Transcript: Kingdom Culture - Raising Kingdom Ambassadors Part 2

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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. Kingdom culture, raising ambassadors that colonize the head part two. These are deep conversations. It is a core of our belief as a ministry, and it is what you'd rarely find being preached amongst Christian circles even in this dispensation. And God has put it as a burden to us to once again emphasize these things so that a generation would know the things that have been given to us, the things that are most surely believed amongst us. And I told you that becoming a son is not just about getting everything that you want from God.

It's about God getting what he wants from you. It's not about abundance or lack. In Philippians chapter four verse 12, Paul was speaking and he said, I know how to be abased. And I know how to be abound. It means his joy was not tied to a breakthrough. He was tied to fulfilling God's purpose. That's why mature believers don't laugh. Only when they win contract, only when they get cars. Sometimes mature believers have nothing in their pockets. But their heart is dancing still.

Because they know that heaven just rejoice. In Luke chapter 15 verse seven, the Bible says there is joy in heaven over one sinner who repents. That means a soul winner can live in constant joy. Even when the account is empty. Because they they know that they are the reason why heaven is erupting in laughter. They are the reason why heaven is erupting in joy. But immature Christians ride emotional roller coasters, excited when they get things, depressed when they don't get things, always blaming this country that the, you know, that country, their background, this government, that government, not realizing that the hope of any nation is not in politics. It is in the church. So when John says, I write to you, young men, because the word of God abides in you. He's talking about people who no longer beg God for survival.

These people understand that all things are tears in Christ. In first Corinthians three and verse 21, and they apply kingdom principles to thrive. They no longer expect God to give what he has already provided for them. What they have already supplied for them. They don't beg to succeed. They know how to war. They know how to fast. They know how to give. They know how to confess. They know how to take dominion.

But more than succeeding in life, they have tapped into another dimension of God, not just as a father, but as a king. And a king has a kingdom. So they no longer come to God just to receive. They come to advance his rule on earth. Even the godless, even the atheist are using kingdom principles. Kingdom principles like excellence, kingdom principles like diligence, kingdom principles like giving, like relationships, connections, strategic advantageous relationships, connections, planning, leadership, vision, all of these are principles that even the godless used to succeed and thrive. Hardworking and diligence. And they are prospering. Some of them don't even pray to be wealthy. These are universal laws wired into creation, backed up by the integrity of God's word.

And God's mercies allows them to work even for unbelievers. So if all your Christianity is about getting things, you are operating at a level even Godless men can master. But there's a higher realm. Where you carry what only a spirit empowered son can carry. This is where songs are born. Where your definition of joy becomes to live is Christ. To die is gain. You get to the point where you say if I perish, I perish. But God's purpose on earth must be done. That's kingdom, that is sonship.

A man came and stood and shouted on top of his voice. And made it his prayer for many years. Give me Scotland or I die. This is the cry of sons. He wasn't praying for cars. He wasn't praying for houses. He says give me this territory. Oh I die. Are you not the one that said ask of me? And I will give you nations as your inheritance.

How can nations be your inheritance and your concern is a car? How can nations be your inheritance and your concern is a cloth? Take no thoughts of these things he says. For even the Gentiles. Seek after these things. Your father in heaven knows that you are in need of these things. But seek you first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. This is where sons are born. Because a man that lives like that doesn't only know the father. He knows the king.

He shares his nature. He shares his burden. He shares the assignment of the king. And even in human life, this makes sense. When your son is 30 and he's still asking you for lunch money, you say, you're a grown man. Go and walk. If we understand this biologically, how do we then miss it spiritually? If all our years on earth is spent only knowing God as a provider, and we never transition to know him as a king, then we will be useless in eternity. Because only those who know God as a king will care about advancing his kingdom. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. When Jesus taught his disciples to pray, in Matthew chapter six verse nine, he says, our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. It began with God as father. That's where you begin in your Christian experience. God as father. But that's where many believers stop. Ask the father, the God who forgives, the God who provides, the God who loves, and and you must always have that experience. Your knowing God must begin from here, but it does not stop there. Are you with me? Paul revealed something even deeper.

In first Timothy chapter one verse 17, Paul called him the king eternal, the immortal invincible God, the holy wise God. These are all the names God uses to describe God. He he has transitioned from father to king. In other words, he's no longer just father. He's now king. King eternal, king immortal, king invincible, the only wise God. This is another plane of existence. And you can know God as father, but you can grow to know him also as king. It doesn't stop there. In second Timothy four verse one, Paul now refers to God again as the judge of the living and the dead.

That means, there are three planes of existence that a man can relate with God. He can relate with him as father, as king, and as judge. As father who gives freely and loves unconditionally, but second as king, who has an assignment that must be cried out, who has a kingdom that must be advanced, who has a kingdom and an agenda, an agenda to ensure that his values, his principles, his morals, his models of branding is spread across the head, a king, and as a judge, who will access what you have done with that assignment. That's why Jesus declared in Matthew six verse 33, seek you first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all these things will be added unto you. Even Jesus revealed these dimensions. The same Jesus who said our father who art in heaven. Is same one who said in Luke 18 verse one. Men ought always to pray and not to faint. Then in verse two, it says, in the city, there was a judge.

So the second revelation of prayer that God reveals is God as a judge. Am I too fast for you? But there is so much to talk about and I want us to pray. Seek you first the kingdom of God. So sons get to a point where the their their desire is now the kingdom. The kingdom has the dear panted for the waters of my soul long That's the cry of songs now. As a cry of songs. Forever. For you. Listen.

Hear what you're saying. My soul longs for you forever Seek ye first the kingdom. Listen. Seek ye first the kingdom and his righteousness. Listen. The Bible says all these things will be handed unto you. All these things. Do you know? Listen. When I was studying the scripture, the Lord humbled me one day.

Give me the previous verse. Look at this. Look at the previous verse. The Bible says, all these things, the clothes, the houses, the cars, all these things, the Gentiles seek. Soak, the Gentiles are seeking after them. What to eat and what to drink and what to wear and where to stay and a reasonable life and a relevant life. The Gentiles seek after these things. But the Bible says, your heavenly father knows that you need all these things. It means your heavenly father knows that you need what to wear. Your heavenly father knows that you need a good car.

Your heavenly father know that your bills must be paid. Your heavenly father know that your school fees, your children's school fees. The marriage must happen. The wedding must happen. Your heavenly father knows that money is needed to hands up lengthy things. Because the Bible says money hands read all things. Money is needed to hands up plenty things. Your heavenly father knows. Your heavenly father knows that you need a good certification. Your heavenly father knows that you need a good job.

Your heavenly father knows. It is your heavenly father knows that you need all these things. And the Bible says all these things that you need, the Gentiles seek after them. The definition of the pursuit of the unbeliever is seeking after things. They wake up in the morning and their life revolves around all these things. That is it. And the Bible says you, your heavenly father knows that you need it. But the next verse, he says, because you need it does not mean you seek it. The difference between yourself and the Gentiles. The Bible does not say your heavenly father knows that you want it.

These are not things that you want. Your heavenly father agrees that these are necessities. So philosophies on the hierarchy of needs. And mentions all the hierarchy of needs. Is that not so? The Bible says your heavenly father knows that you made it. However, the very fact that you need it does not mean you seek it. The Bible says make your first pursuit the kingdom. But a child does not understand this. A child because the the the dimension of God that was introduced to him is father.

All a child knows is give. Give me. Give me. Give me. Me. Daddy, what did you bring for me? What is available for me? What is there for me today? And that relationship between God and the child becomes transactional. Because the only reason why the child comes to God is to receive.

The only reason why he prays is to receive. The only reason why he calls on God is to receive. Eventually, that kind of relationship with God becomes transactional. Now how many of you have people around your life that the only time they call you is when they need something from you? That's the only time they ever reach you. Some of you are like that to hold that as well. It's not a good thing. Stop it. People will block you. The only time they call you when they need something from you, other than that, they never reach you to even greet you, to even say hello.

How are you doing? And I was just thinking about you. I hope you are okay. No. They would ask all those things because they need something today. And then another three months break, then they ask again, then they ask again. Sometime, it's not even up to three months. It can be next week, they call and ask. A time will come. The moment you see their phone call and you pick it, they are trying to say, hello, ah, uncle, how are...

The first thing they ask is what do you want? Because they already know that this thing is transactional. So there's a sense in which a man comes to God and what what do you want? And then he's he's saying, oh Lord, you are my savior. Ogah, what do you want? But a man can proceed because they are adept in God. The things the Gentiles chase, the houses, the cars, the clothes, the positions, they are not evil but they are secondary. What is your primary pursuit is the kingdom? God's government, God's rule, God's influence. And the Bible says all these things.

Will be handed unto you. It means that the things that men seek after, God had to us. It comes to us as additions. You see, when you understand this economy, you will step into a reality of of endless lifting. You will, in this scripture, lies how God lifts men. In this scripture. If light can break out in your spirit and God just shows you this thing. You will understand how God blesses men. How God lifts men. That the things you are hungry for are meant to be added to you.

God takes you as a project and says everything this man would need. Had it. In other words, when you make your pursuit about his kingdom, about the extension and the advancement of his kingdom, all those things are needed for that advancement. Do you understand what I'm saying? Imagine that somebody is looking for a house. And because he wants to get married. And he has been hunting, house hunting in Ibadan and all of a sudden he finds out that what they told him about Ibadan is not true because relocated from Lagos to Ibadan because they told him houses in Ibadan are cheap. Now I've been looking for one room, I cannot find one under 300,000 naira. The first one room he's finding is in one village. And how can I stay here and be coming from this village to where I'll be working?

It's not easy. I'm lost from civilization. And now he's quarting with someone and he's doing everything like that. And all of a sudden, he gets a job. And as he gets the job, the company ask him, the position we are offering you involves this, involves that, involves this, involves that. Are you ready to do that? And he says, yes, no problem. And he's employed. And he gives his best to the company without giving any excuse. And he said okay, there's a promotional exam coming up.

And he writes a promotional exam. And he passes the promotional exam. And they tell him ah, you have now been promoted to managing director. I will move you to Lagos or Abuja or somewhere. And he's concerned. He's saying, ah, Lagos. I could not even get the house in Lagos. He said, no, no. We are sending you there. It comes with official house.

In other words, all these things are hardened. You are not getting what I'm trying to say. You are not going to Lagos to fulfill your own mandate. We are the ones set. You you getting what I'm saying? So because you have taken the responsibility committed to you as first, then we are committed to ensuring that what you need to do this job is given to you. So do you need an official house? Take it. An official car? Take it.

An official what? Take it. All these things harded. So if a man commit himself to the kingdom, that's when he knows what it means to be blessed by God. Otherwise, you don't know. Children don't know. That transactional thing, you won't step into abundance that way. So you move to another realm where you begin to interact with God as a king. His kingdom and his righteousness. His righteousness are his morals, his legal standards for how things ought to operate.

So when you begin to interact with God as a king, the first evidence is that you start aligning your life to his righteousness, his laws, his models of branding, his values. How things operate in his kingdom. So it means God wants to colonize you. That's the meaning. When the bible says seek his kingdom, it means seek his government, seek his rule, seek his influence, seek the extension of his government on earth. Seek his righteousness means seek his laws, his models of branding. And in doing so, he wants to colonize you. That means he wants his values, his mindset, his standards to take over your thinking. And once he has colonized you, he wants to send you out as an ambassador. So that through you, it can begin to influence your family.

It can begin to influence your classroom. It can begin to influence your office. It can begin to influence your generation. That is how the kingdom advances. If your Christianity hasn't brought you to the point where you influence others with righteousness, then you are in the family but not yet useful in the kingdom. Galatians chapter four and verse one, the bible says, now I say that the heir, as long as he's a child, differed not from the servant, though he be lord of all. That means even though God has great things planned for you, if you don't mature, you won't be trusted with kingdom assignments. Look at the way the Western world colonized Africa. Before colonization, Africa had its own way of life. From language to dress to customs.

But then the British and Baffodils came and introduced a new system. English language became the formal language, Formal clothing became our wears. We started drinking tea even in hot afternoons. Government structures came into existence. We learned democracy, learned different forms of government, bought into their philosophy. Even now we saw ourselves changed. And today, even though they have left physically, we still wear suit and tie. We still speak English with pride. As a matter of fact, I'm communicating with you in English. Most people don't even feel confident unless they are dressed in western attire.

Why? Because colonization happened. Nobody forces us anymore. They've left. But the British kingdom has already shaped how we think, how we feel, how we behave. And even though they're not present, this has already been done. That is kingdom colonization. That is kingdom influence, and that is what God wants to do with you. He wants heaven's way of life to take over our earthly realities Until we naturally think righteousness. Until we naturally love righteousness.

Until we naturally spread righteousness. And even when you are not in church on Sunday, you are still righteous on Monday. You know that some people's Christianity is only loud on Sunday. That's the time that some people remember that they are Christians. You leave them alone on Monday to Friday. It is proof that they have not been colonized. Because when the British kingdom left, we still dress like them. So if God has colonized you on Sunday, we should see it on Monday. We should see it in your office. We should see it in the marketplace.

We should see it in classrooms, in boardrooms. So the question is, who are you colonizing for Christ? When people interact with you, do they walk away with more alignment to God because they met you? Can God entrust you to represent his interest and his values in your office, In your field of influence, in your school. A young man who just got born again may still be struggling with his old habits. Maybe lying, maybe sexual sin, maybe pride, maybe hunger. But as it starts growing, it begins to align with God's kingdom. Now, when he's amongst his old friends who want to gossip, who want to compromise. Something inside of him is resisting it. That is colonization.

That means the king is now taking over. So there's a realm where you know God as father. And as father, all he wants to do is give, love, and forgive. And that's the God we want to know, a God that only gives and forgives. And the guy can go ahead and misbehave a thousand time, and then he has been taught that your sins are forgiven, and it is true that your sins are forgiven. And the guy will remain useless on earth. And every time his prayer is a prayer of mercy because he has fallen. And every day is the day that he falls. And he has been taught that there is mercy available and there is mercy available. Because God is father.

And he has been taught that there is nothing you can do that can make God angry with you. And it is true. You know what the problem is? The problem is that when we die. And we stand before the judgement throne. Is not a father that will be sitting on the throne. He's a judge. You don't understand what I'm saying. And that life that you are living, even though you were forgiven, it cost you destiny. Even though you were for, you you can miss destiny and God still loves you.

Don't you realize? You think God hates you because you don't view purpose? God is love. You can derail and he's comforting you. That's what it means to be father. His love is incomprehensible, unimaginable, unconditional. And if we are not introduced to the king, when we were given our life during altar call, what they told us was, come and accept the life of Christ. They say come and give your life to Christ freely. Come and accept the life of Christ. And then they now ask us a question.

They say, are you ready to make God your Lord and personal savior? Actually, what happens is that that equation is reversed. He is first your savior. And many people only know him as savior. So what happens in salvation is that you met the savior. You didn't necessarily meet the Lord. Because the savior is that he saved And you accepted his salvation by grace through faith. You accepted it. But doesn't mean that you have met Lord, doesn't mean that you have had an encounter with the Lord. Do you know what it means?

For him to be Lord? Do you know what that word means, Lord? Lord means the owner. It means I've accepted you as the one that saves me. I've accepted you as the one that owns me. If he owns you, he can make demand of you. It means that his lordship is a consistent continual thing. His lordship is something you continue to submit to. As you mature into sonship. You can't tell me that you were always at the betting house.

Every Friday, every Thursday, or whenever they pray premier league. And you have gone to go and throw your lots. And do too sure. And now you come and receive Christ. And you go back to the betting house. You are in the family. Your sins are forgiven. God is not angry with you. But you cannot tell me that you continue in that way. Living that life.

And over time, you don't know that there is something wrong with it. No. It means colonization has not happened. Do you understand my point now? Yes. It means you have not allowed the Lordship of Christ in your heart. It means God does not own you. He has not become your Lord. So when we say, oh, he's my Lord and savior, you are lying. Because the truth is that he is not.

Are you with me? Yes sir. So when this guy now comes to Christ, old habits, God will start saying, give me yourself, drop this one, drop that one, drop this one, drop that one. Lust will start dying. That interest that he has for every woman will start dying. Womanization will stop. They will not be messaging every man, messaging everybody and say you know what, are you available tonight? God has laid a claim on your soul. He say I'm the one that owns you now. The Bible says no ye none that this body has become the temple of the living God.

At that point, you begin to realize that I am now God's temple, I am now God's body. God has worn me like a jacket. And the reason why he wore me is not because he was naked. The reason why he wore me is not because he was looking for the most outdated fashion sense. No, that's not why he wore me. Because he wore me because he has several places he wants to pierce into. And him being spirit is limited in expression. So he needs men. And the strategy to get men is to wear them. That's why the holy ghost came inside of you.

And baptized you. The word baptized means to be clothed. It's a two way street. He's inside you and you are in him. So that you can carry him everywhere that you go. So that you can carry him and represent him everywhere that you go. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So when this young man starts dropping all those attitudes behind, when this young man starts dropping all those life behind, that means colonization is taking place. The king is taking over gradually in his life.

Now let's say that he joins a team at work where his colleagues cheat every time. They take bribes, they lie to clients. But this guy stands firm. He refuses. He begins to influence others. With his integrity. Now, at that point, he has not just been colonized by God. He has now become a colonizer. That is kingdom. What is happening within him is now flowing out of him.

But if he gets there and he decides to just blend in, do what they do. And still attain touch on Sunday. Is a Christian true. But when God is counting kingdom men, he's not in the room. When God is counting men that can be sent, he's not in the room. And that is the problem with Christianity. We have so many men who are available. But so few who are usable. The Bible says many are called. And so many people respond to the call.

But few can be chosen. God's ultimate desire is to is to expand this government until every heart, every home, every business, every school, every nation reflects heaven's values. That is the desire of God. That's why the bible calls us ambassadors. We are not just touch goers. We are we are diplomatic representatives of heaven on earth. If you truly know the king, your assignment becomes his assignment. And his assignment is not to make you rich alone. It is to make you a conduit of righteousness. To stand where darkness is growing and to push back with truth, to push back with power, to push back with light, to push back with love, to push back with order, to push back with justice.

The true burden in the heart of God is not just to have people who sing song and quote scriptures in church. It is to raise people who carries government into countries, who influence systems, who shift cultures, and who live in such a way that wherever they go, heaven shows up. When God sends a person into a city, into an office, into a home, into a school, his goal is that the people in that environment would look at them and start saying, these people are like Christ. Not just because they carry Christian names, not just because they quote bible verses, they sing in church, and they attend service on Sunday. No. It is because their lives challenge sin. Their lives challenges mediocrity. Their lives shift mindsets. Their lives introduces truth. Their lives convict the heart of men.

That was the testimony of the early church. The apostles were not seen as religious people performing rituals. They were described as men from another realm. When Paul and Barnabas entered the city, Acts 17 verse six says, the people cried out that this that has turned the world upside down has come here also. Can you imagine that? Just two men, but their impact was so intense that an entire city felt invaded by the arrival of two men. An entire city felt as though an army has entered because two men came. They said these are the men that have turned the world upside down because two men came. Because they carry the culture, the language, the power, the urgency of another kingdom. And when they entered into homes, when they entered into the environment, everything shifted.

People who have never prayed before started praying in tongues. People who had no relationship with God, their hearts were ignited. They were convicted in their hearts because two men came. Because two men came. Sinful habits broke. The oppressed were delivered. Arguments turned into repentance. Doctrines changed. Lives were transformed. Lifestyles changed.

Because two men came. This is what the kingdom does. It afflicts territories with the presence of heaven. And when a man that carries the kingdom enters an atmosphere, if that man has been colonized by heaven, that man begins to colonize the sphere of influence where he finds himself. All of a sudden, there's a burden in his heart, and he has been engraced and empowered with life and power enough to give expression to the burden. How come many believers today visit their friends, go to... Go into their offices, and even live in households for many years and nothing changes? How can a believer be posted to a territory under the disguise of IT or service or or even one year, NYSE, and nothing changes. That territory does not feel the impact of his presence. Their friends remain in sin.

Their coworkers remain corrupt. Their homes reflect the world more than it does heaven. How come? How can a believer be comfortable not having shared the gospel with one person? That no one person has come to know Christ or become serious with God because they met you. How can a believer be comfortable not inviting someone to church? And you know that this person needs this thing. One of my guys was in a territory. He was posted there. You know, temporarily just for field practice or whatsoever it was.

And upon getting there, it was more health like a village. Even though it was my estate here, there was more health like a village. And this guy went there with what has been infused on his inside. What has been put on his inside. A burden that God has infused inside of him. He went there and he saw the state of things around. He saw the dilapidated state of things. How that young people have entered into a consistent sale of regression. There is no one, thousands of people in that village, thousands of young people in that village, yet there is no one, not a single young person who feels as though something great can come out of their lives. All of them have accepted the norm because what they see their siblings, their father, their mother do is just farming, and that's it.

None of them ever can believe that out of this place, something great can come out. A prophet can emerge. An apostle can emerge. A kingdom businessman can emerge. A kingdom evangelist can emerge. A great man in economics, in business can emerge. A career person can emerge. I was told that many of them don't even think that they can even enter university. Their plan is to just finish that secondary school they are doing and just stop. Go and join the trade their father has given to them.

It's a life of poverty and regression. I was told that many of those young people, and these are thousands of people, young people in secondary schools. All they are waiting for to them, even their education is a waste of time. Why not just get into this trade, start making money? How much is the money? How much is the money? And you would think that the gospel has reached everywhere. Yet there are churches there. Getting people saved. Exposing them to savior but not Lord, not king.

So these ones can call themselves Christians. And they feel as though the only reason why they are Christians is to escape hell. But you can still live a useless life on earth. Doesn't really matter. You can still suffer as long as you don't lose your faith. Doesn't really matter. This one don't even have any idea what purpose is. Purpose? Hey, just make money and get married to two or three wives and be balanced. And this guy saw it and said, no.

No. No. We have to do something about this. One by one. One by one, he took that gospel, called, assembled a group of people together. They came together. It wasn't the it wasn't the only one that had that burden. I was told there were some of them that like that. And they came together and started going to secondary school after secondary school. Remember, that's not the reason why he went there.

He went there for practice, field practice. For a period of two, three, four weeks or so, one month or two month or I don't even know how long it is. And they called the church together and one by one, they started visiting secondary schools, funding it by themselves. Going there on assembly ground, he told me wherever they tell us not to preach, we'll just pass kingdom values. Inspire the people. Drop something in their heart that makes them hungry for more. And then we go. From one to the next, to the next, to the next, to the next. And then he told me, he said, sir, I think we can organize a a major conference for students across this region and gather all of them and just pour this thing into them. Go ahead.

Arrived there, they held what would have probably been the largest gathering of young people that have religious sin. Gathered thousands of them, students trooping in in their numbers. Young man told me, he said even schools they did not invite. Did not want to miss out of the opportunity. They too brought their children by themselves. And said we heard something is happening there. And they were telling me, say even as they sat down, they just sat down wondering what do they want to see? The people that were speaking to them could not even speak to them. These were students in in secondary school that they could not speak to in English language. They had to be mixing communicating so that they can understand what they are saying.

How do you tell somebody like that That your name can be heard in Europe. How do you tell somebody like that? It is possible that this young man gets there and just says, you you know what? You know what? I just came here to come and do faith practice and leaves and goes. And heaven, the cry of heaven over that territory. For one person, for one person, one voice of deliverance. Who whom shall we send? Heaven begins to cry. Heaven begins to cry.

They won't be the first young men going there for fit practice. They won't be the first believers going there for fit practice. When heaven finds people, when heaven finds people who can carry this burden and insist, we will do something about this. The young man told me, he said, sir, the forces that we needed were meant supernaturally. Just four people or so, he said they were able to raise over 700,000 naira. All these things added. All these things added. We saw the favor of God at work. We met with influential figures. Let me even show you all these things added even more.

He told me, he said, one of the doctors who was there, I called him and said, I saw what you have been doing. You have been going from school to school to school and I heard what you are doing. That's a great thing you are doing. I have connection with the so and so. Let me not mention name. And he likes things like this. We can write a letter for him for that man to give you a contract in millions to make this a local government thing. Go and think about it. And it came to me, say, apostle, what? All these things I did.

They messaged me, they said apostle, they said they want you to come there. I said that's not my ministry. Let's let's let every man know what they have been called to do. If God has placed you there, it's because you can do something there. It's not me that will... It's my sons that will fight with the enemies at the gates. There are places I may never get to. There are places I might never get to. That it... When you will call me is when you have conquered the place.

And you say, apostle, we have conquered. The ground is set. The people are hungry. That's false resistance. You are the one that will break it. I've broken my own. You might not understand what I'm saying. Only the mature will get it. Already got? But how can a believer say this, go to that kind of a place, see this kind of a thing, and nothing moves you.

Nothing. You just go there and practice what you have came to practice and go. And there is no trace that a believer has stepped there. The answer is very simple. It is because we have known God as father. But not as a king. We enjoy his love as father and we reject his lordship. You know what a believer will shed testimony for? When they come back on 40, they will say I want to thank God because ah, all the time I was there, there was no light, there was no network, in fact, there were times that we'd not even, there was not even good food but God provided for us. You see?

Another believer would come from that kind of place. And we said that we we broke through in darkness. Plenties, plenty people saw deliverance. Things were broken. Two believers, different testimonies. And both of them are worthy of thanksgiving. One has known God as father. The other has known God as a king. This is the reason why many people never see God's hand in their business. God's hand in their place of work.

God's heart. I wish I could share testimonies with you. If you know how effortless things come to my life, I pray you believe this thing. It's it's my passion that you do. There is the hand of God that can come upon a man's business, a man's work that makes you stand out amongst the plenty, amongst the many. When a man commit himself and his life to the king's purpose, the king insists that all these things must be added. So as a believer, you are employed in an organization, and you work there, and you've been there for some time, and you observe that people gossip, people bribe, people make all kinds of pervert sexual joke, shady nonsense goes on there. And you just laugh and you just say, I'm I'm just minding my business. That's no kingdom. Righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy ghost.

This is kingdom come. Listen. That is not kingdom. A true ambassador may be quiet. You don't have to confront people, but you will live with conviction. You will refuse to forge reports. You will speak up when clients are lied to. You will offer to pray with a colleague going through depression, going through all kind of things. You will be diligent. You will submit every work you have been given.

As at when do you... You're not a Christian in the office they complain about. It's your work that is not well done. In short, they say you didn't made timelines. We gave you some and food to deliver. Only delivered for, and you will now give all kinds of excuses. You are not a kingdom man. Because do you know what will happen when people start complaining about you when you are so religious as that you go to church every Sunday and you make it obvious that you do, then and you are the one that they complain about every time and in your place of work. I will show you the the percussion of that very soon. Over time, your integrity, your lifestyle begins to convict people, begins to convict others.

One day, a coworker will come and say, I don't know why, but I want to carry what you carry. That is colonization. Light is is breaking darkness. Or you are a believer who is living in a university hostel for instance, and you have people around you who fornicate, who smoke, who cheat, who blaspheme. They could even be your roommates or your colleagues, your classmates, your faculty, whatever. And you see them all around. Friends with some of them. As a son of the kingdom, you will quietly discipline your own life. You will live different from them even though you are amongst them. You will not live separate from them.

Just different from them. You wake up early to pray. You ensure you are always on a good result in your academics. If they need assistance, you offer them assistance. And you gently challenge any kind of foul talk that goes against your conviction very gently and very patiently. You can even suggest that a short prayer group be created in that room. They're not imposing it. But your consistency is building influence. They are going out to party, going to one ungodly place like that. You don't carry yourself as a Christian with all the kingdom on your inside, with all the glory on your inside, and then you follow them there like that.

No. You live different. And you are not an uptight person. Who just judges them and and call them a sinner and you are still friendly. No, no, no. If you call them a sinner, you cannot save them anymore. You know what the Bible calls them? He calls them the harvest. The harvest is plenty. That is what Jesus calls them.

Because the moment you tag them by name, you have shut your eyes to how much you can influence them. What matters is further you have been colonized. If you have not been colonized, avoid it. They are the one that will colonize you. Because that that is how you will know you are still a child. That's why we say children cannot bear kingdom responsibility. Very soon you are the one that's following them up and down. Because you are still a child. And they they will make it pepper you until your heart gives way. You you that you are preaching the gospel.

Look at where is your phone's f? God has not... See, you see? Is it... Is that not the the first techno phone that was released? Carrying phone Listen, and when you have a child, he will leave there and he will go somewhere and go and cry. Look at the phone and say cry. Cry again. The next time he's the one asking for update. He's saying, guy, how far?.

Is someone that has eaten that his brain. Only matured maker. He's funny, but he's not. This is the reason why believers compromise easily. It's the reason why believers compromise easily. Because we are children, and we have stayed there. So you're not an uptight person just always frowning, always going about frowning. No. No. No.

You are still friendly with them. You still chat with them. You still talk with them. Every time you are chanced, you're slaughtering Jesus in conversations. You invite them to church Until they say your own is too much. But you still speak, you still talk about academics, talk about things that matter. The moment they deviate and take the matter into women and their backside, you say please, you you know I don't do that. You say, excuse. Yeah, I don't mind. I'll go away to himself.

I'm the one that is teaching you. If you wanna speak about that, go away. You better ensure I don't know is teaching them. That's when they have to bow to your rule. Only the ruler makes rules. The word of God. You can't come to my house because we had a competition. You told me you're a guy. I'm a guy. And you came to me by yourself that, oh, I'm doing well in class, you want to come and learn from me.

And I say, ah, well, hey, guy. Come around to my hostel and let's talk. And then I call and you come in and I'm playing a worship song, and say, don't have bedo, think that that's my bedo. If you don't like it, go away. It's as simple as that. It is the ruler that creates the rule. The Bible says the rich ruleth over the poor. The believer therefore should not be the poor. The believer therefore should not be the failure. The believer should be the one that can influence another.

I will get there. It's not today. That that's not for today. Because you would learn how kingdom advances. You will learn it very soon. I will teach the place of God sized accomplishment, God sized results in kingdom advance. Why must you prosper in kingdom advance? Why must you excel? Why must your business do well? How must you make sales?

How must you make profits? Why must your life be balanced? Healthy on every side. With respect to kingdom. If you cannot tie these things to kingdom, you have not begun your work with God. On a mature level. Are you getting blessed from this? And then you start influencing them. One day you ask them, why? Why do you hate the church?

Why? And the guy will he will try to you will be convincing. And if he starts speaking, he all these pastors, all these pastors, and all of a sudden, God gives you wisdom. And you start communicating from a depth. Open your mouth and I would fill it up. And you would feel the anointing even as you are speaking. And the guy would look at you, you will still be hungry, you will not see any repentance in his face. And you will you will fill in that conversation, he might even mock you, join. And you would laugh after. Go and eat somewhere.

And as he goes, the holy ghost starts to incubate what has been planted. The holy ghost starts bringing to his remembrance. He's the one that convicts, not you. Your own is to plant the seed and the holy ghost comes with a weight. And one night, one of them will come and ask you for prayer. One of them will come and tell you, see, there is something I'm going through. I've never told anyone but I want to tell you. Another man will come and tell you, sir, I've been struggling with masturbation. How do I break out of it? Another one will come and tell you, sir, please.

That is colonization. The light is beginning to spread. Don't you think that the fulfillment of top of it when you have platform? Where you are right now is platform enough. You have to first influence your world before you can influence the world. You want to burn the world, burn your world first. Burn your environment first. But this will never happen if your life is not different from theirs. Because you have not allowed heaven to colonize you. So you cannot influence others.

The colonization begins with you. God must first get you before he can use your life against others. If this does not happen, we will misrepresent the character of God. And let me tell you why this is important. It is important because the plan of God is that the same way Jesus was the visible image, the express image of God. The visible image of the invisible God. Believers too are the visible image of the invisible God. Because we are created in the image and the likeness of God. So people can literally look at our lives and see God manifested. The implication of this is that our lives becomes the way that people interact with God.

And it means if we misrepresent God because we've not allowed heaven to colonize us, people will misinterpret our actions and they will reject God. Because of what they see in our lives. Have you not seen people who refuse to come to church because of something they saw in a believer? I think it was Mahatma Gandhi who said, I like your Christ, but I don't like your Christians. Because he saw the disparity. That's what happens when believers are not transformed to grow into sons, misrepresentators. We misrepresent the God that we represent. The God who has given us his image so that we can carry him around. Remember, he has chosen to wear you like a jacket. It means people automatically assume that when they see you, they have seen God.

And when you misrepresent God, you plant a detestation for God in the heart of men unknowingly. And they will say my goodness, is that how Christians behave? No wonder. No wonder. No wonder. That is the problem when you are the one that they complain about every time in your place of work. And you are the Christian. And you are the one that is upright. And you are the one that knows God. And you are the one that they call pastor.

Yet when they are having monthly review, your sales is the lowest. You are the one that that didn't get the job done. You didn't get the work done. You didn't meet the quota. You are literally bringing the company at the loss. Yes. You are the pastor. They begin to look at you and say, is it is it how your Christianity is? Because we misrepresent the life of God. Your kingdom will reign forevermore.

Forevermore, your kingdom will reign forevermore. Your kingdom will reign forevermore. Forevermore, your kingdom will reign forevermore. Listen. Your power will reign forevermore. Forevermore. Thrones and dominions we bow to use. The kings and the kingdoms will fade away. The best of men will come and go, but your kingdom will reign forevermore. Your kingdom will reign forevermore, forevermore.

Hear me? We come to church, we sing, we cry, we pray, yet our environment remains unchanged. That's not kingdom. That's religion. Because we are in a social media age. And for those of you who are Christian content creators, understand this. There is a lot of perversion already on the social media space. Do not hard do it. If heaven has colonized you, I would not even need to tell you this. You cannot be aiming to be an influencer as a believer who creates content like everyone else.

No distinction, no eousness, and you say, I just want to blow. So you dress like the world, you talk like the world, you joke like the world, you look like the world, that is compromise. There is nothing about and around your content that points people to the kingdom. That is compromise. As a kingdom influencer, you can still be funny. You can still be stylish. You can still be popular. You can still tell nice stories and be creative with it. But you must infuse light into every expression. It does not necessarily mean preach the gospel.

You can be a doctor. You can be an engineer. You can do whatsoever it is. Doesn't actually mean go and be preaching Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? No. You can be speaking along the area of your field, but let light be seen in it. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Your heart must confront lust. Your content must celebrate truth.

It has to challenge culture. Don't just train, transform. Let it be that a generation watches your content and repent. It might not be directly. It can be indirectly. There's got to be some lesson somewhere, some value that you pass across. Otherwise, what you are doing is a waste. You might be a good Christian. You might be a good worker in church, you might be a good student, a nice guy, a good businessman, a good husband, a good wife, a good mother. But if righteousness is not being planted in your space, you are not functioning as a kingdom agent.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. And you see, God is not just looking for people that can sing, people that can dance, people that can feel good on Sunday. No. He's looking for ambassadors. Men and women who will bring the culture language of heaven, purity, order, truth, justice, peace, power, and they can impose, they can infuse it with love and boldness into every sector they find themselves. That's what the two spies in the book of Joshua did. They entered Jericho and met Rahab. Rahab was a prostitute. They didn't preach for hours.

They were not quoting 50 scriptures, but something about their presence, their conviction, their message broke her completely. She not only believed, she became part of God's people. And later on, she became one of the ancestors of Jesus. That is kingdom impact. That's a woman with a prophetic agenda over her life, but she was a prostitute until she met some people. That's how your life should be. That when people beat you, their destinies are realigned. And you need to make this fine expression in every area of your life, in your business, have it spread, and you employ more people. There must be a value that pushes you. Even as I'm employing people, there's a value I want to pass across.

I might not have to necessarily teach my employees scripture. That's not what we are saying. But the value system of the kingdom must be revealed in what I'm doing. The value system of the kingdom must be revealed in what I'm doing. It must be obvious that I know God. Are you with me? I want us to pray. Even as we begin to round up. I hear a song in my spirit. A generation matching us to war, lifting the banner of Christ high.

A generation matching us to war, lifting the banner of Christ high. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done lifting the banner of Christ's eye. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done lifting the banner of Christ's heart. A generation matching us to war, lifting the banner of Christ's Say I reject compromise. Is somebody getting blessed? You know this is not bread and tea. Hear me? We now measure success by the world standard. And if you do, you will have identity crisis because you will refuse bribe, and the world will call you foolish. You will lose a contract because you refuse to sleep with someone, and they will mock you.

They will say, it's not just one night. But Philippians three twenty says, our citizenship is in heaven. If you don't if you don't allow this thing to work in your heart, if you don't allow this thing to work in your heart, you will compromise easily. You will set your standards according to what the world has set for you, and you will compromise easily. We were sent here as ambassadors of another realm to mirror heaven on earth, and we must recover that identity. And the truth is many of us have forgotten our language, the language of prayer, the language of purity, the language of truth. We have forgotten our culture, the culture of integrity, the culture of excellence, the culture of diligence, the culture of loyalty to the king and to his kingdom. The culture of sacrifice, the culture of holiness. They've forgotten our mission. To turn the hearts of men towards the king to go into the world and disciple all nations.

So now, we persuade people to win souls as though it's optional. But soul winning is not a department in church. It is the central culture of the kingdom. That is why we are called the ecclesia. They called out ones, summoned to go and colonize. Jesus did not die just to give us breakthroughs. He died to raise representatives. So in John chapter 21, the bible says after Jesus resurrected, Peter went back to fishing. And Jesus had to interrupt heaven to come back and meet Peter and say, lovest thou me above these things. And Peter said, yes.

Jesus asked again, lovest thou me above these things. The question we should be asking is, what are these things? I hope you know that these things are the thing the Gentiles seek for. What was Peter's occupation before he found Jesus? It means fishing was what brought him money. So when he thought that he had lost his calling, what he went back to was now occupation. That thing that that he went back to seek after what the Gentiles seek. And when Jesus came, Jesus said Peter, lovest thou me more than these things. These things that the Gentiles seek for. And Peter said, I love you.

Jesus asked him again, Peter, do you love me above these things? And Peter said, I love you. Jesus asked again, do you love me above these things? I love Peter's confidence. You know this man was hands free and I love you despite he just rejected him three times. Despite he left the call and left the mission and left the disciples and say you know what, forget this God's put in, that Jesus will know have died. Let every man not go and face his business. He went back to his occupation because he thought he had lost it. Because he thought he had been scammed. And when Jesus came and he found out everything was true all along, he reelected the same way he said he would.

Jesus asked him, do you love me? And I love that guy. Not a single inch of condemnation. He said baba, I love you. I love Peter. Jesus came again and asked, do you love me more than these things? He said, I love you. Do you love me more than these things? He said, I love you. Then if you do so, feed my sheep.

That was the command. Feed my sheep. In other words, don't just tell me that you love me, show me. If you love me, win souls. If you love me, keep them. If you love me, grow them. If you love me, build them. Real love for God always overflows into kingdom responsibility. James chapter two from verse 19 to verse 20. The Bible says, you believe that there is one God.

Good. Even the demons believe that. But faith without works is dead. It's not enough to say that you love God, that you believe God. The question is where is your proof? Have you brought anyone into the kingdom? Are you keeping anyone in the kingdom? Because when you stand before the king, you will be judged. And you won't be judged just for what you believed. You'll be judged for what you built.

For who you built, who your life influence, who your life imparted. So how do we know someone who is truly advancing the kingdom of God? It's simple. They make righteousness the culture of every sphere that they enter. If you are a student for instance, and your circle starts praying, your circle starts studying the word of God, your circle starts fleeing from sin because of you. That is kingdom. If you are in business and your integrity, your diligence, your excellence make bribe takers, lazy workers mediocre workers uncomfortable. The level of increase you are experiencing in your business by God. Makes people uncomfortable. And they make them wonder exactly how are you doing this.

That is kingdom. If your friends begin to hunger for God because of your consistency. That is kingdom. If you are able to influence even more people to believe what you believe, that is kingdom. So many of us are praying, Lord, if you can only empower me, if you can only empower me, I will advance your kingdom. But what are you doing with the empowerment that you currently have? How is it that you have the gift of speech, yet your words have never pulled a soul out of darkness? How come you are eloquent in conversation? You are fluent in counsel, but your tongue has never wielded God's word as a weapon to drag one soul from hell into light in Christ? How is it that you can sleep peacefully on bothered in a time when spiritual war is raging?

When nations are bleeding. When souls are being lost daily. It is because many of us still don't know the burden in the heart of God. You believe you have a purpose in counseling. You don't have to wait for anything big to happen, for platform to be given to you. Look around you. You will see a war in darkness. So many avenues for your life to manifest. So many. You are waiting for the church to create the department.

The Bible says for God so loved the world. That he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him will not perish. But have everlasting life. God sent his best gift to us. That is the best of God. And he wasn't sent to a palace. He was sent to a dying world. That's how precious souls are to him. That is the heart of God. And now that Jesus has completed that assignment, God has handed you the baton.

Now the baton is with you and you go and keep it in a wardrobe collecting dust. We show up in clothes and we sit in church every week, week after week. But I've never led one person to Christ. It's a shame. The church is not a stage for performance. It is a barracks. A training ground. It's an equipping center. You come here to be charged. To be trained.

To be equipped. Because you are going out there to fight. The place where we shine is not the church. It is in the world. Matthew five verse 16 says, let your light so shine. Matthew 24 says, go into the world. Where your light shines is not before pastors. It is in the world. If you love me, feed my lambs. Take care of my sheep.

Real love for God is measured by how many lives we keep from perishing. If you love me, feed my sheep. That means for the believer, soul winning is not a casual task. It's a kingdom responsibility. And it is spiritual warfare. The people you want to preach to are not just living in sin. They are bound by it. Sin to them is not just a habit. It's a prison. Behind every fornicator, behind every addict, every mocker, every atheist, there is often a demonic power controlling their soul.

That's why even well raised children from strong Christian homes will step into campus and change overnight. Because the moment they enter that space, they enter into a new spiritual climate. Tick with rebellion, tick with immorality, tick with pride, tick with lust. And they find themselves subject, subservient to a law that they were never introduced to. Or even hard to combat. It's not bad choices. It is blindness. Second Corinthians four from verse three to verse four. The bible says, if our gospel be veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded. You cannot just speak English to such people.

You must work on their behalf. You must war on their behalf. That is why soul winning begin with intersession. Any kingdom business, kingdom advancement begins with intersession. You don't confront their will and expect them to change their choices just because you spoke. No. You have not removed the veil in the place of prayer. This is the reason why God rewards soul winners. It's not about just opening your mouth. It's about bleeding in the spirit for the destiny of another.

I told you I started this teaching by telling you that when we get to heaven, our ranks differ. Is that not so? One of the things that makes our rank differ is the souls that we present before God. The souls we present before God. As an extension of his kingdom. When you catch the burden for souls and you begin to incarce it. With groanings that cannot be altered. The spirit helps in our weaknesses. With groanings which cannot be altered. That is priesthood.

Where you take on the burden of God for a city. And you see the heart cry of God for a territory. You see the heart cry of God for a generation. Sometimes you will weep for the people. Sometimes you will even weep for a people you have never met. You feel what the father feels. And you carry it until something breaks in your spirit. And when you begin to see what God sees, words will fail you. Words will fail you. A man of God was speaking.

And he said, when they were just 20 or so, many years ago, he would keep on declaring, declaring. Over eleven years ago, he will keep on declaring. Russia is ours. China is ours. And he will be mentioning several countries. And he will respond on those countries, would touch the map. I will keep on declaring, it is mine. It is mine. The kingdom of God is reaching this place. We take the gospel there.

And he will come to service and 20 people. He will start telling calling Russian names tell them greet your neighbor. Greet your neighbor. Greet your neighbor. And these people just believed him so foolishly. Eleven years after. He said, these same people who were rejects then, who some of them were wearing slippers, some of them had only one trouser like they wear, and they would gather with him in the classroom, and they will be declaring together, we are taking the word. He said many of them are the millionaires in dollars in his church now. In dollars, in his church now. He said TBN Russia wrote to them and said, man of God, we must get you on our channel.

And as he wrote, he was reading a the letter, he remembered when they were declaring, Russia is ours. Russia is ours. He remembered when they were calling names. Hear me? When you begin to feel what the spirit feels, when you begin to see what God sees, words will fail you. How do you even begin to pray for a world where just yesterday, I heard the news of a five year old girl that was raped? Where people are slaughtered in cold blood and nothing happens. There are times you see these things and there's a burden in your soul. A burden in your soul. You will find yourself sobbing.

You will find yourself aching. Not because you are emotional, but because the weight of God's burden is resting upon you. And in that moment, you have become a kingdom man. Because you have touched the heart of God. At that point, you realize that your salvation wasn't just to escape hell. It was to become a recruit in heaven's army. And Hebrews chapter six verse 10 says, God is not unfaithful. God is not unjust to forget your labor of love. It is your labor, your consistent sacrificial labor for his kingdom. That determines your ranking in the age to come.

And the Bible says God is not, God is not unjust to forget it. You may not be known on this earth. You may, you may never trend on this earth. But if you are faithful in winning souls, interceding for the lost, carrying God's body, you are building rank in the spirit. And in that realm, there is no politics. In that realm, there is no election. In that realm, there are no campaigns. There's only reward based on obedience. And the bible says God is not unjust to forget. We all stand there one day and will come with our crowns.

Shining bright. Because we allow the kingdom find expression through us. Glory to the father glory to the son by lifting the banner of Christ Revelations chapter five verse eight says the prayer of the saints ascend before God like an incense. The prayer of the saints ascend before God like an incense, and they are stored in golden vials. These are fragrances that fill the courtroom of heaven. God stores them. Because when he wants to legislate on earth, when he wants to break through the darkness in his city. When he wants to break through the darkness in a family. When he wants to break through the darkness in a nation. He opens those fires.

He breathes in the prayers of the saints. And the scent of intersession becomes the legal reason why he can move with justice. Because Psalm one one five verse 16 says the heaven of heavens is the Lord. The earth has he given to the sons of men. God gave man to restriction over the earth. And by his own word, he does not violate that system. So when God steps into a territory, it is because a man rose in the spirit and called him in. That is what the prayer of the saints does. When a man becomes a kingdom man, that man becomes a burden bearer. In his secret place, he would pray in tongues.

And there will be burdens on his inside. There are times he will start roaring in the spirit. Roaring in the spirit. And he would not know that that that thing is rising like an incense. Being stored in vials. Because God wants to break out of heaven and rend the earth. He wants to interfere in man's affairs, but he would need man's permission. So he will raise men that will begin to pray. Men that would inflict with a burden for a territory, a burden for a nation, a burden for one soul even. One soul.

One soul. One soul. And God will tell you pray for him. Pray for him. And you would not have any idea. Why? Because in in heaven's agenda, that lady is a is Rachel. My God. That lady is meant to is meant to be in the ancestry of the Christ. It means if that lady does not find Christ, it can affect the agenda of God.

And God will send two people. Two people that have become kingdom carriers. Who through them? The kingdom of God can find expression. Hear me. This was what happened when Jesus encountered Saul on the road to Damascus, Saul was a violent persecutor of Christians. Yet Jesus interrupted him with blinding glory. Saul, Saul, why persecutors thou me? And when that encounter was done, Jesus never discipled indirectly. That encounter happened in a particular territory.

Jesus told Paul, go to this territory. And when Paul left, Jesus now came to a man called Ananias. A man who no one knew in the natural. There is no record that he was an in his hands. God was negotiating the destiny of of of apostle Paul, the great apostle Paul. God had seen what that man would do. There are pistols that will be written. The revolution that must be given to him. Only him can carry. And God comes to a man nobody knows.

But his labors are seen in heaven. Even when no man knows him on earth, he's popular in heaven. Heaven is filled with his flames. His flames. His prayers that has risen like an incense. When heaven opened the doors, it was Ananias that they saw there. The God will come to a man and would say, you will remember Paul. You remember Paul. He will say Paul. That man that partacuted that partacutes Christians.

And Jesus would have to be convincing Ananias. Door. You would think that the gatekeeper of Damascus was a politician or a military leader, but no, it was Ananias, a man who prayed in secret, a man who negotiated with souls with Jesus directly. While men slept, Ananias labored in the spirit. And when Ananias showed up in the house of Saul, he did not bother asking Saul, what is your name? The moment he met Saul, he said, brother Saul. It wasn't presumption. It wasn't presumption. It is because he already knew that his transformation had been approved by heaven. He is coming from there.

So he knew that heaven has sealed this one. There was a man manning Damascus. There was a man manning Damascus. It was the prayers of Ananias that intercepted the journey of Paul. That made sure that Paul could not have a successful journey killing Christians in Damascus. A man was manning the gates. That even the higher killer that was sent to go and kill believers came under the influence of the heavens that this man had created over Damascus. There are men like that in this place. That your responsibility is to create atmospheres over territories. You are the one that gives allowance to what happens in that territory.

Men like Epaphras. This is a level of intimacy and authority available to those who truly pray, who truly intercede for souls, who truly intercede for nations, who truly understand the government of God and the agenda of the kingdom, Who choose to ensure that their life becomes more than food and drink. The bible says the kingdom of God is not in meat and drink. My life therefore cannot be touched about what I will eat, what I will drink, what I will eat, what I will drink. No. My Christianity must be more than that because I know that these thieves can be added. These thieves can be added. What men look for, what men pursue can be added. I tell you, heaven is looking for travailers. Isaiah 66 verse eight says as soon as Zion travails, she brought forth her children.

She brought forth her children. Until there is travail. Children are not birthed. Nothing happens. No revival. No awakening. No transformation. Because God only moves when he hears the groaning of the righteous. The groaning of the righteous. If you ever wonder why nothing is changing around you, many times, it's not because God is unwilling.

It is because there are no travelers. No men could travail. That person you are trying to preach to is bound by his spirit. That boy or girl you want to preach to is bound by his spirit. That territory you are trying to take is bound by his spirit. Bound by his spirit. If our eyes is veiled, you must war in prayers to tear down that blindness. And as you pray, your womb begins to bet that person until. Do you understand what I'm saying? As you begin to pray, this person you have seen, you bet him as a child.

And the moment you approach them, their hearts open. As you do this consistently, womb begins to expand. A time comes, you have grown captivity to birth modern children, to birth nations, to birth cities, to... The bible says that a woman was pregnant, and the bible told her two nations are inside you. There are times when you are birthing. What you are birthing is not a child. It's nations on your inside, and God says pray, pray. Many a times when you are praying, many of you don't know that you are praying for more than yourself. You are praying for more than your family. You are praying for more than your health.

You are praying for more than your finances. Many of you don't know. You think it's all about yourself, and God is using what you are doing as an excuse. Anybody can receive blessings, but only fruitful men bring back harvest. These are men with Able to carry, able to nurture, able to birth. The fact that you are here today shows what I have betted in the spirit. You are listening to me shows what I've betted in the spirit. If I want to conquer more ground, I must bet more. I must expand in my womb. And there are times you will bet Ibadan.

There are times you will bet Nigeria. There are times you will bet Africa. There are times you will bet... Listen to me. This applies to you even as a business person. You don't pray for the expansion of your business. You pray for the city to be yours. You pray to bet the city. When the city becomes yours, whatever you do in the city will prosper. When the gates of the city opens up to you, whatever you do in the city will prosper.

We focus on the wrong things. Hear me? Hear me. Hear me? After you have prayed, you must go. You must preach. You must speak. The gospel is a message it must be declared. Romans ten fourteen says, how shall they hear without a preacher? You can't stay in your room and hope people will get saved.

You must open your mouth and bring them the light of salvation. That's where the labor continues. Because soul winning is work. You will be misunderstood. You will be rejected. You will be insulted. But you press on. Because you are not a baby waiting to be fed. You are a son waiting to feed others. That labor means organizing house it is by yourself.

Creating time in your bidding schedule, giving up your personal comfort. It means following up on someone who keeps on failing, who keeps on falling, falling, falling. And you take that person up as a responsibility. You would say you will not wasting my time. For the devil to so much beyond your matter like this, it must mean you are important in God's agenda. Otherwise, the devil wouldn't be as hard a man as this in your life. Oh, I will take you up as a project, and you begin to pray. You begin to counsel. Begin to follow-up. It is labor.

It is labor. This is what it means to be faithful in little. Seek ye first the kingdom. Listen to me. I'm teaching you how to be burdened by what burdens God. And how to seek God speak on your behalf. Some of you are too focused on yourself. Too concerned about yourself. It has nothing to do with being a pastor, being a preacher. No.

No. It has nothing to do with being a mother or husband or father. This is a gospel to all. The bible was not written to pastors. It was written to believers. Can we pray in one minute? And say, father, me stamina. Let me not be asleep while others are betting souls. While others are betting nations. Let me not be asleep while others are betting cities in prayer.

Make me a voice in the realm that matters. Make me fruitful that my life might carry your glory. Can you arise on your feet and pray? Is the lamb. Holy holy Hear me? Hear me? In the realm of the spirit, parenting is shameful. In the natural, a woman without child can feel pain, but in the spirit, barrenness is even worse. John chapter 15 verse two, the bible says every branch in me that does not bear fruit, it takes away. The standard of heaven is not survivor, it is fruitfulness.

But every man who hears me must bear fruit. This is what it means to seek ye first the kingdom and all these things are added. I show you a way that has been forgotten, a path that has been forgotten. So many are concerned about themselves, concerned about only what they will eat and drink. And the burden of the kingdom is so far from the heart of many. But again, I awaken your heart to a consciousness. Can you pray? Can you pray? Lord, make me fruitful. Let me not live a beautiful life on earth and be empty in eternity.

Make me fruitful. Can you pray? Lord, make me fruitful. Sweeter than wine. You. Me again. Oh, for your And I will love you. Love you again. Oh, for your life is better than bread I will love you and I will love you again oh for your life is better than bread name name of We're Hear me. Hear me.

Hear Hear me. Everything that God gives to you is a weapon. Your voice is a weapon to be used for the kingdom. Your beauty is a weapon to be used for the kingdom. Your intelligence is a weapon to be used for the kingdom. Whatever platform God gives to you is a weapon. It wasn't given to you for sure. It was given for kingdom advancement. Paul had education. He didn't boast in his education.

He used it to write epistles. You may be a politician, but you are not just in office. Politics to you is a weapon. You may be a businesswoman, a businessman. You're not just making money. Business to you is a weapon. You might be an entertainer. You might be an educator. You might be an academics. Listen to me.

That to you is a weapon. And the message is the same for all. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth. You might be a mother. Even that that God has given to you is a weapon. Not to raise children, but to raise warriors. At whatever level you must insist that my life cannot be barren. My life cannot be barren. My life cannot be barren.

There is too much that heaven has invested in me. My life must bear fruit. Can you declare in prayers one more time? And say my life must bear fruit. I must have results. Put it into prayers right now. Holy Spirit over the flow. Holy Spirit over the flow. Holy Spirit over flow. Overflow like a river Say with me loud and clear, I refuse to be empty.

I will not appear in eternity empty. I will win souls. I will bet destinies. I will labor for my king. The gospel will be shared in me. The kingdom will be seen in my life. Jesus will be revealed through my life. My glory will be made manifest. And I will bring glory to the king. Men will see me.

And they will give glory to God. I will not bring shame to the king. My life will be a testimony. A testimony of God's glory. A testimony of God's goodness. A testimony of God's hand. Can you turn it into prayers one last time? And like a river over flow. And Holy Spirit leaving water over flow. Like a river My life will serve the king.

My life will serve his agenda. My life will save his glory. I will not be empty. In the name of Jesus. We believe you were blessed by this message. To connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel, Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at officialdisciplescn. You can follow us on Facebook at disciples christian network. You can also join our telegram page at d c n media for more messages by apostle Emmanuel. If you have a testimony from this message, you can mail us at disciplescn@gmail.com.

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