# THE EMERGENCE (THE SEASONS THAT BIRTH GREATNESS)

An episode of [Apostle Joshua Selman.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1767664136), 26 Aug 2026, 2 h 50 min.

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## Transcript

[0:05] Speaker 1: Let it be.
[0:09] Speaker 2: From the depth of your heart.
[0:13] Speaker 3: Lord, you're holy. Lord, you're holy and we.
[0:35] Speaker 4: Lift you up and magnify your name. And we lift
[0:45] Speaker 4: you up and magnify your name.
[0:52] Speaker 3: Lift your hands and acknowledge his holiness and his power
[0:57] Speaker 3: in our midst tonight.
[1:03] Speaker 5: Is someone praying? Acknowledge him, the Holy One of Israel.
[1:11] Speaker 4: Yes, we lift you up, magnify your name.
[1:20] Speaker 3: Shalina katusa prantase nebala nakatash. Ibrandi lahasa pratike bela kaparadosi.
[1:34] Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
[1:43] Speaker 3: Ask the Lord for an encounter tonight and don't make
[1:46] Speaker 3: religion out of it. Let it be from the depth
[1:49] Speaker 3: of your heart. Lord, I desire an encounter and that
[1:54] Speaker 3: by your spirit. Can you open up your mouth and pray?
[1:57] Speaker 3: I desire, I truly desire an encounter. Desire an encounter.
[2:09] Speaker 3: I desire an encounter by your spirit. I desire an
[2:14] Speaker 3: encounter by your spirit. In Jesus' name we pray. I
[2:28] Speaker 3: want to speak over your life before you sit. As
[2:32] Speaker 3: I was on my way to church, I just felt
[2:35] Speaker 3: a strong nudging to take a few minutes and truly
[2:40] Speaker 3: speak over your life.
[2:41] Speaker 5: Prophecy is powerful. You can change a man's life by
[2:46] Speaker 5: the power of the prophetic.
[2:47] Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus, I pray for you. Where
[2:50] Speaker 3: you have been stagnated. And you have not moved forward.
[2:54] Speaker 3: In the name that is above all names. I come
[2:57] Speaker 3: with an anointing tonight. And I speak to your destiny.
[3:00] Speaker 3: And to your life. Go forward. Go forward.
[3:08] Speaker 5: Go forward.
[3:10] Speaker 3: Go forward.
[3:12] Speaker 5: Go forward. Go forward.
[3:16] Speaker 3: I say to your spirit.
[3:18] Speaker 5: Go forward.
[3:19] Speaker 6: Go forward.
[3:20] Speaker 3: Go forward. In spite of the obstacles, go forward. In
[3:25] Speaker 3: spite of the limitations, go forward. In spite of the devil,
[3:29] Speaker 3: go forward. In spite of situations and circumstances, go forward.
[3:35] Speaker 3: Go forward.
[3:35] Speaker 5: Go forward. I speak it to you in the name
[3:38] Speaker 5: of Jesus. Go forward.
[3:42] Speaker 3: Prophecy number two. In this season, find help. In this season,
[3:48] Speaker 3: find help. Receive what I'm declaring. I'm speaking under the
[3:53] Speaker 3: influence of the spirit of prophecy. In this season, find help.
[3:58] Speaker 3: Find help. Find help. Angelic help. Find help. Through the
[4:04] Speaker 3: ministry of men. Find help. By the ministry of mercy.
[4:09] Speaker 3: I declare, find help. Career help. Marital help. Financial help.
[4:16] Speaker 3: Help in your body. In the name of Jesus. Find
[4:22] Speaker 3: help in the name of Jesus. Number three, live long.
[4:27] Speaker 3: I decree and declare, prophecy number three, every spirit of
[4:31] Speaker 3: untimely death programmed across your territory that some of you
[4:36] Speaker 3: are victims of, you've seen your loved ones die, that
[4:39] Speaker 3: we are preparing to enter the ember mounds and to
[4:42] Speaker 3: recycle death again. I declare to you as the Lord
[4:46] Speaker 3: placed in my spirit, live long. Live long. Live long.
[4:52] Speaker 3: Every contract with death is aborted. Every contract with death
[4:58] Speaker 3: is cancelled.
[5:00] Speaker 5: Cancelled.
[5:02] Speaker 3: Let me repeat the prophecies again. Number one, I declare
[5:05] Speaker 3: to you, go forward. Number two, find help. Number three,
[5:11] Speaker 3: live long. Number four, prosper. I place grace upon your hand.
[5:17] Speaker 3: In this season, prosper. In righteousness prosper. Financially prosper. Fruitfulness
[5:27] Speaker 3: is your portion. I speak to you as he placed
[5:31] Speaker 3: it in my spirit.
[5:32] Speaker 5: Prosper.
[5:34] Speaker 3: Every demonic force holding your hand. Making your productivity to
[5:39] Speaker 3: not yield. In the name of Jesus we come against
[5:42] Speaker 3: that spirit now. I declare by all godly means prosper. Prosper.
[5:49] Speaker 5: Do well.
[5:51] Speaker 3: Make progress. In the name of Jesus. Prophecy number five.
[5:58] Speaker 3: I declare and declare. Walk in divine wisdom.
[6:01] Speaker 7: Amen.
[6:03] Speaker 3: Walk in divine wisdom. Wisdom beyond your age. Wisdom beyond
[6:09] Speaker 3: your education. Let me say it again. Wisdom beyond your age.
[6:14] Speaker 3: Wisdom beyond your education. By the power that raised Christ
[6:18] Speaker 3: from the dead, may you access superior wisdom. It will
[6:23] Speaker 3: show in your results that you are a carrier of
[6:26] Speaker 3: divine wisdom. Every foolish decision in your life, every destiny
[6:31] Speaker 3: destroying decision in your life, I declare the capacity to
[6:35] Speaker 3: make that decision killed and let it die forever. You
[6:40] Speaker 3: will make superior decisions by the Spirit of God. Every
[6:46] Speaker 3: demonic spirit manipulating your decisions. Making good to look like evil.
[6:51] Speaker 5: And evil to look like good. I declare may your.
[6:54] Speaker 3: Perception and your understanding be corrected.
[6:59] Speaker 5: Be corrected. Be corrected. Be corrected. Be corrected.
[7:06] Speaker 3: Open your mouth in one minute and internalize these five
[7:09] Speaker 3: prophetic words.
[7:11] Speaker 5: Go ahead and pray.
[7:13] Speaker 3: Five words release like arrows for your spirit in the
[7:17] Speaker 3: name of jesus i go forward in the name of
[7:20] Speaker 3: jesus i find help someone.
[7:23] Speaker 5: Pray someone pray someone pray a family online.
[7:31] Speaker 3: Pray these are not just empty speakings they carry life
[7:36] Speaker 3: they carry weight in the spirit One minute.
[7:46] Speaker 5: This is service for you. Receive it.
[7:54] Speaker 3: One minute. One minute. Father, your word has come. I
[8:01] Speaker 3: walk in wisdom. Your word has come. The fear of
[8:04] Speaker 3: death is over. Your word has come. Stagnation is over.
[8:09] Speaker 3: Your word has come.
[8:10] Speaker 5: I prosper.
[8:12] Speaker 3: I find help. I go forward. By you I run
[8:16] Speaker 3: through a troop. By my God I leap over a wall.
[8:29] Speaker 3: One more minute. You are praying in tongues to receive it.
[8:35] Speaker 3: You are praying in tongues to receive it. You are
[8:40] Speaker 3: praying in tongues to plant this seed.
[8:43] Speaker 8: In the soil of your heart so that it yields
[8:46] Speaker 8: for you a harvest 30 fold, 60 fold, and 100 fold.
[8:52] Speaker 8: Someone partner with the Holy Spirit and program the next.
[8:56] Speaker 3: Season of your life. A few more seconds, you are praying. Ah,
[9:19] Speaker 3: someone's life is changing. I sense fire in this place tonight.
[9:23] Speaker 3: Someone's life is changing until his word came. The word
[9:27] Speaker 3: of the Lord tried him. But when the word comes,
[9:31] Speaker 3: it heals, it delivers. It delivers to you your portion
[9:35] Speaker 3: in destiny. No more stagnation. No more failure. No more
[9:44] Speaker 3: unwise decisions. No more fear. I live by every word.
[9:52] Speaker 3: Even the preceding word. And now that it has come
[9:56] Speaker 3: for me. I receive it into my spirit.
[10:00] Speaker 1: Amen.
[10:23] Speaker 3: In Jesus mighty name we pray. In Jesus mighty name
[10:30] Speaker 3: we pray. In Jesus mighty name we pray. Father as
[10:37] Speaker 3: you place these words in my spirit. I have spoken
[10:40] Speaker 3: it over your people. Let there be a performance. Let
[10:45] Speaker 3: not one of these prophetic words fail. Let me give
[10:49] Speaker 3: you an assignment already. Use this week to war with
[10:52] Speaker 3: these prophecies. War with them. Take them to the place
[10:56] Speaker 3: of prayer. From Sunday to Sunday. Lord, you have spoken.
[11:00] Speaker 3: I go forward.
[11:01] Speaker 5: Take some time to pray it into your life.
[11:04] Speaker 3: Garrison yourself with the scriptures that support you. In the
[11:08] Speaker 3: name of Jesus, the word has come that I obtain help.
[11:11] Speaker 3: Where are my helpers? I call them by power, by prophecy.
[11:16] Speaker 3: I will not be without help again. Do you believe
[11:19] Speaker 3: what you just received?
[11:21] Speaker 5: Yes sir.
[11:22] Speaker 3: Don't despise prophesying. Remember when the prophet said. By this
[11:27] Speaker 3: time tomorrow. There was a man who the king leaned on.
[11:30] Speaker 3: And the man said.
[11:31] Speaker 5: Even if God would do this. Might this happen? And
[11:34] Speaker 5: he said. Because you have doubted prophecy.
[11:36] Speaker 3: You will see it. To show that the Lord is faithful.
[11:39] Speaker 3: But you will not eat of it. He died at
[11:41] Speaker 3: the gate. Where there was abundance. They trampled upon him.
[11:46] Speaker 3: Into their promise. I pray for you that every word
[11:49] Speaker 3: God has spoken tonight. Some of you before service is over.
[11:53] Speaker 3: The evidence will be waiting for you. In the name
[11:57] Speaker 3: of Jesus Christ. Please be seated. Let the weight of
[12:03] Speaker 3: your glory fall. Let it cover all the earth. Let
[12:13] Speaker 3: the weight of your glory fall. Let it cover all
[12:21] Speaker 3: the earth. Let it cover all the earth. Let it
[12:30] Speaker 3: cover all the earth. Let it cover all the earth.
[12:40] Speaker 5: Let it cover all the earth.
[12:43] Speaker 7: Let the weight of your glory.
[12:46] Speaker 5: Let the weight of your glory.
[12:48] Speaker 2: Reform let it cover all the earth.
[12:57] Speaker 5: Let the weight of your.
[12:59] Speaker 2: Glory fall let it cover all the earth.
[13:08] Speaker 9: I receive I manifest your power and your wisdom Till
[13:19] Speaker 9: the nations see Jesus lifted up.
[13:25] Speaker 5: It's my prayer. Exalted. I receive. I manifest.
[13:36] Speaker 2: Your power and your wisdom. Till the nations see Jesus
[13:46] Speaker 2: lifted up.
[13:49] Speaker 1: More in God.
[13:54] Speaker 7: Ay, ay, ay, ay.
[14:21] Speaker 9: I manifest.
[14:23] Speaker 6: Your power and your wisdom. One more time.
[14:35] Speaker 3: I receive, I manifest.
[14:52] Speaker 2: Your power and your wisdom.
[14:57] Speaker 3: Till the nations see Jesus lifted up.
[15:06] Speaker 1: Exalted.
[15:09] Speaker 3: One day very soon, I promise you, you will be
[15:12] Speaker 3: singing this song, but not in this place. You will
[15:15] Speaker 3: sing this song in front of your testimony. When the
[15:19] Speaker 3: world will stand in awe. Of God's hand upon your life.
[15:23] Speaker 3: When your loved ones will stand in awe. And say
[15:26] Speaker 3: so this is how God can change a man. This
[15:29] Speaker 3: is how God can change a woman.
[15:33] Speaker 5: This song you sing. Will be your anthem.
[15:35] Speaker 3: For many years. Many years.
[15:39] Speaker 5: Many years.
[15:41] Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus Christ. Please be seated if
[15:44] Speaker 3: you can. Thank you Jesus.
[15:49] Speaker 5: Blessed be the name of the Lord.
[15:51] Speaker 3: Two announcements and then we'll get straight into the teaching
[15:58] Speaker 3: of the word. As always, you are welcome. This is
[16:01] Speaker 3: the house of God. This is Koinonia. And we bless
[16:05] Speaker 3: the Lord for the privilege he's given us to serve
[16:08] Speaker 3: his grace, his wisdom, his power to us here and
[16:13] Speaker 3: to the nations as many who are connected to this grace.
[16:16] Speaker 3: We bless God for your life. And I want to
[16:20] Speaker 3: assure you that tonight, as always, will be a moment
[16:23] Speaker 3: of encounter, a moment of transformation. Very quickly, by God's grace,
[16:29] Speaker 3: by now you know already that next week is our
[16:31] Speaker 3: miracle service for the month of July.
[16:36] Speaker 5: It's going to be an extraordinary time in this place.
[16:39] Speaker 3: Among the many things we're going to be doing, by
[16:41] Speaker 3: God's grace, we're going to be officially doing a visual unveiling.
[16:47] Speaker 5: Of our property.
[16:50] Speaker 3: Hallelujah. And then number two, we'll officially be launching our
[16:54] Speaker 3: building fund. So for those of you who have waited
[16:58] Speaker 3: and waited to give, please be patient. One more week
[17:00] Speaker 3: left and we'll open doors officially. We appreciate your heart
[17:04] Speaker 3: to give. And we know that there is a ready
[17:07] Speaker 3: army waiting to stand with us and stand by us
[17:11] Speaker 3: as we step into the next season. It's a very
[17:16] Speaker 3: prophetic season. And let me tell you this as a ministry.
[17:20] Speaker 3: The building is only a prophetic sign that we are
[17:23] Speaker 3: corporately entering a new season.
[17:25] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[17:27] Speaker 3: If I were you, I would look beyond the building.
[17:30] Speaker 3: You see, let me not go ahead of myself, but
[17:35] Speaker 3: it's important for you to know that this is beyond
[17:38] Speaker 3: just a building project. It is for someone you are
[17:42] Speaker 3: entering a stage where God wants to establish you. For
[17:46] Speaker 3: someone you are entering a season where God wants to
[17:48] Speaker 3: give you rest round about. You will look left and
[17:51] Speaker 3: right and find out that there are no battles again.
[17:55] Speaker 3: Because God would have sorted your life. And for someone
[17:58] Speaker 3: in this season, those who mocked God in your life,
[18:01] Speaker 3: God is about to answer them in a way. Because
[18:06] Speaker 3: you have allowed him to answer them, he will answer
[18:08] Speaker 3: them indeed. In the name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Now,
[18:14] Speaker 3: the believer, I have taught you in this house that
[18:16] Speaker 3: the believer is a product of encounters. The believer in
[18:23] Speaker 3: Christ is a product of encounters. An encounter, for a definition,
[18:31] Speaker 3: is the name given to any spiritual journey, any spiritual
[18:35] Speaker 3: process that makes a person or a thing real to you.
[18:41] Speaker 3: So the assignment of an encounter is is to crystallize
[18:45] Speaker 3: within your heart, your spirit, and your experience the reality
[18:50] Speaker 3: of a person, the reality of a thing. And the
[18:54] Speaker 3: goal of encounters is to produce conviction. I'll take the
[18:58] Speaker 3: definition again. So that an encounter, this is just a preamble,
[19:03] Speaker 3: believers are products of encounters. If your journey in the
[19:07] Speaker 3: faith life is not based on encounters, number one, You
[19:11] Speaker 3: will not last too.
[19:12] Speaker 5: You will not be effective. But I know whom I
[19:16] Speaker 5: have believed.
[19:17] Speaker 3: And I am persuaded on account of encounters that he
[19:21] Speaker 3: is able to keep that which is committed unto him
[19:25] Speaker 3: against that day. But the people that do know their God,
[19:29] Speaker 3: they shall be strong and they shall do exploits. Hallelujah.
[19:35] Speaker 3: Praise the name of the Lord. So encounters are spiritual experiences.
[19:40] Speaker 3: That make a person. That make an idea. Real to you.
[19:46] Speaker 5: So that it is no longer theoretical.
[19:48] Speaker 3: It crystallizes. the reality of a person. The reality of
[19:56] Speaker 3: an ideology to your spirit, to your heart. Producing conviction
[20:03] Speaker 3: so that you are persuaded beyond doubt.
[20:06] Speaker 5: You are persuaded beyond turning back.
[20:10] Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
[20:11] Speaker 5: Praise the name of the Lord.
[20:15] Speaker 3: And like you've learned in this house, a quick recap
[20:17] Speaker 3: that there are many encounters a believer will have in
[20:22] Speaker 3: his faith walk through the span of his faith walk.
[20:26] Speaker 3: But there are four of them that define your spiritual
[20:30] Speaker 3: experience and define the level of efficiency. In fact, if
[20:35] Speaker 3: any one of these encounters fail in your life, fail
[20:39] Speaker 3: to happen, You will be stunted. You will be inefficient.
[20:42] Speaker 3: Number one, and in order of priority, is your encounter
[20:47] Speaker 3: with Jesus, the son of the living God. It matters
[20:51] Speaker 3: that this becomes your first encounter. Without this encounter, you
[20:56] Speaker 3: cannot be called a Christian. You cannot be called a believer.
[21:01] Speaker 3: Your encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ. I don't have
[21:04] Speaker 3: to recap for you again. that upon encountering the Lord
[21:08] Speaker 3: Jesus Christ in the experience we call salvation or new birth,
[21:12] Speaker 3: you receive the forgiveness of sins, the gift of righteousness,
[21:16] Speaker 3: and the life of God. Number two, the second encounter
[21:21] Speaker 3: that is necessary for the health of your spiritual journey
[21:24] Speaker 3: is your encounter with the person and the ministry of
[21:28] Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit. The person and the ministry of the
[21:32] Speaker 3: Holy Spirit, in as much as the Holy Spirit plays
[21:35] Speaker 3: a role In your receiving Jesus. At that initial salvation experience.
[21:41] Speaker 3: There is a separate encounter with the person. And the
[21:45] Speaker 3: ministry of the Holy Spirit. Jesus speaking about the Holy
[21:49] Speaker 3: Spirit said.
[21:50] Speaker 5: When he the spirit of.
[21:51] Speaker 3: Truth is come.
[21:52] Speaker 5: He will guide you into all truth.
[21:54] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[21:56] Speaker 3: He will show you things to come. Take of the
[22:01] Speaker 3: things that are of the father. And reveal them to you.
[22:05] Speaker 3: He is the spirit of truth. Number three. Your encounter
[22:08] Speaker 3: with the word of God. The word of God. Not
[22:13] Speaker 3: as the person Jesus, but as a compendium of the
[22:17] Speaker 3: speakings and the thoughts and the ideas of God. The
[22:21] Speaker 3: logos of God. Acts 20, 32. I commend you to
[22:27] Speaker 3: God and to the word of his grace, which is
[22:31] Speaker 3: able to build you up and to give you an
[22:33] Speaker 3: inheritance among them that are sanctified. Colossians chapter 3 and
[22:38] Speaker 3: verse 16, let the word of Christ, it says, dwell
[22:42] Speaker 3: in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one
[22:46] Speaker 3: another in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs. The Bible says, and
[22:50] Speaker 3: that from a child thou has known the Holy Scripture,
[22:54] Speaker 3: which is able to make you wise unto salvation. John
[22:58] Speaker 3: 1 and verse 3, and without him outside of the
[23:01] Speaker 3: word was not anything made that was made. Colossians 1, 16.
[23:08] Speaker 3: The Bible tells us that all things were created by him.
[23:12] Speaker 3: The word, the things that are in heaven, earth, visible
[23:16] Speaker 3: and invisible, whether they be thrones, whether they be dominions, principalities,
[23:20] Speaker 3: you can have the initial salvation experience and yet not
[23:25] Speaker 3: encounter the word of God as a compendium of the
[23:29] Speaker 3: ways of God. I told you that there is Jesus
[23:32] Speaker 3: the way. There is Jesus the person, but there is
[23:37] Speaker 3: Jesus the way. The methodology of the kingdom, the path
[23:42] Speaker 3: that leads to life. When you find that path and
[23:44] Speaker 3: walk there in according to Jeremiah 6.16, the Bible says
[23:48] Speaker 3: you will find rest for your soul. It's called the
[23:51] Speaker 3: ancient path. Hallelujah. And then number four, you must encounter
[23:57] Speaker 3: the body of Christ. The body of Christ. The diversity
[24:04] Speaker 3: of revelations and graces deposited within the body for your profiting.
[24:11] Speaker 3: Ephesians chapter 4, when you read from verse 11, the
[24:15] Speaker 3: Bible says, when he led captivity captive, he gave gifts
[24:19] Speaker 3: to men, giving some apostles and prophets gifts. And evangelists
[24:23] Speaker 3: and pastors and teachers for the maturing, the perfecting of
[24:27] Speaker 3: the saints. So that the saints now being perfected will
[24:31] Speaker 3: do the work of the ministry. For the edifying, the
[24:34] Speaker 3: profiting of the body of Christ. Until verse 13 we
[24:37] Speaker 3: come to the unity of faith and of the knowledge
[24:41] Speaker 3: of the son of God. Unto a perfect man, the
[24:44] Speaker 3: fullness of the stature of the measure of Christ. If
[24:48] Speaker 3: you do not encounter the body of Christ. There are
[24:52] Speaker 3: dimensions of God that will be foreign to your Christian experience.
[24:56] Speaker 3: You will not be able to have a balanced, wholesome growth.
[25:00] Speaker 3: An example of such instance is found in Acts chapter
[25:04] Speaker 3: 18 from verse 24 down to the end, the story
[25:07] Speaker 3: of Apollos. Acts chapter 19 from verse 1 to 4,
[25:12] Speaker 3: the story of the disciples who had passed through the
[25:16] Speaker 3: upper coast. Hallelujah. I call it the knowing only syndrome.
[25:21] Speaker 3: And that happens when you do not encounter the diversity
[25:25] Speaker 3: of graces that are deposited within the body of Christ.
[25:28] Speaker 3: Within the body of Christ is the wisdom and the
[25:31] Speaker 3: grace for excellence. Within the body of Christ is the
[25:35] Speaker 3: wisdom and grace for power and the manifestations of the
[25:41] Speaker 3: hand of God. Within the body of Christ is the
[25:44] Speaker 3: grace to build. Within the body of Christ is the
[25:47] Speaker 3: grace to last. And so when you encounter the word
[25:51] Speaker 3: of God, in addition to that, you encounter the distribution
[25:56] Speaker 3: of the graces. First, the wisdom and the graces that
[25:59] Speaker 3: have been allotted to various people and platforms across the body.
[26:08] Speaker 3: And then it causes you to be wholesome. Imagine the
[26:12] Speaker 3: Bible without the writings of Paul, omitting the writings of
[26:15] Speaker 3: one man alone. will make the understanding of God and
[26:19] Speaker 3: his program incomplete. Imagine the Bible without the writings of Peter,
[26:24] Speaker 3: just one man. Subtracting one man's contribution. You see that
[26:30] Speaker 3: and you are not able to understand scripture again.
[26:32] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[26:34] Speaker 5: Praise the name of the Lord. So believers are products
[26:37] Speaker 5: of encounters.
[26:39] Speaker 3: Tonight I want to teach you how seasons birth the
[26:42] Speaker 3: glory of God, how seasons birth greatness. In a topic
[26:46] Speaker 3: that I titled the emergence.
[26:48] Speaker 5: The emergence.
[26:49] Speaker 3: I want to show you the seasons that birth greatness.
[26:53] Speaker 3: That a man can go through several seasons in his lifetime.
[26:58] Speaker 3: But there are a few seasons if you miss. It
[27:01] Speaker 3: will take the mercy of God. For you to ever
[27:03] Speaker 3: be great in life. And I'm praying that God will
[27:06] Speaker 3: open our eyes in Jesus name. Two scriptures very quickly.
[27:11] Speaker 5: Number one.
[27:13] Speaker 3: Luke chapter one.
[27:15] Speaker 5: From verse 79 and 80.
[27:18] Speaker 3: Luke chapter 1.
[27:20] Speaker 5: From verse 79 and 80.
[27:23] Speaker 3: Speaking about John. To give light to them that sit
[27:26] Speaker 3: in darkness. And in the shadow of death. And to
[27:30] Speaker 3: guide our feet.
[27:32] Speaker 5: To the way of peace. Verse 80. The Bible says.
[27:35] Speaker 5: And the child grew. John now. And works strong.
[27:40] Speaker 3: Take note. The child grew. And worked strong in spirit.
[27:46] Speaker 3: And he was in the desert or the wilderness. Till
[27:49] Speaker 3: the day of his showing unto Israel. Let's see what
[27:54] Speaker 3: Amplify says. Let's see what Amplify says. And the little
[27:59] Speaker 3: boy grew and became strong in spirit. And he was
[28:03] Speaker 3: in the desert, the wilderness.
[28:05] Speaker 5: Until the day of his appearing.
[28:07] Speaker 3: Watch this. The commencement of his public ministry. May the
[28:12] Speaker 3: Lord grant us understanding in Jesus' name. Romans chapter 15
[28:18] Speaker 3: and verse 4 is a popular scripture in this house.
[28:21] Speaker 3: The Bible says, for whatsoever things were written aforetime, it
[28:26] Speaker 3: says that these things were written for our learning so
[28:29] Speaker 3: that we through patience and the comfort of scripture might
[28:33] Speaker 3: find hope. I explain for you what this means. That
[28:37] Speaker 3: the reason why the Bible had to be documented today
[28:41] Speaker 3: And remember, we took a theological series that we had
[28:45] Speaker 3: to pause on the way, examining the foundational pillars of
[28:48] Speaker 3: the Christian faith. And one of it is the supremacy
[28:51] Speaker 3: of the word of God. And in discussing that, we
[28:55] Speaker 3: considered the fact that the Bible is the richest printed
[29:00] Speaker 3: capture of the speakings of God and the platform for
[29:06] Speaker 3: that reveals God to anyone, any believer at all. The
[29:09] Speaker 3: Bible contains the richest capture of the revelation of God
[29:14] Speaker 3: to man.
[29:15] Speaker 5: Are we together now? And so this is very important.
[29:18] Speaker 3: Because there is a reason why a lot of stories
[29:21] Speaker 3: are written in the Bible. When you pick the Bible,
[29:23] Speaker 3: you can almost call it a storybook. And you're not
[29:26] Speaker 3: necessarily wrong. Like you know, the Bible contains a lot
[29:30] Speaker 3: of stories, historically captured, archaeologically captured, captured.
[29:37] Speaker 5: And for a long time, I wondered why the Bible
[29:39] Speaker 5: was full of stories.
[29:40] Speaker 3: And quite honestly, some of those stories were not connected
[29:43] Speaker 3: to salvation at all. And so in my thinking, I
[29:47] Speaker 3: just thought that if those stories went away, it would
[29:50] Speaker 3: leave us with little work or burden as far as
[29:54] Speaker 3: learning what translates to the knowledge of God directly instead
[29:58] Speaker 3: of several stories, this man begats this man, this man
[30:01] Speaker 3: begats this man.
[30:02] Speaker 5: And you're wondering, so to what end is.
[30:03] Speaker 3: All of this? There are stories that I personally consider
[30:08] Speaker 3: useless as far as their connection to the plan of
[30:10] Speaker 3: God is concerned. But the reason is because as I
[30:14] Speaker 3: would grow in the knowledge of God, I got to
[30:17] Speaker 3: find out that all of those stories were left in
[30:20] Speaker 3: the Bible, whether directly connected to the revelation of Jesus
[30:23] Speaker 3: and his salvation plan or not, Because there is a
[30:27] Speaker 3: prophetic layer to the learning of scripture. Remember I taught
[30:31] Speaker 3: you that we learn scripture at three layers. Number one,
[30:34] Speaker 3: there's the historic or archaeological layer. Number two, there is
[30:38] Speaker 3: the doctrinal or contextual layer. So you learn the Bible doctrinally,
[30:44] Speaker 3: you learn the Bible contextually. And then there is a
[30:47] Speaker 3: prophetic layer. Meaning you can draw forth mysteries from a
[30:51] Speaker 3: seeming uncorrelated scripture. A scripture... that means something else. But
[30:56] Speaker 3: the Holy Ghost can quicken light to a verse or
[30:59] Speaker 3: a portion of that scripture and it can be light
[31:02] Speaker 3: to you. It is not a doctrine, but it can
[31:05] Speaker 3: become light to you that leads to breakthrough. Are we together?
[31:09] Speaker 3: And so some of these stories are left in the
[31:11] Speaker 3: Bible for such a reason.
[31:13] Speaker 5: So that when you are exploring.
[31:16] Speaker 3: The prophetic dimension of the scripture, the Holy Spirit will
[31:20] Speaker 3: be at liberty To use an array of stories. An
[31:24] Speaker 3: array of scriptures. And quicken them. Now I understand this
[31:29] Speaker 3: very well. Because I have seen it as a vision.
[31:34] Speaker 3: Let me share with you the vision again. For those
[31:36] Speaker 3: of you who have not heard. One time I was
[31:38] Speaker 3: caught up in the spirit. And I saw what looked
[31:40] Speaker 3: like an ancient gate. And the ancient gate had. It
[31:45] Speaker 3: was made up of small doors.
[31:47] Speaker 5: Boxes.
[31:48] Speaker 3: Like the ancient post office boxes, the way they are.
[31:51] Speaker 3: And upon each one of them, scripture was written. There
[31:55] Speaker 3: was a scripture written on every one of them. And
[31:58] Speaker 3: they were opening and closing. And every time they opened,
[32:01] Speaker 3: light came forth. And I wondered why... this vision and
[32:05] Speaker 3: what it was about. And then the Lord was showing
[32:08] Speaker 3: me that upon every one of those scriptures, there is light,
[32:11] Speaker 3: meaning revelation and the grace that makes that scripture come alive.
[32:16] Speaker 3: So every time you catch a revelation truly, the light
[32:19] Speaker 3: component that gives you the ability to demonstrate its reality
[32:24] Speaker 3: is also released. If you claim you understand the scripture
[32:28] Speaker 3: and the wisdom and the grace connected to that scripture
[32:32] Speaker 3: is not seen in your life, then you've not really
[32:34] Speaker 3: understood the scripture. Hallelujah. So I just digress to explain
[32:40] Speaker 3: that scripture, that the things that are written are for time.
[32:44] Speaker 3: Whether they're directly connected to the revelation of Jesus and
[32:48] Speaker 3: his plan of salvation or otherwise, they were written for
[32:53] Speaker 3: our learning. Meaning that there is something in every scripture
[32:58] Speaker 3: for our learning. So that we, through patience and comfort
[33:03] Speaker 3: of that scripture, we might find hope. Hallelujah. Praise the
[33:08] Speaker 3: name of the Lord. The emergence. I want to show
[33:11] Speaker 3: you how seasons birth glory. Now, there is a lot
[33:17] Speaker 3: of lessons that can be learned from history. And this
[33:21] Speaker 3: is not just from a spiritual standpoint. Even when you
[33:26] Speaker 3: deal with sociology and you deal with nation building, for instance,
[33:31] Speaker 3: you find out that a nation that forgets its history
[33:34] Speaker 3: will seldom become a great nation because usually the secret
[33:38] Speaker 3: to the future is in the past.
[33:40] Speaker 5: Are we together now? And this is how it is
[33:44] Speaker 5: with us spiritually.
[33:46] Speaker 3: We can study the path that the patriarchs took. to
[33:52] Speaker 3: emerge and become great. We can study the paths that
[33:56] Speaker 3: our fathers, those who are alive now, that there is
[34:00] Speaker 3: a path. And remember, let me tell you that there
[34:03] Speaker 3: are two ways to becoming transformed in the kingdom. Do
[34:07] Speaker 3: not forget this. Sometimes I recap on these things because
[34:10] Speaker 3: I want you to become a stronghold in your mind.
[34:13] Speaker 3: There are two ways the believer is transformed. Number one,
[34:17] Speaker 3: looking unto Jesus. As you behold him through his word,
[34:23] Speaker 3: the Bible says we are changed into the same image
[34:27] Speaker 3: from glory to glory. So that's the first way. Second
[34:30] Speaker 3: Corinthians 3.18 is the first way we become transformed.
[34:34] Speaker 5: By directly looking unto Jesus.
[34:37] Speaker 3: Number two, the second way we look unto Jesus is
[34:40] Speaker 3: found in, the second way we are transformed is found
[34:44] Speaker 3: in Hebrews 6 and verse 12. to be followers of them,
[34:48] Speaker 3: the power of role models, so we can look unto
[34:52] Speaker 3: men who are looking unto Jesus. This is how we
[34:56] Speaker 3: are transformed. Number one, we look unto Jesus directly through
[35:00] Speaker 3: his word and by the agency of the Spirit. And
[35:03] Speaker 3: then number two, we look unto men who have become
[35:07] Speaker 3: worthy models, who by reason of their alignments, their sacrifices,
[35:12] Speaker 3: the businesses they have done with God in the secret place.
[35:15] Speaker 3: have been able to embody certain spiritual possibilities. And so
[35:20] Speaker 3: the Bible says we can look onto those men whilst
[35:24] Speaker 3: they are looking onto Jesus and we can draw wisdom.
[35:27] Speaker 3: We can follow the footprints they left behind and it
[35:30] Speaker 3: helps us in our imagines. Hallelujah. One more thing that
[35:36] Speaker 3: I want to share with us, if you recall, and
[35:39] Speaker 3: it's a subtle revelation, but I want to remind us again.
[35:43] Speaker 3: that every character in the Bible, please listen, every character
[35:48] Speaker 3: in the Bible, character meaning the people whose names were
[35:51] Speaker 3: captured in the Bible, particularly those who played any significant
[35:55] Speaker 3: role at all, from Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to
[35:59] Speaker 3: Gideon to Esther, to Pharaoh, to Herod, those who birthed
[36:04] Speaker 3: the program of God directly. I told you that every
[36:08] Speaker 3: of such characters in the Bible, they were not just
[36:11] Speaker 3: personalities that existed, but through their lifetime, they became spiritual
[36:16] Speaker 3: pathways that can be studied and followed, and it will
[36:20] Speaker 3: produce a certain kind of believer. Don't forget this. So Abraham,
[36:26] Speaker 3: for instance... There was a man called Abraham in the Bible.
[36:30] Speaker 3: He lived his life and fulfilled the purposes of God
[36:33] Speaker 3: as committed to him.
[36:35] Speaker 5: But there is Abraham as a spiritual.
[36:37] Speaker 3: Pathway that if followed will produce a certain kind of believer.
[36:43] Speaker 3: There is Esther as a young lady who later became
[36:46] Speaker 3: queen and helped to preserve God's people and frontier his programs.
[36:51] Speaker 3: But there is Esther as a spiritual pathway that if
[36:55] Speaker 3: followed will produce a certain kind of witness. Are we
[36:59] Speaker 3: learning now? There is Daniel. There is Joseph. So when
[37:05] Speaker 3: you study Daniel, for instance, you study a eunuch. Once
[37:09] Speaker 3: upon a time there was a eunuch called Daniel who
[37:12] Speaker 3: lived through the dispensation of four to seven kings. But
[37:16] Speaker 3: there is Daniel as a spiritual pathway. That produces a
[37:20] Speaker 3: certain kind of weakness. The reason why this is important
[37:24] Speaker 3: is because the Holy Ghost will never train you to
[37:28] Speaker 3: become anything outside of the characters that are represented in scripture.
[37:33] Speaker 3: No matter the kind of vessel he wants to make
[37:37] Speaker 3: out of you. There is a parallel of that kind
[37:41] Speaker 3: of training. It is the reason why God kept you there.
[37:44] Speaker 3: So if God wants you to be a nation builder,
[37:47] Speaker 3: there is a character in the Bible you must look
[37:49] Speaker 3: like as an attestation that it is God that is
[37:52] Speaker 3: training you. You will find a combination of wisdom, government,
[37:56] Speaker 3: and the prophetic. That is Daniel there. You will find
[37:59] Speaker 3: a combination of wisdom and, you.
[38:03] Speaker 5: Know, intelligence. That is Joseph there.
[38:07] Speaker 3: If God wants to empower you to be able to
[38:10] Speaker 3: influence decisions in high places, you are a lady.
[38:14] Speaker 5: That is Esther there. Are we together?
[38:17] Speaker 3: You come from a family where everything has failed. And
[38:20] Speaker 3: God wants to give you another chance with life. That
[38:23] Speaker 3: is Ruth right there. Are we together? You will always,
[38:27] Speaker 3: one of the ways you verify that it is the
[38:29] Speaker 3: Spirit of God training you is that eventually you must
[38:34] Speaker 3: find a parallel, a reflection of your training in Scripture.
[38:38] Speaker 5: Who is learning now? This is one of the ways
[38:40] Speaker 5: you judge spirits.
[38:43] Speaker 3: So by the time you find out that a spirit
[38:46] Speaker 3: or information is building you, and you are becoming something
[38:50] Speaker 3: whose parallel you cannot find in scripture, don't believe you
[38:54] Speaker 3: are a unique kind of believer.
[38:55] Speaker 5: You have been deceived already. Because the Bible says the things.
[38:58] Speaker 3: That are written aforetime, it is supposed to be a
[39:01] Speaker 3: system of check and balance. So if you say God
[39:04] Speaker 3: has called me to an apostle ministry, there were many
[39:07] Speaker 3: apostles in the Bible. No matter how unique you are,
[39:11] Speaker 3: I should be able to find Paul there or Philip
[39:16] Speaker 3: or I mean Peter there or James. If I cannot
[39:21] Speaker 3: find them, at least I should find Jesus. He was
[39:23] Speaker 3: also an apostle. If I don't find Jesus or anyone
[39:26] Speaker 3: who followed Jesus, I don't trust what trained you and
[39:29] Speaker 3: I don't trust what you are becoming. No matter how
[39:33] Speaker 3: rare your call is, no matter how rare your training is,
[39:38] Speaker 3: no matter how unique your assignment is, I want you
[39:42] Speaker 3: to know that there is a verification system In scripture.
[39:46] Speaker 5: There must have been a character in the Bible already.
[39:49] Speaker 3: Are we together? If at all we cannot find any
[39:52] Speaker 3: human character. Then we can find Jesus himself. Who was
[39:58] Speaker 3: an aggregate of all these characters. Apostle God is calling
[40:03] Speaker 3: me to be an exceptional businessman. And there is something
[40:07] Speaker 3: I need to do for the kingdom that has not
[40:10] Speaker 3: been done before. I agree with you, but read your
[40:12] Speaker 3: Bible very well and keep working with the Holy Spirit.
[40:15] Speaker 3: One day you will stumble across a character that is
[40:19] Speaker 3: a reflection of what God is trying to produce.
[40:21] Speaker 5: Now, there are times where you will see a hybrid,
[40:25] Speaker 5: meaning you.
[40:26] Speaker 3: Will look to one person and find Daniel and find
[40:29] Speaker 3: another person, but you must find it in scripture. Hallelujah.
[40:35] Speaker 3: It is one way to know that the Holy Spirit
[40:37] Speaker 3: is an active part of your training. When the devil
[40:41] Speaker 3: is training you, Or a spirit is deceiving you. You
[40:45] Speaker 3: will find out that you are evolving. You are becoming something.
[40:49] Speaker 3: Maybe even something spiritual. Someone spiritual. But you cannot find
[40:55] Speaker 3: the testimony of your becoming in scripture. So if you
[40:58] Speaker 3: say I am a prophet. There were a number of
[41:01] Speaker 3: prophets in the bible. An array of the diversity of
[41:05] Speaker 3: the prophetic walkings of the spirit. you must find something
[41:09] Speaker 3: that looks like the way authentic prophetic ministry works in
[41:12] Speaker 3: the Bible.
[41:13] Speaker 5: Anna the prophetess was a prophet.
[41:15] Speaker 3: So if you say I'm a quiet one, my own,
[41:17] Speaker 3: I don't prophesy, it's true, but we have to verify.
[41:20] Speaker 3: Anna too did not prophesy around, she was a prophetess.
[41:23] Speaker 3: So if you are not prophesying around the nations, show
[41:26] Speaker 3: me you are a prophet by the depth of your
[41:28] Speaker 3: intercessory ministry. If we cannot find these things, we have
[41:32] Speaker 3: a right to judge spirits.
[41:35] Speaker 5: And say something is wrong with what you are. Is
[41:37] Speaker 5: somebody learning already?
[41:38] Speaker 3: Because sometimes, and especially because we live in a very
[41:42] Speaker 3: complicated age. Where, of course, credited to the Holy Spirit.
[41:48] Speaker 3: And sometimes we've abused the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
[41:51] Speaker 3: Because most people will say, leave me. It's only God
[41:54] Speaker 3: that knows what I'm becoming. Don't, don't, only God.
[41:57] Speaker 5: It's me and God.
[41:58] Speaker 3: And while they mean well, sometimes the devil isolates them
[42:02] Speaker 3: to deceive them. You see all kinds of pseudo-Christian expressions.
[42:08] Speaker 3: And when you are trying to call them sometimes lovingly
[42:11] Speaker 3: to order, to say, young man, I think something is
[42:13] Speaker 3: wrong with what you are becoming.
[42:15] Speaker 5: You know, let me tell you this. If you have
[42:17] Speaker 5: lived for a while, at.
[42:18] Speaker 3: Least 10 to 20 years in the faith, you should
[42:21] Speaker 3: have known or met people that reflect what I'm trying
[42:25] Speaker 3: to teach. Those days we used to have people who
[42:28] Speaker 3: would not listen. They would decide to approach the faith
[42:31] Speaker 3: life in a certain way and not know when they
[42:34] Speaker 3: would have encountered familiar spirits. Some of them ended up
[42:37] Speaker 3: in the hospital. They were supposedly praying in tongues, but
[42:40] Speaker 3: they ended in the hospital. The Holy Ghost cannot produce
[42:43] Speaker 3: a thing like that. So the devil hijacked their passion
[42:47] Speaker 3: and because they did not have spiritual intelligence nor a
[42:51] Speaker 3: structured system to check balance their growth, They claimed they
[42:54] Speaker 3: were looking unto Jesus, but they did not look unto
[42:57] Speaker 3: role models who were looking unto Jesus.
[42:59] Speaker 5: Because God will always use men. It's not God that
[43:03] Speaker 5: holds the rod. Are we together? He gives the rod
[43:06] Speaker 5: to Moses.
[43:06] Speaker 3: It is his rod, but it's a man that holds
[43:09] Speaker 3: the rod and uses it to guide so that you
[43:11] Speaker 3: walk well.
[43:14] Speaker 5: Praise the name of the Lord. Till today, there.
[43:18] Speaker 3: Are people who are being deceived and they honestly believe
[43:23] Speaker 3: from the depth of their hearts that they are following God.
[43:26] Speaker 3: They honestly believe from the depth of their hearts that
[43:29] Speaker 3: the visions that they are seeing is of God. They
[43:32] Speaker 3: honestly believe that the instructions that were given to them
[43:37] Speaker 3: I remember there was a time a young boy, one gentleman,
[43:41] Speaker 3: and I'm not saying this to mock him or I'm
[43:44] Speaker 3: just explaining that because of the context of our discussion tonight.
[43:48] Speaker 3: I hope you are learning already. I was praying for
[43:51] Speaker 3: people and this young boy joins the queue. It was
[43:53] Speaker 3: during election. Very confident young boy and he stood in
[43:57] Speaker 3: front of me with a poster of himself as president.
[44:02] Speaker 5: I think somebody went to, printed for him. He came
[44:05] Speaker 5: with confidence.
[44:07] Speaker 3: The protocol they were watching, I was watching with shock. Now,
[44:09] Speaker 3: it's not the first time I'm seeing this kind of thing.
[44:12] Speaker 3: And a gentleman stood in front of me and audaciously
[44:15] Speaker 3: he said, look, just like he came with a revelation,
[44:17] Speaker 3: he had an encounter with God and God told him
[44:20] Speaker 3: the destiny of Nigeria was in his hands and he's
[44:23] Speaker 3: ready to do what God wants him to do. And
[44:26] Speaker 3: I was wondering, how do I start explaining to this
[44:28] Speaker 3: boy now? You see, it may truly be that it
[44:32] Speaker 3: is in his destiny. But because he's not understood the
[44:35] Speaker 3: structure of how believers emerge.
[44:38] Speaker 5: Follow carefully.
[44:38] Speaker 3: I'm leading you somewhere with this teaching. This gentleman took
[44:42] Speaker 3: that vision not knowing it may be a lie or
[44:45] Speaker 3: it may be the truth without a correct knowledge of
[44:47] Speaker 3: the timing and the process that leads to it.
[44:51] Speaker 5: And I was trying to talk to him in love.
[44:53] Speaker 5: You could see him, you know, looking at me.
[44:55] Speaker 3: I said, look, you're a man of God. You are
[44:56] Speaker 3: some old prophet somewhere. You guys are the ones that
[44:59] Speaker 3: distract young people. Like, I left him in peace. I said,
[45:02] Speaker 3: may God bless you.
[45:03] Speaker 5: Go, you will learn.
[45:04] Speaker 3: There are many ways to learn. Hallelujah.
[45:09] Speaker 5: Many years ago, then we were in Zaria.
[45:12] Speaker 3: After a serious service in partition, the move of God,
[45:16] Speaker 3: I was counseling people. And a gentleman stands before me
[45:19] Speaker 3: with three or four other people near him. And the
[45:22] Speaker 3: guy stood audaciously and I said, my friend, how can
[45:26] Speaker 3: I help you? And he spoke, he said, well, the
[45:28] Speaker 3: guy believed with all his heart that he was Jesus Christ.
[45:32] Speaker 3: I mean what I'm saying, no exaggeration. I'm not talking
[45:35] Speaker 3: of Jesus like vine and branch. He believed he was
[45:40] Speaker 3: the Savior, Jesus Christ. And then how he was able
[45:44] Speaker 3: to convince those guys to walk with him.
[45:46] Speaker 5: So they were like, I mean what I'm saying.
[45:48] Speaker 3: Don't laugh. I'm just trying to show you what happens
[45:51] Speaker 3: when you do not understand the patterns of the kingdom.
[45:55] Speaker 3: So I'm watching this guy with passion and sympathy and
[46:00] Speaker 3: he's talking to me.
[46:01] Speaker 5: One of those guys, I don't know who was John,
[46:03] Speaker 5: I don't know who was who.
[46:05] Speaker 3: Now listen, they believed with all their heart by divine
[46:09] Speaker 3: revelation that I was John the Baptist who would announce Jesus.
[46:13] Speaker 3: They came from carnal state. You ask some of the leaders,
[46:19] Speaker 3: they are aware of the story. It's not a mixed
[46:22] Speaker 3: story at all. There was nothing you would tell this
[46:27] Speaker 3: young man that would make him believe. How he was
[46:30] Speaker 3: able to convince. You see, let me tell you something.
[46:33] Speaker 3: Influence is powerful. You can see something that you think
[46:36] Speaker 3: is absolutely stupid, but you'll be surprised who believes in it.
[46:41] Speaker 3: Those guys traveled from Kano to Zaria, not as members.
[46:45] Speaker 3: They were just waiting for Koinonia to finish.
[46:48] Speaker 5: And then they came.
[46:49] Speaker 3: And so the guy, I said, so why is he here?
[46:51] Speaker 3: You know what John did to Jesus? That's what he
[46:53] Speaker 3: came to be done. That deepened to announce. He was convinced. Now,
[47:00] Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, what if that guy is your pastor?
[47:05] Speaker 3: Imagine the kind of member you are going to become.
[47:07] Speaker 3: You will become that 5,000. The 5,000 Jesus fed. Because
[47:21] Speaker 3: people do not understand the patterns of the kingdom. They
[47:25] Speaker 3: cannot use the wisdom and intelligence of scripture to judge
[47:28] Speaker 3: their experiences. The most deceiving of all spiritual experiences are
[47:32] Speaker 3: prophetic experiences.
[47:34] Speaker 5: Because of the nature of how the prophetic happens.
[47:37] Speaker 3: And because it is a real experience to you, you
[47:41] Speaker 3: can't deny that you did not have the dream. But
[47:44] Speaker 3: just because the dream came or the angel or the
[47:46] Speaker 3: being appeared. I remember a man I used to listen
[47:49] Speaker 3: to many, many years ago. I honestly don't know what
[47:52] Speaker 3: later happened to the man. But he was a great man,
[47:54] Speaker 3: great teacher of the word. One time they were having
[47:58] Speaker 3: a vigil. If I recall, I hope I'm right on
[48:01] Speaker 3: that story. And they were having all kinds of revelations.
[48:04] Speaker 3: It was a 30 days vigil. True story. And they
[48:07] Speaker 3: started having angelic encounters. Some would have encounters where Jesus
[48:11] Speaker 3: would appear to them. They would document it and call
[48:14] Speaker 3: the other brethren. It was a little fellowship. They were
[48:16] Speaker 3: praying for revival. And one time it was said that
[48:20] Speaker 3: one of the ladies had a supposed Jesus appear to her.
[48:25] Speaker 3: And she was bowing down, she was doing all of this,
[48:27] Speaker 3: but there was a check in her spirit. The being
[48:31] Speaker 3: came looking mild, looking very glorious. But the energy, the spirit,
[48:37] Speaker 3: the presence was pungent. And she kept looking, she was afraid.
[48:42] Speaker 3: And if I recall the story very well, at a point,
[48:44] Speaker 3: she said, no, this cannot be Jesus. The presence around
[48:48] Speaker 3: this being, even though it carries a semblance of Jesus...
[48:52] Speaker 3: And as soon as she rebuked the spirit, it turned
[48:54] Speaker 3: into an ugly beast and disappeared. Now, if that story
[48:58] Speaker 3: is true, imagine how many times that being has appeared
[49:01] Speaker 3: to many people. And they said, yes, Lord.
[49:04] Speaker 5: And he gave them.
[49:04] Speaker 3: Foolish instructions and they said, I will obey to the latter.
[49:07] Speaker 3: And they did not verify because by that encounter, they
[49:11] Speaker 3: were not becoming a portrait of anyone in the Bible,
[49:15] Speaker 3: nor Jesus himself. One of the ways you verify experiences
[49:19] Speaker 3: no matter how supernatural is the degree to which that
[49:23] Speaker 3: experience produces Christ in you.
[49:27] Speaker 5: Is someone learning now?
[49:28] Speaker 3: Yes. If you pray in tongues for 30 days and
[49:32] Speaker 3: it does not produce Christ in you, either your mindset
[49:36] Speaker 3: was not stayed on the word to partner with those
[49:39] Speaker 3: tongues to produce Christ in you, or there was another
[49:42] Speaker 3: spirit manipulating you. Everything that comes from God produces and
[49:48] Speaker 3: births the Christ in an individual. Who is learning now?
[49:52] Speaker 5: Praise the name of the Lord. This is very important.
[49:55] Speaker 5: Do not be afraid. I don't know why the Holy
[49:58] Speaker 5: Spirit is moving me in this area.
[49:59] Speaker 3: But do not be afraid to judge spiritual experiences in
[50:04] Speaker 3: your life. No matter how spectacular. The Bible says even
[50:08] Speaker 3: if an angel comes to preach another gospel. That means
[50:11] Speaker 3: there are spirits that come in the similitude of certain angels.
[50:15] Speaker 5: Are we together?
[50:15] Speaker 3: Satan will not always come as a being with a
[50:18] Speaker 3: horn to destroy you. He can come as a very
[50:21] Speaker 3: nice spirit. Again, there used to be a story of
[50:26] Speaker 3: a young guy. He's gone to be with the Lord now.
[50:28] Speaker 3: I used to know him many years ago. When he
[50:31] Speaker 3: met me, he met me one time. This was far
[50:33] Speaker 3: back secondary school. And he met me and told me
[50:37] Speaker 3: that there was a creature, a being, a supposed woman,
[50:41] Speaker 3: like an angel, but a feminine angel that used to
[50:44] Speaker 3: come to him.
[50:44] Speaker 5: 4 p.m.
[50:45] Speaker 3: On the dot, true story. Every evening. They said they
[50:49] Speaker 3: would sing together. And nothing hurtful. Sometimes she will carry
[50:53] Speaker 3: him to places. She just holds his hand and he's
[50:56] Speaker 3: out of his body. They go to certain places around.
[50:59] Speaker 3: She will tell him to be a good person and.
[51:02] Speaker 5: All of that.
[51:02] Speaker 3: And even though I did not know I was a
[51:05] Speaker 3: very young believer then. But I knew something was wrong.
[51:08] Speaker 3: Because I did not find that kind of experience in
[51:10] Speaker 3: the Bible. Is someone learning now? So as spectacular as
[51:14] Speaker 3: it is, Satan will not appear today and tell you
[51:17] Speaker 3: go and kill, go and destroy. No. He knows how
[51:21] Speaker 3: fragile the human spirit is. So he will guide you
[51:24] Speaker 3: in the path that looks like righteousness for a while.
[51:26] Speaker 5: So that you are convinced enough that this is Satan.
[51:30] Speaker 5: Then he now translates.
[51:33] Speaker 3: So no matter how supernatural your experience is, it must
[51:37] Speaker 3: come under the radar of the wisdom and the vetting
[51:41] Speaker 3: process of the word.
[51:42] Speaker 5: Are we together?
[51:43] Speaker 3: And if you find out that it is inconsistent with
[51:47] Speaker 3: the character, like you'll be learning of how God builds men,
[51:51] Speaker 3: the character of how believers emerge, you have a right
[51:54] Speaker 3: to dump it and you are not sinning against God.
[52:00] Speaker 3: I've shared with you here how many times I felt
[52:01] Speaker 3: promptings in my spirit supposedly to come to Abuja. But
[52:05] Speaker 3: thank God for the power of prayer and the power
[52:08] Speaker 3: of God's word.
[52:09] Speaker 5: And some of those things, it was already in our destiny.
[52:13] Speaker 3: But sometimes the vision can be correct, but the timing
[52:17] Speaker 3: can be wrong. A wrong timing can make a correct
[52:20] Speaker 3: prophecy to still fail.
[52:24] Speaker 5: So for someone, God can show you your future.
[52:26] Speaker 3: And because you see, the realm of the Spirit does
[52:29] Speaker 3: not give timing to things easily like that. Sometimes, because
[52:33] Speaker 3: of the way the realm of the Spirit or the
[52:35] Speaker 3: way visions happen, I can see my 20 years now
[52:39] Speaker 3: and it will look like tomorrow. Because in the realm
[52:41] Speaker 3: of the Spirit, time is compressed.
[52:43] Speaker 5: I can come back.
[52:44] Speaker 3: With a 20-year vision and want to do it tomorrow
[52:48] Speaker 3: because of the weight of the impact it had on me.
[52:51] Speaker 3: But when you understand the structure of how believers emerge,
[52:55] Speaker 3: the Holy Ghost can help you to allot a timing
[52:58] Speaker 3: to that vision so that you know that every.
[53:00] Speaker 5: Vision is for an appointed time.
[53:03] Speaker 3: There are things I'm doing today that I saw more
[53:06] Speaker 3: than 15 years. If I tried doing them at that point,
[53:09] Speaker 3: I would have failed. And it will be, I can
[53:13] Speaker 3: give you the evidence of the dream. I have them
[53:16] Speaker 3: in my books. But the timing. But the timing. Timing
[53:22] Speaker 3: is as powerful as the speakings of God. Is someone learning?
[53:28] Speaker 5: Praise the name of the Lord.
[53:30] Speaker 3: Now, the believer, life is divided into seasons, like I
[53:34] Speaker 3: have taught you. And our lives are divided into seasons.
[53:40] Speaker 3: When you read Ecclesiastes chapter 3, I believe it begins
[53:43] Speaker 3: to talk about a time and a season. The Bible
[53:46] Speaker 3: says to everything there is a season. Ladies and gentlemen,
[53:49] Speaker 3: say there is a season. One more time.
[53:53] Speaker 5: It says to every what? Thing.
[53:55] Speaker 3: To everything there is a season and a time to
[54:00] Speaker 3: every purpose. Once it is under heaven, knowing the will
[54:05] Speaker 3: of God, once it is under heaven, knowing your prophetic
[54:09] Speaker 3: destiny is not enough. You must understand seasons and timings.
[54:17] Speaker 3: I know people who have failed today. I doubt that
[54:20] Speaker 3: they missed it in the area of a prophetic description
[54:23] Speaker 3: of their purpose. I think they got that well. But
[54:26] Speaker 3: they got two things wrong. One, timing.
[54:30] Speaker 5: Two, strategy.
[54:32] Speaker 3: They did not take the time to understand the way
[54:35] Speaker 3: a believer evolves until greatness or the glory of God
[54:39] Speaker 3: is finally revealed in that individual. Now let's go back
[54:43] Speaker 3: to Luke 1.18. And you will understand what that scripture said.
[54:46] Speaker 3: And I begin to build on a few things now.
[54:48] Speaker 3: The Bible says and the child. This child we are
[54:50] Speaker 3: talking about is John the Baptist. The prophet. The Bible
[54:53] Speaker 3: says the first thing that happened was that the child grew.
[54:58] Speaker 3: Then he worked strong in spirit. And in spite of
[55:02] Speaker 3: the fact that he had grown. In spite of the
[55:05] Speaker 3: fact that he had. He was strong in spirit. The
[55:09] Speaker 3: Bible says he remained in the wilderness. The place of confinement.
[55:13] Speaker 3: The place of loneliness. The place where he was alone.
[55:17] Speaker 3: The Bible says until the day of his appearing. Or
[55:21] Speaker 3: until the day of his showing forth unto Israel. Amplified
[55:25] Speaker 3: we say until the day. The commencement of his public ministry. Hallelujah.
[55:33] Speaker 3: So the Bible is full of men and women. Whose
[55:36] Speaker 3: entire lives and faith journey. Was captured in. In scripture,
[55:44] Speaker 3: God seems to have isolated a few people in the
[55:47] Speaker 3: Bible and literally opened up their life from childhood until
[55:52] Speaker 3: they transited.
[55:53] Speaker 5: Now, for some persons, the Bible just captured moments.
[55:57] Speaker 3: Watch this. Please look at me. Let me have your
[55:58] Speaker 3: attention before you write. There are certain people in the
[56:02] Speaker 3: Bible whose story was in only one chapter. There was
[56:07] Speaker 3: just one information about their lives and that was sufficient
[56:10] Speaker 3: for learning. Are we together? For instance, the Bible does
[56:13] Speaker 3: not give us any information about Elijah's growing up days.
[56:18] Speaker 3: When you read the story of Elijah, two things were noted.
[56:22] Speaker 3: Number one, Elijah the Tishbite, that he came as a prophet,
[56:26] Speaker 3: judging the prophets of Baal.
[56:27] Speaker 5: Are we together?
[56:28] Speaker 3: And eventually the Bible tells us the end of his life.
[56:31] Speaker 3: That a chariot came and carried him and that's the
[56:33] Speaker 3: end of it. But there were certain people, there were
[56:37] Speaker 3: also prophets, but the Bible had to backdate their lives.
[56:41] Speaker 3: For instance, Jeremiah in chapter 1, the Bible tells us
[56:44] Speaker 3: his discussion with God as a child. For instance, Samson,
[56:48] Speaker 3: the Bible even tells us what happened before he was born.
[56:52] Speaker 3: For instance, Samuel, why did the Bible have to meticulously
[56:56] Speaker 3: tell us the story around his birth? Was that really necessary?
[57:01] Speaker 3: Because of the kind of prophet he was and the
[57:04] Speaker 3: role that he played in anointing the kings and ultimately
[57:09] Speaker 3: frontiering God's program. A man in the Bible called Jabez,
[57:14] Speaker 3: he was just one or two portions of scripture. The
[57:17] Speaker 3: Bible says, and Jabez was more honorable than his brethren.
[57:20] Speaker 3: And then the Bible backtracks and tells us what happened.
[57:24] Speaker 3: That the mom bore him in sorrow and named him
[57:26] Speaker 3: Jabez and he prayed a prayer and God heard him.
[57:29] Speaker 3: That was the end of it.
[57:32] Speaker 5: But when you.
[57:32] Speaker 3: Read other people like David. The Bible tells us their story.
[57:38] Speaker 3: It was like a major portion of the Bible captured everything.
[57:42] Speaker 3: Their flaws, their lives, their decisions. It was as if
[57:46] Speaker 3: the Bible zoomed everything about them. You find that with David.
[57:50] Speaker 3: You also find that with Solomon.
[57:52] Speaker 5: I don't know why the Bible had.
[57:54] Speaker 3: To give us the story of Bathsheba and all that
[57:57] Speaker 3: happened with David. I thought that was unnecessary. But it
[58:00] Speaker 3: was still captured in the Bible. How about Jesus? For Jesus,
[58:04] Speaker 3: it was even a serious matter because Jesus was discussed
[58:07] Speaker 3: across four gospels. Matthew, that was not enough. There was
[58:12] Speaker 3: something Luke saw that Matthew did not see. There was
[58:15] Speaker 3: something Mark saw that Luke did not see. There was
[58:18] Speaker 3: something John saw that Luke did not see. Are we
[58:21] Speaker 3: together now? And the Bible took out time as if
[58:24] Speaker 3: it was not enough. Then you find some other revelations
[58:28] Speaker 3: scattered in scripture. Paul came with another dimension again of Jesus.
[58:34] Speaker 3: Are we together now? And then when we get to Revelation,
[58:38] Speaker 3: John continued again because he now saw the glorified Christ
[58:42] Speaker 3: and he began to reveal some other things again. So
[58:44] Speaker 3: I'm telling you that the Bible recorded all of these
[58:48] Speaker 3: things because captured within them were a description of how
[58:53] Speaker 3: believers emerge. And of all these seasons, I'm going to
[58:57] Speaker 3: be giving you three tonight. If you miss these seasons
[59:00] Speaker 3: in your life, you will abort destiny. No matter how
[59:07] Speaker 3: undiscerning you are. No matter how... careless you are with
[59:11] Speaker 3: your life, you must pray and say, Lord, when I
[59:13] Speaker 3: get to these seasons, open my eyes to know the
[59:17] Speaker 3: seasons look deceptively ordinary, but you wouldn't know when you
[59:20] Speaker 3: have entered a kairos season. There are many people who
[59:25] Speaker 3: have missed these seasons. And that's the reason why the
[59:29] Speaker 3: glory of God and the grace of God cannot imagine
[59:32] Speaker 3: their lives. Pray in the spirit in one minute. Pray
[59:41] Speaker 3: in the spirit in one minute. Because I want to
[59:43] Speaker 3: show you a road map right now in prophecy.
[59:45] Speaker 5: Is someone praying?
[59:53] Speaker 4: Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy Holy are you, Lord.
[1:00:00] Speaker 5: Holy, holy, holy, holy.
[1:00:02] Speaker 3: Holy, holy are you, Lord. Holy, holy, holy, holy. Holy,
[1:00:07] Speaker 3: holy are you, Lord. Holy, holy, holy, holy. Tonight we
[1:00:24] Speaker 3: are going to interpret the writings on the wall. For
[1:00:26] Speaker 3: some of you there has been a writing on the
[1:00:28] Speaker 3: wall of your destiny. And not understanding how to interpret it.
[1:00:34] Speaker 3: You can be stuck forever. And it will look like
[1:00:38] Speaker 3: God is not faithful in your life. I want to
[1:00:42] Speaker 3: show you how seasons birth greatness. How to partner with seasons.
[1:00:47] Speaker 3: And emerge as an eagle.
[1:00:52] Speaker 2: Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, my Lord.
[1:01:00] Speaker 3: Hallelujah. So the things that are written aforetime, they are
[1:01:05] Speaker 3: written for our learning. They are not just occupying space
[1:01:09] Speaker 3: in the Bible. They are prophetic roadmaps leading you to
[1:01:15] Speaker 3: strategic seasons. I believe that an average person any human
[1:01:21] Speaker 3: being who lives between one years to 80 would have
[1:01:24] Speaker 3: gone through at least 10 to 12 seasons in their lives.
[1:01:29] Speaker 3: And there are different ways of interpreting seasons. One of
[1:01:34] Speaker 3: them I have taught you in the message, the law
[1:01:35] Speaker 3: of seasons. We took a prophetic x-ray of Pharaoh's dream
[1:01:42] Speaker 3: and the interpretation of Joseph to help us understand that
[1:01:46] Speaker 3: broadly speaking, there are two seasons. The seven years of plenty.
[1:01:52] Speaker 3: Remember his dream? And the seven years of famine. That
[1:01:57] Speaker 3: in every man's life, these seasons alternate. And if you recall,
[1:02:02] Speaker 3: this is not what I'm teaching, but I.
[1:02:03] Speaker 5: Just want to show you one angle to looking at seasons.
[1:02:08] Speaker 3: That every time you are in a season of abundance,
[1:02:12] Speaker 3: abundance comes with a letter from the season of famine.
[1:02:15] Speaker 5: I am coming.
[1:02:17] Speaker 3: If you do not read that letter and you only
[1:02:19] Speaker 3: enjoy the corn, you will be hungry when it comes.
[1:02:23] Speaker 3: I told you rainy season always comes with a letter
[1:02:25] Speaker 3: from dry season. I am coming. And dry season always
[1:02:29] Speaker 3: comes with a letter from rainy season. Be hopeful. I
[1:02:32] Speaker 3: am coming too. So when seasons are before you, by
[1:02:38] Speaker 3: this description that I'm giving, You don't only enjoy the season,
[1:02:42] Speaker 3: you read the letters there. For instance, the day you
[1:02:45] Speaker 3: get a job, your retirement also wrote a letter for you.
[1:02:48] Speaker 5: There are two letters you received. It's only that you
[1:02:51] Speaker 5: read one.
[1:02:52] Speaker 3: You read your letter of employment and forgot to read
[1:02:55] Speaker 3: your letter of retirement. The letter of retirement will come
[1:02:59] Speaker 3: after 30, 35 years. But it was there. But because
[1:03:03] Speaker 3: you were not discerning to see it, so while you
[1:03:06] Speaker 3: were wasting money during your years of plenty... The letter
[1:03:09] Speaker 3: that God sent that came the same time the employment
[1:03:13] Speaker 3: letter came was crying before you. There will always be
[1:03:18] Speaker 3: seven fat cows and seven lean ones. And the mystery
[1:03:22] Speaker 3: of seasons from this angle is that the lean cows
[1:03:26] Speaker 3: can eat the fat cows. They can eat fat cows.
[1:03:31] Speaker 3: Years can eat years. But that's not the angle I'm
[1:03:36] Speaker 3: looking at tonight. Every man's life is divided into seasons
[1:03:42] Speaker 3: according to Ecclesiastes 3 and verse 1. Let's read it
[1:03:48] Speaker 3: so that I can now begin to build. Number one,
[1:03:52] Speaker 3: to everything there is a season and a time for
[1:03:54] Speaker 3: every purpose under heaven. Verse 2, a time to be born,
[1:04:01] Speaker 3: a time to die. If you can, just count with
[1:04:07] Speaker 3: me in your mind how many times the word time
[1:04:10] Speaker 3: is mentioned from here. A time to be born, a
[1:04:14] Speaker 3: time to die, a time to plant, a time to
[1:04:18] Speaker 3: pluck up that which is planted, verse 3. A time
[1:04:21] Speaker 3: to kill, a time to heal, a time to break down,
[1:04:26] Speaker 3: and a time to build up.
[1:04:28] Speaker 5: A time to weep and a time to laugh.
[1:04:31] Speaker 3: A time to mourn and a time to dance. A
[1:04:35] Speaker 3: time to cast away stones and a time to gather
[1:04:38] Speaker 3: stones together. A time to embrace and a time to
[1:04:42] Speaker 3: refrain from embracing. We can't even stop there. Okay, let's
[1:04:45] Speaker 3: look at six and then we'll stop there. A time
[1:04:47] Speaker 3: to get and a time to lose. A time to
[1:04:50] Speaker 3: keep and a time to cast away.
[1:04:52] Speaker 5: Now look at how many times.
[1:04:53] Speaker 3: Every one of those times represents seasons. And all of
[1:04:57] Speaker 3: those seasons have effects. Because if you are in the
[1:05:00] Speaker 3: time to plant and you don't know, you won't plant.
[1:05:03] Speaker 3: If you are in the time to reap and you
[1:05:04] Speaker 3: don't know, you won't reap. If you are in the
[1:05:06] Speaker 3: time for war and you don't know how to put
[1:05:08] Speaker 3: your regalia to fight. Are we together? If you are
[1:05:11] Speaker 3: in the time to run and you are still carrying
[1:05:13] Speaker 3: warfare regalia, it will not become an instrument of safety
[1:05:17] Speaker 3: to become a burden to you. Because when you are
[1:05:19] Speaker 3: an athlete, you want to be as light as possible.
[1:05:22] Speaker 3: But when you are a warrior, you want to have
[1:05:24] Speaker 3: all of your armory Because safety and defense is your priority.
[1:05:30] Speaker 3: Is someone learning now? Most believers do not know their time.
[1:05:34] Speaker 3: I talked to you here in Koinonia that there are
[1:05:36] Speaker 3: two reasons why Jesus cried according to scripture. Number one
[1:05:39] Speaker 3: was John chapter 11 and verse 35.
[1:05:42] Speaker 5: He wept when he.
[1:05:43] Speaker 3: Was at the tomb of Lazarus. And the Bible says, oh,
[1:05:47] Speaker 3: how he loved him. They commended the fact that he
[1:05:51] Speaker 3: loved him sincerely. The second time Jesus cried, according to
[1:05:55] Speaker 3: Luke's synoptic account, Luke chapter what? Now help me find
[1:05:57] Speaker 3: 19 or whatever. I can't remember.
[1:05:59] Speaker 5: Where he wept over Jerusalem.
[1:06:02] Speaker 3: He said, if you had known even in this your time,
[1:06:04] Speaker 3: the things that pertain unto your peace.
[1:06:07] Speaker 5: He says, but now they are hid from you.
[1:06:10] Speaker 3: And the Bible says, because they did not know their
[1:06:13] Speaker 3: time of visitation. Maybe that should be 43, 44. When
[1:06:18] Speaker 3: you back down. Yes. They did not know verse 44.
[1:06:25] Speaker 3: Their time of visitation. Hallelujah. The first major season in
[1:06:33] Speaker 3: the life of every believer on your journey to greatness.
[1:06:37] Speaker 3: When God wants to use seasons to birth glory in
[1:06:41] Speaker 3: the life of a man. There are three major seasons.
[1:06:45] Speaker 3: The first season, it's a prophetic season.
[1:06:49] Speaker 5: It's called the.
[1:06:49] Speaker 3: Season of discovery and preparation. Please write that down. The
[1:06:55] Speaker 3: season of discovery and preparation. The man who misses this
[1:07:04] Speaker 3: season has already missed a major part of your journey
[1:07:09] Speaker 3: to birthing the glory of God. If you do not
[1:07:13] Speaker 3: discern seasons, you will waste them. If you do not
[1:07:17] Speaker 3: discern seasons, you will waste them. If you cannot discern seasons,
[1:07:22] Speaker 3: they will not profit you. Let me take that again.
[1:07:24] Speaker 3: If you do not discern seasons, you will waste them.
[1:07:28] Speaker 3: Great seasons will come and pass and you will not
[1:07:31] Speaker 3: see them. And if you cannot discern seasons, then the
[1:07:35] Speaker 3: seasons will not profit you.
[1:07:37] Speaker 5: The season of discovery and preparation.
[1:07:40] Speaker 3: Let's talk about this season. What does this season capture?
[1:07:44] Speaker 3: This is a season where God himself by his word,
[1:07:49] Speaker 3: by his spirit and through the instrument of men will
[1:07:53] Speaker 3: begin to lead you if you allow him through the
[1:07:56] Speaker 3: paths that bring you to a point of discovery and
[1:08:00] Speaker 3: preparation for the destiny, the prophetic destiny that he has
[1:08:05] Speaker 3: in store for you.
[1:08:07] Speaker 5: At this point, he will begin to bring you revelations.
[1:08:12] Speaker 3: If you are not born again and you get into
[1:08:14] Speaker 3: these seasons, whether you are saved or not, you will
[1:08:17] Speaker 3: start having unusual encounters. It will be the nudging of
[1:08:20] Speaker 3: the spirit. He will not have to wait for a
[1:08:22] Speaker 3: Sunday service. Now, you can numb that nudging. God is
[1:08:25] Speaker 3: trying to help you maximize that season because he's telling
[1:08:29] Speaker 3: you that all men have these seasons. Whether you are
[1:08:33] Speaker 3: an idol worshiper, can I tell you this? The Bible
[1:08:35] Speaker 3: says no one is without excuse. There is nobody in
[1:08:40] Speaker 3: his lifetime... Who will not receive this nudging? God gives
[1:08:43] Speaker 3: everybody a chance to be great. It is only that
[1:08:46] Speaker 3: most people do not know. You'll get to a point
[1:08:49] Speaker 3: where you are having unusual dreams. Three months, dreams every night.
[1:08:54] Speaker 3: Access to materials you are not interested in. This is
[1:08:57] Speaker 3: all the Holy Ghost. He's trying to point you to
[1:08:59] Speaker 3: the fact that you are in a Kairos season and
[1:09:02] Speaker 3: he can help you as I'm helping you now to
[1:09:05] Speaker 3: define that season. The first season is not manifestation. It
[1:09:09] Speaker 3: is discovery and preparation. There are three things you have
[1:09:15] Speaker 3: to discover and prepare for in this season. Number one,
[1:09:20] Speaker 3: The season of discovery and preparation demands that you discover,
[1:09:25] Speaker 3: in fact, four.
[1:09:26] Speaker 5: Number one, you must discover God.
[1:09:34] Speaker 3: Genesis chapter 1 verse 1, in the beginning God. So
[1:09:37] Speaker 3: the beginning of your destiny will have to be God.
[1:09:41] Speaker 3: Daniel 11, 32, the B part. But the people that
[1:09:45] Speaker 3: do know their God. This is the season where the
[1:09:48] Speaker 3: Holy Ghost will begin to push you. Do you know?
[1:09:52] Speaker 5: Now, it's not written in the Bible. But I will
[1:09:54] Speaker 5: tell you from my experience.
[1:09:57] Speaker 3: For most young people, that season starts from secondary school
[1:10:01] Speaker 3: into campus days.
[1:10:03] Speaker 5: Tertiary institution. That season, this season I'm mentioning.
[1:10:07] Speaker 3: It seems as if these seasons are broken into 10-year cycles.
[1:10:10] Speaker 3: 10 year cycles. If you are fortunate, do you know
[1:10:16] Speaker 3: it is because of this season that sometimes parents who
[1:10:19] Speaker 3: are discerning, the Holy Ghost will begin to prompt them
[1:10:22] Speaker 3: to send their children to certain schools. Because where that
[1:10:26] Speaker 3: child goes to can add up to what that child becomes.
[1:10:30] Speaker 3: It may not be the wealthiest school, but there is
[1:10:32] Speaker 3: someone within that school that would teach that child something
[1:10:36] Speaker 3: that his destiny needs.
[1:10:37] Speaker 5: So the trouble starts from parents, with all due respect.
[1:10:40] Speaker 3: If the parents are not discerning, they can carry that
[1:10:43] Speaker 3: child because at that age, the child does not have
[1:10:46] Speaker 3: the power to stand on his own. He's still under
[1:10:49] Speaker 3: the influence of the parents, almost totally. Are you seeing
[1:10:52] Speaker 3: the role that parents can play in destroying the destiny
[1:10:56] Speaker 3: of children? The fact that you have a child does
[1:11:00] Speaker 3: not give you exclusive ability to do with that child
[1:11:03] Speaker 3: anything you want to do. Until that child gets to
[1:11:06] Speaker 3: an age of maturity and adulthood, you must midwife between
[1:11:10] Speaker 3: God and that child. Asking God for direction for that
[1:11:14] Speaker 3: child's destiny per season. So that by the time that
[1:11:18] Speaker 3: child becomes a man or a woman, you have helped
[1:11:20] Speaker 3: them so far in that journey.
[1:11:22] Speaker 5: They can now continue on their own. Is someone learning?
[1:11:27] Speaker 3: Praise the name of the Lord. It is a great
[1:11:31] Speaker 3: advantage to the destiny of a child. If the parents
[1:11:33] Speaker 3: are born again.
[1:11:35] Speaker 5: And enlightened. If they love the Lord. I'm telling you.
[1:11:39] Speaker 5: Do you know?
[1:11:40] Speaker 3: You imagine if Elkanah and Hannah were not serious with God.
[1:11:45] Speaker 3: How did Samuel come? Was it not the intercessory ministry
[1:11:48] Speaker 3: of his mother? Do you know that I truly believe
[1:11:52] Speaker 3: with all my heart. That if Hannah did not go
[1:11:55] Speaker 3: to the temple to cry before the Lord.
[1:11:58] Speaker 5: She began to sense. I hope you know she was
[1:12:00] Speaker 5: going there every day.
[1:12:02] Speaker 3: Every day. But a season came in the spirit.
[1:12:06] Speaker 5: And she went and prayed a certain kind of prayer.
[1:12:10] Speaker 3: You think that prayer she just prayed it just by herself?
[1:12:13] Speaker 3: The Holy Ghost quickened it in her. Because it was
[1:12:15] Speaker 3: time for Samuel to come. She had to make a
[1:12:18] Speaker 3: bargain with God. And Samuel came as Eli prophesied. What
[1:12:24] Speaker 3: if Eli was not there that day when she went
[1:12:27] Speaker 3: for the prayer? Let me tell you the truth. When
[1:12:29] Speaker 3: a season comes, mysterious alignments happen. Someone you have no
[1:12:35] Speaker 3: business meeting. But is connected in your destiny. God can
[1:12:39] Speaker 3: delay the flight of that man. To make sure he
[1:12:41] Speaker 3: meets you. He may not understand. It is in hindsight.
[1:12:45] Speaker 3: You will see how things added themselves. There are people
[1:12:48] Speaker 3: who would have missed their destiny by one day.
[1:12:51] Speaker 5: If only they discern. If you didn't take that journey
[1:12:55] Speaker 5: that day.
[1:12:56] Speaker 3: You never would have met the destiny helper. Is someone
[1:13:01] Speaker 3: understanding this? I look at my life as I'm speaking
[1:13:03] Speaker 3: to you. And I can tell you how I would
[1:13:05] Speaker 3: have missed seasons at the edge of a knife. Sometimes
[1:13:11] Speaker 3: the spirit of God. Look what happened to the utopian Enoch.
[1:13:15] Speaker 5: The Lord told Philip. Get up quickly.
[1:13:18] Speaker 3: Go.
[1:13:18] Speaker 5: Be on your way.
[1:13:20] Speaker 3: Timing matters in destiny. The season of discovery. At this point,
[1:13:28] Speaker 3: the Holy Ghost begins to help you to discover God.
[1:13:32] Speaker 3: Number two, this is a time where you discover yourself.
[1:13:38] Speaker 3: You don't have all the time to discover yourself. There
[1:13:41] Speaker 3: is a time allotted. There is a best before time
[1:13:45] Speaker 3: when you must find out who you are.
[1:13:47] Speaker 5: Who you are in Christ. As we teach at School
[1:13:50] Speaker 5: of Ministry students. You know why?
[1:13:53] Speaker 3: Because your destiny, the efficient manifestation of your destiny has
[1:13:58] Speaker 3: been calculated in time. And if you lose time, it
[1:14:02] Speaker 3: will take the mercy of God for you to manifest.
[1:14:06] Speaker 3: Discover yourself. Can you imagine that Jeremiah at age, whatever age,
[1:14:11] Speaker 3: as a child, a baby, he was already prophetic enough
[1:14:15] Speaker 3: to be discussing with God.
[1:14:18] Speaker 5: Jeremiah 1 and verse 5.
[1:14:20] Speaker 3: Whilst you were in your mother's womb, before doubt came
[1:14:22] Speaker 3: as forth, I called you, I sanctified you, I ordained
[1:14:26] Speaker 3: you to be prophet to the nations. Verse 6. The
[1:14:28] Speaker 3: young boy now said, ah, I am a child. I
[1:14:33] Speaker 3: can't speak. He thought that he would begin to prophesy immediately.
[1:14:38] Speaker 3: As a young boy, God was revealing to him that
[1:14:41] Speaker 3: he was a prophet. And so he was afraid because
[1:14:44] Speaker 3: he thought he would start prophesying immediately, not knowing that
[1:14:47] Speaker 3: there's timing and there's seasons.
[1:14:50] Speaker 5: Verse 7, God was revealing.
[1:14:52] Speaker 3: Him to him from a prophetic standpoint. And the Lord says,
[1:14:55] Speaker 3: say not I am a child. For thou shalt go
[1:14:58] Speaker 3: to wherever I send you and wherever I command you,
[1:15:01] Speaker 3: you shall speak. Verse 8, he says, do not be
[1:15:03] Speaker 3: afraid of their faces. I am with you to deliver you.
[1:15:06] Speaker 3: Verse 9, he says, he put forth his hand, touched
[1:15:10] Speaker 3: my mouth and said, I put words in your mouth.
[1:15:13] Speaker 3: Verse 10, and then he says, I have said thee
[1:15:16] Speaker 3: over nations.
[1:15:16] Speaker 5: Look what he's telling a child.
[1:15:19] Speaker 3: A child have said the over nations and over kingdoms
[1:15:23] Speaker 3: to root out, to pull down, to destroy, to throw down,
[1:15:27] Speaker 3: to build, to plant. Verse 11. He says, moreover, the
[1:15:31] Speaker 3: Lord came and told him, Jeremiah, what do you see?
[1:15:33] Speaker 3: He said, I see the rod of an almond tree.
[1:15:35] Speaker 3: I like verse 12. And he said, I will hasten
[1:15:38] Speaker 3: my word. It will happen immediately, but I will give
[1:15:42] Speaker 3: it speed. Hasten my word to perform it. Can I
[1:15:47] Speaker 3: tell you? For someone, you are just one year left
[1:15:51] Speaker 3: to get out of this season. You have not been
[1:15:53] Speaker 3: maximizing the season. God gave you, say, a 10-year cycle.
[1:15:57] Speaker 3: Within that cycle, you were supposed to know God in such.
[1:16:01] Speaker 5: A thorough way.
[1:16:02] Speaker 3: Number two, to know yourself. Not just your personality, but
[1:16:06] Speaker 3: to know who you are in Christ. Are we together?
[1:16:09] Speaker 3: Number three, what do you know in this season of preparation?
[1:16:15] Speaker 3: You discover your abilities, your giftings, and every spiritual investment
[1:16:22] Speaker 3: that God has placed within you.
[1:16:24] Speaker 5: You discover your abilities. Please write it down.
[1:16:27] Speaker 3: Your giftings and every spiritual ability God has put within you.
[1:16:33] Speaker 3: Your giftings and your abilities are the tools with which
[1:16:36] Speaker 3: God will use. Are we together? To birth his glory
[1:16:40] Speaker 3: in your life. But if you don't know they are there. Moses,
[1:16:44] Speaker 3: if you do not know, your rod will be needed.
[1:16:46] Speaker 3: You will not be able to refine yourself and know
[1:16:49] Speaker 3: how to use it. David, if you do not know
[1:16:53] Speaker 3: that your sling, you see that now? The first day
[1:16:57] Speaker 3: David used his sling was not on Goliath's head. He
[1:17:00] Speaker 3: had been using it not knowing that that sling that
[1:17:04] Speaker 3: was seemingly nothing would be the very instrument that would
[1:17:08] Speaker 3: bring him to notoriety.
[1:17:09] Speaker 5: I'm reminded of.
[1:17:13] Speaker 3: The story of the woman in 2 Kings chapter 4.
[1:17:18] Speaker 3: From verse 1 and 2. The wife of the sons
[1:17:20] Speaker 3: of the prophet. A certain woman the Bible says. She
[1:17:23] Speaker 3: came to Elisha saying. Your servant my husband is dead.
[1:17:27] Speaker 5: And thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord.
[1:17:30] Speaker 3: Isn't this amazing? The guy found God. But there was
[1:17:33] Speaker 3: something about his ability he did not know. The creditor
[1:17:38] Speaker 3: is come to take my two.
[1:17:40] Speaker 5: Sons as born men.
[1:17:41] Speaker 3: Verse 2. Elisha said unto her, What shall I do
[1:17:45] Speaker 3: for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in your house?
[1:17:48] Speaker 5: Look up. There are two things you must discover first.
[1:17:52] Speaker 5: What is in your house and what is in your hand.
[1:17:55] Speaker 3: Two things. They will all be needed to bear the
[1:18:00] Speaker 3: glory of God in your life.
[1:18:01] Speaker 5: What is in your hand and what is in your house.
[1:18:06] Speaker 5: You need to find out.
[1:18:08] Speaker 3: What is in your house can be what is within
[1:18:10] Speaker 3: you because you are a house yourself. It doesn't just
[1:18:13] Speaker 3: mean something outside of you. What is in your house
[1:18:16] Speaker 3: can be something that is within you. What is in
[1:18:20] Speaker 3: your house and what is on your hand will be
[1:18:23] Speaker 3: instruments that God will use to bring deliverance to your
[1:18:27] Speaker 3: life and to use you to bring deliverance to others.
[1:18:32] Speaker 3: We're enjoying today the ministries of several people within the
[1:18:36] Speaker 3: body of Christ and within this house.
[1:18:38] Speaker 5: There was a time of discovery.
[1:18:42] Speaker 3: Discovery. You must discover God. You must discover yourself in
[1:18:49] Speaker 3: light of prophecy. You must discover your giftings, your abilities,
[1:18:57] Speaker 3: and the spiritual investments that God has placed within you.
[1:19:02] Speaker 5: Can I tell you the truth? Please look at me.
[1:19:06] Speaker 3: How many of you know That if you are to
[1:19:08] Speaker 3: be honest, you have seen similitudes of your future as
[1:19:12] Speaker 3: a child. It's only that you were not trained to
[1:19:14] Speaker 3: understand it. Some of you saw the sun, the moon,
[1:19:18] Speaker 3: 11 stars. You had certain dreams, but maybe with all
[1:19:22] Speaker 3: due respect, your parents were not spiritual enough. Of all
[1:19:26] Speaker 3: the dreams you had, those ones refused to leave you
[1:19:29] Speaker 3: because there was prophecy connected to them. If you had
[1:19:32] Speaker 3: an opportunity to be mentored, you would have been guided
[1:19:36] Speaker 3: immediately without wasting years into prophecy. But some of you,
[1:19:40] Speaker 3: with all due respect, those dreams already pointed what you
[1:19:44] Speaker 3: should study in school. But because the people around you
[1:19:47] Speaker 3: were not discerning, you went to reach something else that
[1:19:49] Speaker 3: has no bearing to your destiny right now. Now, don't
[1:19:52] Speaker 3: feel bad. But I am telling you, you can reduce
[1:19:55] Speaker 3: the burden of destiny when you get prophecy and understand
[1:19:58] Speaker 3: these seasons fast. Fast. Fast.
[1:20:05] Speaker 5: I can imagine Elisha farming.
[1:20:08] Speaker 3: And every time Elisha was farming, I'm sure maybe he
[1:20:10] Speaker 3: had dreams. The Bible does not say it. I'm sure
[1:20:13] Speaker 3: maybe he had similitudes. There's nothing wrong with agriculture. There's
[1:20:17] Speaker 3: nothing wrong with being a farmer. But I'm sure there
[1:20:19] Speaker 3: was something in him. You are made for more. You
[1:20:22] Speaker 3: are going to be speaking the counsel of God to nations.
[1:20:25] Speaker 3: There are kings and generals who are at the mercy
[1:20:28] Speaker 3: of your anointing, if and when developed.
[1:20:30] Speaker 5: I Although the Bible does not say it, but remember,
[1:20:34] Speaker 5: it is God who is.
[1:20:35] Speaker 3: At work in us. Even while you are not yet
[1:20:37] Speaker 3: in his purposes, he's at work in you. That nudging,
[1:20:40] Speaker 3: it is God who is at work in you. That
[1:20:43] Speaker 3: desire to pray in a way you cannot.
[1:20:45] Speaker 5: Explain, it is God who is at work in you.
[1:20:48] Speaker 3: Even before you started learning about prayer, you found out
[1:20:51] Speaker 3: that there was an appetite.
[1:20:53] Speaker 5: Do you know why?
[1:20:54] Speaker 3: Because it is part of the requirement needed for the
[1:20:57] Speaker 3: kind of ministry God is bringing in you. So he
[1:20:59] Speaker 3: does not have to wait till you hear a sermon.
[1:21:02] Speaker 3: He is at work in you. There are some of
[1:21:05] Speaker 3: you who, with all due respect, you really did not
[1:21:08] Speaker 3: come from disciplined families. Yet you do not have any
[1:21:11] Speaker 3: terrible past. I will tell you why. It was God
[1:21:14] Speaker 3: who was at work in you. When you had the
[1:21:16] Speaker 3: opportunity to destroy yourself as a young girl and as
[1:21:19] Speaker 3: a young guy, no parents stopped you. No rules stopped you.
[1:21:23] Speaker 3: God prohibited you for the sake of prophecy. It is
[1:21:27] Speaker 3: God who is at work in you.
[1:21:30] Speaker 5: You must understand this. God who is at work in you.
[1:21:34] Speaker 3: I remember those times I would carry a stick and
[1:21:37] Speaker 3: go behind our house and I would be preaching. It
[1:21:40] Speaker 3: was not drama. Am I interested in acting drama?
[1:21:43] Speaker 5: It is God. Let me tell you this.
[1:21:45] Speaker 3: When God begins to cooperate with your destiny, it takes
[1:21:49] Speaker 3: a serious level of rebellion to resist it because it
[1:21:52] Speaker 3: is powerful. It will be as if God is insisting
[1:21:56] Speaker 3: on you. You will have a dream and cancel that dream.
[1:22:00] Speaker 3: He will be patient. After four months, he will come
[1:22:02] Speaker 3: with that dream again. You will go to bed and
[1:22:05] Speaker 3: have that dream again. He will change different scenes till
[1:22:08] Speaker 3: you finally receive it.
[1:22:10] Speaker 5: What is this thing? Every time people are crying.
[1:22:12] Speaker 3: It's not all.
[1:22:13] Speaker 5: Prophetic dreams that are demonical.
[1:22:18] Speaker 3: A lady said she had a dream and she was
[1:22:20] Speaker 3: breastfeeding children.
[1:22:21] Speaker 5: Someone said, ah, you're in trouble. Your destiny is over. No, no, no, no, no, no.
[1:22:24] Speaker 3: It may not necessarily be. Children talk of visions. You
[1:22:29] Speaker 3: don't just conclude that it's a demonic thing.
[1:22:30] Speaker 5: No, no.
[1:22:33] Speaker 3: It may be that God is telling her that like Mary,
[1:22:36] Speaker 3: remember what I.
[1:22:37] Speaker 5: Told you about patterns.
[1:22:38] Speaker 3: There is an allocation to your destiny where you are
[1:22:41] Speaker 3: going to be betting visions. You will be like a midwife.
[1:22:46] Speaker 3: Can I tell you the truth? There are people because
[1:22:48] Speaker 3: of your destiny. God never allowed you to enter one
[1:22:52] Speaker 3: relationship as a young girl. The day a guy comes,
[1:22:56] Speaker 3: you say, God, what about this? He will not even
[1:22:57] Speaker 3: answer you. You say, just focus on what you are doing.
[1:23:00] Speaker 5: Because you are married, it.
[1:23:02] Speaker 3: Matters the state of your womb as at the time
[1:23:04] Speaker 3: you are carrying Jesus. And so he kept you. Is
[1:23:08] Speaker 3: someone learning now? This is very powerful. It is God
[1:23:11] Speaker 3: who is at work in us. There are some nudgings
[1:23:15] Speaker 3: you are having right now that is beyond a sermon.
[1:23:17] Speaker 3: A sermon only brings verification. You are saying, so this
[1:23:21] Speaker 3: is what God is doing. There are some of you
[1:23:23] Speaker 3: who have been called. Do you know?
[1:23:25] Speaker 5: I will tell you a humorous story.
[1:23:27] Speaker 3: Many years ago in primary school, We acted, you know,
[1:23:31] Speaker 3: there's this compulsory drama they do.
[1:23:34] Speaker 5: Was it primary five or six? I can't remember now.
[1:23:37] Speaker 5: And I acted in that drama as a rich man.
[1:23:40] Speaker 3: Come on now. I remember that drama. I'm telling you.
[1:23:49] Speaker 3: They tore pieces of paper. And then I was, I
[1:23:54] Speaker 3: think I was sharing welfare. Now, I hope you don't
[1:23:59] Speaker 3: misunderstand me. Who knows that something about your life that
[1:24:07] Speaker 3: has been repeating is God.
[1:24:09] Speaker 5: That's why you pray against it. It won't go.
[1:24:11] Speaker 3: God is telling you there is a mighty warrior in you.
[1:24:14] Speaker 3: You try to shrug it off. You see, you have
[1:24:16] Speaker 3: a right to reject it.
[1:24:18] Speaker 5: But until your.
[1:24:19] Speaker 3: Rebellion becomes consistent and God sees that you understand what
[1:24:24] Speaker 3: he's saying and you chose to say no, he will
[1:24:26] Speaker 3: not leave you. For some of you, your coming here
[1:24:30] Speaker 3: is by the Holy Ghost. Because you are in a
[1:24:32] Speaker 3: season where some things must come out. And there is
[1:24:35] Speaker 3: a timing for it. If your siblings grow beyond a
[1:24:39] Speaker 3: certain age without you imagining, they can die overnight. And
[1:24:42] Speaker 3: so God is hurrying with your training. And that's why
[1:24:45] Speaker 3: he sent you quickly to Koinonia. So that an accelerated process.
[1:24:50] Speaker 3: I'm telling you this.
[1:24:51] Speaker 5: It's true. The season of discovery. Listen. And preparation.
[1:25:00] Speaker 3: War betides a man who stands before Pharaoh or stands
[1:25:05] Speaker 3: before Goliath and you don't know the tools God gave you.
[1:25:10] Speaker 3: When Goliath said, who are you? You say, well, I
[1:25:13] Speaker 3: don't know. Life does not give you that chance to say,
[1:25:16] Speaker 3: I don't know. When you stand before Goliath... That is
[1:25:22] Speaker 3: the time of mastery and accuracy. You do your homework
[1:25:25] Speaker 3: before you stand before him. But let me tell you
[1:25:27] Speaker 3: something with seasons. Seasons don't wait for you. They keep
[1:25:31] Speaker 3: passing even while you are wasting them. You will wake
[1:25:34] Speaker 3: up and find out it's like a student.
[1:25:36] Speaker 5: Look at me.
[1:25:37] Speaker 3: How many students does exam wait for?
[1:25:39] Speaker 5: The exam is coming.
[1:25:41] Speaker 3: A school of ministry student just wrote their exams yesterday.
[1:25:44] Speaker 3: Now whether you read or not, that's not the exam's business.
[1:25:48] Speaker 3: There is a season for the exam. is for you
[1:25:51] Speaker 3: to hurry up to catch up. I'm telling, I sense
[1:25:56] Speaker 3: in my heart, for someone God is saying, hurry up,
[1:25:59] Speaker 3: hurry up, hurry up. You have delayed this thing.
[1:26:02] Speaker 5: Hurry up.
[1:26:03] Speaker 3: By now, by this season, you would have known God.
[1:26:07] Speaker 3: You don't know him yet. You would have discovered yourself.
[1:26:10] Speaker 3: You don't know yourself yet. You would have discovered the giftings,
[1:26:13] Speaker 3: the anointings, the equipings, and you are yet to find
[1:26:17] Speaker 3: that out. And yet the season is about to change
[1:26:20] Speaker 3: to the next. David discovered everything he had. He discovered
[1:26:29] Speaker 3: he was a warrior. He was in the wilderness filing himself.
[1:26:33] Speaker 3: He discovered he could sing. He was in the wilderness
[1:26:36] Speaker 3: writing songs perhaps. He discovered he was loyal. He had
[1:26:41] Speaker 3: leadership acumen. You don't have every time to train yourself.
[1:26:47] Speaker 3: There is a season that is called best before. Best before.
[1:26:53] Speaker 5: Best before. There are people who will be wishing prophecy.
[1:26:57] Speaker 3: I tell you, they will grow old and die and
[1:26:59] Speaker 3: never do one-tenth of their assignment because the fact that
[1:27:03] Speaker 3: you had a vision of your prophetic destiny does not
[1:27:06] Speaker 3: guarantee you will walk in it. Seasons can reveal the
[1:27:12] Speaker 3: glory of God in a man if you know how
[1:27:14] Speaker 3: to walk with it. Whether you waste seasons or invest
[1:27:19] Speaker 3: in seasons and use them profitably, that is up to you.
[1:27:31] Speaker 3: The emergence.
[1:27:33] Speaker 5: Again, I'm sounding this. God is telling someone, hurry up.
[1:27:39] Speaker 3: Hurry up. Hurry up.
[1:27:42] Speaker 5: Young man, hurry up.
[1:27:44] Speaker 3: God started nudging you since age 11.
[1:27:46] Speaker 5: Till now you are 30. You've not paid attention to him.
[1:27:50] Speaker 3: Every time you want to pay attention after a sermon,
[1:27:53] Speaker 3: the devil uses friends to distract you. You go back again.
[1:27:56] Speaker 3: You do not know that is a trap.
[1:27:59] Speaker 5: I'm telling you.
[1:28:01] Speaker 3: Just when you want to be serious with God, one
[1:28:04] Speaker 3: post from social media will make you to say, you
[1:28:06] Speaker 3: see all these short people, they are not serious. And
[1:28:08] Speaker 3: you are the one doing your own destiny. Because can
[1:28:12] Speaker 3: I tell you, at the end of it, none of
[1:28:15] Speaker 3: the people misleading you will take responsibility for your failure.
[1:28:20] Speaker 3: Some of you, according to your prophetic program, you should
[1:28:23] Speaker 3: have understood the loss of wealth by now. You should
[1:28:26] Speaker 3: have been preparing for the kind of kingdom resources God
[1:28:30] Speaker 3: will give you. But until now, greed is still in
[1:28:32] Speaker 3: your heart. You've not given the Holy Spirit room to
[1:28:35] Speaker 3: prune you, to build you. God has told you you
[1:28:38] Speaker 3: will be a prophet. you've seen yourself prophesying but you
[1:28:42] Speaker 3: are not prepared god cannot carry an ill-prepared vessel the
[1:28:46] Speaker 3: fact that you put prophet behind.
[1:28:48] Speaker 5: Your name does not mean you are a prophet no
[1:28:50] Speaker 5: sir no sir.
[1:28:55] Speaker 3: Titles don't announce seasons Or don't announce greatness. It is
[1:29:02] Speaker 3: when you maximize seasons. They announce you.
[1:29:09] Speaker 5: For someone I'm telling you again by the spirit.
[1:29:11] Speaker 3: Hurry up.
[1:29:12] Speaker 5: Hurry up. Hurry up.
[1:29:15] Speaker 3: Hurry up my dear sister. Hurry up my dear brother.
[1:29:18] Speaker 3: You will not always have the time. Listen to what
[1:29:21] Speaker 3: I'm telling you. Life is fragmented in season. And a
[1:29:25] Speaker 3: major season in your life is about to end. But
[1:29:28] Speaker 3: the preparation that that season should capture. You see, if
[1:29:33] Speaker 3: your exam should be written as per that season, you
[1:29:35] Speaker 3: will fail woefully. You've not built your prayer life. You've
[1:29:38] Speaker 3: not built your understanding of the word. You've not built
[1:29:41] Speaker 3: your consecration. You are not a person of stature and power.
[1:29:45] Speaker 3: Are we together? You've not discovered God. You've not discovered yourself.
[1:29:50] Speaker 3: You've not discovered your giftings. And you've not discovered your
[1:29:53] Speaker 3: prophetic assignment. Four things you must find. You must discover God.
[1:29:59] Speaker 3: You must discover yourself in light of prophecy. You must
[1:30:03] Speaker 3: discover your giftings, your abilities, and the spiritual investments within you.
[1:30:08] Speaker 5: And then number four, you must find your place in prophecy.
[1:30:12] Speaker 3: If you cannot do these four things, you have wasted
[1:30:15] Speaker 3: the season of discovery and preparation. Please be seated. Please sit.
[1:30:22] Speaker 3: Please sit. Please sit. There are many people today by
[1:30:31] Speaker 3: their prophetic preordination. There are songs they are supposed to bring.
[1:30:36] Speaker 3: But they just know they have nice voices. And the
[1:30:39] Speaker 3: Holy Ghost keeps nudging them all the time. When you
[1:30:42] Speaker 3: come to church and someone raises a song, while others
[1:30:46] Speaker 3: are enjoying the song, you are literally seeing yourself standing.
[1:30:50] Speaker 3: It is the Holy Ghost, God who is at work
[1:30:52] Speaker 3: in you. He's telling you, why do you want to
[1:30:55] Speaker 3: keep that gift? Those from you, the songs that should come,
[1:30:59] Speaker 3: they are ladders. Ladders that will usher men to realms
[1:31:02] Speaker 3: of revival. Can I tell you the truth? Everyone listen
[1:31:10] Speaker 3: to me. Every time you see a person in his
[1:31:13] Speaker 3: season of manifestation and there is a resonance in your spirit,
[1:31:18] Speaker 3: it's because there is a portion of your assignment.
[1:31:21] Speaker 5: It is deep calling on to deep.
[1:31:23] Speaker 3: Whether it's a man of God, whether it's a businessman,
[1:31:26] Speaker 3: I teach you a mystery. I'm not talking of just
[1:31:29] Speaker 3: being blessed. There are times you see a man and
[1:31:33] Speaker 3: you are literally seeing your future.
[1:31:35] Speaker 5: It's called a resonance. Deep is calling on to deep.
[1:31:39] Speaker 3: You can look at a woman and something from that
[1:31:42] Speaker 3: woman is answering into your spirit. You won't be able
[1:31:45] Speaker 3: to resist it. Others may be enjoying church, but for
[1:31:49] Speaker 3: you it's an impartation. It's a spirit transfer. Amen. I
[1:31:58] Speaker 3: remember those days when I would watch Reinhard Bonnke, when
[1:32:02] Speaker 3: I would watch T.L. Osborne and God's generals. For me,
[1:32:05] Speaker 3: it was not just a sermon. There was something within them.
[1:32:10] Speaker 3: It was like we were relatives from the same tribe,
[1:32:13] Speaker 3: from the same family. I couldn't explain it, but I
[1:32:16] Speaker 3: could not resist it. It was a fire that was
[1:32:19] Speaker 3: burning within my spirit. Burning within my spirit.
[1:32:23] Speaker 5: Now I know. I know better. I know better. I
[1:32:28] Speaker 5: know better. I know better.
[1:32:31] Speaker 3: I know what happened to the two men in Emmaus
[1:32:33] Speaker 3: when they met Jesus. Deep can call on to deep.
[1:32:38] Speaker 3: Some of you, when you look at some of the
[1:32:40] Speaker 3: business people, you are even feeling guilty. Because once you
[1:32:46] Speaker 3: are all about prayer and fasting. Wanting to be a
[1:32:49] Speaker 3: man of God. Your destiny is to be a financial apostle.
[1:32:53] Speaker 3: And you are not lazy. Sometimes you feel guilty. Because
[1:32:56] Speaker 3: you want to pray like others. Fast like others. But
[1:32:59] Speaker 3: as much as that is profitable. It's not part of
[1:33:02] Speaker 3: your equipping. Esther.
[1:33:08] Speaker 5: When you see Esther.
[1:33:09] Speaker 3: Esther will answer to Esther.
[1:33:13] Speaker 5: Elizabeth.
[1:33:15] Speaker 3: When you see Mary. The visions will leap. Elizabeth is
[1:33:19] Speaker 3: ahead of Mary. But when you see the visions it
[1:33:22] Speaker 3: will leap. I'm telling you this. This thing I'm telling
[1:33:27] Speaker 3: you is so powerful. You can look at a man.
[1:33:31] Speaker 3: And the man is looking at you. And you are
[1:33:33] Speaker 3: not interacting. But the man knows that something from him.
[1:33:37] Speaker 3: Is answering to your spirit. It's true.
[1:33:41] Speaker 5: There are people that have seen. In the midst of
[1:33:44] Speaker 5: a crowd.
[1:33:44] Speaker 3: Whilst I'm talking. I can know by the radar of
[1:33:47] Speaker 3: the spirit. That there is something I'm saying. That is
[1:33:51] Speaker 3: answering to the spirit of that lady. Answering to the
[1:33:54] Speaker 3: spirit of that man. That's why Paul would say. No
[1:33:56] Speaker 3: we know man. After the flesh. It's a spirit communication. Hallelujah.
[1:34:17] Speaker 3: That is also one of the ways that you find
[1:34:20] Speaker 3: the models. You don't choose models. Deep allocates them. There
[1:34:26] Speaker 3: is a depth in the spirit. You will hear a
[1:34:28] Speaker 3: voice and hear a sound. And there will be a
[1:34:30] Speaker 3: resonance in your spirit. It's not about accuracy of preaching.
[1:34:35] Speaker 3: It's about allocations in the spirit. Can I tell you
[1:34:40] Speaker 3: the truth?
[1:34:42] Speaker 5: If Ruth... Was mentored by Elijah. She will be called Elisha.
[1:34:47] Speaker 3: Not Ruth.
[1:34:49] Speaker 5: It matters.
[1:34:51] Speaker 3: Every allocation in the body of Christ is connected to
[1:34:53] Speaker 3: a specific assignment.
[1:34:55] Speaker 5: That's why it's not good to look down on people.
[1:34:59] Speaker 3: Because in looking down on people, especially voices that are
[1:35:02] Speaker 3: godly with integrity, as you discredit certain voices in the body,
[1:35:09] Speaker 3: you are also punishing the people who are supposed to follow.
[1:35:12] Speaker 5: Them until they become.
[1:35:13] Speaker 3: Hallelujah. When God is setting you up to be, say,
[1:35:18] Speaker 3: an entrepreneur, a leader, he may allocate you, say, to
[1:35:23] Speaker 3: someone like, with all due respect, Reverend Sam Adeyemi, or
[1:35:26] Speaker 3: something of that sort.
[1:35:27] Speaker 5: The patterns, the ministry, it may be very different.
[1:35:30] Speaker 3: And sometimes, especially among we Pentecostals, and unfortunately some of
[1:35:35] Speaker 3: the reckless manifestations of young ministers who.
[1:35:39] Speaker 5: Are not cultured very properly.
[1:35:41] Speaker 3: Sometimes they can destroy people's correct followership because they define
[1:35:46] Speaker 3: a template that if you do not assume they make
[1:35:49] Speaker 3: it look like it will never emerge it's not true
[1:35:51] Speaker 3: there are allocations in the spirit it is the reason
[1:35:55] Speaker 3: why there are different churches and god has different programs
[1:35:59] Speaker 3: albeit they connect to his universal prophetic program is.
[1:36:04] Speaker 5: Someone learning now.
[1:36:08] Speaker 3: There are people who are sent here because of the
[1:36:10] Speaker 3: nature of their building, what God is bringing from them.
[1:36:14] Speaker 3: And the way God does it is that there are
[1:36:16] Speaker 3: people in other assemblies, but they will take electives other places.
[1:36:20] Speaker 5: You know how you take electives as a student?
[1:36:23] Speaker 3: Because certain things you need may not be captured in
[1:36:26] Speaker 3: the experience of that man of God. So God will
[1:36:28] Speaker 3: shift you for a season to draw something and then
[1:36:31] Speaker 3: you continue what you are doing.
[1:36:35] Speaker 5: I wish there was a better way of explaining.
[1:36:37] Speaker 3: This thing to you. Sometimes spiritual things are difficult to explain.
[1:36:41] Speaker 3: But you understand what I've said so far. Now the
[1:36:46] Speaker 3: question I have for you is, on a scale of
[1:36:50] Speaker 3: 1 to 10, what would you say is your knowledge
[1:36:53] Speaker 3: of God? Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you the truth.
[1:36:57] Speaker 3: If you do not know God in the days that
[1:36:59] Speaker 3: are coming, you may fall by the wayside. I don't
[1:37:02] Speaker 3: care whether you're a preacher, whether you're a businessman. I've
[1:37:05] Speaker 3: seen these things in my visions. The days that are
[1:37:09] Speaker 3: coming will so threaten people upon the earth. Their stability
[1:37:13] Speaker 3: will be the knowledge of God. AI has come to stay.
[1:37:19] Speaker 3: Genetic engineering, internet of things, there will be such disruptions
[1:37:24] Speaker 3: upon the earth. A time will come men will be
[1:37:27] Speaker 3: confused as to who they are. So it's better to
[1:37:30] Speaker 3: find out now. Now. Jesus walked to the disciples and said,
[1:37:35] Speaker 3: who do men say that I the son of man am?
[1:37:37] Speaker 5: And some said you are Elijah. Some said you are
[1:37:39] Speaker 5: whatever it is.
[1:37:41] Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
[1:37:43] Speaker 5: But I know whom I have believed. And I am persuaded.
[1:37:47] Speaker 3: Persuaded. Persuaded. Man of God. Before you meet Janice and Jemba's.
[1:37:54] Speaker 3: Understand how God moves. If not, one day you will.
[1:37:57] Speaker 5: Stand with Janice and Jemez and not know.
[1:38:00] Speaker 3: The difference between a fake miracle and a real miracle.
[1:38:03] Speaker 5: You will be part of fraternities that will destroy your life.
[1:38:07] Speaker 3: Not because you are bad, but because your knowledge of
[1:38:09] Speaker 3: God is so low. I pray for you. Hunger for
[1:38:13] Speaker 3: his presence. Hunger to know God. Hunger to invest in prayer.
[1:38:20] Speaker 3: Hunger to learn doctrine. Hunger to understand the ways of God.
[1:38:25] Speaker 3: Let it be released upon you. In the name of
[1:38:28] Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. Please be seated. Let's hurry up. I'm only
[1:38:34] Speaker 3: teaching you three seasons. Season number two. So the first
[1:38:40] Speaker 3: defining season. As far as birthing glory. And birthing greatness
[1:38:46] Speaker 3: in the life of a believer is concerned.
[1:38:49] Speaker 5: Is the season of discovery. And preparation.
[1:38:53] Speaker 3: And I said you discover God. You must find God.
[1:38:58] Speaker 3: And have a deep knowledge of him. You must discover
[1:39:03] Speaker 3: yourself in light of prophecy. And in light of who
[1:39:06] Speaker 3: Christ is. You must discover your giftings. Your abilities. And
[1:39:12] Speaker 3: the spiritual investments. That have been deposited within you.
[1:39:16] Speaker 5: And finally.
[1:39:18] Speaker 3: You must discover God. your assignment, your prophetic role in
[1:39:22] Speaker 3: God's grand scheme of things. Number two, the second season.
[1:39:29] Speaker 3: Now listen, ladies and gentlemen, according to scripture, and I
[1:39:35] Speaker 3: can tell you in my own experience, this second season
[1:39:38] Speaker 3: you see is the hardest season in the life of
[1:39:42] Speaker 3: a believer. It's called the season of proving. The season
[1:39:47] Speaker 3: of testing or proving. The season of testing or the
[1:39:59] Speaker 3: season of proving. I can tell you this. It is
[1:40:10] Speaker 3: in this season where God's voice will become more silent
[1:40:15] Speaker 3: in all of your destiny Some of you are in
[1:40:18] Speaker 3: this season right now. You've had me teach you that
[1:40:23] Speaker 3: when God is silent, you have to learn that the
[1:40:27] Speaker 3: silence of God is a language itself. Every time God
[1:40:31] Speaker 3: is silent, he's saying something. And if you do not
[1:40:34] Speaker 3: understand the silence of God, you will be frustrated.
[1:40:37] Speaker 5: Watch this. The greatest destruction.
[1:40:41] Speaker 3: If Satan fails to destroy your destiny from his infancy.
[1:40:45] Speaker 3: He will wait until you get to this season. Because
[1:40:49] Speaker 3: God is largely silent in this season. Satan will speak
[1:40:53] Speaker 3: using different voices. And confuse your destiny. Pay attention. I
[1:40:59] Speaker 3: want to tell you something about this season. The season
[1:41:06] Speaker 3: of proving. The season of testing. Deuteronomy chapter 8. Let's
[1:41:12] Speaker 3: begin our reading from verse 13. When your herds and
[1:41:24] Speaker 3: your flocks multiply... When your silver and your gold multiply...
[1:41:29] Speaker 3: And all that you have is multiplied... Then your heart
[1:41:33] Speaker 3: be lifted up and you forget the Lord thy God
[1:41:35] Speaker 3: which brought thee forth from out of the land of
[1:41:38] Speaker 3: Egypt from the house of bondage.
[1:41:40] Speaker 5: Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness? Pay attention.
[1:41:45] Speaker 3: Wherein they were what? Why would God lead you through this?
[1:41:50] Speaker 3: Read the first three words. One to go. Come on,
[1:41:54] Speaker 3: you can see it.
[1:41:55] Speaker 5: One to go. One to go. Question. They were led
[1:42:00] Speaker 5: to this place. They didn't go.
[1:42:03] Speaker 3: There as a result of cheerlessness.
[1:42:05] Speaker 5: The Bible says God led them.
[1:42:07] Speaker 3: I thought when God leads a man, it should be
[1:42:11] Speaker 3: a wonderful place. You don't go through anything whatsoever. Oh no.
[1:42:17] Speaker 3: Then you don't understand the leadings that makes mighty men
[1:42:20] Speaker 3: in the spirit.
[1:42:21] Speaker 5: If your idea of the leadings.
[1:42:23] Speaker 3: Of God, as far as destiny is concerned, is that
[1:42:26] Speaker 3: it's just a straight line from your dream until the
[1:42:30] Speaker 3: manifestation of prophecy, you are misled. You are misled completely.
[1:42:36] Speaker 3: Please give it to us. Let me finish that scripture.
[1:42:39] Speaker 3: They were led into a great and terrible wilderness. And
[1:42:43] Speaker 3: what was in that wilderness? Fiery serpents, scorpions, drought. There
[1:42:49] Speaker 3: was no water. And then he brought forth water out
[1:42:52] Speaker 3: of the rock of Flint.
[1:42:54] Speaker 5: 16.
[1:42:55] Speaker 3: Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your
[1:42:58] Speaker 3: fathers knew not? Why?
[1:43:01] Speaker 5: Read the remaining part.
[1:43:02] Speaker 3: One, two, go.
[1:43:03] Speaker 5: That he might humble thee.
[1:43:06] Speaker 3: And that he might prove thee to do thee.
[1:43:10] Speaker 5: Good at thy latter end. Stop there. Is someone seeing
[1:43:14] Speaker 5: that now?
[1:43:17] Speaker 3: That should be Psalm 66 verse 12. Thou hast caused
[1:43:21] Speaker 3: men to ride over our heads. We went through fire
[1:43:27] Speaker 3: and through water. But thou brought us into a wealthy place.
[1:43:35] Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, if God ever told Joseph that he
[1:43:41] Speaker 3: was going to go to the pit, the prison, Portifan's house.
[1:43:47] Speaker 3: Then another prison again. And with their X plus two
[1:43:51] Speaker 3: years before he became a prime minister, I am telling you,
[1:43:55] Speaker 3: Joseph himself would have looked at God and said, I
[1:43:58] Speaker 3: love you wherever you are, but I'm not interested. Give
[1:44:01] Speaker 3: that assignment to someone. Can I tell you, there is
[1:44:04] Speaker 3: a part of the prophecy of your destiny. God will
[1:44:07] Speaker 3: never allow you to see it. You will just come
[1:44:09] Speaker 3: into it. No matter how discerning you are, You will
[1:44:13] Speaker 3: not be given the liberty to see it because the
[1:44:16] Speaker 3: nature of that training, it is so aggressive, it will
[1:44:20] Speaker 3: discourage you. So God will just give you the end picture.
[1:44:24] Speaker 3: He will tell you, you will become a multi-millionaire. He
[1:44:26] Speaker 3: will tell you, you will become a great apostle. He
[1:44:29] Speaker 3: will tell you, your children will be great. But there
[1:44:32] Speaker 3: is a part of that story, no matter how you pray,
[1:44:35] Speaker 3: you will not see it. It is concealed so that
[1:44:38] Speaker 3: it does not discourage you. And one day you will
[1:44:42] Speaker 3: just step into the season. Let me tell you how
[1:44:44] Speaker 3: these seasons come. They come with sometimes unprepared tragic events.
[1:44:50] Speaker 3: I wish for someone this season can come. God may
[1:44:56] Speaker 3: not be the one who caused it. But God can
[1:45:00] Speaker 3: use everything around. For someone the death of a loved
[1:45:03] Speaker 3: one can usher this season.
[1:45:05] Speaker 5: You may not know why. You cannot explain. Someone is the.
[1:45:09] Speaker 3: Loss of a job. Something in your life. Let me
[1:45:13] Speaker 3: tell you how you know you are in this season.
[1:45:16] Speaker 3: There is a conflict between your integrity and your results.
[1:45:21] Speaker 3: Your integrity does not change. Your prayer life does not
[1:45:25] Speaker 3: go down. Your consecration does not change. Your passion does
[1:45:29] Speaker 3: not change. But it looks like the heavens are closed
[1:45:31] Speaker 3: over you. One of the ways you know you are
[1:45:34] Speaker 3: in this season. So there is a difference between being
[1:45:37] Speaker 3: punished for disobedience and going through the season of proving.
[1:45:41] Speaker 5: And I'm showing you the test now.
[1:45:44] Speaker 3: When your prayer life goes down, your word life goes down,
[1:45:48] Speaker 3: your passion for God goes down, and tragedy strikes, you
[1:45:51] Speaker 3: are not in the season of testing. You are reaping
[1:45:53] Speaker 3: the harvest of carelessness and inconsistency. But there are times
[1:45:58] Speaker 3: in the life of a man where your prayer life
[1:46:00] Speaker 3: is intact. Your word life is intact. Everything is intact.
[1:46:06] Speaker 3: And yet the heavens are closed. Test number two, you
[1:46:11] Speaker 3: will cry and say, God, why? Talk to me and
[1:46:14] Speaker 3: you will be silent. His silence does not mean he
[1:46:19] Speaker 3: hates you. His silence is a language. It's a language that.
[1:46:23] Speaker 5: When you don't hear my voice, trust my presence.
[1:46:26] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[1:46:32] Speaker 3: Your confidence must be anchored on both his presence and
[1:46:35] Speaker 3: his voice, not just his voice alone. Though I walk
[1:46:39] Speaker 3: through the valley of the shadow of death, I will
[1:46:42] Speaker 3: fear no evil. Talk to me, why? For thou art
[1:46:46] Speaker 3: with me. Not that you are speaking to me. Did
[1:46:50] Speaker 3: you hear there that you were speaking to him? Some
[1:46:52] Speaker 3: of you are going to fire right now. I am
[1:46:54] Speaker 3: telling you, God is with you. But it's a season
[1:46:57] Speaker 3: of proving. Now let me give you a word of caution.
[1:47:01] Speaker 3: And I confess to you that sometimes I've been a
[1:47:03] Speaker 3: victim of this myself.
[1:47:05] Speaker 5: In all honesty.
[1:47:06] Speaker 3: There are times people are going through this season. And
[1:47:09] Speaker 3: compassion can make you to try to help them. And
[1:47:13] Speaker 3: bring them out of that season. You destroy that season
[1:47:16] Speaker 3: and recycle their pain again.
[1:47:18] Speaker 5: It's good to help people. But discern.
[1:47:21] Speaker 3: Sometimes compassion can make you want to bring people out.
[1:47:25] Speaker 3: How come this young lady loves the Lord? She's working
[1:47:28] Speaker 3: in integrity, no house rent, no whatever it is. God
[1:47:32] Speaker 3: is building a kind of compassion in that lady because
[1:47:36] Speaker 3: of something she will be doing for people in the future.
[1:47:38] Speaker 3: Don't destroy the training. Don't destroy the training. Sometimes you
[1:47:44] Speaker 3: can see a brother who loves God for 10 years,
[1:47:47] Speaker 3: 5 years, no car, no nothing. He will try going
[1:47:51] Speaker 3: to church. He will do whatever and just be crying.
[1:47:53] Speaker 3: He will serve God with all his heart. Everyone is
[1:47:56] Speaker 3: going forward except him. And sometimes you can be tempted
[1:47:59] Speaker 3: to say, what is wrong now? Provided your integrity is
[1:48:03] Speaker 3: in place. Just know you are going through a season.
[1:48:05] Speaker 3: The Bible says to do the good at your latter end. Now,
[1:48:11] Speaker 3: this is a part of the believer's experience that you
[1:48:14] Speaker 3: have to be mentored to understand. Else you are going
[1:48:18] Speaker 3: to be offended by God. Some of you are offended
[1:48:21] Speaker 3: by God, offended by church.
[1:48:23] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[1:48:27] Speaker 3: I remember years ago, someone got angry and said, every
[1:48:30] Speaker 3: time I pray and fast, during miracle service, you prophesy
[1:48:33] Speaker 3: on everybody and leave me. He said, the next time,
[1:48:36] Speaker 3: if I call any name, whether it's him or not,
[1:48:38] Speaker 3: he will come out. Because he's tired of this kind
[1:48:40] Speaker 3: of thing. I prepare my spirit.
[1:48:42] Speaker 5: I fast. I pray. I watch people get blessed. And
[1:48:46] Speaker 5: of course, I get blessed generally.
[1:48:48] Speaker 3: But is it that God cannot locate me?
[1:48:51] Speaker 5: Am I such a, is it my father's sin?
[1:48:53] Speaker 3: Is it my sin?
[1:48:54] Speaker 5: The person was really bitter.
[1:48:57] Speaker 3: It's a season of proving. Question.
[1:49:02] Speaker 5: What did Joseph do to get into the well?
[1:49:05] Speaker 3: Nothing. How many of you know that sometimes righteousness leads
[1:49:10] Speaker 3: you to trouble? And yet the Bible says you are led.
[1:49:16] Speaker 3: The leadership of the Holy Spirit is a very serious thing.
[1:49:19] Speaker 3: Most of us have an idea that if the Holy
[1:49:21] Speaker 3: Ghost is leading you, it will always be results and laughter. Well,
[1:49:24] Speaker 3: with respect to a great destiny, That's not how champions
[1:49:27] Speaker 3: are made. I can tell you stories and bore you
[1:49:33] Speaker 3: through this night with my stories of seasons where we
[1:49:37] Speaker 3: did everything right, but it looked like the heavens were closed.
[1:49:43] Speaker 3: And thankfully speaking, God had shown me this early. So
[1:49:46] Speaker 3: I knew that sometimes when you get to that season,
[1:49:49] Speaker 3: let me tell you what to do. There is nothing
[1:49:51] Speaker 3: else to do than to cry and give thanks. That
[1:49:56] Speaker 3: is when you need to listen to messages like the
[1:49:58] Speaker 3: staying power. Some of you, I'm giving you an arsenal
[1:50:00] Speaker 3: right now because you are in that season. You are
[1:50:03] Speaker 3: in that season. You can find a man and a
[1:50:07] Speaker 3: woman who love God with all their lives. 10 years,
[1:50:11] Speaker 3: 15 years, they love Jesus with all their heart and
[1:50:15] Speaker 3: it looks like there's no child. You see, that's why
[1:50:17] Speaker 3: you have to be careful. Don't judge people foolishly. Because
[1:50:22] Speaker 3: you can be heaping up a curse upon your head.
[1:50:25] Speaker 3: You don't know what season people are passing through. Who
[1:50:27] Speaker 3: is learning this now? There are times people receive a
[1:50:33] Speaker 3: recompense for their carelessness and their laxity spiritually. But I
[1:50:37] Speaker 3: can tell you there are times where glory is being
[1:50:40] Speaker 3: birthed in people. Seems like we still do that in
[1:50:44] Speaker 3: our new wine song again. So you should prepare it.
[1:50:46] Speaker 3: It's a good song for a teaching like this. Someone
[1:50:51] Speaker 3: is in this season right now. A man of God
[1:50:53] Speaker 3: is in this season right now. Satan will tempt you.
[1:50:57] Speaker 3: He will say, join this group. Join this group. They
[1:50:59] Speaker 3: will announce you faster. And then the voice of the
[1:51:02] Speaker 3: Spirit says, all the days of your appointed time. That
[1:51:05] Speaker 3: time is appointed.
[1:51:07] Speaker 8: Wait.
[1:51:08] Speaker 5: I'm an usher, but it's insulting my pedigree. I mean,
[1:51:12] Speaker 5: the way I'm anointed.
[1:51:13] Speaker 3: I've seen young, young boys who are younger than me
[1:51:15] Speaker 3: starting their ministry.
[1:51:17] Speaker 5: I want to start mine and the Spirit of God says, wait.
[1:51:23] Speaker 3: Wait.
[1:51:25] Speaker 5: Wait. There are two ways God leads you.
[1:51:28] Speaker 3: There are times he can say go. There are times
[1:51:32] Speaker 3: he keeps quiet. Annoyingly so. And if you want to move,
[1:51:36] Speaker 3: he will now say stop. When you go through this season,
[1:51:43] Speaker 3: Sometimes as a man of God, God is making. You
[1:51:46] Speaker 3: will be counseling people over the same issue you are
[1:51:48] Speaker 3: going through. God will give you solutions for them. As
[1:51:51] Speaker 3: soon as they leave the office, you say, God, what
[1:51:53] Speaker 3: about me, God? And he becomes silent. He only speaks
[1:51:56] Speaker 3: when there is somebody for you to help. Always discern
[1:52:00] Speaker 3: the silence of God. You are not wasting your life.
[1:52:03] Speaker 3: You are not wasting your days. Who is learning now?
[1:52:07] Speaker 3: This is very powerful. I will give you room to
[1:52:10] Speaker 3: sing it once. Then I will take it from there.
[1:52:12] Speaker 3: So find someone for me who will sing that song.
[1:52:15] Speaker 3: I want everybody to listen. I sing these songs. They
[1:52:18] Speaker 3: are not special numbers. They are creating an effect in
[1:52:20] Speaker 3: your spirit. For someone, God is ministering deeply to you.
[1:52:24] Speaker 3: You are in a season where as he stands right now,
[1:52:27] Speaker 3: you are broke financially. You went to do a master's
[1:52:30] Speaker 3: and you were happy thinking after the master's a job
[1:52:32] Speaker 3: will come. Your righteousness has not changed. Your loving Jesus
[1:52:37] Speaker 3: has not changed. Your passion for the house of God
[1:52:39] Speaker 3: has not changed. And in spite of all the prophecies
[1:52:42] Speaker 3: that has come, it looks like 2025 is your worst
[1:52:45] Speaker 3: year so far. And honestly, as it stands right now,
[1:52:48] Speaker 3: you are holding on to the last string of trust.
[1:52:51] Speaker 3: I have a word for you. You are going through
[1:52:53] Speaker 3: a season. You are not the only one. is a
[1:52:56] Speaker 3: season that makes champions. Like an insect moves from egg, larva, pupa, adult.
[1:53:02] Speaker 3: No insect goes from egg to pupa. No child goes
[1:53:06] Speaker 3: from baby to adult. From baby, you go to the
[1:53:10] Speaker 3: next stage.
[1:53:12] Speaker 5: Older baby.
[1:53:14] Speaker 3: Then you go to teenager, then adolescence, then young adult,
[1:53:20] Speaker 3: then middle-aged man, then a grand... Nobody is impossible for
[1:53:26] Speaker 3: a child of 10 years to be called grandfather. No
[1:53:29] Speaker 3: matter the kind of favor on him, he cannot be
[1:53:32] Speaker 3: called grandfather by biological descent.
[1:53:35] Speaker 5: He's too young for that experience. Sing for me.
[1:53:40] Speaker 3: Everyone listen.
[1:53:40] Speaker 7: Sing.
[1:53:43] Speaker 5: In the crushing, in the pressing. Helping you interpret your
[1:53:50] Speaker 5: seasons right now.
[1:53:51] Speaker 10: You are making new wine.
[1:53:58] Speaker 3: And in the soil I now surrender.
[1:54:07] Speaker 7: You are breaking new ground. So I yield to you
[1:54:15] Speaker 7: until you care for him. When I trust you, I
[1:54:23] Speaker 7: don't need to understand.
[1:54:30] Speaker 10: Make me a vessel. Make me an offering. Make me whatever.
[1:54:42] Speaker 7: You want me to be.
[1:54:46] Speaker 5: I came here with nothing.
[1:54:50] Speaker 1: But all you.
[1:54:52] Speaker 3: Have given me.
[1:54:54] Speaker 7: Jesus bring the wine out of me. Jesus bring the
[1:55:05] Speaker 7: wine out of me.
[1:55:08] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[1:55:09] Speaker 3: Let me encourage you. One of the most comforting scriptures
[1:55:16] Speaker 3: for me in the Bible is the scripture, and it
[1:55:19] Speaker 3: came to pass.
[1:55:22] Speaker 5: Let me minister to someone. Perhaps you are following from
[1:55:26] Speaker 5: across the globe.
[1:55:28] Speaker 3: It looks like they're going to deport you because you're
[1:55:30] Speaker 3: behind on your bills. When righteousness does not profit, God
[1:55:35] Speaker 3: is up to something. Every time righteousness looks like a
[1:55:39] Speaker 3: disadvantage in your life, be patient.
[1:55:42] Speaker 5: It is not over yet. Did you hear what I said?
[1:55:45] Speaker 5: Don't forget this.
[1:55:46] Speaker 3: There are times in the life of a believer where
[1:55:49] Speaker 3: righteousness will look like a disadvantage.
[1:55:51] Speaker 5: I tell you, if you have not faced that, keep growing.
[1:55:56] Speaker 3: A time will come your loving Jesus will look like
[1:55:59] Speaker 3: a minus in your life. Your serving Jesus will look
[1:56:02] Speaker 3: like a minus in your life. Your raising children properly
[1:56:06] Speaker 3: will look like a minus in your life. And sometimes
[1:56:08] Speaker 3: people can tell you, well, I told you leave these children.
[1:56:11] Speaker 3: You said you are.
[1:56:12] Speaker 5: Raising them well.
[1:56:12] Speaker 3: Look at it now.
[1:56:14] Speaker 5: Every time righteousness.
[1:56:16] Speaker 3: Looks unprofitable, don't give up.
[1:56:19] Speaker 5: Something is birthing.
[1:56:21] Speaker 3: There is a birthing in the spirit. There are many
[1:56:24] Speaker 3: women here with children. Many women who have given birth here.
[1:56:28] Speaker 3: No matter how seamless that delivery is, it cannot be
[1:56:31] Speaker 3: 100% pain free. Once you are a woman and you
[1:56:35] Speaker 3: are about to push a child, there is a measure
[1:56:39] Speaker 3: of travail.
[1:56:40] Speaker 5: Some get it easier than others. Are we together?
[1:56:44] Speaker 3: Some have to be rushed into an emergency room because
[1:56:47] Speaker 3: they bleed.
[1:56:48] Speaker 5: Many other things happen. It was not part of the plan.
[1:56:54] Speaker 5: I don't know how many women laugh when they are
[1:56:56] Speaker 5: giving birth.
[1:56:57] Speaker 3: You can laugh before. You can laugh by faith. But
[1:56:59] Speaker 3: at the point of pushing, everybody is serious. Because life
[1:57:03] Speaker 3: is coming out. Who is learning now?
[1:57:05] Speaker 5: So for someone, you see that you are in a
[1:57:09] Speaker 5: prophetic season. An apostle is emerging.
[1:57:13] Speaker 3: Don't give up that season. Don't stop the prayer. This
[1:57:16] Speaker 3: is the wrongest time to stop prayer. This is the
[1:57:19] Speaker 3: wrongest time to stop coming to church. You can pick
[1:57:23] Speaker 3: offense with everything. Husband picks offense with a wife. And
[1:57:27] Speaker 3: sometimes you need to intercede because Satan can use men
[1:57:31] Speaker 3: to fight you in this season. They make a nasty
[1:57:35] Speaker 3: statement in passing. I've not seen the prophet of your
[1:57:38] Speaker 3: serving God. Don't tell me anything about church. From the
[1:57:42] Speaker 3: day we started giving, we started going down.
[1:57:45] Speaker 5: And they make it look as if giving. You see,
[1:57:48] Speaker 5: most of these.
[1:57:48] Speaker 3: Troubles you see sometimes around the body of Christ is
[1:57:51] Speaker 3: because people have not been taught to interpret seasons. So
[1:57:54] Speaker 3: they carry the anger from these seasons. And they blame
[1:57:57] Speaker 3: it on church. They blame it on men of God.
[1:58:00] Speaker 3: They blame it on God. I've been given. What's the benefit?
[1:58:09] Speaker 3: I've shared with you how we held our crusades.
[1:58:12] Speaker 5: Great memories.
[1:58:14] Speaker 3: These have become priceless scars upon us tonight and today
[1:58:18] Speaker 3: and in this season.
[1:58:19] Speaker 5: We did everything right. Everything right. There was no money
[1:58:24] Speaker 5: to pay the bills.
[1:58:26] Speaker 3: After praying and fasting, calling upon the name of the Lord,
[1:58:30] Speaker 3: preaching with all our hearts. And the strange thing is
[1:58:34] Speaker 3: that when you are in this season, on one hand
[1:58:37] Speaker 3: of your life, you will see the mighty hand of God.
[1:58:39] Speaker 5: But in another area, you will be mysteriously silent. Miracles.
[1:58:45] Speaker 5: People were receiving.
[1:58:47] Speaker 3: What does it take God to give us 150,000 naira
[1:58:51] Speaker 3: then at that time to pay for sound? You imagine
[1:58:55] Speaker 3: you go for crusade, you encourage people, and then at
[1:58:58] Speaker 3: the end of it, you're almost going to jail for 150,000.
[1:59:01] Speaker 3: You didn't steal.
[1:59:05] Speaker 5: Can I tell you?
[1:59:07] Speaker 3: Genuine compassion is not something that is natural in men.
[1:59:12] Speaker 3: There has to be a history that fuels through compassion.
[1:59:17] Speaker 3: When you see people who are greedy, just leave them.
[1:59:20] Speaker 3: Life has not done them yet. The day they go
[1:59:22] Speaker 3: through the valley of the shadow of death, when they
[1:59:25] Speaker 3: see someone crying, they won't say, why are you crying?
[1:59:28] Speaker 3: There's enough memory from their pain. Some of the things
[1:59:31] Speaker 3: I do today, I pull from the residue of yesteryears.
[1:59:37] Speaker 3: It's the reason why you see when I'm teaching people,
[1:59:39] Speaker 3: I teach it with passion. Because I wish I had
[1:59:42] Speaker 3: someone who helped to interpret these seasons for us more accurately.
[1:59:51] Speaker 3: Where there is new wine.
[1:59:52] Speaker 5: You sing that part and then I give us number three.
[1:59:54] Speaker 3: Go ahead.
[1:59:56] Speaker 7: Where there is new wine. There is new power. There
[2:00:05] Speaker 7: is new freedom.
[2:00:08] Speaker 5: The kingdom is here. I lay down.
[2:00:13] Speaker 7: My own slaves to carry your new fire today. Where
[2:00:29] Speaker 7: there is new wine, there is new power.
[2:00:37] Speaker 5: There is new freedom.
[2:00:56] Speaker 3: Very quickly. The season of testing and proving achieves three things.
[2:01:02] Speaker 3: Number one. It brings you to a point where you
[2:01:05] Speaker 3: see how insufficient your strength is outside of the help
[2:01:10] Speaker 3: and the mercy of God. Write that down. The season
[2:01:13] Speaker 3: of proving and testing achieves three things. And let me
[2:01:17] Speaker 3: tell you the truth. Until these three things are fulfilled,
[2:01:21] Speaker 3: you will never get out of that season. So the
[2:01:24] Speaker 3: earlier you align for these three things, I'll repeat myself,
[2:01:28] Speaker 3: to happen to you, it will determine the pace with
[2:01:31] Speaker 3: which that.
[2:01:32] Speaker 5: Season will come to an end.
[2:01:33] Speaker 3: Number one, it reveals to you how insufficient your strength
[2:01:38] Speaker 3: is outside of the help and the mercy of God.
[2:01:44] Speaker 3: Men are naturally arrogant. Until God gives them a.
[2:01:49] Speaker 5: Chance to test their strength. And watch it fail.
[2:01:52] Speaker 3: They will never naturally embrace the strength of God. We
[2:01:56] Speaker 3: may profess it in church. As a man of God.
[2:02:00] Speaker 3: It's easy to say Lord I give you everything. But
[2:02:02] Speaker 3: the truth is that the pride of man is so deep.
[2:02:06] Speaker 3: Even man does not know how deep it is. It
[2:02:09] Speaker 3: will take the season of proving. God will bring your
[2:02:12] Speaker 3: strength face to face with life. And you will see
[2:02:15] Speaker 3: how small your strength is. It brings you to your knees.
[2:02:22] Speaker 3: Is someone learning now? Go and ask any man who
[2:02:26] Speaker 3: has been a beneficiary of the bathing of glory.
[2:02:30] Speaker 5: They will tell you this was the first thing. The
[2:02:32] Speaker 5: season of proving.
[2:02:35] Speaker 3: When you meet people who have gone through the season
[2:02:37] Speaker 3: of proving, you will know it because even if they
[2:02:41] Speaker 3: were people who were formerly proud, God will arrange things
[2:02:46] Speaker 3: that will tame that pride. By the time they come
[2:02:49] Speaker 3: out of it, all the noise you see them make,
[2:02:51] Speaker 3: they just keep quiet.
[2:02:52] Speaker 5: They allow younger people to keep talking.
[2:02:54] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[2:02:59] Speaker 3: David went to hell fire as he came out. Go
[2:03:02] Speaker 3: and see the progression of Psalms. There are times he
[2:03:05] Speaker 3: did not say some things again. The Lord is my
[2:03:08] Speaker 3: light and my salvation. There were other things David said.
[2:03:12] Speaker 3: I'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God.
[2:03:14] Speaker 3: You think that psalm came naturally? No, sir. No, sir. No, sir.
[2:03:20] Speaker 3: I lay me down and I slept. I wait for
[2:03:23] Speaker 3: the Lord to sustain me. David, there are times you
[2:03:28] Speaker 3: will see certain arrogant.
[2:03:30] Speaker 5: People worshiping in church. They've never suffered.
[2:03:36] Speaker 3: And so when others are rolling and crying, they're just
[2:03:38] Speaker 3: watching what's going on here. It's because their parents are alive.
[2:03:42] Speaker 3: It's because their uncle is a senator. Nothing wrong with that. Congratulations.
[2:03:46] Speaker 3: But as you step into the season of proving, your father.
[2:03:49] Speaker 5: Just calls you and says, now you're an adult.
[2:03:51] Speaker 3: Get out of my house. I didn't have plans for anything.
[2:03:53] Speaker 3: The only inheritance I have for you is God and knowledge.
[2:03:56] Speaker 3: You have both. Be on your way.
[2:03:58] Speaker 5: That shock and that surprise.
[2:04:01] Speaker 3: And then number two, where you have believed that your
[2:04:03] Speaker 3: uncles and aunties will give you a job, you call
[2:04:06] Speaker 3: them and they will not reply you. You are now
[2:04:08] Speaker 3: left in a position all by yourself. You will be angry.
[2:04:12] Speaker 3: You will be offended till you become broken. Then you
[2:04:15] Speaker 3: get to a point where you say, you know what?
[2:04:17] Speaker 3: Nobody owes me anything. Lord, I give up. You have
[2:04:20] Speaker 3: passed the exams. Until that crushing happens, I am telling you,
[2:04:27] Speaker 3: that season will not stop.
[2:04:28] Speaker 5: You will keep repeating that exams, even if it is
[2:04:31] Speaker 5: for 30 years.
[2:04:33] Speaker 3: If glory must be birthed in you, this season of
[2:04:37] Speaker 3: proving must have its full work in your life. Crushing.
[2:04:45] Speaker 5: As a man of God, one day you arrogantly go
[2:04:47] Speaker 5: for a meeting, full of yourself. The power of God
[2:04:51] Speaker 5: is going to move here. And everybody is watching you
[2:04:53] Speaker 5: like a cinema.
[2:04:56] Speaker 3: Don't worry. It's because you put enough fast and pray.
[2:04:58] Speaker 3: Let's charge the atmosphere. You will charge and charge. Play guitar.
[2:05:03] Speaker 5: Play drums. Call the worshipers. Be angry.
[2:05:06] Speaker 3: You will almost forget every scripture you have. And at
[2:05:09] Speaker 3: the end of it, they will be waving papers for you.
[2:05:11] Speaker 3: Two more minutes.
[2:05:12] Speaker 5: Everybody is tired of you. and you come down, someone says, ah,
[2:05:17] Speaker 5: but I thought they said you were anointed.
[2:05:18] Speaker 3: Anyway, we are blessed.
[2:05:19] Speaker 5: God bless you. God will allow that statement for a reason.
[2:05:22] Speaker 3: You will go back to the secret place, and God
[2:05:25] Speaker 3: will show you that our sufficiency is not of ourselves.
[2:05:29] Speaker 3: From that time, you will learn an eternal lesson. No
[2:05:32] Speaker 3: matter how anointed you become in the future, you will
[2:05:35] Speaker 3: not be ashamed of telling people my sufficiency. You can
[2:05:41] Speaker 3: use what I'm teaching you to literally know what season
[2:05:44] Speaker 3: people are in. When you see people bragging and saying
[2:05:48] Speaker 3: a lot of things, insulting around, be patient. Don't condemn them.
[2:05:52] Speaker 3: They are only telling you that there are some seasons
[2:05:54] Speaker 3: they have not entered. I'm telling you when some seasons
[2:05:58] Speaker 3: come upon you, you.
[2:06:01] Speaker 5: Just keep quiet.
[2:06:02] Speaker 3: If somebody comes to gossip at the end of it,
[2:06:04] Speaker 3: you say, let's hold hands and pray for the person
[2:06:06] Speaker 3: because you have been in that valley of the shadow
[2:06:08] Speaker 3: of death.
[2:06:10] Speaker 5: Is someone learning?
[2:06:12] Speaker 3: Number three.
[2:06:13] Speaker 5: Let me give you the third season. Okay, three things
[2:06:16] Speaker 5: I said it achieves.
[2:06:17] Speaker 3: Let me read for you quickly. Number one. There is
[2:06:20] Speaker 3: a revelation of the insufficiency of your strength.
[2:06:23] Speaker 5: Did you write that down?
[2:06:25] Speaker 3: So there is an exchange. Your weakness for his strength.
[2:06:29] Speaker 3: Your weakness for his strength. Number two. The second thing
[2:06:34] Speaker 3: that the season of proving puts in you is compassion.
[2:06:38] Speaker 3: Compassion for others. It's impossible to really be a person
[2:06:44] Speaker 3: of compassion like the Bible.
[2:06:47] Speaker 5: Demands without going through certain seasons. It's not true.
[2:06:50] Speaker 3: The Bible says to comfort others with the same comforts
[2:06:54] Speaker 3: that we have received. Hallelujah.
[2:06:58] Speaker 5: Praise the name of the Lord. There are times that.
[2:07:00] Speaker 3: Tragedy, disaster will strike over your life.
[2:07:04] Speaker 5: And by the time it comes and you enjoy comfort
[2:07:06] Speaker 5: from others, help from God, you will be quick.
[2:07:09] Speaker 3: You know, growing up as a little boy, I used
[2:07:12] Speaker 3: to wonder why parents and, you know, some of our
[2:07:16] Speaker 3: elderly people, especially those from 60, 70, 80, every burial,
[2:07:21] Speaker 3: they are there. Every Thanksgiving, they are there. And sometimes,
[2:07:24] Speaker 3: you know, as children, you keep asking, must they be there?
[2:07:28] Speaker 3: Do you know everybody that dies? Today you say this
[2:07:31] Speaker 3: one died.
[2:07:32] Speaker 5: I used to know him.
[2:07:32] Speaker 3: He was a principal in 1971. Now, after many years,
[2:07:37] Speaker 3: I now see the wisdom. There is a way you
[2:07:40] Speaker 3: go through pain. You will be quick to stand and
[2:07:42] Speaker 3: help others. Are we together now? There are many, many
[2:07:46] Speaker 3: people I can tell you who have not entered this
[2:07:48] Speaker 3: season yet. And God has very many ways of routing
[2:07:54] Speaker 3: disease into your life.
[2:07:56] Speaker 5: He does not have to use things like death and sickness.
[2:07:59] Speaker 3: But he has a way.
[2:08:00] Speaker 8: Way.
[2:08:00] Speaker 3: I can tell you, your strength will eventually fail you.
[2:08:05] Speaker 5: And you will know it's not a demonic thing.
[2:08:07] Speaker 3: It's not Satan who is behind it. God is giving
[2:08:09] Speaker 3: you a chance to see how frail you are outside
[2:08:12] Speaker 3: of his help. Number two, compassion. Compassion. Compassion. Number three, trust.
[2:08:22] Speaker 5: Trust. Trust.
[2:08:25] Speaker 3: Not just faith, trust. These are the three things that
[2:08:28] Speaker 3: this season's built. Let me repeat it again. It reveals
[2:08:31] Speaker 3: to you how frail, how limited you are, your strength
[2:08:35] Speaker 3: is outside of God's help and mercy. And then in
[2:08:39] Speaker 3: acknowledging your weakness, your weakness is exchanged for his strength.
[2:08:43] Speaker 3: Number two, it plants within you compassion for others. And
[2:08:47] Speaker 3: then number three, it builds trust. You can even add
[2:08:51] Speaker 3: trust and confidence. Because a time is going to come
[2:08:55] Speaker 3: where you will not fear your fears again.
[2:08:57] Speaker 5: Do you know, I've taught you.
[2:08:58] Speaker 3: In this house, that one of the ways God delivers
[2:09:01] Speaker 3: you from fear sometimes is not taking the fear away.
[2:09:04] Speaker 3: It's bringing you in the midst of the fear. You
[2:09:06] Speaker 3: will stare at the fear for a long time. Financial fear,
[2:09:10] Speaker 3: court case, all kinds of trouble. And you sleep and
[2:09:14] Speaker 3: wake up in the midst of that fear until it
[2:09:16] Speaker 3: no longer has the power to haunt you. Have you
[2:09:18] Speaker 3: seen that happen to people? You ran away from your landlord.
[2:09:22] Speaker 3: You were returning home in the night and living in
[2:09:24] Speaker 3: the morning. One day you say, you know what? I
[2:09:26] Speaker 3: will take myself to the landlord. You knock his house
[2:09:28] Speaker 3: and say, sir, let me tell you the truth. I
[2:09:30] Speaker 3: can't pay this rent.
[2:09:31] Speaker 5: I'm not a criminal. My father is dead. My mother
[2:09:33] Speaker 5: is dead. I'm a koinonia member.
[2:09:35] Speaker 3: The person looks at you and says, God already told
[2:09:37] Speaker 3: me to help you. At that point, there are some
[2:09:40] Speaker 3: fears you will not fear again. Can I tell you
[2:09:43] Speaker 3: the truth? Many times, the way to build courage in
[2:09:46] Speaker 3: believers is not to take them away from the challenges.
[2:09:49] Speaker 5: It's to keep the challenges in.
[2:09:50] Speaker 3: The midst of them. The three Hebrew boys came out
[2:09:53] Speaker 3: of the fire, but they had an experience they never
[2:09:56] Speaker 3: would have had if they were avoided from going into
[2:09:59] Speaker 3: the fire. It is true that the lions did not
[2:10:01] Speaker 3: eat Daniel, but at least he was in proximity with them.
[2:10:04] Speaker 5: All through the night.
[2:10:07] Speaker 3: No matter how friendly a lion is, if you look
[2:10:10] Speaker 3: at it and it looks at you in a covered
[2:10:12] Speaker 3: hole all through the night, something will happen to you
[2:10:15] Speaker 3: about trusting God that will never leave you for the
[2:10:18] Speaker 3: rest of your life. Did you hear what I said?
[2:10:20] Speaker 3: The lion does not have to haunt you. The fact
[2:10:23] Speaker 3: that you know there is no plan B. The moment
[2:10:33] Speaker 3: there is plan B, your trust cannot be trusted. So
[2:10:38] Speaker 3: God brings you to a point where plan B, C, E,
[2:10:41] Speaker 3: F all fail. And you are face to face with
[2:10:44] Speaker 3: what can destroy you. Then he will show you mercy.
[2:10:49] Speaker 3: It's the reason why sometimes you come to preachers, you
[2:10:51] Speaker 3: are lamenting. Ah, I lost this. I lost one billion.
[2:10:54] Speaker 3: My life has gone down. My car, this one and that.
[2:10:57] Speaker 3: My wife says she's leaving me. The man will say,
[2:10:58] Speaker 3: have you eaten?
[2:11:00] Speaker 5: I'm telling you something serious.
[2:11:01] Speaker 3: The man will say, sit down. Let me tell you
[2:11:03] Speaker 3: my own story. And when he's done telling you his
[2:11:07] Speaker 3: own story, you will see how small your story is.
[2:11:09] Speaker 3: He now says, let's pray. And you can trust God.
[2:11:13] Speaker 3: One of the beautiful things about these seasons is that
[2:11:15] Speaker 3: they will give you enough stories to comfort people with.
[2:11:20] Speaker 3: You have not come out of the seasons if you
[2:11:21] Speaker 3: don't come out with stories. I'm not talking of make-believe stories.
[2:11:25] Speaker 3: Real stories. Time will fail me to talk of Gideon
[2:11:29] Speaker 3: and Japheth and Barak, men who through faith subdued kingdoms,
[2:11:33] Speaker 3: shot the mouths of lions. There must be a testimony
[2:11:37] Speaker 3: of endurance, a testimony of.
[2:11:40] Speaker 5: Trusting God in the midst of the fire. Don't forget
[2:11:43] Speaker 5: these three things.
[2:11:45] Speaker 3: The frailty of your strength outside of the help of God.
[2:11:49] Speaker 3: One of the benefits of this season of pruning, this
[2:11:52] Speaker 3: season of testing, this season of proving. Number two, compassion.
[2:11:57] Speaker 3: Because you are left there alone. It's usually a lonely season.
[2:12:01] Speaker 3: And you see all those you have talked about. Those
[2:12:04] Speaker 3: you have criticized. Those you have done a lot of things.
[2:12:07] Speaker 3: And you see that they even had more stamina than you.
[2:12:10] Speaker 3: It plants compassion in you. And then number three, it
[2:12:13] Speaker 3: helps you to trust God. Let me give you the
[2:12:15] Speaker 3: third key. Who is learning something tonight? Blessed be the
[2:12:19] Speaker 3: name of the Lord. The third is called the season
[2:12:22] Speaker 3: of appearance. Or the season of manifestation. We read that already.
[2:12:27] Speaker 3: In Luke chapter 1 from verse 18. When you read
[2:12:30] Speaker 3: John 2. John 2, 3 and 4. Popular scripture. The
[2:12:34] Speaker 3: wedding in Cana of Galilee. The Bible says, and when
[2:12:38] Speaker 3: they wanted wine. Remember the story? The mother of Jesus
[2:12:42] Speaker 3: said unto them, they have no wine. Verse 4. And
[2:12:45] Speaker 3: Jesus said unto her, woman, what have I to do
[2:12:48] Speaker 3: with thee? Jesus himself knew that he was timing. He said,
[2:12:53] Speaker 3: my time. My hour. in other words my hour for
[2:12:57] Speaker 3: manifestation has not yet come even though he was moving
[2:13:02] Speaker 3: around invited for a wedding but he knew his time
[2:13:05] Speaker 3: had not come but because the bible says we do
[2:13:09] Speaker 3: not have a high priest who has not been tempted
[2:13:12] Speaker 3: he was tempted in every way like us yet without
[2:13:15] Speaker 3: sin there's compassion The embarrassment that the people were going
[2:13:20] Speaker 3: to face in that wedding, he knew that even though
[2:13:23] Speaker 3: it was not his time, because he had compassion, he
[2:13:26] Speaker 3: still spoke a miracle for them. Season of manifestation. Now listen,
[2:13:35] Speaker 3: this is when God begins to announce you. And I
[2:13:40] Speaker 3: don't have the time to tell you how God announces men.
[2:13:43] Speaker 3: But there are two principal ways. Number one, God uses
[2:13:47] Speaker 3: men to announce men. But number two, God uses a
[2:13:51] Speaker 3: supernatural means, sometimes without the assistance of any man, to
[2:13:57] Speaker 3: announce men.
[2:13:59] Speaker 5: God can use men. That is his usual way.
[2:14:02] Speaker 3: Of announcing you.
[2:14:03] Speaker 5: A platform, an opportunity. Are we together now? To announce you.
[2:14:10] Speaker 5: How do you know you are in your season?
[2:14:12] Speaker 3: Manifestation the same thing you did yesterday that did not
[2:14:16] Speaker 3: create an effect now begins to create such notable effect
[2:14:21] Speaker 3: sometimes you are even flattered the same business you didn't
[2:14:24] Speaker 3: change it the same preaching you didn't change it same
[2:14:27] Speaker 3: anointing when the same thing produces accelerated results you have
[2:14:32] Speaker 3: entered your season of manifestation There are many things that
[2:14:41] Speaker 3: I know now more than I knew before. And there
[2:14:44] Speaker 3: are many areas where I've accessed knowledge. But I can
[2:14:47] Speaker 3: tell you quite honestly, fundamentally, there are not very many
[2:14:52] Speaker 3: things I'm doing now that I was not doing before.
[2:14:55] Speaker 3: But it was simply because of seasons. Are we together now?
[2:15:00] Speaker 3: The same farmer can throw seeds during dry season and it.
[2:15:05] Speaker 5: Does not produce so much.
[2:15:07] Speaker 3: But during the rainy season, he has an advantage. The weather,
[2:15:10] Speaker 3: the climate, everything is supporting you. And with little minimal effort,
[2:15:15] Speaker 3: he'll produce much. For someone, I'm announcing to you by prophecy,
[2:15:19] Speaker 3: not too long from now, like the page of a book,
[2:15:23] Speaker 3: there's going to be a flipping.
[2:15:24] Speaker 5: Of a season. Hallelujah.
[2:15:29] Speaker 3: Whether it's in ministry or business, there are people in
[2:15:33] Speaker 3: business who 10 years ago they were not known. There
[2:15:36] Speaker 3: are people in ministry 10 years ago they were not known.
[2:15:38] Speaker 3: Do you know there are people as little as 5
[2:15:41] Speaker 3: years ago they did not know me.
[2:15:43] Speaker 5: Isn't that incredible? As little as.
[2:15:46] Speaker 3: 5 years, 6 years ago they didn't even know there
[2:15:49] Speaker 3: was anybody called Joshua Selman. There is speed when you
[2:15:53] Speaker 3: enter your season of appearing. Everything announces you. Everything, animate
[2:15:59] Speaker 3: and inanimate. It's like something is saying, hear ye him.
[2:16:02] Speaker 3: Something is saying, hear ye him, hear ye her. And
[2:16:05] Speaker 3: I'm speaking to someone. In the name of Jesus, I
[2:16:08] Speaker 3: stand tonight as a prophetic midwife to usher you into
[2:16:12] Speaker 3: this season of appearing. To usher you into this season
[2:16:15] Speaker 3: of manifestation. In the name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah.
[2:16:22] Speaker 8: Hallelujah.
[2:16:23] Speaker 3: I can tell you times when God began to open
[2:16:27] Speaker 3: these seasons in my own life. I don't have time
[2:16:29] Speaker 3: for that. But it's true.
[2:16:32] Speaker 5: There are some of you doing businesses now. Do you know?
[2:16:36] Speaker 3: There are certain businesses that have been longer than people knew.
[2:16:40] Speaker 3: But they were in a season of testing. The businesses
[2:16:42] Speaker 3: were in Abuja here. They were in Nigeria here. They tried.
[2:16:46] Speaker 5: They remodeled, remodeled. Nothing happened.
[2:16:49] Speaker 3: But in a certain season, sometimes within one month, are
[2:16:53] Speaker 3: there no gospel singers in this country? They've always been there.
[2:16:57] Speaker 3: But a season comes. You hear people even say it's
[2:16:59] Speaker 3: your time.
[2:17:00] Speaker 5: And they are right.
[2:17:01] Speaker 3: It's your time. It's your time. Your time. I'm telling
[2:17:13] Speaker 3: you when it is your season, little things can announce you.
[2:17:16] Speaker 1: Little.
[2:17:17] Speaker 3: Little. God can invite you as a man of God
[2:17:20] Speaker 3: to go and preach somewhere. And just make all your
[2:17:22] Speaker 3: destiny help us to follow that program.
[2:17:25] Speaker 5: And everybody says, who is this? From where?
[2:17:28] Speaker 3: Without any effort on your part. I need to tell
[2:17:31] Speaker 3: you something about this season before we pray tonight. Because
[2:17:34] Speaker 3: it is a very sensitive season. If you don't know
[2:17:37] Speaker 3: how to manage it, you can lose the blessings that
[2:17:40] Speaker 3: come with the season.
[2:17:42] Speaker 5: This season can flatter you.
[2:17:44] Speaker 3: You'll get to a point where because you are coming
[2:17:47] Speaker 3: into the consciousness of people, you become... sometimes for want
[2:17:51] Speaker 3: of word a celebrity overnight now you have to glean
[2:17:55] Speaker 3: from your trainings of your season of pruning to be
[2:17:59] Speaker 3: able to navigate this season well otherwise you will make
[2:18:02] Speaker 3: careless mistakes and the season will end up becoming a
[2:18:05] Speaker 3: course for you It is in this season people forget God.
[2:18:13] Speaker 3: It is in this season people forget their scars.
[2:18:16] Speaker 5: It is in this season.
[2:18:17] Speaker 3: That's why he.
[2:18:18] Speaker 5: Warned them in Deuteronomy chapter 8.
[2:18:20] Speaker 3: He says let it not be that when you have
[2:18:22] Speaker 3: built houses. When everything has multiplied. The season of appearing
[2:18:26] Speaker 3: is the season of multiplication.
[2:18:29] Speaker 5: Ten jobs. Ten jobs.
[2:18:31] Speaker 3: You are not necessarily praying about jobs. But jobs are
[2:18:34] Speaker 3: coming everywhere. All of a sudden you become a tech brand.
[2:18:38] Speaker 3: That everyone wants to patronize. And you are wondering. You
[2:18:42] Speaker 3: will struggle for visa for years and not get it.
[2:18:45] Speaker 3: But in that season, it's like you are meeting every helper.
[2:18:48] Speaker 3: They can stamp visas of everywhere. Life just becomes easy.
[2:18:53] Speaker 5: Can I tell you?
[2:18:54] Speaker 3: If you don't learn the dynamics of working in this season,
[2:18:58] Speaker 3: great things can become a cost in your life in
[2:19:00] Speaker 3: that season. Let me give you four things to do
[2:19:03] Speaker 3: when you are in this season quickly. I pray that
[2:19:05] Speaker 3: God is speaking to you. Number one. When you step
[2:19:10] Speaker 3: into your season of manifestation, your season of appearance, number one,
[2:19:16] Speaker 3: the first thing you need to do is perpetually acknowledge
[2:19:21] Speaker 3: God in the presence of all who celebrate you. Perpetually
[2:19:26] Speaker 3: acknowledge God in the presence of all who celebrate you.
[2:19:30] Speaker 3: Proverbs chapter 3, 5 to 7. Perpetually acknowledge God. Please
[2:19:35] Speaker 3: don't forget this. Write it down. Perpetually acknowledge God in
[2:19:40] Speaker 3: the presence of those who celebrate you.
[2:19:44] Speaker 5: If you become ashamed of the one who lifted you.
[2:19:48] Speaker 3: In the presence of those who celebrate you. Then those
[2:19:51] Speaker 3: who celebrate you one day will say crucify him. When
[2:19:56] Speaker 3: God lifts you. And you step into your season of appearing.
[2:19:59] Speaker 3: Whether in ministry. They will call you all kinds of names.
[2:20:03] Speaker 3: Apostle Joshua Selman. You are the only apostle in the world.
[2:20:07] Speaker 3: And all those kinds of names. It is up to
[2:20:10] Speaker 3: you to perpetually acknowledge God. It's a culture I have
[2:20:16] Speaker 3: trained myself. I learned this from the life of our
[2:20:18] Speaker 3: father in the Lord that did you. In his 80s,
[2:20:22] Speaker 3: even sometimes if it's on background, he has created a system.
[2:20:26] Speaker 3: You may not have to kneel like him, but it's
[2:20:28] Speaker 3: his way of letting the world know that even at
[2:20:31] Speaker 3: 80 something, I am nothing without him. Beware of the
[2:20:37] Speaker 3: deception of being a celebrity. Go and find out the
[2:20:41] Speaker 3: end of many celebrities. There are no.
[2:20:44] Speaker 5: Self-made people in this kingdom. Greatness is a trust.
[2:20:48] Speaker 3: And when God brings you to the point where you emerge,
[2:20:51] Speaker 3: where you are budding like a tree, you become a
[2:20:54] Speaker 3: giant oak tree.
[2:20:56] Speaker 5: Many other birds and animals come.
[2:20:58] Speaker 3: To nest around you. You must acknowledge God. He's made
[2:21:02] Speaker 3: you a multimillionaire now. He's made you a billionaire now.
[2:21:06] Speaker 5: The palace has eroded your pain of the wilderness. Make
[2:21:10] Speaker 5: sure you do not forget him.
[2:21:14] Speaker 3: If there is anything I fight in my life, it's
[2:21:17] Speaker 3: any opportunity that puts me in a place where I
[2:21:21] Speaker 3: forget God. I've told God time and time again, and
[2:21:25] Speaker 3: I'm saying it now even as I'm preaching, that if
[2:21:27] Speaker 3: there is any opportunity he will give me that will
[2:21:30] Speaker 3: make me have to fight his place in my life,
[2:21:33] Speaker 3: may it never come. I'd rather be a failure letting
[2:21:37] Speaker 3: men see him than to claim success by my own strength.
[2:21:40] Speaker 3: That's why when people brag and say they are getting
[2:21:43] Speaker 3: this because of this, I keep quiet.
[2:21:44] Speaker 5: I know how my own came. I'm a product of
[2:21:47] Speaker 5: God's mercy.
[2:21:48] Speaker 3: Mercy. Church is quiet. I hope you are getting this now.
[2:21:55] Speaker 3: Perpetually acknowledge God. Number two, what do you do when
[2:21:59] Speaker 3: you get into your season of appearing?
[2:22:03] Speaker 5: Build a system.
[2:22:08] Speaker 3: That protects your convictions and a system that protects the
[2:22:16] Speaker 3: spiritual activities that maintain your fire. Build a system that
[2:22:22] Speaker 3: protects your convictions... And a system that protects... Your spiritual activities...
[2:22:32] Speaker 3: Like prayer..
[2:22:34] Speaker 5: In other words... You protect the continuity... Of your.
[2:22:39] Speaker 3: Practicing the things that brought you to that realm... Build
[2:22:42] Speaker 3: a system... That protects your convictions... And a system for
[2:22:50] Speaker 3: your continuous. I read it as I'm writing here. For
[2:22:53] Speaker 3: your continuous spiritual and mental growth. That means when you
[2:22:59] Speaker 3: get into the season of appearing. Chances are excellent you
[2:23:03] Speaker 3: can be distracted. But you must build a system. That
[2:23:07] Speaker 3: protects your convictions. Build a system that can allow you
[2:23:11] Speaker 3: to continue the spiritual and mental activities that brought you
[2:23:16] Speaker 3: to become a champion. In other words, build a system
[2:23:20] Speaker 3: that protects your prayer life. Build a system that protects
[2:23:24] Speaker 3: your values. Build a system that protects your word study life.
[2:23:29] Speaker 3: We find that in Acts chapter 6 from verse 4.
[2:23:32] Speaker 3: When the church started growing... The church was expanding. They
[2:23:36] Speaker 3: now wanted the apostles to leave the matter of ministry,
[2:23:40] Speaker 3: prayer and the word and start focusing on welfare. And
[2:23:43] Speaker 3: the apostles said, no, this is a distraction. Get seven
[2:23:46] Speaker 3: men full of wisdom and the Holy Ghost. Appoint them
[2:23:49] Speaker 3: over this business. Verse 4. But for us, we will
[2:23:53] Speaker 3: give ourselves continually. Someone say continually.
[2:23:56] Speaker 5: One more time, say continually.
[2:23:58] Speaker 3: Continually. not circumstantially, continually, to prayer and to the ministry
[2:24:05] Speaker 3: of the word. Can I tell you, whatever brought you
[2:24:08] Speaker 3: to the top, do not leave it. Do not leave it.
[2:24:13] Speaker 3: If loyalty brought you to the top, hold it. If
[2:24:16] Speaker 3: godliness brought you to the top, hold it. If prayer
[2:24:20] Speaker 3: brought you to the top, hold it. If wisdom brought
[2:24:23] Speaker 3: you to the top, hold it. Because you get to
[2:24:26] Speaker 3: a point where The anchor you are holding on. As
[2:24:30] Speaker 3: men clap for you, looking at you with such God-like admiration.
[2:24:34] Speaker 3: Sometimes you forget that you are holding on to something.
[2:24:37] Speaker 3: That's why you are there. You can leave whatever you
[2:24:39] Speaker 3: are holding on to. Focusing on the uploads of men.
[2:24:42] Speaker 3: And the fall will be harder because you are falling
[2:24:45] Speaker 3: from an altitude. It's good to receive honor from men.
[2:24:50] Speaker 3: Nothing wrong. I've received many, many awards in my life.
[2:24:56] Speaker 3: And sometimes I take them quickly away from me. As
[2:24:59] Speaker 3: much as I appreciate those awards, they can be very deceptive.
[2:25:04] Speaker 3: While they are thanking you for where you have come,
[2:25:07] Speaker 3: sometimes they become a blockade to where you need to
[2:25:10] Speaker 3: go to. Number one, perpetually acknowledge God. Number two, build
[2:25:15] Speaker 3: systems that protect your convictions. And systems for your continuous
[2:25:25] Speaker 3: spiritual and mental growth.
[2:25:29] Speaker 5: Number three.
[2:25:30] Speaker 3: Build quality pro-destiny relationships. Leverage on that influence. Leverage on
[2:25:38] Speaker 3: the advantage of your being renowned. To build quality relationships.
[2:25:45] Speaker 3: Quality relationships. Quality relationships. Now I'll tell you something about relationships.
[2:25:52] Speaker 3: As much as possible, don't throw away those who believed
[2:25:56] Speaker 3: in you when you were nothing.
[2:25:59] Speaker 5: Did you hear what I said?
[2:26:01] Speaker 3: When you step into your season of appearance, trust reduces.
[2:26:06] Speaker 3: Because those who watch you are watching your crowns. There
[2:26:09] Speaker 3: are clothes on you now. They can't see your scars.
[2:26:12] Speaker 3: But there are people who know your scars. Sometimes the
[2:26:15] Speaker 3: flat tree of seasons of appearing is that because you
[2:26:18] Speaker 3: are in a hurry to change relationships. You can have
[2:26:22] Speaker 3: relationships that have a physical advantage but is full of
[2:26:25] Speaker 3: betrayers and liars and psychophants. There are so many great
[2:26:31] Speaker 3: people today who have been pierced and wounded because they
[2:26:34] Speaker 3: are surrounded by liars and psychophants. Who will not say
[2:26:37] Speaker 3: yes to a rich man when they see money? Who
[2:26:40] Speaker 3: will not say yes to an anointed man when they
[2:26:42] Speaker 3: see anointing? Who will not say yes to someone who
[2:26:45] Speaker 3: is a captain having influence over people? You must be aware.
[2:26:51] Speaker 3: In the midst of the many yeses, in the midst
[2:26:54] Speaker 3: of people shouting king of kings, celebrity, you must sustain
[2:26:58] Speaker 3: the eye of the spirit.
[2:26:59] Speaker 5: To discern. Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord. Build
[2:27:06] Speaker 5: quality relationships.
[2:27:09] Speaker 3: Is someone learning? Now let me give you the last instruction.
[2:27:13] Speaker 3: When you get into your season of appearing. Raise men.
[2:27:17] Speaker 3: Who will preserve and extend your relevance. Raise men. who
[2:27:22] Speaker 3: will preserve and extend your relevance. If you fail at
[2:27:28] Speaker 3: this one, you will not last. Raised men, don't get
[2:27:32] Speaker 3: carried away by the honor, the accolades, or the good
[2:27:37] Speaker 3: doings of God in your life that you forget.
[2:27:40] Speaker 5: To raise men because.
[2:27:41] Speaker 3: No matter how exceptional you are.
[2:27:44] Speaker 5: On stage life is in seasons.
[2:27:48] Speaker 3: One day you will not be the one on that
[2:27:49] Speaker 3: stage whether you like it or not You may not
[2:27:53] Speaker 3: have to be the one on the stage, but you
[2:27:56] Speaker 3: can remain relevant because the one on the stage, you
[2:27:59] Speaker 3: have a testimony of raising them.
[2:28:02] Speaker 5: Are we together now? Let me tell you this.
[2:28:05] Speaker 3: One of the most tragic things in life is to
[2:28:08] Speaker 3: once be great, once be a celebrity, once be an
[2:28:13] Speaker 3: anointed man, that in your lifetime, you lose kingdom relevance.
[2:28:18] Speaker 3: The reason is because you were so carried away by
[2:28:21] Speaker 3: your success. You forgot to raise men. And this is
[2:28:25] Speaker 3: true for a man of God. I don't care how
[2:28:28] Speaker 3: great you are. Show me the people you are raising.
[2:28:31] Speaker 3: If you raise them and they decide to be rebellious,
[2:28:34] Speaker 3: that's their lot. But raise men. politicians, raise men. Now
[2:28:40] Speaker 3: that you are in office, raise men. Don't just watch
[2:28:43] Speaker 3: people tell you, yes sir, raise men. Captains of industry,
[2:28:47] Speaker 3: raise men. Today you are a director, you are a CEO,
[2:28:50] Speaker 3: raise men. Let somebody get a job because of you.
[2:28:54] Speaker 3: Not from a selfish way so that tomorrow they take
[2:28:57] Speaker 3: care of you, but I can tell you, you will
[2:28:58] Speaker 3: reap what you sow. Show men kindness, raise men. I
[2:29:06] Speaker 3: have the honor and privilege of supporting different groups, church
[2:29:10] Speaker 3: groups and other groups, and I do that with joy.
[2:29:12] Speaker 3: I don't do that just because I'm investing in them
[2:29:16] Speaker 3: for selfish reasons, but I can tell you by the
[2:29:18] Speaker 3: grace of God, those things invariably will speak in your future.
[2:29:25] Speaker 3: Raise men. I've seen many great people who pass others
[2:29:29] Speaker 3: and people just greet them, yes sir, and as soon
[2:29:32] Speaker 3: as they turn, they frown, Their faces. And say this
[2:29:34] Speaker 3: person his hand is like this. This person is this.
[2:29:37] Speaker 3: Let that not be your testimony. Raise men. You are
[2:29:40] Speaker 3: not called to raise everybody. But raise somebody. Make somebody's
[2:29:44] Speaker 3: life better. Become a leverage to someone. And tomorrow. When
[2:29:51] Speaker 3: life pushes you out of the stage. Someone who is
[2:29:56] Speaker 3: on the stage will bring you back to the stage
[2:29:58] Speaker 3: and announce to people and say, even though his season
[2:30:01] Speaker 3: is over, are we together? Because this person invested in
[2:30:05] Speaker 3: my life. I want you to know, there are fathers today,
[2:30:08] Speaker 3: the only thing that will fade them away is death.
[2:30:12] Speaker 3: In fact, not even death can fade them away because
[2:30:15] Speaker 3: they have their signature in righteousness in the life and
[2:30:19] Speaker 3: the history of too many people. There are politicians who
[2:30:24] Speaker 3: have immortalized their impact already. Even if they die today,
[2:30:29] Speaker 3: they are still alive in people. There are some persons
[2:30:32] Speaker 3: that are not really of renown, but they have raised people.
[2:30:35] Speaker 3: Someone like Dr. Miles Monroe, he's long dead, but some
[2:30:39] Speaker 3: of us today who are beneficiaries of his mentorship, we
[2:30:42] Speaker 3: are still immortalizing his impact. We shout his impact to
[2:30:46] Speaker 3: the nations that he modeled many things to our lives.
[2:30:50] Speaker 3: The question is who will remember you When seasons change.
[2:30:56] Speaker 3: Who will remember you? Joshua Selman. People are celebrating you now.
[2:31:00] Speaker 3: Who will remember you? Whether you like it or not.
[2:31:04] Speaker 3: Seasons will change. If you are not raising men today.
[2:31:08] Speaker 3: You are not investing in anybody's destiny. I'm not talking
[2:31:12] Speaker 3: of yoking people with a selfish proposition. So you can
[2:31:16] Speaker 3: use them in the future. Genuinely loving people and raising them.
[2:31:20] Speaker 3: This is how to maximize the season of appearing. Ladies
[2:31:23] Speaker 3: and gentlemen, there is an emergence happening in the body
[2:31:26] Speaker 3: of Christ right now. And among the many seasons that
[2:31:29] Speaker 3: are upon men, these three seasons are important. The seasons
[2:31:33] Speaker 3: of discovery and preparation. The seasons of proving and testing.
[2:31:41] Speaker 3: Then the seasons of manifestation or your appearing. My prayer
[2:31:46] Speaker 3: for you tonight is, Is that at whatever level you are.
[2:31:51] Speaker 3: In any of these seasons. May you pass the test.
[2:31:55] Speaker 3: And may you last. I refer you to my message.
[2:32:01] Speaker 3: Obtaining the grace to last. You need to obtain the
[2:32:04] Speaker 3: grace to last. I also refer you to my message.
[2:32:07] Speaker 3: The strategy for consistency. Listen to these two messages. God
[2:32:12] Speaker 3: is a God that gives longevity to impact. If you
[2:32:15] Speaker 3: want to add a third one, you can add the
[2:32:17] Speaker 3: law of seasons. Unraveling the mystery of Pharaoh's dream. Seven
[2:32:22] Speaker 3: years of plenty followed by seven years of nothing. In
[2:32:27] Speaker 3: my life, and as much as God has helped me,
[2:32:30] Speaker 3: I don't want to just be known as a man
[2:32:32] Speaker 3: who was so anointed and who had great influence over people.
[2:32:36] Speaker 3: I also want to be known as a man who
[2:32:38] Speaker 3: loved God with all my heart and inspired.
[2:32:41] Speaker 5: A generation to seek him sincerely.
[2:32:44] Speaker 3: And while I was at that, that I was able
[2:32:46] Speaker 3: to raise as many, to give them an opportunity to taste,
[2:32:50] Speaker 3: to become vessels of glory, is the reason why I
[2:32:53] Speaker 3: spend my life day in, day out, week out, stretching myself,
[2:32:58] Speaker 3: doing the things that I'm doing. I don't have to
[2:33:00] Speaker 3: do what I'm doing. It is a passion that God
[2:33:03] Speaker 3: has given me this unique privilege. He's placed me in
[2:33:07] Speaker 3: a unique position of influence. I'm not the first to
[2:33:10] Speaker 3: stand where I'm standing. There are others who stood here.
[2:33:13] Speaker 3: They've gone to be with the Lord. They gave way.
[2:33:16] Speaker 3: Now it's our season. And this is part of us
[2:33:19] Speaker 3: maximizing this season. And Koinonia, hear me. It is my
[2:33:23] Speaker 3: prayer that in my lifetime, I will see everyone emerge.
[2:33:29] Speaker 3: That many more apostles will rise. Many more prophets will rise.
[2:33:33] Speaker 3: Many more kingdom entrepreneurs will rise. That governors and presidents
[2:33:38] Speaker 3: under this influence, this grace, this mentorship, they will arise.
[2:33:42] Speaker 3: Not just in Nigeria, but across Africa. That a day
[2:33:45] Speaker 3: will come when we enter a nation. The president will say,
[2:33:49] Speaker 3: I'm a faithful member of Koinonia. And I'm leading my
[2:33:52] Speaker 3: nation from the value system that has come from here.
[2:33:55] Speaker 3: That you get to the crusade ground. And the man
[2:33:57] Speaker 3: of God, frontiering the program of God within that nation.
[2:34:00] Speaker 3: Will say, Apostle, the reason why I'm lasting today is
[2:34:04] Speaker 3: because I listened to your message on emergence.
[2:34:07] Speaker 5: And I learned how seasons birth the glory of God.
[2:34:10] Speaker 3: It is my prayer for you that this message will
[2:34:13] Speaker 3: not be a disadvantage to you. Rise up on your feet,
[2:34:16] Speaker 3: hold the hands of someone and let's pray. Rise up
[2:34:21] Speaker 3: on your feet. Hold someone's hands in one minute. Please pray. Father,
[2:34:28] Speaker 3: thank you for your word tonight. You're holding someone's hand
[2:34:37] Speaker 3: and thanking him. Blessed are your ears for these that
[2:34:40] Speaker 3: they have heard. You've been rescued from making life, destroying,
[2:34:47] Speaker 3: damaging decisions.
[2:34:50] Speaker 5: This is the power of God's word. Comes to give
[2:34:52] Speaker 5: you intelligence.
[2:34:54] Speaker 3: One minute.
[2:34:54] Speaker 5: Please go ahead and pray.
[2:34:57] Speaker 3: One minute. Sing that song Hosanna for me. Then we
[2:35:04] Speaker 3: are going to pray. Father thank you. Now begin to
[2:35:06] Speaker 3: intercede for yourself. Be the first intercessor for your destiny tonight.
[2:35:11] Speaker 3: Lord I do not want to lose these strategic seasons
[2:35:14] Speaker 3: of my life. These are the seasons that sponsor imagines.
[2:35:19] Speaker 3: Go ahead and pray.
[2:35:24] Speaker 7: Sing it one more time.
[2:35:30] Speaker 3: Let it be from your heart.
[2:35:45] Speaker 7: Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.
[2:35:54] Speaker 6: Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.
[2:36:14] Speaker 3: I'd like you to pray every one of these seasons. Lord,
[2:36:17] Speaker 3: let me not fail the test. If you have missed
[2:36:21] Speaker 3: out on your season of preparation and discovery, I'd like
[2:36:25] Speaker 3: you to cry and say, Lord, by your mercy, bring
[2:36:27] Speaker 3: back these seasons for me.
[2:36:29] Speaker 5: I can catch up by your spirit.
[2:36:32] Speaker 3: Even if it is one year, give me that probation
[2:36:35] Speaker 3: for one year. Let me catch up by your spirit.
[2:36:38] Speaker 3: Let me learn the things that makes for stature. Let
[2:36:42] Speaker 3: me learn the things that make for stability. Through carelessness.
[2:36:48] Speaker 3: I have missed out on these seasons. I didn't know
[2:36:51] Speaker 3: when my season of preparation, my season of discovery came
[2:36:56] Speaker 3: and passed. I did not have the sensitivity of the
[2:37:00] Speaker 3: sons of Issachar.
[2:37:01] Speaker 5: I could not discern the times. I didn't know what
[2:37:05] Speaker 5: to do.
[2:37:06] Speaker 3: Now I'm 20, I'm 30, I'm 40, I'm 50, I'm 60.
[2:37:12] Speaker 3: But the Bible says there is hope for a tree.
[2:37:15] Speaker 3: Even if it be cut off at the scent of water,
[2:37:18] Speaker 3: it will bud again.
[2:37:20] Speaker 5: Someone pray.
[2:37:23] Speaker 3: Bring back these seasons by your mercy. Some of you
[2:37:27] Speaker 3: wasted these seasons like the prodigal son. You had a
[2:37:31] Speaker 3: plethora of privileges around you. You abused it through carelessness,
[2:37:36] Speaker 3: through insensitivity, through wrong decisions, destiny sabotaging decisions. Cry for mercy. Lord,
[2:37:45] Speaker 3: show me mercy. Let the hand of the clock go
[2:37:48] Speaker 3: back for my sake. Give me an opportunity again to
[2:37:52] Speaker 3: learn God. Give me an opportunity again to discover myself
[2:37:56] Speaker 3: in prophecy, to discover myself in light of Christ. Give
[2:38:02] Speaker 3: me an opportunity to discover my giftings, my abilities, the
[2:38:07] Speaker 3: spiritual investments you put within me. Give me an opportunity
[2:38:11] Speaker 3: to find my role in the grand scheme of prophecy.
[2:38:16] Speaker 3: Go ahead and pray. For those of you who are
[2:38:19] Speaker 3: in the season of pruning. Open your mouth and pray.
[2:38:23] Speaker 3: I receive the staying power. The grace to call you faithful.
[2:38:28] Speaker 3: Even when I do not understand you. The grace to
[2:38:31] Speaker 3: stay and to remain.
[2:38:33] Speaker 5: Like Job.
[2:38:34] Speaker 3: That all the days of my appointed time. I will wait.
[2:38:40] Speaker 5: I will wait.
[2:38:43] Speaker 3: I will wait. I will wait. All the days of
[2:38:47] Speaker 3: my appointed time I will wait. Until my change comes.
[2:38:50] Speaker 3: Until an emergence happens. Go ahead and pray. The grace
[2:38:54] Speaker 3: to call you faithful. Even when I cry. In the
[2:38:58] Speaker 3: midst of disappointments. In the midst of fire. In the
[2:39:02] Speaker 3: midst of scorpions. In the midst of unfavorable situations. When
[2:39:07] Speaker 3: my prayer life does not seem to deliver. When righteousness
[2:39:11] Speaker 3: seems to be a disadvantage. When my knowing you does
[2:39:15] Speaker 3: not seem to yield immediate profit. I receive the stamina,
[2:39:19] Speaker 3: the grace to at last this season. For those of
[2:39:24] Speaker 3: you who are already in your season of emergence. You
[2:39:28] Speaker 3: are being known. Your generation has received you. They are
[2:39:32] Speaker 3: receiving you. They are singing Hosanna. Blessed is he that
[2:39:36] Speaker 3: comes in the name of the Lord. Pray for grace
[2:39:39] Speaker 3: to perpetually acknowledge God as the basis for everything good
[2:39:44] Speaker 3: in your life.
[2:39:48] Speaker 5: Obtain grace to create systems.
[2:39:51] Speaker 3: That protect your conviction, that protect your consecration, that protect
[2:39:56] Speaker 3: your prayer life, protect your word life, protect your studious habits.
[2:40:08] Speaker 3: Obtain grace to identify and build strategic relationships and then
[2:40:15] Speaker 3: obtain grace to To be able to raise others. That
[2:40:20] Speaker 3: there will be continuity to God's program. Because of your
[2:40:23] Speaker 3: efficient and effective witness.
[2:40:30] Speaker 5: In Jesus mighty name we pray. Amen and amen.
[2:40:35] Speaker 3: I'm going to make the altar call now. Tonight is
[2:40:37] Speaker 3: a very serious night. Ladies and gentlemen we are in
[2:40:41] Speaker 3: the days of his power. And the bible says the
[2:40:44] Speaker 3: people shall be willing. And it's a risk, especially in
[2:40:48] Speaker 3: the days that we're in now, to reject Jesus. I
[2:40:52] Speaker 3: told you that the believer must be a product of encounters.
[2:40:55] Speaker 3: For certain, I know that there are people in this
[2:40:57] Speaker 3: place tonight. In the main hall, all the overflows outside
[2:41:01] Speaker 3: and those following online. Who are saying, Apostle, if you
[2:41:04] Speaker 3: will give me a chance with Jesus, I want to
[2:41:07] Speaker 3: win this war. My father never introduced me to Jesus.
[2:41:10] Speaker 3: My mother didn't. My siblings didn't. All those who went
[2:41:13] Speaker 3: ahead of me didn't. But now that I hear your voice,
[2:41:16] Speaker 3: I want to make it right with Jesus wherever you are.
[2:41:20] Speaker 5: I'm going to count one to five.
[2:41:22] Speaker 3: Without any coercion, I'd like you to leave your seat
[2:41:25] Speaker 3: and run here. And you're saying, Apostle, I also want
[2:41:28] Speaker 3: to rededicate my life to Jesus. Please pick your bags,
[2:41:31] Speaker 3: your Bibles, everything you came to church with. And I'd
[2:41:34] Speaker 3: like you to be on your way gallantly.
[2:41:36] Speaker 5: Don't be afraid.
[2:41:36] Speaker 3: Don't be ashamed. Don't wait for someone before you come.
[2:41:40] Speaker 3: This is you and Jesus. Let's honor them as they come.
[2:41:43] Speaker 3: God bless you. God bless you. I'm counting five and.
[2:41:47] Speaker 5: I begin to pray. God bless you, my dear one.
[2:41:49] Speaker 5: God bless you.
[2:41:50] Speaker 3: Come.
[2:41:51] Speaker 2: Come.
[2:41:53] Speaker 3: Koinonia, is this the best you can do? Celebrate them
[2:41:56] Speaker 3: as they come.
[2:42:00] Speaker 5: Two. God bless you. God bless you.
[2:42:07] Speaker 3: There are nations that will thank God for this decision
[2:42:10] Speaker 3: you are making tonight. Let's encourage them as they come.
[2:42:12] Speaker 5: Three. Keep coming. Run to Jesus. Run to Jesus. Those
[2:42:21] Speaker 5: who are.
[2:42:21] Speaker 3: Following online, here's your chance to make Jesus.
[2:42:24] Speaker 5: Lord of your life. Whether by way of television, internet,
[2:42:28] Speaker 5: here's your chance.
[2:42:29] Speaker 3: As I pray with these ones, I'd like you to
[2:42:31] Speaker 3: join believing that today is your day of salvation.
[2:42:34] Speaker 5: I still see a few people coming from the back.
[2:42:37] Speaker 5: Can you make haste? Come quickly. Four. All those at
[2:42:43] Speaker 5: the overflows, you may move to your LED screens.
[2:42:46] Speaker 3: And just stand there and that will be sufficient for
[2:42:48] Speaker 3: this call.
[2:42:50] Speaker 5: Final call.
[2:42:51] Speaker 3: Five. Let's give Jesus a big hand clap for these
[2:42:54] Speaker 3: many who have come to Jesus. Hallelujah. My brothers and
[2:42:59] Speaker 3: my sisters, listen to me. It is a noble thing
[2:43:03] Speaker 3: to make it right with Jesus. The Bible says, as
[2:43:06] Speaker 3: many who will come to him, he will in no
[2:43:08] Speaker 3: wise cast away. Don't feel condemned. This is a family
[2:43:12] Speaker 3: that loves you. We're a reflection of the love of Jesus.
[2:43:15] Speaker 3: It is for your sake that he gathered us here tonight.
[2:43:18] Speaker 3: May I request that you lift your right hand as
[2:43:20] Speaker 3: a sign of surrender to this Jesus who loved you
[2:43:24] Speaker 3: so much and gave himself for you. Say after me
[2:43:26] Speaker 3: as loud and as clear as you can. Say Lord Jesus.
[2:43:30] Speaker 3: One more time.
[2:43:30] Speaker 5: Say it again loud and clear. Lord Jesus.
[2:43:33] Speaker 3: Tonight. I have heard your word. I love you.
[2:43:38] Speaker 5: With all my heart. I believe. That you are the
[2:43:43] Speaker 5: son of God. I believe. That you died for my sin.
[2:43:49] Speaker 3: Right now. I receive Jesus.
[2:43:53] Speaker 5: Into my heart. As my savior. My Lord. And my king.
[2:44:00] Speaker 5: I declare. That the power. Say it.
[2:44:03] Speaker 3: Of sin.
[2:44:05] Speaker 5: Of Satan.
[2:44:07] Speaker 3: Of hell.
[2:44:08] Speaker 5: And of the grave. Is broken over my life.
[2:44:11] Speaker 3: From tonight. I'm a child of God. I go forward ever.
[2:44:16] Speaker 3: And backward never. Amen. Father, I speak the blessing upon
[2:44:21] Speaker 3: these ones. The Bible declares that as many who will
[2:44:23] Speaker 3: come to you, you will in no wise cast away.
[2:44:26] Speaker 3: I declare based on the authority of God's word that
[2:44:28] Speaker 3: your sins are forgiven. From tonight you are called bona
[2:44:31] Speaker 3: fide recipients of his life, partakers of his.
[2:44:34] Speaker 5: Life and grace.
[2:44:35] Speaker 3: And I declare upon you the grace to live the
[2:44:37] Speaker 3: victorious Christian life is hereby released upon you. I call
[2:44:41] Speaker 3: you not guilty by the power of the Holy Spirit.
[2:44:43] Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus, you go forward ever and
[2:44:46] Speaker 3: backward never. In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Please look
[2:44:51] Speaker 3: to my right. That will be your left. There are
[2:44:53] Speaker 3: counselors waving the placard. Please follow them as we appreciate you.
[2:44:56] Speaker 3: They will have a word and a prayer with you
[2:44:58] Speaker 3: very quickly. And you'll return to your seat. Let's give
[2:45:01] Speaker 3: them a big God bless you. A big God bless you.
[2:45:04] Speaker 3: Keep clapping, Koinonia.
[2:45:05] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[2:45:09] Speaker 5: Praise the name of the Lord.
[2:45:11] Speaker 3: So very quickly to remind you that by the grace
[2:45:14] Speaker 3: of God, next week is our miracle service for the
[2:45:17] Speaker 3: month of July.
[2:45:18] Speaker 5: That's announcement number one.
[2:45:20] Speaker 3: Please invite everyone in this city. Let's converge and experience
[2:45:24] Speaker 3: the miracle walking power of Jesus. Bring the sick, bring
[2:45:27] Speaker 3: those who have been oppressed. Come write in your prayer request.
[2:45:30] Speaker 3: Let's release our faith together in praise, prayer, worship, the word,
[2:45:34] Speaker 3: the prophetic miracles. And let's see the mighty hand of
[2:45:38] Speaker 3: God outstretch over our lives one more time. And then
[2:45:41] Speaker 3: to remind you that we're only days away to Sound
[2:45:44] Speaker 3: of Revival US and Sound of Revival Canada for 2025.
[2:45:49] Speaker 5: It's going to be.
[2:45:51] Speaker 3: An awesome time. Our family in New York, US. Our
[2:45:54] Speaker 3: family in Calgary, Canada. Please make all the arrangements to
[2:45:59] Speaker 3: be there. You can call our PR lines. You can
[2:46:01] Speaker 3: scan the QR code if you're yet to register today.
[2:46:04] Speaker 3: Should there still be any space left, please take advantage
[2:46:07] Speaker 3: of it. It's going to be an awesome time. We're
[2:46:09] Speaker 3: going to be lifting up sounds of worship. The word
[2:46:11] Speaker 3: is going to be coming. You'll be an outpouring by
[2:46:14] Speaker 3: the Spirit of God. And for all of us who
[2:46:16] Speaker 3: are here and even those who are in diaspora across
[2:46:18] Speaker 3: the globe, you can inform your loved ones. As always,
[2:46:22] Speaker 3: you'll be broadcasted on all our social media platforms.
[2:46:25] Speaker 5: So do well. Prepare your heart. You'll be an extraordinary meeting.
[2:46:29] Speaker 3: And then next week, again, you'll be the official unveiling
[2:46:33] Speaker 3: of our land.
[2:46:35] Speaker 5: By the message of God and then.
[2:46:39] Speaker 3: By the grace of God who officially launched the building
[2:46:41] Speaker 3: fund for our building project. Are you happy about what
[2:46:45] Speaker 3: God is doing? The meaning of that is that your
[2:46:47] Speaker 3: life is also going forward. Let me use this opportunity
[2:46:51] Speaker 3: to speak the blessing over you as you leave. In
[2:46:53] Speaker 3: the name of Jesus, go forth in peace. In the
[2:46:57] Speaker 3: name of Jesus, find favor this week. Experience victory this week.
[2:47:03] Speaker 3: Receive testimonies this week. May help us arise for you
[2:47:07] Speaker 3: this week. Every prophetic word you prayed at the beginning
[2:47:11] Speaker 3: of this service and whilst I came on stage, let
[2:47:13] Speaker 3: it speak in your life.
[2:47:15] Speaker 5: In the name of Jesus.
[2:47:17] Speaker 3: You will not have a cause to weep for sorrow
[2:47:20] Speaker 3: this week in Jesus name. If I told you cry,
[2:47:23] Speaker 3: let it be tears of joy. I bless your Monday
[2:47:26] Speaker 3: to Sunday. It remains blessed in Jesus name. I decree
[2:47:30] Speaker 3: and declare that the hand of God is upon you
[2:47:31] Speaker 3: for good.
[2:47:33] Speaker 5: You will enjoy the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Go
[2:47:36] Speaker 5: from glory to glory. Back to back testimonies for you.
[2:47:40] Speaker 3: In Jesus name I pray.
[2:47:42] Speaker 5: Three powerful amen as we wrap up the service.
[2:47:45] Speaker 3: Number two.
[2:47:47] Speaker 5: Number three. Together let's share the grace in fellowship.
[2:47:51] Speaker 3: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,
[2:47:53] Speaker 3: the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit, let it rest
[2:47:56] Speaker 3: and abide with us now and forever.
[2:47:58] Speaker 5: Amen.
[2:47:58] Speaker 3: Surely goodness and mercy follow us all the days of
[2:48:02] Speaker 3: our lives as we dwell in the house of the
[2:48:03] Speaker 3: Lord forever and ever. Amen.
[2:48:06] Speaker 5: God bless you. See you on Sunday.
[2:48:21] Speaker 3: You want me to be.
[2:48:24] Speaker 5: I came here with nothing. But all you have given me, Jesus,
[2:48:32] Speaker 5: great know I.
[2:48:34] Speaker 2: Make me Lord.
[2:48:36] Speaker 5: Make me Lord. Make me whatever you want me to be.
[2:48:42] Speaker 5: I can.
[2:48:51] Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord. But oh, Jesus, make me love. Make
[2:49:00] Speaker 1: me love. Make me whatever you want.
[2:49:16] Speaker 3: There is no There is no power There is.
[2:49:23] Speaker 1: No freedom.
[2:49:43] Speaker 10: The kingdom is here.
[2:49:47] Speaker 7: I lay down my whole claim to carry your new
[2:49:52] Speaker 7: power today. Oh, still where there.
[2:50:00] Speaker 2: Is no one, there is no power, there.
[2:50:05] Speaker 1: Is no freedom. Your kingdom is here.

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