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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. Philippians chapter two and verse five. The bible says, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. I'm gonna be speaking on something that I've titled mindset of a victor or the mentality of a victor, the mindset of a victor. I think it is important to note that as believers, we are victorious in Christ Jesus. The bible says that we are seated with Christ in heavenly places. The bible says that... And the bible defines the heavenly places where we are seated as far above principalities and powers.

Far above every high thing, thrones and dominions. The bible says we are more than conquerors. He that is in us is greater than he that is in the world. The bible says we have eternal life. We have life abundant. Christ has won the victory. Christ has won the victory. And the victory that Christ has won has given us peace as believers. The word peace is the word shalom. It means total wellness.

It means prosperity, health, and wealth. It means as believers, the fullness of the death of Christ makes available everything that you need to live an effective life as a believer. Christ has won the victory. Christ has paid the price once and for all. The death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, when you accepted Christ as Lord and savior, you entered and you received the life of Christ. Are you with me? You received the life of Christ. That which you have received is total. That which you have received is final. That which you have received has no upgrade.

That which you have received is is registered in eternity. It is once and for all. Your sins are forgiven. You have become the righteous of God in Christ Jesus. By reason of this, the righteous should only prosper. Every experience, every promise, everything that is yours, the bible speaks of the riches of the inheritance. In Ephesians one and verse 18, the bible speaks of, it says, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. So there is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. There are things that belongs to the believer. The bible calls us heirs of God.

Joint heirs with Christ. In other words, if we are joint heirs with Christ, it means everything Christ has inherited by reason of being the son of God, you have also inherited. Everything Christ has, by reason of being the son of God, you also have. That is the meaning of joint heirs with Christ. The Bible says then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. Are you with me? If we suffer with him, we'll be glorified together with him. So there is glory apportion for the saints. The end of the believer is glory, victory. This is what Christ has perfected in already.

This is what God has perfected in Christ Jesus in the substitutionary sacrifice. Are you with me? There's no reason therefore why believers should be poor. There's no reason therefore why believers should be sick, why believers should should live weak and beggarly lives. But you see, to experience victory and to experience dominion in time, there are laws and principles that govern this. Everything I've said right now that is that that is meant to be your experience in Christ, that is also... That is already perfected, already yours in Christ is resident within your spirit. That is why they are called spiritual blessings. Man, however, is not just a spirit. Man is spiritual and body.

So if the blessings were to remain spiritual in context, they are irrelevant to you. Are you with me? There must therefore be a medium of translation that translate that which is spiritual to a physical experience. The Bible says we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We have been blessed with all spiritual blessings. All the blessings that God will ever give you, he has blessed you with. The issue with them is that they are spiritual in context. Are you with me? In heavenly places, in Christ Jesus. So as long as you are in Christ, you are blessed with all spiritual blessings.

There are laws, there are principles that God has laid down in his kingdom that translate that which is spiritual to become your physical experience. That is the reason why the mentality of a victor is to be considered because you can be a victor in your spirit and your life is the opposite. The same way you you can be healed in your spirit and your experience physically is the opposite. There are those who spend money on drugs every single day, every week, every every month. And we're not to... We are not faulting them for this. But they do this regardless of the fact that... Or despite the fact that the price has been paid for their health. Are you with me? What then is the problem?

There are people... Do you do you realize that 80% of people in the world are poor, statistically speaking. 80% of the world's population are poor. The Pareto principle states this, but even statistics... In fact, when you begin to consider statistics, it becomes worse. Are you with me? A lot of... In Nigeria, it's more than 80. If more than 80 people are poor, it shows you the lot of several believers. A lot of believers, painfully speaking, are not living the best life that God has apportioned for them.

A lot of believers, painfully speaking, are not living the fullness of the life of God. The Bible says a thief comes but to steal, to kill, to destroy. I've come that you might have life and have that life more abundantly. The life that God has given to us is meant to be abundant in nature. The bible has given us all things that pertains onto life. It means everything that you would need to to live life, he has given unto you. Everything that pertains onto godliness, he has given unto you. So why do you see believers? This is my burden today. Why is our experience in time separate from that which is perfected in our spirit?

Believers fail. But do you know what the bible says? You shall be the head and not the tail. Above only. You see, if the bible has not put only there, it means you can be in several places. You can be in the middle. You can be average. But the bible says above only and not beneath. Above only and not beneath. So is this our experience as believers?

A lot. Majority. Now the question is, what is the problem and how do we solve it? Because the aim of this teaching is to ensure that you are not part of them. It's to bring you out of this confusion, how to risk admire, is to bring you out of the pain of the many because we're not subject to the pain of the many. The Bible does not leave us in doubt. The Bible makes it clear that there are several people who will die, several people who will be poor, several people who will be oppressed. In fact, Jesus said the poor you will always have amongst you. Jesus said it, the poor you will always have amongst you. Doesn't say you should be part of them.

A thousand shall fall at thy side. 10,000 at your right side. The guarantee is that they will not come near you. There's no guarantee that people will not die. There's no guarantee people will not be poor. The guarantee is that you will not be you will not be a part of them. Are you with me? It means that certain things should not be your experience as a believer, but these things have become normal. The experiences of human beings should not be your experience. Because you're you're not just a human being.

You're a life giving spirit. Get my message, the new man, part one and two. You'll be so blessed. The problem is the mindset that we carry. The problem is the mindset that we carry. And I began to introduce this on Sunday. But the problem when you see that your experiences in time are separate from that which is perfected in eternity, the issue usually is because your mind has not started seeing the way the spirit sees. You remember that? If your high be single... If you were in church on Sunday, can I see your hand?

So you remember that? If your high be single. How many of you are blessed? Couldn't teach on on on on Sunday, but would do justice to you today. If you're high, be single. So there's a way your spirit sees already. And the way your spirit sees is perfect because the holy spirit is resident within your spirit. If the things inside of your spirit, if your mind does not come to agree with how the spirit sees and with what the spirit sees, not just agree but to believe in as much that it becomes the way you primarily see. I said on Sunday that your life is not the way your spirit is. Your life is the way your mind is.

Your life is the way your soul is, not the way your spirit is. If our lives are the way our spirits... Ah, are you with me? Nobody will ever be sick. Nobody will ever be poor. All these things don't exist in the spirit of the man unless your spirit were dead. But our minds usually are far apart, far. So I said the whole assignment of discipleship is to bring you to a point where that is all we try to do in church, to feed you. That's why the bible says, he shall give you shepherds after his own heart to feed you with knowledge and understanding. It means the assignment of the shepherd is to feed you with knowledge and understanding.

So while we come to church, something is happening to the mind. Do you realize that the rate at which your mind begins to see as the spirit sees, that's the rate at which your life will be effective. That rate at which your life will resemble everything that God has ordained for it. This is what is called mind renewal. Romans chapter 12 and verse one. Should we do this scripture now? Let's do it. Verse two, the bible says, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Do not be conformed to this world. You see, do you agree with me that this scripture is speaking to those who are in Christ, to those who are believers in Christ?

It means that before you before you came to Christ, your conformity was already experienced. Before you came to Christ, you were already conformed to this world. The thinking of this world is what makes this world have the result that they do, that they have. I was checking statistics as I was telling you before, and I saw that majority are poor. As a matter of fact, majority are poor. If majority of the people in the world are poor, it is because there's a way they think. If you conform yourself to the way they think, you'll be poor. It's as simple as that. Are you with me? Your mindset is the sum total.

Write this down. Your mindset is the sum total of your ideologies, your value system, your philosophies, your belief system. It shapes how you make sense of the world. It shapes how you make sense of yourself. Your mindset influences how you think, how you feel, how you behave in any given circumstances, how you think. The kinds of thoughts that come to your mind is likely dependent on your mindset. And guess what? Your thoughts I'm not go ahead of myself. Are you with me? How you feel about things?

How you feel about people? How you respond to things, to people, to success, to God, to failure, to life, to yourself, to situations and circumstances is largely dependent on your mindset. The way you behave, the way you react, the way you respond in any given situation is controlled by your mindset. If your mindset is responsible for your thought, this is important because your thought is what is responsible for your situation. The bible says, as a man thinketh... I don't even think we're able to get to the scripture. Let's do it. Proverbs 23 and verse seven. The bible says as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Do you know what that means in simple language?

It means you are your thought. You're not separate from your thought. You're not different from your thought. You are your thought. This tells you... This is very this is very dangerous because it tells you that your experiences and life as you call it, circumstances as you call it or as you call them, don't happen to you. Life does not happen to the believer. Life does not even happen to anybody because he doesn't think as a believer is in his heart. He says as a man, as anyone, unbeliever, atheist, Muslim, Christian, tribalist, Buddhist, as anybody is in their mind, so is he. The state of his thoughts, the state of his inner man, the state of his mind, the quality of his mindset and his mentality will define his experiences in life.

It means circumstances don't make the man. They reveal who he is. Have you ever taken a picture and you felt so good in the picture? And then you look at the picture and you found out you were closing your eyes. And you could almost swear that you were not closing your eyes, but the picture cannot lie. In other words, you might be on certain as... You might even be certain that that is not how you think, but your experiences cannot lie. Life cannot lie. Life will show you the exact state of your mind. The failures around you are a testament of the state of your mind.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Mindsets do not come and ring themselves like a bell in your head saying this is me or this is what you are thinking. This is me or this is how you are thinking. Mindsets don't work that way. They are a a submission of experiences, value systems, cultural values that have made themselves into a perspective, an underlying viewpoint. So they don't necessarily come to come and ring themselves in your head. They just come together to form the way you now see. Do you understand? In other words, what a mindset does is that it shapes the way you see. It shapes the way you think.

It shapes the way you respond. As a matter of fact, it is because of the way you see that is why you respond the way you respond. Everything comes together. That is the reason why the bible says, let this mind, the mindset that was in Christ that informed the way he reacted and responded to circumstances and situations and people. Let that same mindset be in you. It means if you check and you find out that your life is not the way God has defined it to be, it is because the mindset of Christ is not in you. Because your mind defines your reality. You are not too far from your thoughts. So do you know that someone who has a consistent anger problem also has a mindset problem? The reason you get angry the way you get angry is because of the way you are perceiving situations.

Let me give you an example. You might not know that you have a bad mentality about marriage because it doesn't come to announce itself, like I said. But when you marry, you will know. You see how it works? Life will always show what you have and how you see. Someone was talking to me some time ago, and the person went into a serious problem with the fiancee who they were supposed to get married to. She was supposed to get married in a matter of months. And the matter reached me because they were... She had blocked his number. She had blocked his number.

She had deleted his... Him on all social media platforms. She no longer wants to have anything to do with it. Marriage is only a few months' time. And then the matter reached me, And I asked, what happened? Says, a wicked man. Alright? So what happened? He doesn't love me. Alright?

So what happened? Doesn't care. He'll be a bad husband. He'll be a bad father. I can't marry somebody like him. He's a wicked man. I always thought he loved me, but now I have known what his heart really is thinking. I have known what... And see, when a woman begins to talk like that, you don't take what she's saying at face value. You wanna know facts because when women speak, they speak emotionally, and they tend to mix up facts and emotions.

And so if as a counselor, you just listen to what she says without having to find out what exactly happened. So you're hungry because of the way he spoke to you, then how did he speak? He just told me he did not love me. Tell me what he said. Those things are very important because you see, the man might be very innocent in his speaking, but your perspective saw it differently. You know I said your perspective defines the way you see. In other words, life is not at its ease. It's as you see it. So when I was talking to this lady to find out what happened, she said that she saw a couple on social media wearing the same clothes to church. She then forwarded this video to her husband and said, this is us when we marry.

And the husband said, what if I don't feel like wearing the same clothes that you are wearing that same day? The wife said, what? What do you mean? Are you already projecting that we'll not have peace in our marriage? Are you already projecting that you will not have this in our marriage? Are you already saying this and that? My ears were hearing this thing, and I was in utter shock. The lady felt that she was justified. She was speaking to me in serious anger. Edith, you see, you are reacting this way until...

Don't don't laugh because you are not righteous. Oh, you are righteous. But you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. You say, ah ah, so you don't have your own problem. You better listen to me. Don't have the heart on stones. The heart on stone is a reflective surface. If stones bounce whatever they... Whatever you sow onto them, it bounce it off.

As for some of you, your heart is like that. So when the word of God is trying to be implanted in your heart, it just bounces off there. This one is for Toby. Your heart is like a reflective surface, bounces what should be planted in it to other surfaces. Are you with me? Sir. When you say I'm addressing you. Last time you were hungry, why were you hungry? Your home made sense. You'll be so blessed today.

Your husband made an an innocent statement. What if I what if I'm not in the mood to wear the same clothes you're wearing? What if I don't just wear formal clothes? I wanna dress loud. Perspectives, mindset. It becomes like a shade or like a glass. And you know that when you put on a shade or a glass, you're gonna see with respect to whatever color the shade is made with. Are you with me? It means your mindset... That is why the bible says if you're high, it's good, it's healthy.

Then what happens is that it is able to perceive light. It is able to perceive everything as God has defined it. What happens therefore is that your whole body, your entire life becomes filled with light. If your eye be single, if your eye be healthy... Are you with me? When this is not the case, what happens is that your whole life is filled with darkness. So what that woman is about to experience is what? Darkness. Is that God's will for our marriage? Is that God's will for our life?

Is that God's will... Do you understand what I'm trying to say? But do you know that if I had not if she had not found an accurate vessel that would have realigned that mentality to make us see our foolishness, She would have held on to that belief and handled what what is now a good home today because they got married and have a beautiful child. Are you with me? Mindset. The way you perceive everything, everyone, God, yourself inclusive. That is what determines whether you prosper or you don't. Do you know that there are people who believe whatever will be will be, whatever happens, happens, whatever, you know, if if if it's meant... Listen, you you might not believe whatever will be will be. That's why I said mindset don't come and announce themselves.

So you might... If I... When I say it now, someone might say, shit, I don't think that way, but you see that way. Do you understand what I'm saying? How do you know you see that way? Because you applied for your project and just felt well, if it's for me to come. And someone is saying, have you called them? Have you checked upon it? Have you... It's not...

If it's for me to come. If it's not for me, will it let it... It will not go. Let it... Are you seeing an underlying belief system now playing out? So when someone who wants it and pursues it now gets it, you say, can you see? See Nigeria. Your experience already shows the kind of thinking you have. It might not come and announce itself. This is the way you think, but it's the way you see.

And because it's the way you see, it becomes how you respond to life, how you react to life. I wanna finish my teaching, so it's important that I stay here. Let his mind be in you that was in Christ. Jesus had an underlying mindset, and that mindset was responsible for the way he responded to people. They brought an adulterous woman to Jesus, and Jesus did not condemn her. That's the power of mindset. Everybody was holding stones ready to stone her. It means everybody can be wrong. What is the reason why they wanted to... They really hated that guy.

They hated Jesus. And if some of you were alive during his time, you would have hated him too because his mindset defied the norm. He hurt with people that they hated. He hurt with people that they've labeled as evil, as sinners. Don't hate with this person. Don't be sitting with this person. He's a tax collector. He's a liar. And Jesus says, I'm coming to your house to have dinner. And he carries all his disciples, and they go there together.

Let me balance this. Because someone now is going astray, and he thinks that apostle has just given him a reason to go astray. Listen, everybody that Jesus ate with, he changed. They didn't change him. Because he ate with sinner did not make him a tax collector. So by the time you say the reason why you are dressing half naked is because you want to reach the lost. You are a foolish woman. You put a Yaring on your nose. You say, you know, we must reach the world. We must be like them.

You are a foolish person. Jesus was never like them, but you changed them. That should be balanced. People don't in any way suggest that a nose ring is wrong because somebody can hear that now. But you see, in Christianity, it's not only about what is right or wrong, it's also about what is wise or foolish. We don't live our life by right and wrongs. There's also wise and foolish. Have you read the Bible? The Bible says that in Romans chapter 12, is it? Let us lay aside every weight and every sin.

So there are two things that a believer should be wary of, weight and sin. It means not everything is a sin. Some things are weights. It's a weight, meaning it will slow down your progress, slow down your life, slow down everything about you. Slow down everything about you. You wanna make it in life, you carry weight upon your shoulders and you move in such a slow space. And no power is no power is holding you down except yourself. Are you with me? So we don't think in in in line of right and wrong. We think in terms of the will of God.

We don't we don't think in terms of good or bad. We think in term of is this God's will because something can be good but not be God's will. Are you with me? Yes. The bible says if it causes another person to stumble, don't do it. It might not be wrong, but if it will cause somebody else to stumble, don't do it. That is scriptural recommendation. Let me not lose my line of thought. They brought that adulterous woman to Jesus, and Jesus never condemned. Never condemned.

Jesus never condemned. How was he seen? How was he seen? Every successful man has a mindset. Right? A healthy mindset is not part of the gift of the spirit. A healthy mindset is not part of the fruit of the spirit. You can't receive a kingdom mindset by impartation. One of your biggest responsibilities as a believer is to partner with the holy spirit so that it begins to work in you certain mindsets that only belongs to kingdom citizen. You're not just a kingdom citizen because you bear a Christian name even if your name is kingdom.

You're a kingdom you're a kingdom citizen because certain mindsets, value systems, and the culture of the kingdom has been ingrained into your mind. It has become how you think such that your thought process now aligns to God's word. And what fills your mind is now God's word. So that if it is not if it is not in alignment with the word of God or with the ordinances of the kingdom, then it's not in your mind. Your mind instantly rejects everything that is not a reality in Christ. You can never rise above the level of your mindset. You can never rise above the level of your mindset. When God calls you, the first thing it does is that it takes you away from the environment that created wrong mindsets in... Inside of you, And then it begins to work on you. This is the responsibility of the church.

This is the purpose of discipleship, the purpose of the holy spirit, everything working together to ensure that there is renewal of mind so that you can become all that God wants you to be. It took the children of Israel one day to leave Egypt. It took Egypt forty years to leave them. It means your salvation experience can happen in one day. Mind renewal can take years. You know why? Because it is entirely up to you. The pace at which your mind gets renewed is up to you, not up to God. So I can come and show you what is in scripture and tell you this is the will of God concerning your life. This is the will of God concerning your marriage.

Wife, submit. And you'll be just... And you... You're just stubborn. Do you realize that that's a choice? You are making a choice not to see and not to bend to scriptures. This is what you're doing. And as long as you continue to do this, your experiences will show that you have missed something that is not of God. That home will not know peace. Husband, love.

Light me, Lord. Light me, Lord. Light me, Lord. Light me, Light my life. Light me, Lord. Light a candle. Light me, Lord. Light my life. Light me, Lord. Light Light me, Lord.

Light a candle. Light me, Lord. Light my life. Light me, Lord. Light a candle. Light me, Lord. Light my life. Light me, Lord. Like a can do. Light me low, will you light my life.

Light me low, will light my my life. Light me light my light light me low light a candle Light me alone, light will you light my life? Light me alone, will you light my life? Light me alone, alone, will will you you light light my my life? Light? Light Light me alone like a candle. Light alone. Light me alone. Light me alone. Light me Hear me?

Let me see like you. Let me know as you know. Let me see like you. Let me know as you know, almighty. Let me see like you. Let me know as you know, lord almighty. Let me see like you. So the fact that you are born again and you've left the world does not mean that the mindset of the world has left you. It would take the operation of the spirit of God because you have built your entire life and trust on those values. You grew up with those values.

They taught you those values in school. Do you know that as a believer, the first place that God designed for you to be taught the kingdom values is the home. Yeah. This is the whole idea of parenting. Kingdom values are meant to be the foundation upon which your home is built, upon which your children are raised. That's why the bible says raise up your child. Train up your child in the way that it should go. It means the responsibility of the parent is first to find out which way must he go. It means you don't just think that you're ready for marriage because you're capable of getting pregnant or impregnating someone. You don't think you're ready to have children just because your manhood is functioning.

The first assignment of a father, of a mother, of a man, and of a woman is to find out which way has God designed for a child to go. That is the first responsibility. And you have no business with marriage until that is defined. Else, you will raise calamities. We will risk children on the strength of cultural values instead of scriptural values. We'll just we'll just we'll just be coasting in the air doing what we think is parenting, and everybody will have their own version of parenting. Based on how they grew up, based on the wrong influence upon their own minds, and they they they put this same thinking pattern into the children. When this fails or if this fails, the second place a person learns the value system of the kingdom is the church. Many of the things we teach in church should not be new to you if you were raised well. Do you know that if you were raised well, tithing should not be strange?

Giving in church should not be strange. It should be an anomaly to come to church and not come with something to give. In those days, my parents will give us offerings. It happened for as long as I knew. So much so, if I... If I'm coming to church, it has been so ingrained in me that I... It it's... I must hold something. Even if it's not my church. I must drop something by the reason of my being there.

Are you with me? Ever before I knew what scripture says, this has been a value that was ingrained in me. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Ever before I saw what scripture says, this has been a value that was ingrained in me. You see, as parents, we don't like to take responsibility. And so we blame it. We blame the the the the lifestyle of the children on external circumstances. We say it's the school. It's the friend he's working with.

Do you know that it's part of your responsibility to define his friends? You say, but how? Am I in his school? Not everybody that goes to boarding school turns out bad. They are going there. It just unveils them to themselves. You don't need to tell your child the things not to do if you have made him become the right person. Are you with me? Don't do this. Don't do that.

It's not how we raise children. We raise children by making them into a portrait, into an image. Are you with me? When they are made into that image, when they step into a circle that is wrong because of the way they've been made, they know. In other words, don't smoke might never be factored in in the instructions your parents gave you. But when you step into a place and people are smoking, something, a conditioning in your mind will wake up to know that I'm in the wrong place. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Because of the strength of the upbringing. And this is not just in one area.

This is as it pertains to every area of life. The esteem of several people are lost because of how they grew. A lot of people battle with low self esteem. If you pick 10 people at random, eight of them have low self esteem. Now we need the word of God. A lot of people might not even know they have low self esteem. It is the conditions around their life that make it obvious that, sister, this is low self esteem. Do you know that if you find it difficult to celebrate others, it is low self esteem without envying them? Something good happened for someone else, not you? And out of a sincere heart, celebrate with them.

I'm not wondering when is my own coming. Just celebrating out of a pure heart. The difficulty in doing that is a loose... Is loose efforting. Many don't know. Somebody finished ministry, and the power of God is everywhere. And I said, madam of God, you sit down and say, I can... I have more revelation than this if only this microphone lands in my hand. What is reflecting there is low self esteem. It is low self esteem.

If you give him microphone and give him a platform, I... He will raise everybody around him in the portrait of that esteem. He would need their approval. He would need their respect to keep him going. So much so if anybody disrespect him, he has a... He had an overemphasized perspective of honor and respect. The only method he preaches is honor. Respect. Honor. The slightest provocation is his honor.

You have disrespected me. You have a low self esteem. You build loyalists around yourself who cannot tell you the truth. You become half our omega. And you think it is Lord's work. No. You have ingrained your village in the ministry. When I was preparing, the holy spirit told me that so many people's village people are following them. But it's not in the context that they think. It is in their mind.

So many people are carrying their village with them the same way the Israelites carried Egypt with them. Do you realize that at earth, at the slightest provocation, at the slightest inconvenience, what they what they saw the motive was let's go back. We would have we would have remained. We would have remained. And God said, no. You can't still think it is a better thing to remain in Egypt than to possess the promised land and take the promised land. We must do something about that mind. And you know that a whole generation a whole generation died without their mind being changed. The people who left Egypt were not the ones who entered the promised land. It was a new generation that had no experience of slavery.

What God was trying to do for forty days, that mission was not successful because of the stiff nakedness of some people. And God showed them his mightiness, but they still doubt it because Egypt has laid forth a stronghold on them. They have been delivered from Egypt, but Egypt still followed them. So I know I know you have left Akimba Okay. But you still carry it in your mind. Sit down in classroom with Akinda in your head. Your village people are following you. You came from Obraka. And there's a way you were trained, a way you were brought up, and you're gonna allow the word of God to work on your heart. So you say it can it can take that long when a man is stubborn.

Let me see like you. Let me know like you know I don't mind. Listen. Listen. It is a waste of time investing in someone who does not want to change. You can't force change because change happens in the soul. I said soul because the mind is a part of the soul but the mind is not only the... Is not the only part of the soul. The will is also a part of the soul. The will is what infuses choice in you.

It's why it's why you can make a choice. If I just stand up right now, your will can... You can choose as an act of will to sit down. Do you know? That's the same reason why change cannot be forced. Because you can tell someone this, and they just choose to do the opposite, to believe the opposite. And they come to church and they hear the truth every time. And somebody hears, you are a new man in Christ Jesus. Oh, you are a new man in Christ Jesus. If any man be in Christ, it's a new creature.

Whole things are passed away. Behold, whole things have become new. It means that old patterns, old connections, old ancestry is passed away. You are now a new creature. Are you with me? It is still possible for that individual who heard when you were saying that. Who heard? To still listen to a message on YouTube where he hears a man say, if you notice these signs around your life, it is because the powers of your father's house have not left you alone. You will need deliverance. These types of deliverance are conducted with table water.

Not any kind. It is the type that is specially sold and brewed in the ancient fountains of our church. The guy hears that and he says, hey. It's true. Hey. Things are not working for you. People promise you and they fail. You say, hi. Your mother and your father are nowhere to be found. There's divorce in your family.

You are in trouble. You don't have money to eat. Today, you are still begging for food. You have no place to lay your head. It's true. This looks like my problem. You need the ancient fundings that is building our church. And the guy leaves new man in Christ. The guy leaves... He's he's looking for the ancient fountains.

Such a believer, we drink several fountains. The next place you go is where they will eat grass. Then they will not... He will find himself in another place where they will give him bottle of oil to finish. And you live there with more disease than you... Before it was spiritual and now with dysatherosclerosis. Because he has he has just chosen to be stubborn. The truth is there. He says no. It can't be that simple.

So just believe. To just believe. And they go in the... And they go against... That's it. That kind of a person will try everything else, suffer well. That suffering will now open the portal of their mind to finally allow the truth to enter. So you are... There are times when you allow the people to just... You've you've told them the truth and they just gone their own way.

They will come back. They will come back. It's with many scars, but they will come. They might be too ashamed to come to you, but they will come to someone. Many scars, but they will come. The other believers who, they're not exactly goats. They're just slow in learning. They process things slowly to such ones who will not be tired of repeating the same things. The same person we told yesterday that he's free, who have to say again today is free. Eventually, he will get it.

It's the labor of the shepherd. It can become so much of a responsibility on you because the moment he gets it, listen, the realm the realm of the spirit... Things happen in the realm of the spirit. There's no past. There's no present. There's no future. Everything in the realm of the spirit happens in a realm called now. So realities that you have gotten in the realm of the spirit might take time before it begins to materialize physically. And because the physical realm is slow to process the things or the changes that your mind has already has already... The revelation of your your mind has already believed.

It takes time usually for the physical realm to begin to adjust to it. Are you with me? Yes, sir. That is why the the scripture now makes provision for certain script... For certain certain inspirations that were documented by only men of scripture. They said, our light affliction. Give me that scripture. Our light affliction which is but for a moment. So the bible says that time that it is taking for the physical realm to adjust to what the spiritual realm has already decided on, the bible calls it a moment of time. So I know bishop Oedepo said, I will never be poor.

Did a billion arrive in his account the following day? Oh, no. The moment your mind has conceived it, the physical realm will need time to adjust. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Mhmm. That is why it doesn't matter what a man sees. A proof that your mind has conceived it is now that as things are not looking like the way you believe it should look, Your response is not according to how things are looking. Your response is according to what you believe. That is how you know your mindset have changed.

If your response is still poor, it's still saddened and sorrow, your mindset have not changed and you don't believe. Is somebody getting this thing? Yes, sir. Your mindset have not and you do not believe. I was listening to apostle Selman in 2013, 2014. And he said something, he said, when we were 10, when we were 20, I have been seeing a crowd. He said don't think for a moment that what you are seeing around me now is as a result of what I am currently seeing. He said no. What I'm seeing in my spirit is in the future you will see it. The ones you are seeing now is because of what I saw yesterday.

It means when when we were 10, it has already been a conviction in my heart that the crowd will come, but the physical realm does not respond that fast. So in as much as I'm still waiting for time to catch up, are you with me? I have gone ahead in my spirit, and so I don't interpret life by what I see. I interpret life by what is written about me, by what I've believed. Somebody might look at me and say, look at your slippers. Please look at that that... Is it is it... Do you remember this guy? The which guy? That guy now, that black trosser guy.

Oh, that one. You're just entering when you heard them describing you as that black trouser guy because everybody knows that you only... He only wears one trouser. Washes it every night, high on it in the morning, wears it against the glass. He can wear anything on it, but it has to be black. That black trouser guy, the yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Don't worry. Are you with me? There is a settled confidence in my spirit that end... The world might label me anything they wanna label me, but in my spirit of the condition, my mind has already conceived the truth in my spirit. It may... It might take time for it to show, but we know that our light affliction is for a moment of time. All the things I see about this thing will come to pass. Nothing that I see in the physical will change my mindset or my perspective otherwise. There's no name anybody can call me. There's what I've believed about myself, about my ministry, about the thing, about my purpose, about my calling.

No circumstance can change it. I don't... Listen to me. My perspective is not defined by what I see in the physical realm. The bible says that which we see is temporal. Give me that scripture. What we see in the physical, the bible defines it as temporal. Ah, the trouble is temporal. So why focus on that which is temporal? There is that which is internal in my spirit.

He says, why we do not look at the things which are seen? The question is, how is it possible that we don't look at the things which are seen? If they can be seen, why then can they be seen if not to look at them? Somebody's not getting... You're you're slow today. If it can be seen, why then can it be seen if not to look at it? Paul says, in this kingdom, we don't look at what we can see. Because what we can see, the bible says, is temporal. Yes. It means it will soon fade.

It will soon go. It will soon pass. There is no stage. There is no level. There's no phase that exist forever. It is temporal. Let me know as you know. Let me see like you. Let me know as you know. Listen.

For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. If we look at the things that are not seen... It doesn't... Listen. The bible does not say while we do not see the things which are seen. It means we can see them, but we don't look at them. It don't mean I deny or I I I I deny my current reality or my current status. Oh, no. We can see them. But we don't look at them.

He says we look at the things which are not seen. We look at the things which are of the spirit. We look at the things that have been said by God. How do you tell How does God come to Istamra and tell Istamra, behold, I've come now to deliver them. I will send you to Pharaoh. Is it the best speaker there is? Heron is articulate. Heron has auditory. The best person to have gone to should have been Heron. God comes to his camera and tells his camera, go to Pharaoh.

Tell them I harm sent you. Tell them I harm sent you. Moses says, but can't you say I'm his camera? That's the problem. That's the problem. You are looking at the things that can be seen. And God is saying, I'm not speaking from the from the realm you are seeing. What you what you are seeing can be perverted. What you are seeing can be a result of the conformity that you have experienced before you came to Christ. Do you understand what I'm saying?

It means you can't trust what you see. What you see can be a lie. We don't look at the things which can be seen. We look at the things which cannot be seen. That is what informs our perspective. So when you see me walk and I say I'm a prosperous man, I am I am a prosperous man. I am a tree planted by the rivers of waters. I bear fruits. I cannot fail. I cannot fail.

I increase on all sides. I prosper on all sides. I shall be the head. I'm not the tail. Above only, I'm not beneath. I know you read these things and you confessed it and went for an exam and you and you came out and it wasn't the best thought you you saw. What you saw posted didn't look like your destiny. Why we look at the things? Listen to me. You are not the first person to have a carryover.

The same you who matriculated will graduate. If you wore that gown when you began, God is called alpha omega. But he doesn't begin a thing until he has ended it. Are you with me? It means I might see my results. It might not be the best, but I'm learning. I'm growing. The same me who wrote this exam isn't the same me now. There's been a shift in mindset, a shift in mentality, a shift in in thinking. I don't become sad and depressed.

It's a proof my mind has not changed. That is why we can rejoice. We can rejoice. We can rejoice in all things. In all things. In all things, can give thanks. Come. Come. I said, believe what that's strange. Believe that that's strange.

There might be no money in my account. You will never you will never see me declare that otherwise. I will never state. I'm a blessed man always. The state of my account will very soon reflect by what I know. It is taking time. It is taking time to catch up because I'm still building structures. I'm still building systems. I'm still putting certain things in place. I'm putting structures in my business.

I'm starting a business. I'm researching. It doesn't mean I'm poor. I am blessed. It don't matter how money you're worth to gather under a tree. It's a global mandate. It's a global mandate. The method you will reach the world, I expect it. I expect to be blessed. I expect to be favored.

Favored. Tonight, I expect to be blessed. Yes, sir. Sir. Everyday, I expect to be blessed. Yes, sir. I expect that my marriage will spread and reach the world because these things are life giving spirit. These things are these things are are are breathed upon by the spirit of God. I expect that millions will come from all over the world. Our sons and daughters will come from afar.

I believe these things. They've been conceived in my mind. I've seen them. I've registered them in my spirit. While time is adjusting, while the physical is adjusting, we don't look at the thing which are seen. We look at the things which are unseen. For the things that are seen are temporal. Mighty you might... You you... In in time, you might not look like the best version of you, but there's an upgrade happening.

An upgrade happening. An upgrade happening. You're focus on that. Listen. Listen. Listen. Do you know that a mindset of servitude plagues Africa? Sit down. Sit down. Get my message effective leadership.

It will it will bless you in no small way. A mindset of servitude plagues Africa. Africa as a whole. And that mindset is the reason why several people are poor. There are those who don't think about productivity or creativity. All that is in their mind is how to finish school and get a job. Nothing outside of that bracket makes sense to them. It looks strange to them when they see a young person, a young person or young man or woman hard working in their business and still a student. Look at you and say, why are you killing yourself? Why you suffering yourself?

Why are you... It doesn't make sense. And the thing is a doctrine of relaxation. It is a mindset of servitude. So productivity and what it means to be creative is not in the dictionary. In business, for instance, there is what is called a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. Someone with a growth mindset views intelligence, views abilities and talent as learnable and capable of improvement through effort. On the other hand, someone with a fixed mindset feel... Views the same traits as inherently stable and unchangeable over time. It means if I don't have it, I don't have it.

For example, as an as aspiring entrepreneur, you need basic financial skills to create your business budget and prepare your financial statements. If you have a fixed mindset, you may think I've never been good with mathematics, let alone financial statements. I'm not caught up to run my own business. What is stress? I don't think I can start a business. It's not for me. Another person with a growth mindset would look up that same thing and say, wow. I don't have a background in finances or mathematics, but I think I can learn this. The difference is in their mindset. The other one views every situation as absolute and unchangeable.

Someone has a mind that makes him believe it's either I'm good at it or I'm not. I can't learn it. Another person believes I can learn anything that I've set my heart to learn. It's a mindset. And you see when you see people who have fixed mindset, it is their their response to everything. They are unwilling to learn something new. As long as it's not within the bracket of their comfort, if it's not within how... Within the framework of their growth and their upbringing, and you're introducing it to them as a framework that is beyond their original context of existence, it becomes a trouble, a struggle for them to even open their mind to learn. You get a person with a new phone, and the person say, ah, I will now start pressing this. I will now start calculating.

Oh, okay. How do I even make phone call? Just leave me with my own. It is a mindset reflecting. I don't want to learn anything that brings me out of my convenience. That mindset is how they will treat everything about life. That person can't prosper in business. Some of you that's who I am. I can't change it. Another person feels I'm I'm constantly involving.

I'm a work in progress. There's a mindset that inflicts fear, a mindset that inflicts defeat. There's a mindset that keeps you in servitude. So you are always looking for someone to help you when you are a deliverer. There's a mindset that makes you never take responsibility over your own life. You blame every single person for your problem. It's my father. It's my mother. Nigerians like to blame a lot. We blame the government.

We blame people. We blame external circumstances, external influences, and it looks reasonable even as we cast these blames on them. I was counseling two people in relationship, and I told the young man, I said, this thing is this way because of you. And the person feels I don't understand him because he has consumed... He has convinced himself to believe that it is that way because of the other person. Do you understand what I just said? And that is the way we live life, and the fruit will show. If I'm wrong if I'm wrong, those two people can still continue relationship, and they will be in peace. Joyful. And then their joy will now prove that Apostle was wrong.

We blame everyone. Blame everything. If this mindset remain, you cannot become all that all that God has said you will be. Job chapter four and verse one, New Living Translation. We've done this scripture before, but I wanna show you something here. Remember Haliphaz? Thou our friend. Yes, sir. Then Halifaz, the tarmanite replied to Job, next verse, and it begins with compliments. Next verse.

In the past, you have encouraged many people. You have strengthened those who were weak. Your words have supported those who were falling. You encouraged those with shaky knees. But now when trouble strikes, lose out. You are terrified when it touches you. Doesn't your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn't your life of integrity give you hope? He then asks a very important question. Stop and think.

Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed? All these things that I've complimented you for suggest that you are innocent, suggest that you are an upright man. But have you checked and have you found an upright man being destroyed? Have you checked and have you found an innocent man dying? He then goes on to say in verse eight, can we read this to everybody? Blessed truth. Pause. My experience shows. Can you ask your neighbor a very important question?

What has shown you? You'll be amazed how many people are carrying the experience with them. The basis of their perspective, mindset, and interpretation to life. Do you realize that Eliphaz was given his own interpretation to the condition of Job, and his perspective came from his experience? My experience has shown me. There are several things that can show a man. And the things you believe ultimately will be a proof. You must always question what showed you. Because if what showed you what you believe, what has formed the underlying mindset is not scripture, you will find that your life will be a life of calamity. What has shown you?

What has shown you? What has put that glasses in your eyes? They are not using to see everybody and everything and everyone. You tell someone you're looking beautiful. They start looking at themselves twice. Am I... Did I do something wrong? Am I... Are you sure I'm looking okay? You know why?

Because his experience has shown that everybody that has anything to say to her either calls her fat, ugly, stupid, foolish, unwise. And so when when I experience that soon that nobody has anything good to say to her except evil. Because when she was young, probably she was bloated. And everybody says, look at you, globe of the world. Paribas was the smallest in her class, and people would just come and knock her head, and then teacher will now ask her question, and she won't be able to answer. And they will say, hey, hey, hey, our brain is like a height. Now you see, what you are doing now is dangerous. You are about to miss God. You need to stay. You need to stay.

Don't be too excited. Be sober. Be vigilant because there's an adversary. Waiting to steal what has been planted in your heart. So keep your excitement. Laugh outside. When you get outside, you'll be laughing. You see, what happens? The apostle is all doing funny. Oh, but now get it.

Yes, sir. I experienced as soon that nobody can treat her right. She now grew up with a stepmother because her mother passed away and that one now valued her own children more than her and showed favoritism to her own children before her and she feels as though nothing should come to her. And she grows like that. I experience as soon. So somebody says, wow, an innocent brother. You're looking so beautiful. The first thing he thinks is what do you want? Are you part of them? You also...

Because I experienced as shown. If you grew up and you were if you grew up and you were molested, your experience will show you something. Traumatized by a loved one, an uncle, an auntie, perhaps even a pastor. Those things will make your experience show you something. If you grew up in poverty, your experience will show you something. Yes, sir. Yes. And what you experience as soon you will now be how you interpret everything in life. If you grew up in a home where there used to be quarrel between father and mother every day, your experience will show you something. No matter how much you confess, my life will not be like this.

Your life will be exactly like that because you are not how you you are not how your spirit is. You are how your mind is. If you don't work on what your experience has shown you, to use the word of God to cancel out and to renew your mind and to come out and reject the conformity, to become a transformed individual, you will live out your experience. My experience has shown me. There are people who believe that they cannot succeed or prosper or make wealth or make a living if they don't do illegal things. Because they grew up in an environment where everybody that had money was four one nine. Everybody who who had their... Who had the semblance of a prosperous person was going to open a letter. And this was how he grew up. And his own mother or her own mother who knew God and loved God so much were poor and struggled with everything.

That guy's experience has shown that if he will make wealth, you cut corners. His experience has shown him. There are people who are unloving, who are bitter, who are always hungry, who are who are who are irritable easily, can barely live with them because their experience has shown them. They are untrusting to everybody. They suspect everyone. They live in constant suspicion. Their experience has shown them that nobody can be trusted. They were... It was greeted to their understanding growing up. They live always watching their backs.

Goes to the holster and is checking her bed. The roommate uses her pot. He checks it twice. Becomes angry for them using her pot. What if they put something inside? Even people who mean good, I experience that sooner as she interprets everything wrongly. I experience in life, therefore, reflects the state of her mind. That is why a man is what he thinks. So when everybody dissociate themselves from her, she begins to see I have a problem. She wants to go for deliverance because I cannot find the husband, not knowing that her experience has created a perspective that chases men away from her.

So I've seen people who are not... And I'm I'm not saying this to spite anybody, who are not the most good looking, but they have the most attention on... From from men who are serious, not not foolish men, who are seriously looking to build a home with them because of their esteem, the way they carry themselves, the way they speak about themselves. From seeing her, she looks like a wife. She talks like one. She behaves like one. Our mentality shows it. The other one might be even way good looking than her. The only people that piques her interest are playboys. They want to...

All they want is her body. Her perspective has a role to play in the kind of men she draws to her herself. You don't you don't attract who you want. You attract who you are. And who you are is as a lot of what your thoughts have shown you. That applies to a man as well. So when you found out that everybody that ever stops you, the girl is 16, 16, 17. Her name now becomes what they used to call dogs. If she's excited because that thing gives her joy. If she goes out in a day and she doesn't get her attention, she starts feeling nothing is wrong.

If she walks from here to gate and nobody has told her, ah ah, or nobody nobody's eyes follows her, she's going. She's... She she wants to go back. I don't think I paint my I don't think I paint... Painted my lips enough. And she she just goes back. She just checks. If she finds one somewhere, just checks. And then as she's going again, I'm like, let me just unbutton this place. And then she unbuttons it.

Check. And just remove one more button. I tell people that if you... If people who leave thinking that they need to expose you, it's low self esteem. It is low self esteem. You have a low... You say, you are being strong. You are being a strong woman. It shows you are confident of your body. If you are not afraid to be a strangled man, it only shows you're foolish because nothing of value is exposed.

So when you walk around tying on the way and rope and singlet, And you get one one little handkerchief here, one little thread here, and just put them on in the name of a cloth. You have a terrible self esteem issue, a terrible one that wants approval. They don't need to be judged. They need love. That's why we don't condemn them. We love them. You look at them and say, look at prostitutes. Oh, no. Everybody has called her dad all her life till she became one. Do you know many people?

Because... Just because they were fine. Everybody... Mommy water. Mommy water. This is a small girl, but because she's fine, they give her a label and she grows up with that label. And that becomes her thinking, and her thinking generates a reality. Many people don't know that we are creating. Always creating with our words and with our thoughts. We can't finish today because it's still much.

It's still much. But if something happens to your mind... Let's make progress. My experience has shown me. If you grew up in an unloving house, you will not know how to love. Do you know that everything that you everything you've become today is because you saw your reference? How a child is designed to learn is by your reference. Learn... Children learn by imitator. And if there's no reference of godly character and Christian values, it means your life will become the opposite of that.

And so you will think love is lost. And so your expression of I love you, in all sincerity is I wanna sleep with you. There are there are women who will give their who give their bodies to men cheaply. It's low self esteem. I don't care what you believe. This is the truth of God's word. You have a terrible mind issue and we love you. We don't condemn you. That is the reason why we are teaching this. Hey, you you you fell in love yesterday.

Pick yourself up. Stand up. Stand up and run. There's no way in the bible where the bible speak about falling in love. The only posture with respect to love, the bible talks about is to dwell. We dwell in love. You don't fall in it Because if you fell into it, you will be you will be quick to stand up. Not not because of standing per se. It's because in a falling state, a lot of things happen. Sin will meet you there because you have fallen.

That's that's where that's where you don't have sins anymore. That's why you fail. It is not the love of God. The love that that rubs your sins is not of God. What did I say? But the guy tells you, so when you come and visit me. You know, my friends have been saying that, you know, we've not seen the person here. Why are they saying so? What's their business? Am I in relationship with your friends?

But the girl cannot ask because she has fallen. And that falling stage, she she leaves to impress her friends, his friends so that the friends don't have a bad perspective of her. That's low self esteem. It means you have no perspective of yourself. That's why you care so much what perspective others have of you. And you live and define your life your your life by that. How will I break up with you? How will know how will feel about me? And you know that this thing you are doing is evil. It is bad for your life.

You say, buddy, if I... I don't wanna hurt his feelings. So you... Whether your life is destroyed than hurt his feelings. You see, I love you. There are some people that you just want to knock their head. I'm telling you. No. I'm a pastor. I'm saying things I've experienced.

Wrong mentality. That lady's experience has shown. There are people that believe that there's nothing to their body again. Their body is is an object. Because when they were young, the cleaner was the first person that exposed that that did nonsense with their body, then the cousin, then the brother. So growing up, she already have an experience of everybody playing with their body. So you you no longer have value for the thing anymore. Anybody can say, let me see your breast. Yeah. It's my breast.

There's no value in the thing again. You know, you're you're not just body you. What's what's what's there? 40 perspectives. 40 mentalities, 40 mindsets, 40 thinking. How about those? How about those? How about those who saw who saw probably a violent father and they saw their mother would cry whenever the exchanges happen at home? And the mom will just go and cry, and she won't be able to speak to anybody, and then, you know, she's trying to be a strong woman to tell you everything is going on. Don't worry.

All is well. All is well. But they are seeing her. They they are not blind. They are seeing what is happening, and they're not happy with it. And that girl grows up like that and say, no man will ever treat me like this. I explained that, shown her that if you love a man or he loves you and you and you intend to get married, don't do not allow nonsense. Don't don't don't think he can speak to you anyhow. Instruct you. No.

No. No. No. No. No. You'll be a woman of yourself. And that underlying perspective will show forth in marriage along several other garbages. You are your thoughts, and your circumstances around your life will show you that they are your thoughts. The circumstances around your life will show you. Come.

Two of you. Fast. Fast. Fast. Fast. Fast. Who is who's wearing a shoe? Yeah. Wearing a decent dress. Come.

Stand. This... Please, please, this is an example. This is an example. What did I say? But I wanted a mental picture that... And I can show the example. This is... What does it look like? A banker.

Banker. I see you. Alright. Let's see the pastor. Let's see the pastor. Let's see that. Please stay with me. Let's say he's a thief. Please, please, stay with me. You see, you're about to miss God.

This this is dangerous. Yes, sir. Plumber. When they all die, assuming that they are dead. The body you see on the on the ground, Is that a pastor? Do you say this is a thief? This is a pastor? Or this is a plumber? They're just dead bodies. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Yes, sir. So what makes him a pastor? What makes him successful? Isn't the fact that he looks like a pastor or that he dresses as a pastor. What makes one a thief? When they both die, it will be dead bodies laying beside each other. So what makes one a pastor, the other a thief? The way they look... What what if the thief looks like a pastor? What if the thief dresses well?

What if a plumber puts on his suit? You'll find out that as long as men are alive, every man is the way he is because of how he thinks. Every man. The submission of their mindset is what makes them who they are. Your circumstances are therefore a testament of what you are... Of who you are, what you are becoming in your mind. Your your your experience will always show you what you are becoming. If nothing is changing, it will... It will be obvious. Have you seen a student who goes to write an exam and makes mistakes, and the mistakes are so foolish?

And someone who could have gotten 90 easily ends up with a 60. Something is wrong with the mentality, the mindset. It's not it's not just a circumstance. Are you with me? You can tell the person be more patient. It's only an advice. She will still end up doing what she is. Are you with me? It means if in her mind, there is underlying fear, anxiety that is unchecked, brilliant as she may be, patient as she may be, careful as she may be, she will still read as faric acid as I'm Webber. And she said, don't know how.

I don't know how. It doesn't look alike. Say yes. He doesn't. But sir, I can swear I was careful. Yes. You can also swear you were yourself. Was all that was needed. If you if you pick his camera and you tell his camera, just be patient. He will see stammer.

Go to yours. Clap for them. Not many people like to be told that they are the reason for their problem. If you came home, if you came out of a home where you were living under a tree, you could not even... Your friend couldn't even afford rent. So you just build bamboo. That was how you grew. And you'd not even eat chicken. You will eat the poorest. You came from the poorest of the ground.

How you end up is still your fault. Can somebody give me the other worst case scenario? As you grow up, you resemble your decisions. When you are born, you look like your parents. As long as your mental argument is developing and you have the sense to make decisions yourself, you... Nobody can nobody can be blamed for your circumstances anymore. It's high time you start taking responsibility for your life. The divorce between your father and your mother is not the reason why you don't know how to love. It is because you have not sat down with scripture to understand love... God love God's way.

Are you seeing this? Yes, sir. Somebody says, oh, you know, all this honor of a thing. I don't know how to honor. It's because of my background. Stop blaming your background. It's because you have not learned truth. Don't ascribe blame. When you ascribe blame, the power to change your life is also ascribed. You no longer have the power to change your circumstances.

Are you with me? So what I've shown you, the things you believe. The wrong perspective will always warrant the wrong responses, and the wrong responses will always deliver wrong outcomes. Because when you have... When you respond wrongly to everything, will not have peace. I was involved in a counseling project some time ago. I read this. I read I read one in the book. More interesting. The counselor said a a home at the verge of divorce called him for counseling.

When he got there, asked the man. And the wife kept on saying that the husband is cheating on him, cheating on her. Why? Because of the way he is around women, because of how he does, because of this, because of that. To cut a long story short, realize that the wife's background, because of how much her heart has been broken by several men, makes her believe that the person that she's with, any action that suggests that he's unavailable for her right now makes her think that it must mean she is another woman. And her mind paints that picture so strongly that she she literally fights the husband, holds the husband's neck. What are you doing? This and that and that and that. I went and the old man would say, I'm not I'm not going anywhere. I was at work.

No. Why are you not just coming? Why didn't you call me? My phone was dead. Your phone was dead. Was there no light in the house? Why couldn't no charge? Outcome. Response. Are you with me?

If me, there is no mountain to what to reach. If you are with me, there is no mountain to climb. If you you are are with me, there is no record to have to send. I'll break. I know I'm not alone. Know I'm not alone. I know know I'm not alone. Listen. Thank you, Jesus. Help me to know you.

Draw me closer and I will follow you. Help me to see yours. Draw me closer Some people are beaten on loving because of mindsets they've gathered and so they cannot keep relationships or maintain relationships. They don't know how to be friends with people. They don't know how to friends with... Have you found people that... We say, talk to your neighbor and just give your neighbor a big hug. Tell the person you are looking so nice, and the person just turns. Turn to your neighbor and tell you, you're looking so nice. The two neighbors beside, turn.

You're looking so nice. You're looking so nice. And both of them are wondering, we are we are beside you. You know why? Because don't let too much people be looking at me. They will look at me. They're like, I don't wanna go to church and go and hide. Just find one place to just hide. Let nobody see me. I don't want anybody to see me.

I don't wanna be great in life. Wait behind and talk to somebody before you go. Just get to know someone. Can we share the grace together in fellowship? Surely, turn to people and tell them God bless you. On your mark, say go. You don't want to talk to nobody. And and guess what? You talk to him, say that's that's just who I am. You have a problem.

Hear the word of God. The bible says, forsake not the assembly of the brethren, the koinonia, the fellowship, sharing together, partnership of the brethren. You can't claim to be amongst the brethren, and you don't want koinonia. What are you doing there? Don't you know that the weakest sheep is what the devil prays for? You can't be in a garden and stay isolated yourself. Are you with me? Yes, sir. The bible gives you adversaries like a roaring lion. It means he has actually built off a lion.

The lion doesn't go after a herd that is together, even with a flock of sheep. He would look for the one he can separate, the one he can isolate. That's the one. And when you now find them and sit them down, their life is full with several problems. Nobody will know. You will think as they are at least... As you believe in that, your mindset say you will prosper with it. So everything will be okay. Nobody will know what they are going through. Yet in the...

In in Ecclesiastes, the Bible talks about a twofold cord that cannot be easily broken. How that one will... One, when exposed to storms, will feel cold. But when two, three come together, so much can be done. When one falls, the other can come and pick them up. But because of a faulty mentality, a faulty thinking pattern, a faulty upbringing, in fact, sometimes, that makes them unrelational. It's not a good thing. Because if you will prosper, you will prosper on the strength of the profitable relationships and connections you have made even in business. It means if you go for conferences, you you will need to network. That is how men prosper.

You need to meet greatness. Hello. How are you doing? My name is John, and you are smiling. And they did practice in church. They're bowing your head. You are not... You're you're just separating yourself. Oh, no. Allow the word of God to change you.

Don't say that's who I am. You can come as you are. Don't retain that way. Do you know that is why some people will never join love homes? They don't want somebody to know them. So when help arises and we are looking for someone who has this quality, who has this thing, he has it, but nobody knows him. So it is difficult for help to find him. My experience has shown me. Let me... Let's go.

Go back there to Job four eight. When he says my experience has shown me, he then begins to mention what the experience showed him. Right? Look at verse 11. Next verse. See Gosselin mentioning all the all the things that his experience showed him. He now goes on to say, this truth was revealed to me in secret as though whispered in my ear. Next verse. It came to me in a disturbing vision at night when people are in a deep sleep. Next verse.

Fear gripped me and my bones trembled. A spirit swept past my face and my ears stood on head. Next verse. The spirit stopped, but I couldn't see its shape. There was a form before my eyes. In the silence, I heard a voice say, can a mortal man be innocent before God? Can anyone be pure before the creator? If God does not trust his own angels and has charged his messengers with foolishness, how much less will he trust people made of clay? This is what the spirit was telling him. Except for the fact that it was God who said of Job in heaven.

In the absence of Job, when Job was not even there, God told devils, the devil, Lucifer himself. Have you considered my servant Job in whom there is no guile? If God says, have you considered my servant in whom there is no guile, what is that? Are you with me? If God don't trust Job, why did God speak to Job like that or speak about Job like that? Yet, listen. Spirit therefore cannot be of God. And it is confirmed because in Job 42, God will not come down to come and tell Job that you have a charge against them because they didn't speak by him. So it means their speakings were not of God. Are you with me?

Yes. And his own speaking too was not of God even though you have an encounter. But that's not even where I'm going. Where I'm going is that the spirit never came until the experience showed him. That is what is called a stronghold. Here's really where my teaching begins, but we'll continue later. Are you blessed? Yes, sir. Whenever a man has allowed other things that is not of God to show him what he believes, he has given access to demons to use that information and solidify it with an experience. That is what is called a stronghold.

You think your strongholds are the powers that are chasing you? Oh, no. Your strongholds are of deep thoughts and thinking patterns, ideologies that demons have influenced. So it's tied out by what your experience showed you. Now it is now a demonized... It's now a demonized thinking pattern. It's now a demonized way of seeing life. So in second Corinthians 10 verse four, the bible speaks. It says, for the weapons of our warfare are not canal, but mighty in God for the pulling down of what? Strongholds.

Of what? Strongholds. So what are strongholds? Penalty. One, two, three, go. It's okay. In other words, strongholds of human reasonings. They find a way you reason. And as long as the way you reason does not align with scripture, they build it it it is the it is the primary access point that demons have into whatever it is they are building. Finances, home, marriage, anything.

Are you with me? Yes. Thank you, Jesus. Your thought life is a mechanism of creation. It creates your circumstances and the conditions around your life. Your thought life must be consistent with the word of God. The mind of Christ is is is not just a spiritual mind. It is a mind that has been conditioned to think entirely from God's perspective so that your viewpoint is consistent with the word of God. There are consequences to thinking evil. There are consequences to having a faulty mindset.

Your mind will eventually create what you are thinking. Whatever stays in your mind long enough, no power in existence will stop you from manifesting. In Job three and verse 25, Job said, that which I have greatly fed. Give me MSG. Yes. One, two, three. Go. It means I had many fears. He says the worst of my fears had several, but the most predominant one has come upon me. So even though the devil has permission, he could only go through the access that even Job himself had created.

He still had to look for access in the life of the man involved. It means it is possible for the devil to have had permission and not find entry. And go and report back and say, well, The guy came and it was the it was the most predominant thought. I said, what? I'm not go ahead of myself. Please stay with my notes. The most predominant thought. There are people who are always afraid, always afraid, always afraid of everything, anything. The devil stands helpless in the face of a man who has made the word of God his mentality. At that point, Satan has no power in your life.

No longer governed by the things your optical eyes can see. The problem usually is that Satan has created structures in the environment that your eyes interact with that are designed to affect how you think and then form your thinking pattern. These structures are called mind control systems. They're in movies. They're in the way people behave. They're in they're in the curriculum of a teacher. Then what spiritual force is used to influence men? Mind control system. They're in culture. All of these things condition men to think a certain way, to be conformed.

When you find out that you've been conformed, you would need to trans... You would need to open your heart to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Are you with me? When you watch movies that chip in sex and you like movies and and and and not books about romance and relationships or books or novels, And you read what part and read all kind of parts that speaks about erotic things. Have you not have you not found the consistency in your own life that the things you read about will manifest in your life? So you have problem with masturbation, problem with pornography, problem... And it's coming for deliverance every day yet reading what part? Exposing your mind to wrong information, conditioning your mind to think in a way, and yet you say I'm tired. Lord, help me. To show that we are not intentional enough about our lives.

That's what it means when I say a man that does not want to be helped. Because when a man wants to be helped, the first thing he does when he's dealing with a case like that is to shut the gates of his mind from seeing the wrong information. Are you with me? Because as long as his eyes perceive darkness, the entire life is filled with darkness. There are wrong people, some people listening to own business, wrong motivational speakers that propagate ideologies that are not founded in scriptures. And you are building a thinking pattern that is not in God's word. Do you know that you can be convinced about that thinking pattern as the truth? That is why the Bible says, if the light you have is darkness. Some people believe that what they know about marriage is the truth. What they know about finances is the truth.

Someone say a man of God comes and is opening scriptures and just just look at him and then say, all these things, all these things. What do you mean the spirituality of success? You are either hardworking or you are not. Success in life is hard work. And the guy gathers, gathers, gathers, gathers, gathers, he's shown that it is he that comes as a thief in the night. And that wait until men gather, especially undiscerning men so they can pierce into what they've gathered. The weakness of his ideology will not reflect until twenty years of gathering. The weakness of his... I confess someone once. You see, as a man of God, we we don't just speak from scriptures in as much as we primarily speak from scriptures.

You have to understand that that office gives you access to the experiences and the lives of men. And you would over and over again see the painful experiences people go through when they leave out the principles of scripture from what they are building in their life. I call them case studies. Case studies. I comfort someone once, and the person the person lost 300,000,000. 300,000,000 in in his business. And the funny thing was a larger percentage of it was borrowed. While the man of God was talking to me, the man of God told me, he said, for over three years, this is the first time I'm seeing him. Used to be a a serious committed member of the church. Spiritual son entered into money, fizzled off.

He came back to the man of God's house where I met him there and was brought for me to pray for. And the man of God told me this is in three years. I'm just seeing him. I have seen people go against the ordinances of God, of God's word. Are you with me? And sometimes it's ten years. Sometimes it's forty years. And they would... They can mock everybody who is painstakingly paying the price to renew their mind whilst they are building things that are not founded on God's word, and it looks as though they have a fin of success. And they can begun...

They they can... Because of what they are gathering materially, begin to mock those who are building their life on God's word to mean that they are foolish. Time will tell. Time will always tell. It pays to build your life on God's word. It pays to check and find. It pays to to take a divine introspection. Look at everything you believe about yourself, and then do a cross reference with God's word. Find out how many of the things you believe and know about yourselves agree with the word of God. And whatever you find is not consistent with what God, you throw away instantly because it's not the truth.

What did I say? The bible says you have wonderfully and fearfully made. God finished making everything he made and said it was good. Who is that person that say you not good? Why do you believe? You must be convinced you are a blessing. You must be convinced I'm not the needy. I'm the needed. If I walk anywhere, I add value to where I walk. If you do business with me, oh my goodness, you are so privileged.

Because whatever I touch prospers. Whoever I walk with prospers. Are you with me? Yes, sir. That's a mentality. That's a thinking pattern. I cannot fail. I cannot fail. I cannot fail. Oh, I cannot fail.

This ministry cannot fail. Oh, no. It cannot. It cannot. Gather all the witches in the world. Let them send every attack they can send against this ministry. It will still stand. Stand and outlive me as a person as long as Jesus tarries. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

The principles are not the opinions of men. It is founded on the truth of God's word. We cannot fail. Next week, I will show you some beautiful things in scripture. Because there's still a scripture. I'm tempted to go there, but I can't finish it if I go there now. I'm really tempted to go there. We'll do it next week. Philippians four. Whatsoever things are just.

We'll get there. It says think on these things. Do you know what that means? It means a man has control over his thoughts. Think on these things. We'll do it next week. There's no question as... It just comes to my mind. Shut up. And learn the word of God.

Sir. Are you with me? Do you realize that your thinking is a direct function of what your mind is filled with? You can't help it. The things you say is a function of what you believe, what fills your mind. How many things you say when you're conscious? The things you say when you're not conscious. I believe I'm a success. I believe I'm prosperous. I believe my path is like a shining light.

It shines ever bright onto the perfect day. I believe that nothing my hand touches can feel. I believe that nobody connected to me can feel. The Bible says, hi. And the children that God has given to me, we are for signs and wonders. We're not for failure. I believe that everybody fitted here is for signs and wonders. I believe God is making greatness out of your life. I believe you cannot be small. I believe I can't be small.

I believe I will meet you at the top. I believe this strongly. I believe that the word of God that I'm teaching is making greatness out of you. I believe you are prospering by these words. I believe you are making progress by these words. I believe you are succeeding by these words. I don't preach and then go and start hoping that the things I say will come to pass. Oh, no. Oh, no. I'm too certain in the integrity of God's word to know.

That is a long mere words. I believe that no man will come to me small and held up small. Oh, no. He said, will make kings from you. I believe that kings are being made from you. He sent the word to Jacob. He lighted upon Israel. I believe that an Israel in this place, a nation in this place. I believe it. I believe it.

That's why there is no negative thing that can befall me that my response will ever be negative. Never. Never. I believe it. I'm not saying it because I'm preaching. This is my reality. Those who know me know this. We were in a police station, And I had the experience of Nigerian police first hand. I don't blame them. I don't even hate them.

These things just reveal your current circumstances. Are you with me? Yes. My experience, they just showed me the need to have influence Both for the kingdom, for your safety, for your well-being. The bible says money is a defense. It means a man that has money is safe. If a disease befalls a nation and they're evacuating the nation, would you... Many of them watched movies like that where they say, oh, the earth is about to be destroyed, and then we are taking people out to space. You see, the first 500 people, they are kind of people. In such instances, you see how money can be a defense, truly.

Who are the people that have access to the best health care? Someone living in it. It means you are exposed to harm when you are poor. Did you hear my English? Yes, sir. Is this is the sincerest truth. You are exposed to everything, physical vice, when you are poor. You can afford security. You can afford health care. You can afford...

Are are you with me? Yes, sir. People can try nonsense with you and go and go scot free except God comes through for you. You can be so relevant that anybody that tries you gets the repercussions spiritually and physically. Did you hear what I said? Yes, sir. Speak. There are generals in the army that will come from this place. You try the disciples to stand and talk. You will know money is a defense.

It's a phone call. Hello. How are you doing? There's one young man over there. Glory to God. Lord is thinking, man of God, is that biblical? I will show you in the Bible. I will show you. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

That we can understand of... We can profit from relationships that we have. I will show you that Jesus' body would have been hanging for a tree if not for a relationship. Somebody use connection. Let me use it as we like it. To go to the highest of authority, the one demand for the body of Jesus. Why didn't the disciples go? They were probably flogged them upon seeing them. They had not the social status to appear in such gatherings. It had to be someone.

Jesus Christ was wise enough to have every form of relationship around him. I read the part. It says it says Erod's business manager was was part of his disciples. Erod's business manager. A woman. I think her name is Chuza. Part of his disciples that went... A day will come who would need an understanding of business. A day will come who would need... Are you with me?

Yes, sir. Yes. The wisdom to know that everything... Ministry will never repel anybody from coming. Celebrities will come. We... There is no condemnation, no judgment whatsoever. Politicians will come and they will sit down. They will hear the word of God. Who will disciple them?

Yes, sir. Carry your condemning thoughts away. You see Paul, the church has been taught, say, all all those churches. Will you keep quiet? You are meant to disciple the world. How do you disciple the world if you cannot influence those who govern the world? We must have influence over men of influence. And when God... Listen. This is a modest desire.

It is on this note that the man says I will be great because I understand the value of God's kingdom with this. Refuse to be small. Let it be a mindset. Nothing I do could be... If a man thinks small, how he does business too will be small. The kind of money he talks about, $1.05, $2.05, and the kind of people that you hang out with. That's the extent his mind can see. You are talking with somebody in business like you in your in your in your in your sphere of influence, and the president said, well, we made a total of 100,000,000 last week. And your mind says, an expansion immediately. Ma.

Yes, sir. You see it? Oh, this is possible. Exposure. My mind is seeing this. How do we get there? How do we break that boundary in my business? We're we're currently making the turnover of... My goodness. I can't even say it.

No problem. So what do I begin to do? Are you seeing how you think now? Yes, sir. You are intentional. Somebody's... There are people that allow negative people around their atmosphere. I don't. I don't. I don't.

And I'm very intentional. You can't carry a negative a negative atmosphere. You think nonsense every time. I can't promote you in my sphere of influence... In my sphere. You can't. There's no space for you. I will I will distance you like a plague. You you move with some people. All they think about is bad.

All they think about is evil. About themselves, about Nigeria, about other people, about you, about your business. You tell them, I wanna start ministry. Ah, will people come? So where do you want ah? With the way Nuria is going. Ah. So where do you wanna start? Ah. They they don't see good things in anything.

All they see is evil. We come to church like this and start looking around. Uh-uh. That place is spilling. Uh-uh. And they are going. While service is going on, look at that one's head. The hair is just big. Could have done that earring better. That should have not even fit her.

That is a consistent pattern, the mind. Just useless thoughts. Thoughts that are unedifying. Thoughts that cannot build. Thoughts that cannot improve. Thoughts that cannot... The world is going on like this. How are you supposed to fly his clothes? Handy button it. It would looked better if you had buttoned it.

That that style of even fit the guy, that guy. They go to class, and this is like, ah, only 10 people. We are in trouble today. Sir. We are in trouble. Yes, sir. Lecturer will show us today. Lecturer will show us today. He goes home. He says he says the mother.

He said, ah, because the way you greeted the mirror is is problem. The the mind only sees problem. And so the guy is always expecting somebody... If if he received a phone call, and he said, his heart is already palpitating. Say, what do you want to tell him like this? What do want to tell him like this? Hello? Oh, we don't wanna take up on you. Okay. Thank you.

And people like that, they never have the best in life. God's peace, joy of God, prosperity, anything you give them never prospers. Because they will always... They will... Their mind cannot think of how what you give them will improve. Is the evil in what you have given them that they will see. Put him in charge of a department. It is how the department is crashing, you will see. He will never applaud anybody for doing well. He's he's the one to be wrong, will see.

Oh, but this thing was done well. That one was done well. They made a mistake here. Why not focus on the the things that were done well? They're a dangerous set of people to keep around. And if you're like that, go on a retreat fast. Go on a retreat fast and cry for help and allow the holy spirit to work on your mind. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes.

Yes. What are the things you believe about yourself? You believe you are deserving of God's best. Do you actually believe it? Do you expect God's best? Do you actually expect it? Raise up on your feet. I want you in one minute to just confess what the word of God says about you. In this kingdom, we don't confess how we feel. We confess we confess what we believe.

I want you to confess what the word of God says about you. Confess what you believe about yourself. Confess what you believe about yourself. Confess what scripture says about you. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at officialdisciplescn. You can follow us on Facebook at disciples christian network. You can also join our telegram page at DCN media for more messages by Apostle Emmanuel. If you have a testimony from this message, you can mail us at Disciplecn@gmail.com.

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