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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. Pictures of greatness part two. Jeremiah chapter one from verse four, then the word of the Lord came unto me saying before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and before thou camest forth out of the womb, but let me use the new King James version. I knew you before you were born I sanctified you, I ordained you a prophet to the nations then said, hi, ah, Lord God, behold I cannot speak for I am a youth. But the Lord said to me, do not say I am a youth for you shall go to hall to whom I shall send you and whatever I command you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord. Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have these days set you over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out and to pull down and to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant. And after all of these verse 11 then says moreover the word of the Lord came to me saying Jeremiah what do you see?

Powerful. Jeremiah, what do you see? It is important to note that the person asking this question is God. God is the one asking Jeremiah, what do you see? Because I am incapacitated. I am limited by what you see. I am limited by what you see. If you still believe that you are a child, if you still believe you cannot speak for you are a youth, then I cannot use you. It is important that your vision aligns with my proposition. It is important that your vision aligns with what I've told you I'm gonna make you into.

So after I've told you all these things, the fact that I've told you all these things does not mean these things will happen to you. What do you see? Do you see the things that I've told you? Do you see what I've made you even before you were formed to your mother's womb or do you see a youth? And Jeremiah said, I see the rod of an almond tree. Then the Lord said to me, you have seen well. The problem with many people in this meeting today is that they've not seen well. And something happened to the pictures in your heart because the pictures in your heart automatically forms your destiny. You have seen well. It means it is possible to not see well.

And I hope you know that there are different factors that affect what you see. There are different factors that create pictures in your mind, But the most predominant of them all is communication. What you see and what you what you what you see and what you hear. Most importantly, what you hear. Do you remember when God came to Adam and Eve in the garden and told them, Adam, where are you? And they replied, I hid before you for I was naked. The next question that God forwarded to them is who told you? It means everything you believe about yourself, somebody told you. The next question that God asked was who told you? In other words, you have believed something that was not my communication.

You have believed something about yourself that I did not tell you. And whenever you believe anything that is different from what God has told you, there's a problem. There's a problem. Something about their perception told them that they were naked, and God had to ask them who told you. Do you know why this was important? Because their perception of themselves as naked made them hide from God. It was the fact that they thought they were naked. What was... If you're naked, what happens? Shame.

In other words, shame was introduced because they saw themselves as naked. And they were ashamed to appear before God because they thought that God would judge them on account of their nakedness. This was a conflict of interest. This was a a a a very terrible cascade reaction, cascade of event that was unfolding. Who told you you were naked? God had to ask. And many people have believed many things that were not told them by God. And these things form pictures in your mind. Communications form pictures in your heart. And these pictures, if not aligned with what God has decreed over your destiny, can limit the workings of God for your life.

The Bible says in the book of Proverbs chapter four verse 23, the Bible says, keep your heart with all diligence for out of your heart springs the issues of life. I told you on Sunday that life does not happen to you. Life happens from you. If there is anything in your life right now, it happens from you. Pick anybody from anywhere, from the gutter, under the bridge, smoking, drinking, doing whatever, and bring them to me. If I can successfully change their pictures, give them six months. You will be amazed what will come out of their life. Everybody is as a result of the pictures of themselves that they see. The smoker is like that because of something he has believed about himself. The prostitute is that way because of something he has believed about ourselves.

The drunk is that way because of something he has believed about himself. Any man that had a dysfunctional home who is irresponsible in the home is that way because of something he has believed about himself. The Bible says out of your heart, your life happens to you. Out of your heart. That your heart is like a document in a computer screen. Your life is control p. Your life is a direct reflection of the pictures in your heart. It does not matter what your mouth says. If your heart does not agree, you are deceiving yourself. The Bible says these people worship me with their mouth, but their heart is far from me.

It means it's not... What you say with your mouth is not as powerful as what is in your heart. Do you understand what I'm saying? The pictures that you see. That's why God communicates to everybody using pictures. Every man that God ever use, he paints pictures of greatness in their hearts because it is important they believe these things. And if God cannot paint this picture, then the then the men themselves cannot be used. And to paint the pictures, God can increase their exposure, take them to the palace just so they can believe in pictures of greatness. I remember one of my young men who came about two years ago and when he came he was just... He was a new he was new.

Even like two months into the church. So we did not really know him. The pastors did not know him, myself, but we've seen his face around. And then I received a message on my phone one faithful afternoon. I was preparing for a workers meeting. And he said, my name is so and so. I'm a member of your church. K. I'm in the prison right now. I've been there three for since three days ago.

They gave me the opportunity to use my phone. That's why I'm reaching you now. They are taking me to court and they said if they take me to court, blah blah blah blah blah blah. Say, I don't know you. I called the pastors. Do you know this person? You know this person? And he said, oh, oh, I'm familiar with him. He's... He comes around, joins some months back.

K. Okay. This is what he said. What did he do? I called some of my workers. Go and meet him there. I called some elderly people about the situation because I wanted to go by myself. Then they advised me, ah, Nigerian police, don't show your face there. Send people. I said, okay.

No problem. So I sent my workers. But later on, I knew why they should not show my face. Why they said I should not show my face there. Stories for another day. I sent two of my workers, gallant men that cannot be easily intimidated to go and find out what is happening. And when they find out what is happening, it appears that he was guilty because he had collected 50,000 naira from someone, 50,000 naira from someone and it was to be... He could not repay the money back, messed up situation. It was taken to court that day. The only salvation that happened was because the judge was not on seat.

So they told him that he will have to come by the following week. He was guilty of the offense. If they had taken him to court, that's about seven years because he has no... There's no father who is responsible enough to come, there's no mother. Guy is solely... Guy, basically speaking, been taking care of himself, fending for himself, doing all kind of menial jobs here and there just to send himself to school And somebody invited him to this year. So while transformation is happening, he has not let go of his old ways. He still find himself inside all kind of things. That was when we got hold of him. If they are not intervening that matter, young man would be in prison right now, seven seven years because of 50,000 naira.

They said they will bail him out for 7... For 20,000 naira, and I think... With everything she amounted to about 80,000 or so that we had to pay. Two years ago, I did not have that money. I had, I think, I had... Maybe half of it, and I called my pastors, then everybody contributed what they had just to ensure that he left that place that day. That was the first time I was speaking to the young man even seeing him. Are you with me? And I sat him down. I told him if you will take your life seriously, if you will take your destiny seriously, this place that you were brought out from today, you will bring many out of it.

Sir. Yes sir. That was two years ago. That was two years ago. Then the mental transformations began. And enjoying the workforce with comfort meetings, pictures were changing. Pictures were changing. They would come to me and say, sir, I've got a So what is it? I'm a kingdom financier. I'm a kingdom financier.

I'm meant to take... I'm meant to empty the streets of poor people, poor children who are begging for scraps. I have a passion for them. I said okay. So I met some of them in Bodhisia and instead of giving them money, I set them off with a business. I said okay, go ahead. God is still helping you. Two years after, he learned the skill, became a very... Became very good in the skill, got his first job in six digits, got his second job in six got his third job in six digits, got his fifth job in six digits. This year, last week, he came to me and two weeks ago I think, he came to me and I told him, you have been faithful.

Now you are crossing into seven. He sent me a message today. He said, I just got my first 7 figure contract. Two years ago, he was in prison. It's called transformation. That's the name given to it. If I can successfully change the pictures in the heart of a man, there is nothing the man cannot become. Yes. You have to believe that life does not happen coincidentally. There is no such thing as coincidences.

Every event in the realm of time is carefully planned out, and it is a direct and a merciless reflection of the pictures in your heart. Do you remember that it was communication that altered the vision of Eve in Genesis three. God told Eve and Adam that you will not eat of the fruit of this tree. In the day you eat of the fruit of this tree, you will die. You will die. And if God had told you that you will die if you eat this thing, what happens is that that thing becomes poison to you. You see death in it. That's what you see. Is that not so? Based on the communication that you have received, every time you see that tree, you avoid it.

It becomes mark and avoid. You don't go near it because you know this is death. However, what it took for the devil to change or to make them disbelieve what God had said was to change the their picture of that tree. That was what it took for the devil to make them fall. It was to change their picture of the tree. What did the devil do? The Bible says that he came to him, asked him all kind of questions, but look at this. Can we read this together everybody? Pause. The serpent did what?

Do you realize that the fall of man did not happen through wrestling? There was no wrestling involved. There was no struggle involved. It was not a hustle and bustle. There was no fighting of WWE championship. Yes, sir. It was not a battle of who is the strongest. No. The serpent came and just said, he said, he said, he said, and he's still saying today. He's still saying through families.

He's still saying through friends. He's still saying through associations. He's still saying through news. He's still saying through YouTube. He's still saying through TikTok, through books. He's still saying. The serpent said that God... You will not surely die. Next verse. For God knows that in the day you eat of it, eyes will be opened.

What is he saying? God is deceiving you. God is a liar. How will you believe God? God is hiding the best from you. He knows that when you eat this fruit, that is when your eyes will now open. And when your eyes opens, you will now be like God and God does not want you to be like him. That's why he's keeping the best for you. Otherwise, he said don't touch it. Knowing good and evil.

So it means what makes God, God is that he knows good and evil. What foolishness? Look at the next verse. Can we read the first sentence together, everybody? When the woman saw... Pause. When the woman did what? That's how the fall happened. A change in picture. The devil's saying to her was able to change what she saw.

And what did she see? She saw that the tree was good for food. So it not happened through, let me just go and eat it and see what it tastes like. There was first a sin. There was first a sin. She saw something first. If the devil has not changed your perspective, he has not won over your life. Oh, he has not. If what you have seen has not changed, there is still hope. If what God has told you, you see what you see.

It does not matter what situation you might be in, you will come out victorious. Do you know that the assignment of situations is to change your perspective? The assignment of negative circumstances is to change your pictures. The Bible says when she saw that the tree was good for food, but it was pleasant to the eyes. Are you seeing all of this? Everything was sight. What was poison now became pleasant. How? Communication. Communication.

And a tree desirable to make one wise. She saw wisdom on the tree. It was after she saw all these things that she now took of it and ate. So the eating didn't didn't just happen. The devil was successfully able to change her pictures. And the devil knew if only I can change your picture, you have fallen. You are fallen. You are fallen. If only I can change your pictures, you are fallen. What is he trying to change your picture from?

From what God initially told you. That's why he asked them, what did God say? In other words, what the devil is attacking is what God said. The devil does not really care about all that information you might have. The only thing he cared about is the one that God said. The devil will not come and tell you is two plus two four, but he will tell you, you sure God is real. He has no business with any other information you might believe, But he will bring everything to you to ensure you doubt the possibility of the existence of God. People who become atheist, this is how it begins. Something that was said. Nobody just becomes an atheist.

The evidence of the evidence of God is too real in time Yes, sir. To doubt the possibility of God's existence. Nobody just happens to be an atheist. No. It starts with a communication. It desire to know, first of all. Then they start reading strange books. Sir. Yes. Start living with strange people.

Yes, sir. And then the moment this starts happening, pictures start changing. Pictures start changing. It's not interesting thoughts to their mind. It's speaking to them. How are you even sure that if God... Really, God exists, who born God? Who created God? See, God is in heaven. Heaven is up.

I've scientists not been to heaven, to hope, to space. You didn't find anybody there. What's the difference between God and Spider Man? Just a fictional character in somebody's mind. Why? Because I cannot see... You can't... What what... If I cannot see it, I don't believe it. Yet you cannot see atoms.

Yet you cannot see radiation. You cannot see the frequencies of the wave. And you believe they exist because you are a scientist. What foolish people? Don't be angry with me. Although when I had a conversation with them, you know, as much as I have the power of God, I first like to humble them to make them see they're following their intelligence. Because many things that they believe are not founded in truth. We believe that gamma rays and nanorays exist, that there are quadrants of light that are invisible to the human eyes but exist. Yet you believe it. And nobody has asked you give me proof.

But you see the effect on natural entity. And because you see the effect, you conclude it is true. Are you with me? Yes, sir. How did the devil get them there? Pictures. Strange communications. Strange speakings. Who told you he said? And if anybody has gotten to a place where they are not confident in themselves, that they can achieve great things, that they can do big things, that great things can come out of them, it's a problem of pictures.

Right from growing up, they received communications that were not founded in the word of God. The Bible says that you should not be ignorant of the devices, the schemes of the enemies. One of the devices of the enemies is his ability to use words to change your pictures. Remember that when he came to Jesus, he did not come to come and fight. The guy knows that he's not so powerful. His only strength is in his ability to change your pictures. When he came to Jesus, he said turn this stone to bread. It was words he was using. It was words he was using. Turn these stones to bread.

Jump off from a hill. I'll give you everything. Give you everything. Whatever what else could you possibly desire? You see, words. The next time he... The Bible said when he left Jesus, he left for a little while. In other words, he was still gonna come back. But this time he didn't come back by himself. He came back in Peter.

And Jesus was declaring his dreams and his visions. Hear this. He said that the son of man would come and then would die. And Peter then said, father, master, die k. You will not die. You can never die. I insist you will not die. And Jesus recognized immediately that this was the same guy who spoke to me in the wilderness coming now using the emotions of Peter to communicate to me. God, Jesus did not say, Peter, be careful. He said, get thee behind me Satan.

How do you call your friend Satan? How do you call your disciple Satan? In other words, the words that he was speaking at that point was influenced. The words of men can be influenced by demons to change your pictures. Guess what Satan was after? His purpose, his dreams, his vision. It was when he declared his mandate that Satan rose. Yes, sir. Sir. And so you will not...

No. No. No. No. He said get thee behind me, Satan. It is wisdom to be able to recognize when Satan is speaking through men. When you stand speaking through songs, speaking through books, somebody just come to class and says, this course, since this school was existed, this school was created in 1965. Only one student has passed, finished with a distinction, and that was because I went on sabbatical leave. Now I'm back. And let's see which one of you we dare to have a distinction whilst I am here.

You see, you have to understand that there's a level of wickedness that human beings cannot have. It's not given to men to operate in certain certain degrees and extents of wickedness. But if you see a man operating in that manner, they are assisted by demons. If not, you wouldn't want your own child to be in university and later I will say it will fail. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So why would you come and tell people that you are... You have never met before? People came there to... And their first experience with you is you cannot pass.

That's a demon speaking in a man. You've not listened to that. Listen. The moment that thing alters your picture, you are filled. You are filled. You know, the assignment of the devil is to ensure that he uses communications to change your pictures. And peradventure, he cannot use communications. He then he then orchestrate occurrences around your life that will speak contrary to what God's word has said. And the assignment of the occurrences is to change your pictures. Get this.

So it would use words. Right? And it would use situations and occurrences. This is seen in scriptures. The Bible says that God came and showed a man pictures. I love God. He came and showed a man pictures, and he showered pictures on the man. What was the picture he saw? He saw the sun and the moon bowing down to him. My goodness.

Imagine you saw that. But many of you have seen bigger than that. I don't know about you, but I have. The sun and the moon bowing down to him. He saw the flocks of his brother bowing down to his own flocks, and he kept on seeing these awesome pictures. The first one that he saw, when he came and told his brothers and told his family members, what did they say? Even the father rebuked him. That's not... You see, are you saying that your brother... Your brothers will be slave to you?

What are you trying to communicate exactly? The father was the first one that rebuked him, And the assignment of the rebuke was to change his pictures. He say it's true. I'm the last born no. Other than he was. Are you with me? I don't even... I I think you already had last born then. You already had last brother. Say, ah, if there are some...

About six people that is following me, how will I be there? No. I can't. Come on now. That's the assignment. If any... If the son and the moon will bow to anybody, should he not be the first born? That was what the father was trying to communicate. The devil will fight your dreams and your visions, and he will fight it through men. Look at this.

This guy... Take a lesson from this guy. This guy did not go back and say, ah, it's true. Why would life homes that kind of a thing, sir? How is it possible that son and moon will bow to me? Me. He did not bow to Gideon. He did bow to Judah. He did not bow to... Uh-uh.

It's now me to bow for me. That's the assignment of the words. That's not what happened. He went and slept and saw bigger pictures. It means that's the response to the devil. When the devil tries to come for the pictures you have seen in God's word and he comes to tell you that it is not possible, then you'll see bigger ones. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, The devil thought that that that was enough to sell him out. Oh, no.

It wasn't. The guy went and saw bigger pictures. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Bigger pictures. When the devil saw that this guy did not come down... When the devil saw that words were not enough to alter his image, what did the devil do? Then the brother now ganged up. That's why he said situations and circumstances change to alter your pictures. They threw him...

The first thing that they did was to rent off his cloth of many colors. The cloth of many color that his father gifted him. They they rendered it toyed. They said, is this what is this what makes you think you are special? And they toyed. And the first thing... And the thought probably will calm down and start crying and realize that, ah, this is what makes you think you are special, then it is gone. The guy was still saying... He was still encouraging his brothers. He was like, is it what you...

We can have... I'm not... See, you know, the picture has not changed. Put him in a pit. Whilst he was in a pit, you saw him singing praise and worship. Say no. No. This guy. This guy, the picture has not changed. From tearing his coat of many colors, that one not changing.

Then they threw him in a pit thinking that that would... That's the final straw that would kill him. But what... In India, he was saying, oh, glory to God. The sun and the moon are bowing down to me. The sun and the moon are bowing down to me. The stars of heaven are bowing down to me. And they saw that he was rejoicing in the pit. They say, you know what? Let's let's turn him into a slave.

Let's sell him. In fact, they said let's kill him first. If you cannot get him to think the speechless, kill him. Then one of the brothers spoke and said, no. We can't kill our own brother. Let's sell him off to slavery. Let's see how the son of the moo will bow down to him as a slave. The Bible says, as he was being auctioned off as as he was being auctioned off as a slave. Those days, how they auctioned slave was to naked them. They naked them completely so that the person buying can have a complete picture of what he's buying.

And Potiphar came came, needed new slaves for his mansion, came and saw Joseph. And what the Bible says of Joseph as he was being unclean as a slave, the Bible says and Joseph was a successful man. He was a prosperous man for God was with him. In other words, even as he was standing naked, he wasn't depressed. The Bible says he was a prosperous man. This was this was the viewpoint that Joseph had of himself. This was the image Joseph had of himself. He was a prosperous man. And what made him prosperous was the fact that God was with him. In other words, I might have lost my cloth of many colors but I've not lost God.

What guarantees that the sun and the moon will bow down to me is not the cloth of many colors. It is God on my side. It is God with me. Whoo. Those who have knew, starting there as a slave, he was smiling. He was smiling, rejoicing in the Holy Ghost, thanking God thanking God. When he got to Potiphar's house, he was rejoicing. You would think that that picture would affect his... That situation rather would have affected his picture. Would think that the COVID is a slave.

He's he's now depressed. He's now sorrowful. He's now frustrated because his plans have not happened. You would think that he would disbelieve what God has told him. He still held God in high esteem so much so he got there was serving faithfully. Potiphar was promoting him. The wife of Potiphar came and said, you see him. He said, can I do this thing and sin against? Not Potiphar. The Lord, my God.

The God that watched you as they were putting you inside pit. The God that watched you as they were selling you over as a slave for menial change, money that cannot even last that night. Is that how much... Is that how valuable your father... Your your brother has considered you? They sold him for a ridiculous amount just to show him how useless he was. At least make some profit over the guy. No. He said, let's useless him. No.

He said, how can I do this and sin against the Lord my God? In other words, I still hold this God in high esteem. I still honor and reverence this God. I do not hold God responsible for my circumstances. That means the picture has not changed. You know what somebody would do? Say, God, what was God looking? Oh, was God looking when my mother died? Esther's mother died. Her father died.

But the picture has not changed. The loss of a loved one is not the reason for offense. There is no thing that can happen around you that should be powerful enough to all tie your pictures. Because COVID had made you been paid. Somebody is crying and saying, God, I don't know what I would do. Go and do anything you want to do. It does not change God from being the king of things and lord of lords. He's still the monarch of Zion. Do you think God is moved by threats? Say, God, if you don't do this thing for me, I don't know what I would do.

What what? You... Ah ah, Joel. Joel. Help me. You really think God left the eternal destiny of people to their choice and you think he's moved by traits. Say hell or heaven is your choice. Come on now. Believers have been so ill informed, so ill trained that we lack capacity when we go through storms. You see, you have caused men to ride over our heads.

You have taken us through the fire and through the water, but you have brought us to a wealthy place. It means even whilst men were climbing over our head, we had a picture of where we're going. The Bible never promised once that the journey of a believer will be a smooth road, but he said, I will be with you. The guarantee a believer has is the I will be with you of God. And I believe I must know that regardless of whatever might happen, my pictures will never change. I believe in what God has told me, and the source of my picture must be God himself, Not society, not experience, not television, not novels, not social media, not anything, but God. What do I believe? Have you noticed that every time God came to people, he would always tell them things about themselves that were a different thing from their current reality? It is constant everywhere in scripture. The first thing he does is not to change that reality, to make them believe.

You will think God will help their faith and say, okay. Let me let me just change this thing for you. It will help you believe at least. No. Inside barrenness, God's called Abraham Abraham from exalted father to father of many nations, and God not give him a child so that he will believe. No. The moment the picture changed, the Bible says Abraham believed God and then it was counted onto him for righteousness. It was after then a child came. So what delayed the coming of the child? It's not the sovereignty of God.

It's that the pictures he had was too small. He wasn't seeing what God had said. So when Sarah brought another option, the reason why he could oblige to the option was because the pictures are... That God told him, I have not yet solidified. So when prince Sarah came and said, ah, you know, since God is delaying in his promise, why can't you test this one and see? The guy could oblige because the pictures in his heart were not strong. And so when he told God that the one that you gave me would be my son, God said, no. No. No. No.

No. No. That's not your son. That's not your son. I don't consider that one as your son. And truly, God does not. Because when God came to him in Genesis, God told him, take your son, your only son, whom thou lovest. But I thought he had two sons. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

The first one was never inside God's picture, never inside God's image, never inside God... What... Do you get my point? Yes, sir. Abraham never really saw what God had promised. So when he was complaining, God now said, come outside. Let me try and help you. Count the stars. Count the stars. And Abraham started counting.

You say, this is a useless one. I can't count this thing. He says, that is how your descendants shall be. This... That shall come from you. Ah. He said, okay. God took him to the seashore and said, count the sands. He said, how do we even start counting a particular sand? How do you count sand?

And God told him, asked... This is how your descendants shall be. A moment he saw it, he says, I believe you, Jesus. I believe you. I believe you. It was upon believing God that it was counted onto him for righteousness. Remember that God would not give anything to Abraham that his eyes had not seen, even a child. Even a child. Fourth, it was the land. God told him as far as your eyes can see.

Can't you see how particular God is about sight? When Lot left Abraham, this was what God told him, as far as your eyes can see. So Abraham's responsibility... Many of you think Abraham now looked and looked like this. No. Abraham shut his eyes and saw and saw beyond what his eyes could see. Because he knows if I see with my physical eyes, I'll be limited. It will get to a point I won't see again. It is rather... I would rather close my eyes and see because you see as far as your eyes can see.

You think Abraham is called the father of faith because he walked by sight? We walked by faith, not by sight. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. If he walked by sight, there was no reason calling him father of faith. What did he see? I tell you, he did not see just as far as physical eyes can see you. He shut his eyes and he was seen.

So much so, what he saw was attested off by Melchizedek. When he came, Melchizedek now said, blessed be Abraham, possessor of heaven and earth. That's what he saw. That's what the guy saw. He saw heavens. He saw earth. He says, far you see you see, there are some things that when God tells you, he's open check. You have to confirm. God, are you really saying this thing? Things like whatsoever a man ask.

God, are you sure? That whatever I ask, open check, blank check. God, you be careful. I just say what so... Whatsoever. And then you will put boundary there. I was kind of open check God gave Abraham. He said, as far as your eyes can see. It means as far as your eyes can see within Africa and Europe. As far as your eyes can see.

As can I give the nations to you, oh God, That's the cry of my heart? Distant shows in the highland will sing. Listen. Listen. As far as your eyes can see. So when I ask you, what do you see? You have to... That's why that's why when God when God... Do you know that when God came in Genesis one, God said that, let them have dominion. God said, let them.

God didn't select us. When God said let them, he removed himself from the equation of dominion. So that in any time God wants to do anything on earth, he would need man's permission. That's why we pray. Prayer is earthly allowance for heavenly intervention. The heavens of heaven is the Lord. Psalm one one five. The earth has he given to the sons of men. So in that earth he has given, how far can you see? Some people even saw above the earth he gave.

You hear me? So because God could not just do anything, the grounds in Sodom and Gomorrah was crying to God because of the iniquity of the people of Sodom and God decided to come and see. And if the claims of the ground were true, then God would judge Sodom and Gomorrah. Whilst the emissaries that should prosecute that council was was deployed, Then they go to the atrium and realized that Sodom and Gomorrah was amongst what Abraham saw. God. What now say, we we can't do anything there. Without telling my friend, Abraham. Because when I told him as far as you guys could see, Sodom was part of the real estate that he... Have you not read your bible? Whatsoever you lose on earth Yes.

Will be lose in heaven. The word lose means permit. It means halal. So God came to Abraham. Abraham now said, are you not the just? Is the God of the most high not a just God? Will he judge the righteous unjustly? God said no. No. Okay.

If that is so, what if there are 50 righteous men in Sodom? Abraham was negotiating because this is my real estate you want to go and act on. I have some people in that estate. Some of them... Some people will some people will jack by and go to Europe. Some of us will close our eyes. Whilst whilst they are walking and do not kind of things, surviving. When we get there, we'll get there as kings. We organize crusades that will help their lives. Because when when the wilderness we saw, we saw the pictures were strong and there were many situations and circumstances that attempted to take away what we saw, but we insisted that God is not a man that he should lie.

Mind that the son of man that he should repent. If he has said it, then he said it because he will do it. Bible says God is able to do. The ability of God is not in doubt. The ability of God is not in doubt. For God is able to do In Habakkuk chapter two, the prophet said, God told him write the vision. Make it plain that he may run and read it. Pictures. Write the vision. In verse one, it says, I will wait upon the Lord and set me upon my torah to watch and to see what he would say to me.

That God is saying it, but he's seeing it. Verse one, that's what it says. Can you can you... And we watch to see what he will say. In other words, when God says, you see. He would have said to watch to hear what he would say. That would have been more grammatically accurate, but that God speaks in pictures. If I tell you a black dog beat me yesterday, what you would think of is a black dog, not b l a c k p o g. To watch to see what he would say to me and once I find what he says, he says write the vision. Make it plain that he may run that reads it.

In verse three, he now goes to speak a very important warning. He says, for the vision is yet for an appointed time. You know why this is important? Because whilst you have seen the picture, it might look as though the picture is staring to find expression. Circumstances and situation might come and test your patience. The devil might come and say if it is true that what you saw will happen, why is it three years and does not happen? If it is so, then how can it be true? How can it be true? You really think you would have a husband? God didn't just show me a husband.

God showed me a happy home. Do you really think you would get a good job? Oh, I didn't just see a good job. I saw myself working the highest of office. You you you... 500 members will come. I didn't see 500 members. I saw the nations of the world coming to me. These are the pictures that we see. And it says that, listen, for the vision is yet for an appointed time.

But at the end, it will speak. Look at this. At the end, it will speak. He says, though it's not lie. Though it carries... Do what? Blessed lies. This is where I'm going. Do what? Blessed lies.

Many people have seen this, and they've interpreted waits for it as do nothing and wait. As you have seen the pictures. Right? Oh, it will happen. There's an appointed time. Oh, now I'll be waiting. Say a prophetic word comes, A body's lifting you, and then you receive it, and then you say, What are you doing about that? He said, I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting.

International offers are holding onto you, and then you receive it. So what are you doing about this? I'm waiting. I'm just waiting. I'm just waiting. You know, prophet has spoken that, you know, I'm I'm waiting because the vision is at an appointed time. That's not how we wait for it. That's not how we wait for it. How do we wait for it? It's in verse two.

The Bible says, write the vision, make it plain that he may run that reads it. In other words, you are waiting by running. Yes, sir. Because verse three says wait, but verse two says run. It means your running can be an act of waiting. So whilst you are waiting, don't do any. Don't just do nothing. Whilst you are waiting, you are starting a church. What is the vision? Nations are coming.

But I will not wait in my room and expect nations to come. I will run. I'm going for evangelism. I'm going for outreach. I'm going for all kind of things because God has told me that a vision is coming. I will experience all kinds of disappointment on the way, but I will not allow my pictures changed. The devil might come to me and use men to try to to to try to discourage my vision, but I will not allow the discouragement of men to get to me. My pictures will remain the same. Yes, sir. Sir.

Sir. My pictures will remain the same. Because if your picture... The bible says, as a man thinks in his heart, the pictures that a man has in his heart, so is he. It does not say as God wants a man to be, so is he. In other words, your thinking as a man must align with what God wants you to be for you to be it. Because that God wills it is not a guarantee it will happen. There are many things that God willed in scriptures that did not happen. I hope you know this. There are many things God wanted to do in scriptures.

There are many things God said in scriptures that did not happen. For example, God told Moses, you will take the nation of Israel out of Egypt into the promised land. God never told him you will take them to the middle and die. God told him you will you will start and you will finish. Did it happen like that? No. Just because God has said does not mean that it will automatically happen like that. The Bible says that there is work to do as a man to bring into experience what God has said. The Bible says, ask ye for rain in the time of the little rain. You will think that when it's time for rain, rain will fall.

It means that God can tell you that it is your time, means you start contending for it. You start speaking words for it. This thing must manifest. Listen, I was praying and I told my workers, I said, listen, a time comes and it is near when people will come from all parts of the world and there will be no space for people to sit down. They will climb upon fences. They will they will sit upon roofs because they realize the council that comes from the mouth of God. I started seeing this six to seven years ago when this ministry had not even started. This began five years ago. Before five years, we've been we've been declaring, we've been speaking, we've been communicating. I wanted to see the power of God at work in my life, and I wanted to see it manifest so strongly.

And I would go for meetings up until this moment, and I would not see any remarkable results especially as I wanted, but I did not stop seeing. I remember a meeting I was invited to in a fellowship. I went to the mountain to pray and fast for three days because I had pictures in my heart as to what should have... As to what should happen. I went for that meeting, breezed not even blow. Nothing happened. People were just looking at me. When I was done shouting and screaming, they started clapping. I said, is not what I saw. What I saw, the hand that is clapping should not even be moving.

From that time ends forth, this was years ago, I would go to chapel. I'm talking about 2014, 2015. I would go to chapel to go and pray, I can pray myself and my friends. I will say, I'm seeing a lady. Your name is Sarah. Whilst I'm praying, there's nobody there. I'm just praying for pictures. Oh, there are one thousand five hundred and five hundred and seventy five people here. I see the power of God coming upon you. Help them.

Ushers, help them. There's a woman on the wheelchair. I'm seeing the power of God coming upon you, and you are standing up doing what you could not do before. Well, as these pictures are coming, I'm seeing it. Listen, prayer is infusing power to this... To the pictures. Prayer. What prayer is doing is infusing power to the pictures. First time I went for a meeting and the power of God broke out. I just remember...

I got there and I remembered all the pictures I've been seeing. I was I was... There were thoughts of there were thoughts of, what if you say that there are toxic people here, are not here? What if you say that asthma is being ill and not here? What if you say tomorrow that is like, I'm here? What if you say if you have... If you are eating your body, take yourself, come on, and nobody comes out out of a crowd of people? The thoughts were coming as I was holding my microphone. They were they were rushing into my head, but the pictures in themselves are not enough. That's why we pray.

We pray to generate power. Power is what animates the pictures. Power is what brings life to the pictures. Power is what births the pictures. In that moment, there was an energy that did not come from me. I declared on top of my voice, there are 30... I have not finished speaking. The power of God are eating people from the overflow. From the overflow. It was it was terrific.

When it when it was time for healings, we could not finish taking all testimonies. Sights were corrected. I remember a lady that had crossed eyes. Her eyes became straight. Two months is appearing. It was the first time I was declaring, but pictures had incubated. Pictures, they had so incubate that when I gave expression through my voice, it was as though it was like a dam of river that it opened the gates. And the water has been pushing the walls, pushing the gates. Oh, I see the pictures. I see the pictures of greatness.

When God comes to any man, what he does is to infuse pictures in your heart. It shall come to pass in the last days, I will power my spirit upon all flesh. My sons and daughters will see will grow. My old men will dream dreams. Young men will see visions. Sons and daughters will prophesy. These are all speaking of pictures that you will see visions. You will dream dreams. There are things that God will show you. Hear me?

Hear me? There was no apostolic voice around me when I was growing in Christ in two thousand and thirteen, twelve, fourteen. There were no apostolic voices in my own region, in my own state that I could submit myself to to be mentored and discipled, But I yearned to be led. I earned I earned for more of God. I wanted something that was more than what I was seeing around me. The only voices then were were in far places, and I I got access to one of them. Someone put the message on my phone, the same thing I'm telling you to do to help people. I don't know how, but I just found the message on my phone. I started listening to it. The first time I listened, I went out straight under the power.

Straight under the power. That became the first encounter I've ever had. Up until then, I wanted to be a comedian. I knew I had a call. But every pastor that I have seen, none of them, I didn't desire the results. There was no motivation to be a pastor by the pastor that I have seen. Yes, sir. So it wasn't something I wanted to pursue. When I was listening to a man of God who I did not know, who I've not seen before, who I've not who I've never heard of and power struck me where I was seen, I said if I will ever be a man of God, this is what I would be. There was a reference and there was a picture.

Yes, sir. Yes. And so I would consume the man of God's message whilst I was growing. And God, listen, I would hear the man saying that he was somewhere in Zaria then. I would hear the man saying, a time is coming. A time is coming. A time is coming. When nations of the world will travel from all ends of the earth, the wells we have dug will reach the nations. People will be tested and they will drink from us. Nothing else will satisfy them until they come here.

They will come from all around the world and we will go to them. I see the flag of this ministry in Europe, in Canada, in thousand and eleven. I heard the man saying this, thousand and eleven. And I would listen, and I would pray, I would declare, I would speak. When I see the man doing the same things that he said he would do It makes me realize that the things we see are spiritual. The things we see are not... The things we... Yeah. I'm not joking. I'm not joking.

I believe in the I believe I believe the word of God with my life. If I am on my sick bed, my dying breath will be by his stripes I am healed. I believe the word of God that much so. I tell you. I tell you. I don't know with the word of God as story books. When I open the pages of scripture, light floods my heart. I see possibilities in scripture that I would do one day even now. So when I read with great power, gave the apostles witness. I don't see the apostles.

I see Emmanuel Bolivar's affair with great power. The the shadow of Peter healing the sick. I don't see the shadow of Peter. I see apostle Emmanuel Bolivar's affair, but I will come and possibilities around my life. I saw these things. I saw these things. I saw these things. I was somewhere somewhere in my house over there years ago. If it's me, I face you. And I was praying in my room, and I saw a vision.

While I was praying, And I saw a vision. I saw an angel come to me, and the angel introduced himself as the angel of sounds. He stretched his hand and I saw musical notes leaving him and entering me. In that vision, was singing and as I sang, I saw light coming out of my mouth. I saw a tree and light was breaking out of the tree. Light was breaking out of the tree. I started incubating these pictures. I still want... I said I will raise my voice to sing, and I will not encourage people with my words. It it won't be a melodious voice alone.

It will be a portal that drives men into an encounter. The Bible says that when Elijah wanted to prophesy, he told them get me a minstrel. And as the minstrel raised his sound to heaven, the Bible says the hand of God came upon him. I told myself many years ago, as I lift my sound to heaven, the hand of God will come upon men. Men will enter into the ordinations. I saw the pictures. I saw the pictures. God told me your sound is one of your weapons. I saw the pictures. I was praying in chapel.

Still on this sound matter, I was praying in chapel and God told me I saw a rock. I was beside the rock and I was singing. Who means songs of worship? Who means songs of fellowship? And the Holy Spirit told me, you will release your sound and hard grounds will break. As the holy spirit told me this, I saw the rock that was beside me shattering to pieces. Shattering to pieces. I said, what is this? He said again, you will release your sound and hard grounds will break. I will never go into any territory no matter how stubborn the people are.

I only need to release my sound. These are pictures I have seen. These are pictures I have seen. I don't need anybody to steer the ground for me or prepare the atmosphere for me. I'm the atmosphere. I prepare a place for myself. These are pictures I have seen. These pictures enforces confidence in us. It affects the way we speak. It affects how we carry ourselves.

It affects how we present ourselves to the world. Son of man, what seest thou? What seest thou? Oh, I know what I see. I know what I see. I've seen it over and over again. Your sons and daughters will come from afar. They will come with silver and gold. The ships of Tash will bring your children from the East, from the North, from the West to the South. It shall come to pass in that day that I will roar like a lion.

And as I roar, your children will come from the East. They will come from the South. They will come from the West. You will say on that day, who has raised them for me? Who has birthed them for me? Where are they coming from? I will fill your mouth with wonders. Say it the Lord of hosts. I saw these things in scripture. A little one will become a thousand.

A small one, a great nation. I saw this thing in scriptures. I know even though I'm little now, I cannot be small. Even though I'm small now, I cannot hence small. For a little one shall become a thousand. A small one shall become a great nation. No longer shall you be called forsaken. I will change your name. You shall be called Efzibah. You shall be called Bula.

The beauty of God. I saw this in picture. I will call your name the sort out ones. The sort out ones. You will be in high demand. You are the one they will resort to. I saw these things in scriptures. I knew from there that small enough is not my portion. I can never be small. Hear me?

Hear me? Hear me? When I tell people that I cannot be small, I'm not just speaking in cliches. I'm not saying things I've heard men of God say. It's not a cliche. I'm telling you what we have seen. What we have seen. Hear me? The people who are doing great things in this ministry now, many of them came to me when they were nothing. Nothing.

Nothing. Some of them in about nine a classroom, and I was telling them it would be great. And they were foolish enough to believe it with not... With no money in their pockets, with nothing around them, foolish enough to believe that it would be great. Oh God. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Have your seat.

Have your seat. When we are under the tree, the pictures never changed. I tell you. I tell you, when we are 10, the the pictures never changed. When we're 30, the pictures never changed. It was the same thing, the same thing, the same thing I was saying then is what I'm saying now. When you did not look as though it will happen, listen, the Bible says it does not yet appear what we shall be like. It does not yet appear. But we believe it so strongly. We know more than we know our names.

Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? As the heavens are far from the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways. And my thoughts than your thoughts. And my thoughts from your thoughts. Listen. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me.

Because I want to instruct us so it is too early to allow for the volatility of the waters. The first picture that a man must have is the picture of his identity, a picture of himself. A picture of his identity, a picture of himself. We live in an age where identity is very fluid, shaped by social media, cultural trends, personal experiences, But as believers, our identity is rooted in something far more profound, far more enduring. Our identity is in Christ Jesus. The question is, what picture of ourselves do we carry? Do we see ourselves as defeated? Do we see ourselves as unworthy? Do we see ourselves as limited? Or do we see ourselves as victorious, loved, empowered by God?

The perspective we have of ourselves is crucial crucial because it determines how we function in every area of your life. Without the right perspective of your identity, you can never do anything great. And the first attack of the enemy is an attack against a man's identity. If the enemy is able to change the picture of your identity in Christ, he has affected your becoming anything great. That was the strategy that the devil used for Eve. It was a change in how they saw themselves. The attack of the enemy was fired at their identity. The picture they had of themselves in Christ because God told them in Genesis one verse 26, let us make man in our own image. How? After our own likeness.

In other words, how God made man was half by his likeness, half by his image. But the devil came and told Heath that God know that in the day you will eat this fruit, you will be like God. Were they not already like God? The crisis was a crisis of identity. The crisis was a crisis of identity. These people were already in the image of God. These people were already like God. The devil was able to make them believe that what they have already attained, they had to work to get it. That's what the devil is still doing. He makes your identity performance based instead of status based.

It makes you feel as though if you have not done so and so and so and so God has not accepted you. You want God to accept you, then why don't you pray for two hours yesterday? There are people who have a consistent prayer life but their act is always always always condemning them. And the guy wants to read to pass the exam, he feels I've not prayed enough. I've not prayed enough because of the kind of messages he has heard that has altered his perspective that God is not happy with me. God is not happy with me. Don't get me wrong. There are times when the burdens of the spirit come to pray and then we do so. I've taught you this. Stenazo.

Stenazo. The prompting of the spirit to pray. The non cognitive speakings of the spirit. I've taught you this. Get my message as many as I laid. But there are people that just feel just feel constantly every day as though they've not done enough. I'm not talking about a state of hunger that makes you want more and more of Jesus. No. I'm talking about people that feel as though nothing nothing they've ever... Nothing they can ever do is enough.

How do you know people like this? They would always say that the word is stopping them from stepping out in ministry, in business, in life is because they've not fasted enough. They've not prayed enough. They've not done this enough because they will ask... They see them to think that when you will be ready is when you have fulfilled all the status that God has laid down for you, and then God will not accept you. That's a lie of the devil. It makes your status performance based. He says, if you don't do this, you will not be like God. God does not accept you based on performance. He accept you based on the blood that was shed on the cross.

The devil makes people believe otherwise. So if you don't wear earrings, if you don't wear trousers, if you don't wear this, you are not accepted by God oh. It's a problem of identity. It's not even a matter of those things. It's making you believe that what will make you walk your way to the heart of a loving God is the ring you wear or the one you don't wear. And there are still people that still believe this till today, that they come around us and they say that, oh, women are not wearing scarf. They say, my God, these people don't love God. That woman is in a constant state of condemnation. She will never feel as though she's enough. She will always doubt even at salvation.

And she will always check, am I am I safe? Every alter cause, she will come for it because she's not sure. She just knows that at least one one one of them will work. The devil has made you self doubt your identity. It makes you feel as though you are a sinner that God is angry with constantly trying to please a God that has forgiven your sins. If it's your sins and your iniquity, will remember no more. I will remember no more. As in the days of Noah, so have I swore that will never count your sins against you. Blessed is the man who the Lord does not impute iniquity. Does not impute iniquity.

How many believer knows that I'm loved by God? This is your identity. It's not a matter of what you do or what you don't do. It's your identity. Do you remember that what helped Joseph was a realization of his identity. The bible said that as he was being offered up as a slave, the bible says that he was naked right there, but God was with him. He was successful. He was prosperous. He had no cars. He had no houses.

He had no... He was a slave and the bible calls him prosperous. But you think is until you get a car, you are prosperous. You think is until you get a house, you are prosperous. And the devil puts you in an endless rat race to pursue things God can give you. Joseph knew what made me prosperous. What makes me prosperous? What makes me successful is my identity. The fact that I know that God is with me. Everything that I need to realize the pictures God has shown me will eventually come to pass.

I don't need to pursue anything. I stay on the path God has laid for me. And as I begin to exercise myself in that path, then the things that I've seen will come to pass. I will not be in pursuit of what men pursue for to try and be successful. My definition of success is not according to how many things I can attain. It is always with me. So the bible says God was with him. He was prosperous. God was with... I knew I was blessed when I had no money.

Whether there's money in my account or not, there's nothing left for us. I'm a blessed man. If you can ever be sorrowful because there's no money in your account, it is an it's an attack against your identity. It means you have attached your relevance to what you have. You have attached relevance to what you can see. So when there's no money, Some of us are excited. The pause says I know how to abound and abase. Some of us, our joy is constant, always constant. The bible says with joy shall you draw from the wells of salvation. How much has the devil deceived you to think that just because you saw your result and it wasn't as you expected meant that you have failed.

It's an onslaught against your identity. Know that many of the situations you experience is not a thing with the situation itself. It's an attack against your identity, the picture of yourself you have. Because the moment the devil gets you to change those pictures, are done for. Am I speaking too fast? I'm speaking too fast. That's the proof I'm speaking too fast. That's that's the proof I'm speaking too fast. So I will I will tone it down. I will tone it down.

Don't worry. Don't worry. Don't worry. I have a lot of things to say. That's why I'm going very fast. Are you with me? Let's be slow. There are many believers who who just believe they are defeated in life, who believe they are unworthy of good things. And they... That's the picture of themselves that they have.

My God. I expect favor every day. Every day. Every day. Every day. Don't attach your worth to material things. The bible says the things which are seen are temporal. That means that every time you attach your worth to what is seen, your worth will always be temporal. That means that you will feel worthy today, unworthy tomorrow. It will always be temporal.

By time you pass your test, will feel as though you are brilliant. By the you don't, you're nothing. Come on now. Realize that nothing should be able to alter the picture of yourself you have, of your identity from God's word. Listen, everywhere in the book of John, you will read the bible referring to John as John the beloved. The one whom God loved. The beloved of God. Did you see all those places in scriptures? Yes sir. The beloved of God.

Do you know this was a revelation of his identity? John was the one that called himself beloved. That is why in Matthew, he's not called beloved. In Luke, he's not called beloved. In Mark, not called beloved. The only book where he's called beloved is the one he wrote. So he will say John, the beloved of God. John, the one whom Jesus loved. John, the disciple whom Jesus loved. It shows you that there are...

The remaining disciple did not seem like that, but he saw himself as such. And you know that it is in his book you learn love the most. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. If any man believes in him, he will not perish but have everlasting life. In the book of first John, the bible says, God is love. And if any man had not love, he knoweth not God. This guy was an apostle of love. He had a revelation of his status before the master. He knew he wasn't trying to do anything to be to be... To please God.

He knew he was beloved of God. And that is why he was the only one who didn't die in my dad's death. They put him inside boiling oil. He could not die. What's what sustained him? What what kept him alive? He knew. Listen. Listen. I'm the beloved of God.

The Bible says, these things are right unto you that you may know. These things are right onto you that you may know that you have eternal life. It was John that wrote it. The things he wrote were a capture of his revelations. He showed you why he could not die. They tried... They put him inside the ocean to make him drown. He became an aquatic animal. He couldn't die. They came back three days after and they said he was still living.

They banished the only... The closest thing they could do is to banish him into the Isle Of Patmos. The bible says that I was in the spirit on the last day and I saw. And the one whom he loved appeared to him. He said, John, I am Alpha Omega. Let me reintroduce myself to you. When you knew me, I was Jesus of Nazareth. Now I've been exalted. I'm no longer of Nazareth. I'm now Jesus Alpha Omega.

I am he that holds the key of Hades. Come. Let me show you the things that is to come. It pays to know that you are loved. It's an identity. I know I'm the one that is loved by God. I'm loved by God. When you notice what people say to you to spite you will not count. It won't matter. Listen.

If you are a lady, this is the source of your self esteem. You must know that you are loved. You must know that you are loved. Loved by IE. Do you know that it's a powerful identity to know that I'm the I'm the son of the monarch of Zion? How many of you... Let them not ask you this question. Just imagine it. Just imagine it. That your father were to be an influential man, say a president or a CEO or an MD of a bank.

Do you know that there is a way it has teased to you? Then there are there are children that misbehave in school because they know who their father is. And they threaten anybody that I would I will report you to my father. I will report you to my father. It means the identity of the child is inched on who his father is. He knows I'm the son of my father. How much more when you know the monarch of Zion is your father? Go and read the one that call that that call himself father. The bible says that the earth is his footstool. The heaven does not contain him.

It says it says the earth and the fullness thereof belongs to him. And he says you are my son. Look at the look at the wealth of the resources that is present to the one that calls himself your father. How how then can I be poor? How then can I lack? He said he said the riches are mine. The silver is mine. The gold is mine. That's what my father says. He said the the cattle on a thousand hills are mine.

He lays possession to material things. So when I tell people that God wants you to be blessed, God wants you to have money, they say I'm being material. God is material then. Because God said the silver is mine. The gold is mine. And because it belongs to my father, it belongs to me. That's why I'm not threatened by what people say. The narrative of people don't move me. I'm secured in this knowledge. I have a picture and healthy image of who I am in Christ.

I see myself through the lens of God, through the eyes of God. I don't call myself what God hasn't called me. If I name myself any name, it is because I've heard God call me that name. I'm the light of the world. A city set on the hill that cannot be hidden. I'm the salt of the head. I'm a witness of truth. I'm a minister. I'm a flame of fire. This is who I am.

This is the picture I see. We are the chosen Listen, because I know who I am, I'm walking in power. Because I know who I am, I'm working in victory. Because I know who I am, I live a life of favor. Listen. Listen. Listen. All of this is a my knowing who I am. It means if I don't know this, there's no power for me. If I don't know this, there's no favor for me.

If I don't know this, I'll be dead in life. The devil will take what belongs to me. The throne I should sit on, The devil will take it from me. The bible says they know not. Neither do they understand. They walk on in darkness. All the foundation of this earth are out of course. Why don't they know that you are God's and you are children of the most high God? And because they don't know that they are God's, they walk on in darkness. They die like mere men.

When I know that I'm a God, I'm not afraid of death. I know who I am. Listen. Listen. I live a life of favor. The Bible says that the child grew and had favor with God and with man. If I'm a child of God, I have found favor with God. I can... Listen. No man can reject me.

Any offer I go for, I receive it. Whenever my name is put, I get it. I know who I am. Don't you understand this? Nothing of mine can fail. Nothing of mine and nothing of mine can fail. I start a ministry. You say, let's give him time. Let give give me time. Me time.

Give me time. It would only ever get bigger. It will only ever get larger. Yes. They're expecting me to fail. Don't you know who my father is? Listen. Before I fall, they will get me. The bible says that whilst Peter was walking on the waters and his picture changed, even when his picture changed and he stopped seeing Jesus and started seeing the waters, the father was still there to hold his hand and say, know I I know you are still learning, but that's why you are my son. Whilst you are learning, I will hold you up.

For when you hold my hand, I shall not be afraid of the terror by night nor of the hero that flies by day nor of the pestilence that works in darkness nor of the destruction that lays waste at noon day. Hear me? Hear me? I believe this. I believe this. I know what I represent. I know what God has invested in me. Hear me. Hear me. Listen.

Listen. Why do you look down on yourself? The bible says God has put these treasures in earthen vessels. The treasure is in heaven vessels, not in golden vessels, not in silver vessels. They are made of earth. Yet God trust the vessel enough to invest his treasure there. What makes you think you are not worthy? You are asking for there's something in you. You are asking for something in you. Hear me?

Hear me? Hear me? When I read scriptures, I don't read as the stories that happen to men. I read as the stories written about my life. This is how your pictures change. Hear me? Listen to me. If they've called you unworthy, if they've called you failure, if whatever... Listen, there are some children that... But just because just because maybe they saw you kissing a guy in secondary school, then everybody labeled you a prostitute.

And since that day in sports, you did not think anything good can come out of your life. You felt that your body was an object to be used because people called you names. People called you names. Listen, that's a wrong picture. The devil has been able to change your picture. The devil has been able to change your picture. Don't allow the devil to change your picture. There are people that did worse things in scripture, but they knew who they were. The bible said, listen, there was no one who committed more crimes than David. Even the offenses of Saul were not as much as that of David.

If you kill me, David said, can the stones praise you? Only someone that knows who he is speaks like that. There is authority on the lips of a man that knows who he is. Hear me? Hear me? When the centurion met Jesus and Jesus told him, let's go to your house to heal your servant. Centurion said, you don't need to come to my house. Just speak a word. For I'm also a man under authority. And because I know I am under authority, I said to one, go and he goes.

I said to another, come and he comes. In other words, my knowledge of who I am makes me speak and expect results. I've studied how you do miracles. You tell demons go and they go. It must be because you are also of the authority. Just speak a word. It means when you know who you are, you can speak. You can speak. I can't be rejected. I go and I go with boldness to meet with kings.

I don't have inferiority complex. I can't be thinking that somebody is more than me. No. There's no there's no mate in this kingdom. I stand in my office unmoved and unfeasured. People's results are not competitive. I'm not envious of people's results. I know I've seen what God has promised me. People that are envious are those who have not seen their promise. I've seen a promise.

Hear me. If you find out that you are very envious, check your heart. Your pictures are wrong. Your pictures are wrong. There are women who are ashamed in their own bodies. Who are ashamed in their own bodies. They don't think they are beautiful. They don't think they are pretty. Come on now. You are wonderful and fearfully gay.

Listen. Listen. These things are in scripture for a reason. If it... If if if the possibility of you doubt in how you were made would not exist, it would not have been there that you are wonderfully made. It's because the devil... God knows that it it would be one of the lies of the devil to make you believe of me is wrong with your facial configuration. Something is wrong with your physique, something is wrong with how you appear, and then the devil will come and tell you, hey, look, if only you had that kind of body that that girl has, if only you had more of this and more of that. What is happening is a changing picture. Come on now.

Come on now. Who told you nobody will marry you? Who told you that useless guy is the only one for you? Come on now. There are people that come on, they are ashamed and afraid to leave useless relationships because they feel if I leave this useless guy now, who will marry me again? Come on now. There are kings in Zion waiting for queens. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me?

Hear me? Don't be afraid to leave a useless relationship. Don't be afraid to do so. They are, oh, oh, now? Oh, now? Oh, now? Come on. Come on. Come on. Even prophets marry the scriptures.

Go and read your bible. God told his prophet to marry a prostitute. What do you think you could ever have done that would have made God come on now? Listen, the bible says when God came to Abraham in the book of Genesis, when God came to Abraham, God told Abraham that by this time next year, I'll come to time of life, Sarah will concede. Sarah was so in the kitchen conversation and when she heard it, she laughed. The laugh was not a laughter of faith. It was a laughter of unbelief and doubt. It was a laughter of... Is it mean that... Is it me is it me it me that will give birth to a child?

That was laughter that Sarah laughed. She'd not only now laughed. They now came to him and said, ah, you laugh? God was the one that asked to. He said, no. I did not lie. To God, I did not laugh. You... He's wanting to have unbelief. He wanted him to lie to God.

Lying is in rank. Does that look like a picture of somebody with faith? But in Hebrews 11, the Bible says, and through faith, Sarah received strength to conceive. Where where where did the faith? Go back to that story and try to find where the faith was. In other words, the writer of Genesis wrote from an historical perspective. The writer of Genesis wrote what happened. The writer of Hebrews wrote from a revelational perspective. The writer of Hebrews wrote how it is now. Genesis is what happened.

In other words, at some point after that conversation, Sarah might have believed. And the moment Sarah believed, the episode of her unbelief was wiped clean. So much so when the one writing Hebrews was recounting the story, he didn't even see anywhere the woman had unbelief. So what do you think? You you say, sir, I've had I've had seven abortions. I don't think God can use me anymore. I was told that my womb is lost and God will put another one there. A man of God... The lady came to a man of God and she was deep into condemnation. She had given herself into severe prostitution.

She had useless herself completely because he felt nothing good can come out of our our life again. The woman, the man of God prayed for her, shared the gospel with her, shared the life of God with her. She was crying and weeping saying, you mean God can really love somebody like me? He said he said, no. God cannot. God has loved you. Look at that. He counted it not robbery to let go of his dignity, let go of his office, let go of his assignment, let go of his glory just to save humanity. Do you know the extent of that sacrifice and you feel that God cannot come on now? Don't insult his sacrifice by thinking that your sin is the greatest of all.

It's an insult to his sacrifice. Understand that I'm loved by God. Have a right picture of your identity in Christ. When Gideon was running away from the Midianites, God did not come and ask him, why are you running? Look at you. Don't you know what I've called you? No. God came and said, mighty man of valor. The first thing God told him was his identity. Mighty man of valor.

Even though he was running, he's sitting on the door. Was a coward running away. But when God came to him, God said, mighty man of valor. If only I can change your picture, then what I can do with your life is mercy. When God came to Mary, God told him thou art highly favored amongst women. Do you know what that life will sentence her into? It will sentence her into a life of shame and reproach because people were... Do you know, all Pam was about to divorce her. Joseph was looking for a quiet way to let her go without embarrassing her until he had a dream. How does she explain to people that before your marriage was consummated, you are you are pregnant?

What will you tell them? Who did you mean say I met an angel? Say a ghost appeared to me. Who would believe that? People would discuss I in the market square. They will say, look at that. That's him, fool. I cannot even wait for an old man. They were already on engagement. And everybody was talking about, Yet, how did...

Why was she introduced? That was highly favored amongst women. That was highly favored amongst women. That was highly favored amongst women. These are the some of the things we know that makes us audacious. You say, and some of you, how your identity changed or because some of the movies you watched, And evangelist went somewhere in the in the movie you watched and then delivered somebody. When he got home, demons came back to come and press him. And say, you, why did you leave the guy? How did leave the guy? And then you became afraid that if I go and cut out devils now, they can come and...

Who told you these things? These things are not in the bible. Where did you where did you see them? Rubbish movies that were written by unbelievers to to drive fear into your heart. There are people right now that are afraid of witches and wizards because of how they are painted. Curse me if I don't follow her to the herbalist to go and do something. One of my workers here. I told her, go and tell your mother to curse you, and let's see what will happen. Tell her I said. Tell her your man of God said.

They are not foolish. They check well in their waters to know what what to what to try. Sir. Yes, sir. They're not foolish. The next picture you must have is have your seat. I will arise. I will shine. I will arise. Listen.

I will rise. I will shine. I will rise. And the glory will speak. I will rise. I will The next picture that must be right that you must have as a believer is the picture of life. You know, said the picture of yourself, your identity, the picture of life, the picture of the earth you are in, the picture of Nigeria. The wrong picture of life will make life respond to you according to how you see it. Listen to me. Listen to me.

When... You know the president that came in Nigeria, started tumbling upside down. Everybody thought it was his fault. And why would he be like that? Why would somebody be like that? And everybody was declaring they wanted change, and change came. When change came, everybody was now wishing and saying, this first guy is better. This first first guy is better. We should have just stay with this guy. How did you not vote again for him?

When four years was over, they were now begging the guy to come back because you only spent four years. They have come and use your remaining four years. We don't want change again. We don't want change again. The guys now became proud. Year, it's not coming. She said, you voted me out. Go and suffer like that. And everybody now thought, will leave ourselves to our faith. When the next when the next one come, change will come.

When the next one come, the night that the ah, the previous one too was better. Previous one too was better. Do you realize that there's no administration that I have seen that people never wished that the Jewish man was better? So what makes you think that the next ones you will not wish someone was better? What makes you think that they will not beg this one to to come back? And say, Somebody is saying, God forbid. Some of us don't care who is president. Listen. Listen. Listen.

Because there's a perspective of life we have. Life bows to us. I'm not a part of the strivings of men. A thousand shall fall at my side. 10,000 at my right side, they shall not come near me. Only with my eyes shall I behold the reward of the wicked for I've made the most high my refuge, even the most high my habitation. There shall be no evil before me. Neither shall any harm come near my dwelling. Listen to me. He shall give his angels charge over me.

Forgive me in all my ways. In my... In their hands, they will bear me up, lest I dash my foot against a stone. I shall not be afraid of the sun, the serpent, the scorpion, the young harder, and the lion shall I trample on their feet. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? This is the picture of life I have. That people are dying. I'm not one of them.

Economy is going down. You see, dollar has gone up. Dollars. Because life has bowed to us. I don't have a picture of life where I will beg in it. I don't have... The bible says since I was born, now I'm going old. I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor a seed beg for bread. The Bible says Isaac sowed in that land. What was peculiar about that land?

There was famine in the land, and in famine, he sowed and ripped a hundredfold. I can sow in the land. I can sow in the land. God can give me ideas of businesses that will thrive regardless of economic meltdown. There are people building houses. There are people buying cars. There are people giving in seven digits. Yesterday, one of my workers told me, apostle, in 2021, I gave this. In 2022, I gave this. In 2022, I gave this.

Sir, I'm giving my first seven digit now. I resent it in economy... In economic meltdown. People are collecting loan from government up and down. A student is giving his personal legitim. We are not at the mercy of the government. We happen to them. Listen. Listen. You realize that you are bigger than life.

The bible says he that is in you is big... Is greater than he that is in the world. You are to go and dominate the head realm. You are to go and dominate the world. If you ever get a job in a place, all you are thinking is how do I swallow up? Yes, sir. What is the highest rank in this place? How do I get there? How do I get there? If I go and work in a bank, how do we take this place?

The bible says, though thy beginning may be small, your little hand should greatly increase. This is the perspective of life I have, that anything that I start cannot be small. The bible says better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Thou shall increase my greatness and comfort me on every side. Nothing I do can be small. Do you have a right picture of life? The school is calm. School is calm. School is calm. School is is calm.

The academic system bows to me. I'm not afraid of any department. I'm not afraid of any cause. If I can understand the speakings of his spirit, there is nothing a human being tells me I cannot process. My brain is sharp. I read and picture well. I'm not afraid of studying. I'm not afraid of reading. There's nothing in the natural realm that I'm afraid of. The the the man who was half dominion.

Yes, sir. Half dominion over all the things that I... That you see. Will be the perspective of life you have. If I start a business, my business will only expand. It will only expand. It will only expand. One of my girls started selling snacks and doing all kind of things, small chops, and all of that. And she started in her room. She came and stitched and she continued hearing, came and continued hearing the teachings.

Heart enlargement was happening. Her heart was becoming enlarged. Something was happening inside of her. She said, Apostle, in school. This is how you think about life. Don't see yourself as the one under the mercy of the universe. Say, let's pray to mother universe. Mother what? That means if you are praying to mother universe, mother universe come and pray to me. Because when God made the universe, he gave me dominion over the universe.

So pray your prayers. It will land back on my shoulders. When you pray to the universe, the universe is as confused as you are. And you're... And you guys wondering, but last time I checked, you are the one to give me instructions. He says, command me therefore in the works of my hands. In the works of my hands, my business is spreading. Nigeria responds to me. My vibe is spreading. I increase and dominate.

Hey. These are the pictures you have. My ministry cannot run down. It is forward heaven from glory to glory, from faith to faith, from strength to strength because the path of the righteous is our shining light. It shines ever brighter onto the perfect day. I can never have a better yesterday. My tomorrow will always be better. I've not seen the best of God in my life. I thank God for what I'm doing right now, but right now it's not the best of God in my life. Tomorrow is better.

Tomorrow is bigger. Tomorrow is greater. I I know I can never have a better yesterday. I won't go up and come down. That is not my that is not my lot. I don't have dry seasons. My seasons are good and fruitful only. Only. Only the righteous shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters. Whose fruit is ever abiding?

The fruit of the righteous don't grow old and wither. There's no right things for me. I'm rooted in Christ Jesus. This is how I think. My picture are like this. One of my guys messaged me. He said, sir, I signed a contract in six weeks today. As you prophesied over me, my income has multiplied seven times from last month to this month. People are seeing economic meltdown. People are collecting loans from government.

You better reject nonsense. Let me not hear that anybody here collects any any any nonsense then. Yoke your life, yoke your destiny. If you wanna help people, is that how you help them? By putting them in debt? And that now accumulate for four years, five years. Now before before you get a job, you are owing in millions. What foolishness? Men don't... If if if I now pray over you and I open...

I... Confession doors are open, I say amen. Somebody now tells you, ah, then one must give you all expense paid trip because your faculty is sponsoring it. We are taking you into Barbados, and you are you are representing us in a conference. We say, oh, yeah. Go and sign your passport. When you get there, you cannot travel. It's owing government. There's a travel ban on anybody who collects loan. You have limited doors that can open for you.

You have limited what God can do in your life. It's who told you that is how God manifest in your life. If you have quoted it, I'm I'm sorry. Don't even know to encourage you. Sorry. Won't you know that God provides? Sir. This is how the rich keep the poor poor. When the next administration outcome they now tell you, vote for us. We'll reduce 20% of your debt.

And like fools being led to the waters, you now say, yeah. We have seen over your 20% with crumbs. Crumbs. How much is the allowance? 20,000 naira. Are you not bigger than that? Sir. Are you not bigger than that? Yes, sir. One of my guys told me that she...

He won a he won a grant of 1,000,000 naira, and they wanted to... The company now told them that they wanna make the grant they wanna make the grant an investment, and he says it's not accepting. But if they wanna make an investment, they invest 10,000,000 naira. I said, I'm even impressed you can speak like this. That means you have been taught. That means you know you are bigger than life. You told me it was a grand plan. Telling me I wanna invest 1,000,000. My business is more than 1,000,000. And I couldn't ask, okay.

Don't worry. I'm not doing it again. We'll give you the grant of 1,000,000. I said, better. The guy came to me. He said, he said, sir, I'm not happy that he did not accept my grant, my my investment pitch of 10,000,000. I feel you are bigger than 10,000,000. You are bigger than 10,000,000. What is 10,000,000? That thing you are doing not to see the picture.

By the time... But if you if you ever offer it up for sale, there are there are companies and industries that will buy for $60,000,000,000. You are looking for investment of 10,000,000. Doesn't mean you should not look for it. One lady came to me. 500,000? I did... Tell him tell him to carry his money and go. Tell him to carry his money and go. If you have lust for money, you won't you won't think like that.

You will just say, how much is thousand? It's not sufficient for anything. In this economy, people have given the more. People have given the most. In this economy, I have given this year, January to August, more than I have given in five years combined. More than I've given in five years combined. We believe in these things. The right pictures of life. Number three, the right pictures of God. The right pictures of God.

You must believe right about God. Hey, God. You must believe right about God. Please hear what I'm telling you. You must believe right about God. You must have the right concept of God, the right image of God. Listen, if you don't know God, the devil will cheat you. He will tell you God is hiding the best from you like he did to heaven, you will believe. You're a good, good father. It's who you are.

It's who you are. And I'm loved by you. Do you know that the perspective you have of God ultimately determines your experience of God? Let me give you a little example. If you believe that God is angry with you and that is the picture of the God that you serve as a God that is angry with you, your experiences in life will be judgment related. And you will always think the reason why I'm not doing this because God is angry with me. The reason why my business is not doing well because God is angry with me. The reason why I obey this instruction, God punished me. I know obey this. God did this.

I know obey... God. God said I should give. Did not Ah, he now punished me. God said, no. No. No. No. God not punished you. God wanted to redeem you from the devil's plan, so he said you should give.

The devil that punished you. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. God does not profit anything from giving you instructions. You profit everything from obeying. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You profit everything from obeying. If God wakes you up to pray and you slept off, it does not it does not affect God. It affects you.

So God will not be angry with you because you did not pray. You are the one that will in wisdom understand that I don't know what I've missed in my life. God have mercy and go back to God. Don't have a picture of God as one horrible, terrible God, mighty in power, waiting to hit you and carry on the face with every little mistake that you make. That's not the God we serve. People are afraid to ask God of things because go and get my message, the father of light. The true nature of God. The fatherhood of God. I've got many messages on this. Go and listen to it.

I don't really have time to to stress the revelation of the father. Trusting God in the hardest times. These are messages that you need to get and listen to. If you need your picture of God to be re... Reinforced. Reinforced, pillars of dominion, part one, two, and three. You learn there that God is not angry with you. Your sins and your iniquities, he has forgiven forever. When you know this, you walk in boldness. I can stand before any demon and cast them out, and I know there's nothing they can do.

You like this. You hear me? You hear me? Do you know that this has formed unconscious pictures in people's minds? That whenever somebody flatten out the power, the guy now becomes uptight. And God God... Now now now God wants to minister to you, but your pictures are denying God of movement. And both have been told that men... If a man, you are crying. Men men are hard.

If a man, you must be tough. If a man, you must be this. If a... How can you see a man that is this? And God, let me introduce you to the softness of to the softness of my presence. Let me introduce you to the realness of my presence. In that state, your emotions are broken. I break your heart into pieces. You will not know who is a man and who is not. But because of pictures, he will stand there like like a demon.

And you have no idea experiences that you are kissing yourself of. Encounters you are kissing yourself of. I tell you. I tell you. Pictures. Just pictures. One, get my memory on Sunday and re listen to it. Re listen to this. Re listen over and over again. Pictures.

How do you break new pictures and form new pictures in one minute? Number one, I'll just give it... I'll just give everything to you. Number one is through the word of God. Through the word of God. Through the word of God. That's the first way that you break pictures. Through the word of God. In second Corinthians chapter 10 from verse four to five, the Bible says, for the weapons of our warfare are not cut out, but they are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Verse five says, casting down imaginations.

Casting down imaginations. What are imaginations? Pictures. The King James version. And every high thing that exalt itself against the knowledge of God. I'm bringing into captivity every thought pictures. How many of you think in words? You think you think in storybook. Thoughts are pictures. Imagination are pictures.

All of these... It means there are pictures that can exalt themselves against your knowledge of God. There are imaginations that can exalt themselves against your knowledge of God, and the Bible says you must cast them down. The weapon of warfare that we use in doing so is the word of God. Are you with me? That's why in Jeremiah one verse nine ten, God says, I've put my words in your mouth. In verse 10, it now says that you will pull down. Look at it. Verse 10. It says, you will now root out.

One, pull down. Two, destroy. Three, four, to build and to plant. Did you say that? That means the word of destruction of of wrong mindset is two times out of building. Sometimes you will root them out. You now pull them down. You now destroy them. You now throw them down. To build and to plant.

In other words, it is easier to actually build right manzas than it is to destroy one. That's why so many people struggle and struggle and struggle, and they know that this thing I'm holding on to is wrong. Wrong pictures must break. And how it breaks is through the word of God. And how you know that it has broken inside of you is that without seeing any physical change, joy breaks out in your heart. Jeremiah 15 and verse 16, the words are... Were found and I ate them. The words were found and I ate them. And thy word was unto me the joy and the rejoicing of my heart. Even before situations change, when the word of God pierces your heart, how you will know that a picture has broken is that joy will arise in your spirit.

Yes. That's how you know. Yes, sir. You might have no money, but when you find the word of God of your identity in Christ that you are a blessed man, you are a prosperous man, in the thief, be singing praise and worship. Yes. I said yes. Your your worth will no longer be dependent on what is around you and what you have and what you don't have because I've found your word. I've eaten them. They've become a joy and a rejoicing to my soul. It's not circumstances based.

It's revelation based. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Do you want to have a brilliant life and a life that is enduring with blessings? You must invest in God's word. What does the word of God say about my destiny, about life, about my identity? I am righteous. I am not a sinner. My sins are forgiven. Jesus loves me.

I am wonderfully and fearfully made. I'm not foolish. Christ has been made wisdom onto me. I'm not shy. The righteous is as bold as a lion. I'm not timid. I'm a lion. I'm not scared. I'm a lion. I don't back down from trouble.

I don't back down from problem. I'm not irrelevant. I can't be relevant. I'm the salt of the world. I don't go into places I want to hide myself. I'm a city that is set on a hill that cannot be hidden. I'm not a victim of the patterns in my family. I'm a new man in Christ Jesus. Demons cannot oppress me. I'm seated with Christ far above principalities and powers.

No longer will I be called forsaken. I've been called by a new name, which the name... Which the mouth of Lord shall name. My name shall be called Bula and Ephzebah, the beloved of God. My life is decorated with with beauty and splendor and glory. He has anointed my head with oil and my cup runs over. He has anointed my horn like the horns of a unicorn. He has decoded my life with glory. Listen to me. This thing has to be a revelation.

When it comes... When it becomes a revelation, you may not see the rain, may not see the wind, but the valleys will be filled with water. Nothing has to change physically, but inside you, everything has changed. The way you walk will change. The way you talk will change. The way you do business will change. I sent one of my guys. Someone called me looking for someone to do a a work design contract, and I couldn't do it. I sent one of my guys there, recommended him. When he got there, you know, he did not have as much experience in that kind of negotiation whilst he was there.

So the man asked him, so are you competent? Are you this? Yeah. I'm good. So they asked him how much do you wanna be paid? I'm not used to tell them before. I don't have that experience. Say, ah, and you went like that? Say, yes, sir. I said, okay.

Let me calculate for you. I did tell them this amount of money in every six digits. I said if they if they tell you that they cannot they cannot give that much, ask them what their budget is and negotiate your way upwards. But don't back down. And I told him... Guy told them, they broke it down back to the same heavy six digits. I wonder what he would have told them. He then said, no. That's not my worth saying. That's what we used to pay people that worked with us before.

Say, I'm not the people that worked with you before. After you told them that, say, yes, sir. I was smiling. Say I was smiling. I told them, I'm not one of those that worked with you before. There's value I'm bringing for you that none have ever brought. That's how you now have those two sisters children. Is that okay? No problem. How much do you want?

I think give him how much he wanted. Give him how much he wanted. Your knowledge, your revelation of your identity. The second thing that helps you with the pictures that are in your mind is your association. The choice of the association you keep. You know why? Because the words that people speak to you create pictures in your heart. And so when you go around people that speak the wrong pictures, you will have the wrong pictures in your heart. In first Samuel 10 from verse 10 to verse 11, the bible says that Saul, when he left Samuel, came across a company of prophets, and they hacked him. And when he got when he got among them, they they they was not even...

There was no conversation. He just came amongst them, and they were prophesying. And because he was in that atmosphere, he started prophesying as well. He started prophesying as well. In other words, the atmosphere of your life determines the things that that you experience. When they saw him, they said, he saw also amongst the prophets. It means if you are foreshadowed with foolish people, one day they will say, when did Bukola become foolish? If you associate with poor people, that will become your experience. If you associate with profit, you become a profit. If you associate with rich men, you become a rich man.

You are talking with someone who says, I've given my first million. I'm trying to give my next 10,000,000. Hey. Your heart is enlarged. These are the kind of people I listen to. There are times I leave my house and drive to the house of some men of God just to go and hear them speak. Tell me about your exploits in Christ. Expand my heart some more. And I'm hearing stories. One of my guys is now this.

One of my this is now that. I say, okay. Yes. Stretch my mind. Because me, if I've seen it, I've done it. That's why I only speak to people that create pictures that are worthy of seeing. Isn't that what Peter did? Peter saw Peter. Peter saw Jesus walking on water, and then if it is you, beat me, come. In other words, the reason why Jesus walked on water is to show them there was a possibility.

Because if you see a reality, you can do that reality. Isn't that what happened with Elisha? Elisha parted Jordan with his staff. When he got the mantle and he was returning back, he did the same thing that he saw his master do. Sight is connected to results. So I like to hear things that give me visions. And if I've seen it, I've done it. If I've seen it, I've done it. The man of God was talking to his friend, and he said one week, his friend that he was talking to was in 400 level at that time. He said when when I got married, after marriage, I gave my first 1,000,000.

Say, ah, million after marriage? Are you not are you not afraid that? He said no. No. No. That's when I should give more. Say, it was in 400 level. From 400 level, you say when I'm married, I'll give my own too. This is this... You you speak to people.

You don't talk about that that that talk down on your dreams. You don't have big dreams and consult small minds. Listen. Don't be in any association where they'll be talking about money with respect. I'm thinking of buying something worth 2 millionaire. Say, hey. Is that why you're calling 2,000,000? Like that. Run away from those people. They will be poor.

We have no respect for money. Yes. Money is a slave. It's a servant. We use less money. Yes. From yesterday to today, I've given almost 700,000. From yesterday to today, I've given, given, not burden to me, given almost 700,000. When I tell you this, a picture forms in your mind. A picture forms in your mind.

What is money? Useless. We send it on errands. We expand the kingdom with it. We give purpose to money. Money bows to us. These are the kind of people you talk to. People that when you go and speak with them about your vision, your vision is even smaller than their own. You can listen to people and you will cut short your destiny. Don't tell...

You don't listen to people that tell you, ah, you want to apply for that contract. They know they will give. You who they will give. You see people like that. You see, the commissioner's daughter said, you think it's not there. You think this person is not there. You know you want... No one's gonna apply. Okay. Do you know anybody?

And before before you do, you that you had faith to go and step out. Start thinking that it's true. It's true. It's even I want to go and apply. Pictures have changed from interaction. Wrong communication can kill destiny pictures. Can kill destiny pictures. You are sluggish in obeying instructions of destiny. You go and speak to a friend. You take action the following day.

Those are the kind of people you move with. You don't move with mood that make you comfortable in your own foolishness because they are more foolish. So your foolish... Their foolishness encourages you. Okay. Glory to God. Glory to God. Why are you laughing? He said, no. Don't worry.

Don't worry. Because I'm thinking, thank God I'm better than you. Are you with me? The third way that you enlarge your heart is through sacrifice. I won't stay too long on this. In first Kings chapter three from verse four to verse five, the king sacrificed 1,000 bond offerings to God. And in verse five, God appeared to Solomon in a dream and God asked him, what will I give you? In verse 12, God told him that I have done according to my words, and I will make you wise. I will make you have understanding, but I I will make you like none that ever existed before. And there will be none that will exist after you like that.

In verse 13, God told him, I've also given you that which you have not asked for, riches and honor. All of this came from sacrifice. But still, in chapter four verse 29, there is something there. As a result of the sacrifice, there was a a way... There was something that God did that made everything God promised Solomon to be a reality. And that was the first thing God did. And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding and largeness of heart. In other words, how your heart expands and enlarged is through sacrifice. That's why it was Solomon that wrote Proverbs. And in KJV, Proverbs eleven twenty five, Solomon now said a Libra's soul shall be made fat.

He knows how his own became fat. The with which you give is the with which you see. You wanna break small pictures out of your mind, give like you have never given. Number four, prophetic declarations. When... Listen. As I'm speaking to you right now, pictures are cracking in your mind. They are breaking, and new ones are forming. That's why it's good to listen to your man of God and the teachings. As you are listening, what is happening is pictures are breaking.

You are you are creating new mindset. Go and get teachings, the mindset of a victor. As you listen, your mind is expanding. Your heart is enlarging. I can do great things. I'm not small. Rise up on your feet. Are you ready to pray? The prayer is simple really. I want you to just declare the pictures your of your identity and your future that God has shown you.

I want you to declare it in reality. That's all. I'm... I don't have any prayer for you. Just declare it. Whatever you have seen in destiny, in life, as your identity, command them as yours. Can you begin to declare right now? Come on, declare right now. Declare right now. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the disciples christian network and get more from apostle Emmanuel.

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