Transcript: Eternal Life Part 1
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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. Genesis chapter one verse 26. I'm gonna be very brief today. I pray that God gives us speed. Genesis chapter one verse 26, the bible says, you see, I will never cease to emphasize to us that God deeply desires for every believer in Christ, every one of you to live a productive and a fruitful life. Scriptures make it abundantly clear that if you are truly a follower of Christ, your life should reflect extraordinary results.
Extraordinary results that testify to the transformative power of God. These results are not just important to you. They matter to God and they matter to the advancement of his kingdom. A life that is devoid of authentic tangible fruit cannot fulfill the divine purposes of God even as God has ordained for that life. So when you read verse 26 of Genesis chapter one, the bible gives us the intention of God for the creation of man. The bible says, let us make man in our image according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle, over the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let us make man and let them have dominion. So this is the intention of God. This is the mandate of God for the believer.
This is what was in the mind of God when God was creating man, when God was making man. Are you with me? This was what... This is what was in the mind of God. Verse 28 now shows us how this intention, how this general purpose of God for man will find expression. In verse 28, it then goes on to say in more descriptive term that God blessed them, and he said unto them, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue the earth, then have dominion. In other words, there are things that must come before the dominion that man has been ordained to have. Did you get that? Yes, sir. I've taught you before in this place that fruitfulness precedes dominion.
Fruitfulness comes before dominion. The mandate is to have dominion, but to have dominion, you must be fruitful. To have dominion, you must multiply. You must fill the earth. You must subdue it. I categorize all of these things that must happen before dominion as results. In other words, you must have results. Dominion is impossible without fruitfulness. Dominion is impossible without fruitfulness. Fruitfulness is the proof of effectiveness, and effectiveness is what commands authority.
Dominion is not just a a divine mandate. It is also a function of visible results. There's a level of result that your life must command in order to dominate. In ministry, for instance, God desires that a church has territorial dominion. That is the dimension of dominion that we must command as a church, that our voice as a church is not silent, that your wisdom is not despised. Our wisdom as a church is not despised. That we can speak to the government and they listen, that we can influence cultures, that we can become architects of cultures, that we can decide policies and make such tangible change in the cities, have influence over government, have influence over societies. That is territorial dominion. Is that not so? Yes, But there is a level of influence.
There's a level of financial resources. There's a level of spiritual power and the command of multitude that we must have for this to be so. In other words, that is fruitfulness. So there's a command of multitude. You see, financial resources, spiritual power, a level of influence, lives transformed, growth of the church and ministry that we must have to have that territorial dominion that God has mandated for the church to have. It doesn't matter whether you agree with me or not. It is the truth. There is some level of results that is needed in your life, some level of results needed in my life, and if you must command dominion, those results must be present. Results had weight to your voice. People will listen to a man with results because your claims can be defended.
You are not an empty barrel making noise that cannot be defended. That has no fruition. You see, a man without result cannot command attention, let alone dominion. Your voice will only be as loud as your fruitfulness. The world listen to men with proofs, men who have proofs, not just words. I was listening to a popular Christian motivational speaker and life coach speaking recently, and he spoke about how he got a federal government contract of about 1,500,000,000 naira in the previous administration. Years ago, actually, years ago, not just the previous administration, to train leaders across all the geopolitical zones, all the local governments in Nigeria, and it was worth about 1,500,000,000 naira. And he also shared how he was called to be part of the presidential cabinet of this current administration to provide counsel to the presidency in certain areas. This is dominion. But there was something that they saw in his life that made them put him in a position where he can now influence the presidency.
That is fruitfulness. There is result that commands the attention of men, which is why I told you results precedes dominion. Do you understand what I'm teaching you? That is the fruitfulness that leads to dominion. So God says be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue, then have dominion. Fruitfulness is the evidence of your productivity and your growth. It is the tangible proof of your labor, the application of your faith, the power of power dominion the lacks substance. Without fruitfulness, dominion lacks credibility. A believer may be called into ministry, but without results, results like the salvation of souls, spiritual power, wisdom, resources, his voice will not be heard in his generation. Just remember that poor wise man in the book of Ecclesiastes.
The bible says that there was a poor wise man. It's amazing to me how the bible associates his wisdom with poverty. But the truth is he was poor, yet he was wise. And he was wise enough to have the wisdom that a nation needed. Had that level of wisdom that when the nation was besieged, all the people in power were not wise enough to provide solution. Then they conferred with this poor wise man, and this poor wise man was able to deliver application of that counsel, the nation was victorious against the enemy nation. But the Bible says after the victory was sustained, nobody remembered the poor wise man. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Nobody remembered him.
In other words, he could not sustain dominion. He has provided an answer that saved and delivered an entire nation. You would expect that they will not make him president. You'd expect that they will not make him king, but he had no result. He was poor. It takes result to sustain dominion. Do you understand what I'm saying? To command dominion. He had no result, he was poor. In fact, in verse 16, the Bible says, wisdom is better than strength.
Nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised, and the poor man's words are not heard. It means even if you have words that should be heard because you have no result, your words will not be heard. Do you know what this means? It means that you have the answer that the nation seeks. But because there's no result in your life, they will not even hear you. The people that you have their solution will not listen to you because you have no result in your own life. It means to influence a people, which is dominion, you must have result in your life. If that's why it says be fruitful, then have dominion. Results precedes dominion. Never ever ignore results.
Insist that your life must bear fruit. Insist that your life must bear fruit and that your life must bear fruit early. Not just that it must bear fruit, but that it must bear fruit early. Yes, sir. People will give you their ears when you... It doesn't matter how old the person is. As long as he's the one with results, they would listen to whatever he has to say because results gives you credibility. You go and let everybody be talking. If the richest person in that family has not arrived, the family meeting continues. Everybody is giving their own counsel.
But in their mind, they know it's whatever this person says would do. Because he's the one with the results. When results speak, everyone listens. When results speak. The problem with many people is that when your results should be speaking, they are using too many words. And so you argue with men. You contest with men. You you are trying to impact somebody like you. The only thing you have is words. Yes, sir.
And the person is saying, listen. There's no grounds for me to listen to you. But you go and apply the wisdom to your own life enough to get results and come and speak again. You wouldn't even have to speak much. We exert ourselves needlessly out of passion, thinking that our words alone can change people, but it cannot. The result of Joseph in interpreting dreams, managing resources in Potiphar's house, and in the prison led to the dominion over all of Egypt. Its results gave him credibility. Pharaoh entrusted him with authority over the entire nation because he had results. When the king's servant recommended him to solve the king's problem, it was based on the results that he saw whilst he was in the prison. In the prison, you could not say that he was dominating in as much as he was the head, but at least he had results.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That is why he starts that way. Be fruitful. Multiply. Dominion is a consequence of this. Dominion is a consequence of this. David was anointed king, but it was his fruitfulness in battle that made Israel recognize his leadership. I hope you know that. David was anointed king before he faced Goliath.
It was not after he faced Goliath that he was anointed king. He was anointed king, but nobody knew that he had been anointed king. Only himself and his family. And even his brothers, even though they anointed him king, did not even treat him as though he was a king. When he came to come and deliver good to them or what his father sent into them in in battlefield, they they were spiting him for it. You this you this young boy, what are you looking for? Are you here again? Are you... Is that how you speak to somebody that was another king? It means the anointing was upon his life, but there was no result that was evidence to many.
And that platform was about to be the platform that will announce him to many results. And the moment Goliath came crashing down and he took off the head of Goliath, that was the fruitfulness that was needed to recommend him before all of Israel. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Yes. His consistent results forced Saul to take notice of him. Saul jealous. Without proofs, anointing does not command dominion. Without proofs, anointing alone doesn't command dominion. Without evidence, without results, anointing alone doesn't command dominion.
No matter how skilled a businessman is, if he has no track record of success, no investor will take him seriously. People don't invest in ideas. They invest in businesses. In other words, I'm not gonna invest just because you have a good idea. I have to see what you have done with that idea in getting some results. Because I'm putting my money inside of something. I can't put my money in your brain. Do I know if that... If you have the the wisdom and the managerial skill needed to build a business? It's one thing to have an idea and a good one at that.
It's another to be able to build a business. In other words, what have you done so far since the implementation of this idea? How much have you made? All these indices now makes me think if I can give you a 100,000,000 naira, a $100,000,000, it means that if you have made this amount so far with the little resources you have with you, you can do more if you had more. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It is on that ground I invest in what you are doing. In other words, ideation and stopping there is not enough. That's the reason why several people go for competitions like this that attempt to empower business people, and they think that when they just hear my idea? When they just hear my idea?
But someone who has built a great business is not a food. Glory to god. How to about the parable of the talents? The servants who were faithful with their master resources were given more authority and more dominion. In Luke 19 verse 17, the bible says, and he said to them, well done good and faithful servant, because you are faithful in a very little, have authority. The previous verse says, your mina has end 10 minas. In other words, look at the results I've provided. I've been able to do business with what you have given to me enough to multiply this. Your minas and 10 minas. Then the next verse now says, because you have been faithful over a little, have authority.
That's dominion. So because you have been fruitful, have dominion. Because you have been fruitful, have dominion. This is the principle. All over scriptures, you find this written. The one that hid his talent and produced more fruit was stripped of even what he had. In business, a company must first produce quality product or services. That's fruitfulness. Before it can dominate the market, dominion. Apple, for example, did not dominate the tech industry until it consistently produced innovative and reliable products.
You know of Samsung, the same thing with Samsung. The same thing all this industry that you now know of. There were industries that were dominating at some point, but they stopped dominating when results could no longer... The results that they had or the kind of result that they were producing was no longer fitted for people in that position. And when other people came with superior results, they dominated the market. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? In ministry, a pastor or a church must first demonstrate fruitfulness as seen in the amount of lives transformed and impact in the society, impact in the lives of people, and even the growth of the church before it can command territorial dominion or influence societal structures. There is a level of fruitfulness that must be exemplified in your life, that must be seen in your life. When you read the book of John chapter 15 verse eight, the bible says, by this, my father is glorified that you bear much fruit. You see, by this, my father is glorified that you bear much fruit so you will be my disciples.
By this, my father is glorified that you bear much fruit so you will be my disciples. Bearing fruit is not optional. It is a fundamental expectation of God for every believer. In other words, God expects fruits from your life. I've taught you this. God expects results from your life. This is Jesus speaking. He says, the way to glorify God is not just to say, God be glorified. By this, my father is glorified. So there is a level of glory that comes to God when you say, oh, I glorify you.
Jesus did not say by this my father is glorified when you say, God, take all the glory. He says, no. When you bear much fruits, then glory comes to my father. When your life bears results, then glory come to my father. In Colossians chapter one and verse nine, we see Paul praying for the Colossian church. And he tells them, for this reason, we also, since the day we heard of it, do not cease to pray for you and to act that you may be filled with knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. In verse 10, he continues to pray for them. He says that you may walk worthy of the Lord. You see, I'm praying for you that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing God, being fruitful in every good work. So how do you walk worthy of the Lord?
How do you please God? Being fruitful. He didn't say that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing God, and become fruitful. It says, being. Prevent continuous. It means it is an explanation of the first three statement that was made. Being. In other words, how you walk worthy of the Lord and how you fully please God is by being fruitful in every good work. So if a man is not fruitful in every good work, he's not walking worthy of the Lord. If a man is not fruitful in every good work, he's not pleasing God because the way to please God is to be fruitful, is to have results in your life.
Are you with me? Yes, sir. In Matthew chapter five verse 16, the bible says, let your light so shine before men. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven. God intends for your life to be a visible testimony of his power. God intends for your life to be a visible testimony of his wisdom. God intends for your life to be a visible testimony of his favor, his victory to all men. The extraordinary result that flow from your life is what draws others to God. The Bible says that they may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven. Think of it this way.
The most effective way to promote a product is by demonstrating the results that it delivers. If you are confident in the product's ability to fulfill its promises, you have no fear of scrutiny. However, if you exaggerate or misrepresent the capabilities of the product, you will live in constant fear of being exposed. So if I am the inventor of this phone and I say that it has high p 60 or high p 21 or high p 50 water resistance, the way that I would show you that this is true is in whatever advertisement I'm doing, I drop it in water. Is that not so? I pick it up again, and I see that the phone is still functioning. As long as that is true, I have no fear for anybody reviewing that product. But if it's not true, I'll be constantly afraid, live in fear of people exposing or discovering the manipulation. How that we have made a claim that we cannot defend or we have made a claim that our product cannot defend. Do you understand what I'm saying now?
So if for every time you use this phone and the phone leaves off to its claim, it drops in water and it's still okay, slams on the floor and it's still okay. For every time that happens, it is glory coming to the manufacturer that your claims are true. Do you understand what I am saying? That your claims are true. Imagine the manufacturer makes a car, and he promises you that this car is an off road vehicle. And it has been saddled with the necessary suspensions needed to go off road. Now off road vehicle. In other words, it should be able to perform. I should not have fear when people are testing the products that I've created because I made claims that I can defend. Do you understand what I'm saying?
That is exactly how glory comes to God. That there are claims that the Bible makes about God. That it is unto us to defend. And for every time that our life does not live up to that expectation, they are calling... They're saying that what the bible says about God is not true. So you see, result is not just for your sake. It's not just because of you so you can live a good life. No. No. No.
No. No. No. It's because there's a lot at stake. There's a boast that God has made over your life. There's a boast that everyone has made over your life that makes it compulsory for your life to bear fruits. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Many believers lack confidence in their faith work because they are not yet sure of all the things that we claim that God is and all the things that we claim that God is able to do. Your results matter because they validate the truth of what you believe and proclaim.
Please believe what I'm teaching you. That if you are a student, you have to be excellent. You can't fail. You can't be having poor grades in school. It's not just about you anymore. It is that the moment you say, I'm a believer, a lot is at stake. The moment you say I'm a Christian, a lot is at stake. There is spotlight upon you. Everybody is watching what what you... What what what turns out of your life or what your life becomes.
Do you know that? Do you know that? You rarely find lecturers come to classrooms and start saying that the reason why people fail is because they go clubbing. You rarely find... I'm not saying that it does not exist, but you rarely find it. But what you'll find most commonly is that they would say that it'd be because you're praying so much. All those fellowship people. All the... And they never say all those club people. All those cultist people.
You ever find a lecturer come through and say, hey. All those these people. That's why they're not feeling. Oh, that's why they're not passing. Sorry. The attack is always central against the church because there's a battle against the church. There is an intense battle against the church. The Bible says I will build I will build my church, and the gates of ages will not prevail. There there are always constant attacks against the church and everything that the church is doing. That is why a believer should not be a part of these attacks.
Everything that the church does will be scrutinized. Scrutinized as against the claims of God. You go on social media, attacks against the body of Christ, attacks against the church, isolating what a man of God says out of context. Out of context. Just to start a conversation, just to create a controversy, to start everybody talking. And somebody who did not come down to hear everything the man of God said will start throwing attacks, start throwing arrows, and all kind of things like that. Because as long as they discharge... Do you know that if a politician wants to go into power, there are an arm of his campaign committee that all they do is raise finances. And they'll reach out to partners, reach out to rich people who believe in his mandate to supply lots of resources for that campaign. And you'll never hear any newspaper come to audition that to say so and so amount was raised for this politician to become a president.
Look at how much he spent. Why are you giving them money and all? But you let a church come and say one of you. In other words, the problem is not that people give. It's just that they give to the church. Because there are several things that people give to that we don't even care about. Don't even care about. Let let what we are doing be an NGO. Nobody care that you get to an NGO. You won't hear it anywhere.
It's not worthy of news. Then what we are doing be a foundation, and then we say, okay. We we have a foundation that is picking people off the street. Noble, isn't it? But nobody's gonna have any problem with that. You let it be the church. Let it be the church that comes to say we want to pick people off the street. We need 10,000,000 naira to do this. Oh, you watch. You watch.
Let the let the foundation say we want to be the hospital. No problem. Let the church say we want to be the hospital. Watch the attacks that will follow. Can you see? Can you see? Is that is that is that? Because as long as it is God, the devil is always put minds in every claim that God has made. Every. And your life is what is available to defend the claims.
Your life is what God has made available to defend the claims. Your life is a response that God gives to the world. Your life is a response that God gives to the demons, principalities, powers. Your life is a response that God gives. As a believer, you have to be wealthy. It's not subject to choice. You have to be rich. Your business has to prosper. If you are employed, you have to bring joy to your employers. If five of you are doing the same thing, you have to have the highest results.
You have been called to a life of perpetual results. You have to be able to finance the gospel, giving millions for the sake of the gospel. This is the life you have been called to live as a believer. You have to be prosperous. There's no choice about that. If you're listening to me, believe what I'm saying. Believe what I'm saying. It's not just so you can live well. Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Refuse mediocrity. Refuse it. Refuse smallness. Refuse failure. In every area of your life, refuse it. Insist that I cannot be small. Insist that I cannot fail. Insist.
I will not be a mediocre. I will excel in all my hands, finds doing. I will excel in all my hands, doing. I will not be broke. I won't lack. I won't be begging up and down. It shouldn't be heard that a believer is the one that is caught owing people money, and they came to come and drag him by the belt in his house. They drag him and say, ah. Say, ah, prayer warrior. Do you know that that...
That's that's communicating larger language to people more than you're preaching? On what ground should I accept what you're teaching? Teaching? On what ground should I accept what you believe? If what you believe is incapable of changing your own life, how do I know to change my own life? I will rather remain the way I am than to subscribe to the version of Christianity you are subscribed to that lacks results. Do you believe what I'm teaching? I will never be the same. I've touched your grace. My life has changed.
I will never be the same. It is crucial to understand that God desires for your life to be a continuous outpouring of supernatural manifestations that reveal the limitless possibilities of his kingdom. This is not a privilege reserved for pastors or the five fold ministry. It is the birthright of every believer in Christ. That that are that are God, it also inspires others that to seek him. Let this truth sink deep into your heart. God's desire for you is a life of unending fruitfulness where his glory is revealed in and through the extraordinary results in your life, in and through the extraordinary results in your life. Ephesians chapter three in the New Living Translation verse 10, the bible says, God's purpose in all this God's purpose in all this was to use the church. Can you see this? To use the church to displace wisdom.
My goodness. Now the purpose of God in all this was to use your life to displace wisdom. And the Bible says in its rich variety, In other words, is multifaceted wisdom, is multidimensional wisdom, in its rich variety. Now when people want to learn the wisdom of God, they won't come to God. God has a display room on earth called Sama. How many of you how many of you have have passed by a a shopping mall or a supermarket before, and you see a showroom in front of it, and you see manicures wearing nice clothes. Is that not so? When you see a showroom of cars and you see nice cars and you stand in front of the showroom and and what you're seeing in that showroom is almost moving you to go and ask them how much is it. That is what God is in your life to do, displace power, to displace wisdom so that in seeing you, men can now find how do I have this too. That is the purpose of results.
The bible says that the purpose of God in all was to use the church to display his wisdom, to display his wisdom in all its variety. In other words, we look at your academics and we see the wisdom of God. It's variety. It is multidimensional wisdom. Your family, I will see the wisdom of God. Your business, I will see the wisdom of God. Your career, I will see the wisdom of God. The choices and the decisions you are making, I will see the wisdom of God. The choice of whom to marry, we see the wisdom of God. The choice even in the stability of your marriage, we see the wisdom of God.
In how you are able to raise or build a massive business, in how that you are employed in a place and they are laying off every other person but you because of how diligent you've been. And we see the wisdom of God in your difficulty in replaceability. We see the wisdom of God because it is not difficult to replace you. Of God. But in a time when there is famine, you keep on saying there's a lifting up. You keep on rising. You keep on shooting forward. We see the wisdom of God in how you are able to give so generously to God and to his kingdom. We see the wisdom of God. I am not withholding your hands back, that heaven find expression in and through your life.
We see the wisdom of God in how you get lifted, in how you're becoming prosperous, defiling the wisdom of men, defiling natural principles. However, the bible says that it's he that scattereth and yet increase it. Even in this, we see the wisdom of God. It means when people come to you and say, how did you prosper? You tell them I give. But they say, how about the business you do? Teach us about the business. Say, listen. You can do this thing and not prosper. I have several people who do this, and they've not even gotten clients in five years.
Listen. It's not just in the business. There are many doing business. There's a wisdom I've subscribed into. The next time that person wants to debate the wisdom of God, your life becomes a showroom. They want to say, hey. It's not... Look at him. Look at him. That's what God wants to use your life for.
So that's what I'm saying. It's not just for you. It's not just so you can live a good life. There's a level of glory that comes to God. Don't you ever think that God is the author of poverty. Don't you ever think that God is the author of failure. Don't you ever think that God is rewarding you with smallness or rewarding you with mediocrity just to just to make you humble or something. All of of these things don't please God. Yes, love. Yes, love.
When you're a billionaire, glory comes to God. As you sit now in that boardroom and they are asking you questions, so how do you want to do this for us? Even my team and I, we have a highly structured... And as you are talking, God is mighty. That's my son. That's my that's my son. And they vet all the options, and they realize that you're just the one that is best fitted for the job. And you signed a multibillionaire contract. We award it to you. Go and go and start it.
Glory comes to God. That you come and stand in church and you say, how? I give all the glory to God. My life has not become a message even to the world. Glory comes to God. Results are evangelists, and they are powerful evangelists at that. There's a message that your result will preach that is superior to what your words can say. In your academics, your results. Listen to me. Hate failure.
Hate mediocrity. Hate it with... Hate it with hatred, with holy hatred, hate smoleness. These things are anti god. They do not work to advance the purposes of god so god cannot be responsible for them. God wants to make a boast of your life. He wants to use your life to displace more time forfeited wisdom to all un seen and unseen rulers and authorities. It means God has given you access to his wisdom, and he wants you by that wisdom to live an extraordinary life. Say with me. I decree and I declare I decree and declare.
That my life must produce supernatural results in the name of Jesus. You will not leave a useless Christian life. You will not live a barren Christian life. I reject a powerless generation. I reject it. I reject it. There's a level you get to where certain things no longer become testimonies. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. I'm telling you.
Don't you realize that the provision of manna from heaven was only for a season? If that manna stayed in their house more than a day, the manna becomes rotten despite it was God's provision. In other words, there are testimony that should not overstay their welcome. There's a point I should thank God because I got a job paying me 80,000 naira. It can't come when that is an insult. Jesus Christ. That that to tell people at this particular phase of your life, at this stage, that this is there was a time when that was a testimony, and we thank God, and we celebrate God. But come on now. You should have overtaken this level. You shouldn't be here anymore.
God said, tell the children of Israel that you have compassed this mountain long enough. It means there was a certain time when you should be there. But come on now. You should have grown beyond this mountain enough to see further. Tell the children of Israel to go northward. It is possible to encompass a mountain long enough. And God says, come on. Come on. You have stayed here for so long. Whatever is happening here is no longer a testimony.
Imagine an 80 I want to thank God. I got my first car, Toyota Corolla 1999. You know, we thank God. We got it a testimony. But somewhere in the other mind, we say, uh-uh. Somewhere inside... Imagine that it was a 20 year old man who came to give that same testimony. You are not the 20 year old man who should have said he meant to that. Because I can't imagine how 1999, corona is what you want to start. But but but still still being safe.
Yeah. Imagine with me that that's that's that's a 20 year old man giving a testimony for that. Agree with me that we sweet... We thank God for it. And we say, what do we say? Today, just started his life. In other words, don't expect him to remain there. And I just said it, I saw cars. Listen. Don't expect him to remain there.
You should live in a good house. And it shouldn't take long. Do know you know? As you're growing, there's a certain kind of house that's not even befitting for that person. It is true. It is true. Like it or not, like it or not, no matter how much people insult the church, insult pastors, insult men of God, the truth is that the prosperity that this man of God that they insult exemplify is the reason why the Christianity is desirable for many. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It is true.
Not for all, but for many. Because people now see that it is possible to serve God and be and be blessed. It is possible to serve God and prosper. And that is the method God wants to communicate even with your life. Yes. But you can be a student and be an excellent Christian student as that. A believer who is excellent. Ah, what glory comes to God? Oh, what glory comes to God? I'm challenging you out of mediocrity.
Oh, what glory comes to God? Your life should not be a mockery. Your life should not be... Should not bring... Me also say this. Results act as a consolation to your Christian experience. Your pursuit for God and the things of the spirit is not all about results. Our primary pursuit is to know God and to know him for ourselves, like Paul says. But in the dealings of the spirit, in the dealings of God with men, there is a very unique consolation that results bring to people. You can serve God when you are poor.
True? But I tell you, you will serve God better when you are blessed. Yes, sir. You can serve God when you are stagnated. You can serve God in the midst of pain, but you will serve him better when you are free and liberated. You can serve God in poverty. You can serve God in failure. You can serve God in all of these things. I'm not saying that these things are abyss or him. This is for serving God.
No. You can serve God regardless of them, in spite of them. But you'll find that your serving God is much more beautiful when you serve him in his, when you serve him in comfort. A witness without evidence lacks credibility. When you testify that God is faith people will look for proof. Not everyone is spiritual. The Bible says the Greeks seek a sign. The results become the evidence that back up your testimony. They will come to the well like the woman by the well. They will not come to the well because of Jesus.
They will come to the well because they want water. The water is a typology of the outflow of your results. That's why they will come to the well because they want water. Remember, the bible says that out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. That's the reason why Jesus was staying by the well to typify what comes out of the believer. Because what that woman came to was not Jesus. What she came to was the water of Jesus Christ. Then when they come to the well, then then they will now encounter Jesus. In other words, the water becomes the attraction. Now their conviction will now be greater than the than the results even after they've encountered Jesus.
But that what attracts them is the excellency of the workings of God in your life. The results that follow. I have never seen a small church. Never. I've never seen a small ministry. It's not something that I started saying now. I've been saying it when I was... Just had two people with me. Two. I've been describing to them what I was seeing, and there was never a time it has been small.
I've never been shaken in my convictions that these things will find expression. I've had many preachers who come tell me that, oh, it's not good to be ambitious as as a preacher. Oh, all of these things. Oh, all of that things. You must be contented. It's God that determines. I will show you very soon. That is not God who determines how many people you pastor. You are the one. It's not God who determines how large your church is.
You are the one. It's not God who determines how large your ministry is. You are the one. It's not God who determines how large your business is. You are the one. It's not God who determines how successful your marriage is, you are the one. Stay with me. So that mentality that, hey, you know, God wants it. How God wants it is already clear in scripture. Already so clear in in scriptures.
Isaiah chapter two and verse two, the bible says, it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on top of the mountains. Verse 30 says many people shall come and say, come, let us go up the mountain of the Lord. You see, there is what people will see in your life that will make them say, come, let us go up the mountain of the Lord. That is what they will see in your life. Your life becomes a living invitation to the mountain of the Lord. John chapter 10 and verse 37. The Bible says, if I do not the works of my father, do not believe me. Hey, Jesus. This is Jesus speaking. He say if you don't see works, don't believe me.
It means there's no foundation for people to believe you if they don't see works. It's Jesus who said it. If I do not the works of my father, then don't believe me. Look at the next verse. It says it says, but if I do, though you do not believe me, believe the works. That you see works, that you see my life littered with results here and there. You may not believe me, but believe that ordinary men cannot do this. So even if my words are failed to explain my convictions, let my adult explain it. Moses got before pharaoh, and he only altered the statement, let my people go. Remember that the one that God sent was a stammer.
He couldn't speak so much words. He didn't have oratory, but he had results. It don't matter how much you can speak. It only matter how much results can speak. When Moses got before Pharaoh, he just threw the rod down and he became a servant. And they brought those two, three jokers. And they say, you think you're the only one who can do this? Throw their own rods as well. And all of a sudden, I see the power of God so strong here. So strong here.
So strong. I just see light moving. Just see light moving as I'm speaking. It's anointings coming upon people, and gracings and empowerments coming upon people. Just be very, very sensitive. It will happen as I'm speaking. I'm not necessarily moving in the power, but I just see things dropping upon people. Those things dropping upon people. Results. Results.
Power. That's what is happening. That's what is happening. The power of God coming upon people to change their lives, to turn their lives around. You see, let me tell you something. This is not a joke. The power of God doesn't come to people or come upon people just to make fun of them. No. It comes to change lives. It comes to set people free.
It comes to make the oppressed delivered, the blind to see, those who have been ordained for higher realms of glory, who have sat down on a spot for long. The power of God comes to make that a reality. That is what the power of God comes to do. They have been trying to do something in your strength all along, but the bible says by might can no man prevail. Not by power, not by might, but by my spirit, said the Lord. That is what the power of God comes to do. Remember that Mary says, how shall these things be? That even in your bearing results, there are things that God will put in your heart, and you will have no idea how they will come to pass because they they defy logic. They defy common sense. How is God telling you that you will do all of these things?
How does someone have the kind of background that I... Kind of parents that I have, the kind of upbringing that I have, and then you show me this kind of vision? How shall these things be? And the angel told Mary the power of God. The power of the highest shall overshadow you. The holy ghost shall come upon you. So when you see the power of God coming upon people and the holy ghost coming upon people, what is happening literally is things that defile logic. Things that defile logic. Literally, things that defile logic. Results.
You may not believe me, but believe my works. I might not know how to tell you that Jesus is alive, but watch as I lay my hands on a sick man. Watch as I lay my hands on a blind man. Watch as I tell the oppressed, be delivered. Watch as I tell cancer, get out of this body. Watch as I tell HIV AIDS, be cleansed from this body. Watch as I tell someone who has lost a limb limb, grow out. Watch as I tell someone with a deaf ear? Deaf ears open. Do you feel you won't believe me then?
You may not believe me, but believe my works. There are works I brought. I didn't come alone. I came defended. I came with evidence. I came with claims. But my claims can be defended. My claims can be defended. They said there's one babalawi in the village for your father's house, and he's so stubborn. He's saying nobody will rise.
Nobody will do this and that. Nobody... You see you see, even after you have risen, there's a level of result that you now have that makes you go and meet the Babalawi and say, I learned that your children are not going to school. Can I can I can I sponsor them to? Results. Babalawan Results. Undeniable results. God sized accomplishment, I like to call them extraordinary. Extraordinary. Results that defy human thinking, that defy logic.
Jesus Jesus understood this, that people respect and follow results, that I can see your works, and by your works, I know who sent you. This is the impact that results have. I can't see your works, and I know who sent you by your works. How many of you how many of you you've ever seen road constructions, and then you would see built by Julius Berger? Built by Julius Berger. Road constructions. You've seen houses, and they stand so I am mighty. And you know that this must be the work of an intelligent craftsman. Is that not so? But there are times you see how a road is constructed, and you know Julius Baker did not build this.
It's not as though you were there when it was being built, but it doesn't look like there are results. It means I can know who sent you by what you bring. I can know who sent you by what your life demonstrates. I can know who sent you. I can know who sent you. By the correct... Oh my god. There's so many people listening to me that it is your result that will convert your family members. It is not your words. There's so little you can say.
There's been so many arguments, so many back to back. Are you sure you know what you are doing? Are you sure you know what you are doing? But God gives a grace. Power. God gives a grace. For the earnest expectation of creation awaits the manifestation of the songs of God. Not the excuses of the songs of God. Not the explanations of the songs of God. The manifestations of the songs of God.
We have explained enough. We've given enough excuses. It is time for the songs of God to manifest, to rise in glory and power, to rise in glory and power, in power, in might, and splendor. It is time for you to be a beacon of light Even in your academics, even in your finances, even in your marriage, even in your life, your ministry, it is time for you to be a beacon of light. Hear me? Throw away every excuse that has held you back. Throw away every excuse that has kept you down. There are many people whose conversion, whose growth, whose maturity is tied to your results. For some of you, that includes your family members, that includes your colleagues in your workplace, that includes your schoolmates, your members in the church, your neighbors. Yeah.
Conversions tied to your results. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me? I was sitting down in class one time, and when I was a student, and a young man a young man and a young girl, their friends, had the boldness to come to me and to tell me that I'm antisocial. Why am I antisocial? And I told them, I said, it's... I'm not antisocial. It's just because there's nothing that I want to discuss with you people.
And they said, why? I said, because I'm ten years ahead of you. The lady was the one that gave a long hiss. That was some years ago. I was in a filling station last year. I came out of my car, and the person to sell me for was the lady. That's how I meet them all. I met one last week as well somewhere, also offering me service. I felt so bad when I saw him. I had to give him a tip.
And I remembered what I said, and many would have thought it was arrogance when I said it. Many would have thought it was pride when I said it, but results defend the claims. Hear me? Hear me? You cannot argue with results. Yes, sir. Sir. Sir. Be speak louder than words. I remember I remember when we were in school, a young lady was telling a friend of mine that all these tongues you people speak is just nonsense you're saying.
It's just rubbish you're saying. It's just this and that. Is that really? Is that what you think? He said, yes. He said, no problem. After class, follow me. And both of them went to the Chapel Of Resurrection. And he said, it's just rubbish, Abi. He said, yes.
Alright. Stand there. Stand there. I will say the rubbish. Just look at me. And the guy started. And he started raising the intensity. Well, the girl was just looking at him like this, easing severally. She started vibrating like someone struck by electricity. Vibrating.
Vibrating. Went out flat under the power, knocked ahead against one stone. I like that. I like the scar of an... That... The scar of an encounter of rebellion. I like it. I like it. Every time you see that scar, you remember how you mocked what brought it. You will tell your children, see, God is real.
Have a scar to show you that God is real. God? Hold my hands. There's of no need to speak much words when I can show you. A lady was working with us. We just finished fellowship some years ago, and we just finished... We we were working. The young young boys, young girls and young boys just walking up, and we were discussing. And a few ladies that followed me were at my back, and then the guys were at the front and were just walking, gisting, all of us, excited at what God had just done in the fellowship. And they were...
These these these guys were just there being to one of the girls. And we looked at her. He said, go. Because we knew what will happen. Yes. You see, if you are if you are certain of the product Sir. You will not be afraid of scrutiny. This one... I was not... The product can be tested.
I wasn't scared. Let me go and meet them. Oh, we're walking. We still we still have one corner. Then after, like, five, ten minutes, she came back holding two of them. They followed him. He said, this is prophet Emmanuel. This is mentioned, introduced everybody. He said so. They just accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior.
And you see those two boys mature and big as they were. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Didn't like that. I said, Kai, results. I asked her, what did you go and do? I said he was just speaking. I told him, who is Michael? And they thought that he was guessing because the friend that... The person who just left there, just took a bike and left was the one that was Michael.
So was no Michael amongst them. So she thought that... Just... They just laughed and mocked and said, all those all those all those Christian nonsense. You know, the... She thought just you get holy, holy, holy, holy, and as they were saying that, the girl now asks, why is your mom crying? Yeah. Why is your mom crying? He's in the hospital. Then the guy could not speak again.
The other one was still saying, hey. The one that they asked in the video was the one that eat that one. He slapped sense into the guys. I know. Let's hear what the lady has to say. Both of them were mocking just now, but results cannot be argued with. The Christian work must never be passive. It is foolish to remain complacent with your life if your life is not yet producing results. If your life is not yet producing fruits, if poverty, if stagnation, if lack is still what you see around your life, it's foolish to become complacent. The Bible says, woe to them that are at ease in Zion.
There is a time where where you should not be at ease. There's a time where you should be restless. There's a time where you should be hungry, insisting. That is not a time to rest. The Christian walk must never be passive. It must never be inert because you are on an active mission to reveal Jesus, to reveal Jesus to the world. And if you are truly committed to this Jesus project, it will require more than just folding your hands in comfort. When we advocate for results in ministry, it is not just to prove a point. Oh, no. It is because the program of God is result dependent.
No one will follow you to your Jesus if your life lacks evidence of his power. People may support you out of obligation, out of relationship, but genuine followership is perfect when they see the results of God and his hand in your life. If your life is a barren of results, you risk creating doubt, creating unbelief in the heart of those around you. Let me pray for you. Listen to me. Whatever has caused people to turn away from the version of Jesus that you have been presenting, whatever has sent people into doubt or even hell because they could not see the evidence of God's power in your life. I declare from today that your life command extraordinary results. May your life become an undeniable testimony Help him. Help him. Help him.
Oh, God is so strong. In the book of second Peter chapter one verse three. The bible says, I've read it from the tipity. It says everything we could ever need for life and godliness. Everything. Hey, Jesus. I'm excited. Everything we could ever need for life and godliness. For life and complete devotion has already been deposited in us. Everything.
Everything. Everything we could ever need for life. Everything we could ever need for life has already been deposited in us. Oh, glory to God. It means you have no excuse as a believer. Everything you could ever need for life and devotion to God has already been deposited in you. I've got everything I would ever need inside of me. Everything needed to live a productive life. Everything needed to be fruitful. Everything needed to excel in academics.
Everything needed to build a godly home, everything needed to build a godly ministry, everything needed to have an illustrious career, to rise in promotions in my job, to rise and get even quality jobs, to rise in favor, everything needed for life has been given to me. Yeah. I love Jesus. Everything needed. The bible then says in John chapter 10 verse 10, that the thief cometh not but to steal, to kill, and to destroy, but I have come that you might have life. He says everything needed for life. I have come that you may have life and have that life more abundantly. In the amplified version, it says, have that life more abundantly to the full till it overflows. So everything needed for you to have life as it overflows. Everything needed for you to have life more abundantly to the full has been given to you.
To the full means to have enough for yourself. To it overflows, meaning it spills over to others. And you are able to bless nations, and you are able to lend to nations. Everything needed for that kind of life has been given to you. John three verse 16, what was given? The Bible says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Whosoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life. So what Jesus gave was life. What Jesus gave was life, and the Bible calls that life everything you need. Verse 20 to five, the bible says in verse 11, and this is the testimony that God has given us what now?
Eternal life. Does it say this is the testimony that God will give us eternal life? It says that God has given us. In other words, eternal life is not life after death because you already have it. You had it when you received Jesus as Lord and savior. God gave eternal life, and that life, the bible says, is in his son. Verse 12 says, and he who has the son has life. He who does not have the son of God does not have life. Verse 13 says, these things I have written to you who believe in the name of the son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. Can you declare I have eternal life?
He says this thing I have written to you that you may know. It means it is important to let those who have it know they have it. This thing I'm saying to you that you may know. This thing have been written for us that we should know. This thing I'm now telling you that you should know that you have eternal life because you can have that life and not understand the functionality and the derivative of that life, and you are cheated out of what that life comes to give. And so it says this thing I have written to you that you may know. You might have something you don't know as a believer, it won't profit you. They know not. Mind that they understand. They walk on in darkness.
The foundations of the earth are out of course. The bible says they will die like mere men and fall like one of these princes because they know not. What don't they know? Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the most high god. And as long as they are barren of this knowledge, the bible says they will die like nay men in as much as they should not. Because God don't die. I have wisdom and life. I have the life of God. I life God. This is not something that is gonna happen.
It is already your experience right now. You have the life of God. I've taught you here that the way to make your faith effectual is by acknowledging every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. Philemon chapter one verse six. And one thing that is in you in Christ Jesus is life. There is life inside of me. The Bible makes it clear that it is like, you have to believe what I'm to you. There is life on my inside. In other words, if you cannot... If you don't acknowledge it, you won't see it work.
That means if you're not conscious of it, if it's not in your consciousness, you know that it is when things happen to you all of a sudden that you know what you are conscious of. It must eat so deep in you that that becomes your spinal response to life. That your spinal response to life is life. Your spinal response to life, that without thinking, what comes out of you is an outflow of the life that you have been given. That shows that you have eaten it. You have believed it. You have received it. This is what makes for the results of men, you see, because the bible says this is everything a man would ever need that pertains onto life. Are you with me? The reason a lot of believers don't live enviable lives is because we are not conscious of the life of God at work in us.
Eternal life, I've said it again and again. It's not life after death. It's not life in heaven. It is God's own life. It is life as God has it. It is the very thing that makes God, God. The very essence of God. That is what has been given to you as a believer. So you have the life of God. That is Zoe, eternal life, the life of God.
The very life of God has been given to the believer. It means the possibilities of God should be the possibilities of the believer. And you have to be conscious of it because Paul says these things are right to you that you may know. It means you must know that it is God's life that is at work in me. It is God's life that dwells in me. You must know. Are you with me brothers and sisters? When we say you have eternal life, what we are saying, it literally is that you have God's very own life at work in you. It's not God's kind of life. It is God's very own life.
It is surreal to know that we have the same life that makes God God. Oh, how beautiful. Oh, how beautiful. Oh, means the cause I have with other life, then stagnation, then failure, then barrenness should not define my life because these things cannot be found in God. It means there's a level at which I'll be conscious of the life of God at work in me that I will reject circumstances that does not align with that life. And I would see it as abnormal for me to be in it. Do you understand what I am saying? Because you have eternal life, you can only be exceptional in your academics, productive in your business, illustrious in your career, powerful in your ministry. Anything you pursue has an imprint of life on it. First Corinthians two verse 16.
The bible says in the amplified version, for who has known the mind and the purposes of the Lord? Who has understood the mind and the purposes of the Lord? So as to guide and instruct him and give him knowledge is about we, But we. Can we read this together? One, two, three, go. Pause. Does it say you will have it? Does it say you will have it? What does it say? You have the mind of Christ, and we hold the thoughts, feelings, and purposes of his heart.
Oh, Jesus. It means it means I have the thoughts of God. I am never to be confused about my purpose because I have the mind of Christ, and that mind of Christ makes me know the purpose of the heart of God. So the believer should not be saying, sir, I'm confused. I'm so confused. I'm... It should be a weird thing to you that you are confused because the bible says that you have the feelings of his heart. You have the purposes of his heart. It means whatever I'm feeling that does not look like God is is a wrong feeling. I should throw it away.
I should rebuke it. I'm I'm living a life that is that is unreal for me. Do you understand what I'm saying here? I heard a story of a young man who grew up with monkeys. Not movie, in Uganda. Real life story. Grew up with monkeys for almost forty years, abandoned somewhere, and literally grew up with monkeys. Bent back, walks with his legs and hands, bent hands like that of a monkey. Literally grew abnormally. Grew up, hurt what monkeys hurt.
Climb like monkeys climb. You go read the stories in Uganda. Real life story. Then soldiers found him in the bush when they were conducting a raid and took him out of the bush and brought him to a rehabilitative center. Real life story. He lived ten years there and died because he just couldn't get used to the life. Now question, what was in him? Was it human life or monkey life? Well, how come he was living like a monkey? Because he grew with monkeys.
So the experiences of monkeys became his experience. So much so he grew up physically in his morphology like a monkey. This is... I'm aware that he could not hit what man... That when did I try to give him what man ate, he could not survive ten years. Someone who has lived forty years. They put him on a bed. He would leave the bed and go and sleep outside. Climb on roof and stay on the roof. What eventually killed him was that he he ate a dead rat or a dead cat or so.
What... How many dead things have he have he eaten in the bush? And he's not there. But because he was not used to this life that you're now introducing him to despite the fact that that is the life that he has. But that is not what he has been taught. That's not how he grew. Forty years of his life was conditioned otherwise. So to bring himself again, that's how many people can have the life of God but live like mere men. That's the same that's the same way. It is possible to have the life of God, but live like mere men.
That your experiences are like that of mere men. That when you're not when you're not, you know, introduced to the god life, it feels strange to you. They say you should not be poor, but you are not comfortable being rich. Like the guy is not used to a bed. You're not understanding what I'm saying. Your mind has not yet grasped that reality. That's why that is what you have in you. Apostle John, this this thing I write to you that you may know. Because if you don't know, things as good as you don't have it despite you do. And your life will reflect the possibilities of many men in terms of their failure and their stagmas and their pain and their lack and their poverty and all of these things.
With eternal life, whatever I read, should understand. If I have the mind of Christ, I cannot be confused as a believer. I know what to do always. I understand what I read. With eternal life, I operate with the intelligence of God. We are not ordinary. Daniel one verse 20. The Bible says Daniel and his friends were 10 times better than their peers because of the divine wisdom that they had. If you are a student with it in our life, you don't struggle intellectually. You engage the life of God that is inside of you.
It surpasses the wisdom of human limits. Declare with me, I have eternal life. I'm more ordinary. I'm ordinary. My mind is sharp. My mind is sharp. My is quick. My understanding quick. Grasp. I I grasp.
Complex subjects. Complex subjects. Easily. Easily. My intelligence is of God. My intelligence God. I have the life of God. I have the God. Approach your exams. Approach your research work.
Approach problem solving with the mindset of divine intelligence. When you face a blockade in your execution or you are doing something for a client and you face a blockade, understand. Remember, don't let your initial response... Remember, I told you should be your spinal response. Could not be defeat. It should be... I have a life on my inside. I can't be blocked. I can't be incapacitated. I can't be limited.
I have a life on my inside. I'm so conscious of this. I know this like I know my name. I have a life on my inside. Oh, I believe this. Listen. This thing is real. It's real to me. I have a life on my inside. Deuteronomy eight verse 18, the bible says, but you remember the Lord your God for it is he who gives you the power, the ability to produce wealth, the power to produce wealth.
That is life. Does not give you money. He gives the ability, power, life to create wealth. Eternal life enables you to have divine ideas, divine strategies, and favor even in your business. The bible says Isaac prospered in famine because the life of God attracts supernatural possibilities, attracts supernatural results that when it should not work for others, it will work for me because I have the life of God on my inside. The life of God cannot be rejected. So I know I cannot be rejected. Even if I was, I know it's not my experience so I can go again and be accepted because I have the life of God on my inside. Listen. One of my daughter was sharing with me how that she was posted in a PPA somewhere in the North to the best place you can ever serve as a court member, posted there.
And when she got there, men with the HR personnel, and she was injected immediately. No. Because it's a very big place, apparently. No. She went back. As she was going, people started coming to her. What happened? Yeah. They did not accept me. Really?
Come back tomorrow. Meet the same person again. Okay? She came by the following day, met the same person, stamped it, and that was it. No questions asked. No... What's it? See, the life in you cannot be rejected. Listen. Listen.
Listen. It means if that is your experience, understand it cannot be. Yes, sir. Sir. It Yes, means in your in your business, expect divine creativity. Yes, sir. Expect strategic insights. Expect unusual favor in your business. Declare with me I'm never stuck. Help comes to me every time.
I'm helped by God. I'm surrounded by favor. I have the ability to create wealth, to solve complex problems. I'm favored all around. I have the life of God. Listen. Listen. Romans eight and verse 11, NLT. The Bible says the spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. The spirit of God who raises Jesus from the dead lives in you.
If the same power, the same spirit, the same life that rose Jesus from the dead lives in you, do you know the implication of this? It means that there is no limitation that can define you. There's no problem that can be too much a problem that cannot break out of it. If death could not hold Jesus captive, then the same spirit lives in me. No affliction can hold me captive. No lack can hold me captive. No poverty can hold me captive. No depression can hold me captive. No failure can hold me captive. That's the meaning.
That's the meaning. Because he was buried, and death could not hold him there. It means, hey. They killed him and buried him. But when life came, he surged out of the grace. Sir. God did not surged out alone. Surged out with many other saints that have died in Christ. Surged out and now made many other people like him. That whoever believes in him can now become the son of God.
Searched out and replicated himself. Searched out and multiplied himself. It means for the believer, every attack an opportunity for multiplication. I was watching a movie long time ago. And that movie, they had a a kind of regalia, a cloth. Oh, yeah. Remember now. You... Some of you have watched it. In that movie, the guy wears a regalia, wears, you know, his cloth.
And the cloth is so designed that whenever it takes on impact by the enemy, it only turns the cloth. The cloth absorbs the kinetic energy. You see? And so the higher the impact that the enemy gives him, the more the cloth is able to absorb. And the cloth absorbs so much that it releases times two of what the enemy sent to him. That's exactly how life works for the believer. That when they buried Jesus, they buried him alone. But when life came and he rose, didn't rise a low. He multiplied himself in you and me and rose. It means it means that one blow that the enemy thought he had given him, he received it, processed it.
Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? A believer that carries resurrection power, that carries life, it means you bounce out of setback stronger. It means if the devil thought that he killed you, he has no idea that in the life in you cannot die. Listen to me. It means we come back stronger out of every attack of the enemy. We don't get weaker by the day. If the devil throws a blow at you, it makes you stronger because there's eternal life in you. There's resurrection power in you.
You kill me, I come back alive, and I come back stronger, and I even multiply myself. That's the mentality of the believer. Let me explain what I'm saying. It means that if one business closed down, it means 10 is about to come. You are not seeing what I'm saying. I go and check my results, and I find that I had one carry over. It means I'm about to have all distinctions. That is that is the mentality of life of the believer. That if I ever ever enter into any circumstance that looks like a setback, then the me that is coming out of it, the bible says, if the same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead dwelled in your mortal body, that same spirit can quicken your mortal body. Hear me?
It don't matter what I go through. Listen. That is why a believer who is in any circumstance should never be defeated. Never. It don't matter what it is. You might be in debt. Be... That... That's what we can we can rejoice in debt. Listen.
The bible says when Job when Job lost everything, the bible says when when God turned away the captivity of Job, he had double of everything that he lost. Yet Job did not have eternal life. How much more a believer who had just made a loss in his business? Maybe you invested wrongly. You invested wrongly. You did a business with some people, and they scammed you over. And they thought they're gone with your money. And you are sad, and you are wondering, hey. How do I come out of this now? Maybe you are in a place where a guy molested you or raped you or something.
And you feel, hey. Or maybe you're even divorced, and you feel, hey. Listen. There is never a problem that is too big a problem for the believer. Never a problem. The reason is because you have life. Listen. So John says these things are right unto you that you may know that you may know. Say I know. I The bible says that the first Adam was a living soul, but the second Adam was a life giving spirit.
And we have not come after the order of the first Adam. We have come after the order of the second Adam. It means we are also life giving spirits. Not only do I have life, I can spill life to others. I can give life to others. Listen. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. It means as a believer, you can speak life to dead circumstances.
You can speak life to dead situations. You can speak life to dead finances, dead health, dead career, dead ministry, and you can expect victory over sickness. Expect victory over failure. Expect victory over demonic oppression because you have life. Hear me. You have no excuse for smallness. The bible says we have been given all. We've been given all. We've been given all. All that we will ever need for life.
Say with me, all I will ever need for life is life. And because you have eternal life, you must demonstrate it in every area of your life. Every area of your life. John chapter one verse four, the bible says in him was life, and the life was the light of men. The life illuminates men. It illuminates your path, meaning you cannot be stranded. Because that light gives solutions, meaning you always have answers. Because that light give answers. This light gives health. It means you can never be sick.
This life clears confusion. This life gives excellence. It makes men excel. It makes men remember. It makes men of quick understanding. Hear me? Me? Me? Joshua chapter one verse eight. The Bible says, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night.
This book of the law, can you see that? This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in that book day and night that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then, Who? Who? Will make your way? Whose way? My way. What? And then you will have? Who?
Who? So who determines how large your church is? Who determines how large your ministry is? Who determines how many men you pastor? Who determines how large your business is, who determines how large... How how good your home is, how successful your marriage is, how much you prosper, what kind of grades you get. God says god says, our people knew all. Now determine how much you wanna use it. You can you can start earning 1,000,000 naira in a month, and you say I'm I'm okay. All the time in that.
You. You can start earning 100 k per month, and you say I'm okay. All the time in that. You. You can have 50 over 100 in your in your test cover exams cost, and you say I'm okay. All the time in that. It's you. It's you. It's you. He said, and the way you determine it is to the degree to which you have meditated on life.
It says, the the degree to which you have spoken it, declared it. It says, it's it's not depart from your mouth. It means you must always speak it. You must always say it. Meditate on it, then do it. Do you know why the doing is important? Because every man and every living entity acts like the life that he has. If you are an animal, you have animal life. You behave like an animal. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. And so you see a lion, what should a lion do? A lion should roar. A lion should run after animals and kill animals and eat animals. Is that not so? You expect that of an animal of a lion because it's an animal. How many of you would see a lion go to a shower and stand on his two legs and take a bow and pour it on his body? You would run not because it's a lion. You would run because that is abnormal. Because it's acting as against the life that it has.
Animal life doesn't think like that. No. None of them... You understand what I'm trying to say? You see a lion, horse, pawn, and fuck. That's not possible. Animal life doesn't think like that. Is that not so? It means the kind of life that you have determines what you do, determines how you behave, determines how you live. So if you have the god life, it means that how you conduct yourself and what you do will be seen in the life that you carry and will be seen also in how you act.
Are you with me, brothers and sisters? It means if I know that I have the god life, I will study like one that has a God life. Because Jesus was the son of God, but by a trough, he was in the temple. He didn't say that I am the word. Why do I need the word? Does the bible not say in the beginning was the word? So why does the word have to go to the temple to go and learn the word from scribes and pharisees? Because there's a life, and there's a attitude that that life has. There's a behavior that life has. When you know you have life, you respond to it like wondrous life.
You start like wondrous life. You read like wondrous life. You become diligent like wondrous life. As a woman, you submit like wondrous life. In your business, you apply diligence like one that has life. It means if you are diligent in your business or in your workplace, it is because you know you have life. If you refuse to always submit anything that is short of it is because you know you have life. It means you know whatever comes out of me must be excellent. So you will be diligent, so you will be patient, so you will be thorough in your work. You will give it all the best you can give it because you know you have life, and that life does not fail.
So you live your life like someone who is not expecting failure. Do you understand what I'm saying now? Say, I have life. I have life. Declare it loud and clear, I have life. I have life. The life I have does not fail. It produces extraordinary results. Say because I have life. Am a life giving spirit.
Now declare, I give life to my finance. I give life to my business. I give life to my ministry. I give life to my family. I give life Everything dead. To everything To everything dead. In my life. My life. Come on, point to prayers right now. Prophesy.
That I give life. I give life. Professor. One more minute. Release life. Release life. Amen. Amen. In the name of Jesus. The name Jesus.
That my life be have results. We are still praying. Hear me? We are still praying. I'm giving you the prayer point so we pray. Say, decree and I declare. I declare. In the name of Jesus. Name of Jesus. That my life be of results.
That I multiply. I increase. I subdue. I subdue. In the name of Jesus. Come on pray. In Jesus name we have prayed. I decree and declare. Whatever may be dead. Whatever may be dead.
In my life. In my life. Around my life. Around my life. Come alive. In the name of Jesus. In In Jesus name, we have prayed. Are you tired? I decree and I declare. I declare.
Every power. Every power. Strong men. Strong men. Principalities. Principalities. Standing in the way. Standing the way. Of my results. Of my results.
Of my progress. My progress. In the name of Jesus. In Jesus name we have prayed. I declare and I declare. I declare. My life. My Will not. Will Be barren. Be I declare and I declare.
I I declare. Declare. I My life. Be Be will draw will many many to God in the name of Jesus. You, Jesus. In Jesus' name, we have prayed. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Can follow us on Instagram at official Disciples CN. You can follow us on Facebook at Disciples Christian Network. You can also join our Telegram page at DCN Media for more messages by Apostle Emmanuel.
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