Transcript: Living God's Best -The Mentality of a Blessed Man

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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. As you delve into scriptures and explore the journey of the children of Israel from the deliverance from Egypt to their preservation in the wilderness and their inheritance of the promised land, you observe three distinct levels of existence that individuals can inhabit. These levels are of course influenced by the mentalities that govern them. In other words, these three distinct levels or three planes of existence that a man can dwell in is governed by the mentalities that operates that particular plane or that particular realm. There is the Egyptian enslavement mentality which is seen when they were in Egypt. There is the wilderness mentality which is displayed when they were delivered from Egypt and proceeded from their journey from Egypt into the wilderness.

And then there is a promised land mentality, which is seen when they eventually took over the promised land. And I've discovered that these three planes of existence are planes of existence that a believer can live in at any particular time. And wherever you are is what determines what governs your mentality. And what governs your mentality also determines where you are. Do you understand what I just said? A believer would find himself or herself positioned in one of these three places at every given time. You are either in Egypt or you are in the wilderness or you are in the promised land. The promised land is the wealthy place. The promised land is a place of abundance. The promised land is a land that is flowing with milk and honey.

Very few believers actually have the experience of the promised land. In Psalms 66 and verse 11, read down to verse 12. The bible says, you brought us into the net. You laid affliction on our backs. Let's start from verse 10. Verse 10 says, for you, oh God, have tested us. You have refined us as silver. You see, this scripture is actually explaining the journey of the believer in these three planes of existence that I've spoken about. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

So you would understand as we go on. For you, oh God, have tested us. You have refined us as silver. Next verse. You brought us into the net. You laid affliction on our backs. Next verse. You have caused men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us out to reach fulfillment. Can you give me KJV, please?

KJV says, but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. Revire. Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. This is the end of the believer's journey. And by end, I don't mean this is where you die. I actually mean this is where God intends that you step into. This is where God intends that you enter into to enjoy your Christian experience. That wealthy place, the promised land that I'll be using metaphorically today. God's intention for the Israelites was to make them a nation. So today, I'm gonna be using the Israelites as a close metaphor or a simile to typify the believer.

So when I'm speaking about the Israel, the people of Israel or the Israelites understand that I'm speaking about the believers right now. So we're gonna look at their lives and try to see how the life that they lived in these three different places affected their mindset and how their mindset affected them. Is that okay? And we'll look at how it also affects us right now as believers and try to explain where we are as believers and why most of us are where we are and how to get out of where we are into where God wants us to be. So if I wanna give my method a title, I'll give it living God's best. I think the mentality of a blessed man. Living living God's best. Right? Living God's best. The mentality of a blessed man is gonna be very short but very powerful.

So I said God's intention for the Israelites was to make them a nation. A nation such as never seen before in the face of the earth because they were to be preservers of the seed. Do you remember that? They were to possess the promised land and be revealed as God's covenant people. They were to be holy. They were to be a prosperous nation. They were to be God's covenant people solely because God has chosen them to be the preservers of the seed, the seed that is Christ. And because of this, God was gonna make them a great nation such as never seen before on the face of the earth. But they are joined. This was God's promise unto Abraham.

I will make you a great nation. In you shall all the families of the earth be blessed. This was God's promise unto Abraham. So the the God's promise was that the people of Israel were gonna be a great nation. I will bless them that bless you. I will cause to tell them that cause you. And in this, shall all the families of the earth be blessed. God never intended that the people of Israel should lack anything. So the promised land that God was taking them to, the promised land that God told Abraham that his son that will inherit, actually was a land that had every single thing they would ever need. It was a land of abundance, a land of prosperity, a wealthy place in all its essence.

In Leviticus 20 and verse 24, God speaking about the land said, but I've said unto you, ye shall inherit their land and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey. Please give me the New King James version. A land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God who has separated you from the peoples. So God is saying that the land I'm taking you to is a land that is flowing with milk and honey. Everything you would hope to survive, everything you would need to survive and you would have more than is needed for survival. Glory to God. In other words, God's intention wasn't just that they survive. God's intention was that they live in abundance. God's intention wasn't just that they had enough for themselves.

God's intention was that they live in abundance. Are you with me? So he said, a land flowing with milk and honey. But you see, that was not the only thing that made the land special. In Deuteronomy six from verse 10 down to verse 11, we see another thing that God had prepared for them even in that land. So it shall be when the Lord your God brings you into the land which you swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build. Hey. This was God's promise to them. That the land I'm taking you to, that wealthy place, that place of abundance and prosperity is a large... Is filled with large and beautiful cities which you do not...

You did... You did not build. And God says you will inherit it. This is a realm of understanding that believers can get to where... It was what Jesus was speaking about when Jesus said in talking about the harvest that there are a group of people who harvest what they've sown. But when you grow your understanding of harvest, you know that it is possible to step into the blessing and harvest even what you have not sown. This is actually a superior realm of harvest with respect to what I'm speaking about today. This is what God was talking about when he told them you will you will possess cities you didn't build. Now somebody is thinking that you have to labor and work hard for all your money, but that is not the operation of the blessing. When a man has an understanding and a consciousness of the blessing, you know that it's a possibility to actually enter into a harvest of which you have not sown.

Companies can be handed over to men. Industries can be handed over to men. Things you never worked for can look for you. Guess what? That is the nature of the place of abundance that God is bringing us to. But this thing looks so far from our understanding because very few believers have entered into this place. Next verse, it says, houses full of good things. Houses full of all good things. It's called the prepared blessings. Houses full of all good things which you did not feel.

So the bible was careful to tell us that the good things you will meet in this house is it wasn't you that put it there, but they are yours. You would enter into them. You would take them. It's a plane of existence. It's a realm a man can live in. It's a realm a man can dwell in. Do you remember what the servant said to the master? A guy that had one talent. He said, I've observed that you're a wicked man because you harvest what you have not sown. You harvest what you have not sown.

I've observed that your your income is more than your effort. I've observed that the revenue is more than where we have planted. Actually, I'm part of the servants. I know the extent of the boundaries of your farm and the harvest that we bring in is more than what we have planted. You must be a wicked man. That servant had no understanding. A lot of believers are aware that servant is today. There is that plane of existence where you walk for all you have. Yes. And I'm gonna show you very soon.

But God's intention was to bring these people to a place, a place very few people know exist. Hewn out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant. When you have eaten and are full, don't stop there. This was God's intention to bring them to a place where, my God. My God. Do you know that in God's wisdom, the people of Israel spent four hundred years in Egypt? Are you with me? Now how they got to Egypt wasn't for them to become slaves Because they got to Egypt when Joseph was prime minister and he was on a legal basis. Is that not so? But Joseph did not preserve the posterity well.

And so when the next pharaoh came, the next pharaoh did not understand the agreement that Joseph had with the previous pharaoh. And so he just said, who are these people? Are they our people? He said, no. And he never understood what was. Never understood that the reason why he's even alive is because of what Joseph did in Egypt. Never understood anything. He just became hungry and said, we can't come. We can't continue to allow this. And that was how the people of Israel became slaves in another man's land.

Now whilst all these things were happening, you would think God had no idea, but God had told Abraham that this would happen. God had told Abraham that his descendants will be strangers in another land for four hundred years. You know why this is so? But let me say, know why this is partially so? It's because the land that God promised them was to be a land filled with cities they did not build. They are not sent. It was with... It was to be a land filled with houses, with plenty good things that they didn't put there, with wells they didn't dig. So the strategy was, whilst they were in Egypt, other men are building. And whilst they were building, they had no idea that they were building for certain people.

That God, are you getting what I'm saying? It's important to understand what I'm saying. It's important to understand what I'm saying. In God's own wisdom. So God allowed for that because it was a prepared blessing God had God had made available. And the idea was when you are done in Egypt, go there and take all I've promised you. Bam. Go there. It's gonna be worth it, but I've given you the land. Enter into prepared blessings.

That was God's will for the believer, for the for the people of Israel. Because of God's intention for them. But you see, their stay in Egypt introduced a mindset, a pattern of thinking. And this pattern of thinking is what I've called the Egyptian enslavement mentality. So when they were in Egypt, their testimony was full. They were living on minimum survival instinct. They went from a people who was supposed to be conscious of what God has made available for them, what God has made ready for them because God had promised Abraham. God had told Abraham, this is what I've prepared for your seed. Abraham told Jacob, Jacob knew this. Are you with me?

Jacob passed over these things onto his children because he told them the scepter will not depart from Judah. He prophesied to his children and told them that they will be a great nation. Are you with me? All through their stay in Egypt, this was meant to be their consciousness. This was meant to be what what what fills their mind, what fills their thinking, and not their current reality, but that there's a promise that have been made by the most high God that he has prepared a place for us. We know that our stay in Egypt is temporal, but this mentality did not survive the persecution. This mentality did not survive the enslavement. Their experience in Egypt as slaves started creating a different thinking pattern. So they forgot over time that there was a promised land, and they adopted the mindset of slaves. And in adopting the mindset of slave from a people who have been promised nations, who have been promised cities, from a people that God wanted to make great nations out of, they settled to be slaves.

They settled for food and water. They settled for the minimum basic requirement for survival. And so their mentality started shifting to now begin to prioritize food and water even to the promise. It was a thinking pattern, a mindset, an ideology. That survival mindset became deeply ingrained in them. It shaped their expectations. It shaped their understanding of life itself. And over the span of four hundred years, spanning multiple generations, this mentality was not only perpetuated but also passed down to subsequent generations becoming a normative part of their existence. And so every single Israelite that was born was born into captivity, was born as a slave. So imagine that the parents were working as slaves.

The parents were working for food and for water, for sustenance, basically speaking, and then they meet the love of their life. The mother or the father and they get married and they give birth to children. All that the child ever knew was slavery. The child had known no life. And remember, this was four hundred years. This means if we were to calculate logically, it would have been four generations. It means that every child that was born was born into slavery. Every child that was born that was born never knew any other life apart from slavery. The best that they could be and the best that they was was slaves. You go to work by 8AM in the morning and peradventure you work well, your reward was sustenance.

Enough money to get food and water for the family. You're able to afford a good place to live. You're able to afford what the family will eat today. And you are... And you ensure that you work well because if you don't work well, the reward will be minimal. It was... The labor system was reward based. And that was why when Pharaoh said, let my people go, what they took away from them was reward. Remember that the straw was taken away so that they can walk more and labor more for the straw and they won't have time to call on God. Is that not so?

So it was a reward based system. You walk and then you get the reward after you have walked. So if you were a slave and then you were a lazy slave, you are a poor slave inclusive. So you cannot be a slave and be lazy. Your depend... Your your livelihood depended on it. Do you understand what I'm saying? So it was one thing to be a slave, the next thing is that you must be a hardworking slave. And then you have a child who is born into that system and from that... From the...

As the child is growing, the child is indoctrinated to believe that, see, you have to make money for this family. You have to also work, ensure that... And they start telling the child that, see, there are many places that you can work in Egypt. You can either work in construction or work in the palace of one of the nobles or in the house of one of the nobles. Remember, Joseph was a slave and he walked in the house of one of the nobles who was fortified. Remember that? So there were many options for the Israelites who were slaves to work. So the the the the the fight was getting a very good place to work. You don't wanna walk where you'll be carrying things and, you know, you you wanna at least live in the house of a noble and be a slave there. The reward is much.

You can send home to the family. I pray you understand what I'm teaching you. Those of you who have understanding will will have greater pictures of what I'm saying. This was how the child was indoctrinated. This cyclical pattern of labor for sustenance became deeply entrenched in their collective psyche. That was how everybody was reasoning. That was how everybody was thinking. A majority of what they were doing in that time was construction works. There were those engaged in manual labor such as bricklaying, stone carrying, and all of that. There were women who were housemates.

Some were sales representatives. Some stayed in the shop in place of their master. Some were masters of the house. And those who were master of the house had a kind of advantage over others. Are you with me? There were those who were considered to be educated. Those that were more educated were taxed with the responsibility of oversight. Such was Joseph when he came. Remember that he was a master of the slaves in Potiphar's house. So it means that his salary will be more because that was promotion.

He had benefits that would be attributed to him that other slaves would not have based on his position, based on the fact that he was more intelligent, based on the fact that he was more educated, was more enlightened, he had more ability to order people and structure things and all of that. So he will have more reward. They can give him a a official car. Can give him official house. Other slave would not have that. But based on his own position, he would have that. And so there were those who were educated amongst them, but guess what? They were still slaves. Regardless of what position they occupied, they were still slaves. And when Potiphar's wife came and said, this man slept with me, the fact that he was a slave was revealed.

Nobody... The slave has no right. Nobody wants to hear what the slave has to say. Immediately, there were all his record of good works that he has been doing, all the profit he has made for his master was not pulled into place. Didn't even consider that this guy has made us $50,000,000 in the last one month. Let's retain him. Let's hear what he did. Immediately, the first instant of scandal was laid upon him, he was he was fired. Sent into the prison as is a lot of all slaves. So they knew their boundaries.

They knew that they are not allowed to speak. They knew that they are not allowed to talk. They understand that just do your work, get your reward, and go. And if you can if you can, get it... You see, imagine for a moment that there were positions that needed to be occupied maybe because the agricultural system of Egypt was expanding and they were building machines that, you know, they were now using to farm. They needed more people to man the machines and it happened that these people are not so educated. So what did they do? They create an educational system to teach these people how to man the machines. I pray you understand what I'm showing you. They teach them how to man the machines.

There's a bakery, a a store owner, and he wants to employ slaves that would help him to increase production. But these slaves don't know how to make loaves, so he creates an educational system. So he teach them how to make loaves. There was a physician who needed more slaves to help attend to patients when they come. But the slaves don't have the slightest clue of any therapeutic cure, and so it creates an educational system to teach them. In as much as they were getting educated and they were getting skillful in their education, they were still slaves. Their education was designed to make them extremely skillful in the service that they are being trained for. And that was it. And guess what? So that they can serve well.

So that they can become optimal in their service. This was the Egyptian slave mentality. This system kept people enslaved. So they had engineers, they had doctors, and the likes. And despite the variance in tasks, they were all essentially slaves, working tirelessly in exchange for basic necessities. This system kept people enslaved because it made them believe their value depended only on how much they work and how much work they did and what they got in return for the work that they did. And so amongst themselves, a system of rating themselves was made. And so they they they rated themselves based on how much they were making, how much reward they were making. And so even as much... In as much as they were slaves, there were those who had better lives than others.

Like Joseph, for instance. There were those who had better lives than others. There were those who were educated. There were those who the master have entrusted with the oversight of the entire industry, of the entire company, or to man every other slaves. And their reward was better. So they they they they are worth with respect to how much work that they did and how much reward they got with respect to what they were doing. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So at the end of the day, you are best an educated slave. At the end of the day, you are at best an overseer of your master's house, the head of other slaves, but you are still a slave yourself.

So the Egyptian slavery mentality says, walk all day, walk all night only to get the reward enough to sustain you. And your whole life is dependent is dependent on the reward that you get. Because if you don't work, if you stop working, you have no food. If you stop working, you have no water. You want food? You want water? You work for it. You labor for it. You work for it. You labor for it.

At the end of that labor, somebody gives you a reward for the labor. That was the oppression of the Egyptian slavery mentality. What I've described right now, is it familiar? Now you're not gonna hear it from my mouth. I'm only showing you scriptures. Whether it's familiar or not, this is for you to see. My own responsibility is to show you how some people live in scriptures. The holy spirit can then take that if he wills. And I'll show you how a doctor poses with your own life right now. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Thank you, Lord Jesus. A time came that these people were delivered from Egypt. Right? When they were delivered from Egypt, it was so obvious that these people were not ready to take the land that God had promised them. They've been slaves for so long. They didn't they didn't know how to think as anything other than slaves. Their experience in the wilderness is the first time that these people are having to live for themselves... By themselves without having to labor for anyone. Think about it a minute. This was the first time in their lives that they were having an experience of freedom.

This was the first time that they didn't have to go to work by 8AM in the morning and labor for a master who will eventually give them food and water. So the question was, where will food and water now come from? Remember, for four hundred years, their entire life has been built on them laboring and someone rewarding. Now Moses takes all of them. All of them escapes Egypt. You will think they will be happy. You will think they will be rejoicing. You will think they will be celebrating. They arrive at the wilderness after crossing the Red Sea. Is that not so?

And you expect that all of them will start saying, thank God, finally. Their first concern is what will we eat. Because for the first time, we are having to think by ourself. For the first time, there's nobody to reward us for any labor. I wake up in the morning. I have no idea what to do. I'm useless to myself because I have no master to labor for. So Moses, if there's nobody to give us what we will eat, then what will we eat? We'd expect that a people who have been enslaved for so long, who have labored so so long, who have suffered so long, who have been tortured for so long, would embrace the idea of being free, and they'll start living their lives. But as it turns out, they didn't even know how to be free.

They didn't even know how to make how to make a living for themselves by themselves, without having to labor for somebody else because the system of Egypt had so do it, had so done it such that they've been programmed to only think about servitude. And that the only way that a man can prosper, their own definition of prosperity is to labor and let another man reward. That was how their mind has been conditioned. That was how they grew up, and they've spent four hundred years. They've had grandfathers who have died in slavery. Great grandfathers who have died in slavery. Great great grandfather who have died in slavery. Now this generation who are who are living Egypt, all they've known is slavery. Laboring for someone else to give a reward at the end of the day. A reward sufficient to make ends meet.

A reward sufficient for food and for water. In fact, the reward then was food and water. Now what's the reward? It was food and water. Suppose supply of food. And if you didn't want to go hungry, you must work. You must labor. And sometimes if you wanna ensure that maybe you have wife and your wife has five children and you can't take care of all the children, sometimes you think, oh, let me just get one of them. Let me see I can just see another opportunity to join. So that while I'm laboring this one from 8AM to 5PM, I can go for this one by 6PM to 7PM, and I can go for another one 8PM to 10PM, and I get reward from everything.

I come home by 10PM, and I have food to give my children. And the following morning, I continue. And my children grow to watch how I'm living my life so they can start living their life like that. And so when they experienced freedom for the first time, it was so obvious that they did not know how to be free. This was an opportunity for death. Do you know that when they left Egypt, they left with gold? They left with the riches of Egypt. God, Moses told them that each and every one of them should go and plunder their masters. The people you slaved for, the people you worked for, go and demand from them whatever they have. Their gold, their jewelries, their money, everything.

Collect it. They took everything and had no idea what to do with it. They had no idea how to how to... Do you know that God knew this? God knew that if I should take these people like this and just take them to the promised land straight is calamity. Remember, this was a land flowing with milk and honey. Remember, this was a land whose cities they did not build, With houses filled with many good things. If you give a poor man money, you destroy that man. And so in Deuteronomy eight, when God was telling them... Jeremiah six, sorry.

When God was telling them all the things that... Look at it. When you have eaten and are full, this was not yet the experience. God was telling them what he has prepared for them. Next verse, he says, then beware, lest you forget. That's what happens when you give a slave money. That's what happen when a foolish man enter into wealth. He forget his mother. He forget his father. He forget even those who brought him up.

Because his life have always been about food, has always been about the basic the basics of human survival. So when you give him enough, he doesn't know he doesn't know any other thing to do with it. He destroys himself with it. God had to tell them beware. But bewareing alone is not enough. Because the mentality of slavery has to be taken away from their mind. And so the bible records that there is a place, there is a path to the promised land that would have taken them fourteen days approximately according to bible history when the marks were studied. In Exodus 13 and verse 17, the bible says, and it came to pass when pharaoh had let the people go that God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines. God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.

So God knew that their minds were unreformed. God knew that their mind was not transformed. God knew that their mind have been enslaved for so long and their mind have been gripped with fear, which was another another consequence or implication of the slave mentality. The slave mentality introduces fear. And so when you try to do anything outside of that that system of slavery, you can't... You you are afraid to launch. You are afraid to step out. And so if a man of God, for instance, who have been earning salary, which is predictable, a system of reward, and God tells you, stop right now and go into ministry, what happens is fear. Fear jumps on you because you don't know how else to live. How do I live when I'm not living in a system where I'm slaving for a man?

This was what happened in the wilderness. This is the second plane of existence. God knew that fear in their heart was a was a possibility. Remember, the bible says, lest perhaps they change their minds when they see war. When, not if. In other words, a war will... There will be war. War was starting. So the promised land wasn't gonna be something that God will just hand over to them on the platter of gold. In as much as the land is prepared for them, there were...

There are people inhabiting the land. The land is theirs, but there were those who built the house. There were those who built the cities. All of those things that God was talking about, the wells that you did not did, the house you did not build, the vine you did not plant, ah, there were those who planted it. And when you arrive, the people that planted will not say, ah, we we have been planting for you. We've been building for you. We know it is yours. You are the landholders. Let us go. Bye bye.

Don't fight us. No. No. They did not know that they were slave... They are... They were working for another man to come and inherit their labors. They did not know. In their own mind, they were the landowners. In their own mind, the company belongs to them. In their own mind, all the all the mansions they are built were theirs.

And so when you arrive to claim your possession, they won't say, in fact, I had a dream and I saw you were coming. That's not what will happen. There will be war. And so that when the war arrives, you will not lose hope and your heart will faint and you give up. The war in this context does not mean that you go and drag somebody's business with them and say it's mine. Oh, no. But the word would be that you will enter into the marketplace. You will enter into the marketplace. You will build your brand. Build what God has given you, refine your talents and your giftings, and build yourself to a place where you can offer to buy that business for $200,000,000.

And they ask you why do you want to buy it? He said because it's mine. It was prepared for me. It means one of you can grow to a point you buy Tesla. You're not getting what I'm saying. This thing is looking too big. Let me come to your level. Let me come to your level. Let me come to your level. Let me come.

I will come to your level. What... Let me find something in your level. What's in your level? Because your mind is too small to capture that one. There are people that will buy properties, buy estates. Estates that Babylon has been enshrouded in. That the foundations of Babylon have been caught up deep in. There are those of us who will mount up and say this is our inheritance. This is our inheritance.

When such moments come, it is possible for the heart of a man to be crippled with fear. So God says, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm not gonna take you through the land that will make you arrive at the promised land fast. It means that what they experienced was not delayed. God in his intelligence, God in his wisdom decided that it was too early for them to enter wealth. They're not saying this. God, in his intelligence, decided that if they entered into it like this, it is capable of destroying them. It's capable of making them return back to slavery. Making them feel as though, hey. Are you telling me this is what is required?

Are you telling me these are the people I'm competing with? I... Ah, no. No. No. I would rather go back to my work where they are paying me 50 k per month. I didn't know only a business will be like this. Hey. Nobody told me. Sir, apostle, I don't I don't really think that this is for me.

I don't think it's for me. So one of my friends told me about a job, and I I just want to go and get it. I said, no problem. Lest they become crippled by fear, God says, you know what? Let's do something about the state of their mind. Let's do something about their heart. Let's correct something in their heart, and how we would do it is that we would take them through the longer route. And the essence of the longer route was to work on their mind so that before they get to the promised land, they are ready. The next verse says, so God led the people around by the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. So that was how the Red Sea came to be.

There was a different pathway that he didn't have to even pass the Red Sea at all. And God was saying, no. This is where I want you to pass. This is where I want you to pass. And guess what? They got to the Red Sea. The first miracle, the winds came and blew the sea apart. They walked on dry land. God was expecting that this sign, this miracle is doing something to your mind. It's making you realize.

It's making you realize that the God who can pack the Red Sea like this is now capable of supplying your needs. You no longer need to labor for a slave master. God was introducing himself gradually. He was saying, I'm the Lord your God who teacheth thee to prosper. What God was doing was introducing himself. He was saying, now I want to teach. I'm bringing you to a place of wealth, a pure abundance, and you must know the God that is giving you this because there's a purpose for it. But this way, people that all their lives all their lives have been governed by food. What to eat? What to wear?

What to eat? What to drink? What to wear? How to live in? That is all that they've always talked about. They can't say anything more than this. And so when God was introducing them, the... These people walked in the middle of two seas as though they were nothing. As they walked, they were afraid because they could see Egyptians pursuing them. The moment they crossed and the sea closed and swallowed up all the Gentile armies, you'd expect that they will now know they will fear God.

That was not what they did. Miriam just came and sang to God and sang, and all of them worshiped God the following morning. Moses, why would we eat? The guy woke up in the morning and said, sorry. Are you going to work? He said, no. There's no work. Ah. How will food come? And the guy who has been laboring for a master...

Yeah. Look at this. The guy who has been laboring for a master, and perhaps he has been laboring in the farm. And he had been following the master to the farm every day. And he makes ridges, and he plants, and he harvests for the master, and the master gives him 1%, if not less, of the harvest as a reward. That guy too is part of the people that walks up... Wakes up in the wilderness and has no idea what to eat. And does not say, at least I've learned this from my master. We should be able to plan something for ourselves. You're not getting what I'm saying.

Did I come to the right audience this morning? I'm not I'm not I'm not sure I did. I'm not sure I did. The path that God eventually took them to... Through was meant to take forty days as opposed to the fourteen days that the nearer one would have taken. In other words, God took them through that path to prepare them for the promised land. But this journey that was meant to take forty days eventually lasted forty years. And guess what? A lot of them are no, no, no, all of them died in the wilderness. It was not the generation that came out of Egypt that entered the wealthy place.

You know why? Because forty years could not successfully eradicate slavery from their minds. God. God was laboring. He was he was laboring for forty years. I'm taking you to a place. I want you to prosper. This is not the kind of mind you must have. And God was laboring to ensure that their mind and their thinking changes. If their thinking had changed, their communication will change.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. The way they speak will change. The way they see will change. Their utterance will change. Their words will change. Nothing of such happened. They were still the same stiff necked, hard hearted people who refused to be rich, who refused to enter into what God have ordained for them. They still carried Egypt with them. Everywhere they went, they were looking.

They were looking for a reward system from heaven. Guess what? God has to start supplying them with manna. Joshua Joshua chapter five verse 12. Let me see. Can we read it together? Pause. On the day after they enter the promised land, that they ate of the produce of the land. What happened to manna? The children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year.

So God never intended to feed them with manna. God... The intention of God was to feed them with the fruit of the land. Are you getting what I'm saying? In other words, what God intended was for them to sow seeds and harvest what they have sown and then eat. That is why the bible says, they heard of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. In other words, that year speaks of that year of harvest. So they sowed seeds and harvested. It was the harvest of the seed that they had. The moment they entered, the heavens closed, manna ended.

One of them will wake up that morning and say, why is manna not falling? Have we sinned? God says, no. You are not. You have not sinned. You have entered the worthy place. Whoever told you that in the worthy place, there's no manna? That in the worthy place, you sow your seeds and harvest. You sow your whole seed. The difference now is that you are not sowing for another man.

The the the provisions of manna from heaven stopped. There are times when the provision you are experiencing right now is wilderness. It shows you where you are. It is because you have not entered the wealthy place. You you don't yet have the consciousness of a prosperous man, the consciousness of a blessed man, the mentality of a blessed man. You are still slaving in the wilderness, and God knows that if you... If he if he leaves you to your own to your own power, to your own effort, you will die there. And so what God does is that whilst you are there, he makes a provision of manna. He makes a provision of manna so an uncle can call you and give you a 100,000. A member from church can call you and say, my son, do you need anything?

He said, yes, I want to buy a laptop. Take this 200,000. That's mana. That is not the worthy place. That is not the worthy place. That is mana. The moment a man enters the holy place, manna stops. You know why? Because you now become a blessing. You now become a source that God can use to bless others.

The intention is never that you look to heaven and say, heaven heaven, where is your face? In other words, a time will come you will start sharing testimony of how many paid your transport. Because that is not the worldly place. The things we're excited about are testimonies of manna. They're testimonies of food and bread, onions and water. These are the things we're excited about. These are the things that makes us happy. Guess what? The guy is just waiting, sir, ah, can somebody just send me money now? Can can money just enter my account now?

It will enter. But in the wealthy place, the idea is that you plant and you harvest. The idea is that something from you enters the ground. Something from you, a gift he has given, a talent he has given, a passion you have, a service you have, a skill you learnt must enter the ground. I pray you understand what I'm teaching. I pray you do. Because if you do, if you do... Listen. Listen. Remember, there's a mentality.

There's a mindset. It's not forced about the action. It is forced about the mentality. It's forced about the mindset because you see... Did you realize that the moment manna started exceeding what God had instructed, he started losing taste. Manner could not be saved. Manner could not be invested. Mana could not multiply. Mana started rock... So if you if you gathered more than you needed and you put it in your room, you will find the following morning transport.

You couldn't save mana. You are not seeing what I'm saying. That's the problem here. Now you are living on manna and you wonder why there's no savings in your hand. You wonder why you cannot multiply. Those who are not living on manna are in Egypt, slaving for another man. Sometimes they feel they are better because they have predictive income. At least at the end of the month, I know I have a reward. 200,000 is coming. I'm getting...

You see, and there are people right now. I pray your eyes open. Numbers 14 verse 29. The bible says, the carcasses of you who have complained against me shall fall in this wilderness. That English is not so smooth. You don't understand it. Let's do NLT. NLT puts it very well. He said, you will all drop dead in this wilderness because you complained against me. Why?

Do you really think that God just came and tried to kill all of them? No. No. I will show you very soon. He says, every one of you who is 20 years old or older and was included in the registration will die. You know what I found there? I saw that at age 20, it is dangerous to think like a slave. I saw. Go back to NKJV. Next verse.

Look at this. I'll show you why they will die. There's a legal reason why they will die except for Caleb, the son of Jephunneh and Joshua, the son of Nun. You shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in. Next verse. But your little ones whom you said would be victims, I will bring in And they shall know the land which you have despised. How is it possible to despise wealth? Can you think about that for a moment? To despise prosperity. For God to say, this is where I'm taking you to and you despise it.

You say, I don't want. No. How you despise wealth or prosperity is to settle in slavery. It's not to think you don't want wealth, it's to remain in slavery. How do I know? What led to all of this was a dispute. It was still food. They now cursed themselves. They said they said they said they said, if God would not do this, if God would not do that, why did he bring us? It is rather...

We we prefer to have died in this place. God now told them, I would do as you have said. Find it for me first. It was... It's the same verse, the same chapter rather. I will do exactly either above or below as you have said. I'm gonna wait for them. Glory to God. So the purpose of the wilderness was to flush out the mentality that they got from Egypt, which would have reflected in their words, in their communication, in their thinking, in what they were seeing, in what they said. Are you with me?

I said, this is not. Say to them, as I leave, says the Lord, just as you have spoken in my hearing, so I will do to you. They told God that they they want to fall by the swords. It's better than falling by the swords. The God said that exactly as you have said. Because if you have... If you had the vision of where I was taking you to, you won't talk like this. You won't speak like this. This Nigerian is safe. It's not better because I'm gonna just die.

I'm gonna just be living like this. And God said, just exactly as you have said. Because your communications are a proof of of what is changing in your mind or not. What was different about Caleb and Joshua? When they went to spy the land, they came back. They said, we are well Hebrew. Let us go and take that land for we are well Hebrew. It means there's a way they were now seeing. There's a way they were now thinking that has affected the way they are now talking. Are you with me?

Caleb and Joshua had a mentality. They had a consciousness that the remaining people of Israel never had. They went to spy the land and they came back with an evil report. This was the same land God had told them I've given you. Remember, forty years forty years forty years and yet they still... What God prophesied, that was the reason why God didn't take them through the land that is beside Philistine. Do you remember? What God prophesied, that was the reason... What... Why God took them through a different route was still what eventually happened.

They still saw war and decided it was better for them to die. And God says, no. You don't think like that. You don't talk like that. The place I'm taking you to I hope you know that God was not impressed with Caleb and Joshua because they entered the promised land. God was impressed with Caleb and Joshua because of the report that they brought. In other words, it was their mentality, how they were seeing, how they were thinking that affected their entering into the promised land, that affected, that governed their entry into the wealthy place. It means a man does not just happen to enter or stumble into the wealthy place accidentally. There is a mentality that a blessed man carry. There's a mentality that a victor carries.

The purpose of the wilderness was to flush out this mentality they got from Egypt. It was for God to try their heart to ensure their heart was for God. No amount of gold, no amount of wealth can turn their heart away from God. God wanted them to introduce... God wanted to introduce them to a... His own system of wealth, which was different from slaving for rewards. God wanted them to... God wanted them show them how that you can trust on God for abundance and how to enter into prosperity by inheritance. It was a total reorchestration, a total recalibration in thinking, and it concerns wealth and prosperity. But these people were complaining.

They grumbled all through the wilderness. Whenever Whenever there was no food, they didn't understand what it meant to build wealth and source for your own food. They were expecting that in the same manner, food came to them in Egypt. God will provide them with food and water. Their entire life now revolved around sustenance. That nothing else makes sense aside sustenance. People were willing to sacrifice the blessing of becoming a nation for food and water. They were willing to go back to slavery just to get food and water. So the purpose of God for their lives did not matter anymore as long as they were hungry. They couldn't bring themselves to trust in God.

Couldn't bring themselves to believe in God. They couldn't bring bring themselves to our faith in God. That the same God who parted the Red Sea can supply right now. The same God who brought down Jericho. The same God who did that. The same God who brought down Manna. We saw a pillar of cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night, and yet you had enough fear. You still had no faith in God. They were they were stiff necked people. A lot of believers are here.

A lot of believers are here. Are you with me? It doesn't matter what God what God's purpose is. It doesn't matter what God's agenda is. As long as I'm able to eat well, I'm able to sustain myself, I'm good. But this is the Egyptian slavery mentality. When people tell you work hard, work hard, work hard. What the hell, boss? I read... I was talking about the economy of Nigeria, and I and I realized that it's believed that Nigeria has or operates within a mixed economic system.

That is a a a union of capitalism and socialism. And like most western countries, Nigeria also tilts towards capitalism where private ownership of properties, industries, products are allowed to a large scale. I've noticed, however, that a lot of believers don't understand the implication of this. The implication of this is that the few are the ones who regulate the wealth of the nation, and the masses are poor. The economy is designed in such a way as to make the few prosperous and the masses poor. The World Bank has it on record that half of the global population lives on less than $5 a person per day. And about 80% of the world's population live in extreme poverty. Extreme poverty. The majority are poor. The masses are poor.

The crowd is poor. It tells you that if you follow the crowd, you will have the result of the crowd. This also tells you that from the day you were born, in as much as your parents are not rich, it means you are born into a system of poverty. In as much as you're not born to be poor. The same way the Israelites were not born into... Were not born to be slaves, but they were born into a system of slavery. Are you with me? I'm much like them. From growing up as a child up until now. The same way the Israelites lent slavery from their parents, from those who came before them.

Do you know that the average Israelite child, everybody he meets up until when he's 20, 25 are poor? Because every Israelite was a slave. It means chances are that majority of the people you have ever interacted with in your life are poor. Teachers who taught you in primary school, poor. Teachers who taught you in nursery school, poor. Teachers who taught you in secondary school, poor. Lecturers who taught you not what to do. People that supervise you're being a court member in Nigeria, not well-to-do. Policemen you meet on the road, poor. Majority of the people you have interacted with are poor, especially those who have taught you directly or indirectly.

It means that subconsciously, the mindset that you carry is most likely that of a poor man. The same way the mindset that of a child that is born into the Egyptian system of slavery is that of a slave. Are you getting what I'm saying? Yes, sir. If you're not careful, you have been programmed to be poor. You will not know how money is made or how words can be transferred. And so your life will also revolve around the same the same cyclical pattern of slavery that you have witnessed. And so when somebody ask you, what do you want to become? What you tell them is I want to be a slave. Your eyes your eyes will be open to see.

And we started declaring this for when we were young. And we labored for it. And we're taught for it. And we're taught with it. An educational system was designed to keep men poor. Let me tell you something now. The educational system in most nations of the world are designed to keep men poor. I like to use a poetry setting to explain this. I taught my work as this. You've seen people who have a poetry or someone who has a fish pond.

They feed their birds and their fishes every morning and every night. Are you feeding the bird in a poultry because you love them? Are you feeding the fish in a fish pond because you love them? Why are you feeding them? Because you need them. Because they are bringing you profit. Because you wanna use them. Imagine the fish inside the pond telling another fish, I'm loved by this man. This man loves us. Can you imagine every morning by 6AM, he wakes us.

He wakes up to give us food. If the evening by 6PM, he comes home and the first thing is coming to check, oh my. The master loves us. And after six months, the guy checks and realizes that the weight... The way they are gaining weight wouldn't bring him much profit. So he tells the people, increase their feeding. The fishes are happy. They say, yeah. They've increased our salary. You have birds in a cage, and the birds have a responsibility to climb themselves and make egg.

And you know that if the egg that they make will be viable, the quality of that feeding must be viable. So every morning, the birds will have, they have just one job, just climb. The the man will climb. The woman will get pregnant or egg. Deliver eggs. In the morning, you give them food as a reward for their labor. And, peradventure, you want more yield in results, then you have to increase the reward. And so if you... A day came, you you you change you you change the mixture. You say, ah, let me get them more protein and more this and more that.

And when you give them, they're excited. One bird lays five eggs. You say, ah, this one is working. Increase the feeding. The guy is happy. This is how several Nigerians are. This is how several people around the world are. They're like a fish in a pond being farmed for the service of another, for the profit of another. And the reward system... They've been so engrossed by the reward system that they feel as though they feel as though when the reward system is not so profitable, what do they do?

No. The guy now says, I don't like the way the pawn did did did... Look at... The the man is not even taking care of the water. The water is becoming green. The fish is complaining. The feeding itself is not coming as as they used to come. Imagine, I went home, there was no light yesterday. Solar is not... Things are becoming expensive.

When I'm swimming, I don't even know where to go. The the the daughter, daughter's. Road is not good. Nothing is good. Nothing is working. He says, you know what? I heard that farmer Ajanlaku has built his own pond. It's a fresh water pond. If you go there, you enjoy. He said, really?

Let's protest visa. What the guy wants to do is to jump from one pond to another because the the other pond is fresh, is cleaner, and does not know that what he has done is just exchange slavery, exchange ponds. He's still going there to go and slave for another man. Go and do work that is not dignified him Just to make it for food and for water. And he does not mind ridiculing himself even though he has a masters in Nigeria. Because he believes that the currency that they spend, they have more value. And so I can send money home. As though when you make the money, you spend naira. And the guy is confronted with a road shock. And now he finds himself doing even worse than he was making doing in Nigeria.

Because all he has done is exchange pools. All he has done is exchange points. Someone has a reputable work in Nigeria. And he says, you know what? I'm not okay. This country, this government, this nation, he wants to jump on. Whereas, the thing is, how the fish should be thinking? How can I become a pawn owner? What makes you wealthy? It's not that you're one of the fishes.

It is that you're a pawn owner. No matter how many food you are given to eat. So even if your salary is 1,000,000 naira, you're not wealthy. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? Yes, sir. You're not. The system you are in keeps people in a pond. The educational system is fundamentally designed to keep people in a pond. So you don't... You are not taught how to make wealth.

You're not taught how to own a business. But you are taught how to work. You're taught how to labor. You're taught how to... How things work. And so you have several people with first class certificate, second class certificate. Most of them don't even have jobs. Those ones who have job, very good results. The quality of the kind of work they are doing doesn't even measure up with the result that they carry. And you wonder, what is this?

Because very few people are in the worthy place. Let me close with this. I told you that the wealthy place has a mentality. Can I show you the mentality of the blessed man? How... What qualified Caleb and Joshua wasn't that they possessed the land and go down to them because you have possessed it, because you fought. No. It was first that they saw there was a possibility for them to possess it. That was what qualified them. Are you with me?

It was first a mentality before it became a reality. If you do not have the mentality of a blessed man, you can never enter into wealth. You will continue to exist in the Egyptian slavery men... Slavery system or perhaps even in the wilderness when you are free. Some people exist in both, but very few have entered in that prepared blessing that God has for us. That prepared blessing that God has for us. That is God's will for you as a believer. That's where God is taking to you... Taking you to as a believer. Many of us might be in the wilderness right now, and the purpose of the wilderness is to train, to teach, to bring about a reformation, a renewal, a transformation of the mind, of the heart.

So that by the time it is time for you to enter into your wealthy place, you have prepared yourself for the prepared blessing. Are you with me? Yes sir. You have prepared yourself for the prepared blessing. Hear me. If money does not serve the kingdom of God, then it perverts, it spurs, and it destroys the owner. Let me say it again. If money does not serve the kingdom of God, then it perverts, it destroys, and it spoils whoever owns it. Therefore, your motive must be right when it comes to your interest in gaining wealth, in gaining riches, in gaining money out of its way. Consider...

Do you do you do you consider yourself a success if large sum of money enters your account? That's not necessarily what makes you a success. What makes you a success is if large sum of money enter into your account and it does not excite you. You didn't hear what I just said. It doesn't make you jump and say, hey. What is this? Is this money? You ask some people, what would you do if 5,000,000 naira enters your account right now? You know what they say? They say I will faint.

I will now wake up. I will now faint again. And they think they are making sense. They think it's a sincere reaction. And they don't know that in what they are saying, they're already telling themselves how... Wow that the money will never come. But it's because they prove they're not prepared for it. If I ask one of you right now, just call somebody hard, and I say, if I give you 7,000,000 now, what would you do with it? Should we do an experiment? You'll be shocked.

You'll be shocked by the time you start analyzing responses. I asked somebody a question once. I said, what would you do? The person said, will tithe. He said, awesome. I said, awesome. You'll tithe. Good. What else would you do? A tithe is 10%, isn't it?

I said, yes, sir. I said, good. So you've tithed it. What else would you do? He said, will now give 60% on orphanage. I'll now give 50% to that. That'll be 30% to the poor. I'll now give the remaining 10% to bereaved father. I said you are a foolish person. Now since I I could see the sincerity, sincerely speaking, she was, oh.

Either amount of money is ended. It's a proof that in fact, the amount cannot even enter. The mentality is not prepared to host such amount of money. And when your mentality is not prepared to host it, your life cannot host it. You know why? Because what you don't have the mind for, you can't have ideas to think for... To think of. So ways to think, ways to live, what to do to bring the world to you cannot even enter your mind. You didn't hear what I just said. You can't have ideas like that.

You can't think that big. You can't think that wide. I told someone, go and scale your business. The person came back to meet me. He said, sir, I've gone to all departments. I said, You mean when I told you to go and scale your business, what you heard was departments? What your... Hey, Jesus. What what your mind went to was departments. What does that individual want to do with 1,000,000?

Nothing. It will never come. Are you with me? And so in your journey towards wealth, you must understand that the purpose is more important than the mandate. We can talk about the man... Oh, no. Let me rephrase that. The purpose is more important than the concept in itself. Yes. That is better.

So I can talk about dominion and tell you, you must have power. You must have spiritual power. You must have economic power. And I'm seeing all these things, but you don't understand the purpose for which you have power. The power is useless. Outside of purpose, everything is useless. When the purpose of a thing is not known, mass Monroe says, abuse is inevitable. Inevitable. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

There are people that cannot control themselves when they see money. You give an unprepared man a million naira, it would destroy him. That will become the undoing of the man. I was speaking to a a a parent here, and the parent told me, he said, I was asking I was asking about the plans for the future and all. And apparently, they sold a property that belonged to the father. So that's the the the grandfather of the son. Are with me? Or the father of the parent I was speaking to. The man I was speaking to, sold the property, and it was 6,000,000. So I asked him, I said, what do you wanna do with it?

The response made me realize that there are many ways money can come to a man. But does not in any way make you wealthy. You can you can... People go for big brother, what do they call it? And at the end of the day, just for showing themselves naked before the world, they get a 100,000,000. Isn't that the way money comes? But doesn't make you wealthy. Winning a luxury of 1,000,000,000 doesn't make you wealthy. Let me say something. If you are here or you are listening to me or this message finds you and you do naira bet or any of these kinds of betting system or you put your money into usury in any capacity, you have signed off to be poor.

You have signed up to be irrevocably poor. What you have done is that you have plucked yourself out of the economic system of the kingdom, and you have entered into the the world system of Babylon. And so Babylon... You will learn in Babylon that Babylon is unfair. Have you heard life is not fair? It is... They are referring to Babylon. The kingdom is very fair. That is why the bible speaks of the commonwealth of Zion. When you find yourself in every legal means and means that God has not authorized to try to make money or to make handsmith, you have plucked yourself out of God's divine providence, out of God's divine grace.

So people like that die early. They never live long. All sorts of problem to another because they never entered wealth, the path of God. Are you with me? There is a mentality of a blessed man, and the blessed man must know that the reason for which God is blessing me and the reason for which God is prospering me is to... Is for the advancement of his kingdom. Number two, what is the mentality of a blessed man? Remember the story I told you of a man who brought a ship ticket with his family members, and he saved up for three years to buy this particular ticket that would take him to London. And when he got on the ship, it was the biggest thing they've ever seen. They were given a cabin with his family members, and they packed food, crumbs that they...

That was left in their house to manage them because the the the the trip was a thirty day long trip. So they packed, and they were rationing the food. They didn't come out. They just have their bath, stay in their room. They told... Because there are many people in the ship look like wealthy people. And they had to save up three years. They didn't they didn't have no more... No money. So the parent told the children, don't don't play with anybody.

They're not your mate. They're not age... They're not your classmate. They're not age. They're not this one. Just let's maintain our corner. Don't let anybody embarrass you. Don't let anybody insult you. If you go and play with them, don't just... Don't...

So they were just inside their cabin. Are you with me? On the last day of the cruise, the man decided that, well, since the last day, let me take my family out and at least let's just... Even if it's the least thing we can buy. So they go there, they sit down, and they say, sir, how much is this? And the waiter was shocked at the question the man was asking, what do you mean how much is this? Is it your first time coming here? He said, yes. You mean you've not been eaten for the past, like, nine days? He said, we've been eaten.

We brought some things along with us. He it's for what? So we didn't have money to buy. You didn't have money to buy? Do you have a ticket? He said, I have a ticket. Can I see your ticket? When they verify that they are supposed to be on that ship legally, then they were shocked because the ticket as inclusive every single thing that is inside the ship. Food, playgrounds, everything that was inside the ship, they purchased with the ticket. And because the man never knew, the man did not eat good food, denied his family of of of enjoyment and fun they would have had.

It tells me that a man can be prosperous and not know he's prosperous. A man can be rich and successful and not know that he's rich and successful. And this kind of a man is a man that has been bedeviled by a slavery mentality. That man looks for wealth outwardly, whereas genuine wealth is inward. Now stay with me. This is the second mentality of a blessed man, and this is where I stop. Man is a tripartite being. Man is spirit, soul, and body. The same way man is spirit, soul, and body, everything that man has in God is also tripartite, spirit, soul, and body. Are you with me?

Thank you, Lord Jesus. You can be rich and all know. If you don't read the instructional manual of your salvation, you will not know what price has been paid for what. Being wealthy is deeper than having cash at hand. It emanates from the core of your belief system. Being rich has something to do with the faith on your inside. Romans one sixteen and verse 17, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God onto salvation to them that believe. First to the Jews and also to the Greek. Verse 17 says, verse 17 says, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written. The jaws shall live by faith.

The jaws shall live by faith. The jaws shall live by faith. It means his experience and his existence will be dependent and sustained by his faith. So in Philippians one number six, the Bible says, the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. So if you're gonna live by faith, you must acknowledge what that faith has deposited in you. So in acknowledging what has been deposited in you, you... The experience of the same then flows out. Without the acknowledgment of what you have and who you are, you might not see it play out. You must understand what the blood of Jesus Christ has done. You must understand that the blood of Jesus has given you intrinsic worth.

That your worth is no longer dependent on how much you have in your account and how much you are able to labor for and what promotions you have, but that the blood of Jesus has given you intrinsic worth. The worth of a thing is dependent on how much it was bought for. Are you with me? So if the price that was paid for you is the blood of Jesus, it tells you that your worth is in the blood. I was saying that there are three components of a man. Man is man is soul and body. That's the same way there are three components to your prosperity. Your prosperity is first spiritual, then mental, then physical. So if you govern prosperity and you check prosperity solely by physical experiences, you'll realize you will cheat yourself away from God's ordinance. You will never experience genuine wealth because genuine wealth is for spiritual.

Are you with me? Genuine wealth is first what? Then the spiritual side of wealth. That is where wealth begins. It then proceeds to the intellectual side before it manifests in the physical realm. When you pursue wealth from the physical realm, it will it will... It's like pursuing a bird. It flies off. The bible says money is like a bird. It developed wings and flies.

If you pursue money, that is what happens. But when a man recognizes the intrinsic what? When a man recognizes that he's a blessed man and that is blessed intrinsically because of the blessing of God upon his life, Wealth flows to him. Money comes to him. Genesis 12 verse one, we see a typology of the new covenant in Abraham. The bible says, the Lord said to Abraham, get out of your country from your family, and from your father's house to a land that I will show you next verse, to a land... Alright. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you, and I will make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. We see the blessing of the Lord resting upon Abraham.

The same way the blessing of the new covenant is now upon us as believers. In Proverbs 10 and verse 22, the bible says the blessing of the Lord make it rich. So if the blessing of God is upon you, the same way the blessing of God was on Abraham, it suggest to you that the blessing of God upon you makes you wealthy. It has no sorrow to it. Have you heard the statement, the more money you have, the more problems you have? It's not true. Those people are talking about what's made in the Babylonian system. For them, that is true. For us, it's not true because the blessing of God makes rich and has no sorrow to it. The blessing of the Lord is what makes rich.

It means it's not business that primarily makes rich. It's not a job that primarily makes rich. These things are the physical expressions, but that's not where wealth starts from. It starts from a mentality, a mentality of I'm a blessed man. And so anything I do is blessed. If this consciousness is not there, you will labor and another man will eat. You will labor and another man will eat the reward of it. Say I'm blessed. The man in the covenant has the blessing of God upon him. Genesis 13 verse two.

The bible says that Abraham was rich in livestock. Why was he rich in livestock? Because the blessing of God was upon him. Remember, Genesis 12, I will bless you. 13, Abraham was rich in livestock. So when the blessing came upon him, it manifested physically. But the first thing that came was the blessing. It means that it is a slave that measures himself by what is in his account. That is the mentality of a slave. And so whenever there's no money in your account, you are sad.

You are believed after somebody died. You get an alert. Have you seen people like that? They they... Anytime they have pram on their phone, they say, is it alert? And they will tell you that it's because I'm expecting to be favored. You're a poor man. Let me explain it to you. You have convinced yourself that the reason why you're always anxious when you hear put them... Is he a lot?

Yeah. You know, I don't expect to be favored, so that's why I'm always checking. It's a lie. If you're expecting to be favored, you'll be at peace. Many of the time when there's money in my account, I don't know there's money in my account. Either I know or I don't know. Makes no difference. Imagine I'm living a life where I'm check, hey. Is it money? Is it a lot?

Is it a lot? Is it a lot? Oh, no. What now happens when you are now blessed and money is now entering every second? That shows you that it's poverty that is doing you. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's poverty. Say I'm breaking out of it. I'm breaking out Listen. You must enter into a state of settled confidence.

I'm blessed. The blessing of God is upon me. I'm blessed. There's money in my hands. There's gold in my pockets. Oh, but sad. There's no food to eat, but I'm blessed. But I'm blessed. I call a brother in Christ and I say, I've been fasting for three days now. I need to break my fastball.

I don't really have things to eat in my house. I come and share fellowship with you? And he says, oh, in fact, I'm just cooking rice right now. You can come. Say, oh my goodness. The blessed man is going to eat. The blessed man is going to eat. The blessed man is going to eat. He's not the man who is begging for... No.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Listen. Listen. Elijah was hungry. And God said, have prepared a woman to give you food. You'd expect that... Listen. You'd expect that Elijah will Elijah will get there. And the moment Elijah gets there, the woman will say, take. This is your food.

After all, it was God who said, I've prepared a woman. Is that not so? So the way you expect it to work in your mind is that the moment you arrive at the gate, the woman is waiting and say, come and take food. No. Elijah said, what do you have in your house? You don't want to ask because you think it's pride that is doing you. It was God who said, I have prepared a woman to give you food. It means whilst the money is gathering physically, I can benefit from other systems God have made available. Are you with me? Doesn't in any way change my status as a blessed man.

I'm still blessed. Oh, I'm blessed. It's because I'm blessed I'm favored. Imagine this. I have not entered into the wealthy place, and God is still pouring manna from heaven. Is that... Are you not blessed? There's no end where God was taking them, and God insisted you will not lack. The manna is one of the best I have for you. But but because you are still you you are still not grown in your thinking, whilst you are still growing, I still bring manna.

What brings that is the blessing. So a man can say, I will never lack. A man can look at his account and there is 0 naira there, and it does not in any way move his emotions to make himself believe, ah. I told one of my guys, I said, the only time you and your fiance is happy is when there's money in that relationship. When there's no money in the relationship, it's as though somebody died. There will be a fight. If there's no fight, there will be sadness. Either you are sad or the other person is sad or the other person is sad and you are sad or one person is sad and the sadness of the person makes another person sad. And by the time... In the time you're fighting for the most foolish things, by the time you check it is that there's no money.

There's no money. I told you yesterday, as you call me, you did not come in. There's no money. You know what? It's because they have measured themselves. Their worth is how much they have. So if an alert enters and it says 50,000, alpha. Have you seen people that their their self confidence increases when they have money? Their self esteem increases when they have money. You are poor.

It's slavery mentality. The only time the slaves in Egypt were happy when... Was when the reward came. They've been slaving all night. They are sad, but the moment the reward came... You know the blessed man. A blessed man is constant in his emotions, constantly in his state of joy. It is the mentality of the blessed man. Galatians three and verse 13. The bible says Christ has redeemed us from the cause of the law, being made a cause for us for his written cause everyone who hangeth on a tree, that the blessing of Abraham might come on me through Jesus Christ.

The blessing of who? Might come on who? Through Jesus Christ. What is the blessing of Abraham? Justification by faith. That justification by faith has evidences. It has benefits. It has proofs. One of which was that it made Abraham wealthy, stupendously wealthy. And Abraham was blessed in cattles, in silver, in gold.

He was rich in cattles, silver, in gold. God told Abraham I will bless you. The first thing we see, that was a bigot and effect of that blessing was wealth. Are you with me? Galatians three fifteen, NLT. The Bible says, dear brothers and sisters, yet an example from everyday life just as no one can set aside or amend an irrevocable agreement. So it is in this case. So we are in a covenant that no man can set aside. We are in a covenant that is irrevocable. We're in a covenant that no economic situation can cancel.

Are you with me? Next verse, God gave the promise to Abraham and his child. And notice that the scripture does not say to his children as if it meant men descendants, rather he says to his child. And that, of course, means that, of course, means Christ. 17, this is what I'm trying to say. The agreement God made with Abraham could not be canceled four hundred and thirty years later when God gave the Lord to Moses. God would be breaking his promise. So the agreement God made with Abraham, even the law could not cancel it. Even the law could not cancel the agreement. And all Abraham had to do was believe.

And because Abraham believed in the seed that was promised, it was counted onto in for righteousness, and it manifested physically in that God blessed him with riches, cattle, and silver. Are you with me? This thing must eat into your consciousness. This is the mindset we use in sowing. This is the mindset we use in working. This is the mindset we use in doing business, in everything that I do. I know I'm blessed. So when I go for a job interview, I'm going as a blessed man, not as a poor man looking for job. You must understand, I am not the needy. I'm the needed.

If I'm offering a service for you, I'm a blessed man offering a service for you. Your company is blessed because you employed me. Your business is blessed because I'm working with you. If you buy my product, you are blessed. Listen. It must be a deep seated consciousness. You confess it. You declare it. You believe it. It's what you say.

You don't allow Nigerian situation inside the same economic situation that we are in that we are in. People are buying properties. People are building. A man of God I know will almost be done building this house. Inside this institution. If you join men to complain, you complete your own detriment. It will be as you have spoken. Remember? Blessed man have a way they speak. Blessed men have a way they would do what?

They speak. What is the consequence of the blessing? Deuteronomy 28. We stop here. It's a long read but we'll read it from verse one down to verse 14. MSG. This is the consequence of the blessing. Are you ready? If you listen obediently to the voice of God, your God, and heartily obey all his commandments that I command you today, God your God will place you on high. Listen.

High above all the nations of the world. Next verse. Next verse. I am high above all the nations of the world. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. So if I am high above all the nations of the world, what makes you think that it is one of the nations that you are high above that will bless you?

Why are you looking for wealth in a place that God has placed you high above? I told somebody, I said, when it's time for we to to go, we will go honorably. We will move like kings. We won't we won't go like slaves. We will go bearing the mystery of the gospel. Out of Nigeria, a light shines. Out of Ibadan, a light shines. Yes, sir. Reaching the corner most part of the earth. This is the mandate that will take us out of this nation.

Are you with me? Not because we want to go and hustle for bread. It's not my portion. You know why I know it's not my portion? Because the blessing upon me has placed me above nations. Has placed me... I am... I'm not slave to any country. The economic situation in a country doesn't determine my wealth. The Bible says, it that is above.

It that is from above is above all. I am above all nations. It means I'm above the economy of nations. I'm above... Whether there is famine or recession is not my business. Those are the those are the businesses of those that are inside. We are above them. So inside the same situation, your home business is prospering. Do you understand what I'm saying? This is your consciousness.

You don't really know that and say, hey. Dollar is dropping. Whether it is dropping or it is increasing. Hear me? You are you are a freelancer for instance, and you make some amount of money and and and say, you you make $500 or $1,000, and you were happy when you you heard that dollar was 1,500 naira. Because that meant that when you convert, you had more money. Ain't that right? When you convert, you have more money. Now you hear dollar is 1,200, and you're now sad. Does that not mean you make more money?

You're not getting what I'm saying. So if what we're making for the thousand dollars and you were happy that dollar was 1 to 500 naira, then make $2,000. Why why must you think that the way things are doing, that the way the map is going, that the way graph is going will affect your income? I don't know about you, but it cannot affect my income. This is the consequence of a blessed man. Look at the scriptures. An Isaac sold in that same land. The bible says the man waxed great. He became... I had a vision like that.

The man waxed great. Listen. It became extremely great that the Philistines envied him. Nations envy him. It's in the blessing. Will show you. It's in the blessing. What Isaac was enjoying was the blessing. All these blessings may come down on you and spread out beyond you because you have responded to the voice of God, your God. Because you have faith in Jesus Christ.

Because you're not a righteous man, the blessing is upon you. Next verse. Watch this. God's blessing inside the city. Hey, God. So you say, I'm in Ibadan. God's blessing inside the city. Oh, we're in Nigeria. God's blessing in the country. Look at the next verse.

Look at the next verse. God's blessing on your children. The crops of your land. What is the crop of your land? The young of your livestocks, the cows of your herds, the lambs of your flocks. Listen, the bible is saying that God's blessing on your children, command. God's blessing on the crops of your land. God's blessing on the young of your... Are you saying that even the things that should not carry blessing is blessed because of you? It means...

Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. If the crops of my land can carry a blessing, then the cloth I'm selling can carry a blessing. The joy that I'm selling can carry a blessing. The service I offer can carry a blessing. I can work for some people and they will say, we have never made sales like this ever. Listen. You know that this can this can be your experience where you get a job.

Say, you're a digital marketer for instance, and you get a job and you do it and it come and tells you, we've never gotten any... This kind of sales before in our lives. You made us the highest amount of sales we've ever made. And you now think that it was your effort and your skill that brought you the result. You you do recognize that it was the blessing of God upon you that brought the result. It only found expression in your skill. Your skill was like the young of your livestock, the cows of your head, the young of your livestock. Do you know what? If it was not your livestock, it had no business being blessed. Do you understand, Kansi?

The reason why it was it was blessed was because it was you that was doing it. And... Are are you with me? It now left your consciousness that the reason why I got this result is because the blessing was upon me. And now I attribute the result entirely to my skill. What we will notice is a depreciation. What you will observe is a depreciation. You would see the graph coming down. When you attempt to get the slope, you know you have cheated yourself somewhere because you accumulated rewards to skill and to effort. The young lady was inside the meeting and the prophet called her out and declared, go and make wealth.

She went out and had the power. Why she went out and had the power? She was an actress and and and whole AP. Sorry. She was... She went out. Somebody saw her, set her CV, saw the place where she has worked before, reached out to her for me, national TV station, and called her interviewer for a job. And the following month, she got the job. People loved her. People liked...

People loved what she was doing. She could speak well. She was fluent in speaking. When she was interviewed some two years after, and she was asked, how did you get here? You know what she said? She said, you know, I know my onions. I know my onions. Whatever you are doing, just be very good at it. Whereas, we were there in a meeting where prophet call you out and put something on your head. Now they invited you to speak.

You say you know your onions. That onions will make you cry. Next verse. God's blessing on your basket. This thing excites me. I don't know about you, but it excites me. When we were young... I'm closing. I'm done already. Maybe we'll just stop at verse seven.

Gong, we're young. Are you ready to pray? Yes, sir. We had a pastor come to our house, and this was the same chapter. But I don't know what revelation the man had. Well, he started his own from verse 16 or 15 thereabouts. Where the bible was talking about the causes. And when they were not picking it one after the other and we're praying against the causes. So curse shall you be in your... So we took it.

I will not be cursed. In the name of Jesus, in my seat, in my this, in my... Ah, and we were we were praying... We we sweat. And we're praying against what Christ became. All that scripture from that is not your business. Christ became it. It's not your business. Do know that the cost is even longer? You know why?

You know why? Because the impact of the blessing. Let's continue. Next verse. God's blessing in your coming in. Yes. God's blessing in your going out. Yes. Next verse. Next verse.

God will defeat your enemies who attack you. Yes. Listen. It means it is the blessing of God upon you that makes enemies attack you, and the bible says God will defeat them. Look at you. They will come at you on one road and run away on seven roads. Listen. All of this is the impact of the blessing. Look at the next verse. It says, God will order a blessing on your bands.

Listen. And workplaces. He will bless you in the land that God... Your God is giving you. Next verse. Look at this. God will form you as a people only to him just as he promised you. If you keep the commandment of God, your God, and live the way he has shown you. Next verse. All the peoples on earth will see you living under the name of God and hold you respectful in all.

All doing respectful hall. In other words, they will look at you as Christians and we and we... They will respect the fact that you are a believer who hold Jesus dear like this and you are still prospering. They will see you living under the name of God, and they will hold you in respectful awe. They will say, my God, you mean he's a Christian and he's and he's being blessed like this? We thought they are washing them. They they are wash... They are brainwashing them. We thought they are cleaning their minds off. Look at the next verse.

It says, God will lavish you with good things. Children from your womb. Hot springs from animals. Crops from your land. Land that God promised your ancestors that he would give you. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. In 2014, a woman came to me and told me that a prophet said that they should not marry. And the reason why the prophet said they should they should not marry was because was because the prophet have seen that if she marries the man, they will not have children.

He said, so all the family members have gone with it and all of that. Are they come and see me? You and the man. I will put scriptures. I showed them. As I... All of us started jumping and shouting and rejoicing and screaming as I was showing them. I said, are you seeing this? We got here. God will lavish you with good things.

Two drain from your womb. I said I said I said, as a seed of Abraham, you cannot be barren. You cannot be. I said touch your womb. She touched our womb. We we were... Oh, we're not praying. No. We were declaring. Making declarations in faith.

Rejoicing as we were as we were declaring. Children from the womb. They got married and gave birth to twins a year. I don't care what no prophet said. We have a more sure word of prophecy. Look at this next verse. God will throw open the doors of his sky vaults and pour rain on your land. The rain will be on schedule. It says, bless the work you take in hand. It is any work you are doing.

This is the part I like. He says, will learn to many nations. If you will learn to nations, why are you crying over our friend? It's a slave mentality. Let... Listen. See beyond your immediate needs. See the blessing. That was what the people of Israel were seeing in the wilderness. What will we hear today?

And they forgot that God had promised them a land. See what is inside of you. Declare what is inside of you. Make these your prophecies. Make this what you see. Your mother calls you and says, daughter, I don't even know what to do again oh. There's no money in the house. I said, there's money in the house. Mommy, there's money in the house. Mom, we declare there is money.

Ah, we declare there is money. Because blessed are we in our going in. Blessed are we in our coming in. We are learning to nations. Rise up on your feet. Look at the next verse. God will make you the head And not the tail. You will always be the top. Never the bottom. Look at verse 14.

Yes. I love this. Bring out your Bibles. I'll give you one minute to just declare. Pick anyone you see that picks your fancy. I'll give you a minute to just declare it. Are you ready? Deuteronomy 28. Just pick. Stay on one.

Don't don't spread. And declare it. Declare it. I'm a blessed man. And because I am blessed, the works of my hands prosper. Because I am blessed, the fruit of my bonds prosper. My land needs increase. Can you begin to declare right now? Declare right now. Come on.

You've closed already. Declare right now. Declare. Come on. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. Come on, declare. Come on declare. Come on declare. Declare.

In Jesus mighty name we have declared. Let me repeat what I've just said. In Jesus mighty name we have declared. Amen. Listen, if you believe what I'm teaching you, you'll be amazed at what your life will become. Let me tell you, you'll be amazed at what your life will become. These are the things that my... That are my realities. These are the things that are my cautiousness. These are the things that I'm experiencing.

There's no amount of money that can enter my hands today that will make me shake. No. No. No. And believe you me, I'm blessed. I'm not seeing that as a confession. I'm telling you reality. I'm blessed. So when I say there's no amount of money that I said, I'm not talking about some small amount of money. No.

I was working at a... When I was a... In my business, I'm still a businessman. In my business, the first time I got a a contract, a project in seven digits in seven digits was the first time ever. I've gotten several contracts. I've done several projects in six digits, every six digits, but never, never really seven digits. And I wanted to just break into that that that realm. I told someone, I said, the moment I cross it, I cannot go back again. So when did it becomes constant in my hand. And truth to the words, was the first time ever from my business.

The client sent it to my account, seven digits was the first time I was seeing seven digits in my account. I've always made this kind of statement in the past even without having that amount of money. And it was heavy seven days. Are you with me? True to the statement, it never swayed my emotions. God sees my heart. I did not feel like... It didn't make any difference whether 1,000 naira came or 2,000 naira came. Do you understand what trying to say? It is possible to live in a settled realm of peace, of comfort.

Are you with me? Of peace and uncomfort. Seeds have been sown to me in seven digits since then. Business deals in seven digits since then. I told someone, I said, now we are crossing to eight and to nine. This is the mentality of a victim. We are not moved by material things. We know that the wealth is from within. Are you blessed? Are you blessed?

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