Transcript: Sustainable Fruitfulness by Association
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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 be talking about the power of associations and the quality of the relationships in your life and the implication of such even in your life. I believe strongly that this will give you wisdom. This was one of the teachings that was inspired in my heart to teach even as we unfold the season of fruitfulness. I've discovered from scripture that the quality of your association, the choice of the kinds of relationships that you keep, who you allow into your space and whose space you are in matters in being fruitful. Being fruitful in every regard, either in your spiritual life, in terms of your growth and maturity, or physically as it concerns having results that glorify God. The quality of your relationship and association matters a lot as to whether your life will bear results or not. This is one teaching I would never want you to forget. This is one teaching you would continue to make reference to even as to lift you.
It's a teaching to gift your friends, to gift your loved ones, and it will be a blessing even to them. Isaiah 61 and verse three, God by the prophet was revealing the mandate of the Messiah and he says to console those who mourn in Zion to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified. So I taught us in my teaching, the trees of righteousness, but a believer can be a tree that God himself plants. You remember that? And there are results that you see in the life of that believer that makes you know that it was God who planted this. When God plants a tree that should bear fruit, there are results you will see in the life of that believer, physical tangible results that makes you know that this was definitely a tree that was planted by God. And we talked about it in my teaching, the trees of righteousness. Please get it. Listen to it over and over again. It will bless you.
It means that it is possible to see a tree that that has grown that God has not planted. And it is possible to see a tree that has grown that God has planted. The one that God has planted is the only one that is capable of bringing God glory. And one way it brings God glory is because of the kind of fruits that that one bears. And I told you you can see a building and you know that this building is a building constructed by Julius Berger because of the gloriousness of the building, the attention to detail, you see. And you see one that is slanting and stunting, and you know this cannot be something that was planted by. In other words, the results that you see around the life will tell you who planted it. Is that okay? And so we talked about this. Right?
When God plants you as a tree, your associations is one of the first things that is affected. This is because God knows that success and failure in this kingdom can be decided by the quality of associations that a man keeps. So there is a relationship between being planted as a tree, being fruitful, and the quality of your associations ends the teaching because it's a it's it's a season of fruitfulness. Psalms chapter one from verse one. The bible says, blessed is the man who walks not in the council of the ungodly. Who walks not in the council of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful. Can you see the intentionality this man has in choosing his associations carefully? I want you to see the meaning of the word blessed. Give me amplified version. Amplified version expands on the word blessed, and it says happy.
Can we read it together everybody? I'm happy. Pause. Write it down. Write it in your note. Write those four words in your note. Happy, fortunate, prosperous, enviable. When you study this later on, even as you get the message to listen to it and you consider your notes, treat those forwards by yourselves so that you would know what should be in your life. Study it. Open each of the four words.
Alright? Fortunate is the man. Prosperous is the man. Enviable is the man. It's not interesting that the bible says it is God that gives you the power to prosper. The bible says the blessing of the Lord maketh rich and has no sorrow. So the bible already tells us that the blessing of God makes rich. But the bible now says blessed, prosperous is the man who does not work. Verse two, let's go on. But if the light is in the law of the Lord and in his law, he meditates day and night.
Verse three, can we read together everybody? It shall be like a tree planted by the river supply. You see the relationship between association and a tree that is planted. How that fruitfulness is dependent on the quality of association a man keeps. It begins... Let's go on. One two three, go. From the beginning, one two three, go. It shall be like a tree planted by the river. That brings forth fruit in seasons whose leaf also shall not wither.
And whatsoever he shall prosper. Whatever he does shall prosper. I love the bible. The bible says a blessed man is not first known by what he does, not by what he does. A blessed man is not first known by what he does. A blessed man is first known by what he does not do. Are you with me? If you observe since the year began, this scripture is what we've been trying to unfold. We've been on verse two. Is the light is in the principles of God's word such that he meditates in it day and night.
That is what forms his mindset, his perspective. You see? We've been talking about mindset and perspectives and the things that occupy your mind, your ideologies, your thinking pattern, how that it must be in accordance with scripture. The bible says, but his delight is in the law of the lord. In that law, he meditates day and night. That is what forms his perspective. And as such, it is what he says. It is what he thinks about. Are you with me? Yes, sir.
Except for the fact that what makes a man blessed is not first what he does. It is first what he does not do. Because the bible says blessed is the man who does not. It is possible for a man to therefore focus on meditating day and night, but disobey verse one. So you can you can you can you can associate with ungodly people. Associate with people. Sit down with sinners, but meditate on God's word. Are you seeing the problem? I believe strongly that when a man becomes born again, one of the signs we should see in his life is that your association changes. A born again experience that makes you keep the same kind of friend that you had before you were born again, Before you give a life to Christ, and then those same kind of friend remain even after you gave a life to Christ is not genuine.
Even if you pray in tongues. I'm not one of those who don't... Who who who don't believe in transformations. I believe strongly in the power of transformations. I believe strongly that when you become born again, when you become serious with God, when you begin a walk with God, there should be transformations in your life even as you begin to grow. And one key area where transformation is needed is is as it concerns your associations. The friends you keep and the people that... Thank you, Jesus. The people that you allow around your space. That is one of the most important transformation experiences that a man must go through, if not the first.
You know why? Because everything that the holy spirit will try to do in your heart will be negated if you are in a company of those who negate it. So the first thing God said is come out from among them. So when the holy spirit wants to begin a work in your heart, the first thing he does before he starts working is to bring you, Abraham, get out of your father's house. You will... You must always come out of that place, out of that association, out of that environment that has programmed a type of thinking and a type of mentality or a type of mindset in your mind. That is how God begins to work with you. It is consistent in scripture. Are you with me? There was a kind of mindset that Moses had due to the kind of people he has been relating with that made him believe that if he would be a savior to the to the people of Israel, how he will go about it is by killing them one by one, the Egyptians that is.
God had to bring him out for forty years. Do you know that for forty years, Moses never saw God? For forty years, Moses never had an encounter with God. Do you know? You don't know that for forty years, God left him alone. All the forty years that he was spending outside of Egypt, God left him. Somebody says, how? If if the guy knew God, why will he ask God? Who should I say send to me? The guy had never seen God.
He he does not even know who God was. His first encounter and his first experience with God was in the burning bush. In other words, God intentionally took him out of Egypt just so he would stop thinking like the Egyptians for forty years. It... That project took forty years to wash away the mentality. And when it was done, have you read the bible? The bible says blessed are... Blessed blessed are the feet or beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news, who erode good news. Are you with me? In other words, the feet in the scriptures represent your ideologies and your thinking pattern.
Are you with me? Represents information, news, good news. And the bible says beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news. Are you with me? When Moses got to that mountain, the first thing God told him was pull off your shoes. For the ground you are on is holy ground. One of the things it means is drop your former way of thinking and your whole thinking pattern. Subscribe to a different reality. Subscribe to a different mindset. Are you with me?
Yes. So one of the things God will do when he wants to begin work with you is to separate you. It's the first thing that God does. The moment a man says, I am a born again believer, and if that experience is sincere and the holy ghost truly tabernacle your heart, the first thing the holy spirit begin to do is to make you uncomfortable in your previous association. You might not be able to explain the dealing, but you will feel the sensations. You will know I'm not supposed to be here unless you ignore. Unless you decide of your own will to ignore, but that the feeling would not be there. The consequence of ignoring is what I came to show you. Because a lot of people ignored it. So what we are currently doing is that we are meditating day and night, but we dwell in the the garden of corners.
We left verse one, and we are focused on verse two. So we are speaking words. We are speaking words. We are speaking words. But money will will sit down and gather. We'll sit down amongst friends where there's con men of God. That's the meaning of scorners. There's... Give me amplified. The bible says, he's a man who works and lives not in the council of the ungodly following their advice, their plans, and their purpose.
In other words, it's not only the advice a man can follow. They don't have to advise you. They have a purpose. A purpose means where they are going. In other words, you can follow them where they are going. They don't have to advise you. A man who does not follow them where they are going, the bible says he's blessed. Who does not follow their plans, but it doesn't stop there. Nonstance, submissive and inactive in the path where sinners walk. In other words, you don't even have to be active.
I don't join them and smoke. You don't have to. I don't join them and... It's it's the bible oh. It's not... I've not even begun my teaching. This is just me. I'm just talking. Glory to god. Sorry.
I'm just talking. I'm not gonna spend too much time here so that you can teach. Following, submissive, and inactive. That being inactive where sinners stand is a choice. And the bible says, it it means there's no neutrality in the kingdom. You gather where sinner... It is obvious. People are drinking, people are smoking, and you say, oh, well, me, I'm a Christian, but I don't follow them to drink and smoke, but they are my friends. You know, I've I've known them for a long time, and you come just on Sunday. Believers, you keep on Tuesday, and you maintain your convictions, you confess God's word, and you are with them on Friday, and you say, well, I don't drink.
We just can gist. You know, they are fun to be with. The bible says, submissive and inactive in the path where sinners walk. Look at this. I love this. I love I love the the next one. The next one says, nor sit down to relax and to rest where the scornful and the mockers gather. The Bible does not say to participate in their mocking. Don't say to participate in their mockery. He says to sit down, to relax, to rest where the scornful and the mockers gather.
The bible says the works of their hands, those those... So if this is the lot of those who don't do it, what then is a lot of those who do it? It's simple. You just you just have to reverse all of these things. It's very simple. That's why want to go and study those words by yourself. Should I say this now? Let me just say it now. Let me say it now. I'll still get there.
When I get there later, it's another point I will I will try from it. So I can say this. I'm safe. Lot was in Sodom. You know the bible says since I was born, and now I'm getting old. I've never seen the righteous forsaken. Let's let's hold it there. I've never seen... When Abraham was negotiating on behalf of Sodom, do you know he was negotiating for righteous men? He said if there are 50 righteous men Yes, sir.
Yes, sir. Then he kept on... The guy didn't trust his brother like that. So he knew that they might not be up to 50. Let me bring it down. Worst case scenario, at least my brother should touch 10 souls. What if there are 10 righteous men? God says, I find 10 righteous men there, I will not destroy. It means a city can be preserved because 10 righteous men are there. But the minimum threshold for the preservation of a city, that's how I know that Nigeria will not break.
At least we are more than 10. But that's not even where I'm going. Now where I'm going is this. So God now came to Sodom and found that it was only four righteous men that were there. Four or five thereabout. Lord, wife, and two children. Right? Four. We're not... 10.
But guess what? Guess what? Is Lot not a righteous man? I'm not thinking that I'm thinking of. Why was it that God would have destroyed Sodom if God had not passed by Abraham's house despite Lot was there? And there was no consideration for the fact that, wait, wait, there... We have one righteous man in that place oh. Enough to have said, let's... Let us even consider the righteous man. It had to be Abraham who began to intercede on behalf of the righteous man because the righteous man pitched his tent where mockers dwell, where sinners dwell.
Oh. Oh, you you you didn't see that. Remember I was still a righteous man. He didn't join them. He didn't join them in their iniquity. He didn't join them in their sin. He was inactive. Koda, he didn't save his soul. He was him and his family. They they they were righteous.
Righteous as they were, they they will be destroyed. They were not even in the radar of heaven. They they didn't appear in the map. My goodness. Enough to say, can we consider these people? Abraham said, what if you find 10? Out of mercy. They didn't find 10. They said, okay. Let's just deliver.
The the the the deal was if we found 10, we will save the city. So the fact that we didn't find 10, we can still, because of Abraham, save this fall. He was inactive. He pitched his tent. He sat down and rested, relaxed. Yet favor favor missed him. Favor missed him. Is that an enviable life? No. Is that a prosperous life?
Is that a fortunate life? No, sir. Because a man chose to pitch his stint where sin has dwell. And you say, well, you know, I don't... I'm I'm... I I know I'm a Christian, but these people, they have... They will be friends for a long time. I know their lifestyle. I know I know, you know, what they do. I know how they...
I don't even know. You see, but I I don't join them more, but when they come and we just together and we just laugh, I I can't really... Let's continue. Are you with me? Yes, sir. You need to stay with me. Don't go far. Yes, sir. Stay with me. So one of a transformation experience a man will go through, the first thing that the holy spirit will begin to do in your life, the moment you accept God as your Lord and savior is that it will bring you out from amongst them.
He will call you out from amongst them. When when Saul gave his life to Christ. Do you know that everybody that was with... He had an entourage. That were following him, protocols to Damascus, and a bright light appeared from heaven. Only Saul had that experience. All of them were under the influence of the encounter, but only Saul truly had a communion with Christ. We don't really know what happened with others. The bible does not even record that they were saved. But the bible also does not record that Paul went back to them.
As a matter of fact, immediately after that experience, Paul locked himself in the wilderness of Arabia for thirteen years. What was God doing? I want you to understand that the first thing God does is that he calls you out from amongst them, especially if there's a group of people you were working with before that have conditioned your mindset in a way. You... You're still being with them will antagonize everything God wants to do in your heart. So as the holy spirit is doing this, you're being there, even if you are inactive, will contradict what the holy spirit is doing. And so the holy spirit does not even begin to walk until he has drawn... The first response, the first walk is to draw you out. That's why you will hear a thousand messages of masturbation. Nothing will work because they're trying to meditate while you are still among them.
The guy will get to class the following day after declaring words. His friend... His friends are talking about the backside of a woman. So I will not say, is this Piruko you are doing now? He doesn't wanna feel bad. He doesn't wanna do... He doesn't want him to give him a name. And so he wants to preserve... Let's continue. Let's continue.
And the holy spirit will convict him. You see, the the reason why a lot of you in the midst of wrong association don't feel the conviction of the spirit anymore It's because you have ignored that conviction so long it has it has it has seared your conscience. So you no longer know you are in the midst of wrong association. You now feel comfortable in wrong. Note. Note. Note. It is not only sinners that were mentioned. Ungodly. We we need to sit down with ungodly men because a man can be a Christian and yet be ungodly.
Mockers, scorners. They wanna talk about men of God and gossip about everybody. That first assignment that the holy ghost does to call you out from amongst them is a very heavy one. And if that one does not prosper, nothing else the holy spirit attempts to do will prosper. This is why how the scripture begins is blessed is the man who does not. You would think that what will... How the scripture will start is blessed is the man who does. It's a very strange scripture. It begins with does not. Didn't that verse two could have begun?
I'm telling you that how the bible arranged it is important. He could have said blessed is the man whose delight is in the law of God but does not work. Look at the wisdom of the holy spirit in inspiring the writer to arrange that scripture like that. Thank you, precious holy spirit. Are you with me? Wanna give you two truths you must know about people and associations. And then after I've given you these, we'll look for a good way to begin. Two truths. Like I said, so many things to talk about. Two truths you must know.
Two truths you must believe. Two truths you must be convinced about about people and about associations, about human beings in general. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Number one, you must understand that there is a spiritual significance to the associations you keep. Let me say it again. There is a spiritual significance to the associations you keep. Great men in life have been product of correct associations, and certain failures in life have been product of wrong associations. There are some of us that we would never have gotten into certain things until we met some people. Their presence opened us up into certain things, either good or bad.
There are certain things that it was when you encountered a group of people that something began to change in your life. You must understand that human beings have a spiritual and a prophetic implication, a spiritual and a prophetic influence over your life, over your destiny. Every human being carries a spiritual atmosphere. Every human being carries a spiritual influence. I think I like the word atmosphere. Every human being you see, it is what makes men different. Every human being you see is carrying. All of us are walking around with clouds over us, around us. Every human being. Every human being, believer, unbeliever alike.
There is a cloud and a spiritual atmosphere that follows everyone. Are you with me? First Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 33, the amplified version, the a part, it says, do not be deceived. Bad company corrupts good morals. Your association will have an influence on you. There are some of you when you go back home, you have some kinds of people waiting for you. When you were in the war, they used to be the one... The the ones you rode with. You used to be one of them. You wrote mischievous things together.
Now you have found Christ, but they are still alive and waiting for you. So when you come to school, you've escaped. But the moment you go back to them, they already... They they they will welcome you back with everything you left behind, and they will do so in honor. Oh, the leader of the gang has arrived. And the boldness to say, I'm so sorry, but I'm no longer a part of you. You will realize that you can say, let me just go and be with them. Let me just go and befriend them, and you will find yourself losing favor, losing everything you have built up in Christ because human beings have an influence over you. Every human beings have a spiritual atmosphere that they carry, and your life will come under the the the the the merciless. Your life will be a merciless victim and a merciless reflection of whatever influence you have you have allowed around your life.
Are you with me? Every individual carries a spiritual atmosphere. Please believe this. And the atmosphere you carry can influence the people around you. The atmosphere of others can... That you permit into your life can influence you. Many things happen in your life depending on the kind of atmosphere that you create. There is an atmosphere that can introduce certain results into your life. There's an atmosphere that can ensure that you are growing spiritually as it concerns the word of God. There's an atmosphere that can ensure that you are achieving your goals every day.
You are being a productive person. There's also an atmosphere that can ensure that you kill your growth, destroy your life. It's like when you plant a maze, there is an atmosphere that ensures that the maze grows. There's also an atmosphere that can kill the maze. Are you with me? So when God plants a tree, God says, blessed is the tree I've planted who does not dwell. In other words, the atmosphere the tree have planted creates around himself will determine how well it will grow into what I've proposed. It means you can grow out of God's will for your life depending on the kind of atmosphere you have created around yourself based on what you've allowed, the people you've allowed into your space and what they carry. Blessed. The bible says happy, fortunate, prosperous, enviable.
Another version of amplified says favored. Favored by God is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked. Look at that. So when a man does not walk with wicked people, when a man does not stand in the path of sinners, when a man does not sit with scoffers, people that ridicule and mock others, mock men of God, he conditions an atmosphere around himself that makes for fortune, that makes for happiness, that makes for prosperity, that makes for favor. It means when a man dwells with these kinds of people, the reason why favor will not be in his life, prosperity will not be in his life is because he has introduced their atmosphere into his own life. Are you with me? Listen. Do you know that if peradventure, an Israelite were to be in Egypt in the day the firstborn children of Egypt were being killed, and this Israelite was a firstborn, he would die. Despite the fact that in that same night, God skipped over every Israelite. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. Are you with me? Yes, sir. What God... What made God skip them over wasn't because they were special. What made God skip them over wasn't because they were righteous or they were holy. It was because of an atmosphere that they created around themselves. There was something the angel saw that was over them that made the angels keep them by and not touch anything that belong to Israel. Because as long as it was in Egypt, the the angel visited all of Egypt. It means the angel also came to where they were.
Are you with me? Yes, sir. But the moment the angel saw the blood, the moment the angel saw the blood, it would skip over room to room. Why didn't they just put it all over Goshen and say, well, we've poured the blood, though. It had to be on every room. It means the angel went to every room. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Do you know that if a first born child of an Egyptian was to sleep in the room of an Israelite that day that day? Do you know if they were fornicating that room?
It wasn't their action the angel was looking at. Are you with me? It was the blood that was on the door. What a good day to have befriended an an Israelite. What a good day. Your life would have been preserved because of the atmosphere around that life. Are you with me? That's the same way a man can introduce another entity into his life. And it come with trouble, comes with problems, comes with all kinds of things. There are certain happenings in people's lives that I can trace directly to the entrance of a man, the entrance of a woman, of groups of persons in their lives.
There are certain people that certain types of sorrow in their lives started when they gave access to certain individuals. There are many churches today and church members who, when they started exposing themselves to certain atmospheres, it started having implications on their lives. If you have never been told this, I want you to know this today that there is a spiritual implication to friendship and to associations. It can affect you. The quality of your life and the level of your productivity has a lot to do with your associations. Everybody carries a spiritual atmosphere that they introduce into your life and that you introduce into their lives. Proverbs 13, number 20. Lion and the lamb, seated on your throne. Who is like you, Lord? Lion and the lamb, seated on your throne.
Who is like Congo, the lion and the lamb, seated on your throne in worship, in worship. I lift my voice. I bow my heart. I cast my crowns Before your throne, I lift my voice. I bow my hearts to you. I cast my crown before your throne. Who is like you, Lord? A lion and a lamb seated on your throne in worship, who is like our God, lying on at the lamp, seated on your throne Perhaps 13 and verse 20. The bible says, he who works... Amplified version.
He who works as a companion. You see, he who works as a companion with wise men is wise. Just by being around them. Just by working with them as a friend, just by forming an intentional association with big people who the bible calls wise men. The bible says is wise. Atmospheres. Have you read your bible? The bible says God... Saul was going after he met with Samuel. Saul met with Samuel.
When he was done, the bible says he appeared amidst the company of prophets. And mere entering into that atmosphere, the bible says Saul started prophesying. Do you know that that was the last time Saul prophesied? You know why? Because it was last time he entered into a company of prophets. The bible never records after that time that Saul entered the company of prophets because he that works with the wise shall be wise. He that works with prophets will prophesy. He that works with the rich will be rich. He that works with anointed men will be anointed. It's as simple.
You know why? It is because of the atmosphere that they carry. It's not because they do anything. It's because of the atmosphere that they carry. Is because of the atmosphere that they carry. When I started with God, before I became mature in the spirit and we're all about the gifts of the spirit. Everyone who walked with us, as long as their hearts were open and they believed, they didn't have to pray. They didn't have to even... They didn't have to do anything, but their eyes were open. They will hold your hands and they will tell you every detail of your life.
Not missing one, everyone. Told one of them to come to my house. I forgot to give him description. By word was not that he found my house. I'm I'm talking from another state. Couldn't call anybody because the phone was dead. He got... He located my house by a word of knowledge. How did you find the... He said he said confidently by a word of knowledge.
I asked him. He said, I was seeing I was seeing a black gate. I was seeing a street. I was seeing another go, and then I will see the street. It's an atmosphere. It's an atmosphere. Either works with the wise. It it is it is inevitable. The man will be wise because you will you will come under the influence of what they do. And what they do will eventually...
Do you just see what the... How the bible explains? Go back to Psalms one amplified. Did you see it? It says, he's the man who works not in the council of the ungodly. So how does it mean to walk? Following their advice. It means a man that walks with the wise follows the advice of the wise. A man that works with the wise follows the plans of the wise. A man that works with the wise follows the purpose of the wise.
It is these three things that he follows that makes him wise. By consequence, he will be wise. In following the purpose of the wise, how many of you have stayed in in in rooms where your roommates were people that were on fire? And by 12AM, you'll be hearing and it will challenge your prayer life because you that you're just trying to start, there is something that will just wake you up. You didn't plan to pray, but you see one, they just do like this. You say another one just like that. You drag your leg and go outside, plug earpiece. You don't even wanna feel intimidated. You just go ahead and go You and pray. Oh.
Will come back. They are still praying. You you you you don't have you don't have the zeal to do as much as they are doing, but there is something pushing you in that same direction. Are you with me? That's the same way a man that works with people who... These people are spiritual. These people are greatness are conscious. They are purpose conscious. They don't have time for shenanigans. You don't have time for shenanigans.
You tell them, you tell them, I'm going to... I will I dance. And and and they just look at you and they say, what what are you talking about? And they can leave you alone and you just go there and you come back and sit you down. You say, do you know you're wasting your life? And you you look at them. You are hungry. You can even you can even shout at them. You can say, never talk to Amaya. Don't...
But you see something is happening. Father God set people up. He will plant in the midst of people who are stronger than you. Some people get intimidated and they run away. It is... Pulling effect of the spirit has failed. You see? They say those church people, their own is too much. You interpret the pulling of the spirit to make you stronger as their own is too much. As their their own is just too much.
Every time every time, they'll be calling somebody. What is it by force? If your friends who you go and watch Spider Man together call you, you won't say it's not my... You even tell them, why didn't you call me? You mean you went there? Why didn't you call me? It means your problem is not that they were called... Are calling you too much. Your problem is you are... Is a rebellious attitude to the pulling of the spirit.
It's a rebellious... It is your flesh rebelling to the pull of the spirit. When you gather and talk nonsense with friends, you gather... All all of you are kissing, all of you are shouting, but you see sister Juliana's call. You say she's calling again. Let me tell you something. If you go to any strange place and you don't find a company of people who are spiritual, you will defeat fast. You will lose God, lose fire, lose purpose, lose everything fast. I give you three months. Because the Christian life is meant to...
Is designed to be a community life. It was designed like that. God in his intelligence that that that formed it that way. How many of you have gone home and you found that your life went down? Yes, sir. Yes, And the things you always flourished in became a difficult thing to do. And it was not as though you couldn't pray before. It was not as though you could do in your bible before. But right now in a place where there is no there is no fervent people, there is no peep... No no one around you who you consider is doing the same thing, and you you...
It becomes a struggle. You see the reason is because you are inside an atmosphere. It was an influence like a cloud. The the the the cloud made it so so so wet that to those things becomes easy because everyone was contributing the same cloud. A portion of theirs, a portion of mine, a portion of yours, a portion of this. So when when I wanna print, is easy to pray. If I want to... It is easy to fast. The moment I go to a place and I carry my own atmosphere alone alongside several dead atmosphere, The moment I entered there, brother looked Mananamali, another one whisky, the following one Davido, and now you you you you... The thing the thing tongues down your spirit man.
You are trying to ascend. You are struggling. The tongue is like chaff. Because they are struggling in... On on a single atmosphere. That's why I pitied those who who who do online church. I pity them strongly because they think they have found an alternative to being in church because they found a preacher that they love. The preacher is in Locoja, and they know Locoja is a very far distance, but the man is on YouTube. But they say I found my own church. It's on YouTube.
While worship is going on, he's checking the bins he put on fire. In the day of Pentecost, the holy spirit did not fall on them that followed online. Those that were in the room caught fire. Those that were online caught smoke. Somebody says, apostle, where is the balance? I'm not balancing anything. You know why? Because God designed it such that you grow in a community. When my spiritual children go outside the country or when they travel and they spatter, and that's always the intention. That's the prayer.
Usually, because most of them left this kind of environment and they travel and they don't find the same place wherever they go to that has the same... They can just tell it's different. It's just different. And they would tell me most times the apostle have decided I'll be following on on online on Sunday. I'm not I'm not going everywhere I've tried and I tell him, you have not tried enough. You're trying enough is not in going to several places. You're trying enough is in seeing Jesus where you went. Because as long as the church that is genuine, Jesus is there. Doesn't have to look like this here. You know why?
Because how God has designed that you grow is in the company of the brethren. You cannot grow in isolation. You cannot. So even if you listen to me, you love me, you're genuine, and you travel out of the country, and I don't have a base or an outpost or a branch or whatever there, I will tell them find somewhere, you can follow online, you can listen to messages, but you would need a place to plant yourself and sit down. This is the genuine message of God's word. Let me not even address those people. Have have you found people? They are not here today. Will talk to them on Sunday. They will come on Sunday.
Most of them don't come for believers equip. They come on Sundays. So I will talk to them on Sundays. It's because of them during this period that has interrupted my syllabus. In the next two weeks, the teaching is specifically for them. People that are about to serve as an entrance to the purposes of God because of their lack of interest in the things of God. It is appalling. But that's not why we are here today. Either works with the wise. Many of us have not paid attention to our associations, and our lives are paying the price for it unknowingly.
We've not paid attention to our associations and our lives are paying the price for it unknowingly. A lot of us is because we don't want criticism. You don't want people to talk about you. So you you wanna be friendly with everybody. You wanna be nice to everybody. You don't want them to call you a snob or to say you are rude. So you give everyone access to your life and people opine and out out of your life, bringing their different atmospheres and writing whatever they want in your spirit. Write it down. Love is a command. Association is not.
When God wants to lift a man, he sends a person. When Satan wants to destroy a man, a ministry, a people, he also sends a person. Some of our parents were doing well until they met someone, and these kinds of people always know when to come. The moment there's a breakthrough, they are invited, and the atmosphere that follows them will already ensure that something goes wrong afterward. Everything your father is trying to make... You see, I've seen people who... The moment the the the father of the house is trying to make peace with the mother and reconcile, that's when these uninvited people will come again With their negative atmosphere, they don't just bring advice. They come with an horror. Listen. A lot of people don't make bad decisions because they they heard or or they listen to a bad advice.
Advice is not so powerful to make a man make a choice. Do you know that as I'm as I'm speaking to you, you're not gonna do what I'm saying mainly because I'm speaking. How many people here give and it shall be given and don't give? How many people here pray and don't pray? People come to church every Sunday, and they are not changed by the word of God to show you how strong the will of a man is. You think it's a bad advice that made someone act bad. Oh, no. It's not the words of the mouth that changes. It's the influence from whence the words were spoken. That is also what changes in the presence of God.
That is why the spirit entered into me whilst he spoke unto me. I've told you words that carry out of spirit. Every human being that you see carries an atmosphere. And when they speak to you under the influence of that atmosphere, that is what compels many times bad behavior. Are you with me? A lot of people don't make bad decisions solely because of bad advice. In as much as that might be a contributing factor, what really influences men to move is the influence of the atmosphere from whence the advice was given. There is an influence that hates these things. There are people that come into your life and they create a circle of tragedy. I have seen this over and over again.
The devil introduces someone carrying a negative atmosphere. A man of God was sharing a story with me of a couple he had to counsel, and you'll be blessed. We're still trying to look for a good place to start. And every time the wife gets pregnant, there is a miscarriage almost immediately. Three months into the pregnancy, a miscarriage. I think the maximum was about five or six months. Almost... They they already thought they've broken the course, and this has happened five years. It happened almost every year for five years. The devil is wicked.
The reason why many of us are foolish is because we have not been introduced to the wickedness of men. The wickedness of the devil even influencing men to walk wickedness. Alright. But you'll be delivered today. When they came to the man of God, immediately his eyes opened, and he told them, the maid that you have, where did she come from? And they they told the whole... They shared the whole story about the maid. I don't wanna go into all of that. He told them return the maid back to those who sent her. You pay you pay her, you send her to school.
Yes. You treat her well. Yes. Return her. They returned the maid. The wife considered and gave birth to twins. This is not a movie. They didn't preo return the lady because people carry atmospheres. Someone is saying, but sir, is this scripture? Everything I would share with you today, I'm gonna share some really controversial things, and I will show you everything in scripture.
Jonah chapter one and verse one, very popular story. I'm gonna show you that there are people you don't pray for. Whilst they are in your life, you don't pray for them to change. If you will pray for them, you must live their lives and they leave your life before you start prayer. Because they will destroy your life even before you can pray. Whilst you are praying, your own life is being destroyed. Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Hamithai saying, arise. Go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it for their wickedness come up before me. But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tashish.
So he paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tashish from the presence of the Lord. He was going away from the presence of the Lord. This was a prophet. It means they don't have to be sinners. This was a prophet. I've seen prophets who have destroyed homes. I had to counsel a woman who when she came to me, she believed so strongly that the man who she married is unfaithful. And I asked her what the basis of this was. She said a prophet told her, and she was heavily convinced without a single evidence that the husband is unfaithful and threw the marriage into confusion. She called the husband many names pulled away from the husband, even carried the children away.
By the spirit, I saw that the man was not unfaithful. May these kinds of people not find your sheep. Look at this. Because they found a ship. They must they mustn't find yours. Verse four says, but the Lord sent out a great wind. Who? Sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea so that the ship was about to be broken up. Did you think that God did not know that those in the ship were not those that offended him? God sent a prophet on an errand.
The prophet intentionally turned his back against the Lord, and the prophet experienced the wrath of God in his disobedience to his will and the mind is rough and disobedience into the lives of other men. A ship that was selling in peace. They have no... They don't know him before. They have no idea what was happening between him and God. What they did... They have no idea what was happening. It's not their business, but they allowed him into the ship. Undiscerning men. Are you with me?
Yeah. The bible says that the mariners were afraid, and every man cried out to his God and threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea. Look at that. They started losing their properties. Losing losing their... This was not only properties. This was their money, their sort of income. Things people have paid them to deliver. Some of their properties, throwing everything into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah...
Listen. Look at look at this unfortunate man. But Jonah had gone down into the lowest part of the ship, had laying down, was fast asleep. So the captain came to him. Watch this. What do you mean, sleeper? Arise. Call on your God, and perhaps your God will consider us so that we may not perish. And they said to one another, come. Let us cast lots that we may know for whose cause this trouble has come upon us.
Finally, they had sent. So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Donah. Then they said to him, please tell us, for whose cause is this trouble upon us? What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you? They started trying trying to trace. Wise men, are you with me? So he said to them, I'm a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land.
Then the men were extremely afraid and said to him, why have you done this? For the men knew that he had fled from the presence of the Lord because he had told them. Then they said to him, what shall we do to you that the sea may be calm for us? For the sea was growing more tempestuous. What they were intending is, can we offer a prayer? Can we make a sacrifice unto your God? Jonah knew exactly what to do. He said to them, pick me up and throw me into the sea, then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest was because of me. Plus.
Plus, he had already given them solution. But look at the next verse. It says, nevertheless, the men rode rode hard to return to land. In other words, they considered how will we throw inside the sea. They were being emotional. I'm sure you have not seen this before. He said he told them pick me up. They say, how will we throw a man inside the sea? How will we throw... Guys, you know what?
I think we can do it. Pick it. You roll. You do this. You do that. They they started rowing, attempting to get land, attempting to get land. The bible is... But they could not for the sea continue to grow more tempestuous against them. That's why I say you don't try to help some people while they are in your life. That's why I say you don't even try to pray for some people while they are in your life.
The first thing to do is create a distance. A lady came to me some time ago and she told me how that a guy was, you know, very messed up situation. And I told her, I said, listen, you can't continue to be or to even be friends with this person. Completely distance yourself. The person said, won't I hurt him? Can't I help him even that I'm being helped? I see you cannot help him. And the person felt how can... Why will a man of God say this kind of a thing? I learned from Jonah's people.
They were trying to help. They were trying. They were trying. They would have lost their lives and died. In other words, you can lose your life trying to help somebody. You pray for them from afar. You just... God, please help that brother. Help him in the name of Jesus. I know that we used to do things together, but I found God right now.
As I found you, let him find you as well. You don't you don't have to be the one to preach to him. To think you have to be the one, he will sink you down and drag you down. Father, don't give only invite. Don't do block his number. Pray for him. Watch. This is scriptural. It is scriptural. Next verse.
Therefore, they cried out to the Lord God and said, we pray, oh Lord, please don't let us pray for this man's life. Is that is that what they should be doing? What should they do? Do not charge us with innocent blood for you, Lord, have done as it pleased you. Nothing still happened. The wind still kept on raging against them. Next verse. The Bible says, so they picked up Jonah, having seen that their prayer was not working. These emotional men, these men who were who were compassionate, who loved their Jonah so much, they didn't didn't have it in them to throw a man into this... Into the sea.
These men, because of their lives, picked up Jonah and threw him in the sea. The Bible says, and the sea ceased from his region. I'm telling you men carry atmospheres that the reason why your life might be raging is because you allow somebody inside. And everything lost balance because you are there till you are still forming prayer warrior. Look at the next verse. It says, then the men feared the Lord exceedingly. Then when they've now done the needful, they now offer the sacrifice. So it's when you have done the needful, pray. That was the point when they now offer the sacrifice and begin to took... Began everything they were doing before was sinking them as they were doing it.
Sinking them as they were doing it. It is wisdom to know that men have spiritual implications in your life. Notice when God is supposed to lift you, they come again. There's a guy who used who used to sleep with and used to sleep with you when you were not born again. Now you are born again and you love God and you start sensing that the holy spirit is starting to do something with you and then he comes he comes again. He calls you and say, you know, just miss you. To him, he just feels like talking to you. But why is it that it is whenever you've now feel like taking your life serious that his call comes? He feels like talking to you. He does not know the atmosphere around him.
He's channeling him to those whose life he will destroy. And the same way Jonas... Jonah found that ship, they found you. You must make an intention that even though I've allowed wrong people into my ship, I will throw them into the sea while I begin to pray. I won't pray while they are with me in the boat. It is lack of wisdom. There are forces compelling him to want to talk. Some of them are women. There are certain students who are doing well and you study and you do very well, you pass very well, and you join an association and everything went down all of a sudden. Everything went down all of a sudden.
There are people that that allowed business partners into their lives who should never have been introduced into their lives. And the mere introduction of those people into their lives, everything they've been doing. There are those who received help from those that you should never have received help from, advice on those that you should never have received advice from, People carrying negative atmospheres, atmospheres positioned by castes. And these people in themselves might be innocent. They might be sincere people, but their sincerity does not change the atmosphere. It doesn't it doesn't change what carry... What follows them. Listen, you must believe what I'm saying. That is a spiritual aura behind every man you see. Have you seen some people and you don't...
You you just don't like them? You you have never spoken to them. You have never interacted with them. You just you just meet them for the first time, and you can't explain why you don't like them. Do you know it's not only you? Heart of concern, you will now share with somebody and say, I don't I don't know why I just don't like that sister. They say, ah, I thought it was only me. You know why? That sister will go and get a job. Same thing, the same experience.
Everybody who who wants to help, the same experience. And her life will barren of hell because there is an atmosphere around her that channels our possibilities. What is upon you is what regulates what is around you. Your results are a regulation of the kind of atmosphere you carry, And it is so for others as well. Are you with me? Yes, It is so for others as well. Let me move to the next to the next point. I said there are two truths you must know. The first truth is that every human being carries a spiritual atmosphere. Every person, there is a spiritual implication.
Do know that this is the same way some people enter your life and you are blessed? Ask Potiphar. So I'm telling you that it's not just about the fact that people have spiritual atmospheres. But even in your life, as it concerns your life, the weight different people have and the significance of different men in your life differs. The weight and the significance people have in your life is different, and the level of access that you give to people should be a result of their significance and their ways in life. A lot of people who don't understand this have married wrongly. A lot of people don't understand what I just said right now. I've allowed backstabbers and disloyal men into their lives. They have revealed secrets of their lives to people who should know nothing about their lives. A lot of pastors are paying the price for carelessly allowing certain people into the church pastoral unit.
A lot of businesses are paying the price for carelessly allowing the people as business partners, Some as members of the board of trustees. If you don't have the discernment to understand that people have different weights, different significance, I look for the best word to use, and it was weight, that the weight of men differ in your life. You know what weight is? Human beings have weight. It was Daniel when he was interpreting the hand that came to write on the wall. He said, oh, king, you have been weighed in a balance. It means men can be weighed. Men have weights, and you can weigh the impact and the significance of everyone around you in your life Enough to know the... What every man represents in your life. Because how you relate with people and the degree and the level of access you give to people will be determined by their weights in your life.
If you don't know this, the implication is this. Someone who by reason of their weight, what you should give them is a handshake, you will hug them. It takes blind... This is a a problem of blindness. It's foolishness, but the type of foolishness is blindness. People who by reason of their weights should know nothing about your life. You will sit down with them and expose everything about your life to them. People who by reason of their weights should only see you and you... Only a fist bump will do. People who should never have contact with you away from afar will do.
You call them close, give them a fist bump, and do a joy dance. Because believers cannot tell people's weight and the significance of men in their lives. When the holy spirit started teaching me this some years back, he gave me a lot of wisdom as I relate with everybody around me. This will bless you. It gave me so much wisdom. This thing that I'm telling you is what eventually determines who you marry. Because it means you can end up marrying somebody who should be fist bumping every day. Because when they came, you could not discern their weight. You couldn't tell that this one is not weighty enough to carry the weight of your destiny. He does not even have the strength to lift his own destiny.
You now introduce him... You you now introduce him into your own, and you say you are taking the word. He doesn't have what it takes. You see, and you would have known if you were... If your eyes were open. You could... You would have known if you were discerning. The reason why many marriages are failing is because of this thing I wanna show you right now. You must know the weight of everybody who is in your life, and you must classify them categorically and relate with them as such. You must be able to place everyone where they belong and relate with them as such.
Do you know that... Let me let me explain this in another way. God told Moses to build the tabernacle, and he told him that the tabernacle should have the outer court, the inner court, and the holy of holies. You see, your life is like the tabernacle. Your life is like the tabernacle. It also has the outer court, the inner court, and the holy of holies. What I'm trying to say is that there are people that should only exist in the outer court. Their journey based on their relevance and significance should never should never. Because when you consider their weight, you realize that this man does not have what it takes to man inner court. You would understand what I'm saying.
Just stay with me. You would understand. Many betrayers could have been avoided. Many backstabbing would have been avoided. Even the greatest of men can be victim of this. Ah, you'll be so blessed. In understanding the weights of people, there are four categories of men you would find in your life. By men, I hope you know I'm speaking about both genders. There are four categories of people you would find in your life. I wanna show you how to how to know the weight of people.
You see, someone can start light but end up heavy. You see, but it is it is a problem when you place what should be for the ones who are heavy to a man who is light. Are you with me? You would understand what I'm saying. Just stay with me. Four kinds of people that you would meet in your life, every man, every woman that you have in your life right now can be categorized into one of these four. And where they will stand determines their weight in your life. You also you also fall under one of these categories in the life of others. Are you with me? So as I'm saying it, as it relates to people in your life, also know that it's the same way you are in people's lives.
What I wanna share with you is one of my deepest secrets and the concerns relating with people. I won't go into it deeply today. Maybe if God allows me to have a part two, I'll do that. Number one, those who are in your life because you have a common objective or a common goal to accomplish. Did you get that? Those who are in your life, the reason why you... They are in your life is because you have a common objective and you have a common goal to accomplish. You see, do you know why it is important to know these things? Because all these four categories look at look alike at face value. Thank you, Jesus.
Those who are in your life because you have a common objective or a common goal to accomplish, they are after what you are after. There is a unifying factor. And as long as that unifying factor exists, they will be your friend. And they will not mind furnishing that relationship or that friendship with you. It's the same thing with you for someone else. There are those of you who have befriended people because you want to have first class. The source of that friendship, the unifying factor, are you with me? Is because there's a common objective. What unifies us is a degree. I want to get masters.
I want to have masters. You want to have masters. We both want to have a good result. Let's study together. As we study together and some people... Glory to God. I become bored one night. I say, ah, so how is it going now? He says, fine. Have you eaten?
I've not. Why have you not eaten? Hey. What do you... What are you eating? He said, I'm eating just cheese balls and cornflakes. He said, you are rich in your family, oh. He said, it's true. My father is a senator. My mother my mother is contesting for a prime minister.
I... My and my brother is a doctor. One of my sister is in Canada. The the following one is... And then in five... In ten minutes, the guy knows everything about your life. You are a foolish person. The unifying fact... The reason why we know ourself, and it's not a bad thing. You need them in your life.
It's not as though it's a bad thing. The problem with this is that the relationship can many a time become toxic, become parasitic in that either party starts focusing on why they need and not on how that friendship can be beneficial. So the purpose of the friendship solid is based on what they can get by reason of what unifies us and not what they can give. Are you with me? You must be able to know those kinds of people and be able to place them accordingly that it's not bad. They are not bad people. Are you with me? It's just that their weights differ. Acts eight and verse nine. Let me show you something.
I love scripture so much. The bible says, but there was a certain man called Simon who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great. So what does this man want? He wants to be someone great. He wants people to perceive him as someone great. Isn't that so? Next verse, to whom they all give heed from the least to the greatest saying, this man is the great power of God. So he wants everybody to hear him. And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time. But now there's a problem.
The problem is that Philip now arrived on the scene. The Bible... When Philip arrived, they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ. Both men and women were were baptized. So the attention was no longer on Simon. Everything he wanted was now being tunneled to Philip. Please get this in our attitude. He wanted to be perceived as a great power of God. He wanted to believe him, to receive him, to give heed to him. And now people are believing in what Philip is doing.
Believing in Philip because they are seeing signs and wonders, miracles, power. Watch this. Then Simon himself, verse 13. Simon himself, the sorcerer. Also... And when he was baptized, what did he do? He continued with Philip. So a... An association began. A relationship began.
He didn't he didn't get baptized and go to a different city. He believed and continued with Philip. The question becomes, what was the basis of the continuing? Because you see, it is possible for Philip to now see Simon continue with him and say, hi, you are a loyal son. And say, ah, every meeting you are always there. You follow us everywhere. You want to... You see, God has sent me to leave Samaria, and I'm to go and start a a new mission in Greece. And I'm looking for a deacon. And by reason of your followership, I think you are the one we should hand over Samaria to because you have continued with us.
That is what led to several churches breaking away because we never discern who we handed over to. Sir. We just believe that every man that continues with us, they continue because they love us. Remember, this man was popular before. This man was the great power of God. He was perceived to be. This man was a sorcerer, and he saw that all the attention he was getting had gone to somebody else. And because of that, we share a common objective. We share a common goal. What you have is what I used to have, and I still desire to have it.
And if your way is the way to have it now, and I can learn some things from you that will still give me access to what you have so that people can perceive me the way they perceive you only by the right way. It's no longer sorcery. It's now in Christ. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Because the bible says he believed. He was baptized. He was working with the evangelist. He continue... Can we read this together, everybody?
No. No. This one. With who? With who? With me. With them. With Philip, the man that was having the attention. Yes. He was serving him.
He was bringing him water. He was learning. He continued with... He was listening. He was paying attention. The bible says he was he was he was amazed seeing the miracles and the signs which were done. I want this. We have the same objective. We have the same goal. And the call by reason of what I want to get from you, I can form a friendship with you.
I can start an association with you. That's why you must know the weight of people. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Come on. By reason of this, as a man of God, if you don't know the weight of people and you think everybody follows you love you because they're all shouting apostle, apostle, apostle. You'll be shocked. You'll be terribly shocked as a business person. There are people that will become your friend because they see your results. That's why he said all of them look alike.
All the categories of people look alike. They... You will not be able to tell them apart from mere face value because all of them will carry your bag. Do you understand what I'm saying? What is the difference between the loyal son and the one that continued? When both of them are sitting down hearing the message, you give them instruction. Even the one... The one that continues will be more... It will be... It will be faster, prompter in obeying the instruction.
And you are the man of God who has no discernment because Philip allowed him. Philip could not tell. Are you with me? Someone is saying, how could you make these deductions? What if it really changed? Verse 18. Verse 18. And when Simon saw that he... Look at this. It was Philip that he perceived to be the great power of God in...
As as opposed to him. So as long as Philip was a reigning guy, he was willing to continue with Philip. But the moment some apostles came, Peter came. Immediately saw that, ah, I didn't see this through Philip. You mean this one? This one is dear. The bible says Simon saw that through the laying horn of the apostles' hands, the holy ghost was given. Hey. Is it... Ah.
Ah. Ah. This one will make me know him very fast. This Philip's own is too slow. He's he's too slow. He's just preaching the gospel. We are getting saved. We are getting saved. This one, power. The bible says he he he now showed his true character.
What he had been keeping for God knows how long. God knows how many years. The moment another man of God arrived on the scene, he said, ah, sorry. Can I collect what you have? The bible says he offered them money. I thought the bible says he believed. He was baptized. Look at the next verse. It says, saying, give me this power. So what does he really want?
Power. Why was he following? Power. That anyone whom I lay my hands on may receive the holy spirit. Doesn't it look like impartation? Maybe he was bringing a seed to be sown. That the grace might rest upon him. Look at Peter. Look at Peter. Peter says, but Peter said unto him, your money perish with you because you thought that the gift of God can be purchased with money.
Next verse, it says, you have neither part nor portion in this matter for your heart is not right in the sight of God, but he believed. But he was baptized and was following Philip all this well, about to be made deacon. All while you have been following, your heart had never been right. It means Peter's issue wasn't the money. Peter's issue was that your heart had never been right. Your money perish with you. Look at the next verse. Repent therefore of this your wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity. Yet he was following Philip about to be made baptized, and all these things were inside him.
And he continued with Philip. He was of service to Philip. When Philip needed help, he was of service to Phil. That's why I say you need them because it was useful. You just must be able to discern their weight because there are times you might not you might not really be able to chase them away from your circumference, but you must be able to discern their significance. You must be able to discern their heart and be able to tell, to know that I I love you. I love you, but you're saying, I can tell that by reason of the kind of heart you have, this friendship is solely based on the things we can accomplish together. Let us stay on that on that on that part alone. Are you with me? Yes.
And first, people will try to know everything about you. And as they know, the more they want to, the more they want to, the more you will create a distance nationally by wisdom. You will not be fickle hearted to say, can I come and know your house? Let me come and know your house now. I want to come and know your house. Where are you staying safe? Why do you want to know my house? What did my house do to you? Don't you have a house? Because every time you have been saying, you know, I'm busy.
Oh, tomorrow, I'm not around. My roommate is... And you've been looking for... A day comes you are you are you are out of things to say. And you now say come. No. You say, I'm so sorry, but I have a value that nobody comes to my house. I'm so sorry. If they become hungry, their heart is eventually redeemed because every sincere person at heart respects on that person's value. There's no point being offended at someone else's value.
If someone says don't touch me, why why get angry? Is it your is it is it your body? Do you understand my point? If you are angry, it means you had bad intentions. Your intention were not pure. Yes. You wanted to do something. That's why you were angry. No. You...
No reasonable, sane hearted person should ever be angry when values are declared if you have good intentions. Go and look at everybody. Dudas never... The guy could not hide it. At every little opportunity to expose himself, he did. He couldn't hide it. He was the he was the most vocal when when he felt as though ministry funds were being misappropriated. It was his voice that was the first to be heard. Somebody came and broke a alabaster box. He said, can we not use that money?
Go and make your own money. In someone's wages, why do you feel you have a right to how it should be spent or how the person spends what what she made and saved by herself? And you feel as though you have a right to tell her how to spend. Even the malice don't have your own. A heart is being revealed. It's a... It's an evil heart. It's an evil heart. Makes you feel as though you you have no respect for how someone choose to to spend their money. You say I give 10% of my of my of my of my salary as my...
So I very... You're just foolish. I'm just foolish. Why are you giving them... They don't waste your money. What's your business? I've never told you how to spend your own money. What makes you think you have a right to tell me how to spend my money? Intentions are being declared. The state of the heart is being helplessly revealed.
Jesus said nothing because it has been written. One must betray. If it has not been written, the one should betray you. You had better open your eyes. Those who have understanding heard what I said. Do you know the man Peter said repent? Didn't you hear repent in what he said? That God should help your heart. Repent that God should help your heart because you have iniquity in your heart. If the guy had sense, what should...
What what should they have picked from that conversation that the mighty apostle was telling you? What should they have picked? Should they shouldn't have gone to God and say, my... Something is wrong with my heart. Something is wrong with my heart, and it should go. Is that not so? You see, how people respond to correction shows a lot about their heart. Watch this guy's response. And Simon answered and said, pray to the Lord for me, oh, that none of the things you have said should come upon me. That was what the guy picked from everything apostle Peter said.
Pray to the Lord for me. I heard the things you have said now should not come upon me. How how is that what to pick? You were told your heart is not pure. You were told your iniquities in your heart. You were told to repent and pray by yourself. How can that be what you see? That's why I said that people you don't pray for because there's no response. They reply. Next verse.
So when they are testified and preached the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem. They never replied him, never prayed for him, never... They just left him alone. Next verse, Peter went somewhere else to go and preach. Nobody ever paid attention to Simon again. His name phased off. Perhaps he could have been an apostle. Perhaps he could have been called by God. But his heart could not and could not sustain a genuine association because of the corruption of of his heart. It wasn't genuine at heart.
It was only there because of what he wanted, a common objective. Are you with me? And you must be able to discern because when people like that are in your life and you start exposing everything in your life to them, are you seeing the problem? My god. There was no repentance. In as much as they can be around the circumference, just hanging around, you must be able to discern their weight and know what level of access to allow them. So in as much as the ministry is growing, and I discern that the assignment in our midst, You won't do the BA fine. Go and go ahead and do. We can't stop you. You wanna be a worker?
Oh, amazing. Go ahead and be. But imagine you are not able to discern the weight, and you say, ah, this guy is so serious. Let's let's make him a pastor. And we come to our pastor's meeting, I will start I will start sharing deep secret of the ministry and things nobody should know other than leadership. What do you think you would do with it? When first people leave the ministry, are you are... You see? So there are people in your life that the common objective that unifies you is a degree. We're in the same faculty, the same department.
We wanna get a degree. We are working in office. I'm not trying to get a promotion. And by reason of this, there is some form of association or relationship. You must be able to discern this and know what level of access to give such people. There are wives who go to work and go and tell their colleagues at work everything that is happening in their work... In their house. Personal details, personal information about their husbands that nobody should know. The name of his, my friend. I agree.
But by what standard do you consider us significant enough to be told first things about your family? By what standards? Understand, there are general relationships. There's a place for that where you are friends with everybody and you love everyone, but it's hence there. Don't be foolish and give people who are in the outer court the inner court benefits. You meet someone and in five minutes, they know everything about your life. What you do, where you school, how much you hand, who you want to marry, what dream you had, who proposed to you. In five minutes, you give someone an unlimited access into your destiny. When the wise men came and met Mary, they told Mary all that the angel revealed to them about the child. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. All that God had told them concerning that child. In Luke two and verse 19, the Bible says, but Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. She didn't go telling everyone she met. See what they said about my son. You know my son He's savior of the world. My son will be the Messiah. That that that boy would have died. Yes, sir. He would have opened that boy to unnecessary persecution because even even Herod was after the boy's life.
Guess what? The woman never knew Herod after life. His life. He never knew but still chose to keep these things to heart. Imagine when the angel came and said, take Richard and run away. Should I say, my goodness. Thank God I didn't tell anybody. Thank God nobody knows. Who gave this woman this wisdom? That is why the bible says that was highly favored amongst women because you have unusual character women don't have.
That's why you are... It's one of the reasons why you are favored. Women gather. The bible says she kept these things to heart. She pondered upon them in her heart. Many don't know how to ponder in their heart. They say everything to everyone and anyone as long as they are ready to listen. You're about to get married. The guy has not even proposed. You gather your friends.
You say, you know, I think he's about to propose to me. Do you know what he brought for me yesterday? Yeah. I've been talking about proposal recently. I mean, even yesterday, we went on a date. We went to we went to KFC. And when I got to KFC, now I held my hand like this. I was not even thinking that, hey. What what what does he want to do? What does he want?
What does he what did he not buy? Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Did he draw the tea out for you? He said, it's true. It is not. Are you sure he loves like this? Foolish women.
You marry those people who are in trouble. They will run your family down. They will run the household down with their mouth. There are people who have done this today, and they are paying the price for it. The Bible says true wisdom is any house built. The home is built in wisdom. What did I say? It's built in wisdom. There are people who are having phone calls. They don't care wherever they are.
Inside Morowa, inside Okada. That 1,000,000, where is he coming? Is he coming tomorrow? When will he arise? And and they go shouting, everybody hearing what they are saying, and say, oh, thieves came to our house. The woman is making a call in her room. Every neighbor can hear. Everybody in the house can hear. And people know, oh, they they they are in... They are they are having trouble again.
Are having trouble again. People who don't live with you know all the problems in your house. They know everything that happens. You have used your mouth to introduce problem into your own house. You thought... You went to the village, and you you kept on telling everybody, my container is coming. You see, I I have a new car that is arriving in Lagos very soon, and then next week, you are told custom impounded the car. And you are saying what? It's called the wickedness of men. There are people who are wicked.
They exist. Yes. Yes. Yes. Amen. You say, but sir, we are the righteous of God in Christ Jesus, but we are also wise. Christ has been made wisdom for us. Yes, sir. The right talking of God in Christ Jesus should not be foolish. Yes, sir.
Yes, sir. You go you you go to your place at work. The way I'm even... I think I'm even pregnant myself. The way he's doing me like this. Oh, my husband is trying. Oh, god. God, married two months. Yeah. There's a there's there's a woman there who for for five...
She has been married. She she she has not gotten she has not gotten whatever. And you just come there and just say, ah ah. If you see the first thing, the first night the first night. And woman, are you trying to mock me or something? You have no idea what should be said, what should be kept, to whom what should be said. Because you are unable to discern the weight of people. Inner court benefits to those who are in the outer court, uncommon access to common people. There are women that the only thing they are looking for is care, attention. Who will hear me?
Who will listen to me? Who's... Who will... Who can just hear? Who will take you? Who will spoil me? Who will wreck me? Listen. Listen. As you are laughing, just hear me.
This is serious. As you are laughing, hear me. Yes, sir. This is wisdom I'm giving you. Yes, sir. And guess what? They... Their foolishness desire that care, that love, that spoil, that wreck from everybody they meet. As long as the person is willing to give it, they don't care whether he's in the outer court, whether not even in the court. It doesn't matter.
Can he take care of me? Can he listen? Can he... And then the guy now comes, and he's not the one that can... He's not, oh my god. He's so sweet. He's so lovely. And you now begin to... So many people are foolish. And you allow people who should have no access into your life, who should know nothing about your life.
Now in your foolishness, you have no idea that the guy is a playboy. You only... You you have only gained mastery in manipulating women by by words. Now you go and tell him, you know, I I feel as though I can tell you anything. You're you're you're you're you're always so... You're just always there for me when I need someone to talk to. And that's why I'm alive. Hear me? Listen. Please, please, listen.
Say, you know, I'm just so I'm just overwhelmed right now. Just overwhelmed right now. Say, what is happening? He say, can you believe it? My mother just called me and was telling me that my father and my father and myself had a fight again. This is like the third time they are having a fight. Is it because we came from a polygamous home? Is it because came from a polygamous home? Do you know that my my my father... I even I even caught my...
I was checking my father's message yesterday, and I saw that he was even cheating on my mother. Can can you imagine that? My own father, my blood father. And the guy says, my god, you mean it? Really? So sorry. You see many of these parents are like that. Don't let them get to you. Your your peace is more important. You're decent.
And you have not you have not checked what what is this person's weight in my life? What what is this person's significance in my life? There are people who have who have who have spoken their business plans, business goals to people who should know... Who don't who don't even know their first name. Just sit down with people carelessly and tell them, let me tell what I'm planning to do. And you just speak out of out of... Because they're trying to motivate somebody. You reveal what God told you in secret about your life and destiny. In the name of motivation. Wish I had time.
I wish I had time. These are some of the things that God showed me. You can be close to me and not know me. Wisdom. I can live with a madman and we'll never fight. I've learned the peace principles. The bible says follow peace with all men. That is that is at the general at the general state. Those those instructions are for the general public. Follow peace with all men.
Love the brotherhood. Honor all men. Love all men. So I'm friendly to everybody. I smile everybody. This does not mean go and be friendly like someone that demons are fattening onto. That's not what I'm saying. Are are you with me? Yeah. Because for someone here, now what they are hearing is, can you see?
Can you see? I know it. I know it. And by I know it, they mean the way they've been isolating themselves from even those that can help them. I'm getting there. I'm getting there. Don't you feel for a moment I'm defending your foolishness? Stay with me. Many of you don't know that there's a price to pay for destiny relationships. Destiny relationship don't just happen.
He does not say this person my best is my best friend. Ah, he's my he's my he's my... What what do you call it now? Covenant friend. You see, he's just my best friend. You're my covenant friend. Is it because we gist together, we laugh together, we answer. Sometimes we pray together, sometimes we share the word together. Most times we we gist together and talk about useless things together. Then sometimes we pray together.
This is my covenant friend just so to shock you. You will learn there are many covenants in in in the bible. There's the old covenant. See, I've been where you are. That's why I know it will shock you. Yes, sir. Let me stay on my note. Let me stay on my note. So at the general level, believer or no believer, we are meant to be friendly to whole and sundry, but to have the wisdom to discern what role people play in our lives. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. To know that this person this person isn't the kind of person that should be telling these things. There are people that should not know your house. You meet somebody in supermarket. They say, hello. How are you doing? We are looking so fine. Where do you live? Hey. Road.
Are you that worthless? Are you that cheap? Are you that empty? Are you that valueless? And your life is your life is your life is public latrine. Anybody can dump anything inside. Anybody can just come and useless it, mess it up. It's open to everybody. There's nothing hidden about you. Everybody know you were raped at twelve.
Everybody know that you're you're... You come from a broken home. Everybody know that. Everybody know there's nothing that is... You say, I'm just transparent. You are not transparent. You are foolish. That is not the meaning of transparency. I will show you what it means. And I will show you from scripture.
From scripture. Remember, scripture is our standard. Yes, sir. Even for the life of Jesus. Number two, let me just run very fast. I wish we had time. I really wish so. Are you getting wisdom? You getting wisdom? Listen, this thing will preserve your life.
It will preserve your home. It will preserve your marriage. It will preserve your destiny. Can I say something to you? You must know the weight of everybody. The implication of their words will be the will be... The implication of their words or the impact of their words on your heart will matter to you based on the weight or however you have placed them in your life. In other words, if somebody says you are ugly, it'll only mean much to you by a reason of what you have placed him or where you have placed him or his weight in your life. It means if everybody's opinion matter, you have placed everybody in inner court. Don't you get this?
Everybody who speaks lecturer tells you, ah ah. And then you you are down. You are sad. You are depressed. You say, ah, ah. It it shows it shows the the openness of your life. Everybody has equal value. Even even cabman can look at you and say, are you stupid? And it will affect you. Cabman, you will never meet him again.
You may never meet him again till you die. You may never meet him again. And the word he said will have... It will get to you. The words... People's words have impact over you based on their weight, based on their significance. You know, if you see, if you understand what I'm saying, you will know there are some people who... Number two, I pray you're wise. I really pray you're wise. I really pray you're wise.
There are people you must tell, I I love you, but this thing we are doing is destruction. You are not being harsh. You are being truthful. You are... It would destroy your life. It would destroy my life. You might not think it so, but later on, you will know it so. And so to prevent that from happening, I must humbly request that I differentiate myself from you. There are people that have entered ungodly relationship with foolish people. You must receive the strength and the power to break that thing off tonight.
Tonight. Not tomorrow. Tonight. The promptness of obedience. You know. This guy and I involved in all kind of useless things. This lady and I involved in... We we we we we've we've engrossed ourselves in useless things. And I'm and I'm pretending to be a child of God, and I know that this thing is pulling me out of God. You must sustain the wisdom to say, brother, listen.
I love you. I sincerely do. The bible says love all men. Honor all men. But thus far, the Lord has helped me. This journey will not continue from here and forth because I've checked and I've seen that I'm not hiding anything positive into your life and you're not hiding anything positive into my life. And this is not to say that we can be friends. We cannot be friends. And so today, I'm gonna cut every... I love you.
If we see outside, we'll greet ourselves, but I'm gonna cut intentionally to preserve my life and destiny and to preserve yours too. Every form of distance. You might not think I'm helping you today, but I'm very soon very soon you... I'm pretty sure very soon you will know. And you send it, you delete, you block, you eradicate, you you you format anything. You clear chat, you somebody somebody somebody did this. I was... I I I told her to do. I don't even tell people to do it again because if you don't understand why you should do it, then there's no point doing it. Lady, send the message.
Finish.. May God help us. Number two, the second kind of people are very closely related to the first, so I won't stay on them. But they are different. But they are closely related. They have the same attitude and attribute as the first. There are people who are in your life because you have a common enemy. So they are they are they are closely related to the first. But what unifies you is that you have a common enemy. The enemy now becomes your objective.
Do you understand what I'm saying? The reason for which they formed an alliance with you is because you share the same opinion on something you hate. There are people in the workplace that it is their hatred for their boss that unifies them. And that becomes the subject of gist. From there, they form an alliance that proceed into marriage. Luke 23. I told you I will show you everything in scripture. Luke twenty three six. Because if I'm not able to show this thing in scripture, there's no basis for teaching it. I'm not a motivational speaker.
Are you with me? The bible says, Pilate... When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked if the man was a Galilean. Next verse. And as soon as he knew that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction... So we are seeing two people here. Who and who? He sent him to Herod who was also in Jerich... Jerusalem at that time. Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad for he had desired for a long time to see him because he had heard many things about Jesus, and he hoped to see some miracles done by Jesus.
Then he... I don't have time. I don't have time. As you just read these things, light just bursts out of your spirit. Then he questioned him with many words, but he answered him nothing. And the chief priest and scribe stood and vehemently accused him. Then Herod, with his men of war, treated him with contempt and mocked him, arrayed him in a gorgeous rope, and sent him back to who? To who? I want us to leave our chops together, everybody. One, three.
Go. What unified them was their hatred for Jesus? Number three, the third kinds of people who you would find in your life will need to be very fast right now. My God. They won't rush this. A people who are with you because of a value you have to offer. That is likable about you. A value you have to offer. Listen to me. People are drawn to men of value, and value in this context can mean anything.
It can be something someone finds appealing about you. You are rich. That's value to some people. You are successful. You are beautiful. You are anointed. Do you know that people have... The first thing I gave to you because of common objective, people are married because of it. The marriage was a business transaction. I come from an honor...
From an honorable home. I I I... You you come from a home with plenty influence. If we start a business together, we can grow this thing. Me, I have the structure to start a business. We are... We form a good alliance. The marriage is is is mostly what we can get by reason of our marriage. Have you heard it? What did you bring to the table?
So they've considered and they realized that this thing this thing is so good because we have a common objective. The third are the ones who are in your life because of a value they have discerned about you. Something they like, something they've seen, something they're attracted to, something good about your life. The fact that you are successful in your business, the fact that you are excellent in your academics, and you are brilliant, male or female, the fact that you are rich. It can be the fact that you always dress well. You are good looking. You are beautiful. You are handsome. The fact that you are anointed. The fact that you have results in any area.
The fact that you are popular. The fact that you are influential. These things have a way of drawing everything to you. Listen to me. Anointed people attract everything, human beings and demons alike. Are you with me? And you must know this. People that value these things about you will be drawn to you because of the results that they see. So there are people that will be close to you. They will want to be close to you because you always smell nice.
There are people that want to be close to you because you're always smiling. You're always excited. You're always joyful. You... They they like your vibe, so to say. They would have an issue with the first fight you will have will be when you are not having that vibe. Because they might not be as happy as you are, so they would always depend on your happiness. They're not bad. In fact, you need them in your life the most. And guess what?
You will find them in your life the most. They constitute 80% of people who will come to you. As a matter of fact, the first three categories that I've mentioned now constitute 95% of people in your life, And that number is even low. It means it can be it can be more. For some it's 98. For some it's a 100%. If you... Let me not go ahead with myself. Are you with me? Yes, sir.
This means in the day you no longer possess these values or these results, their reason that they have for forming an alliance with you comes to an end. So I'm not deceived as a man of God to think everybody that is with me are with me because they love me. You would be foolish to think so. There are people that are here today because of the impact that the messages have in their life, because of the impact the anointing has in their life, because of the transformation that they see, because of the results that they see, even physical results in terms of the level of excellence we can do now at our level. I told someone something. I said, listen. There are people now who are with me that if they knew about me under the tree, they they would have run away. And they love me now. They say, my God, apostle Emmanuel, God sent me here. But if if if God had mistakenly sent them under the tree, the absence of the results where the only thing present was a tree will make them think that they misheard God.
Are you with me? And you need them. They are not bad people. These people are not bad. You are like that to someone. There are people you have friends within your class because they are smart, and you want to pass. Are you a bad person? Oh, no. You need it. You are like that to someone.
That's why I said everything I just mentioned like that now. But if that's if that's the only thing you are to everyone around you, you are useless. The same way you don't pray to have these three categories alone in your life, you mustn't be that to someone else, to everyone. Are you with me? We are coming to the fourth. You might not be able to do it today. Time is gone. Time is gone. John two twenty three. John two twenty three.
The Bible says now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name when they saw what? Signs. But the question is, if they had not seen the signs, then what? Then what? That's the reason for the next verse. What does it say? One, three, go everybody. He knew I can't entrust myself onto these ones. These ones are only with me because they saw signs, because they saw wonders. In other words, this is wisdom.
Anyone who is with me solely because of the results they see, I can't entrust myself to them. This is wisdom. Listen, the bible says Jesus did not entrust himself to them. Give me KJV. Is it KJV or NLT? Give me NLT. Yes. NIV. Yes. Jesus would not entrust himself to them.
Entrust himself to them. It is wisdom to know that if someone is with me solely because of what the result they see around my life, I don't test them. You need them. You need them. All these three... I wish I had time, man. The the the importance of these three categories are primal in your life such that if you are missing them in your life, your life will not be effective. In other words, the fourth category of people are those who love you because of you. That's the fourth. If you have five of them in your entire life, you are very fortunate.
Five. Five. That's a high number. If you have five of them in your entire life, if you have 10 of them, God has blessed you. That will show you how few they can be. Bible says Jesus did not entrust himself to the multitude because he knew all men. Who did he not entrust himself to? Is it everybody that met him? No. Those who believed him because of the signs they saw.
There were many entrusted himself to. Are you with me? There were men Jesus entrusted himself to. The bible shows this to us that when he was at his weakest point, when he was about to die, he called three of them, and he said, can you watch with me for an hour? There was multitude, then there were 500, then there were one twenty, then there were 70, then there were 12, then there were three, and then there was one. Because when he was on the cross and he was about to go and be with the Lord, he looked down and the most important person to him as long as earth was concerned, he looked at that person and looked at one of his disciples and said, mother, look at your son. Son, look at your mother. How are you about to go and you can entrust your mother to someone's hands? Do you know that he has he had blood brothers? Yes.
Yes, sir. Sela. There were those who entrusted his his his his earthly mother too. There were those who entrusted his death too. Can you come and watch with me for an hour? Can you come and watch with me for an hour, I told them. And he would not allow any every other person there. Only three people who he knew had what it takes to handle it. By what standards? I don't know.
But he knew. How many mighty men did David have? 400. The Bible only mentions 34 by name. Eliazah, the son of Edo. Shama, and you say it was... Oh, out of 400. What happened to the remaining? Do you think it was because bible was conserving space? Go and read Leviticus and join me.
You will see plenty bigots bigots bigots. You will know the bible is not trying to contact space. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Only about 34 were mentioned by their exploits out of 400. Guess what? It came to a point David said and a voice starts amongst all his mighty men, I wish to drink water in the well of Bethlehem. Out of all whose names were mentioned, only Thiri heard what he said and they made it their mandate and were willing to die to get water. They fought through the Philistine army to get water for David. Only three, 400 mighty men.
I don't have time to show you that David was a wise man. Do you know how many people wanted to betray David? Some of his mighty men. I've known about Johab, the captain of Ham... Of of of Ah. And yet, it means these people had different reasons why they came. Some came because they genuinely believed in him, and they genuinely believed in his mission, in his vision, in his calling. Some came because they heard they had been anointed. Will soon become king. Let's join ourselves hell in now because we know that it will be some...
Will soon become great so that when it becomes great, we also benefit. You must maintain the wisdom to know so that you can associate and and and with people. We look with people by reason of this. So that not everybody's words will hurt you. So you won't you won't look for care where care should not exist. You won't look for love where love should not exist. You won't look for affection where affection should not exist. Are you with me? Wise people sustain the price. You see, people that love you genuinely, they are not afraid to tell you the truth.
They will tell you the truth to your face. They will tell you brother, you you will... In fact, such people, you can be vulnerable to them and you know they will continue to love you. There will be no judgment whatsoever, but they would... They are not afraid to rebook you. They are not afraid to call you to order. When your heart is wrong yourself, your... You will know these kinds of people are running away from them. You won't find their love. You won't find their care.
It is those ones who should exist in the after court you're looking for because they are shallowing the understanding. So you tell somebody, sometimes you are feeling. I look for someone that just mastered your emotion like this. You say, yeah, come on. Me. You know, it happens to everybody. It happens to everybody. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
And you know if I go and tell this other brother of mine, you will understand, but that's not what I'm looking for right now. I want someone that will understand me. And be... In the name of understanding, in the name of all kinds of things, a lot of people... Come on now. Come on. Sustain the wisdom and the discernment to know. The time is gone. I would have shown you the price to pay for destiny relationships because it doesn't just happen. It doesn't just happen.
There's a price to pay. Whenever the holy spirit inspires upon my heart, we'll talk about it. But for those of you that don't know how to keep secrets until the appointed time, there are people that should not know a part of the process of your greatness, a part of the process of your testimony, not even a part. You don't even know anything in the process that leads on to the testimony. There are people that the only thing you tell them is testimony, not the process, because they don't have they don't have the maturity or the faith to believe in it. So when they hear it, they will doubt it, introduce fear in your own heart, and by their... By ridding of their own fear, crush your faith. You know these ones can be... They they don't have... They're not they're not at the frequency where they can be just new friends.
Of course, they are friends, but not the kind of friend that can tell these kind of things. Are you with me? Yes, sir. There are people that don't have enough emotional maturity to know about your past because they don't have what it takes to look at you beyond the past. So even while you have transformed, even while you have changed, the moment you expose that part of them to your life, they can't... They don't sustain the maturity to look at you past that thing. So whilst you are a serious woman, the moment you tell them, do you know that? And before God helped me, I used to live a very rough life. That guy was completely married with you before his dad, that's the end. Say, how long you're immune?
Your life should be like the layers of onion. I don't know if that is the best example where the more you are you with me? Do you do you man? Do you get what I'm trying say? People should be deserving of every access you access you give them. Don't allow anybody rent space in your mind who's not paying the price to be there. Be a wise woman. Be a wise man. There are men that they report their wives to everybody. Do you know that when Jesus...
Ah, rise up on your feet. Rise up on the office. I told you at the teaching meeting. Jesus was 12 years old and he was missing and they sought for him for three days three days and they couldn't find him. When they found him, the young boy told them, don't you know I must be above my father's business? And to my fallen. Don't you know you... Must be above my father's business? Why are you looking for me? In the book of Luke.
Luke's rendition place. You know what the Bible says? The Bible says, Mary kept these things to heart. Mary kept these things to heart. There are women that... Mothers that the moment their son does something wrong, every body in the environment will hear. The woman sell a good thing outside. The landlords, landladies, they will hear. This boy stole something from me. This boy went for this.
This boy is carrying girlfriend. This boy is doing this and Can you imagine? And the vista comes out and they they report the vista. Don't you know that the more people you report your children to, especially at a young age, the more destiny you are opening up for people to speak into. Negative utterances, people who have no business speaking into the life of the child. As parents by a guardian, you are meant to shield and protect. Nobody exposes what is... To them to the world to slander. That's not wisdom. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. That is not wisdom. That is not wisdom. Can we bear that God makes us genuine? Because you see, if you are not genuine yourself, can you be a faithful person to someone? Can you say I'm a faithful friend? I'm a genuine friend to someone. I'm a love friend to someone. I'm not an hypocrite. I'm not someone who just pretends my way because you see, you will attract who you are.
If you are deceptive in your own heart, you will largely attract people like yourself, people who will deceive you just as much as you deceive them. Everybody else is whining each other. All your friend, your... The only thing you do is whine yourself. You don't whine yourself. Wake up in the morning and start whining. Guy, you know they shine. Nobody really inspires. Nobody really motivates. Nobody really correct.
Nobody really rebukes. Nobody really loves. Have you found a safe spot? Can you be a safe spot, a safe place for people? There are people that if you tell them anything about you, you you might as well go and tell BCOs. Are you like that? You need to repent. You gossip about others. Sit down with scornful people and say, you know, I'm inactive. It doesn't really matter.
Maintain the wisdom. Receive wisdom today. Receive wisdom today to your friends. God, give me the empowerment. I've seen now that there are people that must live my life. There are people pulling me back, pulling me backwards in life and destiny. My problem has been stopped. Paid because of them. Now I know better. I received the engracing, the empowerment to make the right decision.
In the name of Jesus, please pray and be sincere. Pray and be genuine. Pray and be sincere. Have one more minute to pray. Please pray. Please pray. I want us to pray. I want us to pray. Please pray. Please pray.
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