Transcript: How Destinies Manifest — The Law of Seasons

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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. You know you'll be blessed in this meeting? This is the second to the last believer's equip of the year. I've been thinking and considering very carefully the things that I share, especially as I hear is coming to an end. On Sunday, I thought very reflectively on this before holy spirit brought to my heart was taught on Sunday. And today as well, I was thinking not for lack of what to say, really. But because if you're going to raise a people and if you're going to teach a people, especially God's word, it has to be the word in season. It has to be something that communicates the heart of God to people. The word of God when it comes to you in an atmosphere like this has to be bespoke.

It has to be pillar fit for each and every one of us. Yes, sir. It has to be custom made. So the word of God isn't such that when it comes from the pulpit, You can't find yourself in it. No, it should be that as many as we are, the man of God speaking is communicating the heart of God through his word, but that every single one of us can find ourselves inside of that word. That is the character of God's word. And so that will not happen just by coming to speak anything that comes to mind. If it were that, there is abundance of knowledge enough to be able to communicate anything. There's abundance of knowledge through study, there's abundance of knowledge through you know, the diligence we've paid to reading, studying, and ingesting different materials. But what blesses people isn't just the communication of anything.

What blesses people is the proceeding word of God. The ability to wait on God to know exactly what he would have you say part time to his people. And as a man of God, it is important that you understand this. And so the holy spirit is permitted in as much as we might have a syllabus at any point in time to interrupt that syllabus to bring a burden. And to communicate that burden to the heart of everyone that is present here. Glory to God. I was teaching my spiritual children, some of my guys who are widespread across different countries and different states in Nigeria, and it was impressed in my heart to share with us some of the things I was speaking to them about even as the year comes to a close. Ecclesiastes chapter three and verse one. To everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven, a time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to pluck what is planted.

A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to break down and a time to build up. A time to weep, a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast towards stones and a time to gather stones, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to gain and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to sow, a time to keep silence and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to eat, a time of war and a time of peace. In verse 10, he says, I have seen God given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, has put eternity in the hearts of men except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. May God bless the reading of his word. Amen. That scripture that we read now says, to everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose under the heaven.

To everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose under the heaven. In the book of revelation, God introduces himself as the alpha omega that is in revelations chapter one and verse eight. God says, it was Jesus that was speaking. And he says, I am the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord. Who is and who was and who is to come? The almighty. So God introduces himself as the alpha omega. The word hand there hand there, I've taught you, is not in the original translation. And so if you use a good bible, you would find that it's in italics. It was added there by translators to heed your understanding.

The word actually reads, I am alpha omega, the beginning, the end. The reason is because... And suggest there's a disparity or a kind of a conjunction or an addition of omega to his being half. And so I am the beginning, and because I am the beginning, I'm... I am also the end. So it gives you the idea that whatever I start as the beginning, I will end as the end. Do you understand that? Yes, sir. But that might be an incomplete ideology as much as that is true, it's just incomplete. Because you see, alpha, omega exist as one.

That's why it goes on to elucidate that I am the one that was that he is to come. I was that is and is to come at the same time. So I'm not gonna be the one that is to come. I wasn't the God that was, and I am not the God that is. I am the God that was. I am the God that is. I am the God that is to come. So those three expressions collapses into one. Alpha, omega collapses into one. The beginning, the end collapses into one.

So it's not something that you will do and then it it then progresses into doing then does because time does not exist in eternity. Do you understand what I've just shared with you? This character of God is what makes God, God. It is one of the many reasons why only him can be God. Attributes like these are exclusive to him alone. No being, no spirit shares this character whether in hate, heaven, or hell. Even the devil doesn't share this character. Are you with me? Yes, sir. God is not just a name that we call God.

It is a descriptive name. And because it is a descriptive name, not just anyone can be it except you match the description. Sir. Their name, call people to identify them. God is not an identification. It's not given to him to identify who he is. It's not for lack of words that we're calling God. It's not so we can know, okay, who are we referring to? Oh, he's... Let's call him God.

That's not why we're calling God. It's a descriptive... In fact, when he was told to describe himself, all he could say is I am. Yes, sir. Yes, I am all encompassing because there is not a name that can capture his essence. So the name that we give to him are names that are drawn out of the dimension that he reveals to us. It's when we call him provider, it is because he provided. Are you with me? Anybody can provide. In fact, your husband is called the provider of the family.

Yes, Is that not so? Yes, But when we call God, God, there are descriptive attributes that he does not share with anyone. One of such is alpha omega. One of such is beginning the end. I am the God that works. He is and is to come and everything collapses into one. If you know the the the craziness, for lack of words, of this description, you will sit down in humility and just worship God. In humility that a being was, is, and is to come, and everything collapses into one that it currently... That as it is now, is in your past. As it is now, is in your future.

As it is now, is in your present. And everything is one. It's not in your past yesterday, then will be in your future tomorrow. It's experiencing everything at the same time. That's the realm that God lives in. Everything collapses into one. Now that realm gives God a privilege that only him can have. And that privilege is that because everything collapses into one and is at the end, at the beginning, at the middle, at the end, at the beginning. Because of that, only God has the ability to go to the end of a project, conclude the project, come to the beginning of the project, and start the project. You didn't get what I just said.

It is that attribute that makes it possible. That one, no, the devil does not... Oh. So when people say things like, the opposite of God is... You know all these things we used to... All all these funny things we used to say as children. So what what is the opposite of God? He said the opposite of God is the devil. You see, you you don't know who God is. That's why you think that the opposite of the creator is a created being.

Somebody even said, God God and the devil are fighting. Men are the men are the collateral damage. How can God and the devil be fighting? Think about that for a minute. And so everything that God does, that advantage makes God before he begins a thing, ends it. As a matter of fact, it is in the nature of God to have concluded it before he begins it. And guess what? He can't help it. That's his nature. God concludes it before he begins it.

God hands it. God finishes it. God secures it before he begins it. That's why God is the master programmer. That's why God is the master planner. So when he said the thought I have towards you are of good and not of evil, it is wisdom to trust in those plans because he has... He's at the end of your life. The God that is saying that is not speaking in hope. You are the one who is hoping. Do you understand what I'm saying?

That does not mean God does not have hope. I will tell you where God applies hope very soon. Stay with me. But that if God has a program, if God has a plan, if God has a strategy, God has already seen the end of that program. God has already seen the end of that strategy before he began that strategy. And that strategy will always be forerun by a man. That means you are you are forced a plan before you were a man. You were forced a plan before you were a man. Yes, sir. Do you understand what I'm just saying?

Yes, sir. Are you sure you do? If you understand this, you will know that your existence therefore cannot be careless. Sir. Your existence therefore is not accidental. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Your existence was as a result of a plan that was made. So because of the plan, it then have to arrive... We then have to think who is best fitted to execute and to bring to fruition this plan, this strategy.

We then say, oh, it must be Emmanuel. That's why in the few places where angels came to deliver mandates to parents, understand that the reason they came was not because the child was special. It was because the plan was special. And the fact that angels did not come to announce the birth of other children does not mean that they were... The plan was not special about death because they still lived out that same plan. For instance, no angel came to announce the birth of Joseph, but Joseph was the one that preserved the posterity of Israel. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. And so when God wanted the posterity of Israel to be preserved, the plan was the seed must find expression. The seed must grow until it finds expression, until Jesus manifest, and Israel must be preserved as a nation because they were the ones that were holding the seed.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Get my teaching the revelation of Jesus. You understand what I'm saying? Israel must be preserved. And so all that God was doing in the old testament was preserving the seed. It... The old testament is all about Jesus, his kingdom, and his person. The preservation of the of the seed, the promise of the seed, the prophesying of the seed. That was all that the old testament is all about.

So you would see the preservation of the seed. You would see the promise of the seed. You would see the prophesying of the seed. So you were relevant in the old testament to the degree to which you were featured in any of these three. Many activities happened in the old testament, but only the ones that are featured in this three were captured in scripture. It means if you are not featured in the preservation, the prophesying, or the promise, you are not relevant enough in that time to feature in the bible. You are only relevant to the degree to which you are relevant to the agenda of god or you feature in the agenda of god. Let me not go ahead of myself. Do you understand what I'm saying? Sir.

And so I'm saying that everything that every man that God used in that program to preserve to the point where salvation became a possibility. It was a plan. It was a carefully devised strategy. When Joseph got to the palace, Joseph understood this. That was why Joseph said, God had sent me ahead of you. So you thought you were being wicked. You thought you were hating me, but in actuality, it was still in the plan of God. You were playing into prophecy even in your hatred without knowing that you were played into prophecy. So Joseph told his siblings that God had sent me ahead of you ahead of you so that the seed of Jacob will not die. Joseph understood this that I'm a plan.

I am a strategy for the preservation of Israel. Daniel was the same. Esther was the same. They all had their place at the... Or their role that they were playing. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So what I'm saying is that because of this attribute, the fact that God exists in the future and in the present gives him the ability to see the end of a thing and to know the end of a thing, complete the thing, perfect the thing before starting the thing in the present. This means before God starts a thing, he has ended it already. Human beings need to start then finish, but not God.

If God begins a project, it is because he has ended the project. That project is already perfected. That project is already done in the realm of God. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, You see, this alone should give you some level of comfort. Yes, sir. This alone should give you some level of encouragement. Yes, sir. Now whatever God has told you about your life, whatever vision you have seen, it has already been completed in the realm of the spirit. This should tell you that any obstacle you are currently experiencing is temporal because there is nothing that can stand in the way of what has been done.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. It means that even your background, horrible as it may be, It would be foolishness to focus on the temporal. It would be foolishness to focus on the physical. It would be foolishness to focus on the ephemeral because you see these things are temporal. These things, many a times, are even a part of the strategy. Many a times. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Many a times.

Because you see, it is in God's wisdom to use the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. So when you look at every time God begins a project, it looks as though almost intentionally. God begins with the least possible option. For instance, Jesus Christ, the son of God is born and is born in a manger. Not just born in a manger, he's born and he comes from Nazareth. Nazareth have a track record that nothing good comes out of it. Nazareth has a track record and the track record of Nazareth is that nothing good comes out of it. And God said that's where you will come from. The savior of the universe will come from a place where nothing good comes out of. So it's not a coincidence that you came from Nigeria.

Listen. Listen. You're not getting what I'm saying. Is is the solution to your predicament is not to Japa. It's to find out what the plan that predicted you is. Yes, sir. Sir. When you find out that you were forced a plan before you were a man, you now begin to find out what the plan is. Do you understand what I'm saying? You begin to find out what that plan is.

And the moment you posture yourself and align yourself according to the plan that existed before, hey. Do you know that what I've said now too is is as dangerous as it is comforting? I said, you were forced a plan. In other words, you were forced a plan of God before you were a man of God. That means you were created in response to a plan. That means God holds you in high esteem but holds his plan in higher esteem. That means the man may fail, but the plan cannot. Yes, sir. Yes, Hello,. That's where God now has hope.

That's where the hope of God comes in. The hope is not respect to his plan. His plan, it it it is eternal. It is done. But the man may decide that I want to walk my own path. Remember, there is a way that symmetric. Without the way that symmetric has an end, and that end is destruction. And many times, when you are walking that way, you are... You will you will not... You will not know what way you are walking in until you arrive at the end.

And the reason why you will not know is because every indication looks right. Yes, sir. Everything tells you that you are on the right path. And so you are blind to counsel, even the counsel of those who have gone ahead of you. And when the devil wants to deviate a man from God's plan, he he puts him in a way that seems right. It's not every time that the devil plagues a man with sin. There are times the devil plagues a man with distraction. When you sin, many a times you come back you come back to God and your heart is broken, and you can go and retreat even for the next six months. And you become back on fire times two. And the devil realizes that, ah, this strategy is not good for this brother.

Every time we attempt to get him, he comes back twice better. So what... The one we would do now is to put him on a journey he does not even know he's lost. Mhmm. Is... This is this is not my decision. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So a man may decide by his... By by an act of will that I don't want to partner with God.

Doesn't mean that the plan of God will fail. The plan of God will not. Another man will be sent. The bible says, his bishopric, let another man take. It's bishopric, let another man take. But it's your own advantage when you live out the life that God has ordained for you. It's your own advantage. It's your own advantage when you live out that life. That is what makes your life a beautiful life. That's what makes your life an enviable life.

That's what gives you peace and fulfillment whilst you're on the earth. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes. So I said that the fact that you are a plan of God, the fact that God had already completed what he has ordained for your life and destiny before he began it should give you some level of comfort that whatever challenges you might be facing right now is temporal because nothing can stand in the world what God has completed. So if God has shown me that I will end in the palace, my being in the wilderness right now cannot stand in the way of my ending in the palace. Yes, sir. If God has told me that... Do you know... If God has told me that my destiny is to become a king, even if I was born at the backside of a desert in Egypt.

God has a way of routing my way to the palace. There might be several unfavorable circumstances that might seem to oppose the vision of my destiny that God is showing me right now, and it looks as though these circumstances can sometimes be overwhelming. Overwhelming that it may be. It cannot overwhelm what has been completed because this life that you are seeing is done. You're not seeing what I'm saying. Yes, sir. So every time every time every time the devil comes to play games by throwing all kinds of problems and all kind of things like that at us, especially in the ministry. And the devil rises through different people, plays different games like he has done in time past. And it looks to oppose the vision that God has shown. One major encouragement is that there is nothing the devil can do that can thwart what has been finished.

As long as the man of God remains on the path that God has ordained, then there is nothing that the devil can do. So let him come like a whirlwind. This one I'm seeing will happen. Tagnations will come. Oh, they will come. They will come. They They will will come. Come. Yes, sir. Equipment getting destroyed, being pursued out of our venue does not in any way mean that...

Or stop the fact that nations will come. Yes, sir. It doesn't. I remember if... Some years ago, a parent called me, wanted to see me. Parent of one of my guys then called me and wanted to see me, and I was staying somewhere along at the express. Then in the face, may I face you? And I did not have transport fee, and the parent was shouting on the phone, screaming on the phone, why would we allow how would we allow our child to go for evangelism? How, dear horse, allow a child to go for evangelism? And that child did not tell her that she was going to evangelize, that she want...

She wants to she wants to see me right now. Wherever I am, I should be coming. And then I did not have too much knowledge, So I wore my clothes, jumped downstairs, and started running to UI. Ran from close to x... Aboue Express to UI. When I got there, I was sweating and panting, stood in front of the mother, and the mother said, is this is this your pastor? Is this your useless pastor? See, if my husband came here by himself, he would have arrested you. He would have had you arrested. And after a shot, I was saying, sorry, ma'am.

I'm sorry, ma'am. And the girl's elder sister followed the girl and was grinning from ear to ear. Although smiling and grinning, almost as though she was deriving pleasure in the fact that they were insulting the pastor. I don't know what that one has against pastor, but I could tell that her soul was finding joy. I don't know. She was just grinning like this. And after I was insulted, after all of that was happening, then they began to report the child to me, then they say, you know what? Let's enter the dream into one place at the UI gate where they sell ice cream. Continue shouting there. I sat down.

I said, I'm sorry, ma. I'm sorry, ma. And after all of that, I encourage them. I I said, this girl will be great. Don't... She doesn't have to... No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. I didn't call her to talk. I wanna express myself. Say, I'm sorry, ma'am. And after all of that, we spent, like, two hours or or more than that there. And after she was done speaking, she said, so that's what I wanna tell you. I don't want mother to come here again. I don't want...

And I'm wondering, you could always said that I would have gone. No need to have waited for two hours just to tell me that your daughter should not... I thought I had a chance to at least speak on the girl's behalf or speak on even my own behalf. But I did not, apparently. And so when the whole thing was done, the woman then looked at me and said, do you want ice cream? I said, no, man. No, man. Thank you. I'm I'm I'm I'm very good. God bless you.

And I trekked back to my house again and... Listen. Listen. As I was trekking back to my house, I remember very vividly as I was trekking back to my house, I was smiling. I was smiling because I was just seeing a crowd of people listening to me. As I was walking back to my house under the sun, sweating profusely, I was just seeing a crowd of people listening to him. And I was just seeing it. I was seeing it. I was smiling. I will praying in tongues.

As I was I was I was going, I was realizing word of knowledge. I was walking on the way. Said, you over there. What is your name? Say, who is who is who is precious? I will be going to. You see, the reason why... The reason... This was many years ago. We're not even up to up to 10 then.

We're not up 10. The reason why I have such audacity. I wouldn't call audacity really. Maybe maybe assurance or something or maybe the reason why I wasn't moved. Unperturbed by that circumstance is because I know that even that was too small to deter the vision that is it. You see, if the devil cannot stop it, these human beings that will stop it. There is no amount of threat that a man can make. One one one one parent one parent some years ago told his son that I will come and arrest your pastor with police. I told his son, tell him to be coming. I'm expecting him.

I went on three days fasting and prayer, unaware to anybody. After the third day, then I called a man of God who had some military contact. I said, I need soldiers just in case anybody comes here. I've gotten... I've secured spiritual backing. Let me add some physical ones to it. Just to deal with anybody who makes trouble. And I called the son. I said, you either advise your father not to come or you will watch as we'll put us. My eyes have seen several things.

Praise to God. We're in Abadina. We're having a meeting in Abadina, and another parent came with policeman holding gun. The policeman was holding a gun. The mother came. They they... She said the other one was maybe a high ranking officer in the police. Then another one, police again, was wearing uniform, holding a gun, and they were both marching to the venue. I love my workers. Some of my pastors too.

They stood and were challenging the police officer. You are not entering this place. You are not entering this place. And they waited outside, though they did not enter. It's it's the power of God that stopped them. Can tell you free of charge that it was the power of God that stopped them. Because all they were doing... The one... The other is... The high ranking one now brought out a phone and was recording recording through the window, recording through the...

I was just inside enjoying myself worshiping the Lord. And even that was not enough. Even that was not enough. The devil is a bastard. This thing was completed before time began. Yes. Yes. And God will ensure that it manifest. I have this to play a part. It will throw several obstructions, but the obstructions are not enough to deter what was completed before the world began.

Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Yes. It's not enough, and you must believe this. You must understand this. You must have a revelation of this. This is not where I'm going. But I believe that this will help someone. This is already a word for someone even. Yes, sir. But it doesn't matter what seem to be a setback.

It's only a setup for greatness. Yes, sir. I don't believe in setbacks personally. I believe in this did not work with try another way. I don't I don't think something can set me back. This venue is not available. I go and get another. I don't... You understand what I'm trying to say? I don't think like that.

I could not apply for this. I could not get this. I get another one. I wanted to study medicine because they were calling me doctors since I was two years old. There is no pressure that is more than that. That your name at five years old was not Emmanuel, was doctor Pastor Emmanuel. Even when I was making people laugh and cracking jokes, my mother was still calling Pastor Emmanuel, and I would learn. Because I called my... Let me not tell you the name. I will not...

I won't tell you the name I was calling myself. I had a stage name I called myself. And I was already making trends. Hey. I got my first phone by myself with my money in s s one. You see, so if I if I had gone that part, you would have not... I would have... Oh. Oh. That intervention that heaven made was a very terrible one.

It was a head on collision with a sound fleet train. It was not an... You know when you collide with a truck? It wasn't a truck. It was a train. It was a head on collision with an airplane. It it brought to an end, and it it wasn't a gradual end. It was an instantaneous end to that part. It was not small, small, I was changing. Small, small, I was changing.

I had an encounter tonight, deleted the contact of every comedian friend I had the same day, rejected every invite I had accepted, which up to 15. The same day. I had over 2,500 songs, complete albums of Olamide and Whiskey that the hell he is. And some international guys, I deleted everything the same day. When people say that they met Jesus, I wonder which one they met because when I met him, I couldn't continue the... It... I could not. So that one that you met that left you alone to be working like that, let's check the version. We need to confirm what version, what model it is because he's not the king of kings. He's not half far omega.

Do you realize that when Paul met him, he could not... He wasn't Gradua? In the wilderness of Arabia desiring to... That was what his meeting him did. He sentenced him. He he shut him down. Yes. Sir. After thirteen years of encounters, in first Corinthians 12, he said, know of a man. Whether in the spirit or heart of spirit, whether in the body or heart of body, he he he was describing heart of body experiences as cheaply as a man eats bread and butter, speaking of himself.

And it was in this moment of retreat he had his encounters. It was in this moment of retreat that God revealed to third of the New Testament to him. This he did... He said unto me, it was given the grace to make all men see. He said the... This grace was not given to the rest of the apostles. Paul said it. It was me. It was given to me. And I saw depth in revelation that no other man saw.

That when I presented it before the apostles, they disputed it but confirmed it was true. That was what the encounter did to him. That encounter interrupted his journey, set him on a path that was more than himself. So I said that a man should have some level of comfort. Have you seen Paul's writings? Paul says, I labored more than ye all. One will take his track... His record of laboring. There are places he went to, they stoned him to death. He rose up, went to the next town, got himself.

They fed him. They gave him food. Next verse, he went back to the same place where they stoned him to death. Go and take your Bible. The same place where they stoned him and continue preaching the gospel. What kind of a man is that? He must have understood that if it was done before time began, Even the stones that you throw at me cannot kill me. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Sir.

You're you're not seeing what I'm saying. I'm trying to tell you that they can't... There's no setback. They they tried to stone him, but even that was not enough to set him back. But you said, because you could not because you could not get what you wanted because you wanted. I was telling the story of how I wanted to be a doctor. Long story short, that did not happen, but the purpose of God is being fulfilled. Now for someone, that is a setback. For me, it was a setup. You know why?

Because God... It was a setup for speed and for time. I I was not somewhere crying because I had this... I... I'm not... You see, if you are there, you finish well. Yes. And if you aspire to be there, you will get it. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.

Yes. Because our parts differ. But I'm saying that there was nothing that was enough to be a setback. First time I wrote post to tell me to OAU, my parents, my father, and my mother, both of them traveled to OAU to go and see a lecturer on my behalf so that they can give me admission because I had what was the funny score I had, sir. I can't even remember. When they came back, I just noticed that I greeted them with no answer. It was in the night after night's devotion. They now called me and now told me that the document I gave them did not have the document they needed. It. So my jams, all of the things they...

I think the only... I I think I gave them for the copy of useless things. I don't even... All that happened till now, can't even explain Because I thought I checked it and I thought what was needed was there. Until they came back, they said, look at what you gave us. And I will... It's true. I can't find the useful things there. So the journey to... Was a waste.

They now went the second time. At second time, election had told them that even people that did not get up to your son had been admitted. And why your own has not gotten the admission? You need to go and pray. Even that to me was not a setback. When they came back and they said, it did not work out too. This and that, they told me mother was burdened by what the lecturer said. Me, I was thanking God that that means I still had more time to press because that that was the time I was already studying scriptures and I wanted to finish the bible from old to new testament. That was the time I had a prayer target to pray for hours every day. So when they told me, I said, god I still have more time to press.

That was what came to my mind immediately. Even that was not a setback. That's the reason why sometimes I have to read some books so that I can experience what people are experiencing to help me to understand what people are going through. So I have to read some books. Stay with me. Stay with me. But my point... Don't forget my point. I'm going through all of this road to show you that if it was something that was done before God began it, you have not gotten this revelation. Okay.

If he's a prophet, Now crafting for me. It it now it it now comes in form of a man. God now comes to that man and tells that man, before I formed you, I knew you and I ordained you a prophet. That boy is now saying... That boy is now saying, who I cannot speak for, mean, you are you. God said, see, see, see. I'm speaking from a completed realm. From from where I'm speaking, you're already prophesying. God says that's where they are talking from. That's why God is not telling him that I have put my word in your mouth.

It will build up. God was telling him what was done from the end. Yes, sir. Go to the previous verse. I want to receive something. Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, behold, I have put my words in your mouth. Look at the next verse. I have this day set thee over the nations, over the kingdoms to root out. What have I said to you over?

What was the reason why this guy said he could not speak? How do you set a child over nations? Was God speaking to a child? Or he was speaking from the end of that child? And he's saying, listen, where have... Where I'm speaking from? You are over nations. Remember that the one that is speaking Was it this day as in today? I believe you get what I'm trying to say. The holy spirit told me, man, I have dug a well on your inside, and nations will come to drink from the well I've dug in you.

Nations will come to... Your sons and daughters will come from afar. Osiyah says, and the Lord God will roar like a lion. And when he roars like a lion, his children will come from the West. They will come from the North. They will come from the South. And God told me I've started to roar on your behalf. It means when I'm speaking, I don't speak to you as though that is all I'm seeing. No. This is how you must carry yourself and carry your life.

If you ever have an opportunity to host an event and you are an event host, that's probably the end you have seen for yourself. Hosting large gatherings and they put you on a platform that that... Just about a 100 people are there. As you are there, you are seeing a thousand. You are seeing 10 person. You are seeing a 100,000. Listen. They will give you Coke and Moltena when you are done. You'll be rejoicing because that is the beginning of the end coming to pass. That's why the bible says the Lord rejoices to see the work begin.

Because because what we have perfected in in eternity is now finding expression in time. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? John 18. Sit down. John 18. Jesus was asked the question, are you a king? In verse 37, Jesus replied them and said, thou sayest that I am a king? To this end was I born. Note, to this end. Till this end was I born.

It means there was an end before I was born. I was born for an end. It was till this end I was born. It says for this cause came high into the world. So there was an end that necessitated the burden. There was a cause that necess... You are not an accident. So God has showed me that I will be a fashion designer, and I will be all over the world. And I don't have necessary amenities right now. I don't have my own sewing machine.

I don't have a short workshop. Instead of being disappointed, rejoice in whatever you use right now knowing that the food... Do you understand what I'm saying? The the on the unavailability of those things is not a setback. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, Yes, sir. Journey that you use in routing for those things, the days where you go and have sleepless night in somebody else's shop to borrow somebody else's machine and to use somebody else's device because you have a project... It's part of the training. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. There's a level of resilience that is building in you beyond being a fashion designer. But it is at the end of it that everything will not start making sense. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. But a man must not have a defeated ideology. You must understand that it is to this end I was born. Yes, sir. So even when they carry you like a baby and they are running away from from death.

I was born to an end. I came to live out a cause. And at the end of my life in time, my life in time will be a replica of what was ordained in the realm of the spirit. That by the time you check what I did in time and you check what God finished in eternity and you compare both, you will be able to say I have finished my race. That is what that's what Paul means when he says I have finished my race. I have I have run my course. Is that is that I check what was ordained in eternity, and I check how far my aim... I have done in time. And when I check both of them, I realize that, ah, there is nothing else. I've been I've been squeezed like a Jew.

There's nothing left to give again. I have... I died empty. Every book that should be written was written. If God showed me that my impact will reach the nations, we didn't stop at Ibadan. We truly reach the nations. When men when men die like that, they don't die. They sleep. They've just slept. They've only transformed around.

They keep on living. Even in time, their legacy precedes them. Because in as much as they have died, their voice be... Continues to speak. There are people that still speak up on today. Miles Monroe still speaks. Kenneth Hagin still speaks. Yes. Do you know that there are men of God till today who continue learning doctrine, basic doctrine from Kenneth Hagin? Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. Sir. Foundational pre... In fact, it is believed that if I have not studied Kenneth Hagin's book, you don't know of it. Sir. Yes, sir. Yeah. That man is dead. But when the echoes of your life is captured in eternity, it is discovered that there was not a part of your life that was yet to be fulfilled. Every book was written.

Every song was written. Every prophecy was prophesied, and every prophecy came true. Every life was touched. Every soul was blessed. A man was 71 when he died. And at 71 years old in debt, he had saved over 71,000,000 souls. That means if you were to estimate the amount of souls he was saving per time, he was saving 1,000,000 since he was age one. You you don't understand? Age one, 1,000,000. Age two, 2,000,000.

At 71 year, they had saved 71,000,000 souls. It is ministry. Go and read this book, evangelism by fire, and you will see stories of what would have been setbacks. Stories of what would have been setbacks. But that if this life was ordained before the foundation of the world, then what is enough is set back? The only thing that can set you back is yourself. People are sitting, they've stopped the pursuit of destiny. He said, why? I don't have a laptop. That...

That's the reason somebody's giving. That's the reason somebody is giving. When I started reading spiritual books, it was in 2014. I had hundreds of them on my laptop. That laptop was what you always call a palmtop in those days. Some of you who have not been born don't know what I'm talking about. It was so... It was small. Yes, sir. Like this.

It was handed... It was it was... I was... I it. My brother used that thing for seven years in university, then handed it over to me. So I inherited... You can... Imagine the state it was when I inherited it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

The neck of the thing was broken. It was only wire that was holding the keyboard and the screen wire. So when I want to read, I open the thing and put book at the back to rest the screen on it. That was how I read for Cambridge and I passed. Somebody said I don't have phone. That's why I failed. I don't have this. That's why. You see, you you are the only one that can set yourself back. That's my point.

Why you not pray? My roommate don't allow me to pray. My my roommate, they they they don't allow me to pray. Roommate, they don't... And and they just make noise. They used to make noise. You see, where I am is is a office. I cannot... There's no place for me to. See, I I might work.

I start by 7AM in the morning, so I don't really have time. You are the only one that can set yourself back. Yes, sir. Yes, You are the only one that can set yourself back. Let's stay with the teaching. To everything, there is a season, and for every purpose, a time. A time for every purpose under heaven. Did you note that the bible does not say a time for every purpose in heaven? A time for every purpose under heaven, not in heaven. In other words, the moment the purposes of God find expression on earth, they are then subjected to time.

They are then regulated by time. A time for every purpose under heaven. As long as it is in heaven, it is timeless. It collapses into a realm called now. But the moment it finds expression on earth and we declare that you are the one to bring to fruition this particular plan, this agenda, this council, that thing is now regulated by time. It's now subjected to seasons. It's what is called the law of seasons. As long as you find expression on the earth, you must go through the law of seasons. You can title what I wanna teach you in the remaining time I have left. I've already begun, actually.

How destinies manifest. Hyphen, the law of seasons. How destinies manifest, the law of seasons. To everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose. Did you see that? To everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose. The only thing exempted from this law are things beyond the material universe. But as long as you are on earth, then to everything, there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. Can you bow your head in one minute and say, open the eyes of my understanding. Open the eyes of my understanding.

Let the eyes of my understanding be enlightened that I may know. Today, speak to me. I want you to monopolize God in a brief moment and declare that today is your day of an encounter. A word comes. A word comes. A word comes in Jesus' name. Are you still with me? Yes, sir. Who? Yes, sir.

Stop. The only thing that is exempted from the law of seasons is whatever is beyond the material universe. But as long as you are in this material realm, you are a victim of the law of times and seasons. And when you start seeing what God will have you do, when God starts speaking to you about your destiny, God speaks from his realm. And in that realm that God speaks from, in that realm that God speaks from, Everything is finished. Everything is done. Everything is complete. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So what you are seeing are images and pictures from the realm where everything is complete.

That's why whenever God speaks to you, you see yourself in the fulfillment of whatever God is showing you. So if God says that you're gonna be a kingdom financier, it won't come in words. It will come in pictures of that expression. What... Do you understand what trying to say? Mister. If God says that you're gonna be a voice to the nations, it won't just come in words. You would see yourself speaking. You might be in front of the crusade ground, speaking in conferences, speaking in seminars. You might see yourself in in in in business meetings, speaking to CEOs, executives Yes, sir.

Head of organizations, senators, princes, kings of nations, governing themselves, and then you are court to come and give them counsel. This might... This would be what God is showing you because he's showing you this from a perspective where it is finished. He's speaking from his own realm. So what you are seeing are pictures of your end. It is done. It's not something that God would do. It doesn't that it's done. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. You see yourself exactly as God proposes. However, when it comes to manifesting that which you have seen, you now need to understand the law of seasons. Because the moment that thing that is done in the realm of God is introduced into time. Do you know that that says, forever, oh lord, your word is settled where? Because on earth, there are many indices that brings about settlement. You see pictures of greatness, pictures of success, pictures of a land flowing with milk and honey. You see yourself exactly as God has proposed. But in manifesting that which you have seen, you must understand that it is regulated by the law of seasons.

If a man violates the law of seasons, it doesn't matter how many visions he sees. That thing will still not find expression. That is why he said, you were forced a plan of God before you were a man of God. And God esteemed you high, but esteemed his plan higher. God has a higher regard for his plan than he has for his man. I know that this is a hard truth, but you better believe it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That's why when his man begins to deviate, God can take his man home to preserve his plan. He asked Moses.

You probably understand what I'm saying. The plan remained. The plan was that these people will leave Egypt onto a land flow with milk and honey into the promised land. The man started to violate the terms of the covenant. God excused the man, but the plan remained. Sir. And if you will manifest the destiny that God has ordained for you, you have to understand the law of seasons. Because what many people innocently violate seasons, even unawares. And the fact that you were ignorant is not an excuse. Remember that the bible says from the foundation of the earth, the lamb was slain.

The lamb was slain from the foundation of the earth. My goodness. This happened even before the earth was created. Before Adam was created, the lamb had already been slain. But thousands of years later, when that word found expression, the moment that program of God was introduced into time, there was a time when that lamp had to exist as a zygote. Despite the fact that from the foundation of the earth, it was lean. Then cells had to multiply so that the zygote can become a blastocyst. Then the blastocyst matures into an embryo, then the embryo become the zygote. And then the full treatments are complete. Nine months after, the baby is born.

That baby that is born was slim the foundation of the world. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. That the moment the program of God is introduced into time, it's... It is regulated by the law of seasons. That baby will spend nine months in the mother's womb despite he's the son of God. That baby will grow. That baby will drink breast milk. That baby will mature. That baby will be fed.

That baby will go to school. That baby will have to escape death. Will go through primary school, go through secondary school. When he was 12 years old, the lamb that was laid sits down and is taught scriptures by scribes and pharisees and sadducees. The same people he will eventually come to teach, he had to first learn from, seasons. Seasons. Please understand seasons. That I'm learning from you today does not mean I will learn from you tomorrow. You see, The law of seasons. That's why you never look down on any man.

That you see a man in the prison today does not mean he'll always be there. Not everybody in the prison is a prisoner. Some are there by God's purposes them to fulfill an assignment and to leave. That's why PT teachers, all these children, and they say you were a foolish boy. You have no idea where that foolish boy will be 10 from now when seasons change. You might be in a position where you now need his help. Yes, Yes, You want to sign your pension papers, and you are going and you finally come to the records office there. That's the person you should go and meet. And you find out the person you should go and meet is the boy you taught in secondary school, who you slap and call nonsense, and said nothing will ever come out of it. Now we're sitting in a position where the bible says at 12 years old, the same people will come and teach.

You have to ask them questions. You have to learn from them. Many of you are reading books of people that will eventually listen to you. The law of seasons. Yes, sir. Law of seasons. That nothing stays long in a place. Yes, sir. That as times pass, things are not designed to remain in the same position. Never undermine anyone in a face.

It will be a mistake to do so. In fact, I would advise you to see people from their hand as God sees them. It will help you to relate with people with wisdom. It will help you to even honor people. There are times where you might think there is nothing to honor until God opens your eyes. And you'll see immediately that we might be roommate too, but this one yesterday night, he had a dream. In that dream, God asked him, tell me what you want. Hear me? They might... It might look as though there is nothing to honor until God opens your eyes.

It takes grace to see a forest forest in in a a seed. It takes grace Yes, sir. To see a mighty tree when it is yet a seed. It takes grace. To look beyond the now and look at the end of things where God speaks from and to understand how God perceives a man and to relate with a man as such. Bishop David Abioye started working with papa Oedebo more than forty years ago when the ministry was not up to five or 10 people. When the man was asked, he said I saw something. That thing is what God saw. That thing is the end. You, they will invite you.

You will come. You will look around, and you will estimate. You say these ones are not big. Did it. Whereas, what God has done is to give you the privilege of part of the story of something great. So that when the story of greatness is being written, your name will feature inside it. That we we we saw this. We saw the star from afar. We saw the star from afar. Do you realize that it wasn't you know why the people...

Why the bible call these wise men wise? It wasn't just because they saw the star. It was because they followed the star. They weren't the only graduates in the school of Babylon. There were many who would have seen that star, but only only three said to themselves. So don't even know how many they were. But they said to themselves that this one means a king has been born. Let's ignore everything they are doing. Let's leave everything we are doing. This tie is worth pursuing.

Oh, Hey, sir. And do you know their story found it into the archives of scripture when the story of the Christ was being written? There is no Christmas where you don't talk about the wise men. There is no Christmas. You will always have to mention their name. They found their self inside the story. What work they were doing, we have no idea. What job they do, we have no idea. But they plug themselves into a story that was being written. A story that was more than themselves.

Jesus Christ. And what God does for some people is to bring them into the privilege of being a part of a story that is being written. Yes, sir. But there are those who are blind that the only thing they can see is when the star is fully formed. Do you sustain the privilege to see... To hear the symphony of a sound singing in the desert? Or is it only what is on the stage you can see? Because if it is that, then you'll be confused as to why these wise men brought the gift they brought for a baby. If you are bringing gift for a baby, the thing you should bring should be Pampers. The thing you should bring should be what the baby needs.

Say baby food, cereals, and all these things. But tell me how you come to a baby, and what you are bringing is gold. What you are bringing is frankincense. What you are bringing is myrrh. How how how are you bringing these things for a baby? It is because they understood that this is the hand. Oh, Jesus. They they were not bringing these things for a baby that was born. They were bringing to the hand of that boy. They knew this is the king of kings.

And so what we must bring is gold and not dust. There are not many people who can hear the voice of the king crying in the manger. There are not many people As long as the king is not thundry from the palace, there are not many people who can hear that voice of David even though he's taking care of the sheep right now. Of Joseph, even though he's in the pit, of Esther, even though his father and mother is dead. There are no men who can hear the cry. The sound of the hunter dog. They brought on the streets. Hear me? Hear me? If is there one thing I have blessed God for, it is this highest to see people from their hand.

I never judge people by how they are. It doesn't matter how many mistakes a man can make. It doesn't matter how many mistakes a man can make. I never thought I will give people second chance, third chance, fourth chance, fifth chance, plenty chances until the person gives up on himself. But I will never give up on a man because I know that the that the person you are laboring on today can become a king tomorrow. And when they become a king, they they will remember the track record of your labor. They will say this word not put upon me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear Hear me.

Me. There are many times I've... I have... People have cried and cried. They will tell me, apostle, I will never do it again. They will go right back into it. I will tell them, this is your last chance. I've said this is your last chance more than 20 times for some people. And they will come again. So this is your last chance, and a part of me respecting that they will come tomorrow again.

And we'll stay there until they get it right. The reason we labor is not because it's not because of where they are now. If it was that, there is no reason why we should do what we do. Do you know how the... Do you know the amount we spend on this ministry every week? The money we spend from tithe and offering is barely enough to sort any bill. Every Monday after this meeting, I will get an expense from the pastor. The moment I see his message, I know his money has come to ask me for. Apostle, this is the bill. This is how much came in.

This is what he's not assorted. And I post to send money. Why am I making such investment? Because I don't have things to do with my life. Somebody was going to Abuja and had money to take public transport. A lady, one of my ladies, had money to take public transport. The girl she was going with also wanted to take public transport, but her handy now paid for her flight. So that means that one will go through flight. It was a political conference where the top political figures in Nigeria, senators, governors will be him. And I said, you must not miss this event.

Go there. And when she told me that this one, somebody paid for a flight ticket, but that she'll be going through public transport. I said, how much is this flight? In my front, on Sunday, while I was counseling people, I brought out my phone, checked how much flight was. Go come. It was about 500,000 naira. I paid for a flight ticket. Go and come. Five years and ten years from now, when that one brings me a plane, you will not... Listen.

Listen. From foolish people in the media will say, these men of God are just collecting these things. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. And they would not understand that there are track record of investment in the secret. Stories we will never tell. Stories we will never share. Things that will never...

I understand the law of ceasingness that a man is here today does not mean they will always be there. That the woman is here today does not mean they will always be there. The bible says, at a trough, I can imagine Jesus, the the lamb of the world, slain from the foundation of the earth, sitting down and listening to the scribes and the Pharisees. People who he, people who sins he came to take away. People who people will who will rather come to come and believe in him to say I accept Jesus as my God and savior, the man who you thought. Can I can imagine by a dwarf just paying attention, just listening like a good student? And when they ask any question, he kept on asking questions. The bible says they marveled at his wisdom. They say what wisdom is this? But they kept to themselves.

And the boy too wasn't proud, wasn't arrogant, wasn't mean. He allowed seasons to manifest. He never said he never said, do you know who you're talking to? No. When seasons pass, you will soon know who you're talking to. I don't have to announce myself. How are the nations for you. So my life, so my life. I'll read the nations for nations for you. So my life.

My life. I'll rip remind you. Listen. In the book of Daniel chapter two and verse 20, The bible says Daniel answered and said, blessed be the name of God forever and ever. For wisdom and might are his, and he changeth the times and the seasons. Times change. Seasons change. And the bible says there are things that accompany changes in times and seasons. That when times change, kings are set up. When times change, kings are removed.

It means when times change, there are liftings. When times change, doors open. When times change, there are breakthroughs. When times change, answers are given. When times change, Oppressed is delivered when times change. People who have knocked and knocked and knocked and wondered why the doors have not opened, a time comes when the season changes. And the curtain is unveiled, and the moment the veil is taken off, they enter into the same reality they have been asking God for ten years. And they wonder about what happened. Seasons changed. And when seasons changed, kings are set up.

The bible says it giveth wisdom to the wise and knowledge to men who know understanding. Acts 17 verse 26, the bible says, and he has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined their preappointed times. I don't have time to show you. And the boundaries of their dwellings. You don't see that? He has predetermined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings. It means when God planted you, God gave you the boundary of your dwellings. I saw my own. I saw my own. And when I saw my own, it was not in Nigeria.

There are people that God willed over states too, and God said, this one is yours. The Bible says the Bible says he appointed the boundaries of their dwellings. He said this is as far as your impact will reach. He appointed the boundaries of that. It is with this thing that we pray in expectation and in anticipation of that which God has appointed. But that's not even where I'm going. What concerns me today is the pre appointed times, that God is the one that pre appoint times. In acts one verse six and verse seven, the bible says when they came together, they asked him saying, Lord, will thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel? And in verse seven, Jesus spoke to them and said, it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father had put in his own power. So times and seasons are in the power of God.

And Jesus says, it's not for you to know when times will change. It's not for you to know when seasons will change because it is the father that changes times and changes seasons. Stay with me. God is the one that regulates times. God is the one that regulates seasons. God is one who changes times, who changes seasons. And when seasons change, there are events that unfold. Kings are set up. Liftings happen. Breakthroughs happen.

Doors open. Men begin to gain speed. Ministries that have not been heard for a long time start gaining relevance. The floodlight of heaven suddenly shines on a man. Suddenly, people whose voices have not been heard, their voice start echoing through eternity. Suddenly, you start wondering what is happening. Where are this person been? It is because kings have been set up. That's what happens. When someone's time come.

Read the nations for you. So my life. So my life. I'll reap the nation for you. Sow my life. Sow my life. I'll rip Nigeria for you. Nigeria is small. Nigeria is small. Will you sow my life?

I'll Asia. I'll reap Europe for you. If you if you sow my life, I'll read the name. Hear me? Hear me? Again, we see. God is the one that regulates times and seasons. Listen. But this is where I'm really going. Jesus Christ.

The bible says that it is not for you to know the times and the seasons that God has appointed for his own power. But in the book of first chronicles chapter 12 verse 32, the bible now says of the sons of Issachar, that there are certain men who are called the men of Issachar. And these men of Issachar, they had an understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do. In other words, the bible says, it is not for you to know the times and the seasons that God has appointed onto his own power. What they were asking was, will you at this time, return to Israel, the kingdom? God says it's not for you to know time. In other words, it's not for you to know when times change. What they wanted to know was, is the time of captivity over? And have we shifted into the time of deliverance? That was what they wanted to know.

And Jesus says, it's not for you to know when the time will change. However, it is possible to understand what times you are in, to know what to do so that the times will change. This really is what is called the law of seasons. It is possible for a man to understand the season he's currently under. To know what is meant to be doing in that season so that there can be transitions to the next season. Remember, we are talking about manifestation. So what we are really concerned is how destinies manifest. That when destinies manifest, seasons regulate manifestations. Seasons do what now? Regulate manifestations.

And that God is the one who is in charge of those seasons. Is that not so? When the season of appearance comes, but that a man must understand what season is under per time to know what he ought to be doing. So when the bible says that God gives wisdom to the wise, you begin to understand what does a wise man need wisdom for? You're not seeing what I'm saying. Did you did you see that scripture? You said God gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to men who know understanding. Before you understand what a wise man needs with wisdom, you need to read in context. Context says, blessed be God, He changes the times and the seasons. In other words, when the times change, the wise man needs another dose of wisdom to know what he ought to do now that the times have changed.

Because it was not the wisdom that sustained you in the previous season that will equip you in this season. So it means that when seasons change and you don't know what you ought to do, you will stay longer in seasons than you ought to. This is what it means to be pregnant with seasons. Many of you have heard that men of God throw that time around. I don't understand what they are saying. It means that it means that it means that in the realm of God, in the cycles of eternity, the season you are under is not the season you should be under. As a matter of fact, in the circadian clock of eternity, Time has rolled five times. It means you are five seasons away from where you should be. And the reason is because you are ignorant of what you ought to be doing. And so there are many times when a man begins to experience a pain on his inside, almost as though he's pregnant with something but can't quite...

Sir. Yes. You see, yes. It's like a mother who is lactating. A time comes when the mother begins to store milk, breast milk. And as the mother generates breast milk, lactate, that milk must be pressed. It must be released, or the baby must suck that milk out of her body. Something happens when the milk begins to accumulate and nothing happens. It's not sucked out. It's that she begins to feel pain.

It means there is pain that you feel when you are meant to give birth to something you have not. When you are meant to release something you have not. There's there's a kind of pain. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. How Yes, Yes, Yes, sir. Sir. Destinies manifest? You see, this is the reason why so...

This is the... This is what explains delay in the life of many, stagnancy in the life of many that seasons have passed, but you did not pass with it. And there's a reason why I'm teaching this in December. It is because that the year is closing does not mean your season is closing. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And so there are people who say things like, Lord, as we enter into a new season, whereas you are still in the same season you were three years back. You will find out that God is not an Hanwa God. God can give you a word for five years and he's not changing it. And when December comes, it is the word he gave you last year that is still your word this year because you have not reaped the fullness of that word.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And so when he told you that it was your season of harvest, did... Was there a harvest in your life before you started expecting another word for the coming here? When God speaks to me and tells me, man, you are entering into, I insist that everything that that season has, I must enter. I devise wisdom. There are times I call my pastors, and I tell them God has said this. Now it is our turn to begin to know what we ought to do. Many times I call my workers. I tell them we must now partner with God.

This is what God has said. The word have gone forth. You must not sit down waiting for God to bring to pass by himself what he has said. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. There must be wisdom that is supplied. And the Bible says that when seasons change and God is lifting up kings, there is a wisdom he supplies to the wise. The reason why the bible calls them wise is because they were... It was their wisdom. Wisdom is applied knowledge.

It was their wisdom, their applied knowledge that brought about the changing season in the first instance. That's why they are wise. And so because they are wise and the seasons have changed, wisdom must be handed to the wise. Sir. Sir. Yes. Sir. If you don't understand what I'm teaching you, you will start a company and beg at a particular profit range for many years. And you won't be able to break through 7 figures. And you will come there, you will do everything you know how to do because you don't understand that a changing season will require changing methods.

That there are times when the old model is no longer sustainable for a new thing God is doing. And wisdom must be able to teach you that if I want to elevate and expand my course, what must they begin to do? The bible says what made the men of Issachar wonderful was that they knew what Israel ought to do. Doesn't mean that they will do it, but they ought to do it. And many people are are in seasons of their life, but they are not making use of what they ought to do. They are not doing it. Many are wasting seasons, and so they have packed over five, four, three seasons that have just gone like that, and they feel as though there's a discontent in my heart to press on. And God is saying there's what you ought to do. In your finances, there is what you ought to do. It is true.

In ministry, there is what you ought to do. In business, there is what you ought to do. Do you know if I was in a business seminar and I was teaching business people the same thing, I will not use any scripture, but you see the same principle. What you did in the last season might be an outdated strategy in the next season. Yes, sir. As a ministry, what we were doing five years ago cannot sustain us now. There is a way we were running ministry five years ago that at the time, it was profitable to us because that was the time we were under. But if we continue like that, we will never grow. We will never experience increase. As a matter of fact, there is what you ought to do to prepare for the next season.

Not just to keep a season afloat, but to prepare for the next season. There are times when seasons of transition are approaching, where God is knocking on your heart that I'm changing God is knocking on you. You can sing that it's as though a new season is unveiling in my life. It's as though I'm breaking out of this space, and I'm entering into the new. Listen. When you start discerning this, you must start asking for wisdom. It's not just to claim it in prayers, but there is what you ought to do. I'll read the nations for you. As a farmer, there's a season of planting and sowing. You are not the one that changes the season into a season of planting, but your responsibility to understand that seasons have changed.

And that the season I'm currently under now is palatable for planting. And when you understand this, you begin to plant. You know what you ought to do as a response to your understanding the seasons. And not just to plant, but to plant bountifully, to make massive ridges, to get several people to plant with you because you know that the more bountiful your seed, the more bountiful the harvest. Yes, sir. There's a point in your life that God begins to whisper into the corridors of your heart. Enlarge the place of your habitation. Enlarge the place of your habitation. Habitation. So begin to see these scriptures whispering in your heart.

I know it's time for expansion. A season of expansion is coming to my spirit. A season of expansion is coming to my spirit. I sense I'm breaking through. I sense I'm stepping into eight figures, nine figures, 10 figures. As I'm sensing this thing, I must begin to discern in my spirit what must I begin to do. And God begins to tell you, now create this structure. Your office wasn't running like this before. Now it must begin run like this. Before anybody can run into your office and meet you, it affects your productivity.

There's no problem with that season. But if you want to step into the next season, you cannot continue like that. There's a level of stock you must now build. Listen. Listen. Listen. When I started ministry, there was a way I was running this thing. In fact, even before I started, I had people I was mentoring who were my sons and spiritual children and all that. Some sons. And because there were not many, I had a day of the week where I met with every one of them individually.

Two, three hours per person, one person. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, even Sunday. There was there was one of them whose Sunday service was in my... With me. Was with me. And we meet together for Sunday service, and she... I'm the one that will teach her the word of God. Teach her scriptures, pray, and then she's done for Sunday. On Monday again, and I was a student, I was a student. I will meet some in chapel, and I will pray, and I will teach them scriptures.

And then on Saturday, we'll come together and we'll pray together, and then we run the whole thing again. If I attempt that now, I will die in three months. That was what Moses was doing. He was killing himself and he did not know. And I realized that as time went on, in as much as we had not reached the level I had seen in my spirit. I realized that it's not when we get there that certain structures will be around my life. If I'm preparing for this season, there must be a kind of structure I must begin to put around my life that must accommodate the harvest that is coming. Lest the harvest come, and I don't even know it came because I could not retain it. So like containers, I begin to set, put in place. Like a man that wants to gather water when water falls.

This particular season of my life was not a waste. There were men who invested him that betrayed us. There were men who invested him that did all kind of nonsense, stabbed us at the back horribly, but would not be caught for those men's talk. We still continued. Yes, sir. Now I might not be able to do that kind of a thing again, but the people that have been raised and trained in those times now have the capacity to do. To train and to even train many like themselves. So that I might never appear at any workers' training. I might never appear at the DBA, but there are people who have been invested in. Imagine if I had to come to the DBA in the morning and then come and preach in the morning and then come for every department work as trading program And then wait for counseling every Sunday, and then come once in a week to come and see people in chapel, and then come on now.

Prepare messages, prepare sermons. You agree with me that number one, the ministry will not grow Because because... Listen. The reason is because every ministry will be built around apostle Emmanuel, and it won't grow beyond apostle Emmanuel's capacity to handle people. So if my capacity is a 100 and I get tired, when one zero one comes, it goes back to a 100. If one ten comes, it reduces back to the space I have allowed and the structure I have created. This is how money is. This is how finances is. Do you understand what I'm saying? Sir.

There was a time when some of my guys would have their parents who are sick, and I would go long distance to go and meet their parents in the hospital to pray for them. Some of them will be sick. I would go long distance whatever hospital they were in to go and meet them to pray for them. I've traveled to go and see someone who was sick in an hospital to pray for the person and come back to Ibadan. Now I might not do that. I might not even have the time for that. But there are people who have been well equipped to go to those same hospitals, transfer the same life that is available. Mourn with them that mourn. Weep with them that weep. I might not be available.

It is a level of structure that was built intentionally, intentionally. At a risk even, because there are people that would now be hungry that opposed to not come and visit me. Apostle, the... You see, when you are trying to enlarge and break beyond certain limitations, there will always be a risk involved to it. There will be people that are too used to the old model, but it cannot bend to the new model. You're because of them, stop what God is doing in your life, you will beg at the point for many years. You must be sustained the wisdom to allow some people to go who are not willing to bend to the new thing God is doing. They might not be evil, but they are rich. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? Yes.

No matter the vision of increase, no matter the vision of abundance that you see, that God has shown you as a farmer, it is subject to the law of seasons. A time will come you will need to plant. You will do this in response to the vision that you have seen. Then when seasons of harvest come, you begin to reap the fruit of all that you have planted. That is how destiny is manifest. You must go through the seasons appointed for your purpose. Do what is required for your life and destiny in those seasons, and then you are lifted. And God has so designed it that when it is time for your lifting, you become so beautiful when you manifest. That God has already designed it that when you go through the law of seasons, when you go through the process as God has apportioned it, when the time of manifestation now opens up and the world now begins to hear your name and your neck begins to ring loud in the ears of men. There are some of you that are experiencing some level of impact financially right now, ministry wise right now.

That's not where God is taking you to. You are still realizing. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That your business is making a turnover of of of 3,000,000, 4,000,000, 5,000,000. It's what? Is that money? Is that money? How much is it? How much is it plot of land?

If if we were to build a church, can you build a church with... Come on now. We're still playing. We're talking about we're talking about a place where you sit down and you and you are you are you are signing checks in multiple billions. Oh. And because you have seen some few cover, your heart's already been elevated. Come on now. Come on now. The bible says it makes everything beautiful in his time. What that means is when you pass through this process, when you pass through these seasons that God have a portion for your destiny, by the time manifestation comes, your life becomes a reflection of beauty.

That's the meaning. Your life becomes a reflection of what now? That's the meaning of it makes everything beautiful. That when you now... When when you now prosper and have this money, everybody wants to be like you. Because you are a wealthy man who is humble, A wealthy man who serves God. A wealthy man who loves Jesus. A wealthy man who gives in church. A wealthy man who is committed to sowing and reaping. A wealthy man who is committed to kingdom expansion.

A wealthy man who is not ashamed of Jesus. A wealthy man... I heard this man, one of these billionaires in Nigeria. Is it Cosmos Madu Kana? Who said on national television that he's not ashamed to go for strict evangelism. He said he's not ashamed to go for street evangelism. He said because I love Jesus. He said I'm not a rich man who became a Christian. I'm a Christian who became rich. I said, I don't know what his mindset her, but that statement impressed me.

Do you understand what I'm saying? When you become that wealthy and your life... That is the picture of a beautiful life. There's a way a man can have money it is irritating. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You know that this one did not become beautiful in his time. This one ran out of... This one violated the law of seasons. And and ran out, he cut corners to manifest before his time.

That's why when the money came, there's no character. There's no humility. There's no heart. There's no... The posture of the heart has has elevated itself against this man of God, against this church, against this pastor. That one has circumvented seasons. But when you pass through, the bible says what comes out of it is beautiful. The ministry that comes out of it is balanced. When you see a ministry that goes through seasons, I didn't just appear out of nowhere, untrained, untamed with what's going to go and bring music ministers and you... Borrowed principles from the kingdom of darkness to grow our church.

By the time that church grows, you start hearing scandals. You start hearing this man of god this, that one that, this one that, this one this, because you know that this person did not go through. So that relevance, that greatness doesn't become beautiful. People look at me and say, they use that successful man as a bad example. That's not beautiful. But that when a man goes through the law of seasons and comes out of it, it sustains the patience to come out. What comes out is beautiful. Everybody will see that life and they will envy that life. The bible says that the Philistines envied him. You become the envy of nations.

Are you still with me? Yes, sir. I don't have time to show you proverbs 30. The bible says that the earth is disquieted. When certain people skip process and appear in destiny before their time, the earth is disquieted. Listen, when it comes to the fulfillment of destiny, there are three important seasons in a man's life. I've thought this over and over again, but I wanna show you something specific. Stay with me. The mistake you will make is to think you have heard this before, so you shut down. Don't do that.

Help your destiny. Sir. Are you ready? Yes, sir. The first season that is important in a man's life is the season of discovery. Will you mold me? Will you make me now? Am. This ransom that I'm running, I will run into Listen. You will never be able to actualize destiny or walk in the fullness of your call until you go through these seasons of discovery.

You cannot violate the season of discovery and desire to be mightily used by God. This is the spiritual protocol of greatness. Your first discovery in life if you want to be great is that you must discover God. An encounter with the God of the bible. I explained to you when my own encounter came. Listen. In the book of Genesis chapter one verse one, the Bible says, in the beginning, God. In the beginning of everything in your life must be God. The beginning of your life even must be God. In the beginning, God.

Not just the discovery of God in that you are aware that there is a God. No. But that you grow in the knowledge of God. This is the time to prioritize your spiritual growth, prioritize your knowing God. That is the first season that a man enters to in pursuit of purpose in the race of destiny. If a destiny will manifest, then it begins by discovering the God who ordained you. The bible says in book of Mark chapter three verse 14 that Jesus ordained the 12 that they might be with him that he might send them out. He appointed them. He ordained them. The first reason why he ordained them was not to send them out.

It was first that they might be with him. What was the reason for being with him that they might know him? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. This is the time to prioritize knowing God, prioritize praying in the spirit, Prioritize studying the word of God. Prioritize everything that leads you to know God more. That is how you that is how you begin your race in life. Do you know that timing matters in your discovery of God? Because this is where your journey in life begins. It means if you discover him late, you are late.

It doesn't matter what else you have discovered. If you discovered purpose, it's not even possible to discover purpose without having discovered God. You can exercise your gifts, but doesn't mean you are working in purpose. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So a man can be born to sing, and he might be singing. But if he has not discovered God, what he's doing is servicing the kingdom of darkness no matter the genre of music. Discovering God is the first thing every man must know. You must prioritize praying in the spirit, the time you spend studying the word of God, the time you spend in the church, in the house of God. Stop.

Ecclesiastes chapter two. We... Listen. Do you know that even in the life of Jesus, this was how Jesus started his life? The bible says he would go to the synagogue. When he even arrived when he was 30 years old, the Bible says he arrived at the synagogue as his custom was. He had a culture dedicating time to studying the Torah, to understanding the law and the prophets, to knowing God and to knowing his father. To bring himself to a point where what his father speaks in heaven is what he hears on earth. To a point where he can now say, as I see my father do, so I do. Don't think that that just came about because he was Jesus.

No. It came about because he learned it like a man should learn. If he was Jesus, like many say, then he doesn't need to pray, but he prayed. He prayed and prayed and prayed severally. It becomes our pattern for prayer. In Ecclesiastes 12 verse one, look at when Jesus began his own journey. At eight twelve, he already left his father and mother. They went for a party. He escaped from the party and went to seek for God. At eight twelve, when a boy should be looking for bread and rice and be and be and be arguing for what fun...

What drink they will take and be doing competition of fastest eater. This guy left the party, left where his mate were, and went in pursuit of God. He sat down with elders in the synagogue and was debating scriptures with them, asking them questions in humility. So the bible says in Ecclesiastes 12 verse one, remember now your creator in the days of your youth. Timing matters when you know God. Yes, sir. The time to pursue God is now. The time to invest in your knowledge of God is now. It's now. The psalmist was a man that was great in God.

In Psalm 71, it declared a secret in verse 17. Oh God, thou hast taught me from my youth. It says my secret. Men count my victories. Men see my victories, and they say, oh, David, that man that did not lose any battle. But my secret is that from my youth, you taught me. From my youth, you taught me. Remember, it was the same Samuel that says, you teach my fingers to war. Listen. It was this thing that David is saying that from my youth, you have taught me.

Those lessons that he was taught from his youth was what he used against Goliath. It was the same lesson he taught his 400 mighty men. Look at what it says. Blessed be the God, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle. It means David never learned war from anybody. He learned it from God. Yes, Yes, sir. And do you know he had a record in scripture that he never lost the battle? Yes, sir. Can a man know God that much?

That you say from my youth, you have taught me. From my youth, you have taught me. Job was a mighty man in his time. The bible says when he walked on the street, the elders kept quiet. The princes kept silent because Job was walking. He was so great that even men of honor had regard for Job. And while he was discovering, when he was telling us what his secret was in Job 29, he said as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of the Lord was upon my tabernacle. It means what made me this great was that I knew God, Helly. And added to my knowing God, I knew secrets in God. God handed over secrets to me.

When the secrets of God was upon my tabernacles. In this time of your life, brothers and sisters, you are taught the word of God. You allow God's word to prepare your life so you can be victorious. You see, the reason why many believers fail in life when we go through tough times is because they are not prepared psychologically using the word of God for what is to come. Many believers believe that just because Christ has died, just because of the finished work of Christ, just because Christ has won the victory, they should never go through any difficult situation again. In other words, I shouldn't go through certain things because of the finished work of Christ. Such a believer has not been properly taught. Something about this season of your life has failed. And so if this season fails and you don't know the right thing to know, when more seasons now start building up and you start experiencing battles, you will fear. Because this one did not prosper.

Do you understand what I'm teaching you? You say I should not go through certain things because I believe Jesus. So when you start going through those things, you are not psychologically in the right state of mind, so you even lose before anything starts. Jesus who died and won the victory was the one who said in John 16 verse 33, in the world, you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. It says two things. It says you will have tribulation, but I have overcome. There is nothing like overcoming without going through things. The bible says be of good cheer. You know, the bible even says there is no temptation that is not common to man. These things are common to everybody.

It is... There is no temptation that is not common to man. It means unbelievers go through some things that some of you face. And they use force of willpower to go through it. Yet, you see believers complaining. What I have prayed, what I have fasted, and they laid people off. Why should they let me off? Why should they let me off? Listen. In your faith walk, before the manifestation comes, you will experience personal disappointments, temporal obstructions.

Yes, sir. But if you hold on to that word on your inside, if you don't let go of it, if you hold on to the promise that God has given to you in the face of apparent defeat, after some time, you will experience the turnaround. And it is your discovering God that teaches you this. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. When a child begins to walk, there are load you don't put on the child. But you must give the child food to prepare him for having load they will carry. Yes, Yes, sir. Sir. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Yes, sir. How many of you know that... Maybe some of you, if you are a car enthusiast, when you want to go and buy a car and you're told that this car is... Had an engine that is 10 times more powerful than this other one, has a v eight or a v 12 engine, twin turbo, 758 horsepower. Stop. And they tell you, pay this amount of money for it. And you say, wow. Really? So how do I know that it truly is 10 times more powerful in the engine than this car. So you take it on a test drive.

On that test drive, you drive the car through a flood. Other cars are breaking down, but yours comes out. Great. Let's take it to a rough area. We take it to a rough area, rough terrains, a hilly road, and it comes out intact. Chalk absorber is still balanced. Suspension is still balanced. Everything is still balanced. Say, alright? Alright?

Let's take it into a desert to see how it can walk or move on that kind of a surface. And then we take it there again. And whilst the sand is holding other cars back, and the the tire keep on rolling because they cannot move on the sand. This one is breathing through the sand. And you say, okay. K. Let's take it to a muddy ground where there is plenty of mud. Have you seen those videos? Yes, sir. I saw.

And they press the vehicle, and the vehicle jumps out like a horse. And then you say, wow. I believe you now that truly the engine is 10 times better. That's exactly what God is saying. If the bible says, he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world, then life now says, let's go on a test drive. The believer expect that because he that is in me is greater than he that is in the world, nothing will happen. Whereas, it is because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world that something will happen, that something must even happen. Oh my god. So you will now hear the bible saying even though you walk through the fire, I say, oh, the fire will not consume you because he that is in you does not mean that you will not walk through it. He said when you when you walk through the waters, in other words, before you started walking through it, did somebody tell you that there is something in you?

That there is some... Have you discovered what is in you? Have you discovered... Do you understand what I'm saying? Because the truth is whether you know or you don't know, the end fact of the scripture is that he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world, and life will test it. When life test, you better know. That's the purpose of the season of discovery. It is where you know God. It is where you come to the knowledge of God. So that whatever life throws at you, you mount up like that car that with a 10 time better engine.

No matter disappointment, no matter... Are you with me? Because you have discovered. So that we... So that the world will now know your capability. So that they can now buy your product. When you say Jesus, they say, yes. We know. We have seen it in your life. When they take you through the first test that everyone is going through, then the believer with one that is greater starts shouting.

They lay everybody off. They lay everybody off. They lay me too off. Or they slap your salary. And because you go through things, nobody had any peace of mind again. Now when you tell the believer, what I thought you said that greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. He said, what that meant is that it should not happen to me. Pastor Adeboye spoke of a story where because of, you know, he was he was still mathematics, he and had some guys who was preaching the gospel, doing all of that, was a pastor. And he had... I think pastor Walioke was with him then, was a student with him, but was one of his disciples.

And because of his status, somebody offered him... They were selling the campground, and somebody offered him that campground. He said, we we wanna sell this camp at the edge of the road. You are the one that came to our mind because of your integrity and all of that. Bring a 100,000 naira and just get it many years ago. Many, many, many years ago. Uh-huh. Sir. Glory to god. And just get it.

And did not have a 100,000 naira. The man is just a lecturer who loves Jesus pastoring the church. He said, but they prayed about the land, and they had a feeling in their hand that that's their land. He said, you know what? Even if you don't have the money now, we will do something. So himself and bishop Francis Waluki, those years now off their shoe. They said the bible says wherever the sole of your foot shall step upon, it shall be yours. So they will start. Every day, they will come to the land, and the sole of our foot has stepped upon this land. It is ours.

And they'll be praying. They will carry their slippers, and they will go. And they kept on doing it every day. Some months after, the owner of the camp said, please, please, carry your bag and go. The land had been sold. He said, ah, they carried their bags, and they left. He does sit down and say, yeah, but god sees our home. He said some years after, when they bought their first land, their first camp, he said that that camp sat sat... I forgot how many people it was sitting there some years ago. They said, the place that the choir sits is 10 times bigger than the camp they said that you come and buy.

The portion for the choir, It was 10 times bigger than the camp that they were trekking on trekking on and saying it's our home. It's our home. It's our home. And did not become their home. The question is, when a believer faces such a disappointment, does it crash down, crumble, and say, did God not tell me? Did God not speak? Did God not say? Or do you know that he that is in you? Do you know? Do you know?

Do you know? Have you have you given your time to know him? And this is the time that the bible says you must know. It it is dangerous to know any other time because you would have gone through calamities that you're not knowing would not have build you out. So now is the time to give yourself to knowing God. Now is the time to give your heart, to give your... I don't have time to tell you stories. Some of our stories when we began this thing, I'm surprised at the way people carry this thing right now. There is a way this generation... There's a kind of Christianity that has been sold to this generation that is wrong.

That is wrong. Get my teaching on Sunday and listen to it again. Listen to it again and again and again. So that you understand what it means to know God. But there is nothing we'll not give to that service because this is how life begins. This is how God has ordained that everything should begin. Are you with me? Yes, sir. I remember our own story. When we wanted to go and lease an or or economy in Ojo from Abadina.

You can't imagine the visions we saw. You see, the first time I went to that venue, when they showed me the picture... From the picture, I said this is our venue. I posted it on the experience platform, the work... Workers platform, people workers that were there that time, and I said, brothers and sisters, this is our venue. I sent the picture out somewhere in Ojo. I I I... Before I even saw the... Before I even went there physically, it was picture they first sent me, then video. Then I saw, I saw it.

I saw I saw it. I saw my God. Then I went there physically. As I was there, they told us the rent is 1,000,000. 10,000 was not in my account. $1,010,000 was not in my account. I went there. I spoke to the agent. I said, we have gotten this. This is ours.

In the front, checking where they will put their own transformer to power their refrigerators and their deep freezers. I looked at them, I said, this is Sambala Obaya. I come against you. I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. This is ours. I asked them. I said, why have they not gotten it? They came before us. They didn't have money yet. They said it will not be complete.

It will not be complete. Our money comes. Do you know that I told them, when do you want... Let's save it for you. When you want to get it? I said, you know what? Give us the next three weeks. Are you sure? Said, come on now. I came to UI.

I held vigils every day. Every day to raise 1,000,000 naira. I heard vigils every day. Two people... I was coming from Akobo to Abadina. I didn't miss a day for the next one month, and I was declaring the land is ours. The money comes. Listen. Listen. The prophets that were praying with me will share prophecies with me.

They will say, apostle, I saw your office on this side. I saw your office on this side. Listen. Listen. We will rejoice in the holy ghost. The money was not climbing up. We wrote messages. We wrote letters to people. I told them, go and get the email of every important person you know. Where that inspiration came from, don't know if it's God or my head or my mind or my brain.

I don't know. I shall know it came. And and and they did a very good job, brought over 30 emails to me. I said, awesome. I think the email of the governor of them was there. The email... Different people will send emails to to want to get the property support, partner with the kingdom project, partner with the this. One replied us, he said 419, stop stealing. Jesus. I still have the email on my on my phone.

He said he said 41... I kept it intentionally. He said he said look for better things to do other than scamming people. Than scamming people. That was when I knew it was not God that sent me. I I was not ashamed to say, you know what? Stop. Stop. Stop. There was one who was telling me that he he knew a uncle of his that could that could...

I said, go on. Push. Go on. Push. When I... When when this email came, I said, oh, doc, stop pushing. Stop pushing. It was up to... Listen. You must maintain the humility to know when God knowledge you.

You must maintain the humility. Yes, sir. You must maintain the humility to know. See, pressure, different things was what spoke to me. It it was not... You must know. And be humble enough to take it back and say, you know what, guys? I think we oversped. Let's take a step back and find out what God is truly saying. Then we found a venue in Aberdeenah that was just for us, and we renovated the place.

We were looking for 1,000,000 naira for one month we did not see. Experiment was to resume in two weeks. 500,000 naira to renovate the place came in one week. Came in one and renovated that for many people that were there. That was the venue that we're using, the kingdom center. It was after that one filled that that one opened. So we said, okay. Okay. Thank Jesus. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Jesus. Almost as though we're not the ones that were praying, we never sat down and say, hey. Hey. Is that how we missed God? Is that... What the person that saw my office, we were thanking God together. We're thanking God together, celebrating God, rejoicing over what God has done. Everybody who walked into that event in Abadina did not know we were in Abadina. We celebrated God for that. Yes, sir.

And we learned our lessons and moved on. But I will now camp around that defeat and say no. No. Ah, no. What what what what is this? What is a man as accurate as I am? No such thing. We learn and then we grow. We learn and then we grow. Your knowing God must make you know that there are times that you will make mistake and God will help you.

It's not the wrong thing to make a mistake. It's not the wrong thing to go ahead and you say, Where did I leave God? I left God there and I started running with my brain. And I will retrace my step and say, God, I am sorry you. Your knowing God makes you uncondemned. It makes you know that even when I've missed a step, God can still meet me where I am. Hold my hands and say, come. Yes, sir. Hi. Let's work on that huddle together.

That is the purpose of discovering God. And it matters you do it now. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. If not, you will be advancing. You'll be advancing. You'll be making progress like it happened for a land, and the devil will plant a calamity in your front. Pow. It will hit you strongly. Your knowing God is what will take you out.

You will move out of it as though as though nothing came. As though nothing came. What would have stopped others? What would have kept others down? What would have eaten all of their life? And you will breeze through like nothing happened to you. People will say, did this not happen? Did that not happen? And you will say, You more than skip this phase, the discovery of God. It does something to your heart.

This is where God is plastered in your heart. So that as you go through life, you are moved by the things that move me. On your journey to manifesting destiny, the first thing the holy spirit reveals to you is not your purpose. It is Jesus. It is God. Many people want to circumvent this, and they say, sir, I've known it's called purpose. Purpose. Purpose. Olga, calm down. Sit down and grow.

It is in that journey of growth that every other thing is unveiled to you. Yes, sir. It's not forced. It's not forced. Peter was not going to Jesus and say, am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? It was in the place of communion.

Jesus asked them, who do men say I am? Then asked him, who do you say I am? And Peter proved that he has known God or he has known Jesus to an extent. He says, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. Upon passing that exam, Jesus then tells him, you are Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my church. As you continue your work with Christ, as you continue your development in your growth journey, then all of a sudden, you start understanding who you are. And the... That's the second thing you discover. Fourth is God. Second thing is who you are.

And in who you are, you first discover your identity in Christ even before purpose. Your identity in Christ, who you are in Christ, that you are forgiven, that you are righteous, that you are loved, that you are redeemed. If you don't understand your identity in Christ Jesus, you'll be defeated. You'll be defeated. There are contracts you will not be able to negotiate for. There are amount you will not be able to call. It will be bigger than your mouth because you think you are be... It is bigger than you. Sir. Yes, sir.

Knowing that you are righteous means you know that there is... Everything your father owns belongs to you. Sir. Sir. You have the nature of God on your inside. So when they tell you cut your coat according to your size, you have now discovered what your size is. The the quote might not be wrong. It's just depending on the size. And may I know my own size? Sir.

It's not society that size me up. It's God that gave me the boundaries of my dwellings. That's my size. Yes, sir. So when I'm cutting my coat, that's how I cut it. I cut it within Europe. I cut it within Asia. I cut it within the nations of the world. Because I've I've understood my identity, it makes me posture myself rightly. So when I'm...

So when I start fulfilling purpose, this thing now affects how I fulfill purpose. I'm only expecting the best. I'm only expanding. I'm only increasing. I'm not doing purpose like a village person is doing it. Because the order is right. So if it's a business I'm starting, I understand it's a righteous man that is doing this thing. It must only prosper. It must only expand. It must only increase.

Are you blessed? Yes, Your identity in Christ, I'm justified in Christ Jesus, and in me is glorified. Oh, glory to God. My sins have been forgiven. Let me end there. Time is never enough. Listen. Let me end there. Listen. After you have been called and it's in Christ, then your gift and your abilities, What is in your hand?

Your rod. What is in your hand? Is that rod that parts the Red Sea? Is that rod that become your signal of authority, your gifts, and your abilities? It might be your creative prowess. It might be your ability to to to to order things and to organize event. It might be your your your, you know, different things really. Your gift and your ability, the things you are passionate about starts getting unfolded onto you. As you know... As you are joining in this thing, you...

It'll be it'll be it'll be unveiled to you. You might see that you have such an analytical mind to put numbers together and to go into the tech world and become a wizard in programming. This then leads to your purpose. You don't understand how those gifts and those abilities then work together to fulfill the assignment that God has given to you. Your purpose is basically what you use all of these things you have discovered to do. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes. Yes. If I'm a business person, it is unveiled onto me.

If I'm a Daniel in the marketplace, in politics, in government, it is unveiled to me. If I'm an entertainer, it is unveiled to me. If I'm a business person, unveiled to me into ministry, as an apostle, a prophet, a pastor, a teacher, it is unveiled to me, and clarity is given. As you grow, you start getting clarity. Am I to serve in this ministry? And God tells you that I have anointed you and I've made you a... An evangelist or a prophet, but I've not called you to start a work of your own. If you start one of your own, you will go by yourself. I've called you to join yourself together with this ministry and become an extension of the ministry. And then you discover.

You see, you you start discovering... Getting clarity as you grow. If God tells you, I've sent you to go and start a work of your own, then you know, okay. This is what God is sending me to. This is my message even as I go. It is as you grow that these things are discovered. It's not isolated. It's not a pursuit you you pursue in isolation. It is meant to find you as you are growing, as you are knowing God. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. Yes. As you are knowing God, Then you proceed into the next season of your life, which is the season of preparation. Let's talk about that later. I wish I could stay here. Do you know this is really where I wanted to stay in this message? The season of preparation. This is where many fail. This is where seasons compound upon seasons. This is where the season of preparation because there are several phases to preparation.

And there are many time God will God will give you a work to start and you are still preparing. Eyes up on your feet. Just half had a season of preparation is then the season of manifestation. I've thought these things are not our messages. I wanted to come from a different perspective today, but time would not permit me. But you can get those messages and listen to them. I've thought it in seasons of greatness. I've taught it in maximizing preparatory seasons. I've taught it in the faith strategy of preparation. Get these teachings and listen to it.

Are you blessed? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Can you thank God for what he has given to Thank God for what you have received today. Thank God for what you have received today. Give God all the glory. Give God all the praise. Give God all the honor. Give him glory. Give him praise.

Give him honor. Adoration unto God. One last time. Will you take Father, we give you all the glory. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at officialdisciplescn. You can follow us on Facebook at disciples christian network. You can also join our telegram page at DCN media for more messages by Apostle Emmanuel. If you have a testimony from this message, you can mail us at disciplescn@gmail.com.

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