Transcript: The Words Of My Mouth, The Meditations Of My Heart

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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. Psalms 19 and verse 14. Bible says, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight. Oh lord, my strength and my redeemer. Two keys to success was revealed in this scripture. The words of my mouth, the meditation of my heart. These two things can decide the course of the life of a man. Does this look like the things we've been studying? The words of my mouth, the meditations of my heart.

You would realize that where success is mentioned in scripture, these two things, success, prosperity, and the overall effectivity of the life of a man. When they are being discussed, these two things are always the key points that are referenced in scripture. In Joshua chapter one and verse eight, the bible says, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it, meditate in it day and night, what you may observe to do according to all that's written in it, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. So again, you see this book of the Lord will not depart from your mouth. You will meditate in it that you will observe to do. So it is saying that what becomes the subject of your meditation becomes the things you say, becomes how you act, is the reason why a man will prosper. You realize that from this scripture, the bible takes responsibility for success away from God. It says that you may observe to do. You may observe to do. That you may observe to do.

For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Prosperity and success is used in the same scripture, and it is used with respect to you. In other words, if a man becomes prosperous, it becomes prosperous because he made his way prosperous. If a man had success or is successful, it becomes successful because he had good success. The bible removes responsibility for success and for prosperity away from God, and he hands that responsibility to you in its entirety. He says that you may observe to do, that you will make your way prosperous. Can you put your hands on your chest and say something with me? If I don't prosper, it is my fault. Do you believe it? Yes, sir.

Can you say, if I prosper I prosper. I'm responsible. If your mindset shifts to believe this that you have just said, there will be such a shift in your life, such a shift in your thinking, such a shift in everything that surrounds you. Are you with me? Listen, not every failure is a demonic attack. Not every failure is a demonic attack. When your mind is not transformed, a lot of the problems in your life are only reinforced by demons. They are not caused by demons. In other words, demons only come to reinforce what already exists. They are not the causative agents of the same.

As a matter of fact, majority of the challenges befalling mankind is not caused by demons. It's not even caused by the devil. The devil only takes advantage of the ignorance of men. Please, I I really pray that you believe what I'm saying. How you were born is not how you is not the reason for why you are here. How you are born is not the reason for where you would be in the future. Whether you will be great or not isn't dependent on how you were born. Jesus Christ was born in a manger amongst cattle, yet he became savior. What's worse than that? Like, to have a destiny of a king, have a destiny of a savior, the savior of humanity and and of mankind, and he was born in a manger.

Do know what that means? Where cattle release their dome, where cattles feed. He was born with handymocks. In other words, you can come and tell me the reason why my life is like this is because I was... My parent dumped me and threw me in the dumpster. You wouldn't be the first. The savior of the world was thrown somewhere. Wasn't born in the most fortunate circumstances. As a matter of fact, not only was he born in a manger, the bible says he was born in Nazareth. Nazareth had a track record that nothing good ever comes out of it.

So why will God ensure that this guy who was who was to be the savior of the world, it's enough ridicule that the savior of the world is being born in a manger. Why hard sort to injury by letting him come out of a place where nothing good is attributed to? Do you know that that I had a label on everybody that comes from Nazareth? It's a label. You know what a label is? Where are you from? Nazareth. Oh, no. Don't employ anybody from Nazareth. If you employ them in your biz...

That's the meaning. Nothing good comes from Nazareth. It's publicly known. It's widely accepted. They're not the ones you consider to give your jobs to, to take care of your cattle and your ships, to employ into your business, to manage... It means there is no millionaire or billionaire that can come out of Nazareth. And yet God said that is where the savior of the world will come from. Almost as though he's painting a picture. It doesn't matter the background of a man. And a man can come from the worst of backgrounds.

Whether or not it becomes what he will become is entirely up to him. Listen. There's a level of mind transformation needed for God to walk in and through your life. And if your mind is not transformed in that manner, God will be limited in working with you. As a matter of fact, everything that a man becomes, it becomes by reason of how transformed his mind is. I think we've established this fact enough. A man is a summation of his ideologies. And your ideologies are formed from your cultural backgrounds. When we come to God, we don't just come so that he will add to those faulty mindsets. We open our hearts so that he can remove anything that is not consistent with the pattern of Christ.

Even if it is culturally correct. Something can be politically correct yet biblically wrong. I was gonna post one of my videos on Instagram. And as I opened the application, I saw a video popped into my feed. And it was a joke that a married couple was making where the husband said, oh, the wife and the husband were in the closet. And the wife was pulling a prank on the husband and told the husband, turn back. Turn away. This was after fifteen years of marriage. Turn away. I wanna put on my clothes.

And the husband was shocked and said, what what are you saying? Didn't know that the wife was just putting a prank on him, social media. And the husband was saying, oh, no. I can't turn. Your body's mine. My body's yours. And then the woman was just laughing, and it was just a joke. And I just laughed and said, this is a nice joke until I went into the comment section. And behold, my eyes saw. The first one was, no man has a right to your body.

Please, please, please, please, women, never be seen. Don't don't feel as though you owe anybody a right to your body. Feel as though you owe even your husband. If you feel at any point that you that you deserve privacy, nobody has... Even your husband doesn't have the right to tell you that this and that. Nobody homes you. You own yourself. And I saw... This was about 12,000 comments or so, all following the same line of thought. Very few places you would find...

And and the funny thing is, is that this is some... Most of these people are Christians, believers. You see, that something is politically correct. It sounds sensible. It doesn't mean it's sensible. If it's not God's word, it's wrong. Don't matter how long you've been carrying it, don't matter how long you've believed it, if it's not God's word, it's wrong. So many of us are victims of culture, and we have head on to this culture age for a long time. It has become stumbling stumbling blocks that will never afford us the opportunity to taste the kingdom of God or taste success. And we have a degree of loyalty to them, and the devil keeps taking advantage of us because of how loyal we are to these wrong beliefs.

Some of us have a level of allegiance to wrong beliefs because you were brought up with it. Because that is what you were taught in your culture. In as much as something may be culturally correct, if it is against the word of God, you must submit your mentality and your mindset to God's word so that you can make your way prosperous. You cannot prosper beyond the level of your thinking. You cannot prosper beyond the level of your mindset, beyond the level of your ideology. Your mindset is also the result of the degree of your exposure. I said this already. Reality that you don't know exist, you can't open your heart to take it. The word of God exposes you to the possibilities that exist so that your mind can be enlarged to believe it. So because you now know that it's possible to cast out devils.

Your mind has been exposed to this reality. Perhaps you have seen men of God who have worked terribly in power. Those days when we were younger, I would watch videos of men of God, pastor Chris, Ehakilome, videos of Kobus Van Hensburg, videos of Charles and Francis Hunter, videos of AA Halle, Oral Robert. Some of us are products of anointings of some of these dead men. We are like the men who fell upon the bones of Elijah and came alive by reason of the bones that they had contact with. Because even though dead, dead bones can carry an a grace. And so the material of these people still have a portion of their spirit in it. And so as we study, not only are we receiving of the spirit of these same people, not only are we receiving of their grace and mantle, but that our minds are being enlarged to see what is possible. When you see tumors falling off, suddenly an ex... It exposes your mind to what is possible.

Your mind is not constrained into a way of thinking. You now know. And you see, some of us, our minds can be so stubborn as not to believe it at first encounter. And so what we do is that we expose our mind continuously to the same thing. We just keep on watching, and every night I do the same thing. I just watch these videos and I keep on praying in tongues. Especially if the Christianity you grew up knowing is not one that had the power of God in demonstration. If you're not careful, your mind will be constrained towards the release of the power of God. So that when the power of God starts moving in this place, for instance, and you see people going out under the power, there are people who just think, what's what's going on here? What is this?

Can we not just be can we not just be collected? And you see, that mindset will not only affect you, it will also it will also ensure that you're not able to receive of the power of God. Are you with me? It will ensure that you are not able to receive of the power of God. You see, as that just happened now, someone is thinking, is it necessary? Is it necessary? Okay. Why did God just do that? When you see the power of God moving, you know that. Come on.

These these people, we are we are sane human beings. Because of our own will be happening in a way. Do you understand what I'm saying? I went to a meeting some time ago and some... And a man of God laid hands on me. It was a big hall. It wasn't... It was maybe 40 times of this. Very big auditorium. The man laid hands on me.

I woke up at the back. I don't know how I got there. I can't... Till today, I can't ex... I don't have words for it. All I know is when I gained consciousness, was at the door. If I was carried there, I don't know. We will receive only of what our heart expect. And do you know that if you don't know that it's something that can be expected, you won't expect it. Expectation is governed by mind renewal.

In other words, if you don't know that it's available, there's nothing for you to expect. If I tell you right now that there's someone at the gate waiting to give you money, do you know that that information has created an expectation in your mind? Yes, sir. So that when you are going to the gate, you expect to receive money from someone. Are you with me? Sir. If you have no such expectation, would you wait at the gate? Do you understand what I'm saying? And somebody ask you, what are you waiting for? You say, I'm just expecting somebody to give you money.

There's no information that has cultured your mind to have that level of thinking. So you would go even though someone is there waiting for you. In other words, the the degree of information that you have that have exposed your mind to the possibilities of God would determine what you can expect in God. There are people who don't expect to be favored. They don't know that it's a possibility in God. That someone you don't know can favor you. I went to visit someone in their shop, and an apprentice I've never met before in my life kept on looking at me awkwardly. And I felt so uncomfortable hard to leave. I told the person, I just blessed them and left. Left.

And the apprentice ran after me and told me, have you sat down there? Something was telling me to give you my laptop. This is it. You see, when you hear me say this thing, what it does to you is that it creates exposure in your mind. Beyond just same testimony, you now know, wow, this is possible. Yes. That a people I don't know will favor you is a reality in scriptures and in reality... And in life. That immediately makes you expect. In other words, it is also the basis of faith.

And if you come from a background, even though Christianity, it didn't give you so much allowance to the move of the spirit and the giftings of the spirit. As you grow, you must begin to culture your mind separately. You model hold on to what you have believed to mean, oh, no. I grew up in a conservative background. I don't... I'm not used to the holy spirit breaking out like this. Oh my god. Listen. So some of us can just be drunk in the spirit because our hearts have been exposed. I grew up watching Kenneth Hagin videos.

You've all been laughing. This thing is greater exposure. Listen. So the reason why the power of God can flow through my sound, through our music, through our songs, through our voice is because we have expected the level of exposure our mind have have have have had I read God's generals, Alexander Dewey, Annie Sembu McFarlane, Maria Woodward Hater. Just men made perfect. And as we read about their walk with God, how they pressed into God, their encounters with God even, what happens is that our heart becomes exposed. We know how we are able to be hungry. We know that this dimension is possible. God, we know you can release this. You have done this before, and so we know.

We know. So even if I'm pressing into God, I know what God can give. I know what God is making available to me. Listen. Listen. Do you know that one of my one of my guys in those days was praying on her bed. Listen. I was just praying in tongues. I was just praying in tongues. Do you know that in less than thirty minutes of prayer, she gained consciousness and found out that she's a lady and found out that she was levitating on the hair.

She had left the bed and she was levitating on the hair. The moment she saw the distance between herself and her bed, fear gripped her soul immediately. She started struggling for her life. She collapsed on the bed. That was the last time it happened. The lack of exposure to such a dimension created fear. The fear pursued the dimension. She responded in the flesh to something that was meant to be divine because there was no expectation whatsoever. So when God came, the lack of preparedness. Who taught me that I can have have an encounter with God and be floating in the air?

How am I sure this is not demonic? Did anybody expose my mind to this truth? People come to the presence of God, and you see a man of God moving in the prophetic, and your mind is doubting whether it is true. Maybe they told him before. Maybe they... Maybe someone said it. I didn't I didn't grow up seeing this thing. I'll come. And your mind is struggling. Your mind is struggling.

So when they declare you are favored, even that becomes a a a... An impossibility for you to receive because you see, your mind has not been exposed enough or renewed enough to see as the spirit sees. And so a lot of things that God wants to do in your mind, your mind constrains God from moving because of the depth and the extent of renewal. So the more I study scriptures and I see how Jesus was casting out devils, go. Listen. You might grow up in the background, but before devil are casted out, it takes six hours of ringing bells and pouring oil and bathing and doing all kinds of things. But as you study scriptures by yourself for the first time, you are seeing Jesus face to face with legions, and he only says, go. And I start wondering, who then created go and bathe with river? Go and bathe with soap? Go and do that one.

If that was how you grew, your mind your mind must be renewed. That is a superior way of doing things. It doesn't involve much labor. It only involve authority. Go. Right now, somebody can just be laughing in the holy ghost, and he's just laughing, and he's just joyful. And you will see another person looking at that one and say, ah. He doesn't understand. He can't grasp it. Yet the holy spirit is doing something genuine, something real.

But the limitation of his mind has alienated her from that experience. Please understand what I'm saying. Do you know that this is why many people can't pray in zones? The limitation of the mind. So no matter how long you pray for them, receive, receive, receive, they still find it difficult to start speaking. They say I'm speaking. Not I'm not speaking. There is nothing wrong with them. It's just the mind. The mind is closed.

The mind is locked. That expression cannot find... That reality cannot find expression. It's like a it's like a river that is in your spirit that wants to flow, but your mind is the dam. Your mind is the gateway. Your mind is the dam. So it only flows with respect to how much of your mind is open, how much your mind has permitted to find expression. Listen. Do you know that if I decree it over over your life, go and prosper or go and make a million or you will sow in seven digits or you will sow in eight digits, do you know that not everybody will receive it? All You can give and continue giving, but your mind has not been transformed at the level at which prosperity should meet you.

So the burden is not giving anymore. The burden is to bring your mind into a place where you can prosper without limitations, without boundaries. This is the reason why. It looks as though many of God speak words over people, and it's happened at different levels at different levels because we all receive at different levels. We receive with the degree to which our minds have been transformed. Remember, the anointing is never the problem. The availability of the vessels is is the problem. Gather many vessels. Gather not a few. The anointing will always expand to fill the vessel it is contained.

In other words, if my vessel increases, the anointing increases. If my vessel increases, the anointing increases. If the anointing looks small, it's because the vessel I provided is small. In other words, if the working of God's grace upon my life looks small, it's because the vessel I've provided through my mind is small. And imagine that you're a man of God with that limited vessel. In other words, the way and the way and manner by which the power of God will flow half of you will also be limited. It will also be limited. So when we pray over people and speak words over people, their lives will be a reflection of the things we have believed. So you can have a gathering of people who are plenty. They have...

The man of god has a congregation of plenty people, or they might not even be plenty. And you will find that all of them pray, all of them fast, all of them are spiritual, but majority are poor. It is only a reflection of the mindset of the man of God himself. The man you are raising will always be a reflection of your thinking. There's no reference of greatness in your mind, and the anointing of greatness comes upon you. That anointing will only move in you to become all that your mind sees, all that your mind has captured. So in the business you're doing, if your mind has not been kept or renewed to a point where you start thinking like a millionaire, there's a way millionaires think. There's a way billionaires think. The moment of thinking, Listen. I've done this before.

Let me do it again. Can you see me? Yes, sir. Let me just use this place so that everybody can see me. Young man, can you come? Sorry to stress you. Come. Let another another young man should come. Stay on. Stay on that platform.

Just stay at the extreme end there. You stay at the extreme end there. Are you holding anything with you at all? Who has money? Any currency? Imagine with me. Stay at the extreme end. Stay at the extreme end. Imagine with me, brothers and sisters, that this is wealth and prosperity. This is wealth and prosperity.

Imagine with me that this is influence. Influence. Let me have someone else come. Imagine with me that this is access. Access to kings, access to princess, access to men... Health health Oh my god. Can we have someone else? I'm so I'm so sorry about that. Listen. This is access, you see, to princess, to kings, to men of power, men of influence, men who are capable of raising you into greatness and success.

This is prosperity. This is wealth. This is influence. You see, everything that they are holding represents all that God had a portion that you would become. But you see, the length of years that you have will not permit you to start looking for these things one by one. If you look for money alone, you can die looking for it. Are there not people people graduated school looking for money and are 75 years old and they are still looking for it? Yet, they lived all their life looking for this. And in pursuit of this, this never came. In pursuit of this, access to men of power and men of influence never came.

Influence and greatness in itself never came. Are you with me? Because they were all pursuing. So imagine they get this at 60. When do you start looking for this? And so a man retires and all his pursuit all through his life as being a c... To be to be to be working as a civil servant just looking for money. And so he retire with a pension, maybe 5,000,000 naira, and then he he he buys a piece of land, builds a house, and then that's all. You see, God did not design you to look for all these things. Are you with me?

It is quality relationships, Religion that will make your destiny. Are you with me? You will need this to to to to succeed. So you know what people do? They start looking for this. They go to offices. They block men on their way to airports, lie down. Say, sir, can you give me your number? Can I snap a picture with you? And they try to force what has not arrived in their life.

And they go on social media, they post a picture there, and then as they are posting pictures, this is not in their life. This is not in their life. There's no wealth. No wealth to show that you're knowing this person and snapping a picture with this person is because your greatness has arrived at that level. You didn't get what I just said? The results around your life don't match the result of the person you snap picture with. And you check the social media platform, it is filled with pictures of of of him pretending to be where he's not. And genuine... And he thinks that in doing so, influence will come. Genuine influence doesn't come that way.

Social media likes can come, but not influence. Do you know that to be popular isn't the same as to be influential? These things are only designed to come to you. Are you with me? As a man becomes renewed in his thinking, as a man becomes renewed in his understanding, as a man matures and grows in the spirit. Are you with me? That as you begin to grow, as your mind becomes renewed, as your thinking as your thinking increases, as your as your mentality transforms to that of Christ, then all these things that you are looking for is designed to look for you. Are you with me? In other words, as you grow mentally, these things are designed to come looking for you. So I might be in a one story building.

One story building? No. One bedroom apartment. Face me, face you, And I'm there. And while I'm there, that possibility and that reality is allowed to remain as long as my mindset has not grown to a place and to a point where it takes me out of that room. Are you with me? To a point where it defines my realities. And so I don't become angry that I'm there. I don't become angry that my neighbor stole my gas to use. Those are realities that come with where you are currently.

I don't become hungry. There's no light. I don't become frustrated and say, oh, why is Nigeria like this? No. No. No. Those realities come with your current position. Do you understand what I'm saying? I go and check downstairs, and while I go there, there's no water in the well. Now I have to go and look for water, and I'm hungry and frustrated.

And I say I have to leave this country. No. No. No. No. That's not the answer. You will leave this country and still go and find water. Listen. How God has designed that these things will come to your life is that you will begin to grow and mature. So while I'm in that room, what am I doing?

While everybody sleeps, I burn the midnight candle. I'm studying for my exams. I'm reading for my exams. While I'm reading for my exams, even though the exams are not nearing yet, but I'm a diligent student. The bible is seeth out a man diligent in his work. He might... He will stand before gains. His reality might not be standing, but the realm of the spirit often is moving. I I told you that the realm of the spirit is faster than the physical realm. So something can be a reality in the realm of the spirit, but in the physical realm, it has not yet manifested because it is...

The physical realm will take time to to to configure everything to align in your favor. Are you with me? So as I move forward, you take a step forward to me. Are you with me? Do you understand that? Do you understand that? So while I'm in the room and I'm studying and I'm reading, preparing for my test, preparing for my exam, I'm still a student, and then I'm just praying in tongues. I am done. I pick out the message. I'm listening.

And I'm listening. The power of mind renewal, the mentality of a victor. I'm listening. The mystery of a transformed mind. I'm listening. The mystery of handshake prayers, the love of success, the four dimensions of wisdom, and I'm listening to the post of Emmanuel Boulware to say. What is happening is that in the realm of the spirit, my life moves forward. I don't know that these things are drawing near me because I'm still in a room. Oh, God. Listen.

This is why the bible says, why would not look at the things which are seen? For the things which are seen are temporal. For every face a man is is temporal. It is subject to his level of thinking, and it is subject to his level of mind renewal. It is temporal. That is not God's best for him. We look at the things which are not seen. How does a man look at the things which are not seen? He carries the Bible. The Bible is the mirror of the realm of the spirit.

The Bible calls the Bible calls itself a mirror. In the book of James, the word of God is a mirror. The reason is because you you can't see the realm of the spirit. So the bible mirrors that realm for you. So as you look at scriptures, you begin to see the things which are unseen. And as you gaze on the things that are unseen, your mind becomes renewed. I get a book by Kenneth Copeland on prosperity. David Oedipon on prosperity, and I'm studying. As I study again, I stick... I I take a step forward.

That morning, I'm still drinking Gary. I come home that evening still writing an exam. As I'm doing this, study. To be a successful man, you must provide value. I say value. Okay. What is value? Because value in this kingdom is exchanged for wealth. My goodness. My mind is transforming.

My mind is transforming. What then is value? A skill can be a value. A service I offer can be a value. Look within yourself and say, can you do? What can you learn to provide value to solve a problem? And I'm saying, my God. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. My mind is being transformed. As I see it, as I'm reading that, and I'm thinking, providing value, I live into a message for this cause where you born. For this end was I born by apostle Emmanuel. And I and I hear that message that God starts things in this life from the end of things. For this end was I born, that life always begins from the end. It means a man does not declare where he is. He declares his end. While I'm reading, I have no value yet. I'm still learning a skill, but I've now learned that my declaration must always be at the end and from the end.

So I say I'm prosperous. I'm wealthy. I'm a success. I'm a billionaire. Hey. What is happening? I'm taking a step forward. All of a sudden, someone comes to me and said, hang. There's a skill I'm learning. It is called data analysis.

Have you heard about it? You said, no. Do you have a laptop? I think we should learn together. The person who introduced you... Are you with me? Yes, sir. The person who introduced you might still be here as I be be... Behind you. But because you are still at the same face, you are still at the same stage rather, but at different phases.

Stages is different from phases. We can all be in primary school. That's a stage. Primary one is a phase. So we are all at the same stage, but the faces differ. Whether you are in primary two or three, it's a... It's still the same stage, but different faces. And as I move forward, my face is increasing. As it increases, these things draw near to me. I don't see any unique difference because my school uniform does not change.

Primary three, primary four, we all wear the same school uniform. Our relatives are the same seemingly. Only few differences here and there. The difference is in our level of understanding. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes. The guy might still be faces behind me and introduces me. Now I've studied that a diligent hands make it rich. A diligent hands make it rich.

The heart of the sluggard desires many things but never has it. A diligent hands make it rich. I said, my goodness. I must be diligent. I must be hardworking. So I begin to watch the videos. I go and learn this. I go and I go to the class we are learning. They teach they teach all of us. But because of the face I am in, my mind has been transformed and renewed to now take my life seriously at a level at which the guy in phase one still think he has time.

I have grown to a point where I know time is no longer on my side. The king's business requires ace. We are at the same level, but we're not at the same face. Are you with me? Yes, sir. And so I don't compare myself with him. Bring her back here. Take authority over that demon. I take authority over that demon. I rebuke that demon right now, and I bring sanity into this house in the name of Jesus.

Bring her back. Listen. I learn diligence, and I take my life seriously. I pay attention to the skill. For for four hours, I'm studying. I am practicing. I'm coding. I'm doing it again. If it is a if it is a makeup skill, for instance, I pay attention. I'm learning it.

Growing to the highest level of excellence in that skill. While I'm there, I'm growing. Oh, as I'm doing this thing, I'm taking a step forward again. My life was not yet sure that anything is changing, but I'm still learning. I'm still learning. As I'm learning the service twelve hours preconvocation, I'm excited. I go for twelve hours. I stretch my spirit again. I take a step forward. As these things are happening, when this guy arrives in my life...

Are you with me? Then somebody will now come and say, you said you are learning this skill. Right? I said, Alright. I have a friend who said he wants to hire a data analyst for his business. Can you do it? And you say, yes. I can do it. So how much will you charge? And you say, oh, well, let me start with 400,000.

400,000. Okay. Let me think. Okay. I've told him. He said he said both of you should talk. And then he connects you and get the contract. Now where you are going is a million. Where you are going is billions. Billions upon billions.

Billions upon billions. Give me a minute over there. Get up now. Let her go. Live her forever. In the name of Jesus. I rebuke that devil. Leave her. I set this body on fire. Right now.

Be loosed. Be free. In the name of Jesus, demon of condemnation, demon of fear. I see a cloud mist around this lady. Get out now. In the name of Jesus. I declare this body free right now. In the name of Jesus. Let the fire of God come upon this body. You me?

You see, now I've gotten a contract for the first time as a student, 400,000 naira. That's not the stage I'm going to, but I've left where I currently am. I've gotten to another stage. At the previous stage, are you with me? And because my mind was transformed before getting here, I will do this job with a level of skill, a level of diligence and excellence that when the person sees it, they say, my goodness. You mean you did this? I have another friend. The moment you step into that stage, you are there. No power of hell can bring you off. You know why?

Because you got there legitimately. The reason why people, it looks as though you have entered a stage and then for the next three years, that reality does not find expression is because you didn't get there. You cheated your way there. You scammed yourself there. You dumped prophecies. Jumped everything, and and and go back there. And while that guy was still there, you jumped to go and meet him. So now you are in first class in an airplane with under your pocket. It is obvious your life has not gotten dead. But so you can snap a picture, you pretend that you live a fake life.

This is the cause of fake living. How God has designed it is that you will continue to grow. And as you grow, these things come. Are you with me? Now move here. Move close. Move close. All these guys are close to me. Now at this stage, I have a level of access and influence. At this stage, I meet some people that are important, but I don't yet know billionaires and millionaires.

I don't I don't yet have millions in my account. But for a student, I'm doing okay. How much do they make 66? Are you with me? I'm doing relatively okay. And because I got here by understanding, by mental renewal, I've learned the I've learned a lot of success, financial management, the lot of tithing and savings and investments, giving. So I'm able to retain that which I have. Just stay with her. Listen, this will be the difference between me who progresses and somebody else who remains at this phase. Are you with me?

Because you see, there are higher stages to what I've currently received. Are you with me? So the bible says grace and peace be multiplied. So if because I've crossed this stage, I didn't think this is the height of what God is taking me and I become at peace in Zion. The bible just warned to me. How is grace and peace multiplied? Through knowledge. In other words, there is still a a depth of mental transformation and renewal I don't yet have. That is not... That is why I'm not yet a millionaire.

In other words, the moment I start thinking the way millionaires do, higher dimension of this guy will start coming to me. And my my reality will show. My lifestyle will show. Everything around me will show. Are you with me? As I'm growing, everything around me grows. So as a man of God, you might go for a meeting, and then they give you $500 on the radio. There's no need to be hungry. Are you with me? It's not hunger.

No. No. No. We don't serve God for money. We love God and we serve God genuinely. Are you with me? But people perceive your honor to the degree to which your mind is transformed. So go back to the secret place. It's a pool that's still something you don't know yet. Continue growing in value.

Everything around you, including how men treat you will also grow. If David Oyedepo comes here now, the most reverend bishop comes here right now he's walking on the street of UI, and you see him walking. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Do you know that a man will immediately drop his car and say, bishop, what are you doing walking? Do you understand what I'm saying? If you come and say, I'm hungry, a lot of you will leave this place immediately even as the word of God is going on. Go on. Go to the best place you can find. Say, Bishop, this is the food.

Can you please eat it in my presence? Lay hands on me. Do you know why? Because the level of mental transformation will not allow for that reality to remain within. So even if it tries to remain there, his his mind will insist that that's not where it belongs. Are you with me? So when such men empty their accounts in three hours, everything they empty come back. Their mind will insist that level doesn't belong to them. Either by favor, either by someone saying, either by God speaking to someone to come and give them something. But to be obvious immediately that no.

No. No. Life itself will be angry and say, why why is this man? Why where is the money? Where is the... Are you with me? So the respect you are looking for, the crave you have for respect, the crave you have for honor, and you are looking for people to call you name and call you prophet and call you brother and call you sister, listen to me. Grow in mind, grow in mentality, grow in your mind, your thinking. I will watch even the way men perceive you will change. It will change.

There are things in this kingdom that don't answer to prayers. They answer to growth. They answer to transformation. What is your prayer request? It's someone else's lifestyle. Yes, Yes, sir. This guy is on the on on the guitar. Do you know that there is a level it will be in that nobody will pay to hear it? It's not to be hungry. It's to let yourself in and still realize I've not grown to the height.

This is not the peak. And still continue to sharpen himself in skill, in understanding, in mental renewal, in knowing the best way to package and and contain himself. Are you with me? Packaging without mental renewal is frustration. You can look like a stage you have not yet gotten to. Life will send you back. A lot of people hate process. The process to sit down, to sit down and to grow, to sit down and to learn. You are looking for quick quick money, quick wealth, quick miracle, quick transformation, quick greatness. You want everybody to know you all of a sudden.

That's not how men are made. There must be a track record of your growth and of your work with God. There must be a track record. And the way you are thinking now is no longer the way you think. Listen to me. You can be a politician, and God has said, yeah, I'm taking you to is to become a president, but you don't start as one. You start probably as a councilor, a local government chairman. And while you win the election, you trust God. Even if you don't win, you are still learning, building yourself, improving yourself mentally. You contest again, learning why you missed the the first one.

What did you do wrong? What didn't I do right? What can we improve in our campaign process? As your mental transformation increases, the level of your thinking and mindset increases. You realize that your level as well in life increase. So even as you win, by reason of the mental transformation, you you you learn skills needed to place yourself in that platform as a president even whilst you're a local government chairman. You don't say because nobody knows me, let me steal all the money I can steal. Then when I'm done here, I will start appearing good. It's a proof your mind is not transforming. They put you in that platform as a slave.

Most people who occupy that office are slaves. Get my team effective leadership. You will understand what I'm saying. Slaves can be leaders. It will show in the lifestyle of those that they lead. But the moment someone whose mind has truly grown to meet up with that position is put into office, everything around them will show and you came prepared. You came prepared. You came prepared. By the time he did, I'm contesting for the next level. Everybody gives him support.

He knows where he was going to, but he starts knowing that life are in stages, even the stages in phases. Mental transformation, mental renewal. Don't blame anybody for where you are. Oh, no. Stop the blame. You would only be... You would only have a good home to the degree to which your mind is transformed. You will only be a good husband and be a good parent to the degree to which your mind is transformed. Wishful thinking doesn't produce result. Uh-huh.

So pray... Are you with me? Sir. Wishful thinking doesn't produce result. As my mind transforms, then the realm of the spirit will send a message to the realm of the of the physical realm rather that this man is not supposed to be where he is. So somebody somewhere will hear God and say, I I heard God tell me to come and bring you a car. I heard God tell me to come and give you this house. I just wanna sow this amount of money to you. Do you know that a man of God who has a mentality that the people that will bless him will come from outside? A man of God with that with that mentality a man of God with that mentality will not grow the people who are with him.

And the anointing will be so strong as to produce results, but not so strong as to produce lasting results. Because you see, mental transformation is what produces lasting results. If the mind of... If the mind of the man is not transformed enough to know what wealth is and how men enter wealth in the marketplace. Are you with me? To know what is going on in the marketplace. What will happen? Is that kings will come to him, but not from him. By reason of his grace, men who are men who can see would be standard worthy whatever this man say will happen will happen. They will come to him to receive of his grace, but those who serve him will never be will never be rich.

The aim is not so kings will come to. The aim is so kings will come from us, like the mighty men of David. It is possible that a man of God knows nothing about wealth. He doesn't even know why he's prospering. He only knows people come and give to him. As he prays and leads people into intense prayer, all the top members will pray all their life and never be wealthy. And yet they will give to him because he's a man of God. And he doesn't know the law of productivity, the law of value, the law of our governing financial management and financial increase. How money is made, multiplied, and managed. The man knows nothing about these things, but he knows that poor people come and give him money.

So there is never a a teaching or a meeting that that that that that empowers people financially. If anybody wants to prosper, they would not depend on just the teachings of that man to prosper. They would need to outsource. Do you understand what I'm saying? You can you can be faithful to the man because he's loyal to God and because he's sincere. But you see to think that all you need for prosperity will come from that one person. You can only help men for the degree to which you have seen in God. I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as Jehovah. Jehovah means all sufficient, all sufficient. Jehovah is the reason why they were all wealthy.

Jehovah is the reason why they were all prosperous. Jehovah is the reason why they grew in wealth. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Lacking nothing because that was the dimension God showed their father Abraham. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Isaac learned all sufficient. And because he learned all sufficient, he sold that same land and prospered even in the same. Ripped a hundredfold because he knew all sufficient.

Jacob got Laban's house and became richer than Laban even than Esau. Even even Esau himself became prosperous because he knew all sufficient. Are you with me? Sir. But God told Moses, by my name, Lord. I was not known to them. Lord means the owner. God was going to tell... You can drop your hands. God was gonna tell Moses to go and take back his people from Egypt.

And he said, when you meet Pharaoh, tell him the owner sent you. In other words, these people are my own. The reason why Pharaoh would let them go is not because Moses is acting as a shepherd. It's because Moses recognizes that these people are not mine, they are the Lord's. And if they are the Lord, then it is Lord's battle. The Lord is the one who will fight, not me. When he didn't know this dimension of God, he thought the answer was in him fighting. So when he saw one of them being oppressed, he jumped into warfare and he started fighting. He didn't know it was not in the fight because the people are not ease. They are the Lords.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So God had to reintroduce himself to him. I am the owner. The scary thing is that God says by my name, the owner, was I not known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It means what they got by God being all sufficient could easily be taken by somebody else. And the knowledge of this is Lord's home was not there to preserve it. And so Abraham had to be scared his wife who can be taken.

Isaac had to be scared his wife can be taken. Had to lie the same lie his father lied. Jacob can walk and his wife too will be taken, and years of labor will be taken. Isaac can plant a well and the well will be taken. And that will be the only well that is... By all sufficient, the well will spring up water. But the owner was not known that they will take it from him. He will have to go and labor again to fetch another water to show that it was all sufficient that was providing it. The moment he left the previous one, water dries up. It means it wasn't the well.

It was a dimension of God that he knew that was powering what was around him. However, there was another dimension that was not known to them because their father never journeyed into it. Are you with me? And all of them learned God from their father. Are you with me? In other words, as a man of God, the extent at which you have learned God and the limitations that you have will become the limitations of the people that follow you. That is the reason why we label in word and doctrine. It's called labor for a reason. The bible says give them double honor. Many people have this misconstrued mindset that men of God are just lazy.

Just They come on Sunday, come and preach. Oh my God. Where do you think these things that we say come from? Last year, I set a target for myself to read a thousand books, and I couldn't reach it. And I felt so bad during my retreat that I was only able to read over 400. I felt so bad. It should be more than 400, over 400. I didn't even know that was a big deal because to me, it was nothing. It wasn't even up to where I wanted to reach. And I told some people, you know, I wasn't able to reach my target.

I only read about 400 over, and they were so shocked. That was when I knew it was a big deal. Mean reading that and that. And then I asked, so you... How many book have you read? And I read one. You mean, this is December. Three, two, five, seven, seven if you already need one one month. When you... If a man says I'm sent to the nations of the world, you think that your own renewed village thinking is what is what will get you there?

When you stand before the Americans, what will you tell them? When you stand before the Asians, what will you tell them? When you stand before those who don't need to pray for Nepal light and other things that you pray for, what will you tell them? The fact that you find yourself in America is not me at the global ministry. Because you can go to America and the only people that you meet that you meet there are people in America. You are still sent to them just in another region. But can we grow in thinking first that no matter where we are, people from all walks of the earth, regardless of their culture, of their background, when they hear us speak, everybody can learn a thing or two. But a mature man who is sitting down doesn't listen to me and say what this guy is saying. A student doesn't listen to matter what this guy is saying. Everybody can find a common point.

It takes mental transformation. Hard work and hard labor in stop the man in reading. Can I call you to come and give a speech for ten minutes? And people go back with such value. They look forward to your next speech. They say, my God. That ten minutes, my God. Have you grown in anointing so that when you speak a word? Somebody get him blessed. My goodness.

Can you sit down for one minute? Let me see if I can see if it is on my teacher. Sit down. So your mindset is a product of education. I've said experience or past... Your your culture already. Sorry. The exposure, that was where we... My goodness. Exposure.

And I said that the extent to which you have expanded your mind is a degree to which you can expect certain things from God. There are certain things that will begin to happen in my ministry as signs. It has already clicked in my spirit. I've seen it in my mind. The physical realm, it takes time to manifest. But when they do start manifest, you are not surprised because we've seen it. Mhmm. I remember the first time before all of this began, before even ministry began years ago. Should be about ten years ago now. We'd go to Oylem, we'd go to the back of chapel.

I will start praying in the spirit. And as we pray in the spirit, we declare things we want to see. The way I pray, you would think I'm a madman. And as I'm praying, I would say, there are 30 people here right now. I'm at the back of the tree in Jabbo. The power of God is upon you. Receive that power. And in the... In my mind's eye, I will see power resting upon people. I will say there are 10 people in the overflow.

There's someone I see at the gallery. I would say I'm seeing a lady. Her name is Mary. Where is she? And in my mind's eye, I would see someone coming out, and I'll be rejoicing while I'm praying. Mary, I'm seeing someone while I'm praying. Oh, it's my mother, your mother. Let me pray for her. Hold my hands. While I'm praying in my spirit, I'm saying it as I'm saying it.

We will still go for meetings and nothing will happen. We'll still have prayer meetings and nothing will happen. But when I go and pray, my spirit conceives. My mind conceives. I remember the first meeting I went for, and I declared as I've been declaring in the spirit, there are 30 people here. The power of God is coming upon you. And like a dream, the wind of the spirit will live through that place, and the power of God wrecked that place. And I saw hazmat appearing. I saw tumors clearing up. I saw I saw I saw crossed heights being corrected.

There's a lady there's a lady that was known in the school had crossed heights. The high straightened. She went out under the power, woke up with a straightened high. I said, what is this? My goodness. One of my friends was talking to me who started this thing together. I called him some days back. He called me some days back, and while he called, he was telling me of someone who was speaking to him and was recounting those days how that they were diagnosed or it was something in their stomach that they needed a surgery for. A part of the belly of the of the inside of the of the stomach that wasn't growing normally. And a a surgery was needed.

And she came to that meeting, and she was telling that friend of mine that I was the one who was ministering. I declared words, and the bulge was all... Was always pulling out in her belly. She... It was obvious something was growing because it showed physically a part of her belly was growing out. She said immediately the growth disappeared and the body be... And the the belly became normal. This was... The the the friend was telling me, the lady never even... I I never even knew anything like that happening...

Happened. Sorry. Are you with me? Never knew. Years ago. I said, my goodness. But this all began by reason of the things we saw. That's the same way there are things I'm seeing right now. There are things I'm seeing right now. You're not just sitting here.

I saw you. I saw you. I saw every single one of you. The same we have seen nations. The same we have seen the flags of China, the flags of Japan, the flags of Burundi, the flags of Malaysia, the flags of Kutt D'var, the flag of Afghanistan, the flag of Iran, Iraq, the flags of Israel, the flags of these nations. I have seen. I have seen. I I have have seen. Seen. I've seen them waving the flags as we gather in tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and we lift up our voice in worship.

And the head quake because of the multitude of those that are singing. In those days when we look at it and we see, we will know we saw this. We saw this. We saw this. When Disney World was opening, Walt Disney was not alive. And they came and gave a speech, and the person who was giving a speech came and said, if only Walt Disney was here to see this. And the wife came up after him and said, sorry. Let me correct you. Walt Disney was the first person who saw this. He said every last detail, he told me.

Not alive to see it, but he saw it. The difference would be that we will be alive to see the things we have seen. It's not things that are to come. It's things that our eyes will see. I have seen your greatness. I've seen it. Listen, it's not only something I see. Oh, no. Oh, no. I strongly believe it.

Listen, I don't I don't hack the man of God. I don't come on pulpit and then hold microphone and start saying positive things while I now go home and I start saying what my heart fully reflects. And say, Nigeria is hard though. Ministry is not growing. Ministry is growing. Ministry is working. My confession does not change either on pulpit or out of pulpit. Those who know me know this. We were in our... Not...

Were in our room, and I was praying with some people. The prayer lasted for some months, 12AM every night. Lord instructed that we pray, and I will gather him in in my room... Into the room, and we'll hold our hands. And whilst we hold our hands, the spirit of the prophet will break out. And everybody will start seeing things and prophesying, seeing visions and prophesying. And in that room, are jumping, We are screaming. We are shouting. We are jumping. We are screaming.

Declaring the things that will surely come to be. The mind. Do you know that Do you... Listen. Do you realize that if the quality of your mind does not change, God cannot walk in and through your life. God called Abraham and promised Abraham several things, and these things were taking so long to manifest. And God said, Abraham, I know the problem. Abraham came to God and said, how about it? My... Promised me a son.

I've not seen the son. And right now, I've taken his my... It will be my son. And God said, no. No. No. No. No wonder this thing is taking long to manifest. Since I promised you, I expected it to have taken mortality. But the way you are speaking now showed what you believe all along.

Are you with me? Because your mouth will always declare what you believe. Let the of my heart, the confessions of my mouth be acceptable. God called Abraham and said, look at the stars. Count them. And Abraham started counting and was talking as he was counting. God was doing something to his mind, expanding expanding the rate at which the man sees. God was bringing his mind to see as his spirit was saying, count the stars. And I started counting. He couldn't count.

He said this is innumerable. Abraham, count the sands and the seas. He started counting. This is innumerable. God says as far. The same way the sands are on the seas and the stars cannot be counted, so shall your descendants be upon the earth. Immediately, Abraham had something he could see, something his mind couldn't envision. Finally, his mind was seeing as his was seen. Remember, it was God who changed his name to Abraham. God changed the spirit which his spirit was.

It was a done deal, but his mind wasn't seen that way yet. Count the stars. I want to do something to your mind to make you see as I see. God came to Jeremiah and said, son of man, before I gave birth to you in your mother's womb, before I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you. I ordained you a prophet to the nations. The man said, it might be true, but what my mind is singing is that I'm a child. Immediately, God began, say not that you are a child. Say not. In other words, what you have said is only a reflection of what you believe. God immediately rebuked what he was saying.

Say not that I am poor. Say not that I am small. Say not that I'm a child. The question was, was he not a child? God came to a child... To a 13, 14, 15 year old boy. Was he not a child? God said, say not. Say not. We don't look at the things which are seen.

The things which are seen are temporal. I will put my my my hands in your mouth. And God started declaring some things. God was again shifting the way he sees, doing something to his mind. And the moment God was done, God said, what seest thou? I will put my words in your mouth. The words that we put in your mouth will root up, will root out. It will plant. It will build up. It will shake.

As God was speaking, Jeremiah was seeing. He was seeing himself speaking. He was seeing his words rooting out. He was seeing him... He said higher. Higher. Higher. An expansion was happening. God said, what seest thou? What seest thou?

The man now said, I see the rod of an almond tree. God never explained what the rod of an almond tree was. The only thing God said was you have seen correctly. You have seen correctly. For a long time, I did not understand what he meant by the rod of an almond tree. What is special about the rod of an almond tree? Then God told me the first thing he saw was a child. He never doubted that what what God was saying was possible. He only doubted that... He only doubted that it was the time for a fulfillment.

And so what he saw was a seed, not a tree. What God did was to shift his thinking to start seeing himself as the rod of an almond tree. Are you with me? Do you know what that means? God said you have sinned correctly. There are two things there. The first is that he stopped seeing himself as a seed. He started seeing himself as a tree. But the second sin is that he's not just the tree. He was seeing himself as the rod of the tree.

Did Jesus not say, I am the vine. You are the branch. In other words, he had a messianic vision, and he saw that God... This God was the one that powers him. The strength is not from me. I am only the rod of the tree. The life and the strength doesn't come from me. The utterance is not mine. I am only an extension of the tree. The man saw that the life of our...

That I will use is not mine. The words that we speak is not mine. Open your mouth, I will fill it up. The moment he saw, he said hi. I thought I was the one that will originate it. I thought his strength was mine. Now I know I'm just a rod. You are the tree. The moment his mind grew, God said you have seen correctly. It mean that it's...

It it it means it is impo... It is possible for a man to see himself incorrectly. You can see yourself incorrectly. You can see a timid girl, a shy girl. They come and speak in your class. You say, ma'am, I'm just a shy girl. God said, what is this one saying? Say not that I'm a shy girl. Have you not read your bible? The righteous is as bold as a lion.

My sister, what do you see? What do you see about yourself? Do you already see a billionaire? Do you already see a millionaire? Do you still think about as a successful woman? Is your mindset growing to accommodate this? Are you thinking like a wealthy woman? Are you conducting yourself like that? Or do you think like a baby girl? I don't want somebody to spoil me.

Your mouth is reflecting what you believe. In other words, I can never have enough money to take care of myself. I will always be dependent on somebody else to take care of me. That is the confession of your mouth. And your life will show it that you don't believe what you are saying. Your mouth will never disappoint. It will always mercilessly speak out the things your mind has conceived. You It don't matter what the limitation is. The only limitation exist in your mind. Pick a man from the gutter and bring him to me.

Give me a year with him. If he's willful, his life will change. The only thing you need to change is his mind. Don't you know that people are not who they are because of the cloth they wear? They are who they are because of their mind. In other words, take this cloth and go and give a thug in Songo. Clean as the cloth may be, leave the cloth six months with him. The cloth will then eventually look the way his mind is. That's exactly the way... So if that's the case, why do we think changing cloth is the issue?

Don't you realize you know your cloth will change? It's not your shoes you change, it's your mind. Give a brand new phone to a thug somewhere. We're not serious to mock them. Oh, no. If the level of their... In other words, they're not a thug because they are rough. They're a thug because in their mind, they are so. So you bring one of them here and let something begin to happen to his mind. Let something begin to happen to his mind.

Let his mind be changing. Let him sit down in an atmosphere of the world and he's receiving the light of God's word as his thinking changes. Listen. Do you know that every poor man gets the truth? That's why they remain poor. It is the reason why the poor will always be poor. Listen. Go and give someone who is struggling with their finances a message and say listen to it. They will look at you and say, okay. Because they want money.

When someone comes to meet me here and the person says, I'm supposed to. I don't know how you can help my business. Most of the time, what they are saying is, can you support me? Can you give me capital? Can you pray for me so that capital can come? And I'm looking at them and I'm saying, no. Listen. When your mind grows to an extent, capital will come. One of my guys here got a capital to start his business worth almost 1,000,000 naira. I never taught him how to get.

Never even taught anybody how to get capital for their business. But as your mind renews, as your mentality increases, as something is happening to your mentality, the way you are thinking, you start looking for resources that are proportionate to your mental renewal. You start seeing, I can't remain here. I can't remain here. Oh, they are giving people grants. Okay. What what... How are the grants like? And they say, oh, you need to attend the conference in Lagos. And the mind now thinks, ah, conference in Lagos.

Somebody will not travel to Lagos again because of grant. Woah. That's the mind. That's the mind speaking. Procrastination is of the mind. Laziness is of the mind. Even fears of the mind. That's the mind speaking. Listen to me. Somebody thinks that I don't think I can prosper.

I didn't go to school. I didn't go to university. And right now in this in this generation, only people that went to university are making it. Who told you? Who told you? Everything you believe, somebody told you. God told Adam. That was the question God asked him. Who told you? Who told you?

This doesn't mean don't go to school. Don't get me wrong. Who told you? I know people who have never seen the four walls of university who are making millions. I know people who are who are first class university who are driving Micra. This is not to shame those driving Micra. Are you with me? You can drive Micra and be a millionaire. It depends on the mind that drives it. I've not seen more...

Most Micra cars in Ibadan. The car resemble the mind of the owner. The car is only a reflection of the mind of the owner. You will see the bumper. You will see the glass. You will see the mirror. You will enter the car. You will see the seats. It's as though people have donated there. Everything is smelling.

Then while you are there, something is falling on the roof touching your head. And while you are resting your head, there is no more backrest anymore. There's no more... You enter, you turn and look at the boat. There's goat dump somewhere. And you ask him, And immediately, you know why he's poor. Immediately. How many people still blame the government? Still think Buhari is why they are poor. And the value of the naira is going up.

And they and they think, oh, the president is the problem. It's going down rather. How many people are sacked in their place of work and they blame their employees? In that same place, are there not people who are not sacked? If a fashion designer, you you don't deserve wealth if your mind is not the mind of a million naira fashion designer, a billion naira fashion designer. There's a way they think. There's a way they cry themselves. There's a way they conduct themselves. You look at the guy because of the way his mind works. He become an embodiment of his own brand.

I know people who sew nice clothes for people but look but wear rags themselves. Mental renewal and mental transformation. If you pay attention to it, it will turn your life around. I was talking to one of my daughters, and while I was speaking to her, I said, goodness. Look at the way your mind is conducting this business. The business will not grow. A business person, sincere and honest, sincere and honest. And I saw the way she was conducting the business while talking to her. I said, my god. This mind cannot make this business into...

If if she had continued that way without urgent intervention, That business will enter bankruptcy. One of my secretary was telling me, she said she said, I I I am... I I wanna buy for a contract. I wanna pitch for a contract, and I think I should give the designer this amount of money. And she mentioned a ridiculously high amount of money to give the designer. And I said, why? She said, you know, because the money I will get from the contract is big. I just feel like I should just give him that amount of money. I said, since when is business run through feelings and emotions? How you feel like paying someone, how you pay them?

Who taught you this? By using Abruka mindset to run business. What need to go and check is who is the most prosperous person in Abrica and find out if you if you will ever grow past them. I told her, I said, listen. You only ever pay someone by reason of value offered, not above. In other words, if the content I'm getting is 1,000,000 and the value you offered me is 1 naira, I give you 1 naira. If you don't know this, you won't prosper. You don't pay people emotionally. You pay people by reason of the value that they offer. In other words, the way you would pay someone who is a gate man is not the same thing you would pay someone who manages the business.

The level of mental input differs. The gate man can be complaining and be saying, your guy is not doing anything. The MD does nothing. He's only collecting all the money. He's only collecting all the money. I we are working every day, opening the gate 100 times, and you only pay me 14,000. The MD is collecting for 1,000,000. What is it doing? Just send them that AC. Now be sleepy.

Now be reading the paper. They bring in coffee in the morning. What is it even doing? Exchange them. Put the MC... MD by the gate. Put the gateman in the office. You will find that the MD will do something in that gate that will make people stop going to the office. Sir. It became it became obvious immediately that it's not the hard work that...

In fact, the empty will find a way to reduce the work in the gate. Come up with a system that makes the gate open by itself and close by itself, or while sitting down the gate still opens and close. And everybody is amazed at the innovation. How did you come about this? You say, well, have the masters in so and so. Oh, no. You you you are too intelligent to be here. Put the gate man at the office. He will run down the business, run down the finances, everybody will leave. Those who will resign will resign.

It will show you that the the the the the state of your mind is what brings wealth to you, not your hard work. It means a man can be very hardworking and be very poor. To be praised. Mhmm. Are you with are you with me? Yes, sir. Are you getting blessed? Yes, sir. Let the words of my mouth, the meditations of my heart be acceptable. So your first assignment is to stay with God's word and rise to a level in your mind where your thoughts are a reflection of the word of God.

The devil stands helpless in the face of a man who has made the word of God his reality. At that point, Satan becomes powerless in your life because you're no longer governed by your circumstances and by the things that your optical eye sees. Your convictions are deeper than your circumstances. If you want to reign in life, you must come to a point where you think like Christ. His mindset never allowed for impossibility. Christ never thought that anything was impossible. Go and get them bread. There's no bakery around. There's no dish around. We only have five loaves and two fishes.

Can we do something to those five loaves? Can we do something to those two fishes and multiply them? None of them thought like that. It means as a businessman, can you make do with what you have and come up with the best results? The man that was in Christ. That what you have is a camera phone, and you say I want to be a camera man, a videographer, a top videographer in my field. But what is limiting me because I don't have a camera, and God says, maybe you have a phone. Don't you have a phone? That's the five bread and two fishes. What can you do with it?

Can you multiply it? The mind that was in Christ. I've seen videos that were taken with mobile phones on social media, and you will be shocked at the results. You say, my god. A mobile phone took this, but the guy is waiting for the bread to multiply before he steps out. And god says, no. This is not the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ takes whatever it has and multiplies it. It is not until I have the best laptops or the best devices or the best machinery. Why I have no further business?

I'm still waiting to buy this equipment. We're out there are several ways that thing can be done and still produce an optimum result, the mind of Christ. There are many pastors who speak big, but their mind has not believed the things that they say. Whatever is the pivot of your thinking is what you say when you are alone. So when you need a microphone, they say big things on microphone. But when they go home among those that they love, they say they say what their mind really thinks. Then they say, ah, this ministry thing, God, help all of us. I speak big all the time. All the time. You can't convince me that I'll be small.

You can't convince me that I am small. It informs the way I carry myself. I called one of my guys. I told him. I said, you think the way you are going, you think it's humility. It's a servant mentality you have. I never honor any man at the detriment of what God has placed on me. I value what is upon me. I know I'm anointed. I know I'm graced.

And so when we honor ourselves, when we honor, it's not because we don't know our value. It is because we have reduced ourselves intentionally that we might receive. Are you with me? Not because we have been blinded to what we have, who we have. Oh, no. Oh, no. We've just chosen to be blind. We've chosen not to account ourselves by the things that God has given. And so we reduce ourselves. We honor ourselves.

Running the basket and looking for people. Sit down. Sit down with what God has given to you. Everybody you are looking for will meet you where God placed you. Do you realize that everybody you know today, you know them because they focused on what God gave them? They focused on their ministries. They focused on their business. They... You you left your own alone and looking for them. What foolishness?

You have crafted a pattern for yourself that God did not craft. The spirit of men are in their are in their materials. I can get access to a man's material and soak it in until his grace lands upon me. And I focus my life upon the work God has given. And as I rise in that work, a time will come I will stand on the same platform as the man. And while the and listen to me. When this happens, they will look at you and tell you what a privilege it is. We have listened to your resources and we have been blessed by you because they've been observing you all along. They've been observing you all along, but kings don't come to your light. Kings come to the brightness of your rising.

It is Gentiles that come to your light. When your light starts shining, those that we attract are Gentiles. Kings will first observe. They will wait for the consistency of the of the brightness. And in its consistency, in its gloriousness, then king will start coming. And there... Some of them will tell you, I've been listening to your message. And you say, what? When did I come out? Where did you start listening?

You'll have no idea that they've always known you. They were just waiting. And while you are jumping up and down, while you are jumping up and down, they say, ah, where this one is going? Give him give him three years. See, that's how a man, diligent in his work, in his work. Galatians six and verse four, MSG. Make a careful exploration of who you are. Of what? Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given. The work you have been given.

What do want another person has? Make a careful exploration of who you are. Some of you will sit down and you will say, ah, Anthony Abbasi and Dulce Eko, who is more anointed? And you say, you know, when Nathaniel Bassi is singing, his own like this, it it comes like this. But you see, Dulce Ekon's own is when he now says, that the power of God will not... So if he... Okay. How about apostle Selman and apostle Barukpo? And you say, okay. Okay.

Those ones, you see, based on what are... You are a foolish person. Make a careful exploration of who you are. The work that has been given to you. Then do what? Sync yourself into that. Sync yourself into that. The question is what you are currently doing with respect to your work. Can it be called sinking? Can it be said you have sunk yourself to your work?

Can you be said you are lost? You are addicted. You are obsessed. Not until a man is obsessed with his work. He can't prosper. Yeah. One of the man that addicted to the work God has given to him. A a a a realm of obsession, either a business person, an entrepreneur, a student, any man who wants to prosper, get a degree of obsession, addiction required passion with the work you have been given. It beats in your heart. You want to see it succeed.

You want to see it prosper. You wanna make more profit. You wanna make... Are you with me? My new year goal is any useless man will not take care of us. You're not being our life. It's not... In this new year, don't grieve for anybody. A guy is not wasting your time like this, sister, sister, you are worth more. Are worth nothing.

No? I'm looking for your worth in what somebody gives to you. Make a careful exploration of who you are, the work you have been given. It means if you don't know the work you have been given, then explore yourself enough to know. Explore yourself enough to know what is the work I've been given. What am I meant to be doing right now? Either in terms of purpose or career and both. Am I into ministry? Oh, God has told me I have a call into ministry. Now let me get clarity.

Now let me get clarity. What is my message? Who am I sent to? What is my placement? Where am I sent? I make a careful exploration. What is the message God has given to me? As a man of God, how does it start? What visions am I seeing? I'm praying.

I'm studying Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Andrew Womack. I'm sinking myself in doctrine. And I don't want until I'm giving microphone. Go and get my mother's seasons of greatness. I told... So listen. I know you're a business person. I know you are. And what you mean by a business person is I've learned this skill. I'm advertising myself, and now I'm making some money with my skill.

People are patronizing my service, patronizing my my my... Either the services I offer or the goods that I sell. That is beautiful. But that's the only skill that you have. You still will not prosper. You need three skills to be learned. The first one is the skill that brings you wealth, either a digital skill or whatever. Are you with me? The second is an entrepreneurship skill, how to run a business, how to transform the skill you have learned into a business that grows. The second is sales and marketing skills.

So if you say I've learned the skill and say you have learned whatever skill, I'm a copywriter or I'm a business person or I'm this, and you don't, in your mind, allow for space to know that a time is coming where this skill... This thing that I'm doing has to grow outside of me. I can't grow a business in my name and by myself. In other words, I can't be the first person that relates with customers. How do I grow a structure around what I'm doing such that even without me and in my absence, it still grows? Then that is a structure. That is how every man makes wealth. You see, mental transformation. Even if it's a ministry, the same thing. What is God's strategy for visibility?

What have God instructed us to do? I was speaking to a young man, and I told the young man, said, listen. You know, he told me that he's doing nothing currently and he's waiting for what God would tell... What God would have him do, either that concerns purpose or career. And I told him, what do mean you're doing nothing currently? What were you doing before? And he told me what he what he was doing before. Why did you stop? He said, well, I'm waiting for God to tell me what next to do. So why are waiting for God to tell what next to do?

Why did you stop this you're doing? What part of waiting for God to tell you what next to do says stop this one you're doing? Obedience or... Sorry. Waiting on God doesn't mean to do nothing. Are you with me? It don't mean to do nothing. You can wait on God while obeying the last thing he told you if he hasn't told you anything new. It's not wisdom to stop the last one he told you while waiting for the next one he will tell you. In other words, if God hasn't given me a new instruction, I keep on being faithful with the old.

Are you with me? I don't stop completely and say, well, I just dropped out of my of my... I designed for my work right now to focus. Now where do you want to start? You see, I've not really heard God yet, but, you know... So how do you think of the family? What food does it... The wife eat? What food does children eat? He said, I don't know.

I don't know, but I'm still trusting God. Come on now. This is why people make mockery of Christianity. Are you with me? Time is gone. This thing is so deep. So deep. Perhaps next week, we will do think on this dance. As we've not been able to begin the vision. Listen.

Pick something from this meeting that you will labor tirelessly to see that your mind never remains the same, to see that there's an upgrade, a shift. Listen, carry books and read. Books that are spirit inspired, books that agree with the word of God. It doesn't actually really mean only read spiritual books, especially if you're a business person. If a career person, that's also good. Are you with me? But you have got to read books. Invest in your leadership skills, how to communicate, how to talk to people. You're an OAP. Invest in how you speak.

Don't think you've mastered it. Talent is never enough. Refine your skill. Read books. What does it mean to be a CEO? What does it mean to employ people? How do I manage people that I employ? Don't say, well, I've only I only have one person that is helping me to just blow my grand knot. He's not really doing much. I only give you one five.

You have... That's unemployment. How do I manage this one person into a thousand? Does the bible not say one should become a thousand? In other words, while I have one, I'm I'm reading, I'm studying. I'm studying scriptural principles and books that are aligned with scriptural principles in making wealth and managing wealth. Read books. Please do. There are some of you who must take courses online. Buy the truth.

The bible says, buy the truth. To sharpen and to and to invest in your mindset would would mean paying for a course, paying for a master class, paying for a conference. Don't think it is too much money. Stop looking for free things up and down. You won't get any value from it. Are you with me? Sharpen yourself. Sharpen your mind. You're a musician. What don't you know yet?

While you are staying with God while you are staying with God, I know that you can pick songs in the realm of the spirit. I know you can pick songs that angels are singing. I know your ear is like the way bat speak sound. Sonar, stay with me. The moment a new sound is released in heaven, your ears picked it. But you know nothing about mixing sound. You know nothing about notes, about chords, about anything. You are just raw like that. Nobody eats raw meat. Nobody.

If the people who sang this song that I'm singing now, if they sang it Sunday, if they sang it the same way they heard it, none of us will listen. I watched the video of the song, and I saw that after the song was mastered in Nigeria, then it was sent to Nashville where a a a secular set of orchestra has their own mix to the song. And I wonder why go through that stress. I was listening to Jeoplot... To Nathan Embassy himself and Russo Econ, and and they were speaking. They said sometimes they send their songs to Nashville to add strings to it. And they said they pay close to $10,000 to add strings. Don't you have strings on the keyboard? And you think it's only because the man is anointed. Someone hold a trumpet and begins to blow.

And you say, when that man blows, he knows how to blow. He knows how to blow well. He knows how to blow properly. He can blow and still sing and still do and still do and still do. That is skill. Acknowledge skill when you see it. Say how can a man so master music. I can tell the keyboardist to meet me on a set. My goodness. That is skill.

Who let me do meet me and a? I will go to WU. People will go to Y. Then you will know it's nothing. Give me anything. It is skill. My friend Dikwa would say, he would relax for eight hours every day while he was in school, studying mechanical engineering. Minister Dikwa, Eight hours every day with his team. You've not seen minister Dikwa at his best. Oh, you have not.

What he does when he come is play, he just plays with us. I've seen... Ah. When he goes with his full... The fullness of his team and you see the synchrony, how how everything just becomes one, you say goodness, mastery. The name is mastery. It's the thing I'm gonna teach you this year. The law of mastery. And anything you have not mastered, striving for the mastery. That is what the bible says.

Don't be comfortable with just I know how to do it. I know how to play the keyboard. I just know how to. So when you sing this song, I know how to play. And they say, give me an a. You you first transpose and go there. Is that the key? No. It's not the key. Down.

Down. Down. Down. There are some people online you think they are wizards. You say goodness. You can understand why they are popular, why they have it. It will be it will be unfair for them not to have influence. You can't be that skillful and people will not know you. Are you with me? I've seen some musicians sing and what they do with their voice, you'll be scared.

You're a singer. You say God has called you and you have... I wanted me to sing. You raise a voice to heaven. And you raise a voice in five minutes, your voice has cracked. Do you realize that every man of God who says he's not in oratory, he's in aura... He's in utterance can speak well? All of them. I've heard apostle Selman say it, You don't you think it is in oratory. It's not in oratory.

It's in utterance, but he speaks well. Yes, sir. He never repeats anything. He speaks smoothly. It's in both of them. Sir. Yes, sir. I... Have you not noticed that the people that say it's not in this one, they say because they have it. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Only a wealthy man will tell you it's not in money. In other words, it might be true that it's not in Igbo, get it faster. Do what? Get it first. Have you learned something? Listen. As the word of God challenges your thinking, challenges your mind, it doesn't matter what you believe. Please sustain the humility to throw away false beliefs.

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