Transcript: The Evidence Of Things Not Seen

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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. A way of introduction, I'm gonna be starting a two part series today, a two part series. This is part one. Even though I would not title them the same thing, but you would know that this is a two part series. This Sunday, next week Sunday, today will be very brief, very, very brief. Very brief, but it will impact you and it will bless you.

Also, by way of introduction, there are two primary truths that I would want us to know and believe even before I begin. Number one is that the end of your Christian experience and your walk with God is that you eventually become a manifestation of the glory of God. I sense the presence of God so strongly. So I want us to just limit moving around, be as still and as silent as possible. I said the end of your Christian experience, this is the first basic truth that I want you to know and believe. The end of your Christian experience and your walk with God, your journey in God is that you eventually become a manifestation of the glory and power of God. There is a glory that is apportioned 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 that glory. In Romans chapter eight and verse 18, the bible says, for I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us. So the bible talks about the glory that shall be revealed in us.

In verse 19, the bible continues to say that the that the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing apocalypses, the revealing of the sons of God. King Jebi called it manifestation of the sons of God. There is a dimension of God's glory that is apportioned for the believer. I have a teaching where I spoke about the manifestation, the revealing of the songs of God. It is titled token for good. A token for good. You might wanna get that message. It will bless you. There is a dimension of God's glory that is a portion for the believer that is to be experienced in time. So much so the bible says the earnest expectation of creation is waiting for that manifestation, that revealing.

My life eventually... Can you say it with me, brothers and sisters? My life My life. Eventually Eventually. Should become a manifestation of the glory of God. Now can you say it confidently? Regardless of where you have currently, regardless of where God finds you, regardless of where you began your work with God, regardless of your background, or the opportunities that may or may not have been available to you, it doesn't matter. You must sustain the... This deep seated conviction that my life will eventually reveal the fullness of the glory of God. Ecclesiastes chapter seven and verse eight, the bible says the end of a thing is better than its beginning.

In Job chapter eight and verse seven, the bible says, though your beginning was small, your later end would increase abundantly. This must be the conviction of the believer. It does not matter where I am currently. I know for certain that the end of my life will reveal the glory of God. My life will manifest the power of God. That God's will for my life is that my life reflect his glory. My life should be at the fullgence of his power, his mightiness, his greatness. A believer must know this. When you know this, it will sustain the staying power. It will give you the ability to continue even if you don't know what God is doing.

When you are traveling a far distance, for the major part of that journey, say you're going to Lagos for instance. For the major part of that journey, you don't see where you are going. But because you know that the destination is surely there, you are hopeful and encouraged and motivated to continue that journey even though you don't see your destination. If I leave here and I go to that building over there, I'm seeing where I'm going. Is that much so? I don't need any special hope or faith or belief. I can just walk there. But I'm telling you that your journey in life is such that many a times you don't even know where you are going, but you must have a firm conviction that the end of my life is greatness. Are you with me? This is what will eventually enable you to believe and to trust in God.

It will give you staying power and conviction. The glory of God is the holistic capture of everything that makes God, God. His wisdom, his favor, his power, his excellence, his might, his wealth. Every dimension that makes God, God. His intention is that be imported and be made manifest in the life of the believer. Eventually, your life should become a sign and a wonder. You must believe this. This is how God is glorified. John 17 and verse one. The Bible says Jesus spoke these words, lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, father, the hour has come.

Glorify your son that your son may glorify you. How God gets glory is that he glorify the sons. There is glory a portion for the believer. You must know this. It means I might not have everything yet. I might not even be... I might not even know what God is doing with me. It might be confusing. There might be events around my life that doesn't seem like what God has said, but I know that the end of my life is greatness. You must have this firm conviction.

It doesn't matter what might happen. It doesn't matter what might be for me. It doesn't matter our light affliction. Our light affliction. The bible says it's it's... It is for a moment of time. We know this. We reckon that God is working something. The bible call it a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. So it might...

We might be afflicted right now, but it's for a moment of time because God is working, using the affliction to work something in us. The bible call it a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. So I might just be starting a business. I might just have gotten admission into school. I might just have gotten married or be preparing to get married. I might just be starting a family. But I know this for certain. I won't end here. I won't end here. John 15 verse eight.

By this, my father is glorified that you bear much fruit. My life will bear fruit. Eventually, the glory of God will be revealed in my finances. Eventually, the glory of God will might... Will be revealed in my health. It means a believer might be going to the spirit right now, but you must have a firm belief that that is not God's will for you. And even as you learn and grow in God, eventually, I will get to a stage where I will be the one people visit for the bomb in Gilead. Even as I visit your spirit, I'm not ashamed. I know that I'm growing. There's a phase I will soon get to as I press into God.

It must be... Listen. You must believe me. If you don't know this, you'll be frustrated because there are parts in your journey that will frustrate you. You will wonder why are these things happening. Listen. It's not everything in your life you'll be able to explain. For instance, there are times when God will take away the hold because he wants to introduce a new. There are times when friends that have been loyal to you will stab you at the back by a heavy betrayal. There are times when you'll be robbed.

Things might come and plunder your business, and you would come and stand in front there looking at your shop looked at completely. And you begin to wonder, but what did I do? Why? I still prayed yesterday. I still fasted yesterday, and it's my shop that come into command. You see, if you don't understand what I'm telling you, such experiences is capable of willing the state... The saints. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes.

So it's what forms the foundation of your belief. For someone, this is already a word from God. Number two, the second basic truth you must know is that your work with God and your exploits in this kingdom will always demand partnership with the realm of the spirit. That's the second basic truth that you must know. I'll be building this series on these two basic truths. Your work with God and your exploits in the kingdom will always demand partnership with the realm of the spirit. The structure for manifestation is that the spirit and the bride says come. Healing comes when the spirit comes and the bride says the same thing. The structure for manifestation is that the spirit and the bride say come. Everything that happens on earth is as a result of the union between the spirit and the bride.

So if the bride is saying be lifted, if the bride is saying... If the spirit is saying be lifted, if the spirit is saying advance, if the spirit is saying be favored, if the spirit is saying be healed, if the spirit is saying restore, if the spirit is saying receive speed, you see, if the bride does not sustain the intelligence to walk in partnership, those things the spirit have said might never manifest. At every point in your Christian life, there will be a demand for partnership. Partnership with God, partnership with the realm of the spirit to bring to manifestation the things that God has declared. This is what never takes the understanding of the subject of faith. These two things I just declared right now is what never takes the understanding of the subject of faith. Are you with me? Habakkuk chapter two and verse four, Romans one seventeen, Galatians three and verse 11, Hebrews ten thirty eight, all of them said the same thing. The just shall live by faith. That how a man will live, how a just man, a man who has been justified will conduct his affairs on the face of the earth will be by faith.

The bible says by faith, no man can please God. But how God has designed that your Christian experience will be enjoyed and lived even to please God would be by faith. So be considering the subject of faith as it applies to the Christian experience and living an effective life on the face of the earth. You'll be so blessed. This is the part one, and it will be very brief. Hebrews 11 and verse one. The bible says now faith is the substance of things. If you're using an hard copy bible, you want online things. The substance of things hoped for. The evidence of things not seen, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

The word... It's from this scripture that I get my title for this teaching, The evidence of things not seen. My emphasis in that title is things. So my title could have easily been the substance of things hoped as long as things are involved. Are you with me? The first thing that we see in this scripture, doesn't interest you to know that in Hebrews one and verse three, open the brightness of his glory, speaking about the Christ, and the express image of his person. The word person used in that scripture is the same Greek word as substance used in Hebrews eleven three. In other words, faith is the past... The personification of the things you have hoped for. Faith substantiate.

It materializes what you've hoped for. It takes it from the realm of hope, and it brings it into substantiality. Are you with me? The first thing we see in this scripture is that faith has to do with things. Because the bible says now faith is the substance of things, the evidence of things. The common expression is that faith is the substance, the tangibility of things that we have hoped for and the evidence of the things we have not seen. So faith has to do with things. Faith gives a man capacity to obtain things. This is a two part series because there are two ideas captured in Hebrews eleven one and two. We start with the first verse, verse one, things.

It gives man the capacity to obtain things, to materialize things. Another word for things is seen in verse 33. The bible says, who through faith subdued kingdoms, walked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, obtained promises, obtained things. Are you with me? Promises through faith, men can obtain promise, which explains why these things are hoped for and why they are not seen. There is a basis for hope because it has been promised. In other words, if it is not promised, there's no basis for hoping. You didn't see what I just said. When you were young and your mother tells you that there would be a birthday gift for you, on account of that promise, you can hope to receive. Are you with me?

You can hope to receive. So because there's a promise, hope can exist. And because it is something we hope for, it means it has not yet materialized. We can't see it yet. So the bible called it things not seen. However, the medium by which those things that are hoped for, those things that are not seen takes on materiality on the earth realm is by faith. What substantiates what has been promised that which is not seen? What makes it obtainable in the now is faith. Faith is the technology for importing divine realities from the realm where it is finished to the realm where it must be made manifest. Remember I told you that the end of the believer is glory, that eventually your life will reveal glory.

Do you know the reason for this? Do you know why we are certain that this must be the case? Because the... Your your life has been perfected in Christ. Everything that God will give, he has given. The bible says he has given us all things that pertains onto life. In other words, everything you would need to live an effective life and godliness has been given. God has given. In other words, the believer's life is perfected. The believer's life is done.

It is on this basis we live life from the end of things. For this end was high born. Life for you begins from the end because God is called alpha omega. God is not called alpha and omega. If you check where he introduced himself in Revelation one, the word hand is in italics. It suggests that it was introduced there by the translator of scripture to give you more understanding. In reality and in actuality, the word hand is not captured there. It is the word how far omega, the beginning, the end. The reason is because if you say beginning and the end, what you're saying is that what God starts, he will finish. That will limit your understanding of what God does and who God is because you see, what God starts, he doesn't finish.

God does not even begin a thing until he has finished it. It is in the realm of time that you start and you expect to finish. In God's realm, he only starts what he has finished. In other words, if he ever needs to begin the project, it is because he has ended the project. So the bible says from the foundation of the world, the project was completed. The lamp was slain. It was already a done deal from the foundation before he made the earth. He has slain the lamp. But it would still take over millions of billions of years for that which has been completed for that project to begin. So you will think when Jesus was born was when it began.

Oh, no. From the foundation of the world, the lamb was slain. It means the project of your life is already a done deal. It is understanding this that makes you believe what he said in Jeremiah, that the thoughts I have for you are of good and not of evil, to give you a future, a hope, and an expected end. The question is who is expecting the end? You need to think about this. Do you know what it means to expect something? It means you know what is about to happen. So who is doing the expectation? In other words, there's a way I have I have finished your life already.

And while I planted you in time, I expect that your life in time will arrive at what I already finished. Are you with me? So I'm expecting. It's unexpected and because the end has already been finished. The end has already been completed. So God is only expecting that following the path he has laid down, you will eventually arrive at what he has finished. The same way the slam was slain from the foundation of the world. So when God came to Jeremiah, he said, before I formed you, I knew you. I ordained you a prophet. Your hand was decided even before you were formed.

Do you know what being formed means? A sperm has a form. It means before you existed as a sperm. Before you exist... Before before your birth grandmother was born, the idea of you was completed. You are not something that I just thought of like an emergency and said, oh, we need a solution right now. An urgency is in Nigeria. Who can we send? And we say, ah, let's let's make that one a profit. What are you doing currently?

Oh, he's a doctor. Ah, let's let's call him. Oh, yeah. Call him. Call him. So at 41, you now say I I I heard the call of God. Oh, no. Your life was decided before you were born. So your life is completed. Your life is a done deal.

What God is doing is that while he plans you in time, he expects that following the path he has laid for you, your life arrives at the already predefined destiny. The call it our predefined destiny, our preordained destiny. The Bible says, Jesus speaking, I come in the volume of the books as it was written. In other words, there is already something written. My life begins as it was written. It didn't say I have come in the volume of the books as they are writing. As it was written. What I'm acting on earth is something that was completed. It's a completed project. All I'm doing is making my life, oh my god.

This is why a man that live his life outside of God's will and purpose for his life is only shadowboxing. He's living in limbo. He's a confused man. The day you find God is the day you began to live. That's the day you start living. Everything you do outside of God's purposes and plans for your life, you are only existing. You have not started living. Your life is like a reader. There is like... When God would explain this thing to me, I saw a vision of, like, a spiritual global provisioning system.

How many of you have seen that radar that detects the movement of planes in the air? And the moment a plane crosses the field or the airspace of that territory, it appears inside a radar that a plane has just arrived in that axis. Are you with me? In that circumference. It shows up in the radar. You see, when you become born again, that is how exactly your life shows up in the radar of heaven. It means even if you were 45 years old, as long as you have not received Christ, you have not started living. So you have not appeared on the radar. You are still missing in the circumference. It means you cannot begin to live life as it was written about you because you have not even started existing yet.

So a man would need to be born again. You have... You... You've been born once, but you were born wrong because you were born of water alone. You must then be born of the spirit. And when this happens, like a radar, heaven says, my goodness, your name has appeared in the book of life. That radar is what the bible calls the book of life. It is the book of those who have received life. That is why it is called the book of life. Are you with me?

The book of those who have received life. You see, but it is possible to receive life. I will name her peers, but no movement is detected. So you have received life, but you stay on a spot. Because now you can be on a spot for thirty years, for five years because everything you are doing and the business you are constructing and the family you are starting and everything you are doing is is not according to what was written. And so you can continue doing your own in time. The bible says it is the purposes of God that shall stand. So God will wait until this young man now begins to live life according to how he designed it. Have you heard people who spend sixty five vil of their life working in civil service. And when they retire, they will say, God, send me to missions.

And all... And and ultimately, they will now find a kind of fulfillment they've never had in sixty five years. I would wonder why why did I go? Because you see, all along the man thought that making ends meet, getting a good job, working nine to five, getting money consistently is what will make me happy and joyful and glorious. And he cannot explain why his life was not able to find fulfillment even though he has all these things. And so at his later years, he might now start an orphanage. You now realize that when he's... Whenever he's in the midst of those children, a joy like... Joy cannot explain as he sees children being rescued from the streets. It is at that age he started making progress.

If that was what God has written concerning him, that was when movement began. And you must understand this as believers. So I'm telling you that everything you would need for your life has been perfected. It means in the mind of Christ, are a wealthy man. In the mind of Christ, you are healed. In the mind of Christ, you are prosperous. In the mind of Christ, you are successful. In the mind of Christ, there is no limitation. In the mind of Christ, you are the head and not the tail. Above, holy, and not beneath.

In the mind of Christ, the righteous cannot be forsaken. In the mind of Christ, you are a new creation in Christ Jesus. All things are passed away. All things have become new. In the mind of Christ, you are a success. In the mind of Christ, are more than conquerors. You are a victor. Either even you is greater than he that is in the world. In the mind of Christ, all of these things are perfected. But you see, there is an agency that transport what has been perfected in Christ into your current reality, into your current experience.

That thing is called faith. All I've said now are promises. And what makes you obtain these promises? What the bible calls things is faith. By faith, The evidence of things not seen. That men can obtain promises by faith. Men can become all God has ordained and designed for their life to be by faith. Men can become prosperous by faith. Men can walk in healing by faith. Men can be favored by faith.

The bible is by faith, they subdue kingdoms. The question was, subduing kingdom was not part of the promise? I will take you to a land flowing with milk and honey. Behold, when you get to the land that I will give you, he has given them these lands, and the bible says it was by faith that they subdued. In other words, if faith was missing in the equation, they would never have received the promise. So all that God has promised will become yours by faith. The bible calls it the evidence of things hoped for. The soft... The the substance rather of things hoped for. The evidence of things not seen.

If God has said, you will become a bilomer and your wealth will reach the nations. You will advance the purposes of God, and you will spread the influence of the kingdom through your wealth and hustleings. You see, it will need faith to find expression. Without faith, a man cannot please God. The reason is because without faith, a man cannot become anything God has ordained for you. Him. You must understand that the realities you are praying for, the realities you are trusting God for are not about to be created. They are finished. Everything required for the life and the godliness of the believer is already finished and available in Christ. Ephesians chapter one verse three, blessed be the god of our lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing.

Every spiritual blessing located in heaven in Christ, accessible to those who are in Christ Jesus. You've been blessed. Look at the tenses. Blessed be the god who has blessed pastors. Every spiritual blessings. Every, every, every. But you see, the way and man abide with me transport every spiritual blessing... Because if it remains spiritual, it won't bless you because you're a material being. You're a physical being. So you need that which is spiritual to materialize.

The means of translation, the mode of interpretation is called faith. How a man translates what he has been blessed with spiritually in Christ, in heaven, to materialize and take expression is true faith. The bible called it a substance, the tangibility. It is what gives tangibility to the things you have hoped for. It is the evidence of the things you have not seen. So though not seeing faith makes it tangible. Are you with me? It is in this realm that our light must shine in darkness. It is in this realm that we can glorify God through our results. It is in this realm that we must prosper as to advance the kingdom of God on earth.

The foundation for faith in this regard is knowledge. So in the book of Romans chapter 10 verse 17, the bible says, so then faith comes by hearing and by hearing by the word of God. Faith comes by hearing. So the way faith comes is through knowledge. And what I'm gonna show you today are the concerns of faith that obtains promises. It's three foundational knowledge a man must have to walk in bible faith. Faith that obtains promises, faith that becomes the substance of things you have hoped for, that gives tangibility to the things that exist in the realm of hope. For a man to see such evidence in his life, The bible says that faith comes by hearing. It comes by hearing and hearing by the word. Knowledge is the foundation for faith.

A man therefore cannot have faith without underlying knowledge. As a matter of fact, Abraham was only able to obey God when God told him, take your son, your only son whom thou lovest and sacrifice him. The the the basis upon which Abraham was able to obey was because he had a knowledge that God was able to raise that son back from the dead. It was that knowledge that sponsored his faith. Are you with me? The first dimension of knowledge that a man must have is the knowledge of God. Just three things, and we are done. The first dimension of knowledge that a man must have is the knowledge of God. The first dimension of knowledge that a man must have is the knowledge of God. Daniel chapter 11 and verse 32.

The bible says to be part of it. It says, but the people who know their God, who know their God, a knowledge of God. This is where faith begins. It matters what you know about God. But more than that, it matters that you know God. You can know about a man, but not know the man. It is possible to have heard about apostle Emmanuel from people. And someone has told you about his character. Someone has told you about what what he's like when they moved close to him, and they got to know his personality. And they say, oh, he's such a simple person.

He's such a humble person. You know about the man doesn't mean you have known the man yourself. The bible says those who know their god. The word know there is not just a mental awareness. Even speaking about just a mental awareness, it is the Hebrew word The same was what was used in Genesis chapter four and verse one when the bible says, and Adam knew Eve. And she conceived and bore Cain. The question is, how does a man have a mental awareness of another woman... Of a woman, and then it results into a child? It tells you that to know there goes beyond just mental awareness. When the bible talks about know, it talks about intimacy.

It talks about a a a a knowledge that that that that exists only between a man and his wife. It talks about intercourse. It talks about fellowship, koinonia, and those that know their god. Those that have had an encounter with god and you understand by reason of this encounter, either with his word or with him and his also his word. Don't get me wrong. Are you with me? Who has come to know God by his word? Those who have come to know God by his word. Those who have come to know God by an encounter with the spirit, by an encounter with the word, by the ministry of the spirit, and by the word. The bible says they shall be strong.

The first resultant effect of your knowing God is that it supplies strength to you. The second is that they will do exploits. That result in this kingdom is governed by your knowledge of God. So much so, the Bible says, let more the rich man glory in his riches. Let more the wise man glory in his wealth. Let not anyone who have attained or accomplished anything in this life glory in what they've attained or accomplished. Let him that glory has gloried in this one thing that they understand and knoweth me. The bible even in the book of John chapter 17, it says, and this is eternal life that they understand and know me. This is eternal life. As it concerns the knowledge of God, it mentions of God that a man must know.

We are still in the first knowledge a man must have. And I'm saying that in the first knowledge a man must have is that he must know God. And that in his knowing God, there are two dimensions of God and it concerns faith that a man must know. Number one is his faithfulness. Number two is his ability. Can you say God is faithful? Listen to me. You cannot have faith if this understanding has not been solidified in your Christian experience. You cannot have faith. The faithfulness of God, the integrity of God.

You must know and believe that God is faithful. You must know and believe that God's word is true. The bible says God is not a man that he should lie. In other words, men don't lie because they are evil. Men lie because they are men. God is not a man that he should lie. If you think that what that statement means is that God tells the truth, you'd be wrong. Your understanding would be shallow, and you would not have a complete understanding of what that statement means or the personality and the nature of God. It doesn't just means God says things that are true. It means anything God says is truth.

It means if you are shocked and God says you are tall, you are the one who is deceived. Listen. God is not a man that he should lie. God is faithful. That is what the bible says. God is faithful. Hebrews one three, who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power. The bible does not say God upholds all things by the power of his word. That would have suggested that his word is powerful, but it says upholding all things by the word of his power. Look at what the holy spirit inspired this right at the right.

It means all the power of God is in his word. It doesn't just mean his word is powerful. It says all his power is in his word. God has integrity. God is faithful. In second Corinth... Second Thessalonians chapter three and verse three, the bible says, but the Lord is faithful. You must know that God is ever true. You must know that if God has said it, he will bring his word to pass. Are you with me?

James chapter one and verse 17. The bible says every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the father of lights with whom there is no variation. Another word says, with whom there is no variableness or shadow of turning. God does not go back on his word. If he has told you it is because he has the ability, what leads also the second thing you must know about God. God is able. It means he does not say what he cannot do, and he cannot... He he doesn't do what he cannot say. Are you with me? God is faithful.

God is able. You must have this to understand me strong as a revelation. The faithfulness of God, the ability of God. Ephesians three twenty, the bible says, now to him who is able to do. Not every man is able to do. Men can be able to talk, but not able to do. Men can have good intentions, but not have the ability to do. The bible says God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all you can ask or think. Brothers and sisters, God is able. If he has told you in your secret place that I will make you the head and not the tail, it means for every promise God has made, he's able.

Remember, God does not... Listen. Before God speaks, God vets his ability to see whether or not he has what it takes to bring that word to pass. It means God has vectored himself before he told you go and prosper. God has vectored himself before he told you go and be the head and not the tail. Build that business into a conglomerate that reaches nations of the world. Have branches of that business all over the world. Occupy till I come. He has vetted himself, and he has checked. Do I have the capacity working with this individual to bring this world to pass?

And the moment he finds that he has, he swears by no other than himself. Are you with me? I therefore believe. And look at my life, everything he has said is faithful. Is what cannot fail, is what cannot change is faithful. Is faithful. Where men fail, God can never fail. Is what remains ever true. Is what remains ever true. Ever true.

The bible says though it may carry, write the vision, make it plain that they may run that reads it. The bible says the vision is for an appointed time, though it may carry. Everything God says will definitely come to pass. It is backed up by his integrity. When I read scriptures, There are four things we read in script... We've we've we've seen scriptures when we read scriptures. The first is prophecies. The second, principles. The third, patterns. The fourth, promises.

When I read scriptures, I see the promises of God captured in scripture. The promises of God are the expression of what he expects of my life. And you must understand that he's faithful. As long as it concerns the promise of God, he is faithful. Listen. You might not have you might not have heard anything per se physically. You might not have had any tangible encounter of any sort. You might not have received the ministry of a prophet who told you you will be great, but you must believe that his word is ever true. His word is superior to a thousand encounters. His word is superior.

The bible says we have a more sure word of prophecy. It means I might never have the ministry of a prophet come to me because I pick his word. The bible says, blessed are those who have believed yet have not seen. In the book of first Samuel, the bible said that God appeared again to Samuel in Shiloh by his word. But a man can take the word of God and believe in that word as true, and yet his life becomes... Devil Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights. The devil left him alone to fast. After he finished, the devil came. You will think you will have respect for his fasting. You will think that the level of anointing that will be dripping from his head after fasting will make the devil scared scared of him.

Oh, no. That even was what drew him close to the devil. He appeared before him after forty days of fasting and prayer. And he says, if thou be the son of God, turn this stone to bread. Waiting for the reply. Jesus does not say to you, what what are you... Are are you joking? Who do you think I am? He says, it is written. It is written.

My question is, do you know what is written? Because if you don't know what is written, you will fail whenever the devil comes, and he can come anyhow. Listen. The moment Jesus said, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, you will think the devil will start arguing. The devil kept quiet immediately and said, Thor, alright. No problem. Let's go to the next place. In other words, the devil has respect and honor to the authority of God's word. He never argues the moment a man knows what is written. That is why the the basis of his next temptation is also it is written.

That was how he started. You know what is written? I also know. He take... He took him up to a high hill and told him jump down. Look at this. He says, if you are the son of God, jump down for it is written. He shall give his angels charge over you, lest you dash your foot against a stone. The bible does not say... You see, if you don't know what is written, when the devil quotes what is written to you, he will misquote it.

And you will need an understanding of what is written to understand when the devil is trying to manipulate you by scriptures. Because in Psalm 91 that the devil was quoting, the bible never says he that jumps. It says he that dwells. There is never a place where it says he that jumps. It is he that dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. I will say of the Lord, he's my refuge and my fortress. My God in him shall I trust. It is in proceeding that he then says he shall keep his angels charged over you because you dwell, not because you jumped. Are you with me? Immediately, Jesus says, no.

No. No. No. When you attempt to when you attempt to misquote and misapply what God was says, you are tempting the Lord your God. It is written, thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, no argument. He keeps quiet immediately and says this one, not what is written. There's no bed with using scriptures anymore. Look at the glory of the world. Look at the strategy of the devil's temptation, but this man knew what was written.

He knew. And the basis of his reply was it is written. Do you know if the devil... If the bible is not powerful, why does the devil bother to study it? You didn't see that. The bible was not written by spirit. It was inspired by the holy spirit, but written by men. How did the devil know it? He read it. If there's no power in it, why study it?

Why believers are kidding and wasting their life? The devil is speaking scriptures and is and is reading. And he says, you are more than conquerors. He knows exactly how. I've told you that the the the the the secret of a of a deceiver is that you must know the truth yourself. So the devil takes time to study truth because if he doesn't know truth, how can he deceive? The aim is to ensure that the one being deceived does not know the truth. So you study scripture, and you are wasting your time away. Listen. You must know that God is faithful, that God is able.

God is great. God is powerful. God is mighty. God is powerful. God is powerful. I want to I want to be finished. The ability of God. Listen. You want to walk in bible faith, you must have a revelation of God's ability and God's integrity because you will stand before many Red Seas. You will stand before many Goliaths.

You will stand before many Jerichos, and it take will the revelation you have of God to see his might beyond the mountain, his might beyond the Red Sea, his might beyond Jericho. Else, you will look at the mountains, and you will don't understand the mightness of him that stands before you, of him that is within you as compared to he... As compared to what is standing right in front of you. Do you understand the mightness of God? That even when a situation befalls you and it looks like this is calamity, what is this? You maintain peace in the storm because you understand that he that is in me is greater is greater is greater. The word greater means greater than he that is in the world. In other words, it doesn't matter what comes before me. He that is in me. You must know this.

It's greater. This circumstance is nothing. This mountain is nothing. I remember I heard a beautiful testimony that was shared during the prophetic service, during the... Was it manifest conference now? And the prophecy was made that depths are being cleared. You see, God is faithful. And this woman was in the debt of how much now? 4,000,000 naira. And by favor, without being able to explain where the money came from, someone, she she take account and found 8,000,000 there.

Twice what was needed to clear the debt. They cleared the debt and got a new house. God is faithful. God is able. God is faithful. God is able. It was in this place that he said that people are getting contracts and deals they've never gotten before. It was the following day, one of my guys here sent me a message. Got a contract to manage the entire building of a... Of of of of a particular project, and it will oversee both the employment of those that will work in it and everything that it that it involves, something he has never done before.

And he told me... I said, look at that. God is faithful. God is able. God is faithful. God is able. God is faithful. God is able. I said, here, God has gone ahead of you. The young lady went there and was told she'll pay an amount of money.

She remembered what was said. God has gone ahead of you. God has gone ahead of you. Do you know that it takes a revelation of God's faithfulness and his ability to believe that in that situation, God has truly gone ahead of you? It is easy to confess you when there is no problem. But the moment affliction strike, can you still maintain peace because of the revelation of the mightness of God that you have? Even if I fail, I know God has gone ahead of me. God is faithful. There's nothing in my circumstance, in my environment that can make me doubt the faithfulness of God. God is faithful.

God is able. He's able to take a man from the miry clay and put him upon the solid rock. He's able to lift lift servants and make them princes. He's able to take a man. The bible says he uses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. He is able to do this. What is the Red Sea before the mightiness of God? Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yeah. Isaiah 55 and verse 11.

The Bible says, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I send it. And God speaks to you. Listen to me. He doesn't speak as though remember I told you that God does not begin a thing until he has ended it. So you see, God speaks to men from the end. God speaks to men from the end of things. So when you hear God, God would never speak to you as it concerns what you are currently going through or what you will meet as you continue to obey what he has said. He will speak to you from the perspective from where he is and where he's standing. So God will tell you, go and build that 10,000 sister church.

And he will say it without thinking that there is anything that can stop you because truly there isn't. He will speak to you as though he has put money for you somewhere because truly he has. Remember, he speaks from where he is. He speaks from what he has finished. So in time, it might not look like it, but that is how God speaks. It takes the wisdom and the faith and the revelation to know that the one who has spoken is faithful and is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think. Are you with me? The second dimension of knowledge that you need to manifest bible faith is the knowledge of the promises that have been made available to you in Christ. In other words, we're talking about obtaining promises. Is that not so?

The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. If you don't have a knowledge of the promises, how can you hope for them? It is therefore important that a man does not just know God, but a man knows the promises that are available, the things available, the realities that have been made available for him in Christ Jesus. The life of God within you is highly knowledge dependent. In ignorance, the believer will live a defeated life. Are you with me? In ignorance, the believer will live a frustrated life. If knowledge were not present, if knowledge were not important, God would not have given us access to his word. The bible says my people, they are my people, yet they perish. They are my people, yet they perish for lack of knowledge.

In other words, when there is... When ignorance is present, God can do nothing about that man's circumstance. Them being his people did not move God to act. As long as ignorance was present, they know not, neither do they understand. They walk on in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are out, of course. The Bible says arise and shine for your light has come. Amplified version says, arise from the spiritual depression to a new life. Shine. Be radiant with the glory and the brilliance of the Lord for your life has come.

Are you with me? So most believers live defeated lives. Why? Because we have not paid the price to truly know God experientially. Two, because we are not fully aware of the exceeding great and mighty promises that have been made available for us in Christ Jesus. It is important for you to know what is available. What do you know about God? What do you know about victory? What do you know about failure? What do you know about Satan?

What do you know about the blessing of the Lord? What do you know about restoration? What do you know about speed? What do you know about prayer? What do you know about fasting? What do you know about dominion? What do you know about demons? What do know about angels? Fear not for I am with you. Be not dismayed for I am your God.

I will strengthen you. Yes. I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. I... Do you know that the Lord says this? Do you know that the Lord says this? In Deuteronomy 31 verse eight, it says it says, do not be afraid or discouraged for the Lord will personally go ahead of you. The Lord will personally go ahead of you. The New Living Translation, it says, he will be with you.

He will neither fail nor abandon you. Do you know the promises of God that God says I will never fail? I will never abandon you. I will never leave you to your own devices. It looks as though you are drowning and you are sinking, I will never abandon you, he says. You will never get to a junction where you... It feels as though God has left you. I will never abandon you. I guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.

I can't be confused. I have the counsel of God. I have the advice of God. He said I will advise you. I will lead you along the best pathway for your life. How can I be confused? How can I not know what to do? How can I ever be stranded? When I sent you, lackest thou anything. If you have sent me a kind lack a thing, he has promised.

If he's the one that sent me, then he has supplied resources. Resources have been supplied. When God speaks, he speaks from the realm where he is. So he speaks as though he's speaking to God. Remember, the Lord stands in the congregation of the mighty. He judges amongst the Gods. So when he speaks, he doesn't speak as though he's talking to men. He speaks as though he's talking to gods. He told Elijah, I have commanded a widow to feed you. When Elijah got there, brothers and sisters, you would expect us since God has commanded the widow.

The widow will say, I've been expecting you. The first thing the widow said is, ah, this is the last food myself and my daughter will eat. Ah, yet that widow was commanded. It means it might look as though there is a rejection happening. Doesn't mean there is will of God. You must learn to discern when what God has commanded must take on materiality, and you will insist that God is able to do. Do. The Lord direct the steps of the godly. Psalms 37 and verse 23 and verse 24. It delights in every detail of their lives.

Though they stumble, they will never fail for the Lord holds them by the hand. Though they stumble, they will never fail. These are promises in scripture. It it might look as though I've stumbled, but I will never fail. Because even in my stumbling, the Lord holds me by the hand. Isaiah 40 and verse 29. It gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. It gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. My strength is made perfect in your weakness. My strength is made perfect in your weakness.

So when I'm weak, when I'm weak, he said let the weak say I am strong. Let the weak say I am strong. Let the weak not declare weakness. Let him say I am strong. Not because he has strength in himself, because God says he gives power to the weak. It means the weak saying I am strong is not mental accent. It's not positive confession. It is affirming that God has given me strength. It is the Lord thy God that teacheth thee to prosper, that teacheth thee to make wealth. It means in my business, I have I have the wisdom to make wealth.

I have the wisdom to prosper. I know the promises. I know the promises. I know the promises. And he that dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Lord. I will say of my God is my refuge and my fortress. My God in him shall I trust. I know that I dwell in the secret place of the most high, and so I abide under the shadow of the almighty. I will say of my God. He's my refuge.

He's my refuge. He's my refuge. He... My house is not my refuge. My house may have fences. My house may have gates. But I know that God is my refuge and my fortress. Thieves may come to the environment, but they will not come to my house. But I've made God my refuge. I've made God my fortress.

I know what he has promised. I know what he has promised. You will be the head another day. I go of holy and not beneath. Blessed are you in the morning. Blessed are you in the night. Blessed is the fruit of your labor. Blessed is your coming out and your going in. I will open the gate of your cities. Your storehouse not be empty.

The ships of pastors shall bring their wealth unto you. Every nation that has not bowed to you shall perish. My sons are come from afar. My sons that come from afar. I know the promise. I believe in the promise. I know the promise. I will make you a great nation, a wonder to the earth. The glory of God shall be revealed in my life. Behold, as the waters cover the sea, so shall thy glory cover the earth.

It shall come to pass in that day, in that day, that the mountain of Lord's house shall be established upon the top of the mountains. Disciples Christian network shall be established on top of the mountains. I I know the cannot fail. I cannot fail for God has given me the power to make wealth. We shall trample upon serpents and scorpions. A thousand shall fall at your side. 10,000 at your right hand, they will not come near you. For only with your eyes can you behold and see the reward of the wicked because you have made the most high your refuge. Even the most high, your dwelling place. You will deliver me.

You will honor me. It is the Lord that worketh not both to will and to do. Single barren. Make a joyful noise of the Lord for he is great and his mercy endures forever. I know the promises of God. I stand upon the promises. I stand upon what he has said. I stand upon his word, and I know that he will bring to pass. Listen. Listen.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Though thy beginning might be small, my prison might be small, my life might be small, my ministry might be small, my marriage might be small, my family might start small, but thy latter hand food greatly, food greatly, food greatly increase. A little one shall become a thousand. A small one, a great nation. I have put my words in your mouth. My words in your mouth will be like fire and the people chaff. But my words in your mouth, I will uproot. I will plant. I will throw down. The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want. In this memory beside the still waters, he restores my soul. When people say there is a casting down, we will say we won't wish, we won't think, we won't have a good intention. We will say there is a lifting up. I've made you a call to Pharaoh. I've made you a call to Pharaoh. Say to Pharaoh, I am sent you. By my God, I run through a troop. By my God, I leap over walls. The Lord is my rock and my salvation.

Of whom shall I be afraid? The Lord is the stronghold of my life. Of whom shall I tremble? Why do they hate things rage? And the people imagine they venting against the Lord and his anointed. The Lord shall mock them in their dead, he said, He that sits in heaven shall laugh. I am the planting of the Lord. I am like a tree that God has planted. I flourish in season and out of season. I am fruitful.

I multiply. I subdue. I am of an excellent spirit. Only excellent things come from me. I can't be small. I can't think small. I can't be sick. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth, he went about doing good, doing good, Doing good. The spirit of Lord is upon me. For he had anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.

Deliverance to the captives. Healing to the brokenhearted. If I'm depressed, there is healing for me. If I'm sorrowful, there's healing for me. There's healing for me. For I know that by your stripes, I was healed. My body is healed. My flesh is healed. I'm not weak in my body. I'm strengthened.

I'm strong. Let the weak say. Let the weak say I am strong. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Say so. Can you rise up on your feet? If you have the prophetic bulletin, can you bring it out if you are with it? If you're with yours. If you're not with yours, put it on the screen right now. Listen.

Listen. We're gonna declare authoritatively the things in that proverbial thing. These are things you see. Promises. Promises. The substance of things hoped for. The evidence of things not seen. I want us to declare it. Listen to me. Not gonna lead you in it.

You will declare it by yourself and to yourself. You'll pray in tongues even as you declare. Are you ready? Are you ready? Sir. Let us begin to pray right now. I'll give you just five minutes. Just five minutes. Declare. Wherever I've dropped the rock repeatedly, in hope of water, in previous years, this year, I shall rejoice in gushing torrents of testimonies.

Left and right, testimonies are bounded. One more minute. Now, pray in tongues and pray in. Pray in. Pray in. Pray in. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for your promises. Thank you for your faithfulness. Thank you for your able.

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