Transcript: The Child Grew
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Just like a soldier going to battle, Garrett himself with every armor needed for battle and for winning. So believers must guard themselves with the gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Join apostle Emmanuel as he teach God's word to equip you for a victorious life on earth. This is believers equip. Luke chapter two and verse 40. Verse 52. The Bible says and the child grew and became strong in spirit. Filled with wisdom. And the grace of God was upon him. Speaking of Jesus.
Is that not so? Verse 52. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and with men. Let's do chapter one and verse 80 so that we also see the testimony of John as well. Let's start from verse 76. It says a new child will be called the prophet of the highest. For you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways. To give knowledge of salvation to his people. By the remission of their sins. Through the tender mercy of our God.
With which the day spring on high has visited us. To give light to those who sit in darkness. And the shadow of death. To guide our feet into the way of peace. This is the word of prophecy that was spoken over the boy John. Is that not so? It was his father that was reading the scroll of his destiny to him. And his father was prophesying what has been written concerning him in But in verse 18, the Bible says, so the child grew and became strong in spirit. And was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel. So there was a day that he was manifested.
There was a day that he was made manifest. There was a day that destiny found expression, that prophecy found fulfillment. And the Bible says, what was happening from the moment that he was born up until that day was that the child was growing. And he was waxing strong in spirit. And I needed to pay attention to how the Bible describes this because the Bible says he waxed strong in spirit. Is that not so? But when you travel to chapter two and you see the testimony about Jesus in verse 40, you will see the same thing said about Jesus but more is revealed. The Bible says, the child grew and became strong in spirit. The word became there. He said the word waxed strong in the spirit.
But then added to the strength that he had in the spirit. The Bible says, part of his growth was wisdom. Part of his growth. Was that the grace of God was strong upon him. And it grew stronger as he was growing. Do you understand what I'm saying? Then in verse 52, the Bible continues to show us all the dimensions of his areas of growth. And Jesus increased in wisdom, we see wisdom again, but now we are seeing stature. Now we are seeing favor. Now these are all components that was not revealed in the indices of growth of John the Baptist.
What we see revealed in the indices of growth of John is that he works strong in spirit. That is very important by the way. Stay with me. Today we will be speaking along the lines of growth. And I want you to pay attention to what I'm going to be sharing with you. It's going to be very brief. It's going to be very short. It will be like an introduction to something deeper that would look at. As time unfolds in coming days. Galatians chapter four We read from verse one.
The Bible says, now I see that the heir, as long as it's a child, does not differ at all from a slave. Though he is master of all. That scripture has puzzled me for quite some time. That the heir, as long as it's a child, does not differ at all from a slave. The heir, who is the heir? The heir is someone worthy of an inheritance. The heir is someone that has been willed a portion of his father's properties. All that his father has has been willed to him officially. Legally, everything that belongs to his father belongs to him. And so he's called an heir.
So if his father is a multi billionaire in dollars for instance, and then has a connumerate or even several companies, a franchise. And he's the chairman in several organization that belong to him. And he has multiple businesses under his name. And the father has a son. And has willed everything in his name to his son. To say that everything that I control, you will control. That son becomes an heir. Is that not so? An heir to his father's kingdom. But the Bible says, the heir, as long as he remains a child.
Does not differ at all from a slave. As long as that boy remains a child, his reality is not different from the reality of his father's slave. Even though by identity, he is master even over the slave. But his current limitation is expressed in that he's a child. In that is not grown yet. He has not grown yet. He's still a baby. And because he's still a baby, he cannot be entrusted with certain responsibilities. And so he's limited. And the limitation, the Bible compares the limitation he has to that of a slave.
And everything you find in a slave, you find in him. Despite legally speaking, he has properties willed to him that he did not work for. Legally speaking, he has a kingdom willed to him. Franchises willed to him. But he has not labored for. Legally speaking, he should never be poor again. Legally speaking, he should never lack money. Is that not so? But the Bible says, because he is still a child. There are many times he will not have money.
It is his, but he has not grown into the fullness of that manifestation. And so the reality is alien from his experience. He can still be hungry. Because the money, even though it is ease, is not easy yet. It is ease on paper, but it's not easy in his life. It is ease in a document, but it's not ease experientially. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? That's exactly the life of a believer. The believer begins his walk, begins his Christian experience as a child. Hence, the reason why the bible says we are born again.
The born again experience is similar to you giving birth to a newborn baby. When you give birth to a newborn baby, he comes as a baby. He needs to grow. He needs to be fed. That's the same way when a believer comes to Christ, it doesn't matter where he's coming from. He might be a celebrity. He might have 10,000,000 followers on Instagram, 20,000,000 followers on TikTok. 15,000,000 subscribers on YouTube, millions of streams on, you know, all social media platforms, billionaire in dollars, breaking huge amounts of money per month. All of that does not matter. The moment he says that I surrender my life to Jesus, the moment he says, that I accept the life of Christ.
The moment he said I believe in the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ, in the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Christ, what he has said. He said I have now been born again. And that born again experience makes him a child in the kingdom. Are you with me? The mistake we make is that we interpret his status. And we think that because he's coming from a place of affluence. Now that he's become saved, he's importing that same affluence into Christianity. So we give him a specialty in church. We give him a microphone in church. We tell him to come and address the people.
We make him feel special. When he comes to church, the media team will not let him rest. The camera is on his face. So that the world will know that it is a celebrity in our church. And the guy is trying to worship God. But it is it is his face they want to see. And we push people out of growth. Because it doesn't matter where he is and what he has. When you come to Christ, you are still a child. When you come to Christ, you are a baby.
And everybody starts that experience the same way. Everybody does. Everybody does. Don't be mistaken. And understand this, the moment you come to Christ, the moment you become saved, right? There is what is ours by default because the Bible says, we have become heirs of God. The Bible says we have become heirs together with Christ. And so, the child here is every believer who has been born again. Every believer has become an heir of God. Every believer who has become an heir together with Christ.
It means there are inheritances that are ours. Inheritances that are ours that we did not work for. In the same way that the inheritances of this child is legally eased, that's why they are not labored for it. The father did all the work and wrote his name on a piece of paper and say, when this child is grown to this level, let him have everything. It is in the same manner that Jesus came, went to the cross, died, paid it all, said it is finished, went to hell, took the keys of hell, took the authority that Satan stole, did all the work, and gave it to us. In the same way, so much so the Bible now says that we have been blessed with every spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. That there is no other blessing that the believer needs that has not been supplied to him already. We've been blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Every blessing has been given to us. The Bible says we've been given all things that pertains unto life and godliness.
All things. So when Jesus finished that work on the cross, he gave us the benefit of everything that his name purchased, everything that his blood purchased, every right and every privilege was given to us. You can fulfill destiny now because Jesus did it all. You can think about purpose now because Jesus did it all. We can think about reigning on earth, reigning in life, becoming great because Jesus did it all. And he willed it to us. In fact, the Bible says that because we've been made righteous, we will reign in life. Book of Romans. That our reading in life is attached to the righteousness that we received by reason of his death. We did nothing to earn it.
The salvation that we have received, we did nothing to earn it. He did all the work. But don't you think that salvation is the only thing that is work provided. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. The Bible says, there are inheritances that are ours in Christ. Inheritances that are ours in Christ. But the Bible says, the heir, as long as he's a child, differs from the servant. He will never come into the fullness of these inheritances.
His life will not be different from the life of an unbeliever. A slave in scripture is to fight as an unbeliever. Are you with me? It will struggle in the same way that an unbeliever struggles. It will live in terror and in fear and in anxiety in the same way that an unbeliever lives with these realities in his life. The bible says God has not given us the spirit of fear, but you will see his life plagued with serious fear and anxiety. His life would not just be a testament of what is there in terms of the limitations that are present like fear, like anxiety, like worry, like sickness, like poverty, like patterns in the father's house, Like patterns in the mother's house. Like constant terror in the dream. Like him pursuing wealth, pursuing money, pursuing money, and spending his entire life pursuing after wealth. But wealth never finding him.
And he will use all of his life just enough for these same things. In the same way that the Gentiles live. Isn't that what the Bible says? This is how the Gentiles live. And so this is how the righteous man also lives. When he's an heir that different not from the servant. Because he's a child. Now his life would also be a testament of what he can do, where he can reach, where he can go, how far he can go that he will never go. How far he can get to that he will never get to. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Because you see, entering into the fullness of your destiny. One, and entering into the fullness of what Christ has done for you on the cross requires growth. Hebrews chapter five and verse 14. The writer of Hebrews is making a distinction in that verse. He's drawing a line between two categories of believers. Those who are still on milk. And those who can handle solid food. He says, solid food belongs to those who are full of age. Those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. Two types of believers. Let's start from verse 12. For though by this time, you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. So there are believers who are at the level of milk, and there are believers who are at the level of foolish food. Is that not so? And Paul is revealing to us that it is possible for a believer to overstay his welcome In needing milk. It's possible for a believer not to have been one of milk. That at a time when he should have grown to a point where his system can now take solid food. He's still living on milk.
That believer is the believer in Galatians four. That the Bible describes that the heir as long as he is a child. That means he's an heir. He should have gotten to the point where we can give him solid food. Is that not so? But he's still a child, still requiring milk. And the distinction between these types of believers is not a thing or a matter of how long a person has been saved. It's not about how many services you've attended. It's not about how many scriptures you have memorized or how loudly you can pray. The distinction is about growth.
The development of spiritual capacity through the consistent, the deliberate exercise of the faculties that God has given to you. And the implication of this verse, when you draw it out fully, is this, what you can access, what you can carry, what you can experience, and what you can sustain in your life is directly connected to how far you have grown. What you can access what you can carry what you can experience and what you can sustain in your life is directly proportional. And directly connected to how far you have grown. Is not connected to how hard you have prayed. Is not connected to how many times you have fasted. Is not connected to how anointed your pastor is. And how powerful the services at your church are. Is connected to how far you have grown. There is a level of growth that is required to enter into the experience.
Of the manifestation of prophecy. That's why I wanted to show us Luke chapter one. When you start from verse 76. Before verse 76, the man was prophesying. But when he got to the child, the Bible says, you child will be called the prophet of the most high. You will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways. And he continues to prophesy 77, 78, 79. He continues to declare God's intent about this child's life. The child is still a baby. Whilst a baby is reading to him the scroll of his destiny.
And you will think that the Bible will give us a list of spiritual disciplines. Or some kind of regiment or whatever. That pushes the child into the manifestation of this prophecy. But in verse 80, just four words captures what pushed the child into the experience of this prophecy. So the child grew. That's all. So the child grew. In other words, everything that the child was doing all amounted to this growth. Until the day of his manifestation to Israel. So the question I have is this, what if the day of your manifestation comes and you have not grown?
That's the burden. Pastor Buddy, here. What will happen to you in the day that your day of manifestation arrives And there's no growth in your life. And you have not waxed strong in spirit. That your spirit man has not built necessary strength to survive evil days. Necessary strength. That you have not built the capacity of your spirit man. Not just to survive evil days, but to fight through adverity. But to stay through tough seasons. But to insist that destiny would be manifested.
That purpose will be fulfilled. That prophecy will be fulfilled. What's because it takes strength of spirit? And the bible says, the child grew. What son beat all up was that the child grew. So the question we should be asking is, in the midst of all the activities, are you growing? Is there growth? Is there growth? In the midst of all the activities is there growth? Are the activities translating to growth?
I know that you come to church. That's good. I know that you prayed. That's good. Are you growing? Are you with me brothers and sisters? Because there is an assumption that we have. And the assumption is that every problem have a spiritual attacker behind it. And therefore, because every problem has an attacker, then every problem has a prayer solution in front of it. So something is not working for instance in your finances.
So we said there's a demon blocking your breakthrough. And you can pray and fast and bind the spirit of poverty. Something is not working in your relationships for instance. And then we begin to pray against demons attacking your home. You anoint your doors. You rebuke the enemy. You see a believer who is not advancing in his career for instance. Or your ministry is not growing. Or your health is struggling, your children are not doing that right. And for every single one of these situations, the default response that we have is always the same.
Find the demon. Pray the prayer. Rebuke the attack. Wait for the breakthrough. And then we repeat the cycle. We repeat the cycle. Identify the problem. Find the demon. Rebuke the attack. Identify the crisis.
Find the demon. Rebuke the attack. Wait for the miracle. Glory to God. And there's nothing wrong with prayer. There's nothing wrong with spiritual warfare. Absolutely nothing wrong with discerning the activity of the enemy and responding to it. Especially when you respond to it with the authority of Christ. I've thought here dealing with malevolent forces or malevolent spirits. So these are genuine and necessary activities in the Christian life to be able to discern the activities of demons and to be able to put an end using the authority of Christ that God has given to you.
Are you with me? Yes, sir. But you have to understand that not every limitation is a spiritual attack. This is... I I need you to understand this. Please stay with me. Stay with me. Just stay with me. Your word is yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes yes and amen yes Listen. Not every limitation is a spiritual attack. Not every ceiling that you keep on eating is the work of the enemy. Some of what you are binding is not bound by darkness. The devil is not so powerful. I think we've we've given that guy too much power. He's not so powerful. Those are my choice of words. That guy is not so powerful.
You've overestimated him in your mind. Because of the kind of doctrine you've received growing up. That's the reason why we attach every single problem to a demonic influence. Because we think he's that much powerful. And it takes pride in it. It takes pleasure in it. Because the more you ascribe power to him, he does not have, the more powerful he is in your mind. So why deny the accusation? When the accusation makes him more powerful in your mind. Why does he have to tell you that I'm the one I'm not the one that is doing this unto you?
Do you understand what I'm saying? It's good you believe that. It's all the better for him. Because how do you think that someone who has been stripped of his power, stripped of his authority, can be as powerful as you going for a forty days prayer and fasting to address one problem and the problem does not go. Is that how powerful he is? Now think about it now. Every Friday, we come together as a family to address this crisis. And the crisis does not lead. Is that how powerful he is? And we've been dealing with that crappy for three years.
Whereas Jesus said it is finished. And that we are more than conquerors. And he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world. Is that how powerful he is? We've got to ask questions. It's going to be uncomfortable what I intend to teach you today. But I want you to think about it. It's very short. Very very short. But I want you to think about it.
I want you to take it home to think about. Devil is not so powerful. So if I say that not every problem is a spiritual attack. What then is the reason for the problems? What then is the reason for the limitation? If it looks as though I have eat a ceiling, and my life doesn't seem to be making as much progress as it should be making. A man of God, I have gone for prayers and fasting, I've gone to the mountain, I've seen prophets, I've done all of that, and you tell me the devil is not behind it. Now, notice. Notice. I'm not necessarily saying that the devil is not behind it.
Are you with me? Because obviously God is not behind it. You understand what I'm saying? I'm saying that the devil is not so powerful. Even if he were behind it, he is still not so powerful. As a matter of fact, I believe the easiest problems to solve are the ones that the devil is behind. I find that, oh, you're not getting this thing I'm saying. When I know that what is causing this sickness is a demon, that's the easiest sickness to heal. I don't struggle too much on what I know a demon is behind. Because we approach that matter from a standpoint of authority.
Because we are dealing with the defeated foe. Is that not so? Yes sir. So when a problem becomes a limitation becomes persistent. It must mean that there is something else that you have not yet understood. Not that the one who is attacking is so powerful. Do you understand what I'm saying? Now, what do I want you to understand? What is the thought I want to drive home today? It is this.
That some of the issues and some of the limitations that a lot of believers face is simply the natural boundary of your current level of development. What did I call it? Or let me call it this way, the natural boundary of your current level of growth. It means some of what you are fasting and praying about would not move even if you prayed for forty days straight. Because it doesn't and it's not designed to answer to prayer. Are you with me? Enhance us to growth. Not because prayer is not powerful. Of fact, it's it's fact, personally I have in prayers. Matter But of we must understand that this cannot be substituted for growth.
Stay with me. Just stay with me. So, some of what we deal with aggressively in prayers are designed to be answered by growth. And until you grow, there are many things that will not move. Glory to God. Glory. Because you see, every level in God have its own capacity. Every level of spiritual growth, of spiritual development comes with its own level of access, its own level of authority, or its own set of things that are now available to you that were not available before you got there. And the same way, every level have its own level of access. Every level of growth have its own level of access.
That's the same way every level of growth have its own level of limitations. Things that are beyond its reach. Things that cannot be accessed from that level. Things that requires a higher level of growth to unlock. And these limitations are not attacks. They're not punishments. They're not there because the devil is so powerful. They are simply the natural boundary of where you currently are, and they are designed to be a system of pressure that motivates growth. The awareness that there is more available. The awareness that what is available, you cannot reach from where you are.
And that the path to what is available runs through development, runs through growth. Let me make it more practical. So imagine this context with me. In the civil service, if you get a job in the civil service, depending on your certificate and depending on how you enter, usually, you will start from level eight or six, I think. I think it's level six or seven, eight. Depending on what the job is. I might not be accurate in this. So just permit me. Are you with me? So you will start from level six, say level six for instance.
And there are about 16 levels in the hierarchy of government. And you'd have to go up the rank and move in levels. And the level you are determines the kind of job you will be given. So you are coming in as a new staff being employed into the civil service. You are in level six. Or level seven or whatever. So let's say you are a teacher. You're coming in as a teacher. Or you're coming in as a doctor. And you're being employed into a state hospital.
So you are coming as doctor, you're probably level nine or level 10. At that level, because you have been employed in the service of the government, at that level, either have a teacher in level eight, there is a level of access you have. At that level. A level of authority you have at that level. Are you with me? Yes, sir. A level of dominion that you have at that level. A level of freedom you have at that level. And you can exercise authority at certain levels at that level. But there's also a gross level of limitation you have at that level.
And it's not because you're under attacker. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's it's only a function of where you are. So for instance, You have access to the local inspector of education. You have access to certain parastatals in the government that somebody who is not even in the civil service cannot even think of having. But doesn't mean just because you are in the civil service, employed by the state, means that you can request to see the governor now and the governor will answer you. You don't have that level of access at that level. There's someone else with us. And it's not because they are more prayerful than you. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Yes, sir. It is only designed to answer to growth. So that you will understand why the bible says and the child grew. Until the day of his manifestation came. Because in the day of your manifestation, that day must come and meet that you have grown. And so, when you see believers it looks as though certain things are beyond your reach, you should check where you are. It might just be that you have not grown in understanding. It might just be that you have not grown in light. It might just be that you have not grown in wisdom. Are you with me?
Let me give you an example of this. Do you realize that part of the dimensions of growth available, only one was mentioned for John. He works strong in his spirit. And it's important as a believer that you understand what makes a man work strong in his spirit. My teaching today doesn't cover the metrics of this. Is that not so? But you should go and study it. Eventually, we'll come there, but you should go and if you understand what I'm teaching, you will go and study it. Because you will desire to grow. You will not wait on the lady's thought.
The idea behind this teaching is to steer you into thinking. If this teaching has prospered, you will go and study. It will launch you into finding answers because you will insist. I cannot remain here for too long. When you see the myriad of things that is accessible but not possible to you. Do you understand what I'm saying? We shouldn't lie to ourselves now. Come on. The Bible says with God, all things are possible. You have quoted that scripture several time and does not work.
We should tell ourselves the truth. It's not because the scripture is a lie. Is that the hair, as long as it's a child, does not differ from a slave. So what the child can command will not entirely be a genuine reflection of his inheritance in Christ. And so if he uses his experience to try and teach people, it will be wrong many of the time because he has not grown. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? This is a believer's class. Because he has not grown. Think about it this way. You are a child or you imagine a child, for instance, who wants to pick something from a shelf that is higher than him.
I've used the example quite sometimes. And that shelf is too high for him. And he wants to pick it. Now watch this. The mom tells the child that your food is on the shelf and then goes. And the child gets to the shelf knowing fully well there is food for him. But he gets to the shelf and finds out that he cannot reach the shelf. Now the question is, is the food his own? Was the food prepared for him? Has he been given all things that pertain unto life and godliness?
Yes, sir. Has he been given all spiritual blessings in heavenly places? Yes, sir. Uh-huh. But the child will stand there looking at the food knowing fully well, this is mine. But I cannot reach it. Do you know, as long as he remains at that level, there are many things that will begin to meet him there. One is hunger. And the devil did not cause it. The second is weakness.
And the devil did not cause it. The third is headache and sickness and weariness are the result of the hunger, and the devil did not cause it. Yeah, it's just not true. Are you even brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. It can stand there and begin to pray. Ah, Lord Jesus. Ah. Oh God Jesus. And it's just there.
And many of the things believers are struggling with, God is saying, grow. Grow. Grow. Grow. If that boy is wise, you know what he will do. You go and find his elder brother. I said, come and help me. What advantage does the brother have? Is it that he can pray more than him? Because he might have been there shouting and crying this morning, and the cry did not make the food fall down.
Now here comes another believer who is not crying, who does not spend one minute there, who just goes there, takes the food, and gives him a moss. And you wonder, how come I've been staying here for the past three years? And you come once. Speak a word and the doors open. The same doors I've been trying to unbang God these years. Is God what is going on here? I'm with him to think what is the difference? Does God love you more than he loves me? And then he says, no. No.
No. No. No. No. The hair, as long as he remains a child, differs not from the servant. And if you don't take this that I'm saying seriously, I tell you, your life will be full of many things you know is there. But you will wonder why your hands cannot just touch it. I testify. I testify. Your goodness is real.
I testify. That any man be in Christ is a new creature, all things are passed away. Behold, all things have become new, and he knows. You find a believer who knows. There is power in the name of Jesus. Who knows? Who knows? Every This this believer knows. Tongues in heaven. And then you bring a demon before him.
And he says, in the name of Jesus, then you demon And he's there. And he has been delivered. Glory to Jesus. Hey, I'm back again. Ah, you left now now. It's my brother that left. There are still seven of us here. Reminds me of one of my guys that called me some time ago. I was not, I was not available. And the last result was to call me during the meeting.
Hi. And that one said how? That was, that was all. Unfold. My guy said, sir, I went on a retreat. Is wicked. It is obvious. That you have not grown. Is it because the devil is so powerful? That simple thing that happened to that young man explains the reason why several people are still in family patterns till today.
While several doors have not opened till today, while people have been knocking over many doors and praying for breakthroughs, praying for access, praying for different things, and they know. They they've had promises, they've had prophecies, they've had all kind of things. From verse 76 to verse 79 were promises. Verse 80, and the child grew. Let me end it here. So whilst we are binding limitations and binding demonic barriers, these things are just shelves. Shelves your hand cannot yet reach. The blessing is there. The authority is there. The access is there.
The breakthrough is real. It belongs to you. Do you know that there are realms of access you will have when you begin to grow? That certain limitations that have backed your life up until that point cannot follow you into that level of growth. It's just not possible. Let me give you an example. I use this example a lot. If somebody sees you walking on the streets of UI or Odigi and you're just walking. You're just walking. Why should they stop to offer you a lift?
Why? Now think about the same question. Except for the fact that now you're putting papa Iy Adeboy there. And for some reason, he's walking. On the street Of Odija. No, no, wait a minute, wait a minute, no, no, come on. Do you think somebody will offer him a lift or give him his car? What do you think will happen? Do you think it can be ignored at that level? It's because that limitation can, you understand?
That place he is does not allow for that limitation again. There is a place you will get to that even if you try to be poor, you cannot be poor. Even if you try your best, you try your best. To say today, I don't want to have money. And you give out everything that you have. In twenty four hours, they will return. Because that level that you are in, just cannot allow for some kind of limitations again. Earth recognizes it. The realm of the spirit recognizes it. Nature recognizes it.
Everybody, even human beings, there's an aura that comes upon you that speaks a language to demons, to angels, to spirits that this one has grown. And because he has grown, this reality can no longer follow him here. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes. Yes. There are many reasons why the Bible says those who compare themselves to themselves are fools. This is one of the reasons why. Because the difference between many of us is just growth. How much have you grown in light? How much have you grown in consciousness?
How much have you grown in your consciousness? The Bible says something. The Bible says, the communication of our faith becomes effectual by the acknowledge ment of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus. We grow even in that. The communication of our faith, we grow in it. And the and the Bible already shows us how we grow in it. That we acknowledge every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus. To the point God become conscious of it. And when we become conscious of it, what happens is that our ability to share of the faith we have received starts increasing in magnitude. A point come when you so grow.
That you sit down. And the level of the anointing of God's spirit that has opened up on your inside. That is upon your life, that flows upon you. By reason of growth. Has become so much. That even in your sitting down and you're standing up, there is a residue of anointing that you leave behind. There is that level of growth that you shake someone's hands and you leave a residue of glory on their hands. There is that level of growth. You literally leave a residue of glory. That whatever you touch, there's a residue of glory, a residue of access, a residue of God's power, a residue of God's favor.
Even in whatever you touch. There's that level of growth. That you pass by and not even need to touch people. That in your greetings, there is power. There's a level of glory. The Bible says Paul was speaking and he says my speech and my preaching. When I saw that scripture many years ago, I paused for a while and meditated. That there was a difference between speech and preaching. Preaching was when he held the microphone and he stood before a crowd. Speech was his normal conversations.
When I'm talking to people normally, when I'm just how are you doing brother? He says both of them were in the demonstrations of power. Is growth. Is growth. There's a place you get to in growth, in understanding. Where your last problem fear can no longer follow you there. That corridor can no longer allow for fear. That corridor can no longer allow for worry. There's a reason why we can't sleep. In the boat.
Whereas all the disciples were worried. And were concerned for their lives. Did you skip the verse where he say he walks strong in spirit? It is the strength of your inner man that makes you sleep in the boat. John the Baptist, his head was requested. And out of all the men that he said, I I glad I glad were punishing him looked for someone to carry the cross on his behalf. Why? I thought that that was meant to be some kind of punishment. Why punish someone as in the punishment, you are still Jesus. Jesus.
The The Holy ghost was moving in the hearts of several people. Because his body cannot remain there. People were using their connections to move the mountains and move the hills. Until his body was sanctioned to be removed. When his body was sanctioned to be removed, the man still used his connection. To get one of the burst sepulchres of those days. We are wealthy. People are put inside. So that prophecy can be manifested. Did you skip that fact that says, he grew in favor with God and men.
That's why he said pay attention to what detail was missing in John the Baptist's growth. Pay attention to what was missing. Pay attention to what was there. Because you see, as you begin to grow, you'll understand that the devil is very smart. He has had the advantage of years to stop the human beings, and he has realized that it's a wasted effort attacking people in the area of their strength. It doesn't do that. What it does is this, it looks for what area of growth you ignored. That's what he did for Samson. What area of growth did you ignore? Ah, I knew you'll build strength in the secret place.
I can't attack your spiritual life directly. When they were telling you to give, you did not pay attention to it. So now you are burning on fire for God, but your ministry will lack finances. Because you never sat down to study how do men prosper in this kingdom. And the absence of finances becomes the reason why the anointing is frustrated. Even though you are greatly anointed. In you this day, areas you refuse to grow in. To become the traps that is set for the areas you build strength in. And if you are a student, you should be at the end of what I'm saying. Because so many students are blinded right now by the temporal life that they are living in university.
Thinking so much that all there is to life right now is passing exams and writing tests. And getting good results. And some people give so much attention to that. That they ignore every other area of their lives. They live their spiritual life to chance. But they invest so much in the academics. They lead their rational life to chance. They lead their financial life to chance. They leave every area of growth to chance. They live wisdom to chance.
They live access to chance. But you see that academics, you see that first class, you see that distinction, you see that test, they are building so powerful in it. That is good. That is very good. But may I put it to you? They are not so wise. Because even in the priorities of growth, in the priorities of growth, what came first every time growth was mentioned in John and Jesus was waxed strong in spirit. It means, it doesn't matter what else you grew in. If your spirit man is weak. It doesn't matter what else you built.
Some people pay attention to their finances at the expense of every other thing. It only takes one attack. And the devil doesn't bring attack immediately you start building. It will allow you to gather to a point where your name will at stake. Where he knows that your crumbling will not only affect you, it will affect many others who now believe in you. Because you have built to a point where your name has become an access point. So many people look up to you. It will leave you to a bit to that point. Then a scandal, then an attack from the pit of hell. Then something happens, then a divorce and hence the business.
Then a wayward you you just find terrible attacks that come at the height of illustrious destinies and careers. And you can tell that there were no structures to mitigate this. This guy paid attention to every other thing apart from this area of his life. And now you can see what is suffering. I wish I could stay on this. My time is gone. And there are many people who live in regret because they did not pay attention to growth. To growth. To growth. The Bible says the path of the righteous is are the shining light.
It shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. Many of you have never considered the path of that scripture that says path. Because we expect that what we think is happening there is that as you are a righteous man, you will just be getting brighter and brighter everyday. Things happening with you will just be happening brighter and brighter everyday. No. It says the path of the righteous. The path of the righteous. Shines brighter and brighter everyday. The path, that means it is as the righteous is working on that path that things are becoming brighter and brighter. If the righteous remains on a spot and refuses to grow and refuses to work and refuses to make progress, he will realize that tomorrow is no different from yesterday.
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