Transcript: Doing Big Things Part 1
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This message is from believers equipped. A meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. Bible speaks of the simplicity that is in Christ. The Bible says that we should be careful lest anybody deceives us out of that simplicity that is in Christ. In other words, that you can get to that point as believers where certain things are corrupted in in that A lot of thing begin to become complex in your life that are otherwise meant to be seen. Especially because they are in Christ. There are lots of things that the bible makes available. The bible speaks to us that are available to the believer. Lots of things, lots of provisions available to the believer.
The bible says that we've been given all things that pertains to life and godliness. You know, that is one of the most humbling scriptures. Because it puts the responsibility of what you become in life in your hands. Because the Bible says that we've been given everything that pertains to life. That everything you would ever need for life. And for godliness has been given to you. Bible says we've been given all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. When the believer reads these things, you have to pause to ask yourself several questions. Because it means God does not necessarily hold you anything. Because God has provided everything.
The problem is transformation. This is the warfare. That we go through. Trying to allow the realities and the possibilities in your spirit. The revelation and the knowledge in your spirit. Seek into your soul. That is transformation. Let me take it even deeper. Transformation isn't just the knowledge that exist in your spirit because you see, there is something your spirit knows. There is something your spirit has.
There's information as it exists in your spirit, which is called revelation. Are you with me? Which has to sip into your mind, which has to flow into your mind. So that your mind updates itself. You know, when you're using WhatsApp, there are certain features that will not be available to you because you have not downloaded the latest update. That's exactly how your life is. So that there are certain features you want to see. Are you with me? And others are seeing it. Because you might check a WhatsApp group that you are on for instance, and you would find that a message was sent.
But to you it is blocked. You cannot access it even though it's available to everybody. Then you try to then you can get the notification that tells you that your version of WhatsApp cannot load this type of a message. Is that not so? So what do you have to do? You have to download latest updates. That downloading of the latest update is what must always happen to your soul. Because your spirit is full, your spirit is rich. Everything you will ever need from now till you are 120 years old. Is locked up in your spirit.
Your soul is the one that is catching up. Your soul is the one that is behind. Your mind is not is not responding fast enough to allow for these things to sip into. The soul. And so every time transformation succeeds, that's an update. So whatever feature that update brings, you will start experiencing in your life. Do you understand what I've just said now? That's the burden of the man of God. That's what we try to do in church every Sunday, every Tuesday. That's why the greatest responsibility of a born again believer is transformation.
And whenever transformation begins to happen, it is worth sharing testimonies for. Because the extent of the possibilities around your life will be defined by how much transformation is happening within you part time. Because it means God is not to blame. Did you understand this? God is not what now? To blame. God is not to blame. If there are no results in your life, in the way that you would want them to be, God is not to blame. If they are, your academic is not going the way that you want them to be, you know, and so Nigerians, Africans, human beings in general, we have that habit of putting responsibility. Upon others.
And refusing to accept responsibility ourselves. There's almost no criminal who has been caught. Who conceits that it was guilty. Everybody has something to blame it on. And when you have no human being to blame it on me, you say it's the devil. And that blame on the devil did not begin now. It began in the garden of Eden. When God came to Adam, God told Adam. That you would have dominion over the earth. And look at the extent of Adam's dominion.
Over every creeping thing that creeps. So it means even the snake that came to come and lie to them, Adam had dominion over it. It was within the jurisdiction of Adam's dominion. Adam was made, Adam was created first, the instruction was passed to him, he was the head by heaven's design. Whilst the woman was meant to support and to help him. Is that not so? Yes sir. And all through that conversation that the woman was having with the serpent, Adam simply just kept quiet and was also listening in. Listening as the wife was deceived, the wife then who was already deceived then offered her the fruit to Adam, Adam also partook of it and when God came, there was no responsibility whatsoever. Adam did not say love was what made me fall.
In retrospect, when Paul was writing. Paul now says that the man was not deceived, it was the woman who was deceived. The man fell because of love. But when he was being axed in Genesis, he never said, I was in love, I became a mugger. He didn't say that. He didn't say that. What he told God was, it was the woman whom you gave me. It's not, don't blame me for this. I was on my own, I didn't ask for any woman. I was doing quite well.
Who brought the woman? You. It was the woman you brought to me. Okay. Woman, the man has taken responsibility of himself. And by reason of taking responsibility of himself, he has taken authority of himself. Because when you take responsibility of yourself, you take power off yourself. It means you lose the ability to change the outcome of your life. Because it means that you have considered responsibility for you, the outcome of your life to something else. It means you can do nothing about it again.
Do you understand what I'm saying? It means you can do nothing about it again. That's the meaning. And so, Adam lost authority in that instant. Because he could do nothing. Again. And he transferred authority to the woman. And the woman would have retained it if she had also kept quiet. And say I accept, I was deceived. No.
Humanity. The woman also said, it's not me. I mean, why you were creating things? Why did you put this happen that can speak? Why would you blame me for that? You didn't tell me that serpents can speak. Let alone come and tell me what I don't know. You blame the serpent for that. And God did not argue. Again, the woman took authority, took responsibility away from herself and placed it upon the serpent.
And God did not argue with any of them. God moved to the serpent instantly and said, serpent, what is this that you have done? And the serpent kept quiet. Because he understood that in this kingdom, responsibility is the key to authority. That once you once you accept responsibility for a thing, you withhold power to change it. A student who says that's the result they gave me has taken responsibility away from himself. And the moment he does that, he has taken authority to change that circumstance away from himself. You go and check first people, that's not the last time they will fail. You ask a man of God, why is your ministry not growing? He said the area that we are in.
If you heard that before, the area that we are in. People are just not, you have taken responsibility away from yourself. And the moment you do that, the power to change that circumstance has also left you. This is why many people are victims. Victims because they've refused to accept responsibility. To decide that I am the ultimate determiner of whatever happens to my life. Not my mother, not what school I went to, not my father, not the divorce between my father and my mother, not because my father died. You know, there are people who are hungry at their dead parents. Why would he die? He just left me alone with nothing.
But he left you with life. You are alive. With intelligence, capable of making your own decisions. You have plenty things. Responsibility. Many Nigerians are broke. We blame the government for everything. Blame the government for everything. And you know that if the government starts working in Nigeria, we will start complaining again. Do you realize?
Those countries people are running into. If the government starts saying, you know what? Let's be effective. Let's take a cue from these countries. Let's make our constitution very powerful. And make Nigeria a nation of law and order. Do you know your perfume oil business will stop immediately? You are making chin chin somewhere in your hostel you are selling, you will be arrested. Where is the tax on that thing you are doing? You make millions without paying tax in Nigeria.
And the government has systems in place, but because the systems are not working, they cannot track you. You can't try it elsewhere. You pay tax on the road you drive in. The road you drive in. Somebody went to The UK and said, he he was working somewhere and somebody collapsed and they called, they called the emergency services and they were there in less than five minutes. And the person told me that it takes maximum of nine minutes in that nation for emergency services to locate you regardless of where you are. Maximum of nine minutes. That means either it's police, ambulance, fire truck, nine minutes. If there's a fire, nine minutes. You call in a thief is robbing, nine minutes.
Maximum time. That means the citizen can report whatever agency was meant to arrive that did not arrive in nine minutes. And the person was shouting and speaking. Do you understand that that is only possible because of what the government taxes out of the nation? Out of the people? That's why life is hard. For them, it is true. Because you'd find out you can make £1,005 in a month and what is your net income is £400. Because you are taxed for everything. The water you drink, the road you step on, everything.
Everything. They pay road tax to drive on a good road. You do that, but you are complaining there's pothole. And then you hold the government responsible. Glory to God. If I'm speaking to the government, this is not what I would say. If I'm addressing the government, my method will be different. But I'm not addressing the government. I'm addressing people who have taken responsibility off themselves. And by doing so, I've taken authority off themselves.
And that means that you now lack power to change your own fortune. You accept whatever life gives you. That's the meaning of that. That's not the kind of life I would live. You know Jabez could have lived that kind of life? Saying that it was my mother, it was my mother, it was my mother. He came to a point realized that see, whatever becomes of my life is my fault oh. It is on me. My mother caused me no problem. My mother named me a kind of name no problem.
But if at this point, when I've accessed light, when I've accessed wisdom, when I know what I know now, I still allow myself to continue to live in this deceit. It would totally be on me. The man knew that I can call upon God by myself and say change my fortune, change my story, enlarge my coast. He and God came and said, we have been waiting. We have been waiting. And on that day, the Bible says he became more honorable than his brothers. There is someone who had been a child of sorrow all along because of a name and a label and an identity that was cast upon him. But in the day he says, my life is in my hands. God has given me the ability to change my own fortune. He said this thing I'm saying alone is transformation that needs to happen.
It needs to seep from your spirit to your soul. This one I'm saying. Somebody needs to accept and agree. I will stop blaming anybody for the outcome of my life. It is not the devil, it's not powers. I am solely responsible. How do someone fail in their academy and say it's the church? Can you see that kind of a thing? It's because I'm I'm in the workforce. You have taken responsibility.
And you have placed it on what is not you. And the solution becomes let me leave. You will still not pass because you have not found out what the problem is. I've not found out what the problem is. One of my daughters reached me and told me that the mother was complaining that how can she be in drama department in the church? That's the reason why she didn't have a good CGPA. And like, how many times did drama minister beg? How many times did they even meet? Is that not after intervene before anything even have happened in that drama department? How can I now be the reason somebody is failing?
It's called responsibility. We just... It's an habit. We take it out of ourselves and put it on others. God, make us feel good. At the detriment of your own future, at the detriment of your own destiny, at the detriment of your own life. Transformation must happen to you. You must realize what I'm telling you. Say if I am rich. Today.
Today. Is on me. Say if I'm poor. If I'm poor. Is my fault. Is my fault. Believe what I'm telling you. Say if I pass. If pass. It's on me.
It's on me. Say if I fail. If fail. It's my fault. It's my fault. That one is crazy. Your voice went lower. That one cringed you. Because it's difficult to admit it. People are not like that.
When they do well. Because when we do well, we want to take all the glory. Even the one that belongs to God, we now say, hey, you you have no idea. I knew my onions. But if that guy fails, the question will be where was God? Where was God? When this was happening, when that was happening, where was God? Take up responsibility for your life. Submit yourself to transformation. Take these messages you are listening to as life or death.
Sit down with them, sit down with the Bible. Begin to open it. Begin to listen with hunger. Because you realize this thing is on me. It's on me. Everything that pertains to life and godliness has been given to me. My spirit man is full of possibilities, exploits, potentials. I have to unleash it upon the world. Something must crack open in my soul. And every time I come to listen to the word of God, what is happening is that my mind is opening more.
I'm seeing revelation. And the more I behold his face, the more I become. The becoming is the portion of God's spirit within your spirit that is living. Living your spirit to hug your soul. To cling to your soul. That's really what the becoming is. The man of God made a statement. He said, it is impossible to love unconditionally as a man. Only God can love like that. That is absolutely unscriptural.
It is just transformation. It doesn't, that's the difference because the ability to love like God is within your spirit. How much we express love is dependent on how much transformation has happened in that area. In that area. And when you look around the body of Christ, you'll find that we have failed so miserably. In expressing the love of Christ. You look at marriages, you look at different things like that. That failed so hopefully. The Bible says that God is love. Whoever hath not love.
So how can you therefore say that it's impossible? When the Bible says if you're not even have it. You don't know God. God's kind of love that is. God's kind of love that is. The peace of God is within your spirit. Because the fullness of the deity is within you. Do you realize this? This is what the Bible. When you read scriptures, you find it.
The Bible says the fullness of deities within you. Christ has been made wisdom unto you. It means that you should not make any stupid mistake in your life. Because Christ has been made wisdom unto you. You should hear a voice behind you saying this is the way you work in it. The bible says that Philippians two and verse five, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. The Bible says we have the mind of Christ. The Bible says who can know the mind of God as to instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ. We have the mind of Christ. It means the mind of Christ is within you.
What is the bridge? Transformation. This is why it is very very important. That a man gives himself to the word of God. In partnership with the spirit of God, in partnership with the teaching priest. These are the three agencies. That make for transformation. Your own responsibility is to listen, to hear with the ears of faith. Listen with a hungry heart, meditate again and again on what you are hearing. Until you become it.
So you cannot take away the place of meditation in transformation. That you have heard it once is not enough. You would need to hear it again and again and again and again. Until it shifts your thinking pattern. Until it shifts how you used to think before, how you used to know things before. Because you see, the word of God now it works can sometimes confront your soul. And your soul might not want to receive it because of how loyal you have been to a whole narrative. And so you find yourself finding it difficult to accept that this is truth. You keep on listening to it because the bible does not lie. And the bible says you can do nothing against the truth but for the truth.
It means it doesn't matter what your contradictions are. It doesn't matter what your reservations are. Can do nothing against the truth. Revelation as the spirit sees it. So on Sunday you were taught. Wise people would go back to listen to it. Next week, there is Sunday again coming up. Between now and Sunday, you have two teachings to listen to. This is how you make your life. Two teachings.
Again and again. Whatever is taught today, whatever was taught on Sunday, again and again, on repeat, on the playlist. You're praying, you are listening. You're praying, you are listening. You're walking about your day, you are listening. And as you do so, mental transformation is happening. Something in you is changing. And this process can sometimes be slow. We are the ones that do ourself. Whether you spend forty years in the wilderness or forty days in the wilderness, is all dependent on you.
Let me read something. Deuteronomy eight verse one. This is Every commandment which I command you today, you must be careful to observe that you may live and multiply. Please listen to this. Follow it. Every commandment which I command you today, you must be careful to observe. I want to show you the significance of the wilderness. I've taught you this before, transformation that happens in the wilderness that you have been brought into the wilderness out of Egypt, but that Egypt must be brought out of you. Is that not so? So in the wilderness, it then tells them that every commandment that I command you today, you must be careful to observe.
The process of transformation. That you may live and multiply. It means that you're living and multiplying is is dependent on your carefulness to observe all these things that I'm telling you. Is that not so? It is that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers. Next verse two. Verse two says, and you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way this forty years. Lord your God led you all the way this forty years. Come. Lord your God led you all the way this forty years.
So year one, the Lord was leading. Year two, the Lord was leading. Then once they got to the place, different kind of trouble on the road, a point came that they started experiencing God's provision. And as they were experiencing God's provision in manner, they started saying they are tired of this. How can God be providing for you and you will be tired of God's provision? What type of pride is that? They didn't even say wow. They are hungry for more. They say we are tired of this. You see we become weary.
And all of that, God was doing something to their heart. The Bible says that the route was originally meant to take them fourteen days. To the promised land. Geologians say forty days. But eventually it took them forty years. Watch this. Year one, year two, year three, year four, year five, year ten. And God was still checking, are you ready to enter into this promise? Are you ready to multiply? Are you ready to possess?
Look, go back to verse one, see this thing. See this thing. Every commandment I command you, you must be careful to observe. So God was checking, what is happening within you? What is the extent of your carefulness to observation? That is eventually what will determine whether you are ready to live, whether you are ready to multiply, whether you are ready to possess the lamb which I swore to your fathers. So everything happened in the wilderness was taken to see what is the extent of this observation. Do you remember this book of the law? Will not depart from your mouth. You shall observe to do.
The same thing that God told Joshua. You will observe to do. So all through the wilderness. This was what was happening. Verse two says, I led you all this 40 in the wilderness. Watch what I was doing. To humble you. It means at some phase of your life, the school that you were in was a school of humility. Because I found something something strange. And what I found that was strange is that you have grown to become comfortable with servitude because you've been slaves for many years.
Centuries you have been slaves. And so I cannot bring you into this promised land just with this slave mentality. So I must do something in your heart. I must humble you. And again and again, this test of humility will come. And the more you failed, the more you lengthen your years in the wilderness. The more you lengthen your year in the wilderness. The Bible calls them hard hearted people, stiff naked people. That is how the Bible describes them. It says to test you.
And to know what was in your heart. Does the Bible not say out of the abode of your heart, the mouth speaks. Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it proceeds forth the issues of your life. It means the people of Israel were not in the wilderness because God wanted them there. They were there because that was where they were in their heart. The bible says, to know what was in your heart. Are you still in Egypt in your heart? Because whilst they were in the wilderness, what were they saying? Where are all the cucumbers? Where are all the lemons?
Where are all the... And God is saying, ah, I've told you about the promised land, but you are still seeing cucumbers. It means I'm testing you to know what is in your heart. And this heart that I'm seeing is not qualified enough to enter into that promise. It's not ready to enter into that promise because you're still a slave in your mind. Watch this. It says, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. It means why are you doing what you are doing? Is it temporal? Watch this.
Next verse. So he humbled you. He allowed you to hunger. He fed you with manna. Which your fathers did not even know. Plus, what was the reason why he was doing all of these things? You were shouting melons, cucumbers. You were shouting queens were not available. You were shouting, we are thirsty. It looks as though all your life was defined by food.
Because that is all that you have lived in Egypt. My own will take you to a place of dominance, a place of kingdom, a place where your heart must begin to dream of something other than yourself. And that process took forty years of humbling you, of testing you, of allowing you to hunger. Of feeding you with manna. Why was I doing this? That he might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone. It means the lesson for forty years. Was man shall not live by bread alone. I want you to understand this thing I'm teaching you. That was the lesson for forty years.
How would man live? Every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. Jesus spent forty days praying. And the devil came bringing this same whole temptation. Saying that I want to see if your life is still defined by the extent of what you eat or drink. Can you turn this stone to bread? And Jesus said, come on now. Come on now. Come on now. I was the one who took some people through a journey.
I was scared when it was happening. What manner of thing is this? The extent of the man's life is not defined by what he eats or what he drinks. Man cannot live by bread alone. Forty days he was out of it. What took some people forty years to learn? And God was saying, this attachment you have to limos, can we collect it from you? And realize, in other words, what God wanted to do was to bring them to a point where they can go and possess the land. Because God has said they should. That how they would live was by trusting on the word of God.
That they can come to a place where they would look at giants and say, God has said the land is ours. That how man would live would not be by foot. How we would estimate our life would not be by foot, would not be by survivor. It would be what did God say. And for adventure, I can lay hold on this thing. That was where God was bringing them to. Why was it important that God brought them there? Because eventually, when they would go and spy the land, they saw giants and they forgot what God said. So it means that lesson will not succeed. Because what God wanted to show them was man shall not live by bread alone.
Was it about milk? Was it about honey? What God wanted to do? Was it about potatoes? Was it about mangoes? No, that wasn't what it was about. It was about territorial dominance. It was about thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth. It was about taking the mountains for God, extending the boundaries of his kingdom upon the earth. That was what was about.
It was about thy the knowledge of the glory of God shall cover the earth as the waters covers the sea. That was what was that was what it was about. But when they went to go and spy, what did they bring back? Tomatoes. Mango. That's all they saw. They did not see the vantage point of taking the nations. They did not see that if we can conquer this city, it becomes easy to conquer the world. That was not what they saw. What they saw was, how much is the salary?
That's all they saw. And when they saw, when they observed the circumstance, they saw the money, they saw everything involved in it, how much they will pay them, then they look around and say, it's not people like us that are getting here. And God says, you know what? This thing has not yet succeeded. And the Bible says, of all the generation of them that went to go and spy, none of them entered the promised land. They all died in the wilderness. All of them. Read your Bible. All of them. Because the process of transformation did not succeed.
And God wasn't gonna short circuit it. If he did not succeed, you would die dear. You don't bribe to prosper. In this kingdom, you will not bribe to lies. God said, I will check your heart. And if I can see that this thing has not succeeded, you will remain at that current level. You will never enter into the extent of dominion that I have for you. It even blends well into my vision, so let me start. Because it means that if this thing does not succeed in you, your ability to do big things is already short circuited. Do you understand this thing I'm saying?
Glory to God. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? Because that is what God is doing. And if believers don't understand this, we begin to wonder why. I will not be able to explain why results are far in the lives of many people. Because transformation has not succeeded yet. The Bible reveals again and again that your life did not begin the day you were born. That's transformation that needs to happen. The Bible reveals that your life began in eternity. Bible reveals that you are not an accident.
Bible reveals that you are not a creation of biology. You are a prophecy of divinity. That before time opened up its curtains to you, God had already written the script of your existence. In Ephesians chapter one and verse four, the Bible says, just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world. It means before there was earth, before there was the sun, before there was the moon, before there was the stars, God had already chosen you. Your life was determined in eternity, not in the womb. Jeremiah one verse five, the Bible says, before I formed you in the mother's womb, I knew you. God did not say when I formed you, I knew you. He says before I formed you, I knew you.
Eternity carry the knowledge of you before time expressed you. Psalm one three nine verse 16, the Bible says, your eyes saw my substance. Being yet unformed. And in your book, they all were written. The days fashioned for me. In your book, they all were written. The days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. That your story was documented by God. Even before you lived one day out of it. Romans chapter eight and verse 29 verse 30.
It further shows us for whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son. Moreover, whom he predestined verse 30, this he also called whom he called, this he also justified. And whom he justified, this he also glorified. Predestination means that your journey is not random. It was programmed by the eternal council of God. If this is true, if you believe this, then hear what Jeremiah announces. Chapter 29 and verse 11, popular scripture. If you've believed everything I've said so far, hear what he announces. For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says who is speaking? Even the King James version, this does not do justice to it.
One, two, three, go. Thoughts of. Thoughts of. Thoughts of. And not of. Evil. To give you an expected hand. So many things we see in the scripture. I've already taught you before what to give an expected hand means. But my concern in this scripture is thoughts of peace.
Are you with me? Because the person who is thinking is not a man. These are thoughts of an eternal God. And God says, I'm the one that planned your life. Because I formed your life. Before your mother even met your father. I knew you even forget your mother and forget your father. Before the earth was made. Before the idea of the world came to be, I knew you. Do you believe this?
Because I believe it. I believe that I'm not an accident in time. I believe it. The circumstances around your birth might be an accident. But yourself is not an accident. Do you understand what trying to say? Yes sir. It says before you were formed, I knew you. I will avenge you. Before you were formed in your mother's womb.
That that God rather, who knew you in eternity, now says, I'm thinking about you. And my thoughts about you, the thoughts that I think towards you Are thoughts of peace. Thoughts of peace. Thoughts of prosperity. Good thoughts. Not of evil. You see, when you read this theme, and you just breeze through it, you will misunderstand the depth of that scripture. Because in order to understand what this scripture is saying, you will need to understand how big is God who planned your life. It is important that you know this so that you can know what to expect of the life that he planned. So that when that God says, know the thoughts I have, you would not think it so shallowly.
It is anything like that as to me a man thinking about you like a man thinks of his friend. So it's important to know who is thinking. Because you might call someone and they tell you, I just thought about you yesterday, and you will think that is what is happening here. Oh, you you came to my mind yesterday. You know what? Let me buy you food. That's not what is happening here. To understand this, we need to understand the scope of who is speaking. The scope, the largeness, the magnitude, the size. So that if you can at least, even if it is faintly, understand the depth and the magnitude and the size of who is speaking, you will be able to a little bit catch glimpse into the scope of this is thought.
And know what you expect and demand of your life. In Isaiah 40 and verse 12, the Bible says the prophet was asking, who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand? In other words, the earth is 70% water. And this God carried it like this, all the water, all the seas, all the nile. In the whole law of his hand. That was how he measured it. He said, this is enough, and he poured it upon the earth. I love Jesus. The Bible says, who has measured heaven with a span? You you, that span is is, you you think it's ruler.
It's his fingers. He did left. Give me, give me NLT. NLT. One, two, three, go. With his fingers, the heavens, the skies, the galaxies. This was how he measured them. And you still need to understand how small it was even when he was measuring them. Are you with me? The Bible says who has calculated all the dust of the earth in a measure?
Who has weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? That the oceans that cover the earth is like a drop of water in his palms. The galaxies, billions of light years across. He measures them with his fingers. The mountains and the hills as dust particle on his scales. Consider the magnitude of who this God is. In verse 26, the next verse, it says, lift up your eyes on eye and see who has created these things. Who brings out their host by number. Their host is the what star? Give me an LT backup.
Is the stars. The Bible says, look up into the heavens who created all the stars. It brings them out like an army. One after another, calling it by its name. Now, I need to show you cosmology a little bit. Because the Bible says, calling it by its name. Because of his great power and incomparable strength, not a single one. Is missing. Psalm one four seven verse four, the Bible says, he counts the numbers of the stars. Scientists estimate that there are over 100,000,000,000 galaxies.
Each of them containing billions of stars. And this God knows every single one personally. The Andromeda Galaxy contains about 1,500,000,000,000 stars. Trillion stars. Over 2,500,000 light years away. And one light year is 6,000,000,000,000 miles. The observable universe spans over 93,000,000,000 light years across. Yet the Bible says it measures this by his hands. That is the God who sat in eternity and planned your life. The question becomes, what kind of life do you think he was designing?
But I know it's not a small life. I know it's not a weak life. I know it's not a mediocre existence. I know. So that when he says, my plans for you are good. Don't reduce that word into something casual. Because in Genesis chapter one verse three, the Bible says, after God finished creating the heavens and the earth, the Bible says, he saw everything that he has made and indeed it was very good. Look at the complexity of the human body. The perfection of the ecosystems. The balance of gravity.
The vastness of the universe. God looked at everything and he said, it was good. That same good describes creation that includes mountain ranges that took millions of years to form. Ocean trenches steeper than Mount Everest. Ecosystems so intricate that if you remove one species, it can collapse entire food chains, and God designed them meticulously. The human eye contains 107,000,000 cells. It prophesies over 36,000 bits of information power. It can distinguish over 10,000,000 colors. Your brain contains over 86,000,000,000 neurons. Each of them connected to thousands of other neurons in your body.
It creates more neural connections than there are atoms in the observable universe. Your DNA alone contains over 3,200,000,000 pairs, base pairs. That is enough information to fill 1,000 books of 500 page each. God looked at all this complexity. The beauty, the precision. And he said, it was good. That God now says, now I've taken you as a project in my mind. And you have to understand that I'm thinking about you. What is man? That you are mindful of him.
You will not suffer my fault to him. I carry your presence every Listen. Who am I? That your mind is so full of You don't understand what you are saying. Because if you do, you will understand why the psalmist says, what is man? What is man? This man, the guy travel, he was given a glimpse into the magnitude of this creator. He saw him in his majesty. He said, how can a man be this big? And yet be this thoughtful of man.
What? What am I? What am I? What am I? That same God who designed the galaxies with meticulous precision, Who engineered the exact distance between the earth and the sun so that life can exist on earth without the sun burning the earth. Who created the water cycles that sustains all living things? That no matter how much you drink water, water will never finish. God. This God plans your life, and he says, understand that the thoughts I have. Have you forgotten where the creations sprang out from?
The Bible says in the beginning was the word. The word, word there is the word logos. The word logos means that communications of the heart of a man. The communications of the thoughts of a man. It means all the earth came to be by the communications of the heart of God. By the communications of the thoughts of God. All the earth. All the head. And the Bible says you are in that thought. And even specifically tells you that I'm thinking about you and understands that my thoughts are thoughts of peace.
So if he says, they are thoughts of peace. What is the extent of this peace? Is it the same peace you get because they said they strike? What is the extent of that peace? Is it the thoughts I have towards you are good? What is the definition of that good? Do you know that the sun is almost 1,000,000,000 times the size of the earth? And yet it stayed at safe distance with the earth. Doesn't pull the earth into itself. Those thoughts that he must have, they must be perfect thoughts.
They must be excellent thoughts. They must be majestic thoughts. They must be abundant thoughts, flawless thoughts, big thoughts, giant sized, God sized thoughts. So that when I look at myself, I begin to think of myself. And I'm trying to imagine, I'm trying to conceptualize. How how How That means your life should be nothing less than that. If it is if it is God's eternal agenda that you should walk in the goodness of the earth. That is God's it. It must be so. Not shallow goodness, not survival level goodness, but the kind of goodness that reflects his grandeur, his his majesty, his perfection.
So when people see you, they understand the craftsmanship of who made you. That your life becomes so beautiful. They they know that this kind of beautiful designs only come from one creator. There's a way you see some phones, you know this is an iPhone. And you give credit to whom credit is due. You see some heart pieces, and you know how this person painted this. You see some architectural designs, and you would see Julius Beggar letter b big on it to tell you that the dexterity and the flawlessness of this road was constructed by non order. And Julius Beggar. And when you pass on that road, every time you pass on it, the flawlessness of your travel makes you remember and appreciate the one who made it. And God says, as the same way your life should be.
That when we see your life, ah, we should look at the beauty of that life and and think of the one who made it and think of the one who created it and think of the one who supplied Listen to me. Listen to me. If you don't understand this that I'm teaching you, you will feel miserably. Because God's intention is that your life becomes a platform of greatness. The question never becomes how do you, how dare you have accept a small life? When the God who has uttered your destiny for you did not make it small. How dare you settle for mediocrity? When the one who measures the galaxies with the palms of his fingers is the one that designed your life? Whatever comes out of your life is meant to be big. Whatever your hands touch is meant to multiply.
Whatever your life touch is meant to expand. No believer who has caught this revelation will ever remain small. You you will hate smallness. Because you will realize it is not factored in God's agenda for your life. Smallness is an insult to the size of the God who authored your destiny. How can my life be small? Do you now, you will now understand where he's speaking from. When he looked at the earth and said, alright, this is enough waters for all the earth. And he poured it. He just poured it.
That God now came to you in Ephesians three and now tells you in verse 20. Now tells you. That unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above. What you can ask or think, you will now begin to understand why. That think, think the biggest. Think the largest. God says, it's still nothing compared to what I can Even your greatest imagination. Yes sir. Cannot touch the aim of what God is able to do. Your mind cannot comprehend the magnitude of the God who stretched out the heavens and yet he chose to live inside you.
His plan for your life will always exceed your imagination. The moment you think you are thinking big, God will now begin to laugh and say, you have not even begun to think. And when you read the Bible, you would see that this God did not contend against those who desired enlargement. In Isaiah 54 from verse two to verse three, he was the one who came and said enlarge the place of thy tent. Let your, let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings. He says, don't spare. Don't spare. Don't spare. Lengthen your courts. Strengthen your stakes.
Verse three, the Bible begins to say that for you shall expand to the right. You shall expand to the left. Your descendants will inherit the nations. And make the desolate cities inhabited. That's how he speaks. God's vocabulary is always expansion, enlargement, territorial dominance. Why then should you limit that God? Sit down. Sit down. Let me teach.
Let me teach. Sit down. Sit down. This is a meeting of instructions. Sit down. Hi. Why does a believer wants to shrink the counsel of God into a life that only pays for bills, pays for rent, pays for clothes, pays for food? God eternal counsel for your life is giant sized accomplishment. But many believers never rise into that reality because when you think of provision, when you think of provision, your thoughts begin and end with yourself. That's where the problem lies.
When you think of provision, your thoughts begin with yourself. It ends with yourself. Your vision for resources is tied to your own comfort, is tied around paying bills, meeting needs, securing a safe life. Your horizon is no higher than your stomach, your wardrobe, your car, your house, the small size of your mind. And God says, you cannot step into the life I ordained for you with that kind of vision. That's where the problem lies. Matthew six from verse 31 to verse 32 exposes this mindset. Therefore, not worry saying what shall we eat? What shall we drink? What shall we wear?
For after all these things will the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly father know that you need these things. When believers think like pagans, when you are focused on personal provision over eternal value, you operate in pagan dimensions. Listen to me brothers and sisters. Your personal needs are embarrassingly small compared to God's resources. Let me say this again to you. Your personal needs are embarrassingly small compared to God's resources. Your monthly salary requirement, your housing need, your transportation cost, your food budget. These are decimal point in God's economy. But that's what believers live their life all centered around.
All concerned about. And once your needs are met, Philippians chapter four and verse 19, the bible says, God shall supply all your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. Your needs don't even register as significant expenditure to God. That's why believers settle into comfort so quickly, so quickly. Once your basic needs are met like this, you just relax. You get your steady job, your predictable income, your manageable lifestyle, and you think that you have arrived. But you have actually entered into the prison of smallness. The truth is when you are only living for yourself, you don't really need faith to live for yourself Because human needs are limited. It doesn't take much to satisfy personal wants. And that's why people settle into comfort zone so easily.
They think that irregular income, a modest house, a safe routine is all there is to life. Go to work and come back and get paid at the end of the month and start a good business and let your business rise in revenue and get a million, get a... Get 2,000,000 in a month, get 700 k in a month, 500 k in month, whatever it is you had, 50 k even in a month. And as long as it provides you some level of comfort, you are deceived to think that that is all you need to life. And you begin to wonder this God who has thoughts in his mind about your life, could that be all that he was thinking about? Would that be all he was thinking about? Nobody does exploits in comfort. In Nehemiah chapter two and verse four to verse five, when the king asked Nehemiah what he wanted, Nehemiah said I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, if it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my father's tombs That I may rebuild it. Nehemiah was not asking for personal comfort.
Nehemiah was not asking for promotion at that point in time. He was asking for resources to rebuild a destroyed city. That required faith because the scope exceeded personal comfort. If it was just about his comfort, his job was secure enough to keep him comfortable. Did you hear what I said? Yes sir. His job was secure enough to keep him comfortable. If he had a wife, he can take care of his wife. If he had children, he can send them to schools. He was working as a direct aid to the king.
That's sustainable salary. Promotion every two years. They will increase your pay. Get a good car, get a good house, even drive official car. Official house. You are entitled to government loan. Sustainable living. But there was something burning in his heart beyond the scope of his comfort. Beyond the scope of his comfort. That's why I said, you don't really need faith to live for yourself.
But if you will do things big things, the way God has designed it for your life, that's when you require faith. Because no human logic can bring it into existence. A student, for instance, who is only studying, only studying to get a job is not exercising faith. If that professional career man who is only working and looking for a job to secure his future is not exercising faith. The business owner who is building only to ensure his family comfort is not exercising faith. Why? Because these goals can be achieved through mental planning, through natural planning, through human efforts, through conventional wisdom. You don't have to be a believer to have a good job. And when you play it safe, listen to me, you eliminate the need for God's intervention. Because your safe choices don't require miracles.
Your safe choices don't require supernatural provision. Your safe choices don't require divine orchestrations. But big things happen in the realm where human planning ends. And conventional wisdom ends. And God begins to work. Divine intervention begins. That's when you would plant vents only by the strength of faith. And resources will meet you along the way. Bigger than what you could have ever imagined or even saved up for. Because you are taking steps.
Because you are taking steps. Because you are moving. I'm telling you that you don't need faith to be personally comfortable. But the moment you step into the realm where God is working, where God is moving, and you begin to move in that dimension, faith is what will power the rest of your journeys. That's where you begin to see interventions beyond the normal. Beyond the ordinary. I know this experientially. Every large meetings we have organized, it was a fit move. It was a fit move. We've held meetings that millions upon millions went into it.
And it was a faith move. I've held meetings that millions went into it. Three days before the meeting, there was no money. And we're planning, moving with faith, moving with faith. Has God not said it? If it does not work, then we will hold the meeting with whatever we have at that point in time. But I won't back down now. I won't back down now, and all of a sudden, ravens from the West, ravens from the East, all of a sudden. A woman by the gate, all of a sudden. All of a sudden.
Supernatural interventions showing you the magnitude of the size of this God. That the workings of God are beyond the scope of your thought. That if you use logic to process it, you will not know that it is possible for a man in China to know about your business. From what realm is that possible? From what realm is that person? Because the scope of your thinking is simply, I don't want to... This thing, just let me... What I will eat, what I will drink, what I will... This business is already serving me. It's already doing me what I want.
I'm getting a good job. I'm getting a list. And then God is telling you, this is not all there is to this thing. There is still more, there is still more, there is still more. This thing can bring you more. But there is scope to it. There is scope to it. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down.
Sit down. Sit down. Proverbs 16 verse nine. The Bible says, a man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. It means your planning can only take you to the natural hedge or to the hedge of natural possibility. Beyond that, you move by faith alone. And to do big things for God, you must stretch your faith beyond your own survival. Stay with me. That's the first thing required to do big things for God. It is faith beyond your own survival.
The second one too looks the same way. But stay with me. Faith beyond your own survival. It must sink into your mind. Faith beyond your own survival. You know, you must believe God for what looks impossible. You must believe God for what is impossible. Listen, you must refuse to plan your life by what is available in time. Don't plan your life by money. Don't injure destiny on natural principles.
Predictable circumstances. Abacook chapter one verse four, the Bible says, but the just shall live by faith. That is how we move. That's how we build. That's how we conquer by faith. Ultra faith subdued kingdoms, rough righteousness, spoiled. Give me that scripture. Stops the mouth of lions. Ultra faith. Men moved by faith.
The Bible says they moved by faith. It was who through faith? Listen to me. As long as you want to play it safe, you will live small. You don't want any drastic change in your life, no drastic obedience in your life, no drastic step of faith, no drastic move of faith, you will live small. You will live small. Start by faith. Move by faith. Submit the CVs by faith. Apply, put yourself in the competitive process by faith.
Step out. Yesterday, I was just praying, and then I prayed sometime, and I stopped. And I was thinking about some of you or some some people. I was thinking about them. Then I brought up my phone, and I was searching. And I asked AI. Search through the Internet for me and check what scholarship opportunity are available to go to any country in the world, available right now with these qualifications, with these with these requirements, with this, and I was putting some things that I know some people have. That was when I clicked it, and he searched. I said, oh. Oh, this one is there.
I've never heard of this one before. Never heard of that one before. Okay. And I pressed the first one. I was reading in the whole thing. I just pressed on fit for this. Okay. Okay. And I applied so that I would know how to tell the person to apply because you can never trust people. If you tell them, just send somebody a link and say, go and apply.
They will do something stupid and come and say, god, not do it. I know I know some of my people. So I registered myself. I was checking all the questions that you asked. I was checking everything, noting everything, writing it down. Noted the first one. Noted the second one. Noted the third one. Said, Alright. We'll push this once and says, and do this.
Go and do that. Go and do this. As I was telling, told me, he says, are these people thinking that way for themselves? Because if they were, the forty days will not be forty years. Forty years. But you know why you're afraid? Because the first thing that comes to your mind is there's no money. Money is the first thing when you are thinking about destiny purpose. You have caged your life already. The moment you are always putting money in front of you, money, money, money, no money, money.
Give no money. There is no money. The just shall live not by money, it's by faith. It says I took you through all this process that I will bring you to a point where you know that man shall not live by bread alone. Man shall not live by salary alone. Man shall not live by profit alone. By by every word. That I can live my life based on the fact that I have heard God said. I can build discipline in my spirit to hold on to the word of God until a point comes where I step out in the assurance of that word. How many people are not doing anything about their life yet?
Not doing anything. You have no job, you are securing nothing, you are increasing, you are doing nothing. Because there is this inherent inherent limitations in your heart that deters you from making progress. And God is saying, listen, it's not me any longer. It's not me any longer. Your life can change today if you will step out in faith. Because you move, we move in this kingdom by faith. The Bible says. The Bible says, this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. So the Bible says we are more than gongerous.
The bible even call us overcomers, but we only overcome the world by faith. Because the bible says, this is the victory that overcomes even our faith. So the victory that overcomes is your faith. The eviction that it means a believer will be subjected to the world as long as faith is missing from the scope of his life. A believer, a ministry, a minister, a businessman, a student even. As long as faith is missing. You are waiting till the service is full. Stretch yourself and move. Stretch yourself and move. Clack the walls of limitations in your mind.
Clack it. Clack it. You see a confidence in Abuja in December. Go start saving up for flight. Enter a wrong plane. Do something to your mind. As you are entering, say this is how my life should be. Bigger than this, greater than this. Stop putting money in front of all your divisions. You are coming from UI to this place.
Take both and enter. You don't have to. Friend is now falling joint. Jude, it's because you are too caged by money. Money has become your God. You can see nothing but money. Let me not stay too long here. Listen to me. I wish I could teach this thing. Hey.
No time. No time. No time. Hey. Nobody does big things by playing it safe. You don't do big things by how much is in your account. You don't take territories by comfort. You don't move more things by savings. We move by faith. Manifest conference will be the biggest we have ever held this year.
Biggest. Thousands of people will be gathered hearing the word about thousands of people. What are we doing? We are moving by faith. Do you know the cost implication of thousands of people coming? They are moving by faith. They are moving by faith. Sir. And you're writing plans by faith. Billboards.
By faith. And as we step, we begin to see God increasing. God pouring by faith. The manifest conference is coming, several events lined up till the end of the year. And yet when money comes into my account, I'm still giving more than 80% of my income. More than. By faith. And somebody says, that's so stupid. You have manifest conference coming. You have this one coming.
You have that one coming. Why don't you gather in? That's why you are poor. You better listen to what I'm telling you. Because for all that, know this thing, it works. Number two, and then we close. Number two, move by faith. Step up with the heart of a lion, the courage of boldness. Apply for the jobs. That business can make you more money.
Sir. Sir. Market yourself more violently, unashamedly. Put yourself in those places. Make refactors step out. I'm planning to start. You have been planning for many years. Start now. You say, but sir, I don't have everything in place. Still start.
Still start. Still start. Whatever it is you do, you are a writer, jump into the waters. Jump into the pool. Apply for the jobs onto the opportunity you deserve find you. Don't give up now. Move by faith. Because there are many times you may not see the window. You might not feel the rain. Lord.
Able that. To of that. A sudden, I was walking on water. But you will never, never, even know you can walk on water. If you stay on the boat, some of you have to jump out. The boat represents comfort. It represents safety. That safety chain, that safety net. That place of safety and comfort. Some of you need to jump out.
You need to plumb that. Plumb that. If this machine now, if I get this machine now, if I get this machine, what it says don't move? Get it. Get it. Expand. What do you say don't move? What if this? What is that? Get it.
I took cowardly. I took cowardly. The skills you have can fetch you money already in 7 figures. But say, don't know enough. I don't... You you are just in the boat. You are in the place of safety. Afraid to move. Afraid to step. Afraid to move.
Don't allow what will people say destroy your life oh. Because if you don't step up because of what people say, When you fail, people will hit talk and they will blame you. You better move. Number two. Sit down. Sit down. Hear me? Hear me. Number two, doing big things. Number two, doing big things.
What's number one? Number two is the mystery of the single high. Stay with me. Matthew chapter six. You see, many times we read the teaching of Jesus in Matthew six from verse 19 and we read it in fragments. But it is actually one complete discourse on the posture of the heart, money, and kingdom living. And from verse 19 to verse 21, in the new living translation, the Bible says, don't treasures here on earth. Don't store up treasures here on earth. Where moths eat them, where rust destroys them, where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven.
Where moths and rust cannot destroy. And thieves do not break in and steal. For wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. Now, here, Jesus is speaking about treasure and money. Is that not so? Treasure is money, is resources, financial resources. That's what treasure is. And Jesus is saying, where is your treasure? Where are you storing your treasure? Where is your heart?
And he says, where your treasure is, that is where your heart will be. It means, it's not so difficult to have a heart for God. And it is not so difficult to know a man who has a heart for God. The question is, where is your treasure? Where is your money? The context of this conversation is money. It starts from verse 19. And he's talking about treasure, money. Because we have to do the context to get to verse 33. Is that okay?
Because you know, we just jump to verse 33 that says, seek you first the kingdom of God and we don't know the context of it. This conversion began from verse 19. And he was speaking about storing up your treasure in heaven. He was talking about giving. Are you with me? So, it says, wherever your treasure is, that's where your heart will be. So when God said, I have found David. A man after my own heart. There were many factors in place. But one of them was this.
I know where his heart is. Because of where his treasure is. First Chronicles 29 from verse one to verse nine, then we read verse 14, we read verse 16 to verse 18, all in penalty. The Bible says, then king David turned to the entire assembly and said, my son Solomon, whom God has clearly chosen as the next king of Israel, is still young and inexperienced. The work ahead of him is enormous. For the temple he will build is not for mere mortals. It is for the Lord God himself. Can you see this in scripture? Verse two, the Bible says, using every resource at my command, I have gathered as much as I could for building the temple of my God. Now there is enough gold, enough silver, enough bronze, enough iron, enough wood, as well as great quantities of onyx, other precious stones, costly jewels, and all kinds of fine stones and marble.
Verse three, and now because of my devotion to the temple of my God, I am giving all of my own private treasures of gold. And silver to help in the construction. This is in addition to the building materials I have already collected for his holy temple. I am donating more than 112 tons of gold from offer. 262 tons of refined silver to be used for overlaying the walls of the building. And for the other gold and silver, work to be done by the craftsman. Now then, who will follow my example and give offerings to the Lord today? Stay with me. Stay with me. I found David my servant, a man after my own heart.
God was the one who spoke. Jesus then comes to come and speak. And he says, for where your treasure is, dear your heart is also. Wasn't this the man that said, the zeal for your house has eaten me up. It did not help yours in where his treasure is going. You would think it's the other way around. You would think it's where your heart is. Your treasure will go. The Lord says, you are the one that will position and direction the posture of your heart by where your treasure goes to. Stay with me.
Verse six, the Bible says, then the family leaders, the leaders of the tribe of Israel, the generals and the captains of the army, the king's administrative officers, all gave out. Next verse. For the construction of the temple of God, they gave about 188 tons of gold. 10,000 gold coins, three seven five tons of silver, six seven five tons of blooms, and three seventy tons of iron. They also contributed numerous precious stones which were deposited in the treasury of the house of the Lord. Under the care of Jael, a defender of Geshem. Next verse, the people one, two, three, go everybody. They need what? How do people get, when you leave this place, go and calculate. Just put it on AI or whatever.
And see the value of what was given. Your heart will tremble. In dollars. And see the value of what was given. The Bible says after they gave like mad men, what happened was that they now gathered. They were now rejoicing. And you will think they were rejoicing because a miracle had happened. The Bible says they were rejoicing for they had freely and wholeheartedly given to the Lord. And King David was filled with joy. Watch what he says, verse 14, when he was praying, verse 14, he then says, but who am I?
And who are my people? That we could give anything to you. Everything we have has come from you. And we give you only what you first gave us. Please stay with me. Stay with me. Verse 16. The Bible says, oh Lord our God, even this material we have gathered to build a temple to honor your holy name comes from you. It all belongs to you. Next verse.
I know my God that you examine our hearts and rejoice when you find integrity there. You know, I have done all of this with good motives. That I watched your people offer their gifts willingly and joyously. Next verse, last verse we are reading. Oh Lord, the God of our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Israel, make your people always want to obey you. Seek to it that their love for you never changes. This was the heart cry of a king. This was the heart cry of a king. This was the heart, oh my God. And Bible says, I have found a man after my own heart.
I found a man after my own heart. And in Matthew 13 that we are coming from, Jesus was speaking about this issue of the heart. Listen to me. Hear me very well. If all your treasure is sunk into the earth. In fashion, in gadgets, in cars, in houses, in personal comfort. Then your heart is equally sunk into smallness. Jesus says this very carefully. Invest in heaven. Store your treasure in heaven.
How? Through giving. Through channeling your resources into the advancement of the kingdom. Every time you prioritize the use of money for kingdom purpose, you are laying up for yourself treasures in heaven. Then in the next verse, alright, we're reading in context. Verse 22, Jesus now continues this discourse. But a lot of people think that this is a deviation because it does not look like we are talking about money, but it is still the same thing. Because it says your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. Next verse.
But when your eye is unhealthy, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is? The eye here is not just about your vision. It is about The word single there in KJV. Go back to verse 22. The word single in KJV is the word healthy that we read in NLT says, if your high is single, that's where my second point is from. If your high is what? Single. He says your whole body is full of light. The word single there.
You will think it just means to focus on one thing, right? And you would not be wrong. Except for the fact that when you open up the Greek word. Of the word single, you will find that it's a very rich Greek word that Jesus used, very rich. It is the word hapless. Hapless. And it means to be undivided and to be generous. To be undivided and to be generous. It means if your high be single means if your high is undivided. And if your highs is generous.
Stay with me. If your eye is undivided, your eye is that of a man with focus and generosity. This means a single eye is an eye with one focus. What is the focus of that eye? The kingdom. A single high is an eye that is generous for the kingdom. Is an eye that sees money not as something to be hoarded but as something to release consistently for kingdom purposes. But the Bible speaks of an evil eyes, the word there is the word Poneros. It is a divided eyes, a covetous eyes, a selfish eyes, a selfish perspective that only seeks personal gain and not kingdom. So when the Bible says if your eyes be single, it means if your eyes set on the kingdom, if your eye is generous, if your eye is undivided, your whole body is full of light.
Your life radiates clarity. Your life radiates purpose. Your life radiates power. Your whole body is full of light. Because your eye is single. And what does the Bible say about light? The entrance of the world gives light. What does that light do? Arise, shine, for your light has come. And the glory of God has come upon you.
Gentiles comes to your light. Kings to the brightness of your rising. It means when your whole body is full of light, you arise and kings begin to come to you. It means how you become relevant in this kingdom is your whole body being full of light. How your whole body becomes full of light is if your eyes be single, focused on the kingdom, generous to the kingdom. Are you with me brothers and sisters? But if your eye is divided, divided between self and God. Between greed and giving. Between self and the kingdom. Your whole body is full of darkness.
And it means you cannot do big things with a darkened life. And the Bible says, it is so possible to be deluded into thinking that you are working in light. Just because part of you is kingdom. And the other part is greed. The other part is self. The Bible says, if that is the case, then how great is that darkness? The man who thinks he's in the kingdom. This was the case with Ananias and Zafira. Part kingdom, part grade. The Bible says, how great is that darkness?
Part kingdom, part grade. Part kingdom, part grade. When you understand this context, you will now see that the next verse after this is verse 24. No man can serve two masters. So it is still talking about money. It is either you serve God or you serve mammon. You cannot serve God and mammon. You cannot serve God and mammon. Either your life is kingdom centered or self centered. Either God is your master or money is your master.
That's the context here. You see that now? That's the context here. Verse 25 now begins. Therefore, I say unto you, take no thought for your life. What you will eat, what you will drink, what your body would put on. Is life not more than meat and the body more than remnant? And he begins to talk about all those things. Verse 26, verse 27, the birds of the air. God is the one taking care of them.
Verse 28. Goes on talking about these things. Why do you consider what you would wear? The lilies of the field, how do they grow? They don't toil, they don't spin, but yet they are still clothed in beauty. Verse 28, verse 29, same thing. 30. Watch this. 30. If God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, tomorrow is cast into the oven.
Shall he not much also clothe you, oh you of little faith. Why are you so concerned about what you will be clothed by? So what is the context? Do not cast your treasures on the earth. So it's now telling you in all these verses, what would prevent people from casting their treasures to heaven from supplying heaven with kingdom agenda. Are you with me? It means what would stop me from giving? Take no thought for what you wear. Take no thought for what you hate. Take no thought because for your heavenly father, are you with me?
Yes, sir. Knows that you need... Let's go on. Next verse, 32. For all these things, do the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly father knows that you have need of all these things. Are you seeing the context of these things? Verse 33 now everybody. Us. So what is the context of your seeking first?
It is in your finances. Because we isolate it. In fact, we isolate further it was there. But it is one and the same. One and the same. If a teaching Jesus was given. And he says seek first the kingdom. Let your heart beat for the kingdom. And how do you know? Because your giving will show it.
Your giving will show it. The whole context is finances. It's about where your treasure goes to. How your heart sees, who your master is. Now hear me. Hear me. If the pursuit is self and not kingdom, you cannot do big things. If your heart is not single, to only seek kingdom, you cannot do big things. There's no one who does exploit in life, who is consumed by themselves. Joseph stood before Pharaoh.
Listen to me. There's no body in scripture at all. Let's talk. Let's talk. Why must you have big money at a young age? What do you want to use it for? Think about it. Is it truly for yourself? What exactly will you spend it on? How much money exactly do you need to be comforted right now?
Rent, food, clothes. You realize that most of you listening to me here don't even need 500,000 monthly. To be comfortable. Don't even need 1,000,000 monthly. Don't even need 10,000,000 monthly. Don't even need a 100,000,000 monthly. To be comforted. So why will God give you? If you don't need it. Because the kingdom needs it.
It means God will create a need for it in the kingdom. And you become the channel through which God supplies it. All these things are added as a consequence of that. It means the comfort you really want will be there. They are part of all these things. They are never the reason we pursue money. Never the reason. You you must understand therefore. That God's desire is to entrust you with wealth. But if your mindset is locked on self, the only measure of provision you will ever work in is what is sufficient for you.
That is mediocrity. That is smallness. Listen to me. When you think money from today's fault, shift your thought. Shift your thought. Don't think what you buy, think what you give. Think giving, think kingdom. With respect to money, only ever see the kingdom. Think harvest of souls. Think expansion of righteousness upon the earth.
Don't let your first thought about the office be the next item you will buy. Let it be the next kingdom project you will sponsor. Be a genuine giver at heart. That is the posture of a single eyed man. That is the perspective of those who do big things. That all I'm seeing, all I'm seeing is the kingdom. And all these things are added. It means if I'm desiring promotion, I'm thinking if I make more money, I will give more. If I make more profit, I will give more. We are organizing a conference running into millions, multiple millions.
Who are you gonna give to it? You. You are thinking in your mind, if I make more money, if I put that thought pattern, will then create faith for expansion, faith for increase, faith that makes you expand. This is how it works. I'm telling you, if your heart beats for the kingdom, you realize that the labor for kingdom expansion in your own heart that expands your own financial flow to give more will enter your heart. This is the reason why some of us are blessed. Some of us are blessed for this reason. When your heart only sees the kingdom, when you are single height. When you are single height. One of my guys on Sunday came to me and brought his first seven digits.
Start giving several six figures, several. God is four seven figures and says, apostle, you have spoken and God has done it. I've started seeing advancement in my life and my business, and I'm giving my four seven figures. Plenty more. And I'm thinking, and I asked, I said, please what level are you? And it tells me 200 level. 200 level. I was so surprised. The word works, this thing, it works. It works for all that give their heart to it.
It works. It works. It works. And I've seen consistent increase, consistent expansion, consistent multiplicity. Consistently. Because some of us gave our heart to the kingdom. We think God first before we think ourselves. So God makes it his business to think me first. And I prefer that. I prefer him thinking about my life than me worrying about it.
He's the one who said bring my cares. He said cast your cares upon me. He now said, my yoke is easy, my body is light. In other words, carry my yoke. Carry my burden. Bring your cares. If you attempt to carry your cares by yourself, as small as it is, it will become so stressful for you to carry. You will labor in pain. You will borrow money from everybody you can borrow from. Because the little one you have, you cannot give.
There's no man that does not have what to give. Is because we have been hidden by servitude to money. Jesus once left, let's make it an exchange. Carry your car, take my body, take my yoke. You bring your cares. You bring your cares. And this is what we have done for this ministry. That's the reason why we will never go down. We will never suffer. There is no amount of money we would need to do anything that would never come.
That would never come. Moses, we make this boast in righteousness. And it is true. The same can be true for your life. Listen, no man can have consistency of results by luck. Luck is never consistent. If it is consistent, there is wisdom power in it. There is wisdom that has been registered in the depth of my heart powering it. Is that wisdom that you should seek to know? Is that wisdom I'm telling you?
That we move by faith. And in moving by faith, prioritize kingdom. Let's do Haggai and then we close. Haggai chapter one from verse five to verse six. And then we close. Can we do anything? What does it say? What has happened to them? Next pause why verse nine Declare that Lord help me. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel.
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