Transcript: Living By Faith Part 2

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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 38. The bible says, the just shall live by faith. Every Christian must have faith and must exercise faith. Faith is the reason for breakthroughs. Faith is the reason for miracles.

Faith is the reason for answers to prayers. Generally speaking, people who have faith are more prosperous than those who do not. I've noticed a difference between Christians who walk by faith and Christians who do not. Faith people experience disappointments, sickness, and other shortcomings. However, generally speaking, I've noticed a trend of blessings. I've noticed a trend of abundance, long life among those who believe for them. In Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 38 that we read, it says the just shall live by faith. But if any man draws back, my soul has no pleasure in him. In other words, God is saying, if you draw away from faith, he will not be pleased with you. If a man draws away from faith, he will not be pleased with you.

So the God says, the just will live by faith. Peradventure, you have been made righteous. Peradventure, you've come under the influence of the spirit, and God now tabernacles your spirit, and you have been given the measure of faith. Every man who is saved is given the measure of faith. I think I told you that. There's no one who has... Who lacks the capacity or the ability to have faith because every man has been given the measure of faith. It would be it would be it would be quite unfair for God to expect us to live by something and not provide us the means to live by it. And God being good, God being faithful, God being merciful, didn't just leave your having faith to chance. The moment you received Jesus, as a matter of fact, it was faith that was supplied to you that made you receive Jesus as lord and savior.

It was a step of fit that procured salvation for you. Are you with me? Do you realize that even the god we serve is a fit God? I'm not saying he's a fitful God. I said it is a fit God. There's a difference between God being a fit God and God being a fitful God. God being a fit God speaks of his integrity, the integrity of his word, the constancy of his nature, the consistency of his actions, how that he would not change his word regardless of circumstances. You see, God being a fit God means that everything that God does is also relying on fit. Do you know that he sent his son to die for the sins of humanity without knowing if humanity will in essence accept him? There's still billions of people in the earth right now who have received the gospel but have not believed it, who have heard about the gospel.

There are people who insult the sacrifice of Jesus. There are people who call Jesus all kinds of name who... In fact, his name has been turned into a curse word. There are atheists right now who are ridiculing his sacrifice, ridiculing his death, his burial, his resurrection, and yet knowing this, he still came and died for the sins of humanity when no one told him to told him to do so. He did so by faith. He did so trusting that that sacrifice would not be a waste. He did so believing that you and I would accept his sacrifice and believe in what he did and thereby receiving salvation. It was an act of faith. Do you know how much God has invested in you? Do you know how much God has invested in you when he formed you?

Even before he formed you? Do you know how much potential God has invested in you? Do you know what you are capable of becoming? Do you know how much resources God has... Hey. You don't understand. The bible says the heavens of heavens is Lord. The same bible that says the heavens of heavens is Lord says that God is so big that to live and to dwell in heaven, the heavens lack the capacity to contain him. And so he has made the earth his footstool. In other words, the earth is so small.

Have you seen a footstool before? Elders will sit down on chairs and would have a stool in front of them to just place their legs on it. The bible says the earth, big as it is, is the footstool of the lord. In other words, heaven cannot contain it. The earth cannot contain it. Can you think about that for a moment? Can you think about the largeness of God that the heavens of heavens, though belonging to him, continue? Can you imagine the loudness of God that the earth that accommodates 8,000,000,000 people cannot... Is his footstool. Can you imagine the loudness of God that the heavens and the earth are not capable of containing him, but he lives in you?

He didn't see that. The heavens cannot accommodate him, but you can. The earth is his footstool, but he lives in you. What kind of investment is that? And God said the help that I've made is incapable of hosting me, but I will make man able to host me. Do you know the step of faith? How do I know what that man would do with me? Because God is literally at the mercy of whatever the man does. It's like hosting a visitor in your house. Do you realize that a visitor does not have much say because he's he's he's living in a borrowed house?

Except for the fact that he made the house, and he still needs your permission. He says, prevent therefore your body is a living sacrifice. You know why? Because he now lives in that body. But despite the fact that he lives in that body, he will not force your body. He won't force your body to do his will. So he asked you to prevent your body's living sacrifice because it's your reasonable service. It means a believer can choose to be unreasonable. It means God needed to have faith to dwell in you. Faith to believe that in investing myself in you, you will be reasonable.

You didn't get what I'm saying. God is a faith God. Do you know that with all God has placed on my inside, I can decide right now to be cracking jokes for a living? And yet he's still a faith God. It looks as though he's taking a risk on humanity. It looks as though... But that is the nature of faith. That is the nature of faith. Every action and every step that God takes, he takes because he's a fit God. And guess why he has to do that?

Because he's righteous. No wonder the bible says the just. In other words, the righteous man shall live the same way the righteous God lives. And how does righteous God lives? By faith. Do you know what this means? The bible does not say that the just shall live by his anointing. The bible does not say that the just shall live by the gift of the spirit upon his life. It means you can be a pastor and be poor if you don't understand faith. What will make you blessed as a man of God is not the anointing of God upon your life.

The anointing of God upon your life is not put there to cater for your needs. It's your faith that will cater for your needs. Let me say it again. The anointing of God upon your life is not put there to cater for your needs. It's your faith that will cater for your needs. So you can be a pastor of a church, and no member of your church has given you a car before. But you invite an external minister, and so... And God moves somebody to come and drop his car for the external minister. And you say, ah, they don't honor me. My brother, that external minister has faith for a car.

Here, it came through your congregation. It means if you had faith for it... Are you with me? The same would have been your experience. The just will live by faith. The fact that God called you to serve him, he gave you the anointing to soar up... To solve problems, but you will live also by your own faith. It means you will have to depend on God for your sustenance. Have you not seen that many people who are called by God, serving the will of God are poor, are broke, are sick, are oppressed? Because of this simple teaching of faith has not been understood, the just shall live by faith.

I'm trying to show you that if the message of faith is not properly taught, a lot of people will live below the standard of God for their life, below what God expects for their life, even from their life. The just shall live by faith. Everything that you will be, you will be by faith. The just shall come to the experience of God's best for him by faith. The just will prosper by faith. The just will make wealth by faith, and God has supplied the measure of faith. In Hebrews chapter 11 verse six, the bible says, but without faith, it is impossible to please God. It is interesting to note that the word of God does not say without love, it is impossible to please God. The bible does not say without peace, it is impossible to please God. The bible is very clear on that fact.

Without faith, it is impossible to please God. Abraham's faith in God was considered an act of righteousness. Abraham believed that God was able to give him a child in his old age. Abraham had had his faults. Abraham had his shortcomings. He lied about his wife and surrendered her twice to home believing kings for their pleasure. I hope you know father Abraham did that. Father Abraham received the advice of his wife to sleep with the maid to give birth to a child. Father Abraham did that. And in spite of his lying, in spite of his cowardly behavior, God was very pleased with Abraham because he had faith in his commandments.

Maybe by your standards, Abraham would have been disqualified. Perhaps in your opinion, Abraham was not a great guy. But in God's perspective, in God's sight, his greatness was as a result of his faith. Abraham was a great man, and his greatness was as a result of his faith. In other words, God has no pleasure when man has no faith in him, when man does not believe in him. Romans chapter four and verse 21 and verse two verse 22, speaking of Abraham, the bible said, I'm being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able to also perform, and therefore, it was imputed to him for righteousness. Brothers and sisters, God is happy. God is impressed. God is pleased when you believe in him. When you believe that God will heal you, it makes God happy.

When you believe that God will prosper you, you make God excited. When you believe that your breakthrough is on the way, God is pleased with you. When you begin to take steps with respect to what you have believed, God is pleased with you. When you are fit that you will live long, God is provoked to extend your life. When you believe God will give you increase and abundance, you excite the deep parts of God. You make him pour out the milk of his blessings into your life. The bible says the just shall live thy feet. I see somebody here walking in the blessings of God. I see somebody here enjoying an abundant life. I see somebody here free from sicknesses, free from diseases.

I see the power of curses broken in your life. I see that God is pleased with you because you believe in him. Listen. Never doubt anything God's word says. Accept that you are the champion that God is speaking about. Flow with the method of prosperity. Believe in it. Act in accordance with it. Flow with the method of healing and deliverance. Believe in it.

Always remember that God is excited. God is pleased when men believe in it. God is pleased when men believe in him. Every promises of God will become your experience by faith. The mere fact that you... Listen. Everything God has promised you will become yours only by faith. Understand this. Just reading alone is not enough. God has made all grace abound unto you.

God has supplied so many things spiritually. God has... You see, let me show you how God did it. Imagine that you have a child, and whilst that child is young, you start saving up money. You open up a bank account, and you start saving up money for that child. And you say that when that child gets to a certain age, say 18 years old, he would have a bank check, and he would use that bank check to withdraw everything you have put there on his behalf. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, Now the child is not the one who put the money there. The child is not the one who labored for the money. He's not the one who worked for the money.

The parent, the the mother, or the father did all the work, opened the accounts, supplied everything the child would need. And imagine with me that by the time that get... The child gets to 18 years old, there is already $3,000,000,000 in that account. And all the child is required to do is go to the bank, fill up a check, withdraw. Do you understand what I'm saying? Do you realize that that is what God has done? God opened the central bank and deposited his grace there. The bible says he has given us all spiritual blessings. In other words, everything you will ever need for a fruitful life, everything you will ever need for an abundant life, God has given you everything that pertains onto life and godliness. And he made it available by grace.

In other words, it was not your work just as it was not the child's work. God did so by reason of his grace. He opened an account for every believer, and he deposited himself in that account and said, everything you will ever need for your life, I have given. However, the checkbook is faith. Imagine the child said, I'm too stressed to go to the bank. You will have an abundant of resources there, but you would never be able to withdraw. How every man withdraws what God has made available is by faith. Grace makes it available. Faith makes it accessible. Do you understand what I'm saying?

And there are four generic classifications of faith in scriptures. There is the little faith, the weak faith, the great faith, the strong faith. Now there are more addict... Additives used in scripture to describe faith. There are more words used in scripture to describe faith, but I believe that all of them come under this particular form. Are you with me? Yes, sir. All of them come under this particular form. You can trace each of the other descriptions of faith to any of these four. I will begin with the little faith.

Romans chapter 12 and verse three. The bible says, for I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly according as God has dealt with every man, the measure of faith. I want you to observe that in this verse of scripture, the apostle Paul is not writing to sinners. He's not writing to the world. He's writing to believers. He said, for I say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you, amongst who? He was talking to the saints. God has dealt to every born again believer the measure of faith. Not a measure of faith, but the measure of faith. That is quite significant, and it means it is the same measure, the same size, the same quantity of faith that every believer receives from God at salvation.

It means when you see believers who are doing exploits right now, Benihin, and when you see believers who did exploits for God, who who are pastor Paul, WF, pastor, you see these people doing exploits as they are doing, you must understand that the same measure of faith is what was given to everyone upon salvation. When you read of Katharine Kuman, understand the same measure of faith was given to our salvation. What was given to our was not more than yours. It means every believer has the same deposit of faith required to do exploits, required to do great things. Now that deposit of faith is given to every believer small, But God expect you to grow it. It's responsibility to increase the measure of faith that God has given to you, and the way to do that is what I wanna show you. Remember that Jesus speak about what that small measure of faith that has been given to you can do. The bible says if you have faith as little as a mustard seed, you can sit to this mountain. In other words, the measure of faith that God has given to you is capable of doing the impossible. If you actually begin to walk with the measure of faith that God has given to you, you can do so much.

Are you with me? But you see, if you count just around that measure of faith, you'll realize that there is... Let's go on. So how does a man increase the measure of faith that has been given to him? It is by opening himself unto learning God's word. Romans chapter 10 and verse 17, the bible says, and Jesus... The bible says, so then faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the word of God. In other words, the mouth... The more a man opens himself to hearing the word of God, the more faith comes. The more a man opens himself to hearing the word of God, the more faith comes.

So faith is like... Let me give you another illustration to explain what this is to you. Faith is like currency. You know, I told you that what makes what God has made available to you accessible to you is faith. So faith therefore is like a medium of transaction such that a man uses the faith... The measure of faith God has made available to him to, you know, access spiritual blessings, to materialize these spiritual blessings, to material resources that I'm blessing in time. Are you with me? So it's like a currency if you would call it that. Now imagine your currency you spend in Nigeria, which is naira, isn't it? How does naira come?

A man needs to get a job. A man needs to work. And how does more naira come? A man needs to get promoted. A man needs to increase his value, increase his skill, scale up his business. Do you agree with me that there's a level of naira you can have that what that naira can afford based on how it is coming to you is to live in a rented apartment? And probably a man increasing his skill or increasing his value or begins to scale up his business, more naira will come. When more naira comes, it means that the things that the man can access by reason of the more naira that has come right now has increased. Now by reason of what he has in terms of money, he can now get a a land for himself. He couldn't do that by what he was earning before.

Do you understand what I'm saying? He cannot get a land for himself. He cannot probably afford to build a house there. If he gets promoted again or he does something that makes more naira come, he can do... You see, it means the more naira the man has, the more he can do with what he has. The bible says faith comes by hearing and by hearing and hearing by the word of God. It means much like the currency. There is a way that faith is added. There's a way that faith comes. There's a way that faith grows.

And how faith grows is that a man begins to expose himself to hear the word of God. And as the man believes what he's hearing, as the man opens himself to hear the word of God, his faith starts to grow. His faith starts to grow. The more of God's word you hear, the more faith you will have. The less of God's word you receive into your spirit, the less faith you'll be able to express when you are faced with the challenges of life. The reason you must grow your faith is that little faith will not get the job done. The reason why people the reason why people are afraid and fear grips people in the face of adversity is because their faith is little. The bible says, if thou faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. That strength there isn't speaking about physical strength, how buffed up you have physically. It's talking about your faith.

When your faith is little, you will faint. You will give up in a day of trouble. When a man gives up, when a man faints in the day of trouble, when a man gives up in a day of trouble, the bible says when adversity befalls a man and a man begins to weaver in a a... Waver in a adversity, it is the cause. His strength is small. But a man can be unruffled in adversity. A man can be unmoved in adversity. And when that happens, the bible is because of your strength. You see, scriptures is powerful. The bible does not say if you faint in the day of adversity, the adversity is big.

Have you read the bible? The bible says there is no man who is tested or tested or tempted by anything that is capacity or that has not been given capacity to bear. It means every adversity that befalls a man, no matter how big it is, it befalls a man according to the law of the spirit because the man has capacity to bear it. It means nothing will ever happen to you if you didn't have the capacity to be it. Nothing is permitted to happen to you if you didn't have the capacity to be it. Do you understand what I'm saying? Glory to God. Nothing will ever befall a man if you didn't have the capacity to be it. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

It means that if anything now befalls you in terms of an anxiety or circumstances of any sort and you fail in that day of adversity, it was not because the adversity was large or the problem was big. And you see, when people talk, that is how they talk. They say, you don't understand what I'm going through. Nobody can understand me. If only you knew. It's because it's not you. And they mean that to say, if only you experience what I'm experiencing, my problem is so big. It is as though I'm carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders. The problem is a problem of faith. Are you with me?

The problem is what? Of faith. When the devil wants to get you, one of the things they would do is to affect your faith. Go back to the first time he tempted human beings, which was Adam and Eve. Eve, specifically. He came and he asked Eve a question. Did God really say you cannot heed of the fruit of the land? And he even got into a conference call with the devil and started to converse with the devil, she thought she was so intelligent. What the devil did was to supply to Eve an information that God has not provided. God knows that in the day you eat of this fruit, first, said you will not surely die.

In other words, you won't die. Forget what God has said. Remember, the faith of Eve was resting on what God has said. Faith comes out. So if God says, do not... You can eat of every tree of the land, but do not eat of this tree. For in the day you eat of this tree, you will surely die. In other words, the secret of preservation, the secret to your long life is resting on the fact that you believe in what God has said. That as long as you partake of every tree except this one, you will live. Do you understand what I'm saying?

That faith is based on what God has said. So it means I can eat off even what you call poison. You know, there are leaves now that they believe to be poison. Did God create anything that was poison? Because God told them you can eat of any. The only thing that was poisoning the garden of Eden was the tree of life. I mean, the tree of knowledge and... Of good and evil. But right now, if you're not careful, you can eat of a tree and you die. Are you with me?

Yes. And those things came as a result of the fall. But that's not my business. My business is that the guys knew that there is nothing they can eat in that garden that can kill them. And that faith was as a result of what they had heard God said. When the devil came, he said you will not surely die. In other words, God is a liar. The first thing the devil did was to affect the foundation of their faith. Their hearing, it changed what they had heard. It provided another information.

Remember, he said, fear comes by hearing and by hearing the word of men. In other words, anything that you hear that is not the word of God will introduce everything into your life that is not fit or that faith does not provide. A man is sick because of what he has heard. Everything you believe today that God has not said someone told you, you heard it. If you find yourself always anxious, always in fear, always afraid, always living, you know, in a way that you know that this is not the best way to live my life. Everything spoils you up. Always living defeated, always living frustrated, always disappointed. I tell you, there is something you have heard that resulted in something you have believed that gives birth to that attitude in your life. Do you know that there is what is called the attitude of faith? I'll get there very soon.

The same way there is the attitude of faith, there is the attitude of a devoted man. There's the attitude of fear. One of the attitude of faith is patience. One of the attitude of faith is peace. In other words, if you believe that God has said it from my previous teaching, even though it is unseen, right, you believe it is real, would you be hang short about that matter in it again? In other words, if there is anxiety, anxiety is an attitude of a devoted man. It is proof that faith is missing. And what creates that attitude is an information you have received, something that you heard that was not God's word. So I said that whenever the devil wants to fight a man, what he does is to affect the foundation of his feet. So remember, Jesus told Peter.

He says, Peter, Satan has desired to have you. And how will he have you that he might sift you as wheat? How is he gonna do that? He said, I've prayed for you, but your faith will not fail. In other words, how Satan will have you, how Satan will sift you is that it will do something that will cause your faith to fail. Not that the faith is not there, but that the faith... It means there is such a thing called faith failure, much like brake failure. The brake of a car does not fail in a day. Do you know that there are things that the maker of the cars put in the car as instructions to help a man to ensure that that man does not experience brake failure? So they will tell him, have you checked your brake pad?

Have you put brake oil? These things are to be added there to ensure that that car never experiences that. It means if a man continues to defy the instruction that the maker of that car put there, a time will come that the brake will begin to wear out. The day the brake failed is not the day the calamity began. The wearing out has started already. But that day, enough strain was put on the car that the brake could no longer handle it. And so it manifests its wearing out that has begun for a long time physically. That's exactly how a fate failure happens. In other words, it is not a day you just collapse and say, I'm not doing the game. It must be that your access to the word of God, something has happened to it.

It must be that the way and you receive the word of God, either in your reading scriptures, on your hearing messages, on your coming to church, that is the first thing the devil does to defeat a man. The problem is never the problem. So you say I lost my job. You know what? You're losing your job is not the problem. You know what the problem is? You are refusing to come to touch the following day because you lost your job. That's the problem. And you didn't get what I just said. You didn't get what I just said.

I love scriptures so much. Esther lost both of her parents. That's not the problem. She would have decided to hate God and say, I will never have a thing to do with the God of Israel anymore. What kind of God would take what kind of unfair experience is that? As a child, I lose both of my parents. But her uncle was still taking care of her. She was grateful for that. She loved God and served God regardless. So much so when it was time for Israel to be delivered, it was Esther that declared the fast.

In other words, there was a level of relationship she had with God that made Esther declare a fast. Do you know she acted in faith? I have a teaching called the faith of Esther. It's for women. Many don't know she acted in faith, but she had several calamity in her life that should have hindered her from coming to that point. It means the problem really is never truly the problem. The problem is your response as a believer to what you think the problem is. The devil knows that material things are temporal. He knows. So he can toy with material things.

He's toying with them because of your dependence and reliance on them. I heard... I was speaking to someone recently, and the person was sharing with me a testimony of a friend. The lady was working with one of the telecommunications company in Nigeria, and they recently downsized. And from downsizing, she lost her job. She said both of them weren't done the following Sunday. And while I was in church, the father... The pastor wasn't the one who preached. The pastor just came at the end of service and said, let me bless you before you go. Goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life.

You are blessed in the house of God in the name of Jesus. And everybody does, you know, amen. Amen. Amen. Much like God bless you and become a greeting. She said she didn't... She couldn't explain how that thing the pastor said, goodness and mercy shall follow you just stood out to her. She said she said she went out thinking, that means evil is not following me. Goodness is what is following me. The mercy of God is what is following me.

She said... The past... According to her, she said she had preached... The pastor had preached on the mercy of God. Funny enough, she went back and got the message, the mercy of God, and heard in that message that the mercy of God is not for sinners. And by understanding what she listened to, she said, mercy, what is following me? Goodness, what is following me? You see, that is what the devil is really afraid of. He knows that losing your job is not a problem. But that you access the word of God, and you stay believing the word of God, and you make that the response to any challenge whatsoever.

Three months after, remember, faith has an attitude. So you would not think that because she has received the word of God, the following Monday, the miracle has happened. The bible says, follow them who through faith and patience obtained promises. In other words, there's patience involved in the obtain of promises. There's patience involved. It's an attitude. Are you with me? Three months after, a friend referred her to a job with a car producing... A a company that produces car somewhere in The US. And they needed a representative in Nigeria to monitor sales in Nigeria as their previous representative just resigned.

And she had a friend who just referred her. She did the interview and got the job. She was paid 5,000,000 naira. She's paid rather 5,000,000 naira every month. Which telecommunications company can you work for that can pay that amount of money Every month. In... That is converted into to naira, by the way. Are you with me? That was her salary per month. She was coming from a place where she was earning 250,000 naira.

To getting a job after three months where she was earning 5,000,000 naira. That is what the devil is afraid of. It's not... The problem is not the problem. The problem is an event. It's just an event. Something just happened. That... That's all. It's just an event.

In other words, your attitude can cause something else to happen. The prophet prayed for that woman and she had a child. The child died. That's not the problem. You know that she didn't even tell her her her husband that the child is dead? She didn't even look distressed. She went, left the child at home, and went, and everybody met on the way. Ask her, it's... You are running. Hope there's no problem.

He said all is well. Her response was all is well. The prophet saw the woman come from afar. She asked his servant to go and check what's hope. Why is that woman running here? She told the servant all is well. Do you know everybody that she told all is well did not ask her twice? It means they believed what she said. It means that countenance truly showed all his will. She got to the prophet.

It was the prophet she told what the problem was. The prophet sends the son, the the servant there. The prophet came, lie down on the son. The son came back up. It means the son dying was not a problem. It was an event. Your response can cause another event to happen because things that are seen are temporal. This keyboard now, you can be carrying it, and it falls down, and it breaks. Is that a problem? You're not getting what I'm saying.

That is an event. It means we can go to the market and get a better one. Imagine crying because the the the keyboard fell. People are not getting this. Imagine weeping because... And say, hey, ah, hey. That's an event. Believers cry over events because they've not been taught faith. And so when believers collapse in event, when in the day of adversity when you fail, the bible says because your faith was your faith was small. In other words, little faith.

You didn't say that. It means little faith is not designed for adversity. Look. It says that his strength is small. It didn't say you have no strength. The strength is just small. Little faith is not designed for adversity. That's why I said that that that little faith can get you started, but it cannot complete the job. It can't... Are you with me?

It can't finish the job. It can't get the job. It can get you started. But in the face of adversity, the the... Listen. The the the the point is that with the little faith, you step out to the boat. But even as you step out of the boat, you expose yourself to the word of God as you are walking so that you grow your faith as you walk. Because a time will come, the sea will become more boisterous. Do you understand what I'm saying? Let me tell you what it indeed.

Of course, there was... We... It was windy and the whole place was boisterous and all. But the faith that the guy had, little as it may be, was still enough to overlook the seeming boisterousness of the sea. Are you with me? Thank you, Jesus. So he started working. He started working. With his faith, he could begin the journey. He could start the journey with his faith.

Don't little, don't small. So what did the devil do? The devil increased the temperature of the storm. It's like what the king Nebuchadnezzar did. He said, increase the flame. Now whether you increase the flame or not, those... The fire will still burn them. Increasing the flame was a strategy to introduce fear. It was not as though the increasing the flame would do any more damage than what increasing the flame would do. It's just a strategy to...

When you see the largeness of the problem and it looks so big, it means the devil is a master of exaggeration. And that's why when you see when you see someone who is just talking about their problem and the problem looks so big, run away from them. Those kind of people have been... And if you are like that, you have been deceived. The devil is a skillful deceiver. He he knows how to increase the flame. Whether he increase the flame or not, the fire is still burned. Wait. Oh, God. But that...

Maybe maybe you said what you were saying when you saw that the fire was still like this. Let's see if he will change it. Turn it up. Turn it up. And as the things started burning even even with more integrity, those guys did not waver. They said, there's no problem. You think we are serving God for things alone? No. We've gone past that level where we deal with God based on the things that God gives. Even if he doesn't give us anything, our allegiance is more than the things.

And they walked into the fire with confidence. That was exactly what the devil did for Peter. The flame was normal. And because the flame was normal, the guy could walk. Are you with me brothers and sisters? It could start walking because the flame was normal. The devil say, this guy is working. Increase the boisterousness. And all of a sudden, the sister had becoming so boisterous that before, it could only have probably affected. It could...

The boy's trust, they could have come probably his knee deep. But now the thing was now so wavy that the water was splashing on his face. Everything was going, ah, what is this? The bible says when Peter saw. The question was whether it was boisterous or it was calm, could you have worked on it? In other words, whether you increase it or you decreased it, do you get what I'm trying to say? You still... It doesn't make any difference. But the devil is a master of exaggeration. And so when you...

When the problem comes... You say you lose... So when you lose a lost one for instance, painful as it may be is an event. You know what the devil will do? Whilst you are lying down, devil will now come. Who will take care of you now? School fees, gone. Schooling, gone. Now you have to go and do mechanic. And remember the time you did not even pass in school, that that your uncle came.

Remember they say, you don't pass, they will send you and go and learn the learning. Now the person that even is taking care of you is gone. They're dead. What's the future? What it does is it's just increasing the flame. It's painting the problem bigger. Whether it is bigger or it is not... Do you understand what trying say? So it's only an event. So my business crashed.

It's only an event. You can't imagine how hungry the devil is, and I'm telling you this. If you believe it. If you what? If you believe it. Tell somebody the program is not the problem. Ah, you didn't... Oh my god. Prove it to somebody as a conviction. Say the problem is not the problem.

Your response is the problem. Because the bible says if you fail in the deal of adversity, it's not the adversity that is the problem. It means the adversity is not the prop... You didn't get this. This is what the bible says. The adversity is not the problem. Your strength is small. So what does a man do before the day of adversity? A man ensures that he begins to expose himself to the word of God. Faith comes by hearing.

Faith comes by hearing. He begins to expose himself. Listen. When Peter got to where Jesus was, what did Jesus tell him? Let's go there. I believe verse 31. And immediately, Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said unto him, oh, thou of what? Wherefore didest thou doubt? Oh, thou of little faith. Peter's little faith was enough to bring him on the boat.

But the moment the boisterousness was increased, the guy started seeing the boisterousness, and he started doubting. The question is, how does a man start doubting even though you're already walking on water? Is it logical? Is it not easier to doubt before you start walking? While you're on the boat and you say, but you're already on the water. You're already walking on the water. And a man begins to doubt. Little faith can get you started, but it's not enough to get the job done. It means even while God is lifting you, while God is helping you, there are men that will still doubt. While God is while God is helping you supernaturally, how God is working miracles in your life, it is possible to forget if the faith is little When the storms arise, it is possible for a man to experience the supernatural favor of God yesterday.

An adversity comes today and he doubts. And he does what? He doubts. All the of little faith. Why didest thou doubt? It means that you must insist that your faith grows Because in the day of adversity, your strength must not be small. It means that when a man gets to the deal of adversity, the word you have accessed will become the basis of your faith. Oh, God has told me that he will never leave me nor forsake me. God has told me that he's my helper, my sustainer, is my strength. God has told me that is the glory and the lifter up of my head.

God has told me that I will not die. I will live to declare the days of the Lord in the land of the living, not in the land of the dead. Death is therefore is not my portion. God has told me that that becomes the things that begins to well out of a man in the day of adversity. That a man sees a result, that a man realizes that something evil... You... Regardless of what it might be as befalling him, and he says I shall be the head and not the tail. Above holy and not beneath. And this becomes the foundation of his belief, and he responds in this manner. He will know.

God told God told Joshua, He says be strong and be courageous. It's the land that you go to possess. I have given it to you. Hey. God did not say I will give it to you. He says the land you go to possess, I have given it to you. That's past tense. It means that's a title deed. That's an evidence. That's something that has been done.

That's something that is completed. Are you with me? In other words, Joshua was not going to do something new. He was going to do something that was already completed in eternity. In other words, if a man will step out based on what God has told him, he's stepping out with evidence. God has given us this land. There is no defeat. There's no defeat. Are you with me? There's no what?

Defeat. The reason why they don't defeat is because God has given me land. Whilst they were fighting the battle of Hai with the children of Gibeon, The the tides were turning against them because night was coming. And when night comes, they will no longer be able to fight. They expected that they would have won that battle during the day, and the battle would have would have finished. But surpassing the expectation, those five nations that came against them were very strong, and they were unrelentless. And they fought with them so much so the battle prolonged as so as against their initial proposition. Because before they go to warfare, they would have done their battle plans and come up with their formations and strategies. And the battle was elongating past their strategy. Are you with me?

Surpassing the intelligence of their strategy, they knew that if darkness comes, the enemy will use this darkness against us. It is easy to run away and to surrender and to run-in fear. What makes a man look at the sun and say, son, be still? It is because of an evidence you have been given. That evidence know... Makes you know that there is anything can work in your favor. Do you understand what I'm saying? Anything can work in my favor. I told someone here. I said, God has gone ahead of you.

Do you know that that's an evidence? Anybody who received that word, that becomes a report. It becomes an evidence. If you enter into any challenge that week, your response would be either based on the word you have received or based on the challenge you are now facing. So a man can now sit down there and say... A lady came out and shared the testimony and said, she had issues because the... I think they said that they could not find a a a result. And that would lead to an extra here, or she would pay an amount of money for them to find it or put at it. And even at that, they might still not find it. She said she remembered that the man of God said, God has gone ahead of you.

That's an evidence. That evidence will now create an attitude. So that why they say we can't find your result, are very sorry. You might have to repeat this. Call left. You might have to repeat. You might have to do this. You just stand there and you are smiling because you know repeating is not my portion. God has gone ahead of me. Do you understand, Franzey?

It's possible to be in that situation and be disturbed as they are telling you are distraught. You sit down on the floor. You put your hand on your head like this. You say, After, like, thirty minutes, I pick up your phone. Say, pastor,. They just told me that I am rebuking. Can you please pray for me? And the woman of God in her zeal and passion, we see we come against that. We rebook it in the name of Jesus. In the cup, say amen.

Amen. Thank you, ma. And you caught the cup. And you caught pastor Daniela. Just in case, let's just be certain so that at least one... I know that all the anointed people have prayed for me. And when the... She's now done, she now say, sorry, please. Can you... Can I get apostle's number?

Little faith is a result of insufficient information, insufficient revelation. Hosea chapter four verse six says, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. God himself said this about his own people. He said his people, Christians are destroyed. That is they suffer. They are impoverished. They are punished. They are brought down. They perish because they lack the knowledge of his word. They lack the knowledge of his word.

Do you know that Jesus got to that time when Jesus wept the second time? Second time, the Bible records Jesus wept. The Bible that Jesus wept over the city because they did not know the things that make for their prosperity, the thing that make for their peace. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. Prosperity. They did not know the things that make for their peace, and that was the reason why Jesus wept. Because when a man does not know the things that makes for his peace, even Jesus is incapable of doing anything in that life. So what he does is to weep.

After all, he's called comforter. If you don't walk in faith, you will be poor, and the holy spirit will comfort you. You'll be sick. You'll fail, and the holy spirit will comfort you. Do you know that the the comfort of the holy spirit is boundless? The only problem will never fault you, even your foolishness because he's comforter. He might convict, he might rebuke, he might correct, but he will comfort. He will do so lovingly. Understand that the things that make God move is not emotion. God will not move because you are sincere.

God will not move because you cry. The Bible never says, is anybody afflicted? Is anybody sick amongst you? Is anybody... And the Bible mentions, let him gather all the elders and let him pray for him. For the crying of faith will heal him. Oh, he says the prayer of faith. The prayer of faith. Faith does not cry. Faith receives.

So if a man becomes defeated, it is because that man has not been exposed to the truth of God's word. There is something in scriptures you don't know. There is a revelation on God's word you don't know. If you remain in a level for a long time in your life, there is something in scripture you don't know. Do you know that a man can believe God for more? Do you know that it is within the jurisdiction of what God has made available to you to expect that God should bless you every day. Do you know that the path of the righteous is meant to shine bright and brighter every single day? Do you know that this is the reality of God's beloved? The question is, do you know? If you know, do you believe?

This is the reason why we expose ourselves to scriptures, why we listen to messages every time, why we watch videos of messages every time, why we keep them playing in our acts every time, Why we don't even miss church meetings? This is the reason. Because faith comes by hearing. Listen to me. The devil desires to sift you. He desires to have you that he might sift you as wheat. But I've prayed for you that your faith will not fail. It is possible for a man's faith to fail. And when a man's faith fails, it means that the man now lacks every impetus for action. The man can no longer move or do anything according to what he has believed.

The devil has successfully robbed you of the word of God. And so when you realize that you are going one week and you are not listening to any... You have not listened to any message whatsoever, nothing is playing in your ears. Are There people that come and meet me, they tell me their problems. And I wonder what what you were taught. What you were taught. I asked a young lady. I said, were you in church on Sunday? She she said, no. But I listened online.

I first felt that the fact that she listened online. How would you be in this city and just choose? You are not a member of this church. I don't fault you for that. You're an unserious believer and I have to be sincere with you. I love you regardless, but you're unserious. My love for you does not mean... Does not make you less unserious. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes.

How does a believer think that is on prophetic service that you come to church and you expect the man of God to declare a word over him and say, oh, in the name of prophecy. Prophecy will manifest in your life because you have faith. Then lepers came to Jesus. He told them thy faith has made you whole. Everyone who came to Jesus, thy faith has made you whole. You know, one guy came to Jesus, and he wanted to pass responsibility to Jesus. He says, you be willing, you can make me whole. Smart guy. Jesus said I am willing. In other words, forget...

Leave that alone. I am willing. Do you believe? Are you with me? Thank you, Jesus. Are you with me? Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Remember I told you that the faith...

That is why... Remember I told you that the faith to receive things is based on the revelation that a man has, and a man must have three important things that a man must know, the knowledge of God, the knowledge of promises, the knowledge of conditions that lead to the receiving of those promises. Remember? As you read scriptures, these are the things you feed your spirits with. As you listen to messages, these are the things you'll feed your spirits with. It means if if if you realize that there is a case of lack and poverty in your life, you go and get messages on the Telegram channel. You make a playlist for them. You sleep with them. You wake up with them. You walk with them.

You work with them. You do everything with them because you are attempting to have an evidence. That reality is evidence that you don't have an evidence. Are you with me? In this city, they are prospering. Do you know why I said what I just said? Because I have an evidence. I saw a vision some years back. What was the vision I saw? I was praying in chapel in the University of Ibarra some years ago, and I saw it, two hands like this, over the clouds coming and shorten the clouds like this.

Very big, mighty hands shorten the clouds like this. And as they shut the cloud, I saw castles, I saw buildings, I saw skyscrapers emerging from the earth and rising up into the sky. And the moment they get to where the hand is, the imagine stops. Some even stop before they ever get there. But the ones that rise in mind, the one that dare to do great things, the moment they get to the peak where that hand just falls like this, then the growth, the progress, everything stops. And I asked the angel what is that vision. And the angel told me there's a principality in this city that ensures that nothing that grows from here becomes global. And the holy spirit started showing me organizations, businesses, churches, schools that originated from here, and there are peers that began the same time using the same method, the same strategy as them in other cities or in other states doing way better and reaching the world globally, even churches. Do you understand what I'm saying? I saw that when most pastors begin their ministry here and they find out the struggle, the next thing they say is God has sent them to Lagos.

Organizations, businesses, you start an organization. You must have a branch in Lagos. And when your branch in Lagos start moving, you move everything to Lagos and make it part of the branch. Study well, observe, study. You will find what I say is true. You do your findings. Imagine then God telling you, after showing you that vision, they have planted you in this city. What was the evidence? Walk with me, and I will make you great. There's no hand anywhere that can stop the program of this church.

Oh, no. The hand was cut into pieces years ago. Nations will come, and they will come to this ancient city. It will be an hallmark of revival. It will be an hallmark of revival because the disciples Christian network stands here. We have received an evidence that surpasses the power of any principality. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes. We act and we walk based on that evidence. Somebody messaged me and told me...

Somebody messaged me and told me, he said, pastor, I am ready. I'm... He said, I'm ready to do. Someone who loves me, I believe. Of course, the person loves me. That's the reason why they will talk like that. It's love. If you are not careful, there are people that will love you to your own detriment. He said, I'm ready to sponsor everything. It will take proof of funds, anything it will take, tickets, visa, anything you might need to travel abroad.

He said, your your skill is to pend us. Happens to be a client who I work with in business. And he told me your skill is to pend us. It's not to be wasted in Nigeria. I know you have the call of God upon your life, but you see, there's more darkness in America. They they need you, and the guy started preaching. He told me he told me if it's money, don't don't worry about the money. Don't worry about anything. There's a job waiting for you. There's everything.

There's a house waiting for you. And he told me, sir, we can even... Sir. If I have received no evidence, you just say apostle has gone. So just come on Sunday, say pastor, you're preaching. Say, what? What's supposed to say? You know, you just went to it or you went on a retreat. There's an evidence. There's an evidence.

I know all my feet will step on the soles of nation, on the soles of nation. The soles of my feet will step on the soles of nation. This I know. This is a report we have seen. It not go there by me going there to one also, God forbid, or go there in honor. Who will go there carrying the precious message of the kingdom down to the hands of the earth. That is what we have seen. That is the evidence we have received. We can turn down offers like that and also as though God cheated us because of something we have seen. There are times many of you will say, no.

Are you feeling pain? You say, ah. Hope I've not made a mistake. The evidence we have seen is more powerful than your offer. It's a lot more powerful than your offer. Ah, the evidence we have received is a lot more powerful. So we'll wait and labor on people. We're not fools. We're not fools. There are only men who have received evidence.

Thank you, Jesus. So little faith is a result of insufficient information. The more of God's word that you hear, the more knowledge you have. The more faith comes to you in the word. The less of God's word you hear, the less faith you have. So if that is how little is... That is... If that is a cure, if that is what causes little faith, what then do you think is great faith? Because the bible speaks of great faith. In Matthew 15 and verse 28, the bible says, Jesus was speaking to that woman of Canaan, that Syrophoenician woman.

Right? And Jesus told that woman, oh, woman, great is thy faith. Be it unto thee even as thou wilt. The question is, what is great faith? What leads to Jesus telling some people that they have little faith and Jesus telling others that they have great faith. There are two people in scripture that Jesus tell that they have great faith. Great faith is tenacious faith. It is faith that will not give up in spite of opposition, and I will show you this in scripture. It is faith that responds with knowledge. This type of faith is based on the amount and quality of information and revelation that you have received, that you have accepted, you have endorsed, you have believed.

When Jesus tested the woman's faith by telling her that the woman could not get what she desired, many of you circumstances have told you that you will not get what you desire. The woman responded with knowledge. She spoke back words of faith. Let's read that inspiring dialogue between Jesus and the woman. Matthew 15, we start from verse 22. The Bible says, and behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts and cried unto him saying, have mercy on me, oh, Lord, thou son of David. My daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. So who? My daughter. Right?

But he answered her not a word, and his disciples came and besought him saying, send thy way for she cried afterwards. But he answered and said, I'm not sent but unto the lost but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came she and worshiped him saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said, it is not meat to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs. So who is the dog? Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. That was Jesus's reply to the woman who was declaring... Who was asking for healing. He said, how can I take what belongs to the children and give it to dogs?

Many of you circumstances have replied like that to you. Situations have replied like that to you. You have gone for five... They've they've done family meetings where every member of the family, uncles, aunties came and they talked down on your father and your presence and talked down on your... On on the children and make it look as though how I will sponsor these ones or send them to school when we have better things to do. To mean that sending this one to school is not a better thing. There are people that have been insulted by circumstances, insulted by situations, insulted by life in itself. Are you with me? When I first... When I began ministry, when we began this, some years back, 2019, I believe.

I'm not telling you this. It's not stories for now. Tell you later on. I'll tell you in the future. How does certain people actually call us ducks? Some even called us thieves. All sort of names. It don't matter who is calling you that name. What now happen when it is Jesus? It don't matter who is calling you the name as long as it's not the savior.

There are many of you who have stood in front of your helper, and then because the man is angry, were... You felt insulted, you walked away. That's another lesson. It's not for today. I will teach you how to stand in front of greatness. You stood in front of someone and said, what what are you doing here? And just laugh. Why why is talking like that? You are the one that needs him. He doesn't need you.

When you are standing in front of the man that does not need you, you humble yourself. You have the endurance to forbear whatever it is they say and how they speak when men exercise their humanity and their weakness so that you can receive... It is like the carcass of a lion or of a beast, really, when they die. That's where you'll find the sweetest honey. And so people who go in search of the sweetest honey know that when they find a dead carcass, they leave the carcass here, there. Because very soon, bees will start gathering inside the rotten carcass and form a hive there. And the sweetest honey has been said to be found inside the dead carcass. It means that those who are in search of the honey would have to ignore the smell of the carcass, the rottenness of the carcass, the horrible sights, the the the the the fact that the carcass is not even pleasant to behold. They ignore all of that in search of the ony. In other words, when you are dealing with someone whose behavior is like that of a carcass, you must learn to ignore the smell.

Ignore the absence of pleasantness to get the honey. It's wisdom. So you don't say because you are working in a place, wanna resign because your boss shouted on you. Look at that foolishness. There are people who have rejected help for that reason. Someone was correcting you. Maybe you were employed in a place, and the person corrected you so harshly, and you felt is is... Why would they correct me? Is that how to speak? Is that how to speak?

And you feel you can tell someone who is higher than you in ranking how to speak. Many don't know that they don't decide how they are corrected. They decide how they receive correction. A lot of things can result to why a man can speak the way he will speak. Maybe the man is ill cultured. Maybe the man did not have a good upbringing. Maybe the man has not just learned good human relationship. Maybe the man has ego and pride, and he talks. But if the man is higher than you in ranking, it means he sees clearer than you as a result of what he has accomplished, as a result of what he has attained, either in business, in career, or even in ministry. Do you understand what I'm saying?

So it begins to correct regardless of the way he correct you. There is there is lesson to be learned in the correction. The question is, can you ignore the carcass? Do you understand what I'm saying? Can you ignore the carcass? So many people have made foolish decisions off of this. Foolish decisions. People have resigned from places of works because of this, and they say, you must protect your mental health. You know, you cannot be in a place where they are stressing you. If you're not respected, don't be in that atmosphere.

It's not conducive for you. So go and be poor. Go and be broke. You see, a of nonsense, nice sounding jargons, Motivation that leads to damnation. If you're offended, I don't have no apology. Usually, I'll say sorry, but have no apology. Because how do you explain that not even anybody Jesus says, how do we give what belongs to the children, to dogs? If it was you, you'd have gotten hungry. It's not protecting my mental health. He's call...

Calling me a dog. Don't stress me. Can you imagine? Because I went to him for healing. Healing and getting UCH. Fire calling me dog. Me dog. Me dog. I mean, I I don't have my class. Me, Doug.

Wise woman. Look at her response. And she said, truth, Lord. You know what that means? It means what you have said is truth. I'm a dog. Truth, Lord. But even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table. In other words, even if I'm a dog, even dogs still eat of the crumbs that fall from their master's table. Look at the response of Jesus.

Jesus says, and Jesus answered and said unto her, oh, woman, great is thy faith. Go back to lesson number. It's not on faith, please. Let's leave that one alone. Great is thy faith. In other words, she encountered an opposition. She encountered no. That's why I tell you no is not a problem. Jesus... Did you know that Jesus have been ignoring her?

The bible says she was shouting and crying, Jesus ignored her, said nothing. So much so, the disciples came and said, let's send this woman away. And the woman continued in... There's an attitude of faith. When she eventually came, Jesus now paused the whole matter and said, we don't give what belongs to children to dogs. And the woman said, even the dogs. Do you know what it means? It means I have an understanding of you as a father, and not just as a father, but as a good father. It's not Jesus that said that if you, being evil, give good gifts unto your children, how much more your heavenly father who are in heaven? It means I know...

The man is basically saying, I can't come to God, and God will tell me no for any reason even if I'm not the son. It's not the bible it's not the bible that said he make the sun shine on both the good and evil. So even if I'm not a son, I agree. But even if I'm not a son, your message still prevails over all. And the woman was speaking from a place of knowledge. Jesus said, my goodness. My goodness. What great faith this is. Be it unto thee even as thou wilt, and her daughter was made whole from that very hour. When Jesus heard that informed answer, he said to her, woman, grace is your faith.

On another occasion, Jesus said the same thing about the Roman centurion. In Luke chapter seven verse nine, the bible says, when Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him and turned him about and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith. No. Not in Israel. Jesus, these words were again a response to the words spoken by the lips of faith. Remember, the more accurate information you have, the better. And when you act undoubtedly on this information, you'll be demonstrating great faith or much faith as it were. Remember the conversation here. It was when Jesus told that womb... That man, let us go to your house, and the man said, I'm not fit to come to my house.

I know you are a man under authority for I am also a man under authority. I said to one, come, and he comes. I said to another, go, and he goes. In other words, by reason... You see, what he was saying is I've studied your operation. I've studied your pattern of miracles, and I found that the way you cast out devils, you tell them go, and they go. Come out over, and they come out. Liver, and they leave. It looks like the way I also operate. I tell one, go, and they go.

I tell another, come, and they come. And it's not because I have authority in myself because, really, in myself, I have no authority. It must mean that you are... You yourself are submitted to an authority. That is why it makes it possible for you to tell one go and they go. It means when you tell one go, they see beyond you. They see what you represent. In so doing, you can speak a word from here, and my servant will be healed. Immediately, Jesus said, I've not seen anyone with such great faith. The two times when Jesus referenced people with great faith, they answered him so.

There was a response based on knowledge. There was a response based on information. These were the two instances where great faith was mentioned in scripture, and it was based on information. Are you with me? If you don't have enough spiritual information from the word about the particular issue, your faith will be as little as your faith is according to God's word that you have heard. And the cure for such little faith, therefore, is simply to learn more of God's word on the... On that issue. If you have any situation that seems hopeless, get into the word. Become a student of the word by careful and diligent search and study on the scripture that talks about that particular situation. Get the teaching.

Get tips. Get books that are relevant to that situation. If you are having problems in your health, on your finances, or with getting a job, or expanding your business, or in your academics as a student, or in any area of your life, this is what you should do. Get more information from God's word. Inundate your spirit and bombard your mind with God's word. Get teaching, get tapes in audio and video format. Listen to them. Watch them again and again. Don't say I've already listened to the tapes. Oh, no.

Keep on listening. If you still have that problem, it means you have not gotten it. It's as simple as that. Learn to be sincere. That's sincere with yourself. Put yourself on a what diet. Do you understand what I'm saying? Put yourself on a what diet. You realize that anytime you wanna pray for the sick, there's something... A fear that grips your soul.

You realize that you you try and it's not just put yourself on a what diet, healing the sick. Go and get the message. Deliverance from deliverance from sickness and diseases. Living above sicknesses and diseases. Your authority in Christ. You get those messages. You start plugging them in your ears. You start listening, praying with them, praying with them, praying with them, acting in accordance with what you are hearing. Exposing your mind to God's word. You have a problem in your academics.

You open yourself to messages. How God helps students. Balance as a Christian student, and you gather these resources, God's kind of result. You gather these resources to start listening to them. I have the life of God in me. God has not given me the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, of sound mind. My finances is giving me issues. You get the blessings of God upon a man. Tools for kingdom prosperity. You gather resources.

You start listening to them. You realize I'm not a poor man trying to be wealthy. I am rich. I am wealthy. It is who I am in Christ Jesus. It is our identity. I am only working out what I already have. Kingdom word summit is coming. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Another time for an upgraded mind.

Another time to listen to what will bless me. The truth unrefined. Believers equip is on Tuesday. Thank you, Jesus. Another time of the world. And while the worship is going on, I saturate myself in worship. I prayed to prepare my spirit. You see, he's a foolish man that comes for meeting late. Let me tell you why. Because there is there is a sensitivity your spirit man must have to receive the word at the frequency to which the word is being released.

Do you understand what I'm saying? It means that if this is the frequency at which the man of God is talking, this is the frequency at which your spirit man must be to to to receive whatever God... The bible says the entrance of thy word giveth light. The bible says, your word in John six and verse 63, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. You sent your word, and it quickened me upon my feet. You see that now? It quickened me upon my feet. Daniel said, I became strengthened as he spoke unto me. In other words, the... There's an energy that spiritual words have.

And so when you come and receive the word of God, it's not like to your coming to receive. It's not mathematics. It's not English language. Are you with me? It's the... It's spirit and life. That is what the bible calls them life giving spirit. Amplified called life giving spirit. It means that there is there is your spirit man cannot be redundant when you are coming to receive of God. Remember, don't the beloved.

They don't have an encounter sleeping on his bed. He said I was in the spirit on the lost day. In other words, there is there is a sensitivity that your spirit man must have or attain before certain certain things can be opened up onto you. I was in the spirit on the lost day, and I saw. Even whilst he entered the realm of the spirit and he began to see every vision that he saw. In Revelations one, he said I was in the spirit on the last day, and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet. In Revelations four, the Bible now says come up either is now, and I will show you great and mighty things which thou knowest not. Is that not so? The Bible upon saying this now tells him again. Listen.

After this, I looked and behold, a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me, which said come up either, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter. Listen. In Revelations one, it says I was in the spirit on the last day, and I heard. Is that not so? Again, he said I was in the spirit in revelations four one. Right? Come up either. Look at verse two. Verse two then says, and immediately, I was in the spirit. Where was he before?

You're not getting what I'm saying? In revelations one, where was he? So how come in the spirit, he was hearing a voice telling him come up either. And in coming up either, he says I was in the spirit. In the spirit, but different levels. In the spirit, different spheres. In the spirit, different dimensions. Come up either in the spirit. It means there's a level you will be. You cannot see certain things.

There's a level you will be. Your spirit man cannot see certain things. You would have to break into certain dimensions. So they got... God told him, I want to show you things that will happen hereafter. From chapter one to chapter three, he showed them the message to the church. In other words, what he was showing them is things that will... That is happening or things that has happened. Write a message to the church in Hattens, the church in Galencia, things that has happened or things that is happening, but he wanted to throw in things that will happen. You understand?

He said your spiritual energy is not enough. Where you are right now, you cannot see. Come up either. That is why we come from the beginning of service. Because while the worship is going on, you are coming up either. Do you understand? You are coming from work, you just woke up, and you just yawn and enter class, and you come and hear message, and you think it will bless you. You will only hear at best English language. An historical lecture properly delivered. That is the best thing you will hear.

You only say deep. You won't cast the realm of the world because you have not come up either. Are you with me? That is the reason why we partake of everything that goes on in the service. While the prayer is going on, what is happening is that you are raising your spirit man. You are you are you are coming up either. And the moment the word comes and the word is delivered, you have risen in energy level. You have risen in excitement. You have risen in temperature. You have risen in frequency to receive the word at the frequency at which it is being dispensed.

Are you with me? So when you come and you are dampened in your spirit, you just sit down and you're just writing it. You're writing it. You're just writing notes. And you say, and you just laugh and just go. It's foolishness. Someone walks into service by 10AM, 11AM, and he just throws in, and he sits down. The truth is you can't be blessed. You might be blessed in the prayer. You might be blessed anyhow.

But by the word, come on now. There's a required level of diligence. This is true. I'm not insulting you. Oh, no. I said this because I love you. Are you with me? Yes. Imagine before a meeting, I'm playing game or watching a movie or drinking tea or just eating, and I'm coming for a meeting. The truth is, all of that is not what the time is when I'm not able to preach well or nothing.

I will still come and say a few things and you will still be blessed. Are you with me? Yes. Or would I say it with the energy of the spirit? Remember, it's not the words. It's the utterance. It's the spirit behind the words. It's not the words. I can come and deliver an intelligent seminary lecture that has no power. So why do I ensure that I'm in an atmosphere of the spirit trying to pray, trying to talk to the holy spirit, playing worship songs even before a meeting comes, waiting in God in prayer?

Because I know that the words I'm speaking must come from a place in the spirit. So that when it latches upon the heart of those who will receive it, it will... Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes. It will be spirit and life. So you get these words and you listen. You get these words and you pray with them. There are times you plug in here, please, while you're praying, and you are listening with the message and praying songs. What you are listening to is entering your spirit, ma'am.

A young man told me, he said, sir, I've been dealing with all kinds of, you know, loss issues and immorality and all of that, and he has heard a lot of messages. I've even thought it. Said he was listening to a message. I can't even remember what what he was saying. He said, as he was just doing it, he just came to his heart. I am dead to sin. He said it struck him like he has never seen before in his life. I am dead to sin. It became a revelation that made... He said he knew this is the last day this thing will happen.

What he received was an evidence. Is that the first time we are... I... In fact, I didn't even pitch it funny enough. I think the other one listened to a message or so. Thought some some years back. That is how evidences are given. How can a man talk like that and come and say, sir, this is a lie. I knew this is the last day to happen and not think what if it happens tomorrow? It means when that thought is in your mind, you don't have faith.

It's as simple as that. Have you heard people say, but what if I fail? You are talking from a place that is out of faith. Faith does not speak like that. When it is truly in faith, faith speaks from evidence. It means I've received a report I cannot fail. So if faith cannot therefore say, what if I fail? I'm getting what I'm saying. Faith can't say what if it's not healed. Because he has received the report that by his stripes, we were healed.

There are there are messages and tapes I've listened to over a thousand times without exaggeration. Over a thousand times. Without exaggeration. Some of them messages preached years ago. When I when I teach on Sunday like this, I go on YouTube tonight. It's my routine. The same day I'm on YouTube, I'm listening to the service again. Sometime I'm praying with it. Sometime I sleep off while even whilst I'm praying, I wake up, go back to start praying with it. When the tape...

When the message is released, I go on Telegram. I'm the first to download it. There are times I sing a song in this place, and I will message the guys. I will tell them, cut that song for me. Send it to me. I want to pray with it. And I start praying. My own my own messages. And I asked somebody who was there while I'm teaching. You went the one that preached to...

I asked her, have you listened again since you say I was there? I have not listened. Me who preached, I've listened 10 times. Before the next Sunday, look at carelessness. Look at carelessness. Do you think we arrive at faith carelessly? Oh, no. We intentionally give ourselves to the world because I know the just shall live by faith. If in this economy in Nigeria, you don't master faith, what what what is your lot? What is your lot?

Do you think that they would want... I called a young man out here by prophecy. Some of you were here. If I... Listen, I don't I don't give these things. I don't say these things carelessly. I called him out yet last year, I believe. And I I told everybody, look at this young man. Mark his face. Laid hands on him, prophesied over him.

I told him you have experienced appointments in the past. Watch what begins to happen as you enter into the big... Into the new year. And I told everyone mark his face. He sent me a message yesterday. He said I wanted you to be the first person to hear this. I got a grant for my business in heavy 6 digits, naira, Nigerian naira. Heavy 6 digit Nigerian naira. This is someone who has applied to several... You see, when he was talking, he said he said he said he applied for a particular, you know, association and gathering, and they've never given grants since the inception of that gathering.

But they just decided to start with their sets. And how won't they start? Because protocols must be broken for your sake. It means policies can be set for your sake. Do you know that I've I've declared it? The young man will still require... That that thing I said is evidence. It's a report. He would now need to hold on to that report. War with that report.

Believe with that report. Step with that report. Act with that report. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? I don't have time to show you the remaining. It will be next week. When you face situations, don't cry. Don't look for who come and pet you. Get messages and listen to it. Revival, the making of men.

Plate. And you are hearing the wealthy place, revile. You play it. You are listening. You are encouraging yourself in the Lord. You are strengthening yourself in faith. That is what you are doing. The bible says faith comes by hearing. I want you bring it to a place where you value the word of God above all else. Where you do what?

Above and above all else. Where you have a testament, a report from heaven as to how you stoop on his word and got an answer. As to how you remain unfeasled in the presence of situations and challenges. Are you with me? Yes, sir. After teaching on faith on Sunday, the young lady messaged me and said, this is your special report that I was giving. I'm so afraid. I'm so scared. I'm so this. I'm so bad.

And I said, did you listen to what I told you or to the message? He said, yes. I was... I listened to it online. What? So what do you do? You listen again and again and again and again and again and again. A day will a day will come, you will look at that sickness. You will say, out of my body. How can I be sick?

How can I be sick? Are you with me? Yes, sir. Rise up on your feet. I want us to pray. Listen. Listen. Listen. Are you blessed by this? This is how to be strong and mighty believers.

This is how to lift practical lines as believers. Listen, I want us to pray right now, and you're gonna pray in the spirit for just about two minutes to allow your light to pray in this prayer. Listen, the bible says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so, not think so, not wish so, not hope so. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Let the blessed of the Lord say so. Let the prosperous of the Lord say so. Let the excellent of the Lord say so. Let the successful of the Lord say so. Listen, after you pray in tongues for two minutes, you will begin to declare. I want you to declare.

This is not positive confession. You are speaking based on the evidence you have received. You are speaking based on the title deed you have received. Want you to declare. Use your words and declare your realities, promises, things that have been spoken over you, things that God has said over your life. Can we begin to pray right now? Come on. Come on. Pray. Pray.

Pray. Pray. Declare words now. Declare words now. Father, in the name of Jesus. I declare over everyone present here. Son of man, can these dry bones live again? Only you know us, Lord. Only you know us. Prophesy.

And I prophesy as I was commanded. I declare that whatever is dead in your lives, whatever needs the power of his resurrection, Whatever needs to be quickened, whatever needs to be awakened, whatever needs to come up either, I release right now By the power of the spirit. Life into your finances. Life into your brain. Life into your epidemics. Your finances, life into your families, life into your life. Let what is dead come alive. In the name of Jesus. Everywhere you have lacked help for such a long time, everywhere you have needed someone to hold you by the hand, someone to hold your hands, everywhere you have needed assistance of a spirit assistance of men, and you have... And help has been missing in your life.

I declare right now, let that life receive help. I see a vision in my spirit, and I see a book being opened. And God is telling me that this is the book of remembrance. I see that the book of remembrance has been opened. Please listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen.

Listen. I'm saying it's for three families here. It's for three families here. The book of remembrance has been opened. Listen. You would find that it will happen that those who have forgotten you. That's how it will happen. That's how God will do it. Where you are forgotten either by people, by places, by institutions, by kings, by government, whatever it may be. But wherever you might have been forgotten, I speak to those families represented here.

By the spirit of the almighty. Let the book of remembrance be open now. In the name of Jesus. Wherever your hands have been weak, wherever you have tried to carry the weight of destiny, but you have found that your hands have been weak. Wherever you have been tired, wherever you have been weary, wherever you are fainting, wherever you are almost giving up, I release strength right now. That strength that strength is coming upon five people. I declare over your lives today that whatever door has been shut over you, whatever door has been shut over your family, whatever door you have been knocking for a long time But has refused to open. I force those doors open now. In the name of Jesus. I break those doors open now.

In the name of Jesus. I speak the last word over your life. In this economy, even as things are are going hard right now, even as things will continue to go hard. Whilst people are saying there's a casting down, whilst people are complaining, whilst people are crying, whilst people are weeping, whilst the tears of people, people are mourning, you will be rejoicing. You will say there is a lifting up. For the power to prosper and rested upon you. In the name of Jesus. Now I declare, be favored. Be favored. Be favored.

Be favored. Thank God for what he has done. Just thank him. As I hear, as I hear, same song, same song. Thank God. Same words I will sing as I hear. Thank you, Jesus. As I hear. Same song, same sound, same words I will speak as I hear, as I hear, as I hear, and as I hear your words tonight, I will speak it. Thank you, Lord.

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