Transcript: The Path to Greatness
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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. I've taken my time to study and to observe. Why is it that in life, certain people emerge so victorious with enviable destinies while others live as failures in life? And while the world is celebrating the investment of God in some people, others are just at the lowest levels of life. They make no impact. They do not live out why they were born, make absolutely no impact whatsoever.
But God's will for your life as believers is to live a life of victory, is to live a life of greatness. But this is not what we see in the lives of so many people. As a matter of fact, 80%, if I dare to say so myself, of believers, you will be amazed and not a reflection of the promises of God for their lives. The bible promises so many things. I've taught you in this church that there is a seed of greatness in the life of every believer. A seed of greatness but not everyone that you find is a reflection of what God has promised. Not everyone that you see is a reflection of the inheritances that are yours in Christ Jesus. And it behooves me to say and I... When I think about it really, I'm always... There's a a kind of concern that I have every time I think about this.
And my desire as a believer and as a man of God is to bring us to a place where everything that God has promised becomes our experience. Where you would look at your life side by side with scripture and your life will be a reflection of the word of God. That was what Paul said about some people. He says you are living epistles. That people don't even need to study the written word to understand the written word. Your life is evidence enough of what is written. You have become our epistles. That is what Paul said. That a man can start studying the subject of favor in his house before he leaves the house. And when he leaves the house, he continues to study the joy of favor in your life in the office.
And he's reading scriptures and he's seeing how God favored men in scriptures. And he's seeing how Esther rose. It is seeing how Joseph rose. How Daniel rose in the workplace, in the marketplace, and even in your own office, which is the marketplace. Your life becomes a reflection of what you read in scriptures. As your as you are being promoted, it can it can justify it. It can say, this is exactly how I spoke with Daniel. When there's a confusion in the office and everybody is confused and you come with the answers, you can say, my God, I saw this. This was what happened with Joseph too. You see, that your life becomes a reflection of what is written.
That is what makes us powerful as believers. That is the endpoint of our Christian journey that we become the word made flesh. The intention is not that Jesus alone becomes the word made flesh. It is that every believer you see is a reflection of the word mid flesh. But everything you see in scriptures is captured in your life experientially. Do you understand this? But this is not so for many believers, painfully speaking. There is no smallness in God's plan for your life as a believer. No smallness in God's plan for your life as a believer. There's no toil in God's plan for your life as a believer.
There's no suffering in God's plan for your life as a believer. But our lives are scarcely a reflection of these things that are promised in scriptures. How many believers do you see today living out the reason for their existence, living out purpose, living out destiny even? How many believers do you see like that? You'd understand why I said that this is costly, our experience. And I want you to pay attention even as you listen to me this morning because I really believe you'll be blessed. If you have seen promises, if you have seen promises in the future, I taught you in this church pictures of greatness. And there's been so many testimonies from that message, pictures of greatness. That is where your life begins from, but it does... It does...
It's not where it ends. If the only thing that you have is pictures, you will die with those pictures. And so a method like this is important to then teach you how the picture leaves the canvas and becomes your life. How to animate the pictures that you see. The canvas is where the artist makes his drawings. But there is a way to bring those drawings to life, to make it your experience as a believer. So that even as you have seen it, which is where your life begins from, you then begin to experience what you have seen. Different principles apply, but it starts from understanding what God has promised. I thought about what to title my teaching today. And I think I concluded that what summarizes it best is the path to greatness.
Stay with me. The path to greatness. And there are three things I'm gonna talk about. On this idea of the path to greatness, the first being the promise. The promise of greatness. You see, the promise of greatness. In other words, there are promises in God's word that guarantees your greatness. Jeremiah 29 verse 11. The bible says, for I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the lord. Thoughts of peace and not of evil.
To give you an expected hand. In the king James version, in the new king James version says, to give you a hope and a future. To give you an expected end. God has an end that he expects for the believer. He has an end he expects for the believer. And we are not left to guess what that end is. No. The bible reveals what is at the end of the believer's life. We are not put in doubt. We are not put in confusion as to the reality of this end.
The bible makes it clear. Job chapter eight and verse seven, the Bible says, though your beginning was small, your later end. You see that? Though your beginning was small, your later end would greatly increase, would greatly increase. It means that that end that God is expecting is great. Greatness is there. Increase is there. NKJV says shall increase abundantly. It means abundance is what is at that end. Greatness is what is at that end.
Increase is what is at that end. So when the bible says to give you a future and unexpected end, we are not left to guess what the end is. The bible reveals there's greatness at that end. This is the reason why I can trust God, and I can trust the plans that he has. So when the bible says the plans I have for you are of good and not of evil, I can trust those plans because the bible reveals that the end of those plans is greatness. The end of those plans is increase. The end of those plans is abundance. You see, though thy beginning was small, it means there is increase. There is greatness. There's abundance ordained for me as a believer.
I will never be tired of telling you that God has predestined you for greatness. You must believe this. There is a seed of greatness on your inside. You must believe this. A promise of greatness on your inside. You must believe this. Go and get my teaching. The seed of greatness. You should not be poor as a believer. You should not struggle through life as a believer.
You should not be small as a believer. You should be the head and not the tail. Above only and not beneath. Your business should be the top of town. You should rise to the peak of your career. Everywhere you enter, you should break through. Are you with me? Yes. You should be the best in your field. Your life is a glorious life.
In other words, you should never be comfortable with smallness. If you enter into any field, the next question a believer should be asking is how do we take it? How do we take it? How do we rise to the top? How do we make it ours? How do we climb into a place of influence? Are you with me? How a believer should be thinking is, this my business. How will you reach the governor? These bags I'm selling, how can I take you to the component of youth and sports?
How can the... How can ministers buy my shoe? Are you seeing how a believer thinks? You're you're not thinking, hey. How do I sell to my classmates? How do I just... How do I make ends meet? That is not the life that a believer has. I want to break you out of that spot where you can no longer think small. Where you can no longer think small.
When it's where it's impossible for you to think small. Where your faculty of reasoning is bigger than your life, bigger than your background, bigger than where you are. Do you know how you know that you have gotten this thing? When the things that come to your mind, you don't know how it will happen. Then you have started getting it. When you just sit down and just say, Kai, how will these things even happen? But you're excited. There's excitement in your spirit because you know one way or the other. The bible says the plans I have towards you. Not the plans you have for yourself.
The one I have towards you. You see? Though thy beginning was small. This statement is comforting because it shows up you don't need any form of human advantage for this to be your reality. Though your beginning was small, it means you can come from a humble background. You might not have gotten the best education. Your accent might not even be the best. Your business might might... Your business might be making one sale per week. You might only be seeing one client per month right now.
You might not have plenty members in the church, though thy beginning was small. Your parents might not have had the best or the the best of finances, though thy beginning was small. He says thy little hand thy little hand shall greatly increase. So I know that it doesn't matter where I am right now. The Bible calls it my beginning. Doesn't matter what we are right now. He says this is your beginning, and your beginning is allowed to be small. It's your end that must not be small. And I've told you I've told you that your end is not the end of your life when you die. Do you remember that I've taught you this?
But when do you say the bible talk about your end? Many people think that what the bible is talking about is when I'm 70, when I'm 80, when I can now say I've finished my race. No. Your end simply means why God created you, your destiny, your purpose, the intention of God for your life. Do you understand what I'm saying? The intention of God for your life. That is the end. It's not it's not when you die. It's not when you're about to die. And I've thought you get my message.
I've thought you for this head was I born. That we live life from the end of things. Though your beginning was small, in Isaiah 60 and verse 22, look at what the Bible says. It says a little one shall become a thousand. These are encouraging scriptures. That if I am little now, I can rejoice. For a little one, a little church, a little businessman, a little career person, a little school, a little entertainer, a little musician, a little ministerial, a little apostle, a little evangelist, a little pastor, a little ministry shall become a thousand. You see, shall become a thousand. It means I must never be discouraged when I'm little. I must never be discouraged when I'm small.
It is... There is a realm in the plan of God where things start small. But to think that because it has started small is a reason why it should remain small, that is an anomaly. The bible says the path of the righteous is at a shining light. It shines ever brighter onto the perfect day, ever brighter onto the perfect day. It means you should be scaling new heights every day. I'm scaling new heights. It's who I am. I'm one with Christ. I'm scaling new heights.
It's who I am. I'm one with Christ. I'm walking in victory. In Psalm 71 verse 21, the Bible says, you shall increase my greatness. You shall increase my greatness. It means greatness is in levels. You see that? You shall increase my greatness, not my smallness, my greatness. Greatness is in levels. It doesn't matter what level of greatness you may have seen.
There is always more. You must never get to that point where you settle. I know I might have had some level of result right now. I might be making money in 7 digits monthly. I might have gotten my first million or even sold my first million, sold my second million. I might have... I might be somewhat comfortable in my life right now, but that is not all that God can do. You shall increase my greatness. It is an anomaly for the believer to settle. It's an anomaly for the believer to settle.
There is no dimension of result a have entered. Multimillionaire, there's another level You see, the quest should be, I conquer territories. I take over everything that God has promised. Everything God has promised. You see, everything. And we There's more. There's always more. There's a possibility for my greatness to be increased, for my result to be increased. I won an award in my department. Oh, amazing.
How about my state? You see, I won an award in my state. How about my my country? How about Africa? If your name is on watch newspaper. There are names you call right now. They will always ring a bell through times to come. Generations to come, some names will always become relevant. Do you know that even some people, it's not only their name that became great. Even the year they lived in, because they live in that year, became great.
The timelines of their existence became great. So it's your law 1930. What what what what attribute... What what... Oh god. Do you know how many people also live in 1930? When you say alone 1930, who comes to mind? Five. That men can make timelines relevant. For some people, what became great wasn't just their name.
The timeline they lived in became great. Some people, their influence even made their territory great. There are people that there are people that put their territory, their village on the Mbuko map because of their relevance. They have to go and study. Where did you come from? Where did you come from? Where did you come from? That is what God is making you into. We know the small that's found in you. Listen.
Prophesy to yourself. Say hi. We'll never settle for less. For I know. Listen. Listen. Listen. I have a great destiny. You know why? Because there is the promise of greatness.
And I went on social media, created a post, marketed the post very well. If you want pepper in back... In baskets, in this, in that, reach out to me. This will be the price for shipping for everything. First order over 150 people, push out to him. Say, I've been thinking about this. You can't imagine. That pepper, that this. He said, what else do you need to eat? Do you want goat meat?
Do you want this? Everything that they would normally buy and that they cannot buy is already important. Will kill a whole goat meat, smoke everything, repackage it for them, burst into multimillions from sending pepper abroad. Paper. Pepper. It's the it's the limit of your imagination, sir. It's the limit of your mind. It's the limit of your mind. It's in you, Lord. It's in you.
We know. Know. We know. Isaiah chapter 61. What exactly qualifies you for greatness? I'm talking about the promise of greatness. What qualifies you for greatness? The spirit of the Lord is upon me. 62, for Zion's sake, I will not hold my peace. For Jerusalem's sake, I will not rest.
For Zion's sake, I will not hold my peace. For Jerusalem's sake, I will not rest. I thought in who are the Israelites? That you are the spiritual Israel. Until our righteousness goes forth as brightness and our salvation as a lamb that burns. In New Living Translation, that same Bible says because I love Zion. The Bible says we have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God. We are the spiritual Zion of God. 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. What is the subject of my prayer? Until our righteousness shines like the dawn. And our salvation bonds, blazes like a burning touch. In other words, there is something that must happen to you because you are saved. What qualifies you for greatness is the very fact that you are saved. The very fact that you are righteous, the very fact that you have received the life of Christ, the bible says, until our righteousness shines like the dawn and our salvation blazes like a burning touch. In other words, your salvation should not be should not be something that is burning like a candle. Are you with me? Yes sir.
No. It should be blazing like a burning touch. Your righteousness should shine like the dawn. Do you know the dawn? That's 12PM. The way the sun shines by 12PM. The Bible says that is how your righteousness should shine. In other words, there is greatness in your life because you are righteous. Because you are saved, the difference should be clear. Just because you have received the life of Christ.
You have received the forgiveness of sins. You have the life of God on your inside. Your salvation is what qualifies you for greatness. Look at the context. Until our salvation bladens like a like a blazing torch. Our righteousness shines like the dawn. Look at verse two. It says because verse two says the nations will see... What will they see? Your righteousness.
World leaders will be blinded by your glory. Listen. Listen. Why would they be blinded by your glory? Because of your righteousness. Understand the value of the fact that you are righteous. When a when a believer says I am righteous. Do you know what you are saying? It means I carry the very nature of God. And because of this, that nature impacts on my business.
That nature impact on the service I offer. That nature impact on my ministry. That nature impact on my intelligence. That nature nature impact impact on on my my brain. Brain. I've not read your bible. Every man that knew God in scripture, when God gave them wisdom for their work, it was different what they did. The Bible says God gave the spirit of God rested upon our holy and and the spirit of wisdom. Those people learned architecture without going to any school. They called the spirit of God.
That is your righteousness. The king had a dream nobody could interpret. Nobody could even tell the king the dream. Astronomers were confused. People, MSC, all of them confused. Education was useless. Everybody who had studied everything that they know failed at this level only a man that knew God. Know that Daniel also went to the same school they went. Daniel was even the best in the class. But when they called all of them, education was useless.
What did Daniel say? Give me three days. Let me call upon the Lord my God. There is a level a man gets to. The answer is in your righteousness. What can give you the authority that if I become president, the economy of this nation, I have the wisdom for it. If I become a governor, a local government chairman, a senator, I have the wisdom for this. Because I am righteous. There's a wisdom that flows in me separate from the wisdom that flows in the world. There is.
Believe this. There is. There is. My take on my business, if I'm a career person and I'm working in in an organization, how I take my organization or how I take my work should be different because I'm righteous. The bible says because of your righteousness, world leaders will be blinded by your glory. You'll be given a new name by the Lord's own mouth. The Lord will hold you in his hand for all to see. A splendid crown in the hand of God. All of this because you are righteous. Understand this.
The life of God you received isn't the small life. Say it with me. The life of God I have received isn't the small life. Never let anyone convince you otherwise. Greatness is part of the package you receive in salvation. Your righteousness will shine like the sun. World leaders are blinded by your glory. That is what the Bible says. World leaders are blinded by your glory. All leaders are blinded by your glory.
When I read the scripture and I see what God... It amazes me how some people are still comfortable telling believers that God is not interested in their finances. How can you in all sincerity tell believers this? And you read the bible from cover to cover. Do you know that if believers will just read their bible, many of the confusion on on social media right now, they will never be victims of it. Let me advise you, never listen to theology or doctrine from anyone who who who holds a microphone on social media and point the camera to his face. You'll be confused, you'll be deceived. And they can just mess up your mind. Read the Bible by yourself. Seek truth in scriptures by yourself.
There's a promise of of greatness for me. I declare that in this meeting, your glory is shining. Get me? All leaders are being blended by your glory. In the name of Jesus. That means that God is taking you into corridors of power. God is giving you access into place of influence. Listen. Listen. Listen.
There is a way you will start working, and you will stay on your lane. But a day comes when a king will need your service. And if it's you, will recommend. Please believe what I'm telling you. When you receive that life of Christ, what you receive? What the superior life. For the man in Christ, the ground is not cursed. Remember that cost? Cost is the ground for your sake. For the man in Christ, the ground is not cost.
The ground is not cost. For the new creation, there's no toilet. The first time I was stepping my foot into the university of Ibadan. As I got there, by the gate I just stood there, I said wherever the soul of your feet shall pray, I will give to you. I intentionally did not take any vehicle. I walked to the chapel, I going... Was not in the chapel. I walked to the chapel and I kept on saying my... The sole of my feet has treaded here. This land is mine.
This land is mine. That is the... There was no ministry. This was 2014. 2015. There was no ministry, there was nobody following me, but there was a consciousness of a victor. There was a consciousness of a victor. But if I found myself here, then where I found myself is most certainly bowing down to me. Are you with me? Yes, sir.
I got a contract once and then some some time ago, and the contract after series of negotiation failed to happen. It was around last year. After series of negotiation failed to happen. And when the contract did not happen, I was not sad. I was not hungry. I just smiled and said, you you have no idea what you have missed. That is how that consciousness has eaten deep into me, that I am not the one that is needy. You are the one that needs me. If you fail to work with me, it is because you have not recognized my value. Who it will affect is you, not me.
I'm not working for money. I'm providing value. Money is only a consequence of the work I do. Are you with me? If you can have this mindset change, it will be... It will change everything for you. I walk over life like a victor. I'm not defeated. No circumstances is powerful enough to defeat me. You see, no circumstances, no situation that I find myself can pull me down.
I will raise up strength even in it and adapt. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes. Yes. Tell you, I'm talking to king zone. And listen to me. I'm talking to men and women who are going to turn this world upside down. I'm talking to captains of industries, CEOs, founders of multinationalizations. I'm talking to career persons in different fields of influence who will rise to the top of their fields.
I'm talking to men on... Men and women of influence and power. I'm talking to senators. I'm talking to honorables, local government chairman, ministers, commissioners. Savior shall come from Zion. You are that savior that is coming from Zion. That is why he says I will not hold my peace. Name might be because of my love for Zion. I will not hold my peace until our salvation shines like the dawn. Our righteousness burns like a blazing light.
Why is not holding his peace for Zion? Because savior shall come from Zion. That's where saviors will come from. Those saviors must therefore understand that it is in God's will for them to overtake. Please believe what I'm teaching you. That is your destiny. There's a great destiny ahead of you. Listen, let me tell you something. Even if you don't know what you will do with your life, share and know your life is great. Just even if you don't know how you say apostle, but I'm not really sure.
Just be certain can't be broke. I can't be small. As you are doing this, you will now see opportunities arising for you. Somebody will tell you, I bought a course on so and so. I'm not able to... Do want to learn it? Say, I want to learn it. Bam. That's it. Some of you, it's not as though you will pray and you will someday.
If you just come in the course of your life, you will meet people positioned for you in places of influence. One of one of our guys one of our guys who is making money with his key right now went to a church. When they got today, was not as though he was praying and fasting. He just went there for For some of you, what you are looking for is in your past destiny. If you are all if you are all anxious and you are saying, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what I was saying. Calm down. The promise of greatness. The promise of greatness.
This is how you will be great. This is the food of champions. It is a blessing to know I'm not defeated. Yes, sir. That circumstances and troubles cannot overpower me. I'm not defeated. Listen, I'm not defeated. When I was under the tree, this was my mindset. When I was in Abadina, this was my mindset. This thing had never changed.
It's not now that we started believing it. We have always known this. I gathered three people, and we're we're in the gutter in 2017, and I told them, listen. We will have a meeting. The name of the meeting will be called the experience that nations will gather for it. When they got down, we're talking like this. And even that has not yet happened. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Kings have come out of you.
Nobles shall come out of you. When I saw this in scripture, I knew that everybody that ever listens to me will be kings, will be nobles. Because the word says kings will come out of you. The promise of greatness. Number two. Number two. Listen, knowing that there is a glorious destiny ahead of you, which is the first one I mentioned, the promise. Is that not so? Is one thing. Entering into that glorious destiny is a different thing.
But it starts from knowing. That's why number one is very important. How many of you just leaves your house without knowing where you're going? And you pack your past, pack everything. We are not Abraham. Are you with me? Say I'm traveling. And somebody ask you, where are you going? I don't even know. I'm just traveling.
No sane person would be would would talk like that. Are you with me? It means the start of a journey is an awareness of the destination. This is why number one is very important. However, being aware of the destination and having the requirements to get there is two different things. In as much as you have the seed of greatness on your inside, whether it will manifest is a different thing altogether. Many people have dreams. Many people have visions that will never manifest. Many of the people that you see on the street today who has been turned down by life and has become destitute, miscreant in the society. Some of them had dreams of doing big things oh.
Some of them had dreams of becoming influential, becoming great. Some of them had songs they wanted to sing, books they wanted to write. There are many people living in regret right now. There are many people who are teaching in secondary schools, teaching in primary schools right now, and they are always ever hungry. Did you meet people like that? Never. You know why? Because that was never the life they imagined for themselves. If anybody had told them that at the later part of your life, this is what you'll be doing, teaching at the age of 45, and you are teaching young people and they shouting at you, and they are, you know, making all kind of noise, have to discipline. If anybody had told them this is what you need to life and do, they would never have believed it.
Because when they were young, ah, I will marry a president. I will work in CBN. I will do so and so. They could talk big. They had visions and dreams that they wanted to achieve. And because that... Because their life is not a picture of what they saw, they are now extremely frustrated. They are now angry with the student that they teach, so they pick up their frustration on the students. You see, some of them saw themselves speaking to presidents, being in executive gatherings. Some of them had ideas that could have revolutionized the world, but painfully speaking, will never find fruition.
Why is this? Why is this? Because dreams are free, but reality has a fee. That's why number two is the price of greatness. Number one is the promise of greatness. Number two is the price of greatness. Dreams are free, but reality has a fee. There is a price for whatever destiny you have seen. There is a price for greatness. There is a price for a glorious destiny.
This usually is where many fail. And so many people can talk big. Many people have dreams and visions. Many people have things that they have seen. The pictures of greatness are solidified in their heart. They know without all contradiction that ah, God has destined my life for greatness. I can't do small things. Listen, give me time. A few moments from now, my ministry will be reaching nations. In a few moments from now, my...
I will be talking to presidents. Kings will gather in my meetings, and they will sit down while I teach. You see? Many of them know these things. But at the later end of their life, when their life does not become a picture of that which they have seen, it is because the price. They never paid attention to it. They never paid attention to it. How many of you have intended to go on a long trip before? Say to Enugu or to Abuja or to a place where you have never gone. You'd agree with me the first thing you did was to check for how much the fee was to get there.
In other words, when you know the destination, the next thing is what is the price? What will it take for me to get it? So it's not enough to speak big, to talk big, to say, ah, God has destined me for greatness. I'm doing great things. Oh, glory to God. My righteousness is shining like a blazing touch. Good. You are right. Now what is the price to get there? So you would go and you ask them, sorry, how much do you take Abuja here?
And they will tell you, oh, it's 25,000. Oh, ho. And the question is, do I have enough money to go there? Can I pay that price? Are you seeing this? Can I pay that price? If I check my pocket and find out I don't have enough money to go there, what happens to that journey? That journey will never become a reality. What if somebody has told you, come to Abuja for a job? If the price cannot be paid, what happens to the job?
You see, there is... It doesn't matter what you see ahead of you. If the price cannot be paid, it will remain a dream. It will remain a vision. It will never find fruition. So in Luke chapter 14 verse 28, the bible says, for which of you intending to build a tower does not sit down first and count the cost. In other words, nobody intended to sit to build a tower. Just start gathering sand and say, let's build. The first thing that a man that intend means that you have something in your heart you want to do. Intending to build a tower does not sit down first.
The first thing to do, even is not to jump out, is to find out what is the price for a glorious destiny. I tell you, listen to me. It doesn't matter how much I prophesy over your life. If you cannot pay the price for greatness, you will never be great. It doesn't matter if the anointed... If the most anointed person in the world sits down on your head. If you cannot pay the price for greatness, you cannot be great. There's a price for greatness. Nobody happens on greatness accidentally. Every promise you see in scripture has conditions attached to it.
The Bible says if you are willing and obedient, you will hit the good of the land. There is good in the land. The good in the land is for you. But are you ready to pay the price of obedience? There is good in the land but not fall down on your laps. There's a price you would pay if you are willing and obedient. Man of God, I know that you see crusades. You see conferences. You have terrible visions of dangerous healings, miracles, signs, and wonders walk through your hands, but are you ready to pay the price? What is your commitment to the study of the world?
What is your commitment to prayer? What is your commitment to be great... To looking for the graces that enables you to enter into the realities without stress? What is your commitment to destiny? And many people would tell me that they have seen glorious visions, but they have no impact or action. They remain... They sleep. Twelve hours every day, spend their life sleeping. Somebody is a video editor or a graphic designer, your graphics still looks like what a baby class student dream with their hands. And you are telling yourself I will sit before nations.
My righteousness will will... My... The the the world leaders will be blinded by my glory. They can't be blinded by that thing. If they are blinded by it, they... It is because they close their eyes because they know how to see it. What is the price for excellence? What is the price? I know you have seen a business that will have multiple expressions in different states. What is the price to pay?
Have you read books on management, on leadership? Do you know that if you if you don't if you don't know what you are doing, expansion can lead to a loss. If you have not studied management, you will have a branch of your business and start losing immediately. Because you have not read conflict resolution, you have not read people management. How do you put someone in charge of a business? They are not overseen. How do they how do they become accountable of the money that they make? Somebody told me that he started a boat business and then thought of the idea of what if I get, like, three micras and put drivers there. I looked at him. I said, how would you monitor the amount they make by the?
How did they turn over that amount to you? Do you pay them by salary or by commission? He said, I I don't know. I want to buy a car. Because you have the money to buy a car. You've not thought all this in in full, and you just plunge into it and now enter into loss. Do you know that it might even be God's will for you to have done it? The idea might have been bettered by God. But the loss you will make, you will wonder, did I hear God? Yes, you did, but you were foolish.
Yes, you did. Sir, everybody I employed are always stealing from me. What book have you read? When I put people to work together with me in my business, I don't know how to motivate them. They are too lazy. They are not making profit. They're not doing what they what they should be doing. My brother, have you read any book? Do you know how to inspire people? Are you a leader?
Can you impact knowledge to people? Can you motivate people? Can you stay off the heart of a man? Can you train a man and lead them into greatness? Nothing is free in this kingdom. Nothing is free. There's a price to pay. There's a price to pay to be a custodian of the glory and the presence of God. You say, I want to be a worship minister. And I want that whenever I sing, size my desire.
It's my desire. Whenever I lift up my voice to sing, the presence of God should come down. People should be crying and weeping, entering into the expression of the love of God. Can you pay the price for it? No problem, it can happen. Oh, that... What you are... In fact, the fact that you are seeing it shows that it's in your destiny. Do you know there are things that you can never conceive in your mind because it's not in your destiny. Can you can you go tomorrow now?
As you go back home, I'll be thinking, ah. How will I make the next furniture now? I want to build a stool. The stool will not be very fine. You have a golden door. Do you... What are the chances of that coming to your mind? Are you a carpenter? Are you a furniture maker? Do you think that will ever come to you?
Will it ever cross your mind that let let me let me make a chair that will be very fine? In other words, if it came to your mind, it is because a portion of it is your destiny. The kind of things I find myself thinking about are things relating to my future. If I'm thinking about multiple expressions of realities, it is because of those I'm leading because I'm a man of God. So I will think of what this person can do, what that person can do, what that one can do. I will think thoughts for people because I'm a man of God. Are you with me? So the idea can be birthed by God. But the implementation of it is a different altogether. And when people implement ideas, the result they get from it can make it look as though it was not God that sent them.
You can start it. You can go to a territory to go and start ministry there. And when you get there, you will face hardship that will chase you out. And people will ask you, Shabu, you said you heard God. I've seen this. I've seen it over and over again. So when you tell me, I want to sing and when I sing, my voice should echo into the heavens to create a portal. And when that portal comes down, angels begin to ascend and descend. That I become an access point, is like an usher? The same way an usher tells you, this is where you sit.
That is what the worship minister does. He prepares the ground and he says, God, have your way. And you find explain our midst. The presence of God is everywhere. God is omnipresence. He is omnipresence. That is his name. Even in hell is there. Where can I run from your presence? If I go to Hades, you are there.
I've read your bible. Because his omnipresence, God is in the mosque. God is in the shrine. His omnipresence is everywhere, but he does not manifest itself everywhere. What makes his presence powerful is not the awareness that is placed everywhere. It means that when the thief was still speaker in the church, God was there. But nothing happened. God was with the Israelites. The four hundred years that the Egyptians were were oppressing them. When they were flogging them, when they were beating them, when they were making life hard for them, God was there.
Yet nothing happened. But when they were pursuing them, and a cloud of glory appeared, and a pillar of cloud was following them, a pillar of fire was following them. The Bible says immediately, their chariots, the wheels of their chariots started interlocking. The ground was holding the wheels. The the the whole thing could not run. They say, what is this? Truly, God must be with the Israelites. Was God not with them, Oliver? What is the difference now? He has manifested himself.
It means it is the revealed presence of God that births manifestation. That is the assignment of a worship minister. It is to bring the presence of God to make it pay, to make it tangible, to make it manifest. And when a man can do that, then you will be amazed at what will begin to happen. Right now, there can be miracles. Right now, there can be millions. Right now, the lives of people can shift like day and night. But can you pay the price? You see, can you pay the price? I wonder when I speak, the life of people open up.
They shift and enter into places that they never thought they could they could enter into. That can you speak by your word and realities that were never in anybody's in a man's life will be forced there. Can you speak and nature will listen to you? The bible says, do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you command the dominion thereof? Can you say to the lightning, come here? And the lightning will answer you, here I am. I read of Mampai. He was holding a crusade, and then police came to come and stop him because the government said nobody should hold a crusade. And when they came, they said, oh, it's it's on this crusade, and he got there, wanted to arrest him.
He said, if I am a man of God, let the power of God take you 20 feet into the air and slam you on the floor. Down power of God as he said it. Every other person that came there took grace and ran. Now you read for stories. You say, ah, I will do this. Can you pay the price for it? God never denies a man of possibilities. God never denies a man of realities. God will never tell you, no. This is not for you.
What he will tell you is, can you pay the price for it? Matthew 20 and verse 20. Read down to verse 22. The Bible says, then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to him with her sons. Kneeling down and asking something from him. Verse two, he says and he said to her, what do you wish? She said to him, grant that these two sons of mine may sit one on your right hand and the other on your left in your kingdom. Are you seeing that? What is your offer? Ground that these two sons of mine can sit.
One in your left, one in your right. You think God will tell her that ah ah. Are there no others? Why would your source come and sit down my left and right? And Jesus replied, you do not know what you have asked. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink and be baptized with baptism that I am baptized with? They said to him, we are able. Did he tell them it's not possible? What what you tell them? Are you able?
In other words, can you pay the price for this? He never told them, uh-uh, you have outdone yourself. How would you be thinking like this? Mhmm. He said, do you know what you have asked? Sir, I want my voice to pierce through the nations. It is in your word that there is no speech nor language where your voice is not heard. Then the question is, are you able? Are you able to invest time in prayers, to put weight on your voice? Are you able?
Never is not possible. It's are you able? I want to build a multinational business that will pierce through the world, that will sit in Ghana, sit in Dubai, sit in Kenya. The question is, are you able? Are you able? Never it is not possible. Are you able? Hear me? Can you pay the price in fasting and prayer? I cannot go like this.
The power is not enough. I can't represent you like this. I can't stand before nations like this. Hear me? There is a there is a dimension of grace that I see. There is a dimension of result that I see, but that is not enough to stand before nations. Can something come upon my life? I will go God in fasting, in prayers. Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five. Are you able?
Yeah. The question is never is it possible. It is always, are you able? There's a price to pay. There are many believers who are lazy, sincerely lazy. They know they have a great destiny, but they are unwilling to pay the price for greatness. As I be the head and not the tail, Above only and not beneath. That is true. That is true. But what is the price?
If this reality will now reflect in my academics, that in my academics, will be the head and not the tail, what price must I be? Are you able? Sir, I want to be the best graduate student. God, hear my cry. I want to have an award as the best in my faculty. I want to win all the certificates, all the rewards, all the awards. I want the scholarship to study in Harvard. My son, that can be given to you. But are you able to pay the price to study whilst others sleep, to study, whilst others... Oh, God.
Hear me? Show me a man that is willing to pay the price. I will show you a man that no devil can stop on their path to greatness. Let me tell you something. If a little boy goes into a car shop and says, I want to pay... I want to buy... Say a a a 12 year old boy goes to a car shop and says, I want to buy this car. You will look at him and say, ah, they won't take him serious until he brings out the money. It means your age does not matter as long as the price is paid. Not...
No devil can deny you of what is yours as long as you are able to show your price. Lift up your heads, ye gates. Be lifted up, ye everlasting doors, that the king of glory might come in. Who is the king of glory? You are asking him, the lord great and mighty. The lord mighty in battle. Hear me. If I can show you my price, you can't maim me the doors. Hear me? Hear me?
You may look young. You may appear young, but can you pay the price? If your price is paid, no devil can stop your progress. Matter how young I might look. Just give me a microphone. You'll be amazed at what will happen. Devils don't bow to you because you are old. They bow to you because you understand that the price is paid. Hear me? At 18, you can order...
You can organize sitting right crusade. It's not a function of your age. It's have you paid the price? Have you paid the price of study, of light, of revelation? There are many musicians who are wishing and hoping that their voice will carry power, and there's no price they've paid. There's no price they've paid. Listen. Listen. When you see musicians gather and they are singing on the same stage, you can deal with actual prediction who has paid the price and what not. You can tell.
Just not hearing them, you can tell. That all... What this one only has is skin and favor. That's all. There's no anointing to change lives. Nothing is happening as they speak. I was in a conference, a posh conference. You know all these churches where there's no power, power, there's no power of God in terms of people manifesting or going after the power? They don't they don't give allowance to the free expression of the holy spirit to move in such manner. Everybody's in decorum.
Everybody's kept. Everybody... You get my point? I was there for a conference, and they brought you for Sunday. And I saw how people were... The same the same people. So a place that have been going for some time, were holding their pen. Well, who taught you? These people have never prayed like this before. The prayer is for five minutes in the church.
Opening prayer five minutes. Ten minutes of worship. Twenty minutes of the word. We go home. And they brought someone. People were holding their bellies. People were groaning. Women were holding walls. People were... I said, what is this?
That a man can cast the influence of his spirit over a people and bring him to an experience. Hear me? Hear me? Do you know that? Listen I'm saying. If you have paid the price for a day, you will know what will bow to you. You will you will know. It's like going to a car shop. Hear me? You can all wash your bow to you.
You can know. When I go to a place and I tell people you'll be blessed. Oh, I know what I'm saying. There are praises we have failed. When I speak, heaven must hear my voice. Heaven must hear my voice. Can you, in all honesty, say that the way I'm living my life right now, my business will reach the world? The way I'm living my life right now, I will rise with the top of my career. The way I'm living my right right now, That's what that guy is saying. That nobody can invest this much in books.
You have studied. You have written. Look at your library. Look at all the books you've read. Every time I see you praying, I see you studying. I see you doing this. What am I doing with my life? I'm playing football. I'm hanging out with friends, going from parties to parties. Why?
Listen to me. If you're a woman and all about your life is that you're a fine you are useless. Listen. Listen. Do you know that right now, there is The sleepless nights, the hours of investment into prayer and study, the hours of prayer, I'm going for, even when I'm not going for a meeting, there's a level of confidence you have because you know there's a price you have paid. It's not all about the price. There are things we do because grace is supplied. You see? Yes, sir. Yes.
But I tell you, if you will ever Did you know the level of preparation that went into it before it was preached? That can't be nonsense. I didn't preach my ideas. And I see men of God who come and do this. Say, I want to repent because I've been preaching prosperity for Books of those that have gone ahead of me. If I come and teach on faith, I have my revelation on faith. I've taught in scripture. The holy spirit have taught me on faith, but I will not come solely what I know. I will read several books on faith. I will listen to several messages by several men of God on faith.
Kenneth Eggie. It's me because what what did they say? What was their idea? What was their opinion? And I'm learning. I'm receiving. I'm learning. Balancing my own teaching. The price to pay. The price to pay.
I could have been sleeping, but I deny myself of sleep. I can go to the cinema, but I deny myself of that. I can live a flamboyant lifestyle, but I deny myself of that. There are things I can buy. I deny myself of that. What do you think that life is? Do you think that God cannot be mocked? Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked whatsoever a man sows. That will reap.
If you sow to the flesh, you will, of the flesh, reap corruption. It means you cannot be sowing into the flesh and becoming to declare, I'm great and great and great. It is what you sow that you will reap. Don't be hungry when I shift in life and destiny. When I get to a place where you can no longer access me because you know me. When I was paying the price for destiny, you were sleeping. You were following mental parties. Don't be hungry. When I was in the Cave Of Havulam, where were you? When I was building strength for the future, where were you?
When I was training 400 mighty men, where were you? Were you enjoying? Couldn't I have also enjoyed why I chose to pay the price for a glorious destiny? I say it again. I chose to pay the price for a glorious destiny. You know what I've promised you? Don't put the destiny you have? Why are you wasting your life like this? How can you come and say, I will I will have an NGO. I will have a ministry.
I will have a... I'll be wasting your life up and down. On the altar of Leviathan. There's a price to pay. There's a price to pay. If men will hear your voice, there's a price to pay. If men will gather around you the way to go. You know there are things I should be doing right now. I can be learning the skill. I can be sharpening my I can be sharpening my my myself better.
Making myself better. Making myself better. Making myself better. Do you know that? The Bible says that any man that want You are sharpening the axe. You are sharpening the axe. Everybody can go ahead of you with blunt axes. Join them. You are sharpening the axe so that when you come out and swing that axe once, It will be clear what you have been doing. Suddenly, will know that, ah, who is this person?
Where did it come from? They won't know that for seven days, you have been sharpening. For seven days, you have been sharpening. Now instead of sharpening your skills you're Nonsense. Nonsense. Nonsense. Wasting life. Wasting destiny. Listen. The unit of destiny is time.
For every time you waste, you waste life. For every time you waste, I am very conscious of my time. I am very conscious of my time. If I'm relaxing, it will be because I have walked. I have walked. You will never see me playing when I should be walking. Oh, no. You will never see it. You will never see it. I've created systems around my life to ensure that that destiny I see, I get there.
I won't get there by wish. It's not wish. There are friends around your life that if you keep on working with them, they will destroy you. They will pull you down. You are saying, but, sir, but, sir, we grew up together. By the way, this is called a price. It means it will cost you. It will cost you friendships. It will cost you relationships. It will cost you close intimate relationships.
But sir, he's my very close friend, boy. He's pulling you down. He's pulling you down. Can't you see this? There are some people that man who is great that talks like this and make it. I'm sorry oh. Bye bye. You might... They might not be bad, but they don't contribute to your future. It's a...
It is wisdom to know who should follow me, who should not. I know. And I know these things. I might not speak. But to be obvious in that life, there is no results. There's no change. For every time that you not practice what you are taught, understand they are wasting away. Time waits for nobody. Destiny waits for nobody. Let me tell you something.
Watch this. Watch this. Life, every destiny has a clock. Every life, every destiny has a clock. A clock that ordains when certain events should happen in your life. This is the scriptures. The Bible says, when the appointed time was come, the child was made manifest. It means in the realm of the spirit, there is what is called appointed time. The Bible says the race is not to the swift. The battle is not to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor favor to men of scale, nor yet riches to men of understanding, of the spirit, there are cycles of time and chance that pushes you to the next level of your greatness.
Are you with me? You are not in control of that time. It's like the hands of a clock. The fact that you went to one and rewind, it was not... The the timing clock has stopped. It is not in your power. And that time exists in the realm of the spirit for every single person. It means that as you are... As today has gone, as next tomorrow goes, you are move... You are...
The time is time is shifting every day to take you to the next level of your life. Let me see what I'm saying. So if this is you and invest in it, this is where the next level is. When you get here, when that time reaches here, when that clock reaches here, this this year now can be when you are 21. This year now can be when you are 25. This year now can be when you are 28. Are you with me? There is there is one abortion for you. So it is expected in the clock of destiny that at this point, you would have learned the skill. You would have started ministry.
You would have started your business. You would have... Are are you with me? Whilst from here to here, there will be opportunities that would have come to you to bring you here. Because God knows that there's an open door waiting here. Time and chance. So when that time comes, chance means opportunities. Opportunities that was not here, that was not here, was not here, that was not here, will suddenly appear here. Because the time has has come. Watch this.
So you might have been learning web design or software development or tailoring for the line right now. But all the whilst you were learning, you were making clothes. One five, two five, three five, four five, and you were just, you know, making hens meet, but you were getting better. You know how to be great. You were pushing destiny. Are you with me? You were improving yourself. You go to class. You come back. You study in class.
You read in class. You are improving yourself again. Getting better. In in the night, you are reading, watching YouTube videos, getting better, improving your skills. Listen to me. Time and chance. You might not see anything here, good about. Really? What... Is that what you do?
Are you very good? Say, I'm very good. I've been doing it for, like, three years now. Really? Wow. And how's the company? I was been thinking about that's opportunity. Know what? Meet me in my office. Now you go to the man's office.
You meet him there. Before you know, you got to get your first 5 millionaire contract. What happened was time came and chance met with time. The reason why it happened to you is because you were not here. You were here. Now watch this. Whether or not you are here or here, this time will come. The difference is when it comes, you will never know that it came. Because when you were meant to be there, you were here. So understand that for every time you are meant to make progress, time is going.
Time is going. Time is going. Time is going. And when the... Listen. Do you know that David... Goliath never came and said, bring me David. Bring me David. Bring me David. Goliath only said, is there any man that can defeat defeat me?
And if you can defeat me, then all our hands will bow to you. Any man, not David. Yet in the name of the spirit, that was the seasonal announcement of David. He will never know that Goliath came for him. Do you understand what I'm saying? This is how people miss seasons in their lives. This is how people... Because it does not come shouting. It just come. Pow.
Come and lead prayer. Come and sing worship. You go to a conference of of of of worship ministers, and they tell you, ah, the person who is meant to be is not around. The MC now knows you before because he has seen you before in an event. Now say, ah, this girl, come and start opening prayer. Just lead us in worship for ten minutes. Once you hold the microphone, nonsense, talking foolishly to men. So when the time came and the opportunity came, it didn't meet you prepared. So it will leave, and you will never know it came. It will leave, and you will never know it came.
Because when they come, they never announce themselves. That's why it doesn't matter what level you are in. You pay the price of destiny because you know the time and the chance is not up to me. But when it comes, I must be ready. I must be ready. And if it gets to this place, come now. There are price you will now have to pay when you get here. That will be separate from what you have paid here. There will be more demands on you because you have gotten here. There'll be more demand.
The demand will not reduce because I've gotten here. It will only increase. Why? Because heaven now expects more from your life. There's a place where you can no longer make mistakes. You can't do some foolish things you used to do. It will not... It won't let you go like that. When you were here and preparing, you can say nonsense. You can teach and teach nonsense.
Let opportunities you never had here. Your mind is blown. You are saying, my God, what is this? And when you think that is all, God will say there is still more. There is still more. There is still more. Will you sit down and settle for less? Or will you push more for greatness? That will increase my greatness and comfort me on every side. Am I boring you?
For every time you are wasting time, realize what you are truly wasting. Because when the seasons of your life come, you will never know they came. They do not announce themselves. They do not announce themselves. It happens like that for ministries. It happens like that for churches. It happens like that for businesses. The day you will get your first 5,000,000,000 naira contract, the question is, will you be ready? Will you have built structures that can hold it? Will you have built structures that can hold it?
Or will you squander the money? Squander the money? They are looking for you up and down. Then they say, where is he? Where client is calling you? Customer is calling you? People that are working with you are calling you. There's no accountability, no integrity, nothing. When you fall from that level, you will never get there again. It is dangerous to fall from the height you have reached.
To get there will always be very difficult, which is why we pay the price. You must understand there are there. You... Listen. When every moment you spend working on yourself, getting better, doing the others, If time and chance comes, you will never know. People have missed destinies, missed opportunities, missed chances because they did not pay the price for destiny. So you think that all there is to greatness is prophesying. I'm supposed to speak words. I'm supposed to declare. I'm supposed to converse.
I'm supposed to speak. I'm becoming great. I'm becoming great. Hey. Glory to God. Great things are coming out of me. Buy the truth. Sell it not. A price you are you are making. A price you are making.
In my business, there is no client I've ever done a job for. No client that I've ever had a reason to say I don't like it. I don't like it. Never. Never. I insisted that if I would do this, you can't know my job more than me. I insisted. You can't know my job more than me. There are times when clients will argue with me, and I I won't argue back. I won't even tell them this is what...
I think this is the best. No. I will do what I want to do. Then get the separate free domain. Do what is that I should do. Now give him the one that I should do. Say, ah, no. I know... Yeah. It look nice in my head, though.
I see your head is not correct. My own is correct. Now see the one I did. Say, oh, wow. This is so nice. Of course. Of course. Because price was paid. Price was paid in understanding design, understanding development, understanding everything. All the intricacies that there's no challenge I will ever face, I won't be able to answer.
Price was paid. If this is the skill I'm learning, I pay the price to improve myself. He said, I went for the most difficult challenges. Because it was... It is... He said, it is those most difficult ones that pay the most. He said he said, the skill he has He submitted it. The guy told me when his name... When the the results came out, he From winning the competition. He didn't sit down there and say, supposed to have prophesied.
They've spoken words over my life. They've prayed for me. Now I will make the most I've ever made. Amen. Where where will they come from now? I'm expecting. Jesus, let it come. Jesus, let it come. No. Must I do?
Are you are you seeing this? What must I do? What must I do? What must I do to partner with this thing, to agree with this thing so that this thing does not fail in my life? Let us close here. Let's close here. I saw a scripture. Let's close here. Saw a scripture. You.
Thank you. I saw a scripture. Brothers and sisters, it's quite long. I cannot show you everything right now. I'm just showing you maybe one. Remain standing. They're about to close. We are closing now. Let's start from Exodus 33 verse one. Remain standing.
Exodus 33 verse one. One and two. The Bible says, then the Lord said to Moses, depart and go up from here. You and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt. To the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, say, to your descendants, I will give it. Next verse, and I will send my angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Hamorite and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Are you seeing this? I will drive them out. That's what God said. All you have to do is to go and possess the land.
What is as sweet as this? God said I will drive them out. Your own responsibility is to go there and just do what? Possess. But the possessing will have to do with warfare because they will not live. You will still have to fight, but take comfort in the fact that I have driven them out. What that means is that in the name of the spirit, they have no power anymore. They have no advantage anymore. So when you go there, the warfare will be easy for you. It's as...
It's like it's like clean hand. Are you with me? The Bible says the Lord was with them. The Lord... We are not in doubt. God was actually with them. It means the next thing you're about to read now was despite God was with them. Do you get that? Read. Why?
Because God was with them. Next line. But they could not drive out the inhabitants of the lowland. Why? God was with them. They drove out the mountaineers. But when they now came to the inhabitants of the lowland, they tried their best. They could not drive them out. Why? Because the inhabitants of the plain add chariot of iron.
What did not come there with? God was the one that said I have given them out. Yet these people had chariot of iron. I did not build your own. You have no intelligence in warfare. You didn't prepare militaries because God said I've driven them out. And you think that means that don't prepare. Don't do anything. Don't build high... Chariot of high up.
Don't have don't have shields. Don't... Because God still have driven them out, does it mean that if they fire you, how will you? It means to partner what God has said, let's now train our soldiers. Let's build intelligence. Let's build shields. Let's build spares. Let's build of iron. This city was more prepared than they were. And despite the fact that God was with them, and God has not only with them, God told them I've sent an angel before you to drive them out.
They still could not drive them out because they were not prepared for it. That means God can speak. But are you willing to pay the price in preparation to agree with what God has said? That's number three, you will be great. Not just by promises. If your only comfort is promises, you may not be great. Promises must be backed up by consequent action. If a man is on his way to Lagos and you ask him, where are you going? What did he tell you? Will you say I'm not sure?
Where will he tell you? Lagos. Has he gotten there? But does he know he will get there? Why? Because he's on the road that leads to Lagos. That is the same way a man can say, I am going to greatness. He has not gotten there, but he's on the path to greatness. So you can say confidently that can't you see the things I'm doing? Can't you see the investment into my life and destiny?
Watch me. Watch me. Watch me. There are times when people can say whatever they want to say, and you know that what they say does not count because you're on your way to greatness. You are paying the... Listen. What anybody tells you, you think can make The speakers of people doesn't matter. Do you have the price? Can you pray one moment and say the grace to pay the price? Let it rest upon my life.
Come on. Lift your voice and pray. Jesus mighty name of prayer. As you go in this week, your faith, oh Jesus. The word is bowing to you. Mouthwatering miracles. Let destiny help us locate you. Name of Jesus. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms.
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