Latest / Apostle Joshua Selman / RE-DEFINING THE BLESSING 2
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Sit you to our saba, praise the name of the Lord.
- 0:12Good morning, everybody, Awesome moments of prayer and worship. Already
- 0:18a lot of meetings like this where with dedicate time
- 0:22to just press into the things of God, to learn
- 0:25the ways of God and passa daily Thank you so
- 0:28very much, thank you for this opportunity. Let me appreciate
- 0:32and honor every man, woman of God and everyone who
- 0:38she represented. That includes those who are following online. Can
- 0:42we lift our hands to the heavens once again, asks
- 0:45the Lord to speak to our hearts. The Bible says
- 0:48the entrance of his word gives light, and it is
- 0:53understanding onto the simple John Chapter one and verse five.
- 1:00As the lights shine it in the darkness and the darkness.
- 1:02Speaker 2: Complain that it not.
- 1:05Speaker 1: But your faith lifted to the heavens with you asking
- 1:08for an encounter this morning. They go from strength to strength,
- 1:14as many as appear before the Lord in Zion. You
- 1:19prayed it, you sang it that he will give you
- 1:21an evidence. Let it show that you met with him.
- 1:25Would you repeat that prayer again? Let your grace rest
- 1:30upon my life, Let your wisdom rest upon my life.
- 1:35Let it be evident beyond doubt that I have met
- 1:39with you. In Jesus' name, we pray, Father, we ask
- 1:48that you speak to our hearts again. Let your word
- 1:51come with power, Let it bring illumination, let it bring direction,
- 1:56with vow to give you all the glory. In Jesus' name,
- 2:00we pray a man, give Jesus a big hand club Allelujah.
- 2:07At least you may all be seated. May all be seated.
- 2:11The Sumi said, I was glad when they said unto me.
- 2:15Let us go to the house of the Lord. Allelujah.
- 2:20Speaker 2: In his presence.
- 2:21Speaker 1: We access wisdom in his presence, We access power.
- 2:27Speaker 2: In his presence, we access light.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Allelujah is the fountain of wisdom. And so we've been
- 2:35discussing around the theme of the conference. I renamed my
- 2:40topic redefining the Blessing. So if you just wrote the
- 2:44blessing last night, would you add redefining the Blessing. I
- 2:48think it's a shift that God is bringing to us.
- 2:52We looked at part one yesternight examining a few fundamentals,
- 2:57and I'd like to just quickly recap and then we will
- 3:00connect to this morning session.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Allelujah.
- 3:04Speaker 1: We read a few portions of scripture yesterday night, just
- 3:08to establish the fact that the concept of the blessing
- 3:11or blessings generally is a biblical concept, and we find
- 3:16that scattered from Genesis chapter one. In fact, the first
- 3:20initiate of that concept himself was God one twenty Genesis,
- 3:25the Bible says, and God bless them and said unto them,
- 3:29be fruitful, multiply, et cetera. When we get to Genesis
- 3:34chapter twelve, the Bible says, he calls Abraham out of
- 3:37awe of the childy ends and sends him to a
- 3:40land and begins to propose a series of blessings to him.
- 3:43I will bless you, make your name great. I will
- 3:46bless them that bless you, curse him that curses you.
- 3:49And in thee he says verse three, shall all the
- 3:53families of the earth be blessed away together? And I
- 3:57did tell us that God can bless and men can
- 4:01also bless. Recall the portion of scripture when Rebecca was
- 4:07being released by her family, a blessing was spoken over
- 4:11her life, and the Bible also tells us in someone
- 4:16he says, blessed is the man, so men can be blessed.
- 4:21Blessed is the man in some one or three, he says,
- 4:25bless the Lord, oh my soul and all that is
- 4:29within me, bless his holy name.
- 4:32Speaker 2: So men can bless the Lord.
- 4:34Speaker 1: For a foundation, we established a few things that blessing
- 4:39generally speaking, is connected to favor still remember, connected to advancement,
- 4:46connected to peace, connected to protection, preservation.
- 4:51Speaker 2: And trial.
- 4:52Speaker 1: So when you mention the word blessing, generally, these are
- 4:56the words that are related to or connected to the blessing.
- 5:00And we're examined a few Greek and Hebrew words just
- 5:03to put us in perspective. We examine the Hebrew word
- 5:06baraq that when we talk about blessing as the word barraq,
- 5:10it generally means to took down, to bow. Now that's
- 5:15the expression of blessing when it's in relation to God.
- 5:18When you say bless the Lord, you don't mean giving
- 5:21money or make his life better away together, there's nothing
- 5:24we can add to improve on God's You know who
- 5:28he is, He feels all things you know in him,
- 5:31all things consist. So when we use the word bless
- 5:34is the word baraq it has to do with worship.
- 5:38To stoop down like the woman with the alabasta box.
- 5:41Remember that's exactly the portrait of what it means to
- 5:44bless the Lord, to cast your golden crown, to stoop
- 5:48down in worship, in obeysance, you know, just to acknowledge
- 5:52and to honor him. It's also the word bless And
- 5:56then we looked at the word your logier, remember elogia
- 6:00eu l ogia, and we.
- 6:03Speaker 2: Said it means a good word.
- 6:06Speaker 1: So we generally saw that as a pronouncement that produces
- 6:11an effect of wealth, an effect of peace, and effect
- 6:16of protection. Now that's where the proclamation of the blessing comes.
- 6:21Like the priest was commanded to declare the blessing upon
- 6:24the people, like Isaac blessed Jacob, and like all kinds
- 6:28of blessings happen in the Bible. So when you make
- 6:32a decree, a prophetic pronouncement upon people, deposit grace upon
- 6:37their lives, that begins to guide them into several possibilities,
- 6:41from prosperity to favor. Are weay together we're examined the
- 6:45life of Eso and Jacob yesterday as a case study.
- 6:50How that Isaac blessed takeup instead of Iseso. And even
- 6:55though it was through the vehicle of deceit, it still
- 7:00happened that the blessing rested upon him to the point
- 7:04that he or cried as an adult, a hard working adult,
- 7:07and he still cried the value of the blessing, Allelujah.
- 7:12And I did tell us that another Greek word, and
- 7:14this one has to do with the portrait of a
- 7:17blessed man, is the Greek word macarios. And that does
- 7:21not just talk of a pronouncement. It is the portrait
- 7:24of the result of the blessing. It means to be fortunate,
- 7:28it means it's a portrait of one who's triumphed. Already
- 7:31is a portrait of one who's prospered. Allelujah, praised the
- 7:35name of the Lord. I pointed a few things yesternight.
- 7:39If you recall that in the Old Testament, the concept
- 7:43of blessings, they were largely concerned with speakings. Remember, prophetic
- 7:49pronouncements that were backed up by the power of God,
- 7:52and if and when received by faith, produced certain effects
- 7:56like favor, preservation, protection.
- 8:00Speaker 2: But in the New Testament the concepts.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Began to change, particularly with the arrival of Jesus as
- 8:07the Christ. And we explained a few things. Now, three
- 8:11very important concepts. The blessing of Abraham, the blessing and
- 8:17then blessings. Still, remember you have to keep that as
- 8:20a rule of tomb. And we said the blessing of Abraham,
- 8:23we're examined from Isaac chapter fifty one and verse two.
- 8:27It says, to look onto Abraham, your father, and to
- 8:30Sarah that body. For I called him alone, and I
- 8:33blessed him, and I increased him. And we did agree
- 8:38that the blessing of Abraham. Unfortunately, unlike the narrative that
- 8:44is the popular narrative across the body of Christ, it
- 8:47has nothing to do with physical or material things.
- 8:51Speaker 2: The blessing of Abraham.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Is a mystery that is shrouded in the story of
- 8:56a man. Are we together blessing of Abraham con tends
- 9:00within it the revelation of the formula to find salvation,
- 9:04to connect to the Christ. So in summary, yesterday we said,
- 9:08the blessing of Abraham is justification by faith. Abraham believed
- 9:15God even though it was impossible, and it was credited
- 9:18to him for righteousness. And so we, like faithful Abraham,
- 9:23when he gives us a report that we have been saved,
- 9:27that we have been redeemed, a weay together that our
- 9:30sins have been forgiven, no matter how possible it is.
- 9:33Speaker 2: In his case, it was the issue.
- 9:35Speaker 1: Of fertility and fruitfulness. In our case, it's an eatingy.
- 9:39Like faithful Abraham. If and when we believe a wea
- 9:42together that he believed that it was credited to him,
- 9:46So when we believe, it is credited to us in
- 9:49that simplitude, the blessing of Abraham. So the next time
- 9:53you say you are a partaker of the blessing of Abraham,
- 9:58you are right, But do not mean God asks you
- 10:01to counter stars and all of that. We usually think
- 10:04of it from a material standpoint, And don't get me wrong,
- 10:07the material part comes later, but the foundation of it
- 10:12is faith, justification by faith, and then it gives room
- 10:16to the blessing. Remember, the blessing is the promise of
- 10:20the Spirit. So the Holy Spirit, among the many expressions,
- 10:24he is also the blessing.
- 10:26Speaker 2: It is not what he brings, it is who he is.
- 10:30Speaker 1: And then alongside all the resources that come with him
- 10:33Galicians three from verse thirteen, Christ has redeemed us from
- 10:37the curse of the law being made a curse for us,
- 10:41for it is written, cursed is everyone who hangs upon
- 10:44the tree. There you go that blessing. Would you want
- 10:48to put your phones on silent, that the blessings of
- 10:52Abraham praise the name of the Lord will come upon
- 10:57gentiles through Christ sto in Christ, to the end that
- 11:02we might receive the blessing, the promise of the Spirit
- 11:07true faith.
- 11:08Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 11:09Speaker 1: And remember when Peter preached his first salmon on the
- 11:13day Pentecost, he made a very profound statement. He said,
- 11:18for this promise, the same promise here, the promise of
- 11:22the Spirit, the blessing. The promise is unto you and
- 11:26to your children, your children's children, as many as are
- 11:30paro even them who the Lord will call. So when
- 11:33it has to do with the blessing, I told us
- 11:35that Jesus Christ came, and in his providing for us
- 11:40access to the blessing, he corrected.
- 11:43Speaker 2: The reason why he is or cried is or cried.
- 11:46Speaker 1: Because there was no possibility of receiving the same thing
- 11:50with coome again. But now the Spirit of God Grandson's access.
- 11:55So it doesn't matter whether you come early. Provided you
- 11:59come into.
- 12:00Speaker 2: Christ, you have access to the blessing. And I proved
- 12:04towards from.
- 12:04Speaker 1: Scripture that the Holy Spirit in resting upon the believer
- 12:10he also comes as the blessing some one taty three.
- 12:13Remember how good and how pleasant it is when brethren
- 12:17dwell together in unity. It's like the oil that comes
- 12:19upon the head of Aaron the priest down to his
- 12:22garment Versus.
- 12:23Speaker 2: He says, for there in that.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Gathering God had commanded what the blessing, even life forevermore.
- 12:30And we saw that. And this was an adumbration of
- 12:33the day of Pentecos, Acts Chapter two and verse one. Now,
- 12:37when the day of Pentacos was fully comed, they were gathered.
- 12:40Speaker 2: Together, like some one taty three says.
- 12:42Speaker 1: And in that gathering, the Bible says, suddenly they saw
- 12:46cloven tongues as of fire.
- 12:48Speaker 2: It sat upon everyone.
- 12:50Speaker 1: And then these three the Bible says that you know
- 12:54they were filvers four. Now they were filled with the
- 12:57Holy ghost, and they began to speak in order tongues.
- 13:00He came as the blessing, because the Bible says, there
- 13:04the Lord hath commanded the blessing. In this case the spirit.
- 13:09So to the believer, when you say you are blessed,
- 13:13it doesn't just mean you got a job. No, that's
- 13:16the effect of being blessed. A job is not the
- 13:21reason you are blessed, a ki is not the reason
- 13:24you are blessed. Do you understand what I'm saying now,
- 13:26Because if you base your understanding of the blessing to
- 13:29these things, then you are kindly minded. It then means
- 13:32there are many people without Christ who are blessed. There
- 13:35is no body without Jesus Christ who is blessed. No diligence,
- 13:42you can route some of the effects that are parallels
- 13:46of the blessing even without Christ. Through diligence, you can
- 13:49buy a car, you can buy a house. But when
- 13:52we talk of the blessing in the Kingdom, we're not
- 13:54connecting it to material things. Those are the effects, in fact,
- 13:57the latter effects. The only condition for an individual to
- 14:03be blessed is number one, that you have gone through
- 14:07the process that released upon you the blessing of Abraham
- 14:11justification by faith. Now that gives you access to the
- 14:14Spirit who is the blessing himself. And like you're going
- 14:17to be learning this morning and the evening, there is
- 14:20the kind of business you do with the Holy Spirit
- 14:23as the blessing that brings you into blessings. So you
- 14:28can have the Holy Spirit, he is the blessing and
- 14:32never have the evidence of His presence manifesting your life
- 14:36are well together. There are many people who have the
- 14:38Holy Spirit, and the only way you know they have
- 14:41the Holy Spirit is when they pray in tongues. You
- 14:44cannot find the evidence of the blessing in them. And
- 14:47I told you that there are many expressions of the blessings.
- 14:52In fact, primarily they are spiritual, like peace, like the
- 14:56fruit of the spirit, like the godlike character. You see,
- 15:01these are not things you can outsource outside of the Christ.
- 15:03You can try to tame the flesh using the mechanics,
- 15:07but it won't work.
- 15:09Speaker 2: Away together.
- 15:11Speaker 1: Now, it is only to those who are in Christ
- 15:14and those who have received the promise of the Spirit
- 15:17by faith. They are the ones who say I am blessed.
- 15:22So you don't just abuse it and say I am
- 15:24blessed because you feel you have money.
- 15:26Speaker 2: No no, no, no, You are rich, but you are
- 15:28not blessed.
- 15:31Speaker 1: You can be prosperous in as much as we define
- 15:34financial prosperity, but you are not blessed. The concept of
- 15:38blessing is exclusive to those who are in Christ.
- 15:43Speaker 2: It's someone learning already, right.
- 15:45Speaker 1: So that being said, let's go to today's session. Let's
- 15:49see what's on the menu for today. Praying the spirit
- 15:52for one minute, Thank you, Lord Jesus, blessed, favored in
- 16:06Jesus' much less name, we have prayed. So we're looking
- 16:10at redefining the blessing, and this will be part two
- 16:13and for a subtopic will be considering the purpose of
- 16:16the blessing. The purpose for the blessing, I begin with
- 16:21re quotes from a daily revered mentor noun gone to
- 16:24be with the Lord. Doctor Miles Monroe made a very
- 16:27profound and popular statement that when the purpose of a
- 16:30thing is not known, it says, abuse becomes inevitable.
- 16:34Speaker 2: Allelujah.
- 16:35Speaker 1: The word abuse comes from two words abnormal use.
- 16:38Speaker 2: Every time the purpose of a thing is not.
- 16:41Speaker 1: Known, you will use it in an abnormal way, allelujah,
- 16:44and it's called abuse. So the purpose of the blessing,
- 16:48Now that we've understood that the blessing talks about the
- 16:50Holy Spirit alongside all the resources that comes with him,
- 16:56providing an advantage for the believer in and through Christ.
- 17:00For a text again, let's consider Genesis twelve and verse three.
- 17:04While looking this morning at the purpose of the blessing.
- 17:09Genesis twelve, verse three, he's proposing a blessing to everyham now,
- 17:13and he says, I will bless them that bless thee,
- 17:16and curse him that curses the Just pause for a moment,
- 17:20and if you look carefully, this should already comfort someone
- 17:24that for every them or every hymn that causes you,
- 17:28there are them.
- 17:30Speaker 2: The ratio should comfort you are way together.
- 17:34Speaker 1: For every one person who looks down on you trivializes you,
- 17:39there are many, many people who love you, who all
- 17:42know you, whould desire your good.
- 17:45Speaker 2: It is the ratio of him to them.
- 17:48Speaker 1: I will bless those who bless you, and I will
- 17:53cause him.
- 17:55Speaker 2: So it's not that bad. You are loved.
- 18:00Speaker 1: What I said, Yeah, don't be frustrated. It's not that.
- 18:03But I don't mind the naysayers. They are a minority
- 18:06compared to many sincere people who love you.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Hallelujah. It's only that you say.
- 18:14Speaker 1: The psychology of men is such that even if you
- 18:17are a thousand people saying Josanna and there's one person looking.
- 18:21Speaker 2: You seem to tilt towards.
- 18:23Speaker 1: So you have to train your mind, and the way
- 18:25you train your mind is to think on these things.
- 18:28Philippians four one, verse eight Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are honest, pure, true, noble,
- 18:36if there be any good, if there be any virtue,
- 18:40it says, think on these things. You can train your
- 18:44mind to think on these things. Allelujah. Back to our discussion.
- 18:48I will bless them that bless you, and curse him
- 18:51that curses you. And it says in THEE I like this,
- 18:55in the shall all the families of the earth be
- 18:59bless The word families there go beyond just nuclear houses
- 19:05and homes.
- 19:06Speaker 2: It also extends to people groups.
- 19:09Speaker 1: In the Genesis twelfth anvers three, shall all the families?
- 19:14Speaker 2: How many?
- 19:16Speaker 1: All the families of the earth shall be blessed. I
- 19:20don't know what version this is in these shall all
- 19:23the families? Or he's just trying to give us some.
- 19:28Speaker 2: Okay, beautiful word.
- 19:29Speaker 1: Back to KJV in you shall all the families of
- 19:33the earth be blessed. Second scripture is found in Efficient
- 19:37chapter two and verse ten, Pa all the apostle mentoring
- 19:42the church. In Ephesus, he makes a very profound statement,
- 19:45I like for you to read with me. Read it,
- 19:47believing ready one to go, for we are His workmanship
- 19:53created in Christ Jesus. Uh huh, stop for one more
- 19:58time for you take note of that. For so we
- 20:03are created in Christ for good works which God prepared beforehand,
- 20:10that we should work in them.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Can we see any other version?
- 20:13Speaker 1: Just give us any other version at all, and I
- 20:15the any modern version.
- 20:18Speaker 2: Let's see what they say. Oh, I like this. What
- 20:22in the world? What version is that? Media? Help us?
- 20:26Can you start it? NLT for we are God's Yeah,
- 20:32I like that.
- 20:33Speaker 1: We are God's don't mind social media. You are God's
- 20:38master piece. The Bible says He has created us and
- 20:42knew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good
- 20:46things he planned for us long ago. Not he is planning.
- 20:51He's not wondering what to make out of your life.
- 20:53There is a script already. Is someone learning now? Praise
- 20:58the name of the Lord God, bless you. Back to KJV.
- 21:01Everything in the Kingdom I wrote here derives its value
- 21:05to the degree to which it is connected to purpose.
- 21:07Speaker 2: Don't forget this profound statement.
- 21:10Speaker 1: Everything in the king derives its value to the degree
- 21:16to which it is connected to purpose. The beauty of
- 21:21Esta meant nothing except and unless it became connected to
- 21:24purpose the moment it became a tool for the salvation
- 21:28of God's people. It found its value there I go together. Now,
- 21:32the believer must sustain such an orientation that you don't
- 21:36celebrate things just for what they are. You only celebrate
- 21:39them because of their ability to boost to fulfill kingdom.
- 21:44Com together, whether it's a job, whether it's a promotion.
- 21:48Speaker 2: So here's how I believer thinks.
- 21:50Speaker 1: You don't come and say, wow, I have a promotion now,
- 21:52and then you rejoice. I have a person because that's
- 21:57the language of the believer, because I found a better
- 22:01expression or better influence through that promotion, to be able
- 22:06to bless lives, to advance the program of God.
- 22:08Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 22:10Speaker 1: Nothing in itself exists for itself nature to teach us
- 22:14that the orange tree does not eat its orange, the
- 22:19mango tree does not eat the mango.
- 22:22Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 22:23Speaker 1: Yes, Everything in creation finds fulfillment when it lives where
- 22:28cause bigger than itself, bigger than itself.
- 22:34Speaker 2: Allelujah.
- 22:35Speaker 1: Now, the man who is not in Christ is largely
- 22:38about self, and so there's no purpose connected to the
- 22:42things that they want. Is the reason why the Bible
- 22:44says the prosperity of fools. You know why they are
- 22:48called fools. There are two expressions in the Bible that
- 22:52have distopped me. Pastor. Number one is the poor wise man,
- 22:57because wisdom and poverty should not go handing. Unfortunately you
- 23:01find that in the Bible. And then the other one
- 23:03is the rich fool. I believe that what made the
- 23:09man a fool was the fact that he did not
- 23:12look at a bigger cost beyond himself.
- 23:15Speaker 2: He built bands field all his treasure.
- 23:18Speaker 1: And yes, what he says, my soul find rest not
- 23:22knowing that the purpose of the blessing in any expression whatsoever,
- 23:27is so that you can reach out to others?
- 23:28Speaker 2: Are we learning?
- 23:29Speaker 1: Already prays the name of the Lord. So this is
- 23:32very important. Everything in the Kingdom derives its value to
- 23:38the degree to which it is connected to purpose. Your job,
- 23:43your singing, your gifts, your abilities, they only derive their
- 23:48value to the degree to which they are connected to purpose. Now,
- 23:53what is the purpose of the Holy Spirit as the
- 23:55blessing in the life of the believer. It's important for
- 23:59us to know, not just to appreciate him as the blessing,
- 24:02but what exactly you see here in our lives to
- 24:05do knowing that he's the blessing.
- 24:08Speaker 2: Alle Lujah, Very.
- 24:10Speaker 1: Quickly, I'll give you a twofold assignment or purpose, that
- 24:15the Holy Spirit revealing himself in the life of the
- 24:19believer as the blessing.
- 24:21Speaker 2: He comes for two reasons.
- 24:23Speaker 1: Number one, to help the believer experience the reality of victory, dominion,
- 24:33and fulfillment while on earth. I'll give you the best reason.
- 24:37This is why the Holy Spirit comes as the blessing.
- 24:40The purpose of the blessing the life of the believer
- 24:44to help the believer. If you're writing, please write to
- 24:48help the believer experience the reality of victory, the reality
- 24:54of dominion, the reality of fulfillment whiles on earth. In
- 25:03Second Peter, Chapter one and verse four, the Bible says,
- 25:08whereby are giving to us exceeding great and precious promises,
- 25:15that by these we might be partakers of His divine nature.
- 25:21Havn't escaped the corruption that is in the world through
- 25:24lost so apart. So Peter was teaching us that it's
- 25:29important for us to have the experience if it is
- 25:33true that we have become one with Christ. Remember he
- 25:36that is joined to crisis one spirit, and that has
- 25:40happened by the Holy Ghost, And that when the Holy
- 25:43Ghost comes upon an individual, more so as the being,
- 25:47he has the singular assignment of guiding and helping that
- 25:53believer experience the reality. Take note of that word, the
- 25:57reality of victory, of dominion and fulfillment. Shout this after me.
- 26:04Say victory like it's your inheritance. Say victory, say dominion,
- 26:10Say fulfillment. One last time, say victory, say dominion, say fulfillment.
- 26:17How many of you believe in that victory? Dominion, fulfillment.
- 26:24It is im possible to walk in victory. It is
- 26:28impossible to work in dominion. It is impossible to live
- 26:32a fulfilled life.
- 26:34Speaker 2: Are we together without the blessing?
- 26:40Speaker 1: So the key truly living a life of victory, living
- 26:44a life of dominion and a life.
- 26:46Speaker 2: Of fulfillment, is the blessing.
- 26:49Speaker 1: You can go all around, you can't do anything navigate
- 26:52through any other route. You will never truly live a
- 26:55victorious life in Christ. You will never truly walk in
- 26:59dominion inexperience, and you will never truly find a fulfilled
- 27:03life or live a fulfilled life fine fulfillment, Accept and
- 27:07unless the blessing is upon you, the second ament ready
- 27:14to empower the believer to fulfill the mandate of being
- 27:20a global blessing. The second assignment of the Holy Spirit
- 27:24as the blessing in the believer's life to empower the
- 27:28believer to fulfill the mandate of being a global blessing
- 27:35Verses twelfth and the three. In THEE shall all the
- 27:39families of the earth be blessed in THEE?
- 27:43Speaker 2: Are you seeing that the Holy Spirit is fair enough?
- 27:46Speaker 1: He does a work in you so that you become
- 27:49an experiential beneficiary of the benevolence the victory of Christ.
- 27:53But then he reminds you that there is a mandate
- 27:55that is not all about you.
- 27:57Speaker 2: It doesn't stop here.
- 27:59Speaker 1: Now you will be on fair if he just focuses
- 28:01on the nations and then he leaves you.
- 28:03Speaker 2: So he starts with you.
- 28:06Speaker 1: The reason why a coup overflows is that it is
- 28:08first filled.
- 28:09Speaker 2: Am I right? So you are feeled.
- 28:11Speaker 1: Then when you are filled to the brim, you now
- 28:15begin to overflow to the nations. Remember he spoke about
- 28:19in John chapter nine, spoke about the Holy Spirit in
- 28:23that great day, the last day, finality.
- 28:25Speaker 2: Of the fist.
- 28:26Speaker 1: He said, anyone who first let him come and drink,
- 28:29and out of your belly will flow rivers. Remember the
- 28:31Bible says this speak he of the Holy Ghost. He
- 28:36spake of the Holy Ghost that those who would receive
- 28:40He will be in them a well springing up away.
- 28:44Speaker 2: Together.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Now praise the name of the Lord, so to empower
- 28:47the believer to fulfill the mandate of being a global blessing.
- 28:53Yesterday you said I am blessed. Now you shout I
- 28:56am a blessing. That's today's phrase. Again, say I am
- 29:01a blessing. It doesn't stop by saying I am blessed.
- 29:06It is true that you are blessed. Why are you blessed?
- 29:09Because you have received Jesus. You have been justified by faith.
- 29:13You have received the blessing of Abraham and is giving
- 29:16you access to receive the promise of the Spirit true faith,
- 29:20the Holy Ghost. He is the reason, the foundation for
- 29:23your being blessed. So say I am blessed. And now,
- 29:27understanding the purpose of the blessing, you can boldly say
- 29:30I am a blessing. You don't need a job yet
- 29:33to say that, say I am a blessing. You don't
- 29:36need an award yet. To say that, say I am
- 29:38a blessing. That means the capacity the coming of the
- 29:42Holy Spirit in your life. Are we together? He also
- 29:46comes with the portenteial. Now, whether you will actually be
- 29:51that blessing or not, Ah.
- 29:55Speaker 2: Will be part of my teaching today. Will begin to
- 29:57take that.
- 29:57Speaker 1: But it's important for you to know that He's homine
- 30:00gives you potential to be a blessing. I like that
- 30:05in THEE shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
- 30:11Speaker 2: Say I'm a blessing.
- 30:16Speaker 1: So he empowers the believer to fulfill the mandate of
- 30:20being a blessing. If you care to write some more,
- 30:23extending salvation, extending healing, extending wealth, extending victory to others.
- 30:34Speaker 2: He empowers the believer.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Second and more important assignment of the blessing to empower
- 30:41the believer to fulfill the mandate of being a global blessing,
- 30:46extending salvation, extending healing, extending wealth, extending victory, extending deliverance,
- 31:00extending preservation like Joseph. Remember, Joseph was an instrument of
- 31:06preservation not only for his family, but it.
- 31:09Speaker 2: Later affected the Jews.
- 31:11Speaker 1: They would have died of hunger except that God raised
- 31:14Joseph not just as a deliverer but as a preserver
- 31:17and prophes signed over someone in the name of Jesus,
- 31:20that all who know you will thank God because you
- 31:22are alive again, that all who know you, they will
- 31:28thank God because you are alive. That in your lifetime,
- 31:33for those of you who still have your parents and
- 31:35your loved ones alive, they will get on their knees.
- 31:37Speaker 2: One there and said, thank God for giving.
- 31:39Speaker 1: Me a gift of a child. That Lester will thank
- 31:43God you are here. That the United Kingdom will thank
- 31:46God you are here. That the Body of Christ will
- 31:49thank God you are here.
- 31:51Speaker 2: Please be seated, Please be seated.
- 31:55Speaker 1: Do you know there are certain names we don't name
- 31:58our children. It's part of the fact that they're in
- 32:01the Bible. I'm yet to hear someone name their child Lucifer.
- 32:06I wonder why. Sounds like a very beautiful name, except
- 32:11that there is a bad story behind it. I'm not
- 32:16sure if anyone name is child Belsable. The reason is
- 32:23because there is a story behind the name, and the
- 32:27story does not bring glory to God. And so I'm
- 32:31saying again that because of the extent of your impact
- 32:36and how much you are blessed, people will name their
- 32:39children after you, name their businesses after you. In the
- 32:45name of Jesus Christ, Please be seated. It is a
- 32:49powerful thing. To be a blessing. You know, we live
- 32:53in a very selfish world. We live in a world
- 32:57that's all about ourselves. There a level and equality of
- 33:02living you will never be able to understand until you
- 33:05are a blessing. If your life is all about yourself,
- 33:11all about your nuclear environment, your wealth, your health, your living,
- 33:17there you are fast shot of God's standard.
- 33:21Speaker 2: There is a level.
- 33:23Speaker 1: I can tell you with all humility, I think the
- 33:26greatest fulfillment in my life is not just preaching. It's
- 33:30not just the things that I do, but knowing that
- 33:33you are able to make that contribution significant and consistent
- 33:37enough you can look at life, homes, cities, nations and
- 33:42you see that they have you are literally shaping cultures,
- 33:46discipling nations.
- 33:49Speaker 2: Allelujah.
- 33:50Speaker 1: Every time I have the opportunity to stand and bring
- 33:52the world of God, I am or not beyond imagination
- 33:56because there are nations connected. Someone literally depends on my
- 34:00spiritual efficiency for their growth.
- 34:04Speaker 2: I take that as a profound honor. Hallelujah.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Praisel And so God is stretching us this morning and
- 34:17all through this session. That is time to begin to
- 34:20look away from yourself. But can I tell you the
- 34:23truth it is going to be difficult to truly be
- 34:26a blessing until God sorts your own life too. It
- 34:33is such that I have is the reason why we
- 34:35most pray the prayer of the sam Is.
- 34:37Speaker 2: Satisfy me early with your goodness, hear me.
- 34:42Speaker 1: The reason why Satan keeps preoccupying us, forcing us and
- 34:47trying to make sure our life does not work is
- 34:50because he knows that when you are done with yourself,
- 34:54the next thing is to look out for the nations.
- 34:56Speaker 2: So he will make sure you are never.
- 34:58Speaker 1: Done with yourself, and all through your lifetime you will
- 35:01be about trying to make your own ends meet, and
- 35:04your head bowed down. By the time you will lift
- 35:06your eyes, you are days left on earth, and you
- 35:09find out that you've lived a very selfish life, not
- 35:11because you're a selfish person.
- 35:13Speaker 2: It's a manipulation from darkness a way together. It is true.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Every man gives according to his riches in glory.
- 35:26Speaker 2: Every man gives. It is not just God. Every man gives.
- 35:29Speaker 1: Paul said, such I mean, Peter said, such as I have.
- 35:32You'll need to have fest before you are able to
- 35:35give am I right on that praise the name of
- 35:38the Lord, and so by this, I'm praying for someone
- 35:41in the name of Jesus, everything needed for life and
- 35:44godliness that's been released in Christ and is yet to
- 35:48find expression in your life. I pray for you from
- 35:50the depth of my heart in this season. May the
- 35:54Lord bring you into that reality on time. The world
- 35:58is on time, in the name of Jesus. If it's finances,
- 36:03let it come to you on time, in the name
- 36:07of Jesus. Please be seated, Please be seated. I can
- 36:12tell you Satan has. One of the ways it distracts
- 36:15from being blessings is to cause trouble around.
- 36:19Speaker 2: Us, and we will never find personal victories.
- 36:24Speaker 1: You cannot go and save another nation when your own
- 36:27nation is in war.
- 36:29Speaker 2: You will have to fight first. Are we together?
- 36:32Speaker 1: When kings were confronted in ancient times, they called their
- 36:36allies who were already enjoying peace, come and join us,
- 36:39because there's war. But when Satan preoccupies you, your child is
- 36:43having some problem, your finances going down, your papers, your health, you.
- 36:48Speaker 2: Will not even have the time to be a blessing.
- 36:51It's a strategy.
- 36:53Speaker 1: I say that so that when it's time to pray,
- 36:56you're going to cry onto the Lord.
- 36:57Speaker 2: Are we together. Yes, that you step.
- 37:00Speaker 1: Into that covenant of peace, nothing missing, nothing broken, so
- 37:05that you can have the time, the time, the time.
- 37:10There is a level of lifting that when God brings
- 37:12to your life in all honesty, it will sort you
- 37:15and give you peace and.
- 37:16Speaker 2: Give you enough time to.
- 37:19Speaker 1: Not only participate in kingdom com but even to fund it.
- 37:25I believe there are people who will rise from here
- 37:28and in the name of Jesus, you literally will set
- 37:31up organizations and you will begin to fund God's program
- 37:37without manipulation. In the name of Jesus Christ. Do you
- 37:43believe that, please be seated. Say I am blessed. Say
- 37:48I'm a blessing. One more time, say I am blessed.
- 37:51Say I'm a blessing. Yes you are, Yes you are,
- 37:55Yes you are. I am a blessing, not just so
- 37:59your spouse, I am. I'm a blessing. I believe that
- 38:04the Bible says, for I reckon that the sufferings of
- 38:09this present time Romans eight eighteen, they are not worthy
- 38:13to be compared with the group that shall be revealed
- 38:15in us. And then verse nineteen says, for the est
- 38:19expectation of the creature, I waited the manifestation of the sons, the.
- 38:27Speaker 2: Sons of God, the sons of God.
- 38:30Speaker 1: One version says, creation is waiting earnestly for God to
- 38:33reveal those who his sons truly are.
- 38:39Speaker 2: Truly. Ah, Yeah, that's it.
- 38:41Speaker 1: Creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God
- 38:45will reveal who his children really are. You don't look
- 38:48like it now, but keep walking, keep building, Let the
- 38:52Blessing keeps doing it's work in you. A weay together.
- 38:55Speaker 2: Now it does not yet appear what we shall be like.
- 39:00Speaker 1: And so when the Holy Spirit comes upon an individual
- 39:03as the blessing, or generally speaking, when the blessing rests
- 39:06upon a believer, it's for this twofold purpose number one
- 39:10to help the believer experience the reality of victory, of dominion,
- 39:16and of fulfillment. Never forget that you should be able
- 39:19to defend the ministry of the Blessing in your life,
- 39:23so that after this conference, when you boldly tell people
- 39:26I am blessed, when they say how, you can explain?
- 39:30When they say to what end you can explain? You
- 39:35see the missing link. So many believers say I am blessed.
- 39:38You say, what does that mean? Well, I just know
- 39:40that I'm blessed. No, no, it must become the things
- 39:45that are most surely believed that you are persuaded beyond
- 39:51being suayed Hallelujah, to empower believers to fulfill the mandate
- 39:58of being a global bless Now I tell you this.
- 40:02Do you know that your results are important not only
- 40:07to you but to God? Have you been told and
- 40:11taught that it matters to God that you produce results?
- 40:15For many reasons? You're producing results? Are we together? It
- 40:20validates many things upon the earth about God. Number one,
- 40:25It validates that his love, like doctor Monroe would say,
- 40:29it validates that the product he created is efficient. How
- 40:32many of you have seen companies recall thousands of cars
- 40:37simply because they found a widespread defect and they go
- 40:42through losing millions of dollars and billions of dollars, and
- 40:46they do that for the sake of their reputation.
- 40:49Speaker 2: The Bible calls it his namesake.
- 40:52Speaker 1: There is his logo on your life, and it matters
- 40:56that you are not proported as a fake product. Listen
- 40:59to me. I hope you know we're not doing a
- 41:02business seminar year. Maybe one day we'll do it. But
- 41:04in business, what you really buy, you buy reputation, not
- 41:09just products. If I have an original maybe Gucci or
- 41:14livet On or whatever it is, and I simply peel off,
- 41:18I find a way of peeling off and its original,
- 41:20but only because I peeled off the logo away together,
- 41:24it's considered fake immediately. So what are you really buying
- 41:28when you get into when you want to buy McDonald
- 41:31or buy whatever it is you are looking for that
- 41:34logo and then you end up proudly and tell them
- 41:36I need this and that who told you is real?
- 41:38Speaker 2: You just trust your integrity.
- 41:41Speaker 1: Let me tell you this, The integrity of the king
- 41:43is at take upon the earth until and unless the
- 41:47saints begin to manifest that life of dominion and victory.
- 41:52Are we together your results producing results? And I'll show
- 41:56you a few scriptures. Now my life changed when I
- 41:59really is that as mighty as God is, the preservation
- 42:03of his name, his reputation in the world of men
- 42:06depends on my efficiency.
- 42:09Speaker 2: Yes it does, Yes it does.
- 42:12Speaker 1: That's why He's gone that far to invest all these
- 42:14resources in my life. He does that because he loves me,
- 42:19but he also does it for his namesake. Namesake, namesake, namesake, Allelujah,
- 42:29It's amazing how nations can go to war because of
- 42:33one person, one person who is a citizen of that nation,
- 42:39and they can spend millions of dollars and all of
- 42:42that just to protect that one person. That's how it is.
- 42:47You are a defender of God's reputation. You are a
- 42:51defender of God's love. Away together, and it matters that
- 42:55you produce results. Someone shall I produce results more time?
- 43:00I produce results in ministry, in business.
- 43:04Speaker 2: So let's consider a few scripts.
- 43:07Speaker 1: I'm one person who is I'll tell you about my nature.
- 43:11I'm a very self motivated person. I'm not one person
- 43:15who needs any encouragement, whether you encourage me or not.
- 43:18I mean, I just sit there and think very well.
- 43:21I don't try and say you're not encouraging me. Not
- 43:24for some reason, it's worked out as an advantage in
- 43:27this apostolic ministry.
- 43:29Speaker 2: But I need little or no encouragement. Believe me.
- 43:32Speaker 1: I mean, I just fired through and make sure. The
- 43:35reason is because my conviction as to producing results did
- 43:40not come from a canal desire to be great.
- 43:44Speaker 2: I found out from the Bible that the more.
- 43:48Speaker 1: I produce results, I give evidence to the might, the love,
- 43:54the power, the wisdom of Jesus upon the earth, and
- 43:58that provided fuel enough to drive me to producing results.
- 44:03Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 44:04Speaker 1: So, whether it's investing time in prayer, in fasting, in learning, insilding,
- 44:09in creativity, in productivity, in leadership, I am all about
- 44:14seeing that my life blossoms producing hundred I don't have
- 44:18time for thirtyfold. I don't have time for sixtyfold. No,
- 44:21that's not You can have that if you want. But
- 44:24I mean in my world it is one hundredfold. I
- 44:26mean we press the trottle to the Yes.
- 44:31Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 44:33Speaker 1: But this is what I've learned, that God can be
- 44:36glorified pastor in a man Galatians one twenty four. And
- 44:41they glorified God in me. This is powerful, and they
- 44:48glorified God. This is it, ladies and gentlemen. This right here,
- 44:55right here, should be your object of pursuit, not just
- 44:59to be rich, not just to be intelligent, not just
- 45:05to rise to the zenith of your career. And they
- 45:08glorified God in me. That's the point of the believer's satisfaction.
- 45:15Until you hit this target, You're not yet there. You
- 45:18keep pressing that they glorified God in me.
- 45:24Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 45:25Speaker 1: In John seventeen, from verse one, the Bible says, Jesus
- 45:30lifted up his eyes to the heavens. He's about to pray.
- 45:34This is really the Lord's prayer. Now he lifts his
- 45:37eyes to the heavens, and he says, Father, the hour
- 45:42is come. Let's star read with me. Glorify thy son,
- 45:46that thy son also may so. God glorifies the son
- 45:52to the end that the son, in being glorified, brings
- 45:57glory to the Father. In theology, we only the reflection principle.
- 46:03Are we together now? Yes, the reflection principle. The reflection principle.
- 46:11In interpreting the vision Joseph his father, he says, I
- 46:15saw the sun, meaning his father, I saw the moon.
- 46:19You see that the moon does not have any glory
- 46:22of itself. It derives its illumination from its alignment with
- 46:26the son.
- 46:28Speaker 2: That's how it is. So.
- 46:30Speaker 1: When you align yourself to God by his spirit, you
- 46:34begin to shine that light through you to the nations.
- 46:38They see the beauty that is of God through your life.
- 46:42Speaker 2: You are the.
- 46:42Speaker 1: Visible expression of His person, of his glory. They can't
- 46:47see him. One day we will see him, but for now,
- 46:51except you are giving access to visionary encounters. You are
- 46:54not able to see him. But we are the ambassadors.
- 46:57We are the extensions of.
- 46:59Speaker 2: His wisdom, power, his possibilities are well together. Efficients three.
- 47:03Speaker 1: Tents says to the intent that now onto principalities and
- 47:07powers might be made known by the church, the manifold,
- 47:11multi layered wisdom of God, the blessing. Now I tell
- 47:18you why God desires that you produce results, John fifteen,
- 47:23Verse eight. So the whole of John Jesus is revealed
- 47:28there as the vine. I'm just trying to call it
- 47:33for sake of time. In fact, let's look from verse one.
- 47:36Look from verse one. Who is learning this morning? John fifteen,
- 47:41And we begin our reading from verse one. I am
- 47:43the true vine, and my father is the horsebandman. So
- 47:48the father is not the vine. The father is the
- 47:50initiator of that program, the horsebandman, the one who planted it.
- 47:56Speaker 2: Verse two.
- 47:57Speaker 1: Every branch in me that beared not fruit he takes away,
- 48:02and every branch that buried food project that it may
- 48:06bring talk to me that it may bring more fruit.
- 48:10Speaker 2: Verse three.
- 48:12Speaker 1: Now ye are clean through the world which I've spoken
- 48:15to you. Verse four, it says, abide in me, an
- 48:18eye in you. As the branch cannot be a foot
- 48:21of itself except it abides in the vine. No more
- 48:26can ye except ye abide in me. Verse five, it says,
- 48:30the vine and ye are the branches. He that abides
- 48:34in me and eye in him the same bring get
- 48:37forth much fruit, For without me ye can do nothing.
- 48:40Speaker 2: Verse six.
- 48:41Speaker 1: If a man abide not in me, he cast forth
- 48:44as a branch and is withered, and men gather them
- 48:47and cast them into fire, and they are burnt.
- 48:49Speaker 2: Seven he says, if he abided me and.
- 48:52Speaker 1: My words abided you, you shall ask what you will,
- 48:56and it shall be done unto you.
- 48:57Speaker 2: Let's read verse eight together. One to go.
- 49:02Speaker 1: Uhhuh hearing in other words, this is how my father
- 49:11is glorified, that ye bear much fruit, that ye bear
- 49:17much fruit. Jump to verse sixteen Media John fifteen and
- 49:22now verse sixteen, John chapter fifteen and verse sixteen.
- 49:27Speaker 2: Let's ring together. Don't be tired. One to go.
- 49:29Speaker 1: Ye have not chosen me, Aha, but I have chosen
- 49:33you and ordained you that you should go and bring
- 49:37forth fruit, and that your fruit should.
- 49:40Speaker 2: Remain stop there, that your fruit should.
- 49:43Speaker 1: Longevity of your impact, that your food should remain is
- 49:49someone learning say I'm fruitful, or you didn't say that,
- 49:53like you're convince, say I'm fruitful. Yes, I'm fruitful because
- 49:58the blessing is upon me, fruitful.
- 50:00Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus Christ.
- 50:02Speaker 1: Now in Matthew chapter five, this was an extension of
- 50:06his teachings.
- 50:07Speaker 2: We know that to be the Beatitudes.
- 50:09Speaker 1: Remember, by the time we get to verse thirteen, Jesus
- 50:15now begins to describe the church his body. Now, of
- 50:18course they were not yet saved. They were not really
- 50:21the church as it were, but they were the people
- 50:23he was teaching, because the church only came after Jesus
- 50:27had resurrected the body of believers now in Christ.
- 50:30Speaker 2: But it says this, He ad the salt of the earth.
- 50:34Do you believe that?
- 50:38Speaker 1: And you know the assignment of salt number one to
- 50:41bring taste value number two, to preserve, to preserve, to preserve.
- 50:48It says, body, the salt has lost its savo where
- 50:52we'll shalid be salted. It is tendsforth, good for nothing
- 50:55but to be cast out and to be trodden on
- 50:58the foot of men. Fourteen, it says, you are the light.
- 51:01Now I'll tell you a few things about salt. It
- 51:05is never too late to add salt to food. Now,
- 51:09for those of you who cook and don't mind me,
- 51:12just praise the name of the Lord. So I'm not
- 51:18speaking from experience. I'm speaking by revelation. Praise the name
- 51:22of the Lord. But now let me have your attention.
- 51:25How many of you know that, depending on what you're cooking,
- 51:29there are certain ingredients that are timing dependent. If you
- 51:33fail to add it at the right time, you can
- 51:36produce a disaster for failing away together. One time, I think,
- 51:43not not too long somewhere sometime last year, I was
- 51:46microwaving something past and it was supposed to be for
- 51:50a few minutes. And you know there are things if
- 51:51you microwave beyond, it just produces something else. I think
- 51:56I got carried away. I don't know how. I was
- 51:59not there to monitor the thing. And when whatever happened
- 52:03happened inside the microwave as I opened it, I said, no,
- 52:07this can be made. I mean, this is this is
- 52:10I reject this kind of testimony.
- 52:14Speaker 2: It was a disaster. It had don't it was am
- 52:17So that's how it is.
- 52:19Speaker 1: However, there are times that you may cook and the
- 52:25salt may not taste so much.
- 52:26Speaker 2: It is never too late.
- 52:28Speaker 1: Even when the food is served, there is still provision
- 52:31to add salt, and so he says.
- 52:34Speaker 2: You are salt.
- 52:37Speaker 1: In other words, there is always space for your relevance.
- 52:42It's someone learning, now, help does somebody announcing truly, truly,
- 52:48you are salt.
- 52:50Speaker 2: Salt.
- 52:51Speaker 1: Doesn't matter how long the system has been. There's room
- 52:54for my contribution. You are the.
- 52:58Speaker 2: Salt of the earth.
- 53:00Speaker 1: It's never too late, never too late, never too late
- 53:05for a believer to be relevant, to glorify the Lord.
- 53:08Speaker 2: You are the salt of the earth. Never too late.
- 53:12Speaker 1: Your relevance in that company, your relevance in Leicester, your
- 53:16relevance in the UK. You are the salt of the earth.
- 53:22To someone learning, there are certain ingredients. Again I recap
- 53:28that if you didn't add them at certain times, you
- 53:32have to give up as first that meal is concerned
- 53:34is gone, but not salt, not salt, even when you
- 53:39serve a meal. In fact, in many instances they now
- 53:42add salt and pepper. They put it in a separate
- 53:45what they call it. So you can add salt, pray
- 53:52the name of the Lord. You add value to any system.
- 53:58I'm explaining to you what it is to be a blessing.
- 54:01You add value. Your blessing is not in your acquiring,
- 54:05it's in your addition.
- 54:07Speaker 2: It's in your giving. Now, don't get me wrong.
- 54:10Speaker 1: We soon talk about many of you in stretched when
- 54:13we talk about the money path.
- 54:14Speaker 2: You just be patient. It's coming, it's coming, it's coming,
- 54:18it's coming. There's a protocol to it. Are well together.
- 54:22Speaker 1: Yes, when you say I am a blessing, what you
- 54:27said is not I have.
- 54:28Speaker 2: What you said is I am a giver?
- 54:32Speaker 1: Next time you say I am a blessing, think giving,
- 54:35not having.
- 54:36Speaker 2: Now the caromel man and sometimes sometimes we preach.
- 54:39Speaker 1: Us sincerely, so we engineer people's mind into believing that
- 54:45it's in the acquisition of things that they are the blessing. No,
- 54:49when you say I am a blessing, what you mean
- 54:52is I am a giver, not just I have. The
- 54:57Fact that you are agreed that your a giver already
- 54:59means you have the No. Black part of being a
- 55:05blessing is that you focus on being a giver, a giver,
- 55:09the one who riches, the one who extends. Are we
- 55:13together now?
- 55:16Speaker 2: Of what good is it?
- 55:17Speaker 1: If the Bible describes Heaven tells us how wonderful the
- 55:20throne room is and then leaves us in a sin
- 55:23and our inability to help ourself. God demonstrated indeed that
- 55:27it was a god of o firsh, and that it
- 55:29was a blessing not just by creating the heavens and
- 55:32the earth, but giving Jesus the greatest gift. Greater and
- 55:37love had no man than this. That a man lays down,
- 55:40it's always giving. No one has received a Nobel prize
- 55:44for receiving. It's always forgiving, forgiving, forgiving. Are we together?
- 55:50You must have that giving mentality. If I come into
- 55:53a system, I don't think what we'll like get I've
- 55:56ringed in.
- 55:57Speaker 2: My mind now this this shift in.
- 55:59Speaker 1: Mentality, it's one of the things God wants to introduce
- 56:02in this conference. Are you seeing now that for the
- 56:07average person, the moment we talk about blessing, we're not
- 56:10thinking about the world, We're not thinking about our environment. Unfortunately,
- 56:14we're not even thinking about our children. All we're thinking
- 56:17is myself, my car ferrari houses.
- 56:20Speaker 2: And that's wonderful.
- 56:22Speaker 1: But the kingdom orientation I'm telling you is that when
- 56:25you say I am blessed.
- 56:27Speaker 2: What you mean is that I am in Christ and.
- 56:30Speaker 1: I have the Holy Spirit resident within me, and it's
- 56:33given me access to all the resources that makes from
- 56:37my victory, from my dominion, and for my fulfillment. Now,
- 56:41when you say I am a blessing, you mean I
- 56:44am a giver. I take advantage of the Holy Spirit
- 56:47and the resources is put within me, and I extend salvation,
- 56:52I extend healing, I extend hope. Someone learning now shout,
- 56:57I'm a blessed. He I'm a blessing as a business man.
- 57:03I am a blessing as a doctor. I'm a blessing.
- 57:07I'm not just treating patience. I am a blessing as
- 57:11a lecturer. I'm a blessing as a pastor. I'm a blessing.
- 57:17Lest seated allelujah a man. So he says you are
- 57:28the salt of the earth. But if the salt is
- 57:31lost his savl you know what that means. It's capacity
- 57:35to be a blessing. So salt can become salt just
- 57:39in name, but in impact. It may not be there
- 57:45away together. And notice how powerful salt is. You don't
- 57:51need the same quantity of salt as the same quantity
- 57:54of rice. No, No, So you're you're sight don't don't
- 57:59tell me you are few.
- 58:00Speaker 2: You that's it's about the presence and the effect.
- 58:07Speaker 1: The last time I cooked, the last time I cooked,
- 58:11And you have no idea how long that has been
- 58:14the last time I cooked. If I still recall, you
- 58:18don't add say three hands full of rice, say, for instance,
- 58:25and three hands full of salt.
- 58:28Speaker 2: That becomes too much.
- 58:30Speaker 1: So when it has to do with impact, number is not. Listen,
- 58:36you are not disadvantage if you are few.
- 58:40Speaker 2: God can send two people over later, and.
- 58:44Speaker 1: He sends you assault, and he says, with bin you
- 58:47his capacity to infiltrate the system. But I see that
- 58:52we are more than two here.
- 58:54Speaker 2: That means less. That means youky. That means you wrope together.
- 59:00Speaker 1: Now, it means your territory should feel the effect of
- 59:09the glory, the power, the wisdom of God.
- 59:13Speaker 2: Listen, I want you to see that.
- 59:15Speaker 1: The Bible also shows us that there is a possibility
- 59:18for salt to lose its savle. That means you can
- 59:22have for whatever reason, you can have salt, and yet
- 59:26it does not taste like salt. Please be seated. Then
- 59:32he announceys verse fourteen, you are light. I like that
- 59:36we're discussing the blessing. You are the light. Everybody said
- 59:40the light one more time? Say the light now hang on?
- 59:45Do you know light, just like salt, is a powerful mystery.
- 59:51Let's do an experiment. Let me work on your mind.
- 59:53Assume with me that a room has been dark for
- 59:56ten years. Assume with me a second room has been
- 1:00:00dark for one year. Still together, assume a room that
- 1:00:04has been dark for say one week, and assume a
- 1:00:08fourth room that's been dark for a few hours. So
- 1:00:12ten years, what's the other? One year, one week, and
- 1:00:17then a few hours. Now connect all of them to
- 1:00:20the same source. When you switch on the light, which
- 1:00:24comes up first? Does it fact to the long gavity
- 1:00:28of darkness? It doesn't matter that darkness has been there
- 1:00:32ten years, one year, one week.
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: One's light. If it is true.
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: Light, it comes up and drives darkness immediately. Number two,
- 1:00:47This light right here, we are all enjoying the effect.
- 1:00:51It does not have to be everywhere to be felt.
- 1:00:55From one point it shines.
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: Are we together? Now?
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: That means you necessarily have to be everywhere to be everywhere?
- 1:01:08Are we together? This is powerful? So when it says
- 1:01:11you are light, you know what that means. The definition
- 1:01:14of darkness in Leicester is not your light going off?
- 1:01:18Is your presence not there? If you are not there,
- 1:01:21Darkness means a territory without you. Darkness means a territory
- 1:01:27without the Church, a territory without God's people.
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: It's someone learning now, Alena Scoper and Theater. I am
- 1:01:35the light. This is what it means to be a blessing.
- 1:01:39I am the light.
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: So when I get into an aircraft traveling to a nation,
- 1:01:43I begin to rejoice. I feel sorry for darkness because
- 1:01:47I carry the blessing. I really feel sorry for darkness,
- 1:01:52whether darkness as ignorance, darkness as causes darkness as yolks
- 1:01:58are we together? Yes that through my speaking, as I
- 1:02:02speak behind the scene, the Holy Ghost is lighting up
- 1:02:06every darkness. That's what is happening to you right now,
- 1:02:09whilst you are seated. Every area of darkness in your
- 1:02:12light is being enlightened. That's what Paul called it. He
- 1:02:18calls it being flowed dead with light efficient Chapter one.
- 1:02:21His prayer that I pray that the eyes of your
- 1:02:25understanding will be flooded with light. That you may know
- 1:02:29is a word epignosis, coming to oneness with that knowledge,
- 1:02:34not just awareness, not just awareness.
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: You are the salt of the earth. You are light.
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen. You are not a
- 1:02:49source of inconvenience to people. Don't carry that mentality. You
- 1:02:54are not a burden to people. I know you don't
- 1:02:56have a job yet. I know you things are yet
- 1:02:59to be in But it first turns with a mentality.
- 1:03:02Speaker 2: Hear me.
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: I preached a message called rise up and walk, and
- 1:03:06if you have the time, you can listen to it.
- 1:03:08The mentality to rise up and walk is what attracts the.
- 1:03:13Speaker 2: Grace to rise up and walk.
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: The man who was at the beautiful you know the
- 1:03:20reason why he was kept in front of the gate,
- 1:03:23so that he will see there was a reason. If
- 1:03:26the gate was beautiful, my life can be beautiful. So
- 1:03:29although he was crippled, he was kept there. He had
- 1:03:33the mindset to rise up and walk. So when the
- 1:03:37possibility to rise up and walk came, are we together now?
- 1:03:44There are many, many, many people who do not have
- 1:03:47the mentality of a winner.
- 1:03:48Speaker 2: I'm not talking of a Braggadocio's.
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: Arrowgand you know marketing of self. I'm talking about settled confidence.
- 1:03:57I don't need a job to convince me that I'm light.
- 1:04:00I don't need a job to convince me that I'm salt.
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: The Word of.
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: God says, so I believe first the righteousness that is
- 1:04:07of faith. You see, you first believe, then you become.
- 1:04:12You don't become then believe afterwards, say I'm the salt.
- 1:04:17Speaker 2: Yeah, you bring value, You bring value.
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: Baruka back blessed and see who comes in the name
- 1:04:23of the Lord. You come into a family, you come
- 1:04:26into a territory, You come with greetings, you come with blessings.
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: You come as a blessing in the name of Jesus.
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: For the one two days that we've been in Leicester,
- 1:04:38I expect people and families who have been having angelic encounters.
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: It's true.
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: We came with a cloud. We came with a presence
- 1:04:46beyond this meeting. Listen, listen, listen, listen. I tell you
- 1:04:49my mentality, at the risk of sounding proud, these are
- 1:04:52not the only people I'm speaking to. No, the graces
- 1:04:55to the territory me. Someone somewhere who did not even
- 1:04:59attend the comfort friends, does not even know that you
- 1:05:02know the less that blessing is happening.
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: All of a.
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: Suddenly his prayer life is coming in life because grace
- 1:05:07was supplied, your presence.
- 1:05:12Speaker 2: Grace was supplied.
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: I told you yesterday how many people prayed at pauland Silas?
- 1:05:17Is prison only two Paul and Silas. But when the
- 1:05:21blessing came everyone. That's how it is.
- 1:05:24Speaker 2: Again. Say I'm a blessing. I carry life, I carry health.
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, When you see me, I represent God's messy.
- 1:05:35I represent hope. It is true. It has nothing to
- 1:05:39do with being a preacher. It's a mentality. It's a mentality.
- 1:05:45It's a mentality.
- 1:05:49Speaker 2: Are we together? You're not the one who is disadvantaged.
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: No, refuse to believe that you're not the one who
- 1:05:59is this advantag Why we look not at the things
- 1:06:03that are seen.
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: But the things that are unseen.
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: For the things that are seen are temperaw temper how temperour.
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: Take that mentality. I am a blessing.
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: This is how I leave. It's my mindset. I don't
- 1:06:23have to come on pool pitch to be a blessing. No,
- 1:06:27my atmosphere is a blessing. My words are blessings. When
- 1:06:31you see me, I represent love, I represent hope, I
- 1:06:35represent grace.
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: I shake hands with you. Good for your destiny. Something
- 1:06:39must change. Yes, sir, it's true. It's true. Listen.
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: If all believers carry this mentality, then when you come
- 1:06:52to church, you'll be receiving both vertically and horizontally, because
- 1:06:58your your attention will not just be on the preacher alone.
- 1:07:01You now know that whoever it is that is sitting
- 1:07:04close so you must have been an orchestration of the
- 1:07:07wisdom of God.
- 1:07:09Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: And that the grace that may not directly flow from
- 1:07:12the Man of God can flow through someone who'll sited
- 1:07:15close to you.
- 1:07:19Speaker 2: Take away that.
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: Narrative that only a few people are blessings.
- 1:07:23Speaker 2: No, no, no, I rest.
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: Why not because there's some.
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: Car party in my house.
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: I am blessed, not because of some celebrity statles.
- 1:07:37Speaker 2: No, that's a poor education.
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: If you say I'm blessed because of things you are
- 1:07:42not mentored.
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: Well. No, when believers.
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: Become mature and become a stature, their justification is hinged
- 1:07:50to Christ and the spirit, not the works of not
- 1:07:53just the works of the flesh.
- 1:07:54Speaker 2: Even the efforts your efforts is someone learning.
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: So as a preacher and you say I am blessed,
- 1:08:04they ask you why, say, because of abundance of revelation
- 1:08:07knows that.
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: You got it wrong.
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: You got it wrong because there are so many people
- 1:08:11that have so many people following you got it wrong.
- 1:08:13Speaker 2: Those are evidences of the blessing. Are we together?
- 1:08:18Speaker 1: The reason why I'm blessed is because i have received
- 1:08:21the blessing of Abraham.
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: I've been justified.
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: By faith believing, even though not deserving, It's been imputed
- 1:08:29onto me as righteousness, and it's given me access to
- 1:08:32receive the blessing.
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: The spirit of grace.
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: He's come with all the resources as efficients one, and
- 1:08:38these three says that have been blessed with every spiritual
- 1:08:42resource in heavenly places in Christ. And now that I'm
- 1:08:46in Christ, access is a possibility. Hallelujah. I'm going to
- 1:08:51be teaching you how to activate the blessing, but for
- 1:08:55now I'm just drumming it the purpose of the blessing
- 1:08:58and to convince you, beyond any shadow of doubt you
- 1:09:02most carry this.
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: Mentality, I am a blessing.
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: Imagine if a wife had this understanding to her husband,
- 1:09:10I am a blessing. I didn't come as a cost
- 1:09:13to you. No, Imagine if a man had this to
- 1:09:16a woman. You know how many marriages will be fixed.
- 1:09:21I am a blessing, the reason for your joy, the
- 1:09:24reason for your peace, the reason for fulfillment.
- 1:09:27Speaker 2: Again, say I'm a blessing.
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: Imagine if many employees carry this mentality to their jobs.
- 1:09:35It doesn't matter how manial or how noble the job is.
- 1:09:39Provided you are there, you are a factor. Jacob had
- 1:09:43this mentality when he went to the house of Laban.
- 1:09:46He expected things to change, and even though labor manipulated him,
- 1:09:51Laban had to go and consult with diviners. What is
- 1:09:54the reason for my prosperity? And they said, it's stressable
- 1:09:57to peace man. So when Jacob said, you know what
- 1:10:01I need to live, it's in no way for someone
- 1:10:05your corporation will double, triple, quadruple your salary. I'm telling
- 1:10:10you to keep you because they would have learned that
- 1:10:13you are such an advantage to the company hallelujah. And
- 1:10:20I'm not talking because of your technical value. Some of
- 1:10:24them will go quietly and consult with spirits and they
- 1:10:28will say, among the many people to not drive, is
- 1:10:30this sister? You drive them? Your company goes down one
- 1:10:36man becoming like a nation. Do you believe that against Hi,
- 1:10:41I'm a blessing.
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: Yes you are. Yes you are, Yes you are. You
- 1:10:47are a blessing to.
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: Those who know you, to those who do not know you, you
- 1:10:51are blessing because you carried the blessing.
- 1:10:56Speaker 2: Please be seated, Please be seated.
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: If I have to preach to be a blessing, then
- 1:11:06I'm not really a blessing. I'm a blessing to my
- 1:11:12world because there is a mandate upon me.
- 1:11:16Speaker 2: It's why the.
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: Holy Spirit came to make me a blessing to the world.
- 1:11:20And when I see people attest to the fact that
- 1:11:22I'm a blessing, I'm humbled and I'm grateful that finally
- 1:11:27that which has been really in my life and in
- 1:11:29my spirit has become everyway from men.
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: I'm a blessing. I am God's masterpiece.
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: I'm his workmanship created in Christ onto good works, not
- 1:11:43bad works, not evil works.
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: Are we together? Do you know?
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: The consciousness of being a blessing also transfers upon you
- 1:11:51the discipline to remain a blessing. So when the enemy
- 1:11:55comes to suggest to your mind to be involved in
- 1:11:58things that destroy people's life, like gossiping, like all of that,
- 1:12:02the knowledge that you are blessing gives you.
- 1:12:04Speaker 2: The staying power to resist it.
- 1:12:08Speaker 1: That means it's a demeaning experience to your status in
- 1:12:14Christ to be involved in the things that still and
- 1:12:18kill and destroy.
- 1:12:20Speaker 2: Are you seeing that now?
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: That's the correct that's the oriental plants within you, the discipline.
- 1:12:26Speaker 2: You know you're a blessing.
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: I can't go to bed knowing that someone is crying
- 1:12:30because of what you did. You woke up in the
- 1:12:33morning and invested your twenty four hours, bringing bleeding many hearts,
- 1:12:37and you go back to bed rejoicing. You can be
- 1:12:40a blessing that way. It's someone learning now. Unfortunately, and
- 1:12:46I tell you this unfortunately, unfortunately, and and don't look around,
- 1:12:50just look at me. Unfortunately, there are many people in
- 1:12:53the body of Christ who proport to be blessings, but
- 1:12:57all that they bring to themselves and those around them
- 1:13:01is spain and regret. Now, don't feel bad, but it's true.
- 1:13:09They are people who can never have friends. The validity
- 1:13:13of friendship is two weeks. They will say something, do something,
- 1:13:17and bring so much heart, then leave people, then go
- 1:13:20back again. It's time for you to make up your
- 1:13:22mind and say, Satan, that manipulation that keeps making me
- 1:13:26a disadvantage to people.
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: I cosse it by the blood. I am a.
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: Blessed meaning that people should wake up in the morning
- 1:13:35and say, Father, thank you for your spirit, but thank you.
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: For Joshua Sellman.
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: That a husband should get up in the morning and
- 1:13:42look to his wife and say, my wife, thank you.
- 1:13:45It's been ten years, it's been twenty years. But if
- 1:13:48I're tall, I never had God on anything this one.
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: Your presence in my life is an advantage.
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: That children should be able to look at your parents
- 1:13:58and say, Mommy, thank you, Addy, thank you. You are
- 1:14:01the most visible expression of the messy of God to me,
- 1:14:08allelujah to someone learning that your boss should be able
- 1:14:14to look at you. It doesn't matter if your boss
- 1:14:16is called Pharaoh, on Nebo, card Neezza. Look at me.
- 1:14:20Please let me have your attention for one minute. I'm
- 1:14:23going ahead of your thoughts already. It doesn't matter if
- 1:14:26the name of your boss is Pharaoh or Nebo, Cardnezza
- 1:14:30or Cyrus or who else again, herold you can still thrive, Go.
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: And read your Bible.
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: Daniel did not need to change his boss to be light,
- 1:14:41to be solved to be a blessing.
- 1:14:47Speaker 2: Are we together? There are times God.
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: Will place you in Egypt. And unfortunately the head of
- 1:14:51Egypt is called the Pharaoh. He does not even serve
- 1:14:54your God nor regard all of that. But God can
- 1:14:58still make you a blessing, and Pharaoh can recognize that
- 1:15:01you are blessing and exhorts you to become second in command.
- 1:15:05How about Daniel, the Bible tells us, Oh, I like
- 1:15:11Daniel Chapter three. I mean, it's incredible what happened when
- 1:15:14you read from verse twenty four to the last verse.
- 1:15:17The Bible tells us that Nebuchadnezza gets these three Hebrew
- 1:15:22boys to the burning fiery fullness. You know what happened there?
- 1:15:29The Bible says, at the end of everything, Nebuchadnezza had
- 1:15:32to pass a verdict and said, when you read from
- 1:15:36verse twenty eight, beautiful, the Bible says, Nebucarnessa said, blessed
- 1:15:41be who bless God, nebuchad Nezza. Blessed be the God
- 1:15:46of Shadrach, Mesha and abet Nego, who had sent his
- 1:15:49angel and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and
- 1:15:53has changed the king's world and yielded their bodies that
- 1:15:56they might not serve or worship any other God except
- 1:15:59their own now.
- 1:16:00Speaker 2: The verdict twenty nine.
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: Therefore, I make a decree that every people, nation language
- 1:16:09which speak anything against the God of Shadrack Messua and
- 1:16:12a bed Nego shall be called in pieces, and their
- 1:16:15houses shall be made a downhill, because there is no
- 1:16:18other god that can deliver after this soul.
- 1:16:24Speaker 2: Allelujah prays the name of the Lord.
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: The Bible says, one time the king went to bed
- 1:16:31he had a dream for God.
- 1:16:32Speaker 2: The dream.
- 1:16:32Speaker 1: Imagine how wicked these kings were. A man goes to
- 1:16:36bed by himself now has a dream and forgets the dream.
- 1:16:39He wakes up and calls on all the astrologers, the sorcerers, necromansas,
- 1:16:44and they areunable to reveal the dream. And he says, well,
- 1:16:46just to let you know you're all going to die.
- 1:16:48I would kill you because I'm angry. He did not
- 1:16:50punish himself for forgetting his own dream.
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 1:16:56Speaker 1: Then they called the attention of Daniel, and he says,
- 1:16:59you know, King, don't be hasty, give me time. And
- 1:17:05the Bible says, when he went and the secret was
- 1:17:09revealed on to him, and he shared the dream, you know,
- 1:17:11and so on and so forth. The Bible says the
- 1:17:13king worshiped him. I mean, the King was so amazing,
- 1:17:19remembered everything.
- 1:17:21Speaker 2: He said, keep your gifts to yourself.
- 1:17:22Speaker 1: I'm not here because of your gift, but just for
- 1:17:25you to know that there is a God in heaven.
- 1:17:28And he began to reveal to him the gifts. And
- 1:17:30at the end of it, you see the Bible says
- 1:17:33the king literally worshiped Daniel. There are people who look
- 1:17:38down you now, but very shortly as I teach you
- 1:17:41how to activate the blessing. I'm telling you nations and kings, nobles,
- 1:17:47they will look for you. They will call you to
- 1:17:49their office, and for some of them, for the first time,
- 1:17:52they will swallow their pride and say, listen, I have
- 1:17:55to admit that you are a blessing. It took me
- 1:17:59a long time, but your consistency has tongued my ego
- 1:18:03to a point I cannot deny your being a blessing.
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: May that be your testimony. In the name of Jesus
- 1:18:10Christ prays the name of the Lord. So write this down,
- 1:18:14please in the kingdom.
- 1:18:18Speaker 1: When you say I am a blessing, it means number one.
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: Write this down in the kingdom.
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: When you say I am a blessing, or the implication
- 1:18:29being a blessing is that number one, you are joined
- 1:18:33to the blessing. The only one who can be a
- 1:18:37blessing is the one who remains perpetually connected to their blessing.
- 1:18:43Speaker 2: That's the first thing I needed to write.
- 1:18:45Speaker 1: When you say I am a blessing, it's a declaration
- 1:18:49that I am.
- 1:18:50Speaker 2: Joined to the blessing.
- 1:18:52Speaker 1: Are well together because it is of His fullness we
- 1:18:55have received. Number two, When you say I am a.
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: Blessing, it means you are a giver.
- 1:19:03Speaker 1: I'm not talking of money at all, a giver, a
- 1:19:06giver of life, a giver of hope, away together an
- 1:19:11extension of God's possibilities. When we say we are blessings
- 1:19:16in the Kingdom, we are giver us.
- 1:19:19Speaker 2: Give us, Give us in the name of Jesus.
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: Everything increases when it comes in touch with you. You
- 1:19:27are a giver, you are a blessing. I wanted to
- 1:19:30look at these things you just wrote. Is very important
- 1:19:33for a discussion this morning. So any time you say
- 1:19:36I am a blessing, number one, it is a declaration
- 1:19:39to everyone that I am connected to the blessing. The
- 1:19:44only one who can be a blessing truly, you find
- 1:19:48out in John fifteen, I.
- 1:19:49Speaker 2: Am the vine.
- 1:19:50Speaker 1: It says you are the branches. It says it is
- 1:19:53in your abiding that you bear fruit. So everyone says
- 1:19:57I am a blessing. Again, say blessing because I am
- 1:20:03connected to the blessing. One more time saying I am
- 1:20:07a blessing because I am connected to the blessing. Yes,
- 1:20:14You're not just connected to a pronouncement. You're connected to
- 1:20:18the living Spirit, the embodiment in whom I hid all
- 1:20:22the treasures of wisdom.
- 1:20:25Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: The reason why I'm a blessing is because I am
- 1:20:30connected to the blessing.
- 1:20:32Speaker 2: Connected to blessing.
- 1:20:35Speaker 1: Number two, The reason why I am a blessing is
- 1:20:38because I have a determination within my heart to be
- 1:20:41a giver, a giver, a giver you most carry the
- 1:20:46giver mentality. Again, this is where, with all your respect,
- 1:20:50I challenge ministers of the Gospel. Now it's good to give,
- 1:20:53But when our theagy of being a blessing ends only
- 1:20:57with just giving money is beyond money.
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: You a give of life, You give of hope.
- 1:21:06Speaker 1: You can use words and change the transjectory of a
- 1:21:10man's life. And then, of course material blessings you know
- 1:21:13the Bible say, God bless Isaac. But to the sons
- 1:21:17that came with his other wives, he gave them gifts.
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: But to Isaac he gave nothing. But they truly gave
- 1:21:24everything the blessing allelujah. Take away a.
- 1:21:30Speaker 1: Donation mentality, And I'm sorry, I'm sorry, kay, Please don't
- 1:21:34don't be sad. I know that your system. Of course,
- 1:21:36when you're feeling your forms, they say, what's it for?
- 1:21:38It's good to write donation just because they didn't hear
- 1:21:41what you are hearing. But carry the mentality of a
- 1:21:43giver when you give in the house of God, put together,
- 1:21:47when you give to a man of God, when you
- 1:21:49give to a cause, take away a donation mentality.
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: You're a giver.
- 1:21:56Speaker 1: You if you have a donation mentality, it's not a
- 1:22:01kingdom mentality. Don't get me wrong. If you're dealing with
- 1:22:04people who are not of faith, you have to use
- 1:22:06the terms they are used to. You're feeling your forms,
- 1:22:09you have to use the terms they are used to.
- 1:22:11You avoid conflict as much as possible. You become all
- 1:22:14things to all men. But when you come into the kingdom,
- 1:22:17you take away a donation mentality. God did not donate
- 1:22:21to us. He gave, and like him, we are givers.
- 1:22:27Say I'm a giver, Say it against a giver. What
- 1:22:31you are saying is that I have the benevolence to
- 1:22:35always release the ease, to release, to release life, to
- 1:22:40release comfort, to release resources. Do you know resources? Financial
- 1:22:44resources are the least in your giving list. When you
- 1:22:48intercede for people, you're a giver and intercessor. It's a giver.
- 1:22:54A comforter is a giver. Are we together? When you
- 1:22:58encourage someone who is downcaster and crying, who's come to
- 1:23:01the end of his life, and you tell him, you
- 1:23:03know what the Bible says, all the days of my
- 1:23:05appointed time, and.
- 1:23:06Speaker 2: You are a giver thansgiving. Every preacher should know he's a giver.
- 1:23:10You are giving, You are giving.
- 1:23:14Speaker 1: I know you are paying a salary, but you are
- 1:23:16a giver when you go to work. Is it true
- 1:23:19that men can pay you for your time and your investment?
- 1:23:24Speaker 2: Is that really how much you are worth? Know the
- 1:23:26salary is.
- 1:23:27Speaker 1: Only a token, an expression to honor your value. But
- 1:23:31you must know that I am a giver. Beyond this.
- 1:23:34That means we're in expecting rewards. Expect beyond salary men
- 1:23:38can give you that token of appreciation.
- 1:23:40Speaker 2: But God also has a package for you.
- 1:23:43Speaker 1: But that package only comes to the one who has
- 1:23:45a giver mentality.
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: Oh my glory, lift up you, oh my glory, the lift.
- 1:24:01Speaker 3: Rap of my.
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: You are my glory, the lift rat of my allelujah. Yesterday,
- 1:24:14when we're done with the session, just you know, to
- 1:24:17the green room, just to relax a bit and then
- 1:24:21be on my way. You know, Pastor, I remember a
- 1:24:24time when we spoke about, you know, a few books,
- 1:24:27you are so right, And I saw a number of
- 1:24:29books that is written, brilliant books. In fact, I kept
- 1:24:33two of them there on bead right now, one on
- 1:24:36the Apostolic Ministry, the other on the thesis the theology
- 1:24:39of Ministry and a number of things. And I said,
- 1:24:42that's right, listen, I'm going to be teaching you. I
- 1:24:48leave that for evening. I've been trying to resist the
- 1:24:50temptation not to go into evenings teaching now else I'll
- 1:24:54keep you here until evening. Praise God, because evenings teaching
- 1:24:59is such that once you that you have to finish.
- 1:25:03Praise the Lord, allelujah, Amen. And then because I want
- 1:25:07us to pray for a few minutes, just speak over
- 1:25:09our lives, find somewhere to stop for the morning.
- 1:25:11Speaker 2: But I'm saying there are many ways. You know.
- 1:25:16Speaker 1: My phone is full of text messages from people around
- 1:25:19the world. Apostle, thank you. I just listened to your message.
- 1:25:23I was about to hang myself. I was about to
- 1:25:26commit suicide. I was about to do this when your
- 1:25:29message came. Now God is able to bless people because
- 1:25:33you have worked in partnership with him. You have provided
- 1:25:37the resources on earth that he can use. There is
- 1:25:40a message he can use since the man cannot hear him.
- 1:25:44Speaker 2: He just sends a message. He just sends a book.
- 1:25:48Speaker 1: He just sends your organization, he sends your angel, he
- 1:25:54sends your value.
- 1:25:55Speaker 2: Whatever it is, a way together.
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: Yes, I want you to leave this place knowing that
- 1:26:03I am blessed number one, but number two I am,
- 1:26:08and I want you to leave this place with capacity
- 1:26:11to explain and defend why you are blessed, to defend
- 1:26:17and explain why you are a blessing who is learning. Yes,
- 1:26:21you failed my couse woefully if you cannot tell me
- 1:26:25why you are blessed, and you cannot tell me why
- 1:26:29you are a blessing. So one last recap and then
- 1:26:32will be upstanding to pray. The believer, based on the
- 1:26:36authority of God's word is blessed. And the basis for
- 1:26:40that is that you have been justified by faith, havn't
- 1:26:44received the life of God and the free gift that
- 1:26:46came through Christ, and it's given you access to receive
- 1:26:50the promise of the Spirit. And I told you that
- 1:26:52in the New Testament, the blessing goes beyond a pronunciation.
- 1:26:57The speakings of the blessing still stand, but the blessing
- 1:27:00now has been embodied in the person of the Holy Spirit,
- 1:27:03and that when he comes and is resident in a
- 1:27:06believer's life, he becomes the basis for your being blessed.
- 1:27:10So if you say I am blessed, it is because
- 1:27:13I've been justified by faith and I have access to.
- 1:27:16Speaker 2: The Spirit, who is the blessing.
- 1:27:19Speaker 1: And that when the Holy Spirit comes, he comes along
- 1:27:22all the spiritual resources that help the believer to live
- 1:27:26a life of victory, a life of dominion, and a
- 1:27:30life of fulfillment away together. That being the first purpose
- 1:27:34of the blessing. It empowers the believer. The presence of
- 1:27:39the Holy Spirit in partnership with your will in partnership
- 1:27:43with the world of God, in partnership with the teaching priest.
- 1:27:46They work together, like the ingredients and making a meal
- 1:27:49to produce a believer who is victorious, a believer works.
- 1:27:54Speaker 2: In dominion, and who lives a fulfilled life.
- 1:27:57Speaker 1: The second purpose of the blessing is that it empowers
- 1:28:00you to be a blessing, to fulfill that mandate Genesis
- 1:28:05twelfth and verse three, to be a blessing to the
- 1:28:08entire creation. I went together and I told you that
- 1:28:12every time you say I am a blessing, the implication is,
- 1:28:17Number one, you are making a declaration that you are
- 1:28:20a blessing because you are connected to the blessing.
- 1:28:24Speaker 2: That's the first basis.
- 1:28:26Speaker 1: I am a blessing because I am connected to the
- 1:28:28Holy Spirit, the blessing. Number Two, when you say I
- 1:28:33am a blessing, you mean.
- 1:28:34Speaker 2: I am a giver.
- 1:28:37Speaker 1: I always look forward to seeing the betterment of those
- 1:28:41in my world more than receiving. Here's how the Bible
- 1:28:44puts it. It is more blessed too. It didn't say
- 1:28:49it's more rewarding. It uses the word blessed. It is
- 1:28:52more blessed to be, and so in receiving you are
- 1:28:58also blessed, and will talk of the receiving part of
- 1:29:01the blessing in the evening. In the evening we'll be
- 1:29:04looking at the blessings and then will pray. We've discussed
- 1:29:07the blessings of Abraham, justification by faith, the blessing the
- 1:29:11spirit of all grace. Can we pray some prayers. Please
- 1:29:15rise upon your feet, bless it be the name of
- 1:29:21the Lord, Allelujah. Hold hands with someone by your left
- 1:29:25and right, and would you take a minute to just
- 1:29:28pray in the spirit.
- 1:29:29Speaker 2: And bless the Lord. Bless the Lord. Now you know
- 1:29:33the word.
- 1:29:33Speaker 1: Bless the Lord. Barah, Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord.
- 1:29:41Bless the Lord. Someone in one minute, can you bless
- 1:29:43the Lord. Bless the Lord, Oh my soul and all
- 1:29:49that is within me. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord,
- 1:29:53oh my soul, so that not his benefits. Someone, go
- 1:29:58ahead and bless his name. We bless you, We bless you,
- 1:30:07blessed because he's deserving. Barah to stoop down to worship,
- 1:30:13to give him honor, that is doing his name. Thank
- 1:30:18him for everything you will see from yesternight and this morning.
- 1:30:23Speaker 2: Less I pay the name of the Lord in Jesus' name,
- 1:30:28we pray. In Jesus's much less name, we pray.
- 1:30:33Speaker 1: Now you're going to take a minute to make declarations
- 1:30:35of faith that I am a blessing, I am a blessing.
- 1:30:40Speaker 2: I'm not just blessed, but I am a blessing.
- 1:30:42Speaker 1: And you will obtain grace Number one to respect the
- 1:30:46ministry of the blessing, the Holy Spirit within you, to
- 1:30:49walk ever conscious of that ministry. And number two, that
- 1:30:54you are a giver. You're going to make these declarations. Lord,
- 1:30:57I obtain grace to be a blessed, indeed, grace to
- 1:31:02be a blessing, to.
- 1:31:03Speaker 2: Manifest as the blessing that I am.
- 1:31:05Speaker 1: Please lift your voice and train one minute, lift your
- 1:31:09voice and pray all over this auditorium and following online.
- 1:31:15Would you lift your voice and.
- 1:31:16Speaker 2: Pray, I am a blessing. I obtain grace. Yes, a
- 1:31:28blessing to my family.
- 1:31:31Speaker 1: A blessing to Leicester, A blessing to the United Kingdom.
- 1:31:37Speaker 2: A blessing to your place of work.
- 1:31:46Speaker 1: Chap lagata, I am blessed. Now, I am a blessing.
- 1:31:54I am blessed. I am a blessing. In Jesus' name,
- 1:32:07we pray allelujah. Now please look at me everyone. The
- 1:32:12third prayer point I'm going to be giving us. You're
- 1:32:15going to cast down every imagination, every high thing, every
- 1:32:21suggestions of darkness. Look at me place. Some of you
- 1:32:25have come from backgrounds where you are today, products of
- 1:32:29the ill speakings of people. They call you names in anger,
- 1:32:34and you may not know known to you those programmings.
- 1:32:38It's called the scourging tongues of men. Job said, you'll
- 1:32:41be delivered from it. There are some of you who
- 1:32:46right now, as it stands, your confidence is as fragile
- 1:32:51as whatever it is.
- 1:32:53Speaker 2: Anyone who says whatever you just bend to it.
- 1:32:56Speaker 1: When a social media were as whatever it is, and
- 1:32:58it's because of a backlog of suggestions. Words are powerful,
- 1:33:04they are spirit, and they can minister life or minister death.
- 1:33:09But right now I want you to pray every mentality,
- 1:33:13every speaking of darkness suggesting me otherwise trying to threaten
- 1:33:20this revelation, dis mandate in my life or being a blessing,
- 1:33:24either using your past, using whatever has happened in your life,
- 1:33:28your fellows of the past. Can you take authority a
- 1:33:31wide right now, in the name of Jesus, go ahead
- 1:33:34and pray, rebuilt the spirit of share, rebuke share, rebuke doubt,
- 1:33:47rebuke intimidation, rebuke envy, rebuke ontocretness, go ahead, rebuke jealousy.
- 1:33:56Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus, I am ade blessing. This
- 1:34:00negative traits cannot be found within and around my life.
- 1:34:04I am a blessing. I am a blessing. Someone is praying.
- 1:34:18Speaker 4: I am a blessing, A blessing to Lester, A blessing
- 1:34:25to UK, A blessing to Africa, a blessing to Europe,
- 1:34:31A blessing to whatever nation. I cast down every imagination,
- 1:34:42I cast down every negative speaking. It may have come
- 1:34:46from your spouse to you, It may have come from
- 1:34:49your parents to you, It may have come from school
- 1:34:53to you.
- 1:34:54Speaker 1: Check authority, your writ In the name of Jesus, Man
- 1:35:05of God, you are blessing. Doesn't matter whether the ministry
- 1:35:09is driving well or not. You are a blessing. My Yes, sister,
- 1:35:13you are blessing. Yes, you are a.
- 1:35:16Speaker 2: Blessing in Jesus' name.
- 1:35:28Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, Allelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
- 1:35:37Speaker 2: Yes, the world will bound down and say you arger.
- 1:35:47Every man will bound down and say you warky.
- 1:35:54Speaker 1: Through your life now, So le sah right now, why wait, he.
- 1:36:09Speaker 3: Bloo me see splits just Warby begins Warby.
- 1:36:25Speaker 2: You're the keep blow.
- 1:36:31Speaker 3: See splits just war be with you, just winding.
- 1:36:46Speaker 1: Now I want to encourage everyone another sound of my voice.
- 1:36:54We're going to take the time in the evening to
- 1:36:57minister to the needs of God's people, because the Bible
- 1:37:02says there the Lord hath commanded the blessing even life, life, life,
- 1:37:12void of sickness, life void of diseases, away together, life
- 1:37:19void of curses, life void of poverty, life void of limitations,
- 1:37:27Praise the name of the Lord. And so I'll request
- 1:37:30that as you come in the evening, you can write.
- 1:37:35Speaker 2: Your prayer requests. Come with your heart open.
- 1:37:38Speaker 1: I'm going to be showing you in the evening how
- 1:37:41to activate and to release the blessing. It's not enough
- 1:37:46to know that you are a blessing. It's not enough
- 1:37:49to know that you're possessor of it. You must understand
- 1:37:52the spiritual dynamics responsible for releasing that blessing.
- 1:37:56Speaker 2: Like a river, and I hope you'll have the time
- 1:37:59to look at it.
- 1:38:00Speaker 1: K forty seven, the river that flowed from the east
- 1:38:03side of the temple, and the Bible says as the
- 1:38:06river flowed, every fish that was dead when it came
- 1:38:10in contact with that river came alive. And that there
- 1:38:15is a river that flows from the Throne of God.
- 1:38:18And as that liver flows, it brings healing to the nations.
- 1:38:23It brings for threes whose leaves are healing.
- 1:38:27Speaker 2: To the nations.
- 1:38:31Speaker 1: Go back with this mentality that I am blessed, but
- 1:38:35I'm a blessing.
- 1:38:37Speaker 2: Yes, it's true.
- 1:38:39Speaker 1: Yes, with your bills piling up, don't change your confession.
- 1:38:44Speaker 2: I am blessed, I'm a blessing.
- 1:38:47Speaker 1: The reason why you know that those bills will change
- 1:38:51is because the blessing is on you. The blessing is indestructible.
- 1:38:58It programs a man to become indomitable. And while it
- 1:39:03may take time to manifest, I'll show you why many people,
- 1:39:07although they have the Holy Spirit, they are not able
- 1:39:10to manifest the riches of that life. That's for evening,
- 1:39:15but for now, I'm not sure it's out of place
- 1:39:19to give one person an opportunity to make it right
- 1:39:23with Jesus. I was so honored yesterday as I saw
- 1:39:27a number of our brothers and sisters walk out it
- 1:39:31means a lot. It's a burden like never before that
- 1:39:34God has placed.
- 1:39:35Speaker 2: In my heart.
- 1:39:36Speaker 1: Knowing the true implication of salvation and the blessedness of
- 1:39:40one who encounters Christ. I'm in a hurry to let
- 1:39:44people encounter him. If you listen to everything I taught
- 1:39:48this morning and this afternoon, I said, the blessing is
- 1:39:51only for those who are in Christ. It's a family word,
- 1:39:55it's a family affair. If you are outside of Christ,
- 1:39:59there's no possible to be blessed in the Bible's way,
- 1:40:03and even to be a blessing. So, wherever you are,
- 1:40:08if you're saying, apostle, please give me a chance to
- 1:40:10make it right.
- 1:40:11Speaker 2: I want to be connected to this Jesus.
- 1:40:15Speaker 1: I thought him only to be a fan of a
- 1:40:17religious movement called Christianity. But now, on hearing you speak,
- 1:40:21I see that he comes towards as love, a reflection
- 1:40:25of the Father's love. Wherever you are, I'm looking for
- 1:40:29just one sincere person. For the sake of that one,
- 1:40:33I will wait a minute or two. Wherever you are, Please,
- 1:40:37I like you to leave your seat, honor, shame, come
- 1:40:40stand right before me. God, bless you, Thank you, darling,
- 1:40:45Thank you, God, bless you, God, bless you, God, bless you.
- 1:40:50Is there someone courageous enough, bold enough, determined enough to
- 1:40:57make it right with Jesus? I say, some of our
- 1:41:00precious people, come on, Lester. Can we let this family
- 1:41:03of God know that we love them? Celebrate them, Celebrate them,
- 1:41:10celebrate them. I see our lovely children coming, celebrate them.
- 1:41:21Speaker 2: Any other person coming, make your way. Do not be ashamed.
- 1:41:27Speaker 1: So the greatest gift anyone can have access to the
- 1:41:31life of God. Allelulia, I want to thank all of you,
- 1:41:41young and old altogether. Please lift your right hand and
- 1:41:45let me speak to those who have been following this
- 1:41:47conference from across the globe. We may not be able
- 1:41:51to see you, but the Father of Light, the father
- 1:41:53of spirits, is aware that you are there. And perhaps
- 1:41:57you are responding to this call in your home, you're
- 1:42:00driving whilst listening, or perhaps you're watching later on by
- 1:42:06way of a rebroadcast. It's never too late to make
- 1:42:09it right with this Jesus. He is the Way, He
- 1:42:12is the Truth and the Life. With your hands lifted
- 1:42:15to heaven, I like you to say this after me,
- 1:42:18as loud and as clear as you can't say, Lord Jesus, I.
- 1:42:22Speaker 2: Love you with all my heart.
- 1:42:25Speaker 1: I believe you are the son of God. I believe
- 1:42:30you died for my king. Right now I receive you
- 1:42:36into my heart. Be my Savior, be my lord, and
- 1:42:42be my king. I declare from today that I'm a
- 1:42:48child of God. I leave for Jesus all the days
- 1:42:53of my life. I go forward ever and backward, never
- 1:42:58amen with your head and still lifted.
- 1:43:00Speaker 2: Father, Thank you.
- 1:43:02Speaker 1: The Bible declares, as many who will come to you,
- 1:43:05you will in no wise cast away. These ones have
- 1:43:08come declaring the lordship of Jesus over their lives with
- 1:43:11the creer, and declare that indeed it will be a
- 1:43:15new beginning for every one of them.
- 1:43:17Speaker 2: And the grace to walk in victory.
- 1:43:20Speaker 1: I commend you to the Blessing himself the Holy Spirit,
- 1:43:24that you will be built, you will be established, and
- 1:43:27you will save Jesus all the days of your life.
- 1:43:30Speaker 2: In Jesus' much less name. We pray in men and amen.
- 1:43:35Speaker 1: All right, So please, may I request all of you
- 1:43:38who are here, will you look to my rights that
- 1:43:40will be all left from where you're standing.
- 1:43:42Speaker 2: Please just file.
- 1:43:43Speaker 1: Your ways there and in this way there are counselors
- 1:43:46who will have a word with you and a quick
- 1:43:48prayer if you have any prayer, need you at liberty
- 1:43:51to communicate to them, and thereafter you'll be back to
- 1:43:53your seat.
- 1:43:54Speaker 2: Let's honor them as they go.
- 1:43:55Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you all, thank you all, God bless you, Thank.
- 1:44:00Speaker 2: You all, God bless you. Keep clapping as they go.
- 1:44:04Speaker 1: Celebrate them, celebrate them, celebrate them. Alle Lujah, Praise the
- 1:44:14name of the Lord. May the Lord bless you. May
- 1:44:20the Lord bless you. Means to be empower to prosper.
- 1:44:26I decree and declare in the name of Jesus. The
- 1:44:30blessing begins to work in your life, both as a
- 1:44:35pronouncement and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. You begin
- 1:44:37to enjoy the richness of the blessing. Some of you
- 1:44:42before evening you return with your testimonies in the name
- 1:44:46of Jesus Christ. And I pray that at the end
- 1:44:49of this conference God would have shifted you to virgin dimensions.
- 1:44:54You will experience His hand is wisdom, is power, and
- 1:44:57unusual dimensions. In Jesus much less name.
- 1:45:01Speaker 2: We pray give Jesus a big na