Transcript: The Law of Faithfulness Part 2

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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. Galatians chapter five and verse 22. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, faithfulness. The fruit of the spirit is faithfulness. Faithfulness. And this is what I'm gonna be considering today, faithfulness. We're gonna be continuing from where we stopped the last time. Faithfulness can also be referred to as fidelity, fidelity unto God or loyalty unto God. And I'm gonna consider that subject of loyalty in a more broader perspective today as God gives us the privilege to do so.

And maybe eventually, if we're able to conclude today, then there's no problem. Loyalty, fidelity unto God. It speaks of a firmness of purpose, especially when we feel discouraged. It speaks of faithfulness. It suggests staying on course and not giving up on that course. Loyalty means to be faithful. Constancy means staying on the track and being sure of your belief. Constancy is also a definition or a synonym for the word faithfulness. It means you are constant. It means you're consistent.

It means that you are always staying on the track, and you are sure of your beliefs. Are you with me? Yes. It also suggests the word stoungeness. Stoungeness. And stoungeness means firmness in following one's principles or purposes. So if a man is stounged, it means that the man is firm. It means that the man is following, firm in his beliefs, following his purpose, following his principles. A staunch person cannot be turned aside. It also carries the idea of being resolute, and resoluteness means a strong desire to do something, to serve God, to pursue God, to follow God, and to not stop or give up in your pursuit of God.

Faith and faithfulness are closely connected, but you're not the same. Faith is a gift from God. It helps us to believe that God is real even if we cannot see him. It is how we become saved because faith was imparted into our heart. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Faith is being sure of what you hope for. It is being certain of what you do not see. Faithfulness is the working out of disbelief in God. When you are faith in God, you can act faithful.

You can act in faithful ways. Acts of faithfulness are the proof that you have faith. In other words, I have faith in God. I believe in God, and so I'm committed to the God that I believe in. I'm loyal to the God that I believe in. I serve him diligently. I serve him with honor. In understanding faithfulness, it is important to know that God is the first person that exemplifies faithfulness. God is faithful. God is faithful.

God is constant. God is resolute. God is sound. God has integrity. Are you with me? It means also that God is constant. God is loyal. In Psalms 89 and verse two, God will not begin a project with you and dump you. God is faithful to his word. God is committed to his ways.

Psalms eight nine and verse two, we do to verse verse five over eight. For I have said, mercy shall be built up forever. Your faithfulness, you shall establish in the very heavens. Your faithfulness. So God is the one that exemplifies faithfulness. The bible says your faithfulness. It's a nature of God. It's a character of God. It is what God is. It is what God exemplifies.

Verse three says, I have made a covenant with my chosen, and I have sworn to my servant David. Now check this. Before the covenant was made and before he swore, what precedes the covenant? What precedes the swearing? Faithfulness. In other words, the reason why I will keep my covenant is because I am faithful. The bible says your faithfulness you will establish in the heavens. After that has been declared, it then says that I've made a covenant with my servant David. I've made a covenant with my chosen. I've sworn to my servant David.

It means you can believe that God will come through with his covenant because God is faithful. That is how that scripture arranges it in context. Are you with me? God will not make a covenant until he has established his faithfulness. It means the reason why we can believe in every word of God, the reason why we can believe in everything that we read in scripture and believe even in the promises of God is because we know that God is faithful. God will keep his word. His word will ever remain true. It is humbling to know this. Are you with me? Amen.

Look at what God says in verse four. It is your seed I will establish till when? It can be forever because he's faithful forever. In other words, when it comes to the establishment of your seed, I won't change my mind next ten years. I won't change my mind next twenty years. I can tell you that I will do something forever. Hey. Be careful of the promises of men because men are not faithful. Faithfulness is is first an attribute of God. God is the one who first...

You see, and God is the only spirit who has this character of faithfulness. The devil does not. Are you with me? That's why it's a risk to deal with the devil. Because the devil can promise you this position and tell you that if you can drop this for this position, he's gonna give that position to you. And on the strength of the sacrifice you are willing to make, the devil gives you that position. You see? If somebody else comes for that same position, the devil not say because this person have come for it and I've dropped this and I'm faithful to him. What the devil will ask for is, are you willing to offer a more excellent sacrifice? If this person dropped this, can you drop more?

And say, oh, his wife has dropped me. I will drop my family. And the devil says, yours is a more excellent one. Now take the position. The same person who have dropped his wife for the position will be embarrassed and disgraced out of there. I will wonder, but I did this. The devil is not faithful. It's not in his character. So it's a it's a risk to deal with him. It's a risk.

It's it's devil is evil. It's evil all the time. You know, say God is good all the time. The devil is evil all the time. The devil does not have a day when he's happy. The devil does not have a day when he's rejoicing. The devil does not have a good day. That's why when you wake up and you say good morning is a good thing. Have you have you seen people say good morning? Say, is good about the morning?

You are the devil. You are you are becoming... That guy has nothing good in his morning. You are adapting the nature of the devil. When we wake up and say good morning, it's a good thing. Is nothing good about the devil. He is always evil and will forever be evil. Are you with me? Yes, sir. He's faithful in that.

He's faithful in being evil. Are you with me? God is the only one that sustains the ability to establish a covenant with you and to tell you, I will keep it forever. Ah, it's only God. And that is why it is a fruit of the spirit because even men are not faithful. That is why the spirit of God is what breeds faithfulness on your inside. It's a fruit of the spirit. It's why I began the way I began, to show you that in your own strength, you lack the ability to be faithful. Unless by a total dependence on God who is faithful. He is the one that supplies the heart of loyalty in men.

Are you with me? Otherwise, loyalty is not something that a man knows, especially not the fallen man. Do you realize that even Adam could not be faithful to God? God who created you, your creation. Do you even know who this serpent was? Can I ask you a question? What exactly has this serpent contributed into your life that made you believe what he said over your creator? You didn't you didn't get what I just said. Did he contribute in creating you? What impact has he made in your life that made his words worth hearing?

Where did it come from? Who is he? How come he knows God more than you? Were these not questions that should have been asked? Sorry, please. Who are you? Can you introduce yourself? Do you know that Eve never bothered to ask? Did Adam never bothered to ask? How come you claim to know so much about God?

How come you know that God is lying? Who who exactly are you? Why should we believe a thing you are saying? Why should we trust a thing that you are saying? In other words, men giving space to other men in their lives who have had no contribution whatsoever in their life to destroy their life as against men... Other men who have been building you for ten years, and then the man just enters in one week, and the man successfully turns your heart against somebody who have been building you, who have been feeding you, who have... It's not a... It didn't start today. You see, that was how sad... That was how the serpent came.

Give me Genesis three. Let me show you something. Do you realize that the serpent did not even introduce himself? The bible says now a serpent was more cunning than every beast of the garden. Are you with me? Which the Lord had made. And he said to the woman, as God indeed said, on what basis should the woman listen? Have you seen that this issue of faithfulness is not a thing we began today? The heart of loyalty, the heart of faithfulness, the heart of constancy is not something that man has. It is something that man has to depend on God for.

It is a heart that God supplies. It's a fruit of the spirit. And as every example of the fruit of the spirit, God himself is the one that exemplifies it. It means you cannot be faithful outside of God. You can't be loyal outside of God. Never tell a man I will love you forever. It's a lie. That should... The rate of divorces that that is happening in our world should tell you that no man is truly faithful except helped by God. You look at the woman and say, you are my word.

You are lying. Say, listen. Listen. Listen. You are my heartbeat. You know, can't live without you. And your foolishness, you say, God will not help you that the person that is talking is not an unbeliever. It means there is no chance of it. There's no hope. He's lying.

Is it if it were... If it is a believer that is saying that, you can say, okay, God will help him. You don't understand what I'm saying. It is... The fruit of the spirit can be lagging in his heart to commit himself to his words. I don't believe I lack the ability to be faithful. It's the nature of God. And so when you see people tearing people down and friends tearing each other down, don't be disappointed. Men are like that. There are things you must know about man that makes you live in peace with men.

The bible says follow peace with all men. There's an understanding that you know about humanity that makes you follow peace with humanity. Do you know what the bible says? The bible says it was Paul that was preaching. He says he says he says, dwell with a woman with knowledge. To live with every humans, you must have knowledge. Are you with me? And one of the knowledge you must have is the frailty of men, the frailty of the heart of man. How that disappointment is in the nature of man. You're not getting what I'm saying.

Okay. So a man promised you something and did not deliver. It's in the nature of man. It's not a surprise. That uncle called you and told you that I will take care of you and I will see you through university. And the moment you got admission, you now discover that it was actually open admission. And so you called him and say, uncle, I've been admitted. Say,. Really? You know, my own children just got admission.

My wife now is is is just, you know, in the pregnancy is now eight months. We are starting to prepare for a child. And you know in the workplace, for that three months, they've not paid our salary. And you are angry and bitter. You are only angry and bitter because you don't understand the nature of man. Man is frail. Except God helps man. You know what the bible says about man? The heart of a man is desperately wicked. There's only you that don't know.

Even spirits know. Unless what? God helps man. Are you with me? And so when God now entrusts that man with his authority, with his anointing, with his giftings, with his potentials, with his talents. It will show you the kind of God we serve. Knowing the nature of man is still died for man. What a risk. Nobody makes that kind of investment. In economy, if they don't teach you to make that kind of investment, you need to have conducted a wise...

You see, even even risky investments are not risky. There will be a level of constancy that you have observed in the market. It is only a relics because you understand the the the fluid nature of the market. How that what we've predicted might not always be so, but there is a basis for prediction, and the basis for prediction is constancy. In other words, it has always been like this, but it can change. Are you seeing the nature of the market? Now in economy, are you with me? And if you trade Forex, you'll probably understand what I'm saying. But that was not a deal with man. It has not always been like this.

Do need to understand what I'm saying? That God delivered man out of Egypt and parted the Red Sea. Parted the Red Sea. Do you realize what it takes to part the Red Sea? And men saw... Is that a normal phenomena that water spark before your very highs? And when you are lacking food, manna comes from heaven. Have you ever seen it already manna? These things are not normal phenomena, and yet in all these men still rebelled. Are you seeing what I'm saying?

So there is no there is no... And this was majority of men. Very few people in every generation ever had a loyalty and a commitment to God. In the time of night, it was only eight people. Do know that Abraham told God that what if you found 10 people who are faithful, who are still righteous? Will you destroy the place? God said, I won't destroy it. For God to have destroyed, they went on to 10. In a... It means in in scriptures, all through scriptures, you would find that the number of people who are truly ever faithful and love God and are loyal to God else, especially the old testament are always very few.

I sought for a man. I found none. Yet he still sent his son to die. Who does that? So if you are an... If you were God, it's not a wise investment. How how do you know that men will believe you? And true to the risk, there are men today who have reduced Jesus to a curse word. He's a curse word. Watch movies.

You would you would see. And not only did he die for us oh, he still now entrust some with his anointing, with his grace, with his power. What an honor to be ordained and anointed. To be your man and your scepter, dancing the rhythm of your earth. That's the middle of the song. It's an honor indeed. What an honor to be ordained and anointed. To your name and your name and and and oh, what love you have lavished. You see that? Oh, what love you have lavished.

You know what it means to lavish a thing? To waste it. To just pour it in excess without holding back. It's why we must understand the revelation of Jesus. Yes. Oh, thank you lord Jesus. So I was saying that there's none who is faithful except god. Father, oh, what love you've lavished on me mortal to be called yes, to share image divine. What an honor Your seed that will establish forever and build up your throne to all generations. Verse five, it says, and the heavens will praise your wonders.

Oh lord, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the saints. The bible keeps on reemphasizing that God is faithful. It is not a risk to put your trust in God. God is faithful. What has God told you? Be sure you will keep it. God is faithful. Verse eight says, oh lord, god of hosts, who is mighty like you, oh lord, your faithfulness also surrounds you. Your faithfulness also surrounds you. Faithful God.

Oh, how we love you. To keep your word. That is why you are called man of word for the victories won. We worship you. Faithful God. Faithful God. Faithful God. Can you say thank you for being faithful, Jesus? Thank you for always being faithful. It is dangerous to serve a spirit who is unpredictable.

It's dangerous to serve a spirit who you don't know whether today is angry or tomorrow is not. When the bible says my sins and your iniquity... Your sins and your iniquities, will remember no more, he won't change his mind about it tomorrow. Is... Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. God said never again will I wipe out the earth. Never again will I wipe out the earth and its inhabitants. That was the covenant that God made with Noah. We can believe in the reality of this covenant because God is faithful.

The world is not gonna end tomorrow with some calamity, with with with a natural disaster like the movies I've portrayed. Oh, no. God is faithful. Are you with me? Yes, sir. I knew I would become all that God has said I would become because God is faithful. Second Chronicles 16 and verse nine. The bible says for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him. The word loyal there is the word faithful. But I love the usage of the word loyal.

The bible says the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth. Do you know how big and vast the whole earth is to host humans? And the Bible says the eyes of the Lord is running to and fro, looking for, to show you how small, how minute they are. I've used a bag of rice before. What color is rice usually? Whatever it is. Now imagine I give you a bag of rice and we pour it on the floor, and we say, look for your black rice. And your eyes begins to search because rice is not normally black. And in the multitude of what you have, it can become very very... It can be a hard work to start searching for which one is unique, which one carried a separate identity.

The Bible says the eyes of the Lord is searching for a different man. Amongst the multitude of men whose heart is loyal, whose heart is true. This was in second Chronicles 16 and verse nine. In this, you have done foolishly. Therefore, from now on, you shall have wars. And what have you done foolishly? In that your heart has not been loyal. In that your heart has not been faithful. And the only funny thing, God is looking for those whose heart are loyal to him. We've not even started considering loyalty to other men.

Because when I was when I was defining faithfulness for you last week, I told you that it is a threefold. Faithfulness to God, to man, and to a cause, to a vision. Is that not so? And I'm gonna talk about everything today if God gives me the privilege to do so. Are you with me? Yes, sir. It begins by faithfulness to God, loyalty to God, those whose heart is loyal to God. That's the first thing God is looking for. Do you know that? That's the first prerequisite that God looks for in a man he will use.

God doesn't look for who is most able in terms of physical strength. God doesn't look for who is most able in terms of the giftedness of the person's voice. God doesn't look for who is most able in terms of in terms of the things that men would normally look for. But you see, the reason why you have you have... In the world today, we have so many rebellions. We have organizations being turned down. It's because we have shifted the equation. So now we want to employ people. We employ it based on who is most qualified, who is most gifted, who is most suited, and we never consider who is most faithful. Humans look for the most gifted person, the most suited person, the person that has the best appearance.

Was that not what Samuel was looking for? Yes, sir. When he saw the first brother, he said, surely, this must be him. Pastors have been anointed because they could preach. Who is most anointed is who we are looking for. Who is most vocal? Who is most bold? Who is most... Who who has leadership potential, we call it. The ability to gather people when they are right, who does start listening to what they have to say.

And so in your ministry, it's time to anoint pastor. Are you are you are looking with your physical eyes. Who who who can I? But that is not what God searches for. Do you know why God doesn't fetch for people who are able? Does that not mean... Does that mean that God doesn't need ability? Oh, he does. The reason why God does not search for men with abilities because whatever ability is required to fulfill that position can be given. You didn't hear what I just said.

So God will not most times use you for what you are most suited for. God can take you and say, you know what? I've seen your heart of faithfulness. Come and represent me in this nation. And you say, ah, but God, I don't have the ability to speak this language. And God will tell you, leave that one. Do you know if God were to send Peter to a people, the best people for God to have sent Peter to was the Gentiles because Peter was uneducated. The Gentiles were a crude people. The Gentiles cared nothing about education. The Gentiles cared nothing about...

Are you with me? They they were crude. All they were after was signs and wonders. The Jews on the other hand... I mean, you you have Pharisees amongst them, Sadducees amongst them, people who have been learning the laws, who have dedicated their years to learning the laws. Not only so, when they give birth to children, they ensure that their children understand at least the basic laws of Moses. These people were concerned about education. They were lawyers amongst them. They were doctors amongst them. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. If anybody was well suited to be sent to the Jews, should have been Paul because Paul was educated. Paul studied under Gammalia. Paul spent fourteen years in... Are with me? Studying all the best. If Paul stood before the Jews, he could he could relate with them intellectually. When he's speaking to them, he he had a message specialized for them based on the years of his study. He had the right illustrations to use, the right words to use, the right English to use, right grammar to use. Well, not English, really.

But you get my point. Peter, on the other hand, was not educated. Would have been best sent to people who cared nothing about education. But guess what? In God's wisdom, when God would do the sending, God sent Paul to the Gentiles, Peter to the Jews. Guess what? You will think that this was foolish until the Jews started testifying when Peter was speaking. They said, what manner of wisdom is this? What authority is this? The bible says they were bewildered.

They were confused. They were they were surprised when they saw Peter speaking. They knew these were uneducated people, and they could only speak like this because they had been with Jesus. Ah. It means the education was not really necessary. That one could be given by the holy ghost. When Paul got amongst people who cared nothing about education, guess what Paul says? He said when I came to you, my speech and my preaching were not an enticing words of man's wisdom because I knew you cared nothing about that. He said they were with the demonstration of power, the manifestations of the spirit. Do you know the revelation that Peter and Paul got?

He said the the the kingdom of God is not in words, but in power. The bible says God wrote notable miracles by the hands of Paul. Aprons were taken from the body of Paul. Yet both of them walked in terrible signs and wonders. Peter's shadow healed the sick. But look at God's wisdom in sending. And so when God tells you that this is what I'm sending you to do and you start thinking, oh, well, but I'm not able to do it. God does not first count your ability. God first looks at the state of your heart. So you might say that I'm not able to speak.

He can give you the ability to speak. That was what Moses did not know when he was complaining amidst Tamra. Who made the speech? Who made your mouth? The God who said, open your mouth and we'll fill it up. How many of you have ever gone for evangelism or in... Not even evangelism. You're you're speaking to someone, and as you start speaking, you start saying things you have never learned. Yes. Things you have never heard.

Things nobody have taught you. Things you read from no book. Has that happened to you? Yes, sir. It means that if we can know the things we've never learned. Have you noticed that it's not the same when you are teaching somebody mathematics? Have you known to... Have you noticed that you cannot start saying the mathematics you've never learned? Someone says, come and feed me,. I haven't noticed that you have to remember what you learned.

And at best, your spirit will be... Will start inspiring in your imagination things you have read but forgotten. But very rarely would you find someone who is just talking physics or chemistry he has never learned? Do you understand what I'm saying? And that's to show you that when it comes to the work of God, God can give you ability you have never learned. As long as it has to do with the work of God. It means if academia is what God has sent you to do, the same way the gospel comes to you in a way you have never learned it. Academia too will come to you a way you have never learned it. You will sleep and dream and seek chemicals. You are not getting what I'm saying.

As long as it is the work of God, God said, I've sent to do this. It can supply enablement you have never learned. Ability you have not mastered. I used to be a stumbler. I used to have speech deformation. Talented but was his camera. We acted drama in DSS three, and we got every... It was professional indeed. We got a camera person. It was our dear, there's three English project, literature project.

We acted a full blown drama. You know my friend, Deepwell? He was my drummer. He was the one... He was dance drama. He was the one that was beating the drum. I wrote the script. When we look for someone to speak who could talk the way dance drama people speak, we had nobody. So I was the one... That was where the trouble came.

How do you tell someone who cannot speak well? But I was the only one who can change my voice and speak like a woman and speak like a man and speak like a Chinese and speak like... The world not come smoothly, but it will sound like it. So no other person could do it. A man came from BCOS then. I was watching the drama after we produced everything, added effects. Our demons were disappearing and appearing. We were better than Hollywood. The man saw it and was very impressed. He said, increase the volume.

You can put it on PCOS. They increased the volume. The man said,. Who is that speaking? This is a quality work, but it's parted by his speaking. And God now say you will be a teacher. You are not understanding what I'm saying. The video was rejected by BUS because we could... The the person that was speaking could not speak well. And yet, Devon said that one that could not speak well, we have chosen him to represent our council.

And nations will hear him. It's a thing... You see, when you start considering your inability, it is because you have not known how God selects men. The eyes of the Lord is searching. He's not searching for men who are... Who is the strongest. The bible says when he came to Gideon, Gideon was hiding from the Midianites. That was what he was doing. He was hiding from the Midianites. Gideon was hiding from the Midianites.

How do you call a man hiding from the Midianite? Mighty. What is mighty about that man? He was a coward to the core. He went to go and thresh wheat. He was in the wine press where he was threshing wheat. You don't thresh wood at the wine... At the winepress. You thresh wood at the Tribulon. But you see, Tribulon is is very close to the Midianite camp.

It could have been easily captured. So he he ran away. He he... You can imagine the process of him even getting to the winepress. Many hide ins. And he will check, is the coast clear? Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

Let's go. That was how he got there. The angel was waiting for him, waiting for him on that tree sitting down. While the guy was set... Taking it, the coast was clear. The angel was waiting. And when the angel saw him, he says, thou mighty man of valor. Thou mighty man of valor. The Lord is with you, mighty man of valor. Gideon did not hear well because of the purity of his heart.

He thought what he was speaking was the Lord is with Israel. Are you with me? And so when he replied, the angel hear what is... Hear what is his reply. He said, oh my lord, if the lord is with us... The angel never said lord with us. He said, Lord is with you. It is because Gideon did not understand the workings of God. That if God will be with the people, it is because he has been with a man. And God will make that man the enclosure that the people have.

Isaiah 32, the bible says a man shall be a covering from the wind. A man shall be a covering from the wind. Does the bible not say in Psalms 91? And verse one. He that dwells in the secret pillar of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say, Lord, is my refuge and my fortress. Isaiah 32 and verse two, the bible says, a man will be a hiding place from the wind. How come a man is a hiding place and God is a hiding place? Because when God wants to represent or reveal a dimension of himself to a people, he finds a man. He reveals that dimension to a man.

It is in doing so that that that the people witness that dimension of God. It means that if God wants to unveil prosperity to a people, he will find a man who will unveil the dimension to first. Are you with me? Yes, sir. If that man is successful in capturing that dimension, trapping that dimension in God, then every other man in that territory can experience God in that dimension because of that man. It means to ignore that man is to ignore God. Are you with me? There are men who are systems. There are pastors and there are systems. There are men who are pioneers.

Regardless of your age, you must hear them. What God is doing with them is beyond them. God has unveiled a dimension of himself to them that they have captured. And if you will experience God with respect to that dimension, you must humble yourself. They might not be perfect. God doesn't look for perfect men. Foolish human beings will look at their imperfections, and we say, ah ah, but why is he like this? God didn't look at that. God saw that. He had chosen.

It's like looking at David and saying, why is he dirty? He's broader than it. Wearing a royal robe. Look at... Why are you dirty? Are you with me? You know what Jesus said? You know what God said? I found a man after my own heart. A man who is not after riches, who is not after good.

What is after is my heart. There are many pastors who are not after God's heart. You know what they are after? Riches, money, fame, influence, wealth. The danger is that because they don't have taboo's heart, the members becomes their venue to get what they are looking for. So the devil told Jesus, turn these stones. Stones that are meant to be built up, stones that are meant to be living stones, built up into a spiritual house. The devil told Jesus, turn these stones to bread. Start feeding off them. Start...

It turned them to food. Use them for influence. Use them for wealth. And there are tittitities that are overstretched overstretched so that we can have the undying loyalty of men. If you don't do this, you are cursed. It's a lie. And we keep several people... Several people's heart in bondage. And people are motivated by fear and not by love. That's not my.

The problem is because men are not... Men are moved by what they see. So when a man is after God's heart, when... The bible says, I will give you shepherds after my heart. It means what you should look for in a shepherd is is he after God's heart. Is what? Is he after God's heart? Not what he has. Not if he's big. Not if he's popular.

Not if he's wealthy. Not if he... Not not if he's influential. It is... Is he after God's heart? Because that is the primary thing God God looks for. So the angel told Gideon, the Lord is with you. You mighty man of valor. Gideon said, if the Lord is with us. But you see even in that statement, the heart of Gideon was revealed.

If the Lord is with us, then where are the miracles which our fathers told us? It means somewhere in Gideon's heart, he was yearning for the miracles. Another man would have come and said, the Lord is with us. Then why did the Lord leave us here? Why did the Lord leave us here? Why could he not save us? And he would have attached all the blame to God. Vedon said, no. My heart is yearning for miracles. There are things we have read about.

There are stories we've read in the handouts of time. How God moved with our fathers? How come these dimensions have been kept away from us? And Gideon and the angel told him, yes. We saw your heart desire to experience these same things again. That is why you were the one we chose. What made you mighty wasn't your strength, it was your heart. Many a times when you see the actions that the people that God chose made, even with... Even outside of God, you know and you understand why God chose them. Do you realize that Moses had not yet begun a walk with God?

God had not yet appeared to Moses, and yet Moses saw two of his kingsmen being treated unjustly by the Egyptians, and he stepped into the equation and said, no. You won't treat my people like this. Kill the Egyptians out of the zeal he had for his people, and God said that's the heart I'm after. You will look at Moses and call him a murderer. How many of you would have condemned Paul? The question is, how can a man be on a mission to Damascus to go and kill your servants, to go and kill your people? That's what... He is going there to go and kill them. That was the reason why he left his home. He had already planned how he will kill the Christians.

Imagine imagine Paul planning with his entorite. So he will come from this side. You see, so they should be preaching here. We've we've done our understudy. The spies reported to us that by this time 12PM, they start preaching. People will gather them from this side and it's possible that they have protocols guarding them here. So when you are coming, I'll show you, you from the North. You, you stay there. Snipers from this side. And God was watching while he was planning how to come and kill his people.

And and they they took on. Say, are you ready? Have you checked your gun? Is he on safety? Reload. Let's go. And Jesus appears to Paul and says, why persecution thou me? And you will think he he will strike him dead right there and then Because Paul... Jesus checked his heart and realized that Paul sincerely thought he was doing the will of God. Do you know that that sincerity mattered more to God than what he was doing?

Isn't that amazing? So that you will understand what the bible say when when it is the heart of the... The eyes of the Lord searches. The eyes of the Lord is searching searching searching for men whose hearts are true. Men whose heart belong to him. God told Ezekiel I sought for a man. God is always searching, and the object of his search is for a man who is loyal, a man or a woman who is loyal, whose heart is faithful. And once he finds a Noah, he can send the flood. And once he finds a Joseph, he can give Pharaoh a dream. And once he has an Elijah, he can turn a nation around.

When he has a Jesus, he can save the world. God is always looking for loyalty, for faithfulness because he finds... Once he finds such a loyal heart, he can do mighty things in the earth. Loyalty is so rare that when God finds men who are faithful and who are loyal, he can do mighty things in the earth. Look at this. Do you know that God can give you a mandate to start your own ministry? Yes. But he plans you to serve in a place, and you're serving this year as an usher. And whilst you're serving as an usher, you sweep the floor, and you know that an anointing upon your head that is not for ushering. But when you pray and when you pray, the visions you see, the imaginations you seek, the things you see are beyond just you.

You know it's not for ushering. When you are given a chance to pray, to lead prayer amongst the ushering department people, the way the fire of God comes from your heart is as though they unleash the dog that they've changed since. Have you remember many of you have seen that sports where they put a bull in a door, in a house, and then they unleash the bull, and the bull start jumping and skipping. That is exactly how it is when you are given a platform to speak. It's as though they've unleashed something they've kept all along. And when you are... In five minutes, there's fire everywhere. And you check the time, they say five... Time up. And as though the dog goes back to the cage and is whimpy.

He's saying this is not where I belong. This is not where I belong. And God said, what I'm looking for is your heart, the state of your heart. There are many men who know, they knew that God's plan for me is more than this space. So what what did they do about it? They packed members for themselves, tore the church into pieces, started speaking against the pastor, sowing the seeds of discord, seeing what the pastor is not doing right. We'll gather a people behind after church, and they said that they are mentoring them outside of the mentorship of the man of God. You have mentors in the church of a man you are submitted to. And you say this one is my spiritual son in the... And you are crafting for yourself a group of people.

You say, we meet for a prayer conference every Wednesday. In three months, we give you the name. The fire recalibration. Wednesday by 6PM, come and experience genuine fire. The one they're experiencing on Sunday is counterfeit fire. Without the knowledge of the man, without the authority of the man, and the foolish members who do not understand the the the nature of faithfulness and loyalty to a man. You see, I'm go... I'm coming there. Coming there. Also also encamp themselves, and they gather in brother at Jankolokolo's house.

That's the best name I can give to the brother. And because of the way the boy had prays, Some people have crafted a name for him. They now call him brother John. And the man is crafting for himself a seed of people. You see, it is true what you are feeling in your heart. It is true that God has given you an anointing, but it's not true that that is how God has said you should go about it. It is not true. Because in the fullness of time, if that is God's will for you, then you will be released by the authority. What... Listen.

What God has sent you to do must have a seal of man on it. That is why God told you to go and serve a man. No man is given ease in this kingdom until he serves another. The bible says if you cannot... If you have not if you have not been faithful in what is not yours, who will give you your own? It means your own in this kingdom is only given to you on the strength of the fact that you have served another. Your own school, you will serve another who owns a school. Your own bank, you will serve another. That is why the Igbos are very prosperous people. They understand the idea of who will give you your own if you have not served another.

So they will kick a man from the village, and he will be with another for ten years, loyally serving, faithfully serving. And when it's time to release him, they will get a shop for him. They will give me him a million naira. They will stock the shop until you have served faithfully. Now pass. That is how wealth transfer happens in the Igbo land. Those people are wealthy. You meet them in shops, you use... They are the most wealthiest. They have diligent business cultures.

You don't find an Igbo shop that opens by 11AM. And closes by 5PM. And they speak to you anyhow. They are not talk like that. When the guy was growing, he saw how his his his his master armed those customers. No be like that at all. He saw the man. Even when he does not agree with the price, the man will still be willing to humble himself. He will still be negotiating. The guy is watching.

His own responsibility is just to pack the speaker and take him to the car. That's all. And he does that for five years, but he's watching. He's observing. He's seeing. This is how the billet is done. Then the master will call him. Okay. This is where we import our goods from. So on Monday, you are following me.

That secret can be hidden from him for six years. He will never know where the goods come from. And what young guy is looking for is faithfulness. One man say, come. Come. You are... I'm I'm... You are following me, and and the man follows, travels with him. And for the first time, he's seen how operations in the port happens. It's not declaring of goods happens.

The man shows him. He said, hey. This is my this is my this is my boy. This is my boy. This is our supplier. This is my boy. And he does not know that what the master is doing is granting him access on the strength of faithfulness. Do you know that this is this is how God has designed the kingdom to operate? This is it. Any man that cannot be traced to another man will be traced to the devil.

And so anything you are doing must have the seal of God and the seal and the authorization of a man on it. Paul was more gifted in revelation than Peter was. Paul turned it into God and uncovered the mysteries of God, the mysteries of godliness that were never given to Peter. Paul called it the grace to make all men see. Paul never said because I have that grace, I will now launch out. I'm beginning to preach right now. All the other apostles are saying nonsense. No. Paul took that grace and took the message and took the doctrine in the book of Galatians. And the bible says he traveled to Jerusalem so that the apostles of the church can satisfy the message, lest his labor be in vain.

In other words, Paul is saying that if Peter does not authorize what I'm preaching, my labor is in vain. Lest his labor be in vain. Because Peter had to authorize Paul. You know why? Because when Peter... Even though Paul had the revelation, Peter has the keys. Upon this rock, I will build my church. Paul was not there when Jesus was telling Peter, upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of Edis will not prevail. Do you realize that Peter's... Paul's ministry to the Gentiles would not even exist without Peter?

Peter was not sent to the Gentiles, but yet God had to come and convince him to preach to Cornelius. God had to convince him. Peter went into a trance, and God brought food for him and said eat. Peter said, no. No, Lord. He said, not so, Lord. God brought another one again. Not so, Lord. Not so, Lord. And God told Peter, how can you call unclean?

Because in Peter's imagination, the Gentiles were unclean. They are to have nothing to do with them. And God wanted to begin the project of salvation to the Gentiles. God knew Peter is not the one we have sent. God knew the person who we are sending is Paul, but that I've given this one the keys of the kingdom. I've told this one that upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of Edis will not prevail. It means if the church will be opened unto the Gentiles, it is Peter that will open it. Are you with me? Yes, sir. And the moment Cornelius...

The bible says, whilst Peter yet speaketh, the holy ghost fell upon them. In other words, Peter still had some restriction in his spirit. If if the guy could have finished that sermon and not feed them up with the holy ghost. God said the only thing I need is your is your words. I only need a man there. And since you are the man with authority, you are the one who put. And the moment you started speaking, those people's hearts were opened. The bible said, why, Peter? He just spoke it. The holy ghost came upon them.

They started speaking in tongues, prophesying, speaking in tongues, prophesying. The moment this happened, salvation opened onto the Gentiles. Then Paul's ministry could not be activated. Paul, understanding the ministry of Peter and the authority that Peter had, said I took everything and went to Peter in Jerusalem. And the moment Peter gave his seal of authorization, if Paul had not known this had not done this, nobody will know Paul. Peter could easily say that there's one young man we have heard right now. Have you forgotten that he used to kill us? Please, please, and please. Do you even know that for him to be introduced into the church, Ananias was needed? In other words, his encounter with the Lord was not enough.

He needed to be introduced by a man, Ananias. A man needed to vouch for him for the church to receive him. Look at the amount of men Paul's ministry had to be recognized by. The bible says that whilst they prayed, whilst they fellowship, whilst they gathered in one accord, the holy spirit the holy spirit spake separate unto me. Separate unto me, Paul. And who? For the work that I have committed unto them. It was while the elders of the Jews were praying, while they gathered in one accord, separate unto me. Are you telling me that Paul did not know that he was separated? But he didn't leave their camp because of what he knew in his heart until the authorization came to them.

Are you with me? They released apostle Paul. They they they released brother Paul for the ministry God has called them to do. So if you are under a man's service and you feel as though you have a ministry, you must be released. There must be an authorization given to you to begin whatever you are beginning. Otherwise, it's a rebellion. And if you pull out like that, the seed you began with has a devil in it. And so when it grows into a tree, the devil will request for an harvest. What are you saying now? What is in your wisdom?

These are teachings of instructions. These are teachings that have been missing in the body of Christ, and so there's a level of disorderliness, disloyalty, rebellion. Anybody feel that so they can rise up and say anything. Much of what is happening in the body of Christ right now is not church growth. It is church immigration. Our church are growing bigger to the degree to which another person's church is growing smaller. Not to the degree to which we are preaching the gospels to souls on the street. Not to the degree to which we are reaching the unchurched and the detached and those who have given up on God and those who are dying on the streets, but to the degree to which we can cushion up our church to have a form of excellence, so that peradventure, God has planted you in a growing mandate. Your eyes will see the first son of Jesus, And you say surely, this is the king. Selah.

Faithfulness and loyalty. Have you seen people who are faithful to a seed? No. Nobody wants to be faithful to a seed. Everybody wants to be faithful to the forest. But little did they know that for the for the forest to have become a forest, there were those who watered the seed. There were those who planted the seed. There were those who believed in the seed. There were those who believed in the potential of the seed. There were those who knew the potential enough to know that, ah.

And they believed in it so much. They came every day to come and water it. Every day, they were watching it. Do know that Nigeria right now is a seed? Gradually transitioning into a forest. Gradually. And there were those who believed in it years before we ever manifested. It will be foolish for us not to believe it. Some people left their motherland, left their countries to be planted in this nation. I was listening to Elton's, father Elton's daughter who is still alive.

I was listening to an interview someone had with her, and the woman said, do you know that when I came to Nigeria with my father, dual citizenship was not a possibility? In other words, to claim to be a citizen of a country, you must denounce citizenship in your home country. You see, that was what my father, my mother, and myself did. We denounce... We are no longer citizens of our country. I am now a citizen of Nigeria. When they when they came, it was not a possibility to have dual citizenship. How can a man believe? The man said Nigeria will Nigeria will be known as a nation of corruption. Ah, but the time is coming.

If some men believed in Nigeria and they were willing to lay their life off for it, if they are in Germany, God told him blood washed Africa. And you will think it is Africa because of Africa in in its entirety. Oh, no. It was Africa because Nigeria was hidden in Africa. Majority of the man's ministry was in Nigeria. So much so when he was about to die and it was time for his mantle to be passed, God told him go back to Nigeria. Go back to Nigeria. And in Lagos, he held his final meeting, called it passing the torch. His final meeting before he passed on. What did these men see that made them believe so strongly?

Yet other people look and say, nobody can prosper in this land. Foolish people who have seen nothing. Blind people. It is because of these blind people that God's heart is searching. In the day when the nation becomes a forest, there will be those who will be the gardeners. There will be those who were patient enough, who saw the mandate from the future, who knew that God was doing something unique, Thought God was doing something special. Those of us who stay in the land, when those who went searching for greener pastures now see that the barren land that they left have now become a green pasture, those of us who waited, are you with me, would have become landowners. Hey. A time is coming where many will be strangers in their motherland. There are those of you that God has...

God will send out of your fatherland. God will send out of Nigeria not to begin a ministry somewhere. It is to get exposure and get knowledge because you see the level of information and knowledge, you see, that that is needed in your ministry, on your assignment, on your purpose, on your calling to bring about the manifestation of your calling in this nation is not found in this nation. So if you grow and remain a doctor here, you might die and never fulfill purpose because there are there are machineries you might never be introduced to. There are innovations you might never have and they exist. There are ways of doing things you might never know exist. So God will say your journey will not end there. I will take you to The US. I will take you to Canada. You will enter into the medical field there.

You will see how things are done, and you will bring the same and redeem your kinsmen. And there's prophecy over you like such, but you go there, because you have not mastered the strength of faithfulness. And we don't know what it means to be faithful onto a cause, onto a vision, onto a purpose, onto a mandate. Hey. You know how many opportunities have come from the travel out? There are several. There are several. I heard of a church somewhere in this nation. Somewhere in Ibadan here. It was on Sunday.

But the pastor came and said, we have a video announcement for us. And they watched the video where the pastor said, and his family have located to another country, and he's sorry that they have to hear it through this medium, but it came so sudden. So what has now happened is that they sold the church. And pastor... He now introduced the pastor who bought the... He said. If thou be the son of God, turn the stones to bread. Turn the stones to bread. You wanna start a new vision and you are building a business and you are looking for the most beautiful person to make a partner. Somebody that in the next five years when they...

When the business becomes a multibillionaire investment, it will tear you and plunge your eyes out of your sockets. You now sit down say, I trusted you. I trusted you. What was the basis of the trust? What was the basis of the trust? Was it faithful men? Were they loyal men? Paul told Timothy, second Timothy chapter two and verse two. The things that you have heard from me amongst many witnesses, commit this to faithful men. Not to any kind of people.

Commit this to faithful men. Do you know that he wasn't talking about the gospel? Paul was never... Anytime Paul was referencing the gospel, it was very clear, the gospel. The gospel of Christ, the mystery of Christ. Paul told Timothy the things. In other words, there were things I taught you. That is not for every man. The gospel is for every man. There were things I showed during ministry as to the operations of ministry.

There were things I knew that only God showed me. I was never allowed to speak to the people publicly, but I told you amongst many witnesses. These things, realize they are not for the public. If you are looking for men to commit them to, ensure that it's faithful men you want them over to. These things can be weapons in the wrong hands. They can be weapons in the wrong hands. Your goodness is real. I testify your goodness is real. Listen. Do you know that even within the trinity, loyalty is expressed?

Even within the trinity, on two occasions, God thundered from the skies and said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. The father is determined that all of creation will bow down and worship before his son. The name of the son will be exalted above every other name. The father is so loyal to the son that if anyone approaches him via a different route, God refuses to be found. God concealed himself and says no one will find me unless you come through my son. My son is the only authorized channel of finding me. Acts four and verse 12, nor is there salvation in any other for there's no other name under the heavens given amongst men by which we must be saved. Look at that that degree of loyalty, that degree of faithfulness. In other words, there is no man who will ever walk this earth that will have so much degree of consecration to God that God will say because of your work with me, I will not give you a reward. And my reward is that any other person...

If people now come through you to find me, they will find me. God never said that to Muhammad. God never said that to Buddha. God never said that to Gandhi. God never said that to any... Will show you on Friday how that the death of Jesus is not a Matthias' death. It wasn't it wasn't a cause that he came and died, and then people now say, ah, you have killed our only savior, and then people now rose up. No. No. That might be how other religion started, but not Christianity.

A matter is killed for what he believes. Jesus wasn't killed for what he believed. The Bible says no one can take my life from me. I gave. In other words, Jesus gave his own life. It wasn't a matter as death. He gave his own life. It is another account that is called a sacrifice. Are you with me? No one takes it from me.

I laid off. So there's no Matthijah who has died for any cause that God will ever say that because of your depth of sacrifice, I will not make you a route that people can call or make a make a statue out of. And then they will find me. God says no. There is no other name by which men can be saved. Look at that depth of faithfulness, and there will ever be no other name. The loyalty of the father to the son. Did you see how loyal the son was to the father? What I see my father do. The son is equally loyal to the father.

Jesus said I always do the things that pleases my father. Everything that Jesus did on earth was an expression of his loyalty to God for he desired the father to be glorified through everything he did. The ultimate demonstration of the son's loyalty was that he died on the cross to fulfill the plan of the father. You know what the son said? Let this cup pass over me. Nevertheless, not my will but your will be done. Have you seen the holy spirit's loyalty to the son? And that the ministry of the holy spirit right now is not to reveal himself, but to reveal the son to the world. The scripture implores us to pursue godliness. Godliness is simply the quality that is...

Godliness is simply being like God. Since God is faithful, the godly will reach for faithfulness. Since God is loyal, the godly will reach for loyalty. That is the reason why the fruit of the spirit was put in our heart. A loyal spirit is a godly quality that is both pursued and given. We strive for it, yet we recognize that it comes from God. David acknowledged when he prayed that loyalty comes from God. In first Chronicles 29 and verse 29, David was praying, and he says, and give my son, Solomon, a loyal heart to keep your commandments and your testimonies and your status. Loyalty is given to the heart from the spirit of God. God empowers us with a loyal heart so that we might be loyal and faithful, first of all, to him.

Faithfulness to God. Loyalty to God is our greatest mandate. Look at what Solomon says. In first Chronicles 28 and verse nine, he said and as for you, my son, Solomon, know the God of your father and serve him with a loyal heart. That was what David told Solomon. As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father. And if you will ever serve him, ensure your heart that you're him is with a loyal heart. Did Solomon live by this? No. No.

He did not. He started like that but never ended like that. The Bible says that Solomon built a temple unto God. But guess what? That wasn't the only temple he built. For every idol that his wife worshiped, he built a temple for all of them. He constructed high places for all of them. He had not faithfulness to God nor loyalty to God like his father had. His father was not willing to let another man be God except God. Are you with me?

Yes. Solomon said to his people in first Kings chapter eight and verse 61, when he newly became king, something that even himself did not keep to, let your heart therefore be loyal to the Lord our God. This was when the man began, he said, let your heart therefore be loyal to the Lord our God. To walk in his battles, to keep his commandments after this day. Do you know that a loyal heart is a revelation? It means that there is something... It is something you can begin with and not end with. A faithful heart is something a man can start with. That is why the bible says the heart of a man is desperately wicked. You can know it.

So when you find out that God has blessed you with a faithful heart, do you know what the bible says? Guard your heart with all diligence. You know why? Because the heart can be swayed. The heart can be swayed. The devil can whisper things that can embitter the heart of a man. Against the man you have been faithful to. Wasn't that what happened? Corrupted the heart of Adam and Eve by by planting a a wrong information and and changing the image of the God that they serve. It means that you can be truly faithful to a man, even to God, and you would hear people say all kinds of things that will that will attempt to shake your heart about that man.

Faithfulness is unwavering in his belief. What did I say? It means if you are faithful to a man ever, you will hear things about the man. The disciples of Jesus were there when the Pharisees and Sadducees were saying that Jesus Christ was casting out devils by Beelzebub. What kind of a lie is that? They would have chosen to believe it. That wasn't all. They rose up and they told the king. Was it the king now? They said that Peter and the apostles were turning the people against the administration.

They were robbing people of peace. They called Paul several names. Were these things true? Yet there were people that were faithful even as they were hearing these things. A man of God went through a trial some years... Some time ago where a lady came and said that over sixteen years ago, the man had his way with her. And now she's seeking closure by coming on social media to come and tell the world what the man did sixteen years ago. I wasn't really moved by that. I was anticipating and expecting the response of the members. And a lot of people responded as you would expect them to respond.

There was a particular celebrity who is known for serving faithfully in the man's structure. The celebrity was the first person to come out and says, I dissociate myself from anything that has to do with this man and his ministry. Please note, I'm not associated with anybody who does this, who does that, who does this, who does that. That man raised that child in school, raised him in school, saw him through university. An attack came whether it was true, whether it was not, but I'm a celebrity and my celebrity status must not be must not be influenced by your wrong image. You see, you can never really eliminate unfaithful men from your lives. They will be there. So if you are into ministry, yeah, listen to me, you will be rebelled against. My prayer is that you pray to God that it happens very fast. So you see you see, it's very important.

It will... It's not it's not like it will not happen. It will happen. You can't pray against that one. However, what you can pray that, that will happen fast, very fast, at the early phases of your ministry where nobody knows them yet. So they don't tear down the fabric of what is being built. If you are into a business, a ministry, organization, hear me, do not be quick to appoint people into crucial positions without vetting faithfulness, without vetting loyalty. The bible says if the foundation be destroyed, do you know that if the house be destroyed, something can be done? Houses have been renovated. Houses have been restructured.

Houses have been reshaped. If the house be destroyed, something can be done. But foundation being destroyed, you'd have to you'd have to break down the entire house, remove the entire foundation. Even if a a a a restructuring will be done, even if a a renovation will be done, it will be done in such a way that the foundation allows for. We'll not innovate a two story building and build a 10 story building on it. The foundation does not allow for that. It wasn't built with that in mind. Are you with me? Yes, It means it means if you know where you are going, the foundation and whole and those who begin with you is something that is extremely foundational in building the structure of where you are going. Because the building might be attacked, but the foundation being attacked is a dangerous thing.

If the foundation is attacked, the building collapses. If the building is attacked, the building can remain, but your path will collapse. It might be the roof. It might be the door. It might be the window that will break. But if there is ever a problem with the foundation, the entire building is in trouble. The entire building. I'm not in a hurry to heart to pastors. I'm not in a hurry. I'm not in a hurry.

You are looking for business partners, and you just want to... Hey. Anybody that is... Come on. Be wise. Be wise. When God gives you the gift of men, it's a great thing. I have the gift of men. God has blessed me. It's a grace God has given.

But understand that the hearts of men differ. Are you with me? Yes, sir. I was at the church in Acupo. An invited guest was ministering. And the moment when he was invited into the church, he just stood at the entrance and he just stood like this. Very great man, actually. Very great man. So that entrance looked around, looked at people, walked... Took his time to walk from the entrance to the pulpit.

Took his time. I know it took his time because people were clapping, and the clap was very long. I'm so almost... I've been tired of clapping. The man was walking really slowly. He was just looking. When he held the microphone, the first thing he said was... He called the name of the pastor. He says, reverend, you are a blessed man. He said, I came in 1990, and the faces I saw are still the faces I see.

Was it nineteen ninety two thousand? Can't even remember. Mentioned the year he came. He said, that time you were in, he mentioned where they were. I still see the building, in fact, where they were. He said the faces I saw are still the faces I see. He said, pastor, you were in so and so department. You... I remember you. You were in so and so department.

Truly a blessed man. Truly a blessed man. I saw a picture of apostle Joseph Elman in 2011, and I saw his current head of protocol standing behind him in that picture, still doing protocol In thousand and eleven, they were in an uncompleted duty. What do you see that makes you faithful to a man and serve him as such? I would rather train faithful men to be gifted than hire a gifted rebel. A man of God will say a gifted rebel is never an advantage. It's never an advantage. If you are gifted and I realize that you have the traces of rebellion, if I need to work with you, I will work with you from afar. You will never be pulled into the structure as to be a part of the foundation. You can be a part of the building.

If you get broken, we replace it. Oh, you see that? Yes. But the foundation matters. Those that build with us are those whose heart must must be with us. Are you with me? This is a value you must never forget. This is wisdom, cheap wisdom that has destroyed organizations, that have put down ministries, that many people built and never knew. A heart of faithfulness to God. Do you know that one of the words when I was checking for the meaning of faithfulness, one of the words I saw was dependable.

Dependable. Dependable on God. Listen. It doesn't matter what comes my way. You are still God. Intentional. Intentional. Hear what you're saying. Yeah. Listen.

Listen. What you are simply saying is that God is faithful. It is because he is faithful that he's dependable. The word dependable means reliable. It means people can rely on you. It means someone who is not dependable is not faithful. Can we depend on you? A man of God was telling me was telling me he was having a women's conference. And the only assignment he gave the... A man to do in the conference was to open the venue because the venue was a rented venue.

Meeting was to start by 7AM. The guy came by 10AM. He said he slept off. Are you reliable? If a... If you are hired into a business, if you are hired into an organization, you see, as you are hearing this thing now, many of you are... Many of you are thinking, I must... Hey. That means I must I must have faithful men in my life. Are you one?

I must have faithful men in my business. Okay? What I'm doing, my business partner. Is he here? Is he really faithful? Are you really faithful? Because if you find that your heart is bouncing what I'm saying to others and names of people are popping into your mind that I'm speaking, your heart is a heart by the by the stone. It's a heart of stones. It's a heart of stone that is reflective in nature. Whatever you throw on, stone will bounce off.

Whatever you throw in a good saw will enter it. Are you faithful? If you're an organization, are you faithful? Are you dependable? Are you reliable? Are you faithful? You are working with someone, are you faithful? Say pastor in a church, are you faithful? So when it's time to be released, if God is to give you your own, if your account of faithfulness were to be checked, what will be seen? If you have not listened to part one, please get it.

You need it. You need it. The law of faithfulness. Are you faithful? You are working in a school. Are you faithful? You are working in a bank. Are you faithful? Even if you are a receptionist, are you faithful? If a security officer, are you faithful?

Do you know that the owner of the establishment might never meet with the client face to face? It is your own position that interacts with the clients. In other words, whether or not they will come back isn't dependent on the niceness of the owner. When the holy spirit told told me that I was shocked. People told me whether people will come or not isn't dependent on how loving you are as a man of God. If your workers that they interact with does not spell out your values as a man of God, the people might never meet you face to face, but they will conclude about you based on the attitude of the of your workers. I've gone to a restaurant and I've decided I will not go there again, and I never met the owner. What if he's a what if he's a humble man? What if he's down to it? But the individual I saw just looked at me and was frowning.

What do you want? You want to ruin the business of your employer. You're not faithful. Remember, a faithful servant, a five is committed onto your hands. Your responsibility is to raise the five to 10. The five that is committed onto your hand is not your own. That's what makes you a steward. So if they put you by the ganter, the business is not your own. It's a five given to you. The question is, can you increase the revenue?

Can you bring more sales to the business because they... You are employed there? Can you bring about a good reputation, a good standard, a good moral value? Can you bring about a good influence? Or are you the one that comes by 10AM when the autumn time is 9AM? And you sleep all day at work, and you waste company's office, and they give you free Wi Fi, you watch move from... Movie, Netflix with free Wi Fi, company free Wi Fi. Company free Wi Fi is watching movies. And the and the the owner will come and will say, ah, how how did one terabyte finish? It may even reach a month.

Why are you people doing with it? You say, ah, I I I don't know. I don't know. You're unfaithful. You're unfaithful. You're unfaithful. Whatever has been committed into your hands, it requires faithfulness. Stewards, but we are faithful. If you ever find yourself an establishment that is not yours, and listen to me, determine that you'll be faithful. You know why?

Because you never know when God will hand over yours to you. If you are a business owner, you are a fashion designer, be faithful. Be faithful with the clothes that are given to you. I gave a tailor my clothes. He gave me back the clothes made like fish. The cloth was made like fish. It had oil stains. You are not faithful. It means you will never be great. It does the meaning.

I will never think of any opportunity that you are fitted for and recommend you. Do you realize that when faithfulness... When it has to do with faithfulness, God already eliminated high service? He didn't see it. Because when God handed over talent to the people, he didn't stay there to monitor what they did with it. The master went for a while. In other words, if the only time you are faithful and reliable is when you are monitored, you are an hypocrite. Nobody hands the kingdom to hypocrites. Maturity is being able to handle responsibility without being monitored. Faithfulness is the same.

Mature men are reliable men. Mature men are faithful men. They are men of integrity. Men you can entrust. I showed those scriptures last week of people... What people that they gave work to and did not even demand money from them. They didn't... They they gave them money to do a work and they didn't tell... They didn't ask them, how much did you spend? How did you spend it?

But but your your your employer knows, your boss knows, your father knows, your mother knows. But if they ever tell you that... If they ever give you 10,000 naira to go and do something, they must ask for your receipt, ask for the account, ask for everything because of your nature. You will never be great. It might be falling to you, but you'll never be great. This is the reason why many are not great. This is the reason why craftsmen, accents are poor. A lot of them, mechanics, carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers, those people should be the most wealthiest people in Nigeria because they are offering a service, a skill directly for reward. Even if you're uneducated, what they are doing alone already falls into the scope of what should make a man wealthy. They have more chances at wealth than someone who's employed.

Are you with me? Yet a lot of them are broke. A lot of them are poor. They hand over a car to you. They say they say, go and do Uber, and they will be paying you per month. You carry the car and take your girlfriend out. Go to a restaurant. You will call the person that is... That that booked for Uber, and they will tell you, as to how much do you want to carry yours? How much is the app showing?

The app is showing $3.05. $4.05. $4.05. So that he will remit the $3.05 and pocket the 1 k. And he does it for 10 clients. Out of 10 clients, eight people become angry with him and say, she really have brought something to come on and they cancel the ride to the detriment of the owner of the car. And he come back and say, didn't get any ride. You're an unfaithful man. You will never own a car. How about drivers that I've been employed with to to come and drive...

To come and drive children in schools? Maids, house girls, house boys, they tell you to come and come and watch over your house. When the mother has not told you, you beat the child, flock the child. There are many people who have been introduced to immorality because of the house girl, because of the house boy. They've brought curses upon themselves. Yes. Curses upon themselves. Faithfulness to God and to man. To God and to man. Very soon, stories will change.

And when stories change, several people who never knew us when we started We now want to be a part of the vision because now it's beauty. Now it's glorious. Everybody wants to be afflicted with glory. Everybody wants to know David in the palace, but nobody wants to know David in the cave. Do you know that even David's family members were not in the cave? David took the family members to a king who was his friend, and he stayed with those in the cave. But when David becomes... If you are not faithful in the cave, you are not needed in the palace. There are those who will be hungry with us when God blesses us with material things. They will see us driving SUVs.

They will see all those young men. You are foolish. You are not there when we're under the rain for the gospel. When we're when we're climbing bike, hopping from street to street. Now if somebody comes to come and give us the estate and say, ah, they are collecting some people, you are foolish. It's true. When some men of God pull off their clothes and you see the scars, you know that speaking against them, you deserve to be punished. You deserve to be. I can't tell you stories. I'm very young, but the spirit is ancient.

I tell you. And the experience too is ancient. There are experiences I have had that somebody in my... On my age doing ministry that I'm doing should should have no business with. Experiences of betrayal, experiences of rebellion, experiences of that. You're just starting... I I usually don't have a business with that. Not even just starting. Just not even started. It was it was a God...

There was something that God was doing with me. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Do you know faithfulness to authority? Faithfulness to authority, to a church, to the word of God, to a place where you are being built, where you are being trained, where are being fed the word of God, Faithfulness. Or are you a prostitute who can receive from the highest paying customer? Most instrumentalists right now are prostitutes. He's the highest paying customer.

The churches are the customers. I want to the pastor, he said, you see, let me tell something. The church now that is offering me 50,000 naira, better make your 70. To come and sing to God, to come and play for Jesus. I don't have any problem with any church. I don't have any issue with that. Are you with me? Not... I'm not faulting anybody. I'm not even faulting churches.

I'm talking about the men who have made a covenant with poverty. That's my concern. No. No. No. I'm not speaking against any church. No. No. I love the body of Christ so much. What anybody wants to do is none of my business.

I'm more concerned about the men who are deciding to be poor. That means that if I employ you, you are not a member of the church. You are an employee. There's nothing wrong with that also. But what will you get in that church? Will you get money or will you get the word? Will you think as though the word that is being shared on the pulpit is not your business? Your business just come and work. So when the when the pastor starts preaching, you just zone off or sleep. After all, I have played my part.

Stay stay with you. See, you're about to miss God. Or do you know faithfulness? I was listening to a minister of the gospel, a powerful minister of the gospel right now. She went to a spiritual father when she started and told her that this is my calling. This is what God has shown me. I will be a global voice, and my songs will reach the nations of the world. And the father said, amazing. Amazing. Now join the security department.

And the father took her through. She said she served in every department in the church in a space of five years before she arrived in the worship team. That is what is called faithfulness. Right now, she's a global voice true to the words she heard. True to the words she heard. Pastor Nathaniel Base would share stories upon stories about this pastor. But you have a group of people who are arriving in the generation and they're just deciding to carve a path that is separate from the ancient landmark which the father has treaded. People were faithful to God whether or not an answer would come to their prayers. Let me ask you a question. When God said...

When Joseph said, how can I do this wickedness? And sin against the Lord, my God. Can you give me that scripture? How can I do this wickedness? Right? And sin against God. Next verse. Yeah. How can I do this wickedness and sin against God? My question was, who defined sin for Joseph?

Do you understand my question? Who defined sin for Joseph? I hope you know Joseph was before Moses. It was when the law was revealed that sin was revealed. So nothing could really be accounted as sin legally because there was no law to show people that they were sinning. That was the assignment of sin... Of law... The law according to Paul. The law revealed sin. Is that not so?

So how did the man Joseph know that this action was sin? Did you know that that was what Moses imputed as part of the laws, the 10 commandments? You will not commit adultery. You will not do this and that and that. But even before the law, a man knew that it was sin against God. This was what was this was what faithfulness, intimacy with God birthed. A knowledge of God that went beyond the letters. How can we know that Abraham did not pay tithe? Abraham gave tithe. There's a difference.

The pay... Tithe became something they pay when the law was introduced. It was never intended to be that because Abraham never paid it. Abraham gave it. How did these men know? Let me ask you another question. How did Noah know to sacrifice an offering? How did Noah know How did Abel know? Who told them? Do you know the consequence of Noah's sacrifice?

Have you ever thought about it? That whatever choice of animal that Noah wanted to sacrifice was the only kind that was in the boat. Do you understand what I just said? Yes, sir. And he took off the best. God destroyed all the animals along with the flood, but told him to spare two, male, female of each. And he picked out of the last species and offered them a sacrifice to God. And God said he smelled a sweet smelling sacrifice. Who taught him? How did he know?

Let me tell you something. Out of your right heart is birthed right actions. In other words, you will never really be instructed much when your heart is right. If you find yourself in an establishment, your actions in that establishment will always lead to the progress of the establishment. Out of the evil heart produces evil act... Evil actions. It works both ways. When a man's heart is right with God, the things he does. There's a law of the spirit and life that works in his heart as against the law of the spirit and death that works in others. That is mandated to live his life by.

So even when not monitored, even when nobody was monitoring them, even when no... Even when nobody gave them a law, they still lived right. Faithfulness. Faithfulness. When apostle comes, then everybody's diligent. Everybody wants to walk. Everybody, ah, hey, apostle is around. The the pastor is around. The man of God is around. Let him see me.

Let him do this. Hypocrites in the house of God. When the employer comes to work, then everybody will just shut up, pow, face their computers. Silence everywhere. And a man nodded down and said, yes. Yes. If you work in a bank, why not be faithful? Apostle Arome worked with a federal government organization in the oil industry for many years. The man said that he has a a track record of faithfulness. A track record of faithfulness.

He says go on. He said he said he dared them. The man is extremely interesting. I love him. He said he dared them to go and check his records and find out where he stole. How can a man in the oil industry speak like that? Do you do you know what oil industry means? He said he dares them to go and check his records, and if they can find an account that was unblast, an account in his name. You should come and pick him up. There are times God will bring you to serve in a place.

And all he's looking for in in the moment when you are serving is just faithful. It's a heart that is faithful. That might not be where you will end. God might have your own in store, but that your path will draw you to service. And God will check for faithfulness. Make it a value. Pray for God. Pray to God for it, especially when God wants to hand your all over to you. Rise up on your feet. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Thank you, Lord Jesus. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 22. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith. That is how the New Testament puts this thing, I'm telling you. He called it a true heart. A true heart is a heart that is loyal to God without any shadow of duplicity or hypocrisy. A heart that is faithful to God, dependable, has integrity, reliable, committed, staunch. A heart that is faithful. Faithfulness is the fruit of the spirit. It is supplied by the spirit.

It is given and strived for. Are you with me? Yeah. Strived for. It's given and strived for. So we'll ask God to grant a heart that is faithful. Listen to me. A heart that is faithful. Listen to me. To God.

A heart that is faithful to men. A heart that is faithful to a cause. Listen, that cause, I I wasn't able to I wasn't even able to speak about that. That cause or that vision can even be your vision. Do you know that you need to be faithful to your own vision? Do you know that faithfulness to your vision is something that is extremely important? Do you know this? That without faithfulness to your own vision, you can start a church and close it next week Sunday because you didn't have the amount of member you thought in your mind you would have. After all the evangelism and outreach and everything that we did, only five people came for the program. Do you know you would need to be faithful even to your own vision?

So that whilst it's still growing, you don't cause it. Whilst it's still growing, you don't cause it. Whilst it is still a seed, you don't cause it. But guess what? Your vision is not the only vision you are required to be faithful to. As you grow, there are visions that God will... That there are visions of other men that God will begin to introduce you to, open you to, that are needed for your life. You are in one of them. Disciples Christian Network is a vision, and that vision is to the world. The message is to the world.

Father, bless me with a heart that is faithful to God. A heart that is faithful to men, a heart that is faithful to him. The cause, the vision, if you know the cause, if you know the vision, you see what cause it is, you see what vision it is, faithful even to the disciples Christian network as a cause, as a vision. Help me to believe this mandate. Can you pray? Can you pray? Help me, Lord. Help me never to betray you, Lord. Always keep me on my post. Oh, I am your sacrifice.

Give me and help me, Lord. Please pray. Just talk to God. Talk to God in your heart. Just talk to God. Talk to God in your heart. Help me never to leave. Help me to be faithful. Be sincere. I mean it genuinely.

Help me to be faithful. Help me to be faithful. Give me a heart of faithfulness. Faithful husband to wife, faithful employer to employee, faithful employee to employers. Listen, amen. Do you know that if you are a leader in any capacity, you've got to be faithful to those you lead? God exemplified it in being faithful to us. So you don't think that faithfulness is only required of the members to the pastor, of the employees to the employer. No. If you are a leader in any capacity, faithfulness is demanded from you to those you lead.

You must be dependable as well. You must be reliable as well. They must be able to count on your words. You don't go... You will never hear me speak ill about the workforce of this ministry. I believe in them. I love them, and they know it. I'm not ashamed about it. I would declare it anywhere and everywhere. I publicly celebrate them.

I secretly celebrate them. I tell them. It's not a thing I'm ashamed of. These are sacrificial people. These are people that have given their time, their resources, their commitment, everything you can think of in a vision that is still growing, in a vision that has not even started. This is not ministry we are doing. Are still sweeping the cave. You have barely begun. It means we've not even sat down in the cave to start listening... Receiving lecture.

We are still sweeping the cave. And yet there are people that believe in it enough to serve, enough to give their time, give their money, give their vision. The partner of this ministry are the same. I publicly celebrate them. I pray for them. I bless them even in my secret place because these are people that have believed in it. Faithfulness is is a require... It is a it is reciprocal. God is faithful to us, and so he demands faithfulness from us. Before we pray again, brothers and sisters, hear me.

Insist in your heart that you will be faithful. Decide in your heart that you will be faithful. Decide in your heart that listen, if I'm a business person, I'm offering a service, I will be faithful. If I tell a client that this thing will be ready by this time, I will be faithful. You can count on me. You can depend on me. Are you with me brothers and sisters? I will be faithful. Can you decide in your heart? And say to yourself I will be faithful.

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