Transcript: Satisfy Us Early — The Wisdom of Timely Help

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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 any 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. There is a prayer in the book of Psalms that I have come to appreciate a lot more deeply as I study it and as I go through life.

It is a prayer that you can read casually and never really pay attention to the weight of what is being communicated. And I've taught on it a few times. But it just it just so happens that the more you study it, the more you see that there is more to unpack. And as I was meditating, the holy spirit put this in my heart to speak to us about today. As a matter of fact, I was meditating on matters relating to myself and the Disciples Christian Network as a ministry, And I was just praying, praying in the night, and it was pressed upon my spirit as I prayed that I should open your eyes to this truth, go deeper in this layer of truth. And then perhaps when you understand the depth of this prayer, perhaps we can pray together as a church. But it is not just a prayer, it's an instruction. In fact, it is a cause for introspection. And I believe so strongly that the teaching today will lead us into solemn reflection. As many of you that follow it, as many of you that understand it, it would be a need for you to think, for you to pray.

So please don't be distracted. I understand that for those who are outside, there might be distractions here and there, but just don't be distracted. Alright. Please stay with me as I attempt to bring you into understanding. Today will be the part one of this discussion. I have no idea when we'll do the part two, but we cannot finish it today. But I would open you to the discourse. It would probably also launch you into study yourself, and it would probably also launch you into answers, to seek for answers even as you introspect, even as you reflect. Is this understood? Yes, sir.

The prayer is in Psalms 90 and verse 14. Can we read it together, everybody? Now let's start the prayer. You'd agree with me we've done this quite some time, but it's deep. For every time we discuss it, believe me, there is some layer of truth that we've not yet uncovered. It's like a fruit with many layers. The more you open it, the more you see that there is something else, another layer. I really pray that you see. My God. For someone who has been praying for hunger, this might be that teaching that you need.

For someone who has found out that they are laid back in life, not moving fast enough, this might be that teaching that you need. For someone dealing with very severe procrastination, very severe laziness, indiscipline? This might be the answer for you. There might be a family here as well who has lost time. Who has lost time? There's an answer here for you too. And and different different categories of people, really. Different categories of people. So just pray in the spirit quietly within yourself and listen. Refuse any distraction and just focus on me.

Is that okay? The bible says in Psalms 19 and verse 14, oh, satisfy us early with your mercy that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. That's the scripture I've been thinking about. And what caught my interest as I thought about it was the word early. That was the word that stayed with me, early. Why did the psalmist ask God to satisfy them early? Why didn't he just simply ask God to satisfy them and then leave it at that? Why was it necessary to bring the timing of that satisfaction into the prayer? Are you with me? Yes, sir.

Because the moment you begin to pay attention to that expression, you will discover that the psalmist was concerned about something beyond the fact that God would eventually answer. There was a desire for God's mercy and for God's help to come at a time when the benefits of those realities could be enjoyed throughout the days that were still ahead of them. So it's important we understand what the psalmist is communicating here. And just so that we don't go ahead of ourselves in as much as verse 14 is where we are pitching our tent in this teaching, let's first study the psalm from verse one so that we can unpack the act of the psalmist in this prayer. I've taught you about context. Have I not? How it is important to study the pretext and the post text to understand the context. And most times, even the historical context matters. The historical context must also disturb it. It must be studied because it brings clarification to the chapter or the verse that you are reading.

For instance, this particular psalm is identified in the scriptures as a prayer of Moses. So this psalm is not a Davidic psalm. This psalm, if you have a physical bible or you have a bible on your phone or something, you check it, you'll see there's a transcript written on that psalm, a prayer of Moses to God. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So the psalm is a prayer that Moses made to God. And I believe that information alone will change how you understand this entire psalm. Knowing that this was a prayer that Moses prayed. Knowing who prayed this prayer gives us a better understanding of the burden behind it because Moses was a man who had seen the dealings of God with an entire generation. So there's a perspective from whence he will be praying that we must pay attention to.

Moses had witnessed deliverance. Moses had witnessed rebellion, judgment. He had witnessed the passage of years in the wilderness. He knew what it meant for a people to have a promise before them, and yet spend years, years without entering into what God had promised them. He knew what it meant for you to labor for many years, decades, trying to hold on to what God has promised you and realizing that ten years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years goes, and your hand has not touched it. Yet God told you, I will bring you into a land flowing with milk and honey. Moses was a man who had received the promise of God. He was a man who got encountered and who had encountered God, and that encounter he had with God, God had told him what God... He was gonna do with his life, and God had told him what he would do with the people of Israel. So he was a man who understood and who knew precisely what God wanted to do with the people.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. Because he got the promise. It would interest you to know that Moses who got the promise and delivered these people as God had promised him out of the hand of the Egyptians lived forty years in the wilderness without entering into the realization of the promise. I believe so strongly that that context matters to the understanding of the scripture. Now I cannot establish the exact occasion on which Moses composed this psalm. But when you examine the things that he's saying as begin to read, you recognize that everything he's saying concerns the very realities that are consistent with his life. I would want to witness in his lifetime. And I believe that if you're going to understand the prayer in verse 14 properly, we must begin from the things that Moses said before arriving at that prayer. So in verse one, the Bible says, Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

So Moses begins this psalm by acknowledging something about God. It says that God has been their dwelling place in all generations. In other words, through the generations that come and gone, God remained the one in whom his people could find refuge. He was there before the present generation existed. He had been faithful through the generations before them. As a matter of fact, they call him the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So when Moses is saying that you've been our dwelling place in all generations, he's saying that you've been consistent across generations. Our father has called on to you and you answered. Do you understand what I'm saying? Sir.

You are the eternal god is what he's trying to establish. In fact, in verse two, Mobius goes on to say, before the mountains were brought forth or ever, You had formed the earth and the world even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. So Moffitt is speaking about a God who the existence is not limited by time. He's saying before the mountain existed, you were god. Before the mountain existed, he was god. Before the earth was formed, he was god. He's saying generations of men will come and go, but god remains. You can count the years or the number of years in a man's life. You can tell the day he was born, and eventually, a day will come that his life on earth will come to an end when you cannot speak about God in that manner. So Moffitt is saying that he's God from everlasting to everlasting.

He's a God that has no beginning, that has no end. He's an eternal God. So Moffitt is taking his time to establish the eternal nature of god. And then when he was done establishing the eternity of god, he then switches to speak about the condition of man, almost as though he's making a contrast. Saying, God, you are the God from all generations. You are the God from everlasting to everlasting. You are the God before the mountains were formed, before the mountains were brought forth, before the earth was made, you existed. Saying that time means nothing to God. Before time was created, it was God. Do you understand what I'm saying?

So it brings a contrast in the next conversation to in in verse three to now say that you turn man to destruction and say, return all children of men. So now Moses is bringing the complaint to man. Do you get this now? Yes, sir. Follow the context. He was establishing the eternal nature of God, and he took his time to establish it. Then in the next verse that follows, he goes to man now, and then he says, God is speaking to man and saying, return, oh, children of men. And verse four goes on to say, for a thousand years in your sight... Speaking about God again. For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past and like a watch in the night.

That's a contrast here that I believe you must understand. That God is eternal, but man is living within a limited period of time. So a thousand years to man, that would represent many generations. Is that not so? Yes, sir. But Moses is saying to God, it's like a day that has passed. It's like a watch in the night. Moses is helping us understand the difference between the eternity of God and the brevity of human existence. That the years appear to be very long to us, but the year that appears to be very long to us don't limit God in the same way they limit us. That men will see a thousand years and you can't imagine the amount of civilization that must have come and gone in a thousand years.

Do you understand what I'm saying? That's about 10 generations, assuming each generation live a hundred years. That's a whole lot of time. That means if you live to see a hundred years, your children, their children, their children's children, their children's children's multiply that by 10. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's a lot of time. Our mother is saying when God looks at all that he is, it's as though a day has passed. I want you to take a moment and think about the implication of that truth for your own life. Because what that means is that you are living within a period of time that has a beginning and an end, And that there are only so many years available to you on this earth. And that there are things you must do within those years.

Responsibilities you must carry within those years. People you must influence within those years. Opportunities, you must take advantage of within those years. Purpose, you must fulfill. Family, you must have. Family, you must raise. An imprint, you must live on this earth. A legacy you must live on this earth, lives you must touch, and you only have a few years to do everything. Do you understand what I'm saying? That even once you believe in eternal life through Jesus Christ, you must also understand that the lives we live on earth are lived within time.

That means you cannot return to the age of 20 after you have become 60. You cannot go back and relive the years that have already passed. There are things you can recover. There are things you can rebuild. There are opportunities that God can still bring into your life, but the years themselves continue to move forward and they will never go backward. And once the year is gone, it is gone. Are you still with me? Yes, sir. That's why I believe the way you think about time is very important because people live as though they have an unlimited number of years available to them to live. So they keep on postponing things that they ought to give attention to.

They keep assuming that there will always be an odd opportunity to do what they should do when they should do it. There will always be another season, another time to try again, another chance to do what they should be doing now. But Moses is showing us the reality of our existence, that God is eternal. But as a man, you are living within days that are numbered. And maybe you don't get it yet, but let's continue. You will soon understand it. Verse five, Moses says, you carry them like a flood. They are like a slip. In the morning, they are like grass which grows up. Glory to god.

Glory. In the morning... Next verse. In the morning, it flourishes and grows up. In the evening, it is cut down and withers. I want you to pay attention to the illustration that Moby is using here. He's comparing the life of man. All the life that man lives on earth is comparing it to grass that grows in the morning and then withers in the evening. He says that in the morning, the grass flourishes. It grows.

But in the evening, it is cut down and it withers. It's just trying to show you a picture of how quickly human life passes. Are you with me? Yes, sir. That... It doesn't matter whether it's a hundred years. Before God, it's like morning to evening. That... We are in the morning right now. Is that not so?

Before you know what is happening, it's already evening. Is that not so? Before God, that's how your life looks like. No matter how long you have spent. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's like morning to evening. It has come and gone. It's showing you the brevity of time, the brevity of your time, the shortness of your time. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

That's something that appeared full of life in the morning. Eventually, when it comes to the evening, will come to an end. And most cities using this illustration to remind you that even the years in which a man appears strong, even the years in which a man appears full of possibilities, even that year is passing. That verse six speaks about the morning in which the grass flourishes. When you come to verse 14, which is our vow of emphasis, is now praying that God should satisfy them early with his mercy. Is that not so? Yes, sir. The Hebrew expression, if you have a concordance and you check the Hebrew expression of the word in verse 14, it is the word baboka or bokah for short. But in the full Hebrew expression is the word baboka. Are you with me?

And that word in Hebrew means in the morning, or the word means in the morning. The word means morning. So when he says satisfy us early, he's actually saying satisfy us in the morning. It is the same expression that was used in verse six when Moses says in the morning, it flourishes. It's also the word bukka, bukka. Are you with me? So when Moses is saying in verse 14, satisfy us early, it is same expression, satisfy us in the morning. Stay with me. The morning. That's a term that Moffitt used to describe the passing nature of human life in the morning to the evening, morning and evening.

And I like to say that every man would have three seasons in his life. There is the morning season of your life, there is the half moon season of your life, and there is the evening season of your life. Now I don't have time to look at this now, but when you understand what I'm saying, I think you'll get the idea. Right? When you study the immediate context, you find that the morning can communicate the coming of a new day of God's favor after a people have passed through a period of sorrow, a period of anguish, a period of affliction, the morning can communicate the arrival of a new day. When situation now changes, you say the morning has come. That's why the bible said in Psalms 30 verse five, the weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. So morning can also mean the time that something changes for you. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.

So Mobin is praying for the mercy of God to bring relief, to bring gladness after the difficulties they've passed through. But there's also a principle you can draw from the picture of morning and evening that Moses is using here. That the morning always comes before the evening. Is that not so? That there is a mourning of a man's life. There's the mourning of a man's life. The mourning when he's born. The mourning when he grows. The mourning when he is growing. When he's being taught.

When he's being trained. Are you with me? Yes, sir. When the foundations of his life are being built, are being formed, when he's making decisions. Is that not so? Yes, sir. Moses is saying that in that morning, the grass flourishes. Glory to God. Glory. I pray your eyes open now.

Mufis now says, Kai, I've done my study and I've realized in the morning is when it is good for a man to be satisfied. It's not in the afternoon. It's not in the evening. He said it's in the morning. It's in the morning season of a man's life that satisfaction should come. And guess what? He said, so that we may rejoice and be glad the rest of our days. That means the rest of our days from morning should be full of rejoicing and gladness. It means we should not be pursuing the things that make for satisfaction at the later end of your life. At some point, Mufi says, let us pray a prayer that in the morning, satisfaction should come.

He's asking God to satisfy his people with mercy that they can rejoice and be glad throughout the days that remain. See, it is possible for a man to eventually receive something that he has desired for a long time. But because of the stage of life that he's had when he receives it, he may have fewer years available to him to enjoy the benefit of what he has received. That the thing itself is still valuable, but the amount of life remaining in which to enjoy what he has received has changed. Imagine with me for instance now that somebody has spent many years struggling, trying to achieve a certain level of stability in his life. And for several decades, almost everything that he hands, that he has goes into addressing one difficulty in his life to another difficulty in his life. He's constantly trying to survive, constantly trying to provide, constantly trying to ensure that bills are paid, bills are met, constantly worrying about responsibilities that are stacked up before him. Are you with me? Constantly postponing things that he would have loved to accomplish because there is no means with which to accomplish them now. For instance, he wants to travel around world, but where is the time or the money for that?

There are dreams he has. There are desires that he has, and he keeps on postponing the dreams and the desires because he does not have the means to execute them. So he says, you know what? Let me first go and also to gather means to execute my desires. So God can put visions in my heart, for instance. People I want to touch, people I want to reach, lives I want to bless. Is that not so? And I have these visions and desires in my life, and I realize that I don't have the means for them yet. So what I tell myself is, you know what? Let me spend some time first looking for means so that at the later time of my life, I can now begin to address the visions I see.

Do you understand what I'm saying? That's how a lot of people live their lives. That's how a lot of people do what? Live their lives. Live their lives. Then towards the end or the later years of their life, maybe when they are 60 or when they are 70, they now finally begin to experience the kind of financial stability that they've desired for so long. Now you agree with me that that stability is still valuable. In fact, you should be grateful for it no matter the time that it comes. Are you with me? No.

But just imagine how different your life would have been, how different your experience in life would have been if that stability had come earlier in your life. That means there are responsibilities that you could have handled with less difficulties. There are things you could have built. There are people you could have helped. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. And there would have been more years available for you to enjoy the benefits of what have become possible to you. Yes, sir. Now does this mean that everybody must accomplish everything whilst they are young? No.

There are people who begin important things later in life and still accomplish remarkable things before they go. Because God can give a man strength. God can give a man wisdom. Can give a man opportunities at different stages of his life. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But you must recognize that time is a real consideration in the things that we desire to accomplish. Time. There's nothing wrong with desiring that the things that will contribute to your well-being, to your usefulness as a person becomes available whilst you still have the opportunity to enjoy them fully. What I'm saying is there is nothing wrong in desiring that the things that make for your well-being become available to you in the morning.

There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that. And I won't talk about that in full later. I'm still building. Stay with me. Look at verse nine. Let's continue. Verse nine says, for all our days all our days have passed away in your wrath. We finished our years like a sigh. You know what that means?

Take take a sigh. Take a deep breath. Hundred years have gone. That's what is sin. That's a 100. You have just... What you have done now is a hundred years. Because it's contrasting between God and man. It's showing you the brevity of your life. That see, what you think you have time for, you actually don't.

Before you do, you have come, you have gone. A new generation has come ahead of you. And what are you saying? And I have time. I have time. I'm I'm still 15. I'm still 18. I'm still 21. I'm still 30. There's still time ahead of me.

Still time ahead of you. At this point in more of his life, I wonder how that man must have been thinking. Remember again his context. Remember again is context. That God appeared to him. He encountered God, and he really did. He wasn't sick. And God told him, I've heard the crowd of my people who are in Israel. I've come down to deliver them. Is that not so?

And he sent him to go and do that, to bring them into a land flow will make an ornament. And then God gave him pictures of how that land will look like. It will be a land where there is no cavity. You will not lack bread. You will not lack water. It will be a land flowing with milk and honey. A land with several rivers. You will have more than you can finish. At some point, God was painting that picture to Moses and God told Moses, when you have come to possess that land, you will find out it will be occupied by a dam where you dispossess them. And then you would find cisterns you did not dig.

Houses you did not build. Vineyards is not plant. God kept on preparing Mobyvi's mind for these things. And I can imagine that as God was telling Mobyvi, Mobyvi was telling the people, This is where God is taking us to. For ten years and twenty years and thirty years and they've still not entered it, they are still merry-go-rounding in the wilderness. They can see the promise in their front like this because God has told them. But they have not touched it. They've not experienced it. They are still suffering and struggling, still crying over bread. There were time when there was no water to drink.

Water has to come out of the rock. Were time when there was no food to eat. Man have to come out from heaven, and these people had received a promise. Moses looked at the time and said, Kai, this is already thirty years. I pray somebody understands something. Yes. Said, wait. Are we joking in this place? Before we finish taking a deep breath, time has gone. When will our hands now touch what you told us we will enjoy?

At what age will we now see the land flowing with milk and honey? If at 40 years, you have still not entered it... Oh my god. Do you understand what I'm saying? You are not getting this thing yet. That there was someone who was 20 when they left Egypt. Oh, you are still not getting this thing. 40, the guy is now what? And he has not entered it. But there was someone who was 40 when they left Egypt.

And you will think, we've been delivered. Glory to God. I'm a young guy. I'm planning my life. 40, they've not entered it. How old is the guy now? My God. That's why I said it is important to understand the context. Otherwise, you would think it's a joke. There's a realm from where this man was speaking.

He said, see. See. See. I don't care what anybody says. He pays To be satisfied early. So that when we finally enter, we can rejoice and be glad the rest of our days. That we don't enter when we are about to die. And realize that we spent all our years trying to enter. Now they are finally entered. But we have only ten year more years.

Only five more years. For the breast to come and go. What they said, no. No. No. No. It is possible for years to have passed. Whilst the possibilities that ought to have given those years significance remain unrealized in a man's life. Do you remember that it was never God's intention for him to even spend forty years to begin with? Whether they entered or they did not enter, forty years is still forty years old.

That means there were people that they just gave birth to when that journey began. There was a newborn baby, there were some that were doing the same as Hemun in that day. When they heard Moses say, pack your bags, we are going. That means this one is already forty years, he has still not entered. There are people that were born inside the wilderness, born into the confusion of a generation and they still did not enter. They still have not entered. The movie is called the affliction. Moses said, see, if we continue living our life as though we have time, we'll be deceiving ourselves. Because these years we see that are going like this is but a breath before God. It's but a breath before God.

The guy is still lamenting about the brevity of time. He say in verse 10, he now goes on to say, the days of our lives are seventy years. The days of our lives are what? Seventy years. And if by reason of strength, they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and subtle, for it is soon cut off and will fly away. You would make a mistake thinking that Moby is saying that everybody would live only to seventy years or eighty years. That's not what he's trying to say. He's just showing you the brevity of time that no matter how long you live, time is still short. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.

He's saying by 70, some would have gone. By 80, some would have gone. Even Mobyv himself lived above 80 years old. So you can tell that he's not trying to tell you that the peak of a man's age is 80 or 70 because so many people take this scripture out of context. Are you with me? Sir. His empathy is that no matter how long your life is, it is still short compared to the perspective where God is standing. It's still brief. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

It is still brief. Even the longest of life comes to an end eventually, and years pass on more quickly than you realize. So the deception that you have time is indeed a great deception. It's not where I'm going. Stay with me. Now look at what movie says in verse 12. After speaking about the brevity of human life, in August of verse 12, he says, Kai, I have now seen that one of the reasons why these people are still getting her is that they lack the consciousness of time. They don't know. They think they still have more time. At this point, David is the one who is praying and and languishing.

The people that he is leading are still ignorant of of his heart body, of his prayers. So when he begins to pray, he prays for everybody. He says, please teach us to number our days. Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. I believe this is one of the most important statements in the entire psalm. Teach us to number our days. And then it tells us what that understanding after you have been taught would produce. It says that we may apply our hearts onto wisdom. So the awareness that our days are numbered should lead us into wisdom. It does teach us to come into the knowledge of the numbering of our days, that our days are numbered.

There is something about understanding the value and the limitations of time that ought to affect the way we live if you understand it. Are you with me? See, when Moffitt says, teach us to number our days, he is he is asking for more than the ability to calculate how old the person is. Everybody can count the number of years that he has lived. Is that not so? Yes, sir. You don't need a special evolution from God to know whether you're 25 or 30 or 15 or 18. Is that not so? Yes, sir. But you can know your age and still live without understanding of the significance of the year that are passing.

That means you can know your age and not know that you are out of time. You see, Moses had an understanding of the period of time it should take for the people of Israel to enter into the promised land. The people of Israel themselves did not know. So in their own ignorance, they would think that they are still in schedule. They will all know that they are running late. So Moses is saying teach us to see the significance of our time. And when we understand the limitations of time, it will enable us to apply our hearts to wisdom. That means there's a way a man will be living his life. The only prayer you can pray for him is let him understand. In fact, teach this one to number his days.

Teach him to understand the implication of consequences. You can celebrate your birthday every year without ever seriously examining what you are doing with the time available to you. Because you are not aware that for every time that you... For every year you celebrate here, a time has gone. Time has gone. And we come and we celebrate. And you don't know that for every year you celebrate, that's... You have lesser time to live. For every one year that has gone, that's that's one year gone out of the many years I have to do everything I have to do. So that when Jesus said I've come in the volume of the books.

If the book really has volume, how come three years was enough? If you understand Calm down. Calm down. Calm down. In three years, three and a half years, the assignment was completed. He rose. Now he's enjoying for the rest of his days. Celebrated and coronated, sitting at the right hand of the father. Can someone have that kind of awareness of time? That's what Muthi is praying.

Can these people realize as they are in the wilderness right now that they don't have time again? Can they realize that there's a lot stacked in front of them that they've not even begun to experience, that there is so much God has written about their life and destiny that they've not come into the experience of yet. Can this person realize that he has pitched his tent long enough in the wilderness? God is expecting a greater demand from his life. Can this person realize that the output of his life currently is still shortcut than the investment God has made in his life? Can this person realize that with respect to where you should be in eternity, your life should already be feeding a generation? We are still thanking God that when you were hungry yesterday, God gave you bread. That's what Moby is saying. That can these people not see? Can can they not see?

Can this person not see A kind of understanding that makes a man conscious of the preciousness of his days that causes him to live wisely because of that consciousness. It means if a man does not live wisely, he doesn't know time. It... This prayer not been offered in his life. If a man continues to live stupidly and foolishly, when affinement is in your front, destiny is in your front, a mandate is in your front, A lot should have happened to you in one year. A lot. A lot. A lot of progress should have been made. Now you have been cycling year after year, but you've made so little progress with respect to the distance we should have covered in time When we look on the perspective of eternity, we still see that my god, that guy is moving so slow, but he does not know. That's the problem.

He does not know. He thinks he's okay. Because we measure... Do you know how we measure time? We measure time using men as standard, using the economy as standard, using societal values and political correctness as standard. So you look at someone, you say, At your age, Jeremiah was already receiving visions from God. God was telling him, you are a prophet to nations. Go out and prophesy. God was telling a teenager, a teenager, I have set you before kings, before nations. You will spool out.

That was what God was telling. But, you know, when you see a young person doing ministry like myself, they will say, I I... All these ambitious people. Ambitious people. I I don't have time. I wish I began earlier earlier. See. I wish somebody taught me... Fat me down and taught me. Emmanuel.

Do you know? I was looking at how old I will turn next year and I put my hand on my head. I said Jesus Christ. That's why you see people. That's how they live. When this prayer has answered in your life, when you know how to number your days, you will know experientially the implication of your actions now. Every birthday that comes that I have, I'm not as excited as people are because I don't know what you are celebrating. You are celebrating the impact a man has made. Glory to God for that. When the man himself looks at himself from the perspective of eternity and looks down on what God expect of his life in the moment, what he's checking is, am I moving fasting?

Am I am I... Have I done... Have I reached as many people as I should be reaching now? Do I have more capacity I'm not exhausting? Do I have more on my inside I'm not using just yet? The kind of understanding that makes a man conscious of the preciousness of his days and coffees him to live wisely because of that consciousness. He wants the reality of time to influence the heart of these people because a man that truly understands that his days are numbered will begin to give serious thought to the things that he's doing with those days. So there are things you may be postponing today because you have assumed that time will always be available. There are responsibilities you have been avoiding. There are decisions you know you need to make.

There are areas where you should be developing yourself. And because there is no immediate pressure that is compelling you to act, you keep on telling yourself that I think I can attend to them later. I think I can learn that skill later. I think I can be... I will I will... This giving giving thing. Let me enjoy now. I can begin to do this once later. I will pay attention to my finances later. I will work on that weakness later.

I will start paying attention to my health later. All these future future future. Yeah. I know. I know. I will start paying attention to my destiny later. Read books. I'm supposed to. We read. We read.

Don't worry. Don't worry. We read. There's time. There's time. We will read. This girl, see how you're living your life like this. You are destroying your life. How old am I? I'm just 17.

You see, before you realize... What is the 60? The only thing that will now be left will be regrets. There's a kind of wisdom that comes from recognizing that your time is valuable. You begin to think differently about the kind of things that deserve your attention. Become more conscious of the divisions that can affect direction of your life. You begin to understand that there are things you should give yourself to whilst the opportunity is still available, while the opportunity is still there. You become more willing to examine how your present actions right now are influencing the future that you desire. It's a wisdom that comes from recognizing that your time is valuable. Now remember that movie is praying.

He said, so teach us. In other words, he recognizes that this understanding is something we need God to help us develop. He said, so teach us. It means it's not something we can engineer by ourselves. We will need God to help us. That was how God helped Jesus because it's the perfect expression of the image of God. So whatever I see in Jesus as I read his story, I realize that this is exactly what God or how God has designed for man to live. You're not aware. You should be aware I've taught you. Do you know that Jesus at age 12 so much had a consciousness of his days and a realization of the time that has been set before him.

By the way, he sat down with the scribes and the Pharisees at age 12. Do you know what a 12 year old boy looks like? And he started having conversations with them, asking them questions, listening to them, sitting in the midst of teachers at age 12. When his parents were looking for him and they found him. Jesus was shocked that they did not know where he was. Jesus said, ah ah, I thought you were my parents. You should have gotten the manuscript of my life before you bettered me. And if you understood that manuscript very well, you should have known that by now I should be above my father's business at a 12. Which father commits his business to a 12 year old? He is your heavenly Father.

That's the Father. He is the one that they are lying there is no time. He does not measure age in the way that we do. So that when you are counting years, you say, ah, this one is a 12. That somebody can be a 12 and beholder than his spirit. Ah. Have you not heard what was said about Joseph? The bible said of Joseph that he was a son of his father's old age. For a long time, I've thought about what that statement means because I thought it would it would mean maybe because his father gave birth to him at his old age or something. But Benjamin was his last born.

So Benjamin should... If that was the case, it should have been Benjamin that he should have been referring to. But it was Joseph, they said, was the son of his father's old age. No wonder his father loved him. No wonder he bestowed on him the coat of many colors. The father had always known there is something different about this guy's life. Because from a young age, that son of his father's old mage means he had the same level of wisdom his father had. That what wisdom his father was functioning in at that age, Joseph too was functioning in. So much what the bible calls it a son of his father's old age. He wasn't thinking his age.

He wasn't living his age. Let's pray this prayer. Let's pray this prayer. Just close your eyes and and whisper. Teach me. Because if this prayer is answered in your life, this is not where I'm going. You have not begun the teaching. Just stay with me. If this prayer is answered in your life, the direction of your life will change. Brother, I can guarantee you.

Sister, I can promise you if this prayer is answered. You see those corrections they've been trying to correct you, they have not gotten. You let this prayer be answered. You will suddenly seek. Heart will open you will see it. That my good life, what kind of life have I have I been living? You will realize that there's no time again, so much to do in solid due time. Let us pray. Teach me to understand the value of the years you have given me. Help me to recognize what deserves my attention at this stage of my life.

Give me wisdom to make decisions that will not unnecessarily damage the years ahead of me. Help me to understand the responsibilities of my present season. Can you pray? Because there are many people who still have many years ahead of them, But they are living right now without wisdom. And there are others who have become conscious of the value of their days. And they are deliberately giving attention to the things that matter. Moses wants the knowledge that our days are numbered to produce wisdom in the way that we live. Teach us to number our days. Teach us to number our days. Help me.

In Jesus name we have prayed. Amen. There's a sister or a brother. Under the sound of my voice. And I am hoping you will understand what I'm teaching. See, you might think that the answers to your problem is in three days prayer and fasting. And you might undermine the effect of our understanding like this that this is the reason why your life is wrecked. Let's continue. We are going somewhere. Are you following in these teaching?

Sir. Hope I am not boring you. No, sir. When we teach like this, I know it can be a lot for those without capacity. So try and stay with me. Yes, sir. We will arrive hopefully very soon. So after Moses has prayed that God should teach them to number their days, in verse 13, Moses now continues. And I want you to follow what he says carefully because we are getting closer now to the button of the prayer in verse 14. Verse 13 says, return, oh Lord.

Can we read that next statement together? How long? With a question mark. How long? Moses is now pleading with God concerning the duration of the affliction. Remember, that's why I say his context is important. This is a people... So we don't know how many years they've spent in the wilderness when Mobi was writing this. But it must have been quite a number of years. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Because as at this point, most of is saying, return, oh lord. How long? Because he's writing now about the duration of the affliction. He has been speaking about the years of man, how quickly life passes, how limited those years are, and now he's asking, return on earth, how long? In other words, there's a consciousness of the fact that time is passing while they are going through what they are experiencing. Moses understood that time is passing. We can't continue suffering like this. When will we now touch glory? And Moses is asking God for mercy. It's asking that the condition of the people should change, that they should experience the compassion of God, that their remaining years should not simply continue in the same affliction that they've known for long.

He's asking God to intervene. Have compassion. Have compassion. And when mood is asked how long, it is because there is something about suffering that becomes even more difficult when it continues for a prolonged period of time. There is something about lack, something about the wilderness, something about living outside of the place God had a portion for you, especially when you know what God had a portion for you. Yet you still continue to live outside it. You can encounter a type of financial difficulty and then recover from it within a few months. But imagine spending fifteen or twenty years under the same kind of financial pressure with almost every responsibility becoming difficult to fulfill because of the condition that you are in. Imagine, there are people that live like this, that you would think that things will get better. One day, it'll better.

That is only what they've used to psych themselves to keep on open. Because they said the same thing twenty years ago. They said it thirty years ago. They said it forty years ago. Their lives have not changed for it. How they lived thirty years ago is still how they are living now. The only difference is that there are more responsibilities. So more people are partaking of the suffering of the divisions or the indivisions of the man. Before he was the only one, now we are excited to marry. He has put a wife inside.

A wife that is equally as clear as he is. Now they've given birth to child one, child two, child three, child four, child five. And he comes home and says, one day it will be better. One day it be better. Child one now is 20 years old. Also languishing because at 20, he's working as a petrol or a affiliation attendant because a parent cannot afford money to send him to school. Now he has to raise money for himself. And they keep on telling him that, you know, you have to take care of your brother. At age 20, take care of your brother. Go and work.

Go and do something. The guy finished school from 16 years old. He can't achieve destiny. He has a vision to go to university. It's in front of him there, but he cannot touch it. Moffie says, how long? Oh my God. Oh, I came with a burden. It's it's a burden. He says how long?

How long? How long? How long will things continue like this? Because you see, things can continue like this for a long time. Don't undermine. If nothing happens, that Newton's law of motion will remain the same. An object will remain at a point. A life will remain at a point. A destiny will remain at a point. Do you know the problem with remaining at a point?

Is that in life, life is so designed that nobody really remains at a point. That's the painful thing about life. That if you remain at the point, that means that if you define your existence for the last two years as I've just remained at one point, you have not remained at one point. You have gone backwards. That's the thing about life. Life is merciless in that order because life continues to move. Time continues to go. Years continue to accumulate upon years. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.

The head keeps on rotating. Good, sir. The motion continues. It doesn't wait for anybody. So if you say, Kai, I'm stuck. You are not really stuck. You are behind. And for every day you you think you are stuck, you are going behind more and more. If somebody has spent forty years, somebody... Wait.

Think about this like this. You came to come and tell them that God is taking us to a land flowing with milk and honey. And they believe and they leave Egypt because they believed. And year one, year two, year three, year four, year five, year six, year seven, year eight, year nine, year ten, they keep on still in the wilderness. At some point, you get... God is coming to command. They just and walk away. Year one, they could still believe you. They could still be encouraged. Year two, they could...

Year three, year four. By the time they are getting to ten years and twenty years and nothing has happened, the further the suffering becomes, the further away the promise looks. The more faint it is in their memory. They can't even remember, lamb flowing with meek and onion. Those... They can't... They want... Want... They can't even... They've been acclimatized to suffering.

They've adapted to that way of life. It was a man, only one man in the wilderness that was crying. How long? How long? How long? How How long? Long? How long? And God answered that prayer. Because even after the death of Moses, they still were not moving.

They still remain on the same spot. It was in response to the cry of Moses that God came to Joshua and said you have compassed this mountain long enough. The question was how long? How long will we remain at a spot? How long would we not move? And God came and said, guy, guy, guy, guy, guy, guy. You have compassed this mountain long enough. Then if God says you have compassed a place long enough, that's God speaking. You have to understand it from the dimension of God. That's God speaking long enough.

God. God. That a thousand years is like a day that has passed. Your entire lifetime is like a sigh in his presence. And that God comes and looks at the man and says, you have compassed this mountain long enough. You need to... The weight of that statement. So you will know God really answer the cry of Moses. Otherwise, now look as though population. It look as though God made so many promises in your life that did not come to pass.

And the reason is because there's no wisdom. The end of teachers to number our days is that we can apply our heart to wisdom. It means stagnancy will remain until there is wisdom. And what brings about wisdom is the awareness of the numbering of days. What brings about wisdom? What is wisdom? Decisions you make, applicable decisions you make every day leading to the destiny that God has shown to you. The visions to give, the visions to tithe, divisions to save, divisions to be diligent, divisions to invest in yourself. Those are divisions. Those are divisions.

And every time a man procrastinates what the what division And choose to go the Oh God. Ah, I don't have time. Somebody is born in difficulty. He's born in difficulty. Born in a family that did not have too many advantages. No problem. You have been born there. Fine. You could not... Your parents could not afford the best upbringing.

Maybe they could not afford the best schools. Maybe they couldn't afford the best meals. Maybe we could not even eat well. Well, how long will you remain there? How long? How long will you continue to complain? How long will you remain comfortable in suffering? But this not how God wants me to live. Will will will something not provoke you? Will how long?

How long you? How long will you continue to live from hand to mouth? How long? How long will you do ministry as though there's a cause on your life? Yet you keep on delivering people from causes, but your ministry has no voice. How long? Ask the question. How long? How long? How long will I continue to accept my limitations as normal?

How long? Will a time not come when something will rise up within me and say, no. No. No. No. I know that I might have been born into this situation, but I can change something about this. I can change it. Those that gave birth to me might have desired to give me a good life, but they didn't have the means to execute that desire. But listen, I will have both the desire and the means. My children will have a good life.

It's not only mouth. Because if that is really your desire, what wisdom steps are you taking now to bring about that desire and to bring it into fulfillment? Because if I look at your life at the moment and I realize that there is foolishness deeply seated in your soul, I realize that you are making choices on a daily basis that shows that you don't know the imprint of God upon your lives. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know. How long? You see, a young man met me some years ago. He was given a responsibility in the fellowship.

That was how I met him. I would come to come and preach in that fellowship. I came one fateful day and I saw him leading prayers. And I saw him held the prayers like this, my eyes flashed open. What I saw was scary. See, I believe by the word that there are covenant... That there is a covenant God has made with me that everybody God brings to me has greatness on their inside. I believe so. It's a covenant God has made with me. That if anybody is drawn to me, it's because there is greatness on their inside.

That's how you know you're a man of God. That's how you know. He speaks and then you know that there's a there's a resonance in your spirit. But it's not every time that my eyes open to see specifically in that much detail. I stood and I saw it. I saw a worship leader whose voice will reach the world. I saw an apostle of the gospel. I saw an evangelist. I saw a prophet. All the offices, it was as though God layered them on me.

That's what I saw. I saw them like garments. I saw terrific signs and wonders. He was praying in the front. I was in the fellowship then. He was praying. How about... Hey. Can you just pray? Come...

And I didn't know when I began to cry. I didn't know. I said, my God. My God. My God. After the meeting, told them, call that young man for me. Do you know what is in front of you? Do you know? Do you know what is in front of you? I told him, please be accountable.

Please surround your life with men. Please. I told him. I didn't tell him the the the fullness of what I had seen, but I gave him instructions that would preserve him. Two years later, I went there and somebody was telling me at that point, he has impregnated two women. Oh, ah, God. Oh, you see, I won't want to mandate anybody. We don't know. You see, it's how you know wisdom is not there. It's how the guy say, teach us so that we can apply our heart to wisdom.

That's what Bathsheba was telling his son. He said, you have the destiny of a king. Don't spend your strength on women. Do you know what that means? He said don't invest your strength on women. That means when God knows you have a glorious destiny, one of your undoings will be women. It applies to women to the same way. One of your undoings will be men. And it always comes to those who carry glory on their head. They are the...

By that, I mean, who who who specifically, the assignment involves invoking the glory of God, the tangible manifest presence of God. Those who in very radical dimensions, the the way the devil is very intentional in planting distractions along their path to ensure they lose years. And the the thing about distraction is you will never know you are being distracted because it will cause me to look like you are moving. You will not know. You are still serving in church. But in that same church, you have found a woman you are sleeping with in church. And you will think because you're in church, God is having mercy. God is having mercy. Oh, the name of the God is having mercy truly, but years are passing. Years are passing.

Years are passing. Years of manifestation are passing. Many Kairos moment have come and gone, and it never occurred to you that this was Kairos because prophecy prophecies that should have led to that Kairos were missed. Come. Come. You and you, come. One more man should come. Is there any man? Come. Stand.

Stand facing me. Okay. You can go back. Thank you. Stand well. Stand... Three of you, stand well. Look at this. Look at this. Until only gaze is you, spirit keep brooding over me till I rejoice like you.

Sit down. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. These are three men on the path of destiny. This is the this is the race called life. This is what? The race called life.

Destiny is right in front of them. God has told them all the promises and prophecies that I've given to you. There are junction points in destiny where certain manifestations should happen to you, leading you to the path of that expression. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. There are junction points in destiny like that where decisions you make will determine whether you make a step forward or backwards. But the idea is that for every time you keep on investing in yourself and working with God and being diligent, being serious, being committed, what is happening in destiny is that you are moving forward. Go on. Go on. No.

No. Two of you. Move forward. Two of you. Move forward. Take a step forward every time I say take a step forward. I've heard this happening. Now all of them started this race together at the same time. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? What what got this one's here is consistency.

Consistency, accountability. At every point when they are moving forward, the devil wants to deviate them. The devil wants to ensure that they don't move. The devil wants to ensure that if this is the price point, they don't get here. If this is the first announcement point, the first manifestation point, they don't get here. So at every time that they are consistently praying, consist... Consistently moving, Amplified version, Jude one twenty. What does the Bible say? Amplified version. One to nine...

One to three. Go everybody. Do what? How? So it means every time this guy is praying the holy spirit, he's continually progressing. He's continually progressing. It doesn't look like that to help you know. Because he just goes down It looks boring sometimes. And then in the realm of the spirit, you open your eyes and you find that what this guy is doing is making progress. What he's doing is making progress.

God now tells him, see, the destiny in front of you is huge and massive. Maybe you're an apostle. Maybe you're a business person. You say, ah, business person, I must expose myself to books. Now he goes to go and get thinking like a CEO. Think and grow rich. The businessman with the businessman intelligence. He gets several books and he's studying. He's reading biographies of business people. And he's...

As he's reading, he gets into a group of people. There's a conference happening somewhere. He's there. Whilst he's there, he get... He gives a brilliant idea. Okay. I can start this. He's publishing his CV. Whilst he's doing all those things, what is happening is progress. Do you understand what I'm saying?

This guy too does the same thing. Moving on his own path of destiny, getting instructions, making decisions on a daily basis. He's also making progress. Are you with me? They might be on this... On different path, really. He's also making progress. Are you with me? What the devil does is usually to bring a distraction at any of these points. That distraction can be a woman.

It can be a man. It can be some... It can be a group of people. Something that just takes them off the path of destiny. Are you with me? Now imagine that that distraction for this guy now is a woman. Imagine. Come. Imagine. Just stay here and be talking to you.

Now both of you continue moving. Continue moving. Continue moving. Continue moving. Stop. Would you say that this guy is stuck or he's behind? Because you think that stagnation means you are just on one space. That's that's the problem you don't know. That's what many people don't know. I pray that in the most important times in your life, God can send you people like Abigail.

Do you do you do you know that David got to the palace and saw a woman at the corridor and say, go and bring that woman for me. Do you know that there were many prophecies involved in getting that woman there? And throughout all those prophecies, David did not change his mind. That thing was preconceived. It wasn't just the polem of lust. Do you know that instructions were given to people? Go and get the woman. He didn't go by himself. Yes, sir. He instructed people.

Yes, sir. They got the woman. They brought the woman. Somebody prepared the woman. Somebody prepared... Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. The king did what he wanted to do. The king did not kill her husband by himself. People were involved.

Yes. And throughout all of that, nobody could say, Ejoye Marora, sir king. Let's not. Let's not. Yet there was a desire in the heart of David to build a temple for the God. And God says because you have shed blood, this thing that is in your destiny will not be there. Listen. Listen. Listen. Just some few years before that, Nabal had offended David, and David gathered 400 men, and you can't blame him because David and his men were protecting Narao's business.

When enemies came, they stood. So it's only fair that Nabal would pay back in some way. And Nabal just disrespected and rebelled against the loyalty David would expect. I think what what is this? We we were there for you. We he called 400 men. They mounted on horses. The plan was to go and destroy Nabal and his household. When Abigail heard, it was a servant that came to come and tell Abigail. The servant heard that, see what your husband has done.

David is coming, and when he come, they will destroy all of us. You know what Abigail did? Abigail went and blocked David on the way. And the moment Abigail saw David, Abigail came to David and blocked him on the way. They they stopped their horses. Who are you? Say, ah, my king. There was honor in her approach. There was... You would say that she was delivering a household, but no.

Really, what she was doing was delivering David. Because she told David, oh, king, God has told you that he will give the kingdom of Israel in your hands and that he had established the kingdom in your hands. Do you not want blood to be in your hands in this day? The same the same blood that was eventually in his hand when there was nobody to counsel him. It wasn't the first time. In fact, maybe the one that he did that cost him the desire he had in his heart. He wasn't even the one that killed him. He sent someone. This one, he was coming by himself. Coming with 400 men to lay waste to innocent people.

The woman said, if you do this, don't let your hand be stained with blood. The moment he was done, David listened. David turned back. There are many people like that that God brings to them, Abigail's. The problem is that they don't listen. Because for for a man to leave his house with 400 men, he has made up his mind on what he wants to go and do. There are people like that that the moment they make up their mind, you can't change it. Because when David interpreted it, David said, God was the one that sent you to me. That was what David said. God was the one who sent you.

It means David understood Abigail's coming as, ah, God sent this woman. That means this woman is is not just preserving her husband. He's preserving my destiny. Because in about three days or four days from that, the husband died. So it was not... It had nothing to do with your husband. It was really the destiny of the king that God was preserving. That I will commit a whole kingdom to your hands, and what will become the foundation of that kingdom is that you slaughter innocent people. Remember there's progress over your life. Say, ah, ah, thank you.

I almost made a mistake. Thank you. Thank you. He turned back. Many people have heard voices like that. They heard my voice. They did not listen. They continued. That's where we are. How long?

How long? My... We're not... I've no started teaching. Go answer them. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? How long? In verse 14, he now says, oh, satisfy us early with your mercy. That we may be... That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

The burden of the prayer of Moses is that God's mercy would bring gladness to his people after the years of affliction that they had experienced. He's praying that the mercy of God should meet them early enough for the experience of gladness to extend through the days ahead. And I believe that when you understand the heart of this prayer, you begin to appreciate something about the timing of the help of God. All satisfy us in the morning. That means there is timing to the help of God. That is very important. See, it doesn't just matter that certain things come into your life. It also matters when they come. What did I just say? Say, Lord, satisfy me highly.

Lord, satisfy me highly. With your mercy. With your mercy. Oh my God. See how mercy is connected to time. Have you heard your mercies are new every morning? Why again is mercy connected to morning? That when a man has found mercy with God, what happens is that help from God arrives for him in demonic. Oh my God. Do you understand what I'm saying?

See, there are blessings. That the usefulness of those blessings is connected to the season in which you receive them. If they came outside of the seasons when they were needed, they will still be valuable but useless. You didn't understand what I've just said. There are needs that cannot afford to wait indefinitely. There are opportunities that will not remain available to you forever. There are doors that open, and they only open for a season. There are windows of help that opens, and they only open for a season. I'm trying to tell you that it matters when sudden blessings, when sudden help arrive, not just that they arrived. That's why Paul...

That's why Moffitt was careful to say, satisfy us in the morning. There is something about the timing of certain answers that determine what those answers can accomplish. Let me explain what I mean. Imagine with me that a very real opportunity opens up to you. Perhaps somebody wants to sell a property in a very strategic location, and the price of the property is very favorable. You've examined the property, you understand the value of the property, and you have a legitimate reason for wanting to acquire that property. Now perhaps you want to use it for your business or you recognize that it could become a very important investment in something that you are building. And you say, my god, this is an opportunity I must not miss. And then you have a witness in your heart that, ah, I think God would have us get this property. It would greatly become advantageous to our purpose or to our business right now.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. But there's one problem. The problem now is that you don't have the money to buy the property. So what do you do? You begin to make calls. You speak to people who may be able to help you examine the legitimate financial options that are available to you. You do everything reasonably within your power to raise the money, But the person selling the property has given you a particular deadline. And he has said that, well, we understand your financial constraints, but we would give you this property for just about two weeks. If you don't see someone...

If we don't have a response from you, we have to put you on the market. And when you go on the market, you know, it's a hot buy, somebody might get it before you. But don't worry, we'll keep it for you. We'll not list it yet for two weeks. I said, okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. And then you can go start looking elderskitter. Are you with me? Yes, Now imagine that you are trying to raise the money, but you're unable to gather the required amount of money before deadline.

So the deadline comes, and eventually, somebody else buys the property and the opportunity closes. Then three weeks later, the exact money you needed to acquire the property becomes available to you. Now I want you to think about that situation carefully. The money eventually came. You now have the amount you were looking for. But what happened to the property? It has been sold. The opportunity is gone. And sometimes, an opportunity of that nature may never present itself again under the same conditions. You may eventually find another property.

Right? Yes, sir. But it may be at the different location, at a different price, under different circumstances. They are no longer as favorable as the original opportunity you got. Do you understand what I'm saying? Now what was the problem in that situation? The problem was not that the money did not come. The problem was that the money came when it was not needed. Say it again to me. But let me put it this way.

The money did not come when it was needed. At that same money arrived three weeks earlier, it would have made a significant difference in what you're able to accomplish. But now it has arrived at a time when it can no longer serve the particular purpose for which you desperately needed it. And I believe that when you begin to understand situation like this, you will now appreciate why the timing of certain provisions are important. Because sometimes, the difference between somebody who takes advantage of a life changing opportunity that opens up to him and somebody who does watches that same opportunity pass by him is that one had what was required at the appropriate time, while the other one was just trying to find it. Two people were trying to go abroad. What are they pushing? Friends. Somebody was helping them and one of them got an all expense paid scholarship. Everything paid.

The only thing needed was the proof of fund. They wanted about 15,000,000 naira just to remain in the account over the time period that he's waiting before he travels. Give him a month. His money doesn't even have to be your own. It just has to be in your account. It just has to be a proof that you can sustain yourself when you get there outside the scope of the scholarship we've given to you. The other one got a 70% paid scholarship. 30% is just to offset by himself. All the money he needed was already available because his parent had means. And by means, I'm not just talking about financial means.

I'm talking about relational means. So people were willing to help and put money together, called this, called that, called this. They've invested so much in relationships that when their son needed it, they could easily call several people, gather the photos together. And despite, he didn't get a full scholarship. He traveled. This other guy needed money that is not his own. It could be anybody's money, just put it there. So who is willing to give you 10 to 15,000,000 Naira for one month, two months just to be in your account And then when you travel, you would send it back to them. And for three months, he found none. He found none.

This individual was telling me the story himself. The friend traveled, he could not. And somebody would hear that kind of a story and say, maybe God... Can you say, satisfy me, Helly? Helly. Let help come in time. The guy, when he arrived, he was in UI. Every class that he went for, he went in solo. There was never a day he was joyful because he felt he had missed something. He was right in front of me, continued to see.

Imagine that it's a family, and a relative in that family needs a surgery. The doctor that examined the person, they've explained that there's a procedure that can help save this person's life, but it needs to be carried out urgently. To carry out the procedure would need just 700,000 naira from you. And who only does not have 700,000? The one that has 700,000 among them, that all the hope of the family is on, they call him, they say, hear what has happened to daddy. We need 700,000. That one said, some people are owing me money. They've not sent it. They are owing me 1,000,000 but they've not sent it. I did the work for them last month.

I'm expecting it. And then he calls them and said, please, I need the money. What is going on? Those ones say, okay, we are trying to send you. We have bank delays. And then he keeps on following up. Why is he following up? His family members are calling him and are saying, uncle where is the money? Uncle Benga is calling his customers. Where is the money?

That continues for like a week. In a week, daddy is still in the ICU. Doctors are pressing. We need to do this surgery now. What is going on? And then they gather. They say, we are trying. We are trying. Then they get $12,000 naira. They get 200.

They are rushing to the hospital. They hear that the daddy has died. Anybody's pain. Anybody's crying. Everybody is wondering. There's sorrow over the fact that money that they were expecting did not come at the time that they were expecting. So they gathered for burial. He did burial very fast. A day after the burial, customer sent a message, we are so sorry about the delay. We wish we had paid you earlier, we just had some technical difficulties.

We've been able to transfer the money now, here is the receipt. As compensation, we had 500,000 naira extra. Do you agree with me? That is a testimony you'd have given on your mother. They paid you. They wanted 500,000 naira. Look at God, oh. But would you be able to share the testimony? No. Is it because the blessing did not come?

Is it because the help did not come? Do you understand what I'm saying? You will not understand why Hebrews chapter four verse 16. Don't forget where I'm coming from. Satisfy cause early. With what? With your? Mercy. With your? Mercy.

Uh-huh. Now let's go to Hebrews four verse 16. I want us to read it together. One, two, three, go. What are we obtaining? Mercy. What will that mercy do? It will enable you to find grace. When? This is where I'm going, but we cannot teach it again.

Time has gone. Help in time of need. Help. There is such a thing as help in time of need. You understand the prayer we need to pray now? I told you I was meditating about the Disciples Christian Network and I was praying in this direction when the Lord impressed upon my heart that there is someone who needs to pray that prayer. So I went this way I went this way to try and show you. That it is possible for certain things to arrive but arrive late. There are testimonies that are difficult to share. Not because they are not good testimonies.

But because of the time it is coming. A woman waited on God. Her and her husband married. And they were thirty five years married. And they had no child. Almost like the gates of Abraham. The woman got married according to at the age of 29. '29 plus 35. '64. That was when she gave birth to a child.

Is God not a miracle working God? Is that not a good thing? That's a powerful testimony. If you hear that testimony, people will be crying and say, God. But how old will the child be when the mother dies? Do you know that it would not have reduced the omnipotence of God if the child had come at 29? He would not have reduced the all powerfulness of God. Are you getting what I'm saying? If the child come nine months after they married, so that you'd understand when Muthi said how long, that somebody must decide that, ah, I know that these things will arrive, but I insist that they come early. I I insist.

See, I'm not in doubt that I'll be prosperous, but I've come to see that the timing matters. I've come to see. I've come to see. I've come come to see. I know I will prosper, but would I have raised my children in the slums of Adegule and exposed them to a generating environment and let the environment culture them and teach them poverty before I now cut money? Will now begin to undo the damage that poverty and lack has done. I'm not saying they will not come. I know they will come. See, I know I will be great. I know my voice will reach the nations of the world, but I insist they come early.

I insist. Oh my god. It is at this point we pray. I I... Yeah. Oh lord, you have promised me. You have promised me that I will not die like this. A little one shall become a thousand. A small one shall become a great nation. I place a demand upon the throne of grace.

I place a demand upon the throne of grace. Let mercy speak. Let mercy speak. Let nurses speak. I know I will not die like this. But it must not arrive late. The miracle must not arrive late. Yep. Yep. Amen.

I'm not too young. I don't have time. Don't have time. Hear Hear me. Hear me. Let me say this to you. Restoration is possible because the bible teaches on restoration. Are you with me? But I want you to understand that you should never use the possibility of restoration as an excuse to become careless about time. Because the fact that God can restore does not mean that delay has no consequence.

What did I say? And I will pray for those that need restoration. We'll pray. Mercy also makes that available. Miss? Miss? You hear me? The fact that God can open another door does not mean that every door should be allowed to close because of negligence. When one door is not closed, can open another door. The fact that God can bring good out of every difficult experiences does not mean that we should become indifferent to the things that we can responsibly prevent and now have difficult experiences that could have been prevented through wisdom and say eventually God can bring good out of it.

When the experience itself was not needed all along. There is something about having what you need when you need it that should make you appreciate the mercy of God. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. See, as we begin to understand the importance of timely help, I want you to recognize that the things that you need at the appropriate time is not just money. Sometimes, timely help is wisdom arriving at the appropriate time. Wisdom. Wisdom. Wisdom. Yes, sir.

In fact in fact, I believe that one of the greatest advantages you can have in life is to acquire wisdom before the decisions that require that wisdom are made. Because there are mistakes a person can make at 25 that may take another twenty five years of his life to recover from. There are divisions concerning education, concerning relationships, concerning marriage, concerning career, concerning business and finances that can influence the direction of a person's life for decades. But if he misses it at that point in time, it would take the help of God. See, I'm a pastor. As a pastor, there are times I'm almost in tears when people come and meet me and they share their circumstances with me, especially the elderly because I'm at a loss for words. Sometimes I wonder, now you got yourself in this. All I can pray for you now is that God sustains you. You know how many people have counted about their marriage? Some years ago, met a lady.

She was about 45 when I was meeting her and somebody brought that to me. Married. Married as children. When she came to me and she narrated her experience to me, all I can pray for is mercy. Because whatever wisdom I will give you now, I can promise you it would have been more relevant if you had it before you married. You don't understand what I've just said. Because the only wisdom... I will look at some people and say, you should not have married this person. Oh, you you already have. You understand what I'm saying?

That wisdom is no longer important. The wisdom I cannot give you is how do we ensure? How do we mitigate damage? No. There are destinies we are trying to repair and trying to mend because there are decisions that that guy has made. Now he's limping to destiny by trying to give him prosthetics and give him several things just to ensure that we can accommodate him. Just to ensure that his stick keeps on moving forward. That is limping, but just keep on going. Just... That's what we are trying to do now.

Sometimes the prayer we pray is mercy. Lord, have mercy on this soul. Let this thing not die. There are potential that you have seen that were wasted out of wrong choices. Many of them marital divisions. And many a time there was someone who told them, there was someone who said, don't go this way. Don't profit in this manner. Be wise. Like David, they had gathered their loins, they were going. Saying, ah, this is what I want.

I'll make up my mind. Somebody is saying, calm down. Consider destiny. Consider purpose. Can't you see? Can your eyes not see that this single division can terminate purpose? This is a place of destiny you are living. But unlike David, they don't hear. They march on with full speed. And many a times, it's when they get to heaven, they will understand the repercussion of their actions.

Because the full extent of what they lost, they will never know now. It's when we stand in front of the great white throne and the books of their lives are opened that they would see my goodness, see what was written about your life. For the very fact that you made the division and turned this way when you should not have turned, you cut off like five pages that was on this part. So when wisdom comes to a man's life hell, it is mercy. It is mercy. It is mercy. When wisdom comes hell, it is mercy. Because I will begin to cry for mercy. What God will be telling some of you is, but I showed you mercy. I brought you the voice of counsel.

I brought you the voice of wisdom. You rejected mercy. You said you did not want. You said it's your own you would do. Because your own cry now is a cry of repentance. Your own cry is a cry of repentance. I believe that one of the things wisdom does is that it allows you to recognize certain consequences before those consequences become your personal experience. And I'm talking about having an experiential awareness of consequences that governs your decision. Now before you take any step, think, ah, five years from now, if somebody heard I was doing this, what would they say? I was talking to one of my young ladies.

Alright? And I was talking to her about the decisions she's making in her life and destiny. Right? And I said, look at this. We are telling you not to do this, not to do this. Now you are going around with different people. Listen. Listen. Let's assume. Let's assume That somehow...

Because if you caught me in this part, we can only assume. I I... I'm... There's no there's no certainty. So let's stay in the realm of assumption and assume that somehow you became great. You know why we are assuming? Because she's on a path that leads to death. So let's assume that you left that path at some point and you now branched, you decided to start following instructions, let's assume. And you now became great. You now succeeded.

And some of the things that I've seen about your life now starts happening. You now become not even a global figure now. Let's even start from a national figure or an influential figure in a couple of tens of thousands and you're in the media space and say CNN comes to Nigeria and they're looking for a correspondent and because of your influence in the media space, they say it's you that they want. Become their correspondent to Africa, interviewing popular people, influential people, and they are giving you keys to great men. And God is lifting you like that. What do you think will happen if one of these young men and these old men and all these men that you are meandering with sees you? What do you think will happen? I save it on Google Cloud. It is uncommon session. They will now say, Ah ah ah ah.

No, I will not be breaking. Next thing on Twitter. Now you are collected. You are no longer that person. Have changed. You have changed. Repented. You Now people that should have no business that are seeing your breast five years ago, ten years ago, suddenly their perception of you changes. They say what? Have you not heard people that were sacked from their contract because somebody they molested fifteen years ago came out as though them of fifteen years are them of now?

Yeah. The world does not care. It's a merciless world. When I see somebody living like that, I can tell you have no awareness of consequence. But you are following this one, including married people. I said, so one of these married men now, imagine that your auntie best will hold over 20 k, 50 k, 30 k. Imagine that you turn your ways around. You now find a man. The man now marries you. The man now gets a job in his office.

The man now discover that this is your wife. The man now say, I want to come and visit your your wife... Your family. Tell your wife that you... Your husband will not come home because you don't know what you have done. He said, hey, chief is coming. God has favored us. That promotion I've been praying for, it is time higher higher. You will not cry in one corner, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord. Now chief will not come.

Bring his his Bentley and everything. Your husband will run out. He said, well done sir, well done sir, well done sir. So dad, go and cook for chief. Go and cook for chief. And you are in the kitchen. Keeping to yourself and saying, God, please. Hey, God. Please. Hey, God.

You have changed. You are no longer that person. Chief sits down the table. You are sitting down here. Your old man is sitting down here. Your old man is here, chief, thank you so much. It's a privilege, sir. You are there bowing in shape. As you are bowing, are saying, I'm ready to go in Christ Jesus. So chief, how are you doing?

She said, I'm very fine, my dear. You know, told you old man, say, go and bring my documents in the car for me. Let me show you some things. And you can even get me water as you are going to get water. You all better don't do... Get document in the car. You come and bring chief water. Chief slap your bumble. Because if you could think about consequences, if you could reason consequences, you would decide wisely. You want to take some steps.

You will think ten years into the future. You say, no. Because the heart of wisdom has been given to you. You can now number your days. Blessed are you when that wisdom comes handily. Blessed are you. Blessed are you. I see some useless boys walking up and down with hands raised, living as though they are the next best thing after toast bread. They think there's no consequence with their action. They come to church and live stupid lives outside.

Ah, the little monk will come. He doesn't know. Doesn't know. He doesn't know where life comes to wait for you. You know what the devil is called? He's called an accuser. That's what it's called? Accuser. Accuser. That guy is so skilled in accusation that he will use what you did not do to accuse you.

Now you're now giving legally what to use. You see, dear dear demon, accuse me with the following. Accuse me with the following. I told the lady, I said, you are a worker in church. Somebody recorded a video of you talking. Worker in church. Now you will say I want to do... I want to contest for Gen Sec. What's happening? That's why you know a foolish man.

Foolishness because there's no revelation of consequences. He does not know how time works. He thinks that he's living in the moment, and all his actions are without repercussions. That's what he thinks. That's why David could be coming. He said, will spot them. He won't know that that single action can cost you something. He won't know. Just a moment pleasure, he would think. Otherwise, he said, it's not only money that you should think I'm talking about.

It's not only money. There are relationships you should get rightly. You know what Paul told Timothy? He said, can see that from a young child, from a young child. Rise up on your feet. Rise up on... I don't want you to be too excited, but there are things that you should not experience before you understand that they can damage your life. You should not become bankrupt before you begin to appreciate the importance of financial discipline. You should not need to destroy a valuable relationship before you begin learning how to communicate responsibly, learning honor. You should not need to lose people and lose their trust before you understand why integrity is important.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. There are things you can learn through instruction. There are mistakes other people have made. You can learn from them without repeating them. There are decisions you can examine beforehand. I recognize that if you proceed in a particular manner, you are exposing yourself to consequences that could have been avoided. And I believe that the earlier you acquire that kind of understanding, the greater you can benefit from it. Don't wait until you marry and you now see the reality of the toughness of life before you take your finances seriously. If you have...

If you don't have some level of responsibility in your life yet, that's very good. Don't wait until then before life shows you its ugly face. Let help come early. Understand that satisfaction can come in the morning. Understand that what? Can come in the morning. Is somebody blessed? Yes sir. A man of God shared a story. He said, when he started his church in America, a pastor saw that he was doing church in America as well and he had a big church.

So he went to visit that pastor. He just... He is just starting. So he went to visit a pastor with a big church and his wife. And the pastor was asking him questions about the church. He started answering how they are running the church. When the pastor heard his answers, he laughed. He laughed. He said: If you continue with the way you are doing ministry, I will give you two years, that ministry will close down. The young pastor left there with annoyance and offence.

He said the mistake he made is that he did not even ask the man what he saw or why. He just got angry that how will a senior minister who is meant to encourage me see that kind of a thing. He blocked him on WhatsApp. Blocked him everywhere. He's the one that shared the story himself. That's why I can't say it. Blocked him everywhere. He said, In exactly one year, six months, the ministry closed. He now remembered the man. Now unblocked him.

Now called him. There was a question I forgot to ask. He now went back there, sat down. This is how you said that in two years. I said, is it two years now? He said, no. It's just one year, six months. The man laughed. He said the man now... He said the man laughed for for like five minutes.

He said, after laughing, he now called his wife. He now told his wife, do remember this young man? He said, the minute he went and closed, the himself and the wife laughed. He said he was there in the other day. Just sitting down. He said when they were done laughing and they've laughed themselves to satisfaction, he now said, actually, I expected one year and six months. I just felt that if you are very anointed, then it will be two years. He said, listen, that means you are not so anointed. He said he said, yes, sir. So what did God tell you, sir?

He said, oh, God did not tell me anything. It is that when I started my first church, I did it exactly the way you said you were doing yours and it lasted precisely one year, six months. It's why I felt if you admire nothing than me, your own can reach two years. You say, God, not tell me anything. Even if the way you have experience in God, your experience look like prophecy. Because somebody else's present is your future. You don't understand what I'm saying? That what you are prophesying and claiming is where somebody is sitting at. That means your present is their past. So they are looking at you and they are seeing someone.

They will give instruction. You will think it's God that is speaking. The painful thing is that... Do you know that if the guy had just waited for... Can you just tell me? He would have received what? Wisdom in time of need. Because when that wisdom was most relevant was before the church closed. When they are in the operation of God's mercy, he got... Went back for the wisdom, started another church.

Was even because he could grow away from the trauma of doing the church for one year six months and it failing. There's a ridicule that comes with that as a pastor. That's a worse kind of failure. So it even takes grace to even recover from that. Go back for wisdom. Start again with the wisdom you have now gotten, and then it expands and blows. Now the whole world knows the church. Information, you can get early. Information you can get early. Relationships you can get early.

Nobody can just like you and start... They take you upon themselves. And they have a network of relationships that they have. When they are going to visit maybe one successful businessman based on relationship, they call you and say, follow me. I'm going to visit this person. Come with me. Otherwise, they will carry you like handbag. It can come heavy. Sir. Sir.

That's why joined it the way we joined. We've been able to introduce this subject to the point where I hope that a man can pray. So close your eyes. It doesn't need excitement. It just needs sincerity. And talk to God, and they satisfy me in the morning. Let me find mercy. And if you know that, ah, God has shown me mercy. You... I wasted this thing.

And you say, God, I will not waste your investment upon my life. I will not waste it. I will not waste it. Somebody else is praying, show mercy. I've come bold to the throne of grace, and I've come to obtain mercy. Have mercy. Satisfy me early with your mercy. Name we have prayed. I don't know if there's anybody here. Who is in need of help at this moment, especially someone you've tried everything, you've done everything, you've looked everywhere, you've called everybody, and it looks as though the circumstance is still there.

I want you, if there's anybody like that, in this moment, to close your eyes, I don't want you to come out. Or I've said come out but I don't want you to come out. Just close your eyes. And sincerely tell God to help you. I see the hand of God. So if there's anybody like that, you know. Maybe you are standing in for your family. I know you, if this help does not come now, it might come too late. The timely help of God. The timely help of God.

Can you pray for it? Just ask. That's all you need to do right now. Just ask. The timely help of God. The timely help of God. I've done everything I can do in my power. I've done everything I can do in my strength. Help me. Jesus name we have prayed.

Answers are coming no. The Lord will rise and help you. There's a man. There's a man that... Listen, that the anointing of God is gonna come on that will start crying. It's a man. It's as though the person is willing, as though the person is willing. It will be willing. It's deep. It's from the inside what I'm seeing.

And it's a man. When you find the person, just... It's by the spirit. It's it's solely by the spirit. When you find the person doesn't bring the person for me, the person will be crying like they are willing. Like they are willing, like a deep something from inside. And the Lord said I should place my hand on them. Lord said I should place my hand on them. At any point you find that individual, I bring the person forward. This is like there's so much sorrow that is stored inside or...

The person is just asking how long? How long? It's it's come... It will come from inside. But when you find the person, bring the person down. There's someone outside in the overflow like that as well. That I see the hand of God coming upon as well. Person is in one of the overflows. I see the hand of God just coming upon that person as well. What what God is doing?

What God is doing is The reason why the hand of God is coming upon them is because he's making them the answer, that answer. That, that, that they've been crying for and the family has been crying for, that is the cause of the sorrow. God is saying I'm, you are the answer. So you are rising as the help. You are rising as the help. You are the help. I'm sending. Lord is saying that I'm sending help but you are the one. I'm sending help but you are the one. That's why it's coming from within like that.

Thank you. Can we pray for the Disciples Christian Network? Because like I said, I was praying about the building project and the Disciples Christian Network when this came to my heart. So I want us to pray for the Disciples Christian Network in one moment and say, father, we've started to build. Let help arrive now. Let men arrive now. Let the resources arrive now. Let supply arrive now. Let supply Not later. Not tomorrow.

Not tomorrow. Now. Let us begin to pray. Jesus name we have prayed. Thank you for the answers you've given. Thank you because you've answered. Thank you because you've done it. We're more than grateful that you've done it. We receive the help that you have sent. As we go on in this week, it's a week of help.

When we come here next week Sunday, there will be several testimonies of help. You must be wise like David to know when it is God who sends them. Somebody gave a counsel, you know, ah, God sent you to me. Somebody helped you at the point about the junction. You see, God sent you to me. Recognize the help of God as you go on in these weeks so you can thank him for it. Because there will be numerous numerous occurrences of hell. Amen. Amen. In Jesus name we have prayed.

Amen. Thank God for what you've received in this meeting. Thank God for what you've received in this meeting. 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 Instagram at tcn nations, and on telegram at dcn media channel. We love you. Stay blessed.