Transcript: Faith for Financial Prosperity - How God Makes You Rich

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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. I'll be addressing a subject that is often misunderstood, sometimes even condemned, But one that is absolutely central to the heart of God for his children. And I've titled it faith for financial prosperity. Ivan, how god makes you rich? Faith for financial prosperity. Our god makes you rich.

I intentionally crafted a title because I didn't want to be too spiritual. I want you to understand exactly what I'm saying. Because it is my... You see, of course, as the title suggests, we are going to be talking about prosperity. We're gonna be talking about finances and about what the bible truly says about God's desire to see you thrive in every area of your life, including your material well-being. We're going to come from a holistic perspective, and this is why if you're connected to this vision by son of this house, I really not want you to miss this series. It is my desire to see you prosper. It is my desire to see you come to the fullness of all that God has promised. To see you walk in abundance and not scarcity. This is the genuine state of my heart as God sees.

And when I see you, like the apostle said, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in good health. I want you to be comforted, not having to beg for survival and having more than enough to give to God and to give to his kingdom to serve the purposes of God. That is my desire for every one of you. And God sees my heart. And the more we have who get this thing right, the better it is for the kingdom. So again, say to you, do not miss this series. It would change your life. It would be like you have never heard this subject taught before. Believe me. Do not...

This is not something you should miss. Today, we are going to begin with a powerful and foundational scripture that captures the prayer of call for the Philippian church. In that prayer, you would also see a picture of the heart of God and the will of God for the believers. Philippians chapter four verse 19. Today would just be introduction, but would be an introduction with power, an introduction with impartations because I believe so strongly that even as I'm speaking, light will be entering into people. What I see happening today really is an impartation of light. That's really, really what I see happening. It is an impartation of light. You may not understand what I'm saying. But when it happens, you would know.

And you'll be so blessed. Philippians chapter four verse 19. The Bible says, and my God shall supply all your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. Immediately, we see here that God supplies. God is a supplier. And what does he supply? All your needs. It is therefore God's will that your needs are met. And not just some of your needs. The bible says all your needs.

This guarantee isn't based on your ability. It is not based on your income. It is not based on your circumstances. It is based on God's character. It is based on God's resources. All your needs. Not just some of your needs, all of your needs. And I said that this guarantee that we have is not just based on your income. It's not based on your circumstances. It is based on God's character.

It is based on God's resources. The scope of the promise is all your needs. That's the scope of the promise. It isn't talking about just spiritual needs. It encompasses every area of your life. Your material needs inclusive. The word need here is not a promise of a life of extravagant wants, but it's a promise that at the most basic level, you will never lack any necessity at the most basic level. Not that I said, this is the most basic level where your needs are met because there are superior realms even to this. But how do we even begin to discuss the superior realms when believers have not even come into the experience of their needs being met. Are you with me?

It is important for the believer to know that it is God's will that all your needs are met. Can you say it loud and clear? It is God's will. Is that how convinced you are about this? And the bible says, the basis for this supply is nothing short of his riches in glory. That means the source of this wealth from whence your needs are met is inexhaustible. It is according to the riches in glory. My needs are not met according to my bank account. My needs are not met according to the economic status of this nation. My needs are not met according to the state of things in my family.

My needs are met according to the riches in glory. So I never have to be bothered about the source. Where will it come from? Oh, one day my needs will no longer be met. I never have to think about that. I never have to think about where the next meal will come from, where the next money will come from. Or if I give this right now, where will the next one come from? No. No. No.

No. No. My needs are met according to his riches in glory. If it is according to his own riches and not my own riches, it means there is more where it came from. It means he can never finish. That's how I know I can never run dry. This becomes life to someone even. Where someone knows that my needs are met. I can't run dry. I can't run dry.

You know, people are so afraid. People are so fearful, afraid to give, afraid to invest, afraid to spend because they believe that if if this one goes now, where would the next one come from? That is an unbelieving believer. The bible says that your needs are met not according to your status, not according to what you have, but according to his riches in glory. The question is, can that riches be exhausted? Can a man ever come to the end of that riches? Can a man ever see the end of that riches? So when can my knees stop being met then? If God blesses me today, why do I feel that's the end of it? Someone favors me today, I'm wondering, will it happen again?

Will it happen again? Let me be careful. Let me exhaust it too fast in case it does not happen again. Can you see how believers think? There's more where it came from. There's more where it came from. If I did a project of this amount and I wanna do something bigger next time, I don't start thinking where would the money come from. There is more where it came from. Say, my needs are met. My needs are met.

And lastly, that scripture shows that the channel through which this supply flows is in Christ Jesus. So he says, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. This means that your access to the promise is a direct result of your relationship with Christ Jesus. The reason why my needs are met is because I have received Christ. If you understand this thing I'm saying you are delivered. The reason why my names are met, the only reason is because I've received Christ. This puts effort out of it. So the foundation of this is not even first your effort. It is first understanding that my receiving Jesus puts me at the vantage point where God opens his resources to me to always meet my needs. Always.

Always. I give you all the glory. I give you all the honor. Only you deserve all my praise. I give you all the glory. Will you take all the honor? But this is not the only book in scripture that reveals God's desire to prosper us. The bible is filled with them. In the old testament, we see God consistently blessing his people with material prosperity. For instance, consider the blessing of Abraham, which we will delve into more deeply very soon.

God promised to make him great, and part of that greatness was expressed in immense wealth. In the New Testament, Jesus himself talked about the provision of God, encouraging us not to worry about what we will eat, what we will wear because our heavenly father knows that we need those thing. He also demonstrated this power by miraculously providing for a large crowd with only five loaves and two fishes. The very nature of God is one of abundance and provision expressed in Jesus. When the disciples came to meet him, Jesus told them, you can't send these people away like this. They've got to eat something. Not that the people themselves were not complaining. The people themselves didn't even ask for these things. And the Bible calls Jesus the express image of God. It means God desires that his children be fed.

And in that riches and glory, he can multiply five loaves and two fishes. It wasn't according to the break that was around. It was according to his riches, and that riches can multiply five loaves and two fishes and feed more than 15,000 people. His riches in glory. His riches in glory. That riches in glory can turn water to wine. When they told him that the wine has finished, he didn't tell them you have asked for a mundane thing. I don't do mundane miracles. What is my business that wine finished? Why don't you pray that revival comes?

Do you know his first miracle was a provision for what finished in the house? His first miracle. If he doesn't care about what we need, why did he waste all his years dealing with the needs of men? The idea that God wants his children to live in a state of perpetual lack is not consistent with the character of God as revealed in scripture. Please listen to me. Understand this and understand it well. God wants you well. Sit with me. Say God wants me well. God wants me well.

God wants me prosperous. God wants me in good health. Successful. God wants God wants me rich. God wants God wants me to have plenty money. Massive financial resources. God wants me well. I believe this. I believe this. My understanding of this is not in doubt.

It is not in doubt at all. First Chronicles chapter 29 verse 11 to verse 12, amplified version. Let me show you a few scriptures that would solidify your conviction. The bible says, yours, lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty. Indeed, everything that is in the heavens and on the earth. How many things in the heavens? How many things in the earth? Everything. The bible says everything in the heavens. Everything in the earth is yours.

The bible says yours is the dominion. Yours is the kingdom. Yours. And you exalt yourself as head over how many things? Over spiritual things? Over how many things? Over how I'm worried about stuff together everybody. One, two, three. Go. Comes from who?

Do you believe the bible? Don't quote me. Don't say a man of God said, this is scripture. The bible makes it clear that both riches and honor come from God. The bible says, and you rule over all. The bible says, in your hand is power. In your hand is might. Let's read the next line together. One, three. Go.

Who makes great? Who gives strength? Genesis chapter 26 from verse 12 to verse 13, the New Living Translation. Light. The bible says, when Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a 100 times more grain than he planted. Why? He harvested a 100 times more grain than he planted for God blessed him. The next verse, the bible says, and he became a rich man, and his wealth continued to grow. Because I want your understanding to be founded on scriptures. In Psalms one one two from verse one, the bible says, praise the lord.

Blessed is the man who fears the lord, who delights greatly in his commandments. His descendants will be mighty on the earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed. Verse three, one, two, three, go. Is the bible against the prosperity of the righteous? The bible says something about the man that fears God. The bible says how you will know him is that there is wealth and riches in his house. So when people ask you, why are you so wealthy? You say, I fear the Lord. Yeah.

I fear the Lord. Why is that there is nothing your heart finds to do that you don't have the material resources to make possible? Because I fear the Lord. Because I fear the Lord. The bible says his descendant will be mighty upon the earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth and riches will not be missing in his house. That is the testimony from today. Because you are entering into wealth and riches. Second Corinthians nine verse eight.

Let me give you one more scripture in NIV. Amen. You abundantly so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need. Jesus Christ. In all things, at all times. So when should you lack? When should the believer experience a dry season? When should not have money in your pocket? I'm trying to install a software. And my prayer is that complete today.

That's why power will come with my words. Don't be mistaken to think I'm just here to speak. Power. All that is happening is don't hold that you are hearing. Something will sit on you. Power will jump on you. And suddenly your eyes will open. Was in a one room apartment. Himself and his wife and his first child. All of a sudden, went to pray.

Three days on a retreat and his eyes opened. In that condition, he says I will never. That's what is happening to you. He said I will never be poor. I can never be poor again in my life. There was a point where I caught that realization. Was a point where I caught it. The bible says, and David knew that he was a king. That means all the while he was doing it like dream. A point came when light entered.

Even whilst you are not a Jesus. Hear me? In all things at all times, in all things at all times, in all things at all times, having all that I need, in all things at all times. That is my reality as a believer. In all things at all times. In all things at all times, you will abound in every good work. Listen to me believers. Financial lack is a suffocating force that impacts every area of a person's life. As a young man, as a young woman, the absence of financial power can mean not being able to afford quality education or even basic materials for school. It means sometimes having to choose between buying a textbook or buying food.

It means the shame of not being able to pay school fees or the constant worry that you will not be able to write exams, sent home, redo an academic session because fees could not be paid. Lack of finances can limit your access to opportunities that could change your future. It is the difference between a student who can focus on their studies and one who is distracted constantly by the struggle to survive. And I have seen this again and again and again and again. I've seen brilliant students who have to wait three years, four years because they could not go to school. Their parents could not pay the fees. Jump past, post jump past, but fees could not be paid. So you sit down at home and waste one year because there was no money. The bible says the rich rule over the poor. Proverbs 22 verse seven, the borrower is servant to the lender.

The rich rules over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender. And that is the harsh reality that many believers face. A lack of money can enslave you. It can enslave you to a system of debt. It can enslave you to a system of dependence. A system of control and manipulation, limiting your choices and your future. And there are many people right now who cannot make choices in righteousness because they do not have the financial power to make a choice that would impact their destiny. Why is that? The person sponsoring them to school is a Muslim or someone with no regard for God.

And the person tells them, if I see you go to church again, I will not pay off school fees. I will stop sponsoring your education, and you cannot rebel in righteousness because your choice is enslaved. The rich lose over the poor. That's not where the believer should be. A Christian girl from a poor family is approached for marriage by a wealthy man, but is not born again. Probably even has two wives already. And her family pressures her to accept this proposal. These people are Christians, might even be a pastor, but poverty. And they believe that this marriage will lift us out of poverty. As saying no at that point becomes very expensive because her desire to obey God can cost her parents support, can cost her parents love.

Listen to me. Without financial empowerment, she might even end up giving to that marriage not because she doesn't love God, but because she lacks the power to choose obedience over convenience. The rich lose over the poor. A young man finishes NYSE has no job, and a friend offers him a shortcut. Just move money illegally for clients, and you'll get 20% out of it. He knows that it is wrong, but he's tired of being broke, tired of being hungry, tired of lacking basic needs, tired of being mocked. And so he rationalizes the sin because he does not have a buffer of financial stability to uphold his convictions. He might not be a wicked person, just financially enslaved. A born again banker is asked to manipulate fingers for a corrupt client. He wants to say no, but his wife just gave birth.

Rent is due. There is no savings, and he knows that if he gets fired like this, the whole family is in danger. So he keeps quiet. Even though it pricks his conscience, it keeps quiet. He wants to be righteous, but he cannot afford to be. This is why kingdom prosperity matters because righteousness should not have to be a luxury. It shouldn't have to be. It shouldn't have to be a luxury. A believer in a rural area, for instance, feels the strong leading to move to the city, to move to Ibadan, to move to Lagos, to move to Abuja where there is a church where he can have access to mentorship or even business opportunities that will shape his destiny, but he cannot afford transport. He cannot afford rent.

He cannot afford feeding. And the opportunity of a lifetime shows up on his doorstep, but he misses it. Not because he's lazy, not because he could not discern it, but because he's broke. There are times when destiny requires movement. Our movement many a times requires money. The question at that point will be, do you have that money? Because there are people that God has shown visions and dreams of going to other nations to start certain things there, but you would not go there and offer them prayers. I told myself long time ago that I will never go to a white man's land and be a slave. Never. I reject it.

I've studied the scripture, and I've seen my predecessors. Men who did not even have half of what I have, and I saw what they did in Babylon. These were strangers in another man's land, and they control the entire land. When I get there, we'll go like kings. We'll be welcomed like princes. I've seen pastors that gets a major donation from a politician who is obviously living in sin, obviously manipulating people, obviously corrupt. But this is the biggest giver in his church, and this guy is a member of his church. And the pastor wants to preach on repentance, but he fears losing the donation. He can't preach because the the the the the person that gives the most can be hungry and not give again. The church is in debt.

Staffs must be paid. Rent is due. And because of lack, it becomes silent at the gates where his voice should be loud. Prosperity brings liberty. Oh, even on the pulpit. Prosperity brings liberty. The bible says, who the son of man sets free is free indeed. But the freedom of a poor man in experience is still limited because his choices are limited. The bible says the rich rule it over the poor. Poverty limit your choices.

There are many young people who want to invest in career, but financial limitations can hinder your ability to invest in your career. It can mean not being able to afford the trainings, the certifications needed for promotions. It can force you to stay in a job you hate because you cannot afford to look for another one. It affects your ability to take risks, to start a business, to seize an opportunity that requires some initial capital because there is none. It can lead to a constant cycle of just living to pay the bills with no room for... To give, no room to invest, no room to save, no room to build, nothing. How about the impact of poverty in families? It is profound. Financial stress is one of the leading causes of divorces in homes, in families. It affects your ability to provide for your children, their health, their feeding, their education.

School fees cannot be paid. And you'll be amazed how many families live like this. How about that feeling of helplessness and shame that comes with your children coming to ask you for a basic need, and you tell them no because you don't have the money. You will shout at them and tell them be content. Be this. Be that. Why are you being greedy? Whereas you know your hunger is only because of poverty. You know if I had this thing, will give you. Your child comes to you and tells you, daddy, give me toy.

Yeah. I saw a toy. Buy toy for me. Do you become angry all of a sudden? What do you mean by toy? Is that what you mean right now? If you have the money, you do... It will cost you joy to bring it to him. Because the joy on that child's face would mean the world to you. The reason why you are angry at that moment is because there's no money.

Hear me. Hear me. I hate poverty. I hate poverty. I hate poverty. The constant worry, the constant anxiety, it can steal your peace and joy. In first Timothy five verse eight, the bible says, if anyone does not provide for his own, especially for those of his household, ESV version, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. This scripture is not initially a condemnation. It just shows the importance that God places on your ability to provide for yourself and for your family. Please listen to me.

Listen to me. Poverty is not a blessing. It is a curse that limits your potential, that affect your relationships, that can even hinder your spiritual walk with God by constantly distracting you with the cares of this world when you should be seeking first the kingdom of God. Visions have died because of poverty. Destinies have perished because of poverty. Lives have been terminated because of poverty. And I've seen this happen again and again and again and again. I've seen this happen again and again and again. Books that cannot be written. Ideas that die in the mind.

Oh, man of God. God told me to start a conference. I have a vision to start an NGO, start a foundation. How do you start it? It will take financial power. Do you know that the reason why many people pray a lot is because they don't have money? You rarely find believers whose prayer life stem from a place of love and intimacy. We'll talk about it on Saturday. Because if some people's needs are met, all of them, they would never pray again. All their prayer revolves around what they want from God.

What they want from God. And do you know prayer is so important that if God sees that that's the only thing that brings you to him?, I didn't say nothing. But many believers don't know the joy of intimacy. That your needs are met, and yet you still go to God in prayers. And you spend six hours there, not thinking about what food you will eat, what's this you want to pay, what this you want to buy. There's no money for that. Hey, God. I'm not thinking about none of those things. Just going and loving on your father. God of salvation came through for me.

Poverty is not a blessing. It is a cost that limits your potential. God is not glorified by your lack. He is glorified when you are free from the bondage of poverty and when you can fully live out the purpose he have ordained for your life. That is when God is glorified. Do not listen to any preacher who attempts to justify poverty in any sense losing any kind of narrative, even biblical narrative. Throw away any preaching from anybody if you love your destiny that tries to convince you. You know, heard men of God who say even Jesus was poor. In an attempt to tell people that it doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor, it doesn't matter. Yet the man who is speaking his needs are met.

It takes a level of wickedness for your needs to be met as a man of God and yet to tell people that God is not interested in their prosperity. Yet by reason of the Levitical order and the priesthood that you represent, by reason of the office that you represent, people are mandated to give to you by reason of that. So as long as you are dispersing the anointing, means of people are being met, dealings are happening, you're teaching the people God's word, they would give to you. It is levitical order. It is the order of priests. It is in scriptures. Jesus told the disciples, when I sent you, lackest thou anything? And it was the same one who told them, don't go with anything. Don't go with what you would eat. Don't go what you would wear.

And when they came back, he asked them when I sent you. Why? Because the laborer is worthy of his wages. If you preach the gospel, you will eat by the gospel. That is what the Bible says. Now the man who is already at an advantage because of the office God has put you in is telling people that God is not interested in their prosperity. It's no wickedness. After that meeting, somebody will still come and pay tithe to him and give him a seed. Ones who are speaking to, nobody is paying tithe to them or giving them a seed. Should we not search the scripture therefore to understand what is God's will for the believer's prosperity.

How does God intend? If you don't understand this as a man of God, your understanding of prosperity will be very biased. You would think that it works for everybody the same way it works for you. So you can see all I do is preach the gospel, see my life. Yet I'm blessed. But how does the engineer relate to that? How does the medical doctor relate to that? Is there not a provision in scripture for them as well? It is wickedness. Do you know the level of suffering right now in the world?

I heard a man of God speaking, challenging the government and saying that there is no time in Nigeria's nation where things are so bad that people are not even able to afford what they will hit, fees for their children. The man said, you can't imagine how many people wait behind every Sunday. And the reason they want to see him is, sir, I've not hit him. Sir, I don't have money for this. Sir, I don't have money for this. The man said, it does not matter how rich you are. If you continue to give everyone of them, will be broke. And guess what? That's in a church. So if we don't teach people how they become financially empowered, what becomes the faith of people?

Why then do they love God? Why then do they serve God? Poverty would bring them to a point where even the believer would say, you know what? Let's go back to Egypt. Hunger is what makes men compromise. Hunger. But we know we're slaves in Egypt, at least we were eating food. What is the point? There's no food for us to eat. Hunger makes men compromise.

I heard the story of a man. In the place where they are working, himself and the wife suffering, you know, believing God that things will get better, but in deep poverty. They decided that they would not bring the child because things are not so good. But you know how these things happen. A child still came. Now the child is there. They can they can barely afford what to eat. Talk less the child. How to take care of the child? They couldn't buy what child will wear or Pampers or whatever.

Were using whatever they could find around the house to do all what is required. The wife went to the office one day collecting a salary of 50,000 naira, and the CEO was walking by and saw her. Called her to the office. Said, how are you doing? How are things with you? And thinking that the CEO is there to help her, started expressing herself to the CEO. Saying things are so bad. Blah blah blah blah blah. We can barely afford this. We can barely afford that.

And the man said, okay. No problem. Go on. You have a... He said, I said, you're married. Yeah. I'm married. Myself and my husband, blah blah blah blah. Okay. Alright.

No problem. I will help you. Go and discuss with your husband. If you can sleep with me for one night, I will give you 10,000,000. She went to this coffee with her husband, and they deliberated and agreed. They... Both of them said you know what? It's just one night he's asking for. But let's be sure that it is real. Can he give us a deposit?

And and just ensure that Of course, you know that that marriage never remain the same. It never remain the same. Your husband never said I was the one that gave you permission to do so. No. Never looked at the wife the same again. Ended in divorce, ended in collapse, ended in pain. Poverty brings men to a point of unbelievable decisions. Unbelievable decisions. There is nothing good about poverty. So for a man of God to offer any kind of justification for why people should remain poor I'm not content for riches that is already theirs in Christ.

It's wickedness. The follow-up guys told me that when they call people to follow-up on them, check up on them, and invite them to church again, they would, you know, start telling them, oh, we've not eaten. I don't have money for this. I don't have money for that. Can you get me full stuff? Can you get me this? And though we can help, we try to help them. Except for some entitled ones who just believe that because I come to your church, it's your responsibility to feed me. You must be foolish. And then they speak to them arrogantly on the phone We are inviting him to church.

I don't want... Will you send me money? What is that? Yo. You want me to come to church. Will you send me money? Which is what really happened? I know. We are inviting God will provide. Prayer will hit.

That is that feeling of entitlement is not done. It's not done. It's not done. We do what we have to do as our responsibility as committed by God. So the less privileged to people, the bible says help the poor, help the widow, help the orphans amongst you. Doesn't make it your own entitlement to... No. No. No. It doesn't do that.

It doesn't do that. The bible says let him that steal, work that he might have to give. Glory to God. What's the point I'm trying to make? The point is that a lot of people are inside a state of incomprehensible suffering. And if we don't address this matter once and for all, to know exactly what what is God's will about this matter? What is God's will about this matter? What is God singing about this matter? Thank you, Lord Jesus. We know that this method of prosperity has been misrepresented.

We know. Some have commercialized this message. Some have abused this message. Others have made it a god, but misuse does not cancel use. If you reject biblical truth because of abuse, you are the one that will suffer. Yes, sir. No matter the abuse, God still want to bless you. God still wants to lift you. God still wants to prosper you. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. And the reason for that blessing is not so you can live a life of selfish indulgence. No. There is a higher purpose for this, and I want to share with you very fast. There are three reasons why God wants to bless every believer. That's not where I'm going, but it's a deviation. Three reasons why God wants to bless every believer. The first reason why God wants to bless you is for kingdom advance. What did I call it now? Kingdom The primary reason why God wants to prosper you is so that you can be a part of his redemptive work on earth.

The great commission to go and make disciples of all nations requires resources. The gospel must be preached. Touches must be built. Missionaries must be sent. Humanitarian needs must be done. These things require money. And when you are financially free, you can give generously. You can support ministries. You can be a channel of God's provision for the work of the kingdom. For the work of the kingdom.

Look at the example of the early churches. They were so committed to this idea that they sold all their possessions and laid the money at the apostles' feet so that the distribution was made to each as everyone had need. Acts chapter four from verse 34 to verse 35. Their prosperity was for a purpose beyond themselves. That's the first reason why God wants to prosper you. For kingdom advance so that you can be a channel through which God's kingdom advances. Not a container that locks wealth. No. That's not it. God blesses you so that you can be a channel.

God makes you a pipe. A pipe that wealth flows through because kingdom wealth, I will teach you eventually in this series, is an entrustment. In other words, if God cannot trust you with it, you have no access to it. And note this. Note this. There is no man that commits himself to kingdom advance whose needs will not be met. No man. This I have found by experience to be true. Glory to god. Amen.

Those need to not be met. The second reason why god wants to multiply you, the second reason why god wants to bless you, The second reason why God wants to help you. Why God wants to lift you and prosper you is for your personal welfare and comfort. God is not a stingy father. He cares about your well-being. He wants you to live a life of dignity, not a life of shame, not a life of struggle. He wants you to be able to provide for your family, to have a comfortable place to live, to be able to afford good health care, and not be constantly stressed about how you're gonna pay the next bill. It's not about a life of luxury. No. But a life that is free from suffocating pressure of poverty so you can focus on what truly matters.

The bible says, beloved, I pray that you prosper in all things and be in good health even as your soul prospers. This is a prayer for your holistic well-being, and it includes your material life as well. God wants you to drive a good car. Do you know this? Do you know that this is true? Do you believe that God wants to live in a good house? It was in Timothy that Paul was telling Timothy, he says, charge them that are rich in this world. That they should not put their trust in riches that can easily ensnare them. If you let them put their trust in God who gives us all things richly to enjoy. Who gives us all things richly to enjoy?

So God is not against your personal well-being. God is not against your comfort. Believers, however, should know that extravagance is not in the order of things for the believer. That's why he said that your first responsibility is to know that the reason why God wants to prosper you is first for the sake of his kingdom. It must enter your mindset. It must become your models of brandy, the way you think. That when God blesses me, it is first because of what he wants to do with me. So I'm thinking, what does the church need? What does the kingdom need? Oh, we need to have crusades.

Oh, we need to have different things. Do you know how much goes into spreading the gospel? The gospel is free, but propagating the gospel is never free. The money we use to hold a single experience meeting that you are in right now is what many people use for entire conferences. And yet we do it every Sunday stresslessly, stresslessly, Stresslessly. You can't imagine how much he spent in a month. Ensuring that the gospel is preached, ensuring that it reaches the world, ensuring that it reaches the nations. You can't imagine how much is spent in a month. And we don't hold back. We don't try to manage it and say, let's not get the best.

As much as we are able to do, we launch for it. We launch for it. Why? Because there are people who have committed their lives to this gospel. To say, God blesses me, the kingdom will fill it. If God blesses me, the kingdom will fill it. Make that your heart. And you would watch the next one happen. Your personal comfort and your well-being. That's why the Rabbi says seek you first the kingdom.

Many people don't know that. That scripture is a financial scripture. They don't know. Go and read the context. What did the Bible talking about? What you will eat, what you will drink, what you will wear, that's the context. The birds of the... Who dresses them? The the lilies. And they don't think about all these things.

Take note all about what you will eat tomorrow. And it goes on to talk about these things. Material things was the context of this thing. Then when he get there, they seek you first the kingdom. And all these things. So those things are what? It means you don't pursue these things. God does not bless you primarily because of these things. God blesses you primarily because of his kingdom. The order must be right.

It is seek you first the kingdom. That when God blesses me, ah, the church will know. The kingdom will know. And the third reason why God blesses you is to be an extension of God's love to your environment. To your society. To be an extension of God's love. Because Jesus said, the poor you will always have amongst you. Matthew 26 verse 11. What does it say? One, three, go.

You. The poor, would always have with you. Always. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But he never said that it should be you. This statement is a recognition of the reality of our falling world. It's not an endorsement for poverty for his children. Because the truth is, God wants to use you as a solution to the problem of poverty. He wants to empower you so that you can be an agent of change in your community.

And when you're financially stable, you can help the poor. You can support the orphans. You can support the widows. You can't imagine how many people we do this for. You can't imagine how many people whose fees were paid because God blessed us. You can't imagine. There's a man and God friend of mine almost every time in another state, and he carries every resources. And you would see widows gather, some of them suffering. And you'd wonder how do people live like this. That's the reason why...

That's the third reason why God wants to bless you. So that those who are less privileged, those who have not found this light, those who have not caught this truth, you can be an extension of the love of God to them. So that when you tell them Jesus loves you, it shows in their bank account. It shows that their demand will have food to eat that night. You can't meet someone helpless on the road and is is begging and go and preach the gospel to him, and when you just go, you are done. Come on now. You think you will stop smoking just like that? You will literally treat just like that. You say, oh, I got somebody saved. But did you pick him out of the street?

This is how the streets will be emptied. Because we have become extensions and expressers of the life of God, the wealth that God has given to us and bestowed upon us. I'm bestowed upon us. Do you know there are people who came from broken homes? Five gone somewhere, mother incapable of sending to school, who have met me, and when they speak to me, at that point, I don't just prophesy. Or speak words and pray. The first thing I'm thinking about is, how is your fees paid? One of my daughters called admission, and when she got it, the parent told her... The the mother told her, she said, you know the state of things right now, so you'd have to wait until your three sisters are done before you can afford to now start your own too. So when you hear that kid that the man of God, do you just leave them alone?

No. She becomes my responsibility, henceforth. And these are things that nobody ever knows about. One amongst many. Because that destiny cannot just stay there And be coming to church. Something has to be done. That's why God wants to prosper you. So that you come out fast from those they are helping to those helping others. That's the reason for this message. There's no problem if you are teaching you how to walk and you need assistance in walking and somebody gives you transport for you to come to church.

No problem. There's a problem if you remain there. And every time you come, you have placed yourself... You have given yourself a sense of entitlement that CEO, me, I'm the poor. If you want me to come to church, you must give me transport fare. You must give me... There will be no buses. I'm not coming. Come on now. Instead of you to be thinking about how you will buy the buses.

Well, they're fixing nothing. There's no buses. Me, I'm not coming. That's how the poor think. Think about this. The buses, is not someone paying for them? Nobody's ever charged for it, and there's no time on Sunday when the bosses would not be available because we could not pay for them. No. It will never happen. Because if it is needed to bring people to hear this gospel, then the finances for it will always be available.

Yet you cannot imagine how many how many six digits going to just the buses. Just the buses. Stresslessly done. God is blessing you. Now listen to me. This is where I'm really going. Understand this. God is not an arbitrary deity who sits in heaven just deciding who will be rich and who will be poor. God is not the one who decides who is rich and who is poor. The scripture makes it abundantly clear that God has already provided everything that we need for life and godliness.

He has made everything available. The principles, the power, and the promises, everything is available for us to walk in financial freedom. The choice, however, is yours. You can choose to be wealthy, and you can choose to be poor. What I'm saying now is not about blaming the poor for their situation because we understand that there are systemic and historical factors that contribute to poverty. What I'm saying is that for the believer in Christ Jesus, there is a different reality available for you. Your financial status is a result of your choices. No longer are the result of environment or situation or circumstances or or government or even. Even. Your financial status is a result of your choices, your decisions, your understanding, and the application of the principles of the kingdom that you know.

So believers should not just sit down and say, oh, one day one day, it go better. No one becomes rich. No one becomes wealthy with that attitude. You're doing nothing and just expecting that, oh, one day my time will come. Whilst doing nothing shows you are already choosing poverty. Shows clearly that you are already choosing poverty. It should only be 30 and verse 19. The bible says, I call heaven and earth as a witness today against you that I've set before you life and death, blessings and cursing. Therefore, choose life. Choose life that you may live, that your descendants may live, that you may be wealthy.

Listen, because that principle extends also to your finances. Choose to prosper. The choices you make about your education, about your career, about your spending, about your giving, about your faith will determine eventually your financial trajectory. And the purpose of this teaching is to set you on a course of financial freedom forever and ever. If you will choose to believe it, if you will choose to walk by it, it will change your destiny forever. That is the purpose of this series. Choose life. Tell somebody beside you choose life. Choose life. Choose life.

And a lot of people, their understanding about prosperity is wrong. Now some of them understand this thing I've told you. They know that poverty is bad. They know that I don't wanna be poor. But number one, their inspiration for poverty being wrong is even corrupted. Because their inspiration for poverty being wrong is a car that they saw a celebrity driving, and they had the amount of money that the celebrity used to buy that car. And they say, what? You mean that car is 1,200,000,000 naira? I will never be bought. Can you look at where the motivation for that is called?

Who sponsors that? Is it God? If your motivation is not kingdom, you will sponsor your wealth journey by yourself. If your motivation is not kingdom, you have already done yourself something bad. If your motivation is not kingdom, please listen to me. If your motivation is not kingdom, how you can be a channel to ensure that God's kingdom advances. The Bible says true prosperity shall my kingdom be spread abroad. That is what the Bible says. True prosperity shall my cities be spread abroad. So God, God acknowledges that prosperity is required in the spreading, the advancement of his kingdom.

God acknowledges. The believer who is mature should know this, should make it a matter of kingdom responsibility that a significant portion of my finances and married forces goes to the kingdom. Because of me, churches will be built. Cities will be built. Because of me, conferences will hold. Because of me, men of God will not have to think about where the money will come from. Because of me. The things we do here, we don't we don't only do for this place oh. There are ministries and churches that by God's grace and privilege, I'm a financial partner too. And we give to.

The moment I hear that this person has a need, this church has a need. A portion of my finances must go there. That is kingdom advance. Why will I be alive and this will and and the and the council of God that is trying to accomplish through them will suffer. If I can give something to this, it must leave me. It must leave me. I was told that a church, somebody just came and stole the generator. The day they were having service. I said, who does that? You know what you would do?

Thunder fire that thief. That thief will not prosper. Oh, guy drop money, we don't buy a new one. Yes. God is a God. It's their problem that the thief has carried. We don't need to cause that. We don't need to cause the thief. The thief is already caused. The matter on ground is how do we get a ring generator?

I'm not part of those that will now start praying no kind of foolish prayers. Man of God, send me account number. How can we join this? Can we join this? And when God sees that, you have become a channel through which his kingdom advances. There is nothing new. That is why I can never lack. I can never. I can never. There is no power in hell that can bring me down.

You are hearing me? You have been sinning for a long time. We will never go down. Never. A woman died in in the bible, and people began to bring her receipts. Do you know what this person has done? We can't afford to lose people like this. They are too relevant. They are too relevant. Ah, and heaven says, no, no, no, you are right.

She can't die like this. Glory to God. But you know the problem is that when many people who now understand this thing now try to chase prosperity, they chase prosperity by chasing money. But this is already a flawed approach. The foundation of true and lasting prosperity for the believer is not the pursuit of money. This is where I'm really coming. This is where we end and pray. The foundation for true and lasting prosperity is not the pursuit of money. Write that down. Do not ever think.

You know, the title of malicious is how God does what? Makes you rage. So you must understand that if God is to be involved in your wealth creation, you cannot be all about money. You cannot be in a constant pursuit of money. You say, man of God, you don't understand what you are saying. If you know that I've not even eaten this money, it doesn't make a difference. It doesn't make a difference. Your worry about the fact they have not eaten will not make food come except God favors you. Except God has mercy on you, And it is God who has been having mercy on you. Is that not so?

Even in some people entitlement, it is God who's still merciful. Stories are changing now. But now begin that journey in pursuit of money, a relentless pursuit of money. Is a flawed approach. The foundation for your wealth as a believer, not the choice of words I'm using. The foundation, where it begins from, what you build on, what you build this life of abundance. This is why it's a series. You cannot build anything without the foundation, a solid and a good, a strong foundation. As a matter of fact, the strength of the foundation, the depth of the foundation will determine the kind of building you can put on it. Either a skyscraper or a gungalo.

One story building. You cannot build a one story building foundation and then attempt to put a skyscraper on it. It will fail. It will be an effort in futility. It means if you don't understand this thing I wanna say, building on it when I begin to teach you all the principles that apply is a waste of time. It means this that I'm about to show you right now, you must build it deep within you. It must... This is really the core of this teaching. If you miss this, you have missed every other thing. Doesn't matter what else you come from.

The foundation of your pursuit of prosperity as a believer is an understanding of what Christ has already done for you on the cross. That is the foundation. Simple as it may be, a lot of people are confused about this. A lot of people are confused about this. And we miss this understanding. We listen to all kind of motivational speakers hoping that that is where wealth is. No. No. It flows from an understanding of what Christ has done for you on the cross. This is where your audacity I speak from comes from.

So when I say I can never lack, it's not because I have the best job that pays me millions of money. No. It is because I understand that there is a source, a source because of what has been done on the cross. Stay with me. And you now see somebody working sixty, seventy, eighty hours a week. They take on every project they can find. They never say no to any overtime as long as it brings them some kind of money. And they are constantly connected to their phone trying to browse, trying to enter into all kind of things. Even on vacation with their wives and families, you would see them still trying to look for money somewhere. And they would tell themselves, you see, this life, I'm doing it all for my family.

I'm doing it for my future just to get ahead in life. But the money comes in, but it seems to evaporate just as quickly as it came. The big promotion comes at the cost of their health, the cost of their marriage, the cost of their relationship with their children. They are constantly anxious about losing their job, about losing their source of income. And despite a seemingly full bank account, they feel empty, they feel unfulfilled. The money they've gained access to doesn't buy them peace. It simply becomes another source of stress. They are pursuing money, but it's a game they can never truly win. How about the young man who is always looking for the next big thing? Wakes up every day juggling multiple hustles, betting, forex, everything he can put his hand on from one scheme to another.

One cryptocurrency has come out. Oh, it will soon move. Put your money there. Get pulled into all kind of speculative ventures. Oh, there are... He's on five groups on WhatsApp promising him wealth overnight. He's on several groups on Telegram telling him, just use my signals. Use my signals. You will make so much money. And he's on every...

He's everywhere. I will give you the odds. Just put it on spotty bed. You'll get the money. Register with only 35, 30,500 per month. It's there. And they are convinced that let me just... If I just find the right system, they will become millionaires overnight. And they spend countless hours watching motivational video to encourage them in their foolishness. Ness.

Yet they lose money even more than they make money. And this allure of quick riches blinds them to the wisdom of diligent work, sound stewardship. Their pursuit of money is just a desperate gamble. They have no plan to build wealth. Their thought process is, let me just put my hand in everything and see which one works. And they are forever chasing shadows, chasing the mirage. Their financial life that they are so that they are so so so burdened about becomes a chaotic cycle of of hope and disappointments. It's the destiny of any man who seeks who seeks only money. You know, I travel to Lagos quite a lot, and I would see the lives of people. And I would say, my God.

My Jesus, my God. This is this is all somebody's life is all about. All somebody's life is all about. How about those whose entire financial life is a game of comparison? They are constantly looking at their neighbor's new car, their colleagues' vacation pictures with their wives, their friends home renovation pictures, going on social media to get what the status is currently. Their spending is driven by a need to keep up appearances and prove to others that they are succeeding. And they live from paycheck to paycheck not even because they don't have enough money, but because their spending is dictated by external validation. Their pursuit of money is driven by envy, is driven by by insecurity. They are never satisfied because there is always someone with more. May have a decent income sometimes.

But they have no peace. They have no contentment. The money they get is spent on instant gratification. Because there's a lasting a a lasting void, a void that no amount of money can fill. How about people whose pursuit of money makes them obsessed with the money they are pursuing? They are so obsessed that they save every single penny. They are fearful of the future, convinced that a financial catastrophe is always at the corner waiting for them. So he's afraid to give because he doesn't know what will happen tomorrow. He doesn't know what tomorrow holds. He's afraid to invest.

He's afraid to not have money. He wants to put his money where he can be seeing it. If his children come to ask him for money, he will shatter them not because he does not have, but because they're afraid to spend. In case something comes up tomorrow and there's no money. His money has become God. His life is in a constant state of anxiety. He misses out on the joy of giving, the blessings of giving, all because he's living from a place of fear, not a place of faith. He's holding on to money so tightly that he's unable to receive the greater blessings that God has for you. I've seen many Christian ladies who are tired of poverty. And in a bid to come out of poverty, by all means, she then connect with the married man.

That man begins to fund her rent, fund her wigs, and you know she wants to use all the latest wigs there is. So that when she goes out and they ask her how much is this one you are wearing, she can tell them, oh, 500 k. 700 k. Oh, this one has just 800 k. Funds everything in exchange for pleasure with her body. And she has convinced herself that, you know, I'm just doing it for a while. Only till my business picks up. Only till my business picks up. She even quotes scriptures. She attends church.

She post God, did it on Instagram. But her soul is dying on the inside. She's chasing money because she never encountered the true riches of God's grace. She doesn't yet know our value in Christ Jesus. Because if she did, she would know that that value is more powerful than any married man wallet. If she knows this, she can she can even rise to become wealthier enough to employ even those that are funding her weeks. The problem with these people is they've they've made money the object of their pursuit. And when money becomes the object of your pursuit, you are blinded. They build the foundation of their wealth creation on the pursuit of money. So their life is defined by money.

There's no amount of money I can ever have that can make me lose God. That has already been settled. I'm not afraid of having money. You know, there are believers like that? God, please, oh, please. If any amount of money that will steal you from my heart, don't give me. And they prayed the prayer of Solomon. God, don't bless me with too much so that I will not be greedy. And don't make me not have anything so that will not steal. And they begin to pray, they pray, Lord, please help my heart.

Don't bless me with too much. Yeah. The person who prayed it was richest man that ever lived. Even his prayer was not answered. Do you know that God gave Adam the entire earth without caring whether to corrupt his heart? And you say, oh, let's give him portion by portion. It might affect his heart. See. There are prayer that believers pray in ignorance. Take the word and give me Jesus.

Who should not take that word? That word now, who should take it? Who who are you giving it to? And the Jesus you have now collected, what will you use and do? What will you use that Jesus can do? Just just take the word and give me Jesus, and we think you are being spiritual. I will take Jesus and use him and conquer the world. There is nothing sanctimonious about that. Nothing Paris about it. Nothing.

Absolutely nothing. You have no idea what it means for you to have dreams. And you... It is it is within your heart's desire to do this. But there's no money to do it. And just sit down and say, if I just have this money now and the money still never come. Because that's not how it comes. I came to show you. There's a way it comes. There is something somewhat I've seen.

We have seen it clearly, clearly as they. Don't you think I'm just speaking from the perspective of a man of God? I am in the marketplace. I have a business. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm everything. Yes, sir. And I have seen the blessings of God in every realm. Every realm.

Every place where I've stepped my foot into, systems have bowed to me. Every place in business, employed, in ministry, I have never been stranded. It's not coincidence. Those who I work with don't know I'm a man of God. It's not coincidence. Don't you think the reason we are favored in the marketplace because, oh, you know you're a pastor. You reached the office? Nobody knows I'm a pastor. Except for how I live my life. Then they make guesses here and there.

Suspicions here and there. Yet the word is taken. Systems are taken. Exploits here and there. There's... It's not coincidence. There's a way to it. A software that govern... That governs it. And the foundation is the understanding of what Christ did on the cross.

When you understand this identity in Christ, you suddenly know that your worth is not tied to your bank account. It cannot be. Your security is not in your job. It is in God. Your prosperity, therefore, is not something you have to earn. It is a right that you have already received through Christ's redemptive work. Why is this important? The apostle Paul says in second Corinthians eight and verse nine, the amplified version or maybe the AMPC version. Give me the amplified version first. The NPC then.

It is. You are becoming progressively acquainted. That's it. What... Can we read this together? One, three. Go. You are becoming progressively acquainted. Pause. Can you say that this thing is a thing that happens?

Is it it's downloading. It's 20%, 40%. That's why power must come and make the download complete. It is, you are becoming progressively acquainted with and recognizing more and more strongly and clearly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, his kindness, his gracious generosity, his undeserved favor, and spiritual blessing. All of these things is what you are getting acquitted with. His kindness, his gracious generosity, his undeserved favor, and what now? His spiritual blessing in that door he was so very rich. Pause it there. Let's consider how very rich he was. The bible said the earth is his, And the heavens is his.

And the Bible says that he makes the head his footstool. Do you know how big the head is? Do you know what a footstool is? And the bible says the head as huge as it is is his footstool. The head is lot and the fullness thereof. The cattles on a thousand hills are his. The gold is his. The silver is his. Because the bible says though he was very rich, it's important to know how rich he is. Time is on earth.

He owns everything. In heaven, he owns everything. And the Bible says though he was very rich. Yet, for my sake, he became so very poor. This so very poor happened on the cross. In other words, it wasn't just sin that he carried. It wasn't just just sicknesses that he carried. There is something else he carried on that cross. When he said it is finished, he was ensuring that everything that man can ever be punished with everything is on him. It was at the point where download was complete that he said it is finished.

So he ensured that poverty too came. Sicknesses came. Sin came. Weakness came. Failure came. Everything came on that cross, and poverty was there. The bible says it became so very poor. Watch this. In order that by his poverty, you might become enriched, abundantly supplied. Go back to NKJV.

One, two, three. Go everybody. One, two, three. Go. What is the understand? What is the foundation of the believer's journey to wealth and prosperity? It is understanding that through the cross of Christ, I have become rich. In other words, it does not start by first looking for a job. Do you understand what I'm saying? Jesus.

I pray somebody gets this thing. This is the part that if you have been sleeping, you have to wake up. I pray somebody get this thing. That you understand that where it begins from for the believer is that because of what Christ has done on the cross, because of the price that was paid on the cross, that he became... He lost everything. Lost everything. And the reason why he did that is so that I can be rich. What am I saying therefore? Am I saying that I am broke? How can I be broke?

Does that mean that what he did was a waste? Because if I'm to call myself poor, it would mean that he didn't carry that poverty on the cross. The question therefore is, did he? If he did, then I'm not poor. Are you getting what I'm saying? When he died on the cross, he didn't just die for my spiritual sins. He also took the curse of the law upon himself, which included poverty, lack, and want. Where did that curse come from? Curse is the ground for your sake. In sweat, and you eat of it.

Tongues and thistles shall it bring for you. That's where hustling came from. And the bible says that curse was on the cross with him. The bible says he was made a curse for us. That means the curse of sweat before you eat. He was made it on the cross. The believer therefore should not also to survive. Believe what I'm teaching you. Jesus who was the heir of all things became poor, and in doing so, he took upon himself the consequences of a falling world. The couple of this exchange, it was so that through his poverty, you can become rich.

And this richness is not just spiritual. It encompasses every area of your life. It means that you have a right to divine health because he died on the cross. You have a right to peace, to financial abundance. This is your inheritance in Christ Jesus. It is not something you have to beg God for. It is something you have received already by faith. It is already yours. It means the believer has to stop settling for survival when Jesus died for overflow. How long will you keep the toying around abundance like like it reserved for only a few people?

When Christ became poor that you can be rich. The same way you receive salvation by faith. You receive prosperity by faith. Because the same blood that bought your forgiveness also bought your freedom from lack. The same cross that delivered you from sin, delivered you from scarcity. It means I don't have to compromise to rise. I don't have to manipulate to succeed. I don't have to sell my soul to secure my future. I don't have to do any of that. My my future was already secured in Christ.

I'm prosperous. I know that I'm prosperous. My inheritance therefore is not in my also. It's in Christ Jesus. My inheritance is not in my... Therefore, I walk like I'm redeemed. I go to office like I'm redeemed. I speak like I've been supplied. I build like I'm backed up by heaven. I'm not trying to be blessed.

I'm already blessed. I'm not chasing money. I'm aligned with the covenant. Money furthest me. I do not fear lack. I work in divine supply Because the bible says that I am rich, not I will be. It is already mine. Oh, glory to God. This is where it begins. This is the understanding from when it flows.

All things are mine. All things are mine. I've been given all things that pertains onto life and godliness. I can never be poor. My father is the God of the heaven and earth. The cattle on the carbon hills belong to him. The silver and gold are his. How can I therefore be poor? God became poor that I might be rich. Then how can I be poor if he had already been poor for my sake?

My life right now is defined by one thing and one thing alone. I am wealthy, and I am rich, and I'm supplied for. My needs are constantly met. I am in a realm of abundance and abundance alone. But it doesn't end there. It doesn't end there. Continues in Galatians chapter three from verse 13 to verse 14. The Bible says, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written curse is everyone who hangs on the tree. Next verse, the bible says that the blessing of Abraham might come upon you, might come upon me.

Amen. In Christ Jesus. What was the blessing of Abraham? It was a multifaceted blessing that included both spiritual and material wealth. Because spiritually, know that the blessing is what made the holy spirit available to us. So the bible says that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith. But it does not end there because when you go to Genesis, you would see the ripple effect of the blessing of Abraham. And the bible says that that blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus. It means if I've received Christ Jesus, I have received the blessing of Abraham. It is therefore important for me to go and study that blessing.

What is the spiritual repercussion? The promise of the holy spirit. Do I have that promise? Yes. So if I have the holy spirit, it is... It means that the blessing of Abraham is upon me. Do you understand what I'm saying? There is a second aspect to that blessing, and it is the material aspect, the physical aspect. And believers don't lay hold on this. Because as a believer, you are heirs to the same promise.

What was that promise? God told him I will make you a great nation. That is what is inside the blessing. Timothy 13 verse two. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. Jesus. What is the blessing of Abraham that I've now received in Christ Jesus? I can only be a great nation. Hey, Jesus.

Greatness is inside of me. And I am a blessing. I'm a blessing. Genesis 13 verse two, the bible said that Abraham was rich. He was rich in livestock. He was rich in silver. He was rich in gold. A manifestation of the blessing that was put upon him. So if I've received that same blessing as manifested in the promise of the holy spirit, it consequentially means that I am rich in silver. I am rich in gold.

I am rich in livestock. I am rich in cattle. I'm rich in... You think about it. I'm rich in it. I'm rich in dollars. I'm rich in pounds. I'm rich in all currencies. That is the blessing of Abraham, and it's upon my life. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. As a believer, you are here for the same promise. That means you are not under a course of poverty. You are not destined for a life of lack. Your spiritual reality is one of abundance, one of provision, one of favor. Go and look at your bible and look at the people that this blessing came upon and see what they did. Genesis 26 that we read before verse 12. We now do to verse 14. The bible says, speaking about Isaac still, that he sowed. Right?

He planted his crops, and he harvested a 100 times more green than he planted. Why? For the Lord blessed him. This was Isaac. It is 10% of Abraham. The old received the same blessing from Abraham that you have now received in Christ. The bible says when he planted, that blessing made him reap a hundredfold. For the Lord blessed him. Look at the next verse. Verse 13 says, he became a very rich man by the oppression of that blessing.

What does the bible say about Abraham? He became very rich in silver. It means when this blessing comes upon a man, you must be very rich. The bible says his wealth continued to grow. Verse 14 is where I'm going now. The bible says he acquired so many flocks, so many businesses, started so many businesses, own conglomerates, chains of organizations, and startups, and servants, employees that the Philistines, the country where he was an immigrant that gave him passport. The bible says, it became a threat to that country. A nation was envious of him. A nation. Because the blessing of God was upon a man.

Does the bible not say the blessing of God maketh rich and added no sorrow? It means if a man can know that I carry the blessing of God, there is no reason why I should be poor. So I don't define myself by poverty. I am not poor. This is what is upon my life. This is the blessing upon my life. So when I read the old testament and I'm studying people's... I'm seeing my possibilities. I'm seeing what I can do. That's why I know that I can never enter any nation of the slave.

Because I saw the blessing on Joseph. Oh my God. I saw the blessing on Daniel. I saw the blessing on the year three Abramen, and I saw what the blessing make them do. The king said there is no god like the god of Daniel. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. What does that blessing do? Deuteronomy six from verse 10 to verse 11, New Living Translation. The Bible says, the Lord your God will soon bring you into the land that he swore to give you when he made a vow to your ancestors. Isaac and Jacob, it is a land with large prosperous cities that you did not build.

Look at the operation of this blessing. So when I close my eyes and I'm praying, I'm declaring and I'm seeing it. I'm seeing it as clear as day. Lands filled with prosperous cities that I did not build. It is called the prepared blessings. That the blessing... That that that the blessing goes ahead of you. It goes ahead of you. It's only waiting for you to realize it is there. For you to believe that it is there, for you to see that it is there because the fact that it is there does not mean it will start working.

You have to acknowledge every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. Yes, sir. That's the principle. So I say, this blessing has made me prosperous. Cities I did not build are waiting for me. It doesn't stop there. The next verse says, the houses will be richly stocked with goods you did not produce. So every time I expect people to give me things I did not produce, I expect to be favored with cars I did not buy. I expect the document of estates to be given to me. I expect companies to hand over their trust to me.

I expect it. I expect it. How do you explain that a man builds a nation? And for multiple generations, pharaohs have ruled that nation. And when this guy carrying the blessing came, the pharaoh looked at him and said, everything I have is yours. The guy did not have to build anything from scratch. Oh god. It means a man carrying this blessing can enter into the marketplace and his boss will look at him and say, you know what? I'm even trying to retire right now. Can you manage this thing?

That is that is companies you did not build. Listen. Listen. This is how men become prosperous. This is where it starts from. This is where it starts from. And if you don't understand this, you will keep on laboring like a fool. The labor of fools, it wearies them. It wearies them. The labor of fools, It will raise them.

It will raise them. Show me things you have hidden. From age to come, show me things you have hidden. From the eyes of babes. Listen, the labor of fools wearies them. When I enter into the marketplace, when I'm doing any interview, I'm not doing it like someone they are trying to employ and and help with money. The bible says cities I did not build our mind. That's how I'm talking. That I have so much audacity on my inside. What have you done?

You see me speaking as though I'm the I'm the owner of the company. This is the value I bring because I know what has been given to me. The... Do you understand what I'm saying? The Bible says you will draw water from cisterns you did not dig. You will eat from vineyards and olive trees you did not plant. That's the operation of the blessing. Listen to me child of God. Don't go around saying apostle boy, this is not how my life looks like presently, But I've got no money. I've got no job.

I've got no capital to be able to start a business. Listen to me. Listen to me. You have to superimpose this spiritual reality over your physical circumstances. You will superimpose it. You may look at your bank account and see lack. You may look at your circumstances and see struggle, but those things are temporal. The bible says second Corinthians chapter four verse 18, the bible says for the things which are sin are temporal. The things which are not sin are eternal. Guess what?

The bible says that God has given us all things that pertains unto life and godliness. The bible says that you have been blessed with all spiritual, the things which are not seen. It means you were not blessed with the things which are seen. You know why? Do you know why God not bless you with car? Because it's temporal. God ensured that he routed your blessings into things that are not seen. Because the nature of things are not seen, it is that it is eternal. Yes, sir. So it means I might not have a car, but that circumstance is temporal because the things which are seen are temple.

I can now look at the things which are unseen. How do I look at the things which are unseen? By the eyes of faith. For the bible says, we walk by faith and not by sight. It means when it comes to my circumstances, I don't look at myself from the perspective of what I'm going through. I begin to look what is unseen. What has God said about my life? Cars I did not buy. Buildings I did not own. There is something on my life.

I know it strongly. I know it strongly. I went to visit someone in their workplace. As I got there, the person had a colleague who does not know me from anywhere. So if he was a member, you say, oh, it's because you're an apostle. Doesn't know me from anywhere. And we're just talking. The lady kept on looking at me. Kept on looking at me. Kept on looking at me.

And as I took my leave, was going, she ran to me, brought it back, and said, sir, I've dropped my laptop. I've dropped my phones. I've dropped everything. I had no peace in me. Some things I should give you. I've never seen her before. She has never seen me before. Do you know who I am? No. But something I should give you.

There is something on us. We we we are not empty. And the consciousness of this thing is what produces our results. That's why when I am now working, my working is different. I'm working from a standpoint. It was not when money came to my account that I believed it. No. No. I have been imposing this thing on my circumstances long ago. When I was walking in the rain, I would say my car has come in, and I was excited in my spirit.

Oh. I was I was saying it as clear as day. As clear as day. The circumstance is temporal. The situation is temporal. The things which are seen are temporal. It is that which is not seen that is eternal. Faith allows you to see those things that are not seen. And when you see it, you you impose it on what you can see until what you can see resemble the one that is unseen. Yes, sir.

It means you see yourself through the lens of God's word, not through the lens of the circumstances. You don't talk as if you are poor. Stop it. I'm not poor. It became poor so that I can be rich. I am rich. You don't live as though you are broke. I'm not broke. I'm not broke. It became poor so I can be rich.

You don't make decisions from a place of scarcity. You judge your life from the perspective of what Christ has done for you and who you are in him. Your identity is not in your current circumstances. No. But in your position as a child of God and heir of the blessing of Abraham. God's blessing is upon me. Oh, Jesus. God's blessing is upon me. I carry this consciousness everywhere I go. Everywhere I go.

Everywhere I go. The first time I was negotiating with a client in my business in 7 figures. What was to be a multiple 7 figure contract? Somebody had recommended me. Another client had recommended me there, and I got there prepared with my proposals and everything. And the moment I got there, consciousness. Oh, Jesus. I wasn't going there like someone who is hungry looking for money. No. I ordered for a boat.

I didn't have a car then. I ordered for a boat. I paid the boat. I said you will wait for me until I am done. Wore a good cloth like a wealthy man, not like somebody you will pity. Enter into the office, I brought up my laptop, came to present the person. No. No. No. No.

No. Don't worry. The person who recommended you already spoke about you. We believe you. How much did you call it? I gave them three different offers. They went for the highest one and said, just deliver. There is something that makes men... Oh, God. I was having to Abuja.

And I got there, and I was queuing. And all of a sudden, while I was queuing, somebody came, we've been there for long, it was a long queue. Somebody came and started making a mess everywhere. And just came and was saying, everybody that have been queuing, leave this place because the people were fighting in the front. And causing trouble. So out of hunger, one of the official just came and said, everybody who has been killing since since, just leave. And none of us dismissed. I just stood there watching, wondering what is happening. Will I get my boarding pass? Will I not get my boarding pass?

Then somebody walks to me, one of the officials, and said, ah, young man, why are you standing like that? I said, we were just told to dismiss. He said, is that why you are standing like that? Come over here. And he took me somewhere, brought me to a woman, said, it needs a boarding pass right now. When is the flight? Oh, the flight has been postponed. That was what was causing fights in the front. It was just postponed by an hour, and people were hungry. He said, oh, really?

Alright. No problem. You can't stay here then. This place is too rough. Took me to the VIP lounge and paid for it. The guy doesn't know me. He's Jesus. I am telling you that you can be conscious that there is something on your head that people have to respond to whether they know you or they don't know you. You think it is a coincidence? It is never a coincidence.

Never a coincidence. Oh, I know why I'm too conscious. I know what I carry. I'm too conscious. I'm negotiating deals like you need me. A company reached me and told me, we would like to work with you. I don't even know why I missed it because I'm diligent normally. But somehow, I just missed it for, like, two or three days or four days or so. And I saw it. Said, my goodness.

And I replied, I'm just seeing it right now. I'm not sure why I missed it, but no problem. Tell me the details of it. I wasn't thinking one bit. Ah, will they now forget me? Hey. Hey. They will cancel it. Oh, hey. Hey.

Jesus. I've lost it. I've lost it. Why didn't I see it? Why didn't I see it? It? Who are the time for that? I am not the needy. I am not the needy. That's the consciousness I carry.

When the lady reached me and said, Emmanuel, oh, thank you. Thank you. We thought you would never reply. It's a privilege to work with me. That is the mentality I carry. Jacob had this thing. Jacob, he had it on his head. He didn't know how to build it for himself. It was... He went to Laban's house.

Laban said, I checked by divination. Even though you do not know what you have, me have gone to check. And I saw that whilst you were ignorant, I... Fact, it was your ignorance of what you carried that made you a slave in my house for twenty three years. Yet, when I checked, what you had was capable of making you wealthy, but you never knew. You were comfort, oh Jesus Christ. The day he knew, all of Laban's wealth was transferred to him. All of it. And there was nothing Laban could do. Laban realized that he had been defeated.

He carried horses and went and was chasing him. That blessing upon Jacob. Whilst he was sleeping, God came and said, you touch him. It means the blessing does not only get me my resources. It defends it. It defends it. Abraham made a miss. It was in his folly. I hope you know this. He was the one that told his wife, tell them you're my sister.

What kind of a thing is that? Yet God did not come to Abraham to say, well, and I trusted you. Why will you hack like that after all the trust I had in you? Oh, you have disappointed me. No. God went to the king who is innocent, who did not know anything. Why? Because he was dealing with a blessed man. God went to a king and said, ah, you are a dead man. Everything in your house is barren.

Abraham did not curse him. But what he had was too powerful that even just a mere sense of injustice, heaven already responded. That's why I'm not going to cause people. There's a mentality I have. This blessing... The bible says I will cause those who cause you. The package comes with a blessing whether I say anything or not. I pity those people. I I just... I begin to pray, Lord, have mercy.

Immediately, when somebody does anything to hurt me, Lord have mercy on him because I'm conscious of what I carry. Oh, yes. I know your account is dry. Landlord is threatening you. Your doctor gave you a report of some kind. The business deal that you have been planning for months fell through. Nothing looked like the prophecy you have received. You've not even gotten that job yet. But according to second Corinthians chapter four and verse 18, the things which are seen are temporal. So what does the believer do?

You don't deny what you see, but you don't submit to it either. Instead, you let what God has said carry more weight than what you are seeing. So every day when you open your shop, you're not getting as much customer than you expect to get. You don't start saying, maybe I will close down this shop. Maybe I will... No. No. No. No. You allow faith to rise up on your inside.

God supplies my needs. I have the blessing of Abraham. My hands are blessed. The works of my hands are blessed. My all has been exalted like the horn of the unicorn. I've been anointed with fresh oil. Thou anointed my head with oil. My cup runs over. It means my business running over. My profit, my sales running over.

So instead of going into depression, you speak God's word. You refine your business strategy. You stay excellent. You keep on showing up. You keep on growing. You keep on being diligent. Knowing that that visible drought is temporary. The unseen covenant is done now. Sir, sir, sir, I've applied for more than 50 jobs. I've been rejected everywhere.

They've ghosted me. They didn't even reply me. But instead of confessing frustration to declare my steps are ordered, I am favored. I am the sought out one. My name is Darash. For I have the mind of Christ. I'm not stuck. I'm not stagnant. I'm not stuck. I'm not stagnant.

It's from glory to glory. It's from faith to faith. It's from strength to strength. That declaration doesn't just encourage you emotionally. It positions you spiritually. You keep sharpening your skills, networking, sowing seeds, praying. Because you know the season of rejection is subject to change. That which is sin is temporal. This conchant of mine is temporal. My account balance is temporal.

It will change very soon. It doesn't take God time. It doesn't take God time. So what do you do? You impose the unseen on the seen. I know that the symptoms you are seeing in your body are real. The death result that you did is real. But faith says by his stripes, I was healed. Don't let fear run your mind. You speak life to your body.

You visualize your wholeness. To impose the unseen promise of healing over the sin reality of pain. We declare I am healed. And every time you do what you could not do, you move the legs you could not move. You press where it's pain in you. You use that. You will see without your glasses. You do what you could not do. Everyone around you getting married. Why are you still waiting?

I am telling you, maybe I've maybe I've been forgotten. Maybe Maybe I've been forgotten. But no. Isaiah 34 verse 16 says, none shall lack a meat. I won't lack mine. I won't settle for counterfeit just to ease the pressure. You hold on to what God has already spoken. So you carry yourself like someone already chosen, someone already loved, someone already complete. This is the foundation. This is where it begins from.

If you will walk, this is where you will walk from. It's where you... If you will start a business, this is where the pain will come from. This is where the ministry will come from. Everything must span from this. I'm already blessed. I'm not a poor man trying to be rich. No. He died so I could be made rich. I am rich because he died.

I'm rich. I'm prosperous. I'm blessed. My needs are met. All times, all things, I walk in abundance. I walk in abundance. There is no season of my life right now no matter how unpleasant it is that is permanent. The things that I've seen are temporal. I see with the hands of faith. I don't see the things that I've seen because I know they are temporal.

If it is temporal, how do I define my life by it? The state of my ministry right now is temporal. It will... We won't be here for long. It is temporal. So I don't see how many members came now after defining my worth by that. No. No. Eyes up on your feet. The things that are seen are temporal.

The things that are seen are temporal. The things that are seen are temporary. The thing that I've seen are temporal. Hear me? Hear me? Maximize what you have heard and declare that which is unseen and impose it upon the sin. That's what I want you to do now. This that you have heard, if you have received some level of understanding, some level of understanding, impose. It's not don't shout. Don't pray shouting.

Don't shut your eyes and see the unseen. Especially as it relates to areas of your life that you don't want to see right now. See the unseen and impose it. Begin to declare what you are seeing by faith. Superimpose it upon what exists in the natural. Don't need to shout about it. But just see... Ensure that you're seeing it. Ensure that you're seeing it. Come on, sit.

Rules of shire. Perfect love that never felt. You make my life. You make my life so beautiful. Rows of as you are, you beautiful in your ways you make my life you make my life so beautiful I don't know I don't know you are beautiful prince of peace you made my life you made my life so beautiful I Come come on pray declare it loud thirty more seconds to pray. Adonai Adonai you are beautiful prince of peace holy one holy one, Miyawi rose of shadows you are beautiful in your ways you make my life you make my life so beautiful rose of Charlotte as you are you are made me We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at officialdisciplescn. 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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