Transcript: The Days Of Fulfillment With Apostle Emmanuel Boluwatife Adigun

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

A promise of greatness on your inside. You must believe this. There is no smallness in God's plan for your life as a believer. There's no toiling in God's plan for your life as a believer. There's no suffering in God's plan for your life as a believer. I want to break you out of that spot where you can no longer think small. The presence of God does not just make the difference. The presence of God is the difference. So join us at the experience when men encounter God and lives are transformed. Ezekiel chapter 12 from verse 21.

Remember from the start of the chapter really. But I'm only interested in some verses. I would not be able to read everything of its long. I want to say examine a very interesting verse. In that book. And it was the response of God to the people of Judah, but I want to give you a little bit of the back story. So that you understand the specific verse that my word and the charge that I've brought to us today is drawn from. Is that okay? I'm going to be titling what I'm going to be discussing with us. It's a charge really.

It's an exhortation really. It's an invitation from two verses of scripture in Ezekiel chapter 12. And I believe is the word of God to someone now. You see, when things come to me like that I know, I know that God wants to speak to some people. I've had what I wanted to share with us in my mind. But just this morning, the holy spirit directed my attention to Ezekiel. And it registered strongly in my heart. To change what I would want to discuss with us. And talk about this instant. And when the Holy Spirit does that, it is always because, always because.

There's someone that needs to hear this now. Always because. I believe that that person is here. And I believe that you will be blessed. Amen. So I'll give you a little bit of a back story. At the time that Ezekiel was prophesying, and writing these prophecies, the nation of Judah was going through a very difficult period in their history. The Babylonian invasion had already begun. And some of the people of Judah had been taken into captivity. In fact, Ezekiel himself who was prophesying was among those who had been carried to Babylon.

So God was speaking to Ezekiel in Babylon. Are you with me? But Jerusalem had not yet been completely destroyed. And there were still people living in the land who believed that the city would remain standing. Contrary to the judgement of God. I mean, God had been speaking through his prophets before this period concerning the judgement that was coming upon Jerusalem because of their rebellion, because of their idolatry, because of the disobedience of the people. God had repeatedly warned them that if they continued in their ways, that Jerusalem would suffer destruction. But one of the problems was that the things that God had spoken had not yet happened in their fullness. The captivity had begun, the destruction had begun, the judgment had begun, but it had not yet happened in its fullness. There were still people living in fact.

He was he was still like... For some and for most, it was still like nothing was happening. Are you with me? Yes, sir. And because there was a period between when God gave the warning and when the prophecies were released and when the judgment would be executed, the people began to develop a particular attitude towards the word of God. When you read the book of Ezekiel, you find the narrative there. Are you with me? There have been prophecies, and they heard the prophecies. They listened to the warnings that came before them, and they had seen what was happening even, but life was still continuing as usual. Things were still happening.

For most of them, it was as though the prophecies was now a joke because they've not seen the manifestation of all the warnings. You understand what I'm saying? Jerusalem was still standing. People were still going about their day as usual. People were still going about their activities. I want you to think about that and get a conceptual picture of what I'm saying. Think about the time of Noah. Let's use that as an example so that you'd get the context here. And Noah would come and tell people that judgment is coming, rain would fall, and it would fall continually without stopping until the earth is wiped off. And Noah continued to warn these people, repent.

Is that not so? God is bringing a judgment upon you. And the prophecies continued, but people's lives continued to happen normally. Nobody was seeing judgment. Nobody was seeing any warning manifesting, any judgment manifesting. The fulfillment of the prophecy of Noah in this instance of mine wasn't... Is taking longer than it should. That's exactly what was happening with these people too. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Now you can imagine the posture of someone who has heard prophecies and warnings and have not seen the manifestation and the fulfillment of the warnings he has heard, the judgment that he has heard against his lifestyle.

And if he continue living like this, this would happen. But he's still living like that and nothing has happened. Do understand what I'm saying? And gradually, they now began to assume that because the things the prophet had spoken about had not yet happened, then it would mean that it would never happen. So in that assumption, they now developed a proverb amongst themselves that they started saying. They started saying the days are prolonged, and every vision fails. That was what they were saying. The days are prolonged. Every vision... Do you understand this now?

In other words, what they are saying is simply, you've prophesied. You've said what will happen, but, look, the days are prolonged. We've not seen the manifestation of the vision. The vision has failed. These people were no longer saying that time had passed. These people had come to a conclusion about the reliability of the word of God based on the passage of time. They were using the fact that a prophecy had not yet been fulfilled as the evidence that the prophecy would never be fulfilled. There is a difference between saying that something that God has spoken has not yet happened and concluding that because it has not yet happened, it will never happen. These people are falling to that second place. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. Because if you are making the first statement, now you're saying this thing God has said has not yet happened. That's an observation. But the moment you make that second statement as to mean that because that's not yet happened, it will never happen. That's now a judgment concerning the reliability and the ability of what God has spoken and his ability to bring it to pass, to bring it to bear. Are you with me? Yes, sir. This was where the people of Israel were. So they were no longer expecting the prophecies of God to be fulfilled at this point. They have become so accustomed to hearing the word of God without seeing the fulfillment of that word because of the passage of time that they had developed a proverb to explain why they no longer took those prophecies seriously.

And if you were to read in context with what I'm saying right now, you now know that the original prophecy in this passage was concerning judgment. Are you with me? Yes, sir. It was concerning the fulfillment of what God was announcing. The execution of the judgment that was coming upon them. That was the prophecy here. God was warning a rebellious people that his words concerning Jerusalem would not fail, and they made a mockery of that prophecy because time has passed and they've not yet seen it. Do you remember what I called title of my teaching? Did I give you one? No, sir.

Oh, let me give you one. The days of fulfillment. The days of fulfillment, it's gotten from that same passage you're about to read. Now when you read the passage and you understand the context, it establishes something about the nature of God's word. But it's very important for us to understand that the passage of time does not give men the authority to declare that what God has spoken has failed. That just because time has passed and you've not yet seen the realization of that which God has said, it doesn't mean that that which God has said will not happen. So when you begin reading from verse 23 of Ezekiel 12, this was God now speaking to Ezekiel to address the current posture of these people. That look, prophecies have gone ahead of us. But we have not seen it happen. The days are prolonged, the visions are failed.

So God now comes to Ezekiel. Tell them therefore, thus says the Lord God. I will lay this proverb to rest. And they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel. But say to them, the days are at hand. And the fulfillment of every vision. The days are at hand. What days are at hand? The days of the fulfillment of every vision. It's quite interesting the the contrast here.

The people are saying the days are prolonged. God is saying, the days are at hand. I want us to pick it a little by little because every sentence here is very important. We don't want to jump. We don't wanna go ahead of ourselves. As we begin to unveil every sentence here, I believe so strongly that the Lord himself will begin to speak to people's hearts. I believe it. I want you to look at the first thing God said: I will lay this proverb to rest. This is very powerful. God is saying I'm going to bring an end to the sin that has become common amongst these people.

And I'm gonna do that by bringing my word to pass. Now I want you to know, this is a proverb that has become a statement that has gained acceptance because people believe it. And they believe it because it describes something they have repeatedly experienced, something they've repeatedly observed. They didn't just wake up one morning and started saying it. This was a thing that has maybe even passed spans of years, and they've not yet seen the fulfillment of the prophecies that were said. And because of that, they originated a proverb, something that they started seeing among themselves. It became commonplace. Everybody started describing themselves like that, describing the word of God like that, describing prophecies they've received like that. Are you with me? So when something becomes a proverb among a people, it means that the idea has become so established amongst them that the people use it to interpret what is happening around them.

And in Israel of that time, that delay in the fulfillment of the prophetic warnings had become so familiar with the people that they were not using that experience to interpret every prophecy that they heard. So before they even consider what God was saying, they had already concluded that the days will be prolonged and division would fail. They use their interpretation of their experiences and the seeming delay in the manifestation of the prophecy that God has given to them told me that every time that Ezekiel now comes to them to say, thus says the Lord. Before he even tells them what God is saying, their response is, the days are prolonged. The visions are filled. That became their response. To receiving prophecy. Are you with me? Yes sir. God said, I will put an end to that proverb.

And how would he do it? By bringing to pass the very things that they had assumed would never happen. The Lord started speaking to me about this, That there are conclusions people can reach because of what they have experienced over a long period of time. And just like the children of Israel, it becomes a proverb that they've become accustomed to. But sometimes when a man has lived with a particular condition for so long, he begins to assume that that condition is permanent. Because he has seen that condition repeatedly. He has made several attempts in his own power perhaps to change it, and nothing has happened. Nothing has worked. And eventually, because nothing has worked, what started as an experience now become an expectation. That means you can become so accustomed to things not working that even when an opportunity appears, your first response is that it will not work.

Because you have developed a proverb around an experience. The length of time I've shown you that every time you approach this thing, every time you approach something new, there's always a failure of some kind. And you have a track record of experience to justify this. It's not the first time you are starting a business. It's not the first time you are launching an idea. And it's not the first time you were so sure that the idea will succeed. In fact, you've tested it and you probably even sent out a questionnaire to see the viability of the idea and how willing... Who will be willing to receive the product. And the moment the product came out, it became the opposite of what you expected. And that has happened again and again and again.

Through different means that almost subconsciously, a proverb has been developed. But now when you come for meetings like this and the Lord puts sins in your heart and say execute this, your first response is a proverb, almost subconsciously. The days are prolonged. You say I've tried again and again. This thing did not work yesterday. What's the guarantee to work today? I've seen people who have attempted to pray for the sick multiple times. Yes, sir. And they've experienced failure in doing so because every time they've tried to pray for the sick, they ask the people that they are praying for, check yourself. Has anything happened?

They said nothing has happened. I'm still like that. And the main matters was, probably they even believes God so strongly that somebody they're praying for will be healed and the person dies. You see, there is a way that disappointment over time gives birth to a proverb. An adage that becomes common. It becomes a common lingual. And I have seen that this can become something that is prevalent in families. Because for this, this was the nation of Israel. The nation of Israel had experienced prolonged delay in what was promised. That's the same way that it is possible for a family to have become so accustomed to disappointment that because they are now accustomed to disappointment, their default state is the expectation of disappointment.

And it has become a settled place that they found themselves. And because of that settledness and disappointment, there is nobody in that family that has a natural gear, natural drive towards greatness. Everybody is just laid back, and now they've inherited the laid backness. You see the woman laid back. You see the men laid back. There is no push. There's no drive. And what is the motivation or the driving factor is that, see, forget that thing. We've tried it again and again, it has not worked. What's the point now?

What's the point now? You can become so accustomed to unanswered questions that you stop expecting answers. You can become so accustomed to unanswered prayers that you stop praying. And there is something about repeated experiences that you must understand. If you're not careful, what has happened repeatedly in your past will begin to determine what you believe is possible in your future. Are you with me? Yes, That was part of the problem with the people in Ezekiel's day. These guys had allowed what they had observed over time to determine now their response to what God was saying. But God said, I will lay this proverb to rest. I will lay this proverb to rest.

In other words, the conclusion that they had reached would no longer be able to stand in the face of what God was about to do. And there are individuals that the Lord spoke to me about that people have reached such conclusions about your life. People have reached such conclusions about your life and that yourself are beginning to reach the same conclusion. You were still optimistic. You were still believing. In the midst of your believing, there were a lot of naysayers. A proverb has a reason from repeated disappointment and frustration because your claim to love God and to know God and to serve God has not yielded results. So you are known to be a man of prayer. You are known to be passionate about God, passionate about the things of God. And passionate as you are, you are pushing in direction of God's word and God's promises over your life, expecting that I would see results in these areas.

I would see results in these areas. And because the result have not happened at the magnitude that people expect it to happen, especially commensurate with the level of passion that you have for God as an individual, there is now a proverb that they are forming. It's a proverb. There's now a look with which people now look at you. That if you now come and tell them again that I have an idea, they just ease and walk away. Because it's not the first time you are coming like that. There is someone in this place that the Lord was speaking to me about, that the proverb that you have concluded over your life is a proverb of repeated failures over trying to break out of one thing. And people around you too know that you have been struggling with this for a long time, and you've been trying to break out. And you've come to meetings where the word of the Lord has come to you so strong, and you've believed it. You've believed it and you held on to it knowing that I'm not gonna go back to this thing.

I've I've come out of this. But again and again, you'll find yourself in a place where you said you have come out of. And those that know you have begun to look at you and say, my goodness, there's no hope for this guy again. So that even you yourself have decided there's no hope for you again. So even if you are listening to a word now that seems to be addressing that area of struggle, the proverb is the response. You're not thinking, what's the point safe? Because if we say... It's not the first time that we are trying this thing. So if I say again now that, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, is tomorrow I will still find myself there. It's as though I become...

There's no point anymore. That was the proverb that become a thing. Are you still with me? Yes, sir. So different kinds of people in this particular category that the Lord was speaking to me about. And the word of God to such people is... You see these conclusions you have made? You see the conclusions that people have made? The Lord says, Tell them, I will lay this proverb to rest. That is the first thing that the Lord is doing.

It's a prophetic service. Some people I'm seeing that it's a it's an area of correction. Where correction has been coming to you again and again. And it's as though you are not getting it. And because you are not getting it and the correction has to come again and again, you have decided you cannot get it. That's how the proverb forms. That I'm expecting this or I've tried this again and again, and because it has not worked, it cannot work. You see that? I've done this again and again, because it has not worked, it cannot work. There are people that you have even promised, you have even prophesied, you have even spoken to your friends in faith that you know what?

I'm getting a job this month. And there is nothing to stop that from happening because you look at your level of diligence in applying for jobs and submitting your CVs, and you say, I'm diligent in this thing. When someone comes and checks, you you said, have you... You say, we are still trusting God. Don't worry. Next month. Now it's been six months or seven months of that. Now they look at you and say, you know what? Next month. That becomes the response because now a proverb has formed.

The proverb forming is to mean that because it did not happen and because it has not happened, it cannot happen. Are people that are dared to even ask for bigger things as to say, you know what? This year, I'm getting my first car. And they said it to people last year. And someone looks at them and say, that's how you said it three years ago. After you said it two years ago, now you are saying it this year. Are you even close to even reaching it? Are you even close to even reaching it? As to mean that because it has not happened, it cannot happen. Thus says the Lord, I will lay this proverb to rest.

And perhaps there is anybody under the sound of my voice that such demonic conclusions have been made over your life, that it has brought you to a place of not expecting that which God has promised again. That it has brought you to a place where in your own subconscious, you have removed yourself from those that can testify. You have probably just come to a point where you have said, maybe this thing is just not for me. The proof you have believed it is that your desire, your drive to push for the fulfillment of that prophecy is now dead. You don't push like you used to push again. When you really believed it, you know, the way you were pushing. Well, it didn't work as you expected it to work. So you calm down and you say, oh, you developed some theology around the reasons why it did not work and why you calm down. And perhaps your ear, you did not even know. But the reason you put yourself there is because there's a proverb you have accepted.

There's a proverb you have accepted. There's something you have allowed yourself, your mind to believe That those that have concluded upon your lot. The Lord said I will lay this proverb to rest. I'm seeing something in the realm of the spirit. I'm seeing a family. Look, what I'm seeing is your father, the person is here, your father, your mother, and their children within the context of their extended family. And what I'm saying is that there is a conclusion that the extended family has made about your family. That's what I'm seeing in my spirit. There's a proverb. That's what I'm saying in my spirit right now.

A proverb that the extended family, maybe your father's siblings, that's the uncles and the aunties, perhaps because they have a better advantage than you. Financially or otherwise. And I'm looking and I'm seeing that this conclusion even came from your grandfather and your grandmother. They were the ones that started saying something that seemed like a joke. That amongst all their children, It just seemed like a joke. That all the family members now started adopting, adopting. And what seemed like a joke has now become an experience and a reality. That amongst that woman's children, who has now become your own father and mother, is now the least in the family. Is not the one that everybody has to help. It's not the one that has to call uncle this and aunt this and uncle that and brother that.

Before they can... And you have found yourself in that family. Where a conclusion has been made even before you were born. Didn't if it was the the the person I'm speaking to, you know what I'm saying. Your spirit bears witness. You know that this is you I'm talking about. You've been to the house of these extended family members. You've seen their children and their life is nothing compared to yours. And the Lord said I should announce that he's laying this proverb to rest. It is a prophetic service.

It is a prophetic service. I believe it's why we come to church so that God can minister to people. This was not my teaching. It was not my teaching. But as I lie down on my bed and I was meditating, Lord kept on telling me that the days of fulfillment are here. Days of fulfillment are here. And as I was searching my spirit to understand why the Lord was bringing this to me, This that I'm beginning to share was what came to my spirit. God inspired that scripture in my mind and I get out and I started hearing again and again, I will lay this proverb to rest. Amen. I will lay this proverb to rest.

There's a belief about Ibadan. There's a belief about this city. There's a proverb people have made about this city. They say if you want to do well, go to Lagos. They say you can't desire to prosper and build anything substantial here. In fact, those that want to build something substantial, run to Lagos because they feel as though if they build anything here, it becomes a cost on their business because they feel as though Lagos just has a thing with global relevance. The Lord said that we lay this proverb to rest. I will build and it will flourish. In Uganda, Uganda is a country with 44,000,000 people. Nigeria is a country with 220 plus million people.

You see the difference? Yes, sir. In Uganda, it was not possible to have a church with a gathering of a 100,000 people. 50,000 people. In the way you would see in Nigeria. It makes sense because we have a population of what? 220,000,000 people compared to a population of 44,000,000 people with a lot of Muslims. So about half that population is Muslim. It's even more difficult to accomplish. You understand what I'm saying?

It became a thing. Then a man of God stood up in that city, And the Lord started speaking to him. The Lord started speaking to him about the things he would do now that a revival will begin in the East. A revival will begin in the East. That's in East Africa. And through that young man, a man who started pushing that vision in his twenties, now he's 30, 30, Early thirties. And in his early thirties, he holds weekly meetings. Weekly meetings. That's weekday service, not Sunday service. On a busy Thursday.

And tens of thousands of people gather in a country of 44,000,000. You don't understand what I'm doing. It's not Nigeria. The man does a women's conference, women's conference, and gathers 150,000 plus women alone in the place. Even a country with 200,000,000 plus does not have anybody who can gather that much women alone. And the man came out and said, this has never happened in Uganda. This has never happened in Uganda. Uganda used to be a place where it is said, people don't love God. People don't do this. You see what is happening now is God saying I will lay this proverb to rest.

I see the same thing happening in this city. The same thing. The same thing. Young people young people are rebellious now. Young people are the... Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. It won't be long from now. It won't be long from now.

You will look at the Disciples Christian Network and see everything that you have said cannot happen. You said thousands upon thousands of young people cannot gather consistently and sit in God's presence for hours. Watch it. Lord is saying I will lay this proverb to rest. Because the people will rise. The people will rise. They will rise with fire burning in their hearts. You would look at the kind of things that the people who are rising are doing in the marketplace, and you'll be afraid. It will defy the norm to defy what has become normal. Some of us will export revivals to different territories and we will see the tangible fire of God break out in places where people have said it cannot happen.

You understand what I'm saying? And most many people have said it cannot happen. We will get there like lightning bolts. We will get there like burning in funnels. Like fireballs from a volcanic explosion. It will land in places and begin to burn. And they will say, who are these that have turned the world upside down? Who are these ones that have turned the world upside down? How come these ones are wise and they are young? How come these ones are sensible and they are young?

We don't see the degeneration we find in the youth amongst their numbers. You'd expect that there are certain desires you'd find. There are certain afflictions you'd find. But how come these ones are consecrated? How come these ones have separated themselves onto God and they are not useless in the marketplace? How would it that a man can love God and still have gold at the same time? Because there's been proverbs that if you love God so passionately, it means that your life must be useless in the marketplace. There's been proverbs. If you see a man who is on fire for God, he's about to be sentenced into misery. There's been proverbs that if you're a pastor like this, then your family should cry for you because you'll be poor.

But hear what the Lord says. Whatever the proverbs might be, whatever the conclusions might be, over over the Disciples Christian Network, over the life of every individual here listening to me under the sound of my voice. Lord said, I will lay this proverb to rest. They're not saying this now as though you believe this thing. Lord said I'm laying this proverb to rest. See. See. See. The Bible says, the Lord said, they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel. That means what God will do will change the narrative.

It will change how people speak. It will change what people collectively believe. That if this is what they used to say before because of what I'm going do with your life, what they will say now will begin to change. See, you don't understand. You don't understand. It's a probable from sort that if you see a young man building wealth suspecting, Something is wrong. If you see a young man who is sensible and wise, building something substantial either in business or in ministry, suspecting. Something is wrong. It's an uncommon scenario. So when you see people who are trying to push in that direction, usually, because of the proverb that exists, people tell them calm down.

Calm down. Come on now. Why did we need ambition? Why did we need this? This is God speaking. Oh, that because of what I'm going to do, not only will I let the proverb to rest, it will no longer be used again. That means that what God will do will become so widespread. That people will now look at someone who is young, who is doing nothing with his life, and they will not be asking him, why are you not married? Why are you not wealthy? Why are not prospering?

Why are not? Because a group of people have changed the narrative. What used to be strange has not become a common thing. What used to be weird has not become a common thing. There are those in this place. That the proverb is not even per se in your own life. The proverb is not per se in your life. It's not in your life per se. It's not even in your family. It's just in your generation.

It's just in your territory. So God wants to put the proverb in your generation to rest. He wants to put a wrong conclusion they have made about God and about his workings. And God is saying the same thing over you because you have become the one he wants to use to silence it. God is saying, I want to disrupt something through your life. Oh my god. Listen. Listen. Listen. You know, there's someone here who is a struggle for you to receive what I'm saying and to say amen because the proverb has become so strong that you are even telling yourself that's the same way I said amen two, three years, five years, ten, change.

That's what I'm dealing with now. What has gotten you there there to a place where it becomes difficult for you to now expect, to keep on expecting? But your expectation is no longer ablaze for God. Ablaze for God. I insist that over your life, that conclusion is coming to an end. Because of the things that God is doing in your life, people will no longer be able to make some statement they've been making before. Somebody believe what I'm saying. Yes, sir. Anna was barren for a long time. And her inability to bear children became a very painful reality in her life.

In fact, the bible tells us in first Samuel chapter one, arrival provoked us severely because of our condition. But by the time you get to first Samuel two, Anna is singing songs of thanksgiving. Because God had answered her prayer. Barrenness has come to an end, and the name tag that people known to describe her have finally been overrated. Yes, sir. Sir. What I'm saying in essence over someone. Is that afflictions that have lasted for long are coming to an end. Conditions that have remained unchanged for years are coming to an end. Things that things that you have become accustomed to.

Circumstances that have caused you to conclude that nothing good can come out of a particular area of your life or even of your life. Situation that have made you to stop expecting progress. Stop expecting great things. God is intervening in those situations. In the name of Jesus. One of the most troubling things for a pastor who is growing in ministry and God is helping in ministry, one of the pain points for them is venues to use. It's a serious pain point. And the reason is because there is a proverb. So even when you do get a venue, the chances that the venue would want to be given to you as a pastor for church use is very rare. We've gotten lots of venues that would have been befitting for what we wanted to do.

Halls and warehouses that we could comfortably pay for, and when they hear that we are a church, they just say, ah, no. We are not giving judges. And when you ask them why, They don't do it like churches give us problem. They are the ones that will not pay. They are the ones that will do this. They are the ones that will do that. So much so, they don't even know our financial capacity. They reject us just for the fact that we bear the name of a church. It's a proverb. The second part of that prophecy, is that say to them, the days are at hand and the fulfillment of every vision.

The days are at hand and the fulfillment of every vision. Pay attention here to the contrast between what the people were saying and what God is saying. The people were saying the days are prolonged. God says the days are at hand. The people said the vision fails. God said the fulfillment of every vision. The people had formed a conclusion based on what had happened to them, based on their previous experiences. But God was speaking concerning what was about to happen. God was speaking from his own standpoint as God. They were looking at the length of time that had passed.

But God was announcing that the time of the fulfillment of his word had drawn near. This gives us an understanding, a bit of understanding into divine timing that there can be a distance, perhaps even a considerable distance between the time that God speaks concerning a matter and the time that that matter comes to pass. But the fact that something has not yet happened does not automatically mean that it will not happen as long as God is the one that said it. Look at Abacook chapter two from... Let's read verse three. The bible says, for the vision is yet for an appointed time, but the end it will speak and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it because it will surely come. It will not tarry. Observe the use of the word tarry there. The first thing that you see is that there are things that God has promised, and everything that God has promised has time appointed for their fulfillment.

Is that not so? Because the bible says the vision is yet for an appointed time. That means the fact that you have received the word from God does not give you the authority to... I mean, by yourself when that word must be fulfilled. But what is sad thing is that the word will be fulfilled. Our responsibility is to believe in the one that gave the word. Our responsibility is to partner with the one that gave the word, is to remain faithful to what he had instructed us to do, is to trust his wisdom concerning the fulfillment of his promises and our own responsibility in ensuring that fulfillment because all the responsibility of fulfillment is not up to him. But what interests me particularly is the language Habakkuk will use when he says that the vision is for an appointed time. He then says, though it tarries, wait for it because it will surely come, it will not tarry. So the question is, how can something appear to tarry?

And yet the bible says it will not tarry. Because the same word is used here and an interesting lingua, that something appears to tarry. It says though it tarry. No. What? It appears as though it's taking long before it happens, before it finds expression, before it finds fruition. It will not tarry. It is because that the difference between something appearing delayed from the perspective of the person who is waiting on that thing and the thing failing to arrive at the time that is prepared for you to arrive. Let me explain what I'm saying. If you ordered for clothes on Jumia, You order for cloth on Jumia because you need the cloth on Tuesday.

So you bought the cloth and you begin to expect the cloth on Tuesday and you are expecting cloth on Tuesday. You are certain that the cloth would arrive on Tuesday because you did not pay attention that Jumia had a delivery day. Do you understand what I'm saying? And they would usually tell you that when you order for a clothes, it will arrive between this period and this period. Sometimes it can arrive earlier, betting on several constants. But to be safe, they will give you the window wherewith you should expect the product to arrive. In other words, you don't have a problem with Jumia until that window they've given to you has been exceeded and still your product has not arrived. Then you begin to have a problem. Is that not so? But if you ordered for the product just because you wanted it on a Tuesday, and that Tuesday happened to be a time that Jimmy has not given to you, you are the one who is particularly insistent that the product must arrive on Tuesday.

Junior did not tell you in person that the product will arrive on Tuesday. But now because you've waited till Tuesday and you've waited on Wednesday and the product has still not arrived, you conclude that my goodness, why is this taking time? You understand what I'm saying? But in the perspective of the one who is delivering the product to you, is it taking time? The window is still open. We still have time to deliver this thing to you. Do you understand what I'm saying? Do you understand what I'm saying? That's the meaning of though a terrorist. That means there are two different perspective of the terrorist.

There is the perspective of the one who is expecting delivery, and there is the perspective of the one who is doing the delivery. The only difference here is that God is not Jumia. That means you don't order for products from God expecting that God, oh, God, I want this. I need this. No. No. No. No. It's according to his will. He is the one that drew your life.

So he knows precisely when certain things should arise. And when he gives you the vision, he tells you that vision he has given to you is for an appointed time. That means it will definitely manifest in its appointed time. You now understand why the bible says follow them who through faith and patience obtain the promise. Why? Because that which was promised will come in its appointed time. Your responsibility is understanding that my waiting process is not a delayed process so that I don't begin to form conclusions whilst I'm waiting. Conclusions like the proverb that these people formed. As to mean that because the prophecy has not come to pass, it will not come to pass. It's a dangerous place to be, especially in dealing with God to conclude that because what I'm expecting has not yet arrived, it will not arrive.

And to begin to to begin to posture yourself after that perspective. But you now find it difficult to now believe every consequent thing that God tells you because after all, the last thing he said, I've not seen it yet. So you plead yourself in a place where now the prophet is declaring words over you, and it becomes difficult for you to receive it. It's a correction. It's a correction. You may have expected something to happen earlier than it did. You may have looked at the circumstance and conclude that at the particular age or at the particular stage of your life, certain things should have happened. But God's purposes, you must understand, are not subject to your personal timetables that you create for yourself. Sometimes the difficulty is that you are measuring your life against the expectation that you formed years ago. You believe that at this age, you would have accomplished certain things.

Your business would have reached a certain phase. Right? A particular level. You would have acquired certain possessions or that you would have attained a particular position. And because some of those things have not happened, you now begin to think that your life is behind schedule. But I want you to understand that the fact that your life has not followed the timetable that you have imagined does not mean that God's purpose of your life has failed. That's why you must be very careful about expecting your expectations to become the standard by which you judge the faithfulness of God. If you're not careful, you will misjudge the word of God. And if you're not careful as well, you will allow people to misjudge the word of God for you. Let me give you an example.

When we began ministry and meeting people, Many years ago, someone met me and told me out of love, the person said, man of God, I hear that you are not meeting people at your property. You don't have a property that you're getting the place a hall of some sort, that's where you're meeting people. I said, yes. As God is helping us, we proceed and we progress. And the president said, Kai, no. No. No. No. No. He said, if you don't have a property, you have not started ministry.

You have not started ministry. He did it until you have a property, that's when you have started ministry. You see, what that can do if you are not careful as a man of God in that time, building something, working in the calendar of God for your life, you can create a timetable that God did not create. And you begin to fill in accomplishment into that timetable as to mean that, Kai, Kai, that means that at this point now, we should have this even though you are following a calendar that God himself has drawn. And according to that calendar, you are not late. According to that calendar, keep on working with God. The impact of the ministry can still be felt. People's lives can still be transformed. The business you are doing can still be reaching lives and blessing souls in as much as you are doing what you have to do, and you're not allowing for limitations on your own hand. No limitations in your mind.

You don't have a small heart, a small vision. You believe God for big things when you are pushing in the direction of purpose, but that you don't start measuring your life as a failure because you created a timetable of accomplishment. And when that timetable is not met, you decide that you are behind schedule and that God has failed you. Usually because people or what you've seen or what you've observed created these false expectations. That's why I said that the fact that your life has not followed a particular timetable you have imagined for yourself does not mean that the purpose of God for your life has failed. Are you with me? Yes, sir. When God gives you a promise, you need to trust him to fulfill what he has spoken. He will do it. He will do it.

He will do it. Come. Hold this in your hand. You're holding this, and the Lord tells me that this thing is mine. I believe so strong that this is mine, and I do everything in my power to get this, to get it. Everything in my power, and I'm not able to get it. I don't stop believing that this is mine. I am still sure that it is mine. I'm still certain that it is mine. I'm still holding on to the promise of God that it is mine.

I'm still pushing in that direction. I'm not stopping because I experienced a failure in trying to get it before. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because God has said it is mine. So if six months time come and I see that this guy has come again with this thing and say, ah, he's still here. I will still try again everything to get it. I'm not saying because I tried to get it before and I didn't get it before, it must mean that it's no longer mine. Do you understand what I'm saying? What confirms the word of God over your life is not your experience, it is his word. His word is the same.

His word is the same. His word is the same. In 2019, you know what the lord told us? He said go and organize a conference for young students coming into the university, and that conference will reach every part of Nigeria and across the world. Right now, those that listen to us in several universities are organizing this conference everywhere. The fact that I'm not the one organizing it doesn't mean that the same impact is not being felt. My daughter organized Fredrick's Awakening in a private university, gathered 250 students and all of them heard eternity in the heart of men. Preached by the lady, Held it in the in the first campus, held it in the second campus. Had hundreds of people even more in their second campus. Told me, apostle, we had our prayer that we can say, look at that.

I wasn't involved. But we saw a vision in 2019 that is now spreading like wildfire. That will make it a third university outside of University of Ibadan where that event is being organized because a man saw a vision and dead for the impossible. But guess what? The first time I saw that vision, I saw everyone gathering. The first time I saw that vision, I was passing by a hostel in the University of Ibadan. As I was passing by, I saw cars parked and people lined up, and I said, my goodness. Look at these confused people. These people think that they know what they are doing. They've come from their houses thinking that they might experience freedom, thinking that, oh, now I have freedom.

Now I can do what I wanna do with my life. These people will live four years, five years, six years, seven years in this university, and they would have wasted it. Would nobody tell these ones about Jesus? Would nobody tell them about about purpose? Would nobody tell them about kingdom? And as I was looking at them, I said, my goodness. All of them will one day come. And we had the first meeting. We made flyers. You see, that flyer that flyer we made, it was my school fees that was used in making the flyers because there was no money anywhere.

Means it was 2019. I was still a student in school. I was in final year university writing projects and all kind of things. And while I was doing that, the Lord gave the vision. My prayer and gave me the school fees. I was waiting, trusting God for money. Remember what I said that if God says this is mine, I saw the vision. Trusting God for money, the money did not come from anywhere. I carried the school fees. I had a witness in my spirit.

Don't try this at home. Do not. Do not. This is my personal experience. It's not a word from God to you. Do not do this at all. I am very serious. It's not a joke. Oh. It's not a joke.

God knew what I was saying. I carried the thing and I went and used it for flyers, item seven with... We found... We put it very big. Item seven guaranteed. We put three exclamation mark in front of it. Because somebody told me if you wanna get the youth. And I listened to them. They say you put at them, say, oh, I put it there. Oh god.

Made hundreds of flyers. That time I was a terror in one fellowship that we used to go to for a levels. So a lot of people who I had taught in 2017, 2018 saw us and said, I know this person. He came to my fellowship. I'm coming. In fact, from that alone, we had hundreds of responses of people who told us they were coming. I said, my God. The vision is burning. The vision, that is burning. I I could see it.

We discussed and we were strategizing. They said, we met someone. They said, know apostle money. They are coming. We met. I said, ah, God is good. When I came for the conference in the morning, it was just myself and a few of the people with me, about maybe three or four or five of them I can't remember how many we were. But I was the one in the technical department because there was nobody. I had to switch on the generator. I came from my house then, staying somewhere in the face of my face, rushed downward with the vision burning in my spirit, the message burning in my spirit.

Went to go and rent the generator, bought foil and bought oil, came, bought foil there, started the generator, it wouldn't come on. So with my short knicker, we were going up and down to find out what was wrong, we saw a hose had cut, I went to Admiral to go and buy hose, the vision was still burning in my spirit, it had not changed, it was still there. While I was struggling with generator, it was already time for the meeting. So about one or two people already walked in and sat down. They didn't know the man of God is the one that is owning generator at the back wearing short knicker. We were just struggling and eventually we were able to own the thing, connected the thing and plugged it to our PA system. We started praying. I was checking from outside. I saw two people, three. A total of about 13 people would have been there that day.

You know how much my school fees was? That was the time they had a professional levy and clinical levy for me studying the department and not doing clinicals. Extortion in broad daylight. But there is nothing we can do about that. We revolted but did not. So it was a lot of money then we had burnt. 13 people came. I thought eternity in the heart of men. You see, I didn't see 13 people in my vision. When I was passing by that hostel, what I saw wasn't 13 people.

I saw thousands of people. Guess what? The fact that I tried to do it now and we didn't get to the place we had seen does not mean that God did not show us. It does not mean that that reality I had seen is not mine. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's what I'm trying to tell you. I would now create a narrative around that that see how hard we worked. See what we did. We went all out for this and look at the mini school with what we got. So the next time we are holding a conference, look at now we'll spend so much money and nobody...

Oh, nobody will come. Let's just do it small. That was never my mentality. The next time we'll not try to do it small. The next time after that, again, we didn't try to do it small. Next time, at every level we were, we were going bigger and bigger in that level. Do you understand what I'm saying? Until we get to the place I had seen in my visions. The place that I had seen in my visions before we used the high cc. Something made us use high cc.

We had gotten a large macu tent in this place. That macu tent filled that entire field. We had about a thousand nine nine hundred people or so outside in the market tent with the venue filled up. It was all your... Come on to use this place again. That was what brought about let's go to ICC. Let's create more space. Accommodate everyone that God is bringing. That God is bringing. And we got there.

The whole place was filled up. I sat down. I said, my goodness. This thing is yours. It is yours. Now in this year alone, three universities have done Vegeta Awakening. In this year alone, apart from you, They are planning project awakening right now. I don't know how far they've gone with that in another university again in the Kitti State. All of that does not have my involvement in it. But we could have at some point developed a narrative that just because we gave it our all and we didn't see precisely what we had seen or what had been promised, then a proverb is now developed.

We say, see, let's not stress ourselves this much. What if I told you about the manifest conference last year? It was an amazing meeting, we thank God for it. But you don't know the half of it. It's something that if you knew the half of it, the next conference you will calm down. You will calm down. You will say, let's talk sense to ourself. After what happened last time, guys, guys, guys, we need to plan now. We need to be reasonable and be realistic. If it was a company in a in a board meeting, that's what they'll be discussing.

We've got to avoid disappointment because you would think of it as a closer loss. You know how much we spent on buses? You can't imagine. We got coastal buses. We sent coastal buses into the cities because we had had outstretches inside the city. Reached out to thousands of people who have told us they would come. The coastal buses were returning with one person inside, two person inside. How do you know that it does not matter how many people are inside, we will still pay for the bus? Guess what? I gathered the people and said we are going bigger this year.

Normal people don't talk like that. Normal people don't think like that. Normal people don't do things like that. It is because we believe in the certainty of what was promised. You see this thing that God promised, even if I'd not touch it last year, it's still mine. It's my home. This year, I will go again for it. You understand what I'm saying? That's the mentality. Sir.

You say, oh, oh, look at your life now. You see, the year is coming to an end. Oh, see, the the way it works with God is it does not take him time at all. So you can look at me now and say, look at, look at, look at, this year too has gone. Shebi, you said, Shebi, you said, calm down. I'm not the one that said it. I'm only echoing what he said. I'm only echoing what he said. You don't understand what I'm saying. Lecturer came to class.

Lecturer said, you guys, I'm gonna teach you. Gonna have a class to discuss this and this and this and this. And you went and lecturer told you, I think I'm thinking about this time for your class. He gave you a day and a date and a time. Working on that day and date and time that lecturer has given to you, you then go and tell people that I'm I'm not gonna be available because I had a class. I had a class. You then went to the class and the lecturer did not come for the class. Did you lie? Did you lie? How many of you have had this experience I'm describing?

Did you lie? You did not lie. But the fact is that it's not your timetable. You're not the one that determined what time the lecturer will come. He's the one that said I'm coming at this time. You were there at the time he said they will come. You told people that I'm going for a time based on this, and lecturer did not come at that time. You did not lie. Do you understand what I'm saying? And the fact that lecturer did not come at that time does not mean he will not come again.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So which student will say that this lecturer did not come yesterday? Now he has given us another time that he's coming. Oh, you know what? I'm not going. You will know that you will still be there. That's for humans. Whose words are unreliable, who are unfaithful in all their ways. How much more God?

Who the bible says is faithful. Who the bible says when he gives you a vision, it is for a time that cannot be moved, for a time that cannot be shifted. Now the problem with men is that they don't bother checking with him. They just create their own time and put it in their timetable. See, and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, there's an allowance in faith for that. Do you understand what I'm saying? There's an allowance in faith for that so you can begin to declare even what God has given to you that will manifest in five years' time and start insisting that it comes now after speaking. It's okay. There's an allowance in faith for that.

But you would not because I've not yet seen certain things manifesting that I've spoken about or that I've prayed about or that I've prophesied about. Now decide that, see, let me not do this again. Let me not... You can't live like that. You can't live like that. We go again harder. And the reason we go again harder is still because God said it. That's still the guarantee. You prepared all this year for marriage because you said I will marry this year. You did not marry this year.

Prepare all through next year for the same marriage. And insist the same way that I will marry this year. You don't understand what I'm saying? Don't get to the point where you allow yourself develop a proverb, and you now begin to say, ah, the days are prolonged. The visions are failed. Oh, no. Jesus. Somebody receiving something tonight. You just go and tell them. Go and tell them.

Go and tell them. The days are now. And there are people that God is speaking to right now. That you see all those promises that you have been working on terribly and insisting that this year, this year, and has been looking as though every year has become this year. Oh, Lord, I should announce to you. The day is at hand. The days are at hand. The days are at hand. The days of fulfillment are here. In the name of Jesus.

The days are here. Shout it loud and clear. That's the word of God to someone now. Am I boring you? That's that's why they are building this thing progressively. Oh my god. Because we've dealt with a category. Now they are dealing with those now. You are freeing as though because you have been saying this is my day. It's my time of take over and you take over, take over last year, you didn't even find a job.

You go on your retreat again, you say my eyes are open. Ah, of course, I just know that my season has come. My season has come. And every time you have been saying your season has come. Give me the next verse. Let us see something. Let us see something. No more shall there be any false vision. No more shall there be any flattering divination within the house of Israel. Next verse.

Watch this. 25, for I am the Lord. I speak and the word which I speak will come to pass. Can we all make clan together? Us. It will no more be postponed because the days of fulfillment are here. It says, I will say the word and perform it says the lord god because the days of fulfillment are here. It says, it will no more be postponed Because the narrative came in the first instance because it was getting postponed. It was as though it was being postponed, as though it was being postponed, as though you were expecting it and again that's been postponed. And God is saying no.

It will no more be postponed. It will no more be postponed. It will no more be postponed. It will no more be postponed. It will no more be postponed. Somebody here that believes this. Shout it will no more be postponed. God is establishing his own credibility as the one that has spoken. It says, I am the Lord. I'm the one that said it.

I am the Lord. It is important because the reliability of a promise is connected to the ability and the integrity of the person that made that promise. If a man promises you something, you may need to consider whether he has the resources to provide it. You may need to consider whether he has the track record of truthfulness to do what he is saying he can do, whether he has the authority to even make that promise to begin with, whether the circumstances beyond his control can prevent him from fulfilling the promise. But when God speaks, we are dealing with a God whose power is sufficient to accomplish his purposes, whose power is sufficient, whose nature makes him incapable of lying. All authority and power is in his hands. All. All. Do you know what that means? You can meet a man who tells you, I will give you a job or I will ensure that you have a job in Dangote or in Shell Or you'll meet someone who tells you, that company where you are working, I'm gonna ensure that you are promoted.

You see, the person that is promising you, one of the things you have to check is, does he have the authority to bring to pass that promise? That means, is it a is it a MD in share? Yes, sir. Is it a general manager? Is it the HR? What authority does he have to bring what he's saying to pass? Do you understand what I'm saying? Does he have connection? All of these things matter when men speak. But when God is the one who is speaking, the understanding of the almighty and the all powerfulness of God makes us safe in realizing that it is truly safe to keep on believing this word.

It is truly safe because the one who has said it are several ways he can do it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Several ways. Sometimes in your own wisdom, you would see what he has said, and you are trying to even partner with what he has said, and you are working... You are devising means. You are calling people here and there saying, can you help me with this? Can you help me with that? And you know that all of this movement is in partnership with what you know God has promised you. Do you understand what I'm saying?

And God is looking at you. And by that, you're able to move some beat. And God still says, see, it's good you've done everything you can do, but there is still more ways that I can make what I have said come to pass beyond your own wisdom. Beyond your own wisdom. God can tell you that don't worry. In this year, you will marry. In this year, you will do this. And then in partnership with that, you begin to, okay. I must get this done. I must get that.

I must move this. I must... This must be there, and then you start working because God has told me this and that and that and that, and that is good. God says listen, what I've said I will do, I will do it. And there are many ways I can route beyond your intelligence, beyond your wisdom. It's not to say don't do what you are doing. It's not to say don't partner with God or don't move or don't... Do you understand what I'm saying? I'm saying this so that you will know that in case in your own wisdom, everything you have tried has failed. God is still not limited by your wisdom.

I bring this word to someone. I bring this word to someone. I bring this... It might not be for everybody. Everybody might not be able to comprehend what I'm saying, where I'm saying it, but I bring this word to someone. Don't be weary in expecting the manifestation of what God has promised. Don't be weary. Don't let your faith be weary. Don't come to that place where you say the days are prolonged, the visions are failed. Don't be weary.

Faithful is he that has said these things. Because we know that hope deterred can make the heart weak. Don't get to that point where your heart becomes weak. Because of the length of time you have had to wait. And you are saying, God, but I've been waiting. But I've been waiting. But I've been waiting. But you have... I've been I've been waiting. Jesus.

Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. It's why I bring this word to someone that the days of fulfillment are here. That it will no longer be postponed. Your own responsibility is stop saying. The days are prolonged. Stop saying the days are prolonged. Oh, but the power of God came upon me in that meeting where I wrote my expectations down. It was in my prayer point I wrote it down, but I've not yet seen it manifest.

Oh, the days are prolonged. The visions are failed. No. No. No. No. Write it again. Make your expectations be red hot again. Believe God afresh. Believe God her new.

Restrengthen your convictions again. Stay again with the promises of God that he has given to you in time past. The ones he had given to you even in recently and say, I know these things will come to pass. When you are coming for meetings, when you are praying in your own place, still keep on believing. Still keep on seeing it. Still keep on saying it. Still keep on working towards it. I know. I know. I know.

Ah, it told me that a little one will become a thousand. He told me. He told me. Walk with me and I will make you great. He told me. There's greatness inside of you. He told me. He told me. I know that my voice will reach the hands of the earth for there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. I know there is no speech nor language when their voice is not heard.

He has said I will not keep quiet. I will not know rest until your righteousness shine forth like the sun, until your salvation blazes. Blazes. Blazes. See, as thou a man diligent in his work, he shall stand before kings and not before mere men. Oh, I will not stand before uncommon men. My days of standing before uncommon men are coming to an end because the days of fulfillment are here. Oh, I'm a king myself. God is making me into a king. I know my product will reach the world.

This marketing I'm doing is not in vain. My attempt at visibility is not in vain. You take a posture that you know that you know that you know. It's not in vain. It's not in vain. I'm putting myself out there. I'm making every attempt to ensure that my voice is heard. I'm not getting with what I wanna say now, but I know he promised me. I know what he told me. I know what he told me.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof, though your beginning may be small. Your later end will greatly increase. That is what he told me. That is what he told me. He that dwell in the secret of the most high shall abide. Under the shadow of the almighty, a thousand shall fall at my side. 10,000 at my right hand. They will not come near me. Only with my eyes Will I behold and sit in the word of the wicked? This is what he has told me.

I know what he has told me. Know what he has told me, that he has given me a message. He has given me a counsel. He has given me the wisdom of hedges. The wisdom of the East is in my head. Kings will come and meet me for counsel. I have strategies to give kings. I have strategies to give nations. I know what he has told me. The days of fulfillment are here.

Days of fulfillment are here. I want us to pray. It will no more be postponed. It will no more be postponed. Let it settle in your heart. Let it settle in your heart. God spoke to Abraham about the birth of Isaac. There was a time period where he had to wait for the fulfillment of the promise. Genesis 21 from verse one to verse two. I want you to see how scripture describes what eventually happened.

The bible says, and the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham his son in his old age at the set time for which God had spoken to him. Let's read it again. You didn't say it. One, two, three, go. God is best here at... Pastor, what is that? As he had said. Next. Go on.

As he had spoken. Look at the next verse. One, three. Go. At the set time at the set time, it wasn't a day longer. You would look at Abraham and think that time was going and think that Abraham, come on now. Time is going. Come on now. Time is going. You look at yourself and think time is going.

What does the bible say? At the set time. My time has not gone. My time has not gone. My time has not gone. My time has not gone. Ah, let these things bring hope inside of someone oh. That the Lord is doing in my life as he had said. The Lord is doing in my finances as he had spoken. The Lord is doing in my ministry as he had said.

Can you rise up on your feet and begin to pray? Hear me? Hear me? Let's continue reading. That is Ezekiel. We start in verse 25. See, this is the word I brought. I'm not... There's no special prayers I'm doing. This is it.

You either get it now or get it now. This is it. This is it. This is it. He said I will say the word and perform it. Look at the next verse. Verse 26 says, again the word of the Lord came to me saying... So this was a time period. Is that not so? That means Ezekiel had already delivered the method that God had given to him.

Now after the delivery of the message, the people now had a response to it. God now told Ezekiel to go and address the response the people had, And the word of the Lord now came to him again. Do you understand what I'm saying? To address the response of Ezekiel when Ezekiel came and started telling them that it will no longer be postponed. This proverb... Do you understand what trying to say? As I'm coming here to come and say these things to you now, I'm telling you that the things God has told you, the days of fulfillment are now. Now watch. Watch. Watch.

Watch. Next verse. Son of man, look at what these people are saying. They are saying the vision that he sees is for many days from now. No. No. Their response has changed. Ezekiel was able to correct their perspective because what they were thinking before is that it has failed. They say, okay. Okay.

Oh, yeah. It has not failed, but it's for many days from now. That the man God came and was prophesying greatness over your life and said, well, well, I know it is just for many days from now. It says, and it prophesies of times far off. Give me a new living translation. Son of man is talking about the distant future. His visions won't come true for a long, long time. So these people had moved from one way of dismissing the word of God to another way of dismissing the word of God. They either concluded that it could not happen at all or they assumed that even if it was going to happen. See, it's it's gonna it's gonna happen in a long long time from now.

But God answered them by announcing that the fulfillment of his word is now. The fulfillment of his word is now. Look at what God says. He says, therefore, say to them, again, none of my words will be postponed. Again. This is again. None of my words will be postponed. The word which I speak will be done. Says the Lord God. Because there is somebody here who has entered this same place that these people are.

Who I say, I know. I know. But it doesn't look like I can come now. It doesn't look as if I can come now. Apostle, this year is still too... Come on now. It's... Let's be realistic. What is more real than God? What is more real than what God has said?

What's your definition of real? How exactly do you define real? That if God has spoken it, will he not do it? And is he a man that he would lie? I bring a warning to someone who is postponing. You can't bring your mind to just concede the idea that this thing apostle is prophesying can happen to me now. That his words are now. That truly the days of fulfillment are now. That there is nothing stopping my voice from going global now. Global now.

Was it not last year I was talking about satisfies Hailey? There is someone who still has not conceived the idea that my satisfaction can come helly. That my satisfaction can come helly. There is someone who still hasn't conceived that idea, who is still struggling with the mentality that can some things really come hell in my life. I'm gonna leave you to pray, and you will pray as much as you have understood. Listen. As much as you have understood. I don't even have a prayer point for you. That the things that God has told me will happen will happen in my own lifetime. That the fulfillment of what God has promised is not in an indefinite future.

That God is bringing the matter into my lifetime. There are things I've been believing God for over the years. There are assignments I've been preparing for. There are doors I've been praying to God to open. There are prayers you have been carrying in your heart. Your expectations you have almost abandoned. Because so much time has passed without any visible change. I want you to understand that the passage of time has not weakened the power of God. The passage of time has not weakened the ability of God to accomplish his purposes. God is still able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all you can ask for or think.

Oh, I'm seeing the goodness of God in my life. I will not spend the rest of my life hearing about the possibilities of God, but my hands are not touching them. The Lord is bringing you into seasons. Where what you have heard, what you have seen in visions is a burden in your hands. I'm entering to seasons where what I have heard, what I have seen in visions is appearing in my hands. You have been trusting God for the expansion of your business. The establishment of your career. For provision. For fruitfulness. For the fulfillment of your assignment in ministry.

For the manifestation of the things that God has promised you. I pray that the Lord is granting you wisdom. Granting you strength. Granting you help. Opportunities. Require for those things to manifest. They are pouring right now. Come on prophesy. For those who have had their expectations weakening because of the profit of time. Can you declare that my faith is being strengthened now?

Come on, pray. There is a lion inside me that must rush there is an eagle inside me that must suck inside me that muscle there is an eagle inside me that muscle in Jesus name we have prayed. Thank you for listening. We believe you've been blessed. To be a part of this vision, you can connect with us on YouTube at disciples television, on Instagram at dcn nations, and on telegram at dcn media channel. We love you. Stay blessed.