Transcript: The Power To Change Your Generation — Living a Life of Impact Part 3

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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. First Corinthians chapter 14 and verse 10, the bible says, it may be so many kinds of voices in the world. And none of them is without significance. This scripture reveals to us that every voice carries meaning. Every voice carries purpose. Every voice carries influence. A voice is not merely words that are spoken. It is an entity with diverse expressions. It is a force that transcends sound and resonates with identity intention, and impact.

But to truly understand the power of a voice, we must look at the first time that the word voice was mentioned in scripture. Where its characteristics can then be vividly inspected to know what it means to be a voice in the generation, to know what it means to make impact in a generation. Because whenever God wants to lift you, whenever God wants to make you significant and of renowned in a generation, what happens is that it makes you a voice. And so when we say that God is making you a voice in your generation, when we say that you are becoming a voice in your generation, what exactly are we saying? Because are we saying that you are loud in expression and everybody can hear you? To understand this, we need to check the first time this word was used, and it was in Genesis chapter three and verse eight. The Bible says, and there... And they heard the voice of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Watch the expression. The Bible says they heard the voice of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord amongst the trees of the garden. They heard they heard the voice of the Lord God. Working in the garden, in the cool of the day. This makes it seem as though it was the voice that was working. So here we see that a voice is more than just a sound. Do you see that? Yes, sir. A voice is not just something that is heard or something that is spoken. A voice carries personality. A voice carries presence.

A voice carries product. Stay with me. The voice of God was so tangible that Adam and Eve perceived it as working. It was a presence that stirred conviction. It was a presence that stirred awareness. So we see that a voice is not just about what he said, but who is speaking, how they are present, and what they produce. In this case, what the voice produced was a sound, and so they heard it. But the voice in itself had personality. It could it could work. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. But not only did it have personality, the voice also had a presence because the bible says they eat themselves from the presence of that voice. So there was something that came out of the voice, which was the product, the sound that they heard. The voice in itself had a personality in that it can walk, and then it had a presence, an influence, an atmosphere that it carries. A voice therefore is a reflection of your person. Your presence. By your person, I mean your personality, your person, your presence, and your product. It is the embodiment of who you are, the influence that you carry, and what comes out of you, your products. In this case, what came out of this voice was a sound. It is possible that what comes out of you is not a sound, but it comes out of you regardless.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. As long as it comes out of you, it is... It forms the makeup of your voice. Is an entity with three different expressions. Your person, your presence, and your product. That is what people relate with when we talk about your voice. And when God wants to make you a voice to the generation, it is with these three different expressions that weight comes. Sir. Weight comes on your person.

Weight comes on your presence. Weight comes on your product. Are you with me? Becoming a significant voice does not mean shouting louder, does not mean talking incessantly until people grow weary of you. As a matter of fact, in the book of Ecclesiastes chapter five and verse three, the bible says that a fool's voice is seen or is known in the multitude of his speaking. And so speaking incessantly is not what gives voice to a generation. True significance is not measured by the volume or the frequency of your speech, but by the weight of your personality, the depth of your presence, the quality of your product. It is about building something so impactful that it cannot be ignored. A company, for instance, that cannot be ignored. A career that is so illustrious that it cannot be ignored.

Or a contribution that stands tall and commands respect. And if you're a doctor, you build a career in medicine that cannot be ignored. That you are not lost in the multitude of voices that you stand out, that your presence carries weight. That amongst medical doctors, when you show up, something about your presence commands attention. That is what it means to be a voice. It means this one is different. And you see you see... So when when I say that God is making you a voice, so you understand what exactly we are talking about. It means that there might be many people who do this thing. But when you show up, something about your presence.

Remember, the voice was walking. It means when you are walking in a place, people must know under whose presence they have come. You almost can tell when the president enters the state. You almost can tell. It is obvious the signs that you see. The reason is because the state comes under the presence of that atmosphere. Roads are shut. Security personnels are placed everywhere. Do you see that? Large trunk of traffic and hold up and nobody sent because the president is passing.

Every other person can queue to ensure that one man and his envoy passed because he carries a presence. Because he carries a presence. And there is a way that God can so lift you. And that is what we are talking about. That that God can so lift you. That your entry into territories almost as though a president's came. I hope you believe what I'm saying. Pastor Paul and Angel was speaking of how he was... He went to an he went to an African nation. And the entire nation shut down because he came.

He said when he landed, he did not know. He was just going for the crusade. There are people in that nation that were, you know, in charge of organizing the the program, but they did not know. But the day they were to land, as they were landing their private jet arrived at the airport, the president, the entire cabinet The entire cabinet. Harmed forces. We're at the airport waiting for them. Vice president, chief of staff, army, you you name it. They were all there lined almost as though a king entered. And he was shaking hands with the president. The president, what an honor.

What an honor. What an honor. Because a man walked. It means God can give you honor even above a president. It's what an instant it means that man's voice has become louder than even the president of the nation. The bible says they heard his voice working. The power to change your generation. That God makes you a voice in the generation that there is no one that comes under the influence of what you do, what comes out of you, whatever product it is that you deliver to generation, whatever skill that you have, whatever message God has given that does not understand that they have come under the influence of a voice. You see, that there is nobody. Even if it's a church, God can make our voice so loud.

So loud in a generation. So loud. So loud. The product for us is the message. This message of the kingdom that must pierce every strata of influence that must reach every man and woman. That is the message for us. That is the product for us. The product for you might be your business. The product for you might be the area of influence that God has sent you to or the mountain of influence God has sent you to. The product for you might be the jewelries that you make.

The product for you might be the clothes that you make. The product for you might be whatever it is that God has put in your hands. It might be the rod in your heart. That might be the product for you. But that that thing can become so loud. That amongst all the fashion designers, all the jewelry makers, all the mechanics, all the... You see, it it becomes obvious that you exist. Sir. Sir. He.

He. A life of impact. The power to change a generation. And I'm telling you that one of the ways or if not the way that God gives you influence over a generation is that it makes your voice loud. It gives volume to your voice. My assignment in today's meeting is to show you how it happens. I told you last week that it's not just an election of grace. Of course, there is grace. If growth has not been made available, then every other thing we are saying here is completely useless. It's not just an election of grace.

Grace that has been made available makes everything I'll be showing you doable. But to think that just because grace has been made available, you will become all that God has promised is to be in delusion. And sometimes the delusion can be intentional. You don't think that there are many people who God has ordained that their life would not be ordinary. That according to God's will and counsel for their lives, they are meant to be voices to their generation in whatever field of influence that God has ordained them to, but they die on earth. They die and nobody knows who they are. They die and nobody hears their voice. It means just because it is ordained does not mean it will find expression. This is what I mean by it's not just an election of grace. In as much as grace has a major role to play.

Just because it is ordained, just because this is what God has called you to do does not necessarily mean that it will find expression. Are you still with me? Yes, sir. To be a voice in your generation is a divine privilege. To be a voice in your generation is a divine responsibility. It means you have the opportunity to shape the thoughts, the convictions, the values, and the direction of those around you. It is about making a... Making maximum kingdom impact, leaving a mark that transcends time and space. Your voice is never just for you. It is a tool for influencing your generation, for advancing God's purposes on this earth, and for creating lasting change, lasting impact.

From this place, I believe so much that powerful voices are rising. From this place, I believe so much that powerful, permanent secretaries, commissioners, ministers, leaders, and governments will emerge. Visionaries who will own airlines, own companies, own organizations, tech gurus that will revolutionize industries, pioneers in various fields of influence, scientists, researchers, cutting edge scientists, inventors, innovators, even creatives, designers, Who will imagine influence arising from here? They are being birthed here. They are being birthed here. Understand that this is how God's kingdom advance. It is in the hands of these voices that God's kingdom advances. Because because they are powerful voices, people pay attention to hear what they have to say. People pay attention to hear what they have to say. I was on Instagram sometime this afternoon or so.

And I found out that the Grammys just helped. How did I know? There was a particular celebrity that I just kept on seeing, did not look for him, just kept on... Saw him in about five videos or so. And it piqued my interest. Why am I seeing this guy up and down? So I clicked on one of the people who posted him. And I saw that... Look, that the video is not up to, five seconds, three seconds. Just the guy was just walking on red carpet.

Everybody just wanted to catch a shot. So I checked the first person who recorded the shot. I saw that the video had about 6,000,000 views. The next highest video on that person's page was about twenty twenty thousand. This particular guy of a video of five seconds was captured had 6,000,000 views. So everybody on the... Every media outlet, every red carpet host just wanted to record their own video and post because they know that if this guy just arrived at my page, it would drive a level of traffic. It doesn't matter what news I say about him. Even if I say he slapped his wife, his shoes not fine, his clothes is... Look at his clothes.

Everybody just had a narrative because they know he will bring traffic. Do you understand my point? And it happened. The list was about 4,000,000 views. On pages where you would find 30,000 views, 10,000 views, you just post a five seconds video, three seconds video of a man working like this, and everybody wants to watch. Like it or not, that person has the power to influence a generation. Like it or not. What... That means that whatever values he represents and whatever kingdom he models his life after would directly find expression in and through him. This is this is not a matter of choice whether he likes it or not.

Every man of influence has values that they pass across with generation. Every man of influence. And the idea is that we rise to places of influence and power so that we can control the narrative and control the values that people receive from our lives. So influence is a tool for kingdom advance. You are becoming powerful in your sphere. It's not by mere words. It is by the strength of your personality, the authenticity of your presence, the excellence of your products. Your voice will not be ignored because it carries weight. It carries significance. It responds to divine purposes.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes. It means being so impactful that you become undeniable, or should I say, that you become the undeniable choice whenever opportunities arise. When they are looking for a leader, it is you they recommend. That is what it means to be a voice. When they need someone they can entrust with a contract, it is you that they recommend. When they search for a health advocate, a keynote speaker in a conference, someone to represent this organization, we wanna push someone to go and represent us in Dubai, and we want someone who would not embarrass us, who can represent the value of this king... Of of this company, who is excellent, who is diligent, that when he stands in front of these dignitaries, he can represent himself well, carries himself well, he's bold, and he's confident. And then they say, oh, only one person comes to mind.

This is what it means to be a voice. It means that you work in a company, you work in an organization, and you get result that only you can get. I heard the testimony of a woman who got employed into a multinational. Got employed into a multinational. And when they were reviewing the multinational's annual progress progress reports, played the vid played the whole deal for some of my guys. When they were reviewing the progress report, it was found that this woman drove the company, multinational. Some of you use their product across several countries in Africa. This woman in West Africa alone that she controls as a sales executive and regional manager... And manager. Sorry.

She had 50 something percent increase in sales. Listen. That's not even the big thing. The big thing was that she was the only person who got a double digit increase in sales in percentage. Every other person was 1%, 2%, 3%, 5%. That means nobody... No other person was up to 10. Yes. In the world, oh, 50 something percent. So the boss traveled, came back, and gave her a gift.

She opened the bag and found $60,000 there. And the boss said, this is for your hard work. And somebody said, I want this kind of miracle, but something got out there. Words were spoken, but they were results that were undeniable. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. If you are thinking of promoting someone, there's no many choices of who to promote. You understand what I'm trying to say? It it... This...

You are not you are not you are not lost on on thoughts. You know exactly who comes to mind. This is what I'm saying, that you find yourself in a place and you are not the one you have complained about every time. The more complaints there are about you, the more you silence your voice. The more stories you have to say, the more you silence your voice. The more you have to apologize for your incompetence within the framework of organization, the more you silence your voice. You are undoing yourself for every time you have to apologize for incompetence. We gave you a project and you are the what... The last person to deliver. And even after you have delivered, you still deliver and there are still so many errors in your delivery.

We can still find several loopholes in your delivery. Why is this there? Why is that there? Why is this there? Oh, I don't... Oh, I must have... Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh, I must have... The more you silence your voice. And do you know that even as as as a student, for those of you that are students, even as students, this plays a major role in how you handle your academics.

Because even in that area, you can become a voice. There are opportunities that can arise for you, that can put you on platforms that you otherwise not have gotten to except for excellence. And that opportunity or that platform gives an... It gives an... The kingdom of God expression to find... Or the chance to find expression. Everywhere you find yourself. Everywhere you find yourself. A personality that cannot be ignored. A personality that carries weight.

So you see that this is beyond just what prophecies can do. In as much as prophecies play a major role. This is beyond just what grace makes available in as much as grace plays a major role. You see this now? You are not just another face in the crowd. You are a beacon, a reference point. Your presence is magnetic. Your product, your work is transformative. This is what it means for your voice to be significant. Do you believe this?

Yes. Do you understand? First Corinthians 14 verse 10. The bible says, there are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. That every voice has a meaning. And if people don't know the meaning of your voice, if they don't know what you represent, you will look like a stranger to them. It'll look as though you are forcing yourself on people. They will say that you are a wannabe. Whatever it is you do must come with a difference, and that difference does not have to be something new. It may just be the level of excellence and careful thought that you put into whatever it is you are doing.

It shows that you... Well, let me go ahead of myself. Don't let me go ahead of myself. Stay with me. I pray that wherever you find yourself, your voice will not be ignored. I pray your work will not be ignored. I pray that your product is shaking a generation. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Voices provoke response.

It is not good to be trying to say something to your generation with your presence, with your personality, with your product, yet they are looking at you as if nobody is talking. No. People have to respond to you. They must hear your voice in this land, and they must respond to it. In Lagos, they must hear your voice, and they must respond to it. They must hear your voice, and they must respond to it. Jeremiah chapter one verse 10, the Bible says, see, have this day set thee over the nations, over the kingdoms to root out, to pull down, to destroy, to throw down, to build, to plant. Over the nations, over the kingdoms. Look at verse 11. Over the kingdoms.

Okay. Last step. Kings are hearing your voice. Missions are hearing your voice. Kings must heed your voice. In the name of Jesus. Make up your mind that you are not a faceless voice. Make up your mind that you are a voice with meaning. Make up your mind that you are a voice that can be seen. Make up your mind that you are not an echo.

Do you know what an echo is? And you make a you make a loud shout, and then you start hearing the rebounds of the shout you have made. It means the echo is never the original. Minutes after the original voice is heard, the echo still continues to say the same thing that was heard. Keeps on repeating the same thing that was heard. So when we see another echo, simply means another... You're not just a carbon copy. There is something unique about your life and destiny. It means there is something unique about your product as well regardless of... Regardless what it may be.

If you are a writer, there is something unique about your writer. If you are a speaker, there is something unique about your speaking. There are several men of God, but there's only me. I'm not the echo of any man Because there is all... There is a voice that God has given. And that voice must be heard across generations. Understanding this and believing this is very important for you. Very important for you. So in the bible of Psalms chapter 19 verse three, where the bible says that there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. You therefore now understand the deeper context of this.

It means there is no speech nor language that can refuse my product. There is no speech nor language that can refuse my personality, my person. There's no speech nor language that can refuse my person, my presence. They asked John the Baptist, who are you? If they ask you, who are you? You are meant to say your name. You know what he said to them? The voice of one that is crying. How can a man describe himself as a voice? But he understood the deeper context of this.

He's saying that I am one who has a personality. I am one who has a presence, and I am one who has a message. All of this, he encapsulates as the voice of one crying. He was crying in the wilderness, yet he emptied the city to himself. The city came to see a man who was crying in the wilderness. How can your voice be so loud that without social media, without means of advertisement, people in people in cities start hearing your name. They start telling themselves that there is a guy who is preaching in the wilderness. Scribes and Pharisees starts to send entourage to him. They say, go and go and find out. Is he the one we have been expecting?

Then they come by themselves. And when they come, they ask him, who are you? He said, I'm the voice of one crying. I'm the voice of one crying. I'm the voice of one crying. It is important to know that you are a voice. And it is important to know that your voice is meant to be significant. Something must happen to you that will strengthen your voice enough to provoke a response from your generation. When John was crying, he provoked a response. He emptied cities to himself.

When you are applying for jobs, when you are applying for contract, it's not just an application. You are sending your voice. It is your personality wrapped in a document. It's a portion of yourself you are sending. That's why when you're applying for a job, should... Or a contract or anything or a role or whatever, you should do so with so much diligence on the standby portion of yourself you are sending. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Someone was with me yesterday, and I told the individual, let me see your resume.

And I saw the resume. I just put my hand on my headlights. I say, Even if you're gonna use chart GPT, can't you use it with sense? I read the thing and it was it was terrible. It was terrible. Incomplete sentences. I am adept at communication clinical clinical as a virtual. As a virtual what? He said, I said, it means all the opportunities I have sent. This was what you used.

He said, yes, sir. I said, mean, I'm prophesying over you. Should you be stupid? I stopped. What what are your skills? Communication of of what? Errors from top to down. Errors everywhere. Don't you understand that that document is an expression of your voice? That people will sum up your personality and decide on who you are by reason of what they read in that document.

They will sit there and say, ah, Omar, you're serious. Why? Because they do not... They don't know you. They've not interviewed you. They've not seen you, but they can tell and conclude on your personality from a document they read. It shows you that everything you see is an expression of your voice. An expression of your voice. This is why you give diligence to it. You give diligence to it.

We just want people apply for apply for jobs, go for provisions. Every time you see it, apply. Put yourself out there. And somebody comes to tell me, sir, I'm always applying for 10 jobs every day. And I thought the individual, let me see the process of application. And I saw that the guy just was applying as though because he applies for 10 jobs every day. The companies that he's applying to should know and understand that this is the tenth company I'm applying to today. So understand that I might not be diligent. I might not be... I might not apply all my energy and all my effort because I can't imagine having to write cover letters for each one of you.

I can't imagine having to write summaries for each one of you. So I just copy the one I wrote for this one even though it does not have anything to do with the one for this one and just paste it like that. And understand, you see, I'm I'm I'm I'm really struggling. Understand me. I can look at that and say what an unserious person, yet I've never met you. If I can make or come to conclusions like this, it means anything that people see that is an expression of you that can make them conclude about you should put... Should require your excellence, should require your diligence, Including your academics, including your exams, including your results in school. I'm the voice of one crying, crying in Ibadan, crying in Oyo state, crying in Lagos, crying in Nigeria, crying in Canada, crying in The US. Because we understand that it's not the places that makes men. It's the men that makes the places.

That is the reason why a man can be in the wilderness crying, and he will empty the city to himself. What now happens to every man doing ministry in the city? I I I imagine what becomes the emotion of the man who sees people entering into buses, and you ask them, where are you going? He said, I'm going to the wilderness. Say, what what is happening there? There's a church that just opened. And it too has a church. And he's wondering why is everybody passing by my own church to travel to the wilderness? The city is empty to you. This is why we said something must happen to you that will strengthen your voice enough to provoke a response from your generation.

There is weight on your voice. There's weight on your voice. As you make the calls, grants are coming. Contracts have been signed. As you are submitting the proposals, they are accepting it. As you are entering into the competitive processes, they are becoming yours. The scholarship is coming. Investors are coming. Do you know that without application, David was sent for in the palace? Without application, somebody spoke for him.

How can your voice be so loud that even at a desert boy taking care of the sheep, there is someone in the palace recommending you. I call it divine recommendations. Divine introductions. There's someone who is speaking about you in the palace. Say say say now, have you have you have you... This thing you are trying to do, have you tried this person? Have you used this person? Somebody was talking to me. The person said, sir, I I see myself as somebody working for this type of brands, working for this type of brands or working with this type of brands. And I said, let me see your product.

Let me see what you do. And the person was showing me what you do, I said, listen. Does this thing look like the kind of thing that this kind of brand is looking for? He said, no, sir. But you say, but you're getting there. I said, this is the deception that you tell yourself to remain in mediocrity. I'm already going ahead of myself. This is a deception you tell yourself to remain. You are getting there. It's a deception.

You know why the deception? Because in as much as it is true that you are getting there, once you believe that that's the reason why you are incompetent or that's the reason why you are mediocre, you realize that every part of your brain that should be open to think about how you can make the best of what you currently have will be short because you believe you are not yet there. So even though you are not yet there, there is still so much you can do with what you have to make it compete and stand stand side by side with those who are there, and the difference will be so little. That people will come to your production center and they will say, my goodness. Is this where this thing is coming from? And he said, he said, yes, sir. He said, what? So, yes, sir. That's the real meaning of we are not yet there. Not not not that you show something that is so mediocre, nobody can accept nor even buy into that idea.

Under the guise of we are not yet there. Is that really the best you can do at that level? Is that really the best you can know at that level? Ask the question. There is a way that David was playing when he was in the desert that makes him worthy of recommendation in the palace. The question was, was he already there? He too was not yet at the palace, but he was playing like those who play in palaces. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yeah.

So what then becomes the excuse? Are we yet there? So why must we diminish like people who are in the village? Don't we know that we have been called to generation? Don't we know that the assignment that demanded is global? So can it not be obvious in our speaking? Can it not be obvious in how we package ourselves? Can it not be obvious in how we carry ourselves in our clothing, in our dressing? Every time we hold workers' meeting, I tell the workers, we are appealing to generation. But don't you don't you dress and come here like...

And and dress like students. No. I'm not speaking just to students. I'm speaking to kings. Yes, sir. You can dress in such a way that every student that comes inside here will feel comfortable in that. Ah, this is even a student fellowship. You can dress in such a way that the moment they see you, they start having a high value for themselves based on how you appeared. The people who received them were dressing like kings and queens. You can't receive me like this and dress like this if I was just a student.

Something more is special about me. It gives a subconscious value that it has to the member. Just seeing how you appear. That's what we can do. We don't have to be there before we do it. Are you blessed? Yes, sir. May your voice be heard in palaces. May your voice be heard in quarters that matter. May your voice be heard in the exclusive gatherings.

And they are thinking of a minister to invite for a conference that will have loud voices there. And then somebody says, I I don't know if you know this person, but her music has so blessed me. And I say, who is that? Let me hear. And you play one... You are not yet there. But that recording, it was as though you were already there. Do you understand what I am saying? The the the anointing, the power, the excellence that came from it. Everyday, I say, my goodness.

What is this? What is this? I was watching a big conference that holds Nigeria, and a man of God from another country was invited for that conference. And when the host was speaking just before he invites the man of God up on stage, the host said, I listened to about forty five seconds of his clip I knew in my heart, we have to invite this man. Forty five seconds. Forty five seconds. How do you make a decision to bring a man to a global platform such as that without even having heard him for a minute? What did that man say in forty five seconds? That's the question. What can you deliver in forty five seconds?

What what can you say? In other words, it doesn't take time for those to open. Doesn't take time. You meet a great man and he gives you forty five seconds to talk about yourself. What can you say? What can you say that plasters your image in his heart, that plasters your voice in his heart? Or do you start begging and become a nuisance? In Jeremiah chapter 30 and verse 19, the Bible says, out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry. I will multiply them. You see the voice of them that makes merry.

I will multiply them, and they shall not be filled. This is the destiny that God has ordained for the believer. It's a destiny of multiplication. The Bible says I will multiply them and they will not be few. I will glorify them and they shall not be small. It means that whatever company comes out of you must be multiplied. It must be glorified. It must not be few. It must not be small. Whatever product you are selling must not be few.

It must not be small. If God says that we multiply them, it means they did not start with being multiplied. There was a way that they started that now warrants for multiplication. It means that that tutorial that starts as five, 10 people meet me in a classroom should become a university. That cloth you are selling by one side of the road, and you are saying, oh, I don't sell bend and and slag should become a boutique. Should become a boutique because that is an expression of your voice. That ministry that started behind chapel online tree with five, 10 passionate people holding their hands and praying for six hours should become a mandate that now speaks to millions of people across the globe. I will multiply them. They shall not be few. I will glorify them.

They shall not be small. Your company is multiplied. That shop, that shop you are calling, this is my small shop. This is my small shop. It's becoming a big mall. Your previously small business is now buying up buildings. Buying up properties. Buying up buildings. Listen. You know, that that song, the full song, I I really sing it, starts like this.

That's the idea. That there is a glory that must not die inside of me. There's a light that must not die inside of me. Please listen. Listen. Listen. I need you to insist that my voice will be heard. Listen. It's a righteous thing. It's not it's not self handgrandizement.

I've told you the benefit that comes to the kingdom when what you are doing becomes great. If you can insist in this manner, it will affect how you do everything you do. It will even affect how you take your academics. It will affect how you take your ministry. It will affect how you take your business. It will affect every area of your life. The moment you just insist. I'm telling you, the bible says that you are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world. It tells you that the world as you know it is in darkness.

And you are the light that has been sent out to that darkness. The bible says that a city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. That is the destiny of the believer. The believer is a city that is set on a hill that cannot be hidden. It means that your life should not be hidden. Your life should not be hidden. If there are many top 10 in your field, you should be among top 10. You should not be hidden. Are you with me? You should not be hidden.

A city set on the hill. The believer is a city. Can we read it together? One, three, go. Pause. Pause. You are what now? Say I'm the light of the world. Do you know that? Do you know that?

I love Jesus. Read it again and see if you can see something there. Read it again. One, three. Go. It doesn't say that you are a light in the world. It uses a definite article. It says you are the light. It means there is something about you that if the world does not see, will remain in darkness. There is something about you.

There is something about your life. There is something about your destiny. There is something about your purpose that if the world does not see, if it does not come out into the world, it will remain in darkness. It will remain in darkness. Oh, I know this. There is nothing about my life that if the world does not see, it will remain in darkness. I know this. I'm convinced about this. Hear me? Do you know that there are different ages that you are taught in sciences?

There is the stone age. What other? Iron age. Uh-huh. Industrial age. Is that not so? And the jet age and all of that. Do you realize that each of these hedges as they begin to unveil, one of the things that classify... As a matter of fact, they are called the dark ages. The prior ones, the stone age and the iron, they are called the dark ages.

What makes them called the dark ages? It is because knowledge has not increased to the point where we have now. So as generations were passing, knowledge was increasing. As knowledge was increasing, inventions that made life easier for people started coming to bear. As these inventions come, it became obvious that the sufferings of men that placed them in dark ages started elevated, started being removed. In other words, what translated the dark ages into times that we are in now wasn't just the gospel. There were inventions. There were innovations. There was a time when to communicate the Ninja town criers. There was a time where they needed fax machines.

There was a time where they needed... And then over time, phones were created. Over time, social media applications were created. Over time... Do you know that when I was growing up, Android phones were not available to people as you have them now in... When I was... And I'm not so old. But Android phone were not were not available to people in a widespread manner as you have them now. I mean, an SS two student... SS one student can hold an Android phone.

I grew up in a time where web trick was a thing. You might not know what that means. You have to download games on your phone. You have to go to Sefan. If you are using Nokia 33, 10 and Motorola open and close and all these things. Listen. Listen. There are the time when if you had a Motorola open and close, you were a big boy. Listen. Look at how times have proceeded with age.

Now you hold that phone right now, people wonder what what age are you in? What world are you in? Have you been... Have you... Are you... What what is going on here? You see someone with even thirty three ten, which used to be the golden boy of those days. You you you see someone with it now and then you are amazed that... Are are you lost in time? Did you arrive late?

Because the world has so proceeded that we have entered into seasons of light that did not only come by the advancement of the gospel, but also came by the advancement of innovations and inventions. It means when the bible says you are the light of the world, it's not only talking about the light you represent with respect to the gospel. It's also talking about the inventions you would bring and the innovations you bring. In other words, there is a way that you will bring people out of suffering, unnecessary suffering because of an invention that you brought, because of an innovation that you brought. You see what I'm saying now? Yes. I saw a lady marketing a product on social media, and I said, my goodness. Look at this. Look at this. And the lady came up with a shoe, one shoe, but so modular in context that you can remove the heels of the shoe and make it into any type of shoe you want just by replacing the heels.

Sir. Sir. Replace a six inch, put a one inch, remove the one inch, become the slippers in the same shoe. And I said, look at this. Look at this. Somebody's suffering has just come to an end just by this. I'm telling you. This is what the believer is. So when the bible says you are the light of the world, don't see it just in the context of... You know, I started last week by telling you that your primary call is to the gospel.

Yes, sir. Uh-huh. So you don't think that I'm speaking as against that. I'm saying that there is more that your life can produce to generation that can bring many out of dark ages. There are software that some of you will build. It doesn't it doesn't... Listen. Listen. It doesn't have to be that you are a tech bogul. It might just be an idea that you have, and you build a team around yourself and sell it to the world.

Yes, Yes, sir. Yes, And sell it to the world. People in construction, people in real estate, people... What you are doing as you place roofs over people's head is that you are becoming a light of the world. There is a man of God in Kenya whose vision right now in the marketplace is to build affordable houses. Affordable houses for believers and for people in general, really. Because the part of the world where he stays, houses are so expensive, so expensive that people literally cannot afford houses in the city. And so where he stays, if you are working in that city, you need to live in another city. Then people travel three, four hours every day to get to work, three, four hours to go back home. And the man said, what is this nonsense?

And he started a project buying land in bulk and building homes that are so affordable. He said the vision is that if a restaurant waiter cannot afford it, it's too expensive. That's his vision. He said, if a restaurant waiter cannot afford to pay for one of my houses, it's too expensive. My goodness. That's light. Yes, Yes, sir. That's light in darkness. And he gathered investors around himself, shared the vision with them, and they bought into it. Most of them were not believers.

When the project was being executed in Kenya, the investors were in the conference. It was a Christian conference, but none of them were Christians. The man said, this... My friends, they are not Christians, but they are the ones with the money. He said he said he said they've been more than gracious to partner with us. I can imagine how much those guys are bringing in individually to bring about kingdom projects. That is a light. That's a light. That's a light. That's how you should see yourself.

That's how you... It's it's a it's a matter... You see, I've placed such value on myself. I don't cheapen myself. I don't talk less about myself. I'm gonna get there very soon. Let me even go straight to the point. So how do you become this impactful voice in the generation? How do you change a generation? How do you become this impactful voice in generation?

Grace is made available definitely. What must you do in partnership with grace? Remember that Paul says, it is by the grace of God that I labor more than ye all. You see? So grace empowers. Grace enables for labor. And so if a man wants to become a voice in his generation, impacting his generation, what must he know? How must he posture himself? What must he do with his life? What must he commit himself into doing?

By a man of God, business person, career person, listen to me. Number one, I have about seven of them to show you. There are some I want to camp on. There are some I will not really camp on because I've taught them before. But number one is that you must know God. One of the one of the keys to becoming a voice in your generation is that you have to know God. You cannot make impact. You cannot change a generation if you do not have a functional knowledge of God. Daniel chapter 11 verse 32, the b part says, but the people who know their God, They shall be strong, and they shall carry out great exploits. The Bible says they shall carry out great exploits.

They shall be strong. They shall carry out great exploits. Reaching a generation, changing a generation in this end time that we live in will demand a functional knowledge of God because we are going to be standing against people. We're gonna be standing against systems and structures that are vocally antichrist. Never in modern history have we seen this level of structural defiance against God. Never. It is like rebuilding the Tower Of Babel again. This time around, it's not just individuals, but the devil is building systems and structures. And a lot of us don't even know what we are coming up against. We are not just coming up against men.

You see, if your battle is against a man, once that man dies or if he's dethroned, then you have won the battle. Is that not so? You are free. But when you fight against a system, when you fight against a structure, even when the people behind the structure live, the structure itself have its own life. The system itself have its own life. And so sometime when you pray for other than die and the persons die, what happens to the structure? Because it's as easy as putting somebody else there. The battle is not just against individuals. The devil has been able to build intentional systems and structures that is openly rebellious against God. Openly.

Openly. There is no time such as now or as much as now where the power of God is needed in a generation as it is needed now. And the foundation for this is that we must know God. Are you with me? We live in an era of antichrist and antigod sentiments. In first John chapter five and verse 19, the bible says, and we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. This is an era of intensified satanic lawlessness, satanic wickedness. There are many things that we see now in this generation, and it looks like the devil keeps teaching people new ways of inventing wickedness. Wickedness and satanic lawlessness is increasing, increasing. And so the need to know God is needed now more than ever.

People who are acres of God are on the rise. People who boldly hate God, and they are not ashamed to declare it. People who hate the church, and they are bold and audacious about it. And the agenda is to intimidate the church into cowardice. Intimidate the church into irrelevance by relentless attacks on individuals, on pastors, among the church. But the church must rise and say no because we are not the ones to be intimidated by the devil. We are the ones that intimidate the devil. We are the ones that put the devil under control. This is the reason why you must know God. And God will be raising a set of people in this meeting that will intimidate the devil.

People that will show the devil the road back to hell. We are that generation that will teach the devil the many sided complicated wisdom of God. In all its infinite variety, innumerable aspects. We are that generation that will show the devil that the power of God is still real, the wisdom of God is still real and authentic in this generation. Yes. This is the reason why you must know God. Are you with me brothers and sisters? This is a herald of multiplied oppression, multiplied affliction, multiplied infirmity. That's why you must know God. Incurable diseases are exploding left, right, and center.

We live in a world where the darkness is covering the earth. Gross darkness covering the people. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Afflictions, oppressions, witchcraft, and occultic manipulation. There is almost no strata of influence. You see, the people who come and write books and tell you 10 keys to so and so, five keys to so and so. And they tell you that we don't believe in all of these things. Don't do this. And they tell you, just practice this thing. These people are in India channeling their inner chakra.

Practicing yoga and conduct and doing hashtrap projections and manipulating the stars to their favor. Consulting fortune tellers. And they come after all of that and say, five keys, 25 keys. And the believer carries the book and say, hey. This... I've I've known it. I've known it. And you don't know how to... You don't even know what chakra is. I said it to somebody wondering, what what did the apostle just say?

But you know the holy spirit, but you don't want to use him because the book told you is not in all of that. They asked a multibillionaire in a particular podcast. They asked him the particular idea that he received that turned these finances around. And when he asked him, he said, oh, I was just in a fellowship with the brotherhood. The interviewer said what? He said, oh, sorry. I was in a business meeting. He corrected himself immediately. He said, oh, sorry. I was in a business meeting.

I know we're just talking. Those that know their God. We're in an era where passion for God, hunger for God is under intense confrontation, where people are made to look foolish because they love God. In Matthew 24 and verse 12, the Bible says, and the love because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will grow cold. When that era where the love of many will grow cold. Bible already prophesies it that in this era, the love of many will grow cold. Everything is trying to make you weak. Everything is trying to make you powerless. Everything is trying to make you go grow weary in your love for God. And so there is a need to know God.

Are you with me brothers and sisters? There's a need to know God, and there is value to knowing God. There is reward for knowing God. The first of them is that they shall be strong. There is strength that come because you know God. I told you on Sunday that it takes strength to do big things for God. Remember, I said that the child grew three expressions of growth a believer must have. He must be strong in spirit. The child grew. He works strong in spirit.

And the Bible says one way that a man waxes strong in spirit is that he knows God. Those who know their God shall be strong. It means there is a way you come into the experiential knowledge of God. It supplies strength to your spirit. It supplies strength to your spirit. You lack strength to the degree to which you don't know God. Matthew 17, Jesus said this is eternal life that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. In other words, he says eternal life is seen in how much you come into the knowledge, the experiential knowledge of God. The experiential knowledge of God. And that the more you know God, the more you have strength in you to say no to demonic and eternity temptations.

There are bribes that you will see when you get to the marketplace. You will need strength your spirit to say no. It should not be a matter of whether or not you like money. You have not seen some amount of money. But all you have to do is manipulate the numbers, manipulate the figures, and all of this can be yours. It will take strength in your spirit. Strength in your spirit for integrity to find expression so that you don't fall and then remember you are a believer. There are times there are times that you... It it even requires strength to face temptations, the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, many of which you see in this generation right now. Things that can easily beset a man.

It takes strength to stand your guard. It takes strength to stand in the day of adversity. But one thing many don't know is that it takes strength to attempt big things and to do them. That's why strength came before exploits. In other words, to do exploit, you will require strength. Remember, those who know their God, they shall be strong, and then they shall do exploit. It takes strength to do exploit. There's a way big visions enter into your heart, and then it sinks your heart. It is because strength is missing. There are people that...

The reason why they are willing right now and they have become useless in life and destiny is because somebody just told them what was demanded of their lives. And they suddenly were able to see the picture of heaven's demand for their lives. And they say, am I the one that would do all these things? And they just collapsed because it takes strength to do exploits. It takes strength to do exploits. It takes strength to attempt big things, to put yourself in competitive places. It takes strength. I told you about the lady who was an HND graduate, who applied for a scholarship of PhD, a PhD scholarship, and she got it. The question now is, how does an HND graduate even have the boldness to say I want to apply for this opportunity? It is PhD.

How do you jump like that? It takes strength of heart, and she got it. I was speaking to someone, and the person told me... The person said, even though I've applied, sir, even though are not the ones they are looking for, I'm looking for people of, like, four years experience, five years experience, I could tell this person lacks strength or that. I could tell this person lacks strength or that. You know, I asked the person, I said, when did... According to this resume of yours, when did you start working? Is it 2020? What's... What year are we?

2025. How many years experience do you have? He said, I have five years. It's no more than four. He said, but, sir, this this is high tea. I say, it's the value you place on it. Is it not work? Is it not... Is the value you place on it? Is it...

What was missing was strength of art. By the time you sit down before an employer and you are discussing that IT and what you did there, I I was I was in charge of managing and... Hey. The bible says they shall do exploits. There is exploit attached to your knowledge of God. It means every time spent knowing God is not a waste. Every time spent knowing God is not a waste. You can't think it's a waste. You can't think so. You can't think so.

I come to church. What am I coming to do? I'm knowing God even as I learn the word of God. I'm knowing God even as I read my Bible. I'm knowing God. You see, if you attach this much value to knowing God, you will see why you should spend time knowing him. The reason why prayer and studying is distasteful to you is because you have not seen any value that comes out of it. That there is marketable value to know God. You will spend time in it. If you know you will receive salary at the end the month, will you do that work or not?

There is value in knowing God. One of such is that you will do exploits. Understanding this, you will spend time knowing him. Understanding this, you will spend time knowing him. You will read your bible. You will pray. You will come to church, and nobody will have to beg you for it. Come rain. Come sunshine. You will be in church.

Under the rain, you'll put your head there. As you are coming, you say, God, this is part of the track record. A car is coming. This I know for sure. But that the rain will stop me never. Never. The reason is because we have seen a value that we can sacrifice our cloth to know him. There's value there. By the time that mission has succeeded, we'll be giving cars like we are giving 1,000 naira. By the time that ends...

So while we are still pursuing, we are willing to sacrifice everything. Everything. Everything. Hey. There's value to knowing God. And so every time we spend knowing God is not a waste. Is that okay? Number two. And you see, we cannot present a god to a generation that we are still confused about. The level of accuracy and the evidence that the world needs right now to bow to the lordship of Christ is greater than the evidences that they would have needed thirty years ago.

Look at social media for instance. It almost has it almost has more power than people, than government, than presidents. Presidents can almost be dethroned and impeached even by the media. And look at the influence of media propagating the idea that Jesus is not Lord. And if we're not careful, then our children will embrace these philosophies and build their destinies on the fact that Jesus is not Lord. And one day, there will come a generation that knows not the God of Joshua. We need to know God. And we need to have a knowledge of God that is functional to be able to have a better presentation of God if we want our generation to submit to Jesus. It is very important that we know and understand God. Jeremiah chapter nine verse 23, the bible says, thus says the Lord, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom.

Let not the mighty man glory in his might. No. Let the rich man glory in his riches. He then goes on to say, let him, oh, glory, glory in this that he understands and knows me. That is the only thing worth glorying about that you know God. That is the only thing worth glorying about. Number two. Glory. Number two is transformation. Mental transformation.

Stay with me. Mental transformation. This is where many well intentioned believers, many well intentioned business people, captains of industries, preachers, career people, this is largely where we miss it. We have downplayed the place of transformation and sustaining superior belief systems. The average preacher does not have a global view. The average preacher does not see things from a global scope. The average preacher's approach to ministry is not global in scope, and the average businessman's approach to business is not global in scope. Our approach may be local, but our viewpoint has to be global. Especially in this age and time, someone from another country somewhere can influence the focus and the participation of your membership, for instance, as a man of God without even being there. Someone can fit on social media and sell an idea that is antichrist to your members, and you may not even know the person.

It means we must be able to sustain an intelligence and a worldview that is global. The average believer does not even know the ideas that are fighting the gospel today and how to defend the faith intelligently. We have not been able to sustain a superior orientation that gives us the capacity to present Jesus in a way that all and sundry can receive him. You see, there is a way that you will present Jesus, that even those close to you will reject him. There's a skill in presenting Jesus. It is not just truthfulness. Your gospel and your message can be true, but your approach can make it look like a lie. And this is true for your products. This is true for whatever it is you do. You can have a legit or a solid product, but your approach makes it look like what you have is nonsense.

Your package makes it like what you have is nonsense, whereas it can be powerful. It is the same for the gospel. And so we must be able to sustain a worldview that is global. Are you with me? Yes, When we are born, we grow up looking like our environment. But we must trust God that through the ministry of the word and the spirit, through superior mentorship, through the teaching of the word, we must evolve to give ourselves a new orientation about life that supersedes whatever it is our environment must have passed on to us. There are preachers and there are business people that God can never give global visibility to. Because the truth is that if God gives you global visibility, you will be an embarrassment to the kingdom. Not because of wrong things like immorality and the rest, but that you just don't sustain the the requisite level of orientation to present what it is you are doing globally. You see now?

So in addition to our knowledge of God, our consecration, our press into spiritual things, we have to trust God for grace to give us the ability to sustain superior orientation, a transformed mind. So that when you are talking in the marketplace, you are not talking like someone who came out from this environment. You're not some... No. No. You're not talking like someone who came out from this village. We cannot attribute your locality to your expression. Listen. As long as that remains the case, you will limit your visibility. You will limit how much and how far God can take you.

Are you with me? You know that you are transformed when it becomes difficult to connect you with an earthly territory. It means I should not be able to look at you and say, you are behaving like a northerner or you are behaving like a westerner. Something about your orientation is betraying you. I'm not just talking about refusing where you come from or denying where you come from. No. No. No. I should see you and not even know where you come from because of the excellency of your transformation. You have defeated the limitations that come with your territory.

So I cannot say, ah, you know, people that come from the East are so so so in love with money, they cannot even give. You have surpassed that expression. There are many people who still carry the badge of the limitations of their territory because of the unbending loyalty to values that are antichrist, and we hold on to it like an inheritance, something we are unwilling to let go of. You have to be transformed. Let me give an example. As a man of God, for instance, when I'm dealing with my local assembly, I talk to you as or with the heart of a shepherd. But when God gives me the opportunity to talk to a global audience, my examples, my context, my approach must be such that someone from America, someone from Europe, someone from Asia, someone from UK must be able to relate and understand what I am saying. Not everybody is suffering what I am suffering even though I'm not suffering. But not everybody is suffering what, you know, the average preacher is suffering. So they may not be able to understand your pain by the time you start talking as to everybody from your village.

You see, you can't just generalize your pain and speak a language that only you can understand. This is where intelligence comes in. Superior thinking pattern comes in. And it also... You you will see this thing even in how you package yourself as a student. Because some of you will go for conferences, and you'd have the opportunity to network with people, and your presentation will defeat you. It will be obvious from how you are speaking that you are in 200 level. I'm telling you, there is no superior thinking. You have not adopted a model that is more than where you currently are. Listen.

Listen. The physical realm is always delayed. Are you with me? But it can speed up to the degree to which your mind has gone far. It's a crime in the realm of the spirit for your mind to be where your body is. Your mind always has to be ahead of your body. And the speed at which your body catches up is to the degree to which your mind is farther than your body. In other words, if your mind is just a year ahead of your body, your body will catch up very slow. It's like you are drawing a spring backwards or a... What's the name of that thing?

A catapult backwards. It's not true that the farther you draw, the more speed and the more force that the stone can use to come forward. Is that not so? Yes, sir. Uh-huh. In this instance, that drawing backwards is what your mind... Is where your mind is. In other words, except for the fact that you're not... Your your mind is not backwards now. Your mind is going ahead.

So my mind... My body can be here, but my mind is not here. When I stand and I'm speaking, I'm speaking to hundreds of thousands of people on-site, millions of people following online. And so I package myself. I speak like so. I talk like so. Before you know, the physical realm will soon catch up with that reality. It's a crime in the realm of the spirit for your body and your mind to be in the same place. My body can be in the one room, but my mind must not be there. I must buy the word of God and buy books that share thoughts with the word of God, be able to give my mind a level of exposure that goes light years into my future.

Are you with me? Light years into my future. And then I must now come back to my present and carry my body and move together. Yes. This is the superiority of a transformed mind. When you sit up a person anywhere, it will reflect in how he's talking to you that he is not where his body is. There are times when you are speaking or joking jokes that everybody within his physical context can relate with. But because his mind is light years ahead of where his body is, sometimes they even struggle to understand your joke. So you are joking and you say, ah, the way wants to deal with me like this. And everybody in your life is And you bring it you bring a video.

You just show everybody. Everybody is laughing, and you bring it to him. Cannot even relate with it. Because he's wondering he's wondering, you are seen as a funny thing because somebody wears supper clothes and has big belly and is drinking garri, and supper come and collect garri from his hand, and you are laughing. And he is wondering that, how? What is going on? What is this? Because, I mean, it is in a realm where he's just thinking prosperity. He's just thinking wealth. He's just thinking money.

So the the the the the things that affect men in this realm, it it it doesn't know what you are talking about. It's not fake. It's not something that you you want to laugh. You know you now remember what I'm supposed to say. Let me let me... That's not what I'm saying. It's not fake. It's not fake. If you are there, you are there. It's not fake.

Someone brought a someone brought a video to me some time ago. I said, supposed to... The person laughed and laughed and laughed almost some adult then then brought the video to me. I said, I supposed to come and look at this, and I just gave a long hiss because it was... Number one, it was long, and I was just looking for where the joke... I just wasted my time. I said, what is this? The good... Praise to God. You see, you you you don't know that the comedy that you find almost everywhere on social media now is done to relate with the sufferings of people.

You need to be inside it to understand it. I'm not there. Let me let me let me show you an example. There's one guy who is using... Who is with with the guy is with insane amount of skill and excellence, singing songs about two k and OP and all of those things. Do you know that that guy would trend only at his fair, only with some people? And it will trend because most people are are there. So it's a very good marketplace. The people in that market square are very plenty. His market is plenty.

And so when he said, I borrow two k, he said, people... Many people can relate with that. Do you understand? Guess what? My mind is not where my body is. My mind is not where my body is. I don't talk like it. No matter how much struggle I can be going through, no matter, you will never, by mistake, come to my work after us and say, hey, Jesus. Such is life. This one too shall pass.

Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Wait. Wait. Wait. The bible says, it that is from above is above here. It means if I'm from above, I don't talk the talk of mere men.

I don't joke the joke of mere men. I don't whisper the whisper of mere men. And it might... You see, it might look as though your own is too much. But what if you find me too is much. I can't help it. I can't help it. I have seen the flags of nations. So when I'm talking... And, you know, the same way...

That's the same way when your mind has gone far ahead of your body. People whose minds are still where their physical realm is also cannot relate with what you're saying. It worked the same way. That's why I say that it's always a waste of time trying to convince a small mind or putting big pictures in a small mind. I don't attempt to. I don't even bother. When you see someone with... Who... Whose mind is... I was speaking to a man of God, and I told the man of God what my vision is before the end of the month of June or July.

Physically, in my mind, I'm even... I'm five years. I'm into ten years. I'm just telling you a vision of June. What what ten years You will faint. If the June 1, you are still doubting whether or not is ambition. One of my one of my young girls was talking to me. One of my young girls was talking to me, and she said she was joking with some of our friends. We're just joking. And you know all these foolish foolish jokes?

As people joke and everybody... And they were just talking about what they need and if somebody can just help them what they need right now. And then the first person say, ah, me. What I need now is a mobile device if I can get a techno. Another person say if they can get a disc, and that person can get it done. So when it was at times we mentioned, say, ah, if I can get a iPhone 14 or 15 or whatever, all... And then the friends now shouted, ah. That's... It's people like you that allow helpers to run away from you. See how you are talking.

You can you can't even talk from somewhere that is small. You can't even talk from somewhere that is this. It's people like you. Somebody that want to help you now will now hear this one now on the way. And guess what? They were mocking her. Both of them were laughing, making jest of her until a point which started feeling bad as she came to me and said, did not see something wrong. Even if... Even though it's a joke, the biggest mistake you'll make is trying to convince a small mind. I'm telling you.

And that is the that is the nature of small men. Were still making jest of the lady in their folly. Is how we got to where we are as Nigerians because we put the choice of a nation in the hands of majority. Do you understand what I've just said? Look at Jesus. Jesus used this in his examples. Examples that will continue to remain relevant across several generations. It satisfied the context of this generation, but then he also looked through times. So if you see the seed, the sower, the ground, till Jesus comes, that example will remain relevant because agriculture will remain a thing. Do you understand what I'm saying?

So Jesus did not even use examples that only his time can understand. You see this in the speakings of Jesus. A time will come where whoever drinks of milk will never test again. Is there a time when nobody would... Nobody would not need water? Is there any kind of invention that will remove the need for water? And so if you know how you are thirsty and Jesus compares how you feel thirst for water to how you should thirst for him, is there a time by example will not be relevant? This was Jesus speaking and understanding the context of generations, not just his own, but many to come. And he used examples that were peculiar to all generations. The parable of the bags of silver.

What you call talent is bags of silver. It's money. Is there a time where money will not be relevant? The parable of the lost coin. You see, the power of a transformed mind The power of a transformed mind. Engage in intentional study of scriptures. Likely to bring exposure, then read books. Read books. If you want to be valuable, read books. Read books that gives your mind exposure so that you're not content with mediocrity.

There's a way your mind will be so untransformed that you live in mediocrity and see it as the norm. It takes a level of transformation to be at the level of unhease with average. That every time something that you are doing is below par, you are looking at... You say, I can't deliver it like this. You stay there until it is excellent. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes. It is a level of mentality and the level of mind renewal that has happened to me that give me such an hunger for excellence. You will not be hungry for excellence if your mind is not transformed.

Expose your mind biblically. Follow pictures and references of greatness that agree with scriptural values that can bring forth level of exposure to your mind that creates a reference and a standard for your field of influence. I did this when I was building websites and web applications. I wasn't just building anything that comes to my mind. I had references, and I ensured that every reference I had were terrible references. Not the simple ones you just see, normal references that you you begin to wonder how was it done. If you are a designer or a developer or a creative in any sense, anytime you see something that someone has done that was done by same skills of... That you have, Subconsciously, your mind, you start picturing how they did it. Start saying, okay. This person, okay.

Just put something here. Just put this. Your mind starts calculating like that. Is that not so? Yes, sir. The references I find are ones that I don't even know how they did it. With my wealth of knowledge, I have to still be confused as to how did how did this did this come to be. It puts me in a constant state of challenge, never to make myself feel as though I've known everything. That thing now puts a desire for excellence that is ever increasing. Wherever I do that find myself, Whatever is is my my hand finds doing.

If every reference you have, you feel as though you have arisen in a level of skill where you can reproduce everything they do, then it means that they are not a worthy reference again. This is somebody playing the keyboard, and the person is... I can do this. It's no longer a worthy reference. It's a proof that you have moved above that realm. You now need to find a higher and a superior reference. Do you understand what trying to say now? Yes, sir. Yes. So Yes.

That you give your mind a level of exposure that it needs. That level of exposure will be seen in everything that you do. It will be seen in your approach to academics. You will want to pass by all means. You will stretch yourself to excel by all means. There's a level of mentality you would have that I was speaking to a young man who was literally in pain. I'm not joking with you. Even more in pain than those who had d's and e's in the exams. And guess what his results were? He said he found three b's in his result, in his transcript.

He found three b's. A man a man was... He was crying. Came to see me. He said, how do I tell my parent that I had bees? He's supposed to look at it. How will I have 70? That was his pain. You know, seeing seeing where I used to encourage people from and where this border is, I didn't know where to start from. Because if I tell him that you tried, he might wonder, you two are not even where I am.

So I told him, I said, young man, 70, you are more than that. Because no matter how big your mind, this mind is bigger. It's because mine is bigger that your projects cannot cannot scare me. You cannot come to me and tell me you wanna do something worth 1,000,000,000, and it will shake my mind. My mind is bigger than that. I say, apostol, listen. I want to start. I'm looking between 2.5 to 7 billionaire. Go and start. Yes.

You don't plan destiny with money. Yes, sir. And then we begin to discuss how do we now put these things into reality. My mind is bigger than that. Don't you ever think that I am where I am in time. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Never. Never.

You don't form it. It is not fake. If you are there, you are there. To engage your mind intentionally, intentionally. When anything comes out of you, wonder, is this the best? My foreign designer, I heard the... I heard the testimony about him. Somebody got a job in a bank, and the MD of that bank was to appear in an occasion on Saturday, an occasion of his superior. On Saturday, he got to know about it on Thursday evening. So my financial designer was contacted, came to his office on Friday, measured him, and the cloth were on Friday, 4PM.

No correction, no error, perfection. The MD was going around the bank with him saying, look at this. Look at this. I'm telling you. That... That's a door that has opened. He said he could not believe it. In how many hours? Yet there was no correction, no error whatsoever. It's easy for prophets to find expression.

It's easy. It's easy. It's easy to make favor work. It's easy. When you are so diligent, when you are so excellent, that what comes out of you is nothing but gold. Pure gold, pure value. Pure gold. Pure value. Let this thing of mediocrity die. Let it die.

You don't work for someone and they give complaints over and over again. I I don't don't force yourself to believe that it's not avoidable. Then it could have happened to the best of us. Who told you that? Who told you that? What kind of matter is that? And it can happen to the best of us. Then who is your reference for best? My God. Who's your reference for best?

You have the opportunity to serve greatness in any capacity. Always be a cause for joy Yes, sir. In any capacity. Simple responsibility that is yours to do. The person to... With whom your servant should never have to think about it and be the one reminding you of your what is meant to be your responsibility. Number two. Number three. Maybe we stop here. I know you continue whenever God would have us.

Number three, a revelation of your identity. You want the relevant within the context of a generation. You want your voice to command power. You must have a revelation, a strong revelation of your identity. There's a scripture I saw that blessed me so much. Psalms chapter 49 and verse 20. Let's read it together, everybody. Psalms 49 and verse 20. One, two, three. The first line alone.

One, two, three. Go. The man is in honor. Pause. So can we agree that this man is in honor? Next line now. Next line now. That a man can be in honor and does not understand the identity that has been conferred upon him as a man of honor. And the bible says if that man, despite his honor, is like the beast that perishes. A man who is in honor but does not understand is like the beast that perishes.

But if you don't know your identity, the bible says they know not, neither do they understand. They walk on in darkness. The foundation of the earth are out of course. The Bible says they die like mere men. Die like mere men. They shall fall like one of these princes. You are gods, and all of you are children of the most high. But this was the knowledge that was missing from them. They know not, neither do they understand. And because they don't understand that they are gods, they shall fall.

They shall die like mere men. Whereas gods should not even die. But they know not, neither do they understand. They walk on in darkness, in ignorance. The foundations of the earth are out of course. A supernatural understanding of who you are, a supernatural understanding of your person, your assignment, your product, what you carry, your presence. When we're talking about that revelation of your identity, we're talking about that light that dawns on your inside that makes your voice louder. When this light strikes you, there can be no inferiority complex. Any man who ever suffers from inferiority complex has an identity crisis. The bible says in the book of philemon chapter one verse six, the bible says that the communication of your faith becomes effectual by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

The communication of your faith becomes effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing, which is where? In Christ Jesus. That the fact that those good things are in you are not enough for them to be effectual. I like to use the example of your mobile phone. Mobile phone has a battery. Do you need to acknowledge the battery on mobile phone for it to work? Just works. But the bible says that there are good things that have been deposited in you, and then they will not begin to work just because they are in you. The same way you'd expect a battery to work because it's in the phone. They would only start to become effectual when you start acknowledging them.

It means if you have no knowledge of what is in you, you will be in honor. Have no understanding, but die like a beast. Are you with me? Yes, sir. This is 80% of the cost of low self esteem. Inferiority complex. When you... When your knowledge of your identity, especially as it relates to your position with Christ comes in you, you you don't second guess yourself. You don't think about yourself and put limitations on yourself. You say, well, they're calling everyone to talk.

Is it also mean that they will not call? They are calling all the animals with on. The snail too is coming forward. They are calling people to come and apply for contract. Is it me? Is it my own company? When did I even start the company that we are applying for contract? Is it with the likes of this, with the likes of that? Will give kind idea and go and sit down somewhere. You come and write this essay.

2,000,000. 2,000,000. You didn't even see $150,100. 2,000,000. They know the people that they will give. Is it people that mean that will come and get blah, 2,000,000. What do I want to write? What do I want to write still? When you see people who... Their mind has already defeated them.

It is because there's no consciousness of their identity, the revelation of their identity. Somebody cannot apply for large positions, large opportunities because he feels as though he's more than him. I'm not even talking that regard because he feels as though he's more than him. One of my guys messaged me and told me, sir, I got a job opportunity to do this and that and that and that. I want to ask them to pay me 80,000 naira. So when he told me about it, I read what they want me to deliver to them. Read it. And I told him, change this. Change that. Change this.

Change that. Tell them 400,000. Phrase it this way. Press it this way. Press it this way. Go for it. And I say, okay, sir. Thank you very much, sir. Did everything I told him to do? And they replied, we are very, very sorry.

We can't afford R400,000 at this moment, but we are more than willing to do $3.20. Listen. Listen. Listen. When he sent it me, he could not even believe it. He just sent it to me. He was... He didn't know. He was shocked. Because to him, that was a large amount of money.

The same value, the same value, the same value. The same value. When he brought it to me, you know what I just thought of? If I was the one doing this thing, how will I do it? And what will I collect? That's just what I thought about. It was it was the revelation. There was no... Nothing. If I...

How will I freeze it? What will I deliver? What will I collect? And based on that, we can change this. Change this. Change this. What was missing, therefore, was an identity. It means you can be doing business with the identity of a student. You won't prosper. I can guarantee you.

Really good. Because there is just a scope that your mind will not think beyond. I was talking to one of my girls. I... And I asked her, why do you charge this amount of money? You are supplying this level of value, and it takes over six hours of your time, and you charge 6,000 naira. Why? She told me that's what people in the school environment charge. Is your mind in the school? How will you prosper that way?

See, student don't prosper. Something must happen to your mind that brings you out of that context. Are you getting blessed? Yes, sir. There are people who are doing the same thing that you are doing. What's the difference? Yeah. But, sir, this is a change of clientele, but we never do this kind of thinking. Because this kind of thinking will not even bring you to a place to where you receive ideas as to where to meet this kind of people. If you're a business person, there are occasions you go for by purpose.

Yes, sir. Because you want to connect. Yes, Yes, sir. Because you want to form valuable relationships. Yes, sir. Valuable relationships. To go there to go and sell yourself primarily, but just go and form valuable relationships. And you know, there's a conference here, or there's a this here, there's a doctor, and you are there with a purpose in mind. And an ident... A strong identity will make you walk up to people, shake their hands, not like a squirrel.

Give you a handshake, you wonder if you have polio. Just the hand is just dangling. Identity crisis, this thing reflects in your confidence. It reflects in your confidence. It reflects in how you carry yourself, how you match into a meeting. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. With your head high, your shoulders high, looking at everybody directly in the face. You wanna talk to someone, you are just looking down, looking up, avoiding facial contact. Something is wrong with your identity.

Lions don't back down from threats. I see food in front of me. I eat it. I'm not I'm not the one that now wondering, hey. Hey. Hey. No now. Uh-uh. This is my food. Before I got a car, I was going to meet a client for a business deal.

And with the talk, the business deal was in 7 figures. And I decided that I would not dis... Dis... Dis... Identity, dis... Dis... That I would dis... Doesn't just make sense. Because your value speaks your... Anyways, you don't appear like someone that you should give it to.

I took a boat, and I told the boat you are waiting here until I'm done, and then you take me back. Agreed on the price. It was settled. Someone cannot pay that amount of money for a boatman to go and talk on that kind of contract because he feels that's the mind. The mind is doing something to him. And then you just drop on a bike, and then you throw up. Before you even get down, your trouser is dirty, your hair is white, and you are dusting your hair, doing like this, and then the person that wants to interview is standing right outside looking at you. And then the cost of $15,000, the boatman will collect you, sacrifice 1,500,000. You know, it is your mindset that that that that determines even how you dress. I remember a young man.

Every time I see the guy, I think he's suffering. And and he will come and share with me the big vision in his heart. A time came I sat him down and said, you can't pro... You can't prosper. He said he said, sir, why? I think your dressing will not make you prosper. The the the the vision in your heart has to be communicated with big minded people, greatness, and you can't meet them like this. When Joseph was brought out of prison, the first thing that came was his appearance before he could meet the king. They told him go and wash him up. Go and clean him up.

There's a way you appear before kings even if I come from the prison. In other words, the prison is not an excuse to be tattered. Oh, but I only have three clothes. High on the clothes. The problem is not your put. It's your mentality. It's your identity. It's your mentality. I'm a come as eating your leg to pieces while it has thought you are coming from the desert? It's a mentality problem.

Is this thing this thing... If you might think it's a joke, but you have no idea what it will cost you. Look decent. You have no idea where it will speak to. This is a part of your voice. Yes, sir. Sir. Look decent. You're coming to church. You say it does not matter.

You just wear bedrock slippers, and you sit down somewhere. Why? And it's my father's house. Listen. It's not an issue, but it's a mentality problem. Listen. I'm saying it because I love you. Listen. If you see yourself as a king, as royalty, there's a way you'd appear everywhere you go as royalty as royalty. I'm conscious of this.

I'm conscious of this. Even if I'm going out to an unimportant place and I'm to wear a play cloth, I can't just wear nonsense. I can't just see cloth that rattles eating here. Rattles eating here. There's hole here. There's hole there. And you say, well, It's not lack of cloth. It's a identity crisis. Yeah. It's an identity crisis.

Change the way you see yourself. Change the way you see yourself. This thing is so bad that some people, the first time they wear suits because they've never seen themselves in it, it will be so obvious that they look out of place. Doesn't even know how to dress the suit. Doesn't know how to... He just think his fashion. He wears a suit, flies the thing, flies the tie, wears a non matching shoe to hit, and this is the trend. It's not the trend. It's you have just not seen yourself like a king. You are dressing like a slave.

It is true. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? So who made them ask, who are you? Do know your identity can be so strong that it would not matter whether or not you have proofs to defend what you claim? John the Baptist did not have any miracle, yet he emptied the city to himself. Somebody cannot apply for a contract or for a project because he feels I don't have four years experience. No single miracle was credited to his name. Yet he said I'm the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Fire he has not called. Nothing he has not done.

You show all the kind of blood you have done before. And because you have not done any, you think of jumping out of the race. That's a wrong mindset. Someone who had no proof, yet after they heard him speak, people asked him, what shall we do to be saved? It means it's not only proof that can commend your voice to generation. Confidence in what you carry can. Knowing who you are is more important than trying to convince people about who you are. It is not the physical that precedes the the spiritual. It is the spiritual that precedes the physical. Know who you have before you advertise your business.

Know what you represent. But it has a way it rubs off on it. One of my guys showed me how he approached a client, and I said, look at this. Very soon, this thing will blow because of the level of confidence in his identity. The client posted a job. I needed this and that and that and that. And the guy messaged the client, said, heard you were looking for me. Here I am. Can do this. I can help you with this.

I can help you with that. I said, listen. Even if you don't get a response now, keep that eye... That that confidence, that identity, it will open multiple doors. It is more important than anything. What makes your voice loud is not volume. It's the consciousness of your identity. And bold declarations will help you with this identity thing. You have to say it loud. I'm building the biggest business in this city.

I'm an excellent student. I can never fail. Above only and not beneath. Ahead only. You need to speak it. The bible says we therefore having the same spirit of faith. We believe and so we speak. I am raising a strong foundation in this city. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

I'm building the biggest ministry in this country. We are making history in this country. We are doing what has never been done. I'm raising kings. I'm raising princes. These are my declarations. This is what I believe. That if any man meets me, he's already great. Doesn't matter what disadvantage he might have. Doesn't matter what background he might come from.

If any man ever meets me, he's already great. Bold declarations of faith helps you with this identity thing. Can I give you one final one? Yes, sir. That makes your voice to generation be extremely valuable. And then we stop it. Be extremely valuable. If you want to make an impact in your generation, you must be valuable. You know that you are valuable to the degree to which men place a demand on you. Nobody will pursue you for offering nothing.

There are many people who believe they will gain loyalty without being valuable. A generation will not listen to you until you truly have something to offer. Be valuable. One of my young women told me that she wanted to do... She wanted to... She believed she had an assignment on the mountain of media, and she wants to start posting stuff on social media. I said that is amazing, beautiful stuff because you see believers shine away from this a lot. So when I when I see people with purpose having this kind of mentality, it becomes something beautiful. And so the lady sent me the first thing she wanted to post. And all I I I didn't understand it.

And she was very excited about it. And I didn't understand it because, you know, she just did her face one kind, then artificial intelligence turned the face to a cartoon, and then that was it. I asked, what is this? He said it's just a trend. I I had planned that. I said, will you stop that nonsense? What value... What what is this? They were just to follow the trend until you are able to... Nobody follows what is not valuable.

It's not a matter of trend. It's a matter of value. If you tell me that I want to be on social media, then the question is what value are you providing there? What value are you selling there? What value are you giving there? That's what makes people look for you. People look and follow after men of extreme value. In Mark chapter one verse 37, the Bible says that they came to the disciples, and they came... The disciples came to Jesus and told him everybody is looking for you. This is a testament of value.

I've made a covenant with God and with destiny. But as far as God's demand upon my life is concerned, I will work up... I will work on myself by the privilege of God's grace to be extremely valuable. That I will never stand on any man's pulpit or even my pulpit and talk nonsense. And they say, this man just wasted our time. It will never happen. I've covenanted my life with God in this regard, and I put myself... I labor the labor intentionally. If you're a man of God, be valuable. A business person will be valuable.

A career person will be valuable. Wherever it is your work, be valuable. Be intellectually valuable. Be spiritually valuable. Carry power. Carry content. Carry grace. Deliver with excellence. And no bias, no prejudice will be able to trap you down. I've had a covenant with my...

With God and with my destiny that I will never stand before any man on this earth and feel intimidated. I will never stand before any man on this earth and feel intimidated. I can be challenged, but that my value will so much brand my impact that when I stand, I will wholly honor you for your uniqueness, but never to the detriment of my own value because my value speaks for me. I will never stand before anybody with my feet shaking and wondering, no. I will be challenged. I will be inspired. But I understand that in my own right, there is something God has placed upon me. And by diligence, I have found it so much so, it has become something of value to generation. Crude oil will not do us any good until we refine it. The only thing that people queue for is what comes out of crude oil when it is refined.

What people kill for is not the dark paste, the raw one that come from the rock. That's not what you kill for. Men will not come and kill for the unrefined you, the crude you, the raw version of you. Men is... That's not what men are looking for. They come to you when that skill, that value has been refined, when it has been polished to produce excellence. That is the dimension of you that attracts men to you. If you want to be valuable, stop over pampering yourself. Don't clap for yourself too early. Improve yourself.

Prepare. Do your homework. Improve yourself. I was telling one of my pastor, I said, it is better. Even scriptures show us this. It is better to sharpen a hacks for seven days, and on the eighth day, come and strike it once, and the tree comes falling down than to take a blunt hacks and invest energy trying to cut the tree and spend seven days, eight days in futility. You would rather be in your secret place, be in your house, and what you are doing is sharpening your value, getting better, taking courses, improving yourself so that by the time they put you before the world, my goodness, there is no problem you cannot solve. Just kill us. Listen. Listen to me.

I read a book from time ago. Called talent is never enough, and it is true. To be talented in... Alone is not enough. You must sharpen that thing until it becomes a skill that it is worth paying for. I can do graphic design. That is true. But how much can I pay for it? A man did a design of a logo for Coca Cola. Was it...

I think Mike. It was Mike. And over $1,000,000 was paid to the company for a logo design and a rebrand. That's same thing somebody else does for $1.05. Can you polish yourself and your values so much that kings will look for you? The bible says, seest thou a man diligent in his work. He will stand before kings and not before mere men. I have a teaching this year titled standing before kings. You... If you want to stand before kings, diligence is important.

Be extremely diligent. I will always say that diligence is a response to the spirit of excellence. If you know that you are excellent, diligence will be your response. Be good at what you do. Be really good. Be so good that it is difficult to replace you. If you are a tailor, don't stop until you sow for kings. You are a builder, don't stop until you build for kings. You are a singer, don't stop until you sing to kings. This should be your mentality in every context.

You want to be a voice to generation. You must be very valuable. Don't just say I can do this. Are you very good? How difficult is it to replace you? Can we just call somebody else and puke? You are gone. If you are not yet there, continue to improve yourself. Until you serve kings, you cannot receive the reward of kings. Don't under utilize your potential.

There is more that you can do. Favor is easy when there is competence. Prophecy finds fulfillment fast when there is competence. Success comes easy when opportunity meets preparation. If you want to attract the attention of kings, you must be thorough. Be thorough. Pay attention to details. Don't leave any stone unturned. Cross all the t's, doors, all the highs. Get my merit, that diligent spirit, and listen to it.

Deliver with precision. Deliver with intelligence, with exactitude, and with the anointing, with power. Let there be no error in what you do. If you promise somebody results, get the results. Get the results. Let your name be associated with results. That if you give this person, just go and sleep. Let that be how they describe you. Your work will speak for you. That's what happens.

Your work will speak for you. You wanna be a voice in generation? These are the things you must master. If you're ever given platform to come and speak as a speaker, as a man of God, don't disappoint your host. Don't let somebody be swearing that they will never invite you again because you have not mastered headaches in communication. Honor and regard. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? Between last week and now, I've gotten over 15 people or 20 people, if not more than that. Tell me I've gotten a job. I've gotten a contract.

I've gotten a job. I've gotten a contract, and we have not even entered February. Be diligent. Your own responsibility is diligence. If somebody recommends you, don't let the person regret. Say, ah, do you know who can do this? I know. I know. I know. Then they call you.

And then you... It now become a matter of tears. When I have a regretting pay, ah, ah. And I even... I introduced her because she's a church sister. I do not know she will disappoint me. There's this there's this tag that people have against church people. Even me, I have it. Glory to God. Amen.

Be worthy of the investment of somebody's credibility upon your work. But if I invest my credibility on your work and on your labor, I won't regret it. We are having a party and we are looking for a chef that will deliver food for us, 300 people in attendance. And we ask how much do you want? And you say, okay. I can bid for 1,500,000, and I recommend you. And they said the food must be there by 9AM. Can it be done? Yes. It can be done.

Oh, very good. And then by 11AM, we are very sorry, oh, we're in hold up. Stop. Eyes up on your feet. I want you to begin to just bless the name of the Lord and just say thank you, 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. You can follow us on Instagram at official disciples c n. You can follow us on Facebook at disciples christian network. You can also join our telegram page at d c n media for more messages by apostle Emmanuel.

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