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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. We've been considering the subject of faith for some time now. And today, we will be rounding up. You see, you can never really fully exhaust the subject of faith. I can teach on faith for the rest of the year. A good teacher... One characteristic of a good teacher is that it drives joy in repetition. One characteristics of a good student is that it does not find repetition burdensome. The reason is because for persuasion to be birthed, repetition must be invoked.

In other words, people will never really be fully persuaded about a subject or about a thing until that thing is repeated over and over again into their ears. So never really be weary of saying the same things over and over again until you get it. It's not necessarily the newness of a thing that matters. It's the freshness of the thing, especially as it concerns the realm of the spirit. So you should not you should not just look to hear new revelations, new teachings, new things. No. The same things you've been listening to can be emphasized over and over again until it gains fullness in your spirit. Are you with me? Yes. The subject of faith cannot really be exhausted.

Do you know that there are ministers of the gospel who have built their entire ministries on faith? And that is what they've been preaching all their lives. Faith, nothing else, Just faith? I found that when you find ministries that build their their their church and everything that they do on the subject of faith, you usually would find every other thing that work in that church. Miracles, healings, excellence, leadership, successful members, people who able to stand on the word, people who are able to do the word, people who are able to, you know, they're relying less on the man of God. When you find a ministry that every member is prevalently reliant on the man of God, it is because the emphasis on faith is missing in that church. Well, it looks as though for the smallest of problems or challenges, you would need the ministry or the office of the man of God. You would need to... It is because the subject of faith is not taught. Are you with me?

Yes. Alongside every other thing that a believer should know. The aim according to Ephesians chapter four and verse 11, the aim is that God has given apostles, prophets, teachers, right, for the edifying of the church, for the work of ministry. In other words, we edify the saints to do the work of ministry. In other words, what I'm doing right now is not ministry according to scriptures. What I'm doing right now is edification. What you do is ministry. That is what the bible says. Give me... It says for the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.

So who does the work of ministry? The saints. What do the apostles and prophets and teachers do? They edify. In other words, one way you would know that if people have been... Or this scripture have been fulfilled is that the people you find there are doing the work of ministry. What is the work of ministry? Service unto God. And the service of God is finding expression in your life in and through you. In other words, the people are being equipped.

The people are being edified. The people are being strengthened. Strengthening in their inner man, strengthening their spirit, strengthening mentally, strengthening even physically to the end that they do the work of ministry. Do you know that... What's what's his name now? Paul wrote to some people and he told them, he said, at the time you ought to have been teachers, you're still babes, still needing men to feed you with milk. Are you with me? You see, it's a problem. It's a challenge. It's a challenge when by the time you ought to be teachers, you're still babes.

It means you cannot do the work of ministry. You're still needing someone to feed you milk. A point should come in your Christian work where you grow past the need for milk, and we start considering the weightier matters of the law, where each and every believer is able to man the post of destiny, where we fulfill Jehovah chapter three, where we stand according to our ranks, none of us breaking our ranks. Get my teaching in battle array. He will bless you in no small way. In battle array. Thank you, Jesus. When this finds expression, that is when we have begun to do the work of ministry. So you find a doctor amongst us and where God has planted him, he has become a principality in that space. Now effectualizing the will of God.

Actualizing the ordinance and the commands of God over his life over... And even what God intends over that territory. That young man now becomes an expression and an extension of God's will in that place. That is when you find a mature believer who is doing the work of ministry. So as God begins to lift you, even as you are rising, The aim is that you grow to such a point where you can man the post that God ascribes to you without needing necessarily to run to anyone at the first instance of a challenge. It means you have been so taught and so trained that in times of adversity, you are strong. Are you with me? This does not mean that you will not need the apostles and the prophets and the teachers, that's not that's not at all what I'm saying. Glory to God. And so we start by edifying.

We start by giving milk. But as we see that believers are growing, then we start giving strong meat. You can't take meat all all your life. I got a cat some time ago due to my love for cats. Some of you might think it is ancestral or witchcraft. I don't care so much what you think. It's not your cat. It's my cat. But they didn't last long in my house though because we're behaving like animals. But I left the cats.

Are you with me? And I got them as babies. When I got them, a vet told me that... He asked me, what am I feeding them? And I said, oh, they are babies. I'm giving them milk. He said, ah, do you want to kill them? So what do you mean? He said, how month old or how many weeks or how many months? I said, I don't know.

I did not ask. I just bought cats. So you need to find out. He said, because there is a time when milk is advantageous to the cat, and as they begin to grow, there is a time when the same milk that is advantageous to them becomes poisonous to them, becomes what kills them. And so it it becomes advantageous when they are babies, but as they grow, they expect them to have outgrown milk. And the idea, I found very interesting. Only for me to realize that it is so in human beings as well. That at a time where you depend on milk for survival, the certain age, you become lactose intolerant. In other words, when a man begins begins to grow and he begins to outgrow milk, he must now be supplied with strong meat. So when he remains in an atmosphere where milk is the only thing that is being fed, that thing will begin to do damage to his spiritual life.

Do you understand what I just said? So there should be proof you are growing, evidence you are growing. Do you know that one of the signs that a man is making progress in life or one of the things that gives a man fulfillment in life is that he's making progress in life? In other words, it becomes concerning to every man when your life is stagnant on a on a on a point. Your... It it it comes to a point where even as you're waiting on God, it becomes it becomes concerning if nothing is moving. There's no sign that there is progress in your life at all... In any area, really. There's no way you can point out to say, I think I'm making progress here. I think I'm seeing signs of improvement and advancement in this area.

It becomes concerning even for a believer. Because one of the things that gives a man fulfillment is the fact that his life is making progress. Are you with me? Yes. And so if you're here, if you're listening to this thing, it doesn't matter at what level you're in currently. You might still be at the point where your hands still need to be strengthened, and we are providing assistance in any way... Little way that we can. But if you desire, if you derive comfort inside of that, you will peg your growth and peg yourself because you have refused to apply your faith and apply yourself. Your muscles will remain weak. Do you understand what I'm teaching?

So it is important that you grow. And how do you grow? That you apply yourself into what is taught. You apply yourself into what is taught. You apply everything that is taught into your life. You listen to the words over and over again. You might not get it at the first instance of listening to it, but you go back and listen to the message. Listen to me. If you don't go back and listen to the messages that I thought, you are irresponsible. Yes.

One sign that you are an irresponsible believer without apology, but respectfully speaking, is that you think that the mere fact that you are there when the word was preached meant that you got it in its fullness. It is even a sign of pride. It's a sign of pride. So what do you do as a responsible believers? Do you realize that most of the things that we try or we do with this... With the word of God and with our spiritual life, we don't do it with our physical life to see how irresponsible we've we've become. You were even not in class when the when the course was taught? Why do you read for it? Were you not in class when it was taught? Were you not there when the revision was done?

Why do you need to study for it? And some of you would study and still study again because it is not yet in my head. But because you know it's spiritual, there's no exam for it. Nobody will grade you. Nobody will mark you. You don't know that life itself is the exam. A more superior exam, a more superior grading system to what you would ever know in school. It is the most honest exam possible where there is no space for cheating. You can't ask anybody what the answer is. It is you and destiny.

And some people are very irresponsible to think we cannot try. With our physical life, we try with destiny. Somebody woke up and said, I don't feel like going to church. Do you see that on Monday? And I don't feel like going to class. Since when the church become a thing of feeling and emotion. Do you see how we take our destinies? So irresponsible. You are planted in a church. You are growing in a church.

You are listening to the word of God accurately given, sequentially given. Do you know that the bible compares us to lively stones, living stones, and we are being built into a spiritual house? Do know that is what the bible compares us to? Have you seen when a house has been built? Do you know the care and detail that is given to a house when it's being built? Do you know the sequential arrangement of a house that must be built? You don't build a house and when you lay the foundation, bring the roof. No. You lay the foundations. You pour gravel.

You pour all kind of things. If sand filling must be done, you do the sand filling. The moment the foundations are laid, on the kind of structure you wanna build, then you start arranging the blocks. You put the lintels. You put the pillars. You put everything you wanna put before you think of, okay, let's now align the rooms. Let's now let's now apportion the rooms we wanna have. How many rooms are we having? You've designed even... You see, you don't know that the amount of rooms we are having have already been cut out of the foundation.

It means the end is how we even start to build. We don't wake up eventually and say and say, ah, let's add one more room. That means we need to revisit the foundation. Because there is there is now a foundational problem. The Bible says if the foundation be destroyed, it means you have built your life to an extent. You now found out that, ah, you didn't leave room for marriage there. We will need to go back and revisit the foundation. You will not just think that at at at that point, you now start saying, let me just create the room there. You will affect the entire building. And whilst you have been and whilst you are you are being built into a spiritual house like the bible commands, that like that the bible declares, somebody says, ah, I don't feel like coming to church today.

Let me go to a church that is near me. Someone just invited me, and I just feel swell since I invited the person to my church. Let me just... Let me also visit the person's church. Do you remember that you are a spiritual house being built? That means that in the day that we are arranging pillars, you did not come. You now came in the day we are putting roof. You wonder why you are confused. You wonder why your life has no structure, why your life has no order. Because at the end of the building where everybody look...

Now looks like a mansion, you resemble what God did not create. Now there is a pillar here, and there's a roof now slanting down, and there's toilet outside, and there is now kitchen somewhere, and then you'll be just confused. Because when the things were being... When the items were being put there, do you know what God told Moses? God told Moses, ensure that the tabernacle is built according to pattern. What does the bible call you? The temples of God. In other words, if you are the temple of the living God, you must also be built according to pattern. It means there is a pattern that you must be built by. How many...

You see, this thing that I'm saying now, we don't do the same thing even with our physical lives. But again, you know it's destiny. Nobody is great. There's no teacher. There's no certificate that they will give me at the end of four years so I can treat it anyhow I like except for the fact that life in itself offers a more excellent report. The bible says the elders obtained a good report. Who was mocking them? We've been so deceived to think that all you think all you think to life is school. Do you know a man might never go to school yet be greater than you? I was speaking with some...

One of my guys yesterday, and he was telling me about a a a modeler man he met here in UI. He was speaking to me so passionately about the man. He was so touched he had to reach out to the man to help him, but not help him in terms of money, help him in terms of knowledge. He told me... He said the man finished here from UI. He's so painful when I heard it. I had compassion even on the man, and he tried everything, tried everything, and nothing could work. That's a graduate, probably even with a good result. And so the certificate you are running for in time means nothing. Do you realize that the time will come where your life will end?

Do you know you will die? Many of you don't like to hear death. Maybe you should talk to your neighbor and ask him, do you know you will die? It's uncomfortable, isn't it? But it is true. And you may think you are young, but nobody ever knows really. You think those who died young plan for it unless you are Jesus? Listen to me. My point... I'm not saying you will die young.

Don't get me wrong. My point is, oh, no. We will leave and be satisfied. Even if you live 500, a time will come you will die. It is called the brevity of time. Do you remember that it was just like yesterday when you were in secondary school? Do you think back and look back at it and say, my goodness. Listen, my friend. That troublesome guy that we used to gist together. And you are you are jisting with your friends.

Do you remember police and thief? Yes. Do you remember? I know we start talking. I remember I was having this conversation with someone yesterday. Called the brevity of time. It means the time will come when where you are now, you move like a breeze. And you'll begin to remember, do you remember when we were in university? That time comes. Yes.

The brevity of time. It breezes by. I would always teach that when I say the brevity of time, I'm not saying the brevity of time in itself. Are you with me? Even though time in itself has a limit, but understand that the unit of destiny is time. And so when we're talking about the brevity of time in the context, we're really talking about you. It means you don't have all the... You are not you are not alpha omega. You are not omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. You're not.

You're not. The time will come when this journey will come to an end. When that journey comes to an end, you will find yourself either of two places. Hell, crying, that will not be your portion. Amen. The reality of heaven and hell. I have a teaching like that. I would be happy singing my songs in heaven together. Listen. Listen.

Listen. When we get there, there will be no certificates, There will be no earthly, humanly given report cards. The mansions you have built will not be there. The awards or rewards you have collected will not be there. Scholarships, grants, investors, investment will not be there. The businesses you have built will not be there. The mansions you have built, the houses you own, the cars you own, none of it will be there. That when you pass, people will fight over the things you... That belong to you. You have 10 cars.

The time will come when none of it... You can't carry none of it. Naked will kill, naked will go. When you are buried, you might not even be buried with clothes on. Just be a body. That's all. Your life has ended. That's all. All the certificates you got in school, you won't be buried with them. You're not saying put it in his hands like it appear in the realm of the spirit.

Everything just... It... That's that's the end of it. That is really the end of it. Do you realize that the moment you pass away, that's when life now begins? Do you realize that? You don't realize that because the life that begins after that time has no end. And the quality of that life now depends on what you have done with the one you currently have. It means if you if you found yourself in hell because you refuse to believe Jesus, it has no end. There's no repentance.

There's no mercy. There's no salvation. There's nothing. It's just unending tears, unending pain, unending... Do you realize that? Do you realize that we find ourselves in heaven? The bible the bible speaks of the crowns waiting for us, the mansions waiting for us, the rewards meeting for us. In other words, the effectivity of your life then will be dependent on the investment you have made into eternity now. The bible says not play your treasures where moths and earthly earthly thieves can get to it. Lay your treasures in heaven.

It means there are investments we lay in heaven even as we live our lives on earth. And the quality of our lives in heaven will be dependent on the quality of the investment you have made right now. Don't think that we'll all be the same in heaven. No. Don't think many of you say, oh, why don't you go to heaven? Where would you want to meet our father Abraham? I don't know how to like this. Don't be foolish. It means even in heaven, are classes, orders, hierarchies. There are crowns that will be apportioned unto us according to how we live our lives on earth.

That is how believers will be judged by the works that they did even whilst they live. And so as you are wasting time, realize what you are truly wasting. We are like the time will come when your earthly pursuit will come to an end and nothing that you have amassed will follow you into eternity. Let us build a big ministry with a 100,000 capacity auditorium. They will not follow us into eternity. The tales of our works. The tales of our works. The tales of our works. Bless the Lord, oh my soul. Oh my soul.

Worship his only name. So the flow of the waters. Like an intelligent software, we just follow the flow. The software does not create the waves. But as he sees the torrents starts driving the waves, he aligns himself intelligently and begins to deploy his skill to follow the waves. And so if I've prepared a teaching and the one who directs the waves start directing the waves in another direction. It is because he knows in his intelligence that there is someone who must be overwhelmed by the flowing of the waters. And so as not to deny that individual of the opportunity the holy spirit is looking to find expression through and in that man, you must not be too rigid as not to be flexible. Do you understand what I'm saying? You're surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.

This is something that the bible makes clear. The reason why we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses is because there's nothing near under the sun. There really is no unique purpose, no unique assignment for you. The life that you're living is a continuation of someone's life. Mantles being passed down, patterns being exchanged. You might not know, but this is reality that you are fulfilling an assignment that someone initiated. When you go and be with the Lord, this is the same thing that will happen with generations after you. What we are doing right now is what the is what the father has laid. We are building on the foundation that the father has laid. There's none of us who is so special, who is so unique, that the Lord not give us a different assignment that he has never given anybody.

Oh, no. Are you with me? Yes, sir. It means there will always be a Paul in every generation. There'll always be an Elijah in every generation. There'll always be a Joseph in every generation. There'll always be a Daniel in every generation. There'll always be an Esther in every generation. A Deborah in every generation. Their names might be different.

They might come in in form of Kithrin Komas. They might come in form of Benny Hinns. Might come in form of Emmanuel Bolo Atifas, but their names are only different. The spirit is the same. Remember, one's name was John, other was Elijah, but the spirit was the same. But the spirit was the same. What was the promise that Jezebel made to Elijah? I will cut off your head. Was Herod's wife there when Jezebel was making that promise? No.

She wasn't. But the moment John came in, the spirit of Elijah, his head went, manifesting and fulfilling the promise that Jezebel made. We are acting out prophecies. We are act acting out scripts that have come before us. And for this reason, a cloud of witness is gathering. The people's lives you are living, the people who have lived your life a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand years before you are looking at how you will live yours because you see they will not be perfect except through your living. This is what the bible says. It says that they without us are not perfect. And so Deborah looks, Kefrin Komen looks, Benson and Dahosa looks. The moment they go and be with the Lord, their assignment and their mandates are passed.

And that is why a system of succession is something that must be intelligently done. It is something that you do in ministry, in business because you understand that there must be someone who carries on your legacy, who you invest your spirit upon. For in Moses, there was a Joshua. There was a Caleb. Are you with me? For an Elijah, there was an Elijah. That thing was meant to come upon Gehazi. But Gehazi missed it completely. It remained hanging on the earth until John the Baptist manifested. Our lives...

You see, that that means that there is nothing special that you are doing. Are you with me? That nobody has ever done. It doesn't mean it doesn't mean that you are not unique. Oh, you are unique. Because the flavors of the greater God places upon you will be different in manifestation to that which you saw in the life of others that came before you. Remember, it's a combination of the latter rain and the former rain. In other words, even though the former rain is coming, there will be an introduction of a latter rain. That latter rain, the former never experienced it. That is what will come about the uniqueness.

So what will... What the person who carries the mantle of Kuthrie Kuman will do will be things that Kuthrie Kuman herself did not do. It is for this reason Jesus does greater works than this. Do you understand what I'm saying? What I'm showing you is destiny. Destiny. And what is that what is that man doing with destiny? He's making a mess of destiny. He's ruling out... He's ruling destiny by his emotions, by how he feels, by what he thinks.

Have you heard about a man called Jonathan? He also moved by his emotions. Destiny was calling upon him. He said to David by his mouth. He said I have seen it. I've seen the future. You will be king and I will be by your right hand. That was what Jonathan told David. I will be by your right hand. He died.

He died in battle with the old prophet or with the old king. Knowing that some God has left this person, but I still have a degree of alliance, allegiance, and emotional sentiment for this individual. And I think, you know, started I with him. I don't want to leave. Even though I know that destiny is going on on to me. This is how believers live their lives right now by feelings and by emotions, by sentimentality. And we allow for distractions to pull us away from destiny. And so many of us have refused to grow. And because we are not growing, responsibilities in the kingdom cannot be committed into our hands. Deep responsibilities in the kingdom cannot be committed into our hands.

A man is meant to apply himself in the words he listens to In the word he's hearing, but he gives a lot of excuse. He listens to a message in church once, and he thinks he has gotten it. Look at that level of unseriousness. Yet when the time come for him to apply what he has learned, he can't even remember a single thing. I thought on Tuesday, if you were there, the... About the attitude of faith. And now that you must intentionally apply, remember, be anxious for nothing. On Thursday, one of my very interesting children called me and said she started crying. She started crying. She said because she saw her result and she got seized.

And she labored more than that. She was expecting distinction. But she got seized and she was just crying and she was just pained and she was just disturbed on Thursday. Do you know what I thought on Tuesday? Do you know I used I used result as an illustration on Tuesday? Do you know I used result as an illustration on Tuesday? I said even if you saw... I said even if you were the one who taught others and others passed and you did not, it says respond intentionally by the word. Did you hear that on Tuesday? It was on two days after.

She was there. Lily messaged me. I changed her name to spider girl. I changed her name. I said I put Spider Girl. I put the emoji of spiders. This is a spy... This is a comic character. This is a joke. And so as she was sending, I was just replying, lol.

Lol. Lol. He said papa, they're not saying anything. I said, Lon. Papa, please speak to me, Lon. Isn't that what you do when you find a comic character? You laugh. The life is is... The life is laughter. The life is a joke.

The mere existence is a joke. Comic characters can't be taken seriously. I uttered no word of advice. All my reply was lull. Tuesday, Thursday, Thursday. Before Tuesday and Thursday, I have listened to the message more than four times before Tuesday and Thursday. I will talk it. Comic character. You see I was there when it was thought. Are you seeing this grossly responsibility?

You realize that there's a level of seriousness you must you must... An intentionality that you must take with your lives? Do you realize nothing will happen by chance? It means you will grow intentionally. The holy spirit showed me this some years ago. Spiritual growth is personal. It is intentional. It is gradual. It's expensive to cost you. It is personal.

It is intentional. It is gradual. It is expensive. And if a man is not willing to pay the price for growth, that man will remain at the same level for several years. In his finances, the same. Let me ask you a question. Do you really think that a good certificate is what will make you prosper? Are you convinced about this? Is this truly what you think? And the fact that you're a medical doctor is why you will prosper.

Whereas, whilst you are in school, there are people already making millions sitting down amongst you. You you are so convinced when I have my certificate, I'll begin to prosper. How foolish can you be? I say these things to us because I love you. So that you realize that many of the things we invest energy into don't worth much. The thing that worth much. So we major on the minor and we minor on the major. It's a pitiable calamity. Do you know that on Saturday, the EVOLVE meeting is going on? And people are gonna have value that they've never had in their entire lives.

What you're gonna be receiving is something that you would pay hundreds of thousands of naira to receive in master classes elsewhere. The experience, everything, everything. And yet there's no charge for it. There's no payment for it. The only thing the man needs to do is to come. Just come and sit down. On that day, there's someone who will wake up and say, don't feel like coming. It is true. The devil... Ah.

There's a point you get to the devil who does not visit you with sin because he knows that you will be you will be hungry in repentance that you will never visit that thing again. So what it does that it distracts you. And destruction is not as loud as sin is. And so a man can be distracted for five years and does not know he's distracted. At the end of five years, he looks at his life and realize that he looks as though he was making progress, but when he now checks his life like a report card... Have you seen people... You see, you think that's... You think that destiny, nobody's mocking you. By the time will come, they they they call it they call it... What was this?

Midlife crisis. You know what causes it? It's when your report card is given to you in destiny. You now look at the life and say, You just look at the life and say, And that's the day destiny offered the card. You now found out many exams you missed, how many classes you missed, and how you built a life. Your life is now as though it was a bricklayer that was uneducated that built the structures. Tilt into this angle, tilt into that angle. You're now 37 years old living on a salary of 40,000 naira. You now sit there eventually and say, where now? Where now?

What luck you have to receive these words at this this early? And the only thing required for you is to give attention to it, is to build intentionally, is to build right, is to live your life with a lot a lot a lot more intentionality. The time will come when you will rest. A man does not rest when it is time to walk. The bible says that the night cometh when no man can walk. It means when the night has not come, you walk. You walk. When the night does not come, you do what? I walk. You walk.

The night cometh when no man can walk. Someone was meant to start a business. I was speaking to one of them, one of my young men. Who's doing well for himself. And while he was talking about life generally, and I asked him a question about himself as to why he's doing very well in his academics and in his business. I know what he told me. He said, there are many people who are not doing business. This person is prosperous. This person is making 7 digits every month in profit. At that age, doing what he's doing is more successful than his lecturers than his lecturers.

When my pastor came and told me that lecturer came to class and just look at them and said, and just take... He he took a deep breath and he said, see, go and learn this skill. He said, all of you should go and learn this skill. And they and they continue the class. You know where the advice came from. It came from a depth of experience and pay. The young man told me, he said, I don't allow my academics to be an excuse as to why my business not prosper. I don't allow my business to be an excuse as to why my academics not prosper. I said, my god. Such is, oh my god.

What a beautiful way to live. What a beautiful way to live. You cannot come to church because church has become the reason why academic is is not prospering. Distractions. The enemy is a master in five days. I'll give you three. Number one, deception. Number two, destruction. Number three, distraction. Number four, death.

Find the faithful one by yourself. He's a master in deception. I've taught you that. What many people don't know is that he's also a master in distraction. You know what it does in distraction in distracting you? Come. This is you in destiny. Are you with me? That's where you are going. He knows that if he stands in front of you as an apparent obstruction, If you break through in the obstruction, it only makes you stronger.

And your testimony of breakthrough will not become deliverance for many others. So he knows that... Are you with me? And before he comes to that theory, he would have tested you with several obstructions. And I've seen that the first one he did, you broke through. Second one he did, you broke through. They're now using your testimony in breaking through to now encourage others. Others who are now breaking through. He said, you know what? Obstruction is not the case.

What it does is now is now distraction. He holds you by the hand and will start a conversation with you. And while you're engrossed in that conversation, have no idea when you when you take a a detour of destiny. And you can continue going the wrong path just engaging in the conversation, just jist it before you find out that you have taken the wrong path in destiny. Do you know that if you would find alignment, you you won't jump into alignment? If you were meant to travel... Have you traveled? Have you missed your way before? Yes. Yes, sir.

I remember I was invited to... Where was the place? Odomosho. Come and sit down. To preach. And I told the both men, I said, well, I... We have an invitation to Oshodbo. I don't know how both of them just scattered in my head. Ladies and gentlemen, we headed to Oshodbo with with serious speed. That's the that's the day I knew that speed is not an advantage when you are moving the wrong way.

We got to Oshobo in record time only to find out that the engagement was not in Oshobo. It was no. We're all in the car. We just... All of us just took a deep breath. It's not the driver's fault. Look, already corrected considering the financial implication on me because I was the one who told the driver the wrong information. Now it means I'm gonna have to pay him again to find us the the right way. We took a u-turn. We got to a place.

They now told us after driving hours, we thought, okay, there's a place that links to Oshodo if you can just find where we are going. We started going through villages going through. We got to... We left we left Ibadan around eleven here. Go to Obumo show 11PM. Do you know how long that journey should have been? Maybe one hour thirty minutes. It was when we're coming back that I knew that we wasted time. I... You see, because I've never been there, I did not know the impact of the thing.

Until we left in the morning, and we got to Ibadan in less than an hour thirty minutes. I said, God. The way the holy spirit explains events to me. I realize so many people have taken such details in life. And the... And you can be going there with massive speed. Speed is not an advantage in the wrong destination, in the wrong direction. Speed is only ever an advantage when you've gotten where you're going right. Do you realize that whilst you are testing church, his time is going? Why you don't...

It's easy. They don't know. You enter school. You know what the devil does? He said go and collect go and collect freshers package. And he uses one year, a whole session. And he's in every... He's just he's just going like that. One, two, three, a new one every day. And the devil is just glad and encouraging him.

Just let's let's try another. Do you wanna try out the next one? The name of the next one is so and so. I said, let's go. And he gets there and looks around. The moment the first timers come, he just go there. They give him rice. Said, ah. So he's different. So let me come next week again.

He comes for three weeks. Every... All the time he come and join first timer. The moment he recognizes him, he changes location. There is rice they are giving me. I must benefit. When someone has sports him, he says it's time to go. And he does this for a year. Do you see how distracted that life is? What he has wasted?

Many a times you waste a year, you think that what you really wasted was a year. You have not read scriptures. The bible says a day is like a thousand years. It means you never know the impact of a week you wasted. Do you know that it doesn't take God seconds or minutes to change your life? David's life changed in a day. The day he met Goliath. Imagine he wasted that day. Is it a day he wasted? So you just think, well, it's just a service.

You don't know that your word came that day. The word that came that day is meant to preserve you for the next ten years. Is it a day that Jacob wasted when he said the Lord was here and you're not? It was in time we discovered that he wasted twenty three years. That encounter was meant to redeem twenty three years in his life. It was a day he wasted. In other words, all his years of labor in God would only count in one day and he he was distracted on that day that day. That day. The bible says thou knowest not the day of your visitation. And so for every time you're on series with destiny, you really think that Many don't know.

Many don't know. Are you seeing the reason why God is intentional about redeeming the times? Because a man thinks it was just two years he wasted. In heaven's high, that two years is the equivalent of twenty five years. I didn't been where he was supposed to be in destiny. He would have arrived at a location in time that would have taken him twenty five years to have arrived at. When the devil sees this, it it it takes you on a ditto. So it makes you start trying out different things. It's part of the things. It's a man.

It's men. It's a guy. You you test out this guy, then you drop him, and then you go to the next guy, and then you drop him, and then you go to the next one and then drop him. It's a dito. I found out that a lot of people who are the most heavily distracted are also the most purposeful. And many a times they know. Some of them have the heaviest of visions. Some of them have seen the most beautiful of things. And when you talk to some of them and and they share their plans and their dreams and their visions with you, you are amazed at how much they know about themselves and you don't even know so much about yourself, but you are focused. You are amazed around what they know and they start telling you, I will be the this, I will be that, I will do this, I will do that.

Except for the fact that he is also the most distracted. The most distracted in the journey of purpose, in the journey of destiny. Next week Tuesday, we're talking about understanding seasons and seasons and times in destiny. Many do not know. Paul says, he labels more than everybody yet not him. He said it is the grace of God that is upon him, but the grace that was released upon him enables him to labor. He does not misappropriate the grace by thinking that the availability of the grace makes him better than everyone. Or by thinking that the availability of the grace just means that because grace has been given means that everything that God has promised will find expression in and of itself. He understood a reason for grace was for labor. In other words, there is a there is a there is there is an amount of labor in destiny both in your growth spiritually and in all that you will become.

I looked at someone. He came to me one day. He said, sir, how do you handle burnout? I said, explain what you mean. He said, I'm just burnt out. I said, you are just lazy. Do you know who should be asking me how do I handle burnout? It's not the under level student. Maybe you are 50 and maybe you are doing your PhD and you have five children or something. And you are trying...

You have a work and then you have a business and then you have a poetry, and then you have that one. You now come and meet and you say, Sad, I will preach to you. I already live. I'm going to class. You don't have anybody. Have no responsibility on the... Of children. He said, do I handle burn the burnout? You know why he's burnt out? He has taken a ditto.

Grace is not provided for detours. That's why 24 is not enough because time was given to you with respect to purpose. So whenever you find that time is never enough, it's because you have taken the tools. You're doing things they are not destined to do. For the one you are destined to do, time is exactly enough. I don't have too many things I'm doing. I don't have too many things I'm doing. I'm a man of God. I'm a business person. I have responsibility over people.

I'm not distracted. Time is exactly enough for me to study. That's why I would tell people how I read or what I do and all of that and and they just... And you look at them and you're saying, sir, how do you do it? If only you remove distractions, you'll become 90% more productive. The time can come when sleep become the distraction. We are the face you are in, you should not be sleeping the way you are sleeping. The extra two hours is distraction. The extra two hours you spend you spend has become a waste in destiny. And so you say, I I don't have time to pray.

You have slept it off. You finish clapping, just go home. When you go home, you just on your phone and on Instagram for the next three hours. And when you say, let me just stop now, a notification will pop up. Your friend posted a video on TikTok. You you just click on it. When you see, you just laugh, you react, you say, let me see the next one. And then you are there for one hour, two hours. And then you say, ah, let me study. You pick out your book to study, you start sleeping.

Then you say, let me sleep a little bit. And then you come and complain. And at the end of this life, somebody says, sir, he says, do I don't have time to do the things I need to do? Yes. And because you are busy doing the things you want to do. Oh, you didn't get that. You can come and live with me now and just find me relaxed. You don't need to be foolish for you to relax. Because when I was where you are, you can't even see me. Talk less, see me relax.

You didn't get that. My life was like that of an abolition. I was with my father. I was in my father's house some days ago. I was in my father's house. And one of my pastors came to visit me. I was in the house for like a week, and my father was asking a pastor that came to visit me, where is that pastor? Because in a week, he had not seen me and we're in the same house. He was... He thought that we're in the same house.

He was asking the pastor, where is apostle? He said, I came to see him. He's around? He said, think so. I think I should be asking you. What they don't know is that I was worse. When I was a student, my life was like an artist. Didn't have to met. Uh-oh. If it was not purpose, I was not interested.

So some people will... When they message me now and they say, sir, I want to go for this thing and can I go for this thing? The first question is why? Why? Because I I I route what they ask me according to purpose. What's the value of this thing to your purpose? What's the value? Since someone just invited me, I just felt ashore. God gave me signs early. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. God gave me science very early. If perhaps perhaps you'd focus on purpose and live a life that is that is that is rid of destruction, you'll be able to assuage the the effect of poverty and the effect of lack upon your life. You realize there's time. Time is not the issue. There is time. You realize I can read my book and be an excellent student and still prosper in my business. I can be a diligent I can be a diligent worker in church. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes.

Nothing standing in the way of another. If my purpose is music, worship, ministry, and I know that this is where God has placed me, I can be an excellent worship musician. I can learn an instrument and get better in it every day. My friend Dikko told me that while he was in school, was realizing for eight hours yet he did not feel. You say time is not... There's no time. He was realizing for eight hours to be a better musician and still finished as a mechanical engineer. Mister Diko is a mechanical engineer. Someone came to me and said, I want to drop out of school and focus on music. No.

It's not laughter. Not laughter. I'm not mocking the person. This is not mockery. Don't don't laugh. This is serious. You know the funny thing is that you will drop out of school, focus on music and be heavily distracted. And those will heavily distracted because you now realize that you now have too much time you don't even know what to do with it. Somebody was somebody was living with one of my pastors one time and after doing chores for the day, he finished the chores by 10AM or so, washed the house, cleaned the house. When he was done, just looked around like this because he just looked around like this and then picked up a movie and started watching.

And the pastor said, are you done for this? I don't I don't know what to do again because it was the first time that she was having to leave. She was... She just finished as a graduate. So she didn't have any routine of going to class every morning. But the father, she didn't have a class to go. She just did not know what to do with the day. So the next thing was to pick a phone and go to watching a movie. It is symptoms of a life on a beatle. A life that has taken...

He has... That has entered into a BRT with the devil. And they are going to Ojodbo. That... That's that's where they are headed. A life that's about to take an eleven hours fruitless journey. That's the life that journeys that way. It just begins to move. And do you know how the amount of progress we made while we were in school? When I entered into university, I said, I told my friends, will I not leave this place until I see Jesus.

That was how some of us entered. That was what some of us wanted. We invested so much hours in prayer. That can be my own goal because I know my purpose in life is to reveal Jesus to the world. And so I can go to the back of chapel after class and just go and pray and pray and spend time praying. When we are done praying, we'll go back home. We rest. We read school books. We read spiritual books. The life revolt.

See, a purposeful life is not a boring life. Many of you think that to make your life exciting, you must go on the detail. That's the reason why some people are on it. They think purpose is boring. They think the routine that they subject themselves to every day is boring. And so they think that for their life to have a little bit of extra flavor, they say, ah, it's to chocolates. Let's add vanilla and strawberry and red velvet just to add some spice to it. So he wants to be here and wants to be there and wants to be there and wants to be there. My life was very exciting. My life is still very exciting.

One of my relatives traveled to come and see me. She had not seen me in four years. When she traveled, she came down to my place. After speaking for, like, an hour, she said, papa, I didn't know you were this fun. I said, you don't know me, that's why. My life is the most exciting yet the most serious you find. Because purpose is fun. The fun part of it is that you know you have... There's fulfillment in what you are doing. And add that to the fulfillment you are doing with destiny friends, destiny people, covenant relationships that you have made who are also on their way to purpose.

You will joke and you understand each other. You're speaking the same language. You're speaking the same words. You don't need to go on a deep tongue and find people who don't know God to to make your life exciting, add flavor to your life. We're on the path to prog... We are on the path of of purpose. Everything is is is is is is aligned. Everything is aligned. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Ask your neighbor a question.

Are you on a ditto? Do you know you should think about it? If perhaps you had found out that you're on the path of destiny, I congratulate you. I congratulate you. By the venture you find out you're on a detour, it's time to recorrect your steps. Don't go pause that journey there. Don't read your schedule. Just stop there. It will become faster to realign your path. Don't bother seeing the end of the way is destruction.

Don't say I'm ready, dear. Let's just go finish it. No. Don't finish it. Turn back. Turn back. That's the that's the deceit on that the devil put some people in. You you you you you pick your phone and probably you see a pornographic movie or pornographic site. And while you're there, your eyes see the first time. You always pray convict you.

You say,. Let's just... And turn back. Turn back. Turn back. It's not too late to turn back. That that thing let me see is is is the devil blasting the horn of progress and speed and destruction. He's saying go faster. Go faster. Go faster.

On the path of destiny, there are just... The spirit of just men made perfect, healing you. On the detour, there are demons also healing you. Time wasters. That's what you find there. Do you know that one of the ways that the devil introduces distraction is that he implants pride in a man? A valley defines that you are too focused to be distracted. He now puts pride in you. The pride becomes the steering wheel that drives you out of destiny. Because you see on the path of destiny, it will be aligned that there are people you must learn from.

Sometimes you might feel as though you are more intelligent than them. You might feel as though... But on that path, it doesn't matter what you have or who you are. What matter is who has what you don't have. When the devil puts pride in you, the pride will not be able to... Will not make you humble yourself to learn and to receive instruction. So the pride in itself will steer you out of purpose. And I've seen several people like this who have taken a dither out of pride. Pride is the reason they took a ditto. They were corrected.

They were corrected. And the moment at the instance of the correction, the guy feels as though I'm not doing again because he was corrected. Imagine if Elisha had stopped following Elijah when Elijah told him to stop. You know that that was a... That would have been a pride problem. The man said... You would have said, do you know how many years I've been following you? Do you know how the successful businessman before I started with you? I was on my own. You were the one who came to me.

And now I started with you. You don't want us to sit today. You are telling me to stop. Is that not an insult? How would you tell me to just stop just like that? You can even get hungry and go. How can Elijah was a very hungry man? Roasting people's destinies without care. No wonder he had many sons of the prophet, but only one stayed with him. Do you know what he reduced his children to?

He was meant to be teaching them prophetic class when the king were describing the assignment of Elijah to Elijah. He's the one that used to pour water on the hands of Elijah. He said, we came to learn prophecy, pour water on my hands. He washed my hands for me. Someone who will study prophecy, go and fetch me wood over there. You guys say, I should be also have gifts. That means we can... It's not as though what what am I... It's not as though I'm not seeing... I I I still saw Bengay yesterday.

Still told him what his father was doing. What what is all of this? And now we've been here for four years. You have not even taught us, mentored us. All the sons of the prophet. Sons of which prophet? Songs of deep... Is that is that not so? The bible says that they told Elisha, do you know that your master is... Was no longer our master?

We have graduated. We left. We took a ditto years ago. We are no longer in that class with you. We we we we we wore the graduation gown by ourselves. We put the cap on our... We treat it up like this. You are still just living away. And you say your father, is it your master? Do you know where you'll be taken away?

What are you still doing with you? You better come and join us. They were already making a a name for themselves. They were using the influence of Elijah, how that they they they were, you know, associated with Elijah to have ministerial platform. So people were calling them for mini ministry work. Come and deliver my family. Come and prophesy. Come on. They were engaging. They become contract prophets.

What was resting for them was that the spirit of Elijah will rest on them. That they will become embodiments of a a a... An an an ancestral spirit, a generational spirit, a mantle that is meant to be passed across. Imagine if we had 10 of them, 20 of them, 30 of them. But that spirit rest upon. Do you think it's not possible? Is that what happened with Moses? What if that was God's plan? And they too... They they graduated themselves because they could not allow themselves to finish in the school in as much as they were very gifted.

If you are not careful, are gifted, you have you have pride. You'll be very proud. You are gifted in any sense. You'll not be able to sit down to be taught, to learn, to be instructed. You find yourself in a business and somebody is obviously doing well more than you or you are older than the person. So you will feel as if the should instruct you. You can't talk to me how you talk to everybody else. I don't understand why you're talking to them like that. They are small children. But I'm 30 years old.

You are 24. At least some respect. Brother, who has the money? Why is a poor man proud? Why will you have two problems? Why? Why not just stay with one and then let's solve that one? Why had another one there? I will not be distracted. No.

I will not. I will not. I will not. I will not. The seasons of your life are divided into three. Three seasons. Your entire life and your life and anxiety is divided into three. The entire life is divided into three. The seasons of your life and what God will do with you is tripartite. And every man's season starts the same way.

Every man has these same seasons over their lives. And you see, the destruction of the enemy is centered around all these seasons. In other words, the devil will attempt to distract in the first and if he cannot, he goes to the to the second. And it's to the end that the third does not come. The first season in a man's life is the season of discovery. And there are three things that a man discovers in this season. A man discovers God. A man discovers himself. A man discovers his purpose, his calling, his giftings. In the discovery of yourself, you discover your giftings as well, your talents, your abilities, your your purpose.

So I don't know what my purpose is. You're still in that season of discovery. I'm so confused right now. You're still in that season of discovery. So your assignment primarily is to discover. The moment discovery is done, the moment you have discovered the next season instantly begins. In other words, the next season is at the mercy of the effectiveness of the later, of the former. Are you with me? In other words, if it takes you twenty years to discover, the next season has not begun. It doesn't matter what you are doing in that season.

To discover God, to learn God, to have the knowledge of God, who he is, his ways, his principles, his methods. You see, what it means to discover God doesn't just mean being saved or being aware that God exists. It means discovering God, knowing God, having an encounter with God, knowing his ways, knowing his principles, his methodologies, his patterns. Are you with me? Yes, sir. You discover yourself, your calling, your purpose, your giftings. The moment you discover this, the next phase of your life begins, and that is the season of preparation. The season where man begins to prepare for that which he has discovered, his assignment. And so when you discover for instance that you are called to be in ministry, you see, you then begin to prepare. It launches you into a phase of preparation.

Many people say I don't know what to do or what next do I do. You start to prepare. That's what next you do. Whilst you are preparing, you're trusting God for even better clarity. You see, you're trusting God because you might not have gotten everything when you discovered. So you might need more clarity as to, okay, what type of ministry do I have? I know I'm an apostle, but what type of ministry? Have I been called to have a church? Have I been called to prostitutes? Have I been called to prisoners?

Have I been called to... You see, do I have a Pauline ministry, an itinerary ministry? Have I been called to pastor a people? Because you see, when people don't have this clarity, they just launch out because of what they see all that's doing. And and and if you're not careful, you will launch out doing what you don't have the grace for. Because like I said, grace is provided along the areas of purpose. Grace is not provided in in detail. So if a man takes a detail, you would need to travel that journey with your own strength. Do you understand what I'm saying? Thank you, Lord Jesus.

The season of discovery is when a man discovers himself, like I said. Your identity in Christ Jesus is part of the discoveries you make, who you are. I'm not timid. I'm not shy. If you're still struggling with low self esteem, you don't... You have a problem of identity. You see, you have a problem of discovery. You still have low self esteem issues. You cannot position yourself well. You are still struggling with discovery.

Are you with me? It means you've not discovered yourself in Christ. You don't know that you are bold. The righteousness is as bold as a lion. You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. You are the blessed of God, the healed of God, the redeemed of God. You must know this about yourself. Are you with me? It's important you know this about yourself. Do you know that if you don't know this about yourself, your identity will have question mark.

And if identity has question mark, it will affect whatever you do, The ministry of business. Let me take business for instance. Two people got a job in a particular industry. Let me not tell you the name. They got a job. When they got the job, both of them were asked. How much do you want? The first one said 200,000. The second one said 600,000. The interviewer did not argue with any of them because both of them were both qualified.

The one who said 200,000 naira was not negotiated, they gave him 20,000 immediately. The one who said 200,000 naira, they gave him 600,000 immediately. Two years after, are you with me? Yes, sir. They met at a confluence point and they were both discussing, and they remembered themselves recognize each other from the interview. And the discussion entered into salary, and the one receiving 200 realizes that this other guy is receiving 600, and they both work in the same office, both both do the same job, and play for the same service. So how how are you earning three times more than I'm earning? That's shit. And he said, no. I don't know how how, but they asked me how much do I want.

I told them and they gave me. The guy that remember that they have... They also asked me how much do I want, and they gave me exactly what I said. You know what the difference is? Identity. Identity will either increase your worth or diminish your worth. In other words, your knowledge of how much you are worth is tied to your identity. And it's not first tied to your physical identity, it is tied to your spiritual identity. In other words, you can be so skillful but not know how much you are worth. Somebody didn't hear what I just said.

You can be terribly skillful. You are the best in that job. And they will employ you for that job, and you will say two five. And the boldness and the authority, the authority to say, I'm I'm I'm charging $300 is not there. Yet you are very good. It is first a spiritual problem before it's physical. It's because you don't know what... You don't know your identity in Christ. You don't know that the word has been given to you. The bible covers heirs of God, heirs with Christ.

Are you with me? It means you must you must know that I'm deserving of the best. That is the first place a man get his identity from. I am a child of God, a son of God. I'm an heir of God. I'm an heir of God. If the heavens and the earth is the Lord, it means the heaven and the earth is mine. The bible calls Abraham possessor of heaven and earth. We are children of Abraham. We have the blessings of Abraham.

Are you with me? I possess the earth and all that is in it. I... When a man begins to think like that and he goes into business, you see, there's a difference. A difference in mentality. A difference in how he thinks. When somebody starts talking you down, I was talking to a group of business people and I told them, do you realize that you can do a project in five minutes and charge $500 for it? And when the person asks you, but why are you charging so much for something you did in five minutes? You tell them, I'm not charging for the time I used in doing it. I'm charging for the time I used in learning it.

And all of them said, hey. Oh. And experiences where they've had to cut down on their pricing because of someone's empathic story and all of that. And I told them it's because you didn't know your worth. There's what is called spiritual worth. Are you with me? What I am worth spiritually. There's what is called commercial worth. In other words, what I'm worth commercially. In other words, my commercial worth must give evidence to my spiritual worth.

So I don't come and say that I know what I'm worth. Give me $500 for it and do nonsense. Do you understand what I'm saying? If all you have is commercial worth, the absence of spiritual worth will introduce low self esteem. It will still make you price yourself down. It will affect you in your business. The price of things are going up, and the amount you are buying goods to produce, the cost of production has drastically increased. But you're now scared if I increase the price now, people buy it, you have a spiritual problem. It must force a commercial problem. It's a problem of identity.

Are you with me? Because you must know I'm not rejected. That one is spiritual. No man can reject me. I am accepted. I have favor upon my head. Oil upon my head. Increase in my hands. Thou anointed my head with oil, my cup. It's my cup that runs over, not my head.

It's my head that is anointed. It's my cup that runs over. In other words, anything that brings income to my hands runs over. I am anointed of God. Are you with me? So if I try to respect what I'm worth, I'm deserving of it. Hey. Where do you solve this question? Identity. Identity.

One of my guys met with a... Met with someone who wanted to give him a project, and he wrote an invoice for the person and sent it to the person, and the invoice was 13,000 naira or so. And the person looked at me and said, ah. Because the person, you know, loved him specially. I think it was a relative or something like that. The person then told him that you didn't had the money with you for so and so and so. The guy now said, okay. Okay. Now handed to the invoice, he won't be give 57,000 naira. The man said, okay.

Send your account number. I said the only reason why you got that job is because the person is a relative, and they don't want to give you. Because there are clients you meet, the moment you make that first blunder, you have priced yourself too cheap that they doubt your competence. It's not one thing, and this one do it. Are you sure this one can do it? I mean, everybody who came who they invited to to make proposals. One, the first one said 100,000,000. Second one said 500,000,000. Another one said 1,000,000,000. Another one said 200,000,000.

Then you came. You said 10,000 naira. You see, there is already a sieving process. We don't need to even know how... What you are offering, how you are doing it. Are you with me? If you don't know your identity, you will have a lot of problems. Your spiritual identity, you will have so many problems. It means you must take time to study in scriptures. Who am I?

I like the song. Who am I that the highest king? Can you sing it with me? Yeah. This kind of song reminds you of your identity. That's what they do. I'm forgiven. My sins are forgiven. It's an identity. We have received the forgiveness of sins.

Listen to me. We have received the forgiveness of sins. It's an identity. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. It's an identity. Someone will not begin to think that because I make a mistake, God will not bless me. Are you saying this? Maybe God had not prayed yesterday. My goodness will not make sense today. Someone says, ah, the I didn't pray yesterday.

You see, you don't know your identity. You cannot carry that consciousness into into into anything, into ministry, into life, into career. That's why it begins with discovering yourself, discovering what God has called you. Listen, are you most intentionally reject whatever you think you have that God hasn't called you? I'm not a sinner. You know we are all sinners. I'm not one of them. I'm a child of God. I'm no longer slain to fear. I am a child of God.

Listen. Listen. Do you know that? Do you know that? Do you know that God can be implanted in your heart to expand your business? And then fear now puts you in one corner. Fear just holds you. Fear grips your heart, and you're unable to take steps of faith. God is telling you, go and submit the proposal to that man over there. Go and meet us for market.

Go and show them your business. Beat your business. Go for that investor. Go for that grant. Register your business. Take massive steps. Get enough that number. Get a excellent number for your business, and you think, ah, we are too small. We don't have an office. We don't have this.

Who will accept me? It's what's the problem of identity. Are you with me? Will they buy from me? Will will I be able to make sales? Will I be able to think and like, no. No. No. No. No.

Someone thinks I'm just a student now. How will I start doing this? Do know that some people don't think they should have millions in their accounts because they are students? You you literally look at yourself like a student, like a student. And you can't see more than that. You can't see bigger than that. And so we are prophesying. Your mindset is the first thing that constricts you from receiving. Are you with me? Are you with me?

When you have a good perception of yourself based on God's word, there are no limitations for you. You will expect the best always. I'm favored every time. I'm favored every time. My sins are forgiven. It doesn't count my mistakes over me. Are you with me? I know I am not... I might not be perfect. I might still be imperfect.

I might still have things I'm working on, but God does not consider me by my imperfections. He's pleased with me. He's not pleased with me based on what I do. He's pleased in me because of who I am. Are you with me? It's not my works that pleases Christ. It is that pleases God. It is the sacrifices of Christ that pleases God. Are you with me? Yes.

So even while I'm growing onto perfection, I don't fall to them and think that my father is not happy with me. Oh, no. While Peter was sinking, Jesus was there holding his hand. Jesus never said, Peter, Peter, I'm disappointed in you. He said, no. Oh, you of little faith. Why did you doubt? And he started addressing the issue. Never did condemn the man. Never did...

Are you with me, brother Stoss? Never did condemn the man. Do you know that Peter denied him for three times? He denied Jesus three times. When Jesus met him after his resurrection, he looked at the man that denied him three times. You know what he said to him? Little children, harvest any cattle. How come it's one of your little children? Even the one that denied you is one of your little children. How about the one that sold you?

Their offense was the same. The difference is the perception of themselves both of them have. Are you with me? That other one thought that Jesus will be so angry with me. I don't deserve to be in the presence of God anymore. The other one said, you know what? I will still hang around. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? You must know how many people have attempted to start business without having this solid understanding? You will chicken out of every opportunity.

You will stand before greatness. Your leg will be shaking like this. You won't be able to stand and discuss contract in six digits, seven, eight, nine digits like you deserve. I got a testimony yesterday. He said the man... The young man told me, I just had the boldness to just ask my client. A client reached out to me, and I would normally offer that service for $400. We had the conversation yesterday. And after... Look.

It was this morning. Sorry. The conversation was yesterday. And he reached out to me this morning. A client reached out to him, and the client, he would normally do that service for $400, but he just had the boldness in his heart to say, I'm collecting $700. And the client did not argue. He got the he got the contract. If he had said 400, he would have given to him. Are you with me? What if you said 1,000?

Anyways, the question would be, does the commercial value worth or match up or match up with it? Are you with me? Yes. You must know who you are. I can't fail. I can't fail in whatever I do. In other words, my business cannot fail. The bible says the blessings of God make it rich. I have the blessings on my head. The blessings upon me.

I'm the blessed of God. In other words, I do my business like this. Are you with me? I conduct myself like this. I'm looking for a job. This is the this is the consciousness that we use and look for jobs. This is the consciousness. This is what now? The consciousness. I know who I am.

I'm blessed. I'm what? I'm blessed. One of my guys messaged me yesterday. He said, Sam, I'm seeing my first six digits. You won't have the boldness to do this if you don't know your identity, especially in this economy. In this economy, someone is showing their first six digits. Another one messaged me on this side, just saw my first seven digits. I'm you. I'm with where I spoke about prospering by the blessings.

Prospering by the blessing. And you make confessions upon your life. You are discovering your identity. Are you with me? You are pronouncing yourself by who you are. Do you know that there's power in recognizing who you are? There's power. I'm I'm not saying I'm not saying symbolically speaking. I'm saying literally, there is power when a man recognize this identity. There is spiritual power that is released.

The soldiers came and arrest Jesus. Are you with me? When they came to Jesus to arrest him, they said they are looking for so and so and so, he told them I am he. The moment he told them I am he, there was a release of power. All of them fell down flat. I am he. It means if a man recognizes who is he, power is released. The day a man knows who he is, power is released. Was that not why somebody's head was chopped off? It was meant to come in the spirit and power of Elijah.

The power was not missing. The the power was missing because the knowledge of the identity was missing. In other words, what bring about the power component is identity. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Is what now? Identity. Identity. I can pray for a sick man. I can cast out a devil.

I've done it before. It's not our labors that give us that boldness. We can pray for the sick just waking up on the bed. His identity, the consciousness of identity. The consciousness of what? Identity. It is powerful. You take it into your business. You know I'm a I'm a prosperous woman. I'm still building this thing, but it is growing already, reaching the hands of the earth.

Are you with me? Yes. How much are you buying Indomie before? How much is Indomie now? You are selling Chinchin, and you are afraid of increasing your price because you are afraid you will not make sales again. Are you seeing what... Do you get my point? Yes, sir. You say, You say, The people I'm supplying to before, they say it's not expensive. Students will not be able to afford it.

Maybe God is telling you that you're no longer selling to students. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Maybe God is telling your customer bill has changed. Maybe God is telling you that you are not... You are not looking for yourself or you are not. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Thank you, Jesus. The moment the man discover identity, the man has all it takes to start fulfilling purpose.

All it takes all it takes, the work of faith to start taking steps towards the fulfillment of purpose. Preparation is required. You start studying books, going for conferences depending on what is written about you, lectures, seminars, anything that that can improve your value. Are you with me? Yes. Anything that can do what? Improve my value. In the area of your purpose, you give yourself to it. You buy courses to improve your value. Preparation is the next phase of your life when you have discovered.

Don't don't... Listen to me. In preparation, just give yourself to it immediately. Start praying, start studying, start doing everything that increases your value in that area. Everything that increases your worth in that area. Do you know what God taught me some time ago? You know the time in my life when people come and meet me for answers and I refer them to books. I told them, oh, read this book. Go and get it. Read the book.

You know what the holy spirit told me? The holy spirit told me that every time you refer people to a book and they get their solution from that book, the value... Are you are you with me? Comes from the book. The answer comes from the book. The reward goes to the book or whoever wrote it. I didn't quite understand what the holy spirit was telling me. And he said that if you don't become the answer that people seek, it means the reward for the answer will not come to you. For every time you recommend people to whoever whoever has the answer, you are recommending the reward as well. Are you with me?

The Holy Spirit told Mary in that... You see, I I got the understanding immediately that for every time I read, what I'm doing is that I'm increasing my value. I'm increasing my worth. Are you with me? So I read books that I don't have the problem. I've read books on depression. I've never been depressed. I've read a lot of books on women, the psychology of women, what it means to be a woman, the man, the anatomy. I've read faces written by PhD students. I've read a lot of things, and I still read voraciously.

There's a reason for it. For every time I read, I'm increasing in value. I'm increasing in worth. So I can stand before businessmen and talk to them. They wouldn't know I'm a pastor. The kind of value you would get from me, I can't... I... A couple came to come and meet me. They've been married twenty years, and they were on the verge of divorce. They were done meeting with me.

They called me the following the following following month. Both of them were smiling on video call. I'm supposed to thank you. I'm supposed to thank you. We will send the gift. I'm not married. From whence comes the value. You think it's not because somebody's anointed? No. There is work.

Work in studying, work in reading. So that there's nobody who I stand in front of presidents of nations, I have a message for them. Economists, I have a message for them. Politicians, have a message for everyone who cares to listen. Are you with me? I've increased myself in value that way. It means there's a way somebody will come to you. When they hear you talk, they give you 1,000 naira. How much you are worth? Your value has not risen to that extent.

There are two ways to have experience. You can either have it or buy it. Now you buy it in books. When you get a man's books, have borrowed into the man's experience. Forty years of experience is hidden in a message. How successful people think. Materially speaking, you don't have the result yet. This man have it. I now showed you how they think. I get the book.

I read it. I said, my goodness. A shift in perspective, a shift in mindset. The ones I don't align with scripture, throw them away. Are you with me? What I'm doing is I'm preparing for something that is coming. That's the next season, the season of manifestation. All you do between discovery and manifestation is preparation. It means... Right...

Listen to me. Right now, we are still preparing. In as much as we are still gathered here, I'm still... We are still in the cave. Are you with me? Still preparing. Many people have been deceived by a slight show of result to think they've entered into manifestation. They don't know that there's a time when the guy is 12, he's still brought out. But the moment he's brought out, eating back. Are you with me?

So the result when you are 12 years old is not the same as the result when you are 30. I'm not saying in terms of age. I'm saying in terms of... Don't think I'm saying 30 years old. Like, you must be 30 years old. I'm using the story of Jesus. Are you with me? How that by 12 years old, people saw him and say, what wisdom is this? But he never began ministry until 30 years old. Are you with me?

In other words, in as much as he already... He was already wise. He was already knowledgeable. He was already... By a trough, he was already disputing with doctors of the law, scribes, Pharisees. You could... If it was you, many ministers begun. International intelligence twelve year old ministry. Come and see the wonder of Christ. A 12 year old moving in power and in grace.

And then you launch yourself prematurely and you phase out prematurely. Destiny is a marathon. It's not a sprint. When you're running a marathon, don't you don't decrease and use all your energy and exhaust yourself. No. You take time to prepare. Are you with me? Do you know there's a particular composition that your body must have to run the marathon? That's why I think guys like the Kenyans always win in every marathon because their their their geography, right, already put them at a point of advantage. They have more higher higher levels.

Is that not... So they have to live on mountains. They live on elevated platforms that are closed, that are very close, you know, higher altitude, yeah, that has lower oxygen levels. And that means that their body have evolved over time to have increased lung capacity to make do. Are you with me? Yes, sir. We're living in such higher altitudes. So they have increased lung capacity. Along with increased lung capacity come with several things that follows. I don't want to go into all of that.

That means that if they walk the same distance that a normal man walks, by the time you are tired, they are still just... They've not started. Because the altitude they live in already prepares them for that. So when you put a man who has lived in Nigeria all his life and all he has been doing is going to the gym, you see, that that that preparation has not prepared you enough for that particular assignment. So the man who has lived his life living on higher altitude. Are you with me? If you pick a man from Nigeria and take him to Kenya or just drop him in a place of high altitude, he would die of hypoxia. Immediately, his biology will show he's not prepared. That's the same way destiny shows you're not prepared for your result. Are you with me?

You must prepare. So you live your life in preparation. It means there are times when God will now tell you, most times you are, start going to secondary schools. It does not... It doesn't mean miniature has begun. Absence. It is still part of preparation. You start a business and your business start making civil duty. It's still part of preparation. You give your first seven leaders, you are still preparing.

Yes, sir. That's not where God is taking you to. Don't have early satisfaction. Don't think I've begun early. You are still preparing. We've not begun. I told one of my guys, he said, like what you're doing. I then showed him how much people who are doing what he's doing are collecting to speak for thirty minutes. I know a speaker. To invite him to speak for thirty minutes, you pay me $80,000.

$80,000. And you say, except for the fact that he's getting invitations every week. In other words, you only say because you're poor. People who realize the value of what he's offering understand they need what he's offering. Businesses, organizations, by the time he talks to them, they they they can't go... They can't live the same way. You watch thirty seconds of his video, you get value of thirty thirty days. How can a man rise like that? Do you actually remember that valuable? Years of studying, how hard of studying, how hard of reading, of borrowing to people's experiences.

Are you with me? You cannot be lazy and stuff in in preparation. You cannot... You don't you don't don't have the privilege of laziness. I don't care what you have, whether you are a photographer, a videographer, a a a graphic designer, you're a fashion designer, you do makeup. If you want to be great, you must prepare. I must prepare excellently well. Part of preparation is refining your skills, sharpening your skills, becoming a better version of yourself so that when you work, the excellence in what you in what you are doing. Are you with me? It makes you it makes you...

No one can reject what you're offering. No one. That's what preparation does for you. Prepare. Prepare. Do you know before I started ministry, I read several books. I I read a lot of books before this became a ministry. We've been praying for many years. We've just praying, but the moment God gave the instruction, I started reading books, church administration, church finances, growing a mega church, growing a big church, the purpose driven church. I read every Daggy Ward Mills book I could lay my hands on.

Every bishop David Odeko's book on ministry, I could lay my hands on exploiting ministry. Bishop David Ouedego. And a lot of authors, I won't mention their name, read their books, we've not studied anything. But you see when I'm having financial problem in ministry, I'll start learning about finances. No. Preparation. Conflict resolution. And then I read, I was prepared for events that have made that that have not yet happened. When they happened, I'm reminded of the books I have read that describe the same events and how they handled it. Are you with me?

So most of the events I faced in ministry were not new. Somebody had written it. Somebody had said it. I have read it somewhere. I know exactly how to respond. When we're having venue issues, I've read a book that of a man who was having venue issues. Are you getting what I'm saying? Yes, sir. So I didn't think it was because I know our faith. I knew it was a normal thing.

I knew exactly what to do to come out of it. I wasn't confused one second. When someone come to meet me, I can almost with precision and accuracy diagnose the problem based on knowledge. How far are you preparing? How much are you preparing? I'm gonna speak to nations of the world. There's a way I must sound. I mustn't be local. I mustn't be local. I'm gonna stand before kings, before princes.

There's a way I must perceive me. My English must be sound. I won't say it doesn't matter. It matters because I'm not speaking to only my tribesmen. Go into the world is what he says. In other words, how we are doing ministry must be excellent. It must be global irregardless of wherever we are. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes.

Glory to God. Amen. Rise up on your feet. You don't judge. You don't say, hey. I'm just starting my my my makeup my makeup class, and I'm just... You know, because I'm just starting, say, let me just put myself out there, and you do your first makeup for maybe your sister, and you put a picture online, and you just decorated her face like like like the hawk. And see my my first makeup class. Come on. You should know you're not ready to...

They're not ready for... Are you with me? You are still working on yourself. Don't put your weakness in public. Because first impression lasts very long. Don't amplify your weakness. We do the best we can do with what we have currently. We only amplify our strength. It's wisdom. What did I call it?

It's wisdom. You are you are you are you are you have a business, maybe you are maybe you are selling, you are selling puff puff or whatever. I want now extend you the balance of your business. Now let me start making donut. You know, have not practiced it before your life. You just made it one day. I say, come and tell you, oh, come and have your first experience. I now... You now sell it again. Somebody now eats the donut, goes back home and push for three days.

And now... Listen. You don't amplify your weakness. That is why we prepare. So that by the time we are releasing ourselves into the world... Are you with me? We are in a generation that is unforgiving. Thank God for what you have heard and done. Thank God for what you've heard. And pray for the grace to do, the grace to act.

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