Transcript: The Path to Destiny Fulfillment Part 1

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The experience is a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network. Be a man encounter God, his presence and his power in an atmosphere of worship and the word. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he leads us into an experience with God. Isaiah chapter six read New Living Translation. In the new living translation. Glory to God. Amen. Because I love Zion, I will not keep still because my heart yearns for Jerusalem. I cannot remain silent. I will not stop praying for her until her righteousness shines like the dawn, and our salvation blazes like a burning touch.

The nations will see your righteousness. World leaders will be blinded by your glory. And you'll be given a new name by the Lord's own mouth. Amen. The Lord will hold you in his hand for all to see. Amen. A splendid crown in the hand of the Lord. I'm going to be speaking on what I've titled the path to destiny fulfillment. The path to destiny fulfillment. The path to destiny fulfillment.

Please listen very, very carefully. The scripture we just read is God speaking and he's saying there that there is a picture of your end that him, God, has seen. And God is saying that he is so consumed consumed by that future that he has seen that he cannot keep quiet about it. He says, I will not keep quiet. I will not keep still. I cannot remain silent. I will not stop. Three declarations of divine restlessness. Think about what that means. This is the God who spoke the galaxies into existence.

The God who needs nothing. The God who is complete in and of himself, and he's the one saying that I cannot rest until what I've destined for you comes to pass. Is that God that is telling you that I cannot rest until what I've written about your life finds expression. That God is telling you that I will not rest until your salvation shines like the dawn, until your righteousness shines like the dawn, and your salvation blazes like the burning torch. That tells you that God is not indifferent about the outcomes of your life. That is the language of a God who is personally invested in where your life ends up. It means where I end up matters to God. For God to say I will not rest. I will not hold my peace. I will not keep still.

I will not stop until what I've seen about your life comes to pass. That scripture is revealing the intention of God for the believer. I will not keep quiet until something emerges from Zion. That heaven is not satisfied just by the fact that Zion is existing. Heaven is focused on what Zion eventually eventually becomes. God says, until our righteousness shines, meaning there is something inside salvation that must eventually manifest outwardly. There is something in the salvation we received that the world must eventually see. Are you with me? The believer must understand this, that your life in God was never designed to hand in emptiness. Your life in God was never designed to hand in irrelevance, in confusion, in obscurity, in defeat, in mediocrity.

That is not the hand of a believer's life. The believer must know that there is glory embedded in redemption itself. In the very redemption you received, when you accepted Jesus as Lord and savior, the package came with glory. The package came with splendor. The package came with benefits. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yes. There is a version of your life that heaven already sees based on the fact that you have accepted Jesus, based on the fact that you are saved, based on the fact that you are righteous. There is a version of your life that heaven sees. Look at the progression of that scripture.

Our righteousness shines like the dawn. Our salvation places like a burning touch. The nations will see your righteousness. The world leaders will be blinded by your glory. Then a splendid clown in the hand of God. Look at the movement. Look at the progression. That is manifestation. God is showing you that the end of Zion is glory. The end of your life is glory.

The end of my life is glory. And God is making it so descriptive. Making it so descriptive. I will not rest. Because I love Zion, I will not rest. Look at the word of God for someone here already. Even before I continue with my teaching. Look at what God is telling someone here already. Look at what God is ministering to an individual here already. That because I love you, I will not rest.

It's NKJV that says I will give me NKJV. I will not hold my peace. Because I love you for your sake. Go back to NLT. I will not hold my peace. I will not keep still because my heart yearns for you. I cannot remain silent. I will not stop praying for you until your righteousness shines. There is something that is inside of you that must shine. And the fact that it is not yet shining does not mean the potential, the ability, and the capacity for it to shine is not there.

That's why God is saying I will not rest. This is not the version of you that we see. Heaven sees a version. Heaven sees a version. Your life right now might not look like it, but God is not hold my peace. It's good to know that there are some of us that God is not resting on our behalf. Oh God. Oh God. I'm one of them. I'm one of them.

It's comforting to know that I'm not walking this life alone. It's comforting to know that God is somewhere in heaven beating his chest saying I will not rest. I will not rest until the prophecies have spoken over Emmanuel comes to pass. I will not rest on the nation's gather. I will not rest on the nation's gather until the well have sunk inside of him becomes deep until people start to drink from that well, until it stands in front of the nations, until it starts to preach to people, until they start drinking from that well. I will not rest. I will will not rest. I It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one praying for this. It's comforting to know I'm not the only one believing for this. But as I'm believing, God too is believing.

God too is saying Emmanuel, you must rise. God still is saying I will not keep quiet on your behalf. I won't hold my peace on your behalf. That's a word already to somebody. Oh Jesus. That's that that's comforting to someone already. That because of you, I will not rest. Because of me, he will not rest. That's how I know I'm not the lost cause. That's how I know my case is not forgotten.

He said they will not rest. He said they will not hold this peace. He said they will not keep still because of my life. It means there's no mystery that can define me. There's no experience that can define me. There's no ex... There is no limitation or weakness whatsoever whatsoever that can define me. There's a God in heaven, the creator of heaven and earth, and the one that created me, who is insisting on my behalf, who is rooting for me, who is praying for me, who is hoping that our God... Do you understand what I'm saying? It says for your sake, I will not rest.

Until your salvation blazes like a burning torch. The next verse goes on to say, the nations will see your righteousness. That when your righteousness begins to shine, the end of that shining, how you will know that the righteousness that started shining is that the nations will see your righteousness. And he said, I will not rest. I will not rest until the nations see this thing. It says world leaders will be blinded by your glory. That there is something that's so put on your inside. Now when it begins to please, like a touch, like a burning touch, world leaders will recognize that something is upon this young man. There's wisdom for diplomacy upon this young man. There is wisdom to solve world problems.

World leaders will be blinded by your glory. This happened to some people in scripture. The wisdom of East was upon him. That means the wisdom of an entire region. That means every nation in the East. When they go through problems, they need to go and find Solomon because the wisdom of the East was upon him. World leaders had to look for him. There are men like that, that God has placed the answers and the solutions of world leaders in your mind, in your spirit. And God is saying, will not rest until it begins to burn. I will not rest until you stand on those platforms, until you start speaking and everybody listens to you, until the whole world pays attention to who is speaking, until people start asking who is that boy, who is don't know about you, but it's comforting to know.

It's comforting to know. It's God told Jacob, give me Genesis 28. Start from somewhere around verse 13. Look at what God told Jacob. I'm the Lord your God, the God of Abraham, the father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, I will give to you and your descendants. Look at the word God has given to Jacob. Watch this. Look at the next verse. Also, your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth.

You shall spread abroad to the West and to the East, to the North and to the South. And in you, in you, in you, and in your seed, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Amen. Look at the next verse. Behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you go. I want you to see something. Now when God says I will not rest, there's a way he does it. I am with you and will keep you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land for I will not leave you alone until I have done what I've spoken to you. He says I will not leave you alone.

You don't have a choice in that matter. There is something I've spoken about your life. I will not leave you alone until I see this thing manifest. I will not leave you alone until I see this thing come to pass. And even when Jacob had wasted twenty something years in servitude, God remembered his word that he will not leave him alone. And an angel came and said, brother, you should not be here. Your life should have made progress by now. Let me give you a wisdom, a fulfillment of the prophecy that God gave to you, that he will not leave you alone. So that when you hear God tell you, you will not rest, you know that he has done it I will not leave you. I truly did not leave him alone.

It don't matter how long it might take, but I know you will not leave me. I know you will not leave me. The song you So this is the settled confidence I have that the words will come to pass. This is the settled confidence I have that all those years ago when we were shouting welcome to the largest of young people in the world. We never thought you would be here. But there is one that told us. He told us what would become of everybody's lives. He said we will be great and we will know ourselves. Go on reading the first three. The Lord will hold you in his hand for all to see.

A splendid crown in the hand of God. I will come back here. Look at verse four. I will come back here. Look at verse four. Never again will you be called the forsaken city. Never again will you be called a desolate lamb. Your new name will be the city of God's tonight. Your new name will be the bride of God. It is the word and for the Lord delights in me.

For the Lord has claimed me as his own. If you study this theologically, you'll find out that this is actually a new testament realization. Because right now we have become the bride of Christ. And so this has found fulfillment already in our lives. It means whatever is being prophesied in this place is speaking directly to the believer, theologically speaking. Are you with me? So the believer can say to himself that my righteousness shines like the dawn. The believer can say to himself that my salvation will burn like a blazing touch. Nations will see my righteousness. World leaders will be blinded by my glory.

I've become a splendid crown in the hand of the Lord. A believer can say this of himself. It is consistent throughout scripture that the end of a believer's life is glory. It doesn't matter what that life might look like now. Ecclesiastes chapter seven and verse eight. The Bible says the end of a thing is better than its beginning. The end of a thing is better than its beginning. That means that the picture of where you start is never the picture of where you are supposed to finish. Your beginning, no matter how small it might be right now, no matter how painful, no matter how limited, it is never the measurement of how you will end. God is not looking at where you started and designing a modest conclusion for you.

No. God is designing an end that makes your beginning look like it was just the seed for something greater in the economy of God. And even in the economy of God, endings are always greater than beginnings. What did I say? Endings are always greater than beginnings. Psalm 66 and verse 12. The Bible says, you have caused men to ride over our heads. Look at all of these things we are passing through. You have caused men to ride over our heads. We went through fire.

We went through water. The King James version says, but you have brought us out to a wealthy place. The psalmist is recounting a journey through fire and through water, through difficulty, through pressure. And he said, at the end of all that journey, this is where God brought us. The end of that journey was not destruction. The end of that journey was a wealthy place. We passed through fire, but the fire we pass through was not our conclusion. We pass through water, but the water was not the conclusion. Affliction was not the conclusion. The wealthy place was the conclusion.

This is the destination that God had always had in mind for the life of the believer. The wealthy place. The trajectory of your life in God does not bend towards poverty. The trajectory of your life in God does not bend towards poverty, doesn't bend towards smallness, doesn't bend towards mediocrity. It bends towards fullness. God says that you will be held in his hand of his splendid crown. A crown in the hand of God. Now think about what a crown means. A crown is a symbol of glory. A crown is a symbol of honor, of royalty.

And God is saying that that is what you had to him. You are a symbol of glory. You are a symbol of honor. You are a symbol of royalty. It means you are not just a servant that God is using. You are a crown that is displaying. And he says he's holding you in his hand. He's not talking you somewhere in his pocket. He's not hiding you somewhere. He's not talking you away in obscurity.

He's holding you in his hands, holding you up openly, holding you up visibly before nations, before world leaders as a demonstration of his glory. That means your life was never glory The glory glory of of the Lord. Proverbs chapter four and verse 18, the Bible says the path of the just is like the shining sun that shines ever brighter onto the perfect day, ever brighter. It means your life has a direction. Your life have a trajectory and the direction of that trajectory is upward. The trajectory is ever increasing brightness. The path of the just man does not plateau. The path of the just man does not dim. It does not peak. It does not fade into obscurity.

It shines brighter and brighter until the day arrives when the full measure of what God is intending to do is visible for all to see. Jeremiah chapter nine verse 11, that popular scripture. The Bible says, for I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says the Lord. Thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope. The Hebrew implication, there is an expected end. God is saying, I already know where this is supposed to end. There's a divine picture in the mind of God concerning your life. I already know where it's meant to end. That's why it is dangerous for a believer to live without hope. It can't get so bad that you lose hope.

It should never get so bad that you lose hope because hopelessness is disagreement with God. Believer should never look at his life and conclude solely based on what he's seeing right now that greatness is not in his destiny. That's a state of hopelessness, of despair. A believer should never get there because there's a seed of greatness that God has planted on your inside. It does not matter what right now might look like. The hand of the believer is glory. I've said this again and again. That if the bible says better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. The defines what better is. Though your beginning might be small, your later end should greatly increase.

It means better means great increase. Better means greatness. Better means increase. That is what your letter n looks like. It means if I'm not yet seeing greatness, I'm not at my hand. If I'm not yet seeing increase, I'm not at my hand. That's how I know I cannot die useless death. There's so much that must happen in my life before I die. Yes. The Bible says you will not die but live to declare the glory of the living God.

There's a reason why you would live. It didn't just say you will not die. You will live. No. There's a reason why you would live to declare the glory of the living God. And there are many ways we declare. There are many ways we declare the glory of the living God. It's not just by preaching the gospel, opening Matthew and declaring it to people. That is not the... It's one of the ways, but it's not the only way.

We declare the glory of the living God. The Bible says, let your light so shine before men that they may see and glorify your God. It means my light shining is declaring the glory of the living God. So when the Bible says I will not die but live, it means there is something my life must spell out to the world before I am allowed to die. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's why I know I I have not come to my end. I have not come to my end. I can't be thinking of killing myself. It can't get so bad that a believer loses all hope. Do you understand what I'm saying?

The end of the believer's life is glory. Because there might be someone here who might be looking at me and saying, man of God, things are so difficult right now. It can't get so bad that a believer loses hope. It can't. It can't. There's a seed of greatness on your inside. Even in creation, God hid the greatness in seed form even in creation. You can hold the seed of a tree in your hand and not realize that forest are trapped on the inside of it because the seed looks small. But the future inside of that seed is vast. In the same way, believers judge themselves by their current size, by current exposures, by current financial limitations, and all kinds of limitations, not realizing that God measures them by what has been deposited on their inside and not by how they look at the moment.

Second Corinthians chapter four and verse 17, the Bible says, for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory. Notice again, the direction of the believer's journey. Glory. Not shame. Glory. Not emptiness. Not poverty. Glory. Not irrelevance, not mediocrity, not smallness. Glory.

But with our light affliction, which is bought for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory. Our light affliction, which is bought for a moment. Don't make permanent what is bought for a moment. Don't make your identity what is bought for a moment. Don't define your life by what is but for a moment. People have made conclusions about themselves on what is but for a moment. What can a 20 years old be passing through that would make him decide that you know what, I wanna just kill myself. How do you surmise your life based on what is but for a moment? What is bought for a moment? Temporary experiences that will fade away.

The believer should never ever arrive at hopelessness, arrive at despair, arrive at that place where you think all hope is lost, where you think there's no point again. What is the point right now? How can you lose hope when God is rooting for you? How can you lose hope when God is saying I will not hold my peace? I will not hold my peace until your righteousness shines like the song, until your salvation blazes like a burning touch. And as God is saying these things to you, you are telling yourself you want to kill yourself. God is saying I don't hold my peace. I will not stop, but you want to stop. I will not rest, you want to rest. Are you with me brothers and sisters?

The end of the believer's life is glory. Romans eight and verse 30, the Bible says, moreover whom he predestined those he also called whom he called those he also justified whom he justified, those he also glorified. Glorified. That means there's a dimension of glory attached to your destiny. When it's all been said and done, the end of my life is glory. There's a seed of greatness on my inside, and I know this. I know this for sure. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yeah. Is the first place I want us to begin this teaching.

To understand, understand first first of of all, all, to to understand understand as a matter of foundation, to understand as a matter of what now? Foundation. That it does not matter the current experiences of my life in the moment. I will never get to a point where I summarize my life solely by what I'm experiencing right now. Our light affliction is for a moment. The Bible does not say that there will be no afflictions. He said, but it is for a moment. Even if it last a year, it is still a moment. Even if it last three years, is still a moment. It does not take God eternity to do that which is eternal.

People's lives can change in a moment, in a moment, in an instance. Years of sufferings can come to an end. Though the sufferings, though the sorrows may last for the night, joy comes in the morning. Joy comes in the morning. So there must be that settled understanding even before we proceed. Thou shall increase my greatness and comfort me on every side. God appeared unto Abraham who has become the pattern of faith for the believer. And God told Abraham, I will make you great. I will make you a great nation. And in you shall the families of the earth be blessed.

That is the eternal destiny of the believer, to be great, to become a great nation. And you are so blessed and so great that the families of the earth are blessed even through you because Abraham has become the pattern man. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes. Say it loud and clear, there is glory in my life. Say it loud and clear, it is not my hand. Tell your neighbor I've not arrived though. I have not. I have not. Do you believe what I'm telling you?

I have not. There are beautiful visions we have seen that God has shown us, and we know that he did not lie to us. Those things will surely come to pass. Very soon, we will move on to larger venues. Are you begging us to reduce the AC? I will not answer you. Because we will remind you that you are always finding yourself whenever we... We will remind you that you used to find yourself, you know you want us to do not answer. Because it will come to pass. It will come to pass.

It will come to pass when our sons and daughters will come from afar. When you are so blessed that you are working in The United Kingdom, but God has so blessed you that you take your private jet to Soar every week on Sunday and come to church. And you go back again. It's six hours by flight. It's not... Abuja is father. Abuja is father on road. When you will come with your families, husbands and wives and children. And everybody will be rushing to get to church early so that they can get a place to park inside. Because they know that if they don't come to church early, that means they'll have to park somewhere far.

And now track the remaining distance. And it will come to pass. This is how I see. This is how I see. This is how I see. This is how I see. I see kings coming out from amongst you. Kings. Kings, I see you rising to the top of the mountain of influence that God has sent you to. Rising to the top of your fields.

Rising to the top of your endeavors. Doctors and engineers and professors. That's what I see. And it will come to pass. That's what we see. I see governors and presidents coming from amongst you. Men and women that will sponsor entire crusades for years. The gospel of the kingdom that we preach is not just a message on the pulpit. It's a life we're going to live. We will go into villages for crusades and turn villages into cities.

That there are people hidden in several parts of the world that if something does not happen, they will never see light. They will never know truth. They will invade those areas, build schools and build roads and build hospitals and do what governments cannot do. Because certain men have been built. You will lay up gold like dust when money becomes useless to you. That's what it means to lay up gold like dust. That's what it means to lay up gold like dust. Nobody lays on dust. That's the irony. Have you ever seen anybody that gathers dust?

Nobody gathers dust. But the Bible says that we shall lay up gold like dust. What we do to dust is to sweep it away. The thing about dust is that nobody, nobody intentionally makes their house dusty. The more you sweep it, the more it gathers. The more it gathers. The more it gathers. You leave your house for three days, dust is gathered again. That's the meaning that the more you sweep off the money, the more the money is gathered. That's the the meaning.

Meaning. That's That's the the meaning. Meaning. We will be channels of blessing. Channels of blessings. And many people say the same things. Don't let whatever situation and circumstances that your life might be painting right now make it seem as though this still will not come to pass. If only you knew how we started. And we've not even send the end of it. This is not my end.

Hey, god. This is not my end. But if only you knew how we started. If only you were there. If only you saw it. Maybe you would have been encouraged. Maybe you would know that there is nothing a man can ever go through. That should make him define and conclude upon his life and destiny. Nothing. Nothing.

Nothing. The end of the believer's life is glory. Can you declare loud and clear the end of my life is glory. Please pay attention. This is where I'm going. If there is glory and if the end of your life is glory, then there is also a way into glory. If there is an end that God has spoken over a man, then there is also a path that lives to the fulfillment of what God has spoken. Because destiny is not automatic. Destiny is not magic. Destiny is not fulfilled simply because it prophesied a game.

Destiny is not fulfilled simply because hands were laid on you. Destiny is not fulfilled simply because we said it or we desired it or even because we saw it. Destiny is not fulfilled simply because you had a dream or you had an encounter or you had a word or you had a burden. All of these things are beautiful, but these are not the indices that bring about the fulfillment of destiny. There is a route you see to manifestation. And until a man finds that route and walks that route, what God showed him can remain in the realm of promise, while his life remain in the realm of frustration. There is a path into fulfillment. There is a path into the manifestation of glory. There's a path to greater glory. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. This is one of the many mysteries that believers have not yet understood, that God can speak truth concerning your future, and yet you can live below it because you never walked in the path that brings that truth into manifestation. Yet you'll continue to live below the promises and the prophecies that you saw concerning that future. And it is possible even for a man to die without entering into the reality of that future. Painfully speaking, but it is possible. A prophecy can reveal the intention of God for your life, but there is a pathway that brings that prophecy into fulfillment. A promise can show you what is available in God, but there is a process that brings you into the capacity to handle that promise. This is really where I'm going. Stay with me. Because you see, if I come here and I use two hours, which is possible to tell you that listen, listen, listen.

God's will for your life is prosperity. God's will for your life is glory. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Would I be lying to you? No. It is the truth. But if we did that for two hours and we prayed and we are excited and we rejoice and we encourage ourselves, hope would have been ignited. Somebody who was about to give up would suddenly feel bright again and say kind. So this is not my head and it's not lying. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Except for the fact that you can live ten years, twenty years, thirty years. And that thing that was said today are still not manifested in your life. Because there is a path way to destiny fulfillment. There is a path way. This position is for those who are not just interested in promises, but are careful to want to understand exactly how promises find expression, exactly how promises become realizations. Are you with me? Yeah. Look at what the Bible says in the book of Joshua chapter one verse three. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given you. As I said to Moses, look at the language that God is using then.

Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given you. I have given you. But he also set every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon. It was already given, but it still had to be walked into. Did you see that? Yes, sir. It was already promised, but it still required movement for it to be theirs. It was already theirs by covenant, but it had to become theirs by possession. That means there are things that are yours in God that may never become yours in experience until your footsteps into the path of obedience. That that has promised you this, but your foot still has to tread upon it.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Exodus chapter three and verse eight. The Bible says, so I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a good and a large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey. The intention of God was very clear. I've come down to deliver them. I've come down to bring them up out of that land. God had a destination. God had an end. God had a land. But between Egypt and Canaan, there was a path to that land.

Exodus chapter 13 from verse 17 to verse 18. Bible says, and it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go that God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. The next verse says, so God led the people around by the way of the wilderness of the sea. God led them by the way. God led them by a way. Are you with me? That means destiny is not only about where you are going, it's about where God is taking you. There is a path that God leads you through. And if a man does not understand the way, he may reject the very path that was designed to bring him into the promise that God has given to him. There is a path that God leads a man to.

So in Exodus three, what was happening was that God was giving prophecy. I've come down to deliver them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land flowing with milk and honey. That was what we saw in Exodus three. But you're journey after and you see that the manifestation of that promise will require being led down a path. Are you with me? Yes, sir. God had to lead them by a way. It wouldn't just manifest because God said it. It won't just manifest because God wants to do it. In other words, that is what God wants to do.

It's not all it takes for you to manifest. That's what God intends to do. It's not only it takes for you to manifest. Are you with me? Yes, sir. That's the reason why most people never fulfill what they carry. Most people never do that. There's prophecy hanging over the lives of many people that they will never come into the experience of the same. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes, sir.

And it's not because there's no seed of greatness on their inside. It's not because God did not call them. A lot of these people carry seed inside them. In fact, many of these people have had real encounters, real visions of tomorrow. They've heard God genuinely. Many of them have had strong bodies about their future, but they never found a pathway that leads to greatness. They never found a pathway that leads to destiny fulfillment. All they had was promises. All they had was prophecies. All they had was visions.

They never submitted to that path. They kept on waiting for destiny to happen to them whilst refusing to become the kind of person that destiny can happen through. A seed does not become a tree just because it is a seed. A seed becomes a tree because it enters into certain processes that leads it into becoming a tree. Are you with me? Yes. That means if you keep a seed on a shelf somewhere and keep on prophesying over that seed saying you will be great, you will become a mighty tree. You will become a mighty tree. In the name of Jesus, I declare you will be great. Will anything ever happen to that seed?

It's a seed of greatness, but you drop it on a shelf somewhere and keep on praying and keep on prophesying. You can sing over it. You can ring bell over it. But that seed must enter into a process. It must enter into the ground. Is that not so? It must submit to the process of growth. It must break. It must root. It must rise.

It must be watered. It must survive seasons. So inside a seed is a tree, but the tree does not manifest manifest automatically. That's exactly how destiny works. Inside you may be a prophet. Inside you may be a reformer. Inside you may be a builder, a preacher, a business leader, an inventor, a writer, a voice to the nations, a kingdom financier, a teacher even, a lawyer, renowned lawyer, probably even rising to the point of an SAN, a mission builder, a mother, a father, a deliverer of people, an apostle, an evangelist. Inside you might be a huge well of potential and possibilities. Inside you might be the giftings that makes for a great destiny. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. But what is inside you will not manifest merely because it is inside you. You must find that pathway, that pathway that translates what is inside to become a mighty tree. You must find that pathway. You must submit to the process. It must be cultivated until the potential becomes a fruit. Otherwise, it will remain as a seed. Otherwise, all we will know is that this thing had potential. This thing had it. It had the potential.

Had the ability. We will This guy was a box of talent, but see what he became. Are you with me? Yes, sir. A box of talent, but see what it became. Proverbs chapter four and verse 18, the bible says, but the path of the just is like the shining sun that shines ever brighter onto the perfect day. The just has a path and that path shines progressively. It's not brightness in one day. It is progressive brightness. Everything does not manifest at once.

It is a path that gets brighter. That means there's a progression to destiny. Are you with me? Yes, sir. There is a movement from one level of light to another. There is a movement. There is a daybreak that comes. There's a brighter shining that comes. There's a perfect day that comes. But the Bible says the path of the righteous.

It means before a man can even begin to experience the brightness, he must be on the path. That means he must be moving on a path. He must be walking on a path. It is at his walking on that path that different degrees of light begins to unfold. Are you with me? Sir. Deuteronomy chapter one from verse six to verse eight, the Bible says, the Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb saying, you have dwelt long enough at this mountain, Turn and take your journey. Turn and take your journey. You have dwelt long enough on this mountain. You have dwelt long enough on this mountain.

Turn and take your journey. He then goes on to say, see, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land. That's a word for somebody here already. You have dawned long enough on this mountain. There are mountains that were once part of your journey that were never meant to become your permanent residence. There are seasons that were useful for a time, but if you remain there, those seasons become limitations. There are levels that once represented progress in your life, but if you refuse to move, they become stagnation. You have dwelt too long on this mountain. Turn and take your journey.

The land has been set before them, but there was a journey. There was a path they had to walk. They would not capture the land staying by the mountain, staying in one place, remaining in one place. Even though the promise had been given to them, that the land was theirs, they still had a journey to take. And God had to interrupt their journey, their stagnancy rather, to say you have thought too long here. There are people that can tell you every prophecy that they have received. They can tell you every vision that they have seen, but they cannot tell you what steps they are taking. They can tell you every dream, every vision, where they wrote it down, every confirmation that came, every prophetic word that came, every encounter that came. But you look at their life and you find that there is no movement whatsoever. You look at their life and you find that they they are yet on that path that leads to greatness.

And you can tell you can tell just by looking at their life that you might be a box of potential, but nothing will manifest in that life. You are not cursing the person. You are only speaking based on principles, based on what is revealed in the word of God. Are you with me? I want us to read this together. One, two, three, go everybody. There are ways, there are parts. There is a good way, and you just find it. Find it. Find it.

Walk in it. Many people have found it, but they have said to themselves that they will not walk in it. They know what to do, but they've not done it. They know what must change, but they've not changed it. They know what God has been demanding, but they keep on postponing their obedience. And as long as they keep on doing this, they don't know that it does not matter what prophecy is over their life. Nothing will find expression. There is a path to destiny fulfillment. There is a way that greatness is built. There is a way that glory is carried.

There is a way that prophecy becomes manifestation. There is a way that seeds become stream. There is a way that a man moves from being called into being formed, into seeing the result of what he has been called to do in his life manifest. Are you with me brothers and sisters? And when you find that way, when you find that path, you must walk in it. You must insist to walk in it. That's what Habakkuk says. That is not enough to find it. You must then decide to walk in the path you have found. But the bible, there are some of them said, we will not walk in it.

It means even as I begin to show you the pathway that lived... Destiny of you meant, it is possible for your mom to decide, I will not walk in it. It's possible for a man to decide in his heart that I will not work in it. Even as I begin to show you and discuss with you what must begin to change in a man's life. Let me tell you something. I've been saying this thing for a long time now. Success is easy when you know how. Say it with me. Say it with me. Success is easy when you know how.

Success is easy when you know how. Success is easy when you know how. It takes a special kind of foolishness to now know how and not work in it. That is the height of falling. That this is now the how. We've now shown you the how. And the man decides in himself that I'm not going to walk in it. That's what the scripture is saying. That's what the scripture is saying. Stand in the ways and see.

Ask for the good old paths where the good way is. Walk in it. Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, we will not walk in it. Here is to hoping that nobody saying this today. There is to hoping that everybody under the sound of my voice actually desires destiny fulfillment, actually desires that this greatness that we've been talking about, that is at the end of the life of the believer, find the expression in their life. Are you with me brothers and sisters? The first pathway to destiny fulfillment. The first pathway to destiny fulfillment. There are four of them.

I'll give you two and then we pray. Are you ready now? Yes. The first pathway to destiny fulfillment. Listen, don't assume that you know what I'm about to say. Yes, sir. Alright? Yes. It's simple, but don't assume you know it. Because you might find out that you truly do not.

Because what a lot of people think they are doing in this pathway, they would find out that that is not really what they are doing. The first pathway is preparation. Stay with me. The first pathway to a destiny fulfillment is what now? Preparation. The first pathway to destiny fulfillment is what now? Preparation. There is no man that enters into destiny just by desiring destiny. There's no man that becomes what God has shown him just by wishing, just by hoping alone. There's no man that steps into manifestation of his prophecies over his life just by being excited about that prophecy.

There is a preparation that destiny demands. There is a making that must happen before manifestation can be sustained. And when God wants to start with a man, what God does to that man is that he gives that man encounters. I want to explain to you what preparation is so that you understand precisely what a man must be doing actively on the path to destiny fulfillment. Because a man can be busy thinking that he's preparing for something and realize that it's the labor of fools. Are you with me? Yes, sir. I hate the labor of fools. And I try as much as possible to give people instructions that make them avoid the labor of fools so that you are not just dispensing energy doing nothing. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. This teaching is really important right now for many of you because of the stage of your life that you are. This is perhaps the best face that a man can hear something like this. There is a time that hearing this kind of a teaching becomes too late. It is true. What we can pray for you is mercy. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Preparation. When God wants to begin business with a man, when God wants to start doing something real, something tangible with a man, the first thing that God does to that man is that he gives that man an encounter. He gives that man encounters.

He reveals to you portions of your future. He reveals to you himself, of course, but also it reveals to you portions of your future. And it does not do this just to excite you. It doesn't do this to entertain you. It reveals to you portions of your future to summon you into preparation. The reason why God reveals to you capsules of your future, why God begins to show you visions of where he's taking you to is so that the visions he's given to you can induce preparation on your inside. Are you with me? Yes, When God shows you something about your life, he's not giving you something to boast about. He's giving you something that must begin to govern how you live. Encounters are not for excitement alone.

Encounters are not for entertainment. The things that God shows you are meant to create a demand on your choices now. That's why Abacok chapter two from verse two to verse three, the Bible says, write the vision and make it plain on tablets that he may run that reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it will speak and it will not lie. Look at what the Bible says, that he may run that reads it. That means true vision must always produce movement. A vision that does not make you run has not entered your spirit. If what you saw does not change how you spend your time, if what you saw does not change how you use your mind, how you choose your friends, how you build capacity, how you pray, how you study, how you discipline yourself, then you have not yet understood vision. Because vision is not just what you see in the spirit. Vision is what you see that now begins to organize your life.

It is what entered into your heart and begins to dodge laziness, begins to judge excuses, judge casual casual living, casual experiences. It begins to judge the way you waste seasons away. It begins to judge the kind of people you allow around your life. It touches how you learn. It touches the smallness of the preparation. When a man has seen correctly, he cannot continue to live carelessly. It's not possible. It means that a man that has not seen anything about his future cannot accurately say it's preparing. Because preparation is always to an end. And what produces preparation, what induces preparation are the visions of the future you have seen.

That's in fact the reason why God shows you visions of the future. That's why God speaks to a man in pictures so that he induces movement in the man. Are you understanding what I'm saying? So that the man can begin to move. That's the reason why preparation is proof that you believe what God has shown you. Because many people believe that they they they say that they are believing God for greatness, but their preparation shows that they are clearly joking. They are clearly joking. They claim that God has called them, but they are not scolding. They claim that God will use them, but they are not being trained. Listen to me.

Faith is not what you say with your mouth. Faith is also what your preparation proves. That means if Noah believed that rain was coming, he has to build an hack as a proof that he believed it. Hebrews 11 verse seven, the bible says by faith, Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark. Noah heard something. He heard something. The Bible says, being warned of things not yet seen. And because he believed it, he prepared. Faith made him move. That's why the Bible says by faith.

Are you with him? Yes, sir. Faith made him move. Faith made him prepare. God told him, judgement is coming. Rain is coming. People will be destroyed. There's need for preservation. You will become the one to preserve. I will make you a voice of preservation because he believed.

He started building an ark. That's the problem with many people. So you tell me that you have faith, but where is the ark you are building? Where is the ark you are are building? Building? You tell me rain will follow. Okay. I've seen it. Rain will fall. But where is the heart you are building?

You said God spoke to you. No problem. But where is the structure around your life? How can you tell me that you believe in what God has shown you about your future, but there is no discipline whatsoever, no consistency whatsoever, no diligence whatsoever. How can you say your future is great, but nothing in your present is being built to receive it? Noah's preparation became the evidence that he believed the warning that God showed him. It tells you that your preparation is the evidence that you believe the future God has shown you. So preparation is the evidence that you believe in the future that God has shown you. If you believe that God will use your voice, then why are you not learning the word of God? Why are you not studying scriptures?

If you believe God will use your mind, why are you not developing that mind? If you believe God will use your business, where is the skill you are developing? Where is the integrity? Where is the structure? Where is the competence you are learning? You believe there is a worthy place ahead of you. Oh, good. That's wonderful. But where is the financial wisdom that is being built in you? You believe that leadership is in your future.

Then what are you learning right now? What are the structures in your mind right now that makes you develop yourself as a good leader? Because when apostle prophesies and says, see you standing in front of nations, if you really believe it, what in your life at the moment shows that you believe it? The name for it is preparation. It is the first thing you encounter on the path to destiny. And I will tell you how many people are prophesying about joking with destiny. It is obvious by how they are living that they will not arrive anywhere. Listen. It is an uncomfortable thing to say, but eight out of 10 believers usually will never actualize prophecy because of this. Because of this.

Because it is easier to say it than to do it. It's either to be excited. It's either to jump up, to receive the word with excitement than to actually start living your life towards it. It's easier. If I believe that nations will dream from the world, God is digging on my inside. The first thing is, how deep is that well? How deep is that well? Just how deep is that well? When I stand in front of nations, what will I say? What will I say?

If I really believe it, there are things you will see in my life right now. You will see me studying. You will see me reading. You will look at my shelf and see books filled there. You would see me reading on my tablet. Building my mental capacity. Building my mental acumen. Becoming a well of value. Because I know if nations will come, it means kings will come. And when they ask for my counsel, I can't be speaking in tongues.

I must give them something valuable, something that will change a nation around, something that will help an economy, something that will help politics, something that will help government. It means I must know. I must know. I must study. I must must read. It's not just the anointing. Miles Monroe was not speaking to presidents and kings just because he was anointed. Doesn't speak to presidents and kings just because he's anointed. When they speak, you know that there is investment in knowledge. That means if they saw sometime in their past that they would be great, they started building towards it so that when it is time and platform opens, they are not stuttering.

They are not wondering what to say. That's how you know that a man is seriously preparing for destiny. I've seen many jokers, many jokers. How can you tell me you're a business strategist and you have seen yourself consulting for Fortune five hundred? And I know more about business than you. Business is not my work. I'm a man of God. But I'm asking you questions you can't answer me intelligently. And you tell me, apostle, this is what I have seen. No.

No. No. No. No. No. This is something else. Because this one, if it were true and faith entered your heart, you will start building. I must see the heart you are building. I must see the heart you are building. That is how we know rain is about to fall.

I must see the heart you are building. Do you know for many years the rain might not fall? But you must be building the hag. It's how you believe. Nobody else might believe rain will fall, but you who saw it must believe. And I will know. Preparation is the language of serious men. Many people have their destiny into a box of potential, but they could never live up to what was inside them because they refused to actively prepare for destiny. So my choice of words, actively and intentionally prepare for destiny. And so all that they could become was what life offered them.

That was all that they could become. What life offered them. And listen, you know, when you grow up like this and you know what God would have you do, but because of your own carelessness and absence of preparation, because you felt you had time, you felt you could enjoy now, you felt you could get there with laziness now, it doesn't really matter. And you can be given excuses. Apostle, procrastination is dealing with me. And every single time you come and meet us, procrastination, procrastination, procrastination, procrastination, though a power will come upon you, that will keep procrastination. As though it's not one day you make a division by yourself. And say I refuse this thing. I refuse it. My destiny is too precious for me to be sleeping like a fool.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall your poverty come upon you like a thief in the night. I reject this poverty. What I saw was a great future. What I saw was prosperity. It means I cannot be living like this. Men that live like this have no plan whatsoever to be great. Great. They have no plan whatsoever to succeed. This is how a man reduces himself to an employee when in fact what it should be is an employer of labor.

That thing was on him. The grace was on him, but there was no development whatsoever. He starts a book and stops. Another Do you know that what I'm telling you has nothing to do with being a Christian even? It is just the pathway to destiny fulfillment. It is the pathway to actualization of prophecies and promises. It is the pathway to actualization of greatness. That if a man sees something, what they see must be so strong that it induces within them. Do you hear me? Sir.

Division induces the thing. So first question we should ask is this, if a man has seen no vision, what is he preparing for? So when you tell me I'm also I understand understand preparation, preparation, what are you preparing for? Are you aware that there are things we saw about our lives once we were in university, even before we entered university? I gathered out three people, three people in a gutter in chapel. And we sat down in the gutter in 2018 or '17 thereabout. There was no experience, there was no DCM, there was nothing. And I was telling them, I said, listen. Listen. God has shown me.

God has shown me. I see the flags of nations. We will have a meeting. It will be the experience. The meeting will not be called the experience just because it's a sweet name. It will be called the experience because people will come into the experience of whatever it is we are talking about as we are saying it. The experience will become a description of the meeting, not a name of a meeting. I was telling them that if we are talking about healing, people will be getting healed. If we are talking about prosperity, the power of prosper will start jumping upon people. If we are talking about it will be a meeting, we were saying it on that...

Oh, God. Do you understand what I'm saying? We'll tell them, if we are talking about Jesus, Jesus must manifest. If we are talking about the holy ghost, how can we speak about these things? We told them, I said, this is how. And people will see it. I told them we'll not entertain people. We will not entertain people. This will be an apostolic community. We'll not do touch to suit people.

They will see the power. They will see the life. They will see the workings of the wonder of God, and they will stay because God will bring them. Yes, sir. I told them I see the flags of this ministry in nations. And as we are saying it, 30 of us inside the garden in temple will be praying in tongues, speaking in tongues, declaring what we are speaking tongues.. And because we saw it, I was the one telling them this. There were many steps we started taking because we believed it. Because we believed it. I remember one of them.

She's no longer with us. One of them there. I told her, I said, listen, if you are building a great ministry, we need finances. We've not built anything. It was only three people. We're only praying. I said, you know what? Let's open an account. Let's start saving money there. We'll be sowing our seeds so that when we start this thing, we're not lacking finances.

Only men that have seen something behave like that. Only men that have seen something that saw it strongly behave like that. What did you see? Because if you saw nothing, it explains why your life is that. There's even a greater problem of those who have seen something. Jeremiah says it. They've seen something. They now know the path they should be walking, but they said, we will not walk in it. So their problem is not that they've not seen. They have seen.

I remember those days I will finish class around 4PM there about, and I'll go to chapel. When I get to chapel, will begin to pray. I'll close my eyes and I'll pray. I don't check time. I just pray until I can no longer see light, until everywhere is as dark as anything. Sometimes 11PM, 11:30, and I begin to run to my hostel so they don't knock me outside. I can live life like that because I saw something. And I know that this thing that I saw is not advice and counseling I was giving to people. In that vision, I saw myself speaking to limelicks and saying, walk. There is a of consecration that must bring that thing to bear.

I knew what was important and what is priority by the things I saw. I knew where I had to be and where I must not be by the things I saw. Do you know? I could make decisions and not be confused about the decisions I am making by the things I saw. It means if you have not seen anything, it will show your choices. You will be utterly confused and you will not know what to do. And the implication of that is that you will live your life according to guesswork. Your entire life will be an experiment. It will be trial and error. Let us see what will happen.

That means you will do your life to be a case of what feels better in the now. Are you with me? Yes, sir. There were things I knew I could not be here because what I was seeing in my future would not allow for it. Yes, sir. Let me give an example. If you know what you have seen in your future, it will be obvious to you what you must begin to do now. For example, if somebody says, ah, I'm gonna be a powerful force in the political realm. I'm gonna work my way up. Start at the lower layer and then work my way up, become local government chairman, become senator, become whatever.

Honorable senator, rise up again to more senior levels. And then eventually I see myself as a governor. I see myself. If it is true and you are seeing it and it's clear in your eyes, there are jokes you will not crack on social media. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That thing will be so strong that you want to say one stupid thing to you. You will just... You come to your... What if they come and find this thing now?

There are places you cannot be. Nobody can see you there. It's not dignifying for the future you have seen to your now to be there. Doesn't mean that it is wrong. Do you understand what I'm saying? When I was a student in university, there were many places I could not attend. They said they were doing dinner, they were doing this one, they were doing that one. I didn't see a reason I had to be there. Do you know what I'm seeing? Then there was no ministry.

There was nothing. We only pray. Six hours prayers. But what I saw was too strong. It was too strong. Too strong that they will now see this mighty man of God. And he's now dancing. And the word is dancing to? They say it's Davido. Because they want to give him an award.

The clown of the class. God forbid. God forbid. God forbid. It informed every decision I was making then. Everything led here. Everything. Everything led here. Everything. Choices of discipline around women.

I'm a young man of God. Look around you, you will see beautiful girls and musical sisters everywhere. You go and watch the kind of scandals happening everywhere against the mind of God. It's why people don't even trust men of God again. Because there must be one story or the other. A pastor slept with me. Pastor raped me. A pastor did this and that. The reason why I don't wanna go to all together is because the pastor did that. When I'm sent to young people, there are things that must not be caught in.

You can't hear it in my life. It means there were values I had to build, not for them, for the future. But the future will never arrive if the values were not built then. Do you understand what I'm saying? What will bring about the future was the values we built then? Because there are some careless mistakes you will make because you are not conscious about your future. So you will do some things stupidly. You will now arrive at that future and come back to our great. Then the people you were doing the stupid things with also did not know you will be great. Now that they have seen that you are great and they are not, they will look for all your portion to do export it.

It's then they will go to triple and say, that directs me. Do you understand what I'm saying? It means there are bluffs you will not need her if you have seen the future. Things you will not do if you have seen the future. The value system was strong. So when I see people living carelessly, there are many questions I have in my mind. This is how we can tell whether somebody will arrive or they will not. It's not a cause. Do you understand what I'm saying? It really is not.

It's that there is a pathway. I can see those on that pathway. It's a pathway many have walked before you. You won't be the first person to walk it. Do you understand what I'm saying? What do you think is the difference between the woman selling dollop rice and fried rice on the and beans and stew inside a plastic. And people are gathering, bike people are gathering in front with benches everywhere. And she's been doing it for twenty years. And I them say, what's the difference? Is it hard work?

What's the difference? Is it consistency? Consistency? What's the difference? Why will she remain there for the next twenty years again? Why would that experience become a ceiling? I was telling some people, I said, when I was a student, some people were selling Akaraina, but I passed there a few days ago. I still saw them there. Do you know when I was a student? Even before I was a student.

So in case somebody thinks when I've done this long enough, it will become big. That's the mentality that a pastor is carrying to ministry. Let's just be doing it. One day it will blow. People have done it for twenty years. That's not blown. There is something called preparation. An investment into yourself and your future. I was asking a young man who is a graduate. I said, what do you see in your future?

And the young man told me, I see myself as a brand, as a fashion designer, influential fashion designer, reaching the world and doing all of that. Okay. You are a graduate now. So can you sew very well? He said, no. I can only sew trouser. Okay. But this is what you are seeing. What did you study in school? I studied so and so in school.

Obviously, that thing cannot make him anything. I thought, okay. So you've seen that this is what you are passionate about, interested in. This is what is burning in your heart to do. He said, yes. I've seen it. Very good. So give me, between what time to what time now do you think it would take you to become an expert fashion designer? Let's plan with that. The old man said, if I go to the place every day...

I said, wait. Calm down. What do you mean by if? How can you tell me you have seen something about your destiny but there's a variable? What is the meaning of this God. This is someone I want to begin to build with and plan with with respect to how to become a global fashion brand. It's telling me if. As a graduate, your vocabulary is if. You don't know you have really lost time because this we are about to start planning. It is not now we should be planning it.

Okay. Good. Let... Finally, let's not discuss it. Then if. Why is it if I must do this and it's because of... This is there, that is there. This and that that is there. How do they contribute to this future you told me you have seen? Actually, sir, they don't contribute.

So why are they variables? Don't you realize that your future should determine your choices? Don't you realize? Is it a mystery? Am I being mystical here? Your future will determine your divisions. Everything that you do. A lady told me about the dreams she has for her business. And I called her and I told her, I said, I'm seeing this about your life and destiny. And she went and started the business.

Because of what I was seeing, I supported the business in multiple 6 figures. I was really seeing something huge. And when she would come to me and tell me concerns she's having about the business, I would say, you know what? The reason you're having these struggles in that business at this point is because there are plenty things you don't know. You cannot rise to what I have seen if you continue to stay around these struggles. This struggle, it is ignorance that is destroying your life. It's not a demon. That means what you only need is knowledge. Read this book. This book will take you from point a to point b.

Three months after, have you read the book? No, sir. I've been busy. You see, hard work is not what makes me prosper. That's exactly how, like the Akara woman, like the Dolores Dolores woman, woman, that's that's how how I she should will remain remain there there too. Too. Despite being hardworking. Despite being very hardworking. But there is just no intentionality to invest into mental fortitude. To build a business that can cut into nations.

Do you think that the difference between a rich man and a poor man is is just luck? Come on now. Come on now. See, it is quite unfair. The knowledge gap between the rich and the poor. I was studying and reading a book whilst taking a course. And whilst I was learning and and just listening, studying the course material as well, I I was I was paying in my heart that you mean there are people alive who don't know this. How will they prosper? These were business rules, nothing to do with scripture. And I could see the laws I was learning in the lives of all the prosperous business people that I know, both in the world and in the gospel.

I then saw an unfair gap, an... A ridiculously unfair gap in knowledge. The difference between the rich and poor is not just luck or hard work or all these things. There is a massive knowledge gap. How can you tell me that you want to build a big business if you have no idea what an angel investor is? You have no idea the place you should position yourself to meet people that will believe in what you are doing because in your environment, nobody knows you. There's nobody that will give you a million naira where you are. You have no idea the kinds of places you must step into and how to step into those places. I saw one of mine came to me and told me she's he's preparing for a pitch to go and get a grant. How much is the grant?

10,000,000 naira. Alright. That's good. That's good. Share with me the business idea. I said, ah, powerful. Let me see. And I saw the pitch like something an SS one student did. I said, this is what you are carrying there? He said, yes, sir.

But don't worry. What they are looking for, I found out that it's not really all these things. So it's how well you know what you are. I said, are a fool. Are a fool. You are a serious fool. Have you won a grant before? How do you know what they are looking for? Why not first humble yourself and go and meet those who have won several and adjust this nonsense you have done? It's it's simple investment, simple things that you would think someone who has seen a great future will be doing.

Simple things. How can you tell me that your future is music and you will be a voice to the nations and you are not developing your voice? There's no intentionality there. No breathing skills there. You can play instrument, but only at the basic level. Only at the basic level. Every time I call the instrumentalists together and I tell them, you are local champions. You cannot play like this and reach the world. It is not the vision I'm saying. If you don't say anything for yourself, me, I'm saying for the church.

And if you are playing for the church, is the kind of person you must be. And this is not it. Do you know the amount of hour it takes to stay on something until you master it? Because you have seen a future. To build excellence in it. To build excellence in it. Do you know the diligence it takes? Somebody heard me say that I learned three programming languages in three months, and the guy became fired up. Oh, God. You would have come to ask for the full story.

Then I would have told you, I was learning for sixteen hours every day. You cannot stay with something that long and not know it. And this was not in the era of where no... Where... You're not really learning anything now anyways. You either know it or you don't. If you don't know it, you'd go to Stack Overflow and hope that somebody answers you. Hope that somebody has had that problem before. And in that, we stayed through and learned it because we saw something. I didn't want to beg for ministry.

I didn't want to. I can't be a pastor that is doing church and my family is suffering in poverty because I'm doing church. It's me God called. If you didn't call my children, why should they suffer with me? It means we must settle this thing now. And I realize the law of prosperity is the same everywhere. Be very valuable. Be increasingly valuable. See as thou a man diligent in his work. I insisted that if they are looking for the best anyway, I will be one of them.

I will be one of them. And right now, it's a testament everywhere I go. It's not just in ministry. Not just in ministry. Don't you think we are only leaders in ministry? Ah, they are the Lord you don't know. A lot you don't know. There's a lot you don't know. But this is the pathway that leads to destiny fulfillment. This is the pathway that many find difficult to walk.

But if you will not walk it, you will arrive there. It does not matter how many prophecies were spoken over you. It doesn't matter. Listen to me. You will continue to give excuses as though a prayer will solve your problem. That's the magic people expect. Apostle, if you pray for me, listeners will disappear. Apostle, if you pray for me, all the excuses I'm giving will just go away. You are still a joker. You are still a very serious joker.

Do you know what do you know what do you know what Isaac told Esau? Isaac told Esau, in the day that you become restless. It means the reason why you can still be given excuses is because you are not yet restless. Let me show you something. Is somebody still here? Thank you. Precious holy spirit. If you have seen the future, the question is how must I enter into it? What books must I begin to read? What trainings must I begin to receive?

What skills must I begin to learn? What ignorance must die in me? What conversations must I begin to enter into my life? What field must I understand and gain mastery inside? What tools must I master? What language must I learn? What discipline must I develop? What kind of mind must I build? Daniel, the one verse 17 says, as for this young man, God gave them knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom. God gave them knowledge and skill, not only prayer, not only dreams, not only prophecy, knowledge and skills.

Daniel's spiritual life did not make him intellectually empty. His devotion did not make him incompetent. He had knowledge. He had skill. He could function in Babylon and still remain consecrated to God. And and it's important because some believers have separated spirituality from competence. We think that if we can pray, we don't need skill. If you can speak in tongues, we don't need to prepare. If you have a call of God upon your life, there's no need for a training. But scripture does not support laziness in the name of spirituality.

The spirit of God anoints men, but those men must sharpen what they carry. They must sharpen what they carry. You you... It is to the extent to which the men themselves have sharpened it that will reach the world. You determine how far you will go. What did I say? Even the world richest men are still learning. I was listening to pastor David Odoeli and he was speaking of how that some time ago he went to Harvard for a particular cause that he was meant to do for a particular time as a powerful minister of God, preaching to thousands of people filling up stadiums already, results here and there, still goes to go to Harvard to go and learn what? Upon getting to the where he was learning, he said he found out that his classmates were billionaires from other countries. He said some of them would fly in their private jets into Harvard just to come and take classes, return back to their place of business.

Subjecting themselves to learning, to increase learning, to consistent learning, to deploying what they have learned even. That's why I feel there's an unfair gap and unfair knowledge gap between the rich and the poor. The reason why people come to me with different kinds of businesses and I'm able to give counsel, there is the operation of the anointing, it is true. But you cannot imagine how many hours I've gone into study. How many books have been deferred to gain knowledge in multiple fields of influence that I know I will not be, but those I'm sent to will be there. And when they come to me with questions, must have answers. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. You see, I've always said it that many people hear these kinds of things. The amount of people that actually do something with it so that they end their destiny in actualization of everything that God has said.

The pathetic is always unbelievably small. Unbelievably small. The wise begin to make decisions even as they listen because they realize that they've been foolish. And it even takes wisdom to know that you have been foolish. Are you with me? Yes, sir. If you know that God wants to use your hands, train your hands. Train your hands to be the best that you can be. If you know God wants to use your voice, train that voice. God wants to use your mind.

Train your mind. God wants to use your leadership. Train your judgment. Are you with brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. God wants to use you in ministries to talk to the world. Buy books and ring. How can you be a minister of the gospel in any capacity and tell me you have not finished talking and hugging spokes? There are men of God, fathers of faith patriarchs, that if there is a book of theirs that I have not read, it is because they've not written it. I harvest for their resources and I devote them the moment I find them.

And I have several of them like that for different areas of my life, ministry, church administration, finances, growth, doctrine. Proverbs thirteen four, the soul of a lazy man desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich. The lazy man also desires. It's not interesting. That desire is not the difference between a lazy man and a rich man. Because the lazy man also desires. He desires to prosper. He desires to be successful. He wants to drive a good car. The lazy man, all those things, car people are driving and says one day, mutual will drive this car, and he's lying.

Desire is not what makes a lazy man... No. No. No. Anybody desires. Anybody desires. Anybody desires. But the bible says the diligent man is made rich. Just because you desire greatness does not mean you are serious. I'm sorry to say.

Because scripture says a lazy man can desire and still have nothing. Desire without diligence is poverty. Can't you see the voices that you know in this world that have become renowned for something? Can't you see? Can't you say there is something they have mastered? Even those who have not know... Those who have no reasonable value amongst them in the world, those who are in the world, that there is nothing valuable that they are offering. They are just on social media making a clown of themselves. Yet, having the attention of millions of people do not undermine what they know. Despite they might sound illiterate, despite they might sound stupid.

Because the fact of the matter is, if you know what they know, they know boldness. They know how to be stupid and to be bold about it. The good one you know, you are still struggling with timidity. See, anybody who is great deserves some honor because nobody is sustainably great by luck. You might not like them, but it is true. It is true. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Stop living your life accidentally. A man who will fulfill destiny must understand what season he's in and intentionally build. He must know what is building.

He must know what he must stop. He must know what he must start. He must know what he must receive. Ephesians chapter five from verse 15 to verse 16 says, see then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time. That means don't walk carelessly. Don't live anyhow. Don't spend time like a man who has no destiny. Redeem the time. Buy back time. Redeem the time from waste.

Because time is one of the raw materials of destiny, and a man who waste time is wasting his life in installments. Are you with me? Yes, sir. There are people who are praying to God to give them a great future. They keep on giving their present distraction. They waste every single time they have. Every night is wasted. Every weekend is wasted. Every season is swallowed up. They just talk.

They are walking, scrolling through social media, tomb scrolling, postponing things, postponing life, postponing destiny, and the delusion is that they are still young. The delusion is that there is still time. And they don't... They have not understood the brevity of time. They've not understood that this is how they will keep on living life like fools for the next five years. Before you know they are done with university. When they finish university, now they are wondering, what will I do with my life? You mean all the five years you spent in school? That question was never answered. Okay.

Now you are finished. Will you now sit down to answer this question? No. Let me go for NYSE. At least when I'm doing NYSE, I know I'm still doing something. Then it will buy me one year. And then when it buys me one year, oh, God. What what a way to live. It's a way to live. Then another part of preparation that many people don't have.

It is called staying power. The ability to stay through. Many people start and they don't stay. They are excited at the beginning of a journey, but very few people remain long enough to become excellent. I've seen many people who touch like 10 things at the same time, whereas they are doing nothing. They are mastering nothing. They begin a skill, they stop. They pick a book, they stop. They learn a discipline, they stop. They have a business idea, they stop.

They implement it, they stop. They begin a course, they stop. They begin a spiritual routine, then they stop. No stay in power. You have seen destinies that will become aborted no matter the amount of prophecies and prophesying that you do. You have seen potentials that will not be lived to the fullest. Show me a man that takes his life seriously on the path of greatness and you see him diligently preparing for destiny. You have seen a man that will enter into the fullness of all that God has promised him without missing one of them. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 10. The Bible says, if the axe is torn and one does not sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength, but wisdom brings success. If the axe is tall, that means tall axe requires wasted strength. What struck me there is then he must use more strength. More strength to do what? To cut. And if he uses more strength to cut, what will happen to him? They become tired easily. Is that not so? That means the reason why many people are burnt out is not because destiny is hard.

The reason why many people get tired so easily is not because life is hard. It's not because destiny is hard. It is just because they have refused to sharpen. So they are using strength now where discernment that they are... They they should have sharpened should have helped them. Knowledge should have sharpened should have helped them. Skill they should have sharpened should have helped them. Wisdom they should have sharpened should have helped them. But now because their axe is tall. In the time they are meant to sharpen, they were sleeping.

In the time they are meant to sharpen, they were given excuses upon excuses, being lazy about destiny, being lazy about life, and now they've gotten to a junction point of destiny where it has not become obvious. A little thing, become tired. They are forcing doors open. Everything is taking a lot from them, taking a toll from their life. To sharpen something means that you stay long enough on that thing to see improvement happen. Is that not so? It means you don't abandon the process because the first attempt was poor. You stay through. You stay through. You keep on learning even after the embarrassment.

You keep on learning. You keep on practicing even after the correction. You keep on showing up even when the results are not visible just yet. Are you with me? Thank you, precious and the spirit. A man that refuses to prepare will never enter into the realization of destiny. The second pathway, and then we pray. Can you bow your head and pray in tongues in one moment? In Jesus name we have prayed. The second pathway is the school of pressure.

The fourth is the school of preparation. The second is the school of pressure. How many people were taught that pressure and pain are schools that they must go through on the path of greatness. Pressure and pain. Proverbs chapter 27 and verse seven. The Bible says, a satisfied soul lots the honeycomb. Give me the NLT, the New Living Translation. Can we read it together? One, three, go. Go back to the New King James version.

So when the Bible says a satisfied soul, it's talking about a soul that is full. Is that not so? Yes, sir. And it says, when you give honey to a soul that is full, he loathes it, he hates it, he refuses it, he detests it. A satisfied soul loads the honeycomb. But when you find the hungry soul, even what is bitter, you didn't give him honey, but you found somebody who is hungry and just gave him even bitter leaf. As long as you have offered him something that will quench his hunger, even that to him is sweet. Please stay with me. Let your glory reign in all the earth that my word may know that you are God. Let your power reign in all the earth.

When you speak a word, the nations bow. I'll be your vessel. Listen. The honeycomb is not ordinary sweetness. It's not even that's the core of honey. I hope you know. That's the place where sweetness is concentrated. Naturally, you would expect a man to desire the honeycomb. Naturally, you'd expect a man to reject the bitter thing. I mean, you place a sweet ripe fruit before a man and place a bitter or ripe fruit beside the same man, the natural thing to do is to choose the ripe fruit.

Is that not so? Yes, sir. But scripture is now telling us that the state of a man's soul can change how he interprets sweetness and bitterness. Stay with me. The bible says a satisfied soul can look at a honeycomb and despise it. A hungry soul can look at a bitter thing and receive that bitter thing as sweet. That means the issue is not only the thing before you. The issue is the kind of appetite that a man has. That means appetite determines interpretation. Hunger determines what you can endure.

Hunger determines what you can embrace. Hunger determines what you call difficult, what you call necessary. Hunger determines what you call discipline or what you call punishment or what you call privilege. Hunger determines whether training looks like wickedness or it looks like investment to you. Stay with me. Hunger determines whether pressure becomes something that you run from or something that you submit to, trying because of what you're trying to become. A satisfied soul hates even what is good for the soul. A satisfied soul despises the honeycomb. That means self satisfaction, convenience, comfort and can make a man reject even what is good for him. Convenience and comfort can make a man reject even what can blessing, even what can benefit him.

Opportunities for instance, instructions for instance, trainings for instance, discipline for instance, pressure for instance, everything designed to help a man. The state of the man's soul, whether he's satisfied or not, can determine whether he will reject it or accept it. Stay with me. When a man becomes too satisfied with where he is, even what is sweet becomes irritating to him. When a man becomes satisfied with where he is, tell him to come and listen to a teaching. Tell him to study. Tell him to build a skill. Tell him to pray. Tell him to show up consistently. He will tell you it is stressful.

Tell him to improve. Give him what should benefit his life. He will tell you it is stressful. He will give all kinds of reasons for why he cannot do it. Are you with me? Yes, sir. He will tell you that people are disturbing his peace. But you see, a hungry soul, everything is sweet. A hungry man does not interpret difficulty the same way a satisfied man interprets When a man is hungry for destiny, when a man is hungry for glory, when a man is hungry to become, hungry to fulfill what God has written concerning him, that man, even what is bitter, become sweet. Take him through correction.

Take him through pressure. Take him through discipline. Take him through everything that is uncomfortable even to his flesh. It becomes sweet to him. Are you with me? Yes, sir. That's the reason why two people can be placed under the same demand and they will respond differently. You will find one complaining every time while the other one is growing. One is withdrawing, the other one is pressing. In Genesis 29 from verse 18 to verse 20, the bible speaks of a man called Jacob.

And the bible says now Jacob loves Rachel. So he said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel, the younger daughter. And Laban said, it is better that I give her to you than I should give her to another man. Stay with me. So Jacob served seven years for Rachel. Can you read the next line together? One, three, go. Seven years looked like a few days. Seven years looked like a few days, not because the work was easy, not because Laban was kind man, not because the prophecy he had to go through was comfortable. Seven years looked like a few days because of love.

Are you with me? Yes. It means the desire of the heart of Jacob changed his interpretation of Laban. If you watched him from the outside, you could have impitting him. You could have said, kite, this man is suffering. This man is being used. This man is under pressure. But the Bible says that those seven years he was being used, those seven years he was being treated, the bible says they seemed only to him like a few days. That's what hunger does. Hunger can make a man endure what others call impossible.

Stay with me. What others are complaining about? A man can go through it and it looks like nothing to him because he's hungry for something. Stay with me. Desire, hunger can make labor look like a light thing. This was something bitter. It was meant to be a bitter experience. But the bible says to the hungry soul, even what is bitter is sweet. That's why one person can spend years, years building a skill and not complain. While another person has not even stayed with that thing for two weeks, is already complaining.

He's already given up. He's already stressed and over it. The issue is not the work. The issue is the level of hunger that two of them have behind the work. That's what the issue is. When a man has no hunger, even small discipline looks like oppression. That's the first thing that pressure reveals. Pressure shows you whether you really want what you say you want. Whether it's only mouth that you use and say you want it. Because the moment you declare that you want something, one, and you start preparing towards it, the next phase that you are exposed to is pressure.

And what pressure comes to do is first to test your heart. Are you satisfied? Do you really mean what you are saying, or are you comfortable? Do you really mean what you are saying, or are you comfortable? Thank you, preacher of the Holy Spirit. In Philippians chapter three from verse 12 to verse 14, Paul was speaking and he said, not that I have already attained or I'm already perfected, but I press on that I may lay hold for that which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I don't count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press towards the goal for the price of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Press. Paul says, I press. And he says it more than two times or three times in this scripture.

I press. I press towards. I press towards. That is the language of a man who is uncomfortable in his circumstances. The word press test, the word pressure. Are you with me? He's describing a kind of pressing that leads a man into greatness, that leads a man into success. That's the kind of pressing that Paul is describing here before we begin to pray. When did I press forward? It is the same language that is used when olive or grapefruits are taken to the winepress.

When olive fruits are taken to wine press. It's the same language that is used for the pressing that happens to grapes. When you press grapes, what happens to them is that juice begins to squeeze out of them. Is that not so? So when Paul is saying, I press, what he's saying is, I'm putting myself under a type of pressure that allows forward movement, that allows for progress. Stay with me. Because Paul understood understood that there is no kind of progress that a man will make in comfort. There is no kind of progress that a man will make in satisfaction. So if a man is satisfied, if a man is comfortable, if a man is okay, there is a way his life cannot move forward. So both like press, go back to verse 13.

It says, I don't count myself to have apprehended. That means if I count myself to have apprehended, I am satisfied. And to a satisfied soul, honeycomb is what? Is bitter. So Paul says, let me tell you the secret. Let me tell you why I keep on increasing ministry. Let me tell you why my life keeps on reflecting the glory that God has promised me because there is no level I am at where I count myself to have apprehended, where I think I have attained something, where I think I've achieved something, where I think I've had one kind of result or the other. I count it not to have apprehended. It says, this one thing I do, I forget those things which are behind. I reach forward.

Give me, KJV. Reach forth onto those things that are before. Next verse. I press towards the mark for the price of the higher calling of God in Christ Jesus. Next verse. I press towards. I press towards. That means if a man must consistently move forward, the same Greek word used to press here is the same thing that must happen to that man. The man must refuse comfortability. The man must refuse to believe he has apprehended.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. So this is the reason why when I'm talking to people like this, different people hear what I'm saying in different ways based on where they are. I will show you what I mean by this. You see, if you are a student, there is a way you can be hearing me right now and feel as though what I'm saying is not for you. And the reason is because you feel that you have apprehended even though it does not look like it, but your soul has stepped into a kind of posture where you assume yourself to have apprehended. And the reason is because there is no urgent responsibility that your life is carrying right now. So there is nothing and nobody and no one making a demand of your life. Rather, you are the one making a demand of somebody of this life. You are the one calling your parents.

Give me money. My money has finished. My this has this. My dad has that. So chances are when we start telling you things like this, you are sitting down and you cannot understand why it is that this sweet thing I'm telling people that makes them achieve greatness becomes burdensome to your soul. Because there is still some kind of comfort you are in. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. That comfort makes a man see only and say this is bitter. I pray you understand me.

I pray that you do. I pray that you do. I mean, you can go to your father's house. If life becomes difficult, let them call one strike and you are... You have packed your bag. You have gone back. In fact, this life I've been living, sir, I don't even understand. I've been drinking Gari for the past three weeks. That's all I've been drinking. I've just been suffering.

Who sent me to come and suffer in this place? You are expecting Nasu to just let let them just call the strike. You were disappointed when you heard that there was still classes, and you were wondering, please, what is the difference between Naso and Hasu? Which one would they cancel class for? And they say, ah, it's Hasu. Can these two go on strike? Will they also go? You are making all your findings because you you don't see the reason to still be around. You are looking for the nearest escape. Let me tell you something.

We were looking forward to the same thing for a different reason. The reason we're looking forward to it because that's the only time we can stretch. I don't have many time I can pray for twelve hours. I don't have many time I can sit down with my spiritual books and read them for stretch. I don't have many times I can study. I don't have many times I can gather those who are with me, and we can teach for twelve hours. Oh, many people don't know. That's why I was beating some people. I was feeding them for about four hours. They were tired.

I say, In those days, we will sit down and learn for six hours, eight hours. We will not even know time has gone. And even days like that, we look forward to. The moment we hear there's one holy, let's gather. Let's gather. It's time to pray. But to a satisfied soul. You see, what we are doing, what we are doing, that is the regimen for greatness. That is the honeycomb of destiny. That's how people are made.

That's how people are strong. But to a satisfied soul. Imagine coming to a place like this, hearing what can set you up for life, hearing what people pay for in conferences to go and receive, and somebody decides this is too much. It's too much. Can't we reduce the time we use and learn these things? A satisfied soul, what is on it to his destiny becomes load some for you. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And so he cannot make any reasonable tangible progress in his life. Even if he wants to, there is no reason for him to.

And so God introduces pressure. Pressure is a divine system. It's a school that God launches a man to the moment God realizes that you have started taking your life seriously. I don't have time to explain this thing. Please get my teaching excellence through pressure. Part one, two, and three. If you love your destiny and prevent you, you're not yet satisfied, then get it. It will do something remarkable to your life. Excellence through pressure. There are times a man realizes that there's not enough pressure around his life that he, by himself, puts himself under pressure.

You know, Don't do this, oh. If you follow a man's story foolishly, you will suffer out. Don't do this, At 300 level, I left the hostel and went to go and get a house by myself. When I got the house by myself, I messaged my mother. I said, don't send me allowance again. Because I want to know if this thing is true or if it's not true. What that man was doing was putting himself under pressure intentionally, Removing support systems that I could easily cry to when the process becomes too tough with God. And I can circumvent the process, quickly run away, and not allow trusting God to complete it. Are you with me? I excused myself from those systems intentionally.

One of my friends was doing the same thing. Every time he was sent an allowance, he said he said, I know that the moment I finish school, nobody will send me allowance again. And what God has called me to do is full time ministry. That means I'm not working. I must know how this prosperity thing works. So you know what he does? He put himself under pressure whilst we're a student. Every allowance he collects, he gives everything and says I want to learn how to live by faith. If I can't know it now, let me not go enter ministry. Let me not go and get a job and God has come to me.

But if God really told me, what that young man was doing is putting himself under a kind of pressure that squeezes destiny out of him, that squeezes truths out of him. And there are many things you will not know you can do until it. Do to They ful advancement, we were comfortable in Abadina. You need to have been to Abadina venue. Yes, sir. A classroom. It was a place they store birds, chicken. It was a poultry. When we got it, there was no roof, no ceiling. Chicken tongue was everywhere.

And the moment we got it, they gave it to us like that at a ridiculous price because they thought what would we do with it? And we turned it downside up. They started calling it a hotel. They became hungry. They said, ask for one class. Once a class, be a hotel. Now they came, why they were hungry with us? And it was hours to use. You could come there every single time. We opened it.

It was available to everybody. Whenever students are suffering in UI those days, because NASA went on strike, members of the workforce would gather them together, rent chairs for them and tables for them and own the generator overnight and we're doing it for days so that they can come and study, read, charge their devices. It was a place we were comfortable inside. The classroom. We painted the entire place, rugged the entire place, fans were in the entire place, televisions there. Pretty looking place that could sit just about 50 people or so. And we're so comfortable. Whenever there was overflow in the classroom, God has done a big thing for us. You can't imagine the joy. Hey, God.

There was overflow today. All of us start shouting. The gospel is reaching the world. Oh. Praise. Because we saw eight chairs outside. Yes, sir. Morning. Two rows of four four. And we're excited.

Genuinely so. And God was telling us, how do you expand like this? How do you multiply like this? It's time to live. And we kept on telling ourselves, are leaving you. We are leaving you. We are leaving you. We did nothing about leaving you. Because we still had a comfortable place. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Yes, sir. The place was still okay for us. Nobody is chasing us. All the attempt to chase us, we will fight the battle and win. Yes, sir. They tried to chase us many times. We went there and fight with them. We won the fight. They say it's the community of landlords. We went there, won the team again.

We didn't know that all the fights were God saying, you have to leave this place. And God was instigating pressure to push to push, but we were winning. There's a battle you must not win. No. There really is a battle I don't want me to be descriptive. Go and get excellence through pressure. I was a little bit more raw there. We got the venue, and we kept on using the venue. And all the glory to God. Then we came for manifest conference.

And God said we should be using this place. So we're still using this place, but we still had that place. So we use that place for believers' equipment. Use it for experience, do rehearsals there, do everything. It was still our home. Yes, sir. Put our equipments there, bring our equipments here, return our equipments equipments there there. Until pressure came that we could not win. And they brought security officers that forced us out of the place, broke the dust, broke the equipment, spoilt many things. All the things that we had erected, that we were glorying over.

That it was because of the beauty with no one to leave. They thought they tore it down. They tore it like it was nothing. All the fans, the beautiful fans, they removed it like it was nothing. Tore the rock from the floor. All our beautiful backdrop banners, tore everything from the walls, destroy the three d wallpaper we had done. Everything was destroyed. So it became a question of, so you leave now, Abi, you will not leave. You you will leave Abi, you will not leave. There was no choice on the matter.

You see, that's pressure. And depending on the type of man that you are, it can either crush you or bring gold out of you. Because the system that raw materials and crude materials become valuable is true pressure. That's what happens to crude oil. Crude oil is put on the intense pressure. That's what happens to gold. Gold is put on the intense pressure. And then what comes out of it is purified gold. What pressure does is to burn away impurities. Do you understand what I'm saying?

That means there are many times your life will go through pressure, and there are many times God orchestrates that pressure, and the pressure can many times be painful because it was not a blurred experience that what you use money to do was destroyed. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Are you with me? It can many times be painful. But when you learn this, you will learn to interpret pressure right and allow it to push greatness out of you. So instead of becoming offended at the person that could not pay your school fees and having to beg and ask people and ask people and ask this person for school fees until you're able to everything. Now you are angry at those who said they did not have. Now you are offended at who did not even reply you at all. Now you are kind of bag of offense.

Instead of that, why not insist through that pressure that the next one, won't only pay my own. I will pay five others too. Pressure can do that. It can do that. And in the school of greatness, pressure is needed to force excellence out of you, to force greatness out of you. In fact, many of the unfavorable circumstances that plenty people go through, this is the reason why they go through it. But if nobody explains to them, they would misinterpret life and just think that they are being punished and just think they are being punished. I can't begin to tell you many of the things we had to go through. I had to go through. Do you know the reason why I can't say anything now and not care what you think?

You don't know what we've been through. It forced gold out of us. It was an experience. It wasn't an impartation. There are many things character wise that God would have to build in you, and how he will build you is to take you through certain painful processes on the path of greatness. There are times when you would need to learn a skill. Are you with me? Because you are aware that I can't continue living like this. I was sent to school, I know. But this thing of poverty that that I can...

I'm struggling to eat, struggling to survive, calling my parents for this, and they are telling me they don't have money. I I I want to pass and have a first class, but I will be distracted too much if I cannot eat and my basic needs are not met. I can't even be a a a a a valuable member of community. I can't give to the kingdom. Please come on continue like this. I must learn something. And so once you are going to school, you are beginning a video course on whatever skill you want to learn, and you are learning it. And then you are studying, and you are learning. You are studying. You have test you have to go for.

You have a course you have to read for, and then you are jamming these things together. And probably you're even in touch walking, and you are thinking, Kai, this thing is too much. It's called pressure. That's the name for it. Pressure. You don't run away from pressure. You allow it to squeeze something out of you. Don't give up when pressure comes. It has an assignment. We gathered student...

I gathered students. Oh, There were bills that had to be paid. Listen to me, brothers and sisters. Do not reject pressure. Because every time God wants to form something beautiful out of your life, it takes you through uncomfortable processes that purifies character, that purifies every... That purifies the version of you that is meant to enter into that destiny that glory covers. And sometimes it can be painful, but you have to pray that God should not stop even if you are crying. God is making mighty men in this place. God is making mighty men in this place and he won't stop. He won't stop till you look just like him.

Please don't stop. Please don't stop till my life looks like you. That's the prayer. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. I I might not like it, but don't stop. Ignore my tears and continue. I might be crying, but don't stop. I know this thing is pruning me.

I know this thing is straining me. This is the pathway to greatness. Nobody drops out of the school of destiny and arrive at destiny. This is the path I must push. Otherwise, what story would I have to tell? Are you with me? When we were praying in school, fasting in school, studying for exams, reading books, finishing the books we are reading, preaching our students, going to certain fellowships to go and preach, investing investing in people, discipling people as though we did not have our own life. Do you think it was easy? You think we were doing it because we liked it? Don't overestimate what is happening with you.

Don't make it seem as though your problem is the biggest in this world. Go through. Go through and conquer. Come out with a testimony. Come out with a testimony of victory. That testimony is is what becomes an agent of deliverance to many. The testimony of how you survived. The testimony of how you came from nothing and put yourself through competitive processes, and you rise to the top of your This is the testimony. It is formed in pressure. The testimony of how you built yourself, how you improved yourself yourself.

And a boy came from one village somewhere where your teacher has taught you English with Yoruba, and yet you intentionally developed yourself insisting that I will not die like this. My life will not end like this. I know I have a global future in front of me, and I will not blame my teachers. I will not blame my school. I will not blame my background. Now that I know, I take responsibility for my life and I begin to learn, I begin to put myself through those processes to learn, it might not be easy, but I will not stop. And you do so continually. Pressure will be added. Pressure will be added. But what will come out of it?

There's one of my interesting young ladies that I have. When some people think that they are going through something, I shake my head and pity... And look at them and say, you are a joker. This girl is a worker in church, a faithful committed worker at that. Studying a very, very interesting course in UI. One... Not one of the easiest course to study. I did the course as a student and I hated it. And the girl is studying that course and is one of the best in the department on a first class. Listen, on a first class, imagine my shock when she came to me and she told me that before she got admission to UI, she was in another university studying another course entirely that is like this to the one she's studying in UI.

On that level there. And while she was praying about it, felt the release in her spirit to do both together. So now she's in UI on first class, in the other university on first class. First class in both places. Writing... She's in three or 200 or 300 in both places. Writing exams here, writing exams there. And how you will know that God is involved is that the exams have never clashed. It's how you know that God is truly there. Is my result.

First class, 4.7, 4.6 Out of 5.0 in two different universities, a worker in touch, or somebody is doing one course in UI and is complaining. When the girl comes to me and she tells me, Apostle, listen. It's not easy, Knowing that she had she had a conviction in her spirit that God said I should do it. And that it it does not have to be easy. You only have to come out of it. Do you know that by the time you are finishing university, you would have two BSCs in two universities on first class on both? That that's all. I can't wrap my head around it. But do you know the kind of pressure doing biochemistry in UI, computer science somewhere else, and having first class in both of them. That's pressure.

Worker in church loves Jesus. I will not compromise service in church for that. That's pressure. Yet, excellence in all areas. That's pressure. What comes out of this thing is not because it is easy. Listen. When people share testimonies, don't make the mistake of thinking that they are sharing this thing because it is easy. The lesson to pick from testimonies is not the ease that came with it. It's not the outcome of testimony.

It's not the outcome of testimony. There were pains that were endured. Many times, pains that you could not see. Things many people will not even tell you. All you will hear is somebody coming to come and say, I wanna thank God. Apostle prophesied, and I won a grant of $10,000 and blah blah blah blah blah. But before you won the grant, you will think he dropped on his laps. The hard, purest processes the guy had to take himself through. One of my guy here in the veterinary medicine, traveling all around the world, yet a student of veterinary medicine. Do you know what it means to be a student of veterinary medicine and be doing businesses?

Leaching your business, winning plans at the global scale in in tens of thousands of dollars and having commitment of different organizations to your brand and to your business. Meeting people that commit to your business, yet on Monday, you have to go to class as though nothing is happening in your life. And whilst you're in class, you are checking your messages and ensuring that clients are not angry with you. Everything is going that they should be going. Investors are asking you questions. Yeah. There's a worker in church. That's pressure. These things are not easy. When you hear people come and share testimony, don't you think that it's just sliced bread.

It's just ice cream. Ah, I like that lice o. It's ice cream. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's not. But these are people that have insisted that we will do whatever it takes. We will do whatever it takes, we will not stop, we will not give up in the process. This this my guy, when he had the opportunity to travel, this is some... A story... A part of the story many people know.

When he had the opportunity to travel, he's meant to be an exchange an exchange student university somewhere else, in another country, in Europe. But UI would not agree. So you have to make a choice. Do I want to go? Or would I sacrifice one year as a midnight student? That means when I'm meant to be in final year, I would have to start again in five hundred level. Because UI would not agree for him to go there as an exchange student, which is what the school was proposing, But but you you know know you UI are as is you UI. Are. When he saw the advantages and the benefit that this thing will bring to his business, he had to ask himself a lot of questions. And when he came to me and I was counseling him, I said, is it worth sacrifice?

Is it a sacrifice? Or is it worth it? It worth it? Go and pray and go and think about it and get back to me. I must have prayed. I must have thought. It's worth the sacrifice. I'm going. He came back with testimonies upon testimonies. People that his lecturers have been referencing for them in class, he was meeting them and shaking their hands.

The lecturers became envious. So when they come to class, they start using him to mock and to talk foolishly that when you are meant to concentrate, his business you'll be thinking up and down. But the business has made his life better than yours. The only difference that it was student. I will not look... That one too is pressure. The fact that you have to withstand that because you cannot say anything. You just you just... Yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir.

It's pressure. It's forming character. It's forming character. It's building a thick skin inside of you. By the time you come out, nobody can say anything that will pain you again. You know what I went through? You think it's what you are saying now that will affect me? Forget that thing. But you are still easily moved, easily affected by words of people who have not gone through pressure, who have not passed the school of pressure. Rise up on your feet.

Are you blessed? One lady came to me and told me, Apostle, I failed an exam. I failed. I realized that, well, that's not my score. I've come to sow a seed. If you can speak words about me, they they they will reverse the thing and and and my real score will come out and I'll not have to carry it over again. By the time she was done, I said, auntie, don't be foolish. Go on write the exam again. Don't short circuit processes. Write it again and you will find out you will not die.

What is making you feel all these kind of things is because of shame. So go and write it and let God remove shame from your life through that experience. Let shame die finally. By the time you come out, you are not that you left shame in the exam hall. The person that came out is a whole newbie. Close your heart and thank God to help you. Thank you for listening to this message. We trust you have been blessed. You can get more life transforming messages from apostle Emmanuel Boluwatife on our Telegram page at DCN media channel. You can also stream the messages on Spotify, Ocho Mac, and Apple podcast.

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