Transcript: Living Above The Systems Of This World Part 2

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Just like a soldier, going to battle, Garrett himself with every armor needed for battle and for winning. So believers must guard themselves with the gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Join apostle Emmanuel as he teaches God's word to equip you for a victorious life on earth. This is believers equipped. Good evening, everybody. How are we doing this evening? Those who went to work, how was work? Those who went to class, how was class? Those with businesses, how is your business going? It's an amazing time to be transformed in the house of God.

We began a subject on Sunday that I'm going to continue in today. And we were able to establish truth book of John. First John chapter five and verse four. This is really where we got our burden from. And we spoke of how that there are three things to see in the scripture. The first, being It is possible to overcome the world. The second being the unveiling of the type of man that overcomes the world. And the third, being the tool by which men overcome. Which is what we are going to be discussing today. I have been in meditation for the most part of the day and night.

And I have been thinking about this subject and it is something that I can say most people are not familiar with. The subject of faith is something that a lot of believers struggle with. A lot of believers. And I would want us to patiently listen, be calm, regardless of what you think you may or may not know about the subject of faith because I believe that the proof of understanding is application. So you don't understand something just because you can say it or just because you can explain it or even share scriptures on it. You understand it because it is in your life. You understand it because you can apply it. Are you with me? Yes. You understand it because you can do what?

Apply So we know faith to the degree to which we can apply it. So learn to the end that you can desire to apply. To the end that you can use what you're learning. The Bible speaks of a group of people who are ever learning but never coming into the knowledge of the truth. I don't want us to be those believers who are ever learning, ever coming to church, ever writing down notes, ever listening to sermons, but we are not coming into the knowledge of what we are learning. Are you with me? Yes, sir. There should be transformation happening in your life as you learn. As you learn this truth, there should be... You should be becoming.

That's why the bible tells... The bible says, never coming into the knowledge of the truth. Because you should be becoming. You should be calm what you are learning. We should be able to see what you are learning on your inside. We should be able to see what you are learning in you. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? So pay attention attention not just to know. I don't want us to be excited alone even though there is a way in which the word of God brings excitement. Right?

There's a way you receive the word of God in your spirit and it produces produces joy. It produces genuine excitement within you. I understand that. But I don't want it to end at emotions. I don't want it to end at touching your soul. It should be able to affect your will. Your decision making processes. It should be affected by the word of God you are learning. Do you understand what I'm saying? As a matter of fact, that's how you know that you have really learned it.

Your ability to deploy, your ability to put to practice what you're learning. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. So we now understand that being born of God gives you the nature of victory. And that nature of victory is the foundation of everything that we're talking about. Being born of God gives you that foundation. The nature of victory. Victory. I I said said on on Sunday, Sunday that what makes a lion a lion is that he's born a lion. The advantage that a lion has over an antelope, over a cow, is just its burden.

That's just the difference. That's just the difference. An antelope is weak because he was born an antelope. In the same manner, a lion is strong. A lion is a predator. A predator to be feared because it was born a lion. So there is power in how you are born. And when you are born of God, there is power in knowing that I am born of God. It means that my origin is of God. There's power in that.

There's so much power in that. So much power that I want you to meditate and think about it. In fact, in the same first John or second John, the bible goes on to even take it deeper. That there is a way you can so meditate on this. That the bible continues to say that whoever is born of God does not sin. For he has the seed of Christ in him. That looks strange. Is that not so? Yes. But there is a way in which you can so meditate in it that it becomes your reality.

Whoever is born of God does not sin. So there are That's one of them. Today, we go on to the life of an overcomer, but faith is the faculty outside of faith, the believer believer will will not not live live in in the the full experience of what the new birth has made available. It's not that Christ has not won the victory. It's not that the life of God is absent in that believer. It's not that the believer is not truly born again. It is that spiritual realities do not automatically become manifest in your life without faith. There's a way that God has ordained that the unseen triumph of Christ becomes visible in the life of the saint. And that way is faith. That's why Hebrews chapter 11 is very essential to our study because the chapter is not just telling us inspiring stories of old men and women of faith who did great things for God.

No. The chapter is unveiling a law. It's showing us the instrument by which men entered into the experience of this invincible realities. It is showing us how men who had the word of God turned that word into victory that we are now reading in history. So when scripture says, by faith, they passed through the Red Sea. When scripture says by faith, the world of Jericho came down. By faith, they subdued kingdoms. They walked righteousness. They obtained promises. They stopped the mount of lions.

They quenched the violence of fire. They escaped the edge of the sword. Out of weakness were mistrung. They became valiant in battle. They turned to flight. The armies of aliens. Women received their dead back to life. Scripture is teaching us the law of manifestation. That's why it says, by faith. By faith.

So that you know the instrumentality by which these things came to be. By faith. By faith. That faith is the instrument by which invincible possibilities become visible outcomes. Faith is that instrument by faith. That means faith is the operational law of manifestation. It is how the born of God man lives in a is is one is reality of the born of God man, Faith is the instrument by which he sees these things in experience. Is that not so? This is the victory that overcomes our faith. Do you understand what I'm teaching you?

This is the victory that overcomes our faith. If a man will not be oppressed or will not conform to the systems of this world. If a man will not be destroyed by the systems of this world, if a man will rise above the systems of this world and the limitations that the systems of this world places upon that man, then that man must understand that you're being born of God makes the victory available to you. Faith makes the victory accessible to you. Now you know that I just told you that what makes a lion a lion is like it's born a lion. Is that not so? But you agree with me that you have seen lions in captivity. In fact, I've seen lions who are domesticated like dogs, domesticated in cages like dogs. And you would see the owners playing with them like dogs and feeding them chicken like dogs. I mean, is a beast.

This is a beast that hunts half by its own prey that fetches its food by itself. This is a beast that when it's hungry, it only has to roar and then begins to look around. Scan the terrain and look at every possible animal because because he considers every one of them has been eating. This is a beast that have been successfully put in a cage by a man, probably because he was raised from a cop. And so the only life he knew was domestication, and you throw beef in the cage. So this guy that was meant to wake up every morning in the jungle and roar and then start on top of the hill and scan the terrain for which unlucky animal will become how a lot of believers live. It's as though life that is meant to tame them has domesticated them. It's as though they have been so caged by life that even though they know that they are born of God, they cannot fully fully capture the realities of the born of God man. Because even though they are born of God, the same way that lion is truly a lion or is a domesticated lion. The potential is still there.

Everything that makes him a lion is still there. He has not lost it. It is there. The problem is that he has not been exposed. He has not been taught. He has not been trained. He wasn't trained and brought up by lions like himself. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? That's the calamity that has befallen a lot of believers right now. So a lot of people only accept what life gives to them, what life throws at them.

Glory to God. Amen. So we said faith is how the believer experiences the life he was born into. That means if you don't know faith and you don't know how to live by faith, you don't know how to walk by faith, your life on earth will be very limited. You would not be able to experience or capture the victory of the Christ in your Christian experience. And it will be painful because you will wonder. You will wonder. You will live in a state of dissonance because your claims as a born of God man will never match your reality. You understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.

Your claims as a born of God man, which is not a lie. I mean, you would come to church and you would hear apostle teaching that because you have been born of God, it means this. It means that. It means this. And it can excite you. Believers fall into a state of cognitive dissonance when that claim is not now reality in their life. Because the expectation is that the moment I hear these things like this, these are my realities as a born of God man. It would mean that I've stepped out of the patterns of my father's house. It would mean that I've stepped out of the patterns of my mother's house. It would mean that the systems of this stop there.

The Bible says for whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And the advantage he has is that he is born of God. He then continues to say, this is the victory. In other words, that man that is born of God, how he overcomes the world is by his faith. You understand what I'm saying? So faith is a subject that the believer cannot do without. Faith is a subject the believer cannot live without. You need to understand faith. You need to be able to apply faith. You need to be able to practice faith.

You need to be able to use faith. You need to be able to wield faith. You need to be able to identify a man of faith, a woman of faith. What then is faith? Let's ask them to define faith. Popular scripture. Very, very popular scripture. Hebrews chapter 11 and verse one. The Bible says, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith is the substance of things hoped for.

That means hope may point you to a future. But faith is what gives that future substance now. Hope tells you that this thing is coming. This thing is coming. Faith begins to handle that thing that is coming as reality that is already secured. Do you understand what I've just said? Yes. Hope is stretching towards what God has promised. But faith gives weight to what hope is expecting. So understanding the first line of this definition makes you realize immediately that faith is not empty wishing.

Wishing. Faith is not hoping that one day things will change. So in reality, what a lot of believers have is hope. And hope is not a bad thing. Hope is the expectation of a good future. Are you with me? Give me Jeremiah 29 verse 11. One, two, three, the one world. We who To let you know that, see, this future that we said is bright, is truly bright. So hope is not a negative thing.

Hope is not something a believer should not have. Because when people are preaching faith, we often teach faith as though if you're open, you are wrong. But open is necessary. Open is not a bad thing. You can hope that if I come to this meeting, I will be healed. You see, I will be healed. I will be healed. It's not a bad thing. That's good. That's good.

You can hope that if I finish university like this, I will live a good life. You can hope that I will get a good job. You can hope that things will change for me. Things will get better for me. Is that not so? Yes, sir. But you know what the Bible says about hope? The Bible says hope deferred. Maketh the heart sick. That's the problem with hope.

Hope is very good, but it has a limitation. And the limitation of hope is that it cannot withstand the stretch of time that what it was expecting has not manifested. That means if Abraham was open, he would have collapsed. Do you understand what I'm saying? Sir. Hope deferred. That you're expecting that by the age of 25, I should have gotten married. Hope deferred. So for some reason, '25, '26, '27, '28, '29, '30. Suddenly, heart started becoming sick.

Your confession by 30 no longer matches your confession by 20. Because when you were 20, you thought you were young enough to still build a good future for yourself. Now you are 30. You are now thinking you are too old to start building anything new for yourself. Now your confessions have started contradicting each other. Because you are now wondering, see this, you are now blaming everything, blaming Nigeria, blaming the government. Now you are not even concerned about building anything for yourself again. Just let me get a good job. Just let me jump out of this country. Now you are putting how to get a good visa.

How to do this? How to do that? Because the heart is becoming sick. The heart is becoming weary. That's the issue with a lot of believers right now. They thought sincerely that they were living in faith. But when it wasn't manifesting, they started collapsing. So somebody would now see when it did not manifest or when what they were expecting did not manifest. Somebody will now say that, but I had faith. The fact that you would even speak of faith that you thought you had in past tense shows it wasn't faith.

Because you don't have faith. Faith is not something you had. That's why the Bible speaks of faith in the now. It is now faith. That now is very important. And so many believers are in this confusion. There's a dilemma right now, especially older believers. And some young people don't know that the way they are going about their life without fully understanding, without perfect understanding. They are entering to the same trap of thinking that they know when in fact they don't know. Do you understand what I'm saying?

When in fact they don't know. Somebody comes to a meeting hope I'll be healed in this meeting. Meeting. I hope I want to be healed in this meeting. Like, it doesn't even have to use the word hope. Use the word hope to be obvious. Yeah. I want to be healed in this meeting. You can even say, I will be healed healed in this meeting because he has been taught the language of faith. But he's he's using the right diction with no spirit.

So the fact that you're using the right diction doesn't really matter. In fact, when you are faint, you might not use the right words. Because faith is not forced about the right words. It's forced about the spirit that is powering you. Let me explain what I've just said. When said, sun stand still, that's the wrong word. Or it didn't matter whether it was a wrong word. It's a wrong word because geography and science and everything tells us that the sun is already standing still. So praying that the sun should stand still would have been a useless prayer to pray that event because the sun is not moving. It is the earth that is revolving and rotating.

Is that not so? And he's doing this around the sun. Is that not so? So what stood still? He didn't know science. He didn't understand what he was saying. You get my point? Yes. But there was something that I was powering that guy. That it didn't matter matter whether whether the the words words were were right.

Right. That's why you can go to a CAC baba who has no understanding of what the condition is. Or the medical diagnosis or what it would take for the concern to be healed. And it just slaps that condition and says, oh, yeah. Bye. And then you are wondering that, mama, be careful. If you slap this thing like this, it will cause more problem. The man does not know anything all about problem. He knows is that when I start this thing to be healed. And that's me.

Wigglesworth does his miracles. Punches people back to life. Like that guy. You tell him his stomach is healed in Jesus name. Really good. So my point is, someone can be using the right words because he's been taught the right words. Remember the form of appearance. So he knows the right words to see. So just in case you query him, he will tell you, but I followed all the techniques you gave me. Because we have reduced faith to a technique.

If you can do this and do this, you know, you know that two plus three plus two will now give you... That's what we think faith is. So he might use the right words to say, I will be holding this meeting. And then it's expectant, and it's not a bad thing to be expectant. You see? It's going to be expectant. The healing comes per adventure. Probably even comes after shared testimony. And you wouldn't believe I was having this condition, and I said I wanted to be healed, and I've been healed. Glory to God.

And everybody celebrates. And then it goes back up. And then as it's going on, it feels a symptom of what they had just testified they had been healed for. And instantly, his emotions start feeling Kai. Kai. Kai. That Kai already shows you that he was not fit. You know why? It's in the definition of faith itself. It is the substance of things hoped for.

That means when it is faith, it substantiates hope. In other words, faith takes hope from something I'm expecting to happen and give substance to it as something that has happened, which is why the next line is very important. The next line says, the evidence of what you have not seen. That makes no sense. Because if you have not seen it, how do you have an evidence for it? Do you understand what I'm saying? The substance of things opens for me is that faith gives tangibility to what God has spoken even before it appears outwardly. So because faith gives substance to hope, you're not open as in something that you expect because hope is a language that is weak in human terminology. But in the language of faith, hope is not entirely weak. Are you with me?

Because when faith is used with respect to hope, hope takes some materiality. That's why the bible can say something like this, Christ in you. The hope of glory. It's not the hope as in the weak kind of hope when you say, I hope things turn out well today. That's not the Christ that is in you, the hope of glory. The hope of glory is a certain expectation of what has taken of substance. Hope. If you go and plant mango seed, and you put it on the ground, are you hoping that beans will not come out? Is your hope like, I hope... I just hope that this mango will not turn to sandal.

I just hope this mango will not turn to rice. Oh, God, please help me. I hope this thing will not... Is that the context of your hope? Or do you have the hope that you are hoping? Yes, sir. But the hope is a more certain kind of hope. That the mango that I have planted will come out as mango tree. Is that not so? Yes, You've not yet seen it, but you are hopeful it will.

But the hope that you are hoping is not some weak is still not what the bible says when faith is applied to hope. It's still more real than that. Because faith makes what you are hoping for real to you now. That's mean of substance. It makes it real to you now. It makes it material thing inside of you now. So when you are speaking in faith, you're not speaking in the language of a weak expectation. You are speaking in certainty because what is hope is now substance. What you're expecting has been substantiated. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Yes, sir. On your insight. So you're not speaking, oh, I will be great. And you're saying it from a place of hope. I have your bright future. You are now saying it from a place of... Let me try and give an example of what I'm saying. Because if you understand it, you will realize that does not make sense. It's why so many people just don't understand it. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Come. Now imagine with me that I tell you that I've sent someone to give you an handkerchief because you really need an handkerchief. Is that not so? And perhaps truly, I've sent someone to give an handkerchief, but you have no idea where the person is or when the person would meet you, but you truly need an handkerchief. Are you with me? Now you are hoping that as you go about your day, you will meet the person that I sent to give you the handkerchief. Is that not so? Because I've promised you. Now that hope is good too. A believer should have that.

But what will happen after a long while of just moving and nobody bringing that handkerchief to you is that the heart becomes sick. Because you have been walking up and down for many years and you were told that somebody will give an handkerchief but nobody has given you one. Substance. Do you get this? So when the bible now goes into calling it the evidence of things not seen, it means when faith arrives, and I tell you, I'm gonna give you an handkerchief. I've sent someone to give it to you. You meet the person, the person will give you. Alongside the promise I've given to you is a receipt, and evidence that you are already carrying the thing. An evidence that the thing is already yours. Like you bank a lot lot to on your your phone.

Phone. Have you ever needed money so bad? You just say, let me check my bank account. And you now money. Why? Because you did not receive any evidence. There was no halal. Do you understand my point? An evidence is like a receipt, a vehicle license. The nature of an evidence in practical terminology is that you are given a receipt after you have purchased the vehicle, after you have purchased the the Bible says, receipt of what has not yet manifested.

Now, bring you to practical terms. When you buy something and you receive the receipt, you are sure that the car is yours. You are sure that whatever it is you bought is yours. Is that not so? Anybody ask you, is this thing yours? You can just show them the vehicle license. Show them the particular. Show them the receipt. The evidence that what you bought is yours. Is that much so?

Listen, in the same way, if somebody sends you an alert for money for instance, and you receive the alert on your phone, you are seeing evidence that money has entered into your account despite the fact that you have not seen the money there, but you know that the money is there. Yes, sir. Is that much so? In the same way, when faith begins to operate in the man, the man receives evidence. It becomes evidence of what God has promised. Despite the fact that he has not physically entered into the reality of what has been promised. That's why the life of the man of faith is is a strange one. Please stay with me. Because the evidence is not after the things have appeared. Faith is not waiting for physical proof to become convinced.

Faith itself is the proof that the believer carries in his spirit before the thing becomes visible in the natural. Itself. That's the proof you have. Faith. That's the only evidence you have. Faith. So that's why a man can be declaring the things that has not appeared. And he's saying it as though it has appeared. And he's not lying. Understand what I'm saying?

Yeah. And he's not lying. So I can come here now and tell you, welcome to the largest gathering of young people in Nigeria. And I'm not lying. Now somebody will look around and say, largest gathering. I went to a conference last year and there were 10,000 people there. Why would you now call yourself yourself the largest country? It's because there's an evidence in our spirit. I don't know if it's in your spirit, but there's one in my spirit. Yes, sir.

That I received alongside the promise. I received alongside the word. And that evidence makes me so saddened that this thing is mine. So I begin to talk like it is mine. I begin to behave like it is mine. Not because I'm hoping, not because I'm acting. So in reality, faith is not acting. It's not trying to play out a role. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's not trying to act as though I am healed.

So when we tell people, do what you couldn't do, they think what we are saying is start acting like you are healed. Mm-mm. We are saying you have received an evidence. If faith enters into the heart of a barren woman, you know what she will start doing? Because she carries an evidence around. So when ask you her, Because I walk around like it is mine. I call myself the name that shows it is mine. I wear an identity that I assume it is mine. I act like it is mine. I walk like it is mine.

I was listening to the pastor of the largest church in Uganda, and he was speaking. He said, when we're 50, when we started and we're 50 in university, we would tell the 50 members as I'm preaching. I would tell them, he said, can you start waving to our audience in China? Can you start waving to our audience in California? Can you start waving to our audience in Burundi? He said they will arrange plenty chairs, and just about 50 of them would come. And he would tell them, walk to those chairs and go and greet the people on it. He said they will be preaching. And sometimes it will be songs. They had no keyboard, by the way.

They had no voice. They nobody... They... Everything was rented. He said they'll be hearing songs in his spirit. It will turn to an empty keyboard place and say, can Because you can't pretend it. A man of God said, if it is there, it is there. If it is not there, it is not there. Why fake what can be real? Why fake what can be real?

Why fake what can be real? Don't you think that I come here standing and preparing for my teachings as though this is all I'm seeing? You'll be joking. There is something I see inside of me. That's why I'm speaking to people and I'm addressing pastors in my teachings, addressing married people in my teachings. I don't speak to you as though I'm speaking to students. No. That will be going against the evidence I have. The evidence I have is not that you are a student. Hey, God of Nazareth.

You didn't get that? So that's not what I see when I'm seeing you in my spirit. So if I'm carrying the evidence of what I see, what I'll be addressing you as what I'm seeing? Not what you're high in the moment. That's what flushes greeted out of you. That's what insist that all must be well. Let me continue. You now see why somebody carrying faith is really disturbed in trouble. Because at that point, they are not hoping that will come out of this thing. They carry an evidence in them that makes them know that.

When we're having a manifest conference last year, I think, we had so many bills to sort because it was in millions. And believe me when I tell you, I have bills in millions to sort. And the conference was starting tomorrow. And I've gathered people in my house who were praying, we were praying, we were praying. Every night, we were praying. And I would tell them. I would tell them. I'm at the end of that meeting. I'm at the end. You see, I'm in Sunday service like this doing Thanksgiving service and I'm dancing and I'm dancing.

They were messaging me about all the bills. One in two millions and we had nothing. And I was telling that's what we have been not. I will tell them. I'm at the sea. I'm already in Sunday doing Thanksgiving and dancing. That means there is nothing that can happen that will make me cancel this meeting. Because I'm at the end of. I can't cancel what I'm already at the end of. Do you understand what I'm saying?

I'm not in the middle, open to get to the end. I have evidence already in my spirit that we have done it. People have prospered. And it happened just like that. Somebody came and told me and said, apostle, know that whilst you were speaking, the morning of the manifest conference, with the amount of people that had not yet paid, the lady said, said, I sincerely thought maybe they will come and use police and carry us. And sometimes you just don't know how, but you have an evidence in your spirit. So that even whilst your brain is thinking of how, it's not thinking of how in anxiety. He is thinking of how from certainty. That is how you know it is faith. So he is not lying when he speaks about what cannot yet be seen.

He is speaking from another kind of evidence. The the evidence that has reached him inwardly before it begins to manifest outwardly. That's why faith can never be reduced to optimism. It is optimism that says I hope things works out. When it comes to faith, it acts based on evidences. It speaks based on evidences. It speaks based on substance. Because optimism is psychological. Optimism rises based on your mood. But faith is anchored on the word of God.

It is anchored on what God has said. The Bible says by faith, we world. The not telling you that the visible world did is not emerge from visible sources. The That what is seen came out of what was first on seen. So if the world you live in is framed by the word of God through faith, then you are living inside a word framed world. A word framed universe. You are living in a reality where invincible things govern visible outcomes. You are living in a world where the unseen is not less real than the seen. In fact, the unseen is superior because the seen came out of the unseen. And when you understand that it changes how you see life, it changes how you see everything.

It means if you're going to dominate this world, you cannot live only by what your physical eyes can verify. Because if visible realities were born from invincible realities, then the man who will command dominion in a visible world must know how to transact with the invisible. That's what faith does. Faith is the faculty by which the believer lays all the invisible realities until they become visible manifestations. So when you say that faith makes what is unseen, sin, you are describing the law of manifestation. That faith reaches into the realm where God's word has already secured realities. And it begins to give those realities visible expression. Because everything the believer will ever need for life and godliness has already been made perfect in Christ. Everything. Everything.

Everything. Everything. But those finished realities, those perfect realities, don't help a man simply by existing in the spirit. There must be a way that these things that are already yours in Christ, these things that are made for your life and for your godliness, there must be a way for them to in your affairs, for them to start moving into your affairs, for them to leave the realm of the spirit where they are perfect to the realm of the physical where you need them. And fit is what does that. Ephesians says we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings and everything in Christ Jesus. Every spiritual blessing, not some spiritual blessing. Every. That means the issue is not whether God has made provision. The issue is whether the believer knows how to lay hold on what has been provided to bring it into manifestation.

Because faith is that technology of appropriation. Faith is how heaven's finished realities becomes the visible experiences of men on earth. That means that your healing is not waiting to be invented. That means that your provision is not waiting to be created. That means whatever kind of grace that you need for your life is not working to be manufactured. The wisdom of the spirit of breaking your life is not working to be formed. The issue is that what what has been finished in Christ must then be received, must then be substantiated, must then be manifested in the life of the believer. That is where the problem is, and faith is the hand that does that. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Look at Mary.

A virgin was told that she would conceive. Now if you approach this by biology, then that conversation is over because there's no way that a virgin can conceive. There's no humanly possible way that a virgin can conceive. Is that not so? Yes, sir. But the angel says, the holy spirit will come upon you and the power of the highest will overshadow you. In other words, what is gonna happen will not happen by the law of nature. It won't happen by science. It will happen by a superior spiritual law. And Mary enters into the reality of that law when she says, let it be unto me according to your word.

That is faith. Faith receives the impossible as possible because God has spoken it. Let it be unto me according to your word. A virgin would conceive how? But let it be unto me according to your word. So when a man says, I don't yet see the money. I don't yet see the help. I don't yet see the connections. I don't yet see the platforms. I don't yet see the the open open door.

Door. When faith begins to move in that man, faith tells him, if God has already spoken, then the absence of the visible material is not the absence of reality. If God had already spoken, faith substantiates what you'd not yet see. Because faith knows that what God has already said or what God has said already carries within it the power to bring it into manifestation. Faith knows. That's why there was no raw material needed at creation. Only the word of God. And faith knows that if that same word is spoken into your life, that word carries the power to bring into manifestation whatever was spoken. No matter how impossible it might look. Because in creation, that word was what engineered creation.

So if that word comes to me, that word that created that faith is the faculty in the believer that agrees with that word until the invincible becomes visible. Your soul might not know, but faith knows. And when the word comes to you, faith knows that alongside the word is the power to make that word come to pass. Faith knows. Faith knows. Faith knows that God is not a man. He will not do. As he spoke, will he not make it good? He don't say, as he said a thing that you will not do. As he spoken, and you will not make make it good.

He says that he... So faith knows that if he's the one that spoke a thing, he's the one that will do it. Faith knows. Faith knows. Faith knows. Paul says, we therefore having the same spirit of faith. We believe and so we speak. We therefore harm in the same spirit of faith. Did you see that? The same spirit of faith.

If faith is the victory that overcomes the world, then it is important that I teach you what the spirit of faith that we have received looks like when it is actually at work in a man. Because faith is a spirit. We therefore having the same spirit of faith. And that spirit has an operation. And it is important that I teach you or I show you how that spirit of faith begins to operate in a man so that you can know when you are not in faith. In fact, the problem of many believers is not really the problem. The problem is a lack of faith inside the problem, inside their circumstances, inside their situation. It's not as though the wisdom to come out of the circumstances could not have been given to you inside the circumstances when you were there. It is that fit had been crippled. And because fit had been crippled, anxiety and fear and all of these things were the things that were fighting expression in the soul of that guy.

And he was given birth to all assurance. He was given birth to condemnation and self doubt and all of these things. And as long as these things remain within the believer, wisdom that faith provides. The believer can no longer access it. Do you remember the bible says there was famine in the land? Isaac, having seen that there was famine in land, had some thoughts in his mind, and what thought is that, let me travel to Egypt. I'm hearing that there is food in Egypt. I was just thinking the same way many of us would think when we face problems and difficulties. The problem with us is that we are not thinking from a standpoint of faith. We are thinking from a standpoint of fear and worry and all of these things.

And so the oppressions of faith cannot find expression. But this guy, walking in the faith of his father, was making decisions in his mind and saying, go to Egypt. And God appeared to him and told him, no. Don't go to Egypt. Stay here and sow in this place. That's the most audacious instruction because there is... Farmine already suggest that there is nothing that you plant that can grow. Because farm mind suggest that the environment is working against your seed. That's the meaning. Nature is working against your seed.

It means the grounds are hard. There's no water. There's no water. And God tells him, so. Live in the land, I will tell you. Next verse. Give me the next verse. Look at what God tells him. Dwell in that land. I will be with you and bless you.

For to you and your descendants, I will give these lands, and I will perform the oath which I sold to your... To Abraham, your father. Next verse. And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heavens. I will give to your descendants all these lands, and in your seat all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. Stop there. Are you seeing what God is doing here? What is God doing? God the word word I will make your descendants multiply. It's how he spoke to the earth, light be.

Permanent be. It's how he spoke and fishes came out of waters. It's how he spoke and plants and trees appeared out of thin air. It's how he spoke. So the faith knows. In fact, faith is anticipated. Faith is the immediately the word word of of God God comes comes to to a a man man of of faith. Faith. Faith substantiates that word instantly. You will now see the man in a time where farmers are relocating.

In a time where every business person is checking out of business and selling off their lands because it is useless. And nobody knows when water will come. When the famine will be over. Everybody is looking for the next best thing. People are. That's the best thing to do at the moment. A man just comes and says, I wanna buy your land. You're a farmer like me. What do you want to do this for? You can tell that the land has no value now.

Then I want to buy it. Well, I will even give it to you at a cheap price. Because the land has no value. And you will be walking and be getting lands in cheap prices. You see? Because you are walking by faith. And then they come and check what's a guy using that land to do. And they see you cracking the hard ground. And I let them to plant on it. Guy, awesome.

There's the earth. It came when god said, I will multiply your descendants like the stars of the heaven. It came when oh god, there's evidence in my spirit. It might not make sense what I'm doing, but there's evidence in my spirit. When there's evidence in your spirit, I have a receipt for this tablet of mine. Do you think that anybody can come and convince me that this tablet were theirs? What if somebody come and says, this is the tablet I lost when I went to Lagos? It has the same color, the same shape. It's my own. The truth remains that I have a receipt of purchase.

Is that not so? Yes. I have a title deed. I have something that proves beyond all doubt that this thing is mine. It's not your own. The difference is that in the physical realm, you must see it to have the title deed. Faith in the other way works the other way around. Faith becomes the evidence. It becomes the evidence. The moment God spoke to you.

Are you with me? Yes. That means, that means, in the same way I can fight that this thing were mine. In the same way I can fight that what God told me is mine is mine. Do you know what that means? That means there is nobody that can convince me out of the ownership of this thing. You're not seeing it yet. You're not seeing it yet. Because situations as a company will try to convince your algorithm. When faith becomes evidence in you, there is nothing the devil can throw at you.

Absolutely nothing. Your mind will remain calm. State where you know that, see, see, life is mine. I move. So what is the operation of the spirit of faith? Because Paul did not say, we therefore having the same technique of faith. He said, we therefore having the same spirit of faith. That means faith is more than a method. It's more than mechanical confession. It's more than memorizing It's more than repeating verses because somebody told you that is how faith works.

The spirit of faith is an inward persuasion by revelation that is energized by the holy spirit. And once that spirit is present, a man cannot continue to interpret life the whole way. Something changes about him. That's why numbers chapter 13 and verse 14 shows you two different kinds of spirit at work in men who are looking at the same situations. Stay with me. 12 spies went into the same land. They saw the same giants. They saw the same walls. They saw the same cities. They saw the same fruits.

They saw the same plants. They walked on the same soil. They returned to the same camp. But when it was time to speak and bring a report of what they saw. They did not speak the same thing. Despite they saw the same thing. They experienced the same thing. They witnessed the same thing. You would expect that they should testify of the same thing. Are you with me?

But when it was time to speak, their reports were different. Why? Because though the facts that they went through and that they saw were one. The spirits governing their interpretation were different. Stay with me. 10 of them said, we are not able. We are not able to go up against these people for they are stronger than we. That was the report they brought back. We are not able. The people are stronger stronger than than we.

We. The The fifties fifties are are fortified. Fortified. We are like grasshoppers in our own sight. And so we were even in their sight. And that's very deep because they were defeated in that battle in their mind before the defeat ever manifested. Their perception had created a picture of defeat already. Before any giant touched them, they had already surrendered in their imagination. They had already bowed in their imagination. Their soul was already defeated.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. Before they ever lifted a sword, they've already concluded on the outcome. They've already determined what will happen. We can't win. We can't win. They already knew. And that's what unbelief does. Unbelief does not wait for defeats to happen. Unbelief accepts defeat as an inevitable outcome.

Unbelief makes you give away your future before even the battle begins. Unbelief sees mutual resistance and interprets the resistance as defeat. That's what unbelief does. Many years ago, I had glaucoma. Shared his testimony. Is that not so? And I was healed of it. Medically. I went back to the hospital. To do a test.

And doctor told me that I couldn't find anything there. I will tell you why I went to do a test. After I was healed, a lot of times, a lot of times, I would feel death in my eyes and I would itch my eyelids. So I tend to remove death. And this would remind me of what I would normally do when the thing was still there. And you would see the devil whisper, see now. You should not go and get yourself checked. It's not this thing that is coming back. The reason why I can't be moved by such a thing is because I wasn't healed by luck. It's not luck.

It's not as though I was standing in the auditorium, not expecting anything to happen. Just looking at the skies. And the end of god just touches me and healed me. I said, hey. I'm healed, And that happens. That's not was healed. I was healed because I had an evidence. So the question is, when that itch came, did I lose my evidence? You you didn't get what I'm trying to say. The evidence is still there.

So I still know I am healed. I will not start denying the factuality of my healing because I each came. A lot of believers do this. And because life is so spiritual, they lose what they got. Lose it instantly. Because it was never really faith. Thank you, Jesus. Whilst these people were speaking this unbelief and were educating the crowd, Caleb suddenly interrupted them and told them, let us go up at once to possess this land for we are well able to overcome it. You think about that and you wonder what kind of statement is that. He saw the same giants.

He saw the same walls. He saw the same resistance. But the spirit of faith had given him another conclusion entirely. That means faith is not the denial of facts. Faith does not mean that the facts are not there. Faith does not mean that we didn't see the giant. Or we pretend as though we did not see the giant. Faith is the interpretation of the fact from the perspective of God. From the standpoint of God. Are you with me?

So faith word world. Of God. Are you with me? And later, God himself now tells us what was happening beneath the boldness of Caleb that we saw. God now said, for Caleb had another spirit. So what was ruling Caleb was not his temperament. What was ruling Caleb was not because Caleb was a bold man. Caleb the here. He's just a old man. The Bible now make it clear that listen, something else was powering Caleb.

And it was because another spirit was inside of Caleb, was inside of Joshua. That is the reason why their interpretation of life was different from what the other people saw. What was this spirit? We therefore having the same spirit of faith. It means that the first operation of the spirit of faith inside the believer is that it changes your sight. It changes your perspective. That is the first operation of the spirit of faith. It changes how you see. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

Faith is your lens in this realm. If you don't have faith, you only see by the report of the natural senses. You only see by the visible evidence that is present before you. You will only see by the existing trends. You only see by your current conditions. You only see what men are saying. And if you only see by the level of your sight, then you are already defeated. Because this already shows you two types of believers. Believers that see life and interpret life solely by what they are seeing. In other words, turns are there.

True. What does that mean? Avoid. That's how they see life. And there are believers that see the same thing and interpret it from the standpoint of god. Are there but what did god tell us? God told us that he has displaced the people from the land. God told us So when God told me I have chased them. What my eyes started seeing was an empty land. So when we got there and we word.

So we match. This is how the spirit of faith functions in a man's life that makes him see beyond the circumstances, beyond the situations. Do you understand what I'm saying? So when God tells me, do this, do this, do this, do this, I start moving and talking and acting because I'm seeing the hand of what... That's what faith does. That's how we do everything that we do in this church. That's how my life operates as a person. That's why I avoid moving if I've not heard God. Because I'm not sure of many things. There are plenty of variables I cannot control.

That's why I pray a lot about my divisions. That's why I pray a lot about things I would ask God, should we move? Should we not move? Should we go? Should we not go? And when it comes to my spirit, move. Move in that direction. Do this. Do that. I don't care what resistance stands in my way.

I don't care. The only thing I'm seeing is the end of it. It is the end of it. I remember one time, the rich spirit had instructed me to go about the project. And I was praying in my spirit, and he kept my spirit again to do this. And this was already in the middle of about three different things we were doing at that time. I wrote it down. We're doing this. We're doing that. We're doing this.

It will require money, of course. And when I wrote it down, it was easy to think that there is no money at this moment. But when faith is operational in a believer's life, the first thing that you will see is not the absence of money. Even though money is not present. Even though money is absent. I'm telling you that your definition, the way you see, your perspective would be that God has sent me to do this thing. Not at the way of encouraging yourself as evidence in your spirit. As substance in your spirit. So I know it could be done. I might not know how it will be done, but I know it will be done.

I know more than I know my name. It will be done. When I'm speaking to people, they will think I'm supposed to have it all figured out. That's usually how it looks like when I talk to a man of faith. You now realize that you can't walk in faith and subscribe to certain psychologies. For instance, they say, you better don't present yourself as though everything is going on well with you so that your helper will not see you and think you don't need help. But when I'm talking, I present myself I'm to to do do anything. Student. When I was a student, and God had been telling me about the ministry and what it would do through my life. And I would go to class, and I would see colleagues of mine and classmates of mine waiting for a lecturer or something, and they're talking and they're chisting.

And I will just look like this, stay one by one side, and just look like this. I said, Kai, all these people will suddenly be. Tell him, I Sometimes I'll be walking in the street of UI those days, many years ago. And as I'm walking like this, I would see poor, jam students, jam students. Say, Kai, these people don't know. Don't want them to meet you. I think, of course, I'm seeing it so clearly. I'm seeing it so clearly. When in 2000, he has given us the youths. It's why I'm not quick to give up on people many times.

Because many a times, what I have seen is super imposed on their current stupidity. What I have seen. I'll look at them and I say, Kai, it's not... Don't think it's because of you. There's something I have seen. How much more my own life? How much more my own ministry? How much more my own ministry? Are you with brothers and sisters? It is where how we act and the things that we do now come from.

Because our perspective of ourselves have changed. I'm not a poor man. It's not something I started saying now. Those who were with me in Abadina Abadina can testify. Wearing was still beating our head. We would come and teach billionaires class in Abadina Oh, Jesus Christ. I would tell people I'm raising you to be billionaires. Myself was earning 25,000 per month. But there was something I had seen. When the spirit of faith walks in you, oh Jesus Christ.

You will think we are mad. Gadget in a classroom. And teaching the laws of business. And teaching kangaroo territories, subduing cities. We saw these things so clearly. And many of the things we saw then that were only things we saw in our spirit are starting to come to pass. We started seeing the manifestation of these things very clearly. Doors opening to several people in places of power. These are things we saw. It's not now.

These are things we prophesied. It's not now. These are things we declared. Question is, if there is the spirit of faith working in you, your sight will change. So it will change. It will. How you view problems itself will change. How you view issues will change. How you view circumstances will change. Do you know that?

Do you know that? Those days, whenever things don't work out well, say in ministry, experience some kind of resistance or some kind of problem or personally in my life, I become very excited. I start thinking, Kai, I must be so important that the devil is trying this much. That's how I saw. I interpret every freshers awakening meeting we have done or manifest conference we have done or conference we have done in general that there was no resistance. It is terrible. And I have pastor colleagues of mine who will talk. They don't go through these things, and it's not in the way that I go through it. I'm sure everybody has their own stories. I don't mean to undermine what people go through.

Are you with me? But there are just some weird things that I see from the Muslim community fighting so strongly, publishing our names on articles, where have I gotten to? Attempting to spread all kind of lies about us. At every point in time in our ministry, there's been always challenges and resistances. At every venue we've gotten, when we're in a Bardina, there was the Bardina community. I promise you that we're not allowed to church. I promise you. We might appear loud, but if you are not there, you don't understand. There was a church right beside us. We couldn't do service when they are doing service.

We have to change our times of service severally because, my goodness, it was crazy. And they do videos every week. We don't do videos every week except in the prayer convocation. And they bring all this butter and a lot drums. Pack up pack up in a small classroom. And the community will write to us that we're the one disturbing them. We should park out of the place. And I must say, ah, but how about the one who's stopping us? Shouldn't we all park out? You have to pack out.

They've they've said that you specifically. At some point then they said that their children were coming to our church. I didn't like the fact that the children were coming to our church, and there was one in particular. And all kinds of all kinds of situations. We're having a meeting. The parents came and brought policeman to the venue and said, we want to see that your pastor. With the policeman carrying gun outside of the meeting. He said, we want to see that your pastor. I was preaching in the venue. All I saw was a policeman outside.

I didn't stop my preaching. I saw one of my bags that ensuring that the policeman was not entering inside the church, was keeping the man outside, making all kind of commotion. And as they are sitting down with me and meeting me at the end of the meeting, I was all be thinking in my head, how great must we be? How? Just how great must we be? Just how important must we be? The devil tried, tried, tried. He still deployed this one on top of my head. Sometimes I'll be beating the guy. I will be you're going through so much just because of me.

I mean, sometimes I'm tempted to apologize, but I know he doesn't deserve it. I shall just leave alone and say, you know what? Try all your best. Try all you can. Because that's what faith does. We... Our our sight changes. That's why I don't know how to go through sorrow going through events. I don't know how to. Is it when when I'm thinking my value is increasing?

Is it I'll be sorrowful, Joy? No. No. Then they came. Current brought the security, came to our venues, damaged the door, damaged all our equipments, threw everything out, chased the heart of the place, said they must never see us again inside of the University of Ibadan. The chief security officer of the University of Ibadan said if I should see your pastor again in UI, I will have him arrested. But the whole of you has come to us. As they were fighting over you, I was saying, what I'm seeing is not even who you are. You are you are fighting. You are you are here bringing all kind of things because of you.

You are is a small fraction. Not even of the infraction of what we have seen. We have seen the city gathering. We have seen the nations gathering. We have seen the whole world gathering. And you think one resistance you're bringing one? Come on now. Come on now. Destroying our equipment was massive loss to us. We ended up wanting to get a lot of things, and service is not stopped because of that.

We could no longer use that venue. We came here and then expanded. Not a single time was I sorrowful. In fact, when they were telling us, I was in my house and my pastor was was telling me, the apostle, they have now destroyed the funds. And he he was sending it in interverse. I would say it. Apostle, they have now destroyed the rocks. Apostle, they have now removed it. After they were done, they... I didn't I didn't even show my face at all.

After they were done with everything, I said, come let us go and eat and celebrate. We met at the restaurant over there. We sat down and we're laughing. I am sure the devil was crying because because he he would have been thinking. He would have been thinking. Don't know that what pays somebody that wants something to pain you that this thing will not pay you. That's why the bible, the he that sits in heaven laughs. He's not laughing because something is funny. He's not laughing because an indecrotic joke. The bible says, why do the nations rage?

Why do they even rage? Why do the people imagine a vain thing? Against the Lord and his anointed. So this was a Is that not so? People were planning and they said, let's remove their bands away from us. Let's break their bands asunder. Let's cast their cords away from us. And they were rejecting the rulership of God and his anointed. And they were thinking they could plan against God and is anointed. And what the...

How did they respond? The Bible says, it has sits in. It's what you... It wasn't because somebody cracked the joke. It was seeing the plotings of hell and the schemes of hell Sometimes you spend some money on marketing and it not bring out as much sales as you would think it would bring out in your business. And the devil wants to come out through frustration, but what you saw in your spirit is greater. It's not... This thing is not mechanical. It's organic. What you saw in your spirit is greater.

That's why the bible says, this is the victory that overcomes our faith. Don't look at yourself and interpret yourself by your limitations. Otherwise, you would say like Gideon, I'm the least in my father's house. My family is the least in the tribe of Israel. Come on now. Don't do that to yourself. See by faith. Tell your neighbor, see by faith. See by faith. Don't look at yourself and all you are seeing is your limitations.

All you are seeing are the problems you have. Is your life Is God not doing anything? Is God not regulating your life? Jesus. God is regulating my life. His hand is regulating my life. He's involved in the affairs of my life. I'm not walking alone. I know that he's with me. He has given me a word that is with me.

And faith substantiates it. So I know there is no circumstance where I'm alone. Faith substantiates it. Don't get this. Don't get me wrong. It doesn't mean that every time we know what to do. And people start strategizing. But never in sorrow. Never. Never in sorrow.

Never in sorrow. Never in despair. It's from that play that Paul says we are at rest on every side. Yet not broken. Because when the spirit of faith works in a man, how you see changes. The second one that changes is how you speak. Your language of communication changes. You no longer speak defeat. You no longer speak sorrow. You no longer...

You speak in revelation. You no longer speak fear. And this is important because the devil is roaring. He's roaring. There are roaring in this life. Roaring of condemnation. Roaring of fear. Roaring of discouragement. Roaring of financial pressure. Roaring of sickness.

Roarings of delay. Roarings of limitation. Cultural limitation. Roarings of all kinds of things, weaknesses. Where somebody feels you are old already. See where your life is. You're not moving forward. How do you respond in circumstances? Because it says, we therefore having the same spirit of faith. We believe and so we speak.

You see faith in how a man speaks. You see faith in how a man speaks. Thank you, Jesus. That's why a man of faith can stand in the middle of contradiction and say we are well able. We are well able. Are able. We are that mountain before Zerubbabel. Never saw any... When I was a student, I never saw any exam as a big deal. There was no exam that could make me change my confession.

The bible says, let us let us hold fast to the profession of our faith. Do you know how powerful what you say is? We don't speak because everything is good. We speak because we have seen something that nobody else has seen. That's why the faith talk is not nonsense. It's not empty words. It is what has been birthed by revelation that has produced conviction in our spirit. That's where we speak from. That is the speaking of faith. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. And any man that sees different will speak different. That's why you have to be very, very careful what kind of voice shapes your soul. Because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. And unbelief also comes by hearing. Discouragement also comes by hearing. The 10 spies infected the whole nation of Israel by their speech. The Bible says the people wept all night. Not because they had seen the land personally. They didn't go there.

But because they received the report of somebody who was working in unbelief and they allowed that report to be what influenced their heart. And all of them believed they could not do it. That's why the believer that wants to walk in faith must guard what he hears. Because what you keep on hearing will eventually become the lens through which you interpret your future. Will eventually eventually become the lens through which you interpret life. Do you understand what I'm saying? If all you hear is failure, if all you hear is limitation, impossibility, and the report of men who have already surrendered inwardly, then the promises of God will begin to sound unrealistic to you. But if the word of God keeps on entering into you, if revelation keeps on entering into you, if the spirit keeps on giving you sight from scripture, then another kind of persuasion and perception begins to rise on your insight. That perception, in that persuasion, is what speaks in times of battle. Are you with me?

Is what speaks in times of battle. Watch what you hear. Don't think that words are normal. Because if the Bible says fit comes by hearing, it tells you that hearing by the word of God. It tells you what you hear is extremely detrimental to your future. What you hear. What you hear. What you hear. Guard your ears. Guard your heart by guarding your ears.

Be watchful who you allow into your ears. Because they can either cripple your feet or build it. Somebody was speaking to me and the person said, apostle, have you heard this thing that is trending right now in the body of Christ where somebody is saying that God does not prosper people, where somebody was saying that giving does not make men prosper, where somebody... Another person was saying, you know, there was a particular debate and, you know, a man of God was being corrected and blah blah blah blah blah. So I'm supposed to, what do you have to say? I said, I don't have anything to say. Because I don't know what they are saying. I only know what God has said. The the... I'm not so interested in watching nonsense.

I'm not. I saw the news the guy was talking about. It doesn't interest me to click it. What do want I to hear there? Why would I want to? Just to satisfy my curiosity. I will now be couriers and somebody will now convince me that God does not prosper me. I'm only hungry. I'm not curious. I'm hungry for the things of the spirit.

I don't have any interest in or anything that contradicts the will of God for my life. I don't want to hear it. It doesn't matter who it is coming from. I cut my ears that way. God does not prosper me. And somebody whose children has never known poverty is telling me God does not prosper. Is not What is there to hear? Some things will forever amaze me. It will forever. If that kind of delusion can come from the church.

Even the devil is not that deluded. The devil went to heaven and told God, I know that you prosper Job. Yeah. Devil attested that Job, God was the reason why Job was prosperous. Of of And God. And of God. God. God. Word of It's not a shame. I don't give you as to nonsense.

I intentionally do not. I intentionally do not. I don't watch it. I don't listen to it. I'm not interested in it. Sometime when I'm watching my videos on Facebook and they post it, and I wanna see what was caught. Then I would scroll and somebody would just pop up out of nowhere and say, see, if I am a... I don't have any. Stop. Get out of this place.

Get out of this place. Get out out of of this this place. Place. No interest. I have no interest in fruitless arguments. One of my young ladies messaged me and she sent me, you know, there was a time that the worship team sang a praise song and and she loved it. And a worker had posted that my church's worship team is the best worship team in the whole world. Something like that. And then set forth an affair. Something like that.

So I think she said truly anointed people. And then she reshared it on her status. And I pretty much did too because I agree. So she also did. And she then forwarded a message to me that somebody who saw it on her status replied. I couldn't even read the thing. I don't read the first three lines, second three lines, middle three lines, last three lines, going three lines below. Because from the first three lines, I already saw madness, so I could not even continue. I can't... I I guard my you you can't imagine how much I got my spirit.

I wasn't even trying... I I don't need more than And I said, you know, the first thing that gave me my mind was, okay. Why not exemplify the oneness in Christ by agreeing with me? Let... I say my church is the best. You want us to be one. Why can't you agree with me unless the one? Why must I sink down to your own delusion? Of course, I was a pain, man. You know?

Do you know that? I'm so cautious about my heart. I can never have this type of person on my list. Yes, sir. It's not possible. This madness cannot be on my phone. You cannot. If I perceive you have a simple trace of madness, I will block you. Because what what you say affects my heart. And I'm to guard that heart.

That's That's my... My... You you say see, guard guard it it with with all all diligence. Diligence. I guard my honor for my man of God. I guard my honor for men of God who I love, celebrate patriarch of the faith. You are speaking against Adebui. Will them, Joy. You are speaking against Oyedepo, speaking against pastor Chris. I don't care what they might have done or what they might have said.

Honor to whom honor is due. I got it. I don't say, boy, it's my friend of Kiniko. My friend of Kiniko is not the reason why I will go down. I got my heart. Because a few people missed destiny because somebody came and said, we can't go. We are like grasshoppers. We are not... I can't reason with you. You have to be ready to listen to you.

A believer, I can't reason with you in madness. I can't. I will first solidify the conviction of my faith. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. I was talking to a man of God, and he was defending it so well. He was telling me, see, see, if you are all about numbers, church group is not about numbers. This is someone whose church has less than 15 people, and they have been doing ministry for about twelve years. Listen to me. Listen to me.

It's not about numbers. We are really in the business of discipleship. We would realize that many people would not like to come to our churches. Because if you are putting people strong, there will not be many. So if there are many, it's already a proof that you are talking about what you are telling them is weak. It was the last time I spoke to him about for the subject because he can influence me. I don't know when I will live there and I start thinking, am I wrong? Me now that I'm just The reason why many people do not have strong convictions is because they have allowed wrong influences around their ears. There are large steps of faith I want to take. I watch those who I tell.

Because the moment I tell the wrong person and they attempt to use their words to down size what I have said. I would rather go to someone who has a larger mind, done larger things than me. Operating with the same spirit of faith. Who would then give wisdom to what I'm doing? And tell me, I understand what you're saying. But what I would say is, if you're just starting this thing, stretch on this level. Stretch on this level. If you are stretching on that level, you might not really hit your target at the first instance. So start here. Start Not someone who will tell me, ah, are you being a fool?

Do you get my point now? Yes, sir. Because there are times there might be no wisdom in how you are going about operations. That's why you are working in faith. But it's not to kill your faith. It's to supply wisdom. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Somebody comes to me and say, I'm I'm going to kill Goliath. So I I read in the Bible that David beat one one stone. So I'm using a stone to kill Goliath.

I'm going and going. I'll tell you, I won't stroke the person's feet. Okay. So come skillful in holding a stone. And why are you holding one stone? David held five even though he knew he knew the only one. So at least carry plenty with you. Now I'm not killing the person's faith, but I'm supplying wisdom from the same scripture he's taking. Because somebody can come and tell me for instance that, apostle, ah, there's something burning in my spirit. I feel as though we are not doing enough at this moment to conquer the world.

And there's burden in me for ministry. I've been talking with my brothers in this place, in that place, and we are planning crusades. And because of the crusade, I might not be able to write some exams. But don't worry. I know the sacrifice we have to do for Christ. And now that I will not kill his feet or supply wisdom to him. We don't know what make him realize. You might be stepping out of balance. Even in your walk of faith. Why am I saying this?

So that you avoid people who their language to advise and to counsel is to destroy faith. It's a bad thing. It's a bad thing because faith comes by hearing. What you hear matters. What you hear matters. You hear giving. You listen to somebody that tells you pastors are stealing your money, and you think you will give. Even if you want to, the thought will come to your mind. Sir. Thought will come to your mind.

Glory to God. Last operation of faith is that it changes how you respond. That's the point of it. I'm careful not to use the word how you hacked because it can be easily misunderstood. And I think it is how we've taught faith that has made so many people misunderstand the subject of faith because we teach faith as an action. So a lot of people without understanding that that action comes from somewhere, leaves the source of the action, and focuses on the action. Do Do you understand what I'm saying? It's not just an action, it's a response. So that when there's an action, the action comes from a response. Because people copy actions and fail.

You see somebody doing something and you go and do it too. And you go and attempt to copy it. You don't copy faith. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's not designed to be copied. In fact, the operation of faith is not something that can be copied. Glory to god. Glory to Thank you lord Jesus. Bow your heads and thank God for what you've received. Amen.

I said something now and I can hear somebody's thoughts. Listen. Listen. Somebody is thinking that are you now saying that we should not have friends or have people, close friends with people that disagree with us or don't share the same values with us? That's not necessarily what I'm saying. Are you with me? That's necessarily what I'm saying. But when you now bring it into the conversation of close friends, I would say that you should not because the bible says a companion of fools will not be foolish. They will be destroyed. So if you are around people just because they are your close friends and you know that their way of life value systems and thinking are completely opposite to yours.

Do not because of close friend or childhood friend permit folio around your life indefinitely. It will destroy your life. Are you with me? It will destroy your life. Can't say I know this person does this. I know that person does this, but we've been friends for so long. Be more loyal to your destiny than you are to a friend. So that the kind of friends that come to your life are those that are aligned with your destiny. It's easier when you are running the race together. You'll get there faster.

Yes, sir. That when somebody is going in the opposite direction and you're trying to drag them to your own direction and then they drag you to and then you drag them as well. You don't have that time. You can take this one or leave it. It's your choice. This is my advice. So you can take it or leave it. Thank you for listening to this message. We trust you have been blessed. You can get more life transforming messages from apostle Emmanuel Boluatife on our Telegram page at DCN media channel.

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