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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. There is no phrase in the New Testament that appears with greater frequency more than the phrase in Christ. It can sometimes vary in translation when by Christ, through Christ, with Christ, in him when these things are used. But the idea is the same. It appears more than 130 times in the New Testament And in the entire spectrum of Christian dogma, there is no phrase that is more expressive and yet least understood and appreciated such as the phrase in Christ. It is one of the most powerful truth a believer can know and should know.

In Ephesians chapter one and verse 10, the bible says, God has summed up all things in Christ. He has gathered together in one all things in Christ so that outside of Christ, there is nothing that has a place in the eternal purpose of God. He has summed up all things, gathered all things in Christ. I want you to understand the meaning of that phrase in Christ. And then upon understanding, we can then begin to unpack the implication of being in Christ. And I think a good place to start is to know that the concept of being in Christ is not just a New Testament concept. It's a concept that God introduced from the creation of the earth. When you read the book of Genesis chapter one through to chapter three, you'll discover that the bible says, God made man in his image. God made man in his likeness. And after God was done making the first man, that was all the man that God needed to make.

So when God made that man, he made all men in that man. That man Adam is not just a person. He's carrying the whole of human race inside of him. Genesis chapter one verse 26. The bible says, then God said, let us make man. Now you will read this and you will think that God was talking about Adam, and that is all God was talking about, a single entity called Adam. But no. God was actually talking about the human race. God was talking about humanity. When you read it in NLT, you get a fuller concept of what God is speaking about.

The bible says, then God said, let us make human beings in our image. So you see the idea is not to make one man. It was human beings. The word Adam speaks of humanity. However, God did not make a billion people in the name of human beings. God made one entity and called that entity human beings. It means every human being was in him. Do you understand this simple concept? So in making human beings, God made one man. And the idea was that in that one man was the entire human race.

It's the principle of the seed. So God said, let them have dominion. Be fruitful. Multiply. God was not speaking to one man. God was speaking to the human race in Adam. So Adam, despite being one man, was carrying humanity in him. So whatever choices Adam made would not only have consequence on Adam, but on the humanity and the human race that was on his inside. So when God said, in the day you eat of this fruit, you shall die. He wasn't speaking to just one man.

The action and the decision that that one man would make or would take would affect the human race that was inside of him. It means when God said in the day you eat of this fruit, you shall die. He was speaking to humanity at large inside a man. This was a massive responsibility because the faith of humanity was rested on a man's obedience. Is this simple enough to understand? Yes, sir. So when man ate off the fruit, you realize that it was the whole of humanity that was eaten of the fruit. Is this concept simple? Yes, sir. When man sinned, it was not just a man that sinned, it was the human race that sinned.

When man fell, it was not just a man that fell. It was the human race that fell because the human race was inside man. Man was represented by Adam. So every single one of Adam's actions would affect the entire human race. First Corinthians 15 verse 21. Let me show you this in scripture. Read to verse 22. The Bible says... Let's do it in k j v. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

22, for us in Adam. Can we read this together, everybody? One, three. Go. Us in Adam. Dead. Pause. How many died? All. In who?

Adam. Do you get the concept? Yes, sir. So the idea of in Christ is not New Testament. Before you were in Christ, you were in Adam. You were in Adam. God thought about you and placed you in Adam. Every single decision Adam was making, you were captured in it. Generations after, centuries after, was in Adam. Adam was to be the father of humanity and the ambassador of humanity because whatever Adam did, humanity has done.

Whatever Adam did, humanity has done. So in Adam, the bible says all died. The day he ate of the fruit, the bible says you will surely die. So in the day Adam ate of the fruit, all died. It wasn't only one man that died. Every human being that was in Adam died. And as long as you are a human being, this is your story. Man fell. Humanity fell. So you see, the man becomes like an office, like like an administrator or an administration actually or a government so that when God wants to interact with humanity, he interacts primarily with that office that represents humanity.

If America, for instance, wants to sign a deal with Nigeria that will be beneficial to all Nigerians, they would not come to your house and tell you to sign a deal. They would meet with the government of your country because you are in the government. And whatever deal the government negotiates on your behalf, you become a victim or a or a recipient of that deal because you are in the government. So if any nation wants to deal with Nigeria, they wouldn't meet with the citizens of Nigeria in themselves. They will meet with the representative, the administrator, the government. Because in the government, all of us are represented. You don't understand what I'm saying. When Russia declared war on Ukraine, many nations started sanctioning Russia. Many products, companies, industries that had their branches in Russia ceased functioning in Russia because of this decision that their president, you see, the government, the administration made. Was it every Russian citizen that wanted the invasion?

I hope you know that it was the division of maybe one man even or some governmental parties who came and said, let's invade this nation. And nations all around the world started placing sanctions in opposition of that decision that Putin made. Many of you that watch football, the name Ibrahimovic is not strange to you. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. He is the director of Chelsea football club. Was... The moment the sanction was made, Premier League decided that he could no longer foresee, he could no longer oversee the administration of Chelsea Football Club because a sanction was made on every Russian. Was he the one that invaded Ukraine? Because he was in Russia.

He lost his investment, lost his houses, lost his bank accounts, lost everything because a sanction was placed on Russia. And everybody that was in Russia became a victim of the consequence of the government of Russia. Do you understand this? That is that is what Adam represented. It was an office that embodied humanity. And whatever that office did, humanity has done. And when that office decided that what it would do with its dominion and authority was to defile and to rebel against God, humanity also decided to rebel against God. So the sanction that came upon Adam came upon humanity because humanity was in Adam. Do you understand what I've just said with you? So Adam became the administrator of humanity in the representative council.

So when Adam fell, humanity fell. Genesis one twenty six, NLT. Let us make human beings in our image to be like us. The bible tells us that Adam was created in the image and the likeness of God. This was before Adam fell. But when Adam fell, he ceased to be in the image and the likeness of God. He now became corrupted. He had taken up Satan's nature of disobedience and rebellion and it was after this fallen nature that Adam started giving birth. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes.

The children that Adam gave birth to were no longer in the image and the likeness of God. I will show you this in scriptures. Genesis five and verse one. The new... The King James version. The Bible says, this is the book. Can we read it everybody? One, three. Go. Of who?

In the day that God created... How? In the likeness of God. In the the God. Likeness likeness of I hope you know. Let's do it in amplified version. Amplified says, this is the book, the written record, the history of the generations of the descendants of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God, not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness. So he's not physical. Do you understand this?

Yes, sir. So in the day that God created man, he was made in the likeness of God. But when Adam sinned, humanity sinned with Adam. When Adam fell, humanity fell with Adam. Adam was no longer in the image, neither was he in the likeness of God. So when Adam started reproducing, every child that came from Adam was not in the image and the likeness of God. Because in verse three, we see that in verse one, how the thing began was that God was... God created man in his image and in his likeness. But in verse three, the bible says, and Adam lived an hundred and thirty years and begot a son. How?

In whose likeness? Whose likeness? In Adam's likeness. So you see the equation has shifted. The moment Adam started giving birth, it was no longer in the likeness of God. It was now after the likeness of the fallen man. After whose image? His image and called his name Seth. Did you see this? No longer the likeness of God?

No longer the image of God, it was now after the image and the likeness of Adam. So every human being that came to existence after the fall was after the image and the likeness of Adam. And what was Adam's kind? What was the image and the likeness of Adam? Adam was a fallen soldier, a rebellious man. In first Corinthians chapter 15 verse 45, amplified version. First Corinthians 15 verse 45. The bible says, thus it is written, the first man, Adam. Can you see this? The first man, Adam, became a living being.

The word living being there is the word soul. Give me KJV. Let them see it. KJV. One, two, three, everybody. Soul was made a living soul. The word made there is what became. Go back to Became a living soul, an individual personality. The last Adam who is Christ became what? A life giving spirit restoring the dead to life.

The first man, Adam, became what? A living soul. So when you are singing the song, every living soul, every living soul, praise the Lord. Are you a living soul? I am a living soul. I praise that. You are saying, I am Adam. The bible says the implication of the fall was that the first man became a living soul. His life ended in individual personality. He could not touch spirituality.

He could not touch life anymore. He ended as just a living soul. There was no spirit component in him. He became. Go back to New King James version. Look at verse 46. The bible says, however, the spiritual is not first. So who is the spiritual? The second Adam. But who is first?

The natural. So the... So Adam was natural. So every man that came before after Adam, sorry, was... Came after the natural man. That's why the bible said natural man does not understand the things of God. That's the man that came after the order of Adam. Because the first man was natural, but the second man, spiritual. Can you see this? Look at the next verse.

The bible says, the first man was of the earth. He's telling you the nature of the first man. Made of dust, but the second man is of the Lord from heaven. So when you hear people say, I'm just made of dust, we know what you are talking about. Don't fight me. Just calm down. You are still building something. You see, after all, I'm just... I'm not made of doors. You are saying I came after the order of Adam.

The fallen man, the rebellious man, the living soul. There is no supernatural thing to my life. I'm just a living soul. You see, I'm I'm I'm just made of dust. Then the second man is the Lord from east, from heaven. Look at the next verse. It's not finished though. As was the man of dust, so are those who are made of dust. So when you identify with dust, you don't understand this thing. As was the man of dust, so are those who are made of dust.

Let let me explain this thing to you. Do you remember the cause of the serpent? The cause of the serpent was dust shall you hit all the days of your life. What is dust? Demand of dust. That's why demons derive pleasure in afflicting men. It's a curse. That's why when you go to a spirit, when men are in pain, that's when demons are eating. When they put sickness in your body, when they put poverty in your body, when they put affliction in your body, when they put off... That's the man of dust.

It's the reality of the man of dust. God told the serpent, dust shall you eat. The serpent is looking for food. And the moment you say I'm just dust, you say that's my food. That's dinner. That's breakfast. And there are many believers who have identified with dust. The bible says those who are made of dust and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are heavenly. I don't wanna go ahead of myself. I'm tempted, but I will not.

Next verse. And as we have borne the image of the man of dust. So you see, every man that came after Adam bore the image of Adam, not of God. So somebody who has not believed Christ does not have the image of God. Does not have the likeness of God. Somebody says, our fellow brothers and sisters, you know, the... And then they call the, you know, the bond women, and they say we all have the same God. We do not. We do not. They are not brothers and sisters in the spirit.

Are you with me? Yes. They have burned the image of the man of dust. So is anyone who has not known God. So after the fall, humanity bought the image of the last Adam. It became natural. You were born in iniquity. You were born in sin. This was not a matter of whether you lived right or you did right. This was a matter of just being born.

If you were born, you were a sinner. If you were born, David said in iniquity did my mother conceive me. Paul says all have sinned. This is what they were talking about. As long as you were born. Did you see the faith of the first Adam? Do you see his faith? Go back to Genesis three. When God was laying out courses, God caused the woman. God caused the serpent.

But go to the part that says, cost is the ground for your sake. I want you to see this. Cost is the ground for your sake. Look at this. Because you have heeded the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you. So who is God speaking to? Humanity. Not Adam. God was speaking to humanity saying, you shall not eat of it. Cost is the ground for your sake.

In toil, you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Give me anything. Anything. Can we read the last sentence together? One, two, three, go. Anybody who is hustling, monkey, work. They go to work by 6AM, come back by 5PM, and they come with menial menial menial things. Barely enough to even fend for the family. Barely enough to even cause for survival. You with me?

Or to make for survival is a cause of humanity. Cause is the ground for your sake. You will struggle to scratch a living from it. In other words, even if you see food, it will be struggle. It will be work. You will... It will look as though you are slaving for another man. Look at the next verse. It says it says, both tongues and tissels, it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. Do you know what this means?

This means your harvest will never be proportional to your investment. Both tongues and tissels, it shall bring forth for you. Were they tongues and tissels they planted? It means even when you plant seed, what will come out of it is tons and thistles. It means you will invest eight hours and get tax down in our salary. You invest sixteen hours of work every day for one month and tons and tethos. This affects people even in the academics. Hours of labor, but tons and tethos. You shall eat the herb of the field. The herb of the field is not the best fruit of the field.

It's the least thing that will come out of the fruit of the field. This is a cause of... On humanity. Look at the next verse. In the sweat of your face, you will eat bread till you return to the ground for out of which you were taken. For dust you are, and dust you shall return. So who is he talking to? Who is dust? Is the man in Christ dust? So when you quote the scripture, you say, you know, the bible says dust we are, dust we shall return.

Do you know what you are identifying with? You are saying, I'm... I am liable to sufferings. I'm liable to hustling. It says, in the sweat of your face, this is why hustling is a cause. The believer should not use such languages. I'm not hustling. I am working. The bible says, he will bless the works of your hands, not the hustle of your sweat. There must be a perspective change in the believer's life.

Stay with me. So man was born in iniquity, born in sin. Do you know that this is the foundation of generational causes? Because it is now clear that everybody came from Adam and everybody was inside Adam. The bible says that Seth was in Adam. Hinoch was in Adam. Hinoch was in Adam. When they also had children, their children were in them. You were in your father. Your father was in his father.

Do you understand how this works? It means that whatever a man does, by the time he's doing it, his his children and his grandchildren are in him when he was doing it. I will show you in scriptures. That is actually the foundation of generational causes because your children come from you. The same way humanity was in Adam. When Adam sinned, you were also in your great grandfather when he was conducting Idols. Do you remember Exodus 20 and verse five? The bible says, you shall not bow to them nor serve them for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of them that hate me. He was talking about those who bow to hide us, and he's saying that the repercussion of their bowing to hide us is that even their children, even though they have decided not to bow to hide us, will bear the result and their... And the reward of their fathers bowing to hide us.

Our children come from you. And that is why God is warning against sin, saying the repercussion of the sin of the father can be visited on the children because they were in you when you committed transgression. It means when we bring people into righteousness, we are not only saving them, we are saving their generations. I'm not getting this. Blessed are your children. In Hebrews chapter seven and verse nine, the Bible says, and as I may say so, KJV. Oh, let's do NKJV. Let's do KJV. Let's do Even Levi who receives tithe... So the Levitical order were the ones that received tithe in the old testament.

How many of you know this? They were the ones that were anointed as priests unto God, Aaron and his children. Even Levi who received tithes, the bible says what gave him the authority to receive tithes was because he paid tithes through Abraham, so to speak. What do you mean by he paid tithes through Abraham? Do you know when Abraham paid tithes? Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek in Genesis 14. And the bible is saying when Abraham was paying tithe, Levi was also paying tight in Abraham. Levi is not Abraham's child. Levi is not even Abraham's grandchild. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. And yet, the bible ascribes to Levi what Abraham did before Levi's grandfather was born. Levi paid tithe to Melchizedek. So when Moses declared, who is on the Lord's side? Let them stand to my left. And only the sons of Levi came and stood to Moses' left. You think it was because they loved God? Somebody had redeemed their destiny in eternity ages before they were manifested, ages before they were born. The moment Moses made that declaration, something was pushing them. Something was pushing them.

The Levitical order is about to be anointed. Go out. Go out. Even before their great grandfather was born. Why? Hebrews seven verse one. The bible now says, for he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him. Sorry. Next verse, verse 10. He was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

Where was he? In the loins of his father. So where are your children? So it is a recognized spiritual principle that even though I did not do it, if I was in the person that did it, the merits or the demerits are also ascribed to me. I heard the story of a man of God who was trained how that his great grandfather was a very wealthy man. And the grandfather inherited the wealth but had no children. And the grandfather had so much money, lands, properties but had no children. And he was nearing years barren. The grandfather then went to the local medium and told the medium that I want I want children. The medium said, you will have children, but it will cost you your wealth.

Not only your wealth, the wealth of the generations that will come after you. The man said, what is money without children? Give me children. I prefer children to money. And he had children, and the children did not know that somebody has sold their destiny to get them. So everybody in the family knew poverty and poverty knew them. They hugged poverty and poverty hugged them. Nobody could break through. Nobody could break through. Nobody.

Until a man arose in the family and said, what is this nonsense? And started pressing into light. Started pressing into light and saying, this will not be my case. The man was the first one in the family that broke out. I read the story of the man. Many warfare surrounded him even breaking out. Do you know that before... Because the man broke out, his children today are reaping the rewards of his breakout. I'm talking about papa GF Hoyle. It's because of him you now know Lawrence Hoyle.

It's because of him you now know God's made oil. Levi was in his loins. It means it means every time I spend in prayers, It means there are people's destinies have been realigned. You cannot miss it. There are those who walked with bad friend. Their friends were smoking like this, and they could not stretch their hand to collect it. Their friends were drinking like this, and they will join them. They will join them. They will go and they will go there and they will talk nonsense. They will talk rubbish.

They will move together, but they cannot just bring themselves to act it. Somebody has... So... What you don't know is that you were in the loins of someone, and the person insisted, insisted, insisted. The person insisted. Many of you don't... Many of you now have not come to the realization of spiritual things. And so we are very careless, extremely careless with destiny. Do you know that everybody that comes from that family will be shocked at what becomes their experience when they try to when they try to work, get a job, labor, and nothing happens. I've met people who are extremely talented, extremely gifted, and by reason of their gift, you look at them and say, even people that don't have up to this are in America, making millions of naira.

What is your own problem? There are people that will meet with favor in their front like this, and they will meet with rich people who could afford to give them 10,000,000 for even what they can offer. And you look at them and just say, ah, let me dash you money. And what will come out of them is 10,000 naira. There are people that doors close to them the moment they meet open doors. There are people that when somebody promises them help, the person will die or the person's business will collapse. There are people that they will start rising, but the moment they start getting to a certain age, it's as though somebody in the family has made a covenant that this is the height of our progress. This is the height of our progress, and some people can see the same patterns in their family. When you read the book of Joshua chapter nine, you will realize that if it is true that my grandfather did it, they can legally lay the claim on me that may be correct. In Joshua nine verse three, the bible says, when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Hai, they walked craftily and went and pretended to be ambassadors.

And they took hold sacks on their donkeys and wineskins torn and mended. And they went to Joshua in verse six to camp at Gilgap and said to him, to the men of Israel, we have come from a far country. Now therefore, make a covenant with us. Verse 15. The Bible says, so Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them. What was the covenant? To let them hundreds of years later. When Joshua was making this covenant, was it every children of Israel that made a covenant? Who made the covenant? He was their leader.

He was the judge and the captain over them. So all of them were in him. The moment Joshua struck a covenant, the whole of Israel had struck a covenant. What was the covenant? Anytime I see a Gibeonite, I must let him live. Hundreds of years after, second Samuel 21 and verse one, the bible says famine struck Israel. This time, David was not the one that was king. And the famine was so terrible, people were killing themselves. Parents were killing their children to eat. They had never seen anything so terrible in Israel.

The bible says, and David inquired of the Lord because they had tried everything. They had tried agriculture. They've tried irrigation. They've tried... They've called all the expert that they know, and nothing seemed to be happening. David said, no. Something else is wrong. David now went to go and inquire of the Lord, and the Lord now answer. Can we read the answer of the Lord? One, two, three, go.

It is because of salt and his bloodthirsty house because he killed the Gibeonites. Do you know the space of time between when this covenant was made? Was salt there? Do you know the bible even says it was because of Saul's zeal. Next verse. So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Hamorites. The children of Israel had sworn protection to them. But Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal. So it was it was part...

It was zeal for the house of God. And nobody told him that, Oga, these people are not to be touched because our father sway a covenant. Do you know that for this famine to go, David had to ask the Gibeonite, what do you want? The Gibeonites said we don't want money. The story is long. Go ahead read it. They said what we want is all the children of Saul slaughter them. Were the king of Saul there when their father killed the Gibeonites. Abraham got to Egypt and it was... Isaac was in his loins.

And he told them, he said, this is not... I don't know. This is not my wife. This is my sister. And Isaac in his loins was learning character, learning behavior. It was not after many years after that Isaac was born. Nobody told Isaac that this was what your father did to escape death. But Isaac got to the same place. And he said, sister, your wife? Isaac said, no.

It's my sister. Can continue to show you this in scripture. Are you with me? Yeah. So the people that tell you powers of your father's house, they're not lying. They're not lying. In Job chapter 14 verse one, the bible makes a very daring statement. It says, man who is born of woman. Man who is born of woman. Is there any man who is not born of woman?

Which one of you came to a donkey? Do you fall in this category? Man who is born of woman. What is his lot? What is his offense? He is born of woman. That is offense. Many people think that if I don't touch the devil, the devil will not touch me oh. Let me know all this prayer, all this come and be praying, come and be doing this. Me, I don't want problem oh.

It is when you now start poking the devil's Man who is born of woman is from trouble left and trouble right. The guy will build supermarket or build... Go and get the counter, and he will rent a good counter, put supplies in the counter, go and get a loan. And he will be making sales, and he'll be happy he's making sales. And things will be going well for him. And all of a sudden, just hear that he traveled somewhere, and thieves came and emptied the entire store and stole 20,000,000 naira worth of goods. And when he come back, he's crying. And he say, did that offend? Man, who is born of a woman is of a full dance, full of trouble. Everywhere he turns trouble.

Nobody wants to help him. And the problem is that he's man born of a woman. Now imagine the lot of man born of a woman who is already of a few days and full of trouble, whose father have now made an idol. Whose mother I went to go and meet Oshim? He said give us a child. You know that there are people that the covenant is struck was, I will have children, nobody will never be healthy. And they know. But because of the desperation to have a child, now the girl is born into this world and is wondering why every month she's always in the hospital. The one crisis or the other. One crisis or the other.

There are those that their parents will call them and tell them, listen, my mother married three husbands before he finally found this man, the man he married. I married two husbands before I finally found this one. That's why you have... I have children that are not from your father. I've seen there's a pattern in my family. Be very careful. Don't do nonsense, and the thing is advice. Yes, you are going to school now. Remember the son of who you are. It is because of the son of who he is that you misbehave.

You don't understand. He doesn't need to remember. He just need to be it. So he remembered... He remembers me. Believe me. His spirit remembers. His soul remembers. Demons remember. Everything we remember on his behalf.

The moment he gets to school, the same thing the father did. At age 21, he has impregnated impregnated somebody. She cannot continue her schooling. 17, she's pregnant. She's not there. She's wondering, hey. Hey. Man, born of a woman. Are you with me? These are these are these are literal physical experiences people have right now.

There are many people under the sound of my voice that one pattern or the other, one yoke or the other has besieged their family, besieged them as individuals. There are some of you that when you look, you begin to see patterns of destruction, patterns of poverty, patterns of patterns of small mindedness, of greatness that crashes down to nothing. My father used to have five, four cars before, three houses. But a time came when things were just tough, we had to sell everything. Now we live in the rented apartment. Sir, that was even the case of our uncle. Our uncle was in The US before. He used to send us money, but he was deported. And we see the same patterns everywhere. And you as a child does not know that there is something that you must know until they are showed with you, what does a believer know?

Else, you would think that just because I am now a Christian automatically eliminates me. Oh, no. You'll be shocked. You'll be shocked because this is the confusion of people that come and say things like, why are we praying for deliverance? Once we are saved, we are no longer under all of these things, and it is true except for the fact that the people who you are speaking to have no idea how they came to be no longer under it. And because knowledge is missing, the experience will still be the same. Sir. There are people that the devil will literally wait for them, and they will feel as though nothing is wrong with my life. I may even pray as much as you pray. I didn't even do all of those.

You're you're wasting time, praying every time, doing this every time. Look at... Look at me. I'm just... I'm doing well. I'm doing well. And the devil is waiting. Because the covenant that was struck is they will marry. They will have children. They will do very well.

And then at age 45 to 50, at the peak of their career. At the peak of their career, then problems. There are people that somebody dies every year in the family. There must be frequent barriers that must be attended. Frequent barriers that must be attended. It has become a normal day. There are people that before they do anything small, any... Even the smallest of accomplishment, they must struggle and sweat for it. They will spend twenty years in government service before getting promotion, and they will write exam write exam. Even people that they are they are more qualified than will be selected, but never then.

Eventually, when the promotion comes, it will be... It will come with so much sweat, so much struggle, so much trouble. They will write jump exam 10 times. Any small accomplishment must start... Come with struggling. Do you know there are people that their family has been yoked under the cove of the spirit of Laban? You don't know the spirit of Laban. The spirit of Laban is that spirit that recognizes potential and chains you down for it. Insisting that if this person leaves me, this person is the source of my prosperity, is the source of my wealth. And so they will they will give the person compensation to keep them caged in a location because they realize if they attempt to go and start their own, they have the potential to become even wealthier than them.

The spirit of labor encages people's destinies never to move forward, never to go forward. Always stay a little and be serving. Don't serve till you die. Don't serve till you die. That's the spirit of Laban. It it just yokes you in a place. These people have the potential for great things, for big things. If they start something by themselves, this piece of labor would even capture their mind never to see their own potential. They will think the only source of help is labor. Do you know it took an encounter for Jacob to break out?

It wasn't common sense. It wasn't that one day he sat down and he just say, if I do this, he took an encounter. There are Josephs with the destinies of a prime minister serving in Potiphar's house, and Potiphar will insist that it is because of you I'm experiencing blessings. I would rather increase your salary than let you go. And if you stubborn, if you are stubborn, if are stubborn, they will now make up a story. They will say it's too money. Now put him in a provision. How much did he steal? 10,000,000. So if you can already pay your debts, then only leave.

The Laban spirit. There's the spirit of the debtor that just puts all the members of the family in debt. There is no way they can experience financial freedom. The mother collected car loan. The father collected school fees loan. They collected house loan. They collected every kind of loan known to humankind. Now they want to pay the son's coffees. The son too, we need to collect loan. Now the son has now found himself in a place where he's now owing palm pay, owing easy money, owing every pay.

And he does not see that there's a pattern that I'm already following. There's a pattern I'm already following. The bible says, David, David, in the time that kings should go to war, David just came and all stretched. This guy was meant to be in war. He was meant to be fighting. But he came, checked his corridor, and found a damsel. The damsel was just beating. And David said, wow. Wow. Find Damsel.

He said, get me that woman. And the guys went there. And imagine how they went to her. They brought her in front of David and said, your king wants to sleep with you. Pull off your throat. As the king's command, you have to. Because where the word of the king is his power. The king's word is law. David had his way. Now I realize that he's she's the wife of one of his top generals in the army.

David say, ah. I want this woman. I want Write a note to the commander of the army. Let them take her husband. And put her husband at the forefront of the battle. Where he's sure to die. That one we think is promotion. That one will hear testimony in church. He will say, you know what? I've been promoted at work.

I'm now leading the battalion. In The first one time he went for battle, died. David said, yes, now I have the woman. Solomon was in his loins. Hammon was in his loins. Absalom was in his loins. Haman saw his sister and said, what did he do? The same thing that David did to the man's husband, the same thing Harpshallam did to him, the same thing Hammon did to his sister, the same thing Solomon did. In fact, he he he called... He called a double portion.

The grace came upon Solomon and it was multiplied. That one does not come and look at corridor. He look at corridors. He just text everyone. You. You. You. You. You. Come.

Now the father has three wives. The son is already liking two people up and down and say, I don't know what I like. I'm on the old guy. You need deliverance. Don't you know that there is a man... There is a battle that is attached to your mantle? That every grace you carry, there is a battle attached to it. And you need to check. You need to check. If you don't realize what you have and who you are and if knowledge is missing, you'll be a victim of the battle.

If God has called you as a deliverer and you come after the order of Samson, it is women that kill Samson. It is women that do what? Kill Samson's. That's why Bathsheba told Solomon, do not give your strength to women. Do not give your strength to them that destroy kings. It means if you are a king, your problem would usually be women. And you will find the same problem in lineages that came before you. Many of them, that was how they aborted destiny. This is not my... Are you with me?

Yes, sir. So the problem is that the man is born of a woman. There will be a few days and is full of trouble. But guess what? Nicodemus now comes to Jesus. And Jesus tells him, see, if you are born of a woman, you are limited. You are limited because you are in the first Adam. You bear the image of the first Adam. The serpent was instructed to feed on you. Thus shall you eat.

The serpent can afflict your finances. There are people that devouring spirits have sat down in the center of the family. Whenever a big money comes into the family, there must be a sickness that will take it off. A surgery to pay. Something foolish will just happen. The vehicle will have accident. You're telling that you you need to repair the engine for 500,000 naira. I'm a 20 inch. They said, no, it's not the engine. It's a gearbox.

Nicodemus came to Jesus, and Jesus told him, except a man be born again. It means there are some of us who are no longer born of women. Remember, the problem was that a man was born of a woman. X. When a man is born of a woman, his days are full of trouble. Jesus says the solution is you must be born again. There's no other solution to it. You must be born again. So in John chapter one and verse 12, look at what the bible says. But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God.

Even to them that believe on his name, verse 13, which are born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God. It means when a man is born again, he's no longer born of man. He's born of God. Stay with me. So Job chapter 14 verse one is not true for everyone. It's only true for those born of women. But as many have received him, he has given them power to be sons of God because they are now born of God. Can you shout I'm born of God? My days are not full of trouble. My days are not full trouble.

I will not lack. I will lack. The earth will yield its increase to me. Strangers will feed my flock. Shout there's a mighty supply. I can't die a useless death Because tents are coming to my light. Kings to the brightness of my rising. Kings the brightness my Say I'm born of God. What does this mean? When Jesus took the last Passover with his disciples, that Passover was a very powerful phenomenon.

Let's assume that Jesus started taking Passover when he was five. And at this point, he was aged 33. That means he would have eaten Passover over 18 times or some... Or something. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But there was something different about that last one. In fact, in Luke 22 and verse 15, he said, with desire, I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. It's not because I'm about to die. Oh, let's eat this thing passionately.

Oh, no. There was something that was about to happen during that Passover because this man that we call Jesus is the spotless holy lamb of God. No sin in him. And if the bible says the wages of sin is death, then how was he gonna die if he had no sin in him? Knowing he had no sin in him, how was he gonna die? Read the bible carefully. They tried to kill him several times. They could not kill him. Not that they didn't try. They could not kill him.

Not that they did not make an attempt. They could not kill him. Something had to happen before he could die. And if that thing did not happen, he could not die. It was impossible for him to die. That's why he said no one can kill me. The son of man offers up his life. He give it willingly away. The process of giving up his life willingly did not begin on the cross. It began on this last supper.

On that last night of the supper, he told them, take. This is my body broken for you. And he gave them bread to eat. He gave them his righteousness. Give them his righteous blood. Give them his righteous bread as as as body as bread and blood as wine. What was happening there was Jesus was telling them, enter into me as I enter into you. What happened during the Passover was an exchange. Jesus was taking on humanity. He was taking on the nature of Adam.

It's like a change of administration. It's like we have said that Nigeria, the government has represented us poorly, And the decisions the prophet... The poly... The government has made has put every Nigerian in poverty. Now a new administration comes and now takes over power so that that new administration now becomes what represents Nigeria. Do you understand what I'm doing? That was what Jesus was doing. It was at this point that Jesus was becoming the last Adam or the second Adam. He was telling them, take mine and give me yours. He took on humanity.

Took humanity into himself in that last Passover as they ate of the bread and they drank of the cup and Jesus partook in that offering with them, he was wearing humanity. So that humanity was no longer in the last Adam. Humanity was now in Jesus. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. The moment Jesus did this, the humanity he was wearing was a sinful humanity, a rebellious humanity. The moment Jesus did this, he started experiencing the emotions that were strange to him. Because now it was at this point that Jesus took on sin. It was at this point Jesus took on separation from God. In Matthew 26 verse 38, immediately after the last supper, he went to get Simeon to start praying.

But let's let's do KJV. Look at what the bible says. Then said he unto them, my soul is exceedingly sorrowful. How can Jesus know sorrow? Sorrow is as a result of the spiritual separation from God. Jesus never knew separation from his father, and Jesus is now saying my soul is sorrowful. This was because he had eaten off the bread. He had taken up humanity. Now you can feel the emotions of humanity. This is why the bible said we do not have an high priest who is not touched.

Because he entered into sin and became it. He didn't go and commit a sin. He took on sin, embodied sin in humanity, embodied humanity in sin. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Now it was possible for Jesus to know sorrow. Hebrews five and verse seven, KJV. Look at what the Bible says. It says, oh, in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard in that he... How can Jesus fear?

Jesus fear. That's no longer Jesus. That is falling humanity. This man does not fear. He was in the sea and the storm was raging, and he was sleeping. And when he woke up, he wanted to go and meet his disciples. He didn't get the nearest booth. He walked on water. That man doesn't fear. He told the Pharisees and Sadducees, woe to the Pharisees.

Is that a man that fears? The lawyers came to him and said, will you also tell us woe? Woe to the lawyers. Is that a man that fears? This man could not be killed, but the moment he took on humanity, emotions that were strange to him. The fear was not because of the physical torture I will experience. He feared separation from the father. He feared death. So the same way Adam died twice, Jesus also died twice. Remember the first death that Adam died was a spiritual death, a separation from God.

That was what happened to Jesus when he took on humanity. He was separated from God. On the cross was the physical death. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Christ took on the elements and took on us. And what God did in creating Adam and putting all of humanity in Adam now happened in Christ. Do you know why Christ had to take on humanity before he died and not after he died? Do you know why he did not redirect and say, now let me take on humanity. He took on humanity before his death because humanity must partake of his death. You see, you have sinned.

You are a sinner. And because you are a sinner, you must be judged. Do you understand that? Yes, sir. However, you cannot pay for your own sins. The price is too great. The blood of the righteous man is needed. Nobody was righteous. But you must be judged. God cannot just say, I forgive you.

The claims of justice must be satisfied. And because humanity could not satisfy the claim of justice, God had to find a way to satisfy the claim of justice. So because you were not alive when Adam sinned on your behalf, that's the same way God said, you know what? You don't have to be alive when Christ died on your behalf. So during that Passover, he now wore humanity. He he took humanity from Adam and said, give me what is mine. Entered into that office. Everything he started doing from that moment ends what was humanity. No longer Jesus Christ, the son of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the son of man. He was now the last Adam, the second Adam.

So as he was being driven to the cross, humanity was inside him. Do you understand what I'm saying? Galatians chapter three twenty six. Yes, I'm not getting what I'm saying. Romans three and verse 23. The Bible says, for all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God. We like to put the scripture a lot. Father, forgive us of all our sins for all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory. But continuing, verse 24, the bible says, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. In Christ Jesus.

Verse 25, whom God set forth as a propitiation by his blood through faith to demonstrate his righteousness because in his forbearance, God had passed over the sins that were previously committed. 26, to demonstrate at the present time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Have you forgotten Levi and Abraham? Levi was in Abraham when Abraham was paying tithe. So Levi paid tithe in Abraham. That is the same way you were in Christ when he was on the cross. Jesus, listen to me. He wasn't just suffering for his own sins. He was suffering for our sins. So Christ didn't just die for me.

Christ died as me. Romans chapter six number six. The bible says knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him and the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. Our old man was crucified. Are you seeing are you seeing these things? This was how it happened. You entered into him when he took on humanity. That is how... That that was when your old man was crucified. In Galatians two and verse 20, Paul says, I have been crucified with Christ.

How? When? Was he there? No. But when Christ took on humanity, Paul says I was there. I was inside him. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself once for me. So when we say my sins are forgiven, we are declaring what has happened. I can't be punished for my sins.

It is appointed for men to die once. After them, judgement. Someone who has been punished cannot be punished for the same offense. I've been punished in Christ. When Christ died, I died. Are you with me? Yes. I died in Christ. I was buried in Christ. When he went to hell, where were you?

Didn't get that. When Jesus died, he didn't go to heaven. He went to hell. He went to hell. And all the demons thought they had gotten him finally. And all of a sudden, the spirit of God burst out of heaven, entered into the depths of hell. And the bible says, if the same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead was your mortal body. So when the spirit of God entered into Jesus in hell, and Jesus now stood up in hell, and now started spoiling presupposes and powers, where were you? Wait. Wait.

Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Oh, you don't get it. It means it means it means it means if a demon appears to you, it's not the first time he's seeing you. Someone other than say, go to hell. Said, I've been there.

Guess what? I've been there. I didn't remain there. On the third day, I burst out. I burst out in Christ. The bible says you have been raised together with Christ. Raised together. We have been raised together. That's why every time the bible describes the victory of the believer, it's always in past tense. Why?

Because it's not something that will happen. It's something that has happened. In first Peter chapter two and verse 24, KJV, all scriptures in KJV, who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed. Pastors. First John chapter four and verse four. The bible says, you are of God, little children, and have overcome them. Pause. And will And shall? And what? Have.

So the question is, if you have, when did you? First John two and verse 14, I've written unto you fathers because you have known him right from the beginning. I've written unto you young men because you are strong and the word of God abideth in you and you have overcome the wicked one. So they say there's somebody that's wicked in your village. You see the forces of darkness that are against me, they are too much. I wish you knew what happened over a thousand years ago. I wish you knew that the forces of darkness that was on top of Jesus in hell and you were in him were more than the one against you now. All the hogs of hell were on him in hell and you were in him. So when Jesus was rising from the grave, who was also rising from the grave? When he won the victory over the grave, who also won the victory over the grave?

Second Corinthians chapter two and verse 14, amplified version. The bible says, but thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph. Amplified now says, as trophies of Christ's victory. Do you know what triumph means? If you go to a football field and let's say Chelsea is playing against Arsenal and Chelsea defeats Arsenal, that is victory. Is that not so? What now happens after is that they will not take the cup and now start to be lifted. That's triumph. Triumph comes after victory. That's why the bible says he leads us in triumph.

In other words, we are not the one fighting the war. The war has been fought. Now we are triumphing. That's why amplified announces as trophies of Christ's victory. So so the trophy that you... That Jesse will now raise, Jesus now rose. You are not getting this. Listen. Listen. Jesus now came.

He now said, look at Emmanuel. This is the trophy of my victory. That it can stand before Christ uncondemned. It can stand before before God uncondemned without sin, blameless and holy. That's the trophy. They can stand before demons without fear. That's the trophy. Having sport, principalities, powers. Who did it? Christ.

Where were you? Do you know how I know I can never go down? Because I have risen once. When all the hot and the forces of the universe were against Christ, if Christ could rise from the dead and I rose in Christ, what can bring me down? Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.

Philippians four thirteen. What does he say? I can do all things through Christ. I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. I know you think you understand. Let's do amplified version. Amplified version says, I have strength. Pause. Don't even say I will have. Watch.

Watch. Watch. Watch. I have strength for all things. Where? In Christ. Boss, where? In Christ. That's why he said, God has summed up everything in Christ. So that outside of Christ, nothing that seeks to advance its purposes can advance.

As long as a man is in Christ, the bible says I have strength for all things in Christ who empowers me. Now everybody, read. One, two, three. Go. Us, do you know the part I like? I'm ready for anything. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. They say MB exam is coming.

MB exam is coming. Hey. Hey. Everybody's afraid. They are afraid. They are in fear. I look at them and say, I'm ready for anything. Listen. Listen. Listen.

Listen. They say, that distinction, nobody ever get it to. I'm equal to anything. That is what the Bible says. Hear me? Hear me? The question is, what does the believer know? Listen. Listen. The next time you are going for a contract, you are talking to a client and they gave you a project and they say we need it delivered in two months.

A team of 10, a team of 20, you can't... You alone cannot do it. Am wondering, do I know anybody? I am equal to anything. I am ready for anything. It means the wisdom to execute projects that are bigger than me is supplied. The bible says Christ has been made wisdom unto me. It means if I... Oh, God. How do I carry a book to read?

And I say, this thing is too difficult. I am equal to anything. I am ready for anything. I have strength for all things in Christ who empowers me. I can't do ministry and be sick. I can't do... Oh my god. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me?

You will never hear that the reason apostle Manik could not come and preach was because he was sick. Oh, God. Oh, God. Ephesians two and verse four. Watch this. Ephesians two and verse four. Watch this. But God, who is rich in mercy for his great love, wherewith he loved us. Next verse. Even when we were dead in sins, had quickened us together with...

Are you seeing it? Are you saved? When we were dead, he us together. In other words, this quickening happened when he was quickening Christ. Do you get it? Give me penalty. Give me penalty. That even though we're dead because of our sins, he raised us... He gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. Did you get that now?

Yes, sir. That was when he gave you life. Go back to the New King James version. Watch this. Next verse, verse six, it then says, and he raised us up. He raised us up and made us sit. Listen. Listen. How many together do you want to see before you believe? Go back to the previous verse.

Verse five. The bible says, he made us alive together. Next verse. Raised us up together. Made us sit together. You need to see that where Christ is sitting. When Christ was ascending to heaven and they watched him ascend, where were you? Because when he was coronated, where were you? The bible says, he made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So, pause, you are not only sitting with Christ.

You are sitting in Christ. Pause. Pause. If you are sitting with Christ in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, we must now begin to understand where Gongom is heavenly places. Where Gongom? Where am I even sitting, sir? Because what some of you think is one, cheerleader, just sit down. In Ephesians one nineteen, the bible now says, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe according to the working of his mighty power? Next verse. Which he walked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand.

So where is Christ sitting? Where are you sitting? Folks, in the heavenly places, that's where Christ is sitting. That's where you are sitting. The right hand does not mean about or alone. That's not what it means. It means the seat of authority. Right hand means authority. Scepter means authority. These these are these are metaphors of authority in scriptures.

So what God is saying is that he has given him authority. He put him at a position of authority. Guess what? Guess what? That was the same authority, not even the same, a superior authority than the one the first Adam had. The first Adam had dominion, had authority, and you were in Adam when he had dominion. Yes, sir. So when he lost it, you were in Adam when he lost it. Christ now said I will collect it back. He now put you in himself.

He now collected it back. You're getting getting? Yes, sir. Except for the fact that the dominion that Christ now collected back is not the one that Adam lost. Adam had dominion over the fishes of the sea. Adam had dominion over the beds of the hare. Adam had dominion over the, you know... When Jesus now came, Jesus said, I am the one that has the power over hell. Heaven, earth. He said whatever you bound in heaven, it will be bound on earth.

Whatever you lose in heaven, it will be lose on earth. Why? Because you are seated with Christ in heavenly places. So... Hear me? The authority the believer has extend the boundaries of the earth. That's why we can raise the dead. Stay with me. Understand what I'm saying. Look at it.

Next verse. Next verse. Next verse. Next verse. It now begins to describe these heavenly places. He said far above. Pause. Pause. Pause. Pause.

Far above. If you have said above, it's better. He says, this heavenly places that you are sitting in Christ is far above all principality. Us. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. See, just stop here. Just pause here. All principalities and...

Stop there. Let's jump to Colossians two verse 14. How many of you have heard that? Ah, they've written something about your destiny. Bible says having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us. Listen, which was contrary to us. So I don't doubt that somebody wrote something. I don't doubt that somebody took my name somewhere. I don't doubt somebody carry my picture. I don't doubt are you with me?

Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. They took your name. They now they now went to a tree. We now use nail. They hand nail it to a tree. Now they... The Bible is having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. Watch this.

The bible says he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Pause. Pause. So was it when they wrote your name that he nailed it to the cross? That is the reason why I'm not afraid of anybody writing my name. I'm not afraid of anybody pronouncing nonsense. Hear me. Before you pronounce, he saw your pronouncement and nailed it to the cross. Listen. Listen.

Including the one you will pronounce tomorrow. This ministry is rising. Somebody will come and say, hey. Hey. Hey. Let's watch them. They will soon start going down. Hey. It wiped out every handwriting. Hear me.

Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. He saw everything they can ever say. Hear me. The bible says, I hope you know that it's not only with handwriting that they write. The bible says my tongue is like the pen of a regular writer. It means people can write with their tongues. People people have looked at people and they have said, logo.

Hear me? Hear me? Some people want to prophet. Prophet say, older brother has more glory than the younger brother. And you heard it. You now live your life thinking I don't have glory. I don't have glory. I don't have glory. The bible says having wiped out the handwriting of requirement that was against us. Us, they say if you don't bring if you don't bring New Yam New Yam during New Yam festival at home, your business will collapse.

Those were requirements against you. It's a requirement. Something you have to do to service the altar of... To service demonic altar. They say you have to go and bath in your river. You have to cover yourself with fish blood. They say, these were requirements that were against you and a wipeden mouth. Plus, he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. He did it even before your grandfather was born. Watch this.

Watch this. So if in my family, people don't rise. If my family, people face battles that keep them small. If my family, people run mad, people fall sick, all kind of things, and there are patterns in my family. The bible says, if any man now is in Christ, plus, it's not an upgrade. It's not a reformed. It's a different species that has never existed. Pause. Pause. Pause.

Pause. I I hope I'm not forgotten where are coming from. Five o principalities. Oh, yeah. Wait. He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Look at the next verse. Having disarmed principalities. All the old deeds. Having done what?

Give me NLT. No. MSG. If I don't if don't if I don't find it... Alright. One, two, three, go. Wait. Wait. Wait. Hold on.

Hold on. Hold on. So all these spiritual tyrants, principalities, powers, spiritual wickedness, all of them are tyrants. The bible says, he matched them naked through the streets. So when he was matching them naked, do you know how you hold somebody's leg like this? And you are dragging the person like this. Watch me. Watch me. That was what Jesus did in hellfire. When he went to hell, he took Lucifer.

He took all the principalities. He took all the demons. He was now matching them around hell. Are you with me? Yes, sir. He was a CEO. CEO. CEO. Us. Us.

Us. When he was doing that, where were you? So how come what you have disarmed in Christ now wants to come and harm you? Listen. Listen. Listen. This is how I know my business can only prosper. You hear me? So when I say there is nothing the devil can do, when you hear me make statements like, the devil will only be hungry. When you hear me make statements like, I can't die in an in an accident.

You know why? Because the guy I was in Christ. I was in Christ when we were dragging him up and down. I was in Christ when we're showing him up and down like this. I was in Christ. You hear me? So when you will not do spiritual warfare, how do we do spiritual warfare from the perspective of, hey, God help my life? No. That's not how we do spiritual warfare. The bible says that now go back to far above.

Far above principalities. Why are you far above them now? Because you have disarmed them. They have no power. They have no authority. They have nothing anymore. You have disarmed them. Five of principalities, powers, might, dominion. Every name that is named, can you see this? Every name that is...

That is named. Every name that is named. Does that business have a name? So you met someone, they say, I'm having issue. What's the problem? They say, ah, it's a tumor. Does it have a name? Yes, sir. So from what perspective do you begin to pray? I am far above every name that is named.

Listen. So listen. So I don't say I don't say, Jesus, please heal this person. Understand that the authority Jesus has to heal that person from where he has authority is where you are. It means I can look at that tumor and say, tumor, leave. Listen. I can pick up the phone. Listen. Whenever I saw... Listen.

Whenever I see that Satan is is is is wants to misbehave, he's planning things around my family, and I wake up in a dream and I see it, I start laughing. If you see if you see a two year old boy bringing pencil and he's coming to you like this and he's saying, I'll beat him. I'll beat him. You will look and be saying, God, please. God, please. Hear me? Hear me? So when I wake up, I say, is that what the devil is planning? Hear me? Hear me?

Hear me? Let's continue with him. Watch this. And every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. Next verse. I I don't have time to stay here. And he put all things under his feet. Us. When he put all things under his feet, where were you? So all things, does it include demons?

Does it include principalities? Does it include powers? Does it include poverty? So where is the devil? Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? The devil is a toothless bulldog. All can do is back. And even when he's backing, he's backing he's backing from...

Listen. This is what we know. This is what we know that cancer are are are disseminating. Tumor is disappearing. This is what we know that cystic fibrosis is disappearing. Blind eyes are opening. Lame legs are working. This is what we know. All signs decimated by the power of God. This is what we know.

Are you seeing that... Listen. Are you seeing that it's not it's not for a reserved field? It's not for some people. It's not for men of God. Are you with me? When you know this thing I'm saying, you will say... You... Listen. When this thing strikes you as revelation, you will come out of your room and you will say no demon will ever oppress me again.

Listen. Listen. Listen. Someone came to me one time and the person said, sir, sir, sir, sir, I'm afraid to pray. Why are you afraid to pray? He said anytime I pray, Anytime I pray. Every time I pray, I always see that it's as though somebody there's somebody looking at me. I thought they're spying at me. As though I thought I was I was somebody in the windows opening, looking at me, and I'll be afraid. And I say, what if they are looking at you?

No. No. No. Wait. What if they are looking at you? What if they are looking at you? The Bible says, he has set a table before me. In the presence of my enemies. It means... Listen.

Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. It means the greatest punishment that Jesus gave to the devil is to ensure that he can watch you as you are prospering. That's the greatest punishment. You don't understand. Right? That you can't be...

Jesus, the devil will be angry. He will say, I don't God said, no. Look at him. He's rising. Pause. So listen. Listen. When you sit there, they are looking at you, pray more. Are you with me? Are you with me?

This is where the believer lives. Do you believe these things? Do you believe these things? Sir. It means nothing can affect your life. You may be having problem with lust, and you say, they call my father, has two wives, and have several children outside. So even if I don't go to girls, girls will You are now where? Us. Us. Where is the cancer in Christ?

Where is the diabetes in Christ? Where is the blood pressure in Christ? Christ has no diabetes. Christ has no HIV. Christ has no... Listen. We we went to a place and and somebody told us. Somebody told us. He said, this prayer we have prayed now, we have offended the principalities. We need to start asking God for mercy.

Hear me? Hear me? I'm I'm I'm ignorant fellow that is saying, God, have mercy. God, have mercy. Somebody tells me I've offended the principalities, you know what I will tell them? I say it's not now I offended them. If you... Listen. Listen. If you say because I came to this territory, offended them.

All you know is when I was dragging them up and down. I've met them before. I disarmed them. The devil is not more is not more is not more dangerous now than he was before. He has been disarmed. He has been what? Listen. I'm not trying to prove a point. I'm superior to the devil. The closest place the devil is to me is under my feet.

Hear me. If you have been oppressed in the dream, go back with this knowledge. No demon can oppress me. Pray in tongue before you sleep. That pain is somewhere in your in your in your body. Put your hands down and say, how to devil. You are trying to remember something. Don't say, my father too used to complain that he cannot remember things. I'm having problem with remembering things. Put your hand on your head and tell yourself if this same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead dwells in me, that same spirit will quicken, will quicken my mortal body.

Us, is your brain a part of your mortal body? He has exalted my horn like the horn of the unicorn. Hear me? The bible says in the book of Philippians chapter two verse nine down to verse 11, the Bible says, therefore God has highly exalted him and has given him a name above every other name that in the name of Jesus, every knee should bow. Of knees in heaven, of those on earth, and of those under the earth. Next verse, that Exalted. He has given him a name. He has exalted him. And the bible says of you that he had exalted your horn like the horn of the unicorn. Do you know what it means?

Oh God. Oh God. So next time they say, every living soul, every living soul, every living are you a living soul? Are you dancing? I'm not a living soul. I'm a life giving spirit. The Bible says the Bible says the Bible says says the first Adam was a living soul. The second Adam is a life giving spirit. In whose order are you? First, first, if you are after the order of the life giving spirit, do you know what it means?

It means nothing dies in my hands. My business cannot die. My academics cannot die. My ministry cannot die. My purpose cannot die. My destiny cannot die. I cannot die. My children cannot die. There is nothing that comes out of me that dies. Nothing dies in my hands.

Hear me? Hear me? Next time, when people say, ah, look at you, like father like son, except they are talking about Christ. Go identify yourself with nonsense. My identification is in Christ Jesus. My identity is going to be glory, It's with power. Oh, glory to God. I can never fail. Someone says, why are these things happening in my life? Not as much...

Apostle, if what you are saying is true, but is why my life like this? What is going on in my life? My people are distraught. For lack of knowledge. Philemon chapter one verse six, the Bible says, the communication of your faith be made effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you. In Christ Jesus. It means it means how... The word communication of your faith is what? Koinonia. The sharing of your faith.

In other words, how your faith becomes effectual to do. Effectual means to bear results. How your Christian faith bears result is when you begin to acknowledge the good things which are in you in Christ. It means it is as we are talking like this. As we are saying, the devil is under my feet. What are we doing? We are acknowledging. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. We are acknowledging.

The devil is under my feet. I'm a life giving spirit. Nothing ties in my hands. Are you with me? Is somebody ready to acknowledge? Yeah. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? I'm done already.

I'll give you three minutes to pray. Watch. Listen. Hear me? I'll give you three minutes to pray. After the third minute, what will you begin to do? You will start acknowledging. You will start declaring. Many of you. The Bible says, listen.

The Bible says, strangers will flee from their hidden places. The bible says, the light shines in darkness. The darkness comprehends it not. For many of you as you are speaking, light will be piercing your spirit. Listen. For many of you, where darkness has been hiding because of ignorance, you will see demons running out. They will be they will be running. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me?

For some of you, you will now make yourself as a point of contact for your family. Hear me? Hear me? Three minutes, we'll pray. We'll pray in tongues intensely. After the third minutes, start acknowledging. Listen, mean what you're about to do. Mean what you're about to do. Hey, God. Please, I beg you.

I beg you. Are you ready? Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. If there are some of you in this place that the devil has cheated you in any way, and you can... You know, as I was talking, were seeing it. You were remembering your your family. You had a you had a burden for them.

You could see it. You could see your own life. You could see the patterns in your own life. If there's anybody like that, right now, you will enforce the light of God's word over those patterns. You will say I come against the devil in this area. You will acknowledge what God has done in this area. Are you ready to pray in tongues? Pray in tongues for three minutes now. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed. Let your amen be loud and clear.

Listen, as I begin to prophesy and speak words over you. Listen, many of you will see results by this time next week. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Now that you know, it is easy to prophesy. When a believer has knowledge, it is easy to prophesy. Let hear me. As I'm prophesying, help the person beside you.

The power of God will come upon people here. In the name of Jesus. There are some women I'm seeing in this place. You inherited worry, worry from your mother. Hear me? Worry. Intense worry. Intense frustration. Intense overthinking, negative thoughts, suicidal thoughts. You inherited it from your mother and it plagues you.

But right now I stretch my hands. That spirit of worry, go out now. I stretch my hands. Whatever family pattern is responsible for delay, for stagnancy, for delay. Oh my God. Lift your hands up. For delay, for stagnancy. Right now, I break that chain. Listen. Listen.

There are about 10 people here that the power of God will come upon right now. Power the of God. For your sake, let time be collapsed. Achievement of three years, be in three months. Achievement of six years, being six months. Hear me. Where people get to your family at age 50, at age 60, get there now. Hear me? As many of you as I hear, under the sound of my voice, still confused. You are in a cloud of confusion.

You are wondering what do I do? How do I go about it? I wipe away that cloud now. Receive direction now. Listen. Listen. Outside, inside, on the gallery. Stay for like you have never received. Hear me. Hear me.

Hear me. Hear me. There are some of you who have experienced some level of favor before. You have experienced some level of favor before. But the Bible says grace and peace be multiplied. Hear me. Favor like you have never received. I push you inside now. I push you inside now. God is increasing your reach.

God is giving you influence. God is giving you influence. Your tears are wiped. Your tears are wiped. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. God is making your hands, hands of steel. Hear me. Hear me. Up until today.

Up until today. What has impossible for you to do? What you have been trying to do? What projects you have been trying to do? Right now I declare, it becomes possible. Now I declare, go and start. Go and start. Go and start. Go and do. Go and start.

Go and do. Take it now. Listen, the Bible says, I am the Lord your God that giveth you the power to prosper. I stretch my hands. I declare that power to prosper. Receive it now. Receive it now. Receive it now. In the name of Jesus. Listen to me.

This year, enter millions. This year, enter your millions. As I'm in this corner, God is telling me, there are some of you that I have... That you have lost. You have lost like Job lost. You have lost like Job lost. I don't know if it's your family or yourself, But God is saying, when God restored the captivity of Job, he had two times of what he had, of what he lost. Listen, I don't care where you are coming from. I don't care what was stolen. I don't care what was lost.

Let it be replaced right now. Let it be restored right now. Let it be replaced right now. In the name of Jesus. You will hear a voice behind you saying this is the way, walk in it. Listen, that one man that that God will connect you to, That will change everything for you. That will change everything to your family. I bring the connections now. Hold my hands. Tens of millions.

Tens of millions. Tens of millions. Receive it now. In the name of Jesus. Hey, I'm seeing wings in the spirit. I'm seeing wings in the spirit. You are soaring. You are soaring. You are soaring. You are soaring.

Receive it now. In the name of Jesus. Hear me. Hear me. The Bible says, he has taken me from the miry clay. He has set my foot upon the rock. Hear me. From wherever you are, lifting power picks you up. Lifting power picks you up. Lifting power picks power you up.

Lifting power picks you up. Open my eyes. Enter your millions now. Take it now. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Receive a shift right now. Receive a shift right now. Receive a shift now. Take it.

In the name of Jesus. Receive a shift now. In the name of Jesus. Take it now. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. God is changing your customer base. There are some of you here. God is placing you into political power.

You are meeting governors. You are meeting honorables. You are meeting senators. Listen. You will check your mail. You will check your email. And you will see applications, offer letter that you did not apply for. Jobs did not apply for. Contracts did not apply for. Business did not apply for.

In the name of Jesus. Hear me. PCN has multiplied. This year has multiplied. Now I declare, multiply. Hear me. There are some of you who have been thinking, I wanna give in six digits. I wanna give in seven digits. I wanna give in eight digits. It have been coming to your mind.

Now I declare, reinforce about that thing around you. Enter, enter. Hear me. There are some of you in this place listening to me. I see two people like that. Hear me. This is by the spirit. By the spirit. I'm not... I don't speak casually.

Before the end of this year, you are not in Nigeria. This year. I don't know how it will happen. But before the end of this year, international doors have opened. Hear me. There are some of you. God has given ideas, NGOs, ministries, businesses to go and start. And you are wondering, where will the capital come from? Where will the money come from? Listen to me.

I pull resources to you. Hear me. I open the eyes of men to you. Wherever doors have shut, let them open now. I release an impartation of the mantle of healings. Signs and wonders. We see that anointing now. The grace to see. The ears that hear. We see that anointing now.

Signs and wonders. We see that anointing now. Hear me. Hear me. Tangible angelic manifestations. Hear me. Physical angelic manifestations. There are some of you. Lost items will start reappearing. All through this week, experience favor.

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