Transcript: Unlocking Success God's Way Part 1

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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. Bible says, the passion translation. The bible says in that same passion translation, here is what Yahweh says to you. I know all about your marvelous destiny. I know all about the marvelous destiny that I have in store for you. This is God speaking. He says, I know all about the marvelous destiny I have in store for you. A future planned out in detail. My intention is not to harm you, but to surround you with peace, prosperity and to give you a beautiful future, glistening with hope.

Here is what Yahweh says to you. I know all about the marvelous destiny I have in store for you. A future plan out in detail. My intention is not to harm you. But to surround you with peace and prosperity. My intention is not to harm you, but to surround you with peace and prosperity. To give you a beautiful future. Glistening with hope. What a very powerful scripture. In this scripture, the intention of God is revealed.

God says, I do not have an intention to harm you. I do not have an intention. You see, when you know the mind of God towards you, it keeps your heart in peace because you know that the ones whom you have entrusted your life does not have any intention of harm or ought towards you. But instead he says, what I have in store for you, what I have in store for your marvelous destiny, he calls your destiny marvelous. He said I have planned your future in detail. I planned out in detail. I did not mistake or miss out any important detail. I invested my... Myself solely in your life. And when it comes to your life, I ensure I'd not miss anything out.

That's what God says about you. My intention is to surround you with peace. My intention is to surround you with prosperity, to give you a beautiful future. This is the heart of God for me. This is the heart of God for you. I'm surrounded with peace. I'm surrounded with prosperity, and I know that the future that awaits me is a beautiful one. It is glistening with hope. I see from this scripture that greatness is not man's ambition. I see from this scripture that greatness and success, prosperity is God's intention.

From Genesis to Revelation, we see a consistent pattern revealed in scripture. God makes men great. God gives men influence. Influence, relevance, prosperity, these are not human inventions. They are divine provisions. God was the one who initiated the program of greatness, of success, you know, of prosperity, and not even man. For instance, God did not make man in poverty. God made man in abundance. I'm talking about the first man, Adam and Eve. God made the first man in abundance.

God made the first man in abundance. The bible says there was abundance of gold, abundance of silver, abundance of provision, and God ensured that all of these were available before he made the man. All of these were available. If you move on to the story of Abraham, you would find a man called... A man rather who was also on his own. Abraham was just on his own. He was seated down on his own. He wasn't as though there was no record in scripture that made mention of the fact that Abraham was somewhere desiring prosperity, somewhere desiring success, somewhere desiring greatness, somewhere... There is no record at all of that. The man was on his own.

And whilst he was on his own, in his father's house, God came to him, and God told him, I will make you great. God was the one who came to Abraham. Abraham did not have a prayer request. Abraham did not have a plan. Abraham did not have any aspiration. Abraham did not have any ambition. Abraham is like that guy who probably is just in school or is just working and he just getting say salary of 50,000 naira, 70,000 naira, and he has no... Become millionaire, has no plan to own a business, has no plan to start anything at all. Doesn't have any plan. The guy is just moving, working day to day, collecting his salary, collecting his pay, wants to get married, already has children, married already, has a good house.

He has no aspiration. He has no ambition. And in the midst of that, God comes to that man and tells the man, I will make you great. So that you would now see that Abraham did not ask for it. God was the one who came and told him. So it's not man's invention. It is God's idea. Are you with me? God told Abraham, I will make you a great nation. I will bless you.

I will make your name great, and you shall be a and you shall be a blessing. In Psalm 71 verse 21, the bible says, you shall increase my greatness and comfort me on every side. The believer's life was never designed to be one of struggle. The believer's life was never designed to be one of scarcity. In Christ, we have been called to live a life of overflow. We have not been called to live a life where we are just barely getting by. We have been called to live a life where we are so full that orders feed from the abundance of our tables. That is a testament of the believer's life. In Psalms 23 and verse five, the bible says, you prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil.

My cup runs over. The believer's life. When he says my cup runs over, it means God's intention is never for us to have just enough. It's more than enough. Your blessing is not for personal consumption. It's for kingdom provision. It fills your cup up, and it makes it run over so that others can drink from that overflow. If your cup were just full, it will be just for you. It runs over so that your sphere of influence and the kingdom at large can benefit from the blessing of God over your life. And guess what?

This blessing, this success, this greatness was God's own idea. It wasn't something that man just woke up one day and started pursuing. And so any man who has a desire for success, any man who has a desire for greatness, either in academics or all around, you have to realize that God was the one who actually invented that desire. Let no man therefore make you feel canal for desiring success or for desiring greatness or for desiring prosperity. Because if you're not careful and you don't know this, society will make you feel bad for wanting to enjoy God's best. Society will make you feel as though your own is too much, as though you are being competitive. Society will make you feel as though you are too ambitious. Society will tell you to relax. Where are you running to? Calm down.

What are you looking for? Society will try to influence your decision. I will try to paint the picture that makes it look as though having a good result or being excellent or being, you know, successful or being great is doing too much. Being wealthy is too much. Being prosperous is too much. Having massive wealth is too much. Being successful living in your academy is too much. You're not careful. A man of God shared a story of how that he was in his forties. He had just turned 40 when he was building his first house.

And as the house kept on going up, he would go to the site to one oversee what is happening there. Thank you, Lord. And one day he got to the site. The house was already been roofed, and it was a gigantic structure. Remember that the man of God was in his 40 when he was beaten at first house. That was his first house. And the man was outside. Someone came to him. Elderly women came to him and said, are you the one that is the developer of this house? Are you the engineer?

He said, no. But why are you asking? He said, well, we have just been wondering that who is... Who owns this big house? Is is a politician moving to our area? And he laughed. He told them, no. He's not a politician thinking that they came there in good faith. He said, no. No.

He's not a politician. He laughed. He said, I'm the one. He said, what? As young as you are, This house, you, ah ah. And they walked away in disbelief. The man of God started thinking to himself, how do you see a 40 year old man? He's too young to hold a house. Society will make you feel bad for desiring success, for desiring greatness. But the bible is full.

The bible shows us again and again how that it's God intention that you live life in the best way possible, that you do not struggle for survival. There are three planes of existence that a man can live in, and you get to choose which plane you want to live in. The first. Is suffering. How many people want to stay there? And you know what happens to a man who is living in suffering? And that suffering is in every area of life. Like I said, three planes of existence. It means it's in academics, in finances, in marriage, in business. You mentioned it.

Suffering can exist. Let me give you an example. If a man is suffering in his academics, what do you think his cause are out of 100 in school? That's the kind of person that has five, six, seven carryovers because what you would see every time write an exam is status. And sometimes it's not as to that such people are not hardworking. Sometimes they actually put in their best, but the plane of existence that they are staying in is suffering. They cannot get food to eat. They have to beg even to eat. They are never having enough for themselves, talk less for the kingdom. If money comes to that guy as add, he's not thinking about giving because he has not eaten in three days.

He first has to ensure that his stomach is full. He's barely getting by. The second plane of existence that men can live in is survival. And when a man is surviving, he's not suffering. He's just there. Things are not too bad for him, but they are not too good either. He just always has... He's always he's always floating when a man is surviving. If you relate it to somebody's finances for instance, that's the person where he's not as though he lacks food to eat. I mean, has a job.

And that job to some extent can put food in his stomach. That doctor to some extent can pay his outright at least his head is. He pays yearly. So by the time he saves up at least six months salary, removes maybe some amount of money, even one year salary sometimes, he he will be able to afford to pay the next one. He might struggle a little bit before he can pay his son's school fees, but he will still be able to eventually. It's what economics call average. Academics call mediocrity. The student who is surviving, then your scores is already around 50, 55. That is if the average mark is 50, if the past mark is 50. If the past mark is 45, then it should be 45, 47, 48.

A marriage that is surviving is neither happy nor sad. It's just floating. This plane of existence applies to every area of a man's life. And the third plane of existence is success. That's why you're not just surviving. You don't just have enough. You have more than enough. So for a student, it means you excel in your academics. For a business person, it means that you are no longer struggling between a profit margin of 50 k 100 k $1.50, but you're at least settling your millions. That you have enough just just...

Not just for yourself, but even for the kingdom. That's when you are a success. Are you with me? Lots of people are not here. Do you agree? In fact, economics, you don't even have to agree with me. Economics agree with me. There are lots in... As a matter of fact, 90% of people are not here. 90% of Nigerians are not here.

90% of Americans are not here. 90% of people all over the world are not here. Guess what? This is where God has ordained for believers. This is the plane that believers should be dwelling. The plane of success. The place of ever increasing glory, ever increasing prosperity, having always more than enough. That's where God has designed you to live and to constantly dwell. In Psalm 66 verse 12, the bible says thou hast caused men to ride over our heads, went through fire and through water, but thou hast brought us into a wealthy place. So for a brief moment, it might look as though men has ridden over your heads.

It might look as though you're passing through fire, but that is not your end. God is bringing you into a wealthy place because that is where God has ordained for the believer. That's where God has ordained for the believer. God's plan for you is success. God's plan for you is glory. God's plan for you is is beauty. I really love the TPT translation of Jeremiah twelve nine eleven that we read. It says my intention is not to harm you, but to surround you with peace and prosperity. Oh, Oh, thank you, Lord. My intention is not to harm you, but to surround your life with peace and prosperity.

That is God's plan to give you a beautiful future, glistening with hope. Glistening with hope. You might want to meditate on that scripture, especially if you're unsure of God's intention for your life. Glory to God. But this is where I'm going. The fact that God has a plan for you doesn't mean it will automatically come to pass. Destiny is not all up to God, you see. There is a partnership between what God has finished in your spirit and what you allow through your soul. Man is spirit, soul, and body. You know that?

At salvation, what happens is that your spirit becomes saved. That's what happens at salvation. Your spirit becomes saved. And so all the promises and all the blessings and everything that has been perfected in scriptures, that is written in scriptures, in past things that have been perfected, is perfected in your spirit. For instance, the bible says that he has given us every spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. That means that everything that a man would need to survive, everything that a man would need to prosper, to succeed has already been given to that man. Does the bible not say that the blessings of the Lord maketh rich? So if the makes rich, and the bible says he has given us that blessing, not that every blessing. So both the one that make rich and the one that makes pass and the one that makes excel and the one that makes succeed, every has been given. You know, he's not gonna give it.

He has given it. He's not gonna do it. He hasn't it. The bible refers to these things in past tense. It means it's already done. It exists already in your spirit because that is the part of you that became saved, your spirit. That is the part of you that became one spirit with Christ Jesus. That is the part of you that the holy spirit now enlivens, not tabernacles. Your spirit. So when the bible says that God has given us all things that pertains not to life and godliness, where you were given your spirit, Your spirit is perfect.

In Hebrews 10 and verse 14, the bible says, for by one offering, he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. That as he's sanctifying them, he has perfected them forever. That part of you that was perfected is your spirit. Your spirit is perfect. Say my spirit is perfect. My spirit is perfect. It shows you that your spirit has been perfected forever by the sacrifice of Jesus. But that's not your soul. That's not your body. It is your spirit which is made perfect.

It is your spirit that is complete at salvation. In first Corinthians six and verse 17, the bible says, but he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Your spirit and the spirit of God have become one. That means your spirit is already in perfect alignment with God. Full of his nature, full of his wisdom, full of his power. So that the nature of God is in your spirit. The power of God is in your spirit. The wisdom of God is in your spirit. The gift of the spirit is in your spirit. The fruit of the spirit is in your spirit.

The ability to love like God is in your spirit. The ability to heal like God, to think like God. The wisdom of God. The Bible says Christ has been made wisdom unto us. That ability exists in your spirit. Your spirit man is perfect. It's complete. Say my spirit is complete. My spirit is complete. Colossians two and verse 10, and you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.

You are complete in him. You are complete in Christ, and the completeness is in your spirit. It's not something you are becoming. It is something that is already done. So the question is, if it's in your spirit that you are complete, if it is in your spirit that you have all things that pertains onto life and godliness, If it is in your spirit that you have every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, why is it not in your life? Why did not manifesting in time? Because there are several believers that hear over and over again that these things are yours, but they don't see these things manifesting in their lives. Despite plenty preachers, I've told them that these things are yours. In the book of Hebrews, the Bible says, chapter two, I believe, that all things have been put under his feet, all things. But the bible says, but now we do not yet see all things put on thine.

Then the spiritual, all things have been put on dime. But in time, we do not yet see. So there is always that factor that makes it look as though what has been perfected in the spiritual takes some time before it manifests in the life of a man. And there are several believers, many, majority of believers who will die without ever coming onto the experience of the perfected nature of their spirit. Plenty human beings who would die like that. Plenty human being. That's why it is all often said that the grave is the richest place you would ever find. Because there is a lot of potential that dies with men unfulfilled, unrealized. That never comes out. It's just there, buried.

Are you with me, brothers and sisters? The reason your reality doesn't look like your prophecy, doesn't look like what has been perfected in your spirit is because your soul has not yet aligned with what your spirit already possesses. Your soul must catch up to the reality of your spirit because man is spirit, soul, and body. You see, if you were only a spirit, this problem would not be there. If you were only a spirit. But the fact that you are not a spirit, you are a man. Man is spirit, soul, and body. Man is what? That's what makes him man. That's what makes that makeup man complete.

His spirit, soul, and body. So I don't buy into the idea even though it sounds intellectually accurate that man is spirit. He has a soul and lives in the body. It is intellectually accurate, but I don't buy into it. And the reason I don't buy into it is because man is not spirit. God is spirit. Angels are spirit. Demons are spirit. Jesus said, a spirit hath not flesh and bone. So if it has flesh and it has bone, it is not a spirit.

It is man. And what is man? He is spirit, soul, and body. It is the completeness of this that makes him man. And if you try to separate it or segregate it, you will miss out in this complete nature. Because in first Thessalonians five twenty three, the bible says, may the god of peace himself sanctify you, what? Now what is the completely may your spirit, soul, and body? Whole spirit, soul, and body. In other words, it is the wholeness of the three that makes you a man, that makes you complete. Do you understand what I'm saying with you?

Yes. Where the issue lies is that if it is only that you are a spirit, then the moment you are saved, your life should change immediately. Did you understand what I just said? You will just enter into everything experientially that Christ has done for you. As he is in heaven, so are we in this world? Bam. Becomes your reality. Patterns in the family will just break. Somebody that was dull before accept Jesus as God and savior, his brain will just come. Were broke before.

And you say, Jesus, accept money everywhere. That would have been the case if man were spirit. Because all of these are true in the spirit of man. Because that spirit is perfect. That spirit is complete in Christ. That spirit is Christ. Can think like Christ, can reason like Christ. That is where Christ dwells. That spirit is one with Christ. Let me not say it's Christ like this.

Understand what I'm saying? Do you get the point here? Yes, sir. But your soul is not yet saved. Your soul also has to experience salvation. So I know we call it salvation of your soul. That's what happens when one to the altar call. We say, come out for the salvation of your soul. We understand what they are trying to say. But it's not theologically correct.

Because what happened is not the salvation of your soul. In reality, the salvation of your spirit. The salvation of your soul is something that will continually happen. It is continuous. Let me show you the scriptures. So that somebody is not confused. James chapter one verse 21. Can we read it together everything? One, three. Go.

Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Let's do it in... Okay. Just leave it. 123. Go.

What are you receiving now? What saves your spirit is the holy spirit and living your spirit what Christ has done. I think what your soul... That's what your spirit receives. What saves your soul is the implanted word of God. The word of God being implanted in your heart, that's what saves the soul. So the salvation of the soul must be complete. And as the soul is being saved, what begins to happen is that you begin to realize that you come into the experience of that which is already in the spirit. So you are not as you are in time in your spirit. You are as you are in time in your soul.

Do you understand what I've just said? So in Romans chapter 12 verse two, the bible says to not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. If this process is not complete, you will realize that you will be conformed to this world. And the bible says conformity to this world is enmity with God. In third John chapter one verse two, I love that scripture so much. It says, beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in it. Just... Wait. Calm down. What is the intention of God here that you...

In how many things must you prosper? Can you think about... Can you break all things down so that you understand in what areas your prosperity is necessary? Your business part of all things? Is your marriage part of all things? Is your academics part of all things? Your finances, your career, Is it part of all things? Your aspirations, your ambitions? All things. How about your health?

In fact, yeah, he separates that one. He says, I'm being helped. That's my desire. That's my prayer. That's my desire, my prayer that you prosper in your finances, that you prosper in all things, that you succeed, experience massive prosperity, break into abundance, break into success in all things, in all things. You know, I checked the word prosper, and I found out that the word prosper there means you do, And it means to succeed in reaching. It means to succeed on a journey, in reaching. It means you you are trying to reach something and you succeed in it. You are trying to journey somewhere and you succeed in it or to succeed in business or to succeed in anything that your heart desires to do. That's the meaning of the word you do.

In other words, to succeed in any endeavor. That's my desire. It says that you succeed. God wants me well, and God wants your success. God wants your prosperity. Not listen to anybody who tells you otherwise. Not listen to anybody who makes you believe otherwise. And also not listen to anybody who makes you feel as though this is true and it is only up to God to make it happen. Because when you now continue, it says that the extent to which you will prosper in all things is just as your soul prospers. The x...

You will succeed. I want you to succeed, but now realize that it's no longer a hope to me. Because everything that you will need to succeed, I deep profited in your spirit. Everything you will need to live a good life, to make a good living, to make a good name for yourself, to succeed even in your business, to succeed in your academics, in your marriage. You mentioned it. Everything you would need to succeed is in your spirit. It's given unto us all things that pertains onto life. It means everything that your life we need, all things. For the advancement of the kingdom of God, for the wellness of your own life, all things that pertains unto life and godliness, he has given unto us. He has given unto us.

But it says that your success in any endeavor, your business, your academics, your career, your marriage, your life, even your ministry. Yeah. Man of God in ministry, even the success of your ministry, the prosperity of your ministry, even the success and the prosperity of your purpose. I hope you know it's part of all things. Your purpose, your destiny, your ministry, the assignment God have entrusted into your hands. The success of all of this endeavors is directly proportional to the prosperity of your soul. That means whatever condition a man's life is is a direct diagnosis of the state of his soul. And if your soul prospers, then your life prospers. But if your soul prospers, then your business prospers. And if your soul prospers, then your marriage prospers.

Your ministry prospers. Your academics prospers. Every area of your life you can think of prospers to the degree to which your soul has prospered. You know what people do? We try to fix these areas of our lives when we find out that they are not prospering. Somebody gets married and... Married, sorry, and the marriage is tearing off, breaking into two as against the will and the intention of God for every married couple. So what they try to do is they try to fix their marriage. You see, The guy started business, and the business is not running as it should. Has invested every capital into the business, and he thinks that the problem is I don't have enough money.

If only I have enough investments, if only I have enough investors, I don't... I can't I don't... I can't pull enough resources. I need things that... What to do to scale up this business is to ensure that I have much more money to push into it. So he tries to fix the business. The guy is not succeeding in academics. He's failing every time. And he tries to fix it externally in themselves, but ultimately yields no result. It leads to frustration because the state of your soul is what determines the state of your life.

It means if you wanna fix anything, fix your soul. Please note, not the state of your spirit. Not the state of your spirit. Your spirit is perfect. Your spirit is perfect. It is not the state of your spirit. It is the state of your soul. Your soul consist of your mind, your emotion, and your will. And three of them must bend to the will of the spirit. What the bible calls the prosperity of the soul is the degree to which these three areas or these three makeup of your soul submits or should I say comes under alignment with how your spirit is.

Do you know that your spirit man has emotion? Do you know that your spirit man has a conscience? It has knowledge. It has intuition. And your soul also has emotion. Your soul also has intuition. It has the mind. That means that your soul has an emotion of its own. And that emotion is many a times as defined by external circumstances. Because the soul is either aligned to the flesh, that is the physical environment, or aligned to the spirit.

And by default, it is aligned to the flesh. That's why if things are not going well physically, your soul can interpret that things are not fine. There's no money in my account. My life right now, people are riding over me. In this business, I'm struggling at this moment, or things are not probably moving that I think they should do. Your soul can pick that, And your soul can respond emotionally in sadness. Your soul has no choice in the matter. As long as it interprets life solely based on what the physical environment tells it, it responds in that manner, you see. Your spirit also has emotions. Your spirit also has intuition.

And the activity of your spirit is not dependent on what happens externally. Because it is God that lives in your spirit. You understand what I'm saying? How you know that your soul has prospered is that whatever happens, your responses are not as defined by your soul. You pick your responses from how your spirit is responding, then your soul has prospered. You didn't hear what I just said. That that is at the release of your emotion. That... Your emotion at every single instance, especially when things don't go well for you, is not as your soul would want it on a normal circumstance. It is as the spirit is responding in that situation.

And somebody says, sir, I can't see my spirit. How do I know how my spirit is responding? And you'd have asked an intelligent question. Because you cannot see your face too. I hope you know that no man can see his face. Do you realize that no man can see his face? The best you will see is a reflection of your face because you do not have eyes outside of yourself. Your eyes are implanted in your face. So unless you try... You can't see your face.

You are gonna need a mirror to see your face. That's why the word of God exist as a mirror. What the word of God does is it refures you the state of your spirit. And it's always constant. It never misses. So as you study the word of God, you start seeing things have its ease in your spirit. So many a times, what you would see is not in your life, but it's in your life. You didn't see what I just said. It's in your life because it's in your spirit. You didn't get that.

Because in turmoil, for instance, and you are depressed and you are sad and things are not going well, and God says, my peace I give to you. And you're wondering where is the peace? Where is the peace? Whereas, what you have just read now show... Is a is a mirror. It just shows you what is in your spirit. It's saying there's peace in your spirit. Oh god. How you would know that your soul has prospered is the degree to which your emotion in the soul can align with the responses in the spirit. That's the emotional component of your soul.

So a believer that does not respond to any circumstance as the circumstance comes is a believer whose soul has prospered. Is a believer who has now opened himself. The the spirit now flows, now floods his soul. His emotions can now be influenced. Remember, I'm still on the emotions. Can now be influenced by what is happening in the spirit. The bible says rejoice. Again, I say rejoice. It means your spirit man is is rejoicing. He's rejoicing.

He's rejoicing. Your spirit man is always thanking God, always rejoicing. The bible says that the spirit helpeth our infirmities. For we know not what we should pray for as we hurt. Is that much so? Yes, sir. So the spirit is praying on your behalf. The holy spirit, you get my point now? Your soul can pick it. And know that right now, the spirit is praying on my behalf.

I must align myself to the burden of that spirit so that my mouth begins to vocalize the same thing the spirit is saying. That's what we call praying in tongues. There's peace in your spirit. All the fruits of the spirit's patience. You have patience in your inside. You have meekness on your inside, And you need these things to prosper. Because there are business decisions you cannot make in a haste. Oh. Do you realize that a hungry man will make mistakes? Because all he is thinking and all he's thinking in that moment is immediate gratification.

So even when they will rob him of his destiny, he doesn't want to think that. All he wants is food. Because that is what his soul can see. Do you remember that scripture in Genesis where Esau was asking this young man for food? Was asking this young man for porridge, and the young man would tell him that, take porridge. I can give you porridge. But I would need your birthright in return. I want you to watch. Note that this was a transaction. The words used in that scripture is not give, it is sell.

It is sell your birthright to me, not give. This was a business decision that the realm of the spirit recognized. But this man had no connection with how things are in the realm of the spirit. This man only lived life by what his soul can perceive. He was still in the emotion, what he can feel in the moment. At that moment, he was hungry. That is what he can feel, hunger. Is that not so? Now watch his statement. The statement in the next verse is, give me NLT.

There's a word that NLT uses that is very important. Let me see if you can find it. One, two, three, go. The word is now. It means I agree that it can be good to me in the future. I agree that it can be good to me later. But now, how good is it to me now? It is called instant gratification, Where nothing else makes sense again as long as this is what I'm feeling. Or God, there's prophecy over you. Guard your lust.

He said, what good is prophecy to mean now? I say I like that girl. We would talk prophecy later, but prophecy is no good now. The body wants something. Isn't even where I'm going. Let me not waste time here. Where I'm going is the mind. Because the mind is also a component of the soul. And the soul prospers to the degree to which your mind. Your mind is your organ of intuition.

That's where you reason. That's where you think. That's where you imagine. That's where pictures are formed. So if I say that I had rice yesterday, what your mind sees is not lettuce. What your mind sees is rice, a picture. Because your mind receives information in pictures, and God speaks to you in pictures. So the bible says, when it comes to your mind, there are imaginations that you will need to cast down. Imaginations are pictures. I hope you know.

In the book of second Corinthians chapter 10 verse four, the bible says the weapons of our warfare are not canal. But mighty in God for the pulling down of strongholds. And you would think that the strongholds are just powers of your father's house. In as much as they are a part of it, they are not what is being referred to here. Because in verse five, it now mentions what those strongholds are. It says, what are we pulling down? We are pulling down imaginations. It means pictures in your mind can be the stronghold why your life is not moving forward. Pictures in the mind, Imaginations. That the way man imagines, the way a woman thinks, the way man pictures imaginations, that thing that you have the least value for, the pictures, the way you think, and the way you see yourself, and the way you see everything, and the way you see God, and the way you see others, imaginations.

They must be casted down. This is every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, the and bible begins to explain to us what the high things are. It says bringing into captivity everyone. Imaginations, thoughts. These are the two components of the mind, and your mind has prospered to the degree to which this has happened. The bible says in bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ inside of you. Where is that Christ? That Christ is in your spirit. It means bring every thought to the obedience of the Christ in your spirit. Because there are thought in your mind that will try to exalt itself against the knowledge of the Christ in your spirit.

That Christ in your spirit tells you that you are beloved. The thought tells you can love you. That that thought is now exalting itself against the knowledge of Christ. You're not getting what I'm saying. People struggle with condemnation, guilt, and shame. Your soul has not prospered. And this is where the problem is. You cannot experience prosperity. You cannot experience success in life and in destiny and in ministry if there is condemnation, if there is shame, if there is guilt, all other things like that. A weak conscience, you see.

Because this has not happened yet to you. This is what is called submission to renewal of the mind and transformation by the world. This is why a believer must be discipled. It is possible to be born well in that you are born again, but you are not raised well. When a child is not feeling fine, they say he's sick. But when a child is ill trained, he's also sick. It is possible to be born well, but not raised well. In that, you are still loyal to age long limiting unscriptural, anti destiny beliefs and mindsets that sponsor how you think, that sponsor the pictures of God, of yourself, of life, of business that you have. Just because you have access to the word of God does not mean you have chosen to submit to transformation. What did I say?

The title of my teaching, I forgot to mention, is unlocking success, God's way. Unlocking success, God's way. Unlocking success, God's way. I think from spirit to soul to reality. Confirmed in the Greek is the word. Oh my god. Time is spent. It means to fashion alike, to fashion according to the world. It means to link the world, to think like the world rather, to see, to hear like the world, to reason like the world, to see like the world, to picture like the world. There are about six geopolitical zones in Nigeria.

And listen to me, each geopolitical zone has its blessings and its advantages. But every zone has limitations programmed by demons and principalities associated with these territories. And the way everyone that comes from this territory is locked in is through mindsets and ideologies that are not from the word of God that you still sustain even after being born again. And listen. It can be very difficult to let go of wrong mindsets largely because we tend to have an affinity towards our mentalities. A loyalty to our faulty thinking just because that is what we have always believed. And so when truth stares us in the face, it becomes difficult to let go because we have built loyalty over time. And it is possible to be loyal to the wrong thing. There are mindsets that many of you inherited from grandparents and parents and families and culture and territories that are wrong, anti scriptures, anti God. But you remain loyal to them because you have held them so close to your heart for a long time.

Now that truth is facing you. It is difficult to let go of that thing even though that thing is destroying your life. And you have to sustain the humility to let go of the wrong things you might have believed when confronted with truth. Don't be ashamed to say, I've believed a lie all along. The bible says in John chapter eight verse 32, that you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. Not the word make you free. I I don't have time. But listen, knowing the truth makes free. What then put you in bondage? It means something that you knew.

A lie puts you in bondage. Everything that you believe today, somebody told you, either directly or indirectly. Experience can tell you something. Doesn't have to tell you by word-of-mouth, but that you lived and saw that thing all your life has told you something, and your mind has adopted it as truth. And when the word of God faces you, you must receive the humility to know that this is not so because that thing can put you in bondage. This is the major reason why many people live opposite to what God had ordained for their lives. Many people have believed a lie about God, a lie about the devil, a lie about life, a lie about a lie about men, a lie about women. I hope you know that God's will for your for your life is that your marriage is like that between Christ and the church. That is God's will for you. That's why he died.

But there are lies you would have believed about marriage. This reality exist in your soul. When the bible says, woman, love your... Woman submits your husband. Right? Man, love your wife as Christ loves the church. The ability of a man to love his wife. I told you when I was teaching you be fruitful, that God will not make a demand from you if he has not put in you the ability to bring that demand into fruition. That's the same way. If God is telling man love, it is because inside of man is love.

Does the bible not say God is love? Does the bible says whoever does not love knoweth not God? Because when the bible says God is love, that God now dwells in you. It means in you is love. You have the ability to love like God loves. That is why when he told the disciples, a man can slap you and he can look the other way. You cannot do it, but God can. While he was being nailed on the cross, what he said was, father, forgive them. Pray for the sin that spitefully use you, that somebody can betray you and tear you and say wrong things about you, and you still say, father, help him. He doesn't know what he's doing.

It is not given to man to think like that because the culture you grew up in is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a blow for a blow, a slap for a slap. An will wait for an will wait. The... That that is that is what you grew up seeing. A for a worker. Now Jesus is coming and he's saying something different. And now you are wondering, brother, brother, brother, chill. But the ability exist in your spirit. The problem is that your soul has not prospered. That's why he says I wish above all things.

It's... I I pray. I wish. It's my intention that that which God has put on your inside can find experience, can find materiality, can find expression so that when you marry, that marriage can now know peace the way God has designed it. It can be heaven on earth, but it will be hell. It will be hell because your soul has not prospered. There are mentalities, pictures that came from your father's house, came from your mother's house. Some of them you didn't even know you had. You thought that, ah, my own life will not become like this, and you thought it was only a wishful thinking, but you saw it too long. Your mind has been educated by it.

You can only live it out except intentionally removed by the word of God. So somebody will say, me, I will never marry. I will never marry. I will never marry. Men. Men. Men. She can save her for twenty eight years, even for thirty years. One day, mistakenly, she will not fall in love. Before you know what is happening, you say, ma, I don't really know how it got here, but I love you.

And during the marriage, both of them come together and they're saying, you know, do you accept this man as your lovely lady wife? Lovely. Lovely. Yes. I do. Yes. I do. Can you read your vows now? You know? When I first met you, I never thought I would have anything to do with you because I'd always thought I would not, but you know, when it's meant to happen, it's meant to happen.

I will tell you one thing. That thing wasn't sure meant to happen. Because if it were meant to happen, you would have flushed away that mentality long before you arrived there. Now two years into the marriage, there is hell inside your marriage. The same person you are telling that you love and you do this and you do that for now, you want to literally stab. I met a man of God who told me, man of God who told me, sir, I hate my wife. And you wonder how long were you married? Well, this is how it was. There were mentalities, mentalities, pictures and imaginations, thoughts that were strongholds that were not put in obedience to Christ. So the soul did not prosper.

And in as much as it is God's will and God's intention, that that becomes your experience. Because of the lack of prosperity of your soul, it cannot become your experience. Same thing finance, same thing business, same thing academics, same thing, oh, I don't have time. So in Philippians two and this five, the bible says, we end here. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Let his mind be in you. Let his mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Every time I measure the quality of information that makes up my mentality, that makes up my mindset. And I try to assess myself because I know that my life would only be as reasonable as the quality of my thoughts. Have you not seen people that look as though they cannot stop making mistakes regardless of what you do?

You flock them, you beat them, even the guy is now mature. He still has that same repetitive pattern of making mistakes. I tell you, beyond the deliverances, there is something that the mind has believed in form of a thought, in form of a picture. There are people who believe today that they are dull. They tell themselves anytime they make a simple mistake. Oh, why are so stupid? Oh, stupid you. Oh, stupid this. The more you have reinforced that thing, the more the experience that is in your spirit cannot find expression because there is a thought that have exalted itself against the knowledge of Christ. Rise up on your feet.

Genuine spirituality is not just about activities. Genuine spirituality is seen in the extent of your submission to transformation to a point where you are changed in experience. Many people study scriptures, many people quote scriptures, but they have not submitted transformation. The word of God must become final authority over your life. Your behavior is so transformed, it betrays where you come from. And when you submit to the word of God, something begins to happen to you. That is what is happening to you here. You're not just members of the Disciples Christian Network. You are being equipped for kingdom assignment. And every time we have the opportunity to meet, it's a business of transformation, and I take that business very seriously.

This is the reason why we have programmed our services in the manner to which we have done it. This again, I would say is not a traditional church. And the truth that God has exposed us to by grace that you that you receive here, do not take for granted. Because I say that with all humility, they are not everywhere. The mentality that has been drilled into you and the mindset that has been drilled into you are not everywhere. Are you blessed? Yes, sir. This is the reason why we tell you to invite someone when you come. And I want to put it out to everybody. Invite someone when you come.

On Sunday is the prophetic service. Listen. We're gonna take time to minister to people. We're gonna take time to bless people. It's not really a teaching on Sunday. It's just ministering to people. And listen. Ensuring and insisting that your yokes are broken by the anointing, ensuring, insisting that there are deliverances and there are miracles by the anointing. Invite everybody that you know. Write down a prayer request.

Come preparedly. Do not just come carelessly. God is going to do move in our midst. God is going to do wonders. And he's going to do miracles and healings in the name of Jesus. Invite someone when you come. When you invite someone, don't just be casual about it, especially if you were the one that invited them. We have our own responsibility in trying to assimilate everybody, but you also have your own responsibility. If you invited someone, check up on them. The next Sunday you are coming, invite them again.

They ask them how... Were you blessed in service? You can only sustain the blessing you have received by consistency. Inconsistency lies the power. Charge them again to come. Become friends with them. You have no idea whose lives you are impacting when you do this. Can I give another charge? The second charge I want to give you is we we share videos, short videos, reels on our social media platforms. Try as much as possible to engage those platforms.

Because when you do so, you are evangelizing. That's number one. Engage on those platforms. Drop a comment. You know, drop a comment. Share it with your friends like it. But even so, also share the videos yourself. Put it on your WhatsApp statuses. Put it on your Instagram reels. Put it there on your stories.

Put it everywhere. Because the bible says so mightily grew the world and prevailed. We have a responsibility in ensuring that the world grows. My charge to everybody is to ensure, partake partake in this. See the word grow. This method and this vision is to the world. Close your eyes and tell God that the success and the greatness that you have put inside of me will definitely manifest in the name of Jesus. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at official disciple cn.

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