Latest / Apostle Joshua Selman / The Lifting Power of True Humility
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- 0:10Speaker 1: And bless give men the spirit. The Sami says, bless
- 0:14the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me.
- 0:22Bless his name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and
- 0:27forget not his benefits. Someone praying chabrande Garsia. They go
- 0:38from strength to strength, as many as appear before the
- 0:42Lord in Zion. Father, we give you praise that we
- 1:00give you praise. Hey baras so baka Branda. Father, we
- 1:12give you praise in the name of Jesus, the son
- 1:16of the Living God lived your hands praying the spirit.
- 1:19Worship him in spirit and in truth. M h.
- 1:28Speaker 2: H h.
- 1:33Speaker 3: Yeah away yeah awhere? Yeah where yeah where? Hey yeah where?
- 1:58Yeah awhere?
- 2:07Speaker 1: Alleluyah. Father, we declare that we love you. We declare
- 2:16that we honor you. We declare that we need you. Tonight.
- 2:25We have come to learn, We have come to grow.
- 2:28We have come to encounter your grace, your love, your power,
- 2:36your wisdom, your light. Grant us illumination, grant us grace.
- 2:42We have come with hearts opened. We have come with
- 2:45meek hearts to receive. Lord. We pray that your world
- 2:50will come with such prevailing power, Let it transform us tonight.
- 2:56In the name of Jesus and Lord, we pray that
- 2:58whilst your word comes, let the sick be healed, let
- 3:04the oppressed be delivered. Let every yoke and every captivity
- 3:10bow to the name of Jesus Christ. And everything that
- 3:15has impeded your liberty in Christ, I pray that it
- 3:19will bow to the name of Jesus. To night, in
- 3:24the matchless name of Jesus Christ, Hallelujah, good evening, everybody,
- 3:29God bless you. Please be seated. Be seated. Just turn
- 3:36to someone by your left and right and just give
- 3:40them warm greetings from the throne room through your life
- 3:47to their destinies. In the name of Jesus. I want
- 3:56to start tonight by appreciating everyone and then appreciating our
- 4:05global family for the wonderful things that we do week
- 4:09in week out. It is on account of this, this
- 4:13coordinated efforts that many are able to hear and to receive.
- 4:19It is wanting to teach truth, but then the means
- 4:22to take it to those who need it must be
- 4:25there must be put in place for them to receive.
- 4:28And really want to celebrate our workforce, celebrate everyone who's
- 4:37part of this vision. Thank you in the name of Jesus.
- 4:41Christ alle lujah. The second function quickly, before we get
- 4:47to the world, I have to say this, this, This
- 4:52is the best platform to be able to present this.
- 4:54Speaker 3: Now.
- 4:55Speaker 1: I have been overwhelmed by and also home truly by
- 5:01the amount of people within this country and around the
- 5:06globe who are asking if the ministry is im backing
- 5:10on any project and if there's any account you know
- 5:14to just so, We've not announced any major project as
- 5:19a ministry, but it is very humbling how God has
- 5:22stared the hearts of people, and I mean consistently people
- 5:27continue to ask, how do we send this? And so
- 5:30I just thought to respond, Now, as a ministry where
- 5:33people of integrity and we hear the Lord, if there
- 5:36is no project on ground that necessitates the Body of
- 5:42Christ and our global family coming in to stand by
- 5:46us and with us in partnership, we are not going
- 5:48to bother anybody at all. Pray the name of the
- 5:51Lord by God's grace. Soon we will begin the various
- 5:57ministry projects. Remember we're just starting, so we need some
- 6:00time to stabilize focus on doctrine before we now begin
- 6:04to look out. So I'm saying this, especially to our
- 6:08international family, our international community, please just be patient, keep
- 6:14your ears open, follow our social media platforms. By God's grace,
- 6:19when we're set with everything, there will be a dedicated
- 6:21account for cod on your project. I will announce it
- 6:25myself so that the whole world will know that this
- 6:29are the channels for any partnerships that will come from
- 6:33around the world. And then I'm also saying this so
- 6:36that we manage the very the war now that we've
- 6:43been fighting for years. We have all kinds of cammers
- 6:48who will cash in on the sincerity of people like
- 6:51this and now begin to come up with all kinds
- 6:54of things. So I'm saying it right now, there is
- 6:57only one Joshua Selman account and one coin Onia account,
- 7:02one bank, one account number globally that we have released
- 7:07for any seeds, any givings at all, whether it is
- 7:13a seed to my life or it's a seat to
- 7:14the ministry, doesn't matter. Any other person bringing any other
- 7:19account and lying with all kinds of projects, whether it's
- 7:24a charitable project, building project, and whatever it is. Please,
- 7:29I'm saying it in the open. Theirs Commas, they are
- 7:32fraud stars. We are people of integrity, and all those
- 7:37asking that you purporting to be Joshua Sellman that you're
- 7:41sending some money for prophecy, are not me.
- 7:46Speaker 4: The fact that they have the time to attend to
- 7:49you is a sign that they are liars.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Hallelujah. And and I can assure you that our security
- 8:02operatives are working in partnership with the media. We are
- 8:07in the twenty first century, and we're intelligent people who
- 8:10are not just spiritual people, who will not fail to deploy,
- 8:13as God grants us grace, all of the security measures
- 8:16to make sure that we continue to defend the integrity
- 8:19of the gospel that we have communicated so far. So
- 8:26I think this is a caution. Please be patient. I
- 8:30know that there are many I receive reports how that
- 8:32there are people sometimes who come around and say, the
- 8:35Lord sent me to sow for coinnonial land conon your building.
- 8:39Just be patient. By the grace of God, I can
- 8:43assure you that when it is time, we're going to
- 8:46give everybody an opportunity to be part of what God
- 8:48is doing. But for now, any other seed that God
- 8:51puts in your heart, you can always do that. The
- 8:54account details are there, but please don't fall prey to
- 8:58any project that is out of what we're doing. Right now.
- 9:03The project we're on now is the project of encounters, transformation, healing, deliverance,
- 9:10and changing lives. So if someone calls you and says
- 9:17healing is going on, believe them, transformation is going on.
- 9:21Believe them, fire is falling. Believe them souls have been saved.
- 9:25Believe them some charity somewhere. They are scammers. Immediately away. Together, Father,
- 9:32continue to protect your name, Continue to grant us the
- 9:37grace and the wisdom to see that Jesus remains lifted.
- 9:41And we pray that you touch the heart of some
- 9:43of these people. We believe that for many of them
- 9:45intrinsicallydia sincere, people who may have been frustrated. We pray
- 9:50that you bring them to the saving knowledge of Jesus.
- 9:53In Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen allelujah. Are
- 10:00you ready for the world tonight? I love the world
- 10:04of God because it transforms, It can change, It can
- 10:10bring illumination, it can empower, it can bless it can lift,
- 10:17It gives you wisdom in Jesus' name. Let me start
- 10:24tonight by sharing two or three thoughts that were burning
- 10:27in my heart while I was preparing the message for
- 10:31this night. I was contemplating on a number of things,
- 10:36and I just thought, because God has granted us the
- 10:39honor and the privilege of having quite significant participation during
- 10:45our services, I thought it was a good platform to
- 10:48just share this one or two contemplations and then the
- 10:52leaders into the teaching tonight. So please pay attention Number one.
- 10:58I wrote here that one of the greatest needs in
- 11:02the Body of Christ today, One of the greatest needs
- 11:07in the Body of Christ today and in society at large,
- 11:12is discipleship. One of the greatest needs in the Body
- 11:18of Christ today and by extension in society, is the
- 11:24need for discipleship. What is discipleship methodical mentorship that leads
- 11:31people to become christ Like and to become responsible discipleship.
- 11:39Please look up. This is very important. The Lord began
- 11:43to burn in my heart again the need to drum
- 11:47this that one of the major needs in the Body
- 11:52of Christ today is discipleship. You see when new converts
- 12:02or those who just get born again, if and when
- 12:06they are not discipled, eventually the gaps in their spiritual
- 12:11understanding and the fact that the flesh is so alive
- 12:17will make them easy praise for the devil to come
- 12:20into partnership with their unrenewed minds and cause a lot
- 12:25of trouble. Fast in the body of Christ and then
- 12:28by extension in society. Are we together? This is very,
- 12:32very important. When new converts are not discipled, they will
- 12:37eventually become problems, first to the church and then to
- 12:42the larger community. Let me tell you this. Every national problem,
- 12:48please look up, Every national problem was faced a regional
- 12:54problem that was not managed properly. Every regional problem was
- 13:00once upon a time, a family problem that was not
- 13:04managed effectively. And every family problem was once an individual problem.
- 13:10You see how nations are destroyed. So an individual who
- 13:15is not discipled creates trouble in a family that is
- 13:20not discipled, creates trouble in a society or a region
- 13:24that is not discipled. Eventually that individual will constitute a
- 13:31nuisance to not only family, not only society, but to
- 13:36the nation and even the continent at large. Most of
- 13:40the people today that trouble civilization, trouble the peace and
- 13:44tranquility of territories. All of them come from home. And
- 13:48they did not just evolve into trouble makers of all kinds.
- 13:52Individuals when they are saved and their understanding is not
- 13:56so constructed, especially for believers. They may have given their
- 14:02lives to Christ, but we know that just giving your
- 14:06life to Christ, this is entry into the kingdom. Imagine
- 14:10with me, for instance, that a woman gives bed to
- 14:12a baby and throws the baby down. Most often than not,
- 14:16that child will most likely be a hooligan or will
- 14:19be a trouble maker eventually. Why because the opportunity to
- 14:24have proper parenting or bringing is not there. You can
- 14:31solve the problem of a nation very easily if you
- 14:35understand the dynamics of how problems are created. They fes
- 14:40start at an individual level. Then if left unchecked and
- 14:46not dealt with it, they graduate into problems in families,
- 14:51then from families.
- 14:52Speaker 4: When those individuals are now sent from.
- 14:54Speaker 1: Those families, they become troubles to society, communities, and to regions.
- 15:00And if left on check, they will rise to become
- 15:04national people who multiply the same problem. And these are
- 15:08the kinds of conditions that demon spirits look for. They
- 15:11look for individuals with no platform for discipleship. They look
- 15:16for families with no codes of conduct, no models or parandi.
- 15:20Anything just happens. They look for territories that are lawless.
- 15:24They look for nations with no law. This is how
- 15:27people are destroyed. It is very easy to destroy a nation.
- 15:33It is very easy to destroy a family. It is
- 15:37very easy to destroy a territory. All you need to
- 15:40do is ig not discipleship at an individual level. Just
- 15:45let people do anything they want to do unchecked for
- 15:49a while. It to look like they know what they
- 15:51are doing, until you begin to see the damage to
- 15:53the family, to territory, to society, and to the nation together.
- 16:00So at the heart of transformation is discipleship. That is it.
- 16:07If we want to change this nation, we want to
- 16:10change Africa, we must obtain grace and wisdom from God.
- 16:15To get back into the subject of methodical mentorship discipleship,
- 16:22at least for a start, we can start with younger believers.
- 16:26This has been a mistake that most people have made,
- 16:29respectfully speaking, especially those in the mission field. We focus
- 16:33so much about soul winning missions, and that is wonderful,
- 16:38but there is no system to manage these people when
- 16:41they are saved. At best, we just tell them go
- 16:44to this church. And when they get to the church,
- 16:48if the church does not have a structure a teaching
- 16:52priests to now begin to help those people they're in trouble,
- 16:55because when those people sit there, the flesh wants to
- 16:59find the ex depression and because there is no system
- 17:02to keep dealing with it. I tell you, eventually you
- 17:05are going to see all shades of trouble, the headache
- 17:11that the Man of God will go through because of
- 17:13people that are saved, and they just pile them into
- 17:16the church. No growth, no development, And this is how
- 17:21you keep having all this trouble everywhere. Are we blessed?
- 17:28This is not my salmon, nor this is a burden.
- 17:31Let me just offload that one. Then will get to
- 17:33the salmon for tonight. Are we together? Discipleship therefore is
- 17:43the foundation for true and lasting transformation in individuals, families, institutions,
- 17:53and nations. Let me repeat myself, Discipleship therefore, by reason
- 17:59of their fore mentioned discipleship therefore is the foundation for
- 18:04true and lasting transformation in individuals, common families, institutions, and nations.
- 18:18We must restore the system of discipleship. My second thought,
- 18:28are you ready for the second one? To be uninformed
- 18:34I wrote here is bad, but to be misinformed is worst.
- 18:43Speaker 4: To be uninformed is bad. Ignorance is a terrible thing
- 18:48at any level.
- 18:49Speaker 1: To be uninformed is bad, but to be misinformed is worst.
- 18:57Please write it and look up. This is very true.
- 19:00To be uninformed is very bad. Ignorance is terrible. It
- 19:03can cost you a lot, including your life. But the
- 19:06most serious trouble is to be misinformed. When you meet
- 19:11someone who is ignorant, the person does not necessarily need renewal.
- 19:16The person just needs information that produces transformation. Is that true?
- 19:20But when you meet someone who is ill informed or misinformed,
- 19:25you need renewal first before you now begin the journey
- 19:29of transformation. Someone who has not begun a journey, he
- 19:33does not need to turn back. You just need to
- 19:35direct the person to the right place and he fires on.
- 19:37But one who has feared of so far, they will
- 19:41need to come back to that point before you now
- 19:43point him to the right direction.
- 19:46Speaker 5: This leads This leads me to.
- 19:51Speaker 1: This next point. We must examine the content, the content
- 19:59of our things and.
- 20:01Speaker 4: The content we use to mentor people.
- 20:04Speaker 1: Because I have spoken now about the need for discipleship,
- 20:09but there are many people who are in trouble today
- 20:12because they are submitted to discipleship. They are submitted to discipleship,
- 20:17but the content was inaccurate, largely unscriptural. So inasmuch as
- 20:25we advocate discipleship to help people, most people, you only
- 20:29train people from from the residue of your own philosophies
- 20:34and your own ideologies. And if your ideology is wrong,
- 20:38as an individual, as a parent, as a man of God,
- 20:42you will communicate that error to people. Now, let me
- 20:46tell you this, Sincerity does not necessarily mean truthfulness. Just
- 20:52because people are sincere does not mean that they are right.
- 20:58Most of the error and the trouble, the imbalances that
- 21:01they come from sincere people, especially the one that comes
- 21:05from we preachers.
- 21:06Speaker 4: We may be sincere, and so most people.
- 21:09Speaker 1: Believe those informations in honor to the sincerity of the
- 21:13man of God, not the truthfulness of the content. I
- 21:18can teach a lie, I can teach something that is
- 21:21imbalanced or false. And just because you perceive me to
- 21:25be a sincere people, a sincere person in honor to
- 21:29my sincerity, you will now swallow up the eraor that
- 21:32I'm teaching. I may be sincere, but it does not
- 21:35automatically mean that what I'm saying is right. More than sincerity,
- 21:41we must obtain grace from God to seek truth. What
- 21:46delivers is not sincerity. It says ye shall know the truth,
- 21:50and the truth shall make you free. Many sincere people
- 21:54are destroying the purposes of God. Many sincere people are
- 21:58destroying God's difine patterns and divine order. So in addition
- 22:04to sincerity, which is commendable, we must press for truth.
- 22:10The content of our mentorship must be scriptural. It must
- 22:15be balanced. It must be communicated with intention and intelligence
- 22:20to be able to raise and kill the people of stature. Otherwise,
- 22:24who keep having these shades of lobsidedness spiritual lobsidedness. So
- 22:33two burdens tonight. One is that at the back of
- 22:38every transformation, national transformation, regional family is the need for mentorship.
- 22:46Everybody here comes from a family. Many people here are parents.
- 22:51We can start by being intentional. Don't just allow people
- 22:55do what they want to do, allow children do what
- 22:57they do. I know that we live in times where
- 23:00you know, people just have their ideas. But you see,
- 23:04this Bible is our manual for a life of victory.
- 23:09Let God be true, and all men liars Allelujah, Praise
- 23:15the Lord. I prepared a powerful someone. I'm waiting for
- 23:21the day God to grant me grace to teach it.
- 23:24I look forward to teaching it in a men's meeting
- 23:28or teaching it. So let me give you a teaser.
- 23:30It's on inheritance. What exactly is an inheritance? That's the
- 23:37teaser everybody well eventually hate. But it was designed for fathers, husbands, leaders, men.
- 23:50So when the Bible says a good man leaves an inheritance,
- 23:53what does the Bible say to live? Because many of
- 23:57what we leave that we call inheritance is not inheritance.
- 24:03Show us the ancient paths? Will you lead us alone?
- 24:09Speaker 6: Eternal highway? We want to fall the ways of Jesus.
- 24:18We want to went your rest.
- 24:23Speaker 4: Shows the ancient paths?
- 24:28Speaker 1: Will you lead us alone?
- 24:31Speaker 4: It turnal highway?
- 24:34Speaker 7: We want to fallow the foodsteps of Jesus.
- 24:40Speaker 1: We want to win. So the moment you find out
- 24:48that you are ignorant in an area and you are
- 24:50searching for light, your first assignment is not a reception.
- 24:54Your first assignment is verification. What I'm about to open
- 24:58my heart too? Is it? Indeed, it takes a lot
- 25:04of time to submit yourself to knowledge. It also takes
- 25:07a lot of time to undo the wrong that you
- 25:10have learned. My greatest prayer as a man of God.
- 25:14It's not just for science and wonders and miracles and
- 25:17the prophetic is that I do not teach God's people
- 25:20a lie and cause nations and millions of people to
- 25:24believe a lie. And then after ten twenty years I
- 25:28now realize is the truth. Then I change alone and
- 25:31leave the people to suffer. Are we together? So I
- 25:43remain committed, by the privilege of God's grace to make
- 25:47sure that the truths that we hear and the truths
- 25:50that come from this altar are truths that are true,
- 25:54indeed scriptural, life applicable mysteries of the Kingdom that will
- 26:00all together build the believer spiritually and then in every
- 26:05other sense. This is why we are here.
- 26:08Speaker 4: The day we fail in.
- 26:09Speaker 1: This assignment, there is no need for you to come
- 26:11here again, because we'll be wasting your time. That any
- 26:14time you come and what you hear are not life
- 26:17applicable truths sound from Scripture, doctrinally balanced and communicated with intelligence.
- 26:25There is no need doing any church again. Any other
- 26:27thing that is left is religion. The greatest honor to
- 26:32your time and your sacrifice. While you sit here, people
- 26:35come right from you know, whatever time, the greatest honor
- 26:39is to make sure that we, as ministers of the
- 26:41Gospel do our best within the boundary of the grace
- 26:46that has been given to us. We ourselves as students
- 26:49in the school of the Spirit. But you see, this
- 26:52is where the mystery of the Body of Christ comes,
- 26:54so that the dimension you do not see clearly. If
- 26:57you sustain the humility of art, there is and not
- 27:00the angle to it that can help you to find balance. Allelujah,
- 27:07Praise the Lord. Now for the war tonight, please pray
- 27:11in one minute, Lord, grant me grace, open my eyes
- 27:15to the mystery that will come from heaven. Hey, la
- 27:23parus cut their brain negative a lacata. My life is
- 27:25about to change in the name of Jesus. My destiny
- 27:29is about to be transformed. Truth is coming to me, it.
- 27:33Speaker 4: Says right prosperously because of truth.
- 27:43Speaker 1: Allelujah. Tonight, I bring you a mystery that will transform
- 27:49your life in no small way. I bring you a
- 27:52kingdom truth that has been responsible for the enviable rising
- 27:58and excelling of many the kingdom. Remember, the Lord gave
- 28:02an instruction, and for those of you who are just
- 28:04connecting today, we're teaching truths that relates to the graces
- 28:09that are at work in this house, to the end
- 28:11that we become partakers of disgrace through light, through knowledge
- 28:16more than just impartition of anointing.
- 28:19Speaker 4: The knowledge that sponsors the coming and the staying and.
- 28:24Speaker 1: Even the multiplication of those graces is what we've been
- 28:27dispensing a weay together now. So importation is almost useless
- 28:31when there is no knowledge base to receive that power.
- 28:36When you just lay hands on people or just transfer
- 28:39anointings is like pouring water in a cop that has
- 28:42a hole, or pouring water on the ground, it may
- 28:46not stay. Knowledge spiritual illumination becomes a container that receives
- 28:51that importation. That way it will stay, and it will
- 28:55not only stay, it will multiply away. Together. This is
- 29:01one of the secrets that God taught me. I have
- 29:05watched it in the life of great people. I have
- 29:08seen it in the Bible. I have watched those who
- 29:11violated this principle pay for it. I have watched people
- 29:15who are not this principle rise. And it is my
- 29:18prayer and my sincere desire tonight that God will find
- 29:22somebody in this place who will place value on this
- 29:26mystery and that you will rise in a way that
- 29:29will surprise you. In the name of Jesus Christ, the
- 29:34lifting power of true humility. Write it down, please, the
- 29:41lifting power of true humility. I want to share with
- 29:47you a very deep mystery tonight. Please pay attention. Don't
- 29:52allow anyone distract you. Our global family, avoid any distraction,
- 29:57and just settle down with Jesus and let us learn
- 30:00the ways of the kingdom. Let's access the keys and
- 30:03the mysteries that are responsible for extra ordinary, supernatural growth,
- 30:10supernatural increase in this kingdom. Allelujah, the lifting power of
- 30:18true humility.
- 30:22Speaker 4: The goal of this discussion tonight is to connect.
- 30:25Speaker 1: Believers to and with the grace for lifting by exposing
- 30:33the danger of pride and revealing to you from scripture
- 30:37the character and the excellency of a life.
- 30:41Speaker 4: Of true humility. Praise the name of the Lord.
- 30:49Speaker 1: M three scriptures and will begin our discussion tonight. James
- 30:57chapter four and verse six. James, Chapter four and verse six.
- 31:04The Bible says, but he give it more grace. Everyone
- 31:07says more grace. He give it more grace. The first
- 31:12information here is that whatever God gives you, he can
- 31:15give you more of it. That whatever God gives you
- 31:19is not the last level that He intends to give.
- 31:21Everything God gives is a seed that can be multiplied.
- 31:25Everything God gives there is more of it. When God
- 31:28gives you wisdom, there can be more wisdom. When God
- 31:31gives you power, there can be more power. When God
- 31:34lifts you, there can be more lifting. So the first information,
- 31:38he give it more. He give it more, more membership,
- 31:45more revelation, more financial resources, more wisdom, more of his
- 31:52ability to keep you long. We call it longevity. Whatever
- 31:57comes from God that is given to you, it's not
- 32:01the last of it that he can give.
- 32:04Speaker 4: He giveth more grace. He giveth more grace.
- 32:09Speaker 1: This is a powerful information that means anything that I
- 32:13need more of in my life, the Bible gives me
- 32:16a consolation that I can find more of it. There
- 32:18is a possibility for having more of everything that you
- 32:21currently have. There is a possibility for transitting beyond the
- 32:26current realm that you now occupy spiritually, financially, physically, in leadership,
- 32:32in influence, et cetera. Away Together He give it more grace.
- 32:37Wherefore he said, who is the he talking? The one
- 32:39who gives the more grace. Whatever the onor of anything
- 32:43is saying, you pay attention to it if you really
- 32:46want it. So the giver of this more grace says,
- 32:50God resisted the proud, but he gives grace. So first information,
- 32:59he gives me more grace. Second information, he tells you
- 33:03the candidate. He gives that more grace to are we together?
- 33:07Now he give it more grace. Wherefore he say it,
- 33:12God resisted the proud, but he give it more grace.
- 33:18In any case, both the proud and the humble have
- 33:20something that comes from God to them. Are you seeing it?
- 33:24Speaker 6: Now?
- 33:24Speaker 1: Proud people have some They have something that comes to
- 33:27them from God. The Bible says resistance. God can bring
- 33:32resistance to a man's life. And then the Bible says
- 33:36for the humble, he brings more grace. Second scripture, Philippians,
- 33:41chapter two and verse three. Philippians two and verse three.
- 33:47Let me read very quickly. Let nothing be done, it says,
- 33:51through strife of vain glory. Very interesting expression. Let nothing
- 33:57be done through strife or vain glades, but in lonliness
- 34:01of mind, let each esteem other better than themselves. Let
- 34:08me repeat it one more time. Let nothing be done, true,
- 34:11strive of vain glory, but in lowliness of mind. Let
- 34:15each esteem other better than themselves. Very self explanatory, very clear.
- 34:21That nothing be done in strife of vein glory, but
- 34:26in lowliness. It tells you that anything is truly profitable
- 34:29when it is done in loneliness of mind. Last scripture,
- 34:35first Peter, chapter five and verse six. The apostib is
- 34:38teaching now, First Peter, chapter five and verse six.
- 34:42Speaker 4: Here's what he says.
- 34:43Speaker 1: Humble yourself, dear, four, on that the mighty hand of God.
- 34:50Humble yourself there four, under the mighty hand of God, why.
- 34:56Speaker 4: That he may exalt you. Someone say exaltation.
- 35:00Speaker 1: One more time, say exaltation, It says, humble yourself therefore,
- 35:04under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt
- 35:09you in due time. Humble yourself therefore, under the mighty
- 35:15hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
- 35:19Let's begin our discussion. I want to start with a
- 35:23concept that I call the deceitfulness of pride. Let's examine
- 35:31the subject of pride. Exactly is pride and why is
- 35:34it such a serious issue in my life and in
- 35:38your life? Why do we have to battle and wrestle
- 35:41with this concept, this idea of pride. Where did it
- 35:44come from? Why is pride? You know negative habits, But
- 35:48this pride thing, it seems to have a bulldog strength
- 35:53that holds onto the like us to deal with the
- 35:56subject of pride dimension. And then the second the psychological dimension,
- 36:03because when it has to do with pride, demon spirits
- 36:06come to fortify a belief system so that they cause
- 36:10you to remain in that state.
- 36:11Speaker 4: You see there for that spirit to be fruitful in
- 36:15the life of its victim.
- 36:18Speaker 1: As with the manifestation of all other spirits, the lot
- 36:21at all is condition dependent, including the Holy Spirit. No
- 36:26spirit come veto into man and just begin to carry
- 36:31out activities from that spirit. Pride is one of them.
- 36:35If you're together, say Amen, allelujah. The Bible talks about
- 36:43the idea of pride and how deadly and how dangerous
- 36:48it is.
- 36:49Speaker 4: Full talks about pride.
- 36:51Speaker 1: It always connects it with destruction, It always connects it
- 36:55with folly, It always connects it with all kinds of things.
- 37:00There is no mention of pride and lifting together. There
- 37:03is no mention of pride and increase together. From Genesis
- 37:08to Revelation, every time the Bible mentions pride, either directly
- 37:13in scripture or through the similitude of a story or
- 37:16in parable the ones who are victims of that pride,
- 37:21if there is no repentance, and there is no brokenness
- 37:24and conversion, they will always end up worse than the
- 37:27story started with them. Pride a killer, a destroyer of
- 37:33many destinies. Today, many destinies have not only remained at
- 37:39that level, but gone down shamefully so for many because
- 37:43of this danger of pride. Are we together now? I
- 37:50want to just delve a bit into a concept of
- 37:56the human nature. Let's discuss a bit on psychology, and
- 37:59then our back to my teaching.
- 38:01Speaker 4: This is very important.
- 38:02Speaker 1: You cannot truly truly understand pride until you understand the
- 38:07human nature. Please pay attention.
- 38:10Speaker 4: We're here to learn.
- 38:11Speaker 1: The Church of God is an institution of learning scriptural context,
- 38:15but we borrow fields of study and intelligence to help
- 38:19give credence to what we're discussing. Are we together now?
- 38:22Many believers think that all it takes to being free
- 38:26from some of these things is just knowing that God
- 38:29delivers and God sets free. You have to understand pride
- 38:33from a psychological dimension. Why do people fall victim of
- 38:39this thing that the Bible calls pride. You must understand
- 38:44the reality of the human nature. Please follow me very
- 38:49carefully as we open up ourselves to ourselves to understand
- 38:53what is the motivation behind the activities that we do. Allelujah.
- 38:58I studied these years ago and it changed my life,
- 39:01and I had the honor of looking through it again
- 39:03whilst preparing for this note.
- 39:07Speaker 4: Now, every human being.
- 39:09Speaker 1: The Bible tells us that man is tripatite in expression.
- 39:13Man is a spirit, the Bible says, and that spirit
- 39:17lives in a body, and connecting that spirit and body
- 39:22is a faculty that we call the mind. Is that true?
- 39:25That the spirit in partnership with the mind is what
- 39:27you call a soul? Are we together now, yes?
- 39:30Speaker 4: And that the mind of man has three compartments.
- 39:34Speaker 1: Psychologists tell us, and even the Bible attends to that
- 39:37the will, emotions, and intellect, And that all of these
- 39:43faculties of expression help to They help man to interact
- 39:49with this duality of realms. That even though man is
- 39:52in the physical, he can interact with the realm of
- 39:55the spirit or any realm. Are both the three dimensional
- 39:58rem by the means of these faculties. If the mind
- 40:02were to be taken away from the man, there will
- 40:04be a disconnect between the body and the spirit. And
- 40:08we know that the body is merely an instrument of execution.
- 40:12Is that true? The body does not have a will
- 40:15on its own. Religion agrees to that. Science agrees to
- 40:18that the body in itself does not have any power
- 40:24to execute. That is the reason why when a spirit
- 40:27leaves a body, that body lies lifeless and begins to
- 40:30deteriorate and begins to decompose, because it has no life
- 40:34and power on its own. The body is merely a
- 40:37biological instrument that executes realities that have been agreed upon
- 40:43the spirit through the faculties of the mind. This is
- 40:46very important. You have to understand that men are not
- 40:50just spirits. Please listen, Men are not just spirits. They
- 40:54interact with this realm through the mind. That means there
- 41:00is a psychological composition to every man born of a woman.
- 41:06There is a psychological composition to every man born of
- 41:11a woman. Now, across several colleges, universities, there have been
- 41:18all kinds of psychologists who have done all kinds of
- 41:22research work on man, this entity called man. They have
- 41:26approached it from a sociological standpoint, they have approached it
- 41:30from a religious standpoint, they have approached it from a
- 41:33biological standpoint, and attempts to unravel this entity called man
- 41:38to be able to study what it is that is
- 41:40responsible for some of the ills that happen to men.
- 41:45And so different people who have written all kinds of
- 41:48dissertations in an attempt to contribute to this knowledge. And
- 41:53one of them would be would take for reference, just
- 41:57one of them, a behavioral psychology just a professor called
- 42:02Abraham Maslow, Abraham Harold Maslow, and he was a behavioral psychologist.
- 42:11He was a professor of psychology, and he lived from
- 42:14nineteen o eight to nineteen seventy. He postulated a theory
- 42:20called the theory of motivation that eventually brought what we
- 42:24have known in the psychology world today as the hierarchy
- 42:27of needs. Abraham Maslow, he brought the hierarchy of needs.
- 42:31It was an attempt to describe human behavior. He wanted
- 42:36to describe the motivation behind the activities of men on earth,
- 42:40so that he would now be able to help us
- 42:43make sense of why men do what they do, why
- 42:47men act the way they act, why men go where
- 42:50they go away together. Now, this was a very very
- 42:54successful work because it helped to frame intelligence. Businesses today
- 42:59run on these principles. Their understanding of human psychology has
- 43:04helped them to build products, help them to build all
- 43:07kinds of platforms based on this.
- 43:09Speaker 4: So we're going to look at.
- 43:10Speaker 1: It very briefly. He postulated a theory of the theory
- 43:17of needs, the hierarchy of needs. I meant to say,
- 43:21this is very important, the theory of motivation, and from
- 43:25it came the hierarchy of needs.
- 43:27Speaker 4: I won't dwell so much. I just want to give
- 43:29us a basic understanding.
- 43:31Speaker 1: Now, there are all kinds of intelligent people here, intellectuals,
- 43:35and I'm not speaking as a professor or authority. I
- 43:39was just a good student who studied some of this
- 43:42in an attempt to prepare a message and preach. I
- 43:46have to put that disclaimer. We live in a world
- 43:48that is very civilized now, so please understand that I'm
- 43:52not teaching as any authority with any qualification around psychology.
- 43:56Speaker 4: We're interacting with the whole world.
- 43:58Speaker 1: I am merely a student who as an attempt in
- 44:01an attempt to make sure that I helped my people
- 44:04understand the gospel and this dimension. I delved into that
- 44:07understanding to bring forth something is that true that will
- 44:10help you relate to it. So this is very important,
- 44:15Thank you al lujah. But then you can trust what
- 44:19I'm saying because they are not my ideas. This is
- 44:21well researched by God's grace. Were serious people, were very
- 44:26serious people in the name of Jesus Christ.
- 44:29Speaker 4: Now, please, media help me. I gave the media an assignment.
- 44:33Speaker 1: If you can project this a little, this is a
- 44:36pyramid that was a representation of Maslow's Masslow's hierarchy of needs.
- 44:45It was an attempt to show the motivation behind human
- 44:48behavior from the greatest to the least. That means that
- 44:53all men are driven by these factors. Right there at
- 44:57the base of the pyramid, we have the greatest need
- 45:01of man. He calls it psychological needs. Another word for
- 45:06it is basic needs. So at the base of the pyramid,
- 45:10the largest part of the pyramid, for those of you
- 45:12who I hope that you're seeing it is wide and
- 45:14clear enough. But just to touch on them, he says
- 45:18that all men, the urgency that men expressing their lives
- 45:24is primarily to be able to achieve their psychological.
- 45:28Speaker 4: Or basic needs first.
- 45:30Speaker 1: That means, in order of priority, a dying man is
- 45:35not looking for real estate. A dying man is looking
- 45:38for air to breathe. When he can breathe air, then
- 45:41he needs water. When he finds water, he can now
- 45:44find food. Is that true? When he can now find food,
- 45:47he now realizes his naked and he wants clothes. Are
- 45:50you seeing now? In that order of priority. If he
- 45:53has clothes, he now realizes that he needs shelter. So
- 45:56he's saying that in order of priority, a man who
- 46:00is looking for a house, if you strip that man naked,
- 46:04the issue of house becomes a non issue.
- 46:07Speaker 4: He tries to cover his nakedness. Are we together now?
- 46:10Speaker 1: If that man who is naked is so thirsty to
- 46:14the point of death, he will not mind nakedness again,
- 46:17because the thirst becomes a priority. Is that true? And
- 46:21the man who is hungry and thirsty, if something happens
- 46:26and he's going to be staffed of air, he does
- 46:28not mind hunger.
- 46:29Speaker 4: He first wants to leave.
- 46:31Speaker 1: So Abraham Maslow was saying that there is a motivation
- 46:34behind human needs. All men, their first need is the
- 46:39basic need or the psychological need. I will show you
- 46:44how this connects to pride. Psychological needs or basic needs,
- 46:47include the biological requirements for human survival. That is the
- 46:53first most important need in the flesh now of every man.
- 46:57The need for air, the need for water, the need
- 47:00for food, the need for shelter, the need for sleep,
- 47:03the need for clothing. All of these things come under
- 47:06the basic needs. By basic there, it means they are
- 47:10foundational and any other thing can fail. But this. Men
- 47:14will kill to make sure they have this. Men will
- 47:18fight one another to make sure they have this. Are
- 47:20we together quickly? Let's go to the second part of
- 47:23the pyramid in ascending order. The second you see it
- 47:26from there is called safety needs. That means when your
- 47:30basic needs are met and you don't have a problem
- 47:33with food again, you don't have a problem with shelter,
- 47:35You don't have a.
- 47:36Speaker 4: Problem with.
- 47:38Speaker 1: Sleep or clothing, your needs, your motivation now increases. Your
- 47:43next need becomes your safety needs. Security and safety now
- 47:48becomes your priority. People now want to experience control, predictability,
- 47:54and order in their lives. So you an now start
- 47:56thinking of employment. You announctart, thinking of your health. You
- 48:00now start thinking of personal security. There are people today
- 48:03who are not thinking of employment, They're thinking survival. There
- 48:06are people today who are not thinking health. It's amazing
- 48:10how that as we grow. Once upon a time in
- 48:13my life I would never think about health. To stay healthy,
- 48:17avoid this food. I mean, the issue is to make
- 48:20sure that you eat well like you are happy. But
- 48:23there is a level you get to where that is solved.
- 48:25Now you have to need a gym. Now you have
- 48:28to need a gym instructor to help you manage your health.
- 48:31Why because those needs are right? Is that true? They
- 48:35now tell you avoid this, avoid that, avoid that for
- 48:38the sake of your health. So the next need is
- 48:40your safety need. You want control and predicted. Nobody just
- 48:44comes to waste your life. Now, if you have this
- 48:47in place, the third part of the pyramid, please let's
- 48:49hurry up. The third is called.
- 48:53Speaker 4: Esteem.
- 48:54Speaker 1: Okay okay, This one says belongingness and love needs. I
- 48:58call it love and accepts needs. Isn't it amazing? It
- 49:03starts with basic needs, you don't want to die. Once
- 49:06youve solved that, then you now move to security needs.
- 49:10Once security needs are in place, the next is now
- 49:13the need for love and acceptance. We call them social needs. Generally,
- 49:18the need to feel loved, the need to feel accepted.
- 49:22So now you begin to pay attention to relationships, friendships, family,
- 49:28and you now want to connect to groups, all kinds
- 49:30of groups and clubs and societies because you want that
- 49:35sense of belonging. You want that sense of acceptance. Notice
- 49:39the ascension that the basic and most desperate of your
- 49:42need is to eat sleep. Once that is solved, the
- 49:46needs increase the need for security and safety. Once that
- 49:53is solved, the next need is the need for love
- 49:55and acceptance through relationships and all kinds of platforms. Men,
- 50:00that is solved, then now please look up. This is
- 50:03where trouble begins in your life. This is a very
- 50:06powerful representation. Most of the first, second, and third doesn't
- 50:11create so much trouble in your life. Real trouble stands
- 50:14from the fourth part of the pyramids, called esteam needs.
- 50:20The fourth part of the pyramid is called esteam needs.
- 50:23Speaker 4: What does that mean?
- 50:25Speaker 1: The need for the esteem for oneself and the need
- 50:30to find respect from others what you call reputation. Reputation
- 50:36is a description of people's perception of you. At this point,
- 50:41now you are not looking for your basic needs again,
- 50:44your security needs have been met. Your social needs have
- 50:48also been met. The next thing that is left is
- 50:50your ego and your reputation before yourself and before men.
- 50:56This is where trouble starts. You need to want standing
- 51:00so that as you are training people in leadership in
- 51:03your company, in ministry, understand that they are growing. A
- 51:08time will come. If you do not know how to
- 51:10manage this, you are going to be in trouble. Because
- 51:12a time will come the people you are raising will
- 51:15not be need food again. The people in your company,
- 51:18the staff, may have started as maybe even a security
- 51:22present somewhere, opening and closing the gate, but eventually, as
- 51:26they begin to rise, you see that their needs and
- 51:29their priorities shift. Many parents do not understand the transitions
- 51:36in the behavior of their children. Now if you understand this,
- 51:40you see the way your child behaves if it's receiving
- 51:43school is from you.
- 51:44Speaker 4: It's not the same way your child behaves.
- 51:46Speaker 1: Now if it's earning a scholarship of hundreds of thousands
- 51:50of naira or dollars. You see that the priorities change.
- 51:54Maslow helped us to put this thing in perspective. Let's
- 51:58look very quickly esteem needs. At this point, people begin
- 52:03to want independence, and they begin to pay attention to achievement.
- 52:08What gives you fulfillment at this level, it's not eating well,
- 52:12it's not driving a car. You want to achieve goals,
- 52:15and then you want a sense of independence. You do
- 52:17not want to be under the hold of anybody or anything.
- 52:23Speaker 4: Are we still together? Shout amen?
- 52:27Speaker 1: I assume your silence is that you are really understanding
- 52:29the thing, and you are allowing it to absorb into
- 52:31your spirit esteam needs. At this point, you begin to
- 52:37be sensitive to everything, titles, sensitive to recognition, sensitive to
- 52:44who says what. Remember the five year old version of
- 52:48you before that time, the ten year old version of
- 52:50you before that time, has no There are people here today.
- 52:54Their concern is simply to come and hear the gospel
- 52:57press into Christ death. It doesn't matter whether they are
- 53:00in an oversized cloth or not. It doesn't matter whether
- 53:03word they're wearing is tourn or not, because, according to Maslow,
- 53:07the need for survival. They are at the basic level. Now,
- 53:10let the world keep coming. The world keeps translating you.
- 53:13As you are getting results. What happens. Eventually you will
- 53:16leave the first part of the pyramid. You now rise
- 53:19to safety needs. I'm tired of staying in the house
- 53:24with five or six or ten people. I think I
- 53:26need my own place now, security and safety. Is that true? Yes.
- 53:36Esteem needs the need for independence, the need for status,
- 53:41the need for prestige. This is why people join all
- 53:44kinds of clubs and societies. This is why people begin
- 53:48to come up with all kinds of things that help
- 53:50to concretize their relevance. Relevance and status and prestige and
- 53:58reputation are the keywords at this level.
- 54:01Speaker 4: And then the fifth.
- 54:05Speaker 1: Is called self actualization needs. Self actualization needs the need
- 54:10for fulfillment and the need for legacy. For instance, when
- 54:15you see someone who is at age eighty or ninety,
- 54:20notice how everything reverses at age eighty or ninety. The
- 54:24gentleman does not care again, or the man. The old
- 54:27man does not care whether his hair is combed. He
- 54:31does not care whether he zips his trouser, He does
- 54:33not care whether the buttons are in place. He sits
- 54:36with you and says, young man, let me teach you something.
- 54:40Forty five years ago. This is what happened. And while
- 54:43you are looking at him, it will be foolish of you.
- 54:46As a young man to look at the person and says, sorry,
- 54:49you're putting this shoe is supposed to be this way.
- 54:51And he says, so that is what your focus is on,
- 54:53because at that level it is legacy. His pride is
- 54:58not what he does with himself for to himself again,
- 55:01his pride is the people that he's able to raise
- 55:04that become instruments of continuity. Notice how this transition happens
- 55:09in your life. If you flog your child, male or female,
- 55:15your teenage child, especially in the presence of anyone, that
- 55:18is a huge embarrassment. You would have taught something. But
- 55:21you see an adult to fall down on the road
- 55:23and stand up and dost himself like nothing happened, because
- 55:26he's looking for a job.
- 55:27Speaker 4: He has three children and he needs to sort things out.
- 55:30Speaker 1: That shame that he used to have as a little
- 55:32boy has gone because of other needs and other serious priorities.
- 55:38Abraham Mashlomo final recap, and we'll get back to the
- 55:43teaching arranged in order of priority ascending order psychological or
- 55:50basic needs, and then safety needs, love and acceptance needs,
- 55:55esteem needs, self actualization needs, praise the name of the Lord.
- 56:01Speaker 4: Now, please write this down.
- 56:04Speaker 1: Thank you write this down. I appreciate, Thank you, thank you.
- 56:10Let's get to work. Thank you. Praise the name of
- 56:13the Lord. Alan Loujah, thank you. I appreciate you. Now
- 56:17write this down, the highest psychological need.
- 56:21Speaker 4: We teach this in our school of ministry.
- 56:23Speaker 1: The highest psychological need of all men. Please write it
- 56:26and tie it in the name of Jesus. May you
- 56:29never forget. This is the golden rule that governs us.
- 56:33The higher psychological need of all men is the need
- 56:37to be loved, accepted, celebrated, and appreciated.
- 56:45Speaker 4: Please write it down.
- 56:46Speaker 1: The higher psychological need of all men, beloved, the need
- 56:52to be accepted, the need to be celebrated, and then
- 57:03need to be appreciated. Allelujah, Praise the name of the Lord.
- 57:09Are we together?
- 57:10Speaker 7: Now?
- 57:11Speaker 1: Now listen to me, sir. Everyone let her come. I
- 57:15don't know how about please come. And then you, my friend,
- 57:19the white man, please come. Let him come to com sir.
- 57:22Please if you can, don't be embarrassed, please come come.
- 57:26Nothing to embarrass you at all. Please come, Ma, let's
- 57:28keep celebrating them. Just think it is. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- 57:36I didn't know that you would need this. Thank you, Ma,
- 57:40God bless you. Please come, sir, please come, Thank you,
- 57:44God bless you, thank you, thank you. Please stand keep
- 57:48clapping till I ask you to stop. Keep clapping. Don't stop.
- 57:54Keep clapping. Now watch this, Watch this, Watch this. You
- 58:04may not know them, and you don't even know what
- 58:07they have done, but your clap has fulfilled this law,
- 58:12the need, whatever it is that you have done.
- 58:14Speaker 4: What they received from your club, is that I am loved?
- 58:17Am I right, sirs?
- 58:18Speaker 1: Am I right? Mam?
- 58:19Speaker 4: I am accepted?
- 58:21Speaker 1: Is that true? I am appreciated and celebrated. Hold on,
- 58:25hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, Just listen, listen, listen.
- 58:29We're learning something. Now.
- 58:32Speaker 4: You come and talk to this woman and tell her
- 58:34you don't like me, and see what she would do
- 58:36to you.
- 58:38Speaker 1: Are we together now? Yes?
- 58:41Speaker 4: Because we have given her.
- 58:43Speaker 1: A perception that we love you, We honor you, sir
- 58:47and ma, and we ask them to come to this altar,
- 58:50and we ask everyone to stand and then to applaud them.
- 58:55Are we together now? Chances are that this mother here
- 59:01and this our uncle here may not hate me easily.
- 59:06Are you seeing that now? Why? Because the memory of
- 59:09my honor fulfilling that psychological condition will not give them
- 59:14the room. Now, imagine let's reverse it. Imagine that as
- 59:24our mother and our uncle were coming up here, we
- 59:27ask them to come out, and I started shouting at them,
- 59:30respectfully speaking, I said, I don't know who you are,
- 59:33but do you know I'm a man of God. Hurry
- 59:34up and don't waste my time. Come and stand here
- 59:36before I cost you. Now they may keep quiet watch this.
- 59:41And then I tell them, man, you will come stand
- 59:43stand And I push them and push, and nobody helps
- 59:45her up and she stands here. And when I'm done
- 59:48with my example, I say you can go, and I
- 59:50just push them like I'm pushing animals. Can I tell
- 59:52you this, it is possible that next week you would
- 59:54never see them here again. Now you understand what I say.
- 1:00:01The higher psychological need of any man, including the one
- 1:00:05looking at me, is the need to feel loved, the
- 1:00:09need to feel appreciated, the need to feel celebrated, and
- 1:00:14the need to feel what's the last one accepted. People
- 1:00:19join or called groups because they want acceptance.
- 1:00:23Speaker 4: People fight and belong to groups.
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: Why do people get angry when you don't invite them
- 1:00:28for festivities because they receive a perception through your non invitation.
- 1:00:33Speaker 4: That you don't place value on them. Are we together now?
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: Please? Let's celebrate our mother. Thank you, sir, thank you man.
- 1:00:39Please help them down, keep clapping.
- 1:00:42Speaker 4: Til they go.
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: Now you've start to finish it well. Thank you, thank you,
- 1:00:59thank you, God, bless you, thank you. Are we together? Canonia?
- 1:01:05Please sit down? Let's continue now the psychological build up
- 1:01:13of men. So the highest psychological need of all men
- 1:01:24is the need to feel loved or be loved, accepted, celebrated,
- 1:01:31and appreciated. Is that true?
- 1:01:34Speaker 4: Write this down. We begin our teaching on pride.
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: Now, before I define pride, let me tell you this
- 1:01:42a very important information. Pride is rooted in deep insecurity, fear, powerlessness,
- 1:01:54and unworthiness. Pride is rooted the feeling. You can add
- 1:02:01the feeling pride intrinsically. Pride from a psychological angle is
- 1:02:08rooted in the feeling of deep insecurity, fear, a sense
- 1:02:17of powerlessness, and unworthiness. Ninety five percent of all manifestations
- 1:02:25of pride are a cover up for these conditions.
- 1:02:30Speaker 6: You have to.
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: Understand this.
- 1:02:34Speaker 4: Pride is rooted.
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: In a deep sense or a deep feeling of insecurity, fear, powerlessness,
- 1:02:47and unworthiness. That means, if I feel insecure. Intrinsically, if
- 1:02:57I live in fear, if I I feel I am
- 1:03:00powerless and not in control of people or circumstances, if
- 1:03:05I feel unworthy, I will have to devise a psychological
- 1:03:10way of covering that condition. The name of that cover
- 1:03:14up is pride. Are we together now?
- 1:03:19Speaker 8: Yes?
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: So that intrinsically largely so may not be always the case,
- 1:03:26but almost always anywhere you truly find pride behind the
- 1:03:31scenes is an expression of insecurity, an expression of here,
- 1:03:40an expression of powerlessness or lack of control, and an
- 1:03:44expression of unworthiness. So people create that psychological cover. They
- 1:03:52try to assume an attitude of boldness, intimidate or poorly orders,
- 1:03:58but behind the scenes acts. Those who are legal practitioners
- 1:04:02asks those who operate as security people all around, they
- 1:04:05will tell you when you can't. Some of these people
- 1:04:08who are involved in all kinds of societal violence, once
- 1:04:12you sit with them down, after dealing with them, punishing them,
- 1:04:15when they're sure that destruction is imminent, they would break
- 1:04:19down and start crying. And you now tell them about
- 1:04:21why do you do this? And then they will begin
- 1:04:24to tell you nobody loves me. I came from a
- 1:04:26background where they so most of that thing is a
- 1:04:29cover up and attempt to wrongly manage insecurity and attempt
- 1:04:37to wrongly manage fear and attempt to wrongly manage a
- 1:04:42sense of powerlessness and an attempt to manage unworthiness. Are
- 1:04:47we together now, Yes, we're dealing with the deceitfulness of pride.
- 1:04:53Speaker 4: Four five scriptures.
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: And then I will tell you, or let me just
- 1:04:58define pride, and then we look at these scriptures. Please
- 1:05:01write this down three definitions while looking at pride. Do
- 1:05:07not forget our topic tonight, the lifting power of true humility.
- 1:05:12The first definition of pride is a lost for the
- 1:05:16praises of men?
- 1:05:19Speaker 4: What is a lost?
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: What is lost on godly inordinate affinity? A lost for
- 1:05:26the praises of men? Pride number two. The second definition
- 1:05:34a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit,
- 1:05:46or superiority.
- 1:05:47Speaker 4: Don't worry, I'll take it again.
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: A high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, comma, importance, come, merit,
- 1:06:02or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as
- 1:06:08displayed in conduct.
- 1:06:10Speaker 4: I'll take it one last time.
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: Pride a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit,
- 1:06:23or superiority, whether cherished in the mind or displayed in conduct.
- 1:06:28Please write it and look up. You can see that
- 1:06:30there are two expressions to this definition. On one hand,
- 1:06:34it can be a perception that is cherished in the
- 1:06:37mind it never finds physical visibility. And then the second
- 1:06:42it can be vocally expressed in conduct. When pride is expressed,
- 1:06:48we call it boastfulness. But just because whether pride is
- 1:06:53expressed or not, pride is pride away together. So a
- 1:06:59high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, meriage,
- 1:07:05or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or displayed
- 1:07:10in conduct. Let me give you my own definition. Now,
- 1:07:13the third definition, what is pride? A feeling of being
- 1:07:20better than orders on the strength of one's perception or
- 1:07:26of your achievements. A feeling of being better than orders
- 1:07:33on the strength of one's perception.
- 1:07:36Speaker 4: That means just something that is worked up in your
- 1:07:39mind or.
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: In the presence of obvious achievements, a feeling that you
- 1:07:47are better than orders on the strength of your obvious achievement,
- 1:07:54or just something that exists in the realm of your mind.
- 1:08:01Speaker 4: So pride, the lost for the praises of men.
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: Number two, inordinate opinion of oneself number three, the feeling
- 1:08:11of being better than others. The following scriptures number one
- 1:08:17Proverabs Chapter eighteen and verse twelve. Very instructive scriptures. Please,
- 1:08:21let's pay attention. The Lord is teaching us. Can we
- 1:08:24read together as a family of faith if you can
- 1:08:26see it projected? We read one, two three Before destruction,
- 1:08:32the heart of man is haughty. That's another word for pride.
- 1:08:35And before honor is humility. Wow. That means every time
- 1:08:41you see pride, pride is only a jounder baptist to
- 1:08:44something that is coming that before pride, before destruction, the
- 1:08:50heart of man is haughty. Is that true?
- 1:08:54Speaker 4: And it says before honor is humility.
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: Very powerful scripture that any time you see pride, it
- 1:09:02did not come alone. There is something it is dragging
- 1:09:05with it, and what it is dragging is destruction. So
- 1:09:09the end of all who are and remain in pride
- 1:09:14is destruction. Scripture number two Proverbs chapter sixteen, verse eighteen.
- 1:09:20Proverbs Chapter sixteen and verse eighteen. The Bible again here
- 1:09:25says pride goes before destruction and a houghty spirit before
- 1:09:31a fall. Can you see that now in the amount
- 1:09:33of two or three witnesses. The Bible says a matter
- 1:09:36is established, so pride.
- 1:09:38Speaker 4: Goes before destruction.
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: It means that when Satan want should destroy a man,
- 1:09:43once should destroy a people. The first thing that happens
- 1:09:46is that he introduces pride to their lives, and in
- 1:09:51that state of pride, destruction is beginning to form over
- 1:09:57their lives and their destinies. The third Scripture Proverbs twenty
- 1:10:02nine and verse twenty three. Proverbs twenty nine and verse
- 1:10:10twenty three. I like us to read together. If you
- 1:10:13do not mind ready, please read. A man's pride shall
- 1:10:17bring him law, but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- 1:10:24One more time.
- 1:10:24Speaker 4: Please, A man's pride shall bring him law, but honor shall.
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: Uphold the humble in spirit. This is very powerful. Many
- 1:10:37people today, I tell you the truth, have destroyed enviable
- 1:10:42destinies because of this danger and this demon and this
- 1:10:47cancer of pride. It has brought down kings, it has
- 1:10:53brought down nobles, it has brought down men of God.
- 1:10:57It has such portent power to destroy a man's future pride.
- 1:11:07Speaker 4: Allelujah. When the devil wants to do that.
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: The highest psychological need of all men is a need
- 1:11:13to be loved, to be value, to be celebrated. But
- 1:11:18there are there is men. The Bible tells us that
- 1:11:21that state is a state that only leads to destruction.
- 1:11:26Let me say this sincerely. We live in a celebrity
- 1:11:29world today. We live in a world of superstars. Nothing
- 1:11:34wrong with excel it, get there. It does not matter.
- 1:11:37They just want to get to a position where the
- 1:11:39whole world can celebrate them. In ministry, in business, in career,
- 1:11:47whatever it is, and so people continue to make all
- 1:11:50kinds of compromises. It does not matter what is done
- 1:11:54or not done. The most important thing is this fame.
- 1:11:58I must have it. In ministry I found out that
- 1:12:01when you can prophessy, when you can preach well, they
- 1:12:04may say people respect you. So it doesn't matter how
- 1:12:08and where. I must make sure that I get to
- 1:12:11that position. Most times when people watch a successful person,
- 1:12:16there is this there is this sense of admiration.
- 1:12:20Speaker 4: They look at everything.
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: They look at your designers if you're wearing one, They
- 1:12:24look at your personal the car, they look at everything.
- 1:12:28And most times people just sit and create a world
- 1:12:33of ambition and lost from what they are seeing, and
- 1:12:37they come up with all kinds of false vowels and
- 1:12:40salmonst be like this, I must do this, I must
- 1:12:43do that, and it becomes a negative motivation, negative motivation,
- 1:12:53in ordinate affection for the praise of.
- 1:12:55Speaker 4: Men, whether they're lying, whether they are flattering you.
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: You just want to hear it. This was what destroyed Lucifer,
- 1:13:04Lucifer the sun of the morning. We're going to look
- 1:13:08at examples of pride from scripture, but this is what
- 1:13:11destroyed that. One shallop that covereth. When the Lord began
- 1:13:19to teach me about pride every day till to day
- 1:13:22until tomorrow, can I tell you this? Let me challenge you.
- 1:13:26There are issues that when we're discussing, you can easily
- 1:13:30say no, no, no, no, no no no. When you
- 1:13:32talk of character moral excellence, can say, oh, no, that's
- 1:13:35that's me, or that that does not concern me. When
- 1:13:38we talk of witchcraft and manipulation, or that does not
- 1:13:41concern me. When we talk about money and other things, Oh,
- 1:13:44that does not concern me. But the subject of pride
- 1:13:47and humility, there is nobody. These are the kind of
- 1:13:51teachings that there is no tell them. It's the kind
- 1:13:53of teaching that when they are done from the preacher
- 1:13:56himself to everybody, you cry and roll before God and say,
- 1:14:00Lord help me. Because pride is a killer. It has
- 1:14:05such penetrating power the most fortified hat. It can creep
- 1:14:10into that hat until it destroys you.
- 1:14:14Speaker 2: Can.
- 1:14:14Speaker 1: I tell you this. For the sake of this lecture tonight,
- 1:14:20I separated my angles of discussing pride and two. Number
- 1:14:25one spiritual pride. Number two the pride of life. Let
- 1:14:31me talk about this. There are the two aspects of
- 1:14:34pride that I see that have almost damaged the lives
- 1:14:38of people. Why am I teaching this out of love?
- 1:14:42Because this is the condition to access exaltation. You want
- 1:14:46to be exalted in this kingdom. There is a mystery
- 1:14:48that controls it. Let's look at spiritual pride. Spiritual pride
- 1:14:54in the Book of Revelation the Bible, when John was
- 1:14:59caught up in the Isle of partners, please look up,
- 1:15:03there were seven churches.
- 1:15:05Speaker 4: Now, theologically speaking, those were there were.
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: Real churches like that scattered across Asia Minor, and there
- 1:15:12were warnings that were given to those churches. But prophetically speaking,
- 1:15:16it was a message to the entire church. Is that
- 1:15:19true and one of the churches please turn with me
- 1:15:23to Revelations chapter three, from verse fourteen. One of the
- 1:15:26churches is called the Loudasian Church. The Loudasian Church received
- 1:15:34an instruction that is applicable for our lives today and
- 1:15:39for everyone who wants to remain relevant in the program
- 1:15:42of God, relevant in influence, relevant, and to consistently be exalted.
- 1:15:50It says, and non to the Angel of the Church
- 1:15:53of the Loudisians. Right these things say at the amen
- 1:15:59the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation
- 1:16:03of God.
- 1:16:04Speaker 6: Uh huh.
- 1:16:05Speaker 4: It says, I know thy works, so He's caution in them.
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: Now that thou art neither cold nor heart, I would
- 1:16:15that thou world cold or heart. So then, because thou
- 1:16:21art lookwarm and are neither cold nor heart, I will
- 1:16:24spew thee out of my mouth seventeen because thou sayest
- 1:16:29what made you called? This is the basis thou sayest
- 1:16:34I am rich and increase with goods. I have need
- 1:16:39of nothing, and knowest not that thou at wretched and miserable,
- 1:16:45and poor and blind and naked. This yere, you see,
- 1:16:53is about the most painful rebuke of all the seven
- 1:16:56churches for the rest you who first commend them, you
- 1:16:59are don't this except this, just work on this.
- 1:17:02Speaker 4: But when it came to the Laudesian Church, there was
- 1:17:04no commendation.
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: It was the road. Immediately thou says, I am rich,
- 1:17:11I am increased with goods. Who does this look like
- 1:17:15in the Bible? Who makes such a statement lucify himself.
- 1:17:19The Laudasian syndrome is a Luciferian syndrome. I am rich.
- 1:17:25Speaker 4: It says, increase with goods and have need of.
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: Nothing, And know it's not that thou art riched, miserable, poor,
- 1:17:34blind and naked. Next verse we're reading to nineteen. I
- 1:17:40cansel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,
- 1:17:44that thou mightest be rich and white Raymond, that dow
- 1:17:48might test be clothed, and that the shame of thy
- 1:17:51nakedness do not appear, and annoying thy eyes with eyes south,
- 1:17:56that thou may see nineteen as many as I love Wow,
- 1:18:02can you see that there is a special love he
- 1:18:05had for the loud this you and George. That was
- 1:18:07why he didn't even have time to commend anything. He
- 1:18:10just went straight to repuke them, and at the end,
- 1:18:12he said, I'm doing this because I love you as
- 1:18:15many as I love I rebuke and chasten.
- 1:18:19Speaker 4: It says, be zealous, therefore and repent.
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: Look Chapter eighteen, from verse eleven, Jesus taught us a
- 1:18:28very powerful lesson to describe humility and pride. Three or
- 1:18:35four verses full of truth from the lips of the
- 1:18:38Master himself. Ready, please look up. The Pharisee stood and
- 1:18:42pray tost. Jesus is giving a parable now to explain something,
- 1:18:47and he spoke about two men, one a pharisee, one
- 1:18:50an ornary person. The Pharisee stood and prayed toss with
- 1:18:54himself God, I thank thee. He said that I am
- 1:18:59not as the other men are. There's a man praying
- 1:19:02now extortionists unjust adult us, or even as this publican.
- 1:19:11Speaker 4: He's praying.
- 1:19:12Speaker 1: Next verse I first twice in a week, everybody says
- 1:19:16spiritual pride.
- 1:19:18Speaker 4: I give tithes of all that I possess.
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: And the publican standing afharof would not lift up so
- 1:19:28much as his eyes onto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying,
- 1:19:32God be merciful to me a sinner. Fourteen. I tell
- 1:19:37you this man went down to his house justified, rather
- 1:19:42than the order for everyone that exalted himself shall be abased,
- 1:19:49and he that humbled himself shall be exalted. Jesus is
- 1:19:53teaching spiritual pride. Can I tell you this. I can't
- 1:20:00tell you by experience, and I can tell you from scripture.
- 1:20:04If God does not help you spiritual growth and spiritual excellence,
- 1:20:09can turn and kilt you to the other side of
- 1:20:13the pendulum and bring your destruction. When you begin to
- 1:20:17access revelation and insight, when God begins to prosper your
- 1:20:21spiritual war unders I tell you pride. If God does
- 1:20:27not help you to create a system where you cry
- 1:20:30before him daily, has destroyed many men of God, respectfully speaking,
- 1:20:37This has destroyed many great leaders. This has destroyed many
- 1:20:41great business spiritual progress and many times you can grow
- 1:20:46in revelation, grow in power to the point that you
- 1:20:50are no longer with a step by step and is
- 1:20:52still helping us today.
- 1:20:54Speaker 4: Spiritual pride.
- 1:20:56Speaker 1: The moment you feel you are the only one God
- 1:20:59is used in Appostle, Joshua Selman. It is only in
- 1:21:03coin on your God is blessing people. Apostle Joshua Salman.
- 1:21:07You know, while I was preparing this message, I had
- 1:21:10to put my head and rest and think I have
- 1:21:12said this to you, and I say it out of
- 1:21:13every sense of responsibility, truly without exaggeration. Now it's even more.
- 1:21:19I manage an average of say, eight hundred plus text
- 1:21:22messages in a day, and many of them like this
- 1:21:26Apostle of the Most High God, I have suched, Men
- 1:21:29of God? Are you if you actually believe that thing?
- 1:21:33I'm talking to myself now, If I actually believe that thing,
- 1:21:36I'm not only stupid, but I'm er an attack.
- 1:21:48Speaker 4: As funny and childish as what I'm saying is.
- 1:21:52Speaker 1: There are some of you who will believe it absolutely
- 1:21:54and go out of your way to create systems that
- 1:21:57reinforce those kinds of things. Many of us have goted
- 1:22:01psycho phants in our lives today because they have mastered
- 1:22:04us that this is what we want to hear. Even
- 1:22:07if you are entering the pity, you want people who
- 1:22:10gather around you whilst they can massage your ego, they
- 1:22:13have access to your life, access to your inner cycle,
- 1:22:16until they destroy you, and they would turn back and
- 1:22:19show people that this is where he died. Listen to me.
- 1:22:25You've heard me say this, you know you are being
- 1:22:28transformed by the Holy ghosts when there is humility connected
- 1:22:32to your growth. The moment you begin to tread humility
- 1:22:35for revelations, you're in trouble. Now this I said this
- 1:22:39with every sense of love and respect. This is one
- 1:22:42of the greatest fear for my generation of ministers. You
- 1:22:46see it in Africa. One of the biggest mistakes, especially
- 1:22:50with the apostolic and the prophetic ministry in Africa generally
- 1:22:54and world over, is that the little that God has
- 1:22:57done and is dealing with our lives is so garnish
- 1:23:00with a lot of pride. It even damages the beautiful
- 1:23:04thing that is there that is not even much relative.
- 1:23:07Speaker 4: To what God wants to do.
- 1:23:12Speaker 1: Are we together? Chances are that because of what God
- 1:23:17is doing in the ministry like this, and how God
- 1:23:20continues to glorify himself, we can go back and begin
- 1:23:26to destroy ourselves with that sense of pride. How do
- 1:23:30you know you are working in pride when you believe
- 1:23:34Listen to me, When you believe that there are certain
- 1:23:38things you are the only one who can do and
- 1:23:40the only one who can bring is the mistake of Elijah.
- 1:23:44Elijah came to God and said, God, every other person
- 1:23:48has deserted you, every other person does not like you.
- 1:23:51I am the only one the nonsense. What are you saying?
- 1:23:54There are seven thousand others? How many preachers today? We preachers?
- 1:23:59I don't said them we preachers? How many of us
- 1:24:03preachers today actually sit down and believe that without us,
- 1:24:07God's purposes will fail.
- 1:24:08Speaker 4: Look at that level of pride.
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: There are people who stand and speak as if every
- 1:24:13other person has backs leading, every other person does not
- 1:24:16love the Lord.
- 1:24:20Speaker 4: We must be careful. There is destruction that we're programming.
- 1:24:26Speaker 1: The one who build the church is still alive, and
- 1:24:29his jealousy will make sure he defenses walk to the end.
- 1:24:33Can I tell you this as a man of God,
- 1:24:36I've had the honor and the privilege of meeting people,
- 1:24:39and God many times opens my eyes and I'm able
- 1:24:42to see these people.
- 1:24:44Speaker 4: They themselves do not know how mighty they are in
- 1:24:46the spirit.
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: I shared with you a story one time that I
- 1:24:49was preaching at a PERFM crusading Canoe, and I was
- 1:24:54calling people out by word of knowledge, ministering to people.
- 1:24:57You know, people who were watching with one that they're
- 1:24:58annoying in and all can of things. And then I
- 1:25:01call this woman out. And when the woman came out,
- 1:25:05she was an intercessor. And then she told me that
- 1:25:08every fifteen days she finishes her bible a house her bible,
- 1:25:12fifteen days without fail. And yet they are not on air.
- 1:25:17Yet they are not the Joshua Selmans who sit in front.
- 1:25:21And yet we can have your audacity to believe that
- 1:25:24we're the only ones God is using. Not so, my brothers.
- 1:25:27God has a mighty army, some of them mighty and
- 1:25:31greater than the Joshua salmons you celebrate. Nobody knows them.
- 1:25:35Yet some of them are hiding in the school of
- 1:25:38the spirit. God is using our own life to teach
- 1:25:41them lessons and train them. We must have the maturity,
- 1:25:47the wisdom, and the spirituality to know this. Are you
- 1:25:53learning something tonight? Spiritual pride? People bully one another across
- 1:26:02the body of Christ today with Ramma revelation, many people
- 1:26:06this is what led them into divination. And some of
- 1:26:09these things now pray from prayer groups. You go to
- 1:26:12different campuses. Now you see things that make you afraid.
- 1:26:15Everybody is trying to search for anything. Once there is Greek,
- 1:26:19Hebrew and Latin, and you conjoy then the spiritual pride
- 1:26:22that comes from account of prayer progress. Once I can
- 1:26:25pray two hours, three hours, four hours, you can bully
- 1:26:29on as to make it look you are not spiritual. Ah,
- 1:26:32then crowd. Once you have crowd inside and outside, we
- 1:26:37are the only ones God is using brothers and sisters.
- 1:26:40It is not true. It is an attack from the
- 1:26:43pit of hell. There is such a thing as spiritual pride.
- 1:26:49The more you see the glory of God, can I
- 1:26:52tell you this. The more you are exposed to God,
- 1:26:56I'm telling you, the more you see your inadequacy before Him.
- 1:27:00And they need to remain humble. Many times when I
- 1:27:03enter and I come to sit, and I watched people
- 1:27:06looking at me, my mind, I'm just saying, Oh God,
- 1:27:12someone was at the Bastards conference. It is a story
- 1:27:15that I heard years ago. They were at the Bastards conference.
- 1:27:18Ministers were praying, and our father and the Lord Babad
- 1:27:20day Boy was there. And when it was time to
- 1:27:23pray Mass prayer, everybody was praying, and then the man
- 1:27:27had the opportunity to lie down not too far as
- 1:27:29he said from Babad day Boy and pastors were praying
- 1:27:34Lord the Grace on this ministry must come upon my life.
- 1:27:37Speaker 4: I'm tired of three hundred members. I'm tired other's power.
- 1:27:40Speaker 1: And when he came close for more than one hour
- 1:27:43or so, he said, all that bad bad day boy
- 1:27:46was saying, is messy your God. Messy your God, Messy
- 1:27:51your God. That's how you know people who have grown
- 1:27:56others who just came Lord, fire Lord, Bring partners. Now,
- 1:27:59why do I have this quality of sheep? Bring people
- 1:28:02who can help me and change this and stop this
- 1:28:05work from being heard someone else's crime, and say, Lord, messy,
- 1:28:09keep me to the end. Messy the humility it takes
- 1:28:12to finish. Can I tell you this? It is a
- 1:28:17caution that God gave me, and I continue to obtain
- 1:28:21grace from God to stand in partnership with the Holy
- 1:28:24Spirit that as He opens new crisis and new visitas
- 1:28:30of spiritual reality, that we are patient with people today.
- 1:28:34Many people come who are just starting ministry, and they
- 1:28:38come apostle and sometimes they almost want to worship you.
- 1:28:42Can I tell you this? Spiritual pride works in two angles.
- 1:28:45There is the one you create, the people who praise
- 1:28:48you by yourself. You praise yourself, but there are others
- 1:28:53you will not create it, but where you see it,
- 1:28:56you will sap that you will enjoy it like squeezing
- 1:28:59and orange until there it's still pride. There are times
- 1:29:06that you have to go out of your way to
- 1:29:08thank them and say thank you for this, But please
- 1:29:11be careful. There are things people want to do it
- 1:29:13my life today. If I'm to allow people to do
- 1:29:16everything they want to do with my life, it will
- 1:29:18almost become another religion. People will now almost worship Joshua
- 1:29:22selman Ah. May I not live to see that day
- 1:29:27in the name of Jesus Christ. Looking at me now
- 1:29:36and following online many of you, the devil is already
- 1:29:39programming this spiritual pride. That's what has driven many people
- 1:29:45to go on forty days dry, ten days dry. You
- 1:29:49ask them why, they're telling you, no, we started ad
- 1:29:51ministry with these guys.
- 1:29:52Speaker 4: I can't remain like this. And you think it's a
- 1:29:55very nice motivation.
- 1:29:56Speaker 1: No, I can be. Some of you are listening to me,
- 1:29:59some of you that's what even brought you here. And
- 1:30:01God is looking at the corruption in your heart. There's
- 1:30:05nothing wrong with prian first. And don't get me wrong,
- 1:30:08but that that motif is already dead, is already gone
- 1:30:12spiritual pride. Why do you think people go to dabble
- 1:30:16into all sorts of demoney things. It is because people
- 1:30:19are looking for a name spiritual pride. Take it down
- 1:30:31for me. Let me sing that snat song. The mar
- 1:30:36I know you, the mar I want to know you.
- 1:30:42Speaker 7: Jeezus mave you, the mar I know you, the mar
- 1:30:53I want to know you, Jeezus ma, the maricy, the
- 1:31:07more want to see.
- 1:31:10Speaker 4: Jesus more.
- 1:31:14Speaker 1: Listen historically speaking, do you know and I said this
- 1:31:19with every sense of.
- 1:31:20Speaker 4: Respect, one of God's generals.
- 1:31:23Speaker 1: I may not mention his name because I'm speaking to
- 1:31:26a global audience, but one of these generals.
- 1:31:30Speaker 4: That was one of the things that brought him down.
- 1:31:32Speaker 1: He was a mighty general of God, used of God powerfully.
- 1:31:38But he got to a point where people told him
- 1:31:42you are one of these prophets Elijah specifically, And when
- 1:31:49they said that, for a while he said, no, no, no, no,
- 1:31:51Our glory be to God. I don't mean the spirit
- 1:31:53of Elijah, Elijah incanate you are that Elijah that revelations
- 1:31:58say would come again. Can I tell you this, in
- 1:32:02the state of pride, there is nothing you will not believe.
- 1:32:06That's why it's good to ask God for messy. I
- 1:32:11want more of you.
- 1:32:18Speaker 7: I want more of you, Jesus, the mind of you.
- 1:32:27Speaker 9: The more I want to.
- 1:32:28Speaker 4: Know you, Jesus more listen.
- 1:32:36Speaker 1: And eventually they now made him believe that he was Elijah.
- 1:32:43And after a while he started believing it, and he
- 1:32:46went and saw the regalia. At that time, there was
- 1:32:53no social media, so you would not really know what
- 1:32:56God was doing at the other side of the world.
- 1:32:59It was at that time that the woman that we
- 1:33:02call Maria Woodward guitar. God now lifted her. And when
- 1:33:08that man had that God was using someone outside of him,
- 1:33:11he persecuted that woman seriously.
- 1:33:14Speaker 4: Number one, that she was a woman. Number two, who
- 1:33:17are you for God to use you?
- 1:33:18Speaker 1: I'm the only one that God is using here, and
- 1:33:22thank God he serve God. But he did not finish well.
- 1:33:26The things that are written her full time. They are
- 1:33:28for our learning, so that we through the comfort of scripture.
- 1:33:33Some of these people have allowed your cars to be seen.
- 1:33:36Not to condemn them. We honor them in life and
- 1:33:39even in death for the contribution that they brought. But
- 1:33:42there are lessons for us to learn. There is nobody
- 1:33:48destroyed who starts with the potential of destruction. Keep going
- 1:33:52as God is lifting you spiritually, apostle Joshua Selman. You
- 1:33:56know sometimes I watch with shock and wonder. It's almost
- 1:34:00even embarrassing as I'm saying it. Now, Please forgive me.
- 1:34:03But I mean, people can give you this God like
- 1:34:09I know.
- 1:34:10Speaker 4: It's a sincere way to honor you.
- 1:34:11Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that, except that sometimes people can
- 1:34:16give you all this description and all this spiritual paraphernalia,
- 1:34:21and if you are not careful, you will fall into
- 1:34:24it with joy. Joshua Sellman, I can stand now and
- 1:34:29begin to pray, and the power of God moves.
- 1:34:32Speaker 4: In this place, and people are blessed.
- 1:34:37Speaker 1: Spiritual pride on account of the progress you are making
- 1:34:43in the spirit, on account of the fact that God
- 1:34:46it has so pleased him by his sheer, messy and
- 1:34:49grace to lift you to a position where you now
- 1:34:53represent the voice of God to a generation. I want
- 1:34:56myself every day. God can do without you. God can't
- 1:35:01do without you. Mister Man. You are a man. You
- 1:35:04are only of God.
- 1:35:12Speaker 5: Lord.
- 1:35:14Speaker 1: If you're lifting someone in DC City, don't do it
- 1:35:20without me.
- 1:35:23Speaker 4: Don't do it without me.
- 1:35:27Speaker 1: Lord.
- 1:35:29Speaker 6: If you're healing someone in this city. Please don't do
- 1:35:35it be down me, don't do it be thout me. Lord,
- 1:35:43if you're checking someone in this city, don't do it
- 1:35:50without me.
- 1:35:57Speaker 1: I submit to you by God. There I'm many men
- 1:36:00of God. There are many people who need a retreat first,
- 1:36:05to go back and break down before God and say,
- 1:36:09my Maker and my King. Everything I ever have it
- 1:36:14came from you. And thank God for the spirit of revelation.
- 1:36:19Thank God for the ability to minister healing. Thank God
- 1:36:23for the nations who are hearing what we're doing. But Lord,
- 1:36:26I pray the pride that comes based on spiritual achievements.
- 1:36:31Speaker 4: May it never never never.
- 1:36:36Speaker 1: While you are signing it, you will look like a fool,
- 1:36:39But you are already signing your relevance for the next
- 1:36:41move of God. See this is why you see a
- 1:36:45lot of people used by God, and then a time
- 1:36:48comes you see another move of God. They are still alive.
- 1:36:52And yet you see this is not but sliding. It
- 1:36:55just looks like God. No, no, no, I can't make
- 1:36:57you do with this again. Some of you here, our
- 1:37:05leaders over small prayer groups, you are already copying a
- 1:37:09kinds of nonsense. It doesn't matter even if it's from me.
- 1:37:17We have to be careful the things we are learning.
- 1:37:20Pride that destroys people. It is as a result of
- 1:37:23this pride that this owner has crept into the body.
- 1:37:26Everybody is correcting everybody, someone who has not even started ministry,
- 1:37:32standing at the back of the tree and calling fathers and.
- 1:37:35Speaker 4: Insulting everybody spiritual pride.
- 1:37:40Speaker 1: Till today, when I have the honor and the privilege
- 1:37:43of meeting any of our fathers in the faith, or
- 1:37:45anyone who has gone ahead, it does not matter what
- 1:37:48they're saying. I sit down quietly, as if I do
- 1:37:51not know anything in ministry. I submit to you, brothers
- 1:37:55and sisters and people of God. The man talking to
- 1:37:58you is not stupid, by the grace of God. Forgive
- 1:38:01me if I sound arrogant. I have seen or no,
- 1:38:03I have seen the grace of God. I have seen Jesus.
- 1:38:06I have stood before kings. I know what it means
- 1:38:09to have spiritual progress. God has helped me. But the
- 1:38:16way up is to remain on your knees. Many of
- 1:38:24you are simple, you are not humble. Simplicity is not humility.
- 1:38:32Humility is not refusing to acknowledge what God has done
- 1:38:36in your life.
- 1:38:36Speaker 8: No. No.
- 1:38:41Speaker 1: I remember one time years ago when I finished that preaching,
- 1:38:44someone sent me a text and said, I've been calling
- 1:38:46you and you did not flick. I said, look, they said,
- 1:38:48I'm humble, not stupid. Do you know my activities. Don't
- 1:38:52let people blackmail you emotionally just because you said you
- 1:38:55are humble. No. But can I tell you the truth.
- 1:38:58My brothers and my sisters listen to me. Pride based
- 1:39:02on spiritual achievement. God forbid. But if I die today,
- 1:39:09I sleep and I do not wake up, it will
- 1:39:11not change what God is doing on earth.
- 1:39:14Speaker 7: The Church is marching on. The Church is marching on
- 1:39:21the case on earth shall not breathe.
- 1:39:29Speaker 1: Never get to a point in your life where you
- 1:39:31believe God cannot do without you, and it says, really no.
- 1:39:38It is a privilege beyond imagination to be part of
- 1:39:43God's program.
- 1:39:44Speaker 4: It is a privilege to help build and bless people.
- 1:39:49Speaker 1: It is a privilege to be granted the gift of
- 1:39:51influence and access. It is a privilege. There are many
- 1:39:56things today that I know from this scripture I did
- 1:39:59not study. It is the spirit of revelation that brought it.
- 1:40:02I cannot take credit for it. There are things I
- 1:40:05told you. I have seen people who are faster and
- 1:40:08prayed more than me years ago a gentleman most times
- 1:40:12when people are fast, and sometimes I joined them and
- 1:40:15round it up with them. There was a gentleman who
- 1:40:18fasted for four hundred days six to six. I rounded
- 1:40:23up the four hundred day with him, and yet that
- 1:40:25person did not carry any power more than the spiritual
- 1:40:32activities were doing. Believe me, it is the messy of God.
- 1:40:38I know people who have studied more books about church
- 1:40:41growth than me. I know people who have gone to
- 1:40:44differend theological seminaries. I know people who have had the
- 1:40:48opportunity they have so the little London bids that God
- 1:40:55does in and through our lives. As we accend this
- 1:40:58mountain spiritually, may we ever remain humble.
- 1:41:02Speaker 4: And I'm saying this to those.
- 1:41:03Speaker 1: Who are also leaders in this minis free or lead
- 1:41:06us all around. We have to lend this. Men can
- 1:41:12clap for you, that is important, but you must get
- 1:41:14to a point where you say this is enough. My
- 1:41:17life is to see Jesus glorified, because you see, there's
- 1:41:21something the anointing and the glory of God does upon
- 1:41:24a man. It makes it look like you are not
- 1:41:26human again. And when people stand in awe of that glory,
- 1:41:31that majesty, the wisdom that comes from God, many times
- 1:41:34they begin to look for sincere ways of.
- 1:41:37Speaker 4: Expressing honor and appreciation to you.
- 1:41:39Speaker 1: You are the one who needs to be wise to
- 1:41:42know when it has gone beyond honor into something else,
- 1:41:45and to lovingly draw that line and keep that line wrong.
- 1:41:51Are weay together? Everybody says spiritual pride, Please shout it
- 1:41:56says spiritual pride. God is speaking to us right now.
- 1:42:00There are people who have not been patient with younger
- 1:42:03ministers as they rise because of pride.
- 1:42:07Speaker 4: I've told you this.
- 1:42:08Speaker 1: When you are mentoring and raising people, part of the
- 1:42:12responsibility of fatherhood is that you must be able to
- 1:42:15take a lot of nonsense from people as they are growing.
- 1:42:18Speaker 4: You must know and be patient with people the same
- 1:42:21way God was patient with us.
- 1:42:27Speaker 1: Spiritual pride, Revelation, Rama, healing, prophecy Africa. I speak to
- 1:42:35you by the voice of the Spirit, men and women
- 1:42:37of God across this nation and across this continent. May
- 1:42:41we obtain grace from God to be humble some of
- 1:42:45these godlike things we continue to do. We need to
- 1:42:49pray that God will have messy on us or the wise,
- 1:42:51who keep falling like rain one by one at the
- 1:42:55instance of pride, Pride based on revelation, Pride breaks based
- 1:43:00on a a tree, Pride based on prophetic prowess, Pride
- 1:43:04based on the miraculous, pride based on wisdom, Pride based
- 1:43:09on all of these things. Anything spiritual. Accept the Lord
- 1:43:14beauty house. They labor in Vain that built it, except
- 1:43:18the Lord watches over his city.
- 1:43:20Speaker 4: The watchmen watch it. But in Vain it is vain
- 1:43:23to wake up early and to sleep late in the night,
- 1:43:26only to eat.
- 1:43:27Speaker 1: The bread of sorrow. So you want to keep growing spiritually,
- 1:43:32You want to keep accessing supernatural levels of power. Let
- 1:43:38every lifting that God brings in your life call me
- 1:43:41nate to a greater level of humility. Lord, I am
- 1:43:44so honored that you have granted me this access. Sometimes
- 1:43:48when I'm sitting before the Lord in the night and
- 1:43:50some of these revelations come, tears just come out of
- 1:43:53my eyes and I say, Lord, thank you, thank you,
- 1:43:56thank you.
- 1:43:57Speaker 4: You have been merciful to me, and I'm great food.
- 1:44:01Speaker 7: Jesus, you love me too much, too much, too much
- 1:44:08access love.
- 1:44:13Speaker 1: Jesus, you love me too much. Too much show access
- 1:44:22love spiritual pride. The second area of pride is God
- 1:44:30helping us. Tonight's message is hard, but just receive it
- 1:44:36with love. It is it is the way we make
- 1:44:41The Maker is making men. The second aspect of pride
- 1:44:46is called the pride of life. Please write it down.
- 1:44:52First John chapter two, one, verse sixteen. What is the
- 1:44:55pride of life? The pride of life is the self
- 1:44:58exaltation you see on that inordinate feeling of importance. That's
- 1:45:08not confidence, self exaltation based on obvious achievements. The pride
- 1:45:14of life is for people who have achieved something tangible.
- 1:45:18If you have not achieved anything, you can have pride,
- 1:45:21but not the pride of life. The pride of life
- 1:45:23is the self glorification that is derived in the presence
- 1:45:28of obvious achievements.
- 1:45:29Speaker 4: You have results to show for it. First John two sixteen.
- 1:45:36Speaker 1: For all that is in the world, the lost of
- 1:45:39the flesh, the lost of the eyes, And the pride
- 1:45:45of life is not of the Father, but is of
- 1:45:48the world. The pride of life. Jeremiah chapter nine, from
- 1:45:57verse twenty three to twenty four. The prophet, speaking by
- 1:46:01the spirit admonishes us to say it. The Lord, let
- 1:46:05not the wise man glory in his wisdom. It does
- 1:46:09not mean to not celebrate your wisdom. Ah, you know
- 1:46:14what pride is. The refusal to acknowledge God as the
- 1:46:18basis for your success, the refusal as shamedness. The moment
- 1:46:24you are embarrassed to let people see Jesus as the
- 1:46:27basis for your victory. You want to so enjoy that sportlight.
- 1:46:32You don't want God to interrupt the spotlight. Lord, I've
- 1:46:35waited all my life to shine, and now that the
- 1:46:39spotlight is on me, Jesus, get out of the way.
- 1:46:42Speaker 4: Let me not have any interruption. Let me enjoy and
- 1:46:45savor the moment.
- 1:46:49Speaker 1: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither
- 1:46:53the mighty man glory in his might.
- 1:46:56Speaker 4: Let not the rich man ahah glory in his riches.
- 1:47:00Speaker 1: What is the pride of the believer twenty four But
- 1:47:02let him that glory and glory in this that he
- 1:47:06understand that and know me that I am the Lord
- 1:47:10which exercise loving kindness, judgment, righteousness in the earth. For
- 1:47:15in these things I delight, sayd the Lord. Everyone said,
- 1:47:19the pride of life. This is where all other groups
- 1:47:27now come in politicians, successful people, business men. God intends
- 1:47:34to lift us, but we must be careful. Our world
- 1:47:38has a very superior architecture. They can design a house
- 1:47:42where you would die, where you rise, they will consciously.
- 1:47:47We may not know have arrived. We call it I
- 1:47:51don't know what have arrived.
- 1:47:53Speaker 4: That's the one I know.
- 1:47:55Speaker 1: Are we together? Count? You know what made the rich
- 1:47:58man foolish? Read the Bible. It was not his money.
- 1:48:01The problem was not the rich. The problem was the
- 1:48:04fool You know what made him foolish? He built his
- 1:48:07bands and stought, and God said, today your soul is
- 1:48:11required of you. My father used to tell us many
- 1:48:18years ago that no matter who you are, no matter
- 1:48:21where you go, to make sure you fight pride. I
- 1:48:24think it's one of the most outspoken virtue that you
- 1:48:29pounded in our heads, growing pride. May God bless him
- 1:48:36for this. In the name of Jesus Christ, pride, my
- 1:48:44power and my mind. I am this. I made this happen.
- 1:48:48You hear people make all kinds of statements. I've taught
- 1:48:51you that everything comes from God through men. Pride is
- 1:48:55when men want to become the source of everything. I
- 1:48:58can lift you.
- 1:48:59Speaker 4: I can do this, I can frustrate you.
- 1:49:01Speaker 1: Ah, we have to be careful.
- 1:49:04Speaker 4: There is a God that sits in heaven, the monarch
- 1:49:08of the universe.
- 1:49:12Speaker 1: So whilst you achieve all that you achieve using these
- 1:49:16keys that we keep sharing, as God lifts you, as
- 1:49:20God blesses you, and God as God honors you, make
- 1:49:24sure that you honor shamedly stand before God and before.
- 1:49:30Speaker 4: Men and tell them the Lord is the doer of
- 1:49:33these things.
- 1:49:34Speaker 1: You hear the testimonies week in week out, all of
- 1:49:37the mighty and marvelous things. If God has done anything
- 1:49:41good in and through this life, and in and through
- 1:49:44this ministry, and.
- 1:49:45Speaker 4: In and through any life here, he deserves the glory.
- 1:49:50Speaker 1: So when men clab for you, appreciate them, but be
- 1:49:55sure to point them to the one who is the
- 1:49:58doer of every good thing and God. God says, you
- 1:50:00had a chance to stand and savle this moment, and
- 1:50:03you are directing people to me.
- 1:50:05Speaker 4: You are ready for the next level. Let's go, and
- 1:50:07he will live to fearfully help.
- 1:50:10Speaker 1: Those are not the annointing there, Please fearfully to another level.
- 1:50:17This is one of the secrets and one of the
- 1:50:19grass that I prayed for and I continue to pray
- 1:50:23for Deuteronomy chapter eight.
- 1:50:25Speaker 4: From verse eleven. Deuteronomy, chapter eight.
- 1:50:29Speaker 1: Remember he gave them a warning, Cornonia, is the load
- 1:50:33speaking to you tonight. He gave a warning, beware that
- 1:50:37thou forgets not the Lord thy God, in not keeping
- 1:50:41his commandments and his judgments and his touchups, which I
- 1:50:46commanded this day. Next verse less, when thou hast eaten
- 1:50:51and a fool. You see something happens to people when
- 1:50:53they are not hungry. Again, hung guys not the best.
- 1:50:57But He has a way of making you to remember
- 1:51:00your maker. Is that true when you are tracking. It's
- 1:51:05easy to pray tongues while you are treking. When you
- 1:51:08don't have a job, you have something to wake up
- 1:51:10in the night and pray for in the name of Jesus.
- 1:51:13This spirit you fought my father might lost me. You
- 1:51:15can pray till morning when you are trusting God for
- 1:51:20some breakthrough. But when this happens, there is something about
- 1:51:25men being fool. Remember the times the five love and
- 1:51:28two fish. They were hungry, and they listen what happened
- 1:51:31when they were full. They threw everything and went away.
- 1:51:34There's no record in the Bible of them telling Jesus,
- 1:51:36thank you they left. It is there no problem. Leave them, God,
- 1:51:39are my crumbs for me twelve baskets, the same people
- 1:51:42who were once hungry less, When thou hast eaten and
- 1:51:46a full one level and has built houses and dwelt
- 1:51:52dering next verse. And when you're herds and flocks multiply,
- 1:52:00and thy silver and God is multiplied, you see the
- 1:52:04key or their multiplied multiplied, and all that thou hast
- 1:52:08is multiplied, then thy heart shall be lifted up.
- 1:52:13Speaker 4: That's the Bible's definition of pride. When your heart is
- 1:52:16lifted up.
- 1:52:17Speaker 1: No longer your hands again, it used to be your
- 1:52:20hands lifted up.
- 1:52:21Speaker 4: But when you become proud, your heart is lifted up.
- 1:52:25Speaker 1: And thoufore gets the Lord, thy God, which brought thee
- 1:52:28forth out of the land of Egypt from the house
- 1:52:32of Bondage, uh huh, who led thee through that great
- 1:52:36and terrible wilderness, wherein where fiery sapens and scorpions and drought,
- 1:52:42and where there was no water, Who brought thee forth
- 1:52:45water out of the rock of flint sixteen, who fed
- 1:52:48thee in the wilderness with manner which thy fathers knew,
- 1:52:52not that he may humble THEE, that he might prove
- 1:52:56THEE to do THEE good At thy latter end seventeen
- 1:53:00and thou say in thy heart the classic definition of pride,
- 1:53:04the pride of life. My power and the might of
- 1:53:09my hand has gotten me this world. My connection is
- 1:53:16what gave me this electoral victory. My business connection. I
- 1:53:20am such an ascute business man, you will tell yourself,
- 1:53:24I am such a great preacher. Let it not be that,
- 1:53:30when this has happened and men continue to clap for you,
- 1:53:34you say, my power and my might.
- 1:53:37Speaker 4: Pride therefore, is the refusal.
- 1:53:40Speaker 1: To acknowledge God before men as the doer of every
- 1:53:44good thing in your life, either directly or indirectly.
- 1:53:51Speaker 4: Usual passion.
- 1:53:53Speaker 1: And unusual passion for the attention of men, and unusual
- 1:54:00passion for self glorification, a desire for men to keep
- 1:54:05singing your singing your praises, or to sing it to yourself.
- 1:54:09Spride that there is such a craving for attention. Once
- 1:54:16the spotlight is not on you, there is trouble. Is
- 1:54:19pro usual craving for the support light to be the
- 1:54:24person there. It doesn't matter what else. Let the light
- 1:54:27the darkness be on everybody, but once it is on me.
- 1:54:30That's it.
- 1:54:35Speaker 4: Maybe I just describe someone here.
- 1:54:37Speaker 1: Maybe you are outside following online from whatever nation, and
- 1:54:40the Lord is saying this is you. Don't fight what
- 1:54:43is saying The goal of God's word is to purify
- 1:54:46the washing of the water by the world the craving.
- 1:54:58There are people who go out of their way to
- 1:55:01make sure that they ring bells to make sure everybody
- 1:55:05knows what they're doing. You buy a new shoe, the
- 1:55:07whole world must know you bought a new shoe. Is
- 1:55:11that true? You bought a new Bible. They must first
- 1:55:13see how the old one was very old, then they
- 1:55:16see the new one to show you as spiritual. Some
- 1:55:18of these things are necessary. Please hear me. He say
- 1:55:21hard teaching tonight. But it is a holy God.
- 1:55:22Speaker 10: Speaking to you.
- 1:55:25Speaker 1: Symptoms of pride. What is the symptom of pride? Embarrassment? Listen,
- 1:55:33the moment you begin to become embarrassed. To acknowledge God
- 1:55:38publicly is a symptom of pride. Before God lifted you,
- 1:55:42you could kneel down and lie down and roll on
- 1:55:44the floor.
- 1:55:45Speaker 4: But right now you are you make sure you are calculated.
- 1:55:48Speaker 1: I can't let this my this my.
- 1:55:54Speaker 4: Expensive cloth on the ground.
- 1:55:57Speaker 1: Even God knows that it's not cheap, the ones that
- 1:56:00I bought it, the amount that I know, He saw
- 1:56:03me roll on the ground with that. When and God says,
- 1:56:05this is for me, the twenty four elders take up
- 1:56:09their golden crown, not robber crown, not metallic crown, golden crown.
- 1:56:18They drop it on the ground and they say, Holy, Holy, Holy,
- 1:56:24that's what keeps them as elders.
- 1:56:25Speaker 4: So the day they stop doing that, they're no longer elders.
- 1:56:29Speaker 1: That's what keeps them as elders. Holy to him who
- 1:56:34sits on the throne, they don't worship everybody in heaven.
- 1:56:38The one to be worshiped is Claire to him who
- 1:56:43sits on the throne, the pride of life. Nothing wrong
- 1:56:52with getting all the good things. Can you stand in
- 1:56:54front of your mansion and roll on the ground before
- 1:56:58God and say, Lord, you are the doer of this.
- 1:57:01Let men, devils and angels know that if it had
- 1:57:05not been the Lord by my side. Now may Israel say,
- 1:57:10God is increasing your ministry, and you stand before men.
- 1:57:13I'm not talking of shake, faking and carrying a form
- 1:57:17of pride, whereas a humility and your heart is proud,
- 1:57:20no that you can sincere you see people can discern
- 1:57:23the purity of what you are doing.
- 1:57:25Speaker 4: You can stand here and be said, Oh God, you
- 1:57:27are the duer, and people know that.
- 1:57:28Speaker 1: It's just talk.
- 1:57:29Speaker 4: In your heart, you are saying, I'm the doer.
- 1:57:34Speaker 1: There is absolutely nothing that you see happening in this house,
- 1:57:39by the grace of God, that would not happen if
- 1:57:42I'm not here. It's a privilege to receive and to
- 1:57:45spare ahead what God is doing. It's a revelation we
- 1:57:48must have some of us. Money has brought a lot
- 1:57:56of pride. There's nothing wrong with having money, but many
- 1:58:00times pride money. I have millions, I have estates. Thank God, congratulations.
- 1:58:07We appreciate and respect you for paying that price. Will
- 1:58:10have this, But can I tell you ten minutes without
- 1:58:13breathing and all that thing? It is wicked people who
- 1:58:17fight or fight while you are gone. Realize the brevity
- 1:58:23of life outside of the help of God.
- 1:58:26Speaker 4: It is where you wake up in the money you
- 1:58:29can think of doing real estate. It is when you
- 1:58:31wake up in the money you can think of preaching.
- 1:58:33Speaker 1: If it did not wake me up this morning, there
- 1:58:35will be no Remma there will be no revelation, there
- 1:58:37will be no coin on here. So you can say
- 1:58:44thank you Jesus before men and they say, why are
- 1:58:48you falling our hand? We know that you are an
- 1:58:51intelligent person, you are a professor for excellence. And you
- 1:58:54say the fact that my brain is walking. I don't
- 1:58:58make the brain work. I only read through a brain
- 1:59:01that is walking. The one who made the brain walk
- 1:59:04is the one who deserves the glory. Can I tell
- 1:59:06you this, many of us, I'm sharing with you a secret.
- 1:59:10That's why you found out that you stop rising a
- 1:59:12long time ago. Go back to that place where you
- 1:59:17started with God. Roll on the floor and say, Jesus,
- 1:59:20you are the one who I repent Forgive me for
- 1:59:23the foolishness of forgetting about you.
- 1:59:26Speaker 4: I started thinking about my titles.
- 1:59:32Speaker 1: Every time I see anything good, whether I say text,
- 1:59:35whether whatever it is that people do, I just stand
- 1:59:37before him and I say, Lord, you know you see
- 1:59:39my heart. I never had plans for anything. If you
- 1:59:43never bless me, if you never gave me ministry, I
- 1:59:45am still grateful, But that you have done this, I
- 1:59:49return back. I'm telling you sincerely, And I'm only saying
- 1:59:52this because I'm teaching on this. I return back every
- 1:59:55time from the Miracle service or from any service. Once
- 1:59:58I'm done and all things don't, I get down on
- 2:00:01my knees and I say further, you have done it again.
- 2:00:04Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. While I'm
- 2:00:10saying it, text messages are coming from all over the world,
- 2:00:13Mighty Man of God, I said, Lord.
- 2:00:15Speaker 4: That is dedicated to you. They are just trying to
- 2:00:19say you are great.
- 2:00:20Speaker 1: What they're trying to say is galicians one twenty four
- 2:00:23and they glorified God in me. But Lord, I'm like
- 2:00:30a host as that glory is passing. May no devil
- 2:00:33trap it and kill me down there. Let it pass
- 2:00:37and go to him who is due. All the glory.
- 2:00:41Hold the glory belongs to you. All the glory belongs
- 2:00:46to you.
- 2:00:54Speaker 5: Hollo, glory be longs to you, holor glory longs to you.
- 2:01:00Speaker 1: Let's help the fund that the.
- 2:01:04Speaker 6: Ah.
- 2:01:05Speaker 4: All the glory belongs.
- 2:01:10Speaker 1: Horror.
- 2:01:10Speaker 4: Glory belongs to you. All my time, all the glory belongs.
- 2:01:22Speaker 1: Horror.
- 2:01:23Speaker 4: Glory belongs to you, dear me.
- 2:01:31Speaker 1: No matter who you are, and no matter what God
- 2:01:35gives you, if you are flying a private jet, you
- 2:01:38are not the wind that is holding the jet. You
- 2:01:41only had money to buy it from a man whoman
- 2:01:43who fractioned it. I'm not being sarcastic. I'm only challenging you.
- 2:01:47If you win an election, As you sit down on
- 2:01:50that seat while people are clapping, just tell them thank you,
- 2:01:53excuse them out, lock the door of your office and
- 2:01:56roll on the ground. Say Lord, I knew that I
- 2:01:59would have lost this election. You are the doer, and
- 2:02:02God says, because you have done this, I vow that
- 2:02:04you will remain here, and anybody that tries to fight you,
- 2:02:08I will scatter them into pieces. God helps you as
- 2:02:13a man of God. Every Sunday you come. If you
- 2:02:16see one member that comes to share what God has
- 2:02:21to say, give God thanks.
- 2:02:23Speaker 4: So if I come here and I.
- 2:02:27Speaker 1: Find ten people, I will preach with the same fire
- 2:02:30and the same passion.
- 2:02:31Speaker 4: I stand before the God who called me, and I'm
- 2:02:34telling you this.
- 2:02:35Speaker 1: It's not about the crowd. No, it is an honor
- 2:02:39to talk to one person about Jesus, to make another
- 2:02:43call and to be in partnership with the Holy Gooes
- 2:02:46to save lives. Listen to me. The car you have
- 2:02:49in your house came by his messy. The house you
- 2:02:52have came by his messy. I have houses in Europe,
- 2:02:55I have houses in America. Congratulations. There are people who
- 2:02:59have houses body mad today. Their brains are not coordinated
- 2:03:02again to even travel there as the houses they have everywhere.
- 2:03:07Speaker 4: Their prayer is for survivor.
- 2:03:09Speaker 1: Lord, let me leave.
- 2:03:14Speaker 4: Can I tell you this?
- 2:03:15Speaker 1: The most dangerous thing about pride, it's not that you
- 2:03:20will be fought, the most dangerous thing about pride is
- 2:03:24who will fight you. The Bible says God resistance. If
- 2:03:31men fight you, you can go to God and say,
- 2:03:33my Father and my maker, men are disturbing me. If
- 2:03:36demons fight you, you can go to God and say
- 2:03:39this Threemond's again.
- 2:03:41Speaker 4: You can't use his name. If God fights you, will you.
- 2:03:44Speaker 1: Use his name to cast him. The name of the
- 2:03:47Lord is the highest, and if the one the owner
- 2:03:50of the name is fighting you, every other altar would
- 2:03:55join him to fight you too. Can I tell you this?
- 2:03:59Let me tell you how you know God is fighting
- 2:04:01a man. Everything fights him too. When everything is fighting you,
- 2:04:08I care for me. The hand of God is there
- 2:04:10resisting you. Everything favor will fight you, good things will
- 2:04:17fight you. Prophessy will fight you. It is dangerous for
- 2:04:22God to be against a man. Lord, you gave me
- 2:04:33this beauty. I'm a beautiful woman, beautiful lady. And God says, nonsense.
- 2:04:38If you die, your beauty will not resurrect you. You
- 2:04:41acknowledge him. Lord, I am a great man. Is because
- 2:04:44I'm intelligent. That's why companies are calling on me. And
- 2:04:47God says, nonsense. Ah, it is not of him that
- 2:04:53will it, nor of him that run it, but of
- 2:04:57the Lord that showed mercy. I share with you. Secret
- 2:05:01is one of the graces at work in this house.
- 2:05:03Sometimes we see people say a person, you are humble,
- 2:05:05you are simple, and I say, my humility it didn't
- 2:05:08come from my background. Just like that. It's a revelation.
- 2:05:11I am aware that God can fight a man. It
- 2:05:15is dangerous to be at the other side of that battle.
- 2:05:22Rewards of humility, we're about to pray. Please sit down
- 2:05:26and write this down. Rewards of humility, Proverbs chapter twenty
- 2:05:38two and verse four. Please never forget this scripture. Can
- 2:05:44we read it together? Proverbs twenty two and verse four.
- 2:05:46Are you ready one to read? By humility and the
- 2:05:52fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life
- 2:05:59more By humility and the fear of the Lord are
- 2:06:05riches and honor? Are you saying that riches is not
- 2:06:11the same as honor. You can have riches and not
- 2:06:14have honor. You can have riches and honor and not
- 2:06:18have life. There is a relationship between untimely death and pride.
- 2:06:23There is a relationship between humility and longevity. James four.
- 2:06:35From verse six. Then we go to verse ten James four.
- 2:06:41But he giveth more grace, one of the blessings. There
- 2:06:45wherefore he said, God resisted the proud, but give it
- 2:06:49grace onto the humble. Please go to verse ten. Humble
- 2:06:55yourselves in the sight of the Lord. Coin on her,
- 2:07:00and he shall lift you up. That's where the secret is.
- 2:07:04Coin Onia, Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord,
- 2:07:08and he shall lift you up. Apostle Joshua Selman, humble
- 2:07:13yourself in the sight of the Lord, and he shall
- 2:07:16lift you up. Man of God, business man, politician, whoever
- 2:07:21and wherever. Humble yourself in the sight of.
- 2:07:24Speaker 4: The Lord, and there is a reward for it. He
- 2:07:27will lift you.
- 2:07:28Speaker 1: So when you see people who you never see their end,
- 2:07:32they have mastered this ladder, this lift called humility. What
- 2:07:38is humility. It is not denying what God has done
- 2:07:41in your life, vocally, publicly, intentionally, continually, as the business that,
- 2:07:50when it's all said and done, more than your intellect,
- 2:07:54more than your business, are the doer.
- 2:07:57Speaker 4: Of every good things.
- 2:08:00Speaker 1: Humility, So you can stand before your estates, You can
- 2:08:04stand before all of your credentials and all of that.
- 2:08:08You can stand before the prosperity. The bank accounts carrying
- 2:08:12the pillions world over wonderful. They are only profitable when
- 2:08:16you stand and say, Lord, it is not onto these things,
- 2:08:20but onto you. I lift my hands and I left
- 2:08:23my voice, and I will let the world know that
- 2:08:28it is because of You that these things are before me.
- 2:08:32We're not ashamed to tell the world today, world over
- 2:08:37that Jesus is the reason for what we call coiinn
- 2:08:40onia today. Joshua Salman is nothing without him. Coin Onia
- 2:08:46is nothing without him. It's one thing to have the
- 2:08:49ability to preach and teach and heal and minister, but
- 2:08:52it's another thing for God to draw people from world
- 2:08:55over to come and listen and to submit to the
- 2:08:58grace of God omitted to you, Man of God. Never
- 2:09:04get to a point in your life where you become
- 2:09:06too big to acknowledge. Jesus, thank God for all of
- 2:09:10these little things here. And they're the security that help
- 2:09:15for I tell you I have a confession. You ask
- 2:09:18the prodocol department and the security people. This is my
- 2:09:21fight with them. They are doing their job professionally. But
- 2:09:24if it's up to me, I went at this place,
- 2:09:26you will not know. If I have a way of
- 2:09:28just entering there to carry my Bible. Once it's time,
- 2:09:31I just appear you creature and disappear. I would do
- 2:09:34it with joy. It's just that there are some levels
- 2:09:36in life. No matter what happens, there's nothing you can
- 2:09:39do about it. I know that while some of you
- 2:09:42watch all.
- 2:09:43Speaker 4: These things, some of you are admiring it, and that's
- 2:09:45what drives you.
- 2:09:46Speaker 1: Be careful. God is warning you now. God is wanting
- 2:09:49you now.
- 2:09:50Speaker 4: God is warning you.
- 2:09:52Speaker 1: Now. You are laughing, but God is serious. God is
- 2:09:55warning you.
- 2:09:56Speaker 7: Now.
- 2:09:57Speaker 1: Read yourself from all of these losts. Will be celebrated,
- 2:10:01for sure. Nations will call you blessed for sure. But
- 2:10:04let them be the one to clap while you point
- 2:10:06them to Jesus forever, Jesus, who remain glorified in my life,
- 2:10:13glorified in this ministry and glorified in your life. Also
- 2:10:17that when men look at you and set from when's
- 2:10:19comment this lifting? Or that's are saying there is a
- 2:10:21casting down? What is happening to your business? That you
- 2:10:24are rising and lives and bounds? I just hear you
- 2:10:27open the new office. You don't just laugh and say well,
- 2:10:29say it again? No, don't say they no, Tell them
- 2:10:34you are the doer. Jesus I acknowledge you.
- 2:10:39Speaker 4: And they say, please leave those spiritual things?
- 2:10:41Speaker 1: What did you do? And tell them? No, no, no, no, no,
- 2:10:43I will not leave it. This is how it happened.
- 2:10:45I don't know how it happened for others. What is
- 2:10:47the secret to this? Your peace? Your children are well behaved,
- 2:10:51everybody is respectful? What says? Because I don't know me?
- 2:10:55Wan ask them how discipline their father and their mother? No? No,
- 2:11:06am I wasting your time? Can I tell you this?
- 2:11:10You've heard me say it when I heard this encounter
- 2:11:13with the Lord where he taught me the lifting power
- 2:11:16of humility. This was what the Lord told me, son,
- 2:11:20if you will let men see me, there is nothing
- 2:11:23I will not give you.
- 2:11:25Speaker 4: This is what God told me, Ah for men to
- 2:11:29see you that's fine.
- 2:11:35Speaker 1: John Chapter three and verse thirty must be the lesson
- 2:11:39that everybody takes home today. As first humility is concerned.
- 2:11:44Speaker 4: He must increase, but I must decrease.
- 2:11:49Speaker 1: Decrease does not mean diminish. Decrease does not mean go back. No,
- 2:11:56that you were exulting. How do you know you're humble?
- 2:12:01When men look at you, they remember Jesus, not you.
- 2:12:06When men look at you, they know they see all
- 2:12:09the miracles, they see the signs and the wonders, They
- 2:12:12see God lifting you, And all they can say is, Lord,
- 2:12:17you I wonder. When men look at you and it's
- 2:12:20only your praises, they sing, something is wrong with your
- 2:12:23approach for everything God has done in this life, for
- 2:12:31everything God has done in this ministry, Truly to him
- 2:12:35be the glory. To Him, be the glory. To Him,
- 2:12:40be the honor.
- 2:12:45Speaker 4: No man on earth shoot your glob in himself.
- 2:12:54Speaker 5: All the glory.
- 2:13:03Speaker 1: Listen, let me show you what humility does you stand here? Lord?
- 2:13:12You are the lifter of my heart. I give you
- 2:13:15all the praise, And God says you have done this
- 2:13:17at this level. You don't have a car, you don't
- 2:13:21have a bike, You are not doing anything and you
- 2:13:24are acknowledging me, let's go higher. You don't know that
- 2:13:28the ultimate goal is to take you there. Once you
- 2:13:31are here, people say, my God, you are already at
- 2:13:34this level. And the Holy Spirit to say, remember what
- 2:13:36you did when you were here, do it again. He's giving,
- 2:13:40and pride will say, I'm comfortable. I mean now you
- 2:13:43can see me. And some people remain here forever till
- 2:13:46they find out they're already down here again. But some
- 2:13:50other people stand here. And while people are looking at you,
- 2:13:53you are even you are distracted. You are not distracted
- 2:13:57by what they are doing. They call you a name, daddy, apostle, whatever.
- 2:14:03Thank God for those things. But your attention is with Jesus.
- 2:14:07Are you ready for this? He leads you to the
- 2:14:09next level. You became a governor, you became a senator,
- 2:14:16you became a man of God. Now you trusted you
- 2:14:19one branch, two branch, two branches, three branches. He now
- 2:14:23helped you. And he said, Lord, even at this point
- 2:14:27made the nation see you through my life. Ah, and
- 2:14:32men look at you as it be honest, Jarry, enjoy
- 2:14:34this thing. You enjoy this moment. And sometimes you can
- 2:14:38be distracted. And then he calls you back, I have
- 2:14:41other people who need to rise. If you want to
- 2:14:44make this face vacant, I will fight you to make
- 2:14:46it vacant and leave others. And you say no, I
- 2:14:51remember how you brought me. And he will still find
- 2:14:54you in the night rolling and he says you are ready.
- 2:14:59He will move you to another one. When it moves you,
- 2:15:01you will not be alone. You'll find other people that
- 2:15:03he move here too. They will now start distracting you.
- 2:15:06Let's focus on laughing at those who are down. And
- 2:15:08you tell them, I don't know how you got here,
- 2:15:10but me, I know how God brought me here, and
- 2:15:13I will not be distracted. Many times, when you are
- 2:15:16up here, it looks like there are other people below you.
- 2:15:19Let's gossip, let's mock, let's push them, let's fight anybody
- 2:15:23who wants to calm down. There are people who will
- 2:15:29remain here for thirty years until they start going down
- 2:15:33by the time they're fifty year back here, you say,
- 2:15:37I thought I used to know you here, they say condition,
- 2:15:40He say, lie. The part of the just is a
- 2:15:44shining light. When you're tomorrow becomes greater, becomes worse than
- 2:15:50your yesterday, it is pride a man's tomorrow should not
- 2:15:54be like this. No, you know people who are working
- 2:15:58in humility because you'll never see them. At the last
- 2:16:01level you saw them. You are right here at this point.
- 2:16:05People are already calling you things, Papa. If you're in ministry,
- 2:16:09you are mentoring people. Everybody, You're just blessing you, inviting
- 2:16:13you around the whole world. You're in hotels, you are
- 2:16:16having all kinds of cars, James, you are enjoying everything
- 2:16:21zero and then one night, if God wants to help you,
- 2:16:24he will call you and say, my son, I'm still
- 2:16:28waiting for you where we used to meet before. Don't
- 2:16:33distract me. Oh God, the spotlight is on me. This
- 2:16:37was what I look for growing up. This was what
- 2:16:40I wanted. People said I would not make it. Now
- 2:16:43that I've made it, let me stand so that I
- 2:16:45can savor the moment. And it says, my son will
- 2:16:48still have other heights to climb. Don't stop here, But
- 2:16:52there are others. May you be part of them. Tonight mine.
- 2:17:02Speaker 4: Be glory Fae.
- 2:17:05Speaker 5: Be glory.
- 2:17:06Speaker 1: Fine mine lie be glory fae.
- 2:17:18Speaker 5: Be glory fa.
- 2:17:22Speaker 1: You get the glory, you get the preas you take
- 2:17:30beyonda I just want to say thank you. You get
- 2:17:36the glory, you get, the bread.
- 2:17:42Speaker 4: You take beyonda.
- 2:17:46Speaker 2: I just want to say thank you.
- 2:17:50Speaker 1: While you are busy singing this song and living this
- 2:17:54song with your life, men will open your eyes and
- 2:17:56find you here. You are standing with kings and nations,
- 2:18:00and they said, we'll use to know him. Ah. Humility
- 2:18:03has a lifting power. It would shift your background, shift
- 2:18:07your gender. Shift what men said. They can't say while
- 2:18:11you rise, They can't talk while you are lifted. I
- 2:18:14tell you this, the end of a man who is
- 2:18:21truly humble cannot be predicted by any immortal man on edge.
- 2:18:26There is no prophet, there is no apostle whose eye
- 2:18:30can see as far as a man with humility can go.
- 2:18:33Only God can tell the end of a humble man.
- 2:18:37Just when you think he has attained that, God now
- 2:18:39lifts him again to another season.
- 2:18:44Speaker 10: Year me.
- 2:18:45Speaker 1: We're about to pray. The Lord brought you to church
- 2:18:48tonight to show you that there is a secret. Men
- 2:18:53do not just rise. God is a lifter of men.
- 2:18:59Are you ready to pray? Let me give you one key.
- 2:19:01You have to write this down. One key. What is
- 2:19:05the key to humility? The key to humility is found
- 2:19:13in Deuteronomy, chapter eight and verse eighteen. Please a global
- 2:19:17family the body of Christ as many who will follow this,
- 2:19:20do not forget. There are eight words that I want
- 2:19:26you to remember for the rest of your life as
- 2:19:29the key to humility. The apath, but Tao shall remember
- 2:19:37the Lord die God, but Tau shall remember.
- 2:19:46Speaker 4: Not just the Lord thy God.
- 2:19:48Speaker 10: Hear me.
- 2:19:50Speaker 4: One of the greatest keys to humility is remembrance.
- 2:19:53Speaker 1: Remember where God took you from, and remember who took you.
- 2:19:59If you can rememb remember where God took you from,
- 2:20:02and you can remember who took you, you have master.
- 2:20:05Speaker 4: The key to beat in life at this game.
- 2:20:07Speaker 1: Believe me. When David stood before Goliad, Goliad said, am
- 2:20:15I a dog.
- 2:20:16Speaker 4: That you are coming to me with this thing? He said, God,
- 2:20:20who delivered me. I remember.
- 2:20:25Speaker 1: Success has a way of eroding your memory. That's why
- 2:20:29there are certain pains and certain things that are around you.
- 2:20:33Is looking for favor, and you can never hear people
- 2:20:36who tell you the truth. A game. Times will come.
- 2:20:38You will have to be your own counselor let yesterday
- 2:20:41be your Counselor remember how God lifted you. Man of God.
- 2:20:46Remember once upon a time you had no charge, no reputation, politician. Remember,
- 2:20:51once upon a time you'll tracked without shoes. Every time
- 2:20:57man forget, they stop moving forward. Remember remember, remember this
- 2:21:08is what I do all the time. Let me speak
- 2:21:11to someone here. Keep the memory of your pain now
- 2:21:14you will need it tomorrow. Don't waste your pain. Your
- 2:21:18pain is a miracle. The scar. Listen, The injury on
- 2:21:22your hand today is what will keep you when you
- 2:21:25sit on the throne till today. Cheese still has the scar.
- 2:21:29The scar reminds him of his love for money, Cain.
- 2:21:33Every time you see that scar, you remember every time
- 2:21:39God did one drus things to the nation of Israel.
- 2:21:41Listen to me. He gave them instructions, He says, find
- 2:21:44a way of archiving this. If your children after you
- 2:21:48and say why are you doing this, tell them, Oh, Israel,
- 2:21:52you forgot too soon that for four hundred and capty
- 2:21:55years you were in the land of slavery.
- 2:21:57Speaker 4: Now you've begun to build idols.
- 2:22:00Speaker 1: One of the ways that God brings men to humility
- 2:22:03when they forget him is to lift his hand, and
- 2:22:07you will see what the devil does in your life.
- 2:22:11Every time people were proud, he gave them over to
- 2:22:14your enemies. He's in your Bible, Africa. Could this be
- 2:22:18why we're going through what we're going through Nigeria? Could
- 2:22:21this be why we're going through? If my people who
- 2:22:25are called by my name, what's the first thing they do?
- 2:22:28Not pray? Not pray? We have been praying. We have
- 2:22:33been praying. Humble themselves.
- 2:22:38Speaker 4: It is not because the arm of the Lord is
- 2:22:40too short. Man of God. It does not take God.
- 2:22:43Speaker 1: Anything to expand your ministry. It does not take anything
- 2:22:47for the anointing you desire. If it's prosperity, I dare
- 2:22:51to tell you that I enough destiny, help us, enough ideas,
- 2:22:55enough systems and structures for God to lift you. Read
- 2:22:59your I will and see the lifting power of God
- 2:23:04when you become at the center stage of your life.
- 2:23:07Forget about the hand of God.
- 2:23:12Speaker 11: I remember, remember your goodness, Harry Remm, remember your love.
- 2:23:28I remember, remember your faithfulness. I remember remember your grace.
- 2:23:42I remember a time in my life when I was
- 2:23:45going to preach, no bike, no nothing.
- 2:23:48Speaker 1: It was raining. I remember tracking in the rain while
- 2:23:51the rain was pouring on me. I was praying in
- 2:23:54tongues and going for the meeting. And look what He's done.
- 2:23:58Today and then you forget. Keep that memory. That's what
- 2:24:03God will use to remind you. Oh BILOGNI remember that
- 2:24:07one time you were soaking gary and you drink and
- 2:24:16said to dine to the Lord be all the glory.
- 2:24:22But today you have chains of restaurants around the world. Oh,
- 2:24:26let it never enter your heart. Oh God, anything you
- 2:24:30give me, let it stay outside me. Sit in your
- 2:24:33position alone, jealously gathered by my passion for you. Don't
- 2:24:41think I wasted your time tonight. I gave you the
- 2:24:44key to the next level. Some of you as a company.
- 2:24:47Speaker 4: You need to do this. Go back to God tomorrow when.
- 2:24:51Speaker 5: You go to work.
- 2:24:52Speaker 1: Tell the people to excuse you a big lord that
- 2:24:54don't kneel down and say Father. You may even need
- 2:24:57to pray your look at there like baby to give
- 2:24:59you m to express it more and say, God of Heaven,
- 2:25:03you are the one who has shown me messy. Forgive
- 2:25:06me if for any reason I joined an association of
- 2:25:09a wise people, and I started forgetting you in the
- 2:25:13name of celebrating success.
- 2:25:15Speaker 4: Be careful with some of these groups and associations.
- 2:25:18Speaker 1: They may not be wrong, but we must be careful
- 2:25:21because some of them mislead us into feeling embarrassed. That
- 2:25:26is the Lord. Once upon a time you could not
- 2:25:31afford a good shoe, but now you can even buy
- 2:25:35the whole boutique. Oh, please do not forget. Thou shall remember,
- 2:25:40remember yesterday, and remember the Lord. Remember yesterday, and remember
- 2:25:46the Lord. Take this message and give anybody you know
- 2:25:49and you loved sincerely. Use it to train your children.
- 2:25:53If God has blessed you and you are a blessed
- 2:25:55man with substance, set your children down. Don't just show
- 2:25:59them the money, tell them the stories. Tell them, young boys,
- 2:26:03you have the privilege to eat anything you eat today
- 2:26:06and travel around the world. But it was not always
- 2:26:09like that. I came from a family where we had
- 2:26:11to use well, to use well to draw water out.
- 2:26:15God began to help me. If the only thing I
- 2:26:17give you people is money, I've destroyed you.
- 2:26:24Speaker 4: This is the mistake.
- 2:26:25Speaker 1: And I say finally before we pray. Most leaders in Africa,
- 2:26:29Nigeria are making this mistake. We are not giving those
- 2:26:33who look up to us the stories. We are only
- 2:26:35giving them the rewards. So a young man now does
- 2:26:38not know that ministry needs tamina and endurance and pain.
- 2:26:42Why because he just came and received in partition, receive
- 2:26:46maybe three or five cars, and had his mentor spiritual
- 2:26:49father command standards. A leverage to speak for him. An
- 2:26:52increases coming and he can look and be laughing at
- 2:26:55people and say shame on you. Five years no membership
- 2:26:58because of that leverage. Pain is a gift. Make sure
- 2:27:02you give those you really love. Don't inflict pain on
- 2:27:05them the testimony of your pain. I mean, shye it
- 2:27:09with them. Let them know that once upon a time
- 2:27:11you first and prayed that this anointing did not just
- 2:27:14drop because you read your Bible, and tell them the
- 2:27:17privilege you now enjoyed, do not abuse it. Carelessness comes
- 2:27:21when process is not known. When people ignore process, the
- 2:27:26result is carelessness. I'm going to give us two three minutes.
- 2:27:32I don't know how you're going to cry before God.
- 2:27:34I would do my own hear. The next two to
- 2:27:37three minutes, you're just going to say, Lord, if ever
- 2:27:41my heart is lifted forgive me show me messy tonight,
- 2:27:46and grant me grace. Pray. You don't have to kneel
- 2:27:49down or lie down, just cry before your makeup. Please,
- 2:27:52no movement around. This is a serious moment. Go ahead
- 2:27:55and pray.
- 2:28:00Speaker 2: H my, just steek.
- 2:28:23Speaker 1: My, just see, your.
- 2:28:29Speaker 6: Craze has found me just as I am, empty handed.
- 2:28:38Speaker 1: But alive in your hands, your man, steek.
- 2:28:51Speaker 2: My, just see.
- 2:28:57Speaker 4: Forever ham Chick, changed by your.
- 2:29:10Speaker 1: Just remember in one minute, remember where his majesty took
- 2:29:14you from.
- 2:29:15Speaker 4: Dear man of God. They are apostle and their prophet.
- 2:29:21Speaker 1: They are pastor and their evangelist, their politician, their academician.
- 2:29:31Speaker 4: They are millionaire.
- 2:29:32Speaker 1: They are millionaire, their elder statesman, their father, dear parents.
- 2:29:41Remember where he took you from their students. They are
- 2:29:46great man. Thank you Jesus, Oh, thank you Jesus. Thank
- 2:29:59you you Jesus for your messy, for your goodness. Thank him.
- 2:30:10If you have to cry, cry, if you have to sing,
- 2:30:13sing just a minute or two, one we're done. Let
- 2:30:17him know that I am still your boy, Oh God,
- 2:30:27I'm still the one you lived in.
- 2:30:30Speaker 4: I'm still the one you help, still the one you're blessed.
- 2:30:45Speaker 1: I'm here to say how much I love you. I'm
- 2:30:53here to say how much I adore or.
- 2:31:01Speaker 5: Lord.
- 2:31:01Speaker 6: I'm not here to complain about my many struggles. By
- 2:31:09your spearit and your grace.
- 2:31:13Speaker 4: I'm comforted you some of them. But I'm here.
- 2:31:20Speaker 5: To say, he love.
- 2:31:26Speaker 7: I'm he.
- 2:31:28Speaker 4: To say I adore.
- 2:31:34Speaker 5: I'm he.
- 2:31:36Speaker 4: To say, by love. Lord, As men look at our lives,
- 2:31:54may they see you?
- 2:31:57Speaker 8: Us?
- 2:31:57Speaker 4: Men look at our lives.
- 2:31:59Speaker 1: Oh, they see you. It is easy to see the glamor.
- 2:32:04It is easy to see the anointing. It is easy
- 2:32:07to see the spirituality and the results. It is easy
- 2:32:11to see the achievements. But lots tonight we declare that
- 2:32:25we love you.
- 2:32:28Speaker 6: We're rapping on and we our hands lifted up. We
- 2:32:34will share parking and we our hands lifted up.
- 2:32:41Speaker 7: We come before you, rejoice with our hands lift up
- 2:32:48to the scar.
- 2:32:50Speaker 1: And the world wanders one. We just tell them we
- 2:32:57love in our King.
- 2:33:01Speaker 2: We just.
- 2:33:10Speaker 1: Now. I can pray for you. You don't have to nail,
- 2:33:13please just stand now. I can pray for disgrace that
- 2:33:18brings exaltation. I have seen it. I know it works.
- 2:33:23Speaker 4: Believe me. There is a grace that lifts.
- 2:33:26Speaker 1: There is a grace that grants you access to kings,
- 2:33:30to systems, to structures. There is a grace that enthrones
- 2:33:35beyond your wildest imagination. Many of us here have been lifted.
- 2:33:40We have tested of honor and glory. We have seen
- 2:33:43the help of God. But I submit to you that
- 2:33:46at any level, there is still more. There is still more.
- 2:33:51There is still more. Lord, May we never forget made
- 2:33:58the nation see that you are the lifter, the blesser,
- 2:34:04the anointer, the one who prospers. May the mundane things
- 2:34:09in this life never get into us to turn our
- 2:34:12hearts and our minds away from you. May we be
- 2:34:15ever conscious. And now I pray for everyone here under
- 2:34:20the sound of my voice. I pray for our global family.
- 2:34:25I pray for you who is a man of God
- 2:34:27who has been trusting God for lifting. I pray for
- 2:34:31you who is a businessman who is at a defining
- 2:34:33moment you've been praying for lifting. I pray for politicians,
- 2:34:38members of parliament, those in government, those in ministry, those
- 2:34:45trusting God to lived even financially. There is grace. I
- 2:34:50have seen this grace walk, I have seen it work, wonders.
- 2:34:55And therefore, in the name of Jesus Christ, as instructed
- 2:34:59by God, I stretch my hands over everyone here the
- 2:35:05grace that lifts, the grace that exalts even true humility.
- 2:35:12Speaker 4: May that grace rest upon you now. May that grace
- 2:35:18rest upon you. Now hear me for some of you.
- 2:35:25Speaker 1: This is the beginning of the fulfillment of prophecy, all
- 2:35:29the things you saw in your dreams. God was waiting
- 2:35:32for you to hear this summon before the angels are activated.
- 2:35:35Because where God is taking you, you need this message
- 2:35:38to remain. Therefore, I declare now that you have heard it.
- 2:35:42I call upon my God and your god Father in
- 2:35:46a fearful way, begin to lift people from tonight spiritual
- 2:35:51lift things, financial, lived things, intellectual liftings, manisterial liftings, in
- 2:36:00the name of Jesus Christ, access to systems, access to
- 2:36:07the hearts of kings. May that chrace come upon you now.
- 2:36:14Never will you call for help and be left alone again.
- 2:36:18In the name of Jesus Christ, year me anyone who
- 2:36:23is due for promotion of all sorts and has been
- 2:36:26kept by reason of any capato scaliprakatoapalacucia in the name
- 2:36:33that is above all leaves, May this grace come upon
- 2:36:36you and lift you to a sinal a wonder those
- 2:36:41in ministry call labor Us in the Gospel. I stand
- 2:36:45in agreement with you that, in the name of Jesus,
- 2:36:48everything that has taunted the growth of your churches, your ministries,
- 2:36:53your ministerial platforms. By the power that raised Christ from
- 2:36:56the dead, receive this grace and rise. Some of us
- 2:37:05have been at the same level for a long time.
- 2:37:07You've not gone down, but you've not gone off either.
- 2:37:10I pray for you by this grace. You haven't come
- 2:37:14passed this mountain long enough. Rise up now with the
- 2:37:17name of Jesus.
- 2:37:25Speaker 4: Jeremi.
- 2:37:26Speaker 1: Any spirit that has taken advantage of pride in your
- 2:37:32life to keep you down, help that, gentleman. Any spirit
- 2:37:37that has cooperated with your ignorance in this area. Some
- 2:37:42of you may have been arrogant based on this psychological thing.
- 2:37:46It's just your passion to prove a point, your passion
- 2:37:49to be known and to be celebrated. Any spirit that
- 2:37:52has taken advantage of you, by the blood of the
- 2:37:55Eternal Covenant, I've cast those spirits out of your life,
- 2:38:00out of your destiny, out of your destiny, in the
- 2:38:04name of Jesus Christ. Therefore I declare, why your life
- 2:38:11no mosttagnation age long doors that have refused to open
- 2:38:17in the name of Jesus, we swing them open now.
- 2:38:24Dear me, whatever has stunted your office, your business, the
- 2:38:30works of your hands, every manifestation of.
- 2:38:33Speaker 4: Pride that has come.
- 2:38:34Speaker 1: Through you directly or indirectly, or has come from your children,
- 2:38:39and even those who are raising spiritually or otherwise. I
- 2:38:42pray make the messy of God speak for you. Grace
- 2:38:49to walk in true humility. Receive that grace, grace to
- 2:38:54acknowledge Jesus as the source and the only source of
- 2:38:58your rising Christ be released upon you.
- 2:39:03Speaker 5: Hear me.
- 2:39:04Speaker 1: Any association in your life that seeks to distract you
- 2:39:07from acknowledging Jesus, and anything that is planted in your
- 2:39:11heart that makes you ashamed of letting the nations know
- 2:39:15that He is a lifter. I command it out of
- 2:39:18your heart now, But thou shall remember the Lord, Thye God.
- 2:39:28But thou shall remember the Lord die God, But thou
- 2:39:35shall remember the one who lifted, the one who blessed.
- 2:39:41That grace comes upon you now, hear me some of you.
- 2:39:46It will not reach the next one week. You will
- 2:39:49return back with strange testimonies of thought. But body I
- 2:39:52said this to you by the God of Heaven, some
- 2:39:55of you before next Sunday you will stand here to
- 2:39:59share sear testimonies of the lifting power of humility. By disgrace.
- 2:40:07Those that were once opened and are now closed. May
- 2:40:10they be reopened the game in the name of Jesus.
- 2:40:18Please wave your hands and give him praise. Thank you Father.
- 2:40:22Let the name of the Lord be glorified. Wave your hands,
- 2:40:25give him praise in the name of Jesus Christ. Just
- 2:40:30a moment, let me make the altar called. Please keep
- 2:40:33standing everyone, Let's honor those who are coming. Now you
- 2:40:36are in this place. The greatest proof of pride is
- 2:40:41to refuse to acknowledge God.
- 2:40:45Speaker 4: Alongside that.
- 2:40:46Speaker 1: Refuse.
- 2:40:47Speaker 4: How to pray is pride.
- 2:40:49Speaker 1: Because it's proved that you do not need the assistance
- 2:40:51of heaven. Refuse how to study the world. Wherever you are,
- 2:40:56you are in this auditorium, around the balcony or outside.
- 2:41:00I want you to run right now and come and
- 2:41:02stand before me. We have just one minute for you.
- 2:41:04God bless you as you come. Run, leave your seat
- 2:41:08and come. Don't let the devil deceive you and say
- 2:41:11I don't want people to see me. Come to Jesus. Coanoni,
- 2:41:17are you celebrating salvation. Don't let anybody stop me where
- 2:41:23you are, leave them and come. Come to Jesus.
- 2:41:29Speaker 4: Come to Jesus. Come, Come, young and all a life.
- 2:41:34Speaker 1: Come those who are following online, following from whatever TV station,
- 2:41:40following from any nation. I like you to be prepared
- 2:41:43right now. Open your hands before Jesus Christ and pray
- 2:41:47this prayer as we leave.
- 2:41:48Speaker 4: These people are family here and prayer. Make sure you
- 2:41:51connect pray and those who.
- 2:41:54Speaker 1: Will be watching this later on when you get to
- 2:41:56this part of the video of the recording, make sure
- 2:41:59you join to pray. Please come join them. We have
- 2:42:02one more minute, Apostle. I'm not sure if I'm saved
- 2:42:06or not. Run and join them so you can be
- 2:42:08shure tonight. I love the things of God God. I'm
- 2:42:12not sure if I'm saved, join them, Join them. Please,
- 2:42:15if you're coming, rouse quickly quickly. We're out of time.
- 2:42:18Come come as you are. The mad guy is about
- 2:42:21to make you. The lyft is about to lift your
- 2:42:24coin on here. Can you celebrate them? Allelujah?
- 2:42:36Speaker 4: Please?
- 2:42:36Speaker 1: You are joining them, Come very quickly. Now look at me.
- 2:42:40I salute sincerely every one of you who has come here.
- 2:42:44You have come before Jesus himself, the mediator of the
- 2:42:47New Covenant. Some of you are crying. Don't be ashamed
- 2:42:49of your tears. He's able to give you a new beginning.
- 2:42:52This is a family that loves you passionately, and no
- 2:42:55man condemns you. He's able to give you a new beginning.
- 2:42:58Lift your right hand eye to the heavens. Allow the
- 2:43:01tears to come. Don't be ashamed, young and old. I
- 2:43:04honor you for the courage to come. The business of
- 2:43:06Jesus is a personal thing. It's not just a corporate thing.
- 2:43:10It first stands as a personal decision. Just help those
- 2:43:14on that you're annointing, Help them please.
- 2:43:19Speaker 4: I want you to say this after me, but I
- 2:43:22want you to mian it. Jesus is here.
- 2:43:26Speaker 1: And he's ready to receive you and to give you
- 2:43:28a new beginning. Every one of us had to make
- 2:43:30this decision. And I'm telling you that the Bible says
- 2:43:34whosoever will come to him, he will in no wise
- 2:43:37cast away.
- 2:43:38Speaker 4: Say half time me.
- 2:43:39Speaker 1: Let it be loud and clear from your heart. You
- 2:43:41are saying it before Jesus Christ, your maker, Lord Jesus,
- 2:43:46Tonight I have heard your word. I humble myself before you.
- 2:43:54I ask you for messy, for cleansing. I believe believe
- 2:44:01that you are the son of God. I believe that
- 2:44:06you died for me, You rose.
- 2:44:08Speaker 4: Again for my justification.
- 2:44:12Speaker 1: Tonight I receive eternal life into my spirit. I receive
- 2:44:20the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness.
- 2:44:25Speaker 4: And I declare that I reign in life.
- 2:44:29Speaker 1: The power of sin, satan, hell, and the grave is
- 2:44:37broken over my life. From today I am born again.
- 2:44:42I am a child of God. I walk in victory
- 2:44:46a man. Keep your hands lifted, Father, Thank you, Thank you.
- 2:44:51We remain ever grateful for the work of salvation. Just
- 2:44:55help those on that you're naughty. Father, we present to
- 2:44:58you these ones that you Jesus has brought to himself.
- 2:45:01It's an honor to stand to midwife this eternal process. Lord,
- 2:45:07I pray, according to the authority of Scripture, that their
- 2:45:10sins are forgiven. And at the beginning new journey with Jesus,
- 2:45:15I decreate and declare, by the power of the Holy Spirit,
- 2:45:18that you rise from glory to glory. I commend you
- 2:45:22to the ministry of the world and the ministry of
- 2:45:25the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ. I
- 2:45:29decreate and declare, let it be a new beginning for you.
- 2:45:32From today you go forwardever and back. Whatever the dog
- 2:45:38yesterday is closed forever, and you begin to make progress.
- 2:45:43No guilty in life and no fear in death. Jesus
- 2:45:47is your victory. Be blessed and be lifted in Jesus' name.
- 2:45:51I pray, Amen and Amen congratulations. Now there is a counselor.
- 2:45:56Please look at me, all of you. Thank you, I
- 2:45:58celebrate you. There's a counselor in his hands. Please all
- 2:46:01of you just follow them in concert just a minute
- 2:46:04or two. They'll just have your details and appraise you,
- 2:46:06and you'll be back to your seat. Let's honor them
- 2:46:08as they go. Please celebrate them, celebrate them. Be careful
- 2:46:11as you walk with the craves. Are you celebrating this harvest? Pinonia, Oh,
- 2:46:29takes me home.
- 2:46:31Speaker 4: Here in the love of Christ halstane.
- 2:46:37Speaker 8: M.
- 2:46:42Speaker 1: I pray for everyone here in the name of Jesus.
- 2:46:46May the Lord honor you and the Lord bless you
- 2:46:52in the mighty and much less name of Jesus Christ.
- 2:46:58To announce to all that Friday will be having the
- 2:47:03miracle service in Zaria. So Azaria family are becoming there
- 2:47:09will be having a miracle service, and Sunday will be
- 2:47:12a miracle service here for the month.
- 2:47:14Speaker 4: Of August prays the name of the Lord.
- 2:47:16Speaker 1: Listen, believe me, Sunday here will be an extraordinary experience.
- 2:47:23You're going to be receiving things from heaven that will
- 2:47:27change your life in proportions that you have not seen.
- 2:47:31Invite everyone you know and love. Come on time. If
- 2:47:36there is no space, if you have to climb the roof,
- 2:47:38seat down there, but just make sure that you encounter
- 2:47:41the power of God to heal, to save, to deliver,
- 2:47:46to give you direction, and to bring you comfort and peace.
- 2:47:50But for now, may the Lord bless you in the
- 2:47:53name of Jesus. May the hand of the Lord rest
- 2:47:56upon you. This week beginning is a week of victory
- 2:47:59for you. You go from glory to glory. You're excelling
- 2:48:03in your spiritual life. In the name of Jesus Christ.
- 2:48:07The Lord multiplies your honor, multiplies your influence. He keeps
- 2:48:11you away from anything that will destroy your destiny. And
- 2:48:15I pray that you keep going from glory to glory
- 2:48:17in the name of Jesus Christ. Now after the grace,
- 2:48:21if you can't hog one another greed, someone by your
- 2:48:23left hand right after the grace, and then you tell
- 2:48:27them what dou shall remember the Lord that God, that
- 2:48:30is your take home tonight. God bless you less, share
- 2:48:34the grace, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
- 2:48:36love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
- 2:48:40Speaker 4: Let it rest and a bide with us non forever more.
- 2:48:43Speaker 1: Amen. God bless you and see you on Sunday.
- 2:49:08Speaker 2: All the glory mill um, see.
- 2:49:11Speaker 9: All the glory men, see oh, all the glory milump sy,
- 2:49:24all the glory.
- 2:49:25Speaker 7: Blump syr God.
- 2:49:29Speaker 1: Yeah, all the glory below in the long signal electure
- 2:49:43bone and say all the glory in the single way
- 2:49:57the glory.
- 2:50:00Speaker 10: In the single.
- 2:50:10Speaker 9: Can you say.
- 2:50:16Speaker 2: Yeah saying her yeah my.
- 2:51:01Speaker 7: Chat?
- 2:51:05Speaker 1: Were you talking the BOLLA one song.
- 2:51:13Speaker 2: When a.
- 2:51:18Speaker 10: Wicked like you.
- 2:51:33Speaker 9: Don't see.
- 2:51:42Speaker 10: At the scene.
- 2:51:45Speaker 1: All the glory don't see you.
- 2:51:53Speaker 5: You have my slip, my.
- 2:51:55Speaker 1: Deals, not sad and work alone. You look be young me.
- 2:52:03Speaker 4: You look be young me.
- 2:52:06Speaker 1: You're been nice sim on my.
- 2:52:09Speaker 2: Side and you.
- 2:52:13Speaker 10: Will be dumpy.
- 2:52:16Speaker 2: You don't be up me.
- 2:52:19Speaker 10: You look that's my city.
- 2:52:23Speaker 1: Said you're hot me.
- 2:52:28Speaker 10: You will be y' st.
- 2:52:47Speaker 2: Your son to world. You are song.
- 2:52:52Speaker 1: You are so you m sours yeah.
- 2:53:03Speaker 7: So you so.
- 2:53:15Speaker 11: You so.
- 2:53:25Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you are shop.
- 2:53:43Speaker 8: You are son yo son, your wife and son your yeah,
- 2:53:52the one it was so bing us MEA you saw
- 2:54:10so you.
- 2:54:13Speaker 2: Son. Yeah, I'm not hurry.
- 2:54:26Speaker 1: You so mercy, Yes, you.
- 2:54:34Speaker 7: You're not.
- 2:54:34Speaker 2: So you love me. You love me, see you show
- 2:54:49you so you.
- 2:54:53Speaker 8: So you
- 2:54:56Speaker 2: Yeah