Transcript: Knowing God — I know Whom I Have Believed

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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. Chapter one and verse eight. Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord. Nor of me is prisoner. But share with me in the sufferings of the gospel according to the power of God. Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling.

Not according to our works. But according to his own purpose. According to his grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began. But has now been revealed by the appearing of our savior Jesus Christ who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. For this reason, I also suffer these things. Nevertheless, I am not ashamed. Can you read... If you have been following me, can we read the next line together? One two three, go. For I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep what I have committed to him until that day.

I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep what I've committed onto his hand until that day. I know whom I have believed. I draw the title of my teaching from this text, and I title my teaching to you this morning knowing God hyphen, I know whom I have believed. Knowing God, I know whom I have believed. The focus of my teaching for the next few meetings, especially in the month of February, is going to be geared towards our spiritual growth and stability as believers. So I don't want you to miss any meeting at all. Thank you, Jesus. So Paul, in that scripture that we read right now, said that there have been sufferings that he has been exposed to as a believer and as a preacher. There's been circumstances that are otherwise unpleasant. And he says we go through all these things.

But we are not ashamed. We are not frustrated. We are not sad. We are not gloomy. And the reason for this kind of response even in persecution is because I know whom I have believed. We call ourselves believers, but how many of us really know whom we have believed? How many of us can say like Paul that I know whom I have believed? This statement from Paul immediately shows me that it is possible. For a believer to not know whom he has believed. You can have the awareness that there is a God.

A supreme being that created the heavens and the earth. Sent his son to die for the sins of the world. You can have the awareness of that, even believe that. But that does not in any way mean that you know whom you have believed. It is possible to not have a personal revelation of the nature and the character of God. There are things you see in the life of a believer that knows God. And you know, ah, this person knows God. Paul says, I know whom I have believed. A lot of people have believed, but they have not known. A lot of people are believers.

They are Christians. They have received the life of God, accepted Jesus as Lord and savior, but they have not known. When you see a believer who has known God, there are certain things you begin to see in the life of that believer. For instance, Paul says, I am persuaded that he is able. You see, this is perhaps the first thing that you see in a believer who has come to know God. There is a level of persuasion that they have about the nature of God that gives them this strange confidence even as they walk through life. Even in the midst of trials, even in the midst of sufferings, even in the midst of tribulations, you just see them at peace. They say, all is well. Oh, I'm victorious. I'm victorious.

And sometimes you might even be shocked that they are not responding or leaving as though they are aware of the circumstances that they are in. You don't see them complaining. You don't see them grumbling. They are always cracking jokes, praying, rejoicing, excited, and it looks as though those outside are usually the one that is beating them. Whereas, the people in the circumstances themselves are just walking and living and enjoying life and never paying one single attention to what you may consider an object of defeat. And Paul says the reason for this confidence is because I know whom I have believed. There is suffering, but the reason we are not distressed is because we have come to know God. There is something I know about God. There is something I know about the nature of God and his character that has given me a level of confidence in navigating life. That even in the midst of uncertainties, I'm not tensed.

I'm not worried. I'm not tensed. I'm not worried. In the midst of troubles, in the midst of struggles, in the midst of tribulations, I'm not tensed. I'm not worried. I'm not ashamed. I'm not afraid. There is something a man can so know about God that gives him a settled confidence as he walks through life. And he walks through life with a level of certainty, a level of confidence. You can almost look at him and say he's proud.

You can almost look at him and say he's arrogant. Have you read of stories of men like David? How that the man Goliath came before Israel? And when Goliath came before Israel, there was great silence in Israel. Not a single person. These were men who have been trained in the heart of war. These were men who have been trained in the heart of war, but not a single person could approach Goliath to fight him. All of them were afraid. All of them ran back in fear. All of them...

And Goliath kept on insulting them, kept on throwing all kind of jabs at them, insulting the God of Israel. And even their king was carrying somewhere, could not do anything. There was no boldness. There was no courage. People who have spent years training for battle, training for warfare, and yet his warfare in front of you, none of them could march forward. All of them were afraid for their life. And here comes a man, David. He has not had any military training before. He has not had any professional training before. No no knowledge of how to use even a sword.

Nothing. He just comes and says, who is this person? His only anger wasn't that there was Goliath there. His anger was how can a man be insulting God like this? And nobody can do anything about it. That was what motivated David. That how can a man just stand here and be insulting my God? That was what's poured him into action. Now told him... They said, there's a reward for whoever can kill Goliatho.

He said, what is the reward? They said, the king will do so and so. But that was not the motivation. The motivation is how can a man be insulting god and there is nobody who can give him a response? This is a worthy motivation. And he went and approached the king and said, can go and fight this battle. They doubted him. They... Nobody was sure that he can do that because they were wondering how can someone who don't have any military experience, people who have had warfare experience that cannot even face him, and you are coming just from the backside of the desert, and you are saying you can face Goliath. How do you want to do that?

How do you want to do that? Now look up. Listen. Imagine this situation. Have you seen bouncers? Those guys that are very big and huge and have big chest, big body, and imagine 500 to 1,000,000 of them. 500,000 to 1,000,000 of them holding spears, holding... You've seen the military formation of the old movies you see... You watch. Is that not so?

Now imagine those... Imagine that. 1,000,000 of them holding their spare holding their... And none of them could come out on Facebook live. Big chested. You see them, you even run away because their their physique alone can intimidate you. But they found one that was bigger, and so all of them covered down. Now you find a lanky looking boy just coming tiny, and you just come and say you want to do what these people could not do. You say you are proud. You are arrogant.

You want to die. You just wanna die. Is this where you want to come and prove yourself? What do you want to prove? Don't worry. We know that. Don't worry. That was the look everybody would give. Who is this one again? And when he went there, Saul wanted to talk him down.

He said, listen, sir. I have stayed with God. And in staying with God, God put me as the shepherd over a ship. In that place, a lion came, took one of my ships. I ran after the lion and killed him. A bear came, I killed him. So what is this one? Seeing that, he said, okay. No problem. Let's give you a chance.

At least if you can fight a lion. They dressed him up in warfare, and this guy said, can't use this. Let me use what I've... What God used to train me. I didn't grow up with military training, so I cannot... I might not be able to fight with this. But in my journey with God, there's a way he has trained me. Can I stay with that? And they gave him the permission to do so. And he went with a sling in his hand.

Listen. He went with a sling in his hand. And the moment Goliath saw him, Goliath started talking again. Goliath said, look at this. When the Philistine looked about and saw David, he distended him for he was only a youth, ruddy and good looking. Next verse. So the Philistine said to him, am I a dog that you come with me with... That you come to me with sticks? And this Philistine cursed David by his gods. Look at that level of insult.

Next verse. And the Philistine said to David, come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beast of the field. Next verse. Then David said to the Philistine... Watch this. This is where I'm going. David said to the Philistine, you come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. What are the items of warp... Of warfare that David has mentioned? A sword, a spear, and a javelin.

This... How does... Vollad must be really skillful because I don't know how a man uses these three things to fight at the same time. This is a man so trained in warfare. Normally, you'd either go with a sword or a spear or a javelin. This guy had everything. And you'd expect David to now tell him I've come to you with a sling. He says, no. My advantage is that I have known God. In other words, the reason why I'm so confident is not because I know how to sling slings.

It's not because I understand how to fire slings. That is not the basis of my confidence. My... The basis of my confidence is that I know a God, the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel. That is the basis and the foundation of my confidence. That if you see a man who is confident, there is something that makes us confident. I I don't know how to make this clear to you. That the basis of the believer's confidence is something he knows about God, not the skill that he has, not the certificate he's holding, something he knows about God. The bible says, let not a rich man glory in his riches. Let not a wise man glory in his wisdom.

If any man glories, let him glory in that he understand and knows God. The source of our boasting is not in our wealth. It's not in our certificates. It's not in our riches. It is that I've taken time to know God. Ah, and God has revealed a dimension of himself to me that has given me such a confidence that if I stand before a layman and say, walk, I'm not speaking from the same standpoint where a believer trying to have faith is speaking from. I'm speaking from a standpoint where I've seen God. I've met with God. He have revealed himself to me as Jehovah Rapha, God my healer. So I know if I stand before a sick man, whether he has faith or he does not have faith, if I tell him walk, he will walk.

This is not the same as we are having faith for this. It's different. You see, there's a level a believer gets to that what is operating with is I'm having faith for this. I'm having faith for this. I'm having faith for this. There's another realm a believer gets to. He functions from the knowledge he has of God. His prayer points, his thanksgiving are not the same as the other believer. Let me give an example. If I just learn how to drive a car, you have Alright.

If you don't know how to drive your car, they're just teaching you, and you're getting bold and confident little by little, and then they put you on the road. And you see a trailer coming and it hits the on palm very lot before you. Your hand starts shaking and just say Jesus Christ, help me. Help me. Help me. And then it goes his way and you're able to maintain a straight hand and you go your way. What do you say? Thank you, Jesus. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Is that not so?

Yes, Because at some level, that's where you trust God for. Is that not so? Yes, sir. At that level. You leave home and you come back home safely, and you're just saying thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Because at that level, you have to believe God because you have not gained some level of mastery in that heart. So you consider every deliverance as a miracle. A point comes when you now master the heart of driving. When you have mastered the heart of driving, you understand and you notice and you observe that when a trailer is coming, you're not afraid.

The neck, you just maintain a straight hand and just drive by. Don't even see that's a miracle. You don't see that something spectacular has happened. Whereas, the other person is, you know, everything as I'm going out, Jesus, I don't know. Please help me. Help me. You just enter into that same car, and you use knowledge and mastery to navigate your path, and you are done. That's the same way some people navigate life. That some things that you consider a prayer point, some live by knowledge. Do you understand what I'm saying?

That you see a sick man, and you are praying and you are saying, God, God, in the name of Jesus, and you are staying on that sick man. Or you have a challenge or you have a problem and you are crying to God. God, please help me out of this challenge. Help me out of this problem. Help me out of this. And you are really, really, really, really just focused on that. And you want God to really do something. And fastings and prayers and twenty one days because you want to come out of that challenge. Another man is inside the same challenge. And he wakes up in the morning and goes out every day, and he won't...

He just he just leave his life as though there's nothing there because he knows that it will go. He knows that he'll be delivered. He knows that he cannot kill him. He knows that even if he does not utter a single statement. Are you with me? That's the same way whilst you are whilst you are doing all of that, whilst you are laboring over that sick person, another believer comes and says, how are you doing? Give me your hand. Walk. I used to watch prophet Kobel's Van Hensburg videos when I was growing in Christ. I would watch normally his videos while I'm praying in the spirit, and that man so challenged me in the way of healing.

Every lame leg that walks up to him that crawls up to him, that he rolls up to him, every. He just holds their hands like this and says, I give you life. I give you life. And he pulls them up, and that's it. Doesn't change. I give you life. How can a man be so conscious that he's carrying life? That one is not in the realm where he's praying to God to heal him. He he has seen himself as the one that now supplies life. You know, I was talking to some people on on on on Thursday, and I told them I said, the bible says freely you have received.

Freely give. It means whatever it is you have received freely in Christ, you can give. You receive salvation freely so you can give it. That's the reason why you can push to people and they are saved. And you can lead somebody to salvation. And you can tell them, stay with me. The reason you can do that is because you have received it yourself. Whatever it is you have received, you can give. So if you receive life, you can give it. My peace, give to you, not as the word give it.

So they received peace. Is that not so? He now told them if you go to any house and they did not receive you there, dust the shoes in your leg and take your peace along with you. It means the same way you have received peace, you can give somebody peace. The same way you have received life, you can give somebody life. It means there's a realm of existence where somebody is, where what he's doing is laboring for someone to find healing. There's another realm of existence where somebody is. What what he's doing is transferring life from himself to another person. It's too plain on existence. Both of them are believers, but their knowledge determine their realities and what they work in.

So I'm saying there is something that you know about God that just makes your life different. So David comes and he's telling Goliath, listen to me. You've come with me. You've come to me with swords and with spears and with all of these things. Do you know how skillful David was in throwing slings? Somewhere in the book of Judges, the bible explains how skillful some men were. The bible says they could eat a target at air's breath. That was how skillful David was. That means David doesn't come there carelessly and say, I'm not hoping that God would do something. No.

This was a skillful guy in throwing the sling. Go and watch videos of how skillful people throw the sling on YouTube. You will realize that if orange is put in a slingshot by an expert, he can kill a man, orange, or at least cause very serious concussion or brain damage by expert. One, watch the video. The force by which they throw this thing is very dangerous. Now you put stone inside of it. Yet when David came, he didn't say I've come to you with my expertise in throwing shots. It didn't say I came... I've come to you with four years of experience. I've come to you with five years of experience.

In other words, there's a way you go for an interview and people bring their experiences, people bring their track records, and you look at them and you say you've come with experiences. You've come with track records. I'm just leaving school, but I'll get this job. And you ask them, what is the basis of your confidence? Do you know anybody? I know God. Listen. There is such a way a man can know God that you just know this door will open, not because I have a man, not because I know anyone. Because there are times when you truly don't know anybody. In as much as connections open doors, there are times when you sincerely don't know anybody.

You don't even know the the place to begin knowing people from. At that level, what does a man know about God that can still give him such level of confidence enough to say, I will get it. It's mine. It's mine. It's mine. There's a level where a believer is, where he's praying that he he does not feel. There's another level where a believer is, where he knows he cannot feel. I am saying that wherever you are, what determines your realities is your knowledge of God. He says, I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded. Our persuasions are formed from our knowing God, not from our belief.

That you believe is not enough. What do you know about whom you have believed? Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? What do you know about whom you have believed? Hells. You will struggle for nothing. Hells. You will live a painful, sorrowful life for nothing, And your experiences will be shortening miracles to living from one miracle to the other. Whereas you can live in an experience. That becomes a lifestyle haven.

Do you know that David so knew? Look at what he told Goliath. I came to you. I've come to you in the name of the lord of hosts, the god of the harvest of Israel whom you have defied. Look at the next verse. Watch this. This day, the Lord will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you. Take your head from you. And this day, I will give the carcasses of the camp of your Philistines to the birds of the air, of the wild beast of the earth, and all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

There's something that you did not see. David was not holding a sword. I hope you are aware. He wasn't holding a sword. So how was he gonna remove his head? That means he has seen himself collecting his own sword and chopping. He has he has... The picture was so vivid in his mind that after I kill you, I will take your sword. I will chop your head with your sword. And the guy has not even fought the battle.

But look at the confidence with which he's talking. Can you talk like that with your academics? No. Be sincere. Be sincere. Can you talk like that with your business? Because if you cannot, it is because you have not known God. I know whom I have believed. Listen. The life I'm living is not is not trial and error.

It's not where that's not what I'm doing with my life. It's not ABCD. There's only one place I will arrive at. Only one place I can arrive at. Because I've entrusted my life onto the hands of God. So I know that his plans for me are good and not of evil. So even when I go through uncertain times, what do I know about God that preserves me? That keeps me certain. But even even if I'm not sure what is happening, my hand is in the hands of a God that knows the end from the beginning. The word that you have in uncertainty is the result or the report card that shows you have not known God.

That worry, that anxiety that you have in uncertainty is the report card that shows you have not known God. You have believed God, but you have not known God. I know whom I have believed. You see the you see the life of several believers, and you you can just tell. Listen. The difference between two believers is not necessarily their world life or their prayer life or their commitment in church. The difference between two believers is always with respect to the depth of their knowledge of God. The depth of their knowledge of God. A man can spend hours praying, invest over six hours a day, and the quality of his life is still nothing compared to a man who does not do as much as he does but knows God. Who a dimension of God has been revealed unto him.

That man will work in more exploits than the one who labors and labors in ignorance. I really hope that you understand what I'm showing you. I really hope so. Because if you do, like I told you, it is to the end that you grow. It is to the end that you mature. It is to the end that you gain stability. You see, we sing songs that talk about these things, but we never meditate on what we are singing. How have you just to dance and sing? You never sit down to contemplate what you are saying to verify if what you are saying is in your life. Know that song that says, because my papa didn't control medicine.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Because my dad did the unimthrone. Observe my life. Now pause. Pause. Pause. Now you dance to it. Now you sing. You're you're just dancing to it.

But the question is, if we observe your life, can we truly verify that it is aligned? Course. That's the first question. Peradventure, it is not aligned. Do you truly believe that it is aligned? You didn't understand what I've just said. Because if you do, your reaction even in the whole alignment. There's a way a believer behaves in lack. There's a way a believer believes in want. There's a way a believer behaves even in suffering.

Paul says we go through all these sufferings, but we are not ashamed. We go through all these things. There's a there's a response a believer has when his life does not yet look like what God has promised, and he's not perturbed by it, he's not disturbed by it, he's still in peace, he's still... Because he has he has a knowledge of God that keeps him in peace. It's not just about being a believer. It's not just about being a Christian or celebrating the father. Oh, I'm a Christian. No. No. No.

No. No. Are you a Christian that knows God? Or are you just a Christian by name? One litmus test of your knowledge of God is how you respond to situations and circumstances that you go through. That is one litmus test that you have come to know God. The foundation of the believer's confidence is based on the depth of your knowledge of God. I know whom I have believed. I know him. I'm not joking here.

I didn't just believe an abstract figure that somebody came to preach to me. I know whom I have believed. Do you know that it is very much possible, many of you who may not know me, but you come to church, and there's nothing wrong with that, by the way. But you'd not have a level of past relationship with me enough to know me, But you believe in what I represent based on the signs that you see, based on the miracles that you see, based on the anointing, based on the... You see now? You believe. You believe. But it will take a knowledge of me that is now beyond the signs you have seen to judge my character or to judge my actions when somebody comes to report me to you. And the person says, do you know that apostle pinned me down and molested me? And you will now think, ah, really?

I can't be... Ah, ah. And and I held him in high esteem. That shows you don't know the man. Because there's so... There's a way you now come and tell that same thing to another person who has come to know the person and they say, oh, gah. Go find another person lied to. They say, you say, this person was the one that stole my phone. And everybody say, We... He can steal it.

Now they bring the case to you, and they say this one this one this one stole your phone. Lie on anybody but not him. I have known him since I was in this and this and this. If this guy sees a pencil on the floor, he returns it. If this guy's now... You are now you are now... It's not that you believe him based on the fact that he's your friend. You are speaking based on what you know about him, based on what you know about his character, based on what you know about his nature. Do you understand what I am saying? This is what gives birth to maturity as a believer.

It's not just because I believe in God, it's that I've come to know him. I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he's able. No man knows God and remains the same. When you know God, there is always a deposit. Something is passed onto you that has an implication on your life. Always a deposit. And it is important for you to know that your Christian experience depends on the degree to which you know God. There is a desire in the heart of a lot of believers to know God. But a lot of people, after many frustrated attempts, have come to a conclusion that God is so mighty, so mysterious, so powerful that nobody can know him. It's impossible to know him.

But the bible makes it very clear that God seeks to be known. The bible makes it very clear that God desires intimacy. That God, as mighty as he is, as vast as he is, as eternal as he is, as endless as he is, he desire that you know him. In John chapter 17 verse three, the bible says this is eternal life. The bible says this thing I write unto you little children that you may know that you have eternal life. Not that you will have, that you have. In other words, when you receive Jesus, eternal life was downloaded into your spirit. And in John 17 verse three, eternal life is being defined. This is eternal life. That thing that you received, Jesus is defining it.

He says that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. In other words, God so desires that you know him, that he gave in you the ability to know him. The bible says, this thing that write unto you little children that you may have... May... You may know that you have eternal life. So you have eternal life, and this is eternal life that they may know you. So the ability of man to know God, the ability of man to come into an experience, into an intimate relationship with God has been given already to man. You have the ability, but not many believers have been taught How to journey into this life you have been given. Do you know that what Adam and Eve missed was a knowledge of God? Adam and Eve did not know God.

How many of you know this? Adam and Eve did not know God. That is the reason why the devil could deceive them. That is the reason why they could fall. Go and study the temptation of the devil, and you will find that these people never knew God. How will someone come and tell you that God lied to you? Did you see that did you see that example I gave now? That somebody comes to tell you apostle did this or my friend did this. Whether you believe it or not, it's now up to or dependent on how much you... Of the person you know.

You can believe me based on the miracles and the signs that you see me do. I wave my hand and somebody goes under the power. That can make you believe, but that doesn't mean you know me. Jesus Christ. Some people have believed God based on the works of God, based on the acts of God, but they've not come to know God. This was the problem with Adam and Eve. This was what caused or what brought about the fall of man. They've not come to know God. Remember that there were two trees in the garden. The tree of good and evil and then the tree of life.

The assignment of the tree of life was to supply knowledge. How do I know? Because that was also the assignment of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Because when God came and then said, Adam, where are you? And they said, I hid before you for I was naked. What was God's response? Have you eaten off the tree? No. Who told you that you were naked? And then after who told you?

In other words, God is saying who supplied this knowledge to you? Who supplied this information to you? Where did you hear this from? Then God now asked again, have you eaten of the tree? That means the tree told you. That means you ate of the tree and the tree supplied knowledge, and that was the tree I told you not to eat from. The one I told you you could eat from, which was the tree of life, you did not eat from. What is the tree of life meant to supply? This is eternal life that they may know you. It means if Adam had eaten of the tree of life, he would have had a knowledge of God would have made him immune to the deception of the devil.

Do you understand what I'm saying now? But when the devil came to Adam and Eve and they said, eat this fruit, for God knows that in the day you eat of this fruit, you will not surely die. But he was basically saying God lied to you. God is withholding good from you. God is withholding the best from you. God only gave you small to taste. He's hiding, you know, because he does not want you to enjoy the possibilities of God. And so he just kept a little for you to taste. You want the big thing, then take this. And they believed.

How do you believe that God can lie to you? Does the bible not say God is not a man that he should lie? Neither the son of man that he should repent. It means Adam did not know this. Does the bible not say the plans I have towards you are of good and not of evil to give you a future and a hope? Unexpected end, he calls it. It means Adam does not know this. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper even as thy soul prospereth. It means Adam did not know this. There were many gaps in Adam's understanding about God.

That was why they could be deceived. That was why Eve could be deceived. That was why they could believe that God can hide such precious things from them. It means if a man does not know God, that man can easily fall prey to the devil. That man can be tossed to and fro. That man can believe any lie that the devil brings. Any lie that the devil brings. Are you still with me? And God has so made it that he has programmed your strength, your results, and your greatness in this kingdom to depend on your knowledge of him. That means when you find a people strong in spirit, when you find a people powerful, when you find a people who are custodians of the glory and the presence of God, when you find a people who are rotting so much exploiting righteousness in a generation, It is directly traced to their depth of the knowledge of God.

Daniel eleven thirty two, but the people who know their God, they shall be strong and they shall do exploits. The people who know their God. The second litmus test that shows that you know God is the way you worship him. Worship is the response of the human spirit to knowing God. You can see the extent of a man's worship to God, and you know that this one knows God. By worship, I'm not just talking about the songs that you sing. I'm talking about everything that you do that contributes to ministering unto God. Get my message. This is worship. So you're giving to God.

You're giving to God. Your prayers to God. Your study of the word. Your life of sacrifice, your commitment in church, this is worship. And you know how much a man knows God by how much he does these things, by the kind of heart that does these things. The bible says in John four twenty two, you worship what you do not know. We know what we worship. The foundation for worship is your knowledge of God. Let me say it again. Can you sit down, please?

The foundation for worship is your knowledge of God. The foundation for worship is your knowledge of God. So there is a way a believer lives his life with such nonchallenge towards God or towards the things of God. He just comes to church and he looks so uninterested in what is happening. That attitude of let's just finish this thing and go. You know immediately when you touch a believer that this one doesn't know God. It might be a Christian, but he does not know God. You... And you see several believers like that who come to the presence of God, and you can see that that that disinterest in their faces. The word of God is being taught, and the guy is just pressing his phone playing the game.

Just playing game on his phone, just playing game, sliding WhatsApp, watching TikTok while the service is going on. And he'd wonder when would they finish this thing. He does not know that even sitting down to hear God's word is worship unto God. And your attitude in the presence of God is worship unto God. Your attitude. Do you know that you cannot go before a king or before the president and say, give me a minute. I wanna pick this court. Why is talking to you? Even your father? Can you do that?

That you go for an interview. And whilst the interview... Interviewer is talking to you, your phone rings. Sorry. One minute. And you pick the call and say, I'm I'm I'm in an interview right now. I'll call you back. What do you want? Don't worry. Sorry.

USA. But you have no problem doing it before God. Do you know him? If you cannot do it before an interviewer, it's... It does not suggest that there is something you know about that interviewer, that between you and this 200,000 naira salary is this man. And it matters what this man thinks of me. That knowledge that you have makes you compose yourself. What do you know about God? What is responsible for your composure in his presence? Just because they put it here, they say switch off your phones.

Is that all? Is that the reason why you think you should switch off your phones? Because it's a church culture? What do you know about God? Some of you can be praying and just hear prim prim WhatsApp and just say, God, I'm sorry. And then you hear, brim, brim again, you pick up your phone. Is that the joy of the holy ghost? While he's praying, he's studying the word of God. And there's no difference between the word of God and his physics lecture note. And anatomy.

What do you know about God? That your reaction and your behavior when you are studying physics is the same behavior you have when you are studying the word of God. You can read five chapters and pick up your phone, watch one season of a movie, then continue, pick up your phone again. You see? What do you know about God? This thing is not is not is not a law. It's not don't do this. Don't do that. That becomes a ritual. It is it is idols that you give rituals to, not God.

To God, worship is a response of your human spirit to the knowledge of God. Everything that you do is worship unto God as long as it has to do with ministering unto God. It shows you you have not known this spirit. You have not known this spirit. Emperor of the universe, master of the saints, you we bow. You and give you praise. Listen to what you're singing now. Emperor of the universe, Do you know that that simple activity we have just done in about one minute can tell me a lot about how much you know God? This simple thing we have just done. The moment I started singing the song, there are people whose heart and spirit life turned to heaven immediately.

And they closed their eyes, and they were just singing in reverence to God. There's someone else who has started singing that song. He's just looking in prayer of thee. I didn't know that voice. He should have modulated this way. That's what is going on in his mind. It is simple exercise. A simple exercise that shows you how much you know God. It's not to condemn you. It's to show you that you are...

You need to turn me more into God. Because these things are not forced. These things are not faked. You don't fake it. If it's not there, it's not there. You can come to church and sit down and focus your attention. You say, they say that you should not... I want to focus today. Before you know, your hand have gone to your phone. You're already playing Candy Crush.

You don't even remember. Gotta be, hey. Hey. They say we should do something because it's not there. So everything you're trying to do is just force yourself into compliance, and you have no confidence in the flesh. It's not to force yourself. It's to know God. That thing you are forcing becomes a response when you know him. The same way sitting down before an interviewer, before someone who wants to give you a contract, before a president, before your father, will warrant a response of decorum from you. That's the same way anything that you do unto God will warrant decorum by default.

By default. If they tell you an interview is by 8AM, what time will you get there? If they tell you that your exam is by 07:30, what time will you get there? Why? Why? I thought you have a team for late coming. The last time somebody challenged you and say, why do you come here late to church? You say, you know, it's just me. I don't have a team for late coming. I'm not counted of time, yet you arrive early for your exams.

So it's just that you're not counted of time or you just don't value God enough. Do you know that you pay attention to everything that you value? If money was involved, you'll be the first person to get there. But when God is involved, you are nowhere to be found. Do you really know God? That's the question. Because the bible says we know what we worship. We know what we worship. Worship is an outflow of your knowledge of God. If I know that he's the emperor of the universe, it means that there is...

Do you know what it means to be an emperor? Let's even leave an emperor alone. Do you know what it means to be a president? Leave an emperor alone. You're not saying he's an emperor of the saint. You are singing. Say are you are changing income. I'm blowing it while you are while you are saying emperor of the saint. You don't know what we are doing. I'm telling you.

I'm telling you. There are no laws to this. It's just a response of a human spirit. Do you know that in those days in the old testament, when God was to visit his people, they had seven days of preparation because God is coming. Jesus Christ. Their their attitude to the to the point of cleanliness. There were instruction as to how to take care of their body, how to bath. Go read the bible because God is coming. The layman could not be there. A woman on her period could not be there because she's considered dirty.

Not for any religious reason. It's just because she's considered dirty. And they say if you want to appear before God, your appearance must be that of reverence and honor. And it takes seven days to prepare their offerings, prepare their gifts, prepare their givings because they know who is coming. It is possible to be a believer, but I encounter with God. That knowledge of God is missing. So I said, God, as majestic as he is, as powerful as he is, he desires to be known. Hope you have not forgotten where we're coming from. In the garden of Eden, it was God that initiated fellowship with man. He would come in the cool of the evening to fellowship with man.

Even after the fall of man, God was still speaking to man. Remember when Cain brought his offering and his offering was rejected? God was still speaking to him. Even after Cain killed his brother, God was still speaking to him. It was God who came to Cain and said, Cain, where is your brother? How can you speak to a murderer? Go away. Never again. God still came to him and said, Cain, where is your brother? And Cain said, some of you thought that the...

That thing was... That commendation was God shouting at Cain and rebuking Cain and screaming at Cain because it was a punishment that came after. No. You go and read it. God was only declaring to Cain the consequences of his action because God told him that the blood of your brother and according to the law of justice, there must be consequences when blood is shed, especially the blood of an innocent man. The blood of your brother cries unto me. How would you do this kind of a thing? Because of what you have done, this this and this become your reality. Look at that. The moment God was done speaking, Cain still came to God.

If your teacher gave you an assignment and told you, finish one to 50, and you did not do the assignment and you came to class. And the moment you came to class, he shouted at you, screamed at you, held the pancreas, wiped it at your bumper, and now tells you go and do one to 500 before 5PM today and submit it. Do you think you would negotiate that size too much? Would you have the boldness to do that? Is that what you would do? So why will God be speaking to a man and the man is negotiating with God for his punishment? And the man is telling God, he said, God, this thing is too much. Anyone that sees me, he want to kill me. God now says, ah, no. No.

No. No. No. That's not part of it. Don't worry. I will put a mark of protection on you. Even in the punishment, there was still love. I will put a mark of protection on you so that anybody who finds you should not kill you. So as majestic as he is, he still brings himself and he's talking to man and he's fellowshipping with man and he's been intimate with man. Even in his rebellion, God is still the one initiating the process of communication.

God is still the one. It was the choice of Cain to leave the presence of God. God never withdrew his presence from him even in punishment. Even in rebellion, God never withdrew his presence from him. The bible says, Cain went out of the presence of the Lord. It was a choice of man, and God respected it. As majestic as he is, he desires that man communes with him. As majestic as he is, he desires to have an intimate fellowship with you. So every time you go to him in prayers, he desires to know you. He desires that you know him.

A lot of believers don't know this. And so the relationship we have with God is so plastic and so fake. Just following religious rituals just to fulfill all righteousness. You just go there and just do whatever it is you want to do and go. And God is saying, this is meant to be a communication. It's meant to be a conversation. How come you do all the talking? And no. Allow me to speak before you run away. You just come there and just have.

God. God. And God. And God. This is what I want to do. This is what. Do this for me. Do that for me. And then when God wants to start talking like you've told me what I want to do. Let me show you how the answer will come.

Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. And then you have left the prayer. And I got... We... Can't can't this thing be more than this? The bible says and Adam knew Eve. The word knew there is the word, a state of intimacy, intercourse, and Adam knew Eve and Eve conceived. That word knew Yada, in concordance, is the same word that was used in Daniel 11 verse 32 when the bible says those that know their god. It means he's not talking about mental awareness.

The same way Adam knew his wife, intercourse with his wife that made him implant something into his wife. That his wife carried and nurtured and gave birth to after nine months is the same way God wants to know you. Implant something in you. That your generation will know. They will see it and they will know you have been with God. That is the proof that a man has known God. That whenever a man knows God, whenever that communion happens, whenever that union happens, there is always an implantation. God will leave a seed of himself in you. The bible says that when they saw Peter, when they saw the disciples, when they saw how they were preaching the gospel, when they saw their their fervency and their passion and their eloquence and their anointing and their audacity and their authority and the presence and the glory that they carried. They saw the power they commanded, the results that they had.

They said these people are unlearned. These people are ignored. They they didn't go to school. How can people who didn't go to school engage scriptures like this? How can they break down scripture like this? How can they teach like this? Did you see the sermon that Peter gave in Acts chapter two? A full sermon bringing Joel, connecting Joel with Psalms and Isaiah, a full sermon, yet he was a fisherman who never went to school. The bible, they saw this, and they knew they had been with Jesus. It means that they...

There's... There was an implant. There was something... The same way Adam gave a seed to Eve. There was something that these people saw in their life. They knew that, ah, the result is not for men. Something must have happened. If you see a woman with a child and she says this is my child, would you know how who the father is? In other words, you can't have this result without having known a man. That's the same way it is that if I see if I see you with some kind of result, there's a way that a man can come and sing in this place.

He just sings and we just clap. We just rejoice that this person has such a good voice. And we just celebrate. And we say, woo. There's a way another one comes to sing. And as he read in his voice, is is as though a cord is struck in your spirit. You have no idea where the response comes from. Some of you are thrown into encompass, shot into heaven. The spirit of judgement made perfect appearing to men all kinds of out of body experiences because a man is singing the same song one just came to sing now. What is the difference?

They know they are being with God. In other words, this thing you are seeing, when this one is singing, that was the implantation. That was what what... When when he spent time with God, that was the seed God put in him. So that when you now see that seed, you can tell that this one has known God. This one has been with God. This is a testament that a man has been with God. These results are not normal with mere men. How do you go to this kind of secondary school where your secondary school was built with wood, plywood, and roof? You had no chemistry jam.

You didn't even do practical or physics, but you come to university and are getting first class. Come on now. I know you when you were growing up. What is this result? What is this result that I'm saying? They know that they had been with God. That's the way I look at a man's life, and I can tell by reason of the result. These things are not normal to mere men. How can you speak and the heart of men born? How can you speak and the heart of men respond?

They know they had been with God. They know they had been with God. Know they had been with God. There are ministers who minister. There are pastors that preach. And from the fruit of their preaching, you can tell how intimate with God they have been. You can tell. You can tell because they thought you wait on their words. When Jesus appeared to the disciples, they said, did our heart not burn whilst he spoke unto us? Whilst he was speaking, there was a sensation in our heart.

We knew that this one that was speaking was not ordinary. We didn't have the boldness to ask, but something was happening. We couldn't deny that there was an experience. We couldn't deny. Hear me? Even the fruit of the spirit and the behavior of a man is transformed as he comes to God. Then the transfiguration that happens, there is a character change. God has to alter his behavior. This man used to be a hard man. Nobody can talk to this one.

He will be looking at you like this. Not when he meets God. There's a damage that will happen to his heart. He will not recover. You will see that hard man lying on the floor crying. There's a level of patience God will work in your heart. A level of a level of love God will work in your heart. You will look at the... You will look at people and feel the same love he felt on the cross. The same love that made him lose his life for the world will be implanted in your heart.

You look at someone and you're moved to compassion. You are moved to compassion. You can tell that the way this man loves, he can almost sacrifice himself. That is not normal. For it is in the nature of men to be selfish. How can a man now love this much? How can a man... Ah, he must have met with God. This man is holding the realm of God. A level of perseverance and endurance that God gives.

There's an audacity a man has. An audacity a man has. And you see a weak concolo girl, but the kind of things she's daring to do. If you see someone who is gifted, you might not be surprised. But you see someone that the only testament would be that they have been with God. That implantation that happens in the secret place that happened. There's a seed that God has placed in their lives that is now manifesting. Do you know that for many men of God, that seed was the ministry they now have? The ministry is a testament of their being with God. It wasn't just an idea that came.

It was a... It is a testament of their being with God. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? In the intelligence of God, he has created a pathway that can help any believer know him. I taught you in my teaching God's pattern for growth and maturity that you're not given the liberty to learn God using your own formula. That in your pressing into God, you have not been given the privilege of creativity. Yes, sir. That the business of knowing God is based on a pattern that is already predefined.

That means if you attempt to learn God through a route that is your own invention, you will end up with casualties in the spirit. You will encounter familiar spirit and demons. There will always be a side effect even though your desire might be sincere. So it is possible for sincerity and passion to lead a man to pain. Because if for any reason, out of your passion, out of your sincerity, you attempt to choose your route to knowing God, there will always be consequences. And so God in his wisdom ordained pathways for men to know God. And in learning God, the greatest way that men come to the knowledge of God is to learn him through the revelation of his nature and his character. That is not the only way to know God, but it is the greatest way given to us by the spirit to know God. Oh, you'll be so blessed in this few weeks. Amen.

This few weeks we are entering into, please don't miss anything. I will teach you the protocols of encounters, the pathways of revelation. This this this are teachings that the holy spirit has given the permission to now begin to mature you into a place of maturity. This is the food for sons. This is not for children. This is for those who have a desire for maturity, for those who have a desire for growth. And the greatest way given to us by the spirit to know God is through the revelation of his character, through the revelation of his nature. Imagine with me that I sent you to an office to meet with someone because the person has 80,000,000 naira contract he wants to give you. But in that office that I sent you to, several men are there all wearing suits, and they all have their own deck spaces, including the person you are going to meet who you don't know. So I cannot tell you that if the person is wearing black because they are all on black suit.

They all have deck spaces. Your benefit is connected to meeting this man because it is in your meeting this man that 80,000,000 naira contract will be given to you. The first challenge therefore will be in knowing the man because you are in an office where several people are dressed like him. Is that not so? Yes, The easiest way to make you identify this man is to find a description in him that is consistent with his character and his nature. So I can tell you for instance that as soon as you step in, he is the only one in that office who will smile at you. So when you enter the office, what are you looking for? You look up your head, and the first thing you are looking for is who is smiling. Is that not so? Because you have a revelation of his character.

Oh god. Do you understand what I'm saying? Is the one that is very polite. He will not shout. Even if you annoy him, he will just respond to you carefully. That's the person you are looking for. So what I'm doing is I'm connecting you to the knowledge of this person by describing a distinctive character that he has. So as soon as you enter into that office, in the midst of the multitude who may be busy about their work, your gaze is fixed on the description that you have been given. You came in with an understanding. You are not confused by the many people who are there.

You see, this is one of the ways that we know God, by his nature and by his character. If you do not have this thorough understanding of the nature and the character of God, as you begin to press in the place of prayer, as you begin to press in the spirit, you're going to encounter many spirits. Many spirit beings that look like God. Because the bible says that even Lucifer is able to masquerade himself as an angel of light. Is that not so? Yes, sir. So it means that if you don't know how to distinguish the character and the nature of God, you will submit to an influence that is not God. And after many years, you will realize you have been deceived. After many years, you will realize you have been deceived. You followed a path in your sincere pursuit of God, but the spiritual encounter was not God.

And because nobody taught you the pathway of the spirit or the character and the nature of God, following his word, you were deceived by a spirit being that appeared to you. This is one of the reasons why we have several expressions right now in the world, all of which came from encounters they had. The book of Mormon came by an encounter. A man claimed to have encountered an angel who gave him the book or who told him what to write, and then he began to write. Then he began to write what is now known as the book of Mormon. And those ones believe that they are Christians in their own right. All of these expressions came to be because some men encountered spirits without having understood the character and the nature of God. That's the same way some some people have encountered prophets. And they did not understand the character and nature of God enough to discern that there is no way you claim to represent God, and the outflow of the nature of God will not be captured in the fruits that come out of your ministry. Based on this, I can tell that this prophet is not genuine.

It doesn't matter how much crowd you carry. There's a way you know God, you can distinguish. You can separate. You can tell who represents him and who does not. So even the confusion of believers to distinguish voices that claim God is because themselves don't know God. Are you seeing that now? Yes. This is one of the reasons why the word was made flesh. This is one of reasons why Jesus had to come as a man. One of the reasons why Jesus came to the earth was to become a correction to our understanding about God.

Because you see, before Jesus came, what was available was prophets and priests and the law and the Torah. Is that not so? It means that the prophets and the priests were the representative or should I say were the ones that have been given the privilege of capturing God and presenting God to a generation. So all that that generation had to work with was whatever this prophet and this priest and the law presented as God. Do you understand what I'm saying? These people were the lenses which people could learn God. But the problem was that these prophets, as sincere as they were, did not have the full revelation of God. The bible says we see in part. Is that not so? And there are men, they saw in part.

And some of them, for some of them, there was even a mix of their local spiritual practices like divination. Even their culture was ingrained with their presentation of God. So they mixed God alongside their divination, alongside their culture, and just presented everything together. So they gave a picture of God that was not accurate. So if you learn God only from the lens of the prophets and the old testament, you will find a lot of conflicting ideas about God. For instance, you will read statement like an evil spirit came from the Lord or a lying spirit came from the Lord. But that is not consistent with the character of God. That's not consistent with the nature of God. But this was the limitation of those who revealed God to that dispensation. Now we commend them for what they did.

We commend them for the dimensions of God that they unveiled to us. But Jesus came as the express image of God to now come and collect these gaps in understanding so that you can now compare their revelation of God to what Jesus exemplified. And per venture, you see anything that is different from the expression of Jesus of God, you can cancel it out as not being God no matter who said it. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? Is is it simple enough? Stay with me. So Jesus came as an express image of God so that everything we read from the old testament about God can now be compared with the man Jesus. And if it is not consistent with the character of God as revealed in the earthwork of Jesus, then we have a right to probe what was said no matter who said it. So when we see Jesus, we are able to correct the mistake that came from the perception of the prophets, understanding that they were also learning and were limited in many regards. Are you with me?

Limited in many regards. When you say, Lord, I worship you, you're not just speaking to an abstract figure in your mind. No. You can paint a picture in your mind based on the character of God that you have seen. A God who is holy, a God who is gracious, a God who is rich in love, abundant in mercy. This knowledge of the nature of God helps you in your prayer. It helps you to judge prophecy because you don't just accept any prophetic word that comes because somebody claims to be a prophet. Do you understand what I am saying? To judge every prophetic word through the lens of God's nature. So if someone comes to me for instance and says, apostle, God is so disappointed with you.

God is so angry with you. He will punish you in the next three days with sickness. I will laugh at you. There is no premise for me to receive what you have said because it is so against the character and the nature of God as revealed in his word. Are you with me? No matter how sincere you are, my orientation forbids me from being threatened by what you have said because there is something about God that I know. One of my daughters started gathering people in her territory. And the first time she had, you know, some people, and she was passionate, evangelizing. And once she started work in that territory, then somebody hold prophet of first Kings 13 called her yesterday and told her. He said,.

But when I was doing my own ministry, every 12AM in the night, come and attack me. I had attacks. I had this. I had that and narrated terrible examples, terrible stories, terrible... How is that a way to encourage the young girl that wants to start something? I'm not saying you should not start. Are you now saying? Are you with me? Yes, sir. There is something you know about God that makes you hear that kind of a thing and just be smiling as you're hearing.

Because you know your experience is only as defined by your knowledge. If these things happen to you, it is because this is how far you know. This is not how much I know. So there can be no Jesus as well. There can be no principality nor demon that will raise his ugly head against me in anger to what I am doing. Angry, they can be. Revenge, they cannot have. It is impossible. There is something I know about God that puts me in perfect peace. That I'm not always looking at my back.

You know the way you look when you hold somebody money? That's how the people look at the devil. Always careful. Always cautious. Hey. Hope I'm not... Hey. I'm not... I'm not like that with the devil. There is still confidence that there is nothing that ugly demon can do.

Yes, sir. A settled confidence that comes from something I have known about God that a man can speak to you, and you you lose your peace immediately. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. You lose your peace immediately. You are afraid. Fear bombard your spirit. Don't you know anything about God? Lecturer comes to class for... And tells you, he said, hey.

All of you failed because. I don't know if it is brain you have in your head or cobweb. Ordinary disc, you don't know. You. You. Stand up. What is so and so and so? Can you see? Can you see? And you're supposed to be.

And then it goes on and on and on and on and on. Then where you are seated, say, Kai, they made ban. How can that be your response? Goliath was threatening David. He was causing David by his idols. That him and say I will cut off your head. It means when people speak such words, if if fear enters your heart, it's proof you don't know God. It's as simple as that. You you, as long as I'm here, you think you'll rise and you're afraid. There is something you don't know about God.

I can tell you. I can tell you. I will not rise. Who is it that can say that it will happen when God hasn't declared it so? I will not rise. You watch and see. You watch and see. Over my dead body. Amen. Amen.

I will have for that prayer. If you have said it is over your dead body, then watch your body die. But the thing the thing is not in shouting. It is do you know God? There's no amount of shout that will make you practice this thing next week. Are you seeing where the problem is now? The question is, do you know God? I can say these things and come and excite you and... Yes. Who?

And you jump up, and then you get to a place where you should now apply what you have learned. And it's now obvious that the knowledge of God is missing. Most of the challenges of the average believer can be traced to our not knowing the nature of God. The needless pain and the fear that we carry. Many things that happen to believers happen because they don't know God. And you see, even our inability to represent God with confidence is because many believers don't know God. Do you know that when God give you certain instructions that may be beyond your strength and your capacity to carry out, if you don't know God, you won't be able to do it, and you'll be frustrated. Listen to me. Every man is frail, unassisted by God. When you see men doing extraordinary things, supernatural things, it is because they are assisted by God.

Listen. If you touch just one dimension of God alone, it can change your life like night and day. Touch the mercy of God alone. Do you know how powerful a ministry you can have if the homeowner that you mentioned that you saw was the mercy of God? How about the mightiness of God? How about the goodness of God? How about the wisdom of God that you can build ministries and build organizations that don't found the wisdom of men? All that Moses saw was a dimension of God, but see what he did with that dimension. How about the power of God? If what you saw was the power of God, the power of God, you can look at a dead body and say stand.

Stand. You can look at someone whose legs are dried and you say, walk. Elijah told the king, let Naaman come that he may know that there is prophecy prophet in Israel. How does a man speak like that? Men don't speak like that. You need to have known God. You need to have known God. Let Naaman come that he may know that there's a prophet in Israel. A lot of people meet me for counseling, and sometimes when they share with me what is their burden and their concern, I can tell you don't know God. You don't know God.

And sometimes we recommend a message to them, they are disappointed because what they were expecting is a deliverance. What they were expecting is a prayer. What they were expecting is a prophecy. Am I boring you? There are five principal qualities that represent the nature of God that I want to show you very fast. And if you do not have a revelation of these dimensions, you will be weak and powerless and exploit to be very far from your life. Please listen to me. This is really where I'm going. I have found five qualities of God that you must know by revelation if you're going to be a strong man in the spirit. It doesn't matter what you are called to do.

If you will be a man of power and stature, you must have this revelation of God. If you do not have this revelation, you will never be able to do anything great, and your spiritual life will be so weak. Your life all around will be so weak. Are you with me, brother and sisters? Yes, sir. Five of them. Number one, is it okay if we pray for one minute? Yes, sir. Pray in tongues for one minute. Just quietly.

Just pray in tongues for one minute. Amen. Please be very sensitive right now. This is really where I'm going. Stay with me. Be very sensitive right now. I will show you five revelations of the character and the nature of God, And I sense so strongly that he will begin to reveal himself and give light unto people and give revelation unto people. So be very, very sensitive. This is why I wanted us to pray. I saw this in my spirit that it will not just be an education.

There will be encounters that will lead you into the experience of that which I'll be showing you. Do you believe this? Yes. Number one, God is spirit. Number one, God is spirit. If you do not understand this revelation, your spiritual life will be very, very weak. In the book of John chapter four verse 24, the bible says, God is spirit. And those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. God is spirit. And anyone who comes to do business with God must have this revelation that God is spirit.

Your knowledge of God as spirit tells you immediately that you cannot walk with God with the flesh. If you will receive anything from God, you have to understand that God is spirit. In revelations one verse 10, John the revelator said I was in the spirit. He didn't say I was in the Isle Of Patmos. I was in the spirit on the last day. That if I will hear a voice, speak to me. If I will see God, speak to me. If I will receive anything from God, I must understand that God is spirit. Understanding this makes me know that any business I will do with God must be in spirit. It means that my response to God must not be in the flesh.

It cannot be in the flesh. There are many believers who have not understood that God is spirit, and so they they relate with God with their emotions. They relate with God with their soul, with their flesh, with their body. If they cannot feel God, they don't believe God is there. So I I I I measure the the the the the strength of my secret place by how many vibrations my body felt. So I can come and say, I'm not feeling this thing. Almost as though the holy spirit have left me. And there are many believers who believe the holy spirit has left them because you cannot feel anything. The bible says, God is faith. It means whatever bodily infections you experience, whatever spectacular event that happens, whenever it is you pray or fellowship with God, it's just a privilege.

It is not the right. Your interaction with God is forced from the perspective of the fact that he is spirit. In other words, what relates with God is your spirit, not your emotion, not your soul, not your flesh. So I can stay with this understanding and go and pray and not feel a thing, not feel hair blow, not feel any whatever, and I'm praying. And it is it is as serious and as powerful as when I feel those things because I know the one I'm praying to is not emotion. It's not soul. It is spirit. There are many people who have begged God to a particular dimension. So that if they don't feel goosebumps in their body, they don't believe God is with them. There are many believers who are convinced.

A lady sent me a message, and I saw I saw the message. I I just shook my head. I said, look at this. She told me she told me, man of god. He said, my apostle, papa, papa, papa, the little spirit has come back to me. And I'm wondering where did he go? And I checked to see what the person means by this and spectacular events. That's all. Spectacular events. And because you didn't see spectacular events, you were convinced you lost the holy spirit.

You were convinced God was no longer there. There are believers who cannot be led because the way they are expecting to be led is to hear a voice in their right ear. To see... To see a dream, a vision of the night. Whereas, the impressions of the spirit that God is putting in their heart, they ignore It's not spectacular enough. God is spirit. Do you know there are times when I want to read my bible? And I sit down, and my bible opens by itself. These are strange encounters I do not like to share with someone, with some people. I saw another person message me, and the person told me, he said, apostle, I read Ben Hin's book.

And in his book, he said whenever the holy spirit wants to speak to him, there is always this breeze that he feels. And I've also heard your message before. When you said the holy spirit just gives you this breeze and I say, but sir, I don't feel this breeze. Imagine I wait for my bible to open for it by itself every time I want to read. It means I will probably read once in two years. Say, wow. Spectacular experience. And then I sit down. Bible is not open today. That means God doesn't want me to read.

You see, that is how we form form theologies that are off scripture out of our experiences and encounters. I can come and tell someone that you know that if you don't... If your bible does not open by itself, I've not known God. I've had an experience where I was praying in my secret place, and I felt the depression in my bed. And I... As though somebody sat down, and the bed went down. As though somebody was sitting there, and there was nobody there. And you can hear that message and say, when will somebody sit down my bed? Whereas that has only happened to me once in my entire life. The reason why it's so powerful to you is is because how much value I've placed on it.

I wasn't praying for it. I was only praying and and and ministering to God that is spirit. That God that is spirit now chose to express himself physically. If he had not chosen to, he wouldn't have changed anything. The bible says blessed are those who have believed and have not seen. God is spirit. Working with God doesn't depend on the rule of the flesh. The realm of the flesh cannot interpret God. You cannot satisfactorily do business with God once you are in the realm of the flesh. You must learn how to be in the spirit.

You must learn how to walk in the spirit. You must learn how to live in the spirit. You must learn the business of the spirit. Spirit interaction. That the business of pressing into God is a spirit affair. This means don't be frustrated when your mind does not understand. It is not based on your feelings. It is not based on your emotions. It is a spirit to spirit interaction. Stop judging the strength of your encounters by what your flesh could feel.

You can have terrible encounters and not feel anything. Terrible encounters. I will teach you the protocol of encounters. Don't worry. I'll not feel a thing. Because listen to me. If you don't understand this, you will not understand why we do some things that might not make sense in the flesh, but we do it because God is spirit. It might not make sense spending time praying, worshiping God Where man's perspective might be unfruitful, where man's perspective might believe it has no benefit, but the staying power is sponsored by your revelation that God is spirit. It means if you don't know this, you will think that you are wasting time. You will think there's no value in what you are doing.

Remember, your experiences governed by your revelation of God. The difference between you and the believer who can spend time is not because there's always wind blowing. It's that he knows that the God is speaking to his spirit, and he believes. The bible says where two or three are gathered. In their midst where there I am. It means as we are here now, God is here. Whether the wind is blowing or not. Because God is spirit. Are you with me? How do you see a mountain of a problem in front of you and you start dancing?

How does that make sense? How do you dance and sink in a dungeon? Don't people cry for help in a dungeon? Your own response is to just dance, and you are dancing, and you are singing. And somebody looks at you and says, what in the world are you doing? This makes no sense. God is spirit. How do you explain that a man takes an entire month's salary? That a man is given money for his grant or whatever. Are you with me?

That a man is given a grant. I've seen this before, and he comes to me and says, apostle, I want to empty this. This is the first time receiving, and it must not be the last. It doesn't make sense. And he drops it by the altar. And from 50,000 naira to 1,000,000, to 8,000,000, to 22,000,000. I'm not prophesying. I'm telling you the story of a man. My preacher son, Not investors of Grant. Just take the money.

Take the money. Take the money. But when a man is coming and saying, I I want to just give this to God. How does that make sense? How does it make sense that it's either accurate and yet increase it? How do you how do you lose and then gain? How do you go down and go up? How does it make sense? Don't you see that this thing don't make any sense? God is spirit That can give my all, and I understand that there is sensibility in what I'm doing in the spirit.

In the realm of time, men might not understand. Men might call me all kind of names. As a matter of fact, because of this, you will limit what you tell people that have no understanding of spiritual matters. Yes. How do you look at someone with a sickness? Ah, Jesus Christ. Those who are born again will not understand this. But we who are in the kingdom, we know it is spirit affair. How do you look at someone with a sickness and you you know that if I lay hands on this person, they will be healed? What is the basis of your confidence?

How does it make sense that a man sees cancer, cancer, cancer, Tumor. And he goes there and pulls it off, rips off the flesh from the body. And in a meeting like this, the power of God comes upon a lady that has goiter. And the lady just screamed because she said something told her to scream. So she just screamed, and in screaming, the goiter fell off. How do you explain that? What is the logic in that? Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. Where is the logic in that?

The moment you know that God is spirit, then you will ascend to a realm where your mind can host every possibility in God. Are you with me? It means if God is spirit, then every way that comes from God is unusual. How helpers come to your life will be unusual. How your business will rise to a global standard is unusual. It not follow the normal routine of things. If you understand what I am teaching you, your life will be a sign and a wonder. God is spirit. Ezekiel said the hand of God is upon me. It brought me out into the spirit.

It was in the spirit that this voice now spoke to him saying, son of man, can these bones live again? In the realm of men, they cannot. But in the realm of the spirit, yes. Yes. A thousand times. Can this business rise again? In the realm of men, there might be no way. But in the spirit, there's a thousand ways. In the realm of God, anything and everything is possible. He can call those things that be not as those they were.

Your life might have no natural advantage. But you see, how does a man come from nothing and rise into glory and rise into power? God is spirit. This is why the bible says we do not look at those things which are seen. First Corinthians four verse 17 to verse 18. The bible is for our light affliction are for a moment of time. It is working within us, a far exceeding eternal weight of glory. The next verse then says, why would not look at those things which are seen for the things which are seen are temporal? Because we know that God is spirit. So I don't observe my physical surroundings.

I don't use my physical environment to dodge the workings of God in my life. I might not have any amount of money in my pocket, and you see me dancing around and say I'm a wealthy man. There is surplus supply. There's a mighty supply. Money comes to me, and you are seeing somebody like that rejoice. I am wondering, but you don't have money. And says, I know, but God is spirit. My realities are first spiritual before they are physical. A spiritual man knows this. So your interaction with God are first spirit.

If you are... If you notice, you will believe the spiritual more than you hold fast the physical. So it might not make sense physically, but you will believe regardless. Your confessions will not change. Your confession will not change. Twenty three years married, no child, came to a man of God, and the man of God told her, go and buy baby things. Go and buy baby things. Go and buy baby clothes. Go and shop with your husband. Both of you go there.

Baby clothes, baby socks. Every month, buy baby bucket. He said buy toy. Every morning, bath the toy. And say nine months time, my baby is coming. In nine months time, what will be the what will be the month? He told the man of God. He said plan for your naming ceremony. Go and start telling everybody you are pregnant. How does that make sense?

Go and start telling everybody you are pregnant. Go after telling everybody you are pregnant. And she and she obeyed like a fool. Even took it to the extreme. Everywhere she went, she carried the baby on her back. The the toy baby on her back. Well... And and and went... You would think that's a mad woman. Twenty two years barren.

Nine months, she delivered. Nine months. Went to the hospital six months after that, she was pregnant. In exactly nine months, she delivered. God is straight. That's why his ways might not make sense. How does it make sense? A man of god shared of how he left his house, and god told him, go into that car park and go and price that car. He said, I have no money in my account. I have no money in my account.

He heard it again. Go into that car park and go and price that car, and he went there. So how much is this car? They told him, oh, it is this amount of money. He said, okay. Alright. In his spirit, he was saying, god, I've... What else? What's the next step now? Tell them you're coming to pick it.

Okay. So is the best one you have here? He said, yeah. You have another one. They showed me the other one. How much is this one? He said, okay. This is the one I want. This one, that's the one I want. Okay.

Right. So you have to pay. I'm coming... You have to pay, and then it is yours. Don't worry. I'm coming to pick it. As he was leaving the place, his friend came out of the place, saw him and say, pastor, I've been looking for you. I'm the owner of this place. Pick the car. Listen, these are things that makes no sense.

Do you know that you even have to pay a believer to believe it's true? Helps you with what what are these people saying? I wanted to buy something worth millions. And God told me to give out the money I wanted you to buy it. About... Told me to give it up. And the following day following day following day, someone came to me with what I wanted to buy without telling him what I wanted to buy and said I have no rest in my spirit. God said I should give you. I said I don't want to. I don't collect it from people.

The person who found out where I live, came there, said I have no rest in my spirit. I have no rest in my spirit. How do you tell people first things? A man of God was sharing a testimony that his ministry is somewhere in Port Harcourt, and they called him in Alabama that they gave him a 5,000 auditorium free of charge in The US. Free of charge. Compensation is a lie. That's not how it happens. It's a lie. It's a lie. It's a lie.

Because he got the spirit. You... We can't begin to explain these things to you. We can't begin to. I went to go and visit someone, and the person kept on... The person's apprentice kept on looking at me, kept on looking at me, kept on looking at me. I became uncomfortable. I prayed for them and I left. I've never met her before in my life. And she was looking at me as, what is the meaning of this?

I left there. As I was leaving, she ran, packed her bag, packed everything she had with her, laptop, everything, put it in the bag. And said, I want to give you this thing. Why? He said, don't know. He said, I don't know. I lost Satan there. I... Something was telling me, give him. Give him.

That God can arrest the heart of men. God is spirit. Are you with me? So to... Because we said we look not at the things that are physical. So to judge what God is doing in your life just by the physical, you don't know God. You'll be frustrated because many things will not always make sense. It will take a knowledge of God, his spirit to know that God God can be working something in the background. What you know, every miracle that happens suddenly is never sudden. It is years, sometimes months in the works.

Are you with me? Can a young man come from a family where they have vowed that no one will ever rise and become great in the in the flesh? No. In the spirit? Yes. Because you can enter into the control room of destiny where you and God can enter into the business of writing ancient scripts and go back to where pronouncements were made about your destiny, when you were not born, and say I changed this order because if any man being Christ is a new creature. Number two, God is love. I wish I can stay here. God is love. First John chapter four verse seven to verse eight, the bible says beloved, let us love one another for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

He who does not love does not know God for God is love. Love is not just an attribute that God has. It is the very essence of God. It doesn't say God has love. It says God is love. It is not enough to know that God loves the world. You must know because we know John three sixteen, that much so for God so loved the world. But that is not where your understanding should end. You must know that God loves you. Say it loud and clear, God loves me.

God loves me. You must know that I am loved by God. Ah, I'm loved by God. I'm loved by God. You must know that God is passionate about me. He doesn't have love. His nature is that of love. God is passionate about me. God is committed to me because love is commitment. Love is passion.

Love is sacrifice. He gave the only begotten son. Love is pleasure. God takes pleasure in me. God finds pleasure in me. There's no shadow you won't light up, mountain you won't climb up, running after me. There's no wall you won't keep down like you won't tear around. Listen. Love is not just an attribute of God. It is who God is.

You need to believe this. Listen. It is from this perspective that you can approach God with boldness knowing that he can never tire of me. It doesn't grow weary in love. It is men that can grow weary when you keep on coming to them every time. And you say, sir, I don't have Kufiso. Sir, I don't have thiso. Men can grow weary. And they did not help you yesterday. Remember, I gave him money last week, not God.

The bible says he never faints. He never wearies. In his ability to love, he cannot exhaust it. It means there is no case that can fire God. Man can be worried, but not God. God loves me. Listen. If you don't have this mentality, you cannot have dominion. I promise you. I can't do anything to stop God from loving me.

You need to believe this. It is from this perspective that you approach God with boldness that you dominate even in the marketplace that God finds pleasure in me. God defends me with jealousy. When you know that God is love, you know that your sins are forgiven. There is therefore now no condemnation because God does not count my sins against me. In Psalms one zero three, the bible says, bless Lord, oh my soul. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, forget not his benefits. And then it goes on to list five benefits of God. Then after listing the benefits, he now go on to start revealing the nature and the character of God.

From verse eight, it says, the Lord is merciful and gracious. The Lord is slow to hunger. Are you saying this? Abounding in mercy. God is not hungry with me. God is not hungry with me. God is not angry with me. In verse 10, the bible says, ah, he has not dealt with us according to our sins. Do you know what this means? It means God does not look at me from the perspective of my mistakes.

It means if I'm ever going through anything, my sin is not why I'm going through it. The devil cannot convince me that the reason why you are suffering now, the reason why you are going through this now is because of what you did. The bible says he does not deal with us according to our sins. The bible says he does not punish us according to our iniquities. If God were to punish us according to our But God is love. God is love. It does not relate with us according to our incompetence. I will show you why very soon. It's also in this scripture. Are you with me brothers and sisters?

Yes, sir. For as the heavens are as high above the earth, so great is his mercy towards those who fear him. Verse 12, as far as the east is from the west, so far as he removed our transgressions from us, my sins have been forgiven because God is love. My sins have been forgiven. I don't come to God with with with with, you know, whimping and wondering whether I'm accepted. I'm accepted. I'm loved. My sins have been forgiven. Why does he not deal with us according to our sins? Why does he not punish us according to our iniquities?

Next verse, it says, as a father... Is that the next verse? Verse 14. 14. It says, for he knows our flame. He remembers that we are dust. It means even God knows that the man is created is frail. God knows that that man can come to him today and say, God, please have mercy. I will never do this again. If I do it, knock on me.

It is three hours after that the man goes and does the same thing he just told God he will never do again. And because the man gave God a condition that if he does it knocking, he now believes that God is about to knock him. Whereas the bible says he does not deal with us according to our sins because he knows that we are dust. He knows that we are free. He knows that men can be unfaithful. He's the one that remains faithful. I'm getting there. He knows the frailty of man. And so the bible says his compassion, it filleth not. His mercies are new every morning because he knows you will need it every morning.

That the one you the one you had yesterday is not enough. You wouldn't have another one today. It's new. Every day supplies mercy because of his love. If there's no day I wake up where the mercy of God does not follow me. My goodness. My goodness. Where the mercy of God does not follow me, it means I can I can wake up with this confidence that, listen, the reason why I will not get this job is not because I didn't pray yesterday? Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. You see, you are going for exam. You are going for exam. I have not even... Fast. The thing is you fast, you do not fast. Twenty one days fasting and prayer, you only came and did three. How does twenty one days? And you think God is...

You are the one that God is looking for. He does not deal with us according to our iniquities. It doesn't deal with us according to our iniquities. It doesn't deal with us according to our iniquities. Jesus Christ. I will love you forever. Your love has overwhelmed me. Yeah. I will love you for... Listen.

In verse 17, the Bible says the mercy of God. The mercy of God is everlasting. It's from everlasting to everlasting. The mercy of God does not... It does not finish. It's from... It is everlasting. You see, if the bible had said it is everlasting, it will still have meant it does not finish. But the bible says it is from everlasting to everlasting. The TPT translation of Psalms one zero three verse eight, the bible says, Lord, you are so kind and tender hearted, so patient with people who fail you.

So patient with people who I was talking to a man of God, and he came to mind. He was telling me, sir, I I I just feel I've been replaced. I just feel I've been replaced. Why do you feel you have been replaced? I left God for some season. God is patient even with people that's failing. That's not how fast God replaces people. We use the story of Judas to say God can replace men. It is true. But Judas died before God replaced him.

He killed himself. So there was an obvious vacuum. The bible says that his mercy is ever. He's patient even when men fail. He's still waiting to say, I know you will rise again. I know you will stand again. I know you will rise again. This is not your hand. The bible says it does not deal with us. Do you know do you know why it doesn't deal with us from from the perspective of our sins?

Because he doesn't even see the sins. The bible says that the blood of Jesus has covered them. So that what God sees when he looks at you is your future, your hand, that greatness that he has made of you. That's what God sees. And you must know that this is how God views you. You must know. Verse nine of TPT, verse nine says, you don't look at us only to find our faults. You don't look at us only to find our faults just so you can hold a grudge against us. Jesus. God loves me.

Oh, I know this. I know this. I know this. I know this. So I'm confident even in my weakness. I go to God with confidence. The Bible says, come boldly to the throne of grace that you might obtain mercy. God loves me. Are you with me? I'm addicted.

I am obsessed. There's no limit anymore. I'm addicted. I am hobsessed. You have taken over me. Addicted. I am hobsessed. There's no limit anymore. I'm a dictator. I am wholesome.

You have taken Isaiah 49 verse 15. The bible says, can a woman forget a nursing child? Do you know this was a... Start from verse 14. This was a response to Jerusalem. The bible says, but Zion said, the Lord has forsaken me. My Lord has forgotten me. Maybe there's somebody here like that. God is not responding. Look at verse 15.

Can a woman forget her nursing child and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Maybe when God now ask that question, you now remember how one mother somewhere forgot an orphan child. God now says, surely, they may forget. Yet I will never, yet I will not forget you. It means God does not leave me. The holy spirit does not leave me. Even in my frailties, he doesn't leave me. Even in my weaknesses, he doesn't leave me. He will never forget me. The bible says he that keepeth Israel does not sleep nor slumber.

That is the reason why I sleep in peace. I can't be awake and he's awake. I can't be doing his job. He's already watching over me. Why must I watch over myself? Look at the next verse. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. Jesus Christ. I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands.

He says your walls are continually before me. Do you know do you know what the walls are? The walls are the broken down walls of Jerusalem. The walls of Jerusalem have been broken down. That's why Jerusalem was complaining... Zion was complaining that God has forgotten me. Is that not so? But God is now saying that the walls you think are forgotten are continually before me. Jesus Christ. You think that because you are in that situation, I've forgotten.

No. While I'm looking at you there, I'm orchestrating the best version of deliverance so that when I come, I will sign my signature in your life. I've inscribed you on the palms of my hand. It means I've... Give me NLT. NLT. Very fast. NLT. I've written your... That's...

He has tattooed me on the palms of his hands. That whenever God looks at his hand like this, it's Emmanuel Jesus. That is how much God loves me. In Psalms one... In Psalms 17, David says, keep me as the apple of your eyes. Oh, I'm the apple of his eyes. I I am precious to God. God can't just displace me anyhow. I know this. I'm loved by God.

Can you say I'm loved by God? I'm loved by The bible, this perfect love casts out fear. This this love makes me fearless. It makes me know that there is nothing I can never be afraid Why? Because God jealously protects me. He jealously invest himself on me. If anybody hurts me, be careful. I have a father that doesn't joke with me. I have a father that does not joke with me. You be careful.

Listen. God sent God sent the young prophet on an errand to Jehoshaphat. And Jehoshaphat looked at him and raised his hand against him and right there his hand withered without the prophet saying anything. Yes, sir. Don't try me. Don't try me because God loves me. There's a level of jealousy that God has for me. Now when people offend me, I cry to God for mercy on their behalf. There is an understanding that makes me do that because I know how much God values me. I know my walls don't fall to the ground.

I know that God loves me. I know doors open for me because of this. There is no place I enter that I can be rejected because God loves me. And if I am ever rejected, it is because there is a bigger plan that he has for me that I might not have seen. Yes. God loves me. Let me tell you let me tell you how God works. If the plan of God for your life is to make h two whole, God starts by introducing h. The devil now brings affliction and brings problem and thinks he has gotten you without understanding that what he has brought his whole to. That's the meaning of how things work together for good.

God loves me. Ah, this I know. This I know. This I know. I know this. I'm not threatened by what any man says. This I know. God loves me. God loves me. Do you believe this?

God loves me. God loves me. I I am confident. I am bold about it. I can pray it like that because I know. Even when I make mistakes, I can still approach God knowing that he loves me. Doesn't matter what any man might do. It doesn't matter what any man might say. It doesn't matter what any man might believe. I know that the monarch of Zion has invested himself on me.

What a privilege. What a privilege that the monarch of Zion has invested himself on me. God loves me. Do you believe this? Yes, sir. Number three, God is holy. God is holy. First Samuel two and verse two, the bible says no one is holy like the Lord for there is none besides you nor is there any rock beside like our God. See, the holiness of God is not just about being sinless. Sinlessness is only one scope of understanding the holiness of God.

When we say God is holy, it means set apart. It means God is in a class all by himself as a result of not finding anyone to compare himself with. It means to be in a class that is incontestable. An opportunity was given to contest with him, and he won by conquest. So when the bible says God is holy, it doesn't just mean God is blameless. It means you have been given the liberty to explore the realm of the spirit. You will not find any like him. The character of holiness goes beyond just being consecrated. There's a reason why he is set apart. It is that God himself searched to find if there is any greater than him to swear by, and he did not find any.

So he can only swear by himself. So when you say God is holy, you are saying, God, I have explored every other option, and I've come to the conclusion that there is none compares to you. This is the reason why the elders bow. In all their wisdom, in all their knowledge, they cast their crowns before him. The cherubim and the seraphim in all their splendor bow themselves before him. The angels and the archangels lift their hands and bow themselves, lie down post it. All of them shouting with unison, you are holy. In Revelation seven verse 11, the bible says, and the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures fell on their faces before the throne, and they worshiped God. What were they saying? Four...

Revelations four verse eight, the bible says, the four living creatures, each having six wings were full of eyes around within, and did not rest their night saying, holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty, who was, who is, and is to come. You see that? Holy, holy. In other words in other words, in all our wisdom, in all our knowledge, in all our glory, these people have eyes all over, wings everywhere. These were majestic creatures. But when they saw God, they saw a being that no man, no man knows breath, no being could contest with. It is it is it is this revelation that makes them scream holy. When God wants a man to worship him or when God wants beings to worship him, God does not tell people worship me. He only reveals a dimension of his holiness. The response of that sin is worship.

This was why they cried holy, holy, holy. In verse 11, they said, you are worthy. You are worthy. To to be worthy of something means you have you have you have done something to receive the glory. It's like you are giving somebody an award as the best student. It means we have... You have competed with everybody, and you have been seen to be the best. That is the language of holy. It means you have you have been set apart for distinction. That is the meaning of you are worthy.

There is none compared to you. No man comes to his class. He's the one that sits upon the throne, the bible says. And there's a reason why he's sitting upon the throne. It's not sitting there of an insecure person hoping nobody will ever arise to come and confess. No. No. No. No. No.

There were many kings who sat on thrones on earth, but they demonstrate holiness. They were threatened when other kings arose. Even the king Herod was threatened when Judas was born. Is that not so? But there is one who sits and is not threatened by anything. Not the arrogance of kings upon the earth, not the onslaught of Satan and the demonic realm. If you understand the holiness of God, it will not just purify your heart, but will give you confidence as you approach God because you are not afraid of Satan hearing what you are saying because God is holy. He's not threatened by the action of any demon. He's not threatened by the action of any king. If a man says I will remove you from that office, you say, Kai, be careful.

I'm joined to one that is in a class all by himself. Who will say a thing and come to pass when the holy one of Israel has not said it? The one that I'm conjoined with is a god that is holy, is in a class in power all by himself, He's in a class in wisdom all by himself. He's in a class in splendor all by himself. And when God reveals this holiness to you, There's a level of confidence you will walk in because you know the one that backs me, the one that sent me, I am is his name. The word holy is the word. Separate, set apart. There are many there are many names you can call men, and several people will answer. For instance, if you say president, by reason of your voting, a lot of people can answer the word president and say, oh, yes. I'm the president of my nation.

I was the former president. Is that not so? You can be chairman, and more than five people can respond because in your own right, in your own company, you are a chairman. Is that not so? You're not a champion, and more than 10 people can respond because in your own right, a champion. Is that not so? Yes, sir. But there's a name you call God, only one person can answer. No man has the power to answer. By what qualification will he answer?

For God is holy. When the holy one looks at you and says you are free, there is no judge who can hold you captive. Because the one who stands in a class all by himself, it is the highest monarch who have said you are free. There's no there's no contesting it. There's no debating it. Satan cannot argue with the dictate of God. God has said my family is free. God has said I am great. I'm a success. There's no devil who can hold you back.

The holiness of God goes beyond being sinless. It is that there is no one who is as powerful as him. What else will you do when you stand before that god? You will bow. You will bow. Listen. Number four, God is light. God is light. First John chapter one verse five. I won't stay here too long.

The bible says that God is light and in him is no darkness at all. God is light. Psalms 36 verse nine says, for with you is the fountain of life. In your light, we see light. This is the dimension of God that hosts revelation. In his presence, nothing is hidden. God is light. And when that light comes to your ministry, when that light comes to your finances, when that light comes to your business, when that light comes to your academics, darkness disappears. The bible says the darkness does not comprehend. There's no revelation you...

Listen. Listen. Anytime you study scriptures, this is a revelation you must carry that God is light. So nothing that is profitable for my destiny can be hidden from me. When I open scripture, I must see. If there's a mystery responsible for my victory, I must see. The light of God must fish it out. God is light. The bible said the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. For someone you came for this meeting and there are answers locked up in your spirit, but there's no light.

There are answers for the next level as a student, answers as a minister, answers as a business person, hands us as someone whose marriage is under attack, hands us in whatever capacity. But there are... But there is no light. There's no direction. The spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord, And God can light that candle. He can light that ministry. He can light that business. Do you know that there's a mystery with God? Because the bible says that God does not only send light into darkness. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. God also calls forth light out of darkness. He can command light to shine out of darkness. It means you can carry your pain. You can carry your circumstances. You can carry your problem to him. And you say, God, look at what I'm going through. And out of that problem, he will call forth light. That God has such authority. It does not just bring light into darkness.

He can command light to come from darkness. Out of that situation, a ministry can come out. Light out of darkness. I lost my father. I lost my mother. I didn't know where help would come from. But out of darkness, light can come. The bible says that which makes manifest is light. Every time I come to speak to you, I'm conscious of this. That beyond just the frailty of my words in explaining and in conjuring words together to paint pictures and cast imaginations in your heart, there is a grace that works in me according to Ephesians three verse nine that makes all men see.

God is light. If there is any confusion in your life, it is because you have not seen that revelation of God has light. The light shines in darkness. The darkness comprehends it not. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. The last one I would give to you, and then we'll pray. God is faithful. Number five, God is what now? Faithful.

Faithful. God is faithful. God is faithful. Deuteronomy seven verse nine, the bible says, therefore, know that the Lord your God is God. The faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments. God is faithful. God is unwavering in his promises. The Bible says he keeps covenant. He keeps his word. He keeps his word.

Lamentations three verse 22. The Bible says, though it is through the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not. In verse 23, the bible says, they they are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. Isaiah 55. This is where we pray. Verse eight, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven and does not return there, but water the earth and make it bring forth on board that it may give seed to the sower and breath to the eater. So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth.

It shall not come back to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. God is faithful. Abacuq chapter two and verse three, the bible says for the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end, it will speak and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it because it will surely come to pass. It will not tarry. God is faithful. But there is nothing God has told me that will not happen. Yes, Yes, sir. You must know that God is faithful. In other words, it's not enough to know that God is able.

You must know he is faithful. Because there are many times that the promise might look as though it is tarrying. What makes you persevere? What makes you... What breaths patience in your spirit? What breaths confidence to know that this thing will happen? What gives you the hope of a bright future is your revelation that God is faithful. When you don't know that God is faithful, you lose hope. When a man has lost hope, it is because the revelation of God's faithfulness is missing from his life. It doesn't matter how many men have disappointed you.

If you know that God is faithful, your life will still shine. That greatness will still come. It doesn't matter how many how many disappointments and frustrations and bad experiences you might have had. Lost loved ones come to a place of no return, but if you know that God is faithful, ah, Jesus Christ. If you know that God is faithful, it has a way it works patience in you. It works hope in you. Look at Abraham. God promised that man that he will become a father of many nations. And for many years, the promise was was hanging in the air. For many years, the promise was hanging in the air.

There are many of you in this place with prophecies over your life. I see five beams of light descend. Five beams of light. I just see them descend. There are many people that there are prophecies over their lives, promises that God has given to them, and look as though those things are not coming to pass. All that you experience physically doesn't look like what God has promised you, and you are there wondering what is happening. Your mother calls you, your father calls you, you look at things in your family, the debt is still there, the the the the ones are still there, the things you don't have are still there, you still have bills to sort out, and yet this is a promise that God has told you that you'll become a kingdom financier. And you are wondering how do I become a kingdom financier if I cannot even pay for my next meal? If I have to have to tell my pastors and tell my leaders that I don't have food to eat. What is the meaning of this?

How does this happen? Must... Do you know that God is faithful? Because if you do, it has a way that keeps you stable. This is the secret to stability. Stability that you are unwavering in your belief, unwavering in your hope. You know that even in an uncertain experience, God is faithful. The bible says he keeps his word. He keeps his word. Oh, I know that he's a covenant keeper.

I know. I know. I know. I need no man tell me this, that if God has spoken this to me, if God has said this to me, if this is... Listen to me, your light will still shine because God has said it. It doesn't matter how long it will take, but when it happens, it will shorten time. Listen. When God makes... When when God brings that promise into fulfillment, it has a way to wipes away the years of sorrow you have had. It has a way just...

It makes you lose memory of the years of pain. It is much like a woman in labor. There's a way a woman goes through labor that even when she's in labor, you can almost look at her and say, look at this pain. The woman is in so much pain. But the moment she gives birth, the moment she gives birth, she has no memory of the pain she has just undergone. She's smiling and joyful seeing the baby that has been born. There are many of you with babies in your womb. Babies in your womb, and you have been going through years of labor, years of labor, some months of labor where it looks as though you know there is something in you wanting to find expression coming out of you, but the labor pain is much. The labor pangs is much. What you need in such moment is the knowledge of the faithfulness of God.

Ah, that light will shine. I don't know why I keep on seeing this. That light will shine. That greatness will manifest. If God has told you you are... You have an in anointing upon you, and you're a mighty evangelist, that light will shine. The light will shine. The nations will still see your glory. Don't focus on how long it is taking. The bible says that though it may tarry, the vision is yet for an appointed time.

Though it may tarry, it will not tarry. It will come to pass. God is faithful. I know this year will reach the world. I know my voice will be heard. I know nothing will hear my voice. This world that God has dug on my inside, I know people will come and drink from it. I don't know how long it will take, but I know that God is faithful. I know that God is faithful. I know that God is faithful.

I might not have money in the bank now for I'm rich. I'm prosperous. I'm wealthy. I might look at my results and see thirties, forties, but God is faithful. If you have said it that is making me a life to the Gentiles, it will come to pass. I look at... I look not at the things which are sin, for the things which are sin are temporal. Do you believe what I'm teaching you? The things which are seen are temporal. Oh, I know that God is faithful.

There are many people who are starting to lose hope. Your heart is becoming faint. Your heart is becoming weary. So I wonder where will this thing come to pass. They told me I will marry. They told me they told me I will be successful. They told me I will go abroad. But I'm not seeing the the promise, fighting expression. I'm not seeing the manifestation of the promise. And there's such pressure in your heart.

But listen to me, God is faithful. God is faithful. I... It is because you know that God is faithful that you keep on praying about that thing. You keep on praying about that thing. God, you are the one that said it. I know you keep your word. I know you keep your word. I know you keep your word. You are the one that said it.

Listen. There are times that God lead you to a place, and he has told you that there's greatness ahead of you. And you get to a point, and it looks as though God is silent. You can't hear anything again. Almost as though God is silent. And I want you, what do I do next? What do I do next? And there is silence in heaven. Don't lose heart. God is faithful.

What keeps you in perfect peace even in the silence of God is because you know that the one who has said it, he will keep his word. He's called a covenant keeper. Men can break their promises, but God is not a man that should lie. God is faithful. God is faithful. Rise up on your feet. Can you pray in tongues wherever it is you are? God is faithful. God is faithful. God is God is faithful.

Three. Ready. In Jesus name we have prayed. Amen. Can you let there be silence for just one minute? With all eyes closed. Let there be encounters now. You told me that you will make yourself real. You told me there's no longer the guesses and assumptions. You told me that there are several people here that you are making yourself real to.

The love of God, the light of God, the holiness of God, his might and his power, the faithfulness of God. I hope on the portals of encounters, bring men into your glory. Let it happen now, Jesus. Let it happen faster. Let it happen faster. Let it happen faster. Let it happen faster. It happen faster. Let it happen faster. Let it happen faster.

Let it happen faster. Let it happen faster. Potters of encounters, wells of glory, wells of glory, portals of encounters. Let it happen faster now, Jesus. Online, on-site, on-site and online. Let it happen Lord Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Make yourself real. The bible said the Lord the Lord appeared again to Samuel in Shiloh by his word.

There's someone I see the word of god jumping in your heart. Jumping in your heart. Standing out to you. Suddenly, he's standing out to you. Standing out to you. Encounters. Encounters. This is what I see happening today. Just encounters. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. There's a young man that is going to see the face of a lion now, right now. A young man, the face of a lion. Bring that young man to me. The face of a lion. The bible said the lord appeared unto his disciples by many infallible proofs, many infallible proofs. For someone, god has given you that infallible proof. God has given you that infallible proof. There's a radiance I'm seeing around someone.

I'm just seeing, like, a radiance, like light around that person. People will start telling you that there's a change with you. People will start telling you that you are looking beautiful. You are looking... You are different. You are glowing. It has nothing to do with what they are seeing. It's just the glory of God. It's the glory of God. It's the glory of God.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. There's someone I'm seeing. You will start prophesying more often. I see the bubbling of the spirit. I see like hot water boiling, and God is telling me that it is it is a speaking prophet. You will start receiving utterance to speak, utterance to speak, to declare over your own life, over your own life, over your own business, over others, in the place of prayer, utterance to speak. And as you begin to speak, creations will begin to happen. Creative power will begin to...

Oh my god. Creative power will begin to land upon people even as you are speaking. Utterance. I feel like boiling water. Just boiling water. Boiling water. And God is telling me this utterance is given to you to speak. In your place of prayer, you will start noticing utterance coming to you to speak. As you notice it begin to speak, make declarations over the... Over people, over yourself, over your business, over your academics.

Make declarations, utterance of the spirit. There are four people I'm seeing. This is the last word I'm gonna give and then we close. There are four people I'm seeing. God is making you a distributor of the spirit of prayer. Listen. Hear me? Help them. God is making you a distributor of the spirit of prayer. Of the spirit of prayer.

There are two more. That's the first two. There are two more. You talk to people and they want to pray. You touch people and they want to pray. You hold people and they want to pray. You hold the microphone, people want to pray. You are talking to someone and they want to pray. I just see you releasing energy to make men pray. To make men pray.

I see a beam of fire coming out of you as you speak, as you sing, as you minister, as you talk, as you write. People interact with you and they just want to pray. They are... They cannot explain what is happening. Something is them. Moving them to pray. Moving them. Moving them to pray. Pray a fire coming upon you. Coming upon your voice.

Coming upon your singing. Coming upon your utterance, coming upon your words. Prayer fire. Prayer fire. Prayer fire is what is gonna happen. Men just want to pray. They want to be lost in God. You are bringing people into intimacy, into intimacy with the spirit of God. Into intimacy, places of intimacy, of koinonia, of koinonia with the spirit of God. I hear my spirit.

The king maker anointing. The kingmaker anointing. The kingmaker anointing. And I'm hearing for someone. God will start bringing young people around you, young children around you, students around you. There will be plenty in number. It is because you have the kingmaker anointing to make kings out of ordinary men, to make kings out of ordinary men. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. We're gonna thank God where you are.

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