Transcript: The Mystery and Ministry of Destiny Helpers Part 2

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Just like a soldier, going to battle, Garrett himself with every armor needed for battle and for winning. So believers must guard themselves with the gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Join apostle Emmanuel as he teaches God's word to equip you for a victorious life on earth. This is believers equipped. Mystery and ministry of destiny helpers. I couldn't quite teach as I wanted to on Sunday, so continue this series because it is very instrumental to what would be happening as God launches us into expansion and abundance. Lord said there will be an emergence. From a mixed and numbers. There will be an emergence of kings, an emergence of mighty men, an emergence of mighty women, an emergence of princess, an emergence of men and women in authority, an emergence of billionaires and emergence of of apostles and and and prophets and evangelists and pastors and teachers and emergence into destiny. There will be an emergence.

I see people sitting down on thrones. Thrones that have been set apart for you. You are sitting down on those thrones. Lord said I should tell someone. This is... Might be controversial, but it's just a word for someone. It's a specific word to someone. And there's a reason why God is telling me to tell this person this word. It sound controversial, but just receive it as a word from the Lord. The Lord said I should announce that individual that your brethren, your brethren will serve you.

I'm a controversial but it's for someone. Or kingsman. That's what I'm seeing in my spirit. Relatives, everybody in that ancestry will serve you. Because he has made you their kinsman redeemer. What I'm saying will happen. It will happen. This is a prophetic teaching as much as it is a teaching. It is prophetic in its essence. So that money should be very sensitive even as you listen to me because what I'm prophesying over our lives this month, it's a very strategic month, I'm telling you.

It's already happening even as we are declaring it. I just really... I really am compassionate for those who are not here. I really am compassionate for them. Oh, God, we help them that they get the messages. There's just something about being in the room. It's just something. This is not a time to miss any meeting in the Disciples Christian Network, especially if you are connected to what God is doing here, especially if you believe in what God is doing here. Every meeting, there is a word from God to you sent specifically to you. Before we move into the different ministries that destiny help us perform.

I would like to mention that that expression, destiny helper, is not itself a phrase that is found in the Bible. Scripture does not use those exact words. And therefore, we must never take the phrase and build around it a system that scripture itself does not authorize. So when we say destiny helper, we are using a prophetic language to describe several realities that are biblical even though the text says says that Bible Bible the relationships, spiritual fathering and discipleship, intercession, counsel, favor, partnership, hospitality, generosity, and the sovereign orchestration of human lives for the accomplishment of God's purpose in general. So the terminology must remain under the authority of the text. When prophetic language is disconnected from scripture, it easily becomes superstition. It easily becomes imagination, even manipulation. But when prophetic insight arises from the patterns and the principles of scripture, ure, it can awaken people to recognize what God has always been doing even though it might not be called that text or it might not be called what we are calling it now or we are making reference to now. But you can see it obviously in scripture that this is the pattern that God is building. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

So the mystery behind destiny helpers is therefore the mystery of providence. And providence is the wise, only, and purposeful government of God over creation, over circumstances, over decisions, over relationships, over timing. Providence says that the God who made the heavens and the earth remains actively involved in the fulfillment of his purposes on the earth regardless of human circumstances, human limitations, human errors, human mistakes, human plans, human purposes. Providence does not mean that every event is good in and of itself, that every human decision pleases God or that every painful thing that happens to a man should be called a blessing. No. Providence means that evil, human weakness, delay, failure, unexpected circumstances, all of these things are not overthrow. They don't have the power to overthrow the final purpose of God. That in spite of all these events, God's purposes will still find expression. God is able to govern without becoming the author of sin. He's able to overrule without approving evil.

He's able to bring redemption out of situations that he never commanded people to create. It's the reason why the bible says all things work together for good, not because all things were worked by God. Not because God is the author of all things, not because God created all things or God authored circumstances in which all things find expression. No. But God is able to make all things regardless of the author work together for good. Joseph's life is one of the clearest demonstration of this mystery. And we're looking at that life on Sunday. Is that not so? He interpreted the dreams of pharaoh's officials when they were imprisoned with him. And then having interpret the dream of the butler, he told the butler that when you are restored to your position, remember me.

And he even explained to the butler that I was kidnapped from my homeland, and I was unjustly imprisoned. And you would think that I mean, is appealing to the emotions of the butler. Is that not so? Yes, sir. This is what happened to me, and this is what will happen to you by reason of this dream. Like, this is someone in despair. This is someone in depression. This is someone who is about to die. I've been sentenced to death expecting death. And then you come in that situation to bring that person hope, to tell the person you won't die.

As a matter of fact, this is what will happen to you. You'll be restored back to your position and the king will honor you. You've brought... This is encouragement you are bringing to the person. This is comfort. This is life. Now you now tell the person when you get there, when this thing I'm saying happens to you, please remember me. Don't forget me because I'm not supposed to be here. I'm not a criminal. I was kidnapped from my hometown.

I was put here unjustly. You would think that this will get the emotions of the person. Is that not so? Sir. And the butler was was positioned to mention Joseph before pharaoh. He had that position. He had the first hand knowledge of Joseph's gift. He had access to the palace. He owed Joseph a lot of gratitude. So from a human perspective, this was the perfect destiny connection and the perfect way to bring Joseph out of prison.

Yet when you read the end of that chapter in 40... Genesis 40 and verse 23, it says, yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph but forgot him. Despite all of that story Joseph had told, how the story ends is the chief butler did not remember Joseph but forgot him. The man forgot. And I think that this is one of the realities that simplistic teachings on the subject of destiny helpers usually avoid. Because the truth is, sometimes you serve people who will not remember you. Sometimes you solve a problem for someone who will not attribute or return to acknowledge your contribution in their lives. Sometimes you help people who will be ungrateful. Sometimes the person with access does not mention your name when they should. Sometimes you are faithful.

Sometimes you are gifted. Sometimes you are innocent. You're still left with it. And there's ease in creating offense in your heart. There's ease in creating offense in your heart. The text that we just read does not say that God made the butler forget. That's not what happened though. I wanna show you how this thing called providence works. The Bible never said God made the butler forget Joseph. Mm-mm.

Mm-mm. That means we cannot attribute every human failure directly to God. Yes, sir. The man bears responsibility for his own ingratitude. He bears responsibility for his own forgetfulness. Yet, his forgetfulness did not mean that God had forgotten Joseph. That means that the memory of men may fail. But divine purpose always remains intact. This is providence. That regardless of circumstances, regardless of human limitation, the purposes of God can still and must still be fulfilled.

Are you with me? The butler forgotten Joseph for two full years. And during those years, Joseph remained in the prison. See, let me tell you something. I know someone, at least I know someone who is hungry, very hungry with his... A relative of ease because he believed that that relative of his could have used his position of influence to help him move forward a great deal in life. And that relative did not for whatsoever reason, either by choice or by ignorance or whatsoever reason or by pride, just chose to not help. And this young man requested for the help, but the relative would not help. And he had grown up with so much hatred and offense in his heart for this relative. But even till today, even though this has happened many years ago, he still continues to recount how that this relative had the opportunity to have helped him, but did not help him.

You see, when you see people hold on to grudges in that manner, especially as it concerns people whom you think should have done something for you that did not do it. Or people whom you think should have created an opportunity for you, should have opened a door for you, should have, you know, bought something for you, should have given you capital for your business or made a promise to you and did not fulfill that promise to you. And you owed offense in your heart against such people. It is clear indication that you don't understand the mystery of destiny helpers. And what you are doing is that your lack of understanding is now closing the door providence against you. Do you understand what I'm sharing with Because in the divine equation of things, God will still do what God wants to do regardless of whether a man forgets you or remembers you. The Bible says, I will look up to the hills from whence cometh my help. It then says my help comes from the Lord. Do you know what this means? I who's one through the a the man.

It comes from the Lord, but it comes through a man. That means at no point must you consider the man as the source of the help. You must understand that the help does not come from a man no matter what a man promises you. Help does not come from men. Help comes from God. The source of help is God. So when you see people carry offense in their acts like that, I want to paint a picture of what they have done to you, especially offenses based on what somebody has refused to do or what somebody can do that they did not do. Let me tell you what is happening. What is happening is that you have taken... How do I explain this to you now?

Imagine this to be... Imagine a pipe. Right? Still, I could get something to use. But imagine a pipe. Imagine my hand to be the pipe. Right? And this pipe is connected to a river source. Is that not so? Right?

But the pipe itself, the assignment of the pipe is to take water from the river source and then pass the water to you. Is that not so? Is that not so? Yes, sir. God is the source. The pipe is the man. That means anything can happen to the pipe. The pipe can become blocked. The pipe can break. Anything can happen to the pipe.

You can clean the pipe, and yet the pipe refuses to give you water because it is blocked. Do you understand water. Itself to become the water. So So people people like like that will live in years of dryness because offense has disconnected them from providence. Do you understand what I'm saying? So Joseph can be in the prison with offense in his heart. You know the bible says, oh, the fad, maketh the heart weak. So he can be expecting that this guy will mention me to the king. And then he waited one month, two months, three months, four months, five months, six months, seven... One year, and there is still no mention.

He is still in the prison. At some point, hope the fad will make the heart weak. He will sink into disappointment. He will sink into depression because somebody promised him, don't worry. When I get out when I get out, I won't forget you. The moment you take the source of help as man, you have disconnected from the source itself. And the problem with disconnecting from the source itself is that it becomes difficult for God to route help through any other channel. Because for God to route help to you, he will still route it through a pipe. Is that not so? Through a channel.

But the idea must be that you are still connected to the source. But when you make man your source, you are wounding your destiny in ways you cannot imagine. Because this thing called destiny help is orchestrated by God. And even in a man's failing memory, the providence of God still stands. Even when a man's memory is failing, Lord is is tell to to after two years, Joseph the was still in the prison. And then pharaoh dreams. Is that not so? And none of the men in Egypt could interpret that dream. And suddenly, the bottler remembered. And in Genesis 41 verse nine, the bible says, then the chief bottler spoke to Pharaoh saying, I remember my faults this day.

The timing of his remembrance is as significant as the remembrance itself. Because at the burglar remembered Joseph immediately after leaving prison, Joseph might have received an ordinary release at best. Perhaps he would have been freed quietly, given some assistance, and allowed to disappear into Egypt. He will be... His case will be reevaluated. He will be found that he's not guilty, and then he will be released. Is that not so? But two years later, when Pharaoh had a problem and no one in the kingdom could solve, then where would Joseph be? So Joseph did not merely need to be released from prison. Egypt needed the wisdom inside of Joseph.

And the crisis that Egypt was in in that moment based on the dream that the king had had created the context in which the gift that Joseph had could now be recognized at the level for which it had been prepared. This does not make the prison a pleasant place to be. It doesn't make injustice righteous. But it means that God cannot be defeated by either of the two. The same man who forgot Joseph became the man who introduced Joseph's name at that moment that pharaoh was searching for someone carrying Joseph's gifts, carrying the grace Joseph had. So you see, the bottler had access, but he wasn't controlling the calendar. God was. Pharaoh had the authority, but he was not the one in control of the purpose. God was. Even Joseph who had the gift could not manipulate the moment at which God would bring him to his help.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. Providence is what brought the need, is what brought the gift, is what brought the remembrance, is what brought the authority, is what brought the opportunity, everything into alignment. It is God. And this is important so that you won't think that what we are trying to teach is manipulation. So that you would not think that this teaching is just making you... Because there's a way you will live into something like this, and you start seeing every man that comes your way as a vessel to be used where relationship becomes transactional. Not understanding that this thing is sourced by God. Are you with me? There are times you might interpret the circumstances, say a delay for instance in your life as rejection.

Or the fact that things are not coming at the time you expect it to come has even delay. You assume that because somebody has not called you, because somebody has not remembered you, because somebody has not recommended you or responded to you, then it would mean that something about what you are doing is buried. But understand that the absence of human remembrance is not evident that God has forgotten you. God does not depend on the ability of men to remember. Uh-uh. God can bring the matter back to remembrance when it becomes relevant to his purpose. God can cause a conversation to arise for your sake. God can cause a question to be asked that only you can answer. And he co causes that moment to come at the exact time, the exact opportunity where you are present to deliver the answer. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. It can cause a problem to appear only you can solve. At the moment only you can solve it. Not before you have the chance to even learn how to solve it. God can make a need to imagine that suddenly makes visible what he has been developing in you in obscurity. Obscurity. Understand that this is not to promote any kind of passivity. Joseph was not in the prison all those years doing nothing whilst he was waiting for the butler. Joseph continued serving even though he was in the prison. He was observing.

He was administrating. He was using his gift every day even whilst he was in the prison. The prison became another environment in which his government capacity was being tested, was being exercised. His administrative capacity was being exercised. He was made the king of the prisoners or the head of the prisoners. He was made their leader. He was administrating everything that was happening in the prison. Do you understand what I'm saying? He was serving. So the man that would later supervise the economy of Egypt, first supervised Potiphar's household, then the affairs of the prison.

And he was faithful in doing both of them. It means Tusa's waiting time was not an empty time. It was not passive. There was formation happening. And God had so formed him that when the problem appeared, he had been formed to become the solution. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. And God made it so that even while he was in the prison, in the moment of obscurity and formation, even even while while he he was was there, there, he could have felt as though nothing was happening. But only God knows because he's the one who controls providence. How do I explain this to you people?

Remember when he says that my ways are not your ways? Neither are my thoughts your thoughts. God can be monitoring because he has the advantage of foreknowledge. In fact, has all knowledge. He's omniscient. He's all knowing. All powerful. Is that not so? All powerful. All knowing.

And that all knowing God, watch this. Watch this. Can be watching you in the prison. Watching you in the prison. And whilst you're in the prison, praying for a deliverance because you are put there unjustly. Do you know what the prison is? Can you give me example of what the prison can be? The prison can be having to do a job that you are more than qualified for, but the unjust system that we live in has not given you what you deserve. The prison can be working in a place you don't deserve to be. The prison can be knowing that you can do more, you are worth more, but you are currently receiving less.

And I told you that once the man is there, he must still be able to discern when God is with him. Because even in the prison, there is favor. Now where I'm going is this. God is now standing there. And the scripture comes to your mind that God is my very present help. So the question now becomes, in the prison here, how is he helping you? Is he helping you by breaking the chains of the prison? Or is he helping you by telling you be faithful? Learn administration. Learn diligence.

Learn service. Learn excellence. Learn consistency even whilst you are here. Learn discipline. Because do you know what is present in in the prison? What is present in the prison is limited resources. That means that there is management that is needed to manage limited resources to a hungry crowd. Because a problem would arise that would need management very soon. I'm not getting this thing, I'm saying. So can you diligently learn management?

Can you learn this? And God is the one who is watching. And whilst God is watching in his providence, he is checking to see that the making progress is continuing. And while that is happening, he's also the one in the heart of Pharaoh. Also the one watching the bottler, watching Pharaoh, watching everyone to ensure that they all fall into his purpose eventually. So that when they forgot, he says, no problem. He can still work better for your good. As long as you have not relied on this man for help, as long as I am still your source, I can still be inspiring your next move. So that whilst you are there, I'm telling you, just be faithful. Just be faithful.

Just serve. Whilst you you are there, because I'm seeing what you are not seeing. Because the idea here is not just to sit down saying I'm expecting help to come. The question is, when the help comes, what have you become? What have you become? What have you become? Do you realize realize that for everybody who found help, there was something they had become that made the help valuable? David was called into the palace because he could play the harp. That means there was time, skill needed to learn the skill of playing the harp. That's one thing.

It's another thing entirely to now know how to play the harp that spirit is listening. That's another skill. They don't teach that one in musical school. I will reveal my dark sayings upon the harp. And when he's playing the harp, there are sayings the harp is speaking, and spirit can hear these sayings. And spirit is tormenting a king can take out of a king. What was the harp saying? Because the moment he was called upon, those two skills meshed together, found expression, and the moment he started playing exactly what was promised was what he delivered. Let somebody not over promise for you, and then now show up, and you now say this person can do this and do this. They state their credibility on you, and then also you have perform, and you underperform.

You you know that you have killed your reputation, killed help. You can close three years of doors over your your life because of an unprepared moment. They want to invite somebody for their conference, and they say, Kai, I know a man of God who is just starting. He's just starting, but God is helping him. Anointed man of God. If we can bring him, I'm sure that God will really move. And they say, are you sure? We don't really know him. Don't worry. I know him.

He's been someone I know. And then pow, the doors you have been praying for opens like that. And then they bring you. But there's been no time learning ministerial ethics. The moment you get there, you insult the man of God, dishonor his pulpit, dishonor the people under the guise of the anointing. Then you said, don't worry. Is the anointing working on me? Man of God, allow me to express my office. Then you are abusing that office. Whilst you are ministering, see, I don't know what you are doing here.

But listen to me, if your pastor have not taught you this, I don't know what you are doing. And whilst you are speaking... Listen to me. Whilst you are speaking, the power of God can be moving. Oh, you don't understand how this thing works. You will be seen... In fact, you will say, I don't know if you have not... If you don't know this by now, I don't know what you're doing with your life. This is basic bible school. If you don't know this, you have not been taught this, then check who is teaching you.

And as you see it, the power of God will touch one sister. Pow. Out by the power. Everybody is speaking in tongues. Pow. Pow. Pow. And whilst all of that is happening, doors are being shut. Not only are they being shut with chains at the back. I'm saying, never again.

Never again. Never again. And if through that month, 15 other invite should have come, that would mean 15 doors have closed because an unprepared man was given a platform. So you don't understand what providence does when times look as though there is delay happening. It is because if doors open in this version, God has not helped you. Are you getting blessed? So this conversation is deeper than just talking about different kinds of destiny helpers and telling there are some who are lifters, there are some who are this. No. No. The conversation goes deeper than that.

Way deeper than that. Because many people want the remembrance of the butler, but they don't want the formation of the prison. They want their name mission to pharaoh, but they've not learned how to govern faithfully. You want access to a national platform. But even your private responsibility, you have treated him carelessly. When Joseph stood before Pharaoh, he wasn't encountering administration for the first time. His elevation was sudden, but his formation was not sudden. His lifting happened in one night, but his becoming did not happen in one night. Oh. The door opened in one day, but the man that walked through that door had been under construction for years.

So understand that destiny helpers do not replace process. A person may introduce you to a room, but that person cannot create the substance that you offer once you enter into that room. Someone may mention your name, but your character must be able to survive the opportunity attached to your name. Someone may recommend your gift, but recommendation cannot permanently conceal incompetence. Someone may open a door, door, but no human being can manufacture the inward weight that is required to remain useful after the excitement of the door has passed. When you study the book of Esther, you also find providence there. It's very interesting to find out that the name of God is not mentioned at all in the book of Esther. You are aware of this, I believe? Yes. That you are aware.

Yet you cannot deny the government of God even whilst you study the book. When you read the book, you find Esther positioned in a palace. And then Mordecai uncovers a conspiracy. The destruction of Israel. A decree had been issued based on Haman's plot. And then Esther risks her life approaching the king. Then at the critical moment, the king cannot sleep. In Esther six and verse one, the bible says that night, the could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king. The Bible does not tell us exactly why the king could not sleep.

There was no audible voice. There was no public miracle. There was no visible angel that entered the room. Nothing. It was simply a sleepless night. And then on account of his sleepless night, he just said, you know what? Go and bring me the book of chronicles. Let me see the government records. And as they were reading it to him, they got to a particular section of the record being read. And then he found out that Mordecai had never been rewarded for saving the king's life.

Because Modica had found out a plot to kill the king and he had exposed that plot, but no reward was given to him. And when he heard that no reward was given to him, the king became scared and say, is it possible we've not heard more the person who saved the king's life? And that ordinary chain of events became decisive in the deliverance of God's people eventually. It shows you that the help of God, true destiny helpers, is not always dramatic. There might be no thunder. There might be no visions. There might be no supernatural manifestations. Yet, God may be working. He's working through a document that the king is reading. Walking through a conversation that is delayed but is now happening, walking through a question that somebody has that has not been answered, walking through four people sitting in a room and making a decision about you.

Just a conversation happening, a light conversation happening. What do you think can do this thing? Simple. And somebody comes to mind. The king did not wake up that morning saying that, hey, I'm about to be a part of God's purpose. I'm about to be a part of God's plan for Israel. He was simply unable to sleep. You understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. And yet that sleeplessness placed him before your record.

The record brought up Mordecai's faithfulness. And Mordecai's recognition began the reversal of Haman's plot. If anything, what this teaches you is that the fact that you were overlooked for a season or the fact that somebody forgot you is not the end of your life. Are you with me? Yes, sir. What Mordecai did did not receive any immediate reward whatsoever. Yet that was recorded. The reward that should come based on the act was delayed. It could have become bitter. It could have concluded right there and then that, you know what?

Faithfulness is useless. Helping people is useless because nobody celebrated him. Nobody thanked him. Thank you, Jesus. Nobody rewarded him. He would said, you know what? I'm not doing this again. But no, he remained at the king's gate, still serving the same king who had ignored him. And you find that eventually that what was overlooked now became the most strategic decisive deliverance moment for Israel's deliverance. Now let me also say that God is not the one who made them forget.

Are you with me? Yes. Well, that's the idea behind providence. That's the idea behind keeping your life in God's hands. Allowing God to regulate the affairs of your life and keeping God as the source of your help. That's the idea. That when a man forgets you in a moment, it's not as though God instigated the forgetfulness. Forgetfulness. Are you with me? But God can make it so that in the time that you'd be remembered, it falls in line with when his purposes are being done.

Do you understand what I'm trying to say? There are times when God will allow your seed of faithfulness, your seed of service to be invincible, to be unnoticed, to remain beneath the soil until the time comes when it can serve a larger purpose in his kingdom. That means that you must understand that you being recognized immediately for something you've done, for faithful service or for anything you've done, like in the case of Mordecai for instance, it can serve your own personal interest. It can serve your own emotions. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But God can decide that it is within my own interest to delay your own personal interest for my own larger purpose. I'll explain what I'm saying. Stay with me. What I'm saying is, if God finds out that a particular reward that you should have received for something done can benefit him and his agenda, he...

Rather than just seeking to push your own interest, push your own visibility, or push your own emotions, God can restrain, or should I say, conceal the recognition that should come in that moment, by immediate recognition, and hold it until a time arises where when that recognition eventually happens, it can now serve his own agenda. Let me use this same Mordecai for instance. If Mordecai had been recognized the moment he saved the king's life, it would have probably been promoted. Are you with me? And that would have been it. The only person that have benefited is Mordecai. Do you understand me? Yes. Yes, sir. And the benefit is that it was promoted.

That's all. He probably lived a good life, lived a better life, no longer by the gate. Are you with me? But the fact that it was delayed for a moment, God could now use that recognition to now serve his own larger agenda, which is to save Israel. Yes, sir. So that in the day that Mordecai would now be recognized, Israel will be saved. I hope you understand what I'm saying. I hope you do. I hope you do. God works like that.

It doesn't mean that you should start doing good in order to collect future rewards from people. But it does mean that you should refuse to measure the value of your obedience only by immediate human response. To mean that I did this and nobody saw it meant it went unseen. You understand what I'm saying? Sir. Mordecai could have felt that way. But the Bible says in the book of Hebrews chapter six verse 10 that God is not unjust to forget your work and your labor of love which you have shown toward his name. He does not forget it. Even men forget it, God does not forget it. That means I can help somebody and the person may choose to tarnish my name and the person may choose to forget that I helped them.

But if I'm not helping the person for the person, if I'm helping the person for his name, because he says, of love which you have shown towards his name, not shown towards the person. Do you understand what I'm saying? That means you are not doing it for the person, for the sake of the person. You are doing it for his name's sake. So as long as it is for his name's sake, that means he is the one that should... Any kind of reward that will come by reason of the help you have provided somebody for his name's sake will come from his name, not from the person. So the person might forget. His name has not forgotten. And in the day that he benefits his purpose, you will find out that he did not forget. In the day that he benefits his agenda, you will find out I did not forget.

You will find out I did not forget. There are doors that could have opened to you last year or three years ago. It would have benefited you. But God will now make it so that now that the ministry needs a land and needs a space, if that door opens now, it now benefits its agenda. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's why the doors must open now. That's how it works. That's how it works. Do you see the pattern here? That if the butler remembered Joseph in the day he was released from prison, the reward would have been that Joseph was released as well.

It would have benefited Joseph, but not the agenda of... Do you understand what I'm saying? Not the agenda of God. So God does not do things solely for your own benefit. You need to understand this about the God we serve. Notice my choice of words. I didn't say God does not do things for your own benefit. I said solely for your own benefit so you don't miss here. Are you still with me? Yes, sir.

So people may forget. Systems might overlook. Records may God is meaningless. Meaningless. Your faithfulness, your service, your consistency is first directed towards God. That means that if you are employed under the service of a man and you are faithful in that service, it's not because of the man. It's not even because how much you are being paid. That's the foolishness of those who work. Whose motivation is money. Because you see, you can work in a place where are not being paid much, but you are sowing the seeds that God will need to use for your lifting.

That's how divine connections happen. Because you have no idea who is observing your work. Who knows the person who can lift you? You have no idea who is just watching, who is just seeing, and he's seen a track record of faithfulness. The worst... Whereas others are complaining that you're not even being paid enough. Where you are getting this energy from? You know that it's not... I'm not doing this for a man, you see. I'm doing this for his name's sake.

That's precisely happened to Joseph in prison. You won't know when you would meet a butler. You won't know when you would meet someone who has the ears of the king. It's just everyday they put you as a sales boy, as a sales rep in the shop. Your your... It's your normal daily routine to be excited, to deliver service with joy. It's not as though you you... One day, you now became very excited. Your destiny help are now working. When they walk in, they won't put your name on their head.

They will just walk in like every normal day. That's it. That's it. The question is, will they meet you consistent? Will they meet you faithful? I was with my wife and went went to a particular game stand in a particular morrow. And upon getting there, there was a game wanted to play. So this lady just walked up to us. She was looking angry and annoyed. I don't know you.

So I have no idea what I could have done to you that would have made you hungry and annoyed with me. And she started talking arrogantly. And I had to ask, are you having a bad day? And I asked sincerely because I wanted to help. Funny enough. Are you having a bad day? And the lady looked at me, shrugged the eyes and hissed silently. And I said, Kai, I told my wife, let's go. And we left the shop. Without exactly how Goliath appear on the battlefield.

Do you understand what I just said? Let me say it for those of you that don't understand. As I was saying, do you understand now? That's exactly how your helper comes. It's... That's what I'm saying. Mhmm. What did you now understand, Abid? Because you say, Goliath did not come bearing anything that signified that he came for David. He just came whoever, whoever.

That's how your helper comes. It's whoever, whenever. You are just being you, and they like you because you have been formed. You have been cooked. You have been molded. They didn't meet you on a bad day. They just met you. Because you is consistent, bad day or good day. You have been so formed. That is you, oh god.

Do you understand what I'm saying? So there's no... I'm sorry. You met me on a bad day. You, that's not you. You is consistent. You is not dependent on a day. A day does not make you. You make the day happen. Then the storm can't say.

And many people have met helpers like that, and you have no idea what they could have given you. Sometimes it's not an open door. Oh god. Let's continue. This is why I'm gonna talk about the ministry of destiny helpers because we've not gotten there yet. Sometimes what they bring is not an open door. Sometimes what they bring is not even lifting in that, let me hold your hand and lift your hand. No. You go and read scripture and you'll be amazed at how people were so significant in pushing mental destiny, some of which had no influence whatsoever. Are you still with me?

You see the same consistency in the story of Ruth. She arrived at Bethlehem with Naomi, lost everything. Look at this. This was a woman who had just lost her husband. Put yourself in the shoes of Ruth. You just lost your husband, and then you are with your mother-in-law. The next thing you wanna do is it to start working, laboring, and stressing yourself. Don't you want to even cry some more? Stay in the room asking God what you did to deserve this, wearing a black attire and just crying. And when somebody comes to come and hold your shoulder, the crying intensifies.

And then you grab onto the person and say, oh, I miss him. And say he has left me. What will I do now? This lady got to Bethlehem and instantly got the nearest job. Instantly was faithful in service. The Bible described that consistency. Oh, God. She wasn't just in the house just expecting that God will send someone to come and rescue them there. She went out to glean. Gleaning was difficult.

Gleaning was humble. It was unclean work. It was not a decent work. It was a dirty work. It was something that she had to do undignifying herself even as she did it. And all she was doing was moving with the provision that God had already placed in the law for the poor, for the widow, for the stranger, for the vulnerable. She didn't know which field will become significant. She was just acting responsibly, just being hardworking, just laboring, just working. And the Bible says as she was working. Two and verse three.

Then she left and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz. She happened to come. Destiny is as simple as this. You understand what I'm saying? There's no angel that appear and say, go there. She was just gleaning. And as she was gleaning and she was busy gleaning, she just happened on the field of boas. Did not know there was nothing to say, be careful. Now work harder here. Work harder.

They are looking at you. She just happened on the feet of Boaz. Who was the family family of Hemalek. So from Ruth's point of view, she just enters into the field as and she was just working. She She didn't just even know that Boaz was a relative of Hemilek. She did not even know that that field become the location of her favor. She didn't know that it will become the location of a provision, of a protection, protection, of a redemption eventually. She was simply looking for somewhere to work. Oh, God. That means if you are Ruth looking for a place to walk, then there is a walk culture you must have everywhere you find yourself because you have no idea where you will stumble upon the field of boas.

And when boa would look at you, it will not be anything spectacular because it's the same way you walked when you were in the field of whoever. The same way you walked when you left that field and entered this field. Do you understand what I'm saying? It means if you were forced to walk in the field of shamaz, and then now you are walking in the field of Amoz, now you are in Boaz's field. What Shabbat did not notice? Boaz will notice. And nobody will announce to you that they will notice. It's just you being consistent. This is a pattern all through scripture. And what appeared to be a coincidence turned out to be a powerful providential story.

Providence will never announce itself itself to you. Sometimes you understand the significance of a place only after you have entered the place. Sometimes a conversation looks ordinary until one sentence changes your life. Sometimes it's a small act of obedience is what brings you into contact with a relationship whose importance becomes visible only later in your life. Ruth entered into that field seeking green to glean, but God was moving for a generational purpose that was beyond her and that would eventually place her within the genealogy of David and ultimately in the lineage of Christ. She was not manipulating people, but she was not passive either. She rose. She went. She worked. She remained diligent.

She listened to instruction. She carried provisions on to Naomi every day. She was just working, and providence was moving over her life. God was watching. God was observing. And when it would fit into the purposes of God, what would open a man's eyes? Look at that lady. Is she not working hard? The boy would now ask, say, ah, whose young woman is that? So if you are a lady here, how you will marry is not to shout, I'm looking for your husband.

That's not what Ruth was doing. Ruth was just working. That's all. Just continue. It's not to be shouting and looking for your husband. It doesn't bring anybody a husband. It was just working. Because when you eventually marry a husband, it will be so wonderful if it was also a destiny helper you married. Not just a husband. It would be so wonderful if it is someone who will announce your vision and push you towards destiny that you married.

On someone who will stand in the way of your destiny and your minister, your voice will go quiet because you're married. And how you end up finding that person is that you are consistent in the path of destiny itself. Trusting that providence is working in your favor. Trusting that God is your source. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, That it is unto God and not unto man. Yes, sir. Unto God and not unto man. Unto God and not unto man. If you make this your guiding principle, you won't fail in life.

It will make you consistent wherever you find yourself. It will make you diligent in your place of assignment. If you are a minister, you will do ministry as unto God because providence is observing. Do you understand what I'm saying? And God is molding and making something great out of your life. And in the day that event will collide, time and chance will come together to announce what has been formed in obscurity. Just normal events will happen. Just normal normal events. You just go to a business conference and it's the same you who is ever charming because you have been learning intentionally. Would be in a conversation, offering value, offering solution.

Not with the mentality to take and to take and to take, but with the mentality to give and to give and to give. Because the mistake people make when they go for conferences is like that and they want to connect with people and they talk with people is that they want to take from them. They're looking for opportunities. Can you give me a platform? Can you give me... No. No. No. No. No.

No. You've already missed it in life. Your mentality should be to give. And because God has already formed this in you, that anywhere you find yourself, you already have mastered the heart of being valuable. That when you are talking to the person, you're already thinking of ways you can provide solution or value to them. You've always done it. It's not the first time you are doing it. In obscurity, you've been doing it. In the prison, you've been doing it. The only difference now is that you didn't know that the person you are talking to now is a PO of a multinational CEO.

And by the time you finish talking, say, wow. You are intelligent. There's someone you should meet. Can you come to so and so and so and so on Monday? You'll be chanced. Of course, I'm chanced. And by the time you get there, when you realize that it's a massive building. And you call the person, okay, come to the Top Floor. And what do I tell security? Just tell them I say, should come.

And when you get there, you find a big office. You say, come. Sir, mister chairman, this is someone I met in the conference. You have to hear him speak. The wisdom with which he speaks, I believe is the one we need. That's all. That's how doors open. It is normal conversations like this. Normal events. Do you understand what I'm saying?

No, sir. Normal events. Time and chance. And the danger of it is also in the normal event because it does not announce itself. It is in the normal That's the danger. Because if that conversation went the other way, you would not have known. That's the danger. It would have handled the handshake and a smile. It's only in heaven when you are watching the replay that you would have seen what should have been. There are many people who miss help because they delay formation.

And they delay formation because they delay instructions. It is dangerous to be a stubborn person on the path of destiny because time doesn't wait. The clock of destiny doesn't wait. And so anytime instruction comes to you, anytime correction comes to you, the assignment of instruction and correction is to form you and to make you and to mold you into a type of person. And the more you delay becoming that type of person, the more events are happening to you every day. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. So for instance, we are correcting you that anytime things happen to you, you are always... The way you the way you crumble and collapse under pressure is not good. And also, I say, I'm trying my best.

And then one day, your old man now die. And you so collapse that you missed the feet of Boaz. That's the danger of this thing that you know you have no idea what your disobedience will cost you or is costing you. You have no idea. You have no idea. You have no idea what you can miss out of normal conversation with men. It's why you should not take for granted moments in the prison, moments of formation, moments of making. I wish I had more time. Wish I had more time. But I hope you understand what I've said.

You don't prepare for the bad relationships by chasing important people. You prepare by being faithful in the field that is presently before you. Just be faithful there. That's how you prepare for the mind relationships. That's how you prepare for destiny connections. Just be faithful where you are. Do the utmost best. That's what the Bible called it. The utmost best with what you have been given. Learn what you need to learn.

Keep your word. Arrive when you said you will arrive. Complete what has been entrusted into your hands. Treat people with dignity. Develop competence. Competence. Actual competence. Pray over your responsibilities every day. Don't despise the assignment. Don't despise the task because it looks disconnected from your Elijah calling.

Because I'm called to be a music minister, I'm currently working in this place, in this office. It doesn't look like what I've been called to do. So I despise where I'm working because it doesn't look like my Elijah calling. Oh, no. Don't do that to your destiny. The field where Ruth gathered left over grain became the field where her character was observed. Not even the field where she walked the hardest. Boaz heard about Ruth before he entered into a covenant with her. Her conduct had created a testimony. It wasn't favor invented that character.

Favor only revealed it. The divisions you make in the private matters, the person that God uses to assist you, that God uses to help you, might only hear about how you treated someone who could do nothing for you. And yet your future may be affected by the testimony created through an act of obedience that seemed ordinary in the moment. Are you with me? Let me show you the last act of providential coordination in acts of apostle chapter 10 because it shows this thing of how God works on two different people at the same time. And those two people might not know precisely what God is doing in their own lives differently that prepares them for this divine connection. Because Cornelius was a Roman centurion who was living in Caesarea. And the bible said he feared God. He gave generously. He prayed continually.

But he did not yet understand the gospel in its fullness. But Peter was in Joppa. Now these two men were in different locations. They didn't know each other before, and they were carrying different backgrounds. They were separated by very deep cultural and religious beliefs. Cornelius needed the message that Peter carried. But Peter also needed his own understanding enlarged before he could enter into Cornelius' house. Because Peter had a a preconception or a premonition that salvation wasn't to the Gentiles. Whilst Cornelius was praying, an angel instructed him to send for Peter. The messenger was traveling to where Peter was, and Peter too started praying.

And while Peter was praying, Peter received a vision. And that vision was confronting his inherited categories about clean and unclean. God was not only preparing the person who needed help because Cornelius was putting his house in order, waiting for Peter, praying, giving, doing all those things until Peter arrived. But God wasn't only preparing Cornelius. God was also preparing the person through whom the help would come. Because the person through whom the help would come has a mentality that would not make him help the person that needs the help. And God had to work on the one who the helper. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So in Acts 10 from verse 19 to verse 20, I want to read something.

While Peter thought about the vision, the spirit said to him, behold, three men are seeking you. Arise therefore, go down and go with them, doubting nothing for I have sent them. This is perhaps one of the deepest mechanisms behind divinely other relationships because it shows you the architecture that I've been trying to explain to you or the anatomy of what I've trying to explain to you. Because God would usually work on both sides before the meeting occurs. And when I show you this, you would not think back up all the examples I've used and say the same pattern again. Are you with me? So it would awaken hunger in one person, and then it would prepare understanding in another person. It would create a need and then develop the corresponding grace for the need. It gives one person the body, and then it gives another person access. It allows a question to mature in the heart of one person, whilst it's also forming an answer in the heart of another person.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. Cornelius, for instance, could not command Peter to change his beliefs. The prejudice that Peter had had to be confronted by God himself. But Cornelius was also hungry. And the hunger that Cornelius had, Peter could not have manufactured it because they didn't even know each other. Cornelius also had to respond to a light that he had to obey the instruction that he received. So both men were required to cooperate with God before the meeting could fulfill its purpose. That tells you that the reason why sudden divine connections are delayed is because sometimes one side is not yet ready. So you may be asking why a relationship or a mentorship or a partnership or a door has not yet appeared.

And the reason might be that God is still working on the people involved. God might be correcting their assumptions. God might be rearranging their responsibilities. God might be increasing their capacity because at the current level that they have, even though they are designed to help or destined to help, they might not be able to help. So God might be enlarging them, increasing their capacity to help. Are you with me? They might a wound that they are currently going through that has made them close their heart to help anybody. And it just so happens that you are among those that they have to help. And God might be healing their wounds and taking them through a process of healing. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. God might be teaching them to recognize what he has placed inside of you so that when they see it, they will know it. So a lot goes on in this providential act of God in bringing men together that help other men and that help other men and that help other men. Are you with me? Yes, sir. God may be correcting your own motive because it might be working on you as well. It might be correcting your own motive. It might be deepening your own humility because you are too proud to receive help. And God knows if you'll need your helper like this, you will kill your own destiny. And so God keeps on reemphasizing humility.

Humility. Humility. God keeps on using different voices to tell you you are proud. You are proud. The more people tell you these things, the more you take attention to it. To know that this is something I need to work on because you have no idea what can cost you when you meet a helper. Are you with me? God might be sharpening your gift like he was doing with Joseph in the prison. God might be removing the desperation that would cause you to idolize the relationship when it eventually comes. And to start taking the helper as God, and the proof of God is replaced by a man.

And God is saying, no, you have a tendency. There is a helper I sent you, but you have made them God. And God might be purging that even in your heart. Do you understand that this thing is a mechanism? Do you understand what I'm saying? So when Peter arrived at the house of Cornelius, he discovered that Cornelius had gathered relatives. Cornelius had gathered close friends. So the encounter therefore was larger than one man's personal need. Peter's obedience opened an entire household to the gospel, became a part of the of the of the church's growing understanding that God was also also releasing the gospel to the Gentiles. That the Gentiles could also be saved.

But what parties are to be worked on? What parties are to be worked on? And when God was done working on both parties, the Bible says, whilst Peter yet spoke these words, the grounds have been prepared. The grounds were set for a divine collision. The Bible says the Holy Ghost came down upon the people, and the people started prophesying. That's what happens when divine collisions happen. When God brings two people together, beyond the help that happens, beyond the fact that somebody is advising someone, there's also the holy spirit brooding over the event, brooding over the atmosphere, causing collisions in time that you might not be able to see with your ordinary eyes. Are you with me? God might be purifying your motive. Because if you see men as those, you might want to just use everybody you find.

The God can be telling you that, yeah, yeah, you're not ready. You're not ready. If I leave you like this, you will stay long here. Start valuing people. God can be telling you that you have no value for people. I've even heard people talk like that. Some people will come to my mind and maybe say, I don't really care about people. I've heard that. I don't really care about people. You will stay long where you are.

And I hope that where you are is good. I hope where you are has water and food and can sustain you because you will stay very long there. I don't really care about people. I've heard people say things like that. Don't really care about people. I just feel just feel. I Don't care about people. People are the channels. People are the channels, and the channels don't look like it. Have you forgotten?

What's the name of that guy who was lepros? That guy. Listen. It was the servant girl that told the wife, if only my master can meet a prophet because he was he was a centurion, a huge man, but he was lepros. And he can only rise to power because he was not in Israel. If he was in Israel, he wouldn't even get to... He he destiny was sealed. He would be a slave or probably a beggar. But outside the scope of Israel, he could find expression. Rose, but he had a blemish and that he was lepros and his limbs were being eaten by the disease.

And the slave girl told the wife that, is it just possible that my master can meet this prophet in Israel? And the wife told her husband that there's a prophet in Israel. And the husband heard it. Said, okay. Wrote to the king of Syria, I believe, I think. And the king of Syria wrote to the king of Israel. And the king of Israel said, am I God? What is his expectation of me? And then Elisha heard the Methodist and say, ah, I let him come that they might know that there is a prophet in Israel. And then he came with his entourage and met the prophet.

And when he met the prophet... This is where I'm going. When he met the prophet, the prophet told him, go and take a bath in the River Of Jordan. That man became hungry. He said, what an insult. Me, take a bath in the River Of Jordan. That dirty place that people, all kinds of people come and... Do you know who I am? Do you know what I am? Do you know what I have?

In such a moment is where people miss help. That's why if you have not been formed, you will lose help. It's why they are telling you, you are proud, oh, you are proud, oh, and you think it's a good thing. You think it's something to just say. You have no idea when you will refuse instructions based on your pride. That is the next line to your open door. Thank God. That at least in all his pride, he could still hear his servants. That even shows you that. Upright.

God was already working on it, but it had not finished. Because it was still servant he had. It was his servant he had. They came to him and said, if the prophet had told you to do something worse, would you not have done it? This is the prophet of God. Don't cost you anything, sir. Just go and dip yourself in the river and come out. That's all. And he was humble enough to listen to his servants. You don't even have servants.

You have friends. But you will not listen because you are the most intelligent. You would not know when a friend can bring an information from God. When God will send a death troop to you. A death troop has not seen a burning bush. A death troop has not seen... That has not talked to God face to face like a man speaks to his friend. And the death troop will come and tell you who has spoken to God face to face that you are dying. You are about to die, and the God you are speaking to face to face did not tell you. It was a death row that came.

And in that day, you will say, I don't really care about people like that. I just believe that. I just believe that if it's if it's, you know, That's why we prophesy over some people. For some people, what God is doing in their lives is to repair their sense of identity and self image. Because the wrong self image that you have is the reason why when a destiny opportunity comes, you will miss it. And the reason you will miss it is because the door is for you, will but not carry your name. But because the door is for you and it's not carrying your name, your sense of self image already believes that nothing good is for you. Whereas, if you already have the mentality of every good thing belongs to me, Every opportunity you see, you will be jumping inside. The day you jump at the opportunity that will bring you into your billions, it won't look any different from the one that you jumped into yesterday that didn't bring anything. Do you understand what I'm seeing?

Rise up on your feet. Understand what I've taught you? Yes, sir. It's a very long series. Not sure. We'll we'll we'll pray that God helps us. I'll continue this on Sunday. And the reason is because, like, I've I've been saying that there is something that I'm seeing. It's my responsibility to prepare you. To prepare.

To prepare you. So that... You see, this is not a time to glory in your weaknesses. You know that there is something in you that tells you, see, this one is too big for me. You better go and correct that nonsense. Because see, let me tell you something. Some of you are inside groups that they will be sending opportunities to you. And you will look at the opportunities and say, hey, half of 50,000 people, only 11 people will be selected. The first prize, $1,000,000... No.

This is not for me. Why are you disqualifying yourself? Because the thing looks too good. Who is it now for? If Jesus died for you, what is not for you? Are you telling me that a million dollar is more expensive than Jesus and he's dead on the cross? The Bible says that if he can freely give all his son, what can he not freely give us? He can freely give us all things, the Bible says. Collect mentalities that are costing you big. Correct mentalities are costing Correct mentalities are costing you you big.

Big. Mend weaknesses. Don't glory in them. Don't stay long in them. It is costing you. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's costing costing you. You. It's costing you. The father you cannot see it does not mean it's not costing you anything.

Every time you stay in disobedience, you have no idea what you are missing in destiny. You have no idea. So imagine that you apply and you give yourself to every opportunity you see in the same manner. Oh, I'm qualified for this, and you start pushing. I'm qualified for this, you start pushing. I'm qualified for this, you start... See, it does not announce itself. That one that will slap your name on it doesn't announce itself. You just look at your email and say, oh, you applied for this, this, and that. You might not even have remembered that you even applied for it.

You'll now be trying to check. When did I... When did this one? Okay. Let me trace it back. Oh, this one was in February. Because you're already consistent in the field. Doors are opening. Stop waiting for everything to be... You won't be spoon fed into destiny.

There are steps of faith God is putting in your heart. Meet this person. This is value you can offer. Tell them you want to help them with this. Polish it very well. Plan what you are trying to say. Plan what you're trying to sell. Say I'm gifted in Jesus. I'm skillful in this, and then you just sit down. No.

No. No. You see wrong mentalities in your life, wrong ideologies in your life, fix fix it. Remember the lady that message man said, apostle, you always speak about these things, but one day I will get it. Don't be foolish like that now. Don't be foolish like that. Because one day you will get it. Because one day,. Why can you not get it today? Ask your neighbor, why can you not get it today?

Ask the second one. Just... Because why can you not get it? Observe your neighbor's head very well. You see that you cannot see horns there. It means there is nothing stopping you. You understand what I'm saying? There's absolutely nothing stopping you. You can't you can't God to open your eyes. Ask God to open your eyes.

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