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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. Isaiah chapter 55 and verse eight and to verse nine. This scripture I believe has become like an anthem in this place. By now, everybody should know what is in Isaiah chapter 55 and verse eight. Good evening to everybody. Today is gonna be an amazing day. Welcome to the largest gathering of young people in Nigeria. For my thoughts are not your thoughts nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

The wisdom of God is a compendium of his thoughts and his ways. Write that down. The wisdom of God is perhaps one of the most powerful asset that a man can ever have on his journey to greatness, on his journey to success, on his journey to prosperity. And the wisdom of God is a compendium of his thoughts. The wisdom of God is a compendium of his ways. And so when God says my thoughts are higher than your thoughts, my ways higher than your ways, your desire as a man living on this earth is to find out what exactly makes us... Makes up his thoughts so that you can begin to think like him. It means the normal human being... Have you heard the term higher animals? What is the opposite of that?

I think there is a more technical word that was... That is used to describe them. The lower life forms as they are called have a disadvantage. Their disadvantage is that they are not able to process information and reason logically as humans are able to do and that is our advantage as against those animals, you see. So if we are to go hand to hand combat with a lion, a lion probably have the physical strength to devour a human being. But because of the mentality and because of the mental upgrade that a man has, the ability to process information, reason, and logic, man can create a gun. A lion does not have advantage. Man can craft a spear. A lion does not have the advantage. So a lion can come charging, and all I do is bring out a gun and shoot.

Now the lion is disadvantaged because my thoughts are higher than his. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. So when you are dealing with God, it happens to be that we are the lower. And your entire journey, your entire work as a believer is to strive to know how his thoughts operate, how... What are his ways so that you can upgrade your software and begin to function as God functions. And I was saying that the wisdom of God is a compendium of his ways. The wisdom of God is a compendium of his thoughts. There is the wisdom of man, but there is a wisdom of God. If you are going towards success, going towards prosperity, aiming towards greatness, then one of your greatest asset would be the wisdom of God.

If a man does not have access to the wisdom of God, there is so little that that man will do on the face of the earth. In Proverbs chapter three, a lot of people do not know that the wisdom of God was involved in creation. We think that creation just came to be by God speaking without vision or speaking without a plan for what he wanted to build. And God just came and there was no intelligence, and God just started speaking things to be, and things just started appearing. There was an intelligence that supervised creation. There was a blueprint. There was a plan. It's the same way you don't just start building a house without a blueprint, without a plan. The first thing that happens is that an architect would have to draw. The drawing would determine where the foundations would be laid, where the pillars would be, where the toilet would be, where the bedroom would be, where the living room would be.

What would happen if we just come together as craftsmen and we just start... Let's just build a house. Where is the plan? Don't worry. Let's just start building. Whatever happens, happens. Whatever we have after. That was not how the earth was created. Are you with me? There there was an intelligent plan.

Much like a blueprint that was followed. There was a careful structure. It was like an engineer constructing a house. That was how the earth was created. That was how the earth was formed. And the agency that was responsible for this intelligence in creation is the wisdom of God. In Proverbs chapter eight and verse one, the Bible says, not wisdom cry out and understanding lift up our voice. The Lord. Okay, let's do Proverbs three verse 19 before we go there. Verse 19 says, the Lord by wisdom founded the earth.

That's where I'm going. The Lord by wisdom founded the earth. And so when the Bible says, God said let there be light. God said let there be this. Let there be that. Let the former men be divided from the waters. And you read all of these things. You you just think that things were just happening sporadically. Afar... Afazardly, you see.

But that was not what was happening. Things weren't just happening like that. There was an intelligence behind every single thing that was happening. And the bible says it was by wisdom that the earth was founded. In Proverbs eight verse one, wisdom is crying. And verse 22, we see one of the things that wisdom is saying. Verse 22 says, the Lord possessed me at the beginning of his way. This is wisdom speaking. The Lord possessed me wisdom at the beginning of his way before his works of old. So before God started working, wisdom had to be in play.

It means if a man begins to work without wisdom, what you have built in is destruction. Because the Bible says, before God began to work, wisdom had to be in the equation. Wisdom had to be present. Look at the next verse. It says, I have been established from everlasting. From the beginning, before there was ever an earth have existed. When there was no depths, I was brought forth. When there were no fountains abounding with water, before the mountains were settled, Before the hills, I was brought forth. Whilst as yet he had not made the earth or the fields or the primal dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there.

When he drew a circle on the face of the deep, how many of you knew that this happened? That God drew a circle in the face of the deep. What was the circle for? This is to show you that it was an intelligent work of creation, like an architect building something. It goes on to say, when he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit so that the waters would not transgress its command. So when he marked out the foundations of the earth, when he established the limit of the seas... So when you see the seas remain on remain on a spot and the seas does not overshadow the land or swallow up the entire earth, There's an intelligence behind this. When he gave the waters his limit so that the water does not transgress his command. This is an intentional work of an intentional God. But this is where I'm going.

Verse 30, it says then I was beside him as a master craftsman. This is wisdom speaking. I was beside him as a master craftsman. So the works of God in creation were all produced by the supernatural wisdom of God. It means a craftsman creates that much so Designs, that much so builds. And wisdom says, I was the master craftsman. So when God says, we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus. It shows you you are not an aphazard workmanship. You were created by a master craftsman. Wisdom was responsible your design.

It was because wisdom was responsible your design that you have to study your design in physiology. Study your design in anatomy. Study your design in... And we we we study the the the complex creation and the intelligence that was used in passing out all the blood vessels, all the arteries, the nervous system, the brain, how it coordinates the entire body. There was a craftsman that designed it. Are you with me? There was a craftsman that designed it, and it was so intelligent that even every animal that was made has their own anatomy. The skeletal system, the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system, and he makes in his wisdom everything working together to pro... To provide for the functionality of the body so that if any one of them were to work against each other, the entire body will suffer loss. Wisdom.

Wisdom. Wisdom says, I was beside him as a master craftsman. Building trees and the environment was filled with water and trees and vegetation. And wisdom says, you know what? Let's create a symbiotic relationship between the man we are creating and then the environment we have created. So that when the man breathes out carbon dioxide and takes in oxygen, then the plants also would need the carbon dioxide that the man breathes out. And the oxygen that is released by the plants goes into the man. It was wisdom that designed all of these things that are now... That that we are now beginning to study in science. Are you with me?

They were now beginning to study in science. How will the earth be suspended in space without no pillars holding it, without any foundation holding its structure, yet it is suspended in space? The sun in its brightness suspended in space, and there's been no gravitational collapse. The sun has never approached the earth to burn everything in the earth. Since it was created, it had been perfect. There's been no need for an update for an upgrade. There's been no need for a remodeling. God had not... There was no need for God to call back the son and say, there's a problem with the son. Let's call it back and fix it.

Wisdom. The wisdom of God. It says it says it says, I was beside him as a master craftsman. I fought everything out in order. Go and look at how craftsmen work. I thought out everything in order. And do you know it was so thought out that even when the body of Christ was to be formed, that bride of Christ was typified as the body of Christ. Is that not so? And analogies were given as to how this body of Christ functions much like a physical body. The...

Paul was the one who was speaking. He said the body... The eye cannot say to the leg, I don't need you anymore. The hands cannot say to the leg, I don't need you anymore. I can see and and seeing is all their risk. And Paul is trying to tell us that the... All the bodies work together. Each part functioning to provide a whole unit. It means when you study the human body, there is something about the body of Christ you understand. There is something about the body of Christ that you understand.

Isn't it amazing that several things in the physical realm are after the similitude of the spiritual realm? They were built patterned after the similitude of the spiritual realm so that when you look at the physical world, you have an understanding of the world you don't see. Isn't this amazing? I remember I was studying... Years ago, I was studying the concept of antibodies and antigens, and the holy spirit started teaching me the school of the spirit. How that when scientists want to vaccinate a body against a disease, What they do, there are two ways to go about it. Either they use mRNA variants or they use a lower incapacitated or dead version of that particular bacteria or virus, whatever. They introduce that into the body, and the moment they introduce it into the body, the body develops a primary immune response. Because the body has never been used to that kind of disease, it would take a long time before the body develops antibodies that are complementary to the particular antigen that was sent into the body. Is that not so?

And all of this is done so that at any time, if that individual is ever exposed to the particular disease in itself, there is that primary immune response now makes the body familiar with the antigen so that a secondary immune response is then developed that is fast and weak. Immediately, the body recognizes I've been experienced... I've I've I've been exposed to this before. I've seen this before. Are you with me? And the holy spirit was teaching me the school of the spirit. How that this is the purpose of dealings in the realm of the spirit. But there are times when you are growing and God will take you through certain persecutions you will eventually go through. In magnified dimensions, it might be a roommate who will spite you with our words. Eventually, you'll be great.

A thousand people will spite you with their words. The roommate is an antigen being introduced into your system to build primary immune response. That's why your transmission looks to be slow. That experience is new. Now you are learning how do I not respond? How do I not... Holy spirit, help me. And then tomorrow again, you respond. God said, don't worry. It's primary immune response.

At the end of the day, you master it. You look at that lady. You just smile. You have built you have built you have built strength and stamina not to respond to the speakings and the spitings of men. And so when you now become great and you see a newspaper or a blog right about you and say, look at that failed entertainer. Look at that failed politician. Look at that thief. Look at that armed robber. You cannot look at it and and a secondary new response can be developed. You look at him and smile and say, no.

No. No. You people came late. I went through these years ago. You see, the school of the spirit. So when you don't pass through the school of the spirit and you become great, when you ex... When you are exposed to certain persecutions and you see people become depressed or they die or they start having suicidal thoughts, it's a it's a report card that this is the school of the spirit you missed. You skip this class. Are you with me? Yes.

Vaccinations are usually given when a child is growing. All of this is the wisdom of the spirit. It's the wisdom of the spirit. A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. The wisdom of the spirit. And God came as a master craftsman enforcing his wisdom in creation. And up until today, we are still unveiling the works of this wisdom. The bible called it the manifold wisdom of God. It is still being studied. It is still being unveiled.

Scientists have not even understood one third of creation. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes. Proverbs chapter eight and verse 18. Look at what the bible says. Riches and honor are with me. This is wisdom speaking. It says riches and honor are with me. Enduring riches and righteousness.

Verse 21 verse 21 says, that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, that I may fill their treasuries. Riches and honor are with me, and for adventure I find anyone who loved me, who loves me, what would happen is that I would cost them to inherit wealth, and I would fill their treasuries. You don't understand why Solomon was bound to be rich. When he was asked, what do you want? Whoever gave him that wisdom, I don't know. Probably his father David. But he said, give me the wisdom to judge your people right. He says, if I find anyone that loves me above riches, above wealth, above rubies, then what would happen is that I would cause them to inherit wealth. Oh, thank you, Lord Jesus. I believe strongly that there is a prophetic place for wisdom in God's end time agenda.

There is an eternal purpose in the heart of God that is being affected in the earth now, and wisdom has a key role to play in that agenda. Ephesians three and verse 10. Bible says, to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places. This all looks complex. Let's do it in NLT. NLT says, God's purpose in all this was to use the church to display his wisdom. Can you see that? Yes, sir. God's purpose in all this was to use your life, was to use my life, was to use the disciples Christian network to display his manifold wisdom in its rich variety. That is manifold wisdom to hold on sinner rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.

Did somebody say that? So one of the key things in the mind of the father from the beginning is that the way God will put his wisdom on display is through the church. The church is the display center of all the excellences of God. The manifold wisdom of God, that they will look at our lives and the results that come out of our lives, it will be obvious that the wisdom of God is on display. If this is true, then believers should not be foolish. Then whatever comes out of our lives by the wisdom of God should spell excellence. Are you with me? Look at the oppression of wisdom when he walked with God in creation. It is in this same similitude that wisdom should operate in the life of the believer. God's system is such that everything God is, everything God represents is made manifest through your life.

So God's eternal purpose is to make the church reign on earth through the oppression and the manifestation of the manifold wisdom of God so that principalities and powers can see. Human beings alike can see. That there is one on earth who has become an embodiment of the wisdom of God. The bible says Christ has been made wisdom unto us. Christ has been made wisdom unto us. I have studied and I have found that every lifting into prominence on God's people has always been on the platform of wisdom throughout scripture. Whenever God wants to lift men, whenever God wants to raise men, what he does is that he supplies a dimension of his wisdom. And those men working with that dimension of his wisdom, those men functioning and operating with that dimension of his wisdom produce results that are beyond normal, results that are extraordinary. Through these results, these men are lifted. These men are lifted into prosperity, lifted into greatness, lifted into prominence even.

Are you with me? Ecclesiastes chapter eight and verse one. Stay with me. Ecclesiastes chapter eight and verse one. The bible says, who is like a wise man and who knows the interpretation of a thing? The bible then says something very strange. A man's wisdom makes his face shine. A man's wisdom makes his face shine. So when you read the bible in Isaiah 60 and verse one, where the bible says arise, shine for your light has come. You realize that you rise in this kingdom because your light has come.

You shine because wisdom came. You shine because wisdom came. When your face shines, you are a unique being. Your face to shine means that you you you stand out of the crowd. You are extraordinary. What is coming out of you is unique, has never been seen before, has never been done like this before. This kind of result is abnormal. It's not within the scope of what human beings can by their strength generate. Are you with me? Yes.

That is what it means for a man's face to shine. It is what we see in the life of Daniel. When the bible says, he was 10 times better. That is a man's face shining. And the bible says, the agency responsible for this is wisdom. Excellence is an offshoot of wisdom. That is why a foolish man cannot excel. A foolish man can never excel. Excellence is an offshoot of wisdom. It takes wisdom to be excellent.

It takes wisdom to be excellent. I are the beautiful one. One. One more time. Can we sing it more seriously now? Your I love your name. Love your name. I love your name. Lord. I love your name.

I love your name. I love your name, Lord. In the book of Daniel chapter one, I believe verse 17, the bible speaks of what God made available to Daniel and to his friends. As for these four young men, watch this, God gave them knowledge. God gave them skill in all literature and wisdom. The knowledge and the skill was in all literature and wisdom. Daniel had understanding because of this wisdom, understanding of all visions, understanding of all dreams because of this wisdom. So what was responsible for Daniel's ability to get what the king's dream was? Was it just because an excellent spirit was upon him? Do you understand what I'm saying?

Yes, sir. You can explain the quality of his service as excellence. How do you explain a dream that you have never heard? The one who dreamt insisted he would not tell you the dream, and he told you go and get the dream yourself. Go and get the dream yourself. That would require wisdom, not even revelation. Wisdom. Wisdom would what... Wisdom would bring the interpretation of the dream. Revelation would bring the dream in itself.

Are you with me? Sir. Have you ever had a spiritual encounter that you perceive to be significant or prophetic? And then you wake up, you remember the encounter, perhaps it's a dream or a vision of some sort. I don't understand what it means. It is because wisdom is missing. What is missing is wisdom. In Daniel chapter two, the moment Daniel interpreted or got the revelation of the king's dream, the first thing Daniel said was to praise God. That's a wise man. It's proof that God...

That Daniel is wise. He never credited his getting the vision or getting the dream to himself. But I'm not concerned about the content of his place. What does he say? Next verse. Next verse. Okay. Go. Go. Go.

Yeah. Look at this. Can we read this to everybody? What does he say? Wisdom and might are ease. He recognizes the reason for which he's now in this place, able to see the king's dream, able to interpret the king's dream, and he realizes that, ah, it is because wisdom is of God. Remember, he was wise in all knowledge, able to interpret visions and dreams because he was wise. It goes on in verse 21 to say, he changes times and seasons. Look at this. Removes kings and races of kings.

He gives wisdom to the wise. Knowledge to those who have understanding. Verse 22, the bible says he reveals deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness and light dwells within. He gives wisdom to the wise. To the wise there means those who desire wisdom. The definition of a fool, therefore, is not a man who does not know. It's a man who does not desire wisdom. Look at this. He gives wisdom to the wise.

If you're already wise, why do you need wisdom? Are you with me? It means what makes you wise is not the fact that you know everything. It's because you have a desire to be wise. You desire wisdom in itself. How you know a fool is that a fool despises wisdom. In fact, that is the definition of fools in scripture. The Bible says fools despise understanding in the book of Proverbs. Thank you, Lord Jesus. One, two, three, go.

But fools despise wisdom. So a wise man desires wisdom. A fool despises wisdom. When the bible says he gives wisdom to the wise, what the bible is saying is that those who desire wisdom will receive wisdom. This is why the bible says if any man lacks wisdom, let him ask. The first problem is realizing you lack wisdom. Do you realize that it's not an easy thing to tell yourself I don't have wisdom? Somebody looks at you and say, my goodness, you lack wisdom. Do you say thank you? But guess what?

That is the bible's definition of wise. It gives wisdom to the wise. If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask. You didn't see that? It means the wise is a man that realizes he lacks wisdom. The wise man is a man that realize that he lacks wisdom and is willing to pursue wisdom. A foolish man is arrogant. A foolish man thinks he knows it. When you walk with a foolish man, they would argue with you on obvious errors and mistakes. They would insist that they are right when in fact that they are wrong.

There might be different models for how... Listen. You can be smart but be foolish. Yes. Being smart or being intellectual does not equate being wise. The wisdom of God isn't just being smart. The wisdom of God isn't just being smart that you can pass the whole logic and have 90 over 100 does not mean you have the wisdom of God. The bible speaks of... In the book of Corinthians. Give me the Corinthians.

The bible says, nor the wisdom of this world that comes to naught. In other words, the Bible makes it clear, recognizes the fact that in this world, it is possible for a man to have wisdom. And for that wisdom to be limited to what this world can provide. Are you with me? Yes. The bible says the wisdom of this world comes to naught. It is nothing. The bible called it foolishness now, out of us. Foolishness. And there are people that go by the wisdom of this world into academics, into business, into marriage, into all kinds of things, and they somehow believe that they are smart.

There are people that are duping people to make money, and they believe they are smart. They are duping people to make money. They are driving the best of cars, and they think everybody is a fool. They are the ones who are wise. After all, who has the results? And God says that wisdom comes to naught. That wisdom comes to naught. If a man will prosper in this kingdom, there is the wisdom of God that governs prosperity. If a man will build a good home maritally, there is the wisdom of God that governs godly homes. If a man will build a reputable business, there is the wisdom of God that governs these things.

The bible says, through wisdom is a house built. In other words, anything that a man builds that he does not build through wisdom will collapse except the Lord builds a house. They labor in vain that builds it. Except the Lord watches over a city, then even the watchman watches in vain. There is the wisdom God supplies to build a ministry. There is the wisdom God supplies to build to build anything you want to build. Through wisdom is anything built. I testify. I testify. Your goodness is real.

Your goodness is real. I testify. Your goodness is real. Your goodness is real. Your Group up three. Proverbs three and verse 13. Happy is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding. Verse 14 then says, for our proceeds are far better than the profits of silver and again than fine gold. She's more precious than rubies, and all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. Look at this.

Look at this. Look at this. God is telling us the value of a man, the value of wisdom to a man who has found wisdom. God says, happy is the man who finds wisdom because the value of wisdom is worth more than silver, worth more than gold, Worth more than rubies? You know why? Because silver, gold, rubies cannot give you long life. So in verse 16, the bible then says, length of this is in her right hand. Now when a man is wise, one of the reasons why the man is happy is because the man knows that longevity has been given to him. It takes wisdom to live long. It is possible for the anointing of God to be upon a man, yet the man dies early if the man is barren of wisdom.

Length of days are in her right hand, and in her left hand, riches and honor. You know what this means? It means if a man pursues after wisdom and finds wisdom, the man will be rich and be rich for a long time. I am not getting that. If a man finds wisdom, he will live long in wealth. It's not a kind of wisdom it's not a kind of wealth you have that the wealth poisons your body. Wisdom will teach the man the purpose of wealth. Wisdom will enable the man to give purpose to money. The bible says in our left hand, riches. In our left hand, honor.

That a man would not only be wealthy, a man would also be honorable. Do you know honor is a mantle? If it is upon you, it is upon you. If it's not there, it's not there. Honor is a grace. If God has made available to you, you have it. Honor is not something that you will wire men to give you. No. When the honor of God comes upon a man, even those who are older than he is will have a reason to bow to him. When the honor of God is upon a man, people will give it to you and count it a privilege you receive their gifts.

It's what happens when the honor of God is upon a man. You will never need to manipulate anyone for wealth, for money, for resources. The bible says, in our left hand riches and honor. Listen, please don't take for granted what you are learning. Don't take for granted what you are learning. Don't listen to just hear what I'm saying. These things are not... We are not we are not in... We are not in Sunday school class that many of us attended, and it just breathes by our head, and we never retain it in our spirit. And we just come to church to fulfill our righteousness so that they won't see we are not believers.

Let me just come and sit down. It's Tuesday again. No. These things are making your life. This is the training proof of the kingdom. Are you with me? If you pay attention and give heed to what you are learning, it will make you great. Yes. Inevitably so. Length of days.

Look at this. Length of days. A man that has wisdom can never be afraid of dying early. I cannot die young. Look at the next verse. It says pleasantness. Our ways Aways of pleasantness. Give me the new living translation. Can you see this? She will guide you down delightful paths.

It means a man that has wisdom will not know sorrow. She will not take decisions that will lead you to sorrow. She will guide you down delight full paths. It means if in the path that you are treading, there are many heartbreaks, different boys, you are in your thirteenth boyfriend, and everybody keeps rendering your heart, and you are exceeding sorrow to sorrow. You are in your thirty first business, and you have no idea somebody scammed you yesterday. This is the fifth time you are doing admission, and they are sending you away from school. The bible says the the diagnosis is that wisdom is missing. Do you know that if I tell somebody you are a fool, the person feels I'm insulting him? It's not an insult. It's a diagnosis.

It's a state. It's a state that makes a man cry to God for help. It's a state that means you have rejected wisdom. You are not a fool because you acted wrongly or you did something wrong. No. No. No. No. No. But you are being corrected, and I see your reaction to correction.

It means you are not desirous of wisdom. You are... That's what makes you the fool. I was correcting someone the other day, and I saw how the person was reacting in my front behaving like an earthworm to my corrections just twisting on the chair and and and defending. I would not just stop arguing. I would not stop seeing. This is... No. I didn't do that. No.

I didn't do this. I said, my goodness. Look at foolishness in front of me. Beautiful, but foolish. Funny as it may sound, it'll it'll amaze you how many people suffer this diagnosis. Funny as it may sound. How many people are not desirous of wisdom? Wise men desire correction. Wise men desire instruction. When meetings like this are holding, when you see a wise man, his books are opened.

Why? He desires to be instructed. He's looking for the next instruction. He's looking for the next correction. He's looking for the next word. He's looking... Are you with me now? This man desires knowledge. He desires wisdom. He desire understanding.

When you see a fool, he comes and fold his hands and he's looking at me, and he's just saying, okay. Alright. Oh, that's deep. That's deep. As though his brain is so sharp, he'll remember everything I say. And he wonders why his life is not like not... Nothing is is learning in school. Nothing is learning in church rather. It's the way of fools. Paul told Timothy, when you are coming down to visit me, bring with me my parchments, my records of books I have written.

Wise men are scribes. They document encounters, document instructions, document directions, document leadings of the spirit. Wise wise men as scribes. I've never seen a great man who does not write. Who does not write. Visions, dreams, the things of the spirit are slippery. You ignore them for a minute, you forget them. You then wonder, ah, God told me something. God God, what is that? What is that?

What is that? It has left. It has gone. The thing of this... Of the spirit are very slippery. Wise men document instructions. When you see a wise man, he knows what God told him in 1930. I've not heard bishop David speaking. Papa Iadeboye speaking. Some businessmen who have spoken to in Christ, they will tell me what God told them in 2016.

They will tell me I was reading my bible and I saw in 2018. And I said, my goodness. Do you remember what day you saw? And they said, yes. Have it written down. I have an archive of my encounters, an archive of my track records, an archive of my experiences. These are the things I go back to when it looks as though the strength is weak. There are times I'm going for meetings, and I've not even prayed. I've not I've I've not had the time to do any of these things. I will bring out these encounters.

I will start reading again. I will look at when I saw the vision of the angel of the Lord's presence, when I saw the vision of the angel that stands in the presence of God, the angel that was with Daniel, the angel of supply, the angel with the wings of fire, when he appeared unto me in chapel, I would recognize my goodness. I'm not alone. I'm not alone. I'm not alone. I will close conviction is fired up. Conviction is fired up. Strength on the inside fired up. The prophecy that was spoken over you, if you cannot remember them, how do you expect them to manifest? Expectation is the model of manifestation.

How do you expect what you have forgotten? I take my books of prophecies, and I begin to declare. Listen, when you see wise men, you know them. You know them. They are unmistakable. There were several of us that were young ministers. Most of us have churches who went to see the prophet today. When we got there and the man started prophesying, I brought up my phone to record all the prophecies. As I was setting record on my phone, I looked forward and saw about 10 phones on the floor. I said, ah, these people are taught.

The ways of the wise are similar. The ways of the wise are similar. Was there a place where we gather and say, ah, those prophecies, let's record them or no? But when we see people where we are... That we are walking the same direction, we know. We know. It is why fools attract themselves. Their ways are also similar. When a man will fail in school, the kind of people that he will associate himself with are people that will fail. The ways are similar.

That's why the bible says a companion of fools shall be destroyed. They always find themselves. It's like a router sending a Wi Fi signal. Everybody that is resonating at that frequency will find it. You'll just be passing by, and you'll just find that room. And you sit down there, you form your... You found your click. You have found your click. No future ambition. No goal, no purpose, nothing.

They wake up by 9AM. They ask you, god, alpha class now. You got one class by seven. Man. I no go. Just stop. Mean, you don't go. I just stop. I mean, go. They always find themselves.

That's how people also succeed together. Yes. This is not where I'm going. You see? So the bible says, length of days are in her right hand. Our ways are ways of pleasantness. He will lead you by the delightful parts, NLT at the MSG calls, whichever one. Delightful parts. Look at this. And all are parts are peace.

Verse 18, then says she is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who retain her. She's a tree of life, the bible says. Wisdom. Wisdom. Can you bow your head in one minute? And say, Lord, open my eyes to see. In Jesus name we've prayed. What are the expressions of the manifold wisdom of God? Because in Ephesians that we read, it says the aim of God, intention of God is to display the manifold wisdom of God. What are the expressions of this manifold wisdom of God?

Especially as it concerns wealth and prosperity. I walk your ways. I walk your ways. Jesus. I walk your way. I know your way, Jesus. Your way is truth. Way is I walk your way. I walk your way. Your way is true.

Your way is life. I walk your ways. Your way is Your way is truth. Your way is life. I walk your ways. I walk your ways. True. I walk this path, this ancient path, Jesus. I walk this path, this ancient path, Jesus. For I know that your ways, your ways, walk your way.

Thank you, Lord. What are the expressions of this manifold? Expression, dimensions of the wisdom of God. Isaiah 55 and verse nine, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. The first expression of the manifold wisdom of God as it concerns wealth and prosperity. Are you with me? Is the ability of a man to lay hold or to have access to the ways and the thoughts of God. This wisdom enables you to lay hold. It gives you access to the ways and to the thoughts of God that are higher than yours, superior to yours as the heavens are higher than the heaven. So that you know God's thoughts on every issues of life, and you are able to apply God's principles and God's models of to your life.

You live your life how God would live if you were on earth. You approach matters and situations how God would approach them. You borrow into the ways of God, the superior ways of God, the superior thoughts of God, and you pattern your life after the ways and the thoughts of God that are superior to the ways of men. Knowing which way to go, knowing how to go about it, this is one of the expression of the manifold wisdom of God. You see, if this alone is what you have, your life will be a sign and a wonder. If this alone is what you have, that you are able to face any circumstance and you are able to look up to heaven and say, the way I'm thinking of going about it is wrong. Let me not do this. What is God doing? How is God going to handle this circumstance? What is the thought of God over this matter?

What are the principles that are laid down by God in his word? The ways of God are a summation of his principles, his laws, his commands. What is the opinion of God over this matter? How do I handle it? How best to go about this circumstance? How best to go about this? You see now. There is the way of God, and there is the way of men. I have found out that only those who know the way of God ever become great in this kingdom. Are you with me?

Yes. I wanna go into business. What kind of business do I venture into? There's wisdom that supplies this. There's wisdom that supplies direction, that supplies instruction even in this sense. This wisdom makes you know that it's not in the way of God. You see? If somebody brings a business idea to you or somebody tells you about a particular scheme and the person tells you it's very simple really, you just put 10,000 naira into it, and in three days, you get back a 100,000 naira. Simple and clean. Before you respond, even if the person shows you several testimonials that that particular scheme is true, And even your friend, your closest friend comes to come and meet you and says, guy, I've tried this thing.

I put my own 5,000. And three days after, I got 50,000. Look at this. What are you waiting for? You see, the next thing you do is, what is the way of God concerning this matter? It does not mean you receive a fresh instruction from the spirit. No. That is why he said the way of God is a summation, a compendium of his principles, his laws. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

Immediately you will realize this get rich quick scheme is not in the ordinance of God. In the ordinance of God, if you are making wealth or prospering, then your seed must enter the ground. It must be watered, and then it must be harvested. What exactly is this system? How does that mean does this system feature into this way? And if I cannot find how it features, then it is not the way of God. I would not be putting my money inside. That is wisdom. That decision you did not make just because you heard God spoke to you and tell you, no, don't do it. But that you have borrowed into the ways of God.

By studying very carefully the principles of his kingdom. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes. Somebody comes to come and meet you, and the person tells you, sir, can you borrow me 100,000 naira? I need to clear depth very quickly. I promise you in the next two weeks, I'm gonna return it back to you. This person who is asking is a brother in Christ, a believer like you, or probably even a friend of yours. Before you are moved by emotion to take an action, why not consider? Does God have a principle? Are you with me?

The bible says wisdom will lead you by the delightful paths. A path of peace. If you are wise, you realize that it is not in God's path to borrow a man money, expecting that the man will return the money to you. The bible says hold no man anything. If you are wise, you realize that that venture is one that will... If the young man does not keep to his end of the agreement, can damage a relationship and a friendship that has probably existed for fifteen years. So will I tarnish the friendship we have because of the 100,000 naira that you know it come back to me? Instead, I would say, I don't have that amount of money right now, but I know that the bible says to give. And when we give, we expect good measure. Press back, shaken together.

He doesn't say to borrow and expect good measure. So I cannot help you with a 100,000. But brother, listen. I have 5,000 naira in my account that I can give to you, and I would pray with you and trust God that the remaining would come, and you'll be able to sort whatever bills you need to sort. That relationship can last ten years long because a wisdom has been deployed. A wisdom, that wisdom, the wisdom the spirit supplies have been deployed because of the knowledge of the ways of God that you have. You are able to navigate the issues of life with wisdom. You don't fall victim of careless mistakes, of stupid mistakes, of foolish decisions. I will love you till the very end. Dust you and you alone till the very end.

I will love you. I will love you. I will love you. Someone came to me some time ago, and the person said, apostle, apostle, I just got my first salary, and I don't know what to do with it. Tell me what to do with it. I cannot. Such a person does not desire wisdom. Such a person knows what has been inspired of... Inspired it... Inspired upon our hearts to do.

But there's no one to be responsible for the consequence of our action. So that for an adventure I give this salary, I'm not able to hit. I have someone to blame as opposed to that set. It's opposed to that said. What that person is... What... That is a picture of a fool. A person who does not desire wisdom. A person who does not desire wisdom. According to the laws and ordinances of the kingdom, what should you do?

You see that now? And I live my life according to that law. My thoughts are higher than yours. The bible says, there's he that scattereth and yet increase it. There is he that withholdeth more than his meat and then he tended to nothing. You see, there is he that's scattered and yet does what? Increase it. Look at. This is why the bible says my ways... I wanna show an example of this.

My ways are higher than yours. My thoughts are higher than yours because in your own thoughts, this does not make sense. When you hold something and you scatter it, should it increase? What should happen if I hold a bag of rice and I start scattering? It should be reducing. That is your thought. So your thought is, if I give this that I have, this has reduced. I no longer have money. You see, I no longer have what to spend. I no longer have what to buy.

I no longer have what to use to... You see, I I can no longer buy rice. I can no longer buy beans. What will I eat tomorrow? That is your thought. That is your ways. How then would you pay for that bill? The house rent is coming. The this is coming. The dark is coming.

If you take this 100,000 of this money and give it, it has reduced to two months time. When the landlord comes, how would you pay back? You see, that is your thoughts. Doesn't quite make sense. But the moment you say, I want to borrow into the thoughts of God and the ways of God, He then makes his way revealed in his ordinances, in his principles. He says my my way is simple. There is he that scatters. And when the man is scattering, it will look as though he's wasting. Are you with me? Everyone would look at that man and say, my God, what is the meaning of this?

Do you know that this thought, this principle is how God lives his life? Is how God exemplifies love even? How do you pick your only son and waste him? Is there wisdom in that? Is that what people do with their only son? Have you seen parents that have a son? Have you seen how they protect that that child? If you are the only child, how they are extra protective, extra secure, they don't want to lose sight of that child, especially if they've tried to have another child that they cannot have. Then that one become like a god of some sort. Nobody should beat that child.

Nobody should touch that child. Are you with me? Imagine the parent is looking for children, and somebody come and says, it's quite simple. Kill this one. Are you seeing the are you seeing are you seeing the lack of sense of this? They call it my thoughts. That I want more songs, I stutter. There is e that scatters and yet increase. How do you explain that you have a 100 sheep? All of them are healthy.

And one day, one of them out of his folly perhaps walks away and then gets lost. If you are a business person, strategy wise, what will you do? You'll get the 99. Build gates around them. Build bridges. Empress security officers. Stand there and say, no. No. You will get missing again. That one is an idiot.

Let it go and be eaten by by goats, by lions, by wolves. Laboring upon you, giving you food, and you walk out like that. I imagine that. Not this God. There is he that's cataract. The bible says he lives the 99 and pursues after one. My thoughts, higher than your thoughts. Now when you start coming into where I live, if you start when you start coming into my realm, a lot of things about my realm will not make sense to your to your natural mind. But if you sustain the wisdom to live your life like that, to live your life by that principle, then it will shock you that your life will become a sign and a wonder. My thoughts, there is he that's catcheth and yet increase it.

There is he that withholdeth more than his meat. When the holy spirit showed me this, I screamed because I've been reading this scripture a long time, but I've never seen it like that. Do you know that if the bible had said there is he that withhold it and it tends to poverty, it will still have made sense? Do know it will still have made sense? If the bible had said there is either withhold it and it tends to poverty, that spell stinginess. The bible says there is he that withholdeth more than his meat. It means it is not a crime to withhold. The withhold is what you call savings. But it's a crime to withhold more than his meat. Somebody comes to me and says, sir, but how do I know I'm not giving too much?

That's why it does not say there is eat as cataract more than his meat. Wise men like myself see this scripture and immediately pattern our lives after it. A thousand bills might be in my front like this, and I have money to start sorting them one after the other. This will come first. This will come first. People might look at us and think us as foolish except for the fact that we are blessed, except for the fact that we don't beg for bread, Except for the fact that there are results in our life that show otherwise. Oh, thank you, Lord. Thank you lord. The bible says he that observes the wind, he that observes the cloud will not sow. He that observes the cloud will not sow.

Ecclesiastes 11 verse four. Whoever observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the cloud will not reap. When I saw this, I said goodness. That means every time I give reasons for why I could not give, I'm observing the clouds. The economy situation of Nigeria, you are planning to go abroad right now. You have to be smart. That's why I said the wisdom of God is not smartness. Many a times, a man who is wise in God will look foolish to men. Many a times, a man who is wise in God will look foolish to men. If the princes of this world had known...

You know what that means? It was foolish to them. There's nowhere on earth where they could have thought that God's most precious jewel, one man mopu. This guy is walking and demons are screaming from afar. That is like your most precious asthma to destroy, decimate the works of darkness. How would demons have believed that God's strategy was to kill him? Don't make sense. Yet in his wisdom, in his wisdom, he allowed all these guys to to play foolishly. They thought they were winning, and then the superior wisdom of God, my ways higher than your ways. My thoughts higher than your thoughts.

Many of you complain when you see your background, and you wish that... You wish you had the lifestyle of some people when you see their life on Instagram. And you say, my God, I wish this were me. My God, I wish this were me. And God says, ah, if only you knew that my ways are higher than your ways. That based on based on the kind of destiny I've given to you, I can't expose you heavy. That's why Jesus must not be born in the palace. If Jesus is born in the palace, he will die the day he's born. It was in the wisdom of God to give birth to him in a manger. When the wise men got to his birth city, the first place they went to was the palace.

Because according to men's belief, if a king is born, where should the king be born? In the palace. But my ways higher than your ways. They arrived there in the manger, and the king of kings is being born where where where goats are bleating, where cattle are crying. And as he's gone there, the the the wise men got to the palace, and they said, we are looking for the king of the Jews. Herod said what? A king had been born? Where was he born? And he sent people, Heming Shrews, go and find a one. Kill that child for me.

It is in God's wisdom that it was not... That it it... The king wasn't born in the palace. If he if he was born there, he would have died. Perhaps there's a reason why you were born where you were born. Perhaps there's a reason why you grew up in Oshodi. Rahul, there's a reason why you had the kind of experience you have. It is to formulate your shape. Your shape is what will be eventually responsible for your purpose and for your assignment. Yes, sir.

I define your shape as your spiritual gifts. Your heart, a representation of your passion, your abilities, your personality, and your experience. It means the kind of experiences you had, your upbringing, all come together. Are you with me? Yes, sir. To build the kind of person that is fitted for your kind of assignment. Yes. But if you had had it otherwise, you would not have been fitted for your purpose. In biology, they would say they would tell us, describe by a diagram. Describe with the head of a diagram.

You now tell us describe with the head of a diagram the structure and the function. You know why? Because the structure determines the function. The shape determines the function. I wish I had time to expose on this. I don't have the time to do that. It is in God's wisdom because his ways are higher. His ways are higher. So when God start impressing it upon your heart to give, to give, give, give, give, to give, give, to give, to give, it looks foolish, but his ways are higher. The moment a man is saying, I'm planning to do this.

I want to pay for this exam. I want to pay for that exam. I want to buy this. I want to pay for this rent. And God is saying, he that observes the cloud. Will not so. And if you ever observe the wind and the wind does not make you so because you believe that, ah, do you know what it means? It really means that if I step out of my house right now, it looks as though rain is about to fall. On my way to the farm, rain will beat me. Do you understand that?

So because you are observing the winds, you are refusing to sow. Ecclesiastes eleven four. Look at this. He who regards the cloud will not rain. When the time comes and the cloud gathers, and you say because the cloud is gathering, I'm not gonna go out. A heavy downpour is about to happen. I cannot sow like this. Even when it's time for harvest, such a man would not reap. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

These are his ways higher than your ways. These are his ways higher than your ways. You're starting ministry. And as you start ministry, you see God has called me into full time ministry. I'm not gonna get a job. I'm not gonna work. I'll just focus on this ministry. There are three members, myself, my wife, and somebody else. And whilst we are doing the ministry, I was able to get a house by favor and I said, God must be in this. We should study the ways of God and vet the instruction you claim to have received.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. And that the instruction you you claim to have received. Because now your children are born, and they cannot go to good schools. They cannot afford good you cannot afford good institution. They cannot wear clothes. They cannot eat. They are suffering and wasting away because of your call. And because of that, they hang around with bad boys. Now your child is a rebel, doesn't want anything to do with God.

Now your child is probably sleeping with women, several of them. And then you say, I'm living a life of sacrifice to God. I've laid down everything. We need to check the ways of God by observing the patterns in scripture and consider a man called Hali. Why should your children pay the price for your court? Are they the ones who got called? A lot of people have taken foolish decisions that have no root in wisdom. Over things that their mentality suggested to them, and they were convinced it was God who said it. Over things their mindset suggested to them, and they are convinced it was God who said it. And people who have no business paying the price had paid the price for it.

If only you had vetted your decisions through the ways of God. Through the ways of God. If only you have vetted your decisions through the ways of God. You're in a relationship. And then you are you are you are unsure whether or not what you are in will lead you to marriage will lead to marriage. But inside the relationship, the guy is demanding for several things from you that has not been given for a believer to demand outside the context of marriage. And you say, but he cares for me, but he loves me. The question is, that particular portion of your life, are you living according to your way or according to the way of God? Are you seeing the problem? Because that thing you are building, if it eventually leads to marriage, it will crumble.

This is why a lot of marriages right now are half baked and they crash even before five years. Because it was not patterned after the ways of God. There is a established pattern of God, his principles revealed. Wisdom would say, live your life after this pattern. Are you with me? You're about to make a business decision or probably employ somebody or probably somebody wants to partner with your firm, and the person wants to buy 50% of the shares of your firm. And the person said I will invest one so amount, and that amount I'm investing will give me 50%. I'll become co partners or co founder of this. And whilst you're thinking, this look like a good investment. But according to the ways of God, is it a good investment?

Have you vetted the loyalty of that individual? Because according to the ways of God, God will never confer anything of his to someone who is not loyal. It was Timothy, the things I have committed unto you, commit thou to faithful men. This person has tendencies that they're already displaying that make it obvious that when this business expands in future, they will pull all kinds of stunt and leave me hanging and this business will collapse. I'm not gonna deal with you. Even as much as you are offering me a good deal, I I choose to live and walk my life by the ways of God. This is wisdom. You you see, what you have done is you have saved yourself. Yes. The bible says consider the hands who you slaughtered.

Get me that scripture. Consider the hands all you sluggard. They have no leader to lead them. I think it's Proverbs chapter six. Cost our ways and be wise. Next verse. Which avenue captain, overseer, or ruler? Check this. Next verse. Provides us supplies in the summer and gathers our food in the harvest.

Next It says, how long will you slumber or slog out? When will you ride from your sleep? It... Go back to the previous verse. It says, it provides the supplies in the summer and gathers our food in the harvest because the the the heart knows that harvest time would not always exist for long. So when harvest come, the hand gathers supplies, the hand gathers food, and the hand stores the food preparing for the next season, a season where there will be no harvest. So that when others are crying and when others are moving, the hand already has a massive supply of food to last him through the season when there's no harvest. Are you with me? Yes, You know what the holy spirit showed me here? Anybody who fails to prepare for destiny, for life, for exams, for anything, while it is yet time to prepare, the bible says that individual is a fool.

You have not considered the ways of the hand. Whenever the hands realizes that the hands has an abundance. See, the secret here is abundance. The moment the hand realizes have an abundance of supply, the hands begins to walk in abundance. It is not in our culture to walk in abundance. We we sleep in abundance. We we we we slave away in abundance. We become lazy in abundance. We procrastinate in abundance. Let me give an example, an abundance of time.

The exam is six weeks away. I have an abundance of time. So what do I do every day? I sleep. I watch movies. I have an exam that is coming up or is six weeks away. Oh, is there class today? There's class. But when is the test? Three weeks away.

And the bible calls that one a fool. Why is he a fool? Because in abundance, instead of instead of working and laboring like the hand, so that when the time of summer comes, when the time of winter comes rather, when there will no longer be the abundance of time. You now have the multitude of what you have invested to speak for you. But, no, the foolish student will now be craving for the time that he had lost three hours before the exam. And guess what? The foolish student will now have his papers torn in the exam hall by the examiner. Why? Because when the examiner says stop, he's... He wants to keep on...

The time that he had an abundance of that he could have stored information in his head, he did not make use of it. But when he had those three hours to write the exam, he wanted to borrow more time. So as as he's borrowing, the the examiner becomes hungry, comes to his front and tears the shit. Investment is wasted. And he comes down. He comes to them and say, god, please, a miracle. Oh sluggard. Oh sluggard. Wisdom is not so hard. The first expression of wisdom is revealed in your ability to have access to the ways of God, as revealed in his principles, as revealed in his ordinances, and to pattern your life after it.

I know a lot of people who write their exams, and they're very serious in it. And probably the last exams is two weeks away. People have devised name for it. The guy watches movie and fails the last exam. It happens to be six unit. Why? I have time. Whenever there's an abundance, the way of men is to waste abundance. Somebody gives an abundance of money, and you have... Maybe you have an abundance of money in your business.

Or by favor, you are given 500,000 naira. The first thing the guy is thinking is I wanna buy a laptop worth $450,000. I'm handling million naira in my business. The guy is thinking, now that I have an abundance of money. Because according to the way of men, when you have an abundance, the equation is squander. Your abundance of money, squander. An abundance of time, squander. An abundance of resources, squander. An abundance of anything, squander. He says you are a slogger.

Go to the hand and consider the ways of the hand is in abundance, it is when the hand begins to plan because the hand knows this time, this moment will not always be there. I won't always have time like this. So whilst I have time, I will pray. Whilst I have time, I will fast. I won't always be single. There is no... I won't always have food to eat. A time is coming where I will be blessed. So fast will be a challenge. Whilst I have time now, I will fast.

I will build capacity. When I marry and children are disturbing me, daddy, daddy, daddy, I want to pray. I want to fellowship, and children are coming. I can't even maintain a moment of study, a moment of fellowship. Children are everywhere around about my table, and I'm saying, what is this? Why is it now you want to take your life serious? Because when you had an abundance, you squandered it. You watch movies with with abundance. Ten hours of movies. Let me tell you let me tell you the mindset.

So funny, but that's the mindset. Mindset is simple. Can you watch a single movie that is ten hours long? So they break it down to one hour, ten ten episodes. The logic is so is so amazing, and the logic is so beautiful. The logic came from the kingdom. It's not today I would speak. You have an abundance of anything wasted, squander it. Throw it all away. And then when you are constrained for resources, when you are constrained for time, when you are constrained for money, then you have nothing in the day of trouble.

The day I realized that my giving serves as a memorial, my goodness. Let me show you something. This is not one of my plans today, but let me just show you. I think it is book of Psalms 20 and verse one. I want us to read this together. One, two, three, go. So what we are considering here is God answering in the day of trouble. Right? May the name of God of Jacob defend you in the day of trouble. Next verse, he then goes on to say, he remembers verse two.

May you say... May he send you help from the sanctuary and strengthen you out of Zion. All of this. Why? Next verse. May he remember all your offerings and accept your bond sacrifice. I realized that the offerings that we give are a memorial before God. I saw this a long time ago. There are many troubles that have befallen me, me oh, in this my this my small life that should not befall somebody like me. Troubles that if not for God, there's no way on earth you could think of coming out of it.

Do you have any idea the people that speak against you behind your back? I was telling my workers yesterday, some of them. My sons, generally speaking. And I was speaking to them, I told them, I said, do you know those that plot against you? Do you know those who are going from place to place telling people not to do business with you? Do you have any idea? I went with my mother to a carpenter's shop. The carpenter was to build a furniture for me worth some amount of money in heavy six digits. That that... When I got to the carpenter's shop, was empty.

I was doubting the credibility of the guy. But my mother said, this guy is good. He has done this for us. He has done that for us. Very good guy. Awesome guy. Said no problem. But when I looked around, it doesn't look as though he has done anything for the past three months. He was just dry. I looked.

I said, okay. No problem. We negotiated. He got the contract. We told him we are coming to come and pay on Monday. On Monday, I called my mother. My mother was the one who called me even. She called me. She said, ah, Emmanuel. I said, ma.

I said, what happened? He said, somebody's in my front right now in Yoruba. Somebody's in my front right now. And the person... I just called the carpenter right now. The person said, hope it is not so and so you called. I think it's the person. Depends. It's in my presence like this, Two different occasions that the... That that customer brought policemen to come and arrest him because they gave him money.

I did not do their job. Whether true, whether false, I have no idea. My mother has no idea. All we know is we leave the guy alone. We find our under carpenter. Does he know that there is some human being speaking against his business? Is there any altar? Is there anything that can rise up and speak for him at that moment and say no? Turn the tides of events around. This is why we live our life by wisdom, by the wisdom of God.

Because we understand that it's not everything your brain can calculate by logic. Are there men that God can raise to speak on your behalf? Is there a reason why God should raise them? When Cornelius became the first person who was saved among the Gentiles, do you know what spoke for him? The angel appeared to him and said, your harms and your offerings are risen unto God as a sweet smelling sacrifice. His offerings and his harms and his prayers were in memorial. So when it was time for the Gentiles to be saved, it became the first person that was that was a recipient of salvation. As a memorial, your arms have come up for a memorial before God. Are you with me? It is one of the reasons why we give the way we do.

Because they can tell you... The pastors can gather and say invite that man of God. And one one unscrupulous individual will say, ah, that man, Okay. What happened? Nothing. Oh, nothing. What happened now? Nothing. Oh, it... It's not from my mouth.

You will hear that somebody died. And that expression tarnishes your image, tarnishes your... People who have never met you have summed up a conclusion about your life. What speaks for you in first moment? What makes customer just decide? People that have told you we are doing this. Alright. Let's meet on Monday. On Monday, send me your account number. We'll transfer the money, and we'll start working.

Then on Monday, hello, sir. Good morning, sir. Tuesday, hi, sir. Reminding you, sir. Wednesday, hello, sir. And that's the end of it. Don't you realize life is spiritual? Glory to God. Glory. The ways of God.

The ways of God. That wisdom makes you behave yourself wisely before kings. In first Samuel 18 verse five, the bible says, and David went out whithersoever Saul sent him and behaved himself wisely. Look at this. And Saul set him over the men of war. Look at this. And he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of all servants. Why? He behaved himself wisely. Do you know how to behave wisely?

Do you know do you know courtesy? Do you know courtesy? You know? Nathaniel just spoke heel against Jesus. Nathaniel said, can anything good come from Nazareth when he was told about Jesus? Jesus heard what Nathaniel was saying because he told him that while you were under the tree, I saw you. Yet when Jesus met Nathaniel, what Jesus said was, this is a man of honest report in who... In whom there's no guile. He's a man of integrity. There's no guile in this one.

Judah will spoke to Pharisees and will say, brood of vipers, woe unto you. You would get before Herod. I will not say God punish you. Woe unto you. As his asked question, he keeps quiet. As his asked question, he keep quiet. He keeps quiet. The moment they said, are you the king of the Jews? He said, you have said rightly. I am the...

You have you have said rightly. You could see the honor in his communication. They came to come and meet him. They said, should we pay tax to Caesar? He said, give on to Caesar what belongs on to Caesar. I didn't commit to cause a revolution. I didn't commit to overthrow a government. You hold a microphone. You stand on the pulpit. You start saying, They came to Jesus thinking Jesus would say the same thing so that they will have something against him that he has said against the government so that when they report in to the Roman government, they would say, he said this against the parliament.

And then the Roman government would have a justifiable reason to have him killed. Jesus behaved himself wisely. When they came, he said, give unto Caesar. What belongs unto Caesar? You must be wise. Know when people want to get words out of your mouth. And then you play foolishly into their trap. You start speaking. Start saying, you know, I'm a man of God. So many people have have fallen have fallen victim of what what they should not have fallen victim of because of foolishness.

The inability to behave wisely. Do you know normal courtesy? Thank you. Somebody carried your bag for you. Thank you. You got out of the cab that you took, and you you were in the middle. The first person that got out of the cab opened the door and then kept the door open for you whilst you walk out. You only... You just turned out of the air like a king. It might even a king, sir.

It was like Adelo. It's not... Kings don't behave like that. Kings have courtesy. Just turned out of there and then gave your change, and then the guy is wondering, ah, courtesy is scarce. David behaved himself wisely. The wisdom of David was tied to his behavior. It was tied to his behavior. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Do you know that when I buy things from people or if I have any reason to take a a public transport, a commercial transport, I pay them and thank them? I didn't have any idea why I do it, funny enough. I don't find myself saying thank you, and I'm paying you for what you did. It's cursing. Somebody thinks somebody thinks, hey. Did I not... Did not collect my money? Did not collect my money. It's proof you are foolish. Are you with me?

Yes. It's a bad place to be. Somebody tells you somebody tells you, uh-uh. You stepped on me. You say,. You don't have courtesy. It's it's it's missing. These simple things can cost people greatness. I'm sorry. Oh, wow.

I'm sorry. Yeah. People cannot offer sincere apology. They they rather gaslight you. And you come and meet them. This is what you did. This is what you did. And they see that they are obviously wrong, then they say, I'm sorry if you were hurt by that. That's gaslighting. What you're saying is you should not have been hurt by that.

But since you are hurt by that sorry. You lack court. When Daniel was to appear before the king, these are the things that they were taught. How nobles behave. Do you know that, in fact, the king was not looking for anybody that was not a noble? Because nobles have a behavior. That's the way they hit. That's the way they appear. It's one of the things that makes nobles nobles. The king feasts for noble men.

Not talk. Not touts. We already have a lot of things to teach you. Let let let how to greet many of Do you have nobles who are well taught, who know how to address a king? Daniel, stand before the king and say, oh, king, long may you live. He didn't say, I just worship the god of the god of the most high. Just worship the king of kings. I cannot come and call anybody, oh, king. Who are you? A pagan king?

No. He's a noble. They know courtesy. They know how to serve and how to stand before whoever is king and understand that our service is to the king, but our allegiance is to God. Thank you very much, sir. I understand, sir. Thank you, sir. You are sitting before a spiritual father and just sit down as though you are the God of it. I wanted to pray for a young lady. She looked at me and said, so should I kneel down?

Said, no. No. No. No. No. No. Just sit down there. I said... And I held her and recited a few poems, and that was it. Listen.

Listen. When you're wise, you live your life by principles, not by emotions. By principles, not by emotions. You see what bible says in his right hand is what? Length of this. Wisdom will tell you whilst you are trusting God to heal your body, you realize that you are sick. Wisdom will tell you go and take medication. It's length of this. It's in his right hand. If you've gotten it in the first instance, you would not...

That... You've not been in that condition. The fact that you're already dead shows you have not mastered it. So whilst you are growing, sustain the humility to seek help. Go to the medical practitioner. One of my very funny individuals came to me and told me and told me, wow. Papa, can you imagine? I said, tell me something. She said, I followed my hounds to the hospital. And because I was complaining of stomach ache...

Ordinary stomach ache. Doctor Nat told me... The doctor was asking me, do you have any re... Formal record of ulcer? And I told them, I had been healed. I'm healed in the name of Jesus. And doctor said, ah, ulcer doesn't just go like that. It is possible that you might have a relapse. No. I don't have a relapse in Jesus' name.

I don't have a relapse in Jesus' name. And the author, the doctor Nas said, I was listening. Doctor Nas said, doctor Nas said, are you sure about that? Should we induce it and see if you have it or not? Yes. Forgive me. My auntie was not saying, ah, no. Please, doctor. No. Don't induce anything.

Don't induce anything. No. I said, no. No. You don't look. I believe. I say you are a fool. You are just a clear fool. The devil came and told Jesus, turn this stone to break. Could he not turn it?

Who are you proving anything to? Is that the way of wisdom? So when they induce, who are you proving something to? Yourself, the doctor, or God? Who needs to believe you are healed? Say, induce it. Come and seek. What what is that? Foolishness. I say your auntie is a guardian angel.

You better thank her. God used that to protect you. You'd have been shocked. It's the way of wisdom. You are working with an employer to make yourself valuable. You are living with someone living with someone, And you don't know how to follow peace. The bible says follow peace with all men. Follow peace with all men. I was listening to all these motivational speakers, and one of them just felt as though God has anointed him to speak to married people and people in relationship. And he began to speak, and he said, you know, women men listen to me.

Women are very mysterious creatures. Women said, okay. Alright. Women are very complicated beings. I said, okay. When a woman tells you no, she might mean yes. When she tells you yes, she might mean no. If she says I'm okay, she's not really okay. If she says she's okay, she's actually... She's not really okay.

If says, and then I'm on. The bible says, let your yes be yes and your no be no. Anything other than that is affliction. Do you understand what I'm saying? Listen. Listen. Listen. And and ladies hear these kind of things, and they feel as though somebody has reinforced that demonic mindset and mentality that makes you believe you must suffer in oppression. You gotta understand that that behavior is actually the behavior of slaves. Slaves are the ones who don't have the mouth to speak when they ask questions.

They know they can... They must keep their pain to themselves, lest their masters disown them when they find them useless. So when they asked, are you sick? They said no. Whereas, they are sick. Are you okay? Yes. Whereas, they are not okay because the master must not discover something is wrong with you. That was... Go and get my teaching effective leadership.

I talk on the mentality of slaves, and then you pass this down to yourselves over time, and then you now grow. It now becomes passionable. A confident woman is beautiful. My thoughts higher than your thoughts. My ways higher than your ways. My thoughts, higher than your thoughts. My ways, higher than your ways. My thoughts, higher than your thoughts. My ways, higher than your ways. Let me round up, and then we pray.

Hi. This is just an expression of the manifold wisdom of God. I have about 10 here. Exercise daily is wisdom. Eat healthy is wisdom. It's length of this. It's length of this. I imagine somebody claiming I have eternal life, and then your eating habit is like a buffalo. And then the time comes, you're about to go for crusade. You cannot walk.

Somebody has to lift you up. Hold your hands. At some point, wisdom is missing. Staying healthy and staying fit because you realize that this body is what what... Is what carries the anointing. The body that carries the anointing must be taken care of, must be preserved, must be sustained. It is wisdom. I must rest when I need rest. I must eat when I need to eat. I must fast when I need to fast.

You see, it is wisdom. I have a medical condition. I'm still trusting God for healing. I don't just fast carelessly and say, oh, I'm a man of faith. No. What are the ways I can circumvent this to still fast even whilst this is there? And whilst I'm trusting God for healing, whilst I'm taking medication, can I still go about it this way? And I look for intelligent ways. I sit down with a medical practitioner, and they tell me, you know what? Take glucose in the morning.

You can eat banana. You can eat this. You can eat that. And I say, oh, great. Amazing. Wisdom. Money management is wisdom. You don't spend a ridiculous amount of money in doing something you could have done at a cheaper price just so can impress someone. That's not wisdom. That's not wisdom.

The bible says the poor you will always have amongst you. You see, Jesus is the one who said it. That's... That statement is a fearful one. If you think about it deeply, it means there is no solution to that statement because the because the person who said it. There is no solution to it. Jesus is the one who said, the poor, you will always have amongst you. No matter how much we teach prosperity, there will always be poor people amongst us. Jesus said it. Your own decision is to ensure I'm not amongst them.

Are you with me? I will not be one of the poor. Jesus says you will always have them amongst you. Doesn't name who will be them. It's not destined. It is because there'll be people who will not walk the way of wisdom. Wisdom says, rubies are with me. Riches are with me. Anyone who loves me, I fill up his treasury with inheritance. That is what wisdom says.

Are you with me? It means one way to ensure that I will not be part of them is to walk the way of wisdom. So I give and I give ridiculously. I give continuously. I give tirelessly. I invest in my business. I tithe. This is wisdom. Money eats your account and out of excitement, you finish it in two weeks. Do you know that?

When I give a threshold, when I give something I've never given before Mhmm. I don't assume because I've done that I'm dead to money. I ridicule that particular thing in my mind. I intentionally gave that same threshold over and over again. At the point where it no longer means nothing. I said, yes. That's it. That's it. Are you with me? That's it.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. If you have a business and you're not managing money properly, you have no record of your financials. You have no record of how much you're spend. Let me show you a scripture. Proverbs six verse nine. Let's see if you can do the verse 11. The thoughts of God higher than your thoughts. Can we just get everybody? Give me the KJV.

KJV. One two three. Go. Go on. On. Go on. Give me an LT of this. One, two, three. Go. So when somebody says, I just have a problem with sleep.

He says poverty will pounce on you like a bandit. Scarcity will attack you like an hand rubber. There are people who are comfortable in in in in in crisis. And beyond even the crisis, there are people who are comfortable in their weakness. And so when they come and report to you, they're not coming actually to receive help. You see? Because if somebody says that, whatever I set my heart to do, I cannot do it. I I I plan to read, and I just realized that I'm I'm I'm not reading. What should I do? Would I come to your house and open your book and hold your head and say,.

Would I hold your hands and say,. No. So what I would eventually tell you is, read. Do what you have to do. The solution to that problem is still you that will solve it. You are still gonna take that book, open it, and read. You don't feel like it. You stay there. You feel sleepy. You go and wash your eyes.

You shake your head. You come back and sit down. The sleep comes like an anointing. You sleep. You wake up. Continue. But that you give up and then just somebody says, I'm feeling sleepy whilst I read. And then the person goes to go and carry a movie and watch movie for three hours. I still believe that sleep is your problem. Unseriousness and laziness is your problem.

Unseriousness and laziness. This is the end of it. Poverty. Poverty. We need to have a drama like this so that people will get a picture of how poverty pounces on people like bums. Can you imagine? This is not how I plan that this meeting will go. Let's pray. When a man has wisdom and the thoughts of God... You see, when you know the ways of God, alright, it will be easy for you to know the thoughts of God.

The thoughts of God are revealed in his ways. So if you constantly master the ways of God, in matters where there is no specific instruction as to what principle to apply, you will know what you need to do. Do you understand what I just said? When you familiarize yourself with the thoughts of God, With the ways of God. Sorry. You'll meditate on the ways of God. This is why we listen to teachings. We listen to messages. And it concerns every area of our lives, relationship, marriages, what else? Finances.

We get teachings, and we just keep on listening to them, especially if you know you have a challenge in that area. It might be because the principles have not yet been solidified in your heart. You have not yet... It has not yet become a real word to you. You have not yet believed it perhaps. So what you do is meditate as I taught you some Sundays ago. Meditate on the word of God. You pick it, you listen to it, you fill your ears with it, you pray with it, you imagine it, you think about it. Are you with me? So that it becomes easy for you to take steps like that.

Don't listen to a message once and things that it... And and think that is it. You've done nothing. Don't listen to a message once and think that is it. You know what the bible says? What bible says? Say it thou a man. Diligent in his work. He shall stand before kings and not before me men. I taught you the law of diligence.

Did I teach you that? The diligent spirit. So if you know you're having a problem like I just described now, does not show that the diligence is missing. So what do you plug in your ears? You pray. You keep on listening. The message is two hours. You pray for two hours every day. Listen to the message. Listen to the message.

Listen to the message. You think about it. You reflect on it. The spirit jumps on you. The next time you are... You've set something for yourself to do and you are slumbering away, you hear a voice, a a line in the message ring in your spirit like an alarm. You jump up and say, no. I will not stand before uncommon men, unknown men. My destiny will not end unknown. I will not die unknown.

Immediately, I stand up. I go do what I've got to do. I pray, I study, I read. I pray, I study, I read. When you take steps like that, what you are doing is you are taking steps in wisdom. You're taking steps in wisdom. I have an issue with this giving of a thing that you get a picture, the power of giving on telegram. Oh, I listen to it. The power to obey. The grace for obedience, Jesus.

The grace for obedience. I've not mastered this thing. I'm listening. I'm listening. And you hear that teaching that every revival always have to do all... Every revival come with is really that is released that makes men liberal, that makes men give. It's not only prayer that foreruns revival, giving also foreruns revival. I thought in the power of giving, and I showed you five revival that have happened in scripture from the mosaic revival to the Abrahamic revival to the Davidic revival. And I told you how giving preceded these things, and you listen to these things and you say, my God. A light comes to you.

You hear your own word that enables you to practice these things. This is the ways of God, the thoughts of God. There's a portion of scripture where a young man asked Jesus a question about dividing lots between himself and his brother. He asked Jesus something about that dividing lots between... And Jesus said, what business of his is the lot that exists between himself and his brother? A powerful principle then follows that equation. Then one from the crowd said to him, teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me. Next verse. Look at this. But he said to him, man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?

Now what's the context? Tell my brother, right, to divide the inheritance. I don't know if this is the rendition, but we'll keep on reading to see if this if this is it. Next verse. And he said to them, take... Yeah. This is it. Take heed. Beware of what? Covetousness.

What is the context? Tell my brother to divide my inheritance with me. Then he doesn't use that opportunity to begin a teaching. So when I use as a case study, I'm not the first person. That's most for everybody, by the way. If if you if you don't get it, forget about it. Don't miss God. And he said to them, take heed and beware of covetousness. For one's life, look at this, does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses. One's life does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses.

It means covetousness is what makes you possess an abundance of things that you don't need. Where you feel as though your life is dependent on that thing you possess And parting with that thing that you possess is parting with a part of you. I've seen people who gave their cars away, and they said a a portion of me just left. A portion of you is a car. A portion of you is a car and and a ratio. A portion of you is a car. So when God told me to give that money, as though it's as though something left me. Let that thing keep on leaving you until there's nothing left. Let it keep on leaving you until there's nothing left. You can't prosper that way.

You cannot. I guarantee this by the word, by the integrity of scriptures. Look at this. He said to them, take heed and beware of covetousness. For one's life does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses. Next verse, watch this. Then he spoke a parable to them saying, are you still seeing the context? One's life does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses. This is a a a bullet point that he makes. To make them understand the bullet point, he then goes on to speak a parable, an illustration, if you call it that.

You see, the ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. Next verse. And he fought within himself saying, what shall I do since I have no room to store my crops? His ground yielded so much that he no longer had room to store the yield and the produce of the ground. It already shows you are withholding more than his meat. Are you with me? Yeah. Look at the next verse. It says... So he said, I will do this.

I will pull down my bands and build greater. See. So his strategy is not even to give. The strategy is to increase his reward was enlarged. At this. I will do this. I will pull down my bands and build greater. What does he wanna do? He wants one increase the limit of his account to now take a 100,000,000. And there, I will store all my crops and my goods.

Next verse, look at this. And I will say to my soul, soul, you have many goods. Laid up for many years. Take your ease. Eat, drink, and be merry. This is Jesus teaching. Look at the context of the conversation. Tell my brother to give me my inheritance. Am I a judge? Am I an...

No. Am I an arbitrator? I'm neither of that, but let me teach you. Be careful of covetousness. A man's a man's life, a man's worth is not in the abundance of things that he possess. Let me tell you of a man. That man had a ground, and his ground needed so much crops that even his house and his barn and his stock houses could no longer contain the yield of his increase. And what he does is to provide himself bigger bounds to store his goods. And he said to himself, oh my soul, you have so much laid off for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Was it when he got to this point that this man had a problem? No. Look at the next verse. The bible says, but God said to him, what? Yes. That's what I want you to see. I was talking about wisdom mentally. Yes, sir. This is a diagnosis. Was God insulting him?

The diagnosis. God said to him, fool. This diagnosis, the symptom can no longer be treated. He is stage four cancer. This disease has metastasized. It... There's no treatment again. And God now... This night, your soul will be required of you. Then tell me when your soul is required for...

Of you, whose will those things be which you have provided? The stores you have built, who will own it? The money you have saved and stored, who will own it? The banks you have built, who will own it? The company and industry, the cars you have built. There are people who have who have museum of cars, personal museum, a collection like an... Like like like like like the gathering huts of cars. There are politicians who dug who dug the ground and kept money inside. Some of them were assassinated, died useless deaths. Money is there wasting away.

When you go, whose whose would this belong to? And God called that situation where you withhold more than his meat, foolishness. Look at this next verse. The man thought he was saving. He thought he was investing to his future. Go back and read it. It's not it's not Greek and Hebrew. Go back go back to the previous verse. It says, you have many goods laid up for many years. Is that not the purpose of savings?

Savings? Next verse. I'm not against savings when I say it. I think so. Next verse. Watch this. God now uses the life of this man to draw an inference for every single person there. Look at this. So is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God. That when a man is rich towards God, he's rich in wisdom.

When a man lays up treasure and his treasure is for himself, The bible says so is he. That is the destiny, the faith of those. Look at this. God, Jesus is answering a man who says, tell my brother. My brother is holding my inheritance. This thing is mine and my brother will not give me. Jesus says, well, I can't tell your brother. I'm not a judge. I'm not an arbitrator. But perhaps if the if if the brother...

If the guy says tell my brother, probably the brother was there listening to the teaching. And he thought Jesus will come and meet him and say, brother, give him his inheritance. He says, that's not my ministry. I can't tell your brother. It's the same way don't tell people what to do with their money, but I can teach you. Yes, sir. So Jesus says, a man's life does not consist of the multitude of his possessions. So he say, lay up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God. And when a man begins to lay up treasure for himself, his work is not towards God. Look at the next verse if we see this.

Let's not do all of this. Rise up on your feet. We're gonna just pray silently and quietly. The bible says if any man acts... Lacks wisdom, the book of James. Give me that scripture. If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask. Let him ask of God who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. It's not fools that realize they lack wisdom. It is the wise that realize they lack wisdom.

Isn't this a mystery? The ways of God. What makes a man a fool is the very fact that he cannot even realize his need for wisdom. I believe there are wise men here. Men who realize that, ah, no. No. No. A lot of things about my behavior is still wrong. I was talking to one of my daughters, and I said, look at the way you're speaking to your elder sister. Look at the way you're speaking to your...

My god. If your upbringing didn't teach you morals, allow the word of god to teach you morals. It is called behaving yourself wisely. It's called what? Behaving yourself wisely. You will have no idea where you will need it. When you are employed, when you become a doctor, you are doing your housemanship, you are doing IT, and you have to relate with people that are your superiors. And a question of courtesy will make you lose opportunities. The prayer is simple. I'm in need of wisdom.

Your word says if any man lacks, let him ask of God. Today, I come asking for a supply. A fresh supply of the spirit. Can you pray? Lift your voice and pray now. Be sincere in your prayers. Listen, send your prayers. Let's pray. In Jesus name we pray. I want you to pray, father, the grace for humility, the grace to be humble and to learn, to be humble and to be instructed, to be humble and to be corrected, and receive this grace right now.

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