Latest / Selah Media House / Redefining The Blessing (Part 1) — Apostle Joshua Selman | Leicester Special Service 2025

Transcript

Redefining The Blessing (Part 1) — Apostle Joshua Selman | Leicester Special Service 2025 · Selah Media House

• 0:01
  Hallelujah, lest I give Jesus a big, big, big, big, big hand.
• 0:08
  Amen. Praise the name of the Lord.
• 0:14
  Wow, it's good to see everyone. And the Bible says unto the
• 0:18
  Lord, shall the gathering of his people be but so daily.
• 0:22
  Thank you, We honor you, honor your dear wife and the entire
• 0:27
  leadership. May God bless you.
• 0:29
  In Jesus name, allow me appreciate Mayor Harold Moore.
• 0:34
  He flew in from the United States for this.
• 0:37
  This man is an incredible man. When he called that he was
• 0:41
  coming, I said no, no, no, you don't have to fly in.
• 0:44
  He's been around all the sound of revival conferences in North
• 0:47
  America. And I said just sit.
• 0:50
  You're a politician, you're a mayor.
• 0:52
  Don't let them drive you because you're travelling, doing
• 0:55
  evangelism. And he didn't even answer me
• 0:58
  again. Next thing I heard was that he
• 1:00
  was already in the plane coming. So God bless you.
• 1:05
  It truly is a joy and an honor. By the way, I appreciate an
• 1:09
  honor. Everyone, every man of God,
• 1:11
  every person who is worthy of honor, we give Jesus the praise.
• 1:16
  I'm here because I believe in what God is doing in your life
• 1:20
  and in the territory. This is why we've been sent.
• 1:24
  Every time He grants us the grace to strengthen one another
• 1:27
  and to speak over the territory, we embrace it as an opportunity.
• 1:32
  I'm here to help someone see Clara better.
• 1:36
  I'm here to help someone access the grace needed for the hour.
• 1:41
  God sends us as instruments of mercy to help give clarity,
• 1:46
  perspective, to help build. And it's one of the burden that
• 1:50
  God has given me in this season, a renewed burden to disciple
• 1:56
  nations. There is there is need for the
• 2:01
  body of Christ across every territory to come into the
• 2:06
  fullness of the stature of the measure of Christ.
• 2:12
  The Church is at the mercy of the men and the women who teach
• 2:19
  and serve the wisdom and the grace of God.
• 2:21
  And if we are limited, we will produce a sincere but ill
• 2:26
  prepared people. We cannot give beyond our level
• 2:31
  of access. Access to light, access to
• 2:33
  wisdom, access to power. And so every time God provides
• 2:38
  an opportunity like this to meet people beyond the local
• 2:43
  assembly, for me, it gladdens my heart because only God can tell
• 2:49
  who is standing before me. Only God can tell.
• 2:53
  The Bible says, Now are we the sons of God?
• 2:55
  And it does not yet appear. You see, you can predict fairly
• 3:02
  how many fruits can come from a tree, but you never can tell how
• 3:06
  many trees can come from a seed that one seed planted, nurtured.
• 3:14
  Hallelujah. And so my charge for us tonight
• 3:18
  as we begin these sessions is number one.
• 3:21
  Let your hunger rise. Let your hunger rise.
• 3:26
  The Word of God produces when it meets a hungry heart #2 Let's
• 3:33
  adopt the principle that was given to Moses.
• 3:36
  For many years. Moses had been in Egypt.
• 3:38
  In fact, he was being prepared to be the next Pharaoh, but when
• 3:42
  he encountered the burning Bush, the first instruction he was
• 3:46
  given was take off your shoes. Your shoe is a representation of
• 3:51
  your experience, your knowledge about God so far.
• 3:56
  Sometimes when you encounter him, he says take it off because
• 4:00
  I'm about to show you something that may be foreign to your
• 4:03
  experience but needed for your destiny.
• 4:06
  I'm praying that somewhere in the course of this meeting,
• 4:10
  someone will really find grace, someone will encounter wisdom,
• 4:15
  that mighty men and women will arise.
• 4:19
  You have invested your time. Many of you perhaps have
• 4:21
  travelled outside of Leicester, some of you within the city.
• 4:25
  Regardless, and for those who are falling online, look beyond
• 4:29
  a man. Let your eyes be on Jesus, let
• 4:32
  your eyes be on his wisdom, his light, and he will do us good.
• 4:36
  Can we lift up our hands in one minute and ask again that the
• 4:40
  Spirit of grace will breathe upon us?
• 4:42
  Go ahead. Thank you, Jesus, Speak to our
• 4:49
  hearts, light our candles, give us understanding, bring us to a
• 4:59
  state of maturity and stature by the Spirit.
• 5:05
  Empower us. Strengthen the body of Christ
• 5:10
  within this territory. Oh God, let your name be
• 5:14
  glorified. Let your name be lifted.
• 5:20
  We lift you high, Yahweh. Yahweh be lifted high.
• 5:31
  Yahweh our way, sing we lift you high.
• 5:39
  Yahweh our way, we lift you high.
• 5:51
  Believe Ted High. We live too high, we live too
• 6:07
  high, we live dead high. Thank you spirit of grace, we
• 6:23
  receive understanding. Let the book be open.
• 6:27
  Let the scrolls be unlocked. Guide our destinies to a place
• 6:31
  of perfection and power. In Jesus name we pray.
• 6:36
  God bless you. Please, you may be gloriously
• 6:39
  seated. Hallelujah.
• 6:43
  I understand we're dealing with the subject of the blessing for
• 6:48
  this conference and I always like to teach along the theme
• 6:56
  given to me. And but for the purpose of
• 7:04
  stability, I would request that you allow me just digress for a
• 7:09
  few minutes to lay a very strong foundation.
• 7:12
  Because you see, as we grow into maturity and stature, one of the
• 7:18
  things we must learn is the value and the supremacy of the
• 7:23
  will of God, the will of God. Now everything in the Kingdom
• 7:30
  revolves and must revolve around the will of God.
• 7:35
  What gives value to every teaching, every desire, every
• 7:41
  pursuit is that it must be connected directly to the
• 7:45
  birthing of the will of God. Is someone learning already so
• 7:50
  in the Kingdom when you obtain unto maturity as a believer.
• 7:55
  And let this also be a, a great encouragement to perhaps a man
• 8:01
  of God, a woman of God, that in teaching concepts in the
• 8:06
  Kingdom, you have to first let the people know that nothing in
• 8:12
  the Kingdom in itself profits the believer except and unless
• 8:17
  it is connected to the will of God.
• 8:20
  So if you're teaching healing, if you're teaching prosperity,
• 8:23
  if you're teaching fruitfulness, if you're teaching advancement,
• 8:27
  it becomes vanity if left alone. The strength of that teaching is
• 8:33
  when you can connect that pursuit, that desire to the will
• 8:38
  of God. Do you understand me so far?
• 8:40
  That means if you just want to prosper for the sake of
• 8:43
  prosperity, if you want to be healed for the sake of healing
• 8:47
  oneself becomes the object of the pursuit, then it is vanity.
• 8:53
  It holds no weight in the spirit.
• 8:55
  What gives our pursuit its value is that it is connected to
• 9:00
  Kingdom come. It is connected to the program
• 9:02
  of God. So when people understand the
• 9:06
  will of God and get to a point where they are determined to see
• 9:10
  His Kingdom come and His will done, then you have no restraint
• 9:14
  in teaching them the things that equip them to do so.
• 9:18
  Healing, prosperity. Now you can teach it with
• 9:21
  confidence, knowing that you are teaching the people who are
• 9:24
  already cultured. They have an orientation that my
• 9:27
  life and everything about it must be for His glory and for
• 9:32
  His Kingdom. Are we learning now?
• 9:34
  It is a risk to begin to explore certain dimensions of the
• 9:40
  provisions, the riches that are in Christ and to help people
• 9:46
  understand it without first connecting them to Christ, to
• 9:50
  his program, to his purposes. What will happen is that that
• 9:55
  knowledge will become like the tree of good and evil.
• 9:58
  It, number one, will bring enlightenment, but with
• 10:01
  enlightenment it will bring corruption.
• 10:04
  So you will find the people who rejoice at increase, rejoice at
• 10:09
  prosperity, but Jesus is not at the back of their joy.
• 10:14
  They are only rejoicing because they have been better equipped
• 10:17
  to be selfish. They have been equipped.
• 10:19
  Knowledge has fortified self in them.
• 10:23
  So they rejoice because self is finding expression.
• 10:27
  Are we learning already? I'm saying that as a background
• 10:29
  because in teaching very delicate subjects like the
• 10:32
  blessing, it matters to me and it matters, you know, the Bible
• 10:36
  calls us master builders and the Bible says that every man of God
• 10:43
  must be a wise master builder. Are we together?
• 10:46
  And you have to build according to pattern so that whilst people
• 10:51
  enjoy and receive the revelations and the blessings
• 10:56
  that follow those revelations, they are not they don't fuel
• 10:59
  self. You bring them to a point where
• 11:02
  they realize that all of the provisions that are made
• 11:04
  available for me in Christ is not just for self
• 11:08
  aggrandizement. Are we together?
• 11:10
  That at the end of it, it is to equip me to be an effective
• 11:15
  witness and to birth the will of God.
• 11:19
  Everything around the Kingdom. Now the word Gospel, I'm still
• 11:23
  digressing Wherever we stop, Thank God we have two other
• 11:26
  sessions and but this foundation is important.
• 11:29
  The word gospel does not just mean good news.
• 11:32
  It is a declaration of glad tidings.
• 11:36
  But in that according to scripture, there are 7 distinct
• 11:42
  gospels. The most popular that we know is
• 11:46
  called the Gospel of Salvation. It's a declaration of the love
• 11:51
  of the Father revealed in and through the substitutionary
• 11:54
  sacrifice of Jesus. But one of those gospels for our
• 11:58
  discussion tonight is the gospel of the Kingdom.
• 12:02
  And although it is by the same Lord and the same Spirit, the
• 12:06
  dynamics differ when you discuss the gospel of salvation.
• 12:11
  In that narrative, Jesus is revealed as Savior.
• 12:16
  Man is revealed as a helpless personality, unable to save
• 12:21
  himself by any walk of the law whatsoever.
• 12:24
  The Father, in the narrative of the gospel of salvation, is the
• 12:28
  initiator of the process that demonstrates his love.
• 12:31
  Are we together? And so man really does not do
• 12:34
  anything. Man has the privilege of
• 12:37
  watching a spectacular display of love that God so loved the
• 12:42
  world. And he proved that love by
• 12:44
  giving his Son. And Jesus came, died, paid the
• 12:48
  price. Are we together?
• 12:50
  But when you now teach the gospel of salvation, in that
• 12:54
  narrative, Christ is no longer Savior, he is king.
• 13:00
  And the helpless personalities called men, they are no longer
• 13:06
  helpless because at that point they are saved, they are
• 13:08
  empowered. Are we together?
• 13:10
  But then there is an orientation that they sustain.
• 13:13
  They now know that God has a program, God has an agenda, and
• 13:17
  that their lives must be about birthing the will of God.
• 13:21
  And it is from that standpoint that you begin to explore
• 13:24
  everything in the Kingdom, prosperity, health.
• 13:28
  So if I ask you why do you want to be healed, I am not convinced
• 13:32
  until your explanation ends up revealing the will of God.
• 13:37
  Why do you want to prosper? If you say, well I'm I'm tired
• 13:40
  of suffering. Lester does not seem to open up.
• 13:43
  That's a sincere explanation, but it is not Kingdom because
• 13:47
  Christ and his will is not captured in your explanation is
• 13:51
  someone understanding now we become a matured people, not
• 13:55
  just when we have so many scriptures in our minds, but
• 13:58
  when we get to a point where our wills can die so that his will
• 14:05
  is birthed, His will is revealed.
• 14:08
  And don't get me wrong, if you truly understand the will of
• 14:11
  God, you will know that the will of God is all about your
• 14:14
  profiting so that it does not look like he's such a selfish
• 14:18
  person. He says I know the thoughts that
• 14:20
  I think towards you. Jeremiah 2911.
• 14:22
  They are thoughts of peace and not of evil to bring you a
• 14:26
  future, an unexpected end. So God is all about you, whilst
• 14:32
  we were yet seen as not even asking, not praying, not
• 14:35
  demanding for salvation. He went out of his way.
• 14:39
  And if he gave his Son, will He not give you all things to
• 14:41
  enjoy? Are we together?
• 14:43
  Praise the name of the Lord. Someone say let your will be
• 14:46
  done one more time. Say let your will be done and
• 14:51
  let me just connect that very quickly and then we'll hopefully
• 14:54
  begin our discussion. What exactly is the will of God
• 14:57
  for man? We have to understand this.
• 15:00
  What is the will of God? Now, theologically speaking,
• 15:04
  there are two dimensions of God's will #1 there's what we
• 15:09
  call the written will of God that means, or the generic will
• 15:14
  of God, the will of God for all men.
• 15:16
  It is not unique to any individual.
• 15:18
  Are we together? It is.
• 15:20
  Every time you find a man, you can be sure that that is God's
• 15:24
  will for that man. And it is written in Scripture
• 15:28
  that God desires that all men be saved, number one, and then #2
• 15:33
  that they come onto the knowledge of the truth.
• 15:37
  So for every man you see, you can be sure that preaching
• 15:40
  Christ to them is not going out of the will of God helping them
• 15:45
  to be part of a family that builds them spiritually.
• 15:48
  You don't need a prophecy on that.
• 15:50
  Are we together now? It is the will of God.
• 15:52
  So there is the generic or written will of God as captured
• 15:56
  in Scripture. God desires for all men to come
• 16:00
  into the fullness of sonship. The Bible calls it the hope of
• 16:03
  His calling, that when he got us saved there was an intent in his
• 16:08
  heart that we structurally grow and attain maturity through
• 16:12
  sonship, because an air for as long as that air is a child.
• 16:16
  Galatians chapter 4 from verse 1.
• 16:18
  He differed not from a slave, even though he be Lord of all.
• 16:22
  Are we together so that even though we are saved, if we
• 16:26
  remain children, we will never be able to release the riches
• 16:31
  that are captured in the God life because the life we have
• 16:34
  received manifesting the riches, the glory that is embedded in
• 16:38
  that life is knowledge dependent and maturity dependent.
• 16:43
  Knowledge dependent. Some of you right here as
• 16:46
  parents in your wheel right now you have, perhaps you have
• 16:50
  children who are not even up to teenage, but there is a wheel
• 16:54
  for them, but you're not going to give them access to it.
• 16:58
  Are we together? Maybe not even a wheel.
• 17:00
  Maybe you've purchased something for them, some shares,
• 17:03
  investments, and you are thoughtful enough.
• 17:06
  Even as much as you love them. You'll know that until they
• 17:08
  attend a state that you consider maturity enough, you will not
• 17:13
  grant them access to it. So in as much as we are saved,
• 17:17
  we have received the riches that have come from this life.
• 17:20
  It will not profit, as I tell you.
• 17:22
  And your difference, the difference between you and one
• 17:25
  who is unsaved, will barely be you.
• 17:27
  It only from a spiritual standpoint that we can really
• 17:30
  tell the difference. But as far as manifesting
• 17:33
  victory and dominion is concerned, the difference will
• 17:35
  not be there because eternal life releasing the riches that
• 17:40
  eternal life captures is knowledge dependent and maturity
• 17:44
  dependent. Is someone following me so far?
• 17:49
  Praise the name of the Lord. Yeah.
• 17:51
  That means the more we press to gain knowledge, understanding,
• 17:56
  and attend unto maturity, the more we are able to release that
• 17:59
  which is invested in our spirit for the nations to see.
• 18:04
  And at the end of it, Christ will be glorified.
• 18:06
  John 15 and verse 8. Herein is my Father glorified
• 18:10
  that he bear much food. I hope you know fruitfulness is
• 18:15
  proof that the tree has become matured.
• 18:18
  A tree only becomes fruitful when it's grown beyond a certain
• 18:21
  limit. You'll be unfair for you to
• 18:23
  plant and by next week you expect you expect fruit.
• 18:27
  No, you are patient. You know the tree is growing.
• 18:30
  But then it gets to a point where you begin to see the
• 18:33
  indices that attest to the fact that growth has happened.
• 18:37
  John 1516 you have not called me, but I have called you and
• 18:43
  ordained you that you should go and bear fruit and that your
• 18:46
  fruit should remain. If someone is lending so far,
• 18:50
  say Amen, praise the name of the Lord.
• 18:52
  So I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm talking about the will of God.
• 18:55
  That number one, there is the generic or written will of God.
• 18:59
  We still have that all of us #2 there is what is called the
• 19:02
  revealed will of God. Now this is the revealed of God,
• 19:07
  the the the the will of God that is revealed to you on demand
• 19:12
  because your destiny will require progressive revelations
• 19:17
  of God's will. There is a generic will that
• 19:20
  guides you, but progressively your call direction, that which
• 19:25
  God wants you to do part time and per season.
• 19:28
  And you will need the revealed will of God.
• 19:30
  And that's where the Holy Spirit comes our we together, that the
• 19:33
  Holy Spirit is a revealer of the will of God.
• 19:36
  No man knows what is in the heart of man save the Spirit
• 19:39
  that is in that man. So also no man knows what is in
• 19:42
  the heart of the Father, save the Spirit of the Father.
• 19:45
  And that the Holy Spirit has the exclusive right to such the mind
• 19:49
  of the Father, and to reveal to the Saints that which has been
• 19:52
  stored ordained for their glory. Hallelujah, the revealed will of
• 19:58
  God. And perhaps some of you have
• 20:01
  heard me teach that in learning the will of God, there are three
• 20:05
  biblical ways. I don't know why God is just
• 20:07
  routing me through this path, but there are three ways to
• 20:12
  accessing the will of God #1 scripture #2 the revelatory
• 20:17
  ministry of the Holy Spirit #3 the prophetic.
• 20:20
  This is how we're able to extract the will of God for our
• 20:23
  profiting. Again, number one, Scripture,
• 20:27
  the first way we know the will of God is by learning scripture.
• 20:30
  The Bible says in Luke chapter 4 that Jesus stood up for to read,
• 20:35
  and it was given to him the scroll of Isaias, and he found
• 20:38
  there where it was written concerning him.
• 20:41
  Hebrews 10/7 Lo, I come in the volume of the book as it is
• 20:46
  written of me to do your will. Hallelujah, praise the name of
• 20:52
  the Lord #2 the revelatory ministry of the Holy Spirit that
• 20:57
  the Holy Spirit guides. The Holy Spirit reveals.
• 21:01
  As they set themselves to pray, the Holy Ghost spoke to them.
• 21:04
  Separate me, Paul and Barnabas, and then #3 the prophetic.
• 21:10
  I have spoken to you in similitudes and I've spoken to
• 21:14
  you in dreams, all by the prophetic.
• 21:16
  The prophetic Eve under the influence of the Word of God can
• 21:21
  produce power in that it is able to bring direction and to bring
• 21:26
  guidance. Is someone learning Praise the
• 21:29
  name of the Lord. So I'm hoping that as we explore
• 21:32
  this topic, it would not just be a carnal celebration of the
• 21:37
  awareness of victory. But now with this background,
• 21:41
  everything I'm about to say, because we're going to go deep
• 21:44
  into this concept of being blessed to really understand
• 21:46
  what it is. And if you do understand, it
• 21:49
  will truly change your life. And you will now appreciate this
• 21:53
  digression that has come as a disclaimer, so that in rejoicing
• 21:59
  it tames your appetite. And make sure that your joy is
• 22:02
  only purified by its connection to the will of God.
• 22:06
  So that as you leave this place tonight, you will leave
• 22:08
  rejoicing, knowing indeed that I am blessed.
• 22:11
  But you will not speak as a carnal man.
• 22:13
  You will speak as one who is enlightened that heaven will
• 22:16
  rejoice over your awareness of this revelation because you
• 22:20
  would now become an advantage to the Kingdom.
• 22:24
  Are we learning? So can we begin?
• 22:27
  Let's pray in the Spirit for one minute.
• 22:30
  Thank you, Father, for wisdom. Thank you for grace.
• 22:36
  It is about your glory to see you high and leave.
• 22:45
  Tear up, You are shining in the light of your glory.
• 22:52
  Pour out your power and love as we sing.
• 22:57
  Holy, holy old we'll. See you hide and lift it up.
• 23:06
  You're shining in the light of. Your glory.
• 23:11
  Pour out your power and love, we sing.
• 23:15
  Holy, holy, holy, holy. Thank you Holy Spirit in Jesus
• 23:23
  much less name we pray so I'll be teaching on the blessing the
• 23:31
  blessing tonight we Part 1 and we'll take it from there.
• 23:35
  Wherever we stop, we pray, go home, come back, try again, go
• 23:41
  home, come back, and then see how far we're able to cover.
• 23:47
  Amen and Amen. Anyone ready?
• 23:53
  I rejoice in advance. I rejoice in advance.
• 23:56
  Someone's life will change. Hallelujah.
• 24:04
  OK, Ephesians chapter 1 we're reading the first 3 verses
• 24:13
  Ephesians chapter 1 Paul Now notice who is talking He starts
• 24:20
  by telling you he's an apostle of Christ by the.
• 24:26
  Does it make sense to you everything we've discussed now
• 24:29
  so you can trust everything he's saying because he's telling you
• 24:33
  that his life and his apostleship.
• 24:36
  It's not just about the issues he's discussing, but that
• 24:39
  ultimately is the will of God. The will of God is what drives
• 24:43
  him. So Paul verse one again, media
• 24:47
  Paul, and I'm not seeing verse one.
• 24:51
  I'm seeing verse 2. Can we try again?
• 24:53
  Just do what you did the first time I saw that one.
• 24:57
  Hallelujah. OK, no, just just go to verse
• 25:01
  one. Let's finish verse one.
• 25:03
  Let's take it slowly. Thank you, Paul.
• 25:05
  An apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God.
• 25:10
  So this is the person speaking. Now who is he speaking to?
• 25:13
  To the Saints who are in Leicester.
• 25:20
  Now it's important for you to know so you know whether the
• 25:24
  discussion is your business or not.
• 25:27
  There are certain discussions that are not your business, so
• 25:30
  you have to know who is speaking.
• 25:32
  And who he's speaking to. This gives you contextual
• 25:35
  understanding in discussing scripture.
• 25:37
  Are we together? So to the Saints.
• 25:40
  So if you are the Saints, those saved, those who love Jesus, who
• 25:45
  are faithful in Christ Jesus, then every other thing I'll be.
• 25:48
  Discussing is for you. Are we learning?
• 25:52
  So to the Saints who are in Ephesus.
• 25:54
  Now we're in Leicester, so will not say Ephesus, the Saints in
• 25:58
  Leicester and the faithful in Christ Jesus.
• 26:01
  Verse 2, grace, I like this grace to you and peace from God
• 26:07
  our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 26:10
  Shout verse through with me please if you love Jesus.
• 26:13
  When you see projected media, we're ready for verse 3,
• 26:16
  Ephesians 1 and verse three. OK, let's go.
• 26:21
  One to go. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop,
• 26:30
  stop. Don't.
• 26:30
  Don't rush it. Don't rush it at all.
• 26:32
  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has
• 26:39
  now there are many things God has done for us.
• 26:41
  He saved us. Are we together?
• 26:44
  But now Paul is saying he had blessed us, not will bless us.
• 26:50
  He had blessed us and then He tells us the extent of the
• 26:54
  blessing that He's blessed us with every spiritual blessing,
• 27:01
  every spiritual blessing. But now there's an issue we need
• 27:06
  to discuss because it tells us the location that these
• 27:11
  spiritual blessings are in heavenly places.
• 27:14
  And the code for access is the Christ.
• 27:21
  So that if your life fails to capture and reveal these
• 27:24
  blessings, it does not change the fact that God has blessed
• 27:28
  you with every spiritual blessing.
• 27:31
  Are we together in heavenly places, in Christ?
• 27:36
  So let's leave that Scripture there to revisit it.
• 27:38
  Let's go to Genesis chapter 12. The Bible talks about a very
• 27:43
  interesting man who is very interesting because the major
• 27:49
  world religions today, as we know, all came out from that one
• 27:53
  man, Christianity. Are we together Judaism or and
• 28:02
  all its expressions and then Islam all came out from that one
• 28:08
  man, Abraham. So the Bible tells us that this
• 28:13
  was a man who was in a nation called Ore of the Chaldeans.
• 28:20
  And I don't want to go into the background, but if we had the
• 28:25
  time I would have told you and shown you from scripture that
• 28:28
  the first person to be called was not really Abraham.
• 28:32
  The first person God called was his father terror.
• 28:36
  But for whatever reason he did not respond.
• 28:39
  And that tells you how God is. He comes to you and proposes a
• 28:43
  superior life, but he gives you the opportunity to partner with
• 28:47
  him or reject him. The Bible says as many as
• 28:50
  received him. That means not all will receive
• 28:52
  him, unfortunately. Now the Lord said to Abraham,
• 28:57
  get out of your country from your family and from your
• 29:01
  father's house to a land that I will show you.
• 29:03
  Verse 2 reading to three, it says I will make you a great
• 29:08
  nation and I will bless you and make your name great.
• 29:16
  Do you know we can spend all night just discussing what this
• 29:19
  means? I'm telling you, we can take the
• 29:22
  whole day just discussing verse 2.
• 29:24
  It's a very profound scripture. I will make your name great.
• 29:28
  You can be great without your name being great.
• 29:32
  Yeah. If you are great without your
• 29:35
  name being great, your greatness ends when you leave.
• 29:40
  How many of you have heard the word JP Morgan Chase?
• 29:47
  How many of you have heard whatever names that represent
• 29:51
  dynasties? That's a great name.
• 29:54
  An individual can be great, but if your name is not great, they
• 29:59
  cannot perpetuate greatness. Nobody can come under the
• 30:01
  covering of your name. You see, in giving inheritance,
• 30:07
  Don't don't tempt me to digress. Help me.
• 30:09
  I'm. I'm a pilot tonight.
• 30:11
  Just help me. Let's fly straight.
• 30:13
  No detours. Let's get to where we're going.
• 30:15
  But but I need to say this, one of the things the Bible calls
• 30:19
  inheritance is a good name. Are we together?
• 30:24
  Yes, that in all your giving, whatever you give your children
• 30:27
  or those, if you just give them physical things, you really did
• 30:31
  not help them. A good name to be better desired
• 30:36
  than material wealth. Anyway, so back to our
• 30:39
  discussion. I will make your name great and
• 30:42
  you shall be take note. You shall be a blessing.
• 30:45
  I will bless you and you shall be a blessing.
• 30:50
  Verse three I will bless those who bless you and I will curse
• 30:56
  him who curses you and in you shall the families of the earth
• 31:01
  be blessed. If that is you say Amen.
• 31:05
  Now generally as across the body of Christ we use the word
• 31:09
  blessed or blessing bless you. We use it to greet, you know,
• 31:14
  most of that was an extract from the way the Jews salute one
• 31:20
  another, the great Shalom, peace, blessings to you and all
• 31:24
  of that. And it was Bible culture to
• 31:26
  speak blessings. You see, Paul would begin or end
• 31:29
  his conversations, you know, with blessings and so on and so
• 31:32
  forth. And the psalmist used that a
• 31:34
  lot, for instance. Someone please give it to us.
• 31:37
  He says blessed is the man, blessed is the man someone.
• 31:42
  When you read from verse one to three, blessed is the man who
• 31:46
  walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, who stands nor stands
• 31:49
  in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
• 31:52
  I don't want to go ahead of myself, Just leave US1 There.
• 31:56
  By the time we get to verse three, he begins to describe
• 31:59
  expressions that attest to whether or not that man is
• 32:03
  blessed. So you can use verse 3 to verify
• 32:06
  verse one. If a man tells you I'm blessed
• 32:09
  and eventually you do not find the expressions in verse 3,
• 32:13
  something is wrong with his understanding or wrong with that
• 32:16
  reality. Are we together?
• 32:19
  And so we use the word blessing or we use the word blessed.
• 32:22
  And it's important for us to really understand what does it
• 32:26
  mean to be blessed When I say bless you or God bless you or
• 32:32
  you are blessed or I call you a blessing.
• 32:35
  We use it in English. We use it culturally.
• 32:38
  But for the most people, we've not taken out time.
• 32:40
  And I'm, I'm telling you, even if you search the dictionary, it
• 32:43
  only goes so far. But but it's a very pregnant
• 32:48
  word that I'm hoping we're exploring the cause of this
• 32:51
  conference. Are you ready for it?
• 32:52
  So the word blessed, generally speaking, refers to favor,
• 33:00
  refers to fruitfulness, refers to advancement, refers to
• 33:11
  preservation and protection. I'm just broadening the scope
• 33:16
  for you. So generally when you hear the
• 33:19
  word blessed, these are the similes that come to your mind,
• 33:24
  Fruitfulness, favor, preservation, advancement,
• 33:30
  everything around that is captured in that word blessed.
• 33:34
  But let's do a little Hebrew and Greek just to put perspective.
• 33:39
  So the Hebrew word, there are many Hebrew words.
• 33:41
  As you know, Hebrew is a very deep word.
• 33:45
  And the Bible was largely, the Old Testament was largely
• 33:48
  written in Hebrew. And then the the New Testament
• 33:52
  had a combination of Greek, Aramaic and you know, here and
• 33:57
  there you'd find other expressions, Latin and all of
• 34:00
  that. But largely is believed and
• 34:02
  agreed that the Old Testament was largely composed of Hebrew,
• 34:06
  whilst the New Testament had a lot of Greek expressions.
• 34:11
  And so the word blessing, really there are many words, but I want
• 34:15
  to select just one is the word Barack Barak.
• 34:20
  The word blessing is the word Barack.
• 34:25
  There are other expressions like eshah.
• 34:27
  There are other expressions like baraka that talks about being a
• 34:32
  blessing. You say blessed.
• 34:34
  But generally the word Barack, the root word Barack has to do
• 34:38
  with stooping down, kneeling down and communicating honor.
• 34:44
  Are we together? So when we talk about the word
• 34:47
  blessing as the word of blessed Barack, the Hebrew word, it
• 34:50
  gives an expression of going down on your knees, bowing down
• 34:56
  and and communicating honor. Now you can extend that word to
• 35:02
  mean kneeling down, stooping down in respect, and then giving
• 35:06
  someone a gift, presenting something of value.
• 35:10
  Is someone learning now? Yes.
• 35:13
  So when you kneel down and worship, when we say bless the
• 35:19
  Lord, how do you bless the Lord? By giving him money?
• 35:23
  No, how do you bless the Lord? By you see that the honor, the
• 35:28
  worship is blessing the Lord. So when you go down on your
• 35:31
  knees in worship, as you love him, as you just pour out your
• 35:36
  heart to him, you are blessing the Lord.
• 35:38
  Is the word Barack is someone learning now?
• 35:42
  Yes, so that's very important. And then it extends to other
• 35:46
  words like Barack, we're blessing now.
• 35:49
  So generally it has to do with praising and it has to do with
• 35:52
  stooping down to show respect and in that communicating
• 35:56
  benevolence in terms of gifts or whatever it is.
• 35:59
  But let's look at the Greek word.
• 36:02
  I don't want to, you know, stretch us beyond necessary, the
• 36:08
  Greek word for blessing. And, and there are two of them.
• 36:11
  One is called eulogia now. And that's even the root word
• 36:15
  where you get, well, let's leave that, but blessing eulogia, if
• 36:21
  you care for the spelling EULOGIAEULOGIA.
• 36:28
  And it's from 2 words. I'm not going to go into the
• 36:31
  details. It simply means a good word, a
• 36:35
  good word. The Greek does a better
• 36:38
  presentation of what we are looking for.
• 36:40
  So the word eulogia means a good word, that means a pronouncement
• 36:45
  that works for your favor, a pronouncement that leads to your
• 36:49
  advancement, A pronouncement that brings protection, a
• 36:54
  pronouncement that brings preservation.
• 36:56
  Who is learning now? So the word eulogia has to do
• 36:59
  with declarations, whilst Barack has to do with worshipping,
• 37:04
  obeisance and all of that illogia has to do with
• 37:08
  pronouncements that produce effects, visible, evident
• 37:13
  effects, effects of advancement, effects of blessings.
• 37:16
  Are we together? Now you understand what the Lord
• 37:19
  did to man, the Bible says. And God blessed him, and God
• 37:24
  blessed him and said. To him be.
• 37:28
  Fruitful. It was a divine pronouncement
• 37:32
  that must produce an effect. Who is learning so far another
• 37:36
  word. It's still a Greek word.
• 37:39
  And I think that's that's one that now that one really means
• 37:43
  blessed itself, that means an expression of it.
• 37:46
  So one Greek word, eulogia, has to do with the speakings that
• 37:51
  produces the evidence, whereas another has to do with becoming
• 37:55
  an embodiment is the word Macarius.
• 38:00
  The word macarius there does not just talk about the
• 38:04
  pronouncement, it means living in the evidence.
• 38:08
  Macarius means being fortunate. Macarius means you have been
• 38:13
  preferred. That means you have become an
• 38:15
  embodiment of the favour. It's not just the pronouncement
• 38:18
  that was made on you, but you have come as the evidence.
• 38:22
  Who is learning now, Macarius? It means fortunate.
• 38:30
  It means privileged. It means happy.
• 38:35
  It means spiritually prosperous. Are we following so far?
• 38:42
  I just needed us to have these foundations.
• 38:44
  For the purpose of our discussion.
• 38:46
  We're going to dwell on the Greek expression because that's
• 38:51
  what captures all that we're doing, that pronouncement and
• 38:56
  then you becoming an evidence, giving you all of the evidence.
• 39:00
  And all through our discussion. There are three.
• 39:03
  I'm going to break my discussion into three.
• 39:07
  Number one, we're going to be understanding what the Bible
• 39:09
  calls the blessing of Abraham #2.
• 39:15
  We will understand what the Bible calls the blessing.
• 39:19
  They are not the same. Then #3 Who will understand what
• 39:22
  the Bible calls blessings? Three things.
• 39:26
  One, the blessing of Abraham #2 the blessing #3 blessings.
• 39:34
  You see, we use these words in church and in a very well
• 39:38
  meaning way, but they are not the same.
• 39:40
  It's the reason why it does not produce power in our lives.
• 39:43
  Who is? Who is hearing so far?
• 39:45
  Now I need to tell you this, both God and men can bless men.
• 39:51
  God can bless men. Genesis 128 God bless man.
• 39:58
  Both God and men can bless. Blessing is not exclusively
• 40:03
  reserved to God. Genesis 128 And God bless them,
• 40:07
  talk to me who bless them. God bless them and said unto
• 40:11
  them. In Genesis 122122HE blessed
• 40:17
  creation, He blessed the fishes and God blessed them.
• 40:21
  I hope you know that the same blessing.
• 40:24
  This is interesting, isn't it? Most people do not know why the
• 40:28
  sea, the waters, the air is rich and fruitful.
• 40:31
  It's because God bless them. Look at it, we focus on Genesis
• 40:37
  128 and that's wonderful, but we forget that something happened
• 40:41
  in Genesis 122. If it ever works, it's because
• 40:44
  there is a blessing on it. And God bless them saying be
• 40:49
  fruitful and multiply and feel the waters.
• 40:54
  He gave them fruitfulness, He gave them multiplication, but He
• 40:57
  did not give them dominion, you see?
• 41:00
  So he said, feel the waters and let the birds multiply on the
• 41:04
  earth. Can you imagine?
• 41:05
  So God blesses creation. God blesses men.
• 41:09
  How about men in in Genesis 112 one and three, we already read
• 41:13
  that he spoke and proposed a blessing to Abraham.
• 41:16
  Now let's look at men blessing men.
• 41:18
  Genesis 24. Give us verse 16, Genesis
• 41:23
  chapter 24. So Rebecca is about to leave her
• 41:26
  family. Are we Bible students?
• 41:30
  Rebecca is leaving her family to go to Isaac.
• 41:32
  Finally they found a wife for Isaac called Rebecca and they
• 41:36
  blessed Rebecca and said unto her, Our sister, may you become
• 41:42
  the mother of thousands and 10 thousands.
• 41:45
  Can I prophecy over a daughter of Abraham?
• 41:47
  Here, in the name of Jesus Christ, may you become a mother
• 41:51
  of thousands. Now listen.
• 41:54
  Listen Already you are wise enough to know that is not just
• 41:59
  saying your womb should give birth to 1000 people.
• 42:04
  Even if you get pregnant every week, that already should inform
• 42:11
  you. You need to understand the
• 42:13
  thinking of the people who wrote by what they are saying.
• 42:16
  Are we together the mother of thousands of 10 thousands?
• 42:21
  And may your descendants possess the gates of those who hate
• 42:25
  them. God is a good prayer in the name
• 42:28
  of Jesus Christ. May your descendants possess the
• 42:31
  gates of those who hate them. Please be seated so God can
• 42:40
  bless and men can bless. Is it in your Bible that Isaac
• 42:48
  was about to die? Then he calls his son Esau.
• 42:52
  He says, Come, make me venison such as I love.
• 42:57
  I want to eat that that venison, so that my soul will be
• 43:02
  delighted, and I will bless you and die.
• 43:06
  And he, Esau, leaves to the wilderness to go and catch.
• 43:10
  Now isn't it interesting that what Esau went to look for,
• 43:15
  Isaac already had in his house, So why did he ask him to go to
• 43:19
  the field? Hallelujah.
• 43:23
  He wanted to bring him to bring the fruit of his value, so he
• 43:28
  would speak to him. And once that happened,
• 43:31
  unfortunately, isn't it amazing that this same Rebecca again?
• 43:40
  She calls Jacob and says, I've heard something a blessing is
• 43:44
  about to leave your father, but we have an advantage because
• 43:48
  he's blind. His blindness can be an
• 43:52
  advantage. You see that.
• 43:55
  May you not be blind because blindness can cost you.
• 44:01
  It can. Hallelujah.
• 44:04
  And so he said, OK, I will prepare this for you.
• 44:06
  And Jacob became afraid. Jacob said, no, my father may be
• 44:10
  blind, but he will feel me. My brother is hairy and I'm not
• 44:14
  hairy. He said don't worry, we'll get
• 44:15
  something and just create and simulate.
• 44:18
  He said please, so I don't end up securing a 'cause he said,
• 44:21
  don't worry, I know he's my husband, I know what to do.
• 44:25
  And then the Bible says that he went.
• 44:27
  You find that in Genesis 27 and he goes to.
• 44:31
  Get everything and meet his father and say father.
• 44:34
  I mean so I brought it somewhere in the course of this
• 44:38
  conference. I'll prophecy verse 20 for you.
• 44:41
  Even though he was lying, but there's a powerful principle
• 44:44
  there. Hallelujah and he met him.
• 44:47
  He said how is it that you have gotten it so quickly.
• 44:51
  He said because the Lord God has brought it to me even though he
• 44:55
  was lying. Let me use.
• 44:57
  It as a prophetic word, the things that others are looking
• 45:01
  for. In the name of Jesus, you will
• 45:03
  get it quickly because my God will bring it to you.
• 45:07
  How is it that you brought the job so quickly?
• 45:10
  How is it that the lines, you got everything so quickly?
• 45:14
  I release grace upon you as I speak right now.
• 45:17
  Grace upon you. Help us under the anointing.
• 45:20
  In the name of Jesus, please be seated.
• 45:28
  It's too early. Let's.
• 45:29
  Let's, let's not, Let's, let's, let's leave that.
• 45:32
  It's, it's, it's too early. It's too early, he said.
• 45:39
  Because the Lord God has brought it to me.
• 45:42
  And so he convinced his father, but he said something I have
• 45:46
  many things to say, Holy Spirit help me.
• 45:49
  Verse 21 Jacob or Isaac. He said Come so that I may feel
• 45:56
  you, my son, whether you are really Esau or not.
• 45:59
  Verse 22. Leaders, this is one way to
• 46:03
  discern deception. The voice is the voice of Jacob.
• 46:08
  But the hand at the hands of his soul.
• 46:13
  Can you imagine? He went near to Isaac and said,
• 46:16
  My father, he felt him and said no, something in my spirit.
• 46:21
  It is true that it is the voice betrays you, it is the voice of
• 46:26
  Jacob, but the hand is true that they are the hands of his soul.
• 46:29
  Anyway, he now speaks a blessing over him and Jacob receives it.
• 46:35
  And as soon as Jacob leaves, the Bible says Esau returns and Esau
• 46:40
  says, my father, I've brought the meal and he said, what is
• 46:45
  this? I mean what has happened to you?
• 46:49
  What has happened? I just, I, I was deceived.
• 46:52
  I have spoken the blessing already.
• 46:54
  The Bible says a hard working adult with skill, ability to
• 46:59
  fend for himself began to cry and Isaac trembled exceedingly.
• 47:05
  Verse 33 and said, who? Where is the one who haunted and
• 47:10
  brought it to me? I ate of it and I have blessed
• 47:13
  him and indeed he shall be blessed.
• 47:15
  Verse 34 when Esau had the words he cried question what really is
• 47:22
  the blessing because Esau was not a lazy man.
• 47:26
  We're not talking of someone who is not productive.
• 47:29
  We're talking of an adult. What makes an adult to cry with
• 47:33
  very sin in your hand. It means if you don't understand
• 47:36
  that blessing, there is no guarantee to living a victorious
• 47:40
  life. Whatever will make an adult cry
• 47:43
  and say Father, he said, bless me also find a way of.
• 47:47
  Doing it, If it was all about pronouncement, couldn't he just
• 47:52
  repeat it again? 35 He said your brother came
• 48:01
  with deceit and has taken away. What did he take away?
• 48:10
  36 Aniso said. Is he not rightly named Jacob?
• 48:17
  For he has supplanted me these two times.
• 48:19
  He took away my bed, right? And he took away my blessing.
• 48:24
  And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?
• 48:27
  Watch this. 37 Then Isaac answered and said, Indeed, I
• 48:33
  have made him your master. When did that happen?
• 48:41
  I have made him your master, and all his brethren I have given to
• 48:48
  him as servants with grain and wine.
• 48:51
  I have sustained him. What shall I do for you now, my
• 48:55
  son? Verse 38.
• 48:58
  Aniso said to his father. Have you only one blessing, my
• 49:01
  father? Bless me also, O my father.
• 49:04
  Aniso lifted up his voice and cried.
• 49:06
  I just want to show you one Scripture, and then we'll get
• 49:08
  back to our discussion. And Isaac his father said unto
• 49:12
  him, Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth,
• 49:16
  and of the dew of the heaven from above.
• 49:19
  Verse 40. By your sword you shall leave,
• 49:23
  and you shall serve your brother, and it shall come to
• 49:27
  pass. Now we live this till we get to
• 49:31
  Jesus Christ. It shall come to pass that under
• 49:36
  a certain condition, when you become restless, you shall break
• 49:42
  that yoke. Give us NLT or NIV, It doesn't
• 49:50
  just call it yoke. It shall come to pass when you
• 49:56
  become restless. That there is a burden.
• 49:59
  If if you if you can't get it, that's that's fine.
• 50:01
  Hallelujah. It talks about breaking the
• 50:04
  dominion. The dominion.
• 50:07
  That's the word I'm looking for of your brother over you.
• 50:12
  Anyway, I just wanted you to see the implication of being
• 50:16
  blessed. Adults cried in Bible days
• 50:20
  because they did not get blessings.
• 50:22
  Today, most believers just trivialize it.
• 50:25
  And we generally say I'm blessed, but we don't expect
• 50:28
  anything to happen in our lives as an advantage.
• 50:32
  Praise the name of the Lord. What I pray that things will
• 50:35
  change from this conference. You believe that say Amen.
• 50:40
  So in the Old Testament, the blessing was an empowerment to
• 50:46
  prosper. In the Old Testament, the
• 50:48
  blessing was largely concerned with being empowered to prosper,
• 50:55
  empowered to advance, empowered to be fruitful and to be
• 51:00
  preserved. Are we together?
• 51:02
  So throughout the Old Testament, everywhere you see the blessing,
• 51:06
  it largely had to do with the priestly and prophetic
• 51:10
  pronouncement that produced an effect of favor, an effect of
• 51:16
  fruitfulness. Are we together?
• 51:18
  It was an empowerment that made an individual, any individual
• 51:21
  whatsoever, to be preserved. It is safe for you to look at
• 51:26
  the Bible and every expression in the Old Testament of
• 51:29
  preservation, advancement, etcetera.
• 51:32
  It was credited to the blessing. Are we learning now, now.
• 51:36
  But something, the dynamics of the blessing began to change as
• 51:40
  we approach the New Testament. In fact, the foundation of it
• 51:43
  began with Father Abraham. Now we're delving into the
• 51:49
  blessing of Abraham. If you're writing, please write
• 51:51
  that down. The blessing of Abraham.
• 51:53
  I want to discuss the blessing of Abraham haven't laid the
• 51:56
  foundation just a general understanding.
• 51:59
  Now most times to the average believer and and please by no
• 52:03
  means don't find any offense at all when we said the blessing of
• 52:07
  Abraham. Here's what most believers think
• 52:10
  cars houses, a job promotion and they are not necessarily wrong
• 52:16
  except that that's not really what the Bible calls the
• 52:19
  blessing. In fact, when the Bible mentions
• 52:22
  the word blessing, it has nothing to do with material
• 52:25
  things. Material things only come as a
• 52:29
  an attestation that you have been blessed.
• 52:32
  Are we together praise the name of the Lord.
• 52:34
  So when we talk about blessings in the Kingdom or the blessing
• 52:37
  now I'd like you to take your mind away from a good house, a
• 52:41
  good car. Those things are by their
• 52:44
  eventual products. You can have all those things
• 52:47
  without being blessed. Diligence can bring them The
• 52:51
  blessing is higher, greater, by far more superior than any
• 52:57
  physical or material thing, even though it does control them.
• 53:00
  Are we together? Now let's examine the blessing
• 53:03
  of Abraham Isaac chapter 51 from verse one and two, the blessing
• 53:09
  of Abraham. If you're learning so far, say
• 53:12
  Amen. Please be patient with me as I
• 53:14
  build this. We've established a number of
• 53:16
  things that one, the blessings have to do with pronouncements
• 53:20
  that produce effects, effects such as peace, prosperity,
• 53:24
  happiness, etcetera, and that God can bless and men can bless.
• 53:29
  We're still we're still working together on that.
• 53:32
  All right, so it says, happened to me, ye that follow after
• 53:36
  righteousness, ye that seek the Lord.
• 53:38
  It says, Look unto the rock, whence from whence ye were
• 53:42
  healed, and to the whole of the pit when ye were.
• 53:44
  Dig verse 2. It says look unto Abraham your
• 53:51
  father. The word look unto means on the
• 53:54
  study. He is the portrait of what I
• 53:57
  called the Blessing or a blessed man.
• 54:00
  If you want to study what it means to be blessed by God in
• 54:03
  the Bible, your study is not complete until you do a case
• 54:07
  study. Now the way God works is that
• 54:10
  sometimes in helping us understand Him, He will call men
• 54:14
  and deal with those men in a certain way that they become an
• 54:18
  embodiment of certain possibilities.
• 54:21
  So every time you don't understand what He's saying, He
• 54:23
  will refer you to that man. If we are talking about a
• 54:28
  blessed man, Abraham is the Bible's portrait of a blessed
• 54:32
  man. If we're talking about
• 54:34
  encounters, Jacob, are we together?
• 54:37
  He's an encounter in Genesis 32 is a portrait of what the Bible
• 54:41
  calls encounter. If we're talking wisdom,
• 54:44
  Solomon, for instance. I see now.
• 54:46
  So there are individuals who embody certain spiritual
• 54:49
  possibilities so that in studying their lives you can
• 54:52
  learn the ways of God. So look onto Abraham.
• 54:57
  The word look there does not just mean you can't even find
• 54:59
  Abraham now he's long dead, but he means understudy him.
• 55:03
  There is a way that I LED Abraham and if you.
• 55:07
  Follow that path. You will eventually arrive an
• 55:10
  embodiment of a blessed man. It says I called him alone and
• 55:16
  blessed him and increased him. So let's study the life of
• 55:20
  Abraham to understand what it means to be blessed.
• 55:23
  The Bible calls it the blessing of Abraham.
• 55:28
  Genesis chapter 12123. Write that for reference.
• 55:30
  We already read that. We won't go back to it again.
• 55:33
  Then let's go to Genesis 17. We'll look at 6:00 and 7:00.
• 55:37
  We're doing a bit of Bible study.
• 55:41
  And I will make the exceeding fruitful.
• 55:43
  This is still God speaking to Abraham.
• 55:45
  And I will make nations of thee, and now, and kings shall come
• 55:50
  out of thee. Verse 7 I will establish my
• 55:54
  covenant. Watch this between me and the
• 55:58
  and I seed after the Indian generations for an everlasting
• 56:03
  covenant. What is a covenant?
• 56:06
  To be a God unto thee and to your seed.
• 56:11
  So when you say the God of Abraham, you are not just naming
• 56:18
  God after Abraham. Are we together?
• 56:21
  He's saying that I have an everlasting covenant to you and
• 56:25
  to your seed, that I will be a God unto thee and to your seed
• 56:32
  that is after thee. Now Genesis chapter 15, please.
• 56:37
  Genesis chapter 15. Let's connect a few things very
• 56:40
  quickly from verse one. Genesis 15 from verse one.
• 56:46
  After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abraham in a
• 56:49
  vision, saying, fear not, Abraham, I am thy shield and
• 56:53
  your exceeding great reward. And Abraham said, Lord God, what
• 56:59
  will thou give me? Remember, at this time he's
• 57:01
  still without Isaac, he's still without a child.
• 57:04
  What will thou give me, seeing that I go childless?
• 57:07
  And the steward of my house is Eliazer of Damascus.
• 57:11
  Verse 3 Reading to 6 And Abraham said, Behold to me, thou has
• 57:16
  given no seed, and lo, one born in my house is my heir.
• 57:24
  No one he's trying to say. And behold, the word of the Lord
• 57:27
  came to him, saying, Now everybody, listen, this shall
• 57:31
  not be your heir, but he that shall come out from your own
• 57:35
  boils shall be your heir. Verse 5 And he brought him forth
• 57:40
  abroad. He said, look towards heaven and
• 57:44
  try to count the stars. Do you know what he's doing?
• 57:47
  I'll explain to you shortly if thou are able to count them.
• 57:50
  And he said, so shall your seed be.
• 57:53
  Finally, verse 6, Abraham believed in the Lord and it was
• 57:59
  credited to him for righteousness.
• 58:06
  So there was a conversation that happened between God and
• 58:09
  Abraham. The Bible says that God kept
• 58:13
  proposing to Abraham that he was going to become a father of
• 58:15
  great nations. Are we together?
• 58:17
  But for some reason and according to Scripture, it took
• 58:21
  Abraham a long time to believe God because Abraham was not
• 58:24
  interested in having multitudes children as the stars or the
• 58:27
  seashore. He just needed a child.
• 58:30
  Are we together? He just all his concern was to
• 58:33
  have a child and God was proposing something bigger,
• 58:36
  better, greater and it kept it kept it kept frustrating Abraham
• 58:41
  and God didn't seem to get his attention in agreeing on that
• 58:45
  promise and that covenant and here's how God helped him.
• 58:48
  He called him one night and tells Abraham, look at the
• 58:51
  stars, try to count them, then he will count, count and then
• 58:55
  you know lose counting. He says that will that's the way
• 58:58
  your seed will be. Finally, even though he had no
• 59:02
  child, Abraham believed God and the Bible says it was credited
• 59:08
  unto him for righteousness. Now keep that scripture.
• 59:12
  Turn with me to Romans chapter 4.
• 59:17
  This is where we thank God for this noble apostle, an apostle
• 59:22
  of apostles. Indeed, begin from verse one.
• 59:24
  Paul now makes reference to that encounter, and he now gives us a
• 59:29
  biblical contextual perspective. What shall we say then?
• 59:35
  That Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has
• 59:39
  found. For if Abraham were justified by
• 59:43
  walks, he had wherefore to glory, but not before God.
• 59:48
  Verse 3. For give us NIV, I'm I'm a King
• 59:53
  James person. Some of you are not getting the
• 59:55
  D and out. So just give us NIV or something
• 59:58
  so that that will help us at least for now.
• 1:00:01
  For now, we'll go back to where kings we're kings.
• 1:00:04
  We'll go back to KJV. So are we on NINIV?
• 1:00:09
  OK. Abraham believed God and it was
• 1:00:13
  credited to him as righteousness.
• 1:00:15
  You see that now? So Paul is making reference to
• 1:00:18
  Genesis 15. Now verse 4.
• 1:00:21
  Verse 4. Now to the one who walks, wages
• 1:00:26
  are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.
• 1:00:30
  Paul is explaining, however, to the one who does not walk, but
• 1:00:35
  trusts God who justifies the ungodly.
• 1:00:39
  Now Paul is telling us that that thing has nothing to do with
• 1:00:42
  children. The blessing of Abraham is a
• 1:00:46
  mystery that was hidden that Paul now was unveiling to us.
• 1:00:50
  Are we together that the what you call the blessing of Abraham
• 1:00:54
  is a mystery that acts out how to be justified by faith to the
• 1:01:03
  one who does not work but trust God, who justifies the ungodly?
• 1:01:07
  Listen, their faith is credited. As righteousness, verse 6.
• 1:01:13
  However, David said the same thing when he speak of the
• 1:01:16
  blessedness of the one who God credits righteousness apart from
• 1:01:21
  work. 7 Now he said blessed are those whose transgressions are
• 1:01:25
  forgiven and whose sins are covered.
• 1:01:28
  Final verse. Blessed is the one who's seen
• 1:01:31
  the Lord will never count against them.
• 1:01:33
  So look up what was he discussing in in that whole
• 1:01:38
  conversation. Just just help those under the
• 1:01:39
  anointing. Now look at this, He's saying
• 1:01:43
  Paul is teaching us that the issue of stars, the issue of our
• 1:01:48
  children as your whatever it is to the carnal man, he's just
• 1:01:52
  looking at the story. But Paul is saying there is a
• 1:01:55
  deeper mystery in that story. And if all you look at is the
• 1:01:58
  story, then you've not gotten the revelation that out of that
• 1:02:01
  story. The mystery is justification by
• 1:02:05
  faith, how a man will believe God over something your ability
• 1:02:09
  cannot produce and that the moment you believe God it is
• 1:02:13
  credited to you. That was the formula that was
• 1:02:16
  used to impart salvation. So a message comes to believers
• 1:02:21
  and even though we do not, it looks impossible, we believe and
• 1:02:26
  we receive the blessing of Abraham.
• 1:02:32
  So the blessing of Abraham is not curse, it is not houses, it
• 1:02:37
  is justification by faith. Is someone learning Galatians
• 1:02:46
  chapter 3? Give us verse 13.
• 1:02:51
  I love I love Galatians 3 I love your presence.
• 1:03:00
  I love, I love, I love you, Jesus, I love, I love, I love
• 1:03:15
  your presence. Now read for you Christ.
• 1:03:21
  Paul again has redeemed us. He's talking redemption now from
• 1:03:26
  the cause of the law by becoming a cause for us for it is written
• 1:03:32
  the cost is everyone who is hung on the cross or on the pole to
• 1:03:36
  what end 15 give it to us from versa.
• 1:03:46
  Let's go back to KJV 1314. Let's go back to. 14 media that
• 1:03:55
  talk to me, everybody that might come on who now questions how
• 1:04:03
  does the blessing of Abraham come upon the Gentiles because
• 1:04:06
  we're not part of his natural descent.
• 1:04:10
  So how are we supposed to receive that if all he was
• 1:04:13
  talking about was physical things?
• 1:04:15
  You don't qualify to inherit anything from Abraham because we
• 1:04:18
  are not Jews historically, are we together?
• 1:04:21
  We are Gentiles, so that talk should not even affect us.
• 1:04:25
  But now he says Christ, he introduces a factor that Christ
• 1:04:29
  has redeemed us from the cause of the law being made the cause
• 1:04:32
  for us. For it is written cause is he
• 1:04:35
  that hangs on a tree. And the reason for all of that
• 1:04:38
  verse 14 is that the blessing of Abraham replace that expression,
• 1:04:45
  that justification by faith may come upon the Gentiles through
• 1:04:50
  Jesus Christ. So the next time you hear the
• 1:04:56
  blessing of Abraham, what it means is the formula.
• 1:04:59
  Abraham used to be credited as righteous is the gift we are
• 1:05:04
  given. What is the formula?
• 1:05:06
  The word is 90. The word comes to you in your
• 1:05:09
  mouth and in your heart. If you believe, it is credited
• 1:05:13
  to you that you have no power to save yourself.
• 1:05:18
  You have no power to lift yourself.
• 1:05:20
  Are we together but that you can believe in the finished work of
• 1:05:24
  Christ, believing that He came as a propitiation for your sin,
• 1:05:29
  that He hung upon the tree? Are we together now?
• 1:05:32
  Yes, that the verdict is that all have seen and have fallen
• 1:05:36
  short of the glory of God, but that you believe that report as
• 1:05:39
  frail as you are, not feeling righteous, not feeling worthy
• 1:05:44
  like Abraham, If you believe immediately it is.
• 1:05:48
  Credited to you for righteousness.
• 1:05:54
  The blessing of Abraham is not curse.
• 1:05:57
  It is not houses. No.
• 1:06:00
  The blessing of Abraham is justification by faith now.
• 1:06:08
  But listen, justification by faith is not the end.
• 1:06:13
  It is a means, you see that it does not end there.
• 1:06:17
  So receiving the blessing of Abraham is a passage to go
• 1:06:21
  further that leads you to receiving the blessing.
• 1:06:27
  Without receiving the blessing of Abraham, you cannot receive
• 1:06:32
  the blessing. And if you do not receive the
• 1:06:36
  blessing, you cannot have blessings.
• 1:06:42
  So the journey of a blessed man does not start with intellect,
• 1:06:46
  Intel. No, no, no, no, no.
• 1:06:48
  It starts with receiving the blessing of Abraham.
• 1:06:53
  I will show you how this happened.
• 1:06:54
  Just just be patient with me. He says that the blessing of
• 1:06:58
  Abraham might come upon the Gentiles through Christ Jesus.
• 1:07:01
  Are you saying it there that we might receive the promise that
• 1:07:05
  already tells you what the blessing is, that we might
• 1:07:08
  receive the promise of the Spirit.
• 1:07:11
  Still true. Then he puts a full stop.
• 1:07:16
  So the end of that journey is that the blessing of Abraham
• 1:07:20
  ushers you into receiving the blessing.
• 1:07:24
  Whilst the blessing in the Old Testament ended with
• 1:07:28
  supernatural pronouncements that programmed you towards a life of
• 1:07:32
  grace, this one is beyond a pronouncement.
• 1:07:35
  It's a personality alongside all his possibilities coming to
• 1:07:40
  indwell a believer. The Holy Spirit is called the
• 1:07:44
  Blessing. Now hold on, hold on, hold on,
• 1:07:49
  hold on. Keep your finger here.
• 1:07:52
  I hope you like Bible studies. Find a way of keeping your
• 1:07:56
  finger on this Scripture, because we're coming back.
• 1:07:58
  Go quickly with me to Psalm 130. 3 Psalm 133.
• 1:08:06
  Alanto silla Capratia. Give it to us, please.
• 1:08:08
  Psalm 133 behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren
• 1:08:14
  to dwell together in unity are we Bible students verse 2 It is
• 1:08:17
  like the precious ointment upon the head that ran upon the bed,
• 1:08:22
  even Aaron's bed, and went down to his.
• 1:08:25
  Garments verse 3 And as the dew of Hammond, and the dew that
• 1:08:32
  descended upon the mount of Zion, how does that dew come
• 1:08:36
  descending upon the mount of Zion?
• 1:08:37
  For there in that corporate gathering are we together the
• 1:08:43
  Lord had commanded the go to Acts chapter 2 and verse one.
• 1:08:50
  Now you will see a plane out of this Acts chapter 2.
• 1:08:53
  Remember it says when brethren gather together something
• 1:08:57
  happens, whatever descents is called what the talk to me are
• 1:09:01
  we Bible Students that when they gather together that gathering
• 1:09:06
  that state among the many things that descend like the dew from
• 1:09:10
  Zion is the blessing even life forevermore.
• 1:09:17
  Now in Acts chapter 2 and verse one, the Bible says when the day
• 1:09:20
  of Pentecost was fully come, they were together in did they
• 1:09:27
  fulfil Psalm 133. Now let's see what is about to
• 1:09:30
  come. Suddenly there was a sound from
• 1:09:33
  heaven as of a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the house
• 1:09:37
  where they were sitting. Verse three.
• 1:09:39
  If you're a believer, they appeared unto them proven
• 1:09:42
  tongues as of fire, and it sat upon each one of them #4 and
• 1:09:47
  they were all filled with the. No, you got that wrong.
• 1:09:51
  With the with the. Is someone learning?
• 1:10:15
  So? Psalm 133 tells us that in that
• 1:10:19
  gathering descending from Zion like the dew of Harmon, God has
• 1:10:23
  commanded that the blessing should rest even life
• 1:10:27
  forevermore. They are about to ask that on
• 1:10:29
  the day of Pentecost, never knowing that it was written
• 1:10:32
  already, they were gathered in one accord.
• 1:10:34
  Suddenly a blessing, not a pronouncement.
• 1:10:39
  No, in the Old Testament it was a pronouncement, but this time
• 1:10:43
  around it was beyond just speaking.
• 1:10:46
  It was an embodiment of the speakings of God.
• 1:10:50
  I lost Paracletus, they call him.
• 1:10:52
  He's a paraclet. Beyond just empowering you to
• 1:10:57
  make progress, is someone learning now?
• 1:11:00
  The Bible says he rested on each and every one of them, each and
• 1:11:06
  every one of them, and immediately Isaiah 32 and verse
• 1:11:11
  15 became a reality that until the Spirit of God is poured from
• 1:11:16
  upon us from 1 high, then the wilderness is a spiritual
• 1:11:19
  language shall be counted for a fruitful vine. 3000 people were
• 1:11:25
  saved in one encounter and from there there was a movement that
• 1:11:30
  has become an unstoppable force today.
• 1:11:33
  Is someone learning now praise the name of the Lord.
• 1:11:37
  So sit down. Let's go back to Galatians
• 1:11:39
  chapter 3. We read 13 to 15.
• 1:11:42
  Now jump with me to 26. We read 26 to 29.
• 1:11:47
  If someone is learning, say Amen and your sound doctrine it.
• 1:11:52
  Sometimes the teachings line up online.
• 1:11:55
  Connecting scriptures will take a while, but once you are
• 1:11:58
  patient, you now begin to see the thread.
• 1:12:00
  Do you know why I'm stretching you like this?
• 1:12:02
  Because conviction is built on understanding.
• 1:12:06
  It is not. What you do that produces power
• 1:12:09
  is the understanding that supports what you do, so that
• 1:12:12
  when you tell someone be blessed, or you say I am
• 1:12:14
  blessed, these are the revelations that frame.
• 1:12:17
  They are like the bolts that tie your faith.
• 1:12:21
  It becomes anchored, unmovable. For ye are all children of God.
• 1:12:27
  How faith in the similitude of Abraham.
• 1:12:33
  Have you seen that now you became children of adoption by
• 1:12:37
  faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you who have been
• 1:12:43
  baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
• 1:12:47
  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
• 1:12:54
  there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in
• 1:12:58
  Christ Jesus. Shout verse 29 If you are a
• 1:13:01
  believer, want to go, and if ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham's
• 1:13:07
  seed. I will explain to you what that
• 1:13:17
  means that you had no business even studying everything God
• 1:13:23
  told Abraham because it was between him and his seed.
• 1:13:27
  Unfortunately, the seed was not Isaac, it was his strategy.
• 1:13:32
  If the seed was Isaac, God meant Isaac was one child who came.
• 1:13:37
  So Abraham thought God meant him and Isaac, but Paul came by the
• 1:13:42
  Spirit and said no. I have investigated this
• 1:13:45
  spiritually. The seed was not Isaac, it was
• 1:13:49
  Jesus because Isaac does not have the capacity to bring
• 1:13:52
  everyone into that blessing, but through Christ.
• 1:13:56
  So that the one who is a Jew connected by natural descent and
• 1:14:01
  the one who is alienated and the proof that we all came to Christ
• 1:14:07
  was in Acts chapter 10, because that was when the salvation of
• 1:14:10
  the Gentiles will start. Until then, even the Gentiles
• 1:14:13
  did not believe. Remember, Paul was angry, I mean
• 1:14:17
  Peter. Now Peter is having a siesta and
• 1:14:21
  all of a sudden a trance comes before him and he sees all kinds
• 1:14:25
  of unclean animals and he's told to kill.
• 1:14:27
  And it is a no, no, no, no, no, no, I made you.
• 1:14:29
  We don't do all these kinds of things.
• 1:14:31
  They never call clean unclean. What I have called clean.
• 1:14:36
  What's the meaning of this? There's someone waiting for you.
• 1:14:39
  Go down and meet them. You will go to the House of
• 1:14:41
  Cornelius. Are we together now?
• 1:14:45
  And when he went there, he now said, wow, while Peter yet speak
• 1:14:50
  these things, the Bible says the blessing like he came.
• 1:14:53
  I hope you know that everyone who received the Holy Ghost in
• 1:14:56
  Acts chapter 2 was a Jew. There was no Gentile there.
• 1:15:00
  Now the same Holy Ghost exactly like it happened.
• 1:15:03
  And Peter said what happened to us Jews has now happened to the
• 1:15:06
  Gentiles even without circumcision.
• 1:15:09
  He said truly God is no respecter of persons.
• 1:15:12
  This was his verdict. What he does to the British, he
• 1:15:19
  does to the African. Don't worry, we're coming there.
• 1:15:23
  You will now see that Christ has become the equalizer of all
• 1:15:27
  things. I can be disadvantaged by my
• 1:15:30
  natural descent. I can be disadvantaged by my
• 1:15:34
  background. But when I come into Christ, my
• 1:15:36
  goodness, the Spirit of God in my life has become the
• 1:15:41
  advantage, the redefiner of my destiny, the redefiner of my
• 1:15:47
  possibilities. Who believe that shall Amen.
• 1:15:55
  Apostle, I came from a family of idol worship.
• 1:15:58
  You are right until you bring Christ into the equation.
• 1:16:03
  Apostle, I know that by my background.
• 1:16:06
  We have a we have a track record of diabetes.
• 1:16:09
  We have a track record of failure.
• 1:16:11
  You are right. But once the blessing of
• 1:16:14
  Abraham, once you hear the gospel preach that Jesus loves
• 1:16:18
  you, listen. Listen.
• 1:16:20
  When we go around preaching the gospel, it's beyond just
• 1:16:24
  Christian fanatism. We are bringing people into the
• 1:16:27
  blessing. The only way to come into the
• 1:16:31
  blessing is to follow the pattern of Abraham.
• 1:16:36
  You hear that report, then you believe you don't deserve it,
• 1:16:41
  but you believe. And like faithful Abraham, it is
• 1:16:45
  credited immediately. It's a spiritual fact.
• 1:16:49
  Your body may not show it, your mind may not yet show it, but
• 1:16:52
  it's a reality. And immediately the Holy Ghost
• 1:16:56
  is ready to indwell you. Now hopefully would would, would
• 1:17:03
  find a place to pray today. Don't miss the remaining part.
• 1:17:06
  I will show you how to release the blessing and you will see
• 1:17:10
  that having the blessing is like having a brand new phone.
• 1:17:14
  But releasing the blessing you can have a brand new phone and
• 1:17:17
  keep it there forever. Are we together?
• 1:17:20
  Yes. You see what defines our
• 1:17:29
  possibilities in life. Many times is not the love of
• 1:17:33
  God because He loves everyone equally, but our possibilities
• 1:17:37
  are defined by the extent and the depth of our spiritual
• 1:17:41
  understanding. What you understand is what can.
• 1:17:45
  Rewrite your possibilities so you can find 2 believers save,
• 1:17:50
  but one is taking advantage of these resources that reside in
• 1:17:54
  heavenly places in Christ, and with those resources is
• 1:17:59
  commanding such dominion. And to the other one, you are
• 1:18:02
  wondering, God, why does it look like you are helping one fellow,
• 1:18:06
  you are helping one brother, you are helping one sister, You are
• 1:18:09
  uniquely anointing this man of God, and I'm here.
• 1:18:12
  No, it is not the love of Jesus, it is the depth of your
• 1:18:18
  understanding. I submit to you without sounding
• 1:18:21
  arrogant. There are certain things that
• 1:18:24
  cannot happen to me. My frame of understanding has
• 1:18:27
  risen beyond. If Satan will attack me, he will
• 1:18:30
  use another strategy. Not certain things.
• 1:18:33
  No, the revelation is a defense. It's going to be a waste of his
• 1:18:37
  time to come through certain things.
• 1:18:39
  Are we together? There are scriptures that have
• 1:18:41
  been implanted. They shoot like arrows.
• 1:18:45
  You see me Minister deliverance to people and do all of these
• 1:18:48
  things. The reason is because a man of
• 1:18:51
  God is like a midwife. You are helping people through
• 1:18:54
  the passage until they get to that state of perfection.
• 1:18:57
  The state of perfection is not to be praying deliverance and to
• 1:19:00
  be no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:19:01
  There is a state of victory where the reality of your
• 1:19:04
  victory in crisis seated established.
• 1:19:07
  But on your way there we will continue to help you while we
• 1:19:10
  teach you. Are we together now?
• 1:19:14
  It's like someone having a dream now say Apostle, I saw a curse
• 1:19:17
  on your life or whatever it is that I honestly, I'm not even
• 1:19:20
  going to pray about it. The reason is it's not, it's not
• 1:19:23
  pride is that there's no possibility for imagining that
• 1:19:26
  again. I have built a Garrison of
• 1:19:28
  Revelation now. It takes a while.
• 1:19:31
  It takes a while. It's like calling me a baby like
• 1:19:36
  an infant and then I feel offended.
• 1:19:39
  We together my stature has convinced there's no way of my
• 1:19:42
  mind thinking of myself as a baby looking for breast milk
• 1:19:46
  again. That's what God is doing to you.
• 1:19:49
  Some of you by what you are hearing, you will check and find
• 1:19:52
  out that certain diseases. I hope you know that Satan
• 1:19:56
  fashions attached based on our gaps in knowledge.
• 1:20:00
  He does not just attack you. He studies your frame of
• 1:20:03
  revelation. What do you not know that
• 1:20:06
  defines the way he attacks you? When Jesus was hungry, how did
• 1:20:11
  he attack him with the matters of food?
• 1:20:14
  So Satan does not just come and attack you.
• 1:20:16
  No, he. He profiles your spiritual
• 1:20:19
  understanding because understanding is light in the
• 1:20:22
  spirit is not hidden to the degree to which you have
• 1:20:25
  understanding. We can know in the spirit when
• 1:20:28
  we look at you spiritually. Satan has begun many believers
• 1:20:35
  to. Think that the way to walk in
• 1:20:39
  the blessing is just to believe that a cow will come, favor will
• 1:20:44
  come and there's nothing wrong with that except that you see we
• 1:20:48
  have a more superior expression of the blessing they.
• 1:20:53
  Never had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, but they had
• 1:20:57
  speakings and he backed that speakings.
• 1:21:00
  But for us now, beyond just a word, the pronouncement still
• 1:21:04
  stands, but it is more superior because the Holy Spirit, he
• 1:21:10
  indwells every single believer. So that if you never have a
• 1:21:14
  chance in your life for someone to make a pronouncement on your
• 1:21:17
  life, if you are saved and you have the Holy Ghost now the Holy
• 1:21:22
  Ghost came to cure. The reason why Esau cried.
• 1:21:27
  He so cried because the pronouncement was limited.
• 1:21:30
  It had left the Father. Are we together now?
• 1:21:33
  We don't have to cry. You can't say I got born again
• 1:21:36
  at 40. You are not too late.
• 1:21:38
  No, because he came on 30 people.
• 1:21:40
  You are not too late. The issue of Isaac and Jacob was
• 1:21:44
  that he could only come on one person.
• 1:21:46
  But now in Christ, my brother, my sister.
• 1:21:49
  Leicester, UK, Canada, everywhere is someone learning.
• 1:22:00
  Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me, I explained to you, as we
• 1:22:05
  prepare to pray one of the reasons for the powerlessness.
• 1:22:10
  Of the body of Christ is that we jump at so many things that
• 1:22:15
  we've not taken time to build a strong foundation of
• 1:22:18
  understanding. There is no strong doctrinal
• 1:22:22
  understanding. So as much as we rejoice, yes,
• 1:22:25
  I'm one with Christ. I'm this there's no depth of
• 1:22:28
  conviction. And so while we gyrate and jump
• 1:22:31
  in church, in the realm of the Spirit, there is no power to
• 1:22:35
  produce an effect. Help that Lady under the
• 1:22:38
  anointing. Are we together?
• 1:22:42
  You see, when you revelation is like an electromagnetic is like
• 1:22:47
  a sphere, When you come into a place, you also bring your
• 1:22:51
  possibilities with you. That's how it works.
• 1:22:55
  That's how it works. Are we together?
• 1:22:58
  Preachers lend this. When you come in, it's not just
• 1:23:01
  a message you are bringing. No, you are bringing your cloud,
• 1:23:04
  your atmosphere, your possibilities.
• 1:23:06
  There are things that have no business happening to people.
• 1:23:09
  But because you have come, the Holy Ghost is is is riding
• 1:23:13
  through the vehicle of your knowledge and he's blessing
• 1:23:15
  other people. I'll show you an example.
• 1:23:18
  How many people prayed in the prison and sank?
• 1:23:22
  Was it not just two people, but how many people benefited Paul
• 1:23:28
  and Silas alone pray. It was not everybody who was
• 1:23:32
  praying, but at least they did not fight them.
• 1:23:35
  But when that Shekinah came, the Bible said all doors.
• 1:23:39
  The jailer was about to kill himself and he said, no, we're
• 1:23:42
  all safe. We're all safe.
• 1:23:43
  We're not in a hurry to go out. We understand that the will of
• 1:23:47
  God is connected to this deliverance.
• 1:23:48
  Let's go to your house. It's about the salvation.
• 1:23:54
  Now let me. Tell you this, ladies and
• 1:23:55
  gentlemen, you see the reason why pastor Sir, why the healing
• 1:24:01
  ministry seems to have diminished.
• 1:24:04
  You know why because we're more interested in being called
• 1:24:09
  healers than being transmitters of his life.
• 1:24:13
  Most of the people and and and your pastor has done an an
• 1:24:18
  intelligent dissertation on, you know, the the move of God and
• 1:24:23
  all of that was part of his PHDI am a student of revivals and
• 1:24:29
  I've studied the move of God for a bit.
• 1:24:32
  I know a bit about the move of God.
• 1:24:34
  I can tell you the reason why we fail to see the power of God.
• 1:24:39
  The reason why the average believer cannot rise to
• 1:24:41
  efficiency and stature is because there's been a
• 1:24:44
  compromise on the formula for growth.
• 1:24:49
  Do you know that there are certain foundations?
• 1:24:53
  If you do not understand, you will never really get anything
• 1:24:56
  right again in the Kingdom. It matters who mentors you.
• 1:25:00
  It matters what they tell you about.
• 1:25:02
  God, it matters what they tell you about salvation.
• 1:25:06
  This is why we travel around not only ministering to God's
• 1:25:09
  people, but strengthening men and women of God to say, come,
• 1:25:12
  let's sit on the drawing board. Let's let's with all humility
• 1:25:16
  examine these things. The powerlessness of the body of
• 1:25:19
  Christ is largely the powerlessness of the teachings
• 1:25:24
  that come because people are empowered by the words.
• 1:25:29
  Are we together now? The words that I speak unto you,
• 1:25:34
  they are spirit, but they can also be weapons of mass
• 1:25:38
  destruction. Something you can hear in one
• 1:25:41
  sermon will make you a powerless believer forever.
• 1:25:45
  Something you can hear through 1 sermon will make you become a
• 1:25:48
  mighty person. Is someone learning tonight?
• 1:25:52
  So you see, if you really understand the blessing, it
• 1:25:56
  should not lead you to just jumping and shouting about.
• 1:25:59
  Cars. It should draw you to the Holy
• 1:26:02
  Spirit. Truly, He is the blessing.
• 1:26:09
  Yes, Sir, He is. He is.
• 1:26:12
  And out of the richness of your fellowship with Him comes power,
• 1:26:17
  comes wisdom, comes grace, comes favor.
• 1:26:22
  Now there are many people who want favour isolated from the
• 1:26:26
  Holy Spirit. They want breakthrough isolated
• 1:26:29
  from the Holy Spirit. Did you see that?
• 1:26:32
  If the teaching of the blessing was done correctly, it will
• 1:26:35
  produce a generation that is is deep in their intimacy with God,
• 1:26:40
  not just people who want things. Because the blessing of Abraham
• 1:26:45
  has nothing to do with material expressions.
• 1:26:47
  It is a formula. Within that discussion, the
• 1:26:51
  conversation between God and Abraham was hidden, a mystery
• 1:26:55
  that Paul unraveled. That is not about the stars.
• 1:26:58
  It's not about the sun. It's a formula where God
• 1:27:01
  justifies the unjust, a formula that leads you to meet the Holy
• 1:27:06
  Spirit. As mighty as Jesus was and is,
• 1:27:12
  He could not do anything until the Holy Spirit came and he said
• 1:27:15
  I have many things to tell you to teach you, but he cannot bear
• 1:27:18
  them. Now how be it when he the
• 1:27:22
  blessing, the Spirit of truth? Now you understand Him as an
• 1:27:28
  empowerment, but He's more than a pronouncement.
• 1:27:32
  In the Old Testament they did not have the possibility of the
• 1:27:35
  Holy Spirit in dwelling them. He would come and leave.
• 1:27:38
  So the psalmist would say, cast me not away from Your presence
• 1:27:41
  and take not Your Holy Spirit from me, because He came to rest
• 1:27:46
  upon them. Perform a task and leave.
• 1:27:49
  But now to the believer we have become His habitation.
• 1:27:54
  Now he comes to rest. But utilizing his ministry is a
• 1:27:59
  separate dynamics that you'll be learning in the course of this.
• 1:28:03
  So when you say I am blessed, if you mean I have some money in my
• 1:28:06
  account, No, no, you didn't get that right.
• 1:28:10
  If you say I am blessed, meaning I have some academic papers
• 1:28:14
  before me, well that's fair, but that's not really it.
• 1:28:17
  The correct protocol is the depth of your relationship with
• 1:28:22
  the Holy Spirit. Then it now translates, no
• 1:28:27
  matter how rich you are, if you do not have the blessing of
• 1:28:32
  Abraham, justification by faith, you are not blessed.
• 1:28:36
  You see that we misuse that word.
• 1:28:39
  Blessed means wealth. Blessed means all of that.
• 1:28:41
  But in Bible language, when we say a man is blessed, here's
• 1:28:45
  what we mean. The man is saved by hearing the
• 1:28:49
  gospel and applying the faith like Abraham did.
• 1:28:53
  Are we together now justified in Christ #2 That man has received
• 1:28:58
  the person and the minister of the Holy Spirit.
• 1:29:01
  And in partnership with the Holy Spirit, he's now accessing the
• 1:29:05
  resources that have been kept for us in heavenly places.
• 1:29:08
  The resources of faith, the resources of wisdom, the
• 1:29:12
  resources of the world, the resources of power.
• 1:29:15
  And with these resources you begin to play life like a chess.
• 1:29:19
  You manifest in level of and power and power and power.
• 1:29:29
  He blessed them by saying, But this second Adam and the sea
• 1:29:34
  that have come from him, He did not bless us by saying.
• 1:29:38
  He blessed us by giving. Are we together?
• 1:29:42
  He made a pronouncement on the first Adam, but to the second
• 1:29:45
  Adam He went beyond speaking. He gave, He gave.
• 1:29:51
  Every time you mention the word blessing, see the cross.
• 1:29:55
  Every time you mention the word blessing, see the Spirit of God.
• 1:29:59
  Every time you mention the word blessing, see that you have
• 1:30:03
  legitimate access to wisdom, to favor, to defense, to power.
• 1:30:10
  Yes, Sir. Now, does that mean
• 1:30:12
  pronouncements don't work? No, no, no, no, no.
• 1:30:14
  We will talk about the activation of the blessing
• 1:30:18
  because it was while Peter speak.
• 1:30:21
  Don't forget that speaking does not end, but while he speaks, it
• 1:30:28
  is more than just oil that comes.
• 1:30:30
  The Holy Spirit God has given me an assignment through the theme
• 1:30:35
  of your conference to help you truly understand the blessing.
• 1:30:39
  For some of you, you are both happy and disappointed because
• 1:30:42
  you see the idea you came with about the blessing is just to
• 1:30:45
  speak upon you that cars should come and houses and you will get
• 1:30:49
  all that. Let me tell you more than it,
• 1:30:51
  you will get what brings it. Hallelujah what you are
• 1:30:59
  receiving tonight. Listen to me, ladies and
• 1:31:00
  gentlemen. That's what the Bible calls 2
• 1:31:03
  riches. I call it the capital that buys
• 1:31:07
  money because money itself is a product and there is something
• 1:31:11
  that buys it. Believers must be grounded.
• 1:31:18
  Pastor, thank you for this conference.
• 1:31:20
  Believers must be. Mature.
• 1:31:22
  Look at me, believers. We're about to pray.
• 1:31:24
  Hear me. One of the things I hope you
• 1:31:26
  learn in this conference is to go back to the root of your
• 1:31:30
  spiritual understanding and begin to investigate the things
• 1:31:34
  that you have built your faith upon.
• 1:31:36
  Do not be ashamed to start again.
• 1:31:38
  There are many people, I tell you sincerely, they're building
• 1:31:42
  on shadows. Now I I, I don't mean to speak
• 1:31:45
  against pastors and all of that. I'm all for the body of Christ.
• 1:31:48
  But perhaps you were saved and you never had the opportunity to
• 1:31:51
  be under a system of structured spiritual guidance, to learn
• 1:31:55
  doctrine methodically, line upon line.
• 1:31:58
  You will be surprised how many pastors do not understand the
• 1:32:01
  rediments of salvation. How then do you talk of the
• 1:32:04
  business of power and then to be trusted with God's program
• 1:32:08
  across the nations? No, it takes more than the
• 1:32:11
  awareness of His love for you. There are things you must know.
• 1:32:15
  I write these things to you that He may know.
• 1:32:19
  He may know. Hallelujah.
• 1:32:23
  So let me summarize it this way. Outside of the blessing of
• 1:32:28
  Abraham that leads you to the blessing, there is no
• 1:32:33
  possibility to truly be blessed. The only one who can say I am
• 1:32:38
  blessed is the One who has partaken of the blessing of
• 1:32:43
  Abraham and through that has received freely of the blessing.
• 1:32:50
  To such a one you can say I am. Blessed.
• 1:32:56
  I seen that now. So the one who is blessed is not
• 1:33:00
  just the one who is rich without Christ, not the one who is
• 1:33:04
  prosperous without Christ. Absolutely you can get all these
• 1:33:07
  things without Christ. What you see in describing for
• 1:33:10
  you the expressions of the blessing, hopefully tomorrow you
• 1:33:13
  will see the things money cannot buy.
• 1:33:16
  It says peace. I give you my peace, not as the
• 1:33:20
  world gives, and then you will bear witness to me by tomorrow.
• 1:33:23
  How many wealthy people you know who cannot sleep because there
• 1:33:27
  is a dimension of peace and joy that is of the Holy Ghost, The
• 1:33:31
  ability to love 2 storms. These are things money cannot
• 1:33:34
  buy. How about the fruit of the I
• 1:33:39
  thought you would get it right. The fruit of the these are
• 1:33:45
  things you cannot buy the fruit, the life of Christ.
• 1:33:49
  That character apostle. I came from an angry family and
• 1:33:54
  guys, but we are like that. Once I'm angry, I give it to
• 1:33:57
  you. No, when you encounter the
• 1:34:00
  blessing. He begins to culture, you see.
• 1:34:05
  The blessing, the Holy Spirit comes upon you and is likened to
• 1:34:09
  olive. He releases something the oil
• 1:34:12
  that is released is called the anointing within it begins to do
• 1:34:16
  a work in you ladies and gentlemen to produce that Christ
• 1:34:21
  like character and then. Because of the presence of the
• 1:34:25
  blessing, the Holy Spirit capacity is given to you to both
• 1:34:29
  know the will of God and understand the modus operandi of
• 1:34:32
  the Kingdom. Now you can begin to engage the
• 1:34:35
  Kingdom with intelligence in a way that produces dominion,
• 1:34:39
  victory, and. Profit to your Christian
• 1:34:41
  experience. Then you begin to bear fruits 30
• 1:34:44
  fold, fruits 60 fold, and fruits.
• 1:34:49
  Listen, it is at that. Level you will lay up wealth.
• 1:34:53
  Gold like dust. Most people think God does not
• 1:34:58
  prosper. God does not lift, God does not
• 1:35:01
  favor. You are joking.
• 1:35:03
  You don't know the God of the Bible.
• 1:35:05
  Are we together? Yeah.
• 1:35:08
  But what he needs is your heart and your understanding.
• 1:35:12
  And then you will see levels of favor that you never imagined.
• 1:35:15
  Believe me on this, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:35:17
  Now, let me wrap up in business for those of you who are
• 1:35:22
  business oriented, there's a law in business.
• 1:35:25
  We call it different names. We call it the law of
• 1:35:27
  attraction. And it's also a law that has
• 1:35:33
  been received in physics, chemistry, you know, Newton's
• 1:35:39
  law of gravitation. Remember, this is a campus.
• 1:35:46
  Praise the Lord. Yeah, I'm wrapping up with this.
• 1:35:50
  I want to tell you something that is very powerful, and I'll
• 1:35:53
  just leave it on that note and then we'll take it tomorrow.
• 1:35:56
  People call it, others call it all kinds of things they call
• 1:36:00
  human beings. So the law of attraction
• 1:36:02
  purports that men exhibit magnetic properties, and they
• 1:36:07
  say that in relation to wealth and opportunities, and they
• 1:36:10
  credit it to the cosmic forces. They credit it to modern nature.
• 1:36:14
  The concept is not wrong. It is who?
• 1:36:17
  Or what they credited to that is wrong.
• 1:36:20
  It is not the universe. No, that is a God.
• 1:36:23
  All blessings come from God. Are we together?
• 1:36:26
  But here's the part of it. Allow me for a moment to borrow
• 1:36:32
  and draw from the wells of science as I wrap up Sir Isaac
• 1:36:37
  Newton in studying the cosmos and in studying bodies.
• 1:36:43
  Among the many postulations that he came up with was one that we
• 1:36:47
  know for those who are science based as the universal law of
• 1:36:51
  gravitation. And here's what he said, that
• 1:36:55
  everybody in the universe attracts every other body,
• 1:37:01
  right? Which a force which for any 2
• 1:37:04
  bodies, he says, is directly proportional to the product of
• 1:37:09
  their masses and inversely proportional to the square of
• 1:37:12
  the distance between them. Let me summarize that.
• 1:37:15
  It means that everything you are looking for is also looking for
• 1:37:19
  you. Hold on.
• 1:37:22
  But there is something it is looking for in you and the
• 1:37:27
  instruction has been given Creation that the things you
• 1:37:31
  look for should only follow you when they find out that certain
• 1:37:35
  things are intact. I I pray that you find a way of
• 1:37:39
  believing this. The Jews understand this.
• 1:37:43
  This is what makes certain people exhibit magnetic
• 1:37:47
  properties. So a person can come into a land
• 1:37:50
  like Leicester and find out that just when they arrived, a helper
• 1:37:55
  also arrived. It looks like it's coincidence.
• 1:37:58
  No, it's a law in the spirit. I'm showing you the implication
• 1:38:01
  of the blessing in physics. Again, please forgive me.
• 1:38:05
  That's what we call the law of resonance.
• 1:38:07
  Are we together that when you hit a tuning fork at a certain
• 1:38:11
  frequency. Every other body within its
• 1:38:14
  vicinity that is at that frequency will vibrate without
• 1:38:17
  being touched. This is how it is as you rise in
• 1:38:21
  the spirit knowing God, there is literally an energy that comes
• 1:38:26
  from you and it begins to resonate with the possibilities
• 1:38:30
  that are connected to your destiny.
• 1:38:33
  I really want you to believe This is why a man of God can
• 1:38:37
  step into a land. All of a sudden a keyboard is
• 1:38:40
  comes, a guitarist comes, a media person comes and you are
• 1:38:43
  thinking how did he get them? You don't get them.
• 1:38:46
  They are attracted by the health of your relationship.
• 1:38:53
  And listen, the deeper you are with the Holy Ghost, the more
• 1:38:57
  you exhibit those magnetic properties.
• 1:39:00
  Have you seen how go to the port, the seaport?
• 1:39:03
  You have a number of them here. Have you seen magnet lift cars,
• 1:39:08
  very heavy cars, very heavy, you know, maybe buses, whatever it
• 1:39:14
  is, and you're wondering. I mean, it just comes itself on
• 1:39:17
  it and picks it up like a family and moves it somewhere else.
• 1:39:20
  Pick containers. That's how you can be.
• 1:39:23
  You can grow your relationship with the Holy Ghost to a point
• 1:39:27
  where you exhibit such strong magnetic influences.
• 1:39:32
  Not just to heal, not just to prosper.
• 1:39:34
  When you step into a territory, it's like a sound deep cause.
• 1:39:38
  On to deep. Everybody and everything that
• 1:39:42
  must partner with your destiny starts to gravitate towards you.
• 1:39:49
  It is true. So the next time you ask how
• 1:39:55
  shall these things be, seeing that that I know not a man, the
• 1:39:58
  answer is still what Gabriel told Mary, the Holy Ghost.
• 1:40:03
  It will always be him. You can't take him away.
• 1:40:07
  And we're not just talking of falling down and standing up.
• 1:40:10
  No, we have so underutilized his ministry.
• 1:40:16
  Especially Pentecostals and Charismatics.
• 1:40:18
  We've reduced him to some kind of Pentecostal gibberish.
• 1:40:22
  We've not tapped into the wisdom, the health of that
• 1:40:25
  relationship. You can prove that you are
• 1:40:27
  blessed by the dominion that your life commands.
• 1:40:31
  You can prove that you have met Christ.
• 1:40:33
  You can prove the health of your relationship.
• 1:40:44
  I receive, I manifest your power and your wisdom till the nation.
• 1:40:57
  See Jesus. Lift it up, exhort it.
• 1:41:05
  I receive, I manifest your power and your wisdom till the nation.
• 1:41:28
  Someone self tell me I'm blessed.
• 1:41:30
  Now you know what you are saying.
• 1:41:32
  Say I'm blessed. If you mean I'm rich, you are
• 1:41:37
  not wrong. If you mean I'm favored, you're
• 1:41:40
  not wrong if you. Mean I go forward, you're not
• 1:41:43
  wrong. Them who are the called
• 1:41:46
  according to his purposes. Say I'm blessed because I'm like
• 1:41:50
  a tree that is planted by the Riverside.
• 1:41:53
  I don't, I don't wither, and I bear my foot in season.
• 1:41:58
  Everything I do prosper. Say I'm blessed because I may
• 1:42:03
  not see the wind, I may not see rain, but by the Holy Ghost my
• 1:42:07
  valley shall be filled. I'm blessed because by that
• 1:42:15
  energizing I can run through a troop and by my God I can live
• 1:42:20
  over a wall. Say I'm blessed because I'm a
• 1:42:24
  channel of blessing. Everyone's hand I shake.
• 1:42:28
  I'm a transmutor of life. I can be a 'cause I'm not a
• 1:42:31
  burden to my wall, I'm a blessing.
• 1:42:34
  Say I'm blessed, Blessed. This right here is a theology of
• 1:42:45
  the blessing. Thank you Jesus.
• 1:42:52
  Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Jesus.
• 1:42:58
  Hallelujah. So we'll tie.
• 1:43:03
  It here for now let me encourage you make whatever sacrifice you
• 1:43:08
  can to be here tomorrow but just tonight we just laid a few
• 1:43:13
  foundations so that when we build you'll be like one of your
• 1:43:18
  buildings the tallest that from that altitude you will watch
• 1:43:22
  life and tame it like an animal. I truly believe that they'll be
• 1:43:29
  remarkable testimonies some of you between tonight and
• 1:43:34
  tomorrow. Believe me and I speak to you by
• 1:43:37
  the Spirit of God. You see, one of the ways to
• 1:43:42
  receive from men is to find out whether they are blessed.
• 1:43:46
  If they are, then trust what comes from them because the Holy
• 1:43:50
  Ghost becomes in us a river that flows and the Bible says it
• 1:43:55
  gives life. Ezekiel 47 Revelations, John
• 1:44:00
  Chapter 9. It gives life.
• 1:44:03
  Hallelujah. Allow me for one moment to make
• 1:44:09
  an altar call. We spoke about the blessing of
• 1:44:11
  Abraham. That's where it starts.
• 1:44:15
  If you ignore the blessing of Abraham, it's not about the
• 1:44:17
  name. It's about the protocol, the
• 1:44:20
  strategy. It was just credited to one man.
• 1:44:24
  Are we together? Like, imagine you call this hall
• 1:44:28
  Joshua Selman Hall. Whether I'm alive or dead, you
• 1:44:31
  just gave me the honor for whatever reason.
• 1:44:34
  That's what it means. The blessing of Abraham does not
• 1:44:37
  just mean it is Abraham's blessing.
• 1:44:39
  His name was tied to it in honor to the fact that he obeyed God.
• 1:44:44
  He heard God. Are we together?
• 1:44:47
  I'm going to make the altar call in one minute.
• 1:44:49
  And please, let's minimize any movement.
• 1:44:53
  There will always be an opportunity for someone to make
• 1:44:56
  it right. I'm not just calling you to be a
• 1:44:57
  Christian. I'm not just calling you to be a
• 1:45:00
  fanatic. I'm not calling you tonight to
• 1:45:02
  be another religious person. The blessing of Abraham is the
• 1:45:07
  key. Now I've explained it, you can
• 1:45:09
  begin to come even before I make the call.
• 1:45:11
  Hold on. Let me just express what I'm
• 1:45:13
  saying. God bless you, Sir.
• 1:45:14
  If you're coming, please come. You can make your way to the
• 1:45:16
  front. Come, Hallelujah.
• 1:45:21
  And all of us would need to join him.
• 1:45:22
  Begin to join him before I make that call.
• 1:45:25
  You are receiving tonight the blessing of Abraham.
• 1:45:28
  You are following that pathway that will show me the path of
• 1:45:32
  life. It is in your light.
• 1:45:34
  God bless you. Come, I see my precious brothers
• 1:45:36
  and sisters coming. Are you celebrating them?
• 1:45:40
  Come. Thank you.
• 1:45:43
  He gives you a new beginning. There's always a new beginning
• 1:45:47
  with Him. Come, come, come,
• 1:46:03
  let's encourage them. Let's let them know that this
• 1:46:06
  promise is unto you and to your children and to your children's
• 1:46:12
  children. Everyone listen, let's let them
• 1:46:16
  know that they do not have to cry the cry of Esau again.
• 1:46:20
  No, it's in abundance for everyone.
• 1:46:24
  Esau cried because it was 1 pronouncement and it went to
• 1:46:28
  Jacob. But today we can rejoice from
• 1:46:31
  end to end, from north to southeast and West.
• 1:46:34
  Everyone can be a partaker. This is powerful.
• 1:46:39
  Listen, by the message of God, I've travelled around the world
• 1:46:43
  taking this glorious gospel, the wisdom, the life of Jesus.
• 1:46:48
  Can I tell you something I've learned, pastor?
• 1:46:51
  People are not really rebels is that they do not understand the
• 1:46:55
  gospel. Every time the gospel is
• 1:46:58
  presented with intelligence, with clarity.
• 1:47:02
  I can tell you this from everywhere.
• 1:47:05
  Jesus will always be received if he's presented properly.
• 1:47:12
  The problem is the presentation. To my brothers and my sisters,
• 1:47:20
  those of you who have come, I salute you.
• 1:47:22
  Thank you for the courage. I'll tell you this, Jesus came
• 1:47:27
  to give us beyond a religion. He didn't just come to make us
• 1:47:32
  Christians. The word Christian was a
• 1:47:34
  testimony from unbelievers. They looked at those who were
• 1:47:37
  possessors of the life of God and they had to look for a name
• 1:47:41
  to call them. Nothing wrong in being called a
• 1:47:42
  Christian. You see, one of the difference
• 1:47:47
  between the faith life and every other faith practice I know is
• 1:47:53
  that it goes beyond the realm of rituals and proposes to you a
• 1:47:57
  relationship, a relationship that is personal.
• 1:48:02
  Personal. Like we said back home, when you
• 1:48:05
  go to a herbalist or some diviner, you don't need a
• 1:48:07
  relationship. You don't need to know His name.
• 1:48:10
  Just obey the rules. And if it's to tell you
• 1:48:12
  something about your destiny, they turn the ball and do
• 1:48:16
  whatever and tell you what they tell you and you leave.
• 1:48:19
  But when you come to Jesus, he does not give you things.
• 1:48:23
  He gives you himself. Himself is the gift.
• 1:48:27
  He gives you His life, then He gives you access to His Spirit.
• 1:48:32
  To my brothers and sisters who are here, it doesn't matter what
• 1:48:36
  you have done or what you have not done.
• 1:48:38
  I still sense that there are a few people who perhaps are still
• 1:48:41
  contemplating joining them. Don't be ashamed.
• 1:48:44
  I will always say this is like calling you to receive an award,
• 1:48:47
  only that this is the noblest you can ever find in this side
• 1:48:51
  of God's Kingdom. Perhaps you are seated and you
• 1:48:54
  are still dilly. Darling, you are saying apostle,
• 1:48:58
  I came out the other time, but as it stands I cannot say that
• 1:49:01
  my life is working consistent with God's desire.
• 1:49:05
  You had liberty to join them before I pray that prayer.
• 1:49:08
  This is a family. Nothing to be ashamed of
• 1:49:10
  whatsoever. My Bible says for God so loved
• 1:49:14
  you. He loved me.
• 1:49:17
  God bless you, Sir, and he gave his Son.
• 1:49:21
  You know why he gave his son? Because there was a verdict that
• 1:49:24
  all men had seen every one of us, that we've fallen short of
• 1:49:28
  that standard, but that He gave His Son as a demonstration of
• 1:49:32
  love. And here's the point.
• 1:49:35
  Whoever believes in him, believes what?
• 1:49:38
  Believes, number one, that he loves you #2 believes that he
• 1:49:43
  has your interests at heart and that he's demonstrated that by
• 1:49:46
  giving Jesus. And that if you believe that
• 1:49:49
  report at that instant, like you'll be happening to you
• 1:49:52
  shortly, you may not feel it, but this is an eternal fact that
• 1:49:57
  whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have life
• 1:50:02
  everlasting. I describe for you in one minute
• 1:50:05
  what will happen to you as you make this declaration.
• 1:50:07
  Eternal life, the very life of God, not the God kind of life,
• 1:50:12
  the very life it's supplanted in your human spirit.
• 1:50:17
  And the Holy Spirit now has access to dwell within you.
• 1:50:21
  He begins to culture you. He begins to lead you.
• 1:50:24
  He guides me through the path of righteousness for His namesake.
• 1:50:29
  One more time. I want to say thank you for the
• 1:50:31
  courage. I don't know you, but I love
• 1:50:33
  every single one of you. It always pays to start with
• 1:50:37
  Jesus and for some to start afresh.
• 1:50:40
  Let me request that you lift your right hand as a sign of
• 1:50:43
  surrender to this Jesus you imagine.
• 1:50:47
  Just Take Me Out of the scene and just imagine the lover of
• 1:50:50
  your soul, the one who died for you.
• 1:50:53
  When he hung up on that cross, it was not the nails that held
• 1:50:56
  him. He saw you.
• 1:50:57
  You were worth the death. Even if you were the only person
• 1:51:00
  on earth, he would still die. What love?
• 1:51:03
  You have trusted things of lesser value with your life,
• 1:51:06
  your time. Give him a chance and let him
• 1:51:09
  turn you to a sign and a wonder. Say this after me as loud and as
• 1:51:13
  clear as you can, and let me speak to someone who is
• 1:51:16
  connected online or by television here in Leicester.
• 1:51:20
  Jesus is winning, saving, leading, drawing many to
• 1:51:23
  himself. I'd like you to join these, our
• 1:51:25
  precious ones, and say this after me.
• 1:51:27
  Say, Lord Jesus, tonight. I have heard your word.
• 1:51:34
  I've heard that you love me, I've heard that you died for me,
• 1:51:39
  and I believe that report. I believe you are the Son of
• 1:51:44
  God. I believe you died for my sin.
• 1:51:50
  I believe you rose again for my justification.
• 1:51:55
  Right now, I receive Jesus into my heart as my Savior, my Lord,
• 1:52:04
  as the Holy Ghost. We just thought about Him.
• 1:52:08
  Remember I told you the justification by faith gives
• 1:52:13
  room to the blessing. He's just given witness to it.
• 1:52:17
  Let it not distract you, say from tonight.
• 1:52:21
  I'm a child of God, washed by the blood of the Lamb.
• 1:52:26
  I live for Jesus all the days of my life.
• 1:52:31
  Amen. With your hands lifted, I pray
• 1:52:33
  for you. Father, Thank you for these
• 1:52:35
  precious ones. The Bible declares that as many
• 1:52:38
  who will come to you, you will. In no wise castaway these ones
• 1:52:42
  have come, declaring your lordship over their lives.
• 1:52:45
  Therefore, I declare this instant that the power of sin,
• 1:52:49
  Satan, hell, the grave addictions, every kind of thing
• 1:52:54
  whatsoever that does not represent the Christ, let it
• 1:52:58
  give way right now in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 1:53:01
  I call you bona fide recipients of the life of God, and I decree
• 1:53:05
  and declare that the joy of salvation is yours.
• 1:53:08
  From hence you will leave for Jesus all the days of your life
• 1:53:12
  in Jesus, much less name. We pray now, praise the name of
• 1:53:18
  the Lord. Here's the favour I want you to
• 1:53:20
  do for me. There are counsellors who have
• 1:53:22
  been trained to have a word with you though.
• 1:53:25
  Pray with you just for a minute or two.
• 1:53:27
  Thereafter you'll be back to your seat.
• 1:53:29
  Please do cooperate with them. Let me request that you move to
• 1:53:32
  my right and then you, you just follow them.
• 1:53:36
  Those on the that will be your left from where you're standing.
• 1:53:39
  Please cooperate with them. Just a word very quickly and
• 1:53:42
  you're back. Let's honour them.
• 1:53:43
  Those on the anointed, you can let them be.
• 1:53:46
  Thank you, thank you all this way.
• 1:53:49
  God bless you. God bless you.
• 1:53:52
  God bless you. Thank you, God bless you.
• 1:53:57
  Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
• 1:53:59
  So I let my voice with pastor to encourage you.
• 1:54:03
  Please see today and tomorrow, take it as a time of retreat.
• 1:54:07
  Let it be an investment to your destiny.
• 1:54:09
  We have a lot more. We'll be stretching ourselves in
• 1:54:11
  the Spirit and somewhere along the line we'll be praying for
• 1:54:15
  the sick, ministering to your needs.
• 1:54:17
  And this was a good foundation tonight and we trust God for a
• 1:54:20
  great time. If I were you, I would listen to
• 1:54:23
  tonight's message again, should you have the link, so that it
• 1:54:26
  prepares your heart for tomorrow.
• 1:54:28
  Praise the name of the Lord, but never forget that the
• 1:54:31
  justification by faith is what the Bible calls the blessing of
• 1:54:36
  Abraham, and that gives room to the blessing.
• 1:54:41
  And then you enjoy all of the benefits.
• 1:54:44
  May the Lord bless you in the name of Jesus.
• 1:54:47
  Let's give Jesus a big handbag. Hallelujah.
• 1:55:02
  Amen. Please.
• 1:55:07
  Let's, let's, let's help them out.
• 1:55:13
  Hallelujah. How many of us have been blessed
• 1:55:16
  tonight? So tomorrow we're going to start
• 1:55:23
  10 AM and of course, we have 5:00 PM also in the evening,
• 1:55:27
  which is going to be the grand finale.
• 1:55:28
  And you know, usually the grand finale for Apostle is usually
• 1:55:32
  very powerful. So we don't want to miss Body 10
• 1:55:35
  AM Monday. Well, we're still standing.
• 1:55:38
  Let me appreciate all the pastors.
• 1:55:39
  Especially, I want to appreciate Baba Shoenka who led us in the
• 1:55:44
  intercessor prayer that is the. Younger.
• 1:55:49
  Brother of Professor Wally Shoenka, who is the minister of
• 1:55:53
  the Gospel. Baba, it's thank you very much.
• 1:55:59
  And he lives in Leicester here. He's one of the veterans in
• 1:56:03
  Leicester. Please can I request that all
• 1:56:08
  the movements should stop, please.
• 1:56:10
  This is very, very important because we want apostle to take
• 1:56:14
  his leave and he will have to please.
• 1:56:17
  And can I also request that we just stand where you are.
• 1:56:20
  Don't be unruly. We've already received what we
• 1:56:25
  need to receive tonight. Don't try to break the ranks.
• 1:56:28
  We don't want to embarrass anybody, please.
• 1:56:31
  We are peaceful, loving. So he's going to make his way
• 1:56:34
  out. Please.
• 1:56:34
  Let's just allow thank you very much.
• 1:56:40
  Please again, just stand where you are.
• 1:56:42
  Don't break the rank and all our let me also appreciate Reverend
• 1:56:51
  Shola deal. Thank you for spending the time
• 1:56:54
  with us. Please everyone with our VIP
• 1:56:57
  pass, you can also follow the protocol.
• 1:57:01
  We guide you to the green room where we can fellowship every
• 1:57:05
  minister. If you have AVIP pass, please
• 1:57:08
  just follow through. Just make your way and we will
• 1:57:14
  fellowship. If you have AVIP pass, please
• 1:57:16
  just follow. Thank you very much.
• 1:57:19
  Everyone with a VIP pass Baba, please Thank you.
• 1:57:24
  Tomorrow we'll be able to appreciate more mini stars
• 1:57:27
  because it's it's good to see Prof Thank you, Pastor J Pastor
• 1:57:36
  Collins, Pastor Shego. I could see some Pastor RAF,
• 1:57:42
  Pastor Amago Gospel and thank you very much.
• 1:57:47
  We all meet right there tomorrow, please.
• 1:57:52
  You could see that. So what I'm going to do tomorrow
• 1:57:55
  is that it's first come, first serve, Come early so that you
• 1:57:59
  can get a seat, especially for the 5:00 PM session because I
• 1:58:04
  learnt everybody in the UK is coming.
• 1:58:07
  So now that I've given you that info, make sure you come early.
• 1:58:13
  Shall we lift up our hand? Let's just glorify Jesus, let's
• 1:58:17
  give him praise. Let's thank you to God with the
• 1:58:20
  glory and let's share the grace and fellowship, the grace of our
• 1:58:23
  Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy
• 1:58:27
  Spirit. Be with you now and forever
• 1:58:30
  more. Amen.
• 1:58:31
  God bless you. We'll see you tomorrow, 10 AM.
• 1:58:34
  Thank you for coming. Fellowship with someone, meet
• 1:58:37
  someone, and love someone.