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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. John chapter 14 How many of you are believers equipped on Tuesday? Are you blessed? Today we continue in that flow. We're discussing something that I have titled faith and the new creation. Faith and the new creation.

Faith and the new creation. Something will happen to you. It really is a continuation of what I thought on Tuesday. But for those who are not around, I decided to make it a stand alone subject. When Jesus declared in John chapter 14 and verse six, he said I am the way. The truth and the life, no man cometh unto the father, but by me. You have to understand that Jesus was not describing a route. He wasn't just describing a route. He wasn't just pointing out a destination. He was actually revealing a pattern.

In the Greek, the word translated way is actually the word hodos. And it means more than just a road. It means more than just a path. Because when you read it, you would think that Jesus is just saying that he's the path or he's the road. But the word translated odos means more than just describing way, a gate, a road or a path. It speaks of a manner of thinking. Oduz actually means a manner of thinking. Or a way of making decisions. Or a governing mindset. Or a manner of feeling.

You see. So when Jesus says, I am the way. He's essentially saying, I am the mindset. I am the manner of feeling. In other words, I'm the emotional standard. I am the lanes through which decisions are made. I am the manner of thinking. So it's deeper than Jesus just saying, I'm a route. He's saying, I'm your manner of thinking. I am your manner of feeling.

I am your standard. I'm your governing mindset. I'm the lens through which you see. I'm the lens through which decisions are made. I'm the lens through which you feel. That means that salvation doesn't just reconcile you to heaven, it aligns your thought processes, your emotional framework, and your decisions with the nature of God. To be born again is to enter into a completely different kind of life, where Christ is not just your savior, but your reference point for how you think, how you feel, and how you act. It means you are not left to process life like fallen men do. You have been given the mind of Christ. In first Corinthians chapter two and verse 16, the AMPC translation, the bible says, we have the mind of Christ to be guided by his thoughts and purposes.

You see that? We have the mind of Christ to be guided by his thoughts. For who has known the mind and purposes of Lord so as to instruct him, question mark. But we have the mind of Christ to be guided by his thoughts and purposes. Christianity is not a speculative religion. The believer does not wonder what Christ would do. We don't go around saying WWJD. What would Jesus do? No. The bible says, the believer lives from Christ's very own mind and Christ's very own nature.

That means you already hold his thoughts. You already carry his spirit. The goal now is to allow your soul to align with what your spirit already knows. Because the bible says, we have the mind of Christ. And because we have the mind of Christ, we can be guided by his thoughts. We can be guided by his purposes. You see that now? And that is where the challenge lies. The challenge is not that we have it. The challenge is realigning the soul.

Because even though your spirit is born of God, your mind and your emotions must be renewed. The mind must forsake lying vanities. Like Jonah chapter two and verse eight says it. And your emotions must be trained to agree with God's reality, not just your circumstances. This is the more challenging aspect of the Christian walk. Learning a new kind of thinking. Learning a new kind of feeling because you see in the world you have been taught to feel differently. You have been taught to think differently. You have been taught to decide in a way that does not align with the standard of Christ. So Jesus said when you become saved, I'm not just the route that leads to life, I also become your pattern, your manner of thinking.

I also become your manner of feeling. That becomes very deep. If you understand what that means, you take a moment to breathe. You sigh deeply. If you understand what I've just said now. That because that means that your thinking and your feeling must be brought under the government of divine truth. Not just your thinking. Your feeling as well. For example, if you wake up with pain in your body, that pain is real, it's not. But the question is where is the pain?

The pain is in your body. But your spirit does not feel pain. Because it is born of God and it is joined to Christ. And since your spirit, soul, and body, not just flesh, you are called to let your soul feel after your spirit, not your body. In other words, even though your body feels something, your soul should not feel after your body. Because your soul is a different entity. Your soul must not be pained because your body is pained. Your soul must submit its feelings to Christ. Because he says, I am your manner of feeling. I am your manner of thinking.

Not just your body, not just circumstances, not just situations. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes sir. That's why first Peter chapter two and verse 24, the Bible says, by whose stripes you were healed. So healing is not futuristic. Healing is already done. The word there is were healed. In other words, you're not going to be healed. You've been healed. You were healed.

This happened more than two thousand years ago when Jesus Christ was buried, resurrected, and rose again. The bible says he took all your infirmities. And with every stripes that he took, he took your sicknesses. Do you understand what I'm saying here? I heard the story of a grandma. Two years ago, a grandma went to the hospital because she started feeling pains in her chest region, and she just thought it was a small thing, you know, just a small thing that they would just give her medication for. But she just felt, let me just go to the hospital. How long she got there? They did all the tests. They say, we're very sorry, but we don't know how to break this to you.

You have so and so kind of cancer. And according to what we see, you have just three months to live. If we don't place you on this kind of medication right now to even extend your life to six months, the woman just eased. He said, I didn't even think it was. I thought it was a small thing. Just give me parastamol for. They just carried her back and left. She's still alive today. Bouncing in the Lord, taking care of her grandchildren. When she was asked, she said I cannot have cancer.

Because Jesus lives in me. That is as simple as that. As simple as that. Now the question you would ask yourself is, at that moment, was that not the reason why she went to the hospital? She went because she was feeling pain bodily. But her soul did not feel it. That was the reason why she could ease at the doctor's report. And not be afraid. You see, the moment your soul participates of what your body is experiencing, faith become the struggle. Are you with me brothers and sisters?

Yes, sir. Now the following word was you are pretending. But this is not pretending. It is spiritual discipline. It is the fight of faith to feel after what Christ has already done. And on what your body or your circumstances are announcing. No. Because the word teaches us to respond emotionally to what we see. But Jesus teaches us to feel in alignment with what is already true in Christ. That's why in Isaiah chapter one verse 19, the Bible says if you be willing and obedient, you will hid the good of the land.

The Hebrew word for willing is not just about consent. Right? It means to yield. It means to agree. It means to feel after God. To do what? Some people are obedient in that they tithe. Some people are obedient in that they serve, they fast, they pray, but they are not willing. They give out of duty. But they don't feel like sons.

They do good, but they still feel condemned. So they cancel out their obedience with unwillingness, and God wants both. God says, don't just be obedient, also be willing. Also feel after me. Also think after me. Let me explain this to you in monthly traces. Imagine somebody gives you a 100,000,000 naira now. How would you feel? You instantly feel a rush of emotions, a sense of joy, a sense of freedom, a sense of confidence. Is that not so?

Yes, sir. That feeling is your soul responding to your reality. But God is saying, even before you see the manifestation of that 100,000,000, feel after what I have done in Christ. It means feel like the blessed. Feel like the yield, feel like the rich, feel like the successful, feel like the wealthy, feel like the man who has already received. Because faith has a feeling. The same way faith has a thinking. Faith has a mentality. Are you with me? That's the mystery we see in the book of Acts of Apostles chapter 17 verse 27.

The Bible says that they should seek the Lord if aptly they might fear after him. Give me the KJV version. One, two, three, go. They might do what? They might feel after him. And people believe that feelings is canal. Feelings is not canal when it is sanctified. Because God is the one that created feelings. There are some believers who say, when you come to the brains of God, don't be emotional. What should it now be?

It's not God that put the emotion there. So it is in the presence of a woman that should be emotional. You see the problem now? No. God is the one who created the feelings. He just did not design them to follow circumstances. He didn't design them to follow what now? Circumstances. He designed them to follow him. The bible says that they might fear half time.

He designed them to follow truth. And if you align your emotions with his word, those very emotions become the fuel of your expectation. You will feel rich because the money comes. You would know that the money comes. And so because you know you would feel rich even before the money comes. You'll feel healed before the report changes. You will feel favored before the door opens. This is the faith work of the believer. This is the faith work of the new creation. Because the new creation knows that I'm not gonna be.

I am. So I said on Tuesday, for instance, that so many people who lack this understanding, go to mountains praying for what they have received. Delivering themselves from what Christ has delivered them from. And the thing that their efforts, their investment, in hours and days and years of prayer will become more powerful than the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. What deception is that? How do you think your labor becomes more powerful than what Christ has done? How do you think that? How does a man manage to convince himself that your effort in futility is more powerful than what Christ has done? I'm not saying that the effort are not... Is not necessary.

Don't get me wrong. But I'm saying that if you miss these basics as a believer, your faith work already has a problem. That's the reason why several believers don't know what is called faith. What we experience is not a result of faith. It's actually mercy. Because if you know faith, you will know it's mercy. It's mercy. God just opens up his mercy to us. That's the reason why some people experience results. That's the reason why some people's prayers are answered is because of mercy.

Let me give an example. They were praying that Peter should not die. Right? That was their prayer. And the whole church gathered in the house of one of them. And they were seriously praying. That you should not die. Would you say they were in faith? Come on, they gathered themselves together. He said this will not happen.

Would you say they were in faith? And true to their prayers, true to their prayers. An angel came from the heavens. Pierced into the depths of the prison, the dungeon that they kept Peter. Chains were broken, shackles were broken, everything broken. And Peter starts walking out. And all of a sudden, the angel leads Peter to where they were praying. And then starts knocking. Peter starts knocking. And they sent one girl to go and check.

The girl checked, did not open the door. Ran back to those who were praying and told them, Peter is the one knocking on. They said it's a lie. You will now understand that this is not a work of faith. So what if it is not a work of faith? How did Peter and I get out of the prison? I have prayed for you that your faith would not fail. It is called mercy. Because you see believers and you know that the way the sister is going, this is not faith. I just trust that God will heal me.

And you can see this, the depth of sorrow. In his heart. Sir, the circumstances, he's overwhelmed by situation, overwhelmed by circumstances, overwhelmed by sorrow, there is depression, deep depression in her heart. And you can't just trust in God. I'm just hoping that God will heal me. When those people come up, you say, Lord, have mercy. Mercy. Yes. Because if you leave them alone, their faith will produce no result. The fifth place it starts from.

And it's painful because think the problem is that we don't even understand salvation. So we don't know what we have received. So we can't stand and walk in faith. We can't live the life of faith. I told you that if you know what we have received, faith becomes a nature. Faith becomes something you do by default. It's in theory that should not begin to learn that what you were doing was faith. To you, it would be a nature. It would be a life. Because if you understand this thing I'm saying, it won't look strange to you that you can feel after God.

That your circumstances don't have to change before your feelings change. And you can rejoice like a rich man. And rejoice like a wealthy man. Go and ask Paul and Silas. What is the reason why they were singing? What is the reason why they were dancing? What is the reason why they were praying? Right in that dungeon. Do you think they were praying because they want to be delivered? If that were the case, the moment the chains broke, they would have run out.

And they've gone. But the chains broke and they were still there. The bible says the jailer came and wanted to kill himself because he thought they had escaped, and that would mean they would kill him for losing the prisoners. And the moment he wanted to kill himself, they said, come on. Calm down. We are still here. We're not singing for deliverance. Deliverance is only a repercussion of our singing. It's a lifestyle. Do you understand what I'm saying?

It's a lifestyle. I pray you'll believe this thing. Oh my god. I'm gonna make some of you radical. This is how we see results in this kingdom. This is how we command possibilities in this kingdom. This is how we move like men. You begin to feel like a married woman. You begin to feel like a married man. You begin to act like what even?

They tell you, oh, oh, that you don't have a womb because of some issues we have found, and immediately you leave the hospital, you go and buy baby clothes and baby materials. And they look at you and they say, my goodness, what are you here for? What is this celebration for? He said my child is coming. My child my child is coming. And everybody would look at you and call you a mad person. But no. This is the new creation working in faith. You will feel favored before the doors even open. That is the faith walk.

Many Christians today are called canal, not because they sin in obvious ways, but because they feel after their environment. Their joy rises and falls with their account balance. Their peace is tied to who likes them. Their plans are shaped by what they see, not by what they've believed, not by whom they've believed. But in second Corinthians chapter five and verse seven, the bible says for we walk by faith. We don't walk by what we see. We don't walk by sight. We don't walk as the environment forgets. We don't walk by circumstances. We walk by faith.

We feel by faith. We think by faith. We reason by faith. You must refuse to feel like a natural man. You start singing like a man who has won inside intense battles. You start dancing like a man who has won inside intense battles. You start planning like one who has conquered already. You begin dreaming like one who has already received. Second Peter chapter one verse three, the bible says according as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertains unto life and godliness. That means your school fees, your healing, your destiny, your marriage, whatever it is, is already yours.

The bible says, according as his divine power has given, not will give. See, when you read the Bible, you'll find so many things in past tense. According as his divine power has given unto us all things. The question is, do you have all things? But you see now your mind is saying, where is it? Why do you think the Bible live without faith, no man can please God? Why do you think the Bible says we we walk by faith? We live. The Bible says the just shall live by faith. It means that if he dies, he will die by the lack of faith.

Are you crazy enough to believe that all things are yours? That all things have been given unto you? That all things that pertains unto life? All things that pertains unto life. All things that pertains unto life has been given to you. Many years ago. Oh God. I had an issue many people are having. But mine was not because he was not available. Mine was because I had given.

And so I could not pay the fees. This is not an example you should emulate. And I'm serious. It is not an example you should emulate. This is my personal experience. We don't share these things so that you don't make them doctrines. Is that okay? Yes. Don't make them doctrines at all. A program, we are having a program and there was no money.

And I gave what I had, which was my fees. Everything. And behold, the exam was coming. Behold, the exam was coming. I just knew, I just knew that this thing will come. This thing will come. This thing will come. It wasn't affecting my emotions, it wasn't affecting my lifestyle. I didn't stop eating because I had not paid. I didn't stop reading for the exam because I had not paid.

See, ah, I've not, I've not paid oh. I I won't even write the exam. I didn't stop all of that just because I had not paid. My life continue as usual. The week before the exam, I'd still not paid. Quarter will have closed, everything has closed. I've still not paid. The exam was to be on Monday. Then on Friday, on Friday, he just came. And I was still in class.

I was still going for every class preparing for the exam. And he said, I just know I'll read the exam. In fact, on Saturday that day was prayer meeting. We have prayer meetings every Saturdays. That Friday, I was to have a vigil. On Sunday, the same thing. So I had no... There was no doubt in my spirit. So I I I I my life is not going on the bus. It has been there long.

On Friday, it just came. I didn't tell anybody I had not paid. It just came on Friday and said, if you don't pay your school fees, the department wants to handle it. So come out after the class and see so and so, and I went out. I said, you you called for people. I mean, I've not paid. Oh, you have not... Oh, wow. I've not paid. Thank you.

Go and pay it. I said what? I was just walking on my side. I didn't tell nobody. No soul. No soul. And that Friday, they opened the portal for me. And everyone who had not paid. And gave everybody who had not paid the money. Everybody who had not paid.

I looked at them and say you had mock you. I at mother's office. I didn't didn't pray pray one one prayer. That is of course the last time that would ever happen. There's nothing whatever need money for that there will never be money for. You step into another realm of faith entirely. But there's a place believers must be, a place where you have to enter. Where you believe that all things are yours, the problem is not whether it is given. The question is, do you think and feel like it has been given? That's the question.

So it's not, have it been given? If it, do you think it has been given? Do you feel like someone who has all things? Do you feel like someone who has the world? How can you be sad then? How can you be sorrowful knowing that the world is yours? You too and study Abraham who is called the the father of faith. The bible says he believed God and he was counted unto him for righteousness. His righteousness is not different from the one that you receive. So Abraham did not live under law.

Abraham lived under grace. Law came after Abraham. Are you with me? When you study the operation on the grace, as a righteous man and the faith that he worked in, you would find that it's crazy how God expects the believer to live. Because God comes to a man and tells that man that you are the father of many nations. When as yet he had no child. Do you notice that? The God kept on telling him that I would make you great. I'll make your name great. And God was giving him promises.

Go and read this book of Genesis. You would see consistent promises about his descendants. Your descendants will take this land. Your descendants will own this land. The person that God was speaking to about descendants had no child. Watch this. God did not because of that give him a child. Watch this. Because he is to become the pattern of faith. It means God still saw that there was something wrong how this man is believing.

Now how do you know? Because when Sarah came to come and suggest to him that he should buy into the flesh. He did. God said, no. No. No. No. You have not gotten this thing very well. The next time God comes to him, God doesn't fault him. God still reminds him that you are the father of many nations.

Then God changes his name. Then he now tells God that this thing you have been saying, you have just been saying it, I've not had a child of my own. From my wife. But behold, no problem. Ishmael will inherit everything I have. God says no. Ishmael is not the son of promise. Ishmael is not the son of promise. In other words, at that point, his emotions had not yet accepted the promise. He still came to God and was expressing disappointment, expressing sorrow that you made a promise but have not seen it manifest.

And God said, no. You will have a child. Nothing still happened. I love Jesus. Nothing still happened. Until God came again in the flesh and told him, by this time next year, I come to the time of life, you will have a child. Romans four nineteen, the bible says, without becoming weak in faith, he considered his own body, now as good as dead for producing children. Watch this. Since he was about 100 years old, and he considered the deadness of Sarah's womb. Watch this.

Next verse. But he did not doubt or waver in unbelief concerning the promise of God. In other words, the Bible is saying, even through the obvious situation that was presented in front of him, are you with me? Even in the obvious situation that was presented in front of him, he at that point remained strong in the faith. And in Hebrews, the Bible now says that by faith, Sarah received strength to conceive. Are you with me? Sarah received strength to conceive. It means at some point or the other. At some point or the other, these people eventually believed and they attuned their soul to believe exactly what God has said in as much as they've not yet seen it. Are you with me?

And the Bible says, even though what was the present situation was a dead womb. Did you see it? Yes, sir. The bible says the deadness of Sarah's womb. So what was present was a dead womb. What was present was an impotent body. Is that not so? Situation wise, that thing could not happen. But at that point, he aligned his thoughts, aligned his emotion, aligned his soul to say, I will not waver in the promise. And the moment God saw this, Isaac was conceived.

This is the essence of the Christian faith. Reconciling your soul back to the life of God. Bringing your thoughts and your feelings into alignment with who God says you are and what God has already done. That's why in first John chapter four and verse 17, the Bible says, herein is our love made perfect. That we may have boldness in the day of judgement. Because as he is, so are we in this world. That we may have what now? That we may have what now? When? Now, if you go to the root word of the word judgement in the Greek, it is the word crisis.

In the Greek. And judgement doesn't just speak of an event in eternity. It actually speaks of crisis. It speaks of pressure. It speaks of trial. So the Bible is not just talking about judgment as in an event in eternity, it's also speaking of crisis. It's also speaking of trials. It's also speaking of circumstances and situations that might be unfavorable in time. And the bible says that hearing is our love made perfect. That we may have boldness in the day of crisis.

We may have boldness in the day of trial. We may have boldness in the day of persecution. In the day where things seem to be against us, in the day where things seem to be against our plans, against what we have already planned to do. The Bible says it is possible for a believer to be bold in crisis. To be bold in crisis. Because we know as it is, so are we in this world. Do you believe that? Ask the question. So it means that we are bold not just when all is going well. We are bold even when all is not going well.

And you can stare at chaos in the face and still say I know who I am. I know who I am. This cannot kill me. You see, the life we have received does not mean that believers not face tough times. It means we will know the outcome. The bible says that we are more than conquerors. That is... That will always be the outcome. So it doesn't matter what circumstance I find myself. I don't allow my soul to partake of the experience or the circumstance because I know that it is stronger reality in my spirit, and it is that I can only come out victorious.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. That's the life you have received. Look at Jesus in Matthew chapter eight from verse two to verse three. The bible says a leper comes to him, right? And worships him. He says, Lord, if thou wait, thou can makes me clean. Look at verse three. One, two, three, go everybody. Pause.

Jesus did what? Now on Tuesday, told you that leprosy is a communicable disease. And it is believed that whenever you touch a leprosy person, you become leprosy yourself. And not only do you become leprosy yourself, society brands you as a leprosy man. So you lose influence, you lose whatever influence you have, everybody cuts off from you immediately. Immediately. Knowing this Jesus touches him. Leprosy wasn't just a disease, it was a religious sentence, it was a social sentence. Yet Jesus touches him, fully aware of this. Why?

Because Jesus knew that what was in him could only flow outward. The uncleanness could not enter into him. The leprosy could not enter into him. The death could not enter into him. He was not trying to avoid infection. He was too full of life to receive death. Jesus knew that the life we have received can only give out life. It can't take him death. Jesus knew. That is what it means to be a new creature.

It means you are not normal. In Philippians chapter three verse 20, the Bible says that our citizenship is in heaven. You may look human, but you are from above. You are from a different realm entirely. A different realm entirely. One of my daughters was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. And she was told that it is so rare that I think about a ten out of a hundred thousand people also have it. It's so rare. And she was diagnosed with it. Because all over her skin, she would see rashes and severe joint pains.

Very severe joint pains. That she would not be able to breathe. She would not be able to breathe, her eyes would turn red, and then rashes would appear all over, very strange rashes. So she has been going to the hospital almost every month. She has to go to the hospital like two times. And they would diagnose different things because they didn't really you you wouldn't expect that that would be the condition. So all the while, what they were treating was just symptoms, symptoms, symptoms. But the thing persisted, persisted, persisted for many years. So she met with an Indian doctor. And then said, no, this can't, this is too strange.

Then they took her through several tests and found out what it was. Psoriatic arthritis. Glory to God. Amen. So they were, there was arthritis, there was pain in the lungs, pain everywhere, rashes in the body, all kind of things. And And she was told that her blood cells were fighting her, fighting her muscles, fighting her tissues, fighting her, fighting everything. Her body cells were fighting each other. She was told that it has no cure. That she would have to live with it. And only find ways of mitigation.

Now at the moment I heard that it had no cure, you know when people come and tell me such thing arrested them, oh, you're feeling pain? Have you taken medication? Stuff like that. But the moment I heard that it had no cure, the first thing that comes to my mind was this this person will live with pain on their life. And no. Why then did we God make great us into this world? Why then did we receive this gospel? Why then did we receive this life? Why then did we receive this life? Why then?

I told her, I called her, I said that is not your portion. Is never your portion. Taught her scriptures, told her read this book, prayed with her. Healing the sick by tell us, read it. Call her again. Spoke words over her. So how are you feeling? There's still pain in my body. You are healed in the name of Jesus. We don't act like what we are feeling in the body.

We do not. We do not. She would message me yesterday and she would tell me apostle, do you know in about two or three months, I've not felt a single pain in my body? Rashes cleared, everything cleared. In two or three months, I said what? Child even forgotten about the conditions, just remembered that my goodness. I used to exchange hospitals. In multiple occasions, he had fainted in her school. Whilst in class, whilst in she, oh my goodness. Serious pain.

Imagine we don't know that we have this life. The devil will so cheat you. The devil will so cheat you. This is someone with a glorious destiny. On her birthday, she told me, sir, I want to organize a school wild crusade to celebrate my birthday. She went ahead. Powerful meeting. Soul saved healings everywhere. A private university, by the way. Healings everywhere.

I know private universities have only one fellowship. She would message me and tell me, sir, I've just been made the vice president of my fellowship, and yet the devil wanted to take her life. A lot of people would come to her and tell her you have been a blessing to me. I was healed in this meeting. I was healed in that meeting. Yet the devil wanted to take her life. And doctors would call it all kind of names. It is demon oppression, demonic affliction. Demonic affliction, it is death. The man of God said, if you tell me that some things are not spiritual, they are passed by pathogens.

The life those pathogens are carrying is death. It is still spiritual. And the one who has eternal life must understand that my body cannot receive death. My body can only transfer life. I cannot receive death. I cannot receive death. That's why Mark chapter seven verse 15. Bible says, there is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him. Do you see that? There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him.

It means the things which come out of him are the things that defile the man. So the question is, if you have received the life of God, can defilement come out of you? No. So it means if you have received the life of God, there is nothing from without that can defile you. There is no sickness, no infirmity, no economic pressure that can defile you. That is the life you have received. Christianity is not complete just because you repented. Repentance is the beginning. After repentance, there must be revelation and understanding of who you have become and how to live it. Oh, and in this season, God is reconciling the world and the spirit.

Oh, we are entering into a time where it will no longer be acceptable to say what you cannot demonstrate. You won't say I'm healed. I... Your body must respond. It may take time, but the word of God must prevail. It must prevail over that situation, over the circumstances. And you must insist that the only thing that men will see in my life is the word of God manifest. I will not bury my children early. You will not lose your destiny halfway. Nothing can abort this destiny of mine.

That is... Nothing can abort this assignment of mine. That is the man that a believer has. Oh, I'm of a different species. I'm of a different kind. My case is different. Because we are that generation that believes that as it is, so are we in this world. So we refuse to settle. We refuse to explain away our inheritance. We refuse to adjust our theology to match our disappointment.

We refuse it. If at any point you have declared I've taken over, then let your plans reflect it. Let your joy reflect it. Let your expectations reflect it. Don't look back to see if it is working. That is unbelief. Faith does not check the ground. It sows the seed and celebrates the harvest to come. Even ahead of time, it celebrates the harvest. You don't sow the seed, then go after checking again and again.

Is is is anything happening there? Is something happening there? No. You are not like other men. As he is, so am I in this world. As he is, so am I in this world. As he is, so am I. Monday does not say as he was. He said as he is, that means, as he is in heaven right now, coronated. Not as he was while he walked as a human being on earth.

As he is in his ascension, as he is in his coronation, as he is in his glorification. As he is seated in the right hand of God. As he is with all power in the heavens and on earth and in hell given to him. As he is. The Bible says, so are we in this world. It means that our realities cannot be any different from his. Oh, I insist. I insist that my reality cannot be any different from his. I insist. I went to a place some time ago.

When the coronavirus came. When I got there, I entered the house and I knocked the door. And the person came and said and said, when will we visit someone? And the person came and said, don't enter, don't enter, I've closed the door. I have just been diagnosed of COVID. What do you mean by that? He says don't hinder, don't hinder. I went for a job just two days ago. Or three days ago or so. And the job involved you know styling someone and one of the people they were styling, one of the people that was there, just came back from The US.

And the person started experiencing symptoms, right? So the person was diagnosed the following day, treated, tested, diagnosed. About four days after, everybody that was in that room was were all diagnosed. So they reached all of them and told them isolate yourselves. It is very much possible that you have quit. And she was checked. I found out that, my goodness, this is true. Immediately, the symptoms began. And I and I went there. I went there.

She told me, don't call me. Don't call me. Don't call me. I said, young woman opened this door. She said, don't come in. No. And she was saying that because she lost me actually. Because it was someone close. The young woman opened this door. She opened the door.

And she stayed so far away. To help her faith. As to somewhere to. God, it will not profit anyone of us. If I want to approach her and she's not, we will not be able to have a conversation. So if your faith allows you to stay there and I will stay here no problem, as long as you can hear me. And I was teaching her the word of God. I said, do you know the life you have received? This this life can kill death. We call it life.

It is a kind of life that it can decimate death. Do you know the kind of life you have received? And kept on asking her these questions. I'm telling her what this life can do. At some point, she didn't even know when I reached her. I held her hands. Do you know what this life can do? She started jumping and screaming, jumping and screaming. I have life. I have life.

The parents came and walked in. She wanted to... Our plan was to cast the bad news and say, oh, I have COVID. She ran and hugged everybody saying, I have life. I have life. That was the end of it. Till now. Till now. Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh, Jesus Christ.

Oh, Jesus Christ. You know what the believer wants to do? I want to go and check myself first. If I now find that it has gone, I will now rejoice. I will now rejoice. That is not how the new creation exercises faith. No. We miss it a lot. That's why results come so slowly. That's why progress comes so slowly.

Because we are too governed by what we see. We've not been taught to walk by faith because we are afraid of what the world would call us, what they would label us as. They will call us mad men. We're not ashamed to be mad men. We're not ashamed to be mad men. We're not ashamed to be different, to believe differently, to speak differently, to act differently, to think differently, to feel differently. I'm not like other men. I'm not like other men. I'm not ashamed to say this. Oh, and once your mind, once your thinking, once your thought, once your feelings come into alignment with this truth, nothing in this life will be impossible to you.

Nothing. This truth should shake every believer out of mediocrity. There is no room for the mindset of a victim in the life of someone born of God. I am born of God. You don't call to talk like victims saying, pastor, pastor, if you don't pray for me, I will die. No. You cannot die. Don't think like that. That is not your portion. The world may call you weak.

The world may call you afflicted. The world may call you helpless, but God calls you his son. He says, whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that overcomes the world even our faith. I am born of God. I overcome the world. Nothing overcomes me. Nothing. Nothing. There is no circumstance or situation that can ever overcome me.

Of the new creation. I walk in none that I have won. I walk in none that I'm victorious. Listen. There is nothing you are seeking that has not already been provided for in Christ. Nothing. You're not waiting for heaven to send help. It's already deposited inside of you. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

The fullness of the Godhead dwells in Christ bodily, and you are complete in him. Colossians chapter two verse nine to 10. This is the gospel that everything you will ever need has already been locked into this new creation. God is not figuring out what to do with you. He finished it in the foundation of the world and wrapped it in the person of Christ. And when Christ came into you, everything came in him. Everything. And yet we have believers who are still frightened by witch doctors, by shrines, by demonic dreams. The bible says first John chapter four and verse four. Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

This verse is not poetry. It is jurisdictional truth that the power in you cannot be intimidated by what is around you. The power in you cannot be intimidated by what is around you. The enemy knows this even if you don't. That is why he walks over time to keep you ignorant, to keep you in fear, to keep you in confusion, to keep you in doubt. He knows this. But the days of spiritual ignorance are over. Because this generation must rise with the confidence of sons. You are not just an African. You are not just from a village.

You are not just a former addict. You're not black. You're not white. You're not brown. No. You're from Zion. Hebrews chapter 12 verse 22. But you come unto Mount Zion. All through the city of the living God. That is your origin, that is your root, that is your citizenship.

It means there are benefits. When there is war in a country and there are seasons of another country in that country. What that other country begins to do is to find ways to evacuate all their citizens. From the country where there is problem. And they send rescue efforts, sent all kind of things because they are citizens of another country. They might have come to that country to come and work For schooling for whatever. But the moment there is problem, the country for which they belong. Know us that their citizens have rights and privileges. And one of those privileges is the privilege of protection. And security.

That no matter what country you are in. No matter what part of the world you are in, even if you are not in your home country, your home country still has a responsibility to defend you. And when crisis strikes, immediately all kind of rescue efforts are being made. You are from a good country. All kinds of rescue efforts are being made. Because one of hers is there. We have our people there. Many of you have seen this in movies. We have our people there. And you will see soldiers, you will see all kind of trucks coming because we have people there.

They might not concern themselves with the war going on. The reason why they came is to rescue and go. Because our whole must not become victims. So what happens when the Bible says that you have become citizens of heaven? Citizens of another realm. Living in another kingdom, but you are not citizens of that kingdom. What happens when there is crisis in this in this realm? What happens when there is economic depression? You think that your home country will look at you and say, oh, let them suffer. No.

No. The Bible says how much more your father who art in heaven. How much more your father who art in heaven. How much more? Do you have this consciousness That I cannot be broke, that I cannot lack. Do you have this consciousness? That my business only has to increase. Or are you always driven by fear when there is no sales? Are you overtaken by sadness and sorrow when you put a heart attack and it doesn't respond well? And your soul begins to go down.

No. That's the time you're excited even more. And you begin to declare who you are. Relations come to my light. Kings to the brightness of my rising. I watched a video of pastor Chris. And he said in that video, he said, when people come and tell him I've been to 20 countries, I've been to 15 countries, he doesn't move him. He doesn't move him. Because he feels, if you go to 15 countries, if you go to 20 countries, what do you do there? Does that mean you have reached the entire country?

You just stay in a hotel and then go to a conference, meet 200 people preach to them, 2,000 people, 20,000 people preach to them, that's all. He said when he was a teenager, he was in his room. And he went to go and buy the globe of the world. He would put the globe of the world down. And begin to declare that this is mine. The man will begin to cast his spirit on the world. He says wherever the soul of your foot steps upon his yawns, and the man will begin to declare, I've stepped in this country in my spirit. I am here. I am here. I am there.

The gospel is preached here. This is mine. The world is mine. He said, he will begin to mention every country he's seeing one after the other. Africa is mine. There are countries in Africa. Europe is mine. How can a teenager, a 16 years old, a 17 years old, a teenager be declaring right from his room that the world is mine. The world is mine. He was said in their last pastor's conference.

They had to change it from on-site to online because if they had made it online, there was no venue in the world that could contain pastors. Okay, who registered for the conference? I was told more than a 100,000,000 pastors registered. Because a man said I want to gather pastors. Have you seen statistics? In their global prayer day, I was told more than one. 2,000,000,000 people connect for global prayer days. And just like you said, it's very in the comfort of my room, I can reach the world. He said I put the globe down when I was praying, casting my spoon. Do you know this thing I'm saying?

Do you understand this reality I'm saying? Oh my God. I hear these things and faith tears up in my spirit. Faith tears up in my spirit. I know immediately what is possible. I know immediately what is possible. Brothers and sisters, I went to a crusade. And a man of God whom I honor and respect was there ministering. This is not something they told me. I was there.

And by prophecy, he called the woman out with such a big stomach, called her name and called everything about her. And the woman rushed out and said, woman, that stomach has been big like that forty two months. How many years since? He the woman knelt down, started crying. He said, they will open your stomach and find nothing there. It will go down. Then less than one month, bulge out again. He said, woman, you are supposed to be pregnant, but witches are pounding your baby. In my presence, I was watching. Everybody was in there.

Hey. Hey. Hey. That's not my business oh. What wants to happen now? That's my business. What wants to happen now? The man said, woman, where do you want to have your baby? Here or hospital? Was watching from afar.

The man came down, raved a song from the stage. The choir was singing the song. He came down. Get her a chair. They brought a chair for her. She sat down. Camera was zooming to the thing. Laid his hands on her and kept on praying. They rushed her to the medical tent, brought her back in ten minutes with three babies. Three babies.

In my presence. I said, my goodness. What what is this? How can some people so possess this life? Said, this was what he saw in Kenneth Hagin's program. When he went there and he saw healings happening like water, they were so cheap. These men don't pray like we do. They don't fast like we do. God, are you racist? That was the question he asked.

What do they know that we don't know? He said, I told God, if this thing does not follow me back to a Nigeria, I will know you are racist. I will know you only do it for some and leave it for others. And low and behold, oh, you know the story. The Bible calls these things the heritage of our faith. The heritage of our faith. The faith that we have received. How can we then do less? How can we then act less? How can we then perform less?

How can we manifest less? How can we believe less? How can we think less? How can we feel less? How can I do ministry less? How can I do ministry less? Some of you need to remember why you survived and others did not. Why you were preserved when death knocked? Why your name was not on the obituary? Why the car made might have crashed and you walked out?

Why the accident might have happened and yet you walked out. You need to remember. There's a divine purpose over your life. And it's not small. You're on earth to display the glory of God. To prove that there is a God that works amongst men. Behold, I am the children that the Lord has given unto me. We are for signs and wonders. The world does not need another motivational quote. It needs sons.

People who know and they can walk in the power of your identity. The kind of people that when they speak in front of diseases that they are not guessing. They stand in front of mad men, they are not guessing. They're not open wondering what will happen right now. They know if I speak again, it will happen. Because the life I have received can only be transferred. I cannot accept death. I cannot receive death. Those who are standing with boldness and collect crutches. Heal blind men.

Heal don't hear. Death yes. Hear me? Hear me? I was in a meeting. That I was invited to. And you know there's a level of arrogance that people have when they don't know you. And I went there and I saw this arrogance in massive display. This arrogant. One of my pastors was there with me.

I think about two people were there with me. And the first night, it was a two days meeting. The first night, when I saw I was preaching and I saw that the people are so are so arrogant. Arrogant. I was cold, arrogant. I said, oh. And I declare by word of knowledge, there is somebody here who is deaf in the ears. I said it separately. The person nourished their hand. It was then it occurred to me that he couldn't even hear what I was saying.

He couldn't even hear what I was saying. He was his friend beside him that raised his hand. I left the front, went to where he was, put my two hands on his ears. I think you were there. Sir. Sir. And the Lazo was there. I put my two hands on his ears. I shouted for me, please I don't know. Open.

The ear did not have a choice. He did not have a choice. The ear popped open. Instantly, everybody that was called, started saying, yeah, yeah. There is a way power convinces a people. There's a way power speaks a language. It is very fluent when it is speaking. It is very fluent when it is speaking. Every man understands it. Every man.

The following day, they brought everybody. Every... The place was filled up before I came. People were praying in tongues. People I said, my goodness. What? No wonder Paul said when I came to you. My speech and my preaching And when you understand this thing, I'm telling you, you will know this power is not far from you. It is within you. It is within you.

The believer can demonstrate this power at will. At will. At will. You don't move it until it makes sense. You declare it now. You speak it now. Even before you fully understand it, you speak it now. Your body will catch up very soon. You speak like someone that knows that their future is secured. You think like someone who is sent.

You feel like someone who carries eternity in their bones. Some of you according to the power that works in you. The power is already working in you. The power is not in heaven. It is in you. It's already working in you. Watch this. God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we can ask or think. According to the power that works. Not according to the power in.

The one that is working. So it means heaven waits for you to put that power to work. It's not enough that the power is in you. God is only able to do according to the power that is not in you. But the one that is in you and is working. So what heaven waits for is, can you put this thing to work? Can you start this thing? Can you ignite it? And when you stand and you say, my business is advancing. My power is working.

God is able to do. God is able to do. When you stand and you say, I only prosper, I can only prosper, I cannot fail. Either from above is above all. I am the head, I'm not the tail, above only, I'm not beneath. Hear me. God starts doing. God starts doing. Because power is working. Hear me?

Because power is working. We shine your light so bright. We sing in honor of you. We raise your banner Say it loudly like atmosphere. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? I believe this strongly. I cannot fail. Even if I fail, I fail forward.

Even if I stumble, I stumble in the direction of purpose. Even if I feel that this is a setback, it's only your height be the setback. As long as I'm concerned, it is a step forward. Because all things work together for good. All things work together for good. All things. All things. That is how the new creation believes. All things. All things.

There is no man, there is no system, there is no force that has the power to stop what God has declared over your life. Hear me? When you wake up from a dream and somebody is pursuing you, you wake up from a dream, somebody is choking you, somebody is doing one or the other, you see one man saying that you will not prosper, you see yourself in a room, the room is becoming tighter, you see snakes, you see all kind of things, and you wake up, the new creation is not afraid. You start to laugh, you start to, you start to laugh. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? The Bible says the Bible says, why do the eating is rich? And the people imagine the vain thing against the Lord and misanointed.

Watch this, it means the hidden is reaching. And the people are imagining a a vain thing against the Lord and is anointed. They are planning. Gathering in a coup. Gathering in a coup. Gathering Gathering in in a a coop. Coup. And planning. So when you dream, what you are seeing is people imagining a vain thing against you. And what you are seeing?

You wake up and say okay. Okay. What is the response? He that sits in heaven laughs. Listen, listen, listen, listen, Somebody to look at you and says, you will see. And the person is going to go and plan different things. Okay, say different things. Taking your name up and down. Carry your picture to mountain. And say, ah, the Bible says that after it has seen all these things, it begins to laugh.

It begins to laugh. Hear me? This is the new creation. This is the new creation. There are problems you face. You first respond with your feeling. Listen. Listen. Listen. I hope you know that this is the response of the soul to the spirit.

It means if the soul was responding to circumstances, the soul become afraid. The soul will say, ah, ah, they they are dying against me. They are doing it against me. No. If the soul respond to circumstance, the soul will have fear. And say, what what would I do now? Apostle, apostle, apostle, apostle, stop that kind of life. Stop it. When you think as though a man of God is your savior. Why did Christ now die for you?

Why did Christ now die for you? You wake up from such events and you begin to laugh. After you have laughed, the Bible now says, the Lord shall hold them in deadison. What the next verse? He says, he will speak to them in his wrath. He will speak to them aware. So it means you will still speak oh. You will still declare. You will still break. You will still you will still cast and bind.

You will still rebuke. But your response is false laughter. To show the devil that you are not afraid of a thing. It means your first response is your soul's response to what your spirit has declared. Not to the environment. That is, you understand what I'm saying? Hear me? If you don't understand this thing I'm teaching you, you will struggle. You will struggle. Romans chapter eight from verse 38 to verse 39.

The am That is where you must arrive. The point of persuasion, where no dream, no diagnosis, no delay can talk you out of your inheritance. This is the generation that God is raising on. A people that I don't tremble when demons shout. A people who don't crumble when report says cancer. A people who work in dark places and become the light without apology. A people who carry fire in their words. Wait in their barriers, result in their lives. A demon. If it's a demon, you can lay down one to me.

I have a specialty. In dealing with matters like this. Listen, if you believe what I'm teaching you, you will come out of circumstances fast. You will. You will. Your your need for counseling will reduce. Because you know even in the darkest night, even in the darkest ground. Nothing can ever face me, nothing, nothing. Three years ago, somebody came to me. I was sitting down there talking.

And he said sir, sir. There's a problem oh, I said what's the problem? An uncle is fighting. Person I lost his his his father. And so the the relative of the father are fighting the mother. And collecting all the properties that the father had. Despite the fact that the father willed it to his family, willed it to the wife and his children. But relative were insisting that they were causing no kind of trouble. And we're using charms and using all kind of things to fight. Saying, if they bore you well, if you like your life, charms were there, your boys were there, all kind of things were there.

The old man was talking to me. I was looking at him. I asked him and said, it depends. What level of dominion do you want? Because there are two types of dominion you can have in a situation like this. That's what me I'm just thinking. Tell me which one you want. You can go and tell your mother who is agitated that you should not worry again. You will buy her all the lands back. That's one.

Two, you can take the fight back to them and begin to kill them one by one. I said that's easy. That's easy. You enforce dominion over the constancies, over situations. This is the life you have. It's not an ordinary life. It is it is a kind of life that when you speak words, your words are creative forces. Nature, nature can bend. They can conform. They can be hold hard.

To produce result that should not even be in your life. Because a man filled with life said it. I've not heard what Elijah said. He said according to my word. There shall be no rain. According to my word. That's a man who would not even have the life that you have. Says according to my word. How come believers are crippled? How come believers are shy and ashamed?

How come believers are crippled? I have had several, several confrontations. This young man who came to me, by the time two of those troublesome people packed up one by one. They left the property with them and never disturbed them again. Left it and never disturbed them again. Do you know the life we have? I heard a man of God say, he went to go and buy a property. And he was told that the property was so expensive because of how big it is. And when he got there, they said before you buy, let's just be open with you. There's one woman that is a witch who has an altar inside his property.

Despite the property is not her own. And anybody who comes to buy this property, the moment they come, they die or something happens to them. The last person that came has broken his leg now. We thought he should just tell you. The man said, ah, that's the more reason why it should be cheap. So if there is this danger involved, that means even you cannot use it. That means it's a risk if I buy it. So why it should be cheap? And he negotiated the thing down to the cheapest. And because they want to just carry, they sold it to him and say, ah, God will help you, he left.

The woman came and they told him, somebody has bought this place oh. He said, tell him that he will not work again. They called the man of God. They said, the witch said we should tell you that he will not work again. Listen. Listen. Listen. On phone, the man said, tell her she will not walk again. Hear me? The man said, tell her she will not walk again.

Two weeks after, the woman called the woman called and says, help me go and beg him. Me go and beg him. The man says it's easy. Give your life to Christ. Give your life to Christ. Give your life to Christ. We are not terrorized of witches. We are not terrorized of wizard. Do you know what life you have received? We are that generation.

The church must grow past superstition. Stop blaming everything on witches and on altars. Start asking the right questions. Not always attacking me. But why is it not working despite I know who I am? Isaiah four sixteen, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, for lack of knowledge. Behold, because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you. Psalms 82 verse six. I have heard, I have said, you are Gods. And all of you are children of the most high.

Verse seven says, but you will die like a mere men. Why? Because they forgot who they were. They saw themselves as victims. They saw themselves as powerless. They saw themselves as human only. But those who work in sonship understand responsibility. We don't blame the nation. We don't blame our family. We don't blame our upbringings.

We take responsibility. We take dominion over circumstances. So when somebody says you can't plant a church in this place, you ask them why? Yeah. Because the the powers here are very tough. That's where I'm born for. I was born for 40 time as this. Powers, they are very tough. Leave me and the powers. Leave me and the powers.

It was spoken of how that he went to a village and told the king he wanted a land and decided to give him the forbidden the forbidden forest when nobody enters. That's the only available lot to say, oh, thank God. They went there and cleared everything inside of the church there. Nothing. Nothing. Church balance, church 30, nothing. Caught the... Cut the tree, cut everything. You say, careful. Be careful.

What? We've been inflicted with so much fear. Because of movies that did not have the life of God in them. Movies that propagated fear more than it did. The dominion that the believer has in Christ. So because you saw a pastor in a movie, go go and preach to somebody, and then a demon appear and he's wiping the the pastor cord. That thing came from a movie. So you just beat the ass and be careful. Demon, they just slap you. Be careful.

Demon slap me. Your hand will perish. What are all my angels doing? Why you are why you are coming to come and slap me? You'll be crippled right there. They brought a man. The man lied in a coffin. Her life pretended him to be dead so that the man of God will not tell him to come alive and he will now not come alive. They will now say, can you see? Can you see?

It's a lie after all. Because they knew if they brought a dead body, he will raise him. So the easiest way to disprove him was to bring somebody pretending to be dead. Listen, as they were bringing him, he set right from afar. You bring someone who is living and he presents to be dead, he dies. Listen. Listen. The issue we have as believers is this soul consciousness. This thing must flow into your soul. It must become the way you think.

Jesus says, I must become your manner of thinking. I must become your manner of feeling. I must become your manner of saying things. That's where the issue lies. It's not in what is in your spirit. It is in how many of these things I'm saying are flown from this. The difference between believers isn't this I'm saying. We are all the same with respect to what we have received. The difference is our levels of consciousness in terms of how many of these things we have allowed to sip from our spirit into our soul. That is what allows or informs how much dominion we can command.

The difference between me and you is not that I'm well anointed than you. No. We have the same spirit. The same spirit you have received. The difference is how much my consciousness has registered this thing. I was speaking to someone. The person told me, if you're not careful, you will start well, and then in the middle, things will turn bad. I just laughed in my spirit. I didn't even consider once. They are.

Let me be careful. Because I looked at my Bible, and the Bible says the path of the righteous. It's it's a shining light. There is no path in scripture where my beginning is better than my end. The Bible says, though your beginning was small, your little end will greatly increase. The Bible says, better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. The Bible says, a little one shall become a thousand. A small one shall become a great nation. Thou shall increase my greatness and comfort me on every side. This is what I saw in scriptures.

There is no reason why that kind of a thing can sip into my heart once. Do you know who you're speaking to? Nothing can defile a man that comes from without. Nothing. Not a man in Christ. Not a man who knows this thing that I'm saying. Nothing. Matthew 16 verse 18, we have misunderstood that scripture for such a long time. The bible said I will build my church and the gates of hell does not prevail. And will preach it as though we are the ones who with the devil is coming to come and fight the church and the church is is running to defend it.

But the bible does not say the gates of the church. The bible says the gates of Hades will not prevail. That means the attack is not happening in the gate of the church. The attack is happening in the gates of hell. It means hell is not the one in offense. Hell is the one in defense. The church is the one attacking. The gates of Hades will not prevail. It means while we are charging into a territory, the gates of Hades will not prevail. While we are charging into nations, the gates of Hades will not prevail.

That's what he's saying. I will build my while they are mounting like men. While men are rising, and they are saying this one is my own. This territory is mine. The gates of hate is will not prevail. We are not the ones on the defensive. No, we're not. No, we are not. Some believers come and tell me how demons choke them in the night. But the confession should be different.

I'm waiting for who born the demon that will come and choke me. The conversation should be different. Paul, I know. Jesus, I know. It means when demons are conversing in hell, they should know us. Paul I know. Jesus I know. Emmanuel I know. There are there are no some of us oh. They know us.

We have terrorized them too much. That's why some of us have to pray. Because there are people that we want to invite us. And demons know because they know us. They will enter their mind and say, let's find ourselves. Let's bring somebody else. And they know that, ah, boy. I've said it before, that some people cast out devils. Some torment them. The Bible says they looked at Jesus and said, have you come to torment us?

Witches will fly across your house and be crippled. By the time they go for their next coven meeting, they say, be careful. When you are passing that house, no go area, no fly zone. No fly zone. You were buried in Christ. You were, you rose with Christ. Romans six four says, now you walk in the newness of life. And that life is not normal. It's not common. That life is not earthly.

That life is divine. That life is divine. Hear this loud and clear. You are not a survivor. You are not a victim of diabetes, of poverty, of depression. You are not at the mercy of statistics. You are not subject to economy. You are not a casualty waiting to happen. You are born of God. First John chapter five verse four says whoever is born of God.

Listen to me. One lady came to me one time and said sir, sir, prophet said I'm destined to destroy the home of whoever marries me. I said I said If you don't know this thing I'm saying ignorance will kill you. Ignorance. Ignorance. This is what makes us dear life in the face. We talk to clients with boldness. Talk to company with with audacity, with authority. Yes, sir. With no fear.

We don't cower back. The Bible says the lion does not turn back. It doesn't turn back when he sees anything. You are the hoarder of the lion tribe of Judah. No. Even if I have one day to prepare for an exam, I cannot fail. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Hear me?

The understanding behind that is the necessary strength to stay up and lead is provided. The necessary speed to cover ground is provided. The believer is not disadvantaged. It's not. It's not. With all this holy ghost on your inside, with this powerhouse on your inside, How can you fail with the holy ghost? How can you, how can you be poor with the holy ghost? Do you know what men beat with the holy ghost upon them? They poured the mouth of lions. They confronted systems and territories.

They changed a lot of nations. They negotiated with kings in straight lands. They became valuable across multiple dispensations. You don't just have holy ghost upon. You have the holy ghost within you. What will you do with that holy ghost? What will be your own story? What will we hear about you? What would it be said that you did with the holy ghost? Will it be said that you were poor with the holy ghost?

That you filled with the holy ghost? That you were mediocre with the holy ghost? I'm not trying to motivate you. This is not motivation. It's not a nice sermon to inspire people into a better mood to make you feel good. No. It's a prophetic declaration of your origin. You're not normal. You were never meant to be. The world may insist you on labeling you based on what they see, based on your age, based on your background, based on your location, but the spirit of God insist on labeling you by your birth in Christ.

The more we preach this truth, the more that this times it may stare. Some people may call it arrogance. Others may say it's impossible, and that's okay. Because revelation always separates the hungry from the hardened. Even in Jesus' day when he spoke with authority and power, many walked away. But to those who are willing to hear, who are willing to receive, who are willing to catch these things in their spirit, their lives were never the same again. There's more to you than you see in the physical. There's more to you. There's more to you. Your skin color, your passport, your accent, your family history, none of these things define the limit of your destiny.

None of them. Inside you by the spirit is a divine capacity that the earth must eventually submit to. When we mature into sonship, this world cannot ignore us. The systems of men may resist, but creation will recognize us. This world cannot ignore us for the earnest expectation of creations. Wait for the manifestation of the sons of God. Those who will realize these things that they are sons. There are regions, there are institutions, there are nations, even environments that are waiting for you to believe what God has said about you. The difference is not who God favors, it is who dares to believe. Because this realm does not respond to religion.

It doesn't respond to emotion. It responds to revelation based on action or acted upon. And if you walk around as a common man, the world will treat you as such. You will see the result of common men. But the moment you are awakened to who you are in Christ, creation will respond. Creation will respond. Creation will respond. I'm very diligent with my business in the marketplace. But some time ago, someone sent me a message from a company. And the company and the message had lasted about a week or so, and I did not see...

I can't even explain why I didn't see it. I didn't see it. How I check all my platforms to ensure that I'm up to date with opportunities. But that particular one, I didn't see it. And they reached out to me to propose something that will be worth millions. In multiple, multiple, multiple, multiple 8 figures In a year. I didn't see it. And the first thought that will come to your mind is, hey, Jesus Christ. Four days five, one week ago, I've lost it. My spirit go that peace.

I'm the needy. I'm not the needy. Even if they are hungry, orders will come. I'm I'm not perturbed by that. I'm not perturbed. I'm not disturbed by that. I sent a message, very nice, happily message. I'm not sure how I missed it. But, yes, I'm interested. You can reach me through this mail.

Blah blah blah blah blah. And the person replied, oh, wow. Thank you so much for responding. I almost thought you would not respond. There is something upon our lives. It coffees men to respond to us in a different way. There are privileges I enjoy in the marketplace that nobody else does. Nobody else does. There is something upon our lives based on our consciousness. So if you think, oh, he's a man of God, he can talk like that.

I'm in the marketplace. You have no excuse. This is where we really confront demons. Do you understand what I'm teaching you here? Yes, sir. Be bold with this thing. Be bold with it. Be bold with it. It is who you are. It is who you are.

Do ministry with it. Rise in destiny with it. Take territories with it. Step out with it. Cast out devils with it. Don't be intimidated by anything, any man, any system, regardless of who they are. Regardless of who they are. Even if I fail, I feel forward. Even if I stumble, I stumble on the path to destiny. And every step back is every step back is 10 steps forward.

This is my mentality. This is my mentality. Nothing ever goes wrong in my life. Doesn't mean I don't have issues. Plenty issues. Plenty issues. Warfare left, right, and center. But I'm I'm the conqueror. I'm the overcomer. I'm the overcomer.

Warfare from even unexpected sources. Warfare from places you would never imagine. Fighting you, talking against you. And if you're not careful, you will wonder why how can this one be fighting me? But I trusted you. All of that is nonsense. What matter with who you are in Christ? What has God said about you? What have God said about you? If you're a business person, approach your business this way.

You're a career person, approach your business this way. Speak life into it. Speak life into it. Speak life into it. Don't see yourself as the defeated. You are not the defeated. You are not the encroached. This is how we war. This is how we go into warfare. We go into warfare with this understanding.

That a, you mean the devil is still trying to lay claim on what is mine by right? Alright. No problem. And then we go into warfare. Three days fasting and prayer, Declaring with authority. This nation is mine. Nigeria is mine. I was praying many years ago in chapel. Rise up on your feet now. As we pray.

I was praying many years ago in chapel. Listen to me. And as I prayed, praying in the spirit, praying in the spirit, my eyes opened. And I saw, I saw Ibadan, large as it is. And I saw two hands covering the city. Two hands like this. Two hand, big hands, and they were... It was so big, they were able to cover the entire city. I saw it. I said, what is this?

What is this? I saw a bigger hand above the hand covering on your state. And I saw buildings rising from the ground. And they begin to climb up. They begin to climb up. They begin to climb up. And when they get to where that hand is, they pick. They just stop. Almost as though the hand says, this is the height of your progress. Am I gonna be able to stop your starting?

Am I gonna be able to stop your increase and your influence and your spread? But at this point, nobody can pass. And above the hand, I saw several space, several potentials, several lands unreached. I said, ah, what is this? And the Lord started showing me one half by the other. Churches in this city. And their counterparts in other regions. Started the same time, same fire, same power, even more anointed. And I saw the limitation. And you will think the limitation is because of some reason.

Or just because they are here. I saw organizations. I saw organizations. That started building and all of them, churches, organizations, industries, you know, everything reached that place and just stops. And I saw that this same people, the moment they relocate and say, I can't fight this battle anymore. And they go out into another city. Then things begin to move very fast. Some of them have recognized this thing. And it's because and and that was the reason why they left. They started and they left because they realized that there was a resistance they cannot they cannot explain.

I saw it in 2016. And I said, oh. So if we build a ministry here, this is where we would ah. Alright. A call into warfare. What what whoever holds the hand will cut it. I prayed in the spirit enforcing authority and dominion. Until I saw the hand diced off. I came in 2016. I had a fellowship.

I started prophesying over this city in the fellowship. It wasn't the church, it was nothing, it was just a place, a school, an A level school we used to preach in. I didn't even care that they were students writing A levels. They don't even have admission. I was prophesying over the city. I told them I said in this city, you would experience revival like you have never seen. Men will come from around the world. Nations will come from around the world. And you will see the flag of nations erect. Millions of people would gather.

To hear this gospel of the kingdom. All kinds of ethnic groups, all kind of races. And as a sign, in many years time, you will see that this airport in Ibadan would become an international airport. Listen to me, I told them, I said the reason is because God will provide an infrastructure for the nations to come. I said this in 2016, I prophesied. 2017, I prophesied. 2018, I prophesied. 2019, I prophesied. I think it was last year or so. One of my son just messaged me.

Who was there in 2017, 2018. And then I supposed to see. I supposed to see what you said. I said, what is it? And he showed me the approval. I said, my God. When we said it, it didn't look as though it can ever happen. Yet it was a sign that God gave. I intensified. I said, if God has given us this sign, let's start celebrating.

But not only celebrating, declaring again that nations are coming. That nations are coming. That will defy the norm. We will do what has never been done. That it will be said. That in this city, some people rose. Some people rose. Some people rose and they did dangerous things. And they built infrastructures. And they were shut out of the church.

And they turned a city almost into a country. That becomes the center of commerce. And everybody who left, by the time they come back, they would have to buy the lands they want owned. Because some people who were wise had seen the potential. And they bought it even before they came. I speak in parables. Because we know, we know, we know by reason of the life that we have received. Nothing can peg this progress. Nothing can stand in the way of our progress. Can you believe this thing I'm teaching you?

Can you just believe it? Listen to me. This is your this is the operational system that governs my living. This is it. This is why I'm not faced. I'm not perturbed. It doesn't matter what kind of issue anybody shares with me that can move me. It doesn't matter. There's no problem too big that I've ever had that can make my heart shiver and say, hey, what a powerful problem. No.

Never. Never. Never. This manner of feeling, this manner of thinking, Can you close your eyes? This manner of feeling. This manner of thinking. This manner of feeling. This manner of thinking. This manner of feeling Can you declare with authority? I don't want you to shout.

No, I don't want you to shout. But speak with authority. Speak with authority. In Jesus name we have prayed. I just feel in my spirit that there should be silence. Can all eyes be closed? I see for some people that the holy ghost is going to cause right now an activation. An activation. It is not an impartation. It's not something that is coming upon you.

No, that's not what I'm saying happening. That's why I want there to be silent. It's not, it's not an impartation. It is an activation. It is what is already on your inside. It is what is already within you. Within you. Within you. The the Bible says that the communication of your faith be made effectual by the acknowledgement of every good things which is in you. That thing that is in you.

So I see that there are graces in people. There are there are there are possibilities that God has already deposited. Bible says that God has given us all things that pertains onto life and godliness. All things. And so there are dormant graces, dormant possibilities, dormant expressions, dormant realities, even mantles that are dormant within. It's not something that... This is not... This is not something that is external. It is within you. It is inside of you.

I said it so strong in my spirit. And the Lord said I'm quickening. I'm causing an activation of these things, an activations of these things. An activation of these things. And it's coming upon them. It's coming upon them. It's coming outside of them. From within outside. From within outside. I see about three of them outside.

About five of them on the gallery. Even following me online. Activations happening. Torment's grace is fighting expression. Let the prophets prophesy. Let the apostles manifest. Let the signs of the evangelist come up and arise from in the inside. Let torment graces be quickened and be activated. Your voice will not be silenced. Your voice will not be silenced.

Expressions from within. That God has deposited. Wells that your generation must drink from. Wells that have been dug on your inside. Dog on the inside. On the inside. I'm seeing them fighting expression. Fighting expression. Fighting expression. At the sound of my voice.

Let get the activations now. Now. Now. Let it come stronger. Let it come stronger. Let it come stronger. Upon people. On my left, to my right, from the front to the back. Everywhere. These people that God has said.

I'm seeing light, light breaking out of some people. Suddenly your eyes is opening. Suddenly you are seeing, you are seeing this thing. You are building this thing, you are seeing it. You are building this thing. You are seeing this thing. There is excellence on your inside already. There's excellence on your inside already. It's on your inside already. The Bible says Christ has been made wisdom.

There's someone I'm speaking to, there is wisdom on your inside. There's wisdom on your inside. But your life has not been known for wisdom. But right now, there are quickness in the spirit. Lightness of the spirit. Breaking that I'm speaking. Let it come out of you. At the sound of my voice. Shift in the spirit. It is so strong, I tell you, it's so soft.

My God. My God. Activations, quickness. Quickness is still happening. Quickness. It is still happening. There's someone that will shout loud now. The Lord said a sound of joy, the sound of joy. The Lord said, I've made you a voice to your generation. Your voice is becoming significant.

Your expression is becoming significant. Weight on your voice. Weight on your voice. Activations. Utterance that you already have. Inside of you. I'm seeing people with great things to write. Great things to write. He has given a my my my my tongue. My pen is like a tongue of a ready writer.

My pen is like a tongue of a ready writer. My tongue rather is like a pen of ready writer. Ideas are being awakened on your inside. And the boldness to execute. To step out. What is a lion doing sleeping? What's a lion doing sleeping? Backing like a dog. Backing like a dog. What is that mighty man doing sleeping?

Hiding in one corner. Awake. Awake. At the sound of my voice. Awake. At the sound of my voice. There's someone I'm seeing. That this healing the sick of a thing. This grace to heal the sick is inside of you. It's come from outside.

I see you have an inheritance, an inherent grace. For healings, for deliverances, healings and deliverances. Healings and deliverances. Healings and deliverances. Now, now, now, now. Activate. Activate. Activate. Activate. Now.

Now. Now. Now. Let it drop out. From within. From within. People in the media space. People in the media space. Content creators, writers. In the media space, I see a grace from within.

A grace for spread from within. Ideas that will shake the world. That will draw the eyes of men to you. That will draw the eyes of men to you. When others are looking for spread, I see this thing coming to you easily, easily, easily. Spread influence easily. Easily. Receive it. Receive it. Receive it.

Inherent possibilities. Activations. There's someone I'm seeing that an inherent graceful access. Access. That's what I'm seeing in the spirit. Access. To meet with people that matter. Important men. That can shift businesses that can is a grace oh is a grace. And I'm seeing it upon upon someone.

An inherent possibility. North is not coming outside. It's inside of you already. It's only activated. Important men will start asking for you. They will start seeking for you. You will sit down with kings and princess. They will just like you. They want to trust you. They will tell you their secrets.

They will seek for counsel from you. Now I declare that Nigeria is yours. There's tangible favor coming upon you. Tangible favor. I see connections. Connections that will explode your gifting. Explode your gifting. Receive it now. Thank you Lord Jesus. Who do you need to meet to announce you?

Who does your destiny need to announce you? Right now I declare. Let the book of remembrance be opened. Let that mantle of favor begin to speak on your behalf. Now, now, now, now, now. Receive that mantle. People are giving you money. People are handing over wealth to you. They are giving you their wealth. Hear me?

Have you observed that Ishmael always looks faster than Isaac? That the works of the flesh looks as though it is faster than what God is doing in the spirit. And there is someone like that who is feeling that way. That there are people who have done things in the flesh. And they seem to be moving faster than you. But because you refuse compromise. You refuse compromise. Listen, what you don't know is that Ishmael might be building faster than Isaac. But he's building for Isaac. What men have built, they are putting it in your hands.

People are handing over companies to you. People are giving you lands. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. I'm saying is not laziness. It's not laziness. It is the help of God.

When a man receives help, people open up their hearts to him. They tell you, can you manage my business for me? Can you supply 10,000 of these things for me? Can you, can you come and speak on this behalf? Can you anchor this event for us? And they give you what you'd not deserve. I declare, people are opening their hearts for you. Opening their hearts for you. Please receive this thing. They are opening their hearts for you.

Hey, my God. My God, I see favor resting upon you. Commanding men to favor you. Commanding men to give you things. Commanding men. Let the hand of God. Let it come upon you. Lands are given to you. Properties are given to you. Cars are given to you.

Houses are given to you. Jobs are given to you. In the name of Jesus. Your life is moving with speed. The holy ghost is coming upon you. Mary asked the angel, how shall these things be? The angel told her, the holy ghost shall come upon you. The power of the iron shall overshadow you. That power that comes upon men. That makes them do the impossible.

That makes them put forth ideas. That makes them become savior. Let that holy ghost come upon you. Let that power overshadow you. Leave this place empowered. Leave this place empowered. Leave this place strengthened. Strengthen. Strengthen. There are some of you, you will walk out of here with graces you'll not come here with.

Your life has changed forever. Your life has changed forever. Your life has changed forever. Your life has changed forever. This meeting become the turning point in your life. You will never be timid again. The heart of a lion. The defense of a colossus. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with disciples christian network and get more from apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms.

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