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Ministers and Leaders Session - Apostle Joshua Selman (Impact 2026 | HCC Lagos, Nigeria) · Selah Media House

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  So today, I wanted to rely some of your feet as I welcome a
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  prostitute to a sermon from Eternity Colonia, Abuja.
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  We are blessed to have him. Hallelujah, Blessed be the name
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  of the Lord. Greetings to everyone, please.
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  You may be seated, you may be seated.
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  It's always a joy and the profound honor really, to be
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  here. Thank you.
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  Thank you so much. I want to thank God's servant,
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  the prophet and Angel over this house.
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  Pastor Mosfin, why can't you help me honor him?
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  Thank you so much. It truly is a privilege every
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  time I have the opportunity to be a blessing.
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  And allow me to equally honor Doctor Lumi de Manuel and his
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  dear wife. We honor you, Sir.
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  Thank you sincerely. Hallelujah.
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  Pete Daniels. I was at the office and I just
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  saw him. He said he came to honor pasta
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  and I held his hand. I said the steps of a good man
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  are ordered by the Lord. So it's good to have you and
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  it's good to see you and all the pastors and all those connected
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  to this vision. I honor you sincerely in the
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  name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah.
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  I like speaking to pastors and to leaders because, you know,
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  according to Scripture, every time there's a problem, whether
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  in the land or there's a program, there's a problem with
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  God's program. He would hardly go to the
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  government. He will always come to the
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  church. For instance, he said if my
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  people, the issue of the healing of the land and everything that
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  happens around the land, he did not even blame government.
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  He went straight. He said My people, the healing
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  of the land depends on my people, not just the government.
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  If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves,
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  pray, seek my face, turn from their wicked ways, then I will
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  hear from heaven regardless what government is there, and I will
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  heal their land. So it's always his people, His
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  people and every pastor is an aggregate of many members and
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  has access to the minds of so many people, particularly in
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  Africa and Nigeria where there's there's commendable loyalty to
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  priesthood. It's very easy to influence
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  change because someone is willing to listen to somebody's
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  perspective. And so if priesthood is fixed,
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  then it is possible to change our nation, to change the
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  narratives. And May God help us in Jesus
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  name. So I'll be talking about a few
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  things, just juggling along the theme I was given.
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  You know, most times in pastors conference or leaders
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  conference, the emphasis usually is on growth and expansion.
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  And that's wonderful. But I always like to look at it
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  in terms of quality. The quality of the ministers and
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  the quality of the products that come from their ministry is the
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  principal determinant as to whether the church will be
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  efficient. In any territory.
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  We can have a large crowd of people, but if the man who
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  pastors them is ill trained with gaps in knowledge, you know that
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  are yet to be closed and then the people who are raised are
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  not thoroughly raised like Pastor was sharing.
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  If it's not a wise master builder over them, there will be
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  a defect in the final product and eventually to affect
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  society. Praise God.
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  So we'll be looking at a few things.
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  I'm to speak on purpose driven leadership.
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  So hopefully I'll start from a leadership angle.
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  Sadly, I did not hear, I was not able to catch up with Doctor
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  Lumi, the Emmanuel session. I really would have loved to
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  hear this man is a master at these things.
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  And so it was good to hear so that we can connect.
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  But we'll take it from wherever we take it and then God will
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  help us in Jesus name, Amen and Amen and Amen.
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  Psalm 78 and verse 72. Psalm 78 and verse 72, the Bible
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  says so. He fed them other versions, I
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  think NKJV or other newer versions, who say He shepherded
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  them. He fed them according to the
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  integrity of His heart and guided them by the skillfulness
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  of His hands. He fed them according to the
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  integrity of His heart, and then He guided them according to the
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  skillfulness of His hands. Jeremiah chapter 3 and verse 15.
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  Jeremiah 3 and verse 15. Jeremiah 3 and 15.
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  And I will give you pastors according to mine heart or
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  shepherds and they will feed you with knowledge and feed you with
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  understanding. Even though I'm, I'm talking
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  about leadership, please allow my bias.
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  My leadership will be within the context of ministry.
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  I'd like to start my session by defining leadership.
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  One of the things that I've found out is that people's
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  understanding is enhanced when there is clarity of definition.
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  Most times in discussing thoughts and concepts, many
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  times we take for granted, we take words for granted.
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  And so while everybody is nodding at the same words, is
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  carrying different meanings to different people.
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  And the first way to bring clarity is to unify the
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  understanding of meanings. Meanings are very important from
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  elementary education. That's one of the ways you train
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  people. If I say orange, nobody here is
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  thinking banana. If I say cut, nobody is thinking
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  cow. Because there is a unified
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  meaning that was given to that name.
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  And that's one of the ways that you help people to understand so
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  that when you say God, somebody is not thinking an idol,
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  somebody is not thinking mammon, somebody is not thinking
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  whatever. You see that when you say
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  victory, you see that it's very important.
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  Sometimes as preachers, we can take words for granted and
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  whilst we're saying something and people are green, someone's
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  mind is to the east, another person is to the West.
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  So let's start by doing a definition of leadership.
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  What exactly is leadership? Many years ago, I used to travel
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  to Ghana for my retreat. I would go to Ghana.
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  This was quite, quite some time and I'll just smuggle myself
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  somewhere and just pray and then return back.
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  And one of these times, I don't want to say the story, but I
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  found myself in one of the campuses in Ghana and it was a
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  supernatural thing. I had the opportunity to help
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  some people and then I started mentoring some gentlemen there
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  for a few years. And so every time I had the
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  opportunity to go for a retreat, they'll be around.
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  I'll just gather them. Some of them today in ministry,
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  some of them are in politics doing a lot of things.
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  And during one of the sessions I had with them, it was a
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  leadership session. The definition I'm about to
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  bring to you was the definition I gave them.
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  That was the first time the Holy Spirit inspired that definition.
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  And I found it a very powerful definition.
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  And we've used it today in our school of ministry.
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  And I found it a very, very, it's a very wholesome definition
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  of leadership. So let me define it for you.
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  I define leadership as the ability to harness and
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  coordinate human and material resources so as to achieve a
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  common goal. I'll take that.
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  Again, the ability to harness. If you're writing, I'd like us
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  to just on the line a few words, the word ability, then the word
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  harness, the ability to harness human and material resources so
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  as to meet a common goal. Again, the ability to harness
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  and coordinate. I omitted that word harness and
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  coordinate human and material resources so as to meet a common
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  goal. By this definition, immediately
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  you see that I'll give you a second one, but leadership has
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  to do with ability, abilities beyond desire.
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  You can desire to lead, but it takes beyond desire.
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  It is a skill, it can be learned.
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  There is a science to leadership, there's psychology
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  to leadership, there's spirituality to leadership.
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  So it's an ability. Number 2 is the is the word
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  harness. That's a very profound.
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  Word. And let me explain to you what
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  harness means. It's a profound skill that any
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  leader, particularly a 21st century leader, must have.
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  Harness means the capacity to see potential and to invest in
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  it until it becomes your desire. To harness means to see
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  potential. If you lack that ability, you
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  will throw away good people because of how they currently
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  look. If you lack that ability, you
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  will call good bad. You will call bad good.
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  You will bite your finger for the rest of your life.
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  It's a profound skill. The word harness is a blend
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  between discernment, intuition. You see that now the.
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  Ability to be able to see treasure.
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  In trash. And then to go ahead and begin
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  to invest in it. Most leaders, you are not a
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  leader if you do not have or develop the capacity to harness.
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  And let me tell you this particularly ministry, you have
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  no right to claim a stake in anybody's life that you did not
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  invest in. You see, if you did not believe
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  in me on my way to the cross when I'm having a SOPA of
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  victory, don't expect a seat there.
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  It's as simple as that. Are we together?
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  So the reason why there's a lot of conflict and loyalty is
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  because many times leaders do not harness.
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  They are afraid of taking the risk.
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  They suspect the people who later succeed will fail, so they
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  don't invest in them. And then the people, by grace
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  and mercy, eventually find their way through the maze, the jungle
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  of success, until they finally arrive.
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  And then we begin to claim a stake in their lives and we say,
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  well, I don't have any history of your investment in my life.
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  Are we together? Jesus said you are these are
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  they that have continued with me.
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  It's a profound skill. The skill of harnessing the man
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  who will later become your PA will not come as.
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  APA, the man who later become a loyal, faithful pastor, will not
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  come as a pastor. Now look at Jesus, for instance.
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  Jesus, the leader, not the Savior.
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  Leave the Savior. Look at the leader.
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  Jesus goes to pray all through the night.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, the Bible says he prayed.
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  All through the night. And look the kind of disciples
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  he selected. If not because he's Jesus, I
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  would have questioned his discernment.
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  How do you pray all through the night?
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  Then select an erratic Peter, a suspicious Judas, a doubting
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  Thomas. But the question is, was the
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  mission fulfilled through them or not?
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  He was. Are we together now?
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  The Bible talks about ordinary men who came to David in The
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  Cave of Adulam. The Bible says there were men
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  who were distressed, there were men who were in debt, there were
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  men who were weak, and they said that he will become Lord over
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  them. Then the Bible says David began
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  to train them until they became the mighty man of David.
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  The Bible would pick them one by one and give us their
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  distinctive difference that one of them was such a warrior.
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  He held his sword and in one position he brought down 800
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  people and the sword would not leave his hand.
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  Now that's a that's a skill. When the sword refuses to leave
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  your hand, you have become one with it.
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  One day David said, oh, that I would drink of the pool of
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  Bethlehem. As soon as they heard that, it
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  became a matching order. They went and tore down
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  everything in front of them until they got it, fetched that
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  water and returned back. And David said, well, I cannot
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  drink this. You've shed too much blood for
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  this. But that's loyalty because he
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  was able to discern. If you have the opportunity to
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  lead people, it's important for you to be able to discern.
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  Some of the best hands that will come to your life will not come
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  refined. It is unusual for a leader to
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  look for refined people. Did you hear what I said?
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  It is unusual for a leader to look for refined people.
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  What then is the value of your leadership?
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  The risk of transformation is where your the Excellency of
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  your leadership comes that you are able to see people and
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  refine them. There is this treasure in Ethan
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  Vessels, but that's the the leader's assignment to see the
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  treasure. And then like the Porter walking
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  on the clay like a blacksmith or a Goldsmith, are we together
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  draining out the dross and the know that when you clean it and
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  refine it is someone learning now.
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  So sometimes most leaders admire, with all due respect
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  now, since it's a leaders meeting, they admire maybe other
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  churches or other companies, other corporation.
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  And they say, how come the CEO, this pastor has people who are
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  so loyal? I mean, he would just make it a
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  desire, express a desire and you find people running around.
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  I can't tell you any garden you see looking nice is because
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  somebody walked it out. All gardens are the same by
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  default. They all have weeds.
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  The topography is the contour is not straight.
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  But someone takes the risk and the responsibility.
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  There's no guarantee that the person you train will be
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  effective. Even Jesus did not get it. 100 /
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  100 There was Thomas, there was Judas.
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  Are we together? Praise God, but He still took
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  the risk with them. The ability to harness, are we
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  following? The next is the ability to
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  coordinate. That word Coordinate is a very
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  profound word. So it's an ability.
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  What defining leadership then we've mentioned harness.
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  The next is coordinate. The word coordinates there is to
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  make sense out of nonsense. The word coordinates there is to
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  piece together so that it produces a rhythm.
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  To coordinate means to piece together so that profit can be
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  derived from it. How many of you have gone to a
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  building materials market or you've ever seen a building
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  materials market? Please just show me by wave of
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  hands. Now, if you go to a building
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  materials market, how many of you know that everything to
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  build a house is right there? But is there?
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  Is there a house in a building materials market?
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  No, they sell the materials to build the house.
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  What is the difference? It's not the presence of the
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  materials is that there's no coordination yet.
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  The cement is there. You can easily get the sun
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  there, am I right? The finishings, you can get them
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  there, but you cannot say because I have sand and I have
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  cement and I have a what else again?
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  Zinc. Do you have a house?
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  No, the difference is the architecture you begin to piece
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  together. I hope you know all the bones
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  that were later formed in Ezekiel 47, Ezekiel 37, They
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  were there, but they were scattered.
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  There was no coordination. The first miracle that happened
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  when the Holy Ghost began to move was born, came to His bone.
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  Not born came close, bone came to his bone.
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  There is no structure, there is no victory.
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  There is no army in this array. So a leader must know how to
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  coordinate human and material resources.
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  I'm going to be saying in a number of things, but let's see
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  how far everybody say human resources, say material
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  resources. This is a profound skill.
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  You must have the ability to coordinate human resources and
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  then to coordinate material resources so as to achieve a
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  common goal. The word common goal is very
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  important because if you have divergent goals then it's not
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  leadership. Now within the structure of the
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  bigger goal there can be several other goals, but at a goal is
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  like a destination. You can only get to 1 point at a
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  time. If I plan to go to Lagos, then
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  later today go to say Port Harcot, then later go to Abuja,
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  then return back to Lagos, I even if I have 10 places to go
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  to, I can only go to one place at a time.
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  That's how goals are. You can set many goals, you can
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  multitask, but in terms of achieving goals, it has to be
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  one at a time. It's someone learning now.
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  So one more time, let me define it.
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  That leadership is the ability to harness and coordinate human
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  and material resources so as to meet a common goal.
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  You have that down. Can I give you one more
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  definition? This second definition came from
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  Doctor Miles Monroe and I found it a paradigm shift.
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  It was a profoundly thought provoking definition because in
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  this definition that I'm about to put forth for you.
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  Men are not mentioned. You notice that the first level
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  of leadership has to do with coordinating human and material
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  resources, but the second rather has to do with building
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  something within you. So here's how Doctor Miles
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  defines it. He says leadership is the
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  ability to discover, to develop, and to deploy your potentials.
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  Don't worry, just listen and then I'll tell you.
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  So that you write the ability to discover, to develop and then to
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  deploy your potentials and to serve it at such level of
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  excellence that you become an inspiration to people.
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  And in return they will give you a gift called loyalty.
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  So that the loyalty that is derived from the people is not
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  because you want them to be loyal.
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  You are all about discovering yourself, living a richer and a
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  fuller life. And that while you are about
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  maximizing your own life, your life becomes such an instrument
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  of admiration that it will attract people to you.
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  Are we together? And that as they come into your
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  space, they will allow you willingly to influence them, and
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  they will give you the gift of loyalty.
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  So right here, this second definition has nothing to do
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  with waiting until people come to verify that you're a leader.
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  It has to do with reaching down, discovering that which God has
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  put within you, refining it, and then serving it with such
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  excellence at such a selfless level that you become an
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  inspiration to people. Are we together and then the
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  people come in response to your excellence and they give you a
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  gift of loyalty. Both definitions are very
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  important. Leadership by the second
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  definition is the ability to discover, develop and deploy
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  your giftings, your abilities, your potentials, and then to
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  serve it with excellence in a way that inspires others to be
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  loyal to you. So I'll give you an example, a
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  man of God who is all about loving Jesus.
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  You are there, loving Jesus, consistent in your prayer.
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  Life are we together? You did not start with the
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  intention to lead people or to load it over them.
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  You just love Jesus and you are excellently doing it.
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  Well, how many of you know that if there are results coming, one
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  day somebody will come to you and say please, I, I need to
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  find out how are you doing this now?
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  The person who comes to you because he did not come to you
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  meeting somebody who is needy, he came to someone who is
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  already serving. He will come and willingly
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  submit to you to learn leadership.
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  Because if we limit leadership to just people, COVID already
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  taught us a lesson. You see, a lot of people were
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  depressed when for over three months, pastors did not have
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  congregants. There was no opportunity.
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  And because our leadership definition is only activated in
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  the presence of people, in this case a congregation, many
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  pastors felt like failures. They plunge into depression
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  because there was nobody to talk to and nobody to say yes, Sir.
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  So there is leadership that has to do with coordinating people
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  resources, but there is leadership that has to do with
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  drawing out that which is locked up within you, refining it and
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  using it to serve your generation.
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  And that you serve it so well that your life becomes an
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  inspiration to people and they will come to you in honor.
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  The Bible says Gentiles shall come to what Your light, not
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  your call. You don't call them to come if
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  they will come to your light. So the way to call them is not
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  to say Gentiles come. The way to call them is to keep.
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  Glowing, the Bible says. Neither do men light a lamp and
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  put it under a bushel. The brighter the light Gentiles
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  begin to come. The star that came notifying
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  people of Jesus birth, the star did not speak it just shined so
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  bright it was brighter than any other star.
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  And the Bible says the Magi saw the star and they began to
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  follow it until they went where Jesus was.
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  And if you are that star, because we are that star, Daniel
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  12/3, he says dead that be wise shall shine like the firmament
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  of the heavens, and they that turn many to righteousness as
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  the stars even forevermore. And Paul was speaking, he says,
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  even among the stars, one different from another in glory.
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  So the brighter that light, the light representing your
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  transformation, the light representing your growth, the
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  brighter the light, it's impossible.
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  To have results and to shine. And then the world ignores you.
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  The world has not yet developed immunity against results.
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  It's impossible. Once there is genuine,
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  consistent results, Gentiles will come to your light.
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  Their kings will not come to your light.
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  Because don't forget, they have results too.
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  They will be watching. They are hearing about you what
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  they are watching. They are hearing about your
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  business. They will act like they are not
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  seeing what they are watching. When Herod heard that Jesus was
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  born, he called a few people. He said go and investigate.
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  Is it true? They said by prophecy this
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  should happen. But when your light becomes
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  consistent, ever brighter like Proverbs 4 says, a time will
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  come. The kings themselves will now
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  come to the brightness of your rising.
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  And how many of you know that kings don't come empty?
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  Ask the Queen of Sheba. When she was coming to Solomon,
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  she came bearing gifts. It is customary to meet
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  greatness with gifts. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord. Now perhaps I should say this.
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  There are five. There are five requirements for
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  any vision to speak. If God gives you a vision, God
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  gives you a mandate. God gives you an assignment.
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  There are five requirements. If these requirements are not in
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  place, the vision will not speak.
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  Let me run it quickly. Number one, there must be a
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  clearly defined mandate. Please, pastors, write this
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  down. There must be a clearly defined
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  mandate. The Great Commission is
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  everybody's mandate. You must find a subset of your
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  mandate. Are we together in the Great
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  Commission? The Great Commission is not
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  unique to you. It was Doctor Mike Murdoch who
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  said our similarities define our comfort.
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  But it is our differences, our distinctive differences, that
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  define our rewards. For as long as you look like
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  every other person, there is nothing that that wonder is not
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  in you. I'm not teaching from a
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  competitive standpoint. You understand that there has to
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  be a clearly defined mandate. Everybody said the mandate.
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  What did God tell you? What did God say to do?
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  Hallelujah #2. The second thing you need when
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  there is a mandate is that there must be a divinely inspired
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  strategy for the execution of the mandate.
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  Let me tell you this, a strategy is as powerful as the prophecy.
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  If you have a prophetic word from God, don't use your
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  creativity to invent the strategy, you will fail.
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  It is the same God that gave the vision who will give you the
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  strategy. I know that Jericho should go
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  down, but let God tell you the formula.
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  The usual thing is to go and fight and you'll be surprised
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  that the build up of Jericho will be the reason why you fail.
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  A city that the fence. 5 Chariots can stay on the fence,
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  even if it falls, it's another fence.
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  There are many visions failing in ministry, failing in
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  business, not because God did not speak, but many were not
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  patient to receive the strategy. Everybody said the vision, said
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  the strategy. One more time said a vision,
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  said a strategy. I know God sent you, but how did
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  he tell you to execute it? It's important.
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  Receiving the prophecy, receiving the mandate is
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  wonderful, but there is how you must do it.
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  Two of us can be prophets, the difference can be the strategy.
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  Two of us can be evangelist. The difference is the strategy.
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  Are we together now? A Correct prophecy or a correct
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  mandate and a wrong strategy can destroy you.
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  When they invented a strategy to carry the ACT, they were
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  punished instanta for it. The same voice that gives you
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  the mandate is the same voice that must give you your strategy
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  #3. The third requirement for any
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  vision to speak is the platform. You need a platform.
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  You need a platform. You can have a vision.
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  You can have a strategy. But if you do not have a
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  platform, the assignment of a platform is to elevate you so
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  that your voice can be heard. But #2 the second assignment of
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  a platform is to brand your impact.
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  Impact must be branded to be sustained.
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  If Impact is not branded, it cannot be sustained.
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  Impact must be branded to be sustained.
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  I don't need to mention names, but there are certain logos.
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  As soon as I lift them, you know what I'm talking about.
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  Are we together now? If I lift a Coca-Cola logo, for
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  instance, your mind will never think football because it was
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  branded. Hallelujah.
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  Impact must be branded. And when I say branded, I don't
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  just mean from a marketing standpoint.
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  Are we together your platform, your platform.
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  So every time we talk about impact 2026 or 27, you think the
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  are we together now? Yes, that this church has if how
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  many of you have heard of the word solution night?
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  What ministry comes to your mind?
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  Why did you get that? Now you need a platform.
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  Now look at this. You imagine that you want to
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  sell bottles of water and you have a bucket, a black bucket
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  and a black cop and a sincere heart and say any do you want
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  water? Somebody I'm Tessier.
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  You just fetch it and say I'm not a thief and there's no
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  poison in it. Who is going to buy it?
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  What is wrong? There's nothing wrong with
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  water. That same water you have,
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  everybody's looking for it, but it's not branded.
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  They will leave you and go and buy one that was not even
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  purified well, but it was branded.
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  A platform is very important. When Jesus needed to speak, He
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  said get me a boat. I need something that puts me in
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  a position that is very clear and distinct.
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  And those who helped to create that boat, they got a reward for
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  it. As powerful as his voice was He.
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  Needed a boat. Are we together?
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  Let me tell you the advantage of a platform.
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  Other people can rise to that platform.
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  If you don't have a platform, you are great, but your name is
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  not great. Both must be great.
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  Is one thing to be great, but your name must be great.
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  If your name is not great, nobody will come out from you.
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  He says I will make you a great nation.
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  I will make your name great. So if Doctor Emmas Fenway is
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  great, are we together? But Holy Ghost Christian Center
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  is not great, What about those the sons and daughters that come
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  out of it? Now is 1 mistake I tell you
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  this, I know that I'm speaking, you know, people are following
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  online. But it's one mistake that the
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  West made. They focus on the greatness of
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  the individual, but they did not invest greatness in their
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  platforms. So you will hear of a great
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  preacher, but you don't know the name of his church.
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  And once it's not there, the next person who takes over
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  struggles. The leverage of an elevated
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  platform is not there. It's important.
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  How many of you have had the word RCCG?
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  Is there greatness in it? How many of you have had the
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  name Baba de Boy? Is there greatness in it?
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  It doesn't matter what angle you will see, have the leverage of
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  greatness. That's the reason why many sons
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  and daughters can rise through that platform.
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  Because there is a platform and greatness has been invested in
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  it. Are we learning now?
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  Five things #1 the vision, the mandate #2A divinely inspired
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  strategy #3 the platform #4 The 4th requirement for any vision
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  to speak is resources, and resources are twofold human and
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  materials. Of course, I by now I'm sure
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  that everybody is matured enough to not argue about the
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  importance of money in the in excelling in ministry and the
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  rest. If if you are behind, I
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  recommend you to Doctor Lumi de Manuel.
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  He knows what to do with you. I'm telling you, He really knows
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  what to do with you. Especially now that they are
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  bombing every oil place everywhere around the world.
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  Hallelujah resources. I know many great visions that
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  have been stunted because of limited resources.
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  God already said go and you are not moving yet.
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  You are not in disobedience. It's not that you chose to
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  disobey the resources that act as a vehicle to move you from
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  prophecy to manifestation. Is not there people?
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  And then the financial resources.
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  Let me tell you this, it is the responsibility of every leader,
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  including every man of God, to be financially intelligent for
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  the sake of the assignment in in the school of leadership.
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  Finance is a caucus. It's not an elective.
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  It is irresponsibility to not be financially intelligent.
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  In fact, it is a it is a representation of a selfish
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  heart. Because you see, influence is an
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  aggregate of the trust of many people on you, and they go the
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  direction of your ignorance or they go the direction of your
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  wisdom for their sake. It is important to be
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  financially intelligent so that you are able to help them and
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  help the ministry. Pastors must know how to
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  generate income for ministry. I'm telling you, you want to do
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  much for the Kingdom. You must know how to generate
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  income. The alternative is compromise.
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  If you do not learn God way, provided you are doing ministry,
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  life will push you. Eventually you will compromise.
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  One of the dangers of luck is that it pushes you to the
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  corridors of lying, stealing, and compromise.
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  You don't compromise because you are bad.
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  You compromise because you are pressured.
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  It's someone learning. Now, if I ask us to write our
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  prayer request right now, what you and and there's a guarantee
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  from heaven that whatever you write will be answered before
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  the end of this service. You'll be surprised what people
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  will write. One money 2.
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  Finances 3. Economics is still the same
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  thing. In case in case it's childish to
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  shy away from it. What we need to manage is the
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  lost and materialism. Are we together?
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  But it's important for preachers to understand that our world is
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  economically driven. This convention happening right
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  now, only pastor on the finance team will tell you how much has
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  been spent and how much will yet be spent.
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  And that's not the only program lined up for the year.
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  And you are supposed to love God and work in integrity.
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  You see, integrity is very expensive.
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  Make sure you can afford it. Not everybody can afford
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  integrity. You need to know how to afford
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  integrity. One of the blessings of
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  resources, both men and finance, is that it defends your
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  integrity. There are certain temptations
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  that are dead on arrival. When God shows you mercy, are we
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  together? Resources also protect your
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  focus. There's nothing I know that can
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  distract a man's focus like the awareness of the economic
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  implication of executing vision. You wake up throughout the night
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  and you are not praying. And you know the lovely thing
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  with members, they will say, I saw in a vision that that bill
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  is paid for. Then the one sleep, they've seen
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  the vision. They told you what they saw in
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  the realm of the spirit, how the world will become flesh.
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  They leave that to you. It's someone learning.
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  I'm praying for someone. I stand in faith with Pastor and
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  all the leaders here. God who has helped men, bring in
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  men and resources to drive the vision in this season in a very
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  supernatural way. May God gravitate people.
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  Towards you, but. Listen, let me tell you this.
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  There are many ways. That's not what I'm talking
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  about, but there are many ways God finances His program.
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  It is your responsibility to learn the ways of God, the
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  economic system of the Kingdom, so that you are able to drive
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  with integrity. God cannot give you an
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  assignment and not provide a structure.
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  It is ignorance in learning His ways.
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  I when I came in, I was, I followed the latter part of the
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  interview and I recall Doctor Lumi de Manuel, there was a
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  question that was asked him and he was attempting to answer, I
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  think something about church financing.
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  If I, if I, I hope I got the question right and I was
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  listening attentively. In fact, I had to tell them.
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  I said help me increase the volume.
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  I want to hear what he has to say.
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  The Bible said the wise man will increase in learning.
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  Praise God. There are many ways God finances
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  His program. It is your responsibility to
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  search it out. You search it with meekness.
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  You search it. Adaptation is proof of honor.
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  You bend over backwards and find where the knowledge is.
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  Every time the student is ready, the teacher comes.
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  If the teacher has not come, it's because you have refused to
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  wear your uniform. When you wear your uniform with
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  humility and sit down, the teacher will come.
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  Is someone learning? I'm taking our time to press a
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  beat on this issue of you need to know how to attract men and
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  you need to know how to attract resources.
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  I hope you know if I talk resources, I'm not talking
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  finances. I've prayed a prayer for my
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  people and I think I've prayed it in this church, but in case
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  you are not there, let me pray it for you.
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  May you never be so poor that all you have is money.
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  Let me say it again, May you never be so poor that all you
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  have is digits oscillating digitally on your phone or in a
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  bank account in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Real wealth is men. The resources and all the
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  transactions that happened on earth happened because there is
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  a man at the back end. Kill all the men in the world
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  and open all the minds, the bangs, the vaults, it is
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  useless. What gives value to economy is
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  the presence of men. So when God wants to help you,
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  He gives you what attracts men. And with the coming of men would
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  come resources. There are only two ways I know
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  that resources come favor and value.
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  Favor and value every time there is luck.
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  These are the only two places to check favor and value.
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  When God wants to multiply you, he amplifies both favor and
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  value. Favor is men willing usefulness
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  within the context of a civilization.
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  Not your usefulness to you, Your usefulness to those who can
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  reward you. You can be useful to yourself.
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  But if those who can reward you don't perceive you as useful,
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  they will not reward you. You can keep Professor.
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  I am valuable. You are the only one who
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  believes it. The person who has the money to
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  give you, if he does not believe you are valuable.
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  You will be hungry. It's true.
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  Are we together? Let's assume that this sister or
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  this brother is selling baby clothes and I'm the only client.
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  That you have to will be a problem as far as exchanging
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  reward is concerned. Please let me challenge every
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  pastor here in the name of Jesus and every leader.
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  Take the time to study the economic system of the Kingdom
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  and let your knowledge be aggregated.
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  Let it be methodical. Don't gloss through a 5 minutes
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  video, then add with a one hour video, then another
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  controversial video that conflicts it at the end.
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  The gap is is not is not light enough to bring victory.
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  You can settle down and there are two ways to be transformed
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  into any reality. Number one is to look onto Jesus
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  through the world #2 to be followers of them.
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  These are the two ways we are transformed.
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  You look onto Jesus through the world, and then #2 you become
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  followers of them, men who through their pain and their
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  sacrifice, they have structured a system that leads to that
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  result. And let me tell you sincerely,
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  no hospital goes around looking for patients.
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  If you are sick, you will find where the hospital is.
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  Even for the man who could not walk, God showed him mercy by
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  bringing people who agreed to carry him.
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  The miracle never met him at home.
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  We live in a world where pastors sometimes with all due respect,
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  because of the yes Sir we receive every day, we want to be
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  spoon fed over everything. Sometimes you would need to take
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  the step of faith to learn. I hope you are not offended.
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  Are we learning? Resources is very important.
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  So when you are saying Lord, send me, it's an expensive
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  thing, you are saying send me. You must have the intelligence
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  to be able to put together the resources.
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  If not, you have family crisis because you obeyed God.
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  You have so many other problems and you will credit it to your
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  obeying God. We have the privilege of hosting
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  very large programs around the world, and I can tell you the
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  truth, it takes a lot of resources.
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  It takes a lot of resources. A lot of resources.
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  You want to work in integrity. Integrity is expensive.
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  You've heard me say the name of Jesus is very heavy.
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  It takes resources to lift it high to the nations.
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  It's true. I think it was not too long ago
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  the church held a program, but was it the stadium?
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  Am I right, Sir? TBS, you see that now #5 The 5th
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  requirement for any vision to speak is that there must be a
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  divine backing. There must be a divine backing.
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  It must be evidence that God sent you.
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  It must be evidence that God sent you.
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  Can I tell you this? It is not unusual for people to
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  doubt you. You are the one who makes your
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  calling and your election show. That's not God's responsibility.
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  You walk with God to silence anybody who doubts the validity
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  of your person. A possible people don't believe
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  in me. You are not the only one.
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  Nobody was believed in by by default, not even Jesus.
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  Not even Jesus, but the Bible says thanks 433 It says with
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  great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of
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  the Lord Jesus Christ, and great grace was upon them all.
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  One thing you cannot deny is the investment of the Spirit God
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  demonstrating through your life that he sent you, God
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  demonstrating through your life that he's back to you.
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  And I'm praying for pastors in the name of Jesus Christ,
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  whatever price you need to pay in this season in righteousness
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  to secure the backing of heaven, I release that grace upon you is
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  somebody receiving. I release that grace upon you in
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  the name of Jesus Christ. Supernatural backing.
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  The backing of wisdom, The backing of favor, the backing of
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  man, the backing of the anointing for signs and for
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  wonders, in the name of Jesus. Never will you speak on your
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  word to be void again. In the name of Jesus Christ you
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  will call on one man, and a nation will come in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. Divine backing until God shows
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  that he's with you. Men will not be with you until
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  God shows that he's with you. When Elijah got the prophets of
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  Baal and together they dragged themselves and went to Mount
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  Carmel, he gave them a chance to demonstrate the validity of bell
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  from morning till the time of the evening sacrifice.
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  They lacerated themselves and nothing happened.
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  And he said, look, you've, you've you've wasted my time a
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  whole day now shift. And the Bible says he set up the
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  altar, put the sacrifice, poured water and called upon God.
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  And the Bible says fire came down, licked everywhere.
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  And the people themselves, they said the God of paraphrasing, he
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  is God, he is God. Let me tell you this, ladies and
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  gentlemen, the world that we live in today, you have to trust
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  God for grace, carry presence, carry power, particularly as a
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  man of God. Don't say me, I'm not an
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  evangelist. I have no business with
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  miracles. The anointing is not just for
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  miracles. It brings validity to your
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  witness. You can't tell people.
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  May God healing 0 Deliverance There's no manifestation of the
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  wisdom of God through your life. You must cry and pant after it.
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  One thing with spiritual things is that they respond to hunger.
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  They respond to test, they respond to desire.
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  It's a waste to bring water and give somebody who has not has
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  not declared that he's testing. He will receive it and pour it
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  on the ground. So God will stimulate your
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  hunger, but to wait for you to respond.
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  Is someone learning divine backing these five elements?
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  Now let me say one, maybe one or two more things.
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  Let's pray in the spirit for one minute.
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  I hope we're learning something. Shalam braki saparantuski ETA.
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  Give me substance. Give me proof, give me presents,
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  Give me give me substance. Give me proof.
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  Give me. Presents Let it show that I met
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  with you. Let it show that I met with you.
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  Let it show. That I met with you.
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  Let it show that I met with you. Let it show that I met with you.
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  Let it show that I met with you. Let it show.
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  Hallelujah, Let me tell you. This I can tell you this for
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  free. One of the greatest ways to
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  attract resources of men and finances is the strength of your
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  impact in the lives of people. God designed it that way to the
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  degree to which you use the resources of wisdom, the
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  resources of power, the resources of favor, the
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  resources of utterance, the resources of.
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  Skill This is the. Capital that buys money when God
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  wants to prosper you. It gives you beyond a job when
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  God wants to prosper you, he gives you what the Bible calls
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  the riches of his glory. That's what he gives you.
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  There are resources that come with his glory.
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  The way we prosper in the Kingdom.
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  I don't know why God is still bringing me back here.
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  Let me tell you how we prosper in the Kingdom.
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  Get the glory of God to. Come when the glory of God
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  comes, there are tokens that come with his glory.
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  One wisdom 2 Understanding three power 4 favor 5 skill 6.
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  What's the 6th 1 again? Strength.
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  There are 8 of them When? They come upon you.
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  You do business with those resources.
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  That's what brings you men, and that's what brings you money.
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  When God wants to empower a man, he doesn't call men to come.
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  No, He places something on you. Listen, if I want to buy this,
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  call this a product, and this is 1000, how do I buy this?
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  I get the 1000, but 1000 itself is a product.
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  If I want to buy it, what is the capital that buys?
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  It is called the riches of His glory, the resources that come
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  with the glory of God. Every time the glory of God
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  manifests in the life of a man, it brings two things,
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  encounters. You see that now and then.
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  It brings divine interventions. This is how God taught me on the
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  glory. Anybody You see, there are
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  people who have benefited from this, but they cannot articulate
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  it. They just know that I'm a man of
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  God especially. And it's the reason why members
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  cannot prosper. And they keep getting angry with
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  us pastors. They say, what are you really
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  doing? The man stays in the secret
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  place, praying, worshipping, building.
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  That is an economic investment right there.
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  That's a spiritual investment. As the glory comes, it brings
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  with it wisdom. It brings with it power.
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  One song that comes from that glory alone, from an economic
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  standpoint, can sort your life. One idea, the anointing that
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  comes upon you. And now from there, now you
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  stand to speak to someone, a billionaire who has never had a
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  child, and you come with the resources of that glory and
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  declare. And in nine months, they carry
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  twins. See that now.
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  But beyond just someone coming to bless you, the ideas that
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  come from there that you translate to products, to
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  services, either virgin products or improved products.
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  Let me tell you this. The same grace that multiplied
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  the oil was the same grace that positioned the bias.
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  Did you hear what I said? The womb, The same grace as he
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  was telling her go and fill those oils.
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  The same grace was also scheduling those who will buy
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  it. The same grace that sent you.
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  The same grace bringing you the anointing has already put those
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  who that anointing will bless and then they will give back to
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  you do. You believe what you're hearing.
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  The presence of God is not a waste of time.
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  Men of God, that is how you become wealthy.
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  You stay there until the glory rests on you, and then you begin
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  to design the resources that come with that glory.
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  Extraordinary wisdom, understanding capacity,
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  utterance, favor, skill. Strength.
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  These are the resources you go and do business with.
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  Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
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  I feel like praying for you again in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. Everything that has made
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  ministry to not work or business to not work, I join hands with
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  the graces here represented and I speak to you from tonight.
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  Let your story change. Or let it change, let it change,
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  let it change ministerially. I place grace on your head.
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  Let it change. It doesn't matter who likes you
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  or doesn't like you. I place grace on your head in
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  the name of Jesus Christ. Please be seated.
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  Let me use 10 minutes and show you something.
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  Let's talk about the Great Commission.
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  We're leaders and we're pastors. But let me show you something
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  very quickly. You know, Sir, one of the things
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  that I've been bored in about is the Lord has given me a renewed
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  grace and mandate to disciple nations.
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  And it's that that that added mandate has brought upon me a
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  greater urgency to see the body of Christ work in accuracy, not
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  opinions. And while every man is right in
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  his own eyes. The.
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  Truth is the result is what shows Hallelujah, Jesus left us
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  what we call the Great Commission or what we call
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  Kingdom come or what we call Kingdom advance.
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  I want to show you the reason why ministry is not working for
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  a lot of people because your degree of compliance or
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  deviation from this mandate is what defines your relevance as a
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  man of God. Please listen carefully when you
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  find certain people at the cutting edge of relevance, it
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  looks like the light of God is upon them.
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  It's not necessarily that God just chose to put his light upon
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  them. Like the moon aligns to the sun.
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  How many of you know that in the economy of the Sun, there's
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  nothing like Half Moon, Quarter Moon?
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  All those shapes are determined by the alignment part time.
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  If the moon aligns, the part of it that refuses to align is the
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  part that becomes dark. It will create a shape that we
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  give it a name. But there are times in a very
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  strange way, the moon aligns so fully and it can turn night to
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  evening. You are at night, but it looks,
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  it looks like where's the darkness because of the level of
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  alignment. So there are some of you, The
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  only part of you that is being noticed that the glory of God is
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  radiating from is the part that has come into an alignment with
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  God's program. So many, many people.
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  It looks like God just handpicked a few ministers and
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  decided to bless them, decided to help them.
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  It's not true. If you think that way, then it
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  makes God unjust. Now there is the predetermined
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  counsel of God, there is the election of grace.
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  But God has set a template for everyone who understands that
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  you can find relevance in the. Kingdom, are we together?
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  I want to show you what is wrong if the candle of the Lord is not
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  shining upon you, if the light of God is not shining on your
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  ministry. We may need to investigate a
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  number of things. Generally speaking, when when a
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  man of God is not at the cutting edge of relevance, there are not
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  too many places to diagnose #1 we have to diagnose character.
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  Something may be wrong in the area of character.
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  And where character is fine. We need to diagnose capacity.
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  Something may be wrong. You cannot use A5 kva generator
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  to power a stadium. It will not work.
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  Sir pray while you are owning it down it would.
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  It would kill the Gen. and also enjoy you and waste your time.
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  Some of us have 5 kva. Our mandate is stadium life and
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  you are carrying that. There's no capacity, and so God
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  himself will have to initiate the process of delaying your
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  life as an act of His mercy so that you don't break down.
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  So there are many prayers that will not be answered not.
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  Because the devil stopped it. You have been weighed and tried
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  in a balance. Your capacity cannot go beyond a
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  certain level. And then where?
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  Where capacity is not the problem, then we need to check
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  alignment with God's program. You can have capacity, you can
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  have character, but not be in alignment to God's prophetic
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  program. How many of you know that the
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  value of speed is when the direction is correct?
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  When the direction is wrong and you are wrong, you are only
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  accelerating your pain. And when you discover you are
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  wrong, does the road change automatically?
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  No, you make AU turn and come back.
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  Please listen to what I want to tell you.
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  This, I have found is the reason why certain people don't seem to
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  be at cutting edge of relevance ministerially and by
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  ministerially. I don't limit it to.
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  Pulpit. It can be in business, it can be
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  in career. Now, many Bible schools, with
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  all due respect, have taught us that the Great Commission
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  generally just has to do with preaching and evangelism.
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  And that's wonderful. And that's true.
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  What the Great Commission or Kingdom come or Kingdom advance
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  is threefold. This is what I want to introduce
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  to you. No pastor, no church will really
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  be very relevant into this world if you do not understand the
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  tripartite scope of the Great Commission.
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  First and foremost, the Great Commission is a mandate that
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  Jesus gave his 10 disciples, but is being extended to believe us
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  today. Are we together a mandate that
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  captures a threefold assignment? The first dimension of that
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  assignment is world evangelization.
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  That's the first assignment, the. 2nd dimension of it is
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  discipleship, bringing the church into a state of maturity
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  and stature. And then the third dimension of
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  that assignment is societal transformation.
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  You will not be relevant in today's world if you omit any
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  part of this mandate. Again, let me say that that the
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  mandate captures a tripartite scope.
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  Number one, world evangelization.
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  This is God's program to the unbelieving world.
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  God's. Program to the unbelieving world
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  is not charity, is not rehabilitation.
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  All of those things are. Only God's main program to the
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  unbelieving world is their salvation.
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  But he has a program for the church.
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  The program for the church is called discipleship, the process
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  that brings believers to a point of maturity and stature.
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  And then God has a program for society.
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  Are we together now? If you omit any of these three,
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  it will affect your relevance. Without world evangelization, as
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  more people are passing on to glory, there will be a problem
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  with the church. And when it has to do with the
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  business of Kingdom come, numbers are an advantage.
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  Are we together now, the church? And of these three, the major
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  problem is the second one, discipleship, because it's the
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  disciples that will do the first and will do the third.
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  So anything that affects the second part here.
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  A major problem with the church in Nigeria, the church in
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  Africa, I can tell you it's not evangelism, it's not even
• 1:00:18
  community development projects is discipleship.
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  And the problem with discipleship is that the people
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  who want to disciple are not refined.
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  They have not learned the formula.
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  Are we together now? So world evangelization is God's
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  program for the nations, for the unbelieving.
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  World discipleship is God's program for the church, is how
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  God refines believers, is how reformers are raised, how nation
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  builders are raised. Then territorial transformation
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  now has to do with becoming light and becoming salt.
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  Matthew 513 to 16, You cannot be in a community and the community
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  has not felt the impact of you as a church.
• 1:01:07
  No, there are many churches that are around the community for
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  five years, for 10 years. No widow knows you are there, no
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  children. The schools around do not know
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  you are there. You are compromising on one
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  dimension of the mandate. So there is go ye and preach
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  Mark 16. There is go ye to all nations
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  and disciple Matthew 28 so to go is there.
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  Then the third one is not just to go is to become a witness.
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  Acts chapter 1 and verse 8. It is Mark 16 plus Matthew 28
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  plus Acts chapter 1 and verse 8 that gives the full.
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  Picture of the Great Commission. Now let me talk a bit about
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  discipleship because this is where this is where my burden
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  and my heart is and probably will find that place and then
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  we'll stop for the session. Do you know, ladies and
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  gentlemen, every time those of you who are into manufacturing
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  here, there's what we call quality control, am I right?
• 1:02:09
  And then for those of you who do organizations, there's what we
• 1:02:14
  call research and development or a system that standardizes
• 1:02:19
  operations. Am I right?
• 1:02:21
  Do you know the reason I was saying it?
• 1:02:23
  Preaching for a dear man of God somewhere in the South South.
• 1:02:27
  And one of the things that I said was how many of you know
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  that two consultants, medical consultants, can meet for the
• 1:02:34
  first time in a surgery room and not doubt one another?
• 1:02:39
  That means they don't know themselves.
• 1:02:41
  You are professor of this? Professor of that.
• 1:02:43
  How are you? I just flew in from Italy this
• 1:02:45
  morning. OK, let's go in for the surgery.
• 1:02:47
  And they will not doubt themselves.
• 1:02:48
  Do you know why? Because there was a standard
• 1:02:50
  system of accreditation. But how come I am Pastor A?
• 1:02:55
  Pastor B. If all of us stand together,
• 1:02:57
  you're on your own. Because I'm not sure who trained
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  you and what you learned. Listen to me, the reason why the
• 1:03:08
  products we are bringing out in the church are not strong or
• 1:03:12
  lopsided is because there is a corruption of the architecture
• 1:03:16
  we were giving. Jesus was the one who invented
• 1:03:20
  the process of building the church and he said I will build
• 1:03:23
  the church in a way and a manner.
• 1:03:25
  I remember every house is built by some man even though God is a
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  builder of all. So when he says I will build my
• 1:03:31
  church, he uses man to build the church.
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  Please everybody, listen. Do you know the reason why we
• 1:03:38
  have believers who are not like believers?
• 1:03:42
  It is not the problem of membership, is the problem of
• 1:03:45
  priesthood. There is something we do not
• 1:03:48
  understand about God's system and how He builds men.
• 1:03:52
  So we are largely guessing based on who mentored us.
• 1:03:57
  Based on what we read, based on our level of spiritual exposure,
• 1:04:01
  are we together or based on our encounters is the reason why
• 1:04:05
  there is such a large divergent in terms of the quality of the
• 1:04:09
  product? Go across Nigeria, go across
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  Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa.
• 1:04:17
  Now go to Europe, America and you find out that there is there
• 1:04:23
  is such, there's such a divergent.
• 1:04:27
  And the assignment of the fivefold ministry is to bring
• 1:04:30
  the body of Christ to something called the unity of faith.
• 1:04:34
  Unity of faith does not mean doing the same thing that we
• 1:04:37
  should standardize knowledge. So that believers in Maiduguri
• 1:04:41
  and believers in Lagos and believers somewhere in Cape Town
• 1:04:46
  and believers in Ghana, when they come together, you can see
• 1:04:50
  that there is a unified level of understanding.
• 1:04:52
  This is the assignment of priesthood and any man of God
• 1:04:56
  who is not about this, there is a certain anointing in this end
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  time that cannot come on you. There is an anointing that comes
• 1:05:04
  on you because you are grafted into Christ.
• 1:05:06
  That's what does the inner work of transformation within you.
• 1:05:09
  There is an anointing that comes upon you when you discover your
• 1:05:13
  prophetic destiny. But there is an anointing that
• 1:05:16
  comes upon you as a reward for aligning with God's emphasis
• 1:05:21
  passes him. This is what distinguishes men.
• 1:05:25
  Is somebody learning now? There should be fasting, there
• 1:05:31
  should be many casting out demos.
• 1:05:32
  Maybe they should teach. The person does not have the
• 1:05:35
  syllabus in his mind, so he uses his creativity or whatever he
• 1:05:39
  was mentored with and he will produce.
• 1:05:41
  Sometimes he will produce a disaster, other times, if he was
• 1:05:45
  structurally mentored, are we together now?
• 1:05:48
  He will now produce a winning believer.
• 1:05:51
  He does not know what to do. Ladies and gentlemen, an
• 1:05:54
  intelligent God who deserves to raise witnesses cannot leave you
• 1:05:58
  guessing how men are raised in the Kingdom.
• 1:06:01
  There is a formula. There is an architecture.
• 1:06:05
  You are not, is not left to your creativity.
• 1:06:07
  No, there is a way. How many of you know that?
• 1:06:12
  If you look at Cadbury chocolates, there is a way.
• 1:06:14
  It came about. Am I right on that The cloth you
• 1:06:17
  are wearing, there is a way. The tailor who showed your
• 1:06:20
  cloth, Now if you want him to sew another one, he should be
• 1:06:23
  able to do exactly the same thing.
• 1:06:26
  Some of you have two, three sets of the same cloth.
• 1:06:29
  People who think you are wearing the same thing, but you have
• 1:06:31
  two, three sets because of the standardized process.
• 1:06:34
  How come we cannot define how to pass a believer like a refinery
• 1:06:39
  from point A to point B and guarantee with the lecturer's
• 1:06:44
  precision that after three years of being in your church, this
• 1:06:49
  man will be a certain quality of believer?
• 1:06:53
  It is our compliance to this architecture that makes a man
• 1:06:57
  called a wise master. Builder.
• 1:07:01
  You see, the wisdom there is the ability to trap the intelligence
• 1:07:05
  God gave. And for the next two minutes I'm
• 1:07:08
  going to run. It's a burden that God put in my
• 1:07:10
  heart. I want to run with you the
• 1:07:12
  journey the least, how to produce mighty men and then what
• 1:07:19
  and what you should focus on. And then we'll pray.
• 1:07:21
  If I'm able to do that, I'll I'll step down.
• 1:07:23
  Satisfied please. Pray in the Spirit for one
• 1:07:25
  minute. My time is up, but I just want
• 1:07:27
  you to understand this. Hallelujah.
• 1:07:37
  Amen. Now watch this.
• 1:07:40
  Everybody, please look up. Let me, let me oh, help me miss
• 1:07:45
  under the anointing. Now look up, please, everybody,
• 1:07:48
  let me just run that list with you.
• 1:07:50
  I don't know. I don't know how far you are
• 1:07:52
  going to be able to take it. So let me ask you to forgive me
• 1:07:54
  in advance, but I'm going to run it in passing.
• 1:07:58
  Now watch this everybody from a spiritual standpoint, by default
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  we are outside of Christ, we are unsaved.
• 1:08:07
  There's nobody who inherited salvation from birth.
• 1:08:10
  Are we together now? It is pastors is important.
• 1:08:13
  We know this longevity in church without declaring the Lordship
• 1:08:17
  of Jesus does not make somebody born again.
• 1:08:20
  Even if the person God reach out under you, it does not
• 1:08:23
  translate. You don't transfer credits that
• 1:08:25
  because I listen to you. Suddenly it is not equal
• 1:08:28
  salvation. No.
• 1:08:31
  Are we together? There is only one way according
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  to Scripture, that a Sinner or an unsafe person becomes a child
• 1:08:40
  of God and that is through the preaching of the gospel.
• 1:08:44
  Please everybody listen. Without the preaching of the
• 1:08:47
  gospel, there cannot be salvation once.
• 1:08:50
  It has to do with converting a Sinner.
• 1:08:53
  The word he needs is the gospel. The gospel is a declaration of
• 1:08:58
  the Father's love that was demonstrated in and through the
• 1:09:02
  substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus, man and creation being
• 1:09:06
  the object of that sacrifice. And the Bible says, when we
• 1:09:10
  believe that report, please listen.
• 1:09:12
  There are three gifts that you receive immediately you declare
• 1:09:17
  the Lordship of Jesus #1 the forgiveness of sins.
• 1:09:21
  In Ephesians 1. 7 #2 The righteousness of God.
• 1:09:25
  You receive God's righteousness, and then #3 you receive the way,
• 1:09:31
  the life of God. 3 gifts. Every pastor must know this.
• 1:09:36
  Anybody who gets born again right in front of you, they must
• 1:09:40
  know, and you must know that this is what happened to them in
• 1:09:43
  the Spirit. 3 gifts. The forgiveness of sins
• 1:09:47
  according to the riches of His grace.
• 1:09:49
  Efficiency 17, number 2. They received the righteousness
• 1:09:52
  of God in Christ, and then #3 they received the life of God.
• 1:09:56
  We call it everlasting life, eternal life also way.
• 1:10:00
  But watch this the moment you get saved, there is a name you
• 1:10:04
  are also called. You are called a babe.
• 1:10:07
  You are called an infant. Even though you are in Christ,
• 1:10:10
  you are an infant. Is someone learning now?
• 1:10:14
  Believers must be taught that being saved is only the
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  initiation process of the journey, not the end of it.
• 1:10:23
  That means if you believe that as a pastor, there must be a
• 1:10:26
  follow up system as part of the architecture that matures those
• 1:10:31
  who are saved. It can come in various ways.
• 1:10:35
  Now watch this. The moment you are born again,
• 1:10:39
  there are three ministries that must be introduced to your life.
• 1:10:43
  If not, you will never become mighty #1 the Ministry.
• 1:10:48
  Of the Holy Spirit. #2 the ministry of prayer and the word
• 1:10:53
  #3 the ministry of spiritual leadership or a teaching priest.
• 1:10:58
  I'm sorry that I'm rushing you. I'm showing you the formula.
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  This is how mighty men are made, from salvation to the preaching
• 1:11:05
  of the gospel. They receive the life of God.
• 1:11:08
  And as they receive the life of God, they are babes.
• 1:11:11
  They are children, unfruitful in understanding.
• 1:11:14
  If you leave them that way, you will not see the difference
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  between them being believers or unbelievers.
• 1:11:19
  The impulses of the flesh are still at work in them.
• 1:11:22
  And so you introduce them by the Spirit to the ministry of the
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  Holy Spirit. You introduce them to the
• 1:11:29
  ministry of prayer and the Word, and then the ministry of the
• 1:11:34
  teaching priest. Once these three ministers are
• 1:11:36
  in place, the journey of transformation is ready to
• 1:11:39
  begin. How many of you have seen a
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  woman who gives birth to a child and then throws the child there?
• 1:11:44
  And says you better. Find a way of growing.
• 1:11:46
  No, no, the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the ministry of prayer
• 1:11:54
  and the world. You notice I did not divide
• 1:11:56
  them. Our generation is choosing which
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  one. We're making a big mistake.
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  There is nowhere in Scripture where you are given the liberty
• 1:12:03
  to choose prayer. There's nothing like I'm a
• 1:12:06
  prayer person and I'm a ward person.
• 1:12:08
  It's ignorance of mentorship. You always find prayer and the
• 1:12:13
  Word. That's the Apostolic model and
• 1:12:15
  chapter 242 to 47 are we together.
• 1:12:19
  Acts chapter 6 and verse 4, but we will give ourselves
• 1:12:22
  continually to prayer. I want to show you how our
• 1:12:25
  fathers became mighty. This is the protocol they
• 1:12:28
  followed. Our generation is enlightened,
• 1:12:31
  but we are not coordinated our. Learning has too much gaps.
• 1:12:35
  That's why we are not mighty. We know pieces of many, many
• 1:12:38
  little things. The next step after salvation.
• 1:12:44
  With these three ministries introduced is the journey of
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  transformation. Ladies and gentlemen, this is
• 1:12:50
  the hardest part of a believers journey.
• 1:12:53
  I'm wrapping up the hardest part and there are three elements of
• 1:12:57
  transformation #1 is enlightenment #2 is renewal #3
• 1:13:03
  is conformity. These are the three elements of
• 1:13:06
  transformation. You cannot be transformed until
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  there is first enlightenment. Are we together?
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  Then there is renewal. What is renewal?
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  And editing of your thoughts and editing of your ideas and
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  editing of your value system. Not everything in your mind is
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  useless. Transformation is warfare.
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  Then conformity, the discipline of conformity.
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  How do you know a transformed believer?
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  There are many indices. The first is character.
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  Christ like character. Don't.
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  Stop there. So salvation is the first bus
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  stop. The next bus stop is
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  transformation. The third bus stop is
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  empowerment. If you stay transformed alone
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  and you are not empowered, you will know many things without
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  the anointing to prove them. You know God heals and you say
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  intelligently, but at the end of that Bible study, the sick
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  workout sick. Oh, I know.
• 1:14:03
  The gift of the Spirit can work powerfully at the end of it
• 1:14:07
  there are people in need of prophetic direction and nothing
• 1:14:10
  will come for them. Empowerment the.
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  Moment you encounter salvation. Transformation.
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  Empowerment. Your name changes from a
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  believer to a witness. A witness.
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  That's the goal. By the time you.
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  Become a witness. God can now begin to define the
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  geography of your assignment. He can trust you.
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  You see that now. Don't.
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  Don't keep yelling the issue of assignment to someone who is
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  just getting born again. He doesn't need assignment, He
• 1:14:44
  needs Jesus. When Jesus calls man, he does
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  not give them a mission. He calls them to himself.
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  Then he sends them to the nations.
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  It's like talking to a baby about marriage.
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  The baby will marry. 1. Day but the baby needs growth,
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  not marriage. Imagine that we are talking to a
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  four year old child about marriage and he said let me tell
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  you how it is with women and men.
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  That's a useless information to that child.
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  Passos, listen. The Holy Ghost.
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  I'm sorry for the time, just give me 5.
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  Minutes. But this is this is a mandate
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  that God has given me right now to be able to make contributions
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  to help strengthen people's understanding.
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  If we return. To the formula we will produce
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  mighty men. I'm telling you, mighty men,
• 1:15:33
  someone can be saved for 10 years in a.
• 1:15:35
  Church and not go through. Transformation or empowerment?
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  He only becomes an ordained child.
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  What do you think he would do with the members under his care?
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  When you become a witness, then you are ready to go to another
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  level. Now let me wrap up with this.
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  The Bible talks about something. Called the fullness of Christ.
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  The fullness of Christ or the fullness of God?
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  Please pastors, listen, I want to show you a formula.
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  God revealed. To me this formula should be the
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  cost content. In raising man, the.
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  Fullness of Christ. Have you ever heard of that
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  statement in the Bible? The Bible says that we come to
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  the unity of faith, to the fullness of the stature of the
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  measure of Christ. Every time you see a believer
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  lopsided, there is a. Dimension of Christ that was not
• 1:16:41
  formed in Him. Are we together?
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  Please listen. Everybody pastors, you can go.
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  Back and examine your members in light of.
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  What I've said, you will find out that I'm going to be
• 1:16:54
  describing the dimensions right now and this right here will
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  give you an. Answer.
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  To the lopsidedness of the spiritual products as believers
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  in Nigeria, in Africa and world over, any territory where you
• 1:17:12
  see there is no wholesomeness, there's no complete presentation
• 1:17:17
  of Christ. A dimension of the fullness of
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  God was omitted in raising those people.
• 1:17:23
  How many of you know without being in the kitchen you can
• 1:17:26
  taste the food at the dining table?
• 1:17:28
  I know that salt was omitted here because.
• 1:17:31
  Your taste buds were designed to detect it.
• 1:17:33
  You can. Look at it by observation and
• 1:17:36
  say where's the tomato, Where's this and that?
• 1:17:38
  And how many of you know that rife without entering the
• 1:17:40
  kitchen and without being prophetic from smelling the
• 1:17:43
  aroma, you can know fish is doing something in that kitchen.
• 1:17:47
  Are we together? They're seasoning somewhere
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  there. That's how it should be used.
• 1:17:51
  Your training should be like a fragrance.
• 1:17:53
  The people in your community should know that this pastor is
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  producing a desert texture. There is a quality of man that,
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  arising from that church, now watches everybody the fullness
• 1:18:06
  of Christ. Has 3 dimensions, and.
• 1:18:09
  This is every pastor's mission. Your sermons in his entirety
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  should revolve around this. Number one, the nature of
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  Christ. The nature of Christ.
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  The nature teachings that help build and manifest the nature of
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  Christ this is the first dimension of the fullness of
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  Christ every. Time there is a character
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  problem. This is the dimension that is
• 1:18:37
  missing. When you find people who are
• 1:18:39
  crooks, people who tell lies, people who are licentious,
• 1:18:44
  people who aren't on serious, this is the dimension that has
• 1:18:47
  not been formed. And if you omit that in your
• 1:18:49
  message, you will not produce a wholesome people who is
• 1:18:52
  learning. This is where they learn how to
• 1:18:54
  die to the flesh. This is where they learn
• 1:18:57
  consecration. And by the way, our teaching of
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  consecration in the body of Christ needs to be complete
• 1:19:05
  because our consecration has 2 dimensions.
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  There is. Abstinence from then there is
• 1:19:10
  devotion onto you. Cannot just stop at abstinence.
• 1:19:15
  Consecration has taught in scripture is abstinence from
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  then devotion onto. So that you have abstained does
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  not mean you are consecrated. It must tell in your devotion.
• 1:19:30
  Someone learning abstinence from.
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  And devotion onto you have abstained from sin, you have
• 1:19:38
  abstained from loss. But let me see the extent of
• 1:19:41
  your passion. The fact that you are not
• 1:19:44
  willfully committing sin, loss and all of that does not mean
• 1:19:48
  you are consecrated. I have to see where you have
• 1:19:50
  invested that energy. That's what completes your
• 1:19:55
  understanding of. Consecration are we?
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  Together, the nature of Christ this is.
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  The most important part, ladies and gentlemen, I submit to you.
• 1:20:06
  A non believer who is still. Full of flesh carnally.
• 1:20:09
  Minded. Does not need to learn about
• 1:20:11
  success. He needs to learn about death to
• 1:20:13
  the flesh. Empowering that person is only
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  destroying him. You are fueling lost.
• 1:20:18
  It is line up online in order of priority.
• 1:20:22
  That guy has no business trying to learn how to become
• 1:20:25
  influential. He needs Jesus.
• 1:20:27
  He needs to know how to die to the flesh.
• 1:20:30
  He needs to know how to crucify the flesh so that money will not
• 1:20:33
  tear him down South, that titles will not tear him down.
• 1:20:36
  Now the next dimension of the fullness of Christ.
• 1:20:38
  My time is up. I'm working on borrowed time is
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  called the wisdom of Christ. This is another place where we
• 1:20:46
  have missed it. The wisdom of Christ.
• 1:20:51
  So there are. Consecrated people who love God.
• 1:20:54
  They won't steal, they won't kill, they won't commit
• 1:20:58
  adultery, but they won't build anything.
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  And so they cannot see our relevance as light and salt.
• 1:21:04
  Jesus took the whole of John 15 to drum on the value of
• 1:21:09
  productivity. If you do not teach the wisdom
• 1:21:12
  of Christ and you do not build in the people the wisdom of
• 1:21:15
  Christ, you are going to have marriage crisis because bills
• 1:21:19
  will not be paid. You're going to have the people
• 1:21:22
  will never grow. You cannot make mighty men from
• 1:21:25
  your congregation. Insurance is a product of
• 1:21:29
  wisdom. Building anything is a product.
• 1:21:32
  Of wisdom power. We're wrapping up their power.
• 1:21:36
  Oh, I'm a firm believer in the power of God, Sir. 1 + 1 should
• 1:21:41
  be two. But when you are under.
• 1:21:44
  Attack Peter you can you can have the skill of fishing the
• 1:21:48
  boat, the net the right time and fish will refuse to enter your
• 1:21:52
  net about to pray. Now listen, ladies and
• 1:21:58
  gentlemen. With all due respect, and I have
• 1:22:00
  the liberty because I'm talking to pastors who are about to pray
• 1:22:04
  every problem you see in the body of Christ.
• 1:22:07
  Can be. Traced to the deficiency of 1.
• 1:22:12
  So the nature or the character of Christ?
• 1:22:16
  Plus the wisdom of Christ, plus the power of Christ equals the
• 1:22:23
  fullness of Christ. This is what we should produce
• 1:22:27
  in people. So if I come and teach people on
• 1:22:33
  character. You see that now.
• 1:22:36
  And I don't teach them the principles of the Kingdom.
• 1:22:39
  I don't show them these things. Let me tell you what will
• 1:22:41
  happen. The students in that church will
• 1:22:43
  fail in school. Although they love God, the men
• 1:22:46
  will not be able to take care of their.
• 1:22:47
  Wives, you won't be able to manage the marriage crisis, I'm
• 1:22:51
  telling. You that will be in that church,
• 1:22:54
  people will be beggarly, they will be poor, they will be
• 1:22:56
  broke, they would not have Kingdom influence and your
• 1:23:00
  church will tell only because they will not be able to pay the
• 1:23:03
  transport to come to church. Wisdom now there.
• 1:23:08
  Are those who have chosen wisdom alone, and they.
• 1:23:11
  Have brought teachings. Please listen.
• 1:23:12
  Everybody else, we pray. They brought teachings that sell
• 1:23:16
  the wisdom of Christ and they have produced mighty men
• 1:23:19
  intellectually, but they omitted character.
• 1:23:22
  So you find someone who can build a business in Ghana, but
• 1:23:25
  after two years you will hear that he's involved in fraud.
• 1:23:28
  You hear that He's. A cook because the fear of God
• 1:23:31
  is not there. He's called Yirat Adonai.
• 1:23:34
  He was supposed to start that lecture dying to the flesh.
• 1:23:37
  He can betray Jesus for $1 million one.
• 1:23:44
  We. Love our Judas and yet we forget
• 1:23:47
  that he has replicated it. I mean, many, many people have
• 1:23:50
  carried multiples of those things.
• 1:23:52
  Are you seeing that now? And then there are those.
• 1:23:57
  Who chose power and left wisdom? And left character.
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  And sometimes we pastors chose it because it is charismatic.
• 1:24:05
  So the gift of the Spirit is working, but the man has no
• 1:24:08
  character. The gift will attract noble and
• 1:24:12
  lofty people. But when they sit with you,
• 1:24:14
  there's no intelligence. They feel stupid being around
• 1:24:17
  you. So they come to be healed and
• 1:24:19
  they receive prophetic consultations and leave and
• 1:24:21
  carry their children to where they are wise men.
• 1:24:24
  And you say, oh, Bob, but apostle, they come and receive
• 1:24:27
  miracles. They receive miracles because
• 1:24:29
  power is there. But you do.
• 1:24:30
  Wisdom is what retains no CEO will carry his staff and come
• 1:24:36
  and become more foolish because he spent three hours in your
• 1:24:39
  church. No Sir.
• 1:24:41
  Do you know there are people that are wiser before they left
• 1:24:43
  home, as soon as they send the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
• 1:24:47
  five years of wisdom was subtracted from their head, from
• 1:24:50
  his service. I'm not being sarcastic and
• 1:24:54
  don't say it does not matter. Maybe.
• 1:24:56
  Young students can be around. Jumping because for young
• 1:24:59
  people, most of what they are thinking is power, but anybody
• 1:25:02
  who is thinking about the future of his children.
• 1:25:08
  Character plus his wisdom plus his power.
• 1:25:12
  Is the kind of believer God is looking for.
• 1:25:15
  Please everybody, listen to those who have.
• 1:25:20
  Emphasized character, but left wisdom.
• 1:25:23
  And left power, you can go back and complete it now to those who
• 1:25:27
  God has granted grace, you can teach the principles of the
• 1:25:30
  Kingdom. But the people don't pray, they
• 1:25:32
  don't fast. They can't even pray.
• 1:25:35
  They come fast. They would rather sow a seed to
• 1:25:38
  omit for praying and fasting. Then there are those who have
• 1:25:42
  power. If it is gift, someone can.
• 1:25:45
  Rise up from the wheelchair right now.
• 1:25:48
  And. By the next day they are
• 1:25:49
  somewhere smuggling themselves, watching pornography, or they
• 1:25:52
  have power. You don't like what I'm saying?
• 1:25:57
  We're wrapping up. We're wrapping up.
• 1:25:59
  I came in peace. So.
• 1:26:05
  Imagine that you release a witness.
• 1:26:07
  And the. Guy has wisdom.
• 1:26:09
  You know what wisdom does? Wisdom attracts, so kings come,
• 1:26:13
  but because he's not been. Taught to die in the flesh,
• 1:26:16
  he'll be looking. At the person's pocket, he'll be
• 1:26:18
  looking at this, he'll be looking at that.
• 1:26:20
  And there's no lasting. You see that now.
• 1:26:23
  The man who came with power. One prophetic word.
• 1:26:27
  And you find a billionaire would drive to his house.
• 1:26:29
  In the night and say kneel down, I saw you becoming a governor
• 1:26:32
  tomorrow. And after five months, a man
• 1:26:35
  becomes a governor, gives the young boy 1 billion because
• 1:26:38
  there's no wisdom he cannot build and because there's no
• 1:26:41
  character. I don't need to tell you those
• 1:26:43
  who spend that money, are you seeing the problem now?
• 1:26:46
  So it looks like. God blessed him to.
• 1:26:48
  Cause him what is the imbalance in his training?
• 1:26:52
  The most frustrated people in the body of Christ are.
• 1:26:55
  Those who have. Character without wisdom and
• 1:26:58
  power. They are the ones whose children
• 1:27:00
  have stopped serving God. Please listen as we wrap up.
• 1:27:04
  There is a generation. Meet any pastor who there.
• 1:27:07
  Is a Gen. Z, what they call them, Gen.
• 1:27:09
  Z, Gen. Gen.
• 1:27:12
  Alpha. Thank God for people like Pete
• 1:27:14
  Daniels and all the people that God is raising.
• 1:27:17
  I'm telling you as there is a crisis.
• 1:27:21
  The crisis is going to come where as a generation, many
• 1:27:24
  young people will cause God to their face because they saw
• 1:27:28
  their father. He never stole, he never pursued
• 1:27:31
  another woman, but he could not pay their school fees.
• 1:27:34
  He fasted till he died of sickness.
• 1:27:36
  Malaria killed your elder sister, malnutrition killed the
• 1:27:41
  younger one. And then?
• 1:27:42
  You come and tell. The young boy I present to you,
• 1:27:45
  Jesus, he says. Which one?
• 1:27:46
  If it's my father's Jesus, I'd rather choose an app because the
• 1:27:50
  app has proven to work all the time.
• 1:27:53
  I on the app and it does not fail.
• 1:27:58
  There's 8. Point 6 billion or 2 billion
• 1:28:01
  people on Earth. And Christianity is just a
• 1:28:04
  little over 2.6 billion, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:28:07
  But many technological apps that are less than 15 years have
• 1:28:11
  covered almost 1/3 the earth. They brought an idea that has
• 1:28:15
  permeated a generation even more than the idea of Jesus.
• 1:28:19
  It is the generation that will. Cause the nations to.
• 1:28:23
  Come to Jesus in Mass must be the generation that returns back
• 1:28:26
  to that architecture. Of the nature of Christ, the
• 1:28:31
  wisdom of Christ, and the power of Christ.
• 1:28:36
  Let me say that again. The nature of Christ, Character,
• 1:28:40
  the wisdom of Christ, the principles of the Kingdom, the
• 1:28:44
  power of Christ. Please rise upon your feet.
• 1:28:52
  You are the. Covenant keeping God.
• 1:28:59
  You are the coming and keeping God Yahweh.
• 1:29:09
  The covenant keeping God Yahweh. The covenant keeping.
• 1:29:18
  God, sing it one more time. Let it be from the depth of your
• 1:29:21
  heart. You are the covenant keeping
• 1:29:26
  God. You are the covenant keeping
• 1:29:39
  God. Beloved, blessed are your ears
• 1:29:52
  for the things you have heard. Please pray in one.
• 1:29:54
  Minute Father, grant me the grace as a wise master builder
• 1:29:59
  to build the fullness. Of Christ in all those you.
• 1:30:02
  Have. Trusted me with go ahead and
• 1:30:04
  pray. As a wise master builder.
• 1:30:07
  As a wise master builder. The.
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  Grace. You may not have a congregation.
• 1:30:13
  But. You have children.
• 1:30:15
  You are the priest over your home.
• 1:30:17
  You may not have a congregation. Let me tell you this.
• 1:30:20
  Look at me. Please look up, everybody.
• 1:30:21
  You pray. Gone are the days where you
• 1:30:26
  feel. Certain sermons only.
• 1:30:27
  Have a context in the House of God.
• 1:30:30
  You can be a CEO and create programs out of this thing I've
• 1:30:34
  said. You don't have to call it Jesus.
• 1:30:37
  Create programs that are tailored at character formation.
• 1:30:41
  Prey on the programs in your altar and then as a king you
• 1:30:44
  serve it. You can create programs that
• 1:30:47
  bring mastery to your people. Have 0 tolerance from mediocrity
• 1:30:52
  in your organization. Zero, I tell you, 00 and then
• 1:30:59
  power. The power part.
• 1:31:03
  The power part, spirituality, wears a body.
• 1:31:10
  To manifest on Earth. The name of the body
• 1:31:13
  spirituality wears is Science. The name of the body
• 1:31:17
  spirituality wears is. Arts the name.
• 1:31:19
  Of the body spirituality wears is technology.
• 1:31:23
  Spirituality cannot manifest until it wears one of these
• 1:31:26
  bodies. There are 6 comments
• 1:31:28
  spirituality wears to manifest on earth. 1 of it is science,
• 1:31:33
  the other is art. So whenever you are praying,
• 1:31:36
  when the world is about to become flesh, in theology we
• 1:31:39
  call it the law of conversion, you must know how to convert
• 1:31:42
  spiritual things in a context that blesses society.
• 1:31:47
  Hallelujah, we leave this one, for we have.
• 1:31:49
  A meeting in the evening so. By this this gather.
• 1:31:52
  Every call everybody in Lagos and tell them fire is burning on
• 1:31:56
  this mountain and let's feast in the Spirit tonight and trust God
• 1:32:00
  to take us to certain heights in the name of Jesus.
• 1:32:03
  I stand in faith with the man of God here and I speak over your
• 1:32:07
  life and over your ministry from today.
• 1:32:10
  May your ministry go forward, may your business go forward,
• 1:32:16
  may your family go forward. I decree and declare everywhere
• 1:32:21
  you have missed it according to this teaching.
• 1:32:24
  The grace to remedy for it I release upon you.
• 1:32:28
  May your life be a sign and a wonder.
• 1:32:30
  As a man of God you will raise mighty men in the name of Jesus.
• 1:32:35
  And every attack on your ministry, every attack on your
• 1:32:38
  business, every attack on your children, every attack on your
• 1:32:42
  career, every attack on your finances, in the name that is
• 1:32:46
  above all names we declared gives way.
• 1:32:49
  Now in Jesus name we pray, shout Amen three times.