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The word is like a map that sets men on the path of destiny. The word of God transforms. It revives any builds. It builds conviction even in the hearts of men. And just like the woman at the well, when men encounter the spirit and the word of God, there's an exchange and revelation of identity. Weaknesses are exchanged for strength and greatness is made out of ordinary men. I will never be tired of telling you that God has predestined you for greatness. You must believe this. There is a seed of greatness on your inside. You must believe this.

A promise of greatness on your inside. You must believe this. There is no smallness in God's plan for your life as a believer. There's no toiling in God's plan for your life as a believer. There's no suffering in God's plan for your life as a believer. I want to break you out of that spot where you can no longer think small. The presence of God does not just make the difference. The presence of God is the difference. So join us at the experience when men encounter God and lives are transformed. Father, we give you all the glory and all the praise and all the honor.

Thank you Jesus. Today will be very very brief. Very very brave but still I feel in my spirit that I should share some things with you. You see, there is a kind of believer that we've been called to raise in this church in this generation. This, I would always say, is an apostolic mandate. And being an apostolic mandate that it is, there is a charge that God has given to us to raise a type of believer. A type of believer. It's important you note the type of believer that we are raising. Important that you understand the type of believer that you're becoming. And in understanding the type of believer you're becoming, it becomes expedient to know the demands that you must put yourself through to become that type of believer.

So it's not only important you know what you're becoming. It is important that you know the process of becoming so that you know what is expected of you and that you can partner yourself or partner with what we are doing. So that you become that very thin. Otherwise, your coming here would have been a waste. I believe that we have a mandate to the world. I believe that we have a mandate to generation. I believe that very soon, venues like this will be places where house fellowship leaders will meet, where children, church teachers will meet. I believe so strongly that the call of God upon our lives and upon this church is global. But it's not global in the sense that a man's message becomes popular around the world. No.

Paul was speaking to the Corinthian church And he started telling them in chapter three. Of second Corinthians, I believe. And verse one. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need as others? Give me the new living translation. Are we beginning to praise ourselves again? Are we like others who need to bring you letters of recommendation or who ask you to write such letters on their behalf? Surely not. Let me see the message.

There's something I'm looking for. Yes. This is it. Does it sound like we are patting ourselves in the back? Insisting on our credentials? Ascertain our authority? Well, we are not. Neither do we need letters of endorsement. Either to you or from you. Next verse, you yourselves are all the endorsement we need.

You yourselves. Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read. By just looking at you. Go back to the new living translation. It says, the only letter of recommendation that we need is you yourselves. Your lives are a letter written in our hearts. Everyone can read it and recognize our good work amongst you. Give me the new king James version. It says, you are our epistles written in our hearts, known and read by all men. I think I have a teaching titled known and read by all men.

Yes sir. You should listen to it. It means that when we say that this ministry is a global ministry and this is a global mandate, and that this vision will reach the world, what we are describing is exactly what Paul is describing here. That we will not begin to praise ourselves and sing songs of our praises As to how anointed the man of God is as to how gifted a man can teach and dissect scripture. He says no. He says we would have done something or we have done some things to you that the world can see. And they can see the impact of our teaching ministry in and through your lives. This becomes a letter of recommendation. This becomes a letter of commendation we would need to the world. It means that as you are here, you are becoming you are becoming something that is capable of being read by all men, of being known by all men.

This is the process of transformation. It doesn't matter how you came. It doesn't matter what your experience was when you came. It doesn't matter what background you're coming from, but that something remarkable is happening in and through your lives. Are you with me? So it means that you are becoming a type of person. The you who came shouldn't be the you who remains. Are you with me? It shouldn't be. It shouldn't be the you who remains in terms of favor with God, in terms of commitment to God, in terms of passion, in terms of different things.

There should be transformation. I have a couple of teachings that I would hopefully teach us before the end of this year. And in that teaching, I'm going to speak about the importance of the teaching ministry and what the teaching ministry hopes to accomplish in the life of the believer. And in that teaching, we're gonna dissect a lot of things and point out some of the errors that have observed in the body of Christ and hopefully put a balance to them. Because one of the beauty of the apostolic ministries is balance. There are several extremes here and there in the service of the teaching ministry to the body of Christ. We would hope to balance them. But what you should know is that as you are being taught, you are becoming. We spoke during the manifest conference about that the Lord has an intention, and his intention is revealed in Isaiah chapter 14 verse five. You see, this teaching in the manifest conference, if you've understood it, you should be able to explain it to anybody.

It's so simple. It's so simple, yet so deep. So simple and yet so deep. God has an intention. What is his intention? That his glory shall be revealed, and all earth should see it. And we said this intention has always existed. As a matter of fact, that is part of what motivated the creation of the earth, The creation of a visible domain. The creation of the heavens even came from this motivation, came from this intention that his glory should be revealed. And we are tempted to define the glory of God.

Because when God told Moses that he would show him his glory, what God did was to show him himself. Dimension of his person. Is that not so? What Moses saw, therefore, wasn't cloud, wasn't fire, wasn't all of these things. The Bible says God made his goodness to pass by him, and then God pro proclaimed his name to him. So what the glory therefore is, is God. The glory is God. Do you understand what I'm saying? When God makes himself known, his glory is known. That's why we call it a weight.

Because the dimension of God, and as you begin to study the subject of God, you find that you cannot know God exhaustively. But you can know God personally. Exhaustively in that, in as much as we continue to study and journey into God, we would keep on realizing there is more to God. There is more to this being called God. So we cannot exhaustively study him. It's not like a slab horse you can come to the end of and say you are finished. In your study of God, you always find out there is more to know. The more you know, the more you find out you don't know. Even when we get to heaven, we'll still continue knowing. But we never get to the point where we have known all there is to God.

That's what makes him God. He's that deep. So when the bible says that the knowledge of his glory, it has always been his intention. You should be able to explain this to anybody. Every believer should understand this. This is the will of God. This is the intention of God. This is the council of God for creation that all the earth would see. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

All the earth would be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters covers the sea. Same thing is being said in Isaiah 40 and verse five. Same thing. Same language is being used. And we said that the intention of god... Let me say the strategy of god. In other words, how god intended for this to happen was to make man in his image, and we attempted to define what that meant. Go and get the picture and listen to it. Listen to it again and again and again and again and again. Don't say because you were there, you understand it.

You'll be shocked you don't. Because the matter is simple, but it is deep. And you have only understood a thing to the degree to which thing is in your life. What did I say? In other words, if it is not yet in your life, give yourself to it. You still have a lot of beholding to do. If you see that a truth is not yet manifested in your life, the the aim is not just so that you can memorize a teaching and then know what it is is there. The aim is that you can become the thing. Glory to God. Amen.

Remember, I said there is a type of believer you're becoming. Hence why I'm doing the recap, so stay with me. The image of God became God's strategy of revealing his glory. And he told that image, remember, across the earth, all flesh should see it. So you would not understand why the mandate multiply came from. It came from images multiplying so that all earth can have multiple references by which to see the glory of God. It means from the mandate of creation that God gave to man, it is never in God's council that references to him are in short supply on the earth. Because the mandate was multiply. God made one person in his image then made two people in his image and told them multiply. So in other words, we should not look at any nation or any society, and the knowledge of God's glory should be scarce there.

It is never God's intention. That's why God told the man he made in his image multiply. So if man is multiplying and his image is not multiplying, something is wrong. So the idea is that if I get married, it's an opportunity for multiplication to begin. Do you understand? The more children are being born, the more people are being raised, the more people are being trained. It's an opportunity for multiplication to begin because society has to be filled with the knowledge of his glory. The earth has to be filled with the knowledge of his glory. Nations have to be filled with the knowledge of his glory. Now you look around the world, and it should be easy for you to see that this nation knows God.

I mean Israel captured a typology of good expression. The Bible says nations saw them, and they were afraid because it was obvious that God was with them. That's how it should look like when you see a nation. So this was God's intention, but man fell. You know the story. And that fall led to a distortion of the image. And what that means is that that distortion now means that the image could no longer represent the God that is representing. Are you with me? Yes, sir. We may...

We did justice to this. That distortion allowed for several things to corrupt the image. And those things now makes it difficult for the image to be a perfect representation of God. And I told you that there are many people who are still Christians but with distorted images. That means that if you are a Christian and your image is still distorted, it simply means that your ability to represent God is in short supply. You will not be accurately able to represent God. And what does that mean? That means God's glory cannot be seen in your own life. That means God's strategy is still a failure when your own life is put into test. If God puts you on the stage and calls the world to come and watch you, what will they see?

This is my worship and it's original. This is my worship, and it's all original, Lord. Thank you, Lord Jesus. This is my worship and it's original. I know you have seen many scammers. I know you have endured many liars. Many lies. I know you have listened to many false souls, but this is my worship. This is my washing and it's original. So that if our life is to worship, if our life is what we offer to him, it becomes accurate representations of who he is.

Accurate what now? And we we saw the extent of the distortion of course. I don't want to go into all of that. I've thought on it. But it's terrible. What makes it terrible is because you can trace, listen, You can trace many of the woes in our society today to this distortion. You really can. You really can. You can trace corruption to this distortion. Are you with me brothers and sisters?

I told you that dominion outside of image is useless. It really is useless. God did not create man solely to dominate. God created man to be in his image then to dominate. I told you that dominion has has essence only to degree to which image is consistent. Are you with me? Yes, sir. That means that conquering territories, conquering nations, becoming financially powerful, technologically powerful as a nation is only relevant to the degree to which that nation is an accurate embodiment of the glory of God. Listen. Listen to me.

This might not be the take of an unbeliever. But if you are a believer, it must be your take. This is scripture. So an unbeliever can be looking at Japan and looking at China, looking at Iran, and be saying, these nations don't love God. They don't worship God. They don't know God. But look at what is happening there. A Christian should not talk like that. It shows that you have not been properly taught. You have not been properly trained, neither have you been properly discipled.

If I look at dominion in your life and I cannot trace it to God, it is useless. Any kind of dominion, any kind. You know what dominion means? Any kind of dominion. Either it is financial in nature, societal in nature, technological in nature, any kind. Because the idea of God for the world and for your life, for humanity is that your life should bring him glory. Are you still with me? A a believer should not talk like that. So when you hear conversations on social media and all of these things, just ignore. It's a proof of maturity.

Do you understand what I'm trying to say? There's no need trying to argue to a wall that has already concluded on what they want to believe, but there is need beholding the glory of God until your life can become the message so that you don't have to argue much with your words. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes. Because our argument would not really make sense if all we now have to boast about is image without dominion because the purpose of image is still dominion. You see the error there now? If you're wise, you don't understand what I'm saying. That's the error there. So the error there is to claim that the mandate of the church is just image. Mm-mm.

Image is to an end. You understand what I'm saying? Image is what now? Is to an end. So I can't therefore claim that all the church is called to do is just image. It's just image. If I'm doing that, I'm not wrong. But if I ignore the subject of dominion, I will still raise several people who will be accurate images, but they will not be able to show the fullness of the glory of God. They can show the character of God in that they are holy and they are purity and they are pure. Do you understand what I'm saying?

But they would not show the excellence of God because they are useless in the marketplace. They wouldn't show the creativity of God. Do you understand what trying to say? They wouldn't show the brilliance of God. Inventors and innovators can come from the church. Go and read the bible. You would find that the kings that did the most in terms of invention and innovation were people that were blessed by God. As a matter of fact, you see the anointing coming upon Bezalil and Aholiab for creativity and for craftsmanship. It means that there is a lot that the world has to see with respect to this dimension of God that they have not seen. That men can be anointed to be architects.

Men can be anointed to be doctors. Doctors. Men Men can can be be anointed anointed to to be be engineers. Engineers. We see it in scripture. Is it an invention of God we can bring to the world? Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. That there is productivity in God. Yes, sir.

There's reformation in God. There's innovation in God. There's invention in God. He's the master creator. So who else can we learn creation from? Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Yes. So don't talk foolishly. Don't believe foolishly.

I pray that you are wise. Amen. By these things that you hear, I pray that you're wise. Amen. I pray I wouldn't find your name somewhere giving a comment and talking like a fool. Amen. And clicking your your profile and seeing that you have snapped picture there once and seeing what is... Who is this person? Talking like this. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

So I said that God then corrected the distortion by coming by himself. And then the son of God was made manifest, And we beheld his glory. So he became the express image of God. So that what God was trying to paint with man, Jesus became the express image. My God. I like that word express. I'm not going to Greek and Hebrew now. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Yes, sir. But he was perfection.

He was perfection. Everything that God was trying to communicate, you could see perfectly in Jesus. That means when you read the story of Jesus in scripture, don't breeze through it because that's God you are reading. That means everything that Jesus said is a reference to what God... That mean... Do you understand what I'm saying? It means Jesus is everything God was thinking. So as you read the gospels, what you are literally seeing if if God were here, because God was there. This is God's mind on this matter. This is God's thought on this matter.

This is God's say on this matter. That's what Jesus was, the express image. So when you read Jesus, you are reading God. So when I see how Jesus was speaking to a barren woman, I'm seeing God. When I see how Jesus is talking to an adulterous woman, I'm seeing God. Well, that's God. That's God. Express image because the word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us. Do you understand what I'm saying now? How is it therefore possible that you can become a Christian and still have a distorted image?

Because now the strategy of the image being repaired in man is that you now begin to behold Jesus. You accept him as Lord and savior, then you now begin to behold him. That's what the Bible says we are with unveiled face. And I showed you the mystery of this unveiled face. Is that not so? That it is possible to still be veiled by reason of what you hear, by reason of what teaching you hear in church. That if you hear teachings that are not point to Christ, you will still be veiled. You can tell me more about demons or you can tell me about Jesus. You are more conscious about the powers in your father's house and the causes and the problem, all of these things that you're going through. So much so when you see a problem appear in your life, you are first reminded about the pattern before you are reminded about Jesus.

You see that? And you say, kai, this thing has come again. Before you remember, Jesus has taken this thing away. You are still veiled. That's why it is possible to still have a distorted image. You understand what I'm trying to say? So he says, all with unveiled face beholding. In other words, when the teacher now begins to point you to Christ, you start to behold. And as you behold, you start to become. You are being transformed into that same image.

That's how we now correct the distortion by pointing men to Jesus so that they can begin to behold him. And as they behold him, we now become again accurate representatives to the degree to which we have beheld. And I showed you that's why the bible says Christ in you. It's not glory, oh, it's the hope of glory. You know why? And that hope is not hope in the same way you use hope. That hope is more certain. You understand what I'm trying to say? And the reason why the hope is more sad thing is because it is conditional in that the moment you behold him, you will become like him, and your life will become glory. Do understand what trying to say?

But the beholding him is your choice. That's why it is still a hope. So a believer can be a believer but never manifest glory. Yet Christ in him is still hope for glory. So what is the assignment As you come here, the assignment is to repair. Is to what? Repair. Is to repair. So that as men look at your life once again, God can be happy. Your original intention of God can be once again manifested in and through your life.

That's the assignment. So when we say you are becoming something, this is what we mean by that. We are restoring the idea that God had so that when God looks at our lives individually and as a collective, we become accurate representators of his glory, of his person. Accurate, seen in our divisions and seen in our choices. Are you still with me? Yes, sir. Glory to God. Amen. That's what you're becoming. That's what you're becoming.

So when I see a believer come here for six months, I'm expecting that if we've been doing something, you shouldn't be the way you came. You shouldn't be. It's not possible. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? It's what it means to be a Christian. See, it is possible to go to church for eighteen years than not become anything. In fact, you become worse. I have seen people who are pastor's children, they are worse off for it. The moment you give them a little bit of freedom, that's when they become everything they've intended because they felt caged all along. So you releasing them meant that you've given them freedom, and now they can just go into the world and become a disgrace both to their father's name and to Jesus.

A lot of the time, that's what you see. So you being born in church, you growing up in church has no benefit if you are not becoming like Jesus. It has done absolutely nothing in your life. See, what I'm trying to tell you is it is possible to still be viewed yet be coming to church. It is very much possible. And if that is your case, you can dress like us and talk like us. I told you this on Sunday last week. You can dress like us and talk like us, but it's only a performance. You are not here to perform. We are not performing Christ.

Christ cannot be performed. Do you understand what I'm saying? We're not performing Christ. If you want performance, go and watch passion of Christ. Somebody has already performed it. That's not what we are doing in this place. It's not a performance. We're not learning Christian language, learning Christian diction, learning not to talk like Christians. That's not what is happening. It's not makeup.

We are not augmenting your horrible self. I'm trying to make what is not there look better. I'm spraying perfume on dead meat. Say, we know we know it's dead, but let me... You can still package it. You can still package it. And now we spray perfume. We drive it nice. That's not what are trying to do in this place. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

That's not it. This is not a fellowship. This is not a careless guardian of young people who just come and dance on Sundays who are excited for nothing. That's not what we are doing here. Listen. It's important that I correct this mentality because it's important that you know what you are becoming so you can partner with the process of becoming it. Otherwise, you'll be frustrated when the process begins because what you are supposed to become is the image of God. Can you imagine God? Can you imagine Jesus? Who is the express image we are looking at?

Telling God, give me a moment. I've got to attend to these matters. I mean, what can be more important than beholding Jesus? And an opportunity and a privilege again for you to become and spend time with the monarch of your soul. What is worth pursuing if not forced? Do you understand the distortion in the mind? It makes you wonder as a man of God, what are you not laboring for? Sometimes you will look at Paul. You will understand why Paul be vexed. Paul said, oh, foolish Galatians who have bewitched.

You don't know why he's vexing. In Galatians, look at what it says. Four nineteen. Yes. Anyhow, tell now. One, three. Go. Oh, my dear children. I bless you and go. Give me amplified.

One, two, three, go. Give me t p t. One, two, three, go. He said, until this thing happens. It describes his experience in making sure this happens. Give me a note again. As someone going through labor pain. Just... And this labor pains I'm going through, they will continue until Christ is fully developed in your lives. Now imagine somebody going through labor pain for you.

And the more they are not going through labor pain, the more horn is growing in your head like this. They say, what is it becoming? He said, mama, real. Called a lay. They checked the image that they are laboring over, trying to... Trying to paint the image of Christ. And they came after one year. They said, what's this? What's this? Paul will say, oh, foolish Galatians, who have bewitched you?

Who has bewitched Who have bewitched you? That's what he said. Because we think that what we are doing is just religion. You know, church for many people is religion because it's something that you were used to growing up. So every Sunday is a painful exercise they don't want to do, but they have no choice but to do. You don't understand what I'm saying? Son, they come like this. They got... Then he wakes up. He dresses up.

To now make the matters worse, his father is now a dick in or something. When they finish church by choice, he will now go and sit down one place. He has nothing to do. There's one meeting to another meeting. When he now sees the father stand up and say, finally, we are going. And as they pass away, ah, sir, dad is calling you. Finally, around three, they will now leave church. The guy is angry. Angry with church, angry with God, angry with his father, angry with his mother, angry with his siblings. Let's just get the market.

They will not park there again inside hot sun. The car has no AC. Nothing. The mother will disappear another one hour lost again. And every Sunday, it's a repetition. So the guy now, the guy, when you tell him come to church, he's only here to come and fulfill all righteousness. Let my mother not say I did not go. Let my father not say I did not go because that's why he came. This is not the place for that. There are many places, but this is not the place for that.

It is not. It is not. It's not here. Because here, we are laboring as though we are giving birth. That's how the pangs are because there is something we want to see. This is the heart cry of every genuine man of God that will look at your lives and there is something you are becoming. Paul says, Christ be formed in you. Until Christ be formed in you. That means your decisions will be altered. Your thought pattern will be altered.

Your thought pattern, it will be altered. I've taught you this, to feel after Christ, to think after Christ, to feel after Christ. It can't be said, therefore, that on a Sunday, a believer who have been teaching says, I don't feel like coming to church on a Sunday. On a Sunday. It's why we still have to put Christ in you. Let it not be heard. We can't be saying that we are in the move of God and we are behaving like like children. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Sir. Can't be saying that.

Can't be saying that as the deer pant after the waters. So the only time you can pant after God is when you're in church. You now say pray. You can shout and pray. But you will not remember to pant after him when you are in your house and you have to make a decision to come to church. Come on now. My point in this teaching is to show you how a man sustains the glory, especially what he has beheld. Because you see, what the man of God does to you... Let me show you what the man of God does to you. In John chapter one thirty five, what the man of God does to you is what John the Baptist did for his disciples.

When you read John chapter one on verse 35 to verse 39, the bible tells us that John the Baptist was standing with two of his disciples and then he saw Jesus walking. And the moment he saw Jesus walking, he told them, behold the lamb of God. The two disciples now heard what John said. Meanwhile, that is the responsibility of the teacher. What is the responsibility? To show you, to point, to show you. He will not help you to behold, but he will show you whom to behold. He will not point your sight to your limitations, to your inadequacies. Mm-mm. It will point to Jesus.

It will point to the lamb of God, and it will say that's it. Behold him. Look at what your vision must be. The moment Jesus turned and he saw two people following him, he asked them, what are you people looking for? What do you seek? And the Bible says they responded saying, Rabbi, where do you dwell? Where dwellest thou? Where are you staying? I love these people. And Jesus said to them in the next verse, come and see.

They asked Jesus, where are you staying? Jesus did not say, what's your business with that? He says, come and see. The bible says, they came and saw where he was staying. Give me the KJV. They came and saw where he dwelt, and they abode with him that day. They abode with him. They followed him. They stayed with him, followed him to where he was living, and dwelt there. They followed Jesus.

In other words, the testimony that they received from John brought them into a personal encounter, into a personal fellowship with the one that John was speaking about. And I believe that there is something here for every person who attended the manifest conference, that the purpose of a minister revealing Jesus to you is so that you might come to know Jesus yourself. So that you would not stop at the minister saying, behold Jesus, but you yourself will now start following him to the point where you now dwell with him. That was a decision that the disciples made by themselves. A minister of the gospel can open scriptures to you. He can show you things about Christ that you have never even understood before. He can. He can teach you the word of God in such a way that your heart is stirred, and then you begin to recognize dimensions of the person of Jesus that were previously unknown to you. Through the man of God's teaching, You can come into greater understanding of the finished works of Christ, of the glory of God, of the love of God, of the things that have been made available to us in him. But you must understand that the minister, or let me say, what the minister has shown you should provoke you to a deeper pursuit of fellowship with the Christ that has been revealed.

That means you cannot continue to consistently depend on another person's knowledge of God to sustain your own spiritual life. At some point, you must follow Jesus by yourself. Don't the Baptist can say, behold, the lamb of God. The moment they point, you'll not say, oh, wow. It's looking nice. Mm-mm. You begin to follow yourself. You begin to ask after what he's doing, what is in his heart. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.

Yes. That's the assignment of the teacher. That's even the joy of the teacher. Thank you. Praise the holy spirit. If the only time that scriptures come alive to you is when somebody else is explaining them to you, you must begin to give attention to your whole relationship with Jesus. You must. The things that the teacher has taught you about Jesus should always create a hunger in you to know him for yourself and like the disciples to follow him for yourself. The things that your man of God has seen should make you desire to see. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. The understanding that is opened up to you should make you desire to search scriptures yourself, to pray, to meditate upon the truth, to give yourself to fellowship with the Lord. Think about those two guys. They could have remained with John, I hope you know. John would have been teaching them everything he had heard about Jesus. They could spend the rest of their day talking about how accurately John could describe Jesus. In fact, I've seen people who are mostly engrossed when the man of God is talking encounters with them. So if I came here for instance and I'm telling you how I saw Jesus and what he was wearing, you are enchanted, almost as though, wow. Wow. As though somebody has spent a movie for you.

But all of that means nothing. It does not draw you into an encounter. It doesn't draw you into a fellowship. It doesn't make you decide by yourself to follow. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Look at something else that Jesus said. In John chapter eight from verse 30 to verse 31, Jesus says, as he speak these words, many believed in him. Next verse. Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in him, if you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed.

If you do what? Abide in my word. If you abide in my word. If you continue in my word. That's the word translated abide. It's the word continue in my word. These people had heard him. They had believed in him, and he was showing them that there was a responsibility to remain in what they had received. And I want you to understand that this is one of the areas where many believers must come to deliberately. You must become more deliberate about this.

There are people who give serious attention to the word of God when there is special program. When we have a conference, they come for the meetings. They sit under the teaching for several hours. And for the times and the days when they are under the teaching, their minds are constantly being exposed to the truth. Their heart become tender whilst they're in the meeting. Their understanding is being enlightened whilst they're in the meeting. And they begin to see things somewhat differently. But immediately after the conference, they withdraw their attention from the very word that was producing these changes inside of them. And after three or four weeks, you now look at their life and then they themselves now begin to wonder. Why they are no longer experiencing the same level of clarity that they had during the meeting.

Why they're no longer experiencing the same level of sobriety that they had during the meeting? But when you ask yourself a question, what have you been giving your attention to? The moment Jesus was pointed to you, what did you do after? What did you do after? What did you now feed your mind with? You came to the meeting and you saw Jesus. What did you do after? And do you realize that what happened during the meeting does not really matter? During the meeting, can stand like John the Baptist and shout, behold Jesus, and you see Jesus. The question is what happens after the meeting?

Will you leave that place and start following him like this? And they will not turn and say, why are you following me? Say, plea... I want to know where you are. That's where I want to be. That's what they were saying. Where I am is where you are. That's what they were saying. You walk through me. You live in me.

Where prayer is where you are. You walk through me. You live in me. Listen. Are you still with me? Yes, sir. Glory to God. Glory. What do you do after the meeting? What kind of conversations do you entertain after the meeting?

What have you been giving your attention to since the conference ended? What have you been listening to? What have you been feeding your mind with? What kind of conversations have you been having? Ask the question. What has been shaping the way that you think? Because during the conference, you are deliberately exposing yourself to the truth of God's word, and that truth was influencing your understanding. But if now, after the conference, you now begin to feed upon things that oppose what you have received deliberately. Or you completely even neglect the word that you have received. Then you should understand why the influence of the teaching.

Now becomes weaker in the way you think. Now becomes weaker in your mind. Now becomes weaker in the way you see. It's also the reason why people repent in church. And go on Monday and do the very things they have repented against. Because behold Jesus can bring you into worship, can bring you into awe, can bring you into all kinds of experiences. But when you have beheld him as the man has pointed him, what do you now do? Do you follow or do you stay there? Or do you go your own way or do you turn away? In John chapter 15 from verse four to verse five, Jesus begins to explain something important, he said abide in me.

And I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abides in the vine. No more can you, except you abide in me. It says I am the vine, you are the branches, and whoever abides in me and I abide in him, the same brings forth much fruit. For without me, you can do nothing. Look at what Jesus is describing. Even illustration of vine and branches, and he tells us that a branch cannot produce fruit independently of the vine. The branch receives the life through which it produces fruit from the vine to which it is joined. Is that much so? Yes, sir. If that branch becomes separated from the source of its life, it loses the ability that it has to produce fruit.

So when Jesus says abide in me, he's teaching us the necessity of remaining in fellowship with him as the source of fruitfulness. Glory to God. It means if you'd not make a conscious decision to abide in the same way that the disciples decided to abide with him, Any experience you might have had in any meeting will feed off after a few weeks. Some people left by a few days, some even after a few hours. Are you with me? God has already done certain things in your life. There are truths you've received already. There are convictions that you have established in your heart. There are transformations that have already begun even by the ministry of the word of God. Is that not so?

But now you must continue in fellowship with the one who has worked these things in you. Otherwise, it will fade. You must remain under the influence of his word. You must continue to give yourself to him. So if you go back to second Corinthians three verse 18, it says, we all with open faces, beholding is a continuous activity. Beholding, not we beheld, not we behold. It's beholding. It's a continuous thing. That means the beholding does not happen at the instant when the teaching was taught. Do you see what this is?

Beholding. So if John says, behold the lamb of God, the instruction is beholding. So it means after John has told you to behold and you behold, what do you now do? Beholding. It means if the lamb now lives where John was, what do you do? You beholding. That's the instruction. That's why the disciples left. Yes. It's not just behold.

See, ah, glorious. Mm-mm. It's beholding. In other words, take the teachings and continue to listen to them again and again. Beholding. Plant yourself in the atmosphere you were. When you have the encumptance you had. Recreate the atmosphere again in your room. You can't leave that place and then go and play a whiskey song just after. You don't understand the purity of spiritual things.

Don't be a fool. That's why nothing is changing your life now. And neither hot nor cold now. Mixing different things together. Can't you see? Can't you see? The problem many of you have is you have not invested yourself enough in the world. You have not. You have not. And an instruction that Paul gives us in Hebrews chapter two verse one, I want us to read it together.

Are you... Can you see it? One, two, three. Go, everybody. Read it again. Personalize it. Therefore, I will give more energy to these happen less I keep you here. Is this simple? So how do you ensure that you don't drift away? Because he's talking to people that have already heard something.

It doesn't that you... They have to give the more earnest heed to the things that they have heard. In other words, you must become deliberate about paying attention to the truth you have received. How do you do that? Is it by listening to you once? No. No. Lest you drift away. Lest at any time, you should let them sleep. Lest you drift away.

So the scripture is showing that it is possible for a man to receive the truth and then after having received the truth, gradually move away from the influence of the truth he has received because he has refused to give sufficient attention to what he heard. Are you still with me? Yes, sir. I believe it is something we must take very seriously. Yes, sir. Because when people begin to drift away from the things that they once believed, it does not always happen through major decisions that they take all of a sudden. No. That it happens gradually. No one just wakes up in the morning and just announce that they decided to abandon everything that God has been doing in his life. No.

At some point, he stops giving attention to the world. At some point, he begins to excuse certain attitudes. He postpones obedience to instructions, especially instructions he once considered important. And over time, what begins to happen is that the things that once carried great weight in his heart now begins to lose their influence over the way he lives. The things he used to cherish before. The bible says, let him that think his pants take it, lest he fall. Because this thing can happen to anybody. It can happen to the greatest of the greatest. It can happen to a man of God. It means even as a man of God, you have a responsibility to give the more earnest heed to the things that you have heard.

Otherwise, you will drift away. This is Paul speaking. This is Paul speaking. And Paul did not say, lest you drift away. Paul says, lest we include himself there. But if you see us standing strong, we are standing strong to the degree to which we meditate, We expose ourselves. We open ourselves again and again to the truth. If you see us standing strong, that means the moment you begin to excuse your your repeated exposure to the truth of the word of God, the moment you would find yourself drifting away of many convictions you once held there. Do you understand what trying to say? Yes, sir.

Imagine that during the manifest conference, God God addressed something in your life. Right? Perhaps there was an attitude that you had to correct, maybe a responsibility that you have been avoiding or an area of your life where you had wanted to make a change. Right? And whilst the word of God was being taught, you understood exactly what God was dealing with, and you sincerely made up your mind at that point in time to respond. But now the conference has ended. You returned to your normal activities. You told yourself that I would attend to that matter maybe maybe tomorrow. And then the following day came, and you postponed it again. You said, I'll deal with it tomorrow.

Then tomorrow came again, you postponed it again. Before you know what is happening, one week has passed. Another week has passed. Eventually, another month has passed. And two months have passed. And because you have repeatedly postponed your own response to the word, that instruction no longer carries the same urgency that it carried when it first came to your heart. That's what happens when you postpone your obedience to instruction. The instruction begins to lose its weight in your heart. Because when the instruction comes, there is a a heaviness with which it will come. That if you do not respond in that moment, what would happen is that the instruction will become lighter and lighter.

That day, if you had not if you had not obeyed, you look as though you wanted to die. The following day, look as though, it's not really... I can't do it. Then until it no longer matters anymore. That's what that's what makes... Do you understand what I'm saying? Especially when God wants to correct certain things in your heart that brings in alignment to his image. What makes people lose the impact of meetings like this. Stop this. Do this.

Correct this. Drop this. Block this. You write it down with fire. You note it. I was blessed in that meeting. Come. Car. Then you leave the place. Then it comes again.

You see, if you want to even help yourself, what you should do after leaving the place is to just reput... Go to YouTube and put it on repeat so that you will still maintain the weight. You will still maintain the weight whilst you're obeying. Somebody with me? James chapter one and verse 22. What are the exam? Read it again. Do you still remember second Corinthians? We all, with unveiled face, beholden as the glass. If anyone is a hearer of the world and not a doer, he's like a man observing his natural face in a...

Remember second Corinthians three eighteen again? Beholding as in the mirror, the glory of the Lord are being transformed. Now he's now telling us how transformation happens. It begins in verse 22 by telling you that ensure that when you are beholding the word of God, do what you are beholding. Don't only hear. Because if you are only hearing and you are not committing yourself to doing, what are you really doing? You are deceiving yourselves. It then goes on to say, next verse, that if you now hear the word and you don't do the word, what is happening is like you are a man who is observing your face in that mirror. Now the mirror here is a natural mirror. Are are you are you with me?

Next verse. It says, after you've observed yourself, you go away, and you immediately forget what kind of man you wear. In other words, you check out your face in the mirror and you just leave without paying attention to doing anything about what you are seeing at the moment. Is that not so? And you just forget about it. Do you remember what I told you about the limitation of the law? That the law was like a mirror. The problem with the law as a mirror is that it could show you what the problem was, but it couldn't take away what the problem was. It couldn't change. Is that not so?

Sir. Paul is now saying that the thing with the word of God now is the more you... The more a man continues to look at the word of God. There is a spirit inside of you that as you begin to look at the word of God, that only spirit in you is changing you, transforming you into what you are seeing. So when you go back to giving that second Corinthians three eighteen, when you go back to second Corinthians three eighteen, it now says, as by the spirit of the Lord. So you are being transformed into the same image as by the spirit of the So the one doing the transformation is who? The spirit of the Lord. But what are you doing? You are beholding. James is now showing you your responsibility as you are beholding.

You are doing. And as you are doing, the holy ghost will now be transforming, causing someone else to emerge from within. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Causing someone else to emerge from within. So as I'm speaking right now and I'm teaching you, what happens is that any dimension of God I'm speaking to you about, the responsibility of the holy spirit will be to engineer transformation within you. So that as I'm pointing that thing to you, the only ghost inside of you will now be saying, see now. See, this is God's expectation. This is God's standard. What you are seeing is a mirror. Are you with me?

That mirror many a times will not look like what you are. Let me explain it because the mirror is perfection. The mirror is the standard. So when you stand in front of the mirror and you are being taught, what you will be seeing is your own limitations, your own weaknesses, your own distortions. Do you understand what I'm saying? Are you with me? Yes, sir. That's what you'll be seeing. As you are seeing your own limitations and distortions, the holy spirit inside of you will now be telling you, now this is what you need to adjust to get rid of this distortion so that you can look like what you are seeing. So what it does is now begin to inspire instructions on your insight that come like do this, do that, try this, stop this, start this, give, empty, sacrifice, apologize, start...

Do you understand what I'm As you are moving in like that, as you are yielding yourself, what is happening is beyond what your eyes can see, an engineering is happening within. That someone who used to be teemed is not receiving instructions that goes against his timidity. They instruct... Do understand what I'm saying? Now you are not acting out the instruction because the only ghost on your inside is empowering you. So for instance now for instance now for instance now, He who dwells in the midst of the cherubim, shine forth. He who dwells in the midst of the cherubim, shine forth. Shine forth, shine like a mighty man, shine forth. Shine forth, shine like a mighty man. Shine like a mighty man.

Shine for. Hear me? So if as a man or a woman, you were born with a distorted image, but there are things that can even distort the image further. Examples of such things are traumatic experiences that can make a man who is already in a restored image by birth begin to now feel as though his life is not worse enough. That see, by reason of your birth and your background and your experiences, nothing good can come out of your life again. Maybe because the individual was molested at a young age, maybe because she was abused, maybe because she was raped, maybe due to accumulation of experiences that he or she had growing up. Perhaps she lost her father or lost her mother. Perhaps she had to be raised in an unfair background where there had to be a stepmother who was never loving or kind. And so every kind of authority figure she has ever experienced or ever... Or he has ever experienced is just horrible.

Now because of that, the the image has even become more distorted because now there is a way in which she now sees authority. There's a way in which she now views authority. There's a way in which she now thinks a person must be in authority. So he thinks or she thinks the authority is an excuse to molest. Authorities are an excuse to manipulate, to dominate, to intimidate because all she has ever seen is expressions of intimidation, domination, and manipulation. She has never had her will expressed. Nobody ever asked her, what do you want to do? They just imposed life on her, imposed... She's studying what she wants to study now because somebody imposed it. It was domination and intimidation.

Nobody cares what she thinks. Our opinion does not matter. Our choices does not matter. Now she's growing as... And as she's growing, she's a Christian. She's a believer. Are you with me? But there is a distorted image, a distorted image of our worth, a distorted image of our self, a distorted image of our confidence. Do understand what I'm trying to say? And the reason is because somebody has painted that image wrongly.

Now watch this. What will become the future of this is that that lady will fall in love when they are married, and she will effortlessly reproduce the same thing that have been done to her, to her own children. So that when the children is is is... She's raising her children, her children will see exactly what she saw growing up. Effortlessly so. It's not a matter of I would not be, I would not be. She has already become it. It's what she is she would do, not what she said. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Yes, sir.

A dog can look at a lion roaring and suddenly feel irritated by how it sounds and not decide that, ah, I'm not gonna back again. I will start roaring. That's how you sound when you say, I won't do what my father did. If nothing has changed on your inside. You don't understand? You don't have the capacity not to do it. It's only talk. It's only talk. It's like a dog that is talking. Yeah.

I will not back again. And he's he's saying that backing. You don't understand what I'm saying. The only way that that thing will not happen is if the dog becomes a lion. It means as long as the dog remains a dog, even if he hates to back, he will back. That's what I mean by mercilessly reproducing. You will hate it, but you cannot avoid it. You hate how you are behaving, but you cannot think that you are behaving. That's what I'm talking about. It's because nothing inside has changed.

So when you come to meeting like this and that dimension of Jesus is being revealed to you... You see, sometimes self, the way the holy spirit does this thing, the man of God does not even have to be talking about that specifically. It might just be what the holy spirit is showing you. Or it can be a teaching that is being taught, and the teaching, it might be on the fatherhood of God for instance. And God is telling you, go and listen to that message. As you pick up the message to listen to, you are hearing something that is making you see Jesus afresh, see Jesus anew. As you are seeing it, you are seeing a perfect expression that is showing you everything wrong with what you have built inside of you. And the holy ghost starts showing you, do you really see now that how you think is wrong, how you know is wrong, what you believe about God is wrong, what you believe about authority is wrong. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? It does not mean that at that point, everything will change.

How will it change? You will take it again tomorrow and continue to behold. Then you will take it again third day and continue to behold. Then you will take day four, day five, day six. Do you understand what I'm saying? Until the time comes when there are many symptoms that you are now experiencing based on that image you have accepted. For example, now you can't speak out in public. You will think, well, your own opinion does not matter because your own opinion has never mattered. So anywhere you have an opinion, you feel silenced. You feel embarrassed to speak just in case they mock you and they do all of these things.

As you begin to expose yourself, a time will come, you will be there like that. Something will come to your mind and the Lord will tell you, yes, say it. You struggle. You struggle. You struggle. You struggle. You say, hey. The window has opened. Oh, yeah. Speak.

Speak. This is a good idea you have. Speak. The window has opened. Alright. Does anybody have anything to say? Alright. No problem. So in the absence of no comment, we are closing. The thing will pay you.

It means you have not yet become. So what do you do? You go again to that message. You keep on hearing it again. That's what you do. That's how you behold. That's how you become. Don't just say, hey. Thank God. Don't don't lie to yourself.

Don't lie to yourself. If you're not yet married, you will marry. And you'll become horrible husbands if you don't become this thing I'm telling you. Horrible wives, horrible fathers, if you don't become this thing I'm telling you. And you'll be sincerely so. Your wife would just be speaking and tell the child, let me help you with your assignment. Maybe your child comes to daddy and says, daddy, come and help me with my assignment. And your wife sees that you are stressed and says, you know what? John, come. Come, junior.

Let me help you with this assignment. And then you become hungry. What do you mean? Are you saying I'm not smart? Woman, what is the problem? I've been warning you in this house. Always is subordinating authority. I am not seeing that you are becoming... You are expressing something because you can't help it. That's how you felt.

You felt as though, ah, look now. Look now. Look now. This woman is thinking I'm not smart. This woman is thinking... Whereas not... Nobody was thinking that. It's just a distorted image. And at no point did you surrender your mind to be gone so your wife gets a job. You that you have said when they were teaching in church of how they've given examples of husbands that will not want their wife to do well.

They will press their wife's head down. You will say, ah, what wickedness is that? And you did not know that you are the same wickedness. You did not know. You did not know. And everything was okay. As long as your own pay was $750,000 naira, your wife was collecting 200 k. Now your wife comes to a meeting like this and sows a powerful seed. God now opens one door. Somebody now favors her.

Now said, you know what? What we would do for you is that we will promote you and give you this role in this position. It come with a pay of 3,500,000, and it comes with an official car. We would even give an official house in an estate if you don't mind. And then your wife comes to you sharing the good news. You don't know when something rolls on your inside. It stung something like an echo you'd not know was there. That a, so this woman will not be any more than me. She said she will not be proud like this. She said she will not be feeling as though I'm not.

The woman came and was thinking, God, God has helped us. God has helped us. You were barfing that money, and she tells you, oh, sweetheart, I have to go to work. I've made your food. I've done everything. And what she said, she can't even serve me properly. She can't she can't even serve me properly. She... Because of the job, she she has changed. I knew it.

It doesn't take time. Is it not women? I knew it. The bible says that Adam began to bond children in his own image. That is exactly how your father abetted you in his own image. It's the labor of the holy ghost on your inside because you see, as long as that is there, what simply happens is God cannot be seen in that marriage. There is nothing of God that that marriage can exemplify. It means when we look at your marriage, the glory of God cannot be there because this is a distorted image in form of a man. Are you getting this thing I'm saying? Because the more you drop in what we are teaching, the more you don't know that it is mounting up to meet you in the future.

You will think it's child's play. You will think it's only about now because many of you are young. I thank God for those who are married. Very fast responsibility will mount up. Pressure will come. You will now remember when the apostle said that you can be on a ship and there's boisterousness around, the waves moving here and there, and the ship is about to collapse. Instead of being anxious and worried, just check what is Jesus doing. And you find that Jesus is sleeping. When you heard it, what it did is that it excited you. Yes sir.

So you shouted ah. But you did not behold it. You you didn't behold it. Oh, you did not behold it. Because if you did, that thing that Jesus is doing will not become your response. It now becomes what you'll be doing by default. Because as we behold, we become. You didn't go back to hear it again and again. You didn't stay long enough. Yet you know that you are someone who is prone to anxiety.

Prone to anxiety. Now you are 35. And they say you have high blood pressure. You have diabetes. You have hypertension. I want you to see what I mean when I say that your life reflects glory because there's a way we can spiritualize this thing that you think it's all spiritual. You would not see the practicality to your own life right now, to the decisions you are making right now, to the choices you are making right now. You cannot see. You can't see. You can't see.

We say you should behold Jesus. That's the only way you can learn holiness. You cannot. That your father... It's only by formality that we can say he has one wife because there are about 15 children in the family, but only one is just married officially. He has wife in local... In Kogi state. Has wife in Beni. Has another one in. Has another one in your village.

Everywhere that the man has traveled to, he has implemented a woman there Before he now finally met who is now your own mother. You have seen the conflict that happens in your family, but we say you should behold Jesus and be pure. You have refused. Now you are 15 years old. You have had five boyfriends. You don't see that you are becoming the same image. Now you are blaming your mother, asking your mother, were you blind? Did you not see that the person you are marrying is a serial fornicator before you married the person? Now you are setting yourself up for your children to ask you the same question. Because now you look at your family and you say, mommy, if you have not made this division, will not be here.

But now you are making the same things. I will say, behold Jesus. You think it's play we are playing. You have not seen how destinies have become aborted. You have not seen people with terrible potentials. Many of you have looked at your uncles and brothers, and you see how smart and intelligent they are. Yet they are so small and so little. When you look at their potentials, you would think this person should be more than this. You have seen pictures people have drawn on Twitter, and they've sold for 3,000,000. You know you know somebody in your family that has one small shop somewhere in Udinjo.

If you see what he draws, what he sells is spent in for is for 10,005, and he will even beg for one patent to be sold. I know this person is gifted. You should not be here. And by the time you are facing that one, you will see another one, a musical giant in the family can play five instrument. Nobody knows his name. Musical director in church, when he raises his hand like this and your clerk is asking it, oh, power of the holy ghost, but reduced potential everywhere. Now you are seeing the same trait of procrastination and lizeness. These same things are sabotage, this great destiny. You are seeing the same thing in your own life, and we say behold. Think it's a joke we are joking.

You keep on coming to church after you see ritual as to... It's that thing that you were doing when you were young. Don't realize that God has brought you here because Jesus loves you so that your life can take a radical change. That's what I mean by when his glory now starts to shine and radiate over your life. There are decisions you will now start taking based on the promptings of the spirit on your inside. They rest you up. We are warriors in this family. We don't have projects to anybody. That's how they raised you. No wonder there is ego and pride.

Your ego has ego and your pride has pride. You can't help it. You even come to church. The way they have so raised you, you see a man does not bow to any man. So even in the presence of God, God has become your mate. You you stand like this. God now blessed you with height. So when you stand your defiance, it will be obvious that you are rebelling. Lift your hand up and worship. Only your head is pointing out.

Like a starving giraffe, you all stand like this. Cannot worship, cannot praise, cannot dance. Oh, Jesus. I look at some people, I say, Kai, you can't bend down before God. Is it that pride you have? When life shows you what life can show you, you will not know when your knees are already touching the ground. You will think you are standing. It's when you want to walk. Wait. I'm already...

Ah, sorry, sir. Sorry, sir. Will they say Jesus? Let your life change. Become something. Sir. Become someone. Yes, sir. You say, here the teaching. Let it change you.

I think it's a joke. We are joking. Let it change you. Change your decisions. Turn you into a new man. Let's look at you and see a difference in your life. Let those who knew you from yesterday, you go back home with your results, and they say, Kai, this is the first person in this family, in this family, in this family. It will not be because something special happened in a meeting. It's that you kept on beholding. You kept on beholding.

You kept on allowing the words to cause transformations in your heart. And when the holy ghost was telling you, oh, you have bend now. You say, ah, it's beating me, but I will bend. And as you bend, what is happening is that an image is being repaired. You are you are becoming once again. Once again. Oh, no. No. No. You see yourself that you are drowning in condemnation.

Expose yourself to truth. Behold Jesus. Get messages. Great grace. Father of light. Keep on listening. Keep on listening. The time that condemning thought comes again and says you you want to apply for something like this, is it you that you are looking for? Get out. Who are they looking for?

If not me. A old son of God like myself. Hear me. If you notice that there is greed in your life, behold Jesus. Behold. Some of you might not even know something is wrong with you until you start beholding Jesus. It's a teaching you will hear and you'll realize that, Kai, this thing is wrong. This thing I used to do is wrong. At that point, you don't start arguing and looking for defenses and excuses and saying... And trying to say, maybe it's not that bad.

I'm trying to explain away limitation. Just because it's not a sin. It's not a... It's it's it's not a matter of whether it's a sin or not. It's more a matter of is it Jesus or it is not. Are you still with me? You will realize that you should be moving faster than you are moving. You... Some of you will realize that. I held myself down.

It's not God that held you down. I have held myself down. I've held myself down. Some of you will now take off with speed. Once you realize that nothing is holding you, nothing, no one is holding you, all the excuses you have been given is useless. You just suddenly see that, wait, Nothing is holding me. Nothing is holding me. I can be free now. I can be free. I can be free now.

Now. Today. Right now. I can be delivered now. I can be healed right now. It's the day you see him. It's the day you see him. It's the day you see him. That's why when when the holy spirit tells you to give and you hear teachings on giving, on the principles of giving, and now it makes for wealth, and you see something, you fighting the thing, fight that thing that is fighting you. Fight it.

Fight it. In fact, get more teachings that will make you a ridiculous giver. Turn your ears away from anything that will contradict your idea in your mind. There are instructions he will give you. He said, that guy now, that guy, block his number. Delete him. Delete his existence from your phone. That girl, erase her history from your phone. Erase erase her history. Let that cease to exist in your mind.

Erase. Erase. Erase. And don't apologize for erasing it. Don't, there's nothing to apologize about. When the glory of God starts to reveal in your decisions, and you start making decisions that point to Jesus, you don't apologize for it. That's the mistake that Moses made. What did he do? He veiled himself. We don't veil ourselves when God's glory is shining.

If the reason why my face is shining and you cannot look at my face is that I met with God. I will not cover my glory because of you. I won't try to explain to you why I have to do what I have to do and tell you, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You know, I know you love me. I love you too, but, you know, you know, you know, you know. But it's just that it's just that it's just that I don't hold you any explanation. Yes, sir. I am a changed man.

Yes, sir. That's the simple thing. If you cannot understand it, go away. Do you understand what I'm saying? Amit, I don't take bribe. It's as simple as that. I don't do for one night. It's as simple as that. Oh, guy. He used to do all these things before now.

I met Jesus' name. I met Jesus. Let those who will laugh, laugh. Because the fact that Jesus has conquered that area and his glory has been revealed is being revealed in that area, that's the hope you will now have to let you know that he will conquer more areas. And it's only very soon that they will see his glory to your finances. It's only very soon they will see his glory in your... Are you getting what I'm saying? But we don't veil. We don't veil. We don't veil.

We don't veil. We don't veil. This thing now that we are doing, it should end. So holy spirit has told me it should end. How do you end? How does it end? We just end. I just tell you that this thing has ended. I will not because I want to end it, now be a starting fight. See, I will now not pick your call.

And then I call my... Now say, what is this, sir? Because I want you to be angry with me. All of that now, I'm trying to obey the holy spirit. Start fight. It now end. You know, it's like you're smart in your own head like that. How is it trying to play smart like this? Oh, let let him that stole. Let him steal no more.

Let him walk that he might have to give. When Jesus told that woman, go and sin no more. Do you think she has a choice? Do you realize who was speaking to her? Do you know the depth of the word that instruction came with? When a man meets Jesus. Are you still with me, brother and sister? Sir, sir. Make it a responsibility from this meeting and effort that you will not be a casual person. But when we tell you listen to messages, this is why we tell you to listen.

It's not because our voice is so sweet we want you to hear it. There are no pain when you listen to our messages. I hope you know. I'm not looking for stream. Listen. Listen. Let us make money. That's not why. It's a labor we are laboring that Christ can be found in you. That the more you hear, the more you hear, the more you hear.

Yeah. Apostle, apostle, I'm still struggling. You have not heard enough. Expose yourself to this thing. Baptize yourself in the truth. Wake up with it. Sleep in it. Walk with it. Yes, sir. Go to toilet in it.

Yes, sir. Go to work in it. Drive with it. Yes, sir. Play it everywhere. Let it be blasting. In the day you want to make a mistake, you will hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way you walk in it. That is how transformation happens. Many times, even you will not even know that it has started changing because it will now announce itself. That's what happened to Moses.

The bible says his face was shining. Himself did not know. Himself did not know. When that thing happens, you will not know. You will be living your life normally, and your choices would have been changing. In your business, you will find out that steps you could not take before and you felt were too big for you to take. You say, ah, it becomes easy for you. You have been operating in one branch, and then that's been coming to your mind. I really have multiple branches. But you just put it somewhere like as though it's not for you.

You don't know when you go for meetings you... With with your staff, and you tell them, hey. So I want us to even start a branch. Some of them will be surprised because they remember when they came to come and tell you this thing last year, and you told them, no. No. No. No. It's not for us. It's not for this. Now you are coming and then they are saying, my god.

Something is changing somewhere. You start building structures around your life, around your business, thinking like a wealthy person, building like a wealthy person. Conferences you would not have paid for to attend. You would have said that, at those people wasting money. Now your mind should have changed. You gather a whole 50,000, a whole 100,000 to go and pay for a conference because you want to hear what will change your mindset. Are you still with me? See, Yes, if you understand the excellence of God if you understand the excellence of God, you will know that church is not the reason why you will fail. You don't know God, that's your problem. Are we not one student?

Did we not go to school? What are you saying? There's a way you will live your life where you know that the expectation of God for your life is excellence. It is the expectation of God. See, laziness will jump out by itself. You will not be thinking you will not be thinking about your mother, about your father. For those who are students in this place, if your mentality is still that of, ah, come on. I can't read if I feel like this, my mother. You have not seen God. In the day that you see God, the only motivation you will have is let your name be glorified.

That's the motivation you will have. You'll be imagining in your mind, Kai, if I have a first class right now and they ask me, how did you do it? Your spirit would have been reasked. In the day you are collecting awards, you would tell them it is the inspiration of the almighty. You will sit down, you will read. You will study. Hours will be there and you will study. Hours hours will be going like this, you will study because you have seen the impact of the name of God on what you are doing. It's also why you will pay attention to your business and what it becomes. Yes, sir.

You will see the need for a prosperity beyond yourself, beyond your canality beyond your canality. You see somebody wasting his life and destiny away up and down with dumping from one hotel to another hotel, hopping from man to man, hopping from woman to woman, you will see something about the glory of God and the beauty of his holiness. You will realize that Kai... If the... You know nothing of I don't have anything to lose? Nothing of I don't have anything to lose. That mentality of I don't have... Even if they catch me, what's that? There's nothing to lose. Glory is at stake.

Yes, sir. If you see God, then you will know there is everything there is everything. There are things to lose. You will realize that your life can bring mockery to his name. Stop. Do you understand, friends? Yes. Stop. You will become responsible believers, responsible fathers, responsible mothers, responsible husbands, responsible wives because you will know there is glory at stake. My life is meant to point accurately to another.

My divisions are important here. The one you want to shout in public next time as you're, you will remember. You will remember. You will remember. Who knows where I will meet this person again? I might want to preach Christ to him one day. It wouldn't be you that they are sitting outside slapping people and shouting with people. God has to cut something in you. You can still be hungry and be possessed as though the demon that makes people mad in your family is still walking in your head. You'll be seeing smoke in your mouth like the smoke coming out of your nose, like the bull because you're hungry.

Because you're hungry. You're not be saying, that's why I don't get angry. I don't get angry. But when I get angry like this, when you get angry like this, you don't get angry. You don't get angry. You don't get angry. When you angry like this, When you kill somebody, you'll be your eyes to come down, and get angry like this. You don't know that. You don't get angry. You don't get angry.

You don't get angry. It's exactly what the devil needs. When you get angry like this, will not be the day where your helper is coming. The problem for many of you is not that Jesus has not revealed himself to you. So he's not even reveal yourself to me. That's not the prayer. You have seen him severally. You have seen him in the word that you have been taught. The problem is you have not committed yourself to follow him. That's where you are lacking.

You have not said like the disciples. When John the Baptist told them, behold the lamb of God, you did not you did not follow. You did not follow. That's where your problem is. That's that's where your problem is. So if we need to pray a prayer at all, it should be give me grace to follow. Listen, there's a science to spiritual hunger and the heart of sustaining it. Science it. We've had this fire for a long time For a long time. We've been doing this since 2014.

Count how many years that is. So I understand that it is possible for a man to be on fire and stay on fire. That is not mysterious. It's not mysterious. You can't be exposing yourself to nonsense perpetually and then wonder why your life is the opposite of Jesus. When we started this journey, there was a family of people that were going the same place we were going. Those were the ones we used to talk to. It was easy for us to pray. We shared testimonies with ourselves, and we challenge and inspire ourselves in righteousness. By the time this brother is telling him what he's doing, this is by telling him what he's doing.

Results that they've experienced in their ministry, in their lives, it inspires you to press more, to press deeper. I remember those days. My roommate went on twenty one days dry fasting and prayer. Twenty one days dry fasting and prayer. I waited for him to see whether he will make it. When I confirmed after twenty one days, was alive. I waited for forty days. We were challenging ourselves, dry fasting and prayer without eating anything. I was drinking water. I didn't even think I could do it.

You didn't even cut my mind to do. But the point is, I I was surrounded with people that were pressing. You understand what trying to say? It was easy to press. There's a science to this thing. When he comes and he tells me, oh, I'm giving this amount of money. I'm expecting the amount of money. I'm giving this. I'm giving that. I'm...

Oh. Again, I'm challenged. I'm inspired to do better. Now I've gathered myself. The people will talk... Everything we'll talk about is nonsense. Nothing edifying to the soul, to the spirit. Nothing. And you wonder why you are losing fire. Come on now.

Let's not kid ourselves. Let's not kid ourselves. There is a foolish clique of believers. When they gather together, the only thing they talk about is man, husband, wife. When will you marry? They will now be mocking themselves. You you are single. You are single. Singlet. Singlet.

What a pity. I can imagine their angels just watching and shaking their headlights. Shaking their headlights and... Look at this nonsense. There are conversations we should be having that can steer us to... That can provoke us to anger. Every time we discuss, we are always challenged to do more. So we don't have to wait till Sunday to hear opposed to preach. The same effect that I have when I'm supposed to preaching. I have three friends that when we speak together, the same thing is here entered on my inside.

My heart my my heart begins to burn begins to burn begins to... My heart begins to burn. That's what Paul meant when he said that you have become our epistles, and known by all men. That's how a man gets there. Read and known by all men is how a man gets there. You can't refuse collection. You can't refuse instruction. Look at what Paul says. He says all scriptures was given by the inspiration of the holy spirit. Why was it given?

For instruction, for reproof, for correction. Instruction, reproof, correction. Doctrine is there, instruction is there, reproof is there, correction is there. That the man of God might be thoroughly furnished. So there is no thorough furnishing for a man that rejects reproof and correction. It's part of the responsibilities of scriptures. It means by the time you behold Jesus, there are times he will bring reproof. There are times he will bring correction, and he will use men many a times to bring it. You can't reject it and be transformed. It's not possible.

Somebody will look at you and wonder why you behaving in this manner. You don't speak well. Your words are not seared with grace. When you are angry, you speak anyhow, and they will bring you correction. In so doing, you are becoming like Jesus, especially when you obey. You're becoming like Jesus. That's the mandate of Christianity. That's the mandate of Christianity. This is how when you are in the marketplace like this. When you are in the marketplace in different spheres of influence, regardless of where you are, it will be obvious that you are submitted to a life.

It will be obvious that Jesus owns this one. The mark of Christ is upon you. The image you bear will be obvious regardless of whatever territory that you are in, and you are not ashamed to associate with that glory. Yes, sir. How many of you are going to serve? I'm going for NYSE. The question ultimately will be, what image do you bear? Or have you been joking for four years or five years whilst I've been coming to church? Have you been joking? Has time been wasted on you?

Say time will not be wasted on me. Say I'll be a wise believer. Yes. Yes. Eyes up on your feet. See. See. Let me tell you something. You cannot claim to be a Christian. And something is happening within you, you have come to church and you are being blessed.

And you will be in conversations where the things that matter to Jesus are being mocked and you will be comfortable there. No, no, you're not being transformed. You're not being transformed. Mocking the church, mocking pastors, mocking men of God. Because it's not your man of God does not mean that you should be celebrated when the person is being mocked. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. Yorubas have a proverb that they say. They say when a child is rejoicing because stones were being thrown to another person's house and he's happy, he said one day, the stone will reach his house. You know what that means?

You don't choke your mouth because... Don't don't do that. Be mature believers. Let it be obvious you have been taught. Let it be obvious you have been trained. That your life brings God glory. And when God sees that your life is bringing him glory in several areas, he will not be ashamed to invest glory on your inside. That's the prayer that Jesus prayed, glorify now thy son. So there is a point where a man can say glorify now thy son. Where you you are going for a business meeting to go and sign the contract, and your prayer point is father, glorifying now thy son.

You know why? Because your son will glorify you. Because up until that point, your your life has been giving God glory. It's not on that doubt that if you get that contract, truly heaven will get the glory. Truly, God will get the glory. Have you have you been blessed? Yes, sir. Take the impact of what you have heard. Take the impact of what you hear every meeting time. Don't let it leave.

Don't let it die just because you left church. Don't let it die. Don't let it die. Don't let it die. Don't let it die. Don't let Let it it die. Die. Glory to God. Be wise. Let the glory of God be reflected in your decisions, your decisions, your everyday divisions, the choices that you make.

Don't be a greedy person. Don't be a what? Don't be a greedy person. There's nothing you have to benefit. I've told you before that the poor are greedy. That's why some things can only work on the poor. Some things can only work on what? On poor. A man with a wealthy mind cannot think some ways, cannot make some divisions. You will ask questions.

Even when somebody bring you some certain offers. I've told you the rich and the poor. Yes, sir. I couldn't complete that teaching. So much to discuss. You need to behold Jesus. Your name will not be mentioned in some places. Are you a Christian now? A Christian. Put some deep into it.

Say I'm a Christian. A Christian. What church does it go to? You are laboring. You are laboring. Do you understand what trying to say? If you notice that I'm I'm not bold. I'm not a bold person. I'm not a confident person. I've thought you again and again that this world this world is extremely unfair to the timid.

It is brutally wicked to the timid. And you know that you are a timid person. Won't you go and get teachings like pillars of dominion? The audacity of faith, the heart of a lion, and listen to it until something is wounded in you. Until you become so bold and confident that we have to be begging you to calm down. Listen. Be interested in transformation. Give yourself to it. This is where we're from the name of Jesus. Amen.

Bless God for what you've received. Bless God for what you've received. Thank you precious holy spirit for what we've heard. Let's go. Come on. Let's go. Let's go. Bless God. Just bless God. Thank him.

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