Transcript: 3 Pillars of Destiny Manifestation
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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. Telling us no matter how long it takes for us to get it, that you were not created for you to be average. You were not born to blend in. You were born to stand out. You were not born to be a part of the masses. You were born to be unique in destiny. You were born to reign in destiny. You're not saved to struggle through life. You were redeemed for dominion.
And I will not tire to tell you this. That from the foundations of the earth, God had greatness in mind when he thought about you. He didn't just save you from sin, he saved you into destiny. In Ephesians chapter two and verse 10, the bible says, for we are his workmanship. We are created in Jesus, in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. You see, God prepared beforehand. There are good works already prepared for you. Platforms you did not build, but will stand on. Doors you did not create but you are meant to walk through. Opportunities crafted for your name.
The question is, will you rise to meet what has been prepared? That's the question. Will you rise to meet what has already been prepared? Every time that God raises a man, every time that God meets a man, he raises him for a purpose. When God visits a man, one of the things he does in that visitation is to make him bigger than the version of him that he met. God never meets a man and the man remains as God met him. Gideon can be somewhere behind his mother's kitchen grinding cassava, threshing wheat, washing plates when his destiny is to set nations free. But as soon as the angel of God meets him, he moves from washing plates and grinding cassava as noble as that is, he sounds a call, sounds a trumpet, blows a trumpet, and the city gathers to him at the sound of his trumpet. That is largeness. That is what happens when God meets with men.
And I see that same trumpet in somebody's mouth, In the mouth of some people here. That as you are blowing it after this meeting, the city is responding to you. The same way that the city responded to get you. I believe so strongly that there is a divine agenda on your head. I believe it's so strongly. Whether you feel it or you don't feel it, whether you understand it yet or not, you carry a destiny that is bigger than your background. Your beginning may be small. Your beginning may be local even, but your impact is meant to be global. But I've observed very sadly that met many people with this same kind of destiny never rise. Why?
Because knowing that you are called is one thing. Becoming what you are called to be is another thing entirely. It is a dangerous thing to carry a strong prophecy and yet have a weak process. It is heartbreaking to see people who who who once had fire, who once had vision, who once had prophecy over their lives, now wasting away in mediocrity. They once saw themselves on stages, world stages, global stages. They once saw themselves in government. They once saw themselves in wealth. They once saw themselves in influence. But because they did not understand the demands of destiny, they settled for survival. May you not settle?
Do you know that in their forties, in their forties, 35, forties, 45, fifties, most people are living lives that is contrary to what they imagined. Most people. 80% of people find out that in their forties to fifties, the life that they find themselves living is completely different to what they had imagined that they would live. Completely different to what they had imagined or what they had seen about themselves. This is usually what causes these people to be bitter and angry many a times. And they try to pass out that aggression to other people who might not have been involved in their calamity. In Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse seven, the bible says, I have seen servants upon horses And those who were born to be kings, bible calls them princes. I have seen them walking as servants upon the earth. This is a spiritual anomaly. This is an error, a generational anomaly.
And in the name of Jesus, you will not be a victim of this error. That there are those with great destinies over their lives, those with massive prophecies over their lives, those with promises hanging over them. But the bible says I saw princes walking as servants. Princes working as servants. Those who have inherited the life of Christ. Those who are believers. Those who have the righteousness. Those who have been made righteous. Who have become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. The bible says I see princes working as servants.
What I intend to show you very fast before we pray are the three prophetic pillars that separate men who dream from men who manifest. Because there... It is possible to live in a realm where all that you have and all that you know are the dreams that are in your mind, the things that God is showing on to you. It's possible to live in a realm Glory to God. I said that there are those who dream and all that they do is dream. Just dream. Just dream. And that which they dream and that which they see, the visions that they see never actually find fruition. But there is a way to ensure that whatever it is that has been promised, or let me say, whatever it is that have been destined for a life, that life comes into the experience of it. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. These three things I'm about to show you now must be your experience. It is a process, and you must pass through that process. Number one is believe in the promise. What did I say? Believe in the promise. Believe that there is a promise of greatness over your life. Believe that there is a promise of what now? Greatness over your life. Your life.
Believe. Every man in Christ is not ordinary. Understand that when God saved you, he didn't just pull you out of sin. He planted you into purpose. Your salvation came with a covenant package, and one of the most central blessing of that package is greatness. Jeremiah chapter nine verse 11, the bible says, for I know the thoughts that I think towards you, said the lord. Thoughts of peace and not of evil. To give you an expected hand. KJV says to give you... Sorry.
NKJV says to give you a future and a hope. NKJV then says to give you an expected end. An expected end. God has an end that he expects for the believer. And we are not left to guess what is at this end. No. The bible reveals over and over again what is at this end. We are not put in doubt. We are not put in confusion as to the reality of what is at the end. Job chapter eight and verse seven.
Can we read to get a picture of what is at that end? One, two, three. Go. So when the bible said that there's an end that God is expecting, what is at that end? What is God expecting of the life of the believer? You have... You almost missed out the great at the back of it. To say increase would mean to water it down. It means God is expecting greatness and increase. It's not just increase.
It is great increase. In other words, God is expecting that you become great and that your life increases. This is what is at your end, and the bible says God is anticipating that end himself in time because he he designed and crafted that end before he made you in time. I've taught you this. Yes, sir. Before he made you in time. Your life in time is not the beginning of your life. God has already summed up what your life would be, and then God revealed to us the blueprint of that life. You see, the reason why I love scripture so much is that that blueprint is exactly how the architect reveals the blueprint of a house he wants to construct when as yet that building has not manifested. But when you look at the blueprint, you can see the end of that building drawn, written, step by step process.
You can see everything. You can even give it to a three d renderer that will render it for you, and you would see everything. You'll be able to walk in the building, see the roofs, see the offices as though you're experiencing the real thing. Is that not so? Yes, sir. If you now step it, if you now take that same thing and put it into virtual reality, you can even experience it real time. When as yet the thing does not exist physically. And God has so much done it that you can look at scriptures, not at... Know us. What the architect is doing, what the developer is doing is giving you a mental picture of what this thing will become.
The moment we start this process, this is the hand we are waiting to see. That is exactly what scripture does. God uses scripture to paint a picture of your hand so that by the time you look at scripture, you have a very vivid idea of what God wants to make your life into. The imagination being the VR experience because it's as far as your eyes can see. I hope you understand what I'm saying. This is a picture here that though thy beginning was small, there is increase and greatness ordained for you as a believer. I will never be tired of telling you that God has predestined you for greatness. There's a seed of greatness on your inside. You should listen to my teaching, the seed of greatness part one and two. You really should listen to it.
The seed of greatness part one and two. Listen to it. The promises of God are not just religious poetry. The promises of God are the revelation of his blueprint for the believer. It is God saying like the architect, this is what this life will become, and God stakes his integrity on it. The promises of God are legal guarantees sealed by the blood of Jesus. You are not hustling your way into destiny. You are walking into what is already written. The believer therefore is not an hustler. The believer lives from the end of things.
You are living your life from the perspective of what has been written. You start your life from the end. I've taught you this. Get my teaching for this course was I born. That your life does not begin from where you you see it as. Your life begins from end of things. And believers must be able to know that the script we are playing out is a script that is already done, finalized. Jesus says, for this end was I born. There is already an end defined. It is that end that your life begins from.
The believer therefore is not a poor man that is going to be rich. The believer is a rich man entering into the experience of his wealth in time. That's... Do you understand the perspective now? So when as yet I have no money in my account, I did not see myself as a poor man. That is society's definition. To define your life as that is to mean that you are conformed to this world. It means you see like them. You picture like them. Because how else would you read scripture and you would find a man called Joseph?
And the bible would call him a prosperous man even when he's being sold into slavery. The bible is the only advantage he had was that God was with him. That's the only thing he had. That's to tell you that believers don't live... In other words, when... Even though he is... He wasn't the prime minister, he was living from from that realm. He was beginning his life from that realm. That from the beginning of his life, the promises of God were the only things that he had, sun, moon, bowing to him. And he was so sure that even when he was told that he should not dream again, he went and dreamed bigger.
Those were the only things available to him. He had a coat of many colors he would wear he would wear all around. To you, you would think it's just a cloth. To him, it's a prophecy of his future. A white every single place. He knows that a time is coming that my life will be decorated in many colors like this. And because of how he carried himself, even though he was not yet a prime minister, even though nothing was barren to him yet, he might not even have had cattles that was talk less of his cattles, eating any other cattle. But he carried himself like that from the end that he was seeing. You see, he was living in time from an end. That end is the promise.
That is what the promise of God comes to do. It provides the end from whence you live. From whence we live. So the bible will call him a prosperous man. Some Vatican would call him a successful man for God was with him. And every process, everywhere he was, the bible says he was successful. While he was in Potiphas, how successful? Prosperous. While he was in the prison, successful. Prosperous.
And the only advantage wasn't the cars he owned, wasn't the houses he owned. I mean, what does a slave really own? What does a prisoner really own? In fact, it's what you would call from five pound to fire. You go from slavery to prison. As a slave, you still have some level of freedom around the particular jurisdiction. As a prisoner, you do not. It was as though the situation literally got worse. But the man still held on to the promise. This is why he said, the first pillar of destiny manifestation is to understand that there is a promise over your life.
And the first pillar is that you have to believe in that promise. That is the first pillar. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? Believe in that promise. Believe in that promise. It's going to do just what it says. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen.
Your life right now should never be what makes you feel as though there is hope for you or there is no hope for you. Yes, sir. Do you understand what trying to say? Yes, sir. The part of that song that I like is it's going to fulfill every promise. Every promise to you right Right? Okay. Don't give up hunger because he won't give up on you. He said Pause. Believe in the promise.
Believe in the promise. Believe that I should not be poor. Then believe that I cannot be poor. Believe that you should not struggle through life. Believe you should not be small. You should be the head and not the tail. Above only and not beneath. Believe that your business should be the talk of town. You should rise to the peak of your career. You should be the best in your field.
Your life is a glorious life. This is how the believer see themself. The only thing that made Joseph's life looked like the promise was the coat of many colors. And when as yet he had it, there were no leadership position. He was just he was a small boy, but he had a coat of many colors. And as long as he had that coat of many colors, his life had a semblance of the pictures that he had seen. So the first thing that the brothers did was to remove that cloth. In other words, they stripped him to a point where in time, nothing no longer resembles the promise. Even the cloth that was the encouragement that this thing will happen had been torn away. You're not getting what I'm saying.
That there are times that even the small compensations here and there. You're not getting what I'm saying. That makes you look as though I I still have a job. Thank God. At least I'm the HOD of this department. Thank God. And it looks as though that is actually potential God has been speaking to me about. And then you are given a quote of many colors. There are times that the devil will come and tear that quote from you. To strip you to a point where you become naked.
That is when you have attached your value solely to the coat, and you have measured your life by the colors on the coat. The place that the believer must step into is where he believes in the promise regardless of physical manifestation. That's where you have to step into. That's where even when the quote is absent, even when the quote is absent, you are still smiling as a slave. You are still rejoicing as a slave. Believe. Believe in the promise. When I read through scripture, I see what has been written about my life and I believe it. I don't know about you, but I believe in the word of God. I believe in the word of God.
I can stick my life on God's word. I can stick my life on God's word. I heard a man of God say some time ago, he said, even on his dying bed, if he's told that he has cancer tomorrow, and he's told that he has three more days to live on his dying bed while every doctor is there, what you would hear him chanting is by his stripes, I am healed. By his stripes, I am healed. He said if I would die, I would die chanting. By his stripes, I am healed. That thing, it it rattled my ideology. It it it rattled it. Because I couldn't I couldn't imagine how would you claim to believe it and it had not gotten you out of that sick bed. You're getting what I'm saying?
Shouldn't you shouldn't you shouldn't you throw it away I'm doable with it and say, you know what? Anything that works now. That's the meaning of I can stick my life on God's word. I've gotten to a point in my life where the promises is the only guarantee I have in life. That's where the boast that we make in the Lord comes from. It comes from the past, the only guarantee. There's someone that your coat of many colors is the uncle you have in high places. And you think that... See, if the... As long as this man is here, I won't struggle as many people will struggle.
Moment I leave the university, I can easily get a job in this place. All I need to do is apply. If that is what you attach your relevance and your confidence to, it means the devil can strip you off, and he can strip you very easily. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? I was praying earlier this morning. I I I was just in deep contemplation. I was in deep contemplation. And as I was contemplating, I just... It... It's just little tears just came...
Started flowing out of my eyes because I was just grateful to God because I was considering some of the testimonies that I've been receiving, lots of them actually. You wouldn't believe, lots of them. While we are still meditating on one, then the next one comes, then the next one comes. And I said at the beginning of the year that it's a year of divine positioning and that people are going to be divinely positioned into different structures of influence and all that. And it's amazing to me how I'm seeing that play out. When as yet at the beginning of the year, these same people did not look as though anything of such can happen in their lives. That's where the testimony carries weight. When you look at someone and you say it's not as though this person knew anybody where they have found themselves. Are you with me? Yes, sir.
And by his divine providence, doors tearing open left, right, and centers, tearing open. There's nothing the devil can do about it. Absolutely nothing. As a matter of fact, that is why I'm teaching this today so that it can even be more cosmic. So they can spread even faster. So that a lot more people can jump into the waters. And I would normally say, God is in a hurry to lift somebody. Are you with me? Bible says though your beginning was small. This statement is comforting because it shows that you do not have to have any human advantage for this to be your reality.
Do you sell a car by the roadside? Though your beginning was small? Are you a tailor with one sewing machine that is not even your own? You have to go to another person's house to go and borrow just to ensure that your products are delivered and you don't disappoint your clients. And when you go there sometimes, even the shop... Even the owner of the machine can be using it. You'd have to wait till 7PM when they close and then do all night so that you can sew your own cloth and deliver, though your beginning may be small. It's a comfort for someone like that because you can you can you can you can define your life by that experience or you can see something like this and see though my beginning may be small. In other words, no matter how old I am, this is just my beginning. So someone needs to stop measuring themselves by the years that is going and say, oh, you know, I'm already this age.
It's just your beginning. Because as long as it's still small, it is still the beginning. That's why... That is the reason why I confidently come and tell people we have not begun ministry. That's still sweeping the cave. That's not like... I've not even started the training. I'm still preparing the cave to accommodate enough people. Because I look around, and this is still the beginning. Are you a pastor?
You just sell members, though your beginning may be small. Perhaps you have a tech dream, and you want to launch your career in the tech business and all the all the tool that you have with you is a broken phone. You are watching your YouTube videos on a broken phone I'm practicing from borrowed laptops though your beginning may be small. You come from a humble background. Perhaps you have not gotten the best education. Perhaps might be your business might be making just one sale per week. You might only be seeing one client per month. Or in two months, one client. Though your beginning may be small, God says your little hand should greatly increase. I believe in this.
Isaiah chapter 16 verse 22, the bible says, a little one shall become a thousand. And a small one, a great nation, a strong nation. He says, high the Lord will hasten it in his time. If I am little now, I can rejoice for a little one. This is the promise that you believe in. This is the first pillar of destiny manifestation. You cannot be cruising and be laboring and... When you have no knowledge of where you are going to. Nobody built without a blueprint. You must have the hand in view.
That's where you begin to build from. That's what gives you comfort when you have just laid the foundation because you know it is not on the foundation you lay your bed. Are you getting this thing I'm teaching you? Don't give up on God because he won't give up on you. Sing it again. Psalm 71 verse 21. Bible says, can we read this together everybody? One, two, three, go. Believe in the promise. That means that greatness you see is in levels.
And it doesn't matter what level of greatness you may have seen. There is always more because the bible says you shall increase my... In other words, there is already a dimension of greatness I might have already had. But even that I'm not satisfied. Oh god. There's always more. You must never get to a point where you settle. I know I might have some level of result right now. I might be making some amount of money right now. My business might be turning in $67.08 figures on a monthly basis.
I might be employed in a reputable international establishment or even national establishment. I might have given my first million looking to give my second, I might have, you know, crossed some boundaries, crossed some threshold already. I might be somewhat comfortable in my life right now, but that is not all God can do. That's not all God can do. There's a possibility for greatness to be increased. Don't settle. My ministry might be experiencing some level of breakthrough, but that cannot be all. It says you will increase my greatness. I'm always expecting more. The more you tell me a good news, I'm expecting what else will happen after now.
What's more? What's more? What's what's what's the next thing? What's the next level? Well, apostle, we've signed a contract, and it is over R20,000,000. Then what's next? What's the next one? What's the next phase? What's the next level? What's the next level?
I've supposed to have given I've given I've given... I wanna thank God because in this month, you know, I've given over one millionaire three times. Oh, thank God. What's the next level? What's the next level? One of my guys told me, he said, apostle, I wanna give my first eight figures. I said, awesome. Awesome. But there's testimony in giving several seven figures and then give your first eight figures. I'm not I'm that is fine with it with just one.
We just stay here, and this is what we have accomplished. This is what we have done, and we celebrate that result for, like, three years, and there's no increase of any sort. It says you will increase my greatness. But you're not allowed to be on a spot no matter how good that spot might look for too long. Yes, sir. No matter how good that spot can look, success can be deceitful. Do you realize that success and failure can be enemies of your next level? Yes. Your previous success can fight against your next success. And there are people like this that the last time something great happened in their lives was in 2011.
So they have frames everywhere and the stories they can tell us truth of the past. In as much as I try to balance and read and study revival, study Celtic flames, study God's generals, the book, all the volumes. I've read it, and I try to stay in touch with what God is doing in our generation. The more I do this, the more I find out that it can make your Christian experience still lacking power and lacking glory and lacking miracles, signs, and wonders that can convict and convince your generation. If the only thing you are looking for is the power as of hold. In other words, if you camp around wanting to receive and be a benefactor of the mantle of higher Babalola, amazing as it is, your life will not be much in this generation because the warfares that exist in this time, baba lola did not experience. You will need greater than baba lola to survive in this generation. Yes, sir. Sir. It is just fact.
It is just fact. The anointings that the fathers needed in their dispensation to challenge the warfare of their dispensation will be different from that which we need. Because the many challenges that we face now, they never faced. The amount of utterance you will need to speak into the heart of a young man right now, and your words latch into his heart will be far greater than what Kevlin Kuman used. Because in Kevlin Kuman's time, there were no many sources of where truth can come from and of where people can define truth. So what grace must come upon you that will make your words preferred? You're not getting what I'm saying. That out of the many sources here and there, you gather young people and you speak to them, and your word causes a burning effect in their heart. And even though even in the multitude of voices, they can say this is the one we will listen to. It will be greater than the ones they had.
That's what I'm saying. Yes sir. Yes sir. We would need to start and build from there. But not to think that what they had is what you would need. Do you realize that when Ayobo Bodala was in ministry, the amount of people in Nigeria right now wasn't the amount of people in Nigeria in this time? In other words, the amount of people his anointing could cover. I'm not getting I'm not getting this thing I'm saying. Don't worry. Don't worry.
This is in a in a separate teaching. I have a teaching called unmasking the revival. They will speak about mantles. They will speak about these things and understand exactly what it means. So they will realize that a generation is playing wrong. When we pray and we fast and we declare that this mantle has come, it is so that we can start building from there. Because you must realize that it only becomes brighter and brighter. That is the way God moves. God's system is not that a previous generation becomes better than the next. Every generation should be an upgrade of the previous.
Every. The amount of power and light that we should see in this generation should be superior to what we saw even when we read God's generals. May God give you understanding. Every time I read God's generals, every time, powerful book. I still read it. I still go back to it. I still pray, still reminisce on those stories. Amazing. I still honor those people. Amazing.
Really amazing. Again and again, I I wonder. Again and again, I wonder. Why must they be dead? Why must we write about them after they died? Is it that there are no references who are alive? Now we need to write volumes upon volumes updating what we have written in the first volume because last time we wrote, the person has not done a crusade sitting 10,000,000 people. So at that last year when we published, we published the exploit of what has happened in his ministry for the last ten years. The following year comes, he beats the record of everything we have written in last ten years. You have to now start thinking of how to write the next volume for a man of God who is still alive.
Can that not be because he's enraged? Many of the things, factually speaking, that some of the patriarchs of faith who are still living are doing in this generation. Many of those we read about did not dare it. Yes, sir. I say this with all your military. You can confirm by yourselves, except you're not a student of history. Many of those that we read about and we celebrate did not dare it even in terms of miracles, live miracles, healings, signs, wonders. We shouldn't travel too far when there are still icons that live, that bear the mantle that we are looking for. These people are yet alive. They're not dead.
But we live in a council culture where we are more concerned about the fluency and the oratory of the man of God than the workings of the spirit of God in his life as proven by scriptures. Note what I say, as proven by scriptures. We are quick to cancel. You see, are quick to form hashtags. That's the generation we're living. That's why I said, unfortunately, these people that lived did not have... Did not... They didn't have the same problem. They did not. That fifteen years of building something massive can be on that threat because somebody with 1,000,000 followers added a hashtag.
So when we talk about the last day revival and it being like nothing we have ever seen, I tell you, you don't have any idea what we are talking about. You truly don't. That's why the bible says the glory of the latter house, it must surpass. It must. It it must. It it only has to. This is proven in scriptures because knowledge will increase. It means that there is a need, an increasing need for a man of God in this generation to be intellectual by the anointing. Because Yes. The generation you are speaking to will ask questions.
They are a generation of several questions. It's not like that generation where you can easily silence people in the name of you're a man of God. Just believe. No. No. You will be challenged. And you must sustain the humility to realize that you're being vetted is not a crime. So I said greatness is in levels, and there's a possibility for that greatness to be increased. My ministry might be experiencing some level of breakthrough, I said, but that can't be all. For you will increase my greatness.
Comfort me on every side. I believe in the promise. Second Peter chapter one verse four. In the New King James version, the Bible says, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises. By which has been given to us what now? Exceedingly great and precious promises that through this, you may be partakers of the divine nature. I taught you before that what the bible is saying is that how we partake of the divine nature. In other words, how we step into dimensions of results only possible in the divine order. Only possible except a man is backed by God. Only possible except a man has God.
Remember that Pharisee who came to Jesus and told Jesus that no man can do these signs except God be with him. In other words, there are things you cannot do except God is with you. And men that don't even believe in that God can know. That this result defies human thinking. This result defies human understanding. If you want to live a life of results and exploits that defies human understanding, that is what Paul is talking... Peter is talking about. He says that we might partake of that divine nature and begin to experience realities that are of the divine. How do we do so? He says, we have been given exceedingly great and precious promises that through this promises.
In other words, how you come into that experience is that you must believe in the promises that God has given. You must believe in it. And the foundation of our belief I've taught you is who spoke. Understand that it's not a man that spoke. It's not a man that spoke. It is God. Before you hold him accountable, verify his ability. Verify his faithfulness. It is these two things that make us hang our lives on his promise. The fact that he is faithful and the fact that he is able.
His faithful means he will not turn back on his word. He's able means he can do that word. These are the two basics. These are the two premise upon which a man can stick his life on it. That if God has said this, he's faithful. God is what? Faithful. Faithful. God is able, and God is faithful. God is faithful, and God is able.
Say it with me again. Say God is faithful. Say God is able. God God is able. Yes. Do you believe it? Yes, I believe it. I believe it. Oh, I believe it. If a friend of yours tells you that there is money waiting for you as you are gate, you would only believe him to the extent to which he can do it.
What you will check is not whether what he's saying is true or is not true. The first thing you are looking at is who is the person that is speaking. That amount of money that you say is waiting for me that you have given somebody to give me. The question is, do you have it? You're not getting this. So you're telling me that go to your gate. No. No. No. No.
No. One guy did here. I don't tell them to give 1,000,000. If you fall for that, that will be the most stupid April fools prank because you did not consider who said it. Because the guy who said it, seller. That's why all through scriptures, there are multitude of scriptures that paint the picture of the mightiness and the majesty of God. The bible says that the silver and the gold are his. That's the one that said, I will bless you. Are you seeing the foundation from whence we hold on to what he has said? Because what he wants to bless you with belongs to him.
You're not getting what I'm saying. It's his own. The Bible says the earth is the Lord's. So when he says, ask of me, and I will give you the nations. It is his own to give. The Bible says the earth is the Lord's. The Bible calls him the balm of Gilead. The bible calls him the almighty, and the bible goes as fast to describe the extent of his might. The bible says Jericho saw him. The bible did not say Jericho saw them.
There was someone that was with them when Jericho casted its gaze at them, and he saw this mighty band standing in the midst of the people. The bible said the sea saw and fled. He has numerous ways he can bring his word to pass. He's not limited to your mind and your mentality. Your mind will try to conscript his ways. It says my ways are higher than yours. Where I can program your breakthrough through, you can't even begin to imagine it. So why would you think that something is a disadvantage when as yet in my realm, I don't even see what you are what you are seeing as a disadvantage. It has not even risen to a pedestal where it can cross my vision. That's the one to whom we believe.
That's the reason why we believe it. Because he uphold his word more than his name even. The Bible says he upholds this word by the integrity of his word. In other words, the day his word fails is the day the earth will collapse. Because what he uses to uphold the earth is his word. That's the reason why we can bank on it. That's the reason why you can bank on it. It is this word that a man can take to the bank. It remains reliable. It remains consistent.
It remains powerful. Our destiny begins is that you have to believe in that promise. Believe in it. If you don't know it, you can't even believe. That is how we study scriptures. When we study scriptures, we see again and again the promises of God over our lives revealed. Suddenly it will stand out to you. It will latch upon your heart. I told you that the reason why Peter walked on water, there is intelligence in the question that Peter asked too. He says, if it be thou.
In other words, I wouldn't dare this thing if he's any other person. The only reason why I would... I'm not a fool. I don't wanna die. Remember that it's the same Peter who knew his identity when he asked, who do you say that I am? He says you are the Christ, the son of the living God, so Peter knew who he was. And that is the reason why he said if it is you, oh God, there is something that I know about you that already stabilizes my faith in you. There's an anchor my faith rests upon. There's a knowledge of you that I have, but we've never paid attention to Peter's statement. He says, if it be you.
The question is what does Peter know about him that would make him say if it be you? Not if it be Andrew, not if it be any other person. If it is you, then you say it. Be it me. Come. And then Jesus told him, come. And he plunges into the waters. And to prove that it is truly him, Peter begins to walk on water. In other words, the only thing that a man really needs is who is the person that spoke. Is it God?
Can we verify that it is God who spoke? Can we verify that it is God who sent you? Because as long as he's the one, there's business to hold on to it. There's business to trust on it. Yes. Yes. Yes. And until the story changes, are you on holding on? Yes. Until I see my life become the picture of that which you have said, you keep on holding on.
Thing is not the one where you hold on and you stop holding on. It is the type where you believe and keep on believing. Where you say I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded. I've gone past the point of even knowing. I've gotten to a point of persuasion. I am now persuaded. Oh god. Oh god. I know whom I have believed. I know whom I have believed.
I know whom I have believed. Are you seeing the process? That's why many a times God want to reveal himself to you. There are times that God want to show you that I am your provider. There are times God want to show you I am your helper. There's a reason why I'm hell. It's not enough to know him by what you have read in scriptures. I want to bring you into that experience. And the reason why I want to bring you into that experience is because there is something I will tell you. That the only reason why you'll be able to hold on to it is because you know who has spoken to you.
So the first thing I will do is not to even give you a promise. It's to show you who I am. You make my life beautiful. Rose of shine. As you are, you have made me. The more you meditate on who he is, the more your trust on what he says is solidified. Perhaps the reason why you have so much trouble believing what he has said is because you don't know who said it. Sometimes you have to meditate on his mightiness. Sometimes you have to read scriptures that testify of his awesome wonders, that testify of his works so that your faith can be firmly rooted. Else you will shake, else you will stumble, else you will be feeble.
There will be no foundation for whence your faith will lie. You'll try to believe, but your believing will be shaken. You don't understand why you are doubting. You want to believe, but you're still doubting. It is because the knowledge of whom that spoke is not yet revealed to you. At times when I sing songs like this, when it comes come from me, come to me in the spiritual, I noticed very carefully what God is trying to communicate to me in those songs. And I realized it is because he wants me to come into an experience of that knowledge even more. Even more. Even more. Amen.
You know I can stay on this subject for just three days and keep on talking. I can stay on this subject alone. It's so deep, so deep, yet so misunderstood by many. And a lot of believers are struggling struggling to understand why the Christian experience doesn't bear result, and they don't know that there are protocols that surround manifestation. There are gaps in our understanding. And as long as the gaps remain, we'll realize that we would not be able to put a a claim, or should I say, experience in reality the things that we claim. Yes. In Deuteronomy, does the bible not say in chapter 28 verse 13, the lord will make you the head and not the tail. Watch this. When you read this, don't just focus on...
You know, we have... We've even made it, I will be the head and wanna tell you how we read that scripture. It doesn't say I will be the head. It says the Lord will make you. The first revelation there is who is making you. Because you might think that you are doing it in your own power. You might think that you are doing it in your own strength. Jesus, high. The Lord will make you the head and not the tail. Yes.
Look at the story of Joseph that we were studying. I told you that this guy had a promise that he believed in, and the same equation follows because the reason why he could hold on to that promise despite his fiery trials is because he knew who promised it. He knew who said it. There was no pastor in his time. There was no teacher in his time, but there are experiences God has taken him through that solidify the reality of God to him. It might have come through his father or through his grandfather. But at some point or the other, God had revealed himself so strongly to Joseph. And when God started painting these pictures to Joseph in a dream, he had had so much experience with God that he could hold on to what God had said. How do I know this? Because when Potiphar's wife came to him and wanted to sleep with...
And do all kind of things, a human being would have thought, my goodness, I'm a slave. If I gain favor with Oga's wife, it will be several promotions for him because Oga's wife would give me recommendations in the house of Oga. And maybe before you know, I can go from being the slave of this house to even managing the company. They can even recommend me to be one of the chambers. Ah, this is a good access, so I I would have compromised right there and then. But the thing is, he didn't say how can I do this? How can I do this and sin against Potiphar who gave me the job? You would think that what he was afraid of was Potiphar catching them since he was the one that gave him the job. You know, was one that was helpful enough and even promoted me or the guy will be hungry. No.
He said, how can I do this and sin against the Lord my God? The concern was never whether he will be caught or not. The concern was there is a God that is watching. There is a God whom I know. That God was the one that promised me. The reason I'm here because I'm holding on to that promise. Do really get my point now? Yes. I will never serve no other god. Will never serve no other god.
Silence. Just you, daddy. I will never sound no other god. I will never serve no other god. You know that this is the song that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego was singing even in the confessions. No? And the question is, what did they know about God? I would make them say, we will step into the fire for we know that our God is able to save us. What What did they know about God? Do you know that when you believe God like that and hold him at his word, you put pressure on God?
You are not a man that you should lie. That is the pressure that is put on God. Because he says God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent. So when a man believes in God based on his knowledge of God and he says, God, I hold you at your word. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. It is on this strength that destiny begins. Number two. Let's continue. I will sing for joy.
I won't testify for what you've done, what you've done for me. As I hear it and I will speak as I hear I will speak your words as I hear up. Same song, same sound, same words I will sing as I hear. Number two. What's number one? Number two, count the cost. Count the cost and pay the price. Number two, pillar, second pillar of destiny manifestation, count the cost and pay the price. Understand this. Knowing that there is a glorious destiny ahead of you and entering into it, act to different things.
And then as much as you have seen greatness on your insight, whether it will manifest or not is a different thing altogether. Many people have dreams. Many people have visions that will never manifest. And many of the people that you see on the street today who has been turned down by life and have become destitute, miscreants in the society. Some of them had dreams of doing big things. Some of them had dreams of becoming influential. Some of them had dreams of becoming great. Some of them had songs they wanted to sing, books they wanted to write, places they wanted to go, people they wanted to meet. And there are many people living in regret right now. There are many people teaching in secondary schools, and they are always hungry because that was never the life they imagined for themselves.
And they take out the frustration on the children because they teach from a point of desperation. Because if someone had told them that this is what they would have been doing at the later part of their lives, they would not have believed it. Some of them saw themselves speaking to presidents, speaking to kings, being in exclusive gatherings. Some of them had ideas that would have revolutionized the world, but painfully speaking, will never find fruition. And why is this? Write this down. Dreams are free, but destiny has a fee. Dreams are free, but destiny has a fee. There is a price for whatever destiny you have seen even though it has been promised, even though it is yours. Like that architectural design, is that not so?
There is a cost for making that building a reality. The building would not just become a reality because you like the way it appears. The question would be, can you fund that project? And many a times, if it's a skyscraper that the architect gives you, you would not consider how much is there based on the cost estimation that has been done. And realize that we cannot afford a skyscraper, but we can build to one story building. Somebody can sit and say, ah, even that one story building, there is still a decking that we will do. We can't afford that one. That decking will carry most of the money, but we can build one bungalow. Another person can say, even like bungalow, my salary would not be able to accommodate the cost of building the bungalow. We can build one hut built with leaves and branches.
And gradually, based on your ability to pay the price, what you see as the final rendition of that building in time becomes lesser and lesser based on your ability to pay the price. In other words, this can be what is in the architect's mind. The question would not be whether that can happen. The question is, can you pay the price to make it happen, to bring it into existence? Do you understand what I'm saying? Luke chapter 14 verse 28. Let us see the scriptural backing for this architect stuff I've been saying from the beginning of this teaching. One, two, three, go. Scriptures are beautiful. Every time I read scriptures, even as much as I've read the scripture again and again, every time I just read scriptures, you just see things that humbles you over and over.
Hope you know that. Intention is how this thing begins. Intention because you have a picture in your mind of what you want to build, and the picture is a Torah. In other words, you have seen that picture. You are the blueprint of it. And the bible says, nobody who wants to build a torah would, after receiving the picture, getting the blueprint, just jumps out and starts building. At the moment you lay hold on the promise, the next thing the bible recommends is to sit down. You would think the next thing is just to start running and say, you know what? The king's business requires his fire on. He says, sit down first.
He puts first. In other words, other things will come after. The first thing you have to do is sit down. Take time to consider the promise that you have seen. Take time to consider the pictures and the prophecies that have been spoken over your life. In other words, in this business, manifestation is not by force. God says, this... God says, I will show you what I have in store for you. Now you sit down after I have shown you. Don't just start running because there is danger in starting and not finishing.
That's why the bible does not say whether he has enough to start. Because starting many a times is not the problem. It is finishing that is the... That's why there are several churches that have closed, several businesses that have closed, several destinies that have shut down because this thing, there there was no sit down first and consider the weight of this destiny that you have seen. What is the price for it? Because that is what the bible says. It says count the cost. In other words, every great destiny has a price. Every. Every.
What is the cost for it? What is the cost for it? You see yourself becoming global in any sense. There is a cost. There is a price. Question would be, what will it cost me? Do I have enough to finish it? Enough strength of heart, enough conviction, enough boldness, enough encounter resources. You know there is material resources. There is human resources.
What many of what have not been introduced to is encounter resources. Today is not for that. Go to the next verse. The next verse says, lest after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it now begin to mock him. Go back to verse 28 and give me an NLT. One, two, three, go. There is a price for destiny fulfillment. Please never forget this thing I'm telling you. There is a price. No one happens on greatness accidentally.
Every promise that you see in scriptures has conditions attached to it. If you will be willing, the bible says, and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. Remember that the promise was working first. I will take you to a land flowing with milk and honey. But that every promise has conditions attached to it and the condition for eating the good of that land despite it has been promised to you is if you will be willing and obedient. The good of the land is for you, but are you ready to pay the price of obedience? There is good in the land, doesn't mean it will fall down on your laps. There's a price to pay. That there are miracles everywhere, and God is God is doing... God is opening doors left, right, and center does not mean that automatically speaking, doors were open for unprepared vessels.
There's a price to pay. Let me show you a scripture. Beautiful. You are beautiful. You're Amy's wonderful. You are beautiful. You're Proverbs chapter 30 and verse 21. The bible says, can we read this together? One, three, go. Pause.
Pause. Pause. Give me KJV. I like the word disquieted. One, two, three, go. Pause. For three things, the earth is disturbed, is disquieted. Like earthquakes, like like rumblings, like eruptions happening on the earth. The natural laws of the universe refuse to allow these three things to happen. So the earth will begin to shake, to readjust until this thing is reordered.
Are you getting what I'm saying? It says four, it cannot bear. Let's look at them one by one. One, two, three, go. Do you remember that scripture we read in the beginning? There was an anomaly that was observed. All that servants were on horses and princes were walking. It says that is the first reason why the earth is disquieted. When a servant receives elevation that he does not deserve. When a servant reigns, the bible says the earth is disquieted.
Because reigning in life is not for servants, it is for sons. It means that the inheritance of sons have been given to servants. The bible says the earth is disquieted. One, three, go. When? The bible says, when a fool who should be hungry, that should suffer the consequence of his foolishness, has plenty of food to eat, The earth says, how come? The earth says, how how can a fool be filled? By what source? By what by what mystery is this? And the earth begins to rumble because the natural laws of the universe would not allow this to continue.
Look at the third one. The bible says, give me NKJV. One, two, three, go. Pause. The head says, I'm not the one that said it oh. That there are people that should not marry. And when they are married, they they are wrong place in the earth. The earth says no. No. A hateful woman, a contentious woman should not marry.
And when these things happen, the bible says the earth is disquieted. There are rumblings on the earth. The question is, what do these three things all have in common? You would notice that what they all have in common is appropriations were given to people who have not paid the price for it. They still remained at that state where nothing should come to them, and yet it came. The bible says the earth is disquieted. So even that which came would not last in their hand. They might have by some means bring it, but that the grace to make it stay would not be there because the earth will continue to shake until that which they have possessed by whatever means is closed. So there are doors that have opened and maybe somebody use connection to ensure that one person who should not sit down there sat down there. But based on the metrics of his preparation, his skillfulness, based on the fact that this guy don't even know how to sit down with kings, speak to kings.
There is nothing about him that has prepared him for this position. The bible says that even when that door opens by whatever means, it might even be true prophecy. It might even be true prophecy. The bible says the earth becomes disquieted because the way destiny is manifest is through a system of metrics in this kingdom where if you have not paid the price for a thing, you should not come into the experience of that thing. I made a statement, I think, during the prayer convocation that I did not complete. I said, a lot of people have been told that favor is simply unmerited access. That when you see a man who is favored, it is unmerited. And that for it to be favored, it has to be unmerited. That's not so true. Because when you read the book of Ecclesiastes, the Bible says the race is not to the swift.
Do you remember that scripture? Manda is the battle to the strong. That not so? No bread to the wise. And I told you that if the race is not to the swift this is a doctrine in scripture, we will have a problem. And the problem is who will now win the race? Is the bible now saying that all the effort that the one that was swift put into being swift is a waste? Do you understand my point? All the effort that the one that was strong put into being strong is a waste. No.
Ask them what the bible says. The mystery here is in the yet nor yet. In other words, it will still be. It's just not yet time. It is a scripture to encourage the man that is working to be swift to keep on working to be swift. But the fact that the race is not yet to you yet does not mean that it will not be to you. The bible then says time and chance. In other words, seasons and opportunities will happen. So whilst you are waiting for it to happen, keep on being swift. Keep on being strong.
The battle will soon be yours. Do you understand what I'm saying? So can we read this line together from... Let's start from non riches. One, three, go. Pause. So how does riches come? It comes through understanding. It doesn't come through prayer. There is something you would understand that brings riches to you.
And the bible is not saying there is no riches to a man that understands. He says, no. No. No. No. The time you are investing to improve on yourself is not a waste. It is time and chance. Go and read the next one. One two three. Go.
How does favor come? It is forced therefore to believe that if it is favor, it has to be unmerited. There is a dimension of favor that can be unmerited. But to think that that is all there is to it will be to lie. Because people who were favored in scripture were not useless people. People who found their ways into the palace were not useless people. The bible says there'll be four little things that have been wise upon the earth. And the fourth one the bible mentions is a spider. How that it uses its hands to enter into the palace. There is wisdom there.
It means how a man enters the palace is by the skillfulness of his hands. That is why every man you saw in the palace, there was something about them that stood them out above others. When Joseph brought his brothers to Pharaoh, get me that scripture. And Joseph was pleading with Pharaoh and even told his brother what to tell Pharaoh that I would give them this land. They need this land. They are hungry. Pharaoh allows them. They they found favor in the eyes of Pharaoh. Is that not so? But guess what?
Pharaoh, after all of this was done, now told Joseph, is there anyone amongst your brethren who is able, men of skill? Yes, sir. In other words, I've given everybody land that is the one that is unmerited. You say you people are shepherds. Okay. I've given all of you lands, but that does not bring him to the palace. Pharaoh now tells Joseph, I need men in the palace. I need men in the palace. He now tells his brothers... His his his brother, Joseph brother, that go and check amongst your brothers.
There must be one amongst them that is skillful, that is well able, having the ability to serve in the palace. Go and call those ones for me. In other words, those ones have paid the price of exclusion. They've paid the price of exemption. That when they fire others, they can't fire them. Not just because there's prophecy upon their lives, but because they have paid the price to be diligent. And so whatever kind of economic recession waves others out cannot wave him out. Daniel was valuable in four administrations. Not only because he's a man of prayer, but because he's a man of answer. Because whenever the kings have a problem, Daniel have an answer for it.
That's what made him valuable. So you have seen crusades. You have seen conferences. You have seen terrible visions of dangerous healings, miracles, signs, wonders brought through your hands. But are you ready to pay the price? Ask the question. What is your commitment to the study of the word of God? What is your commitment to prayer? What is your commitment to ensuring that the enablement that makes for this reality has come upon your life? I know you have seen a business that will have mortal expressions in different cities around the world, but what is the price you have to pay?
Are you getting knowledge or are you just hoping that opposed to as prophesied the door will open? Don't just admire a great future. You must find out what is the price to pay. Am I ready to pay that price? If you are not, you will inevitably settle for whatever life gives to you. Nothing is free in this kingdom. There is always a price to pay. Even your salvation came at a price. You just weren't the one that paid it. Didn't mean that it's free.
There's a price to pay to be a custodian of glory and the presence of God. There's a price to pay to be dangerously anointed. You want to speak and your words will not fall to the ground. There's a price to pay. Want to have the largest church and the largest garden of young people in the world, there is a price to pay. It is not just mere concessions. There are labors involved. There are rigors of works to be done, things to be done. In Matthew chapter 20 verse 20, the mother of James and John came to Jesus, and she told Jesus she wanted to hack something of her children. And Jesus said, what do you wish?
And she said to Jesus, grant that these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right hand and the other on your left in your kingdom. I like that woman. She's a good politician. She was securing the future of her children. She said it. That kingdom you have been speaking about, I want you to be that when you go there and you sit down, James should be on the right. John should be on the left. Don't worry about me. What a lovely woman. What a good mother.
Powerful teachings that can come from here on motherhood. But that's not where I... That's not where I'm going. Look at the next verse. The next verse, Jesus did not say that's not possible. That's not possible. Jesus did not say, yeah, you want us... You want them to sit down. What kind of what kind of entitlement is that? That was the picture the mother saw, the picture of greatness for his children.
As Jesus is exalted, even his children will be exalted along with him. And he came to... And he... She comes to ask Jesus, and Jesus said, ah, do you know what you have asked? Are you able to drink the cup that I'm about to drink? Are you able to be baptized with the baptism that I am about to be baptized with? Jesus was asking them, count the cost. That is as simple as that. Jesus never said it's not possible. Jesus said, do you know what you are asking?
Do you know the weight of what you are asking for? So when you say, ask of me and I will give you the nation for your inheritance, And you sit down in your in your in your in your your in your secret place, and you start asking, is mine. Jesus says, do you know? Do you know what you have asked? Do you know what you have asked? My voice will be heard around the world. I will be a voice of revival. Do you know what you have asked? Do you know what it means for your voice to echo around the world? That your voice becomes the primary voice that halters the worship of heaven and earth.
Do you know what it mean that you become a potter that everybody who wants to pray will just look at your picture and the spirit of prayer will jump upon them? Do you know... Do you do you know what it... What you are asking? There are realms in this kingdom that are not gifts. Even the worship that we give unto Jesus is not a gift. The bible says worthy is the lamb. If you are worthy of something, it means you pay the price to get it. And many believers who are lazy, who are lazy, they know what... They know that they have a great destiny, but they are unwilling to pay the price to get there.
Oh, I shall be the head and not the tail. Above only and not beneath. That is true. This will manifest. In my academics. That is true. I'm a distinction student. That is true. But what is the price to pay? Are you willing to study for hours just to ensure that that is yours?
To read while others sleep, to deny yourself of sleep, to deny yourself of movies, to deny yourself of social media, just to attain destiny. Count the cost, the bible says. Show me a man who is willing to pay the price. And I will show you a man that no devil can stop on their path to greatness. Coming to church, paying attention in church, participating in every part of the service. It's a price you are paying. There are books that must be read. It's a price you are paying that you take out of your money and you buy books that your destiny needs. And you sit down, commit some time to that book. And as you read, others are playing, others are joking, others are doing something.
It's a price you are paying. You have counted the cost, and you have seen that my destiny is worth it. The promise that God has shown me is worth it. Isn't that what determines whether or not you want to buy something? You go and get a car, and they tell you this is 1998 Toyota Corolla, and you see it. Aka pencil. And when you get there, they tell you this car, you know, it is it is neatly used. They... It only has 12,000 miles on it. Wow.
That's very short. Said, thank you. Properly managed neat. That goes for 45,000,000. That's all. Now you begin to wonder. I'm not willing to pay for that because it's not worth it. It's not worth it. It's not worth it. I can get something more for that price.
It tells me that when I see people lazy and unwilling to pay the price for destiny, what they have said is that my destiny is not worth it. It is not worth the time I would be awake and study. It's not worth it. No. It's not worth it. The future I've seen is not worth it. It's not worth the time I would use and buy this book and the money I would give to amplify the results that I see. It's not worth it. It's not worth the time I would spend coming to church. It's not worth it.
Will listen to messages again and again and again. My life is not worth that. I am willing to settle for whatever life gives me. Marry whoever comes, gets the job that ever comes, and just, you know, love God. And I don't admit all these all these all these. I I don't really have that hope. Let God just use others who will support them. Because in my life, all this journey of transformation you are talking about, I see, isn't it difficult? It's difficult? And so what?
Who said it was easy before? What version of the gospel was presented to you? Did Jesus ever tell you it was easy? Jesus was going. He told his disciples, in this world, you will face tribulations. You will face persecutions so that it will become your choice whether or you want to follow. Jesus never gave them roses and said this is the promise. I said, look. Look. Look.
Look. Come here. People will celebrate you. Come here. Come here. Come here. You'll be put on the best hotels. You would hold the largest conferences. You'll be honored by many. The question is, is that not all a part of the package?
Yes, sir. It is. But the question got... That was not what Jesus told them, however. What Jesus told them was the price they would have to pay so that they would by themselves choose if I am willing to pay that price. Somebody can say right there and then that,. And Jesus would not force anybody to stay. Because even whilst people left him, the disciples that were destined and ordained to be with him, he asked them, would you also go? In this business, we don't force people. We will show you what can be, and you will decide if it will be.
I'm not alone. You are with me through the air. I'm not alone. You are with me through the storm. Listen. Hear me? I want to be the best fashion designer in Nigeria, the best software developer in Nigeria so that I become so valuable that no amount of money that anybody pays for my services becomes too much. I want to be so valuable and relevant that nobody will ever price me down. I want to be so valuable that I become sought after. That there is no nation where you mention my name that my name is not known.
I want to leave a legacy on the hallmark of time. But even years after I have come, I have opened a portal for men that will come after me. My name will open doors for my children. And God says all of these are possible. All of these are possible, but there is a price to pay. There is a cost attached to everything you have said right now. A cost attached to it. Hear me? The question is, are you willing to pay that price? Are you willing to?
Oh, I want to be a kingdom financier. I want to be a multimillionaire in dollars. Are you willing to pay the price? You can't complain when it is time to work. You can't complain that life is putting too much on you. Was your aim not to be successful? Was your aim not to be great? Paul says we are we are hard pressed on every side. We can't complain when life is pressing us. We understood what we were hindering.
We were expecting it. It is part of the price we are paying. How dare we complain right now that it is too much? Uh-uh. Uh-uh. How can you say that you want to you want to cross into 8 figures and think that eight figures will only come if you you will just sleep and wake up and money will be in your account? That means you're saying more responsibility, more work, more availability, more time, more improvement, more diligence. That means you're saying increase pressure. It's not it's not possible. The question is, are you willing to pay the price?
When that student says, want to have distinction. I want to have a first class. It it is possible. This thing is yours already. You are living life from the hand of things. It is already yours, but there's a price to pay. The price of diligence, the price of excellence is a price to pay. It doesn't fall on the laps of people. It doesn't. It doesn't.
You can't be as lazy as you are right now, and something does change, and you think you would arrive at destiny. It doesn't happen that way. A little slip, a little folding of the hands, so shall your poverty... Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. You are the one that said you want to prosper, and then God is not demanding of you to give and to give and to give. And you are beginning to find it very difficult a thing to hear. To give, you can't complain when it's time to give.
You have to live a life of sacrifice perpetually. There are many there are many times you will empty yourselves again and again, again and again. It's a price to pay. When God will tell you empty, empty everything. Oh, but God, I'm serving... I'm saving up for this purpose. Empty it again. Empty it again. Empty it again. Oh, God.
This is my first 2,000,000 for this purpose. Empty it. And you're wondering, this this this specific design that God is taking you through is the price to pay for the destiny that I've been showed you. Listen to me. Listen to me. When the destiny is heavy, the process is witty. It is true. It is true. I wish it is not true, but it is true. I wish I can tell you that this version of Christianity that makes it look convenient for everybody, just just drink ice cream, come to church, and you'll be fine.
It's a lie. A lie from the pit of hell. Can you intentionally, for a brief moment, say to yourself, I will inconvenience myself for the sake of my future. I know I can get a better house now, but I would give. I know I can get a better car right now, but I would give. I know what the price is that I'm paying, and I'm willing to pay that price. I know people are going right now. They are enjoying themselves, but there's a destiny I see ahead of me. I can't join them right now. It's too early.
It's too early to join them. I told one of my daughters, I said, listen to me. You... All this social life you want to have, they they they invite you to one party, one dinner night, one this one night, one movie night. Everybody is doing night night, and they're inviting you everywhere, and then you want to be everywhere because you think that that is the definition of having a social life because this is your first taste of freedom. I had to ask the young lady, is that what your destiny is worth? Now you would think that saying no to momentary pleasure for the sake of a great destiny is not worth it. Is that how little you see yourself? That the best thing you can call fun now, the best thing you can call fun now is that somebody invited you to movie night in a male hostel. Whereas you're a woman, they say come there, come and have fun.
When you get there, knew what will happen there. But there will be advances. They will be disappointed. I want to live a social life, and you cannot momentally deny yourself of pleasure and say for the sake of my destiny. You who hotels will open in The Bahamas, and they will say, we are flying you on an all expense paid to come and be the one to experience this thing first. Because we know that you have so much influence that if you just recommend this thing, all the foolish trinkets that you cannot deny yourself of will eventually come in massive height in the future. The air you want to buy that cannot make you give. People who make airs will make you ambassadors. And you are saying this thing is so important right now. You can't do away with it.
I'm saying no for the sake of my destiny, for the sake of my future. How much is a guy worth to you? Your future? You can lose your destiny because of a girl. Is that what God is preparing for you? Can that really be it? Is that what sacrificing your dignity for? Now go to one guy with whom is pressing your breast, sacrificing your dignity. For what? A moment of pleasure just to just say no.
There are ones looking at me. There are over three of them around them for different purposes. If you don't stop, God will judge you. Because you're a fine girl. Fine girl, 100 level. Is that all your destiny is what? 200 level. Anybody looking at me? Anyone looking at me? Is that nations that will look at you?
Who who are the who are the everybody looking at you? Is that how a godly seed will come out of you? Is is that what your life is worth? You mean to tell me, when you sat down to count the cost, what you saw was that boy? When you sat down to count... When you sat down and you counted it, is a stupid girl, a stupid... That will that will that will reap you of a larger part of your destiny, Plant scars in your life that your destiny will never recover from. That was the cause that you saw. Can that be all that your life is what? Like a moment of saying no.
I will not sell my destiny on the altar of porridge. I will not. I will not. I will not. This guy said, what is my birthright to me now? Now I would need it in the future. How do you know? Because he was angry when Jacob took the... It it means he knows that this blessing is is by right. But when he was hungry, he said, what is my birthright to me now?
I would need this thing eventually, but I cannot sacrifice this moment of pleasure for my future for the sake of that anointed voice God wants to give you. You cannot maintain purity. You have now planted scars around your life that will haunt you even when you... Even if you become great. Let me stop here. Eyes up on your feet. I think it was Gloria Copeland that wrote the book, The Grace Is More Than The Price. You should read it. You should read it. Because there's a price to pay.
It is true. But the grace has been supplied. Did Paul not say, I labor more than you all, yet not high. It is the grace of God that has been given unto me. There is grace that has been released to pay the price that destiny requires. There is grace. God did not leave you to your own effort. God did not leave you to your own strength. There is grace that has been given to you. There is grace to fast.
There is grace to study. There is grace to give. There is grace to pray. There is grace to sacrifice, to deny yourself, to carry your cross. That cross is still old and rugged. It is still old and rugged. It is not old and pancake. It has not been diffused for any reason. It is still old and rugged. And there is grace given to carry it.
There is grace given to carry it. These are the pillars that controls destiny manifestation. Hard work. Diligence. Work combined with wisdom. Diligence. One of my guys got an opportunity. More than 500,000 or so monthly with an international organization, a multinational. It would literally require him to shuttle distances almost three times to six times, sometimes three times, four times, five times a week. Shuttling distances.
Possible, I called him three times or so a week. I called him, going, coming, going, coming that long distance. I called him and said, how do you plan to balance this with what you're already doing? I listed out what he's doing, and he showed me a carefully designed schedule. This is what I plan to do. This is what I plan to do. This is what I... I said, oh. He then handed it with, sir, you have taught us hard pressed on every side yet not crushed. He said, I'm excited for this opportunity to be hard pressed.
The moment he got there, before you traveled, I said, it's your first time. Do not speak like a student. Go there with the visage of a colossus, the heart of a lion. Do not tell anybody I'm just in 400 level because nobody cares about that. If they ask you for your schooling or whatever it is, let your boss be on your certifications. Don't tell them, actually, sir, I'm I'm a... You don't talk like that. I told him all of these things. He went there. He said, sir, I did exactly as you have said.
The moment I got there, four people were placed under me on my first day. I've seen over and over again that open doors don't fall on people's laps carelessly. I've seen it over and over again. Doors don't open to fools. I've seen it over and over again. Can you say, God, help me? Help me. Pray that God should help you because there is a price to pay. Most definitely, Can you pray God help We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms.
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