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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. We shall be discussing unlocking success part two. Unlocking success God's way part two. Jeremiah chapter 29 and verse 11. The TPT translation. So I'm gonna read it for you. Here is what Yahweh says to you. I know all about the marvelous destiny I have in store for you, a future planned out in detail. I know all about the marvelous destiny that I have in store for you, a future that is planned out in detail in detail.

It tells me that God did not begin your life with your birth. It began with your destiny. Your life started as a finished product in eternity, And then God then reverse engineered you into time. If you look at the the the same TPT, it is like how he renders it in Psalm one thirty nine and verse 16. The bible says, you... The bible says you saw who you created me to be. You saw who you created me to be before I became me. You saw who you created me to be. You saw who you created me to be before I became me. Do you understand what that scripture means?

It means that your life does not begin in time. It's interesting how the bible says that God saw who he created you to be. In other words, before you ever were born, he had finished that creation. He then continues to say, before I then became that picture that you saw. Your life with God does not begin with your birth. Your life be... With God begins with a destination that God has created, a destination that God has detailed out carefully. So what happens in time is that the day you were born is not the day your life began. He says before I had ever seen the light of day, the number of days you planned for me were already recorded in your book. So if you go back to Jeremiah that we were reading, it says, I know all about the marvelous destiny I have in store for you.

I know it because I was the one that designed it. I know it because I was the one that created it. I know it because I was the one that formed it. I know all about it. It is my intention. It's never to harm you, but to surround you with peace and prosperity. In other words, at every point in your life, you must understand that God's intention never to harm me. God's intention is never to bring me into circumstances, unfortunate circumstances, evil, sickness, mediocrity, average poverty, destruction. All of these things cannot be God's intention for my life because he says, I know about the marvelous destiny I have in store for you. And in that marvelous destiny, harm is not there.

Evil is not there. The believer must know therefore that if there is anything in my life that is separate from peace and prosperity, God is not the one that ordained it so. And you have to be convinced about this. That if there is anything in my life that is separate from God's picture, God's design, God's order of things, I can't hold God responsible for it. It is therefore not wisdom to say if there is God or if God exists, why is so and so happening? God says, I know what I have have in store for you, and that so and so is not part of it. In other words, before you were born, God said I'm not responsible. I'm not responsible for any harm. I'm not responsible for any evil. I'm not responsible for, oh, if God exists, when my mother was doing this, when that child was doing this, when that was happening, when we were sick, when we're done, when we're done.

Why didn't God show up? God says, I know all about the marvelous destiny that I've planned out in detail for you, and arm is not part of it. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Arm is not part of it. Arm is not part of it. It is comfortable to know that God had me in mind before I was born. This means that the life that you are living now is only a script that you are playing out. It was written long before you were born. It means that you don't have too much choice in the matter. It means if you are wise, you would not attempt to make plans in your own wisdom.

You would find out what was written. That is how to ensure that you arrive at that future that God has ordained for you because he says that my plan is to give you a beautiful future. Let me say it this way. You don't understand that if I am a developer and I build houses, do you agree with me that I have the design as an architect of the house that I want to build in my mind? I then draw out that design, make a three d model of it. On my laptop, print it out, do all the rituals. Is that not so? Follow all of that. And when all of that is available, after all of that is done, I give it to those that will develop it. In other words, before the house even began, I'd already seen the end of it.

The end of it that I see would now be determined by whether or not those who I gave that plan to to follow out, building it step by step, following through to the letter. In other words, that house would only become as I've seen it, per adventure they actually follow it. Is that not so? So no matter how beautiful the three d rendering might be, it would only be beautiful in time if they follow the exact structure I gave them. If per adventure in the building, they attempt to be creative, and they attempt to do something that is different from what is inside that blueprint, they would come up with something else that is different from what I gave them. Do you understand what I'm saying now? And so if it might even be to lessen cost, I told you that you would need this kind of material to achieve this kind of structure. But you feel as though this kind of material is too expensive. They sell another type for this amount. They look alike.

They can do the same thing. Whereas, that is not what is recommended inside the blueprint. Inside the blueprint, it says, if you wanna get this result, use this material. So in your own wisdom, you use another material. And then when rain fell, it collapsed. You then blame the architect. And the architect says, no. It can't be me. I have already seen the end of the design, and I had given you everything that you would need to ensure that this building came to life the same way I've seen it. So if there is anything that is harmful, that looks like mediocrity, that looks like harm, it can't be my responsibility.

It means inside of your building, check something you used. There must have been something you deployed in that building that is not... That's why the bible says, the planting of the Lord. It is possible for men to become the planting of the Lord. That is a building, a tree that God himself planted. And the hallmark of a man who has become the planting of the Lord is that at the end of your maturation process, you would resemble a tree that God planted. Do you understand my part? It would mean that all through the building process, there was no corruption that interfered with the intention of God for that life. Are you with me? That's the same way it is.

God is saying that I already have a destiny ordained for. I already have your life all planned out. I already have what you would use and spend the rest of your life doing. It's all planned out. But if you decide to alter that configuration, then you will find out that several calamities will begin to befall that life that is not in God's design. Everything that a man would need, everything a life would need to appear and to become what God have ordained, God gives to that man. God gives that life. So as you go through life, understand that the life I am living is already planned out. The future is not undefined. The future is not uncertain.

Can you tell someone my future is not uncertain? Take a moment and think about what I just said. It means no matter the kind of situation surrounding my life right now, my future is not uncertain. It can only end one way. And the way it can only end is how the creator who saw my life before I became me, how he had seen it, how he had designed it. That is the only way I can end. He said that I would give you a beautiful future. A beautiful future. My thought is not to harm you. It is to surround you with peace and prosperity to give you a beautiful future.

It means if I arrive at the end and it's not beautiful, then the journey is still long. That can't be the end. You're not getting what I'm saying? You know the way you're watching a very nice movie, and then the screen goes black, and you're wondering, no. No. No. Don't do this to me. How will this guy just die like this? And then he said, the end. And there's pain in your soul because you are wondering, how do you end a movie like this?

How do you kill the main actor? After you built up the process for us to like him and we're expecting that maybe revenge will now happen. He will not develop one power like this and subject of the earth. But no. He put the end. And so if if you get to that part in the script of your life, wipe it off. It's not the end. You're not getting what I'm saying. Because the end is a beautiful future. So if we start in a small classroom, we can...

We must not end there. If we start in our living room, we must not end there. The end is nations. That's the end. If we start with two or three people hearing what we do, we must not end there. There is an end that God has already retained and revealed. And guess what? That end does not have mediocrity in it. That end does not have poverty in it. That end does not have lack in it.

When I say end, somebody is thinking about when you're 70 years old. No. End is not when you're 70 years old. End is simply when you come into the fullness of the manifestation and the promise of God for your life. That's the definition of end. It is when you enter into the fullness. That's why it says better is the end than the beginning. The bible says, though your beginning may be small, your later end, that end does not mean when you are old. That end simply means when you enter into the fullness of the promise. When you enter into the fullness of the maturation of God's promise and the prophecy that God has written over your life, declared over your life.

That is do you understand what I'm trying to say now? That is when the end begins. So that you don't start pushing these things far into the future, what God wants to do this month. Because there's a way your mind subconsciously does that to you. Go and listen to pictures of greatness. There's a way your mind subconsciously does that to you, where you see yourself pushing God's promises into the future because you believe subconsciously they cannot happen now. So even when apostle is prophesying, there's no landing place for the prophecy because your mind has pushed all the air terminal that can land the prophecy into ten years. So when the prophet comes and says, you are giving your... In your seven figures. You are giving your eight figures.

Yo. Yo. There is a guy just sitting down there sitting down saying, hey. I just enter on. It's just a man and it gives to consider the thing. Anyway, you'll know that there is no landing place in that mind. The prophecy will come and just... It'll be hovering until the infrastructures have been built. That is why we come for prayer meetings like this. Those prayer meetings have a way of building the infrastructures in your mind.

It has a way of cracking limiting mentalities. Yes, sir. Breaking yokes and breaking strongholds that have that have stood against the promises of God for your life in pictures, in thoughts. My life cannot end until I've seen the beautiful future that God has promised for me. Somebody says, how do I know that beautiful future? It's in scriptures. It didn't it didn't leave us hanging to guess and to hope. It's in scriptures. They are called promises. Get the teaching, the seed of greatness.

They're called promises. God comes to a man and says, I will make you great. I will make your name great. I look into scriptures, and these words begin to reverberate in my spirit. This is God's promise for your life. This is where God is taking you to. Do you remember that scripture in Psalms that says we walked through fire? It says... In fact, I even love the one that says different kinds of people were stepping over our heads. In other words, we were going through experiences that looked like though people were just cheating us left and right.

It was as though we don't know what we were doing. People rode over our heads. People, we tried everything, but you just caused men to ride over our heads. We went through fire. We went through water. So it looks as though we were being defeated, and it was happening consistently. So even if that is happening to you, is that the end? You're not getting what I'm saying? That again is why we pray. Because the bible says men ought always to pray and not to faint.

In other it is possible for you to faint in the middle because you think that is the end. Prayer has a way of of of enlarging your spirit and building strength to your inside even when people are riding over your heads. So that even in the discomfort, you can still arise like a mighty man and say, this is not my end. After 55 rejections, you can still say, this is not my end. God is doing something beautiful in your life. This is not my head. And and and whilst you would think that men riding over our head is the worst thing that can happen to us, next thing we knew, we were inside fire. What is this? And you would be in the fire and think, there's no more hope. It takes strength to say, this is not my end.

We left the water, we we the fire, and you will think, oh, maybe God will come and save us. Next thing, we are drowning. And even in the depth of the oceans, this is not my end. It says, thou, oh lord, has brought us into a wealthy place, the King James version. Into a wealthy place. That's the end. It means if I've not arrived here, the story cannot be complete. No. Abadeboye came out and said, if you hear anybody tell you has gone to be with the Lord, has died, don't listen to them oh. It's a lie.

I'm not going anywhere until I build a camp as big as Ibadan. The man said the story has not ended. The story is not permitted to end. He said in case you head anywhere, it does end. It's a lie. When men talk like that, my question is not even the possibility of building a campus huge as a... All you need is money and land. Is that not so? The question is who will fill it up? Whether you will know that what the man saw was not structures.

What he saw was men. And he realized that this place we have can no longer contain the harvest God is bringing. Don't you believe any man that tells you Adebu is God. You have not even begun. You're already thinking that all is over. What have you started that you think your journey? Because you could not cross, you think your life has ended. Weigh. Weigh. You think life has ended because they they couldn't get what you were looking for.

Somebody looked at you head to toe and say, ah, are you the one that will give this and you think life has ended? You would walk out and say the story is not permitted to end. We've not even gotten to the buildup just yet. You know the buildup? That's where the story start getting interesting, where where the action begins. You know how you've been watching the story and the man are sleeping up, you are sleeping up, and all of a sudden the soundtrack changes. And you know something is about to happen. Something is about to happen. Why would you not give up when the soundtrack is just about to change? Why would you give up?

There are many things I'm seeing in my spirit. The guy was squatting in his father's house, himself and his wife, and all his children, and he didn't even think anything was wrong. He didn't have any aspiration. He didn't have any desire. It was God who came to him and told him Abraham, there's a plan now. There's a plan. This can't be the end. How many of you know that God is father? So how can that father write a story before you were born and that story will end like this? Imagine me coming into this year and at every one of them.

I'm gotten somewhere. Do you have do you have any picture what my father wrote? I like the kind of script writer that God is. He said he said he can do exceedingly, abundantly, all that you can ask or think. In other words, the highest magnitude of your thought is where it begins to work. Close your eyes and think you have seen the biggest you can be and God says, I can do above. God said I can do exceedingly above. Even the biggest version of yourself you can think of. Yes sir. And even if you close your eyes and say, I will be a president, God said I can do exceedingly above.

That is the kind of script writer. He says my thoughts are higher than yours. My ways are higher than yours. That is the script writer that that that defined my life, that ordained my life. I've had many stages in and through my life. And in all of these stages, knew that it cannot end like this. It was the time I was squatting with friends, and I got the apartment of my home. Face me. I face you. In that apartment, it was upstairs and downstairs.

I was the only one that had it. I passed my And if you were studying wood, then you needed organic materials. You would be willing to come there. You would find things that scientists have not discovered. No decent thinking human might being, be in. There's there's enters enters there. There. So I have to create a portion of my room. A face may face you. And even in that, I knew the story has not ended.

Somebody will be in such a situation and think that they are suffering. Did you see how Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego entered into that fire? You were not crying. There was just a deep knowing that this cannot be the end. I just got a job, and I paid me 100,000. The temple is just changing. God is just parting with you. It don't matter what anybody is going through right now. Success, failure, in between doesn't matter. Even if God has blessed you with your first scar, doesn't matter.

It is still not the end. How can it be the end? Have you given a private jet? You are reading scripture. Just God, God say you will learn to nations. I cannot be the end. Have you learned it to nations? He's he's he's looking like we are starting something now. Came out. Fortieth year anniversary and said, we have barely begun.

And and somewhere in my mind, I'm thinking, how do these people think? I will make a man with two universities, one of which is the best in Nigeria, part of the first state in Africa, say we have barely begun. Then before you know, building a 100 a 100,000 capacity. I wonder how many years that one will stand before you decide that it's no longer... It now be overflow. The man said, when we enter into the ark, we are entering we are entering into the ark with, I think he said, four services fully packed. Because for all these services, the tabernacle would become the overflow. How does a man think like that? With all that... Come on now.

You have not begun, but you think you are nearing the end. Some of you have not even appeared in the cave yet. Dog mom sweeping the cave. You have not even appeared there. We are just taking attendance. Ah, okay. It's coming. It's coming. You can't hear him like this. Because the story that God has written, not that, hey.

God is not writing a story or God has written one. It is in time that the story is being written. Hear my point now? God is writing the story. No. God is not writing the story with your life. He has written a story with your life. Our assignment is to ensure that our lives become exactly as he wrote it. Exactly as he wrote it. I said last week, hear me?

The bible makes it very clear that everything that your life would need to unpack this great destiny that God has ordained for you before time began. Is infused in your spirit. Everything. In the wisdom of God, he ensured that there is nothing that a man would ever need that he would not find in himself. That is one of the blessings of salvation. I told you that man is spiritual body, and that when you became saved, your spirit man was saved. The soul is being saved, and your body will be saved. That is the equation. In the salvation of your spirit, God dwelt inside your spirit. Your spirit now lives inside your spirit.

In him is the fullness of the deity. That means the fullness of the deity is inside of you. The new creation believer carries the fullness of the godhead. In other words, father, son, and spirit is inside of the believer. It is in this regard that he that is in you is greater than he that is in in the world because the fullness of the diet is in you. So when the bible says, Elohi said, let us make man in our own image, plural. Elohi is plural. Elohim being singular. The word used is Eloha. It is plural.

In other words, it is the fullness of the deity that was speaking here. That fullness of deity now resides in man. It means the possibilities of God in creation is your possibility now in time. Think about what I've just said. Think about it. Think about it. The possibilities of God in creation is the possibility of man in time now. The man that the fullness of God dwells in. It exists in your spirit. It is in your spirit.

So all that your life would ever need, the bible says that we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings. He did not reserve any. He gave everything, all spiritual blessings in heaven in Christ. Everything he gave to us. But notice, he ensured that the location of that blessing is in heaven, and the account that he deposited that blessing is is Christ's account. And the reason for that, not your account, Christ's account. The reason for that is because the last time that he gave that blessing or deposited that blessing to man's account, man transferred it out. The last time he posted that blessing in man's account, man pressed at 955 asked the serpent for his account and made a transfer. And overnight, the serpent became a mortal So much so, the bible calls the devil the god of this world. That transfer happened in the garden.

That was where he became the god of this world. Man was the one that was created to be god because the bible says, ye are gods, and all of you are children of the most high. So the very fact that you are son of God means that you are a god. You are created to rule on earth, but man transferred dominion. Man transferred authority to the serpent, and the serpent used this authority very, very well. Jesus came, transferred it back, enlarged the scope of the authority, ensured that it wasn't just earth anymore. It became heaven, earth, and hell. All the blessings you could think of and studied inside his account and says, you know what? I'm not gonna give it to you anymore. I'm just gonna keep it with me so that the bible announces if any man be in Christ.

Because the blessings are in heaven in Christ. So how man now has access to that blessing is if any man be in Christ, that man becomes a new creature because the resources of heaven have become his. Every spiritual blessing, all the authority, and all the dominion that God has taken from the devil and stored in Christ becomes accessible to the man in Christ. Oh my god. Everything you need to build a large business, build a large ministry, succeed in your academics, build a good home, excel in your finances, everything you need to build a illustrious an illustrious career, everything your life needs to excel abundantly, everything was dead boasted in Christ so that when Christ is in you, it becomes the hope of glory. So there are two terminologies that a man must know. You must know that you are in Christ and Christ is in you. Love time to show you the theology of this today. You are in Christ, and Christ is in you. And the bible says, this is the mystery that God has revealed, that Christ in you, the hope of glory.

I would normally say that the bible doesn't say Christ in you is glory. It says Christ in you is the hope that glory will manifest in your life. Because everything that your life would need to manifest glory is in Christ. But that is not all there is to it because you are not only spirit, and all these things exist in your spirit, and that spirit is in you. So in a sense, you already have it. In another sense, you don't have it because it is not yet in your life. The bible says you have put all things under his feet. But in time, we do not yet see all things under his feet. We do not yet see it. It has been done.

It has been done. It will not be done. He put all things on his feet and gave him to be head over all things in the church. But the bible says we do not yet see all thing. We do not yet see all things on his feet. So there is a reality that exists in time. Glory to God. That reality is that all things have been put under him, and that reality is in your spirit. But in time, it looks as though this is not yet the occasion. So for instance, causes, generational causes, patterns in the family, limit...

Limiting forces, horns that's in the growth of men and the abutment of men, whispering spirit that confuses the minds of men, all these things have been put under his feet. A believer should not be demonized. A believer should not be oppressed because all these things have been put under his feet. Does the bible not say that in the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow? Every knee, every knee, and every tongue will confess. As long as it's an entity, it is subject to the name of Jesus. Are you with me? But there are still several believers that this is not their reality. The bible said that he he was made poor that you can be made rich. In other words, even your prosperity was secured in salvation.

Your prosperity, your financial blessing, your hear me and hear me well. If you are in... If you listen to me, believe this. Believe this, except you do not listen to me. But if you listen to me, believe this. It is scripturally proven that the material blessing of the believer is included in salvation. Not my use of words. The material blessing of the believer. God wants you to prosper. Yes.

You cannot read scriptures sincerely speaking and not see this in scripture. You would need to be blind. And God ensured that everything that you would need is inside your spirit. But believers rarely experience these dimensions. Believers rarely walk in these realities. And that is the issue that someone who should be prospering is broke yet carries Christ. Someone who should be excelling is failing yet carries Christ. Someone who all things have passed away is still under family limitations, generational causes. Are you seeing the problem here now? Someone who should be doing well in life by reason of what Christ has done.

The bible says that because we have received the gift of righteousness, we will reign on earth. In other words, if you are righteous, your reigning on earth is tied to the revelation of your righteousness. Righteousness gives you the leg of standing to reign on earth. To someone who is righteous is begging. Does the bible not say since I was born, now I am getting old. I've never seen the righteous forsaken and his seed beg for bread. So the problem is why is the righteous forsaken? Or why does it look so? Why does it appear that not even his seed, even the righteous is begging for bread? And I told you that the problem is because these things exist in the spirit of man.

Are you with me? And the bible says, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper, not as your spirit has prospered. As your soul prospereth. When it concerns things that have been done in your spirit, the bible never uses present tense or present continuous. The bible always uses it in in past tense. Always. Because it is done. But the bible doesn't say I wish above all things that you prosper even though your soul has prospered. It says even though your soul prospereth or prospers, it is present continuous. It is something that continues to happen.

In other words, the degree to which you experience prosperity is the degree to which your soul prospers, not your spirit. So life is not how it is in your spirit. Life is how it is in your soul. That's where the issue is. That's where the issue is. And the bible says that we should receive the engrafted word of God, which is able to save our souls. So it is clear in scriptures that the way your soul is saved is that the engrafted word of God must pierce into that soul. And your mind, your emotion, your will must be brought into conformity to that which exist in your spirit. Is this clear? In Romans 12 verse two, amplified version says, do not be conformed to this world, this age fashioned after and adapted to its external superficial customs.

Do not be conformed to this world, fashioned after these worlds. You see, are you with me, brothers and sisters? Fashioned after this world, adapted to its external superficial customs. But the bible says, but be transformed, changed by the entire renewal of your mind, not partial renewal of your mind. Entire renewal of your mind by its new ideals and its new attitude so that you may prove for yourselves what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect in his sight for you. It is very easy to live a confirmed life without even knowing how conformed you are because the physical realm has laws that govern it. And in some way, the spiritual laws also have laws that govern it. The kingdom of this world have laws that govern them, and the kingdom of God also have laws that govern it. And the world has been designed to external superficial elements. In other words, carnality makes men to only judge things according to what their physical eyes can see.

What their noses can touch, what their skins can touch, what their ears can hear. That is as far as the sons of men are able to judge. They see something and they judge it only according to what they have seen. They hear something and they judge it only according to what they have heard. They touch something and they judge it only according to what they have felt. Everything is seen and judged without, and every action of the fallen nature is taken from without. So you see, to be conformed to this world does not actually mean you're going to steal like they do, and you're gonna lie like they do, or you'll do four one nine, or you'll be corrupt naturally. No. Most importantly, it speaks of thinking like they do, seeing like they do. That's why it speaks of how we are transformed by the renewal of our mind to adopt new ideals and attitudes.

The life of the Christian faith was designed to change the way that you think such that you don't think like the people of this world. So it means that even though you are the one that Christ died for, if your mind is still as people in this world think, and if your mind is still fashioned after this world, if your mind is still conformed to the ideals, the customs, the traditions of this world, you will not experience that which exists in your spirit because your life is not as it is in your spirit, either it is in your soul, your mind being in your soul. Are you with me? Yes, sir. The definition of beautiful for those of the world is what their eyes can see. Their definition of wealthy is what their eyes can see. Their definition of success is what their eyes can see. The judge thinks only according to what their eyes can see. Everything for them is without. But in the kingdom, it is different because in Luke chapter 17 verse 20 to verse 21, the bible says, and when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered and said unto them, the kingdom of God cometh not with observation.

The kingdom of God does not come with observation. It doesn't come with observation. In other words, you do not perceive the kingdom of God from without. It doesn't come by what you see physically. In verse 21, it says, the kingdom of God is within you. In other words, it is as you perceive it within. Stay with me. The Christian faith therefore is not a faith that is subject to outward judgment or what men can see. As believers, we are not designed to live from without. We are designed to live from within.

There's a way of seeing that we have as believers that is not available to the people of this world. So when the bible says don't be conformed to this world, he's saying don't see like they do. Don't jaunt like they do. Don't hear like they hear. That's the reason why a believer can go through hardship or hardness, and he doesn't see it as suffering because that is what the people of the world defines as suffering. Do you understand what I've just said? A believer can succeed and have massive testimonies. This can be going on well for him. Bountiful results and harvest in his life. And he doesn't see it as material accumulation to increase his relevance or his self worth.

It's just as a means to become a channel by which others are blessed. That is what the believer sees. Our thinking is different. Are you with me? Transformation in the natural only happens when your mind is renewed to match what has already happened in your spirit. So I said, James one twenty one, receive with meekness the engrafted word which is able to save your souls. Do you remember that scripture? Able to save your souls. Whatever condition a man's life is, hear me and hear me well, is a direct diagnosis of the state of his soul. And if your soul prospers, then your life, your business, your marriage, your ministry, your academics, your career, every part of you will prosper.

Every part of you will prosper. Thank you, Lord Jesus. You have to sustain the humility I told you last week. You have to sustain the humility to know when you have believed what is wrong. Never be ashamed to say all I have known about myself, about God all along is a lie. Do you know that this lie can come from the pulpit? And where it came from and who said it does not matter. The fact remains that it is a lie. The bible says you can do nothing against the truth but for the truth. If you have held on to a lie for so long, it doesn't matter who taught you the lie.

It might have come from the person who mentored you, from the person who discipled you, from the person who trained you, from someone you look up to, from even your parents, your upbringing, if you have... It doesn't matter where it came from or what the source of the lie is. The fact is you have believed the lie. And if what exists in your soul is different from how things are in your spirit, if the knowledge and your way of thinking, your imaginations, your thoughts, your mental construct is different from how things exist in your spirit, You will never experience all these beautiful things that God has said. Let me tell you what will happen. What will happen is that, remember I told you that there is an architect who has designed how the life would be, how the house would be, and then it gives the pattern and the blueprint to the builder. Play with me. Do you remember that scripture that says, except the Lord build the house, the labor in vain that... The question is, do they still build, or would they leave it for god to build? God building the house, does it mean God will come and arrange the bricks for them?

Do you understand what I'm saying? There is still the building that the men themselves will build. However, there is the knowing that God is the one responsible for making things work. Because God is the one that supplies grace. God is the one that supplies energy. God is the one that supplies overwatch, empowerment. All these things come from God. Do you understand what I'm saying now? So God has the blueprint, and then he gives the blueprint, and that blueprint is in his word. He gives you that blueprint, and he says, this is how I would end your life to be.

Build exactly how it is in his blueprint. The soul can interfere in that process, in that every thing that you need to build the life that God has given you already exist in your spirit. Mhmm. Yes, sir. But when a man becomes stubborn and uses what his mind has seen from tradition, the experiences, and the exposure he has had as against what is in the word of God to try to build what God have ordained for him, what will arrive at this calamity? Are you seeing what the problem is now? What will arrive at is calamity. You cannot build your finances, for instance, with model that you get from the world. So somebody wants to build their finances. They have not read scriptures to say, what is God's idea?

What is God's opinion? What has God deposited in me? And what are the resources that I have have inside of me that I must begin to know about to bring this idea that God has for a prosperous Emmanuel into expression? No. He doesn't do that. He leaves the blueprint alone, and then he goes to pick Richard Paul Dart. And he picks everything, the cash flow quadrant. Nothing is wrong with books. I've read books. I read books.

You probably don't read books more than me. And then he picks everything and buys them and says, I want to start paying serious my finances. Leaves his bible there and says, bible is for church. Carry our bible. Would that which you are about to start building? God already has that blueprint already. But now you're about to start hiding bricks that is not in God's design. So when the knowledge is coming, you are now getting knowledge that sometime can even counteract what God word says about prosperity, about finances. You're exposing yourself and your mind to opinions of men that holds against the construct of God for how he prospers men. Are you seeing this thing now?

So what you are building in your soul is already a stronghold that is separate from what exists in your spirit. When that conflict is there, whatever happens in your life, God is not responsible for it. Because what you have said is, I have chosen how I'm gonna build my life, and I will not follow the blueprint God have ordained. Same thing your marriage. So a man can say for instance that all these tithing thing that you people people talk about, all these giving things that you people talk about, don't listen to all those preachers, all those men of God. Yes. I agree. Don't listen to them. Take your bible and read. Then you would find it is more blessed to give than to receive.

Then you would find there is he that scattereth and it profiteth nothing. There is he that withholdeth more than is much and it tends to poverty. Then you would find Eve and it shall be given unto you. Then you would find whatever a man sows, that shall he reap. Then you would find again. Cast your bread upon the waters. You will find you will find you will find. You will find. Don't listen. Open your bible and read.

You will see. It is the same thing that they would say. And then the man said, my goodness. This is God's intention about how I build my finances. I must be a giver even more than anything that I do. I must commit myself to kingdom resources. You didn't find that the reason why God wants to prosper me is not because of my my my comfort primarily even though that is there. God wants you to enjoy. Paul was given a charge unto them that are rich in the world. He says, say unto them that are rich in the world, that they should not be haughty, they should not be proud, They should not think that the wealth came of their own design.

They should realize that the wealth came from God who gives us all things richly to enjoy. What God want you to enjoy? Sir. That's another thing a believer must know. So that when you start enjoying, your your soul will not condemn you. That That somebody wants to live well, and there's condemnation. Living well. Somebody wants to eat well. Somebody wants to live nice. He's thinking about getting a good house for himself.

House he can afford, and something tells him she relate to that, but they lay. What will people now start seeing? When they start seeing this house? How old are you? You want to attract an unnecessary, unnecessary battle to yourself. That the kind of car you want to buy. You better calm down and start small. Buy night night night Corolla. You don't know. The part of part of what your soul must align with your spirit is that God wants me to enjoy life.

Yes. Yes. I've not seen that the poor is averse to wealth. A poor man sees a rich man and and they don't even know why they are hungry, but they are hungry. I'm telling you, you see a rich pastor, you're you're just angry. You just come to conclusions. They are stealing money. Is it... Did they steal your money? Did did somebody come to your account to come and take your money?

Did they complain to you that their money is stolen? People who are going to church, do they complain that somebody stole their money? But because a poor man is averse to wealth, even his thinking is averse to wealth. The bible says everybody dislikes a poor man. Even his neighbor doesn't like him. Is... That's what the bible says. I love them too. This is this is not my teaching. This is not my teaching today.

So you learn that God wants me to live well. God wants me to be comfortable. The point comes that I know God has blessed me beyond taking a bike. The point comes. I'm calling for a meeting, an important meeting. I can't fly back there. I can't take both. God has blessed you. But your mind is just averse to prosperity. I'm telling you, your mind is just a vast to prosperity.

I'm not saying that go and put yourself outside of your comfort zone. I'm saying God has started blessing somebody. And you would see them, they are the most stingy people you can find. Their hands and their pockets are locked before anything comes out of them. They they are still poor. That person is not truly wealthy. That person is still very poor. It only takes a matter of time. Only takes a matter of time. Then you find that in God's blueprint, I must work.

I must exchange value for reward. I do not expect that God will prosper me and bless nothing. And I'm reading scriptures, I'm saying it, I will bless the works of your hands. The Bible says that the blessing of the Lord maketh rich. So I said there's a blessing that makes rich. There is a blessing that makes prosper. There's a blessing that makes extend your academics. Is that not so? That blessing exists in heaven, in Christ. If you are in Christ, it exists in your spirit.

Is not so? Because Christ is in you. Is that not so? Yes. And now as you read the bible, you'll find that that blessing is in you. You're excited. Oh, thank you lord Jesus. You continue with it. You'll find, I will bless the works of your hands. So that blessing that is in you, it doesn't come on nothing.

It means I can't be doing nothing and expect that the blessing that maketh rich, even though it's in me, will find expression. You're not getting what I'm saying? I I don't have a job. I don't have a skill I'm offering for reward. I don't have anything I offer like a value. I don't have anything. And I expect that apostle has prophesied. It is true. But there will be no value. There will no reward that will come because the principle is that I will bless the works of your hands.

Thou anointed my head with oil. It is not my head that runs over. It is my cup that runs over. Where is your cup? Your cup is in your hands. In other words, it is what your hand finds doing. In other words, the anointing on your head will manifest in your hand. So when an anointing comes upon you, it must find something in your hands. Do you understand what I'm saying? As you are reading, are seeing it.

I say, oh, I see. I see. I see. There must be something. So I go and learn the skill, fashion design. I go and learn the skill, anything it might be. As long as I've done my research and I find that this thing is marketable for reward and it is in high demand. I go and learn it. I plug myself into the into the marketplace. Now I have something that I am doing.

Is that not so? I continue reading, and I say, I I I I I... Yesterday, five people tried to reach me. They could not reach me. Another another person gave me a job. I postponed for three weeks before I delivered. I told one person I will deliver yesterday. Now today is Wednesday. I've not even delivered anything. They are reading the scripture.

They are saying, God, why? Malabdum going forward. Are you seeing? Can you see again? Seeest thou a man, diligent in his work. He shall stand before kings and not before mere men. And you suddenly find that the reason why you have not stood before kings. The reason why uncommon... Means unknown men. Those are men that will price you down.

The reason why your your business and your value keeps attracting mere men is because you are not diligent in your work. Because the bible says, seest thou a man. Diligent. There is no prayer needed. He will stand before kings. Nobody ever needs to pray for him. This has nothing to do with whether he's a Christian or not. It means there is one thing for blessing to find expression in your work. It's another thing for that blessing to make you stand before kings. What brings you there is diligence.

What brings you there is excellence. What brings you there is skill. Then you start reading Daniel. How that there were many people that were brought into captivity from Israel. Is that not so? But the king told the people, he says go and get me men that are well able. In other words, out of all the men that we took as captives, there are some people I want to serve in my palace. And God also open your mind. How do men arrive at the palace? Then you will see Joseph again.

You will see Esther again. You This is how you blame God. And you find that my goodness, it was about men that are well able. Are you with me? Skillful in all wisdom, you see? Well favored, calling in knowledge, understanding science, such as had the ability to stand in the king's palace. Bring them that we will teach them. In other words, in the palace, they don't look for people to train. They look for finished product. So it's already made that appears in the palace.

It's a brutal truth. That's why it's foolishness to think that when you finish school and after getting experience. By the time you finish school, all the jobs you'll go and find, they will tell you five years experience. Where do you want to get it from? From year one. By the time I see big opportunities and they tell me what have you done before, I can tell them this, that, this. Have understanding in science. We are still gonna teach them, but they must have these qualities first. But even if what I'm studying is Yoruba education, I have several certifications that make me valuable in the marketplace beyond what I'm studying in university. When I was reading the congregation many years ago, I found out the bible does not say social poverty come upon you.

The bible says social your poverty. Read it. It doesn't say social poverty. It says social your poverty. Then it's what is called your failure. It's what is called your poverty. It's what is called your lack. Your customized. Bespoke. Do you hear me?

Hear me? You know why? Because we live in a falling world. So every man is by default disadvantaged. So by default, you will fail. By default, you'll be poor because the earth is against you. The earth is falling. It rebelled along with Adam. Are you with me? It is therefore a man that will remove himself and say, this will not be my lot.

When I enter into Christ, I I cease to live under this economy that customizes poverty for men. I stepped into a new economy. The economy of the man in Christ. The man in Christ has superior wisdom. That wisdom must be seen in how you read your books. You are not going to excel just because you have superior wisdom in Christ. You will excel because I have the grace of God upon my life. It is true. Okay. Have the grace of God in my life.

It is true. It is true. But I have not made the grace that I have in vain. In that I have labored more abundantly than ye all. In other words, if God has ingraced me, it must be seen in how much I labor. So the proof that I am excellent will be seen how much I study. The proof that I am excellent and I have an excellent spirit. The response of your soul to an excellent spirit is diligence, is excellence. It means if I know that I am excellent, I will read more than you. I will study more than you.

If I know I'm prosperous, I will offer value. My soul will have a response to what has been done in my spirit. My body only has to bend. Come rain, come sunshine. So if the moment the man insist that I will not fail, I will not fail. There's no exam I should ever sit for that I should fail. Don't you know what Christ did in you? Do you realize the quality of intelligence that you have on your insight? Even even men that did not know Jesus, that did not see him as we have, that were not received what we have received, that all they had was a seed, all they had was a promise. These men said we have more understanding than our teachers.

Why is that our portrait for excellence is a man who did not see Jesus? We call it the spirit of excellence that was upon Daniel. Again, Daniel never had the holy spirit on his inside. You do. You do. Go and check what the spirit of excellence did upon Daniel. It made him provide answers. Told the king, give us three days. There's a spirit in us that generate answers. It means you can't go for an exam and not know what to write.

The spirit in you generates answers. How dare you say I have rich bit of excellence and you sleep like a fool? No preparation towards destiny. Nothing. They implore you, you deliver mediocre work. They can't trust you with common things because they know you will give the most excuse. How can you be a believer and and your life is saddened with excuse and you claim to have the spirit of excellence upon you? No. Something is wrong. It is because your soul has not prospered.

When you see people who live like this, their soul has not prospered. Yes, sir. When your soul prospers, this thing I'm saying becomes your reality. Your soul begins to open up. You see that these things are already available in your spirit today. Grace is there. And the responsibility of the grace is to make you labor. So I will labor because I'm graced. That's the meaning. I labor more abundantly than you all.

I will labor yet not high. But the grace of God. So grace of God is not the excuse to not do anything. You know what they call favor? We say favor is unmerited access. Unmerited to mean that I did not deserve it. I didn't do anything. It's not so true. The bible says, by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace towards me was not in vain, but I labored.

So how I ensure that the grace was not in vain? Oh, that I labored. It was seen in my labor. It was seen in my labor. Let us see it in your labor that is grace on you. This is scripture. This is scripture. You said there is grace. Now when your soul has prospered, you now realize that there is grace on me, and it must be seen in the quality of my labor. I can't give excuses that normal men give.

There's strength on my inside. I can be diligent in my in my in my in my career. I can be diligent in my business. I can be diligent in my studies, in whatever capacity I find myself. There's grace on my inside. And that grace makes me diligent. Why shouldn't you know how the first class? If your soul has prospered, why should you not? What is stopping you? What is stopping you?

Do you understand the quality of intelligence that you... See, day you understand this thing I've always had a mentality. And my mentality is that there is no book that exists that is written by a man that can understand. Don't you see the light I see in scriptures? Scriptures that only men wrote as inspired by the spirit of God. I can understand. How much more what a man like me wrote? Call it whatever technical name you want to call it. Say it is quantum physics. Say it is quantum mechanics.

Say it is neurological whatever whatever. As long as a man was the one that wrote it. That's all I need to check. Is it written by a man? Oh my god. Oh, I believe this. I believe this. I believe this. I was a man of God in final year university many years ago, and then we're about to defend that project, and COVID came and Georgia took close. We had to meet online.

So I met with someone. I said, can you build us? We don't have... We didn't prepare for this moment, so we didn't know that there was a time when people would have to meet online for services. Can you build us an application on the website, whatever, that would make this thing easy? And the man told me, he said, I don't have time right now. What is something you can do by yourself? I said, really? How? He said, I will get you what you need to do it.

He got me a course. And they're watching the course. I said, what is this? This is someone who studied clinical physiology. All I know is biology, a little bit of physics, and I had put in all kind of logic in my front, telling me this is this is good. This is program. I bought this or this is. I closed it. I was praying the spirit, and then it came again. Is there anything that your brain can understand?

Is there anything that your mind can understand? That which our eyes have seen, that our hands have handled. These are the things that we speak. I hold my head. I said, if the bible says that the spirit of the holy one that dwells, that rose Jesus from the dead, dwells in my mortal body and it can quake in my mortal body, My brain is a part of my mortal body. That is how a soul that has prospered is thinking. So in experience, it's not looking as though my brain has been quickened because I cannot understand it. But in the spirit, has that happened? Yes. That's happened.

Completed it. So what I know, I needed to ensure that my soul prospered. I stick with the scriptures and meditate on it. Helped my brain and said, this is a quickened brain. There is nothing you can understand. I will sit down with the thing. It look as though they are talking Greek and Hebrew. And I will sit down there before you know sixteen hours have gone. So when people hear that, this man learned three programming languages in three months, which is impossible, by the way, for normal men. In a time when there was no artificial intelligence to hear your stories, You either know it or you don't know it.

And there was no real teacher. Everything was online. Somebody hears that now and says, hey, miracle. No desire Jesus. It desire men sometimes because we don't have the patience to wait until your miracle come. That thing called miracle. Do you have the patience to wait until it comes? Because what batch of the story you don't know is that there was sixteen hours dedicated to learning every day for three months. Calculate it. So you like the you like the supernatural part of it.

You like the super part of it. I say, what? And do all things. And you carry one hour video. Listen. And he said apostle, I tried to use this thing, it was not working, he said by the grace of God, I am what I am. Yet not I. I labored more than you all, he says. I invested labor, but I understand that the ability to even labor came because my soul prospered. And because my soul prospered, tunnels opened.

Strength could flow from my spirit and permeate my soul and influence my body. In less than a year, learned five programming languages. Unlocking success God's way from your spirit into your soul, then it becomes reality. Are understand. Method is not working. I will try another one because I must understand. The fact is that I I must understand. There's life in your spirit. In the sack, any married, I used to forget it easily. Stop that nonsense.

There are strategies you have not yet discovered that makes you remember things easily. Several of them. Go and discover them. Go and discover them. Do I remember with quotes? Do I remember with pictures? How best do I study to assimilate? Assimilate? I read something. Last time I opened that thing was three weeks ago, four weeks ago.

And then I write an a testimony, they say I can't remember, and I think I have a problem. No. The only problem is a wisdom problem. Because wisdom will teach you before the exam comes, recap. Soul, it has added a different pillar to what God is trying to build. Do you understand? So the the... Instead of using a a strong pillar to hold that building, it now uses plywood. You get my point now? It So when Don't give the expression that everything is wrong.

When there... Those days when I was... There are people who look at why mobility fail. They just by how it's looking. You know, this one has failed already. Guys, it's in barrel. You say, ah, when they ask me, ah, do you have five years experience? I don't even have one year experience. I don't even know what to say. You know what to say.

One of my guys wanted to employ... Apply apply for an opportunity, and the opportunity was different from his... From the field that she's used to, that she's used to working. And I told her, send me the CV. I saw what she was doing in the CV in the place that she was working. I restructured everything in the CV to match her new responsibility with the employer now. Sorry. Excuse me. To match a new responsibility with the employer now, I restructured everything I gave it to her. I said, now go and learn everything that is in that place.

Go and learn it from to one. Watch all the video and be able to answer bothly with your full chest. When the exam came, he was giving them left and right. She was employed. Listen to... On something he has never done. Somebody that's... I I must have four years experience. Hey. I'm disadvantaged.

You don't want to talk. That's why. You don't have convincing power. That's the reason. Oldness is not inside or inside. That's why. One of my ladies went somewhere when she wanted to apply for an opportunity, and they said a teaching opportunity. And they asked her, so have you talked before? He said we need a client representative, someone that will that will stand between us and our clients, and we don't know if I had a good fit for that. He said, ah, am I am I the good fit for that?

No. What do you mean by that? I'm the best fit for that. I I I once managed a multinational business. Even whilst I was just young, I was I was entrusted with the entirety of the business, and what I was doing was living customer relationship, ensuring that customers come again. I learned upselling. Where did you learn it? Your mother's shop. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Here?

That's how you know a soul has prospered. A soul that has not prospered will... It will be it will be fidgeting. You will stand before a mountain and you're already crippling. You're already... Your vocal expression, your vision, your fetal expression, there is no no heart of a lion. No vision of a colossus. Everything is just blank. From afar, they can tell that you're a poor man. When your soul has prospered, we really...

You you... That thing that says we don't go... We don't look like what we go through, it will literally be your reality. It will flow from your spirit man because things might not have changed in the physical. But the way you would appear, you would appear like a blessed man because you know you are one. Not you will be one. You will live like one. You will act like one. You talk like one. Will be heaven on earth.

And and you are not confessing to believe. You are speaking from a settled understanding. Yes. Do you understand what I'm teaching you now? That's how you will know that your soul has prospered. Philippians two five says, let this mind be you that was also in Christ Jesus. Was also in Christ Jesus. Philippians one six, the bible says that the communication of your faith will be made effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is where? Every good thing which is in you, you in Christ. That the way that your faith becomes effectual, your faith is the faith you have received, your Christian faith.

Effectual means result bearing. The way to bear result is that you will acknowledge every good thing which is in you. In other words, your faith does not become effectual just by the mere fact that there are good things in you. Do you understand what I just said? Just by the mere fact that there are good things in you does not make faith effectual, does not make your Christian life be a result. You must acknowledge that there are good things in me. Where your soul comes in. It's your soul that does the acknowledgment in your spirit. Do you understand what I'm saying to you? It's your soul that does what now?

The acknowledgment in your spirit. Proverbs 23 verse seven, for as a man think in his heart, so is he. You are as you think. Note that it does not say as God desires for a man to be, so is he. Or as God thinks in his heart. It says, as a man thinks in his heart. It means if for any reason, your thinking in your heart does not align with God's thought for you, you will not be God's thought for you. So you are... Do you remember where I'm coming from? Sir.

How old all these beautiful things planned for you? But that you are not as God thinks for you. You are as you think in your heart. So your responsibility is to ensure that your thinking aligns with God's thoughts for you. Do you understand what I'm saying now? That is the meaning again of what... Of your soul prospering. Your soul has prospered to the degree to which your thought about your life, your thought about yourself aligns with what God is thinking for you. Because the bible says, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Your life is a merciless reflection of the pictures in your heart.

You are not the way God wants you to be. You are the way you see in your heart. It means when you see in your... What you see in your heart must always align. Simple as this thing sounds, There's a reason why many believers are poor. Why many believers eat scrap. They have settled for less. They are living below God's standard for their lives. Because of this, they've not seen themselves. They've not seen life.

The picture they have of themselves of life of God, everything is as against how God sees it. So there is... The the soul is constantly resting in spirit. And the word of God you see is a mirror for you to see yourself. James one twenty three verse 25. The bible says, for if anyone is a hearer of the world and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in the mirror. So the word of God is compared to a mirror. 25 says, whoever looks at the perfect law of liberty... So that word of God is compared to a mirror that you have to look at that you have to look at. And the bible says it is possible for a man to look at himself in the mirror and not make any change after he has looked at himself in the mirror.

Turn three. If a man hears the word and he does not do the word, he's like a man who observe his face in the mirror. Next verse. He observe himself and goes away. Doesn't make any change. So he sees that his hair is not combed, but doesn't make any change. He sees that there's a stain somewhere, he doesn't make any change. He just observes it and goes away. But the bible says, a man who observes the word of God, who sees the word of God, and does not allow the word of God to permeate his soul and change his thinking so much so that he begins to do the word of God is like that man who only checks the mirror, changes nothing, and walks away. And until the word of God becomes your mirror, the world and what you see around you will be your measuring stick.

You will define your success by how the word defines success. You will define your identity by how the word defines the identity. When God wanted to bless Abraham, God gave Abraham pictures. God changed the thoughts of his heart because God knew that he was talking to a man who has lived in his father's house for seventy five years, and he did not complain. This man had no aspiration. This man had no ambition. There's already a way he thinks in himself and in his mind that makes him comfortable like that living with your father. God knows that if I will change this man's life, I will not only change his life because I want his life to change. He must also see himself exactly how I see him. In other words, the pictures that are in his mind must change.

The thoughts, the imagination of his mind must change. The soul must prosper. Glory to God. So in Genesis 15 from verse three to verse five, when you read it, Then Abraham said, look, you have given me no offspring. Indeed, one born in my house is my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him saying, this one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir. This is who is called the father of faith. He's arguing with God. He's telling God, the one I have now, Ishmael, is the one that will be my heir because you have not given me any child. And God is...

Look at the next verse. Then he brought him outside and said, look now towards the heaven and count the stars. If you are able to number them, count the stars. And he said, so shall your descendants be. What God is doing is changing the imaginations of his heart, doing something to how Abraham sees himself. God is changing his picture, changing his imagination, ensuring that all the pictures of of limitation that he took from his father's house, something is breaking it. God is saying, look, calm the stars. Can you see what I'm seeing? In 17 verse five, God said no longer shall your name be called Abraham, but your name shall be called Abraham for I have made you father of many nations. Guess what?

When God was speaking here, Abraham had no child. Abraham had no child that come from Sarah, but God was changing his identity. Why was God doing all of these things? In chapter 15, God was telling him, count the stars. As though that were not enough, God is telling him, I will change your name inclusive so that every time you call yourself, every time you introduce yourself to people, you introduce yourself how I see you. Because it will not be how I want it. It will be as a man thinks in his heart. So if it means changing your nail to alter your perspective of yourself, to bring you to a point where you begin to see like I am seeing, then we will do that. So everywhere Abraham went with no son to call his own, he will say, I am father of many nations. I am father of many nations.

How I am father of many nations? How I am father of many nations? God was doing something to his mind. And the same thing is happening to many people's mind here. God changed Abraham's identity to reflect his future. Your identity therefore must reflect your future. Because some of us are still living under labels that were spoken to us in childhood. Names given to us by frustrated parents, careless teachers, broken relationships, but you are not what they called you. You are what God calls you, and your soul must see it. Your mind must see it.

You're walking on the road, somebody says idiot, and you look and check if you're the one they're talking to. Because you have allowed negative experiences to determine your identity. You see wrong pictures of yourself because of an event that happened in the past. There are many ladies right now that give themselves away cheaply to guys. A guy wants a kiss, you allow. A guy wants to hold your waist, you allow. You are naive. You can't bring yourself to say no. You can't you can't stand on your own right. You say, ah, if I tell him no now, what if he leaves?

A wrong picture of yourself. You have not seen yourself as a valuable human being. You have not you have not understood how God is in your spirit and how beautiful God sees you. A queen is begging for the love of a thug. And the queen is saying, what if I say no? And God is saying, do you know what is waiting for you? Do you know your life is defined for the palace? Can I do something to your soul to alter how you see yourself and realize that you're not to measure yourself by how a guy thinks? You let a guy tell a girl that you're looking so beautiful. It look as though somebody painted a wall with rainbow.

If you have to define your life and your emotions are affected solely by what people say of you, it shows that your soul has not prospered. It means that you have not defined that life by yourself using the word of God. So men are now the painters painting the canvas of your life with their words. There are people that think that they are dull, and they already have that picture of themselves. Themselves. And true to what they think when they go to read, they don't understand. You say, I know I knew it. I never understand anything. The problem is not understanding. The problem is that you have believed a picture that is not true in your spirit.

So even before you read, you already believe you can't... You have already killed yourself, so the spirit cannot flow into the body. The soul cannot prosper. Joseph came out of prison, and he was speaking to Pharaoh. And Pharaoh believed everything that he said. Do you know that Joseph was giving Pharaoh advice on the finances of Egypt and how to manage the economy of Egypt? If a prisoner was brought to you to give you advice on your finances, would you listen? Not to talk of the head of a nation and you bring someone from the prison. What made life respond to him that way was because of how he had seen himself in his heart. He didn't speak to king.

He didn't speak to the king as though he was speaking like a prisoner. He was speaking to the king as though he was a king himself. He wasn't speaking as though he was unsure of what he was saying. He spoke authoritatively with wisdom. He interpreted the dream and gave a solution even. A prisoner doesn't talk like that. That you are in the prison doesn't mean you're a prisoner. Don't tie your identity to your situation. Tie your identity to what God has said. I don't have money.

It doesn't mean I'm a poor man. Romans eight five NLT. I stop here. The bible says, selecting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. One... Read it to me. One two three. Go. I said verse six. It means when your soul agrees with the flesh, agrees with the external environment, you experience limitation.

The bible says it leads to death. But when your mind aligns with your perfected spirit, the result, the bible says, is life and peace. That is manifested success. You understand what I'm saying? Manifested success. Abraham had no child, but God said no longer will you be called Abraham. You'll be called Abraham because I've made you father of many nations. Your current reality is not your identity. Please believe what I'm telling you. Believe what I'm telling you.

Don't tie how you see yourself to your situation. Numbers 13 verse 33, the bible says that we saw the giants, and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sights. Their self image determined the enemy's perception of them. It even determined the outcome of their journey. Even though God had already given them the land. Don't say negative things about yourself just because you're in a tight spot. Declare enlargement in a tight spot. No matter how anointed you are, your anointing is limited to the size of the imaginations and the thoughts in your heart. Aaron was Aaron was born as a slave in Egypt. He grew up as a slave.

He had the mentality of a slave. Moses was born in the palace. He grew up as a prince. Moses was a stammer. Aaron was eloquent. He could speak well. But when God needed a deliverer, God would go to the stammer who grew up in the palace and not the orator who grew up a slave. What was the difference? Pictures, the quality of their minds. It means God can do more with a stammer that have a large heart than he can do with an orator that has a narrow heart.

Yes. God can do more with someone who is not as skilled, but in his mind, he he he owns the world than the most skillful person that is slave in his mind. I've seen people who who who have businesses that they do, but their mind is so narrow, so narrow, so narrow, it cannot accommodate the blessings that God wants to pour into their lives. Do you know that your soul and your mind is like a a gate? A gate that links between what is in your spirit that must manifest in time, And what is in time? And the more constrained your soul is, the more you will find out that everything God wants to put inside your life, your soul will keep on closing gate, closing the gates to it because your mind cannot think above and beyond that narrow spot. And there are plenty of people that have defined themselves according to several limiting circumstances and situations. The word of God has to break it. The word of God has to break it. Go and get my message, picture of greatness part two.

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