Transcript: Profiting From Prophetic Advantages
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The world is like a map that sets men on the path of destiny. The word of God transforms. It revives and it builds. It builds conviction even in the hearts of men. And just like the woman at the well, when men encounter the spirit and the word of God, there's an exchange and revelation of identity. Weaknesses are exchanged for strength and greatness is made out of ordinary men. I will never be tired of telling you that God has predestined you for greatness. You must believe this. There is a seed of greatness on your inside. You must believe this.
A promise of greatness on your inside. You must believe this. There is no smallness in God's plan for your life as a believer. There's no toiling in God's plan for your life as a believer. There's no suffering in God's plan for your life as a believer. I want to break you out of that spot where you can no longer think small. The presence of God does not just make the difference. The presence of God is the difference. So join us at the experience when men encounter God and lives are transformed. In Jesus name we have prayed.
Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I'm gonna be speaking to us on what I've titled profiting from prophetic advantages. Profiting from prophetic advantages. There are three dimensions of ministry that I have observed are heavily fought in the body of Christ, especially in our generation today. The first is the prophetic, the second is prosperity, and the third is power. The prophetic ministry, the prosperity gospel as we call it, and the third is the power ministry. These three ministries and these three dimensions of God and the possibilities that exist in God are fought tremendously in the body of Christ. Whenever you see a man of God who operates strangely in any of these dimensions, especially when he is very vocal about what God is doing through his ministry or who operates in that dimension, in that ministry, you will discover that people will always have something to say about it.
If he begins to prophesy, glory to God Amen. And reveal things about people's lives. People will say that the prophecies are arranged. Usually, when people see dimensions of the prophetic like that, and probably the person is strong in that ministry, I will begin to give accurate names, details of people, declaring words over people, prophesying over people. Usually, you would see miracles that are strange come from such prophetic ministries. You would see instructions that are strange come from such prophetic ministries. And what people begin to do is they begin to find stories to discredit the man and discredit the ministry as to mean that these things cannot happen, as to mean that these things do not exist. Glory to God. And if a man of God also begins to work miracles, people will say that the miracles are fake, especially when they see certain types of the manifestations of the power of God. I mean, there was a time in the body of Christ when there was a whole rampage against miracle money.
That's the name they call it, miracle money. And I think that what they are trying to say is basically supernatural provision. The idea that someone can have more resources and by the instrumentation of the power of God, words can be declared and resources can manifest. And then people share testimonies. There are ministries like that that, you know, lay so much emphasis on these dimensions, and then people come out to testify that I didn't have resources. As I was going home or as a man of God prophesied, this amount of money appeared in my account. Someone sent me money. And then people come and they say, those are fake things happening. Those things are fake. Those things are this.
We come up with all kinds of narratives around it. We see someone trying to... Getting someone healed probably from a a wheelchair, limelight walking, and then we come up with all kind of narrative about it. We say it is fake. In fact, I saw even a video some time ago of a young man trying to analyze one of the father of faith's videos of miracles and healings and all of that. And what is his basis for saying that it is fake is that the wheelchairs are new. That if someone has been on the wheelchair for, say, three years or five years, you'd expect the wheelchair to be very old. How come some of the wheelchairs are new? These things are arranged. These things are fake.
And you will see such attack against the power ministry. If someone is loud about material prosperity, about the fact that God wants you to prosper, God wants to increase you, God wants to bless you materially, you would say that the man of God is only interested in money. You understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. It begins to teach prosperity. People will say he wants to collect people's money. They've come again. When you now find a man of God who operates in all three dimensions, who prophesies, who works miracles, who teaches prosperity, you can almost be certain that such a man will be a subject of controversy. Because somehow somehow, the foundations of our faith have become matters of controversy. I don't know how we got there, but somehow we found ourselves there.
But even believers find a man who works in all the three as a controversial figure. That a man of God is loud about prosperity, about the fact that God wants you to prosper, about the fact that you shouldn't be broke, you shouldn't be poor, you shouldn't be subject to lack as a child of God, and he's challenging your faith in these areas so that you can contend for more and step into your inheritances in Christ. Then we come up with all kinds of narratives against such a man as to say that something is wrong with it. Just teach the word. Just teach the word. And then you wonder what then is the word. If that man who is now emphasizing prosperity now comes again and starts calling people's names and revealing details that God has shown him about people and prophesying over them and giving them prophetic action. You have even handed to the layer of controversy. But at the event that you now pray for the sick and they are healed, and all kinds of miracles happen in your ministry. You have the three dimensions that will make people call you fake, discredit your ministry, all of that.
It's a pity, but it's where we have found ourselves in the church. Now what I want you to understand about this is that I believe that one of the strategies of the devil is to get people to fight the very things that God had ordained for their advantage. It is an ancient strategy of the devil. That if God has ordained a thing, a dimension of possibility, a reality, or even a person for your advantage, one of the things the devil does is that it causes you to get familiar with it or to fight it at all. Because you see, if the devil can make you develop a resistance against something that God has ordained to help you, then he has succeeded in making you fight your own answer. Because one of the things the devil cannot do is that he cannot stop God's help from arriving to you. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Not that he will not try to stop it. He will try to stop it.
But eventually, the help of God will reach you. If he has done everything he can to stop that help from reaching you, and the help insist it must reach you. The next thing that he does to ensure that you don't receive the help is to make you fight the help. You understand what I'm saying? It's the ancient strategy of the devil. Either by painting lies to you, by making you suspicious, so that when the help comes, you're unable to receive the help. Glory to God. You understand what I'm sharing with you? Yes, sir. So it makes you fight that help.
Makes you fight that help. Make sure resist the help. Thank you, Jesus. The lady should come. Now imagine that this lady now, God has sent this young man to help her. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So what you're gonna do is you're gonna come from that angle, and you're gonna come holding a book or something. You... That book is for her.
You have been sent to give it to her. You understand what trying to say? Now I want to show you how the devil operates. Go there and start coming. Go to the back there and start coming. How the devil operates is the devil will now attempt to put everything on his way to ensure that he doesn't reach out. Are you with me? Yes. So there's an attack on the man himself that the man who is trying to come and help you, are you with me, has to resist, has to go through, has to pass through. So if that's a pastor, for instance, his ministry will not be heard.
There are attacks that will ensure that his voice is not heard. Do you all get my point now? And if the man is prayerful, if the man fights through the resistance, he will insist that help that God has sent, which is those he has been sent to. Is that not so? Now keep on working slowly and it'll coming. If this is a generation of people he has been sent to, keep on working slowly. One of the things that the devil does is that it now begins to prepare these people as against the help that is coming. So what the devil now does is, you see, people that wear red, suspect them. Anyone who wears red, there's a way you should see them. If you see a man wearing red, that red means devil.
That red means danger. Do you understand what I'm saying? If you see anything on red, run away from it. Red is a sign that the devil is on the thing. It can't be from God and be red. I keep on working. Keep on working. If this lady now sees this young man carry what looks like an answer, do you think that she will be open to receive what he's carrying? No. Why?
That's all. You see, the devil does not need to do much against this man again. All he needs to do is now come to our perspective and shift our perspective, disrupt our perspective so that the answer God has sent to her, she starts looking at it one kind. As to say that, see, they attack young pastors. They say all those young pastors, all... It's a disruption. They are disrupting something in your mind so that in case God has sent you someone who will look like that. It's a disruption. It doesn't matter what they are carrying. It doesn't matter what they If it it might be your destiny that they are holding.
Might be your destiny they are holding, but you see those people. You see those people. It's an ancient strategy of the enemy. That's why. In the book of Malachi, the last chapter, I believe, one of the last day prophecies and sign of the end time is a reconciliation between fathers and sons. You know, give me the scripture, please. I will turn the heart of the father to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers. You see? The strategy of the devil is to always ensure that the heart of the children is torn from their fathers. It is the strategy of the devil.
This is the sign of the end time. God is saying before the end time come, one of the things that will happen is that there will be a mediation. This thing will be corrected. This thing will be corrected, but there will be those who will rise to challenge the norm. Now you look on social media and you see this is exactly what happens. Somebody they gave birth to yesterday is analyzing papa Adipoye's videos. And he's coming to say, who are those people? And you see the illusion of people line up after them. I don't know that this is a dimension in God. I think that the book does not even do it justice.
You know the scripture in Matthew that said, will get there very soon anyways. But you know that scripture that says, receive the prophet in the name of the prophet? Yes, sir. You will receive the prophet's reward? Yes, sir. Just a verse before that. The Bible says, whoever receives you has received me. Can we read it together, everybody? Received you. Paul, just stop there.
That means that this is even more than a book. This is God. This young lady now has been crying to God for help. God now says, I am coming to help you. Do you understand my point? And the help that God sent is wearing a red clothe. And the idea is this is the answer to the prayer you have been crying for because he who receives you has received me. Yes, sir. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.
Jesus now says, it is impossible to say you have received me. I'm not received the one who sent me. Do you understand this mystery here? So if God has anything to give to a generation, he will send it through men. The devil's strategy is to come up with narrative that makes a generation fight their answers. That makes a generation fight their, what now? Answers. So you will see people who are broke, people who are poor, are the ones fighting prosperity. Is that not a mystery? Think about what I'm saying very carefully.
Think about what I'm saying very carefully. Because there is a narrative that has been sold Now when you see a man of God just come by and says, give. Parents have taught their children a narrative. Parents have taught their children a narrative. Do you know that there are people we have dealt with in this church who came around? And the reason they were unsure whether to leave or not to leave is that the man of god was young. The narrative they've been told is that when you see a man of god who is young, they are the kind that sleep with their members. They are the kind that don't have anything doing. They are the kind that don't... See that narrative.
Did you see that thing? Yes, sir. So what the devil is basically doing is if that man appears to be who God has sent to you, there is now everything you have been told that makes you reject the man is rejecting God. Yes, sir. Sir. Is rejecting God. Amongst many others amongst many others. Some people believe there's nothing you can use to convince them. If they see someone moving the prophetic, I just stand and call somebody's name and say, come out. And I start giving information.
They turn down because there's a narrative they've heard. And you see all those name colored people. They are the kind of used to scam people. By the time they scam you, you will learn it a lesson or two, a narrative. And so when there's someone like that, if that is the person God has sent to you, you have missed your hands already. It's how the devil fight a generation. The prophets speak about a generation that kills their prophets. The old testament that stones their prophets. Are you with me? Yes, sir.
You can be fighting the very thing that God has ordained to move your life forward. You can be fighting the very thing that God has ordained to shift you forward in destiny, and you will think you are doing the right thing. There's a spiritual father pandemic where people have different narratives about spiritual fatherhood because they believe that spiritual fatherhood is a way of manipulating people, controlling people from the pulpit, eroding people of their own will. So part of eventually, hear a man teaching on the subject of spiritual fatherhood. They said, those are they. These are they. And if I'm not careful, you will fight your answers. You're too young to maybe think back. By the time that pastor Chris Akihlome reopened this ministry and his tele evangelistic ministry started rising, reaching the ends of the earth, a narrative started selling. What was the narrative?
This man has dyed his hair. How can a man of God dye his hair? You know, I heard it as a young person. Growing. Whenever he comes on television, those that are older than half will just come and say and switch it off or turn somewhere else. And you ask them why? She passed on here. Who passed on Bushin Sorrow? Who passed on Bushin? Do you understand what I'm saying?
Yes, sir. And the whole generation rejected the ministry of their helper. Some of the people were sick. Sir. Yeah. This man was kind in dimension of the healing anointing. Can't you see it's what the devil does? He makes you fight your answers by selling the narrative to you by the moment you believe that narrative. The way this thing works is sometimes it even works as scandals. It works as lies.
Even some... Even someone someone... There's a proverb that said that that says, in every rumor, there's an atom of truth. And then there's another one that says there's no smoke without fire to to mean that if something is spreading, there must be something... Those are foolish things. You know what? So you begin to hear something about the man of God. He said, uh-huh. Even if they lie, there's no smoke without fire, something will be there. In every rumor, there's an atom of truth.
You have not been so lied against that even you, you will be amazed at the lie. In every room, there's an atom of stroke. May they know, ah. You are speechless to defend yourself. It's not that you cannot talk. You are just too shocked. I... Me? Hi? I did it.
You're you're just too shocked. Now imagine the people judging you and saying in every room more than an atom of truth. Do you get my point now? Yes, sir. See, I know nations that have fought their profit through governmental and political strategies and means. I don't wanna give examples. And they so fought them that the prophet had to leave the nation just to have peace. Genuine men of God, some of them. Genuine and art. Maybe with fault here and there because they are men after all.
Then the devil makes you capitalize on the humanity that you missed the fact that they are men, but they are of God. And it just so happens that God has kept this treasure in heaven vessels, and he has done so by his choice. You can't fight him for it. He saw that the vessel was hurting, but yet he kept his treasure there so that the excellency of it might be of God and not of man. It is his choice. So it is possible that the vessel might be faulty. It is possible that the vessel might have all kinds of frailties here and there. It is extremely possible, but it is also true that the treasure is in it regardless. It's also true. So when the devil also wants to deceive a generation, it capitalizes on the humanity of the men.
So you get this like, how will a man of God... Keep quiet too. Keep quiet. Do you know what it means for God to send someone to you? That this is God sent to you. This is a man of God. Do you know what it means? Some of you need to go and read your bible and forget the delusion of this generation. It would deceive you. You don't know how much of a high esteem God hold his prophets.
Some even come up to me and say, we must hold our pastors accountable. Who? You? Who sent you to die like this? The bible says, tell it not in Gath. Publish it not in Haskellon, how that the mighty has fallen. It means let it not be heard in your mouth. The mighty fell. It's true, but let it not be heard in your mouth. That's the standard of scripture.
When Saul died, David had every opportunity to kill Saul. He did not do it. He said, how can I lay my hand on the anointing of God? But do you realize that God had left Saul? But he still occupied a throne, a throne that God put him there. And as long as he was still on that throne, there was still anointing upon him. David recognized it. David's people said, ah, we can kill this guy now. He said, don't do that. We can't lay our hands on the anointed of God.
When that guy eventually died, one foolish servant thought that David will be happy upon hearing that Saul is dead. And he thinks, ah, how much more would he be happy if I now told him there was one that killed him? The guy came and said, you're handling me. He said, that's God's anointed. Don't speak like that. Don't speak like that. The guy lost his life for it. Yes, sir. A generation has been deceived. We've been so deceived to think, are they not men?
We know that they are men. Abraham was a man, was not a man. It is because he's a man that he can lie and look at his wife and say, wife, as we are going now, they can look at you and and want to kill me because you are so fine. And they might want to take you for themselves. So to preserve my life, do you love me? You know you love me. I love you too. So if you want to preserve my life, just tell them you are my sister. And the wife said, okay. No problem, my lord.
And they went inside. And true to what he has said, smart guy, very logical in all his essence. True to what he has said, they saw that old woman and thought to be... And thought that to be fine. So what a fine woman. What a fine woman this is. And the king said, let's get this one for myself. Who is shit to you? He thinks she's my sister. Oh, really?
He said, yes. He's not a man. God comes to the king in the night. God comes to the king in the night. He doesn't go to his prophet. He doesn't go to his man to say, how will you do such a thing? He goes to the king and tells the king, you are a dead man. He said, indeed. When God begins a statement with indeed, God. God said, Abimelek, indeed, you are dead.
What's this conversation? Because you have taken the woman whom you have taken for she's a man's wife. Watch the conversation. But Admiral had not come near her. And he now said, Lord, will you slay a righteous nation also? Next verse. Did he not say to me, she's my sister? And she, even herself said, he's my brother. The king said, it was in the integrity of my heart. It was in my innocence of my hands that I've done all of this.
God now said, yes. I know. I know. And I know that you did this in integrity of your heart. He knew, yet he still said indeed. You are a dead man. He said, I know. I know. And it's because I know. That's why you have not touched her.
Not that why you have not died though. That's why I withheld you from sin against me. Therefore, I did not let you torture. Now, therefore, this is where I'm going. Restore who? The wife For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live. This is a man that lied. This is a man that just deceived. God said, see. Indeed.
That indeed you are dead. That's a judgment. It stood. That the only way to be reversed is that the prophet will now say, they are come alive now. Was it the man that killed him? No. Who did? He is God. God said now, the man of God will reverse the judgment because the man of God represents me. It is true that the man is of God, but it is also true that the man is a man.
If you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die. Not only you, you and all who are yours are dead. All who are yours are dead because a man... Now this is scripture. This is the Bible. I don't know how we read the Bible that makes us dishonor men of God so much, even in their frailties. Even in their frailties. And this is not a charge to excuse the frailties of the men of God Because you are not just a man, you are of God. It means you have a responsibility to God and to the people that you serve. And even to be held accountable by God and to those who are your fathers.
That's why it's dangerous for a man of God to not be submitted to authority himself because those who he sent to cannot correct him. There's got to be someone therefore to hold him accountable. So even a man of God has to be pastored. Otherwise, it's dangerous to submit a such a man. Because in the day he fails, those he sent to cannot hold him accountable. It's not their job. I hope you know. They can't. At best, they can pray for him and maybe leave the church. What am I trying to say?
I'm trying to say that even in their frailties, they are still men of God. And this is scripture. And this is scripture. So if the devil is able to deceive you by emphasizing a man's humanity to make you reject the man and reject your answer, you have done your destiny a great disservice. You have done your destiny a very great disservice. Because I've come to understand that God places certain possibilities in men. There are things that God wants to accomplish in your life, and he has placed the ministry through which those things will happen in another man. There are dimensions with which God will lift you. There are dimensions of grace. There are dimensions of wisdom, revelation, of power, of possibilities that God had entrusted to men.
And your ability to receive from those men can determine how much you benefit from what God has placed upon their lives. Are you with me? And this is something I want you to understand very well. You can have a need in your life, and the answer to that need is already available in the ministry of a man that God has placed around you, that God has sent to you. You can be struggling with something that another man carries grace to address. You can be confused about a matter, and there's a man whose ministry God can give you for direction. You can be in a situation where your life is exposed to certain dangers, and God can use the ministry of a prophet to preserve you. You see this in scripture again and again. That a man can be struggling financially, and God uses the ministry of a prophet to open your eyes to something that will change your financial condition forever. We see this in scriptures.
So when you begin to develop a resistance against the ministry of such men, you you are closing yourself to possibilities that God has made available to your advantage. That's what you're doing. That Matthew 10 that we read from verse 40. We already did the verse 40. It says, he who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. Verse 41 then says, he who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward. He then says, he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. That's to show you a contrast. That if you receive a prophet in the name of a prophet, you will receive a prophet's reward. But you can receive a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, and what you receive is the righteous man's reward.
What if you receive a prophet in the name of a righteous man? Glory to God. It speaks about receiving a prophet in the name of a prophet and receiving a prophet's reward. A prophet's reward. So Jacob is teaching that there's a reward connected to the reception of the prophet. There is something that a man can receive because he has received the prophet. And notice, Jesus did not say that the prophet has a reward. He said the person who receives the prophet will receive a prophet's reward. Are you with me? Yes, sir.
It means that the ministry of a prophet carries something that can benefit the person that receives it. And it's very important because it shows all that the way you receive a man of God matters. The same man can minister to different people, and yet they don't receive from him in the same way. They don't benefit from his ministry in the same way. One person receives him with honor, another person receives him with familiarity, another receives him with faith, Another has already concluded in his heart that nothing good can come from this one. Now I understand that there's been exorcists in these dimensions of ministry. There are people that have truly and genuinely manipulated others with prophecy. There are people who have exploited others in the name of prosperity. There are people who have staged miracles, who have deceived people. We know that these things have happened.
But I want to ask you a question. Since when did the abuse of something become a sufficient reason to reject the thing itself? Since when did the abuse of money become sufficient reason to reject money? Glory to God. Glory. That means that the fact that somebody has abused the prophetic does not mean that the prophetic is no longer an advantage to the believer. The fact that somebody has exploited people in the name of prosperity does not mean that prosperity is no longer a possibility in God. The fact that somebody has staged a miracle does not mean that the power of God no longer works miracles. One of the things that concerns me about our generation is how easily people allow the experiences of others to determine what they will believe about God. Somebody comes online and tells a story about how a prophet deceived him, and suddenly people begin to speak as though the entire prophetic ministry is a deception.
Somebody tells a story about how a pastor collected his money, manipulated him, and suddenly, teaching about giving becomes suspicious to you all because of a story that you heard. And before you know what is happening, people have developed a resistance against dimensions of God that were supposed to be of tremendous benefit to them. And I believe that the devil, if interested in leave the coffee, understands something that many believer have not come to understand. That if he makes you reject the channel through which your answer is coming, he doesn't need to fight the answer anymore. If he can make you reject the channel through which your answer is coming. Doesn't need to fight that answer anymore. Are you with me? See, men go forward in life by a prophet, by their prophet. It is possible for a man to prosper solely by the ministry of a prophet. It is possible for a man's destiny to be preserved solely by the ministry of the prophet.
And when we are established this, it is important that we now understand and examine how a man can profit from this prophetic advantage that God has made available to you. It's an advantage. Let me tell you this very clearly. The prophetic and God sending you your own profit is an advantage. But you know that this is a man sent by God to me, sent from God to me. It's an advantage in life and destiny. In fact, the Bible calls these men gifts. The bible calls these men gifts. That means that your prophet is the gift of God to you. Yes, sir.
Now when God gave you a gift, God gave you a prophet. The ministry of the prophet is to move your life forward, preserve your destiny. Are you understanding what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Hosea chapter 12 and verse 13. I want us to read this together very loudly and very clearly. Are you with me? One, two, three. Go. I prophet who loves himself.
Prophet who loves himself. Read it again, everybody. Who is the prophet the bible is speaking about here? Moses. He brought Israel out of Egypt. He preserved Israel through the wilderness. By a prophet, the lord did this. The Lord did this. The first is deliverance. The second is preservation.
And God used the ministry of a prophet to bring an entire nation out of bondage. He used the ministry of the same prophet to preserve them. Are you with me? Sir. Ethel had been in Egypt for generations. They've been under oppression. They've been under captivity. They were serving pharaoh. They were subjected to forced labor. They had no freedom to determine direction of their own lives.
And when the time came for God to bring them out of that condition, what did God do? God raised a man. And when you read Exodus chapter three from verse nine to verse 10, God was telling Moses, behold, I have heard the cry of the children of Israel. I have seen their oppression. I know their sorrows. I have come down to deliver them. So God is saying, I've heard their cry. I've seen their oppression. I know their sorrow. I've come down to deliver them.
And how does God deliver them? He says, go now therefore, I will send you. What does he do? He sends a man. He sends Moses to them. Watch that language very carefully. God is saying, I have come down, and then God sends Moses to them. It means when Moses arrived at Egypt, God had arrived at Egypt because God was the one who told Moses, I have come down. Are you with me? So Moses going to Egypt was God going to Egypt.
Yes, sir. God was saying I've come down to deliver them. I will send you. So I'm doing the deliverance by myself, but I'm sending you. So if they receive you, they are receiving me. It means if there is anybody in Israel on that day that rejects the ministry of Moses for any reason, what have they really rejected? They've rejected God. They've rejected deliverance. It means they will die in captivity. And it's not even only captivity because the assignment of Mobis wasn't just to deliver them, it was to also preserve them, to take them to a land flowing with milk and honey from a place of servitude to a place of abundance.
And it was the prophet's responsibility to bring the people out of Egypt, pastor them through it, give them the ways of God, teach them the ways of God, mentor them, teach them until they manifest and realize the fulfillment of their destiny. Are you with me? And watch this again very carefully. Many of those people who are in Egypt, who are praying, who are crying to be delivered, have no idea that God's plan for them and God's intention for them is more than deliverance. Their outcry was escape. Their outcry was deliverance. Their outcry was king. But what God wanted to do for them was more than just delivering them from oppression. God wanted to bring them into a promised land, a place of glory, a place of abundance. Those ones have not received that vision.
Those ones did not know that. All they expected was escape from problem, escape from servitude. It was the prophet that God called. It means if they believe in the ministry of the prophet, not only would they have escaped, there is something else inside God's agenda that might not have been open to them, but the prophet knows that your destiny is not to end here. I'm not seeing this thing yet. It means there's a lot about your life that you might not know. It is true. And the reason is because you might be so concerned about your current circumstances, your current situation, and the escape from that situation that you are aloof and you don't know anything. You don't even know that there's a general scope to God's purpose for your life. That God's plan for your life is bigger than this, mightier than this.
There's greater for your insight. You might not have considered idea before, but by a prophet. But by a prophet. A people that they are only concerned is let's just be free. God says, no. I'm doing more than that. That somebody can come from a family that had experienced servitude and pain and sorrow and regret and frustration, and his only prayer is, God, can you just do something? Let me just come out of this mess. But by a prophet Reminds me again of Saul looking for his father's donkey. That all his expectation was just to find a donkey but by a prophet.
That guy met a prophet, and for the first time, he heard something he did not even know was in his future, was in his destiny. That see, you are looking for a donkey, but the destiny of a king is upon you. And Samuel poured oil on him, anointed him king over Israel. I can imagine the dissonance in his mind. Someone that only came for is just a donkey. And now from a donkey, you are telling him there's greatness on your inside. God is taking you into the world. I see your voice reaching nations. I see this happening to you. And you are wondering, oh, that I didn't come for all of these things you are saying.
But by a prophet. But by a profit. By a profit. Understand that it's an advantage. It's an advantage. Treat it as such. See it as such. It's an advantage. It's an advantage. And Moses didn't just bring them out of Egypt.
His ministry also involved their preservation. Throughout that journey, there was preservation. When they came to the Red Sea, God gave instructions to Moses. They wouldn't have known what to do. Yes, sir. When they got to the Red Sea, a revolutionary leader cannot do that. Just someone rising and crying for revolution, saying no. We no go agree or we no go agree. And march them out of Egypt and get their independence. We'll still not have delivered them from the Red Sea.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. That is by a prophet. When the rained water, God gave instruction through Moses. When they confronted their enemies, the ministry of Mophis was involved in their preservation. In Ephodus 17, when Hamalek came against Israel, Mophis went up to the hill with the rod in his hand, and the Bible tells us that Mephiles held up his hand. Israel prevailed as long as Mephiles' hand remained held up. And when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. Think about that for a moment. There were men in the battlefield who were carrying swords, who were fighting a war.
Is that not so? Yes, sir. But the outcome of that battle was being determined by something happening through the ministry of Moses. Glory to God. Glory. Through the ministry of Moses on the mountain. Joshua was fighting. Moses was holding up his hands. And the bible says as long as Moffith held up his hands, my god, is an advantage. Now imagine if the people fighting that battle had no understanding of what Moffith was doing.
Imagine if they looked at Moses and what they were saying was, what is man doing on the mountain? We are here fighting. He's here. He's just standing. We are the ones fighting. We are the ones carrying sword. We are the ones risking our lives. What is the importance of this man standing with... On the mountain like that, doing nothing? Other Nigeria speaks.
All these men of God, why are they not speaking against the government? Why are they not building factories? Why are they not building this? Why are they not... They will go and protest. They will say, why are the men of God not on protest with them? It's a foolish generation that I pray are not a part of. I really pray that there is not one person here who is listening to me, and in your own mind, you are doing your own. I pray. I pray that I will not find someone who hears this message, who bears foolish outside.
I pray you can only pray that there will be no generation that will come from this place. Yes, sir. That will look at Mufi from the mountain and say, what are they even doing there? Can they come and join us? All these pastors serve. That's how they define pastor as lazy. So what do they even do? So after I have walked and walked and walked, I will not go and carry my money and give one pastor. What the pastor even doing? Carry no walk?
Just sitting down on the mountain. Yet the bible says that what he's doing on that mountain... Are you with me? What he's doing on that mountain is the only reason that what they were doing on the battlefield was possible. You don't get this thing. It means it didn't matter how skillful they were. It didn't matter how knowledgeable they were. It didn't matter how prepared they were. It didn't matter how how much understanding they built. If Moses was not on that mountain, they would have failed.
It is wisdom for them to realize that even if Moses is not here with us, ah, we thank God that Moses is on the mountain. We thank God his hands are lifted. But if his hands are weary, what can we do to ensure his hands remain lifted? Can we help him? Can we put something for him? Can we put a pillar there? Sir, we understand the value of your ministry on this mountain. So it was when Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Hamlet prevailed. These are spiritual technologies that a generation has become ignorant of.
These mysteries have been lost on a generation. So we speak about things of which we have no understanding. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Sincerity and ignorance doesn't really matter. Because you might be sincere in saying, what is Moffis even doing there? But your sincerity would not have changed the fact that the scripture connected your prevailing to what Moffis is doing there. It's wisdom to know. It's wisdom to know that there are things that happen in the lives of men because a prophet prophesied. There are movements that happen.
There are shakings that happen because a prophet spoke, because somebody is raising their hand on your behalf, because somebody is speaking somewhere on your behalf. And God has blessed you if there's a man like that. God has blessed you. Sometimes you can't explain why some doors that should have closed just open. You can't explain why... Not that deliverance was not the only miracle. By a prophet, the Lord preserved them. Oh, God. These people had not yet entered the promised land. They were going to enter.
What did I say? But they had not yet entered. Yet there were many battles that they had to fight. If the battles had killed them all, what then is the promised land? It means between being delivered and entering into the manifestation of the promise, there was preservation necessary. And the bible says by a prophet, they were preserved. Why am I saying this? Because many a times, the work of the prophetic ministry in your life, a lot of the times is preservation. Because there are many things that should have killed you. There are many things that should have destroyed you.
There are many things that would hold you down in a place, not making progress and not moving and not making any headway in life. Are you with me? But through the ministry of the prophetic, you still keep on going. You still keep on moving. Where you would have given up and just preached your tent, an encouraging word still came. That's preservation by the prophet. It is a man that has been preserved that can enter a promised land. And the reason I'm saying this is because a lot of people do not look at preservation as a big deal. And the reason is because you have not met with the consequences of not being preserved. It is difficult to appreciate preservation if you have not faced consequence.
Let me tell you the type of preservation that people appreciate. You are going out on a journey, and then you enter into a bus. Your bus now had accident. The brakes feel. The boss now some assaulted. Have it some assaulted? It now entered into a bush and collapsed. Everywhere now squeeze. I've everywhere squeeze. People said, ah, everybody's dead.
You now crawl out of one place. Now crawl out and came out. You now saw the vehicle. You say, preserved me. For the next five years, you will be sharing testimony everywhere you went. If when you were going on that journey, you received a call from your prophet and the prophet says, don't go. Wait until tomorrow then go. You would not have had any accident. So there would have been nothing to be grateful for. They will...
We don't understand what preservation means. You don't understand how many things you escape because direction came. How many things you escape because instruction came. You don't understand how that your life does not have repercussions of consequences? Mounted up. So we ignore the ministry of prophets as it concerns preservation. In fact, many people don't even know how to be grateful because they've not seen big things happen in their lives. Yet, God presents them on a daily basis. That they go out and they come in, and you have no idea how many attacks were fired against your destiny, but you did not know any of them happened. If one had touched your body as you were going, nothing.
What's that? What's that? Nothing is there. And then you now go and sleep. You wake up and you see a swelling. You say, ah, what happened? Something just happened. I didn't even know. With a small pain I felt. What is this?
Then six months hospital journey, that started. God now save you. You appreciate that one very well. Sir. But God saved me. Yet there are arrows that fly by thee. There are pestilence that walks in darkness. Many of which you never know. Many of which you never see. Many of which you will never know.
And you will never see. And you don't think it is something to be grateful for. So that when we now say be grateful, the first thing I'm thinking about is, I had this, it didn't come. I had that, it didn't come. I had this, it didn't come. And God is saying, You have no idea the spiritual manipulations that happen in destiny. I was on the bike with my wife many years ago before we married, And I was going to... Joshua was gonna drop at our own place. So we went back together, and there was a kind of a slight traffic on the way. The bike was on this lane, the left lane, and was moving.
Both of us were just jisting and were just talking. Just talking on the bike, having fun. Then the bike man swerved from the left lane where he was. That left lane where he was was in the middle of a vehicle and a bus behind. So he was just going. So when he saw that there was a little bit of traffic, he moved from that lane to the right lane. The moment he moved from that lane to the right lane, the bus behind crashed on the vehicle in his front instantly. It was the trailer. Yeah. It was the trailer.
Immediately, instantly. Instantly. With plenty load on it. The trailer with plenty load. It was a bus in front and a trailer at the back. Crashed on the bus. Pow. The bike man just stopped. And they... I now asked him.
I said, why did you leave that place? He said something told me to do. It was something. Something told me. Something told me. That's the one we saw. In fact, people were sending pictures of the crash. It was a long time ago. I was between 2nd Gate there and New York. Accident gathered attention.
I would have been part of those and my wife. And people came to see and say, There are times I know that there will be someone raising their hand for me. There must be. There there must be. Said, Kai, is this... Now you will look at that and say, it's just an accident. It was an accident? Just an accident. You must be joking. Forget all the collateral damage.
Forget all the people fighting against. The woman they attacked came for have gone. All that one is just unnecessary loss. It's just theatrics. It's just victims of unnecessary problem. They weren't the one the devil came for. They weren't the one. If you will default, then I'd sow the seed. Every time I even sow the seed. The word my prophet kept on prophesying there.
I was in Yoruba. He would say, Do not die a useless death. Every time he prays for me, he just keeps on saying it. And something that I remember, I keep to myself and keep on thinking, said, my goodness. My goodness. As an anointed man of God. It's a reflection of how much God loves you. I remember a time one of my young ladies was traveling. I was a student then. I was a student then in university.
This should probably be when I was in final year or something many years ago. I had dressed up. I was going to class. I was climbing down the staircase of my house when I was interrupted by a vision. In that vision, I saw a mighty gorilla stand on the road like this, and a bus hit that gorilla and crashed now. There were accidents. Then I saw it on the news. In that same vision, everybody had died. Everybody had died. And then out of the people that died, I saw one of my young ladies there.
I said, ah, I wanted to ignore it and say I will pray about it later. But he came to my spirit again. Was about to take a bike. He came to my spirit again. I called her. I said, how are you doing? Where are you going? She said, I'm traveling to Abuja now. I said, what? I was searching my spirit, and the holy spirit did not tell me to tell her to not go.
So I said, okay. You're to Abuja now? He said, yes. Alright. Safe journey. You will not die as you go in the name of Jesus. And then she said, amen. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And then she called the call.
I felt restriction in my spirit still. I went back into my house, opened my door, and prayed from that moment for about twelve hours or so until she got to Abuja. I would call her. Where are you now? You're almost there. We're about six hours away. I got new prayer. I was praying in tongues. I was there for about twelve hours. Last time she called me, she had arrived.
That was when I started praying. That lady would never know because I didn't tell her anything. I didn't tell her anything. The fact that I saw something doesn't mean I will now go and tell her, hey, that thing, monkey. You're not wise. The responsibility is simple, to hold the rod on the mountain. That's the responsibility, to hold the rod on the mountain. As long as there's a man that God has sent to you holding the rod on the mountain, you can be certain that in the marketplace you are preserved. You You can be certain that as you are doing what you are doing and pressing in destiny and you are facing people with the battle gates and you are applying and you are deploying yourself. There's a confidence that you have, and there's preservation for me.
It's preservation for me because it's a system of advantage. It's a system of advantage that God deploys that brings miracles in ways you cannot explain, that brings preservation in ways you cannot explain. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. In ways you cannot explain. I remember those days my mother was frying oil. We were younger then. Frying plantain. She was the only one because it was on a Sunday. We had gone to church.
I've forgotten circumstance. Maybe there was an event or we're expecting someone to come, and then my mother had to stay behind to prepare. So she was cooking and then frying plantain, and it was a whole lot of plantain. While she was frying the plantain, the oil poured in her body. Now I can't explain the way it poured till today. I can't explain it. But it started from my head to her eyes, everywhere till her leg, peeled up fresh, peeled up completely to her eyes. That was like this. Downwards like this. And there was nobody at home.
She was the only one who was at home. Those are attacks. That's not normal. There's nothing there's nothing normal about that. That's not an accident. That's not an accident. When my... When when a prophet heard it, she said, what? Who has the gods to come for my daughter? He said, they will know that you have a prophet.
In Yoruba, he said it. It was like... It was... The way you the way you kick kick a removed player, the way you send people home when you are playing Ludo, that was how people were dying. Funny, strange, It... People were falling people were falling like chess pieces. I saw this. Falling like chess pieces. I said, There are such systems of advantage that God sends to men. System of advantage that God sends to men.
My wife was using the oven at home some time ago when she was making grilled fish, something like that. It's not the first time we're doing that. She's been doing it every time. And you make grilled fish. And when she told me she wanted to make grilled fish, was happy and elated. It's done it several times. Just switched on the oven, and fire came out of the oven and blew on her face. Blew on her entire face. Pull like that. And then she came from the kitchen and came to where I was.
See, it's not accidental. We are spiritually intelligent enough to know. And neither are we spooky. Yes. We are spiritually intelligent enough to know what is not normal. Sir. When a student and then there's a lecturer, it just keeps on picking on you. I know when things are not normal. Yes, sir. I know.
Other times, I would say things like I'll just be friendly and be nice. Other times, they can pick it in my spirit. Ah, no. This is an attack. This is an... If this is not dealt with, unnecessarily, you will fail. Repeat and carry over and carry over again and again. We deal with such things instantly. Instantly. I don't wanna go into sharing testimony of these things.
Ezra six and verse 14, the Bible says... I want us to read it together, everybody. Are you... Listen to me. Read it instructionally and see light inside of it. One, two, three. Go everybody. And they built and finished it. The elders of the Jews built and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai and Zechariah. The Bible didn't just say they built.
They built and they prospered. Now you have to understand the context of this scripture because the children of Israel had just returned from captivity here, and they were rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem. And you when you read Hezra, Agai, Zechariah, Nehemiah, all these books are intertwined. They happened almost at the same dispensation, not the same timeline, but the same dispensation. Are you with me? Sir. So they were rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem, but the work encountered serious opposition. There were people who were actively trying to frustrate the rebuilding of the temple. And they successfully frustrated it that the work eventually stopped. And for many years, they were not able to build.
And if you read Ezra four, you will see how the enemies of Judah walked against the people. They discouraged them. They troubled them in building, and eventually, they succeeded in breaking the water with. In Ezra chapter five from verse one to verse two, the bible now tells us that Agai and Zechariah now began to prophesy to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem. And after that prophesying, Zerubbabel and Joshua now rose up and began to build the house of God, and the prophets also helping them. Yes. Glory to God. Amen. The work had stopped. When you read the whole of Ezra four, the work had stopped.
The people had become discouraged. They had lost heart. There was opposition. There was difficulties. Then the prophet started prophesying. And when the prophet started prophesying, something happened amongst the people. Leaders started rising up. The prophesying of the prophet rose leaders up, leaders who were also there, both as Suddenly, a spirit jumped on them and said, we can do this thing. Zerubabel stood up. Joshua stood up.
We can do this thing. Started inspiring people, challenging people. This thing must not stop like this. They were also comfortable. See, what we have observed even in scripture is that when a people are in despair and when hope is lost, God will oftentimes send prophets. And when prophets begin to prophesy, one of the things that happen is that things like this, a spirit rises on the inside of certain persons. You remember the same thing happened when Israel was in captivity? When the people of Midian oppressed them and took them captive, they were hopeless. Even Gideon who was meant to help them was hiding in a place, going to go and trash wheat by the winepress. And what do you see?
The Bible says the Lord sent a prophet. The prophet came and prophesied. The moment the prophet prophesied, angels were dispatched. The angel appeared and told Gideon, arise, mighty man of valor. This is part of the ministry of prophets. They activate the destinies of people. Such that there are those who can be leaders of a generation, but currently, they are as helpless as the people they are sent to lead. Don't mistake their helplessness to mean that there is no prophetic destiny upon their lives. Sometimes what they need is an activation. So God sends them a prophet.
As the prophet is prophesying, their helper are amongst them. They will hear the things that the prophet is saying and say, we are the ones to do this thing. We are the ones to build. We are the ones to... So the prophet can be saying, see, God has sent us to build. God has sent us to do this. The... There are people there who will say, it's me. It's me. Before you know, something drops upon them.
They rise. They say, let us build. Let us build. So I know that there are people here who God has sent to generations. Every time I speak about this generation, this generation, this generation, there are people here who are in this generation that what they are hearing is this is the problem I've been sent to solve. So they are not only hearing me say this generation. In the same way that the prophet are saying we have to build. We are prophesying people to build, but some are saying we are the ones to do this thing. And the bible says Zerubbabel rose up. Yeshua rose up.
That same way there are men that will rise up from these meetings. From these meetings. In several industries like that, activated by the ministry of the prophet. Sir. Yes, sir. Because when the prophet comes, there are activations. Activations of destinies. There are activations. Have you not seen it? That when Saul was to become a king, who anointed Saul a king?
The prophet. Who anointed David a king? The prophet. Yes. Every time when God wants to anoint kings, he sends them a prophet. There are some of you who have come here like that, like David at the backside of the wilderness, being looked down upon without even recognizing that something good can come out of your life. But God brings you to a prophet so that as you hear this prophet speaking, something in your destiny, something in your destiny begins to respond. It might even be a moment on your inside. There are times that your heart will leap up in response to what I'm saying. That in ways that your soul might even fight, but your spirit is accepting that this is you.
Your soul might have been through all kind of experiences. Your mind might not have agreed with it completely, but your spirit cannot deny that any Mumba sorrow he, they are speaking to you. They are speaking to you. It's one of the merits of the prophet. It's an advantage. It's an advantage. There are builders in this place. Builders. In this place, I remember a meeting like that we had. I remember a meeting like that we had.
Call one of these young men out. Told him, I'm seeing you with constructional materials, building. Said, I'm seeing a young man from this territory. Came out. Told him, I'm seeing construction materials around you. Said I'm the one. I do this and that and that and that. Told him I'm seeing money around you. I'm seeing wealth around you. What do you currently do?
Told me what it does. I'm serving under someone. I said, no. Live where you are serving. God wants to establish you. That's a prophetic instruction. Those are advantages. That's spiritual capital. Young man followed instruction. See, there are times that the men themselves that have been helped by this prophetic ministry might not value the help.
It's true. It's not the first time we see it in scripture in scripture. That there are kings that were anointed by prophets, and after they became king, they fought the same prophet that anointed them king. It's not a surprising thing. Some would even be lifted by this same anointing and say when they are lifted, that it wasn't the anointing that lifted them. It doesn't matter. Some fool in Israel that day could go boasting to his friend and say, do you see how many people I killed in battle today? One came like this. Was like, hey. He went down immediately.
Guy, I'm good. And he would not know. So whether people are willing to acknowledge or not, there are systems of advantages. It's a spiritual law. Nothing happens on its own. What did I say? Nothing happens on its own. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. There are people under the sound of my voice that this system of advantage is what the Lord wants you to recognize.
That's why he held this meeting and put this thing in my mouth today so that you will know and value the system of advantage God has put in your life. That when we prophesy, when we declare words, when the power of God comes upon people, when we teach, when we give instructions, when we give corrections, a lot is happening. There is preservation happening. Yes, sir. There's deliverance happening. There are activations happening. There are empowerment happening. Empowerment happening. Impartations happening. Do you know that Miriam was a slave in Egypt?
Sir. Yet she was a great minister? Yes, sir. A wonderful psalmist? Many of the songs that Miriam sang are still sung in the church today. Many of the songs are Miriam's name. A great destiny of a ministry was upon her, yet she was slaving away in Egypt. When the prophet came, not only was she delivered, that destiny of a ministry was activated. When they got out of Egypt, it was Miriam that started leading them in songs. So much so, millions of people started recognizing the prophetic psalmistry of Miriam.
A destiny she would not even have had to begin with if the prophet had not been sent to her. The first thing you should even thank God for is that you were delivered because your psalmisty would not even have heard expression in Egypt. At best, you would have been single in the palace welcoming the king when he's coming. Hey,. That's what your ministry would have been used for. So the fact that you were even delivered was a prophetic psalmist. But when results came, how about Heron? Heron too was a slave. Sir. These people were slaves.
God now send the prophet, and then as he came, destiny started emerging. The businessman started making money. Sir. The apostle rose. The prophet rose. The priest rose. Everybody was manifesting. Somebody opened your eyes for truth. It was beautiful to behold. Then they now came.
They said, it's only you that God is speaking to. It's not the first time in scripture that people have turned against their helpers. I'm not surprised. It will continue to happen, but the protocol remains the same. So when God wants to lift a man, and God wants to activate the destiny of a man, so it is within the scope of God's wisdom that when he wants to activate ministries, activate destinies, he sends prophets. Yes, sir. Sense prophets. Uh-uh. Where would Bezalil have been? Where would Aholiab have been?
You would not have known that Bezalil even existed or even had a ministry, or you can even do architecture or construction or development except by the minister of the prophet. There are those of you that industries will be placed in your hand by the prophetic. Industries. Entire industries. By a prophet. By a prophet. There are even some that they have an idea what they should be doing. They are pushing that direction already. Guy is already building. The guy is already doing what he's meant to be doing.
But that prophetic advantage, that thing that thing that smoothens the journey, that clears the road of obstructions. People look at you and suddenly want to help you. In the area with which you are building, the area with which you are building. But learning the skill and then you are hardworking in that skill. But you will toil a lot if there's no prophetic push. There are systems of advantage. Peter, listen. Listen. The prophet is a system of advantage. That was Peter's occupation.
He was a fisherman. He was killed in that business. He he was a diligent person. Diligent to the core. He has spent all his years doing that. But like every other business, there are times that you would toil all night and not get anything. On this particular night, they had toiled all night. There is Bukata at home. How would I go and tell my family that we didn't see anything? What will I now sell?
Where will the money now come from? Where will the money now come from? Responsibilities, bills that has to be paid, things we have to do. And then a man just approaches. Looks at him and says, I'm sorry, sir. Mister Peter, I have a people that I want to speak to. Is it possible that I borrow your boat to speak to them? Peter did not say, this is what I use and work. This is my working material. I cannot just...
That's dangerous. What if my boat becomes destroyed? Peter says, shop. Why not? Shop. Why not? Take it. Take it. Peter, put the boat there. Jesus steps on the boat.
Believer, there's someone on the boat. Then he steps down. He said, Kai, I don't know if you know who I was, but this action you have taken, you have received a prophet. I asked you for a boat, and you are willing to give me your boat like that. You have received a prophet. Oh, yeah. You know what? Cast your net. He said he said, that's the same net that I've been doing this thing. I know the lines very well.
I'm diligent. Sir, this is not the time to cast net. There's a time that fishes gather. They gather in the night when things are cool, then they come. We have poured when they gather, and we didn't see any fish to cast. That means that there can be a migration happening. The fish can propagate somewhere else. We have to go to where they are and go. He says, no. Cast your net there.
That same place you have thawed and didn't see any result, cast your net there. Alright. He took the net, casted it there. All of a sudden, in the same business that he does, a man spoke and fishes that they poured for all night and they did not see. But because a man spoke, the fishes heard the voice of a man. The fishes say, ah, ah, we must be caught today. They must catch us. They must catch us. And must catch they were swimming to their death because a man spoke. God is called the father of spirits.
If he's the father of spirits, it means it's not only fish that can hear him. Even men can hear him. That's the same way. That's the same way customers will hear. That's the same way clients will hear. And they will start running to your net. Running to your net with speed. With speed. You've taken the shame and the sorrows away. You've given me peace.
No need to fear because you're always with Hear me? See, I have seen people that were unserious. Weren't serious at all. In fact, have seen people that used to carry gazebes, unserious individuals. Yet they will keep on making waves. Yet everything they touch will prosper. Some of them don't even have a stable prayer life. Church for them is cruels. Pastor is trying and trying and trying and... I don't use to hear word like this.
You say, I'm sorry, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I'm changing. I'm changing. Why is it changing? Yeah. You see that his business is doing. Contract every week, every month, every time. Now begin to wonder, go and check very well. You will find a Moses on a mountain.
Sometimes it can be his mother. Sometimes it can be his mother. His mother will go to the mountain, put his picture like this on the mountain. Six hours. See, nothing happens just like that. We are in a very unfair world where even the diligent are not known. Very unfair world. That you are skillful in what you do is not a guarantee you will make it. A very unfair world. It's true.
It's very true. There are systems of advantage. Yes, sir. There are systems of advantage. Say, apostle, sincerely speaking, I don't have, but I know that God has sent you as a prophet. My God. And there is a provocation of the anointing that says, it doesn't matter what disadvantages are. I put you above them. One of these boys like that who came to me, from the way the guy speaks, you can tell he's not so intelligent. Even his English is not smooth.
But he will come and will say, apostle, this is a seed I'm sowing. Apostle, this is a seed I'm sowing. Apostle, this is what I'm doing. From 2,000, 3000, I look at him. I will say, go and prosper. The old man will leave. He say, apostle, I've gotten a client, 7 figures. My first client in 7 figures. I both... If you hear this guy speak English, and none of the client are Nigerians.
How are you even convincing them? You'll hear those people. In the market, they begin to envy them. You say, show us the books. There are times the books will not tell you. Because the prophetic is an unfair advantage. An unfair advantage. There are different ways people prosper, but I have seen men prosper by the miraculous. By the miraculous. By this time tomorrow.
That's what the prophet said. By this time tomorrow. How can words enter into the air? And the economy of a nation, the entire economy of a nation begin to respond to what the prophet said. Listen, that lepers who have been rejected all their life, who have become a castaway, rejected by family members, become recipients of the prophetic word that a prophet said by this time tomorrow. An enemy camp that I've gathered. What kind of enemy brings all the resources of their nation to a battlefield? When do they call me? Something was telling them, are you sure that that will be enough for your soldiers? Take more.
Take more. Okay. Let's have enough. We don't know how long the battle will last. And in those days, battles can last for three years. Battles can last for four years. A nation can besiege another nation for six years. They will encamp around them, and they're going to be defending the battle every day they'll be fighting. So they they they are taking what would... What they will probably need for six years.
We don't know how long this battle will last, and they brought it. They said, let's fight. When they came, four lepers were just coming. The same words of the prophet that convinced them to carry enough because they don't know when the battle will end. They just got to the battlefield that day, they were just preparing. And they are come with resources in food, in water, in supply that can last for many years in case the war last that long. That same world entered into the sounds of the lepers as they walked, enter into the ears of the Syrian army to begin to interpret what they were hearing, increasing the decibels of the sound that the lepers were making. That one can only knew. Only knew. But what these people were hearing was the sound of a mighty hammy.
They looked at themselves and says, my goodness. Can you hear what they are hearing? Say, yes. So... Hey. What is this? We didn't come prepared for this. Nobody told us. They were blaming their spies, blaming... You didn't tell us the people what?
My question is, how loud must that thing have been? How crazy is that? All the entire army, tens of thousands of them, left everything they came with for years of battle on the battlefield and ran away. One big account, Ateshi, chariots, weapons of war, all of them, and ran. By the time lepers got there, they just saw food. They just saw... Ah. Those ones hurt and were filled. When they were done eating, they said, wait. Should we not even consider Israel?
They now went back to the city and said, there is enough food for the whole place. Whole nation of Israel gathered to come and see the food. There was so much stampede as they were running that the guy that told the prophet that, uh-oh. It's everything. It's everything you prophesy. I prophesy. Prophesy. It was that guy that fell down, and nobody cares about who has fallen. They start matching him matching him. That's how he died.
And the prophet told him, your eyes will not see it. So what I've said will happen. Because you have not received the prophet as a prophet, your own eyes will not see it. So the same prophetic word that lifted one person killed another. It was the same prophetic word. I have seen people I've seen people prosper in strange ways. Strange ways. Strange ways. The prophet got to the house of the woman of Zarephat. He said, give me what you have.
The woman said, that's the last thing I have. He said, bring it. The bible speaks of the Shunammaitul man that she recognized that Elijah was a prophet. You see, that is the first principle of profiting from your prophet. It's the recognition that this man has been sent to me. This is how Matthew puts it. The Bible says, there were many widows in Zarephath, but unto none was Elias sent, save the widow of Zarephath. That means prophets are sent to men. They are what now? Sent.
Sent to men. Prophets not just come doing what they wanna do. They are sent. It means it is your own responsibility if a man is sent to you to recognize that this man is sent to me. So remember the fourth example that we gave. Is that much so? We are called up man how wearing a wet cloth. It means the first way that that lady will receive from the man is to first recognize that this man, though he's wearing red, though he goes against everything I have always known. I've always thought that men of God who are really anointed should wear white, but this one is wearing red. But he sent to me regardless to put her biases behind her, To put all the lies she must have heard behind her and say, see, I won't let anything deny me access to the man sent to me.
That is recognition. That is recognition. It is important if you will profit from the ministry of the prophet. It is important. All I want is for you, for you, for you to be glorified in mine. Will you prove yourself? Glorify yourself. In my life, oh, Renee. It is now. It is now.
It is now. It is Before I continue, let me say this. I believe in miracles. You don't believe in miracle money, that's your business. I believe in every kind of miracles. Miracle money, sir. Miracle marriage. Yes, sir. Miracle job. Yes.
Miracle admission. Yes. Miracle success. Miracle prosperity. I I believe in miracles. I believe in miracles recklessly. And perhaps there is anybody here who believes in miracles. Let your life start experiencing miracles. Can you pray one minute where you are? Sit down.
Sit down. Down. Pray it down. Sit down. Glory Ejer. One more minute to pray. Hear me? Your life is changing. Hear me? See, where people have entered because they know someone, the prophetic is your advantage.
Go there by the prophet. Go there by the prophet. Do it by the prophet. Make wealth by the prophet. Hear me? Hear me. So I said, that the first way to profit from the prophet is recognition. Receive a prophet in the name of the prophet. Receive a prophet in the name of a prophet. Recognize.
Recognize. This is a man sent of God... Sent from God to me. The bible says John the Baptist, a man sent from God. That was what the Shunammite woman did, recognized. Many people think that the only advantage the Shunammite woman benefited from Elisha was just a child. No. It wasn't just a child. No. It wasn't just a child.
When there was going to be famine in Israel, it was a Shunammite woman. Elisha told that there will be a famine in this place. Leave everything that you have and go. A prophetic instruction delivered that woman from famine for seven years and her family. When the farming was over, by the same prophetic instruction, returned. And when she returned, the king had seized all lands and properties and everything she left behind. Even by the strength of the prophetic, she went to the palace. When she got to the palace, by divine orchestration, it was in the same time that Gehazi was telling that same king the exploit of Elisha. After there was a mighty prophet in Israel, that prophet Gehazi had become a storyteller, and he was telling the king all the exploits of Elijah. When the woman got there, it coincided with when Gehazi was telling the king about the prophet.
So when they told the king that the woman wanted to see her, what do you have to say? Prophet Elisha said that there will be a famine in Israel and I should leave, and I left by his word. Now I've come back. He said, wait. Wait. Wait. Is it the same prophet that you're talking about just now? He said, yes. Have you known him? He said, yes.
I know him. He told me this and this and this and say, wow. What do you want? My properties were possessed. I want to repossess them. Only because of the prophet you have mentioned. Everything that she wants, give it to her. That is preservation, restoration. People gave her more than she had lost. There are such advantages you must recognize that this is my profit.
Upon that recognition, the next responsibility is honor. I don't have time, so I'm just gonna mention it. Make it your responsibility to go and study on the subject of honor. I really believe that you need to learn it. I wouldn't have time to teach on it today. I will teach on that separately. Honor. Honor. Honor becomes an intentional responsibility the moment you discern that this is my prophet. Honor.
It's the reason why a lot of people cannot receive from those sent to them because they've not understood honor from the scriptural perspective, from how God sees it. So a lot of us are familiar with our answers. We have become familiar with the prophet. We have become familiar with the instructions of the prophet. The instructions of the prophet now look like advice. The instructions of the prophet now look like opinion. It's because we've not understood honor. We've not understood honor. Prophetic instructions are considered as opinion. The prophet is not your friend.
The prophet is not your party. The prophet is the prophet. Because receive the prophet in the name of a prophet. Honor is that esteem. That place you place a man in your heart. That resonates in your actions, resonates in the things that you do, resonates in how you treat the man, how you speak about the man, both in his presence and his absence. It constitutes honor. It is how you profit from the anointed. Placing a man in high esteem in your heart is honor. When you recognize, you honor.
Number three is you believe in the man of God. The Bible says believe in the Lord your God, you will be established. Believe in his prophet and you will prosper. You have to believe. There's a dimension of belief that is in the man that God has put over you. Believe in his profit, you will prosper. Many people do not understand these simple mysteries, and so they cannot profit from the anointing. I'm closing the teaching already. This is where we stop. I just felt to instruct you so that you are established in truth.
And you wouldn't just be excited without receiving establishment in truth. Because this is where a lot of people falter. They've allowed for familiarity. They've become very familiar. There's a way familiarity can make you discard what God has given to you, can make you start treating what is sacred as common. That those outside now value the answer that has been sent to you more than you because you see it every day. You associate with it every day. So you have become familiar. Every Sunday apostle is here. Every Tuesday apostle is here.
So when words are spoken now, we hear it every day. We see it every day. So there is a standpoint with which you will receive the thing that you'll become familiar with it. The Bible speaks of Jesus. When he went to his hometown, the bible says he could not do many miracles. And before the bible even talks about that, the bible said when they saw him start doing miracles, when they saw him start doing what he was doing, they said, is this not the son of Joseph? That's what they said. Note, they did not discard the miracles. They didn't say the miracles were fake. So my question is, if you can see that there are signs in his life that shows that this guy is of God, why are you so concerned about whose son he is of?
That's what familiarity does. Familiarity blinds your eyes to the obvious. It means those who don't know that he is the son of Joseph will benefit more from him than you who know. Because you become familiar, you grew up with him. Is this not the carpenter's son? Start from '54. When he had come to his country, he taught them in his naggot so that they were astonished and said, where did this man get this wisdom and mighty works? They acknowledge. This is very funny to me that there were mighty works. There was wisdom in his life.
They acknowledged it. My god. So familiarity is not blindness in that you cannot acknowledge. There are times you can acknowledge that this is a man of God. This man is anointed. The problem is you cannot receive. Acknowledgement and receiving are two different things. So I can acknowledge that God has called you, but I cannot receive from you. Because... Ah, come on now.
It's why many men of God cannot bless their family members. Because they can acknowledge you, but they cannot receive. We know it's of God, but... Look at the next verse. It says... They said, is this not the carpenter's son? Is his mother not Mary? Is his brother not James, Joseph, Simon, Judas? I I I don't want his brothers. Look at the next verse.
His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man not get all these things? Again, they acknowledge that he got something. They acknowledge that he has something. They are more concerned about where he came from, how old he is, his age, than the fact that all these things are there. Look at the next verse. The Bible says, so they were offended at him. That's the heart of familiarity. That's the heart of familiarity. You can even say, ah, he's a man.
Maybe... But there was no record that he even did anything. It was just the fact that they know him. They grew up with him. They saw him. They've seen him again and again and again and again. And suddenly, he's now being lifted. Power is moving through him. People are getting blessed. The bible said they were offended at him.
Jesus now looked at them and said, Kai, a prophet is not without honor except... That means a prophet is always with honor. Do you understand that statement? A prophet is not without honor. That means everywhere you see a prophet, there is honor on him. The only place they remove honor from the prophet is in his own country, in his own house. That's the only place they strip a prophet of honor. That's the only place they strip a prophet of honor. A man of God was the one speaking in this country. He said, when he started growing in ministry, his prayers came to him and said, God said we should be coming to your church.
He said, go and pray again. Go and pray again. Go and be sure. Go and pray. Because the moment you come and submit to this thing, what you are saying is I'm your father. It's parental. You went to go and pray. They came back. They say, yes. God told us that you are our father.
He will sit down when he's teaching and he will pray for them and they will be blessed. Ah, not everybody is like that. Was something Mary had to learn. Mary too had struggles. But at some point, the Bible says, when Jesus said, should you not know that should be about my father's business? Mary kept it in her heart. Since then, henceforth, when Jesus is teaching, Mary will sit down and be there. At one point, they even wanted to come and form familiarity. Jesus was preaching. They now came.
They said,. You know that thing? She is our brother. I call. Tell him that we are here. When he's preaching, he's just come like that. Those ones too are disrespectful. They even came to say, your brother and your sister and your mother, they are waiting for you outside. Jesus said, who is my father? Who is my...
He said, who is my brother? Who is my sister? He said, woman knows the will of God. That's who my brother is. They were hearing it. Say, who's my brother? His brother was there. He's hearing it. So who's my sister? Whoever does the will of God.
He said, brother is calling me. God look alike this honor. Eventually, when he told them, wait in the upper room. Mary was there. He said, yes, sir. When he ascended to heaven, Mary followed Peter, James, John, all of them. When he was going, he turned to John. He said, mother, see your son. Son, see your mother. And then he went.
John will now start teaching Mary, mommy. So when he was here, he told us he told us he told us that we should wait for him in the Opera room and let's go. Whilst they were waiting, he came again. Forty days he was with them. They were taking note. She was there. Go and read your bible. Act of apostles one, list the people in the upper room, Mary was listed. The mother of Jesus. It means when the Holy Ghost came upon them, Mary was there.
Mary spoke in tongues. Can you read it together? They were all there. So you cannot say that you are a set of people that believe in prayer as true Mary so you don't pray in tongues. Mary spoke in tongues. Why not? I didn't say anything. It's just it's just the bible. They were there. They lent.
They lent. Because honor is how you receive. Honor is the foundation for reception. Doesn't matter whether you are a brother, sister, father, or mother. If God has called in, it is still honor you use and receive what is on him. You cannot undermine his grace and receive. It's not possible. And a lot of people get familiar in what they see every day. That's why pastors will go to other places to minister, and they will move in a kind of anointing that they don't they don't they don't move in in their house to their own people. I've seen this again and again and again.
I've brought pastors to this place to preach many a times or to workers to preach many a times. And they would move in the power of God so strongly That when they go and do the same thing, they struggle so much. And I can say, my goodness. If only these people know how anointed their man of God is, but there is dishonor through familiarity. They are still saying, yes, sir. But there's no honor in their hearts. There's no honor in their hearts. So the words of the man contribute so little, make so little impact. So we can pray for the multitude and only a few people receive reception of what we have said. The bible say without all contradiction.
Hebrews chapter seven verse seven, without all contradiction, the lesser is blessed by the better. That means in the question of transference, there must be a lesser. There must be a better. It is a posture of the heart that makes a man say, I choose because I recognize the workings of the power of God in your life to be the lesser if I'm going to receive from you. Because who is blessing who is the better. I might be older than you, but I choose to be lesser. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. I might be in my sixties and seventies, but if I realize that there is the power of God on you and God has sent it to me and you are my prophet, then I am the lesser. That is what honor is.
It's a posture of putting a man in high esteem that this... There's a grace of God upon this man. I recognize that God is with you. I understand what you carry and what you represent. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? And then it is an expression of honor that you would now give to the anointed. It is an expression of honor. Galatians chapter six. In the New Living Translation, verse six. One, two, three.
Go. When Paul speaks in this manner, you're gonna wonder precisely how or why is Paul speaking in this manner. But what Paul is teaching is actually the heart of honor. That's why the Bible says, honor the Lord your God. Honor him. It then tells you how you should honor him. It says, with your substance. It means any kind of honor that does not have substance attached to it, to the person with whom you honor is false. Do you understand what trying to say? Understand this about honor.
If you honor your father or your mother as God is helping you, you will bless them. It is honor. Do you understand what I'm saying? If you honor someone because of their provision, when you wanna meet them, it is honor to go with a gift. The Bible says the gift of a man is not your talent. It's the gift you bring. It makes way. It's an heart of honor that when you go before the king, you go with something. When queen Sheba was going to go and meet Solomon, what did she go with? She went with resources.
It's an heart of honor. Do you understand what I'm saying? Sir. It means if you understand the language of honor, you will know it's impossible to say I honor the grace of God upon this person without your substance going to it. Without your substance, go into it. Learn or not. Learn it well. Learn it very well. You know, your life can be an example of it, and you can profit from the prophet. Have you been blessed?
Yes, sir. Thank God for what he has done, and thank God for what you've received. Thank you for listening. We believe you've been blessed. To be a part of this vision, you can connect with us on YouTube at Disciples Television, on at dcn nations and on telegram at dcn media channel. We love you. Stay blessed.