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Just like a soldier, going to battle, Garrett himself with every armor needed for battle and for winning. So believers must guard themselves with the gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he teaches God's Word to equip you for a victorious life on earth. This is Believer's Equip. Thank you, Jesus. In Jesus name we have prayed. Strong and doing exploits. Part two, was was blessed on Sunday. We continue It is, like I said, it's been something, I've mentioned it. Brushed through it in several teachings, but it's not something we've really sat down to, you know, discuss and uncover.

So why do results matter? Why should a believer desire results? Why should a believer desire financial increase, distinction in your profession, influential positions, contracts, signing them in billions. Why should a believer desire a thriving business? Why should a believer desire to build and to own powerful institutions? To have authority and influence. To have multiplication in his ministry. Why is it not enough to just know that you are a sincere believer, you are gifted, you are prayerful, you are you are called. Why must the inward realities of your life become visible accomplishments that other people can see. The answer to the question is, you must understand that God did not only give you truth so that truth could live inside of you.

God intends for the truth that you have received to travel through you. God does not only want to teach you. God wants to use you to teach a generation. God God does not only want to give you wisdom, he wants that wisdom to enter into industries, to enter into institutions, to enter into governments and businesses and families and nations. And for this to happen, your life must... It must acquire a voice. Your voice must be weighted. When we say that someone has a voice, it's not just the ability to make sound. Because many people are speaking would not have a voice. A voice, you see, is the capacity to command attention.

A voice is the capacity to frame questions in the heart of men. It is the capacity to shape desires, To influence decisions, to command convictions. A person can can shout and all your shouting, after all of your shouting, you still remain unheard. Nobody still knows about you. Nobody still knows what you do. Whereas another person can speak very quietly and he's speaking quietly, he's causing tremor on the earth as he's speaking. People are adjusting when he speaks. The difference is not always the volume of the words that is being spoken. It is the weight attached to the person that is speaking. And listen to me, results gives weight to your voice.

I'm going to show you through scriptures, even as we journey through scriptures. So that I can repair your mentality because there are some of you that this thing has not eaten deep into you, so there is not as much hunger for manifestations and for results and for exploits in your life. It is obvious in the way you go about your life that you are not as hungry as you should. You see, I tell people that it doesn't really matter what is not in your life if hunger is there. Hunger has a way of driving men to answers. The Bible speaks of even what is sweet, being bitter to someone that is full. Is that not so? It says but to him that is hungry, even what is bitter. It says, give honey to a man that is full and that is loathsome to him. But you give someone who is hungry.

Hunger has a way of driving you to wear hands as her. And listen, if you do not understand what we are discussing here, there is a way in which you will be very comfortable with a mediocre life and you would not know that it has eaten into your subconscious already. It is a settled mentality within you. You are just okay with how things are. You are okay with the status quo because there is no understanding of the expectation of God for your life. You don't know that it's an anomaly to be okay like that. You don't know that it's an anomaly to not live out the best life that God has willed for you. And because you see that it is the life almost everybody is living, you think it does not matter. Because when you look around, almost everybody is okay. The masses are mediocre.

What did I say? The masses are average. The masses are poor. The masses are broke. The masses. And so there's a tendency that if you are a part of the masses, you see these things all around you, and the widespread nature of the circumstance make the circumstance look normal even to you. Because it's everywhere we assume it is normal. Because everyone is speaking it, everyone is living it, everyone is talking it, everyone is acting like it, we assume it is normal. And we begin to adopt it as a lifestyle. It begins to enter into our mentality.

It becomes our models of branding. It becomes how we think about life, how we do life. We carry it into our businesses. We carry it into our ministries. We carry it into our work. Some of us inherited the mentality from our parents. Because having seen struggling growing up, there's a way you have adapted to struggle. And it's not even a kind of struggle that produces exploits. It's a kind of struggle that maintains survival. It's not the kind of struggle that builds.

It's the kind that just manages to escape survival. A lot of people saw references and patterns growing up. And we've inherited mentalities and mindsets from these references. And when I say growing up, don't you think I'm talking about your parents directly. Because when we talk about growing up, what comes to people's mind is parents. No. No. No. I'm talking about experiences you have gathered. It is the summation of your experiences.

It means you, your upbringing, the environment you were in, what you saw, your next door neighbor, the street you had to pass everyday, what you witnessed on a daily basis defined what was normal to you. So I'm not just talking about the house you lived in. I'm talking about even the environment, Even the teachers that taught you. Even the friends you had, everything was speaking a language and they were burrowing a hole into your heart. Through which a mentality can be passed right into your soul. Right into the depth of your being. And so you now realize that we now carry that same thing into ministry. We are by default content. That's the word we have given to it. But really, it's not contentment.

It's not contentment. It's just a state of satisfaction. Are you with me? Because spiritual contentment is not that. It's just a state of satisfaction. It's just a state of whether things are moving or things are not moving. Instead of, just get a job. Just be okay. Just... You see it in students.

And so we rarely see the need to give our best to something. We rarely see the need to. So even as I'm talking, some people begin to imagine all kind of things. Why is all of these things necessary? And I want you to listen very good. Because as I'm speaking, the holy spirit is doing something that is even more than the words I'm speaking to you. It's a surgical operation that is happening. It's beyond the words I'm speaking to you. Beyond the words I'm speaking to you. You see, if this understanding is not there, the problem is that we will keep on teaching people how to prosper, and these people don't even have an hunger to prosper beyond the need for comfortability, beyond the need for survival.

Because you have to be a voice in your generation. Not everybody has that hunger. Everybody thinks it's a thing. We look at successful people and we just say, those are the ones that are... And we exclude ourselves from the equation of greatness and dominion. As though it's not meant for us. And I believe a large part of it is because believers have not seen the reason spiritually, scripturally. The church might be responsible partly. Because of the kind of teachings and messages that many of us have listened to growing up. Has made us comfortable with the idea of holiness.

Ending within the church walls, has made us comfortable with the idea of spirituality all being about devotion, prayers, studying the word of God, and relevance in the marketplace, relevance in the kingdom, relevance outside is of no importance to spirituality. And so we separate between church and state. And many people have heard teachings that makes them feel as though if for any reason we have to discuss market place realities in the church. It is not a church matter. We have to craft a special session in church for that. We would call it several names. You can call it a career Sunday. Because it's not spiritual things, is it? So after church, we are bringing someone, a facilitator to come and teach people how to... So in church, we might teach you this, but we just think that you should know these things as well.

Glory to God. Glory. Let me go back to my teaching. I said that results give weight to your voice. Results don't make a lie true. And the absence of results don't make truth false. Truth is true. Because God is true. However, results determine how widely a person can be heard. How seriously your ideas can be considered.

And how many people will even desire to understand the mind behind your accomplishment? Results don't create the truth of your message. But results often times would create the audience for your message. People listen to greatness. People study people who have built what they desire to build. People study people who have entered places that they desire to enter. People study people who have produced outcomes that they desire to experience. And when people see a result that they cannot casually explain, they begin to ask questions. They want to know what the person knows. They want to understand how the person thinks.

They begin to study the person's disciplines. They begin to study the person's decisions, their convictions, their relationships, their world view. This means that results can become doors into the minds of people. When people desire the fruit upon your life, they become willing to study the root beneath that life. It means your result can create the opportunity for them to encounter your convictions. What first attracts them is what you have built. But what ultimately transforms them is the wisdom of God that flows through what you have built. It's not results that transforms people. But it brings people to where they will be transformed. It makes your life command the attention of men such that those men want to understand exactly how you've built what you have built.

Are you with me? And one of the clearest expressions of this principle is found in life of Solomon. When you study the life of Solomon, you realize that God did not just give Solomon wisdom as an invincible substance within his mind. God gave him a wisdom that became visible in what he built. You look at the organizations, the prosperity, the stability, the international significance of his kingdom. And you see the wisdom God gave Solomon established in what he built. In first Kings chapter four and verse 29, the Bible says, and God gave Solomon wisdom. An exceedingly great understanding and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore. God gave Solomon wisdom. But the wisdom that God gave to Solomon did not just remain inside Solomon.

That wisdom became governmental order. That kingdom became wealth. That kingdom became prosperity. It became administrative structure. It became the prosperity of the nation even, not only his prosperity. The wisdom became knowledge. It became songs. It became proverbs. It became agricultural innovations. It became international diplomacy.

Solomon's wisdom, that endowment that God gave to him became something that a civilization would come to learn from. And when you read the entire chapter, you would see that the Bible says Solomon spoke thousands of proverbs and songs. He spoke about trees, he spoke about anima, he spoke about birds, he spoke about creeping things and fish. His wisdom was not restricted to what people would call spiritual subjects. It wasn't because it was God that gave him the wisdom, started talking about angels. He wrote about books. He studied birds. He studied agriculture. Brought people into the knowledge of the material world as you know it. Yet it was the wisdom of God.

He understood creation. He understood human behavior. He understood government. He's the one that wrote the book of Proverbs. A new administration, a new architecture, a new economics. The wisdom of God produced a man with an enlarged capacity to think about many dimensions of life and how they benefit humanity. And in verse 34 of first King chapter four, the bible says that men of all nations, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom, came to hear the wisdom of Solomon. God gave wisdom. That wisdom produced visible accomplishments. Let's read it from verse 32.

32 says, he spoke 3,000 proverbs. His songs were 1,005. He spoke of trees from the cedar tree of Lebanon. Even to the high salt that springs out of the world. He spoke of honeymouse, of birds, of creeping things, of fish. The report then says, and men of all nations, from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom, came to hear the wisdom of Solomon. That accomplishment produced fame. That fame attracted kings. It attracted nations. And that attraction created an opportunity for them to hear Solomon.

They came to hear his wisdom. Something made them willing to travel in order to hear it. Something make them willing to leave the comfort of their homes to pursue a man. The name is result. His result had given his wisdom international credibility. Solomon did not have to visit every nation and then beg people to come and listen to what he had to say. The evidence upon his life created hunger in other people. People saw what was on his life. They saw the result he had built. They saw the exploit he had built.

And kings sent representatives to Solomon. Nations came. The greatness of what he had built created a school around him. Men wanted to observe him. Men wanted to study him. Men wanted to hear directly from him. That's what results can do. Do you understand what I'm saying? Results can turn your life into a place of inquiry that many people don't want to listen to what you have to say. Do you understand what I'm saying?

And do you know that results is such that I'm gonna get there, but let me just say this. I don't wanna go ahead of myself. I wanna be structured in how I built this. The beauty of it is people don't really care about what you know until they see the results of what you know. Listen to this. And people don't really care who knows what. They only care who has the results. You didn't hear what I just said. You didn't hear me very well. Let me say it again.

People don't really care who knows what. They only care who has the results. It means you might be a doctor, have a PhD in economics or in business management. Are you rich is the question. That's what I mean by people don't really care who knows what. It is why CNN and BBC are not in economics department in UI waiting to interview the lecturers. Who they are looking for is Elumelu. Who they are looking for is Dangote. Because they don't care who knows what. What they care about is who has what.

What they care about is who owns what? What they care about is who has built what? It means when you have built something, people suddenly care what you know. It means it's not enough to say that we have a message. If we do not have evidence to defend the message. Do you understand what I'm saying? Learn this from Solomon. It's amazing that you've not sat down to think about this because it is kings that are coming to another king like them. It's what results can do. It can turn your life into a place of inquiry.

It will cause people to come with many questions. It would make people who would ordinarily dismiss your life or dismiss your belief system or even dismiss what you know, dismiss your conviction. Results will make them pause. It will make them say, hold on a minute. I think I'm I'm starting to rethink my position on this subject. What do you say you believe? Results can do that. The queen of Sheba is an example of this. You see, if you have been trained by religion, there is a way your mind will be fighting what I'm saying. If you've been schooled by religion, you know what your mind will be telling you.

Your mind will be telling you, but it's not Jesus that is a message. What is this man of God preaching? Are you not supposed to be preaching who? Jesus. Stay with me. Just stay with me. You will find out that what I'm teaching you is how your life can preach Jesus beautifully. This is not to dismiss the effort of those who are innocent and those who are sincerely preaching Jesus. I'm not dismissing their efforts. But the truth of the matter is this, you would rather listen to a multibillionaire who has built something successful for himself, about Jesus on Thanos television, then you would listen to somebody holding a microphone on Songo Street talking the same Jesus.

Because religion has dealt with so many people. It has almost destroyed some people's lives. The queen of Sheba is not an ignorant woman. She wasn't looking for entertainment. She didn't go all the way to Jerusalem looking for... This was an influential woman in her own right. This was a woman of stature and stamina in her own right. She was a ruler. It means as a ruler, she already understood wealth. As a ruler, she already understood power.

She understood governance. She understood administration. Is that not so? Yes, sir. Yet the Bible says something she heard about Solomon was significant enough to make this woman of power, oh God. Do you understand that when you see president and heads of state in Glory Tabernacle in Abuja, when you see kings gathering their numbers at Redemption Camp, When you see governors and influential men, gather in their numbers in altar, faith Tabernacle. It's not because the men are anointed. There are anointed men everywhere. It is called results. Do you understand what I'm saying?

It's called result. It's not because you are beautifully anointed. Yes, sir. It's called results. Go and check what kings come for. The bible says, Gentiles come to your light. NLT says, kings will come to see your radiance. Your radiance. It means when you see kings gather in a place, what did they come to see? Radiance.

It means there is something radiating about them. Do you understand? Kings don't just go to places carelessly. Name this from the queen of Sheba. This was a woman of power and stature. She understood governance and administration, yet she was willing to travel down to go and visit Solomon. It wasn't because Solomon was wise. Mm-mm. It was because there were things to justify his wisdom. It is because there were things to justify his wisdom.

Please stay with me. It wasn't because Solomon was a good storyteller. You just think people are coming to come and hear stories? To come and hear stories? Hello? Hello? What what Solomon was doing? Know now. The Bible says, when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning what, please? The bible says when she heard of Solomon's fame concerning the name of the Lord.

I like the bible so much because you might think that I'm not being spiritual. Until you hear fame and name of the Lord. Put in the same sentence. Solomon's fame concerning the name of the Lord. That the fame of Solomon had become connected to the name of God. That the greatness of the man was carrying the reputation of his God. It means people are not just saying that Solomon was intelligent. They were connecting what was happening through him to the God who had given him the wisdom. Because I showed you this on Sunday that the life flows from the vine, and it must be obvious in the branch What kind of life flows from the vine in that the branch is fruitful? It's why God said, by this is my father glorified that you bear much fruit is what queen of Sheba heard.

She heard of the fame of Solomon concerning. No. There are believers that believe that becoming great would distract attention away from God. They believe that when you are great, you have to be careful lest you divert the attention of men to yourself. But scripture shows us a man whose greatness carried the name of God into nations. It was his greatness that carried that name of God into every nation. His result did not conceal God. His results created an international conversation about God. Say it with me. Say it again.

Prophesy it over your life. That what is trending on Twitter is something you said in an interview. Do you know that what makes an interview relevant is who is being interviewed? Interviews are not relevant in and of themselves. What makes it relevant is who, who is there? And when you find, hey, you pause, you want to check what is he saying? What does he have to say? They are asking questions, the interviewer is asking questions, and you are disappointed at the kind of questions they are asking. You say, can't you ask this? Can't you ask this?

How come questions are being framed in your heart? Because that man or woman has become a voice. That's what you are becoming. Let me help you, brother and sisters. Don't detest prosperity. Let... No. Chill. Let me explain what I'm trying to say. Don't join this move to detest prosperous men of God, to detest men of God with visible results.

To detest men of God who are doing great things for God. A man of God is opening a big church and you see the church that is being opened and something in your mind starts telling you all kind of things. That's the devil. Please rebuke the devil. Do not be in this church and castigate prosperity. You will be poor. Because it's almost a trend now. I hope you know that the two people carrying microphone to talk, you see all these podcast people watch because, you know, right now, we don't have a generation of builders. We are in a generation of influencers. Nobody is building anything again.

All everybody is doing is gadgeting a crowd and saying nonsense. It doesn't really matter what content they have to share. And those who have cracked the code understand that it takes longer to blow if you say something valuable. And so they are not even trying to say something valuable, they're trying to blow. And blowing is very easy. Just be very controversial. Everybody is moving this way. They move that way. Immediately, people start paying attention to you. That's why two people will hold microphones and be saying, you know, this idea of, you know, men and women marrying.

I'm not a fan of marriage. I'm not a fan. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, why should you at a at a 26 year old someone... You have a life of yourself. You have a disability. You're just being ruled by a man, governed by a man, dominated by a man. All of that thing is not my own business. The guy or the girl rather will leave that place and be saying, Darlene, I love you.

Listen. Listen to me. She does not care one thing about you. She only wants to have numbers on YouTube. You you stupid. Will not be watching the thing and be saying,. You are a part of the masses. They've cracked you. They've cracked you like a code. Someone that will check you and say, Kai, 12,000 views.

How much do you to pay me today? I will say, hey. $3,500. This one is not blowing off. We'll find another thing to... He knows if he trigger you. He knows that you will like that one very well. You'll come again. We have another week again tomorrow. Come.

You better watch it. I saw one recently of a guy getting married who had told several men to break up with their girlfriends. You know, somebody put it on Twitter. Somebody said, but guy, no baby they talk say, me people break up with their girlfriend and their... The guy replied, it means say, that's your leader, you know strong before. In other words, if you can come and hear somebody holding a microphone online, tell you to break up and you broke, you know strong before. You know what's happening with you. Because the masses, the masses. So that's why you see somebody coming and saying, don't listen that man of God. The man of God has shared this.

Know you. People, he drives numbers. The guy will leave that place, come to church the following Sunday and be doing like this and be doing like this. It's time for that and offering. He will come and drop his tithe and go. Come online and tell you, if you're a tithe, you are giving your offering to a man of God, you don't know you are stupid. You don't know how to think. Men of God are telling you what to do with your life. Pastor Kingsley Okongo said that many of those feminists who are going online telling people all kind of rubbish are in their DMs begging them for counseling. She said it's because of confidentiality that I will not mention their names.

He said when I saw some of their videos, I want to screenshot what they sent me saying, pastor, help me. Pastor, help me. They are not trying to model a generation. They're trying. It's just for views. You have subjected yourself to stupidity. When you take a YouTube video, you take a podcast, when you take all this nonsense, and then you start feeding on them as though they are content for destiny. You leave the word of God alone. You leave the teaching of the word alone. And then when any man of God says anything, they just speak it.

You should know that all they are looking for is strength. You... Facebook is paying them. I hope you know. YouTube pays them. Is paying them. Twitter is paying them. It means the more views they can get, the more money they have. Some of these bloggers are like that. That's all they care about.

Especially those ones that put Christian names in their channel. Gospel of truth is a lie. Gospel of truth television. Kingdom nation network is a lie. It's a lie. See what this man of God said about this man of God. I saw when I was showing my wife, he put the name of the man of God. He said this man of God deals this man of God a great blow. Enough use AI to put the man of God like this. Put the one that they do like this.

Put punch there. Put... Kingdom channel. It's money. That's a... It's a money making business. Ask somebody's hustle. Don't destroy your life on somebody else's hustle. That's somebody's hustle. Putting men against themselves.

A man of God can speak now and say, anybody who tells you so and so, don't listen to those people. Do not pick what the man of God has said. Pick somebody, another man of God who has said so and so and said, this man of God speaks against this man of God. So when is this... Anybody who tell you, not cut it, put what that man said. Continue what he says. Know what he's saying. It's a business. It's a business. That's the business this generation knows now.

I'm not building anything substantial. And so we put microphones in our face and begin to insult and abuse those. You have spent years building something. Please don't be that generation. Don't be that generation. Don't be that generation. Don't insult the labor of men. Don't be that generation. So I was telling you that what makes kings like the queen of Sheba travel because kings are busy themselves. Have you not seen how many people are trying to get the attention of kings?

People lining up every time. Yet these same kings are leaving their busy schedule to travel to churches and to sit down there to listen to a four hour service. We pray and we worship. We hear testimonies, and the man of God will continue preaching, and they are still there listening. What brings them is not just the man is anointed. It's not even just the man is worth it. It's that there is results. What attracts kings is results. If you fight this thing, I'm telling you, I don't even know how I can help you. I just hope that you believe because it is in scriptures.

It's in scriptures. And the Bible says that the result that Solomon had was the reason why the name of God became a conversation everywhere. The name of the Lord was travelling through the fame of a man. That's the beauty of it. Is your fame that is travelling? Is the name of the Lord that people are seeing. That's what the Bible, it didn't say the fame of the Lord. The fame of Solomon. Do you see that God is not against your fame? Yes sir.

God is not against your influence. God is not against your exploit and your result and you doing well in life. Let me show you a scripture. Second Samuel chapter seven and verse nine. Can you read it to me together, everybody? One, two, three, go. Where I am God. Uh-huh. I have caused all your enemies for you. Uh-huh.

I have made you great fear. Pause. Pause. This is God speaking. Who has made me a great name? Who I beg? Read it again. Read the next line now. Is God fighting the great men who are on earth? Do you know that he didn't even say like the name of the righteous great men?

God is acknowledging that there are great men on earth. I'm not fighting that, but you must be one of them. That's what God is saying. I don't know about you, but I don't have a small ministry. I don't plan to. I've never planned to. There is nothing I've ever built that I think will be small. I don't build small things. I don't expect my life to be small. I acknowledge that there are great men.

In fact, most of them might not even know God. He says, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. My concern is that amongst them, will have representatives. God took David from following sheep and made him the reference by which kings would later be measured. His knowledge of God became military victory. It became leadership in his government. It became national unity. He became wealth and influence. He became the financial preparation of the temple. And that legacy continued through generations.

When God makes a person great, that person's life becomes a platform upon which divine possibilities can be displayed. God can point to that person he has made great and say, look at what I can do with someone who works with me. That's precisely what God did with Abraham and Sarah and Isaiah chapter 51 verse two. It says, look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah who bore you, for I called him alone and blessed him and increased. See, God was speaking to people who needed hope concerning restoration, concerning increase. And his answer was to give them a reference. Look to Abraham. Look at the man who began alone. Look at the man whose starting point did not resemble his prophecy. Look at the man who had no child.

When nations were promised to him, and look at what I did when I called him. I blessed him. I increased him. It became a reference. Abraham's life became an argument that God can make. If they can do this with Abraham, can't I do it with your life? The increase of Abraham became an evidence that God could use. An evidence that God could use. That you say you deny my power. Look at Emmanuel.

The results a man had became an argument God could make. Oh my. He could use Abraham's possibilities and realities to encourage and to show a generation what was possible. Oh my god. It's one of the reasons why God makes men great. Because every generation needs references in God. A generation meets people it can look at and conclude that working with God does not condemn a person to irrelevance. It needs people whose life can demonstrate that righteousness and wealth can exist in the same person. A man can be righteous and the wealthy. A generation needs references that shows that spiritual depth and intellectual excellence can exist in the same person.

That prayer and industry can exist in the same person. That humility and greatness can exist in the same person. That dependence upon God and extraordinary accomplishment can exist in the same person. Hear me brothers and sisters, your children will need references. Amen. Now I'm not praying. I'm speaking. Your children, they will need references. And woe betide the generation when the reference that our children have are darkness. All of them are in the kingdom of darkness.

That's their references. The young people who are coming behind you will need references. The generation coming behind us will need references. Your industry will need references. The people in your church will need references. They must be able to look at somebody and say, Kai. Yes sir. This person knows God. This person obeyed God. It pays to know God.

It pays to obey God. And this person knows God like this and they still built something extraordinary. Are you with me? You can't mentor a generation by instructions alone. A generation is mentored through examples. People don't just ask you what you are saying. They ask, what does what you have believed produce in your own life? They want to see what your doctrine looks like when it becomes a career. What does your doctrine look like when it becomes a business, when it becomes a family, a ministry, an institution? Hebrews chapter six and verse 12.

Are we ready to get everybody? When the queen of Sheba came to Solomon, she came with hard questions. She was not just interested in seeing the beauty of Jerusalem, but she wanted access to the mind of the person behind all that result. And it was that access that she wanted that provoked what she said. People start saying, how did you do this? It's what results provoke. She said, that was this, she came to test him with hard questions. It's what results provoke. How did you do this? How did you think about this?

What did you see? What wisdom produced this? The scripture says that she spoke with Solomon about all that was in her heart. It means that the visible results gained him access to the hidden questions of our heart. Listen to me. There are questions that people will not bring to you. Just because you said they should bring it. There are questions people will not bring to you just because you said they should listen to you. And there are things people will not tell you just because you are sincere. There are parts of herself that she was willing to communicate.

Bible says she poured out what was in her heart. Oh my God. Not even some of it. All that was in her heart. It tells me that there are parts of people that they will only open to you. When they've become persuaded that you carry a level of wisdom that is worth receiving. That's when people would pour out themselves to you in that manner. It's why greatness is important for discipleship. Because greatness can create access to the heart. Now I know that this might be controversial, so listen to me very carefully.

Greatness can create access to the heart of men. Because a young person might not look at you and be interested in how you work with God automatically. The first question a young person might be interested in in your life is not your work with God. Do you understand what I'm saying? They might first be interested in how you build your company. They might first be interested in how you built your profession, how you became great and excellent in your profession, how you multiplied your income, how you developed such a powerful institution. That might be the first thing that interest them. How have you grown to be this big? You started from nothing and then you grew to this size in a short time. How did you do it?

A young person might not first be interested in your work with God. That's my point. They might first be interested in what you have built, what you've done. Are you with me? Yes, sir. They might first be interested in how you think, how you did this. That might be the first thing that interest them to you. But in explaining how you think, You will now begin to reveal to them the convictions that govern you. The conviction that govern you. You now show them that your greatness came from scripture.

You now show them that your integrity came from the fear of God. You now show them that the courage that you have comes from faith, the heart of a lion, the visage of a colossus. When you tell them life is unfavorable to the timid and it rewards the bold. And let me tell you something, I didn't start out being bold. As a matter of fact, I remember when I had to step out and start introducing myself to people and tell them what to do, I was so afraid. But just remember that the bible says the righteous is as bold as a lion. And the bible says that we have received this righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. It means I'm as bold as a lion. Even when it came to me, I struggled with it for some time because how can the bible say that the righteousness as bold as a lion and I'm still dealing with fear, you know? And it's interesting how many of us read the scriptures and we see what the bible promises us and then it's it's it's not yet our reality and we think it's a lie.

It's not a lie. Something you have to pray into it. It's And what I did. I started praying into it. And every night I would pray in tongues. The righteous is as bold as a lion. Oh, I'm as bold as a lion. And the next day, I saw myself going out, pitching my business to people. And then, do do you know what you are doing? You see, what the person came for is not how to pray.

It's not how to confess. But in what they came for, they've learned how to pray. They've learned how to confess. They've learned the value of scripture. It's the power of greatness and results. Some people will come to you and say, have you always known what to do? I say, no. But one day I had an encounter. How do you build something like this? Oh, I pray in tongues and I sow my seeds.

I don't have any other special principle. Principle. I pray in tongues and I sow my seed. That's That's all. They're not even ashamed to say, ashamed? Yeah. I was on my own. You're the one that asked me. You would notice I didn't carry my microphone shouting, this is what I do. You came to ask me, and now you want to shame me for asking me.

No. Now. Everybody will say what works for them. The day you bring somebody else to your platform, let them say what works for them. If you have brought me, I'm telling you what works. I pray in tongue that I saw my seat. Go back to that scripture we are reading. You see, when the queen of Sheba started pouring her heart to Solomon, watch this. The bible says that she came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue with camels, her both spices, very much gold, and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart.

And you know, Solomon answered all our questions. Solomon answered all her questions. In fact, the bible says there was nothing so difficult for the king that he could not explain to her. And you would think that what will amaze this woman would be all the answers that Sudomor had given her. You know, look at the next verse. Next verse. Let's read it together. One, three. Go. Wait now.

The previous verse was just saying Solomon answered. Yet, the bible does not say when she had heard the wisdom of Solomon, the answers he had given. It says, when immediately Solomon was giving answers and was talking and was explaining and was sharing and was pouring hands in his heart and was... Nothing was too difficult. The woman was just looking. Was just looking. The house he had built. Watch you. Watch you. Watch you.

Next verse. The food on his table. It means she was observing. The the guy was pouring his heart out, and she was just sitting down there and looking. It says, the sitting of his servants. That when you saw the servant of Solomon, you would think that they were the king. It means if you didn't know Solomon, you would mistake one of the servants as a king. What kind of kingdom is this where servants look like this? And she was just observing the service of his waiters. Oh my god.

The excellence of those that were waiting on him. The way they were serving people, the way they were answering people, the way they were talking to kings, she was observing and she was looking around and she was his cupbearers. And his entryway by which he went up to the house of the Lord is the staircase, the the entryway. There was no more spirit in her. So was it Solomon's answers? No. Was it the fact that he could talk? The Bible says when she saw all of this, it got to a point it was as though she wanted to faint. That's the word. Was no more spirit in her as though she wanted to faint or even she fainted.

She was heart of breath. So when we want to build churches and the man of God is saying the staircase are made of gold, and we put... We make sure the altar has 12 caratis, and he's talking about the splendor of the house of God. You will now go on social media and start saying nonsense. The people he's talking to understand his language. He is talking to the queen of Sheba's because when they are the one that appreciate greatness when they see it. It is poor people that will hold microphone and start talking. What is it? Their own is too much. Their own is too much.

It's why kings go there. Let me tell you something. People might not understand the processes that built you. They might not understand the processes that built you. And because you don't understand the processes that built you, there will be many contentions that you would face and many restrictions, many adversaries that you'd face for the sheer fact that a lot of people do not understand the processes that is building you. But let me tell you something. In as much as people might not understand the processes that build you, believe me when I tell you that they can see what those processes produces around you. It is the reason why if you are convinced about the processes building you, you do not bother explaining much to men who don't understand. Because the idea is not that they understand the explanation. What makes them faint is the results.

Solomon might go to a thousand people and tell them, do you know that God appeared to me and told me, ask what you want? And I asked God for wisdom and he told me, I will give you not only wisdom, I'll give you money, wealth, the life of your enemies, everything you not ask for. Without all that result, nobody cares what encounters you so much. Yes, sir. Nobody cares what what what appeared to you or what did not appear to you. And do you know that God knows? Do you know that even God knows? God, he knows. That the fact that he appears to you doesn't mean anybody will take you seriously. He knows.

It's why he told Moses, what is that in your hand? He said it's a rod. He said put it down. The rod became a snake. He said take it up. The snake became a rod. He said when you get to their palace and you say God sent you and they don't believe, drop the rod. It's called results. It's called results. You tell them I sent you and they don't believe you, drop the rod.

There is something that they see. Drop the rod. You are explaining things too much. Drop the rod. There's not much explanation needed. That I sent you, there are evidences I put around you. The Bible says the Lord walking with them, confirming the word with signs following. But if I'm the one who is walking with you, there will be evidences. There will be signs to show that God is working. It means even God does not release people believe in him solely.

Have you not read your bible? Act of apostles chapter 20. The bible says that God attested of Jesus. God attested of Jesus. Acts two twenty two or so. Yes. Men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God. To who? To who?

Why? Why did God not just say believe? He says, no. God himself attested of Jesus by miracles, by wonders, by signs. So it it amazes me every time when we said these things don't matter. What do you mean does not matter? What do you mean doesn't matter? Some people see men of God prophesying. They say their own is too much. Killing the sick, and you see a man of God gathering crutches, plenty of them like this.

Him. So he's not in all these things. That's why you don't have them. You know that song that we just sang now? You have no right. It's true. You have no is true. And for It's true. Listen. But God did not tell Moses, don't worry.

I have no rival. God go and meet them like that. It's true. It's true he has no rival. It does not mean that there will not be rivals in the earth that will attempt to rival you. It's true. It means what makes it true is your evidence. Your evidence is what now proves that he has no rival. What makes men now see? What makes men now believe?

That this thing is true. Imagine, yes, imagine you are saying he has no rival, he has no this, and a witch can still buy the the the guy. Oh, no. Your your life will show results. If as the queen of Sheba is talking and Solomon says, you know, have an encounter with God. And then encounter God showed me. In fact, it was even after I had given. I gave a thousand You gave a thousand cattle? He said, yes. I did.

Because my father taught me giving. And after I had given, I slept and then God appeared to me. And that God told me, what do you want? And I just told him, and I learned the power of encounters. Do you know I woke up from that encounter, and I had supernatural wisdom I can't explain? The queen of Sheba will leave that meeting saying, Kai, God is great. Is great. God is the one that made a man like that. So when we sing every tongue in heaven, that is how they will confess. It's it's when they see your life that they will now begin to converse.

There was something remarkable about your life. You hear me? Evidence. See, evidence. Evidence. So the kingdom is not in words. It is in power. It is in power. Power. It is in power.

It is in power. It is in power. And when we say power, that power can do different things. It doesn't only raise the dead. It doesn't only heal the sick inasmuch as it can do all of that. There is also power to make wealth. There's also power. Me tell you something. Let me tell you Many of you, it's not as though your life is barren. There's no barrenness in your life.

Your life is not barren. You might not see visible results as of yet. But it is not to mean that there is barrenness. Because before a tree begins to bud and begins to display fruit, it must first bear root downwards. The process of bearing root downwards is not barrenness. It's not barrenness. There is a natural season of every man's life leading up to the bearing of fruits where they will be covered by the ground. The Bible didn't accept a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies. There will be that season of obscurity, that season of unknowingness, that season of resistance. You see, let me tell you something.

Do not attract unnecessary battles to yourself in those seasons. Not everybody will understand your consecrations. Not everybody will understand the visions that you are seeing. In those seasons, sometimes you keep quiet. Sometimes you keep even your visions to yourself whilst you are praying about it. You don't want to expose it too early because they will hug you and they will fight you. Many people don't know how to understand and how to seek great destinies until the greatness manifest, and you cannot blame them. It's because many of them have not seen greatness beside them before. They've only seen greatness far away. So when when greatness is growing beside them, they don't know how to know that this is greatness.

They've only read it in televisions. They've only seen the newspapers. Now somebody's growing in their house who is praying in tongues, and he's saying I'm seeing a vision. In this vision, I'm seeing. God is speaking to me, and I know I will have this. I know I will build this visible. Many at times, by default, people are not trained to understand. They are not... You can't blame them for it. They have not seen it before.

You can't blame them for it. Listen. Listen. When I understood this, I stopped fighting my parents. I stopped fighting my siblings. I stopped fighting everybody who might not understand what I was seeing in the day when I was still under the tree. Some of them told me stop that prayer. Stop that this. So I didn't fight them. Some of you will go home, and you are trying to help everybody.

You are trying to help your father, help your mother. It's banning you, but they're not listening to you. They can't listen to you. Nobody cares what you have to say. Leave trying to explain alone. Leave it alone. Focus on what God is building on your inside. A time will come that the queen of Sheba, they're the ones that will travel down. They will say, ah ah ah, brother Paul, I didn't know it's like this. I will now smile and say like what?

And you know what I'm talking about. Some of them, they will enter your house. They will say, ah ah, sister, me. I don't force advice from people. Don't force counsel on people. There times I know what is right, and I know this person is not working that way. I will shout and shout. They won't hear me. And it's not their fault. It's because they can't see the evidence of my advice in my own life.

But they are waiting. They are waiting. Show me. Show me what you are saying. Show me. Let me see it to your own See, in as much as we are not even where we are meant to be, that place we are going, I have not gotten there. You have not seen anything. But even where God has helped me to, it has silenced so many people's words. It has silenced so many people. Even where God has helped me to.

I pray you believe me in your spirit. Do you know why this is so? Because there are times you can be sincerely carrying burdens for people because you have found the path of truth. But the path of truth you have found is not yet evident in your life. And because it's not yet evidence, those who are carrying their burdens will be mocking you. You are carrying their bodies, but they are mocking the person carrying their body. And the truth is they look at their life and they look at your life, and they can't see any difference yet. So there is no reason why they should not mock you. In what moments, don't feel pain. Don't feel pain.

Shut the door on yourself. Shut the door on your life. Don't allow yourself to be distracted by problems that is not yet yours to carry. It will eventually be yours, but you don't have the stamina to carry it yet. Understand when like Jesus, when people are dying, you don't come out and say I'm the savior. You are a savior, but you are a baby. That baby must run away. If you are destined to die for the world, but it's not yet timed, understand when it's not yet timed. So you can hide. You know how to hide and prosper, how to hide and dominate, how to hide.

Listen to me. It is the wisdom God always uses. It's not every time you go and start shouting. No. The time God conceals, He conceals. You'll be carrying trumpet up and down like this, and you'll be telling them, have a music ministry that will reach the world. Oh, God. You know that? You know that? This thing is so powerful that as urgent as the great commission was, as urgent as evangelism was, and the disciples going out into the world to go and publicize the reason Christ was, told them, don't be in a rush.

Stay in Jerusalem. I know the king's business requires this, but stay in Jerusalem. There's something you don't have yet. Stay in Jerusalem. The instruction was stay in Jerusalem. Until you are endured. Until you are endured. You will not always remain in Jerusalem. Mm-mm. You won't always remain in Jerusalem.

This is what what he told them in Luke 24 and verse 49. He says stay in Jerusalem. Stay in Jerusalem. Stay there. But in Acts one eight, it says, it says, you shall receive power. After the holy ghost has come upon you, and you will be witnesses unto me. Where? In Jerusalem, that place I said, stay. The place I said, stay whilst you are building power. Usually, that's where your witnessing will begin from.

In Jerusalem. That's where it will begin from. He said, but don't be in a rush. There's something you don't have yet. I know you are consumed with passion right now. But if you go out too early, Moses, calm down. You see two Israelites fighting. Calm down. Look and pass. Your Lord can't do anything yet.

And pass. It's especially important for young people. Because there is this savior mentality that we have in Africa that denies young people the capacity to build? Because you start experiencing some level of result financially in your life, you think to everybody's savior. And you start throwing money into places and carrying responsibility that is not yet yours to carry. Where rather you should be growing to amplify the level of result in your life until it gets to a place where birds can come and feed. Let me not say beyond that. But I pray that you're wise. It says, however, I did not believe the words until I came and saw with my own eyes. And indeed, the half was not told me.

It says your wisdom and the what? Again, you see wisdom and prosperity in the same sentence. In the same sentence. That Solomon's wisdom had produced prosperity. And his prosperity had become part of the evidence. That his wisdom was real. And after seeing and hearing, she didn't just praise Solomon. Look at what her response was in verse nine. Can we read it together? This woman moved from admiring a man to acknowledging God.

That the greatness of Solomon became an apologetic for the greatness of God. The throne of Solomon, the wisdom of Solomon, the prosperity of Solomon, the greatness of Solomon caused a foreign ruler to make a theological conclusion that the Lord delighted in Israel. That Solomon's greatness became the evidence that God delight in Israel. If this does not spoil you to want to produce result, I don't know what will because it shows you that nations will come and say, the Lord delights in Nigeria. Yes, sir. And and the reason they will say the Lord delights in Nigeria is because they saw me there. It's because they saw you there. It's because they saw you there. And then after they've observed what you have built, they will say, Kai, God must love this nation. You know they've been there?

I see. I see a wonderful vision. In righteousness, oh, not because there are great men on earth who don't know God. The difference is we'll be great and we'll know God. But I found out that great as men are around the world, you rarely see greatness concentrated in a nation, in several industries, concentrated in one nation. Usually, there will be something the nation doesn't have. America is great, but they don't have the greatest footballer. Sailor. The vision is this. That people will call this nation blessed.

Blessed because because of us. They will look around all the spheres of influence. They will look at football, and they would see that one Nigerian guy is just killing everybody. Went to EPL and destroyed the place, went to Syria and destroyed the place, went to... And then they hacked him. Guy. See, it's God, though. It's God. When I was in DCN, they taught me. And then they will look at business and see another person there.

They will conclude like the queen of shepherd concluded That God loves God loves Nigeria. God loves Nigeria. A man became evident that God loved a nation, a man. He said ah, that's a a gift. Oh, God loves in this nation. Is a major reason. One one of the major reasons why we must produce results. Because your results can become the bridge between people and the knowledge of God. The bridge is not God, but it can carry people to God. The business is not God, but the excellence can make people ask, what is the kind of wisdom that has built this?

The wealth is not God. But the stewardship of the wealth, the giving. It can reveal another way to use resources. The position is not God. But the manner in which you use authority can reveal something about the government of God. Same way the influence is not God. But can amplify your words and point men towards God. Are you with me? The idea is that your kingdom, your empire, your greatness, even your platform becomes a platform from which the name of God could be heard in the nations. That your greatness will give God a voice.

Are you with me brothers and sisters? Now I want us to compare Solomon to another wise man in Ecclesiastes Because the man also possessed wisdom. The man was also wise. In fact, he was so wise that when his city was besieged, it was his wisdom. It was his wisdom that delivered an entire city from a very powerful enemy. But yet despite the greatness of what he did, his poverty affected how society regarded him, and the bible calls him the poor, wise man. Ecclesiastes nine and verse 15, we read to verse 16. It says, now there was found in it a poor, wise man. And he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that same poor man.

Next verse. Then I said, wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised. And his words are not heard. You see, the tragedy is that the man had wisdom and his words are not heard. In other words, he has an answer, but he did not have the weight required to make society continue listening to him. His city used the result of his wisdom during a crisis. But immediately after the crisis, nobody remembered him. Scripture is not saying that poverty makes a person foolish. Because the man was wise.

Scripture is revealing something about how society responds to people. And there's a lesson for you there. That poverty can cause genuine wisdom to be despised. Poverty can cause genuine anointing to be despised. Poverty can cause genuine grace to be despised. A person can possess an answer and still lack the influence required to institutionalize that answer. Solomon's wisdom attracted nations, but the poor man's wisdom... In fact, the poor man's wisdom rescued a city. And after rescuing the city, the bible says his words were not heard. Solomon's wisdom, on the other hand, attracted nations to come and hear his voice.

What was the difference? The difference is that the wisdom Solomon had had established a visible structure of greatness, that established a visible structure of wealth and prosperity. The wisdom had results. Say with me results. Results. But the poor man had wisdom but lacked results. He lacked that social and institutional weight that could preserve his voice. There was no results. It doesn't mean that God cannot use a poor person. God used this man to deliver a city.

But we cannot create a theology that celebrates the very conditions scripture identifies as one of the reasons why his words were despised. And then we create a theology around it and make it look as though it is holy to be poor. When the Bible says, the poor man's wisdom is despised. His words are not heard. We cannot continue saying that we have the hands that this nation needs. It's not enough. It's not enough. Poverty limited the continuing reach of this man's wisdom. The lesson to learn here is not that every wealthy person is wise. No.

It's not that every poor person should be ignored. That's not the lesson. Lesson is that if the wisdom of God is in you, that wisdom must produce structures through which it can remain hoardable. Structure that makes it evident to everyone that there is something that powers you. There must be results. Otherwise, society can take your solutions and forget the person who carried the wisdom. There are believers with brilliant ideas whose voices are not heard because they have not built anything across or about those ideas. So they have beautiful premonition as to how things should be done, what should be done. But they've done nothing about it, so nobody pays them attention. In fact, we have more believers who fall in this cycle.

Believer with brilliant ideas, but they cannot execute anything. Ideas about how that football match should have been played differently to have given the other team the platform to have lost. What is this one? And then you see them saying, you should not have brought this one out. You should not have done this. You should not have done that. I mean, you have this beautiful wealth of wisdom that can deliver anything from relegation. And your own destiny is relegated. Is that not amazing? What have you done about these ideas you have had?

Except it's just a hobby. But better how your life is generally, and you can talk big about everything. Look at the government and when you begin your analysis, The poor man's wisdom is despised. The poor man's wisdom is despised. You see, in Nigeria and across the world really, but I want to use Nigeria because it's an example I want to pick out of this. It is just unfortunate to be poor or to lack results. You know why? Because even the wealthy man's wisdom, a generation has reason that despises it. It's why bishop Boedepo will come out and be telling you what will happen if you vote this government into power. And people will call him all kind of names.

That's a man with results. How much less you? I made up my mind a long time ago what kind of person I will be. Oh, made up my mind a long time ago. This wasn't a joke. It was something serious. I was extremely young when I started saying it. My family will not suffer. Will not have a small ministry. When the holy spirit started pressing upon my heart that I would have a ministry, I knew what kind of...

I I wouldn't have one that denied the power of God. I mean, I just listened to a message from being someone in the world. Listening to a message that is making me shake like a leaf. Power of God in the presence of God so strong upon me. From listening to an audio tape, I can't even see the face of the man. I don't know how he looks like. Yet I'm in a dream. And in the dream, I'm seeing the man in my front who I've never met. Not someone who is serious with God enough to say, because I was here, I had an encounter. And I was seeing how the power of God was moving everywhere as the man spoke.

And the Holy Spirit pressed upon my spirit that what this person is doing, he will do. He will spend your life preaching the gospel. And immediately, I decided that if it will be short of power, greater than this dimension I have seen, then I don't want it. It's why some men dare to pray some kind of prayers. Give me Scotland or I die. It is the idea that life is not worth living if there is no evidence to show that what you believe is true. And some men like myself have have understood it well. It has entered into my bones. It's why I cannot sleep like a fool. God.

Because the result of your understanding what I'm teaching you wouldn't be that you'll just be excited. It would be that you would understand the demand that life places on you to ensure that result must come out of your life. He says, see us thou a man. Diligent in his work. He will stand before kings and not before mere men. It means that if my place is before kings and I understand why I must be before kings. I know instantly that the demand is seest thou a man. The proof of your understanding will not just be that you would pray in tongues because you have heard this. It is seest thou a man. Do you see a man?

Are you with me? When Joseph advised Pharaoh and told Pharaoh how the country would come out of a crisis, I want you to see what Pharaoh said to Joseph in Genesis 41. Are you bored? Genesis 41 and verse 38. One, two, three. Go, everybody. Question, what made Pharaoh speak about the spirit of God? Pharaoh Pharaoh. Baba Pharaoh. A man with 5,000 hideouts.

He's saying, we find such a man as this? Is it because Joseph came to his front and prophesied? It's because Joseph provided an economically valuable hand sack That Egypt could use. The spirit of God in Joseph brought a strategy. He brought administration. It brought economic foresight. That was what the spirit of God brought. It means the spirit of God in you should not only become visible when you are praying. It shouldn't only become visible when you are prophesying, when you are laying hands on the sick. That shouldn't be the time we know that you are a believer.

The spirit of God can be visible in you through the proposal that you have written. Yes, sir. Through the intelligence that your life displays when you are in school as a student, those of you who are student, through the kind of business model that you think about, that you create, through the order and the structure of the organization, we can see the display of the spirit of God in what you do. Through the solutions that you prefer to problems, We can see the display of the spirit of God in you through your giving even. Let me tell you this. There are many assignments that cannot be fulfilled from a place of powerlessness. If God intends to use you to create work for thousands of people, you will need more than compassion for unemployed people oh. You will need wealth. You will need institutional capacity. If God intends to use you to reform an industry, you will need more than an opinion about what is wrong.

You will need to register your competence within that industry. You will need influence, quality relationships with influential men you have built. You will need authority. If God intends to use it to fund missions, to build schools, to support families, to establish churches. You will need more than good intentions. You will need substantial financial results. That's why I tell people that purpose often requires greatness because greatness gives purpose machinery through which it can operate. Daniel entered Babylon as a captive. Well, he did not allow captivity to become an excuse for mediocrity. He learned the literature and the language of the Chaldeans.

He developed understanding, he worked, he was consistent, he distinguished himself from other officials. His work with God produced a man whose competence became necessary to kings. And in Daniel chapter six verse three, the Bible says, an excellent spirit was in him. And the king gave thought to certain him over the whole realm. Why? An excellent spirit was in him. But the question is, how did the king see it? It was because the king can compare Daniel's performance with that of other governors and administrators, and he beat them. You understand what I'm saying? The bible says, then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and the satraps.

It's why they wanted to promote him. It's not because, oh, he found favor, and he would define favor as I didn't even deserve it. Uh-oh. That you will be so competent in an industry. It will not make sense not to promote you. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. It wouldn't make sense not to promote you. It wouldn't make sense to keep on giving you the kind of pay they are paying The bible says the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. Do you know that Daniel was not promoted because Babylon agree with his theology?

Babylon did not agree with his theology. Babylon was a pagan kingdom. He was promoted because the result of what was inside him couldn't be dismissed. He solved problem that the wise men of Babylon couldn't solve. He interpreted mysteries that confused kings themselves. He carried wisdom through multiple administration and showed himself capable in each of these administrations. Governments changed but his relevance still remained. That is what it means for a believer to become a reference within his sphere. That the system may not share your convictions. But it repeatedly requires what you carry.

The value you carry cannot be denied even though we don't agree with your theology. All this Christian Christian thing, prayer prayer thing, we might not agree with it too, but we cannot deny that when this guy delivers, we might not like what he preaches, but the competence is there. That is how believers should be recognized. You understand what I'm saying? It's not the one where they look at you and they say, how can that be a believer? How can that be a branch attached to divine? Look at the foot and say, how can that be how can that be a believer? I've noticed that that is interesting. The moment someone feels like this, the first quote will be, well, what touch do you go? And I'm wondering, why?

They don't want to use your failure to mock the name of God. Why give them an excuse? Have you not seen what God demands of your life? Have you not seen what God demands of your life? Insist that I'm becoming a reference in my sphere. What did I say? Insist that I am becoming a my Your competence will give you access. Your integrity will preserve your credibility. Your excellence will keep you in rooms where decisions are being made. Daniel could speak to kings because he had become valuable in their courts.

That's the reason why he could confront Nebuchadnezzar. He can interpret Bethesda's judgment. He could serve under Darius's because his life carried both spiritual authority and demonstrated competence. That must be the example of the believer's life. Listen to me. There are things that God wants to say in places where you will not be invited just because you are sincere. Your excellence becomes the invitation. Your results will bring you before great people. Understand this and take your life seriously. For do you see a man who excels in his work?

Do you see a man who excels in his work? The verse does not say that the man stood before kings because he desired proximity to famous people. It is, do you see a man who excels in his work? His work made room for him. His work excellence created the access. What he repeatedly produced in ordinary places eventually brought him into extraordinary rooms. Excellent in his work. And when you enter into the room, you don't only bring your skill, you also bring your convictions with you. You also bring your understanding of people with you. You bring the fear of God with you.

You bring a different view of justice with you. A different view of stewardship and of power with you. Because I say again, excellence may open the room. But once you are inside, your values can begin to shape what happens in the room. Genesis 26, the Bible says and verse 13, the man began to prosper. Ah, I love this scripture. I just love this scripture. This scripture reveals three things. Number one, is that I am prospering. The second thing it reveals is that when I begin to prosper, I would not be afraid that I would lose my prosperity.

Because I continue to prosper. Or until I become very prosperous. I will not be afraid that ah, what if something happens now? You know, the man began to prosper and continued prospering. Are you with me? Yes, sir. And the bible says at first, the Philistines envied him. In fact, they even asked him to leave. But later on, when you read that scripture, the king now came to Isaac and was seeking a covenant with Isaac in 26 and verse 28. 28.

It says, but they said to him, we have certainly seen that the Lord is with you. Have you seen that everywhere people saw it? There was something that they saw. We have certainly seen that the Lord is with you. So we said, let there now be an oath between us, between you and us. And let us make a covenant with you. My God. My God. The Lord is with you, they said. How did they see?

They saw the prosperity. They saw the prosperity, they saw the fields, they saw the earth, the servant, the wells. They saw the increasing strength made available to him. And the moment they saw results, the conversions changed. People that have been pursuing him, they pursued him, pursued him, pursued him. The guy dug well, they pursued him. He dug well again, they pursued him. He dug well again, they pursued him. He started to do business, they envied him. But the moment the results became undeniable, the conversations changed.

People that had sent him away and started negotiating with him, his prosperity altered the balance of power. They now saw that, Omo, it doesn't pay us to be hostile to this guy. It doesn't pay us because he has become great. That's another reason why it does matter. Because people may dismiss your convictions. They may dismiss your convictions especially when they believe that they can dismiss your contribution. But when your life becomes consequential, when your life becomes too important to be dismissed, they begin to reconsider how they relate with you. So your business that they ignored can now become the largest employer in the city. In that time, the conversations will change. You that they overlooked as a young professional can become the person whose approval they will now need for major divisions.

The person that they underestimated and said all kind of things about is not the one that they are looking for his signature up and down. At that point, the conversations change. Are you with me? Yes, sir. That small ministry that they mocked has now become a movement. Raising leaders across nations. Isaac did not need to announce it repeatedly that God is with him. The people themselves concluded. He said we have certainly seen. Your generation must see something.

They must see something. They must not only hear that God gives wisdom. They should see that wisdom at work in your life and what it is building. They must not only hear that God blesses people. They should see the responsible and the powerful and the generous use of resources in your hands. You shouldn't only hear that the holy spirit give excellence. They should see the results and the rewards of excellence in your life. They should look at your family. They should look at your business. They should look at your community.

They should look at your life and all around you, and it should be evident that God is with this one. God has blessed this one. And if a man is consistently on the path of results, it does not matter who mocks him. It doesn't matter who doesn't believe. It doesn't matter who doesn't see it. As long as the man is consistently on the pathway of results. Let me stop you. Rise up on your feet. Tell somebody beside you, take your life seriously. Tell somebody that God expects much from you.

There's an argument that God wants to make with your life. Look unto Abraham. There's an argument he wants to make with your life. You know what that means? That when apostle is teaching in this place and he says, you can become great as a young man. You can become great as a young woman. Somebody is looking and saying, I say, oh, look on to that sister. Look on to that brother. That's what God is doing in your life. Do you believe this?

Thank God for what you've received. Thank God for what you've received. Thank God for what you've received. Thank God for what you've received. Listen, if you've been blessed, then thank him. Now tell God to give you grace to execute. Grace to implement. Grace to execute power to become What you have heard. Say help me. Help me to execute.

Help me to implement. Thank you Jesus. Thank you for listening to this message. We trust you have been blessed. You can get more life transforming messages from apostle Emmanuel Boluatifed on our Telegram page at DCN Media channel. You can also stream the messages on Spotify, Ocho Mac, and Apple Podcast. Connect with us via our social media platforms on Instagram at DCN underscore nations, on Facebook at Disciples Christian Network, on X at DCM Central, and on TikTok at Disciples Christian Network. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel at Disciples Television. If you have a testimony from this message, you can mail us at disciplecngmail dot com. God bless you.