# THE_STAYING_POWER_THE_GRACE TO OUTLAST JOSHUA 14;11 with Apostle

An episode of [Apostle Joshua selman Messages](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1798706992), 28 Oct 2026, 2 h 47 min.

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## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[0:02] Speaker 2: Go ahead and bless him. Give him all the praise.
[0:07] Speaker 2: All the praise and all the honor. Father we bless you.
[0:11] Speaker 2: We bless you. We desire to know you. We desire
[0:14] Speaker 2: more of you.
[0:15] Speaker 1: Someone pray.
[0:17] Speaker 2: I have come tonight that I may know you. I
[0:20] Speaker 2: have come tonight that I may see you. I have
[0:24] Speaker 2: come tonight that I may learn of your ways. said
[0:34] Speaker 2: this is life eternal that they may.
[0:38] Speaker 3: Know thee the only true God and Jesus whom thou
[0:44] Speaker 3: hast sent.
[0:48] Speaker 2: Bless his name declare your desperation.
[0:53] Speaker 1: Your expectation your.
[0:55] Speaker 4: Desire For in Jesus' name we pray. In Jesus' name
[1:06] Speaker 4: we pray.
[1:10] Speaker 2: The house of God is a house of revelation. The
[1:14] Speaker 2: meaning of that is that when you access light, you
[1:17] Speaker 2: will ascend, you will rise, live in your former self,
[1:21] Speaker 2: live in your former situation, your former realities, and you'll
[1:25] Speaker 2: rise to a new level.
[1:26] Speaker 1: We take time to invest in His presence because... Outside
[1:30] Speaker 1: of his presence, no matter what else we have, we
[1:33] Speaker 1: do not have anything.
[1:35] Speaker 2: Moses was speaking to a people who were already warriors.
[1:37] Speaker 2: They already had the gold from Egypt. They already had
[1:41] Speaker 2: the treasures. But he said, if your presence will not
[1:44] Speaker 2: go with us, in spite of everything that we have,
[1:48] Speaker 2: the advantage of number, the advantage of resources, but without
[1:52] Speaker 2: your presence, he says, do not take us from here.
[1:56] Speaker 1: It's a powerful prayer to ask God to reveal himself
[2:00] Speaker 1: to you. Hallelujah. Father, we have come tonight that you
[2:05] Speaker 1: will speak to us. We have come with hearts open,
[2:09] Speaker 1: hearts desperate. Spirit breaker. Breaker walls down. Spirit break out.
[2:27] Speaker 5: Heaven come down. Spirit break out. Spirit break out.
[2:46] Speaker 6: Let heaven come down.
[2:51] Speaker 1: One more time.
[2:53] Speaker 6: Let it be a cry from the depth of.
[3:00] Speaker 1: Your heart. When I walk down.
[3:16] Speaker 5: When I walk down.
[3:20] Speaker 1: Spirit break down.
[3:23] Speaker 5: Heaven come down. Heaven come down.
[3:35] Speaker 1: Well Lord tonight. Spirit break down.
[3:45] Speaker 5: Let this be our experience tonight, O God.
[4:09] Speaker 2: In this place and across the airwaves. And to you
[4:13] Speaker 2: be all the glory. In Jesus name we have prayed
[4:17] Speaker 2: and worshipped. Give Jesus a big hand clap.
[4:20] Speaker 1: Good evening everybody. Please be seated.
[4:26] Speaker 2: I welcome you tonight to his presence where your life
[4:30] Speaker 2: will never be the same.
[4:31] Speaker 1: If you believe that shout you're receiving amen. Amen. Amen.
[4:37] Speaker 2: I welcome everyone, those connecting online. We take time to
[4:41] Speaker 2: welcome you because there are no.
[4:43] Speaker 1: Fans in this ministry. Everyone who connects, connects by light,
[4:48] Speaker 1: connects with understanding, and connects with the purpose of receiving, becoming. Hallelujah.
[4:57] Speaker 1: So there are no fans. All who are connected across
[5:01] Speaker 1: the globe, God has something to say.
[5:03] Speaker 2: Fasten your seatbelts and I want you to pay attention
[5:07] Speaker 2: because your life and your destiny is about to change.
[5:10] Speaker 2: We want to especially honor those who have come from
[5:13] Speaker 2: outside this city and outside this nation. It's always a
[5:17] Speaker 2: joy to have you invest your time to worship with us.
[5:20] Speaker 2: One guarantee we give you under God and by grace
[5:24] Speaker 2: is that your life.
[5:25] Speaker 1: Will never be the same. Amen and amen. We're honored
[5:29] Speaker 1: tonight to have His Royal Majesty, the Olu of Wari.
[5:32] Speaker 2: Let's give him a big, big hand clap. God bless you, sir.
[5:36] Speaker 2: We appreciate your presence. We are a house of honor.
[5:42] Speaker 2: And those who are deserving of honor, we will accord
[5:44] Speaker 2: them the honor that is due. And we thank you
[5:48] Speaker 2: for your presence, sir, in the name of Jesus Christ.
[5:52] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[5:54] Speaker 2: The Lord placed it in my heart to remind us
[5:56] Speaker 2: of two things very quickly before we get into the
[6:01] Speaker 2: ministry of the Word. There are two things that the
[6:05] Speaker 2: Lord placed very strongly upon my heart to remind us of.
[6:11] Speaker 1: And once upon a time, I.
[6:18] Speaker 2: Shared with us here what God is making out of
[6:22] Speaker 2: your life and my life.
[6:26] Speaker 1: It is important. Faith is vision dependent.
[6:31] Speaker 2: It is important you understand what God is making out
[6:35] Speaker 2: of your life.
[6:36] Speaker 1: Are we together? This gives you the grace to stay,
[6:40] Speaker 1: to be built.
[6:41] Speaker 2: If you do not know what you are becoming in righteousness,
[6:45] Speaker 2: if you do not know what you are becoming by grace,
[6:47] Speaker 2: you will not be encouraged to continue. You will not
[6:50] Speaker 2: be encouraged to remain. And I call it a koinonia believer.
[6:55] Speaker 1: And the Lord impressed it upon my heart in the
[6:57] Speaker 1: place of prayer to remind us again. There are about
[7:02] Speaker 1: six elements.
[7:05] Speaker 2: This is what you are becoming as a believer under
[7:09] Speaker 2: this grace. Number one, you are becoming a spiritually vibrant believer.
[7:16] Speaker 1: This is the first thing you are becoming.
[7:19] Speaker 2: By reason of this immersion, by reason of your submission
[7:24] Speaker 2: to this apostleship, this is what God is making out
[7:27] Speaker 2: of your life, a passionate believer who is in love
[7:31] Speaker 2: with Jesus and in love with the things of God.
[7:35] Speaker 1: It's important for you to know that.
[7:37] Speaker 2: When we take our time to invest in the atmosphere
[7:40] Speaker 2: that is created per service, per meeting, it is to
[7:43] Speaker 2: this intent, it is our partnership with God, that you
[7:47] Speaker 2: become a spiritually vibrant believer.
[7:51] Speaker 1: Number two, to.
[7:52] Speaker 2: Become a believer who is.
[7:59] Speaker 1: A person, a man or a woman of character. You
[8:04] Speaker 1: have to take note of that. Character.
[8:07] Speaker 2: With a growing determination. To become like Jesus. In all
[8:12] Speaker 2: his ramifications. A growing determination. That even if you are
[8:17] Speaker 2: not there yet. You must have it at the back
[8:19] Speaker 2: of your mind. That week in week out.
[8:22] Speaker 1: Sermon after sermon.
[8:24] Speaker 2: Series after series. Prayer after prayer. Singing and worshipping after worship.
[8:30] Speaker 2: The goal is to mold you. Like the potter molding
[8:34] Speaker 2: the clay.
[8:35] Speaker 1: That you become a believer who is full of the
[8:39] Speaker 1: character of the Spirit. Hallelujah. Number three.
[8:46] Speaker 2: God's intent, God's goal, God's vision for us all as
[8:50] Speaker 2: believers under this ministry is to become intelligent and transformed believers.
[8:59] Speaker 2: Transformation is a major component in all that we do.
[9:03] Speaker 2: Intelligent and transformed believers. Believers whose minds have become word compliant.
[9:11] Speaker 2: Believers who have a thorough understanding of the Word of
[9:14] Speaker 2: God alongside.
[9:17] Speaker 1: The dynamics of making that Word work.
[9:20] Speaker 2: It's not enough to have a head knowledge, a mental
[9:23] Speaker 2: assent of the Word of God. You must know how
[9:26] Speaker 2: to translate the Word of God from prophecy to its
[9:30] Speaker 2: manifestation here and now. It's called the ministry of the Word,
[9:35] Speaker 2: not just the preaching of the Word. The ministry of
[9:38] Speaker 2: the Word is a holistic capture. brings you to a
[9:41] Speaker 2: point of enlightenment and helps you to see the point
[9:45] Speaker 2: of application. It is the reason why our teachings are
[9:50] Speaker 2: not vague. At the end of every discussion that happens
[9:53] Speaker 2: upon this altar is a point.
[9:56] Speaker 1: Of relevance and application.
[9:58] Speaker 2: It is important for you to see how the thoughts,
[10:01] Speaker 2: the words that you are learning, how they play out
[10:05] Speaker 2: to making you a better believer and making you a
[10:08] Speaker 2: more effective person.
[10:10] Speaker 1: Are we learning?
[10:13] Speaker 2: So your spiritual vibrancy, your character, Christ-like character, intelligence, and
[10:20] Speaker 2: transformed believer.
[10:21] Speaker 1: Number four, God's goal for us in making.
[10:25] Speaker 2: Us become believers is that we become highly anointed and
[10:30] Speaker 2: empowered believers. It's important for you to pay attention to this.
[10:36] Speaker 2: God intends for you and I under His grace and
[10:39] Speaker 2: by your discipline, your sacrifice, your consistency, that you become
[10:45] Speaker 2: a very anointed and empowered believer.
[10:49] Speaker 1: You are only a blessing to the degree to which
[10:51] Speaker 1: you are empowered. It takes beyond knowledge to create impact.
[10:59] Speaker 1: And to have your destiny come to fruition.
[11:01] Speaker 2: You need empowerment. Divine empowerment. In Jerusalem he said. Until
[11:08] Speaker 2: ye be endued with power.
[11:10] Speaker 1: From on high. Number five.
[11:13] Speaker 2: What is God's goal for us? As believers under this grace.
[11:18] Speaker 2: And of course I believe that this. Also represents his intention.
[11:22] Speaker 2: For believers world over.
[11:25] Speaker 1: Number five. To become responsible believers.
[11:29] Speaker 2: Purpose driven and effective believers. Responsible, purpose driven, effective believers.
[11:39] Speaker 2: I am a strong advocate of responsible Christianity. A faith
[11:44] Speaker 2: practice that helps you to have a sense of destiny.
[11:49] Speaker 2: That you are not just serving God arbitrarily. You are
[11:52] Speaker 2: responsible Christians. You are purpose driven. You know that God
[11:57] Speaker 2: is going somewhere with you. He says, I know the
[12:00] Speaker 2: thoughts that I think towards you, Jeremiah 29, 11.
[12:03] Speaker 1: They are thoughts of peace and not of evil to
[12:06] Speaker 1: bring you a future and.
[12:08] Speaker 2: An expected end. God has an expected end. And you
[12:12] Speaker 2: must know that end. Scripture says he declares the end
[12:16] Speaker 2: from the beginning. Every believer must have a sense of destiny.
[12:21] Speaker 1: A sense of destiny in Christ.
[12:23] Speaker 2: God is taking us somewhere as individuals, families, businesses, and
[12:28] Speaker 2: as a ministry. Number six, the final intent behind this discipleship,
[12:35] Speaker 2: this mentorship, this school of the Spirit, is that God
[12:39] Speaker 2: intends to produce out of us agents of societal and
[12:45] Speaker 2: territorial transformation. This is a very personal one because I
[12:51] Speaker 2: think until recently most believers do not know or they
[12:55] Speaker 2: do not think that they have a role to play
[12:59] Speaker 2: as far as transforming territories and societies is concerned. And
[13:04] Speaker 2: I've taught you here in many series for that matter
[13:08] Speaker 2: that the believer is called salt, he is called light.
[13:12] Speaker 1: Are we together?
[13:13] Speaker 2: He says we are the salt of the earth, Matthew
[13:16] Speaker 2: chapter 5, 13 to 16.
[13:17] Speaker 1: Then he says we are the light of the world.
[13:21] Speaker 1: It's important for you to function as salt and to
[13:24] Speaker 1: function as light. That means your praying in tongues, your
[13:28] Speaker 1: Bible study.
[13:29] Speaker 2: Your character, your studying scripture, your falling under the anointing
[13:33] Speaker 2: and standing up must be translated to a context that
[13:37] Speaker 2: serves Jesus to the betterment of society. The Jesus you know,
[13:43] Speaker 2: the Jesus you've come to love, must be able to
[13:47] Speaker 2: be a blessing to all and sundry.
[13:50] Speaker 1: And this is not just to people of faith. Believers
[13:54] Speaker 1: and unbelievers alike must see your impact in society.
[13:59] Speaker 2: The government, the powers that be, must come to reckon
[14:03] Speaker 2: with the fact that your spirituality is an advantage.
[14:07] Speaker 1: To the civilization of your time.
[14:09] Speaker 2: It's unfortunate that in many Christian circles, the government's perception
[14:15] Speaker 2: of believers is that we are a bunch of fanatics
[14:19] Speaker 2: who are a nuisance to advancement, a nuisance to civilization.
[14:24] Speaker 2: But it ought not to be so. You are the
[14:27] Speaker 2: salt of the earth. The assignment of salt is to
[14:30] Speaker 2: preserve and to add value. You are the light of
[14:35] Speaker 2: the world.
[14:36] Speaker 1: We give illumination.
[14:37] Speaker 2: The Bible defines light as that which makes manifest the
[14:42] Speaker 2: glory of God now. So the first assignment I have
[14:47] Speaker 2: tonight is to remind you that whilst you are seated
[14:50] Speaker 2: listening to me or connected by way of the internet,
[14:54] Speaker 2: have it at the back of your mind that this is.
[14:57] Speaker 1: What Jesus is doing in my life.
[15:00] Speaker 2: That after a few weeks, a few months, one year,
[15:05] Speaker 2: two years, three years, you must be able to justify
[15:10] Speaker 2: your submission to this grace using these indices.
[15:14] Speaker 1: So if someone asks you outside and says.
[15:17] Speaker 2: Tell me the benefit of your becoming part of this family.
[15:22] Speaker 1: If the only thing you say is.
[15:24] Speaker 2: I received a miracle, you disappointed God, me, and all
[15:28] Speaker 2: of us. You must have intelligence enough to defend your state.
[15:33] Speaker 2: Why have you been here? Why do you come week in,
[15:35] Speaker 2: week out? Why do you listen to the messages? Why
[15:38] Speaker 2: do you fast? Why do you pray? Then you can
[15:41] Speaker 2: speak like a believer who has been properly mentored.
[15:44] Speaker 1: To this end, my spiritual vibrancy. Are we together?
[15:49] Speaker 2: My transformation. Now that justifies your stay. Anyone who hears
[15:54] Speaker 2: you speaking like that would want to join the kind
[15:57] Speaker 2: of system that has produced this intelligence. Many believers are
[16:01] Speaker 2: not matured and they do not intend to be matured
[16:05] Speaker 2: because the system that molds and makes them is scattered
[16:09] Speaker 2: and not methodical. They don't know what they should become.
[16:13] Speaker 2: They just know that I can pray. They just know
[16:15] Speaker 2: that I can fast. But the truths are not connected
[16:18] Speaker 2: together to give them a sense of purpose and destiny.
[16:21] Speaker 2: You should leave your house every Sunday or every other day.
[16:25] Speaker 2: You should click on any message with the intent that
[16:28] Speaker 2: I am on this journey to becoming all this and
[16:32] Speaker 2: even more.
[16:38] Speaker 1: Spirit break up.
[16:45] Speaker 6: Break our walls down. Spirit break out.
[16:58] Speaker 1: Heaven come down. Listen, let me tell you this.
[17:03] Speaker 2: The world cannot reject any believer who becomes this to
[17:09] Speaker 2: any degree.
[17:10] Speaker 1: The world does not yet have the immunity to reject
[17:14] Speaker 1: any believer who becomes spiritually vibrant. A man or a
[17:21] Speaker 1: woman of character. A man or a woman intelligent and transformed.
[17:28] Speaker 2: A man or a woman highly anointed and empowered. A
[17:33] Speaker 2: man or a woman with a sense of purpose, destiny
[17:36] Speaker 2: and responsibility. a man or a woman who is a
[17:40] Speaker 2: contributor to national transformation, it is impossible for any territory
[17:47] Speaker 2: to indefinitely reject.
[17:49] Speaker 1: Such a one.
[17:54] Speaker 2: You can be misunderstood. You can be criticized. You can
[17:57] Speaker 2: be envied. Unfortunately, it's the loss that comes with greatness.
[18:00] Speaker 2: But one thing you cannot be denied is a chance
[18:04] Speaker 2: to become a representation of God's glory within that territory.
[18:08] Speaker 1: That one, no man can take it from you. Are
[18:11] Speaker 1: we learning?
[18:12] Speaker 2: So if you truly desire greatness in Christ, you.
[18:16] Speaker 1: Truly desire to bear fruit, that your.
[18:19] Speaker 2: Life eventually becomes a manifestation of the glory of God,
[18:23] Speaker 2: this is your course curriculum. If I were you, I
[18:28] Speaker 2: will go and write.
[18:29] Speaker 1: This thing down.
[18:31] Speaker 2: And periodically during my retreat, I will use this as some.
[18:35] Speaker 1: Of the indices that gauge my growth.
[18:38] Speaker 2: You can know you are growing and you can know
[18:40] Speaker 2: you are stunted. Many believers do not have.
[18:43] Speaker 1: A system of assessing their spiritual growth.
[18:46] Speaker 2: They cannot tell whether or not they are growing. They
[18:48] Speaker 2: think longevity in church equals to growth. They think learning all.
[18:53] Speaker 1: The songs that are sung in church means growth. They
[18:56] Speaker 1: think learning.
[18:56] Speaker 2: Bible verses necessarily mean growth.
[18:59] Speaker 1: No. These are the.
[19:02] Speaker 2: Irrefutable principles, non-negotiable, non-compromising standards. If you want to become
[19:09] Speaker 2: a voice, a sound that speaks and to cause the
[19:13] Speaker 2: nations to listen. I pray for you in the name
[19:15] Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ, that with every sermon, with every teaching,
[19:19] Speaker 2: that includes that of tonight, that your hearts be open
[19:23] Speaker 2: to partner with God. like a seed partners with the
[19:27] Speaker 2: earth to become a giant oak tree may you partner
[19:30] Speaker 2: with god in this journey.
[19:31] Speaker 1: To becoming in the name of jesus christ number two
[19:39] Speaker 1: my second assignment are you learning already my.
[19:46] Speaker 2: Second assignment is to review for the next two or
[19:50] Speaker 2: three minutes something that I taught you some time ago
[19:58] Speaker 2: that there are six foundational truths in your quest for knowledge.
[20:08] Speaker 1: It is foolish to try to learn everything. No.
[20:12] Speaker 2: God will not give man the burden to learn everything.
[20:17] Speaker 2: Everything is not required for your greatness. There is an
[20:20] Speaker 2: exact body of light. There is an exact, you know,
[20:24] Speaker 2: sometimes for many people who are students, when you are
[20:29] Speaker 2: preparing for exams, especially if the course is very vast.
[20:33] Speaker 1: Sometimes you can plead that the lecturer.
[20:35] Speaker 2: Shows you messy by showing you something called the area
[20:38] Speaker 2: of concentration.
[20:39] Speaker 1: You still remember that? That means you say, help us.
[20:42] Speaker 2: If you give us, if you allow us to read
[20:44] Speaker 2: everything from start to finish, chances are excellent we may
[20:48] Speaker 2: not be able to, you know.
[20:50] Speaker 1: Cover grounds. And sometimes the man can say, okay, focus
[20:54] Speaker 1: on this, focus on this, focus on that.
[20:59] Speaker 2: There are many things to learn. Unfortunately, most of them
[21:02] Speaker 2: are useless. As far as your knowing God, representing His
[21:07] Speaker 2: purposes and excelling His concern. Just because knowledge is spiritual
[21:11] Speaker 2: does not mean it is useful.
[21:13] Speaker 1: That is the reason why the Holy Spirit is called
[21:15] Speaker 1: the Spirit of Truth. And that even in the presence
[21:18] Speaker 1: of truth you must be guided. Are we together now?
[21:23] Speaker 1: There are many.
[21:24] Speaker 2: Believers who pride in knowledge that is useless before the
[21:28] Speaker 2: situations that plague them. Knowledge that cannot reveal Jesus. Knowledge
[21:32] Speaker 2: that cannot bless man. Knowledge that cannot improve your life.
[21:36] Speaker 2: Knowledge that cannot promote the program of God is useless knowledge.
[21:42] Speaker 2: So in pressing for the knowledge that makes you mighty
[21:46] Speaker 2: and victorious. By the spirit I was able to list
[21:50] Speaker 2: for us foundationally.
[21:53] Speaker 1: Listen, no matter what you know in the spirit, if
[21:57] Speaker 1: you do not know this that I'm about.
[21:58] Speaker 2: To review, you will live a defeated life, a life
[22:02] Speaker 2: that will consistently misrepresent God.
[22:06] Speaker 1: Can I run the list for you? Number one, you
[22:09] Speaker 1: must know God. This is the first thing I taught you,
[22:13] Speaker 1: that in order of spiritual priority, as you explore spiritual knowledge,
[22:18] Speaker 1: In your quest to walk in victory and dominion, your
[22:22] Speaker 1: first port of call.
[22:23] Speaker 2: Is that you must know God through Jesus Christ. The
[22:28] Speaker 2: way we know God is to learn Jesus. The Bible says,
[22:32] Speaker 2: but the people that do know their God, they shall
[22:35] Speaker 2: be strong and they shall do exploits.
[22:38] Speaker 1: Let me tell you the truth.
[22:39] Speaker 2: Your confidence in life is predicated.
[22:41] Speaker 1: Upon the God that you know. Are we together?
[22:44] Speaker 2: If you know a weak God, you will manifest a
[22:47] Speaker 2: weak destiny. If you know a lopsided God, based on
[22:51] Speaker 2: your perception, you will produce a lopsided destiny.
[22:55] Speaker 1: You must know God. You must press to know Jesus.
[22:58] Speaker 2: And I went further to teach you that in knowing God,
[23:02] Speaker 2: there are three major areas we explore. Number one, we
[23:06] Speaker 2: know God by studying His character. We know God by
[23:13] Speaker 2: studying His character. You want to know God? You study
[23:17] Speaker 2: His character.
[23:18] Speaker 1: For instance, the entire Psalm 103 is, in my opinion,
[23:25] Speaker 1: one of.
[23:25] Speaker 2: The most concise compendium of God's character. You can know
[23:31] Speaker 2: God when you study His character.
[23:33] Speaker 1: Number two.
[23:34] Speaker 2: You know God when you study His ways. His modus operandi.
[23:39] Speaker 2: His principles. The mysteries of the kingdom. We know God
[23:44] Speaker 2: when we study His ways. It helps you to know
[23:47] Speaker 2: how God behaves. And it helps you to know how God.
[23:50] Speaker 1: Does not behave.
[23:51] Speaker 2: It helps you to understand how the kingdom was structured
[23:54] Speaker 2: to operate. The third and final platform for knowing God.
[24:00] Speaker 2: Is by learning His power. Ephesians chapter 1 from verse 19.
[24:07] Speaker 2: And to know the exceeding greatness of His power to
[24:11] Speaker 2: us who believe. God wants us to know Him by
[24:15] Speaker 2: knowing His power. Something happens to you when you know
[24:19] Speaker 2: how powerful God is. It has the capacity to kill fear.
[24:24] Speaker 2: It has the capacity to erode unnecessary concerns. When you
[24:29] Speaker 2: know who God is, and the power that was invested
[24:32] Speaker 2: in raising Christ from the dead, the power that took
[24:35] Speaker 2: him from Hades.
[24:37] Speaker 1: To the earth, took him from the earth to the.
[24:39] Speaker 2: Throne, that same power can take you from any level
[24:43] Speaker 2: to any level.
[24:45] Speaker 1: Are we learning?
[24:46] Speaker 2: Number two, the second foundational knowledge all believers must have,
[24:51] Speaker 2: As far as building your knowledge bank for a victorious
[24:55] Speaker 2: life is concerned, is that number two, you must know
[24:59] Speaker 2: yourself in light of who Christ is.
[25:02] Speaker 1: This sounds very elementary, but this is profound.
[25:06] Speaker 2: Get ready to live a frustrated life if you do
[25:09] Speaker 2: not know yourself in light of who Christ is. Our
[25:13] Speaker 2: world today has suffered and sadly continues to suffer a cancer.
[25:20] Speaker 2: Of identity crisis. Champions acting like chickens. Warriors acting like
[25:28] Speaker 2: weak men. Gideons hiding. Not knowing that they have the
[25:33] Speaker 2: destinies of warriors. That they have the capacity to lead
[25:36] Speaker 2: an army. something happens to you when you learn yourself
[25:41] Speaker 2: not just from a sociological standpoint not just from an
[25:47] Speaker 2: anthropological standpoint.
[25:49] Speaker 1: You learn yourself in light of who christ is.
[25:53] Speaker 2: Because when we know him we were created in his
[25:56] Speaker 2: image so you learn him to know yourself you don't
[26:00] Speaker 2: investigate yourself to know yourself no the.
[26:03] Speaker 1: New man is a reflection of who christ is So
[26:07] Speaker 1: you learn Christ.
[26:08] Speaker 2: To know who you are or who you should be.
[26:13] Speaker 2: Many believers do not know who they are. Number three,
[26:17] Speaker 2: the third foundational knowledge that you need in order to
[26:21] Speaker 2: live an excelling and a victorious life is that you
[26:24] Speaker 2: must know your place in destiny and God's prophetic program.
[26:30] Speaker 1: I wish I could spend all night talking about this.
[26:34] Speaker 1: You must know. If you know God through Jesus Christ.
[26:38] Speaker 1: You know yourself in light.
[26:40] Speaker 2: Of who christ is your next assignment in terms of
[26:44] Speaker 2: foundational knowledge if you desire a life that excels is
[26:49] Speaker 2: that you must know first and foremost that you have.
[26:52] Speaker 1: A place in destiny even if you don't know what
[26:56] Speaker 1: that place is have it at the back of your.
[26:58] Speaker 2: Mind brothers and sisters ladies and gentlemen that you have
[27:01] Speaker 2: a role to play that means you are not just
[27:04] Speaker 2: a number among the eight billion plus people roaming around.
[27:09] Speaker 1: The earth.
[27:11] Speaker 2: It is revealing, it is healing to know that I
[27:14] Speaker 2: count in destiny.
[27:16] Speaker 1: I count in God's program.
[27:18] Speaker 5: Hallelujah.
[27:23] Speaker 2: You must know that you have a place. Then you
[27:26] Speaker 2: must go further to know that place. Know your place
[27:29] Speaker 2: in life and destiny.
[27:31] Speaker 1: Something happens to an individual the.
[27:34] Speaker 2: Moment you find your place of purpose, your place in destiny.
[27:40] Speaker 1: The young boy Jeremiah had a conversation with God in
[27:42] Speaker 1: chapter 1 and verse 5. And the Lord was revealing to.
[27:46] Speaker 2: Him his destiny and he says, Before I formed thee
[27:49] Speaker 2: in the belly, I knew thee. And before thou camest
[27:53] Speaker 2: forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee and I
[27:56] Speaker 2: ordained you to be a prophet to the nations. So
[27:59] Speaker 2: if you ask Jeremiah, who are you? He would say,
[28:02] Speaker 2: by my divine mandate, I have been called to be
[28:05] Speaker 2: a prophet to the nation.
[28:07] Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who believed the.
[28:09] Speaker 2: Vision or who did not believe the vision coming from the.
[28:12] Speaker 1: Lips of God.
[28:13] Speaker 2: He says, no, I come as it is written of
[28:16] Speaker 2: me in the volume of the book.
[28:20] Speaker 1: I have to convince you that your academics is not
[28:24] Speaker 1: why you live. It is only a passage to equip
[28:27] Speaker 1: you so that you are.
[28:28] Speaker 2: Equipped for life and destiny.
[28:32] Speaker 1: I need to convince you, are we together?
[28:35] Speaker 2: That secular knowledge or your career as it were is
[28:38] Speaker 2: not necessarily your assignment.
[28:41] Speaker 1: It can be part of your assignment.
[28:43] Speaker 2: It is your responsibility to walk with the spirit of
[28:46] Speaker 2: grace under a structured mentorship platform like this to find
[28:51] Speaker 2: your place in destiny.
[28:53] Speaker 1: If you do not find your place in destiny, you
[28:56] Speaker 1: will live a life of anger, hatred.
[28:58] Speaker 2: Annoyance because you will watch people making progress in destiny.
[29:03] Speaker 2: They will derive a joy you do not know where
[29:05] Speaker 2: it's coming from. Our world is full of frustrated people
[29:08] Speaker 2: today who are just growing old. They wake up in
[29:11] Speaker 2: the morning, they sleep late at night to eat the
[29:13] Speaker 2: bread of sorrow. There is nothing that is exciting about
[29:17] Speaker 2: their living. Ask them what is your project at this point.
[29:22] Speaker 2: At best they will say I'm looking for money. Ten
[29:24] Speaker 2: years later, I'm still on that project. Age 50, I'm
[29:28] Speaker 2: still on that project. 80 years, I'm too old to
[29:32] Speaker 2: continue the project.
[29:33] Speaker 1: And they die a very frustrated life.
[29:35] Speaker 2: An intelligent God will not take the time to invest.
[29:40] Speaker 2: in building an individual who lives a wasted life.
[29:44] Speaker 1: Here is the trajectory of the life of the average person.
[29:48] Speaker 1: You are born.
[29:49] Speaker 2: struggle your way through teenage, begin to explore life, and
[29:53] Speaker 2: if you are fortunate to have good parents or a
[29:56] Speaker 2: good system of guidance, you will escape many regrets.
[29:59] Speaker 1: If you are not fortunate, you begin to write a.
[30:02] Speaker 2: Nasty story that sometimes you may spend the rest of
[30:05] Speaker 2: your life regretting.
[30:08] Speaker 1: A few years later, you attain 18, society calls.
[30:11] Speaker 2: You an adult, and you begin sometimes a clueless journey
[30:15] Speaker 2: into adulthood.
[30:18] Speaker 1: Then marriage comes in. Then children come in. You are confused.
[30:22] Speaker 2: They join you in that confusion. And then if you
[30:25] Speaker 2: are fortunate to have a career, it may give you
[30:27] Speaker 2: some sense of destiny. Until trouble strikes. Until spirits strike.
[30:34] Speaker 2: And then you continue that way adding age upon age.
[30:38] Speaker 2: And then when you get to 50, golden jubilee, they
[30:42] Speaker 2: call it midlife crisis. All kinds of troubles begin to
[30:45] Speaker 2: ferment themselves. Largely as a result of your not knowing
[30:49] Speaker 2: how God designed life to work. I hope I did
[30:57] Speaker 2: not describe you. I hope I am not describing where
[31:03] Speaker 2: you are going to. Because that is a very, very,
[31:06] Speaker 2: very mediocre life. Doesn't give God glory. There is no
[31:11] Speaker 2: dignity in living such a life. An intelligent God loves
[31:14] Speaker 2: you more than that.
[31:16] Speaker 1: There is a path that leads to excellence.
[31:18] Speaker 2: Life can be worth living when you understand that you
[31:22] Speaker 2: count in God's program.
[31:24] Speaker 1: You believe that? Shout it out. Amen. Can you believe
[31:28] Speaker 1: I'm still on my review?
[31:32] Speaker 2: Number four, when you know God, when you know you,
[31:38] Speaker 2: when you know your place, the next thing to know
[31:41] Speaker 2: is to go through the sacrifice of understanding.
[31:45] Speaker 1: The principles of the kingdom.
[31:49] Speaker 2: You must understand the mysteries of the kingdom. It's a
[31:52] Speaker 2: non-negotiable pursuit because the life you have received in Christ
[31:58] Speaker 2: is knowledge activated. The life you have received in Christ
[32:02] Speaker 2: is not intention activated.
[32:05] Speaker 1: It's not wish activated. It's not assumption activated.
[32:10] Speaker 2: There is an exact knowledge like a switch that turns
[32:14] Speaker 2: on light in every area of your life. The assignment
[32:18] Speaker 2: of a teaching priest is to make that journey easy
[32:21] Speaker 2: for you.
[32:22] Speaker 1: Not to replace your pursuit and sacrifice.
[32:25] Speaker 2: But to bring before you the mysteries allocated for an
[32:29] Speaker 2: excelling life. You must know the principles of the kingdom.
[32:34] Speaker 2: Job 38. Verse 33, NIV. Knowest thou the laws of
[32:39] Speaker 2: the heavens? It says, canst thou set the dominion upon
[32:44] Speaker 2: the earth?
[32:45] Speaker 1: Your life is.
[32:45] Speaker 2: At the mercy of the mysteries of the kingdom that
[32:47] Speaker 2: you know. Look up and let me give you a
[32:49] Speaker 2: few of the mysteries. One, for instance, is called the
[32:52] Speaker 2: law of encounter. That it is the people that do
[32:55] Speaker 2: know their God who shall be strong and shall prosper. Another,
[32:59] Speaker 2: for instance, is called the law of faith. That the
[33:01] Speaker 2: just in this kingdom lives by faith. How about the
[33:05] Speaker 2: law of honor? That every door that.
[33:07] Speaker 1: Closes, closes because of dishonor. Dishonor to God, to men,
[33:12] Speaker 1: and to laws. How about the law of relationships? That
[33:15] Speaker 1: be fruitful means be relational.
[33:17] Speaker 2: I'm showing you some mysteries you have to learn. How
[33:20] Speaker 2: about the excellency of prayer? that he speak a parable
[33:25] Speaker 2: to the end that men ought always to pray and
[33:27] Speaker 2: not to faint how about the power of vision and its.
[33:31] Speaker 1: Ability to evolve you to a.
[33:33] Speaker 2: Realm where your life becomes undeniable which of these do
[33:37] Speaker 2: you not know it is it is it is unfortunate
[33:40] Speaker 2: to assume that you will magically enter a great destiny
[33:44] Speaker 2: in ignorance. Nobody wins the Olympic by mistake.
[33:47] Speaker 1: Mastery is responsible for.
[33:50] Speaker 2: Accuracy, is responsible for greatness at any level. He that
[33:55] Speaker 2: strives for mastery is not crowned unless he strives lawfully.
[34:00] Speaker 2: Make it as a project this year to damage ignorance
[34:04] Speaker 2: from your life.
[34:06] Speaker 1: Damage ignorance. Fight it like you fight Satan.
[34:11] Speaker 2: There is something I do not know about relationships that
[34:14] Speaker 2: is keeping my life stunted.
[34:16] Speaker 1: Do you know, not knowing the law of honor alone
[34:20] Speaker 1: can keep backtracking your years.
[34:25] Speaker 2: Because the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord, but
[34:28] Speaker 2: the earth has he given to the sons of men.
[34:30] Speaker 1: How about knowing the power of words, its ability to
[34:34] Speaker 1: shape your destiny. That where the word of a king is,
[34:37] Speaker 1: there is power.
[34:38] Speaker 2: And that if you are the redeemed of the Lord,
[34:40] Speaker 2: you don't just wish so, you say so. Not knowing
[34:45] Speaker 2: how to speak correctly, say not before an angel I
[34:47] Speaker 2: made a mistake. There are many people who are masters
[34:51] Speaker 2: of careless speakings. They have programmed disaster over their lives.
[34:56] Speaker 2: Self-inflicted problems.
[34:58] Speaker 1: They change themselves by themselves. Words. How about the awareness?
[35:06] Speaker 1: that God is able to restore as a principle. My God,
[35:10] Speaker 1: if you do not know, for instance, that the unit
[35:13] Speaker 1: of destiny is time, you will not pay attention to time.
[35:16] Speaker 1: You will allow your life to waste away and not care.
[35:20] Speaker 2: How about when you discover that time has gone, are
[35:24] Speaker 2: you aware that there is speed in the kingdom? Are
[35:26] Speaker 2: you aware that there is restoration? Are you aware of
[35:29] Speaker 2: the mercy of God? If you are aware, do you
[35:32] Speaker 2: know how to activate it? Because the mercy of God
[35:35] Speaker 2: does not work for everybody.
[35:36] Speaker 1: The mercy of God only works for the broken and
[35:39] Speaker 1: the contrite. If you are not broken, the mercy of
[35:42] Speaker 1: God cannot be administered to you.
[35:44] Speaker 2: You know, sometimes I look at believers and sincerely, without
[35:48] Speaker 2: a sense of pride, I feel burdened in my heart
[35:50] Speaker 2: because I begin to wonder, when are they going to
[35:53] Speaker 2: learn these things?
[35:55] Speaker 1: When?
[36:01] Speaker 2: When are you going to learn these things? You cannot
[36:06] Speaker 2: become great if you do not know these things. Believe
[36:09] Speaker 2: me when I tell you. It's not an issue of
[36:13] Speaker 2: one day go better.
[36:15] Speaker 1: That is absolute nonsense.
[36:17] Speaker 2: You program yourself into an excelling life. You arise and
[36:22] Speaker 2: shine because your light comes. I'm praying for somebody here.
[36:26] Speaker 2: You have lived a life, guest in your life, maybe
[36:29] Speaker 2: arrogantly so.
[36:30] Speaker 1: May God begin to structure your spiritual understanding.
[36:35] Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus Christ. that all these blame
[36:39] Speaker 2: games about life and destiny, you will take responsibility once
[36:43] Speaker 2: and for all. It is, listen, can I tell you,
[36:46] Speaker 2: the best time was yesterday, but the next best time
[36:49] Speaker 2: is now. If you missed out on yesterday, don't use
[36:53] Speaker 2: the remaining time complaining. Reinvent yourself and begin the journey.
[36:57] Speaker 2: It is never late for a starter. If you start,
[37:00] Speaker 2: there is honor in starting. It says now is the
[37:04] Speaker 2: day of salvation. You may have missed it 10 years ago, but.
[37:08] Speaker 1: You can still start. And in God's economy, he can
[37:11] Speaker 1: show you mercy. Are you learning? I told you something.
[37:21] Speaker 1: That when God wants to show you mercy.
[37:24] Speaker 2: He brings you under a grace that can help you
[37:29] Speaker 2: and teach you. There are many people who would otherwise
[37:33] Speaker 2: not hear this truth.
[37:35] Speaker 1: You can see the difference like light and darkness. The
[37:41] Speaker 1: mysteries of the kingdom. Next foundational truth you need to know.
[37:46] Speaker 1: Number five. This is a very important one. You must
[37:52] Speaker 1: understand man. My goodness, my God.
[37:55] Speaker 2: Lord, help me say this the right way.
[37:57] Speaker 1: You must understand man. Man in all his dimensions.
[38:04] Speaker 2: You will be a loser in life if you do
[38:07] Speaker 2: not understand man.
[38:10] Speaker 1: It's not an insult. It's just a harsh.
[38:12] Speaker 2: Description to force your mind to believe me. You will
[38:15] Speaker 2: be a loser in.
[38:16] Speaker 1: Life if you do.
[38:17] Speaker 2: Not understand how to work with men in this cosmos.
[38:23] Speaker 2: There is a spiritual component to men. There is a
[38:27] Speaker 2: psychological component to men. There is a sociological component to men.
[38:33] Speaker 2: There are things if you do not know about men,
[38:36] Speaker 2: you will be angry for the rest of your life.
[38:39] Speaker 2: There are things if you do not know about men,
[38:41] Speaker 2: you will keep recycling scenarios of pain and disappointment and heartbreaks.
[38:47] Speaker 2: You must know men. Your prosperity comes from God through
[38:52] Speaker 2: the hands of men. And if you don't know how
[38:54] Speaker 2: to receive it, every attack you will ever experience in
[38:58] Speaker 2: your life will have to be routed through man.
[39:01] Speaker 1: Don't ignore men. Are we together?
[39:07] Speaker 2: If you do not understand man as the zenith.
[39:10] Speaker 1: Of God's creation. Please look at me.
[39:12] Speaker 2: You know, I was meditating earlier on what I was
[39:17] Speaker 2: going to share. And when I came to this point,
[39:19] Speaker 2: I started laughing by myself. I took a deep breath
[39:21] Speaker 2: and I said, my God. How many people, for instance,
[39:24] Speaker 2: just an example. If I ask you, what business do
[39:28] Speaker 2: you do?
[39:29] Speaker 1: You will answer.
[39:30] Speaker 2: This way I do oil and gas am I right
[39:32] Speaker 2: on that or I have a shop I have a
[39:34] Speaker 2: mall do you know that economically speaking you are right
[39:38] Speaker 2: but from a standpoint.
[39:39] Speaker 1: Of higher spiritual wisdom.
[39:41] Speaker 2: You are wrong there is nobody who does the business
[39:44] Speaker 2: of things everything in life is the.
[39:47] Speaker 1: Business of men.
[39:50] Speaker 2: Oil only has its value because men place value on it.
[39:55] Speaker 2: Your shop only has customers because men have chosen. The
[39:58] Speaker 2: day men cease to place value on what you do.
[40:03] Speaker 1: It becomes valueless.
[40:04] Speaker 2: Once upon a time, value from men was placed on
[40:07] Speaker 2: a typewriter. And whoever owned it or could use it
[40:11] Speaker 2: was termed valuable. But because men refused to place value,
[40:16] Speaker 2: they graduated their value to something else. Today, typewriter looks
[40:20] Speaker 2: like a monument. Don't just say, I am valuable. I
[40:25] Speaker 2: hope men have a demand for the value you have.
[40:28] Speaker 2: The entire business of everything, including.
[40:31] Speaker 1: Salvation, is the business of men. Do not ignore men.
[40:35] Speaker 1: You will fail. Woefully so. Are we together? Spirit break out.
[40:55] Speaker 1: Break our walls down. That's what God is doing already.
[41:00] Speaker 1: Deconstructing negative beliefs.
[41:03] Speaker 2: Bringing you to a point where some of you, especially
[41:06] Speaker 2: those who were not here when I taught this.
[41:08] Speaker 1: God is showing you your life in a mirror.
[41:11] Speaker 2: And you are seeing very clearly, if I continue this way,
[41:14] Speaker 2: trouble is waiting for me.
[41:16] Speaker 1: It's not about prophesying negative.
[41:19] Speaker 2: This immediately will bring you to a point where you
[41:21] Speaker 2: take the position of a student and you realize that
[41:24] Speaker 2: I have to be serious. If I am not serious,
[41:27] Speaker 2: what my father cried about, I'm about to cry about.
[41:30] Speaker 1: What my mother cried about, I'm about to cry about.
[41:33] Speaker 2: You must understand man. The Bible says, what is man
[41:36] Speaker 2: that thou art mindful of? Business is run because of men,
[41:40] Speaker 2: not just ideas. Ideas only have their value because men
[41:44] Speaker 2: make them valuable.
[41:46] Speaker 1: If men reject those ideas, they become obsolete.
[41:49] Speaker 2: Nonsense will have meaning when men accord it value.
[41:55] Speaker 1: Are we together?
[41:56] Speaker 2: Wisdom can be called foolishness if men reject it.
[42:01] Speaker 1: Everything revolves around the economy of men. If you know this,
[42:06] Speaker 1: you will be wealthy. If you know this, you will
[42:08] Speaker 1: be great. It was the business of men that brought
[42:11] Speaker 1: Jesus to the earth.
[42:13] Speaker 2: Restoring all things and restoring creation.
[42:15] Speaker 1: But ultimately, restoring man. Men were so important.
[42:20] Speaker 2: That even in their degenerated state, God still chose to
[42:23] Speaker 2: work on them and bring them back.
[42:25] Speaker 1: Don't ignore men. You will pay a very dear price.
[42:29] Speaker 1: It is in the multitude of men, the Bible says,
[42:32] Speaker 1: that the kings are no lie. Can I give you
[42:34] Speaker 1: the last one? Number six. Someone say, thank God for Koinonia.
[42:41] Speaker 2: For someone, this is a bailout system for you. Mama
[42:45] Speaker 2: cried and said, Lord, I don't know the way.
[42:47] Speaker 1: Out, but help my son. And God brought you here
[42:51] Speaker 1: to show you the way out.
[42:52] Speaker 2: You can return back and say, Mama, God has answered
[42:54] Speaker 2: the prayer. Finally, your son is not a weak person
[42:57] Speaker 2: like Gideon. He has become a person of stature, even
[43:01] Speaker 2: by light.
[43:02] Speaker 1: Six.
[43:04] Speaker 2: The sixth and final foundational knowledge.
[43:07] Speaker 1: You must have to live an excelling life. is that
[43:11] Speaker 1: you must know your adversary, the devil. I wish you
[43:18] Speaker 1: didn't have to know Satan.
[43:19] Speaker 2: He would have been a lighter burden, but he's been
[43:22] Speaker 2: here to stay for a long time. It's important to
[43:25] Speaker 2: know him because of the destructive tendencies that come with
[43:32] Speaker 2: that spirit called Satan. The Bible calls him the thief.
[43:37] Speaker 2: The Bible calls him an adversary. Never calls him a friend.
[43:41] Speaker 1: The word Satan means deceiver, manipulator. Satan is not just
[43:47] Speaker 1: the name of a spirit being.
[43:49] Speaker 2: It is a generic name given to a class of spirits.
[43:52] Speaker 1: They are called devils. Accusers. Deceivers. They thwart the purposes
[44:00] Speaker 1: of God over the lives of the saints. Please look
[44:03] Speaker 1: at me. Satan will kill anything he can kill.
[44:07] Speaker 2: Will steal anything he can steal, will destroy anything he
[44:11] Speaker 2: can destroy. When you leave Satan unattended to, I assure you,
[44:17] Speaker 2: even if in ignorance, he will not spare. If Satan
[44:20] Speaker 2: did not spare a newborn baby and made sure that
[44:24] Speaker 2: children died because a child of destiny was born, you
[44:27] Speaker 2: will be joking to believe there is no compassion.
[44:30] Speaker 1: The language mercy does not exist in the dark kingdom.
[44:34] Speaker 2: So from the days of John the Baptist, the kingdom
[44:37] Speaker 2: suffered violent. It would take the spiritually violent to take
[44:42] Speaker 2: their portion in life and destiny by force. Your ministry
[44:46] Speaker 2: will not rise just because you are kind. Say unto God,
[44:50] Speaker 2: how terrible are thou in all your works. He says,
[44:53] Speaker 2: through the greatness of thy power shall thy enemies submit
[44:57] Speaker 2: themselves to you.
[45:00] Speaker 1: Apostle, do you think Satan is on my case? Yes, sir.
[45:03] Speaker 2: By the integrity of scripture. Do you think he plans
[45:06] Speaker 2: to kill me?
[45:07] Speaker 1: In a hurry.
[45:08] Speaker 2: Now that you are even here. But thanks be to God.
[45:14] Speaker 2: Which causes us always to triumph.
[45:18] Speaker 1: Always. Thanks be to God.
[45:21] Speaker 2: The confidence of the believer. Is upon that which is written.
[45:26] Speaker 2: But Satan will kill anything he can kill. Like some
[45:29] Speaker 2: of you allowed him. And he's wrecking your business now.
[45:32] Speaker 2: But thank God you came tonight. Because every time light comes.
[45:36] Speaker 2: Darkness must bow.
[45:39] Speaker 1: Are we together? Are you ready to pray a prayer?
[45:43] Speaker 1: And then I get into the main course tonight. Pray
[45:51] Speaker 1: a prayer in one minute. Open my eyes to see.
[45:57] Speaker 1: Everyone pray, please. Online pray. Something is about to happen
[46:03] Speaker 1: to your life in a very defining way.
[46:13] Speaker 2: They go from strength to strength. Every one of them
[46:20] Speaker 2: that appears before the Lord.
[46:22] Speaker 1: Even in Zion. I assure you tonight you will never
[46:26] Speaker 1: be deceived. Something is about to come from heaven. In
[46:33] Speaker 1: Jesus' mighty name we pray. Koinonia, tonight I want to
[46:41] Speaker 1: share with you a very powerful secret. I came tonight
[46:45] Speaker 1: to give you a gift. It's a gift from heaven.
[46:51] Speaker 1: It's a gift that has made men mighty. Is a
[46:55] Speaker 1: gift that have made men strong. Everyone who is following online.
[47:01] Speaker 1: I want you to gather everyone you can find.
[47:05] Speaker 2: And tell them to sit around your phones, your screens.
[47:09] Speaker 2: Every man of God you can find. Every leader you
[47:12] Speaker 2: can find. Every business person you can find. Every weary
[47:17] Speaker 2: and struggling person you can find.
[47:20] Speaker 1: The spirit of God is about to speak. You're about
[47:22] Speaker 1: to hear something tonight that will really change your life.
[47:27] Speaker 2: It has been an anchor in my life. And I'm
[47:30] Speaker 2: honored to be sharing it. Light is about to come.
[47:35] Speaker 2: Let your spirit, spirit of wisdom, rest on me, rest
[47:43] Speaker 2: on me.
[47:44] Speaker 7: Let your spirit, spirit of wisdom.
[47:49] Speaker 1: Rest on me.
[47:51] Speaker 7: Rest on me.
[47:54] Speaker 1: Oh, rest on me. Oh, rest on me.
[48:01] Speaker 5: Oh, rest on me. Spirit of wisdom, rest on me.
[48:11] Speaker 1: Let your spirit of wisdom rest on me, rest on me.
[48:18] Speaker 8: Let your spirit of.
[48:20] Speaker 1: Wisdom rest on me, rest on me. Rest on me.
[48:42] Speaker 5: Spirit of wisdom, rest on me.
[48:46] Speaker 2: Alright, fasten your seatbelts, let's get to work.
[48:50] Speaker 1: Tonight, I'm teaching on the staying power. I want to
[48:58] Speaker 1: show you how to access the grace that outlasts. The
[49:05] Speaker 1: grace that makes men consistent. Is a very profound revelation.
[49:11] Speaker 1: You are about to hear.
[49:13] Speaker 2: The staying power. The power that causes men to remain.
[49:20] Speaker 2: The grace that causes men to continue.
[49:24] Speaker 1: Are you ready? Joshua 14. From verse 6. Koinonia you
[49:31] Speaker 1: are a blessed people. Honestly. Honestly. I want you to
[49:35] Speaker 1: believe me. You are a blessed people.
[49:40] Speaker 2: Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal.
[49:44] Speaker 1: My teaching begins now. And Caleb, the son of Jethuneth,
[49:51] Speaker 1: the Kenizzite.
[49:52] Speaker 2: Said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord
[49:55] Speaker 2: said unto Moses, the man of God, concerning me and thee.
[49:59] Speaker 1: Next verse. Verse 7.
[50:02] Speaker 2: Forty years old was I when Moses, the servant of
[50:06] Speaker 2: the Lord, sent me to Kadesh-Vaneah. To espy out the land.
[50:11] Speaker 2: And I brought him word again as it was in
[50:13] Speaker 2: my heart.
[50:15] Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
[50:16] Speaker 1: Verse 8. Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me
[50:21] Speaker 1: made the heart of the people melt.
[50:23] Speaker 2: Talking about the other spies. Remember the 12 spies? So
[50:27] Speaker 2: he was making reference to that.
[50:29] Speaker 1: But I wholly followed the Lord my God.
[50:33] Speaker 2: Verse 9. We're reading to 12. And Moses swear.
[50:37] Speaker 1: On that day. So Caleb is reminding Joshua and the
[50:39] Speaker 1: people now. Say it. Surely the land where.
[50:44] Speaker 2: On thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance and
[50:48] Speaker 2: thy children's forever. Because thou hast wholly followed the Lord
[50:52] Speaker 2: thy God.
[50:53] Speaker 1: Verse 10. Hallelujah. And now, behold, the Lord hath kept
[50:59] Speaker 1: me alive.
[51:01] Speaker 2: And as he said, these forty and five years, and
[51:06] Speaker 2: ever since the Lord spoke his word unto Moses, while
[51:09] Speaker 2: the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness, and now, lo,
[51:13] Speaker 2: I am this day, fourscore and eighty-five years. I mean,
[51:18] Speaker 2: fourscore and five years. That's eighty-five years. Read 11 if
[51:22] Speaker 2: you are a believer.
[51:23] Speaker 1: One to read. As yet, I am as strong this.
[51:27] Speaker 2: Day as I was in the day that Moses sent me.
[51:32] Speaker 2: As my strength was then, even so is my strength now.
[51:37] Speaker 1: For war, both to go out and to come in.
[51:42] Speaker 1: The staying power.
[51:48] Speaker 2: Men do not just last. Men do not just remain.
[51:53] Speaker 2: There is a grace that God gives men. That can
[51:57] Speaker 2: cause men to outlast. Outlast storms. Outlast seasons. Outlast adversities.
[52:09] Speaker 2: Outlast any kind of thing whatsoever.
[52:13] Speaker 1: The Bible says.
[52:16] Speaker 2: In Hebrews chapter 6 and verse 15. Hebrews 6 and
[52:19] Speaker 2: verse 15. It says, and after Abraham had patiently endured, patiently.
[52:28] Speaker 1: Endured, he obtained the promise.
[52:32] Speaker 2: I want to show you tonight the mystery of consistency
[52:35] Speaker 2: in anything you are doing.
[52:37] Speaker 1: It is the mystery that many of our fathers have known.
[52:41] Speaker 2: It is the mystery that many enviable leaders, even in
[52:45] Speaker 2: the secular, have mastered in a way. When you see
[52:48] Speaker 2: a man remain When you see a man still vibrant,
[52:52] Speaker 2: full of vision, full of power, full of grace. When
[52:56] Speaker 2: you see that people's focus and determination does not go down.
[53:01] Speaker 2: There is a grace that is responsible for that.
[53:05] Speaker 1: Are we together?
[53:07] Speaker 2: Impact can be short lived. So says the story of Samson.
[53:13] Speaker 2: Impact can be short lived. So says the testament about
[53:17] Speaker 2: the Nazarenes. That it is possible for a man to
[53:20] Speaker 2: stand strong in ministry, in business, in life and destiny.
[53:26] Speaker 2: And then for whatever reason, factors you will be learning tonight.
[53:30] Speaker 1: That it seems like it is a limitation in all
[53:33] Speaker 1: men and with all men to gas out, to plateau,
[53:38] Speaker 1: to be weary, to be tired. It is not unusual
[53:42] Speaker 1: for men to be tired.
[53:44] Speaker 2: Because of the vicissitudes that surround their journey to becoming.
[53:49] Speaker 1: Their journey to destiny.
[53:52] Speaker 2: Even Jesus on his journey to being the lamb that
[53:55] Speaker 2: will be slain for us. He became weary. He became tired.
[54:00] Speaker 2: He became fatigued. And the Bible did not hide his frustration.
[54:05] Speaker 2: He cried at the extermination. In fact, a man had
[54:09] Speaker 2: to help him, called Simon of Cyrene, for him to
[54:12] Speaker 2: die on the cross.
[54:14] Speaker 1: Man can be weary.
[54:16] Speaker 2: Visions can fade, just like a man's eyes. The Bible
[54:21] Speaker 2: tells us a time came, Eli was once a vibrant priest,
[54:26] Speaker 2: but something happened in his life. And Eli's eyes began
[54:31] Speaker 2: to dim. And it so dimmed that Eli eventually, on
[54:36] Speaker 2: hearing that the ark of God had been captured and
[54:39] Speaker 2: his sons had been dead, the Bible says he fell.
[54:42] Speaker 1: Broke his neck and died.
[54:46] Speaker 2: Longevity of impact is based on a grace called the
[54:51] Speaker 2: staying power. There is a grace that when a man accesses,
[54:57] Speaker 2: you can remain in ministry. You can remain in destiny.
[55:02] Speaker 2: That the storms of life can arise and fall. Men
[55:05] Speaker 2: and systems can change. Governments can change. This man called
[55:10] Speaker 2: Daniel was a very mysterious man because he had such
[55:14] Speaker 2: a grace. That Daniel outlasted almost everyone. The kings and
[55:21] Speaker 2: all the adversities that were the men who were together
[55:25] Speaker 2: fighting the purposes of God.
[55:26] Speaker 1: Over his life. The staying power was a grace that
[55:31] Speaker 1: the nation of Israel had in Egypt.
[55:34] Speaker 2: That they survived 430 years. And even though many things
[55:38] Speaker 2: happened of that generation that came out, only Joshua and
[55:42] Speaker 2: Caleb got into.
[55:43] Speaker 1: The promised land. But how many of you know that.
[55:47] Speaker 2: Because of the grace that was upon them, there were
[55:50] Speaker 2: people who had been enslaved for many years, but nothing
[55:54] Speaker 2: failed to disperse them indefinitely. There was always a way
[55:58] Speaker 2: that they gathered back, like the hen gathering her chicks.
[56:03] Speaker 2: The staying power is one of the mysterious provisions by
[56:08] Speaker 2: the Spirit of God that can empower men and grace.
[56:11] Speaker 1: Men to lust.
[56:13] Speaker 2: That when the vicissitudes of life, the challenges of life,
[56:17] Speaker 2: they rise and fall. At the end of it, when
[56:20] Speaker 2: the dust is settled, you are still standing.
[56:22] Speaker 1: The Bible says, haven't done all to stand. Stand.
[56:26] Speaker 2: If you do not have this grace, your company will
[56:29] Speaker 2: not last. Your ministry will not last.
[56:32] Speaker 1: Do you know that there.
[56:33] Speaker 2: Are territories that swallow up the inhabitants? There are companies
[56:37] Speaker 2: that start, in fact, statistics will tell us, I hope
[56:40] Speaker 2: I'm still.
[56:40] Speaker 1: Right on that, that at least 80.
[56:43] Speaker 2: To 90% of companies and corporations that start die within.
[56:47] Speaker 1: The first year.
[56:51] Speaker 2: It is not necessarily because they lack ideas or even
[56:55] Speaker 2: the technical know-how.
[56:56] Speaker 1: And this is also true for ministries. My goodness, I
[57:00] Speaker 1: have been part of, by the privilege.
[57:02] Speaker 2: Of God's grace, Being a strong encouragement for even men
[57:06] Speaker 2: and women in the gospel. I have seen the mighty cry.
[57:09] Speaker 2: I have seen the mighty join the weak to cry.
[57:13] Speaker 2: I have seen kings cry, nobles cry, leaders cry.
[57:19] Speaker 1: Because life can do its thing to men.
[57:22] Speaker 2: And if you do not know how to stay. I've
[57:24] Speaker 2: seen couples cry. I've seen parents cry. I've seen children cry.
[57:30] Speaker 2: I've seen great people cry.
[57:33] Speaker 1: When it has to do with weariness, it is an equalizer.
[57:36] Speaker 1: Both the rich and poor experience it.
[57:38] Speaker 2: Both the anointed and those who are otherwise experience it.
[57:42] Speaker 1: What you are learning tonight will equip you to last.
[57:45] Speaker 1: That decades after now, when the storms of life and
[57:48] Speaker 1: destiny shift and do their thing, you will be standing
[57:52] Speaker 1: as robust as a palm tree. You believe that? Shout aloud, Amen.
[57:58] Speaker 2: Can I tell you, it is better to not start
[58:01] Speaker 2: the journey to life and destiny than to become a
[58:04] Speaker 2: story that is a memorial.
[58:06] Speaker 1: A memorial of failure.
[58:08] Speaker 2: That someday people will say there was once a company
[58:11] Speaker 2: called ABC. There was once a man of God called ABC.
[58:16] Speaker 2: And for the simple reason that you did not have
[58:19] Speaker 2: the energy to continue. I did a bit of athletics before.
[58:26] Speaker 2: And I did long distance race for a few years.
[58:30] Speaker 2: It started as a punishment. And then we later discovered
[58:34] Speaker 2: there was a grace there. So the Bible says all
[58:38] Speaker 2: things work together.
[58:39] Speaker 1: Are we together? Yes. It started as a punishment. And
[58:43] Speaker 1: then we found out that there was a grace. So
[58:45] Speaker 1: we started doing cycling the field 7 times. Sometimes 12 times.
[58:49] Speaker 1: You know like a marathon. And... God granted me grace.
[58:53] Speaker 2: For whatever reason. I seem to be able to do
[58:56] Speaker 2: that very effectively.
[58:58] Speaker 1: I would run. You would think I'm tired. But I
[59:00] Speaker 1: would continue. And I watch people. Usually we are many
[59:03] Speaker 1: when we are about to start. Many. Including those who
[59:06] Speaker 1: know they will not finish. And the moment they say start.
[59:11] Speaker 1: We begin to run.
[59:12] Speaker 2: And there are others who begin to run in front.
[59:14] Speaker 2: They clap for them too early. They start clapping. And
[59:17] Speaker 2: they are encouraged. flattered then discouraged then they gas out
[59:23] Speaker 2: and then some of them fall like parts of cars
[59:25] Speaker 2: after two or three rounds you see people literally you
[59:28] Speaker 2: know how an asthmatic patient gasped for breath some would
[59:30] Speaker 2: just stop and say it's not worth it what.
[59:32] Speaker 1: Am i going to get.
[59:36] Speaker 2: Several excuses begin to happen i remember the first time
[59:39] Speaker 2: it was myself and another gentleman who was a senior
[59:43] Speaker 2: and we ran and at a point we were running
[59:45] Speaker 2: together and that.
[59:47] Speaker 1: Was when our master.
[59:48] Speaker 2: Looked at us and he said wow so it means
[59:51] Speaker 2: that we can incorporate this in the sports of the
[59:53] Speaker 2: school and they started incorporating it listen let me tell
[59:56] Speaker 2: you the truth the skill you used to start is
[1:00:00] Speaker 2: not what you used to remain did you hear what
[1:00:04] Speaker 2: i said The dynamics of starting anything, usually the basic level,
[1:00:10] Speaker 2: entry level of any kind of knowledge and skill and
[1:00:13] Speaker 2: motivation is sufficient to start.
[1:00:16] Speaker 1: But when you see people last and outlast, there are
[1:00:22] Speaker 1: other elements that were incorporated on their way. And this
[1:00:26] Speaker 1: is what I want to teach you tonight. Hallelujah.
[1:00:31] Speaker 2: Many have aborted life and destiny. because they knew how
[1:00:36] Speaker 2: to start but they did not know how to remain
[1:00:39] Speaker 2: the stamina that keeps the great great regardless what happens
[1:00:43] Speaker 2: the stamina that keeps the vibrant vibrant the stamina that
[1:00:48] Speaker 2: keeps the prayerful prayerful the stamina that keeps the wise
[1:00:52] Speaker 2: wise the stamina that keeps visionaries visionaries regardless what happens
[1:00:58] Speaker 2: This is what you are learning tonight.
[1:01:00] Speaker 1: It is called the staying power.
[1:01:01] Speaker 2: For someone you are receiving that to jack your company,
[1:01:05] Speaker 2: your spiritual life, your ministry, your business back to life.
[1:01:10] Speaker 2: You prayed and God answered with this sermon tonight. So
[1:01:13] Speaker 2: pay attention as you learn.
[1:01:16] Speaker 1: Hear this. Men are as powerful as the God that
[1:01:21] Speaker 1: backs them.
[1:01:23] Speaker 9: Men are as powerful as the mysteries that surround them.
[1:01:28] Speaker 9: Men are as powerful as the God that backs them.
[1:01:33] Speaker 9: Men are as powerful as the mysteries, the bodies of
[1:01:38] Speaker 9: spiritual knowledge that supports and surrounds them. And I've put
[1:01:44] Speaker 9: together tonight by the Spirit of God, five.
[1:01:47] Speaker 1: Keys that I have learned from Scripture.
[1:01:50] Speaker 2: I have learned through the privilege of mentorship of people
[1:01:55] Speaker 2: with structured, consistent results.
[1:01:59] Speaker 1: And by the privilege of God's grace, some of these
[1:02:02] Speaker 1: have been principles.
[1:02:03] Speaker 2: That I've incorporated in my own life. And I know
[1:02:06] Speaker 2: it works. Is a man of God ready tonight? Is
[1:02:10] Speaker 2: a businessman ready to listen tonight? Is a champion ready tonight?
[1:02:15] Speaker 2: Someone determined to last and remain? If you are ready,
[1:02:18] Speaker 2: shout aloud, Amen. Key number one.
[1:02:26] Speaker 1: Those who Who have the grace that lasts and outlasts.
[1:02:32] Speaker 1: Outlast challenges. Outlast seasons. By the way, the word at last,
[1:02:40] Speaker 1: if you care to find out the meaning.
[1:02:42] Speaker 2: The word at last means to continue to exist in
[1:02:46] Speaker 2: spite of. To continue to exist in spite of. It
[1:02:51] Speaker 2: means to remain active. It means to remain active. It
[1:02:57] Speaker 2: means to last longer than.
[1:02:59] Speaker 1: Things, opponents, and conditions. I'll take it one more time.
[1:03:05] Speaker 2: To outlast means to continue to exist in spite of.
[1:03:11] Speaker 2: To outlast means to remain active. To outlast means to
[1:03:17] Speaker 2: last longer. Longer than things. Longer than opponents. Longer than conditions.
[1:03:25] Speaker 2: Usually unfavorable. This is what it means to outlast. And
[1:03:29] Speaker 2: very quickly, without further ado, I want to give you
[1:03:34] Speaker 2: five keys that will grant anyone the grace and the empowerment.
[1:03:38] Speaker 2: And at the end of my teaching, by the privilege
[1:03:41] Speaker 2: of God's grace, someone will carry that grace bodily tonight.
[1:03:46] Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus.
[1:03:47] Speaker 2: A weary person will come back full of faith you
[1:03:51] Speaker 2: will learn a lot wisdom will be impacted upon you
[1:03:54] Speaker 2: from the throne are you ready number one the first
[1:03:58] Speaker 2: key that has helped me has helped any great person
[1:04:03] Speaker 2: i know is to be strong in the lord Write
[1:04:09] Speaker 2: it down. The first key that helps men to stay.
[1:04:14] Speaker 2: To last and to outlast. Is to be strong in
[1:04:18] Speaker 2: the Lord. The strength that is derived from your knowing God.
[1:04:24] Speaker 2: There is a stamina and strength that is derived from
[1:04:30] Speaker 2: knowing God.
[1:04:31] Speaker 1: Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 10 popular scripture. It says
[1:04:34] Speaker 1: finally brethren. Be strong. I like Amplified. Give it to
[1:04:39] Speaker 1: us please.
[1:04:40] Speaker 2: Amplified says finally be strong in the Lord. It says
[1:04:45] Speaker 2: be empowered through your union with him. Draw your strength
[1:04:49] Speaker 2: from him. That strength which his boundless might provides. Show
[1:04:56] Speaker 2: me a champion who has remained.
[1:04:59] Speaker 1: Show me a great trailblazer, a.
[1:05:02] Speaker 2: Destiny changer who has remained. I show you a man
[1:05:06] Speaker 2: especially in the kingdom who has mastered.
[1:05:08] Speaker 1: How to be strong in the Lord. Write this.
[1:05:15] Speaker 2: Your confidence in life will be on the strength of
[1:05:19] Speaker 2: your knowledge of God.
[1:05:21] Speaker 1: Your confidence in.
[1:05:22] Speaker 2: Life will be on the strength of your knowledge of God.
[1:05:27] Speaker 1: Your confidence in.
[1:05:28] Speaker 2: Life that includes every endeavor you are part of will
[1:05:32] Speaker 2: be on the strength of your knowledge of god second
[1:05:36] Speaker 2: timothy 1 12 second timothy chapter 1 and verse 12
[1:05:40] Speaker 2: please the bible says for the which cause i also
[1:05:46] Speaker 2: suffer these things nevertheless i am not ashamed for i
[1:05:51] Speaker 2: know whom i have believed hallelujah and i am persuaded
[1:05:55] Speaker 2: say persuaded.
[1:05:57] Speaker 1: One more time, say persuaded.
[1:05:59] Speaker 2: I am persuaded that he is able.
[1:06:03] Speaker 1: His ability was derived from my knowing him.
[1:06:06] Speaker 2: That he is able to keep that which I have
[1:06:09] Speaker 2: committed unto him. I have taught you here, Koinonia, that
[1:06:12] Speaker 2: God does not keep what you have. He keeps what
[1:06:15] Speaker 2: you commit to him. The bank does not keep the
[1:06:19] Speaker 2: money in your house. They keep the money you deposit
[1:06:22] Speaker 2: as a trust.
[1:06:23] Speaker 1: In their account. Am I right on that? If you
[1:06:27] Speaker 1: have one million and you keep it in your house
[1:06:30] Speaker 1: and it is stolen and you blame the bank, you
[1:06:33] Speaker 1: see that now? The court will charge you for fraud
[1:06:36] Speaker 1: because they are.
[1:06:37] Speaker 2: Not entitled to keep anything outside of their jurisdiction. So
[1:06:42] Speaker 2: God cannot protect a destiny that is not handed over
[1:06:45] Speaker 2: to Him. If you trust Him enough, trust Him with
[1:06:48] Speaker 2: your life. If you trust Him enough, trust Him with
[1:06:51] Speaker 2: your destiny. If you trust Him enough, trust Him even
[1:06:54] Speaker 2: with your days. They looked unto Him and their faces
[1:06:58] Speaker 2: were lightened. There is no shame when we trust in
[1:07:00] Speaker 2: the Lord. The Bible even says with all our hearts
[1:07:03] Speaker 2: we should trust Him.
[1:07:04] Speaker 1: And it says to lean not unto our own understanding.
[1:07:07] Speaker 1: It says in all your ways, Proverbs 3, 5 to 7.
[1:07:10] Speaker 2: Acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path. Next verse says,
[1:07:15] Speaker 2: be not wise in your own understanding.
[1:07:18] Speaker 1: It says, fear the Lord and depart from evil. Be
[1:07:21] Speaker 1: strong in the Lord. Please look at me. A time
[1:07:26] Speaker 1: will come when... The only true ally in your life
[1:07:32] Speaker 1: will be God.
[1:07:33] Speaker 2: Did you hear what I said? A time will come
[1:07:36] Speaker 2: when the most trusted ally in your life will be God.
[1:07:41] Speaker 2: Some trust in horses. Some trust in chariots.
[1:07:45] Speaker 1: How many of you know that horses and chariots are
[1:07:47] Speaker 1: a warrior's ally? He needs them to be efficient in war.
[1:07:51] Speaker 1: But he says some trust. But we will trust in
[1:07:56] Speaker 1: the name of Of the Lord our God.
[1:08:01] Speaker 2: Early enough you must learn. That the greatest security in
[1:08:06] Speaker 2: your life. The longevity factor. In this ministry.
[1:08:10] Speaker 1: Your ministry. Destiny. Your family. Your business. Is God himself.
[1:08:16] Speaker 1: And if you allow your.
[1:08:18] Speaker 2: Knowledge of God to suffer. Because you are pursuing any
[1:08:21] Speaker 2: other thing. You will learn painfully with time. That you
[1:08:25] Speaker 2: made a bad bargain with destiny.
[1:08:27] Speaker 1: Are we together? Be strong in the Lord. First two words,
[1:08:31] Speaker 1: be strong. It takes strength to continue. The Bible says,
[1:08:36] Speaker 1: if you turn aside in the day of battle, it
[1:08:39] Speaker 1: says your strength is small. If you turn aside in
[1:08:43] Speaker 1: the day of battle, your strength is small.
[1:08:46] Speaker 2: Caleb spoke in Joshua chapter 14 and verse 11.
[1:08:51] Speaker 1: He said, as I was. Can you imagine? By what technology?
[1:08:55] Speaker 1: It's not a natural thing. He said, I am yet
[1:08:58] Speaker 1: as strong this day.
[1:09:00] Speaker 2: As I was when Moses sent me 40 years down
[1:09:04] Speaker 2: the line the guy said I am still strong for
[1:09:06] Speaker 2: war I am still strong to go in and.
[1:09:09] Speaker 1: I am still strong to go out.
[1:09:13] Speaker 2: I made a joke some time ago that many leaders
[1:09:19] Speaker 2: are usually eager to serve not just to serve nations
[1:09:22] Speaker 2: to serve companies i've prayed for many people at their
[1:09:25] Speaker 2: retirement or when maybe another director takes over and usually
[1:09:30] Speaker 2: i am shocked to see that the zeal that they
[1:09:33] Speaker 2: had when they began that adventure usually diminishes sometimes almost
[1:09:38] Speaker 2: to zero at the point of retirement i've seen people
[1:09:42] Speaker 2: clamor for positions and titles And at the point where
[1:09:47] Speaker 2: the reality of that office beats on them, when they're
[1:09:50] Speaker 2: about to retire, they retire in a hurry. They say, director,
[1:09:54] Speaker 2: can we shift your retirement by two weeks?
[1:09:55] Speaker 1: He said, no way, I will retire now. Because they
[1:09:58] Speaker 1: are tired of all the troubles.
[1:10:00] Speaker 2: Something happens to men when they stay long enough with men.
[1:10:05] Speaker 1: They almost choose to quit. It takes a man.
[1:10:08] Speaker 2: Who knows God to remain in the world of man.
[1:10:11] Speaker 2: Let me repeat this again. It takes a man who
[1:10:14] Speaker 2: knows God to remain in the world of man.
[1:10:19] Speaker 1: The stories and the episodes of pain, betrayal, anger, and a.
[1:10:24] Speaker 2: Mix of all the humanities of men is sufficient to
[1:10:29] Speaker 2: blow your vision, deflate your passion.
[1:10:33] Speaker 1: Erode your appetite and your energy.
[1:10:35] Speaker 2: It takes a man who knows God to have the
[1:10:38] Speaker 2: stamina to continue in this.
[1:10:41] Speaker 1: World of men. Be strong in the Lord. Be strong
[1:10:46] Speaker 1: in the Lord.
[1:10:47] Speaker 2: What happens to a pastor when he loses, say his
[1:10:50] Speaker 2: wife or his child? At that point, you need beyond masculinity.
[1:10:56] Speaker 2: At that point, it's beyond brain work.
[1:10:58] Speaker 1: There are things that can befall men in life that
[1:11:02] Speaker 1: makes you to wish death.
[1:11:03] Speaker 2: Have you seen people commit suicide in our world? Do
[1:11:09] Speaker 2: you think it's that easy to kill yourself?
[1:11:13] Speaker 1: Don't try it. Are we together? But our world is
[1:11:19] Speaker 1: full of people who jumped into lagoons.
[1:11:22] Speaker 2: And made certain statements. Others recorded themselves. World, this is
[1:11:27] Speaker 2: to let you know where I'm about to die.
[1:11:29] Speaker 1: I am tired. I'm 35, 45.
[1:11:32] Speaker 2: Nothing is working. And they jump in and you would
[1:11:34] Speaker 2: think they are playing until you find them dead. A
[1:11:38] Speaker 2: man's spirit can be so broken that death looks like gain.
[1:11:43] Speaker 2: A man's spirit can be so broken that by yourself.
[1:11:47] Speaker 1: You will want to kill yourself. Hallelujah. Many years ago,
[1:11:52] Speaker 1: I had the honor of praying for someone who had
[1:11:56] Speaker 1: an accident. And it's not a picture I want to
[1:11:59] Speaker 1: paint for you.
[1:12:00] Speaker 2: That person was so broken, like for the rest of
[1:12:04] Speaker 2: his or her life, he would not.
[1:12:06] Speaker 1: Be able to walk. I mean, anywhere you can find
[1:12:09] Speaker 1: bone was broken. How the person was alive.
[1:12:11] Speaker 2: I remember talking to the person and the man, true story.
[1:12:15] Speaker 2: The man said, I wish for death. I'm already saved.
[1:12:18] Speaker 2: Why would I live like this, being a burden to
[1:12:20] Speaker 2: my wife, being a burden to my children? People have
[1:12:23] Speaker 2: left jobs to take care of me. They have left everything.
[1:12:26] Speaker 2: It's unfair to them. That was his, he cried with
[1:12:29] Speaker 2: his tears. He said, at least if I die, I
[1:12:31] Speaker 2: know I'm going to heaven. And all the monies that
[1:12:34] Speaker 2: are spent on me can be used for something else.
[1:12:36] Speaker 2: Can I tell you, people can go through things in
[1:12:39] Speaker 2: life that makes them pray by themselves for death. This
[1:12:44] Speaker 2: is life for you. You need to be strong in
[1:12:47] Speaker 2: the Lord. Moses, you are about to lead God's people
[1:12:52] Speaker 2: into the promised land. You have no idea the Hittites,
[1:12:55] Speaker 2: the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and all the people, the forces
[1:13:00] Speaker 2: that you'll be contending with. So he told Joshua, like
[1:13:03] Speaker 2: he told Moses, be strong. Remember, he said it before
[1:13:08] Speaker 2: the journey. When God tells you be strong, he means
[1:13:12] Speaker 2: he's talking to a warrior.
[1:13:14] Speaker 1: Are we together? Be strong. Be strong.
[1:13:19] Speaker 2: It takes strength to remain. There are people today who
[1:13:23] Speaker 2: became great. And they started the journeys of their life
[1:13:27] Speaker 2: with no father and no mother.
[1:13:29] Speaker 1: But they became strong. They said, listen, I may not
[1:13:32] Speaker 1: be able to do anything about my life. Daddy died.
[1:13:35] Speaker 1: Mommy died. Sisters died. No siblings, no support. But for
[1:13:39] Speaker 1: as long as I have breath within me, I will
[1:13:42] Speaker 1: take a step of faith. And some of them went
[1:13:45] Speaker 1: to go and write jam by themselves. They went to
[1:13:47] Speaker 1: gain admission by themselves. All they had was money enough
[1:13:51] Speaker 1: to get into the school. Some of them today are
[1:13:53] Speaker 1: company owners. It takes strength to do anything in life.
[1:13:57] Speaker 2: Give him flimsy excuses. I'm blaming yesterday. A man is
[1:14:01] Speaker 2: the lot of weak people. You need to be strong.
[1:14:04] Speaker 2: First in the Lord. Someone prophesy to yourself.
[1:14:08] Speaker 1: Say be strong. Mean what you are saying. One more time.
[1:14:11] Speaker 1: Say be strong. Be strong means I know that things
[1:14:15] Speaker 1: have happened around your life that is unfavorable.
[1:14:17] Speaker 2: But rest in the fact that there is a God
[1:14:19] Speaker 2: who can save men.
[1:14:21] Speaker 1: Are we together now? Be strong in ministry.
[1:14:24] Speaker 2: You started ministry and after.
[1:14:25] Speaker 1: 10 years there are only two members. Be strong. Be strong.
[1:14:31] Speaker 2: You have a problem right now with your rent, embarrassment
[1:14:34] Speaker 2: is imminent.
[1:14:34] Speaker 1: Be strong. One thing I can tell you about life
[1:14:37] Speaker 1: is that it passes. Life is not static. Life moves.
[1:14:41] Speaker 1: And if you have the endurance, that scene will change.
[1:14:44] Speaker 2: It's like the pages of a book. It will take
[1:14:46] Speaker 2: time to open. It's like the hand of a clock.
[1:14:49] Speaker 2: Have you seen a clock with a battery that stays?
[1:14:51] Speaker 1: It moves. It may move slow.
[1:14:54] Speaker 2: But the same distance that our hand is moving is
[1:14:56] Speaker 2: what the minute and the second is moving. It's just
[1:14:59] Speaker 2: that your attention is.
[1:15:00] Speaker 1: On the our hand. That's why it looks slow. Everything
[1:15:04] Speaker 1: in life will come to pass. Be strong. There are
[1:15:09] Speaker 1: men who do not have the stamina to.
[1:15:11] Speaker 2: Look unto Jesus and to be strong.
[1:15:17] Speaker 1: Who would ever believe that upon this earth.
[1:15:20] Speaker 2: Today, according to the authority of scripture, that a flood
[1:15:24] Speaker 2: once covered.
[1:15:24] Speaker 1: The earth and there was no land and there were
[1:15:27] Speaker 1: only eight people.
[1:15:31] Speaker 2: You would think the earth would never have land again.
[1:15:34] Speaker 2: Look at the world today.
[1:15:36] Speaker 1: Nothing is as dangerous, as powerful, as threatening as it
[1:15:40] Speaker 1: initially looks.
[1:15:41] Speaker 2: I have taught you that life always comes with its
[1:15:44] Speaker 2: challenges in a magnified form. It takes stamina to deflate
[1:15:48] Speaker 2: it to its.
[1:15:48] Speaker 1: Right size and.
[1:15:49] Speaker 2: Then defeat it by understanding. Someone prophesied, be strong. You
[1:15:54] Speaker 2: are not the first to look for a house rent.
[1:15:56] Speaker 1: Please. It's not a unique attack to you.
[1:15:59] Speaker 2: You are not the first to struggle with a child.
[1:16:01] Speaker 2: I know that there are parents who are struggling with
[1:16:04] Speaker 2: autistic children.
[1:16:05] Speaker 1: And let me tell you the truth.
[1:16:07] Speaker 2: It is a very difficult thing I have witnessed for myself.
[1:16:11] Speaker 2: There are people struggling with all kinds of cases. And
[1:16:14] Speaker 2: whilst they pray every day.
[1:16:16] Speaker 1: The situation seems to deteriorate. The staying power is derived
[1:16:21] Speaker 1: from the ability to know God and to draw strength
[1:16:24] Speaker 1: from Him. I know God.
[1:16:26] Speaker 2: I may not know the director in that company, but
[1:16:28] Speaker 2: I know God.
[1:16:29] Speaker 1: I may not know the president, the owner of the
[1:16:31] Speaker 1: oil and gas company, but I know God.
[1:16:34] Speaker 2: And my Bible says the people that know their God,
[1:16:37] Speaker 2: even though they are weak, is that they shall be strong.
[1:16:40] Speaker 1: Someone say, be strong. That police case will come to pass.
[1:16:46] Speaker 1: Be strong. That issue with your relatives, be strong.
[1:16:49] Speaker 2: I know that you are the first son now out
[1:16:52] Speaker 2: of 12 children.
[1:16:53] Speaker 1: And you don't even have a job. You don't know
[1:16:55] Speaker 1: how to take care of the remaining. Hey, be strong.
[1:16:58] Speaker 1: Crying does not solve the problem. Be strong.
[1:17:01] Speaker 2: You need to shut your door and prophesy to yourself.
[1:17:05] Speaker 1: Be strong. Let me tell you the truth. Behind every
[1:17:10] Speaker 1: exploit you see.
[1:17:12] Speaker 2: Until men tell you their challenges and take off their
[1:17:16] Speaker 2: destiny clothes for you to see the scar, you usually
[1:17:18] Speaker 2: will focus on.
[1:17:19] Speaker 1: The crown alone. There is no champion who did not
[1:17:23] Speaker 1: weary seasons through their courage. Be strong. It's not unique
[1:17:27] Speaker 1: to you.
[1:17:29] Speaker 3: Hmm.
[1:17:30] Speaker 1: Yes, sir. You know, most times when God speaks to
[1:17:34] Speaker 1: you about.
[1:17:35] Speaker 2: Destiny, He speaks as if everything will happen overnight.
[1:17:39] Speaker 1: He spoke to you. I have raised you to be
[1:17:41] Speaker 1: an apostle and a prophet. And you thought a partner
[1:17:44] Speaker 1: would just come and give you one billion.
[1:17:46] Speaker 2: Open a church for you and put your picture everywhere.
[1:17:50] Speaker 1: Think again. You now know why pastors cry during pastors conference.
[1:17:55] Speaker 1: Members just keep laughing but you see a pastor sitting
[1:17:57] Speaker 1: like this. He's not writing. While the sermon is going on.
[1:18:02] Speaker 1: And you will see from a man. Tears coming. The
[1:18:05] Speaker 1: tears are doing the writing. They could relate. Like some
[1:18:08] Speaker 1: of you are too innocent to relate.
[1:18:10] Speaker 2: With this teaching tonight. But there are some of you
[1:18:12] Speaker 2: who know that you are in the middle of a
[1:18:14] Speaker 2: season right now. If you are not strong, you will
[1:18:17] Speaker 2: give up. Men do not last because all seasons were
[1:18:25] Speaker 2: to their favor.
[1:18:27] Speaker 1: They stayed until dry season became rainy season. Every farmer
[1:18:33] Speaker 1: knows that.
[1:18:34] Speaker 2: It is frustrating to patiently wait, as we call it
[1:18:37] Speaker 2: in Africa and in Nigeria, for dry season. Dry season
[1:18:41] Speaker 2: comes with unusual heat. It comes with a lot of things.
[1:18:44] Speaker 1: Right now, it's very, very hot. Very, very hot. you
[1:18:48] Speaker 1: know many times i travel when i return i have
[1:18:50] Speaker 1: to adjust to the temperature it can be very inconvenient
[1:18:54] Speaker 1: as soon as you land nigeria you just know you
[1:18:56] Speaker 1: are home many things not through the sign but you
[1:18:59] Speaker 1: know you are home ah and you have to invent
[1:19:02] Speaker 1: a skill to manage that because it will not change
[1:19:05] Speaker 1: because of you.
[1:19:07] Speaker 2: Champions know that seasons will change. It may not change
[1:19:10] Speaker 2: as fast as you want it. So you invent a skill.
[1:19:13] Speaker 2: Skill number one.
[1:19:14] Speaker 1: Is to look unto him.
[1:19:16] Speaker 2: Every time you are confused about life, stop looking down.
[1:19:19] Speaker 1: Look up. Looking up is a skill that only champions know.
[1:19:24] Speaker 1: Did you hear what I said? Every time someone tells
[1:19:28] Speaker 1: you provided I'm in.
[1:19:29] Speaker 2: This office, you will never be promoted. Go back home
[1:19:32] Speaker 2: and sit down. Then your wife says, what kind of
[1:19:34] Speaker 2: a man are you? There's no food for the children.
[1:19:37] Speaker 1: And sometimes the devil says, get a knife quickly. Kill
[1:19:40] Speaker 1: yourself and rest. Look up. Be strong in the Lord.
[1:19:58] Speaker 1: There are times you will do everything right. It is
[1:20:01] Speaker 1: not just your season of appearing.
[1:20:03] Speaker 2: There is nothing at all that you did wrong. You
[1:20:06] Speaker 2: kept the principles. What God says to do is what
[1:20:09] Speaker 2: you have done. All that is left is to stand.
[1:20:13] Speaker 2: Haven't done all.
[1:20:14] Speaker 1: Stand. You called for.
[1:20:19] Speaker 2: The program and only five people came. And somebody told you,
[1:20:22] Speaker 2: go and look for a job quickly. Because if it's
[1:20:25] Speaker 2: this ministry, you are not called.
[1:20:28] Speaker 10: We look to Yahweh, Yahweh.
[1:20:36] Speaker 1: Our hope is Yahweh, Yahweh. I remember many years ago,
[1:20:59] Speaker 1: we lost one of our precious daughters in this house.
[1:21:02] Speaker 1: Wonderful lady. She was a leader. And I traveled down
[1:21:06] Speaker 1: to go and see the people to comfort them.
[1:21:09] Speaker 2: I was so sad about what happened. I went for
[1:21:11] Speaker 2: a retreat for three days. I said, Lord, how did
[1:21:15] Speaker 2: this happen that you did not show me? How did
[1:21:18] Speaker 2: I stand against you? Is something wrong with my spiritual life?
[1:21:22] Speaker 1: Have I backslidden? What happened to my eyes that I
[1:21:26] Speaker 1: did not see this? And afterwards, I drew comfort in Scripture.
[1:21:30] Speaker 1: And when I went, we met her mother.
[1:21:33] Speaker 2: You know how it is to enter a house where
[1:21:35] Speaker 2: someone is bereaved? And the woman kept encouraging us. She
[1:21:38] Speaker 2: was the one who became the preacher. The woman who
[1:21:41] Speaker 2: lost her daughter. Come on, I said, this is stamina. Look,
[1:21:44] Speaker 2: it is a powerful thing.
[1:21:46] Speaker 1: In the midst of storms, that is when you will
[1:21:49] Speaker 1: see strength from within. How do you lose your precious daughter?
[1:21:54] Speaker 1: An architect.
[1:21:56] Speaker 2: Wonderful lady. Great destiny. And you would think the mother
[1:22:00] Speaker 2: would be crying and shedding tears and saying, all of
[1:22:03] Speaker 2: you men of God, you couldn't see this.
[1:22:05] Speaker 1: And she was the one telling us to be strong.
[1:22:07] Speaker 1: I left that place.
[1:22:08] Speaker 2: I said, there are people, something happens to you when
[1:22:11] Speaker 2: you know God.
[1:22:12] Speaker 1: You can sit in the midst of fire and be
[1:22:15] Speaker 1: teaching people how to survive. You are in the midst
[1:22:18] Speaker 1: of fire. You don't even focus on your own fire.
[1:22:21] Speaker 1: You have gained mastery over storms. The staying power is
[1:22:30] Speaker 1: derived from knowing God.
[1:22:34] Speaker 2: There is something about your knowledge of God That gives
[1:22:37] Speaker 2: you the strength.
[1:22:38] Speaker 1: The three Hebrew boys said. Oh king.
[1:22:41] Speaker 2: I hope you know that fire was not a parable.
[1:22:47] Speaker 2: Has a gas cooker burned you before? Or stove or
[1:22:50] Speaker 2: electric stove or anything. It can burn you and the
[1:22:53] Speaker 2: scar can remain there for days.
[1:22:55] Speaker 1: Here is a king. Who is about to throw Shadrach,
[1:22:59] Speaker 1: Meshach and Abednego in fire. And they said oh king.
[1:23:03] Speaker 2: Our God will save us. But that even if it
[1:23:06] Speaker 2: does not save us, we build capacity already. We have
[1:23:10] Speaker 2: come too far with him. How do you go back?
[1:23:13] Speaker 1: Generals don't go back.
[1:23:15] Speaker 2: Even if it's at the instance they die with honor
[1:23:18] Speaker 2: in battle. They don't run away. In the military you
[1:23:21] Speaker 2: are charged when you run away from battle. No, civilians
[1:23:25] Speaker 2: do that. Warriors stand and they face with valiancy until
[1:23:29] Speaker 2: they win.
[1:23:31] Speaker 1: Until they win. Until they win. Until they win.
[1:23:35] Speaker 2: You can worry that financial problem. You can worry that
[1:23:39] Speaker 2: health problem. When you look like a victim, it will
[1:23:42] Speaker 2: help you, take away that victim mentality.
[1:23:46] Speaker 1: God does not raise victims. He raises victors.
[1:23:51] Speaker 2: You may not see the end, but find strength. Those
[1:23:54] Speaker 2: who last are people who are full.
[1:23:56] Speaker 1: Of, hold on. Not assumed courage. Not pretentious courage. Not
[1:24:03] Speaker 1: bold face. No. The righteous are as bold.
[1:24:07] Speaker 5: As a lion.
[1:24:13] Speaker 1: I wish I would tell you ministry was always like this.
[1:24:16] Speaker 1: I would be lying. There were seasons that required stamina.
[1:24:20] Speaker 2: There are times in your life where nothing physical... Can
[1:24:24] Speaker 2: help encourage you that you have a great tomorrow. The
[1:24:28] Speaker 2: only thing you hold on to is God's head. And
[1:24:31] Speaker 2: unfortunately you are the only one who had him. So
[1:24:35] Speaker 2: you cannot even tell your wife God's head. Abraham, you
[1:24:40] Speaker 2: had God alone. What are you going to do with Sarah?
[1:24:44] Speaker 2: What are you going to do with.
[1:24:45] Speaker 1: Your mighty men?
[1:24:47] Speaker 2: It is very frustrating when you are the only one
[1:24:49] Speaker 2: who had God alone. When there is no company to
[1:24:52] Speaker 2: say we had God. There was a time when the
[1:24:54] Speaker 2: Bible says, God said to them, separate me. All of
[1:24:57] Speaker 2: them had it.
[1:24:58] Speaker 1: So there was no conflict.
[1:25:00] Speaker 2: But when you are the only one who has had God,
[1:25:02] Speaker 2: I'm sending you to America. I'm sending you to UK.
[1:25:06] Speaker 2: I'm sending you to Abuja. And you had him.
[1:25:09] Speaker 1: You know the word of God is there for you.
[1:25:13] Speaker 2: Let me tell you, it is difficult when you do
[1:25:16] Speaker 2: not have proof that back your convictions yet. You do
[1:25:19] Speaker 2: not have a way to defend yourself. Only time and
[1:25:22] Speaker 2: God can make that defense happen. At such times, you need.
[1:25:26] Speaker 1: The staying power. Staying power. Staying power. Staying power.
[1:25:34] Speaker 2: God is speaking to someone today. Yo, you are still
[1:25:37] Speaker 2: the prophet. No doubt about it. You are still the apostle.
[1:25:41] Speaker 2: You are still the prayer warrior. You are still that
[1:25:44] Speaker 2: destiny changer. The only lady God took out of a
[1:25:48] Speaker 2: family of ten people. You think it's plain with you?
[1:25:51] Speaker 1: An old song we used to sing says, God did
[1:25:53] Speaker 1: not bring us out this far to take us back again.
[1:25:57] Speaker 1: That he brought us out to take us into. God
[1:26:00] Speaker 1: does not bring men to take them back. You can run.
[1:26:02] Speaker 2: Back, but warriors stand and they remain. When the nation
[1:26:06] Speaker 2: of Israel wanted to run, David said, no.
[1:26:08] Speaker 1: It's not in our culture to retreat. Please listen. I'm
[1:26:14] Speaker 1: showing you how to be strengthened. Be strong in the Lord.
[1:26:19] Speaker 1: Hear me?
[1:26:20] Speaker 2: This is why, young lady, God is telling you invest
[1:26:24] Speaker 2: in your spiritual life now before you get married. You
[1:26:27] Speaker 2: don't know the challenges that will befall you. At that point,
[1:26:30] Speaker 2: it's not a beautiful lady who will fight the challenges.
[1:26:33] Speaker 1: It's a woman who knows God. Know God now that
[1:26:37] Speaker 1: you are a student. Know God now.
[1:26:39] Speaker 2: Before you become a director in that company.
[1:26:42] Speaker 1: Know God now. Knowing God is an advantage.
[1:26:46] Speaker 2: You cannot survive the days that your.
[1:26:49] Speaker 1: Destiny would capture if you don't know God. Man of God,
[1:26:58] Speaker 1: know God before the sick come.
[1:27:01] Speaker 2: Know God before challenges in ministry comes. Know God before
[1:27:05] Speaker 2: criticisms come. Know God before naysayers know you.
[1:27:10] Speaker 1: Know God. If you do not.
[1:27:12] Speaker 2: Know God, you will fall like a pack of cards.
[1:27:15] Speaker 2: And waste your Christian testimony. But the people that do
[1:27:20] Speaker 2: know their God.
[1:27:22] Speaker 1: Listen, I tell you sincerely. And may God forgive me
[1:27:26] Speaker 1: if I'm lying.
[1:27:28] Speaker 2: Even if this ministry never became global. And became what
[1:27:32] Speaker 2: God has made it by grace. I will still stand.
[1:27:36] Speaker 2: It's not about today's result. The conviction is greater than
[1:27:40] Speaker 2: the result. The result came because of the conviction. Apostle,
[1:27:47] Speaker 2: my own is a financial problem. I'm in trouble of
[1:27:50] Speaker 2: billions right now. Please find rest.
[1:27:53] Speaker 1: There are people who had problems, billions of dollars, and
[1:27:57] Speaker 1: they are out today. You see, one of the things that.
[1:28:00] Speaker 2: Makes generals in the kingdom is their scars. Make reference
[1:28:04] Speaker 2: to my teaching lessons from an overcomer. There are certain fears.
[1:28:08] Speaker 1: Some people don't fear again. There is a way a
[1:28:12] Speaker 1: tenant can suffer and suffer and suffer.
[1:28:14] Speaker 2: If you say, I'm calling the police, you call him.
[1:28:17] Speaker 2: You don't know how many times I've gone to the prison.
[1:28:19] Speaker 2: There are times that I taught you that one of
[1:28:22] Speaker 2: the ways God gives you courage is to bring you
[1:28:24] Speaker 2: face to face with your fears. You will stand in
[1:28:27] Speaker 2: front of it long enough and see that it's a
[1:28:30] Speaker 2: dog without tooth. It had no power. It only threatened
[1:28:34] Speaker 2: your immaturity. When you become strong, there are many things
[1:28:38] Speaker 2: you can face beyond what you think.
[1:28:40] Speaker 1: You can. Who is God speaking to? They looked on
[1:28:45] Speaker 1: to him. Please hear me. Whatever price you can pay
[1:28:49] Speaker 1: to know God. It is an advantage. And will remain
[1:28:53] Speaker 1: an advantage. For the years to come. There are things
[1:28:56] Speaker 1: by the privilege of God's grace. If I did not
[1:28:59] Speaker 1: know about God today. I probably would not have had
[1:29:02] Speaker 1: the grace to continue. The staying power is derived. Is
[1:29:06] Speaker 1: derived from number one. Your knowledge of God. Can we continue?
[1:29:13] Speaker 1: Please be seated. Koinonia for you. Be strong in the Lord.
[1:29:22] Speaker 1: Man of God be strong. Businessman be strong. Family man
[1:29:29] Speaker 1: be strong. It will end up in praise.
[1:29:34] Speaker 2: Your confidence in life will be tied to the revelation
[1:29:37] Speaker 2: of the God that you know.
[1:29:41] Speaker 1: There are times no man will be able to answer
[1:29:44] Speaker 1: the question you are asking. Only the one who created
[1:29:47] Speaker 1: the heavens and the earth. Why did my brother die?
[1:29:51] Speaker 1: Why did my sister die? Why did my company fold?
[1:29:55] Speaker 2: Why is the ministry not advancing? Again, I make reference
[1:29:58] Speaker 2: to God's servant who said one time the church that
[1:30:01] Speaker 2: today has become a global phenomenon was not growing. And
[1:30:05] Speaker 2: he called on a few brethren and they went into
[1:30:07] Speaker 2: prayer and fasting.
[1:30:08] Speaker 1: And whilst they were praying, according to him, that the
[1:30:11] Speaker 1: Lord asked him to step out. and answered him.
[1:30:15] Speaker 2: Showed him a dark layer of cloud, and said, this
[1:30:18] Speaker 2: is a dark layer misrepresenting your ministry.
[1:30:21] Speaker 1: And he was asked to curse it. And then he
[1:30:24] Speaker 1: printed the posters and said, come and see.
[1:30:27] Speaker 2: And that was the beginning of a journey today that
[1:30:29] Speaker 2: has inspired millions across the globe.
[1:30:31] Speaker 1: Can I tell you the truth? Every champion is a
[1:30:35] Speaker 1: champion because of what he overcame. Two, what is the
[1:30:41] Speaker 1: second key? That controls consistency... Longevity of impact.
[1:30:48] Speaker 2: The ability to stay... And weary the storms of life...
[1:30:52] Speaker 2: Until you emerge.
[1:30:53] Speaker 1: Are you ready?
[1:30:54] Speaker 2: You want to pay attention to this right now... Submit
[1:30:58] Speaker 2: to the supremacy... Of the word... As final authority.
[1:31:04] Speaker 1: Over your life.
[1:31:05] Speaker 2: Write it down please... Submit to the supremacy... Of the word...
[1:31:10] Speaker 2: As final authority... Over your life.
[1:31:14] Speaker 1: One more time.
[1:31:15] Speaker 2: Submit to the supremacy of the word. As final authority.
[1:31:21] Speaker 2: Over your life.
[1:31:22] Speaker 1: In any and all matters.
[1:31:28] Speaker 2: I want to teach you something that has destroyed many
[1:31:30] Speaker 2: people now. Please lend me your attention. To buttress on
[1:31:33] Speaker 2: the point I'm about to make. Please make reference to
[1:31:36] Speaker 2: my teaching. Knowing God accurately.
[1:31:40] Speaker 1: One more time. Knowing God accurately. It is a risk.
[1:31:49] Speaker 1: It is dangerous.
[1:31:51] Speaker 2: Let me just read out what I wrote here.
[1:31:52] Speaker 1: Then I explain.
[1:31:54] Speaker 2: It is dangerous to build your life. And your destiny.
[1:31:59] Speaker 2: On any other factor. Or foundation. Aside the word of God.
[1:32:05] Speaker 1: Please listen. It is dangerous. To build your life.
[1:32:11] Speaker 2: On any other factor or foundation aside the word of
[1:32:17] Speaker 2: god factors like human philosophies factors like intellect even factors
[1:32:27] Speaker 2: like visionary encounters point two you want to stay to
[1:32:36] Speaker 2: last to remain to outdo to outlast Submit.
[1:32:42] Speaker 1: To the supremacy of.
[1:32:43] Speaker 2: The world as final authority over any and all matters.
[1:32:48] Speaker 2: And I said, it is dangerous to build your life on.
[1:32:51] Speaker 1: Any other factor. Please look up. Any other foundation and
[1:32:56] Speaker 1: any other factor. I have met many people in my life.
[1:33:02] Speaker 2: Whose lives continue to plunge and decline.
[1:33:06] Speaker 1: Degrade constantly. And the basis of their.
[1:33:09] Speaker 2: Exploring life is visions and dreams. And you know, by
[1:33:15] Speaker 2: the privilege of God's grace, this is a ministry with
[1:33:18] Speaker 2: a rich heritage of supernatural encounters. Visionary encounters and the
[1:33:24] Speaker 2: manifestation of the gifts.
[1:33:26] Speaker 1: Of the Spirit.
[1:33:27] Speaker 2: So I'm in no way downplaying the gifts of the Spirit.
[1:33:30] Speaker 2: But I have watched gifts fail people. I have watched
[1:33:34] Speaker 2: people live on visions that have never come to pass
[1:33:38] Speaker 2: and will never come to pass because they exalted visionary
[1:33:42] Speaker 2: experiences above the word of God. I have seen people
[1:33:45] Speaker 2: say God said and nothing in their life shows that
[1:33:48] Speaker 2: God said. When you exalt human philosophies, when you exalt intellect,
[1:33:55] Speaker 2: For many believers, Satan has cheated us because he has
[1:34:00] Speaker 2: made us too emotionally connected to visions and prophecies.
[1:34:05] Speaker 1: And I'm not against that, not at all.
[1:34:07] Speaker 2: The Bible already says to despise not prophesying.
[1:34:11] Speaker 1: But can I tell you, heaven and earth will pass away,
[1:34:13] Speaker 1: the Bible says.
[1:34:14] Speaker 2: But only the word of God abides forever. Show me
[1:34:18] Speaker 2: a man who never has a vision in his life.
[1:34:20] Speaker 2: Show me a man who never has an opportunity for
[1:34:23] Speaker 2: some out of body experience.
[1:34:24] Speaker 1: But he can find what is written and stake his
[1:34:28] Speaker 1: destiny at it.
[1:34:29] Speaker 2: I show you a champion who will emerge and remain.
[1:34:33] Speaker 1: Kenneth E. Hagen of Blessed Memory.
[1:34:36] Speaker 2: In one of his teachings, he made a statement, if
[1:34:41] Speaker 2: I recall, that when the move of God started within
[1:34:45] Speaker 2: their generation, it was a season of outpouring. And many
[1:34:49] Speaker 2: ministers of the gospel, you know, they.
[1:34:51] Speaker 1: Caught that fire.
[1:34:53] Speaker 2: But he made an observation according to him, that most
[1:34:56] Speaker 2: of them exalted gifts, supernatural.
[1:34:59] Speaker 1: Experiences above the word of God. And according to him,
[1:35:02] Speaker 1: he cautioned them. Many of them built their ministries based
[1:35:06] Speaker 1: on visions, what they saw, and he told them they
[1:35:09] Speaker 1: would not last. And many, many of.
[1:35:11] Speaker 2: Them, in spite of the excellency of their encounters, they
[1:35:15] Speaker 2: eventually fell like a pack of cards.
[1:35:17] Speaker 1: I can tell you.
[1:35:19] Speaker 2: The reason why Koinonia is standing today is not because
[1:35:21] Speaker 2: I saw.
[1:35:22] Speaker 1: Jesus, necessarily. The reason why Koinonia is standing.
[1:35:25] Speaker 2: Today is not because of my encounters with angels and spirits.
[1:35:29] Speaker 2: The reason why Koinonia is standing today is because we
[1:35:33] Speaker 2: have opened the book and we have found.
[1:35:35] Speaker 1: Where longevity is connected. You see that now? Don't run
[1:35:40] Speaker 1: your life based on visions. No.
[1:35:43] Speaker 2: Let visions be a support system for the world. Let
[1:35:47] Speaker 2: prophecy be a support system for the world. You cannot
[1:35:53] Speaker 2: get up and just move from Lagos to Abuja simply
[1:35:56] Speaker 2: because you had a dream and you saw that you moved.
[1:35:59] Speaker 1: From Lagos to Abuja.
[1:36:01] Speaker 2: It may be genuine, it may be God speaking, but
[1:36:04] Speaker 2: it's still a risk. Because the margin of error, visionary
[1:36:09] Speaker 2: encounters depend on your level of transformation.
[1:36:12] Speaker 1: They depend on your perception. The variables are many. Two
[1:36:17] Speaker 1: scriptures to encourage you. Is someone learning tonight? Psalm 12,
[1:36:22] Speaker 1: 6 to 7.
[1:36:23] Speaker 5: Psalm 12.
[1:36:26] Speaker 1: The words of the Lord are pure words. He says,
[1:36:30] Speaker 1: As silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
[1:36:35] Speaker 1: Verse 7.
[1:36:36] Speaker 2: It says, thou shalt keep them, O Lord, and thou
[1:36:40] Speaker 2: shalt preserve them.
[1:36:41] Speaker 1: From this generation forever. Because of the word.
[1:36:44] Speaker 2: Your experiences have not been vetted. Your ability to see
[1:36:49] Speaker 2: visions has not been tried.
[1:36:50] Speaker 1: But the word of God has been tested seven times.
[1:36:53] Speaker 1: Let me tell you the truth. If I were to act.
[1:36:56] Speaker 2: Out everything I saw, or everything I thought God was
[1:37:00] Speaker 2: telling me, you would be amazed at the degree to
[1:37:03] Speaker 2: which I would have veered this ministry in error. Because
[1:37:06] Speaker 2: looking at my higher self now, I look at my
[1:37:09] Speaker 2: former self tomorrow, and there were a number of things
[1:37:12] Speaker 2: I wrote, believing at that point, convinced that it was.
[1:37:15] Speaker 1: God that told me, in.
[1:37:17] Speaker 2: The presence of higher light, I know that something.
[1:37:20] Speaker 1: Was wrong with my seed or my interpretation. Don't build
[1:37:26] Speaker 1: your life just on superstitious spirituality.
[1:37:29] Speaker 2: The Word of God has the kind of foundation that.
[1:37:33] Speaker 1: Your destiny needs. Are we learning now? So I can
[1:37:37] Speaker 1: have a vision right now and see myself dipping my
[1:37:41] Speaker 1: hands in oil. And out of that vision, with all
[1:37:44] Speaker 1: due respect now, I can create a monument around that experience.
[1:37:51] Speaker 1: You see that now? That is dangerous.
[1:37:54] Speaker 2: Many people's lives have gone down today.
[1:37:56] Speaker 1: Because the basis of their confidence is not the word
[1:38:00] Speaker 1: of God. Two more scriptures. Psalm 18 and verse 30.
[1:38:08] Speaker 1: This one, bless me, may it bless you.
[1:38:09] Speaker 2: Psalm 18 and verse 30.
[1:38:13] Speaker 1: The Bible says, as for God, His way is perfect.
[1:38:18] Speaker 1: The Word of God is tried. He is a buckler
[1:38:21] Speaker 1: to all them that trust Him.
[1:38:23] Speaker 2: The Word of God has been tried. The Word of
[1:38:26] Speaker 2: God has been tried. You can stake your life on
[1:38:29] Speaker 2: the Word of God.
[1:38:30] Speaker 1: Please look at me. I have taught you here, Koinonia,
[1:38:33] Speaker 1: it is written is greater than I saw. It is
[1:38:36] Speaker 1: written is greater than I heard.
[1:38:39] Speaker 2: It is written is greater than I dreamt. If I
[1:38:43] Speaker 2: dream today that I entered a coffin, I will come
[1:38:47] Speaker 2: out of that coffin and close it. Do you know
[1:38:50] Speaker 2: how I will come out? Number one, I will wake up.
[1:38:52] Speaker 2: That's how to come out. I will wake up from
[1:38:54] Speaker 2: that dream.
[1:38:55] Speaker 1: Number two, I will find the scripture that has the
[1:38:58] Speaker 1: energy like a hammer to close that curtain.
[1:39:01] Speaker 2: For instance, I shall not die, but live and declare
[1:39:05] Speaker 2: the works of the Lord.
[1:39:06] Speaker 1: For instance, are we learning now? I said before you
[1:39:09] Speaker 1: life and death. Blessing and cursing.
[1:39:12] Speaker 5: It's true.
[1:39:13] Speaker 1: It's true. If you say you are going to kill me.
[1:39:19] Speaker 2: By divination or witchcraft, my prayer will be for.
[1:39:22] Speaker 1: Mercy for you. Because I've surrounded my life with the word,
[1:39:27] Speaker 1: not experiences. I will not stand before Satan and say,
[1:39:31] Speaker 1: you don't know what God showed me in that vision.
[1:39:34] Speaker 1: Jesus did not stand and say, do you know where
[1:39:36] Speaker 1: I came from? He said, it is written. Jesus, the
[1:39:41] Speaker 1: word incarnate.
[1:39:42] Speaker 2: You thought that if Satan.
[1:39:44] Speaker 1: Came to him, he would say you are joking.
[1:39:46] Speaker 2: I came from heaven to earth.
[1:39:59] Speaker 1: That special number will not bring you deliverance.
[1:40:02] Speaker 5: No.
[1:40:04] Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with the song.
[1:40:06] Speaker 2: I'm just saying in this example. When you stand before life.
[1:40:10] Speaker 2: They do not respect I saw.
[1:40:13] Speaker 1: I saw is for your benefit. They do not respect
[1:40:16] Speaker 1: I heard.
[1:40:17] Speaker 2: What you saw only works when it is consistent with
[1:40:21] Speaker 2: what is written. What you heard only works when you
[1:40:25] Speaker 2: say there are anchor scriptures. Everything we want to do
[1:40:30] Speaker 2: in this ministry, we.
[1:40:31] Speaker 1: Never start it until there are anchor scriptures.
[1:40:35] Speaker 2: It may start based on a vision, a prompting of
[1:40:38] Speaker 2: the spirit, or just the manifestation of the spirit of wisdom.
[1:40:42] Speaker 1: But the trigger for everything Is the word of God.
[1:40:48] Speaker 1: What makes you believe you have great children? I had
[1:40:53] Speaker 1: a course in counseling. And the person who taught us
[1:40:56] Speaker 1: was very smart. Find out whether the teacher's child is
[1:40:59] Speaker 1: well behaved. There are times that all factors can be well.
[1:41:05] Speaker 1: Yet things don't go well. You will need the scripture.
[1:41:09] Speaker 1: I am bringing you to a point where you respect
[1:41:11] Speaker 1: the word.
[1:41:12] Speaker 11: Listen.
[1:41:12] Speaker 1: Listen.
[1:41:13] Speaker 2: I've had the honor of being close a bit to
[1:41:16] Speaker 2: our fathers of faith in this nation.
[1:41:18] Speaker 1: And I can tell you the greatest.
[1:41:19] Speaker 2: Lesson I've learned from them is that in spite of
[1:41:22] Speaker 2: their prophetic advantage in all its ramification, they have a
[1:41:26] Speaker 2: healthy respect for the word of God.
[1:41:30] Speaker 1: In their generations, many of them started by saying God said.
[1:41:34] Speaker 1: There were many people who rose.
[1:41:36] Speaker 2: And criticized and some of them have died and gone.
[1:41:40] Speaker 2: I told you here, I was watching Kenneth Hagin There
[1:41:43] Speaker 2: are two people in their.
[1:41:44] Speaker 1: Old age who have inspired me greatly in terms of longevity.
[1:41:48] Speaker 1: One is Kenneth Copeland.
[1:41:51] Speaker 2: The other is a great, dear, wonderful woman called Marilyn Hickney.
[1:41:55] Speaker 1: They are both in their 80s.
[1:41:58] Speaker 2: Now, these people, I've had the honor of following them
[1:42:02] Speaker 2: for many years. They said things that were very childlike.
[1:42:06] Speaker 2: Sometimes childish.
[1:42:08] Speaker 1: And we emojis in our pride. We criticize those people.
[1:42:13] Speaker 1: Some of these people who made all those noise have
[1:42:15] Speaker 1: gone to be with the Lord today. Some of those
[1:42:18] Speaker 1: people have remained stunted today. And these generals who have
[1:42:23] Speaker 1: lifted the word of God beyond the frailty of their understanding.
[1:42:26] Speaker 1: They have outlasted every mountain.
[1:42:29] Speaker 2: Storms came and went. All kinds of things came and went.
[1:42:33] Speaker 2: but those who were built on the rock. I don't
[1:42:39] Speaker 2: want to take the risk with my life of making
[1:42:41] Speaker 2: the prophetic advantage God gave me become a curse by
[1:42:45] Speaker 2: throwing away the Bible and running koinonia with eyesore.
[1:42:49] Speaker 1: We see in part. What if I see all of
[1:42:52] Speaker 1: you inside a river? Hello?
[1:42:56] Speaker 2: What if I finish praying and fasting and see all.
[1:42:59] Speaker 1: Of you in a river? The next thing I say
[1:43:01] Speaker 1: to all of you, Let's be on our way to Abuja.
[1:43:04] Speaker 1: Just as an example.
[1:43:06] Speaker 2: What if I see all of you in a desert
[1:43:09] Speaker 2: and I say, follow me there. Then what if in
[1:43:11] Speaker 2: that desert I now grow spiritually and find out that
[1:43:15] Speaker 2: that vision was from Satan. I now say, return back here.
[1:43:19] Speaker 2: Can you lead effectively that way?
[1:43:21] Speaker 1: No.
[1:43:23] Speaker 10: Emmanuel God is with.
[1:43:30] Speaker 1: Us He shall reign. He shall reign.
[1:43:38] Speaker 6: He shall reign forevermore.
[1:43:42] Speaker 1: Crown Him King of Kings. Crown Him Lord of Lords. Wonderful.
[1:43:55] Speaker 1: How's the Lord? The mighty God.
[1:44:06] Speaker 6: Where God is with us.
[1:44:15] Speaker 12: He shall reign He shall reign He shall reign Forevermore.
[1:44:27] Speaker 2: In Matthew chapter 7 24 and 25 The Bible talks
[1:44:31] Speaker 2: about one Who built on a rock Please look at me.
[1:44:37] Speaker 1: Build your marriage on the word, not just on emotions.
[1:44:42] Speaker 1: Find the scripture that becomes the basis of your confidence
[1:44:45] Speaker 1: that your children will not be useless. If you think
[1:44:51] Speaker 1: you are rich today because you have a billion naira,
[1:44:55] Speaker 1: a million naira in your bank account, you are joking.
[1:44:59] Speaker 2: Go and read about people whose wealth turned from grace
[1:45:02] Speaker 2: to grass in one moment.
[1:45:05] Speaker 1: The basis of your remaining must be.
[1:45:08] Speaker 2: That which is written. I have come to respect that
[1:45:11] Speaker 2: which is written. I have made the word of God
[1:45:14] Speaker 2: final authority over my life in all matters. And that
[1:45:17] Speaker 2: includes this ministry. No matter what God tells me, I
[1:45:22] Speaker 2: bring it through the sieve of the word.
[1:45:25] Speaker 1: There has to be a scripture. I don't pray foolish prayers.
[1:45:29] Speaker 1: Once I'm not praying in the spirit... i insist.
[1:45:32] Speaker 2: And ensure like you'll be learning that whatever i'm saying
[1:45:36] Speaker 2: is not.
[1:45:36] Speaker 1: Driven by sentiments and emotions the only.
[1:45:40] Speaker 2: Basis for answered prayer in the scripture is that you
[1:45:43] Speaker 2: pray in accordance with the will of god and his
[1:45:46] Speaker 2: will is captured in his word.
[1:45:50] Speaker 1: Listen to me run your business based on the word
[1:45:54] Speaker 1: run your ministry based on the word do not ignore
[1:45:58] Speaker 1: supernatural experiences Do not ignore the knowledge that comes through philosophy.
[1:46:04] Speaker 2: There are valuable word compliant thoughts. Do not ignore the
[1:46:10] Speaker 2: power of intellect.
[1:46:12] Speaker 1: No. The word of God does not produce dummies. But
[1:46:16] Speaker 1: exalts the word of God.
[1:46:18] Speaker 2: High above and beyond any other thoughts you have been
[1:46:23] Speaker 2: taught here. Never will there be a time, if you
[1:46:28] Speaker 2: ask me why do we hold.
[1:46:30] Speaker 1: Miracle services, I will show you from scripture.
[1:46:33] Speaker 2: I will not just say God instructed me that the
[1:46:36] Speaker 2: final Sunday of every month be a miracle service.
[1:46:38] Speaker 1: No. No. No.
[1:46:46] Speaker 2: Koinonia God has given you a mandate to expand to
[1:46:48] Speaker 2: the globe.
[1:46:50] Speaker 1: What is the basis? I saw a vision and I
[1:46:53] Speaker 1: saw fire from Abuja touching several maps. You want to
[1:46:58] Speaker 1: run with such a vision? There will be no backing.
[1:47:02] Speaker 1: It is written.
[1:47:03] Speaker 2: Someone say it is written. Go and find what is
[1:47:06] Speaker 2: written concerning your health. Go and find what is written
[1:47:09] Speaker 2: concerning your destiny. I know it's a secular.
[1:47:12] Speaker 1: Company serving all and sundry but at least the basis
[1:47:17] Speaker 1: of your confidence should be what God has said.
[1:47:23] Speaker 2: It is a risk to run your life. Not submitting
[1:47:26] Speaker 2: to the word of God. Point number two. In making
[1:47:29] Speaker 2: mighty men. Men that last. Men that remain. Men that
[1:47:34] Speaker 2: outlast the storms of life. Those who have submitted themselves.
[1:47:39] Speaker 2: To the supremacy of the word of God. As final authority.
[1:47:44] Speaker 1: In all things.
[1:47:45] Speaker 2: Please read your Bible. Study your Bible. Obtain grace from.
[1:47:49] Speaker 1: God to read. Don't read to preach. If you are
[1:47:51] Speaker 1: a man of God. Don't just read because you are
[1:47:53] Speaker 1: looking for sermons. No. They are life to those who
[1:47:57] Speaker 1: find them. And health to their flesh.
[1:48:01] Speaker 2: Build your life on the word of God. Build your
[1:48:04] Speaker 2: life on the integrity of scripture. Storms will arise. Rain
[1:48:08] Speaker 2: will come. Men will come. You will stand. No power
[1:48:12] Speaker 2: in existence will sustain what it takes to veer you
[1:48:15] Speaker 2: off the path and the course of destiny.
[1:48:17] Speaker 1: You believe that? Shout it out. Amen. If God has
[1:48:25] Speaker 1: called you into the prophetic.
[1:48:26] Speaker 2: Ministry and God has called you into the apostolic ministry, beware.
[1:48:32] Speaker 2: Do not exalt the word of God. Do not exalt
[1:48:36] Speaker 2: visionary experiences above scripture. And do not lead people entirely based.
[1:48:42] Speaker 1: On visionary encounters.
[1:48:44] Speaker 2: There are encounters I've had today, no man on earth
[1:48:48] Speaker 2: has heard about it except me and my notebook. Because
[1:48:52] Speaker 2: some of those encounters may not be safe for certain
[1:48:55] Speaker 2: spiritual realms.
[1:48:57] Speaker 1: When you teach people when.
[1:48:58] Speaker 2: They have not come into certain enlightenments, Satan will take
[1:49:01] Speaker 2: advantage of their spiritual naivety and replicates that experience, but
[1:49:06] Speaker 2: it will not be by the Spirit of God. When
[1:49:10] Speaker 2: I bring before you visionary experiences.
[1:49:13] Speaker 1: I don't do that in isolation with the word.
[1:49:16] Speaker 2: The word of God must become the basis. You must
[1:49:19] Speaker 2: not just read it. Submit to it. Let it govern
[1:49:22] Speaker 2: your mind. Let it govern how you behave.
[1:49:26] Speaker 1: Number three. What is the third key? That is responsible
[1:49:31] Speaker 1: for building in believers the staying power. The grace to outlast.
[1:49:35] Speaker 1: Are you ready? Build inner strength. Through consistent prayer. Build
[1:49:43] Speaker 1: inner strength. You may want to add. And stamina. Through
[1:49:48] Speaker 1: consistent prayer. Oh God.
[1:49:59] Speaker 5: Oh God. Oh God.
[1:50:09] Speaker 1: Oh God, pour.
[1:50:12] Speaker 7: Out your mercy.
[1:50:14] Speaker 5: As we pray.
[1:50:20] Speaker 6: Oh God, oh God, oh God, pour out your mercy.
[1:50:43] Speaker 1: As we pray. Listen. Let me tell you this.
[1:50:51] Speaker 2: If you do not know how to pray. You will
[1:50:55] Speaker 2: not last. There is a dimension of strength. That survives
[1:51:01] Speaker 2: the winds of life. That is generated within you.
[1:51:07] Speaker 1: When you pray.
[1:51:09] Speaker 2: Luke 18 and verse 1 says he speak a parable
[1:51:11] Speaker 2: to the end that men ought always to pray and
[1:51:16] Speaker 2: not to faint. You must build inner strength. Build inner strength.
[1:51:23] Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter 24 and verse 10. Let's hurry up.
[1:51:26] Speaker 2: Proverbs chapter 24 and verse 10. Proverbs 24 and verse 10.
[1:51:31] Speaker 1: Watch this. If thou faint in the day of adversity.
[1:51:36] Speaker 2: In the life of everyone, no matter how yielded you are,
[1:51:40] Speaker 2: there is a season that.
[1:51:42] Speaker 1: The Bible calls the day of adversity.
[1:51:45] Speaker 2: And the survival strategy in those seasons is strength.
[1:51:52] Speaker 1: Strength. Strength. Are we together? Yeah. You have to be
[1:51:57] Speaker 1: strengthened within your inner man.
[1:51:59] Speaker 2: Build capacity. Elijah, build capacity. David, build capacity. Abraham, build capacity.
[1:52:10] Speaker 2: No matter who you are, build capacity. It doesn't matter
[1:52:14] Speaker 2: what you are involved with as far as your prophetic
[1:52:17] Speaker 2: destiny is concerned. Build capacity. And build it early. My sister,
[1:52:24] Speaker 2: build capacity. Because one day you will need it. You
[1:52:28] Speaker 2: will need to draw from the strength. There are times
[1:52:33] Speaker 2: when you are about to take a long journey, you
[1:52:35] Speaker 2: charge your phone.
[1:52:36] Speaker 1: Is that true? And when it is fully charged, you
[1:52:38] Speaker 1: can smile.
[1:52:40] Speaker 2: Because you can approximate that from now until that time,
[1:52:43] Speaker 2: you can utilize the strength that the phone has.
[1:52:47] Speaker 1: That's how it is. I've seen many people's phones and
[1:52:52] Speaker 1: you'll see it on red. 5%, 2%. The phone does
[1:52:56] Speaker 1: not look like it would die.
[1:52:57] Speaker 2: Notice what happens when the power keeps reducing.
[1:53:01] Speaker 1: Certain features. The phone will start shutting down certain.
[1:53:05] Speaker 2: Features as a survival strategy. This is what happens with
[1:53:09] Speaker 2: destiny too.
[1:53:11] Speaker 1: The moment your power bank, the moment your energy bank
[1:53:17] Speaker 1: starts going down, Certain things may have to shut down.
[1:53:21] Speaker 2: One can be your perception. Your ability to perceive spiritual
[1:53:25] Speaker 2: things will have to shut down. Certain other things will
[1:53:28] Speaker 2: shut down. Like it happens to a phone.
[1:53:32] Speaker 1: At 15%, 10%, 8%.
[1:53:34] Speaker 2: There are certain features in that phone that you may not,
[1:53:38] Speaker 2: it's called a power saving mode. There are many believers
[1:53:42] Speaker 2: running great destinies on power saving mode. Whereas there is
[1:53:47] Speaker 2: an opportunity to carry.
[1:53:48] Speaker 1: A wireless charger.
[1:53:50] Speaker 2: A charger that does not look for a wall. A
[1:53:56] Speaker 2: charger that answers at the instance of desire.
[1:54:01] Speaker 1: Are we together?
[1:54:03] Speaker 2: Prayer is not a burdensome ritual to just feel spiritual.
[1:54:07] Speaker 1: Can I tell you, you will.
[1:54:09] Speaker 2: Never be able to run certain visions if you do
[1:54:12] Speaker 2: not have the inner strength that comes through prayer and
[1:54:16] Speaker 2: comes with prayer. What you see in Koinonia today, ladies
[1:54:21] Speaker 2: and gentlemen, is beyond just excellence and the communication of doctrine.
[1:54:25] Speaker 2: There is stamina. There is a power bank that can run.
[1:54:30] Speaker 1: Certain things in the spirit. Someone sent me a text
[1:54:35] Speaker 1: and said, Apostle, you've been busy all week Doing this
[1:54:38] Speaker 1: and that and that. And will you have the strength?
[1:54:40] Speaker 1: I said, me? You don't know God. Me and God
[1:54:45] Speaker 1: have been in this business for a while now. There
[1:54:48] Speaker 1: is what we call the spirit of might. You cannot
[1:54:51] Speaker 1: fake it. Believe me. I'm not careless with my health.
[1:54:55] Speaker 1: But you cannot fake it.
[1:54:56] Speaker 2: God will never call you without teaching you the technology
[1:54:59] Speaker 2: that keeps you in strength.
[1:55:03] Speaker 1: There are some of you who carry something for two
[1:55:05] Speaker 1: hours and you will yawn for two days.
[1:55:08] Speaker 2: You are 25 years, you are like a woman who
[1:55:11] Speaker 2: has finished giving birth to 11 children. You preach for
[1:55:15] Speaker 2: one hour and return back and say, I need a vacation.
[1:55:20] Speaker 1: Destiny? Wake up. Strength. Capacity. Capacity. It happens through the
[1:55:29] Speaker 1: place of prayer.
[1:55:30] Speaker 2: Somebody went to visit Smith Wigglesworth years ago. His story
[1:55:35] Speaker 2: would tell us that when the guy got there, he
[1:55:38] Speaker 2: greeted him and he kept quiet.
[1:55:40] Speaker 1: And there was nothing to discuss.
[1:55:41] Speaker 2: Then Smith Wigglesworth told him, he said, can we pray?
[1:55:44] Speaker 2: He thought he was just, you know, Father, Lord, we
[1:55:46] Speaker 2: thank you. They prayed and the guy was tired. He
[1:55:49] Speaker 2: didn't know how to stop Smith Wigglesworth. Then later he stopped.
[1:55:53] Speaker 2: Then they spoke a little and said, can we pray again?
[1:55:55] Speaker 1: And... The powerful way to drive distractors, pray. Pray. When
[1:56:10] Speaker 1: visitors come to your house and they refuse to leave, pray.
[1:56:16] Speaker 1: Survival strategists, pray. Tell them, alright, we've spent two hours
[1:56:23] Speaker 1: just in, I think it's time, let's lift up our
[1:56:25] Speaker 1: hands and give God praise. And everybody will check their
[1:56:28] Speaker 1: time and leave you in peace. Pray.
[1:56:30] Speaker 2: Because people don't like prayer. They like what prayer does.
[1:56:35] Speaker 2: But they hate the discipline of prayer.
[1:56:37] Speaker 1: And it's an attack.
[1:56:39] Speaker 2: Please hear me. If you hate prayer, it's an attack.
[1:56:42] Speaker 2: Don't feel condemned. But know it's an attack. You wake
[1:56:48] Speaker 2: up in the night.
[1:56:49] Speaker 1: Open up your notebook where God has spoken to you.
[1:56:52] Speaker 1: Shama Katamara.
[1:56:54] Speaker 2: Sleepy eyes your tired self just start praying shabrando's kadiata.
[1:57:00] Speaker 1: Worship is charging the atmosphere you are.
[1:57:03] Speaker 2: A man of god you don't even know what to
[1:57:04] Speaker 2: do with your church you've preached every sermon you just
[1:57:08] Speaker 2: keep praying as you keep praying the spirit of god
[1:57:13] Speaker 2: who can search the heart of the father will start
[1:57:16] Speaker 2: downloading series to your spirit You have not taught your
[1:57:20] Speaker 2: people on prayer.
[1:57:21] Speaker 1: You have not taught your.
[1:57:22] Speaker 2: And series can come that can last two years.
[1:57:25] Speaker 1: In the place of prayer. Every time is convenient for prayer.
[1:57:31] Speaker 1: But in my personal experience, believe me, I have mastered
[1:57:35] Speaker 1: praying at night. And it has provided.
[1:57:38] Speaker 2: The richest return on investment in terms of prayer.
[1:57:45] Speaker 1: Discipline yourself and pray. You're a man of God here
[1:57:49] Speaker 1: with all due respect. Don't let your members pray more
[1:57:52] Speaker 1: than you. Why are they there then?
[1:57:53] Speaker 2: You should be sitting down. Prayer is one of such
[1:58:00] Speaker 2: things you cannot fake. You can come out and act
[1:58:02] Speaker 2: like you are prayerful. If you are not, there is
[1:58:05] Speaker 2: an energy that comes from prayer. That one you cannot
[1:58:08] Speaker 2: pretend it. And the energy is perceivable.
[1:58:13] Speaker 1: Even to somebody who is not saved. You can perceive health.
[1:58:20] Speaker 1: Let your power. Holy Ghost power. Rest on me.
[1:58:27] Speaker 7: Rest on me.
[1:58:32] Speaker 1: Holy Ghost power, rest.
[1:58:34] Speaker 5: On me, rest on me.
[1:58:39] Speaker 2: Listen, the moment seasons become unfavorable, minimize discussions, minimize attracting sympathy,
[1:58:49] Speaker 2: that is.
[1:58:49] Speaker 1: The time to lock yourself.
[1:58:51] Speaker 2: Even if you don't understand what is happening. Why are
[1:58:55] Speaker 2: people dying in my church? In three weeks ten people died.
[1:58:58] Speaker 2: Go and lock yourself. Five of my children mysteriously sick.
[1:59:06] Speaker 2: When they made a deposit of ten million. Somebody just came.
[1:59:09] Speaker 1: And caused trouble and that money disappeared.
[1:59:12] Speaker 2: Anytime you sense affliction, negative seasons, go ahead and pray.
[1:59:17] Speaker 1: If most believers will do less of talking and more
[1:59:20] Speaker 1: of prayer.
[1:59:21] Speaker 2: They will triumph in experience. We talk a lot as believers.
[1:59:26] Speaker 2: We have not been called to be noisemakers in terms.
[1:59:29] Speaker 1: Of speaking gibberish. The energy of.
[1:59:32] Speaker 2: The believer should be invested in building capacity.
[1:59:36] Speaker 1: Let me teach you something.
[1:59:38] Speaker 2: If you are a leader and you talk too much,
[1:59:41] Speaker 2: you will lose your honor factor.
[1:59:44] Speaker 1: As a leader, your words should be mighty.
[1:59:48] Speaker 2: The more scarce your word, the more people will listen
[1:59:51] Speaker 2: when you speak. When you run your mouth anyhow, you
[1:59:54] Speaker 2: also run your honor out with it.
[1:59:56] Speaker 1: A time will come your words.
[1:59:57] Speaker 2: Will be so cheap, there will be nobody around you
[2:00:00] Speaker 2: to hear it.
[2:00:01] Speaker 1: Words are expensive. Don't waste them. Don't waste them. Don't
[2:00:07] Speaker 1: waste them. Leadership 101. Words are expensive. Can I tell
[2:00:13] Speaker 1: you another thing that is expensive? Your attention. Don't cheapen
[2:00:18] Speaker 1: your attention. Attention is an expensive commodity. Don't invest it
[2:00:24] Speaker 1: in nonsense. Did you hear what I said?
[2:00:27] Speaker 2: Your attention is where the direction of your destiny goes to.
[2:00:32] Speaker 2: Respect your destiny enough to see your attention as an investment.
[2:00:38] Speaker 2: Don't throw it away over nothing.
[2:00:44] Speaker 7: Oh, rest on me. Oh, rest on me. Oh, rest
[2:00:53] Speaker 7: on me.
[2:00:54] Speaker 1: Spirit of wisdom. Say in the name of Jesus.
[2:01:02] Speaker 2: I build capacity. Say it prophetically in the name of Jesus.
[2:01:08] Speaker 2: I build capacity. Oh, my dear sister, build capacity. My
[2:01:14] Speaker 2: dear brother, build capacity. A day will come, something will
[2:01:18] Speaker 2: befall you that you will not have all that energy
[2:01:20] Speaker 2: to pray. You will draw from the residue of the
[2:01:23] Speaker 2: energy that comes within your prayer bank.
[2:01:26] Speaker 1: Please pray. Don't waste moments. Don't waste opportunities. Pray. Listen,
[2:01:31] Speaker 1: let me encourage you.
[2:01:33] Speaker 2: If your prayer life has gone down, you can join
[2:01:35] Speaker 2: the prayer department as they pray.
[2:01:37] Speaker 1: Even if you are not a member there. Even if
[2:01:39] Speaker 1: it is for one week.
[2:01:40] Speaker 2: If there is space, you can join them to just
[2:01:43] Speaker 2: fan your prayer life to flames. The sun and attack
[2:01:50] Speaker 2: on your prayer is an attack on your remaining life.
[2:01:54] Speaker 1: It's an attack on your continuity. It's an attack on
[2:01:57] Speaker 1: your stamina.
[2:02:01] Speaker 2: That is why it's important to have believers as friends.
[2:02:05] Speaker 1: Did you hear what I said?
[2:02:06] Speaker 2: Half the time people used to gossip. Half the time
[2:02:10] Speaker 2: people used to talk about people and issues. If they
[2:02:14] Speaker 2: invest half that time in quality prayer, you have any
[2:02:18] Speaker 2: prayer partner that spends half the prayer time.
[2:02:21] Speaker 1: Gossiping, cast him out of your life. Did you hear
[2:02:24] Speaker 1: what I said? Cast him or her out of your life.
[2:02:26] Speaker 1: Don't waste your time on naysayers and gossips and backbiters
[2:02:31] Speaker 1: who wrap up.
[2:02:32] Speaker 2: Their gossip in the name of Jesus. Take your destiny seriously.
[2:02:37] Speaker 2: You agree with someone, let us pray. Don't waste your time.
[2:02:40] Speaker 2: And he says, praise God.
[2:02:42] Speaker 1: You pray for 10 minutes and you continue speaking nonsense
[2:02:45] Speaker 1: for 2 hours. Then you wrap it up. You did
[2:02:47] Speaker 1: not pray. You only program walls to your destiny.
[2:02:52] Speaker 2: If you have somebody who should pray, the assignment there
[2:02:56] Speaker 2: is for prayer.
[2:02:57] Speaker 1: Okay, we are praying from 10 to 12. Once it's time, alright,
[2:03:00] Speaker 1: let's begin to pray. Yes, occasionally you.
[2:03:03] Speaker 2: May speak to discuss some things to give your prayer perspective.
[2:03:07] Speaker 1: Many prayer warriors have killed.
[2:03:09] Speaker 2: The prayer life of their colleagues because they wasted that
[2:03:13] Speaker 2: time on gossips and.
[2:03:14] Speaker 1: Naysayings and false visions. Pray.
[2:03:20] Speaker 5: Pray.
[2:03:22] Speaker 1: Pray. Pray. Pray. You are a mother. Find another mother
[2:03:30] Speaker 1: who can agree with you. Pray.
[2:03:32] Speaker 2: You are a businessman. Find another businessman who can relate
[2:03:36] Speaker 2: with your realm.
[2:03:37] Speaker 1: And pray. Are we together? You are a man of God.
[2:03:42] Speaker 1: Pray that God will bring a man of God who
[2:03:44] Speaker 1: genuinely loves you. And prays.
[2:03:47] Speaker 2: Not that he is praying with his mouth and with
[2:03:49] Speaker 2: his heart.
[2:03:49] Speaker 1: He is saying may you die quick. But when you
[2:03:56] Speaker 1: find people who can agree with you, you have your
[2:03:59] Speaker 1: personal prayer altar.
[2:04:01] Speaker 2: I have said this endlessly, koinonia. Let me encourage families here.
[2:04:06] Speaker 1: Build your corporate family prayer altar. Build it as a discipline.
[2:04:11] Speaker 2: Now I know that maybe some families may have people who.
[2:04:14] Speaker 1: Are not born again. No problem.
[2:04:15] Speaker 2: You can start where you are with wisdom. Build a
[2:04:18] Speaker 2: family prayer altar.
[2:04:20] Speaker 1: Pray.
[2:04:21] Speaker 2: Don't allow the devil come in and ride cheaply into
[2:04:24] Speaker 2: your family.
[2:04:26] Speaker 1: By the privilege of God's grace, let me encourage.
[2:04:28] Speaker 2: Every man here. Take the lead as far as setting
[2:04:32] Speaker 2: the pace for prayer. Don't say I'm not the prayer type.
[2:04:34] Speaker 2: Nobody's the prayer type. God commands that we pray. Are
[2:04:38] Speaker 2: we together now? Obtain grace. Don't say I'm a CEO.
[2:04:42] Speaker 2: Prayer is not for pastors. Don't leave your wife as
[2:04:46] Speaker 2: a naked intercessor with nobody helping her. Yours is just
[2:04:50] Speaker 2: to submit prayer point by.
[2:04:52] Speaker 1: Text or on a paper. Pray. You can learn prayer.
[2:04:59] Speaker 1: Is someone learning?
[2:05:05] Speaker 2: Build inner strength. This is something God has taught me.
[2:05:10] Speaker 2: One of our fathers in the faith. Every time I've
[2:05:13] Speaker 2: had the opportunity to see him.
[2:05:15] Speaker 1: Particularly when preparing for administration.
[2:05:17] Speaker 2: As soon as I enter his office He's praying in
[2:05:21] Speaker 2: tongues Praying in tongues Praying in tongues He will speak
[2:05:25] Speaker 2: a little And then once he has a little chance
[2:05:28] Speaker 2: He's praying in tongues I said ah that's the secret
[2:05:31] Speaker 2: They understand that capacity Is a necessary requirement As far
[2:05:38] Speaker 2: as remaining is concerned.
[2:05:41] Speaker 1: Number four Is God helping someone You would outlast every adversity.
[2:05:48] Speaker 1: You would outlast every season, every condition in the name
[2:05:52] Speaker 1: of Jesus.
[2:05:53] Speaker 2: 30 years from now, you will still be standing.
[2:05:58] Speaker 1: Are you receiving that?
[2:05:59] Speaker 2: 50 years from now, you will still be standing. You
[2:06:03] Speaker 2: will not stand alone. Your children will stand with you.
[2:06:06] Speaker 2: Your family will stand with you. Your business will stand
[2:06:10] Speaker 2: with you. Your organization will stand with you. The cancer
[2:06:16] Speaker 2: that fights longevity. Let it be far from your life.
[2:06:22] Speaker 2: Very quickly, number four. What is the fourth key that
[2:06:25] Speaker 2: empowers men to last? Giving them longevity of impact. Providing
[2:06:30] Speaker 2: the staying power.
[2:06:33] Speaker 1: Are you ready? Be joyful. Void of bitterness and offense.
[2:06:39] Speaker 1: Write it down.
[2:06:40] Speaker 2: Be joyful, comma, Void of bitterness and offense.
[2:06:47] Speaker 1: You want to last?
[2:06:48] Speaker 2: I show you ancient secrets. Be joyful. Void of bitterness
[2:06:55] Speaker 2: and offense. Philippians 4.4. Let's work together media.
[2:06:58] Speaker 1: Help me. Philippians 4 and verse 4. Be joyful. Rejoice
[2:07:03] Speaker 1: in the Lord all the way. And again I say rejoice.
[2:07:08] Speaker 1: Someone shout rejoice. Say myself rejoice. Rejoice. One more time.
[2:07:14] Speaker 1: Say myself. Rejoice. Yes. No more crying. Rejoice. Rejoice in
[2:07:22] Speaker 1: the Lord. Proverbs 17, 22.
[2:07:25] Speaker 2: Rejoice. Be joyful. Void of bitterness and void of offense.
[2:07:32] Speaker 2: Let's read together.
[2:07:33] Speaker 1: One, two, read.
[2:07:34] Speaker 2: A merry heart doeth good like medicine. But a broken
[2:07:38] Speaker 2: spirit dried the bones.
[2:07:40] Speaker 1: That means a.
[2:07:40] Speaker 2: Condition can start from the spirit.
[2:07:43] Speaker 1: And affect you health wise. That your spirit can be broken.
[2:07:47] Speaker 2: And the effect of the broken spirit can be seen
[2:07:49] Speaker 2: in your health.
[2:07:49] Speaker 5: Hallelujah.
[2:07:51] Speaker 1: With all due respect. And I say this to the
[2:07:55] Speaker 1: glory of God. You carry a blood pressure meter. And
[2:08:00] Speaker 1: measure me You will think I'm a baby that just
[2:08:02] Speaker 1: came out of my mother's womb Say joy.
[2:08:12] Speaker 2: There are many of you Having high blood pressure over
[2:08:15] Speaker 2: nothing You need to read yourself Of bitterness. Read yourself
[2:08:21] Speaker 2: of offense. Ephesians 4.31. I'm showing you a very powerful secret.
[2:08:26] Speaker 2: This fourth one is a very serious one. Let's read together.
[2:08:29] Speaker 2: Don't be tired of reading.
[2:08:30] Speaker 1: You're in church. Ready? One, two, read. Let all bitterness
[2:08:34] Speaker 1: and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be
[2:08:40] Speaker 1: put away from you with all malice. Did God just
[2:08:46] Speaker 1: speak to you? Bitterness. Let me tell you this.
[2:08:53] Speaker 2: There are two keys I have learned to remain joyful,
[2:08:57] Speaker 2: void of bitterness, void of offense.
[2:09:00] Speaker 1: I want to share it with you. Please learn this
[2:09:03] Speaker 1: as a powerful key. This is a deliverance service for
[2:09:06] Speaker 1: someone now. Number one, always interpret things from the lens
[2:09:12] Speaker 1: of God's sovereign plan. This is the first key to
[2:09:15] Speaker 1: remaining joyful, free from bitterness.
[2:09:19] Speaker 2: Always interpret things, no matter what happens to you. Interpret
[2:09:24] Speaker 2: it from the lens of God's sovereign plan. In Romans 8.28,
[2:09:31] Speaker 2: please give it to us quickly. Romans 8.28. We know
[2:09:35] Speaker 2: that all things, someone shout all things.
[2:09:39] Speaker 1: One more time. Sounds like you're sleeping in Koinonia. We
[2:09:44] Speaker 1: know that all things work together. Work together.
[2:09:49] Speaker 2: Disappointments, betrayals, backstabbings, backbiting.
[2:09:55] Speaker 1: Are we together? Falsehood.
[2:09:58] Speaker 2: That God has an ability to mix it like a
[2:10:01] Speaker 2: cake maker mixes all kinds of things. When you watch
[2:10:05] Speaker 2: people making cake, they will put something that looks like blue.
[2:10:08] Speaker 2: Add another thing that looks like green.
[2:10:09] Speaker 1: Don't mind them. It's working together.
[2:10:12] Speaker 2: At the end of it, it will produce something that
[2:10:15] Speaker 2: you will eat and not want to stop eating. All
[2:10:17] Speaker 2: things work together. For good to them that love God.
[2:10:23] Speaker 2: To them who are called. Listen, no matter what happens
[2:10:27] Speaker 2: in your life, especially negative things, there are two questions
[2:10:31] Speaker 2: you need to ask.
[2:10:31] Speaker 1: Number one, do I love God? Number two, am I
[2:10:36] Speaker 1: working in obedience? If these two things are there, find rest.
[2:10:41] Speaker 1: Do I love God genuinely and sincerely?
[2:10:44] Speaker 2: Number two, am I working in obedience to his word?
[2:10:49] Speaker 1: And it's only you and God that can answer that question.
[2:10:54] Speaker 1: Are we together? Always interpret things from God's sovereign plan.
[2:11:00] Speaker 1: Genesis 15, 19 and 20 says, after the brothers.
[2:11:04] Speaker 2: Of joseph betrayed him and all kinds of things happened.
[2:11:08] Speaker 1: Joseph told them and joseph.
[2:11:10] Speaker 2: Said unto them fear not for am i in the
[2:11:13] Speaker 2: place of god watch this verse 20 but as for
[2:11:17] Speaker 2: you ye thought evil against me but god meant it
[2:11:22] Speaker 2: unto good to bring to pass as.
[2:11:25] Speaker 1: It is this day to save much people everybody said
[2:11:29] Speaker 1: to save much people.
[2:11:32] Speaker 11: You take what the enemy meant for evil and you
[2:11:36] Speaker 11: turn it for good.
[2:11:39] Speaker 1: You turn it for good.
[2:11:41] Speaker 2: That's what God is doing in someone's life.
[2:11:44] Speaker 6: You take what the enemy left for evil.
[2:11:48] Speaker 1: And you turn it for good.
[2:11:50] Speaker 5: You turn it for good.
[2:11:55] Speaker 8: You take what the enemy left for evil.
[2:12:00] Speaker 1: And you turn it for good. One more time.
[2:12:05] Speaker 2: Sing it from the depths of your heart.
[2:12:09] Speaker 5: You take what the enemy meant for you. And you
[2:12:14] Speaker 5: turn it for good. You turn it for good.
[2:12:17] Speaker 1: So, listen. I'm giving you a key to remain joyful,
[2:12:23] Speaker 1: void of bitterness. A or 1.
[2:12:26] Speaker 2: Interpret things from the lens of God's sovereign plan.
[2:12:31] Speaker 1: No matter how negative it is.
[2:12:32] Speaker 2: James 1, 2 to 4. The Bible says, count it
[2:12:36] Speaker 2: all joy. Let's hurry up. Count it all joy. What
[2:12:39] Speaker 2: did he say to count it as? Do not count
[2:12:41] Speaker 2: it as a loss. Do not count it as a disappointment. Oh,
[2:12:45] Speaker 2: this is where champions have been wounded. generals have been
[2:12:50] Speaker 2: wounded because.
[2:12:50] Speaker 1: Of offense this one said this about me me this
[2:12:54] Speaker 1: one did this and you fade away your potential for
[2:12:57] Speaker 1: remaining when you see men who remain there are people
[2:13:01] Speaker 1: who have mastered the secret.
[2:13:02] Speaker 2: Of joy void of offense void of bitterness this one
[2:13:07] Speaker 2: is particularly to leaders there is no leader who got
[2:13:11] Speaker 2: to the leadership place by growth who has not faced
[2:13:14] Speaker 2: betrayal huh leaders Backstabbing in its variety.
[2:13:21] Speaker 1: Unfortunately it will not end at this level. It is
[2:13:23] Speaker 1: the reality of human nature.
[2:13:27] Speaker 7: But you take what the enemy meant for it.
[2:13:31] Speaker 1: And you turn it for good.
[2:13:34] Speaker 8: You turn it for good.
[2:13:37] Speaker 1: So you can laugh through storms. You take what the
[2:13:41] Speaker 1: enemy meant for it. And you turn it for good.
[2:13:51] Speaker 1: All this I am angry. Oh till I go to
[2:13:54] Speaker 1: my grave. Over my.
[2:13:56] Speaker 2: Come on throw away that thing and grow up. Never
[2:14:00] Speaker 2: wait for men to change to be happy. That is
[2:14:03] Speaker 2: an expensive risk with your destiny. Never wait for men
[2:14:07] Speaker 2: to change or repent.
[2:14:09] Speaker 1: Or be converted. Or be wise. Don't risk your happiness
[2:14:13] Speaker 1: and your joy that much. No. Are you learning?
[2:14:19] Speaker 2: Always interpret things from God's sovereign plan. No matter what
[2:14:27] Speaker 2: it is, God has a way of working it for
[2:14:30] Speaker 2: my good. Whether it is criticism, whether it is persecution,
[2:14:35] Speaker 2: whether it is backbiting, sometimes God can allow it as
[2:14:38] Speaker 2: painful as it is to forewarn you of something that
[2:14:41] Speaker 2: can destroy you in the future. Sometimes God can use
[2:14:44] Speaker 2: it to help you. Sometimes God can use it to
[2:14:46] Speaker 2: put you in check.
[2:14:47] Speaker 1: Sometimes God can use it to test your stamina. Always
[2:14:52] Speaker 1: see things from.
[2:14:54] Speaker 2: The standpoint of God's sovereign love. God's sovereign plan.
[2:14:58] Speaker 1: That everything in your life is adding up.
[2:15:00] Speaker 2: You are going forward. Gravitating forward. Second thought to help
[2:15:07] Speaker 2: you remain in joy. Are you learning Koinonia?
[2:15:12] Speaker 1: When you go through any kind of unfavorable season. Always
[2:15:16] Speaker 1: focus on the goodness of God. This is a big
[2:15:19] Speaker 1: secret in my life.
[2:15:21] Speaker 2: Don't focus on pain. Don't focus on stories. Don't focus
[2:15:25] Speaker 2: on people, whether people who hurt you.
[2:15:27] Speaker 1: Focus on the goodness of God.
[2:15:31] Speaker 2: Something happens to you when you begin to focus on
[2:15:33] Speaker 2: the goodness of God. It has a therapeutic effect. It
[2:15:37] Speaker 2: can heal you from pain. Are we together now? I'm
[2:15:42] Speaker 2: supposed to be promoted a director, but somebody played politics
[2:15:47] Speaker 2: and they pushed me away. Every time you see that
[2:15:50] Speaker 2: person who played politics, you will feel like someone gave
[2:15:52] Speaker 2: me a knife.
[2:15:53] Speaker 1: You can't be living in that pain. The person is
[2:15:56] Speaker 1: a director, you are the one suffering. Bitterness is like
[2:15:59] Speaker 1: swallowing poison and watching in frustration why the other person
[2:16:03] Speaker 1: is not dying. Men will be men.
[2:16:10] Speaker 2: Wise men will remain wise till they change. Fools will
[2:16:13] Speaker 2: remain fools till they change. Mediocre will remain mediocre till
[2:16:17] Speaker 2: they change. Don't wait for people to change before you
[2:16:21] Speaker 2: become happy and joyful. Always think of the goodness of God.
[2:16:25] Speaker 2: No matter what is wrong in your life or not
[2:16:28] Speaker 2: right in your life, there is something God has done well.
[2:16:31] Speaker 1: Am I right on that?
[2:16:32] Speaker 2: There is something God has done right. Let me give
[2:16:35] Speaker 2: you a big secret.
[2:16:36] Speaker 1: Count your blessings.
[2:16:38] Speaker 2: Every time you want to complain and you are in
[2:16:40] Speaker 2: pain and bitterness, that's what John the Baptist would have done.
[2:16:43] Speaker 1: He wouldn't have died like this.
[2:16:45] Speaker 2: If John the Baptist made up his mind that, well, Lord,
[2:16:49] Speaker 2: thank you for the privilege to have been the one
[2:16:51] Speaker 2: to ordain Jesus.
[2:16:52] Speaker 1: I've been ignored right now. Jesus is not even asking
[2:16:55] Speaker 1: how I'm doing. But nonetheless, I give you praise and
[2:16:58] Speaker 1: I give you glory. You have been good to me.
[2:17:01] Speaker 1: Someone say thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
[2:17:04] Speaker 11: All my life you have been faithful. All my life
[2:17:12] Speaker 11: you have.
[2:17:12] Speaker 1: Been so, so good.
[2:17:17] Speaker 13: Every breath that I have made, I will sing of
[2:17:25] Speaker 13: the goodness of God.
[2:17:28] Speaker 1: Very powerful song. Listen. Your goodness is running out.
[2:17:33] Speaker 8: It's running after me.
[2:17:37] Speaker 1: Your goodness is running out. It's running after me. Prophesy
[2:17:43] Speaker 1: to yourself. Your goodness is running out.
[2:17:48] Speaker 5: It's running after me.
[2:17:52] Speaker 2: Leave all those who hate you. They are not the
[2:17:55] Speaker 2: reason why you are not going forward. That is an
[2:17:58] Speaker 2: extra luggage you want to carry.
[2:18:00] Speaker 1: You are on a flight.
[2:18:01] Speaker 2: Leave all the naysayers and the biters and the ill-wishers.
[2:18:05] Speaker 1: And the Judas is kissing you as a sign. You
[2:18:08] Speaker 1: just leave them. Focus on the goodness of God. Can
[2:18:11] Speaker 1: I tell you?
[2:18:11] Speaker 2: Psychologists teach us that focus creates feelings. If you are
[2:18:16] Speaker 2: angry right now when I tell you I just transferred
[2:18:18] Speaker 2: 2 million naira. It doesn't matter whether I'm playing or not.
[2:18:23] Speaker 1: What did you hear? Two million naira. You just smile
[2:18:27] Speaker 1: and say, is it true? You are still very fine,
[2:18:30] Speaker 1: but you are happy. The same way, you can stand
[2:18:35] Speaker 1: in the mirror and say it doesn't matter.
[2:18:42] Speaker 2: Listen, I'm sharing with you irrefutable principles.
[2:18:46] Speaker 1: People will look at you and say, Madam, don't you
[2:18:48] Speaker 1: get angry.
[2:18:50] Speaker 2: Are you not a human being in this Nigeria? You
[2:18:52] Speaker 2: tell them, I found a way of the Spirit. That
[2:18:55] Speaker 2: I can rejoice always, void of offense, void of bitterness.
[2:19:01] Speaker 1: You can walk to your office.
[2:19:02] Speaker 2: And find in the middle of people conspiring your downfall
[2:19:06] Speaker 2: and greet all of them.
[2:19:08] Speaker 1: Would you like to have coffee or something? Can I
[2:19:10] Speaker 1: get you something? And they smile at you. Every time
[2:19:14] Speaker 1: you rejoice in the presence of enemies, you heap up
[2:19:16] Speaker 1: coal on them. Not pretentious joy. Not ha ha ha
[2:19:21] Speaker 1: you are dying. They are seeing you bleed. That is fake.
[2:19:26] Speaker 2: Laughter that is as a result of revelation.
[2:19:28] Speaker 1: Dominion. That your destiny depends on you and God. Are
[2:19:35] Speaker 1: we together?
[2:19:36] Speaker 2: There are some tears that are unnecessary.
[2:19:41] Speaker 1: Respect your tears. Don't shed it carelessly. Go back home
[2:19:47] Speaker 1: tonight and think of the goodness of God. You are
[2:19:49] Speaker 1: still in that one rent, one room. But give God thanks.
[2:19:53] Speaker 1: I have food on my table. Lord, I give you thanks.
[2:19:57] Speaker 1: Are you learning this now?
[2:19:58] Speaker 2: Honestly, if this is what you came to learn tonight,
[2:20:02] Speaker 2: do you know that there are great people who are wounded?
[2:20:04] Speaker 2: And I've taught you, those who refuse to be healed
[2:20:08] Speaker 2: become enemies of their destiny and the destiny of others.
[2:20:12] Speaker 1: Nobody who is healed will wound others.
[2:20:15] Speaker 2: Most people who wound others are people who are trying
[2:20:18] Speaker 2: to heal and they do not know how to heal.
[2:20:20] Speaker 2: So they inflict pain on others.
[2:20:22] Speaker 1: To find comfort.
[2:20:24] Speaker 2: It's a psychological principle. When you fail in life, you
[2:20:31] Speaker 2: get angry when you see others excelling. So something in
[2:20:35] Speaker 2: your heart wishes that they come down to your level
[2:20:37] Speaker 2: so that you can find comfort.
[2:20:40] Speaker 1: When you bring them down, you now feel bad. Because
[2:20:43] Speaker 1: you were not wicked, you were just frustrated. Your goodness
[2:20:50] Speaker 1: is running out. Let me advise you here.
[2:20:55] Speaker 2: If you're a man of God or a CEO, don't
[2:20:58] Speaker 2: give yourself headache going around to say, what are they
[2:21:01] Speaker 2: saying about me in this office?
[2:21:02] Speaker 1: Do they like me? What do you think the person
[2:21:04] Speaker 1: you are saying will answer? In fact, they said the
[2:21:08] Speaker 1: other day, you are the only one who... You are
[2:21:14] Speaker 1: asking the mastermind of your hatred what they are saying
[2:21:18] Speaker 1: about you.
[2:21:19] Speaker 2: And they said, the last time I think I heard
[2:21:20] Speaker 2: that they said you are such a nice leader.
[2:21:23] Speaker 1: In fact, they look forward to you becoming GM. You say,
[2:21:25] Speaker 1: you mean it? Even though that man said it, I'm
[2:21:28] Speaker 1: the one, trust me. You now give him something and
[2:21:31] Speaker 1: he becomes an ally. And once you move, he just
[2:21:33] Speaker 1: looks at you with pity and says, what a fool
[2:21:35] Speaker 1: of a leader. Can I tell you? One of the
[2:21:39] Speaker 1: qualities of leaders is that they have so built themselves.
[2:21:41] Speaker 2: Understanding the world of men, almost nothing surprises them.
[2:21:47] Speaker 1: When you find a leader who puts his hand on
[2:21:48] Speaker 1: his head in shock, he was not trained well.
[2:21:51] Speaker 2: Because leaders understand men, their strengths and their vulnerabilities, that
[2:21:56] Speaker 2: good men can become wicked. They have their will. Wicked
[2:22:00] Speaker 2: men can repent to become champions. So you do not
[2:22:02] Speaker 2: tie the vacillations of men to your growth. Give them
[2:22:06] Speaker 2: an opportunity to be all that they want to be.
[2:22:08] Speaker 2: To explore all the versions of themselves. But maintain your
[2:22:12] Speaker 2: health for the sake of His name and your destiny.
[2:22:15] Speaker 2: Is someone learning? Say, I remain joyful.
[2:22:23] Speaker 1: This is true for ministers, spouses. Remain joyful. Joyful in
[2:22:30] Speaker 1: the Lord. This is my mentality.
[2:22:32] Speaker 2: I look at everything that happens around my life from
[2:22:35] Speaker 2: the standpoint of God's love and His sovereign power. I'm
[2:22:39] Speaker 2: aware of how jealous God is for me. So I
[2:22:42] Speaker 2: interpret everything from a winner's view.
[2:22:46] Speaker 1: Honestly, this is my life. Truly speaking. Is someone learning?
[2:22:58] Speaker 1: Get used to men before they break your heart into pieces. Koinonia,
[2:23:03] Speaker 1: hear my advice. My dear sister, get used to men
[2:23:08] Speaker 1: before they break.
[2:23:09] Speaker 2: Your heart into pieces. I'm not talking in terms of relationship.
[2:23:12] Speaker 2: I'm speaking seriously here. Brothers, get used to men before
[2:23:17] Speaker 2: they break your heart into pieces.
[2:23:19] Speaker 1: Leaders, get used to men. You will always find basis
[2:23:23] Speaker 1: for conflict, betrayal, backstabbing in every organization including Koinonia. There
[2:23:29] Speaker 1: is no.
[2:23:30] Speaker 2: Organization that is 100% free of these tendencies. Your assignment
[2:23:34] Speaker 2: as a leader is to culture your people to minimize it.
[2:23:39] Speaker 2: Waiting for perfection to find joy.
[2:23:41] Speaker 1: It's like waiting for the cloud to touch the ground.
[2:23:46] Speaker 1: It will not happen. Has someone grown tonight? Be joyful.
[2:23:53] Speaker 1: Go back home and rejoice and dance. And somebody looks
[2:23:57] Speaker 1: at you and says, just to let you know you
[2:24:00] Speaker 1: are not coming back to this office again. Why? What
[2:24:03] Speaker 1: did I do? You may feel the pain, but you
[2:24:05] Speaker 1: just remember my sermon.
[2:24:07] Speaker 2: Some of you will hear this, my voice again in
[2:24:09] Speaker 2: the night while you are sleeping. And I will shout
[2:24:12] Speaker 2: it out. My friends, stop crying anyhow. stop crying rejoice.
[2:24:27] Speaker 1: I've already taught you here that everybody.
[2:24:29] Speaker 2: Cannot hate you remember it's a law that does not
[2:24:33] Speaker 2: work for any man even satan is not hated by
[2:24:36] Speaker 2: everybody i've taught you this terrorists have wives they met
[2:24:40] Speaker 2: somebody as a terrorist and said i want.
[2:24:42] Speaker 1: To spend the rest of my life with you and
[2:24:44] Speaker 1: the lady said i agree knowing he's a terrorist there
[2:24:47] Speaker 1: is hope for everybody The joy of the Lord is
[2:24:53] Speaker 1: my strength. The joy of the Lord is my strength.
[2:25:05] Speaker 10: The joy of the Lord. The joy of the Lord.
[2:25:12] Speaker 10: The joy of the Lord.
[2:25:15] Speaker 7: It is my strength.
[2:25:18] Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Let me give you number five. We have to end.
[2:25:21] Speaker 1: See why it's good to come to church? It's good
[2:25:26] Speaker 1: to come to Koinonia. Now hear this. To wrap up.
[2:25:30] Speaker 2: Number four so that you write five. I wrote something
[2:25:33] Speaker 2: here that the Lord ministered to me this afternoon. That
[2:25:36] Speaker 2: joy is one of the greatest demonstrations of faith.
[2:25:41] Speaker 1: Joy is one of the greatest demonstrations of faith.
[2:25:45] Speaker 2: 1 Peter 1.8 says, Joy is one of the greatest
[2:25:49] Speaker 2: demonstrations of faith.
[2:25:52] Speaker 1: Here's what the Bible says.
[2:25:53] Speaker 2: Whom haven't not seen, ye love. In whom, though now
[2:25:59] Speaker 2: ye see him not.
[2:26:00] Speaker 1: Ye yet believe him. Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and
[2:26:05] Speaker 1: full of glory.
[2:26:06] Speaker 2: You haven't seen it yet. Things have not added up yet.
[2:26:10] Speaker 2: The rent has not come yet.
[2:26:12] Speaker 1: Are we together? But you rejoice. Rejoice. Someone when you
[2:26:19] Speaker 1: go back home. Lock yourself today. And laugh. And smile.
[2:26:24] Speaker 1: And rejoice. Truly.
[2:26:28] Speaker 2: And if you don't know what to rejoice about. Think
[2:26:30] Speaker 2: about the five.
[2:26:31] Speaker 1: Word based funniest occurrences in your life. Reminisce on them
[2:26:36] Speaker 1: and laugh. Laugh away nonsense. Laugh away childishness. Rejoice.
[2:26:42] Speaker 2: Oh I remember. One time in the university. I was
[2:26:45] Speaker 2: waiting for school fees. I remember I cried for nothing.
[2:26:49] Speaker 2: And before you know it, you are glowing and rejoicing.
[2:26:51] Speaker 2: Yet you have not paid your rent. And because joy
[2:26:56] Speaker 2: is what helps us and brings us into the harvest.
[2:26:59] Speaker 1: Whilst you are rejoicing, God is seeing a man of faith.
[2:27:02] Speaker 1: He will wake someone and say, send an allot of
[2:27:04] Speaker 1: one million. This one million I've been talking about. And
[2:27:08] Speaker 1: this two million I've been talking about.
[2:27:10] Speaker 2: I've taught you, if you don't believe it, please allow
[2:27:14] Speaker 2: your neighbor.
[2:27:14] Speaker 1: To receive in peace. Number five, the staying power. God
[2:27:26] Speaker 1: is raising joyful people tonight.
[2:27:30] Speaker 2: For someone, 10 people have called you 50 years.
[2:27:32] Speaker 1: Now, whereas you are 31. That's a message.
[2:27:35] Speaker 2: You are losing joy. You're speaking on your face. Someone
[2:27:39] Speaker 2: looks at you and says, are you in my generation?
[2:27:42] Speaker 1: And you say, are you joking? I'm a young man.
[2:27:43] Speaker 1: They say, I can't believe it. You have wrinkled yourself
[2:27:46] Speaker 1: as a.
[2:27:46] Speaker 2: Result of pain. Cheer up and glow. Cheer up and glow.
[2:27:50] Speaker 2: Cheer up and glow. Cheer up and glow.
[2:27:55] Speaker 1: I don't care what is working or not working. Number five.
[2:28:01] Speaker 1: Are you ready?
[2:28:02] Speaker 2: The final key I'm going to give you tonight that
[2:28:04] Speaker 2: has been responsible for.
[2:28:05] Speaker 1: The longevity of men. Impact.
[2:28:09] Speaker 2: Always keep the vision of your future and your destination
[2:28:14] Speaker 2: before you. Keep it higher than every challenge.
[2:28:18] Speaker 1: Keep it higher than every obstacle. I'll take it again.
[2:28:22] Speaker 1: Always keep the vision of your future.
[2:28:26] Speaker 2: The vision of your prophetic destiny before you. Something happens
[2:28:32] Speaker 2: when you see the end.
[2:28:34] Speaker 1: Something happens when you look at the vision. Exalt the
[2:28:37] Speaker 1: vision beyond the challenges. Exalt the vision.
[2:28:41] Speaker 2: Beyond the vicissitudes of life.
[2:28:43] Speaker 1: And you have the stamina to remain and continue. Philippians 3.13 Philippians.
[2:28:48] Speaker 2: 3.13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, he says,
[2:28:56] Speaker 2: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are
[2:29:00] Speaker 2: behind and reaching forth unto those things. Everybody say those things.
[2:29:05] Speaker 2: There are things before you.
[2:29:07] Speaker 1: Can I give you an example?
[2:29:08] Speaker 2: The higher realm of you being anointed. There are anointings
[2:29:12] Speaker 2: you have not received. Man of God, there are churches,
[2:29:15] Speaker 2: the globe is still waiting for you for the impact,
[2:29:18] Speaker 2: the imprint of God upon your life.
[2:29:21] Speaker 1: You must learn to look away. Look beyond. Look up.
[2:29:27] Speaker 1: Reaching forth for the things that are before me.
[2:29:30] Speaker 2: I press towards the mark of the high calling in
[2:29:34] Speaker 2: Christ Jesus. Every calling from God is not a low calling.
[2:29:38] Speaker 2: It's only challenges that are on the ground. Challenges come
[2:29:41] Speaker 2: to you at your level. But your calling is usually high.
[2:29:44] Speaker 2: Because it demands that you rise higher than the challenges.
[2:29:48] Speaker 1: Are you seeing that now? Luke chapter 9 and verse 62.
[2:29:53] Speaker 1: I wish we could find NLT. Luke 9, 62. Let's
[2:29:57] Speaker 1: hurry up. God is speaking to someone tonight. Luke 9, 62. NLT.
[2:30:03] Speaker 2: But Jesus said unto him, I'm only singing the verse.
[2:30:16] Speaker 3: I belong to Jesus, never going back.
[2:30:25] Speaker 1: So many, many people.
[2:30:46] Speaker 2: They don't know that i've made my choice.
[2:30:50] Speaker 1: To follow jesus i follow the lamb wherever he.
[2:30:55] Speaker 6: Leads powerful song so many many people.
[2:31:04] Speaker 10: They don't know that i've made my choice to follow
[2:31:09] Speaker 10: jesus i follow.
[2:31:11] Speaker 6: The lamb Wherever he leads Do you know the song now?
[2:31:17] Speaker 6: Nina Yesune Nina Yesune Vasankoma Vasankoma Vayava Nina Yesune Vasankoma
[2:31:31] Speaker 6: Vasankoma Vayava.
[2:31:40] Speaker 1: Luke chapter 9 Someone you just sang a song of
[2:31:46] Speaker 1: comfort for yourself. No giving up. No going back. Let's
[2:31:51] Speaker 1: finish that scripture.
[2:31:52] Speaker 2: Koinonia, don't tempt me. I will keep you here till tomorrow.
[2:31:55] Speaker 2: The Bible says anyone, watch this. Anyone who puts his
[2:32:00] Speaker 2: hand on a plow and looks back, either because they
[2:32:05] Speaker 2: are calling you, but biters are calling your name, mediocre
[2:32:09] Speaker 2: and naysayers distracting.
[2:32:10] Speaker 1: You from prophecy.
[2:32:12] Speaker 2: Or seasons, unfavorable seasons, is that if you do so,
[2:32:17] Speaker 2: you are not fit.
[2:32:25] Speaker 8: Nasa Hanuna Akan Keken Noma Nasa Hanuna.
[2:32:37] Speaker 5: Akan Keken Noma.
[2:32:44] Speaker 1: I belong to Jesus. I'm never going back.
[2:32:48] Speaker 7: I'll never go back.
[2:32:51] Speaker 1: One more time. I belong to Jesus. Never going back.
[2:32:58] Speaker 5: Never going back.
[2:33:03] Speaker 2: Always keep the vision of your future. It's been a
[2:33:07] Speaker 2: powerful secret in my life.
[2:33:11] Speaker 1: Open that book again. Look at what he told you.
[2:33:15] Speaker 1: Open that book again. Review his speakings.
[2:33:18] Speaker 2: Man of God, he did not tell you you will
[2:33:21] Speaker 2: come to Abuja and die. Why do you want to
[2:33:23] Speaker 2: dig the grave? He never told you you will come
[2:33:27] Speaker 2: here and fail.
[2:33:29] Speaker 1: Never told you you will relocate and go to America.
[2:33:32] Speaker 2: Canada, wherever, Japan, wherever. No, God does not call men
[2:33:37] Speaker 2: and leave them on the way.
[2:33:38] Speaker 1: He's a finisher.
[2:33:40] Speaker 2: Did you ever read that he's called author and finisher?
[2:33:44] Speaker 1: Say it after me. Author and finisher. That means he
[2:33:47] Speaker 1: will finish.
[2:33:50] Speaker 2: I read a book many years ago by Steve Fara
[2:33:52] Speaker 2: called Finishing Strong. Profound book that influenced my understanding. No
[2:33:58] Speaker 2: matter how close you are to destiny, if you don't finish,
[2:34:02] Speaker 2: you will stay in the same group with those who
[2:34:04] Speaker 2: did not start.
[2:34:06] Speaker 1: You have come too far. Are we together? You've held
[2:34:12] Speaker 1: the plow. Ready for harvest. In ministry. In business.
[2:34:19] Speaker 2: Refuse to be distracted. The world is full of noisemakers.
[2:34:23] Speaker 1: Naysayers. People full of pain. They may not be wicked people.
[2:34:28] Speaker 1: Just wounded and confused people. Hoping they can use your
[2:34:32] Speaker 1: pain to find meaning to their lives. Don't hate people.
[2:34:37] Speaker 2: You too look at them from the lens of their weaknesses.
[2:34:41] Speaker 1: And focus on your future. Aside from joy, add vision.
[2:34:47] Speaker 1: A visionless man is a defeated man already. If nothing
[2:34:50] Speaker 1: ever attacks you, you have failed. Are we together?
[2:34:54] Speaker 2: Vision gives you focus. Among the many things that vision
[2:34:57] Speaker 2: gives you is the opportunity to say no to many things.
[2:35:02] Speaker 2: Including good things that are not pro-destiny. When Satan brings
[2:35:07] Speaker 2: evil things and you easily overcome them, he will line
[2:35:10] Speaker 2: up many good things that are not needed in your destiny.
[2:35:13] Speaker 2: How many of you know that good things can kill?
[2:35:16] Speaker 2: Many good things can kill. Satan used it as written
[2:35:19] Speaker 2: against Jesus. Just because it is good does not mean
[2:35:22] Speaker 2: it is profitable for your destiny.
[2:35:24] Speaker 1: There are many good things that can destroy it. You
[2:35:27] Speaker 1: need to trust the spirit of grace. Vision prunes your relationships.
[2:35:32] Speaker 1: Vision prunes your appetite.
[2:35:34] Speaker 2: It prunes the things you can do and the things
[2:35:37] Speaker 2: you cannot do. It gives you the focus to be
[2:35:40] Speaker 2: able to say yes. If the only thing you reject
[2:35:44] Speaker 2: in your life are bad things, you are small. You
[2:35:47] Speaker 2: need to reject many good things in your life.
[2:35:49] Speaker 1: Because Martha, Martha.
[2:35:51] Speaker 2: Can be worried and obsessed about many things. Her preparing
[2:35:54] Speaker 2: a meal for Jesus was not bad.
[2:35:56] Speaker 1: But Jesus said one thing is needful. And this Mary
[2:35:59] Speaker 1: has chosen.
[2:35:59] Speaker 5: Hallelujah.
[2:36:03] Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.
[2:36:05] Speaker 2: These are the secrets that empower believers to stay.
[2:36:12] Speaker 1: Number one. Being strong in the Lord.
[2:36:16] Speaker 2: Capacity and strength that is derived from knowing the God
[2:36:20] Speaker 2: of the Bible.
[2:36:21] Speaker 1: Number two.
[2:36:23] Speaker 2: Submitting to the supremacy of the word of God. As
[2:36:26] Speaker 2: final authority in all things and in all matters.
[2:36:30] Speaker 1: Beyond feelings. Beyond emotions. Beyond psychology. Beyond intellect.
[2:36:35] Speaker 2: Even beyond spiritual supposedly and visionary experiences.
[2:36:40] Speaker 1: Number three.
[2:36:42] Speaker 2: Build inner strength, capacity.
[2:36:44] Speaker 1: For the journey through prayer.
[2:36:46] Speaker 2: Men and women who know how to invest in prayer
[2:36:49] Speaker 2: are men who have longevity of impact.
[2:36:52] Speaker 1: Four, be joyful, goodness. I can drum this again. Void
[2:36:58] Speaker 1: of bitterness, void of offense.
[2:37:03] Speaker 2: Accept humans for the way they are. Hope for the best.
[2:37:07] Speaker 2: Hope that they change. Hope that they find God. Hope
[2:37:10] Speaker 2: that they improve. But until then, do not destroy your
[2:37:14] Speaker 2: joy because of men. The reality of their humanity will
[2:37:18] Speaker 2: always play out at one point or the other. And finally,
[2:37:24] Speaker 2: always keep your vision.
[2:37:26] Speaker 1: Always keep your vision. Always keep your vision. the vision
[2:37:31] Speaker 1: of your.
[2:37:32] Speaker 2: Future the vision of prophecy the vision of your destination
[2:37:38] Speaker 2: the vision of that which god has.
[2:37:41] Speaker 1: Called you to do keep it before you Every time
[2:37:45] Speaker 1: you are discouraged and there is nothing else around you.
[2:37:48] Speaker 2: That inspires you, look up. Let your vision be clear enough.
[2:37:53] Speaker 1: If you need to give.
[2:37:53] Speaker 2: It a pictorial representation to encourage you, do so. If
[2:37:57] Speaker 2: God has called you to a global ministry and you
[2:37:59] Speaker 2: need to get the globe and put it in your office,
[2:38:03] Speaker 2: put it before you go ahead. God has called you
[2:38:06] Speaker 2: to be an evangelist. And you need the map of
[2:38:08] Speaker 2: the world. Place it on your wall. It's a worthy investment.
[2:38:12] Speaker 2: Whatever you can do by God and under grace. To
[2:38:16] Speaker 2: encourage yourself and keep yourself alive.
[2:38:19] Speaker 1: That do.
[2:38:20] Speaker 2: And here's how the Bible ends it all. Haven't done
[2:38:23] Speaker 2: all to stand.
[2:38:24] Speaker 1: It says stand. I mean stand. You said stand and
[2:38:35] Speaker 1: you are sitting.
[2:38:44] Speaker 11: You take what the enemy meant for evil and you
[2:38:48] Speaker 11: turn it for good. You take what the enemy meant
[2:38:59] Speaker 11: for evil.
[2:39:07] Speaker 1: We have just one prayer tonight. Our time is up.
[2:39:10] Speaker 2: One prayer and then I make the altar call and
[2:39:12] Speaker 2: we're done.
[2:39:14] Speaker 1: The one prayer is Lord I obtain the grace to outlast.
[2:39:21] Speaker 1: To outlast storms. To outlast challenges. To outlast vicissitudes. To
[2:39:28] Speaker 1: outlast seasons. Someone pray. As simple as this prayer is.
[2:39:33] Speaker 1: I obtain grace. Grace to last I received the staying power.
[2:39:41] Speaker 1: The staying power in ministry. The staying power. For my business.
[2:39:47] Speaker 1: For my career. Someone by this prayer. You need to
[2:39:50] Speaker 1: return back to business. A man of God needs to
[2:39:53] Speaker 1: return back to ministry. If someone pray. Return back to
[2:39:57] Speaker 1: your children. You need to return back.
[2:40:01] Speaker 5: You are a winner.
[2:40:06] Speaker 1: You are a winner.
[2:40:08] Speaker 2: For sure at the end of it you win the
[2:40:12] Speaker 2: hand of god insists that you win.
[2:40:19] Speaker 1: One minute you are praying from the depth of your
[2:40:22] Speaker 1: heart i obtain grace to last the finisher's grace is
[2:40:27] Speaker 1: with me at work in me i wear his thorns
[2:40:34] Speaker 1: i outdo seasons I outlast challenges. Oh yes, come on, pray.
[2:40:41] Speaker 1: Nothing in my life that is unfavorable today will remain
[2:40:45] Speaker 1: as it is. But when all is said and done,
[2:40:49] Speaker 1: I will be standing, standing strong, standing victorious, standing graceful.
[2:41:00] Speaker 1: In Jesus' mighty name we pray. In Jesus' mighty name
[2:41:05] Speaker 1: we pray. The altar call and I speak the grace
[2:41:09] Speaker 1: upon you.
[2:41:11] Speaker 2: I want to give you an opportunity for your sake
[2:41:13] Speaker 2: who are still staying a minute or two. I want
[2:41:17] Speaker 2: you to come to the Prince of Peace, the one
[2:41:20] Speaker 2: who can help you. The journey to lasting belongs, it
[2:41:23] Speaker 2: begins by knowing him. You just said that you belong
[2:41:27] Speaker 2: to him. Let's minimize movement. I'm still going to speak
[2:41:30] Speaker 2: over your life.
[2:41:31] Speaker 1: It always gives me joy to lead people to Jesus.
[2:41:33] Speaker 1: This is not religion.
[2:41:35] Speaker 2: Is from my heart because the more you give people
[2:41:38] Speaker 2: a chance to know.
[2:41:38] Speaker 1: Him the more you give them an opportunity.
[2:41:41] Speaker 2: To live out their prophetic destinies you are in this
[2:41:43] Speaker 2: place following online across all our expressions overflows and you
[2:41:48] Speaker 2: are saying apostle if you will ask me i will
[2:41:50] Speaker 2: come to make it right with jesus whether you are
[2:41:54] Speaker 2: making that decision for the first time Or you are
[2:41:57] Speaker 2: making that decision. You've made it again and you are
[2:41:59] Speaker 2: rededicating your life. I know there has to be one person.
[2:42:02] Speaker 2: It is that one person I'm speaking to. Someone in this.
[2:42:05] Speaker 1: Place is angry at the opportunity you have given Satan.
[2:42:10] Speaker 2: And you are saying no more. It cannot happen again.
[2:42:12] Speaker 2: I'm going to count one to five. Wherever you are.
[2:42:15] Speaker 1: Very boldly. Leave your seat and come stand here. Leave
[2:42:19] Speaker 1: your seat and come and stand here. Don't be afraid.
[2:42:22] Speaker 1: Don't be ashamed. Come to Jesus.
[2:42:25] Speaker 7: Come.
[2:42:29] Speaker 14: Nina Yesune Bazankoma Bazankoma Bayaba Nina Yesune.
[2:42:41] Speaker 3: Bazankoma Bazankoma Bayaba Nasa Hanuna Akankekenoma Bazankoma Bayaba.
[2:42:57] Speaker 7: I belong to Jesus.
[2:43:00] Speaker 1: Never going back.
[2:43:02] Speaker 5: Never going back sometimes.
[2:43:06] Speaker 1: Let's celebrate them as they come. Is someone still coming?
[2:43:12] Speaker 1: Is someone still running to Jesus? God bless you. Bless
[2:43:18] Speaker 1: you as you come. God bless you as you come. Hallelujah.
[2:43:24] Speaker 1: Thank you very much for making this noble decision. I
[2:43:28] Speaker 1: appreciate you for the courage to be here. And listen,
[2:43:31] Speaker 1: let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen.
[2:43:33] Speaker 2: The Bible declares that whosoever believeth on him should not perish,
[2:43:38] Speaker 2: but have everlasting life.
[2:43:40] Speaker 1: Those who are making this decision online, as I.
[2:43:42] Speaker 2: Lead them to this prayer, please join them. Lift your
[2:43:45] Speaker 2: right hand high above your head. Say this after me,
[2:43:48] Speaker 2: Lord Jesus. One more time, as loud as you can say,
[2:43:51] Speaker 2: Lord Jesus.
[2:43:52] Speaker 1: Tonight... I have heard your word. I love you. With
[2:43:58] Speaker 1: all my heart. I believe. That you are the son.
[2:44:03] Speaker 1: Of the living God. I believe. That you died for
[2:44:06] Speaker 1: my sin. I believe. That you rose again. For my justification.
[2:44:13] Speaker 1: Right now. I receive Jesus. Into my heart. As my savior.
[2:44:19] Speaker 1: My lord. And my king. I declare. That I'm a
[2:44:24] Speaker 1: child of God. I go forward ever and backward never. Amen.
[2:44:30] Speaker 1: Keep your beautiful hands lifted. Please, Father, thank you for
[2:44:33] Speaker 1: this once.
[2:44:34] Speaker 2: Let the power of sin, Satan, hell and the grave
[2:44:37] Speaker 2: be broken over their lives. I decree and declare in
[2:44:40] Speaker 2: the name of Jesus that you walk in victory from today.
[2:44:43] Speaker 2: The grace that keeps, the grace that causes to be victorious.
[2:44:47] Speaker 1: Let that grace rest upon you. And from tonight you
[2:44:50] Speaker 1: go forward ever and backward never. In Jesus name we pray.
[2:44:54] Speaker 2: Please do me a favor by moving to my right.
[2:44:58] Speaker 1: You have the counselors waving the placard. They will have
[2:45:01] Speaker 1: a word with you just for a minute. And you'll
[2:45:04] Speaker 1: be back to your seat. Let's honor them very quickly.
[2:45:06] Speaker 1: Give them a big God bless you.
[2:45:08] Speaker 5: Hallelujah.
[2:45:12] Speaker 1: Let me speak over your life in the name of Jesus.
[2:45:15] Speaker 1: This grace to outlast. Let it rest on you.
[2:45:19] Speaker 2: I speak the staying power over you. You will not
[2:45:24] Speaker 2: fall by the wayside. You will not be Ichabod. In
[2:45:29] Speaker 2: the name of Jesus Christ. For those who are weak
[2:45:33] Speaker 2: and weary. Downcast and discouraged.
[2:45:35] Speaker 1: Find hope. I say it again. Find hope. Find strength.
[2:45:42] Speaker 2: The grace to return. For someone the grace to pursue.
[2:45:46] Speaker 2: The grace to overtake. And by all means the grace
[2:45:50] Speaker 2: to recover. Let it be released upon you. I call
[2:45:54] Speaker 2: you a victor. I call you a sign and a wonder.
[2:45:57] Speaker 2: His hand is strong upon you. Let this week be.
[2:46:01] Speaker 1: A week of blessings for you. Testimonies from Monday to Sunday.
[2:46:06] Speaker 1: Good news from Monday to Sunday. Laughter from Monday to Sunday.
[2:46:12] Speaker 1: Abundance from Monday to Sunday. The ministry of men from
[2:46:16] Speaker 1: Monday to Sunday. In the name of Jesus, you return
[2:46:21] Speaker 1: with testimonies by Sunday. It will be clear from your
[2:46:24] Speaker 1: life that God can help men. In Jesus' mighty name
[2:46:29] Speaker 1: we pray. Give Jesus a big hand clap of praise.
[2:46:33] Speaker 1: Let's share the grace together in fellowship. The grace of
[2:46:36] Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God. The sweet
[2:46:40] Speaker 1: fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Rest and abide with us
[2:46:43] Speaker 1: now and forevermore. Amen. Surely God's goodness and mercies follow us.
[2:46:48] Speaker 1: All the days of our lives. As we dwell in
[2:46:51] Speaker 1: the house of the Lord. Forever and ever. Amen. God
[2:46:54] Speaker 1: bless you Koinonia. See you on Sunday.

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