Transcript: How a Blessed Man Thinks - Accessing What Christ has Finished

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Just like a soldier going to battle, Garrett himself with every armor needed for battle and for winning. So believers must guard themselves with the gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Join apostle Emmanuel as he teaches God's word to equip you for a victorious life on earth. This is believers equip. I'm gonna be speaking on what I've called how a blessed man thinks. Slap hyphen accessing what Christ has finished. How a blessed man thinks hyphen, accessing what Christ has finished. This is an offshoot of a teaching I have done before that I would want you to get to reawaken yourself to that truth. Glory to god. And it is titled the mentality of a blessed man.

So you might want to go back to that teaching to revisit it. The mentality of a blessed man. I believe it's a teaching from 2024 on a Sunday. The mentality of a blessed man. Go back to that teaching. Listen to it. It will help you greatly in understanding even better what I'm going to be communicating today. Is that okay? Sir. What most believers call the blessing, I believe that it's important that we start this discussion with understanding what the blessing is because you see, what most believers call the blessing is often reduced to outcomes.

And when your understanding of the blessing is reduced to outcomes, your experience of the same is greatly limited. Outcomes like money, outcomes like open doors, how it comes like children, like favor, like visas, like marriage, like recognition, and all these things. If that's where your understanding of the blessing comes, your experience is already limited. Because scripture treats blessing first as something deeper and something older than outcomes. Blessing... You see, the blessing in scripture is a pronouncement that places a man under God's government for fruitfulness, for dominion, and for purpose. So it is not merely what God gives you. It is what God says over you. And what is saying releases into you. That is why in the beginning, God did not first command man to produce.

That wasn't the first thing that happened. God did not first command man to produce, then now later empower him. That wasn't the equation. What God did was to empower man by blessing him, and the blessing became the engine that carried the demands of the command. So God did not tell Adam to subdue the earth with just his human effort alone, with just his human strength alone. God spoke a blessing that carried the power to become what the command required. Are you with me? Now this alone corrects a major error in the minds of many unbelievers who assume that the demand that God makes of your lives are heavy. And it is because you think he is requiring what he has not yet supplied. But you must understand that before God requires of you, he supplies to you.

It's a huge gap in understanding that a lot of believers don't have. But the mentality of the blessing tells you that before God demands of you, before God requests of you, it supplies to you. Are you with me? When God speaks his will, he also releases his enablement. He releases his empowerment. So the commandment reveals the direction of God's expectation, but the blessing releases the spiritual capacity to walk in that expectation. That's why God blessed man. Saying, be fruitful. So the word blessed there is the word empowered to prosper. And then he now gave man the command, be fruitful.

So the command comes after the blessing. What God expects of your life comes after the blessing. Say it with me. Say, what God expects of my life comes after the blessing. So you see the blessed man is not the man with an easy life. The blessed man is a man who is energized by the divine supply of strength, of empowerment, of enablement to fulfill the divine intention that God has for his life. So every assignment God has given to me, every promise God has... Every expectation God has for my life, he has blessed me to walk in the fullness of it. And he blessed me before he required of me. Do you understand what I'm saying?

And if you understand what I'm saying, you would also understand why the first strategy of the devil is not to tempt you to sin. The first strategy of the devil is to tempt you into thinking that you are abandoned by God. The first challenge of the devil is to tempt you to think that God has abandoned you. God has left you alone, or you are disadvantaged, or you are cursed, or God is hiding something from you, or God has not given you enough provision for the vision, or God has just left you stranded. That's what the devil tries to do. The devil tries to make you feel as though you are not blessed already. It has to make you feel as though God gave you the responsibility and left you to your own devices. That's what it did when it came to Eve. It says that God willing to say you will not eat up to the field of the garden. And then Eve tried to explain what God said, and then the devil told Eve that God knows that in the day you eat up this fruit, you will become like him knowing good and evil.

So the devil is selling the narrative to Eve that makes him feel as though there is a dimension of provision that God has left out from you. In the dimension of support, in the dimension of help and assistance, of provision that God kept away from you. The ability to know good and evil. That one, God knows you will need it though, but he will not give you. Now look at where you are now. And that's what the the devil tries to do to believers. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because if he can corrupt the interpretation God's heart towards you, then he can weaken your confidence to obey the command itself. So if a believer feel as though he's been abandoned by God, how then does he receive the strength to do what God has finished you do? If a believer feels as though God has left him comfortless, God has left him without provision, because he gets to a junction in his life where it doesn't seem as though results are coming as they expect them to come, and then he believes that because of that, it must mean that God hasn't sent me this way.

So if a believer comes to the point where he believes that, then how can he then have the strength to continue in the will of God? Are you with me? So understanding this makes you know that God's nature is to energize before he demands. God's nature is to empower before he demands, is to supply before he demands. God's nature is to supply before he demands. God will not tell you, I've made you an alien evangelist to the nations of the world without supplying the blessing first. God will not tell you. It is consistent scripture. The bible says he gives seed to the sower. It means before God demands that you sow, he has given seed to you.

That... That's it. That's it. That's the mentality a believer must have. That whatever God expects of me, I've been blessed to do it. The blessing is an empowerment to fulfill the demands of God for your life. Do you understand what I'm saying? Exodus chapter three and verse 10, the bible shows God sending Moses. But Exodus three verse 12 shows God hardening the supply. God said, I will certainly be with you.

That is the supply. In other words, I'm not sending you in your own strength. I have this consciousness that I am with you. There is a supply before the demand. So before God tells the man, go stand before Pharaoh and tell Pharaoh to let my people go. Understand that I am with you. There is something I've given to you, the advantage of my presence. Do you understand what I'm saying? That is the blessing. God tells the man, throw your rod on the ground.

The rod becomes a snake. He he knows there is signs. That's signs and wonders. God says, I've blessed you with signs. I've blessed you with wonders. Through these signs, you will know I am with you. So when he goes to Pharaoh and Pharaoh is being adamant, there is a confidence from when he can drop the rock in front of pharaoh because God has already revealed to him while he was in Hebron that that rod had power in it. So do you understand what I'm saying? He could fulfill the demands of God because God has supplied to him. How about Gideon?

How about Joshua? In Joshua chapter one verse nine, the same continuity. God commands courage. God demands that Joshua be courageous. But then he ties that courage to his presence. The demand is never isolated from the supply. When God tells you be courageous, God is making a demand of you. And so he says, I've supplied my presence. Do you understand what I'm saying? He says, be strong and be of good courage.

Don't be afraid. I'm making a demand of you. Don't be afraid. Don't be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you. So there is a supply that enables me to make a demand out of your life. So what the devil does is to isolate the demand from the supply, to make you see your incapacity, to make you see your limitation, and to make you assume that by reason of your limitation, there is no blessing. There's no enablement or there's no empowerment. Do you understand what I'm saying? So when you are overwhelmed by life and you begin to read the hardship you are going through as proof that God is no longer with you, you are not just discouraged. You are misinterpreting the order of heaven.

Because before you even enter the hardship, God was already with you. Because blessing precedes command. The expectation of God for your life is backed up by his empowerment for your life. His empowerment in your life. It's a mindset shift that the believer must have. Now once you are receiving instruction, understand that the reason the instruction can come in the first instance is because there's an empowerment already. That's why the instruction can come. If God tells you that go start that business, that person. Do this. Do that.

Those are demands. And the reason those things can come is because there's been an empowerment already. The mentality of the blessed man understands that every time I see something that looks like my responsibility with God, it is because God has supplied an advantage already. God has supplied an advantage already. Now according to the law of first mention... Let's try and define the place. Because the law of first mention in theology is understanding concepts, words by using where they first appear in scripture. Are you with me? And when you study the book of Genesis, that is literally where the word blessing first appeared in scripture in the beginning. God began the beginning with the blessing.

So it's only good that we study the context of the blessing and understand precisely what the blessing is in the mind of God. Are you with me? So following the law of force mentioned to see that the blessing is the divine capacity embedded into creation itself that enables a thing to fulfill its purpose. Because on 26, God says, let us make... Let's start from verse 22. 22 that we read says 21. Can you read it together? One, three. Go. And every living thing that moves with which the waters are bounded according to their kind and every winged bird according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good. Next verse. Now remember my definition. Let me define it again. The blessing is the divine capacity embedded into creation itself that enables a thing to fulfill its purpose. So one, two, three, go. So there's a demand. The demand is that birds must multiply. Fishes must fill the waters in the seas. And before God makes the demand from the animals he had created, the first thing he did was and God blessed them.

He empowered them. He embedded in them the ability to fulfill the purpose for which they were created. Do you understand what I'm saying? That is the blessing. The empowerment embedded in creation to fulfill its purpose, to fulfill the reason for its creation. So when you study... When you go forward... This is animals. Animals. We've not even gotten to And for that creation to fulfill its purpose, he must empower the creation creation for that purpose.

So even before man came into the picture, God has been blessing. Now which fish today has to pray to God to multiply? Which bird do they have to pray to God to fill the earth? Because they are operating on that deep blessing. That's why when Jesus was speaking in Matthew six, and Jesus said, why are you so worried? Why? Can't you look... Consider the lilies of the garden. He was painting a picture of creation to remind you how the lilies function in the blessing. Oh, God.

How the lilies function in the blessing? So when the blessing comes, the blessing transfers power. Power to fulfill potential. Former power to fulfill purpose. Power that activates potential, power that energizes destiny. The blessing is God's investment of himself into your assignment so that what he commands, you can accomplish. So when God called you to do something that seems impossible for you to do, he has already blessed you with the capacity to do it. When he commands you to be fruitful in your business, be fruitful in your ministry, be fruitful in your marriage, be fruitful in your education, he has already transferred the power to produce fruit. So the problem is not that God has not blessed you. The problem is that you do not believe you are blessed.

So you are trying to obey commands without accessing the empowerment that precedes them. We are trying to be fruitful through human efforts when fruitfulness is a supernatural result of divine blessing. So the believer, God imposed it upon his heart that this next phase of your assignment, you need to go and marry. So what it does is that that's a demand that the next phase of the assignment would require. He then starts to put in human limitations around his life that separates the demand from the supply. That makes him feel as though God expects him to carry out that assignment based on his own human strength as though the one who gave the instruction did not give the empowerment. Are you with me? Sir. I've had so many people are exhausted. They are operating under the old testament mentality where you obey first and then maybe God blesses you.

They feel as though it has you obey all that the blessing now comes. They don't know that the God. That's not creation how works. In creation, God energizes before he before before he before he assigns. He equips before he sends. He blesses before he commands. Look at Exodus four. When God called Moses to deliver Israel, the first thing Moses said was, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh? And God did not answer Moses by saying, you are nobody, but I will bless you if you obey. God God not done Moses.

I I know that you are nobody, but just do what I think you do and see what happens. No. The response was immediately, I will be with you. The blessing of God's presence preceded the command to confront Pharaoh. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yeah. So Moses was not sent to get blessed. Moses was blessed, and then he was sent. The mentality of a blessed man, how a blessed man thinks. Glory to God.

Do you remember Acts of Apostles chapter one verse eight? An operation of the blessing is in that scripture. The bible says, you shall receive power when the holy spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses. Can you say the blessing again there? That the blessing precedes the command. So when God tells you to witness, it is because you have received power. You received power because you received the holy ghost. So when God tells the believer to witness and the believer starts having trouble with witnessing and start placing his limitations in front of the instruction by saying things like, oh, but I am timid. Oh, but I'm not good. Oh, but I'm shy.

Oh, but what if they don't listen to me? He's separating that demand from the supply because the supply came before the demand. It was first you will receive power, then you will witness. So problem with the believer is not... He's getting ability to witness. It is a father does not even believe he has received power. That is where the problem is. That's what leads many people into frustration early in life. A lot of people have subconsciously resorted to doing life by themselves with their own human strength, with their own human effort. They are carrying out divine assignment with human effort.

Out of that work, that will ultimately lead to frustration even if you are sincere about it. Even if it is insincerity that you were doing it, you would still be frustrated. You would still be frustrated. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? Yeah. How about Judges chapter six? The angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon. And the first thing that the angel told Gideon, how do you open a conversation with a man that is hiding from war? He didn't go to thresh wheat at the Tribulon. He was hiding from the Tribulon, and he went to thresh wheat in the winepress because the winepress is farther away from anemic camp.

How do you open a conversation? Okay. Wait. Let me bring it into terms you would understand. Imagine that you have an employee in your company, and you employed him for... Give me something. For what? What? A receptionist. And he's meant to attend to people.

Then you get to your office. You park your car and come out, and you see people around. Somewhere, just in heating, just somewhere sleeping somewhere. What's happened? There's nobody attending to you. So there's no... We didn't see anybody there. There's nobody at the front desk. And you wonder, why is there nobody at the front? You march into the front desk.

What is the emotion like? Seeing that the person you employed for service is not doing what you have employed him for, what you intend to pay him for. Are you going there happy with it? Oh, what a good boy this is. Knows how to do his job properly. And then you get to the front desk, and the guy is not even there. People are scattered and stay everywhere requiring service delivered, and the guy that you're employed for, that purpose is not there. And then you go to the kitchen, the guy is not there. You go around office building, the guy is not there. Where is this guy?

Then you have a break room in in the office where people that you have employed just go to have their break. You go there. The guy is not there. Then you go to the gate man's place, and you find him sleeping on the gate man's chair. And you wake him up and say, Kai, you mighty man of valor. How does that make sense? See, first class graduate. I am not being sarcastic. You know when somebody falls short of their qualification and you remind them of their qualification to mock them. You understand what I'm saying?

Somebody speaks English and then the person messes up the grammar and the tenses, and you say, ah, linguistics chairman. Because you know he's studying linguistics. Perhaps that was what the angel was doing when he says, mighty man of value. No. How does a man abscond from responsibility? Because he's he's a coward. He's afraid for his life. The guy doesn't want to die. And the creator meets the creation. And says, you mighty man of valor.

And says the same thing, the same spiritual capital that he gave to Moses. I am with you. The same spiritual capital that he gives to Joshua. When he doesn't... Don't be afraid. Fear not. Be courageous for I am with you. And he comes to Gideon and reveals the same spiritual capital. And not even say you will be a mighty man of value. It says you mighty man of valor.

The Lord is with you. In other words, what makes you mighty is not your strength in the physical realm. What makes you mighty is the understanding that the Lord is with you. Because when I call you a mighty man of valor, there are things I expect from you. I expect might. I I don't expect a mighty man to be hiding. So I didn't say, uh-uh. Look at all your exploits, you mighty man of valor. That would mean that the reason why you are might is based on the assignment you have already carried out. That is how you understand this thing, but it's not so.

You are not mighty first because of your responsibilities. You are mighty because there's a supply. So what was revealed first was the supply. The supply. The supply. The Lord is with you. Can a man carry the... If you are more conscious of the supply, the demand will look like nothing to you regardless the grace is more than the That is someone who has got the revelation of the blessing. That no matter how much price we have to pay, the grace is more than the price. Say, I'm a blessed man.

So that when we talk about the blessed... You understand from what context we are speaking about. I mean, you begin to think like a blessed man. You begin to carry yourself like a blessed man. Begin to understand like a blessed man. Begin to passive life like a blessed man. Are you with brothers and sisters? Because the blessing preaches the manifestation. God calls those things that be not as though they are, not because he's lying. But because he calls them that way, because the blessing has already positioned them for that reality.

Gideon was mighty in potential because God had already blessed him with the capacity to deliver Israel. The battles he won eventually were just a proof of the blessing. Are you with me? The blessing of God is God placing a man in a condition where divine life can now flow through him into results. That's why the blessed man cannot be understood merely by his bank account. The blessed man cannot be understood merely by the amount of cars he has, by the amount of houses he possesses, by the amount of lands he owns, by the amount of material result that you see around him. Are you with me? Because a man can have money and not be blessed. Because money can be gained outside of God's government. But if the Lord blesses a man, what comes upon him is not only provision.

What comes upon him is divine order, divine advantage, divine direction, divine preservation, divine empowerment, not just material provision. Are you with me? So the bible says in Proverbs chapter 10 and verse 22, the bible says, the blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and he has no sorrow with it. You see, if the bible had just said the blessing of the Lord makes one rich, that would have been one of the most controversial avenues in scripture because you would have had to find a way to tie every human being's riches to the blessing of the Lord. So if an imam is rich, who blessed? If somebody is rich and the person spend his lifetime servicing all type of darkness, even his word services the kingdom of darkness, who blessed him? If the Bible has just entered that, the blessed not the Lord makes one rich. Because there are many things that can make one rich. But they just don't come with this extra preservatives. There's a preservative the blessing of the Lord has to the riches that only the blessing of the Lord can add it.

Because you see, in the natural realm, the more wealthier you are, the more your problems increase. A lot of people think it's the opposite. They think when I have more money, I will have less problems. It is false. It is false. When you have one money, your problems increase. Thank you, precious. So scripture distinguishes a kind of increase that carries sorrow from an increase that does not. And the proof that the blessing is more than money is that he can make rich without sorrow. That means the blessing includes the way the increase comes, the peace that guards the increase, and the wisdom that preserves the increase.

So the believer who has become rich by God is never afraid to lose money, and he's never afraid because he lost money. I'm telling you the mentality of a blessed man. You don't know where you draw 500 naira. You'll be... You you lost your peace instantly. You are... Don't have... You don't have the mentality of a blessed man. You do not. You do not.

Because the blessed man understands that whatever riches comes to me has a source. The blessed man does not does not attribute his riches to his effort. He never does. The blessed man does not attribute his wealth to his effort. He never does. That does not mean that the blessed man does not apply effort. That does not mean that the blessed man does not labor. I showed you the previous week that labor preceded the course. So the blessed man labors, but he labors because he is blessed. The cursed man labors.

He labors because he is cursed. So what the blessed man is doing is laboring to to experience the blessing. So when the bible says the diligent hand makes rich, the blessed man's understanding of that scripture is quite different from a cursed man's understanding of that scripture. A cursed man's understanding of the scripture is the more diligent I become, the more I break out of poverty. The blessed man's understanding is the more diligent I become, the more I experience the riches I already have. There's a shift in mentality. The blessed man understanding that scripture is an expression of who he is. Whereas, the cosmom's understanding of that scripture is an expression of what he want to break out of. What he wants to break out, what he wants to come out of. Are you getting this little by little?

So I'm not afraid to give. Because you see, we see often that in this kingdom, the way up is down. That's why many of the things that looks like elevation in the scripture is always tied to you going down. The first shall be the last. The greatest amongst you shall be the servant of all. He that's cuttherest, increase it. It's just a strange thing. Unless the sin... Unless the grain of of of wheat falls to the ground and dies, He abides it alone. Do you understand what I'm saying?

It's obvious from the scriptures that the way up in this kingdom is done. You want to increase financially, you give. It is. You wanna be great, you serve. Yes. You want to be exalted. You humble yourself. Can't you see this? That nobody exalts himself. The way up is down.

Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God. He will exalt you. Humility. Are you seeing this this? The blessed man is not afraid to lose. You see, he's not afraid to lose in any of this context. He's not afraid to lose his reputation in the altar of service. Did get what I just said now? Yes, sir. He's not afraid to lose his reputation, his dignity, in humility.

He's not afraid to lose money in giving because he has sourced... He has realized that my source is not my effort. Effort is only applied because God supplied. And a man who does not have this understanding has set himself for suffering. Are you with me? Yeah. Understanding this will now make you realize that the blessing is more than outcomes. And because a lot of people don't know that the blessing is more than outcomes, they accept outcomes with sorrow. Outcomes that corrupt the soul of a man. Outcomes that poison relationships.

Outcomes that creates pride and restlessness. For the blessing of the Lord includes the internal government that allows the outcome to remain clean, to remain pure, to remain fruitful. The Bible says in the book of Ephesians one verse three. Blessed with the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Look at the correction. That God does not begin by putting blessing in your bank account. It begins by putting blessing in Christ, then putting you in Christ so that your identity is blessed before your circumstances looks blessed. So if your focus is first on the circumstance before you who is in Christ, you have missed out already on the blessing. Because the blessing is in Christ, and you are in Christ. The blessed man must make a choice to experience life from Christ.

Because if your highs... If you don't understand what I'm saying, what you would do is focus on the circumstances and define whether you are blessed by what happens to your circumstance. So there's money in your account, I'm blessed. If there's no money in my account, I'm not blessed. But the bible does not say the blessing is in your bank account. The bible says the blessing is in Christ. It means it is force meant to be a thing of identity. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. That is why the mentality of a blessed man is crucial.

Because if you only believe you are blessed when you see money, then you're not living by faith. You're living by sight. The New Testament establishes blessing as a spiritual reality that is located in Christ, accessible by faith, expressed through obedience manifested across time. That means that the blessed man must must learn to interpret life from from his spiritual provision, not from temporary pressures, not from temporary pleasures, but from the place that is seated in Christ. Are you with me? Because many believers are are are sincere, but they are unstable because they they read their season as their identity. They read their circumstances as their identity. They read their situation as their identity and not their provision in Christ. So when things are smooth, they feel blessed. When he has money, he feels blessed.

When things are hard, the believer then assumed that a curse must be operating in his life. Because how can things be hard? How can things be this hard? Do... Are you with me? But scripture does not give you permission to interpret hardship as proof of cause. Because the moment things become hard for a believer, the believer believes is on the one cause for the other. So he wants to go and start breaking cause. So we spend our lives breaking causes. And God will help you meet merchandising profits.

Oh my. You'd have dropped about 700,000 naira trying to break a course. And the more the cost is not breaking, more they tell you that, you know, told it 1,000,000. You are the one that wanted to go 700,000, and we we explained that it might not really work or because of the soap we have to buy. And the things we have to do is that 1,000,000 that will push it. So if you want a final fix, wear the spirit husband that has been causing things not to work for you. Because see now, look at the children. Look at your this. Look at your that. Can't you see?

And the believer who is sincerely in a challenge, Jesus is the guy is true. I'm under a curse. But Jesus said in John chapter 16 verse 33, in this world one, two, three, go. Us, you will have what? You will have what? Go on. So tribulation is not the evidence of a cause. Tribulation is the environment of warfare in a falling world. It's just to prove that the world that we live in is falling. So it means the the blessed man may be resisted, but it's not caused.

He may be challenged, but it's not abandoned. And he must understand this. He may even weep, but it's not rejected. That's why the victory of Christ must become the foundation of your mentality. Otherwise, you would misunderstand scriptures a lot. You would think that you are cursed only because there's food challenges that here and there. Because there's no food in the house, you are cursed. Just yesterday, you were claiming that the finished works of Christ were yours. You were claiming that you are blessed, that you are in Christ, that if any man being Christ that he has become a new creature, all things have passed away. And you were declaring that every handwriting or ordinance has been wiped off clean.

And you were shouting, and you were excited, and now a challenge shows up and throws you off balance. And you start believing, maybe maybe that my own did not eat the less than I ate the less. It didn't finish. Maybe. Just maybe. Started accepting thoughts of defeat that makes you believe that, ah, the So because the physical environment has not caught up with it, you then throw yourself back into what you said you have left. As to what made you leave, oh, God. So every month, the believer is trying to break a curse. Every month. Because he has no understanding of what Christ has done.

In Galatians three verse 13, the Bible says, for Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become the cross for us. How do we know the cross did not only forgive sins. It legally broke the authority of curse over the believer standing. So every curse is broken already in Christ. The bible says, we have been redeemed from every curse of the law. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So if the curse has been broken, how many times must you break it for it to break? You're not getting it. You're not getting it.

You're not getting it. Christ says, I've broken every curse. You then go with the mentality and understanding of the fact that maybe I'm still experiencing the course because this and this and this are still there. And then you now go and be breaking the course every month. I'm breaking the course every week. The question is this, if I take a cup of glass and break it, how many time must I break it for it to break? Disarmed principalities and powers. Who came and used superglue to mend it back? How powerful that superglue be? Like, that is not is not stronger than the cross that shattered in the first instance.

That makes a believer thinks that maybe I'm still dealing with this. Maybe I'm still here. Maybe I'm still there. Am I am I saying that these things don't exist? Oh, they do. Believers can be resisted. Believers can cry. Believers can go through hardship. Does Paul not even endure hardship? Is it because you are cursed?

As a good soldier of Christ, not as one living under the curse. What did Paul say? Paul said in nine's orphan when he was listing out his CV. Did you see the episodes of hardship that he encountered? He went to preach the gospel in one place, they stoned him to death. He didn't wake up and say, Kai, the father that chasing me, the powers of my father's house, that in that people's ministry have followed me here. The principalities of hard things are fighting me. All the demons have gathered up on people, they've gathered against again. The gospel must be preached. Went to the next satan was preaching.

Came back there and was preaching. Am I saying these things are not real? They are. They happen to people who are under that administration, who are under the economy. Once we've come out of it, our perspective has shifted. The mentality of a policeman, our understanding has shifted. You read through scriptures, and you would find that even those who were who were our patriarchs that modeled the life of a blessed man went through circumstances that contradicted the blessing upon their lives, and God never called them cost. Did not... Did God not come to Abraham in Genesis 12 and say, will bless you. I will make you a great nation.

In you shall all the families of the earth. It means there must be families that would even come from you. But twenty five years, year one, year two, year three, four, The lady brought one of his fine girls. God, I'm not saying fall in love or anything. Just have a child. Don't worry. I'll forget. I'll forgive. I'll forget. I I won't hold it to heart.

I won't hold it against no. No. That's your own handiwork. That's you trying to be smart. That friend to help me. When my word went forth, it required no help from you. And every attempt to assist God to make his word come to pass over your life other than believing what he has said and acting out what he has said gives birth to an Ishmael. It gives birth to what will eventually fight your promise. Because that's what Ishmael is. Ishmael is a very thing wrong with Christianity today.

Ishmael is why the world must be converted. And no matter how strong evangelism is, you can never eradicate Ishmael because there's a blessed, no punishment here. Ishmael came from a blessed man. No matter how powerful a great evangelist you are, you can't eradicate Ishmael. To the end of time, they will still be an Ishmael because a blessing came upon Ishmael, because it came from a blessed man. Have you forgotten that when Haggai was sent off, I started crying. I went to go and put the child somewhere because we didn't want to watch our child die. And she started crying and praying to God. You would think that it was her tears that the angel responded. The angel came and took...

The angel did not come to the lad. The angel came to the woman because the lad is not... Does not have sufficient intelligence and understanding because he was still a young boy boy to understand what the angel was saying. So they still had to go to the guardian, and you would think they would give the guardian some respect to say, okay, because you were praying. They said we heard the voice of the boy. It's the boy that came from the man. It is the seed of the man that is blessed. Barren, ten years, five years, after God came and said, you are blessed. You are blessed. God still came and said, will change your name from Abraham.

I will change you to Abraham. There was still no child after. Father of many nation becomes your identity. There was still no child after. There was no place in scripture where the bible says because of this barrenness, Abraham was cursed. What I'm telling you is that the evidence of delay is not the evidence of a cause. There are tribulations in life. Don't be quick to attribute every challenge you face to a cause that requires breaking, that requires coming out, that requires... Why not enforce the victory of Christ upon itself and say I'm not barren? God has told me.

Yes, sir. The bible, they considered not. He considered not. Why not get to that position as well where not... Where instead of breaking cost, you are considering not? The deadness of his flesh or the wickedness of Sarah's wound. He worked strong in faith. That is the posture of a believer when a believer is inside challenges. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

He does not consider his own body. If his own body not the one that is not producing children and the dead of their housewomb. Are you with me? But the bible says he did not consider it. That means the believer should not even consider the circumstance that looks to resist the blessing and the promise of God over his life. We don't give it thought. That's the meaning of concept. We don't reckon it. It's when you reckon it, you start thinking about what is responsible. Maybe it's an agenda.

Maybe it's a witchcraft. Maybe in this one. Maybe it's that one. You are considering it too much. It that is in me is greater than it that is in the world. What you spend time considering is it that is in you. Philemon says, that the sharing of your faith, the communication, the koinonia, the sharing, the distribution of your faith may become effective. The faith is the faith we have received. He's saying that how your Christian faith becomes powerful, effective, radical is by acknowledging not the problems you are facing, but every good thing which is in you in Christ. Because that's where we placed it.

We've been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Because it is in Christ, and I'm in Christ is in me. I didn't get the cutoff mark for breaking out of courses. So I have failed. That is not the mentality of a blessed man. Are you with brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. That is not thinking. That is not how to access the finished works of Christ. Are you getting this thing I'm saying?

Sir. And a lot of people are exhausted because they keep on fighting battles that Christ has already finished. And they fight it as no cry, they must finish it. They treat every hardship that comes to their life as a new cause they must break. Instead of learning to stand in the finished works of Christ and enforce the victory that they have won over the defeated enemy already. Colossians two verse 15 reveals the posture of the cross. That Jesus disarmed principalities and powers, triumphing over them. The enemy's major weapon is not always new power because he has disarmed powers. The enemy's weapon is accusation. Accusation.

That thing that makes you feel what you have is not enough. There is still some more. There is still something that God left from you. You are blessed though, but that blessing is not enough. There is still something more, something extra. And as long as it's not there, you are still greatly limited. Are you getting this thing I'm saying? And the devil tries to convince you that what Christ has ended is still active. What is dead is alive. What is old is new.

So that you will live beneath your inheritance. That when you live in joy, you live in sorrow. One should live in peace. You live in anxiety. Anxiety over the pressure of this world, over troubles. The blessed man must carry this mentality. This mentality of the blessing. Meaning, he must see himself as blessed, not cursed. I'm not cursed. I'm blessed.

I'm blessed. That perspective must now govern his decisions. Scriptures now. Go and study scriptures. Was Joseph cursed? Was he cursed in 40 vessels? Was he cursed in the prison? The fact that you are working a salary job right now where they are paying you 50 k does not mean your cost. Walk that thing with the mentality of a blessed man, and everything changes. Suddenly, your eyes will see opportunities.

Because that's what happened to the seed of the blessed. When they were lacking water, it is it is against principle that the seed of the blessed should lack water or should cry in time... In times of hardship. What happens? An angel is dispatched. And even when the seed of the blessed could not access water by himself, the angel goes to who can access water for him and say because of the blessed. Even there are people... There are times that your understanding might not even as grown to an extent where the opportunities that you require, you can get by yourself. And it might just be because you are not even grown, you are not mature enough to possess it at that height, at that extent. But one doesn't change the fact that your mentality should still be that I am blessed.

Because if that is your mentality, God can open doors to those that will open it for you. And say, listen. The reason why I'm opening this door is not because of you. There's a blessed man that is associated with you. While he's growing and maturing, I've opened a door for you to ensure you never lacks anything. Why he's realizing the fullness of his blessedness? Consider the lilies of the field. They just keep on functioning in the blessing. They are not so intelligent as to know when it is dresses and when it is not. Oh.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. Next verse. And yet I said to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. This glory that the queen of Shepherd saw and fainted. The bible says, in that glory, it was it was not arrayed like the lilies of the field. That all they live their life on is depending on the blessing that came from before time began. Be blessed. Multiply. Be fruitful.

That's all the lilies are enjoying. Just looking up to heaven and being blessed. He said consider those ones. They don't toil. In other words, how much more you will work? Will work under the blessing? I'm trying to shift the... I'm I'm trying to shift something in your mentality. Trying to shift something in your thinking. And I pray that the holy spirit does something to you.

You see, things are not things you listen to once or twice or three times or five times or 10 times because because mentality doesn't shift overnight. What I'm saying there are some of it, it has become a stronghold literally. And it won't break just because your head... It accept the power of God comes upon you. You will need to meditate again and again. Incline your incline your ears to these words. Put it at the gate of your heart. Only to overwhelm your soul. Are you with me? I'm blessed.

That blessing governs my divisions. It governs my expectations. It governs my endurance. It governs my interpretations because you see, how I interpret life is also from the standpoint of a blessed man. It's only blessed men that go through stuff and they say, hey. God is about to lift us. How does going through stuff mean that God is about to lift What is the time that's about to crash you? But blessed men don't see that. We don't consider what either is in the world is doing. That's why we don't consider what is about to do.

It's not we are having conferences, and all these people are coming to come and gather against what we are doing, pulling down our tent and doing all kind of things. And somebody sit and say, Kai. The devil is against those people. But we are seeing Kai. Remember last begun. Our interpretations, our perspectives from the mentality of a blessed man. Our interpretations. Hey. The reason why I sing songs like this spontaneously is because when I'm speaking like this, like, when I'm speaking about this like this, I get overwhelmed. So overwhelmed that you can only you can only see the might of God.

And the more God becomes big to you, the more God becomes big, big, big, big, there is nothing that will ever trouble your heart. There is nothing that will ever trouble your soul. I've touched you this before, like the word praise. Lord praise is a comparative statement. When the bible says praise God. Praise the Lord with understanding. It is because it is a comparative statement. It is what exalt, and the word exalt is comparative. Because when you are exalting something, it must be above something else. Do you understand what I'm saying?

So in reality, what the God of believers do is not praise. Because they have exalted challenges above God, so they are only dancing. Yeah. You you don't understand what I'm saying? Yeah. The guy that is dancing in his heart, his problems are bigger than the God he's dancing to. That's why God says, they worship me with their mouth. The thing ends in their mouth. There is nothing that shows the posture that I occupy in their heart. You get my point now?

So sometimes you need to spend time just meditating on how large this god is, on how huge, on how humongous this god is, on what he has done on the cross, on the import of what he did on the cross, the victory he won on the cross. Sometimes we need to spend time and and study it. This finished works, what does it mean? So that whenever the devil comes and back at you, you can put him in his place almost have his final response. That your brain does not consciously think about where the devil is. It's an autonomic response already. In the book of Romans chapter eight verse 33, the bible says, who can bring a charge against God's elect? When God has justified a man, when God has justified a man, who can bring a charge against him? The devil's accusations become Let me put it this way. The devil's accusations cannot become your identity.

Because the bible says, it is God who justifies. It is God who pronounces righteous. So when God pronounced me righteous, who, what, can bring a child against me? What my father did, what my mother did, what somebody did. Who? Are you even brothers and sisters? So I might be going through anything. I'm not being punished. I'm not on the course. I might be going through challenges, challenges that were brought upon by my own foolishness.

I'm still not on the course. I'm learning wisdom in Christ. I'm learning submission in Christ. I'm learning accountability in Christ. Are you with me? I might be going through some kind of warfare right now, and I'm enforcing victory. Doesn't mean God is angry with me. My place with God is set. Are you with me? That that mentality is what allows a young believer to remain consistent in prayer, consistent in purity, consistent in diligence, consistent in hope.

Even when circumstances try to preach a contrary message, you must be consistent in hope. That hope is very important because faith is a substance of things hoped for. So when your hope dies, faith has nothing to substantiate. Do you understand what I have said? So when a believer wants to give up, what they have lacked is hope. When pressure surrounds a man and he says, ah, I cannot continue, what he lacks at that point is hope. What's faith? Hope. The problem with his faith is now is that there is nothing for that faith to substantiate. Because faith substantiates hope.

Hope must be kept alive in the life of a believer. How hope is kept alive? Is it because you will... It says endure hardship. How do you endure hardship when hope is dead? Bible says to you of Abraham, who against all hope believed. That's faith. It substantiates hope that even when there is no reason why we should hope against all hope. I still kept on hoping. I still kept on believing.

I like that man of... He said, I can't die like this. I was passing by Japan. A young man was praying. He said, he held on to the... To one of the trees in chapter. I went to pray. He said, my my my my generation will hear my voice. I can't give up now. And as he prayed, I was smiling.

God was giving me a message from his prayer point. I was smiling. Against all hope. Satan, you have lost. Oh, you have lost. It is the worst you could have thrown at me. You have lost. For how does the eater comes forth in it? Thank you, Lord Jesus. Let me show you what the problem is.

Let me show you the issue with many believers. Let me deviate a little bit. The issue with a lot of believers is what Ephesians one verse three reveals. When the bible says that God has blessed us with all spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. There's a problem there. Because this verse of scripture is the verdict against an entire generation. And the virus system that we possess half a generation. Because it tells you very plainly that what heaven calls blessing is first spiritual and not material. It doesn't deny material outcomes, but it establishes the root. That the root is the blessing that is stored in the realm of the spirit, accessed in Christ, and manifested through alignment to the same.

Many young believers missed the blessing. Not because God refused them the blessing, because it's available to every believer in Christ. The reason they missed the blessing is because their eyes have not yet been trained to respect that which is spiritual. Their eyes have only been trained to respect what their hands can touch, what their eyes can see. So as I'm talking now and I'm saying, I'm blessed. A believer struggles with the idea of I'm blessed when my hands cannot touch anything that resembles the blessing. When my eyes cannot see anything that resembles the blessing. So they're the kind of contempt that believers have. And this con... Do you understand what I'm saying?

Yes, sir. If your eyes are not trained to see like this and you hold this contempt in your heart, a lot of young people have it. You can shout I'm blessed today to tomorrow. When it is time to endure and to keep on opening endurance, the only thing that will sustain you is whether or not you know that you are blessed. Do you understand what I just said? A lot of us despise the invisible. We only have honor for that which is visible, that which our eyes can see. We celebrate the loud, and we mock the quiet. We mock that which we cannot see. We can spend hours chasing money, but we cannot spend a few minutes receiving the word of God.

We can work nine to five, Monday to Friday. Cannot spend four hours one day in the presence of God. We can travel for a contract, but we cannot stay for instruction. Yet the Bible shows us that all visible that Bible says the that spiritual blessings are declared, when the covenant promises are being pronounced over them, you would see the cynicism with which they respond. Go and prosper. That That one I will eat? Is that what will pay my rent? Oh, brother. God bless you. Is that what will find my car?

Because what they want is instant. Material proof. Outcomes. And if I don't see these outcomes, how do I then believe that I am blessed? And because the blessing is spiritual, they dismiss the blessing. They devalue the blessing. They treat the blessing like you are. They say all these religious people have come again. When we begin to pray, there's no value in the in the time we spend praying. There's no value in the time we spend fasting.

Why should you sow seed to a man of God? Why should you give to the anointed? Why should you take your hard earned money? You see that thing... That statement? Hard end. Go back to Genesis and see the difference. See where hard end came from. Hard end. That...

Your hard end money. Take your hard end money, you go and give it like that. Stupid believers. Tithe. Tithe. Religious. And these are believers speaking, not unbelievers. Believers speaking who have absolutely no value, who completely believe that, in fact, they believe that you can have a relationship with God, but all this coming to church thing, all this prayer thing is being religious. So you hear them say things like, oh, I know God, but I'm not religious. And what they mean by I'm not religious is that I don't go to church.

I don't fellowship with the brethren. I don't have a spiritual authority. I don't listen to instruction. I don't listen to messages. I'm not growing on that... The revealed pattern of growth in Christ for the believer. But I know God. Brother, you don't know God. You... I can guarantee you from scriptures that you are far away from God.

Because if you know God, you will know that in Acts chapter four, the Bible says, he himself gave some to the apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists for the edifying. So how can you remove yourself from edification and claim to know God? Although the apostles and the church were man's idea. He will give you a shepherd after his own heart. God's idea. But you know that God will disperse the shepherds. How is that possible? What kind of delusion is that? It's blindness. It's serious blindness.

And some of these people are so blinded, you can't even attempt to begin to show them truth except the holy ghost opens their heart. And when you step into that place, one of the things that happen is that diminishing of spiritual value for spiritual things. And you begin to look with contempt at those who value spiritual things. And you don't even have to get there. Some people's own can be, you know, engrossed with materiality. And they've not even gotten to the place where these people are. They are still in church. They still believe and all these things, but they they just hold on. They have a high sense of materiality that they have absolutely no value whatsoever for spiritual things. That if they are coming to church, they are coming to church solely to come and hear how they can prosper.

Man of God, give me instructions. Somebody once told me that, dude, I like your messages where you tell me what to do to succeed. I picked it because I could tell what kind of messages you don't like. I thank God I'm not pleasing you. So my business is not only to tell you what to succeed. Pleasing God is also my business because you can succeed and miss that one. To tell you what to do to advance the kingdom is also my business because you can succeed and miss that one. In other words, listen. Such people have this subtle this... This subtle resistance against prophecies because they believe that, oh, no.

No. No. And when they see believers shouting, amen. They look at them and say, look at these fools. You just say to the guy, amen. Amen. Amen. You start talking about spiritual hunger as a means of receiving. He says, look, all this religious nonsense. Show him a picture of young people praying.

They said they are only practicing religion. Anything that looks like basic spirituality is religion. Yet it's a believer. No value for the word of God even. No value for prophetic words. No value for promises. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? And when you start talking like this, you are repeating the ancient era of Esau. In second Corinthians four verse 18, the bible says, why would not look at the things which are seen? For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

When you see a young man saying, Chena, chop me that. They are unknowingly revealing the spirit of contempt for spiritual realities. They have reduced life to survival. They have reduced life to appetite. So they interpret every spiritual communication as useless because it cannot be eaten. It can't satisfy their appetite immediately. Well, that is exactly the mentality that makes a man miss inheritance. Because in Genesis 25 from verse 29 to verse 34, the bible records one of the most devastating transactions ever recorded in scripture. The bible begins by saying Jacob cooked stew. Esau came from the field, and he was weary.

So can we both agree that this was a tired man? The bible reveals very clearly that this was a tired man. He was weary. Next up. And Esau said to Jacob, please feed me with the same red stew for I am weary, not even for I am envious. I have a realistic need right now. I am tired. I'm hungry at this moment. I have a need at this moment. Next verse, what Jacob said, sell me your birthright as of this day.

That statement continues to puzzle me. Why did it not say give me? Why did it use the word sell me? What what what type of a transaction is this? And from whence did Jacob have his understanding? That it is possible for birthrights to be sold. Are you with me? Next verse. And Esau said, look. I'm about to die.

Can I better than go chop? What is this betray to me? Next verse. Then Jacob said, swear to me as of this day. So he swore to him and sold his betrayal. The bible says, and sold. That the transaction was confirmed upon the swearing of Esau that I have sold to you, my birthright. Yet there was no priest that blew. Are you with me? Next verse.

And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. Then he ate and drank arose and went his way. Thus Esau despised. That's where I'm going. Despise this birthright. What is this birthright to me? Does Esau despise his birthright? What is this birthright to me? Why? He couldn't eat a birthright.

He could not wear a birthright. He couldn't show a birthright to his friends because the birthright was spiritual. It was intangible. It was a covenant provision that guaranteed future inheritance, that guaranteed the leadership of the family, that guaranteed the the double portion anointing, that guaranteed the continuation of the Abrahamic blessing upon his life. It was spiritual capital. It was spiritual substance. But Esau was hungry now, and that spiritual substance, he can't eat it. So I came to you, meet you there. Don't have money. You said go and prosper.

Now what time I go chop it out? You know, all these amen, amen, amen. They are shouting in church. All cannot go work. The spirit of that makes men despise spiritual things, that makes men despise and have contempt for spiritual things. My stomach is empty now. My energy is depleted now. And because the birthright could not solve his immediate physical need, he concluded in his mind that it had no value. He despised his birthright. The word bizarre, to destine, to hold in condemn, to think worthless.

It means he thought that his birthright was worthless. That means Esau did not just ignore his birthright, he scorned it. He treated like he was nothing for one bowl of stew, long temporary physical satisfaction. He traded permanent spiritual authority for one bowl of stew. He exchanged eternal for the immediate, the invincible for the visible. He exchanged covenant for convenience. And the moment he did this, the bible says in Hebrews chapter 12 from verse 16 to verse 17, a glimpse at the aftermath, lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. The bible call it profanity. Look at the next verse. It says, for you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected.

For he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears. That means eventually he realized. Eventually, he knew what he had lost. Eventually, he knew the weight of what he had traded. That's why I preach those people that say, now a man will go chop. They are the ones that they carry for deliverance. Mountain to sought it diligently, he didn't find it. He didn't find it. There are those that is when they need visa, they remember that there's a prophet somewhere. Temporal, Everything they speak against, they become when they need something.

Don't be believer that despise spiritual things. Intangibles are powerful. Intangibles are powerful. All the major breakthroughs in my life upon to this moment have come by the power of intangible things. Words spoken by the prophet. I don't take these things for granted. Words spoken by the prophet. Words received in scriptures. What the holy ghost dropped in my heart. This is the capital that makes me know that the soft hand has come.

I remember a time ago, I was looking for an amount of money. An amount of money. And it was pressing because we needed that for something else. Within the ministry. And it came to my heart just empty what I have. And so I did. And it came to my heart again. To give precisely the amount of money that I was looking for to solve the ministry needs. At that point in time, to give twice of it. When it came to my heart, it looked so stupid.

It looks so stupid because we are still looking for one. We've not yet gotten it to sort, to spend. And my holy spirit is telling me, give a double portion of it even before you sort it out. And and it was just there floating in my heart. While it was floating, was... Every amount of oil that was coming to my hand, I kept it somewhere to obey that instruction. But it wasn't coming. It wasn't coming. Yet there are there are people that are faithful to you as a man of God in giving, who are financially committed to you. All of them are given.

So there was literally no point of expectation, humanly speaking. Because the conclusion can be between your mind that person used to give. Everybody had given, the money was not up to half complete. I was studying scriptures, and it opened in my spirit. Opened in my spirit. We ministered seed to the sower. And for the first time, I've always quoted that scripture as he gives seed to the sower. Unlike sow, that the word he use is not give, It is minister. It doesn't give seed. He ministers.

Forgot what translation I was in then. I saw the word minister seed. And as I saw it, it was one of those days I was reading the Bible in several translations. It it jumped into my spirit all of a sudden that the money is not given to me in the hand. It is ministered to me in the spirit. Are you with me? It is ministered to me in the spirit. I just remembered that angels are called ministering spirits. Lines were connecting in my spirit. That human beings are not the only source by which God ministers to me.

I know who can help again, he ministers. He ministers. Through the agency of ministering spirits, things doesn't look to me like a physical thing that is happening. He ministers. I said, okay. I knew, like, more than I knew my name. Like, the seat was complete. I went to sleep and woke up with a full seat in my account. The moment it came, devil could not even tempt me that, hey. See, the the ministry need is in just a few days.

You better remove that one so the remaining... The instruction that led to the revelation was empty. It supplies before it demands. Sir. The moment it came, I emptied it. Everything we needed for the ministry deal. Everything. That I haven't to beg your soul. And somebody says, I have been chopping by it. Some of us, some of whom we have been preserved by the revelation we have received.

We have been preserved by encounters. We have been preserved by what God has told us. We have been lifted by the sick. I went to sow a seed to my prophet some time ago. Some time ago. And I was telling my wife, who was my friend's name, that I am expecting this amount of money to enter my account every month, every month, every month. And it wasn't coming as I expected. I was pushing myself out business wise, ministry wise even. And I wasn't coming. And I knew...

I could tell in my spirit, this is this is this is where I am currently. Money should be coming to me in this amount, in this range. So I was giving towards it, giving towards it, giving crazily. I was giving every day of the year. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Thursday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. This got me from, like, from December, October, November, December, January, February, beginning of February. In a single day, you can imagine. It was crazy. Then I went to meet my prophet, and I saw the particular scene to him. Went with the money back.

Dropped it. And he said, Kai, I see it though. It has opened. It has opened. It has opened. And he said he said, you have knocked before. They found you and changed their mind. Now they are reconsidered, and they have found you again. He said now, this amount of money, I mentioned the same thing I've been telling my fiance. They come to natural flow.

Did not know. But that day, about a week or two weeks after the word was spoken, they reached me and they said, space is open. We want you in the team. If this is something you are considering, are you still interested? This is our offer, and they sent in the offer more than what was sent before, exactly the amount of money that was mentioned. And somebody say, god. Oh god. Oh Jesus. That spirit of content that makes you hate spiritual things, you better break it tonight because there is value. There is substantial value in spiritual things.

And some of us take it as though the kind of value we place on it is the reason why it continue to supply value to us. I listen to messages like my life depends on it. These are spiritual things that define my spirit. I place value on them. I place value on this understanding. I place value on scriptures. I place value on the revelation of the word of God. I place value on the blessing. I place value on the blessing. I place value on the blessing.

That's why we give the way we do. Because we know we are placed. I place value on the blessing. Spiritual things. Matthew six thirty three. Seek first the kingdom, spiritual. And his righteousness, spiritual. And all these things, physical, will be handed out to you. How foolish can we be? How foolish can we be?

Proverbs 13 verse 13. Can you value like that? This is dope, a man in affliction. They have treasured the words of his mouth more than food that is needlessly to me. Rise up on your feet. This is not really my teaching. We've gone from other time. But I know for certain that our eyes have been opened. I want you to bow your heads and pray. We'll pray two prayer points.

The first is, Lord, help me to value your word. Help me to value intangibles. Help me to place value on the revelation of the spirit, on the encounters of the god kind. Help me to place value on spiritual things. Help me place value on the blessing. May I never may I never get to that point where I become familiar. I become familiar with worship. I become familiar with ideas. I become familiar with the things that you do that makes for the blessing. That makes men prosper.

Help me. Help me. Amen. Amen. I want you to declare the second prayer. Yeah. Declaration. You declare that I'm a blessed man. And because I am a blessed man, I see like a blessed man. I perceive like a blessed man.

I understand like a blessed man. Can you begin to declare? I know like a blessed man. I'm not a slave. I'm a blessed man. I'm a blessed man. Reef office, come to me like a blessed man. Come on pray. Lift your voice and pray. I want you to pray.

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