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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. This is the year of dominion. And what I'm gonna be teaching you today is key in manifesting dominion and ensuring that you are divinely positioned, but it doesn't end there. I also told you that we are in the days of his power. The day of the Lord is the theme I would give to the season that we are entering into. And what I'm going to be showing you is also key in demonstrating power on earth. Sustaining the grace to be amongst the army that is rising even in this dispensation. Are you with me? Hello.

Yes. So please stay with me. Give me your ears. Ephesians chapter one verse three. Blessed be the God of our father, our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places In Christ. Let us pray. Precious holy spirit, we thank you and we bless you. Even as we get into your word this evening, give us the power to become. That we don't just become hearers.

Here. But to become doers of the same. Yes sir. Let that word pierce into the depth of our spirit. Amen. Let it pierce into the depth of our spirit. Let it transform us from inside out. Amen. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

The bible says that we are blessed with every spiritual blessing. We are blessed with every spiritual blessing. I like to put it this way. That all you will ever need to reign in life has already been given to you. There are many blessings that redemption has brought us. These blessings are intangible. The bible calls them spiritual blessings, but they are powerful in as much as they are intangible. As a matter of fact, many of the blessings, if not all of the blessings that you receive by reason of accepting Jesus as Lord and savior are actually intangible. They are actually spiritual, but you can see the effect of that blessing around you. Favor for instance is intangible.

You can see favor, but you can know when someone is favored. Yes, sir. The reason of the effects that that spiritual force, that intangible force compels around the individual. You can know that you went out and someone who wasn't supposed to help you helped you. You can know that someone offered you a job when as yet you should not even get one. You can know that I did not apply for this, but somehow just this person just, you know, favored me at its way as we'd call it. Or that someone who had previously rejected you then calls you back and then accepts you. The effect of favor can be felt in as much as favor in itself cannot be seen. So you cannot see what is... You cannot see that there is something upon this person's head, but you can tell by the effect that it compels.

Such is almost every spiritual blessing that we have received in Christ Jesus. Such is the character of every spiritual blessing we have received in Christ Jesus. That's why it's called spiritual blessing. Someone shared with me a testimony yesterday when the prayers were being made on Sunday, I said that there was someone who had been trying to get a document signed and has been getting rejections and delays, but that by the power of God, that document to be signed. And he said he just received it at his word because he's meant to travel abroad, and the school is meant to sign that document that grant that grant him the permission to travel to university. But it has just been getting delayed and delayed and delayed for months. All kinds of dragons. We have not had this meeting. We have not had that meeting. We have not had this meeting.

But just on Monday, he's he's called into the office of the dean, and the thing is signed right there. He said, listen. Listen. Listen. That's some... I guess that was yesterday. That's Monday. That's just a day after the word was spoken. Is... It does...

When this thing now comes upon this young man that compels favor, don't obviously see anything coming upon him. All that happens is probably the only... Probably someone goes out and out of power. And even if someone goes out and out of power, you still don't see anything rest upon them physically. But you know they stand up and there's something just different in terms of the level of result that surrounds them. Now, this guy is just on his way home and then the same person who has been postponing and postponing and postponing then calls him and says you know what, let's go and sit with him. That thing is not normal. It's a response to something spiritual, something intangible that has landed upon you. And sometimes even the person that is helping you does not know that he's responding to something. He just thinks that I'm doing this thing.

I'm just doing it's new. Just doing it's new. It's only the spiritual man that will know that you're not just doing anything. You are responding to something. Do you understand the translation? These are effects of the blessing, But the real blessing themselves are intangible. They are spiritual. Righteousness for instance is intangible, but the effect of righteousness can be felt. And do you know that righteousness is one of the indices that facilitates dominion? In Romans chapter five and verse 17, I showed you this scripture.

We still have to unpack this scripture. God gives us grace. One of these days we will. But the Bible says for if by one man's offense, death reigned through the one, much more those who have received the abundance of grace. The abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness. You know, I like the word the abundance of grace. It doesn't just say those who have received grace. It says we have received the abundance of grace. What a blessing. And of the gift of righteousness, we reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.

It means that grace and righteousness is needed to reign in life. The most of the blessings that we have received by God are gifts. The Bible called it the gift of righteousness, the abundance of grace. They are gifts in that you did nothing to deserve them other than to believe in the finished works of Christ. They are not ours by reason of what we did. They are ours by reason of what Christ has done. And so they are gifts. In Revelation chapter five from verse nine to verse 10, the bible says, and they sang a new song saying, you are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals for you were slain and you have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation. This is Jesus, and the angels are worshiping Jesus. And he says worthy to receive all the glory.

Right? Because he has redeemed us to God by his blood. Verse 10, and having redeemed us to blood... To God because he has redeemed us to God, he has then made us kings and priests to our God, and we shall reign on the earth. The Bible says he made us kings. So even our dominion is not forced because of something you did. It is the result of what Christ has done. That due to the redemption that we have received, he has made us kings. He has made us kings. He has given us these precious gifts of kingship.

He has given us this precious gifts of priesthood. He has made us kings and priests. And because of that, we shall reign forever. You see that now? Understanding the blend of your priestly and your kingly ministry is what causes us to reign in life. Dominion is a result of the effective blend between your kingly office as a believer and your priestly office as a believer. That when a believer starts to function in his office as a king and as a priest, then he reigns in life. Then he reigns in life. He has made us kings and priests. To what end?

That we may reign. That we may reign on the earth. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So if our subject of this course is dominion, it is important to understand that dominion means to reign in life, to take charge, to take control of every sector of influence. You remember that? Of every sector of influence, over life in itself, like a wild beast to tame life. That situation, the circumstances does not spiral out of control, that you have the ability to see it as you want it, to have it as you want it, to tame and to have dominion over rebellious forces, demonic forces, principalities and powers, forces of darkness. All of this is the jurisdiction of your dominion as a believer. Do you believe this?

Yes, sir. And the bible says that there's an equation that has been given to the believer that makes it possible for a believer to reign in life. And you did not arrive there by your works. You were made a king. You didn't have to prove anything. You were made a king. You were made a priest. Having received Jesus as Lord and savior, you became a king. You were made a king. You were made a priest.

Are you with me? It's a gift that you were given. And I said that majority of what is needed for you to reign in life was given to us by Christ by a reason of what happened on the cross. Look at this. Isaiah was talking about the ministry of Jesus, and he said, verse three of Isaiah 61, to console those who mourn in Zion. Right? To give them to give them beauty for ashes. So again, Jesus is giving. To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they may be called trees of righteousness. It means even our righteousness is a gift.

I've established this before. Instead of ashes, we have been given beauty. Instead of mourning, you have been given joy. You see that? We've been given the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. We've been given... The believer has all of these things. We've been given righteousness. We've been made into the planting of the Lord. Now the question is, why have you been given all of these things?

He says to give to give them. So why have you been given all of these things? It then goes on in verse four. It says, and they shall rebuild the old realms. That's dominion. It means the reason why you have been made the planting of the Lord, the reason why you have been given righteousness is so that you can rebuild the old realms. They shall raise up the former dissolutions. They shall repair the ruined cities. The dissolutions of many generations. The broken down walls they were rebuilt.

That's dominion. It means the reason why you were given all of these things is for the sake of dominion. I always tell you that God would not demand something from your life that has not given you the ability to bring out or the empowerment to bring out. Get my message be fruitful. I told you there that God expect our lives to bear results, but it's not... He hasn't placed a demand on our life because it will be unfair for God to place a demand if he has not put what will enable you to process that demand. It will be unfair for an inventor to place a demand out of this keyboard to produce sound when it has not put inside the keyboard all that is required for sound to come out. Do you understand, Frenzy? Yes, sir. And then the inventor insist sound must come from you.

That would be unfair because the keyboard would wonder, but I don't have the ability to. That's why the Bible says, and God blessed them. And he said... The Bible could have said, and God said, be fruitful. No. There had to be an empowerment. He he had to give them the empowerment before he demanded fruitfulness from them. Do you understand my point? It is the empowerment that he gives to them that is the basis of the mandate he places on them. So when you see a believer whose life is not fruitful, it's not because she has not been given a gift.

Stay with me. Stay with me. They shall rebuild the whole rooms. That God has appointed you to build up places in a generation that has collapsed. That there are ancient landmarks that the fathers built, but have been collapsed in a generation. A rebellious people arose in the body of Christ against the body of Christ, and they tore up ancient landmarks, destroyed ancient cities. Pillars and landmarks of our feet were pulled down by these folks. But the bible says that I'm raising a generation of people that they will rebuild ruined cities. Let me give you example. The foundation and pillars of our faith, like the pillars of honor for fathers, has been torn down.

You go on social media, you would be scared. Do you know I have to delete a part... Or should I say uninstall? I don't even... Yeah. A particular social media. Not even uninstall. Delete my account on the page so I'll not be tempted to go back there. I've been there since I was in secondary school. Since I was in secondary school.

But you notice that there is almost... It's almost as though everybody is just hungry. I didn't just put a postcard there to celebrate your man of God, and the next thing you know, that's them. That's them. You see over 200, 300 hungry people who have no business with what you have said just coming to come and wonder why you are honoring the man of God. You put a video that... You see, it has given me a kind of carefulness. Because now, I'm almost always very cautious of what I allow the protocols to do. Because somebody is standing by my door. I'm already...

They can snap this one now and say, look at how these young people are waiting for another young man of God. It their mate? Oh, is it mate? Oh, see how they are waiting. They have deceived you. They've brainwashed you. Why are you waiting for it? Somebody just carry camera and snap. A minister of the gospel went for a crusade, and he came out of the car. And a simple act of honor, they collected his bag from him.

Look at this young man. Proud man. You have not even begun ministry. You're already proud. See how he's working. See how he's working. I thought you can see his pride from his posture, from the way he's walking. And when I see these things, I'm always tempted to be careful because I do not come and say, see, I'm walking now. Glory to god. Glory.

And the the reason behind that is because the walls of Honor has been torn down. There was once a time where these things could not be dead, could not be thought about. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. And so when we come and rebuild ancient cities, we will show a generation how to honor once again. And that there is beauty inside of it. That's it means. People are coming out to come and tell believers how to spend 10% of their income. And sometimes I wonder, why? What is the warfare about?

Why do you feel the pressure to tell somebody else how to spend 10% of his income? Whereas in the New Testament, what is demanded of us not even 10% is all of us. All of everything that we have has been demanded on in the New Testament. So to be at 10% is even to be a baby. And even that is... It means if you can kill the baby, then how does it work? You don't understand what I'm saying? What the New Testament demand from the believer is everything that you have, everything that you own. Present therefore yourself, your bodies, your life, Living sacrifices onto God. It's more than just 10% of what you have had.

God can demand 90% from you. That's the New Testament life. God can demand 95% from you and say you would only live on 5%. Stop. And it will make you such that the 5% is enough to buy houses and to buy cars. But it must start like that. Even when the 5,000,000,000 is not enough to have to buy rice in the house, it it can still demand from it. That's the New Testament believer. And we have not been able to... We are still fighting...

Teaching the believer how to walk and say how to crawl even. It's a period tight. Now when the devil comes and he cuts the leg of the baby from crawling, how does he soar? Remember, there are three expressions. Those are what the one the Lord must have. The first is that they will mount up with wings as he goes. They will run and not be weary, then they will walk cannot faint. But the question is how do you soar if you cannot run? How do you run if you cannot walk? So where it begins from really is walking, then running, then sowing.

It means if you can impede the believer's leg from walking, then how does it begin to run? So if doctrines, fundamental doctrines that should make a man walk, we've crumbled the walls of that and the believer is is is affected in his foundations, affected in his foundations. But the believer is starting to doubt the core of his foundation, but the bible says we are raising believers who were rebuilt. The assignment is to rebuild ancient cities. Ancient cities. Go and read your bible. David was not ashamed of the amount of money that he spent building the temple. The bible highlighted everything that David spent. Go and do a simple conversion and convert it into dollars in return time and see how much you spent. Billions of dollars.

Unquantifiable in naira. What the man spent to say I want to I want to invest... The house of God deserves the best. And the man was highlighting everything that he wanted. God told Moses, it is time to build my temple. Tell the people to go and bring their gold. Tell the people to go and bring their silver. These things were not hidden in scriptures. They didn't put in one corner and say and say... The scripture was very audacious as to what was required.

Do you understand what I'm saying? When the ark of covenant was put upon a horse, those transporting it paid a huge price for it. Don't you dare think that Huza just touched the ark because he wanted to fall and died because God was angry with him? No. They had first gone against a pattern. The pattern was that the ark is not even supposed to be carried upon a horse. The command that God gave was that the hack should be carried on the shoulders of the priest. Carrying the hack on the horse was a new invention. It was an innovation. It wasn't what God commanded.

So the fact that they have even broken pattern in the first instance, I've already put them in trouble. Are you with me? And so when you read the story, you'll find out that the next time they were carrying the hack, David had gone to go and find out what... Where did we miss it? How would we be transporting the hack of covenant and we still be more Noviate? Shouldn't they be done in joy? And then they found out that what happened was that you went against the pattern. You went against the ancient landmark. Why was that thing corrected instantly? The reason was because these people did not know that they were not just living out a life.

Their life was becoming a pattern for a generation to come. That a generation will look at what they have done and build a pattern, build a lifestyle after it. And if it is possible for the hack of covenant to be carried by a ox and it becomes successful as against what God has said, then the time will come when a generation will realize that we don't even need to be in touch again. Can preach for me. It can... My pastor can be Tajipiti. My... Tajipiti can be my pastor. I can just sit down and tell the Tajipiti preach a sermon on love for me today. You...

It will preach it for you. Can you try it? That's the hack on Hawks. That team received immediate judgment. They had to go and recheck the model and found out that this was never the instruction God gave. From the dawn of time, the hack was designed to be carried on the shoulders of beast. Men are the one that carried the temple. Men are the one that carry the hack. In other words, if the house of God is to be built, men will build it both in resources and in supply. It has never been something to be ashamed about.

God never hid it. When the wall would be built in Nehemiah, when the temple be built in Hezra, go and check how it was built. Men gave the supply. So now these things are normal things. In fact, Paul wrote to some people and told them that I've made boast about you to the Macedonian church, how that you are great givers. I'm gonna send one of my guys to you before you come and... So that I will prepare your offerings. Please. On. Go and check what Paul said.

Yes, sir. He said, will send one of my guys. He will come and ask to you, have you prepared what you are giving? How... Are you prepared? That's what he came to do. You see, are you prepared what you are giving? Yes. Yunk, are you prepared? So that when we come...

And it wasn't... People sold houses and laid it at the apostles' feet. Sold lands and laid it at the apostles' feet. Now somebody comes and says, oh, I wanna thank God because I gave my first fruit. They see now. See, they have brainwashed them. So the question is, where... What... Is the bible a brainwashing element? And there are several people who are adopting this mode.

It's becoming a widespread fire right now. That the foundations of Christianity are being pulled down left, right, and center, and there must be a generation that will arise who will once again say, we are around us of the ancient landmark. We are rebuilders of ancient cities. And when you rise, you will not be ashamed to give glory to God. Even that is already been turned off. I'm telling you. Yes, sir. I'm telling you. It's almost as though somebody cannot thank God or or or say that God is the reason behind his exploit. You are seen as unintelligent.

Yes, sir. A lot of people believe that if you subscribe to Christianity, it makes you brainless. It makes you thoughtless. But in the nation we rise that will rebuild incense cities. That at the at the height of your greatness, you will say, I wanna thank my pastor. At the height of greatness. They have somebody, sir, what can you tell us is the secret of the prosperity? And before you start listing out any other thing, the first thing you do is say, you know, the Bible says that God gives power to get wealth. I must say that when I look at my life and look at what I've been able to build, it's not just physical principles. It's not just logical reasoning that brought me these results.

I can... Most... I can I cannot achieve any of these things without giving glory to the one that gave the power to get wealth? So if you ask me what's the secret, I think my relationship with Jesus is is is is powerful. Because every night I go to sleep, I pray and I receive inspiration from the spirit. This is what I should invest in. This is what I should do. This is what I should do. And as I apply these things, I see results like never before. And even when people in this same industry as mine are crashing, I just continue to go home.

And I remember the scriptures that when people say there's a casting down. And when a businessman is talking like this, you wonder, are you a businessman or a pastor? What are you? You can't tell the difference. They are rebuilding ancient cities. That's what they are doing. Now a generation is looking at you who might never have been to the four walls of the church, but there's a reference point who they call a model, who they've seen as an influential figure. They appreciate his his exploit in the business world. And because he's wealthy, the one who also the one who also be wealthy. The one who portray their life after his life.

They're trying to find out what is your secret. What do you do? Who do you know? And he says, oh, I know Jesus. Yes. God is raising the people that will mentor a generation outside of the four walls of the church. That it is through your influence, through your impact, sir, that people will even find the church. Yes, sir. Yes. Yes, sir.

Yes. The bible calls them, they were rebuked. They were rebuked, you see, ancient walls, restorers of the breach. The dissolutions of many generation. In other words, what generations have lost these people will bring back to order and say, listen to me. Power is not lost. Don't go preaching. I don't know what is wrong with this generation. Nothing is wrong with us. Look at power right here.

Look at power right here. Look at influence right here. It's love. It is to this hen that we preach what we preach. And this is dominion. This is the life that God has ordained for you. That the sectors bow at your utterance. The sectors wherever God might have sent you into, even if it's heart and entertainment, that you show the world there's a way to do this and not compromise Yes, sir. And not compromise. Sir.

That my faith can still be secured and my values can still be secured. I will still love God and love the church. How about service in the house of God? And all of these things, they will rebuild ancient walls. Do you know what the Bible teaches? Jesus was praying, and he looked. Sometimes I wonder what Jesus saw when he was praying for us. I wonder what was his emotion and how he felt when he was praying, and what led him to alter that dangerous statement that they may be one? That they may be one. That he saw diverse expressions that will spring up in the body of Christ that some will say that they are for Apollos.

Some will say I'm for Paul. Some will say I'm for this. Some will say I'm for that. And then you will see believers who profess the same Jesus, who profess the same faith, but can almost take life and kill themselves outside. All in the name of you don't believe what I believe, all in the name of you don't go to my church, all in the name of if it is... If it's not this church, then it's wrong. There is this superiority complex that every expression have that makes them believe they are better than others. Just because you emphasize a doctrine does not mean that yours is superior. There are those who emphasize deliverance, those who emphasize prosperity, those who emphasize grace, those who emphasize the word of faith, and these all... These different expressions all believe they are the ones that that is When you isolate each of them and speak to them, they will all give you this this this this kind of impression as though what I represent is the most accurate expression of...

That a believer is meant to represent in the body of Christ. How can you be a believer and not pray? The Bible says men ought always to pray. And another one comes and says, that's why we emphasize prayer because men ought always. What you should use your life and do is prayer. If you're not praying, you are not a man because men ought always to pray. I know that come and says, listen. That prayer stuff, I don't know about it. But the greatest call a man can have is evangelism. If you're not winning souls, you are doing nothing.

The Bible says the harvest is plentiful. The laborers are few. Every believer has been given a ministry of reconciliation. Doesn't matter how long we pray as long as they're winning souls. Go into the world. Make disciples. And somehow everybody have a doctrinal belief that shows them that they are right and they are accurate. And some even stretch it to believe they are superior. And there are those who think, you know what? Without prosperity, your life is meaningless.

There are those who believe that, listen, heaven is the goal. We must be holy. We must be pure. We must we must ensure that we conduct ourselves morally... Be morally upright to ensure that we make heaven at the end of the day as believers. What shall it profit a man to gain the world and lose Christ? Listen to me. If you have to be poor but secure heaven, you better choose poverty because heaven is the goal. And they bring you scriptures. Now listen to me.

That they reach... It is easier for a camel to go through a needle than it is for a rich man. Yes, sir. To enter into the gates of heaven. So listen to me. Ensure that you protect yourself. All these things are distractions. You don't wanna go into politics distractions. You wanna go into distractions. Just be content and be modest.

Don't even dare to dream big. All of that thing can corrupt your heart. And listen. You don't know that money is deceitful. Heavenly. To love money is evil. And they begin to trace all these things from scripture. And they can even tell you, look at the rich man and Lazarus. Lazarus went to heaven because he was poor. The rich man went to hell because he was rich.

Brothers and sisters, hear me. And there will be there will be a a justification for everything from scripture. And listen, as long as the man of God is articulate, as long as the man of God is anointed, As long as the oratory is there Yes, sir. And they can convey their thoughts regardless of what it is, they will always gather a following. Yes, sir. Always. Whether wrong or right. Always. And then you'd have those who would say, listen to me. Heaven is not the goal.

We are already in heaven. The bible said we are citizens of heaven already on earth. Our goal therefore is not to go and get heaven and be useless on earth. And they too are not wrong. And in all of that, you begin to wonder because it it it now causes a divide. You now see why Jesus prays that they may be one. It makes you understand the motive and the hard cry of Jesus when he was praying to the father on our behalf. And in as much as there are different expressions that they may be one, that they will learn to love each other. Now there are parents, for instance, who relieve their children to come to university, and they just believe that whatever church you go to in that university that is not my church is a wrong church. And if peradventure, the church tries to convince the mother, see, I found a church, prayerful church, world based.

They say, no. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Why not go to? This is where we...

That's where you found God. Why not allow this guy to find the scene? But there is a belief. There's a belief, a superiority complex that makes us feel as though... And is the is the ancient walls being broken down. Is the ancient walls being broken down? Because as long as that remains the consciousness, then it should be difficult for the kingdom of God to find expression on earth. Because one man who preaches the kingdom cannot reach everybody. I can't pass to everybody. And there's no man of God who can pass to everybody.

It means not everybody will share my belief. However, everybody needs to be worked with to bring the kingdom down. We need to be able to partner with everyone and work with everyone regardless of what their belief is. It means love is more powerful. That's why the bible said the greatest of this is love. It means I must be able to look at you and regardless of your disposition, be able to look at our common ground. At least you believe in Jesus. He's the son of God. We can still find foot in there. I'm not think just because you don't tithe, just because you don't pray, just because you don't do this.

Oh, no. I can't ask... No. No. That's not kingdom. That's not kingdom. It's also part of the ancient rooms that we must come to rebuild. Sir. Yes. Yes.

We are meant to evangelize to unbelievers. We take our evangelism to to believers. And someone tells you that, you know what? I am committed to a church already and you cannot even respect that. You still insist, As long as it's not my church, you have gotten it wrong. I don't care what they do in that church. I'm even a worker there. You see, you are still missing it. Oh, God. Have you heard my apostle preach?

If you're anything... If you're like that, it is wrong. It is wrong. You must never believe that you are superior to others. The moment you believe that, what you have is no longer a church. It's a cult. Because there are expressions in the body that also represent the Christ. In the midst of the seven golden candlestick, I saw Jesus. That was what John the beloved said. In the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, the seven golden candlesticks is the church.

When he asked them what is the seven... He told him it's the church. In other words, inside the church, there is Jesus. Yes. Regardless of what denomination. Yes. If you will look, you will see. So Paul made plant. Apollo's comes to water, then God brings the hindrance. So the kind of Christianity we exemplify is what rebuilds this ancient realm.

You see, now we can see believers and pour love on them even when they don't pour the same on us to rebuild ancient realms. Yes, sir. You see that now? Yes, sir. Yeah. All of that are expressions of dominion. That's not even my teaching today. Stay with me. This is dominion that God have exalted your own to swallow up places. This is dominion that you step into sectors and take it for Christ.

This is dominion. That whatever strata of influence you find yourself, you're going to be the best there. That is dominion. And in first Peter chapter two and verse nine, the bible says, but you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people that you may proclaim the presence of him who called you heart of darkness into his marvelous light. You are a chosen generation. You are a royal priesthood. Did you see that? So God made us priests. It's a gift that we have been given. The gift of priesthood.

A lot of people think it is what you do that makes you a priest. And so when people attempt to preach or teach priesthood, the perspective from whence they come is you must be a priest over your family. And what they mean by that is if you are not doing certain things, you are not a priest. Do you get that? But that's not the way it is. Somebody might use that utterance. I might even use that utterance. But you must understand that that's not the perspective from whence we are speaking because you are already a priest. The same way you're already righteous. The bible says you have been made priests.

It's not forced about the activity. It's forced about your identity. You have been made priest, and the reason why you were made priest is to reign in life. First Peter now says, you are you are a royal priesthood. And the reason why you are a royal priesthood is that you might pro proclaim the praise of him who called you out of darkness. That's dominion you see again. And it says the equation for dominion is based in your identity as a holy nation, a royal priesthood. Understanding this makes you proclaim the prince of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. All that priesthood is attached directly to dominion, and it's a gift. Your priesthood is a gift.

Your priesthood is a what now? In Numbers chapter 18 verse seven, look at what the Bible says. Therefore, you and your sons with you shall attend to your... Look at the Bible and read it. One, three, go everybody. Attend to your what? Priesthood. Go on within. How do you know you did not work for it? Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. It was part of the things that came as a result of the salvation that you received. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But you see that you have been given something as a gift doesn't quite mean that you have laid a claim on it. That you have a gift does not mean that you have claimed it. Yes, sir. The prodigal sons, for instance, the brother of the prodigal son came and was complaining to his father about his brother and was telling his father that I've always been here and you have not even given me end of these things. You've not even called a party for me and I've served you. And the father told him that everything I have is yours.

The consciousness was, if I serve you some more, then probably you would have thrown a party for me too. And the father had to correct that to say, no. Listen. Listen. Listen. Are not serving me to have what I have. You already have what I have. Everything I have is yours. The problem is you have not claimed it. So the father told him, if you ask for a party, we will not throw a party.

If you ask for a calf, in other words, you can have something you have not claimed. You can be given a gift you have not stirred up. That's why Paul told Timothy, stir up the gift. It means it can be there but be dormant. It can be there but not fulfilling any purpose, not achieving the reason why it was given the first instance. The same way you are righteous. It's a gift. Or you can be righteous and be timid. Whereas the bible says the righteous is as Paul. What will be?

Yes, sir. That the moment righteousness is conferred upon you, boldness entered you. You... Your face changed to that of the colossus. You are not the one that fears things. Things fear you. You move with such fierceness Yeah. Into the sectors because you are righteous. Because you are righteous. The realm of dominion is a realm of fearlessness and treachlessness.

Where you fear nothing and nothing threatens you. Realm realm of of fearlessness fearless existence, a realm of treacherous existence. Adam lived in the garden. Right? Yes, sir. And there was nothing to be afraid of. The dominion of Adam was in the realm where nothing constituted a threat to life. People see snakes today and they run, but Adam even spoke to snake. Right from the beginning, there was not a beast that was a threat. Yes, sir.

After the flood overrun the earth, and God started this project again with Noah, and God pronounced the same blessing that he pronounced upon Adam or Noah, God then had dealt something to it. In Genesis chapter nine verse one and two, the Bible says, so God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, be fruitful, multiply, replenish. Isn't that the same thing that God told Adam? Yes, sir. But the... Because of the fall, there are not... When God was blessing Adam, this one, there was no fall. Yes, sir. So this particular one was not needed. But because of the fall, creation has rebelled.

Demonic beings have been introduced on the earth. Demonic forces, demons, principalities are now roaming the earth. God now says, you know what? To fill the earth, I must have a clause to this blessing. The next verse now says, and the fear of you. The fear of you, the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth. God did not tell her that. The believer should not be afraid. Hear me. How does a believer write an exam and he's afraid?

The fear of me. I'm going for a competition, and I'm afraid. That's not dominion. The fear of you, the dread of you. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. It's not strange for things to be afraid of me. It's not strange.

I don't cower down before problems. I don't cower down before situations. I don't go to I don't go to any territory and be afraid. Hear me? Yes, Yes, sir. The dominion we have been given, it takes us to a realm where we are not the one that fear things. Things fear us. Listen. We are not the victim of the force of evil. We are not the ones to be afraid of the devil.

We're not the ones to be afraid. Listen. Listen. That's the reason why you have to be very careful what you hear. Because there are people that will tell you, you see you see, Anne Yes, I will get there very soon. Yes, sir. You should not build your life based on the experiences of others. Yes, It's a dangerous thing to do. It's a dangerous place to be. Yes, sir.

Because there are people that tell you and they put fear in you into your subconscious. Do you know that a fifteen minutes clip can alter your destiny by saying yes? Man of God just comes and says and says, you know, I was praying for twenty one days, and I was doing ten hours for twenty one days. On the twenty first day, Satan appeared to me. Then deal with principality, you must have power. Now it will look spiritual. Yes, sir. Yes. As you are hearing it, you'll be saying, but you are putting in nonsense because because each twenty one days fast and prayer leads me to be afraid of death. Why did I pray?

Why did I pray? Listen, look. In the realm of dominion, things things things don't dare you. Listen. This consciousness is important too. This mentality is important too. Things don't dare you. I heard a man of God speaking once many years ago. You hear me? I heard a man of God speaking many years ago.

And the man of God said, I sat down in front of my house, and I was just receiving fresh help, and I saw a demon passing. Listen. Listen. The man said, the demon was not approaching me. I just I just saw him passing. Listen. He said, listen. He said, the fact that I saw it already meant that his assignment was done. The fact that I saw it, did not pray one bit, did not run inside and go and pour oil everywhere, did not start. No.

He said, I I just saw it. Listen. So so so how does a believer go to sleep and you have a dream? And you say, I saw I saw this in my dream. I saw that in my dream. And you wake up and you are afraid. Don't you understand what you have received? Listen. Listen. From this meeting.

You are stepping into that place where fear begins to fear you. Have your seat. Have your seat. Listen. Leviticus chapter 26 and verse six. The Bible says, I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid. None will make you afraid. I will reap the land of evil beasts. The sword will not go through your land. You see scriptures like this.

You put it somewhere. You you place... You paste it. No one will make me afraid. You enter into a sector, and everybody just straightening you up and down. At some point, may... You say, you didn't bring me here. You won't take me out. In your place of work, somebody is telling you somebody is telling you, don't try me. Don't try me.

See, I'm not I'm not... I'm just doing my work. No one will make you afraid. Listen. Listen. Hear me. Hear me. Job chapter five and verse 20. The Bible says in famine, he shall redeem you from death and in war from the power of the sword. Look at the next verse.

It says, you shall be eating from the scourge of the tongue, and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes. Listen. Listen. It doesn't say that destruction will not come. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It says even when destruction comes knocking. Remember that this is Job that is speaking of. Listen. Listen.

If it had stopped that, you will not be afraid of destruction. It would have probably meant that destruction came. Sir. Looks at you. Look at it. Yes, Is that all? But it doesn't stop there. That alone is not mockery to destruction. Yes, sir. They are not afraid of what came to destroy you.

It's not mockery, but it doesn't stop there. Yes, sir. The next verse now makes it worse. You shall not be afraid of the beast of the head, of whatever demon, of whatever principality, of whatever poverty. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Hear me. That that sickness that has been bringing fear into your heart, that has been bringing fear of death into your heart. Let it hang right now.

I see a generation of fearless men and women. You hear me? Hear me? Fearless men and women, rugged men and women rising out out of of this this ground. Ground. I see them invading the world with such fierceness. I'm talking about the kind of fierceness where even your your facial expression. Your righteous demons. Your facial expression. Hear me?

Hear me? Me? Hear Hear me? Me? Was a time when I'd wanna cast out devils. Some people who were with me at the earlier days, when we're still very crazy, remember this. I'd wanna cast out devils, and I'll just tell them, look at me. That's all. That's all. I will...

Just look at me if you can. Just look at me. Because I know I'm the one that is the threat. Place is where they say, don't go there. Don't go there. Don't go there. That's where the victory is. Listen. Pastor Paul Anente. Hear me.

Hear me. Pastor Paul Anente was speaking. You know, yeah, yeah, I'm very careful with who I yell. I'm very careful, though. My my ears like this. They don't hear nonsense. You know, Job said I've made a covenant with my eyes. I've made a covenant with my eyes and my ears. That I will not see evil, that I will not hear evil. I don't want to hear...

If you even suggest Oh. That what I believe does not make sense. Pack your suggestion and go. I I don't want to... I don't wanna hear the reason behind it. Sir. Yes, sir. I'm I'm that cautious. So if I listen to father, I'm very careful who I listen to. Somebody wants to tell me that prosperity is not part of salvation.

Go... Just carry your message and go. I I don't want to hear what you think, why you think, what you think. Just go go and bless your people. You you are okay. Because before you sell a narrative to me, I first check your result. Before you tell me that... Before you attempt to teach me on prosperity, are you prosperous? Stop. One nameless, faceless, purposeless, useless Yes.

Font that has no identity. On social media, then comes and attempts to lecture me on prosperity. Who should I hear? Someone who has built to universities? The largest church on earth? The most prosperous man, or you who I can't... Who I don't even know what what... Who you have brought out of poverty in your family. You say, okay. Okay.

But it's a pastor that said it. Do you have this man result? If you don't, don't count on what he has said. It is true. Wisdom is known by our children. Yes, sir. If you are teaching truth, truth truth should vindicate itself. Yes, How come how come you tell us that what they treat is wrong and then they have raised the biggest people on earth today? Come from that church. And yet you dare you come from nowhere and try to...

If it's if it's only a man of God, because nothing is wrong. But the biggest people on earth Uh-huh. My god. How can a man raise greatness out of nothing, not just himself, replicate the results severally in multiple folds One of the biggest, highest grossing final designers in Nigeria, I don't wanna mention his name, is Nabuja. Some people might know him. The... He's the highest grosser in Nigeria here. I'll tempt that to mention his name, but I will not. Glory to God. Son for...

There's no dignity that he has no son for. Presidents, governors, and guess what? They come and meet him. He doesn't go and meet them. They come to his office. You would see governors, celebrities, everybody I saw another one. He read the state again. All of them were there snapping the demand just sat down on the big jet. I was placing his hand on all of them. How can a man raise sons like this across all fields?

And you wanna teach me something on prosperity? Where are your results? Where are your proofs? Where is your evidence? Pastor Paul Nenje was speaking of how he went to a territory in the North, Central North for a crusade. And it... They had picked the date of the crusade before it was announced that the date they picked Yes, sir. Was the date of the Islamic holiday, and it's a Central Northern region known for the highest level of terrorism. He said the wife came to meet him again and again. Are we postponing it?

Are we postponing it? I don't know yet. Five days to the crusade, I don't know yet. Advertisement going on. Billboards everywhere. I don't know yet. Five days of the crusade, the wife comes again and say, are we going? We're going. We march on with power. They went there.

The governor of the state was the first person to receive them. The governor of the state. Almost as though he wanted to... It was not as... It was not... It was saying it sincerely just to show him the weight of the problem. But if I know Kevin as a man of God, he can turn something else. That crusade was the largest that that state has ever seen since the inception of the state. There has been no large gathering like that. I think they said the first of its kind was when Riyadh Bunki came to the same place.

Central North, Reyad Bunki came to the same place. Filled to capacity. An entire stadium, there was no space. There was no no room. Nothing. And they finished the crusade, powerful crusade. Lame legs walking, blind eyes opening. The man held crutches like this, like trophies. When they went back to Abuja, then a voice note started circulating that why did they allow one man of God from Abuja come to to that home and preach and embarrass them even on their Muslim holiday? They started...

It was Nawusa language. They started threatening, giving no kind of threat. We will go there. We will send. And then somebody sent it. It was... It started spreading everywhere. Then the man sent... They sent it to the man. The man said, when I edit the thing, he said, I just laughed because I was surprised.

I was surprised because we did advertisement of this. We put billboard. At least it was it was running for a month. We did livestream. You saw us. You were watching it. You did not send bombers. It's now when we have now gotten to Abuja that you want to send bombers. If you had any power, it's not there you try something. And the Bible says that what makes a man enforce dominion is his knowledge of the fact that he's been made a priest and a king.

That you have been made priest and kings and you will reign in life And that your priesthood, even your kingship is a gift. Sir. And I told you that you can have a rich deposit on your inside. You can have mighty things on your inside, yet you still suffer because you have not laid a claim on it. A lot of believers have rights. They are supposed to be free. They're supposed to be liberated. Yet Satan has got them in a chokehold. Let me tell you something. When you are dealing with Satan, don't deal with him on account of your works.

I've not prayed. If you have not prayed, will make a mess of your life. Listen to me. Righteousness is your first layer of defense, not your works. Don't depend on your works in dealing with the devil. There's a reason why the devil is called the accuser of the brethren. He has a PhD in the matter. He will always find a way to show you something you have done wrong. And even if you look around and can't find anything that you have done, then your sin will not be the sin of not enough. But you didn't you didn't pray enough.

You didn't fast enough. You didn't give enough. You fire back with righteousness. Your motivation for prayer should not be fear of what the devil will do. Do you realize that a lion is always a lion? Do you do you realize that a lion can do nothing but roar? Even his communication is roar. Do do you realize that that that's just that's just who he is? And the bible says the righteous is as bold as that lion. And you tell the righteous man that if he does not pray, the devil will make a mess of him.

So the question now is if he does not pray, does he stop being a lion? What come out of his mouth? Does does does it become cuckoo cuckoo? I came to teach on prayer. But I'm telling you that your motivation for the thing is not fear. It is wrong things that you have heard that has made prayer distasteful to you. Sir. Wrong teachings, wrong messages. Somebody says, when I want to pray, I always get attack. It's wrong things you have heard.

Prayer is not the problem. It is your knowledge, the light, level of illumination that you have received. You have listened to someone who has consciously or unconsciously done something to your mind that makes the devil feel powerful to you. You know, when I'm teaching believers like this and I'm telling them, he that is in you is greater than that is in the world. And I'm telling them, God is mighty and he's in you. You can take the word. So people come and say, stop giving the people sweet. You are making them happy. Don't think that life is hard. So We know that life is unfair, so we term it.

If you get a wild lion, you know that he can bite. It's not strange knowledge. So you term it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. The earth is against everybody. We know. So we term it. Yes, sir.

People don't write. We know. So we term it. Sir. You know, nobody in this family has ever done this to know. You are trying to go abroad. Even even school, they have not finished. You are the first person in your lineage who is entering university. You bet just be careful of your aspiration. Be careful of the aspiration because you know you know they will not be happy.

We know. That's why we teach dominion. That's why we commit. The guy who got the offer to travel abroad, when it was time for the school to grant him the permission, they just keep... Carried all kind of circulars that did not exist before. They say, you wanna go for three months? Recently, the school passed a law. You can only go for three weeks. So if you cannot go for three weeks, if it's more than three weeks, we cannot sign. We can only go for this.

We can only go for that. And they were... Or you could tell that, So we tame it. Do you understand, Frenzy? Yes, sir. And that's what we did. Don't deal with the devil from the standpoint of your works. The first layer of defense is I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Remember he says that he has given us abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness so we reign in life. So the first thing that he gave that we reign in life is righteousness.

And I will show you this again. Are you with me? That said, we have been able to establish the fact that from the book of Revelation, you have been given the office of a priest. Is that not so? Yes. We've been made priests and kings unto our God. And the dynamic is such that your effectiveness as a priest is directly proportional to your level of rulership as a king. Reigning in life is dependent on not just the office of a king. It depends on the blend of both. He has made us kings and priests that we may reign.

It is understanding and functioning in both offices that makes us take charge, the dynamics begins with your effectiveness as a priest. If you know that you have been given this precious gift, your priesthood as a believer is a gift. You don't have to use that gift. But if you don't understand priesthood, you cannot maximize the image or the usage of that office. You can have such a precious gift that you're not using, like a believer who is timid. How? How does it happen? How does it happen? How does it happen that a believer is timid? I'm not someone who likes attention.

And so when people give me undue attention, I just... I react to it. I cringe at it. Sometimes I get even shy at the fact that somebody is just looking at me or people are just looking at me. There are times I go for meeting instructions, and they want to bring me up, and they're just saying, this is a man of God. This is a... This person is a... That person is as though, just give me these microphones. Stop all of this. Stop it.

Because my ears, I just I just... I'm not that kind of person. I'm not timid. Because when the work must be done, and a demon must be casted out. And the gospel must be preached. And we must stand before nations. You you don't see somebody, oh, no. Because the two of them does not have anything in common. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

A righteous man cannot be seen it. So if you are, it means you have been given a gift that you are not using. Yes, sir. That's the same way the priesthood of the believer is a gift that many believers have not been using. Who is a priest, or what is a priest? Who is a priest? Exodus 30 and verse 30. The bible says, and you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them that they may minister to me as priests. So a priest is one that ministers to God. A priest is the one that offers sacrifices to God.

And in the old testament, there are two important things that makes the priest fit for his service. Exodus 14 and verse 12, the bible says, then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of meeting and wash them with water. So the first thing that makes a priest fitting for the service is that he must be washed with water. The second is, you shall put the holy garments on Aaron and anoint him, consecrate him that he may minister to me as a priest. So the second thing is he must wear the holy garment. And so for the gift of priesthood to be given to us as believers, these two things also had to be done. Do you understand what I'm saying? The first was the washing of the water. The second was the putting on of the holy garment. These two things had to be done for the New Testament believer just before he can become a priest, and that was what Jesus did on the cross of Calvary.

In the book of Ephesians five verse 25, the bible says husbands, love your wife just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for the church. And the Babylon explains to us why he gave himself for the church. In the next verse, it says that he might sanctify us and cleanse us by the washing of water. So the first thing that must happen to the priest is that he must be washed with water. Jesus was living on the cross. That washing of water is the forgiveness of sins. Are you with me now? Yes, sir. That your sins are forgiven. Because to minister unto God, you cannot minister unto God sinful.

The problem of sin had to be dealt with, and Jesus dealt with the problem of sin on the cross. Wasn't something you did. Was something that he did. The second was the holy garment, which defies righteousness because you have now worn the nature of Christ. You have now become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. The garment you now wear is the garment of righteousness. So the two equations that makes a priest fitting for his service, you have it already. The gift of priesthood is then conferred upon you. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

You have it already. In second Chronicles 30 and verse 27, the bible says, then the priest, the Levites, arose and blessed the people and their voice was heard. You see, their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place to heaven. So the priest prays and the voice of the priest is heard when he prays because he has been consecrated, because his sins have been washed away. The bible says that the spirit of the sinner is an abomination unto God, but you are not a sinner. You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. That means that whenever you stand as a priest to pray, your voice is heard. The Bible said when the priest rose their voice, when they blessed the people and their voice was heard, your voice can now be heard whenever you pray. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yes.

In the old testament, it is the priest that makes supplication to God. It is the priest that blesses. So the Bible says, God has given you this gift of priesthood. This means you are a priest to offer up sacrifices to God. You are a priest to minister unto God. You are a priest to pray to God so that things arrange in your favor. Are you with me? I see some of you sitting on your thrones of honor this year. You are doing what people said is impossible this year. You are breaking barriers this year.

Listen. So the business of the priest is to offer up sacrifices to God. The business of the king is to enforce dominion and to lead the nation. So in the old testament, it was two different offices. The priest existed as a single entity. The king existed as a single entity. The king was over the nation. The priest was with God. And the idea was that as the priest ministers to God, God blesses the nation. The king is able to rule well.

When they go for wars, they win the wars. That's why the hack of covenant was always a very important thing for Israel. And when the hack of covenant is missing, then it means that the priesthood has failed. The priest stand before God. What Moses was doing on the mountain when Joshua and the people went to go and fight the battle, that's the priest king order. Moses was on the mountain with Aaron and Hur, and he held the rod on high. And whilst he was there, Joshua and the armies of Israel went to battle. And the Bible says as he lifts up his hand and the rod was lifted high, as long as that rod was lifted high, the people kept on winning. The kings were dominating. But if something happens to the priesthood and the rod is coming down, then it is reflective on the battleground.

It means the victory on the battleground is not entirely dependent on the skillfulness of the king. The victory on the battleground is not dependent on your skillfulness in your craft. The victory on the battleground is not dependent on how well you can negotiate. The victory on the battleground is not even dependent on the the extent of your creativity and the level of your marketing strategy, your dexterity in service delivery. The victory on the battleground is not dependent on only your skill. All of that is important as a king. Anything that makes you relate with men is what you do as a king. So when you learn negotiation, it's kingly order. When you become creative, kingly order. When you become diligent, kingly order.

The bible says, see it thou a man diligent in his work. He shall stand before, not before priests, before kings. Because when you become diligent, you have made yourself as unto a king because kings are diligent. So you sustain the ability to stand before kings. All of these things are things as it relates to the kingly office. But you see, the problem is that when we go for all of these conferences that attempts to educate us now to grow businesses, they teach us things from the kingly perspective. And they don't know that if the hand of Moses goes down, whatever you do as a king makes no sense. Yes, sir. The difference in the old testament is that the king does not have to bother himself with the priestly duties. The priest stands before God all day of his life to ensure that the king reigns well.

But in the new testament, the Bible says you have been made kings and priests. It doesn't say you have been made kings and you're pastor priests. Many people want to change that strategy. They feel as though apostle is the priest over my life, which is true on one level. Are you with me? Yes. But you must understand as a believer, you are a priest and a king over your own life. He has made us priests and king that we might reign in life. It means if any believer must reign in life, must enforce dominion, must take charge, must take control. If your kingly responsibilities must make sense, if it must dominate, if it must pierce into the sectors and make you recognizable, then you must be a priest and a king.

That gift that God has given you... And you see, most times we emphasize the kingly office, but we don't know what the priestly office does. I don't know how to maximize it. Anything that has to do with your service to God is you as a priest. When you come before God, you don't come as a king. It means understand that... I... Is it... If you don't know the difference between this, you will come as a king. You will carry your crown on your head.

That's why they say, let's worship God. You're looking like this. You're a fool. The kings only worship. Priests are the one that worship. They minister to God. It means you might become... You might have risen in the world. You might have risen in the marketplace. You might be making 7 figures, 8 figures per month, 9 figures per month.

Might be controlling people, ruling people. You might even be a governor, owner of industry. But when you come before God, you are coming as a priest, not as a king. Before men, you are not a priest, you are a king. So before men, you take charge. Before men, you rule. Before men, you dominate. Before God, there is nothing to take charge of. You are a priest. Yes, sir.

And everything that a priest does have concerns God. The sacrifices. It means every time you give, you give as a priest. Every time you offer sacrifices, the holy spirit tells you empty your account. You are entering your account as a priest so that your life as a king can be meaningful. But many times the king and the priest clash in believers because the king has grown a business. And then the Lord tells the priest to empty everything the king has worked for. And now the king is wondering, the book I read, they said you have to save a lot. The decision I did, this and that. And he does not know how to reconcile what the king is going through with the instruction the priest is receiving.

Because he doesn't know that you are a king and a priest. And what gives meaning to your life on the outside is a is a reflection of your life in the secret. But everything that God demands of you is as a priest. Everything that has to do with God, it means when you come to church, as you are here in church now, is a priest that is here. So nobody cares about your position in your workplace. Nobody care about you a army general. When you come as an army general, if an usher tells you sit down here, you will sit down there. Stop. Yes, sir. If you see him outside and just stand up, he will stand up.

But in the presence of God, you are a priest. When it's time to worship, we go flat on our knees. Sometimes we lie down because understand we are priests before a king. Yes, sir. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Yes. You see, giving is hard for many as a priest because they think that they they don't understand the subject of giving, and I will teach you that very soon. That makes it delightful to you. Many a time, what we have heard on this subject is what makes it distasteful.

It's not if you understand it. Remember Jesus. He comes to the woman by the well, and he strikes up a conversation with her. And he tells her, give me water. And the question is, when Jesus makes a demand of you, does he need it? Go and read the end of that conversation. Did they eventually drink the water? But what did they give her instead? Rivers of living water. It means when he asks for something from you, he's creating space for what he wants to give you.

Yeah. It doesn't move God. It only moves you. Yes. It only creates space for more because the little you have has already eroded your thinking. You think that is all that there is. And God says, I still want to do more, but your heart is already clogged. So there will always be a call for you to empty. There are people that will enter into seasons of their lives that it it it looks like a button of the spirit where you are required to give more than usual and sacrifice and keep on sacrificing and keep on sacrificing. It is because of what God is doing in and through you, in and through your life.

Because there is a kingly anointing that that will manifest. And when that kingly anointing manifest, people will not see your priestly consecrations. People will not see... You see, the the priestly consecrations are the substructure. The kingly assignment is the superstructure, and people never see the substructure. It is always on the ground. But when they see the height of the superstructure, they envy it. They say, ah. And they don't know that there was a time in your life that God was demanding and demanding and demanding, and you offered up yourself as a priest. And that is what I've not given relevance to your life as a king.

And you see, when you understand that priesthood is a gift, you now realize that everything that comes with priesthood is not labor. It is a gift. It means even prayer is a gift. If you are facing an enemy, five thieves are pursuing you. You have run, and you have run, and you have run, and there's no way to run again. You now collapse expecting that you will come and do what you want to do, and now come. And now looking at you from... Maybe you crash below my house, and I look at you from below like this, and I say, I look at it. I say, what is possible? I say, And I run.

I carry my AK 47, and I drop it with you. What have I given you? It's a gift. What I've given you is a gift. A means for you to turn the outcome around. Yes, means for you to change situations to your favor. Yes, sir. That you, who was once defenseless, now have an advantage to turn the tide of events around. So you can carry the thing and give the first one on the head power. The second one can now look and say, think, you know what, maybe I can dodge it.

And then you just pray everything, that one through the same one. The remaining three will not run away. Yes, sir. What you have been offered was a gift and high term of victory. And your victory was only dependent on how well you could use it. Because that thing could lie in your lap. Then you're wondering what is this? How do I even stretch it? What do I do? What do I do with that?

And you can't even figure it out. Are you with me? And so what what God did was to give you a way to change situations around your favor, a way to tame life. This taming life you have been talking about, God now says the way you will do it is through priesthood. Take it. Do you know that even in the Old Testament, it was a gift? Because that great honor, it was only the priest that could relate with God personally. Sir. They were the only ones who could enter into the tabernacle Yes, sir. Who could see the glory of God, who could touch God when his glory comes down.

And that honor was not for everybody. God selected Aaron and his children. Thus, the Levites had that privilege. Wasn't that a gift? It what... It means no matter how much you loved God in the old testament, it was not available to you. You would be out... Even if you are the tribe... From the tribe of Judah, you'll be outside. It's the labor that go inside.

Can love God like David. You will still be outside. The priest takes all the sacrifice that you brought as a reflection of your love for God, but you cannot approach him yourself. And this priest guy is not as though he did something anything. He was just born into it. He was born a Levite. That's a gift. That's a gift. And that was what you now received in the New Testament. Every single one of us, the ability to approach God and turn things around in our favor.

But when Satan is before the throne of heaven, and he's saying, it's not because you have made a hedge round about him. Just let me go and touch him. You can appear there yourself and say, oh god, you can't talk anything here. Job could not do that. You don't read the life of Job and then begin to put yourself in his shoes as though whenever things come crashing down, things don't have to crash. Because you have something that was not available to Job. When... You see, the... What the devil was doing to Job, he's still doing now. He's called the accuser of the brethren.

We have a mediator who is Jesus, who is... Who has died for us. Even But when the devil wants to misbehave, we still have authority as priests. That's a gift. God says, I've given you something that that turns things in your favor, that allow you to tame life. It's like it's like it's like a... Think of it this way. Look at all these occult guys. Right? An occult man of god, occult pastor.

One one was caught recently. I saw it on the news. Look at this. The guy goes to an ifaprist. An ifapress tells him, you know what? Every time you want... What do you want? Say, I want power. When I release my hand, lady, I want people to be falling. Fier.

Fier. Fier. Fier. Say, I take this cream. Rub it on your body. And you have rubbed it. Now I'll do like this. He now rubs the cream. He rubs it. Now you try it on that goat.

Now the... And the goat felt. So every time now, before... The moment he finished it better, he has a place he keeps the cream. He now goes to go and carry it. He rubs the cream. Now goes house in the public. Everybody might be saying he he power power power. But what he was doing there is not as important as what they robbed. What you don't understand many a times is that there is no king without a priest.

There there there really is not. The work of the priest is Godward. It's towards God. The work of the priest is within the courts. That was what Jesus was referring to when he says, your father who sees you in secret. That's your priestly office. He will reward you openly. That's your kingly anointing. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. That's your kingly... It means your life begins with your father who sees you in secret. Don't expect open reward if your father has not seen you. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes. So the nature of the spiritual sacrifices that you offer unto God will determine the measure of your power that you will work in as a king. So when you see someone getting outward results, what you want to discover is the nature of their priesthood. What are the type of sacrifices that he's making before God?

Because without priesthood, trying to operate like a king is acting. It's drama. It's drama. Coping someone because of the way he preaches and thinking you will get his results is drama. Yes, sir. What brings power when he speaks is not the way he speaks. It is what he does when he's not speaking to the people. And people think maybe it's his charisma. If I can only copy his charisma. Maybe it's the way he chants.

If I can just copy it. And there are many comedians right now starting to sound like Lawrence Oil. Because they are deluded to think that the power is in the way the man speaks. And you have not checked what is his consecration before God. What is the measure of his sacrifice as a priest? You see, you can do... You can get this secret so much that when you stand before men, even if it is a cough that you cough, a sick man can still be healed. Yes, sir. Sir. The victory in the open is always based on the sacrifices in the secret.

Your work on the outside, the growth of your business, the increase in the work of your hands, the spread of your ministry proceeds from the hidden halters in God's presence. It proceeds from the hidden altars in God's presence. Are you with me? Yes, sir. You remember, the apostles were threatened. Whenever you are threatened, it's time to step into priesthood, especially if you are threatened in your kingly office. Did you get that? Yes, sir. Because normally, kings should not be threatened. But if you find out that there's a threat made against your life, your business, your work, your position, it suggests that something has not yet come upon that kingly order.

Take that threat. Hand it over to the priest. Go into the secret place unlike the apostles. The Bible says in acts four that they told them never to preach again. There was a threat to their lives if they preached, and the Bible says they reported it to their company. They told everyone what they had said, and the Bible is the moment they heard it, they lifted up their voice in one accord. That's the priestly order. They lifted up their voice in one accord, and they told God, oh, God, behold their threatenings. Don't ask the priest to... It means as a priest, I can go to God and say, God, look at what they are saying.

Yes, sir. There is something that would happen to me in that place where the next time you'll see me and say it again, I will look at you and then shut up your mouth. Yes, sir. And you will think, who is this small boy speaking? Ah, it's not this small boy that is speaking. There's an anointing that came upon me. Watch this. When they were praying as priests and offering up sacrifices to God in prayers, the Bible said that the place they were praying started to shake. And the Holy Ghost came upon them again, that they were filled with the Holy Ghost. Jesus Christ.

An infilling of the Holy Ghost, an outpouring that came upon them. The thing rested strong. And when it came when it came, they were still in that room. They were praying. And I don't know how people started entering into their houses and saying, it looks as though the sick peep... Number of sick people today are too much. And if we bring them to church, Peter would not be able to pray for all of them. So what was the solution? You know what? Let's lie them on the street of Peter's house.

That's in Acts chapter five. It was in four that the priestly sacrifice was going up. In five, Peter comes out of his house, and I'm sure he's surprised. He's wondering, what is this? What's going on? Did you hear what the people said to themselves? This is what are at least the shadow of Peter. And it always puzzles me that the least was the shadow. What then becomes the most? If if the shadow was the least that could happen, what is the most?

It's a stretch. Do you notice their prayer and ask for? The item of their prayer, stretch out your hand to heal. Give us boldness that we might stand. That's the priest talking. Give us boldness that we might stand and preach a word. Stretch out your hands to heed. Stretch forth your hands to heal. And when they came out in the room after prayers, Peter was going, and the Bible says as his shadow fell on them. Remember the prayer, stretch forth your hands to heal.

It was the shadow they were seeing, but was the hand of God that was stretched forth. I told you that the the the operation of the priest is substructure. You never really see it. So what you see is what the king is doing. And what the king is doing is just walking, and his shadow is falling upon people. But if your eyes were open, you will see that as he was walking, God was placing his hand on people because the prayer was stretched forth your hands to heal. Stretch forth your hands to heal. It means if I wanna see more demonstrations of power in the marketplace, I must go to the secret place. The... Listen.

The order must be secret place before marketplace. Hear So I started by telling you that you have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. You remember that? Yes, And I told you that these blessings are spiritual. Yes, sir. That these blessings are intangible. Yes, sir. Note that they already exist. It's just that the domain of their existence is in heaven in Christ. The domain of their existence is where?

In heaven in Christ. Where do you live? You live on earth in Christ. Oh. The blessings are in heaven in Christ. You are in Christ. It means it is already accessible to you, but the domain of existence is different. The domain of existence is different. Are you with me? The fact that you are in Christ gives you access to it.

It's like your father buys an item for you in America. And because it's your father that owns it, it's also yours. Because you are in him, you bear the same surname as your father. But you cannot use whatever it is he buys for you in America. Is that not so? You have to somehow get Nigeria. That's where they become useful to you. You can boast that you have something, but you cannot see it in your life. You can tell that, you know, my father has bought me a car. Okay.

Where is the car? But I have a car. Okay. Where is the car? But I have an iPhone. But where is it? There is an America. Wait. Wait. Nobody takes you serious because you cannot see it in your life.

Doesn't mean that you don't have it. It's yours. But it's in heaven. It means there must be a transportation system Yes, sir. That transport what is yours in heaven to be yours on earth. That's why prayer is a gift. Because prayer is that transportation system. Prayer is that conversion rule. Prayer is that conversion program that you begin to work as a priest, that the dominion that is yours in Christ in heaven start becoming material on earth. Are you getting more than sin?

If you don't understand what I'm teaching you, your life will look very far from what it should be. That's why God gave us the gift of priesthood. Priesthood is how you move what is yours in Christ to be yours in the earth realm. In the earth realm, you didn't walk in it. Hebrews two verse seven verse eight, the Bible says, thou who made him a little lower than the angels, thou crown him with the glory and honor, and you have set him over the works of your hands. In verse eight, it says, you have put all things in subjection under his feet. You have put all things in subjection under his feet. All things. How many things? All things.

All things have been put in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. What kind of emphasis is that? When you say all things have been put under him, it already suggests that there is nothing that is not put under him. But just in case you are not still clear, he still has it that he left nothing that he did not put under him. So what is not under you? Nothing. What is not under you? Everything is under you. Everything is under your feet, but it doesn't stop there.

It then goes on to say, but now, now, now, in time, on earth, in reality, we see not yet all things put under him. We see not yet. After all the emphasis that was given that all things have been put under his feet, he says, but now in the atrium, we see not yet. He doesn't say we don't see it. He said we don't see it yet. They have not yet been transported, are you with me Yes, sir. Into the realm that you are in. All things have been put under your feet. It is true. It is one of the blessings you have received in Christ Jesus, but in time, we do not see this manifesting yet.

It means it will still manifest if you know the means of conversion, but we don't yet see it manifesting. It means in as much as everything has been put under your feet, it can look as though some things have not been put under your feet. It can look as though the believer is struggling with certain things that he should not be struggling with in as much as the bible says, all things have been put under your feet. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? God gave us a gift to navigate this. That gift is priesthood. The prayer you pray as a priest is what enables you to transport realities from the realm of God into the realm of men. Hebrews 11 verse three, the Bible says by faith, we understand that the entire universe was formed at God's command. The entire what now? Universe.

Was formed at God's command. Everything in the universe that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen. That means that what we call creation is only creation from the standpoint of men. Because in the realm of the spirit, it already exists. You didn't you didn't get that. Everything already exists in the realm of the spirit. The Bible says that there was nothing that is seen now that was created from what can be seen. It means everything we see now was created from what cannot be seen. It means that it means that the raw material of what was created is what cannot be seen. It means it already exists in the unseen realm.

So it is only creation to you because that was when you saw it. Hey. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Everything already exists in the spiritual realm. It... Do know what that means?

It means there is no there's no reason to feel bad about what is currently not in my life. There is an intelligence that in the place of prayer, I can call destiny helpers. If I look at my life and I find that I I should have access to helper, God is called hel Eze. God my helper. But I... It it looks as though I'm struggling a lot. I'm struggling a lot in every area of my life. It looks as though I'm I'm carrying the burden of my life by myself, and there is just intense hardship in places where there should not be hardship. It looks as though there are no helpers to lift the burden. There are no helper to offer assistance.

I don't have to feel bad about that. There is an intelligence that God supplies, and you can go as a priest. Look at what is not yet in your life and know you already have it already. It only needs to be transported. Yes, Yes, sir. It means I can go as a priest and begin to call for destiny helpers and say, my life should not be lacking helpers. We declare by the power of the holy ghost. I can call forth opportunities in the place of prayer. The bible says that the race is not to the swift. The battle is not to the strong.

Favor is not to men of skill nor bread to the wise, but time and chance happening to them all. I can call forth time and chance in the place of prayers. Why is it that opportunities are missing in my life? In as much as I'm skillful, I'm diligent, but it looks as though the platform that my life needs to showcase me to the public are... It's not just there. What is going on? What is going on? I declare, let the doors be opened in the name of Jesus. Let the doors be open. Listen.

I do this as a priest, then step out as a king and start putting myself in places of opportunities. I can break doors open as a priest. Why have I been knocking over this door and has proven strong in my life? Why have I been knocking and knocking and knocking and the door refuses to open? I can take it to prayers as a priest. Whatever does not respond to me as a king is an item of prayer as a priest. Listen. Listen to me. Every physical thing, including men, is a reflection of what controls it. If this man came to bless me, you may think that he just came.

Even himself might think he just came. But in the realm of the spirit, nobody just comes. I have sustained an advantage to manipulate possibilities to my domain without forcing them. Men can bless me without manipulating them. Because as a priest, I know how to talk to the father of priests. Blessed God. As a man of God, I'm blessed. I do not manipulate anyone to give me anything. I will never do that. I have access to how much some of my spiritual sons and daughters earn.

They will come and tell me, sir, I just got a contract. This is how much I'm making. This is how much I earn. I would not because I know or I I I know how much this person is making. Now I expect that, ah, can't you come and give me? Am I not the one that prayed? You're a bad man of God. Hunger makes you do that. It means your heart is evil. Your heart is wicked.

People's lives and destinies cannot be safe in your hands. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes. We don't have to manipulate anybody. We can go to the to the secret place and order things in our favor. We can go to the secret place and order things in our favor. And prayer gives you the ability to select what most manifest in your life. To unpick what you want to see in your life. When I tell you that in the realm of dominion, you have it as you want it. Prayer is what makes you select it.

If favor is what I want, then I pray favor into my life. If help us is what I want, I pray it into my life. If excellence is what I want, I pray it into my life. If open doors is what I want, if contract is what I want, It's deals and and deals and sales is what I want. I prayed into my life. I prayed into my life. Prayer gives you the ability to select what was manifest in your life. Listen to me. Prayer is the labor word of God's promises. What did I say?

Create the labor word of God's promises. Until the promises of God are taken through the labor room of delivery, You will have many of them in your life, but you will never see it manifest. The promises of God must be taken through the labor room of delivery. Like a woman that is pregnant, the woman can be pregnant for nine months but would never deliver until it's time to push. Until he enters into the Labor Room and they tell her push. They tell her push. They tell her push. And woman exerts all her strength because she knows she's carrying something that she must give birth to. That is what the promises of God have. They are like seeds implanted in your spirit.

They must be pushed out of the realm of the spirit into the physical realm and the pushing agency. The labor room is prayers. That's what the bible says as... My little children of whom I travail until Christ be formed in you. In other words, in the realm of the spirit, I've seen a picture of the you that I want. It's a picture of Christ being formed in you. But in the physical realm, I've not seen it yet, so I travail over you. It means even as a pastor, you must travel in the place of prayer so that the things you are teaching people can be formed in them. It won't be formed in them just because you are teaching it. It will be formed because you are praying it into their lives.

My little children of whom I travail, it means it's a travail to see the things I'm teaching, find expression in your life. I must go to God in prayers and declare these people must prosper. As I'm declaring these things, it's a travail, and I don't stop on... Like, you see that travail manifesting. You hold your life the responsibility to also take your promises that God has given to you to the labor room of prayer and insist I will give birth to these promises, and I will not stop until I see it manifest in my life. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Listen to me. Until the promises of God in your life are taken to the Labor Room Of prayer, you will be pregnant with many promises, but never have them manifest.

Some of you are carrying quadruplets. Some of you are carrying six triplets, but they have not been birthed. They have not been birthed. God has promised you several things that have not been birthed because you have not taken them to the Labor Room of prayer. It is in prayer that you push. You push out destiny. You push out greatness. You push out success. You push out prosperity. You push out excellence.

You push out destiny in the place of prayer. Listen. Listen. Jesus told the disciples, tarry ye in Jerusalem until you are endured with what the father has promised. Listen. Hear me? Jesus told them, tarry in Jerusalem until you are endured. Amen. Until you are endured with what the father has promised. Tarrying Jerusalem until you are endured with what the father has promised.

That was what Jesus told them. That means you don't back down from the promises of God until you have been endured with them. And the bible says they continued in prayers until the holy ghost came. That means the place of time in prayers is the place of giving birth. When a woman enters the Labor Room, the time she comes out of it is with her baby. It means if she does not birth that child, she has no business outside. She will be discharged. She will be admitted until she delivers. So what made you come out? If you have not seen the promises manifesting, why did you discharge yourself, Helly?

Who discharged you from the Labor Room? Don't you realize there are still promises yet to be delivered? As long as there are still things I have not seen manifest in my life, I'm still in the labor room. God told me that the nations will hear my voice. I don't see nations hearing my voice yet. God told me that my voice, there's no speech nor language. When my voice not be heard. There's no speech nor language. When my voice not be heard. Hear me?

If God tells you that this business you are doing, wherever the soul of your feet treads upon, he has given you. Ah, that's a promise. God tells you, I will make you a beacon of light in your academics. That's a promise. How come God told you, he will make you a beacon of light in your academics? But you are seeking 40, 38. You Hear me. Hear me. God has told Elijah that there will be rain. God has told Elijah that there will be rain.

So Elijah is sure that the rain will fall. He's sure. That's a promise. He told Ahab, go. For the rain is about to fall. For he looks around, he does not see the rain yet. He goes to the place of prayer. What he's doing is pushing. He's pushing. He's pushing.

That's what he's doing. Listen. Listen. Listen. The seventh time, he told the servant, go and check. Sir, sir, see the cloud. I see the cloud. Like the hand of a fist, like the fist of a hand. Hear me? Hear me?

Hear me? The moment the servant came back and told him that he saw the cloud, that was the end of his prayer. That cloud that he saw. In medical sciences, when you are delivering the baby, that's the head. You don't have to see the entire body. The moment you have seen the head, the baby has come out. It means the first problem is getting that head out. That's the first problem. Getting that head out. All the push and push.

The moment the head is out, the baby comes. It means that if I've not gotten the fat ending, I'm still waiting on a promise. I'm still waiting on a promise. Listen. There are times that for one year, your prayer point is a promise. It it does not have to be too many. God told me. That that that's the basis. It means, I'm sure if the rain will come, I'm sure. I will stay there until I see the rainfall.

Hear me. Hear me. Amen. That sign, the head of the baby, that sign, that's what you are holding on to in prayers. Sometimes, that sign is a confidence you have. Sometimes, it is peace. Sometimes it is is a prophetic word that comes. Sometimes it is an outburst of joy. Joy just burst out of your spirit as you are praying. Once you see that sign, you know you have gotten it.

But you have no business stopping until you see it. There's no speech nor language. Where my voice is not heard. My voice must be heard. My voice must be heard. My voice must be significant. Nations will bow to me. Kings will bring their crowns to me. He has given me badon. Everywhere the soul of my feet toucheth upon his mind.

Everywhere the soul of my feet has tread upon his mind. An excellence prunes upon me. He has made me 10 times better than my colleagues. He has made me 10 times better than my colleagues. Hi. And the children that God has given to me. We are for signs and wonders. We are for signs and wonders. Just say the Lord. To his anointed, to Cyrus whose right hand I have upheld, to subdue nations before him, and to move the armor of kings, to open before him the two lips doors, That the gate will not be shut towards him.

I will go before you. I will make the crooked places straight. I will break in pieces. The gates of brands and I will cut the bars of iron asunder. I will give you the feather of darkness. And the hidden riches of secret places that you may know that high the Lord who call you by your name and the God of Israel. Hear me? I will come before all throne eternity's only one I will come before all your throne. Eternity's holy one. I will come before all your throne.

Eternity is only one. I will come before your throne. Eternity is only one. Eternity is holy one. Will pray before your throne. Eternity is holy one. Hear me? Hear me? Let me say this last time. You see, there are different types of prayer.

But when it is time to brush forth premises, That type of prayer is not mistaken. There are no two types of prayer that births promises. There's only one time. The bible says, can the nation be born in a day? But as soon as Zion travails, the prayer that gives birth is the prayer of travail. Have you seen how pregnant women give birth in the Labor Room? There are times that they are groaning. There are times they are they are making speeches that cannot be altered. There are times you have to hold their hands down. You have to hold their body down.

They are pushing. That that labor is an intense one. It's not one where you keep quiet. Because you know there are things that are inside of you that you're about to give birth to. It's not a calm type of prayer. It alters your personality. Even the most gentle woman, when it is time to deliver, her personality is altered. Something about her changes. Whether it is time to give birth. Can you give birth right now?

Can you give birth right now? Are there promises that God has spoken? Are there promises that God has given? Can you give birth? Can you enter into the labor room of prayer? The labor room of prayer. Give birth to promises. The power power of We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at officialdisciplescn.

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