Transcript: Just As Your Soul Prospers
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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. Third John chapter one. Third John chapter one. And verse two. The Bible says, behold, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul prospers. In twenty minutes or thirty minutes, I have a very short exhortation for us that I have titled just has your soul prospers.
Just has your soul prospers. The word prosper in the Greek is the word, and it means to succeed in reaching. In other words, it means to succeed on a journey. It describes the life of a man on a journey. And he's saying about that man that the man succeeds in reaching where he intends to go. He's describing the life of a man on a journey. In other words, it also means to succeed in business or adventure the journey in this wise is business. It means to succeed in any endeavor, to succeed in anything that you are building, to succeed in any journey that you are taking. And the bible is saying that your success in any endeavor, in your business, in your academics, in your career, in your marriage, in your life is directly proportional to the prosperity of your soul. So he says, I wish above all things.
I pray above all things that you prosper, that you succeed in your business, that you succeed in your marriage, that you succeed in your academics, even that you succeed in anything that your hands find doing even as your soul prospers. Even as your soul prospers. Do you know what this means? This means whatever condition a man's life is is a direct proportion or should I say a direct diagnosis of the state of his soul. That if your soul prospers, then your life, your business, your marriage, your ministry, your academics, every part of you prospers. It means if I look at a man and I see that his life is not a picture of what God has ordained, his life is not a picture of hidden, his life is not a picture of a believer, then the diagnosis is your soul is not prospering. Something is wrong with that man's soul. Now many a times, we try to deal with the problem by dealing directly with the external circumstances. So if I see that my business is not moving the way it should move, I start finding solutions for my business. If I see that my marriage, there is conflict in my marriage.
There's all kind of things in my marriage. I start finding solutions for my marriage. I go to a counselor. I go to a therapist. I go to different people that I think can help my marriage. But the bible is saying that if you check your life and you see that the... Your life is not a picture of what God has promised, the first thing to look at is your soul. Because your life will only prosper to the degree to which your soul has prospered. Your business will only prosper to the degree to which your soul has prospered. In fact, it says prosper in all things and be in health.
It even means your health will only prosper through the degree to which your soul has prospered. In all things, I wish that you prosper. Financially, I wish that you prosper. But then you... All the prosperity in this kingdom is only to the degree to which your soul prospers. This is powerful. This is powerful. It means trying to fix your marriage, trying to fix your business, trying to fix all other areas of your life externally in themselves will yield no result and will ultimately lead to frustration. Why? Because the state of your soul ultimately determines the state of your life.
This is very powerful. You know why it is powerful? Because it is not the state of your spirit that determine you through your life. If it were so, we are blessed. You know why? Because the spirit is perfect. When the Bible speaks of all the new creation realities, it speaks of the spirit. The regenerated spirit, the recreated human spirit is the one that has come into the fullness of all these realities. So when the bible says you are blessed, you are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. This reality belongs to your spirit.
It's in your spirit. All the blessings are there. By his stripes, we were healed. It is in your spirit. He has given unto us all things that pertains unto life and godliness. All things is in your spirit. All the promises of God will not be yours. They are already yours. They are yours in your spirit. Your recreated human spirit where the holy spirit now tabernacles is completely God.
Does not need any upgrade whatsoever. It is God in his perfection. It does not say, I wish you prosper even as your spirit prospers. You know what it means? It means the moment you become born again, if that is what he had said, everything in your life will change. To reflect the state of your spirit, you realize that the moment you say, I give my life to Christ, you will never fall sick again. You will never fail in your academics again. You will never fail in your business again. You will never fail in your finances again. The moment you say, I give my life to Christ.
But it is not the spirit that determines the prosperity of your life, unfortunately. And so the realities can be in a believer. As a matter of fact, everything you need to prosper as a believer, everything you need to do life effectively as a believer has been given to you by God. If you don't understand this, you will wonder why you read several things in the bible that are not the experiences of believers. The bible says, since I was born, now I am getting hold. I have never seen the righteous forsaken and a seed beg for bread. But there are many righteous that they experience right now is almost as though they've been forsaken. Are they not believers that beg for bread? Are they not believers who are incapacitated financially? Are there not families who are praying, trusting God for their daily bread, and it's a struggle?
Are there not people under the sound of my voice right now expecting a miracle to happen? Because even what they will eat tonight is not even sure. Yet the bible that he has given unto us all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Now when a believer sees this, he does not understand. Do you know what the Bible says? The Bible says you will have. It does not say you will have. You have an anointing from the holy one, and you know all things. My God. My God.
Imagine if this is true for a student. That you enter into the reality of the anointing you have from the holy one, and you know all things. It does not say you will have. You have it already. You know all things. David said, I have more understanding than all my teachers. Do you know that the fullness of the seven spirit of God is in you? The spirit of counsel and might. The spirit of wisdom is in you. The bible says Christ has been made wisdom unto us.
But how many believers are still making foolish decisions even upon today? My God. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper. And be in good health. Prosper in all things. Prosper and be in good health in all things, but even as thy soul prospers. It means every time you look at your life, any area of your life, and you are not okay, you are not satisfied, you are not happy with the result you see, immediately realize that that is a diagnosis of how your soul looks like. Yours... Your your life can never lie. Your life will always give you a report card of the state of your soul.
You may think that you know scriptures. You may think you have believed scriptures. You may think I'm okay. I can quote several scriptures. But if it is not reflected in your life, your life is the ultimate report card. I'm found in your presence. That is where there's strength in your presence. That is where there's hope in your presence. That is where there's joy in your presence. That is where there's strength in your presence.
In your presence. In your your I can look at the life of a man, and I can tell the things that are wrong with the man's soul. Prosper in all things. Prosper in all things. I've taught you here that a man is made up of the spirit, soul, and body. Listen. Let me help you. When I sing, I'm not a singer. I'm not entertaining you. Be wise.
It is the time to pray in the spirit. Possibilities are being activated when I lift my voice to sing. Instead of looking at me, what you do like people who have been taught is to close your eyes and pray in the spirit. Take advantage of that atmosphere and receive whatever God has for you. Yes. I can look at the life of a man and immediately I'm able to tell that this is where your mind has not been renewed. This is what is called submission to renewal of the mind and transformation by the world. I've told you here, the three of you come. Come fast. I've told you here that there's a difference between the spirit of a man, the soul of a man, and the body of a man.
That man is tripartite. Man is made up of the spirit, the soul, and the body. This is where perfection resides. When you gave a life to Christ, this was changed immediately. The holy spirit tabernacle your spirit and and living your spirit. Your spirit came alive, you were born again. The part of you that was born again is your spirit. So every promises in scripture already resides in your spirit through the holy spirit. Are you with me? Yes, sir.
However, your soul is still the same. Your body is still the same. The salvation of the soul is what is known as renewal. What the Bible is saying is everything that your body does, either your body is doing business, either your body is doing... Either your body gets married, and by your body, I mean you. Either you get married, either you are doing business, either you are writing an exam, either you are working in a place. He's saying that the degree to which this prosperous is the degree to which your spirit has invaded your soul. It's the degree to which your mind, the mind portion of your soul, because your soul consists of the mind, the emotions, and the will. The mind portion of your soul has come to agree, but not just to agree, to believe in the realities that are present in the spirit. So the spirit tells the mind that you are prosperous.
You are the blessed of God. You are the healed of God. By his stripes, you were healed. If your mind does not believe it, your body will not experience it. It is a reality that exists already in your spirit, but that just because it is in your spirit does not mean it flows out to your body. The the mind becomes the bridge between the spirit and the body. So what your body experiences is at the mercy of how renewed your mind is. It means whether or not you succeed in your academics, whether or not you succeed financially, whether or not you succeed mat... Materially even, maritally even, any aspect of your life is actually ultimately dependent on how much prosperity happens in this place. If the soul prospers, then you would ultimately see the body prospering.
The prosperity of the soul is the opening up of the mind to believe the realities of the spirit. Everything you read in the Bible, you know you cannot see the spirit. The spirit man is hidden. You can't see your spirit. However, in as much as you cannot see your spirit, your soul must become ultimately like your spirit. That becomes a problem. Because if I cannot see the spirit, how then do I make my soul ultimately like the spirit? How do I become transformed? The bible says we all, with open face, beholding us in the glass, are being transformed. So what do I behold?
I'm beholding God as he is in my spirit. Are you with me? So that I can be transformed into what I am seeing. So it says we all with open face, beholding us in a glass or as in a mirror. In the book of James, the bible now says that the word of God is a mirror. In other words, the same way you have a physical mirror. What a physical mirror tells you is how your face looks like. What the word of God tells you is how your spirit looks like. So when you open the Bible, the bible says, if anyone is a hearer of the word, he's like a man observing his natural face in the mirror. So the word of God is compared to a mirror.
Are you with me? That is in... The same way a man observe his natural face in the mirror is the same way you observe his spiritual face in the world. So when I read the bible and I see in the bible that God has blessed you, the blessing of Abraham is yours. You will be the head and not the tail. Above only and not beneath. When I say it in scriptures, the Bible says fear not. Fear not for I am your God. Isaiah 41 verse 10. Give it to me very fast.
For I am your God, I will strengthen you. Do not be dismayed. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous hand. All of these things are realities that exist in your spirit. When the Bible says that the the the kingdom of God is in righteousness, peace, and joy, and the kingdom of God is within you. It means righteousness is within you. Peace is within you. Joy is within you.
But where within you is it? Your spirit. So a man can have peace within him, but still be anxious, but still be troubled, but still be dismayed. So when the man says be anxious for nothing, he says how. How is because peace is in your spirit. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? It means you have not yet opened yourself to believe the reality that exist in your spirit. So when I read the scriptures, what is happening is I'm seeing what exists in my spirit, and I'm believing it in my mind. I'm believing it in my heart. Not only agreeing, but believing it.
And as I begin to do this, I'm seeing principles in scriptures that govern the kingdom. As I begin to do this, it flows into my body. I see results in my business. I see favor all around like an like an aura that is flowing from the spirit into the soul, into the body. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper even as your soul prospered. Just because you have access to the word of God does not mean you have chosen to submit to transformation. This is where I'm going. In other words, a man can be able to quote scripture. A man can know several scriptures. Does not mean that that individual has submitted himself to transformation.
Romans chapter 12 and verse two, the bible says, do not be conformed to this world. The word conformed there in the Greek is the word. It's the word, and it means fashioned alike. Fashioned alike to take a semblance of a thing. To take a semblance of a thing. It means to reason, to fashion yourself, to think, to see, to hear the same way the world does. Do not be conformed means do not see like this world. It doesn't necessarily mean don't steal like them. Don't fornicate like them. It primarily means do not think like them.
Yes, sir. Do not reason. Don't fashion yourself like them. Do not reason like them. There are six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. And listen to me, each political zones has its own blessings and its own advantages, but every zone has limitations programmed by demons and principalities associated with these territories. And the way everyone that comes from that territory is locked in into the affliction of the principalities and the demons is through the mindset and the ideologies that are not formed from the word of God, but these principalities spread and make people believe. I'm gonna explain this as we go on in the month. It can be very difficult to let go of wrong mindsets, largely because we tend to have an affinity towards our mindset, a loyalty to our thinking even though it might be faulty just because that is what we have always believed. And so when truth stares us in the face because of ego, many of us find it difficult to drop what we have always believed to now believe the truth.
We have a loyalty to our mindsets, a loyalty to our thinking patterns. And so when people are confronted with the word of God, they might ultimately agree that this is truth, but might not believe because of the loyalty they have to their false thinking. After all, I've always believed this. This is what I grew up with. This is how I grew up. A lady came to me some time ago, and he was sharing with me. She was sharing with me how that every night, she's always oppressed by demons. And if she goes to sleep, she's battling with warfare in the night. If she goes to sleep, she will see witches and wizards. She will see birds.
She will see cats transforming into entities appearing onto her. Sometimes she will not be able to wake up, and she came to me. She said, she brought water and she brought oil. And she said, about five men of God have prayed on the water and the oil, but that the problem is still remaining. So I should join my prayers with them so that she can take it home. And then she knows that with the way she has seen me anointed, if I should join my prayers with theirs, that will complete the equation because five not meaning... Means grace. And so four men of God has prayed, let me be the fifth person. And she takes it home, and she believes if she anoints her bed, anoints... And I looked at her, and sincerely speaking, I felt so much compassion.
Because if she continued with that belief, she will never be delivered. It's not a cause. This is the problem with mindset, mentalities, thinking. This lady does not know that what she's currently experiencing in her life is as a result of the loyalty she has to a false mentality. She has exaggerated the power of the devil. And it is how she grew up. That was what she was taught. Probably those that mentored her. Listen. The holy spirit told me something strange yesterday.
I closed my eyes, and I was fellowshipping just on my chair. And the holy spirit told me, son, do you know it is possible to be born well and not raised well? I just finished correcting someone, and I kept on talking about being raised, being cultured, having good manners as a child. And I got... I I kept on emphasizing to the person I was correcting. And as I slept, I was reminiscing on the correction, and the holy spirit came and told me, just like you have explained right now, it is possible for a man to be born well but not raised well. I said, yes. This is true. Some look at that. It's possible for someone not to have manners.
The holy spirit said, no. That's not what I'm saying. It is possible for a man to be born well, salvation, but not raised well, discipleship. That you are saved truly, but what you submitted your heart to, and it might be through no fault of yours. It might be innocently and sincerely speaking, was a false system of mentorship that mixed religion with tradition, concocted everything together, and presented to you as a doctrine. And you grew up like this, believe this, everything in your heart, do you know that there are many problems you will face that prayer will not solve? Because it is the state of your soul that is attracting that problem to you. I wish above all things that you prosper even as your soul prospers. It means the absence of prosperity in your soul is why your life is not prospering. It's not prayers that will solve it.
That is still part of external solutions we find. So I think if only a man of God can pray, after all, anointing breaks the yoke. There are many times... And you see, I can be counseling someone, and the person is looking at me like this. The person is looking at me like this, and I can see I can see the person is... I can see the unbelief and the doubt. Obvious in the person's face. Like, this man does not know what he's saying. I was talking to one of my young men. One of my young men during the course of the week, and the man told me that he's constantly under a spiritual attack.
He's even here listening to me. He's constantly under a spiritual attack. And that attack comes with a problem in his mouth, and the mouth begins to pain him. And he has seen that this happens after he has prayed for long. The teeth not start paining. It's a spiritual attack. And the attack has been coming. Me and and I was looking at him. I said, young man, will pray with you. But go and see a dentist.
The young man would open up to me and say sincerely, sir, when you told me this, I just felt that you don't understand me because I know my problem is not the dentist. It's a spiritual attack. Guess what? Months after, he was still a dentist that he saw. Do you understand, Frenzy? What made the man believe that that condition is the way his mind set to? It means the devil does not even need to oppress that individual. The fact that your soul already believes that you can be attacked, will draw attacks to you like a magnetic pool. Like a magnetic pool. Such an individual will sleep and be oppressed with all kinds of things because the soul is not prospering.
The person can be a Christian. As a matter of fact, can be a Christian for many years, but the soul is not prospering. Some of us work as gods on earth. Some of us walk as though the devil does not exist. The way we speak is obvious that there is something that we believe. It's obvious. The bible says that you are seated with Christ in heavenly places. We are far above principalities and powers. So if I'm seated with Christ far above principalities and powers, that is the reality of my spirit. That's where this guy is sitting.
If this guy does not know that this is where this guy is sitting, this guy will sit with demons. Do you understand my point? It means when demons are afflicting him, how you help him is not to say get out. The demons will go, but Jesus says that when they go, they will go to the wilderness and look for a place. Then finding no place to stay will now come back to see if their house is still in order. Finding that the house is still the way they left it, they will now come seven times stronger, seven times greater, seven times more powerful, and come and oppress that body again. It means to deliver a man without renewing his mind is wickedness. That's why that's why a lot of churches have consequent deliverances, weekly deliverance, monthly deliverance, and it is the people that attended weekly ones that will go for the monthly one because the demon is always recycling. They go. They come.
They know they need it. And that is where they are by knowledge. We don't blame them. We don't fault them. But there's nowhere in scriptures where Jesus delivered a man twice. Are you with me? Yes, sir. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper even as your soul prospers. So does my soul now know? Does my soul now believe beyond reasonable doubt that I am seated with Christ?
This is the reality of my spirit. It's my reality. There's no demon that can oppress me. No power that can stand against me. So even if somebody comes to come and tell me, be careful, oh, I saw them guarding against you. I saw them guarding against you, and they are planning things against you. The bible says, why do they hate his age? Rage. And the people imagine a vain thing against the Lord and his anointed. The Lord will look at them in terrorism.
He that sits in heaven will laugh. It means there is a place where I will hear that kind of a thing. And depending on how prosperous my soul has been, I will start laughing. They wanna fight, let them fight. They are planning things against me, let them plan. There is also a place where I will be that I will hear that kind of a thing. I will say, so what do I need to do now? How many how many years prayers? How many weeks fasting? Should I go on twenty one days?
What should I now do? None of them is wrong. It's only based on how prosperous their soul have been. Are you seeing the problem here? Listen to me. You must sustain the humility to let go of the wrong things you might have believed when confronted with truth. Don't be ashamed to say, I have believed a lie all along. A lie about God, a lie about the devil, a lie about life, a lie about men, a lie about women, a lie about ministry, a lie about marriage, a lie about academics, a lie about... I've believed a lie all along. Do you know you can believe a lie about God?
Many people's image of God is wrong. A lot of people, how they conceive God, how they think about God, their conception of God in their imagination is wrong. And because of this wrong conception, ultimately, their experiences in God are determined by the conception they've had of God. The bible speaks of the children of Israel that they limited God in their minds. They limited God. How can a man limit God? Do you know how powerful God is? They limited the only one of Israel that God can be powerful in your spirit but be weak in your soul. They limited God. God told them, son, I'm sending you as a prophet to the nations.
The mind is thinking. You see, listen. That reality already exists here. I hope you know. The moment God said it, this has already believed it. This has already received it. This is already seeing it. This is where faith resides. However, this for a long time has been educated by what the eyes can see, what the ears can hear. How this one grow up is in a family that is not well-to-do.
Father probably is a carpenter. Mother probably sells pepper. And so when God is now saying, I will send you to the to the nations. You will take my word to Afghanistan. You will take my word to Europe. You are a priest over Israel. And the man is saying, how can that be possible? It came from one a bully somewhere. The guy is thinking, I don't think this thing I'm receiving is about me. I don't think this can even happen.
I don't think this can even... Are you seeing this now? Yes, sir. Because the mind has not been trained to see the way the spirit is seeing. And as long as that is so, God will be extremely powerful in his spirit but be weak in his soul. God wanna do. The Bible says, God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all you can ask. Do you see that? Yes. God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all you can ask or think.
It means your thinking plays an important role in this kingdom. So in the book of Ephesians, the bible says, now unto him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all we can ask or think. So your thinking plays an important role in this kingdom. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But watch it. Enough says according to the power that works in us. Is it in God? So if God is able to do, he is only able to do not according to his own power, but according to the power that is working inside of you. Guess what?
Not according to the power that is here. It's according to how much power this guy has opened up to flow from the spirit into the body through the soul. Are you with me? Let me see like you. Let me know like you do. Listen. Why is this important? Because God can promise you many things. I've taught you before the promises of God, the seed of greatness that is in your spirit. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. What you eventually become is not dependent on what is here. It's dependent on what is here that moves from here to here. You see, this whole thing is what is called discipleship. That is the purpose of discipleship. Discipleship means sit down so that you can be taught, revealed the state of your spirit, and you come to a point where you now begin to submit your thinking, submit your mindset, submit your perception, throw away whatever perception your culture gave you, your tradition gave you, wrong theology gave you, wrong teachings gave you, and submit your thinking to the word of God. Philippians two five says, let this mind be in you that was in Christ. Let this mind be in you that was in Christ. The word of God must become final authority over your life. Your behavior is so transformed that it betrays where you come from.
We cannot look at you and think you are from a battle. And when you submit to the word of God, something begins to happen in you. When you notice, you won't just become born again and be bragging about you have been a believer for ten years, and then you now make a mockery of your Christian experience. No. The next thing to ask yourself after you are born again is whose mindset have I embraced? Am I still loyal to my tradition? Am I still loyal to my culture? Listen. The reason you think nothing good can come out of you is because of something someone told you. It's not God.
The reason you think you cannot stand before a crowd to speak is because of the mindset you have believed. Do you know what the bible says? Some of you believe that if you come now, come and share testimony of what God has done. Many of you have missed out on the miracle of multiplication. You know why? You have missed out on the miracle of multiplication because you cannot come out and share testimony. Whereas God wants to multiply that thing he has done, and he's waiting for you to come and give thanks because it's a principle in the spirit. When thanks are given, things multiplied. Things multiplied. But you sit down there.
Why? Because I'm ashamed. I'm shy. I don't want anybody to know me. I don't want to be at the back. Let me just sit down at the overflow. Let me not relate with anybody. I don't wanna be the center of attention. You see that? Where did that mindset come from?
When you check it, probably when you were young, somebody embarrassed you. Maybe you rise up to speak in secondary school and somebody laughed and mocked at you, and it became a mindset that whenever you stand up, you don't have anything good to say. Do know that there are people that speak very well, speak Queen's English when they are speaking with their friends. But the moment five people gather, they start stuttering. The moment 10 people, 15 people gather and they say, okay, address us, the guy starts stuttering. It's because of a mindset he has believed that is not from scripture. And as long as that experience is there, it shows you that the soul has not prospered. Are you with me? The guy that does not want to become center of attention, what does the bible say? The bible says you are the light of the world.
It doesn't stop there. The city set on a hill that cannot be hidden, but you want to hide yourself. Yet Jesus says, you are a city that I have set on the hill. Don't you get this? You are a city that I have set on the hill. You cannot be hidden. Listen. This is what is happening to you at the Disciples Christian Network. You are not just members of a church. You are being equipped for kingdom service, for kingdom assignment.
Every time we have the opportunity to meet, it's a business of transformation. I take this job very seriously. Do not think for a moment that it is Sunday as usual, Sunday school, Sunday sermon. Just sit down. Somebody come and tell us stories from the bible, and they tell you, oh, so Jacob was a son. Jacob was a son. That is not what is happening here. This is serious business of transformation. Serious business of transformation. If you refuse the transit to become a spiritual man in your mind, at the end of your life, your Christian testimony will never inspire anybody to love God.
Because all that your life will capture is a plethora of events that will cause you pain, misrepresent Christ, and cut your life short. Your academics will not be will not be will not be anything to write home about. Your business, nothing to write home about. So when you come and preach Christ to people, they will look at your life and say, I cannot accept your God. I can't accept your God. The life the believer should have is a beautiful life. I still have a teaching on this. The life the believer should have is a beautiful life. That is what God has ordained for you. The hindrance of this life is the soul.
I wish above all things that you prosper in all things even as your soul prospers. There are people that fault others for everything that happens to them. That is how they were taught. That is how they were brought up. They saw their father like that, saw their parents like that, saw their grandparents like that. The father will come come home and complain about Nigeria, fault the government, fault society, fault the local government chairman, fault his boss in his place of work, and he will tell his children, you see, we don't even have food to eat in this house. It's not it's not my fault, though. It is those people. That guy now grows up like that, and he becomes the chiefest irresponsible person you will ever know. There is nothing that happens that is obviously his fault that he would hold himself responsible.
He will say it's not me. I don't... It's not me. It is it's not... There are people that... Yeah. The word of God should become more than you preach, more than what you preach. The word of God should become more more than what you do even. It should become who you are. You have become one with the word, one with the spirit through the vehicle of prayer, through the vehicle of fasting, listening to the word of God, listening to messages over and over again.
This is why we listen to messages. If you are here and you are not on our platform, the DCN Telegram platform, on Spotify, on Apple Podcast, we are on those platforms, messages on that... On those platforms, listen to them, hear them again and again. Listen. The fact that you heard a truth once does not mean you have believed it. The fact that you are here today and you're hearing me speak does not mean you have believed it. I can teach you on giving, and your heart is still hard towards giving. There are times you would need to get it. Listen again and again. Do you know that?
Let me share with you a personal experience. Do you know that? The past few weeks, God started increasing disciples Christian network, and there was a multiplication according to the word of God for the year, the year of fruitfulness and multiplication. And as it began to happen, I would come to my... I will be praying. I knew how to increase my prayers, increase my my my consecration. So as I was doing that, then the devil would come and bring a thought to my head, to my mind. And he will tell you, what if all these things are seen now suddenly, it just starts going down? What if you get it on Sunday and nobody's there? What if you get it on?
And the devil just keeps on bringing these thoughts to my mind. And I will say, how in the name of Jesus, But it kept on coming. So... And by spiritual intelligence, I know that if a thought is prevalent in that manner, coming through different shapes and sizes, but still the same thought, it is because a mindset is bringing it. That mindset is the raw material that the devil is using. It's like you have gravel in a piece of land, and the devil is just picking gravel and throwing it at you. Picking gravel and throwing it at you. You're not gonna pick the gravel you throw at you and throw it out. There's still plenty gravel to throw. So what you do is, is to pack out the entire gravel and throw it away.
I went to my own message from glory to glory, power to evolve. I listened to it more than 50 times in three days. My own message. The believer goes from glory to glory, from faith to faith. Your today should never be better than yesterday. Hey. And I was praying. I was jumping in my room. I dealt with the devil mercilessly. The path of the righteous is at the shining light.
You can quote it but not believe it. In your subconscious, you still expect that, I hope this thing will not crash. I hope this thing will not crash. I've made my first million. Hope I will not hope it will not go down. And it's somewhere in your mind. If you don't deal with it, it will become your reality. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper even as your soul prospers. Even as your soul prospers. Are you ready to pray?
Listen. Do you know that if you grew up and maybe perhaps your parents were not born in wealth or you... No. No. Not born in wealth. Perhaps you were not born in wealth or your parents were not so well-to-do financially, and everything you saw your parents did was small size. To do big things might be hard for you. If you start a business, to go big in your business might be hard for you. Because even think about you multiplying your business capacity might be hard for you. One of my girls was doing business, starting business, and she told me...
She said, sir, I want to multiply my business. I said, power. Powerful. I wanna scale up. Powerful. I wanna do big things. Powerful. So what do you wanna do? I wanna supply to my department. Say what?
You mean your definition of big things is to supply to your department? Do you know it's a mindset? It's a mentality. If you are a student doing business, you will not prosper. If you are a businessman who is a student doing business, you will prosper. Two different things. One is the mentality of a student. You will conduct everything like a student. It means there must be a mindset shift. Something must happen to your mind.
There must be a disruption, a change in the way you think. Can you sit down and somebody calls you and says, you wanna order for your product. Say how many copies? 1,000 copies. And the moment it comes to your mind, you know this is already running to one millionaire. And your mind does not shake because all you have been sending is 112233. If the governor calls you to come and make air for her, how much will you charge? Because your last client gave you 10,000 naira. Why you are saying, let me... 50 k.
Because you have considered your student self and the advantage that 50 k will do to your student self. That's a lot of money to your student self. You don't understand what I'm saying? There must be a disruption in your mind by the word. By the word. Not by reading useless books. By the word of God. By the power of God. By the power of God. One of my guys won a grant.
The first grant he won was 50,000 naira. 50,000 naira for his business. How much he needed for the building was in seven digits, and he told me about it. A student in this place. He told me about it. I I prayed for him. He got there. He never knew that much, how much the grant was. It was 50,000 naira. What will he do with that?
He brought up the... The day they were giving him as they gave it to him. And it was the first position. The first position was 50,000 naira. They gave it to him, and he brought it straight to me and said I'm sowing everything as a seed. This is not a picture of my future. I said, Kai, this is a guy who have been taught. This is a guy who has been taught. How much are you earning you cannot give? It's a picture of a small mind.
You are holding on to 5,000 naira that God said you should give. And it's difficult for you to let go. How will how will seven digits ever strike your account or strike your heart? Your mind is too small to receive it. When God wants to bless a man, the first thing he does is enlarge your mind. The Bible says, God enlarge the heart of Solomon. He enlarge the heart of Solomon. Why do you think God came to Abraham and told Abraham, count the stars? He was doing something to his mentality. He was doing something to his thinking.
This thing was already an experience in his spirit, but Abraham's mind could not conceive it. God had to bring him out and say, count the stars. Count the sands at the seashore. A disruption by the world. And the moment he said, I can't see the end of it. God said that is how much your descendants will be on the face of the earth. For the first time, Abraham believed God. He said, I see it. See it. I see it.
I see it. My mind has captured it. Jeremiah, before I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you. I ordained you a prophet to the nation. Bible history have it that Jeremiah was 15 years old and at the time God was coming to him. And God told him, ordained you a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah said, oh, I'm a child. God rebuked him instantly. Say not that you are a child. Say not that you are a child for I will put my word in your mouth.
Why was God telling him all of these things? I will put my word in your mouth. Wherever I send you to go, you will go. Whatever I command to speak, you will do. My word in your mouth will root out, uproot, plant, destroy. God was telling him all of this to change his pictures. That's why when God was done speaking all of this to him, God now asked him, what do you see? What God... All God was testing is, are you still a child? Do you still see a child?
And guess what? When God came for Jeremiah, God not said because you're 15 year old, start with children's ministry. Galatians chapter four and verse one. Now I say that the heir, as long as it's a child, differeth nothing from his servant though he be lord of all. So what is the system that God now introduces into the life of the heir that matures in from being a child into a son, a mature son that can now be a possessor of the inheritance. Verse two, the bible says, but is under tutors. It's under what? Tutors. It means how maturity happens, how mental renewal happen, how transformation happen is that God opens you up to the ministry of teachers. The bible says the highs of your face, your teachers will no longer be hidden from you.
Your teachers will no longer be hidden from you. What God does that he opens you up to teachers. And the responsibility of teachers, shepherds, a man of God, the responsibility of a pastor is in Jeremiah chapter three and verse 15. It's not to give you money. It's not to buy things for you. That is on the assignment of a pastor. No. The Bible says, I will give you pastors after my heart. What will they do? They will feed you with knowledge.
They will feed you with understanding. Get me that scripture in Isaiah that says, anointing breaks the yoke or your look is broken because of the anointing. So what the teacher is doing is that he's feeding you with knowledge. He's feeding you with understanding. So when Jesus says, Peter, lovest thou me above all things? And he says, I love you. Jesus told him, feed my sheep. Is that what Jesus said? Feed my sheep. Because the responsibility of the shepherd is to feed you not with food, but with knowledge and understanding.
With knowledge and understanding. That is what grows you. That's what disciples you. That's what changes your mentality. Listen. You are only growing to the degree to which your mindset is changing. It means if you keep on coming for many years and your mindset does not change, you're not great. You can be a baby Christian who is 37 years old and you are still a baby. You can be discipled by a 15 year old who has grown and matured in the spirit. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. Look at this. It shall come to pass in the last day that his burden shall be taken away from your shoulder, his yoke from your neck. The yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing. How many of you have burdens and yokes that you need the anointing to destroy? Things you know that, ah, no. Something must happen. I can't be in this situation for long. I can't be in this circumstances for long. Now watch this.
Amplified version. Amplified version. Let's read it from the beginning. One, two, three. Go. Or let's do NLT. NLT. Amplified. One, two, three. Go.
That the burden of the Assyrian shall depart from your shoulders, watch this, and his yoke from your neck. The yoke shall be destroyed because of fatness, which prevents it from going around your neck. It means that how burdens and yokes are destroyed is when the shepherd is feeding you with knowledge and understanding. Your neck would be becoming fat. Remember, the responsibility of the pastor is to feed you with knowledge and understanding. So as the feeding is happening, something will be happening inside of you. The more you are being transformed, the more you are being renewed, you are now gaining capacity, you are gaining strength. The you of yesterday is no longer the you of today. Truly, you are the shining light, shining brighter and brighter every day. That is discipleship succeeding.
And when that happens, then you will experience prosperity even as your soul is prospering. There are people that find it difficult to obey instructions. That reality will somehow find its way into your life. There are people that are arrogant and proud, deal with hunger, deal with all kind of things. It means whenever a destiny helper comes, your hunger will chase them out. Why? The soul has not prospered. There are people who are proud, extremely proud and arrogant. They cannot submit to be taught, submit to be trained, submit to be helped even. Why?
The soul is not prosperous. Can you pray today? The prayer is very simple. Father, father, I submit my mind to renewal. I refuse pride. I refuse stubbornness. Let my... Let your light pierce my spirit. Let my mind be renewed. Let my soul prosper even by the word.
Can you turn it into prayers and pray? My life has My life has changed. Changed. Life has changed. Situations must change. My life must change. Thirty more seconds to pray. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed. 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.
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