speaker 2: not following her. Though sometimes I did not follow her.
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  Speaker 2: She was women. But she's my pastor, what can I say?
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  Speaker 2: I had to close the official duty for the year.
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  Speaker 2: Don't let me go into that story. I'm telling you
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  Speaker 2: through that, man to man. Before you think that you
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  Speaker 2: have married a wife that is Kana. That's for me.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I don't want you to look at that
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  Speaker 2: side though. Are you following what I'm saying? I did
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  Speaker 2: not go. He's a girl.
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  Speaker 3: God showed me. This is what the child will be. So,
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  Speaker 3: I have no will.
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  Speaker 2: My will has been usurped by the will of God.
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  Speaker 2: So stewardship, this is the idea of stewardship. To be
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  Speaker 2: a steward is to manage and use in line with
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  Speaker 2: the purpose of the original giver. Even in marriage, you
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  Speaker 2: are not the owner.
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  Speaker 3: Of your spouse. Hey, I know you don't like that.
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  Speaker 3: Some of you have saved the name with mine. What
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  Speaker 3: are you mining? My own. My one and only.
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  Speaker 2: Now, now, now. Some names are insult. How do you
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  Speaker 2: call somebody your one and only?
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  Speaker 3: Where is God?
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  Speaker 2: Where are we in that equation? We are not part
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  Speaker 2: of your... Where is God?
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  Speaker 3: Amen, amen, amen. I don't own my wife.
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  Speaker 2: I can't. Are you feeling what I'm saying? I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I want her attention, but she's busy doing the
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  Speaker 2: stuff that she has to do. She has to make
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  Speaker 2: out time. Sometimes I am busy. I just went on
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  Speaker 2: a six-week trip. If there's ownership, I can't. True?
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  Speaker 3: There would have been chaos.
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  Speaker 2: If truly we are married and we are together in
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  Speaker 2: this marriage, I forbid all those programs you are doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your wife.
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  Speaker 3: You have to be done now. It's a very simple
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  Speaker 3: and powerful concept.
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  Speaker 2: Because nothing truly thrives until you acknowledge the giver. Nothing
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  Speaker 2: fulfills its potential until you acknowledge the giver. And tap
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  Speaker 2: into the mind of the giver. To know what he
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  Speaker 2: wants done with it. He gave those giftings. The graces.
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  Speaker 2: The abilities. And we must understand that. And submit ourselves
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  Speaker 2: to him. In the same order.
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  Speaker 3: Are you with me? I said are you with me?
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you a critical example of stewardship. Look
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  Speaker 2: at when Jesus was preaching to over 5,000 people. Alright? 5,000.
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  Speaker 3: Over 5,000.
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  Speaker 2: 5,000 men. Now it's difficult to gather 5,000 men. You
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  Speaker 2: would have gathered 100,000 women before you can gather 5,000 men.
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  Speaker 2: My wife has spoken to me several times. Can't you
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  Speaker 2: have a Personal platform for these men. I said I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I said I can't. God hasn't told me in recent
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  Speaker 2: times I would have to manage a dick.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Men.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Fear will not fear men. Fear will not fear men.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: The last time I ever tried to organize a program
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: for men only.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: You were in that program. First love and peace.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: That's 2013 or 2012.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: You know what happened?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Guest minister came. There was no single human being on ground.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: A church of over 250 guys. You know, the mistake
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the organizers made was that they now feast a football
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: match for after the sessions. The few guys that came,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: came with some dirty trousers and boots and ball. That's
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: why I say, please just sit down.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: So in case you don't know, that conversation is ongoing,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: but men, it's a tough thing.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: It's a tough thing. But let's see whether there will
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: be a pull.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Praise God. There's a lot we can discuss. true?
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Men's corner is a very rich corner. You need to
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: be in that space.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: So I hope that by the Spirit, we're going to
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: get this going.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: 99.99% of marriage books are bought by women. I've never
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: seen a man who is actively preparing for marriage. Somehow
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: he believes that he knows it And it gets there
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: and fumble. You will never see a man read a
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: book on how to know women.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: They don't read it. The only time they read it is.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: When there's a problem. Now say, okay, okay, let me even.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Try and see it.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: So in case you are facing that challenge, I'm telling
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: you it is real. Even when we agreed to get
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: married and my wife said that we should read the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: following books. Where she lost me was when she said
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: follow him. So I now said that, no, let's study
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: the New Testament instead. So the first to finish will
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: buy the other person's shoe. So I did that one.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I still chop stone. You know what stone? You
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: don't know stone. That's why I say there's a bit
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: of a man's corner. Marriage is like a father's eyes.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: No matter how much you pick him, you go still
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: chop stone.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: You don't understand. You go chop stone. Sometimes I chop
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: stone and I'm like, ah, it's true. I don't really
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: know my wife like I should. I now sit down
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: alone and say, maybe I should have read that book
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: she gave me. Maybe I should have. But that's the
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: way we are wired. We just feel we know it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: We just feel, you know, for a man, actually, for
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: a man, it's almost insulting that a fellow man will
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: write a book. A man like myself, you know, Now,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: it's even worse when it's not the baby.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Now, say, really. Now, say, do you like him? Let
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: me say one. Let me say one. Let me say one. Somebody,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: I have to tell my wife to stop listening to.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Let me say one. When we got married, every morning,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: my wife, would play Iman, oh my God.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Ah! A man like me.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I would rather enter the studio.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Ah!
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: How will we play?
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Every time she would say, I like Iman, oh my God.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Don't mention that name in this house. I'm not saying
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I was joking. I was very serious. Now, In case
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Imai you hear this thing, it's not my own problem.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: It's your wife hearing me. So I said, don't play
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: that song. I said, the sound is hurting me. So
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: stop playing Imai, oh my God. I'm telling you, somehow
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I was able to stop her from. How will you
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: be playing my fellow man? I will enter studio. What
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: is this singing that I can't sing? Max, it won't sell.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: What's there? Praise God. I'm just being real. I'm just
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: being real. Some people may not tell you like this,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: but I'm telling you, man.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: It was a matter. I said, stop hearing my, oh
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: my God. Oh my God.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: What's that? All right.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: But what I'm trying to show you is that for
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Jesus to gather 5,000 men, that's ministry.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Excluding women and children.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: 5,000 men.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: How many.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Of you have been able to successfully drag a man
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: to a conference? The only time you can is when
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: he's still asking you out. That's the only time. I
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: remember I followed a girl to Catholic. I just went there.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I was perplexed.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: I was perplexed.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: What brought me here? Caspian. Caspian brought me. How did
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: we start? She said, I like your writing. I looked
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: at her and it was bad. I said, I like
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: it too. Then we're just talking, we're just talking. Then
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: she said she had to leave. Ah, it was getting interesting.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Let me escort you. I....
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: How many of you know Kano?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: You have... to trek from Emea Road to our Lady
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: of Fatima. It's like, okay, you know, okay. It's like trekking,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: it's more than from here to Jabi. Just trekking and jisting.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: That's the only time you could get a man to
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: do that kind of work. But once he gets what
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: he wants, he says, go now, what's your problem? Even me,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: my wife has not been able to get me to
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: do visitation. I don't go out. Let's go and visit
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: so-and-so auntie. How? When we get there, they serve us drink.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Then we'll be talking. I'll be looking. After that, I'll
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: start pinching you that we have to go. Then you
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: wait some 30 more minutes. Women don't leave in a
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: hurry during visitation. Women. Women, they don't live in New York.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: They will still chill and say, ah, just a few
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: minutes now.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Ah, just a few minutes.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: But when I was trying to get my wife, I
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: would drive from Ibadan to Bogo.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Say, it's not far. Five minutes. Five minutes. Five minutes.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. We are there. But Jesus gathering 5,000
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  Speaker 2: men is something.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: It's something.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: It's something. But they were going to be stranded. Except
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: that there was a boy there who understood stewardship. If
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: that guy had claimed ownership of his food, it would
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: never become a tool like that. Someone whose name, whose
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: existence you never remembered. Do you know that those who
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: live for themselves, nobody remembers their existence? The only reason
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: we talk about the guy today was because he gave back.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: That's the only reason. He could not have been the
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: only one who had. Among 5,000 people.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: He could not have been. Some families would have sent
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: their children. In fact, some mothers would have been sending
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: their children. You know how mothers behave? Do you know
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: how mothers behave? Mothers will even pack bread on flight.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: And smuggle itself. And say, oh yeah.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Bless you all for women.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: But that guy understood that it is one thing to have.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: It is another thing to acknowledge the purpose of it.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Any giftings you keep to yourself doesn't bless the world.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: And it doesn't make you special. Nothing is truly important
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: until it flows out. Nothing. Nothing. So the smallest way
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: to live is to live thinking about yourself alone. Yourself,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: your belly, your stomach. Your life and all that. Planning,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: how do I... Now the reason why you are blessed
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: by any minister you are blessed by is because their
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: life has been poured.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Out as an offering. Has been poured out.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I tell people, see, I said, the truth is, I
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: knew I wanted to serve God, but not to this extent.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: And if there's anything I know how to do, I
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: know how to make money. Because sometimes I, you know,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: when God began to speak to me, that I'm going
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: to leave everything and then focus on ministry, sometimes I'll cry.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I'll say, what's this? Let me live my life like
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: every other person. Let me do my life like every
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: other person. That fellow is also a pastor. Why are
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: you not stopping him? But the purpose is different. Those
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: two dark years of my life are the ones illuminating
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: the rest. So first, you must acknowledge God as the giver.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: List all aspects of your life. From your health? Now,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: many of you are not grateful for your health. Do
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: you know how much it takes to be on oxygen
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: for an hour? This breath you are breathing now.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Do you know the horror?
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: And that's why when people get healed from breast lump,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: people are not celebrating, they just laugh. Do you know
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: the kind of scans women have to go through? By
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: going through those scans, the things you are hearing, Even
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: your health.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: You are supposed to be a good steward with it.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: And one of the ways to be a good steward
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: to your health is to live in such a way
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: you won't die young. Because you are needed alive. And
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I think I need to teach a topic like that.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Don't die. Sometimes you see the way men drive. You
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: can tell that they feel they are in charge. Many
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: of my friends, I can't enter their car. If I
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: enter their car, I have to hold the window. One
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: time during NYC, they said we are going to mountaineering.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: I said, I don't go close. He said, how are
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: you going to climb mountains and all that? You see
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: other couples like yourself. I said, I am not going.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Somebody even advised me when I started. He said, go
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: to Dubai. And then there's all these games. Parachute. Par what? Me. Parachute.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: You know, my mind is too graphical. What if a
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: blade flies at this time?
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: What if?
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: I remember greenhouse effect.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: What if oxygen, hydrogen combined with nitrogen and oxygen and
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: they begin to give acidic rain?
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: What if?
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I know they do. I know the prayer will pray
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: for people to go and sleep. Don't wake them. That's
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: what the light hand will do. But people take their
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: life like they're in charge. They do risky stuff. And
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: many don't appreciate God in their life. One of the
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: ways that you are not a good steward of your
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: health is to despise God in days of your youth.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Because you won't be this strong for life. And that's
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: why Ecclesiastes says, remember your creator in the days of
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: your youth. While the evil days have not come. You know,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: when I look back at my life, one of the
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: joy I have Is that I maximize my single days. Yes.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: That's one of the joy I have. There are many
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: things I don't have the luxury of doing.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Again.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Because marriage, it's three of you in it. Yourself, your spouse,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: and God.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: But I blessed God and I quickly locked many things down.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: As a single person. The books you are not reading now,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: you won't have the time to read them. The prayer
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: stretch you won't have that time. When my friends got married,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: I told my wife, I said, you know, this is
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: the life I've been living as a single person. I'm
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: a very solitary person. Most times I like to spend
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: time alone for hours. That's why I get to receive
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: many of the things I do and plan and hear
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: from God and pray to God. First week of marriage.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: I said, I'm going to enter the prayer room.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Just three hours. I'm done. Just three hours. After 25 minutes,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: I will hear, babe, just want to greet you. Are
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: you still there? if any of the guys had tried
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: this the person is going to fast for three days
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: but this one can't fast you can't say go and
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: fast you know I will be inside then I will
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: lose my peace after an hour plus how am I
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: losing my peace What's happening?
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Let me go and check this woman.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Then I'll open the door. I'll meet her lying down
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: at the door. No wonder I lost my peace. But
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: thank God. Certain structures have been built before marriage. I'm
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: not saying marriage is a distraction.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: Get what I'm saying. Don't go and say, ah, so,
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: thank God. That's why I don't want to marry. It's
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: a lie.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: It's a lie. Stop that.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Don't think like that. Is that okay?
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Don't say, thank God. I'm a thousand times better married
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: than when I was single. There's just something that happens
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: when you.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: True? Uh-huh. So you must understand that. But you must
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: understand that the time you have now, you won't always
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: have it. I remember one time in 2009 or so,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: we gathered ourselves, about 22 individuals, and said we are
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: going to go three days stretch of prayer.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: And here is the deal.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: The moment you get tired and you see that you
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: are fainting, leave. Okay?
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: That's 72 hours. If we are done on that, we
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: too would have. But that's the latter note.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Alright?
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: So it was three days.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Stretch. You know, the way you start that kind of
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: prayer with excitement. They'll just be looking at you. Now
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: you go tire.
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  Speaker 3: Three solid days.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Morning, afternoon, night. Stretch.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: You start excited.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Then later you become humble. Then you move to confusion.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Why did we even start this? Who asked us to
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: do it? Who asked us? Then you move into inquiry.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Should we change the terms? Should we change the terms? Yes.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Then you'll be moving to sadness. Ah! Is this what
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: I'll be doing in my life? Who sent me this?
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Who? Then you start seeing a ray of hope. Then
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: finally joy.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Unspeakable. An unbelievable level of strength.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: I remember I was preaching when my wife got into labor.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Though I had to finish my sermon. But not the
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: same man who started and finished. A single person. What
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: concern is somebody in labor? Except I'll pray, yes. But
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: now I have to. I can't concentrate.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: See you guys later. Guys drive, let's go.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: You won't always have this time. But may you have
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: steward this moment well. Say that amen again loud and clear.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: I said, may you have steward this moment well. May
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: you have used it like the owner wants you to
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: use it. Are you aware that anything that is not
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: well managed, God collects? Steward your life well. You can't
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: live your life for watching series.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: It can't be.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: You were created for much more. You've not been created
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: for yourself. Say it, I don't belong to myself.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Come on, say it again. Say it again loud and clear.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Come on, say it again one more time. I belong
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: to God. Now, let me read a few things I
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: wrote here. Kingdom service is stewardship. It is first and
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: foremost a devotion to God before it is a devotion
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: to any assignment. Stewardship is done correctly to the degree
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: that you are devoted to God. And I enlightened something here.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Listen to what I'm saying. Every one of us, look
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: up everybody. Every one of us must have something counting
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: to our account. One day we are all going to
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: stand face to face with Jesus. And it will not
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: be about how much you have. It will not be
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: about what kind of house you build. It will be
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: about what you did for the kingdom. One day, bless
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: God for blessings and oh God is opening this door.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: But all those things won't count. What will count is
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: What your life has done to the kingdom.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: The impact.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: What did God benefit from your existence? That's all who counts.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Meaning that your life must structure now in such a
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: way that God can have benefit from you.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: Are you with me? God can have what?
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Benefit from your life. You can't be sleeping and waking up.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: And just sleeping and waking up. How many souls have
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: you won? Many of you used to have fantastic plans
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: as God bless you. You have orphanage homes you are
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: partnering with, but now you are forgotten. You used to
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: be very merciful until morning came. Are you following what
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: I'm saying here? Something must count to your account.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: Something must.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: I remember, let me share something, something as little as
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: what I want to share. We have A Baba, we
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: call him Baba missions. That was my first pastor when
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: I joined reading. He made me a pastor. First service,
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: first time we met. First service I joined the church.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: He said, he's the man that's going to replace me here.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: First service, I ran away.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Alright?
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Now hear what I'm saying.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: The man was walking in shells.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Now one day he was in his car driving back
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: from work and he heard a preacher preaching by the roadside.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: And the only thing he kept hearing the preacher saying
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: is tomorrow may be too late, tomorrow may be too late.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: So he told the driver, park. And he went, he
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: was smoking. He said then it was about 56 or thereabout.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Then he went to where the man was preaching.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: And he saw people there around him crying.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Ah, And he said he could not tell a force
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: that pulled him towards the man. And he knelt down,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: still with his cigarette in his hand, and he dropped it.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: And that's how he gave his life to Christ. By
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: someone who was preaching by the roadside. Now, that fellow
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: preaching by the roadside, hear what I'm about to tell
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: you now. Because you may feel preaching by the roadside
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: is not fashionable. There's no way I would be ministry
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: today if that man was not saved. Because that's the
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  Speaker 2: man that God used to identify.
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  Speaker 3: And groom me. But a day came. So he became
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  Speaker 3: a pastor.
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  Speaker 2: And according to the policy of the church, he had
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  Speaker 2: to resign when he clubbed 70. And he said, they
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  Speaker 2: have resigned me. But I'm not tired. He said, because
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: I began late. When you have the privilege of beginning early,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: don't begin late.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: So he said... is going to go into missions.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: So he went into missions, sold his house, sold the car, alright,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: and went into the village. Now, he went there, yeah,
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: when he was close to 70. I think he was
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: reserved at 65. On his 70th birthday, I minister on
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: his 70th birthday, a clock 70 in year 2011, 2011,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: That's 12 years ago.
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  Speaker 3: He's an old man.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, so I was the one in charge
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  Speaker 2: of helping them organize the gifts they brought and all that.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: One of the things I observed was that the highest
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  Speaker 2: envelope there was 5K.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: And we had senior pastors who could drive it. But
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: I didn't know it would touch him.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: After the whole event, the devil came to minister to
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: him that you must be a fool Look at those
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: who call you pastors.
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  Speaker 3: Say as they are enjoying in the city.
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  Speaker 2: You sold your house.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: You came to the village.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: How are you better than your fathers? So when Elijah said,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not better than my fathers, you must understand where
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: he's coming from. How are you better than your fathers?
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: You are back to square one. You are not a missionary.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: You are a poor man. Who sends you among those
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: church members now? All those who are raised, where are they?
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: And he got into depression. And he packed his bag
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: early in the morning. Before 5 a.m. Before that time,
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: this man was sleeping only in one place. He was
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: sleeping in his car. He slept in his car for
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: about four years.
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  Speaker 3: With his wife. There are generals whose stories.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Are not told yet. So he packed his things and
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: he said it's done. And he was going to leave
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: the village quietly. Then while he finished packing and just
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: leaned on his car in depression, a message came in
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: from a girl on OAU campus. The girl probably was
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: having a devotion that morning and God just inspired her messaging.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: And she just went there. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: all you do, daddy. Only God can reward you for us.
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  Speaker 2: We are grateful for the gift of you. That was it.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: Then the Holy Ghost highlighted that place. Only God can
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: reward you for us. He broke down in tears. And
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: that's how he continued. What that girl used to send
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: that message was for Naira. But it has done the
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: stewardship work. And it has saved a generation. Many of
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: you miss out on divine privileges. Because you didn't believe
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: it was God. Or sometimes you have built culture of
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: saying no to God. Text social and social people. Check
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: up on social and social person. Collect social and social
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: account number. Send money to social and social person. You
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: do not think I have too much. The one who
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: knows the art of man said, do it. We will
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: cover a lot of grounds when we begin to obey
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost. We will cover grounds. But it begins
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: with acknowledgement that there is nothing I have that I
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: have not received. I remember I was in a meeting
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: here in Abuja. I can't remember whether last year or so.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: One of my friends.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, and they were so blessed. And he said, ah,
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: we're going to do this for the first time. Projector
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: posted his account on the screen. We're not giving up anything.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Everything is sent to his account. I had zero feeling.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: Zero feeling. There's no amount of money anybody can give
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: me that can change my mood. Because somebody still have
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: to decide how they go. Until he now says, okay,
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: that plan you have, you can use it.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. But I must be able to say
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: thank you to when he says, use it for that project. No,
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: he didn't believe that.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: Building a life of absolute accountability to God. That's not
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: on there. You can send anything you want to send
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: from now till tomorrow. Somebody decides. Somebody makes decision here.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: And I'm not a victim for submitting. I'm not. Because
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: that's what the media tries to tell you. That you
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: must be a fool for submitting to God. Meanwhile, those
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: who are telling you that you must be a fool,
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: there is one guy who has been the head somewhere
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: and collected hundreds of thousands. And he won't believe he's
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: a fool. And when they are done doing all those things,
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: they now come online.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: And say, what's tight?
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: What's tight? How do you Christians go and give 10%
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: to a pastor? Who told his pastor that he's eating tight?
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: And give 10% to a pastor? A pastor.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: They might tell you too, who has that heart? Now
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: read it.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: Now say it's true. It's true. You forget that when
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: you give 10% of 100,000, that's just 10,000.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: And you have 90.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: And for years, men have been looking for scriptures to
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: justify how to stop. But you don't want God to
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: stop blessing, but you want to stop the little you
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: do for his kingdom. And by the way, tithing is
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: not giving. It's a commandment.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: Giving really begins after you have done those ones.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: So many believe that once we have done tithing and offering,
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: my obligation to church is finished.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: That's not true. They are just starting. Even Muslims too.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: Go and check their morning prayers. They give. And that's
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: what the media tries to tell you.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: Hey, say it again.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: I'm not a fool for submitting to God.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Say it again loud and clear.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: Say it loud and clear. I'm not a fool.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Whatever that is brought to his altar, that's when he
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: truly lives. He doesn't die. That it will tell you
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: I'm about to use you for certain things. That's when
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: your life really begins. I heard the story of a
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: person here who said he wanted to become the youngest
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: VC in Africa.
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: Who broke that record?
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: We don't know.
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: Who became the youngest VC?
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: Hey, the only thing I will remember is that part
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: that blesses humanity. It doesn't matter how great the ambition is.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter who break any record. It's a matter
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: of time they'll forget after another record is broken.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: That's the truth.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: Everyone you will read of. In fact, if anybody ever
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: inspire you, it's because they live for more than themselves.
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: Are you with me now? I said, are you with me?
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: Now we are climbing somewhere and I'm almost there. I'm
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: almost there. Now look at it.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: You cannot serve God or you cannot serve in your
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: local assembly successfully.
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: Without a good relationship with God.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: You can't. You can't.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: In fact, you will not even know you should serve.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: And that's why I began what I began with. That
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: the place of real making is stewardship. The place where
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: men are made is service. That's where something loves a man.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Many of the things we are doing in spirit of
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: life today is because I have the privilege of serving
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: another ministry.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: Hey, I give all my life to it. Everything that
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: makes me me give myself. Listen to what I'm saying.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: Hear me well. And I want everyone that's on my voice,
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: whether online or on site, hear this. You cannot carry
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: the fullness of God and survive idleness. Write it down.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: You can't carry his fullness. Now, I'm going to help
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: us break certain things. Now, many believers are not interested
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: in being idle. Some are shy.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: Let me give you this illustration.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: Let's assume I take my family and we go to
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: my father's house for Christmas.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: And when we got to the house, see people killing
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: goats and doing all sorts of things. different people.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: And then my siblings also, everybody doing different things. And
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: I'll say, well, they're all busy. I don't even know
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: how to come in. Hey, this is my father's house.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: I have legitimacy to enter anywhere. True? It is only
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: the auditorium and the people that is new. The God
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: there is not new. Anywhere you find people calling his
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: name in truthfulness and sincerity, serve. Serve with your giftings.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: your ministry starts counting when service begins. That's it.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: In fact, the word ministry itself is the word diakonia.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: That means service.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: The sum total of ministry is not about the kind
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: of jeep I ride or the kind of suit I wear. It's,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: am I serving humanity? Whose life is better because I'm existing?
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: And you must answer that question. Who is that one
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: fellow that is grateful to God because you are alive?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: And we saw the story of that widow that died.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: And they went to call Peter. The women around would
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: not let her go. They said, ah, someone brought this clothes.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: They said, see, see, she made this clothes for me.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: She made this clothes for me. I said, ah, we
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: can't let someone like this go. Who is praying you
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: should not go? Or if anything happens to you today,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: you are actually not filling any gap. And nobody will
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: even know someone left except those who just have natural
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: relationships with you. Will humanity fill it?
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: Do you get what I'm saying? There are only ambitions
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: to nurse.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: And how you are going to be more blessing to
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: humanity as God increases you. And you must prove to
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: him that you'll stay by it. And this is what
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: boils down to the issue of families. If you want
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: to see people that are treated bad, go and check families.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: If you know family members, you can't call them and
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: say I'm broke. Everybody has already made a story. I
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: remember one time I was so broke. And I was
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: going to call one of my aunties. And I already
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: rehearsed what she was saying. And true to it, she
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: said it. You see, I just paid my daughter school fees. So, so, so,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: you see. Then I called another one of my aunties.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: I said, come, come over. Then she said, let's get
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: to the market. Somebody is weighing me. And she got there.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: She had three people weighing her. She had worked so hard.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: And she was going to collect that money for me.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: And we got there. The first person played her. Another
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: person said she doesn't have yet. That one even just
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: ghosted her and disappeared. And where she was standing, she
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: bursted into tears. What happened? And she was looking at
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: me and was wailing. I said, if you know who
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: this guy's father is, you won't treat me like this.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: And people started happening. What happened? He needs to pay
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: up for some things and other. How much? I'm telling
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: you my life story. And people in the market began
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: to contribute money.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: I said, She lay her wrapper on the ground.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: I look at her.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: What made me cry that day was the way she
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: sat down.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: She couldn't wait. Just anything.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: Let this boy go.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: And I said, God, as long as you bless me,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: there is nothing this woman want that I have that
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: she will have to cry for you about.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: My wife knows.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: She called me and said, I don't want to disturb you.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: I said, you can't disturb me in this life. You
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: can never disturb me. What do you want?
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: If I don't have, I'll get for you.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: There's a level of commitment that makes humanity committed to
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: you in return. Was it a coincidence when Abraham put
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: Isaac down? God said, now I know you fear me,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: I swear. I've never heard God say it. In blessings,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: Bless you.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: Abraham was sealed. We all have the opportunity to touch
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: the heart of God. We all do.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Are you with me?
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: Are you with me?
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: You can't serve more than you love God. You can't.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: Your service posture is a reflection of your love work.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: Your service posture is a reflection of your love work.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: The posture you take is what gives you away. Show
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: how you love God or not. Service is first and
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: foremost unto God. The moment you fail to realize whose
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: service is unto, you'll be trying to please men. And
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: you'll miss God. So, God is the ultimate supervisor of
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: what we do. The church may award you for what
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: you have failed about. At the end of the day,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: the one who really marks is who? God. I'm not
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: going to have written an exam and your mate asks.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: You, how's the exam?
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: Say, ah, forget it.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: Forget it. Oh boy, forget it. A is sure. And
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: by the time they bring the result, D.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: Say me.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: Ow.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: You are not the marker. You have your own yardstick. True?
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: And the marker has his own yardstick. The one who
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: scores us at the end of the day is who?
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: God.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: And he has his own yardstick. And one of the
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: major yardstick for which God scores us is that work
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: that is not done in love doesn't count. Yes. Kingdom
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: service is not made by butter. It's a love affair.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: It's a love affair. I intercede on the go. And
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: so because I obey and respond to God in that regard,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: so cases.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: Are always brought.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: That person is suffering. I remember one time I was
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: driving around Oshodi. Was I even driving? And a guy
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: passed with, whether the wife or the fiance, but you
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: can tell that they were in love.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: But the way a car almost hit them, ah!
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: I was surprised that I began to cry that God
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: please give them a car. I didn't have a car
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: at that point. I began to cry that God please.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: And I prayed in such a way I knew it
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: that they would get it. Can I ever meet them again?
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: Can I recognize them? It's on to God. Anytime you
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: have to say that I did this, I did that,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: I did that.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: If you can count it, it won't count. is unto God.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: And we need to bring back this foundation, these fundamentals.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: At the judgment seat of Christ, there's something called good works.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: And there's something called dead works. Both of them are works.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: And if both of them are works, both of them
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: takes labor and takes effort. Both good works and dead
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: works are works. But one is done without love. The
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: other is done with love. If I want to give
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: my all, thin and tight, I do.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: It as one in love.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Not by compulsion. The proportion I know I can do
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: is out of love. And when it is out of love,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: it is out of sacrifice. Because there is no love
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: without sacrifice. True? And that's why I'm not quick. I'm
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: not quick to record sacrifice. I don't know how to
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: do it. I'm not quick to do so. In fact,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: I have maybe a few things in.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: My life I can call sacrifice.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: Because I feel sacrifice is quickly determined to the degree
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: that there's no love. Are you with me?
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: How many of you watch this movie, The Train? By Monzano.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: Let me see your hands up. The Train by Monzano.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: Alright.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: If those of you who didn't watch it, you are
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: going to have a watch party.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: You will watch it. You will watch it. Alright. Now,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: hear me. How many of you saw when that guy
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: went to meet the mother-in-law and began to pound him.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: You can't get a man to pound normally like that.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: Unless Jesus has work on demand. My wife calls me,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: come and pound. What will God say I've done wrong?
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: Not because I'm too big to pound, but with all
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: the things at my hands. But this stay me busy
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: like this. pursuing her, go to their house, I will pound. Say, ah,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: I'm not busy.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: Bring the.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, that doesn't mean when a man thinks like that,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: he's no longer in love. It's the way the brain
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: of a man works. When he gets something done, he's next.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: He will pay any price to get that thing, but
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: he's moved to what? Next. So a woman will say
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: that the man doesn't love her, because he's not.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: Saying I love you.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: But for the man, as long as I have not
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: said I don't love you, I still do. That one,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: keep cashing out of it. In fact, maybe I'm going
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: to give us a strategy. Men's corner.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give us a strategy.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: You're going to tell your wife, I'm going to record
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: it on my phone, I love you.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: Record it there. Anytime you need it, play it. You
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: are clapping.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: Although....
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: But that's the way man is wired.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: Amen. How many of us are in love with God?
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: It's a real walk. It's a real love journey.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: And just like every other love affair, he's going to
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: test you, check you out. He will. And there are
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: times that, do you know, there are times that, I mean,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: if you pray, you should experience this. That you just
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: hear the Holy Spirit say, give me one extra hour now.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: And it sounds so romantic. It sounds so romantic. Like, okay,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: don't you have one more now, one hour? And you
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: are so excited. Yeah, let's go. You are happy. And
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: sometimes it's not even that you are praying in tongues
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: and just sitting still and enjoying the atmosphere. When it
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: is love affair with God, nobody can pull you out
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: Nobody can. And that's where we are going.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: That sweeping is not a less prestigious job to preaching.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: There's nothing I can't do. There's nothing I can't watch.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: I'm very good at it. That was my department. I
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: know different formulas. How to use hydrogen peroxide and all that.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: You use it to bleach it. You break down from chemistry,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: you import it here.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: It will work. True?
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: So this preaching thing, if Jesus comes today and say
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: for the next two months you are not preaching, I'm
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: okay by it. Because my identity is not in this.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: It's in service to him. And that's where we must
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: have our identity from. We must be willing to go
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: dirty for his assignment. There used to be days that
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: some things were common, but now they are no longer common.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: Morning cry, evangelism and all those things, no longer common.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: People are getting more tush. People just assume that they
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: will do it on Twitter. Just assume that they'll do
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: it on Twitter. Let me ask you a question. How
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: many souls have counted your account in 2023?
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: No, you must have a record. Hey, because we all
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: have been given the ministry of reconciliation.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: Do you know that if you can write and you
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: can read, there's nothing stopping you from writing a tract?
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: There's nothing stopping you. You can write a tract and
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: print 1,000 copies. You may get anybody to help you
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: prove it and be sure that it's accurate.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: Tracts are very simple. It's basic gospel. Our man fell.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: The Lord God asked for man from the beginning. Our
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: man fell.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: Our man couldn't save himself. Our God came to save man.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: The person of Jesus fell. Just basic things. And you
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: go to places and give them. And tell the person
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: Jesus loves you. May you never get to that point
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: where you become too fine for Jesus' use. Say that
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: amen again loud and clear. May what he blessed you
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: with never take.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: You from him. In the name of Jesus. Now let
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: me begin to climb now. I have.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: Less than 10 minutes to tie this up.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: Let me give you a few importance of service. Number one.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: God visit man in the place of service. God visit
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: man in the place of service.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: Are you with me?
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: God visit man in the place of service. Where did
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: God find Moses? Where was service? His father-in-law.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: That's where God found him. That's where God found him.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's even when you are doing what doesn't belong
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: to you that God now commits yours to your hands.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: God locates men. Where was David when Samuel was trying
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: to anoint the king? He was in the field. He
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: was in the field. What was he doing in the field?
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: Keeping his father's sheep. And I've said this again and again.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: God doesn't make kings on bed. He makes them in
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: the field. You say, I don't know what my ministry is. Hey,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: there's one that is general.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: Ministry of Reconciliation. We all have that one.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: Start from there. And that's why you see, no matter
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: the pressure and all that, morning prayer, I can't forget
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: the altar call. That's what counts.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: And I observed That when.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: We have Holy Ghost meeting, that altar call is made.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: The power of God is released. And that's why I
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: don't pray.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: For the sick until after altar call.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: Once there's altar call, that soul gives so much joy
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: in heaven.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: The fragrance of healing bursts out.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: What I'm saying is that by now you should start
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: losing your peace. By being convenient. Woe to them what
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: is in Zion. There's too much woe. God needs sons.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: And sometimes, you see, I go and listen to my teaching,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: apostles in marketplace. It is not every business person who
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: is a Christian, who is an apostle in marketplace. The
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: body men inside business, they lost it. Because money must
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: meet structures on ground. It can't change you. Money must
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: meet structures. Structure of decisiveness.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: Structure of decisiveness. Firm decision.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: Because money can help you afford what poverty can afford.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: So some level of discipline is not because a man
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: is disciplined. It's because he's broke. Now you can just
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: drive out and say, let's go to Metama. You drive
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: and say, let's go to Metama. And a friend suggests
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: and says, see some girls. Go this way by the roadside.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: You say, ah, How you doing? Say, I just want to,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 3: just to hear, just to laugh. Just to laugh.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: I said this story with you that myself and some friend,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: we went to, on the island, Lagos, have a retreat,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: a vacation. One said, let's go to, let's say, we went,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: we went out, it was supposed to be a night
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: time out, to heat. Then we were driving. He said,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: let's pass that area. Unfortunately for me, I was not
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: the one on the steering, but I was the one
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: in front. He was the one driving by a car chain.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: Some girl said, that's just passing.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: I said, guys, don't try this nonsense. Don't worry. Hey.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: And they went there.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: See, young girls. Young girls.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: Alpha.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: I get POS.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: The girls began to mention what they can do.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: And they were just laughing. And now these are born
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: again boys. I mean, they are amazing boys in their field.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: Born again. And they are all blessed.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: One of them is controlling a very big thing for
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: one of the banks in Nigeria. Very powerful position. When
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: we go back home, the one that said let's go there,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: I called him. I said, come.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: No matter whether we are friends, I'm a man to
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: all of you, so follow me.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: I said, I observed when we drove there that you
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: have the tendency for adultery. I said, I observed. If
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: you can park where girls are doing hookup, it's a tendency. Meanwhile,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: that tendency won't show up when you don't have a car.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: Will you take back to Metama and say, hello, young lady,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: come here. But you must prove to God that this,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: as God bless you, listen to what I'm saying. This
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: is where I'm going to. This is the mountain I
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: want to climb. And I'm just a statement. As God
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: bless you, your consecration must increase. Okay. You want to
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: write that down. Your consecration must increase. I'm giving you
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: this and this is very simple. There's no principle I'm
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: teaching you I'm not living with. I wanted to say
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: a statement, but let me say it. But I'm not
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: telling you this so you can do it. Okay?
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying this so you can do it. One
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 3: of the things I do.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not... Let me say it. I just, I mean,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: I just I'm saying this and God see my heart
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: just for the sake of preaching, not to show off.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: One of the things I do is that my personal
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: offering is the equivalence of my salary. So I can
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: live on the blessing of the Lord. And even my salary,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: I don't touch a couple in it.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 3: So the other ones I have, I give the equivalence.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: I spread it throughout the month. I don't get stranded
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: You may say, well, it's easy for apostles because, you know,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: many people know you and all. But that's the truth.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: One of the things I noticed that began to happen
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: as I increased that concern. Because what that did is
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: I saw that, hey, as God is taking one higher,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: different blessings are coming. You can lose it. The only
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: way for me not to is to increase the outflow.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: So I can be the same person. But hear this.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: One of the things I noticed that began to happen
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: was that people were going to receive instruction from different nations.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: You are to be committed to him monthly. I have
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: loads of messages I have not replied to. Someone said, Apostle,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: God led me in my heart to begin to read
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: your account number. I barely, account number is one thing
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: I barely reply with. God, me too, I'm so present,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: I'll give you. Except maybe those I know. That I know.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: As God lifts you. Increase your consecration. Increase your prayer hour.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: Because now you can afford many things. In the days
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: that there's no AC. And you have to use hand fan.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: You have to pray. But now there's air condition.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: From the room. To the office. To the sitting room.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 3: to your car.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: So once you eat your bed, you sleep. But in
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: those days, you could study for one more hour. So
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: it means to survive the promised land, you will need
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: the scars of the wilderness.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 3: That's the way to survive. I noticed because.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: See, I share my story a lot because I'm very honest.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: And I don't want, you know what I'm saying? So
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: people can learn. I don't like to present myself as
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: a hero or something. But I can tell you something
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: for free. There's no man who is committed to God's
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: will that God won't be committed to. See, listen to
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. The breakdown of your consecration begins with
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: you forgetting to give your tithes. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: The moment you cannot overcome mammon, many other.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: Things will overcome.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: The acid test of love for God is mammon. That's
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: the acid test. That's the basic mammon. Mammon. Mammon. When
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: these things switch to a love affair, I'm telling you,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: you will discover that there are many entitlements you are
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: the one who has not been enjoying. You can't be committed.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: God won't owe any man anything He won't. He won't.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: He won't. As God lifts you, your consecration must increase.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: Some of us will have to move beyond 10% as tight.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 3: And that's the truth.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: You just notice that you lost your peace. God is
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: the one who is saying, come up higher. Are you
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying? I'm not the one who has
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: given tight before. You gave your tight well and that's it.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: And that's it.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 3: And you lost your peace.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: What's happening?
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 3: God is saying, by this time, I expect you to
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 3: know you should do more.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: And that's why you see that whenever there's projects in church,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: I will not just say give. I will say, come
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: and join. But I can see a number of those
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: that will join me. Because I notice it's easy for
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: pastors not to be given. Very easy.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 3: They'll just bring off in basket.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: One pastor just.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 3: You.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: Know, a lot of people that it's easy for them
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: not to give, they keep all this and they drum up.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: Off it, give to God the weary world. At our feet,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: we give you praise, give you praise.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: There's no joy.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: We all must what?
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: Learn to float. Praise God, hallelujah. And this is a
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: word of God to someone still worshiping. I don't want myself.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: I belong to God. And he has a plan and
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: purpose that my life must flow out to meet. How
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: did David get recognized in Israel? Stewardship.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: He was just tired of that guy shouting, I want
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 3: to take care of the problem.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: Anytime you see a problem and fail.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 3: To solve, you have not been a good steward.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: It's about solving problems.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying here? Very important.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: God is going to use all of you. Say that
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: amen again loud and clear. I say God is going
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: to use you. And let me wrap up with this statement.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: When God started telling me, I want to use you
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: for this and that, many of those I was envying.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: That they've left me behind.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: I now later have learned that actually the secret of
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: speed is the hand of God. Nobody's leaving anybody behind.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: The day that hand comes, you will outrun. Never you
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: get down because you feel people have left you behind.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: All you need is the hand of God. That's all
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: you need.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 3: There's that song by Peter. Can we erase that sound?
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: Get up on your feet, everybody. That song means the
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: hand of God is upon my life. He's helping me
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: to fly. He's helping me to run. Oh, quickly. Oh, baby. Oh, baby. Oh, baby.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Oh, baby. Oh, baby. Oh, baby. Oh, baby. Oh, baby.
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  Speaker 2: amen amen amen.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: Amen. Amen. Now, look up everyone.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: Look up. Hey, there are things that God is set
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: to release. But He wants you to manage them. And
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing a connection now between that teaching and the
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: word I received.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 3: In the morning.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: God knows.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: That anything that can sit in his seat can destroy
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: the person.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 3: Never allow it.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: The way I live is that I owe it to
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: God and to his purpose in my life to prove
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: a point that nothing you've given to me has changed me.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: So sometimes I meet old friends and they're like, you
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: are still the same person. Like, I won't change. Last
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: year or so, I had to go and function with
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: one of my friends on campus as his best man
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: in his wedding. It was the most unconvenient season. We
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: had to travel to one village. When the villagers heard
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: that a post-familial house is around, they went together and
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: said it's not possible, that wedding there. That small wedding,
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: where will you come from?
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: I was there.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: It was palm front they used as the roof and order.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: I was there.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 2: For my friend, yes. But much more, for the progress
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: of God's words in my life, I am still that
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: guy you found.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: I am still that guy.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: Because I noticed in ministry, if your friends who are
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: up there, say, come and be saved, it's a privilege.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: But those ones who are trusting God, say.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 3: I am busy now, I will just send money.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: I went there. It was so non-confident. I remember, there
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: was no room. Why am I somebody's palo like that?
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: I said, I will do all these things, but there's
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: something I don't compromise. That's my health.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: So permit me to just book a place anyone wants
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 3: to join can join.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: Till date, when I go to see my dad, till date,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: I go to the market myself. Till next year. It
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter how God takes me to the covenant. It
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: likes fresh fish. I'll go there and buy it. And
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: I come back and make it for him. It's my
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: own venison.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 3: And I pick his throat. No matter the number of
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 3: washing bags, I wash them with my hand. The last
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 3: time we went to the market together.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: It's a culture. It's a culture.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 3: I have a few protocols in place to keep my
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 3: heart in check.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: Just to.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: This heart, sometimes I can miss it.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: Just to keep it in check. Just a few here
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: and there. Are you following what I'm saying there? You
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: owe it to God.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: That point you must prove it.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: That I have not changed. I'm the guy you found.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: Because God should never have to remind you of how
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  Speaker 2: he got you. The day God reminds you of how
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  Speaker 2: he found you, then something is bad already. Are you
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  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying there? My father would tell me,
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  Speaker 2: he said, I get many contractors because of you. He said,
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  Speaker 2: many people will call and say, you are his father.
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  Speaker 2: I say, yes. They will come and gather around where
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  Speaker 2: he works.
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  Speaker 3: And say, just put us through to your son.
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  Speaker 2: Now they commit money, millions in my hand. If you
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  Speaker 2: are a father, you can't misuse our money.
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  Speaker 3: When we are ready for the.
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  Speaker 2: Project, we do it. But when I get there, I
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  Speaker 2: go to the market myself. I drop my things, what
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  Speaker 2: I bought, I go to the market, buy the stuff.
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  Speaker 2: In his own market there. Come back. This heart needs
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  Speaker 2: to be preserved. I still have a relationship from secondary
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  Speaker 2: school and all that. It doesn't matter what anybody is doing.
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  Speaker 4: Hey.
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  Speaker 3: Because you can lose it all.
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  Speaker 2: Set structures in place to help you retain these hearts.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to help you. It also includes structure of
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  Speaker 2: prayer and fasting. It's going to help you. Because you
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  Speaker 2: get to a point where the supernatural becomes automated. Prayer
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  Speaker 2: or not. So now you have to have a structure.
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  Speaker 2: People who don't pray now and say they will never
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  Speaker 2: pray later. Are you feeling what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Are you with me? So, I believe that God is
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  Speaker 3: using this topic.
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  Speaker 2: To prepare us for what is coming. Sir, that's the secret.
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  Speaker 2: You know, let me share this with you. You know,
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  Speaker 2: recently I found out. I have privilege of being close
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  Speaker 2: to some of these men. Just privilege of access. And
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  Speaker 2: if there is any father in the body of Christ
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  Speaker 2: in Nigeria, I don't have direct contact to.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm speaking with his peer. And we're in a conversation.
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  Speaker 3: I won't mention. One of the guys said to me,
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  Speaker 3: he said, do you know? That the Anglican church Baba
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  Speaker 3: was attending.
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  Speaker 2: While he was a child. Right now he's the one
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  Speaker 2: who is paying all the salaries. Of those in the
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  Speaker 2: Anglican church. I said that's the structure.
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  Speaker 3: When Pahezi Elton was going to die. And God spoke
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  Speaker 3: to Pastor here.
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  Speaker 2: It was Pastor. Let me go into stories.
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  Speaker 3: As at that point.
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  Speaker 2: In 1987 or there about. Pahezi Elton had entered a dimension.
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  Speaker 2: Where the prophecies was given. Were offending many. many were
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  Speaker 2: offended at him but God spoke to Paso here at
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  Speaker 2: Debuy that man I'm going to call him home soon
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  Speaker 2: it was Baba who sent money down to Elisha that
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  Speaker 2: he bought a.
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  Speaker 3: Glass casket.
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  Speaker 2: It was the one who was there at that last moment.
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  Speaker 3: That's a covenant it's a covenant of longevity.
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  Speaker 2: Same as Bishop Boy Debuy You will hear the secret
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  Speaker 2: of men is in their stories. When our bishop died,
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  Speaker 2: it was bishop that took over the whole salaries. About
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  Speaker 2: five years ago there, about three years. Bishop Adil Akon
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  Speaker 2: called us 60 years ago. He shared this story with us.
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  Speaker 2: He said our bishop Ben Sintaosa called him I said, David,
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  Speaker 2: wherever you are now, report to Benin.
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  Speaker 3: And he went there.
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  Speaker 2: Because I saw that recently on social media, we were
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  Speaker 2: speaking against Petra Fadarin.
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  Speaker 3: There's an apostolic template.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to go there. And when he got
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  Speaker 2: to Benin, he met Bishop Oedipo on his knees. That
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  Speaker 2: bishop was rebuking him. Do you know what that means?
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  Speaker 2: He met a bishop. What will you do? You will
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  Speaker 2: stay there and cross your leg.
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  Speaker 3: You will run away.
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  Speaker 2: So he wanted to.
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  Speaker 3: Abishal said. David. Sit down there. He wanted him to see.
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  Speaker 3: The humility of bishop. When he was done rebuking.
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  Speaker 2: Bishop proceeded and thanked him. And then went to the
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  Speaker 2: dining to eat. It's a custom. You must eat. Because
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: you can move from the level of not having food
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  Speaker 2: stocked to now. Food has to be cooked around the
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  Speaker 2: clock because now you are praying for nations. Then by
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: the time, you know what Archbishop told him? Archbishop said,
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  Speaker 2: this was, let me mention here.
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  Speaker 3: He said, you see David, he's going far.
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  Speaker 2: Follow him. Follow him. That was all Archbishop said to him.
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  Speaker 2: When they share that story, it's a heart posture. I
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  Speaker 2: can tell you stories. Listen to what I'm saying. Recently,
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  Speaker 2: one of my spiritual daughters called me. I said, there's
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  Speaker 2: this father, there's a father in the book of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: He said, right now, they're rushing to a hospital.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I'm the one taking care of him.
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  Speaker 2: I said, okay. I said, keep me updated. Every detail.
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  Speaker 2: Then later that day, they came to me. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think I was going to do?
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  Speaker 3: I would let him pay.
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  Speaker 2: There are things you kid into. Last year, when we
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  Speaker 2: had international minister's conference, that we honored Baba, he didn't
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  Speaker 2: come physically. I've been at his house.
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  Speaker 3: Even that morning, I was at his house.
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  Speaker 2: We did not even know he was going to make
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  Speaker 2: it down back. The son called me. He said, when
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  Speaker 2: he got to the house, he wants.
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  Speaker 3: To start coming. And the boy said, no, no. We
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  Speaker 3: can connect with them online.
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  Speaker 2: How many of you saw that event? I heard people
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  Speaker 2: say online, you don't understand. Keep quiet. There's something called inheritance. Inheritance.
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  Speaker 2: You can't dig all wells yourself. You spend your life
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: trying to dig one. But there are wells that already
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  Speaker 2: have water. You must find the wells of a father's dog,
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  Speaker 2: drink it and be healed.
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  Speaker 5: For our hearts sake.
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  Speaker 2: How I shifted from being perpetually broke. The moment I
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: entered that covenant of it can never finish. Let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you. I've never shared this anywhere before. The day
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  Speaker 2: I entered that covenant was my first time meeting Apostle Selman.
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  Speaker 3: And I was in his room at his hotel where
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 3: he went to minister.
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  Speaker 2: And I just knelt down and said, Sir, I have
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  Speaker 2: emptied my account at our ministry account.
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  Speaker 3: He prayed.
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  Speaker 2: I knew I achieved it. I'm not saying somebody is
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  Speaker 2: not going to empty it. I'm talking about leading by
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit. Meanwhile, those things are done to you. I
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  Speaker 2: have another thing I do to check my heart. I
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  Speaker 2: call it the emptying and the refilling system. Just to
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  Speaker 2: be sure that my trust now is not in what
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  Speaker 2: I've gathered, but in the blessing of God. That's just
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: for my heart. My own heart is unique. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know about you. Some of you may not need all
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 2: those things because I know where God took me from.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes when you experience depravity so much, when money comes,
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: you can indulge.
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  Speaker 3: Just one prayer and a resident pastor comes up. Lord,
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  Speaker 3: help my heart. Give me the wisdom to preserve this
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  Speaker 3: heart for stewardship.
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