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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. I'm gonna petition today on what I've titled spiritual intelligence. I said something on Sunday. I said there are two ways to measure spiritual growth. The first is your degree of conformity. Oh, it wasn't on Sunday I said it too. But let me just remind us again. There are two ways to measure spiritual growth. The first is your degree of conformity to to the image of Christ.

How much of Christ are you becoming in character and in power. Jesus is the reference of what a believer should look like. And so how you know you are growing is how much of Christ you are becoming by unit time. That is how you measure spiritual growth in character. So in three months of coming to the discipleship Christian network, we should be able to see that in character, there is transformation. In power, in results, there is transformation. The word of God is bearing root downwards and bearing fruit upwards. Do you understand this? Yes, sir. And many of you, what affects growth or what slows down growth is because you don't have the discipline of conformity.

And the reason why you don't have the discipline of conformity is because you have not built systems around yourself that ensures or enforces growth. Systems are more powerful than discipline. How many of you can wake up in the morning and tell yourself that for the next one month, I'm gonna be doing 20 press up and you do it consistently for the next one month? You need a thing called discipline. Now you would... When you are saying it, what was making you say it was discipline was because you were ready to do it. And you probably did the pause three times five times, but you found that for some reason or the other, you could not continue. The reason is because you did not have systems in place. Systems is what enforces discipline. As a matter of fact, system is easier than discipline.

And if you wanna grow, there must be systems you put in place that enforces and ensures your growth. One of the systems you put in place is accountability. It's a system that enforces growth. Accountability to a spiritual authority. But then also accountability to a set of spiritual friends that can help your life. Friends you have in church, people you have in church. Many of us don't want to be accountable. If you come back home by 11:30PM, someone has to be able to ask you, where are you coming from? If you feel as though you can do anything you want to do without anybody or without any kind of watch system, you will derail. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Because it is in the nature of man to do so. There's gotta be someone who who can account for your VIP. One of your friends is coming back from Riyazah, And then it's around 09:30PM, twenty PM, and she's in your front with the guy, and both of you are holding hands like this. And she just greets you and goes... Goes off. She must be able to tell you that what is on between you and that guy. This is doctor. I'm seeing you aside. He was telling... Is anything going on?

I said, no. It's my friend. That's not how friends hold their hands up. There's got to be someone like that. That is how you grow. Else, you will tilt by one degree, and you will end up where you don't know. One degree. A plane can tilt by 0.1 degree and end in the opposite side of the continent, a plane. If you drive, you know you can just tilt like this. Just slight can deviate you.

So one of the most troubling thing in teaching somebody to drive is straightening their hands. Because if your hand just goes like this a little, the vehicle will start moving this direction. It only takes one degree turn for your life to head in a different direction. Are you with me? So you have to put systems around yourself. You have to ensure that you are check and balances. You cannot you cannot rebuke. You can't think that people's own is too much when they come and check up on you. I mean, you are staying with people. You are staying with four people.

In three days, we've not heard you pray loud to the hand of anybody. It does not have to be loud. What? Too much did I hear you pray? He said, why have you not prayed? See, I'm meditating for three days. Somebody has to hear. At least I wake up and see your mouth moving. At least somebody will wake up and see you. Say, I know because when I used to pray, used to put my clothes on my headlight.

Someone should be able to call you back to order that brother, I've noticed that for the past five days you have been watching movies. Are you sure everything is okay? This is how you enforce growth. It's called systems. So that by the time your strength fails you, systems cannot fail you. Yes, sir. Systems will keep you going. Someone came to mind and told me that I want to go by Pantginism. I always want to, but I don't know how create systems. Tell someone, let's go.

Somebody that you know goes normally. Go and meet them and say, I want to be going with you. That's is system. If you won't feel like it, the person will come and knock your door, anti stem evangelism. What is waking you up now is a system. You wanna be constantly studying your books? Create a system around it. Systems furnishes growth. Systems do what? Forge...

You cannot gain mastery over a thing that you have not built a system over. I have a teaching like that coming up very soon. So you must be accountable if you must grow. You can't just wake up one Sunday morning and say, I'm not going to church and decide without anybody capable of, come on now, speaking sense to you. Just decide, I don't feel like going to church. So why? I want to wash clothes. The bible says that the word of God is water. It is capable of cleansing you. Which is more important, your clothes or your body or your spirit or your life?

Are you with me? Yes, sir. You must have systems of accountability, structures that furnishes growth. Is that okay? Sir. Everybody, you have to be very careful those that that you put around you. You gotta be very careful. Your association is a prophecy of your future. If you are the only good person among bad friends, your destiny will end where they are going. Wherever they land where you will land.

I'm telling you, if you are the only bad person among good friends, you will land where they land. It's a it's a it's a paradox. The second parameter for growth is access to light. Your comprehension, your understanding, and your engagement of of the word of God. And as you are learning these things, you're not only growing, you are becoming great. It is impossible to listen to me and listen to the things I teach you and apply them and you do not grow. And your life does not become great. And there's no transformation. You know why? Because the things that I'm teaching you are not the opinions of men.

They are older than me. These are the ancient landmark which the fathers have set. This is the established counsel of God. Please believe this. Colossians two verse eight says, let no man spoil you. Just beware. Be careful so that no man spoils you. Do you know what spoil there means? It means, like, the spoils of war. When you go to a land and you plunder the land and you...

By plundering the land, get spoils from that land, Things that belong to them, things that are rightfully theirs becoming yours because you have conquered the land. The spoils of war. Does that make sense to you? Just beware, lest any man spoil you. And how do people become spoiled like this? By philosophy? In other words, teachings. Teachings, words. Okay. Give me give me amplified version.

Can you say this? Let's all read it together. This is how men are sport. It means your peace can be taken away because of something you heard. Your spirit is a fertile ground. It grows whatever lands on it. A man can slip into into depression by a five minute method he get he get on YouTube. You see what you allow into your soul because you can be spoilt by it. You can be spoilt by it. You just beware.

Even... In other words, take guard. It's your responsibility to beware. So it is dangerous for me to come and speak to you my ideas or my opinions. It has to be established word of God. It has to be the established word of God. That is why what is thought is the word of God in simplicity, the word of God in power. That's the confidence we have that you cannot listen to these things and your life will not change. It's not my opinions. If I am if I am poor, that there's no realm that that that can be possible.

I am only saying this to serve as an example so you get what I'm saying. There's no realm in this universe where that can be possible. But if I am poor, for the sake of this example, and I and I'm seeing you prosperity, and the things I'm teaching you are the established council of God, and you believe it, you will prosper. If an unbeliever... Let me say this one. This one should get you more. If an unbeliever, are you hearing me? Yes, Unbeliever comes to another unbeliever and shares the gospel with the unbeliever, and the unbeliever believes what came from another unbeliever, he'll be saved. What I'm trying to tell you is that the power is in the word. As long as the framework of our communication is in the word, our belief rests on the word, then the word of God in itself has power to deliver, to heal, and to save.

This is the confidence that we have that your lives will change. You see, because they are not the opinions of men that are being communicated. What did I say? There are no opinions of men that are being communicated. Yes. So on Sunday, I told you that there are two major ways that things happen on earth. Number one is through the laws of the universe, sciences, philosophy. Number two is through spiritual systems. Do you remember that? There are people who are naturally intelligent.

And by that, I'd not mean that they are geniuses. I mean that in terms of the natural laws of universe, they have gained mastery of it. It is expected for everyone of you to be intelligent naturally. That's why you're in school. You should be able to deploy what you are being taught in school to your everyday life. I said what now? You should be able to deploy what you are being taught in school to your everyday life. Are you with me? Yes. So I said that there are people who are naturally intelligent, and you must be able to deploy what you are being taught in school to your everyday life.

There's a place for that. You are sharpening your intelligence as you learn in school. Life is teaching you as well. As you go through life, there are things you are learning from observation. But listen to me. All of these things is what contribute to common sense. Your ability to deploy your sense to thinking. Common sense alone cannot make you great. Common sense alone is not enough for you to reign in life. Everyone that you see doing great things is assisted by a spirit.

Please welcome this microphone. I don't still like how I'm sounding. Assisted by a spirit. Either the holy spirit or another spirit. But you must be assisted by a spirit. You must be assisted by a spirit. The natural world you see was birthed by the spiritual realm. The spiritual realm is the mother of the physical realm. Hebrews chapter 11 verse three. The bible says by faith, we understand that the words were framed by the word of God so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

Do you understand what you just read? Let's do it in MSG for easy understanding. Stay with me. Let's do it in MSG. MSG says, by faith, we see the world called into existence by God's word. What we see created by what we don't see. What does this mean? It means the spiritual realm created this physical realm. Is this clear enough? Yes, sir.

The bible then encourages the believer not to consider and define life solely by what is seen. It will be foolishness for you to define life solely by what is seen when the life that you see was birthed by the unseen, which is superior. If a boy that you met in class tells you, come to my house tomorrow and pick my father's car. It's your own. I give you. Would that be a wise thing to do? Is it true that it's father's car? Is it true that what he's saying, he wants to do? That is true. He wants to do it.

Is it in his authority to do it? No. Why? Because he is not the source. He is an offspring of a source. Therefore, he cannot lay perversion on that thing except the source wants to give it. That's how foolish it is to depend on your offspring for everything that you would do in life. So if my father does not want to give you a car, he will not give you a car in as much as your offspring have said, come and take a car. Because the car is primarily my father's. That is what it means for the physical realm to be birthed by the spiritual realm.

If natural realm has a source, it is wisdom to know the source that regulates and controls the branch. If you cut away a branch from its source, the source dries up. What gives natural realm life is its connection to the spiritual source, the spiritual realm. In first Corinthians four and verse 18, the bible says, why would not look at the things which are physical, the things which are seen? But at the things, second Corinthians, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. It means if you wanna live a temporal life, then go after the things that are temporal. Then live your life after temporal principles. If you wanna live a normal life, like get married, have children, just wait till the day till the day you die, get a constant salary, be able to live relatively well for yourself, then you don't need this that I am about to teach you. Common sense alone can get you that.

Can common sense not take you through school? Can common sense not make you pass an exam? Can common sense not give you a first class? Can common sense not get you a job? Can common sense not let you keep the job if you are diligent? You can marry like that. You can have children like that. You can save up by common sense. By the savings that you have made, you can rent a good house. You can even get a good house.

You can even buy a small car. Common sense can give you that result. You can send your children to a relatively good school. Common sense can give you that result. And then you can just wake and live like that, and your life just becomes a repetition of the normal thing till you die. You don't need what I'm about to teach you now to have that kind of life. Common sense can get you certain types of results. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But if you want to be great, if you wanna rise to a point of global and national influence in ministry, in career, or in business, then you need what I am teaching you right now.

If all you know is all that the physical realm defines, then you are of all men most miserable. A believer must be spiritually intelligent. And the first intelligence that a believer must have and the second or third is what I hope to give you today. The title of my teaching is spiritual intelligence. Spiritual what now? Why is this important? Because the natural realm was birthed by the spiritual realm. You must therefore know how things operate in the spiritual realm to function maximally in the natural realm. Do you get this? Yes, sir.

Number one, intelligence you must have. Life is spiritual, and the spiritual controls the physical. Did you hear me? Sir. Life is spiritual. And the spiritual controls the physical. You must know this. You must have a revelation of this. You must have an understanding of this. Life is spiritual.

And the spiritual controls the physical. Let me say it again. Life is spiritual. And the spiritual controls the physical. It's the first intelligence that a believer must have. Life is spiritual, and the spiritual controls the physical. I will never treat my life solely from a scientific perspective. I will never treat my ministry solely from a scientific perspective. I hope you know that it is a scientific way that a ministry can grow. A logical way that a ministry can grow.

There is a logical way that a business can grow. You've... I mean, when you attend seminars that hope to teach you how to grow or scale your business, what do you think the seminar is communicating? These are commonsensical ways to do things, commonsensical ways to make progress. When I started out in ministry, I read a lot of books that gave me those commonsensical ways to go about ministry. There's a commonsense way to draw crowd and they will come. I tell you. And a lot of people deploy those strategies over and over again. But I decided early in life that because God taught me this thing very early. I've been drumming this thing to the years of those who have been following me since 2016.

'15 even, life is spiritual and the spiritual controls the physical. This is why believers must be spiritually intelligent and it's the beginning, the origin of your intelligence spiritually must be to know that the life that you're living is controlled by the spiritual realm. It is amazed now many people try to ignore the spirituality of life and expect to rise in life. Read the bible and you'll be amazed at the plethora of spiritual phenomena that cannot be explained or understood in natural realm. He that dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty, I will say of the Lord. Now the question is, what is the secret place of the most high? What is the shadow of the almighty? Can those things be explained in natural realm? But it doesn't stop there. It's my refuge and my fortress that God can be a refuge.

The same way people hide in bunkers for refuge doing an atomic or a nuclear bomb explosion, that God can be a refuge. Now how do you hide in God as a refuge? Is there a physical location that you go to to hide in God as a refuge? Do you go to your nearest church and say, God, this is my refuge and my fortress, my God in him will I trust. In verse five, it says, I will not be afraid of the terror by night. Now the question is, there is terror by night. Have you seen them before? Have you seen it before? But this is spiritual intelligence that there is the reality of terror, and it moves in the night. The Bible declares this.

Why do you think people die in the night? There is terror by night, and you must understand that there is terror by night. The Bible says there are arrows that fly by day. What are they? Where are they? How do you see them? You see, I'm telling you that there are events that happen in the natural realm that has no explanation nor source in the natural realm. When this arrow flies by day, you cannot see the arrow that is flying by day, but their effect are seen in day. You can't see the terror that... Have you ever heard stories of people that are walking on the road and somebody slapped them, and they cannot see who slapped them?

Do you think it's a joke? I was teaching physics in an a level class. And whilst I was teaching, I saw a vision. And I turned to the students, and I asked them a question. Which one of you here had a dream? And you were struck with a knife in the dream, and you woke up with a knife. And the guy... The lady rose up her hand, and she opened her sleeve, and there was a large knife mark on her on her... In a fitness classroom. I wasn't preaching.

I said, you have to have power. It's what I'm training you to do. She slept, woke up, somebody stabbed her knife, and she woke up with her hands bleeding. The terror that move in the night. So if you think that all there is to life is the is the all that you see, you are a foolish person. You are not wise. It means you not intelligent spiritually. You are a unwise and unwise believer at best. There are arrows that fly by day, and these arrows are moving everywhere. What is your defense as a believer?

Do you think that these things don't exist? You will be a victim of them before you know. And then when you're not when you're not a victim, usually what now happens is that because it's too late, you've now been looking for solutions and that is what drives people to fake profits. Because they've never at any point acknowledged the presence of these harrows. So when it meets them, then anybody offering answers, they go to. You think that somebody's business is prospering. All of a sudden, it goes down. It's natural. But everything... There is a law of cause and effect, and it is real.

Yes. Yes, sir. Yes. Every effect you see on the earth realm is caused by something. In the time of Job, they came to come and tell him that his children were having a party, and the house collapsed on them. The architectural design was not strong enough. The engineers... And then there will there will be lawsuits. The engineer that built the house will be sued to court for loss of life, enrichment of life. We harass.

There is a conversation that happened in heaven where Job was not aware, and Job became a victim of a conversation he never partook of. He became a victim of a conversion. Now the the... This conversion had physical effect in time, but its source was in the spirit. It had physical effect in time, but the source was in the spirit. Life is spiritual. The spirituality of life, of ministry, of your business, of living. Listen. The key to reigning in life is becoming spiritually minded. Being spiritually minded does not mean being spooky and suspecting everything that you see.

You see a cockroach, you say spiritual. A bird comes to come and preach on your window, say it's spiritual. You are going by and they go to looking at you, say it's spiritual. You go to your class and you allow your your your classmate had a tattoo of a snake. You say that's spiritual. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying that suspect everything around you. There are people that take this into the excess, and they don't live in peace. The effect is that they are always anxious. They are always afraid.

They live in fear. Nobody nobody must shake you. Nobody must do this. Nobody must do that. Nobody come on now. What is the purpose of authority in Christ? Yes, sir. Being spiritual means being conscious of the fact that life as you see in natural realm is as regulated by the spiritual realm. That every effect has a cause. Many don't know that most of the world leaders you see today interface with spirits.

Don't be naive. Listen to what I'm saying. Every great man you know globally has an intelligence. They have an allegiance to a spirit, and there's some form of profit that they bring that spirit in exchange for global or national influence. It's like a threshold. You are permitted to rise from this point to this point with common sense, with natural intelligence. But you want to attempt to surpass this realm, then you must either know God or know any other spirit and know him well. There's a level you get to, you cannot be neutral. There are positions you cannot sit in being neutral. There are offices you cannot sit in being neutral.

There are places you cannot contest for leadership being neutral. You must know a spirit. Spirit will not disturb you if you wanna live ordinarily to say, I wanna just like what I described earlier. No. You will not... Nobody will disturb you. But that you intend to rise in the ranks. You intend to become great, that your business wants to be global, and you have carried it to an extent you are selling and making strides in Ibadan. And you are extending your borders to Lagos. You're extending your borders to Lokoja, to Adamawa, and then 15 states Nigeria already.

At some point, you'll be met. Now you want to import your goods to put on. And some people come and meet you say, nobody crosses these borders though unless you belong to your fraternity. In other words, there's a threshold of rising that you cannot go beyond except you are assisted by a spirit, either God or another spirit. And if you're a believer, your only option is God. When you know that life is spiritual, it will make you fearless. You won't be afraid. You will know that you have the ability to change things to your favor. So you value prayers. You know when you pray, you are changing things in the realm of the spirit.

When you know this, you won't be trying to fight physical people or be angry with people anyhow. You finish praying, you get back to your room, and your roommate have popped out on your bed. You know that anger is a gateway in the realm of the spirit. The devil is trying to steal your joy. The Bible say with joy shall you draw from the wealth of salvation. If the devil can steal your joy, he has stolen your answer. That's why the offense comes at the point of a breakthrough. The moment the miracle is coming, somebody offends you. Your father insults you. Your mother insults you.

And then you start having bitterness in your spirit that will rob away the miracle that is coming. Life is spiritual. Men are puppets in the hands of spirits. What did I say? Men are puppets in the hands of spirits. Moment a breakthrough is about to come and your life is about to shift, that's when you will now hear what five people said about you. One of them is your best friend. Satan is moving through men. People are whispering things about you so you so you can be hungry, to bring you to anger. There are people that understand this.

And the moment people start misbehaving, you will never allow yourself to get angry. You understand immediately the devil is trying to assess my emotions. God just gave you a word. And the moment you release that, you receive that word, God is telling you I'm prospering you. You are breaking out and you are breaking through. And you step out and then you sit down in the car, and then as you're sitting in the car, get down and somebody steals your phone, steals your wallet, steals your purse, steals everything After God told you, I will prosper you. And now you are there, the man is saying, where's the money? You can't even trace where the phone fell down from, where the purse fell down from. You are confused. The man is shouting at you.

Say, owe me that. Overpass, I owe me, and you are embarrassed there after receiving a word from God. Now you are begging, apologizing, and please, I I don't even know. I had money in my hand. It dropped. I can't explain why it dropped. Somebody after, like, thirty minutes of dragging you, they wanna beat you up and slap you. Suddenly, I come and say, what what is the problem? Let him go. How much is the 15 naira?

Take it. And the devil is observing to see if that prophecy, like a pregnant woman, you can bet it out or abort it. Every word that God gives you is like a seed. It must be nourished. It must be... It's like pregnant... It's like pregnancy that you nurture until you birth it. The devil will try every means to abort it before it is birthed. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

Life is spiritual. There is nothing that is a coincidence. Nobody favors you coincidentally. Nobody helps you coincidentally. Nobody hates you by coincidence. Are you with me? Yes, Life is spiritual. Life is spiritual. I'm not saying that you disregard natural intelligence just like that. No.

No. No. No. That's not what I'm saying. You will read your book to pass an exam. That's only expected. That is common sense. But that's not all there is to part an exam. Because there can be cause and effect from the realm of the spirit and powers beyond your control. Manipulate several things beyond your control.

There are people who have written exams, and they wrote it very well, and their results were missing. They were sure they will pass. That's a delay. You think that is normal? Life is spiritual. That's why you should never hold your life to common sense because there will always be things that are beyond your control, things you cannot regulate. If you... Listen. If all of life is under your control, then common sense will not be a problem. Do you get what I just said?

If you are the one that writes the exam and the one that will mark the exam, then there's no problem. But as long as you will have places and events in your life that you have no control over, You have prepared for the job. Fine. You've done the interview well. Fine. But is it your father that will employ you? Do you have control over the person's emotions? That's the folly of thinking everything is just common sense. Because there are things that are obviously beyond your control. And if you don't know how to manipulate events, then the thing that should work to your favor will become the reason you are disfavored.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. We live in a very competitive world. And if you came up with a first class, there's someone who has finished the... Who who finished the first class and at your age already has MSC. Now you go and compete for a job, and you think because you have a first class, you'll get it. This one is the same age as you as first class and MSC. You don't get what I'm trying to say? Yes, sir. Now your advantage is I'm with the first class.

At least I should get more than anybody here. Now you are talking to someone and say, okay. I had a first class. Hell, I have an MSC. I'm doing my PhD right now. Right there, you will sink your chair. You say, what now is my hope like this? You're already afraid because you only came with common sense. You see, when when I'm speaking to some of my some of my guys and they start telling me their plans, I know that all what you are saying is around the vicinity of common sense. You will you will suffer.

You will struggle. You will move slow. I'm telling you, you will move slow, and you will learn painfully. You will learn painfully. I'm telling you. Especially if you are a believer. If you're a believer, understand there are forces and powers that don't want you to prosper. Because your prosperity is a threat to the kingdom of hell. Your doing well is a threat to the kingdom of hell. Do you believe this?

Yes, sir. You don't think the devil is happy with me now? You think the guy is smiling in in hell in hell right now and healing me as I'm continuing? The guy is looking for every way to ensure that I come down. Every way to ensure that he brings me down. There are people... I can't count how many people have told me they saw me dying. I can't count how many times I wanted to travel, and people would call me men of God and say, sir, I saw you dying. And I didn't tell them I was traveling. Do you know how many places my pictures are in right now?

With all kinds of incantations being read on it? You think everybody is happy with me? We held a meeting, 160 people were safe. Do you think they're happy about that? Are you who are coming to salvation? No. What is your defense? What do you know that becomes your shield? The Bible says that the truth shall be my shield. It means truth in the spiritual realm is not information.

It's a personality. Truth is not just an information. There is something you know that becomes your defense, literally speaking. And it is... Ah, God. It is painful to see people hustling through life using laws that they heard someone say to them, laws that they heard someone speak to them, and they ignore spiritual principles, ignore completely the spirituality of life. Somebody will tell you... Somebody was given 150,000 naira some years back when things were still cheap by favor. And the young man, it came to his spirit that he should sow the money as a seed. Make it his first six digits as a seed.

And it it came to his mind. Was thinking about it. He now went to go and tell his friend. There are people that are systems. There are other that are destructions. He went to one, tell his friend, said I want to give my first six digits. I just had, you know, I I just... Somebody just gave me one. I want to sit and sit. The friend had told him that, why don't you go and buy the equipment for your business?

At the moment you start your business, you'll be getting money that you have plenty money. You'll not be able to sow any seed you want to sow. Come on, saints. It's not it's not reasoning. But it makes sense now. You guys say, when I start making money, I'll be able to say, yeah. Yes now. The friend and himself went to go and buy the equipment together. Bought all the equipment needed. He came to come and share testimony in church.

Passed or blessed his testimony. He said glory to God. Glory. Three months after, himself and his friend were robbed in the house. All the equipment he bought were packed out. All of them were packed out. Is that under your control? That's what said. If all of life were under your control, there will be no problem with common sense. Even your own life is not under your control.

Your own life. How do you know you will wake up tomorrow morning? When you sleep, you can just sleep carelessly and wake up and just... I woke up. Do you know there's a there's a hand that sponsors that? There are men that sleep and never wake up. Even that is not under your control. How dare you think that you have it all figured out? Is your life peanuts? Do you know how complex your life can be and you think you have it all figured out?

You think that with your intelligent plan, if I just finished school, let's finish school right now. Let's do my masters. K. I'm done with school now. Let's try that plan and do my masters. Okay? I'll talk to my father. My father knows somebody in in in in in ninth year. I'll I'll go there. Just work for like one year because of experience.

I got an experience that I should be good to go then. And now, I will serve in Lagos. No. I'll serve in Abuja. I'll serve in Abuja. As a place I saw in Abuja, said, it's okay. They they they can... Would employ me very well. They'll pay me well. Okay.

Try for yourself. A round a round of applause for Odogu Planner. There's nothing wrong with plans, Absolutely nothing wrong. In all of that, have you even considered, where is God in this? Where is God in this? Where is God in this equation? There are people that are so fixated on traveling abroad. They've not even sat down to think, is God inside this thing I'm doing? They've not they've not even sat down to think, is God inside this thing at all? Have I considered the possibility that this might not be the will of God?

Especially if I'm so fixated like this on it. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Have you considered that, holy spirit, what are you saying exactly? And some of you are so sure so sure that you know what God's will for your life is because a prophet told you that he saw you wearing white coat. See, I'm a doctor. So they get road first jam at 205. Road Post 57. They gave her a Greek sign. Said no.

Prophet told me I'm a doctor. Road jam begin. Road jam begin. Road jam begin. Now wasted three years. In some way, they could not wear any white coat. You see, many of you have to live your life under the mighty hand of God. You see, you have you have to say, God is regulating my life. God is... He he is controlling the affairs of my life.

He knows what he's doing. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. I've never been under pressure for once in my life. I want to study medicine. I think I'm study by fire or force. What is that? What is that? I want you to study medicine.

And it's not as I don't get admission. I got it. It was not in Ibaro. I got it to where God not send me to. You would rather sacrifice destiny for that. I got three admissions. All the exam that wrote, I passed it. So it's not as though I'm not I'm not. Past my a levels, past my jump, past my screen, the one that know how to do a jump. Past everything.

God told me while I was praying that I've sent you to Ibadan. Ibadan was the only one that did not give me medicine. Now I will not get that mission and I'll be thinking, hey. Hey. I don't know what to do. I'm confused with my life. Is your life under the mighty hand of God? Is it regulating your life or is your common sense doing so? Listen to me. The Bible says David was anointed a king.

He was not anointed a warrior. He was anointed a king. If it was you, you would have been looking... Next thing you go and do is to go and take kingship class one zero one. Go go to... Go go and... Go go to then go to go to school of kings and get an MD in kingship because Samuel anointed you a king. You know how the guy became a king? He said, we can play harpoon. We can play harpoon.

Say, I know my friend used to play harp those days. Say, bring him... That his first entry into the palace was to play harp. Who would have known that the skill that he was learning for fun would play a part in bringing him into destiny? Who would have known? You think, oh, king. Everybody, this is the king. Oh. Is God controlling your life? Yes, sir.

Hey. Look at. Look at. Can he have... Does he have control over that? No. Now when they needed an harvest, you spend to remember that David used to play harp those days for us under the tree. My friend can play harp. His first entry into the palace was by his key he learned for hobby to just worship God because he was a psalmist. To worship God, to sing to God, to worship God, that was what introduced him into the palace.

From there, he started serving the king. From there, he became the king's hammer bearer, started carrying Saul's armor, Saul's spear, Saul's swords. From there, he joined the soldiers in the army. From joining the army, became captain over the army. From becoming captain over the army, they accused him wrongly and said it was a rebel. Then Saul wanted to kill him because Jonathan, allegiance was going to him. From there, he ran away, set him to exile. From there, they were looking for him to kill him. Is that a journey of a king? Hiding from camp to camp.

What makes you think you made a mistake? I prophesied over someone. I I... He saw this to me. I prophesied to him. I said go and prosper. The guy went and left that place. They sacked him the following week. It is me that prophesied. When he told me that they sacked him as a young man, be encouraged because he does not change what I told you.

You are still prospering. You see, your problem now is you'll not be thinking, did I sin? Did I do anything wrong? How a prophecy come, and I will not be here. What is going on? Is your life under the mighty hand of God? Or are you regulating your life by common sense? Are you regulating your life by common sense? If you put your hand under the mighty hand of God, you will now realize that what you least expect can be... Can announce you.

What you least expect. A lawyer was telling me that she sold... Was was telling a friend of mine that she sold her first 10,000,000 naira. And the friend asked me, where do you work? Are you getting 10,000,000 naira? Said, no. I'm a writer. I write thesis, write research materials, write paper. When did you discover you could do this? He said, was just in a meeting praying.

I learned that I I used to love writing when I was a kid. Let me put myself out there and start writing. I learned it officially, learned everything to learn about it, and right now, I don't even work as a lawyer. But people employ her to write because they trust her because she's a lawyer. It gives credibility to our writer. Not the one that she appeared in the court of law. Not the one... The one that she appeared anywhere. And she's she's more prosperous than people while wearing bow tie. It's not wrong.

I'm saying, is it your path? If you are too fixated on using your common sense, you will labor for long because life is spiritual. I was studying physiology. In my final year, somebody told me to come and learn web development. Imagine I had said no. This is called me doctor pastor Emmanuel from two years old. Doctor pastor Emmanuel, not software developer Emmanuel. No. No. No.

No. No. I was praying to think it's my heart. Go and learn it. I learnt it. While I was in final year, got my first 500,000 from software development. Is your high life under the hand of God? That was how I was able to give my first half a minute from software development. It had not... It had nothing to do with what they prophesied, had nothing to do with my call as a minister of the gospel, had nothing to do with even...

Do you get my point? Even what I was studying in school. Is your life under the hand of God? Do you realize that life is spiritual? That there are indices to life that are beyond your control? This lady's mother died. This lady's father died. She could have thought that God was wicked. Wow. My mother died.

Wow. My father died. Wow. Everybody has everybody has left me. And people sleep into all kind of nonsense, say all kind of nonsense because they have a traumatic experience. But is your life under the hand of God? If it is, then nothing really is a disadvantage. Nothing. Not the death of a loved one. Nothing.

Are you with me? She was housed in immediately by Mordecai. The reason why this lady knew that there was an opportunity in the palace was because Mordecai was working in the palace, And it was Mordecai that was a. If she was with her parents, she would have probably been a doctor. Yes, sir. Yes. So what now is a disadvantage? Don't you know what it means when it says all things work together? Don't you know that there's a hand like a puzzle that is shifting things together, that is arranging things together. It's like a script writer that is writing the script.

That when when a... When the script is going in a way that... I mean, like,, had the authority to change the script. He wrote it. So when the bible says that your sins and your iniquities, will remember no more. It's as simple as saying that I have chosen to erase that part of the script. It's no longer included in the script. It's now your own choice to remove it from your mind. Because as long as the script of your life is concerned, it's not there. The script writer has erased it.

Do you understand what I'm saying? You'll be great. But live your life to providence. God is in control of the affairs of my life. Oh, I know this. I know this. So when things don't go my way, I'm not too sad about it. I'm looking what's the way out. What what do I do next? How do I how do we plan for this?

Do you understand, Francis? Yes, sir. Bishop, I heard a very interesting story. Bishop Odeko said he went to Japan. And when he got there, he saw godlessness in Japan, and he said, these people need godo. These people need godo, You are angry because you made a mistake. Will the man not go and be crying? Say, ah. God, come back. Come back.

Back. Come back home. God not send us. We would have started crying over that time, weeping over that time, say, we've made a mistake. We've made a... Now, God, since we have gone in our ignorance in six years, have wasted the call, did not send us. What should we have been doing in that six years? It says the years that the Kan Kangwam has stolen. It is in my wisdom as a scriptwriter to even recover that. So where is the disadvantage?

Do you understand what I'm telling you? You think you have wasted years because you're thirty years or you're not married. Thirty five years ago, you're not married. By the time you eventually marry, you now realize that the rewards that will come in a year, even if you are married ten years ago, it won't come. So where is disadvantage? My life is regulated. It's controlled. It's moved. It's directed by God. When things don't work my way, does not mean they've not worked God's way.

Listen. Listen. Listen. Because... Listen. Because you did not meet your own expectation does not mean you failed. Your expectation is not the definition of failure. God's expectation is. In fact, that's the mean of sin. Sin means to fall short of the standard.

The standard is not you. You can't beat the standard. You are too depressed to obey the standard. The standard is Christ. It's God. Your expectation and the fact that you could not meet it does not mean you have failed. We want to organize a meeting. I will say, okay, how much people we're expecting? We're expecting 1,000 people. Alright.

Let's print 10,000 flyers. Let's distribute it, and we distribute everything, coded numbers, did everything. All the things you can do. Meeting came. 50 people showed up. Did you reach it? Did you reach it? No, sir. Did you fail? No.

A little one shall become a thousand. In God's mind... Listen. In God's mind, that your expectation is one person, one person, one person. Just one person is your expectation. Now in the physical realm, we are not thinking, hey, I've not read your bible. The bible says that in Ecclesiastes, the bible says the race is not to the swift. That is a very dangerous statement. Because if the race is not to the swift, is the race to the slow? The bible says, no battle to the strong.

So if people are fight, who should win the battle? Calm down. Because that... Shouldn't it be the weak that will now win? Because if the bible said the race is not to the suit, that means every attempt you take to become faster to win a race is useless. Because bible say the race is not to the swift. We now misinterpret deep. We're now saying, so you see now, it's not about what you are doing. It's mercy. That's why God say, we have mercy.

We have mercy and compassion. We have That's a nonsense. Because the answer and the secret to that scripture is in that scripture. The race is not to the swift. The battle is not to the strong. Go on. Nor riches to men of... Okay. Sorry. With stiff one.

Nor bread to the wise. In other words, nor food to the wise. So is it the fool that will eat bread? Do you understand this? Nor riches to men who are of understanding. So is it the man who is not of... Do you get my point? Yes, sir. Are you with me? Yes.

KJV is now the answer to our dilemma. KJV is your original translation that shows... That captures what other script... Other religions are missing. So let's start again. One, three. Go. Uh-huh. All of us should be strong. Now read it together.

Neither yet. Neither. Yes. The answer is indeed. In other words, the race is to the swift. Just not yet time. That's why the Bible says, nor yet reaches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happen to them all. It means you can be getting be doing everything right and yet have no result. Does not mean you can be skillful, but drugs are not coming. Not yet.

When that time comes, the reward that will come Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Sir. Ten years of labor will not be enough to bring it. That is how it works. Do you get this? Yes, sir. That is how it works. You know, it's where we we have been in ministry. We we go for evangelism.

We go for outreach every day. We go for meetings. We plan meetings, organize seminars, conferences, crusades. And yet, the result were not as we had wanted. Every time we plan, we never reached our expectation. But God was not disappointed because the race is to the swift. It's not yet time. It means the time of the swift is coming. The time of the strong is coming. Time and chance means opportunity.

Time and opportunity. It means when your time comes, an opportunity you never had, all the times you have been swift, will now come. So you have been leading prayers. You have been doing all kind of things. The day the time comes, opportunity will now arise. The person meant to lead prayer will not come. They will say, come and lead. This time you are leading is when sitting down. Adebu is sitting down. And then she is sitting down.

All of them are sitting down. They said come at it for ten minutes only. Then all the study you have been studying, all the prayers you have been praying, all the resources you have been... Are you getting my point? Like, in that ten minutes, everybody is standing, saying, ah, what is this? And for five years, I've been laboring. And nobody ever thought that there was value in what you were doing. The race is not yet to the swift. That's why when you when you... When you're not getting results you want to get, who told you you missed it?

Don't you realize that it is possible to be a success So if you were there and you saw Moses hitting the rock, pow, and rock split into two and water came out of it, would you not see Alagbara? There are no results. Second time, God told Moses, speak to the rock. Were you there when God told Moses to speak to the rock? Are you there? No, sir. You were not there, but you saw Moses come out again, and he hit the rock. Pow. Water came. Is that no result?

But he died because of it. Because God said, I did not tell you to hit the rock. I told you to speak. Result is not the proof of accuracy. But you cannot be accurate and not have results. That's what that's what's that's what's that's what sponsors my patients. When I'm patient and I'm expecting results... I tell my people, don't worry. Let's keep on doing this thing. The time is coming.

The time is coming. The time is coming. You know why you can be patient like that? Because you know your your life is in the hand of God. Stop stop that hastiness. Stop that hastiness. That hastiness will take you outside of purpose. It will take you outside of purpose. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

You won't believe I've not even started my teaching. We're have to close here. Are you guys in blessed? Yeah. See, my father has come. His arms are wide open, love overflowing, and my name is calling righteous and holy. Lord God almighty, my father, he is here. See, my father has come. Warms are wide open, love overflowing, and my name is calling, righteous and holy. Of my God.

See, my father is coming. I'm the white hope, love overflowing, and my Hear me? Are you ready? Yes, sir. Life is in your hands, and I've got peace. I've got strength. I've got home. My life is in your hands. Very simple. I have peace.

I have strength, and I have hope. Together now. My life is in your hands. Tell your friend, tell your neighbor life is spiritual. Listen. And in that spirituality, your common sense cannot navigate it. You'll be confused. The... You will get to a point you will think nothing is working. Whereas, when you tap into the realm of the spirit, God is saying, nothing is working.

Whereas, you are like the stone in a catapult. I'm drawing you back like this. If I release you, Do you really think that if God tells you to wait while Ahab is running, you are disadvantaged? How many of you use early indices to measure your progress? You say, oh, my friends have gone ahead of me. Who told you they've gone ahead of you? The question is, can you see ahead of you? Can you? Listen. Listen.

Listen. Sincerely speaking, I rejoice for everyone my age doing ministry regardless of what you have accomplished. Regardless of what you have accomplished. Oh, I'm seeing your face on flyers, and my face is not on flyer. Glory to God for you. Glory to God for you, but I've seen where I'm going. Are you with me? Yes, sir. I heard angels whispering that song to me. And it's a comfort for someone, an encouragement even for someone.

Me? Hear me? I'm not discouraged. I'm not discouraged. Oh, no. When you think all is over, God is just starting with me. Yes. Yes. When you think all hope is lost, God says, I'm just starting with you. Hear me?

Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Abraham was outhold when God called him. He was 70. Who told you time has gone? Who told you time has gone? Hear me? Hear me? I met with my prophet on the mountain some days ago, some months back, and he was telling me, he said, you people are lucky.

He said, when God started with me, God started... I started with God very late. This man is not educated, but the accomplishments he has on that mountain is something else. People travel from out of the country to come and hear a word from him. He told me the last time, he said, that school we are building now, very massive school. He said, just one lady came the last time and gave us $150,000,000, and we started it. The prophet is 70, 75 also. He said, he's 75, and he doesn't use any walking head. He doesn't use any time. He climbs on mountain, comes back every day.

He told me, he said, when I started with God, I was 60 years old. I was a conductor. I was first a soldier in the army. I left the I left the armed force and became a conductor. I was a conductor for over thirty years. It was six... It was at age 60 I met God. And the man is 75 currently. Listen. Don't don't doubt God.

God is writing a story with your life. God God is doing something amazing with your life. Listen. Listen. I don't care what kind of past you have had. I don't care if you were the one they call bad boy before. I don't care if you were the one they call bad girl before. The question is, have you met God? Because if you have, who told you all hope is lost? Who defines hope?

Listen. Stop measuring your... The indices of your life by natural principles and natural things. No. What God is doing in and through you is more than that. It's more than that. It's more than that. Do you believe this? I told you on Sunday, let whoever wants to go ahead, go ahead. Listen.

We are not competing in destiny. We are not. We are not. Whatever time my season of manifestation comes is the right time for it. The measure of progress is not your roommate. It's not somebody else. It's not who got law and who did not get law. Do you get my point now? Yes, sir. It's not who was promoted and who was not promoted.

It's not. The young man who I was speaking about who lost his job told me some months back that God gave him grace to sow his first seven digit to his ministry. So someone I told that he was prospering and a week after lost his job. That was last year, November, thereabout. He was speaking to me and said, God, give him grace. Said, how did you do it? And he was telling me the amount of opportunities that have come to him ever since then. He said it was as though the moment I did not have a job. My eyes was open to see. Now somebody would have thought that that was a loss.

Do you understand what I'm telling you? I called the guy house. I told him he's favored. He was going back. He traveled. He traveled. He was going back to where he came from, and he had an accident. That is not God. That's the devil. Are you with me?

The bike that he was on was worn out. That's the devil. But is there a script writer? Because if there's a script writer, script writer can sit down like this and say, okay, the devil has played a nice chess here. And that nice chess that you played is because of your own ignorance. It's because because that should not have happened. That favor could still have come whether the accident happened or it not happened. But the fact that it happened does not mean the favor can longer happen. Is that God will now make that accident the reason the favor happens. The reason why God does it that way is to mock the devil.

It's to show you that you are not wise at all. The bible says God uses the foolish things of this world to confound wise. Listen. The bible says if the prince of this world are known, If the prince of this world are known, it means the attack to devil attacks with you with, if only you know. If only he had known. You know what Laban should have done? Laban should have just given Jacob the wife and sent him away. Because somebody will say, sir, but Jacob plus twenty one years. But did you know that when he left Laban, he carried all of Laban's wealth away? Why do you think Laban pursued him?

Laban and put back home and realize that everything is gone, and it went legitimately. He was the one that signed a contract that made his... It's called wealth transfer. God came and said, now is your time. The twenty one years you have lost, I will give you in one month. By the time... Listen. When when Laban came, Jacob said, didn't steal from you. You were the one that signed this agreement. We said any...

It was a legal transaction. The guy did not have anything to say again. My life is in your hands. And I am And I am my life is in your hands. Listen. So you tried all your best, but you did not get as much result as you had expected you would get. Are you with me? Don't don't sit down and be ruminating over the failure. Are you with me? Go to the next one.

Just get up instantly and move forward. Oh, the client said, yeah, I've been talking to the client for long and the client now pulled down the contract, said he wasn't doing it again. And he said, don't use three days and meditate on sadness. No. No. No. No. No. Is the next client? You are the one that lost something.

Listen. Listen. Listen. I was going on the road one time. I was traveling. One day, I met a man of God. And as I was going on the express, my tire burst. And I did not know that my tire burst. I thought it was a bad road that was given the effect of... Because me, I was still going with speed.

And the road was bad. It was a... In fact, even before the tire burst, there was no difference between when the tire burst and before it... Because the road was bad. And I had an appointment to keep. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But no more... It was when you... When I'm...

When I go to the smooth road, and I was still feeling this, I say, ah, you know,. So I parked. I saw the car that the tire had burst. I said, I didn't even know when the tire burst. That's even protection in the first instance. But this is where I'm going. I entered my car and I was just slowly navigating my way to find a organizer. So they told me there's one in front and I got there and because those ones saw that my tire had burst and I was a young man, very nice nice clothes, they thought I couldn't do anything and needed their help. So they were shouting at me, wind down, Glasser now. Wind down.

Park three by. Park three by. Yeah. Because you want to fix Tyana, we'll pay you for. Come and get out of this place. I drove my car like that to another organizer because it was hurting at me. That was when I... Oh, when I now realized that this thing has eaten deep, that I am not the needy. Listen. Listen.

It it it it struck me that my god, I'm not... Why why are you starting that? Because you want to help me. I said, you you you can't get out of here, and I kept on going. I drove the thing like that until I found another one. It now came to me that this what it means to not be the needy, to realize, to have a consciousness. I am the needed. I'm the one you need me. Yes. Are you with me?

Yes. For every one door that closes, there are 10 more that will open. Listen. Listen. Be encouraged. Be encouraged. Want you to pray one prayer and then we close. You say, Father. Give me the grace to see what you are doing in my life. Give me the grace to see what Listen.

Do you understand that prayer? Yes. Me the grace to see what you are doing in my life. Are you ready to pray? Yes, sir. Before we pray, Sunday, the experience again, invite your friends. Don't come alone. This is a move. And what is happening here must reach everyone. Invite your friends.

Remember, publishing the world. So as you leave this place, every day, add someone to the telegram channel. Tell them bring out your phone. Let me add you now. Don't say, let me give you the link. Go on go on. Do you wanna get up? No. Your presence, wait for them. Is that okay?

From today, let's carolocate the numbers in that place. Let's give more access to people to hear these words of encouragement and these words of hope. Are you with me? Yes. Nigeria is going through tough times right now. I hope you know. You know there are many of you who has not felt it. If I if I if I start telling you the reality of what is happening, it's because you have not felt it though. That's why. The reason why it has not struck you the way they hang with...

The way people are angry on the road like that, because you have not felt it. Why have we not felt it? Yet you think that things are not going well with you. Yet you have a reason to complain every time. See God. See, listen. Say God's hand is regulating my life. I can't make mistakes. I can't. If I'm about to fall into a ditch, the ditch and those who prepared it will fall into it.

Are you with me? Let's lift up our voice and pray. Father, give me the grace to see what you are doing in my life. Turn it into prayer. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at officialdisciplescn. You can follow us on Facebook at disciples christian network. You can also join our telegram page at dcn media for more messages by apostle Emmanuel. If you have a testimony from this message, you can mail us at disciplecn@gmail.com.

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