Transcript: Covenant by Sacrifice
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Just like a soldier, going to battle, Garrett himself with every armor needed for battle and for winning. So believers must guard themselves with the gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he teaches God's Word to equip you for a victorious life on earth. This is Believer's Equip. Tonight is an extension of what I began on Sunday. And it is going to be titled a covenant by sacrifice. And it is... There was so much in my spirit, so much in my spirit that I could not unburden and unload. And it is still heavily pressed upon my heart, still so heavily pressed upon my heart. The burden still strong.
So please give me your ears. Give me your heart. I know that we have been praying. And the reason why we pray is so that when the word comes, we are at a frequency where we can receive the word where the word is coming from. Many years ago when we were in school, we did something in physics called photoelectricity. How many of you are familiar with that concept? And it simply describes the state of an electron in a vacuum. How that that electron will remain in an unexcited state until it is acted upon by photons, which have caused light particles. And an illustration was drawn for us of electrons at different energy levels. If you're familiar with the concept, you'll probably understand what I'm saying.
Electrons at different energy levels and photons are fired on those electrons. And the moment photons are fired on electrons, they begin... They're excited. The word that describes it is excitement. They're excited. And the excitement leaps them from one energy level into another energy level. And then you shoot them with photons again, and then they are excited again, move from one energy level to another energy level. And I remember many years ago when this was being taught, what was coming to my spirit then was how that the word of God is light. And the bible says the entrance of the word gives light. And I imagine the believer like the electron that is at a lower energy level and then when light comes, exactly that happens to the believer.
What happens is that an excitement in the spirit. Your spirit man rises from that low energy level into a high energy level. It's what we see in Ezekiel chapter two. When God was speaking to Ezekiel from chapter one, in fact. And then he moves on to chapter two, and then God tells him, rise up, and then he says, I cannot rise up. But the bible says the spirit entered into me whilst he spoke unto me, you see, and then set me upon my feet. That's the excitement I'm talking about. So there's an energizing that happens when the word of God comes to a believer. The bible says in John chapter six and verse 63 that the words I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. A particular translation says that they are life giving spirits.
In other words, when the word of God comes to you, they are spirit. They are not just language. The word that is taught is not just language. It is spirit. It is life. And so when your spirit interacts with the word of God, you have to understand that what is happening is more than information. When your spirit interact with the word of God, what is happening is is more than what? Information. It is an interaction of spirit. A collision of spirit.
A collision of spirit. That's what is happening. The Bible says in the book of Psalm that your word is a light unto my feet and a light unto my path. So value the word in that regard. Value the word in that regard. You're not just coming to be informed, you're coming to be directed, you're coming to be impact impacted, you're coming to be empowered. And so when you're listening, as you are listening in fact, there is an empowerment that is happening. There is an impartation that is happening. So let your posture to receiving the word be more than just information. Let it also be the awareness that what you're receiving is spirit and life.
Are you with me? Yes sir. Spirit and life. Is this excitement that causes the rumblings in people whenever the word is being taught? You'd see people break out in joy. Because you see, when the word enters your spirit, something happens. Something happens beyond the collision of the word with your ears. You see, if you're just listening to what I'm saying, you can be agreeing to what I'm saying. But in the time when the word of God actually permeates your spirit, light breaks open in your spirit. Something tangible happens to a man.
The man is launched into an encounter. A tangible encounter at that. That is what you should pray for every time you come. That is what should be your expectation every time you come. Do you understand what I'm saying? Don't just be casual believers. You know, I've been talking about this thing since Sunday, this casual Christianity, you come in and just listening. No. You will miss your word a lot of the times. Listening casually.
There is a realm in this kingdom that is not for casual believers. It is not for casual believers. Today, I'm gonna be sharing on a covenant by sacrifice. Let's start from Ezekiel chapter 22 From verse 29 to verse 30. The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery and mistreated the poor and needy. And they wrongfully oppressed the stranger. The people of the land have used oppressions. They've used oppressions. They've committed robbery, they've stolen from the people, they've mistreated the poor, they've mistreated the needy, they've wrongfully oppressed the stranger. And in an intervention, in verse 30, God now begins to speak and says, so.
So means because. I sought for a man. Amongst them, who would make a wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land. That I should not destroy it. But I found no one. Do you understand what you have just read? Who understands it? Who understands it? Are you bold enough to explain it to me? Alright.
Try it. Give her a microphone. Thank you, apostle. Listen. Passage you just read is explaining how God wants to punish a people. God wants to what? Like the people have done wrong. They've oppressed the poor. They've done a lot of things. So for God to avert this evil, he cannot just do it himself.
He still needs a man to pray on their behalf too. So he can change his mind. I like your smile. Very beautiful. Round of applause for her. You see, because... The reason I asked is because if you're not reading it carefully, you'd think that God is searching for a man to deliver the oppressed. To deliver those who have been oppressed. Is that not so? To deliver those who have been robbed, those who have been cheated.
But that's not what the bible is saying. What is happening here is that there's gonna be a consequence on the land for what the land has done to those that they have oppressed. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's like what happened with Sodom and Gomorrah. When God came to visit them to check if the claims of the earth with respect to their sin is true. And as a consequence, there should be destruction of that land. That's precisely what is happening here. That because of what the people of the land have done, there is judgement that is about to come, there is consequence that they are about to reap. Is that not so? And God is saying that if only there was a man.
A man that can make a wall, a man that can stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land that I should not destroy it. It tells me that there is an operation of God. There is something that is being revealed here. That whenever God wants to not just deliver, because this is only an example of a pattern that we see all through scripture. Everywhere you turn in scripture, this pattern is consistent. Please understand this. Everywhere you turn in scripture, this pattern is consistent. That whenever God wants to deliver a land, whenever God wants to save a people, the mechanism by which he does this is always to look for a man. And by man here, I'm not speaking respect to gender as in a male. When you see me use the word man, I'm talking male and female.
Is that okay? Yes. The word man is the word Adam, and it means humanity. When God wants to do anything in any generation, he uses a man. He searches for a man. It's humbling when you think about this very carefully. That God will have an intention over a people. God would have an intention over a generation. God would have an intention over a territory, over a land, and God is incapacitated. He cannot do anything about his intention until he finds a man.
Almost as though God is handicapped. Even though that is probably a wrong way to use that word, but it looks like that is the case. And you have to understand that this handicap is an intentional handicap. Are you with me? It's not because God cannot do something. It is because God has, by his words and by his authority and by his power, placed this handicap on himself when he said, let them have dominion. God did not say, let us have dominion. That would have meant that on earth, the question of dominion would have been shared responsibility. That means in the time when there is no man, I would come in and do whatever I wanna do. That would have been the implication of let us.
If it had been let us, that would mean that if God wants to do something here now and there is no man willing, God can decide because he said let us. So I also bear a role in that dominion on earth. Do you understand what I'm saying? But when God made the earth and God said, let them, God gave man authority over the earth. In the book of Psalms, the Bible says, the heaven of heavens is the Lord's. The earth has he given to the sons of men. Note the word given. The earth as he willed. The earth as he what? Healed.
To the sons of men. The earth as he given to the sons of men. So because he had given the earth to the sons of men, because he has given the sons of men dominion over the affairs of the earth, all the affairs of the earth. When God wants to do anything on the earth... Listen, from that time henceforth, whenever God wants to do anything on the earth, he would need the permission of men to interfere in men's affairs. You would look at before God created man. Look at the ease at which God was doing things on the earth. He was just speaking things into existence and there was nothing to stand in his way. He said it and it came to pass instantly. The moment man came into the picture, God stopped speaking.
By that, I don't mean God is no longer speaking. Just so you don't hear, you don't mishear with respect to creation. Are you with me? Yes. And that's the reason why man became the very last project of God. God ensured he did everything. They made man and said, now rule. And the intention of God is this, whatever is in my heart, you would have the same level of access to my heart to be able to replicate and reproduce this that I want. Of course, you know the story man fell and all of that. But where I'm going is this.
Right now, even to today, but even from scriptures, old testament to new testament, whenever God intends to do anything on the earth, he would always find a man. Send that man as an answer or as a solution or as an eroder of whatever it is he wants to do. That means there is nothing that God would do as long as the earth is concerned that would just start manifesting out of thin hair. There would always be a man. Are you with me? And when what God wants to do concerns a land, when what God wants to do concerns a people, concerns a territory, concerns a generation, a nation, what God would do is not relate to all the men. What God would do consistently through scripture is to always find one person and send that person to the land. Send that person to the territory. Now stay with me because I need you to understand something about the mechanism of operation of how and why God sends that man. Because you see, it's not just a matter of luck.
It's not just a matter of God was on a good mood, on a good day, and then he chose this one or chose that one. When you study intricately, you'd find that there is an operation, a mechanism behind the man that God uses, behind the man that God sent. And the reason why this is a burden to me, I was sharing few weeks ago on the need for the rise of prophets within a generation and those with the prophetic office, the prophetic mantle and mandate upon their lives. Who would say restore? Who would declare? Who would intercede? Who would speak as they've been commanded? Do you remember the case of Ezekiel? He was dropped in a valley of dry bones. And what God would have happened to these dry bones is that they should rise and become a mighty army.
Mighty army, but they were dead. Mighty army, but they were bones. Long dead, in fact. And you would think that God can easily come and begin blowing a wind and the wind blows of its own accord. I mean, why use a man? If it was just wind, could you not blow the wind by yourself? Aren't you God? It is revealed again and again in scripture that even to raise a mighty army, to raise a mighty army, God would need a man. And God would tell the man, prophesy. Prophesy.
When you read the story of Ezra, the book of Ezra, you would see the story of how they were trying to build the temple, the tabernacle that had been broken down and destroyed for many many years. Many many years. And God had spoken by the mouth of the pagan king. And the pagan king had given the instruction that the tabernacle could be built, and people were rejoicing. But there were so many challenges along the way that I don't want to go into because of my time. You go study that scripture. Even as they began to build, letters came flying, people, an agenda, all kind of things against the building of the tabernacle, and it stopped for many many years again. Despite God had commanded that the tabernacle should be built. It was still stopped for many many years until you entered into Ezra chapter six. The bible now starts speaking of how that the building eventually prospered.
And it was built by the prophesying of the prophet. The missing equation was now introduced. That the fact that God said we should build does not mean we will build on our own accord. Because nothing that is divine can be done on the strength of man. And so as people were building, the prophets were prophesying. The prophets were prophesying. And eventually, what God wanted to build that had been stored for many many years eventually prospered, eventually found expression. Please understand this. There would always be a need for a man to stand in gap whenever God wants to move, whenever God wants to do, whenever God wants to operate within the earth, deliver a people, move through a territory. Now why has this become a burden to me of recent?
Because the holy spirit has been showing me visions that I've been seeing a a couple of years from now. The things I'm seeing is not is not even now. It's not even today. They are not hands as to now. But but I'm seeing a very serious enlistment happening because there is a quick move of God that will sweep through the earth. And it will sweep through the earth through men. When you read the stories of revival from the God's generals, volume one, volume two. Desert fathers, you read all kinds of books that capture the life of these people, biographies and autobiographies of the move of God. What you would find is men moving. What you'd find is men moving.
What you'd find is men moving. The great revival in Spokane happened because of a man. The great revival in Azusa happened because of a man. All happened because of a man. So if people have ever been introduced into terrible dimensions of the move of God, it was because certain men rose. It was because certain men stood up and God could use them, God could send them. And I've searched and I've realized that in every generation, such men are not always plenty. Are you with me? Yes sir. Such men are not always what?
Plenty. Now when you read the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, you might be too fast in your reading that all you would see is Moses with respect to men raised by God. But in every generation, as long as God wants to do something, he would always raise men for what he wants to do. And Moses was not the only one that captured what God wanted to do in Israel. Are you with me? When God wanted to build a tabernacle in Israel, Moses could not build. But there were men that the Bible says the spirit of the Lord had to rest upon. The Bible calls them Aholiab and Bezalil. The Bible says the spirit of wisdom and craftsmanship came upon them and they became... Oh my goodness.
You need to think about the magnificence of what was built in a time when there was no knowledge of architecture and engineering solely by the wisdom of the spirit. That's exactly what happens when God finds men in a territory. That tells you as well that when I'm speaking about when God wants to do something, when God wants to move, I'm not just talking about church. I'm not just talking about revival as you know it within the confines of the church. Because you see, your mind can be reducing what I'm saying subconsciously to men of God, to apostles and prophets. And you are hearing me say when God wants to move, and what you're thinking about is healing the sick and casting out devils when God wants to move. No. No. No. No.
That's not what will deliver this nation. Because what I'm speaking is with respect to nation building and national development. Yet yet, what precedes even that is the move of God. The move of God has to sweep through a nation. Many countries in Europe great today. Because there was once a time when the move of God swept through the nation. Many countries in South America, even America itself, great today because there was once a time when the move of God swept through the nation. They might have forgotten the pillars upon which their nations were built. But the fact that the move of God swept through and erected those pillars is the reason why the nation is still standing today. Even if they refuse to acknowledge the pillar that built it.
Do you understand what I'm saying? A time will come, think the holy spirit will grant us permission, where I'm gonna intentionally teach you the history of revival across many lands. One of the studies I conducted very early ministry is understanding revival in territories and how they died, why they died. Why they died, why they started, and understanding the stories of the men that started them. And if you only read spiritual books alone, you will be disjointed in your understanding of revival. Because you would not be able to connect what was happening in the church, which is in the book you are reading and what was happening in the marketplace. What was happening in government at the same time. Because the greatest industrializations in The US happened at the same time the greatest revival was happening as well. And so when God wants to move, cuts across every single sphere of influence. That means when God wants to move on all the mountains of influence because there is a will and an agenda of God for all the mountains of influence.
There's something that is in the mind of God for education, for government, for religion, for business. And the way God raises men who stands in the gap, who executes his counsel, is the same across every mountain of influence. Till Jesus comes, certain men will always be the answers to other men's prayers till Jesus comes. And I've decided that a man has the privilege of choice to choose whether you would be the certain man or the other man. I found That when the Bible says that many are called, few are chosen. The choosing is not a matter of sovereignty. God is not saying, many, many, many more. That's not how men are chosen. I found out that when many were called, out of the many that were called, everybody could be chosen. One person could be chosen.
It was all dependent on those that were called. Have you not read your bible? Psalms one one zero says, your people shall be willing. It means it is possible for a man to enlist himself and say, baba, in what you are doing in my generation. Do you understand what I'm saying? I'm gonna be one of those men that answers the prayers of other men. Do you realize that as a pastor, with the anointing of God upon my life and the deposit of the grace and the glory and the presence of God upon my life, by default, with these privileges that God has opened up onto me, I am an answer to the cry of many people. Many you cannot even know now. But do you realize that there are also people that are answers to my own prayers? You don't know this.
That when I sit down and I'm praying, God, we need to expand. God is raising someone that will cause the expansion. And that's my own prayer. I'm sitting down somewhere and I'm saying, my goodness, this pit cannot even contain us anymore. Now we need to expand and get bigger territories. We are looking for lands everywhere, and one of you knows the minister of land or even is the minister of lands. And you come and you say, apostle, I heard when you were saying this and that and that. Could you... Do you know that that's an answer to my own prayer? Yes, sir.
Till Jesus comes, that will always be the case. What what I would not be is be absolutely useless that I completely depend on other men, that nobody depends on my life, that my life provides no answer, no solution, no value to anybody, That I continually drink from people and nobody drinks from my life. Nobody benefits a thing from my life. The prophet... Listen to me. Is it not funny in scriptures? Four kings came to the prophet and the prophet in a state of annoyance wanted to prophesy but he could not prophesy. And these people, these four kings were looking for an answer from the prophet. The prophet who they came to says, my goodness, I've undone myself. Who said I should be angry now?
Oh, Jesus. Okay. Need a hand of God to come upon me. And then a minstrel comes who becomes an answer to the prayer of the prophet. And the moment the minister started playing, he was not answering the prayer of the kings. The hand of God still came upon the same prophet and ministered to the kings. Can't you see? And what I'm trying to tell you is you can choose. Your people shall be willing. A man can choose that I'm not going to live a wasted life.
You see, one of the prayers my mother used to pray for us, whenever she called and she prays, she would say, you will not be a misfired harrow. And for a long time, I did not understand that prayer. I'm not go there. A man can choose. A man can choose. What I came to discuss with you very shortly tonight are the things that the Lord revealed to me even through another man of God who was also showing me the same thing, that there is a path to greater glory. There is a path that people can walk, and at the end of that path is glory. And I also listened like this. Thank you, Jesus. God always raises men.
God always raises men. When a family is crying, the answer will come from God through a man to that family. When families are crying, the same thing. When a nation is crying, the same thing. And there are different kinds of tears that people cry. People can cry because they are oppressed and in captivity. They would need a deliverer. People can cry because there is famine and there is poverty. People can cry because they are sick and in need of healing. People can cry because I'm showing you that there are different areas where people begin to cry.
Listen. And it does not matter where the cry is coming from. The response of God is still the same. It doesn't matter. He sends a man. He sends a man. Listen, when people were crying in Egypt because there was famine, it wasn't a prophet God sent. There was a business mogul that sat down as the as the prime minister of Egypt. His name was Joseph. He he was not an apostle.
He was not a pastor. But when people were crying, he was the one they came to. Do you understand what I'm saying? He was the one they came to. He was the one they came to. Do you know that there are people who are in prisons in Nigeria today? Thousands of them who have done nothing wrong. They've been wrongfully convicted and are there... Two of them have children. Their children saw their parents or their father or their mother being sentenced to prison for something they never did.
Someone went to go and buy a cara, and then police people came, were told that there were thugs in that place. They bundled him as he was buying a cara, threw him in a prison cell. He has been there seven years, and there are several people like that who are also crying. Do you understand what I'm saying? Would there not be a lawyer who will start something that would become an answer to the cry of a people, a people hidden, some might not even know about, but that a cry is echoing in heaven. And God is saying, I'm making you see this thing. I'm putting a burden in your heart, and somebody have a choice to say, I respond to this or I do not. What God does, let me show you. In Isaiah chapter 42 from verse one to verse nine, please stay with me. Bible says, behold, my servant, my what now?
My servant. Oh, God. Behold, my servant whom I uphold, My elect one in whom my soul delights. I have pulled my spirit upon him and he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. You see again that there is an e and there is a Gentile. There is a nation, a particular demography of people, and there's an e that God is sending. Verse two begins to describe that e. He will not cry out, nor raise his voice, nor cause his voice to be heard on the street. A bruised reed, it will not break, and smoking flax, it will not quench, it will bring forth justice for truth. It will not fail nor be discouraged.
He will not fail nor be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth and the coastland shall wait for his law. Can that be a word of God to someone? He says, He will not fail nor be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth. Justice in the earth. The coastlands shall wait for his law. Next verse, says, thus says the Lord who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who work on it. Next verse. Hide the Lord. Boss, this is where I'm going. Listen to me.
Hide the Lord. I've called you in righteousness. Hide the Lord will hold your hand. I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people. My goodness. My goodness. I will give you as a covenant to the people. I will... This is the operation. This is the mechanism.
I'm trying to show you how God does it. God. This is the reason why it looks as though certain men have unfair privileges with God. Certain men work in some kind of power, some kind of glory, some kind of honor. Why it looks as though some men are anointed, but you can't even explain what some men have. You don't know if what they're working is the anointing. Is it the anointing? Can this be the anointing? What exactly is it? A man of God was having a crusade, and there was a huge hold up traffic delay on the way to the crusade that he couldn't make it early.
So he was praying in tongues whilst they were waiting for him. It was a huge stadium. A huge stadium, and he was just praying in tongues. And before he got to where the was happening, whilst the worship was going on, they started playing messages and teachings, which will show his videos, then the polybook will continue again, then they will show his videos. And as they were doing that, a crotch was dropped. Then the wheelchair was dropped. Then people started coming out who were being healed. The man was still stuck in traffic. By the time he got to where the crusade was happening, 108 wheelchairs had been collected. But the man had not even arrived.
108 wheelchairs. The crutches, they could not even... I think there were about 77 crutches or so stacked on themselves. And the man had not even gotten there. Now you wonder, is that the anointing? What name do you even call that one? The man is not ministering. He's not there. People are sitting down waiting for him. And whilst he's coming, you'll see the glory of God, the power of God.
I'm telling you that there is a realm some people get to, that the dimension of power and glory that they access in that realm has never been seen. And such men are those that God send us answers to other men. Listen. Sit down. Sit down. It... It's a teaching really. Sit down. Listen. Something's caught my spirit.
Do you know that? When God said that, he will quench the test of the testing. That's something God wants to do. So guess how he does it? That means it will be meetings like this that the destiny will gather. And there will be a man like that that God will find. And God will say, some people are thirsty oh, can you give them water? Some people are hungry oh. Can you give them water? It means that even the quenching of the test of people is an operation of what God wants to do.
He still uses men for it. He still uses men for it. That's why we might all be ministers, but what we are doing differs. What we represent differs. And the Christ we have been sent to answer to differs. Differs is why we open our hearts to the ministries of men in the body of Christ. I used to hear about the woman of God somewhere in this nation. If anybody is barren, doesn't matter how long you have been barren, Just let that shake you. Just let that greet you. Just just have a conversation with her.
She has a church. In her church, they do naming ceremonies, dedications like water. People would come, families, children, everybody, just plenty. Almost as though God was saying, there are barren women crying. Come and raise someone to answer. Now you call her a pastor, but there is something she's answering. Something specific that she's doing within the body of Christ. Within the body of Christ, there's a demography that is crying and an answer she's providing, something God wants to do, and God is using her for it. So God says, I will keep you. Listen.
God says, I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people. My God, listen. It doesn't mean that you are the covenant that God is giving the people. Because when you read it in the King James version, it looks as though God is saying, I will give you as the covenant. Is that much so? But that's not what is happening here. In the original translation, what God was saying is, I will give you as a sign of my covenant to the people. I will give you as a symbol of my covenant with them. That means that means the covenant of God is what God has has decided he will do over a people. And God says, the symbol, the emblem of that covenant will always be a man.
The symbol and the emblem of the covenant will always be a man. He says, will give you as a covenant. As a covenant. Understand what I'm saying, please, brothers and sisters. As a covenant. It means you can be a businessman, but you are as a covenant. You can be a lawyer, a doctor. You can be whatever it is. But in the sphere of influence that you are in, God has given you as a symbol, as a symbol. It might be that the covenant God had had with the people is hope.
As a covenant to the people, as a lie to the Gentiles. The next verse says, what you will do is that you will open blind eyes. Now watch this. Watch this. If you are the symbol of the covenant I've had with the people, Why can't the covenant start manifesting with the people? Do you understand what I'm saying? You are not the covenant. You are a symbol of the covenant I have had with the people. Yet, the covenant will not find expression until the symbol arrives. So the blind eyes will remain blind until the symbol arrives.
The prisoner will remain in prison until the symbol arrives. Those who fit in darkness will continue to fit in darkness until the symbol arrives. Until the symbol arrives. Listen, that that is the burden. That is the burden. That is the burden. It's more than just a man of God gathering people. You have to understand that the areas where people are crying in this nation, even across the world is much is much is much. When Herod was killing children, the bible says the prophet was prophesying and he says Rachel weeps for her children. Rachel weeps for her children.
Mothers crying for their children. Mothers crying for their children. Somebody's eyes can open for instance and see Rachel weeping for her children, and God is telling you, that's why you are studying medicine. There are children that I'm sending you to. Children dying when they should not die, and Rachel is weeping for our children. You see, there are cries. Listen. Listen. Hear me? He said I will make you as a covenant to the people.
Please stay with me. I will give you as a covenant to the people. Upon seeing this scripture, it always interests me. What kind of a man does God give as a covenant to the people? Because I told you that a man can enlist himself. I told you, many are called, few are chosen, and it takes your choice to be chosen. And if you were not chosen, you chose not to be chosen. So if he will give you as a covenant to the people, what then becomes the metrics? What then becomes what he looks at? What kind of a man does God give as a covenant to people?
Because if he has made a covenant with a people and he's given you as a symbol of that covenant, what would make God trust you? Because it takes a huge level of trust. It's an entrustment. What did I call it? Entrustment. This is a realm of ministry and service that the anointing does not get you to. It's an entrustment. Oh, Oh. Help me. Help me.
Help me. It's an entrustment. This is this is not just we are doing ministry and we are evangelizing. It's that God trusts you and says, I have given you these people. And almost like wind, almost like wind, their heart will open to you like magic. Yes, sir. It's an entrustment. When you see this operation, you can tell when it's not mechanical. You can tell when there's no struggle. You can tell when...
See, there is a backing of heaven beyond this supernatural dimension of influence, glory, power, grace, anointing, whatever it is you would call it. I've seen men of God who are not on social media, yet their ministries are reaching hundreds of thousands of people. A man of God whom I love so much in Uganda. I was following his live meeting during their women's convention. And you know, I had to use my phone to record the marvel that I saw. They had just bought a piece of land. It was thousands of thousands of acres. What plots? It was a huge and humongous piece of land. And it was a breakthrough because they bought it, I think, last year or so, and they were thanking God for it.
It could sit about a 100,000 people at the stretch. So they did an anniversary there last year, and it was awesome. I was watching their women's conference this year. It was some few weeks ago. Their women's conference. I had to call my wife and say, see what I'm seeing. I saw a huge massive crowd and the crowd I was seeing was the overflow. Then the drum panned to the open field, and I couldn't see the end of it. And it was just women. Just women.
Listen. Listen. The man then came on Thursday during their meeting, and he said, our anniversary is coming up in the next few weeks, and it is obvious from the women's meeting that we can't use this place again for our anniversary. So we are going to buy a bigger. They just bought this one last year. And in a year, they have more than 10 times their number. In one year. The man is not on social media. He's not on Instagram. He's not on Facebook.
He's not on anywhere. The man is not up to 40. Yet hundreds of thousands of people. It's not even up to 35. You see such men, you know, you know. This is a covenant that God has given to the... Is a symbol of a covenant. Are you with me? It's not luck that gets men there. You don't look at people like this and say, oh, you are so lucky.
Don't be foolish. Don't be foolish. Is an entrustment. And what brings God to that place where he entrusts people? And gives them are the symbol. Of a covenant. It is because those men themselves have entered into covenant with God. Psalms 50 and verse five. Gather my sense together to me. And just in case you think I'm calling everybody, those Those immediately stratifies.
Those immediately separates. In other words, there are saints and there are those. God tells you instantly that as I'm speaking here, I'm not talking to everybody. So it will be a mistake to think that this my little exaltation is for everybody that is here. No. It is for those. And then he says, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. Note, it doesn't say those who I have made a covenant with. That's why I began Those who have made a covenant with me. And the Bible tells us how they made the covenant.
By sacrifice. Holy ghost and all the 1,000. Listen. So a sacrifice is not just what makes God bless you. Sacrifice is also the language by which God cuts covenants with men, and men cut covenant with God. It is the language of the realm of the spirit. And when a man lays himself and what he holds on the altar, he's entering into a binding agreement with the God that will mark his life and reach into generations that he will never even see. Gather unto me a specific people. Marked out from the rest. Distinguished by one thing, that they made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Oh, there is a distinguishing mark on certain class of people. Oh, God. It's not with respect to their giftedness. It's not with respect to their visibility. It's not with respect to how much they pray, how much they... Mm-mm. Mm-mm. The mark is that they entered into a covenant with God through sacrifice. Out of the many people, out of the crowd of people that profess God, God's eye is on a remnant, and the remnant is identified by the altar. There is a level of relationship with God that we all have as believers because God is our father.
But understand this. Understand this. There is also a level of relationship with God that the casual, the uncommitted believer will never enter into. It has a doorway, and that doorway is sacrifice. You can be saved and never enter into it. There is a deeper level of binding to God that is reserved for those who pay the price. God himself says so. That's why some men walk with a weight of glory upon their lives that other men never touch. And it's not favoritism. It is covenant.
It is covenant. That's why When you see men in this kingdom, in this kingdom, emphasis on this kingdom, that walk with a level of ease in certain results that you are hoping that one day you will get into, and you see men flawlessly walk in that result. Please don't don't categorize it and just simplify it as luck. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Don't do that. Don't do that. I told you of how I went to a meeting, and I saw 10 people, prayer warriors, trying to raise a cripple. And they prayed for almost five hours, and they could not raise a cripple. And another man came when he finished ministry, said to the crippled man, is that how you were born?
I was in UI as a student when a man of God came for a crusade. All the students then, he used chapel. He was the man organizing the crusade. And I was passing by. I just sat down at the back. While I sat down, I didn't even know he was coming, but I sat down at the back. So when I saw that he was the one coming, I moved to the front because he's someone I honor and love. I moved to the front, found a front seat immediately. And whilst I was waiting, they were praying. A lot of things were happening.
And one of the man of God's pastors came to come and take offering. And he said, let us give our offerings. There was a young man right beside me in the front where I was sitting, maybe a row behind me. And he spotted the young man whilst he was taking offering and said, you, what is that on your neck? He said, it's a cola. It's a cola, sir. What happened? I broke my neck. Uh-uh. Are you not tired of it?
He said, I'm tired, sir. Remove it. Let us share. Let's take our offerings, their account number. That's just it. Right there behind me, the guy removed the thing. There was no beating the head. There was no drama. He just continued taking tight and offering. When you see that level of ease...
It's not the main man of God. When you see that level of ease, understand that there are covenants that these men are struck with God. It's true. It is true. It is true. This is sometimes the reason why I want to know the stories of men. It's not so that I can derive a formula from their stories and say, oh, you did this, I will do it too. Because foolish people, that's what they... No. All I'm looking for is I want to know what price you paid.
So that by the time I get to junction point in my life, when God begins to demand the same from my life, I know I'm not unique. I don't start feeling as though what is happening to me is the devil. That's why I listen to the stories of men. So whilst I was in Abadina, I was hearing a man of God who was way ahead of me saying that they went for a crusade and his people were climbing trees. Ladies were climbing trees to cut wood. They were gathering the wood, went to the market to sell firewood, to gather money for crusade. I was list... I like those stories. I like it. I was listening.
I said, what? When they finished the crusade, he spoke about how the people, the sound engineers that he had paid, he thought that they would get offerings to complete the money, and the money was not complete. They couldn't pay the sound people. They couldn't pay many... And they traveled for the crusade. By the time they were coming back, he was being told many many years ago that there are police people waiting to come and bundle him and throw him in a prison because they are honoring several people after the crusade. This is someone who is present state looks nothing like the past he was telling me about. What he was telling me about looks like my own present. You don't understand what I'm saying? I I'm not looking I'm not looking for formulas.
I'm only checking to ensure I'm on the right path. When many battles came and many attacks came, those days, I just had to pick one. There were many of them I had. This has happened to this person before. Come on now. We are on the right path. That's exactly how I heard the stories of what they had to let go. Do you know that Moses had built for himself a life in Egypt? He was a prince, and that means he had privileges that a prince would have. He spent forty years of his life in Pharaoh's palace.
He was educated in all the wisdom of the greatest civilizations on the earth. Being in Egypt, he had wisdom, he had a name, he had a standing, he had an identity. And all of a sudden, he made his own attempt to go and deliver Israel based off his own strength because of a burden that he had. And then he killed a man. And the people he was sent to, the people he was having these burdens for, turned on him. And after they turned on him, he fled. And when he fled for forty more years, he was out of the equation. What do you think he was doing for forty years? He built another life entirely for himself. He became a shepherd, a medium.
In fact, a very successful shepherd at that. He became a businessman and an employee, successful at that. He married, he had a wife, had sons, had a flock. He settled down, and he had a comfortable existence at the backside of the desert. This is eighty years of building. Forty years was forced a failure. In one day, he lost forty years of investment as a prince. You know, it's different because as a prince, he was born into it. Even though he wasn't a prince, he grew up in the palace and was raised as one. And so he enjoyed privileges he didn't have to work for.
It's different from the next forty years of his life where he now had to face the reality of having to work for himself. Of nobody bringing him money, nobody saying prince, you need to study how the princes of those days are treated. They are literally worshiped. They do nothing by themselves. Someone bathes them. Someone wears their clothes. It is an experience indeed. And then that guy runs here from the palace, faced with the reality of having to fend for himself, depend on himself, and then he stumbles into Midian. And in Midian, he meets a wonderful man called Jethro. The man gives him a job, establishes him in the job, hands him one of his daughters, upon handing him his daughter, had children, two wonderful sons, and he was building for himself a family.
Do you think he was sad? Do you think he was sorrowful? He was going about his business, enjoying himself. I have no memory of where he had left. This was forty years crafting a new life for himself, a new identity for himself. And then all of a sudden, God shows up. I wonder why God did not show up when he was running away from Egypt. I mean, would have only had spent forty years. The moment he lost the throne of Egypt, he would have entered into destiny. So you wouldn't have to miss anything much.
But he used another forty years to build another life, and God came after. And God said in Exodus chapter three from verse nine to verse 10, the cry of the children of Israel have come to me. I've seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppressed them. Next verse. Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. God did not come to bless the life that Moses had built for himself. God came to end it. Because the moment God said, come now therefore, God was saying, leave the flock. Leave the business. Leave the settled comfortable existence.
Leave the wife. Leave the sons. Leave the forty years of building a business, building a career for yourself. Leave the eighty years of who you have become and go and carry my purpose. Everything that Moses had constructed for himself, the security of medium, the quiet life of a shepherd, the very identity that he had made after the ruin of the first one, all of it, that was what God was demanding for. When God said, come now therefore because you might read it so fast and lose the impact of what the man was letting go. Come now therefore means forget everything you have built for yourself. Forget the wealth, forget the riches, forget the friends you have made, forget an entire forty years. Come now therefore. And it's not as though I will send you to Egypt, deliver a method and come back to your life.
That was the end of that life. You see, when God moves to cut a covenant with a man, to make that man a carrier of his purpose for a generation, one of the things that God does very often very often is that he reaches for the life that that man has already built outside of God. And God tells that man, lay it down. And the reason is because the man built the life outside of God. And so when God comes to the man and says, you are part of those I'll be using in this generation, but the path you have built your life in is not the path I wrote for you in the scrolls of destiny. So you would have to drop everything. That's why many are called few are chosen. Because in short junction point, only few can say, I lay it down. Only few. Imagine yourself as Moses.
Forty years you have been married. Forty years with children. And God says I have a purpose for you. My people are... What concern me and my people? What concern your people that are crying? Is it not the number they turned on me? I remember. It was forty years ago, but I still remember. And God is demanding for.
And after all the argument, Moses looked and said, Kai, yes, Lord. You are the king, there is no other. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Lord. That's what he says. Listen, Listen, the sacrifice that God demanded from Moses was not a lamp. It was not even money. It was forty years of everything he had built. Forty years of everything he was.
And on the far side of that surrender, Moses was no longer a shepherd, a median. Moby was now a covenant man who will stand before Pharaoh. Moby was a covenant man who will stand before the Red Sea, who would split the sea, who would split to the rock and waters will come out, who would deliver 3,000,000 people out of the crutches of captivity, but it was at the far side of surrender. If you cannot lay it down, you cannot experience what is at that far side. The glory is there, but it's at the end of your surrender. The glory is there. The power is there. The influence is there, but it is at the end of your surrender. That's why it says, gather unto me my saints. Those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Oh, yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Listen. Yes, lord. Yes, lord. Yes, lord. I'm not. I'm yours. I'm yours.
Yours forever. I'm yours. I'm yours. I'm yours. Listen, the more I study the story of David, the more I understand why he's called a man after God's own heart. The more I study David. David stood one day and he just had a crave to drink from the well of Bethlehem. And three of his young men heard it, and they fought their way through a troop. The one he never told them to. It was the Philistine border, and they fought their way through an entire army.
Slaughtered everyone that stood in their way to fetch water for David. Oh, the mighty men of David. And when they fetched the water, imagine how gruesome that battle must have been. Because when they fetched the water, it would mean that they are one man short. Because one would have to carry the water. Whichever one is carrying the water, hard to protect the water to ensure it doesn't fall. Even if he's fighting, he's fighting with one hand. That means he was two against the troop when they were returning. And they fought through an entire army. This was thousands of people, three men.
You have to first acknowledge whatever David did to them. Because that is not normal. You also have to now consider how they would have brought that water back to David with blood everywhere. Both their blood, the blood of the people they had slaughtered. And I can imagine themselves drenching with blood and they brought the water and say, master, this is the water you asked for. Hi. David saw the thing and said, Kai, Kai, Kai, this is not water. This is blood. This is the sacrifice of men. What betides me if I drink the sacrifice of men?
I will not take what belongs to God. And David took the water and poured it on the ground and said, no. I won't drink the sacrifice of men. Only a wise man sees what others call water and calls it blood. That means only a wise man understands what is not is. Because they brought it to him, He could have as well taken it. But only a wise man understands. If everybody might think this is water, but it's not water. This is blood. This is sacrifice.
This does not belong to me. Will not drink this. This belongs only unto God. And the same David, when there was a famine in Israel, he was meant to sacrifice according to the instruction of the prophet Nathan. And when he went to the house of Araunah, he got to the house of Araunah where his threshing floor was, where the sacrifice was to happen. And Araunah, I haven't heard that it was the king that was coming to sacrifice. Said, oh, king, I didn't know you are the one. You want to come and sacrifice? Ah, king, don't pay for anything. The land is yours.
The offering is yours. The lamb is yours. Take everything. The king said, take everything for free to sacrifice to God. No. They didn't teach me like that. He said I will not offer to my God that which cost me nothing. I will not offer to my God that which cost me nothing. No wonder he's called a man after God or not. It means there was something this man understood.
There was something he understood. And whatever he understood, he taught his son. Because the day his son was anointed king, the same month he was anointed king, the first thing the son did was to go up to a hill. And upon getting up to a hill, the son brought with him 1,000 cattle. And he was slaughtering the cattle by himself. One after the other, one after the other. 1,000 of them. Do you know how long that would have taken? Do you know how long it takes to even kill one cow? And offer it as a burnt offering?
And this was a king for that matter. A king. A king. He didn't have to. When he was done, he didn't stop at 100. At 100... Do understand that at that point, his physical body had given up? Everything was telling him, it's okay. Stop. It's okay.
Stop. He said, no. I will not offer to my God that which cost me nothing. King, let's help you. No. I will not offer to my God that which cost me nothing. 200, 300, 400, 500, and heaven was quietly watching. What is this? There is someone shaking the windows of heaven. There's someone speaking a language that has not...
Ah ah, who is this? Say, Solomon, he went to sleep and God came to him. See, just ask me what you want. Ask me what you want. How do you tell a man that a sacrifice can open the portals of heaven to himself in that manner? This is what happens when men. It says gather unto me my saints, those who have made a covenant with me. That was precisely what Solomon was doing. Sacrifice. Listen, when Gideon was approached by an angel and they told Gideon that the Lord is with you.
You are a mighty man. God would use you to bring Israel out of captivity because they were in captivity with the Midianite. You would think that the next thing that would happen there is God will just tell him, well, yeah, go and deliver your people. But no. God said, your father has an idol that your entire lineage has been worshiping. Your first responsibility is to go and destroy the idols and the altar that your father has raised. Do you see what is happening there? God would have just told him, walk away. God have told him, come out of your father's house. God have told him, leave them.
You run. I want to use you. God said no, go and destroy it. You don't see it. God said after destroying it, now erect an altar for God on what you have destroyed. The guy was terrified. The Bible says the guy could not even obey the instruction in the day. That tells you what God was testing. It means it was not even about the idol or the thing. It was where does your allegiance lie?
The guy was not even the one worshiping the idol. God never called him, go and sacrifice your idols. Either your father's idol. But what will your father say? What will his lineage say? What will the entire 50 say? If God be God, let him be God. If Baal be Baal, let him be Baal. There are customs you'll have to walk away from. And openly, openly, there's a time that God will tell you, I I have been enjoying this our secret affair, but the time must come where you must make this thing public and declare I will no longer serve the idols of my father's house.
Oh, it will come with a lot of pain, but that pain exactly is the sacrifice. He feared his king's men, he could not do it. But he knew this thing must be done. This thing must be done. This thing must be done. This thing must be done. I'm yours. I'm yours. I'm yours. Because that's what God has made a demand for.
And there are some of you that the reason why you're not making any progress in destiny is because you can't walk away from these same customs, customs of my father's house, idols in my father's house. And the time comes when God will ask you destroy those idols. Destroy it. You can't continue to control your life. You can't continue to live being swayed by what people will say at the expense of what God will have you do. Can't you say a time must come when you make a choice? And the Bible called it a sacrifice. Listen. That's why. That's why.
Up until tomorrow, there is nothing God will ever ask for. That will not beg him, give me grace, Tom. Let it go fast. Let it go fast. Because at the other end of that submission is a covenant. An entrustment, an entrustment. At the other end of that submission. At the other end of the submission, is painful because your soul has been so attached to what it should not even be attached to in the first instance. Attached to satisfying people, to pleasing people, to appeasing people. Attached to what it shouldn't even be attached to.
Do you you know that thing caused Solomon his kingdom? Somebody might say, but apostle, apostle, it's just the idol of his father's house. Could God not have until you go and study about Rachel? And you find out it was the same idol of the father's house that he could not do apart from that destroy your life. The attachment. For some people, it is this horrible attachment to money. To money. This horrible attachment to money. To money. To money.
You see, you can be a giver and not know the first thing about sacrifice. Did you hear what I just said? Yes, sir. Say it with me. Yes. And you would think because you give or because you have given, you know precisely what I'm saying. Because you can sit down there in your high mindedness when a person talks about money and things, I'm not the one they are talking about. I mean, did I not just give a million? Did I not just give 500,000? Did not just give...
Remember during the project, I even did this, but all of that is from a place of abundance. You know nothing about sacrifice. You have 1,000 naira, you gave a 100 naira, and you are excited you are a giver. You have 10,000,000, you gave a million, you're excited you are a giver. You know nothing about giving. Jesus looked at that lady who dropped everything and said this woman dropped the highest. Because what heaven was measuring is not what the pastor was measuring. The pastor was looking for who will drop what will sort the bills. Everyone was looking at who will drop what will shake the heavens. Because even though he was little, that was all that they had.
All that they had. All that they had. All that they had. All that they had. All that they had. I think there should be a posture of your heart. Take all I have and take all I am. Let it be that your life is spent on the altar. So that even when a sacrifice is not demanded, you are constantly and perpetually on the altar. Because when David decided that he was not going to drink of that water that those boys brought to him, was it God that demanded for it?
A life spent on the altar. A life spent on the altar to know what is God's, what is mine, what is not mine, what I'm a steward of, what God can request of anytime. And when I request of it anytime, there's no holding back. No holding back. No turning back. No turning back. The end of where I'm teaching you is enlargement, is prosperity, is a covenant. It's not a one time thing oh. It is something that the bible calls, bible calls us a living sacrifice. It mean as long as you are alive, you are burning.
Your life is constantly spent on the altar, constantly spent on the altar. Until nothing means nothing to you anymore. Until you can obey God and not care what people will see. Do you understand what I'm saying? Until you can obey God and he will not prick you again. What is? I'm to get I'm to get Don't prick you again. You give a million this week, you give another one, next you give another one, next you give another one, next week, I don't want me anything to you again. Until a million becomes like a 100 naira. Until they say it's time for offering, and then what you are giving them for offering is a million.
Because even your tithe is 10 times more than that. But you want to help you want to help a a beggar. It's somebody that beside you that have to be like, that that that money is too much. Now how much is that? I didn't count it. That's too much. It doesn't mean nothing anymore. Doesn't mean nothing anymore. When I go to places and I want to... People come and ask me for money and I wanna give people...
I really want... I just put my hand wherever there's money and give them. I have no idea how much it is, how much is there. You lose 1 naira and then your and your your your your... All the spinal cord in your... Everything just lose because you lost a naira. How can money have that much grip in your heart? How money have that much grip in your heart? Young lady came to me and came to come and sow a seat me many years ago. It was 20,000 naira or it's 10,000 naira or so 10,000 naira.
And that was a huge amount of money to me then. And she's brought, she says 10,000 naira. I said, ah. He said, man of God, I lost my pulse in an exam hall. And I came to sow this seed so that you will pray and the pulse will come back because I have some things in that pulse. I have mentioned everything she has there. Of the most valuable thing that was there was a huge amount of money because it was a huge purse. So she had some money in six digits there. When she told me, I said, the first thing the holy spirit told me was tell her to let it go. I said, and this one has brought seed oh.
How do I collect your seed now and see God say I should tell you that you should let it go? Because that's not what you brought seed for. Will I now return the seed? Because the expectations were not met. Jesus is Lord. I told the young lady. I said, be angry, oh. But the Lord said, let it go. Because the only prayer that's helped me not to care much when he tells me to speak. Let it go.
Just let it go. We could see the disappointment in our eyes. She left. I didn't bother collecting the seed. She dropped it on the chair and left. She came back to me some weeks after to share a testimony of how that she went to report in a police station. And after she reported, using her father's influence, they tracked the thing down. When they tracked the thing down, they saw the thing. They went and saw the thing. They caught the person.
They were able to get about 50% of the money or so. The person will refund the arrest. They have held him in the police station, blah blah blah. Thank you very much, sir. In fact, she also told me about two other men of God she went to meet. She saw seats to them as well, spoke words, and that miracle happened. And I said, glory to God. It was not up to a year after, maybe a year after, that she would come back to me and tell me how she had lost 11,000,000, and then she had lost another million, and it was from one loss to another loss. And I would always remember, almost as though she had forgotten, but me I did not forget. If only you had just let it go.
Because the reason why you are losing so much is because you cannot give so much. So you will lose it one way or the other because God wants to teach you something, because you must prosper. And lessons will continue until your heart detaches from money. Until that thing that cannot that cannot live, let it go. Now over 500 naira, you have started fighting with bike ma until they slap your face. And you know you don't know anybody. It's not as though if anything happened, then you can call one police person, can call one police man, you can call... You don't know sham, but you are fighting, you are shouting. Just just walk away. Just walk away.
But how will I live? My money. Don't And it's not because some people don't have money. It is just this attachment that this thing is mine. This thing is mine. My wife became fed up of me many years ago. I was training her, and she would tell me she she was she was she... When she was wearing her shoe, she was reporting to me that when she was wearing her shoe, you can't believe her roommate of ours, those days, was just looking at her shoe as though she wanted to steal the shoe from her. I went, I imagine that kind of thing. I said, give her.
Say, that's the sign. Give her. That's the language of the spirit. She's looking at you because you didn't produce an angel. Give her. Oh, the resistance. Oh, the resistance. But but this shoe is my most expensive shoe. That's why she's even looking because she knows. That's why you should give her.
Apostle, you won't believe that I just put my perfume here and they came to use it without my knowledge. Give her. Until it cannot pain you again. Until it is dust to you. It is nothing to you. Many years ago, I was living somewhere. I went to go and overnight in our van in Abadina then, and then I went home. I was staying somewhere in Acube Terlus. I went back home, and while I was going home, you know, I was just praising God, thanking God. Then I would usually trek from Abadina to Maternity, then trek up because I wouldn't sit back then, and trek up.
So I was trekking, praying tongues, I saw your bike. I went home. It was a Sunday. I had prayed and read and studied and walked from Friday in the Abadan Avenue till Sunday Sunday morning. So I went home on Sunday morning to prepare for the meeting on Sunday evening because the experience those days was in the evening on Sundays. And I got home, I saw people in front of the door. They are stolen my generator, stolen somebody's generator on a Sunday morning. Who steals on a Sunday morning? Who steals on a Sunday morning? And I met him.
They were troubled. Generator. Generator. Listen to me. There was not an heart term of concern, care, or pain in my heart. I left them there arguing, entered inside, sat down, started preparing my teaching and praying. That was the last I talked about it. That was the last I talked about it. I know I've heard so many stories. There's two one young girl's phone in this place, and she started crying.
Jesus Christ. They told me how much she was crying. I said, my goodness. This is someone that will be poor. And you will not be poor because you are crying. You'll be poor because your attachment to material things is too strong. It has a hold on you. It can alter your emotions like that. Do you cry in the presence of God like that? How can you have that much attachment?
You can't believe how many phones I've given away. I can't even count. And also, I don't have a phone. The first thing I'm thinking, how do we get them a phone? Let me get this person a phone. Let me get that person as well. At the early the God ministry, sometimes I can give out three phones in one month, five phones in one month. We'd have given out 50 phones in one year. Until God came to me and told me one day and said, you know you can prophesy this thing. Yeah.
You're running yourself down like this. You can prophesy. Yeah. A phone will come in Jesus name. Oh, I was... And I was delivered. Can't imagine how many laptops I've given out, devices I've given out. It means absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. That's where you have to get with everything material.
Everything material. Don't let money have a hold on your soul like that. Do you know I have a value? My value is I don't get anything for myself if I've not given that exact amount of money worth. The first time I going to get myself a car, I gave twice the amount of money needed to get that car in three months. That would have gotten me a better car than what I eventually got. But the giving was more important to me Because I would not spend any amount on myself or of whose worth I have not given. Did you hear what I said? Yes, sir. Of whose worth I have not given.
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