Transcript: Principles That Birth Results
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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. So the things that the Lord has been putting in my heart are not really complicated matters. They are they are things I believe are the simplicities in Christ Jesus. They are not suggestions. They are mysteries. They are the principle that govern the victory, the lifting, and every possibility in this kingdom. I believe in results. I believe that your life must bear fruits. I believe you have to live a victorious Christian life.
And I believe that the surest way to live a victorious life is not by chance, is not by struggle. It is by intentionally surrounding your life with the principles of scripture. That I believe is the surest way as a believer to live a victorious Christian life, to intentionally surround your life with the principles of scripture. The principles of scripture. Because you see, there is no result in this kingdom that happens in a vacuum. For every dimension of God that you desire, there is a law that governs its manifestation. If you align with that principle, the results will follow you effortlessly. There are mysteries that preserve men. There are mysteries that multiply men. There are mysteries that enthrone men.
There are mysteries that keep men working in power. The tragedy is that many believers ignore these mysteries and then wonder why they are defeated in very cheap warfare, very cheap battles. For instance, the presence of God is a mystery. That if a believer knows how to get himself constantly working in an atmosphere of his presence, an atmosphere of his glory, there are possibilities that will follow his life, that will make his life different from one without the presence. In the book of Exodus, the Bible says my presence will go with you and I will give you rest. It means that there is a possibility of rest that follows a believer who understands the mystery of his presence. A possibility of rest. Note that they were about to go on a very far journey. That journey would take them forty years eventually. And the Bible says that I will give you rest.
It means rest is not the absence of work. Rest is not the absence of labor. Rest is not the absence. Because you're about to triumph. You're about to start working. Go on a journey. And the bible says you will go on that journey in rest. It means a man can go about his life but live his life in rest. That there are turbulent and tumours all around, but you see him living in rest. And you wonder what what makes you so at peace?
Almost as though the devil does not exist. But because he had understood a principle, a mystery in this kingdom. A man can understand the presence of God. Know the protocols that surround his presence. And if you can live perpetually in his presence, you would live in rest not because there are no tumours around you, not because there are no troubles around you, but because you have understood a mystery. The Bible says I will keep him in perfect peace. Whose mind is stayed on him. It means the bible then reveals one of the principles of assessing his presence. It is your mind must be stayed on him. You must practice the principle of stillness.
Stillness in his present, understanding how to make your mind still. And as you are making your mind still, you are focusing on him. You are beholding him. And you begin to see realities of rest in your life. Jesus was able to sleep in the storm. In the storm, he slept in the boat. Despite there was turmoil and troubles all around. But that can be the possibility of a believer as well if he understands this thing that we speak about. And if it is not in your life, you will lose cheap battles. Cheap battles.
Realize that the children of Israel were not even fighting the people of Egypt even after they pursued them. They never turned to fight. Yet the presence of God. The Bible says as they were going, God started orchestrating things around the earth, manipulating the earth, manipulating nature such that their chariots could not run fast because the ground was holding down the chariots. These people were on chariot because they couldn't catch people that were walking on dry land. And it was not as though they were running or applying some kind of extra effort in working. These people were children and old people, and yet they were still working. Yet though well, chariots could not catch up to them. It tells me something, chariot of Ahab, that there are times when Ahab himself will try to overtake you and earth will slow him down. That was what happened to the Egyptians.
The bible said there was a drag force pulling them down. That they would think they're in a competition with you, but you have surrendered your life with a mystery. That they would wonder why it works for you but doesn't work for them. It's a mystery that a man can so understand the presence of God and live your life by the presence according to that dictate. And people will try to copy your principles. They will come and ask you, what did you do? And they will try to go and do it, and they won't see the God you are seeing. It's the mystery of the presence. It's the mystery of the presence. These are one of the things that...
Oh my god. Listen. I understand this presence. Understand this presence. I understand that it's one thing to get ideas. It's another thing to get them in his presence. I understand the inspiration that comes from his presence. When Jethro saw Moses struggling, Jethro was beating the guy and he told the guy something that was very valid because God did not dispute it. He said, if you continue like this, you will soon die. How will you be the judge and jury over millions of people?
You would weary yourself. Appoint leaders. Appoint judges over Israel. Teach them what to do. Let them handle the small matters so that the huge matters only come to you. And that was a wise business principle, wise church principle, wise principle in all wise. Yet the man did not have the authority by God to go ahead with that idea even though it's a very good idea. And then one day in the presence of God, God came and said the same thing. The same thing. Pick 70 elders of Israel.
What's the difference? The same thing. Pick 70 elders of Israel, and I will take from your spirit and put it upon them. There's so many lessons to learn. But the first lesson I would learn from it is that if it came from God, not that it comes from God directly really, but it comes in an atmosphere of the presence. There's a breath and an empowerment that comes with it. It might be that it might be what somebody has already said before. But as you worship, as you are in that atmosphere of this presence, the holy spirit bring be the gain into your remembrance. You just remember it. At that point, it's not it's not just an idea.
It's a spirit empowered illumination. But if you don't know the protocol of his presence, you will miss out in things like this. Because it's a mystery. It's a mystery that a believer must intentionally surround himself by. Surround himself by. There's no great man of God who understands his presence, who will not teach you, who will not tell you that one of the most powerful way of accessing his presence is through the ministry of stillness. Your mind is too busy. Your mind is everywhere. Your mind is everywhere. David himself taught this.
David would the bible call a man after his own heart. When you go to his presence, gather your thoughts. Discipline your mind. Discipline your soul. Discipline your soul. The principle is outer court, inner court, and all your... All is in alignment. That's the principle. God, your soul, and spirit in alignment. Now what is in your spirit begins to permeate into your soul, and then your god now finds, now experiences the reality that your soul has allowed.
That means that the bible says that those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. That means worship begins in your spirit. But because you are a human being, you are spirit, soul, and body. So it begins in your spirit but doesn't stay in your spirit. It finds expression in your soul. What is happening in your spirit must begin to pass the gates of your soul, enter into your emotions, enter into your mind, enter into your will. That's why we practice stillness in all this. To ensure that this thing, this equation is complete, that the spirit seeps into the soul, then what happens is that the body begins to experience realities that are beyond the ordinary. That's the point where you would know that the presence of God is with you, not by faith. We know by faith.
That's the realm that every believer stays in. You know by the word of God, that the holy spirit is always with you, that the God is always with you, that angels around you. But the believer can get to the point where he knows, that he knows, that he knows. Because there will be tangible expressions, tangible expressions of the spirit. We rarely talk about these things. Tangible expressions of the miraculous, of the supernatural, tangible. Always around him. Supernatural things that cannot be explained with the mouth. Some of us have had such experiences that we cannot explain. One of my guys, some time ago told me this.
She was pray, listening to a message and worshiping and just praying on her bed, and she... It got to a point in that prayer as she was broken. Broken and started weeping, started crying. She was lost in the atmosphere of this glory, all alone in her wrath. And when she became conscious when she became conscious and her eyes opened, she landed on her bed. That was when she realized she has been floating physically. She landed on her bed. That was when she realized she had been levitated. Yes. There are realities beyond what mouth says, beyond what eyes says.
Was praying some time ago. I'm worshiping and meditating, and I was taken in my spirit. I was on a high mountain, and the mountain was was snowing everywhere, snowing everywhere, snowing everywhere. And that high mountain, I saw an angel who was with me kept speaking and talking. And then after some time, angel left, Jesus came. And I was so lusty. That atmosphere, his power, his glory. And it was as though the snow that was happened before intensified. And I began punctures in my room. I found out that my room had become so cold.
I wanted to go and off my AC. I realized that there was no light. Colder than the lowest temperature on my AC. So what is this? The fact that we don't speak about these things doesn't mean that all we say is all there is. There are realms in God, deeper and greater and greater realms in God. There are virgin dimension that the holy spirit wants to. When I speak with some men of God and they are talking and they start sharing some of the encounters, it just makes me wonder that if people hear these things, they will just see these people are lying. Because these are realms that you look as though they are they are far from the experience of believers now. Far from the experience of believers now.
Some time ago, I was in the fellowship where I used to go preaching. And when I was done in the fellowship, I came out. When I came out, a young man came to meet me and said, he had followed his brother. He traveled from... Forgot where he traveled. I think he said Ephed now also because he was asking his brother who was that man of God that came to bless them in his fellowship. And then he described the man of God, the brother said, oh, that must be the man of God that comes to my fellowship that is in Lebanon to preach. And he said, oh, really? That... Can you send me his picture?
And he said, he said, yeah. He's the one. So he traveled down to Ibaran to come and see me, and when next is he finishing your fellowship? Oh, wait next day. I'll be there. So he traveled down, and he met me and told me that he was really blessed last week when I was in Ife. I was never in Ife. To preach, I was never in Ife. I was never in any fellowship. And the old master saying, he was really blessed.
How do I tell this man that I was not there? I told him, you are sure I'm the one? He said, ah. Sir, God bless you. But I was thinking about that event for more than one month. I wouldn't think about anybody because it it sounded so strange to my ears. But I started hearing some men of God speaking about similar experience. There are ways God will introduce you beyond flyers and banners. There are dimensions in God. Strange, verti dimensions in God.
I was traveling some time ago, and I was listening to a message, then I removed the message, then I was pressing my phone, giving... I think it was on WhatsApp giving instructions to some people. And I was having this expression in my spirit, this burden in my spirit as though there's a call to pray, like trouble within my spirit. And it was coming so strongly. It was maturing to a point of physical pain in my chest, and I knew that I had to pray. But then I wanted to give my instructions very fast. So I was just giving my instructions, giving my instructions, ignoring what was there. And I heard a very loud voice like somebody put their mouth in my ear and screamed into my ears. Emmanuel. Except for the fact that I was the only one in the car and the person who was driving.
He was so powerful. I had to check and wonder, and the voice kept quiet. Immediately, I knew it was to come and tell me to pay attention to what is happening inside of my spirit. And I started praying. I started praying. Started praying. I can't imagine the danger that was averted. When a man surrounds himself by mysteries and by principles, your life becomes a wonder, a literal sign and a wonder. This is not dimensions that are separate for a few. Just for men of God and for women of God.
No. It's for every believer who knows what it takes to get into that realm and to stay there. He that dwells in the secret of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. I will say the Lord is my refuge and my fortress. My God in him will I trust. He that dwells. He that dwells. He that dwells in the secret pit of the most high. That's the person that this reality follows. Surely, will deliver me from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence shall cover me with his feathers.
And under his wings shall I trust. His truth shall be my shield and my butler. I will not be afraid of the terror by night nor for the harrow that flies by day, nor for the pestilence that works in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. A thousand will fall at my side, 10,000 at my right hand. But they will give his angels charge over me. The bible says he will not come near me. Only with my eyes will I see and behold the reward of the wicked. My Lord, my refuge, even the most high in my habitation. Even the most high in my habitation. These are expressions in scriptures that have become true, become true.
That his presence is a mystery. Are you with me? Yes, sir. His presence is a mystery. But But that's not all there is. That's not even my teaching. Funny enough. That's not all there is. There are principles and laws in this kingdom that if you know and you live your life by intentionally so, intentionally so. Intentionally so.
You would find that results and results upon results is what will always accompany you. Results. Don't be a foolish believer. Don't be a believer who knows but does not do. Because this I'm about to teach or give you instructions, really the instructions, are not new. There are things you have heard again and again and again. But when you find that the result that should accompany what you know are not accompanying you, it is proof that you are not doing. It means knowledge is not what is missing for many. It is doing. It is the application.
And the bible said when a man hears the word of God but does not do it, he deceives himself. He deceives himself. So this for many people is a reminder. This for many people is gonna be something you've known and always heard, but the rich spirit comes to come and reawaken your heart to understand the revelation and to put revelation behind it in your heart. Are you with me? Yes, sir. What are these principles? I'm gonna give you four of them. Really, there are many. But this four is what I believe that some of us are already losing sight of.
We are already losing consciousness of. And again, we have to be reminded so that we'd not fall victim of spiritual ignorance. The word ignorance means to not know. But it means more than that. Because it comes from the word ignore. It also means to know and to ignore. Are you with me? Yeah. So number one, principle. And I want to share with us that governs results in this kingdom, that governs results in this kingdom, is the law of spiritual hunger.
The law of spiritual hunger. I have a teaching on this. I have several teachings on this. So this really is just an instruction, a reminder, an instruction in righteousness. The law of spiritual. Your glory reign in all the earth. I don't want me to know that you are God. Let your power reign in all the earth. The nations bow, Matthew chapter five and verse six, the bible says, blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. Hunger is a law in the spirit.
In the natural realm, hunger is a sign of weakness. But in the kingdom, hunger is a sign of life. Hunger is proof that you are alive. When you lose appetite for food, it means something is wrong with your body. When you lose appetite for God, it means something is wrong with your spirit. The economy of God does not respond to casual seekers. In the book of Jeremiah chapter 29 and verse 13, the bible says, you shall seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart. The principle of seeking God to the point where you find him is to seek him with all of your heart. Not some. The principle is not some.
The principle is all. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? The principle is what now? All of your heart. All of your heart. All of your heart. And that's where hunger comes in. Because the problem is not that some of us are not seeking God. The problem is with the whole. The hall.
That's where the issue is. And the bible says that you will not find me if your hall is not included in your pursuit. But many of us are not ready to put our hall inside the pursuit. We want to seek, but we just don't want to use our whole. Because we feel as though that is demanding too much. We feel as though that is expecting too much. But Jesus said, you will seek me and find me. And I think that this generation has to be reminded of this now because there are many things right now contending for your heart. More than there was twenty years ago, more than there was fifty years ago, more than there was a hundred years ago, two hundred years ago. So it was easier to seek God with all your heart because there were not too much competition.
There was no TikTok, there was no Instagram, there was no Facebook, there was no many movies, there were not many things that could seek for that attention. So if you love God, you love him. If you were in pursuit of God, you were in pursuit of him. That's why you read some of the stories of these men, and you wonder how they so gave themselves to God. This generation has to be reminded of this more than ever before because there is much more contending for your heart now than there ever was. That's why it looks as though those who carry power the most are those who grew up in that generation even till today. Do you know that there has never been a time in any generation where there's been so many gap, so much gap that is after the death of Christ and the awakening of the church? Right? There's never been a generation where there is so much gap between a generation that is passing and the one that is coming. There has never been a time where that gap exists like it does now.
The generation that is passing and the one that is coming. Usually, when generation is passing, the next generation is doing as much as they are doing, if not more. So that by the time they pass, what happens is a transference. A transference that upscales the results that these ones are now having. Go and read through history. I don't wanna take you through history now. I would have shown you Charles and Francis Hunter. I would have shown you AA Allen. I would have shown you TL Horseman. Go and study about these people's lives and wonder the gap between your generation.
As one was going, the other was rising. Empower. In influence. In greater glory, in greater power. Truly, the glory of the latter house did surpass the glory of the former. Truly. Truly, every generation became an upgrade of the next. Truly. It was not a time when you celebrate Alexander Doey, and then for many years, you don't see any other Alexander Doey. No.
As one passed, another came. As one passed, another came. As one passed, another came. It was an intentional system of transference. Because there were not many things that were wrestling and tugging with the heart of men when it came to the pursuit of God. There were not many things. There were not many things. So if these people started with God, their whole was on God. It was either God or God. And then you fast forward into the ones, the patriarchs of faith we have now.
The likes of Adebue, likes of Oedipo, the likes of Nenche. And Nenche said after medical school, God told him to drop everything and go and start a church. God told him to leave his... Where he was with his wife and their first daughter and travel to Abuja to start a ministry. And off they went knowing nobody, knowing no man, knowing no soul. Off they went to Abuja. What kind of blind obedience is that? The question is, how many people in this generation will God ever tell? Just go now. Be on your way.
You have no idea who you are going to meet, where you are going to meet, what will happen in that place. How can a man just leave all their life behind in obedience to God? There are not many things talking in their heart. It was either God or you will seek me and find me if you seek me with all of your heart. That if all is not involved, there are many things you will find, but not me. If all is not involved, there are many things you would find. You can find miracles. You can find breakthrough. You can find healing even. You can find spiritual gift.
You can find word of knowledge. You can find word of wisdom. You can find prophecy. You can find results here and there, but you will not find me. The principle of finding me is that all of you, all of you, my demand is not for some, it's for all. You want to have... You want to live a life of unending encounters with God. All. All. You are my everything.
Take all of me on me, Lord. You are my everything. I give my everything. You are my everything. I give my everything. You are my everything. These are songs that the patriarch used to sing. I give myself away. I give myself away so you can use myself. And the instruction is, wherever you send me, whatever you have me do, I will do.
I will do. I was told about an individual who wanted to leave the workforce, and I asked why. This is service to God. It's an honor to serve God. Oh, man, why do you want to leave? And he said, well, they they told me anyways. And if you're here listening, you had better find a place in your heart to go before God and repent because there's no wisdom in that action. He said, oh, well, I'm not able to balance my life well. You know, then, yeah, I'm not used to all this kind of structure and all of that. It's the way my life was proceeding before.
But when I joined the workforce, everything was happening so fast. So I'm not able to balance it well. So my solution is to live. The solution is not to live. It's to seek for wisdom. Is is that... Is is funny how stupid we are. It's a generation no. It's a generation. It's the plague that is plaguing an entire generation.
There's a age group that the devil is dealing with. And as though the devil grew up with them. So you see, I'm telling you, and the devil is that patient. He can live it. When he sees that he cannot get Adebuyo again, he will wait for children, children, children. And he will ensure that he grows up with them so that all that they ever know. When they begin to live life, the older ones will now begin to wonder, ah ah, or we never even thought like this in our own time. The thing could not even enter our mind. That I would leave the service of God because I could not... To hell with whatever I cannot balance it with.
If you will seek me with all your heart, that's the problem this generation has. All your heart. That's why it looks as though we don't say power amongst young people. As you'll see among the patriarchs, all your own, all, all, all. These are things you think about. You begin to repent no matter who you are, even myself. All. Because the question becomes, does God really have all of your heart? Can your career... Can you can you pass away from God?
Can you make a demand of your education? Can you make a demand of what you hold dear the most? Can you make a demand of it? Can you make a demand of it? Now it comes to question. The economy of God does not allow for casual seekers. It doesn't. Encounters are not for indifferent people, they are for desperate people. Moses saw the burning bush, but they only encountered God when he turned aside to see. Hunger is what provokes turning aside to see.
Because that you see the burning bush does not mean you have seen God. Yet there is God in the burning bush. Turning aside to see would mean ignoring your business for a while. Because what brought him there is that he was tending sheep. Turning aside to see would mean leaving the sheep for a while. That is the business of hunger. Spiritual hunger is what positions you for God, is what positions you for dimensions in God that are not available to the complacent. David was the one who said in Psalms chapter 42 from verse one to two, that as the deer pant after the water brooks, so does my soul pant after you. My soul tests for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
This was the harposter that David had as the deer pants for the waters. That was the hunger that made David a man after God's own heart. Hunger is what pulled him from the shepherd's field into his prophetic destiny. Hunger. And pragmatically speaking, hunger is always expressed. Hunger is expressed in three things. Hunger is expressed in your pursuit. A hungry believer will always rearrange his schedule to seek God, but not the other way around. If you only pray for instance when it is convenient for you, you are not hungry for God. Because hunger tells in your pursuit, it tells you, whatever it is you are hungry for, you will pursue after.
You will pursue after. You can see the desire that you have for God as expressed in your pursuit of God. Are you pursuing? And are you pursuing with all of your heart? You will seek me and you will find me when you seek me with all of your heart. Otherwise, you would have to go to God and say help my heart because hunger, hunger, hunger can die. And it does not die because it died. It has only died because it has died towards a thing, an enterprise, or a purpose, or an entity, or even God. Doesn't mean that the hunger in itself has died. It is only transferred.
It means he set all of your heart. Right? But some other thing comes into your heart that transfers that hunger. So a portion of hunger leaves God and goes to it. Another one comes again. A portion of your heart leaves God and goes to it. Another one, until 10% is what is left for God. That's why you think you are still a Christian because a part of me is still... A part of me is still... I still come to church on Sunday.
I still show up. I still dress nice. I'm still around. I still sit down. I still listen to apostle teaching. I still listen to apostle teaching, and all these things are still there. But the question that he had... When it comes to you, the question he will ask is, do I own you? Do I own your heart? Do I own you?
Why hone your heart? That's the question that he asked because your pursuit is no longer for him. Three days and three nights, some people lock themselves with Jesus. Lock themselves with Jesus. Lock themselves with Jesus and Jesus was teaching them. Teaching them. Teaching them. Teaching them. And he did not stop. When he was on, he gave them bread and fish.
He now came again after he traveled. All of them now pursued him the way he traveled. And when he saw them, he journeyed into their hearts. He said, hey. This your pursuit. Something has happened to it. Because initially, that was not how you started. You started for the bread of life. But at some point, you realize that the bread of life will give you bread and fish. So the moment bread and fish enter, the apostle changed.
You are now seeking me because of the bread and fish that you ate. It's in the Bible. That's what Jesus said to them. It means you didn't go all these these towns because you love me. You came because you ate bread. You came because you ate loaves. That's why you traveled so far. That's why I said it is possible to still pursue. It's possible. That a part of you is still pursue.
The question he ask is, do I own your heart? It's the question he ask. Why hold your heart? And when you can think deep about this, some of you realize that some institutions that God himself established, God himself established for the benefit of man has now occupied your heart and replaced God. God himself is the one that established it. God, for instance, God himself is the one that said that a man should get married. But it is possible that a man meets a woman and a woman replaces God. It's possible. God himself is the one that says he desires the prosperity of his servant. But it is possible that you get a job and the job replaces God.
God himself is the one that said that the path of the righteous is a shining light. Comes bright and brighter every day, but it's possible to get admission, and admission replaces God. And you find out that your pursuit for God are so dwindled because your heart is now lusting after something else. You know, lust is only hunger that is compromised. That's what lust is. Hunger that is compromised. Hunger that is defiled. Hunger that is transferred. Hunger that the devil has laid eggs on. That's what lust is.
So what many people are doing now is lusting, lusting after power, lusting after results, lusting after even things around God. It's possible to seek God because of the beauty you see around God, not because of God himself. So hunger is expressed in pursuit. When you're hungry, you will pursue. You will pursue. You will pursue. Pursue. You will pursue his presence in prayers. You will pursue his presence in the word. You are Jesus.
Jesus, keep me hungry, Lord. Jesus, keep hungry. Jesus, keep Jesus, keep me me hungry. Hungry. Keep me hungry. That's a prayer that many must pray, and they must pray sincerely so that something can happen to your heart. Because pursuit has ended. The genuineness and the heart that longs for his presence as the deer pants for water. Do you know how the deer pants for water? I'm going to do a scientific study on that.
I was hoping that all of this would not happen so that I can speak. But the holy ghost will have his way. Do you know how the deer pants for waters? The deer. The deer pants for waters though if he does not drink water in that second, he's dead. So today, water does not just test. Water is survivor. And David says, that is how my soul pans. That means my soul will come to a point where I realize that God is why I survived. God is why I'm alive.
It means to not have a relationship with him is to be dead. To not desire him is to be dead. Jesus, keep me hungry. Jesus, keep me hungry. Second thing that your uncle does, the first is pursuit. Second is sacrifice. Are you okay? Second is sacrifice. Sacrifice. Hunger will make you shut down distractions.
The wise men traveled far to see Jesus because hunger compelled them. Hunger did what? Unger. Oh, Jesus. Hunger compelled them. You did not harm it. You did not have a life they were living before. When they saw a star, they left everything behind and started pursuing. Hunger is expressed in what you are willing to leave behind, what you are willing to give, what you are willing to let go. I'm willing to leave my time.
I'm willing to give my time. I'm willing my time. I'm willing to to give give food. That's what hunger does. This pursuit, if it necessitates me going on a fast, I'm willing to give it. I'm willing to give my resources. It's impossible that you'll be hungry and things will not leave you. Because things that are contending for your attention with God will start to live and it will be a sacrifice. That's what it means to be a living sacrifice because there are sometimes you will feel the pain of those things leaving you. That's how sacrifices are given.
Sacrifices are burnt. They are slaughtered and they are burnt, and then they are set on fire. So it goes through three levels of death. The first is that it is slaughtered. The second is that it is set on fire. Prepared and set on fire. Is that not so? And the bible says all of this is happening whilst you are alive. You are being slaughtered. You are being set on fire.
It says you have to be a living sacrifice. It means there are many things that will begin to leave you that the process will be as though they are killing you. You don't understand what I'm saying? That one useless guy that your heart has so much drawn close to that you feel as though this guy is my word. It's my head. That's... It's because it's your word that we have to collect him from you. He has... You will say that it's your word and still come to Jesus and say at the center of it all. Is it now this...
Where is he now in this equation? At the center of what is he? When you can no longer put things in perspective, where have you put Jesus? Hey. And when God begins to ask for that illicit relationship. When God begins to ask, it look as though they are tearing you to pieces. You will feel so much pain. Pain because your soul, your soul has so much come to this thing for so long. It's the pain of separation, and you'll be willing to let it go because of Jesus. That's how money is to some of you.
Money. There's so much lust for money. And when God tells you, give it all, it look as though somebody is collecting your word from you. It's called sacrifice, a living one that as we are burning you, you are feeling it. You are alive. You are alive yet dead. You are alive yet dead. Do you remember the other time when death was the message? There was a time when the cross was the message. And you would hear the father say, carry the cross.
Carry the cross. And they'll be echoing on the pulpits. Carry the cross. And we will laugh at them. We will say it's legalism. You don't know what it means to carry power. This message speaks to everybody, including the man of God. Carrying the cross is not a cake. There is still a cross for you to bear. There is still a cross for you to carry.
The Jesus you know must begin to take flesh from you. He must begin to kill flesh from you. He must ask for it. That's the pattern. That's the way. You cannot be a believer and say that you are truly seeking for God. And things, the works of the flesh does not begin to die off. And this process many times is painful. And Jesus will say, but you cannot be this proud and arrogant and come to the fullness of what I want to do in your life. You have to take this thing away.
And he will take you through process, sometimes the most embarrassing way you want to react. That's not me oh. And because you are hungry for God, sacrifice. Sacrifice. The third that hunger does to you is humility. I wanted to give you four principles. Four principles. Hunger gives you humility. Hunger strips away pride from you. Do you know that Zacchaeus had to climb a tree?
Do you know who Zacchaeus was? Zacchaeus. This was a powerful influential man. One of the richest man in his time. And when he heard Jesus was passing, he stripped himself of his position, stripped himself of his dignity, stripped himself of his status, and he was willing to climb a tree. And whilst he was on that tree, it was as though Jesus said, someone is calling me. Someone is calling me. Do you realize that every time hunger was expressed, Jesus could not ignore it? Every time. Every time.
Read your Bible. Jesus never dismissed an angry man. No matter their expressions in hunger. Is it the one that that was shouting, son of David, have mercy on me? And he kept on shouting, kept on shouting, and would not keep quiet. Even when people were keeping him quiet, it still would not keep quiet. Son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus would come to him and say, young man, what do you want? It might not matter whether I came for you that day or not, but your hunger has called me regardless. Mother God.
Your hunger has called me regardless. How about Mary and Martha who came to the tomb? And when they saw the tomb empty, they went to go and call all the disciples. All the disciples too came and saw the tomb empty, and they ran back. Mary and Martha said, no. No. No. Why are you going back? We came to see Jesus. We have not seen Jesus.
They say, ah, can't you see? He's not there. And if he's not there, we go. What should we do? We should go wait there and kill ourselves? And all of them went. Mary and Martha said, no. We came for Jesus, and we will not leave you until we see him. And as they were there, an angel appeared to them. And then the man you came looking for has been resurrected.
Oh, rejoice. Oh, this. They said, thank you, but it's not you we came for. But we appreciate your message delivery. You can go. And after the angel left, Jesus, who they came for, came. By the time he came, all the disciples had left. Yet they still came. They still came. And when they saw him, you know women, they wanted to come and hug him.
Jesus said, no. No. No. No. No. Don't... No. You can't touch me. It means I'm on a priestly assignment. It was your uncle that called me back.
When the priest is going on a priestly assignment, you can't touch the priest. It means what Hebrews chapter nine describes. It was at that point Jesus was going to do it. He was ascending to heaven to commit a priestly assignment, but two women were on the floor. And they were saying, we want to see you. We came for you. And as he was going about that business, Jesus said, what is this voice I hear? What is this voice I hear? I... He could not ignore the cry of two women.
Two women. He could not ignore their cry. Their cry was loud enough to interrupt him on his divine dully, to put him back as they were offending to the heavens. And he appeared. And the one day they come and hug him and said, no. No. No. No. Read it. Just in case you think it's done.
Read it. One, two, three, go. You see, was I was in the middle of ascension when you called me. Jesus Christ. And they're even. Because this hunger made them the first people that were introduced to the mystery of sonship. Jesus told them, I ascend to my father, your father, To my God, your God. Up until that point, all he has said was, I am my father and one. Up until that point, all he has said was, in other words, because of what I've just been completed today, it's no longer just my father. He has become your father.
It's no longer just... He... And this were the first people to hear this thing from the mouth of Jesus. That because of this thing that has happened, status has changed. He said the one that would say in her heart, if I can only touch the hem of his garment. And whilst he was going, he would say, who touched me? Who touched me? And the disciples were saying, too many people are talking on you. How can you ask who touched me? And Jesus would tell them somebody touched me deliberately.
It makes me see that hunger is deliberate. Hunger is intentional. Hunger is intentional. And a man must insist on being on... And every time when you go and pray, ask the holy spirit to search you, search you, search me. Have I lost hunger? Have I lost hunger? Please keep me hungry. Bless me. Bless me.
The bible says blessed are those who hunger. And the holy spirit told me hunger is a blessing. Blessed are those who hunger. There are people that will give responsibility to in church and they start grumbling. You can tell there is no hunger. Hunger is dead. Hunger is dead. Because anything that has to do with God that makes you grumble, your hunger is dead. As long as it has to do with God. We tell you, come, let's go for evangelism.
It becomes a burden for you to go for evangelism. Come, let's go for outreaches. Let's bring more souls into the kingdom. It becomes a burden for you. You see, they are stressing me. I don't have time for this. What do you not have time for? What do you have time for if you don't have time for God? Or the things that God wants, the things that matter to God? What do you not have time for?
What do you not have time? Hunger makes you humble. It makes you strip yourself of whatever. It makes you know that it doesn't matter how rich you are, how... What your status is. When you come before God, all of us are babes. All of us are children. Children. Hunger gives you hunger. You can be collected, and you will listen.
Hunger makes you a child. It makes you a child in his presence. You can sit down on the floor and you don't even care who is looking at you. That's just how he's doing you. Because you are before the father. Some of you have lost this thing. That song says, may we never lose our wonder. That if you lose your wonder, you have lost your hunger. Losing your wonder is only a symptom. What you really lost was hunger.
Because hunger is what makes you continue to be in horror, in a state of horror. Whenever God is being magnified, that you are worshiping God and foolish people are opening their eyes looking like this because nobody told them to sing. Are gone. Your heart is gone. You need to cry to God for mercy. At that moment, you will bend down. You might not even understand what is happening, but God is being worshiped. That's all you need to know. And it become the statement of your heart. You come to church on Sunday, on Tuesday.
And the worship is going on. The praise is going on. And you are lost in it. You have become a child before him. Children. Children. That's what that's what I have in his presence. I'm not a big boy. I'm not a big girl. Doesn't matter what makeup you are wearing.
If we dance, we dance before his presence. If we pray, we pray before his presence. I'm not ashamed to lose my dignity before him. I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed. One of the greatest men to ever command the presence of God in sustainability was sharing a story in his books, some of you might have read that book, of how that he he came to a point. He started crying. I'm not ashamed to lose my indignity before your presence. So it it was already a renowned figure. And God told him, are you really sure about that?
And he said, yes. He was going for a free conference, and it was in an airport. And as he sat down in the airport waiting center, waiting to board, the holy spirit came again and asked him, are you really sure? He said, yes. He said, okay. I want to reveal my presence to you. And on the airport seat with thousands of people going up and down, it was as though it was an imbecile. The power and the presence of God came strong on him on his seat. He started shaking. He started...
He lost his compulsion, lost everything. Fell on the floor. People thought he needed medical attention. Except for the father. Nobody could touch him. He was a renowned man of God. And he wondered, does God have to come like that? He doesn't have to come like that, but he wanted to check your eyes. Can you really lose your dignity for my sake? Or would you say I'm a man of God?
How can I? And the man was sobbing like a child on the airport road. Sobbing like a child. When the whole team, he went to his church the following day. And as he was preaching, oil was coming out of his pulpit and dripping on the floor, out of his bible. We opened his bible. The voice said, yes, heart of his bible dripping on the floor. The wings of cherub started falling down that people could touch. They just hear pop on the floor, and they will check, and they will find that it's a stone, hornyx, burial, different kinds of precious stones which is falling down. At some point, they'll be worshiping, and a literal cloud would descend upon the entire church.
The entire church. One of the greatest worship music band, whatever or whatever we call it, came from that church. And today, till today, nations keep on singing songs that came from his presence, came from his glory. Because some people understood this thing. And when a man becomes hungry, hunger has tangible rewards. The first is encounter. That encounter is the first reward of a life of perpetual hunger. The second reward of hunger is revelation. Revelation. Isaiah 55 from verse one to three.
Go and read by yourself. I don't have the time to show it to you. But revelation is exchanged in this kingdom with hunger. That you can hear a message. You would only hear revelation if you are hungry. That's the difference. You see, I have told people to go and listen to Methodist because I saw their answers in the message. And when they came back and I asked them, what did you get? Everything they said was nothing like what they were going through in their lives. And I wonder how could you have listened to this and know this is all that you saw.
When I was listening to it, I saw your life problem explaining this thing. How come you did not see it? Because in this kingdom, revelation is exchanged with hunger. That's the reason. Your eyes will remain blind as long as your hunger is gone. It says come everyone who thirst. That's the currency. Thirst. Those who hunger. It says come and buy.
Come without money. And what are you buying? Come and buy wine. Come and buy milk. Milk. Milk. Milk. As newborn baby desire the sincere milk of God's word. What he's talking about here is revelation. How do I know his revelation?
Verse two, he says, come and buy milk. He says, why do you spend money for what is not bread? So we need to ask what is bread. We need to ask who is bread? Why do you spend your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is good. Other words, he says, what you are coming to buy is what is good. It is food. It is milk. What is it?
Listen carefully to me and eat what is good. So what you are buying is in your listening. Let your soul delight itself in abundance. Does not happen there. Verse three says verse three says, incline your ear. Look at the context. The context come and buy milk. It says incline your ear. Come to me here and your soul shall live. I will not say the word of God is held to them not find them.
But what is the currency? Come everyone who dust. Come everyone who dust. The third thing that come the reward for hunger is fire. Fire. The fire of the holy ghost. The tragedy of this generation is satisfaction without encounter. Too many believers are full of entertainment but empty of hunger. Psalm one zero seven verse nine, the bible says, for it satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness. Spiritual longer means that you refuse to settle.
It means you pray until you break into new dimensions. It means you keep on fasting, keep on studying, keep on worshiping, keep on contending because you know that there is more. It's not emotional zeal. It is pursuit. Covenant pursuit. Show me a man who is truly hungry for God, and I will show you a man who will never remain small because hunger is ladder by which ordinary men climb into extraordinary destinies. I don't have time to show you the many three principles I want to show you. But let me give you a scripture. Psalms chapter 92 from verse one to two. The bible says, it is good to give thanks to the Lord and to sing praises to his name.
From verse two, the bible says, to declare his loving kindness in the morning his faithfulness in the night, it is good to give thanks to the Lord. The second principle that you have to understand is the principle of the law of thanksgiving. These are simple things, very simple things, We cheat believers of results. Because a lot of believer don't know that thanksgiving is a spiritual law. It is one of the mysteries that provokes divine intervention far beyond the immediate circumstance. Because every time that thanksgiving shows up in scripture, God responded with dimensions of power that outweighed the situation at hand. In first Thessalonians chapter five and verse 18, the bible says, in everything give thanks for it is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Note this scripture. It says in everything, give thanks for it is the will of God. What is the will of God?
Giving thanks. Is everything the will of God? In other words, even in bad things give thanks. The situation might not be the will of God, but your response is the will of God. The circumstances might not be the will of God, but your response is the will of God. In everything, it doesn't matter what the thing is, give thanks. For it is the will of God. It's a spiritual law. That means that king... There are kingdom dimensions that will not manifest in your life until your heart aligns with this posture.
Complaining empowers Satan. Thanksgiving provokes God. Thanksgiving operates on three fronts. The first is that we thank God because of who he is. In Revelations four eleven, the Bible says thou art worthy. Oh Lord, to receive. For we thank him because he's worthy. We thank him because what now? He's worthy because of who he is. Because you've created everything.
And by you, all things exist and were created. That's the first reason for which we thank God. Because of who he is. Second, because of what he does. And the third, is because of what he will do. Because of what he will do. Thanksgiving is a depth you hold God. You understand that there is nothing that you do that you do in your own strength. So if if I'm able to build, it is because God build it because the bible says, except the Lord builds a house, they labor in vain and build it. Except the Lord watches over his city.
It means even my protection is God. My building is God. Everything that I do is God. When the man keeps himself in an atmosphere of thanksgiving, there are things beginning to see your life. The first thing you see in your life is increase. Everyday increase. Jeremiah 30 and verse 19. Acts one verse 47. The second thing you see in your life is deliverance. A man who knows how to do things will never stay long in any problem.
Second Chronicles chapter 20. I think I have a teaching called the mixture of gratitude or thanksgiving or whatever. Go and listen to it. Go and listen to it. Thanksgiving provokes deliverance. Thanksgiving creates the atmosphere for the miraculous. And number four, thanksgiving establishes you and makes you whole. Number five, thanksgiving provokes encounters. This number four is very important because 10 lepers were cleansed, but only one returned. And Jesus said, were there not 10 that were cleansed?
Where are the nine? Then to the one that came back, he then said, thy faith has made you whole. It means cleansing, remove the disease. But thanksgiving is what restored what was lost. Many people are healed, but they are not whole because they never return to thank God. When it comes to thanksgiving, you don't wait until the whole thing is done. You thank God because you have started working. The Bible says, do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah. And thanksgiving is practical.
It is an heart posture, but it's a practical heart posture. Are with me? If you're thankful, it will reflect in your words. Your words will thank him. Your words will thank him. Hebrews 13 verse 15, the Bible says, by him, therefore, let us offer sacrifices of praise to God continually. That is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. The fruit of our lips. It means God wants to hear your voice. God wants to hear you say, I thank you for this and that.
I thank you for so and so. Not just, oh, I'm a grateful person. You are not if you don't express it. The foot of our lips. Giving thanks to his name. Through your words, through songs, through worship. We thank God. And lastly, we thank God in testimonies that we share. A lot of believers don't know that testimony that spiritual weapons. At the same way prayer, fasting, and all of these things, giving our laws in the spirit.
Sharing testimony is also a law that unlocks dimensions of power that believers ignore. And in Psalms one zero five and verse one, the Bible says, oh, give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people. It means you have not given thanks if you have not made known his deeds amongst the people. You have not given thanks if you have not made known his deeds amongst the people. Giving thanks is incomplete until his deeds are made known. Gratitude in your heart is good, but gratitude on your lips before men is what multiplies results to you before men. So that when you stand in church and declare what God has done, you are doing at least four powerful things in the spirit. Number one, you are glorifying God publicly. Luke 17 verse 15. The Bible says that one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back and with a loud voice, with a loud voice, with a loud voice, he didn't whisper.
He testified publicly. And Jesus confirmed that this act of glory made him not just healed, but made him whole. It is possible to be healed, but not whole. Understand this thing, that a testimony can begin, but not be complete until you give thanks. Until you give thanks. Many remain halfway blessed because they refuse to testify. Testimony is how you return glory to the rightful owner. The glory that belongs to God is poisonous to men. When you give thanks in testimonies, you provoke God to do more. Revelations 12 and verse 11.
The bible says that they overcame him by the blood of lamb and by the word of their testimony. Testimonies are not just acknowledgments. They are weapons. Every time you testify, you shame the devil. You silence the accusers. You open the door for God to replicate that testimony in your life. That's why in many churches, when one person testifies of a breakthrough, suddenly, many other people begin to experience the same. Because testimony is a seed that reproduces. Number three, when you give thanks from testimonies, you edify the faith of others as well. Your testimony becomes a prophecy for your neighbor.
When a barren woman hears, another person testify of fruitfulness. Faith is ignited that it can happen for her. When a jobless man hears that if someone is testifying of supernatural employment, he's open, his faith comes alive. Romans 10 verse 17, the Bible says, so then faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the word of God. That when you share testimonies, testimonies are living words like nice faith in men. A man can hear testimony shared. His real word comes to him in that testimony. When that sister shared his testimony because testimonies are prophetic words. They are prophetic words. You see multiplication and establishment when you testify.
That's the fourth thing you see. Multiplication and establishment. Because whatever you testify about becomes established. Jeremiah 30 and verse 19. The bible says, how out of them shall produce thanksgiving and the voice of them that makes merry. I will multiply them and they will not be few. I will also glorify them and they will not be small. Multiplication and establishment are tied to thanksgiving with your voice. Silent gratitude does not carry the same spiritual weight as declared testimony. When God heals you, stand up and declare it.
Don't wait until the devil comes to come and plant doubt in your heart. Stand up and declare it. When God provides for you, even if it is small, testify. It positions you for more. Are you with me? When you have an encounter that changes your life, share the testimony. When power flows through you and you become an agent of blessing to others, share the testimony. When you do this, you experience it more and more and more. You are more in your life. How many people don't understand?
Thank you, Lord Jesus. You have an encounter that changes your life. It's a testimony. You have prayed and God revealed himself to you. It's a testimony. It's a testimony. You have breakthroughs in your business, in your career, in your academics. Testify in church. It becomes a prophecy for others. The young man met me some time ago and told me, sir, when you declare this word, I experienced so and so and so result in my life.
I said, wow. When was that? He said some months ago. Did you testify in church? No. Not really. And I'm wondering, how do you sustain result? You you are cheating yourself. That's what you're doing. You are cheating you.
There's nothing that is done in church. In fact, you should fight until you are given the opportunity to share your testimony. You write your name, you could not take testimony because time had gone. Next Sunday, are coming back saying my testimony has not been shared. My testimony has not been shared. That's the way you know someone who is grateful, who understands this thing we are saying. Who understands this thing we are saying. Glory to God. Amen. When you see a man of God who has repeated workings of miracles in his life, observe his ministry.
There are things you will always find there. Number one, worship. Number two, prayer. Number three, testimonies. They say it again and again and again and again. If God did something yesterday, say it again and again and again and again. Don't say because you have shared it once, that's all. No. You give it to a multiplying results. Share in church.
Share with your friends. Share with your brothers. This is what God did. I will make known your deeds before men. That's why testimonies are called the word of their testimony. In Revelation twelve eleven, a testimony is not just an experience. It is a word. And words in the spirit are weapons. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yeah.
You overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of the testimony. They give the blood of the lamb is a weapon. The word of the testimony is also a weapon. That's up on your feet. That's the reason why every time you wanna share testimony, sit down and fight it. Everything. Some other day, I would give you the remaining principles I wanna give. But I hope in my heart that you'll make do with what you have heard. I hope in my heart that you sincerely make do with what you have heard. 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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