# Helped By God Part 2 | (The Gift of Men)

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

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## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Is it alright if we take five minutes to pray
[0:03] Speaker 1: in the Spirit?
[0:04] Speaker 2: Do you love to pray? Yes. When we pray, it
[0:10] Speaker 2: is not a religious ritual. We are giving the Holy
[0:14] Speaker 2: Spirit room to find expression through our spirits, through our minds,
[0:21] Speaker 2: so that we can hear Him, so that we can
[0:24] Speaker 2: align to what He wants us to do. The primary
[0:28] Speaker 2: assignment of prayer, in my opinion, is found in Luke
[0:31] Speaker 2: chapter 9 and verse 29. The Bible says, and as
[0:36] Speaker 2: he prayed, the he being Jesus, it says, the fashion
[0:41] Speaker 2: of his countenance was altered and his raiment became white
[0:46] Speaker 2: and glittering. That means when we pray, there is transformation
[0:52] Speaker 2: that happens within us. Hallelujah. prayer affords you the opportunity
[0:57] Speaker 2: and provides the potential for growth spiritual growth a heightened
[1:02] Speaker 2: level of sensitivity growth in your discernment so as you
[1:08] Speaker 2: pray in the spirit see it as part of the
[1:10] Speaker 2: meeting we are leaders you speak a parable to the
[1:14] Speaker 2: end that men ought always to pray and not to faint.
[1:22] Speaker 3: Blow blow Blow like a mighty wind.
[1:28] Speaker 2: Spirit of victory.
[1:32] Speaker 3: Cover us with your wings. Will you blow, blow, blow
[1:39] Speaker 3: like a mighty wind.
[1:43] Speaker 4: Spirit of victory. Cover us with your wings.
[1:51] Speaker 2: From the pages.
[1:53] Speaker 4: Of my heart, let my worship begin that never ends.
[2:00] Speaker 5: It's from the pages of my heart, let my worship
[2:03] Speaker 5: begin that never ends.
[2:06] Speaker 6: To the God of all plans.
[2:21] Speaker 7: You're my God and your name is Yahweh.
[2:27] Speaker 8: Your name is Yahweh.
[2:31] Speaker 7: Yahweh.
[2:32] Speaker 6: Yahweh.
[2:33] Speaker 8: You're my God and your name is Yahweh.
[2:42] Speaker 6: Your name is Yahweh. Yahweh.
[2:48] Speaker 2: Go ahead and bless him in this way.
[2:52] Speaker 9: Thank you for watching. Thank you for watching. Someone is praying.
[4:04] Speaker 2: Just a few minutes, you are pressing in the Spirit.
[4:17] Speaker 10: Shalabakadabarakadabarakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakadabrakad Thank you.
[5:21] Speaker 2: Thank you for watching. Thank you.
[5:48] Speaker 6: Thank you.
[6:12] Speaker 2: Thank you for watching. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
[7:21] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[7:49] Speaker 9: Don't be tired you're edified your spirit man for some
[7:53] Speaker 9: of you your prayer life has gone.
[7:55] Speaker 2: Down your depth of disappointment they have gone down here
[8:17] Speaker 2: is a chance to get it back on fire again
[8:22] Speaker 2: just two more minutes In Jesus' name, we pray. In
[9:12] Speaker 2: Jesus' name we pray. There are two people the power
[9:21] Speaker 2: of God is coming on them right now as I speak.
[9:26] Speaker 2: And for that person the prophetic word for you is
[9:35] Speaker 2: it's a new season. You are stepping into a very
[9:40] Speaker 2: defining moment in your spiritual experience tonight is a miracle
[9:47] Speaker 2: service but it's very important you are a leader for
[9:51] Speaker 2: someone god is saying i should tell you return back
[9:53] Speaker 2: to the place of the altar return back to the
[9:56] Speaker 2: place of the altar you have left your secret place
[10:00] Speaker 2: the lord is bringing you a word your victory was
[10:03] Speaker 2: because of the power and the strength of your altar
[10:06] Speaker 2: avoid distraction you will not get it that way god
[10:10] Speaker 2: is speaking to someone return back to the place of
[10:13] Speaker 2: the altar return back to the place of the altar
[10:24] Speaker 2: return back to the place of the altar caught away
[10:28] Speaker 2: distractions in your life your life is too busy and
[10:31] Speaker 2: you're not achieving anything return back to the place of
[10:35] Speaker 2: the altar one encounter with the God of the Bible
[10:39] Speaker 2: in the place of the altar can define the next
[10:42] Speaker 2: 10 20 years of your life in jesus name we
[10:50] Speaker 2: pray please be seated let's see how far god is
[10:54] Speaker 2: able to help us this morning i want you to
[10:58] Speaker 2: be very sensitive because when we are in the presence
[11:05] Speaker 2: of god like this the holy spirit is also doing
[11:09] Speaker 2: things in the life of people while the word of
[11:11] Speaker 2: god is coming is more than a lecture you are
[11:15] Speaker 2: receiving the ministry of the spirit Is the kind of
[11:20] Speaker 2: ministry where the influence of the Holy Spirit comes upon
[11:27] Speaker 2: the words and the speakings of God's people. This is
[11:29] Speaker 2: the difference between just a mere communication or a lecture
[11:34] Speaker 2: and the ministry of the Spirit. Talking to leaders. So
[11:38] Speaker 2: expect a lot of impartations while we speak. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
[11:44] Speaker 2: The movement of the Holy Spirit while we speak is
[11:47] Speaker 2: not just about being anointed. It is an attestation to
[11:51] Speaker 2: the fact that what you are hearing is not just
[11:54] Speaker 2: sound coming to your ears. That beyond the realm of
[11:58] Speaker 2: your hearing something is entering your spirit. Hallelujah. Praise the
[12:03] Speaker 2: name of the Lord. In this kingdom or in life
[12:15] Speaker 2: There are two ways to approach the matters of life
[12:19] Speaker 2: and destiny. I want you to listen carefully. There are
[12:22] Speaker 2: two ways to approach the matters of life and destiny.
[12:27] Speaker 1: There are three people now who will start running under
[12:30] Speaker 1: the anointing.
[12:30] Speaker 2: Just hold them.
[12:31] Speaker 1: You don't have to bring them out. Just hold them
[12:33] Speaker 1: and just keep them calm.
[12:35] Speaker 2: It's just the activity of the Holy Spirit in their life.
[12:37] Speaker 2: God is building them. It's a grace. I just saw
[12:40] Speaker 2: a door open in the Spirit. And I saw three
[12:43] Speaker 2: people like that grace for speed coming upon them.
[12:46] Speaker 1: Who have the time to do the impartation. But right
[12:49] Speaker 1: now three of them.
[12:50] Speaker 2: The light.
[12:51] Speaker 1: Help them please.
[12:55] Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Praise God. Just help them.
[12:59] Speaker 1: When someone is under the anointing close to you, you
[13:02] Speaker 1: help them.
[13:03] Speaker 2: That is one. Three of them I saw in my vision.
[13:06] Speaker 2: I mean, the season is coming to an end. That
[13:08] Speaker 2: door has been opened. A door stands for access.
[13:12] Speaker 6: Access.
[13:13] Speaker 2: Access in the spirit. Access. It's a grace for speed.
[13:18] Speaker 2: That takes people beyond. Because one of the ways that
[13:22] Speaker 2: we redeem time in the spirit.
[13:26] Speaker 1: One of the ways that we redeem time.
[13:29] Speaker 2: Is for God to give us speed. Speed even by
[13:32] Speaker 2: the spirit of God. Hallelujah. So as these words come,
[13:42] Speaker 2: once I just interject, it shouldn't distract us who are
[13:45] Speaker 2: teaching the word, but then we must allow the Holy Spirit.
[13:49] Speaker 2: This is what we came to experience. It's more than
[13:54] Speaker 2: a lecture. You are immersed in the ministry of the Spirit.
[13:58] Speaker 2: The ministry of the Spirit is beyond just a mere
[14:01] Speaker 2: communication where you say, yes, I agree.
[14:04] Speaker 1: There is a spiritual activity that is happening to you.
[14:10] Speaker 6: I am under the shadow of your wings Your influence
[14:17] Speaker 6: is all over me I am under the shadow of
[14:22] Speaker 6: your wings.
[14:36] Speaker 2: Your influence is all over me.
[14:39] Speaker 5: I am victorious.
[14:43] Speaker 6: I have overcome.
[15:04] Speaker 11: I am victorious i am hallelujah.
[15:19] Speaker 2: Who is chidi i'm hearing the name chidi like c-h-i-d-i
[15:29] Speaker 2: someone That should be a male name. Am I right?
[15:36] Speaker 6: Chidi.
[15:37] Speaker 2: There is a Chidi that God is... No, no, you
[15:40] Speaker 2: don't have to come out. Don't worry. You don't have
[15:41] Speaker 2: that time at night. I just felt like... Sometimes you see,
[15:45] Speaker 2: God does not distract us like this just because this
[15:50] Speaker 2: is not about....
[15:53] Speaker 1: There's something that you are learning.
[15:56] Speaker 2: When you see these things, you have to decide what
[15:58] Speaker 2: God is doing.
[15:59] Speaker 1: It tells you how.
[16:01] Speaker 2: Determined God is to see that you find rest and
[16:05] Speaker 2: you experience Him. Hallelujah. The Lord is bringing captivity, the
[16:16] Speaker 2: family of Chidi. Chidi, this name. I'm seeing the Lord
[16:22] Speaker 2: is bringing rest, roundabout, freedom from. There's a unique expression
[16:29] Speaker 2: of demonic assault in that family. This gentleman, don't miss
[16:39] Speaker 2: the service tonight. This one looking at me, wearing glasses.
[16:42] Speaker 2: This one, my friend. God will begin a walk in
[16:46] Speaker 2: your life from this meeting, but This night service is
[16:50] Speaker 2: for you. Come with your heart opened. Because God has
[16:54] Speaker 2: a great assignment for you.
[16:56] Speaker 1: Very, very great assignment for you.
[16:59] Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus. Great assignment for you. Somebody
[17:06] Speaker 2: will begin to laugh now by the spirit. No, no, no, no, no, no.
[17:10] Speaker 2: This is not something mechanical. laughing by the spirit the
[17:15] Speaker 2: bible says the shouts of joy and victory shall not
[17:18] Speaker 2: depart from the tent of the righteous this is not
[17:22] Speaker 2: some super how does someone come to church discipline and
[17:26] Speaker 2: organize and just because a man is speaking you announce
[17:29] Speaker 2: that laughing you're not acting that laughter you see is
[17:34] Speaker 2: not a mechanical thing that laughter you see is a
[17:37] Speaker 2: token of victory in the spirit that something has been
[17:40] Speaker 2: established in the spirit In the name of Jesus Christ. Laughter.
[17:46] Speaker 2: Can you imagine that? That someone begins to laugh just
[17:49] Speaker 2: by the spirit. Remember this used to happen in Kenneth
[17:51] Speaker 2: Hagin's meetings. And ignorant people just kept criticizing. So let's
[18:09] Speaker 2: get to our discussion. We are talking with leaders. There
[18:12] Speaker 2: are two ways to approach the matters of life and
[18:16] Speaker 2: destiny and I want you to please pay attention. Number one,
[18:20] Speaker 2: you can approach life and destiny sensually just using brain work,
[18:28] Speaker 2: logic and guess work largely.
[18:32] Speaker 1: Whether it is leadership or your sojourn, as far as purpose.
[18:35] Speaker 2: And destiny is concerned, you can choose to lean entirely
[18:40] Speaker 2: on the realm of logic, the realm of common sense,
[18:44] Speaker 2: and the realm of trial and error. You can experiment
[18:47] Speaker 2: your way through life in hope that you are right. Or,
[18:52] Speaker 2: number two, the second option, which is the most superior,
[18:57] Speaker 2: is that you can walk the path of The spiritual man.
[19:05] Speaker 2: There is the approach of the natural man. One who
[19:09] Speaker 2: is largely driven by experiment, driven by senses, trial and error.
[19:14] Speaker 2: But there is the path of a spiritual man. And
[19:18] Speaker 2: God is generous enough to present both options to you
[19:21] Speaker 2: when you begin your walk. That means it is within
[19:27] Speaker 2: your power to choose that I want to live my
[19:30] Speaker 2: life naturally or sensually by experimentation and god will honor
[19:36] Speaker 2: that decision or you can choose that i want to
[19:40] Speaker 2: follow the path of a spiritual man a spiritual man
[19:44] Speaker 2: is not a pastor a spiritual man is not a
[19:46] Speaker 2: preacher a spiritual man is one who has chosen as
[19:50] Speaker 2: an act of your will to submit to the word
[19:54] Speaker 2: and to submit to the ministry of the holy spirit
[19:57] Speaker 2: these are the provisions that turn ordinary men to become
[20:02] Speaker 2: spiritual you are not spiritual just because you are praying
[20:07] Speaker 2: in tongues no You are spiritual to the degree to
[20:11] Speaker 2: which your life leans wholly on the authority of Scripture
[20:16] Speaker 2: and the ministry, the supremacy of the Holy Spirit. That
[20:21] Speaker 2: means the Holy Spirit is not an opinion you consult
[20:25] Speaker 2: when you are confused. He literally becomes the life force.
[20:30] Speaker 2: Your intelligence is derived from your interaction with Scripture and
[20:35] Speaker 2: your interaction with the ministry of the Holy Spirit. So
[20:39] Speaker 2: when people tell you they are spiritual, it is not
[20:42] Speaker 2: by carrying a formal regalia of religion. No, if you
[20:46] Speaker 2: say you are spiritual, I have to test your loyalty
[20:50] Speaker 2: to the supremacy of the word of God as against
[20:53] Speaker 2: your mind, your feelings, your opinions or status quo. And
[20:57] Speaker 2: then I also have to test your honor to the
[21:00] Speaker 2: ministry of the Holy Spirit. If I find you wanting
[21:04] Speaker 2: in these two dimensions, you are not spiritual. It's as
[21:08] Speaker 2: simple as that. Are we together? I just defined for
[21:12] Speaker 2: you what the Bible calls a spiritual man. A spiritual
[21:16] Speaker 2: man is not just one who prays in tongues. A
[21:18] Speaker 2: spiritual man is not just one who is in church
[21:20] Speaker 2: all the time. A spiritual man is not just one
[21:23] Speaker 2: who cries when they raise a song of worship. True
[21:27] Speaker 2: spirituality is measured by the depth of your resoluteness to
[21:33] Speaker 2: submit to the supremacy of the word of God. Are
[21:36] Speaker 2: we together now? That the word of God and the
[21:38] Speaker 2: ministry of the Holy Spirit become the principal influencers of
[21:43] Speaker 2: your thinking, your behavior, your character, and then your destiny.
[21:50] Speaker 2: no matter how popular no matter how convenient it is
[21:55] Speaker 2: if it is inconsistent with the word of god and
[21:58] Speaker 2: it's not based on the prompting and the allowance that
[22:01] Speaker 2: the spirit of grace gives you you restrict yourself the
[22:04] Speaker 2: assignment of your will in this sense now becomes to
[22:10] Speaker 2: Move in the direction of the word of God and
[22:12] Speaker 2: the voice of the spirit or otherwise. That is the
[22:15] Speaker 2: path of a spiritual man. And I can tell you,
[22:18] Speaker 2: many people are not spiritual. It's not an insult. There
[22:25] Speaker 2: is selective or conditional spirituality. That means if for any
[22:30] Speaker 2: reason what God wants now coincides with what you want,
[22:35] Speaker 2: it will now look like you are obedient.
[22:37] Speaker 6: No.
[22:39] Speaker 2: Spirituality must be absolute it does not matter whether it
[22:44] Speaker 2: seems to work well in my favor or not i
[22:47] Speaker 2: trust the intelligence of the spirit i trust the intelligence
[22:51] Speaker 2: of the word of god this is why the word
[22:54] Speaker 2: of god the bible is a compendium of god's dealings
[22:59] Speaker 2: with people through time And he allowed us to vet
[23:02] Speaker 2: his integrity without hiding anything. So that we can come
[23:06] Speaker 2: to the conclusion that he is dependable. That even when
[23:10] Speaker 2: we do.
[23:10] Speaker 1: Not understand him, we can trust him.
[23:16] Speaker 2: Wanting to understand God before you follow him is the
[23:19] Speaker 2: recipe for disaster. Because in the dealings of God with men,
[23:23] Speaker 2: there are many dimensions of his dealings that it will
[23:25] Speaker 2: take years for you to understand what God was doing.
[23:29] Speaker 2: You will need to start the journey. It is five
[23:32] Speaker 2: years into the journey to begin to make sense. So
[23:35] Speaker 2: when you become scientific and calculative in your approach, you
[23:39] Speaker 2: will not only slow down your pace, you will most
[23:41] Speaker 2: likely not be able to walk with God. You ask
[23:46] Speaker 2: anybody who God is using today, they will tell you
[23:49] Speaker 2: for a major part of their journey, they were just
[23:52] Speaker 2: moving blindly. Where are you going to? I just know
[23:55] Speaker 2: he said, follow me. What is the name of what
[23:58] Speaker 2: we are doing? I do not know. The mission is
[24:01] Speaker 2: follow me. The question is, do you trust the person
[24:04] Speaker 2: who is leading you? If you do, then follow. Are
[24:10] Speaker 2: we together? so there are many people right now whose
[24:14] Speaker 2: destinies are full of fear and the reason is because
[24:18] Speaker 2: we always want to be in control of things before
[24:21] Speaker 2: we move unfortunately one of the assignments of the holy
[24:25] Speaker 2: spirit when you begin your walk with god listen carefully
[24:28] Speaker 2: when you begin your walk with god the holy spirit
[24:31] Speaker 2: cuts you away are we together from that sense of
[24:35] Speaker 2: self-confidence wanting to know the details before you follow And
[24:42] Speaker 2: there are many ways that God achieves that. Let me
[24:45] Speaker 2: tell you the truth. There are times in your walk
[24:47] Speaker 2: with God, God can ask you to come out of
[24:50] Speaker 2: the room. And you are not sure whether it's him
[24:53] Speaker 2: or not. You can come out and stand expecting something
[24:56] Speaker 2: to happen. You stand after 10, 20 minutes, he will say,
[24:59] Speaker 2: go back and sleep. And that's the end of it.
[25:02] Speaker 2: What was the goal of that thing? It's a training.
[25:05] Speaker 1: It's not about something that will happen. We usually, okay,
[25:08] Speaker 1: now that I obey you, what is the reward immediately?
[25:11] Speaker 2: No. I'm training you to depend on me even when
[25:15] Speaker 2: you do not understand me. Are we together now? Because
[25:21] Speaker 2: you will be learning now that kingdom leadership is a
[25:26] Speaker 2: derivative of your experience with God. If you do not
[25:30] Speaker 2: have a rich experience with God, you cannot lead people
[25:34] Speaker 2: to be able to fulfill the purposes of God for
[25:37] Speaker 2: their lives. You have to know how God works with
[25:41] Speaker 2: men to be able to know how to help men
[25:43] Speaker 2: work with God. Did you get what I said? you
[25:48] Speaker 2: need to know as a leader how god works with
[25:51] Speaker 2: men then you can guide men to know how to
[25:55] Speaker 2: work with god if you are in ignorance as to
[25:59] Speaker 2: how god works with men the economy of god with
[26:03] Speaker 2: men then you will not be able to lead people
[26:06] Speaker 2: the people you lead will not be a spiritual people
[26:09] Speaker 2: and that will have nothing to do with whether you
[26:11] Speaker 2: are a good person or bad but it's just ignorance
[26:14] Speaker 2: of the ways of god So as leaders, whether you
[26:25] Speaker 2: want to be, or you are in business, or you
[26:28] Speaker 2: are a preacher on the pulpit, or you are a
[26:31] Speaker 2: family man, or you are a captain of industry, an academician,
[26:35] Speaker 2: it does not matter the geography of your witness, you
[26:38] Speaker 2: will hear me say, the training is usually and largely
[26:41] Speaker 2: the same, especially at the initial point. when god begins
[26:47] Speaker 2: the training of an apostle a prophet a professor a
[26:52] Speaker 2: businessman someone who is a potential politician in fact in
[26:56] Speaker 2: many cases all of them start together as friends and
[27:00] Speaker 2: they do not even know what they will become So
[27:03] Speaker 2: the initial point of the training is the same. He
[27:06] Speaker 2: will submit all of them to the supremacy of God's
[27:09] Speaker 2: word and to the ministry of the Holy Spirit. It
[27:12] Speaker 2: is as they progress, he now begins to diverge them
[27:16] Speaker 2: to the various dimensions that represent their core areas. Are
[27:20] Speaker 2: we together now? you will find out that one who
[27:23] Speaker 2: is given to the apostolic and the prophetic, as they
[27:26] Speaker 2: grow in prayer and the word of God and the
[27:29] Speaker 2: ministry of the Holy Spirit, one will seem to be
[27:31] Speaker 2: in a greater sense inclined towards the matters of prayer
[27:35] Speaker 2: and consecration and the secret place, not even knowing what
[27:39] Speaker 2: is drawing him to that unusual experience. it is god
[27:42] Speaker 2: distributing them one person becomes he cultivates an unusual appetite
[27:47] Speaker 2: for knowledge not just the knowledge of the world but
[27:50] Speaker 2: even the knowledge of the systems and it does not
[27:53] Speaker 2: know why this is why it is dangerous listen carefully
[27:59] Speaker 2: it is dangerous to create doctrines out of your personal
[28:03] Speaker 2: experience how god builds you is not the only way
[28:07] Speaker 2: he builds how god builds you is not the only
[28:12] Speaker 2: way he builds it is just your experience of how
[28:16] Speaker 2: he builds if i subject everyone to my personal spiritual
[28:21] Speaker 2: training i will only produce apostles you see that now
[28:26] Speaker 2: but that would be a dangerous thing for those sent
[28:28] Speaker 2: to business that would be a dangerous thing for those
[28:31] Speaker 2: sent to politics Because my unique training was given to
[28:37] Speaker 2: mold me to become what I am and I'm becoming
[28:39] Speaker 2: right now. So you can glean from it. But more
[28:43] Speaker 2: than my experience, I must submit you to the word
[28:47] Speaker 2: of God. Because it does not matter what you are becoming.
[28:50] Speaker 2: The manual that will make you is still the same.
[28:54] Speaker 2: So in my mentoring you to become. I must lay
[28:58] Speaker 2: emphasis on the integrity of the word more than my
[29:02] Speaker 2: unique experience. Are we learning now? By the time I
[29:06] Speaker 2: become so emotionally connected to my spiritual experience, I will
[29:10] Speaker 2: mold you to become something that you are not comfortable with.
[29:16] Speaker 2: I will be happy because.
[29:17] Speaker 1: It's convenient for me based on what God has called
[29:20] Speaker 1: me to do.
[29:25] Speaker 2: There are many people today who are victims of the
[29:28] Speaker 2: unique training of leaders. A businessman, for instance, who is
[29:36] Speaker 2: mentoring somebody who will become an apostle, will most likely
[29:40] Speaker 2: frustrate that young man. Do you know why? Because that
[29:43] Speaker 2: man will be given to learning the wisdom of Egypt
[29:46] Speaker 2: and learning all kinds of things. But this guy called
[29:48] Speaker 2: into the apostolic and the prophetic, he can receive an
[29:51] Speaker 2: instruction to go and fast for 40 days. And respectfully speaking,
[29:55] Speaker 2: it may not make sense to the businessman Because the
[29:58] Speaker 2: businessman has been trained.
[30:00] Speaker 1: To understand the value of time.
[30:02] Speaker 2: He has been trained by God to understand the value
[30:04] Speaker 2: of negotiations and the place of wisdom. And the person says, listen,
[30:08] Speaker 2: this time you are wasting. You are just lying down
[30:11] Speaker 2: and saying, God, speak to me. You will be poor
[30:14] Speaker 2: and your children will beg for bread. And he does
[30:19] Speaker 2: not understand that it is a unique training that is
[30:23] Speaker 2: producing a kind of person. Are we together now? Yes.
[30:27] Speaker 2: So the gentleman to honor the businessman mentor will give
[30:33] Speaker 2: up on his apostolic and prophetic training. And he will
[30:36] Speaker 2: find out that even though he has an apostolic call,
[30:39] Speaker 2: the man he's becoming is just a businessman. And that
[30:43] Speaker 2: is not wrong if that were the call. It is
[30:49] Speaker 2: based on this revelation that I prefer to expose people
[30:57] Speaker 2: To the ministry of scripture. Communicating doctrine. Doctrine is how
[31:04] Speaker 2: God makes people. My personal experience comes with the limitation
[31:10] Speaker 2: of my call. But there are many other dimensions that
[31:14] Speaker 2: may not be captured in my experience. This is very powerful.
[31:16] Speaker 2: I'm saying this especially for parents too. Because there are
[31:20] Speaker 2: times that respectfully speaking, parents can lead children and the
[31:25] Speaker 2: only way you know that God leads is not the
[31:27] Speaker 2: only way He leads. Many people today have aborted destiny
[31:31] Speaker 2: because of loyalty to the templates they were given. Eli
[31:36] Speaker 2: thank god for how god used you but be sensitive
[31:39] Speaker 2: to what god is doing with samuel god is raising
[31:42] Speaker 2: him in a way you have not known before so
[31:45] Speaker 2: make sure you guide him and encourage him not discourage
[31:48] Speaker 2: him just because it does not look like your training
[31:51] Speaker 2: does not mean it is not god doing it hallelujah
[32:01] Speaker 2: are we together.
[32:06] Speaker 1: Let's talk about our experience with God.
[32:11] Speaker 2: There is no spiritual leader. By spiritual there, I don't
[32:15] Speaker 2: mean church leader. There is no spiritual leader who will
[32:20] Speaker 2: be able to be effective in this end time without
[32:24] Speaker 2: having a strong experience with God. Hallelujah. Very, very important.
[32:34] Speaker 2: Where we shared yesterday, the Bible says, for us, that
[32:38] Speaker 2: should be 2 Chronicles chapter 26, I believe. We read
[32:43] Speaker 2: verse 5 and then we went to verse 15.
[32:46] Speaker 1: But let's look at verse 5, I believe. Talking about Uzziah.
[32:50] Speaker 2: It says, as long as he sought the Lord, God
[32:55] Speaker 2: made him to prosper. His prosperity and his excelling was
[33:01] Speaker 2: a product of his passionate desire. Press for the things
[33:05] Speaker 2: of God. Please look at me. it does not matter
[33:08] Speaker 2: what god has called you to become and it does
[33:10] Speaker 2: not matter what area of leadership let me submit to
[33:14] Speaker 2: you your longevity in leadership and influence will be proportional
[33:19] Speaker 2: to the depth of your knowledge of god the depth
[33:24] Speaker 2: of your walk with god that is the reason why
[33:26] Speaker 2: in order of priority before god begins to expose you
[33:30] Speaker 2: to the matters of purpose the assignment is follow me
[33:34] Speaker 2: not follow it When God calls a man, the next
[33:39] Speaker 2: thing He does is not to reveal to you where
[33:41] Speaker 2: you are going. He reveals Himself first. Are we together now?
[33:45] Speaker 2: It is dangerous to come to God and then leave
[33:49] Speaker 2: God and start following and pursuing purpose. Notice the pattern
[33:53] Speaker 2: that he gave the apostles who would later become the
[33:56] Speaker 2: initial leaders of the church. He called all of them
[33:59] Speaker 2: from their various vocations and he said, follow me and
[34:03] Speaker 2: I will make you. That following took three years. Their
[34:07] Speaker 2: lives seemed wrecked and frustrated to a point where they
[34:11] Speaker 2: had to open up and say, listen, we have to
[34:13] Speaker 2: confront you on this.
[34:14] Speaker 1: We have left everything to follow you. What is the
[34:16] Speaker 1: need for us?
[34:17] Speaker 2: Because this, your training, does not make sense to us.
[34:20] Speaker 2: We were successful people before you called us. Right now,
[34:23] Speaker 2: we've left fishing, we've left everything. Remember when Jesus died,
[34:27] Speaker 2: they were angry because they felt scammed. And in John 21,
[34:31] Speaker 2: Peter said, I go fishing.
[34:32] Speaker 1: Let me go back to what I was doing.
[34:34] Speaker 2: The disciples said, we go back with you. when he
[34:37] Speaker 2: met jesus christ that was why when he saw that
[34:40] Speaker 2: it was jesus christ he said go away from me
[34:42] Speaker 2: i'm a sinner i've done something i didn't know you
[34:45] Speaker 2: would come back for me i didn't know there was
[34:47] Speaker 2: value in seeking and knowing you listen the reason why
[34:54] Speaker 2: god insists That we have an experience with him before
[34:57] Speaker 2: he lifts us. Is because for every dimension of glory
[35:02] Speaker 2: and influence. Please listen. There are battles. There are dynamics
[35:07] Speaker 2: of living in every realm of leadership and growth. That
[35:11] Speaker 2: if you do not have a rich experience with God.
[35:14] Speaker 2: You will not last. Hallelujah. There are certain enemies that
[35:19] Speaker 2: you have no business knowing about until you attain certain
[35:23] Speaker 2: heights in life. So before you get there, God prepares you.
[35:27] Speaker 2: Do you know, it is because of this inability to
[35:31] Speaker 2: be properly prepared that God himself impedes the growth of
[35:35] Speaker 2: certain people. It's not the devil stopping the growth of
[35:38] Speaker 2: certain people. God by his mercy He invents you and
[35:42] Speaker 2: looks at your spiritual energy And capacity And says no
[35:46] Speaker 2: I cannot give you this kind of membership I cannot
[35:49] Speaker 2: give you this kind of influence Because I love you
[35:52] Speaker 2: too much To expose you to a realm Where you
[35:55] Speaker 2: do not have the stamina To stand and remain Hear
[36:00] Speaker 2: me please. If you are Elijah, make sure you know
[36:04] Speaker 2: God enough to not allow the pride of Jezebel intimidate you.
[36:08] Speaker 2: Because for every mantle of Elijah, there is the challenge
[36:12] Speaker 2: of Jezebel looking for you. If you are Samson, make
[36:16] Speaker 2: sure you have the strength to resist Delilah before. Don't
[36:20] Speaker 2: wait until you become a champion. Because Delilah only looks
[36:24] Speaker 2: for Samson. Delilah does not look for Joseph.
[36:26] Speaker 6: No.
[36:28] Speaker 2: So there are demons assigned to mantles not people listen
[36:33] Speaker 2: listen listen there are spirits that have no they don't
[36:36] Speaker 2: want to know your name they just look for whoever
[36:40] Speaker 2: is carrying this mantle yes sir yes sir there are
[36:46] Speaker 2: spirits assigned over enugu state There is a level of
[36:52] Speaker 2: wealth that if you ever attain it, you activate the
[36:56] Speaker 2: operation of those spirits. They don't look for you because
[36:59] Speaker 2: of you. They don't care who you are. They only
[37:01] Speaker 2: care for whoever because anybody that attains that level of influence,
[37:06] Speaker 2: the realm of the spirit knows the impact you can
[37:09] Speaker 2: have as far as God's purposes are concerned. You're a
[37:13] Speaker 2: music artist. There are spirits that are sent to derail
[37:18] Speaker 2: people at several levels. So you may see someone fighting
[37:21] Speaker 2: a battle and say, oh dear, these people are not serious.
[37:24] Speaker 2: It's because you've not risen. You don't know the one assigned.
[37:28] Speaker 2: You have not picked your mantle and you are not walking.
[37:30] Speaker 2: That is why.
[37:31] Speaker 1: That's why many times, please hear me.
[37:34] Speaker 2: When you find out that you are praying and you
[37:36] Speaker 2: are loving God, yet some doors are not opening. Stop
[37:39] Speaker 2: binding and casting. Ask, Lord, what are you doing? What
[37:43] Speaker 2: level of equipping do I need to go through? Becoming
[37:51] Speaker 2: great and becoming successful is the easiest part of success.
[37:55] Speaker 2: Maintaining it and staying there. The ability to retain your honor.
[38:01] Speaker 1: Please listen carefully. I hope God is blessing you already.
[38:11] Speaker 2: Oh God, I pray that you grant me the whole
[38:14] Speaker 2: world must hear my voice. I can't be quiet. Lord,
[38:17] Speaker 2: you took me from a family with nobody in the
[38:20] Speaker 2: name of Jesus Christ. Everybody must hear my voice. Alright?
[38:26] Speaker 2: Good prayer. Then there is a scan over your spiritual
[38:31] Speaker 2: life in the realm of the spirit. And it's like
[38:35] Speaker 2: a shrub trying to carry mango fruits. You know a shrub?
[38:41] Speaker 2: And yet the kind of fruit it wants to carry
[38:43] Speaker 2: is mango. The fruit alone is what will kill the shrub. God,
[38:52] Speaker 2: give me global visibility. And yet you were crying simply
[38:57] Speaker 2: because somebody told you you were stupid. Lord, my business
[39:06] Speaker 2: must be number one in Enugu. Are you ready for
[39:09] Speaker 2: the attacks and the antagonism that comes with influence?
[39:14] Speaker 1: Are you prepared for it?
[39:16] Speaker 2: I hope you are learning. Go and read about people
[39:24] Speaker 2: in the Bible. That's why God gave us the Bible.
[39:27] Speaker 2: Let me take a few for you and then you
[39:29] Speaker 2: will learn the bible talks about a young man called
[39:33] Speaker 2: joseph innocent young man this gentleman goes to bed and
[39:39] Speaker 2: then he has a dream in the dream you know
[39:44] Speaker 2: He sees the sun, moon and the eleven stars Bowing
[39:46] Speaker 2: to him He gets up innocently Maybe a morning devotion
[39:50] Speaker 2: I can imagine The father is there, the mother and
[39:53] Speaker 2: the brothers Remember they were not friends They were brothers,
[39:56] Speaker 2: say brothers And then he shares his dream Daddy, I
[40:00] Speaker 2: have something to say. I slept and I saw the sun,
[40:03] Speaker 2: moon and eleven stars bowing to me. The brothers did
[40:06] Speaker 2: not seem to react there immediately. But something was about
[40:09] Speaker 2: to come that the gentleman was not prepared for. Then
[40:12] Speaker 2: the father, now out of love for him, gives him
[40:15] Speaker 2: a coat of many colors. And the brother said, we've
[40:21] Speaker 2: had enough. Can you imagine for brothers to come together
[40:24] Speaker 2: and plan over their brother, not an enemy. And say
[40:28] Speaker 2: you know what We are going to kill this person
[40:31] Speaker 2: And they threw him in a well And carried the
[40:35] Speaker 2: coat Spilled it with blood and went to tell the
[40:37] Speaker 2: father That a wild beast had killed.
[40:39] Speaker 1: Him Imagine that kind of thing.
[40:44] Speaker 2: Imagine Daniel It's in your bible ladies and gentlemen That
[40:49] Speaker 2: on account of the Excelling of Daniel As a politician
[40:54] Speaker 2: Some people came together and said Listen we need to
[40:56] Speaker 2: do something about this man And the Bible says they
[40:59] Speaker 2: searched as far as his duties are concerned. They did
[41:02] Speaker 2: not find anything. What a man. And they said, what
[41:06] Speaker 2: area are we going to trap him in? And they
[41:09] Speaker 2: found out his covenant of prayer. They said, fine. We
[41:12] Speaker 2: will angle it through politics. You would think they were
[41:15] Speaker 2: just political people determined to make sure that Babylon were
[41:19] Speaker 2: a safe place. They literally changed the policy in the
[41:23] Speaker 2: parliament because they were looking for one man. Finally, they
[41:28] Speaker 2: get him. And then, even though the king liked him,
[41:32] Speaker 2: he had to submit to the principles, the laws of
[41:34] Speaker 2: the land. They threw him in the lion's den. Do
[41:36] Speaker 2: you know? Please look up. I'm not sure Daniel's first
[41:43] Speaker 2: prayer would be for safety from the lions. His first
[41:46] Speaker 2: prayer would be avoidance of that thing. Are we together?
[41:50] Speaker 2: That means he's going to say, Lord, show up so
[41:53] Speaker 2: that I don't even get to the lion's den in
[41:55] Speaker 2: the first place. I can imagine him saying, my God,
[42:03] Speaker 2: you are faithful. I will not see the lion. No way.
[42:05] Speaker 2: I confess positively. Me and the lions, I have no
[42:09] Speaker 2: covenant with them. I'm a man of prayer. And the
[42:11] Speaker 2: more he's praying, the more he's getting to the den.
[42:14] Speaker 2: I can imagine what happened when they threw him there.
[42:18] Speaker 2: What happens when your prayer keeps moving you towards what
[42:21] Speaker 2: you are praying against? It's in your Bible. There are
[42:26] Speaker 2: times that your prayer does not move you away from
[42:29] Speaker 2: what you are praying for. Or praying against. It moves
[42:33] Speaker 2: you towards. This man was a man of prayer. The
[42:38] Speaker 2: Bible tells us that there was no fault in him.
[42:43] Speaker 2: So you can't say he was suffering the consequence of anything.
[42:47] Speaker 2: And yet his prayer life kept leading him until finally
[42:51] Speaker 2: he got there. But that was the price that was
[42:56] Speaker 2: needed for his exaltation. So be careful sometimes what you
[43:00] Speaker 2: are asking for is not answered, not because God didn't hear.
[43:03] Speaker 2: He knew that you are not, number one, you are
[43:05] Speaker 2: not serious. And number two, you are not even in
[43:07] Speaker 2: a position sincerely. It will be wickedness for God to
[43:11] Speaker 2: make that prayer come to pass. Because you are clearly
[43:14] Speaker 2: not prepared for it. Do you know what it meant
[43:21] Speaker 2: for Jesus Christ himself to start renegotiating salvation?
[43:25] Speaker 1: I love the Bible. It does not hide anything.
[43:28] Speaker 2: Jesus, your Jesus says, Father, if it be thy will.
[43:34] Speaker 2: You thought because he was the word incarnate, he would
[43:37] Speaker 2: be so invincible against trouble. No. Jesus' vulnerability was clearly
[43:42] Speaker 2: recorded in the Bible. He said, listen, can't we negotiate
[43:45] Speaker 2: this more? Do I have to die? Let me remind you,
[43:48] Speaker 2: my father, that you are still God. There is still
[43:50] Speaker 2: another way. But you just remember. Now, this is the
[43:53] Speaker 2: way of the spiritual man. Nevertheless, not my will, but
[43:58] Speaker 2: yours be done. Listen. You would think after talking nicely
[44:02] Speaker 2: to God like that, he would say, look, you just
[44:04] Speaker 2: touched me. Okay, you will not die. He still died.
[44:09] Speaker 2: He still... You asked me to talk to leaders. Listen,
[44:21] Speaker 2: more than it does not cost God anything, this I
[44:24] Speaker 2: have learned from scripture and learned from my life. Believe
[44:28] Speaker 2: me when I tell you, it does not cost God
[44:31] Speaker 2: anything to give you all the things you are praying for.
[44:34] Speaker 2: But you see, the all-seeing eye of God sees both
[44:38] Speaker 2: the results you are getting and the trouble, the effects.
[44:42] Speaker 1: You are in the world of men.
[44:44] Speaker 2: This is what you need to understand. The Bible says
[44:47] Speaker 2: the highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth
[44:50] Speaker 2: has he given to the children of men. That means
[44:53] Speaker 2: all the things that plague men, including jealousy, including envy,
[44:58] Speaker 2: bitter envy, even unto death still resides within your domain.
[45:04] Speaker 2: That is why when God wants to raise you to
[45:06] Speaker 2: be a great leader, the first thing he gives you
[45:09] Speaker 2: is not the grace and the mantle for purpose. The
[45:11] Speaker 2: first thing he gives you is the gift of himself.
[45:14] Speaker 2: You must have a deep enough experience with God. So
[45:20] Speaker 2: there are times that you will see God training a
[45:22] Speaker 2: businessman as if he's going to become an apostle.
[45:26] Speaker 1: And the man is saying, God, but it's business now.
[45:30] Speaker 2: My own is just money. And God says, you better fast.
[45:33] Speaker 2: You better fast because it's not about buying and selling.
[45:36] Speaker 2: You are going to be confronting spirit. You will need
[45:39] Speaker 2: that prophetic grace to know when to negotiate which business. Everything,
[45:44] Speaker 2: even darkness from afar looks like light. Say an experience
[45:50] Speaker 2: with God. Many leaders are more focused about the technical
[45:56] Speaker 2: skills of leadership. Many leaders are more focused on the
[46:01] Speaker 2: value that they provide. And there's nothing wrong with that.
[46:05] Speaker 2: Many leaders are more focused on their influence and the
[46:09] Speaker 2: loyalty of the people they lead. But in order of priority.
[46:14] Speaker 2: For you to be an effective leader in ministry, in business,
[46:18] Speaker 2: and to have any kind of sustainable kingdom influence that lasts.
[46:23] Speaker 2: Please hear me. The first port of call is your
[46:26] Speaker 2: experience with God. Do you know God enough? Do you
[46:30] Speaker 2: know how He delivers from trouble? Don't learn it when
[46:33] Speaker 2: you are in trouble. Learn it before God. the things
[46:37] Speaker 2: that are written a fourth time your bible says they
[46:40] Speaker 2: are written for our learning so that we through patience
[46:44] Speaker 2: and the comfort of scripture might find hope i don't
[46:48] Speaker 2: wait until the day i get into trouble and i
[46:50] Speaker 2: say god how did you even say we come out
[46:52] Speaker 2: of trouble no no way before you get there you
[46:55] Speaker 2: begin to learn the dynamics in your knowledge of God
[46:59] Speaker 2: I will call upon the Lord who is deserving or
[47:02] Speaker 2: worthy of praise he says so shall I be saved
[47:05] Speaker 2: from my enemies that means I gather this as arsenals
[47:10] Speaker 2: as I am rising I expect some things to happen
[47:14] Speaker 2: if someone looks at you and says you came to
[47:17] Speaker 2: this office four years and they have made you an
[47:20] Speaker 2: executive director over my dead body you don't go around
[47:24] Speaker 2: and start panicking it's a proof of lack of thorough
[47:26] Speaker 2: training if you learned and you were built by god
[47:30] Speaker 2: you should already expect that this would happen and you
[47:33] Speaker 2: should already have the plan to deal with it are
[47:43] Speaker 2: we together There are people who had a greater sense
[47:49] Speaker 2: of peace being poor than they were when they had money.
[47:52] Speaker 2: Nobody disturbed you. Nobody lied to you. Nobody did anything.
[47:58] Speaker 2: And then you are praying and say, Father, before the
[48:00] Speaker 2: end of 2022, I must have my first hundred million.
[48:04] Speaker 2: I must have my first one billion. And as you
[48:06] Speaker 2: are saying it, I'm sure the angels are just watching
[48:09] Speaker 2: and saying, goodness. Do you really know what it takes
[48:15] Speaker 2: to To sit down on 100 million. 1 billion of
[48:18] Speaker 2: your money. And be in Christ. Listen again in your mind.
[48:26] Speaker 2: To everything I said. And be. Because you see. For
[48:33] Speaker 2: a 1 billion Naira holder. Let's use Naira. 1 billion
[48:37] Speaker 2: Naira holder.
[48:38] Speaker 1: There are certain relationships. You must maintain.
[48:42] Speaker 2: That are not godly. Did you hear what I said?
[48:46] Speaker 2: There are certain relationships you must maintain at that level
[48:50] Speaker 2: of influence that are not godly. You have to master
[48:56] Speaker 2: the dynamics of living as a sheep among wolves. There are...
[49:02] Speaker 2: Hear me. Let me tell you this.
[49:11] Speaker 1: Even as a man of God rising in influence.
[49:14] Speaker 2: You will be amazed at the proposals. That will come
[49:17] Speaker 2: around the world. I submit to you. I'm talking to leaders.
[49:21] Speaker 2: You cannot imagine the group. and the associations and the
[49:26] Speaker 2: proposals that people have brought apostle there is this committee
[49:29] Speaker 2: of social social across africa there is this one they
[49:32] Speaker 2: are a group of global this and that and that
[49:35] Speaker 2: and with all sense of joy i'm not stupid i'm
[49:38] Speaker 2: intelligent enough to know what is demonic you cannot imagine
[49:45] Speaker 2: the things i have rejected in my life as a
[49:48] Speaker 2: price for remaining true with god Now, this is not
[49:53] Speaker 2: the part of many people's stories that you will hear.
[49:55] Speaker 2: You just know that they are walking with God and
[49:57] Speaker 2: God is lifting them. Let me tell you, there are
[50:00] Speaker 2: times in your rising where loving God looks like foolishness.
[50:05] Speaker 2: Because the amount of things you will lose, you will
[50:07] Speaker 2: need to check and say, what else do I have?
[50:10] Speaker 2: What else do I have left? Something more than gold.
[50:16] Speaker 1: I've got something more than gold.
[50:20] Speaker 2: Something more than gold.
[50:23] Speaker 6: I've got something more than gold. If all I have
[50:29] Speaker 6: is Jesus.
[50:31] Speaker 2: I've got something more than gold.
[50:35] Speaker 1: I will tell it to the world.
[50:38] Speaker 6: Jesus is more than gold.
[50:45] Speaker 2: One of the deception of greatness is the presence of
[50:49] Speaker 2: many material things. Material things have such jealousy. They will
[50:55] Speaker 2: fight your loyalty for God. Let that car arrive and
[51:00] Speaker 2: you will see how much your heart was connected to it.
[51:03] Speaker 2: The moment the tire busts, you can't even pray until
[51:05] Speaker 2: they fix the tire.
[51:07] Speaker 1: The tire of that car.
[51:08] Speaker 2: Remember you rolled around when you were just taking a
[51:11] Speaker 2: cab and said, Lord, everything to you. By the time
[51:14] Speaker 2: you build a business and you hear that the stocks
[51:17] Speaker 2: of your company are about to crash and God says,
[51:20] Speaker 2: go and fast for five days. You will lie down
[51:23] Speaker 2: and say, Lord, so is this how my company is
[51:26] Speaker 2: going to go down? That is the reason why God
[51:30] Speaker 2: tells you to eat for the journey is far. When
[51:33] Speaker 2: he's subjecting you to fasting and prayer, listen, you don't
[51:37] Speaker 2: know what it means to train six children or five children.
[51:41] Speaker 2: You may not have the time to fast for 21
[51:43] Speaker 2: days again. So before the marriage comes, he makes you
[51:47] Speaker 2: to fast as if, and you don't, God, what are
[51:49] Speaker 2: you doing to me? You are building stamina and energy
[51:53] Speaker 2: for the days that are coming. god by this teaching
[51:58] Speaker 2: this morning is giving someone a definition as to what
[52:01] Speaker 2: has been happening to you god i'm not seeing any
[52:05] Speaker 2: result but you will say fast just when i'm done
[52:08] Speaker 2: you give me two weeks break you say start another
[52:10] Speaker 2: one why is that so because you will be so
[52:13] Speaker 2: busy you will be so busy there are you will
[52:17] Speaker 2: have to lean on your the the the the prayer
[52:21] Speaker 2: bank that you have built for years the word bank
[52:25] Speaker 2: you have built for years Hear what the Spirit of
[52:38] Speaker 2: God is telling you. You're not listening to a lecture. Yes, sir.
[52:47] Speaker 2: There are some of you because of the kind of
[52:49] Speaker 2: wealth that God is going to be committing to you.
[52:52] Speaker 2: The nature of your trading will almost frustrate you. You
[52:56] Speaker 2: will find out that you are wealthy. You are earning
[52:58] Speaker 2: a salary of 200,000. And God can say so everything.
[53:02] Speaker 2: You know why? Because compared to what is coming in
[53:05] Speaker 2: the future, what you are saving is nonsense. God is
[53:07] Speaker 2: using what you have to keep trailing you. Lord, what
[53:11] Speaker 2: is this now? You told me to sow 200,000. And
[53:16] Speaker 2: then my Arias just came. You are saying, so it
[53:18] Speaker 2: a day. It does not make sense. It will make
[53:21] Speaker 2: sense when a billion dollars come. That training will make
[53:25] Speaker 2: sense when you become a captain over conglomerate. And God
[53:29] Speaker 2: will say, spoke for this mission field. You have been
[53:32] Speaker 2: trained already. Listen up.
[53:40] Speaker 1: God is training you to be a prophet.
[53:42] Speaker 2: And in the process of knowing him, he will allow
[53:45] Speaker 2: you to make certain mistakes deliberately. You will stand in
[53:48] Speaker 2: the midst of people and say, who is John here?
[53:51] Speaker 2: And there is nobody who is John. And truly, you
[53:54] Speaker 2: believe that you had that name John. It will sting
[53:57] Speaker 2: your ego so that pride will die. The day that
[54:01] Speaker 2: prophetic grace begins to work, you are no longer conscious
[54:04] Speaker 2: of your reputation. Your awareness of obedience is greater than
[54:08] Speaker 2: your validation. Can I tell you the truth? Treasure your scars.
[54:26] Speaker 2: They will be the anchors for your remaining in the future.
[54:30] Speaker 2: Treasure your scars. When we get to heaven today, there
[54:36] Speaker 2: is only one person who has the scar that is
[54:39] Speaker 2: branded that calls him the Christ. you will not know
[54:42] Speaker 2: jesus just by the crown on his head look at
[54:45] Speaker 2: the hands of everybody and their feet there is only
[54:48] Speaker 2: one who has that unique scar your scar can give
[54:51] Speaker 2: you a place in destiny what you are ashamed of
[54:56] Speaker 2: today will become your crown tomorrow yes sir i hope
[55:01] Speaker 2: god is speaking to someone tonight listen Most times when
[55:09] Speaker 2: people come to me, you know, I love people and
[55:13] Speaker 2: when they come sincerely, the first thing they want to
[55:15] Speaker 2: do is to receive anointing. And they kneel down and say,
[55:17] Speaker 2: I ask them, what do you want? Some of you,
[55:21] Speaker 2: four times, that's four, now that's, that's, how many portions now?
[55:24] Speaker 2: Double portion is two, double, double portion now, that's quadruple portion, four.
[55:29] Speaker 2: And I look at them with love and compassion and mercy.
[55:33] Speaker 2: Is this how you want to destroy yourself? Double portion.
[55:40] Speaker 2: elijah asked for double portion he did not know what
[55:43] Speaker 2: he asked for look at how he died elijah did
[55:47] Speaker 2: not die elijah went to heaven but the one who
[55:50] Speaker 2: asked for double portion did not master the law of
[55:53] Speaker 2: life look at how he died sickness kept following him
[55:58] Speaker 2: because it was dominion over death that took elijah to
[56:01] Speaker 2: heaven and elijah asked for double portion He did not
[56:06] Speaker 2: know the attack that was looking for him. He died
[56:09] Speaker 2: of sickness. The Bible tells us what killed him. So,
[56:16] Speaker 2: for those who have been crying for three times the
[56:18] Speaker 2: anointing of Elisha, show me the books you are reading.
[56:23] Speaker 2: Show me the experience you are having with God. I
[56:27] Speaker 2: want to walk in the healing anointing. Go and read
[56:29] Speaker 2: about healing evangelists. Most of them did not live more
[56:32] Speaker 2: than 80 years. Are we together? Because you see, the
[56:38] Speaker 2: core area of your anointing is where Satan attacks you.
[56:42] Speaker 2: He sends spirits to make you a victim of your call.
[56:45] Speaker 2: This is how Satan works. If your call is unto
[56:49] Speaker 2: healing and the rest, you must master living in health
[56:53] Speaker 2: and the administration of the life of God. If your
[56:58] Speaker 2: call is to bring people towards holiness and righteousness, you
[57:01] Speaker 2: must master the act of circumventing Delilah.
[57:06] Speaker 1: There are people who follow certain anointings.
[57:10] Speaker 2: Spirits.
[57:14] Speaker 1: It's God giving us intelligence.
[57:17] Speaker 2: Listen, let me tell you, by the privilege of God's grace,
[57:19] Speaker 2: I've had the honor of being with many fathers of
[57:23] Speaker 2: faith in this nation. And when I have the privilege
[57:26] Speaker 2: of talking with them, more than the things they are saying,
[57:28] Speaker 2: I am observing. Observing. Observing. I can tell you that
[57:35] Speaker 2: they have such a deep experience with God. Deeper than
[57:41] Speaker 2: most people know. What we do on stage only accounts
[57:45] Speaker 2: for 30% of ministry. I hope you know that. A
[57:48] Speaker 2: major part of your life must be behind the veil.
[57:52] Speaker 2: That is what strengthens what you do in the presence
[57:55] Speaker 2: of people here. I've had the honor of meeting very
[57:58] Speaker 2: wealthy people. Multi-millionaires in all kinds of currencies. And when
[58:04] Speaker 2: I sit with them, especially some of them who are very,
[58:07] Speaker 2: very wealthy and love God, my goodness, the level of consecration,
[58:13] Speaker 2: some of the rules that God had to create in
[58:15] Speaker 2: their own lives, you would.
[58:17] Speaker 1: Think God were too strict.
[58:18] Speaker 2: But that is exactly what kept them and is still
[58:21] Speaker 2: keeping them. When you begin to walk with God, when
[58:25] Speaker 2: you learn doctrine and you rise to a particular point,
[58:29] Speaker 2: listen to me. Let me tell you what God begins
[58:31] Speaker 2: to do. God will begin to introduce unique rules based
[58:35] Speaker 2: on the vulnerabilities He sees in your life. If He
[58:38] Speaker 2: studies you and finds out that, look, it looks like you,
[58:41] Speaker 2: your weakness is women. For instance, God is going to
[58:47] Speaker 2: put a unique rule in your life that applies to
[58:50] Speaker 2: only you. In a way that if somebody looks at you,
[58:54] Speaker 2: you will say, God, this is unfair. God knows what
[58:57] Speaker 2: he's stopping. And once you walk with that mold, you
[59:01] Speaker 2: will find out that you will circumvent that weakness and
[59:04] Speaker 2: you will be able to be great. There are others,
[59:06] Speaker 2: your weakness, you are a man of God. Even if
[59:09] Speaker 2: they lady walks naked in front of you. It does
[59:11] Speaker 2: not affect you. But if you see an envelope. Even
[59:14] Speaker 2: if you are passing and you see an envelope on
[59:15] Speaker 2: the ground. You must pick it and check what is inside.
[59:19] Speaker 2: Watch this. I know you are laughing.
[59:21] Speaker 1: But pay attention.
[59:22] Speaker 2: Are we together? So God knows. When the devil wants
[59:29] Speaker 2: to destroy you, he can bring enemies in the name
[59:32] Speaker 2: of members for only one year who are millionaires but
[59:35] Speaker 2: carry within them the spirit of your destruction. If you
[59:39] Speaker 2: have not gone through the school of the spirit that
[59:41] Speaker 2: has purged you and broken you to a point where
[59:44] Speaker 2: you lose an appetite for those things. So God can
[59:49] Speaker 2: give you rules like you will not have more than
[59:52] Speaker 2: four cars at any point in your life. Your wife
[59:57] Speaker 2: will say, what kind of a husband are you? They
[1:00:00] Speaker 2: gave us ten cars. You gave away six. Why? And
[1:00:03] Speaker 2: you say, I have a covenant with God. God told
[1:00:06] Speaker 2: me I will at any given point, I will only
[1:00:09] Speaker 2: have four cars. It is not a doctrine. It is
[1:00:12] Speaker 2: a training. God has vetted you in the spirit and
[1:00:16] Speaker 2: I found out that if you have more than that,
[1:00:19] Speaker 2: that is the gauge of your discipline. If it crosses that,
[1:00:23] Speaker 2: it can do something to you. Is someone learning? There
[1:00:31] Speaker 2: are people, no matter how they fast and pray, they
[1:00:34] Speaker 2: will not be able to park a stadium to talk
[1:00:37] Speaker 2: to the people. The reason is because what will happen
[1:00:40] Speaker 2: to you after that meeting, because of your low level
[1:00:44] Speaker 2: of prayer, your low level of consecration, God will have
[1:00:47] Speaker 2: to respect the allowance you have given Him in your life.
[1:00:50] Speaker 2: He will not expose you to battles that are beyond
[1:00:53] Speaker 2: your level of spiritual preparation. Is this making sense to you?
[1:01:03] Speaker 2: So the higher you want to rise. That's what I'm
[1:01:05] Speaker 2: trying to say. You must have a deep and a
[1:01:09] Speaker 2: rich experience with God. There are levels when you get
[1:01:13] Speaker 2: to with God. It no longer becomes an emotional dealing.
[1:01:17] Speaker 2: It is a covenant. There are certain things when you
[1:01:20] Speaker 2: do with God. God will bring a sworn blessing upon you.
[1:01:24] Speaker 2: Because you have gone this far. I swear by my name.
[1:01:28] Speaker 2: That in any good state, you will never beg for
[1:01:31] Speaker 2: bread again to your children's children. You see, when you
[1:01:35] Speaker 2: see people come with certain transgenerational blessings, they didn't come
[1:01:38] Speaker 2: just by dancing around and say, God sent me.
[1:01:42] Speaker 1: It was an experience with God. When Abraham took his.
[1:01:47] Speaker 2: Child, only child, and placed that child, he actually was
[1:01:53] Speaker 2: going to kill the child. In fact, he actually killed
[1:01:56] Speaker 2: the child. Because when the child dies in your heart,
[1:02:02] Speaker 2: he really died. Romans chapter 4 already tells us his contemplations.
[1:02:08] Speaker 2: That Abraham planned to kill Isaac. Then when he is done,
[1:02:12] Speaker 2: you say, I've obeyed you. Please raise my child back
[1:02:14] Speaker 2: to life. Let me go back home with him. Because
[1:02:16] Speaker 2: I don't know what to go and tell his mother.
[1:02:18] Speaker 2: I know we easily say, Abraham gave up Isaac. Women.
[1:02:23] Speaker 2: mothers do you know what it means to wake up
[1:02:26] Speaker 2: in the morning and not see your husband and your
[1:02:28] Speaker 2: only child after waiting 25 years honey where are you
[1:02:33] Speaker 2: and the the aids they are not all the aids
[1:02:36] Speaker 2: to have gone oh because they went with him abraham
[1:02:41] Speaker 2: was already ready for his marriage to fail because if
[1:02:45] Speaker 2: you are a woman if that kind of husband comes
[1:02:47] Speaker 2: back let me see the hand that prepares the food
[1:02:51] Speaker 2: for him and he says honey um let's just kneel
[1:02:53] Speaker 2: down and give god thanks in this our generation that
[1:02:57] Speaker 2: is over before he even arrives you have to read
[1:03:03] Speaker 2: the scripture with your mind too so if you don't
[1:03:07] Speaker 2: know what he was willing to lose as he carried
[1:03:09] Speaker 2: isaac do you know what it means it's a different
[1:03:13] Speaker 2: thing that they murdered your son but that you killed
[1:03:16] Speaker 2: him by yourself for the rest of your life, you
[1:03:19] Speaker 2: will not be normal again. You will hear the voice
[1:03:22] Speaker 2: of your son day and night, even if it is
[1:03:25] Speaker 2: after 100 years. Father, what is this? The people who
[1:03:30] Speaker 2: would have killed Abraham himself were the servants. Among those servants,
[1:03:35] Speaker 2: there would be loyalists of his wife. Somebody would say,
[1:03:37] Speaker 2: let's kill this man because we can't stand the shame
[1:03:40] Speaker 2: of telling the wife that we escorted the husband.
[1:03:44] Speaker 1: We've not only lost our jobs, we've lost.
[1:03:47] Speaker 2: Our lives too. Let's kill him so that we all
[1:03:49] Speaker 2: die here. And Abraham said, it does not matter. Let's go.
[1:03:55] Speaker 2: And God was watching. The first and only man that
[1:03:59] Speaker 2: acted what he would be doing himself. When he put
[1:04:03] Speaker 2: Abraham on that altar, he lifted the knife. With the
[1:04:08] Speaker 2: tears in the son's eyes, he still did not stop.
[1:04:11] Speaker 2: It was God who had to say, stop!
[1:04:15] Speaker 1: My question is, what if Abraham did not know how
[1:04:17] Speaker 1: to hear God?
[1:04:22] Speaker 2: Let me repeat it again. There must have been a
[1:04:24] Speaker 2: training on hearing God. So read your Bible and see,
[1:04:27] Speaker 2: before he gave him that instruction, there was a training
[1:04:31] Speaker 2: on hearing God. What if Abraham... the life of abraham
[1:04:37] Speaker 2: and his son was at the mercy of a particular
[1:04:40] Speaker 2: training that he went through jumping the school of the
[1:04:43] Speaker 2: spirit is dangerous because something you are learning today is
[1:04:47] Speaker 2: what will make another training tomorrow make sense what if
[1:04:52] Speaker 2: abraham could not hear god and he finally killed Isaac,
[1:04:57] Speaker 2: he would have written a book that God is a killer.
[1:05:00] Speaker 2: Whereas God said stop. The problem was his hearing. The
[1:05:04] Speaker 2: same way God told you in business, stop. But when
[1:05:06] Speaker 2: God was training you to hear him, you did not hear.
[1:05:10] Speaker 2: God told you have only three children. You had the
[1:05:12] Speaker 2: fourth one. Now the fourth one came with trouble because
[1:05:16] Speaker 2: you did not hear. We keep blaming God on many things.
[1:05:20] Speaker 2: But simply because we could not stay in the school
[1:05:22] Speaker 2: of the Spirit. Please listen carefully. Yesterday, we spent quite
[1:05:43] Speaker 2: some hours in the airport before we came. They kept
[1:05:46] Speaker 2: shifting the flight. I got up early in the morning
[1:05:48] Speaker 2: and while I was praying, I sent my airport people
[1:05:54] Speaker 2: a text. I said, I sense that we are going
[1:05:57] Speaker 2: to travel in the afternoon. I've already had that sense.
[1:06:01] Speaker 2: And I kept seeing a plane in my vision. And
[1:06:06] Speaker 2: I saw the sun while the plane was going. And
[1:06:08] Speaker 2: I know this is not morning. I said, no, no, no.
[1:06:11] Speaker 2: The flight is in place. I already prepared my heart.
[1:06:14] Speaker 2: I said, Lord, whatever it is, I give myself joy.
[1:06:19] Speaker 2: I stayed for five hours in the airport, but I
[1:06:21] Speaker 2: had already prepared what to do. So there was no disappointment.
[1:06:25] Speaker 2: Because somewhere in my training, he had taught me how
[1:06:29] Speaker 2: to know when he is speaking. There are many troubles
[1:06:34] Speaker 2: you get into simply because you don't even know what
[1:06:36] Speaker 2: God is doing. Are we together now? There are times
[1:06:43] Speaker 2: you are about to enter a car that would be
[1:06:46] Speaker 2: the end of your life. But because you rejected the
[1:06:49] Speaker 2: training of discernment, you are unable to know, is this
[1:06:53] Speaker 2: God or is this just my mind? Listen, in these days,
[1:06:58] Speaker 2: leadership and exploiting the spirit will be at the mercy
[1:07:02] Speaker 2: of your experience with God. There is something that if
[1:07:06] Speaker 2: you do not know about God, will destroy you completely.
[1:07:12] Speaker 1: There are men of God who collected money. That's what
[1:07:15] Speaker 1: killed them. Money they should not collect.
[1:07:18] Speaker 2: Somebody sincerely who came not knowing that that was the
[1:07:23] Speaker 2: deception of Jacob and Esau. And they gave their birthright
[1:07:27] Speaker 2: without knowing and they collected 10 million naira. That 10
[1:07:31] Speaker 2: million naira they collected was the beginning of their downfall.
[1:07:38] Speaker 2: But when you walk with God, He will train you
[1:07:41] Speaker 2: that as you rise, not every gift is for your taking.
[1:07:44] Speaker 2: You must have the stamina and the discipline to say
[1:07:47] Speaker 2: no to many good things. Just because it's good does
[1:07:52] Speaker 2: not mean it is of God. You must be trained
[1:07:54] Speaker 2: to know. It is not only evil you say no to.
[1:07:58] Speaker 2: There are many good things in your life. If Satan
[1:08:01] Speaker 2: tries to use sin and evil to kill you and
[1:08:03] Speaker 2: you escape, he will use good things and kill you.
[1:08:06] Speaker 2: The most important thing is that you die.
[1:08:08] Speaker 1: It doesn't matter with what he uses to kill you.
[1:08:14] Speaker 2: Are we together? My sister, you never knew that your assignment...
[1:08:23] Speaker 2: is to marry a great man of God who is
[1:08:25] Speaker 2: going to be blessing the world. So, as a young
[1:08:29] Speaker 2: lady on campus, God begins to deal with you in
[1:08:31] Speaker 2: a certain way. When a gentleman comes to you and says,
[1:08:34] Speaker 2: I like you, God says, let me not even hear
[1:08:36] Speaker 2: that thing again.
[1:08:36] Speaker 1: Go back and let's pray. Say, God, what are you
[1:08:39] Speaker 1: doing with me?
[1:08:40] Speaker 2: You do not know that his building capacity, because the
[1:08:44] Speaker 2: kind of life and destiny you are going to be
[1:08:47] Speaker 2: part of, requires a lot of stand. If you turn
[1:08:52] Speaker 2: aside in the day of.
[1:08:53] Speaker 6: Battle, your strength is gone.
[1:09:00] Speaker 2: Some of you God knew that you would be a
[1:09:02] Speaker 2: minister in Nigeria you were hoping you would go abroad
[1:09:04] Speaker 2: God said this is your place of assignment Nigeria seems
[1:09:07] Speaker 2: to be having problems you stay here this is where
[1:09:10] Speaker 2: your assignment is other people are running God says you
[1:09:13] Speaker 2: are not going anywhere this is your place of stay
[1:09:17] Speaker 2: that was why he taught you on faith It took
[1:09:20] Speaker 2: one year to teach you on faith and you were saying, God,
[1:09:23] Speaker 2: what is it about faith? He said, no, your kind
[1:09:25] Speaker 2: of faith, you don't know the obstacles that will be coming.
[1:09:28] Speaker 2: Learn faith. He will give you instructions to read the
[1:09:31] Speaker 2: books of men of God on faith. Listen, don't run
[1:09:34] Speaker 2: away from the training of God. It does not make
[1:09:37] Speaker 2: sense while he's building you, but you stay there. For
[1:09:42] Speaker 2: someone right now, you are a leader. You are a
[1:09:45] Speaker 2: man of God. But God has stopped you from starting
[1:09:48] Speaker 2: a church. God has stopped you from starting a fellowship.
[1:09:51] Speaker 2: All the people you started together with, they have all
[1:09:54] Speaker 2: kinds of ministerial platforms. And you are just there. To
[1:09:57] Speaker 2: the point that people look at you and say, but
[1:09:59] Speaker 2: there's wisdom. You have been serving for three, five years.
[1:10:02] Speaker 2: Why don't you start a little fellowship? And sincerely you
[1:10:05] Speaker 2: want to do that. And God says, no. The reason
[1:10:08] Speaker 2: is because there is something else He has prepared for
[1:10:10] Speaker 2: you now. You can force yourself out of the will
[1:10:13] Speaker 2: of God. He will honor you, but you must be
[1:10:15] Speaker 2: willing to bear the consequence. Are we together? The man
[1:10:22] Speaker 2: Gordon Lindsay. Gordon Lindsay who founded Christ for the nations.
[1:10:28] Speaker 2: Not Christ for all nations. Christ for the nations. For
[1:10:31] Speaker 2: a long time in Gordon Lindsay's life, he only kept
[1:10:35] Speaker 2: partnering with people and ministries. And people looked at him
[1:10:39] Speaker 2: and said, you're a very anointed man. Why don't you
[1:10:41] Speaker 2: have your own platform? And God would not let him.
[1:10:45] Speaker 2: For a long time he looked like a fool. Until
[1:10:48] Speaker 2: God finally gave him the allowance and when he started
[1:10:51] Speaker 2: Christ for the nations, he just spread around like wildfire.
[1:10:58] Speaker 2: Please hear me great people. End time leadership and end
[1:11:04] Speaker 2: time ministry will not be based on skill alone. End
[1:11:09] Speaker 2: time leadership and end time ministry will not just be
[1:11:12] Speaker 2: based on technical academic skills. If you were in the
[1:11:17] Speaker 2: days of Noah, I shared it the last time I
[1:11:20] Speaker 2: was in a new year. If you were in the
[1:11:22] Speaker 2: days of Noah and the flood was coming, whether you
[1:11:24] Speaker 2: were a professor or you had a store or you
[1:11:28] Speaker 2: had a container to import and export. The rain that
[1:11:31] Speaker 2: was coming was coming to sweep everybody. There was only
[1:11:35] Speaker 2: one skill that was needed. You're hearing God and you're
[1:11:39] Speaker 2: obeying Him. Every time in human history, something seems to
[1:11:45] Speaker 2: happen that shows the superiority of a man's spiritual advantage
[1:11:50] Speaker 2: as against any other advantage. I know that we live
[1:11:54] Speaker 2: in a world today where we over-celebrate intellectualism. I'm not
[1:11:57] Speaker 2: against that. intellectualism is wonderful there are times we celebrate
[1:12:03] Speaker 2: all kinds of crowns and we make it look like
[1:12:06] Speaker 2: even though you are not spiritual at least since you
[1:12:08] Speaker 2: are intelligent is still all right when that flood comes
[1:12:14] Speaker 2: it is not business people who will survive when that
[1:12:18] Speaker 2: flood comes imagine that you were in the days of
[1:12:21] Speaker 2: noah and a flood was coming let's assume you just
[1:12:25] Speaker 2: finished dedicating your shop and then the next day the
[1:12:28] Speaker 2: flood was that you will not be spared simply because
[1:12:32] Speaker 2: your mind thinks well the flood was going to sweep
[1:12:34] Speaker 2: everything there was only one man who survived and he
[1:12:40] Speaker 2: survived on the strength of his relationship for him to
[1:12:44] Speaker 2: be able to build an ark of gopher who tells
[1:12:47] Speaker 2: you he was a skilled man that it took technical
[1:12:50] Speaker 2: skills to make that happen but it took a spiritual
[1:12:53] Speaker 2: foundation to get the instruction leaning on your technical skills
[1:12:58] Speaker 2: alone leadership skills i'm not against it right submit yourself
[1:13:04] Speaker 2: to all of that but please behind everything you do
[1:13:07] Speaker 2: you must know that your experience with god it's very
[1:13:11] Speaker 2: very important so as a ceo you see that one
[1:13:17] Speaker 2: when someone talks about the lord jesus we're not talking
[1:13:21] Speaker 2: spiritual things here we're talking business really Find out how
[1:13:29] Speaker 2: the earth was created. The Bible tells us that the
[1:13:32] Speaker 2: things that do appear came from the realm of the spirit.
[1:13:35] Speaker 2: So any other thing that must appear in your life
[1:13:38] Speaker 2: must come.
[1:13:39] Speaker 1: From the realm of the spirit. I can tell you
[1:13:41] Speaker 1: the truth. My life today.
[1:13:45] Speaker 2: In order of priority, the richest advantage in my life
[1:13:50] Speaker 2: is not anything physical. In fact, I don't trust things
[1:13:54] Speaker 2: that are physical. The greatest advantage in my life today
[1:13:58] Speaker 2: is my relationship and my experience with God. That is
[1:14:01] Speaker 2: the commodity and the product that is worth dying for.
[1:14:07] Speaker 2: No matter what else you lose, The honor that you
[1:14:13] Speaker 2: have only comes because he was there and he's there.
[1:14:17] Speaker 2: The lifting that you have, everything that happens in your life.
[1:14:23] Speaker 2: I would be foolish today to trade my experience with
[1:14:27] Speaker 2: God for more ministerial doors.
[1:14:29] Speaker 1: Trade my experience with God for more.
[1:14:32] Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. I will keep learning. I
[1:14:35] Speaker 2: learn leadership.
[1:14:36] Speaker 1: I train myself, but not at the detriment of the
[1:14:39] Speaker 1: Word of God.
[1:14:40] Speaker 2: My first call in this leadership session, go back to
[1:14:45] Speaker 2: the place of your spiritual foundation. I don't care what
[1:14:48] Speaker 2: kind of business you do. I don't care if you
[1:14:51] Speaker 2: are an administrator.
[1:14:53] Speaker 1: You need to be able to build capacity. A deep
[1:14:56] Speaker 1: and a rich experience with God.
[1:14:59] Speaker 2: That will now give you the stamina to rise. In
[1:15:05] Speaker 2: your name. We will rise. I don't know. You reign
[1:15:15] Speaker 2: on us. It's in your name.
[1:15:21] Speaker 12: You may have heard me say it in my teachings
[1:15:33] Speaker 12: that the lord told me he said son if you
[1:15:37] Speaker 12: will let men see.
[1:15:38] Speaker 2: Me there is nothing i will not give you as
[1:15:42] Speaker 2: at the time god told me that thing i didn't
[1:15:45] Speaker 2: have anything ladies and gentlemen nothing But I said, even
[1:15:51] Speaker 2: if you never give me anything, my life is committed
[1:15:54] Speaker 2: to revealing you. Do you love him more than your business?
[1:16:05] Speaker 2: Don't just say yes because God likes this kind of questions.
[1:16:08] Speaker 2: He will test it. Do you love him? If God
[1:16:14] Speaker 2: asks you to shut your business for one month, you
[1:16:17] Speaker 2: know how much you make per day. And God says,
[1:16:19] Speaker 2: for me, shut it down and spend one month. Will
[1:16:22] Speaker 2: you bind and cast that voice and say, God cannot
[1:16:25] Speaker 2: speak like this. Not after what he knows happened to
[1:16:27] Speaker 2: me last year. The jealousy of God demands that he
[1:16:32] Speaker 2: becomes the epicenter of your Christian experience. Not one of
[1:16:37] Speaker 2: the many important things. Please listen carefully. God demands that
[1:16:42] Speaker 2: he becomes the epicenter of your experience.
[1:16:48] Speaker 1: May God forgive me if I'm lying. But I've searched
[1:16:51] Speaker 1: my life.
[1:16:53] Speaker 2: I do not know.
[1:16:54] Speaker 1: If there is anything in my life today that I
[1:16:57] Speaker 1: cannot give God.
[1:16:59] Speaker 2: Like I said, It is by God's grace and mercy.
[1:17:02] Speaker 2: But as far as I know, you wouldn't believe how
[1:17:08] Speaker 2: many things I've laid down to speak like this.
[1:17:13] Speaker 1: When you see God doing great things with men, remember.
[1:17:16] Speaker 2: This minister's conference is to show you the inner workings
[1:17:21] Speaker 2: of the results you see. You don't just stand and
[1:17:23] Speaker 2: say God's power is made to touch somebody. You are
[1:17:26] Speaker 2: not a herbalist.
[1:17:27] Speaker 1: Even a herbalist, go and ask them.
[1:17:28] Speaker 2: They have levels. There are herbalists that are failures. It
[1:17:31] Speaker 2: doesn't mean that just because you are serving the devil,
[1:17:33] Speaker 2: you are successful. It's still the same rule of consecration
[1:17:37] Speaker 2: and depth. how many sign levels there are those that
[1:17:40] Speaker 2: you go to and it will still not work because
[1:17:43] Speaker 2: they don't even know the devil.
[1:17:46] Speaker 1: Are we together now.
[1:17:50] Speaker 2: So just because it is satan you are serving does
[1:17:53] Speaker 2: not guarantee results no you need to know the devil
[1:17:58] Speaker 2: deep enough he still takes this relationship.
[1:18:01] Speaker 1: We're talking about.
[1:18:09] Speaker 4: I have searched and searched all the earth. Searched and
[1:18:14] Speaker 4: searched all the earth.
[1:18:17] Speaker 2: And found that Babu Anika America.
[1:18:24] Speaker 4: I have searched and searched all the earth. Searched and searched.
[1:18:30] Speaker 2: All the earth.
[1:18:32] Speaker 13: And found that Babu Anika America.
[1:18:38] Speaker 2: This song came to me early in the morning i
[1:18:40] Speaker 2: was in camera and just worshiping the lord very early
[1:18:45] Speaker 2: in the morning celebrating his greatness and then this song
[1:18:49] Speaker 2: came to my spirit the house apart says there is
[1:18:57] Speaker 2: no one like you that's what it means i have
[1:19:00] Speaker 2: searched It took a long search to come to the
[1:19:05] Speaker 2: conclusion that no one is worth my life. So don't
[1:19:08] Speaker 2: tell me why are you so fanatical. I searched. My
[1:19:13] Speaker 2: loyalty to God is not in ignorance. I have options
[1:19:17] Speaker 2: but I checked. My loving him is a conclusion. Now
[1:19:24] Speaker 2: you understand.
[1:19:25] Speaker 4: That I have searched and searched all the earth. Searched
[1:19:30] Speaker 4: and searched all the earth and found that. I have
[1:19:41] Speaker 4: searched and searched all the earth.
[1:19:44] Speaker 6: Searched and searched all the earth and found that.
[1:19:50] Speaker 7: That's what the chorus says.
[1:19:57] Speaker 2: I will love him in life And I will love
[1:20:26] Speaker 2: him in death. Call me CEO. I am still the
[1:20:30] Speaker 2: lover of God. Call me a businessman. I am still
[1:20:35] Speaker 2: the lover of God. Call me an apostle and a prophet.
[1:20:39] Speaker 2: The noblest title you can give me is the lover
[1:20:42] Speaker 2: of God.
[1:20:45] Speaker 1: For that is the realm where.
[1:20:46] Speaker 2: No eye has seen. That is the realm where no
[1:20:49] Speaker 2: ear has heard. Neither has it come into the comprehension
[1:20:52] Speaker 2: of men what God has in store. Not for them
[1:20:55] Speaker 2: that preach. Not for them that do business. Not even
[1:20:58] Speaker 2: for them that pray. The realm of lovers is the
[1:21:01] Speaker 2: realm of heights that you cannot understand.
[1:21:05] Speaker 6: Hear me.
[1:21:14] Speaker 2: This morning service came to turn you from a businessman
[1:21:19] Speaker 2: to a lover of god from a man of god
[1:21:22] Speaker 2: a pastor to a lover of god if this is
[1:21:28] Speaker 2: all i achieved and were not able to touch any
[1:21:30] Speaker 2: other thing within the time left it was a successful
[1:21:33] Speaker 2: thing my assignment this morning or afternoon is not just
[1:21:37] Speaker 2: to come and share with you leadership principles you belong
[1:21:41] Speaker 2: to an excellent church Don't tell me you are a CEO.
[1:21:46] Speaker 2: Leave the issue of your container. Are you a lover
[1:21:48] Speaker 2: of God? Leave the issue of your restaurant. Congratulations. Are
[1:21:53] Speaker 2: you a lover of God? Leave the issue of the
[1:21:55] Speaker 2: church that you have. For a minute, forget about your
[1:21:59] Speaker 2: congregation and your desire to build your church and your
[1:22:02] Speaker 2: desire for more land and your desire to find.
[1:22:05] Speaker 1: No, no, no.
[1:22:06] Speaker 2: Throw all that away.
[1:22:13] Speaker 4: I have searched and searched all the earth, searched and
[1:22:18] Speaker 4: searched all the earth, and found that I'm only a man.
[1:22:29] Speaker 4: I have searched and searched all the earth, searched and
[1:22:34] Speaker 4: searched all the earth, and found.
[1:22:38] Speaker 6: That I'm only a man.
[1:22:44] Speaker 2: He said bless the Lord oh my soul And forget
[1:22:47] Speaker 2: not his benefits Hear me Most of us As you
[1:22:54] Speaker 2: are hearing me preach You need to repent Because most
[1:22:58] Speaker 2: of us would prefer to be called the CEO of
[1:23:02] Speaker 2: XYZ conglomerate than to be called the lover of God.
[1:23:06] Speaker 2: It looks like an insult. What a demeaning title. Give
[1:23:10] Speaker 2: me something more superior that this man is standing among
[1:23:13] Speaker 2: my peers. For instance, he owns five conglomerates. He owns
[1:23:18] Speaker 2: this and that. He's a billionaire.
[1:23:20] Speaker 1: He's an intelligent person.
[1:23:22] Speaker 2: Noble descriptions. but nothing comes close to the realm of
[1:23:25] Speaker 2: love because when everything failed it was love that stood
[1:23:31] Speaker 2: when wisdom failed love was still standing even when faith
[1:23:35] Speaker 2: failed love was.
[1:23:37] Speaker 1: Still standing listen to me ladies and gentlemen.
[1:23:41] Speaker 2: Your leadership will be an ineffective leadership god will not
[1:23:45] Speaker 2: even give you an opportunity to scale the heights of
[1:23:47] Speaker 2: influence until he knows That you love him and you
[1:23:54] Speaker 2: are passionately addicted and connected to him. If I ever
[1:24:01] Speaker 2: give you any secret about my life and the privilege
[1:24:05] Speaker 2: of the bits that God is doing with this man,
[1:24:07] Speaker 2: this is it here. It is beyond the realm of prayer.
[1:24:11] Speaker 2: It is beyond the realm of fasting. It is beyond
[1:24:14] Speaker 2: the realm of Bible study. Go and ask God. How
[1:24:19] Speaker 2: much I love him. And you will know why he
[1:24:21] Speaker 2: does what he does. Now please listen. When. The first lady.
[1:24:28] Speaker 2: Is not around here. But yesterday. When your pastor finished.
[1:24:34] Speaker 2: Introducing everybody. Even though she is far away. Thousands of kilometers.
[1:24:42] Speaker 2: He still took the time. To give a description. About her.
[1:24:48] Speaker 2: Not even the man of God who came to preach
[1:24:50] Speaker 2: made him forget his wife. Not even the dignitaries that
[1:24:54] Speaker 2: came made him to forget his wife. He had to
[1:24:57] Speaker 2: honor her and you celebrated her. There are some people,
[1:25:01] Speaker 2: it doesn't matter where they are, the jealousy of God
[1:25:05] Speaker 2: keeps trailing them like a shadow because of the depth
[1:25:08] Speaker 2: of their love for him. So while they are sleeping,
[1:25:12] Speaker 2: someone is planning that this man and his children, they
[1:25:16] Speaker 2: should not live to survive the end of 2022.
[1:25:21] Speaker 1: God will not even allow you to start praying about it.
[1:25:24] Speaker 2: He takes that issue personal. Who did you say you
[1:25:26] Speaker 2: want to kill? Did the Bible not say, Jealousy is
[1:25:31] Speaker 2: the rage of a man. You want to know how
[1:25:33] Speaker 2: angry a man can be, you touch his wife. Most
[1:25:39] Speaker 2: of us have not been able to secure the jealousy
[1:25:41] Speaker 2: of heaven because your love for God is still in question.
[1:25:45] Speaker 2: Can I tell you?
[1:25:47] Speaker 1: Only God knows the arrows that fly by day against.
[1:25:50] Speaker 2: Some of us. The noisome pestilence. It is only when
[1:25:54] Speaker 2: we get to heaven we will know the amount of
[1:25:56] Speaker 2: things we have eaten that are poisons that should have
[1:25:58] Speaker 2: killed us. No matter how intelligent you are, we see impact.
[1:26:04] Speaker 2: As far as the world of men is concerned, when
[1:26:06] Speaker 2: men want to get you, only God can save you.
[1:26:09] Speaker 2: So if you are standing, it's because there's something about
[1:26:13] Speaker 2: your love. Listen to me. Any container that replaces God
[1:26:19] Speaker 2: in your life is an idol. I don't care if
[1:26:21] Speaker 2: it's Bibles that are inside. Anything that replaces God, your business,
[1:26:28] Speaker 2: the things you are importing and exporting, The restaurants that
[1:26:32] Speaker 2: you have.
[1:26:33] Speaker 1: The leadership.
[1:26:34] Speaker 2: Man of God. Do you know church can become an idol?
[1:26:38] Speaker 2: Don't think just because it's a spiritual venture. Church can
[1:26:42] Speaker 2: become an idol. You don't care whether God is there
[1:26:45] Speaker 2: or not. Your relationship with God can go places. Provided
[1:26:49] Speaker 2: the religiosity of the activity is there. Do you love him?
[1:27:00] Speaker 2: Don't think God is wasting your time this morning. Do
[1:27:03] Speaker 2: you love him? Many of you have given your heart
[1:27:06] Speaker 2: to people of lesser honor. You gave your heart freely
[1:27:11] Speaker 2: for people whose lives you did not even verify. And
[1:27:14] Speaker 2: here is someone who has assured you that he loves you.
[1:27:17] Speaker 2: And you are still asking questions. Can I trust you
[1:27:19] Speaker 2: with my heart? Please hear me.
[1:27:26] Speaker 1: There are realms of increase. There are realms of finances.
[1:27:31] Speaker 2: I wish sometimes my heart boils to want to give
[1:27:34] Speaker 2: a few testimonies. But sometimes even when I give them,
[1:27:37] Speaker 2: I listen to the message, I still feel guilty again.
[1:27:39] Speaker 2: I say, I shouldn't have said that. I should have
[1:27:41] Speaker 2: just preached.
[1:27:43] Speaker 1: I cannot begin to tell you the things that God
[1:27:45] Speaker 1: has done in this life.
[1:27:48] Speaker 2: Purely a love affair. When a man buys something and
[1:27:56] Speaker 2: takes to his wife, it's not her birthday, it's not
[1:28:00] Speaker 2: any anniversary, it's not whatever. He just buys a car
[1:28:04] Speaker 2: and gives his wife. And she says, my husband, what
[1:28:07] Speaker 2: is this for? He said, thank you for being my wife.
[1:28:10] Speaker 2: You can stand in anger and say, but this is
[1:28:12] Speaker 2: not fair. Well, that's the blessing of taking the risk
[1:28:16] Speaker 2: to be his wife. So when you see a man
[1:28:19] Speaker 2: love the Lord like a faithful bride, don't say, why
[1:28:22] Speaker 2: is God blessing this person? I can't remember him praying
[1:28:25] Speaker 2: over this thing. Why did God still answer? Because in
[1:28:29] Speaker 2: the realm of lovers, anything is allowed. God can take
[1:28:36] Speaker 2: a man's prayer request of 10 years and give you.
[1:28:39] Speaker 2: You can see a man hosting dimensions of grace and
[1:28:42] Speaker 2: glory that does not seem to match your knowledge of him.
[1:28:46] Speaker 2: It is the lover who gave him, not just the giver.
[1:28:50] Speaker 2: A giver can give, but when a lover gives, he
[1:28:54] Speaker 2: gives to reflect his love. Are we together? I can
[1:29:03] Speaker 2: give you 10 naira as a giver, but when a
[1:29:06] Speaker 2: husband gives to his wife, he does not give sparing
[1:29:10] Speaker 2: because the gift is supposed to communicate how much he
[1:29:13] Speaker 2: loves her. After this meeting you see Some of you
[1:29:20] Speaker 2: will go back And the things God begins to do
[1:29:23] Speaker 2: in your life In addition to what you learned yesterday
[1:29:26] Speaker 2: People will ask you And say come what is it
[1:29:29] Speaker 2: about you Tell them you want to know Why God
[1:29:34] Speaker 2: does the things that he does Find out my love
[1:29:37] Speaker 2: for him Don't just find out my service for him
[1:29:41] Speaker 2: Find out my love Not just my money Not just.
[1:29:45] Speaker 1: The things that I do My love for him I've
[1:29:49] Speaker 1: seen what God can do.
[1:29:50] Speaker 2: Look, I have a lot of this, my wonderful children.
[1:29:53] Speaker 2: And both in Abuja and then Zaria. And sometimes when
[1:29:57] Speaker 2: I travel and I'm with them after service, that's when
[1:30:00] Speaker 2: their own church starts. All they jump in, they pray
[1:30:03] Speaker 2: in tongues and do whatever. As soon as they see
[1:30:05] Speaker 2: the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, they are lining
[1:30:07] Speaker 2: up and waiting to hug me. And when they come
[1:30:10] Speaker 2: to hug me, they don't care whether I'm tired. They
[1:30:12] Speaker 2: don't care whether I've preached. That is their own service.
[1:30:16] Speaker 2: And they hug and sometimes they ask me to bring
[1:30:18] Speaker 2: my ears down. Can you imagine that? That's the implication
[1:30:24] Speaker 2: of love. I bring my ears down and they tell me,
[1:30:27] Speaker 2: I want bicycle with confidence. Or my birthday is next week.
[1:30:35] Speaker 2: Sometimes they write me letters. They mix all kinds of
[1:30:38] Speaker 2: English and force me to read it. That is how
[1:30:41] Speaker 2: far love can go. So two of you can do
[1:30:46] Speaker 2: the same thing. It will look like God's best one.
[1:30:49] Speaker 2: And the other one is still remaining there. Because love
[1:30:52] Speaker 2: created exemption for another. Please hear me. Return back to
[1:30:57] Speaker 2: your love life. any business any church any ministry some
[1:31:02] Speaker 2: of you may need to shut down a few ministrations
[1:31:05] Speaker 2: and say thank god for all the invites church is
[1:31:08] Speaker 2: growing but i need to shut down a bit and
[1:31:11] Speaker 2: spend that time with him and say the lover of
[1:31:13] Speaker 2: my soul i am still here that boy you carried
[1:31:17] Speaker 2: is still there i know today they call me daddy
[1:31:20] Speaker 2: they call me emoji they call me prophet they call
[1:31:23] Speaker 2: me apostle they call me evangelist but i have come
[1:31:26] Speaker 2: to you And God says, you still remember. Even after
[1:31:31] Speaker 2: all this lifting, prepare for the next level. I just
[1:31:37] Speaker 2: described myself for you. Prepare for the next level. So
[1:31:41] Speaker 2: that when you think you have exhausted these people, oh
[1:31:44] Speaker 2: they've tried.
[1:31:45] Speaker 1: You see a new layer of glory and grace.
[1:31:49] Speaker 2: And signed upon their life will be the lover of
[1:31:52] Speaker 2: their soul.
[1:31:54] Speaker 6: Hallelujah.
[1:31:58] Speaker 2: We are going to pray. I have about 20 minutes.
[1:32:00] Speaker 1: I will talk about something within.
[1:32:02] Speaker 2: That 20 minutes. We are going to judiciously use our time.
[1:32:06] Speaker 2: But for the next 3 or 4 minutes. You are
[1:32:09] Speaker 2: going to cry. Whether you want to go on your knees.
[1:32:11] Speaker 2: Whether you want to do whatever. You are going to
[1:32:13] Speaker 2: say Lord forgive me. If I am to be sincere.
[1:32:17] Speaker 1: I know that certain things have replaced you.
[1:32:20] Speaker 2: It may not be that you are bad. This is
[1:32:22] Speaker 2: not a call to condemnation. It's a call to repentance.
[1:32:27] Speaker 2: To say Lord. You don't have to go on your knees.
[1:32:29] Speaker 2: But whatever position is comfortable. We are going to pray.
[1:32:33] Speaker 14: We are going to pray. We are going to pray.
[1:32:39] Speaker 14: We are going to pray.
[1:32:46] Speaker 2: Adonai. Lamb of God. You are worthy. Worthy of my.
[1:32:56] Speaker 6: Praise King of kings.
[1:33:03] Speaker 2: Lord of lords Let your kingdom reign In my life
[1:33:17] Speaker 2: I love you Lord And I lift my.
[1:33:23] Speaker 4: Voice To worship you, O my.
[1:33:30] Speaker 2: Soul, rejoice.
[1:33:34] Speaker 15: Take joy, my King, in what you hear.
[1:33:41] Speaker 2: Help me.
[1:33:41] Speaker 5: May it be a sweet, sweet sound of peace.
[1:34:10] Speaker 2: Oh lord i return i don't know when the passion
[1:34:29] Speaker 2: for ministry took your place I didn't even realize that
[1:34:34] Speaker 2: this is how far I've cleared off.
[1:34:38] Speaker 1: Ah, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry.
[1:34:41] Speaker 2: Cry. Oh God. You are my God.
[1:35:03] Speaker 6: And I will ever praise you. Oh God, you are
[1:35:08] Speaker 6: my God. And I will ever praise you.
[1:35:26] Speaker 2: Oh, God save you.
[1:35:28] Speaker 8: Oh, God, you are my God. And I will never
[1:35:38] Speaker 8: break you.
[1:35:44] Speaker 6: I am your own.
[1:35:48] Speaker 2: I am your own. Till the day you will come.
[1:35:54] Speaker 5: Jesus, I am your own. I am your own.
[1:36:05] Speaker 2: Till the day you will come. Jesus, I am your own.
[1:36:12] Speaker 5: I am your.
[1:36:15] Speaker 16: Own.
[1:36:16] Speaker 6: I am your own.
[1:36:19] Speaker 5: Till the day you will come. Jesus, I am your own.
[1:36:30] Speaker 2: I belong to you. Total surrender. my heart my life
[1:36:36] Speaker 2: my everything you're not wasting your time man of God
[1:36:40] Speaker 2: this is the secret to genuine.
[1:36:42] Speaker 1: Power more than just.
[1:36:44] Speaker 2: Principles your experience with God for some of you you
[1:36:50] Speaker 2: need to repent you have been distracted you've fared off
[1:36:55] Speaker 2: looking for many things.
[1:37:09] Speaker 4: I will lay down my idols thrones I have made
[1:37:15] Speaker 4: and all that has taken in my heart.
[1:37:24] Speaker 2: Lord I will bow.
[1:37:26] Speaker 8: To you to no other.
[1:37:31] Speaker 2: God but you.
[1:37:38] Speaker 4: Lord, I will worship you. Nothing hands have made but you, Lord.
[1:37:53] Speaker 15: Take my body, my soul, my spirit.
[1:37:57] Speaker 6: Breathe on me.
[1:38:01] Speaker 2: Take my body, my soul, my spirit. Breathe on me.
[1:38:09] Speaker 17: You are the Holy Ghost.
[1:38:14] Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost.
[1:38:20] Speaker 5: Holy Ghost.
[1:38:23] Speaker 2: Take your place. Take your place.
[1:38:30] Speaker 4: Take your place Take your place Take your.
[1:38:42] Speaker 18: Place Take your place.
[1:38:48] Speaker 15: Take your place take my body my soul my spirit
[1:38:56] Speaker 15: breathe on me take my body my soul my spirit
[1:39:04] Speaker 15: breathe on me take my body my soul my spirit.
[1:39:18] Speaker 2: Just a few more minutes.
[1:39:20] Speaker 16: We're praying there is a work of purging that god.
[1:39:23] Speaker 2: Is doing in someone's life purging god is purging god
[1:39:48] Speaker 2: is watching.
[1:39:53] Speaker 4: How i love to stand for you.
[1:40:01] Speaker 2: How i love to.
[1:40:05] Speaker 19: Worship you keep praying And even though it hurts me
[1:40:12] Speaker 19: for every step I take. And even though it pains
[1:40:19] Speaker 19: me for every move I make.
[1:40:23] Speaker 2: But I love you.
[1:40:28] Speaker 6: I could never ever do without you.
[1:40:31] Speaker 8: I love you.
[1:40:35] Speaker 4: I could never ever do without you. I can never
[1:40:43] Speaker 4: ever do without you.
[1:40:45] Speaker 2: I love you.
[1:40:47] Speaker 5: I love you.
[1:40:50] Speaker 2: I'm giving you a piece of my secret place. I
[1:40:56] Speaker 2: love you. I love you.
[1:41:15] Speaker 17: Thank you to the love of your soul.
[1:41:27] Speaker 2: Love the voices.
[1:41:44] Speaker 6: One more time.
[1:41:44] Speaker 20: Oh, I.
[1:42:17] Speaker 2: Love you. I love you.
[1:42:24] Speaker 7: Let the fire from your altar touch my body.
[1:42:35] Speaker 4: My altar is calling you.
[1:42:40] Speaker 2: You're not wasting your time. My altar is calling you.
[1:42:50] Speaker 2: My worship.
[1:42:58] Speaker 7: My destiny is calling you.
[1:43:12] Speaker 2: Shalina bus run down on the government and I'm not
[1:43:15] Speaker 2: going to have a lot of fun about it and
[1:43:17] Speaker 2: I'm not going to have a lot of fun about
[1:43:19] Speaker 2: it and I'm not going to have a lot of
[1:43:21] Speaker 2: fun about it and I'm not going to have a
[1:43:25] Speaker 2: lot of fun about.
[1:43:25] Speaker 7: It Let the fire from your altar touch my body.
[1:43:59] Speaker 2: That was the cry of Isaiah.
[1:44:01] Speaker 6: Let the fire from your.
[1:44:04] Speaker 2: Altar touch me. Purify everything that is not of God.
[1:44:09] Speaker 4: Let the fire from your altar touch me.
[1:44:17] Speaker 13: Let the fire.
[1:44:34] Speaker 2: While your worshiping god is sorting your business while your
[1:44:38] Speaker 2: worshiping god is arranging things for you While your worship
[1:44:42] Speaker 2: in God is arranging the people who will come and
[1:44:45] Speaker 2: sow the land for the church. Forget about the sorrow.
[1:44:57] Speaker 2: Go ahead.
[1:44:58] Speaker 1: Something is happening here.
[1:45:03] Speaker 4: My voice lifted up.
[1:45:09] Speaker 2: I will sing your praise. My ends lifted up. I
[1:45:20] Speaker 2: will worship you.
[1:45:26] Speaker 4: You've taken the pain and the sorrow away. You've given
[1:45:32] Speaker 4: me peace undeniable. There's no need to cry because.
[1:45:39] Speaker 8: You're always with me.
[1:45:41] Speaker 4: You're my Father, my everything.
[1:45:46] Speaker 2: Oh, Mary, my baby.
[1:45:55] Speaker 18: Go ahead and worship him.
[1:46:06] Speaker 5: Lord, you took my pit away and then you gave
[1:46:10] Speaker 5: me joy.
[1:46:11] Speaker 4: You're my peace, my melody in the center of the storm.
[1:46:17] Speaker 2: You gave me.
[1:46:18] Speaker 4: A path so strong to say to you, That's why
[1:46:23] Speaker 4: I will lift up my voice.
[1:46:26] Speaker 2: Come on, sing to me.
[1:46:29] Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[1:46:44] Speaker 4: Taking the pain and the sorrow away.
[1:47:06] Speaker 2: I command the restoration of your passion for god a
[1:47:11] Speaker 2: restoration of your passion for some of you after this
[1:47:16] Speaker 2: conference you will start your own retreat with god because
[1:47:19] Speaker 2: god is calling you you may need to shut down
[1:47:23] Speaker 2: even in the secular we have public holidays where you
[1:47:25] Speaker 2: shut down things so that you can face family or
[1:47:29] Speaker 2: honor a national day or whatever it is God is
[1:47:34] Speaker 2: calling you. Man of God, by now you would have
[1:47:36] Speaker 2: been a mighty prophet. By now your business would have
[1:47:39] Speaker 2: gone around the world. But you have been searching for
[1:47:42] Speaker 2: every other thing and you ignore the lover of your soul.
[1:47:45] Speaker 2: Get back to the place of the altar. Leave me
[1:47:49] Speaker 2: at the altar with my father. Leave me at the
[1:47:57] Speaker 2: altar with my father. listen you see.
[1:48:05] Speaker 6: Until you.
[1:48:11] Speaker 2: Understand the place of genuine love it is the one
[1:48:18] Speaker 2: secret i found and when i found it it was
[1:48:23] Speaker 2: a master secret love oh i love him i love
[1:48:29] Speaker 2: him i love him i can tell you that you
[1:48:37] Speaker 2: want to see god prosper you Second Chronicles 26 5.
[1:48:43] Speaker 2: For as long as he sought the Lord, the Lord
[1:48:47] Speaker 2: made him. You can try to make yourself vain is
[1:48:51] Speaker 2: the help of man. The Lord made him to be
[1:48:55] Speaker 2: the leading man of God within his city.
[1:48:58] Speaker 1: The Lord made him.
[1:48:59] Speaker 2: The Lord made her.
[1:49:01] Speaker 1: The Lord made your products.
[1:49:03] Speaker 2: That all of a sudden within one month, your product
[1:49:07] Speaker 2: is what is being patronized all over Ngo. And people
[1:49:10] Speaker 2: are saying by what means? A covenant happened. If a
[1:49:15] Speaker 2: gentleman comes here right now. And by evening he returns
[1:49:20] Speaker 2: back and tells you he is a billionaire. You will
[1:49:22] Speaker 2: not tell him what did you do. You will say
[1:49:24] Speaker 2: where did you go. Because this kind of wealth is
[1:49:26] Speaker 2: not about what you have done again. There has to
[1:49:29] Speaker 2: be a covenant that has produced this kind of speed.
[1:49:32] Speaker 1: We are talking of soaring.
[1:49:35] Speaker 2: Some of you have lingered too long.
[1:49:39] Speaker 1: That is where anger and jealousy.
[1:49:41] Speaker 2: And pain and petty things come from. You can allow
[1:49:45] Speaker 2: the lover to lift you. And you will find yourself
[1:49:49] Speaker 2: soaring in dimensions you never imagined. This is my life.
[1:49:55] Speaker 2: Sit down for five minutes. Let me introduce something to
[1:49:58] Speaker 2: you and then we'll wrap up. Just leave those under
[1:50:03] Speaker 2: the anointing. Leave them to have their time with God.
[1:50:07] Speaker 2: The conference is like a retreat for some of you.
[1:50:28] Speaker 2: Help us to love you. Help us to live for you.
[1:50:34] Speaker 2: May we never match you with business. May we never
[1:50:40] Speaker 2: match you with church. May we never match you with anointing.
[1:50:47] Speaker 2: Prayer is not God. Prayer is only there because there
[1:50:50] Speaker 2: is God. Fasting is not God. Fasting is only necessary
[1:50:55] Speaker 2: because there is God. Bible study is not God. God
[1:50:59] Speaker 2: is not a page. He is alive. All and everything
[1:51:05] Speaker 2: points to Him. And when your.
[1:51:07] Speaker 1: Life fails and ceases to point to Him, you are
[1:51:10] Speaker 1: then in trouble.
[1:51:18] Speaker 2: Let me introduce... Just one more concept. Proverbs chapter 13
[1:51:30] Speaker 2: verse 20. I touched on this and we're done. I
[1:51:34] Speaker 2: spoke about the depth and the richness of your experience
[1:51:38] Speaker 2: with God. Proverbs 13 verse 20. Just one last word.
[1:51:44] Speaker 2: 13 and 20 please give it to us 1 3
[1:51:53] Speaker 2: and 0 proverbs 13 and verse 20 let's read together
[1:51:58] Speaker 2: if you can see it ready want to read he
[1:52:02] Speaker 2: that walketh with wise men shall be wise but a
[1:52:08] Speaker 2: companion of fools shall be destroyed please read it one
[1:52:11] Speaker 2: more time He that walketh with wise men shall be wise,
[1:52:17] Speaker 2: but a companion of fools. The Bible tells us very
[1:52:24] Speaker 2: clearly from Psalm 115 and verse 16. I believe Psalm
[1:52:28] Speaker 2: 115 and verse 16. It says the highest heavens or
[1:52:32] Speaker 2: the heaven of heavens... belong to the lord but the
[1:52:37] Speaker 2: earth has he given to the children of men that
[1:52:40] Speaker 2: means when it has to do with functioning in the
[1:52:44] Speaker 2: earth the cosmos this is the world of men even
[1:52:49] Speaker 2: though owned by god listen carefully if you do not
[1:52:52] Speaker 2: understand this your leadership will fail i just needed to
[1:52:55] Speaker 2: introduce this even though the earth is the lord's listen
[1:53:01] Speaker 2: carefully The steward of the earth is man.
[1:53:06] Speaker 1: The owner of the earth is the Lord.
[1:53:09] Speaker 2: That means for you to excel in life, you must
[1:53:13] Speaker 2: know both the owner and the steward. Are we together now?
[1:53:19] Speaker 2: Most of us here rent houses and usually you don't
[1:53:22] Speaker 2: have the privilege of seeing the owner or knowing the
[1:53:25] Speaker 2: owner except in a few instances. There usually is someone
[1:53:28] Speaker 2: between the owner and the tenant called the caretaker. Is
[1:53:31] Speaker 2: that true? And the caretaker has been mandated by the
[1:53:35] Speaker 2: owner to protect his interest as far as that business
[1:53:38] Speaker 2: is concerned. Am I correct on that? So it is
[1:53:41] Speaker 2: the caretaker who does all the negotiations, the paperwork and
[1:53:45] Speaker 2: whatever it is. In fact, there are times that the
[1:53:48] Speaker 2: owner can be overseas and then there is a caretaker
[1:53:51] Speaker 2: who manages his estate. The Bible tells us that the
[1:53:56] Speaker 2: earth that we function in belongs to the Lord, Psalm 24.
[1:54:01] Speaker 2: But Psalm 115 is saying the stewardship of the earth
[1:54:05] Speaker 2: is in the hands of man. that means whatever happens
[1:54:09] Speaker 2: in the earth is not a reflection of the power
[1:54:11] Speaker 2: of god it's a reflection of the faithful stewardship or
[1:54:15] Speaker 2: the mismanagement of that caretaker if you do not have
[1:54:19] Speaker 2: this wisdom understanding about the cosmos you can be spiritual.
[1:54:23] Speaker 1: And you will still fail this world is the world
[1:54:28] Speaker 1: of men.
[1:54:30] Speaker 2: Hallelujah when God put man in the garden. He gave
[1:54:35] Speaker 2: him stewardship. And even when he saw him failing, he
[1:54:39] Speaker 2: still honored his decision. That is how faithful God is.
[1:54:44] Speaker 2: That means it is possible for God to speak excellent
[1:54:47] Speaker 2: things over your life, your church, your business, your state.
[1:54:52] Speaker 2: And yet you do not see God manifest on that wise.
[1:54:56] Speaker 2: Because we do not understand the dynamics of excelling in
[1:55:00] Speaker 2: the cosmos. every time i talk to leaders if i
[1:55:04] Speaker 2: have one thing to teach them is this understanding of
[1:55:08] Speaker 2: men yesterday we began to discuss and our time is
[1:55:13] Speaker 2: gone so i'm just going to touch.
[1:55:14] Speaker 1: It and then we're done on being helped by god.
[1:55:19] Speaker 2: And i did teach you that there are three expressions
[1:55:22] Speaker 2: of the help of god number one is the ministry
[1:55:26] Speaker 2: of mercy number two is the gift of man that
[1:55:33] Speaker 2: means every time god wants to help an individual and
[1:55:36] Speaker 2: help a leader he introduces you to men the bible
[1:55:42] Speaker 2: says what is man that thou art mindful of not
[1:55:46] Speaker 2: the son of man that thou visitest him you find
[1:55:48] Speaker 2: that in psalm 8 he says for thou has made
[1:55:51] Speaker 2: him lower than elohim You have crowned him with glory
[1:55:55] Speaker 2: and honor. You have set him over the works of
[1:55:58] Speaker 2: your hands. Hebrews chapter 2, Paul gives a clever perspective
[1:56:01] Speaker 2: to Psalm 8. And he says you have set him
[1:56:04] Speaker 2: over the works of your hands. And in doing so,
[1:56:07] Speaker 2: you did not leave anything that was not under his feet.
[1:56:12] Speaker 2: You have to appreciate that mankind, listen carefully, the human
[1:56:16] Speaker 2: species is the zenith of God's creation. That means God
[1:56:21] Speaker 2: bound himself with a covenant that every time he has
[1:56:25] Speaker 2: to function in the earth, he will need a man
[1:56:28] Speaker 2: to walk in partnership with him. He can do without
[1:56:31] Speaker 2: a man, but he has so chosen by his predetermined
[1:56:35] Speaker 2: counsel to not walk outside of men. So, the world
[1:56:42] Speaker 2: is the world of men. I don't have time, I
[1:56:46] Speaker 2: would have described for you the condition of to be
[1:56:50] Speaker 2: a man because to be a man you first have
[1:56:53] Speaker 2: to be a spirit if you are not a spirit
[1:56:56] Speaker 2: you cannot be a man are we together now every
[1:57:00] Speaker 2: man is first a spirit but a spirit alone cannot
[1:57:04] Speaker 2: be called man you have to be a spirit that
[1:57:08] Speaker 2: is hosted in a physical body there are all kinds
[1:57:15] Speaker 2: of bodies But the only body that makes an individual
[1:57:19] Speaker 2: to be called man is a physical body. And then
[1:57:22] Speaker 2: midwifing that spirit and that body is your mental faculty.
[1:57:29] Speaker 2: Thank you. Are we together now? Yes. So, there are
[1:57:34] Speaker 2: many spirits. Angels cannot be called men. There are spirits.
[1:57:39] Speaker 2: But they do not have our bodies. Our configuration is
[1:57:45] Speaker 2: not given to them. Animals have physical bodies. But they
[1:57:48] Speaker 2: do not have spirits. You cannot call animals men. You
[1:57:53] Speaker 2: need to understand who God gave the earth to. God
[1:57:56] Speaker 2: did not give the earth to goats. Or whatever it is.
[1:58:00] Speaker 2: Water is physical. But you cannot call water man. Even
[1:58:06] Speaker 2: though water moves like man. You can hear the sound
[1:58:09] Speaker 2: like that. so when it has to do with excelling
[1:58:13] Speaker 2: in the earth if you understand your business and you
[1:58:17] Speaker 2: do not understand men you will fail the first product
[1:58:22] Speaker 2: you need to understand is man second only to your
[1:58:27] Speaker 2: understanding of God The moment you understand God, as far
[1:58:31] Speaker 2: as leadership and influence and excellence is concerned, you must
[1:58:36] Speaker 2: understand man. Every trouble on earth today came because of man.
[1:58:44] Speaker 2: The salvation that we have received came from a man.
[1:58:49] Speaker 2: The man called Jesus.
[1:58:50] Speaker 20: Are we together?
[1:58:53] Speaker 2: Are we together? The one who purchased salvation for us.
[1:58:58] Speaker 2: He did not purchase salvation as a spirit. No. He
[1:59:01] Speaker 2: had to become a man. To come and die as
[1:59:05] Speaker 2: a man. Mentored as a man. Resurrected as a man.
[1:59:10] Speaker 2: And is today seated at the right hand of the
[1:59:12] Speaker 2: father as a man. The reason why we know Jesus
[1:59:16] Speaker 2: is coming is because he left with his body.
[1:59:19] Speaker 1: He doesn't need another.
[1:59:20] Speaker 2: Body to return. The assurance of his coming is because
[1:59:24] Speaker 2: when he left, he left with his body. So he
[1:59:27] Speaker 2: has satisfied the condition that still gives him allowance into
[1:59:30] Speaker 2: the world of man. The first time he could not
[1:59:34] Speaker 2: just come because he never had a physical body.
[1:59:37] Speaker 1: So he needed to go through the labor of finding
[1:59:39] Speaker 1: a virgin.
[1:59:40] Speaker 2: Waiting for a virgin, and then, you know, being incubated
[1:59:44] Speaker 2: in a stomach for nine months. But this time around,
[1:59:47] Speaker 2: he can come anytime because he does not need a
[1:59:49] Speaker 2: body again.
[1:59:52] Speaker 1: Now watch this.
[1:59:54] Speaker 2: Everything that happens on earth happens through men. You may
[1:59:59] Speaker 2: have heard me teach that all blessings come from God
[2:00:04] Speaker 2: through men to men. All troubles come from Satan through men.
[2:00:10] Speaker 2: To men. Societies are transformed because of the presence of men.
[2:00:16] Speaker 2: Societies are destroyed because of the presence of men. Evangelism
[2:00:21] Speaker 2: happens because of the presence of men. Leadership happens, territorial speaking,
[2:00:26] Speaker 2: because of the presence of men. The reason why some
[2:00:30] Speaker 2: nations are called third world and others are called first
[2:00:32] Speaker 2: world is because of men. It's not the seas that
[2:00:37] Speaker 2: make them first world or whatever it is. The battle
[2:00:41] Speaker 2: on earth today is for the hearts and the minds
[2:00:45] Speaker 2: of men. I hope you know the battle on earth
[2:00:47] Speaker 2: is not for gold. The battle on earth is not
[2:00:50] Speaker 2: for oil. Listen, the battle on earth is not even
[2:00:53] Speaker 2: for territory. The greatest battle on earth is who captures
[2:00:59] Speaker 2: the hearts and the minds of men. The reason why
[2:01:08] Speaker 2: your bank is functioning right now is because of men.
[2:01:13] Speaker 2: The reason why you want to build a business right
[2:01:16] Speaker 2: now is because there are men in Enugu. If you
[2:01:20] Speaker 2: leave Enugu with goats alone and you are the only
[2:01:22] Speaker 2: human being, even if the banks and the oils and
[2:01:25] Speaker 2: everything are left, you cannot do business. Are you seeing
[2:01:29] Speaker 2: that everything literally happens because of men? Isn't it interesting
[2:01:35] Speaker 2: that everything happens because of men. And yet most people
[2:01:40] Speaker 2: learn every other thing. But man, they do not know
[2:01:43] Speaker 2: about men. But they know about business. They open a school.
[2:01:50] Speaker 2: Why are you opening schools? Because you know people will
[2:01:53] Speaker 2: keep giving birth. And their children will go to school.
[2:01:55] Speaker 2: Your business literally is founded on that philosophy. That the
[2:02:00] Speaker 2: presence of men guarantees the continuity of your business. Some
[2:02:03] Speaker 2: of you who have stores here. If you have a
[2:02:06] Speaker 2: baby's saloon. Why do you open a barber's saloon? Because
[2:02:11] Speaker 2: there are humans. And even when you cut the hair,
[2:02:14] Speaker 2: it will still grow back. You literally build a business
[2:02:17] Speaker 2: around that information. Why does your restaurant and your malls thrive?
[2:02:23] Speaker 2: They thrive because of men. It is men that eat
[2:02:27] Speaker 2: the meal and they will go to toilet and then
[2:02:30] Speaker 2: return back again. So if they buy your bag of
[2:02:34] Speaker 2: rice today, you tell them, see you next week. That
[2:02:38] Speaker 2: statement is predicated on the information that you are a man.
[2:02:42] Speaker 2: There is something about you that my business is built upon.
[2:02:46] Speaker 2: Imagine if we ate once and never had to eat again.
[2:02:50] Speaker 2: Farming would be useless. Manufacturing would be useless. Production would
[2:02:55] Speaker 2: be useless. It is because you know that someday this
[2:02:58] Speaker 2: cloth I am wearing is going to go through wear
[2:03:01] Speaker 2: and tear. You literally, based on that information, you built
[2:03:06] Speaker 2: a business around it. in one word business is the
[2:03:10] Speaker 2: ministry of men listen carefully please don't think i don't
[2:03:18] Speaker 2: know what i'm saying business is not the ministry of
[2:03:21] Speaker 2: bottles business is not the ministry of containers business is
[2:03:26] Speaker 2: not the ministry of cars business is not the ministry
[2:03:29] Speaker 2: of schools business is the ministry every other product that
[2:03:35] Speaker 2: you call business is only a midwife the final consumer
[2:03:39] Speaker 2: is a man so if you know your product and
[2:03:42] Speaker 2: you do not know the man the reason why you
[2:03:46] Speaker 2: clean your chairs very early in the morning those who
[2:03:49] Speaker 2: clean this beautiful church when you came here early in
[2:03:51] Speaker 2: the morning probably there was no one or maybe a
[2:03:54] Speaker 2: few people and yet you had the confidence to set
[2:03:56] Speaker 2: the stage because you knew that men will come imagine
[2:03:59] Speaker 2: if you saw cows Just coming. Maybe 30 of them.
[2:04:04] Speaker 2: Would you say you are welcome, God bless you, find
[2:04:06] Speaker 2: a place to sit? No.
[2:04:09] Speaker 1: Cows are physical things. But that's not what you are
[2:04:11] Speaker 1: looking for.
[2:04:12] Speaker 2: Men.
[2:04:16] Speaker 1: Any leader who does not understand men is going to fail.
[2:04:20] Speaker 2: As a pastor, as a businessman. The reason why most
[2:04:25] Speaker 2: of us do not excel in our influence and our
[2:04:27] Speaker 2: leadership is because we took our time to study any
[2:04:31] Speaker 2: other thing and every other thing and we ignored men.
[2:04:36] Speaker 2: The zenith of God's creation. If God is going to
[2:04:40] Speaker 2: lift you, it will come through men. Relationships are the
[2:04:47] Speaker 2: most expensive commodities on earth. Relationships. There are watches that
[2:04:53] Speaker 2: are very expensive. People will pride and say, I'm using
[2:04:58] Speaker 2: a Rolex watch. I bought it 5 million naira. And
[2:05:02] Speaker 2: look at it. Has diamond crested in it. And yet
[2:05:05] Speaker 2: they do not know that relationships are of inestimable value.
[2:05:11] Speaker 2: I always pray for my people and let me extend
[2:05:14] Speaker 2: that prayer for you. May you never be so poor
[2:05:17] Speaker 2: that the only thing you have is money. May you
[2:05:23] Speaker 2: never be so poor that the only.
[2:05:26] Speaker 1: Thing you have is money.
[2:05:29] Speaker 2: Because if the only thing you have are notes in
[2:05:32] Speaker 2: your house, you are not wealthy. The real honor of
[2:05:38] Speaker 2: a man is not in his acquisitions.
[2:05:40] Speaker 1: The Bible says in the multitude.
[2:05:42] Speaker 2: Of men is a king's honor. That means your relationships
[2:05:48] Speaker 2: represent the highest index of your wealth. The degree to
[2:05:53] Speaker 2: which you are connected to strategic relationships that provide a
[2:05:56] Speaker 2: leverage to your destiny is the measure of your wealth.
[2:06:01] Speaker 2: Money only comes to you through relationships. It will take
[2:06:04] Speaker 2: a hand exchanging to bring wealth to you. Now please listen.
[2:06:08] Speaker 2: If you do not understand this, you will fail in life.
[2:06:13] Speaker 2: Destiny fulfillment is impossible without relationships. I am here right
[2:06:18] Speaker 2: now in this lovely church because of a relationship. A
[2:06:22] Speaker 2: relationship that started in Nairobi, Kenya, but has been maintained
[2:06:26] Speaker 2: so greatly. Relationships. As busy as I am, there are
[2:06:32] Speaker 2: people who if they demand my attention, I will respond
[2:06:35] Speaker 2: almost instantly because of the power of relationships. There are
[2:06:40] Speaker 2: people today who did not have to do much in
[2:06:42] Speaker 2: terms of business. They invested diligently in their relationships. They
[2:06:48] Speaker 2: did not even start as business people. They started as
[2:06:51] Speaker 2: wise people because they worked with the wise. And the
[2:06:54] Speaker 2: end of their pursuit was a business and influence. politicians
[2:07:00] Speaker 2: understand this you find out somebody who never had the
[2:07:03] Speaker 2: intention to be a governor or a senator he only
[2:07:06] Speaker 2: followed wise people and as he followed wise people he
[2:07:10] Speaker 2: started evolving to a version of himself that you now
[2:07:13] Speaker 2: call a leader jesus said follow me and i will
[2:07:18] Speaker 2: make you he never gave them any promise that you'll
[2:07:20] Speaker 2: be called apostles he never gave them any promise that
[2:07:23] Speaker 2: you'll be miracle workers he said follow me and i
[2:07:26] Speaker 2: will make you through that relationship he produced those we
[2:07:30] Speaker 2: call apostles who turn the world upside down listen to
[2:07:36] Speaker 2: me relationships are currencies they can buy anything money can
[2:07:41] Speaker 2: buy Anything money can buy, relationships can buy. The easiest
[2:07:48] Speaker 2: way to succeed in life is through relationships and destiny connections.
[2:07:55] Speaker 2: You may have heard me say it in my teaching
[2:07:57] Speaker 2: that who hates you does not matter, but who likes
[2:08:00] Speaker 2: you matters. Truly, who likes you matters. There are people
[2:08:06] Speaker 2: who can make things happen for others because of the
[2:08:09] Speaker 2: strength of relationships. I know people who got jobs after
[2:08:17] Speaker 2: praying for jobs for three, five, six years. In less
[2:08:20] Speaker 2: than one hour, one relationship brought the job for them.
[2:08:24] Speaker 2: I know people who got land to build a church.
[2:08:27] Speaker 2: There is no true story of success that is not
[2:08:31] Speaker 2: connected to relationships. the anointing that a man receives in
[2:08:35] Speaker 2: his life is based on relationship we just graduated our
[2:08:39] Speaker 2: school of ministry students on sunday glorious program and while
[2:08:43] Speaker 2: i was praying for these people i was looking at
[2:08:45] Speaker 2: them and my heart reached for compassion i said look
[2:08:48] Speaker 2: at what relationships can do there are people who have
[2:08:53] Speaker 2: no business being wealthy except that they were around wealthy
[2:08:56] Speaker 2: people and it became unfair for them to remain in
[2:08:58] Speaker 2: that state There are people who had no business being anointed,
[2:09:04] Speaker 2: but they were around anointed people and it became unfair
[2:09:08] Speaker 2: for them to remain at that level. If I see
[2:09:10] Speaker 2: where you are, it is a reflection of your relationships.
[2:09:16] Speaker 2: He that walks with the wise shall be wise himself.
[2:09:21] Speaker 2: But a companion of fools shall be destroyed. The man
[2:09:25] Speaker 2: does not want to be destroyed. But he is associated
[2:09:28] Speaker 2: with people who are vulnerable to destruction. And the end
[2:09:32] Speaker 2: of it is that person is destroyed himself. He that
[2:09:37] Speaker 2: works with the wealthy shall be wealthy. He that works
[2:09:40] Speaker 2: with the anointed shall be anointed. He that works with
[2:09:44] Speaker 2: intelligent people shall be intelligent. He that works with the
[2:09:48] Speaker 2: godly shall be godly. That means anything you want to become,
[2:09:53] Speaker 2: find those who already are. That is your chance of
[2:09:56] Speaker 2: becoming it. You want to become a man of God
[2:10:00] Speaker 2: doing ministry with the dignity of kingdom integrity? You cannot
[2:10:04] Speaker 2: have that hanging around people who compromise like their second name.
[2:10:08] Speaker 2: They don't have any regard for other unspiritual things. You
[2:10:12] Speaker 2: want to become someone of character, a great leader and
[2:10:16] Speaker 2: a visionary man. There are people who are great people
[2:10:19] Speaker 2: but all their friends are drunkards, all their friends are
[2:10:23] Speaker 2: unserious people and then they say it doesn't matter, I'm
[2:10:26] Speaker 2: not like them. Yet. You are not like them yet.
[2:10:32] Speaker 2: You are on your way becoming. A child does not
[2:10:35] Speaker 2: know he's a child till he becomes an adult. It's
[2:10:39] Speaker 2: when the child becomes an adult, he says, oh, I
[2:10:41] Speaker 2: once was a child. So the drunkard does not know
[2:10:45] Speaker 2: he's becoming a drunkard till he turns later on and
[2:10:48] Speaker 2: finds out that, oh, I'm only doing five now. Listen
[2:10:55] Speaker 2: to me. Most people have not learned the power of
[2:10:59] Speaker 2: protecting their destinies by surrounding themselves with quality godly people.
[2:11:06] Speaker 2: You may have heard me say in my teachings, if
[2:11:08] Speaker 2: there are five foolish people around you, you didn't count well,
[2:11:11] Speaker 2: there are six. If there are five prayer warriors around you,
[2:11:18] Speaker 2: you did not count well, there are six. If there
[2:11:22] Speaker 2: are five visionary people around you, you did not count well,
[2:11:25] Speaker 2: there are six. You are always a reflection of the
[2:11:29] Speaker 2: company that you keep. Even in business. Come on, I'm
[2:11:34] Speaker 2: in the east here and you know. There are times
[2:11:36] Speaker 2: that you pass a street that sells electronics. There are
[2:11:39] Speaker 2: ten shops all selling the same thing. And you think
[2:11:42] Speaker 2: because of the presence of one, they will fail. And
[2:11:44] Speaker 2: yet they will all succeed. Because sometimes you will not
[2:11:47] Speaker 2: find a product in one place. And the other one
[2:11:49] Speaker 2: will lead you to another shop where you will get it.
[2:11:52] Speaker 2: And he's still happy that you got it. Because you
[2:11:55] Speaker 2: will come back for their sake. Please hear me. Leaders.
[2:12:01] Speaker 2: If you are to live a qualitative destiny in this
[2:12:05] Speaker 2: end time. go ahead to begin to select quality people
[2:12:10] Speaker 2: you must understand the power of men and how to
[2:12:14] Speaker 2: relate with men if you do not understand relationships you
[2:12:18] Speaker 2: will not rise pastor if you do not understand relationships
[2:12:21] Speaker 2: you can be anointed and you will be surprised that
[2:12:24] Speaker 2: your work will remain small businessman you may never be
[2:12:27] Speaker 2: able to scale heights and go global it takes more
[2:12:30] Speaker 2: than being anointed The gift of man is one of
[2:12:35] Speaker 2: the ways that God helps man to soar. Are we together?
[2:12:40] Speaker 2: There are many things you need to know about men.
[2:12:43] Speaker 2: You need to understand the vulnerabilities of men. You need
[2:12:46] Speaker 2: to understand the inconsistencies of men. You need to also
[2:12:50] Speaker 2: understand the different kinds of men we have in our world.
[2:12:53] Speaker 2: You have to understand the kinds of relationships that are available.
[2:12:57] Speaker 2: For instance, there are general relationships. The Bible mandates that
[2:13:02] Speaker 2: we treat everyone with love and caution. You go out
[2:13:05] Speaker 2: in the morning and you meet people. General relationships. There
[2:13:10] Speaker 2: are seasonal relationships. Relationships that come to your life for
[2:13:14] Speaker 2: a season. The key to maximizing those relationships is discernment.
[2:13:19] Speaker 2: To receive what they have to deliver to you fast
[2:13:21] Speaker 2: before their expiry time. Then there are covenant or destiny relationships.
[2:13:28] Speaker 2: These are relationships that connect directly, not just to where
[2:13:31] Speaker 2: you are going, but the final journey. No matter what
[2:13:35] Speaker 2: you need to do, you have to protect those relationships.
[2:13:39] Speaker 2: For instance, your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, it
[2:13:43] Speaker 2: can be a general relationship, it can be a seasonal relationship.
[2:13:47] Speaker 2: Your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ is not even
[2:13:49] Speaker 2: a covenant relationship, it is your life. That means whatever
[2:13:53] Speaker 2: goes wrong in that relationship, you have to humble yourself
[2:13:57] Speaker 2: and swallow your pride and press. Most people do not
[2:14:03] Speaker 2: understand the power of relationships. we keep receiving prophetic words
[2:14:09] Speaker 2: but relationships destroy our potential for growth and scaling heights
[2:14:16] Speaker 2: i want to make a statement and then i wrap
[2:14:18] Speaker 2: up our father this great man is 83 84. do
[2:14:23] Speaker 2: you know one time Daddy traveled down to Koinonia just
[2:14:30] Speaker 2: to come and visit and worship. And I said, this
[2:14:33] Speaker 2: man is about 84 years old. What is this man
[2:14:36] Speaker 2: coming to do when he can follow online? And not
[2:14:39] Speaker 2: that it was any special program. And I looked at
[2:14:41] Speaker 2: this man and I said, at this age, relationships. Relationships
[2:14:48] Speaker 2: are investments. If you tell me today daddy is not
[2:14:52] Speaker 2: feeling fine or something is wrong, I can cancel a
[2:14:55] Speaker 2: meeting to come and honor him for his health.
[2:14:58] Speaker 1: And don't say, ah, it's unfair.
[2:15:00] Speaker 2: No, don't demand a level of my attention in a
[2:15:03] Speaker 2: relationship you have not invested in.
[2:15:05] Speaker 1: You see, oh dear.
[2:15:10] Speaker 2: There are many people who are demanding, it is fraud
[2:15:14] Speaker 2: to demand a return. You can't put one error and
[2:15:18] Speaker 2: want one million. No. No. There are people that have
[2:15:25] Speaker 2: not made any meaningful investment and contributions in their lives.
[2:15:29] Speaker 2: It would be unfair for me to demand certain levels
[2:15:33] Speaker 2: of their time, their resources, their attention. I have not
[2:15:37] Speaker 2: made that kind of investment in their lives. You can't
[2:15:42] Speaker 2: give God 10 minutes and want a global ministry. That
[2:15:48] Speaker 2: is unfair. Are we together now? Your pastor Sometimes he
[2:15:54] Speaker 2: travels down and we just come and worship and share fellowship.
[2:15:58] Speaker 2: And he leaves and I'm saying, my God, look at this.
[2:16:01] Speaker 2: There are things that people do in my life that
[2:16:03] Speaker 2: make me become indebted to them. There are times that
[2:16:08] Speaker 2: people say, oh apostle, we are trying to call you.
[2:16:11] Speaker 2: We cannot get you. But so, so, so person said
[2:16:14] Speaker 2: they called and you answered. I apologize.
[2:16:17] Speaker 1: It's not injustice. It's called returns on investment.
[2:16:27] Speaker 2: Are we together now? As a man of God, while
[2:16:31] Speaker 2: everybody is trying to look for you for anointing.
[2:16:33] Speaker 1: Somebody is asking, have you eaten?
[2:16:35] Speaker 2: Are you okay? Is God helping you? When that person
[2:16:39] Speaker 2: is crying, will you keep quiet? If your business has
[2:16:46] Speaker 2: not blessed anybody, you didn't raise anybody. Yesterday, Reverend was
[2:16:53] Speaker 2: talking about The dear woman of God who helped him.
[2:16:57] Speaker 1: And all the things that she did.
[2:16:59] Speaker 2: You can imagine. If for any reason she needs help.
[2:17:04] Speaker 2: Reverend would get up and say once it is within
[2:17:06] Speaker 2: my power. I will go all the way. Listen. Life
[2:17:10] Speaker 2: is hard for many people because they have not received
[2:17:13] Speaker 2: the gift of men.
[2:17:15] Speaker 1: You have not seen men as a gift.
[2:17:18] Speaker 2: Are we together? Every time you see unusual results, I
[2:17:22] Speaker 2: can tell you among the many dynamics is the ministry
[2:17:26] Speaker 2: of men. The ministry of men. The ministry of men.
[2:17:34] Speaker 2: Some of you, there is nobody in your life today,
[2:17:38] Speaker 2: right now, who can give you money and don't mean
[2:17:40] Speaker 2: a loan. You can just say, look, I think I
[2:17:46] Speaker 2: need to sort out something. You are in trouble You
[2:17:50] Speaker 2: are alone. Except God shows you mercy. It is dangerous.
[2:17:55] Speaker 2: You are living in a risk. Are we together?
[2:17:59] Speaker 1: Who loves you right now?
[2:18:01] Speaker 2: Enough to say over my dead body to see this
[2:18:05] Speaker 2: person cry have you impacted somebody's life that.
[2:18:08] Speaker 1: Much for you to mean so much to them there
[2:18:13] Speaker 1: are people today even if they go to be with
[2:18:15] Speaker 1: the lord they will go.
[2:18:15] Speaker 2: Rejoicing because the investments they have made in men has
[2:18:19] Speaker 2: secured the destiny of their children to the third and
[2:18:22] Speaker 2: to the fourth generation There are many people who will
[2:18:28] Speaker 2: tell you, what are you doing? I'm in real estate.
[2:18:30] Speaker 1: What are you doing? Manufacturing. What are you doing? Importation
[2:18:34] Speaker 1: and export.
[2:18:35] Speaker 2: What are you doing? Maintaining relationships. That is my stream
[2:18:39] Speaker 2: of income. I'm not talking about myself alone. It will
[2:18:43] Speaker 2: take a foolish person to laugh at you and say, ah,
[2:18:46] Speaker 2: you mean you're... Are you kidding me? That is an
[2:18:48] Speaker 2: investment that does not fail. It never fails. Because you
[2:18:59] Speaker 2: get wealthier from capital appreciation. As the person rises, he
[2:19:04] Speaker 2: will bless you to honor his perception of your relationship.
[2:19:08] Speaker 2: Is someone learning now? Because there are many of you
[2:19:11] Speaker 2: who can destroy men because of your products. It does
[2:19:15] Speaker 2: not matter. I will push anybody.
[2:19:16] Speaker 12: It is my business.
[2:19:18] Speaker 2: You are about to crash land. It takes the ministry
[2:19:21] Speaker 2: of men. When you see me honor the fathers, when
[2:19:25] Speaker 2: you see me love the people, it's not from a
[2:19:27] Speaker 2: selfish standpoint.
[2:19:28] Speaker 1: I love them sincerely, but I know.
[2:19:32] Speaker 2: One recommendation from a man who loves you can open
[2:19:36] Speaker 2: the next 10 years of your life. And then one
[2:19:39] Speaker 2: word of caution from a man of influence who has
[2:19:41] Speaker 2: a problem with you can close a door that was
[2:19:44] Speaker 2: once open. Some of you, there are doors that are
[2:19:46] Speaker 2: closed right now. It's not demons that close them. They
[2:19:49] Speaker 2: were closed by men. Someone said, be careful. And that's it.
[2:19:54] Speaker 2: Twenty ministrations closed because one person said, be careful, I
[2:19:58] Speaker 2: can't vouch for him. That's it. You were in the
[2:20:02] Speaker 2: process of a contract and they said, listen, five billion
[2:20:06] Speaker 2: is involved here. Do you trust these people? I said, well,
[2:20:08] Speaker 2: I trust these two. I can't speak for this. And
[2:20:11] Speaker 2: that's it.
[2:20:12] Speaker 1: By the next day, you wake up after dancing and.
[2:20:15] Speaker 2: They tell you it will not work. The problem was
[2:20:17] Speaker 2: not your skill. The problem was not your value. The
[2:20:20] Speaker 2: problem was that you ignored the ministry of men. Unbelievers
[2:20:25] Speaker 2: understand what I'm teaching you. Unbelievers have mastered the art
[2:20:29] Speaker 2: of building ladders through relationships. You would hear me say
[2:20:33] Speaker 2: it in my teachings that a man would travel from
[2:20:36] Speaker 2: America to Nigeria to attend the birthday ceremony of a
[2:20:41] Speaker 2: CEO's daughter who is two years old. Is she his friend? Please,
[2:20:49] Speaker 2: have you not seen people travel to attend weddings of
[2:20:52] Speaker 2: certain people? You know a man who is busy, so
[2:20:56] Speaker 2: busy he flew from Australia, America, to attend a wedding
[2:21:02] Speaker 2: ceremony of a little girl.
[2:21:04] Speaker 1: Or a little boy.
[2:21:05] Speaker 2: It's more than that. They are registering their investments. I
[2:21:13] Speaker 2: had the opportunity to pray yesterday. One time for one
[2:21:16] Speaker 2: of the governors, when he became a governor, you know,
[2:21:19] Speaker 2: the Thanksgiving service, I was there to preach somewhere and
[2:21:21] Speaker 2: then it happened that it was his Thanksgiving service. And
[2:21:24] Speaker 2: I saw people who would never have come to church. Never!
[2:21:27] Speaker 1: Not even near the gates of church.
[2:21:29] Speaker 2: They were there.
[2:21:29] Speaker 1: I said, what are these people doing here?
[2:21:32] Speaker 2: Christians, Muslims, non-Habbalists, non-traditionalists.
[2:21:36] Speaker 1: I mean, people were there.
[2:21:37] Speaker 2: And I said, you see, everybody understands this except the church.
[2:21:42] Speaker 2: That is the reason why we remain down. Lord, if
[2:21:47] Speaker 2: you are a righteous man and you are in the
[2:21:49] Speaker 2: midst of unrighteous men, you are still not safe. Your
[2:21:53] Speaker 2: personal righteousness may not deliver you from Sodom and Gomorrah.
[2:21:56] Speaker 2: You will need Abraham to come and help you. Are
[2:22:02] Speaker 2: we together? My charge for you, therefore, is as you
[2:22:11] Speaker 2: take inventory of the various things that you have, Begin
[2:22:15] Speaker 2: to ask yourself.
[2:22:17] Speaker 1: How many useful relationships have I invested in.
[2:22:20] Speaker 2: In my life today. That can provide a leverage. Some
[2:22:23] Speaker 2: of you are in this church right now. If you cry.
[2:22:27] Speaker 2: There is nobody who can answer. Because your attitude and
[2:22:30] Speaker 2: your disposition towards men. Once people are not rich. You
[2:22:34] Speaker 2: don't have any business with them. You continue that way.
[2:22:36] Speaker 2: You will be in trouble. I wish I had the time.
[2:22:39] Speaker 2: I would have taught you the culture. Of dealing with relationships.
[2:22:45] Speaker 2: it is a principle i have mastered in my life
[2:22:48] Speaker 2: it is not all about anointing valuable relationships two keys
[2:22:54] Speaker 2: to maintaining relationships number one is honor honor is the
[2:23:03] Speaker 2: discerning the celebrating and the appreciating of men for their
[2:23:07] Speaker 2: uniqueness You cannot be able to maintain quality relationships that
[2:23:13] Speaker 2: translate into an excelling life until you understand honor. Let
[2:23:18] Speaker 2: me give you one last one. Number two, the second
[2:23:22] Speaker 2: key that you need to be able to maintain relationships
[2:23:26] Speaker 2: is your value and your contribution. No relationship will be
[2:23:31] Speaker 2: committed to you indefinitely if you are not adding to it.
[2:23:36] Speaker 2: Most of us are very parasitic in our relationships. You
[2:23:40] Speaker 2: only expect people to do things for you. The moment
[2:23:43] Speaker 2: you come, you say, I'm looking at you, you've not
[2:23:45] Speaker 2: done anything for me.
[2:23:46] Speaker 6: No.
[2:23:48] Speaker 2: Nobody remembers those who take. We only remember people who give.
[2:23:53] Speaker 2: Edge the memory of your presence in the life of
[2:23:55] Speaker 2: people by contributing. Whether it is your value, your prayer...
[2:24:01] Speaker 2: There's a group of women who pray for me all
[2:24:03] Speaker 2: the time. I will never forget them, no matter how
[2:24:05] Speaker 2: busy I am. Because I love them, but because of
[2:24:08] Speaker 2: the depth of their contribution to my life. I can't
[2:24:11] Speaker 2: forget them. I remember the people who have added and
[2:24:15] Speaker 2: continue to add to my life.
[2:24:17] Speaker 1: There's no guarantee that I will remember everybody.
[2:24:20] Speaker 2: Even in a church like this, you will find out
[2:24:22] Speaker 2: that sometimes men of God seem to tilt towards others
[2:24:25] Speaker 2: and others. It's not being unfair. They are tilting towards
[2:24:29] Speaker 2: the area that provides them value. If I know that
[2:24:32] Speaker 2: you are valuable, you are useful to my life, as
[2:24:35] Speaker 2: far as supporting what I represent is concerned, I will
[2:24:39] Speaker 2: place priority upon you. One prayer. Father, grant me the
[2:24:45] Speaker 2: grace to receive the gift of man into my life.
[2:24:50] Speaker 1: To see man as an answered prayer, not as a load.
[2:24:54] Speaker 2: Go ahead and pray. Grant me the grace to receive
[2:24:58] Speaker 2: the gift of man. The Lord helps us by bringing
[2:25:05] Speaker 2: to our lives the gift of man. Relationships are powerful.
[2:25:09] Speaker 1: They are irrefutable.
[2:25:12] Speaker 2: Without man there is no business. Without man there is
[2:25:14] Speaker 2: no ministry. Without man there is no rising. In all
[2:25:17] Speaker 2: your learning, learn man. In all your getting, get man.
[2:25:22] Speaker 2: In all your investing, invest in man. In all your receiving,
[2:25:27] Speaker 2: receive the ministry of man. In all your praying, pray
[2:25:32] Speaker 2: for man.

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