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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. My teaching today is for two categories of people. And if you fall under that category, then you need to listen to me attentively, pay attention, let your spirit, your soul, your body be here. This is not a time to be distracted. I believe for many people, your life is about to change. The first category are those who have looked at the state of things in their lives right now, and you know that this is not the best of God for your life.

You know that things have to change. Financially, things have to change career wise, business wise, ministry wise. Things have to change. I don't like the way I I am living currently. I'm barely getting by. I'm just being sustained I either been by the job I'm doing or the way money is coming to my hand. I'm just being sustained. I've entered into a realm of sustainability. That's not the kind of life I want and desire for myself. If you're in that category, then you have to listen to me very attentively.

I know that things can change. This is not the best of God for my life. The way money is coming to my hands like an ant. I shouldn't be picking or partaking of the crumbs and the scrap of the land. Number two category of people are those who know that God's promise to you is a life of greatness. A life of influence, a life of relevance, and prosperity. It doesn't matter what result you see right now. You know there is more to me than this. You know that greatness is what God has promised me, and I must enter into it. Come with me.

If you're in that category of people where you know that God has spoken to me that I would be great, God has spoken to me that something great will come out of me. Nations will come out of me. Kings will come out of me. Nobles will come out of me. I will be an influential figure. I will be a voice to my generation. Then this is for you. I will petition on what I've titled pictures of greatness. Let me tell you something. Don't attend meetings emotionally.

Attend meetings needfully. Be consistent as to your life depends on it. Don't choose what to attend. I really pity who is not here now. I do. You see you see, a man can deceptively tell it... Tell himself that I would listen online or I would get the message. Let me just rest today. There is a dimension of grace that you need to see or be in the room to rest upon you. This is in scripture, but today is not the day I show you that.

If you like, believe it. If you like, don't. Believers equip is not something you attend carelessly. Experience is not something you attend carelessly. I've had people that I'm rounding up meetings and I see their name in the realm of the spirit. I called them. They said they've gone. Whatever came that moment, even if they meet me after, it has left. It's not... People think that because the man of God is a prophet, if I...

If he calls me and I'm not... I didn't come out, maybe when I come after, you understand that the man of God is not moving by his spirit. Some is under the influence of something. And so by himself, he can't do anything. Do you understand that? Yes, sir. He can't do anything. Chewon. Chewon something. Something.

Is that is that somebody's name? Chewon. Chewon something. Chewon Chewon something. Jessica. Jessica. Who is that? That's nobody's name? What's your name? Why are you out?

Okay. This is what we think in Jesus' name. This is what we think in the name of Jesus. And God will lift you, and God will increase you. You can you can go and sit down. There is a destiny that God has apportioned for the believer. A destiny that God has apportioned for the believer. That destiny is as revealed in his word. There is an end in store for the believer. And when I say end, I'm not saying something that will happen at the end of your life when you are old.

I'm saying what God has proposed for your life. When I say end, I mean what God has destined for your life, what God has proposed for your life. God wants to make you great. Believe this. God wants to make men great. This is revealed all through scriptures. Greatness, relevance, influence, prosperity, all these things are not concepts invented by men. They were invented by God. Greatness is God's idea. Influence is God's idea.

What did I say? Greatness is God's idea. Greatness is God's idea. 10 Matthew chapter 12 verse two, it was God that came to a man. Abraham was not even praying. There was no record in scripture that Abraham was praying or he had sacrificed anything. The bible says God came to him and told him, I will make you a great nation. It was God's idea to make a man a great nation. Don't let anybody deceive you to think that when you desire to be great, you are being canal. Greatness is God's idea.

God invented it. I will bless you, he says. I will make your name great and you shall be a blessing. It's not a bad thing if your name is great. If people read about your life on newspaper, There are some people that their name precedes their face. Everyone knows their name, but they can't quite put a picture to the name they know. So, usually, when they now meet the person, is this the person? My god. I didn't expect him to be this short. You know why?

Because the name has become great. The name is bigger than his size. God is making your name great. Psalm 71 verse 21. The bible says, you shall increase my greatness and comfort me on every side. The life of the believer is not a beggarly life. The life of the believer is not a life of pain. It's not a life of poverty. It's not a life of shame, of of penury. The life of the believer is a life of abundance, overflowing abundance.

Psalms 23 verse five. The bible says you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. My cup runs over. You anoint my head with oil, and the effect of the oil that you use in anointing my head is seen in the running over of my cup. In other words, whatever my hand carries shows the effect of the oil on my head. What is... I've forgotten that the bible says you, I will bless the works of your hands. In other words, your cup can be your business.

Your cup can be your career. Your cup can be your ministry. The bible said when the anointing of God comes upon you, your cup will run over. That means God does not bless you with what is enough for yourself. If it is only for yourself, your cup doesn't need to run over. The reason why your cup is running over is because others will partake of your wealth, of your blessing. God will not just say I will bless you. God told Abraham, I will make you a blessing. Making you a blessing is where your cup runs over because you are a blessing to the kingdom, a blessing to people, a blessing to your family, a blessing even to society. People will see your result and know God.

Everyone will see a cop running over. Do you know that it's possible for a cop to be full, but you look at it from a distance, you don't know it's full? But there's no way a cop is running over. You don't know it's full. The reason why God wants to bless you in such a way that he runs over so that men can know that he blessed you. You won't have enough. You will have more than enough. Psalms 66 verse 12, the King James version. The Bible says, thou has caused men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but thou broughtest us into a wealthy place.

Oh my God. So for a brief moment, he looked as though men were climbing over our heads, as though we're in fire, as though we're in water, but that is not your hand. That's not your hand. God is bringing you into a wealthy place. A place of abundance, a place of rich rich fulfillment. NKJV called it rich fulfillment. Give me NKJV. Rich fulfillment. Where you are wealthy and you are fulfilled. That is what God has proposed for your life.

It means if your life does not conform with this picture, you should never settle for whatever reality you currently possess. You should never settle for it. What God has designed for your life is greatness, inevitable greatness. I want you to believe this. And the man became great and waxed great and became very great, exceedingly great. This was the description of a man. He increased. He became great. The bible says until the Philistines envied him. How great can a man be that nations will envy him?

Do you know that at a particular part of the bible, the bible says the Philistines came to him and sent him away from their land because they said he has become mightier than them. He has become mightier than a nation. God is making you bigger than Nigeria. Hear me. You are not made to be a victim of the nation. The nation is not meant to happen to you. You are meant to happen on it. That's God's design for your life. God has called you into a life of overflowing abundance, overflowing prosperity, overflowing wealth, greatness, and influence so that in whatever field of influence you might find yourself, in whatever endeavor you might find yourself, you rise to the peak of that endeavor. You might start what you're currently doing now as a tutorial center that is only reaching five people, but God's mind is that that five tutorial center...

That five people tutorial center will become a university. That meeting at the back of chapel becomes a meeting feeding 5,000 people, 10,000 people. That is God's intention for the believer. Oh, God. Your voice will be heard. Please believe what I'm saying. You say, sir, me, I'm just staying on Crack Road. You have branches all over the world. But sir, I'm just a fashion designer. You will make clothes for the queen of England.

You know why I'm telling you this? Because this is God's hand for you. This is what now? God's hand for you is greatness, never smallness that something comes out of you that is servicing the entire world. Your life as a believer is that of unending greatness, that of influence where your impact is reaching generations to come. Your life becomes a literal blessing. People thank God for your birthing. People thank God because you were born. Listen. You are not to die a mediocre.

You are not to die be... Listen. The village you came from is not where your hair... You are you are handing. That's not where your hand is. Can anything good come from Nazareth? That was what they told Jesus. Can anything good come from Nazareth? They didn't know that without him, nothing good can come out of Nazareth. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

He said, sir, I'm just a writer. You are servicing kings. I saw a guy online. He's a waiter. The same way people wait in restaurants. That's what he does. Started as a waiter in restaurants. Now he's servicing kings of the world, presidents of nations. Every swearing in of a new president in Nigeria is the one they call. He has mastered the heart of serving kings.

There's a... Because there's a way kings love to be served. God is taking you to the palace. So it might look as though for a brief moment, people are riding on your head. For a brief moment, you are inside fire and you are inside water, but don't think that's your bus stop. We passed through all these phases in our lives, but you have brought us to a wealthy place. Where God is taking us is a wealthy place. Well, how do you enter into this wealthy place that God is bringing you? How does this become your experience in the now? You must understand that God wants you to succeed.

God wants you to be wealthy even more than you want to be wealthy. God is more willing to bless you than you're willing to receive. Ephesians three and verse 20, the bible says, now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask or think, Now unto him that is able to do. God is able to do. He's exceedingly abundantly able to do. He's able. He's not just able. He's willing. There's a difference between ability and willingness. If I tell you that, ah, what you didn't write, This, I want to pay my school fees.

I will pay it for you. Ah, sir, today is the day my school fees is ending. Ah, I want to pay it. I really want to, but I don't have that amount right now. You see, I'm willing, but I'm not able. God is both willing and able to do exceedingly abundantly above. Someone who is willing to do, who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above what you can ask, Who is more interested in blessing? Is it God or a view that wants to receive? God says if you ask me of anything, I can do exceedingly, abundantly above what you have asked. It means I am more willing to do for you than you are willing to ask.

You're not getting this thing. It has not sunk into you. God is more willing to bless you. God is more willing to increase you. God is more willing to lift you. God is more willing to put you into a place of power, to make you sit down with kings, to make room for you in big places, to lift what you are doing, to spread the works of your hands, to give you vibes in ministry. God is more willing than even you. But there's a clause to it. According to the power that worketh in you. It means in as much as God is able, exceedingly able to bless you, to lift you, to increase you, what is at work on your inside can place a limitation on what God can do.

God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above what you can ask or think according to. That according to places a limitation on the first statement. In other words, what happens in your life is not entirely dependent on the ability of God. If it were that alone, oh, God, we are blessed. But but there is something else involved in God being able. There is something at work in you that if it does not align with God's ability, then God will be limited in your life. It looks like an eyesore to say God can be limited, but it is true. The problem is never the willingness or the ability of God to perform. It is that we place limitations on God. It look like a daring statement to make, but it is the truth.

Psalm 78 verse 41. The bible says, yes, again and again, they tempted God, and they limited the only one of Israel. They limited the only one of Israel that God can be limited. God can be limited. God can desire to do, but is unable to do. Not because he does not want to do. Know that... The Bible doesn't say God is not unwilling or God is unwilling rather. The bible says God is unable. They limited him.

He wants to, but he could not. God wants to prosper you, but he says it is possible to limit God from prospering you. God wants to lift, but he says it is possible to limit God even from lifting. You must let God lose in your life. You must let God lose in your life. Don't hold God back. Don't put limitations on God. God says I wanna do. I wanna do. This is a very unfair example to use.

Permit permit me in advance. I'm sorry. But I want you to just get the picture. How many of you have seen when, say, somebody is threatening a house or you can imagine it? Somebody is threatening a house and there are massive powerful security dogs in that house. And thieves are coming to the house and the dogs are backing and and they want to charge at the thieves, but they are constrained to a chain. And you can see that they wanna break loose and save that family or at least charge at them, but the constraint makes them unable to do. They want... So is it their willingness that is affected? They want to.

What is what is the problem now? They are unable to. Do you get the idea that it is possible to limit God, that God wants to move, but you have placed a limitation like a yoke on God. And and God is incapable of doing something. It... It's it's... You need to let this sink in your mind that God can be limited. Have you read your Bible? The Bible says Jesus is the express image of God. And yet when he came, he went to his hometown.

And when he got there, the Bible says Jesus, who is the express image of God, could not do. Not will not do. If it was will not do, then the question is his willingness. It was could not do. It means he tried to but could not. If I say, carry this speaker, and you tell me I will not carry this speaker, that is I'm unwilling to do so. If you tell me I cannot carry this speaker, do you hear the difference now? Jesus could not do mighty miracles. Jesus, miracles. Jesus could not do miracles.

Uh-uh. Such statement should be investigated. Jesus could do no mighty miracles, no mighty works there. Do you know what God says about works? In the book of Isaiah, he says he says he will work his works, his strange works, and he will perform his acts, his strange acts. If there is anybody that can work, it's God. Stop the Red Sea, spread it open That is... The the land became dry ground. Jericho went down flat. Do you know Jericho did not fall down?

If Jericho had fallen down, if it had fallen down, it would have formed another wall. The height of Jericho was equal to the breadth of Jericho. So it wasn't just a tall wall. It was also a wall that was massive in breadth. In fact, it was said that six horses can stay on the wall of Jericho aligned like this. Six horses on chariot. One, two, three, four. Comfortably so. That was how wild Jericho was. There were houses in the walls.

The all was a civilization on itself alone. It wasn't just a... It was a city on its on itself alone. If the wall had crumbled, it would have formed another wall. The wall sank. That God that God that God can be limited. His limitation is not based on his ability. It's based on man. Man is capable of placing a limit on what God can do. Tell your neighbor, don't limit God.

Let God lose. God can be limited. God can desire to do, but he's unable to do, and we have to know this. How do you let God lose? Knowing how you let God lose also makes you know how you limit God. Proverbs 23 verse seven. The Bible says, for as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Can Can you see that? As he thinks in his heart, so is he. Do you remember when I said God is able to lift you, and God wants to lift you, and God wants to bless you, and God wants to make you great, and God wants to make you prosper.

God wants to give you relevance. Is that not so? That's the picture of what God wants to do for you. But the bible says as he is in his heart, as a man is in his heart, so is he. The bible does not say as God thinks a man should be, so is he. The bible does not say as God desires a man should be, so is he. As God wants a man to be, so is he. In other words, the difference... There's a large difference between God between what God wants to do for you and what you think in your heart of yourself. And if how you think in your heart does not in any way align with the pictures that God has for you, then you have limited what God can do.

In other words, it's not enough that God sees what he wants to do. You must also see it. A man is as he is in his heart. The pictures that a man is in his heart is a definition of his realities, not what God wants the man to be. God can want you to have a big ministry, a big church, and you are reaching nations of the world, but your mind is only pastoring 50 people. In your mind, you have seen yourself as a pastor of 30, and you have given all kinds of excuses for why this is so. No matter the desire of God for your life, that picture you have in your heart will limit what God can do through you, what God can do in you. The pictures you have in yourself is what you use either in letting God loose or limiting God. You can let God loose by your pictures. You can limit God by your mind.

Remember, this reference, they limited the holy one of Israel. Where were they gotten from? The Israelites. How did they limit God? They told themselves that the... We were like grasshoppers. What was that? Pictures. The picture they saw of themselves was grasshopper. Whereas God has made them conquerors of nations.

As long as the picture of themselves could not align what God has made them, God was limited in their lives. God could not do what he intended to do even though he wanted to do it. When they came back, God told them you have brought back a evil, an evil report. It means anytime what you see about yourself, about life, about Nigeria, about ministry, about your nation does not agree what God has seen. You have brought an evil report. What you are seeing is an evil report. You are not the way God wants you to be. You are what you see in your heart. It means what you see in your heart must align with what God wants you to be for it to become reality. Simple as this thing sounds, it has become the reason why so many believers are poor, why believers have relegated themselves to eat scraps.

They have settled for less. They are living below God's standard for their lives because of this as simple as it is. Listen to me. The picture of your future must be birthed in your heart. Let me show you how people limit God again. When I said the picture of your future must be birthed in your heart, somebody is thinking ten years from now, twenty years from now. Future is not ten years from now. Future is not twenty years from now. Future can be tomorrow. Sir.

Future is what has not happened yet. Yes, sir. What is yet to happen? It means future can be after this meeting. Yes, sir. So when I say the picture of your future, somebody is thinking time. No. Think event. It's not a time it takes for you to manifest I'm talking about. It's the event in the future because it can manifest tomorrow.

It means the time you attribute to your pictures limits God. Many people have pushed in twenty years what God wants to do today. This is how we place limitations on God. A man of God told me that he wanted to get married, and we have... I've known this for a while. When he told me that he wanted to get married, he said, things are not in place yet. He will marry very soon. And very soon became five years, became six years, became seven years, became ten years. The day he decided, you know what? I'm gonna get married.

He wasn't even the one I tell you. He went to go and see his man of God, his spiritual father. That's why you need prophets to bring pictures. Sir. The man told him, are you married? He said, I'm not married, sir. He said, why? Well, I'm married with Pete. In three months, he was married. Three months.

That's not normal. Yes, sir. Everything that he thought was not there started coming. In other words, it could have come ten years ago. The reason it did not come was because he was pushing it into the future in his mind. The day he said, ah, my man of God has said go and marry with speed. The day he confirmed it, he entered into the reality. Resulting started coming from all around the world. Somebody saw him a month after and said, God, I should give you this car. I don't like the way you're trekking up and down.

God, should give you this car. I've not been seeing him trekking before. That your mind can limit what God wants to do in your life. Is somebody talking? They say, in the next... When I finish school, in the next seven years, I'll get a good job. In the eight years, I'll get a good this. I'm gonna say, I want to give you a contract worth millions tomorrow. How are you thinking like this? Don't listen to me.

Don't attach years or time to your future. When I say picture your future, I'm not saying picture the time it will take. I'm saying picture the event that God has placed in your future. So if God says, I'm taking you to the nation of the world, don't say ten years from now, I'm going to the nation of the world. Mm-mm. Easy event. Nations are coming to me. They can come tomorrow. We are prophesying in my room, in my sitting room, me and some people, and we're declaring we have a space problem. We have a space problem.

We have a space problem. No is enough to contain us. We are enlarged. God is expanding us. Our sons and daughters are coming from all parts of the world. We are not saying in the next five years. All we're doing was prophesying, declaring, prophesying, declaring. And when a prophetic push comes, it now take what is meant to happen in ten years. And because you have not constrained God in your mind, God can now make it manifest now. But when you have constrained God, that thing cannot find expression.

Do you understand what I'm saying here? Many people have pushed in twenty years. What would happen in one year? This is how we place limit on God. Listen. God will never bypass the boundaries of your heart. God does in your life as much as your heart permits. A narrow heart will experience narrow walking with the power of God. Many people have what I call the Martha syndrome. Do you know what the Martha syndrome is?

The Martha syndrome pushes into the distant future what can happen now. That's the Martha syndrome. In John 11, and they don't know what they are doing. They don't know. They think they are in faith. It's a deception. They think they are believing God. When they come and pray, they will say, ah, God, we know you are able to lift us. We know you are able to expand us. We know you are able to.

But when a prophet come by this time tomorrow, that listening will come. No. There are not enough chairs. There are not enough. It's it's when God wants to do that the limit... Some of their mind will not be revealed. It's a mother syndrome. In John chapter eleven twenty one, Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. If you have been here, my brother would not have died. See what he said.

22. But even now, I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give to you. If a lady is talking like this, what do you think is in her mind? If you have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now that you are here, I know whatever you ask of God, God will give it to you. In other words, you will think that this believer has faith to receive right now. You will think this believer now says, Jesus, now that you are here, my brother will rise. I know that if I'd be here, he would not have died. But since you are now here, only ask God. Isn't that what she's saying?

The Martha syndrome. Look at the next verse. Watch this. Jesus now said to her, according to what you have said, your brother will rise again. The Martha syndrome. Next verse. Martha said to him... One, three, everybody. When rapture comes, I know he will rise again. Jesus say I'm the revelation and the light.

What you are pushing to the future, I'm here. That your answer can be here, and you will tell your answer. Come back ten years' time. Come back twenty years' time. There are people that they have conditioned their mind to believe they cannot get a car until they are 30. There are those that believe that nothing... Even if they will become great, maybe when they are 40. And it's somewhere there in their subconscious, and they've put... It has become a bound... Oh, God.

These guys, this lady's heart was so... It was so streamlined. It was so streamlined that Jesus was even trying to help her. See what? Next verse. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection. Forget resurrection day. Resurrection has come. I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live.

That's what Jesus is saying. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live. Next verse. And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. So do you believe this? What is Jesus asking her if she believes? If anybody die, they will live. And if whoever lives will never die. Isn't that the question? See the answer of this girl.

One, two, three, go. I believe but let me tell you what I believe. I believe that you are the Christ, the son of God who is coming to the world, Shikina. I don't believe that whoever die can live, but I believe you are Christ. The bible that she went to go and call Mary and told Mary, Jesus is here. It's a matter syndrome. Too narrow a heart to permit God to do. Too narrow, too constrained in heart to permit God to do. There are prophecies that are angering over your head that cannot land in your life because your heart is too narrow. Your heart cannot contain the weight of the prophecy.

This scripture told me... Showed me rather that what you say with your mouth is not always a reflection of what is in your heart. You can talk big because it makes sense. Doesn't mean you believe it. What gives power to your words is what you say because you have believed in your heart. Is the operation of the spirit of faith. In second Corinthians 14, we therefore having the same spirit of faith. We believe and so we speak. We believe and what we believe now makes us speak. What makes your words have power is because it comes from the picture of your heart.

If your words don't agree with the pictures in your heart, what you say is empty words. So Martha said, if you are here, I know you can ask God for anything. Really, you believe that? Then your brother will rise. I said, maybe it is true, sir, on last day. She said it, but her heart has not seen that picture. You can say you can say, I will be great, but your mind is small. Do you understand I'm trying to say? There are many people that speak out of reason, not out of the picture of their heart. So somebody say, ah, as you are going, you just feel, hey, no.

I'm not fellow. No. I'm not fellow, but your heart is failing. Their words are reactive words, not believing words. Not believing words. We believe and so we speak. We believe. We see the pictures in our heart as a possibility and so we speak. No. We speak to believe.

You can speak to believe, but your speaking only has power when you have believed. Now we speak to disagree with the current rhetoric. We believe and so we speak. Proverbs four and verse 23. The bible says, keep your heart with all diligence for out of it spring the issues of life. Keep your heart with all diligence for out of your heart springs the issues of life. I would say, life does not happen to you. Life comes from you. It means whatever is the situation of your life right now, it came from inside you. If you are in luck, it is because your insight is in luck.

Please believe what I'm telling you. Don't be hungry. If your income is regulating around a particular digit and nobody favors you, it's what is how your heart is. Your life is a merciless picture of reflections in your heart. A merciless picture. Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life. The word issues there is the Hebrew word, and it means border or boundaries. That means that the boundaries of your life are set by the pictures of your heart. Did you get that? Everybody in this first row, come.

Everybody in this first row, come. Come here. Everybody, just come. Someone stay in the middle. Others, put your hands. Just form a circle around the person in the middle. Someone stay in the middle and form a circle around the person in the middle. Fast, please. Fast, please. Move closer together.

The bible says that the borders in your life is set by the pictures in your heart. The borders in your life. You set borders around your life according to the pictures you have in your heart. So it says, guard your heart with all diligence. For out of it is the borders of your life. The borders of your life. The boundaries of your life. In other words, your heart is what gives space to how much can happen. Do you know what a border is? A boundaries.

As they are like this, these are the boundaries of our life. In other words, this is the space to which anything in our life can happen. So if millions is here and billions is here... Are you with me? Our heart has not stretched its boundaries to accommodate the millions and the billions. The borders of our heart are still constrained. And as long as the borders of our heart are already damaged, already set, then what is here will not enter. What will revolve around our life are the possibilities within the border, within the boundaries. The gate in your house defines the boundary of your house. Everything within that space is yours.

If a car is outside, it's not yours. It can be the neighbors. Are you with me? But it's not yours. For it to be yours, it has to be in your compound within that boundary. So any reality you are... She can admire someone else's experience and say, want this in my life, oh, God, and be praying. And God says, yes. It's time for this to come to your life, but your boundary has not allowed it. You have not created enough space for this reality to find experience in your life.

Are you seeing this now? This is the problem of many. So when I say that there are prophecies hanging over you, but you have not created space to receive it, this is what I'm talking about. Your business cannot be bigger than this. Your ministry cannot be bigger than this. Your life can never be bigger than this. I know what? Life is determined to respond to you according to the boundaries you have set. If you mistakenly enter a result that is within this realm in whose boundary you have not allowed or created space for, this the fact that there's not enough space will squeeze out all the possibilities of that result from your life until it gets back to this level. So if a pastor is pastoring 50 members, and you take him, transfer him to a congregation of 5,000 members, if that possibility is at...

Has not been large enough to accommodate it, his pastoral office will reduce the membership of that church back to 50. It is a law of the spirit. Are you with me? It will reduce the membership of... Listen. I can never be small again. It's not confession. You can speak like that because you have increased the boundaries of your heart. It means there are possibilities that are not allowed to remain here again. I've accommodated them.

So if for any reason right now, I empty my account, if I have a million naira here and I empty it because I've accommodated my boundaries, I've increased my body this way, it's not possible for me to lack. That space will immediately be filled up. The realm of the spirit will recognize that empty account as an anomaly. They will say no. No. No. No. This account is not permitted to be empty, And God will speak to someone. Give that man. Give that man.

Give that man. Why? Because I have created the boundaries of my life that way. Guard your heart with all the reasons, for out of it is the boundaries of your life. No matter how anointed the man of God is, if the heart is not enlarged, the ministry will forever be small. Many people come to my sick car. Pray for my father. Pray for my race. They have a church, but you are not growing. Is your father's heart enlarged?

Because if the if the heart is not enlarged, there's no miracle that can happen. In Isaiah, the bible says, sing, oh barren. And then he goes on to say, the children of the desolate shall be more than children of the footfall man. In verse two, it then says enlarge your tent. Enlarge the place of your tent. It does not say God will enlarge it for you. It says you enlarge the place of your tent. Let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings. Do not spare. Lengthen your cause.

Strengthen your stakes. You are the one doing this. Lengthen your cause. Strengthen your stakes. Why are you doing this? Next verse is this, for you shall expand. In other words, you will not expand until you enlarge. In other words, your expansion is determined by how much space you have given, the boundaries of your heart. I don't see smallness. I can't help it.

When... Listen. Come come back together. When this woman's heart is like this, how should we speak will reflect this. If somebody favors her and the person give that 10,000,000 naira, that 10,000,000 will reduce back to 4,000. The first thing she would think of according to the boundaries of her of her heart, she can't even see past it. The first thing she would think of is, ah, let me go and buy air of 2,500,000. And she'll just go and buy the air. Follow... All of you, follow her as she's going.

Stay with close to her. But wherever she goes, you follow. Still maintain that... Come on. This is how life happens. She goes to the shop. Buy how much is this hair? It's 1,500,000. This one, 2,500,000. I said, okay.

Okay. Give me this one. Then she goes to the next shop again. How much is this phone? This is iPhone 10, iPhone 15 pro max. Much is it? He says 3,500,000. Okay. Give it to me. Okay.

How much is this? Okay. How much is that? How much is this? How much is that? And then the money finishes. She goes to the most expensive restaurant she can find because the the realm of the spirit is is on... There's an unrest. Somebody has gotten something that is not meant that they not meant to have. So even if he does not live, she might fall sick.

She might be told that, ah, your mother is sick. Oh, we we need to do surgery. How much is surgery? 5,700,000. What happened? Kidney stone,, lung enlargement,. When when they're done with that one, they say, ah, we found another problem there. What's the problem again? They say, the dog is collecting too much water.. We found another problem.

You know what has happened? The realm of the spirit is saying, this money is not yours. Your heart has not enlarged to accommodate it, and so it must leave you. It must go back however way it came. This ministry is not yours. Your mind has no end last to accommodate it. This structure is not yours. Your mind has no end last to accommodate it. This in... This increase is not yours.

So if I put a man of God in charge of this ministry whose whose heart is not enlarged... Listen. The reason why we'll continue to multiply is because this is not what I see. I've been saying this is under the tree. I'm creating room for my realities, creating room for what I want to experience. Guard your heart with all diligence. The pictures of your heart form the boundary of your life. Please believe what I'm telling you. The pictures of your heart form the boundaries of your life. And if as she begins to grow, as she come for the experience, come for believers equipped, he's saying, hey, man, to the prophecy, what is happening is that now this...

There's an enlargement. Enlargement. Enlargement. Possibilities that are not within our realm before can now start fighting expression. So one day she will go home. She will now check her email. She will now find out that the company she reached out to two years ago that did not give her job. I submitted to them and say, ah, we were looking for our records, and we found your name there. When can you resume? It's not a coincidence.

It's that now our others enlarged to accommodate that reality. This is a... This is how events happen in the realm of the spirit. Understand that when things happen to you, even if I mean by God, something can be yours today, but there's a constraint in your heart that delays it. Do you understand this? Come on. Sit down. Thank you very much. Clap for them. Hear me?

Hear me? What create these borders around you? When you were growing up, the things you were told, the things you saw, the things you experienced, they all form pictures in your heart. And God knows that these pictures in your heart can limit in. So when God speaks to you, he communicates to you in pictures. John Joel two twenty eight, the bible says, it shall come to pass in the last days I will power my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall see visions. Look at that.

Prophesy. Dream dreams. See visions. All of these things are pictures. God communicates to us in pictures. Without the right pictures, there's little God can do in your life. If you did not see beyond where you are, there's little God can do in your life. In fact, when a man says that he has faith, what faith does is to give motion to what you see, to give motion to the pictures in your heart because the bible says your faith... We walk by faith and not by sight. So faith itself operates by sight.

There is something that you must see if you walk in faith. There are people that their backgrounds has relegated them to the back. They cannot see beyond three square meters a day. They cannot see beyond getting a job to keep the spiritual and body alive. Listen, it's okay to have a job that sustains you, but it's not okay to have a picture of sustenance. You must have a picture of abundance. So even whilst you are getting sustained by your job, your picture is that of abundance. A picture where nations come to borrow from you. The bible says you will lend to nations. This is your reality.

I'm not a borrower. I'm the lender. Listen. I heard that the government is giving loans to students. If you are a member of BCN, do not collect any loan. Do not collect any loan. I don't have time to share with you the mysteries behind Maybe on one Tuesday, will come and explain this to you. This is a system of captivity. It's a Egyptian system of slavery. It's not a blessing.

It is slavery. Today is not for it. I'm not a borrower. I'm a lender to nations. Hear me. You are bigger than the government. I was speaking to a relative of mine about my plans for my life and ministry when I was a student. And most of these things I was telling the relative is what we now see today, some of them. Many of them are still yet to happen and they will happen. And I was just...

I was speaking to my relative about this. And whilst I was doing this, she was listening to me. When she was done, when I was done talking, she said, these are good things. Why don't you wait until you are done with service? Wait until your life begins. I said, the one I'm doing now is a Riazah. I should wait until my life begins. What am I now doing now? Am I am I dead? Am I realizing life?

Oxygen is in my in my nostrils. I'm breathing out. I'm breathing in, inhaling, exhaling. I should go on to my life. When will my life begin? And there are people that that is the picture in their heart. They believe that their life has not begun. When I finish school, I'll be thinking of what to do in my life. That's the picture. That's the picture.

So when there's somebody that is serious in their life, they are still a student now. In other words, why why should you show this most diligence to your life when you are... When your life has not yet begun? It's a picture. Why should you visit this series of your life and destiny when your life has not yet begun? It's a picture. A picture that formulates slow progress and delay and stagnancy. A picture. Jesus Christ. When God wanted to bless Abraham, God gave Abraham pictures.

Do you know that Abraham was counted righteous as a result of the picture that he believed? Genesis 15 verse three, Abraham's mind was constrained. God told Abraham that I will give you a child, but the child that God promised Abraham was being delayed. And you will think God was the one intentionally delaying the child, but when you now read chapter 50, the delay of the child wasn't God ordained. It was because Abraham's mind had not yet been enlarged. What God wanted to give him was more than a child. It's the seed that will birth a nation. Abraham was seeing just one one one small boy. Do you understand what I'm saying? And as long as that was the picture in Abraham's mind, God could not allow what he wanted to give him manifest.

So when God appeared unto Abraham, look at what he says in verse three, then Abraham said, look, you have given me no offspring. Indeed, one born in my house is my heir. Who is the one born in my house? Ishmael. So Abraham had relegated himself to say, Ishmael is my heir. Are you seeing why Isaac never came? What did God do? Next verse. God not say, how are you? No.

God said, behold. The word of the Lord came to him saying, this one shall not be your hair, but one who will come from your own body shall be your hair. You will think this is enough. Is that not so? Next verse. Then he brought him outside and said, look now, the heaven. Count the stars. What is God doing? Pictures. God is saying, how will you think that this illegitimate son of...

Is your heir? I didn't promise you this one. Let me show you what I promised you. Come. When I told you I will make you a blessing, let me show you what I'm telling you. When I told you in this, are the families of the earth be blessed? Let me show you what I'm telling you. Come. Count the stars. And when Abraham could not count, God told him, so shall your descendants be.

What is that? Pictures. Pictures. Next verse, the bible says, and he believed the Lord, and he accounted it to him for righteousness. So when you read the book of Hebrews and you see that Abraham believed God and was counted unto him for righteousness, This was when he believed God, when the pictures were clear, when the pictures were visible. Do you know that after God gave him the picture, God had to change his identity to match the picture God has given him. Listen, it's not enough to know your future. You must identify with your future. Those are two different things. You must...

Your identity must be a reflection of the future you have seen. So in 17 verse five, God now told him, no longer shall your name be called Abraham, but your name shall now be called Abraham for I have made you a father of many nations. This was someone who did not have a child, but God was painting pictures in his heart so that his identity becomes a picture of his future. Your identity must be a picture of your future. This guy had no child, and God told him no longer will your name be called Abraham. Your Your name will not come... Will now be called Abraham, father of many nations. Now imagine a barren man going to his throne and say, what's your name? I'm a father of many nations. What's your name?

Father of many nations. What? He had identified with his future. He now called himself his future. Many of us have the wrong pictures of our identity. The wrong pictures of our identity. God changed Abraham's pictures, his identity to reflect his future. Your identity must reflect your future. Some of you call yourself names that God did not call you. Name your class teacher called you in school, and you believe that you are shy.

Some people believe that they are foolish. People believe they can do... Cannot do anything right. You are walking on the road, and somebody says idiot, And you look, am I not that that that they're calling? They say, oh, idiot. Say, because you have identified yourself by their name. Some of you have allowed negative pictures to form your identity. You see wrong picture of yourself because of an event that happened to you in the past. Some ladies give themselves away to guys cheaply. A guy wants to kiss you, you allow.

A guy wants to hold your waist, you allow. You are naive. You can't bring yourself to say no. That's low self esteem. It's a wrong picture that's been formed in your mind. You see yourself as an object that is to be used. Some of you think you're unlovable. So any guy that says he likes you, even if you know that this person is a wrong person for me, you cling tightly because you don't... You feel you don't deserve better than that. You think anything better come from Nazareth.

If a guy ever comes to you, you feel as though, ah, somebody like me. This guy is coming. Somebody like me. I'm lucky you. It's a picture. It's a picture. That picture is the reason why you will suffer. If that thing ever leads to marriage, you will suffer. Wrong pictures. There are women that are very naive.

They can't say no to people. A guy wants to take advantage of you. All of us will tell him no. Be strict and tell him, come on. Get your hands off me. You know the problem? No picture of the identity. That girl sees herself as a slave, an object to be used, disposed by anybody. Why? Maybe she was raped when she was young.

And she feels as though... And what is even there again? She be... If they've already they've already seen all of me. What is still... What is remaining? What's remaining? So she feels any guy that comes can just have a taste and go. Any guy that comes, wrong pictures. Wrong pictures.

Some of you believe you adore. You already have that picture of yourself in your heart. So when you go and read, you don't understand what you are reading. And when you don't understand that, I know it. I won't get it. I won't get it. I never understand anything. Listen. The problem is not your understanding. The problem is you have believed you at all.

So even before you read, you have already sentenced yourself to failure. There are people that believe they are forgetful. Who named you forgetful? Who called you forgetful? You have the holy ghost in you. You say you are forgetful. That's an identity you have claimed. It's a picture of yourself you have. Someone has not even confirmed. Oh, their heart is already palpitating, beating fast even read small.

And he's still afraid she thinks you will fail. A picture she has of herself. A picture she has of herself. Let me ask you a question. If I pick somebody out of a prison from Kikiri or from the one here and they pick the person out and they say, they said I came to advise you on your finances and the guy is talking to you. He said, how long have they been serving? He said, have been there for, like, seven years. So what power what power in this realm made you feel listen to Joseph? They told Pharaoh that there's a man in the prison that can interpret this dream of yours. They said, go and bring it.

And Joseph appeared before Pharaoh and not only interpreted, gave solution. Pharaoh now said, who else shall we creep this office to except somebody that are breaking from prison? Somebody they are bringing from prison. How? His composure. That guy wasn't speaking like a prisoner. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Go and read that conversation.

He wasn't saying he wasn't saying, yes, sir. Yes, sir. So the the the dream. He he opposed the king and was beaten as though he's one of them. Listen. You can be in the prison. It does not mean you're a you're a prisoner. Listen. That means that means your situation is not your identity. Do not...

Listen. Do not identify yourself by your current problem. You are not poor. Don't speak like a poor man. When the guy was done talking, he said there will be seven years of famine, seven years of abundance. He said, oh, king, this is my expert opinion based on my expertise of economic resources. Get a man and build silos in Egypt. In the seasonal abundance, put grains in silos, store them there. For seven years, let no man have access to it. So that after seven years, the silos you have constructed, that is building intelligence, agriculture intelligence, maintenance intelligence, because whatever is kept there must be maintained.

There must be a cooling system that must be built. It is engineering. Everything inside one. And Pharaoh said, who else? Who else? Many of you have allowed your situations to undermine you. You now look at yourself based on your current experience. You think because you are high on it, you only have one color you are wearing, and you high on it every day and wash it every day. It means you are a poor man. And when people now say, ah, Nigeria, Nigeria is you you are part of them.

You are not part of them. Never define yourself by your current situation. Say, I got, like, 50 over a 100. Okay. How about this? 45 over a 100. After all I did. After all I did. After all I did. After all I did.

I read for eighteen hours. I see hand over with 50 over 100. I wonder, what do I even know? What do I even know? What do I even know? What you have done, you have a louder experience define your identity. You have allowed that experience create a picture in your head. Because a contract did not work out, does that mean that you're a failure? Abraham had no child, but God said no longer will your will your name be called Abraham. You will be called Abraham because I've made you father of many nations.

Your current reality is not your identity. Please believe what I'm telling you. You must... Listen. You must sustain the boldness to declare your future as your identity. When people look at you, they will think you are mad because what you are saying does not align currently with your experience. But what is happening, you are forming the boundaries of your heart, increasing the boundaries of your heart. Very soon, those things you are seeing in the picture will soon become your reality. Yes. Listen.

This is how life happens. That's why when you see people that are always sad, always gloomy, always walking around depressed, They are... They never amount to anything. I can tell you this. I can tell you this. Their emotions are always defined by their experience. There's no money. Somebody spoke back to them. Joseph was in the prison, and other prisoners had a bad dream. And he came to come and meet them and say, why are you sad?

Why are you sad in the... Is the prisoner not making you sad? The reason why Joseph could be excited and happy was because he never saw himself as a prisoner. That's why he could help others who were prisoners. I'm here, but I will not always be here. This is only a phase in my life. I'm only prison past. I will never call myself a temporal phase of my life. Oh, no. I will not.

I will not. I won't camp around here. It's a journey. You have caused men to ride over our head. So I won't because men have ridden on my head, climb the express road. You have caused us to walk through fire. I won't because I walk through fire and say I'm so yeah. No. But you have brought us to a wealthy place. Listen, there are temporal junction points in your life where you will go through fire, where you will go through water, where it look as though men are riding and climbing over your head, but that is not your reality.

That is not your that is not your hand. You must not see yourself as such. The pitfalls in your heart must be that of greatness. I can never be small. Listen. Whilst you are drinking Gary, you are smiling. You are rejoicing because you know. Hear me? Any false picture in your heart of yourself, it is broken now. You hear me?

Hear me? You go for interviews upon interviews, but never land a job. And you never know why. The reason is because shame has been weaponized inside of you. So you lack confidence. They are interviewing you. You are looking down. You are eloquent. Your responses are brilliant, but you have no confidence. You stammer even though I'm not a stammer.

Why? Because you are standing in front of greatness. You lose compulsion. What do you believe about yourself? What picture in your mind? What do you see about yourself? Oh, I know what I see. I know what I see. What pain teller picture in you? Some of you some of you, you were talking to an elder when you were young, and the elder, started at you.

Say, will you keep quiet? I'm talking as you are looking at me. Look down. So you cannot look at a man face to face. You can't look at a man face to face. You can't look at a man. That's shy. Your lecturer is talking to you. Yes, sir. Yes, Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. What formed that picture in you? Because the lecturer is not a man. Imagine Imagine that that was was how how Pharaoh Pharaoh was was speaking... Speaking... Judah Juda was was speaking speaking to to Pharaoh. Pharaoh. Say, sir. Sir. Sir.

Sir. The bible say they wash clean clean. Are you with me? They did not say, ah, you are the one who's having the resolution. Who else shall we give if not you? The guy did not say the guy did not say, ah, me. Ah, me. Are you sure? Ah, is it is it me? Really me?

Somebody came to bless you. You say, think this conduct is your own. Say how much is it? 100,000,000. Hey. Are you sure you don't make a mistake? Who told you is a mistake? Many of you many of you don't think anything good can land in your life. What painted that picture in you? You're amongst your friends, and they were talking about something maybe serious or even not serious, and you were listening, and then you now gave your input.

When you now gave your input, everybody now looked at you and... Now continued. And that day, picture now formed. Say, what what may I have to say does not count. I I don't think I can say anything that makes sense. Is that day, anytime you find yourself in any group, even when you know the answer, when you know the solution, this is what should happen. This is what I should do. You can't just bring yourself to do it, to say it. The the the lecturer ask the question, if I raise my hand now, you laugh at me. You laugh at me.

Who to... Who who painted this picture in your mind? Who put this thing in your mind? Don't you realize that the favor that you should have from that lecturer, you will limit it because you do not speak. Are you seeing this now? So when I declare you are favored, and the favor is meant to come upon you by that lecturer, and God is speaking to you, oh yeah, sorrow, sorrow. Say, will think... Yeah. They they will think... They will not laugh at me.

They not laugh at me. Who told you? Someone said... Someone told me that they got an instruction in my meeting to go and pitch their business to banks. And when they got to the first bank, you just saw the gate of the bank and ran back home. They had. She will never know what we're waiting for her inside. Whether that was our first millionaire project, whether that was our first contract in eight digits, she will never know. Why? Because she just saw the gate of the bank and said, It's not my type that is here.

What is now your type? Who put the picture of your type in you? What formed that picture in you? What formed that picture in you? Wrong picture of lack and poverty. They must break out of your mind. Listen, the prosperity of your life, the greatness of your life is hooked to your soul. If your soul prospers, you will prosper. That's why whenever I'm talking something that your mind cannot conceive as yours, you will zone out. That's why people sleep off in meetings.

I'm saying your greatness is yours. You'll be great. You'll be this. You'll be that. You are a lady to the nations. You are... And I'm and I'm painting this picture. The guy is sleeping. If I now say, that's coffees you have been waiting for for somebody to pay. Yeah.

You wake up. Why? That's the boundary of his heart. To him now, that's when I was speaking something that concerns him. He said, hey, apostle, now you are talking. Listen. The pictures in your heart must be greater than your age. It must be bigger than your background. Are you getting what I'm telling you? Who told you you are small?

Who told you you are small? The pictures in your heart is what makes people respond to you. Oh, do you know? Is what make life respond to you. There are some of you, you feel money is so difficult to make. You think money is the hardest thing a man can come by. That's why you are so moved by money. When small money comes to your hand, you can't give. You know why? Because you are thinking, when will the next one come?

This thing is too hard. It's too money. Money. I've used some people that when they talk about money and they say, ah, I'm trusting of 1,000,000. Ah, 1,000,000. Don't you have respect for money? Respect for money. And in that time, you decided that money is difficult to come by. After all, it does not go on trees. Who told you money is difficult to come by?

Money people are lending... Giving people up and down. You are favored. You hear me? He said money. Money. Money. Hey, money. What is wrong with you? Because of those picture you cannot give.

You can't empty yourself because you're afraid. When would next one come? When would next one come? When would next one come? Some of you, you you you you failed an exam. Maybe your old level results, you now went to your father or your parents, and that shouldn't result. He said, knew it. I knew it. I can waste. You are wasting money on this child.

Pictures are forming. Pictures are forming. Pictures are forming. They now say, come and bid for a contract. Come and bid for a contract. There's a opening somewhere. There's a grant that they are giving, 10,000,000 naira grant. If it was 500,000 naira, you will go. But you saw 20,000,000, 10,000,000, grant. Where did that picture come from?

No matter how anointed you are, your anointing is limited by the size of the pictures in your heart. Aaron was born as a slave in... Sit down. Sit down. Aaron was born as a slave in Egypt. He grew up as a slave. He had the mentality of a slave. Moses was born in the palace. He grew up as a prince. Moses was a Tamara.

Aaron was eloquent and could speak well. But when God needed a deliverer, God would go to the stammer who grew up in the palace and not the orator that grew up on the slave. What was the difference? Pictures. When God tells the orator that grew up as a slave, I will take you to a land flowing with milk and honey. He has never experienced milk and honey before in his life. His mind cannot conceptualize it. But the one that was born in a palace, when God calls him and tell him, I'm taking you to a land flowing with milk and honey, say, yes. That looks like my life. I grew up like that.

His mind can picture what God said. God said, I will... God. God can do more with a stumbler, with a large heart than with an orator with a narrow heart. Expecting that things will come outside of you when nothing has changed on your inside is like saying that something on the screen of your computer that you are seeing there, and now press print. It is what you see on the computer that you press print that will come out. Expecting a different result as it is in your heart is foolishness. Your life is control b of your heart. Somebody say, man of God, how do you even know what I will eat tonight? You are saying we should see greatness.

I just see myself learning the nations. I don't even know what I will eat today. Don't you understand that the fact that you don't know what you will eat today is your pictures that brought you there? If you will come out of it, it's not by looking forward to it. It's by changing your pictures first. Nigeria does not respond to you based on how things are in Nigeria. Nigeria responds to you based on how things are on your inside. In other words, they can be recession. They can be famine. They can say dollar is becoming high, and naira is becoming low, and the worth of naira is going down, and people are suffering.

That is how Nigeria is, but that is not how Nigeria responds to you. In Genesis 26 verse one, the man called Isaac saw that there was famine in the land. It was in the land of the Philistines. There was famine there. Isn't that so? And his first prerogative was to run away because there was famine. See, many of you. Those look familiar. There was famine in the land. He knew that God's picture for him was prosperity.

He knew. So he knows I shouldn't be suffering like this. But that was the extent to which he knew. His solution was. God now came. See God's strategy. If there is farmer in the land, what should God do as a solution to farming? It's not to bring food. That's not what God did. God did was to change pictures.

God came and told him, don't go down to Egypt. Live in the land of which I shall tell you. Next verse, pictures. Dwell in this land, and I will be with you, and I will bless you. For to you and your descendants, I will give all these lands, pictures. I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. Next verse. And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heaven, pictures. I will give to your descendants all these lands. And in your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.

Pictures. God never changed before mine. So what is saying? I didn't even know what I'll eat this night. Change your pictures. Inside the famine, God was telling the guy, I will multiply you. I will increase you. I will make your seed your descendants like the stars of the heavens. And he was seeing it. He was seeing it.

He was seeing it. Immediately finished seeing it. The guy now got business idea. He said, ah, he said, I'm going to Egypt and looking for a job. Let's start business now. Let's sow in the land. Verse 12. After the pictures changed, God did nothing about the famine, but Isaac sold in the land in famine. So Nigeria does not respond to you the way Nigeria is. It responds to you the way your heart is.

Inside famine, I have exilep me sow here. Who sows in famine? Someone whose picture has changed. Famine no longer responds to. It's now what he's seen. The life will now give back to him as he's seen for out of the abundance of your heart. Guard your heart with all diligence, out of which shall spring forth the issues, the boundaries of your life. So when the boundary of his life increased and moved beyond sustenance, he could now receive a business idea. Some of you, you will never receive an idea to start business because what is your mind is japa. As long as this guy was thinking japa, he didn't know he can sow the land.

The bible says the day he sowed... As he sowed the land, he reaped the same year a hundredfold. And the Lord... Why are they with blessing? The Lord blessed him. Verse 14, for he had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him. See, government is envying you. Do you know that this guy could do something about that farm mind, but he thought the solution was to run away? That's what narrow mindedness does to you.

You never see yourself as the answer. You think, let me run. Let me go. Let me go here. Let me come here. Whereas, the answer is inside of you, but your heart is too narrow. Pictures are not there. Look at this. In verse 19, the bible says, also Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found a well of running water there. This was in famine.

But the herdsmen of Gerah quarrel with Isaac's men saying, the water is ours. So he called the name of the world Essek because they quarreled with him. They dug well. Dug well. He invested their energy. They have invested their energy, And I said, sorry for wasting your energy, the land is our own. I didn't know and cry. He didn't say, all the hours you have spent, after all the time you have spent, that different picture affects even the way you do business, even the way you see yourself. It affects everything about you. That different picture.

What did he do? He said, he's taking it. Let's go and dig another one. Then the dog another way. I went for interview. I went for... I... They did... They give me five stage of interview. And after the fifth stage, I did not get the job.

Take another way. Travel to Lagos to go and meet the clients, and the guy will go wasted my energy. I'm not able to live another again. Dig another well. Dig another well. It takes energy to dig a well. Have you seen them before? There was no there was no. They dug manually until they eat water. They didn't cry.

They didn't weep. They dug another well. Look at it. So he... And they quarried over that one also. So he called his name, sit now. Then they dug another well. Oh, next verse. Sorry. And he moved from there and dug another well.

How many times have you... Have you tried that? Are you already there? You already there. Say, I went to this shop. They did not access me. I went to this shop. I posted. You said you spread our business. Now I've been going to this.

Nobody... Go and dig another way. What gives you the boldness to continue taking pictures? I cannot be rejected. God has made a space for me. God has made a way for me. I cannot be rejected. If you reject me, it's your loss. Look at this. And they did not quarrel over it.

So he called his name Rehoboth because he said, for now, the Lord has made room for us. God is making room for you. Pictures. Hear me. Before they got to where God made room for them, they dug and dug and dug. It means the fact that God has made room for you does not mean your first trial will be a hit. We are not disadvantaged. Because you lost an opportunity does not mean I begin to suck. Oh, God is with me. I don't cry because the door closed.

God is making room for me. That's why I said it is a picture of your heart that makes the earth respond to you. In farmland, keep digging wells. In farmland, keep digging wells. Who does that? A man whose picture have changed. Who knows that the Nigeria does not respond to me the way it is on? It responds to me the way my heart is. So I can start a business in this economy and prosper. I can build a house in this economy.

I can give 1,000,000 in this economy. I can give it... Listen. Our people are crying up and down. People are giving in six digit. Yes. Seven digits. You are not a part of the strivings of the people. See where I come from. Unless you struggle, you cannot make it.

That's a picture in your heart. Ah, Nigeria, unless you steal, you cannot have money. That's a picture in your heart. As a civil servant, there's no way you can become a Nigerian unless you are corrupt. That's the wrong picture. Joseph was a civil servant. Daniel was a civil servant. They were not corrupt. They were hamsters, and they were prosperous. There are some of you that had relatively good homes growing up.

Father had a car. Mother had a car. And you have thought in your mind that this is the best possible life there is. You have limited your code. It means even success can place inadequate pictures in your mind. Success. Because, I mean, you never saw your parents. Even even father had a good job, mother had a good job, but were were they giving millions to the kingdom? So how can that be your picture? You have...

You can limit yourself even by a seemingly good experience and think this is the best there is. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Matthew four. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Twenty six twenty eight. The bible says, the kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow. By himself, he does not know how. For the earth eats crop by itself. Can you see?

The word the earth eats crop by itself is the word automatos. It means automation. It means it happens automatically. That what you plant in the earth is what comes out of it automatically. And the bible says the soil is the heart of man. It means whatever is sown into your heart springs out of you automatically. I know what is sown in my heart. I know what is sown in my heart. This year is the largest garden of young people in Nigeria. That is what is sown in my heart.

The least of us will be as strong as Jesus when he walked on earth. Kings and nobles will come from me. There's no one who will ever know me that will be small. My heart is calling for kings. If you are here, you're a king. It is possible again for the blessings of God to be hanging over you, but your pictures cannot receive it. Listen. You are not too young to be a billionaire. Don't use the picture of people's inadequacy around your life. You are not too young to own houses.

You are not too young to own an orphanage. That picture of you will own an orphanage that God has been putting in your mind is not when you finish school. It can be now. Say, apostle, how much is manifest conference budget? How much is manifest conference budget? Say, what is... 20,000,000. Don't don't announce it again. Say, I'm handling everything. You are not too young to be...

Do big things. Hear me. You are not too young to hold your first conference. You are not too young to be a keynote speaker. Speaking with the likes of boost them the choir. You are not too young to stand on a national platform where the vice president of president sit down and you are speaking. To go on everything in the country in different part of the world, to come back with medals, awards and rewards, scholarships. Listen. Let these pictures form in your heart. Hear me.

When these pictures form in your heart, you will jump at every opportunity like you know it is yours. Say, write an essay. Whoever wins, 5,000,000 naira. This is my own. If you run away from false things, there's no picture in your heart. There's no picture. You don't wanna say, apply for this job. They know they they know they know who they will give, Jerry. It's themselves they will give. They will give.

It's not people like us they will give. Who are people like you? Who are people like you? People like you that don't deserve blessings. Listen. When we hit the good of the land, When they are distributing cakes, you know what they call it? That's it. I'm in your front like this. It's not crumbs that come to me. It's not leftover.

It's not scraps. Hear me. We are in the cold of power. Where policies are being made, that's where we are. You should not be a beggar. You should not be barely getting by in life. See yourself taking the lion's share. Don't see yourself eating like an ant. See yourself taking nations. Hear me.

As I'm here like this, I've seen myself in Asia. I've seen myself in Europe. I've seen I've seen I've seen all the seven continents of the world. I've seen the largest platforms in all those places. I've seen I've seen kings bowing to me. I've seen these things in my visions. So when I meet people now, it affects how I talk. I don't honor people to the detriment of my grace. You know, because of how I grew up, we're we're, you know, we're trained to respect a lot. And I'm a man of God.

I'm... I met with... I was with the man of God, and his precious son, right, brought his colleague in his place of work. And the colleague had big belly and beard all over his face. So men just thought the way we the way we thought, you see an elderly man. You bow down and and postrate. So spiritual son now said this is my man of God. This is apostle man of. The man of God did like this. I did like this.

Good afternoon, sir. When I left the place, the man said, He said, see how he introduced you? He said, this is apostle Emmanuel Bolo Atifa. You don't bow. He bows to you. Yes. Yes, ma'am. I said, hey. I'd no no. One of one of my young men, we met met met a man of God.

And out of honor, you need just rub... Just rubbish yourself and call it honor. Rubbish yourself. Drag yourself on the floor as though you are nothing. Honor is a state of your heart. It means I place you in high esteem. Does not mean dishonor yourself. When the bible says the lesser is blessed of the better, it does not mean you are lesser in category. It means that you have taken a posture in your heart that says this man has something unique I might not have, and so I humble myself to receive. Are you with me?

Doesn't mean I disgrace my entire family members in the name of honor. Pictures, they are powerful. And you stand in front of great men and know you're a great man yourself. I receive of what you have. But I don't shake your hand as my hand is broken. How are you doing? Good afternoon. Oh, I've I've been blessed by your ministry. You look into their face. They are not gods.

You say a celebrity. What is your problem? You walk into supermarket. You said this is my craft. I make this. This is the best you'd ever find. You don't go and say, hey, Joel. I'm a student. I'm trying to survive. I joined by me.

What is that? When you meet... When you are in a corporate square, you don't think I'm a student. Nobody cares. What they care about is what value you offer. Don't try to reduce yourself intentionally. Don't do that. Yeah. Some of you cannot receive honor. Your heart your heart feels that.

Say, hey. Hey. Hey. Please. What is that? You're a king. There were people that were brilliant in scriptures, in scriptures. But whenever God wanted to do something big, he will go to the palace and find a man. Because that's where large hearted people are. That's why to bring Israel out of Egypt, Moses must be engineer to the palace.

To save Israel from famine, Joseph must be engineer to the palace. To deliver Israel from Amman, Esther must be to the palace. Sir. To save Israel from Jezebel, Jehu must be to the palace. Have you not seen that this is a pattern in scriptures? Why do you not want to be small? Ezra was an anointed teaching priest when God wanted to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. He was teaching in Jerusalem. God not come to him. God went to Nehemiah who is in the palace.

After David was anointed, God knew that his training was not complete. Mighty and anointing, but narrow in heart. There is little that God can do through you when your heart is narrow. So God engineered him to the palace until his heart was enlarged. What was the excuse? Who can play harp? Who can play harp? God is enlarging your heart. Hear me? Hear me?

For some of you, your heart is just too narrow. It's just too too small. Too small. Your thinking is small. When I'm prophesying greatness to you, you cannot receive it. You say amen, but it won't land on you because your heart cannot conceive it. Even if you start a business, you will run it like a like a small man. The picture in your heart is sustenance as a student as a student as a student. The picture in your mind is average. Let me just pass my exam.

Let me just pass my exam. You can't see distinction because you have a nadu heart. Say, ah, does it mean that we have a? And then somebody come and say, I had a in my exam. You can never picture yourself having a. Oh, really? You have a a... You first laugh. Amen. Narrowheartedness and great things cannot land there.

And God is saying, don't you see how much I wanna do in you, but how much you have limited me? If a stadium is not in your heart, you can never hold a meeting in a stadium. Anywhere I go right now, it has registered in my heart that there is a limited number of people that must be there. They can't go below that number. Even if it's in a pit unknown. I'm not agitated. I'm not... Mm-mm. It is it is already... It's it's a done deal.

What I'm doing now is enlarging it. Enlarging it. Enlarging it. Your heart is enlarged. Jeremiah chapter one from verse five. Am I am I am I boring you? Hear me. Nothing great will ever come out of a man whose heart is small. Nothing great. Nothing great.

God will do nothing with a small heart. God will do nothing. Have you seen people that have potential, but they are small? Only you can sing, only you can do this, only you can... How many things can you do? And they can do it good. Not mediocre, mediocre here and there. Excellently well, but their life does not have anything to show for it. And they think it is in trying to change external things. You have to first change the pictures in your heart.

What is limiting you is your heart. The pictures are too small, too myopic. Jeremiah one. Jeremiah one. Verse five. Before I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you. God said I knew you. He said I ordained you a prophet to the nations, not your primary school. To the nations. And God was speaking to a 15 year old boy.

He said, I ordained you a prophet to the nations. Next verse. Then said, hi. Lord God, behold, I cannot speak not because I'm deaf and dumb, not because I'm a stammer, for I am a youth. Did they shut your voice? Who told you that youth cannot speak? Who painted this picture in your mind that once you are a youth, oh, lessor. Who convinced you? One of my daughters gave her first seven digits, and it just occurred to me to ask, how old are you? She's not up to 20.

She's not up to 20. God is lifting you. You know, I cannot speak for I'm a youth. Go to next verse. But the Lord said to me, do not say I am a youth. Question was not a youth. Does not know what it is, but God said don't define yourself by your current realities. That's what that's what God is saying again. Do not say I am a youth. Don't say I'm poor.

Don't say I'm a failure. Don't say I don't have money. Don't say I'm I'm small. I came from a family that... Oh, no. That's not your life. Look at this. For you shall go to hall whom I send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Again, pictures. Next verse.

Pictures. Don't be afraid of their faces for I am with you to deliver you, said the Lord. Next verse. Pictures. 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. Pictures. Next verse. And I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, And the word I have put in your mouth will root out, will pull down, will destroy, will throw down. It will build, and it will plant because I've put my words in your mouth, pictures.

When God say to pull down, is it p u l l? What you... What will you see? What God was doing is painting pictures. This guy was seeing the word of God in his mouth pulling things down, rooting out, pulling down, destroying, throwing down, building, planting. He was seeing it. He was seeing it. He was seeing it. Next verse. Moreover, the word of Lord came to me saying, Jeremiah, give me so that you will see where my my title came from.

One, three, everybody. Pause. In other words, all the things I have shown you now, I put my my my my my hand in your mouth. I have ordained you to pull down, to uproot, to kinekon, to kinekon, does not mean it will happen. The fact that I have put my hand in your mouth does not mean you will uproot anything. You can still go and do good morning. My my my co debaters and my timekeeper and my... That's all you will do with your utterance. Whereas, the words in your mouth can uproot. It can pull down.

It can... Are you with me? That's why God had to ask him after God was done painting the pictures. God now say, are you are you still seeing a child? Are you still seeing a small boy? Because either what you are still seeing, I can't do anything with you. Jeremiah, what do you see? What do you see? I see a ministry of standing before nations raising my voice to heaven and people are flying out under the power. As I raise my voice to heaven, healings are happening.

People rising up on wheelchairs. I see a man standing in the board of companies. I see a man owning industries, working in different places. I see a young woman who's a captain of 50, a captain of 100. I see a man in politics. I see a woman in politics. Jeremiah, what do you see? What seest thou? What seest thou? I see a kingdom financier, financing churches, building churches, building churches.

What seest thou? What seest thou? I'm not a small boy. I'm not a small boy. When I speak, kings listen. When I speak, everyone hears me. I'm not a small boy. What seest thou? There is a praying spirit within me. He raises his voice for me.

Hear me. Hear me. And we're here. Most of them cherubim and seraphim Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Jeremiah, what seest thou? Deborah, what seest thou? Esther, what seest thou? Elijah, what seest thou?

Joseph, what seest thou? Daniel, what seest thou? Do you see or do you see a king? Do you see a young girl, or do you see a queen, a mighty businessman within the nations, within the world? Hear me? Hear me? Listen. Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? Watch this. And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

When he said, I am but a young child, what he was seeing was a seed. When he was asked, what do you see? He said I'm no longer a seed. I am now the rod putting out of an almond tree. Hear me? Hear me? Next verse, the bible says, then said the Lord, thou hast seen well. My brother, my sister, have you seen well? Have you seen well? Are you seeing well right now?

Hear me. I'm not a small boy. I'm an apostle. My voice will reach the nations. Hey. Hear Hey. Me? Hear me? Hear me? Listen.

In Jesus name, have prayed. Then said the Lord, thou has seen well. Watch. Because you have seen well, I will hasten my word to perform it. Hear me. Hear me. There is a connection between speed and fight. Hear me. Delay can be a result of wrong vision. God said, when a man sees well, himself hasten his word.

It means things can move slow in your life because you have not seen well. Look, it is possible for a man to experience no performance because they have not seen well. Higher higher higher higher name Jesus. Jesus. Are We holy spirit Hear me? I'm done. I'll finish on Tuesday. I'll finish this teaching on Tuesday because I'm gonna show you how these pictures break. And how new ones form. There is a way.

How does a narrow mind become big? I'll do it on Tuesday. Don't miss on... Don't miss Tuesday. Don't miss it. I will start teaching very early because I have a lot to say. One of the ways that the pictures break, that's the last one. There are five of them. The last way that the pictures break is through prophetic declarations. Hear me?

As I'm speaking to you as a prophet, what is happening is I'm shattering pictures. All the time you have been hearing me, for many of you, people were shattering. New ones were forming. New ones were... Are are you with me? Listen. When power comes upon you, what happens is that pictures break and new ones form. Hear me? Hear me. Hear me.

A lady came to me two weeks ago, and she told me about her family and things that were happening in her family. Hear me? And it was very pityable. She was even crying very, very pityable situation, and I was very empathetic towards her. Very lovely lady, and she was shedding tears. She was crying. And I felt her pain. I will pray for the family, but that is all she sees, nothing will change. That's two weeks ago. Last week, I was prophesying that the hand of God is coming upon people, and she went under the power.

She came to visit me, and she brought out a paper full of things she wrote down. She said, sir, I went out under the power. I saw. I saw some... I saw a voice speaking to me, and God told me I'm the handkerchief to your family. I've made you great. So I see I wrote it down. I said, Kai. Kai. Kai.

Kai. Kai. This one has no idea what has happened. Every man God made grace. That was how they wrote it down. Every man. I remember when I wrote my own down. Walk with me, and I will make you great. I looked at her. I said, nothing might have changed around you, but this is where change begins.

The borders of your heart has expanded. Now you know I'm the answer. Can I speak words over you? I have two minutes and we are done. I'm seeing I'm seeing a change of name. God says, God says, your name has been affecting your reality. But in the name of the spirit, I'm seeing a change of name. Right now, I declare your name is changed. Listen. Do you know that we are unable to take a quarter of the testimonies that come from here?

We're unable to take a quarter. In fact, to cover up taking testimonies, I told them that we will take testimony on Tuesdays now. It's too much. God is shifting you. Wrong people are breaking. Hear me. God is lifting your heads. In the name of Jesus. You are coming out of smallness. In the name of Jesus.

Break out now. Break free now. In the name of Jesus. Hear me? Hear me. From today, you lose your ability to think small. Hear lose me? Hear me? Hear me? Where they have told you, cut your coat according to your size.

Now I increase your size. Hear me. Hear me. Where money has been coming to you in Kobo. Let it come in bundles. Come. Sales you make in one month. Make in one hour. Sales you make in one month. Make in one hour.

Let there be a shift. Young man in green. Young man in green. Come. I will pray for you too. Hold my hands. God is shifting you. In the name of Jesus. Lifting your head. In the name of Jesus.

Hear me. I'm seeing a book opened. And I'm asking God, what is this? And God is telling me this is the book of remembrance. For a long time you have been forgotten. But now you are remembered. In the name of Jesus. Let the shift happen. Hold my hands. Let it happen now.

You are favored. In the name of Jesus. You are favored. In the name of Jesus. Take it now. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. What you make in one month is become your daily revenue. Hear me.

Hear me. What is a sacrifice to you yesterday is becoming your tithe. Because God is enlarging your coast. You are expanding on every side. In the name of Jesus. Balperazim has risen for you. The Lord on the brakes has risen for you. Hey, hey, Where you have been moving small small? Where you have been moving small small? Listen.

Listen. Listen. People will say, start small. Start small. Start small. Listen. Start small in relative. I don't like saying start small. I prefer start where you are. It's different.

Start small can be a million. Every stronghold of the mind. Every demonic sponsored stronghold. That has changed your identity. That makes you think you are a failure. That makes you think you have lost come, brother. Come, you are calling me. Come. That brother in black. Come here.

There's a shift in your life. In the name of Jesus. There's a shift in your life. In the name of Jesus. I see your hand holding wealth. I see your hand holding money. I see your hand holding money. Help her now. That border is heavily favored. Heavily favored.

I'm seeing the mark of favor upon him. Hear me. Every stronghold of the mind. I... Where your identity have been changed by demons. That makes you feel you are an object to be toyed with. You are a failure. You are a poor man. You can't do anything great. Wherever demons have oppressed your mind to change your pictures.

Right now, I declare, let those pictures be broken. Be careful. Be careful. God said it is your time. I see it written on the hair. It is your time. I declare that time has come now. In the name of Jesus. Now what you have been looking for, let them find you. Thank you, Jesus.

There's a young man upstairs that God is pushing into tens of millions. I push you there now. Thank you, Jesus. Can you thank God for what he has done in this meeting? Thank you, Lord Jesus. In Jesus mighty name, have prayed. We are done. We'll share the grace right now. Before we go, if it is your first time worshiping with us, you can just come to the left hand side here. We love you.

We would like to meet with you. We would like to fellowship with you. We would like to celebrate you. Just come here. Alright. We wanna receive you the way we receive kings in this year. So come here. Please come. Don't be shy. Don't be ashamed.

You've broken away shyness already, haven't we? So come here at the end of the meeting, and God will bless you even as you do so. In the name of Jesus. Come. That woman in the overall. Come. You've come. No. It's you. Why?

She's looking at the back. Come here. It it is your time. Amen. In the name of Jesus. It is your time. Amen. In the name of Jesus. I break the chain of delay. I break the chain of slow progress.

Move with seed. In the name of Jesus. Where you have been crawling, now you are running. Where you are running, now you are flying. In the name of Jesus. At the close of the meeting, please call me a very first time man. God will bless you in the name of Jesus. Remember publishing the word. As you leave here, share the messages, put people on Telegram, and God will bless you as you do so. If you are a DBS student, just wait behind the afternoon student.

Wait behind upstairs there at the gallery immediately after the meeting. God will bless you in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Let me say this. Let me say this. Every... Everyone who wants to see me, you don't have to see me for what I've thought about. Your answer has already come. Is that okay? Yes.

You don't have you don't you don't have to wait and see me and say, sir, when you were speaking, you said this about me. That's why I said it. Yes, sir. When I said it, the answer came. Yes, sir. It will not come stronger when you see me. The me... You see the same words that I will speak. You understand what I'm trying to say? Yes.

So you don't have... If if it's because of that, don't have to see me. Well, if you have any other reason, of course, I'm available to see everybody. Let's share the grace together in fellowship, everybody. And forevermore. Amen. Loudly speak surely. Amen. Amen. I want you to walk up to three people.

There's been a plague of sickness. I've just been hearing somebody is sick. People are sick. People are sick. Right now, I put a curse to it. And I put an end to it. In the name of Jesus. If you are sick in your body, be healed right now. In the name of Jesus. 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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