Transcript: Be Not Weary In Believing — A Charge

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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. We took time to worship because of the good things that is happening in our lives. We took time to worship because of the testimonies we are receiving every day. I tell you there are always more testimonies we can take. Always more. Always more.

And God is still doing so many things in the lives of people. God is still doing mighty things in the lives of people. You can't imagine. You can't imagine mighty things in the lives of people. And I pray in the name of Jesus. And even as we become recipients of all that God is doing, in some time, it will manifest visibly. Amen. Amen. Amen. It is only a matter of time.

Amen. You are growing roots downwards. So when it look as though nothing is happening on the surface, it is because God is ensuring that you are properly rooted. God is ensuring that what now? Properly rooted. God is ensuring that you are properly rooted. Properly rooted. So do not think for a moment that nothing is happening. We see with the eyes of faith. We see with the eyes of what now?

Of faith. We don't judge according to our circumstances. We don't judge by what we see in the physical. The believer must know that every day my life is on a path of glory. The believer must know that every day my life is on a path of glory. Every day. The bible says from glory to glory. Even if it doesn't look like it, confer it as your reality. Believe it as that is the only thing it can be. It can't be any other thing.

It's not permitted to be another thing. It can only be from glory to glory. Yes. The bible says the path of the righteous is as a shining light. It shines ever brighter, ever brighter. Do you understand what that means that the path of the righteous is as a shining light? I like to use the illustration of the man that goes out in the morning by 12AM, and he goes out and he's staring at the sky, what does he see by 12AM in the morning? Darkness everywhere. But do you realize that 12AM in the morning is already the dawn of a new day? But in as much as it is the dawn of a new day, there is still darkness everywhere.

It means that seasons can change, but it looks as though nothing has changed. It looks as though when I look, I'm still seeing darkness everywhere. And God is saying, calm down. For the path of the righteous, the path of the righteous, it shines ever brighter. In other words, all you need to tell yourself is give it time. Because as you stay there 2AM, 3AM, you are still observing. 6AM, you realize that it starts getting brighter. You will stare until a point comes. You cannot stare into it again. The light from the sun will blind your eyes.

That is how your life is. Many of you are at 3AM already. Some are at 6AM. And then you want to turn away and be discouraged and say, I can't see any change happening. And God is saying, no. The path of the righteous. It only shines brighter. It only shines brighter. Listen. Allow the word of God to be your only source of motivation.

Don't listen to external sources. They would not last. They would not last. When you go through fierce temptation, it says count it all joy. Why do we count it joy? Because we know that there is a future that has been set ahead of us. We know. We understand. We see it. Do you see it, brothers and sisters?

Yeah. Oh, I do. I do. I do brightly. I see it as clear as I do now as I did six years ago, seven years ago, ten years ago. Nothing has changed. I still see it. The results don't make men. Mm-mm. What we see on our inside is what makes us.

Yes. Joseph might be in the prison, but don't think he's a prisoner with you. That we are in the same circumstances does not mean we are the same. Both of us might be in the prison, but we got there in different ways. You got there because you are foolish. I got there because I'm on a daily. God is taking me through a class to greatness. Yes. I would not be deceived to think that just because I am there with you, would you now think that, oh, we are the same. We are not the same.

Come on now. Something is happening on my inside. The word of God is making a giant inside of me. That is how the believer must see himself every time. Every time. That is why I tell people, Do not commonize your seeds. Somebody might come and say, apostle, I wanna sow a seed. I don't really have much, but take just this token. You have insulted your seed. Don't do that to yourself.

As you are bringing your seed, you are saying, this is the reward of what of what God is making in me. Very soon, 1 naira will become a million. Very soon, a million will become a billion. This is how the believer sees himself. When you hear testimonies, don't sit down with arrogance and in pride and say, well, when will my own happen? When will my own happen? No. That is not the mentality that receives testimonies. If you want to get blessed when you hear testimonies, thank God for what God is doing. Don't just be saying when...

God, when? When? When? No. No. No. Thank God for what God is doing. As you hear it, say my goodness. This is happening where I am. This same grace, this same power, this same anointing, this same result, come on now.

My life can change. Listen. For every testimony that you hear, there is a process you'd not hear. There is always a process that looks as though it's hidden from the eyes of men. Yes. And be careful to ensure that you document your process. Remember these days because you will soon forget them. Hear me oh? Hear me oh? When the bible says, when the Lord turned against our captivity, turned away our captivity, we were like them that dreamed.

It looked as though it was unbelievable. The bible says that whenever a woman is pregnant, whenever she's about to give birth, there is always labor pain. There's always pangs in labor. Have you seen a woman going through all that pain before? The bible says whenever a woman is about to go give birth, there is pain in labor. Pain in labor. If you are someone who who is close to her, you you are even touched by that pain, sometimes she's crying tears in her eyes. Sometimes she's shouting. She's screaming because that is the most intense pain she might ever go through in all her life. It can last one hour.

Sometimes it can even last two hours, three hours, six hours. But all of a sudden, a child comes out of her, and immediately the child comes out. The same person who was crying one minute ago. They give her a child, and she starts to smile. There is a way testimonies wipe away tears. Not just tears. The memory of tears even. Note what I'm saying. Even the memory of the pain you went through, there's a way glory can wipe it off. Read it.

One, two, three, go. Pause. It means there are times when sorrow is introduced, not because the devil is against you, but because your hour has come. And that God says, it is the season of a birthing, and we must press something out of you. And because of that, there will be squeezing. There will be pressure left and right. The government of God will be heavy upon your lives. It will be obvious. You would look around and wonder, am I the only one serving this God? You are not.

But you are the only one perhaps now whose season has come. And the bible says, there's a way when your season comes that what is introduced is labor pangs. Like a woman who's about to deliver. In what moment, God can God can request everything from you. God is taking you through a dealing, taking you through a class, teaching you humility, breaking pride away. Because where I'm taking you to, pride cannot follow you there. And it's not as though I can't change your life now, but I'm doing something about the kind of person that you are. There's a transformation going on. Don't worry. Very soon, the miracle that will come, the glory that will come, you will need to force yourself to remember your pain.

That is the reason why somebody who has succeeded, who God has blessed, when this thing has happened to them, be careful if you are just starting and you listen to them. They will make you feel as though you are wasting time. Because you can meet a minister for instance who... You go for a minister's conference, and this person, God has helped him. God has lifted him, and this thing has happened. What thing? What am I saying this time? Let's go and read it. When she gives back to the child, uh-huh, she she no longer does what? Go on.

That thing. Last thing. Why you no longer remember the anguish? Because the glory you have been waiting for, that thing you wanted to push has finally come. That idea has been birthed. That glory has manifested. The bible says the pain that you went through, the process you went through, there is a way the glory has a way of wiping your memory. And when you start speaking from that place, you won't be able to mentor the next generation. That's why God told the people of Israel, remember the Lord your God. Who brought you how to...

Remember you went, remember the process. Because when you enter into the promised land, you might be quick to forget. It would delete every track record of pain you have went through in your memory. There's a way glory does that to you. And when you listen to those people, they will make it look as though that's where they have always been. So a man of God come and say, I grew my church, you know, from one to 1,000 in just three years. If you are here and you're not doing, what are you doing with your life? And you that this is the tenth day you are in church, and your members are probably just 17. Look into that one to 1,000 in three years. And the man will not tell you that before that three years, there has been twenty six years behind the scene of evangelism and houses where nobody knew him and heard his voice.

But when the child comes, the knowledge of hang which is quick to fade. So the man will come and tell you, if you're a student, why are you giving? You should not give as a student. He had forgotten that when he was doing ministry, he sold his laptop to to fund this crusade. But glory has come. Do you understand what I'm saying? Glory has come. The way your life will so change. When we're... When after the prayer convocation, we were going and and I saw people, some were walking, some were waiting for the car.

I just remembered, and I was so pained. I was so burdened in my heart that we could not get... We didn't we didn't get buses. I didn't... I didn't... It didn't even come to my mind at all. If it came to my mind, would have we have made buses available to pick everybody and return them back to there, especially those that came from UI. I was feeling so much pain in my heart. We forgot this thing. We forgot this thing.

Then all of a sudden, I was intercepted in my vision. And the Holy Spirit started comforting me. He said you who is burdened, was there not a time you walked? So if you make it all comfortable because you can, how do these people go through a process? What become the track record that they have therefore? And say, remember a time I walked to church. The stories are... Has already been written, but in time, we are writing it. Yes. Yes.

So under the sound of my voice, understand that God is doing something with your life. Do not be under pressure. No. No. No. Don't start comparing yourself to yourselves. The bible says them that compare themselves to themselves are not wise. Don't compare yourself to yourself. No. Your dealings are different.

Your part is different. The bible says they do not break their ranks. Someone shared the testimony of how God lifted them and pushed them into eight figures, and you are there thinking, ah, but my own, but my own. But that thing that became eight figures is is is probably seven years in the works. You know the way we behave as believers? We become hungry. And because you are hungry, you are looking for food to eat. And all of a sudden, you pass by your neighbor's house, and you see your neighbor harvesting corn, harvesting mango, harvesting yam to go and eat. And when you see it, you now say, uh-uh. That's true.

Why didn't I even think about that? So guess what you do? You now go back to your own house and start planting mango, start planting maize. How does that quench the current hunger? Do you understand what I've just said? Do you realize that the neighbor that you saw did not plant that maize yesterday? Do you realize that it had taken time for that fruit that you're now celebrating to happen? So if you are inspired by what you saw and you go and plant your own fruit, it will take time also before it manifest. In that, you have to be patient. What God does while he's bringing you that seed, while he's growing that seed, while he's nurturing that seed, is that he places help around you in ways of miracles, in ways of intervention.

That when words are spoken, you are comforted. But the time comes when that tree grows. The tree is growing. The tree is growing. And we have seen nothing yet. There was a time when the seed was planted, and God told us that we would have a meeting called the experience. And as we speak, people will come into the experience of that which we see. And I found it in scriptures that while Peter yet speaketh, the holy ghost came upon them. And Lord told me that this would be the same manifestation, that I would confirm your words with signs and wonders. Did I not say of Jesus that I attested of him with signs, miracles, healings, and wonders?

This is why to be called the experience because people would come into the experience literally of whatever it is you are teaching. That is where the name the experience comes from. It it doesn't just mean come and experience something. It means you come into the literal atmosphere of that which is being said, that which is being taught. It came as a seed. There was a time when that seed was in the gutter in Japo with three people, and we were sharing this to them one by one. Everybody was going through that same process. There was a time when that seed was under the tree in chapel, and we would gather and we will be praying. None of us would have what we would eat in the night. We would talk to ourselves and we would say, do you, do you have something?

You, do you have something? Okay. You have... How many? You have rice. Okay. You have pepper. Let's come together. Whose house are we meeting? He said, you.

Okay. We go to the hostel, and we are sharing revelations, sharing testimonies. Somebody will say, do you hear that man of God that was speaking? I heard him, and we'll be telling what the man of God said. Another man will say, I heard a testimony. This man was doing this. I was like, I see see a video. See healing happening. And we'll be talking, sharing revelations, sharing testimonies, encouraging ourselves in the Lord, and there will be nobody who would feel as though, oh, hey. What pain we are going through?

No. The seed was growing, and we're conscious of this. When we met, we declared what we saw. Nations will come. The flags of nations will be eroded. We declare what we saw. Do you believe what God is doing in your life? We know that it may not yet appear. Paul says, we know that our light affliction. And there is a time when God takes us through the fullness of affliction.

Yes. But it is because he's working something. He's working something glorious. He's working something glorious, something massive. God has told you you would be a prophet. God has told you you would be a music minister, a psalmist. God has told you he would give you songs of revival. God has told you we'll use your sound to revive the hearts of men. There's no need to be in a rush. Stay in the school of the spirit.

That is where announcements come. That's where announcements come. Those that wait upon the Lord, they shall mount up with wings as eagles. There is a time when waiting upon the Lord seems as though you are wasting time. Tell your neighbor, I'm not wasting time. I'm wasting time. Those that wait upon the Lord, it looks as though I am waiting, and time is going. Time is going. And many a times, you can measure the relevance of our lives by what is happening in the lives of others. And foolish people will begin to look at the life of others, and they will say, time is going.

Time is going. Don't do that to yourself. I'm not wasting time. I'm not wasting time. Waiting upon the Lord and watching what he would do with my life. Waiting upon the Lord and watching how he would move in my life. There are some of you, your experiences right now are what God has fashioned as systems for you to know him. God is taking advantage of your current circumstances and situations to build experiential knowledge of him. So that inside the stories, inside the experiences, inside the circumstances, you can find God more powerfully than you would have found him in a book. So that you too can say I have known God.

Don't waste your pain. This is not my teaching. Can you imagine how many hours I spent preparing the teaching? But the holy spirit is moving me in this direction because I feel as though there is someone who needs to hear this. Don't waste your pain. Don't waste your pain. In Genesis chapter four verse one, the bible says, and Adam knew Eve. And Adam did what? Knew Eve. Knew Eve.

And Eve conceived. The question we should ask ourselves is, what kind of knowledge is that? How do I ask a woman, what is your name? Oh, my name is Amaka. Oh, my name is Ben, and then she's pregnant. How do we just come into a mental awareness of ourselves and then you are pregnant? It means when the Hebrew when the Hebrew used the word no, they don't use it as we have diffused it in western culture to mean I want to have a mental awareness of you. No, therefore, is more intimate. No, therefore, means intercourse. Is that not what is happening here?

No means to know someone intimately, to come into a state of intercourse with the person, to know someone experientially. Is that not so? Then there is a a seed that is planted into the woman as a proof that the man has known the woman. Is it not the man that implants the seed in the woman? Are you getting what I'm saying? Yes, sir. After a seed is implanted, the woman begins to carry life up and down. That life begins to alter her configuration, begins to do something to her. It makes her a new person, a different person. She's not as active as she used to be because she's carrying a weight of two people.

Stay with me. The bible says in Daniel chapter 11, those that know their God. It means the knowing there too is not mental awareness. It is the kind of knowing that Adam knew if. The kind of knowing that Adam knew if and conceived. And this knowing happens not when you read a book. Because you can read a book and still not know. The bible says that you you not knowing the scriptures and the power of God. Is that true? The bible then says that the bible then says that you read the letters, you read the scriptures thinking that in them you would find me, but you don't know that these are they that testified of me.

In other words, the scripture is meant to lead you to a person. The scriptures you read is not the person. It is however the route. It is the GPS system that takes you through that journey that leads you into an experience. I will tie this thing together. Just follow me. Yes, sir. You will understand what I'm saying. I'm coming from somewhere. Do you remember the Pharisees?

Answer the Ezees. To be a Pharisee, you must have known and read the five books of Moses. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Jeremy. Not just know and read them, but you must be able to recite them by heart. So every man that was a Pharisee was a custodian of the law. These were men who had eaten the law. They could recite the law by heart and understood the prophets too. So they knew what Isaiah said. They knew what Jeremiah said. They knew what Psalm said.

They knew what Moses said. They had read the scriptures. And guess what? All through the Old Testament, what you see are prophecies about the Christ. Isaiah said, unto all the child is born, unto all the son is given, his name shall be called Emmanuel. A pastor's wonderful counselor, prince of peace. Is that not so? Yes, sir. Psalm says, the Lord said to my Lord, sit down with my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool. Jeremiah speaks of the glory of Israel that will be manifested.

Moses speaks of a prophet greater than him that will be manifested. All of them spoke about the Christ and his coming. Is that not so? And the story sees, answered and sees. I've read this thing. They have read it, yet they did not see it. How do I know? Because when the Christ was to be manifested, the bible says wise men from the East were walking. And as they were walking, a star appeared. And they understood and discerned by experience that this star means that the king has been born.

And they traced the star to find out where the king was born, and they went to Bethlehem. Is that not so? But first they visited the palace because they thought that for him to be a king, he must be in the palace. When they got to the palace, they met with Herod, And Herod asked them, what did you come for? He said the king has been born. Herod now called the scribes and the Pharisees and told them, are you aware that the king has been born? And the scribes and the Pharisees said, it is written in scriptures that a king would be born. Ah ah, where would he be born? They did not say, give us time. Let's go and check.

To show you that they knew scriptures of art, they told him immediately he asked. Bethlehem of Judea. Okay. Go and find that king that has been born. When you find him, let me know so that I will pay homage. That's not even my point. My point is, how come wise men who have never read scriptures could tell that Jesus had been born? But scribes and Pharisees who lived their lives reading scriptures couldn't tell. Couldn't tell. I'm telling you that how God brings you into a knowledge of him is through experiences.

It takes advantage of every situation at play in your life to reveal something about himself, something that you would otherwise not know if the scripture does not guide you. That is where the scripture comes in. Do you understand what I'm saying now? So that you now, by the right orientation, have a right perspective of whatever the circumstance might be to understand that this is not to destroy me. It is to make me and to mold me. It is scriptural perspective that teaches you that. Stay with me. I'm going somewhere with this. So when God begins to walk in your life, when God begins to mold you, he is not the one that will orchestrate the circumstances. Sometimes the devil is the one that will orchestrate it.

And there are times when God himself orchestrates it. But one thing is common to both. He will use that circumstance to slap on your heart a revelation of himself. So through the death of a father, he's not the one that orchestrated it. He will reveal to you how that is his father. Such a person would have a stronger understanding of the fatherhood of God if he give himself to that process than someone who has only read the letters. Because you have had to experientially depend on God, the father. You know, for you, you don't have a plan b. It's either you know this thing or you don't. So if you are trusting God for finances and for all of these things, and it's not coming, it's different from someone who has everything secured and is saying that God is my provider.

Whereas the following month, somebody will ask him how much is your school fees? Send it to me. But you you look around. There's no way... There's nobody who will ask you. There's nobody who will tell you, let me send this. You will have to know this God by fire by force. So when you come, God will now use that circumstance you have found yourself to begin to create a path. Does the bible not say call upon me, and I will answer you? In other words, I will give you a request, but more than your request.

In other words, there is a situation you were in. A circumstance you were in that made you call upon me. That circumstance I will answer. But understand that that circumstance has created an an avenue for me to now show you great and mighty things that you do not know. So I will use your prayer. I will use your work with me. I would use this avenue to begin to show you myself, to paint pictures of myself. So that by the time I tell you, one... Let me get you. Let me tell what I'm saying.

A friend of mine told me when we're in, I think, 300 level or so many years ago. God told him. He got an instruction. Every month, sacrifice your allowance. Every month. And while he was burdened about it, Lord told him, he said, he began to think. And he and he... He'll call to him that, wait. This ministry I want to start. There's nobody in my family that will support it.

All of them will fight it. So I don't have any hope to say we need money for venue. Let me call this person to help me. We need money for this. Let me call this person to help me. It is God that I will need to trust when this season of my life unfolds. Is it not better that while I have an abundance, I learn how to trust him now? You don't understand what I'm saying. He now realized that what God was doing was taking him through an experience that at the end of that experience, he will not find revealed El Dyeri. You will know him because you read a book.

You will know him because he took you through an experience that made you know who he is. It is called knowing God experientially. That is what God is doing for many people. But because they have not studied scripture or they have not met a man of God who can explain to them how God takes men through processes, they think that when they look around, all they can see is the hand of the devil. The hand of the devil can be on it, yet God can still use it. Okay. Let me read my story before I go. This is my friend of mine. Started giving everything. He first saved it up for, I think, five months or so, then gave his first six figures.

Saved it up. Gave his first six figures. Then every month comes up, he just give it... As he come, he just gives it. As he come, he just give it. So literally, every month, he has to depend on God. In doing so, there are times he would come to me and tell me,. It's still part of depending on God. You're not getting what I'm saying. When I say depend on God, somebody thinks that food will fall from heaven.

And God will say, I have heard your cry. Receive it. If it were so, why would it be an experience? He had a mentee of his, those days. A mentee. Somebody was mentoring that will cook and bring food for both of us. And after we have eaten the food, the guy will now come and meet me. He say, hey. Apostle, I brought my notes. Can I?

Can you teach me on angels? I said, wait. Let me be done. And it was a non... It was a journey. A journey into the experience of God. A journey into the knowledge of God. All we knew... It was not as though a a supernatural hand was giving us money or giving him money because I had my own process too. It was not as though one invincible force will just...

That's not the story. So you expect to hear we open our pots one morning. We met right inside. It's a lie. I opened my wardrobe. I dipped my hand. I saw money inside. It did not happen. Oh, Jesus. But what we knew is that we were sustained.

We were not hungry. When we needed food, there was food one way or another. There was food. What we knew was that when bills need to be paid, bills were paid. We never knew that these things were happening. A knowledge of God was being engraved into our hearts. Yes. So much so, there can be nothing today, and there are bills running in millions to be sought tomorrow. And my heart will not... It won't shake one bit.

They can tell me now, apostle, we have bills to sort tomorrow. We have not paid this. We have not paid that, and it's over 700,000. And you will not see... I will never Now have my heart doing, hey. God. God. That experience has removed it. It it it sieved it off. It removed pressure.

The prayer to impress. PM, there's nobody I am impressing again. Sir. God took me through an experience that made it so that the only person I want to please is him. To hell with anybody's opinion. I don't care. The other time when I cared. When I cared, God will give me messages to come and teach. I won't be able to teach it because I'm afraid. This thing is too hard.

It's too hard. What if people become hungry and they leave? So I will go and listen to men of God who preach chocolate and cake. And the message God gave me wasn't chocolate and cake. It was more whips and sloggings. But I I just felt that these things, people, you know, was just starting. And everybody around me wasn't preaching that. What they were preaching was God does not kill. God does not do this. God does not do that.

So I plugged my head, but something was... Something in me was fighting it. But the prayer to please, I would see things about people, prophetically speaking, and God will say, rebuke this person. I would not. When I now hear this one now, money is coming. I say, you, money is coming. It time to... I went to the fellowship, and I called the lady out. I said, come out. Everybody was there.

Everybody already knew this prophet oh that sees lives of people like water. I said, have not told him anything, his eyes will be open, and I will describe your life to you. I'm waiting for a meeting, and I called the lady out. I feel your grandmother. Where is she? I hear a name. She came out. That's the name of the grandmother. She said, yes. Where is she?

Told me where she was. I said your grandmother right now that I'm speaking is sick. She said, no. She's not sick. It resemble professor Deli. It was in the presence of everybody. You can laugh about... It was not a laughing matter. Said, no. She's not sick.

I said, no. No. No. I'm not saying she will be sick. God is about to heal her. She's not sick. So I wanted to get myself up. I paced. I paced. I paced.

Paced. I paced. I said, okay. Who is married? I don't know any married. I said, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. She went back. My friend just came.

Us begin to pray. I went away, bowed my head. The fellowship came. The school, they came. They said... They wrote a letter to me. They said, please, we honor you, man of God. We celebrate you, man of God. But please resist and refrain from the use of word of knowledge, word of wisdom, prophetic gifting, or whatever you claim to have been given. And I was going home.

I was going home. I said, Kai. And as I went, God said, is it your own? You will say I'll be my own. I went to my... I was in tears praying. I said, ah, never. Only your will and your will alone. I don't care because all the people I wanted to please were there. There was nothing to please anymore.

It was public embarrassment, public disgrace, public shame. They were nothing to please anymore. There was no one to impress again. No one. I asked, Lord, what should I do? The Lord said they will not receive you. The bible says receive a prophet, not in the name of a teacher, in the name of a prophet. If they won't receive you by your calling, don't go there. And I did not go. Three months after, then they called me by themselves.

And when they called me, I went there. I found out that this lady, the grandmother had died. And truth to what they had said, the person was sick. But I've not called... I've not called the person in about one month. There was no way for her to know. What God wanted to bring was elongation of life. The prophet was not wrong, but God used that avenue to show himself to the prophet. So the only person you now begin to please and use your life to please is him. There is nobody who I will tell something that they will tell me, oh, it's not true.

That will make me believe I'm not a prophet. You are... It's too... You are... Oh, you are too small. You are not there when the entire crowd looked as a woman and said, no. It's not it's not so. No. It's not so. After that experience, I noticed words of wisdom and all these prophetic giftings became so strong.

I went for a meeting. When I was done with the meeting, they brought someone to me. I've never shared this experience before. They brought someone to me after the meeting. It was a workers meeting somewhere. Mighty miracles happened in a church. When we're done, the pastor brought someone. As I was looking at the person, I was seeing that she's from the East, and I was seeing a particular state in the East. And I told him, what do have to do with the East? He says nothing.

I'm Yoruba. And I was looking again. At this point, don't care again. Whether you... If if I if I call somebody else, I wasn't, they don't come out, it's your business. I'm the one that had the thing I want to give. And I'm not begging a single soul for it. He said, no. I'm Yoruba. My father is Yoruba.

My mother is Yoruba. I looked at him. I said, the problem you have come to share with me is not coming from Yoruba lineage. It's coming from the East. He says, no. I said, okay. No problem. I left. The pastor was there. He said, please at least pray for him.

He said, can't pray for him. There's nothing to pray for. Two weeks after, they called me. They said the man that you prayed for later found out that the father was not the father. The mother had gotten pregnant for someone when she went for NYSE two months after got married in the West. So the father had thought that he was the owner of the child until they met the prophet. At that point, I didn't care again. Because I had seen the all seeing God, the all wise God. I cared nothing about anybody's opinion anymore. And when God try to teach you this thing and you don't get it, there are times he will take you through experiences.

Sometimes you will suffer public embarrassment, and you will think that your life is over. God will now say, listen. Let me let me show you how I mend the heart. From today ends forth, The reason you were embarrassed is because you wanted to be the one to be seen. If the glory will not come to you, the shame should not come to you. The shame too should not come to you. There's a lesson. A lesson. So you might call the name of God. Doesn't mean you have known the name you have called.

Because if he has not revealed that name to you, why am I saying no business? Because there are experiences some of you are going through now that God is using that experience as an avenue to reveal something greater than yourself. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It might not apply to everybody, but I'm speaking to someone by the spirit. Speaking to someone by the spirit. You are a man of God. No doubt. The visions you have seen about your life, no doubt. It is clear.

No doubt. God wants to use you mightily, probably to even be a kingdom financier, to be on the mountain of media, to be on the mountain of whatsoever, politics, business, economy, whatever it is. But you have looked at your surroundings right now and circumstances right now, and it looks as though the devil is the one having the upper hand. And it's blinking you gradually to a place of frustration. I'm here to tell you that the devil is not smarter than the counsel of God. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. But there are times when the warfare you experience in your life is because of what is written about your life. I've not read your bible. I've not read your bible.

Revelation chapter 12. The bible says, wonders were seen in the heavens, and it begins to mention all the wonders. But one particular one that humbled the prophet was the one where a woman was seen, and she was about to deliver, and she was pushing to deliver a child. And the more she pushed, the more she was in birth pains and birth pangs. And the bible says, a great dragon. And the bible describes that dragon having seven horns, none of these things, was standing, and the dragon was not standing to devour the woman. The dragon was waiting for the child in her womb. Do you remember the seed of the woman? Shall bruise the head of the serpent. It means if not for the child in the womb of that woman...

There were many women. Oh. That particular one was the one the dragon was interested in. Was it because she was fine? Because she was beautiful? Because she was pretty? Why? Because there was something inside of her. It was what was inside of her that attracted the dragon to her. There are many of you under the sound of my voice that God has placed something on your inside.

There is a seed that he implanted on your inside. A prophetic utterance, a prophetic voice. You are not just a child. You are a child of deliverance. You are not that you are not just a child. You are you are you are an epitome of greatness. Some of you are the threshold breakers. Some of you are the history makers in your family. Some of you are voices to a generation. And this seed, God placed it upon your inside.

It was that seed that was in the woman that drilled the dragon to her. There are warfares you have inherited not because you did anything, it is because of what you will do. So many question... Many a times the question is, what did I do? What did I do? Why me? Why me? We are rather should be asking, what will I do? The devil many a time doesn't come to you because of what you did. It come because of what you will do because a prophecy has been spoken over you.

A promise waiting to manifest. I'm going somewhere with this. And a dragon comes, and he tries every bit to abort that prophecy, abort that destiny, does everything he knows. And while Jesus manifested in time, the dragon came and entered, came by himself even, took him onto the mountain, took him to different places, trying to steal above that destiny. Watch this. When he left, he came through Peter. Left with Peter, came through Judas. And in Judas, he finally succeeded. Imagine the joy. Let me let me paint this picture to you very well.

For the past three hundred and fifty years... Come young man. For the past three hundred and fifty years or five hundred years, the devil has afflicted the lineage of this young man. Stay with me. Before he was manifested in time. And he could do so. He could do so because no other person knew that an entity called the devil existed. All they knew was God. So they attributed everything that was supernatural to God even though it was by the devil. For instance, Job that said, God takes and God gives.

The question should be, is it God that took? But these people did not know that another entity existed called Lucifer. They didn't know. So anything that was financial, they attributed it to God. These were the gaps in the understanding of the prophets that made them say a prophet, a lying spirit from the Lord. The question is, how was a lying spirit come from the Lord? Where the... When the character of God as revealed in scripture shows that this cannot be true. Yes, sir. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Sir. Was there a lying spirit? Yes. They didn't know that another entity existed apart from God. So they attributed everything to God. And because of that, the devil could wreck people's lives in the background, destroy people's lives in the background, and all of a sudden, imagine how many families across the world that guy has died down. Just imagine for a minute, and then all of a sudden, Jesus manifests. And when Jesus manifests, he meets with Martha, a woman possessed by many demons. Only God knows how that... How many...

How they have been passing down those demons from what generation has been coming from. And Jesus just comes and says, what is this? Be loose. And just like that, eight hundred years of work destroyed. They say, ah ah. All they knew was in the realm of the spirit, a padlock that they have been monitoring just broke. They say what happened? Go and check. Go and check. Before they could gather themselves to check, he met another madman again.

They said that man was legions that was possessing him. That's minimum of 12,000 demons. And Jesus was going, met with the legion man, and the legion man started doing all kind of things. Jesus just said, go. All at once, immediately, years of affliction. Can you imagine for a moment how hungry this guy would be? That for twelve years, she has tie... He has tied down the destiny of a woman in embarrassment and shame because blood would not stop coming out. This one met Jesus, touched his garment. This guy is spoiling market for us.

Let's get him. And they dispatched every demon in hell whoever can come up with a strategy. And finally, they were able to lure Judas, pierce into his soul, and God was in heaven. This was the son of God, and the devil was happy. The devil was happy when they arrested him, when they put chains on him, when they were flogging him. They say, finally, oh, finally, finally, we can breathe now. So he casted you out of where? So you can go back now. We have gotten him. Where did you come from?

You came... Yeah. Go back. Start. Just check how you can enter that family back. We have gotten him. We've gotten him. The threat is over. The threat is over. And he was...

And he's rejoicing, and they were beating him. Sometimes the guy will go and attend the demon meetings and principality meetings. And while he's there, they will say they are the night latch now. He said, me go and check what is happening very fast. I'm calling. Then he checks the. He said,. Every pain that Jesus felt was full to the devil because God told the serpent, thus shall you eat. The pain of man therefore is glory to the devil. I don't have time for that.

Watch this. And finally, he was paraded on the cross on the streets of Bethlehem. No. Where? Where did he die? Paraded on the streets. And as you were walking him everywhere, beating him, people were spitting on him. They look at the king of the Jews. The devil was happy. He said, I didn't get here.

Demons were hailing the devil. He said, whoever, you are a master strategist. He said, don't worry. All in a day's work. Don't worry about it. And finally, he was on the cross. Do you imagine the amount of strategy that the devil must have put in place to ensure that thing came to be? Because it was the same people that he healed, the same people that he delivered, the same people that that chains of oppression had held them bound. He healed their children, casted out devils, went to their cities, caused crusades, gave them food. The same people that had his bread and fish.

They were the ones that were saying crucify him. Crucify him. Crucify... What kind of counterintelligence is that? What kind of strategic deployment is that that would have made this operation a success? Oh, the realm of the spirit was busy. Demons were busy influencing men in in in higher echelons, influencing men everywhere they could find men. Both the poor one and the rich one, everybody was used against him. And finally, he was on the cross. I can imagine the devil himself coming to come and monitor that thing just to ensure no mistake happen.

Nobody changes their mind. Nobody say,. Ensure it is successful. And finally, he dies. I don't know what the signs happen here and there. And the moment he dies, how do you know he died sin? He didn't die a sinner. He died sin. He became sin. He was made sin.

And so the soul that sins shall die. So if somebody is a sinner, where do they go? How much more somebody who is sin? That means the sin of the whole world was put upon him. It wasn't heaven he went. Was Hades. That's why psalmist says, you will not permit my soul to lie in wait in Hades. The psalmist was speaking about Jesus when he was prophesying that. And the scribe and the Pharisees read it, but they had no understanding. And while he arrived in hell as seen, you can imagine the sound of victory, drums of war, sound of triumph in hell, all ships and all sizes of demons, principalities, powers, spiritual wickedness, all of them that Jesus has shown Pepe.

Finally, they could show him Pepe back. This is now our domain. We have finally brought you here, and all of them were unleashing punishment on him. Unleashing punishment on him. Unleashing punishment on him. While he was on the cross, he was crying. He said, father, father, why have you forsaken me? I can imagine God the father in heaven look at his son and with tears just turn his backs away. And the devil will think just because the father is quiet, he has won. But all of a sudden, what the devil never predicted, what he never planned, what he never saw coming.

Because according to what the devil knows about God, God cannot behold iniquity. Hell is where iniquity reigns superior. So according to what he knows about God, God would not visit hell. So it it was not even in... He he could not have scheduled it. There was no plan b. He didn't think it was possible, but he missed out the triune nature of God. That is not only father, he's son. He's not only son, he's spirit. He's three yet one.

One yet three. What a mystery. And all of a sudden, the heavens were rent open, and the holy ghost pierced through the heavens. Lightning as lightnings and thunderings. Pierced into the depth of hell. Went straight into the spirit of the one whom the devils and the demons thought they had defeated. And the son and the spirit became one in hell. You can imagine the fear in the face of this was a possibility they could not imagine. This was something they had not planned for. There was no realm where they had thought this was possible.

Someone they were beating. Someone they were dealing with. All of a sudden, glowing with light. And the devil was scared. And while he was attempting to run, he said, don't don't run. Don't run. He held him by the legs. You know, Hulk slam? While Lucifer was trying to say, I am a God. When he was done, the authority, the dominion, everything that made him the God of this world, everything that was inside his account that hadn't transferred, He say hand over everything.

When he was done handing it over, the bible says even the one that Adam did not hand over to him, even his own glory, his own splendor, the bible says it spoiled principalities and powers. It disarmed them. It says, is that sickness? Bring it. Although that weapon that you have... We have... Sorry, sir. I I still have the rational causes here. Bring it. I'm saying something over here.

What what are you hiding? Bring it. The bible says he disarmed all of until there was nothing else. And when it was done, the bible says he paraded them around hell. Saying, look oh, look, that was what he was doing. He was running up and down the streets of hell, making a public spectacle. So that so that the lower ethereal demons would know that if he can do this to your. He went to hold the demons. He said, look. This is the one that promised you fame.

This is the one that promised to an abode in the souls of men. This is the one that promised to an abode in the families, set forth of influence, the worship of men, and he made a public spectacle. He met with Edis, collected the keys from Edis. He met with death. Say death, give me what makes you you, and death hand over the keys of hell. Everything. Everything. The devil was saying what is this? What is this? What what what is going on?

And when he was done, the bible says he went to Hades. That is paradise. What is called Abraham's bosom. I hope Abraham was in Hades. If you don't know, raise up your hand. Abraham was in Hades. There was a portion of hell. Hell had different partitions. There is Sheol. There is Edis, and there is Tartarus.

There is a portion of Hades that was called Abraham's bosom being the father of faith. It was not in the place of torment. It was in a waiting place. A waiting place because the access point to heaven was Jesus. And God knew that there was no way that any man would see Jesus with... Would would seek God or even have access to heaven without Jesus. Yes, sir. So Eddis, Abraham's bosom was like a waiting place for all the saints of old. David was there. Everyone who died, having believed in the promise, whose eyes have not seen the promise was in Abraham's bosom.

That was why Jesus was telling a story, and he says there was Lazarus and the rich man. When Lazarus and the rich man died, both of them went to hell. It was in hell that the rich man who was burning in fire saw Abraham's bosom from afar. Do you understand what I'm saying now? So he could not have seen it in heaven. Jesus was specific. There was only a divide, a garrison between them. Do you understand what I'm saying here? Go on. Go on and read your Bible.

The Bible says I'm being in torment where? In age. Go on. Name. In mighty Jesus Because there was something that had been promised. Lazarus was there. David was there. Daniel was there. Esther was there. All of them were there.

And Jesus, after he was done in Patros, after he was done in Chio, he pierced into Abraham's bosom and said, this is the promise you were told. This is the promise you believed. The bible says he preached the gospel to saints in hell. Preached it to demonic spirits even. And when it was done, it didn't rise alone. It emptied the grave. The promise you are waiting for is now here. It is time to go. The bible says several saints were seen walking the street of Jerusalem. And on the third day when he rose when he rose, the devil was just somewhere.

No power again. No authority again. Nothing again. And he thinks that what will happen now is that they now have to go and find another strategy to get that power back from Jesus. But before they knew, Jesus went to trust people and told them, receive the holy ghost. Now their problem was not one person. Now their problem was 12 people. From 12 to one twenty. One twenty were in the upper room, and they were putting, and they were waiting, and they were waiting. All of a sudden, the heavens were opened again.

They said, which one is this? What has happened again? And fire fell from heaven, and people started praying in tongues. What is going on? What is this? All of a sudden, from one twenty, three thousand. All of a sudden, Emmanuel showed up. You can't imagine how much pain that guy must have felt. He said ah. Do you know what my mother called me?

They called me. You know why? Because it's not what they wanted. My mother told me that we had done family planning when you came. Because I must... From one person, His problem now becomes millions and billions of people. With the same authority. With the same power. With the same spirit. The devil now realized that so killing one person.

If we had known would have left him. If we had known that one person would have left to would have led to billions. Who would have left him? The bible not says if the prince of this world had known. It means the devil is not so smart. Whilst he's on your situation and he thinks he's winning, God is in heaven. While somebody is asking, God, why why don't they look as though you have forsaken me? Jesus also cried out crying. You won't be the first person. And the devil too was bouncing and was saying, get here.

But all of a sudden, an encounter that changes everything. If the prince... Oh, God. When when God is done with some of you, the devil would say, had I known? We would not have delayed him. That success he wanted, that glory he wanted, that mission he wanted. Some of you, had you gotten that mission the first time you wrote it? You would have been in somewhere in Abuja or been there whatever, wasting away. The devil thought that he had gotten you by not giving you that first one, not giving you that second one, not giving you that third one, then all of a sudden you appear in this year. And what will I eventually become?

By reason of hearing these things, the guy would say, if you had given him the first time, There is a story God is writing with your life. Yes. Yes. Yes. Would Yes. You have thought that you would come to a place and hold the horns of the altar for twelve hours praying the holy ghost? Building capacity, building strength. The devil would have said, had we known? Had we known? They will not be rebooking themselves.

They will say they will say, why didn't you leave her alone? Let her rise. At least if only I had risen. We will say I've had the family till now. Now because you kept her down with them, she became hungry. I'm not getting what this thing I'm saying. The anger made her insist that I will not be the only one that will break out of this thing. Now people we have kept in captivity for many years, one by one. One by one, chains being broken. One by one, our afflictions being lifted.

This is what I mean by God is writing the story. The devil would not have the last laugh. He would not. He would not. Who believes in what I'm saying? It would not. It would not. The bible says saviors will rise from Zion. Saviors will rise from Zion. I see many here who are saviors rising from Zion.

Hear me oh. Hear me oh. Many who are saviors rising from time. And that business that you look as though you are still struggling with, the devil will say, are we no? The devil will say it's a school fee that he could not pay that led him on a path to seeking for freedom and wealth. This is how Christ is revealed. This is how you know God by experiences. There are many of you. The dimension of God that is revealed unto you now becomes what you will now reveal to your generation. The dimension of God revealed to you, for some of you, it will be the wisdom of God.

Either revealed in your business, revealed in your finances, revealed in your career, strategies that has never been given to anybody. Solutions that nobody has ever seen. Solutions nobody has ever received. Yes. Yes. That is the reason why it doesn't matter where you find yourself. The way the righteous sees himself is brighter and brighter. Brighter and brighter. Brighter and brighter. The more fierce the There is warfare right, left, and center.

I'm trying to follow God and follow destiny and follow everything, but nobody believes in me. Have you not read a story of a man called Joseph? The bible says that Joseph had a dream. I love scriptures. Had a dream. And in Joseph's dream, he sees the sun, the stars, the moon, bowing down to him. He sees the cattle of his brethren being swallowed up by his own cattle. And when he goes to tell his brothers and his brethren that this is what I'm seeing, this is what I'm seeing, they hate him. They mock him. I can imagine how hell he's hungry.

Demons were released to go and short circuit that vision. They said, uh-huh. You you think that you think that you are the only one that can see, that the sun and the moon will bow to you. How do you know that the sun and the moon... Let me explain this thing to you. When Jacob was told that dream, Jacob thought that what the dream meant was that his brothers would bow to him and that himself and his mother would bow to him. Is that not so? But did Jacob and the mother bow to him? No. Even though the brothers did.

Does that mean that the dream did not come to pass? No. Because the dream actually means something more significant. The sun and the moon was a typification of the gods of Egypt. The sun and the moon were the mid... Were the two major gods that Egypt worshiped. Ra, the god of the sun. I think Ishkod also have forgotten the name of the second one. The god of the moon. These were the chiefest gods of Egypt.

They were the one that controlled the tides. And the devil's... The the devil was threatened by this. He said, no. This will not be possible. Not in my time will this happen. And the devil was able to influence his brothers, influence his brethren to ensure that he he pity it into their soul and coffees envy to rise in their hearts. Tell me, even if you are envious of someone, why would you think of killing your own brother? It's not normal. There's a level of wickedness that is only assisted by demons.

These were demonic imprints in their hearts because the devil thought that if we silence this destiny, at least no dream would manifest. But lo and behold, even in that, God was still speaking. God came through Reuben, and Reuben said, no. Let's not do this. Let's not do this. Instead of doing this, watch his own solution. Let's sell our brother as a slave. How much hatred can you have for him that your solution would be, don't kill him. Just sell him into slavery. Look at the wickedness in their heart.

They say we will take his coat of many colors. We will render it into pieces, tear it, and now put blood of coat on it. We will now tell our father that a beast tore him into pieces. That craftiness is not given to human beings. You can't be that wicked against your own blood except influenced by a demon. And while Joseph was a was a slave in Egypt, the devil would have been happy thinking, let's now see how the glory will manifest. And God will say, oh, you are sinner. And that same situation that was orchestrated by the devil to abort that destiny becomes the platform that the destiny uses to manifest. Can't you see what God is making in and through your lives? Can't you see revealed in scripture?

Who would have known that an orphan could be a queen? Who would have guessed? Who would have thought that a slave would one day become the most important man in Babylon? Don't you realize that God still specializes in taking dust and making glory out of them? It is evidence in my life. Is evidence in my life. If many of you knew my story, you would comfort yourself immediately. You would comfort yourself immediately. You would say I'm not as bad as I thought. If you know the story of the great men of faith that you see now, bishop David, you would console yourself.

You will say, ah, something good can still come out of me. Don't give up. In that business. Continue in that business. Continue fiercely in that business. Don't give up. The mockery of men would soon become the celebration of men. Do you know that I have found that even whilst you're going through the process, not only do you forget the record of your pain, Even those who mocked you when you were in pain tend to forget what they said. Yes. Those who did not believe in that dream, those who did not believe in that vision, those who did not believe in that assignment, even them to forget what they said.

Can you pray in one moment and tell God right there where you are? Tell God that I will not give up. Because I know that his story is being written. And these experiences are being crafted for me to know God. I will not miss my lessons. I will not miss my lessons. I will not miss my lessons. Pray, come on. Pray. Pray.

Amen. Can you pray a prayer and say, I will not stop before my hour of manifestation. Say father. Father. Give me the grace. And the help. And the help. Not to stop. Not to stop. Before my my hour.

And my season. My season. Manifestation. Come on, turn it into prayer right now. I god than than it it bigger it is that is it is than than Can I give you one more prayer point to pray? Say father. Endorse my life. Endorse life. A test of me. A test me.

With signs and wonders. Thank you Lord. Come on, pray it again. Say father. Father. A test of me. A test of me. With signs and wonders. Come on, lift your voice and pray. In Jesus name we have prayed.

Can I teach? Listen to me. I want us to I want us to sing that song together before we close for just one minute. I feel it's a prophetic song. Yes, sir. Because I feel that that is soon... That will soon be the story you'll be telling. The song is very simple. Will teach you. It says, listen.

Come and see what God has done for me. He's taken my shame and given me victory. Very simple. Come and see what God has done for me. Same song it's the same melody it's the same worship it's the same song It's the same sound. It's the same melody. It's the same worship. It's the same song. Same song. Same melody.

Same worship. One more time. Father we thank you. We thank you for what you are doing. We thank you for what you are doing. It's the Thanksgiving service. Not only have you done good. But even now you have revealed to us through your word. That even in experiences that might not look like it, you are still doing good. And for this, I thank you.

I thank you for the hope you have restored. I thank you for the fire you have rekindled. Oh, we give you all the glory. We give you all the honor. Thank you, Lord Jesus. In Jesus name, we have prayed. Amen. Bring back your tithes. Bring back your offerings. Let us give to God.

Let's give to God very fast. We're done. I see the hand of God coming upon someone. And what I see is the spirit of joy. Listen. Listen. It's the spirit of joy. Joy. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms.

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