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The experience is a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network, where men encounter God, His presence and His power in an atmosphere of worship and the word. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he leads us into an experience with God. I'm gonna be speaking on this series. This will be an introduction of that series, And it's gonna be titled, go into the world. Let's say get to the level one as they sat at the table. And he rebuked their unbelief. He rebuked their unbelief and their hardness of heart. Because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen. And he said to them, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

That is where my title is gotten from. Go into all the world. You can put an hyphen beside my title and put awakening believers to the urgency of the gospel. Awakening believers to the urgency of the gospel. Verse 16 says, he who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned. Verse 17 says, and these signs, look at the context of this scripture. It says, go into the world, preach the gospel to every creature. He then says, these signs will follow. In other words, the instruction to go is what the signs follow. That as we go into all the world, we do not go alone.

There are signs that follow. All who believe, in my name, they will cast out demons. In my name, they will speak with new tongues. They will take up serpents. And if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them. There's a vision I'm seeing in my spirit. I'm seeing a soldier in a uniform, and I'm seeing an elderly man changing his badge like they're hiding stars. Like they're hiding stars. To what he's wearing them. And the Lord is telling me this is a change of rank.

Is is a change of rank. He's saying that where you used to operate in before, there's a change of rank. There's you can say you can receive it, but usually I'm speaking prophetically to individuals I'm seeing in my spirit, but it's good you jump into it and receive it. It's a change of rank. When you hear... When you receive things like this, you don't just receive them for receiving them sick because it has happened. Do with the authority. Exercise authority. That's what you do with this. It's a change of rank I'm seeing.

Yes. Yes. Yes. There are three people at the overflow I'm seeing like that as well. A change of rank. A change of rank. See if you can find those three people for me. They are outside. A change of rank. God said, God, I'm elevating you.

It's a change of rank. You will see an increase in the flow of power through you. You will see an increase is a change of rank. Like a military general, listen. Tend of rank. You see increase in the flow of the presence. You see increase in demonstrations of power, accurate prophecies, accurate word of knowledge, accurate word of wisdom, healings, and miracles. Grace and peace is multiplied. Grace and peace is multiplied. I hear multiplied grace.

Grace for favor multiplied. The fire of the holy ghost. See, the experiences you will start sharing will be strange. Indelic manifestations. He's coming with this change of rank and sin. Strange experiences. The dimensions in the spirit. The way God speaks to you before is by dreams. You go to sleep and you have dreams, and you take your dreams seriously. Would write it down, you know this is how God speaks to me, but then they change the rank.

Let's press into it. Let's press into it. Come on. Press into it. There's something in the spirit. I'm seeing a river that has broken. There's something I'm seeing in the spirit. Let's press into it. Come on. Pray.

In the holy ghost where you are. Just pray in the holy ghost. Press in. Press in. Press in. Press in. Press in. Come on bless him. Prayer fire. Straighten the spirit.

Strengthen Strengthen the the spirit. Spirit. Bless him. Come on. They that know their God. They shall be strong. They shall be strong. Strengthen the spirit. Bless him. Come on.

Him. Help him. Help Help Help him. Him. You not solve before. Problems you could not solve before. They are now like peace to you. You are going back to the mountain you could not climb before. The mountain that look bigger than you before. You are going back there.

And you are working on them. A change of rank. A change of rank. Money you have not talked before. Things you have not signed before. A change of run. Press into this thing. The The status is changing. The models of branding is changing. People will look at you and they will see a new you.

It will be obvious something has changed. You don't talk like this before. You don't think like this before. You don't say this like this before. It is somebody else. If this be the same person that we know, what happened to you? Why did you change? Power of God is working so strongly upon the people. So strong. A change of rank.

A change of rank. Money you have never touched. A change of rank. People begin to perceive you differently. Thank you, Thank you, Jesus. Jesus. This change of rank has has happened for me as well. You will see. You will see. Will see.

These that change I'm seeing, I have also entered into. Thank you, Jesus. Us. Please be very active and be very fast. I see people in this place more than ever before, there will just be a strong burden for you to pray. No, no, listen, listen, listen, listen. I'm not praying for you, just listen to me. Listen. And this is not a prayer. Listen.

There will be a heavy burden. It's it's I'm telling you something very instructional. There will be a heavy burden to pray. A stronger burden to pray. Please yield to it. Yield to it. Yield to it. Yield to it. There's something in the spirit that you are pressing into. And because God wants you to get there faster, it will start up the process inside of you.

There will be that burden to just keep on praying. Yes. Yield to it. That people you will be troubled in your sleep to pray. You will be troubled in the night to pray. Yield to it. Yield to it. Yield to it. Let me use about twenty minutes to tell us what this teaching is about. And then we pray and we go home.

We cannot teach again today but I can spare twenty minutes to explain or attempt to capture what this teaching is about. Just a few minutes. This will continue. It will. It will continue even after you leave this place. I'm seeing people that the glory of God has already sat on them. They might not know. They might not know. This will not be an experience that ends in church. The glory of God has sat on them like a weight.

Like a weight. Something will be different about your fellowship. Something will be obviously different. Something will be different about your thinking process. There are people... I I said I was seeing that stone Is is a hard heart, a reflection of a hard heart. I was broken. It's already broken. So you will see that you will melt to the word. The the the way and manner by which the word of God will hit you will be different.

To be different. Watch for this. Watch for this. It's how you know something has begun powerful in your life. So you know something has become powerful in your life. The way people perceive you will be different. The operations of the spirit around your life will be different. The manifestations of the spirit around the life will be different. Watch for this. When it begins to happen, acknowledge it.

Don't be silent about it. Acknowledge it. Acknowledge it. Acknowledge it. It says in all your ways, acknowledge it. Don't think it is your intelligence. Don't think it is your brain. Acknowledge it. When it's time to test testimonies, come out. Accommodate it.

The intention is how you press deeper into it. You'd see more weight in your financial transactions, more weight in your business. Every revenue. You would see it. I'm not I'm not praying. I'm just telling you really. Acknowledged. It's not luck. And when you acknowledge it, when you make God know that I know that you are the one behind this, it's why we share testimonies. Is to acknowledge, is to say I know that you are the one behind this.

I don't take it for granted. Even the lead list, I don't take it for granted. Before we can talk about going into the world, we must first talk about seeing and understanding the world that we are going into. Because evangelism you see doesn't begin with a microphone. Doesn't begin with a tract. It doesn't begin with an outreach program. It doesn't begin with methods and principles of starting conversations. No. It begins when God corrects your vision and allows you to see the world, allow you to see human beings the way he sees them. Please pay attention.

I'm gonna spend about twenty minutes with you. That's where evangelism begins from. If you have not yet sustained the capacity to see men as God sees them, you cannot sustainably evangelize. You can walk through a crowded place or a crowded market and you just see people buying, people selling. That's all that you see. You can enter into your office and you see colleagues. You see people who you work together. Right? For those who are student, you can enter into a classroom and all you see are students. You can scroll through social media and all you see are pictures and opinions and laughter and success.

Yet, God can look at the same people Through all these different sectors we have mentioned. God looks at all those people and what God is seeing are souls that are weary. Souls that are scattered. What god is seeing are souls that are blinded souls that are condemned souls that are pursued by darkness, invaded by darkness, swallowed by darkness, desperately in need of a shepherd and because your eyes have not been trained to see the world, you don't know. All you see is a colleague. All you see are friends. All you see are people you laugh together, people you share together, people you you go to the... You go into the streets and then you see human beings walking, people walking. And just see them as people, commuters. You go to a bus stop and you see people that want to take bike or waiting for the transport, the same thing you are doing.

And then all you see are people waiting. But when your eyes are open to see, something greater is unveiled in your vision, you see. That's the first thing that people must know. We must learn to first see. The miracle that God does is first to open your eyes to see. It's what he did for Moses. Remember in Exodus three, it says, I've seen the oppression of my people who are in Israel. I've heard their cry. I know their sorrows. And then they explained what they wanted to do.

And then now says, now therefore, it says, behold. It then tells Moses. It is now therefore, behold. Now therefore, behold. In other words, God says, I have seen it. But it's not enough that I've seen it. If you must do something about it, you must behold. Before God sent him, before God gave him the mandate, God first had to open his eyes to see. That's where going into the world begins. We must first sustain the understanding of the world we have been sent into.

Otherwise, we are wasting time. We'll keep on teaching ourselves strategies. We keep on teaching ourselves principles how to do this. But the truth is we can go there without having any passion and any burden. We're just doing things. It's all just a ritual because the church said go for evangelism and so we go for evangelism. There is no understanding behind the reason why we are doing what we are doing because there is no sight. You might look at someone who is difficult. You say this person is a difficult person to deal with. It might be a lecturer.

Might be a friend. It might be a colleague. It might be a business partner. It might be someone. For God is seeing someone who is lost. You have seen someone who is difficult, someone who is overbearing, someone who is... On God's perspective, this guy is a lost sheep. Might not even be a sheep. You may be seeing a woman who is immoral or a man who is immoral, but God is seeing someone who is enslaved. This guy is arrogant.

That's what you're seeing. But God is seeing someone who is hiding behind pride because he does not know who he is. He has no sense of identity. He's like a shell that is walking. He's empty within, and he knows, but he has to take up a front. He's looking for something where he cannot be vulnerable because he has not found that sphere where he can be vulnerable. So to protect himself and to protect his emptiness, he tends to be a bully. He tends to be someone who pretends to be arrogant and someone who pretends to be proud. And all of that is a covering for emptiness. And God sees it.

This guy is only empty. In need of a savior, but we see someone who is pompous. Do understand what I'm trying to say? You might look at someone who appears to have everything together, but God sees the fear. God sees the guilt. God sees the questions that they have. The private and the hidden battles. The emptiness that no physical observation can reveal. The confusion of their heart. So the first prayer of a church that will reach the world is not God give us strategies.

Give us strategies. How do we go about this thing? No. No. No. It is Lord give us your eyes. That's the first prayer. Give us your eyes. Let us see what you see. Let us feel what you feel.

Let us understand what is truly happening to people without Christ. Whilst you're on that cross, what kept you on that cross? What kept you on that cross? What did you see exactly that made you stay there? Because it wasn't the nails that held him there. He came for a people, and those people mocked him. Those people cursed him. Those people spat on him. Those people beat him, inflicted heavy injuries on him, and still he remained on the cross. A people he came to save.

When Peter saw how he was being treated, Peter was moved. He didn't understand how someone this good can be this much aided. When soldiers came, Peter was angry and furious. What has this man ever done to you? He removed his sword and die and stopped the soldiers here. You can understand his passion. What did he do to you? He's not only innocent, he's righteous. He has only but done good. He didn't help your children.

He didn't sleep with your children. He didn't he didn't steal from you. What he did was to heal your sick bodies. What he did was to preach the gospel to you and tell you repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. You brought the oppressed to him and delivered them. You brought the sick to him and delivered them. He showed you the way of light. And then what you can use to repay him is anger. What you can use to repay him is anger. So much so when he was imprisoned.

They came and they said, choose one person we should release. Should it should it be this person who raped your children? Who stole from you? Or should it be this one who did nothing to you? Who preached the gospel to you? Who healed your sick bodies? And that guy who was blind and could not see stood there and said, no, release the prisoner. Yet Jesus saw everything. And whilst he hung on the cross, for the sins of the same people who are mocking him even whilst he was hanging there. Saying is this not the king of the Jews?

He looked at them. Looked at them. Said father, forgive them. What was he seeing? What was he seeing? What what did he see in these people? If this does not happen to you, you cannot care about people, love people enough to obey the instruction, go into the world. You cannot go into a world you have not seen. Because when God called Moses, the first thing he did to Moses was to open his eyes. Now therefore, behold.

See. See these people how I have seen them. See what I have seen. And then perhaps if you see what I've seen, you stop getting angry when they behave the way they behave. You'll be more compassionate towards lost. You'd not call them sinners. You'd call them harvest. Something about definition will change when you see what I see. Your influence is running over me. Your presence is always here with me.

Of glory, ruling over me. Isaiah chapter 16. From verse one to verse two. It says arise, shine. For your light has come. And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. Now I want you to see two existing realities at the same time. In verse two, it says, for behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, the first reality, and deep darkness the people. But the Lord will arise over you, the second reality, and his glory will be seen upon you. That's two realities existing at the same time.

There is darkness covering the earth. There is deep darkness resting upon the people, but there is also the glory of God rising upon his people. And the glory is not given to us just so we can admire ourselves. Just so we can build impressive meetings, have impressive meetings, enjoy encounters in God's presence. Come to church and bask in the glory. Bask in the presence. Come to church and receive the strength of the Holy Spirit. And congratulate ourselves that we are being illuminated. I don't know if there's an issue with the ear of someone or something. I don't know, but God is touching somebody's ear.

Felt something strange in my hair just now, God told me he's touching somebody's hair. You see, you don't place a lamp in a room so that the lamp can start enjoying its own brightness. You place a lamp in the room because there is something in the room that needs to be seen. The church is illuminated because the world is dark. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. We have been taught. We have been saved. We have been filled. We've been healed.

We've been delivered. We've been established so that the light that has reached us can travel through us can travel through us. Whenever the church turns all of its light inward, it contradicts the reason why it was made light. We can be so occupied with our services, with our conferences, with our personal prophecies, with the spiritual experiences we are having, with our spiritual gift, with our financial breakthroughs, with our programs. That we forget the outside of the room, there are people living on that deep darkness. People living on the deep darkness. When scripture say that the world is in darkness, it's not saying that people have not yet received enough spirit or religious information. No. Spiritual darkness you see is a condition. It's an entire way of living.

It's an entire way of existing in which a person is separated from the life of God. A person is unable to see God correctly, unable to see themselves correctly, and consequently unable to interpret life correctly. That is what the Bible calls darkness. It doesn't mean that they are barren of religious information. It doesn't mean that they don't know a few things about Jesus, about Christianity, about religion, but that they are separated from the life of God. They are alienated from the life of God. Darkness affects how a person thinks. It affects how a person desires or even what a person desires. It affects what a person calls freedom. It affects what a person calls bondage.

It affects what a person worships. It affects what the person fears. What a person thinks as normal. It affects what a person pursues. It affects a person's priority. It affects the the object of someone's pursuit. When someone is in darkness, every area of their life is affected. You can see... So the person can know really just language. The person can know how to talk like we talk.

Or you can tell in all these areas that they are in darkness. It has nothing to do with bearing Matthew or bearing Sarah. It has everything to do with a way of life. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Because we can talk to people, and if our eyes have not been trimmed like I've been seeing, you will just assume that because somebody bears kudos, they are in darkness. Because somebody bears Matthew, they are in light. You see that? That's error. That's error.

Darkness does not always make a person unintelligent. A person can be in darkness and sincerely believe that the very thing that is destroying him is liberating him. You understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Yeah. A person can be in darkness and call rebellion independence. And he says, I'm a free thinker and doesn't know he's in darkness. He calls bondage pleasure, Calls pride, self confidence. Calls greed, ambition. Heavily bitter against plenty people, and he called it strength.

Says you have to be a strong woman. And the definition of a strong woman is a woman who is immoral. Says wow, what a strong woman? Look at how she's able to show her body. Look at how she's able to, you know, and she's not ashamed of what society will say. She can just walk and be nude. I admire her. Strong woman. Doesn't know that this is darkness. Because unbelief intelligence looks at believers who believe that there is a God and says we are unintelligent.

This is a man of science. It's a man of fact. And doesn't know that he's deluded. Because if indeed you're a man of fact, the fact shows that there is a God. The fact proves that there is a God. Now he claims to be a man of fact, but he's flawed by his own fact. To show you that reason and logic is no longer his problem, darkness is. That darkness does not make a person unintelligent. Can take intelligence and bend intelligence away from God. It's your operation of darkness.

A person can understand business, can understand medicine, can understand technology, can understand philosophy. Yet they remain unable to perceive the glory of the Christ despite they are smart. You can write mathematical exam and have 100 of a 100. Yet they remain severed from the Christ. Spiritual blindness and darkness is a veil over a person's heart. I wouldn't have time to show you Ephesians two. But let's read it. From verse one to verse three. He says and you, he made alive. Who were dead in trespasses and sins.

Because Paul is opening that scripture up layer by layer. He's saying, you, he made alive. And he's telling us what your condition was, which now informs and tells us what the condition of every man who has not found Christ currently is. If this was your condition before you found Christ, it would mean that this is the current condition of everyone who has not found Christ. Is this reasonable to you? He says, dead in trespasses and sins. Spiritual death does not mean that the person has stopped thinking. Does not mean the person has stopped feeling. The person has stopped working. The person has stopped being normal human being or doing everything normal human beings do.

The person can be... Can have a loving family even. The person can be building a career, can be accomplishing remarkable things on earth as you know. A spiritually dead person can be socially active. They can be brilliant intellectually. They can be artistically gifted. They can be financially successful. They can even be morally morally sane. They don't steal. They're not greedy.

They believe in fair treatment or men should be treated fairly. They have integrity. Yet they are spiritually dead. Death there means separation from the life of God. The separation from the life of God. But not just that, that separation of the life of God also creates an absence of the capacity to respond to God from within oneself. If you sever a branch from a vine, that branch can retain its color for a while. But when it has been disconnected from the source of life, the care has already begun even though it retains its color. Do you understand what I'm saying? In the same way, a person can possess natural abilities.

They can demonstrate human kindness. They can build things that benefit society even. Yet if they remain cut off from the one who who supplies life, from the one in whom life is found, they are still dead. The gospel doesn't just offer people better habits. The gospel announces life to the dead. The gospel doesn't just tell people to improve themselves, to make themselves better, to improve their character, to improve their habits. No. No. No. The gospel tells people that that that that God who raised Jesus from the dead can make them alive together with Christ.

That is the gospel. It makes those who are dead alive. Those who were once severed from God restores the connection, redeems them back to Christ. Redeem them back to Christ. We're dead in trespasses and sins. Verse two says, in which you once walked according to the course of this world. You see that? It means there is a current that is running through every age. The Bible called it the course of this world. There's an invincible pressure that is telling people what to desire, that is telling people what to celebrate, telling people what to mock, what to call success, what to call freedom.

You see, the bible called it the cause of this world. What to regard as normal. It says, you once walked in the cause of this world. And if I can carry someone without that person consciously deciding where the river is going, the person is just flowing with the river, flowing with the current of the river. He's moving quickly, but he has no control over where the river is going over the destination. Is that not so? That is how the cause of this world works. The cause of this world pushes people, and it is so natural that they think that it is their own choice, is their own division. They think that they want making the choices, but it's the cause of this world. They are flowing like like a river is flowing people, moving people.

Are you with me? It's how the cost of this world works. It tells people that their value is measured by their possessions. Their value is measured by their appearance, by their influence, by their pleasure, by their sexual conquest. That the more women you conquer sexually, the more valuable you are as a man, the more manly you are. It's the cause of this world. So the guy feels manly, the more women he has, the more he conquers territories, the more he he feels proud of himself, the more he acquires financially, the more he builds, the more he accumulates, the more he feels good with himself, the more the more the more successful he appears. Because our value is measured by our possession. It is the cause of this world. You know, one of my daughters was speaking recently and she said something.

And I had to correct the mentality from whence she was speaking because she didn't know better at the time. If the mentality remains, that is not the operation of darkness. She said she had gone to a place and she was being treated so unfairly by people that she's even greater than. Right? In influencing, in status, in wealth, greater than. And then you were treating her so unfairly, and and she was wondering why are they treating her so unfairly? Don't they know that she's, you know, greater than them in influencing status? Listen, I told the lady I said, if your value is in the things that you have, then you have no value at all. Does that mean that if you are not greater than them in influence, it would have been right for them to treat you unfairly? Because if the reason you can think of for them not treating you unfairly is that you are greater than them in influence, what if they are greater than you in influence?

And then they now treat you the same way. Would it be just? Would it make it just? Are you with me? But that is the cause of this world. It's like a current. You will think that the thought is your own. But you don't know that it's like a river. The Bible calls it the cause of this world. And everyone who is...

Who have not found Christ is drawn by that course, is following that course, is working according to that course. Are you with me? Uh-huh. It is that cause that makes people think that submission to God is bondage. I... We're a Christian. And it does feel as though you have put yourself inside a bondage. That to love God, come on now. You are still young now. As to say that, why have you decided to cheat yourself of the pleasure of this world?

As though loving God is a bondage. That there is freedom in independence, and they call walking according to their own appetite and desire freedom. That I am free to exercise the lust of my flesh. Anything I feel to do, anything I want to do, I want to dance with a girl. I want... I I I wanna go to a club. Some of them even have a bucket list. Things I want to do before I'm 25, go to a club and twerk. Kiss a stranger. Kiss a stranger or you don't know.

People that fantasize kissing a stranger is in their pocket list. I want to do before I'm 25. And when she sees the opportunity, friends and I, let us go. And when she's there Doing all kind of things. It might it might amaze you that she might be a Christian. It might amaze you that she had a thought she's going, but that does not mean that she's not in darkness. That is darkness. It's why you must see people how God sees them so that you wouldn't just think this is my friend. It's your friend something is wrong with. And they must be that humility in acknowledging that see, I love you, but I can't leave you like this.

Can't you see? Now this is not normal. Are you being blessed from I boring you? You see, because when we talk about this, the coffee is not about yourself. You might not take it seriously. But what we are talking about is the heart of God. Because that was the last instruction that Jesus gives to his disciples just before he left. And you know the last command somebody gives is the most important thing they want to say. Nobody sits on their dying bed. And whilst they are dying, they call all their children.

And whilst all the children gather holding their hands, what they say is, have you watched either man? No. No. At that point, what you are thinking about is the most serious thing you want to address. Who am I giving my property to? I don't want people to fight over the land that is there. I've written my will. Is my will in order? Do you understand what I'm saying? That's what someone who's about to die is thinking.

Even when they know they're about to die. When they call people, they will tell you and you, you're always fighting. Stop fighting. Stop fighting. I don't want to go on and live with a greater my children and fight each other. Love yourselves. You are brothers. You'll be saying things that they consider most important at that moment. The last command somebody gives shows you the priority and what they value the most. This was the last thing Jesus told the disciples.

He says, go into the world. Go into the world. And we have received this same charge as believers. This same charge we have received as believers. Go into the world. Which are tied. That there are people flowing according to the course of this world. And this world teaches them to construct their identities without a reference to the creator. It teaches them to seek fulfillment without holiness. It teaches them to pursue happiness without truth.

Teaches them to build a life whilst ignoring eternity as though eternity does not exist. This word tells them enjoy your now. Enjoy your now. Enjoy your now. When you grew old, you can now take this Jesus thing seriously. Your youth is not for all these things. Enjoy yourself very well. That is darkness. It's the cause of this world. And that person might think I'm simply doing what I want without realizing that many of this desire that is called in his own were implanted there.

It's a conditioning. They've been strengthened by a word system that that that is itself in rebellion against God. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He's not interesting to you as well. But Paul says, you worked according to the course of this world. That you are working. But in verse one, it says you were dead. That the man can be dead and still be working. Still be working.

Then Paul reveals the next layer. According to the prince of the power of the air, and we can do this. I stop here. The aim is to introduce this teaching to you so that there is a burden within your spirit and within your heart so that your eyes can open to see. When the bible says go into the world, we cannot accurately follow that instruction without having seen the world. Without having seen There was something Jesus saw. Let me show you a scripture. Matthew nine thirty six thirty eight. The Bible says, but when Jesus saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them. Because they were weary and scattered.

Like sheep having no shepherd next to us. Then he said to his disciples, the harvest is truly plentiful. But the laborers are few. Next to us. Therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest. To send out laborers into the harvest. The first thing that happened in the order to which it happened was that Jesus saw. The Bible says, when he saw the multitudes, and guess what? The same Jesus said, as the father sent me, so send I you. It means if you would do maximally what Jesus did, having been sent by the father, then he's sending you into the world.

You must operate like he operated. And the first thing that happened in his operation is that he saw. He saw the multitudes. He saw the condition that they were in. He saw them. It was after seeing them that he was moved with compassion. You cannot have compassion for those who have not seen. You cannot. It's why there's no burden for evangelism at all. In the lives of many believers, we are careless.

I'm all concerned about ourselves. We've not we've not care in the world what happens to our next door neighbor. We don't know there is heaven and there is hell. We don't know that people will die. We don't know how that when they die, they would go to hell. Send thanks to eternal damnation. We assume everybody is okay because they look okay. I thought not as simple as sharing the gospel with people. Send a message to them. So listen to a message that blesses you.

You know this message addresses a mentality I know my friend has. And I know because I've seen. Seen. I've not just seen a friend. You see now. I've seen. I've seen someone destitute in this area. I've seen someone lacking something. Lacking something that I have the answer to give. Behold.

Behold. The prayer that I pray is that the Lord will open our eyes to see as it sees. See, let me tell you something. There's a reason why I have a passion for young people. I remember those days many years ago, was a student in the University of Ibarra. And I was entering into the university. And I think it was it was... What is it now? New students had just arrived in the university. Freshers, 100 level people.

As I then had interacted with so many young people, being a teacher in an A level center, being part of the fellowship coordinators there, I'd interacted with so many young people, teenagers mostly. Enough to see how confused many of them are. And so I remember then, I was walking, walking from UI gates upwards, and I saw cars parked from the gate to Queens Hall to Kuti Hall, parents bringing their children, children holding papers in the sun, long queue. I'm told they've removed that system. Then, everything was done manually. So, you'll see long queues in front of the hostels. And I will stand and look at them and say, Kai, these people think now that the most important thing in their life is to get a first class. These people came now and their most important pursuit right now. They are deceived to think. Now what is the most important thing in this world to them now?

It's admission. Somebody thinks, finally, I'm free. Finally, I'm this. And I'll stand and look at them and say, what a pity. Like sheep without shepherd. Your eyes can see. This is what has brought up today. The precious awakening. This is what has brought up today. A message I always preach from the first time that the precious awakening was was was launched in 2019.

Eternity in the heart of men. I will preach it next year. I will preach it two years to come. I will preach it three years to come. I will preach it in Jesus comes. It doesn't change. It is eternity in the heart of men. Because something birthed it. Something birthed it. That some people are pursuing something.

Saul thought that his pursuit was for a donkey. I remember a particular friend of the wedding, I thought this. Some of you have left your house like Saul looking for his father's donkey. I told him, like Saul looking for his father's donkey. That's how you left. And you think you'd find it in school. And that guy searched for many days and didn't find the donkey. Until he met a man called Samuel. Who told him you came look for a donkey when there is a destiny of a king upon you. And there are times when God can take advantage of what you are looking for to bring into destiny, to bring into purpose.

You would think it's about this, but God has something superior to that. And that pursuit many a times is even the desire to fill in eternity in the heart of men. To fill in that gap, that space, that huge garrison that only God can fill. And in our attempt to fill it, we are pursuing after many things. Pursuing after girlfriends and and boyfriends and success and appearances and validations from people and approval from men. But only God can satisfy. Only God can satisfy. Nothing else. This understanding is what made me see people trucking in their numbers and say, if only these people can know, if only they can know and this is not all there is to life that there is life inside god. That there is life inside God.

And that this life inside God is not a a call to penury, to suffering, to pain. It's not captivity. It's not bondage. Can you bow your heads and say, God, open my eyes. There's something I want us to... And you just keep in my spirit as you pray this now. Say, father, father, just say quietly. It Say, father. Father. Disturb me with your burdens.

Simple. Simple. I want you to be very sincere. See father, disturb me with what disturbs you. Disturb me with your bodies. In the name of Jesus. Can you pray sincerely? Sincerely like you mean it like you mean it sincerely. I refuse to be a selfish person. I refuse to only see myself.

Jesus name, we have prayed. Are you blessed in this meeting? Are you blessed in this meeting? Thank you for listening to this message. We trust you have been blessed. You can get more life transforming messages from apostle Emmanuel Boluwatife on our Telegram page at DCN media channel. You can also stream the messages on Spotify, Ocho Mac, and Apple Podcast. Connect with us via our social media platforms on Instagram at DCN underscore nations, on Facebook at Disciples Christian Network, on X at DCM Central and on TikTok at Disciples Christian Network. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel at Disciples Television. If you have a testimony from this message, you can mail us at disciplecngmail dot com.

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