Latest / Apostle Joshua Selman / THIS GRACE CALLED FAVOUR
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Wave your hands to Jesus. Let's declare it is true
- 0:08that we have the Lord who is our maker. Father,
- 0:16We thank you. Wave your hands to him as a
- 0:19sign of worship. We have come to you the God
- 0:24who is alive. Hey la parus cadeprende gabalatusia. Thank him
- 0:32for the gift of today. Thank him for the abundance
- 0:36of his grace. Thank him for another moment of encounter
- 0:41in his presence. The Bible declares, they go from strength
- 0:44to strength, as many of them that appear before the
- 0:47Lord in Zion. The Bible says, for without faith, it
- 0:57is impossible to please him. That everyone who comes to
- 1:02God must come believing that He is, He exists, And
- 1:07then that is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Father, way,
- 1:14thank you. Now cry to him, open up my understanding.
- 1:21Let your word come with fire, let your power come.
- 1:27Let there be an engracing upon my spirit. Man. Today
- 1:30are you praying, Be intentional about your prayer, Be passionate
- 1:36about your prayer. For everyone that asked, receiveth to him
- 1:46that secret he shall find. Unto him that knock at
- 1:49the door shall be open. For in Jesus' name, we
- 2:16pray Amen while standing. I want to start by really
- 2:23truly appreciating everyone. It takes a level of discipline to
- 2:29grow spiritually. Spiritual growth is for people who take God
- 2:34seriously number one, and those who are disciplined enough to
- 2:39work in keeping with divine principles. It says in the
- 2:43latter time, some will refuse to endear sound doctrine. It
- 2:48takes the endurance of the spirit coming week after week.
- 2:54Let me tell you something while you are still standing.
- 2:57It was very strong in my heart as our sprain
- 3:00and preparing to come. It's important to know who you
- 3:08are as far as this ministry is concerned. You will
- 3:12not follow ERUs. Never call yourself or think yourself to
- 3:18be a follower. A follower is a fan. A follower
- 3:23is one who subscribes to an individual or a platform
- 3:27based on emotions and based on interests. No, we are
- 3:35not followers. Follow us are emotional people, follow us work conditionally.
- 3:43They are football fans who can be the fan of
- 3:47one football club one moment and then become utterly disappointed
- 3:53and switch what they call them clubs immediately and unapologetically.
- 3:59So so you must realize that don't carry a fun mentality.
- 4:06I'm coming here just because I love the idea of
- 4:09coin on Hea or I love apostle. Just yourselfman, it's
- 4:12more than that you see in this kingdom. When it
- 4:16has to do with growth, we are students in the
- 4:20School of the Spirit, allelujah. And when you submit yourself
- 4:25to growth, you have to take away the fun mentality
- 4:32and be connected. Every time you're coming, it's as though
- 4:35you are coming first to the School of the Spirit,
- 4:38the threashing floor. You are coming to be made, you
- 4:41are coming to be built, You're coming to be established.
- 4:44I just thought to put that in place because we
- 4:47live in a celebrity generation and sometimes we ship some
- 4:51of these ideas to church and we just have this
- 4:54idea like there it's a celebrity man of God or
- 4:58a celebrity mining All that is absolute nonsense. As far
- 5:03as the purposes of God is concerned, there is Jesus,
- 5:09the son of the Living God, and privileged vessels that
- 5:13have to communicate. Is intent to a people and a
- 5:16passionate people who are hungry to learn Christ. This is
- 5:20what makes a church. Any other thing out of it
- 5:22is a waste of time and the fabrication of men.
- 5:25It does not sustain any power whatsoever to transform. Are
- 5:32we together? Thank you for submitting yourself to the fasting.
- 5:36Please believe in fasting. Please in the name of Jesus,
- 5:41and in the name of honesty. Believe in the power
- 5:44of fasting and prayer. A believer who does not first
- 5:48is not only a lazy Christian, is a Christian that
- 5:51will be defeated utterney. Allelujah, Praise the Lord, having said
- 5:57that less great to one another. Good evening, everybody, God
- 5:59bless you, police, be seated. Welcome to coin Onia. Sometimes
- 6:09these things just born in your heart and you want
- 6:12to get them out as a communication of your love
- 6:16for the people of God. Allelujah, Praise the name of
- 6:23the Lord. Do not forget what I just said. No
- 6:28believer who comes to the House of God is a
- 6:33fan or a follower. Now, those who are outside the
- 6:38Kingdom may call the membership of a church or a
- 6:43spiritual platform followers. They're only communicating based on their level
- 6:48of understanding. Believers, as far as the building or the
- 6:57structure of church and growth is concerned, are called disciples.
- 7:02They are students. There believers who have submitted themselves to
- 7:08the covenant of growth through mentorship, growth through enlightenment, and
- 7:14this is very very important. Two things about a student
- 7:20or two things about a disciple. Within the limit of
- 7:27your covenant of submission to learn, you do not choose
- 7:32the menu for your growth. Within the limits of your
- 7:39covenant of submission, as far as your growth is concerned,
- 7:43you do not choose your menu. It is the assignment
- 7:49of the Holy Spirit, in partnership with God's shepherds, to
- 7:56work and design a menu that is profitable for your growth. Matthew,
- 8:02I think it was Matthew. Is it Matthew Chapter four?
- 8:06Or so Matthew chapter four vers four, I think the
- 8:08temptation of Jesus, and he said, man shall not live
- 8:15by bread alone, but by every word that proceeded out
- 8:19of the mouth of God. Here Jesus gives us two
- 8:24keys for the living of man, one bread, number two words.
- 8:32So men live by bread and they live by words.
- 8:37If you have bread alone, you may not live effectively.
- 8:41You need bread and you need words, the greatest of
- 8:45the words being the word of God. Jesus himself was
- 8:49teaching us that man does not live by bread alone,
- 8:53but by every word, including the world that proceeds from
- 8:58the mouth of God Jeremiah three and verse sixteen says,
- 9:04and I will give you shepherds or past us three
- 9:07point fifteen. I will give you past us after or
- 9:12according to my heart. And the Bible says, the menu
- 9:19that this spiritual chef serves is called knowledge and understanding.
- 9:25I will give you past us according to my heart.
- 9:28They will feed you with knowledge and with understanding. Any
- 9:37territory is in trouble when there are three things they
- 9:41are absent. Please listen. According to scripture, this is just
- 9:46just a background for tonight. Any territory at all is
- 9:50in trouble when three things are absent. Second Chronicles fifteen
- 9:56and verse three, the Bible tells us three things that
- 9:59if absent, a society is in trouble. For a long season,
- 10:06Israel had been without the True God. Number one, when
- 10:11a territory lacks the knowledge and allegiance to the True God,
- 10:15that territory is in trouble. Number two, without a teaching priest.
- 10:22If a territory lacks a teaching priest, that territory is
- 10:26in trouble. And number three without law. These are the
- 10:31things that sponsor civilization and order. The knowledge of the
- 10:36True God, the knowledge of a teaching priest, or the
- 10:40presence of a teaching priest, and then laws. For a
- 10:47long season, Israel was without the True God, and without
- 10:52a teaching priest, and without law. So we must be
- 10:58passionate about lets, because when God comes to you, he
- 11:05makes you by introducing his word, and his word contains
- 11:11his thoughts. You have to understand that the word logos
- 11:14means the thoughts of a man that seeks expression. His
- 11:19thoughts are we together. Every time you appear before the Lord,
- 11:31you must fight every spirit of distraction. Jesus himself told
- 11:36us that everywhere the saints are gathered, Satan is also
- 11:40around that corner, and he has the singular assignment of
- 11:44stealing the word. In the parable of the seed and
- 11:48the sower, he said, the seed fell on all kinds
- 11:51of grounds, and as soon as the seed fell, Satan
- 11:55himself came to that ground and picked the seed. And
- 11:58he says, those that fell on good ground, where those
- 12:01who heard and had understanding, and among those who had
- 12:05a not understanding, there were three levels of results, thirtyfold, sixtyfold,
- 12:10and one hundredfold. May your life command hundredfold in the
- 12:15name of Jesus Christ. Philippians Chapter one and verse seven.
- 12:21Let's go to the business of the night. Our online family,
- 12:25Azaria Family is also connecting. Blessings to you all. Pay
- 12:30attention and global family. The Lord bless you and honor
- 12:34to bring you the word Philippians, Chapter one and verse seven.
- 12:39I told us last week we began, and it will
- 12:42continue for a few more weeks. I will be teaching
- 12:48spiritual truths that relate to the graces and the spiritual
- 12:54investments that God has so graciously placed upon my life
- 12:59and upon this ministry. And the reason why the Lord
- 13:04instructed me to teach this. Please keep that scripture is
- 13:08the be part of this scripture, it says, let me
- 13:12read the whole verse, even as it is meant for
- 13:14me to think these of you, all poorly speaking now,
- 13:18because I have you in my heart. What a good shepherd,
- 13:22inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense
- 13:25and confirmation of the Gospel. And here's what he says,
- 13:28ye all, how many all, he says, ye all are
- 13:32partakers of my grace. Ye all. When God calls a man,
- 13:39please listen, When God calls a man, among the many
- 13:43equippings that God gives to that man, is he grants
- 13:47him access to several levels, several to should receive by
- 13:53submitting under a man and a ministry. It's not just
- 13:58spiritual information, but you must be partakers of that grace.
- 14:03Al to partake of a grace means to be benefactors
- 14:08of that spiritual investment. And so last week we considered wisdom,
- 14:14the spirit of wisdom, and praying that many of us
- 14:19will take out time and listen again to last week's
- 14:23teaching so that God would grant us grace. The Bible
- 14:26calls wisdom the principal thing, So please pay attention tonight,
- 14:30and then the weeks that follow God will help us
- 14:34to touch and teach along disgraces that He's so lavishly
- 14:39invested in this ministry. Why is that so? So that
- 14:43your life will become an evidence. It would be clear
- 14:48to you and to creation that you have truly truly
- 14:54embraced disgrace, and that with it you will excel in
- 14:57your own life, your Christian pursuit, and then you will
- 15:01help many to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
- 15:05If you're with me, please say amen, there are many graces.
- 15:09Second Corinthians, Chapter eight and verse seven. I believe very
- 15:13instructive statement. There there are many graces that are available
- 15:17for the believers. But Paul, even though this context was
- 15:21alongside the grace of giving, but then it also applies
- 15:25to us. He says, Therefore, as ye are bound in everything,
- 15:30in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all diligence, and
- 15:36in your love to us, see that ye are bound
- 15:40in disgrace also in as much as you have been
- 15:47benefactors of these other dimensions faith, utterance, knowledge, diligence, and
- 15:53even having love for us. It is my desire, Paul
- 15:56is saying, to see this expression of grace also at
- 16:00work in your life. That means it is possible to
- 16:04embrace certain dimensions and certain levels of disgrace, and yet
- 16:09the fullness of it may not find expression in your
- 16:13life as at yet. And like Paul, God sees my
- 16:16heart that I am desirous that these other dimensions of
- 16:20grace that many of us may not have come into
- 16:23the experience of that by the teaching tonight, God will
- 16:27grant us access to disgrace. If you're with me, please
- 16:30say amen, disgrace called favor. Write it down, please, disgrace
- 16:42called favor. Just write it down and pray in the
- 16:46spirit in one minute disgrace called favor salipa rakoska brenda
- 17:07radia ship randaski diplacus change. Please pray following online pray.
- 17:24We're going to tap tonight into deep riches of tatern
- 17:29of life.
- 17:37Speaker 2: He has the sun, has it turned a life?
- 17:45Speaker 1: He has the sun?
- 17:50Speaker 2: Has it turn a life? I have the sun, so
- 17:57I have it turned a lie? He who was the sun?
- 18:11Speaker 1: Go ahead and praying, Holy Holy Holy.
- 18:19Speaker 3: Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy holy Holy.
- 18:38Speaker 1: He's the Lord did Almighty. He's the Lord God Almighty.
- 18:52Speaker 2: My life is food.
- 18:54Speaker 4: Love your globly, my life pas fool, love your glue.
- 19:02Speaker 1: Keep praying, and the people say.
- 19:05Speaker 5: Holy Holy Holy Holy boly Holy.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Shalla ba laca siada. Ply your praying to open up
- 19:31your understanding, your praying for the sake of your destiny,
- 19:36your praying for the sake of the assignment that is
- 19:39set before you. One of the mysteries of the kingdom
- 19:43is about to be unveil Pli shallakata cade brenta empragata
- 19:52baratosa data. My life is about to change. Thank you
- 19:59Jesus for you what comes Tell a mata house in
- 20:08the Yaadad Allelujah, place it down disgrace called favor. I
- 20:26do not mean to be arrogant, and forgive me if
- 20:29you ever perceive that there is any communication that represents
- 20:35or connotes arrogance. Where all products of God's messy and grace.
- 20:40But I will tell you one truth, and I do
- 20:42not mean to insult your pedigree. This, for some reason,
- 20:48is about the hardest of the graces that I have seen,
- 20:53as far as receiving disgrace that God has placed upon
- 20:57my life and upon this ministry's concern. I have seen
- 21:01people receive the grace for the prophetic so easily. I
- 21:05have seen people receive the grace for the miraculous so easily.
- 21:10I have seen people receive the grace dimensions of the anointing,
- 21:15the presence of God, revelation. But when it has to
- 21:19do with disgrace called favor, I do not know why
- 21:24it has been so difficult. And this is not just
- 21:29my experience alone. I've had the honor and the privilege
- 21:31to interact with great, great men and women, veterans of
- 21:37the Gospel within this nation and around the world, and
- 21:41for some reason there seems to be the same complain
- 21:46that it seems as though those who sit under this
- 21:50anointing for some reason are not able to receive and
- 21:55to replicate disgrace. And I'm praying that this case and
- 21:59this narrative will change tonight. God is the all wise God,
- 22:13and in his dealings with men, please pay attention. I'm
- 22:17teaching now man, man by default, listen to me. Man
- 22:24by default, by reason of the fallen nature, and by
- 22:29reason of the limitation that our humanity brings to us,
- 22:34Man is limited, grossly limited, more limited than we will
- 22:39ever imagine. And so as you sojourn on earth, as
- 22:44you walk on this earth attempting to live out your
- 22:48destiny and your assignment, sooner or later you will realize
- 22:53how limited we can be, no matter how well meaning
- 22:57we are, no matter how sincere we are. Man by
- 23:02default is limited. He is not limited because he is
- 23:05evil necessarily. He's not limited because because he's bad or whatever.
- 23:14It is. No, no, no, no no. The same limitation
- 23:17happens to good people and bad people. The same limitation
- 23:21happens to selfless and selfish people. There are different shades
- 23:27of limitations that are upon us by reason of wearing
- 23:32this mortal body. You have to be aware of this,
- 23:37and so God, in his wisdom and in his love,
- 23:40designed several systems of advantage. This is what I call
- 23:46them systems of advantage. That if and when the saints
- 23:51access these systems of advantage, they can begin to turn
- 23:55an ordinary, limited believer into a sign and a one
- 24:00that please pay attention. That means that outside of the
- 24:04influence of these systems of advantage, nobody has the hope
- 24:09of finishing strong and living the fullness of your destiny
- 24:14in Christ. The advantage that the believer has. Listen to me,
- 24:19the advantage that coming into the faith life provides, among
- 24:23many other things, is the access to these systems of advantage.
- 24:31So if you get born again, say at age forty,
- 24:39is going to take you already time is against you?
- 24:42Is that true? Congratulations for coming into the kingdom. But
- 24:45time is already against you, because the unit of destiny
- 24:48is time. And if you get born again at age forty,
- 24:52think how long it's going to take you to argue
- 24:55about the ministry of the Holy Spirit until you finally
- 24:58open up your heart to him, embrace the Word of God,
- 25:02and now begin to lend the foundational readiments of the Gospel.
- 25:06By the time you gain any level of maturity at all,
- 25:09Depending on the pace of your passion, it may be
- 25:12five ten years down the line then now understanding your
- 25:16assignment and beginning to leave it out. So by that
- 25:21that the fact that you got to know God late
- 25:24already puts you in a disadvantage. So God brought into
- 25:29our Christian space systems of advantage like speed, so that
- 25:36there is a possibility that under normal circumstances, it will
- 25:40take you ten years to know God and live out
- 25:42your destiny. But that there is a condition that can
- 25:45be introduced in your life that within one two years
- 25:49you will catch up with those who have gone ten
- 25:51years ahead of you. Is called speed. Are we together now, Yes,
- 25:57systems of advantage. A woman, for instance, respectfully speaking, who
- 26:04may have been trusting God for a child, and she's
- 26:07ten fifteen years down the line no child. Now, even
- 26:11if she gives back to a child, how many years
- 26:13would she take in training that child or those children
- 26:16to now become adults and become mature. If she's supposed
- 26:22to have a child one space within two or three
- 26:25years is going to take that woman a long time.
- 26:28So God can introduce something into that condition that one
- 26:32woman can have three plates or quadruplets. You see that
- 26:36one is not delivery, that is restoration, because God took
- 26:40ten twelve years and put it in nine months. It's
- 26:44more than just celebrating the arrival of multiple children. God
- 26:47is making a statement by that miracle that you can
- 26:50have dominion over time. Are we together now? Everybody says
- 26:56systems of advantage, Yes, sir, you have to know the
- 27:00implication of being a child of God. Being a child
- 27:04of God has implications. And one of those systems of
- 27:10advantage that was put in the life of believers for
- 27:15our profiting, to help us maximize our destinies in Christ,
- 27:21is a grace called favor. That life by default is cruel,
- 27:36life by default is imbalanced, Life by default can be
- 27:42viciously unfair. Favor becomes the equalizer. Favor becomes that which
- 27:52brings your life to balance. Are we together now? This
- 27:56grace called favor. I already shared with you my experience.
- 28:00And let me give honor to many, many people, but
- 28:04two great people that were used by God very mightily
- 28:07to influence my life and to be conduit for the
- 28:12reception of these grace. Number one, I honor him and
- 28:17I thank God He's alife, and I pray he gets
- 28:19to hear and know this. Dr Mike Muddock is one
- 28:28vessel that God used to communicate and help me understand
- 28:35disgrace called favor. The second that I must give honor to,
- 28:41and I've stayed at it. Here is Pat robertson Christian
- 28:45Broadcasting Network seven hundred Club. It was a prayer. I
- 28:49listened to a broadcast where he was narrating the story
- 28:55that as a young minister about to start ministry, he
- 28:58went to God and prayed and he said, Lord, give
- 29:01me wisdom number one, number two, give me favor, number three,
- 29:07give me the anointing of the Holy Spirit. I went
- 29:10back and I prayed the same prayer, Lord, give me
- 29:13favor or wisdom, give me favor, and give me the
- 29:18anointing of the Holy Spirit. Andlike Jabez, God had my prayer.
- 29:23And the rest Today is history, History that glorifies God,
- 29:27History that brings glory to the name of the Lord. Exodus,
- 29:32chapter three and verse twenty one. We're going to read
- 29:35two scriptures and then I'll begin to share this deep
- 29:40Kingdom mystery. Let's read together in concert. Ready one to read,
- 29:45and I will give these people favor please read in
- 29:48the sight of the Egyptians, and it shall come to
- 29:52pass that when ye go, ye shall not go empty.
- 29:57Please read it one more time. Will give these people
- 30:01favor in the sight of the Egyptians. And it shall
- 30:06come to pass that when ye go, ye shall not go.
- 30:13So you can know that favor is upon you, and
- 30:16you can know when favor is not upon you. Scripture
- 30:21number two, Exodus eleven and verse three. Exodus eleven and
- 30:27verse three. Ready to read again, Thank you for your patience.
- 30:31One to read. And the Lord gave the people favor
- 30:36in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses
- 30:42was very great in the land of Egypt, in the
- 30:45sight of Pharaoh's servant, and in the sight of the people. Stop,
- 30:49we're going to read one more time. I know you
- 30:52read it from your mind. Now look at what you're reading,
- 30:54and just pay attention to the power of what you're reading. Ready,
- 30:59one more time, And the Lord gave the people favor
- 31:03in the sight of the Egyptians. Then he isolates one
- 31:07man and shows what favor can do. It says moreover,
- 31:11the man Moses, as a result of that favor was
- 31:15very great in the land of Egypt. Number two, he
- 31:19was very great in the sight of Pharaoh. Salmants number three,
- 31:24he was very great in the sight of the people. Favor.
- 31:36What is favor? Let me just just pause before you write,
- 31:43I think one of the reasons why many believers have
- 31:48not come into the reality of favor, the mainstream definition
- 31:54of favor. Now, I don't mean to downplay or insult
- 31:59the sac that they have been many imbalances as far
- 32:03as the teaching of favor is concerned, and that is
- 32:06largely the reason why many believers have not been able
- 32:08to step into the experience of favor, the definition itself.
- 32:13For most of you. If I ask you please define
- 32:16for me favor, what you will usually say is favor
- 32:20is on merited access. Is that true? You are not wrong,
- 32:26but you are largely incomplete. Favor is a grace that
- 32:32is multi dimensional. You see on merited access is just
- 32:40one of the definitions of favor. And the very fact
- 32:46that you believe that favor is unmerited is the reason
- 32:49why we may never receive it. When you tell believers
- 32:53favor is merited, no no, no, no no no. Favor
- 32:56is not merited. And because we have an idea that
- 33:01favor is on merited. We feel there is nothing to
- 33:04study about the dynamics of the operation of favor. If
- 33:07something is on merited, why should I go so far
- 33:10to study it. Let me tell you, by the authority
- 33:14of God's world, favor is merited. Favor is multidimensional in
- 33:22its operation, and it's just one dimension of favor that
- 33:27appears to look like on merited favor or on merited access.
- 33:33That is when it has to do with salvation, the
- 33:37substitutionary sacrifice of Christ. Other dimension of favor is merited.
- 33:45To just believe that favor is on merited looks like
- 33:50a very sincere communication, but is destructive. Many believers have
- 33:55been unable to step into it. You cannot call wisdom unmerited.
- 33:59People know that wisdom is merited, so they pursue it.
- 34:03They learn everything to learn about wisdom. So the first
- 34:08thing we have to correct in love tonight is that
- 34:12favor is merited. Favor is merited. To call the entirety
- 34:20of favor on merited access is not exactly right. So
- 34:26let's divine favor. I'll give you a few definitions. Number one,
- 34:32favor is divine help, divine assistance. Favor is divine help,
- 34:42divine assistance. God in partnership with men. God in partnership
- 34:51with men, providing help and assistance to one's life and destiny.
- 34:58Favor is divine help, divine assistance, God in partnership with men,
- 35:06providing help, providing assistance to your life and your destiny.
- 35:11Please write it down, divine help, divine assistance away together
- 35:28so when God graciously participates in your life, your success,
- 35:36your destiny, and now coordinates men to also support the
- 35:41cause of your life and your destiny. We say you
- 35:44are favored, and I told you favor is not unmerited.
- 35:49Favor is merited. Proverbs, chapter thirteen and verse fifteen. Here's
- 35:54the scripture that the Lord gave me to deliver me
- 35:57from that understanding that favor is unmerited. Please read with me.
- 36:00If you're a child of God, ready want to read
- 36:03Good Understanding give it favor, but the way of transgressors
- 36:09is hard. One more time. Uh huh. Now, please keep
- 36:19that scripture there. I understand. The scripture to be in
- 36:27is like two women who are both pregnant. The name
- 36:32of the first woman is called good understanding, and this
- 36:36woman is pregnant when she gives bad to a child.
- 36:40The name of the child that comes from her is
- 36:42called favor. Are we together on this other side, there
- 36:46is another woman who is also pregnant. Her name is transgression.
- 36:51She gives bad to a child. The name of that
- 36:54child is hardship. So both Favor and Hardship are children
- 37:01that come from mothers. One mother is called good Understanding.
- 37:06One other mother is called transgression. You know what transgression
- 37:09is violation of patterns. So this mother called Good Understanding
- 37:19can give birth to a child, and we call the
- 37:22child Favor. This other mother, called Transgression can give birth
- 37:27to a child. Hard Sheep has an explanation. It's not
- 37:31just a sociological phenomena. It's not the absence of privilege
- 37:35and advantage. Hard Sheep. Now, it's a very uncomfortable truth
- 37:39because when you talk like the many people get offended,
- 37:43especially those who may may may seem to be going
- 37:47through all kinds of problems, whether financially and all of that.
- 37:51But you must be open hearted let God, because the
- 37:55way of the transgressor is hard. This is very, very powerful.
- 38:03Many believers have refused to embrace this grace called favor,
- 38:07and they have been limited as far as their divine
- 38:10assignment is concerned, and I'm praying that God himself will
- 38:14help us to really really understand how favor works. Write
- 38:20this down. Favor truly is the number one reason while
- 38:26people succeed in the kingdom. The favor of God is
- 38:32the number one reason why people succeed in the kingdom.
- 38:45When Jesus came and walked in the flesh, look chapter
- 38:48two and verse fifty two. Jesus himself. Can you imagine this? Jesus,
- 38:53the Word of God, the logos of God, had to
- 38:56contend for favor to excel in his assignment, and Jesus increased,
- 39:01the Bible says in wisdom, Jesus increased in stature, and Jesus,
- 39:08the Word of God, needed favor to fulfill his divine destiny.
- 39:13He increased in favor with God and man. Now this
- 39:18automatically tells you there are two levels of favor. There
- 39:22is favor with God and there is favor with men.
- 39:25You can have favor with God and not have favor
- 39:27with men. If you have favor with men with God,
- 39:31you will have encounters, angelic encounters. You can't even go
- 39:34to heaven and come back, but you will suf find
- 39:36this life for sure, because the heath has he given
- 39:39to the sons of men. Many people have favor with God,
- 39:44access to illumination, understanding of scripture, but as far as
- 39:48excelling in life and destinies concern, they do not understand
- 39:52the dynamics of living in this earth and in this realm.
- 39:56You need favor both with God and men. We see
- 40:01the use of the favor with men. When Jesus needed
- 40:04a donkey for his triumphant entry, it was because of
- 40:08this grace called favor upon him. He says, go and
- 40:11lose that colt, And if any man asks, you, tell
- 40:14him the Master had need of it. Brothers and sisters,
- 40:17If Jesus did not have disgrace called favor, he would
- 40:20have been surprised what the owner of that donkey would do.
- 40:24Are we together, yes, sir, favor. Every testimony of victory
- 40:39and success in the kingdom is connected to favor. Every
- 40:43testimony of victory and success in this kingdom is connected
- 40:49to favor. Please write that down. It's very, very important.
- 40:52Every testimony of victory and success in this kingdom is
- 40:58connected to favor. Please write this down. In this kingdom,
- 41:09who hates you does not matter, but who likes you matters.
- 41:14In this kingdom, who hates you does not matter, but
- 41:18who likes you matters. These are very powerful kingdom points
- 41:25that you must note that in this kingdom, who hates
- 41:28you truly does not matter, but who likes you matters.
- 41:36A king hates one woman called Vashti, and she loses
- 41:42her throne immediately. The king falls in love with a
- 41:46woman called her dasa Esther, and from a young village girl,
- 41:51she rises almost immediately to become queen. The king loves
- 41:57a man, even though that man was against the purposes
- 41:59of God, called her Man. He hated God and hated
- 42:04the Jews. But simply because the king loved him, he
- 42:07remained in the palace, and he had dominion. The day
- 42:10the king hated him, even if he repented, he will
- 42:12still go out of the palace. He will serve the
- 42:16God of the Bible outside the palace away together. Now,
- 42:23a woman called Rufe meets a great and a nobleman
- 42:27called Boaz, and he loves her, and in a moment
- 42:31her life is changed. For four hundred and thirty years,
- 42:35this cruel beast of a king called Pharaoh, all kinds
- 42:40of pharaohs came and left oppressing God's people, and suddenly
- 42:45God placed this grace upon the nation of Israel and
- 42:48the same pharaoh who oppressed them. The Bible says he
- 42:51gave them so much gifts they were in a hurry
- 42:54to go out. They did not even allow their cake
- 42:56to the door to rise. Who likes you in this
- 43:04kingdom matters? Write this down. All blessings come from God
- 43:10through men to men. This is a powerful spiritual information.
- 43:15Please pay attention. This truth will help you to excel
- 43:20and serve the purposes of the Kingdom and to live
- 43:23a very victorious Christian life while living out your destiny.
- 43:27Understand this, All blessings come from God, but they come
- 43:32through men to men. When God says yes, and the
- 43:36helpers of your destiny say no, the answer will remain
- 43:40in the realm of the spirit. It will not manifest
- 43:42in this realm. Believe me. If you say all I
- 43:49need in this life is God, and you're saying that
- 43:53to me, my allegiance, my love, my passion, and my
- 43:58commitment is to Him, you are right. But if you
- 44:01say all I need in this life as far as
- 44:04the dynamics of success is concerned, you are very wrong.
- 44:07Even God needed man. You asked the angel what he
- 44:12was doing searching for women with wombs. Jesus wants to
- 44:17come on earth. He's trapped in heaven until a woman
- 44:20donates her womb. Look At how the angel came to
- 44:23explain it. As mighty as he was, the world remain
- 44:26in the realm of the spirit. And the Angel came
- 44:29and said, Mary, you are highly favored. This is what
- 44:32will happen to you. She said, explain it to me.
- 44:35Do you know the same question Mary asked was the
- 44:37same question Zakaria asked. They punished one and left another
- 44:41because Zakaria was not highly favored, but Mary was highly favored.
- 44:45Two of them asked the same question. When Zachariah was asking,
- 44:50the Angel explained to me the dynamics of mine, he said.
- 44:53She shut his mouth, And yet Mary said, how shall
- 44:56these things be? And the same paperl said, let me
- 44:59tell you the power of the highest. What kind of
- 45:02unfair thing is that? But remember he's attacked by saying
- 45:08you are highly favored, So anything is with respect to that. Grace.
- 45:13Ask your questions because it's on you. Sit down, Sit down,
- 45:23please pay attention. Don't be distracted. If you are distracted
- 45:27it's an attack. If you are distracted, it's an attack.
- 45:33God has something to say. Listen. God has something to say. Listen, listen,
- 45:43pay attention, for God has something to say. So he said,
- 45:56the power of the highest will come upon you. She
- 45:59had to give the Angel of permission, be it onto
- 46:02me according to your world, and the world became flesh.
- 46:11You will be learning in the course of this teaching
- 46:14that there are people on it who are uncastable. You
- 46:18can't cast them. If God wants to help you, he
- 46:21will make them favor you. That's how you pass through
- 46:23that gate. Listen, believers, may God have messy your us
- 46:28and delivers from ignorance. There are many believers suffering today
- 46:33because the wisdom and the understanding that makes for living
- 46:36and excelling in the cosmos is largely absent. And so
- 46:40we continue to pray in terms fall on that the
- 46:43anointing and find out that we're feeling woeful in life
- 46:46because the dynamics of understanding how to live in within
- 46:50our sociological context is not there. This is why God
- 46:54brought the church as an advantage to society. Are we together, Yes, sir.
- 47:01This world you see is the world of man and
- 47:05If you do not understand the dynamics of favor, you
- 47:08can be called of God, you can be anointed having
- 47:11encounters in the secret Place, but you will be surprised
- 47:14that you may never live out your destiny favor. Every
- 47:20result you see in this kingdom is tied to favor.
- 47:27Every are we still together? Please write this down. You
- 47:32need favor to achieve your goals and fulfill your divine
- 47:37destiny in Christ. You need favor. You need favor to
- 47:43achieve your goals. You need favor to fulfill your divine
- 47:48destiny in Christ. How true this is, especially because of
- 47:53the times that we live in. You need favor to
- 47:56achieve your goals. You need favor to live our your
- 48:00divine destiny. What is favor? Favor is when God raises
- 48:10men to invest their time, invest their resources, invest their
- 48:16credibility over your destiny. When God raises men to invest
- 48:22their time, invest their resources, invest their credibility. Look at me, believers,
- 48:32do you know most of the things we pray for
- 48:36the answers are not coming from heaven. The answers are
- 48:39already on earth. And most of the things we pray
- 48:42for today, most of them are men dependent the prayer
- 48:46request of many people are on the tables of certain
- 48:49individuals on earth, and even in this city. It is
- 48:52within their power. Literally, one signature sustains the power to
- 48:58turn a man's life around. It is true how many
- 49:08great men and women of God called and loved so
- 49:12passionately by God, who loved God with all their heart,
- 49:15but they have not submitted themselves to the spiritual intelligence,
- 49:19accessing disgrace to excelling life and ministry. I have met
- 49:23anointed men and women on it. I am telling you.
- 49:27I have met anointed men and women in this nation,
- 49:31and I look at their life, and I see their
- 49:33sincerity and passion for God. But I can look and
- 49:37with uncanny on canny precision, I can point the gaps,
- 49:42the absence of the graces in their lives that should
- 49:45work in synergy to produce an enviable destiny, one of
- 49:48them being favored. Many of you are very hard walking.
- 49:53You are sincere, you love the Lord. Many of us
- 49:56have seen our loved ones very hard walking. It is
- 50:03the absence of favor that has led to this statement.
- 50:06Life is unfair. You hear people say so, life is unfair?
- 50:15Are we together? I have seen the advantage and the
- 50:18blessings of carrying the grace for favor, and there is
- 50:22a disadvantage. There is a serious disadvantage if you do
- 50:27not carry favor. Let me be honest with you. In
- 50:31this life, I have discovered and I keep discovering as
- 50:35God helps me to advance in my life and God
- 50:38helps me in leadership and ministry. I have found out
- 50:42people really don't care about you. This is a very
- 50:46painful revelation. It takes a long time. Usually for people
- 50:49people don't care about you are tall. They are passionately
- 50:54obsessed with making a meaning out of their own lives.
- 50:57So whatever will make them live their own affair and zoom,
- 51:01their attention to you has to be divined. Listen, most
- 51:06of us have this superstitious idea that just because I
- 51:09love God, everybody will shut down on their destinies and
- 51:13just pay attention to me. No, sir, appars. The other
- 51:19day I sat in church and someone was looking at
- 51:21me and smiling. My brother as he was looking at
- 51:24you was thinking about something else. I can almost tell
- 51:26you you are not the one he was looking at.
- 51:28I'm not being sarcastic. Have you seen people talk and
- 51:33walk and you think they're talking to you, but they're
- 51:35talking about themselves. How is this range going to come
- 51:38say sorry, I'm not talking to you. I'm discussing something serious. Listen,
- 51:46do you know why I'm teaching you this. It's not
- 51:48just to laugh and to scorn. If it is true
- 51:53that your success does not just depend the dynamics of
- 51:56the manifestation. Now, is God in partnership to men to
- 51:59hate to make it happen? And these men are currently
- 52:02distracted pursuing their own destinies. What do you think will
- 52:06make those men to leave whatever it is and then
- 52:10turn to you and give you the dedicated investment of
- 52:14their time, the dedicated investment of their resources, the decated
- 52:19investment of their energy allow you to climb and leverage
- 52:22upon them. I was preaching, consam, I was preaching years ago,
- 52:31and a man of God preached before me, and he
- 52:33shared a story that I found very very powerful. Pay
- 52:37attention to the story. This is what he said that
- 52:41there was a senior advocate, I think in this country
- 52:44or so around the world, very senior senior legal practitioner,
- 52:49very wealthy, very successful, influential, one whose name is a key.
- 52:54You know, names can be two things, keys or pad looks,
- 52:59but this is one. His name is a Key. And
- 53:03there was this young lawyer who had tried and tried
- 53:07tried to set up his family. It failed, tried very
- 53:10sincere smart gentleman, watch this, and he was really frustrated,
- 53:16and he went to God in prayer and said, Lord,
- 53:18change my life. Things have to change. And every time
- 53:22he would stand, he would see some of these top
- 53:24clients institutions running around to talk to that senior advocate
- 53:28to help them, you know, in all kinds of legal services,
- 53:33and these people would be bidding for millions, millions of dollars,
- 53:37and that gentleman felt life was so unfair. I'm just
- 53:40looking for a fraction of this thing. Look what they
- 53:43want to give this man and he's leaving them, and
- 53:45what kind of thing is this? When God wanted to
- 53:48help that gentleman, this is what happened in the presence.
- 53:52I think they were at a conference and there were
- 53:55several people, businessmen, billionaires, other lawyers, the captains of in
- 54:00dose three, and this young man came and cried and said, sir,
- 54:05please help me, please change my life. And the man said, okay,
- 54:08I will help you, and he said follow me, and
- 54:13he came out of the verandah and everybody was looking
- 54:16at him. Oh, this is that our senior advocate. What
- 54:19is he doing with this guy? Then he began to
- 54:21talk with him, So how are you? How is your wife?
- 54:24And says that's not the issue, and he said, just
- 54:27talk to me, and they were walking together. How are
- 54:29you are you eating? Well? Are you taking and he
- 54:32was hungry? He was ansored. The issue is that I'm hungry.
- 54:36And the man said he worked with him, and when
- 54:40he worked with him, he got into his office and said,
- 54:43if you still fail, don't come to my office again. Listen, listen.
- 54:48Do you know you know what he was doing. People
- 54:53were saying, who is this man? Please sit down, sit
- 55:03down and lend you're in the house of God. The
- 55:10gentleman came out true story. He was about to look
- 55:14for a bike to go home, and someone stopped him
- 55:19and said, sorry, I saw you with this man. Listen, listen.
- 55:24He did not even ask him if he was in
- 55:26He said, sorry, We've been trying to get him to
- 55:28negotiate a deal for us, but our rates. Can we please,
- 55:32can we walk with you? And he mentioned a rate
- 55:35that was a breakthrough, and the gentleman was wise to
- 55:38compose himself. Listen true story. The moment he did that,
- 55:46God granted him grace, called some of his partners and
- 55:49walked together. And within a year this gentleman got a
- 55:53gift and went back to the office of that sceneor advocate.
- 55:57He knelt down and said, thank you for changing my life.
- 56:00Then the senior advocate asked him, He said, do you
- 56:02know what happened to you? That's what I'm interested in.
- 56:05You keep your gift. You have to study what happened
- 56:08to you so that you will use it or others
- 56:10to favor. Is when an individual invests his credibility on you.
- 56:24Listen carefully. Who likes you in this kingdom matters for
- 56:33many of us. We live in a world where the
- 56:35only thing we know is money. Once money is not
- 56:38in front of you, you don't care about any other thing. Again.
- 56:41If they keep money and they keep men, you will
- 56:43carry money and it will finish, and you'll go back
- 56:45to square one. There are seven currencies that we used
- 56:55to purchase realities. In this kingdom, everything is bought. There
- 56:59are seven ncis. The list of them is money. I
- 57:04pray for you Coinonia from the depth of my heart.
- 57:07May you never be so poor that the only thing
- 57:10you have is money. Let me pray that prayer I again,
- 57:19and I say it with every sense of responsibility. May
- 57:23you never be so poor that the only thing you
- 57:26have is money in your atm. Let me see that
- 57:33there are superior currencies. Money itself, you see. We have
- 57:41a series on finances coming. But money itself, you see,
- 57:46is a product. There is a capital that buys it.
- 57:50The name of the capital that buys money is what
- 57:53the Bible calls two riches. Money itself is a product.
- 57:58Are you get to what I'm teaching now? Yes, if
- 58:02I want to buy this Bible, come come, lift this up.
- 58:09If you want to buy this Bible, Will you be
- 58:11offended if I bring out money just to use?
- 58:14Speaker 4: Ah?
- 58:15Speaker 1: Okay, watch this, please watch this this for instance, this
- 58:19is a hundred dollars bill. Lift it all. Watch this.
- 58:22If let's assume this is one hundred dollars. People are
- 58:25falling from around the world, so we're using something universal.
- 58:28If this, if you want to buy this product, you
- 58:33need this? Is that true? So that means if I
- 58:36give you this, you start smiling, because this is already
- 58:39a victim of the abundance of this. But if you
- 58:42want to buy this, what do you use? Because this
- 58:45is also a product, what do you use to buy this?
- 58:52Money buys this? But what if it is money you
- 58:56want to buy itself? What do you use to buy it?
- 59:02The one who is wealthy is not the one who
- 59:03has this. The one who is wealthy one who has
- 59:06the capital that buys this. I've made up my mind
- 59:14to go God's wait for the rest of my life.
- 59:19I've made off my mind. You know, many people believe
- 59:27that preachers are all intelligent people and when it has
- 59:30to do with salvation alone, that they have something to say.
- 59:33When it has to do with the matters that help
- 59:35people to excel and leave a victorious Christian life while
- 59:40serving the purposes of the kingdom with dignity and honor,
- 59:44most people believe the House of God is not the
- 59:46go to place. Is a wrong narrative, and I hope
- 59:50that by these meetings God is using it to He's
- 59:53changing our minds. The Church is not in news and
- 59:56so civilization. Please understand this. Not every man of God
- 1:00:01is moving around trying to look for money and manipulate people.
- 1:00:03There are people who fear God sincerely and intend to
- 1:00:06be contributors to nation building. Are you learning? Thank you?
- 1:00:12Thank you? Now listen, pay attention. Favor one person, write
- 1:00:27this down please. One person can be used by God
- 1:00:32to open a hundred doors of opportunity for you. One
- 1:00:36man can be used by God. Remember God has to
- 1:00:40be in the equation. One man can be used by
- 1:00:43God to open more than a hundred doors of opportunity
- 1:00:47for you. This is very, very important when when I realize,
- 1:01:00respectfully speaking, that I didn't have all the advantage that
- 1:01:04will be needed to serve the purposes of the kingdom effectively.
- 1:01:10It does not take money to have an encounter with
- 1:01:12Jesus Christ. It doesn't take resources, it doesn't take access,
- 1:01:16It doesn't even take influence. It just takes passion and hunger.
- 1:01:20Let me tell you where the challenge of many believers
- 1:01:22come from. The average believer usually gets born again, say
- 1:01:28on campus or maybe wild schooling. Is that true? And
- 1:01:32as a student, most times the emphasis is just on
- 1:01:35your spiritual growth and your academics. You can be talking
- 1:01:39to a student about, you know, accessing some of these things.
- 1:01:42There may be distractions at that level. So the only
- 1:01:45message is messages that relate to pressing into God, depths
- 1:01:48in the spirit, you know, prayer and fasting, consecration, love
- 1:01:52for God and all of these things. But sooner or
- 1:01:55later that person now becomes a family person. There are
- 1:01:58real responsibility that are now added. Is that true? You
- 1:02:02will have to redesign your teachings as an effective man
- 1:02:05of God to do well to help the people remain
- 1:02:08spiritually in touch, passionately in love with God. But at
- 1:02:12the same time you must now supply them the keys
- 1:02:15that help them to excel in their career, in their
- 1:02:18life while serving the purposes of the kingdom or the wise.
- 1:02:22Sooner or later they will be distracted by the need
- 1:02:25to make a living, and they will leave the things
- 1:02:28of God. It will cancel out all your investment of
- 1:02:31many years. I can tell you one of the reasons
- 1:02:36why many believers are not serious with God is because
- 1:02:39they have not engaged these systems of advantage to help
- 1:02:43them be victorious. The Bible says, hither or you have
- 1:02:46asked for nothing. It says to ask that you should
- 1:02:49receive to the end that your joy may be full
- 1:02:57someone following tonight, many since here people in this country,
- 1:03:05many since here people around Africa, many sincere people in
- 1:03:09this city, and probably many sincere people seated and listening
- 1:03:13to me, desire to live for Jesus, desire to love
- 1:03:18him with all your hearts, desire to serve the purposes
- 1:03:22of the Kingdom in truth. But that may not be
- 1:03:26possible until you access these systems of advantage. When they're
- 1:03:31walk in your life, they now afford you the time. Listen,
- 1:03:34ladies and gentlemen, it takes time to seek God. It
- 1:03:38takes time to teach your children the things of God.
- 1:03:41It takes time. There is so much destruction in our
- 1:03:44world today. You can't lock yourself for two three days
- 1:03:48to say I'm seeking the face of God because there
- 1:03:50are bills. Society will call you irresponsible, even though you
- 1:03:54call yourself a passionate believer. I know many people who
- 1:04:02started well in ministry, many sincere people who loved God
- 1:04:06with all their hearts. Some of them today are not
- 1:04:08in ministry because the needs and the cares of life
- 1:04:13just strangled away their passion for God. Respectfully speaking, some
- 1:04:18of us, you go and meet our parents at home
- 1:04:20and in the villages, and you talk to them about
- 1:04:23loving God and having passion for God, and they look
- 1:04:26at you and pity you so much. They said, listen,
- 1:04:28let me tell you. I was a protocol to tar
- 1:04:30lostborn when he came into Nigeria. So all these things
- 1:04:33you are doing, we did it before. Why should someone
- 1:04:38become that frustrated? Do you know there are believers today
- 1:04:41who are angry at God because it looks like he's calmdom.
- 1:04:45He gave them a proposal that they will have a
- 1:04:47victorious life. They left idle worship and left everything and
- 1:04:50came to him, and the only thing they caught was
- 1:04:52spiritual fire. Not accessing the systems of a avantage in
- 1:05:00the kingdom will make God appear like a wicked and
- 1:05:03cruel and self centered God. You see the way preachers
- 1:05:07teach about God. If not, if you do not understand
- 1:05:11who God is, your conclusion will be that God must
- 1:05:14be a wicked and a cruel king. Here's the proposition.
- 1:05:18Leave everything and love God. Doesn't matter what happens, so
- 1:05:22you don't worry about it. You just focus on this God.
- 1:05:25He gave his life to you. Give your own to
- 1:05:28him in return, sacrifice everything and love him. What about
- 1:05:31my children, Just forget about them. You will take control.
- 1:05:34You just keep praying and make sure you love the Lord.
- 1:05:37Now your children are saying, Daddy is God you are
- 1:05:39talking about? Is it that he does not see that
- 1:05:41we have needs? Don't worry. The most important thing is
- 1:05:44I love Jesus with all my heart. Until children become teenagers.
- 1:05:49Teenagers become angry, you too, help to kill you. You
- 1:05:53come to them, they say, Look, I was a pastor's child.
- 1:05:55Don't you dare talk to me about this thing about God.
- 1:05:59Our word today has several options. If we do not
- 1:06:03teach these things in its entirety, let me tell you
- 1:06:06we are going to lose a whole generation. I assure
- 1:06:09you I need to put things in perspective, so you
- 1:06:13don't think we're just cannon be talking about success and victory.
- 1:06:17There is nothing we're discussing that is in isolation to Kingdom.
- 1:06:20Come where people of vision, people who passionately love God.
- 1:06:24So everything we're communicating is part is a subset put
- 1:06:28together to make the believer become victorious. You ignore what
- 1:06:32I'm teaching you sooner or later. Sooner or later, you
- 1:06:38may regret it. I bow my knees to the Lord
- 1:06:49in gratitude today that when the Holy Spirit brought this
- 1:06:52dimension in addition to my passion for Jesus, my loving Him,
- 1:06:57which remains my priority in life and in death. That
- 1:07:01I did not ignore the other aspects, I probably today
- 1:07:05would have also been an unfortunate preacher manipulating people. You
- 1:07:09think if I'm hungry and my needs are not met
- 1:07:12and hunger is pressing me indefinitely, and I have the
- 1:07:16prophetic and you are here, Oh, come on, sit down,
- 1:07:22Sit down. I am by no means trying to insult
- 1:07:28the body of Christ. No, I am saying, the systems
- 1:07:31of advantage are some of the sponsors of integrity. Please
- 1:07:40hear me as a man of God. You do not
- 1:07:43know this, and you do not learn this. You don't
- 1:07:45learn these principles, you will be surprised at the things
- 1:07:48you will eventually do. You may never believe that one
- 1:07:52day you can manipulate a rich man, nor manipulate someone. Oh,
- 1:07:56I fear God with all my heart. The day your
- 1:07:58wife gets on her knees and children and say, look,
- 1:08:00I'm tired of this your thing, the devil will come
- 1:08:03to you again. I came to you ten years ago,
- 1:08:06you say, I fear God. Now I've come to you
- 1:08:08in light of your needs.
- 1:08:13Speaker 6: I love you forever. I love you forever. I love
- 1:08:21you forever. Love I love you forever. I love you forever.
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: Regardless your background, listen to me, regardless the disadvantages that
- 1:08:46surround your life. I introduce to you tonight a system
- 1:08:50of advantage. There is a grace called favor. It can
- 1:08:54come upon an individual. It came upon a villager called
- 1:08:58Esther and took from the village to the palace. Favor,
- 1:09:04the lifting power of favor. Not even Jesus disregarded it
- 1:09:09when he walked upon the earth, and Jesus grew in
- 1:09:13wisdom in statue in favor. I've had the honor and
- 1:09:18the privilege of searching the life of our fathers of faith,
- 1:09:22men who have run this race and gone before us,
- 1:09:25and have found out that in all they're getting, they
- 1:09:28did not ignore favor. Can I share with you a
- 1:09:37few kids, as we pray, because we're going to pray.
- 1:09:47There are about four or five keys that I want
- 1:09:51to give you tonight that control and activate disgrace called favor.
- 1:09:58And it is my prayer and the the name of
- 1:10:00Jesus for you who are here and all who are
- 1:10:04following that in the name of Jesus, you obtain grace
- 1:10:08to work in keeping with these principles. This is the
- 1:10:12good understanding that brings favor. I assure you many of
- 1:10:15you you see, let me tell you, within a short
- 1:10:18time you will be surprised to see the beauty and
- 1:10:21the glory that comes out of your life. And you see,
- 1:10:25the surprising thing is that your prayer life will not
- 1:10:27go down. No, you are learning God's way. The surprising
- 1:10:31thing is that your passion for God will even be
- 1:10:34ever increasing away together. Key number one, the first key
- 1:10:46that activates disgrace, this mysterious grace called favor in the
- 1:10:52life of individuals, the life of businesses, companies, politicians, business men,
- 1:11:00ministers of the gospel, churches. It doesn't matter who. Is
- 1:11:05a principle that works for everybody. Are you ready? Key
- 1:11:10number one, honor. The first key that controls favor is honor.
- 1:11:21Please write it down. Honor is the key to access
- 1:11:28any timey door closes before you and refuses to open.
- 1:11:33I can't tell you the name of the pad lock
- 1:11:36that was used to lock that door is called dishonor.
- 1:11:41Let's define honor very quickly. What is honor? Honor is
- 1:11:46the discigning. Please write it down. Honor is the discigning command,
- 1:11:52Honor is the celebrating, and honor is the rewarding of
- 1:11:59men for their distinctive difference. The discerning the rewarding or
- 1:12:08the celebrating, and the rewarding of men for their distinctive
- 1:12:14difference their uniqueness is called honor. So real honor starts
- 1:12:21with discernment. All men are equal in Christ. The same
- 1:12:29Lord is rich onto us. But as far as the
- 1:12:32discipline of purpose, the sacrifice of destinies concern, all men
- 1:12:37are not the same. You must have the fortitude to
- 1:12:40recognize and to discern the difference. In the example I
- 1:12:43gave you earlier on what do you think is the
- 1:12:46difference between the senior advocate and the young man who
- 1:12:51was about to start his law practice. I will tell
- 1:12:53you the difference. The difference is years of investing to
- 1:12:56build credibility. The difference is years and paying, years of
- 1:13:01mistake and the price that that senior advocate had to
- 1:13:05pay to learn. When you are on men, listen to me.
- 1:13:08It's not human worship. There is human worship which is wrong.
- 1:13:12But I can tell you this. Great men are not
- 1:13:15great by mistake. They are testaments of ensurance. We live
- 1:13:19in a world that has mastered the art of trivializing people.
- 1:13:25You see a wealthy man, you begin to cast him
- 1:13:28and say, wicked Nigerians, all of you just destroying our money.
- 1:13:32Yet that man was born and he slept under a bridge.
- 1:13:35One day. You see a man of God who is
- 1:13:40anointed and blessed, and God is showing him messy and
- 1:13:43you may say, oh mind.
- 1:13:44Speaker 4: All this evil.
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: God just gave them grace. And they're acting as if listen, Africa,
- 1:13:51we must learn this. Nigeria. Women's lend this. The Church,
- 1:13:56we must lend this. We are equal in Christ. But
- 1:13:59the men and women you see who are the gatekeepers today.
- 1:14:03Many of these men, if they tell you there are stories,
- 1:14:05you end up in tears. Bestaments of endurance. Ours turning
- 1:14:17back from Legos and the pilot that flew us to return.
- 1:14:25When they were introducing the man, they said, this is
- 1:14:29an award winning so so so and so and so,
- 1:14:33one of the best and the finest in the industry.
- 1:14:36And when they said that, we're happy. When we lifted
- 1:14:41all through the flight, and when we landed, even me
- 1:14:45I clapped. I said, that man, truly, he deserves every
- 1:14:48accolade you can see the difference. You can see the
- 1:14:50intelligence and the professionalism. Now for someone you say pilots
- 1:14:56are pilots until the other version of this excellence flies
- 1:14:59you away together. Now, yes, sir, God's grace absolutely fin
- 1:15:11nomenal people, custodians of wisdom. People who you entered your
- 1:15:16office and you see awards from one end to the
- 1:15:18other as if you're selling it, and every single one
- 1:15:21was earned. And yet they sit down very humbly. Now
- 1:15:25a white person will quickly drop any man of God
- 1:15:28thing and says within these five minutes, these awards are
- 1:15:31not a showcase. Let me tell you what most Nigerians
- 1:15:33will do. Is it just because you are lucky? What
- 1:15:35is award? Let me tell you what an award is.
- 1:15:38Award is a testament that you have paid the price
- 1:15:42and your world. Even though selfish, they've been compelled to
- 1:15:45recognize it. Are we learning? Don't be offended. I'm a
- 1:15:51bit hash I'm pushing you for a reason. Honor, the discerning,
- 1:15:58the celebrating, and the rewarding of men for their distinctive difference.
- 1:16:06You hear me say, this is a house of honor.
- 1:16:08It is for a reason seated here. The overflows and
- 1:16:13following online are thousands and eventually will evolve to millions
- 1:16:18of people. Some of these people are absolutely phenomenal people.
- 1:16:22Some of the people you may be sitting close to today,
- 1:16:25by the protocol of their profession, you may not even
- 1:16:28have the access to sit close to them. Is that true?
- 1:16:35Many preachers have closed the door of favor because of dishonor.
- 1:16:38Inasmuch as you are anointed, remember you are captain only
- 1:16:43within your jurisdiction. Are we learning? Everybody? Say? Honor? Honor
- 1:16:54is one of the mysteries that when you engage it
- 1:16:56to bring you favor, almost immediately you keep insulting in
- 1:17:00your boss. This man is a stupid man, as stupid
- 1:17:03as you think he is. Every year he's turning over
- 1:17:07in billions and he's paying your salary without fail, Yet
- 1:17:10you call him stupid, every one of us. Under the
- 1:17:18sound of my voice, I pray that God will grant
- 1:17:20you grace to have a renewed orientation today. You can
- 1:17:26literally any living practicing honor. That when people say what
- 1:17:30are you doing, you say, I'm in real estate. What
- 1:17:32are you doing? I work with oil and oil and gas.
- 1:17:35Fem what are you doing? I practice honor? It's only
- 1:17:38a fool who laugh at you. You can literally any
- 1:17:42living practicing honor. Honor is a stream of income, a
- 1:17:52stream of income that does not need capital to start,
- 1:17:55and yet it is marvelously failed. Proof are we blessed? Honor?
- 1:18:06You must discern never enter the presence of greatness and
- 1:18:11act as if you are not aware of it. No. No,
- 1:18:16as much as God continues to leave me when I
- 1:18:18step into the presence of great people, I'm not talking
- 1:18:21of human worship, No, that is wrong, but to give
- 1:18:26people an impression that, look, I am aware of your sacrifices.
- 1:18:31I am aware of all of these great things. One
- 1:18:35of the clearest expressions of honor is gratitude. In gratitude
- 1:18:41is a display of this honor. Someone pays your school fees,
- 1:18:46takes care of you, sends a millionner to you, and
- 1:18:50after two days you reply with a one word text
- 1:18:53texts h it pays another one thanks, and it never
- 1:19:02comes again. Let me tell you what's not a spirit.
- 1:19:05Spirits take advantage of our disobedience and ride upon it
- 1:19:09to help us lock those doors. I'm saying this to
- 1:19:14you because there are many of you today who have
- 1:19:17uncles and have people who in a hardbait can open doors.
- 1:19:21But you are surprised why they will not attend to you,
- 1:19:24and you keep hearing that they are lifting orders. It
- 1:19:26is dishonor that has closed that door. You keep having
- 1:19:30dreams and visions of yourself moving forward and excelling in life,
- 1:19:34yet it never manifests because the conduits, the human conduit,
- 1:19:38who should partner with God for your lifting? You have
- 1:19:42dishonored and close that door. Let me challenge you here
- 1:19:47tomorrow's Monday work continues. Why don't you take it as
- 1:19:51a challenge and find something, maybe a bottle of wine
- 1:19:56or something. Go and meet your boss if you have
- 1:19:58access to him, and just greet him and just tell him. Look,
- 1:20:03I just came to say thank you, sir, thank you
- 1:20:05so much. It's been five years working with you or
- 1:20:08working with this company, and I have experienced phenomenal growth.
- 1:20:12I have learned, I have grown, and this is just
- 1:20:16me coming. I went to church and I was taught
- 1:20:18the value of honor, and I want to be a
- 1:20:21practitioner of the world. I just want to say thank you.
- 1:20:24Let me tell you what your boss will do? All right,
- 1:20:27all right, leave, leave, usually, but there is no man
- 1:20:30who has vaccination against honor. Nobody. There is no body
- 1:20:35on it who can resist honor. People will express it
- 1:20:39in different ways. The person looks at you, and on
- 1:20:43that table he's deciding the next set of executives. There
- 1:20:46was one more gap left, and he just sought his
- 1:20:49next executive. Your certificate will give you a job, but
- 1:20:54honor will guide your promotion. There is a rem you
- 1:20:57get to where everybody has the same qualification with you.
- 1:21:00The distinguishing factor becomes the practice of these mysteries. That's
- 1:21:04what gives you an edge. Are we together? Please say honor,
- 1:21:11practice honor, practice honor. The cheapest way to practice onor
- 1:21:19is thanksgiving. Discern and say thank you. There are many
- 1:21:24men who never tell your wives thank you. I don't
- 1:21:27mean to offend you, but it's true, thank you for
- 1:21:29what I paid her dowry. There are many women who
- 1:21:35never tell your husbands thank you what for? The Bible says,
- 1:21:41there are many children who never tell your parents thank you.
- 1:21:44I didn't ask them to give back to me, saying
- 1:21:46all those kinds of thinkings.
- 1:21:49Speaker 5: Thank you.
- 1:21:53Speaker 7: Learn it.
- 1:21:54Speaker 1: Please don't just laugh. Lear it. Don't say thanks, No,
- 1:22:00it's a mediocast way of expressing honor. Don't send people
- 1:22:07a text and say there are many people who have
- 1:22:09done well just to let you know you are one
- 1:22:11of them. No, when it has to do with communication
- 1:22:15of honor, you give people a sense of exclusivity. You
- 1:22:18are that valuable to me. Honor is the discerning, the celebrating,
- 1:22:32and the rewarding. There are people, for instance, who have
- 1:22:35shown me honor in my life, and by the honor
- 1:22:38they have shown subconsciously, I have become indebted to them.
- 1:22:44I'm not saying do it, but I'm just telling you
- 1:22:47there are people who went that far. Look at Nicodemus.
- 1:22:55You now know that even though they were not born again,
- 1:22:57they were wise people. He came to Jesus by it
- 1:23:01is a sit down. I am a Phariseee. Let's talk,
- 1:23:03he said, Rabbi. He never called him Jesus. Rabbi. We
- 1:23:09know that thou at a man sent from God. Forget
- 1:23:13everything we said in the afternoon. We know it's just
- 1:23:16our job that makes us do that. We know that
- 1:23:18thou at a man sent from God. Then he now says,
- 1:23:23no man can do these things. Accept God be with him.
- 1:23:27And Jesus said, you want my heart let's talk, verily,
- 1:23:29very ely, I say, unto you. He'd even ask Jesus
- 1:23:32a question. Jesus started talking, read your bible. He had
- 1:23:35not answer a question. Yet, you're Jesus. Verily, veryly, I say,
- 1:23:39unto you. Accept a man be born again. He cannot
- 1:23:43see the Kingdom of God. Then he now said can
- 1:23:45a man? And time he expressed so much ignorance, and
- 1:23:48he said, look, Jesus, this this is intelligence. And Jesus said,
- 1:23:51let me now explain. Accept a man be born of
- 1:23:53water and of the spirit, he shall not enter the
- 1:23:56Kingdom of God. And then the wind blew it way.
- 1:23:58At least that Jesus began another let you or same
- 1:24:00thing with the woman at the well. Have you noticed
- 1:24:05that honor is magnetic. It keeps people within your vicinity,
- 1:24:09It keeps help us within your vicinity. Is the job
- 1:24:12of the Holy Goes to send them to you. It's
- 1:24:14your job to work in partnership with him to maintain them.
- 1:24:20Never step into the door of greatness and allow that
- 1:24:23door shuts you out. No. Honor is what keeps the
- 1:24:28door open so that your children and your children's children
- 1:24:31can pass through. There are people today when they endorse you.
- 1:24:41Even if you have an enemy who does not like you,
- 1:24:44they are compelled to bless you because of the power
- 1:24:47of their sacrifice invested in their signature. We have to hurry.
- 1:24:53Are you learning the celebrating the rewarding of difference? Turn
- 1:25:02to the person seated by your left and right and
- 1:25:04tell them like ohnor you God bless you, phil embarrassment
- 1:25:08still do it?
- 1:25:08Speaker 2: Just say it?
- 1:25:16Speaker 1: Look at me. Let me challenge, Let me challenge. Let
- 1:25:20me challenge the young people in a nation and tell
- 1:25:22you why many people don't have doors. They come to you.
- 1:25:26Usually once you are blessed, you have this plethora of
- 1:25:30relatives who are waiting angrily, entitled, believing that you owe them.
- 1:25:35And then people just come in, Uncle, how are you?
- 1:25:38And they does bounce around and they're seeing people killing
- 1:25:42Your uncle is their CEO, and they're respecting the person
- 1:25:45and you're just bouncing and coming. How are you? And Uncle?
- 1:25:50Anything for the boys? And it looks at you and
- 1:25:52just manages it, gives you something and tells his Any
- 1:25:56day you see this boy coming, make sure you don't
- 1:25:59open the door again. Why because you communicated dis honor
- 1:26:07I shared with you. Okay, I'm not sure I've shared
- 1:26:10it here in Abuja. A very true story. I went
- 1:26:13for a conference years ago and a man of God
- 1:26:15shared that story. Let me use it to wrap up
- 1:26:18this subject of honor, so we'll move to the next point.
- 1:26:21True story. This man was seated. He was a pastor
- 1:26:25of a church and God was using him mightily. True story.
- 1:26:31But back at home things were not working well, especially financially.
- 1:26:34Things were a bit rough. And yet he would sit
- 1:26:37down and the wife would sit down, and they will
- 1:26:39hear testimonies of marvelous things that God was doing, changing
- 1:26:43the lives of people, and people will clap. But that
- 1:26:46man sat down there and there was fire on the
- 1:26:48mountain in his own house. One time during a service
- 1:26:51like this, the wife just got up and walked out
- 1:26:53of the meeting. The man was done, finished his counseling,
- 1:26:58and ran back home. My wife, what happened? Did I
- 1:27:01offend you? Did I say something during the message? She
- 1:27:04didn't say anything. And then he sat at table to eat,
- 1:27:09and he noticed that the plates that she was using
- 1:27:13to serve him. You know, those women have those Holy
- 1:27:17of Holies plates that only come out when they said
- 1:27:22triumphant entry. So that praise the Lord. Now watch this.
- 1:27:33She brought those plates and served him, and he kept
- 1:27:36asking what happened? Did I offend you? We can talk
- 1:27:39about this. She didn't say anything. Finally, when she brought
- 1:27:43the last item, kept it on the table. She got
- 1:27:46down on her knees and she said, Servant of God,
- 1:27:49my home is in trouble. Ah. Suddenly the man said,
- 1:27:55the same anointing he used to feel in the church
- 1:27:58came upon him on that diy table and he laid hands.
- 1:28:03Now not on the wife that grace. Do you know?
- 1:28:07Because every time he was at home he was a husband.
- 1:28:11So they are nunting for priesthood. Did not find expression
- 1:28:13to bring breakthrough. The woman was now wise and saying,
- 1:28:16you are my husband, but you are also a man
- 1:28:18of God. Today it's not my husband I'm feeding. I'm
- 1:28:21tired of feeding my husband and receiving compassion. I need results.
- 1:28:25So let me let me honor that. Let me tell
- 1:28:29you this. Listen, everybody you sees multi dimensional. The dimension
- 1:28:34you honor is the dimension that delivers to you. Your
- 1:28:40father can be a prophet and it can be blessing
- 1:28:43the nations and never see anything for your life. Your
- 1:28:48CEO can have a powerful signature that has decided the
- 1:28:53prosperity of institutions, and yet you can be seated there
- 1:28:58and no door opens. He that receives a prophet in
- 1:29:03the name as touching the office of a prophet, shall
- 1:29:08receive a prophet's reward. There are many men of God
- 1:29:19who don't even waste their time praying for certain people
- 1:29:22because they know by the spirit that they are not
- 1:29:24going to receive anything the courage of pride that they bring.
- 1:29:27I'm not talking about kneeling down. You can kneel down
- 1:29:30and still be standing up in your heart, so I'm
- 1:29:32not talking of all those things. No, a settled recognition.
- 1:29:42Practice this, and watch doors open for you. Practice honor.
- 1:29:48Go back some of you this night. Even though your
- 1:29:51parents may look aged, they may not have money, but
- 1:29:55they have grace. Mama, just to say thank you, thank
- 1:30:01you for the honor and the privilege. Every time something
- 1:30:04is about to happen to me. You see it in
- 1:30:05your dream. I don't realize that grace, and they're just saying,
- 1:30:09my daughter, the God who helped me and my youth,
- 1:30:12help you carelessly, and that would be it. Those who
- 1:30:15begin to open for you at a frequency you may
- 1:30:18not explain. I am a benefactor of this. I know
- 1:30:24what I'm saying. Many of you have heard my story
- 1:30:29years ago when we went to preach. I went to
- 1:30:32preach in Ekity State and we flew through Illaurin and
- 1:30:38then went by road to Echity State, and strangely, I
- 1:30:44started seeing the obituaries of people and I saw that
- 1:30:49these people were in their hundreds, one twenty something. I said,
- 1:30:53what is this. We got to a small community and
- 1:30:57I saw one thirty two years old, someone who had
- 1:31:01just died one thirty two, and yet I brought their busy,
- 1:31:04saying one eighteen is the oldest man they should come
- 1:31:06to Nigeria. When I saw that, I knew that this
- 1:31:10is no longer luck. There must be a grace within
- 1:31:13this territory. I returned from the ministration and whilst we
- 1:31:20were passing there, I stopped at that community. Please pay attention,
- 1:31:24and the people could not. There was nobody who was
- 1:31:27speaking English there. They were speaking Uruba. And I said, please,
- 1:31:30they should lead us to the oldest man within that
- 1:31:34place that I just want to honor him and just
- 1:31:37have him pray for us. So finally we got someone
- 1:31:39who could speak limited English, and they took us to
- 1:31:42one of the I think he's a man of God,
- 1:31:44one of the elders. And when I went there, I
- 1:31:47stood with my dear people and I was talking, and
- 1:31:51then they would interpret, Oh, were men of God. We
- 1:31:53just came to respect you and honor you. Just saw
- 1:31:56that you can pray for us. The man laughed, He said, Niel,
- 1:31:59down it is, you're a man of God, your apostle,
- 1:32:01kneel down. I got down my knees with joy and
- 1:32:09with speed. When that man began to pray, he was
- 1:32:11praying in your over true story, I felt like a
- 1:32:14crown was just put on my head while she was praying.
- 1:32:19When he was done, brought out a seed, gave him.
- 1:32:23And then when we were going to return to the
- 1:32:25car to continue the journey, I now went to thank
- 1:32:28some of the women who were gathered that I was greeting.
- 1:32:32Did you know that I greeted initially to lead me
- 1:32:34to that man. When I went there, they now told
- 1:32:37me that this one thirty two year old man who died,
- 1:32:40that the woman standing there was his wife. I said,
- 1:32:44let's go back. The Bible says too shall become one.
- 1:32:47Even so the man is dead body's still alive in
- 1:32:49her She was like one hundred and something, standing like that,
- 1:32:54no stick, no nothing. Ah, what sort of a grace
- 1:32:58is this? And I said, please, they should tell her
- 1:33:01that she has to pray for me before I go.
- 1:33:02Do you know what happened? The woman tapped me and
- 1:33:05said follow me. We entered the room. I didn't care
- 1:33:08where I was going, I said. When we entered the room, listen,
- 1:33:12she started showing me pictures. That was the wife of
- 1:33:15his youth. It was not keturah in old age, the
- 1:33:20wife of his youth. And you know people those days,
- 1:33:23they could marry seventeen eighteen the wife of his youth.
- 1:33:26She showed me the picture until maybe about a year
- 1:33:30or two before he died. And then I said, please,
- 1:33:33they should tell her. I don't know what I will
- 1:33:35call her my grandmother now great grandmother. Please pray. When
- 1:33:40I said so, she said, Niel down. She removed both
- 1:33:42of her shoes and stepped her feet. I'm showing you
- 1:33:46the power of honor. She stepped her feet by bare
- 1:33:50feet on the ground and began to pray and profess
- 1:33:54sigh and profess sigh and profess high. For over fifteen minutes.
- 1:33:59When she was done or not, I entered the car smiling.
- 1:34:02I ran straight to Zariah and I told my people,
- 1:34:04I say stand up or I've come with some things.
- 1:34:13Please say down. It's as such as I have. Listen,
- 1:34:21you can know you have a grace, honor. There are
- 1:34:28people today who got lands that they never had to
- 1:34:31pay for. They are not their way into ownership. There
- 1:34:37are house helps today who have been given inheritance worth
- 1:34:41millions and billions because the children were too irresponsible to
- 1:34:45be trusted with that kind of thing. Honor, once you're
- 1:34:51seated in one minute, please just lay your hand on
- 1:34:54your head and declare, Lord, the capacity for honor I receive.
- 1:35:00I run away from this honor outside inside following online
- 1:35:04a Zaria family, Please pray I obtained grace. Cali par
- 1:35:11Uka Kusa. It's time for my life to change. Chapran
- 1:35:18dee Ga de Barrakus, please pray. Oh my leave teen
- 1:35:32has come, Oh my leave teen has come.
- 1:35:43Speaker 8: Oh my rising has come, Oh.
- 1:35:57Speaker 9: My rinsing has come.
- 1:36:01Speaker 8: Oh my leafteen has come. Oh my leafteen has come.
- 1:36:21Speaker 1: Are you declaring honor? Father? Every door that has been
- 1:36:24closed over my life through this honor? May your messy speak.
- 1:36:29Political doors close through this honor. Ministerial relationships close through
- 1:36:35this honor. Access to resources, access to the credibility of
- 1:36:43the Great hey na sha la kataprande Barakosia. Disgrace called favor, Allelujah,
- 1:36:57praise the Lord. Please sit down, let's gone very quickly.
- 1:37:01It's God helping someone. Number two. The second key that
- 1:37:05activates disgrace of favor is called value. The second key
- 1:37:15that activates favor in a non questionable dimension is value.
- 1:37:21What is value? Value is a measure of your usefulness
- 1:37:26through your ability to provide solutions, A measure of your
- 1:37:31usefulness within the context of a civilization. A measure of
- 1:37:39your usefulness through your ability to solve problems and to
- 1:37:45provide supernatural solutions or solutions, generally solutions. Please pay attention,
- 1:37:56we're praying. Are we together? Please look up? The Bible
- 1:38:02says see it that way man diligent in his business.
- 1:38:07It leaves you with an assurance that you will stand
- 1:38:10before kings and you will not stand before mean men.
- 1:38:15I call it the law of competence. It's not enough
- 1:38:18to just be valuable. You have to be exceptionally valuable,
- 1:38:22and your value has to be needed and useful within
- 1:38:26the context of a civilization. Listen, the kingdom works based
- 1:38:31on a reward system. You have to understand this. How
- 1:38:35do you know you are valuable by who is willing
- 1:38:38to pursue you? How do you know you are valuable
- 1:38:41by the inconvenience that people can make to have access
- 1:38:46to you. When people begin to complain and give excuses,
- 1:38:50it's because you are not valuable enough. People press the
- 1:38:54crowd to meet Jesus. In the presence of value, pain
- 1:38:59is no longer factor when you find people who are
- 1:39:02exceptionally valuable. Look the efforts. Now I'm not promoting habilists,
- 1:39:08but just for instance, from a value standpoint, look how
- 1:39:11people live their dignity and they will go to the
- 1:39:14bush to see a habilist turn backwards, and they turn
- 1:39:18quietly because you are looking for some favor. Can I
- 1:39:24tell you this, If people have an excuse as far
- 1:39:29as convenience is concerned, to meet you, is because you
- 1:39:33are not valuable enough. You must make up your mind.
- 1:39:40As men and women of God, please listen to me,
- 1:39:42ministers and co laborers in the Gospel. Just because we're
- 1:39:45ministry does not mean we are not valuable. Your value
- 1:39:50may be supernatural in context, but you have to understand
- 1:39:54you can defend the reason why God blesses you through men.
- 1:40:00Away with that idea that, especially when a man of
- 1:40:03God prospers, people now begin to it's not everybody who
- 1:40:06is manipulating and demonstrating lack of integrity. The moment there
- 1:40:11is dispensing of a value, whether it is sold or
- 1:40:14given free, the law demands, the law of God demands
- 1:40:19that that individual be rewarded. Are we together, everybody say value?
- 1:40:33Second to the Bible, I have been marvelously blessed by
- 1:40:37men and women that God has raised and honored to
- 1:40:42carry the button, especially within the personal development industry, especially
- 1:40:49those who have whose perspectives are consistent with scripture. They
- 1:40:54have helped to mold my understanding as far as value
- 1:40:57is concerned. Listen to me. Let me give you a
- 1:41:02big key focus on developing yourself more than your business plan.
- 1:41:10Is good to give value, but it is best to
- 1:41:14be the value yourself when you develop yourself. I have
- 1:41:22taught us here that success is not what you pursue.
- 1:41:26If you find yourself pursuing success, you've already missed it.
- 1:41:30You attract success by who you become more than what
- 1:41:33you do. Your becoming is greater than your doing. This
- 1:41:38is where most people miss it. We think that we
- 1:41:41become successful because of the things we do. Your doing
- 1:41:44is only useful when you have become. Your evolution is
- 1:41:48more important than you're doing. The most important thing about
- 1:41:52success is not what you obtain, but that version of
- 1:41:55you that has to be attained to have that result.
- 1:42:01There is a better cultured version, a more discipline version,
- 1:42:05a more spiritual version, a more conscious version. That is
- 1:42:09the version it takes to obtain the results you are
- 1:42:11looking for. Your growth is greater than your doing. A
- 1:42:19will learning. Make up your mind to be valuable. What
- 1:42:23does it mean to be valuable to have the capacity
- 1:42:27to provide solutions? Listen to me. Your solutions have to
- 1:42:31be needed and useful. Don't say I like what I'm doing.
- 1:42:37You are not the one who pay yourself. Your solutions
- 1:42:42have to be needed and useful within the context of
- 1:42:44a civilization. I'll not say much there because of time,
- 1:42:52value train yourself. I made up my mind as a
- 1:42:55covenant commitment, as a man of God, that in every
- 1:42:59area the Lord would have me serve his purposes. In ministry,
- 1:43:03leadership every other area. I will develop myself to the core,
- 1:43:09not from a competitive standpoint. I want to be so effective.
- 1:43:14I learned this from doctor Miles Monroe, as a man
- 1:43:17of God. He had the largest church in Bahamas. He
- 1:43:20was an advisor to close to sixteen presidents or thereabout.
- 1:43:23I hope I got the statistics right out of his books,
- 1:43:26about forty or forty six of them were best sellers.
- 1:43:29No manipulation, just the superior content of his understanding. He
- 1:43:35had relevance across ministry, the political space, economy, and yet
- 1:43:43he was a disciplined and well cultured man. What a
- 1:43:46mental indeed are we learning? You must be valuable capacity capacity,
- 1:43:56burn the candles in the night, and do not pity yourself.
- 1:43:58Well you do that aware of a rival mentality, mediocritics.
- 1:44:03What is destroying people in Africa, destroying people in this nation,
- 1:44:08destroying people in ministry, in business, in politics. How do
- 1:44:12you know that your value has gotten to its prime
- 1:44:16when your audience are only kings. When you find out
- 1:44:21that you are in the palace, then you can truly
- 1:44:24say you have tried. If you have not served kings,
- 1:44:26you are not there yet. When your audience when your
- 1:44:30recipients are the kings, the kings of an industry, then
- 1:44:36you know you are valuable. I'm just pointing it out
- 1:44:39while not doing teaching on value necessarily. Again, let me
- 1:44:46encourage you, do not stop until you serve kings. It
- 1:44:51is only kings that can reward you in a way
- 1:44:54that befits your sacrifice. Every other reward is just a
- 1:44:57support a support system on till you get to the palace.
- 1:45:03How much did Joseph get for interpreting the dream of
- 1:45:06the white of the Baker. How much did Joseph get
- 1:45:09for interpreting the dream of the of the He got
- 1:45:14the leverage that took him to the palace, but he
- 1:45:18solved the king's problem. Once you know what he got,
- 1:45:21Read your Bible. Read what David got for killing Goliad.
- 1:45:35We worship God, we worship Jesus today because he's King
- 1:45:40of kings and Lord of lords. But we also worshiped
- 1:45:43him because he's done something that no God and no
- 1:45:46man can do. No body has the power to forgive
- 1:45:49sins and translate you from the kingdom of darkness into
- 1:45:52the kingdom of his dear son. The value, the also
- 1:45:56passing value that he has defeat in death, hell and
- 1:46:01the grave. The hymn writer says, up from the grave
- 1:46:04he arose. Every other God, every other leader died and
- 1:46:13did not come back to life. But Jesus he rose
- 1:46:16again victorious. Today he sits at the right hand of
- 1:46:19the Father. Number three are we learning? What is the
- 1:46:26third key that activates favor? Relationships? Relationships? Relationships? EMA's Chapter
- 1:46:37three and as three Let's hurry up please? Is God
- 1:46:39speaking to us the night? The third key that activates disgrace,
- 1:46:43called favor, is called relationships. Can two walk together except
- 1:46:49they be agreed? The word agreed their means compatible your
- 1:46:57degree of agreeableness. Can two walk together two companies, two
- 1:47:01individuals a couple? Can two walk together except they be agreed? Listen?
- 1:47:10The command be fruitful also means be relational, because everything
- 1:47:16becomes fruitful on the basis of relationship. Is that true?
- 1:47:19The relationship between a husband and his wife is how
- 1:47:21children come. A relationship between you and the Holy Spirit
- 1:47:25is how the anointing comes. The relationship between you and
- 1:47:27the world is how understanding comes. Everything multiplies on the
- 1:47:33basis of relationships. If you do not understand relationships, you
- 1:47:37will spend your lifetime paying for it. What are relationships?
- 1:47:42I've talked a bit on this advantageous connections. Relationships are
- 1:47:47advantageous connections. For instance, when an umbrothera comes to you
- 1:47:52and points are gone, he's close to you, but you
- 1:47:54are not in a relationship because it's not an advantageous connection.
- 1:47:58He came to still, he came to kill, he came
- 1:48:00to destroy. Relationships are advantageous connections. And listen, there is
- 1:48:05an intelligence that has to do with managing relationships. Many
- 1:48:11Christians do not understand the power of relationships. This is where,
- 1:48:15respectfully speaking, unbelievers have seemed to have an edge over believers.
- 1:48:22You may have heard me say it in my teachings.
- 1:48:24Please look at me. What will make a man fly
- 1:48:28a private jet from one nation and go to another
- 1:48:32nation to celebrate the two year old birthday of a
- 1:48:36beloonnaire's child? Is the child a man's friend? What is
- 1:48:41he doing in that house? Such a busy man will
- 1:48:48live every pain and come and invest his time. You
- 1:48:52see him play someone that does not like children. By default,
- 1:48:55everybody knows he doesn't like children. Now all of us
- 1:48:57sudden because you see, adaptation is proof of honor. You
- 1:49:02have to be able to adapt. And he's playing, and
- 1:49:05the man looks at him and says, look, I'm looking
- 1:49:08for a team of five people that a will commit
- 1:49:10to be regional directors of my company. And now that
- 1:49:13you have come, I trust you relationships. It is dangerous
- 1:49:20for you to not have strategic relationships. Let me give
- 1:49:24you an advice. Obtain grace from God to build relationships.
- 1:49:30I have a I have a teaching on that. I've
- 1:49:33not talked it in Abuja, but there is a very
- 1:49:35powerful teaching that that I will. I will talk a
- 1:49:39bit on relationships. The moment God lifts you, the first
- 1:49:45thing to do with your lifting is to use it
- 1:49:47as a leverage to build relationships. Forget about acquisition. Acquisition
- 1:49:53is pestiary the primary goal of lifting. Use it quickly
- 1:49:59because a to the law of times and seasons, it
- 1:50:02will not always be like that. So the moment God
- 1:50:05gives you a window of opportunity, trap your lifting with relationships.
- 1:50:09Your relationships will keep you afloat. Are we learning, yes, sir,
- 1:50:18relationships relationships. The primary relationship be in your relationship with
- 1:50:24the Lord Jesus Christ, your relationship with the Holy Spirit,
- 1:50:27your relationship with the world of God. But your relationship
- 1:50:30with strategic help us. We live today in evil times,
- 1:50:34and I am praying for you. May you have relationships
- 1:50:37with the police. May you have relationships with the judicial system.
- 1:50:42May you have relationships with economically empowered people. May you
- 1:50:47also have relationship with those you call non entities, because
- 1:50:51the day of their relevance, according to the law of
- 1:50:53time and chance, is coming. Listen, do not only have
- 1:50:56relationship with people who have reasen. You've seen your future already.
- 1:51:02Those who are rising are more powerful than those who
- 1:51:06have risen. The Bible says, it does not yet appear
- 1:51:10what we shall be like. Can I tell you this
- 1:51:14if you were not there for people at their state
- 1:51:16of infancy, don't expect to be invited at the table
- 1:51:19of greatness. When they arrive there, they only remember who
- 1:51:22helped them rise. Relationships strategic connections. Don't look for wealthy
- 1:51:30and blessed people alone. Many of us have relationship is
- 1:51:34just for wealthy is already clearly it suggests that it's
- 1:51:38a parasitic relationship. Some of us see some of these
- 1:51:43are young ones, these small children come, you push them around.
- 1:51:46I want to see Joshua Slman and you've pushed the
- 1:51:48next prophet without knowing. This is why it's good to
- 1:51:56show honor to all men, those above you, your con temporaries,
- 1:52:01and those supposedly below you relationships. Allelujah, please look up.
- 1:52:13Let me challenge you. Is there someone in your life
- 1:52:16today that you can actually pick the call and call
- 1:52:20him or her and say, please, I am in need
- 1:52:23of a financial situation, help me, not borrow me. Help
- 1:52:28me and the person who say, I love you too much.
- 1:52:31Our relationship is so strong, I have a commitment to you.
- 1:52:35If you don't have such a person in your life,
- 1:52:37you're in trouble. Listen. Is there someone in your life
- 1:52:41today you can call and with one dial, no matter
- 1:52:45how busy he can pick appose people don't like me? No,
- 1:52:50if the problem is everybody, the problem is you. No
- 1:52:57Body will just invest time like that she is an investment.
- 1:53:01Don't expect returns if you did not invest. Don't give
- 1:53:07people two minutes of your time with ten years worth
- 1:53:11of trouble and expect them to remain with you. No sah.
- 1:53:16When people do not perceive you to be an advantage
- 1:53:19to their lives and their destinies, they will love you,
- 1:53:21but they will put you in a group quietly and
- 1:53:24leave you there. I pray for you, you pray for me.
- 1:53:34I love you, I need you to survive. I won't
- 1:53:39harm you.
- 1:53:41Speaker 4: With words from my mouth. I love you, I need
- 1:53:46you to survive. It is his His we fair, we
- 1:53:52need peace.
- 1:53:54Speaker 1: Supply. You are important to me. Listen, don't allow circumstances
- 1:54:07choose your relationships. Allow the Holy Spirit, in partnership with
- 1:54:11your mind and your wisdom to choose your relationships. Many
- 1:54:17of us have not been intentional about choosing relationships. Godly people,
- 1:54:23visionary people, people of excellence, people who love you sincerely
- 1:54:28in life and in death. I know a man true story.
- 1:54:36His house got burned and before he arrived there, the
- 1:54:42friend had gotten a place and moved the children and
- 1:54:46a few things they could recover there relationships. Is there
- 1:54:52someone in your life today that you can call by
- 1:54:55two three am and say, there is an attack, my
- 1:54:58wife is having an attack, having an attack. I'm not
- 1:55:01in Nigeria, and the person can say in ten minutes,
- 1:55:04I'm in your house. Listen. I'm giving you a wisdom key.
- 1:55:10If you, no matter how bless you are, there will come.
- 1:55:14You will see that you cannot solve every problem by
- 1:55:16yourself and walk besides the man who is alone in
- 1:55:19the presence of challenges, even Jesus, you're Jesus. When he
- 1:55:24was on his way to God gotter. He got to
- 1:55:26a point where he was weekly at lost blood. The
- 1:55:30Bible says he fell there with the cross. They needed
- 1:55:33to be a man who volunteered and said, I will
- 1:55:36hold the cross for him. I've taught you the ministry
- 1:55:40of destiny helpers, and I've taught you these four categories
- 1:55:44of people you need in your life. Let me do
- 1:55:46a one minute recap in case you were not here
- 1:55:49or you've forgotten. Number one that when it has to
- 1:55:53do with relationships destiny helpers, you need divine connector. They
- 1:56:00can help you, but they know who can help you,
- 1:56:03and they can connect you to that person. Number two,
- 1:56:06you need men of influence. They are willing to invest
- 1:56:09their credibility and their track record to help you rise.
- 1:56:12Number three you need gifted people, the men and women
- 1:56:15who produce results. Sometimes you need more than kindness, you
- 1:56:19need results. And then number four boding beerers. The assignment
- 1:56:24of a boden beer right is not to move you forward.
- 1:56:26They are the ones who stop you from going backward.
- 1:56:30If you do not have these four categories of people
- 1:56:33in your life, you are in trouble. If you have
- 1:56:36to pay for everything by yourself, you are in trouble.
- 1:56:38Even if you are blessed, they will come. Money cannot
- 1:56:41buy anything. You will need the hearts of men. Somebody
- 1:56:45most believe in you enough to stake their lives. You
- 1:56:49cannot be a general friend to everybody. Somebody most see
- 1:56:53you and keep you in the holy of holies of
- 1:56:56your hearts and say, let me not hear that this
- 1:57:00woman has an headache or a headache, not when I'm alive.
- 1:57:03Can anybody make that kind of statement and say, look,
- 1:57:08no matter what it is, you can count on me.
- 1:57:12Respectfully speaking. There are many CEOs, politicians, even preachers who
- 1:57:17spend their life serving people and serving the needs of people.
- 1:57:21But they did not build relationships. And in old age
- 1:57:24you see many angry and lonely people. Sometimes when I
- 1:57:28see elderly people lonely, I ask questions, did they ever
- 1:57:32have children? They worked in the secular job for thirty
- 1:57:37years and thirty five years we were concerned about promotion,
- 1:57:41not relationships. Now you retire and every relationship goes if
- 1:57:47people respect you just because of title, you're in trouble.
- 1:57:50They must love you beyond titles and be meitted like
- 1:57:53David and Jonathan, a good place to pray before we
- 1:58:00finish up. Can you again lay your hands on your
- 1:58:02head and say, Father, connect me to strategic relationships, even
- 1:58:08in this season. First, Oh God, make me one who
- 1:58:12is worth being friends with. Life will be hard. You're
- 1:58:18a man of God. Listen to me. No matter the
- 1:58:21call of God upon your life, you will depend on
- 1:58:23strategic relationships to rise. Go ahead, are you praying? Please pray,
- 1:58:41Please pray. You came to church. You need a friend
- 1:58:47that sticks closer than a brother. You need men that
- 1:58:51can stand for you and say, under my watch, your
- 1:58:54children will never beg for.
- 1:58:56Speaker 4: Bread, not when I'm alive. How big worshiping all of
- 1:59:05the taes of my life?
- 1:59:09Speaker 1: How big.
- 1:59:11Speaker 4: Worshiping all of the dayes of my life? How big
- 1:59:20helping you.
- 1:59:23Speaker 1: All of the days of my life.
- 1:59:27Speaker 2: How big.
- 1:59:29Speaker 1: Helping you all of the days of my life. How
- 1:59:37big holding you all of the tees of my life.
- 1:59:46How biggie holding you all of the tastes of my life. Listen,
- 1:59:57if you have friends who love your money alone love
- 2:00:01you anointing in alone, love your ministry alone. MG. If
- 2:00:07you leave ministry today, the people who love you will
- 2:00:10they still love you? Seeeo. If you leave your job today,
- 2:00:17have you not seen politicians who lost elections and in
- 2:00:21a moment everybody who is saying yes sir, just left them.
- 2:00:24Who is the next person? Our world is full of selfishness.
- 2:00:28Let me give you an advice. When you find people
- 2:00:31who love you for who you are, pay the price
- 2:00:34and keep them. Swallow your pride and keep them. Not
- 2:00:38everybody has that time to love you for who you are.
- 2:00:43This is wisdom, and when God lived you. Please obtain
- 2:00:51grace to see the people who love you. Sincerely. The
- 2:00:56great are largely surrounded by psychophanes. Of your reasons, you
- 2:01:01must obtain grace. That house helped may not have money
- 2:01:06to give you, but I assure you they will stand
- 2:01:08by you forever. Some of you love everybody except your children,
- 2:01:14and yet when you are sick, they're the ones who
- 2:01:16stand close to you. Can I tell you the truth?
- 2:01:19Do not forget that there are people who love you
- 2:01:22for who you are, not what you have. Money can
- 2:01:26be deceptive, anointing can be deceptive. Titles can be deceptive.
- 2:01:33This is why many people are heart broken and shattered
- 2:01:36into pieces today because they think they are popular. They
- 2:01:40think they have crowds. Oh I have a great I'm
- 2:01:43a great politician. I'm a great man of God. I
- 2:01:46have thousands and millions of people. Can they be there
- 2:01:51standing for you? Can they cry with you and say
- 2:01:55we are here crying? Can I tell you? A true
- 2:01:58friend is not one who stands with you. A true
- 2:02:00friend is one who dies with you. If you have
- 2:02:04a friend, you can only leave for you are wasting
- 2:02:08your time. The real proof of friendship is not life,
- 2:02:12it's death. I'm pretching on. I'm only doing what God
- 2:02:19has asked me to do. Two more, we have a
- 2:02:25few minutes. Number one, Honor, You see that favor is merited.
- 2:02:29Do you agree with me? Now? When you learn this
- 2:02:32and someone says you are just lucky, just pray the
- 2:02:34prayer of messy for the person. Oh why are you
- 2:02:39favored like this? Why does everybody love you? I think
- 2:02:43you are just lucky. Oh there, don't be angry, Just
- 2:02:48give them this message. Number one Honor. Number two value,
- 2:02:59number three, relationships. Number four. The fourth way that you
- 2:03:05activate disgrace called favor is through prayer. You can provoke
- 2:03:11favor through prayer. Favor is one of those systems of
- 2:03:17advantage that can be activated in prayer. At Jabez, all
- 2:03:22that that would hast bless me, enladge my coast, Let
- 2:03:26your hand be upon me. You can pray favor. I
- 2:03:34prayed for favor for one full month. It was a February.
- 2:03:41From first to the last month. Favor she lacked two pracatos. Lord,
- 2:03:46the heart of man is selfish. But by your grace,
- 2:03:49you are able to place something upon the heart of
- 2:03:51kings and nobles that can cause them to be attentive
- 2:03:54to your need. When God says amen to your prayer,
- 2:03:58it is truly a man. God will raise a fish
- 2:04:03to bring out coin from his mouth. Does a fish
- 2:04:06eat coin? But when favor is on you, Ah, God
- 2:04:11can use Pharaoh to give you gold. Everything has riches
- 2:04:20in it, it only hides it. It's favor that allows
- 2:04:23them to give it. The Bible says, as for the earth,
- 2:04:28out of it comes bread. Please listen to me. There
- 2:04:31are many of you right now. The truth is that
- 2:04:34with the current price of land, physically speaking, you may
- 2:04:37never have the opportunity to build a house in your lifetime,
- 2:04:40but Faivor can build one for you and give you
- 2:04:42the key just like that. It's not a cult with responsibility.
- 2:04:45It's a system of advantage. Are you learning? Please go
- 2:04:54back this week. I'll give us an assignment by the spirit.
- 2:04:58When we're rapping up. Use this week among the many
- 2:05:01prayers who pray, pray favor provoking prayer, Lord, show me favor.
- 2:05:10I didn't come from a family with any advantage by default.
- 2:05:13If you do not help me, I don't have a
- 2:05:15non colo and anti somewhere. But I look to.
- 2:05:19Speaker 7: Your way, yeah way, my whole piece, y a way,
- 2:05:28yeah way. I look to here our way, yeah way,
- 2:05:39forever here way, yeah way. One more time we look
- 2:05:45to your way, yeah way, our whole piece, yeah way,
- 2:05:55yeah way.
- 2:05:59Speaker 1: Will you to be away, yeahwall forever away, yeahway. Listen,
- 2:06:12Remember that men are not your source. They are only channels.
- 2:06:17The real source price God, from whom all blessings flow.
- 2:06:22The cham writer says it comes from God. It only
- 2:06:27comes through men. When you exalt, men are both God.
- 2:06:30You're in trouble. Can I tell you this, truly, God
- 2:06:34can give favor to men. God can pick you like
- 2:06:37this and say where is he. I'm in a bouja
- 2:06:40here and God can pick you and give an instruction
- 2:06:44and tell men to honor you. And in one week
- 2:06:47God can use men to change your life in a
- 2:06:49way that you will be afraid of your own testimony.
- 2:06:55Believe this, Oh favor favor provoking prayer. There is a
- 2:07:09way you can hold onto the foehnes of the autar
- 2:07:12except you are not tired of your situation. If you
- 2:07:15keep giving fleamsy excuses, you may sit down there as
- 2:07:19a preacher, as a businessman. You are not just an entrepreneur.
- 2:07:24You can go back my father and my God. I
- 2:07:27bow my knees to a father and begin to pray.
- 2:07:31Racket a kampata kosubiah favor, Oh God, I call for favor.
- 2:07:36And whilst you are praying, God a wake someone and said,
- 2:07:41the one billion that you have kept for charity to
- 2:07:44help people. There is one of my sons and my
- 2:07:47daughters that requires help from there. That person is the
- 2:07:51only bread winner out of twelve people. If you do
- 2:07:54not arise, listen, how did the salvation of the Gentile's call?
- 2:08:02Read your Bible Acts Chapter ten, Cornelius was praying. Cornelius
- 2:08:11was sewing seeds, and God himself told Peter, get up.
- 2:08:16Don't call what I've called clean and clean. There is
- 2:08:19a call. Carry your presence straight to the house of Cornelius.
- 2:08:23That was where the salvation of the gentiles started. Listen
- 2:08:27to me, please hear me. Minimize knocking on the offices
- 2:08:32of men, and ask God to do the knocking for you.
- 2:08:35Those men will not listen to you. They are too
- 2:08:38busy living out their destinies. Don't go around getting angry
- 2:08:43and saying, this person you have what it takes to
- 2:08:45help me. When God not see there is a name
- 2:08:53he is called. He's called the Father of spirits. He
- 2:08:56can wake any spirit in the middle of the night.
- 2:09:02Have you considered this family? And he says, do something
- 2:09:06for them? And someone just shows up in your life
- 2:09:09and says, by divine instruction, I don't like you. But
- 2:09:12by divine instruction he said, every month for the next
- 2:09:16two years, I should give you this. And you are wondering,
- 2:09:19he said, lie, you may think this as some crooks
- 2:09:21trying to play games with you. Can I tell you this?
- 2:09:27The Bible says, what thinks soever ye desire, what things
- 2:09:31soever ye desire, When ye pray believe that thou receivest
- 2:09:37it and thou shalt have it. How could I lead
- 2:09:46a ministry like this without the favor of God. There
- 2:09:50are many of you having high blood pressure today. I'm
- 2:09:54not trying to insult you forgive me, but it's true.
- 2:09:58If God does not show you favor, life is hard,
- 2:10:01on terribly hard. Where will the finances come from? Even
- 2:10:06if you have money, Where will the access come from?
- 2:10:09Do you know what it means for gate keepers to
- 2:10:12open their hats over you? It has to be God.
- 2:10:19In one minute, I like you to pray, Father, may
- 2:10:25may favor come upon my life. May favor come upon
- 2:10:31my life. Difficult things become easy when the grace called
- 2:10:38favor is upon you.
- 2:10:46Speaker 10: Sanata cutka tea.
- 2:10:54Speaker 1: We have not because he asked not. He have not
- 2:10:58because he asked not. You have not because he has not.
- 2:11:03We have not because he has not. Hallelujah, Praise the Lord. Listen, listen,
- 2:11:13please listen. The last key I will give it to
- 2:11:16you so that we'll pray. We're out of time. The
- 2:11:19last key to favor is found in est chapter two
- 2:11:24and verse fifteen. I call it the esther A nineteen.
- 2:11:28There is the grace for favor can be imparted.
- 2:11:36Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah, oh
- 2:11:41yeah yeah yeah way.
- 2:11:49Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah yeah. Where as su
- 2:12:02chapter two and verse fifteen, something is coming on someone
- 2:12:05right now. Pay attention now. When the turn of Esther,
- 2:12:16the daughter of Abbi Hal, the uncle of Mothercai, who
- 2:12:20are taking her for his daughter, listen carefully, was come
- 2:12:24in onto the king. She required nothing but what hey guy,
- 2:12:29The king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women appointed, and
- 2:12:34Esther obtained favor in the sight of how many all
- 2:12:39them that looked upon her. Next verse sixteen, the Bible says,
- 2:12:45so Esther was taken to King Ahassos in his royal
- 2:12:49house in the tenth month, which is the month Tabbeth
- 2:12:52in the seventh year of his reign. And the king
- 2:12:57loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace
- 2:13:02and favor in his sight more than all the virgins,
- 2:13:05so that he sets the royal crown upon her head
- 2:13:09and made her queen instead of fasting. When you read
- 2:13:13the verses before fifteen, the Bible says, there were many women,
- 2:13:18and yet Esther went to this strange man called hey guy.
- 2:13:23He had worked with the king a long time. He
- 2:13:26knows what the king is looking for. And she asks him,
- 2:13:29what does the king really want? And hey, guy said,
- 2:13:32there is an oil I will give you. Just keep
- 2:13:34robbing on your body for one year. That's all. Forget
- 2:13:37all this. How to work the Holy Spirit can such
- 2:13:42the heart of your destiny? Helper, He knows what he wants.
- 2:13:46Hear me, my brothers and my sisters. Truly, there is
- 2:13:49an anointing for favor. There is a grace called favor.
- 2:13:54The assignment of that grace is to insist on the
- 2:13:58heart of men. The proof of faivor is not money.
- 2:14:02The proof of favor is the loyalty of the hearts
- 2:14:05of men towards you and towards your assignment access to
- 2:14:12systems and structures. This is the grace that has been
- 2:14:23so difficult to come upon many believers because of dishonor,
- 2:14:31because of lack of value, because of disobedience to the
- 2:14:37principles of relationship, because they do not ask, and finally
- 2:14:42because they have not cared for such a grace. Some
- 2:14:46have received the grace for prayer, Some have received the
- 2:14:49grace for science and wonders. Some have received all kinds
- 2:14:55of graces, but the grace and the importation for faith.
- 2:15:00We have a few minutes. We're going to spend the
- 2:15:03next three to four minutes no prayer. Point. I'm going
- 2:15:08to leave you with the God of your salvation. Everyone.
- 2:15:11You're going to cry and say, Father, I can't remain
- 2:15:14the same, not after this meeting. Those following online from
- 2:15:17any nation, please pray you came to the house of God.
- 2:15:21This is service to change your life. Think of your
- 2:15:28children while you pray. Think of your children's children while
- 2:15:32you pray. Think of the work God has given you.
- 2:15:35While you pray. Go ahead and pray. Pray. You run
- 2:15:58your way to Paradas. Pray.
- 2:16:02Speaker 4: Something is changing your run your way to Para takes.
- 2:16:11Speaker 1: Your run, your way to.
- 2:16:13Speaker 4: Partakes never week again. Ah, you run your way to
- 2:16:19paradis Scott's prophecy for your life. Your run your way
- 2:16:25to Parada. Status is changing. It's no more decline your
- 2:16:37run your way to Parada. Status is changing. No modycline
- 2:16:49your run your way to parady. You're run your way,
- 2:16:57on your way, on your way.
- 2:17:03Speaker 1: To better day. You're round your way, on your way.
- 2:17:18Go ahead on the clare cardig car who's got up
- 2:17:22I tap into this system of advantage makes cattuca. I
- 2:17:28fit on my background, I fit on my limitations, not
- 2:17:33the power of the Holy Goos. I tap into this
- 2:17:36grace called favor, this grace card, Favor this grace card, favor,
- 2:17:45favor with God, favor with men, favor with God, favor
- 2:17:51with men, saval with systems, feval with structures. Sever We
- 2:17:58can't keep us.
- 2:18:05Speaker 10: Cut up, cupp cut track, cutupp, pass, got track, curt tura, catta,
- 2:18:13praet taps, got cronsts, cut track, crosscot baa.
- 2:18:18Speaker 1: Baa, pray, pray, hallelujah, listen. I just feel stared in
- 2:18:32my heart to give us one prayer point every spirit
- 2:18:36sponsor in any closed door because of my carelessness in
- 2:18:41complying with these principles. First I obtain messy, and then
- 2:18:45number two eyes cut that door it most open for me.
- 2:18:49Every spirit that closes the door leading to the next
- 2:18:53level of my Christian experience, are your ten messy, messy
- 2:18:58for this honor, messy for being lived, your pro messy
- 2:19:06for not understanding relationships, messy for not being prayer for,
- 2:19:11and messy for rechecking this importation. But then I come
- 2:19:16and a very devil lift your hands. It's time for
- 2:19:20the door of my pertinity to be open. Hallelujah, hallelujah.
- 2:19:39Please look at me. Listen. The law of importation demands
- 2:19:47that number one, you must believe in God, who is
- 2:19:51the source of all things. Number two, you must believe
- 2:19:55in the vessel that he's using. Remember when there was
- 2:19:59a problem with oil, the instruction was go to them
- 2:20:04that sell and buy it. Now you know how you
- 2:20:09buy it. Buy it with honor, buy it with value,
- 2:20:14buy it with relationships. I just gave you currencies. Buy
- 2:20:20it with honor, buy it with value, by it with relationships,
- 2:20:28buy it to prayer. Go to them that sell and buy.
- 2:20:36Our doors closing over your destiny. Then you need favor.
- 2:20:40Go to them that sell and buy. It's your business crashing,
- 2:20:44your financial life, crashing, affecting your spiritual life. You used
- 2:20:49to have time for God, time for prayer, time for worship,
- 2:20:53to give to the house of God. Right now, you
- 2:20:55who was on fire, you've gone down spiritually because of
- 2:20:59looking for tan bread. Go to them that sell and buy.
- 2:21:11Speaker 11: Who is this King of glovery, the Lord strong and mighty,
- 2:21:17the Lord mighty in battle armed?
- 2:21:24Speaker 4: Who is this King of Glovery? The Lord, Strong and
- 2:21:29mighty Lord, for that is the power and the glovery
- 2:21:43for Ampha armed.
- 2:21:52Speaker 1: The power and the glovery. Armed.
- 2:22:02Speaker 9: Armen, Armen, Armen, Armen to.
- 2:22:14Speaker 1: Your lifting and your rising, armen, Armed to the change
- 2:22:21of season. You don't have to kneel, but I want
- 2:22:33to pray for you. It as such as I have
- 2:22:38give I onto you. Listen. I don't stand by any
- 2:22:42human sense of bragging to claim there is nothing we
- 2:22:46have that has not been given by God. But I
- 2:22:49will be lying, and God will judge me if I
- 2:22:53tell you, by the privilege of God's grace, we have
- 2:22:56not obtained disgrace. Also, it's been difficult for believers. Listen,
- 2:23:02every time God sends a grace and a word to Jacob,
- 2:23:06it is because of Israel. There are things you cannot
- 2:23:09do in your life until this mantal is upon you.
- 2:23:13There are doors you can do end time ministry. Without
- 2:23:17the favor of God, you will compromise beyond your imagination.
- 2:23:23The key to integrity is not only character, It is
- 2:23:27favor access to the hearts of men. Many of you
- 2:23:31will marvel at the things that happen to you. I'm
- 2:23:33telling you that a door that for ten years have
- 2:23:36refused to open. You carry this esther anointing if Esther
- 2:23:41has a village girl with one encounter with this oil. Oh,
- 2:23:47it changed my life. I'm impected to God forever. Some
- 2:23:59of you are crying. Think of your children right now
- 2:24:02you're about to receive an invitation. Think of mama at home.
- 2:24:09Ten years from now at ten years to your age,
- 2:24:12twenty years from now at twenty years to your age.
- 2:24:15No achievement, no nothing. I don't want you to feel bad,
- 2:24:20but it's time to get serious. There is a system
- 2:24:23of advantage you have not tapped into. A few minutes
- 2:24:34and we're done those following online, following from whatever nation.
- 2:24:39God is giving you another opportunity again as Zaria family. Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir.
- 2:24:56I know it works. Brothers and sisters, I know.
- 2:25:02Speaker 7: I know.
- 2:25:04Speaker 1: There is disgrase. Mama. You may be old in age,
- 2:25:09but disgrace still works. Apostle. I didn't have the opportunity
- 2:25:13to go to school. Find comfort, favor walks, Apostle. I'm
- 2:25:19tired people keep disappointing me politically, in business. Fine comfort.
- 2:25:26I come from a village. It's difficult to even see
- 2:25:28the map. Find comfort favor is not a license for laziness.
- 2:25:33That's why I told you. It's not just on merited access.
- 2:25:36It is divine help. God and men in partnership holding
- 2:25:40your hands to lift you. Please pray one more minute.
- 2:25:45You're about to receive this importation. Lord, you took my
- 2:26:05pain away, and then you gave me joy. You're my peace,
- 2:26:10my melody in the center of the storm. You gave
- 2:26:16me a brand newson to sing to you. That's why
- 2:26:22I will leave her my voice and sing.
- 2:26:31Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, You've taken the pain and the sorrow away.
- 2:26:45Speaker 1: You've given me.
- 2:26:46Speaker 4: Peece sunding nigh up. There's no need to cry because
- 2:26:53you're always with me. You're my father, my heaver reathing hey.
- 2:27:04Speaker 1: La baratos Calebradida. Now, in the name of Jesus, who
- 2:27:14is the Son of the Living God, I stand by
- 2:27:18this apostolic and prophetic office by the privilege of the
- 2:27:21election of Greece, and I stretch my hands first over
- 2:27:26you here in Abuja, a family in Zaria. Those following
- 2:27:32from around the globe, from America to Europe, to Asia,
- 2:27:38the Caribbeans, as many as a following and will follow
- 2:27:45in the name of Jesus the one who has shown
- 2:27:47us messy. I decree and declare right now, receive ye
- 2:27:52this grace called favor. Receive ye this grace called favorskatapacat
- 2:28:03cos kiata. I place this mantle upon your life. Pack
- 2:28:07this grace now in the name of Jesus Christ. In
- 2:28:11the name of Jesus Christ. In the morning, experience favor
- 2:28:17in the afternoon, Experience favor in the night, Experience favor
- 2:28:24in Nigeria, experience favor in America, experience favor in Europe,
- 2:28:31experience favor. Every door that needs favor to be opened,
- 2:28:44I declare a favor. Open that door now, hear me.
- 2:28:50Every strategic relationship you have lost through carelessness and lack
- 2:28:55of discernment. I call on my God, who is also
- 2:28:58your God. Let you be a supern tria reconnection. Now
- 2:29:13every door that dishonor has shot, that was once opened
- 2:29:19and dishonor shot it by the messy of the God
- 2:29:23of David. We reopened that door now and in the
- 2:29:37name of Jesus. Many of you are gifted, but the
- 2:29:42favor to announce you is not there. You are so gifted.
- 2:29:47Give that to a point that is, institutions that should
- 2:29:50be patronizing your gift in the name of Jesus, by
- 2:29:56the pakata and laparos yes yata. In the name of
- 2:30:03Jesus Christ, I give your gift visibility. Now by this gift,
- 2:30:12let those who have the capacity to both this sun
- 2:30:15and reward you. May they find you. In the name
- 2:30:18of Jesus year me in this new season of your life.
- 2:30:28Every relationship you need to connect with, some of you
- 2:30:32may not know them, international relationships, ministerial relationships. I declare,
- 2:30:39may that connection happen for you now, everyone anointed commission
- 2:30:50and or then to find you and hold your hand
- 2:30:54in this season. Wherever they are, I stand by the
- 2:30:57prophetic I call them into your life. Now, Yemmi, I
- 2:31:08stand under the corporate grace of the Fathers of faith
- 2:31:12who have transferred this grace is to us. And under
- 2:31:16this corporate annoyting, I declare in the name of Jesus,
- 2:31:19as a contribution of this supply to the body of Christ,
- 2:31:22find the grace for favor. By disgrace, shame, reproach. Hear
- 2:31:36you the word of the Lord. Let God's people go
- 2:31:38now hear me by disgrace upon you, whoeather has forgotten you,
- 2:31:49No matter how long. In the name of Jesus, by favor,
- 2:31:53may the book of remembrance be opened over you. Now,
- 2:32:03even Pharaoh, who hated Israel with passion, was the one
- 2:32:09who ended up giving them gold and everything they used
- 2:32:12to build a tabernacle in the wilderness. Can I tell
- 2:32:14you this, when favor comes upon you, it's not only
- 2:32:18friends that bless you. Anybody directed by God. I pray
- 2:32:23for you whoever must bring forth their credibility, their time,
- 2:32:30their resources, their endorsement to shift you to the next level.
- 2:32:35I call them fought by prophecy. Now now I'm praying
- 2:32:44for the body of Christ. But now let me pray
- 2:32:48for the cononial global family. You belong to a family
- 2:32:52that is mysteriously favored of God. I pray for you,
- 2:32:56in the name of Jesus, out of the abundance by
- 2:32:59reason of this prophetic connection, step into superior realms of favor.
- 2:33:14By this favor, may your life be a fearful wonder
- 2:33:18first to you and then to have three one around you.
- 2:33:24In the name of Jesus Christ, please listen walk conscious this.
- 2:33:30I want to encourage everyone. Please please just listen to
- 2:33:35the following instructions. Number one, please and show at least
- 2:33:40three or four people listen to this message. Let it
- 2:33:44be your gift forget about buying recharge card or whatever.
- 2:33:48Look for at least three people, maybe your family members,
- 2:33:51maybe your husband, maybe a direct or. So you've been
- 2:33:54giving people money. Thank God for that. You can go
- 2:33:57to I think it should be on our YouTube page.
- 2:33:59Go there after this service. Personally, I'm going to listen
- 2:34:03to this message this night. Again, this is not a
- 2:34:06message to say I have heard go and set too down.
- 2:34:10Like a student in the school of the Spirit. Listen
- 2:34:12to those points and pray. Remember every day, you're doing
- 2:34:16it at your discretion. It's not like we're doing it
- 2:34:18as a ministry. Pray every night. Lord open doors of favor,
- 2:34:23and you watch what the power of God will do
- 2:34:26in your life. But please listen to me from this
- 2:34:30week and for all the other weeks. Don't come alone. Well,
- 2:34:33if there is no space, if you have to sit
- 2:34:35on the roof, sit on the roof. Invite your friends
- 2:34:38and your family. This is not just coming for service.
- 2:34:43There are graces. There are truths that I'm going to
- 2:34:45be sharing by the spirit, and I'm telling you at
- 2:34:48the end of this you will stand in awe. The
- 2:34:52only thing you will be left with is tears and praise,
- 2:34:55because when you see the way your life will move,
- 2:34:58your company or ministry, whatever it is, let me make
- 2:35:04the other call. Jesus is the foundation for not only favor,
- 2:35:10but salvation. Please let's minimize movement. We just talt on honor.
- 2:35:15There are people in this auditorium. There are people seated
- 2:35:19around the balcony, all the overflows outside, there are those
- 2:35:23following from different nations. Zaria. You're saying, apostle, I need Jesus.
- 2:35:30That is the bottom line. No cajoling, no manipulation. I
- 2:35:36need Jesus, or you are saying apostle. Right now, I
- 2:35:40need to reconnect. Remember we spoke about relationships. The first
- 2:35:43relationship you need is Jesus. Wherever you are, we have
- 2:35:47just one minute for you. Please, I like you to
- 2:35:50leave your seat. You're saying a perscel. I want you
- 2:35:52to please pray for me. I don't want to return
- 2:35:55home the way I came. Wherever you are, please leave
- 2:35:58your seat, come and stand. Those from outside I like
- 2:36:01you to come join them quickly. I want to pray
- 2:36:03for you by myself. God bless you. Please come, Please come,
- 2:36:07don't be ashamed. Come. Don't wait for someone to be
- 2:36:10the first. You are the first.
- 2:36:11Speaker 7: Come.
- 2:36:13Speaker 1: Come, Come, just.
- 2:36:17Speaker 4: Breath your name upon me. Breathe, Just breath your name
- 2:36:24upon me. Breathe, keep coming. Come to Jesus.
- 2:36:29Speaker 1: Yard, Hey, hey, your name, breath Lord, Please keep standing. Stand.
- 2:36:33You don't have to kneel. Just breath your name upon me. Breath. Come,
- 2:36:42just breathe your name upon me. Preath.
- 2:36:46Speaker 12: He can give you a new beginning tonight. Yard, Hey, Hey,
- 2:36:58your name.
- 2:37:09Speaker 1: If you're still joining them, please join them. If you
- 2:37:12join them later and you don't pray the prayer, you
- 2:37:14will have to pray all the other flows. Come stand, come, please, come,
- 2:37:25run to Jesus. I'm chasing enough to you, no matter
- 2:37:32what I have to do, because I need you more
- 2:37:39and more. I'm chasing enoughter you, no matter what I
- 2:37:48have to do and need do more. And I salute
- 2:37:58every one of you, young and old alike. Standing. Some
- 2:38:01of you are crying. Don't be ashamed of your tears.
- 2:38:04Jesus is here. That's why you came to church. Please
- 2:38:07lift your right hand. All your overflows do same, Zariah Us, Canada, UK,
- 2:38:16everywhere you're making this decision. Lift your right hand there
- 2:38:21in your room, your office wherever. I like you to
- 2:38:24say this prayer after me, as loud and as clear
- 2:38:27as you can. Say. Lord Jesus, Tonight I have heard
- 2:38:32your word. I believe that you are the Son of God.
- 2:38:37I believe that you died for me. I believe that
- 2:38:43you rose again for my justification. Tonight I receive eternal
- 2:38:50life into my spirit. I receive the abundance of grace
- 2:38:57and the gift of righteousness. I declare that I reign
- 2:39:02in life. The power of sin, satan, hell, and the
- 2:39:08grave is broken over my life. I leave a victorious
- 2:39:13Christian life. From today and forever. I am a child
- 2:39:18of God. I belong to the family of God. Amen.
- 2:39:22Keep your hands lifted Father with thank you for this
- 2:39:24one is always a delight when we have many come
- 2:39:28to Jesus. I declare that the authority of Scripture, that
- 2:39:31your sins are forgiving, and you are partakers of the
- 2:39:34life of God. In the name of Jesus Christ. I
- 2:39:38commend you to the ministry of the world, and I
- 2:39:40commend you to the ministry of the Spirit, that you'll
- 2:39:43be established and grounded in righteousness, and that you will
- 2:39:46live your life loving Jesus, living victoriously and serving the
- 2:39:50purposes of the kingdom. I declare every power that is
- 2:39:54not of God, let it be broken over your life,
- 2:39:57in the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of
- 2:40:00Jesus Christ, my friend, look at me, tap this gentleman
- 2:40:03for me, the one whose hand is shaken, Look at me.
- 2:40:06I cost that spirit out of him. Now help him.
- 2:40:10In the name of Jesus Christ. I declare that from
- 2:40:13today you are saved. You are children of light, sons
- 2:40:18and daughters of the Living God. In the name of
- 2:40:21Jesus Christ. Hold that Mama for me. I command this spirit.
- 2:40:24I'm seeing like a serpent. Let her go. You had
- 2:40:27her declaration. Let her go now the name of Jesus Christ.
- 2:40:35Salvation is a real experience, is a real miracle. The
- 2:40:39Lord bless you, every one of you. The Lord increase
- 2:40:42you now very quickly. Please open your eyes. Amen, We're
- 2:40:44done praying. There's a gentleman waving the placard the counselor
- 2:40:48Please all of you in concert, just move to my right,
- 2:40:50which is your left. Move whatever direction you see the placard.
- 2:40:56There will be a group of people Zaria same thing,
- 2:40:59and all the centers available in the name of Jesus.
- 2:41:03Let's celebrate them as they go. Hallelujah, praise the name
- 2:41:08of the Lord. Again. Let me remind you, please do
- 2:41:11not come alone next week. Come with your heart open,
- 2:41:14come ready to receive. Please rise up as we close
- 2:41:17the service. Thank you for your patience. The Lord bless you,
- 2:41:20The Lord, honor you, The Lord bless you. I declare
- 2:41:22that your week beginning is a week of excellence. It's
- 2:41:26a week of victory. Your passion for God remains on fire.
- 2:41:30Your passion for the Word remains on fire. Your passion
- 2:41:34for prayer remains on fire. The Lord will grant you
- 2:41:38grace to experience favor all through this week in the
- 2:41:41name of Jesus Christ. Amen and amen. Less youre the grace,
- 2:41:45the grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the love of God,
- 2:41:48the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Let it rest
- 2:41:51on a bird with us non forevermore. Amen, God bless you.
- 2:41:54See you next week.