Transcript: The Equation of Dominion - The Priest, The Prophet and The King

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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. Father, we love you. We bless you. We thank you, and we worship you. We have started this meeting. You break the bread that our eyes will open.

Grant us understanding. Grant us a open heart. Let us receive of your word. In the name of Jesus. Let the sick be healed. And let your oppressed be delivered. In the name of Jesus. You might have your sick. God bless you. Good morning to everybody.

Happy Sunday to you. You'll be so blessed today. You'll be so blessed today. Oh, thank you, Jesus. I want you to bow your heads in one minute and just ask God for an encounter in this meeting, and I want you to be very sincere. Ask God for an experience. It is called the experience for a reason. Can you ask God for an experience even in this meeting? Ask God for an experience even in this meeting. Thank you, Lord.

Ask God for an experience. May I not go back the same way I came? May I receive the word for my life, the word for my destiny, the word for my family, the word for my children, the word for my ministry, the word for my business. In the name of Jesus, I pray that I receive open hearts to see and to hear. In the name of Jesus, I receive understanding of the spirit. Pray. I wouldn't have wasted my time. It will be valuable for my time. I don't hear mere words. The words that I receive are spirit and their life.

Thank you, Jesus. In Jesus name, we have prayed. Amen. In the old testament, there were three offices that men received the spirit upon to stand in those offices. The first was the priestly office. The second was the prophetic office, and the third was the kingly office. The business of the priest is to offer sacrifices to God. Business of the prophet was to speak out the mind of God, and the business of the king was to lead the nation into into battle, lead the nation into warfare and forcing dominion over the nation. Today as believers, we have the indwelling spirit of God on our inside and added along with that indwelling spirit is the enablement to function in these three offices. So a complete man, a complete woman in Christ is a priest, a king, and a prophet.

I have a teaching and the holy spirit allows me that we will do. Title of that teaching is I would that all men be prophets. I would that all men be prophets. It's gotten from the heart cry of Moses. When everybody started prophesying and they came that... They came to come and tell him that two men who are not a part of the elders that were selected for leadership had also started prophesying. The statement that Moses gave, the reply that Moses gave was I would that all men, in other words, this thing you are angry about in the mind of God, God would rather that all men prophesy. And thank God for the indwelling, infilling presence of the holy spirit inside the believer, this is now a possibility because in the book of Joel chapter two, the bible says it shall come to pass in the last days and verse 28, that I I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your your men shall see visions. So this is something that is available for every believer right now. Every believer right now is also a priest.

Every believer right now is also a king. The book of revelations make us understand that every believer right now is a priest. Glory to God. Every believer right now is a king. That is what God has made us. He has made us priest and king. The bible says unto himself. So in the new testament, the believer, the complete believer is supposed to function as a priest. Are you with me? As a prophet and as a king.

This tripartite function is what enables you to walk in dominion upon the earth. Peradventure any of this fails in your ministering to God, you're receiving a word from God, you're enforcing dominion, if any of this fails, then the equation of dominion is incomplete. As a matter of fact, that is the title that I would give my teaching today, the equation of dominion. The priest, the prophet, and the king. The equation of dominion, hyphen, the priest, the prophet, and the king. If you desire a title, you can title it that. So I said, the work of the priest was towards God in the old testament. The work of the priest was to enter into the courts of God and to offer sacrifices to God. In Exodus chapter 30 and verse 30, God was giving Moses instruction for the priest and God told Moses, you shall anoint Aaron and his sons. What would be their responsibility?

They would... You would consecrate them that they may minister to me as priests. So you see that as as priests, your ministering is unto God. As priests, your ministering is unto God. You are actually ministering unto God. And and and as believers, I said, you function in these three offices. It means primarily as a believer, your primary assignment, your primary responsibility is to is to offer up spiritual sacrifices, to minister unto God as priest. That is the work of the priest. The work of the priest is God word. What did I call it?

It is towards God. So when I'm talking about your priesthood, I'm talking about the nature and the quality of the spiritual sacrifices that you all found to God. In the old testament, the work of the priest is not public. The work of the priest is within the courts. There was the outer court, the inner court, the holy of holies. And the priest would carry the sacrifice from the outer court and he would proceed into the inner court, into the holy of holies where he offers the sacrifice. Are you with me? Yes sir. Well, he offers sacrifice at the outer court actually, he then carries it into the inner court and then the holy of holies. My point is that what it does, the primary assignment of the priest, the primary work of the priest is not public.

The core of the ministry of the priest is in the holy of holies. It is a secret business because his primary responsibility is to minister unto God. So you can find the priest standing before everybody, laying his hands on the scapegoat in the old testament, confessing the sins of the people on the goat, offering the goat as sacrifice, But ultimately, the responsibility, the work, the prime of the work of the priest is not in all of those. It is what in what he does towards God inside the court. Are you with me? So when I'm talking about your priesthood your priesthood therefore is you between you and God alone. The work of the priest is done in secret. And so when Jesus Christ was teaching this same thing, Jesus now puts it this way, he says when you go to pray, do not be like the Pharisees and the Sadducees. When they go to pray, they stand outside where everybody can see them. Because the work of the Pharisee is, I've neglected the order of priest.

Priests are not to minister unto God outside where everybody... Because the business is between you and God. So Jesus now tells them, when you pray when you pray, you would find a secluded spot. You would find a secret place. You would shut the door. Jesus then says, for your father who sees in secret. You see, that secret meeting that you have with God is your responsibility as a priest. Many believers have not been trained, have not been taught the God who sees in secret. I have a teaching like that. You should get it.

The father who sees in secret. I have a teaching like that, prayer. The father who sees in secret. Get that teaching. I think it will bless you. You must learn to prosecute prayer. And prayer is is just one of the sacrifices of the priest. Prayer is not the only sacrifice of the priest. Are you with me? However, every of the sacrifice of the priest happens in secret.

The call. There are sacrifices that happen in the public, but the core is intimate. The core is fellowship. The core is koinonian. Are you with me? Yes. Now Jesus now completes that statement with, your father who sees in secret shall reward you openly. You see, that open reward is the kingly anointing. Did you get that? Yes.

That open reward is the kingly anointing. So what does this tell you? It tells you that the strength of your dominion as a king comes from the priestly responsibility. Thank you, Jesus. The nature of the type of... The nature of this spiritual sacrifices that you offer unto God as a priest will determine the measure of power that you walk in as a king. So when you see someone getting outward results, when you want to discover the secret behind the outward result, don't look at what they do. Don't look at how they speak. Don't try and copy their results. Their...

The secret is not in their results. The secret is in their priesthood. What you see outside, the kingly functioning, walking in dominion, You see a man of God with a great ministry, a powerful ministry with signs and wonders following. And when he speaks, the lame is walking. The blind is seen. Deaf ears are opening. You see a business person who is in God making millions and billions in his business yet as a service to God. You see an entertainer who loves God so much and is rising in influence. You see, you can be tempted to study their results. That is how the world trains us.

The secrets of men are not in their results. The result you see is the reigning of the man as a king. So when I come here and I start casting out devils, I start speaking the way I'm speaking, and the power of God is everywhere. What is happening is I'm demonstrating the kingly anointing that God has deposited. Someone can come to me after the meeting and tell me, sir, this is the issue I'm having. This is the problem you are facing. In the family, there is this issue. There is this problem. There is that and that. And I told the person, hold my hands.

Go and prosper. The siege is rebuked in the name of Jesus. And the person says, amen, and doesn't even expect anything to happen. But when she goes back home, she finds out that everything that she came with that was a problem is gone. And she wonders, oh my god. What was the secret? Is just in speaking. He's not just in speaking. You need to find out what is the priestly responsibility. What is the priesthood of this man like?

So when you see great men of god or great people in any capacity, business people who are in God, and God is using them powerfully in any sphere. What we should always consider is their priesthood. The power is not in what they demonstrate in the public. Public. The power is in their walk with God. Are you with me? Thank you, Jesus. So the victory in the open is based on the sacrifices in the secret. His work on the outside, the growth of his business, the increase of the works of his hands proceeds from his hidden altar in God's presence. The prophetic now is the question, where does the prophetic come into place?

Where does the prophetic come in? The prophetic is like the bridge between the two. The prophetic is what connects the kingly anointing to the priesthood office. The prophet is actually the one in those days who would bring the word of God to the king, which the king would then use in battle. So the king would most times have to wait on God. And when the king waits on God, then God sends a prophet with a word from God, with an instruction. The prophet matches on the strength of that instruction and enforces victory. So for example, Jehoshaphat prays to God. That is priestly responsibility. The prophet then brings the word from God.

Prophetic responsibility. Josephine obeyed the word from God, and then they saw massive results, kingly responsibility. So this is the order. You offer spiritual sacrifices. The word of of God God that that proceeds from the prophet empowers and guides the activities of the king. So for men to win in the face of the earth, for men to enforce dominion in this earth, listen, they must function as a priest. Operate with a prophetic word and therefore demonstrate the kingly anointing. That is the equation. This equation must not be missed for any reason. Stay with me.

I'm going somewhere with this. In first Peter chapter two and verse five. The Bible says you also as living stones are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices. You are being built up into a holy priesthood. And what is responsibility... What is your responsibility as a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices? Give me verse nine in amplified version. Verse nine in amplified version says, but you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, the same thing now, a consecrated nation, a special people for God's own possession so that you may proclaim the excellencies. Glory to God. So that you may proclaim the excellency.

Their own version of amplified says that you may set forth the wonderful deeds. You see. So what is the first thing that happens? You offer up spiritual sacrifices. Verse nine nine says, after you have offered up spiritual sacrifices, the consequence is that you then receive the empowerment and enablement to show forth the wonderful deeds of God. The first thing that happens is not the wonderful deeds, is sacrifice. Do you understand what I'm saying? The first thing that happens is the sacrifice that is offered up on the strength of the accepted sacrifice, then you receive empowerment to show forth the wonderful deeds of God. That is the operation as a king. So when the bible says to walk in dominion, when the bible says to take over every sphere of influence, you start a business and your business sees massive massive sales, a massive increase in your business, in your trade.

Are you with me? Massive increase in your business, your ministry is growing in leaps and bound. All of this would be to the degree to which your priesthood is accepted. Many people do not know that for for you to be a successful businessman in God, your priesthood must be strong. Many people do not know that the battles you would face as a Christian who is into business is different from is different from the battles you would face as an unbeliever who is into business. Have you read the book of Zechariah? Zechariah says, cry out. My cities through prosperity shall be spread abroad. This was what God spoke through the prophet. My cities through prosperity shall be spread abroad.

Cry out. In other words, God's will is that his kingdom will spread, and the way it will spread is through prosperity. The way it will spread is through prosperity. So it is God's will that believers prosper. It is God's will that believers have money, that believers be wealthy. It is God's will that you live in good health. It is God's will that you do well in life and in career. It's God's will that your pocket is full with plenty. The Bible says Abraham prospered. You see?

These people that said yes and no, I just saw an an... I just saw a golden... I just saw it now. Let's continue. There's a way that hunger just draws something. You can imagine what I saw. I saw a golden vial in my vision. I saw a golden vial in my vision. I saw a golden vial in my vision, and I see, like, golden oil inside that fire, like, golden oil, and that oil is being poured. I asked god, what is the meaning of this?

And he's telling me that what he has released is the power to prosper. The power to prosper. This that he has released will compel favor from men. It will come... Listen to me. I don't do this in the public. Bring the two of them for me. I'm very careful of what I do, but there is hunger that I sense. You'll be shocked at what will happen. The testimonies that will follow, my goodness.

My goodness. If you can help them, just help them very carefully and imagine what God is doing. International doors being opened. In the name of Jesus, it is so. International doors being opened. Bring it this way. International doors being opened. Get out now. Leave her in the name of Jesus. Leave her alone.

Get out. We lose right now in the name of Jesus. We lose right now. You're free. You're free. I declare the hands free, the legs free in the name of Jesus. Oh, thank you, Lord. You see, it is God's will that the believers prosper. It is God's will that the believers prosper. First Peter two and verse nine, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and the display of the virtues and perfections of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

That is God's will for the believer. Eventually, your life must show forth glory. I've said this over and over again. Eventually... So the bible says, though your beginning may be small, your latter end should greatly increase. The bible says that the path of the just is as a shining light. It shines ever brighter onto the perfect day, ever brighter onto the perfect day, ever brighter onto the perfect day. How can I know you by myself except you take over? How can I know you on my own except you take over? Take over.

Spirit, take over. Jesus, over. I cannot know you on my own except you take over. I cannot know you by myself except you take over. Spirit draw me to yourself. Spirit take over. Spirit draw me to yourself. Will you take I cannot know you on my own. Will you take over? You see, I'm not a musician.

When I sing like this, especially as I'm teaching, it is a prophetic utterance. It is something that God is doing, an invitation by the spirit into encounters, an invitation by the spirit into the secret secret place. An invitation by the spirit. That is what is happening right now. I just see stirrings in the spirit. And God is saying that he's restoring the bridges. He is restoring broken bridges. You see, broken bridges being restored, broken fellowship being restored, broken intimacy being restored, broken relationship being restored. I see I see I see someone that is like... Your heart is like stone, like stone, and God is saying I'm helping you to forgive.

I'm giving you a heart of flesh. I'm replacing that heart of stone that is so... That is... That has been embittered. There's bitterness and strife, but god says, I'm giving you a heart of flesh. I'm helping you to forgive. I'm helping you to forgive. You are holding on. You are holding you are holding someone in your heart, and it has been difficult for you to let go, difficult for you to forgive. But I see that the spirit of god is helping you right now even as I'm speaking.

Helping you right now. Even as I'm speaking. So spirit draw me to yourself. Will you take on over? Spirit, draw me to yourself. Will you take over? I'm just a man. I'm just a man. Will you take over? I'm just a man.

I'm just a man. Will you take I'm just a man. I'm just a man. Will you take over? You will not suffer glory of the lord is descending in this place. I see a cloud. A cloud of the glory just descending. Even as I teach, the effect of that glory will become stronger. This is called the experience for a reason. Even as I teach, you just be sensitive.

The glory of the lord is is becoming strong in this place. Strong in this place. As I teach, the weight of the glory will be sitting down on people. The weight of the glory will just sit down on people. Do you know that I see fountains. Yeah. There's someone that came with a pain on your leg, a pain on your leg, maybe your left leg now. It is gone. It is gone. So a lot of people are deceived, and the source of the deception is to think that because I'm a business person, because I'm an entertainer, because I'm a politician, it doesn't really matter whether I pray.

It doesn't really matter. They they they leave these things to the pastors. It's when we talk about prayer or the study of the word of God or you talk about things that have to do with building your spirit man. The politician doesn't feel a need to be in that class. You're telling the man about the purpose of fasting, the power of fasting. The business person does not see the import of what we are talking about to his business. He feels that he should be in a place where he's he's he's learning more practical things that applies to his business. The career man does not see how the value of prayer project his career forward. He wants to be in conferences where he's taught how to write CVs. Because many people do not know the value and the equation of dominion.

The equation of dominion. How that if a man will maintain and sustain dominion upon the face of the earth, if you will walk as a king and have dominion as God had instructed, if you will walk in power, if you will walk in authority as God had instructed, you will rise to be a mighty warrior. You will rise to be a powerful business mogul, a powerful apostle, a powerful evangelist, a powerful music minister in whatever capacity. Many don't know there's an equation of dominion. So a lot of people have deceived themselves. They are under delusion that all I need to do is to be hardworking, be a visionaire, be purposeful, learn the laws that govern wealth, the laws of financial management, save well, invest well, and do all of these things, which may be true. It is not a lie in and of itself, but it's not complete in revelation. So you may be you may be a student, for instance, and you feel all I need to do to excel in my academics is study for my exam, read well, and I'm good to go. It is not a lie, of course. But there is an equation of dominion.

My my goal and my objective is that we rise to the fullness of what God has declared over our lives. That is my goal. That is my objective. That if you're a minister of the gospel, what you do as ministry, what God has sent you to do, rise to the peak of its fullness. Like three years from now, five years from now, when we meet ourselves at the top, we look at ourselves and say, yes. The the world works. The world works because now I see the president. Now I see the governor. Now I see the senator. Now I see the business person.

Now I see the captain of industry. Now I see the CEOs gathering. I look at... These were once the young people who were feeding with the word of God. So the end result is greatness. The end result is dominion. But there is an equation of dominion, and it begins as a priest. Your life in this equation begins as a priest. So when God said, proclaim my cities through prosperity shall be spread abroad. The next verse immediately after, my cities through prosperity shall be spread abroad.

The next verse immediately after, God said... God declared the intention. The next verse says, then I beheld and I saw horns, horns rising from the earth. And when he proceeds, he then goes on to tell him that these are the horns that have scattered Jerusalem. Why is it that the horns never manifested until God said, proclaim, my cities through prosperity shall be spread abroad. It tells you that the kind of attacks that an unbeliever faces in business or in politics is not the same attacks that a believer faces. The reason is because the purpose of prosperity for the believer is defined in that scripture. My city's true prosperity shall be spread abroad. It means the reason why God is prospering you is because he wants his cities to be spread abroad. So the devil knows that if a believer prospers, then God's kingdom is spread abroad.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. And so all you know cannot be the laws that govern business. That is why your life begins as a priest. Because when these horns arise in business, you must know what to do as a priest. Do you understand what I'm saying? When these horns rise in ministry, you must know what to do as a priest. When these horns rise as a father, as a mother, you must know what to do as a priest. Your life begins as a priest. You are...

You get married and you are told, oh, the wife is pregnant, amazing, everybody is laughing. And then the child is delivered, and we are told, oh, the baby has an enlarged heart. Who plans for that? Who prays for that? Nobody ever wishes for that to happen. But now here is the situation fisting us right in the face. The baby has an enlarged heart. It's that it has been introduced into a world he knew nothing about. Are you confused at that moment? You start looking for 6,000,000 naira or 1,000,000 naira, 3,000,000 naira to do a surgery, or do you know what it means to be a priest?

Do you know what it means to enter into the secret place and minister unto God and make sacrifices that become sweet smelling odor, sweet smelling fragrance unto God? Do you know what to do To turn the the the tides of events around. So your life would display the excellency in verse nine, the wonderful deeds of God's works. The wonderful deeds of God's work. The excellency, the wonderful deeds, the display of the virtue, that is the end of your life. But it begins in verse five to offer up spiritual sacrifices. Are you with me? Yes, sir. It means that your life as a believer is first vertical, ministering onto God, and then horizontal, ministering onto men. You can only effectively minister to men if you have ministered onto God.

And by ministering to men, I don't mean you are a minister of the gospel. When you have a product that comes from you, you are ministering to men. When you have a service that you offer, you are ministering to men. When you have a skill that you exchange for your reward, you are ministering to men. And it's God's will that you that you work in dominion even in that ministry. Thank you, Jesus. In acts of apostles chapter four and verse 23, the apostles were arrested for preaching the gospel. Peter and John were preaching the gospel and they were arrested. And whilst they were arrested, in verse 23, they let them go. And the moment they let them go, Peter and John brought the report to their companions, the chief priests who were there, what they said unto them, what the elders that were there said unto them.

And in verse 24, the moment the companions heard it, the Bible says, the moment they heard it, they said, they raised up their voice. So you see, priestly dimension being activated, that is priesthood. Vertical, they raised up their voice in one accord and said, Lord, you are God who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them. The first thing that they did was to minister unto God. You are the God who made the heavens. You are the God who made the earth. You are the God who made the sea and all that is in them. And after they ministered unto God in verse 29, they then said, now Lord, look at their threats. Still ministered in fact. Still standing in the office of a priest.

Look at their threats. Grant your servants that we may speak with all boldness your word. Next verse. By stretching out your hand to heal, that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant, Jesus. So we see priesthood going up to heaven. We see God responding by pouring out his spirit. Next verse. Give me the next verse. Let's do verse 31. And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the holy spirit.

So there was a response from heaven. God poured out the spirit, and the moment God poured out the spirit, we see the prophetic manifesting in them in that they spoke the word with boldness. Do you understand what I'm saying? When the three equation was when the two equation was complete, the priesthood and the prophetic, then the third thing that would happen is now the kingly dimensions being manifested. And we see that in act of apostles chapter five, the next chapter and verse 12, the bible says, and through the hands of the apostles, many signs and wonders were done. Through whose hands? What did they pray in in chapter four? Stretch forth your hands to be... To heal. Do you remember that prayer?

In chapter five, we then see the bible saying, through the hands of the apostles, many signs and wonders were done. In verse 15, the bible goes on to say, so that they brought the sick out in the streets, laid them on beds and crouches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them and they might be healed. In verse five, did we see Peter praying for the sick? In chapter five rather, do we see Peter praying for the sick? Peter only comes out, and then his shadow starts falling upon sick people. And upon Peter's shadow falling upon sick people, these sick people become healed. We don't see Peter praying that anybody be healed. We don't see Peter as even demonstrating an ounce of his faith. He wakes up that morning and starts working, and at his working, people are healed. That is kingly anointing.

That is his kingly responsibility. That is him working as a king upon the earth. Even without altering a statement, his presence alone was commanding territorial powers. Are you with me? But look at this. Before that, what happened in the inside? What happened in the secrets? They lifted up their voice in one accord. Many a times, we can be deceived by the shadow to see what a powerful man this is. What I'm telling you is there is something they do in the secret that the father that sees in secret sees.

It is the basis of what the father sees in secret that gives birth to open reward or public reward. So why should God entrust you with wealth? Don't you know that wealth in this kingdom is an entrustment? You're a business person. Why should God entrust you with wealth? Why should God entrust us with members? Why should God entrust you with influence, with fame, popularity? Why should you be lifted in any any any capacity, really? Before God created man, God said, let us make man in our own image after our likeness. God spoke the word.

That's the first thing God did. Let us make man in our own image After our likeness, he spoke the word. And the moment he spoke the word, man did not just appear. God then went to work. In chapter two of Genesis, he molded man and he formed man from the dust of the ground. That is the manifestation of the works of your hand under the influence of the spoken word. What God was revealing is a pattern that when you want to succeed and prosper in anything, you must speak as a prophet, then walk with your hands. It means if I conduct my service or I conduct my work or I conduct my ministry or I conduct my business without having spoken as a prophet, They are not speaking under the influence of the prophetic anointing. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

What gives birth to creation is prophecy. So I minister unto God, and I'm singing and worshiping God in the secret place. I'm just pouring love to God. You are mighty. You are mighty. How I love I love to call you your name. I do not. And when the spirit comes, the worship enters into a new gear. I start singing new songs. In this place, in this place, your When that happens and I begin to minister unto God, what he...

What... The response to that is a feeling of the holy ghost. He sends the holy ghost. And when the holy ghost comes, I begin to see pictures as I'm worshiping. I begin to see pictures as I'm ministering. I begin to see pictures in my spirit. Then God is showing me. I see a vision of myself standing before a crowd, and I see crusades of all sorts happening. I see a vision of myself standing in Asia, and I see myself ministering to people. I see a vision of myself leading people out of a dungeon.

I see myself in a black room. In that black room, there are people who are tied in chains, tied in their hands, tied in their legs, and I'm sent there like a deliverer. And I see a scripture saying, those that sat in darkness, I've seen a great light. These things are coming to my spirit. All I'm doing is singing. I'm worshiping. And as I'm worshiping, I see a vision of myself. An eagle's wings sprout out of my backs, And I mount up with wings as eagles, and I'm swearing. I'm swearing. I'm swearing.

I'm swearing. And I close my eyes. I'm seeing myself in this vision as I'm ministering unto God. I'm swearing. It gets to a point as I swore. I swore above the planet, and I'm seeing the earth beneath me. I'm looking down at the earth, and I'm wondering what is this. I'm only ministering to God. I'm only ministering to God. That is what happens when the priest begins to minister unto God.

There's a... There's an inflow, a download of the spirit, an empowerment that happens. It used to give you sight. Sometimes this utterance you receive. Sometimes it is sight you receive. Then what happens after is that your prophetic dimension must then kick into place. Your prophetic dimension must then kick into place. You don't see and keep quiet and leave. You have failed. No.

The vision is not for entertainment. What you saw is not for entertainment. It is so that you can begin to speak as a prophet. As I've seen, I didn't start saying, my god. The nations are mine. The nations are mine. Oh, I mount up. Ringed as echoes. What is happening is that I'm now stepping into the office of the prophet. This year is expanding.

We are we are growing in leaps and bounds. I'm running through a troops, but my god, I'm leaping over walls. I'm leaping over walls. It might be in your business. You are just ministering to god, just singing songs of worship, songs of praise unto god. And as we begin to do so, you are seeing visions of your of of your products in China, in Europe. You are seeing expansion in your business. You are seeing people people requesting for your for your for your for your service. You are seeing yourself working with working with white people, international doors opening for you. You have seen yourself handing money in dollars, different kinds of currencies.

As you see these things, you begin to speak. You begin to speak. Blessed is my going in and my coming out. My storehouse is filled with plenty. My crane house will never lack. There's a much supply. My business is expanding. My business is expanding. The angel of the baskets are working for my favor. Everybody is favoring me.

Everybody is favoring me. Listen. When you minister as a priest and you begin to see, then the prophetic dimension must come into place. You must begin to speak as a prophet. As a prophet. Understand what I'm saying? Yeah. Listen. Listen. As you are ministering unto God, there are times when there are no more songs to sing.

You are singing in tongues. As you do so, it's tearing on your spirit and anointing in your spirit. Listen. The end result is dominion. But as you minister as a priest, there are times Listen. Listen. Listen. I remember a meeting we had in this place. I think it was manifest conference. Yeah.

Manifest conference. No. It was a fresher's awakening that we had for young freshers inside the University of Ibadan. And we had... This place was filled up to capacity. Before then, we had been praying in my room, in my house. We wake up by 12AM, myself, everybody living with me, and we're doing this consistently for over three months. Just praying. Just praying. As we pray, as we pray, we start by praying in tongues, then a prophetic auction drops.

We start speaking words. We start declaring words. We start declaring words that we see. Declaring words that we see. We came to this place sometime as we were preparing for the meeting. And whilst I was sitting down somewhere there, the holy spirit told me, lay your hands in all these chairs. Lay your hands on every chair we've arranged. And I placed my hands. I said, listen to me. And I was calling in Michael, hear me.

Michael, hear me. As you come, you are blessed. The staying power compels you. Ana Caso, the compelling power of the spirit. As you come, you stay. In the name of Jesus. Listen to me. Hear my voice. The power of God knocks you out. Hear my voice, grace.

And we laid hands on all the chairs, prophesying and declaring, prophesying and declaring. As we are doing that, we are working, getting our hands dirty. The media team is setting up. Technical team is setting up. Usher are setting up. It's a combination of the three. You are a priest. You are a prophet. You are a king. So we can come during the meeting day, and we'll stretch our hands and we'll speak.

And you will watch as the power of God comes upon people as we speak. You would watch as God is in a hurry to confirm my words with signs and wonders, and you would wonder, but what is this? Is God unfair? No. God is not unfair. There is a secret place, a place where priests come. Listen. This is the order. This is the equation. What you must do with your hands, you must have prophesied with your mouth.

So many people are careless believers. Careless believers who don't know how to work this equation. Elijah Elijah was the one that prophesied. He said by this time tomorrow, by this time tomorrow, all these things will happen. A grain of wheat shall be sold for so and so. He prophesied. And the moment he prophesied, nothing happened. Nothing happened. Then there were four lepers who were never there when the prophecy was made. They said to themselves, if we stay here, we die.

If we go to the Syrian camp, we die. But if it... We we we we die. But if the chance we can leave, instead of staying here, let's just go. These people were not there when Elijah prophesied, but there needed to be an action, an action for the prophecy to be steered. Many of you, prophecy has gone forth, but there's no action. You're not stepping out as a king. There's nothing you are doing. No business, no no career work, no nothing. Nothing.

You have a truckload of prophetic words upon you, but there's nothing you are doing. Listen. Hear me. Hear me. There are people who are sowing seeds. There are people who... The priestly side of the equation is is powerful. They are sowing seeds. They are giving. They are doing all of these beautiful things.

And God is demanding. Where is the kingly office? You must go into the marketplace. You must contend for a provision. There are offices that won't be given to you. You contend for it. You contest for election. You put yourself out there. There are opportunities that won't come to you to find them. You look for them as a king.

Oh, a grant. I'm applying. I'm applying for the grant. I'm applying for the investment. I see... I'm I'm I'm I'm looking for investors. What? Introducing investment to my business. You put yourself in the marketplace. Hear me.

Hear me. Hear me. Are Awesome, wonder, mighty God. Listen, what I'm doing is I'm ministering unto God. That's what I'm doing. I'm ministering unto God. You are the mighty God. Awesome wonder, mighty God. Mighty ruler, mighty God. You are the mighty God.

You are the mighty God. Awesome wonder mighty god. Mighty ruler, mighty god. Hear me? The moment the lepers started moving, the prophetic word manifested itself. So when you go to work, it must be the fulfillment of a prophetic word that you have announced over your activities so that you get supernatural result. If you are a doctor, hear my voice. Before you leave home in the morning, you are a priest. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Oh, thank you, Jesus.

You are the mighty god. Listen. Listen. As a medical doctor, you are ministering to God. And as you are ministering, you hear God tell you, I'm the balm of Gilead. I'm the balm of Gilead. I'm the balm of Gilead, the helper of Zion. Listen. Listen. The moment you see these things, the prophetic comes into place.

The prophetic is activated immediately. You start prophesying. Nothing dies in my hands. No patient dies in my hands. Nobody will die in my hands. If I'm clacking them, they are receiving life. If they are missing me, they are receiving life. Listen. The moment someone steps into your office, you are now working as a king. It's not at that point to start praying.

No. Are driving dominion. You look at them and say, so doctor, what is wrong? They say, actually, you have blood cancer. Blood cancer has no cure, but but calm down. Can you see me when I'm done? I'll be done by 4PM. Wait for me by my car. You are talking amongst doctors like yourself, and they're about to go for a surgery. And they are saying, there's almost a a a thirty percent chance for the success of this surgery.

They are almost seventy percent sure that this patient will not survive. And as a king, you tell them, anything I'm involved in will live. This patient will live. I'm speaking as a king. It's not at that point I'll say, God, help God. No. No. No. No. No.

I've done that inside my house. Now in the marketplace, we exercise dominion. We take over. We speak like kings. Listen. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. I'm working for a client.

The client looks at me and say, so please, our business is about to go bankrupt, but we heard that you are are you are... You know what you are doing. You're an expert in your field. Please help us. We we we we... We've been in this business for over fifteen years. We have tried all our best. We don't want to go bankrupt. And you speak with dominion. You speak with authority.

Listen. Listen, sir. You have come to the right place. If I'm the one working for you, be rest assured there's no bankruptcy. They look at you and they say, very... What is the source of this dominion? Is it just because you know this thing very well? Yes. But not just because of that. There is also something I know.

There is also something I have. I'm a priest. I'm a prophet. I'm a king. Hear me? Hear me? As a business person, hear me? As a business person, I got a client some time ago. And the work I was supposed to do is to be modified their website, redesign their website, revamp the entire thing. They didn't tell me whatever challenges they were facing.

I didn't know. My own assignment was to revamp the website. Got the website, revamped the entire thing. It was the most beautiful thing they've ever seen. They complimented. They were drawing over the website. Oh, this is so fine. This is so pretty. This is so excellent. Wow.

Even the Lord's spirit is very fast. Even this is very fast. A month after, the client will call me. I sent a follow-up message to all my clients, and the client got the follow-up message. And the client reached back to me in an email and said, since you worked on our website over the last one month, we've had 2,500 orders. He said, this is the amount of orders we get in eight months. He said since you worked on our website, we've had over 2,500 orders. Is it because website was fine? No. It's because the king was the one that did the job.

Do you understand what I'm saying? There's a mindset. I'm a public speaker. Whoever hears me, their hearts are open unto me. I'm a teacher. Before I leave my house, I've offered sacrifice unto God. Every student I teach, their brain is open to hear. Their brain is open to understand. There is none of my student that will be confused. I don't teach Dolan's.

I don't teach Dolan's. Listen. So even if a student is under a course from their house, if they come under the atmosphere where I'm teaching them mathematics, their brain must open. Because now I am functioning as a as a king. So you offer up spiritual sacrifices. God responds by pouring out his spirit. When the spirit comes, he reveals to you what is going to happen. You announce and you declare what you have seen. Then you go out to work. That is the equation.

This is the principle of dominion. This is the equation of dominion. Listen. Hear me? Hear me? If after, if after they are pouring on the spirit, you don't prophesy, you don't declare, then you wonder where the answer is. Do you know that in the ministry of Jesus, Jesus never prayed for anybody publicly? All through the ministry of Jesus. The bible says he prays all night when nobody's there in seclusion. A great while before dawn, he prays.

Sometimes all night, he prays. Wake up and pray alone with God. That was his priesthood with God. But the moment Jesus comes out during the day and he meets someone who is sick, Jesus never says, father, please heal this person. Father, please, I'm asking you. Please heal this man. When Jesus encountered the storm, Jesus never said, father, please help us with this storm. Help us with this storm. Help us with this storm. Oh, lord.

Please help us with this storm. No. What does Jesus say? Rise up and walk. The bible says Jesus rebuked the storm. Jesus said, Lazarus, comfort. Jesus never got to any place and met with any problem, and his first response was, ah, let's begin to pray. Let's begin to pray. Because the moment you enter into the marketplace, what is needed is not a priest. What is needed is a king.

So if prayers must be offered in the marketplace, it is because you have failed primarily as a priest. Solution is what is required in the marketplace. Solutions, results. It's not when I meet a dead body, we pray. No. The priesthood has settled that already. Do you understand what I'm saying? A student writes an exam and is not praying, God, please oh, hey, God, this exam, I don't know what will happen or or or he's about to go write an exam and he's saying, God, my life is in your hands. My life is in your hands. Jesus, help me.

Hey, God. Help me. My life is in your hands. No. In the marketplace, we exercise dominion. What the world is looking for in the marketplace are kings. What God is looking for in the secret place is priests. You are not a king in the secret place. There can only be one king. He's the king of kings.

So in the city place, we are priests. We are babies. We are children. Listen. Even when you rise to the peak of your calling, even when you become a MD of a bank, the CEO of the multinational, whatever you rise to become, when you come to God as a priest, you are still a child. You are still a baby. In your workplace, you are a lion. In the court of law, you are a lion. We are negotiating deals and contracts to a lion. Are you with me?

Listen. Listen. Listen. When Jesus goes out during the day, he looks at the storm and says, please be still. He looks at the blind eye and says, blind eye is open. Lean legs, walk. Death ears open. When results were required, Jesus was able to deliver instant results. But listen. Hear this.

Hear this. Hear this. The moment it is nighttime, Jesus will withdraw again. He will separate himself from the crowd, and he will go back. At that point, he's not a king. He's now a priest ministering to his father alone with God. What is the reason for this? Why? Why is this important? Let me show you.

Can I have one man come and then a lady come? Come this way. Listen. Listen. This is how it works. This is Jesus now coming to the father, praying, ministering to the father, praying in praying in the spirit, offering sacrifices of praise, of thanksgiving, just ministering to the father. Ministering to the father. Ministering to the father and bringing the spirit. Listen. Listen.

In the morning, Jesus leaves. What happens? What happens as he's ministering? What happens as he's, can I get books? Give me, like, three books or something. Imagine this to be the supplier of the spirit. So when he's with the father, his fellowship is Godward, ministering to the father, What happens as a response is that there's an outpouring of the spirit, a supply of the spirit that the father gives. Are you with me? The moment he's done during the day, Jesus is walking, enjoying his day. Can you come up?

I don't wanna come down. Just pass that tide and come up. Jesus leaves the secret place. Now he's in the marketplace and he's walking. He's walking. And as he's walking, this lady is somewhere. Twelve years ago, a problem began in her life. Blood started spilling. She can't even explain where, how. Blood just started spilling.

And for twelve years, she has been looking for a solution. For twelve years, she has been looking for an answer. For twelve years, she has been looking for a way out of this calamity. She has visited every doctor she knows, every man of God she knows, every body she knows, and there's no answer. And she hears about this miracle worker. She hears about this personality who is a a a a... An embodiment of power, an envoy of the possibilities of God. Watch this. And upon hearing what this man is capable of doing, the bible of this woman says in her heart, if only I can touch the hem of his garment. If only I can touch the hem of his garment.

You see, Jesus is walking everywhere with the surplus supply of the spirit that he has received. You see that now? The moment this woman comes and touches the hem of his garment, Jesus turns back immediately and says, who touched me? Listen. He is going to touch him again. And the woman touches the hem of his garment, Jesus turns and says, who touched me? Come here. Jesus comes and says, who touched me? How did he know? The disciple says, people have been touching you.

People have fronking upon you. He says, no. No. No. No. No. When this person touched me, virtue left me. It means the reason the way he knew is that one of these things he's carrying came to her. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.

Part of what was deposited When he was with the father, this woman received a portion of it. The moment he left it, he says, no. Someone touched me. Vetune left me. The woman did not care. All she knew is that something has entered her. The issue of blood for twelve years dissipated. The moment she was done sharing a testimony, Jesus continues, goes to the house of a 12 year old girl who had died. Do you know that every action of Jesus is a prophetic representation of the fulfillment of what the prophets have prophesied? I told you that in the Old Testament, the Old Testament is a picture of Jesus.

Jesus is the fulfillment of everything that was prophesied in the Old Testament. And so his life, the miracles that he did, many of them are representations of the stories that were written and its fulfillment. Do you understand what I'm saying? So this story, for instance, is one of them. The problem of the Old Testament was blood. And so for every time there was a sin, blood had to be shed. Blood had to be spilled. Blood had to be shed. Blood had to be spilled. And the blood would not just end because there were no...

There's no amount of goats and sacrifices that they offer that is sufficient enough is sacrificed, the blood just continues. Do you think it's a coincidence that twelve years ago, our own problem began? Twelve years ago, the girl was born. The girl who would die was born. The problem of New Testament is death. That is why Jesus now becomes the resurrection and the life. He deals first with the poem of blood by putting an end to the sacrifices of blood, and then it becomes life to them that are dead. The twelve years represent the 12 tribe of Israel. 12 is a number of government. 12 is number of perfection.

That's not even where I'm going. The time is coming. I will show you a lot of all these things in scripture. This is where I'm going. Jesus gets to the house of that 12 year girl, and again, says, arise. The moment he says arise, virtue leaves. Do you understand what I'm saying? Virtue leaves. Jesus sees the storm and says, storm still. The moment he says, storm be still, virtue is released.

At the end of the day, he has dispensed virtue as a king. He must go back to the father to be replenished as a priest. Do you understand what I'm saying? Listen. If this going back to the father equation is missing and Jesus only goes about doing ministry, a time will come. Are you with me? It will become obvious that there's no longer this. This is the problem with men of god who you see are on fire in the season, and oftentimes they die out after some time. It is because they they dwelt so much in the kingly anointing, in the kingly space that they neglected the priesthood. This is why many businesses die, especially people that were in God, and they they cherish the secret place.

And because your business started advancing, you forgot about the secret place. It can... Listen. You can proceed for ten years, but eventually, it will show that the wine has finished. The Bible says, and the wine finished. The Bible never said, and the wedding ended. The wine finished, but the wedding continued. There are many weddings that are continuing right now, but the wine has finished. It's only a matter of time. The master of ceremony knows there's no wine.

The audience might not know, but it's only a matter of time. After sitting down there for five years, they will know. They will know, uh-uh. This is not how the words come. This is not this is not the freshness. This is not the power. This is not the this is not the intensity. When this woman sings, her her her voice is her voice echoes with fire. There's a vibrancy that foresadows her speakings. When she sings, the heavens open.

But right now, she's singing, and all we can hear is a good voice. All we can hear is sweet voice. Something... It it will be obvious soon enough that something has happened. Because when you dispense, he that dispenses must be replenished. Do you know that even the tanker that delivers well needs well? It is much like a power bank that you store in power inside. Are you with me? When you store power in the power bank, you can use that power bank to charge your phone, charge your laptop, charge different devices. That power bank cannot continue like that without being replenished.

A time must come when you must discharge everything, to remove everything, and return the power bank back to its power source. Are you with me? Have you ever seen anybody using a power bank and then charging the power bank? Do you understand what I just said now? That is how it looks like when you're in the marketplace when you're praying. What you need in the marketplace is the power you have stored must be released. The power you have stored must be dispensed. The power you have stored. The moment power is disperse and released, there must now be a coming back to recharge yourself. That's why the bible says, those that pray in tongues, whoever speaks that are known tongue, speaketh not unto men, but unto God.

Howbeit, speaketh mysteries. The bible then says, he edifies himself. He edifies himself. The word edify there is the same word charge. Charge. The same way you charge a battery. It means when you pray in tongues, you are offering sacrifices to God. What is happening is that there is a charge, the... An outpouring of the spirit. In act of apostles chapter two, they were in the upper room.

Is that not so? What were they doing in the upper room? They were ministering unto God. God told them, wait until you are enduring power, they and were ministering unto the Lord. They were ministering unto God. As they continue to minister unto God, the bible says a time came that they were filled with the holy ghost. They were filled. There was an outpouring of the spirit. The moment they completed their priesthood responsibility, an outpouring of the spirit. What happened after?

And they spoke in tongues. Do you understand what I'm saying? They spoke in tongues. The Bible says that all that were there heard them in their own languages. It means they spoke in tongues and interpreted. Tongues and interpretation equals prophecy. The moment this was completed, what happened after? Peter wouldn't stand as a king and say, that Jesus, that same Jesus who you crucified, 3,000 people will come to Christ. 3,000 people will come to Christ, the priest, the prophet, the king. In acts chapter four, we see them arrested by the chief priests and by the elders because they preached the gospel.

And the moment they were arrested, they knew for this to have happened, something must have happened to the initial deposit of the spirit that we had. Something must have happened to the initial deposit of the spirit. So when they went back to the elders, when they went back to their companions, the bible says they lifted up their voice in one accord. The bible says when they were done praying, the place where they had prayed shook, and they were filled with the holy ghost. What was the one they were filled with in chapter two? Can we read it together, everybody? And when they had prayed, the place where their same move together was shaken, and they were filled. These were the same people that are too. It shows you that when they were filled, they dispensed what they were filled with, that they needed another insulin. Not not...

What I'm talking about here is not speaking in tongues. Do understand what I'm saying? What I'm talking about here is a release of power, a release of grace, a release of empowerment and enablement. What I'm talking about here is what makes you function as a king, not what makes you function as a priest. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. In Acts of Apostles chapter 13, the same thing happened. Paul was preaching up and down, preaching up and down. He got to a place. He realized, we are experiencing some challenges.

It must mean that we have we have we have dispensed, and the battery is running down. We must go back to fulfill our ministry as a priest. This was in verse 30... Verse 49. The bible says... In acts 13 verse 49, the bible says, and the word of the lord was being spread throughout all the region. As it was being spread, what was happening was that they they they was... They were displacing power. But the Jews, look at that, stirred up the vote and prominent women and the chief men of the city. They raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas.

Is somebody saying that happened with Peter? They raised up per... The moment they raised up persecution, Peter said, ah, let's go back to the secret place. Let's go back and offer sacrifices as priests. And the moment they did so, the Bible says they were filled with the holy ghost. And the moment they were filled with the holy ghost, they moved and did the same thing they told them not to do again. They told them, don't preach again. They would have been afraid. They would have been scared. They would have been they would have been...

No. None of that. In chapter five, they went out and preached with more boldness, with signs and wonders following. That was because there's been an infilling, an outpouring of the spirit that comes when a man steps into his office as a priest. Do you understand what I'm sharing here? That comes when a man steps into his office as a priest. The moment the apostles heard it, instantly, they stepped into their office as a priest. They stepped into their office as a priest. Thirteen forty nine. The moment the issues began, verse 50, they realized, let's go back to priesthood.

The moment they went back into priesthood, the next verse, the bible says, again. But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and came to Iconium. Next verse. Watch this. And the disciples were filled with joy and with the holy spirit. This was the same disciples that were filled in acts two, In acts four. It probably means that when you find yourself lacking joy, you are probably failing in priesthood. When you find that the situation of the world are over... Overshadowing you and you are you are... There's an intense sorrow in your heart, depression, and all kind of things, it is a it is a testament of the fact that you are failing in priesthood.

Because when you succeed in priesthood, then outpouring of the spirit and without outpouring comes joy. Without outpouring comes empowerment. Without outpouring comes enablement. When you find people who are crushed, when the storms of this world face them, they fail that in their priesthood. When Jesus got Lazarus' tomb, Jesus did not pray, father, I thank you that I I thank you because you will heal Lazarus now. You'll raise him from the dead. Father, now raise Lazarus from the dead. Please, father. No. Jesus said, father, I thank you for you have hurt me.

When did the father hear him? When did the father hear him? The only prayer Jesus offered when they got louder of this tomb was, father, I thank you for you have heard me. It means when I ministered to you as a priest, you showed me you showed me you showed me that the life of Lazarus was in my hands. Have you forgotten that when they came to Jesus, they told Jesus, Lazarus, your friend is sick. Jesus answered them. His sickness is not unto death. How did he know? It means there is something that he has seen in priesthood. Are you with me?

When he got to the tomb, he didn't say, Jesus, God, heal him. No. He had seen it before that this sickness is not unto death. Are you with me? What was needed there was kingly demonstration. Father, I thank you because you have heard me. Let us comfort. Your priesthood is what you do before God. I'm closing now. The sacrifices you offer before God.

God then responds by pouring out his spirit. He then says if you will be a king, you must prophesy. Prophesy as they have commanded. When you prophesy, you then move into the marketplace, into the world, into cosmos on the strength of the prophetic word you have released. Ecclesiastes chapter eight and verse four, the bible says, when the word... Where the word of a king is, there is power. Note, the bible does not say where the word of the king is, there is power. That would have meant the king of kings. The bible is where the word of any king is. It means I can stand as a king and begin to alter words with power.

Are you with me, brothers and sisters? I can look at my family's issue and say, you know what? This family problem has continued to this day because there's no one who has stood as a priest. There's no one who has stood as a priest. Hear me? Hear me? When the... When God pours out his spirit upon you, there are two things the spirit does to help you. The first one is the release of power. The second one is the release of wisdom.

Your problem right now is a problem of these two or one of these two. So if there's someone who will die in the next six months of cancer, what is required in that three hundred's power? If someone says, I want to build a company that will go global for Nigeria, from Nigeria to the nations of the world, you will need wisdom to build it. One step after the other. The bible says true wisdom is a house built. Your problem or whatever you are facing is either a problem of wisdom or a problem of power. If it is a power problem, when you when you function as a priest, what happens is that God releases power. Power to address that situation, to speak to it, and the mountain crumbles. If it's a wisdom problem, then God supplies wisdom. The bible said, I'm the Lord your God that teacheth thee to prosper.

The same god that says I give you the power to prosper says I teach you the prosper... To prosper. It means there is the power to prosper. There is the wisdom to prosper. So this... It is surprising that the richest man in scripture is also the widest man in scripture. Wealth and wisdom go hand in hand. You will never be wealthy without wisdom. When God wants to start building wealth in you, he supplies wisdom in the marketplace. Wisdom in the marketplace.

There are some of us here, listen to me, like Daniel. The holy spirit wants to bring you into places of influence. Like Joseph, the holy spirit wants to bring you into places of influence. Like Deborah, like Esther, these people were not were not prophets. They were believers in the marketplace. Yet look at their mighty exploits. They were people who understand this equation, the king, the prophetic, the priest. Listen. What did Daniel say? Tell the king to give us three days.

It is time to function as a priest. And he closes the door and calls his companions together, and they start praying, and they start praying, and they start praying. Listen. As they prayed, their eyes opened. The moment their eyes opened, Daniel saw the visions of the king's dream. He saw everything revealed unto him plainly. You will think Daniel will just see the vision and will just leave just like that. No. Immediately, the prophetic dimension is steered. Daniel answered and said, blessed be the name of God forever.

There was a speaking that accompanied what he had seen for wisdom, for might are his. Look at the next verse, and he changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and raiders of kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge those who have understanding. I hope you know that it was this vision that Daniel told the king that made the king exalt him. Whoever was occupying that position of exaltation before was removed. It means Daniel was prophesying to himself that God... Blessed be God who removes kings and sets up kings. The moment the dream was revealed, prophecy came forth. The moment prophecy came forth, he went to the king.

He said, oh, king, blessed be thou. What is needed there is no praise. You can't begin to pray in the word of the king. What is needed is now the articulation of speech, horrid, wisdom to not deliver what you have received. It is kingly anointing in the marketplace. Your priesthood is what you do before God. That is what pleases the father in heaven. Hebrews 13 verse 16, the bible says, do not forget, to do good, and to share. For with such sacrifices, God is well pleased. There are sacrifices that pleases God as a priest.

Are you with me? There are sacrifices that pleases God as a priest. That when you come as a priest and you begin to offer these sacrifices to God, the bible says God is pleased. In verse 15, before this verse, with these sacrifices, it goes on to mention all that sacrifices in verse 15. It says, therefore, by him, let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God. The sacrifice of praise to God. The fruit of our lips. Giving thanks to his name. It says in verse 16, let us not forget to do good and to share. For with such sacrifices, God is pleased.

So what are the sacrifices that pleases God when a man begins to worship him? When a man begins to praise him, the bible says with such sacrifices, God is pleased. As a priest, you must learn how to minister unto God in worship, how to minister unto God in praise. The Bible called it the fruit of your lips. The fruit of your lips. It means the songs that we sing to God matters. I've been singing in this place. Somebody thinks I'm wasting time. Oh, I'm not wasting time. You are good, and your mercy is forever.

This is how we end. We end with this song. We end with this song. Psalms 40 and verse three. What I just said right now, this song is a fruit of my lips. It is sacrificed unto God. The bible says, he has put a new song in my mouth. Praise to our God. Many will sit and fear and will trust in the Lord. I don't have time to open the scripture for you.

I don't have time to open the scripture for you. Listen. There are songs that when we sing them, it opens portals of access. You remember when the book was sealed in the book of revelations, and there was nobody that could open the book, and the angel said there's nobody that can open the book? And and John started crying. And Helder appeared to John and said, weep not for the lion of the tribe of Judah had prevailed to open the books. Do you remember this? The moment the elder said, the lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed to open the book, all of them started singing, what is the lamb that was slain? What is the lamb that was slain? That was the song that they were singing when access was granted.

Immediately, everybody now saw the lamb that was slain. That revelation was preceded by a song. Are you with me? Second Chronicles chapter five and verse 13. The Bible says, indeed it came to pass when the trumpeters and the singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord. And when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and with the cymbals and instruments of music and praised the Lord, say. And praise the lord, doing what? Say. Do you know the power of saying? When the Sypholition woman came to Jesus and told Jesus that she wanted her daughter to be healed, Jesus told me that we don't take worries for sons and give dogs.

And the woman said, even the dogs eat of the crumbs. Eat of the crumbs. She was telling you that even if it is the crumbs of what falls from the table of when the sons are eating, I'm still deserving of it. And when Jesus saw what the woman said, the bible says, Jesus said unto the woman. Can you give me that scripture very fast, please? Yes. This is what I'm looking for. Can we read this together, everybody? For this what? For this saying, go thy way.

In other words, for what you have said, go thy way. Why? Because it is what you say that follows you. Are you with me? For this saying, go thy way. This is the power of saying. So watch. In second Chronicles five thirteen, when they were worshiping God and they were thanking God, look at Canifa saying there again, praising the Lord, saying, what were they saying? For his good and his mercies endures forever. So in Psalms 23 and verse six, the bible now says, surely goodness and mercy shall follow me.

This tells you that what you sing is what follows you. Oh, you didn't see that? This tells you that what you sing, the names you begin to call God are the reflections of the dimensions of God that you see. The Bible says they praise God saying you are good and your mercy endures forever. The bible says for goodness and mercy shall follow. So when I call God mighty, what follows me? The might of God, the reflection of the might of God. When I stand before you, yay. Do you know the reflection? Do you know the revelation of calling God good?

Do you know how many places this thing, you are good and you're miserable and and just forever was used in the Old Testament like a password. To say that God is good means that he act in accordance to what is right, to what is true, and to what is good. The fact that God is good means there is no evil in him. His intentions and his motivations are always good. He always does what is right, and the outcome of his plan is always good. There is nothing unpleasant. There's nothing evil. There's nothing dark in God. The Bible, in fact, teaches that God's goodness extends from his nature to everything that he does. In Psalms one one nine and verse 68, the bible says, you are good and too good.

So when we sing to God that he is good, what we are saying is nothing you do is wrong. Nothing you do is evil. You are incapable of evil. This is why the song is very powerful. This is why the the the Old Testament guys understood the goodness of God's nature. They understood the power of saying that he is good. Watch watch the situations where they said he was good. It was when things didn't seem good. You're not getting what I'm saying? What you are saying is, ah, the circumstances are not good, but, God, you are not the author of this circumstance.

This circumstance does not change your nature. Your nature is good. So the circumstance might not be good, but God is good. And when I sing that God is good, what happens? This that you have said will follow you. This that you have said will follow you. Then God can turn an unpleasant situation that was not good. An unpleasant circumstance that was not good. Are you with me? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You apply for a job, for instance, and then they were... There were... There are 40 people that apply for the job, 50. And they told you they would... They only take five.

Out of the 50, 30 are Christians. If they take five people and all the five are Christians, it means there will be Christians who don't get the job. But eventually, I want those Christians. What do you do? Start complaining. Start mumbling. Start saying, I've planned for this. I've prepared for this. Ah. Ah.

See, I've been realizing my testimony. I I even plan how I will come and sing in church, see what the Lord has done, what they waited for has come to pass. Now I don't even know what they can say. Is that what you would do? No. You say this situation might not be good, but God is good. So at that point, when you receive such a news, what you start doing is you are good, and your mercy endures forever. You are good, and your mercy endures forever. Forever. You You are are good, good, and and your your mercy mercy endures endures forever.

Forever. You lose a loved one, for instance, and they say, what kind of thing is this? How can God allow this to happen? No. He is good, and his mercy endures forever. What you have said is God can never allow this to happen. The circumstances might not be good, but God will remain good forever. Your love towards me is unconditional. That's what you're saying. From me to judge you by the circumstance, to judge you by the situations.

Oh, no. You are good. Do you remember when Jonah was swallowed up in the belly of the whale? In Jonah chapter two, King James version verse eight, the bible says, Jonah said, they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. So what should we observe? Next verse, he then says, but I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that. I will pay that that I have vowed for salvation is of the Lord. It means when I want salvation, what I do is not ask for salvation. What I do is sacrifice with the voice of thanksgiving.

It means whilst it was in the mouth of the whale, it was saying, you are good and your mercy endures forever. You are good and your mercy endures forever. And God says, wait, wait. Go and pour that guy out. In other words, in second Chronicles chapter seven and verse three, the children of Israel were saying the same thing. Seven and verse three, when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed their fist to the ground and on the pavement and worshiped God and praised God saying, for his good and his mercy endures forever. Second Chronicles 20 verse 21, In the bible says, and when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singles unto the Lord. And when... And that they should praise the beauty of his holiness. As they went out before the army as to say, praise the Lord for his mercy endures forever.

Give me King James version. King James version says, praise the Lord for his mercy endures forever. You are good, and your mercy endures forever. That was the song they were singing as we were facing three host of Hermes. I showed you this on Sunday. Is that not? Yes. For his mercy endures forever. Ah, I don't have time to show you mercy. What does it mean that his mercy endures forever?

Listen. Do you know that the mercy of God is the major key that is missing in the life of many people? The mercy of God. Not even favor. Not even breakthrough. What many people are looking for is mercy. Psalms 86 and verse five. Listen. The bible says, for you, Lord, are good and ready to forgive. The bible says, and abundant in mercy to the sinners.

To sinners. To who? All those who call upon you. The mercy of God is not for sinners. The bible says he is abundant in mercy to all those who call upon him, not to sinners. Listen. I've seen people that based on their lifestyle, they should not make progress in life. Yet you see them flying high. You see them honing honing honing systems, systems bowing to them because their song is mercy. I've seen people with no knowledge of spiritual intelligence enough to know what keys open what doors.

Yet, God has lifted them above their contemporaries. God has blessed them beyond your car, beyond your widest imagination, and you wonder why. The woman does not know the principles that lead to favor. The woman does not know the principle that lead to breakthrough, but you understand the song of mercy. You understand how to call upon the mercy of God. When she goes to pray, all she says is, And that is all her prayer. And you will find a woman selling her car, honing a car, and spend... Sending her children to university abroad. And you will wonder, mama, how do you buy selling a car? How do you buy selling jam?

She understands the language of mercy. It is not for him that run. It is not to him that's... That that that... Ah. The bible says it is of God that showeth mercy. This shows you... Listen to me. In Lamentations three and verse 22, the bible says through the Lord's mercies, we are not consumed. Why?

Because his compassions fail not. It is through the Lord's mercy we are not consumed. Do you know what this means? That means even when I didn't know the spiritual laws that should have kept me, I still saw results that were not accounted to my knowledge spiritually. But now that I look back, I know that I didn't know the law that was responsible for this result. Now I'm wondering, why was I getting the result? Regardless of the fact that I didn't know the law. And I saw I saw I saw that it was by the Lord's mercy I was not consumed. I didn't understand the mystery of exemption, yet I was getting mysteriously exempted. Thieves came to my area.

They robbed every house except my own. I don't even know what principle I was working, but they didn't come to me. I've had accidents over the years, and none of them have ever taken my life or even hurt me. I've been in vehicles where people died, and yet I came out alive. I didn't know what principle I was working. But when I think back, I see it is by the Lord's mercy I was not consumed. Why? For his compassions, they feel not. Listen. If God were to wait for us to obey every single spiritual law allocated for our victory, some of us will test victory when we are 60.

If God were to wait for you to tithe and give and pray and do every single thing necessary for the victory. Some of us will never take victory until we are 80. So what does God do? He introduces his mercy so that whilst you are still running, even while your speech are the boxing, even when you... You don't even know what walked the way. You are walking this way sincerely, whereas the door is on this side. And God is looking at this boy and saying, where are you going? Where are you going? And you are sincere in your pursuit. You don't even master how to hear God.

You're only going and saying, I know I will succeed. I know I will succeed. And out of his mercy, God says, ah, if I leave this boy alone, it will take him ten years to retrace his way back. Out of his mercy, he will pick the door to your front and say, enter. Are you blessed? Can you say hi? Can you offer sacrifices of worship? Can you offer sacrifices of praise? Can you offer sacrifices of thanksgiving? Hear me?

Hear me? Hear me? If it were by my power, if it were by my strength, I should not even know where I am. Is it my educational certificate? Is it my qualifications? Is it my qualifications? You will find out that none of these things are reliable. But I know a secret. I know a secret. I wish I had time, but we need to close right now.

Listen. I want you to close your eyes and just think. Meditate on his goodness. Meditate on his goodness. Meditate on his goodness. Meditate on his goodness. Come on. Meditate on his goodness. Meditate on his mercy. On his mercy.

On his mercy. On his mercy. Meditate on his love that fails not. I want you to just think. Think about his goodness. Think about his mercy. Think about how how much you have failed severally. You are not as serious as you are. You are not as serious as as you claim to be. You are not as faithful as you claim to be.

Yet this mercy. Yet this goodness. I give you thirty more seconds to do this. Just think. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I want there to be silence for just a brief moment. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. I sense the spirit of God ministering to people. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Let there be silence. Thank you, Jesus. We cry. Your spirit cries. Father, I thank you. I love you.

I bless you. I worship you. Oh, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Thank you, Lord. Can we share the grace together in fellowship, everyone? The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore. Amen. I don't want to disrupt the flow of the spirit. I can tell you there are sanctions happening. I see potholes opening.

Potholes like ladders stretched forth, like Jacob's ladder, Jacob's vision, Jacob's encounter. I'm seeing many in the same liturgy of that encounter being taken up to depths in God, depths in God. Depth in God. Depth in God. Oh, I thank you, Jesus. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at officialdisciplescn. You can follow us on Facebook at disciples christian network. You can also join our telegram page at DCN media for more messages by Apostle Emmanuel.

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