Transcript: Alpha Omega — The God Whose Ways Are Higher Than Yours

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The experience is a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network. Be a man encounter God, his presence and his power in an atmosphere of worship and the word. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he leads us into an experience with God. Isaiah 55 from verse eight to verse nine. The bible says for my thoughts are not your thoughts nor are your ways my ways says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Today we're going to be going deeper into a subject that I have considered before but probably not as deep. So I want us to expand on that subject deeper. And for those who have not heard it before, it would be your first time listening to it. It would be a huge revelation to you that I want you to receive with your spirit, soul and body.

Is that okay? Yes, it will bless you. For some of you, it will be a deeper revelation that you will be receiving and a reminder for most on what you already know but is slipping away from your memory. The bible says that my thoughts are not your thought and it is God who is speaking Nor are my ways your ways. There's a way many believers read that verse that is too shallow. They read it and they reduce it to mere mystery. As though God was simply saying, you cannot understand me, so stop asking questions. But that is not the weight of that text. God is not glorifying confusion in that scripture. He's revealing instead a difference in order.

He's showing you that it does not function by the same framework that governs men. He's saying in effect that when you try to read me through human logic alone, you will misread me. When you try to judge me and judge my dealings by appearances, by timings, by delay, by natural sequence, and visible conditions, you will keep arriving at the wrong conclusion. Because I do not think from the earth upward. I think from eternity into time. That's what God is saying. I don't move from uncertainty to certainty as men do. I don't begin to discover. I don't start and then hope. My thoughts are higher.

My ways are higher. My operations are higher. The problem this creates for most believers is that they've been trying to interpret a God who operates on a heavenly order using an earthly framework. And then wondering why their faith is constantly confused. Wondering why they cannot seem to stand on the promise of God and stand so firmly without doubting. And they wonder why the promises they've received feels elusive to them. Why they are forever waiting on something that God seems to have already settled, and yet they've not seen the manifestation of that thing, and they think perhaps what God has settled it in doubt. The problem is that you are applying human logic to a divine system, and the two were never designed to produce the same result. And so when you apply human logic to understand God, you'll be utterly confused. He says, my thoughts are not your thoughts.

My ways are not your ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways. A man thinks in sequence. You wake up in the morning not knowing what the day will bring. You start a project. I am not certain how it will end. You make a plan for yourself, and the plan is really just a set of educated guesses that you want to do about what might happen if certain conditions are met. You enter into a business and hope it will succeed. You start reading for your exam and hope the result will be good. You marry and hope the marriage will work well.

You lay a foundation and you hope the project will finish. This is the flow of your design. It is the nature of finite existence. Existence. Men move from possibility towards outcome. Men begin in uncertainty and travel towards conclusions. That is the law of human existence. You and I are creatures in time. We do not see tomorrow. We do not know all variables.

We are limited because we are in time. Our understanding is in sequence. Our divisions are in sequence. We only see from a linear perspective. When you are in time. We don't fully understand all consequences. We don't fully understand all outcomes, all variables. So we begin things in hope by planning, by wisdom, but still within limitation. That is why men fear. That's why men worry.

That's why men become anxious because the human condition is deeply tied to process. And process for man is often wrapped in uncertainty. And so we don't know what will happen, and so we are worried. Man is limited in time. That is how human beings navigate reality. But God is not navigating reality because God is the author of reality. God does not move from ignorance into discovery. God does not move from possibility into outcome. God does not plan things sequentially. Things won't unveil to God sequentially in the way it unveils to men.

Are you with me? God does not plan because he's trying to figure out what will happen. God does not speak because he's taking a chance. God does not promise because he's experimenting. The Bible says God is not a man. Romans 11 verse 33, the Bible says, oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God. The depth of the riches of his wisdom, the depth of the riches of his knowledge. The point is not just that God knows more than you even though he does, but that's not the point. The point is that the mode, the very mode of his knowing is superior to yours. So what I'm saying is not just that God knows more than you, he obviously does.

I'm also saying that the way he knows is also superior to yours. Are you with me? Yes, sir. He knows from totality. He knows from wholeness. He knows from completion. His wisdom is not reactive. His knowledge is not developing in the way knowledge develops. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

The counsel of God is not under revision. There's no updated model to God. He's not constantly revising his model of the planning, his way of doing things. His theology is not upgrading. He's never adjusting because events surprised him. He's never updating because history taught him something new. It stands above the entire flow of history and sees what man only encounters in fragments. He sees everything as a whole. And that's the reason why what is unfolding to you, God is seeing as a whole. So it is man that will say, we don't know what will be tomorrow.

God cannot say that. Tomorrow will unfold. Is that not so? At the matter of fact, an hour from now will unfold. Two hours from now will unfold. So God is not experiencing life in an unfolding manner, waiting for what will happen. That's why you must be careful when you judge your life only by what is visible now. If you don't understand that God operates from a fundamentally different order than you are familiar with, If you use only the logic of men, you will keep misreading everything that happens in your life. You will read a promise that it made to you and wonder why it has not happened yet, and then begin to wonder what if it will ever happen. And you will interpret the delay through a human framework concluding that maybe it won't happen.

Maybe you missed it already. I mean, it's taking too much time. Maybe it will never manifest. I don't think this thing will happen. Some people would even begin to say, why me? Why is this happening to only me? Because they would look at events around themselves, and they would say, my... The event unfolding in my life doesn't look like a blessed man's life. I think I'm cursed. Something must be wrong with me.

Why did my father die when I was young and have to grow up with my stepfather or my uncles or whatever, and I was maltreated, and I was sold into this, and this happened to me, and that happened to me. Why am I a victim of the confidences? And then the preacher comes and tells you, listen to me. God has a promise for your life. And then we go Jeremiah chapter nine and verse 11. And we say, the thoughts I have towards you, they are of good and not of evil to give you a future and an expected end in the KJV. And you begin to wonder, how can this be the future? How can this be the expected end? How can God say the thoughts he has for me are good? Yet I don't see the result in my life being good?

Is my life at the moment the definition of good? And some people will look at their family and begin to ask the same questions. Stay with me. If you look at your life from an human framework, you will miss God. You will look at your life from where you are currently and evaluate your destiny by your current conditions. And you will shrink back from the full weight of what God has said. Because what God has said does not look like what you can see at the moment. And you will conclude because of that, that it doesn't look as though God is interested in my life. How many people have, They know it in their spirit that I meant to study medicine because I've seen it in my dreams and my visions, and I've had all kind of... You know, I've met people.

I do a lot of counseling for people, and they come and meet me and they say, apostle, you know, I've had this dream. This prophet came to me and told me this and told me that and said this, I will be a medical doctor. I'll be wearing a white regalia. I'll be treating people. No kind of things like that. But sir, I've written jams like three times now, and this is the third time I'm writing jam. And every time I write jam, I'm not given this medicine. And it looks as though I don't think all these things they told me, I don't think that this, I don't think that that. Now about people in business, how about the man of God in ministry? Oh, God has given him all kind of promises.

How about a young man who is growing in Nigeria? And he has seen all kind of things in scriptures, promising in scriptures. God has told him you will be the head and not the tail. Above only and not beneath. He has read the Bible and he has seen prepared blessings in scripture. He will increase my greatness and comfort me on every side. A little one shall become a thousand. A small one shall become a great nation. He has seen scriptures like this that give him hope that my life will not end like this. Though your beginning might be small, your later end will greatly increase.

He has seen scriptures again and again, and this man is growing. And then years are going by, and it looks as though he's still at the beginning. Because when you look around him, his life is still small. So how can I begin this life how many years ago? And five years ago, when I became serious with God, my encouragement was, though your beginning is small. Now five years after, I'm still saying, though your beginning is small. Am I still at the beginning? Can I not see travesty in my life that shows that what God has promised will come to pass? And the reason why people think in that manner is because we look at things and look at events from a human logic, from a human perspective. And we don't consider the God who says my ways are higher than your ways.

My thoughts are higher than your thoughts. Are you with me? Every problem that drives a believer into confusion, into unbelief traces back to this root. They are thinking about God on a human scale. They're thinking about God in a human sequence. They're thinking about God by a human framework. God's ways are not your ways. A thing can be deeply settled in God and still be unfolding in time. A thing can be fully concluded in heaven and still be contested in your earthly framework, in your earthly experience. A thing can be yours by divine ordination and yet require seasons, require obedience, require labor, warfare, and growth before it fully manifest, before it becomes fully visible.

And if you don't understand that God operates from a realm that is higher than sequence as men know it, you will become discouraged in the middle of what heaven has already settled at the end. Stay with me. Stay with me. Revelations chapter one verse eight. The Bible says, I am the alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord. Who is, who was, and who is to come? The Almighty. Revelations 21 and verse six. The Bible says, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. Revelations 22 and verse 13, the Bible says, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

The same declaration appears three times in the book of Revelation. In chapter one, chapter 21, chapter 22. Are you with me? God does not repeat himself in scripture without purpose. When a truth appears once in scripture, it is established. But when it appears three times in the same book, God is demanding that you build your entire understanding around that truth. Because the bible says in the brethren of two or three witness, a truth is established. And God says this three different times. In the same scripture to show you that if there is anything you must know about God and his dealings with men, it is the fact that he is alpha and he is omega. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. When God introduces himself like this, he's not merely giving you beautiful titles you can use when you are singing worship. He's revealing the architecture of his existence to you. He's showing you why his ways are not your ways. He's showing you why it cannot be read or understood from human sequence alone. Because for man, beginning and end are separate experiences. For God, beginning and end are opened before him together at the same time. That's why your understanding of God must become deeper. Because many people hear the beginning and the end, and what they take from it is that God starts things and then later finishes them. That is true at one level, but it is not the deepest weight of what is being said here.

Because if you stop here, you are still thinking much like a man. You are still imagining God moving through reality in the way that men move through reality. You are still imagining him at the start of a theme, looking forward to its finish, and then pressing through to the finish of that thing. But that's not how God works. Are you with me? We think that the end is somewhere ahead of God, and God is waiting to get there along with you. But that is not the God of the Bible. God is not inside time waiting to arrive at the conclusion. He's the one before whom the conclusion is already open. That's why that revelation must be read together with Isaiah chapter 49 from verse nine to verse 10 where the Bible says, for I am God and there is no order.

It then goes on to say, declaring the end from the beginning. Notice that language very carefully. It does not say he guesses the end from the beginning. It does not say he predicts the end from the beginning. It doesn't say he hopes the end from the beginning. It declares the end from the beginning. Declaration is a language of certainty, isn't it? It's a language of authority, a language not of whom is exploring possibility, but of whom is certain about what he's saying. And that is because the is not something that God is hoping to get to. Stay with me.

The hand is not a future discovery to God like it is to you. Let me explain it in a way you don't understand. When you read Revelations one verse eight and it says, I am the Alpha and the Omega. When you use your bible, your physical hard copy bible, a good one, what you would see is the word hand is in italics. And when you see a word in italics throughout scripture, it's not for emphasis. It is a translational signal. It means that word does not exist in the original translation of scripture. It does not exist in the original manuscript. The translators inserted that word to make the sentence flow smoothly in English to aid your understanding. But the word itself is not in scripture or it's not in the original manuscript.

For instance, when you read Mark 16 verse 20 in your bible, your physical bible, you will see in the King James version, and they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them. If you use a physical KJV bible, a good one, you will see the word them is in italics. Can somebody open their bible and confirm what I've said? A physical bible. Do you... If you have confirmed it, can you raise your hand at me? The word dem, can you see that? It's in italics. It was added there by translators to aid your understanding so that when you are reading it, the English will flow smoothly. In the original manuscript, any italicized word is not in the original.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. And sometimes it works. Other times, a few times, it dilutes the original meaning of the sentence itself. For instance, when you read this, it would look as though the Lord was working with the people and the Lord working with them and confirming the word. Is that not so? So when you read it like that, it looks as though the word was working with them and confirming what they were saying. Is that not so? But when you remove that word that was added there by translators, what you would have is, and the Lord working with and confirming the what. You will then find that what the Lord was working with is his what.

It looks as though the Lord was working with them because they had the word. So what you see, that what the Lord actually works with is his word. Not just the men. The... His word. So when you go back to that scripture and you read and into it, it would give you a subtle false interpretation of what alpha and omega means. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Pretty subtle. Pretty subtle.

But that subtle translation can make you miss the entire thing. The original manuscript says, I am alpha omega. There's no hand there. Are you with me? Yes, sir. I am alpha omega. There's no conjunction. There's no separation. So... And makes it look as though it is two points with a distance in between.

I am alpha and omega. Whereas, it is actually one identity, one simultaneous reality, not two points with a distance. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Because the moment you start inserting hand between half and omega, you create a sequence. You create a picture of a God who is at the beginning and then at some later point arrives at the end. You create a picture of a God who starts and then finishes. A God who opens a thing and then closes it. And if that is how you understand it, then your understanding would be that of a God that is moving through a process in the way that you move through a process. Entering from the beginning, arriving at the end.

And so much so that that is how we explain it. When we say, oh, father, I'm starting this business now. Let us see through. You know you are the halfer and omega. Meaning, you are the one that starts, and then you go through the process and finishes. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But that's not who he is. He's not alpha and omega as though those were two different things. He's alpha, omega, A declaration of his simultaneity is not the beginning who one day becomes the end when he finishes.

He is at once the beginning and the end. He occupies both terminals of every reality at the same time. He does not travel from alpha to omega. He is alpha omega, the whole span held in one eternal noun. And the reason is because in eternity, there is no time. Eternity has no present. Eternity has no future. Eternity is a realm that is boundless of time. And so it will not be right to quantify God in time, in eternity. It is in the physical realm that time is introduced.

So when the Bible says in the beginning, that is the beginning of time. That was when time began. Are you getting what I'm trying to say? Up until this point, you could not quantify time because eternity cannot be quantified. There's no present. There's no future. Everything collapses into a realm called now or an eternal now. Are you with me? So when the Bible says God is alpha omega, it doesn't make sense to therefore think that God starts and then finishes because there is no time. It means is alpha, omega is the beginning, the end at the same instant.

That means before it begins, he has ended. Before he ended, he has begun. That's the meaning. That's the meaning. Both realms collide into now. That means God never begins a project that he has not already seen the end of it. Why is that important for you? Because it means that the moment God introduces anything into time, he's introducing that thing from eternity. It is in time that that thing has a beginning. Do you understand what I'm saying?

It is in time that it must now go through a process to arrive at an end with God is at the end, at the beginning. That's why the Bible says in Jeremiah 29 verse 11 that the thoughts I have taught you are of good and evil, please. Good and not of evil, to give you what? So the question I always ask is this, who is expecting it? Because if it's an expected hand, who has the expectation? Is it you? Because to expect the hand means you must know the hand. Do you understand what I'm saying? So you'd understand that God is not therefore inside confusion with you. It's not when you get to the Red Sea and you know that you are going to the other side.

You're going to Canaan. And you're not saying, will I go? God is not saying, ah, angels. Where will they go? What do we do now? Oh, yeah. Strategies, what do we do? And, sir, I'm thinking we can just say, let them clear the way. Oh, no. No.

Can we put a bridge? We can do somebody wisdom to put a bridge. Ah, no. No. No. How about we clear the path for them? Uh-huh. So do that one. God is not confused. Because time is not unveiling to him in sequence in the way that is unveiling to you.

That's a limitation of man. Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me. That's a manly limitation. It is not a godly limitation. So when he says my ways are higher, so that you will understand that where he's speaking from isn't just I know more than you. The way I know. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. My scope of knowledge is beyond... Is outside the realm of your understanding. You can't begin to think in the way I think because I'm seeing the hand. I am at the hand. So when I introduced you into time, I was already at the end. So it's like, God is saying, now you have been born. Come and meet me. I am at your end already. That's the reason why when God begins to speak to a man, you need to be careful of the speakings of God because he does not speak to you at all.

He understands where you are at the moment. You will be in a village somewhere. He will be showing you crusades. You'll be showing you yourself standing in a board meeting, speaking to white men. And I'm wondering, my mother says tomato. My father is a plumber. How can these things be? And God is saying, listen. I am already at your hand. I am at your hand.

In your hand, This thing will not be. It already is. Stay with me. Stay with me. But because of our limitation as men, when this thing is unveiling in time, there's a lot of limitation, resistances, seasons. There are many seasons a man will enter into before he gets into manifestations. There will be a time he will be in the furnace of affliction where we look as though everything God has shown him is a lie. His life will be a living contradiction of all he saw, yet he saw it. Yet he saw it. Do you know how God does it when you're just praying and you begin to see captures of it, visuals of your of your future.

Let me tell you how it works. Let me tell you how it works. How many of you have gone to a restaurant before? And you try to convince someone to follow you, and they would not follow you. So you went there, and you saw the amazing food that was there. So you snapped a picture, and you send it to them. Why did you send it to them? You know what you are doing. Right? You are painting that picture in their mind.

See where I am now. See where I am. See what I'm doing. Is that not so? Yes, sir. That somewhere in their mind, they can say, guy, give me the address. That's what God does when he shows you your future. He's saying, come and meet me here. This is where your life should be. Remember that where he's speaking from, there's no time.

So it's like you're already there. So God will not be speaking to you like you're a child. God will not be speaking to you like you're a small boy. God will not be speaking to you as though your parent is poor or your family is broke or this one or Nigeria economy is coming down. God will still be declaring to you now. I will see you at the end. So God comes to a 15 year old boy and tells him, Jeremiah. He said before I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you. Come on, neighbors. Wait.

Wait. Wait. Wait. Calm down. Think about it. When he says that my ways are higher, that's the point where you need to start thinking because you need to ask a question. Even just before I formed you, biology begins poetic existence from the womb. That means his knowledge of you was before you were even in the womb. It means before you had a form, even a sperm has a form. That means before you existed, even as a sperm.

That means even before your great grandfather was born, I knew you. You don't understand why the bible says, when Abraham gave tithes, the bible says Levi was in his loins. That's before you were formed, I knew you. Because Abraham is not the father of Levi. He's not even the grandfather of Levi. So I was in his loins. I was God telling Levi, before you were formed, I knew you, and I ordained you a prophet. Jeremiah, like many people who are in time, will begin to look at what God is telling them and be processing them by time. I'll be saying, hey. Hey.

But God, I I don't have money. But God, I I... I'm a child. But God, my my father is this. But God, Nigeria economy is going down. But God, Iran and US are fighting. But God... You see? All kinds of things. We're beginning to put them in the framework of time.

But God but God, this one, that one, this one. Jeremiah's own words, a prophet. I'm a child. How can you say I'm a prophet? Bible history tells us that this guy was between 14 to 16 years of age, and God is coming to him to tell him you are a prophet. Ah. Go ahead. Go ahead. When he says I'm a child, God says, thou shall go to all that I've sent you, and whatever I command you to speak, you will speak. Now watch this next verse.

It is the place I'm going. One, two, three. Go. As it is. Pause. Did he say because you are 15 years old, go and do children's ministry? Oh, Lord. You see, where where you are right now is a children ministry phase. You know, you're a 15 year old in ministry, and you're saying you're a prophet. Start from that level first, and then you can...

You see, I you see, I've made you a prophet over nations. I've made you... I have set you over kingdoms. How can a 15 year old be thinking I am over kingdoms? I am over nations. Because that is how God deals with men. So the limitation that you give yourselves, you are the only one that understands it. In God's mind, see, I am where you should be already. So if God is starting a thing in time, what does it mean? It means he is starting it because he has ended it.

That's why the bible can say with such certainty, though your beginning may be small, Your latter end should greatly increase. There is a realm from whence the prophet is speaking from. He's saying, though your beginning may be small, because smallness only exist in time. And smallness is not the result of smallness in itself. It's a direct function of time because the limitation of time is that anything that is introduced into time has to grow. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's a limitation of time. An idea that God gives to you has to grow. A ministry God gives to you has to grow. A business God gives to you has to grow.

A career God shows you has to grow. It is that growth quotient of time that places a temporal limitation of smallness. So smallness is not a permanent address. Smallness is only a process, a temporal process in the way you give birth to a child and tell that child, though your beginning is small. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because as you pass through time, if you are introduced in time, by reason of your introduction into time, you must start small and then begin to grow. Stay with me. When you understand revelation deeply and we say that God is half our omega, you then realize that we're not saying that he can handle the first day of your life and then the last day of your life. No. No.

We are saying that the last and the first are open before him at once. God is not trapped in the movement of events. He's the lord over the whole matter. Hey, god of Nazareth. God does not build knowledge gradually about you. It does not improve in awareness. It does not become wise by watching history unfold in the way that the devil must because the devil is not omniscient. He doesn't know everything. The devil learns in time. As a matter of fact, the advantage of Lucifer is time because he had existed since the fall.

So that is that is enough time to have studied humanity. So it it looks as though he knows, but he doesn't know too much. Even him is limited by time. He's limited by what is unveiled before he knows. He has no knowledge of what will happen if it had not been unveiled. So the devil does not even know your future until you say it. He is not so powerful. He does not know that God has sent you as a prophet to the nations until somebody prophesies it. Until it came out of your mouth. That's why in the day it came out of your mouth, you weren't the only one that heard it.

That's the day that you knew. That's the day that problem is that he's more hardworking in stopping you than you are in manifesting it. That's the problem. Because God was the first person when man fell that prophesied redemption. God said, the seed of the woman will bruise the head of the serpent. Up until that time, the devil had no idea what the seed of a woman is. It was at the point that God said it, that he knew that there is such a thing as the seed of the woman. Because up until that time, all the devil has seen is creation. He has not seen procreation. It was when God said it that he knew himself that seed of a woman...

What what what what the heck is that? Seed of a woman. And then he converted these guys. You you know what that is? He said, I don't know. You you know? I don't know. Death, you you have an idea what he... He said, I don't know. What is the seed of a woman?

And then all of a sudden, Adam That must be deceit. He said, Kai, now we think we'll bruise our head be this. Everybody say, yay. The moment they were looking for the opportunity, this one bruise head. Bruise Bruise get. Get. Then they entered into Cain, convinced Cain to kill one seed, knowing fully well. Listen. Listen. When the thing was brooding in the heart of Cain, God told Cain.

He said, sin is knocking at your door. Sin lies at the door, and his desire is for you. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because Satan has seen it that... But the guy fell low. He fell low, and he could not receive any warning from God. He went and killed his brother. The moment he killed his brother, sin entered into him, took over him. He became a murderer. The second brother is dead.

Satan is happy. See no day again. Because he's not so intelligent. So he didn't know that when God said the seed of the woman, he didn't know that the woman does not carry a seed. It is the man that carries a seed. In fact, the word means seed in the Greek. Not until scientists started teaching biology. Is not so intelligent. You don't understand what I'm saying? So when God said the seed of the woman, he didn't know what God was saying is that a virgin will conceive, not needing any masculine introduction of a seed.

He didn't know... Even he did not understand. Even himself did not understand. And because he did not understand, his whole assignment, all to the whole testament was fighting what can be deceit, what can be deceit. Anytime he sees an appearance of the seed, a time came. He realized that, wait. I've killed two people, but they keep on multiplying. They keep on giving better and giving better and increasing and multiplying. Which one is now the seed? When he could no longer find out which one was the seed, he said, you know what?

Let's corrupt everybody. At least, God will not use one of mine to wound me. Falling angels, can't you see that these girls are fine? He said, God. They are fine. Let's begin to sleep with them. And the Bible says in Genesis six that the fallen angels beheld the children of men and saw that they were beautiful and started interacting with them. So much so, they started giving birth to abomination. These were nephilims, a corrupted seed, a union of a seed between fallen angels and humans, a perverted nation. Do you understand what I'm saying?

So what was happening was a perversion of deceit. So that at the end of the day, after some time, everybody on earth will be a union of a fallen angel and a human being. So there is nobody left. At least, instead of searching for deceit, let's make everybody ours. And God said,. There are many reasons I I don't wanna show you now. And God said, Kai, if this thing succeeds, salvation will no longer be possible. And God wiped out the whole earth with a flood. And you say, hey, wicked God, loving God. God.

Do you know that this plan was already succeeding So much so that in all the earth, only hate same people were left. Hate. So it was just a matter of time. There will be none. The flood was deliverance. The flood was judgment. And God said, now let's start this thing very well. The first mistake we made was that we left it to chance. Now we will call joy a nation. We will not just depend and imagine that someone somewhere alongside the earth will be so committed to God and love God so much as to become the bearer of the promise.

So many things can go on with that equation. What we will do is to culture a nation so that we will know that the manifestation of the promise will find expression in the culture. So that we will know that we are not delete... With respect to the manifestation of this prophecy, the seed of the woman. We are not dealing with the whole world. Just these ones. So God comes to Abraham and tells Abraham, in your seed shall the families of the earth be blessed. Now you are seeing the seed of the woman in your seed. So God has now picked that prophecy, the seed of the woman, and placed it in a man. Saying in your seed, not in a man as in in the man with the seed would come, but that in his descendants.

Are you with me? What would later become Israel? That was why when God came to him, what God told him was, I will make you a great nation. So the promise of a nation began with him. God was saying, this prophecy of the manifestation of the seed will now find expression in you as a nation. Jacob, who was his grandson, now became Israel. Israel became the nation. Are you with me? So it was obvious to the devil from that day that, okay. Okay.

I will make you a great nation. He no become nation. Isaac no become nation. Jacob now become Israel. And they are multiplying. They are calling themselves Israel. That means that they must be deceit. So instead of wiping out one person, I only need to wipe out Israel by biblical Israel. From that day ends forth, the fight was no longer the whole earth. The fight was now Israel.

You now understand Haman. You now understand Pharaoh. You now understand all the warfare that Israel had to face. You now understand why there had to be judges and deliverers and prophets and all these people. Because even the devil did not... It was as the prophecy was unfolding that he was knowing. So it was on the spot. He had to be devising plans. And let's come to the side of God. The moment man falls, God just comes and says, Kai, see what you have done now.

Don't worry. The seed of the woman will bruise the head of the serpent. And you will thank God from that day. We'll start looking for how the seed will now bruise the head and how the thing will now... And then who will now, who will now, who will now? But the Bible says, from the foundation of the earth, the lamb was slain. That means even before time began. God was already at the end. God has already slain the lamp. That means the seed had already been born.

The seed had already grown. The seed had already manifested. God was already there. Yes, sir. So when the devil was fighting and planning on schedule, planning, do you think God is in heaven saying, hey. Hey. Is that what God was doing? No. No. It's in time you are anxious.

It's in time you are worried. And it's because you don't know the God whose ways are higher than yours. Whose thoughts are higher than yours? Who says, listen, this is why you can trust me. You have not been introduced to the God who says, listen, I'm not thinking of what to do with your life. That means if anything begun in time is not a mistake. That means I'm alive because my father slept with the wrong woman, and I'm a bastard. My brother never wanted me, so they left me with my stepmother or whichever mother to take care of me. And my father never had anything to do with me because I was born by accident. It's only in time that such a world exists.

As long as God is concerned, when that thing is introduced in... As long as the betting took place, it is because the end has been concluded. So there is no accident with God. Or what does it make sense to do? To be afraid of circumstances and situations and the devil or to trust God? Which one makes more sense? No. No. No. Let's make a logical conclusion.

Don't just answer me. Let's be logical. God says my ways are higher than your ways. My thoughts are higher than your thoughts. And I'm just to show you how. How come... It's not just that I know more than you. Even though I do. It's the scope, how I come to know is superior to how you can ever know. Because I have the privilege of being the one that altered reality.

Do you agree with me that if the drama team is doing a movie here or a playlist here, whoever wrote the script is not anticipating the end like you. The only person who is saying, hey, is the one who has not seen the script. So when I said he uttered reality, that means he knows the end. He wrote the end. He wrote it. He wrote it. And because he uttered it, he can do whatever he wants to eat as he sees fit. So the devil can be having fun, and he will think he's plotting plans because even the devil is seeing linearly. He's seeing on a straight line. He's seeing things how they are unfolding.

The God that altered reality is seen from a standpoint of oversight. So when the devil is planning and he's playing his games, the devil can say, yes. I've gotten this one's life now. God says, ah, see this guy now. He has helped us. We're even looking for how this young man will get to Egypt before. Listen. Listen. So we showed him a snapshot of his life, and he saw the stars and the sun and the moon bowing down to him. And he went to go and tell his brothers, the sun, the stars, the moon bowing down to me.

Ah. Does that mean I will not serve you? Does that mean I will not... I saw your ships bowing down to my ship. How my ship hurt your ship? Does that mean I will not be your slave? And that guy started whispering to their hearts. Will you take that? No, I won't take that. If you won't take that, what will you do about it?

How will your younger brother be telling you that the sun and the moon is bowing down to him? And the seven stars, count yourself now. Are you not seven? See it's true. It's true. How many stars? 11. Count yourself. He say it's true. It's true.

It's true. So all of you now are as old as you are. See, you're already 50. It's due for you to, Let's kill him. And they took him. Rendered off his cloth of many colors. And as you are about to kill him, because God was the one that wrote that script. They really meant to kill him. But he's called the father of spirits. So all he needs to do is just to...

Okay. Now you have done your role. Now tell them that you should not kill him. Let's not kill him. He's our brother. He doesn't know that God is one or... Oh, God. You don't you you don't understand what I'm saying. Listen. Listen.

Listen. We should not kill him. Now let's come to the side of Joseph. And he's inside the pit. Now imagine Joseph seeing in time. Just yesterday, he saw a vision that the sun and the moon are bowing down to him, and stars are bowing down to him. And today, it's in a pit. And seeing in time, he's wondering, who sent me to see? What is this? And I can imagine in that pit, he's worried, he's anxious, he's thinking, hey.

God, I'm sorry. God, I'm this. And he's wondering, my brother, I'm sorry. Please don't be angry. We never see anything like that with him. Almost as though he knew the alpha omega. Almost as though he knew. Because you would think... You can't look at Joseph and think he's blessed. How can you say, God say I will have the largest business in the whole world.

And in the day you start your business, thief came and stole everything. And you come out tomorrow and say, who sent you? Say, it means even me. I don't even know. I thought I heard God. Olga, you heard God. Do you do you understand what I'm saying? The presence of resistance does not mean that the end is not clear. It doesn't mean the end is not the end. So I'm talking to someone who might have been violated.

You might have been raped when you were young. And you wonder if God has his glorious destiny for me. Why why was I this? Why was I that? Why was I this? God never uttered that. The devil did. And the devil did because he heard the promises about your life. He knew what you will become. He knew.

I would tell people, I would say, it's not a matter of what did I do. It's a matter of what will I do. It's... The the devil never strikes a man because of what he has done. He strikes him because of what he will do. But what you need to know is that in God own wisdom what the devil meant for evil is turned inside the eternal turning system. That ensures that no matter the situation and the challenges, there's an eternal turning system. What do like calling? An internal grinding system. What does the grinding system do?

All things. All things. Work out for good. All things. How many things? All things. So, when we take the pit, we put it inside the churning system. The experience might be happening in time, but the pit itself is being processed in eternity. So that by the time it comes out, what that was to end your life, both the one that was meant to end your career, both the one that was meant to end end your future, both both the the scandal, both the one your both Both the one where you started a business, and for three years, you have been there. Nobody's coming to come and buy.

All things. All things. All things. All All things. All things. All things. Although that was not enough, Joseph was picked and put as a slave and was being auctioned, stacked naked. And God was with him. Shame and reproach. But the Bible says that he was successful.

Have an experience of shame. He was sold to Potiphar's house, an experience of shame. Someone who saw stars and moon and everything, now going through in time what does not look like what he saw in the end. Because that is how time works. Do you understand what I'm saying? It means you must subscribe mentality to the one whose ways is higher than yours, to the one whose thought is higher than yours so that you will not define your life by what you see in time. Because if you do, you have short circuited your destiny. All things. All things. Things.

Man of God, do you know that just last year, up until five years ago, you would think I was a prostitute. There was nobody I had not slept with, all things. All things. When Samson was going to his in law's house, He killed a lion. When he was going back there, he was going with his father and mother and he parked them somewhere. Went to the lion he had killed and found that bees had built an hive on the carcass, inside the carcass of the lion. And he took out the honey. Gave it to his father, gave it to his mother. Hate the honey. And he was so sweet.

And he did not tell anybody that where he got this very sweet honey from was from a dead lion. A lion that wanted to kill him. They killed the lion and brought honey from the lion. When he got to his in law's house, he then gave them a proverb. He said, anybody that can get this proverb, so and so. What would you? Then he gave them a proverb from the experience he had just had. He said, out of the eater. Out of the eater came something to eat. And out of the strong came something sweet.

And they could not understand what he was saying. I don't have a business with whether they understood or not. What I have a business with is the interpretation of what he had said. Out of the eater came something to eat. KJB says came forth meat. Give me KJB. Came forth meat. So pick that story and return back to Joseph. You've now realized that the pit was the eater. In being sold into slavery was the eater.

Why is it the hitter? Because these things were conditioned to destroy his life. What was the intention of his brothers when they were putting him in a pit, when they were selling him to slavery? Their intention was to ensure that that vision he had told them he saw does not come to pass. That was the eater. Do you understand what I'm saying? But in God's framework, God says out of the eater. That's the realm the devil does not understand. The realm where he can do his worst to try to destroy what God has said over your life. And God will put that worst in that eternal turning system so that what comes out of it is meat.

Honey from a dead carcass. So you look at a woman like Dosmia, and she'll begin to tell you that I was raped by my father. My father continuously for many years, beaten, raped, maltreated continuously over the span of many years. Such things don't happen to people mistakenly. Such things happen to targeted individuals. People God has said something about. Because the devil is not interested in your life until he knows what God has said. That's why when he came to Eve, what he asked Eve is, did God really say? In other words, what he was asking is, what does God said? So when the devil picks interest in a life, it picks interest to the degree to which he has uncovered what God has said.

So if he finds out that, hey, somehow, somehow, he just knows. Probably when the month I was pregnant of him, he meets somebody and God says, that boy you are carrying will be a life to the Gentiles. He will feed the nation's bread. I will put something in him, and I will dig a well on his inside, and nations will come and drink from that well. People of all colors, people of all, as they are declaring that prophecy, the guy is here and say, That one, abort, abort, destiny abort. So it's not everywhere. That's what Bob Hope is to and fro mission. So in case he has visited you, now you know why. It has nothing to do with you. What did I say?

Do you know that he can visit your family because of you? I don't know. When Eroth said, kill every boy, were they interested in every boy? No. That's the delusion behind this happening to everybody. Oh. There are times when it is happening be... To everybody because of you. Because he knows if we can strike this family's finances, let's see how he will go to school. Let's see how he will gain exposure.

Let's see how he will make progress. Let's see how things will come at work for him. Let's see. He knows. And he started cascade of events. Strike his father. Strike his mother. Poverty will ensure that he has no exposure. But that's not the only thing poverty will do. Poverty will also ensure that he has bad influence because he will only have to meet with bad friends who will influence him otherwise, who will take him off the path of destiny.

For for seventeen years, he might be walking at a talk. That life only has to come to a place like this. Because the moment that life comes to a place like this, it does not matter whether it's three years or seventeen years or fifteen years or thirty eight years or forty five years, that experience and all the years is put into an eternal turning system. Out of the eater, what was meant to destroy, what was meant to ensure that that destiny doesn't see the light of the day would now come forth meat. It means the message of your destiny would come from the destiny that the devil tried to stop. It will now come from the testimony of how you overcame. And in God's wisdom, that now becomes how several people become delivered. Because all they need to do is hear your story. And you see the guy, 500,000 people following him on Instagram. All of them talks and touts.

People on the street. People doing conductor, people. And you wonder why are they following this guy? You don't understand what I'm saying. That experience now become the beginning of his message. When he stands before people and says, see, I was once like you. They all listen to you. Hey. How can somebody that was once like me now have this kind of life? Because God has now made your life so beautiful.

Let me go back to what I was saying. Because I want you to understand this. So God, in his wisdom, begins to put every experience that Joseph is having. When he gets to Potiphar's house, the devil says, you are too comfortable here. Entires into the woman. He says, ah, with this, you come and suffer. You're living like a king. What is that? Frames him. They trim in a prison, thinking that there you would die.

When he got to the prison, God took the prison, put it into the eternal turning system. So that what comes out of... And you will think the devil is wise. Because every effort to frustrate this guy's destiny was moving him closer to destiny. I have a question for you. Put yourself in Joseph in time. Would it seem like that? Would it seem like you are moving closer? You are almost there. You are moving closer.

You will soon be there. Would it seem like, don't worry. Don't worry. The prison is where you will now block. Is that how it would seem? That when you were in Potiphar's house, we're even thanking God and still praying that the vision you saw will come to pass because you can no longer see how in the world it will happen. But you are still trusting God and waiting on God. Next minute, they told you that, ah, that you have been framed. Now you are in the prison because somebody framed you. What is this?

What is this? Why is my destiny delayed? Why is the promise of God not happening? Why am I cursed? And then I begin to break courses, fight delay, fight all kind of things, fight resistive forces, and all of these things. Nothing wrong in that by the way. But what if this guy could see from where God was seeing? When God says my thoughts are higher than your own. My ways are higher than your own. God, don't think you are smart in yourself.

You do the thing. Every single thing you think you are trying to push, are trying to... Don't you realize that even in your push, even in your push, even in your push, that's why the Bible says trust in God with all your, in all your ways. Acknowledge him. You know why you have to acknowledge him in all your ways? Because he wrote it. And your chance, your only chance of getting to the end he wrote is in your acknowledging the one that wrote it. Please know where I'm going, stay with me. Listen. Perhaps you will realize when you know the God whose ways are higher than yours, that it pays to trust It pays to trust him.

In fact, this is where resting on the promises of God should come from. So that if I read the Bible and a word jumps out to me from scripture, God tells me. God tells me, Gentiles will come to your light. Kings to the brightness of your rising. And I got to that path, it just stood out to me. It was no longer as though I was reading bible. I was staying there and I was seeing... I couldn't move forward again. I kept on seeing myself. I kept on seeing my name.

The thing was burning in my heart. Tenthiles will come to my light. Tenthiles will come to my light. Kings to the brightness of my rising. Tenthiles will come to my light. Understand this. Understand this. That what will make you hold on to that word as this is God's word to me and believe it like like your life depends on it. Come what may, what may shine, what may happen to you, what can make you be inside the prison and not lose your countenance? I am not sad.

I am not worried. I am not thinking, will it happen? Will it not happen? Hey, has my whole now finished like this? Because this thing did not work out. What can make you stand strong even in infirmities, even in bad times, even in weakness is an understanding of a God whose ways are higher than yours. So you know, you know that it doesn't matter what kind of resistance I might face. It doesn't matter what kind of resistance I might face. It doesn't matter what what what come before this ministry. It doesn't matter who might fight me as a person.

He has shown me an end. He said, walk with me and I will make you great. He didn't say walk with me and I will drop you here. I can't die here. My life cannot end here. My story cannot end here. I saw an end. I saw an end. The movie has not finished. I won't leave before the movie finished.

The movie has not finished. I saw an end. What makes the promises of God different from the promises of a man is this same alpha omega. Listen, if a man promises you, a man can promise you solely based on good intentions. He might want to do it and tell you know what, I'll be there for you. And he might not have the capacity to, even though he intend to. There are many people who have wanted to help financially. But I did not have the money. That's why I intended to help them. That's where man can fail.

That's why it is foolishness to depend on the word of a man. Because the word of a man is finite. It is based on his capacity. It is based on his on his finite capacity. His strength can fail. His money can finish. He can be weak. He can change his mind. But the one who has promised us did not promise us from where we are. He promised us from where he is.

He was at the end of my life when he promised me. And he told me, don't worry. Even though your beginning might be small, your little hand will increase. He wasn't speaking in hope. He was promising me because he was at my end. He has seen the increase. He has seen the wealth. He has seen the prosperity. He has seen Gentiles coming. He has seen it.

He has seen it. That verse that says my ways are higher than your ways. My thoughts higher than your thoughts. It then goes on to say, as the heaven are higher than the earth. So I'm always higher. In the next verse, verse 10. Verse 10 says, for as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven and don't return there, but they stay to water the earth. They stay to make it bring forth. They stay to make it bold. In other words, when the rain comes, the rain does not drop and then goes back up immediately.

The rain stays to water the earth. The rain stays to make the earth board. It makes the head bring forth. It then says that it may give seed to the sower, bread to the eater. Next So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me void. It shall accomplish what I please. It shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. You've not understood it yet. You've not understood it yet.

He says, the earth has a purpose and the assignment of the earth is to bring forth. And to board. That's the assignment of the earth. That's the end of the earth. Bring forth and board. It ends as the rain when it falls. Doesn't fall on the head and then go back. It falls and it stays. What does it stay to do? It stay to ensure that the assignment of that head, which is to bring forth, finds expression.

It then says, my word is like this ring. My word is like this dew. Now when I send it to you, it means you also have an assignment. Your assignment as well is to bring forth something. Land to survive. Do you remember Revelations chapter 12? The Bible says that there was a great sign that appeared in heaven. That there was a woman and then there was a dragon. And the Bible describes the type of dragon that it was. And had seven horns, had all these things.

Is that not so? The Bible then says the dragon stood in front of the woman that was about to deliver. The dragon never attacked the woman. The dragon could have killed the woman, But his interest was never in the woman. The interest was the child. What was inside? The seed that she was carrying. What God had implanted in her. That was what the serpent was after. That was what the dragon was after.

That thing that was meant to bring forth. That thing that was meant to board. The idea that was planted. The prophecy that was given. The promise that was given. The vision that was given. That was what the devil was after. What was meant to board? What was meant to bring forth? But in your understanding of the God whose ways is higher than your ways, it then says, in this my high ways, understand something.

That in the same way that when the water falls on the earth, it does not go back to the heavens until it has ensured that the earth has brought forth. My word, when I sent it to you, will do the same work. My word will not leave you. In other words, it does not matter what the resistance is. It does not matter what pit you are thrown into. The nature of my word is that it will not stop until you board. Do you understand what I'm saying? The nature of my word is that it must bring forth fruit. It can't come back to me in the way I sent it. So if I say you are a prophet to the nations, it does not matter what family you were born in.

It does not matter what mistakes you have made you have made. The nature of my word is this, it cannot come back to me empty. It must make sure that you both. And the one who is speaking can speak without much guarantee because he knows. I've seen your hand already. Hear me? Do you know what wise men do? They do what Joseph did. They do what Abraham did. They do what Gideon did.

All through scripture, every man that God ever appeared to and used, including Jeremiah, including Samuel. God never came to them and declared to them they are beginning or their circumstances. What God did was to declare their hand to them. Even when their circumstances did not seem like it, even when their situation did not seem like it, what God did was to declare their hand to them. He came to Gideon when Gideon was hiding like a coward. He was hiding away from battle. And when the angel came to Gideon, what the angel said in dodgy six was, thou mighty man of valor. How do you call a man who is hiding from war? Who does not even have enough boldness of heart to dress with where they dress with? How do you call him a mighty man?

How do you call a coward a mighty man? How is that possible? But God was not delivering a message to Gideon based on where Gideon was at the moment. God was standing at his end. At his end, he was a deliverer. At his end, he was a mighty man. At his end... And God not calling what he was now. God didn't say you timid girl, you shy girl, you shameful girl. God said you mighty man of valor.

What wise men do is to call themselves what God has called them at the end. That's what wise men do. Your life now might not look like it, but to say I'm prosperous. Your life now might not look like it, but to say I'm. Do you understand what I'm saying? I'm a prophet to the nations. The word of God is in my mouth. That's what wise men do. Abraham did not have a child, and God came to Abraham, and God told Abraham, your name will no longer be called Abraham. Your name will now be called father of many nations, but did not have a child.

But that was the end. From where God was standing, the man was already lording over nations. In time, it didn't look like it, but God had to call him that. God said be calling yourself names from your hand. Don't say you are poor. Say I'm wealthy. Don't say I'm failing. Say I'm I'm the head and not the tail. Don't say I'm small. Say I'm great.

Don't say I'm weak. Say I'm strong. Don't say I'm a voice to the nations. Oh, I cannot die here. My life will not end here. My life will not end here. Hear me? My life will not end here. I speak to Nigeria. Nigeria will hear my voice.

I speak to Asia. Asia will hear my voice. I speak to Europe. Europe will hear my voice. I will not die like this. Listen, you're about to pray. You're about to pray. You know you have a call of God upon your life. What do you see? To declare from the end of things.

To speak from the end of things. You say I am Abraham. I'm a father of many nations. You say I'm Gideon. You say I'm Elijah. I'm a prophet of fire. Rise up on your feet. You won't believe I could not start my vision today. But we'll end here. I want you to just bow your heads and pray in the holy ghost.

Listen, whilst you are praying the holy ghost, listen. Whilst you are praying the holy ghost. With your eyes closed. I want you to envision whatever God has shown you in your hand. What has God told you? What has God said? What did you see in scriptures? What did he tell you? As you pray in the holy ghost, I want you to begin to declare that as your reality. I want you to call yourself your name from the end.

Call yourself your name from the end. Name yourself. Give yourself an identity. Give yourself an identity. We close in this place. Come on pray. Give yourself an identity. Pray. Pray. One more minute.

Give you all the praise. Thank you because you've answered our prayers. Father, we give you all the glory. Give you all the praise. We give you all the honor. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for the word. Thank you for the fellowship. Thank you for your gold. I see the hand of God touching a lady at the back.

Anointing I see coming upon them, an anointing. There's someone like that outside as well. That the anointing of God's spirit is coming upon. The person is at the overflow. There's oil coming upon her. It's a lady I'm saying. It's a lady. There's oil coming upon her at the overflow. Just Help help them. Help them.

Them. I'm seeing three people, and the Lord is telling me for a long time, you have identified with what I do not call you. You have identified. You have called yourself what I do not call you. You wore a garment of reproach, a garment of shame. Who told you you were timid? Who told you you cannot stand before a crowd? Who called you that name? Who called you that name? Who called you that name?

Who called you that name? There's someone in their spirit. You are seeing a lion's face in your spirit now. As I'm speaking. A vision of a lion staring at you. And God is telling me the heart of a lion. The heart of a lion. The heart of a lion. Thumping at you. No more timidity.

Now you are roaring. Now you are becoming bold. Thank you Lord. Thank you you Thank you for all you have done. Thank you for the gift of your presence. We honor you Jesus. Thank you for your presence. Thank you. Thank you. Higher, higher.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm just seeing this vision of a lion's face. The visage of a colossus. There are three young men I'm seeing that this thing is jumping upon them. Yeah, men. And you are standing tall. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

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