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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. Very popular scripture, Jeremiah chapter nine verse 11. Let's go straight into the word of God. I told you that my emphasis as we began this year would be to the end that will become effective spiritually, to the end that will become effective all around across every area of our lives and to become mature and to gain spiritual stability, to gain master in the realm of the spirit so that we are not like children who are tossed to and fro, moved by every wind of doctrine, but that we find stability even in our Christian experience. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Many people right now are living lives that are empty, lives that are void, that is void of meaning, life without purpose. A lot of people are confused. A lot of people are frustrated.

A lot of people are guessing their way through lives right now without an understanding of purpose and without meaning to their Christian experience, even to their lives as individuals. So many people right now, all that they risk to their lives, all their lives revolve around is just if they are lucky enough to have an education, finish school, have a good education, finish with a BSc, get a certificate, get a degree, you can study anything, really, doesn't really matter, engineer, doctor. It... There was a time when it it it matters what you study. But right now in this generation, it don't really matter. But the time when you feel it... Everybody had this perception that for you to do well in life, you need to be a doctor or you need to be an engineer. But it doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Now everybody wants to be a tech giant. Everybody wants to study something that relates to tech.

Everybody wants their children to study something that relates to tech. There used to be a time when if you study financial accounting, you're sure to get a work... A job in a bank. Right now, even if you study your Uber, you can work in a bank. It don't really matter. Just... A lot of people just want to get admission to school. Just leave the comfort of home and let it be said that I'm now in university. Let it be said that I now have a degree. And the moment they have a degree, they go for service.

And when they do go for service, get somebody who is interested in getting married to them, or perhaps they find someone if they are men who they want to get married to. They propose, they get a good job, they get married, go to work every day, make love, have children, raise children, pay for children's school fees. The time comes when the financial burdens around them is just to take care of the home and the wife. Now children is involved. Children are involved in the equation. Now the guy is thinking how to get a promotion or to get another job or or start a business that increases his source of income so that he can take care of the family and take care of the home because there's school fees to pay. And the school fees right now is not smiling. I visited a family in Lagos some time ago who just put to bed, And the baby is around the age where she... The child can now go to a crutch. The amount of money that the child is being paid that the school is being paid to take care of the baby for them in that crutch is the total amount of money that some people spend in university.

When you sum everything together, the amount of money they pay per session to take care of a baby in a crutch is more than 500,000. And because of the location that they live in, that was the cheapest they could find. They had no choice, but now there's pressure on this burden upon that family to ensure that that fee is continually paid. The the man must ensure that he retains the job he has if it is capable of paying that fee. The woman must ensure that it also hustles. The woman cannot afford to be an housewife, especially if the finances of the man is not stable enough to make her soul. And so both of them have to continue in labor and and in struggle. And everyday life is just governed around making income, making hens meet, making money, going to work, waking up in the morning, go to work, come back home, eat, cook, take care of the child, wake up in the morning, go to work, come back home, eat, cook, take care of the child. The child grows. You grow as well.

Maybe you have three children. They are in university. You've reached the age where you retire. Probably you're 60, 70 years old. If God has helped you, probably you have a house of your own. If not, you're still living in in a rented apartment somewhere. And if you're so fortunate, then you you get to see your children get married, have grandchildren. If not, just become old and live a miserable life and probably just die of one sickness or one affliction or of the culmination of the foolish lifestyle that he lived or just or just passes on really. And that becomes the summation of the life that the average Nigerian, American, Asian, you mentioned it. That becomes the...

Have the summation of the life that they live. Meaningless, purposeless lives, and this this this pattern keeps on repeating itself. And you would think that those who are growing right now would see the mistakes of those who have gone ahead, and they would, by the mistakes they've seen, readdress and repattern themselves to ensure that they don't walk that same path. But the pattern continues to reemerge, resort. It it it continues to reappear. It is the same thing every time, the same thing every day. And so many young people who are already living their lives are living their lives following that same pattern, the same thing. A lot of people are in school right now, and they are already... They've already started the journey of a purposeless, of a meaningless life. And you see them all around.

You see them all around. And the the truth is that for such people, there will always be a temporal distraction. That's how the devil does it. The devil has a way of keeping you distracted from the big picture. Now he does it is to introduce a temporal distraction, Something that can keep your mind off the fact that you are not fulfilling purpose. Something that can keep your mind off the fact that you are living a meaningless life. Something that can keep your mind off the fact that you are not fulfilled in life and destiny. And the devil will always introduce that distraction. The distraction can be a group of friends that they walk together and talk together and play together and smoke together. It's the same thing that people who get high, the same effect that it gives them.

It gives them a temporal feeling as though they are on top of the world, a temporal feeling of excitement, as though everything is possible. And then the moment the effect of whatever they've taken wears off, they come back to reality. And because reality for them is such an unfortunate experience, they can't wait to get back high. It has become a means of escaping reality. The same thing the devil does to people and to individuals to distract them from the fact that your life as it is right now is meaningless. Do you know that for some, it's a pursuit for a first class? That becomes a distraction from purpose and from destiny. Is that much strange? Does this mean that there's something wrong in wanting to get a first class? Oh, no.

Come on now. You need to have gotten my teachings. You would know that I propagate that. But I'm telling you that a man can get to a point where the only thing that makes sense in his life is his pursuit for a first When that individual eventually gets a first class, usually, life then dawns on them. They realize they have a certificate, but they've ignored every other thing that should give that certificate relevance, every other thing that should give that certificate a meaning. And so you would see a lot of intelligent people, people who are smart, working jobs that their intelligence surpasses. And you can't imagine how exactly can you hold this in your hand as certificate and you'll find yourself in this place because the devil distracted them all along by an empty pursuit. And they thought that that pursuit was the definition of life, and they missed church for a first class. They missed the house of God for a first class. They missed quality relationships for a first class.

They missed a relationship with God for a first class. They missed prayer and a study life for a first class. They missed intimacy with the spirit of God for a first class. They missed connecting with human beings, prejudating with people for a first class. Thank you Jesus. The masses are poor. Do you know? Do you understand what I just said? Do you know that the masses are poor? The...

In the bible, in economy, when we're growing up in school, they told us that there is the average class, the the the middle class as we call them. Yeah? And then there is the poor, and then there's the well-to-do and the rich, the upper class. Is that not so? There's a lower class. Unfortunately, the Bible only understands two. The poor and the rich meet together. The Lord God makes them whole. The Bible never recognizes a lower class, a middle class. The Bible only knows the poor and the rich.

In other words, you are either rich or poor. If you say someone is middle class, what now determines or defines a middle class? What now? Let me let me make you understand what I'm saying more. If you understand tech a little bit, there used to be a time that there are... Every mobile phone industry makes two different kinds of phones in a year. Most ones, they make the flagships, and they make the midrange. The flagship phones are the high end phones you know. The the s 24, s whatever ultra, the pro maxes. Those are the high end phones, the flagship phones.

And then they make a mid range phones. And the idea behind a mid range phone is so that the average man, you see, the middle class man, who cannot afford to get a flagship can then get a mid range. Do you get what I'm trying to say? Samsung released their midrange phones, and I found that the mid range there was 300,000 naira to get one. In other words, that's the amount of money that the middle... According to their definition, the middle class should be able to afford a phone that eight months salary cannot get. You are within the phone of 300,000, you're a rich man in Nigeria. That's not my point. Don't get... Don't don't be distracted.

That's not where I'm going. I'm just trying to show you that you're ahead of poor, rich. There's no divide. And majority, the masses, 80% of people in the world are poor. Not in Nigeria alone in the world are poor. If not more than that. There are very few people who have tapped into the fullness of the resources that God has in mind for them as in store for them as believers. Leave poor and riches alone. How about those who have who are living a fulfilled life? Those who are living a meaningful life, a life of purpose, a life of impact, a life of impact.

When you begin to study the state of this nation, this country as a whole, you'd realize that sincere... Do you know that when the whole issue of Naira, Viniscus happened, those who were affected were those who were poor? Do you realize that? That inside that same cavity, some people never knew that was cursed. Inside that same experience, some people never knew that Myra was cast. If you go to the bank right now, you'll find a lot of people trying to enter, and there's a queue outside. I heard a man of God saying that he called his bank and told them when the whole BVN thing start came out, and it was important for everybody to hold a BVN, and the bank made it compulsory. He called the bank and told them, I don't have the time to come there and and do the thumbprint and all of that. The bank manager called him and told him, which would you have us do? Should we come to your house or will you be charged on Sunday?

That's the same bank that closes by four. And peradventure you get there and they they shout at you, They say, which one would you rather? Should we come to your house? In other words, we come there with the equipment needed to do everything. Oh, can you come around on a Sunday? And he told them there's no need to come to my house. He went there on a Sunday. He said all the staff of the bank was there on Sunday to attend to him. When I said things like this, it's not to it's not to inspire personality in you for material things. Oh, no.

That's not the aim. That's not the goal. The aim is not to propagate things that you can get even without God. That's not the aim. Because if money is the objective, there are many routes to get to get there. You can lose your soul and get wealth. So that definitely cannot be the aim. Are you with me? But it's concerning how many people are living very confused, very useless lives. Lives that are not in accordance to the will and purpose of God, lives that are not in accordance with the dictate of God, lives that not in accordance to God's will and God's agenda.

The spiritual bailout system from poverty, from lack, from people's confusion, and the tragedies around their lives is the ministry of the teaching priest. If people are not enlightened and spiritually oriented to understand the ways of God and then and and then make decisions from that standpoint of knowledge, most people will waste their lives. And you see, one of the perversions that entered into the body of Christ was when the devil successfully replaced the ministry of the world with giftings and manifestations. The bible says in the book of Jeremiah, I will give you shepherds after my own heart. And the primary responsibility of a shepherd is to feed you with knowledge and understanding. In other words, the primary responsibility of a shepherd, the primary assignment of a shepherd is to open scriptures and feed you with knowledge and understanding. It means a shepherd might not do any other thing. If only thing he does is opening scriptures and feeding people with the accurate word of God, accurate counsel of God from God's word, those people will turn out to become the image and the very expressions of God's glory in whatever sphere of influence they might find themselves. The devil knew this. And so a strange stream rose up.

And the strange stream capitalized on people's lust. Note what I said, lust. Not hunger, lust. That was what the strange stream capitalized on. Let me ask you a question. Go and check the discipleship model of Jesus and tell me how many partitions service did he hold for the disciples. One, all through three years of ministry, when he was done, he said, the bible says he breathed on them and told them, receive the holy spirit. Before he ever did that, he ensured that that he he did that on the foundation of three and a half years of pure undiluted teaching. It means any impartation done on a life that has not been built up by the word of God is pouring the spirit on chaff. And the investment of the spirit has been has been poured upon infants, upon children.

And because a people started rising who were more concerned about manifestations than they were about accurate teaching of the word of God. This was not how the apostles began. This was not how Jesus began. This was not a portrait Jesus showed. Jesus had many who set many conferences, and you would find him teaching the multitudes. Every time they gathered, the bible says he taught them. Another parable he taught them. A a parable he taught them. The beatitudes about the holy spirit, about the kingdom of God. When Paul came, the same thing Paul was doing.

Does this mean they never did manifestations? Oh, no. Paul said my my my speech and my preach... My preaching was not in enticing words of man's wisdom but in the demonstration of the spirit and power. Paul said the kingdom of God is not in words but in power. So there was power but founded upon the accurate teaching of God's word. So much so when Paul got to the Corinthian church and he found out that these people were only manifesting and there was too much disorderliness in the name of their manifestation, he had to bring order to their manifestation. He wrote to the Corinthian church because they were they were the church that manifested the gift of the spirit in such a manner that almost everybody in the church could prophesy. That is why Paul had to write to them. Let everything be done decently and in order.

That was why he wrote to them. If one is prophesying, let the other one keep quiet. It's because he was correcting something that was happening in that time. Everybody was prophesying. Everybody was speaking in tongues. Even when strangers come, couldn't understand what they were saying, they'll be speaking in tongues. These people were so lost that they... That they were... The the expressions of the spirit in their life was too much. It was so strong.

Paul had to come immediately to write, to balance that which was happening there with the world. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? With the word. And the father of faith caught these same principles and ran with it. Kenneth Hagin would hold camp meetings for twenty one days teaching on faith. Twenty one days. And a crowd of people will attend the conference. The last days would be power, power night, power service, people would... People drunk in the spirit, miracles everywhere. Charles and Francis Hunter will hold healing Lakewood, healing Florida, healing different places.

And they would gather people for three days. And for three days, all they are doing is teaching laymen who they hire in Christ Jesus. On the final day, they will now do healing healing whatever state they they visited. They call it churches meeting. The only people permitted are people on wheelchairs, people on stretchers. Towers and Francis, all time themselves never minister. All they did was to teach people how to minister. Laymen. On the third day, those laymen, they fought for three days. They will then disperse them into the crowd.

I have the videos. I watched them. They're on my laptop. These were the videos we watched to build ourselves in the faith. A. Harlan would do the same thing. Smith Biegelsport would do the same thing. But the time came, a generation believed that once you are a prophet, you have no business again with the word of God. You have no business again with the ability to teach people. And so we now come to church and we'll pray for six hours, four hours, and we'll prophesy and then open the bible and read a portion of scripture.

And once we pick from there is a prayer point and explain to people how that that prayer point must be prayed, how that prayer court should be prayed, the power behind that prayer point, and we reduce scripture to prayer point. So that even if a message is to be taught in scriptures, it's a prayer point. And it came to a point where people no longer be... No no longer became conscious. Teaching priests were missing in the body of Christ. Everyone became about manifestations. And the moment that became the case, it was easy for the devil to now dash some people power. Wear them suit and put them on on pulpit. Let them raise their hand and let people fall. People will gather.

Let them call people out by names, people will gather. And it happened so much that we got to a point we could no longer discern what is real, what is true, what is false, what is fake. You know how we now tell who is a man of God is? Is that he can prophesy. He gives people money on the pulpit. He helps widows. He helps the poor. And if you can find these things together, we say, he's a man of God. All I need to do to be a man of God therefore is just that. That was not the pattern that was passed on to the church.

There is a resurgence of teaching priest in this generation, And God is awakening his church again to the cautiousness of what was earlier delivered. So many errors, I tell you. It came to a point people started preaching their dealings over the message of Christ, over what God has done, over what Christ has completed and finished. A type will come. I will teach you my own version of war revival terrorists, the apostate church, and the four errors of the body. These are teachings I have prepared for later on when God grants grace. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Are you with me? Do you know that the average believer does not have the patience to sit down with the word?

The scripture looks boring to people. As several people who you can't... They can't remember the last time they read their bible. And for those who can't, it is just a religious exercise to fulfill all righteousness and to be... To have a form of godliness. Nonetheless, because they understand the value of what they are reading or what they should even get from what they are reading. And if we are going to practice a Christianity in power, the same power that was delivered unto us, the power of his resurrection, then this cannot be the pattern that we follow. That aside. So I was saying a lot of people are confused. Right?

I was saying a lot of people are living meaningless lives, purposeless lives, and that the remedy, the bailout system is the ministry of the teaching priest. There's one thing that is greater than death, and it is to live a life without identity, a life without purpose, a life without meaning, a life without fulfillment. You are alive and you are just existing. Your life does not count and is not making any impact at all. That state of being is worse than death. Destiny generally means a predetermined future. Destiny means God's predetermined plan, God's predetermined purpose, or God's predetermined place for you as a believer in his program. There are many people who just coast around as time passes, and they never understand the subject of destiny. They never understand the subject of your place in God's program as a believer. God has something he's trying to do.

God has an agenda. I've taught you about agendas before. God has an agenda. God has a council. That council, I like to call it the big picture. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth. And to fulfill that council, every human being on the face of the earth has an assignment to bring about the fulfillment of this council. Every human being is like a piece of a puzzle, and we are all trying to piece together, arrange ourselves to align so that when we find our proper place in life, you are like a piece of a puzzle that has find its place. And it means the discovery and the manifestation of purpose as a believer is equivalent to your being perfectly aligned in that puzzle. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

It means the puzzle will never come together, will never become one until everyone fulfills the assignment. Jeremiah 29 verse 11, that makes sense now. 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. King James version. Listen. This means that God is not searching for his... God is not, you know, thinking right now or searching his head right now wondering what to do with your life. The bible says there is an expectant head. God is not just thinking and scratching his head and saying, okay.

So what will we do with this one now? What will I even do with your life right now? God is not waiting until you become born again. And when you become born again, now he says, now that he has come, what do we do with him? Guys, anybody? Ideas? How many of you have watched a movie? And in watching that movie, you are caught up in suspense because you don't know what will happen next. You don't know who's who's about to die, who's about to leave, who's gonna leave, who will survive, what will happen. And then you don't...

You you find yourself anxious watching in anxiety. You don't know when you got... Start hugging your pillow, holding on to the chairs, watching in so much excitement. At the same time, you are afraid all because you're watching a movie. And what makes a movie spectacular? You have no idea what is about to happen. Now imagine the director of the movie watching with you. He will be excited in that his work is blessing people, but he would not watch with the same level of anxiousness and anxiety as you because he knows what will happen. He wrote it. He designed it.

Before the movie started as a project, it ended in his mind. He knew exactly who will die and who will live. He knew. Everybody... So you might be watching. Everybody might be watching, and they're all anxious. They will sit down there because there is unexpected end. Do you understand what I'm saying? That is exactly what it means when the bible says to give you an expected end. The one who is expecting the end is the one who wrote the script.

The one who designed your life is the one who is expecting the end. Zoom, it means it means for every time you are wondering what will happen right now, what will become of my life, what is about to happen, this house rent. You might think God is panicking with you. He's not. Remember, you are the one watching the movie. Only you is anxious. The director of the script is just watching patiently. What will become of my of my life now five years from now? Oh, like, humble. What will I be doing?

Will I succeed? Will I prosper? Will this ministry grow with... In in your confusion, in your anxiety? The owner of the script is watching and saying, no. There is an expected end. I wrote this script and designed it in a way. No. It's it's it's not it's not guesswork. There is an expected end.

That is how this story will end. Even the longest seasonal movies have an end. It can be twelve seasons, but there's an end. Whoever writes knows the end. While you're waiting for the next season, the person writing already knows. In fact, you can be into the one. You already knows how it will end. And he's giving you small small, and you are... You already... As if following season is ending, you already answered again.

What will happen next? What will happen next? As human beings, we can be that anxious about our lives, and we put ourselves in a place where we are confused and we are wondering what exactly is about to happen, and we don't know. But there is one who says, there is a thought I have towards you. There's a plan I have for you. Whilst you are panicking about your future, don't think for a moment that God is panicking with you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Is it not true that the movie you are watching that is making you hold your pillow as an end? It's not true.

There are times when I'm watching... If I'm watching movies, and I don't like suspense. And so the the kind of brain God has given me in three minutes into the movie, I can predict the hand accurately. 95% of the time, I'm correct. So when I find out that the remaining 5% is putting me in suspense, there's a fast forward button. Whoever made that button is anointed. He placed that button there for people like me who don't have the patience to watch and see what will happen. So we take that button and we drag it. And if I see that, I don't like, I drag it again. It's still not showing me what will happen.

I drag it again. They are talking too much. I drag it again. And I'll see, oh, so this is... Okay. Okay. Okay. The woman does not die. Okay. And I'll go back.

I said, let's watch. So when I'm watching now, I can follow through the process because I've seen the end. It's why you are anxious. You haven't seen the end. Some of us have seen the end. And because we have seen the end, we can wait in the process with God. It means if you have not seen the end, the process becomes difficult. You can't endure the process. You can't endure the suspense. You can't endure the pain.

You can't endure. When I fast forward and I see that the woman is still alive, it does not matter when I rewind back and I say, go and put it to her aid. I know she used to relieve. It means the knowledge I have of the end gives me a peace even in the process. Yes, sir. You know why he gives you the word? So that he can borrow you his intelligence. Remember, his ways are higher than yours. His thoughts are higher than yours. And so he documents a portion of his thoughts in scriptures.

So that when you study you have... You you borrow into his ideas. You borrow into his ways of thinking. And from that, you are able to discern the end and discern things even as he does. And the moment you are able to discern as the writer or as director does, It gives you a peace even as you go through process. Like, ah, God. Remember, this was what Joseph saw. The end. The end is a cheat code. It's a cheat code.

The hand. Spoilers is what they call it. It's a cheat code. It's the cheat code. The devil has got nothing on a man who has seen the hen and believes it. Not the world believes it. The advantage Joseph had is that he saw the hen. Imagine throwing that guy in a prison if you have not seen anything. Imagine being hated by his brothers for no reason and he hasn't seen anything. And the only one who has seen is the writer.

And he himself does not know. He doesn't... He can't even explain why his brother are treating him that way. He doesn't know if anything what will become of him in future. If anything will become of his life. And then just like that, he finds that he's a slave. From being a slave, he stands for God. And you would think by standing for God, you will be elevated except for the fact that he lands in prison. What keeps a man encouraged that you are in prison and you have prisoners who are also in prison and you are the voice of encouragement to them in prison and all of you are prisoners? What keeps a man so high spirited that even in prison, you are not defeated?

You are still expecting the best out of life. You'd still tell someone when you go to the palace, remember me. What makes you think the best can still come out of you? What makes you think that you you will not die in the prison? Before he began that process, he saw the sun and the moon bowing before him. He saw cattles and his own cattle swallowing up the ones that belongs to his brethren. And he saw these very strange revelations, and he knew. I don't know how, I don't know what, but the sun and the moon will bow. That's the end of my life. It means I might be in Potiphar's house, but this is not the end of my life.

And because I've seen the end of my life, I sustained the patience to walk through the process because I see the end of my life. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's one thing to be in Potiphar's house. It's another thing to be a slave. It's one thing to be in prison. It's another thing to be a prisoner. In other words, you can be in prison. That's not the point. What you call yourself in prison is what is what the point is. I can be in prison and not call myself a prisoner.

The external heart is the only thing that would say, oh, this guy is in prison. Doesn't mean for a moment I'm a prisoner. It means do not ever judge people by the call of their circumstance. Do not ever judge people because, ah. Was it only Joseph who was in prison? How many of them in prison ended up becoming prime ministers? The fact that I'm at... I'm in the same stage as you, the same face as you, the same house you are living in, wearing the same shoe as you, the same slippers as you, going to the same class as you. I'm like, it look as though it look as though in life you are at the same level, basically speaking. It doesn't mean that we are the same.

Some of us have seen the end. It's not everybody. If you have seen the end, congratulations. But there are some of us who are higher than those who have seen the end. They are the ones who have believed it. It won't profit you if you don't believe it. You will still complain in hardship despite you have seen it. You'll still complain in difficulty despite despite you have seen it. It doesn't profit you if you don't believe it. But some of us have seen.

Some of us have believed. Yeah. Some of us, the end we saw is in scriptures. We didn't have any spectacular encounter. We only received an evidence. We're only given a receipt of the hand that was purchased for us, the hand that was bought on our behalf. Let me stay with my teacher. You'll be so blessed. For I know the thoughts that I have towards you. Look at what it says.

It says it says, thoughts of peace and not of evil. It is important to know that in God's plan for your life, he didn't prepare evil. He didn't prepare shame. It means anything that makes for an eventual destruction of your life is not God's program. Because in God's thought for me, evil is not in the equation. Ecclesiastes chapter two and verse 10. The bible says for we are his workmanship, meaning the tools he uses for exploits. We are his workmanship. Created in Christ Jesus onto good works, which God has before ordained that we should work in them. Look at that.

Which God has before ordained. Your life is preordained. Your life is predestined. God is not wondering what to do with your life. God is not waiting to get your attention. When he gets your attention, will start figuring out what to do with you. That is not the God that we serve. The Bible says your life was before ordained. Hebrews chapter 10 and verse seven, the Bible says, therefore, high, low, high, I come in the volume of the book as it was written of me to do thy will, oh God. I've come in the volume of the book as it was written, past tense, as it was decided, as it was destined.

That the life that you are living on earth is a predestined life. This is something you must understand. This is something you must believe. This is something you must know. The life you're living is decided. There is already an end. The life you are living has an end. And it's important you know this so that you will know when your life has not ended. Oh, you didn't you didn't hear what I just said. You didn't hear what I just said.

If you don't know this and you're in a plane and they tell you, oh, there's turbulence in the plane, you say I've not reached the end. There can't be turbulence in this plane because I've seen the end. This is not my end. This is not how I will go. I can't go like this. When a car, they say they break faith. You just laugh. I've seen the end. I've not yet... I'm not even near it.

In the end, saw I saw nations waving the flag of God's kingdom as I led them in worship. How many people are raising it now? This is not my end. This can't be my end. I come in the volume of the books as it was written. And if I don't reach the final full stop in what was written, my life has not ended. We can say like Paul said, we have fought the good fight of faith. It means a time can... A man can come to an end of his life. That's what it means to sleep in the Lord.

At that point, what you do is not death. You sleep. Those are the kind of people who go and go to the Lord. We call it celebration of life. It's not every life that is celebrated when they die. When when it is celebration of life, nobody cries. Nobody mourns. There is nothing to cry about. There's nothing to mourn about. This was a life well lived.

You are celebrating impact. You are celebrate. You are celebrating legacy. You are celebrating impact and influence. But this man lived, and how many souls came to God because he lived? How many people found purpose? How many people's life did he did he did he... How many people's life did he reorder in the way of Christ because he lived? How many people's life did he influence because he lived? When watch people go and build the Lord and we come for their barriers, we celebrate.

We sing this kind God oh. How can watch men work amongst us? Are you waiting, brothers and sisters? Until this is done. Until this is done. Imagine they are going to go to the Lord at the age of 70. And somebody says, he died so young. 70,000,000 souls came to Christ through one life. Do you know what 70,000,000 is? That's a spent life.

That one has pained his life. The the the the aim is that when we go and build, Lord, we are empty. There's nothing left that... There is nothing left in us as a potential. Dead men should not have potential. Dead men should be empty. You didn't hear what I said. Your potential is only relevant as long as you are still living, as long as you still have time to unleash them. It means not everything... You should not celebrate potential till you die.

A time should come potential to become something we see. You didn't get what I said. You say I have the potential for many things. Where are the many things? A time should come the potential could translate into something that is obvious to men. The idea is that before we go and build Christ, we will empty ourselves of everything God has put in us. We'll not die with any songs. We'll not die with any books. We'll not die with any message. We'll not die with anything we have released.

Everything God has given, we will spend. We will spend it on a generation who will unleash them. There are ideas that are in your mind that God has planted in your... In you. There are people that the answers to economic crisis is inside them. There are people whose destinies are tied together with destinies of nations. So much so in your rising, the deliverance of nations are there. There are wars that will only end when you rise. Can you imagine that? That the wisdom for diplomacy in government is resting upon your head.

Diplomacy in government to sit down with the kings of this earth in politics, in the UN. And two nations who have been fighting wars will look at each other while you speak, and they would see the foolishness in what their descendants and generations have been doing for many years, and they would come and hug themselves. And to be on BBC, that diplomat so and so was able to negotiate peace and a ceasefire between these two nations. Then is the kingdom of God come upon us. That's revival. It's not only what we're doing in church that is revival. And there are some of you that is what God has implanted in your mind. That's what God has put in you. Imagine you die with it. It means there are unborn children that will continue to die.

There are bonblasts that your life is meant to stop. Not because you're superman, but because of a book that a terrorist will read written by you. Because of an interview that a prostitute will see whilst you sit down television, being interviewed as to how you became this influential fashion brand and you've become the CEO of the biggest fashion industry or perhaps even a model, and you are speaking and there's so much intelligence and wisdom in what you are saying. I've seen some interviews of some model. Ask me what I'm talking about. I saw one. Let me not say the honest. Who knows? Who knows? They can eventually listen to our messages, then they will be wise.

I'm not talking about some brainless people who because they are beautiful, they think I'm a model, and then you put a microphone in their mouth and they speak nonsense. That's not what I'm saying. But that everything in your life, the aura that you carry even spells kingdom. Spells kingdom, radiates glory. How are you a woman? And you own the largest shares in Tesla. How are you a woman? And you become the first chairman of a multinational industry. And people sit down to hear what you have to say, and you mentor generation in the way of the Lord. You might not have to quote any scripture, but every value that will come out of your mouth, it will be proof that you have understood the culture of the kingdom.

When you are schooled in the kingdom, you will not betray the kingdom. Your words will show what schooled you. Lord, I come in the volume of the book as it is written of me. Everyone say after me, I was born for a reason. I can't die like that. I have a destiny. I have a destiny in Christ. I have a destiny. Let me give you three truths about destiny. Three truths about destiny.

Number one, every man was born for a reason. Every man, your purpose for your purpose for existence represents the solution you were brought to bring to humanity. Every man was born for a reason. Every man without the exception of any. There are no unborn children. There are no unwanted children rather. There might be unwanted pregnancies, but never one unwanted child. As long as you were born in the face of the earth, there is a reason for your existence. Every man was born for a reason. Romans chapter eight and verse 13, the bible says, moreover, in the New King James version, moreover, whom he predestined.

Look at that. This he also called. Whom he called, this he also justified. And whom he justified, this he also glorified. So he started from a predestination to a calling to a justification to a glorification. There is a predestination. Every man upon the face of the earth has a destiny in Christ. Are you with me? John chapter 18 verse 37. The Bible says, Pilate therefore said to him, are you a king then?

Jesus answered, you say rightly that I am a king for this cause was I born. And for this cause, I have come into the world. There is a cause for which you were born, an end for which you were born. The King James version says, for this end was I born. There is an end for which you were born, a cause for which you were born, a cause for which you were introduced into the face of the earth, a solution to answer a problem to be solved. And every man has this. Everybody under the sound of my voice has this. God has called you here for a purpose, for an assignment. Our assignments differ. In context, our assignments differ in in spheres, basically speaking.

Our assignment differ in jurisdiction, but every man has an assignment. I might have been called to speak and to be a public speaker and to educate people about business, entrepreneurship, or raise leaders or educate people, be a mental health educator, and grow there even in influence, be a childcare support, a medical practitioner, an engineer, build structures and all of that, whatever it is you have been called to do. You listen to me. Let me tell you something. Your career is not your purpose. And so what you study in school is not your purpose. What you study in school can help your purpose. It can help you to fulfill purpose. Let me give an instance. If for instance, God has called me to be a worshipper, that would mean God has blessed me with the with with with the voice to sing.

It only makes sense that God has blessed me with a voice to sing. A lot of work would be involved in refining that voice and pulling that voice to produce the best possible music with that voice. Is that not so? God has blessed me with a voice to sing, and then God has blessed me with the grace necessary to invoke his presence even as I sing, usher people into his presence even as I sing, cause him illings and miracles even as I sing. I understand that by calling, this is what God has proposed me to do. Now when I study in university, I can either hate that purpose. So if I go and study music, music is not my purpose. Do you understand? But what I study can assist the purpose for which God has called me. I can gain mastery in music and better service the gift of God upon my life with excellence.

Are you seeing that? The same way that can be my purpose, but I'm an engineer. The career is not the purpose. The purpose is something you sit down to know exactly why God sent you into this world. And when the question of purpose comes into the the equation, what you study in school matters nothing. You can help it. You can assist it. You can aid it. But it's not it's not the the depending on it. For some people, what you study in school matters a lot.

Because if God has said, for instance, that you would be in the United Nations. Thank you, Jesus. In the capacity I just described right now, you can't not go to school. You can't say it's not important what I study. Do you understand what I just said now? If God has called into the health sector, you can't say it's not important what I study. Is that okay, brothers and sisters? Yes. But purpose at the end of the day is way more important than what a man studies in school because before secular education ever came to existence, men have been fulfilling purpose. The first truth about destiny, every man was born for a reason.

Number two. Number two. I'm trying to be fast so that we get to where we are going. Your destiny has been predetermined by God. Number two, your destiny has been predetermined by God, but it will take your choices and your decisions to actualize it or to miss out in it. Did you get that? Your destiny has been predetermined by God, but will take your choices and your decisions to actualize it or to miss out on it. Deuteronomy 30, we read from verse 15 to verse 19. The Bible says, see, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. And that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his status, his judgments that you may live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.

But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear and are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, I announce to you today that you shall surely perish. You shall not prolong your days in a land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. 19, I call heaven and earth as witness today against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life that both you and your descendants may live. Choose life. It is true that your destiny has been predetermined by God, but it will take your choices and your decision to determine whether you will come into the experience of it or whether you will miss it. Hence, how I began. That several people are living confused life. Several people are living lives that are below the standard of what God has ordained for them. Not necessarily because God would have it so, but because they've chosen by their own decisions to go and to walk in the way that is contrary to what has been preordained for them.

Remember, the bible says in Hebrews, I've come in the volume of the book as it was written. In other words, everything that you would do in life and with your life has been written. It is your choice to obey. It's your choice to go according to the script. It's your choice. And if you go out and come to the script, then your life will be as it was written. You will arrive at the end that the director has written. Imagine that you have a play and you gave... Thank you, Jesus. There's a lady here who is graced in acting and in the movie industry.

Is she here? Is she here? Is she here? Yes, sir. Where's she? There's nothing. You don't know yourself. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down.

Sit down. If you don't know yourself, then there's no problem. I'll do my thing by myself. I wanted us to borrow into the expert opinion, but since she does not recognize herself, let's let's keep it for another day. Glory to god. You may argue. If you are a script writer and you have a playlist to run and you've written the script, And according to the script you have written, you know how it should end, of course. And you call all the actors together, and you rehearse with respect to the script you have been given. The time of the playlist comes, what do you expect of the actors? You expect that everybody will play their scene, play their role excellently, play their role accordingly.

What do you do when as a scriptwriter, one of the actors start deviating from what was written? Well, you can't cut. And the reason you cannot cut is because they're already playing. It's now unseen. People are watching. Everybody is watching. And now you you are you are you are you are at the back of the stage. You are watching the old unveil, and you can tell this is not what was written. This is not what was reasked. Can you tell me what your emotions will be as a script writer?

As people are watching... You see, now everyone who practiced with the original script, what becomes their lot? Because as you have evolved your own player... Playwright in the middle of the scene, the person you are talking to is confused. I don't know how to respond because he practiced with the original script. I'm not getting what I'm saying. I wanna show you a calamity in destiny. I know you will... You will need to understand the confusion on the scene to understand the calamity in destiny so that you will know how destinies connected to yours are also playing their own part in the scene, in the script that has been written. And if those destinies connected to yours are accurately playing theirs, but you have chosen to deviate from what the scriptwriter wrote.

You are not getting what I'm saying. You will throw everyone hacking on the screen, on the scene in confusion. You agree with me that that drama will not go how the scriptwriter ordained it. Now the question would be, who now knows the end? Can you still call it an expected hand? It means whenever a life does not turn out the way God expected, at the middle of the scene, the life or another play. He decided to, by his choices and decisions, create a new script for himself. He started acting according to the words of a script that God did not write. And when he does that, everyone that is meant to feature in the script of his life becomes confused because you see, I've come to God's ordination. He should appear in this spot in 2018.

Everybody who is meant to favor him and those who are meant to be impacted and blessed by his life will be waiting on that spot in 2018. But in 2016, he chose to part a course for himself by reason of his own decision. So they have set before you life and death. Choose. The script is before you. That's like that drama happening on the stage, and a man begins to go off script. The division of the man leads us to number three. Destinies, though preordained, though predetermined, can be aborted. Painfully so. Painfully so.

Acts one fifteen. We are reading down to verse twenty twenty one or 25. And in those days, please follow the story, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples. Altogether, the number of names was about 120 and said, men and men and brethren, this scripture had to be fulfilled which the holy spirit spoke before the mouth of David concerning Judas who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. For he was numbered with us and obtained a part in this ministry. So what was preordained? What was preordained is that he would be number with us, numbered with us, and that through his numbering with us, he obtained a part in this ministry. Stay with me. Now this man purchased a field with the wages of iniquity and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all these entrails gushed out. And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem so that the field is called in their own language, that is field of blood.

For it is written in the book of Psalms, let his dwelling place be desolate, and let no one live in it. Let another take his office. Do you realize that no one's name was written on that prophecy? Do you realize that? Let his dwelling place be desolate. Has no one's name on it. Let another take his office. Has no one's name on it. Oh, God. It was just a prophetic word.

And the question would be, who will by their own choice? Who will by their own decision, clear their way into this prophecy, either as a deviation from what is ordained or as a manifestation of what is ordained. No one's name was written there. We continue to verse 21. The bible says, therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out amongst us. A man made choice. And what was the choice he made? To accompany them. I know I was not part of the choice he called, but I will follow them. It was a choice.

Stay with me. Beginning from the baptism of John to that day when he was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection. And they proposed to Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surname, Justus and Matthias. And they prayed and said, you, oh, Lord, who know the heart of all, show which of these two you have chosen to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by what? Transgression. Is it by ordination? By which Judas, by transgression fell, not by ordination fell. Not by predestination fell. By his own transgression. He used the power of his choices to miss out on the destiny that was preordained for him.

Remember, he had a part in the ministry. The Bible said it. But he by his own choices, by his own decision. Verse 26, and they cast lots and the lot fellow Matthias, and he was numbered with the 11 apostles. Matthias was not amongst the 12 that Jesus chose. But the people came and they said someone has created a vacuum in destiny, and we cannot allow that vacuum remain just like that. There are people. Have you seen a play screen... A a a stage screen, a stage play before? And when a scene is about to end, then they cut in folds.

When the cut in draws, then rearrangement of the stage is done. There is someone called a stage manager. The assignment is to ensure that every item, costume, how the scene should look, how the set should look. If they were playing a scene that resembled that of a village, then they would draw the curtain to ensure that everything is taken away that resembled the city, and the ones that resembled a village is put there. And while that is happening, the audience is just looking what next will happen. Remember, the suspense. Do you understand what I'm saying? There are times when the curtain will be drawn before he's seen hens. When the curtain is drawn, it's because there's an error on the stage. Someone is starting to deviate from what was written, and it is now putting a confusion in the script.

Because now the... If it... If that play is allowed to continue, it will wreck the big picture and the whole idea. Nobody will get any message or any lesson from what the script writer wrote. Everything will be a mess because now one is ordinating his words, not following the script. The other one doesn't know what to reply anymore. The the child doesn't know how to respond. He's just looking... Oh, okay. What what do I say now?

And he's looking at the back, and he's destroying everything that the the the scriptwriter has used diligence, money, well resources, invested into. Many a times to save the big picture, they will now put the curtain. And when they pull the curtain, whilst everyone doesn't know what is happening, the scriptwriter will now call the one who has deviated and say, what's the problem? And while he's trying to explain, they find just like these guys found. Sorry. Who has been in the real estate with us since the day we started? You are not getting what I'm saying. Who has been following this real estate with us since the day we began? These people said, let us choose from amongst brethren who has been with us from the days when we were... Go back to that picture.

Therefore, these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out amongst us. Look at from. Beginning from the baptism of John. Till he died. Not just one who came in the middle carelessly. It means this one was not chosen, but he remained faithful. This one did not have any... He didn't have any any big assignment to play, but he remained faithful. Do you know what it might mean again? It might even mean that this one's responsibility was just to be part of those carrying the chair on the stage.

It it... Oh my god. His own responsibility was to be part of those carrying the chair and say, oh, next thing, he lost. And they said, is there anyone? And he he he points his hand. He said, I can do it. You can? You've been you've been there. You know what? You know the next thing inside?

No. Can we can we just put in... Can we just try and remedy what is happening here? And they dress him up in the costume. I am trying to tell you that there are individuals right now on earth who are leaving out other people's assignments, and extra grace was supplied. They're not getting what I'm saying. There are people on earth right now that the the the assignment they are living out right now is not the original assignment that God had for them. They were so faithful in their own that God had to have the assignment of unfaithful people and multiply the grace upon their lives to do it. Do you know that if you don't live out purpose and destiny, everyone whose destiny is connected to yours will also have to wait. Some might even die in the process, and God will not allow for innocent people to die.

Beyond those innocent people dying, God will not allow his big picture to be frustrated because the scene you are acting is only a part of a large drama. Are are you with me? And if you mess up your own point, your own portion, you have stinker and corrupted the image of the entire scene. Abraham was only concerned about him having a child. God said, you see, you don't know that what I'm doing with your life is is you are you are only a small part of a larger picture. How do you explain to Abraham that that that a a a four... Six thousand years to come? How do you even explain like that? Six thousand years after you have lived and died, Christ will manifest. And Christ would need to come from a seed I've planted in you.

So I'm making your life into a portrait of salvation so that in your seed shall the inheritance of the head be blessed. How do you start explaining that, Abraham? You know what baba wanted? I don't want a child. Just give me a child. God said no. Your life is beyond just a child. You are a part of a big picture. Are you getting what I'm saying? You you are playing a role that will affect the life of several other individuals, and your alignment therefore is important.

Because if you are not aligned, a lot of people will portray their lives after your misalignment. So I would rather have to cut you out or fit you into my picture. Is somebody with me? There are people who are carrying graces that are beyond what was preordained for them. That is what I'm trying to explain to you. I pray you understand this. There are some of you, your faithfulness in that which was committed to you was the very thing that signed you up for heavier responsibilities. God will look for willing men when he does not find willing men, then he will go to faithful men. By faithful men, I mean men who have been willing. On on account of their willingness, they have committed a responsibility to...

Into their hands, and they've been faithful in that assignment. So when God sends a man upon the earth to fulfill a particular assignment and he ordains that man and blesses him for that purpose and supplies him with grace for that assignment, and the girl is carrying boyfriends, And the girl is gloring in what? Immaterial things. She has become a slay queen. But when she sings in her room, people become emotional. That emotion people are feeling is meant to be the presence of God. People say you have a nice voice, but it does not it does not... She does... She has forgotten everything there is. She has no idea.

She might even be a Christian. God will now find one usher. Your assignment is not something big. It was to be a faithful usher. Whilst to get married, get a good job, and just be faithful. And God says, this one we have blessed with so unique a voice that even the angels come and listen when she sings. Our voice is like the whispers of a flute, like the strings on an harp, like the melodies of a piano. But she has diverted that attention onto something else. That voice God has blessed her with has become something she now uses for fun. It's now a hobby.

You see, what's your hobby? She says singing. It's it's a hobby. God will now find someone. That person does not have a... As beautifully voice as the other one, but it was... She... She's faithful. She's faithful. Do you remember the parable of the talent?

How about five... What was ordained for that guy was five. What was ordained for the second one was two. What was ordained for the last one was one. But on account of faithfulness, God said, you are too faithful just to have this. Let... Let's hard. Let's hard. In this kingdom, the more faithful you are, the more work you are given. It's a blessing.

It's not a cause. You know why? Because the grace for the work is supplied. There are people who have unusual influence because they are carrying the influence of three people. It is not in God's will. It's not in God's mind that one person one person will look like a God that everybody, nations are depending on for healing. But they are meant to be thrilling the mangeries in that nation who never rules. And God finds that this one this one this one as his current chair, as he's in the worship department, is faithful. He just comes for Riazas. He just comes for Riazas.

He just come and he sings. He backs up. He plays instrument. That is all he does. When he gets home, he starts praying. He starts praying. And God says, oh, no. This one has chosen not to rise. There are souls who are dying. We will not allow those souls to die.

We will rather close the curtain and allow the high of the spirit to search. And if we don't find men who has been faithful in little, and they find it... They find that guy who's an usher. They find that guy who's in the worship team. Who... The the only thing he does is to back up. And God says, if this guy is faithful for three years in backing up, and he never for once desired the stage. While he was backing up, he never felt, ah, if only I was the one who was there now shining. He never desired the stage and the platform and the privilege to shine. He just wanted to do what he has been committed into his hands and to do it with excellence.

What if we commend the nation to his hands? It means this one will not steal glory. He won't take the glory for his own. He will go back to sleep after a meeting like this, and he will find himself in the dream, and he will find an ancient appear, one of the saints of old, and he will give him his scroll as he sleeps. He will wake up. He won't understand what what he has just seen. What what what is my own with scroll? What what am I seeing? And the guy will go and pray, and there's now a a burden in his heart. He can no longer stop praying.

He he wants to press more in prayers. He wants to press more in prayers. He wants to press more in prayers. He does not understand yet what God is trying to do with his life. He does not know that there has been an added assignment, and he had the grace to do that assignment because one person refused to rise in influence. That is the same way some of you will be so wealthy that you will command the attention of multiple nations because some people who God wanted to trust with that dimension of wealth allowed greed, allowed for for for for for greed and for all kinds of things to deviate their attention and cause a distraction. And God will have to take that grace and come to you. And you will think the only thing about your life is that you're a business person. You will think I'm only telling Chin Chin Chin Chin Chin That's all I'm telling. And you will have no idea that God has placed a grace upon your head, upon your life.

I tell you before I die, I will see another Ketra in Kuman. It will not be it will not be accurate if the Kithrin Kuman that I see is the same as the one that lied. Oh, no. Oh, no. It won't be accurate. It won't be accurate. The one that God will raise will be more terrific, more dangerous. Oh, before I die, men will arise like stars in night. They will shine Christian as the sun. Men will wield power like we have never seen.

Men will rise in the fullness of their ordination. Men will rise in the fullness of their purpose. Men will rise in the fullness of their assignment. Men who are prophets, some who are teachers, some who are evangelists, they will stand upon their watch and they will mount the gate of homes of cities. They will mount the gates of cities. There'll be business moguls that your exploits will dazzle the world. There will be first people. There will be scientist amongst us. The awards and the rewards they will collect, they will have international recognitions because they stood and mounted the place of the assignment. We will not leave our rank.

Not of those whose mandate will be taken. We are not of those whose bishopric will be will be taken. We are of those who will manifest of the name Jesus. Of Jesus. We We are I might have wasted time, but I'm still available. Let your mercy speak for me. Let your mercy speak for me. Nothing will take my place in life. I will not stand to watch another person fulfill my assignment because of my carelessness. I'm still available.

Can you pray? Can you pray? Reveal your truth in me so I can clearly know your ways. Make me your spirit so you can cause an overflow. Well, your word in me so I can gladly leave your days. Reveal your truth in me so I can clearly know your ways. Make me your spirit so you can cough and overflow. Have your certificate and just sit down anywhere. Just sit down anywhere. Saturate my heart when you let revival come.

Just sit down anywhere. Just sit down. As long as they sit there, just sit down. I don't want distractions of any sort. Saturation my heart. Let revival come. Jericho came down. Let's see. We'll split. Yeah.

I will love you forever. Your goodness is following me. Yeah. I will love you forever. I see your goodness everywhere, everywhere. Will love you forever. See the way you love me. Oh, see the way you love me. Have your seat. God bless you.

Who can die for my sins? No one but you. Who can rescue my soul? No one but you. Who can save me from myself? No one for you. I will love you forever. Who can die for my sins? No one but you. Who can rescue my soul?

No one but you. Who can save me from myself? No one but you. I will love you forever. Who can Lamentations chapter three. And verse 27. Lamentations chapter three and verse 27. It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth. This immediately reveals to us that timing matters in this kingdom. Not every time is convenient for everything.

Not every time is convenient for everything. The bible says it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth, to carry the responsibilities of destiny in his youth because the time will come. Ecclesiastes chapter 12 and verse one. The Bible says, remember now your creator in the days of your youth before the difficult days come. The Bible guarantees that there will be difficult days. And before you step into those difficult days, ensure that you carried God inside. It means one of the yoke a man must bear in his youth is the yoke of knowing God. Because the first verse said, carry your yoke. The revelation of your creator and the discovery of your creator is one of the things that a man must know. That the time that a man begins a serious work with God, a serious commitment with God, a man begins to love God and to fellowship with the spirit of God, the timing matters.

It matters. The reason is because of the yokes. There are yokes that when you grow old, you might not be able to bear. Timing matters in the fulfillment of destiny. Timing matters in the fulfillment of purpose. Oh, re... Remember, remember, We are still at the stage play. I hope you have not forgotten where we are coming from. Whoo. A script writer has the time of manifestations of certain acts in the in the script.

The time when somebody laughs according to the script matters. The time when somebody else walks in matters. So when the skin is written, when the script is written, the the the boss might be in the office talking to his secretary. Are you with me? And the time comes in the script as they were talking that the secretary starts to seduce the boss. And according to the script at the stage, the script writer has written. It is at this point that the wife must work in. It means according to the script, it matters when the next act works in. It means if the next act jumps in before the conversation starts, you have already messed up what the script writer is trying to accomplish. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

That is the way it is in destiny. There are responsibilities God will commit into your hands. And you are not fit to carry the weight of these responsibilities if you don't know God. So the first responsibility really is to know God, But it was not hence there. Because the moment you know God, you now have responsibilities God will now commit to your hand because you have known me. It means purpose does not really start until a man discovers God. Anything that a man does before discovering God, he does it in the flesh. And so it means God can give you talent and giftings for his own purpose, for his own assignment. But if you have not discovered God, you will use that same purpose, that same talent rather, that same gifting to serve Lucifer, to serve his kingdom. The first thing God will therefore want you to discover is is him, not purpose, him.

Sir, what's my purpose? Have you discovered God? If you have not lived purpose, stay with God. Stay with God. How many of you know the secular artist and the worldly artist you know right now? The big ones. The big ones. The very big ones from Nigeria. Do... Especially those who are big but came out years ago, not the new ones who are just coming now.

And you you you know what I'm... I don't wanna mention anybody's name. Do you remember their first video? Video? How many tattoos did you see on their face? How many how many earrings? How many chains? Did you see any of them with weed, with naked ladies? How many of them? You agree with me that what they've become now was not how how they started even though they started in the ward.

You're not getting what I'm saying? They started in the ward. The guy started singing. But even while he was online, there was no weed in his mouth. He was just a young boy in the classroom. Now watch what they've become. An international music artist recorded a song with an Nigerian artist. The guy came and said he has never seen a man ingest weed. In the few sessions they had together in the studio, he said, I've never seen a man in just wheat the way this brother did. The American bore witness.

He testified of his amazing works. Guess what? That was not also how he be... He began in the world, but it was not that deep in the world. Some of them have hit baby mamas with children everywhere, and they mark them per country. For every country I go to minister, I release demons upon the people. I must fetch my... For myself a damsel. That was not how they began, even in the world. I'm trying to tell you that good intention is not what will preserve you.

It is the God you have discovered that will preserve you. Else, listen to me. Greatness has a way of revealing the true heart of man. If money comes into your hand without you discovering God, you're the real you will manifest. You will never know you can carry five women because you cannot afford to now. You will never know you can meet yourself when you are... Do you know what it means to have money to do anything? You can close your eyes now and say I wanna go to Togo. I wanna go to Australia, and you fly a private jet and you are there. Money to do it.

You have enough money to do anything, and there's no God in your heart. You will you will understand why these people become what they become. Greatness. Greatness. Wealth. Affluence. Without God is destruction. So before man... Before before God... Listen.

The end result of your journey is that you come into all of these things. But that God says, how you begin so that is... So that you don't become lost in them is to find yourself in God and to find God. If you expose or you are exposed to these things without the knowledge of God and without God being in your heart, That's why I I pity people who go after money and and they spend their lives chasing money to the detriment of God and to the detriment of their spiritual work. They miss church. They miss service. They miss prayers. They miss everything all in pursuit of money. Give them time. They might still be coming to touch every special service.

You might visit them once in one month, twice in one month. A time will come. They will be deep inside Sodom. Nobody ever starts in Sodom. Everybody starts beside. When Lot went away from Abraham, he never went into Sodom. The bible says he pitched his tent beside Sodom. When the angels came, they met him in inside, in the middle of Sodom. Everyone in Sodom today picks their tent beside. They never imagined that Sodom Sodom has a very attractive force, a very attractive captivating power.

But if you do not know God, there is no survival strategy. God is the only survival strategy. Morality cannot save a man in Sodom. Lot, even in Sodom, though in Sodom, still had a witness he was righteous. How did he get there? How did you get there? Do not ignore what is happening to you, what God is doing in your heart. Do not ignore the meetings. People may call you all kind of names, but knowing God is not a waste. Knowing God is not a waste.

Our life will be a testimony to a common generation that knowing God is not a waste. Yes. I promise you. I promise you. Our life will be a testimony to a generation that you can know God and end up in massive greatness, that nations will envy you. That you can be businessman and a businesswoman of renown and still know God with God in your heart. You can have God in your heart and gold in your hands. Are you waiting, brothers and sisters? Remember, the end result is glory. The end result is what?

Is glory. Remember now your creator in the days of your youth. Now is when that journey begins. There are... Listen, the way we pray now, a time is coming where even old age will not permit you to pray like that. A time is coming where success, realistically speaking, a time is coming where the weight of success would not grant you the privilege of time to invest eighteen hours in prayers. Somebody's offended by what I just said. Somebody's confused. What are you saying? I'm saying realistically speaking, a time is coming where the more you become great, the more intentional you will need to fraction yourself and structure yourself well and your schedule well to make time to pray, to make time to fast, to make time to study because of the weightiness of the responsibilities that you will have to do.

Imagine being the governor of a state. It means now might be the only time that you will have time. Now might be the only time you will you you will be... A time is... Do you know that the more blessed you are, the more difficult it it is to fast? Now you are in school. God has given you the access to natural fasting. Listen. A time will come you will no longer have that privilege. A time will come.

So the bible says in the days of your youth, a time will come you won't be inside that one room again. That one room you are in is not a cause. It's a blessing. It's not a room. It's a retreat center. That is where you pray. That's where you fast. That's where you study. It's good there's no issue you cannot sleep. You wake up in the night.

Pray. Listen. It is not a cause. It's a blessing. You know why? Because in in in... According to the script, this is the only period in that script where your destiny will remain here. It means what you do in this period determines what happens later. This is the only time in the script where you will walk to class. Why not pray as you are walking?

Why not get an earpiece and listen to a message? This is the only time when mosquito will bite you as you study. Why not finish the bible? Because you know that I will automatically be awake. There's no sleeping here. As you are asleep, as you attempt to sleep, you strike yourself awake. The mosquito is biting you every corner. You say, hi. Even if I want to sleep, I can't sleep. I remember when I was in school.

This was my hostel. I was somewhere there. And when I first... When I enter, I was somewhere there. There was no light in the school. I was the only one who had the fan. But the fan was useless because there was no light in the school. I went to sleep. Some unfortunate people threw stone, and the stone pierced the glass of the backyard that leads to the corridor of the room. And the...

About three glasses shattered. Pow. I woke up that day, that night as though I had measles on my body. Mosquito dealt with me. It was all over my body from head to toe. And you can't you can't use wrapper because there's no fan. You have not gotten this affliction. You wanna cover yourself from mosquito, but you are boiling in... You are boiling inside. It's as though something is rusty.

You remove the thing mosquitoes come. I never consider those dead as days of suffering. I can never return to them. They are gone. So some of us maximize them. There are times when I finish class, would go to chapel. It would... My destiny required it. Know what yours requires. I went on a forty days fast, then a hundred days fast, then a seven days fast.

My destiny required it. I could only have done it while I was in school. I still do a lot of fastings now. Let your glory reign We the the I was telling one of my guys, I said I said, footballer. May God give you understanding. I told one of them, I said, we need a footballer. Yes. Yes. Some people will not... Don't...

They they are confused. You are lost. You know, I've seen the hand of many of them. Not not prophetical. Not prophetical. Historically speaking, men who were great. I've seen them now, how they are living now. Many legends. I've seen how they are living now. And you wonder where is all the money?

Where is all the wealth? Where is all the money? Where is all the wealth? I see those guys... Some of them look aggard. Some will not even have the boldness to come and say Nigeria has forgotten me. What do we hold you? When you were getting the billions, do you remember anybody? A lot of people while... A lot of them while they are there, and they get those every amount in pounds and dollars.

The the competition is who has the most expensive car, who has the most expensive... The biggest mansion. So you can see the fleet of cars and the fleet of mansions. This is $80,000,000. This is $100,000,000. This is... And they say, look at look at the asset of this person. A day will come. You will not have the strength to do all of that. But imagine for a moment that was a kingdom man.

May God grant you understand? Amen. Imagine for a moment that it was a child, it was a son of the kingdom. I'm not talking about the Christian. There are many Christian. It's not it's not a new thing. There are many Matthews and Johns and all of that playing footballs. Many Peters playing football. Are you with me? It's not in that.

Let me not speak to you. It's not safe for me to speak to you. My point is that it is good for a man to carry his yoke. The responsibility of destiny should begin now. The discovery of purpose and the living out purpose should begin now. They're not... Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. It's now. Is now.

In in bearing the yoke while you are young, there are a few things that you must discover very early. These few things you must discover very early is really my teaching as they will be the prerequisites to discover whether or not you would ever fulfill destiny. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Your journey to destiny will begin from the discovery of these things. There are five of them. In ten minutes, I'll give you one. I will continue whenever God permits. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

But you'll be so blessed. Have you been blessed already? Yes, sir. Number one, identity. This is the first thing a man must discover in his journey to destiny. Remember, the title of what I'm teaching you is a glorious destiny. A glorious destiny. If your destiny would be glorious, then the first thing a man must discover... All I've done is to build onto this moment. The first thing that a man must discover is he must discover his identity.

He must have a knowledge of his identity. He must know who he is, and he must be able to answer the question, who am I? Your life has not begun if you are not able to answer this question. Second only to your discovery of God. Are you with me? Yes, sir. I didn't wanna put that there because that is that is really the foundation of everything. There's nothing without God. That's why he said it. So I'm starting with your own identity, the discovery of yourself, of who you are.

Give me Galatians six four again, MSG. We've done this before. Let's do it again. Oh, man. You'll be so blessed. MSG. Can you... Can we read this together against the first line? One, two, three, go. Pause.

That's all. The first thing you must explore is who you are. Your identity. In Luke chapter one and verse 13, the Bible says, but the angel said to him, do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. Now let us begin to read what the angel told Zechariah would be the identity and the function and the purpose of this boy called John. Are you ready? For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. Are you seeing that? He shall drink neither wine nor strong drink.

Are you realizing that the first thing mentioned there is identity? He will be be great in the sight of who? And did did this happen? Because Jesus testified that of all the prophets of old, there's none greater than John the Baptist. He will drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the holy spirit from his mother's womb. Identity. And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, function. Now that's his work. That's what he will do.

He will turn. Are you seeing that? Many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. So what was John's responsibility? To turn the children of Israel to the Lord their God. Can I ask you a question? If he succeeded in this responsibility, should the coming of Jesus be a surprise? Remember, his assignment was to turn the children of Israel to the Lord their God. So when the Lord their God comes to manifest himself in the flesh, Should it be a... Should they fight him?

So they are rebelling against Jesus. What did it speak of the ministry of John? Why are not seeing what I'm saying? Let's go on. He will also go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah identity again. It will come in the spirit of Elijah. It will come in the power of Elijah to turn the heart of the fathers to the children. Can you see this? The heart of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just to make ready a people prepared for who? They're not saying this.

His assignment and his mandate was to turn the heart of the father to the children, the heart of the children to the father, the heart of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, and to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. So that when the Lord comes declaring himself, these people prepared. In their believing, it will be made manifest that they are truly prepared. Are you with me? Yes. So they were... In this scripture, identity was revealed. In this scripture, the function and the work of John the Baptist was revealed. John chapter one verse 19. Parents have a very important role to play in the life of their children, especially when you are as prophetic as a as a father and a mother like the parents of John the Baptist were.

And you see, I've realized that the identity of a child, a parent has a lot to do in determining the identity of the child and the revelation of that child of his identity. Remember, it was not only John whose identity was revealed to his parents, Samson, Jesus, your savior. Samuel. Like that. This consistency shows you that even as you grow as a parent, you don't just have children because you have intercourse. The identity of the child must be discovered. Even as I'm birthing this child, who is he? It is that identity that determines the name you call the child. Is that identity that determines how you treat the child, how you train the child, what you expose the child to. Remember, the Bible says he will not drink honey.

It mean it was responsibility of forced his parents to prevent him from honey. Do you understand what I'm trying to say here? Yes, sir. But this is not even my my assignment today. Now this is the testimony of John. The Jews, he began minister, John was already preaching and was calling everybody brood of vipers and was contending and confronting the Pharisees, Sadducees, telling them who told you to flee from the incoming judgment. He was baptizing people. And you see, according to the prophets, The prophets in in the book of Malachi has prophesied that before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, the Elijah will come. Acting Malachi. Elijah will manifest in Malachi five before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

So the Pharisees and Pharisees, who were the child of the law had studied the prophet. Every Israelite knew that before Elijah come, before the savior come, they knew that the Lord will come. But that before the Lord will come, there will be someone that will come who in the spirit of Elijah that will come prepare the way of the Lord. Are you with me? Yeah. So when John the Baptist started ministry, everybody who has been coming before John the Baptist, they would try to discern, is this Elijah? And when they find that it's not Elijah, they know that the day of the Lord is not coming yet. Are you with me? Because that was what the prophet said. They they were...

These people were diligent spiritual mappers. They were not entirely rebellious people. They were people that determine their lives based on what was written. They were innocent people. They knew that before the Lord will come, Elijah must come. That is what the prophet said, and they had lived their life by the the the ordinances of the prophets. Are you with me? So when they saw John the Baptist and he began to do ministry and was putting a crowd to himself, baptizing people, he caught their interest. Could this be the the the Lord? You see.

So let's wait. One, three, go. This is the testimony of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, who did they send? Priests and Levites. They were sincere people. The Jews were the one who sent them. Let's know whether to either know if his Lord were expecting or if he's Elijah because Elijah would come before the Lord. If he's the Lord, then where is Elijah? That means you must be scum. There's no business to accept you.

For if they had told them, I am the Christ, they would have rejected him. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because they knew that there must be Elijah before the Lord. So the Jews themselves wanted to determine, should we accept this person or not? Go and ask priests. Our priests, can you ask us? Can you ask? They said they are religious leaders. It was the priests and the Levites that came. The...

What was the question? Identity. Who are you? It was a question of identity. Who are... Do you know that his answer there would determine a lot as to the faith of the Jews who sent him? Whether or not the function will be carried out will depend on the answer. And remember, I've come in the volume of the books as it was written. So this was an important moment in the script. According to the script, there is a question that will be asked to join the Baptist.

There must be a response from the Baptist will give that will that will allow for its function and its alignment to be revealed or to be manifested. Are you with me? Let's continue. What is this? Where were we? 19. Then verse 20. He confessed and did not deny, but confessed, I am not the Christ. So what was their primary concern? Are you the Christ?

Oh, God. Are you the Messiah? Are you the Lord we're expecting? And he did not... He didn't leave them in doubt. He said, I am not the Christ. Then they were they were concerned. If you are not the Christ, then who are you? Because the question that they asked him primarily was not, who are you not? And they asked him, what then are you Elijah?

He said, I am not. Remember, the faith of a nation was dependent on his answer. Pause for a moment when the angel came. What did the angel say about him? When Jesus himself came, what did Jesus himself say about him? Jesus said, behold, Elijah has come, but you did not receive him. Why would they receive him when the one who came said I am not? In other words in other words, if you are not Elijah, then the one that will come after you is not the savior. In the neglect of his identity, it primarily already fit purpose. It means anyone who does not know his identity has already failed his assignment.

Your assignment is tied Look at how bad it was. They asked him, are you the prophet? He answered no. They wanted to know his identity. Are you the prophet? He said no. If you are not, on what account should we listen to you? On what basis should we hear you? And then behold, Jesus coming saying, hi. I'm my father.

No. No. No. You're a liar. You must be scammed because the the prophet said, a liar must come before you. Who are you too? That was why when Jesus in Matthew chapter 16 asked his disciples, who do men say I am? The disciples said, some say you are Elias. In other words, we are still expecting a savior. So if you are doing this mighty works, John said he is not the prophet, then it must mean that you are the prophet.

Are you with me, brothers and sisters? If a man does not understand what he... Who he is primarily, your your identity, who God has made you, If you have not discovered what the bible says about you, who you are, anything you try to do is nonsense. The the absence of the knowledge of identity today in our world is what is causing pressure that you see today. People trying to show that they are making it. Preachers not being patient with process until they become. Identity crisis is a dangerous disease that is plaguing our world today. It can destroy a great destiny. Listen to me. Your identity is not what you find out at the end of your Your identity is not what you find out when you are concluding your life.

Because your identity is what will set the tone for the rest of your life. Many have lived their lives in the shadow of other men's identities, never taking time to discover themselves. And when their children start discovering themselves, then it will start also with them. May you not destroy yourself when you marry or when you have children. Your tutor will not send you a message. You will not say, am I sure I'm where I'm supposed to be? You now start pursuing God and rerouting your destiny, rerouting your path, and trying to retake... Trying to retrace your steps to find out where you deviated from your path alongside when your children are pursuing God. Because you failed in identity. And because you failed in identity, everything you did was of spirit.

Everything you did was of scripture. Do you know that if this becomes the experience, the time you spent going the wrong way is the same time you will spend retracing your steps back. So he says, bear the yoke. Bear the yoke. It is good for a man to bear the yoke in the days of his youth. It's good for a man to know who he is. Psalms 49 verse 20. The bible says, a man who is in honor yet does not understand is like the beast that perishes. Do you know what that means? Assuming you are royalty for instance, but you were never told, you will act like a slave and be victimized by people you are supposed to be higher than in terms of deliverables available to you.

The bible says a man who is in honor but does not understand that he is in honor is like a beast that perishes. A king, for instance, who does not know is a king. Many believers don't understand their identity. They go through all kinds of unnecessary pressure trying to secure their plots of men. Do you know that one of the cardinal pillars of becoming a leader or a person of influence is having a strong knowledge of your identity? Because as you sojourn through life, culture will try to redefine you. The failure of people will try to redefine you. Trends will try to redefine you. Success even. There are so many people who are actually doing well and moving as they should be moving in life, but simply because society has given a wrong parameter to measure growth, to measure progress.

They allow themselves to move out of the path of life, and they carve out a path for themselves out of pressure that leads to destruction. So the guy is doing ministry for instance. And according to the script of his destiny, based on what God is making out of him, the progress and the rate at which he's moving is good, is okay, is as defined by God. But because of the knowledge of who he is and what God has made him to be, he start looking like... He start looking at what others are. And he allows himself to be pressured by a definition of of of others. So there's a definition for what a young man of God in ministry should look like, what a pastor in ministry should look like. How would you say you're a pastor, you don't have a car? You don't have the house of yourself. Why are you now pastoring?

What are you now doing? Whereas, this man is sincerely laboring other people. But because he began that that that that work, that journey without first understanding what God has made him to be and to have that conviction. Listen to me. You might pray all you want, but your life will eventually be at the mercy of your convictions. Are you with me? This has happened to men in business, men in ministry, men in career, students, fathers, mothers, young, old, alike. There are people who have now carved out a path for themselves. I was hearing the stories of some people. You won't believe what they've started doing in the name of ministry.

Young ministers of God and a lot of people innocently following these people. And some it is lost, not innocent. It's lost. Unholy dissatisfaction. That's not even my point. But what caused them to deviate? What caused them to start looking for power that is not missing? What what caused them to have was sharing with people who they know are occultic, but they are the ones who have the results. They are the ones who are... That that that guy is that guy is just 21 years old and he has a a condition of 1,000 people.

1,000 people. I want to associate with him. I want to know what he knows because me, I've been doing it for the past five years. I don't even like what I'm doing. And God is saying, do you know that there is nothing... If it is faith, one of the things that you will know it is faith is patience because the bible says faith works patience in us. If you don't know your identity, you will not know how long your gesture period should be. There are some of you what you are carrying in destiny would need twelve years. Twelve years. Some, five years.

Some, it's three years. Yours might be fifteen years, and you will keep on laboring over a people because of the weight of the glory that is upon your life. You can't be launched mister... You can't be launched just like that. God would need to take time to prune you completely, to sharpen you completely. There must be no rough edges. Everything must be smooth to the core because we cannot afford you making a mistake when you are great. Nations will be at the mercy of your words. It means you cannot be great and say nonsense and come back from years after and say, you see, all the things I preached from 2019 to 2024, erase it. As though men did not listen during that period, as though life were not molded during that period during that period, as though people did not make decisions based on what you told them during that period.

God said, no. We can't have people like this. So you will spend time in the womb of the spirit. And whilst everybody is going forward, God will say what I'm building in you is different. It is different. And a knowledge of your identity will keep you impatient. It will keep you down. It will keep you staying. It will keep you waiting. So I will labor on these people.

Listen. And one day when the season of manifestation comes, everyone who you think went ahead of you will gather themselves, and they will invite you and say come and hold a minister's conference. All of us will come. There's something you have touched in God we don't know. There is something you have touched in God we don't know. There are some mighty men amongst you that God is making as mighty men over mighty men. Listen, there are some of you that God is giving access to men of influence and influence over men of influence. There are some of you that God is making teachers of teachers, pastors of pastors, leaders of leaders. There are men who lead followers. There are men who lead leaders.

Your process and your training will be different. You must know who you are so that you don't allow pressure to take you out of destiny because of the wrong definitions people have given to people that prosper. How many women have sold their destinies because of wrong definitions? Let us round up. Do you know that even if I'm a fool, once I am in a car, I immediately have a sense of superiority to everyone around me. Even if I don't know and even if I'm a foolish person, just let me hold the iPhone. Even if you know nothing, just carry the new Apple vision pro and just put it and walk in the gate of Ui. Your father's age mate will call you and say, come. Can I see that? Wow.

What are you doing? Come and see me in my office. Say, I'm so busy. Okay. I'll come and see you. Even if somebody has no brain, just let that... Let her just be in a car. I don't care how she got it. I don't care from how how it came. I just know she's successful.

You see, are you seeing this foolishness? There is now a pressure, a pressure that has make men deviate from their path in destiny. So much so, if I stand right now beside someone who is wearing a more expensive clothes, I feel as though he's more successful than I am. Who who gave all these parameters? How did we become so low in our definitions of ourselves that we reduce ourselves like this? Someone looks at you and say, you are not a beautiful lady. And you start doing everything you can to fit in. You enlarge what needs no enlargement. Amplify what needs no amplification because of the prayer to belong. A lot of people would have been better and would have achieved purpose if only they had a sense of self security on the strength of what God and how God has made them.

You know that there are several celebrity... Is not... There is now a rhetoric right now, a trend right now that if you want to be recognized and accepted as a celebrity, you must enlarge. Guess what? Guess what? Do you know the deceit is so powerful? You had no money for enlargement before you became a celebrity. You now become a celebrity and you think how you become accepted is to enlarge. Look at the deception. If people already accepted you, why do you think you need acceptance by by enlargement?

If you are the son of God, turn this stone to bread. It's a problem of identity. It's a problem of identity. Now you're in the face of the whole world. You feel as though, let me let me let me change this. Let me change that. It's a problem of identity. And that problem is is bedeviling this generation costing a lot of people of destiny. So many people have changed things that need not change about themselves because they've allowed pressure. If you know who you are, you will reject the pressure from men to become anything God did not say about you.

Having a car and having a house is not what defines me. I'm not I'm not saying those things are not necessary. But if I suddenly feel good about my life because I have a car, what if I lose the car? If my self esteem and my and my relevance that is attached to things, money for many of you. There are some of you you you you you have a your confidence increases when there's money in your account. You have you have increased self confidence. Why will your identity be attached to what is in your account? I've seen some ladies allow certain individual individuals into their lives, and they begin to change your understanding and what you believe about yourself. Someone tells you are stupid for instance, and you believe and accept what that person said. The question is, what does the word of God say?

What... The people that mentor you, what do they say? Before I listen to you, I must confirm that you have made a meaningful contribution to my destiny. You don't come as a stranger. I want to sit. I I want the seat of someone who has made a meaningful investment in my life. There are women I've I've seen like that because you fell in love with a boy. The boy start telling you, why are you going... All those men of God all those men of God. Oh, you see, I I just I just I just wiping your memory.

They're all brainwashing you. Where has he been since the man of God have been investing and laboring in your life? And suddenly, wants to take the seat of those who have been investing time, resources, energy, and in your foolishness, you agree. It's a problem of identity. One of... A lady came to me. She said, she said, the person that is asking me, told me that she told me that... The guy told me that if I if I leave this, and the reason why he's not coming to this year, and the reason why he's not coming to this year. The... I've invited him, oh, sometime he will come.

Sometime he does not come. And I said that if I... It's because of me I'm not coming. That the moment I leave this year like this, he will start coming. That... He said he said because I'm his distraction. I'm his distraction. So whenever he comes, he cannot focus. So the moment I leave this year, he he will start coming. You see, even if the girl was telling me if the girl was telling me as, look at what this foolish person said, I would have said, oh.

She said she said, well, so sir, I don't know what to do now. How easy is it to... Listen. How... It amazes me how easy it is for many people to enthrone strangers in their lives. To give strangers a place in your life that their words count over the words of people who have invested energy and resources for many years. And you're allowing foolish boy who has not gotten his bearing in life, does not even have any job, does not know his left from his right to come and tell you, ah, see your nose, and and you start crying. One of my daughters came to me and said and said, my classmate told me he didn't even have backside. Listen. Listen.

Listen. Listen. Who are the people that spoke? Said fifteen fifteen year old, 40. Do you know that by reason of what God is doing in you and with you, you are not anybody's age mate even if you are age mate? Do you know it is a cautiousness? Do you know that you are not anybody's classmate even if you are in the same class? Listen to me. There is Joseph and there is other prisoners. You you must be able to tell the difference.

We might be enclosed in the same location. Doesn't mean we are going to the same place. I am years ahead of you. How do you know you have an identity problem? If you have to start telling people, I am years ahead of you. I am years ahead of you. I'm the greatest one in this class. I'm the best one in this class. I'm the greatest one in this class. You have an identity crisis.

You have problem. You don't prove identity. A lion doesn't tell anyone I'm a lion. You only rouse. And he will not go and ask them an ego. Watch the skies. Watch the dexterity and the mastery in flight. You will know what is flying very soon. I don't need to let anybody know. Oh, no.

No. No. No. No. No. If I have to prove my identity to you, I have not become anything. And see, they say they say, okay. So we we honor we honor mister a and mister b and mister b now, and missus when? What disrespect? Oh, god.

Go back to God. You have not discovered yourself. How is identity tied to who they honor first? Who they celebrate first? No. I know who I... Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether I'm holding a microphone in the front or I'm standing at the back. Emmanuel Boluwatife is still Emmanuel Boluwatife.

Give me time. I will show you. Yes, sir. Sister. Eidol, listen to me. Bring down all of this. What did I say? All of this. Bring... Collapse all the building.

Give me three years. It will rise... Give me one year even. It will rise back 10 times better. Everything may collapse. They might take away the coat of many colors, but they didn't take you away. Oh, God. They might run the way clothes. All they took away was the clothes. My mind is still there.

The brain is still there. The grace is still there. The spirit is still there. Ah, come on. Come on. I can rebuke this anywhere. This that you see is not luck. It is not luck. You must know this. You must be confident of this.

Let me stand in Europe the same result will happen. Let me stand in Ghana the same result happen. Let me stand in Asia the same result will happen. The power of God will wreck everywhere. The the sick will be healed. Oprah's delivered. Afflictions healed. We know this by... Like we know ourselves. It is an identity.

We know. It's not a function of microphone. Put me in bulletin market. The same thing will happen. The same results will happen there. It is an identity. We know. What... I'm not pressured by anyone who owns microphone. I honor everyone, but not at the detriment of myself.

I know what God has placed on me. I can sit down there and allow someone to come and minister. And whilst the person minister, you will think I have nothing. I will be on my knees. I will be on the floor, roll down on the floor, but let me hold it. While he's ministering, I'm not thinking, just give me this. Just give me... Oh, no. I receive of his ministry, but not to the detriment of what God has placed on my life. I know what I have.

You will only function well to the degree to which you know who you are. I know who I am. That is why I sang the song I sang. God says you are the light of the world. You are a city set on the hill that cannot be hidden. You are wonderfully and fearfully made. Before I formed to your mother's womb, I knew you. I ordained you a prophet to the nations. You are the apple of my eyes. I have written your name on the palm of my hand, not a dot of your hair falls down that I have no account of.

You are my... You are a chosen generation, a peculiar people. You are wonderfully and fearfully made. I preordained you. I predestined you. Put my words in your mouth. My words in your mouth will be like fire. They will consume. They will plant. They will uproot.

If God is vulnerable to invest himself in you and and is not ashamed to declare what you mean to him, how will you allow the words of a man to paint a picture of yourself? How will you allow the wealth of anybody to paint a picture of yourself? I know who I am. Don't let anyone bully you psychologically. I might not be where I'm going, but I know who I am. Rise up on your feet. Listen. Reject any name Satan has called you that is not in scriptures. Reject it. I'm not foolish right up on your feet.

I'm loved of God. I'm loved of God. God has invested his love on me. I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I'm favored. I'm the light of the world. Darkness sees me. I'm fleece. I'm blessed of God. I'm the redeemed of God.

Listen. There's so much in me. I know who I am. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Let the blessed of the Lord say so. Let the prosperous of the Lord say so. Let the anointed Lord say so. I'm blessed. I'm favored.

I walk in victory. I walk in abundance. I can never be poor. It is not I. I. Listen. The song says the song says, take a look at me. I'm a wonder. Listen. It doesn't matter what you see now.

Listen. It doesn't matter what my experience is. It doesn't matter what what is happening in my physical life as you know it. What you see around my life doesn't matter. The slippers I'm wearing doesn't matter. The shoe I'm wearing does not matter. I might not have the best of clothes, but it doesn't matter what you see now. What you should see is his glory. Are you with me? For I know what God is making me into.

I recognize my identity. I know I'm a prophet to the nations. A day comes when the voice... When the world will hear my voice. I'm a psalmist. I'm a psalmist. I'm a Davidic minstrel. I'm an engineer with a purpose. I'm a medical doctor on an assignment. God has given me the bound of Gilead.

My assignment and my mandate is to wipe out sickness and diseases. I know who I am. I'm not pressured. Listen. Listen. This will eradicate pressure. It will remove pressure from your life. Remember, there are five things a man must know in discovering destiny. The first is your identity. I know who I am.

I know who I am. Peter always thought he was a fisher of fishes. But when he met God, God told him, I will make you fishers of men. Upon this rock, I will build my church. The gates of Hades will not prevail. Peter knew my name is not just Petra. My name is Iraq. Listen. Listen. Why do you think God changed Abraham to Abraham?

It was first his identity. Stop calling yourself father of one man. You are father of many nations. This is how you must see yourself. God had to change his name to reflect this. One of my daughters came to me, and I realized that she was the first person in a family in a family of Muslims to become saved, and she carried a Muslim name. I said, I exercise my authority over you as a spiritual authority. I changed your name today. You will no longer bear this. You will bear this.

What I did was to change identity. Are you ready to pray? If you don't know who you are, then pray. Reveal me to me. Jesus, listen. Listen. Listen. Remember, I've not even talked about purpose. Purpose is one of the things you must discover, but purpose is not the first thing you discover. Are you seeing the mistake here?

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It's one of the things you will discover. Many people have discovered that they are men of God, and they discover that they they they discover that they are men of God. God will call you to have a church, purpose as you call it, but he never understood his identity. So anytime he sees his fellow men of God friends holding a program, he feels I must do the same thing because he never understood his identity or the jurisdiction of his grace. So he knows I'm a man of God, but should I do this? Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. The first thing you discover is who you are.

I know you're a prophet, But don't think about that in terms of function alone. Who are you? Don't say I'm a millionaire. That's too mundane. There are several understandings that make these things come to you. I pray. If you've recalled identity, the prayer is simple. Call yourself who you are. The bible says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Let the prosperous of the Lord say so.

Let the anointed of the Lord say so. If you don't know who you are, reveal... Pray that God will reveal yourself to you. Come on, pray. 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. You can follow us on Instagram at officialdisciplescn. You can follow us on Facebook at disciples christian network. You can also join our telegram page at dcn media for more messages by Apostle Emmanuel. If you have a testimony from this message, you can mail us at disciplecn@gmail.com.

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