Transcript: The Urgency of Early Building - Understanding your Season
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The experience is a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network. Be a man 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. To everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose. Under heaven. The title of my charge to you this morning is what I have titled the urgency of early building. I feel understanding your season. The urgency of early building. Ivan, understanding your season. The scripture is revealing to you.
The governing law of time and seasons. That God himself has established over the earth time and seasons to govern the earth. And the wisest man in scripture is who is speaking here. And it is a very important and imperative that you listen to what he's saying according to the inspiration of the holy spirit. Because he's saying there is a time for every purpose under heaven. A time for every purpose under heaven. This shows you immediately that purpose is seasonal. Destiny does not unfold in vague spaces. It unfolds within time. Time is the container in which purpose is executed.
This is why the enemy does not only fight you with sin or with bondage or with curses and all of these things. He fights you with wasted time. Because he knows that if he can corrupt a man's sense of timing, he has already corrupted the man's destiny. It will amaze you. How many believers not have a sense of timing? Especially a sense of timing and purpose. How timing applies to purpose and how purpose manifests inside time. How purpose is executed inside of time. You see, God does not give you visions to fulfill someday or whenever or one day it will happen. That's not how God operates.
God doesn't give you a vision or a purpose or an assignment to fulfill eventually. He gives you visions to fulfill within the framework of your earthly years. And guess what? Those years are numbered. In Psalms 90 and verse 12, Moses is the one speaking in that Psalm. And he's praying under the inspiration of the holy spirit. And that prayer is revealing something to us. He says, so teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. That wisdom is just knowing what to do. Wisdom is knowing when to do it.
A man who does not know by his days, who does not understand that his life has a beginning. His life has a middle. His life has an end. And each season of its assignment will leave his entire life foolishly, doing the right things at the wrong time or doing nothing at all while time slips away. This is the tragedy of the modern day believer. The tragedy of the modern day believer is not that we lack dreams. It's not that we lack visions. It's not that we lack a purpose even. It is that many people know what to do with their lives. A lot of people have ideas they want to execute.
A lot of people have dreams and visions that God has shown to them. The problem is that we lack a sense of timing. We lack a sense of timing. No sense of urgency. Many of us have not realized that today's decisions determines tomorrow's outcomes. And that once the season passes, except by the mercy of God, it many times does not return. Except by the mercy of God. A sense of timing and purpose. It means that you live life with a conscious awareness of what season you are in and what that season demands of you. It means you understand that you are not on this earth to drift, to survive, to merely exist.
You are here on an assignment. The Bible says in Ephesians chapter two and verse 10, for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works. Watch this. Those good works, God prepared them beforehand that we should work in them. The works that you were created to do were prepared beforehand. That means that before you were born, God already mapped out your life. God already determined what you would build, who you would speak to, what you would accomplish, who you would impact, how your life would glorify him. But that's not all he did. He also determined when these things would happen. It didn't just determine what.
It determined the when. That in his wisdom, there is a time to be trained. A time to be tested, a time to step into your calling, A time to build your ministry. A time to raise up disciples. A time to establish wealth. A time to influence nations. And if you miss the time, you miss the purpose. This is what it means to have a sense of timing. That you are awake to the season that you are in. And you are responding to it with the right actions.
So a young man with a sense of timing does not waste his time. He does not waste his youth in entertainment because he knows that his youth is for building foundations. He knows. But for every purpose, there is a season. It means if you miss the season where certain things in your life were meant to be executed, purpose is at the verge of being abolished. And it will amaze you. And it is one of the most tragic realities in the body of Christ today. How many believers do not have a sense of timing and purpose? They live as though they have forever to live. They live as though their youth will never end.
They live as though opportunities will always be available. As though they will always be young and energetic. They wake up everyday with no plan. Wake up everyday with no vision, no sense of direction. They are saved. They've give, they've accepted life of God. They go to church. They can even quote some scriptures. But their lives are lived aimlessly. They don't know the God that they serve.
They don't even know why God has kept them alive. They don't know what they are building towards. They have no goals tied to what God has given them to do or their God given purpose. No disciplines that align with their calling. No sacrifices that prove that they are serious about their future. Nothing. They are like the foolish virgins. In Matthew chapter 25, from verse one to verse 13. Who had lamps but had no oil. They had the appearance of readiness.
But when the bridegroom came, they were unprepared. And the Bible says the door was shut against them. These are believers who will stand before God one day in judgement. And what they will hear is depart from me, for I know you not. Those who walk lawlessness. And it's not because they were unbelievers. It is because they lived lawlessly. They lived without order. They lived without alignment to his will. Without stewardship of the time that he gave them.
And the evidence of this lack of timing is everywhere. You look at the lives of many young believers today and you see no career progression, No skill development. No financial discipline. No ministry fruit. No depth in the word. No prayer life. No mentorship. No legacy in view. Nothing. Just years passing by with nothing to show for it.
And you see, the consequences of living without a sense of timing and purpose are devastating. They manifest in two dimensions. There is a temporal consequence in time, and there is the eternal consequence in judgment. The temporal consequence is that you would see believers who does not understand timing. They will live a life of frustration. They will live a life of regret. They will live a life of unfulfilled potential. Proverbs 13 verse 12 says, hope the fad maketh the heart sick. And when you reach forties and fifties and sixties, and you realize that the prophecy spoken over your life never came to pass. The vision God gave you was never built.
The gifts inside you were never developed. The world you were supposed to generate never materialized. Hope deferred, maketh the heart sick. All you had was an hope. Things will be better. But time passes without any action being done in time. As an investment into the spirit to guarantee that things will be better. And when you grow old, you would eventually realize that you are living in the torment of what could have been. You will watch others who started when you should have started. And they are now working in the fullness of what you are supposed to have.
That's the consequence in time. Eternally, the consequence is even more sobering. Because in first Corinthians chapter three, you will read from verse 13 down to verse 15. The Bible says, each one's work will become clear for the day will declare it because it will be revealed by fire, revealed by fire, and the fire will test each one's work of what sort it is. If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. Next verse. If anyone's work is burnt, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved. Yet so as through fire. Are you with me? This is the picture of the judgment seat of Christ.
Where every believer will give an account of what they did with their time. Every believer will give an account of what they did with their resources given to them, the talents given to them, the opportunities that God gave to them. And if you build nothing, if you wasted your life, the Bible says you will be saved but with no reward. That's what the Bible says. That it is possible to suffer loss in eternity. Yet you are saved. If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burnt, he will suffer loss, but he himself is saved. It is possible to enter into eternity as a power. You watch others reign with Christ receiving their own reward.
Whereas you stand ashamed, realizing that you threw away your chance to build something eternal. There are many people who will go to heaven and realize that the quality of their lives here was meant to determine the quality of their lives in eternity. Many people think that heaven is all about making heaven. We just go there and start dancing. That's not what the Bible says. There are rewards that will be given, and the rewards that will be given will be determined by the quality of your life on earth. It means there is an eternal consequences of your division and the life that you choose to live right now. That's why it is very sad. Not just sad, but even dangerous for believers to live life without a sense of timing. Listen to me.
The devil does not need to make you deny Christ to destroy your destiny. It just needs to make you comfortable in delay. It needs to make you believe that you have time. That you can start later. That you can build tomorrow. That you can get serious with God next year. Why must you start this year? And whilst you are believing in that lie, the clock is ticking. The devil does not make you to... It doesn't need to make you outrightly denying the Christ before you affect your destiny.
All it needs to do is to ensure that in the time you are supposed to be doing certain things that destiny demands, it distracts you away from those things. Sends out your attention of something else. Makes you believe you still have tomorrow. You are still a young guy. You are still young. Why do you want to get all serious with God right now and miss out on the joy of life? Don't you know that being serious with God will cost you many things that you would not be able to do otherwise? This is the time to enjoy your life. But when you read the bible, Ephesians chapter five from verse 15, the bible says, see then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, But as wise. To walk circumspectly means to walk carefully, intentionally with your eyes wide open.
To see the reality of the hour that you are living in. Next verse, the bible says, redeeming the time because the days are evil. The days are evil because they are filled with distractions, temptations, delays, philosophies, spirits assigned to steal your time. And the command is not to waste time. The command is not to even manage time. The command is to redeem the time, to buy it back, to extract maximum value from every moment in time. Because you understand that time is the currency of destiny. And a believer without a sense of timing is a believer who has already lost the war even before the war begins. Even if you don't realize it. So the Bible says, to everything, there is a season.
A time for every purpose under heaven. To everything, there is a season. A time for every purpose under heaven. He then goes on to say, a time to be born. A time to die. Showing you the brevity of life. That in the realm of time, there's a time that everything is born. There's a time that everyone is born. And there's a time that everything and everyone dies. Are you with me?
Yes sir. It then goes on to say, a time to plant. A time to clock what is planted. This is really what is important. Life operates in seasons and every season have its own assignment. You cannot plant in harvest season, and you cannot reap in planting season. That's why the Bible says there is a time to plant. There is a season that when that season comes, what heaven expect you to be doing in that season is planting. A time to plant. It means you cannot always plant.
The fact that you have a seed does not mean you can plant. The planting is not dependent on you. Even if you are serious. The question is, is it the time to plant? The farmer can have all the seeds. Hard working as he is. The planting is not dependent on him. If he plants in the time that is not given to him to plant, the seeds that he has will go to waste. They teach in agriculture that there are seasons for different crops you plant. Is that much so?
If a season you plant this and it grows, a season you plant this and it grows. And farmers are very careful observing the season. The moment the season comes to plant, they start planting, and they time it well so that in the time of harvest, they don't miss out. Are you with me? Yes, sir. The problem with your life is that your life is not like the life of a crop. You didn't get what I've just said. Your life is not mango. That you miss it this year and it will come again next year. When you are 30, you are 30.
You will not go back and say, you know what? I think I missed my planting season. Let me go back and start again. Mommy, can I enter your womb and burn me again? When it is gone, it is gone. You are no maze. That's the danger. That's what many never understand. A time to plant. A time to plant.
And a time to harvest. The man who does not understand seasons will live his entire life out of sync with the purposes of God because the purposes of God is unveiled in time. It is executed in time. In God's purposes, there is a time to plant. Because in as much, hear me, in as much as God's purpose is complete in eternity. When God's purpose manifests in time, it submits to the law of time. So the bible says, from the foundation of the world, the lamb was slain. That is something that has happened in eternity. So much so, it was a perfected ordinance in eternity that when the angels were fighting and there was war in heaven, it was the summarized or the perfected reality of the slain lamb that was used in overcoming the the wicked one. Because it is a thing even though that war happened before time began.
Do you understand what I've just said? Yet, they tapped into an ordinance that have been perfected. But when time began, even though the lamb had been slain from the foundation of the world, there is what is called the appointed time. The Bible said when the appointed time was come, the lamb of God was made manifest. Because even though it was done in eternity, when it comes into time, there is a time you must plant. It must manifest one day. And Jesus did not come on earth as a full grown man. He had to be born. A time to be born. A time to be born.
What was the assignment of Jesus whilst he was on earth? For God so loved the world that he did what? Gave his only begotten son. What is the word give there? He came to come and die for the sins of the whole world. The So assignment of Jesus was to come and die. So when Erod declared that all the children should be killed, wasn't that the reason why he was born? Why don't they just take him and say ah, in fact, the will of God will be done very early. Erold, this is the king you are looking for. Come and kill him.
A time to die. It means if he had died at that time, purpose is not fulfilled. The angel came to the parents and said, there is someone who is looking for the life of this boy. Despite it was his assignment to die, they said take him away. Run. Run. It's not yet time. There is a time to plant, a time to grow, a time to mature, a time. Stay with me. You'll be blessed.
And I hope you know that the harvest, the plucking, the reaping is directly attached to what was planted. If nothing was planted, there is nothing to harvest. Do you agree with me? Yeah. You cannot bypass bypass the planting season and expect the harvest. You cannot waste your youth and expect to wake up in the future with wealth, with influence, with a thriving ministry, with a legacy, with a good marriage. All of these things are harvested. And there are many people who stumbled into their future and saw outcomes in their future that they never thought would would happen to them because they were speaking again those outcomes, but their life still mercilessly manifested the outcome they were speaking against. They said, ah, me, I will never, my house will never, my life will never, but now they are there. And what they said they will never is what they are living.
Because it does not matter what your mouth says. What matters is the seed you sowed. What matters is the seed that you sowed. My own marriage will not be like my parents' marriage. I have seen it in my family. Nobody marries and stays in that marriage. Nobody does this and stay there. I've seen it. And there is no seed that you are planting right now to ensure that when your own time comes, you will harvest what you have said. No investment in destiny.
Nothing. And you think just because you are hopeful. Just because you desire it. Just because you want it, it will manifest. Is that how wealth comes? That you just play lotto and become rich. You know how we are? They have a word for it in this generation. Delulu. Now you just wake up one morning and say, I just said 10,000,000 on the floor right now.
On the floor right now. That is on people's picture of wealth. How they will be wealthy is that something will just happen. You know, I used to... Those early days. When God was telling me about the vision and the ministry that will be built and how that will go to the hands of the earth. And I did not know how it will happen. But I was seeing the vision clearly. So I was just praying and praying by myself. And whilst I was praying, the way to be coming to my mind is that ah, somebody will just come and see me praying.
See the fire oozing out of me as I'm praying. And they will just say, man of God, come to our church. Come and minister. Then when they see the healings that happen, I don't know how we come again and say, this guy is powerful. Come to our church. Come and minister. That is how some people expect they will pass. That's how some people expect they will live good lives, have a good home, have a good future. Have a good future. Be wealthy.
Be influential. Be relevant. It would amaze you. How many believers have no sense of timing with respect to purpose? And you cannot bypass the planting season and expect the harvest. Do you hear what I just said? Yes, sir. When you have missed time, what God does in his mercy is not to restore the outcome that should have come with time. That would be unjust. Otherwise, God would have said, I will restore the things that the palmer worm has stolen.
You didn't get that? That's not what God said. Do you know what cankerworm is? Do you know what palmerworm is? What they eat is crops. It means that you were careless probably in the day of harvest or something. Because there is a time to plant, a time to harvest. It means when it is time to harvest, I will show you very soon. Harvest is also work. Harvest is work.
The same way planting is work. The permanent woman, the common woman has eaten all these things. When God comes in his mercy, it is what I will restore is not the things that they stole, the things that they ate. What I will restore is the years, the time that was lost. In other words, I will bring back the season that you have lost in planting. Because otherwise, that time should have gone. You should have arrived at forty or at thirty. And now believing in regret. But because I've shown you mercy, I will bring back the time. That means it is possible for God to so do it.
That the time we should have in his mercy, in his, this is not the operation of principle. This is mercy. It is possible for God to so do it that the time you should have used in planting that you did not use in planting. God will so do that in his mercy, he brings back those planting years. And says, I have brought back the years. Now begin to plant. The operation of God's mercy is the speed with which what you plant is harvested. It is still the principle of seed, time, and harvest. But he regulates the time that if you had planted where you were meant to plant, by the time you are arriving at this phase of your life, you would have been reaping a good home. You would have been reaping a good harvest.
You would have been reaping wealth and influence. Your ministry would have been reaching the world right now, but you wasted a whole thirty years. Some people twenty years doing nothing, nothing reasonable with your life, nothing useful with your life. And then at some point, you now become serious with God. Somebody invited you to church. You saw that, and then you see people who have gone ahead of you, and you are thinking somewhere, can God still have mercy like this? And God said that we'll restore the years. And what he says is, those things you should have lent, now go and lend them. Those things you should have done. You will not skip the things and expect the harvest.
What God does is to speed track the time between the seed you planted and the harvest that comes. There will still be a seed planted. You didn't get what I've just said? May God give you understanding. Because when prophecy comes, that time is restored. Someone just feels as though, oh, oh, what that means is that opportunities that they have lost will just come back by itself. It will. But you will plant what will come back. You come and waste your youth and expect to wake up later in the future with wealth, with influence, with a thriving ministry, with a legacy. It doesn't work that way.
If the ground was left to follow during the planting season, then when the harvest comes, the field will be empty. Or at best, weeds will grow. And weed is the general term for any plant that is growing where it is not wanted. It means if in the time I was supposed to plant, I left the ground fallow. What happens is that plants I do not want will start to grow. That is what a wheat is. Do you understand what I've just said? No reasonable farmer plants wheat. Weeds grow when the land is left alone, when there is no planting done. Are you with me?
So if wheat is plants that grow where it's not wanted, what does that tell you about wheat in typology of a human being's life? It tells you that wheat are undesirable outcomes that manifest in your life that you don't want. Undesirable outcomes. If you don't plant purpose, weeds of aimlessness will grow. If you don't plant financial discipline, weeds of poverty will grow. Poverty is not something anybody intentionally desires. But when there is no planting done to ensure wealth, weeds grow. Are you with me? Yes, sir. If you don't plant the word of God in your heart, weeds of fear, anxiety, worry, guilt, condemnation will grow.
If you don't plant purity and the fear of God in your relationships, then weeds of immorality, weeds of heartbreaks, and different kind of negative demonic soul tiles will grow. If you don't plant the development of skill and career focus, weeds of unemployment, of frustration, of wasted potential will grow. The tragedy is that weeds grow faster than crops. That is the tragedy. Proverbs, you know why? Because no no life is designed to be follow. You can't truly leave a ground empty. Something must grow on it. Something must grow on it. You go outside and wash the grasses.
Who planted them there? Something must grow on it. At the same way, you cannot really live your life follow. To do nothing is to plant something. Just know what you planted. It. Just know what you plan it. And that is the future somebody is building right now. A future that will come and you will realize that everything there is never what you wanted. Because there were no intentional seeds sown to guarantee that future.
Can you hear me everybody? Proverbs chapter 24 from verse 30 to verse 31. What does the Bible say? I went... Let's read this thing together, please. One, two, three, go. Pause. So even the lazy man has a field. And the man, the wisest man in scripture goes by the field of the lazy man. He goes by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding.
Yet he has a vineyard. He is blessed enough with a field. He is blessed enough with a vineyard, yet he's still poor. When I went by his field, I'm expecting to see harvest and abundance. When I went by his vineyard, I'm expecting to see olives growing in the vineyard. But what do I see? And there it was, all overgrown with what? Its surface was covered with metals. Its stone walls were broken down. This is exactly what happens when you live your life unattended during your planting seasons.
The field does not remain neutral. It becomes overgrown with tongues and nettles, symbols of pain and unfruitfulness. You will not gather grapes. You won't gather wheat. You gather tongues. You gather the consequences of your laziness, of your lack of focus, of your wasted years, and by then, it will be too late to go back and plant what you should have planted when you had the chance. Your youth is not the time to experiment aimlessly. Say it with me. Your youth is not a throw away season. Given to you to find yourself through parties and fornication.
And drunkenness. And the pursuit of fleeting pleasures that the world celebrates in movies and music. Your youth is your planting season. It is the season where the ground of your life is most fertile. Where your strength is greatest. Where your mind is sharpest. Where your capacity to learn, to build, to endure hardship, to lay your foundations is at its peak. So much so, in Proverbs chapter 20 and verse 29, the Bible says the glory of young men does not... The Bible does not say is in their strength. The Bible says, is their strength.
It means glory is directly proportional to strength. If I say your glory is your strength, that means your strength is your glory. It means glory will only manifest in your life. To the degree to which you can deploy your strength. God therefore has already given you a sure way to ensure destiny manifestation. That if I want to see glory manifest in my life, God has put the keys already in my hand. That young men have what is called strength. This thing is available only at a particular time in your life. When that time passes, what you find is that strength starts to diminish. It means one strength starts to diminish.
What you should be seeing in your life is glory. Glory based on what you have used strength for in your youth. The strength is for building. Building. Building Your mental sharpness, strength. Your emotional resilience, strength. Your ability to work long hours, strength. To learn new skills rapidly, to take risks, to recover quickly from failure. All these things is not an accident. It only comes at a time in your life.
And the bible called it strength. And the bible said it is the glory God gave you for building. That is when your brain absorbs information the fastest. That's when your body can endure the most. When you have fewer responsibilities, responsibilities, more time to invest in your future, when you can afford to make mistakes and still have time to recover. Because a time will come, mistakes will redefine you. It will redefine your course. But the time it comes in your life where mistakes refine, not redefine. There's a difference that in your youth, you can afford to build and fail. Because there is still enough time to start again.
Learn what did not work. Start again. Is that not so? A time will come in your life where responsibilities alone will make it difficult to even take risk. You are thinking, this business God has given to me now, I'm thinking of leaving my job and focusing on this business. The reason you can think like that is because you don't even have children. A time comes you have three kids in front of you, even the brightest of ideas, you will think where will the money to feed them come next month. But what about if you had built that business early? What would be happening then is harvest. What will be happening then is harvest.
This is why one of the things I'm praying for today for you is restoration. What are you doing with your life if not praying? This is the time you can pray. All these twelve hours, six hours, eighteen hours we speak about, there is a time in your life when you can do it. And that is the pure truth because you have the energy for it. I remember a lovely man of God who came to one of our twelve hours prayer meeting because his son is always praying twelve hours, six hours, twelve hours. And then he's a man of God, and he told his son, you know, when I was growing up like you, I have never prayed like this. Let me follow you to that prayer meeting. And he came. And he saw young men.
Taking posture that cannot be explained with word-of-mouth. Groning. Making groanings that cannot be uttered. Some were holding chairs. Some were holding walls. Some were grabbing speakers. And we said hold yourself. And one young man went to go and carry the If you shake the man and we hear one cut at the back of the wall, what do we do? Whilst I was on the pool, said please leave daddy alone. The man sat down, was struggling, praying, trying his best.
Because the glory of young men is not in their strength. Is. Do you know what mileage we are building in the spirit? Do you know what it means to build mileage in prayers? That you can so suffer. That we can stand in prayer like we are going in for hours. There is no responsibility. The only thing you are thinking about is how you pass the exam. How you deliver to a client. How you will do one work tomorrow.
That's all you are thinking about. So when we come and say pray, it amazes me how young men don't want to pray. What time do you have to pray? It is now. A time will come, you will be running three jobs. Some, you would have built a business. Your business alone would not even permit you two hours for yourself. That your prayer life will now be on the move. You are jumping from one aircraft to the next, praying in the spirit. Because you can't squeeze out six hours because of your British schedule.
And we say pray now. Pray now that when that time comes, there is capacity you have built that has become harvest. Is that all getting what I'm saying? The strength you have built then, the capacity you have built then is not the result of what you are just trying to do when that time comes. It is now a harvest of prayer that have been sown. Mileage means we have gone into the future. We have arranged some things. We have set some things. We have put some things in place. We have that the devil has sinned.
That there's a prophecy upon this one. And he saw it. He saw it. He saw it. That's what many fathers and mothers are what they did. The devil was successfully able to distract them. Because there was a prophecy upon that seed, upon that family, that a prophet will come from this family. And it might be because of a covenant God made with someone. The same way God made a covenant with David. That your kingdom shall be forever everlasting.
Hence, the reason why the savior of the world had to come from his seed. There are men like that that God has given them covenants because of what you have done. I will ensure that in my last move, one of the iconic human beings that will follow that move will come from your family, will come from your seed. Men. And when when such words come, the devil too hears it. It is he. We know what the guy says, I'm going to and fro looking for whom to devour because not everybody is worth his time. There are the whom. There are the whom. The whom.
Who do men say that I am? Some say that you are Jeremiah. Some say you are this. Some say you are that. Who do you say that I am? Nobody could speak. Then Peter rose up his hand. He said, can I speak? He said, speak. Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God.
And Jesus says, Kai, Kai, Kai, flesh and blood. I've not revealed this thing to you. My father in heaven is the one that revealed this thing to you. Peter, your names shall no longer be called Peter. Now you are called Petra. Upon this rock, I will build my church. The devil say, oh. When Jesus was going to the cross, he said Peter, Satan has desired, perceived you as wheat. How? Why?
Why him? Why not John? Why not James? Why not anybody else? Upon this rock, I will build my church. He had it. But he might not understand what he heard. He might not even understand the meaning of it, the rock. What he knows, whatever it means, Peter is involved. And he looked at everybody.
He said Satan has desired. Because he's looking for whom? Who prophecy has come ahead of? Who God has spoken a word over? Who have promise has been given to? Whom? But everybody, whom? Listen. Listen. Go and check with Eve.
Eve will tell you that Satan was never interested in her until he found out what did God see. In other words, what channels the devil's attention to a man is, has God said anything over this life? Listen. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? For every prophecy said, for every promise that is given, there is seed, time, harvest. And the devil is guarding to ensure. He knows that if the Kronos moment comes, in the Greek, there is what is called Kronos and Kairus.
Kairus is the time of manifestation. Kronos is chronological time, the time of building, the time of process. Is that not so? Kairus is that time of appearance, that adverse time that comes. Kronos is the time that builds hope to that moment. The devil knows he can't stop any of them. The time is not in his care. He can do nothing about Kronos. He can do nothing about Keros. The Bible says, time and seasons is in his hands.
He changes the times and changes the seasons. Only one being has power over time, and it is God. What can he do? He can ensure that the time you are supposed to be planting what is meant to give birth to the harvest of the prophecy that you have been given, of the promise that is to be fulfilled. The time you are supposed to be laying the foundations. The time you are supposed to be studying about marriage, studying about raising a good home, raising godly children, building godly homes, building good financial lives, investing, sowing seeds, giving. The devil knows that this is Kronos. What he does is to take your attention away from everything you are supposed to be doing at that time. So that Kronos is passing, but you are planting nothing. You are focused on everything apart from everything you should be doing.
That's why when you see young men who say things like, you know, I I still want to enjoy my life. I still want to do this. I still want to do that. What is happening is that the devil has put the attention in. He has just failed. Enough. I can't stop the Kronos, but I can ensure that when the Kairos come. Brother, is it not somebody who planted mango? When it was time for mango to be planted. That we'll know when mango is to be harvested.
You didn't get what I've just said. How do you know that the season of Abaluma has come? Because you start seeing it on people's trees. You pass by markets and you see it there. But there was someone who planted it. That guy will not sit on somebody else's tree. And now have to go and buy what he could have planted with money. All he would do is realize that ah, my palom was already getting right. What does he do? He just plucks because he knows that the time of harvest has come.
In other words, if you did not plant anything, you will never know when the harvest time passes. That's what I'm going to tell you. It is the one that plants that knows. Yes. Yes. You will not even know that your harvest time has come until you start seeing results in other people's lives. And you start wondering, but we started together now. But we started growing together now. What? This guy...
What what is going on? And heaven is saying, were you planting when they were? I've not seen people who work with foolish friends. All they talk about is stupidity. Young people. There is no conversation that leads towards destiny. Nothing. A young man is feeling smart, not praying, not having a study life. And they are telling you, pray. Pray.
You heard several messages on prayer, on study, on reading. But you do every other thing apart from, and you think you are smart. You think you are playing the game. You think that it is time to cruise. You think that the strength you have is for exploration. Let me explore different women. Explore different things. Explore different that. I testify. I testify that your goodness is real.
I testify. I testify that your goodness is real. Remember now your creator In the days of your youth. Because there are difficult days that are coming. Difficult days that are coming. Days when your body weakens. When your responsibilities multiply, when opportunities close, when the season to plant has passed. And if you've not plants now, whilst the ground is still soft, whilst your strength is still at its height, you will spend your little years in bitterness watching others enjoy the harvest you could have had only if you were faithful in your youth. And the devil knows if I can waste your youth, I've wasted your life. It knows if I can distract you now, I don't need to distract you later because you would have destroyed yourself.
That's why the culture around you, the music, the movies, the influencers, the council of foolish peers. Everything around you is designed to make you believe that your youth is for enjoyment, for exploration, for living your life without responsibility. Ecclesiastes chapter 11 from verse nine to verse 10. The bible issues a warning. The bible says rejoice, oh young man, in your youth. And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart. Walk in the sight of your eyes. Can you look at that advice? Do whatever your eyes wants to...
You see that you want to pursue, pursue. Your heart wants to go that direction, go there. You don't want to... You don't feel like doing this, do it. Even walking, anything you wanna do, do. But know that for all this, God will bring you into judgement. The next verse. Therefore, remove sorrow from your heart and put away evil from your flesh. For childhood and youth are vanity. And you will think the word vanity here means a waste and you will be wrong.
The word vanity here does not mean waste. The word vanity means vapor. It means breath. It means a fleeting moment. It means he's saying that your youth is vapor. It will soon pass away. That the pleasures you chased, the time you waste, the religion that you enter, the habits you form, all of it will be brought before the throne of judgement. And then the wise man who wrote this verse then says, everything. Disappearing even as you read this thing. And every day that passes except by the mercy of God, which we will pray for, you cannot recover.
Every year you spend in foolishness is a year that is subtracted from your destiny. And when your youth is gone, does not come back. There's no rewind button except for the mercy of God. Destruction is the devil's strategy. And destruction is not always obvious. When the devil distracts you, he simply takes your eyes away from what matters until it is too late. That's the mean of distraction. The devil does not need to make you worship high doors, doesn't need to make you deny Christ, doesn't need to make you say that you are an atheist. All he needs to do is keep you busy with things that feel good, things that look exciting, things that seem harmless, until the season to plan that's passed you by. And when you are much older, in your fifties and sixties and forties, you look back at your life and then you realize that you have nothing to show for it.
No ministry, no purpose, no wealth, no impact, no legacy, no marriage, no fruit, and then the regret now starts to come. And by then, the strength of your youth is gone. The sharpness of your mind is getting dull. The opportunities you once had closed. And you will have squandered the very season that God gave you to build. Do you know that in your planting seasons, there are destiny relationships that God brings your way? To ensure that you are not alone in planting. Because the work of planting can sometimes be very strenuous. God can tell you give everything that you have. And profitable relationship is what will hold you strong in such moments.
Do you know that the reason why some people will suffer is because they never planted or invested in relationships. That's the reason why they will suffer. The undoing and the unbecoming of many today is not because they are not intelligent. It is because they rejected and neglected relationships in their planting season that could have helped them grow. Either because they dishonored the relationships or they undermine the value of the relationships. And they underplayed the relevance of relationships. And they allowed pride, offense, whatsoever you might call it, to blind them from what God was doing in other people. Ten years after, those that they were working together, whom they could not sustain the humility to be friends with and to connect with, is now an MD of a bank. Is now the consulate in the embassy. That he's going to.
Where his visa is being denied. And he cannot say ah, I know somebody there. Because in the time you were growing, you ignore the relationship. It was a time to plant so that you can harvest access to doors you might never need to knock. But if you said you need to see the governor, you know someone who was probably a childhood friend that you you know I invested in this relationship so I can harvest from it. I heard you had just become so and so to the governor of this. I have a proposal to sign. Guy, can you fix up a meeting? Ah, guy, where you today? Where you today?
When do you want to come? And just like that, you are there meeting somebody. You never have to write letters just because you invested in a relationship before it ever became manifest, before it ever became obvious. Even that many are failing at, and it is the reason why they will suffer in years to come. When you watch certain people who are elderly and they live life as though they have no helper, you wonder, is there nobody that you invested in? Because as you grow, you are meant to enter into seasons of reward. Where your investment should start speaking for you. Even though in time, you do not see them as investments. You see them as principles you are following. But they abide to bring results.
I told someone yesterday, I said, your problem, why you have strife and bitterness in your heart against somebody that will help you many years from now, according to what I've seen in my visions, is because you are blind like a bat. You are a fool. And you have allowed for offense and bitterness because you have not seen the future. I've not seen the future. A man of God came to me and told me, he said, apostle, can I have your number? And I gave him my number. In all humility, in all honor. And he said, what a privilege to have your number. I will be sure to keep this relationship. Because I know his time is coming.
We are to meet you like this. We would have to queue for hours. I said, Kai, this man has seen the future. There is something... This is the wisdom it takes to build relationships, especially destiny relationships. We know no man after the flesh. We know no man after the flesh. But the time is coming. And it's not pride. It's not arrogance.
But if you were not in the cave with me, you will queue for long before you enter the palace with me. It's not arrogance. If you undermine my cave days, you have no business in my palace days. There will be people who will attempt to have lived with us only when God has lifted us, only when God has elevated us, and it's not bad. It's okay. Just don't expect that I owe you some kind of commitment. So you invite me for a meeting. And I check my calendar, and you say, oh, apostle, man of God, who God is using? We have a conference. Please come.
Come and be a blessing to us. Because now you see that the glory is everywhere and the influence is everywhere. It's now you know that God has blessed us or anointed us. But you have seen us all the while and ignored us as though it would not exist. And I checked my calendar, and I find that one of my sons, one of my young men or young women who have stayed with me for so long in the Cave Of Adula is getting married, and you will think I will come for your meeting over that wedding. God forbid. Even God will judge me. We can't neglect those who saws. I was speaking to a young girl yesterday, and I was amazed at the blindness. Can't you see?
Can't you see? Because not everybody can see. That's why we don't ignore those who see. Not everybody has the ability to discern greatness when it's a seed. To discern the potentials of a forest as a seed. That is seed that you see will one day become an Iroquo tree servicing nations. Everybody will treat the seed as a seed. That is why the Bible calls them wise men. We don't know if they are three or four or five or whatever number they have. But one thing we know for certain, they are wise.
Do you know why they are wise? Because they traveled all the way to go and meet a baby. And they didn't go with pampers. You would expect if they're going to visit a baby, what you would need is pampers, milk, food, cereals. That's what you take to meet a baby. How do you bring gold? What does a baby need gold for? But what they saw wasn't a baby. What they saw was a king. So much so, when they held the baby, the bible says they bow their heads to a baby.
No. That's why they are wise. They are wise because they can hear the sound of the melodies playing in the wilderness. They can hear the sound of the underdog while he is still under. They can hear the sound of the riddance of grace in the life of a man who is still slaying bears and slaying lions. Not many people can. And it is in your planting season, you discern this. You find three people, five people, and you tell them, brother, I see that you are going the same path that I'm going. Let's do something. Let's create a plan for ten years and create a wealth network.
A... Or a network of five people, and our agenda is to build wealth. We are accountable to each other until we have built this wealth. We buy our lands, we sell our properties, we build our estates, and you're accountable you're accountable to me as I'm accountable to you. Brother, come. Sister, come. Brother, come. I see you are making progress. You know what? Every month, you have the capacity to bring 50,000, 50,000, 50,000.
Let all of us bring 50,000 naira, five of us, four of us, three of us. Every month, we save it. Put it one place. At the end of the month, we invest. Okay. You want to buy machine or you want to buy this. You want to buy this for your business. Let's come together. It is possible. Our dreams are...
Nothing like that is done. It is stupidity that is discussed. And people can challenge you to destiny. You despise. It is a waste of planting seasons. It is because the devil has planted your eyes. Especially when somebody corrects you and you despise them. You hate those that can tell you the truth. But those who make your heart feel comfortable. In stupidity, in idiocy, you are going the wrong way, but you have peers around you who are tearing you up as you are going that way.
A guy, my guy. That is the way of death. Somebody comes to meet you and tell you brother, this thing you are doing, this way you are passing, then you hate the person. Now when you want to end up with wrong marriage, nobody can tell you that this thing is wrong. Your why is in your own eyes? Why is in your own eyes? Do you realize that everything that you are doing now is an investment. Every single thing is an investment. Every single thing. The friends you are keeping now, investment.
The conversations you are having now, investment. The prayer you are praying now, investment. The study you are studying now, investment. That's why the bible says we stop here and then we pray. I've not even started my vision. But let's stop here. Galatians chapter six from verse seven to verse eight. The Bible says, do not be deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows.
That he will also reap. David said the good things a man sows. What does it say? Whatever a man sows. He then goes on to say, next verse, for he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption. He who sows to the spirit will of the spirit reap everlasting life. Note that I told you that you are a seed and everything that you are doing now is a sowing. You are planting. The bible then reveals two types of grounds upon which a man can plant. You can either plant to the flesh or you can plant to the spirit.
And the Bible then says, you cannot sow to your flesh. Partying up and down, immorality, laziness, entertainment, the pursuit of temporary pleasure. And expect to reap anything but corruption. Corruption means decay, emptiness, regret, shame, wasted potential. You sow to the spirit will of the spirit reap everlasting life. Everlasting life there is not speaking about heaven. Everlasting life in the language of tongues gospel means the very life of God, the wisdom of God, the power of God, the provision of God, the glory of God manifesting in your earthly existence. It means when you sow your youth to the spirit. It means when you give your time to prayer. When you give your time to the study of the word.
When you give your time to building your gifts, to serving in ministry, to developing your career with diligence, developing your business with diligence. Don't gospel says. You are planting seed that will produce a harvest not just for a season, but for eternity. Now look at second Corinthians chapter nine verse six. The Bible says, but this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. It means the amount you invest into your youth will determine the size of your harvest in little years. If you sow sparingly, it means if you give God a little bit of your time whilst wasting the rest of your time on foolishness, then you will reap a very small disappointing harvest. But if you sow bountifully, if you pour your youth, your strength, your time, your energy into building what God has called you to build, then the harvest will be abundant. Overflowing more than you can contain. In the book of Proverbs 10 verse five, that he who gathers in summer is a wise son.
He who sleeps in harvest is his son who causes sheep. Time. But you... The mistake is not that you have lost time. The mistake is that you think how God will restore is to restore what you never planted. That's not what happens. Because what you think will happen, what you are thinking in your mind is that God will come to Abraham because Abraham has lost it and tell Abraham in his father's house that you know what? I'll give you a son. And whilst he's just there, Isaac just comes. You know, there's still a planting.
Get out of your father's house. How does God come to a man that age and say, oh yeah, now begin the journey. What God will do is to quicken your understanding. That the time it will take you to get it. Because listen, at this time, especially if you have lost years, God knows you don't really have time for mistakes. You don't have time for trial and error. You don't have time to test and to test. So God in his wisdom ensures that all things fall in place. That is in God's wisdom. If you're married at the veil of collapse, let me tell you the truth.
You did not plant when you were supposed to plant. If only we can tell ourselves the truth. Many of the problems people face at the later end of their life, the devil is not responsible. It is only undesirable outcomes because there was nothing that was planted. Enter into marriage with no investment, no knowledge, no wisdom, nothing. Is really That no time is really ever ever gone. Gone. Do you know how old Ketri Gumann was? That woman that everybody said, go and read her history. That woman everybody celebrates.
Do you know how old she won when she began her ministry? So that when you start thinking about a man like who began so early, that at 19, he began his first church. And he say, ah, God has come into ministry, but I'm 50. No church yet. And God shows a woman like Kedricuma, who had 70 no purpose yet and lost two marriages or so. Could not keep a single one. And was there. It was clear that this person is a reject. And God comes and says, you are still the one I want to use. That what I've written about your life can still come to pass.
Still come to pass. You know how he can... You know why he can do that? Because he's the one in charge of the time. That's why he didn't give that one to anybody. He says, it is in my power to rewind, reverse, repeat, fast track, speed up. It's in my power. That's why speed can be introduced. That's why what is meant to grow in ten years can grow in six months. Even that can still be remedied.
How does God come to a woman? Do you know when you should be trying to make babies? In fact, medicine will tell you that you get married early because to attempt to get pregnant late is called high risk pregnancy. Is that not so? Yes, sir. But God comes to a woman in her eighties and says, by this time next year. And the Bible says, and Sarah received strength. To conceive. What God did was to rewind time. Harvest did not manifest just because God has promised.
She still had to conceive. The the things still had to come from her. What we can Job chapter 42. In other words, it is never too late to restore. It's never too late to strengthen. It's never too late to establish. Job 42 and verse 10. One, two, three, go. Prayer is simple. I declare restoration.
That's the prayer. You declare it over your life. Pray it as desperate as you want it. Pray it as desperate as you need it. Let the ears be restored. Thank you for listening to this message. We trust you have been blessed. You can get more life transforming messages from apostle Emmanuel Boluatife on our Telegram page at DCN media channel. You can also stream the messages on Spotify, Ocho Mac, and Apple podcast. Connect with us via our social media platforms on Instagram at DCN underscore nations, on Facebook at disciples christian network, on x at d c n central, and on TikTok at disciples christian network.
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