Transcript: The Promises of God
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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. Acts chapter 20 and verse 32. So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance amongst all those who are sanctified. I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. To God and to the word of his grace. The word of his grace is able to build you up.
The word of his grace is able to give you an inheritance amongst all those who are sanctified. An inheritance amongst all those who are sanctified. When a believer is bankrupt of the world, there is not much you can do to help that believer. Except to pray the prayer of mercy or to bring that believer under a prophetic covering. But you see, as far as being a victim of the devil is concerned, the believer has brought himself to a point where he or she remains a victim. Because our security in this kingdom is access to light. The Bible says, the light shines in darkness. The darkness comprehends it not. The Bible then says, it is the entrance of your world that gives light. Then it gives understanding to the simple.
So when the Bible says the light shines in darkness, it is the word of God that shines in darkness. So a man can pray and be a prayer machine. But when that man is barren of the world, he will pray in darkness. A man can fast and fast his destiny and fast his life, live a fasted life even. But when he fasts in darkness, he's still in captivity. A man can be religious, a man can be a worker. A man can even love Jesus so much. A man can be given to the things of the spirit. But if he does it in darkness, he's still in captivity. To pray in ignorance is to pray in captivity.
The Bible says, in John chapter eight and verse 32, you shall know the truth. And the truth shall make you free. So what makes free is truth. Not any other thing that you do. What makes free is truth. What makes free is truth. The believer may do many things. But if the believer is barren of truth, the believer remains in captivity. So when you want to help a believer, really help a believer, the best thing you can do a believer is to bring him to where truth is. Give money to a poor man, he will be...
He will remain poor. He can be rich for a while, but he will return back to his default state. Because what keeps a man in poverty is not the absence of money. It is the absence of truth. That is why the bible says, to preach the gospel to the poor. Don't give the poor money to preach the gospel to the poor. There is something that the poor does not know that keeps him in that state. By the moment the man receives truth, truth has the ability. The Bible says arise, shine for your light has come. Do you remember what light is?
The entrance of your word gives light. So when your light came, what came? The bible says, arise, shine for your light has come. The Bible says darkness shall cover the earth. Gross darkness the people. You see, but the Lord will arise over you, and his glory will be seen on you. Why? Because your light has come. So when the darkness covers the earth, what separates you is that your light came, is that there is a word you know. There is truth that has been revealed unto you that separates you, that exempt you.
Are you with me, brothers and sisters? That exempt you. Your light has come. Arise, shine, not because you are tired of freezing down. The amplified says, arise from the prostration and the depression that the circumstances of life have kept you. Rise to a new light. Rise to a new life. Arise from the depression and the frustration that the circumstances of life has kept you. Rise to a new life. Shine.
Be radiant with the glory of the Lord for your light has come. So how you arise out of depression, how you arise out of the the prostration that the circumstances of life have kept you. Prostration there is to take a posture where you lie prostrate. It means that life has so shown you cannot even rise gallantly anymore. You have been so defeated. You're on the ground, weak, defeated. It's a state where a man is sleeping on the ground because of defeat. That is what prostration is. That is why he says arise. Arise.
Arise. Because your light came. Do you remember that Bible verse that says, though the sorrows may last for the night. Night is attributed with darkness. And the Bible says whenever you see sorrow, it is because there is darkness. Darkness is attributed with ignorance. Whenever there is ignorance, there is darkness. Whenever there is darkness, there is sorrow. Though the sorrow, though the trouble may last for the night, the Bible says joy comes in the morning. Joy doesn't just go.
Joy comes in the morning. The morning signifies light. In other words, the daylight came is the day your morning came. It's not just morning because twelve hours have passed. That's not how morning comes in the realm of the spirit. Morning only come because light came. The day you receive light is the day you can begin to rejoice. Sorrows may endure. Troubles may endure. Weeping may endure, but joy comes in the morning.
Bible says in the book of Ephesians chapter six and verse 11, put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. It says, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly places. Look at what the believer is battling against. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. And having done all to stand, stand. Listen. You know that the bible says that you may be able to withstand in the evil day? In other words, it's a guarantee that the evil day will come. It's not it's not some thing that you say, oh, God forbid for. The evil day will come.
The difference is that when it comes, you must have been putting on the whole armor of God. That's why the bible says put on the whole armor of God. There is a fortification that a believer must have around his life so that whenever the devil comes visiting, you are protected. That is how the devil will come and you will never know he came. Because there is fortification around your life. So the fact that you are living as though the devil does not exist does not mean that the devil did not come. It only means that you have built so much fortification that when he came, you were defended. So you will sleep like a baby. You realize the devil is throwing several attacks. When God asked the devil, have you considered my servant Job?
The response that the devil gave was, are you not the one that put a fortification around him? Does Job love you for nothing? Does he bless you for nothing? You are the one that put a fortification around him. How did the devil know that there was a fortification around Job? It means it wasn't the first time that he was visiting Job. Yet Job never knew. Job was going about his life as though the devil does not exist and he did not know that the devil had been coming every day. But every time he came, he would always meet a fortification. Your life as a believer must be taught that there is that fortification around your life every time, lest you are subject to the attacks of the wicked.
There should be no sickness that the devil sense that you can be a victim of. There should be no infirmity, no famine, no recession that the devil sends your way that you should be a victim of. Stand therefore having gathered your waist with truth. How do you stand in the day that the devil comes? You'll gird your waist with truth. Are you seeing this word of God again? Truth. So what builds that fortification around your life? What builds that fortification around your life is what now? Truth.
What builds that fortification around your life is what now? Truth. Someone say truth. Truth. Truth. What builds that fortification around your life is truth. Truth. That's why Job said in Job 39, as I was in the day of my youth when the secrets of the Lord was upon my tabernacle. In other words, there are truths that I knew. There were things I knew as I was in the days of my youth when the secrets of the Lord was upon my tabernacle.
There were things I knew. Job said, don't you think that the fortification around my life was just there for nothing. No. I knew secrets about God. There were things I knew about God. So if a believer is ignorant, that believer is done for. Refuse to be ignorant. So the bible says, get your ways with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace, shodding your feet with the preparation of the gospel. Are you seeing truth again? Even what you used to defend your feet is still truth.
Verse 16 then continues again, and you still see truth. Above all, taking what? The shield of faith. How does faith come? Faith comes by hearing and by hearing by the word truth again. Everything in this armor is truth. Are you not seeing it? That there is something a man will know that becomes a shield. That becomes a shield. That when the devil comes to steal your joy, there's a shield.
The bible calls him a thief. The devil is always a thief. He will never change. He will always steal. He will always kill. He will always destroy. The guy has no joy. I hate the devil. But guess what? He hates me too.
But there's nothing he can do. Because some of us are too defended. Some of what are too what now? Defended. When the devil comes to steal, there's a defense. When the devil comes to kill, there's a defense. How does he kill? He introduces all manners of sicknesses. It begins to eat away your health little by little, reducing the threshold of your life. That's the reason why you must reject sickness.
Sickness is an attack from the devil, an attack from the pit of hell. You see, the body that you live in is the reason why you can fulfill purpose. When you are dead, purpose ends. A dead man doesn't think about purpose. A dead man doesn't think about fulfilling destiny. The reason why you are alive is the reason why you can fulfill destiny. The devil is scared of a man who is purpose conscious and is alive. So if the devil realizes that what he has taken years to build, look, your being alive can destroy. Don't you think he will not come out after your life? Because the bible calls him a killer.
He comes to kill. There are several people the devil has killed. Don't you say, oh, God is the one that gives life. God is the one that takes. You know, there were several lives that were taken by the devil. And that guy is on rampage looking for lives to destroy, you must insist that mine is not part of them. You'll be so blessed today. Amen. The shield of faith. The shield of faith.
When the devil comes to sow defeat in your mind and he tells you, do you really think anything good can come out of your life? There's a shield of faith. The bible calls these things the fiery darts of the wicked. This fiery darts comes in different ways. It comes as attacks, literal attack against your life, against your business. It comes as words. Words that source defeat on your inside. Words that source fear, anxiety, worry on your inside. Look at this business. Don't you see it's about to collapse?
The contract that I've been talking to these clients for, they will tell you no. If you think it's you that they will give, look at your qualifications. There is what is called the shield of faith. Now when the devil brings or introduces defeat, introduces weakness, anxiety, worry, there's a shield that bounces back these things. It makes it impenetrable to your heart. The shield of faith. Psalm 91 verse one. The bible says he that dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. I will say of the Lord, it's my refuge and my fortress. In him, my God in him shall I trust.
My God in him shall I trust. It shall be my shield. And my butler. That God and what you know about God can be a shield. Go to the next verse. Surely he will deliver me from the snare of the enemies. From the noise, young pestilence. He shall cover me with his feathers. And under his wings shall I trust. His truth, this is where I'm going, his truth shall be my shield and my butler.
What will be that shield? His truth shall be my shield. Something that you know. Something that you know acts as a shield. A man will come and meet you and we say, is it you that is trying to get this thing? You are trying to arise in this family? You are trying to arise in this? My goodness. Let's see how you will do it. What do you mean by that?
We are the ones who stop this person and that person. There's a truth you must know at that point. Who is either can say a thing and it will come to pass when the Lord has not spoken. That is his truth being a shield. That is his truth being a shield. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. If you do not know the word of God, your life will be hard as a believer. Your life will be very hard. If you don't know the word of God, your life will be very hard.
I can promise you this. If you don't know the word of God, your life will be miserable. The devil will mess you up. You are at the mercy of the devil. Whatever he wants to do, he can do. Even if you pray, even if you fast. The bible says, the light shines. Never forget this. It is the light that shines in darkness. What gives potency to your prayer is light.
It is that you are praying with light and in light that gives potency to your prayers. Let me give an example. A believer believes that if I don't pray, Satan will make mess of me. Somewhere in his mind, that belief is there. And perhaps you missed your prayer hour because you slept off, were tired, you had a busy day, so you slept off. That believer awaken fear, and his conscience will start to condemn him. And the moment he can receive that condemnation, he has opened doors for demonic attacks. The question a believer should ask is if the bible compares you to a lion and the bible says that you are a righteous man and the righteous is as bold as a lion. If a lion is sleeping And a dog comes to come and bark at it and the lion wakes up from his sleep. Would the lion reply with a bark?
Will the dog make a mess of the lion because lion was sleeping? So what comes out of the lion's mouth even though he was sleeping and he wakes up? Does his sleep change the fact that he's a lion? Your defeat against the devil is not forced to think of what you do, it's forced to think of who you are. The devil is not forced scared of what I do, he's forced scared of who I am. You don't understand what I'm saying. What makes our prayer potent is because we are the ones who are praying the prayer. Muslims pray, traditionalists pray, different people pray, the Buddhists believe they pray, But the bible says the effectual fervent prayer, not of anybody who prays, of a righteous man. So what makes that prayer fervent? What makes that prayer tremendous?
What makes that prayer generate power is who is praying? Because the person who is praying is righteous. So when I begin to pray, I know that what I'm doing is powerful because the person who is praying is power personified. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yes. That's not even where I'm going today. So today, again, I came to reemphasize to you, reemphasize to you the potency of the world in what I have titled, the promises of God. We're gonna pray today. The promises of God. Say it with me, the promises of God.
You'll be so blessed. Amen. Can you bow your head and monopolize God for a moment? And say let my word come today. Let my word come today. Let my word come today. Let my word come today. In Jesus' name, we have prayed. The promises of God. Second Peter chapter one verse three, the New Living Translation, the Bible says, by his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life.
We have received all of these by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. Verse four, and because of his glory and excellence... Look at this. He called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. Not because of what we did. Just because of his glory, just because of his excellence. I don't have time to open this for you. Let's continue. By means of that glory, by means of that excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. What has he given to us?
This is where I draw my teaching from. God is the one who gave the promise. The bible says he by himself has given us great and precious promises. Great and precious promises. The Bible says, these are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature. So how are we able to share his divine nature? Through this great and precious promises. We are able to share his divine nature. We are able to escape the world's corruption. My goodness.
He has given us great and precious promises. These promises then guarantees two things. The first is that they enable you to share in his divine nature. The promise of God is the guarantee that the believer has in partaking in the divine nature of God. It means what enables us to work as gods on the earth are the promises of God. What enables us to function as gods on earth are the promises of God. Our guarantee of a great future and a great destiny is because of the promises of God. The promises of God, therefore, are not abstract. They are not just floating words that declares his intention that may or may not come to pass. That is not what the promises of God are.
If the bible says that our guarantee of a great destiny, if the bible says our guarantee of sharing in the divine nature of God, if the bible says that our guarantee of walking as gods on earth is the promises of God, it shows you that those promises are tangible. They are not abstract words that declares the intention of a man that he may or may not perform. Those promises are what now? Are tangible. Those promises are tangible. That everywhere you see your possibilities as a believer revealed in scripture, everywhere you see yourself doing the things that are in the god class, everywhere you see yourself performing god sized accomplishments, doing only things that gods do, Doing things that are not given to men to do, scaling new heights, doing impossible things, achieving greatness at a early age, amassing wealth at a early age, amassing abundance, stepping into realms of satisfaction and fulfillment at a early age. Every time you see yourself doing impossible things, either in your visions or God has shown these things to you, what brings this thing into manifestation are the promises of God. The bible says these promises enable you to share in his divine nature. So the reason why you'll be able to build a great company at a young age where nobody does it at your... Where nobody has ever done it in your family.
The reason why you'll be able to break new records. The reason why you'll be able to set new records is because the promises of God enables you to do them. So what has God shown you? What has God shown you? What has God revealed to you? Has God revealed to you that you will build multinational companies? Has God revealed to you that you will be a kingdom financer? Has God revealed to you that you will not die empty? Did you come from a family where you have never seen any record of greatness in your family? Where nobody has ever arisen to power?
Where you don't have any reference for a successful man? Where there is no one you can look up to and say I want to be like this person in your family? Do you come from a lineage and God says I will raise you in this lineage? And because of you, you will be an epitome of success. You will bring light to generation. What has God shown you that you will do? What has God shown you about your life? What what has God shown you about your destiny? Anything God has shown you about your life and destiny, to do them, you will need an energy that is not of man. Because the bible says, not by power, not by might, but by my spirit.
So doing anything God has shown you will require God himself. This is the divine nature that we're talking about. And the bible says, what makes that divine nature reality to you are the promises of God. So I'll put it this way. What is the guarantee that you'll be great? Stay in the... No. Don't answer yet. Don't answer yet. Don't be quick to answer.
Think about it first. What is the guarantee that you'll be great? Think about it. Think about it. Just think about my question. Don't be too quick to answer. Meditate on that question. Let me give you more facts to meditate on it. How many graduates does UI release every year? What was the number?
Anybody has a number? At least 4,000. Is that correct? At least 4,000. Are you sure? At least 4,000 graduates in UI alone every year. 6,000. More accurately. So around four to 6,000. Let's put it on an average of 5,000 graduates released every year in UI alone.
The University of Lagos. How many further universities do you have in Nigeria? How many state universities? How many private universities? How many graduates do all these universities release altogether every year? Do you have a number in your mind now? An estimate, a reasonable estimate in your mind? Out of this pool, how many do you think will succeed? Wait. Wait.
Just think. By that I mean, how many will get very good jobs? How many have written plans down that they want to achieve? How many will achieve it? How many have written that they will become governors? How many become governors? How many have written so many clients have so many ambitions? How many become it? How many enter into government and take it over? How many?
How many? So in the pool of that number, what is the guarantee that you will be great? Because you traveled abroad? Because you go abroad? Because you're Japa? Because you studied medicine? You said, I know. I I studied medicine, so I have more chances. Because you studied engineering, that is your guarantee. That is your guarantee for you.
In this world that we live in, what's your guarantee that your business will prosper? What's your guarantee that we leave the borders of Oyo state? Even of Ibadan, let's even leave Oyo state alone. What's the guarantee? The connections your father has because you know an uncle somewhere. So when we come and we begin to pray and we are declaring, oh, I'm I'm a prosperous man. What is the guarantee that you will prosper? What is the guarantee that this ministry will be great? You know we say it every time? Welcome to the largest garden of young people in Nigeria.
What is the guarantee? What is the guarantee that we will actually become the largest guy in the young people in Nigeria? What is it that I'm sure that one year from now will not still be here? So by the time you are speaking, now you are speaking, hey hey, what what? Is that not a risk? What if it does not happen? How do you gather five people and tell them you'll be great? Ten years from now, what is the guarantee that their life will be different? What's the guarantee that they will not pick up stones and stone you and say you lied to us? What is the guarantee?
Do you know how many churches start in a year? What is the guarantee that your own will be different? Do you know how many buildings closed down? Do you know how many people have started the same thing you are doing and stopped because it wasn't working? Because it wasn't working. You better listen to what I wanna teach you and believe it. And believe it. And believe it well. Because the only guarantee is because God has promised. That is the only guarantee.
So when we talk like mad men, our hope is not resting on what we can do by ourselves. It's not resting on the fact that we are intelligent and we can create system and structures. There are many systems, many structures that have broken down. Systems have gone... Have come and gone. Men have come and gone with aspirations, with ambitions, and many ambitions have perished. Many aspirations are dead. Many started with a desire to go around the world. Many saw themselves in good homes, marrying good husbands. It never happened.
Do you really think that many people who are having divorces today dreamed of divorces? What's the guarantee your home will be good? What's the guarantee you will marry well? What's the guarantee your husband will not beat you or you won't beat your wife or you will not hate each other one day. It's because God has promised. It's not because you're a good man. It's not because you're a good woman and you can submit well. Okay. If you can submit well, what's the guarantee you will marry well? And you will not marry someone who cares nothing about your submission Because you are beautiful, because you are well packaged, because you are fine?
Do you know how many first class students are in Micra? I've met five in Ibadaniya. Polished English was in Morrower. I saw the way he was talking with Queen's English. He told me his linguistics in UI and finished with the first class. What is the guarantee that you studying education will be any different? If a man does not... What is the guarantee that you will not be different from your mother? What is the guarantee that you will not be different from your father? What is the guarantee that you won't stop where your father stopped?
Because you found a good church, part of it, but that is not your guarantee. Because you found a good pastor, part of it, but that is not your guarantee. Your guarantee is the promises of God. It is because God has promised. It means the only thing I ever need to hold on to that makes me talk bold, that makes me talk big, that can make me look at a pool of graduates and say, listen, five years from now, you will all need me. What is the guarantee? I looked at my classmates in final year, and they were looking at my life. They all... They were making jest of me. Said, I'm antisocial.
He said, He said, yes. That is not my fault. It's not my fault. The problem is that you can't relate with me. He said, what do I mean? I said, I'm ten years ahead of you. The fact that we're in the same class doesn't mean we are at the same place. I am ten years ahead of you. What is the guarantee? I was saying this in 2019.
What is the guarantee that five years after they won't be giving me money? I'm be saying, go fund me for Emmanuel. When we were saying it, what is the... What is... Is it that my... I I I believe that, oh, I had an advantage somewhere. I know somebody that will help me. It is because God has promised. It is because God has promised. It is because we have met with the I am.
And the I am told us. That is why the Bible says, the Bible says, these are the promises that enables you to share in his divine nature. Everything I've said now. Is sharing in his divine nature. And how it happens is because he has given us promises. So the reason we can talk the way we speak is because we have promises. The reason we can say listen to me, nations will drink from this well. Nations will drink from this well. I see Asians coming, Europe coming. This method will develop wings and they will fly reaching the hands of the earth.
What is the guarantee that will happen? What is the guarantee that will happen? God has said it. God has promised. In other words, you will only see your life accomplish great things to the degree to which you can believe and hold on to the promises of God. To the degree to which you can believe, hold on, act on, Work on. Pay on the promises of God. You'll only see your life accomplish greatness. Take on down projects. Break record and set records.
Work out damn accomplishments. God sized accomplishment to the degree to which you believe what God has told you, what God has said. So when you see me come and speak in ways and manner that a a young man should not speak in, it is because we know what God has said. That is the only thing we hold on to. Our hope rests on nothing else. That if a man promises me today that, apostle, I'm going to give your ministry 100,000,000 naira every month. It will never make me come here and tell you, oh, we are prosperous. That means my guarantee has become a man. When as yet there is 0 naira in my account, I will still come and tell you I'm prosperous because my guarantee is his promises. If he has said it, then it is on him to do it.
My responsibility is to believe, partner, declare, pray on, prophesy, act on, work on what he has said. That's my responsibility. I only need to ever find out what did he say. And if our adventurer can discover what he said, oh, I'm the happiest man alive because you will see me walk on water. You will see me do the impossible only because God said it. Only because God said it. Do you know that if Jesus is the one who told you, what he has told you is tangible? You can take what he told you to the market and buy car. It is that tangible. Only you believe.
The problem that you don't believe. Jesus was walking on water, and all his disciples saw him, and they were afraid. And in their fear, they thought it was a ghost that was walking. How can a man walk on water? And Peter, out of all the disciples, told Jesus, if it be thou, beat me, come. You you didn't get that. You didn't see it. You didn't see it. Who was the one who answered Jesus when Jesus said, what do men see that I am? All the disciples.
He said, some say that you are John, John the Baptist, Jeremiah, Elijah, others see you are one of the prophets. Then Peter rose up and said, you are Christ, the son of the living God. So Peter knew who he was. So when Peter said, if it be thou, He knew who he was talking. He he wasn't just a man. He wasn't just one of the prophets. He knew. He saw flesh and blood that revealed it to him. If it be down, why did Peter not say, ah, it's you and start running on water? You didn't get that.
Because if it be down, you have to beat me. You have to say. It has to come out of your mouth. And if you can tell me, come. I want those I want those jump on water because I saw you. If it is you, then say it. Because if you sell it, invisible bridges. That come takes on tangibility. Yes. Because that come is tangible.
That's one... That's why I say you can carry it and go and buy car. That that come is tangible. The moment he had come, he stepped out of water and started walking. It will be a mistake to think Peter walked on water. No. He walked on... Come. Come. That was what he walked on.
He heard a word. It enables us to partake of his divine nature. It means if he can do it, I can partake of that divine nature if I only hear a promise. If I only hear a promise, I can step into the same experience. I can do the same thing I'm seeing you do. If it be thou, bid me come. If it be thou, bid me come. Note that the revelation was not even just in the come. It was in the if it be thou. Because if it be thou means if it is you.
It means there is something I know about you that will make me bank on your come that you said and not the one any other person said. Yes, sir. Yes. That's the meaning of if it be you. I won't say Andrew says come. Come. Or Mark says come. No. I won't come because Mark said come. But if it be you, it means the power in the come is who spoke it.
The promise is only as powerful as who promised. What gives tangibility to the promise is because God is the one that promised. The reason we can hold on to the promise is because we know the one who has promised. That is what gives tangibility to his promises. It's different from if a man tells you, oh, I will get you this or I will do this or I will... You can't hold on to the word of a man. But the bible says God is not a man that he should lie. I've taught you before in this place that what that thing means is not God does not lie. If you think that what you have read simply means God does not lie, you are deceived. The bible did not say God does not lie.
The bible says God is not a man that he should lie. What that means is that anything that God says becomes true. So if God looks at a man or a woman whose mother is selling paper, whose father is a bricklayer, who is going to one primary school somewhere, secondary school somewhere, public secondary school that does not even have roof over his head. You ask to use umbrella when they go to class because if rain falls, if sun shines, it will shine on them. The teacher is teaching them English with Yoruba language and they all listen. And God can come to a young boy in that school and say, I will make you a great nation. Kings will come out of you. The young boy can look at himself and say, ah ah. It's a lie. You see.
Because that thing, there's no way. By the time you put it side by side, it is not making sense. That's why the Bible says God is not a man. It means if he comes to you and tells you a thing that is superior to your current experience, it is because he has the ability to make it so. That's why God does not crack jokes. Because if God tells you, you see it bigger, your head becomes big. Is... He can't... Anything... The bible...
Where the word of a king is, there is power. So a king cannot say, go and kill him. Ah. He said, I'm talking. I'm... He's dead. He's dead. A king doesn't speak carelessly. That is what Peter knew that made him say, I can't hold the word of anybody to handle, but if it is you. So the question is, who is it that spoke?
Was it God who told me? I can take on projects, giant sized projects. I can walk into a bank and meet the CEO and present my business to him and say, listen. This is what I do because God said go. I can go to the ministry of youth transport and demand to meet the commissioner of youth transport and say this is what I do and I think they can benefit your state in this way and you have such boldness to present yourself and pit yourself before greatness because God spoke. What you are holding on, what you are working on is not the words of a man. It is if it be thou. If it is you who said it, then watch as I come. The revelation is if it be down. The bible says these promises, these are the things that enables us to share of his divine nature.
I'm telling you that you cannot do anything big, anything worthwhile, anything god sized without these promises if you'd not know how to hold on to them, how to hold on to them. This is the only guarantee that we have. I can call my two employees, my three employees, and I sit down with them, and I tell them, listen. This business will very soon, six months from now, one year from now. We are having a branch in Ghana, and they are looking at you and they are thinking, how will it happen if it be now? And we are planning as though as though we are mad. Apostle Bresslubega said, he said, he gathered 50 men, 50 men in a classroom, in university. When they were about to start ministry, and he was preparing them, holding meetings with them. And he told them. He said listen to me.
Listen to me. He said the keyboard they were using was borrowed. The chairs they were in was borrowed. The classroom was rented. The drum was rented. Everything was rented. Even the phone that we're using for recording was rented because none of them had a phone to record. The man said in that classroom, I told them. I told them. I said listen to me to me.
Five years from now, we will be on TBN. We will be on faith television. And he was mentioning different Christian television, global Christian television scenes. One by one. One by one. Five years from now, people will travel from all part of the world, and they will come to Uganda. Five years from now, you will see your neighbor is a Chinese man. Your neighbor is from UK. Your neighbor is from Sweden, from Thailand, from Burundi. As he was talking, he said, listen to me.
Go and greet mister Michael from Burundi. Go and greet... And he was calling names of Chinese people, names of Korean names, and they were walking one by one saying hello to your invisible hands. He said 50 of them. You will think we were mad, he said. Can you see the numbers? Can you see the crowd? Unhandling crowd. Unhandling crowd. He said there will be no there will be no there will be no building in Uganda that will contain us.
And they started, 50 of them. Five years after, five years after, TBN South Africa wrote to them and say we want you on TBN by all means even if you will not pay. Five years after. Five years after. This is eight or nine years after. Their men's conference holds 80,000 men. Only men. Only men. Where do you ever hear that men gather like that? Women's conference times two.
Times two. And he will always say, I faced 50 men, and I told them. I faced 50 men, and I told them. What was the guarantee? That those 50 men will not look at you five years after and say, remember that thing that you said? The guarantee is that we held on to the promises of God. The guarantee. The question therefore is, what do you know about your life? What What do you know about your destiny? What do you know about your future?
What do you know about your future? What do you know about your family? What do you know about your children? What do you know about your marriage? That is the question. What do you know about your purpose, about your assignment, about your ministry that God has told you? That is the question. That is what you have to find out. Because if you will partake of the divine nature, if you will do God sized things, David said, satisfy us early. Do you know what satisfies us early means?
That is God sized accomplishment. When Isaac asked Jacob, how come you have found it so early? How come you found it so early? Jacob said, God brought it to me. Remember that story? Isaac told Esau to go and look for venison and then Jacob brought it first. Then Isaac asked Jacob, how come you found it so early? In other words, there are results you don't find early in life. How do you tell me you bought your first car at 20? How come you found it so early?
How do you tell me you bought the land and owned a building at 21? How do you tell me you sold your first 10,000,000 at 19? How do you tell me? Before you're 25, you have already honed two branches of your of your company. One in Nigeria, one in Ghana, one in South Africa. How come you found it so early? That will be the question people ask you. How come you found it so early? The reason is because it's not given to men to find it early. It means if you found it early, there is a God dimension to it.
It is called the divine nature. How do you share of it is promises. How do you share of it is promises. One of my guys was telling me, he was telling me, he said, apostle, I got my I got my first contract in 9 figures. Not 7. Not... 9 figures. I got my first contract. When the contractors met him, they were asking him, how old are you? Are you married?
He said, no. You are too young for this. They will look at your accomplishment and measure it side by side with your age, and it won't make sense. How do you start a motherless baby's home? How do you run a motherless baby's home at your age and you have over 500 children that you are taking care of their education, feeding them, and they are on fire for God and there's a revival in that place. So much so, those who have parents will envy them. How have you done this so early? These kind of results are when you partake of the divine nature. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? You are a social media influencer?
How is that possible? How old are you that you have 1,000,000 following? What are you seeing? 1,000,000 following you and you are still in school? What kind of influence is that? How did you find it so early? At a young age, you are sitting down in the board of chairman of five companies. Five companies. And they're having public speaking events, and then they will call the likes of and call all these guys, and you will be there. And you will appear with your young self.
That you will sit down amongst the panels, and they will... You are the youngest person here. Whilst they're asking everybody questions, and you are asking intelligently, one young man like you will now ask, sir, how? What are these promises? Hear me. Hear Hear me. Hear me. It says, the second thing these promises do is that they cause exemptions. They enforce the mystery of exemption. That because of these promises, evil can before a land, death can plague a city, sickness can ravage a land, but there is something that you know and you are exempted.
You are exempted. You escaped the word corruption. It means if they say there is recession, recession will not affect your pocket. If they say this thing is affecting people doing farming business or doing this business or doing that business and everybody's closing down school, everybody's closing down shop, everybody's closing down, it won't affect you. It is called escaping the world's corruption. They say, oh, oh, oh, there's coronavirus. Oh, there's this one. Oh, there's that one. Oh, everybody's falling sick. It will not affect you.
It's called escaping the world's corruption. They say, in this family, nobody does this. Nobody does that. Nobody has finished school. Nobody has done that. You can escape the world's corruption. It means it it does not have to touch you. That's the meaning. That's the meaning. It means it does not have to touch you.
You don't have to feel the effect. You're saying, there's no job anywhere. Inside, there's no job anywhere. You're signing deals. In 8 figures, in 7 figures, in 9 figures, in 10 figures. In 10 figures. Whilst they are saying, ah, there's no burning where you are... You you... You're saying, yeah. Because you know this is not my experience.
This is not my experience. They are saying, you are employing more people. You are thinking how do we expand? How do we extend? How do we increase? You call a board meeting. You say, so let's think of expansion now. It's called escaping the world's corruption. Say, but but but sir but sir but sir but my my my my sister is 30 years old. She married her first child.
At first, she lost her first child. Now she has not she has not even given birth. The one that follows her, 33 years old, also married for over seven years now. She has not given birth. All of them are barren. I'm afraid of getting married. I'm... It's called escaping the world's corruption. The bible does not say there's no corruption. It means you are bound to see these things around you, but there's a way we escape it.
How? The promises of God. The promises of God. That when things are happening around you, you will smile and you would say, a thousand shall fall by my side And 10,000... That's a promise. That when a man knows and believes, you will realize that everybody can be dying. I cannot die. No sickness can touch my body. They say, oh, oh, three people have cancer in your family, oh, and you have to be careful. You are predisposed to have cancer because you know your grandmother that have cancer, and then your mother is treating cancer, and your father is treating cancer.
Cancer does not know my address. There is... Listen to me. It's called escaping the world corruption. You know, your father, your your mother gave birth before she married out of wedlock. Our sister, out of wedlock. Everybody in your family, they used to give birth out of wedlock. And the way I'm seeing you now, the way I'm seeing you now, listen, there is what is called escaping the world's corruption. Your father's brother, when he was 50 years old, got a contract and he died. They they they shot him Harrow.
Your father too, see him now. All of that is not your business. The word is called escaping the word's corruption. The bible says, because there are promises that we know. There are promises we have held on to. Oh my God. My God. My God. My God. My God.
There are promises we have held on to. Isaiah chapter 55 verse eight, God says my thoughts are not your thoughts in NLT. My ways are far beyond everything you could ever imagine. Verse 10 says, the rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. Verse 11. Can we read it together, everybody? Is my God, my saving power, my holy spirit. Blessed. How many times?
Once in a while. Once and for all. Hey. Jesus Christ. Hey. Hey. It always. I send it out, and it always. Then go and sit down. If it always produces fruit, if it will never fail, it will accomplish all I want it to.
It will prosper everywhere I send it. It means if it was sent to you, it must prosper in you. Man of God, I see myself dodging nations. I see myself dodging nations. I had a dream, and I was speaking in front of white men, and I was speaking in front of white men. At some point, I was swearing high. Man of God, I had a dream. In that vision, God was showing me. I saw a people in darkness, and they were in darkness, chains on their legs, and I appeared in the midst of them, and there was light as I appeared. As you are seeing these things, remember, it will prosper.
Everywhere I send it, it will prosper. It will prosper. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Joshua 21 verse 45, NLT. I want us to read this together. Are you ready to pray? Yeah. 21 verse 45 NLT.
One, two, three, go. So which one has he told you that will not happen? Which one have you said in his word that will not come to pass? Which one have you received that will not come to pass? Ezekiel chapter 12 and verse 26. The bible says, NIV, The word of the Lord came to me. Next verse. Son of man, the house of Israel is saying, the vision he sees is for many years from now, and he prophesies about the distant future. Therefore, said to them, this is what the Lord says. Go back to that verse, 27.
Watch this. The house of Israel is saying, the vision he sees is for many years from now. In other words, in other words, Ezekiel came to come and tell them what God promised. And all that heard it started saying, this thing you are saying is far. It's far. It's far. I know I will be great, but it's far. I know I will hold these things, but it's far. It says, it's... The the the vision he sees is for many years from now.
What this prophet is saying is for a distant future. God now told him. Next verse. God now told him, go and tell them, none of my words will be delayed any longer. Whatever I say will be fulfilled. So on my health, what has he said? About my health, what has he said? Bless the Lord, oh my soul. Forget not all his benefits, who forgives all my iniquities, who heals all my diseases. I am healed.
I am healed of God. Sickness shall not have dominion over me. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. And by his stripes, we were healed. What has he said about my health? What have you said about my health? For I am the Lord that healeth you. I am the Lord that healeth you.
Jeremiah 30 verse 17, for I will restore health to you and heal all of your wounds. My health is restored. My wounds are restored. My health is restored. These are the promises of God. I will restore health to you. I cannot be sick. My health is restored. Sickness, hear my voice. God has promised.
God has promised. I am falling weak. I'm feeling overwhelmed. Isaiah 40 and verse 29, it gives power to the weak. To those who have no might, it increases strength. Even as I wait upon the Lord, I will mount up with wings as eagles. I will run and not be weary. I shall walk and not faint. These are the promises of God. How do I know that as I travel every time, I will not be a victim of accidents?
As I engage in warfare, I won't be a victim of failure. There's a promise of protection. He will order his angels to protect you wherever you go. Psalm 91 verse 11, Heneldi. He will order his angels to protect you wherever you go. So I know I'm protected. I know I'm protected. There are multitude of angels guarding me, watching me. Psalm one two one verse seven, the Lord will keep you from all harm. He will watch over your life.
The Lord keep me from harm. The Lord keep me from harm. How about my finances? Philippians four nineteen, and God shall supply all my needs according to the riches and glory. My goodness. What a promise. And God shall supply all my needs. What a promise. 28 verse 11, Deuteronomy, NLT. The Lord will give you prosperity in the land.
I have prosperity in the land. I have prosperity in the land. Psalm 84 verse 11, for the Lord my God is a son and a shield to me. The Lord will give me grace and glory. No good thing will he withhold from me. No good thing is withheld from me. If I'm in a company, every good thing there is mine. If I'm in a field, every good thing there is mine. If I'm in a sector, every good... Because he has said no good thing will I withhold from him.
I I I hold on to this. I hold on to this. I always expect good to follow me. Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. It's a promise. I expect goodness to follow me. I expect to be favored. All these plans I'm making, how do I even know to succeed? How do I know to succeed? Proverbs 16 verse three, commit your actions, n l t, to the Lord.
Commit your plans to the Lord, and your plans will succeed. So if I've planned it, it has to succeed. Yes, sir. Sir. Because I didn't plan alone. God was with me. As I'm planning, how will I increase my revenue to 7 figures by the month of June? How will I increase my revenue to 8 figures? How will I give my first 10 figures? How will I give my first 9 figures?
God is watching. God is watching. For I know the thoughts I have towards you, thoughts of good and not of evil to give you a future and unexpected end. They say, ah, sir, sir, sir, in this office, people are people are guarding against me, oh, they are planning against me, oh, they have written petition, they have done that one, they have done this one, come on now. Come on now. Deuteronomy 20 and verse four, NLT, The bible says, for the Lord your God is going with you. He will fight for you against your enemies. He will give you victory. It means anywhere I step into, there's a promise I'm holding on to. That Lord my God is going with me.
I'm not alone. I'm not alone. The Lord my God is going with me. These are promises. Joshua one verse five, NLT. No one would be able to stand against you as long as you live. No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. For I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not fail you. I will not abandon...
I believe it. I believe it. It will not fail me. It will not abandon me. It will not fail me. It will not abandon me. These are the promises I have believed. I'm showing you an example of what I believe. This is how my echive look like. This is how my spirit looks like.
This is my consciousness. This is what I carry everywhere. Everywhere. Apostle, how are you that you you are always at peace regardless of what is happening around you? John 14 verse 27, I'm leaving you with a gift, peace of mind and heart. The peace I give is the gift the world cannot give. So don't be troubled. Don't be afraid. I hold on to this, that I have a gift of peace of mind. I have a gift of peace of heart.
There is nothing that will ever happen that will trouble me. Nothing. Those around me know this. Those who are close to me know this. There is no event in my life that troubles me. No event. Psalm 32 verse eight, NLT. I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.
This is why I know I can never be confused. I am always directed. I don't... You can't hear me say I don't hear God. I don't say such nonsense. Even the thoughts of my mind is God speaking to me. Because he said I will advise you. Will watch over you. So every time I'm sitting down to think and I'm praying, he's advising me. He's watching over me.
So if I'm meant to take a step and that step will lead to destruction, I will know Because it's watching over me. There will be resistance in my spirit. Don't move again. Stop. Stop. It's watching over me. Then the one I like the most, Genesis chapter 12 and verse two, I will make you a great nation. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and I will make you famous. Is God who said it though?
Yes, sir. It's God who said it. That a man can be a nation and not just a nation, a great nation at that. A great nation at that. A great nation at that. 17 verse six, NNKJV, I will make you exceedingly fruitful. I will make nations out of you. Kings shall come out of you. So every time I come here, I am conscious that I'm talking to kings. Why?
Because God has told me kings will come out of me. I look at someone and I tell them, you don't... You you don't... The only advantage you need is that you met me. You cannot know me and not be great. How... What is... What makes a man speak like that? Kings shall come out of you. That's my guarantee oh.
I don't have any special power. It's that God has told me, kings shall come out of you. And I believe it. I believe it and so I speak like it. I talk like it. I dress like it. I look like it. I pray like it. I declare like it. I decree like it.
I prophesy like it. And you're about to do the same thing now. How do ordinary men command influence across nations? How do ordinary men rise to such a point where they become the envy of nations? How do ordinary people cultivate a mindset of innovation and creativity that leads to groundbreaking discoveries, inventions, innovations? How do men rise from humble beginnings to become influential figures in global politics and diplomacy? What strategies do men employ to build multibillion dollar enterprises that reshape industries and economies? How do ordinary men cultivate networks of power and influence that extend beyond national borders shaping international relations? How do men rise to nothing and become great? Promises.
God has said. God has said. He has said it in his word. He has shown me in a vision. He has spoken it to my heart. I have a witness in my spirit. God has said. Are you ready to pray with what God has said? You are still not responding like people that are ready. There are two things that will happen as we begin to pray.
Because we are gonna pray now. Two things will happen. In Jeremiah chapter one, God came to Jeremiah and told Jeremiah that he's a prophet, a prophet to the nations. And Jeremiah started saying, Lord, for I am a child. And God rebuked him immediately and said, who told you that you're a child? And God started giving him promises, promises, promises, promises. I have put my I have put my words in your mouth. And as you speak that words forth, verse 11, that word, I've set thee above the nations over the kingdoms to root out, to pull down. You see, that's the promise. I have set thee above the nations.
And as you begin to speak, you will begin to root out. You will begin to pull down. You will begin to destroy. You will begin to throw down. You will begin to build. You will begin to plant. These are the promises. God is telling the man, I've made you a prophet and I've set you over nations. And when he was done speaking, God now asked that man a very important question. What seest thou?
Do you see this thing I have promised you or do you still see a child? It is interesting to know that God was asking him what do you see after God had promised him. Not before. Because the promises paint the pictures. Yes, sir. Yes. The promises is what paint the pictures. So if the promise is that I will make you a great nation, it's your responsibility to begin to see the pictures. Where do you see the pictures? In prayers.
That is why we pray in tongues. As we begin to pray, we begin to see pictures. This is what I like to call pictures of greatness. Victures of greatness. Pictures of greatness. And the moment a man begins to see pictures of greatness, what happens? Next verse. Then said the Lord, because you have seen well, I will hasten my word to perform it. In other words, you delay when you don't see. Because you have seen well, I will extend my word to perform it.
So as you begin to pray, negative pictures that the devil has put in your mind will begin to crack away. I'm telling you what is happening. And new pictures will will start being infused into your mind as we begin to pray. The second thing that will happen is that power will now be infused into the promise. What do I mean? The angel appeared unto Mary and gave Mary a promise. He said thou art highly favored amongst women. You'll be pregnant with a child. You shall call the name of that child so and so for it shall be the savior of the world. That's a promise.
Mary now asked a very important question. How shall these things be? The angel answered. He says the holy ghost the holy ghost the holy ghost shall come upon you. The power of the highest shall overshadow you. It means there is power that must be introduced into your life that brings promises to pass. Power. That's what happens. That's the second thing that happens when we pray. That was why when I wanted to title my teaching, what I wanted to give it was the promise, the pictures, the power.
The promise paints the picture. The power brings them into realities. Are you ready to pray? Hold someone's hand who can pray. I told you every meeting will be praying. Someone's hand, look and pray. Someone's hand, look and pray. Are you ready to pray? If you're ready to pray. You are still rehearsing.
You are still rehearsing. You are still rehearsing. You are apostolic praying. Ruin the holy ghost right now. As you pray, see the pictures. As you pray, see the pictures. Come on, pray. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed. You have rehearsed well.
You have rehearsed very well. Now are you ready to pray? Leave the person you are holding. Hold somebody else. Hold somebody else who can pray. Hear me? Hear me? In one minute, you will pray in tongues with all intensity loud and fast. Hear me? After one minute, you will begin to declare the promises God has told you.
Hear me? The tongues that you are praying in is like you are holding a bow. And you are drawing the bow backwards. That's why I want you to pray with intensity. You are drawing the bow backwards. The moment you feel as though you have gathered enough momentum. Begin to declare works. Release harrows. Declare words. Rewind the holy ghost.
Rewind the holy ghost. One minute. One minute. One minute. Start declaring. Start declaring. Start declaring. Start declaring. Start declaring. Declaring.
Shoot the arrows. What has God told you? What has God told you? What did God tell you? What has God told you? Has God told you? Declare. Declare. Declare. Declare.
Declare. Prophesy. What has God told you? Prophesy. I need ushers everywhere. I see the power of God everywhere. I see the power of God everywhere. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. In Jesus name we have prayed. At the count of three.
Shout Jesus loud and clear. Shout Jesus loud and clear. Upstairs on the gallery, downstairs watching online. At the count of three, shout Jesus loud and clear. The holy ghost will come upon you. And the power of the highest will overhallow you. I'm seeing power to turn promises into experience. Power to turn prophecies into experience. Power to bring manifestation. Power to bring fulfillment.
That is what I'm saying. Coming upon people now. At the count of three, shout Jesus. Loud and clear. One. Everyone at the gallery, I'm seeing five persons. Five persons that the power to prosper is about to rest upon. There are five persons on that gallery. Everyone at the gallery at the count of three, shout Jesus loud and clear. One, Promises are becoming experience.
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Promises are becoming experience. In the name of Jesus. Go and prosper. Jesus. Go and prosper. In the name of Jesus. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the disciples christian network and get more from apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at officialdisciplescn. You can follow us on Facebook at disciples christian network.
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