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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. Thank you Lord Jesus. Genesis chapter 27 and verse 30. Genesis chapter 27 and verse 30. It's going to be a long read as we're going to be reading to verse 40. Now it happened as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, and Esau's brother came in from his haunting. He also had many savory food and brought it to his father and said to his father, let my father rise and eat of his son's game that your soul may bless me. And his father said to him, who are you?

So he said, I am your son, your firstborn Esau. And Isaac trembled exceedingly and said, who? There is the one who hunted game and brought it to me. I heard all of it before you came, and I have blessed him, and indeed he shall be blessed. When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, bless me also, O my father. Bless me also, O my father. But he said, your brother came with the seat and has taken away your blessing. And Esau said, is it not rightly named Jacob for he has supplanted me these two times? Took away my birthright and now look, he has taken away my blessing. And he said, have you not reserved a blessing for me?

And Isaac answered and said unto him, indeed, I have made him your master, and all his brethren have given to and all his brethren have given to him as servants. With grain and wine, I have sustained him. What shall I do now for you, my son? And Esau said to his father, have you only one blessing my father? Bless me. Bless me also, oh my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. Then Isaac his father answered and said to him, behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth. Your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth and of the dew of heaven from above. By your sword, you shall live and you shall serve your brother and it shall come to pass.

Now I hope you understand that all of this from verse 39 is the blessing, the one blessing that Esau has been asking for. And so the blessing reads, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth. And of the dew of heaven from above. Continue instilling that one blessing, by your sword you shall live. But the consequence of the blessing that I have placed upon your brother, which cannot be reverted, is that you will have to serve your brother. Because I have told your brother that all his brethren shall serve him and you are a part of his brethren. And so consequently, by reason of the blessing that they have placed upon your brother that cannot be removed, You will have to serve your brother. But it will come to pass. When you become restless. Still a part of the blessing?

When you become restless, then you shall break free. Or you shall break his yoke from your neck. When you become restless, you shall break his yoke from your neck. Very shortly, I'm going to speak to you on something that I've titled the blessing of restlessness. The blessing of restlessness. When you become restless, you shall break his yoke from your neck. I think it's the King James version that says, when you grow restless, when you grow restless, is it? When you grow restless, you see, when you grow restless. Many people remain in the same spot for years. Not necessarily because life is unfair.

But because they lack the drive to break out of limitations. You see there is a kind of dissatisfaction. That breaks you out of smallness. They are the kind of dissatisfaction that births progress. And it is called restlessness. When Jacob stole Esau's blessing, Esau was left with what seemed like nothing. But he pleaded with his father, don't you have just one more blessing for me? Bless me too my father, even if it's just a blessing. And Isaac told him by reason of the advantage that your brother now has, you will serve your brother. But there is a code.

There's a secret. A secret that if any man knows becomes the reason why he will break out of impossible circumstances and write his name on the handouts of time against all odds. But if you know this code, if you know this secret, when as yet you have no natural advantage, you can rise out of the backside of the desert, out of a village, out of the dustpan. You can rise from the midst of the hunter dogs. And become one that sets history, one that makes history. There is something a man knows. And it just so happens that this thing is a blessing. Against all odds, a man can rise. Out of a family that is heavily disadvantaged, a man can rise. Out of a nation that is known to be a third world country.

A man can rise. And slap his face on a global platform. That many begin to wonder how does such a man come from a third world country. A third world country. And come to become leader of leaders. And even those from first world nations. Now listen to him for counsel. How do men rise out of nothingness Out of barrenness. Out of obvious disadvantage. Isaac tells Esau, I've placed a blessing upon your brother thinking that it was you.

A blessing that cannot be revoked. A blessing that by reason of what I have placed on him makes you a servant. In other words, by default, you are already a slave. And you can do nothing about it. You will serve your brother. You have no choice about it. And it was not as though you are not hardworking. It was not as though you were sleeping. Because you were actually faithful. You went into the field to get venison.

You hunted for the venison. You searched for it. Your brother got it on a platter of gold. In fact, he was not even the one who got it. It was his mother that had. This guy was just sleeping. This guy was just dead, Probably on serious, probably playing with destiny, and the mother just overhears the conversation between the father and the brother and says no. This has to go to my son. Your son is doing nothing at that moment to have gotten that blessing. Did not even go and search for the venison or for the game.

The mother already has games because it's the wife. Has to have a husband's favorite food. And out of that, brings the food for her favorite son. And says go and force your brother and give it. Whereas, this other one was hustling genuinely. Laboring genuinely. This is what I call unfair advantages. Or natural advantage, unfair advantage. Why do I call it unfair? Because it's an advantage that is not open to everybody.

Let me give you an example. Can I be realistic with you? Yes, sir. If your father is a multibillionaire, you have an unfair advantage. There's no argument about it. It's just true. When compared with a boy of the same age, taken out of the slum and you are 14 is 14, you have an unfair advantage. If that 14 year old boy has a business idea and you have a business idea, you have an unfair advantage. You are not understanding what I'm saying. If that 14 year old boy dreams of studying medicine in Harvard and you dream of studying medicine in Harvard, you have an unfair advantage.

Whose dream has more likelihood of finding expression? Not by any spiritual force, not by any spiritual push. Just talking about two young individuals. And it happens that in life, there are just individuals With these kinds of advantages. In life. Such was the case of Jacob. Who was not looking for a blessing but he found him regardless. It found him regardless. Even the university of Ibadan. And you didn't come out of you didn't come out of the best background family wise.

You don't know anybody who knows anybody. You have no connection. And in that same university of a bible or in another university. He's the son of a governor. Who has political aspirations? The same way you have political aspirations. Without any spiritual forces, there's unfair advantage. That unfair advantage places some individuals ahead in life by default. Please stay with me. You'll be so blessed.

Amen. By default. If I wanna go into ministry, I wanna start ministry. And I have a vision that God has called me into ministry. I just have a vision that God has called me into ministry. And that ministry is gonna be a large one. And that platforms will be opening for me every part of the world. And my father happens to be bishop David Oedipo. Or my father is not even bishop David Oedipo. But by privilege.

By privilege. I got access to a great man of God. I was able to submit under him. Great man of God, widely known. And I was able to submit under him. And in my first meeting, as I'm launching out into ministry, I reached out to this father of mine and I said, sir, we're about to start. I don't know if it is possible to grace us with your presence. I'm probably not even expecting any reply, but your surprise, I will be there. And in my opening service, I have 5,000 people. May God grant you understanding.

Such a blessing. But the reality of the case is this, is that whereas that is good, whereas that is where you have found yourself, you are better take advantage of it. Because it is possible to be there and still fail. I will show you. It's a scriptures. Yes. It's possible to have all the advantages on your table and that becomes the reason you fail. My teaching today however is, can someone that all hearts are stacked against him? Can that person own a great ministry? Can that person build a great business?

Can that person become a great speaker? A worldwide speaker at that. Can that person be a great man of God, be a great apostle? Can that person who has no natural advantage, no obvious advantage? Can that person rise and become so powerful? That by the time you hear his story, you go back to a secondary school, and you are shocked at where he came from. And you say, my goodness. How can you come from this place and be here now? How do men come from this kind of education? You mean this was where you were taught?

This was the kind of school you went to? And now you are sitting at a panel discussion in the same chair, sharing the same stage with people that went to high school. How do men come out of nothingness and pave a way for themselves? Isaac told Esau, I can do nothing about the advantage that Jacob already has. But I can reveal to you a secret. I cannot revoke the advantage that Jacob already has. It will be foolishness to start praying for the downfall of another man. You have no business with that. But can you come from nothing? Can you?

At a age where nobody thought was possible, can you? Build something. Make something, grow something. That reaches the hands of the head. Can something come out of you? That feeds the nations. There are many melodies, many whisperings. In the wilderness, whisperings of greatness, melodies of greatness in the wilderness that nobody might never hear not because the melody is coming from the wilderness but because the one producing the melody thinks that because he's in the wilderness nobody will hear him. You'll be so blessed. So Isaac reveals to Esau a code.

And the code is such that at any time that you appear on the scene, if that blessing is upon your life, you can do more than the first man that came. Do you remember the parable that Jesus told? In that parable, Jesus said that a man who owned a large vineyard, large field went out into the street because he needed workers, needed laborers. And this man approached some laborers, and he gave them a job. And he went out at the first hour. Went around 12PM. And he hired some laborers. And he told them, negotiated with them, he said, how much would you charge to cover this field? And told him, why would we charge 1 denari? Let's put it in actual terms.

Let's say, we charge 1,000 naira because it's more than that, way more than that. But so you can understand what I'm saying. We charge 1,000 naira. And he agrees with them. And they start working. And he tells them you will work from 12PM to 9PM. Agreed? And they all agreed. For how much? 1,000 naira.

By 3PM, he goes out and sees some laborers not working rather just sitting down the street. Why are you not working? Said there's no job for us. Let me hire you then. And then he employs all of them. You worked till 9PM? Agreed. He said yes. And did not negotiate or did not tell them any amount. To give them.

The only people that he negotiated an amount with was the first one that came. From the second ones forward, he told them whatever I want to give you, I will give you. Whatever is right, I believe that was the word. What whatever is right, I will give you. In other words, I will estimate what you have done. And use what you have done to determine your reward. And they agreed. They came by 3PM. The next ones came by 6PM. Next ones came by 9PM.

9PM. Say that the work is meant to be done by ten. And he told them the same thing. The one that came by nine, I will look at what you have done and I will give you what is right. They agreed. So from the second set upwards, it was reward based. The first one was transaction based. Doesn't matter whether or not you cover more than what is a portion for you, you will still get 1 denari. Do you understand what I've said? Good.

And they all agreed. Now when it was time for payment, the first ones came, and Jesus said the master gave them 1 denari, which was what was agreed upon. 1,000 naira, give them. Then the second set came. And Jesus gave them 1,000 naira. The third ones came, 1,000 naira. The ones that came by 9PM and only walked one hour came and got the same 1,000 naira. Then the ones who came first became hungry. They said how can you give all of us the same amount of money? Weren't we working earlier than they came?

And Jesus said, let me judge between these two people. What do you mean weren't you working earlier? You didn't wanna agree on a particular amount? Did I not give you the amount you agreed on? Now, for a long time I think, I've always thought. What could be the logic? That would have made the master pay this lazy workers who he met outside. Who didn't have work they were doing. The same amount as those who came by. George PM, whatever.

And I found out in a revelation. That when the second set came by 3PM and the master told them, I will estimate what you have done. And I will use it to determine what your reward will be. Then they looked at what the one that came by 12PM had done. And they saw the grounds they had covered. And they realized that if we must get as much as them, we must do twice what they have done. To catch up and to cover. Then the third ones came, got the same contract. And looked at what the first guys had done, what the second guys had done, and said if you must get the same reward as them, then we must do three times. What the first guys have done?

And the fourth one came. I realized we must do four times. What the first guys have done. And in one hour, they were able to complete what some people started since 12PM. And the holy spirit told me that the time you came doesn't matter. The time you started doesn't even matter. It's not whether or not you started late. It doesn't matter. Do you know what age Catherine Coleman began ministry? You know, we speak about doing great things at the early age.

But many of you love Catherine Coleman. Have you read about her? That that woman began ministry when she was 70. In her seventies. But when she started active ministry. Everything you know about Ketri Kuman was between 70 and when she died. But you don't know people who were doing before she appeared on the scene. It doesn't matter. What time you came? Doesn't even matter what age you began.

That's why I said, the fact that you have the advantage of time can be the reason why you will still fail. Remember I said that? That the fact that you have an... The fact that you have all natural advantages on your table can be the reason, can be the reason why you sink into complacency. Because you begin to wonder, what else? I still have got time. That's why an 18 year old girl still thinks she's a child. Whereas somebody who has the same hodge that God is plotting on that 18 year old girl at 40. Now realizes that I don't have time again. You don't understand what I'm saying.

There is a secret and a code to early satisfaction that many have not discovered. And it is called the blessing of restlessness. Go and read that story. Go and read that story. And you will find out that the moment Jacob ran away from his father's house. He saw a stone, used that stone to make a bed. And because of the blessing that his father had placed on him, everything, the forces of nature started working for his favor. So much so, he stumbled by coincidence. What kind of coincidence is that? On the altar that his great grandfather had made, an altar that had become a portal, an access point to heaven with massive traffic of angels ascending and descending.

It was one of the stones of that altar that he used to make his bed. How do people stumble into such coincidences? What kind of a random event is that? Is that really random? But a blessing has been placed upon him. That's what happens when the man is advantaged. The man that does not have the blessing will need to search for that stone. The one that has that blessing, the stone will... It is just... It will just be the one that he just carries.

And he slept. And pow, encounters. He wasn't praying, he wasn't fasting, but the blessing was on him. Encounters. God appeared unto him. And what was what was meant to be an access point, a definite encounter that defines the next twenty three years of his life. Or twenty four years of his life. It became a pillow for him. So when he woke up, his testimony was, God was here. And I did not know.

God was here and I did not know. That's the language of someone that has everything given to him on a platter of gold. You can miss encounters And you don't even do anything to contend back for it. Because you are not even looking for it in the first instance. It's not as though you were searching... You just slept. And God came out and started giving you all these dangerous covenants, giving you all these dangerous promises. And lo and behold, you wake up from that encounter and say, God was here oh. And you just consumed about your life as though nothing just happened. As though no promise was made.

As though you didn't just see God. How can a man just have an encounter with God and still continue life like that? Come on now. How how does that not alter your next decision? How does that not determine the next thing you will do? How does that not make you start thinking of how how to align things in place to ensure that everything God has told you will come to pass? Look at verse 15. Let's start from verse 11. 12. Look at this.

13, the land on which you lie, I will give to you. I will give to your descendants. Next verse. Also, your descendant shall be at the dust of the earth. You shall spread about the West and the East to the North South. And in you and in your seed, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Next verse. Behold, I am with you and I will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I've spoken to you. Verse 16.

And Jacob awoke from all of that and said, surely the Lord was here. I didn't even know. You'd expect that somebody who has just been told that I will expand from the left to the right, north, south, east, west. Someone who has just been told, the land you are on, I will give you. That person was like making decisions to ensure that that prophecy became reality. Guess what he did? Me and an altar did all of that then traveled, got to Laban's house. The moment he got Laban's house, what he saw was a fine girl. He had forgotten the encounter that he had. Enough to make any decision that pertains to that encounter.

Or to even make that encounter come to pass. What is high is beheld was a fine girl. How can Isaac place such a blessing upon you? And said the smell of my son shall be like the smell of a field. How can Isaac say, I have sustained you with bread and wine? How can Isaac say? That your brethren shall serve you. That was what was placed on Nemo. Guess what contract he negotiated for a wife? He said he said, I will be a servant.

Do you know it wasn't Laban who suggested that to him? What was the blessing that was placed on him? Your brethren will serve you. What was he negotiating for your wife? You say I will. One of the brethren that was meant to serve him, he was serving. Laban was part of the brethren meant to serve him. It is why I told you that even natural advantage can become your undoing. If you still don't understand the blessing of restlessness. What the man that has the advantage and the one that does not have in common is restlessness.

And I will show you very soon. Because the day Jacob wrestled was the day the blessing materialized. What both of them have in common is restlessness. In the day you grow restless. Do you know why I was looking for that word grow? I will show you very soon. It means you can be restless. Just not restless enough. Because somebody can be restless enough to say, I don't even like how my life is going. I don't even like how my life is going.

But all of that complaint has not led to sustainable action. Truly is restless. But it's not just restless enough. Other words, in the day your restlessness come to maturity. In the Nobody will wake you up. An invincible force field will arise from your inside. You will know I must pray. You will know I must study. You will know I must read. Man of God, man of God, have a sleep problem.

You have a restlessness problem. Your problem is that you are just not restless. It is either that or you have advantage. And you have sunk into complacency like Jacob. So you have chosen to negotiate seven years for Rachel. So it doesn't matter to you when destiny appears. It can appear in the next seven years. Doesn't matter. Sir, sir, I have a problem. Every time I start something, I don't know how to continue.

They are still giving you allowance. That's why. That's why. There's no there's no there's no there's no cause for restlessness. You hear a man of God telling you that it is God's will for you to prosper. And you start arguing that prosperity is not in the, is not in, you are telling young people to give. You have not married yet. Your wife is not pregnant yet. You don't have demands yet. You are still a bachelor living in one room.

All you need now is to buy data of 10 megabyte. There's no demand in your life that compels compliance. If not, you will not be looking for excitement. You'll be looking for what works. So because you have the privilege of appearing before a man of God that provide what works. The deceitfulness of the fact that you have time makes you commonize what is valuable. So when you bring somebody who has lost it, and now is is meeting me, now makes it like where where have I been all my life? What you have commonized? You you start seeing that one producing results in six months. Of what somebody else who somebody else who I've lived here for three years have not even gotten.

And you wonder the same grace, the same one oh but different blessings of restlessness. Different proportions of restlessness. When seven years was done, they found out that it was not a fine girl. The damsel was not the one that was given to him. The guy could do snake bite, but Laban could do it more. And they ensured that in the day that he was given that wife, there was no light. So he could not reject the wife because he had had sex with someone he could not even see. So when he enter, he didn't he would... I... The thing held him so much, he could not even wait to say, are you the one?

He he just entered the room, held woman down and did what he wanted to do. When morning came, he he now found that ah. At that point, it was too late. You you have already ah. You have consummated the thing already. It was an intention. Then he went back and negotiated another deal. He said, well, we can't give the younger one house before the eldest. They don't worry. Give me the one I want.

I will walk another seven years for you as a slave. That's how many years now? Fourteen years. Before this man came, God intercepted his journey. And told him the land that you are in. The one that you are going to shall be yours. From that point henceforth, he was the one that determines when it will be his. God ensured to intercept his journey. So that by the time he got to Laban's house, wisdom will just minister unto him. All you will be looking for is how do I, how do the wealth transfer then that happen?

Laban, I'm a good business manager. That would be the deal he would have struck. Not that that bring no returns to him. You're not getting what I'm saying. That wasn't the mentality he took there. The mentality he took there is the mentality of a sport child. Who who who was not looking for the blessing when it came upon him. Wasn't even working for it. The the mother just came to wake him up and say ah, we are all bothered here. Just sat down there and before he knew, the mother was even the one that told him that your brother might kill you, you better be going.

But it it was a mentality of why are they stressing me? Why why are they why are they... Why... What is going on? Why is all of these things? It was a mentality of there's food for me to eat, there's wife, then what what what else am I looking for? And God was telling him, I will make you great. He was saying, what what's all of this? I just want food. That's who they gave the blessing to.

More than twenty years of servitude. Needless servitude. What did I call it? Servitude. One day one day science now came. After many years, many years, he now became restless. He was agitated on his inside. He was as though he was thinking one day and was saying, how can I live like this? It is under me that this man's business grew to become a multinational. When I came, he didn't even have one branch.

The building was lost in a small band somewhere. Yes, sir. The moment I arrived, exportations, importations. We are having international deals, signing national contracts, federal government deals. Yet, I don't have a car for myself. I don't have a house for myself. Yet, all the food we eat, get from him. I have no capital of my own, no asset of my own. What kind of life is this? What if this man ask me today?

What will be my own? Yet I already have a wife, two wives even, and children. I say, can't go to like this oh. Guess what? In that day, he had an encounter. You mean all the heavens was waiting for? You mean that the encounter was only waiting for a point where he decides that my life cannot continue in this manner. What? You had an encounter? You went to go and tell Laban.

He said, I'm leaving. Laban said, I have consulted the mediums, and I know by divination that you are the reason why God has blessed me. You know the question now? At what point Laban knew? We don't know. Could have known twenty years ago. The moment the first break happened in his business, Laban could have known. Laban was a good businessman. He's a man that knows how to retain his profits. So when he's doing, when he's doing, when he's meeting with his auditors, he wants to know what principle did we apply that got all the results.

And when he could know, when he when he could not find out what it was, he had to take it spiritual. Then when they were consulting the mediums, they told him, you, you, you, a boy, a boy recently joined your ranks. Whatever you do, don't let him go. And a visionless despite everything was available to him. He had everything. He had the laptop, had the phone. He could easily learn the skill when he wants to. To break himself out of poverty. The other guy that has that drive doesn't even know where the money will not have to come from. You don't get what I'm saying?

Yes, sir. He had relatives. The only needs to tell them is I have a business idea. And they will pick the interest to immediately say, how much do you need? The other one has nobody who you can even message. His coffees are not even being paid. Talk more a brilliant idea. You know why I'm saying this? Because those two categories are here. And both of them have a blessing.

But there is one thing that puts both of them in common. And it is the blessing of restlessness. In the day you become restless. Prophecies, promises begin to manifest. In the day you become restless. You break out of nonentity. You break out of mediocrity. You break out of nothingness, you break out of complacency in the day you become restless. The demands of destiny are hard for you now because you are not yet restless. You have not seen the need for one.

That's why you struggle with being prayerful. You struggle with consistency. You struggle with complacency. You struggle with mediocrity. You struggle. With procrastination, with laziness, and all this destiny destroyers. Because you are like Jacob. Either you are deluded into thinking that you have time. So you think time is your advantage. You got access to this truth very early.

You have time. Somebody told me, he said, he said apostle, if I not take my life seriously, I start doing all these things now, when will I not enjoy myself? You see, you see. When you feel as though that the advantage becomes the reason for stupidity. Only you have bought five books. You say, I want to read five books before the month of June. The first one you started and you read table of content and you checked how many chapters were there and you divided the chapters to see when you will finish And you marked it out very carefully. And you say, this is what I will do tomorrow. Will do tomorrow. And you close to that day, tomorrow I will start.

And the tomorrow is the tomorrow. You know it's tomorrow. So there's no which tomorrow. But tomorrow has not arisen till today. You have seen a Jacob that has fourteen years to waste. Backtrack a little bit to Issa's life. Do you really think that that guy will go and negotiate seven years for a woman? Do you really think that if... Do you really think that the next line of action when he leaves that place is to go and find himself a wife and say, I will spend seven years serving you. When he knows that by default, he's already a servant.

When he knows that by default, hogs are already stacked against him. They are the third category of people that is not mentioned there. Those ones realize that odds are already stacked against them. But they live as though they have all the odds. They live as though they control the cards. I don't understand those ones. They live as though they have option B. And option C, and option D. Just in case this one fails. How they live?

Because there's no matter advantage to them. But they've deceived themselves to think that just because we work with people. Or are friends with people. Or are close to people. And we can package ourselves to look or have a semblance. Of those who have attained, then it means we have attained. Yeah, those two. The part I love best about this story was when Jacob had an encounter and he told Laban that he would believe it. Laban said, Ablav, you can't leave. For the first time, Jacob now realized that there is no deal he has struck with Laban that Laban has rejected.

When he said I will serve you for seven years, he did not reject. He said okay. When I said I will serve you again for seven years, not reject. He said okay. You now realize that it may be the smell of my son that is like the smell of a blessed field that makes it that everything I ask for, I'm not rejected. I've been the one therefore asking for foolish things. Let me ask for one that will favor me. So he'll ask for something that was literally, logically impossible. That Laban would agree to because it was impossible. But they had an encounter.

And by the time the fruit of the labor came, it this had many years oh. After that time. But the many years was now accumulating, it was, it was a wealth transfer that was happening. Even that wealth transfer required consistency. For the first time, he had to be busy with his business. He had to always be there. He had to always show up every morning. That was what restlessness did to him. And the day that the blessings have multiplied so much. He decided it was time to leave.

And he left. The question was, what did he do exactly to Laban? He didn't do anything. He honored the terms of their contract. When Laban came, Laban still fought him. Laban realized that this guy had gone and chased him until he found him. He told Laban, he said, oh, he didn't even tell Laban anything. It was God that appeared to Laban. And said, be careful. If not, Laban would have killed him.

Be careful. God appeared to Laban and told Laban if you touch this one. By the time Laban got there, he has calmed down. He said why did you not tell me you were leaving? Whereas what he came to do was to kill him. It was still the blessing. It was still the blessing that made Laban. From a rowing lion into a calm ship, it was still the blessing. Stay with me, I'm going somewhere. Why didn't you tell me?

You just carried all my daughter and you were carrying them away. Why didn't you tell me you were leaving? And then they made peace. And you know the story. When they left the place, they were approaching Esau. Approaching Esau, going back to his father's house. Then he told all of them to go forward and he was left alone. At the point when he was left alone, he started praying. Restlessness does something to a man. With nobody teaching him, he knew that to touch something I must be alone and I must close the door myself.

Glory to God. I must be alone. He knew. The moment they all left him alone, he started praying. In that prayer, an angel now had paid unto him. I started telling him the same thing that he was told more than twenty years ago. But this time around, he held on to the angel and said there is something I'm looking for. There is how men pray when they are restless. And there's how men pray when they are not. There is how men how when they are restless.

And there is how men how when they are not. He told the angel, there is something I'm looking for and I will not let you go until that blessing materializes. Some things were promised me by my father more than twenty years ago and I've not seen the realization of that thing. I will not let you go. That is... That was the day a man became restless. That was the day a man insisted. But is there any prophecy that has been hanging over my life? Is there anything that God has promised that has not manifested? This is how I hold on to the horns of the halter and I insist that I will not die like this.

I will not die like this. I insist that my life will not continue like this. I insist that my life will not end like this. But a man can come from nothing. And insist that my life will not be defined by nothing. Because Isaac taught Esau, in the day that you become restless. That yoke that your brother already has over you by default. Would be broken from off your neck. In the day that you become restless. By default, you are a servant.

To your brother. The angel told Jacob, your name will be changed. You will no longer be called Jacob. Your name will now be called Israel. In that day, finally, finally, the process of manifestation of that prophecy started. Do you know not much is known about the life of Jacob? Because majority of what should have been known about his life in righteousness was spent in slavery. So the part of him owning lands, him becoming great, we never got to experience in scriptures. It was the part of his own children and his descendants. That script does not start revealing to us.

That's why we now see Joseph. And Benjamin and Gideon and all these things. But nothing spectacular about his own life. About anything that he did. Despite he got the blessing. By the time he met Esau, true to the prophecy that I have blessed your brother Jacob and that all his brothers, brethren will serve him. True to that prophecy. When Esau meets Jacob, what do you think should happen? Jacob should go there as a master. And Esau should come and prostrate himself.

And said, oh my master. And you would have known that than what the father said was true. But guess what? In the day that both of them met, It was Jacob who called Esau master. In fact, he said, my Lord. And you begin to wonder, how? Does this mean that the prophecies and the blessings that Isaac placed upon Jacob did not come to pass? Does this mean that it was not true? Oh no. It was that a blessing was placed on Esau.

It's a blessing that when any man has, it can break him out of the shackles of nothingness. It can break him out of the shackles of mediocrity. It's a blessing that when any man has, he can insist that I won't die in the village. And he will carry his bag the following day, not knowing where he's heading to. But he has insisted, I won't die in the village. He will enter into lacrosse not knowing anybody. And he will say my goodness, this is why I'm becoming rich. And with no odds, with no, with knowing nobody, you will see him walk to a shop. You will say ah, hello sir, hello sir, I just came from the village. Can I be your apprentice?

No, no, no, we are not looking for anybody. Ah, okay sir. Hurry up. Elosa, Elosa. And he works all the shop until he finds one. Is the blessing of restlessness. That makes a man says oh, I failed this course. Then what will it take to do another one? Or to do it again? And even be better now.

Empath it now. And take it serious now. Is the blessing of restlessness. The blessing of restlessness. That with no prophecy on you, no hands ever laid on you. No encounter you have ever seen. There is no track record that God ever appeared to Iso. No record anywhere that God ever told Esau other than the blessing of restlessness. When Esau saw all the gift that Jacob brought to him, Esau said, don't worry about this. I have enough.

You will think that he will be looking for scrap from his brother. You were meeting with a billionaire. You were meeting with someone who has escaped what looked like a curse that was placed upon him. Who had mutually no disadvantage. Everything was against him. But he insisted. He insisted. Some of us have insisted. Some of us have insisted. Do you know?

And when God called me into ministry, I don't know anybody. I don't even know how to start looking for men of God. To say, let's bring this man of God and invite and bring crowd. I don't know how to start doing it. I don't know how to start salutating myself and snapping myself and say I met this person. I put on my Facebook gather visibility. I don't even have the access to do that. Yet, the vision God has shown must come to pass. So I won't compare myself to those that do. The only competition I am in is with myself because my present must always be better than my yesterday and my tomorrow always better than my today.

I must not arrive at tomorrow and the same thing and the same man and the same person I was yesterday or today is the person I miss tomorrow. It means I was doing nothing today to be better tomorrow. By the time 2026 come, I must be richer than where I am now, more blessed, greater. It means I must have more skills. I must have more... There is something I must know in 2026 that I don't know now, but I'm currently learning now. And the reason I'll be consistent is because I have insisted that I cannot be the same person I am today, tomorrow. So if wealth will come to me and I say I will be great and I say I will be prosperous, then I must not be doing the same thing I'm doing now and expect that somehow my tomorrow will be different. It's not possible. It's not possible.

But yet, this is the delusion many people have found themselves in, and they are praying for a better tomorrow. And they make it look as though God is a liar. You make it look as though God is a liar. That intense dissatisfaction with your current state. That intense dissatisfaction with how things should be because of your background. That awareness that I may not have any natural advantage. But it compels you to work twice as hard to avoid stagnation. It is the refusal to settle for mediocrity and a strong drive to change your circumstances. It is the fire that compels action when no natural advantage exists. Even when there is.

Even when there is a natural advantage. Restlessness is the awareness of your potential. Your ability to recognize what is possible beyond your current circumstances. That rejecting the excuses that may impede action. It is the fuel for perseverance. It is the fuel for endurance. It is the fuel for consistency. It is the fuel for sustainability. It is the reason why you will look into the future and refuse any excuse in the now that may deny you the potential you see in the future. It is the awareness of potential.

What do I mean by that? In the day that you become restless, you will break the yoke of your brother off your neck. That means that there is potential in the future for me to gain freedom. Restlessness therefore is the awareness of that potential. Do you understand what I've said? It means there is potential in the future. Not so long from now. For me to be a wealthy man. For me to be a blessed man. For me to be a prosperous man.

For me to be a student in the University of Obadon, for me to be a graduate, a first class graduate, the best graduating student, for me to own a prosperous business, for me to work in a reputable company, for me to be a big woman. There's a potential in the future. Are there limitations in the now? Yes, there may be. But that same restlessness that has seen the potential is the same fuel that drives perseverance. That I will chisel through the problem. I will chisel through the mountains. Tidle through the obstructions. Until I see the future that I have seen. How many of you remember the apostle Paul?

It stands as a towering example of this restlessness we are talking about. Because unlike the original 12 disciples who walked with Jesus during his earthly ministry, Paul arrived late to the faith. He was a former prosecutor of the church. He was complicit in the deaths of several believers. His past was a stain. His credibility was questioned. His spiritual resume was empty. He had no natural advantage. No firsthand memories of the miracles of Jesus. He wasn't there when he healed the sick.

He wasn't there when he walked on water. He wasn't there when he raised the dead. He wasn't there when he healed the blind. He he witnessed nothing. No personal testimony of breaking bread with the Messiah before his resurrection. He wasn't there when he appeared to the 40 after his resurrection. Teaching them things concerning the kingdom, he wasn't there. At the upper room, he wasn't there. Where was the advantage? Yet, Paul's awareness of his advantages ignited a discontent within him.

He refused to let his past or his late arrival define his future. Look at what he said in new living translation first Corinthians 15 verse 10, It says, but whatever I am now, it is all because God poured poured out his special favor. The word special favor is what? Grace. God poured out his grace on me. And none without results. What was the result of the grace that was poured? The blessing that was poured. For I have worked other. I have worked harder than any of the other apostles.

How can a man come late? How can a man arrive late? Did not see Jesus. And yet he's an apostle. After the order of them that saw him. Walked physically. Broke bread with him. Appeared to them in the upper room. Spoke in tongues. After the order of the first.

And yet he did 10 times what they did. Wrote 13 new testament epistles higher than any other apostle. That became the foundation of our new testament belief. Came from Paul, a late comer. Came from Paul. Give me an NKJV. He said, even though I'm the least of all the apostles, his grace towards me was not in vain. How did I show that his grace was not in vain? There was a blessing that I had, that that grace supplied. It is called the blessing of restlessness.

I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not high, but the grace of God which was with me. The grace of God which was with me. This man pioneered several missionary journeys across continents, planting churches even in hostile environments where no other person did enter, Paul entered. Paul's restlessness wasn't born out of insecurity but out of revelation. He knew his past could not disqualify him. So he leaned into grace with relentless restlessness. He understood the weight of his calling. He understood the cost of his redemption. His past failures became fuel, not chains. Is late start only sharpened his urgency.

Are you leveraging your disadvantages as excuses or as accelerants? Like Paul. God's grace comes to meet restlessness. And when that happens, it births supernatural results. When the world says you are too ordinary, you don't have any advantage, you are too late. Restlessness says, I might not have any pedigree, but watch what God will make out of my life. And I begin to partner with God. With reckless abandon, I give myself to the demands of destiny. I don't behave as though I have time. Restlessness is not just the satisfaction it is the satisfaction that leads to action.

Because there are many people who complain about the circumstances and who do nothing about it. You are not yet restless. Genuine restlessness refuses to remain passive. It pushes one to act. Are you with me brother of sisters? When a man is not restless, he falls into the pattern of laziness, procrastination, and complacency. And laziness leads a man into bondage. In Proverbs 20 and verse four, the Bible says the lazy man will not plow because of winter. He will beg during harvest. You see, no matter what is available to him, no matter the prophecy, no matter the blessing, no matter the advantage he might have, if he is lazy, he will beg during harvest.

In other words, when it is time for abundance, the lazy man will beg. Laziness keeps people enslaved to circumstances that they should have outgrown. Because of a false sense of comfort, laziness. Procrastination kills potential. Earthly, that is 11 verse four. The Bible says he who observes the wind will not sow. And he who regards the cloud will not reap. Many will never step into their breakthrough. Because they keep waiting for the right time. They keep waiting for the perfect time.

But nothing changes until a person becomes restless enough to act. Nothing changes. The right time is now. There is no right time. The more you keep waiting for the right time, the more the time will always look as though it's never right. The more you keep on thinking oh I've not gotten this, the more you remind yourself of your inconsistency. Step out of the boat. The day you decide that it will not end like this, that day, take steps and never stop. Keep on working and don't look back. That is the language of the restless.

Keep on working and don't look back. Remember that the language of restlessness is that I will not end like this. So when restlessness starts to act, it does not stop until it leaves that realm where he has refused not to end. It means if restlessness stopped on the road, you were not restless enough. Amos six verse one says woe to them that are at ease in Zion. Get my message, the danger of complacency. These are messages that any man who knows that there is much written about me but hasn't found the strength to accomplish them should listen to. These are method deals that should inject wisdom into you. Sins into you. Wake you up from your slumber.

Get my method the mystery of spiritual slumber. Nothing ever changes until a man becomes restless enough to act. Hear me. Comfort is dangerous. When it stops progress. The moment a person settles, they lose the drive for greater things. Do you remember Jabez? It was a story of restlessness. Do you remember Hannah? A story of restlessness.

How about those four lepers? A story of restlessness. And there are several believers today who are where they are. Not because God has not blessed them. But because they have not stirred themselves up to take action. The blessing of Esau was clear. The day you become restless, you will break free. Perhaps the reason why I've not broken free. Is because you have not become restless. It's a blessing oh.

It's a blessing. Many of you today need to refuse comfort in stagnation. Stop stop accepting limitations as final. You have to take bold steps. Move forward. Even if it feels risky, move forward. But refuse will not be in a spot. Refuse will not be in a spot. Refuse you will be doing something. Your legs must be moving.

Because your life must be moving. Refuse I met one foolish girl some months ago. Then she was foolish. Hopefully now she has gained wisdom. Who told me that for more than two years now, she wanted to break Katif out of poverty. And into wealth and abundance. And she knows that she has to offer value to do so. But the problem she has had for two years is that she did not know what skill to learn. So she learnt nothing. So she told me that she will start this one but she won't know if it's the right thing to do.

So she will stop. While she's waiting for the right thing to do. Complacency is a bastard. That false sense of comfort is demonic. So demonic. That you will start another one and you you you will again, I won't again, if it's the right thing to do, I'll stop. So for two years, it means, it means you rather stop and wait for the right thing to do than learn something. And master it. Start offering it in exchange for reward. When you may eventually find that right thing you want to do.

What if that right thing you want to do? We require you to pay a tuition fee, buy a course that will be 500,000. What if God has not even revealed that to you because you didn't have the capacity to do it yet? So instead of waiting on one spot, waiting for you, why not just move forward? Why not allow your legs to be moving? Because your life must be moving. Somebody say that I'm just waiting, I'm just waiting, waiting for what? Waiting for what? Waiting for God to move? For men to move?

Will you stop waiting and go and move? Do you know? Do you know? Do you know? Do you know? This is how easy it is to predict whose life will not change. So when I see people and I say ah, in the next five years, in the next ten years, and I'm able to predict accurately, I can bet anything on it. Is because I have observed how they are living their lives. And I know that this does not lead to anything abundant. Anything great.

Anything successful. I know. Because I understand the language of restlessness. Because I've had to be restless many times in my life. So when you meet a hungry man like you, you will know. Onga has the same language everywhere. Across continents, across races, across genders, across ethnicities. It is the same. So I can look at how somebody is living his life. And say ah you watch, this is what will happen.

And except the person changes his path Glory to God. I pray. I really do. That many who are still slumbering in comfort a deceptive sense of comfort. Will awaken the tonight's meeting. Yeah. Appraisal. Appraisal. Appraisal. Eyes up on your feet.

We pray a simple prayer and then we close the meeting. Hi. Do you know what Paul said? Paul said I pray in tongues more than you all. Go and check how many things that guy was doing more than you all. He knew what he wanted. I labor more than you all. Prayer in tongues more than you all. He definitely knew what he wanted. He saw that future.

He saw it. Is a blessing, it's a blessing. So the prayer is simple. Is that Lord should bless you. That's the prayer. Because it's a blessing. Let me tell you something. You don't have strength in yourself to change your life. That's why it's a blessing. You really don't.

No matter how hungry you are about your life. You will find out that your strength can only take you thus far. And then you would give up. Is a blessing. Is a blessing. Be sincere. And talk to God genuinely. It's not something you shout about. Let me tell you something. A man who is not restless is wasting his time shouting in prayers.

That energy, that fervent in prayers should come from restlessness. You see, it will come naturally, it will come. Because you are already hungry. Is not pretense. You don't fake it. You don't fake it. To talk to God very sincerely. And tell him bless me. Bless me. Bless me with this one blessing, this one blessing.

Bless me. With restlessness. Make me restless. In the day that I become restless. Make me restless. Bless me. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram OfficialDiscipleCN. You can follow us on Facebook DisciplesChristianNetwork.

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