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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. In the name of Jesus. I mentioned on Sunday that in Deuteronomy chapter 20 and verse 16, the bible says, but of the cities of this people, which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance. And I showed you in scriptures that there are cities that are our inheritance as believers. There are cities. There are sectors that God has willed to us. In Psalms chapter two and verse eight, the Bible says, ask and I will give you the hidden as an inheritance, the hands of the earth as your possession. In Psalms 18, it says, you have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations.

A people I have not known shall serve me. And as soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. The foreigners will submit themselves to me. The foreigners will fade away and come frightened from their hideouts. It is God's desire that every believer walk in the reality of dominion. It is God's desire that every believer walk in the reality of victory. It is God's desire that whilst you are advancing the kingdom of God on earth, your experience is that of dominion. Your experience is that of victory. Dominion is your heritage in Christ as a believer. And it is important that you sustain that orientation regardless of what you are going through, regardless of what may be working or what may not be working.

You must understand that it is God's desire for me as a believer to walk and to experience dominion. You must understand that it's God's desire for me as a believer to walk in the reality of victory, to walk in the reality of greatness. Regardless of what you might be going through, this must never change. Your orientation must always be. God's desire is for me to be great, and greatness is my heritage. In other words, it is not only God's desire, it is also my heritage as a believer. It is also my inheritance as a believer. Do you understand what I'm saying? You may not yet have financial resources. You may not yet have everything figured out.

You may not yet know how to produce excellence. Your life may not yet produce glory, but it does not matter. The bible says it does not yet appear what we shall be like. Regardless of your experience as a believer, you must have this foundational truth in you that God wants me to be great, and the end of my life is glory. In Genesis chapter one, the Bible says God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void. Darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of the Lord hovered over the waters, and God said, let there be light. God does not say, darkness, I see you. God said, let there be light. There is a way believers function. We do not ignore the darkness, but we do not glorify the darkness.

In other words, this was the earth that God created, that God has created. The earth that God has created is not yet in its fullness yet because the Bible says it was currently void. It was currently shapeless. It was currently empty, occupied by darkness. But it doesn't change the fact that the spirit of God was hovering over it. The spirit of God never abandoned the earth because darkness was on it. The spirit of God never abandoned the earth because it was formless or because it was void. The spirit of God was still hovering over it. And as long as the spirit of God was there, God could speak. Let there be light.

In other words, that my life might be might be a picture of formlessness. There might not be shape right now in my life, but I'm still convinced that I'm made for glory. Light can still come out of that life. As long as the spirit of God is still hovering, there is still hope. That is why he says that my... I will send another comforter. He will be in you and with you forever. It means even when your life has not yet taken shape, it's still there. And as long as he's there, then God can say, as long as he's there, the believer has a hope. The believer has a hope.

I call the holy spirit a living hope. The believer has a hope. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes. Yes. And you must know even if the prophecies and the promises are not yet captured in my life, you must still believe that God's desire for me is greatness. And it's not only a desire, it is an inheritance. It is an it is a heritage. God's desire for me is dominion. God's desire for me is victory.

My life is a victorious life. I will not die a devoted believer. No. I will not die a failure. No. This is not the end of mine. My story is still being written. A believer must be conscious of this regardless of what you're going through. And even if you have gotten to a place where you have seen some level of results in your life, understand this is not the best. The life of the believer is ever increasing glory, ever increasing faith, ever increasing strength.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them that appears before God in Zion, the path of the righteous is as a shining light. It shines ever brighter onto the perfect day from glory to glory, from faith to faith. That is the life of the believer. So it doesn't matter how much you're currently making right now. Perhaps you're making it. Perhaps you're seeing eight figures, 9 figures in your account. Perhaps you're seeing seven figures in your account. This is still not the best that God can do through your life. You must have this consciousness as a believer at the end of my life.

And by the end of my life, I'm not saying when I die. I've taught you again and again that the end of your life does not mean when you die. The end of your life means this is what God has designed you for. For this end was I born, for this course. So a believer must be able to say banging on his chest that my life is a life of glory. My life is what now? A life of glory. Regardless of what is... Listen, we do not judge our lives by the results we see. The Bible says the things that we see are temporal.

In other words, if I see failure, it it it is temporal. If I see emptiness, as long as I see it, it is temporal. That is what the Bible says. The things that are seen are temporal. The things that are not seen are eternal. And every promise that God has made, I will insist on them until they find expression. Are you with me? Yes. The end of your life, believers, is victory. The end of your life, believers, is glory.

The end of your life, believers, is prosperity, greatness. Remember Genesis chapter 12. I will make you great. I will make your name great. I will make you great. Thou shall increase my greatness and comfort me on every side. Thou shall increase. It means a man can increase in greatness. The man waxed strong. He became very great.

He became very... The man waxed great. He became very great until he was exceedingly great that the Philistines envied him. This is your heritage as a believer. Have you seen that everybody who walked with God had an heritage of greatness? The believe... As believers, understand that the supernatural is our heritage. For not just that, greatness is also our heritage. What do I mean by that? Look at the inheritance of faith.

Every... From Abraham, every father of faith, every patriarch was great. From Abraham. From Abraham. Even the prophets of God were great. So great that they threatened kings, so great that they were threatened by nations. One of the kings of these nations was bothered how that every time that he waged war against Israel, all his plans was also... Was always defeated almost as though there was a mole in his camp. And he wanted to find out who the mole was. And they told him, we don't have a mole.

Everyone of us here is committed to you. We are diligent, loyal. However, there is a prophet in Israel. That prophet in Israel right in his secret place, he will start seeing all our plans and all our discussions almost as though he was there with us. And they will go and tell the king of Israel that this is what they are planning. It's not also they are the one. And the king sent all his army to go and meet the prophet. That was how influential prophets were. They were not just some small people in one local place. They were recognized by kings.

Ahab was threatened by Elijah. He felt as though Elijah was... Would become his undoing. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. This is the inheritance of the righteous. And even... My point... Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.

You must believe this and have this consciousness regardless of where you are right now. Thank you, Jesus. Regardless of where you are right now. Because he's able to take the servants and make them princes. Put them amongst the princes. That's what the bible says. So even the servant must not see himself as the servant because the hand of God can change your story in one night. Learn how to have this mentality of victory, this mentality of a victor. And in everything my hand touches, I am blessed. I am prosperous.

Don't don't allow what is around you affect your emotional state. You are greater than that. Are you with me? Yes. The promises of God have been fulfilled in my life. And as I am growing, I'm becoming more and more the picture of that which is written. Yes. It is not enough to know that dominion, it is not enough to know that greatness, victory, and an indomitable life is your heritage in Christ. It is important to also know why God insists that we become victorious. It is important to know why God insist that we become great.

What is the reason why God insist that the believer becomes great? Why is it that God insist that the word of God works in your life? Why is it that God insist that we go from glory to glory? Why is that God insist that we work in dominion? Look at the vast resources that is made available for the believer in Christ just so that this can be our experience as believers. Why does God get... You know, why does God... The the bible says even to make this so, he was willing to let go of his glory and become a man. Just so this can be our experience. So why all this investment?

Why all of this? Do you get my burden now? Why does God insist? This is not really where I'm going, but I just wanna show you that there's a reason why God insist that we win in life as believers. There's a reason. In John chapter 17 verse one, Jesus speak it. Jesus was speaking there and he said, lift father, the hour has come. Glorify your son that your son may glorify you. So the way the father is glorified is when the sons are glorified. That is the first reason why God desires that greatness comes out of our lives.

When the saints are glorified, when the word of God works for you, when doors open for you, when you rise in your finances, when you access the anointing, when your children make progress, God is glorified. When your business increases, when you appear on world stages, when you stand before kings and stand before princes as a king and as a prince yourself, God is glorified. When you start from the backside of the desert and by the hand of God arrive at the palace and you stand judging other nations, judging princes. When people start coming to you for counsel, and these people are not ordinary men. When kings start coming to you for counsel, the bible says, seest thou a man diligent in his work. He will stand before kings. When you stand before kings, God is glorified. God is glorified. That a believer who is backsliding just becomes someone who is spiritually fathomed. The holy ghost working inside of him.

His prayer altar is furnished. He begins to study the word, and he rises in power and in the anointing. And people see the way his his life was before, and they try to juxtapose that with the way his life is now, And all they can see is to God be the glory. God is glorified. When a prostitute becomes saved and becomes a prophetess, God is glorified. When... You see, when your life becomes a life of testimony and results, God is glorified. Do you understand what I'm saying? So the way that God is glorified is when the sons are glorified, when the saints are glorified, when the word of God works for you, when a barren woman of five years, of ten years, of fifteen years gives birth to a nation, God is glorified. When the family that have been oppressed under the hand of the wicked for many years suddenly experiences breakthrough, suddenly experiences victory.

God is glorified. In John chapter 15 and verse eight, Jesus also speaking says by this, my father is glorified. How? When you bear much fruit. You see, when you bear much fruit, the father is glorified when you produce results. The father is glorified when you bear fruits, when your life brings increase. That this ministry started as one person, then became three persons, then five persons, and then through the word of God being taught and the manifestation of the spirit influence brings a 100 people, then 500 people, then 1,000 people, then 10,000 people. God is glorified. When the glory of God shines on you, God is glorified. Shines on me.

Shines on me. Your grace shines on me. Next song. Shines on me. Shines on me. In verse 16 of that chapter 15, the bible says, you did not choose me. Jesus is still speaking, but I chose you, and I appointed you that you should go and bear fruit. Can you... This is Jesus. This is the burden of Jesus.

This is the burden of the father. Remember, Jesus is the express image of God. So if he's speaking, it means God is speaking. And we should pay attention to what Jesus is saying. He said, I chose you. I chose you. I appointed you. And the reason for which I appointed you is to bear much fruit and that your fruit should remain. That your fruit should remain. Do you know that it is because of this that he now says whatever you ask the father in my name, he will give you.

In other words, anything that will empower you to bear fruit, ask the father in my name. In Galatians one twenty four, the bible says, and they glorify God in me. When a student becomes excellent and you've get up with a first class, despite your commitment to God, a first class, 4.0 c... CGPA is beyond just a distinctive student. It is God being glorified. The Bible says, and the glorified God in me. I wrote my exams and despite all odds, despite all odds, despite all odds, I finished with such an excellent result that nobody can say is a failure because he's a Christian. What does that bring to Jesus? What does that bring to Jesus? And when people look at your life and your life is a track record of failure, failure all around, that nothing is working.

Absolutely nothing is working. Marriage is a failure. Life is a failure. Everything is a failure. You tried... This is the fifth business the guy is doing. He could not even finish his university education, and he loves Jesus and is a Christian. How does that life compel people to serve God? How does that life compel people to give glory to God? You should get my message the beautiful life.

That life is not a reflection of beauty. Are you with me? Yes, sir. That when they look at the excellency of your Christian life, God is glorified. When they see your dominion, your result, your fruitfulness, that is how God is glorified on earth. So every time you say Jesus, I love you, it shouldn't stop in a song. Your advancement is how you prove that you really love him. It means if I love Jesus, then my ex... My results will show I love him. If I love Jesus, my academics will show I love him.

If I love Jesus, my business will show I love him. If I love Jesus, my ministry will show I love him. Don't you understand that? You know that? It is the principle of reflection. Every object of glory gets glory by reflecting its glory upon another. Like the sun to the moon, the glory of the sun is seen on the moon. The glory of the husband is seen on the wife. Even the glory of the wife is seen on the husband. Because the moment a man gets married and his belly starts to protrude, the first thing they say is your wife is taken care of.

In other words, your result physically is a proof that your wife is good. How we show the world that God is good is by our life. God is good is not a statement we make. Do you understand what I'm saying? God is good is not just a statement we make. If I come to a life that I picked on the road in evangelism and I ask that life, what what are you doing begging on the street? And life tells me my mother is in the hospital, and I can't even afford to go to school. My father left my mother when the sickness began, and we have to struggle. I am the I am the I am the eldest. I I have a younger sister.

How old are you? I'm 13 years old, and you are here begging. I don't only beg, actually. I also work in a place. I work in a boat. To also hard make ends meet, I come out a few times. Can I verify your story? Take me to where your mother is. And I see the mother truly in one dilapidated hospital without roofs. And I say, ah, mommy, listen to me.

God is good. And I take that mother to one good hospital, harvest that child, plant her in a university, give her a good education, wear your sisters, Get them a good home. And when the work of God is done in the mother's life, I get the mother a good job, either as a civil servant or somewhere. What is your qualification? What is your degree? And then as that begins to happen, the rest... Irresponsible man that went out start begging his way back. We... Because of the love of God, we met that marriage. The father comes back.

We get him a job, teach him responsibility, and we tell them God is good. That is a message that is easy to believe. So when I... That is the difference between when I go with... On evangelism with means and when I go without means. There is... There... Listen. Listen. Listen.

Can you put your hands on your chest? Say my life will give you glory. Please mean what you're saying. Mean it. Do you ask... Do you understand that there is not just a song we sing? Yes, sir. No. It is not. For every time you are irresponsible and it is costing you of success, it is costing you of greatness, understand that your life is not bringing God glory.

You owe God a responsibility. He says I have appointed you that you bear fruit. It's a responsibility. It's not just a thing of personal personal success for the sake of it. No. It's a responsibility, a divine responsibility. I owe it to God that this ministry becomes great. And as we preach the gospel, our lives are being changed. We do all in partnership with the holy spirit to ensure that this message gets to the world as God gives us grace. Because the bible says there is no tongue nor language where their voice is not heard.

Note, it does not say there is no tongue, no language where their language is not heard. It is where their voice. In other words, it doesn't matter what language I speak. What people are hearing is not my language, it's my voice. Whatever come out of my voice is what they hear. Oh, Jesus. There is no tongue nor language. That's why it does not say there is no tongue nor voice. They can speak anything they wanna speak, but what matters is that my voice will be heard dear. That people will gather in a remote village in Haitia, and they would gather themselves 1,000 people.

And if apostle Emmanuel is not speaking French, he's not speaking Chinese, but that as he's speaking, something compels them to stay. They will get an interpreter to interpret everything he's saying. They might use artificial intelligence to even bring interpretation, but what matters is that his voice must be heard. There's no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. So can I build myself in the anointing? And when I speak a word over a people, I... It happens in their life as I say it. If I see that it's not yet happening as I want it to happen, I hold to God to contend even more. Because do you understand what I'm saying? This is the understanding that sponsors why you invest in yourself as a student, why you go to class every morning despite you are tired or even weak, why you read your books every night.

It's not just so you can get a good certificate. It's that God might be glorified. There is a level of glory that my life must been to God. A level of glory. I can't be serious like this and fail. When people attribute shame, they must not point at Christians. When people attribute failure, they must not point at Christians. When people attribute poverty, they must not point at Christians. They mustn't point that Christians. You agree with me now that that is more than just the lifting of my hands in worship.

You agree with me now that that is a testament of my life and what my life becomes. Do you understand what you're singing now? That every time we lay our hands and we begin to declare these things to God, there is a meaning behind what we are saying. And heaven begins to look at our lives and say, how much do you mean what you're saying? By by the diligence that you've given to the resources that God has made available, that your life becomes the picture of the future God has written. Matthew chapter five verse 16. The Bible says, let your light so shine before men. Let your light so shine before men. You see, that they may see. You see, let your light so shine, not before angels, not before spirits, not even before God.

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven. All of these statements were made by Jesus. Every time I pray for the sick and the sick is healed, God is glorified. Every time I speak more or do my life and that life changes, God is glorified. If I pray for the sick today and there is no healing that happens, I don't become ashamed and understand that there is a level of light I don't yet have. So so that the next time I appear before a sick person to pray, that will not be the testimony I share. Because God must be glorified. Every time you stand here, either as a minister or on on any stage, on any platform, and you begin to speak. And and people's... Even if you are a motivational speaker or a public speaker or a leadership expert, a poet, an entertainer, a politician, a business person, Whatever you whatever you might be, a lecturer, as you begin to rise to the peak, imagine that you go into a research work and you break out to invent something that has never been seen before.

One of my daughters came to me and told me that her lecturer gave her a project to do, and the procedure that she was given and some of the things she has to do have never been done before. And when she conducted with master student, lecturer gave her a choice to either do that or do something else that is easy. All the master students she conducted, we told her, ah, don't do this one. Don't do that one. Don't do that one. And she came back to me and she told me, fam, that's what I want to do. I said, yes. That's why you become great. You don't do what others are doing and become great. How you write your name on the sands of time is to be the first person to do something.

If it has never been done, be the first to do it. You have the spirit of wisdom of the holy one, and you know all things. Yes. As you step in that project, things begin to fall. Lion begins to fall. When she does it, and that thing becomes a breakthrough. Do you know how much glory comes to God? Do you know how much glory comes to God? That is how glory comes to God. Do you believe what I'm teaching you?

If you do not have a correct orientation for your desiring greatness, if you do not have a correct orientation for your desiring prosperity, for desiring increase, money, you will end up in carnality. And that which is meant to bless you will end up becoming a curse. Purpose is what gives value to pursuit. That everything that you seek, you must know why. Why am I pursuing this? Why am I running after this? Why do I desire that this be manifested in my life? In your rising, in your prosperity, in your increase, ever increasing faith. That is how God's glory is manifested. Another reason why God wants us to be great, another reason why God wants us to walk in victory, why God wants us to walk in dominion is because your victory, your results, your greatness draws many to Jesus.

That's the second reason. In the manifestation of God's goodness in your life is the capacity to draw many to Jesus. In the book of John chapter 20 verse 30 and verse 31, the bible says, and truly, Jesus did Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which were not written in this book. These were acts of Jesus. The same way we have acts of the apostles. Jesus did many other miracles which were not written in these books. Next verse, 31 says, but these are written. In other words, the signs, the wonders, the miracles that have been captured in this book have all been captured that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ. In other words, when people see signs, wonders, miracles captured in a book, they believe. The bible says we are living epistles.

That book that captures it is you. You have become the book that captures it. That people that that will never open the Bible, people that will never touch the Bible, they will see your life and see the same thing the Bible reads in your life. They will see the same miracles, the same. And someone can just be scrolling and it really appears. Probably what he wants to watch are women. What he wants to watch are women. And he's just scrolling Instagram, and it really appears. And he sees a man of God saying, God's favor is powerful. When God favors you, men are compelled to do you good even if they don't like you.

He said, and and scrolls up. Past his... Goes... He goes back to and watching men again. He dresses up. Then he gets to work that day, that morning, and he enters. And he sees the CEO coming to the office. And whilst he's there, It's the favor... You see, the believer must know how to respond in places like this. And in cases like you must know how to respond.

When they ask you such questions, you don't start saying, you know, I read before I give that foolishness. One of my one of my daughters one of my daughters went to and applied for a job, and when the person was asking her questions, she was answering diligently and given her all kinds of things to go and repair, prayed with her, and then tell her that it's to go. And when she got there, the man looked at her and was impressed at the fact that a little girl that age, not even up to 20 years of age, is already vying for a position at that age, already wants to work, already willing to give herself, already has this level of results. And when she was asked, how did you come about all of this? She said, you know, my mother taught me well. When she told me, I said, look at that platform to bring Jesus to the scene. Look look at that platform. And my mother taught me well, what did they teach you? If it were what they thought you, will you ever be great? Would you ever even think of even applying for a job?

You who came to meet me and said, hey. It's my first time. It's my first time. But let me just go and get the experience. I say you either go for the experience or you go and get the job. If it's for the experience, go and watch a movie. Then I ask you how did you come about this boldness? It's in my mind. Passive May you not be foolish oh. Amen.

When we... Listen. It's not even as we arise, not when we rise. As we are rising, as God is lifting, every opportunity to bring Jesus on the stage, every opportunity to bring the kingdom of God on the platform, we never we never take them for granted. We never do. How did you pass these exams? How did you become a a brilliant student with 4.0? I prayed in tongues, sowed my seed, trusted God. Then pawns will carry it. Student passes exam by praying in tongues, sowing his seeds.

Trusting God. No. They like those controversial things. Because they know when people read it, will now be angry. They will say, tell us what you did. Let it pepper you. That's what we did. One of my girls went for a job opportunity. The one great person in in the bottom here, and when she got there, she's a student. She cannot work full time.

The woman had CVs on her table of several other applicants who came there for interview to work full time. The woman asked her, when can you be available? She said just twice a week. You want that I just like you? She first said I will speak to the board of committee or something like that. Ask her a couple of questions. You know what? I'm the CEO. There's no need to speak to any board anymore. Jesus.

When they when they now ask you outside, you say, you know what? I just knew my onions. When we have the opportunity to put God on the scene, A business partner comes to come and meet you. The kind of result you have been getting these past few months is just not normal. You say, ah, my pastor taught me. You don't say, you know, I applied the strategy. You know, I learned. I was watching a YouTube video, and I applied... That's nonsense. Is the real thing with the the real thing?

And the real thing is that which we are doing. We will never be ashamed of the real thing. The fact is if you tell someone that the reason why you do well is because of every other thing people are doing, are people not doing it? The reason the reason why they came to meet you in the first instance is because they are doing what you are doing. So when it is time to put Jesus on the scene, you can't be careful. You can't be saying, don't let me offend your belief I system. You... Oh, Jesus. Go to church oh, that's why. Prophetic words are spoken over me.

I jump and I shout amen. I sow my seeds. That is why. Who brings a politician to the platform? Don't you know that there is what is called time and chance? Who regulates time and chance? Are you the one? Hey, Jesus Christ. You can speak on several platforms. Nobody will see you too unless those that are clapping for you.

Are you with me? And there are several people doing even more than you doing even more than you. How do we accrete... Attribute these things to the fact that we did something? Hours of prayers, are they capable of even bringing this? Do you really think that lives are changed because we pray? Do you know how many countless upon countless of families who are investing prayers morning and night that their children will change and they are not changing? And people come to this place and they are being transformed and we have the boldness, the airfond tree to say it's because we pray much. It's because we dismount. You remove the holy ghost on the scene and see what is left.

Continue with your prayers then. Continue with your fastings then. To God, be the glory. Are you learning something already? Let us be your disposition, and the same hand that sponsor your rising will ensure you never go down. Let us be on this position. And as more... You see, the bible says, if we will let people see God, He will draw all men unto him. If he be lifted up. If he be lifted up, your life must be like that donkey.

I started teaching you this in 2019 even far back from then. That your life must be like that donkey. When people start saying hosanna to the highest, hosanna to the highest, and they put the red carpet on the floor, they put the clothes on the floor, they put all the things on the floor. Do you know what people were putting on the floor was their own clothes? They removed their wrapper. They removed their clothes, and they started spreading on the floor because Jesus was coming. But guess what? Jesus wasn't going to walk on the clothes. He was on a donkey. It was the donkey that would do the walking on the cloth.

But was the cloth spread for the donkey? So how dare the donkey start feeling as though look at... Look at us. Look at that. Look look at... These people honor me. Nobody honors you. They honor God in you. The privilege is that you are the one that carries God. It means whenever people give you any kind of accolade, you must be quick to mention this is...

Listen. It's not me. There is one that sits on top of me. Somebody said, apostle, apostle, the way you speak and things happen is just because you are very charismatic. I said charismatic. How charismatic is papa? Somebody told me... Somebody said, sir, how do I mix my introverted nature with my lack of charismatism and all kind of nonsense English grammar? And yet look at the influence that this man command. Look at the power and the glory that radiates from their lives.

How dare we think it is because we can't talk. It is because we can't speak. If God does not receive glory, our lives are empty. Our lives are useless. Did you hear what I said, brothers and sisters? If God does not receive glory, all of this is worth nothing. If God does not receive glory, I want you to look at your life for a minute and say and ask yourself the question. When people look at my life, sincerely speaking, does my life bring God glory? And if there are some level of results already in my life that I acknowledge, does glory come to God? Or have I found a way to acknowledge my intelligence?

Have I found a way to attribute these things to my dexterity, to my creativity? Who gave you that creativity? Who gave you the wisdom? Do you understand what I'm teaching you here? Yes. And so the reason... The second reason why God wants us to be great, God wants us to be mighty and powerful and rise in influence is because in doing so, many come to Jesus. There is nothing that I know that compels men to righteousness like genuine God inspired results. In John chapter one and verse six, the bible says there was a man sent from God. There was a man sent from God.

He came through mister and missus, but he was sent from God. He came through mister and missus, but he was sent from God. This man must never look at his life from the perspective of whom he came through. He must look at his life on the perspective of who sent him. There was a man sent from God. He had a father. He had a mother. As a matter of fact, the mother was barren, but he was sent from God. And the Bible says his name was John. His name was John.

Sent from God. But his name was John. So when I look at my life, I know there is a man truly sent from God. His name is Emmanuel. There is a woman sent from God, and you put your name there. There is a woman sent from God. There is a man sent from God. And look at the assignment of that man who is sent from God. The next verse then says, this man came for a witness to bear witness of the light and that all through him might believe. All through him might believe.

Do you know that according to context from John chapter one, the bible was talking about Jesus. In the beginning was the word. The word was with God. Right? The word was God. In verse two, the Bible says it was in the beginning with God. In the next verse, the Bible says, all things were made through him. Without him was nothing made that was made. In verse four, in him was life, and the life that was in him was the light of men in verse five. And that light shines in darkness, and darkness comprehended not.

Do you see that this is all about Jesus? All this narrative is talking about Jesus. Almost as though as we were talking about Jesus, we now suddenly remember that wait. Wait. Wait. There is a man who... That if we don't if we don't introduce this man, then nobody will believe because the bible says that all through him might believe. So it is important we introduce the man. Because immediately after the man was introduced, he went back to Jesus. Let let me show you.

There was a man sent from God. His name was John. The same came as a witness that all through him might believe. The next verse now says, he was not the light. He was not the light. He was sent to bear witness of that light. We now went back to that light. Next verse, it says that that was the true light which gives light to every man. We went back. It was that light we were talking about though.

From one. We're saying, wait. Wait. We have to quickly took a man inside. Because without that man, nobody will even know the light. The pause. Pause. Pause. Pause. How do we begin to tell the story of Ibadan without putting Emmanuel there?

Many of you don't know that your birthing was a brief pause in the story of Nigeria. Your birthing was a brief pause. It was a moment of introduction. There was a woman that was sent from God. He was not the true light oh, but he came that all through him might believe. And when they see his works and they see the signs and they see the wonders and they see the greatness, all through him, I believe. There is a level of glory that his life will radiate. When they came to John, he knew what his assignment was. He said, John, your disciples are leaving you, and they are going to the light. He said, I know what my mission is.

I'm meant to increase that he might increase. He had always known, but that he was asked... What? Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? That someone looks at your life in the midst of a harsh economy, and they say you are still giving. You are still giving. And someone says, how are you doing it? And you say, I've sown something. I've I've found something called the favor of God. I found something called the blessing of God.

The Bible says the blessing of God maketh rich. It has no sorrow to it. And you will tell them this blessing does not have respect for economies. And even when men say there's a casting down, my testimony will be there's a lifting up. And they will ask me, tell me more about this thing. Tell me more about this thing. Inside of hashtimes, some people are still giving in their millions. Inside of economy. Difficult, hard economies, people are still giving in seven digits in six figures. Some are trying to save up money.

Some are trying to hold up money. The more they are saving it, the more hard life is becoming, and some are abounding. Some are increasing because it is healed and scattered, and yet increase it. And yet increase it. And when they ask you because these are not normal results, there is a way this kind of results can point men to Jesus. Do you know that even your results, preach a sermon? There is a sermon that your results preach, and there's an audience that listens to them. Do you know that there are people that will not care what we have to say until we become a thousand? There were people that did not care what we were saying before until we increased. We did not change what we were saying.

It's the same thing we have been saying. But that even your result preach a sermon, and they preach a louder sermon than your words. When this ministry become 5,000, becomes tender, and it's happening very soon. Suddenly, will now see people now sending invitations. They're apostle, you come and speak and you wonder, share more way apostle was there before. No. Your results speak is happening. You Your result read your message. Now And that message, if it is compelling enough, it can make all men see Jesus. You can make all men do what now?

Your results, your glory, your greatness, your fruitfulness, your influence. So the next time you see me speaking over your life and the power of God is coming upon people left, right, and center, and you see me insisting that you become victorious, insisting that you become great, prophesying that you become that which God has written over your life, ensuring that this thing come to pass, ensuring that this thing finds expression. Listen to me. It is beyond just Pentecostal activities. It is beyond just charismatism and bearing witness of that desire of the spirit to see and to insist that you walk in the reality of the dominion that Jesus may be glorified through you. And that the and that through the efficacy of your results, many might come to Jesus. This is the reason why we do what we do. This is the reason why we insist. Isaiah said, I will not hold my peace. I will not rest until your salvation, until your salvation, until it burns like the sun, until your righteousness blazes like the dawn of the day.

I will not rest. I will not hold my peace. We will keep on prophesying this prophecy. You will keep on receiving these things. There's a reason there is a reason why we are doing it. There's a desire in the heart of Jesus to ensure that your life bear fruit, that men may be glorified through your life, and that men might come to Jesus. That means anything that threatens your results, anything that threatens your rising, anything that threatens your shining, anything that threatens the manifestation of God's glory upon your life must come under attack this night. For someone for someone, God is removing from your life everything that looks like shame, everything that looks like reproach, everything that looks like failure, everything that looks like poverty because it does not bring glory to God. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes.

It means whatever wrestles with this with this desire in the heart of God for you to prosper, you must fight it. And do you know that every believer in Christ has access to spiritual resources that makes for the experience of victory? Have your seats. I'm not able to study my vision. Listen. Every believer has access to the spiritual resources that makes for the experience of victory and that makes for the experience of dominion. Every believer has access to this. As part of God's commitment to seeing that you walk in victory, as part of God's commitment to seeing that you walk in dominion, in the experience of dominion, in the experience of victory. He has made available for you spiritual resources And that every believer in Christ has access to all the resources that guarantee victory and that guarantees dominion. Ephesians one verse three, the bible says blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings and heavenly blessings in Christ.

Who has blessed with what now? All spiritual blessings. We have been blessed with all spiritual blessings. In other words, everything that makes for this life of victory, everything that makes for this life of glory, the believer has access to everything. In second Peter chapter one verse two, the bible says grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ our Lord. As his divine power has given unto us, all things that pertains unto life and godliness. All things. His divine power has given unto us all things. His divine power has given unto us all things. That means everything that pertains unto life and godliness.

Everything that pertains unto this victorious life, this glorious life, you have access to it already. But listen to me, brothers and sisters, access alone does not equal possession. Access alone does not equal experience. We have been given access to the resources that make for the experience of dominion and the experience of victory, but it does not mean that we currently are possessors of those same realities. What I intend to show you is how to move from that realm of That your life becomes a living example of a possessor of the same realities in Christ Jesus. That the things that you have seen, the things that you have heard becomes that which your hands have handed. You see, so it is one thing for your eyes to have seen it, for your ears to have heard it, is another thing for your hands to have handed it. Believers must go from a point where we hear these things to a point where we experience these things, To a point where it becomes a... An experience. We become possessors of the same realities.

We become possessors of the same light, of the same life. You can lay hold on this thing, and it becomes the experience. You can lay hold on it. Your life can become a demonstration of everything that God has said. Access to health is your heritage in Christ. Do you agree with me? But whether you will stay healthy experientially is another dynamic entirely. Access to prosperity is your heritage in Christ. Access to increase is your heritage in Christ. But whether you will enter into these things in experience is another thing entirely.

If I remain sick today, if I remain poor today, it does not mean or it doesn't change the fact that there is provision for my health. That in Christ, there is provision for my increase and abundance. Walking in the reality of dominion, walking in the reality of victory and fruitfulness demands knowing and engaging the spiritual resources available to us. And tonight, I wanna show you one of those many mysteries. Is that okay? Let me tell you this. Nobody in life has an advantage by default. I've shown you severally that the earth is against everybody. Nobody in life, by reason of the fall, all men, spiritually speaking, are disadvantaged by reason of the fall. Physically speaking, you may be born in a rich family.

You may be born in an educated family, maybe an even... Maybe an exposed family, but all those things only help sociologically. From a spiritual standpoint, any man outside Christ is disadvantaged by default. Amongst other reasons, because every spirit has legal access to melt destruction upon that life. Because the basis of their restraint has not yet been received by you, which is the life of Christ. So a man outside of Christ is open to every spirit to be influenced and manipulated by every spirit. So a man can fall from grace to grass overnight. Demonic attacks. A man may feel as though without God is okay, but one day everything changes, demonic attacks. Are you with me?

One of the principles that allows for victory and the one I'm gonna be showing you today, if you want to be great, if you want to build whatever God has given to you, a business, a ministry, a career, whatever it is, if you wanna take cities and take territories and take over every sector of influence that God has placed in your heart. I wanna rise to enforce dominion and victory, then you must understand how to enforce judgement upon wicked spirits. You must understand how to enforce judgment upon what now? You must understand how to enforce judgment upon wicked spirit. In Matthew chapter 16 verse 18, the bible says, You can title my teaching enforcing dominion, judging wicked spirits. Enforcing dominion, Judging weak experience. In Matthew 16 verse 18, Jesus was speaking. And he says, and I also say to you that you are Peter. And on this rock, I will build my church. And the gates of Hades.

Can you see Jesus introducing to us? An organized framework that he calls the gates of Hades. And he says the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. Jesus himself recognizes that there is an organized entity that will attempt to fight the building that he's building. Jesus says, I'm going to build my church, but there is an organized entity that will attempt to fight it, but that the gates of Hades will not prevail against that which I am building. He called it the gates of hell, the gates of Hades. Jesus taught on the reality of wicked spirits. Jesus taught on the reality of demons, principalities, powers. Jesus said, while men slept, that men are not the only ones that live or that exist on this domain. There are spirits.

And not all of them are righteous spirits from God. There are rebellious spirits, Satan and his cohorts. It was Paul by the spirit of God who began to give us a very structured organogram of the satanic kingdom. I don't really have interest in that today. In Ephesians six ten and verse 12. 10, 11, and verse 12, really. But really in verse 12, there are principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, ritual host of wickedness in heavenly places, and it begins to give us this organogram of the satanic host. I'm not really concerned about that organogram today. I'm concerned about regardless of where they fall, how do we judge them. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. There is an organized organogram, and the assignment of that organogram is to fight the sins, to fight the building of the church, to fight the building of everything that the believer hopes to accomplish, the building of everything that the believer hopes to achieve, the building of a great career, the building of a great destiny, the building of a great ministry, the building of a great life will be fought by the gates of hell. And so the believer must understand that even whilst you practice every principle known to you, there is one that you must always deploy whether you are under attack or you're not under attack. Are you with me? And it's how to enforce victory, how to enforce judgment upon wicked spirits that will try to impede what God is doing and what God is planting through your life. In John chapter 10 and verse 10, the bible says the thief does not come except to steal. Remember that scripture? The thief does not come except to steal, to kill, and to destroy. So the central theme of the satanic kingdom is revealed in the scripture. To steal, to kill, and to...

Do you know that the only way Satan will steal and will kill and will destroy is to go where there is something to kill, to steal, and to destroy. That is the reason why Satan will not let believers rest. Because they are the only ones who really have what to steal. Remember the bible says the sower went out to sow. And as long as the word was sowed, Satan became interested in stealing what was sown in the heart of man. Do you know that the primary thing that Satan steals is not your health? The primary thing that Satan steals is not your money, is not your finances, is not your business, is not your joy, is not your peace. Many people know that Satan is a thief. Many people know that demons and these spirits, these wicked spirits comes to steal, comes to plant attacks, limiting attacks in the lives of believers. Attacks that ensure that they continue to experience age long difficulty, hardship, and problems in families just to ensure that that which God has spoken over their lives does not come to pass.

But many people don't know that the first thing that God is really interested in stealing is not even all these things. It's not even your finances. It's not even your health. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Do you know that only a foolish thief will ever enter into a house and steals everything there? Because they will catch him because of the load that he's carrying. He will be caught. He's not so smart. What every thief does is to look for the most valuable object in that house.

In other words, every thief goes there and ask for one thing. They might see chairs there. If they pack the chairs, can they sell it for money? But they're not concerned about the chairs. They are something more valuable than the chairs. Do you understand what I'm saying? They might even see... They might see different things. But what every smart thief is after is what is the most valuable resource I can find. And that is exactly what the devil is looking for.

The most valuable resource he can find in the believer. That is what he wants to steal. Are you with me? I want you to note the arrangement of Jesus when he was giving us the threefold mission of the Pentecost. He said, number one, is to steal. That's the first thing Jesus said. Do you know why? Because not until he has stolen, he cannot kill. Not until he has stolen, he cannot destroy. So the first thing the devil hopes to accomplish is to steal, and the believer must understand what the devil is looking to steal.

Do you get what I'm trying to say now? That the bible says the sower went out to sow. And as he saw some fell by the wayside, and he said that all these types of soil is the heart of a man. Is that not so? In Matthew 13 verse three, the Bible says, then he spoke many things to them in parables saying, behold, said what went out to sow. And as he saw, some seed fell by the wayside. And the birds came and devoured them in verse 19. The Bible now tells us what it means by this. When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked one come and snatches away what was sown in his heart. What Satan is interested in stealing primarily in your life is the word of God and the understanding of the word of God.

Stay with me. When Satan steals the word and he steals the understanding of the same, it will look as though he has stolen your health. It will look as though he has stolen your finances, but what he has really stolen is the word. Do you know that it's a waste for Satan to touch your health when your understanding is intact? It is a waste for Satan to touch your destiny when your understanding is intact. You need to know what Satan is looking for. It looked as though he attacked your finances, but he has stolen something before he even came to your finances. If he was able to destroy your finances, it is because something else went. Do you understand what I'm saying here? The first thing Satan is interested in, that is why the bible says, who the prince of this world had blinded their hearts that they may not understand.

All of this, they are alienated from the life of God. So before you begin, it can it can alienate you from life, before you can kill, before he can destroy, the first thing he must do is to blind you, to ensure that you could... You don't have light or access to light or even understand the light that you have. And so the moment the word of God is sown, it comes and it snatches the word from your heart so that it does not profit you, so that you don't understand it. Because if you can know light, if you can have an understanding of the word of God, it does not matter what is used. It can come back in multiple fold. The devil knows this. He knows that what brings result in this kingdom is light. He knows. And he knows that it does not matter what a man lost as long as there is light.

The... Jesus. The bible says there was darkness all over the earth. Because there was darkness, it was without form and void. When God came, the bible says the first thing God introduced was light. Let there be light. Other things can then start appearing in the earth as long as light is there. God did not sit down in darkness and started making man in darkness. God did not sit down in darkness and started separating famines from the sky, and started creating fishes, creating birds, creating everything in darkness. Because the advantage the devil has is to put darkness on the face of the earth, then make the earth empty.

Because when there is darkness, it can steal. So God says, I want to... Jesus Christ. Do you understand what I'm saying? So it means if the devil ever comes to steal anything, what we should verify is is there still light? Because as long as there is light, he has not really stolen anything. So when the when the devil messes up a life, understand that what is the cause, your original cause of that mess up is the absence of understanding, the absence of light. The real thing that is told, it might look as though you stole your health, but the health is not even the problem. The real thing is told is your capacity to understand. Show me a man that has enlightenment, that has spiritual understanding.

It does not matter what has been stolen. Understanding has such compelling power. It will bring back whatever that I'm stole. As I was in the days of my youth, Job said, when the secrets of the Lord... Did you see that? As I was in the days of my youth, Job 29, when the secret of the Lord was upon my tabernacles, so there were secrets, Job knew. And it looked as though Job lost everything, but this secret remained. And as long as the secret remained, everything that he lost came back to him in double fold. As I was in the days of my youth, the question is not the Satan come. It is deepest still light.

Because if you stole light, if you stole the word, if you stole... Listen to me. The word of God is the only hope a man has. It is a creative force. That is the first thing Satan wants to steal. If the world becomes unprofitable in your heart, it has really gotten you. It has really, really gotten you. Really hope you understand what I'm saying. I really, really hope so. It looks like that is attacking your health or your finances, but what is really attacking is your spiritual understanding.

That is why the real way to help people and the real way to bring lasting deliverance is not just to bring healing to people or to bring deliverance by casting out devils. No. It is to bring them correct orientation And by the... For adventure, they can bring themselves to believe and understand the light they have been supplied. Satan has no power while understanding. That is why Satan fights access to light. Satan will prefer that as a man of God, you are anointed and you can heal the sick, you can prophesy, but not have the power to teach. Because in teaching people, you bring them to the realm of enlightenment. In teaching people, you bring them to the realm of revelation, understanding. And by eventually, you can do that.

They will never have to depend on you for prophecies. By themselves, they can rise in victory. By themselves, they can rise in power and dominion. The ir that ones that that prostration in which circumstances have are kept you. Arise and shine from the depression and the prostration that circumstances have kept you. He now says, rise to a new life because your light has come. So the way to rise out of negative circumstances, the way to rise out of that posture that evil circumstances have kept you is because your light came. So if the devil knows and if he puts you in a circumstance and light comes, you can stand up. The first thing it does to your heart is to ensure light does not come. To bring your heart to a point where it becomes difficult to to receive light, to permit, for light to permit your spirit man.

That is why the bible tells you. Remember that the bible says that in Mark... Matthew 13, that the word of God is sown where? In your heart. And where the or satan comes to come and steal it? In your heart, do not understand why the bible says guard that heart with all diligence. For out of that heart proceeds the issues of life. It means that it is the word of God that have been planted in your heart that determines the outcome of your life. So if Satan steals that word from your heart... A believer who has no understanding of God's word is a defeated believer.

It... I don't care how many visions you see. I don't care how many things your eyes can see. I don't care how many revelations you used to have. I had a dream. I had a vision. If you have no understanding of scriptures, you are a defeated believer. The devil will make a mess of your finances, make a mess of your health, make a mess of everything. You see, ah, Jesus Christ. A pastor was reporting a case to me.

One of my pastors, I was telling how that a lady wanted to be healed so much, and she was in a state of worry because the condition that she wanted to be healed of is there. And, you know, she's still in faith, and she's praying to God, but she's in faith. And I said, I said, listen to me. This is this is... The devil has stolen away light. Because faith and worry cannot stand in the same sentence. You can't put faith and worry in the same sentence. The the character of someone who has caught the word of healing and the word of life is a character of joy in infirmity. Especially if it... If that healing will come by faith.

It won't come by faith in worrying. It does not exist. It is that this is my circumstance, and I begin to live almost as though it's not there. I lose respect. I don't ignore, but I don't glorify. So when you see some people, their life has become about their problem. They define themselves already by their problem. Their countenance changes because they are going through something. You see that? That is glorifying the problem.

That wasn't what God did when he came. The bible says that we are having the same spirit of faith. We believe and so we speak. We believe and so we speak. Our utterances as believers does not resemble what we go through. That is how we know that we have the same spirit of faith. And that thing enter... This understanding is an understanding. If you understand what I'm saying, this thing I'm telling you is an understanding you will have that will power your life. When you see men of God talk, sometimes you will think it's because these people go through anything.

If you go through half of what I go through, your legs will be shaking. Your legs will be shaking. Think the devil will just leave you alone? You really think the devil will just leave you alone? Said be going. Be great. Be going. I like as you are going. Ah, no. No.

Good good. Thumbs up, boy. Thumbs up. No. It will bring every attack it can bring against you. It will unload every force of hell it can bring. What I'm telling you is if he has robbed your heart of the world that says that the closest place he is to you, both himself and his host, is under your feet. If you don't know this, the attacks will get to you. Crumble. You'll start seeing...

You'll start noticing that, sales are no longer coming. Sales are no coming. That that guy has stolen something. The question is, do you still have the word somewhere in your heart? Do you still know how to respond like a prophet that you are? Do you know how to recognize the devil from a manly way and say I've I've seen I've seen your life from afar, and I put a stop to you where you are. You won't move near my children. You won't move near my business. You won't move near my ministry. You won't move near my family.

The most valuable thing that every believer has that Satan is looking for is your spiritual understanding. If Satan can steal your access to the word of God, your access to light, even if it leaves your health, you will still be sick. Even if it leaves your finances, you will still be poor. Because what powers your efficiency is light. Do you know that you can buy a fridge? Beautiful fridge, big fridge, or a freezer. Those big ones. Brand new. And you put your chicken that you have bought in the market. You put your fish you have bought in the market inside the freezer.

Yet you don't connect that freezer to any source of light. What will happen to the things in that fridge? That's exactly how the lives of many believers are. The same way the fridge is brand new. That's the same way they are saved. If any man be in Christ, it's not a new creature. There's a new creature. It's a brand new creature. But everything you put in the life of that believer dies because the believer is not connected to a light source. There is no light source that is pouring in, so he does not have the capacity to hold anything and preserve it.

Jesus Christ. There's no there's no light source that powers that believer. There's no understanding that sponsors him. So what makes you think that if you start this thing now, it will ever grow and never come down? Do you do you have the understanding? Do you have it? Or are you a believer who is always afraid thinking this thing, I hope it will not come. Circumstances alone can steal from you. Economy alone can steal from you. It means that if people...

If the economy is bad, they won't make sense. But some of us understand that what powers our business is beyond the economy. So even if even if it happens that people I would normally supply to can no longer afford what I'm supplying. Are you with me? Someone with the life of God and revelation and the word of God does not start crying. It goes back to the source of everything, and it originates another innovation that makes him think, you know what? If these people can no longer afford this thing, the answer is not to bring your price down. The answer is to look for those who can afford it. Because in inflation, like they are complaining, prices of products are not going down so that people can afford it. There are multiple ways that God can bring increase.

Listen to me. There are demonic spirits assigned to men, to believers, who are fond of us, who are serving the purpose of the kingdom. There are demonic spirits assigned to men who have been uniquely elected by God to represent certain unique expressions of his speakings per season. I tell you with the authority of scripture that there is something in Satan's plan with your name on it. They don't have to take your name to the cover. Your name is already there. The devil is aware that you exist. You really think he does not know. Not with the kind of prophecy prophecy over your head. Every time you sing, there is prophecy over me.

You think I don't know why are is hearing it. I tell you by the authority of scripture that the devil is aware of those plans you are writing down. He's aware. He knows what you intend to do. That's why for every time you are writing, a knowledge must power it. Something you know about God, about power, about authority in Christ must be... If the devil is able to steal that thing away from your heart. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yeah. I hope you know that when when God is building you, the realm of the spirit is also watching too.

The realm of the spirit is also seeing the prophet that is forming. The devil knows what that prophet will do. He's seen the apostle that is rising. He's seen the Esther that is rising. Every week you are receiving the word of God in church, he's seeing what has happened to you. It's not only you that is coming to church. Satan comes to. The devil goes where God goes. That is how you know what to steal. If he was not in touch, he wouldn't know that the seed was sown there.

He knows there was a seed to steal because he saw the preacher sowing it. And he saw that if this one believes this thing, they need. Let's plan around him that will prove different from what has been planted. So if the preacher said that, God is making you great. God is doing this to you. God is doing that to you. And then you leave, and your immediate experience goes against what the preacher said. What the devil is trying to do is rob away what was stolen in your heart. In your faith and sees you flourishing and rising, he will not fold his hands. Satan knows that amongst all your family members, you are the most serious Christian.

He won't fold his hands. He knows the implication of what you are hearing now. He knows he knows you are about to end an age long captivity that has held men captive, held women captive, held people captive. He won't fold his hands. He knows that you're coming to this end. He knows the viability of what you are receiving on this pulpit. He knows that if you rise, then your mother will be delivered, then your father is delivered, then your siblings are delivered. He knows if your life gets results. If that ministry find expression, if that NGO find expression, if that vision find expression, if that business becomes great, he knows. So you must know that the closest place he is to me is under my feet.

It will it will be obvious now you leave if you know this. Understand this. Every time that attacks men, he's attacking nations in a man. Satan does not attack foolishly. There is a strategic diplomatic expression to his attacks. Every time he funds an attack, it is because he's looking for something, and the best way he gets it is in the man. That guy is so wicked. He does not mind he does not mind laying waste to an entire city to get access to one man. Didn't they do it for Moses? He couldn't he couldn't tell what the savior was.

He couldn't tell. He couldn't tell, but he understood. You see, do you think that when God was telling Abraham that your descendant will spend four hundred years in captivity, and after four hundred years, they will be delivered. And when they are delivered, I will deliver unto them the lands that I have promised unto you. Satan too was hearing it. And by his metrics and calculations, he knows that four hundred years is already completed. It means that whoever save... Whoever the savior is is now that the savior will be born. I can't really tell who that guy is. He will kill all of them.

He doesn't mind laying waste to an entire city just because he's looking for a man. Man. Because the salvation of territories is always in one man. Some of you are nations in a man. Some of you. Some of you sitting down here are nations in men. Nations in women. The devil knows. Wow. The devil has seen that those visions you wrote down.

He knows. You say you will route several attacks your way. Because if you can get one madman of gathering, then you have gotten 10 cities. Why go for 10 cities when you can look for the savior of those cities? It takes more energy deploying attacks to everybody in 10 cities. It takes less energy looking for the savior of that... Of those cities and gazing them. And he deployed all the demons he would have used for 10 cities to keep one man down. Why do you think there were legions there? The...

Wasn't just for one man. Those were the demons that were meant to oppress 10 cities. And he said instead of going to go and plague those cities, just come and oppress a man. He said he said we are he said we are a legion for we are many. I believe we are a legion for we are many. We are many. Just to hold one man down, he was willing to... The the least number of a legion is 12,000. The least number of a legion. He was willing to dispose of 12,000 demons to just hold a man down To keep a man from light, to keep a man from rising.

Do you know their attack? Jesus. You think that the reason why they can't impact your family is because of your family? It is about God's program and your family's contribution to it. Why is that attacking your brother? Because there's a prophet in that stubborn child. And he will rather that that child... He will rather everybody come to touch, but not that child. Any other person can go, but not this one. That's why it's good to force people and invite them to come to church because you don't know that you are cooperating with heaven to deliver souls.

And so if a man must be great, you must understand the concept of executing judgment on wicked spirit. You must understand. And listen, this is not just a man of God's responsibility over you. This is also your responsibility to yourself. In Psalms one forty nine, I believe, from verse six, the bible says, let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two edged sword in their hand. I stop here. To execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the people to bind their kings with chains. If you intend to be great, there are kings you must bind with chains. There are princes you must bind with chains. If you are stepping into a sector, there are forces you must bind with chains.

There are forces who have who have who have who have insisted that in this place, this is what will reign. And if you will if you will go against that force, you must bind their kings with chains and their nobles with of iron. But you see, this is not just something that a man of God does for you. Are you with me? There is what is called the written judgment. The written judgment. The judgment as expressed in scriptures on wicked spirits. Are you with me? Sir. And the bible says in verse nine, can we read this together?

One, verse nine. One, two, three, go. This honor have all his saints, not men of God. The honor of judging wicked spirits, the bible says is an honor. And when we stand on this pulpit and we say powers, demons, wicked spirits, plough spirit, infirmity is an honor. That honor, the bible says he has confided on all the saints. It means you can step into your business and begin to dodge kings, begin to dodge forces, begin to dodge wicked spirits. Listen. When this year was going to start, I was praying in chapel, and I saw two hands holding together in the clouds, very massive hands covering the end... The whole of Ibadan like this.

Like this. Covering the hold of a banner. And I saw cathedrals, businesses, organizations, skyscrapers rising from the earth, rising from the earth. And when they get to where that... Some will not... Some will not even get there. Some stopped here. Some stopped goes global. That every ministry that wants to be great will have to live here and go to Lagos. Every business that wants to be great, every organization that wants to be great, every career person that wants to be great will say they have to live here and go to Lagos and go to Abuja because they will find out that they have labored for twenty five years, and their labor is not given the required amount of results compared to their peers in ministry who they started with.

And it is not about their labor. It is that it is a principality that stops and that picks the greatness of men who dares to go beyond a certain point at a particular point. I will not wait until my ministry gets there before I start fighting it. It was in that chapel I started sweating like a Christmas and forcing dominion over principalities. It is foolishness to wait for them to come and attack you. Yes, sir. A wise believer takes the offensive. As long as I know that I'm going to be great, then there's no power that will stop me. There is this heavy truck that used to have a big chisel like component in front of it. It is used for mining heavy rocks and for drilling heavy duty stubborn stones.

Very massive machine with a big chisel like instrument in front of it, and then it begins to roll. That's the picture of the believer I have in my head. That as I'm going, there's one machine that is open. That is just... That that that continues to drill out obstacles. I I listen. I heard a man of God say, if you touch me by mistake, you die by correction. It is because there is all... I'm only supercharged. I don't wait for you to come and touch me because I know you will come.

I know the devil is not happy. Our lives are getting changed, our testimonies are being shared. I'm not a foolish person. I understand the devil is not happy. We are emptying hell, delivering people from oppression, breaking the yoke of wickedness over the lives of people. We can't be careless as a ministry. So we're launching in the offensive. This is how we become great. You step into any territory, and as you are stepping there, wherever the soles of my feet are treaded upon. Hear me.

Whatever forces govern this land, I stand here as a principality myself, I am... I... Listen. Listen. I take scriptures, and I begin to contend with scriptures. The bible says strangers will flee from their hidden places. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. There there are some of you there are some of you, there are there are useless infirmities in your body that someone your head should not even have. And I'm just looking at it. You don't understand that the reason why the devil has planted an infirmity in your body, and you you you don't think it's a big deal because you can still manage it.

You don't understand that the reason why you planted the infirmity in your body is not even because of now. It's so that at the edge of breakthrough, when it looks as though that greatness is about to rise, if we try ever that, then we cannot stop it. Let's just cause all this life. Every infirmity in body is a minus to your life. It's a minus to your lifespan. I insist on divine health. I insist on it. I insist on divine health. Because there are wicked spirits that will attempt to kill you before your time, and they will begin to introduce all form of infirmity. You're gonna hear that this this one has this.

That one has that. This one has this. One of my guys wanted to donate blood recently. And upon going to... Just to help someone who who was in need, wanted to go and help the person, and they said the person need blood and then went to go and donate blood. As they tested the blood, they said they had hepatitis b. Hepatitis b virus. Where did they get it from? How old is it? What is the thing with hepatitis b virus?

Come on now. The devil is a bastard. Devil is a bastard. The devil is a useless bastard. I do not joke with any form of I reject the it word of God. I stand on the promises of scripture to say never. Listen to me. No kind of work of darkness must must prosper in my life. No kind. No kind.

Not failure. Not poverty. Look. I don't allow any kind of demon, even the small one, whispering spirits. I don't give them any form of space. Because if you will rise in judgment, you must not allow demons and wicked spirits access to your life. They will kill. They will steal. They will destroy. Can you say I take charge?

I take charge of my life. I take charge of my destiny. I take charge of my destiny. I take charge. I take authority. Over my life and destiny. I bleed the blood of Jesus. I'm heavily defended. The power of God works in me. There is no infirmity in my body.

I'm healed of every condition. The life of God flows in me. The strength of God flows in me. In the name of Jesus. I cannot die but live. I cannot die but live. But declare the glory of the Lord. In the land of the living. Long life. Will you satisfy me and show me the reward of my salvation?

Bible says dishonor. Dishonor. Dishonor. As all the saints. Dishonor. As all the saints. Dishonor. Dishonor. As all the I the same honor. You have the same honor.

Now speak life to what is death. Speak life to what is death. That dead business, that dead prayer life. Plagued by the spirit of death. You have been defeated on the cross. You have been defeated on the cross. Hear me. Thou pervading spirit. That spirit of lust. That spirit of hardship.

Hear me. How can a believer read and forget? How can I spend time reading and have no understanding? I come against you right now. That spirit of failure. I come against you right now. My brain is open. My brain is open. I've given you enough space. Now, pack your load and go.

Powers of my father's house. Powers of my mother's house. Pack your load and go. I take authority over the spirit of death. Pack your load and go. Right now, In the name of Jesus. Leave now. Leave. Over my family. Over my family.

Leave now. In the name of Jesus. Devil get your hands off my family. Get your hands off my siblings. Get your hands Amen. Do you know that there are time that I've noticed this, You will keep on speaking words over people for one year, two years, three years, four years, five years, and you and you won't see any result in their life. They will keep on sharing testimony, you will know that sometimes even themselves can know. The problem usually is that there are limiting forces. And if these limiting forces are not broken, there will be no landing space for prophetic words. The reason why some things might not manifest in your life as it should manifest is because of limiting forces.

Limiting forces peg a man's progress. It begs a man's breakthrough. Can you say I declare? Is that how you... Oh, God. Say I declare. Every limiting forces. Every limiting forces. At work in my life, at work in my ministry, at work in my business, at work in my family, In Jesus name we have prayed. Now I declare, every limiting forces that has held anyone down in this place be broken now.

Listen. Listen. Listen. Don't give the devil any permission. Don't give the devil any space. You are a woman in this place. Don't be comfortable with with with useless mood swings. These things are these things are regulated by demons. When you notice them, cast it out. Unusual anxiety.

These are demons. Name we have prayed. Can we declare once again? Say negative patterns. Say it again. Negative patterns. Negative patterns. In my family. In family. Over my life.

Be broken now. Come and pray in the holy ghost. What held my father down? What held my mother down? It will not hold me down. I will not make the mistake of my father, of my mother. Arise beyond the smolder of my family. I rise beyond the call of my family. I do what nobody has ever done. Arise in greatness.

Arise in success. I advance possibly. In the name of Jesus. In Jesus name we have prayed. Can you thank God because of what he has done to you. Do you believe in what we have done? Listen. I teach you how to enforce dominion. I teach you how to enforce authority. I show you a way.

If you notice that thoughts are always invading your space, evil thoughts, negative thoughts, that those that the two are wicked spirits trying to permeate your space. Say, get out you devil. Out. In the name of Jesus, I come against you. Don't just let it go away. It's nothing. Just now, then a a thought comes to your mind. What if you just fail? What if they don't give you this job? How do you even know that tomorrow you will you will make as much sales as you made today?

How... These are demonic thoughts. Above only, I'm not beneath. Above only, I'm not beneath. That is my reality. I can never go back. I can never go down. Some people will come and give some people will come and give their first seven digits. Given six, the next one I'm giving is seven. If I've given seven, the next I'm giving is eight.

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