Transcript: The Evidence Of Things Not Seen Part 2

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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. If you remember last week, I began by sharing with you the two basic truths that the subject of faith rest upon. How that the first is that the end of your Christian experience, the end of your walk with God is that you eventually become a manifestation of the glory of God. Do you remember this? There is a glory that is appointed for the saints here on earth, and it is God's desire that as you walk with him, your life eventually becomes an effulgence of glory. Number two, that your walk with God and your exploits in this kingdom will always demand partnership with the realm of the spirit.

And then I went ahead to share with you Hebrews chapter 11 verse one. The bible says, now faith is the substance of things hoped for. The evidence of things are not seen. How that the first thing that we see in the scripture is that faith has to do with things. There's a part of faith that makes for receiving things. In Mark 11 verse 24, the bible says, therefore, whatsoever things ye desire, so ever things you see. So there's a path, there is a provision in God that makes forth the availability of things. Are you with me? And so we spoke about these things as seen in Hebrews eleven thirty three that through faith, the the elders obtained promises. Another name for things are promises.

Your desires in accordance with the will of God, the things that God has promised. Are you with me? This can be made available through faith to the believer. And in Romans 10 verse 17, we saw that faith comes by hearing. And I said that the way and manner by which believers will enter into the experience of this faith is through knowledge. And there are three basic knowledge that a a believer must have when it comes to receiving things, when it comes to obtaining the promise. The first knowledge a believer must have is the knowledge of God. The bible says, those that know their God, they shall be strong and they shall do exploits, and this is eternal life that you understand and know me. You see, the bible says, let no man... Let not a rich man glory in his wealth.

Let not a wise man glory in his wisdom. Whatever it is that you have that makes you a person of renown on earth is not worth glorying over. The bible says, let him that gloryeth glorieth in this that he understand and know me. And I said that your experience in God must begin with your knowledge of God as faith is concerned. Are you with me? And there are two things you must know about God. Number one is the faithfulness and integrity of God. God is not a man that should lie, the bible says. He's too faithful. The bible says, the Lord our God is a faithful God.

In other words, he cannot go back on his word. If he has said it, he has said it because he's gonna do it, which leads us to the second thing, God's ability, the ability of God, the mightiness of God, how that God is able to do. The Bible says God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above, far above all we can ask or think. So in... Within the context of what a man must know, the integrity and the faithfulness of God must not be in question. The ability and the mightiness of God must not be in question. If you don't know this by revelation, you cannot walk in faith, especially the kind of faith that obtains promises. Are you with me? Do you remember this from last Sunday? The second knowledge a man must have is the knowledge of the promises of God.

The knowledge of the promises of God. We reign in this kingdom on the strength of light. If you know God and you don't know what God has promised, how can you receive it? In other words, your knowledge does not end in knowing God. It proceeds to knowing the promises of God, the things that God has completed, things that God has finished, the things that God have said will become your portion, your inheritance in Christ. The bible says you are joint heirs. You are heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ. So as heirs with Christ, what are your inheritances? A believer must know these things, and you must know it by revelation. Revelation.

It is on account of the promises you know that makes you hope. That's why the bible called it the evidence of the substance of things hoped for. Are you with me? We can hope for it because it has been promised to us. Are you with me? Yes. There are three. We only did two. The third, I'm not gonna have the time to expanseate so much on it, but I would give it to you. The thought dimension of knowledge that is needed to walk in bible faith to the end that promises are obtained is the knowledge of the conditions that are connected to the manifestation of every promise.

I said a little bit of this during the prayer convocation for those who are there. All that for every promise that God makes, there is a condition. And if a man has the knowledge of God, he knows God, he knows the promises of God, but he does not know the condition that God has made available, the conditions that God has attached to every promise, the man will keep on shadow boxing. The reason is because he will keep on making empty confessions, empty professions of faith that has no power because it's not fulfilling the requirement of that promise. Are you with me? So the man James said, show me your works. Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works. So if a man says, I I have faith, you must understand there is works attached to faith. There are things that you do. There are conditions that must be met.

So it is possible for a man to see in scriptures that it is God's will for a man to prosper. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and live in good health even as your soul prospers. The bible says, God desires in the prosperity of his servants. The Lord takes the Lord desire. Lord takes pleasure in the prosperity of his servants. So you see, you might see the scripture that God wants you to prosper. God wants you to live in good health, but there are conditions to these things. So as you begin to read the scriptures, you find that the bible also says, there is he that scattereth and yet incretheth. There is he that withholdeth more than his meat, and then it turn... It tendeth to nothing.

You see, that is a condition. And as much as prosperity is yours, there is a condition, a requirement to be fulfilled that makes you enter into the promise that has been given. Are you with me? The bible says, a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the ends, so shall thy poverty. In other words, if a man will reject poverty, he won't reject poverty just by confession. A little slip, a little folding of the hands. A poor man wants, he desires. He desires he desires but never has what he desires. But a diligent hand make it rich. Say it thou a man diligent in his work.

He shall stand before kings and not before mere men. The bible speaks of the four wise things. There be four little things upon the earth that are exceedingly wise, and the bible speaks of the ant. The bible speaks of the spider, but the spider is what catches my interest. The bible says that the spider by his hands is seen in the palace. And the bible is saying that we should learn from these four things that are exceedingly wise, though little. It speaks about the ant. It speaks about the badger. And then it goes on to speak about the spider or some translations use the lizard or something like that. The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in king's palaces.

Do know you what you see in this scripture? It means if you ever want to appear before the palace, your hand must be doing something. It is the works of your hand that bring men to the palace. He says, learn that from the spider. The spider is found everywhere because it takes old with the hands. If a man wants to enter into the gates of the palace, you will need... Your hand will need to offer something. No man just stands before kings empty handed. When Joseph stood before kings, he was because he had something he could do. He could interpret dreams.

When Daniel stood before kings, he had something he could do. He could not only interpret, he could discern the dream that was not even told him. When Nehemiah stood before kings, he was a butler. He knew how to serve kings. Everyone who stood before kings had something that they were doing with their hands, a skill that they've learned. And the and the bible is saying the spider taketh old with her hands and is in king's palaces. A believer sees this and realizes that I will never enter the king's palace if I'm only wishing the promise of God upon my life. I must take hold with my hands. I must take hold with my hands. The conditions attached to the promise.

If you will live a healthy life, do you know the conditions attached to the promise? You'll be so blessed. But that is not my emphasis today. Let's continue. Let's start today's teaching very brief. This is just a brief recap of what we did on Sunday. And so we saw all of these in Hebrews chapter 11 verse one. If you remember, we said, let's go back there. Now faith is a substance of things hoped for. And so what I attempted to show you on Sunday is how do you work in the faith that makes you obtain the things, that makes you obtain the promise.

Is that understood? How do you work in that faith? That faith comes by knowledge, and there are three basic knowledge you must have. That is what we'll try to do on Sunday as the part one of this series based on the first verse of Hebrews eleven one, that faith is the substance of things. Faith makes things available to men. Faith substantiates promises. It is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. That is the first level of faith. Are you with me? Yes.

We then go on to verse two. This is where we pitch our tent in today's meeting. The bible says for by faith, the elders obtained a good report. Can you give me KJV? KJV says, a good report. NKJV says, a good testimony. The word testimony... There's the word testimonial. Stay with me. That there are two dimensions to faith.

There is a dimension to faith that makes things available to the believer. A dimension to faith that makes you obtain promises, that makes you obtain the things that God has has has programmed for you in his will. And as you desire them, your faith makes those things available. The bible calls it the substance of things hoped for. But in verse two, the bible continues to say that if that is the only dimension you know, then there there are gaps in your understanding. Because for... By the same faith, the... Of the elders obtained a good report. The elders, they don't only obtain promises. Verse 33 showed us they obtain promises, but that promises was not the only thing that that is obtainable by faith.

By faith, a good report is also obtainable. Stay with me. You'll be so blessed. Please, please, let your spirit be here. Pray in tongues even as you listen to me. Don't just don't just listen casually. I want to speak to your spirit man. It's gonna be a calm meeting really, but I want you to hear what I'm saying. You can pray in tongues as you listen so that your antennas in the spirit can be heightened so that not... Nothing skips you by.

A lot of you will receive your word in this meeting. This is what several people have prayed for. This is what they fasted for. Several several confusions that questions that many people have asked in their heart that nobody can answer, that nobody has been able to provide answers for. These are hidden questions many believers ask, and they don't even know how to ask people because when we ask people these kind of questions, it makes it look as though the people asking don't have faith. I turn them open. I turn them open. Are you ready to drinkable fire. Ancient wine, fresh wine. We are at are open now we are open we are open There is a dimension of faith that believers are yet to understand.

A dimension of faith that the body of Christ is yet to understand. A dimension of faith that believers yet to understand, the body of Christ yet to understand. That this dimension of faith doesn't just deliver things. This dimension of faith doesn't just deliver promises. It delivers a good report. The bible says by faith, the elders obtained a good report. So the first assignment of faith is to deliver desires and to deliver promises that are consistent with the will of God. But that this is not the only assignment of faith. In God's economy, the most superior assignment of faith is a platform for obtaining good reports. What is a good report?

NKJV calls it a good testimony or a testimonial. Are you with me? A testimonial is a formal statement that satisfies a person's character, a person's conduct, a person's qualification from which recommendations are made. That means the basis for increase is when you observe a man's testimonials or a man's report. In this kingdom, this is how promotions are given. Even in the corporate world, you don't promote men emotionally. There is a record of service, a record of dedication, a record of loyalty, a record of commitment that you are looking for. The choice whether to leave that person at that level or to promote him to a higher realm is at the basis of examining his testimonials. How many of you went to school? And at the end of a semester, you are given a report, and the report is a cumulative total of all the exams you have written.

But not just that, there is also a portion to that that that that the teacher... That is open for the teacher to summarize the behavior of the student, the character of the student expressed in that report. So they grade you by your character. They grade you by your attitude, and they grade you by reason of how many damage or of the the the sum quarter of the scores you have had. And if that report happens to be good according to the measurement of the school or the qualification or the standard of the school, then the child is given a promotion. But if the report were to be negative, are you with me? Then they look at the child and say, we know your mates are are getting promoted. But by reason of what you are carrying, the report shows us they are not yet ready to be promoted. So report shows us that you are not yet ready to be promoted. Even in the corporate world, we understand this.

But you see, this this understanding was borrowed from the realm of the spirit because the basis of the promotion of the elders is that they obtain not promises, not things, good report. Stay with me. A good testimony, a good report. It means there is a report in the realm of the spirit for every believer. And that faith has a higher and a more superior assignment. In ensuring that that report, the bible categorizing it as good. On account of this good report, promotions are given in this kingdom. Men that you see work in eyes of power and manifestation of God's glory. Men that you see host God and host dimensions in God that you have never seen in any sphere of influence either in ministry or in business. It is because they sustained an understanding that beyond just things, there are reports to be gotten.

Beyond just things, there are reports to be gotten. This is the... This is what separates a child from a mature believer. This is what separates those who have gained stability and stature in the spirit from those who are still children. So I'm telling you now to that if your faith experience and your entire walk with God is governed around those obtaining things, you have not begun a mature walk with God. Do you know that when a child is in creche how many of you have taken a baby to creche? Or you have had an experience where a baby was taken to creche? At the end of the session, have an experience. All that baby is... All they are doing is tending over that baby in the absence of the mother, feeding the baby, put toys there, let them play, ensure they don't hurt themselves.

Then maybe they will read some things to the babies, then they put television there, and they see baby shack doo doo doo doo. And then they sleep, and then they wake up at the... They they just... They have no idea what an exam is. They have no idea what life is. They are just there to be... The same school where some people are sweating, writing exams. This guy is just there eating something, crawling up and down, watching television, and God says that is normal for that realm. There's no... The child is not after a report.

It's only after things. The next food, it should be given. The next TV you should watch. The next sleep you should have. Are you with me? But by the time comes in your Christian experience where things does not become the basis, where reports now becomes the basis for promotion, where reports become the basis for promotion. And the bible says the assignment of faith is to print out your testimonial. That is what you present before God. That is what you present before life that necessitates your rising and your advancement. When faith is studied in scriptures, It is within the context of these two things.

Number one, desires and promises obtained. Number two, testimonials and good reports obtained. And I'm showing you that the second is superior to the first. If your perspective of faith is only about receiving things and desired expectations, there is a side of God you may never experience. There are great things in God you may never touch. The average believer's understanding of faith is just with respect to things. I'm... You you you are right, but there there will be gaps in your understanding. There are already gaps in your understanding. Because when you study the first set of case studies that the writer of Hebrews gives to us as he establishes the subject of faith, you will discover that none of them received anything.

The moment the writer of Hebrew intelligently defined what faith was for us. In verse one and verse two, he then goes on in verse three to explain how that it was through faith that the world were framed by the word of God and that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. The moment it was done establishing the foundation of faith, it then goes on to start giving us a case study of men and women who walked in faith. And you would expect that this man will start giving us men who walked in faith and use their faith to receive promises or to receive things from God. It will shock you that the first five names he mentioned never received anything, but the bible records that they received good reports. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So in verse four, it then begins. It says, by faith, Abel, the first case study that he mentioned was Abel. Travel back to Genesis one.

How many of you ever knew from the story of Abel... Genesis four, from the story of Abel that there was anything called fit that was applied? My god. Cain bought a sacrifice. Abel bought a sacrifice. Abel's sacrifice was accepted. Cain's sacrifice was rejected. And because of spite and envy, Cain killed Abel. In that story, what did Abel receive because of the faith he used? What promise?

What thing? God. God. God. But the bible says, by faith, Hebrew, the first mention, the first case study that the writer of Hebrew uses was Hebrew. And he says by faith, what what what what faith produced is that he offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than gain through which he obtained witness. A report. A testimonial. A report. What was his report?

That he was righteous. He didn't ordain things, but there was a testimony before God that he was righteous. He was willing to give everything to honor God, and the bible calls it faith. It means to study the life of Cain and Habel, Genesis four verse one, wouldn't do justice to it because it captures that story from an historical perspective. You would need to study Hebrews that captures the experience from a revelational perspective. It now shows us that the reason why one was accepted and the other was not was because of the subject of faith that was involved. No wonder God... Have you read your bible? The bible now says in Hebrews 11 that without faith, you cannot please God. No wonder in Genesis, God came to Cale and said, if you had done good, would yours not have been accepted?

The question Cale should have asked is, what was missing in what I offered? As long as I was concerned, I did the same thing he was doing. What was different than what I was doing and what he did? We both offered sacrifices. But guess what? The bible says by faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Through which, he obtained a good report. And what was the report? That he was righteous. Look at this.

God, who is the person that does... That writes this report? God himself. The Bible says, God testifying of his gifts. God himself testifying of his gifts. It means when k... When NKJV calls it a good testimony, you The bible says, God testifying of his gifts. Watch what happens as a consequence. The bible says, and through it, what? Through the good report, despite the fact that he's dead, he still speaks.

A promotion was accorded to him in the realm of the spirit on account of the testimony, on account of the report. And even though he was dead, God said no. No. You died too soon. And because blood And then God now said that the blood of Jesus cried better things than the blood of Hebrew because the blood of Hebrew has been granted permission to speak. And what what what... On what basis was this promotion given? A man that was dead received a good report, and in his death, the promotion still came. And God said, no. Anybody that understands this, either alive or dead, there must be a reward for Listen.

The intention is to bring us to a point in our Christian experience where we become mature and stable believers in the faith. I'm not... Listen. This teaching will not bless you too much if you're a child. I tell you. It won't bless you. It won't bless you. There are a kind of people that this will bless. Those who are hungry to grow in Christ, those who are hungry for maturation in the spirit, those who are tired of this of being infants. The first case study in verse five, the second case study was mentioned.

The bible says by faith, Hanoch. By faith, Hanoch. What was the promotion? He was taken away. My goodness. The bible says the earth was not worthy of this man. There is nothing that Enoch received that was clear in scriptures that Enoch trusted God when God gave him a child. But that God looked at the track record of his turning, and God said, no. No. No.

The earth is no longer worthy of you. The Bible says by faith, this one was raptured. By faith, Hinoc was taken away so that he did not see death. Some in their death, they spoke. Some, God insisted, you won't even see death. The bible says he was not found because God had taken him. Why? For before he was taken, he had this testimony. What was his testimony? This one has pleased me.

That was what God said about Enoch. God looked at a man exercising faith, and God said, ah, you have not heard for faithful things, but you have pleased me. My soul finds pleasure in you. You have no place among mortal men. Come be with me. The bible says he was not sound. Men who the earth was not worthy of. He didn't receive things. He received a testimony. He received a good report, a commendation from God.

Verse seven, the next case study was mentioned. The bible says by faith, Noah. By faith, Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly reverence, godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness, which is according to faith. This was his testimony that he revered God, he reverenced God, and took his words seriously. And when God spoke, he didn't join the mockers to mock God. He acted in reference to God in a generation where everybody mocked God. The bible says God said he will no longer strive with men for he had seen that the imaginations in the heart of men were evil. And in that generation where everybody in the earth realm, God could not find a single man who professed faith, who professed love, who professed commitment to God. God found a man, and the name of that man is Noah. And God said because you have refused to be a part of the corruption of these people, you have stood your gown in faith, you and have humored and feared me.

It has been counted unto you for righteousness, and the Bible called it a good report. The bible called it good report. The next case study was mentioned in verse eight. By faith, Abraham, he obeyed when he was called how to go to the place which he would receive an inheritance, and he went out not knowing where he was going. Not knowing where he was going. But the bible is testimony was that by faith, he obeyed even though he had not seen. God did not give many clear instruction as to where he was taking him. What is strange move? What is strange walk? Get out of your father's house, and I will show you up.

And go to the land I will show you. The question is, the moment you leave your father's house, how do you know the next place to turn? How do you know if to go right or go left? How do you know that where God... Where the path you are taking is the right path? And the bible says even though this... Even though it was... He didn't have any idea, he still obeyed when he was called to go out, and the bible calls this his report. In verse 11, the bible goes to the next case studies. It says by faith, Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age because she touched him faithful.

What was testimony? She touched him faithful who had promised. Not all of them obtained promises. In fact, the bible says there were some of them that rejected the promise for a better resurrection. My god. In the same chapter, the bible... These ones rejected deliverance. They rejected deliverance. What is this? They rejected deliverance for the sake of a better resurrection.

It means they had the power to have received things. They had the power to have received things, promises. But they said in God's economy, having a testimonial before God is greater than having things. They had the power to be delivered, but they said they would not. And the bible calls them elders. Have to understand that the character of faith is such that the testimony of knowing God, the testimony of trusting God through the journey is more superior to the desires obtained in the journey. Let me say that again. The testimony of trusting and knowing God through the journey is superior to the desires obtained in the journey. Please understand what I just said. Write it down so that you don't forget.

Understand it. Very large into your spirit. What I've said in summary means your becoming with God is greater than you're receiving from God. It doesn't mean that God doesn't want a believer to receive. It only means God, in order of priority, cares more about what a man is becoming by reason of his work with him than the things he's given to the man. Have you noticed that in Matthew chapter six, when Jesus Christ was teaching his disciples, And he was using the Pharisees and how they conduct themselves as a parallel for several of the spiritual activities that believers do. And he goes on to say, do not be like the Pharisees and the Sadducees. For when they fast, they stand in open places. And Jesus begins to rebuke several things when they give. They give so everybody can know what they've given.

And Jesus now shows... You see, the moment Jesus tell tell us these things, what Jesus says is that they have their reward. When Jesus contrast these things with the believer's life, he says when you fast, rub your face with oil. Is that not so? Because when your... What your right hand gives, don't let your left hand knows that it has been... It has given. Are you with me? This is when you pray. Don't blame the Pharisees.

When they pray, they stand outside. They want everybody to sit like they are praying. And Jesus says, for they have their reward. Go and count how many times reward was mentioned in Matthew six, both in contrast and in the experience of the righteous. Don't be like them for in so doing they have their their their rewards. This is what you should do. And when you do this, you have your reward. So much so when he's talking about prayer, just when you pray, go inside, find a solitude, find a secret place, shut the door. Are you with me? And make prayers to your father who sees in secret.

For your father who sees in secret will reward you openly. I thought Jesus would have said he would answer you openly. When you pray, are you not concerned about the answers to your prayer? Jesus says, God is more concerned about the reward of prayer than he's concerned about the answer to prayer. I said, this is gonna be for mature believers. These are things that it looks as though they've been lost in the body of Christ. That God is more about the reward that he himself offers to a man because he has prayed than the answer the man... Than the answer to what the man is praying for. The reward is superior in God's eyes than the answer. Because what a man is becoming by reason of his work with God is more important to God than what he's giving the man.

Listen to me. Any faith journey should leave you knowing and trusting God better, even more than the results obtained. So if all you show me in the journey of your work with God are the physical and the material things that come by engaging the word, I will congratulate you. I will say, yeah. You you... You've tried to an extent, but I will tell you that there is a dimension of God you don't know yet. So bible faith is a combination of reports and the promises obtained. It's a combination of the testimony that you receive before call and the promises that come as a result. There is faith as a journey that helps you know God in his various dimensions. It gives you a good report.

Second Timothy one verse 12, the bible says, for this reason I always suffer these things. Nevertheless, I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he's able to keep what I've committed to him until that day. I know whom I've believed, and I am persuaded. The endpoint of this journey of faith with God when you obtain that testimony is that he plans conviction in your heart. That conviction is the raw material for obtaining promises. There are many believers who are walking about without convictions in the spirit, without convictions in God, without convictions in what they believe. A lot of believers working without conviction. And it's amazing because they are everywhere. Most believers are like this. It laments you how scarce mature responsible believers are.

That is why the bible says creations waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. It doesn't say the children of God. Children of God are not scarce. Sons of God are scarce. Do you know that when the bible says, as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. That provision is not available to every believer. It doesn't say they are the children of God. In Hebrew, there is two words. In the Greek, there is two words for sons. There is and there is.

And the bible can use the word son, but it can either mean or until you come... Until you consider the original word that was used in the scripture. When the bible says they are the sons of God, what sons there is mature, mature believers. A son that has grown into maturity. It is that son who has grown into maturity that can be led by the spirit of God. That's the meaning of as many as are led. It means amongst believers, there are those who are not led. To show you how how numerous, how large baby believers have been permitted to exist in Christ... In the in in the kingdom rather. Persuaded.

I'm talking to you that this is the kind of faith that makes you know whom you have believed. It is this faith that makes you have an experience with God beyond all your obtaining of things. Beyond just what? Of things. You may not like this, but it is true. In the older generation, it is easy to find Christians who have been in the same church for twenty five years. Whereas in my generation, in three years, in one year even, we've had five different churches. Do you know the same reason why marriages tend to last longer in the older generation than in this generation. For the same reason why people feel as though they have no commitment to a church. The same reason why they feel as though they have no commitment to a man or to a woman.

And the same reason why the elder... Older generation would would would retain their commitment and their service to a church for donkey years. The same reason why they know what they've received when they entered into marriage. Are you with me? If Jesus was to meet a typical believer in my generation, Jesus would tell him, go and call your pastor. The guy will reply, I have no pastor. And Jesus will say, it's true. You have had 50 pastors, and the one you are listening to now is not your pastor. It won't be husbands. Because of the kind of Christianity that was sold to us.

Imagine going to one preach to somebody and you say, when you come to Christ and you meet a... Meet an elderly woman, she said, when you come to Christ and you become saved, your business will prosper. That's a lie. You told her a lie. But that's the Christianity we received. Come to God. Will pass your exam. The only reason why the guy is chasing God is because of things. That was what was sold to him. That we serve a god who the moment you receive him, he becomes so concerned about everything that concerns you that even if you are irresponsible, even if you show no commitment, even if you show no no no dedication to him or to his work or to church or to nothing, as long as you just call upon him, he will answer you at any point in time.

And you see a believer who can miss church for three months, but the moment the promotional exam is written in his in his in his in his space of work, that Sunday, he will be in church. He will sing. He will come to church. Sit down somewhere just to maintain a form of godliness because he's a Christian. When you ask him outside, what are you? He will join them and say I'm a Christian. That's why Jesus Christ specified. He says in Mark 16 number 17, these signs shall follow them that believe. Do you know why he said it? Because in in the in the days to come, Jesus knew that them that believe can be fake.

And so identification by pronunciation would not be sufficient enough to to identify believers. Who are Christians? I'm a Christian. Will not be sufficient because Jesus knew in days to come, there will be several who will be fake. Fake brethren, not fake pastors. You see, talk about fake pastors a lot, and we never talk about fake brethren. If there is no market for what they are doing, they won't do it. Nobody sells something that has no market. The reason why fake prophets, their ministry is flourishing because they are fake members. Who are only looking for the things that the things that the the things that is so called God can give when they come to a church and they are they are they are teaching them...

Granting them in God's word and they say, ah, this thing is taking too much time. And they hear, oh, there's one Jehovah suddenly somewhere. The guy says, well, my my my roommate invited me to come and check out this church. You know, know I just shared what I was going through with him, and he said, come and check out this church, and I went there. Why did you come to church? Oh, I just went there. I was invited somewhere. And you see the foolishness that has eaten deep into believers. There's no conviction in God, in his word. Listen to me.

If the word of God cannot change you, the man of God cannot change you. I told God I will not raise a congregation of members will not rejoice in how many center capacity we're able to build. If in that capacity, God can come and find none. What is the usefulness of the capacity? If we have a 10,000 auditorium and every Sunday, 10,000 people come there and God came like he came to Israel where 3,000,000 people were present in Israel, and God said, sought for a man and I found none. If you if you don't have presentable believers who have written in maturity, and God said I'm looking for a man that can plant in politics, that that that that you have grown to a level where the influence and the wealth that will... That you that you will experience in politics is not enough to change your heart. That is why God is more concerned about what you become than what you receive. It means a man can be praying to God for a billion, and and all through your prayer adventure, what you are trusting God for is a billion. And God says, continue praying, but I won't answer you yet.

Listen. Not because I don't answer prayer, not because I'm foolish. I like the motivation. As long as this this your need for a billion is what takes you to the prayer of prayer, don't give me a billion. You must understand the ways of God. It will sometimes allow you remain a confusion because that confusion is what first takes... First starts intimacy with him. When you meet people who mechanically believe God, you would see the difficulty in trying to receive. They are open. They are not embarrassed.

Their echo is on the line. They are open. The world does not steal them. There is no testimony yet. They're just trying to obtain things as they prove that they met God. So when things are missing in their life, they are ashamed to let the world know that I serve God. These are people who have mechanically believed God. There is no report in their lives. And as such, there's no basis for authority and promotion. Do you know that...

I'm not go ahead of myself. There are many people who have been trusting God for many promises to be made manifest in their lives, but you don't yet see the physical evidence of receiving the things you are believing God for. And you may feel embarrassed and even think perhaps you don't have faith. But I'm telling you that faith does not stop at things. There is a report you have in the spirit. I don't have a job yet, but my prayer life is growing. I've been... I've I've learned to trust God. I don't have a stable means of income, but I can see God supplying my needs according to his riches and glory. I've learned to have faith in God.

Even in this circumstance, I am not worried. I'm not ashamed. I'm not... I'm I'm I'm I'm not in sorrow, and God says yes. That is a testimony being written that even in pain and sorrow, this one can serve me. Listen. All the names of God that you see are product of experiences. They didn't just name God emotionally. There was an experience that produced the name Jairi. There was an experience that produced the name Rapha.

There was an experience that produced the name Tethenno. There was an experience that produced the name Shalom. Some of these were very painful experiences that these men had to go through. But in their going through it, they obtained the report and and and and saw a dimension of God, and they captured that dimension in the name and revealed that dimension to the generation. To Listen to me. God has not stopped being named. All the names of God you know is not all there is to God because God is multidimensional. You with me? There are still dimensions in God yet on top. There are still virgin realms in God, and we have not yet discovered them.

Your entire spiritual journey should give God a name that should be a gift to your generation. That at the hand of your knowing God, you can say, God is not just provider. I've seen a dimension of God that no man has seen. By reason of my faithfulness, by reason of my work with God, I wasn't just after the things he can give. So you can stand like the psalmist and say, the Lord is my light and my salvation. Of whom shall I be afraid? The Lord is the stronghold of the enemies stand before me, they will stumble and they will fail for the Lord is my light. He was the one who said, when enemies encamp before him, the Lord will read a standard against them. That man said the Lord is my light and my salvation. The Lord is my light and my salvation.

He turned it into an experience into God that he captured God as light. So... Ah. You thought Don was the first person who wrote in him was light. The light was life of men. David said, the lord is my light. He was the first person who had the experience of god as light. And by by reason of that experience, he gave his generation a gift so much so when David was about to die, his warrior said, no. Master, don't come to the battle again, lest the light of Israel be cut short. He was given a name according to the 20...

The dimension in God that he unwrapped. The light of Israel, he was called. This is conviction. The Lord is my light and my salvation. It is conviction that makes a man say that kind of a thing. You don't just go and think you are too faithful to fail. What experience do you have of his faithfulness that makes you say he's too faithful to fail? Have you ever been in a situation that made you depend on his faithfulness? There was no other option than to depend on his faithfulness. He saw it in scripture like light.

It burst forth in his spirit. He said, my goodness. My goodness. By his stripes, I was healed. By his stripes, I was healed. But for everything you ask for when you pray, the moment this child saw it, he stood up from his chair in serious pain, collapsed on the floor in more intense pain. In that pain, he was crying. He stood up again. He's put whatever things you ask for. The moment that child rose up from the hospital, that was the the sickness.

Nobody prayed for him. The sickness vanished. Everything vanished. He went on to live up until 80. His name is Kenneth Hagin. When those ones speak, they don't speak because they read the bible. They speak in authority. That event was a testament. A report has been given in heaven. Listen.

There are believers who are sincerely confused. I trusted God, yet this person died. Have you heard that before? Many believers are about to leave the things of God because it doesn't make sense. The reason is because we have brought a definition of faith that only ends in obtaining things. And if the things we have believed God for does not manifest, we think that there was a problem with our faith. Are you with me? I'm introducing you to a dimension of faith. Like Job said, do he slay me, yet will I trust him. This is what gives stability to the believer's experience.

So people will ask and you say, why do you rejoice even though you don't have a car? No job yet. No house yet. And you tell them the things have not come, but there is a testimony of the faithfulness that I have through the storm. I'm not alone. I'm not alone. I'm not alone. And through the fire, I'm not alone. I'm not alone. I'm not alone.

I'm not not alone. Can you tell people that the things may not have come, but I have a testimony? I have a report. And it might not yet appear. The right affairs, but in the testimony we have received, a report we have received. Listen. Listen. Listen. The man, Job, had things, but Job did not have a report. He didn't have a testimony, but he had things.

And Satan came and told God that he's only serving you because of the things that he has. And God said, take the things. Let the man get a testimony. Take the things. Let the man of pen and report. Take the money away. Take the cattles. Take the business, and let the man receive what is more than things, what is more than businesses, what is more than cattles. And why it looked as though Job was losing everything he had? He said, though he slay me, yet will I trust him.

He became a report in heaven. Things will always happen when the testimony is established. When the testimony is established, things will always happen. Gabriel comes to Mary and says, you are highly favored. You are highly favored. But go and read your bible. I don't see anything around her life that resembles favor. All that surrounded her after the angel came and gave her that announcement was controversy upon controversy. How do you come from the presence of God and appear before a woman and declare to her that she's highly favored? And the next thing is one trouble after the other.

Do you know that because she was highly favored, her husband almost left her? She almost lost her husband. She lost her reputation, lost her name because you see, the husband will not consummate that marriage until the child is born. It means that people knew that this woman had not yet married officially even though befroated. Explain therefore, Mary, how come you are pregnant? The mockings of the heart of men who will look at arms and you cannot even wait. How does he explain that an angel appeared unto me and told me that the ghost will come and impregnate me? Who do you tell that story to? Yet, what led us to to those experiences was you are favored, highly favored amongst women. Listen.

You will learn as you grow. Now in the realm of the spirit, you must have both crowns and scars. The difference between Jesus and the 24 elders is that all of them have crowns, but only one has scars on his hand, a testament of his death on the cross. When you go to heaven, you will see many men with crowns. I don't know the throne of God is not the one to throw in heaven. The bible even calls from category of sinister beings thrones and dominions. Life, about your ministry, about your business. And in that moment, God is silent. God is quiet. Can you use the resources I've made available to you to know what to do in this circumstance towards any reporter?

You have taken all the shame. So Abraham, your faith is focused on giving birth to Isaac, whereas God is changing it. God is more focused on changing your name from Abraham to Abraham. The whole journey of faith of Abraham, he to Sarah, Saul to Paul, Jacob to Israel, Cyrus to Peter. Every time God met man, his conditions. Them before their conditions. Because they transformed you cannot remain in the same condition that met you... That had met your whole self. So you can laugh through storms. And when those who don't know God see you, they will ask you questions.

But you just lost your father. You just lost your mother. And why are you dancing around the tourism? It looked as though your office just packed up. Where is your call? Listen. There are some of you, whilst heaven is clapping for you, a champion is... Imagine in the realm of the spirit to have been the same, but God, the car has not come. God says no. The five years of dealing with me can't be just for a car.

The four years of training, whilst you were in school, I opened you to a company of people who prayed for just hours. You attended their meetings. You lent the world and lent me, and all your concern is for a job. What I've done with you and the person is more than just a job. It's more than just a car. That that situation brought you to. I know the woman eventually died. I know the person you were praying for eventually went to put the Lord. I know the man eventually went. But how about the prayer culture that he put in your life?

That even though the man went, there was a prayer culture that whilst you were trusting God for a miracle, your life evolved into a a a a certain dimension of yourself that will not normally pray like that. That problem seemingly introduced you into a realm of consecration that you would otherwise not have had. And God is all about that spiritual evolution. That situation drew you closer to God. I know you didn't get the visa, but how about the hours he invested on the mountain? It's a track record in the realm of the spirit. How about the diligence? A heightened level of consecration that you came into. Most of you don't know why sometimes God keeps quiet regardless of the situations you are going through. It is not that he's irresponsible.

He has found your confusion as a healthy tool that leads you to his presence. He will prefer you to... He will prefer to leave you there until you get to a point where he has... As he trains you, he will give you a superior perspective. So when God... When when when when when Paul was complaining to God about the thorn in his flesh, do you know God not take it away? God says rise to a point where you see that my grace is sufficient sufficient for you. What I'm doing for you is to bring to that point where your perspective becomes superior you to your experience. Jesus left his disciples on the sea. He left them alone, almost as though he wanted them to die.

The bible even says he constrained them to get into the boat. He constrained them. It means they didn't want to go. Constrained them means he forced them. These people were fishermen. They knew that on that on that on that ocean, they could observe the tides. They knew they were... He he was gonna get boisterous, and they were not wrong. As they continue, while they go to the middle, the storms arose as they as they guessed, as they observed. And I I can imagine what was going on in their mind.

We told this man. We told him. We told him. Why they are struggling for their lives, while they are attempting to ensure that they they they stabilized the boat. They they are bringing down the hook, bringing down everything to ensure that the boat does not capsize. And when Jesus saw that, these people still have an issue, because I've not yet become what I want to become, he came by himself, walked on water, Walked on water. And they saw him almost as an evidence so that he would know that they have not yet become what he wanted them to become. They asked him, is that a ghost? Said, come. And the moment Peter had come, he stepped his leg he stepped his legs out of the boat, and he started to walk on water.

He started to walk on water. Jesus said, come. Took his legs off the boat and started walking on water. Listen. Listen. A point came. The bible says this young man started sinking. Peter started sinking. And when the bible shows us the reason why Peter was sinking, The bible says when Peter saw that the water was boisterous, he started to sink. Please consider that scripture well.

When Peter saw name in in Jesus. Name of me that the water was not boisterous. Assume that the water was calm. Could he have worked on it? Was it the boisterousness or the calmness of the water that determines whether a man can walk on water? If the water was calm, does it make any difference? It doesn't make any diff... You will still sing when you walk on water, either calm or boisterous. It means it was not the boisterousness of the water that was the problem. What then was the problem?

The bible says when he saw, it was what he saw that was the problem. When he saw, when Jesus said come, all he was seeing was the one who said come. For you to see the water, it means you stop saying Jesus. There are people who are seeing the economy. Every day they complain about the economy. Nigeria, the way Nigeria is, the way this is, the way that is. Can you imagine? Well, it's not expensive. I went to buy egg last time. It was $1.50.

I went to buy this one. It was 200. What is the before? It's now 1,000. Can you imagine? And what happens is that they begin to sink because the entire Christian life has been coffled around things, things. They begin to sink. The moment you see that the water is boisterous, you sink. The moment you see that the economy is not on your side, you sink. So it means that God will not first deal with the water.

God will first deal with how you see. Because God knows that if they... Even if the water is boisterous, if you see rightly, you will walk on it. So there are times you would pray, God, can you please steal the water? Can you please steal the water? And God says, alright. If that's the... If that is what will make you pray, keep on praying. The water will remain boisterous. But as you begin to pray, I'm doing something to your eyes.

There's a point we'll call you, we'll start seeing that the water is not the problem. There is something God has done to our hearts. Because what you become is more important than what you receive. Do you know that? Let me say it. Do you know that for God to teach a man... Do know that God can wipe out nations because of a man? Do you know? Read your Bible. Read your Bible.

Do you know that if a man is important in God's agenda and a a a a a a a a of God's agenda is dependent on that man becoming? Do you know God can attempt to take away every obstruction in the life of that man so that that man will know him. So if that man is meant to learn dependence on him, if that man is meant to learn how to rely on him, and there is someone that is because of emotions, because of will, is obstructing the man from learning dependence and reliance. Because God has said, I I will not allow for any resource to come to you because I wanna show you that revels can feed you. But there's a man who does love you too much. He will call you, do you have food this morning? And the man stands in opposition to the will of God. Do you know God can make that man sleep? You would say, lost... No.

No. No. A man will reach in God that God will rather take him home than allow him deviate. I hear some very falling people say, God does not kill, and I laugh. Jesus says, you fear the one who is able to kill the body, but you don't fear the one who is able to take both the body and the soul. All through the time that Job went through his tragedy, everybody was speaking. Listen, everybody was speaking, but God never spoke. His wife spoke. Eliphaz spoke. His friends spoke.

Even Job himself spoke, but God never spoke. Chapter 38 was when God came and he was speaking. And you will think when God comes to speak, you will think God will start comforting Job because of all the things he has been saying and all the things he has been through. The first thing God asked Job was a question, who is that man that dark knit knowledge, that dark knit counsel? We all understand it. Who is that man who is speaking in ignorance? Wastening the works of my hands. Bear with you. And you will think God will come and say, Job, sorry. Listen, there are times when God will leave you in a particular situation because of his mercy endures forever.

And he's not afraid of time living. He's not afraid of time going because he can restore. He's not afraid of time... Of of things living because he can restore. It doesn't take God eternity to do that which is eternal. It can look as though five years went in five second. God can give you ten years. It's within his it is within his systems. And when a believer does not understand this, it's not it's not mature in the spirit. What happens is that that believer becomes an infant.

So because of things, certain people have left God alone, and they don't understand what God was trying to do because this message was never preached to them. They never understood that faith that gives you things, there is also a dimension of faith that works patience in you. I've not read your bible. Follow them who through faith and patience These may not look like they are working, but your faithfulness is establishing credibility in the spirit. This is why that demon said, Jesus, I know. Paul, I know. They are not known in the spirit because of what they have in time. They are known because of what they have become. There is a register in the spirit where the ranking of men are recorded. This is what translates to authority in cosmos.

There's a level of stature that is established in the spirit on account of your becoming. Paul says, let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the scars. There's a record that I've served God in the midst of pain. There's a record that there's a record that I've served God in the midst of persecution. Listen, when you speak against such men, God will punish you. God, as loving as God is, God can do anything to defend such men because they have they have won a testimony. Men men who God look at and say, you you don't deserve to walk on the earth. The jealousy of God is invested upon them. You toil with them to your own discredit. God left it.

Do you know how the anointing is made? They take the olives, and they begin to press it on all sides. If you pity the condition of the olives, the oil will not come out. They begin to press the olives on all sides. In the wine press, they call it depressed. There are people who take the right stand for God. Listen. Listen. I know you are so busy. I I know the basis of your prayer is that you want to manifest.

You want things to manifest. Things will manifest, but not to this dimension of you. There are people who who who... They take a stand for God. Someone wants to give you a job, and and the Bible says, sleep with me, and I'll give you a job. And you say, you refuse to do so. And after refusing, you still go back to hunger. You still go back to not having anything to eat, and you feel stupid for refusing. That if only I've accepted at least, if only I've done something, if only I I don't even have food to eat. And you feel stupid for not for not jumping on that opportunity that you know was an evil temptation because the the the benefit that would have come with it is still lacking in your life till now.

And now you you start thinking maybe it was... Maybe I should I should just have done it. Hush people, They've not been taught reports. On account of your standing for God to be faithful, you have obtained the report that you look at the temptation and say we will not bow. We will not bow. If if what it means to preserve our life is to bow before this graveful image, we will not bow. I would rather start to hunger than get a job that loses my my dignity. Than get a job where I sin against God because I want money. I will rather die. Let me suffer in poverty.

Whatever God will not give me, let me not have it. When God sees men like this, not in words, but in deeds, a testimony, a report. The three songs, the three Hebrew men looked and said, I will not bow for our God is able to deliver. And even if he does not deliver, look at that. Don't don't... Do you know what it means? Some people think that they... What they meant... What they what they said there mean they do not have faith. Because if they had faith, they would not have said even if you are not deliver us.

No. You don't understand what they said. What they said means you are not serving God because he's able to deliver. That is what they are saying. They are saying, don't think for a moment that the reason we are not bowing is because we just want... We we we we love a God because he's always able to deliver or because he will... Even if it doesn't, our allegiance has surpassed the level where we won't be our only allegiance when God does. Even if it does not, our allegiance remains. Even if he does not answer me, my allegiance remains. When I call you, you will answer.

When I call you, you will hear. When I call you, you will answer. When I call you, you will hear. Listen. There are many times believers think that just because of standing for righteousness, certain promises manifest immediately. They will come, but you will celebrate their manifestation when you change. There are many believers today who have become defeated and destroyed because promises were manifested to the wrong version of them. The version that received the 1,000,000,000 was not a consecrated version. There are certain temptations you have no business going through once you become. If you are exposed to those temptations before you become, you will fail.

So whilst you are saying, God, what's grant me this 1,000,000,000? And God says, it is your destiny to have it. But you don't know the temptation that comes into a life of a 1,000,000,000 naira owner. You don't have the stamina to survive the attacks. Become forced, and then watch the things you are praying for wrong to you. Lord, promote me to this office, and you go to the place of prayer, and promotion is on your mind, and you find out that God... God's interest is not the promotion. God's interest is what that prayer is doing in you. Are you with me? The more you yield to becoming, the faster the promises come.

Let me start again. The more you yield to becoming, the faster the promises come. Satan becomes utterly frustrated over a life that values reports above things because the basis of lust is things. The basis of the thief coming to steal is things. You can only steal things. The thief cannot steal reports. So if a man has gotten to a point where his life is now above things, there is nothing for this thief to come and steal. There is nothing for the thief to come and destroy. That is how a man frustrate the devil. If the devil knows that you are so you are so attached to things, he would have many things to steal from you.

Because he knows your joy is attached to things. Your peace is attached to things. So he doesn't have to get your joy by getting your joy. He just takes the things that your joy is attached to. How to frustrate the devil is to live above things, to come to a point where the reason for your pursuit of God has come beyond the things that God can give. This was the understanding some men had that made them reject deliverance for the sake of a better resurrection. When a man focuses on becoming, you have mastered the heart of frustrating Satan. Because the devil now knows that either you have it or you don't have it, it won't affect your prayer life. It won't affect your word life. It won't affect your coming dedicated...

You are... Your your your experience that God has gained has given you a conviction in the spirit. See, believers who are... Oh, come to church. You say, well, I'm I'm tired. I don't have... You see, we we... There's no... We can't even begin with you. You have not yet entered into the gyroscope.

We can't see you. If the car is not there, you will trek to church and rejoice while you're on your way to church, and nobody will know why you're celebrating. If the food is not there, you will rejoice even while you are fasting. You will go to your friend's house and you would say, you have food there. Let me... I'm about to break my father's partake of this sacrifice. And while you are eating, you are sharing revelations, and you are rejoicing in the spirit. And people look at you and they cannot tell the reason for your joy. Are there things in your life? Because you see, we live in a a a world where success is attached to things.

Do you know that when when Joseph stood for God, you'd expect a recompense will come immediately to have stood for God. And God would just take him and say, ah, look at how you you you stood for my name. Do you know he didn't do this because of me or he had become a prime minister? No. He ended up in prison. And God was watching. Okay? Alright? So you can stand for me. Okay?

And while he's whilst he was in the prison, God was still watching. When you start feeling as though you you you... God betrayed you. God was still watching. Let's let's just give him time. What will become your response? But I stood for God and look at where I am. But I stood for God and I and I... And I'm with these people. I'm now an atheist.

Say, ah, he can... He's not fit to be a prime minister. He's not fit to be because you see promotions is on account of reports, not on account of things. It's on account of reports, on account of a testimony. When it was so fitting, God said it's... It is time. It is time. Now give Pharaoh the dream. And God did it first that only him. Do you know that in the day promotion comes, God can withdraw intelligence from the mind of men?

Such that you are the only one that will know the answer. God will make everybody dumb so that you can keep. In the day God insists that a man is now due to be lifted, God will route it such that promotion will come... It will come in a way you will least expect. You have been posting videos of yourself on social media. None of them has gained traction, but you are faithful in service. You are faithful in God. You are faithful in Christ, and God is watching. The moment a... The moment the day of manifestation comes, how it will happen will shock even you.

You will be in your house, and your friend and family will start calling you. Have you checked your phone? Have you checked your phone? Say what happened? What happened? It will be the same thing you have been doing, nothing new. Because God has seen that a man is not deserving of promotion. There's something we will meet... There's something we will know that we will lose loved ones and will not mourn. We will rejoice because we know that as long as they were saved before they went are you with me?

The only point where we mourn is when if they were not saved. We are... We... In fact, we'll tear our clothes. We will render... I will cry with you because we know that their eternal destiny is is is torment. But that a man loves Jesus while he was on earth and goes to be with Christ for whatsoever reason because of our limited understanding of death and resurrection, hell, eternity. Our limited understanding of these things is what makes us think as though the right response to the death of a loved one is yes. There is an as we get to. Are you with me?

That by revelation, we know that this realm we we live in is only a brief interruption in eternity. Everybody passing through this realm will eventually go, including yourself. It is called the brevity of life. Get... There there is a... Then a day will come. The bible says your life is like dust. It will fizzle out eventually. What we should be concerned about is, was he saved? Because we know we are saved.

If we are saved, it won't be the last time we'll see them. When we get to heaven, we'll rejoice. We'll look at them and say, my goodness. You made it. I made it also. Thank you, daddy, for training me. Thank you, mommy, for training me. I lost my brother when he was six years old, but I'm rejoicing in the Lord, full of holy ghost, full of faith. When the apostles lost disciples and they were watching their brothers becoming killed, man tired in Christ, they didn't they didn't stop holding services. And so let's let's do come tonight.

And I'll stand and and just hold hold hold three months of silence for our brother that they killed. The moment Stephen died, Philip was in Samaria preaching the gospel. Do you know both of them were in the workforce together? They were both serving tables, Steven and Philip. There's something we know. We might not have explanations to why things happen. We might not know why things happen. It's not everything you can explain. By faith, we understand. By faith, we understand.

I don't know why they... Sir, but why? I don't know. But by faith, we understand. Are you with me? This is what it means for God can make all things, all things, negative things, evil things, bad things, things the devil was the one responsible for, all things like someone making to love rice. I'm putting several ingredients to work together for your good. Salt in itself is is bitter, but salt added to rice, added to other things, added to, added to stew. There are experiences that in and of themselves are negative, but God can take that same experience and add it to the story of what he's doing in your life. It is part of what will make you a great person.

I know the business crashed the first time. Go and start it again. It's part of the stories. Remember, prayer convocation is not a is not a bot. It's an hand. I know you didn't make as much sales as you were expecting. I know you probably wasted money even even even even even marketing your business and telling people what to do. I didn't have as much sales. Go again. Go again confessing the same word you were confessing before.

Go again. I know you checked the results, and it wasn't the best thing you saw. There's no... Mature believers. Mature believers. Jesus was sleeping in the storm, and they came to wake wake him up. And while whilst they woke him up, they said, master, tell us not that we die. Oh, ye of little faith, why do you fear? In other words, your... The absence of faith is the reason why you could not speak to the storm.

The presence of fear is the reason why you'd not join me and sleep. Because if if you had an understanding, if you saw I was sleeping, you will find where I was and sleep also. God is faithful. The day some of you will give testimonies, everybody around you will now say, my goodness. We never knew she was going through this. She's always rejoicing, yes. A testimony, a report. You mean you mean she went through this and now she's married with children? My god. God is faithful.

Faithful. God is is faithful. Eventually... Listen. This thing is why I began with the two basic truth that eventually your Christian experience should still glory. There's a reason why eventually is there. Because while you're on that journey, it might not... It... Listen. There are times we'll wonder, but why is this?

Go and get that first meeting and listen to it. That's why I call it the the two basic truths a believer must know. That eventually, our light affliction is but for a moment of time. It working in us and exceedingly. Weight of glory. Are you with me? Yes. Verse 10. At the Listen. And the Lord...

Give me the KJV. I love the KJV. He says, and the Lord turned the captivity of Job. When he prayed for his friends, a time came, Job said, I'm no longer concerned about things anymore. I'm not concerned about myself and the things that I have lost. Now I've grown into a revolution of God, and I want my friends to come to the same. He turned his prayers away from himself, and he focused on his friends. And God says he he turned away the captivity of Job when he turned his eyes away from his problems. And he began to intercede even for his friends, and his friends will come to the same light he now has. The Bible says, and the Lord gave thought twice as much as he had before.

This is a strange scripture. Next verse. Look at this. The bible says, then came there unto him all his brethren and all his sisters. You mean Job had brothers? You mean while he went through all he went through, he had sisters. He had brothers. Where were they? It means the silence of men does not equate the wickedness of men. There are times when men...

When God is all blind men from seeing you so that the class is taking you through can be complete. Listen. All that they had, all they that had been of his acquaintance before and did eat bread with him in his house, and they bemoaned him and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. Do know that they didn't even offer him comfort until God was done with the process? Almost as though they forgot him. Listen, the bible says every man also gave him a piece of money. Do you mean they had money with him that could have given him all the while? Remember when I told you that your money is yours or is in the hands of people? Everyone and hearing of gold. Next verse, the bible says, for the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.

God is faithful. For he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand sheep asses. They obtain good reports. Through faith, your daily testimonies. So I thank you. I walk through this journey by faith. And I don't know what you are doing. But by faith, I understand. By faith, I understand. Father, I thank you for your word.

I thank you for people whose lives have been transformed, whose lives you have impacted, whose lives you have blessed. I thank you for the transformation. I thank you for the world that has entered and permitted our spirits. I thank you because we are becoming that which we have heard. We are growing into maturity. We are growing into capacity. Thank you for what you are making us. You are giving us stability in our Christian experience, stability in our walk with you. Even as we journey through life, you have given us stability. We thank you because we see beyond the storm.

We see beyond the mountains. We see beyond Jericho. You have walked in our heart, and you are walking in our hearts. And the light affliction is but for a moment of time. It is working in us and exceeding greatness of glory. We thank you for this that we know. We thank you for this that we know. Even like... Even whilst we look at the things which are not seen, for we know that the things which are seen are temporal. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

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