Transcript: The Promises of God
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The experience is a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network, where men encounter God, His presence and His power in an atmosphere of worship and the word. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he leads us into an experience with God. Second Peter chapter one from verse three to verse four. As his divine power. Let's start from verse two. Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. As his divine divine power has given to us all things that pertains to life and godliness. You know, I was thinking about the fact that this month makes it seven years. That the disciples Christian network has been inspired and breathed by the holy ghost. Seven years.
Amen. And in that meditation, in that thinking, The holy spirit has inspired it within my spirit that in as much as we are going to be thanking God and celebrating but that this month, the month of July should be a solemn month for the Disciples Christian Network. A solemn month for the Disciples Christian Network. Should be a time of retreat. And a time of prayers. A time to once again look back at the prophecies we have received and the promises that God has spoken over this ministry and over our lives, over these people. And to once again wait on God even as we thank him for what he has done. But that in the place of waiting in prayers, we begin to frame and fashion the next seven years again. So that seven years from now, in this gathering when we gather, it would truly be more than a thousand times more than what we have seen. Because when God was speaking to me about the significance of this seven years.
Lord said, a season is coming to a close. A season is coming to a close. I was reminded of a prophecy that God gave through a man of God who we had invited for a conference in Abadina, when we were in Abadina. Some people might remember, if you are careful to remember, the man of God was preaching, whilst he was preaching, he turned on me and he said, apostle, when this ministry becomes seven, seven, and he mentioned the number seven, there is something that God will begin to do in and through this ministry. And I've been thinking about that a lot Because the curtain is being drawn. Almost like you are coming to the end of a drama. And the curtains begin to close. In preparation for the beginning of a new sin. In the same heart but a new sin. And the Lord is telling me that what we'll begin to see is a new sin.
Right. It is nothing like we have ever experienced. It is nothing like we have ever seen. It doesn't matter what we have seen. It doesn't matter what type of result we have seen, what type of result we had experienced. It doesn't matter what testimonies people have given. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter for what we would now begin to see. There are the things that eyes has not yet seen. There are the things that ears have not yet heard.
There are the things that have not been conceived in the heart of men. These are the things that God will begin to do. Numbers wise, this ministry will expand and explode beyond our ability to comprehend what God is doing. But more than that, more than that, would be what God will be doing in the lives of people as individuals. That is really... Oh my. That is really what I'm seeing. There is a deposit of grace and a deposit of the anointing for this new season that is separate from what we have experienced, separate from what we have seen. And that deposit of grace and anointing will begin to do in the lives of men. Everything that God has promised, everything that God has prophesied by the mouth of his prophet and even by his scriptures, by all mouths.
And would begin to see in speedy succession these things that God has said that he will do. We'll begin to see it in speedy succession such that things that we have believed for, we now... Things that we have believed for, things that we have prayed for, things that we have fasted for, that we have labored for, we now begin to happen in their own accord when as yet we have not done anything more. It's not as though we have prayed more. It's not as though we have fasted more. It's not as though we have labored more. It is just that it is time. And the Lord said, it is time for the fulfillment of the words that I've spoken unto you. It is time for the fulfillment of the prophecies that I've spoken unto you. And so when he said that kings will come out of our anoints, the Lord said it is time.
When he said that a little one shall become a thousand and a small one shall become a great nation. The Lord said it is time. When he said that thou shall increase my greatness and comfort me on every side, the Lord said it is time. When he said that there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard, Lord said it is time. When he said that the man waxed great and he waxed so great and he continued to prosper until he became very prosperous that the Philistines envied him. The Lord said it is time. And you would see that time and chance will begin to collapse. There will be such there will be such divine coincidences. Such divine coincidences that the labor of seven years is for this time. It's for this time.
There's a season that this ministry is entering into that can only be defined by mighty works, that can only be defined by God. Because it's almost as though God will remove our labor, and then will show people that he's the one in the picture. The Lord said, all that you have seen, all that you have done, all that you have experienced before the inception up until now is by your strength. Lord said, sit down whilst you watch me hacked. Sit down whilst you watch me move. Sit down whilst you watch me begin to move. Lord said he's doing a new thing. In the disciples Christian network and in the lives of everybody who connects to this ministry, in the life of everybody who follows diligently, the Lord said he's doing a new thing. It's not because you are special, it's just because time and chance is collapsing. Time and chance is collapsing.
Time to mean the season has arrived. Chance to mean opportunities will now start opening themselves up to you. It means what you have done and done and done, and doors have not opened because the opportunities have not presented themselves. Now you are doing the same thing, but the opportunity is now here. It means as you are doing the same thing you have been doing, somebody will now notice that same thing. As you are doing the same thing that you have been doing, it now begin to speak words and speak languages in in multi places. Lord said it is that season. It is that time. It is that season. It is that time.
So you see, it's beyond the celebration what the Lord is doing. The Lord said you've seen nothing. In as much as we thank God, let's not thank God only for what he has done. Let's thank God for what he's doing and for what he's about to begin to do. Let's thank God for the future that he's taking us into. Let's thank God for where we are going. Let's thank God by the eyes of the spirit. It takes the eyes of the spirit to see. It takes the eyes of the spirit to see. It takes the eyes of the spirit to see.
So don't be amazed that when we come to church on Sundays, on Tuesdays, we will spend ample time praying and waiting on God. Ample time praying and waiting on God. If this offends you, then you're not supposed to be here. This month is for our people. This month is for the Disciples Christian Network. It's for those that will wait on God with us, those that will pray with us, those that will fast with us, those that will retreat with us in preparation for what God is about to do. I announce to you, brothers and sisters, that his season has closed. It's not even that his season is closing anymore. It's that his season has closed. Are you with me brothers and sisters?
That's why the scripture is important. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you in knowledge of God and of our Lord Jesus. Next verse then says, as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue. Next verse, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises. Let's start verse two from NLT because I want you to understand what we are reading here. May God give you more and more grace and peace as you grow in your knowledge of God and Jesus our note. Next verse, by his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. Now look at the next verse. And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises.
These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the this... The world's corruption caused by human desires. Go back to NKJV. He has given us great and precious promises. That through these promises, we may become partakers of his divine nature. Through these promises, it becomes a time to meditate on what we have been given. It becomes a time to meditate on the promises that he has given to us. Are you with me? How the blessings of God become accessible is through the promises of God. And he says, it is through this exceedingly great and precious promises that we also become partakers of the divine nature.
The partakers of the divine nature. Now when God wants us to partake of his divine nature, what it does is that it gives us promises. And you see, the promises of God are a reflection or a representation of his commitment towards his people. The promises of God are heaven's declarations concerning what God has chosen to do. Who he has chosen to be and what he has made available to everybody that belongs to Christ. Every promise that God gives reveals something about God's character. Every promise unveils an aspect of his covenant towards his children. So a promise is not just something that that God uses to encourage people. In the same way that we have bastardized promises. Because when we hear promises, we understand promise from a human premise.
And because we understand promise from a human standpoint, we misunderstand when God uses the same word promise. And we try to reduce the value of this sacred thing and the spiritual significance of this sacred thing because we don't understand it. Because in human premise, a promise can simply be something you use to encourage someone, something you use to keep someone's hopes high so that they don't feel discouraged. Is that much so? But when you are dealing with God, you have to understand that a promise is way deeper than this. A promise is way more than this. When you are dealing with God, a promise is basically how he deals with his children. It reflects the commitment that he has towards his people. Because you see, the word of God upholds the earth. The bible says he upholds the world by his word.
So the word of God is what upholds the head. In the day that God breaks his word, a lot of things will go wrong because everything is upheld by the word of God. So when God gives a man a promise, he's taking himself on that promise. It is a reflection of his commitment to the man that he has promised. Do you understand what I'm saying? And the bible even makes it deeper in that when God wants to share with a man his divine nature, when God wants a man to partake of his nature, when God wants a man to partake of his possibilities, of the realities that are in the divine, realities exclusive to the divine. When God wants to bring a man into that realm, the bible says how God does it is that he gives that man exceedingly great and precious promises. Not just promise as in one, as in singular, but promise exceedingly great and precious promises. It means you can understand the commitment of God towards your life and destiny with respect to the promises he has given to you. And when God gives you a promise, he's inviting you to partake of his nature.
He said there is something inside of me that I want to invite you to. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So understanding this makes the promises of God shape your thinking, shape your expectations, shape your decisions, shape your character, and eventually shape your experiences. Every promise carries within that promise the very life of God that spoke it. And when faith mixes with the promise, when faith embraces the promise, something of God's own nature begins to find expression within the believer. So Paul says, don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds. Transformation does not happen accidentally. It happens as the promises of God begins to reshape how we think until our lives begin to align with heaven's reality. The promises of God don't exist just to comfort us.
Even though they provide comfort. But they are much more than comforting words. The promises of God are covenant realities. They are what defines the expectations of the believer. Or let me say, what should define the expectations of the believer? The promises of God. So it's not that someone is going through something and come and tell them, know, all will be well. You know, the bible says that though your beginning might be small, your later end will greatly increase. So don't worry, all will be well. And then we use these scriptures to comfort people.
It is more than comforting words even though it brings comfort. The promises of God are the means through which his intention towards your life are manifested in time. His intention towards your life. Glory to God. Glory. Thank you, Lord. The promises of God revealed the extent of his commitment towards his children. Now whether you presently walk in the reality of those promises is another matter altogether. Experience does not determine God's commitment. The word of God determines God's commitment.
A believer may not yet be enjoying every covenant blessing, but that does not change the fact that the promise already exists. Faith does not create God's promises. Faith simply lays hold of what God has already declared. So if I were to define a promise, I would say that a promise is a divine declaration or an assurance that God will perform a particular thing or bring about a particular reality according to his word. And the confidence that we have in any promise is dependent on the character of the one making the promise. When men make promises, we have the right to question whether they have integrity, whether they have ability, whether they have consistency to fulfill them. Because human promises are limited. Human promises are limited by changing circumstances. Human promises are limited by limited resources or the availability of resources. Even by imperfect character because men by their nature are frail.
I'm so imperfect. A man can give a promise to you and sincerely wants to do what he has said, sincerely wants to bring to pass what he has promised you, but he's just incapable of doing at the moment because he has the intention to do it, but he does not have the ability to do it. So the man can mean well, but the ability to fulfill the promise is a different thing altogether. Somebody can tell you for instance, that I will give you this amount of money. Your expectation should not be on the person who told you. Because you have to understand a thing about human beings. We are frail. And many circumstances impact the things that we say. Somebody can tell you that when you are done with school, they will give you a job. But do you understand how many things that that promise is resting on?
How many events must be in place to ensure that what they have promised you they can fulfill. Because they can tell you for instance that I will give you a job, but that would depend on themselves having a job. So what they are promising you is based on an expectation that by the time you are finishing school, I will still have a job. I will still be working in this place. And with respect to this position that I have, all I'm waiting for is that you are done with school. The moment you are done, I can use my influence that I currently have based on the position that I currently occupy to recommend you to those who are in power. Is that not so? But that promise is hinged on several things that are apart from the man. It means the man's intention might remain, but the circumstances might change. Events might transpire that makes him unable to fulfill the promise that he has given to you because he's a man.
He does not warrant anger. He's only a man. He might lose the job. He might have a court case. His wife can be sick. And all the money he wanted to spend to send you abroad, he spends everything on the wife who is sick. So that by the time you come to him, you you look at you and say, I really wanted to. But something came up. And he cannot begin to explain to you what came up. And then you would look at this inability as meaning wickedness.
What you promised me, but he's a man. It is within a man to be frail. And understanding this about men will make you lower your expectation with what... With respect to what men tell you, especially at the confines destiny. Men have told me a lot of things. Men have promised me a lot of things. Men have given to me promises. Many of which they could not fulfill. And I wasn't angry at them just because they couldn't fulfill the promises that they gave because they are men. So when someone gives a promise, you need to consider the character of the person who is promising, the consistency of the person who is promising, and the ability of the person that is promising.
Why is it important that I remind you of these things? Because there are many times such as now in the life of some of us like myself, that the only thing we can stick our lives on is the promises that God has given to us. I'd always tell people that there is no guarantee. There's no guarantee that anything will change. When you consider statistics, you'll realize that you are better understand what I'm teaching you. When you consider statistics, when you consider patterns, when you consider what befalls people, when you consider the reality of the world that we live in, this falling world we live in. Many people who are students, who are lost in the current emotion of being a student, and the excitement of having freedom to do whatever it is you want to do. I've not really sat down to think. You are not a deep thinker. Because if you are a deep thinker and you sit down to think, all you need to do is go and study how many people get admission to school every year across Nigeria and perhaps across your institution.
What is the pathetic of those people that don't as well? And you would find that it is so small. You would find that 80% of those who are happy that they entered into schools will have only their entry into school to celebrate. Because getting a degree does not guarantee anything. There used to be a time when that that that was a guarantee. There used to be a time when if you had some kind of degree, some kind of BSc, some kind of... The paper that you're holding guarantees you something. There used to be a time when you look at the foreign world and how messed up the world you live in is right now. I was speaking to a young man yesterday, and he told me, he said, it's as though the nation we live in restricts progress. And I told him, explain what you're saying.
He said, every time he tries to apply for opportunities, he realizes that Nigeria just doesn't have the infrastructure that makes these opportunities easy to apply for compared to his counterparts in other parts of the world. And it's not lying. It is true. But what then becomes the guarantee? That anything good can come out of my life regardless. Because if I don't have any kind of advantage in my life, naturally speaking. That me at... Oh God. That places me at a pedestal where I can begin to make progress faster, then it would mean that there is some kind of disadvantage that I might have compared to others who might have had these kinds of advantages. And I'm talking about how a man grows, the background that a man has, even the kind of school a man goes to.
Do you know that we might talk about connections and the importance of relationships with respect to success, with respect to wealth and prosperity. But someone can literally grow up in a background where he does not need to struggle. In fact, he doesn't even need to learn that principle. The very fact that he's the son of his father already means every connection that he would ever need, he already has. The fact that he went to a type of school, a type of school, a type of university would mean that the kind of people you would need to push any kind of idea that you would have is already there. I was in a church and I was teaching them. And I called some people out. Maybe I'll do it here too. Glory to God. Glory.
And I called some people out. And I asked them a question. Let me ask you. If you would not be embarrassed, will you be embarrassed? I asked them a question. I said, why is it only ladies that are here? Let... Just everybody here, just come. Let... Let's do it here.
Whilst I'm doing it, I want you to also be... Come off this pulpit and form a straight line. Whilst I'm doing it here, I want us to also picture this in your mind. Is that okay? Can I have some guys join them? Just some men join them. Randomly, just like five. We are normally okay. Move to the back. Move to the back.
Back. Back there. And spread out. Don't cluster together. Spread out. Spread out. Manage... Make use of the space very well. Be on a straight line. Let it be on...
Let it be straight. Ensure that it is straight. Ensure that it is straight. I want you to watch this very carefully. And imagine that you are here with them. Is that okay? Just put yourself here in your head. Alright. So the first question I would ask is this. If the answer to your question...
And I want you to try as much as possible to be sincere. Move forward a bit. Move forward a bit. Move forward a bit. It's okay. Like a straight line, my sister. I want you to try as much as possible to be sincere. Is that okay? Is there anybody that is shy amongst all of you so that we can quickly have you sit down back? If in your family right now, you have a business idea, be sincere as much as possible.
You have a business idea and there is someone in your family, anybody, uncle, auntie, father, mother, anybody that you can ask to give you a million naira as capital for your business, take a step forward. Anyone in your family, take a step forward. Are you taking a step forward? Let it be very obvious. Glory to God. If there's anyone right now and there is anyone within that same within your family who you know to be a millionaire whose business makes a turnover of millions. And so because of that person in your family, you've at least tasted what it means to be wealthy, what it means to be rich, you saw how a rich person lives. Take a step forward. Glory to God. If...
Watch this. Does anyone of you that your father and your mother are not together? Take a step backwards. Glory to God. If there's anyone of you, that means father is not together with mother, blah blah blah, for whatever reason at all. If there's anyone of you that went to What should I say now? What should I, what should I phrase this? Okay, there's been one of you that based on the relationship you have with your parents, your or any kind of relationship at all. You've had the privilege of exposure to be on a plane, travel either within the state or out of the country, take a step forward. Alright.
Now, this is everybody here. They all started on the same line. Is that not so? And as we began to give them life circumstances, life circumstances, the circumstances of life started to separate them. Are you with me? Yes, sir. I'm I'm stopping here. There are more that I could give. I'm stopping here. Circumstances of life started to separate them.
Because... And I told people to take a step backward because the same way some people have advantages is how others actually have disadvantages. Because if you grew up in an atmosphere of love between father and mother, you knew you saw what it means to actually come from a loving family. It is an advantage. Is anyone of you here that your father or your mother is currently a Muslim? Take a step backward or a traditional worshipper, whatever. Take a step backward. Glory to God. That's his advantage too. If there's anyone of you here that you are aware that the situation of your family with respect to finances or should I say your family are is at the pedestal at the moment financially where you know, not assumption, that two or three generations, that is your fathers, brothers, your fathers, your sisters, your mothers, siblings, your fathers, siblings, and those that came before them, and you know because you have seen their lives are not different from your family.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Is my English clear to you? That means wherever the financial pedestal is, every other person within the family is either at the same level or worse. Take a step backwards. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory Glory to God. If there's anyone of you, either by favor or by labor, have touched a million before. Take one step forward. That is your owner.
Glory to God. Now we tell these people, all of them, based on all the advantages they've given and the advantages they've given, we tell them, on your mark, set go, and we say they should run. They risk God life. Do you think that they will all arrive at the same time? Do you agree with me that the person who is ahead the most has a lot more natural advantage than the person who is behind the most? Do you understand what I'm saying? And it just so happens that that's just how life is. I don't want to give up personal circumstances because I know a family that the mother would always tell the daughters. I didn't believe it. So the girl had to do a voice recording of when that episode happened so that she could send it to me for evidence.
Whenever anything happens, maybe they did not wash plates well or did not, anything, the mother will begin to rain curses on her children. I'm not talking about your stupider or your foolish you. I'm talking about you will not marry well. You will not live long. As long as I'm alive, you won't know peace. That's what the mother will be telling her children. And I'm not joking. A daughter of mine. I would say no. Nobody can speak to their...
She... They get it recorded. Put the put the phone on record and it to me. And I was hearing the same things. If it is my breast that you sucked, you will not know peace. If it is my kidney con that you did, you will not dissent that. Where do we place that one here now? Where those that should bless you are the ones cursing you. Imagine that one of these people is a pastor. Imagine, let's enter the realm of imagination that she's called by God to be a pastor.
Well, let's use men. He's called by God to be a pastor. And he's called by God to be a pastor. Both of them are called by God to be pastors. Didn't call you. You would notice I did not call you. I'm sure you were listening to some strange voices. I were telling you to do like this. Do like... I'm sure.
I'm sure. It's how the devil works. Now this young man who is called to be a pastor, his father is a pastor. His father's church has 10,000 members. 10,000 members and God has called him, you will be a voice to your generation. He too is a pastor, and God has called him, you will be a voice to generation. His father is in Babalawu. God has called Otob. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.
Do you agree with me that there is some natural advantage that he has? That even if he says, I want to gather youths in my church. Do you agree with me that the youth is gathering in his church? This one might not have gathered in ten years of ministry. That means if this guy thinks of his life in the same way that this guy thinks of his life, this guy is defeated already. Imagine that as a father is traveling to conferences, the father takes him along and says, this is my son, powerful man of God. And before his father comes to come and speak, his father will say, go and lead us in prayers. And then he preaches the son. And then the son will come up and now take the microphone. And when it's done...
This is just between Friday and Sunday. When it's done, he come back on Monday to the same class. This one is in school. And both of them are saying, we are called to the world. Question becomes, what is the guarantee that he will have? That's my point. When he stands before somebody like this, what... And they are talking. It makes more sense if he is talking and saying I'm going to the nations. If he's saying it, how does he not feel as though he's stupid?
How does not feel as though I'm I'm talking foolishness? Especially when he looks at the backlog of the advantages that he has, because it would mean that life wise, he'll probably be somewhere here. And now I tell both of them, start. On your mark, set, go. What is the guarantee? Imagine if God has called this young lady to be a financial... A kingdom financier, and God has said, you will be one influential woman with NGOs and a franchise of businesses sitting on the board of committee of several companies as chairman, and with an investment portfolio in billions of dollars. And now this is where she is. And she's competing with this woman who is here. Do you understand what I'm saying?
You know, the funny thing is that you would think that just because she's there would mean that automatically she will realize that, Kai, I'm at a standpoint of disadvantage. I need to take my life more seriously. You'll be deceived because I found out that people that are there are the most foolish. I found out. You will think that just because you realize that there is disadvantages, will now take your life seriously. You will now... I have found out. I have found out that just because of natural advantages that this one have, she can still now have more sense than her despite already having natural advantages. God will not say because you are already natural advantage. Let's hold on.
Let's leave those ones first. The way it works in the realm of the spirit is if you are still one operating the principle, your natural advantage will keep you at the pedestal where the principles you are operating on will now make you rise faster. Despite your... Do you understand what I'm saying? We now make you rise faster. Guess what? I found myself amongst those at the back. When God told us that our voice will reach the nations, we had no connection. We knew nobody. I'm not even so charismatic.
I'm not how do I put it now? I'm not someone you would put in the midst of people he's meeting for the first time and I will now be the jumpy one. I'm reserved. Sometimes I'm terribly shy. So the kind of personality I have does not even allow me to meet somebody or go and be lobbying my way around men of God and say, I take a picture with you and post and say I know this person? God did not train me like that. He didn't make me like that. Even if it were connection wise, how many people do you know? Okay. You have a youth ministry.
Can't you bring music ministers? There are some people that young men want to see. If you put them on your flyers like this, they will come. Fast way to grow the church. Oh, even if I wanted to do it. So I'm at the place where it's not just possible, even if he wanted to. So what then becomes a guarantee? What becomes a guarantee? What becomes what you stick your life on? What become what makes you so sure?
That it does not matter where I am in this journey. What matters is how I ended. Because that young lady who is at the back must now find in scriptures one day, though your beginning might be small. She must find it in scriptures one day, though your beginning might be small. It must strike her as light. It's not... It it it mustn't just be something that she has seen because that is what is called a promise. Oh, It's a promise. He says, in the day that he sees the promise, something is happening. What is happening is, God is saying, look at your life as it is right now.
I want to invite you into a reality that is beyond your current expression. It is called the divine nature. That how your life looks like at the moment does not resemble divinity. There is prosperity in divinity. There is influence in divinity. There is boldness and confidence in divinity. There is wealth and abundance in divinity. So even though I might start from the backside of the wilderness, even though I might know nobody, even though I might have no earthly connections, even though I might have no natural advantage whatsoever, I might have even gone to a primary school that was... That had no chair, that had no blackboard, that had no chalkboard, nothing. My brain might have no means to have taken me to school.
I might have worked as a fuel attendant in a filling station to try and put money together for my work. Then I might have hawked pure water. I might have hawked different things just because I wanted to go to school, just because I want to educate myself. I know one of my guys who is standing here funny enough, who had to do all of these jobs to pay school fees, to pay school fees. Because there is nobody he could reach to say, my school fees, you have someone. He has nobody. So he either goes to school or he doesn't accept his faith and says, woah. Do you understand what I'm saying? Such a person, when they collide with the promises of God or should I say when God wants to change their lives, God invites them. He says, see, there is a nature beyond what you are currently seeing.
There's a life beyond what you are currently seeing. You can participate of this life. You can fellowship with this life. And if you come to the other side where this life is, you will realize it does not matter where you begin from. It does not matter what advantages you had or did not have. It does not matter who your father is or your father is not. It does not matter who your mother is or who your mother is not. It doesn't matter where you began from. It doesn't matter what opportunities are opened up to you by a reason of your natural birthing. If a man wants to change his life or if God want to change a man's life, what he does is to open to that man exceedingly great and precious promises.
And when that man begins to... It's not information. It doesn't change your life as information. Because it's not a man that is promising you. Men can fail. You can be anywhere in this second, a man will tell you, you know what, I will give you a car and disappoint you. But when God says it, it's an invitation. God is saying, I'm making a commitment to your life that you will not end here. So when that young lady says, though your beginning may be small, your later end would greatly increase. What God has hoped up to her is not just an invitation to partake, it's also a reflection of his commitment over her life.
God is saying, listen, I have committed myself to you. I have committed myself to you. You see an example of this when God was speaking to Jacob. Right, after God had given him all those promises, then God now says something striking. After God has given him all those promises, I will give this land to your descendants, I will do this, I will do that, then God now says, I will not leave you alone. That's a reflection of the commitment that God has when he gives a man his promise. Do you understand what I'm saying? Genesis 28 verse 13. Yes. You see that?
The land on which I lie, I will give you an independence. 14. Your defendant shall be like dust of the earth. You shall spread abroad to the West and to the East, to the North, the South, and in you and in your city. Look at all the promises that God has given. Next verse. Watch this. I am with you. I will keep you. I will bring you back.
I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you. That is reflection of the commitment of God. That's what the promises of God means to a man. God is telling a man, see, I have this day committed myself to you. I will not leave you until this thing I have said, finds expression, until this thing I have said comes to pass. Until this thing I have said comes to pass, I will not leave you. And if a man hangs his life and destiny on that wall, because you would need to study who is saying he will not leave you. Who is this God that is saying I will not leave you? That understanding makes you relate everything that he says to you with his divinity. That when he looks at you and he says, listen.
Listen. Listen. Listen. Psalm 19 verse four. Their line has gone out through all the earth. Give me verse three. Let's start from verse three. Watch this. Is it three or four? There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
Look at verse four. This is where I'm going. Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. And God is telling you, this is exactly how your line will go out through the hands of the earth. This is exactly how your words will go to the ends of the earth. And then you see you, God has set a tabernacle for the sun. It means men in all their glories will tabernacle in you. And then you see this thing, God is telling you, I've committed myself to make these things happen in your life. From that time henceforth, it becomes a crime for a man who has received such a promise to still define his life by his background, To still define his life by his advantages or his natural disadvantages. It means when this young lady receives such a promise, his hope of lifting is no longer in what his father has or what his mother has.
That's what I mean by she can have sense even more than this one. That's what some of us have received. And that is how we know that what he has said to the disciples Christian network, even within this month, even within this month. Even as this season comes to a close, that is how we know. That not the jolt of that word will return to him void. That's how we know. That's where our hope rests on. That's what is treasure to us. So when he says your sons and daughters will come from afar. We are not thinking about what connections we have.
What money we have. He says they will come. He will bring them. They will come. He says when they come, they will come with silver and gold. They will come with the riches of Midian. Says they will come. He says Gentiles will come to your light. Kings to the brightness of your rising. He says blessed will you be in your going out.
Blessed will you be in your coming in. No longer will you be called forsaken. You'll be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord shall name. You'll be called Bula. You'll be called Hephzibah, The delight of the Lord. Sort out ones. He say whoever blesses you, I will bless. Whoever curses you, I will curse. I will make you a great nation. I will bless those who bless you.
I will increase you on all sides and bring you rest round about. That a little one shall become a thousand. A small one, a great nation. Then shall they say, surely this is the this is the work of our Lord. It is marvelous in our sight. And when he speaks like this, that I will keep you as a covenant. I will give you as a covenant to my people. To open blind eyes. To deliver the oppressed. As a light to the Gentiles.
How you define yourself from that day henceforth changes because the monarch of Zion has committed himself to you. The monarch of Zion says, I will not leave you until I have done these things. It means does not matter what circumstances might befall a man. The fact of the matter is that the monarch of Zion has said, I will not leave you until I have done these things. I will not leave you. Do you know that half time Jacob had this revelation? He still went to Laban's house from here and suffered like a fool for more than twenty three years. Yet in that experience, God was saying, will not leave you. I will not leave you. I will not leave you.
He was working for another man. Whereas, God told him, this land I will give to your descendants, to your seed and to their seed. That's what God told him. He went to a place and became a slave. And he worked as a slave for twenty three years. And the God who told him I will not leave you was still there. And when time and chance collapsed, that God came. And an angel appeared unto him. And said, come on now. Come on now.
This is not what you should be doing. Oh, yeah. Take the ship, the striped ship, and the checked ship and begin... That's the God who told him, I will not leave you. I will not leave you until I have done these words that I have spoken. It means that God can come and give a man an idea and say, take a sheep. And that idea will bring him from the miry clay where he is. Right to the mountain top where everyone who did not know who he was when he was behind seven would look and say, where did this one come from? Where did this one come from? But when God was giving the promise, they were not there.
Were not there. God did was to tell a man, I will not leave you. I can stake my life on that word. I can stake my life on that word. Because that's the only guarantee I have. So when I gather a people and tell them it will be great, see, I don't know anybody. There is no guarantee for that statement other than the fact that he has said it. That's the only guarantee. He said that we will be great. That's the guarantee.
He said, walk with me. Walk with me and I will take you to the hands of the earth. He said, kings will come from your loins. Kings, they will come from your loins. They will come from your loins. Every time I read scriptures, Isaiah 61, Isaiah 62, 63, even 42. I see reflections of the promises of God. Reflections of the promises of God. My responsibility and our responsibility as a church is to take those promises and keep on praying over them. Because the one who said they would do it.
It would have been okay if it's just that God has promised us. But the meaning of the promise itself means he's committed to us. That's powerful. I wish you understand what I'm saying. It's powerful. That means God is watching every step that the disciples' question is taking very, very, very carefully. God is watching it. God is watching it. Even when we make mistakes, God is watching it. Even when we make decisions that we thought was right in the moment, and then it turned out that it wasn't right after all.
God was watching it. And even our own foolish mistakes does not make God change his mind about the promise. Do you understand what I'm saying? It doesn't make God change his mind about the promise because what he has promised, he has promised. What he has promised, he has promised. He came to Abraham and he told Abraham, I will make you a great nation. Just the same chapter, Abraham was already lying up and down and calling Sarah his sister. He asked it was his wife. And God does not come to reprimand Abraham to say, I I just promised you something. I already lied.
What's your problem? God goes to threaten the king that wants to take his wife and say, are a dead man. You are dead. You are Britain, but you are dead. God has taken the wife of my servant, Abraham. And the prophet, the king started defending himself and say, I... No. No. I... No.
No. And it didn't matter. Because even in my old human frailty, what he has promised, he has promised. So what we'll spend this month doing is praying over what he has promised, Meditating on what he has promised. God, it is time for your manifestation. It is time for your manifestation. It is time for your manifestation. And when the manifestation begins, you look at the lives of those who you are experiencing strange results from all of a sudden, and they won't look like it. The reason why people don't look like the testimony is because they had no natural advantage to begin with. And God takes pleasure in such people.
That's why when things happen, people don't look like it. And the kind of testimonies we begin to hear will be things you'd wonder, and this one too. And this one too. This one too. Because God said it is time. And he's making up a thousand times more. You have walked through waters, you have walked through fire. You have made men to trample over our heads. But you have brought us to a wealthy place. The Lord is bringing us to a wealthy place.
And the Lord has said that he's giving disciples Christian network a place in the city. The gates of this city has opened up to us. And our consignment is being awarded. When it begins to happen, many people will start asking, how is it that you have found it so quickly? And we'll have an answer. We'll tell them because the Lord our God has brought it to us. Lord our God has brought it to us. If there is a single soul in this place who has received a promise from God. Can you remind him of his promise? In one minute.
Go and have your seat. Thank you very much. Can you remind him of his promise? Remind him of his promise. Tell him what he told you. Decree what he declared unto you. Prophesy what was prophesied unto you. Even as we close, let us pray. There is a way I pray when my spirit cries. Amen.
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