# MAXIMISING_DESTINY_IDENTITY,_PURPOSE_AND_MEANING_with_Apostle_Jo (1)

An episode of [Apostle Joshua selman Messages](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1798706992), 28 Oct 2026, 2 h 40 min.

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## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Let's lift our hands to Jesus and turn this song
[0:05] Speaker 1: into a prayer. It says, Lo, I come in the
[0:11] Speaker 1: volume of the book as it is written of me.
[0:16] Speaker 1: Someone is praying. Shabbat shalom. He said destroy it not.
[0:32] Speaker 1: For there is a blessing in it. Destroy it not.
[0:45] Speaker 1: In Jesus mighty name we pray. In Jesus mighty name
[0:51] Speaker 1: we pray. Please let's remain standing. I want to speak
[0:54] Speaker 1: over someone. While I pray the Lord give me a scripture.
[1:00] Speaker 1: Ezekiel 12 from verse 21. Someone's season has come. And
[1:08] Speaker 1: the word of the Lord came to me saying, 22.
[1:11] Speaker 1: Son of man, what is that proverb that you have
[1:15] Speaker 1: in the land of Israel saying? The days are prolonged
[1:19] Speaker 1: and every vision faileth.
[1:22] Speaker 2: 23.
[1:22] Speaker 1: It says, tell them therefore, thus saith the Lord God,
[1:26] Speaker 1: I will make this proverb to cease. And there shall
[1:31] Speaker 1: be no more use of it as a proverb in Israel.
[1:35] Speaker 1: But say unto them. The days are at hand. And
[1:40] Speaker 1: the effect of every vision.
[1:41] Speaker 2: 24.
[1:43] Speaker 1: It says for there shall be no more any vain vision.
[1:50] Speaker 1: Or flattering divination within the house of Israel. For I
[1:54] Speaker 1: am the Lord. I will speak. And the word that
[1:58] Speaker 1: I shall speak shall come to pass. Everything God has
[2:05] Speaker 1: declared concerning your life. In the name that is above
[2:08] Speaker 1: all names. I stand by the unction of the spirit.
[2:12] Speaker 1: And I declare. May this be a season of speedy performance.
[2:19] Speaker 1: May this be a season of speedy performance. Before your
[2:25] Speaker 1: eyes you will watch prophecy come to pass. Before your
[2:29] Speaker 1: eyes you will watch prophecy come to pass. In the
[2:36] Speaker 1: name of Jesus. Are you ready for tonight? Father my
[2:41] Speaker 1: heart is opened. My heart is opened. I came to
[2:45] Speaker 1: encounter grace. I came to encounter wisdom. Come on someone
[2:51] Speaker 1: is praying.
[2:53] Speaker 3: I came to encounter grace.
[2:57] Speaker 1: I came to encounter grace. I came to encounter wisdom.
[3:08] Speaker 1: I came to encounter power. Someone pray. I came to
[3:14] Speaker 1: encounter grace. I came to encounter wisdom. I came to
[3:17] Speaker 1: receive redirection, a reordering of my life and destiny. Go
[3:41] Speaker 1: ahead and pray. I cause the spirit of destruction. Hallelujah.
[3:58] Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. Now this is not part
[4:01] Speaker 1: of my teaching. But just for a minute or two.
[4:05] Speaker 1: I want you to sing for me that restore song again.
[4:08] Speaker 1: You know we've been singing that song again. When you
[4:11] Speaker 1: see me repeat something again and again, it is because
[4:14] Speaker 1: the Spirit of God wants to do something.
[4:17] Speaker 3: God moves even through melodies.
[4:20] Speaker 1: He says, I will reveal my dark sayings upon the harp.
[4:24] Speaker 1: It's a song that speaks restoration. It's a song that
[4:27] Speaker 1: says the years that has gone, the things that have
[4:31] Speaker 1: left you, the relationships that have gone, maybe certain graces,
[4:36] Speaker 1: maybe you once walked in a level and for whatever reason,
[4:40] Speaker 1: Your making or otherwise. God wants to speak a word
[4:44] Speaker 1: right now. And I'm speaking to our global family and
[4:47] Speaker 1: the body of Christ. Receive this as a prophetic word
[4:50] Speaker 1: in this season. Go ahead my dear people.
[4:55] Speaker 3: Restore.
[4:59] Speaker 1: Everything that was lost. Restore.
[5:05] Speaker 4: Everything that was stolen, restore. Everything that was lost, restore.
[5:17] Speaker 1: You will restore. Say restore.
[5:25] Speaker 4: We're going to sing it one more time I want
[5:48] Speaker 4: you to see everything that has left you maybe you
[5:51] Speaker 4: lost money Maybe you lost relationships.
[5:54] Speaker 1: You lost your business. You lost your loved one. Your
[5:58] Speaker 1: marriage is falling apart. Your relationship is torn. I want
[6:01] Speaker 1: you to see the God of restoration. Even in this song.
[6:05] Speaker 1: Coming through for you. Coming through for you. You will
[6:08] Speaker 1: sing it as a prayer. While they sing it to
[6:10] Speaker 1: you as a prophecy. Are you ready now? Everything that
[6:17] Speaker 1: was lost, restore.
[6:20] Speaker 4: Everything that was lost, my God will restore. Everything, everything, restore.
[6:34] Speaker 4: You will restore, restore. Everything You will restore Everything that
[6:49] Speaker 4: was stolen You will restore Everything Restore You will restore.
[7:07] Speaker 1: He will restore.
[7:10] Speaker 3: For someone to do you like a dream. But He
[7:13] Speaker 3: will restore.
[7:16] Speaker 1: He will restore the joy of your salvation. He will
[7:20] Speaker 1: restore your finances. He will restore your relationships. He will
[7:26] Speaker 1: restore your ministry. He will restore your business. He will
[7:32] Speaker 1: restore your children. He will restore your laughter.
[7:40] Speaker 2: He will restore.
[7:44] Speaker 1: What final time?
[7:45] Speaker 4: He will restore.
[7:51] Speaker 1: Father, we believe you. This is why we are here.
[7:55] Speaker 1: We know that you are God and God all by yourself.
[7:59] Speaker 1: It is within your power to bring your word and
[8:01] Speaker 1: your speakings over us to pass. And we have come
[8:04] Speaker 1: tonight believing. We have come full of faith. Ready to receive.
[8:09] Speaker 1: And we pray in the name of Jesus. That tonight
[8:13] Speaker 1: there will be the hearing of faith. And a mighty
[8:16] Speaker 1: walking of miracles. Change someone's life. Redirect someone's destiny. Let
[8:23] Speaker 1: someone encounter grace. Let someone encounter direction. Let someone be repositioned.
[8:29] Speaker 3: For an excelling life.
[8:31] Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. If that person is you,
[8:34] Speaker 1: shout a very loud amen. Hallelujah. Welcome to the house
[8:43] Speaker 1: of God. Good evening, everybody. This is Koinonia. Please be seated.
[8:46] Speaker 1: Reverend Akilah and his lovely wife all the way from
[8:52] Speaker 1: Joss are here worshiping with us. Please give them a big,
[8:55] Speaker 1: big God bless you. This does not look like Koinonia. Welcome.
[8:59] Speaker 3: Give them a big, big hand clap.
[9:01] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, ma. In the
[9:06] Speaker 1: name of Jesus. Now, one or two very important announcements
[9:10] Speaker 1: and then we'll get to the word. In the name
[9:13] Speaker 1: of Jesus. Next week is our miracle service for the
[9:18] Speaker 1: month of February. You're clapping like you do not want
[9:26] Speaker 1: anyone healed. Like you do not want anyone delivered. Hallelujah.
[9:35] Speaker 1: And it's going to be a special day. meeting because
[9:38] Speaker 1: um we'll be doing something now um i would save
[9:42] Speaker 1: all the details for next week but just to give
[9:45] Speaker 1: you um we're very responsible ministry and i believe that
[9:50] Speaker 1: um a holistic approach to the challenges of the times
[9:55] Speaker 1: is is a very wise one especially in this season
[9:58] Speaker 1: and so in light of the difficulty and the things
[10:01] Speaker 1: that people, you know, are facing, not just in this nation,
[10:04] Speaker 1: across Africa, the Lord began to put a burden in
[10:07] Speaker 1: my heart, um, you know, to invest in a few
[10:11] Speaker 1: people and to be able to give a few people
[10:14] Speaker 1: an opportunity to, um, build businesses, particularly along agro-allied, the
[10:23] Speaker 1: agro-allied sector. So we are partnering with a business outfit,
[10:28] Speaker 1: and next week we'll be giving them room to just
[10:30] Speaker 1: come a few minutes during the Miracle Service. And they'll
[10:36] Speaker 1: just be doing a little orientation. Afterwards, they will select
[10:40] Speaker 1: at least, say, maybe 100 people from the family here
[10:46] Speaker 1: and train them. And we'll fund them and give them
[10:52] Speaker 1: an opportunity to set up farms, to set up businesses,
[10:56] Speaker 1: and so that it can be a contribution to helping
[11:00] Speaker 1: to empower people. Are you happy about that? So make
[11:05] Speaker 1: sure that you are here. It could be you. God
[11:09] Speaker 1: told you that this year you will smile. Perhaps this
[11:12] Speaker 1: is how the pathway that he will follow. And so,
[11:16] Speaker 1: please make sure you are here. And then on the
[11:18] Speaker 1: 3rd of March, by the grace of God, is going
[11:23] Speaker 1: to be a wonderful time in this place. We're going
[11:27] Speaker 1: to be having two incredible people whose worship ministries have
[11:32] Speaker 1: impacted my life, impacted this ministry. We'll be having Terry McHalmond. Hallelujah.
[11:44] Speaker 1: And Praise the name of the Lord. Thank you. So,
[11:54] Speaker 1: Terry McCalmon, for many of you who know, he's traveled
[11:57] Speaker 1: around the world. He's ministered in many powerful crusades. He's
[12:02] Speaker 1: behind many songs that you do not even know he's behind.
[12:06] Speaker 1: You sing the songs, crying in the presence of God.
[12:09] Speaker 1: And by God's grace, you'll be live here with my
[12:12] Speaker 1: dear friend and brother, Pastor Nathaniel.
[12:15] Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
[12:16] Speaker 1: So it's going to be an uncensored worship experience. It's
[12:21] Speaker 1: called Shouts of Victory. According to Psalm 118 and verse 15,
[12:27] Speaker 1: the Bible says, give it to us, then we'll pray
[12:29] Speaker 1: over the bill. He says, is it 118 and 15?
[12:35] Speaker 1: Did I get that right? Help me. The Shouts of
[12:38] Speaker 1: Joy and Victory. Please look for it for me. If
[12:42] Speaker 1: that was a mistake, correct it very quickly. The shouts
[12:45] Speaker 1: of joy and victory shall not depart from the tent
[12:50] Speaker 1: of the righteous. That's the scripture that I'm looking for. Hallelujah.
[12:56] Speaker 1: Find it for me and then we'll pray. That's right.
[12:58] Speaker 1: Psalm 118 verse 15.
[13:01] Speaker 3: Shouts of joy and victory.
[13:04] Speaker 1: Okay, NIV. That's NIV. KJV says something else. But shouts
[13:08] Speaker 1: of joy and victory resounds in the tent of the righteous.
[13:13] Speaker 1: Then it says the Lord's right hand has done mighty things.
[13:16] Speaker 1: So we're going to be shouting because every Jericho wall
[13:22] Speaker 1: must fall. In the name of Jesus. Invite everyone and
[13:27] Speaker 1: it's going to be a spectacular service for next week
[13:30] Speaker 1: and then the week after. That is the third. Stretch
[13:33] Speaker 1: your hands and let's declare that in the name of
[13:36] Speaker 1: Jesus it will be a wonderful experience with two great
[13:42] Speaker 1: vessels that God is using to lead nations in worship.
[13:47] Speaker 3: Terry McCalmond, Pastor Nathaniel Bassey.
[13:51] Speaker 1: And their team pray that in the name of Jesus,
[13:53] Speaker 1: they will minister under a heavy unction of the Spirit.
[13:57] Speaker 1: And that all who must become part of this worship experience,
[14:00] Speaker 1: this service, that the Lord himself will bring them from
[14:04] Speaker 1: across this nation, from across the nations. It will be
[14:08] Speaker 1: an incredible time of the Spirit coming. That many things
[14:11] Speaker 1: will be breathed in the spirit. Many worshipers, many sounds
[14:15] Speaker 1: will come. Many victories will be established even in the
[14:19] Speaker 1: course of this meeting. And to Jesus be all the glory.
[14:24] Speaker 1: Amen and amen. So please let everyone know. It's your
[14:27] Speaker 1: duty to let everyone know. Invite friends, loved ones. And
[14:35] Speaker 1: we'll have a great time in God's presence. Are you
[14:38] Speaker 1: ready for tonight? Last week's message impacted me so much.
[14:43] Speaker 1: You would not think that, you would imagine that I
[14:47] Speaker 1: were a stranger hearing it. Even though I was the
[14:50] Speaker 1: person God used to teach. And for those of you
[14:54] Speaker 1: who have not gotten the teaching to listen to it,
[14:57] Speaker 1: it's online.
[14:57] Speaker 3: Go to Koinonia Global. You'll get it.
[15:00] Speaker 1: Follow us of them. Profound teaching about the value and
[15:05] Speaker 1: the advantage of models teaching. the advantage of patterns. And
[15:11] Speaker 1: all through the week was quite a busy and eventful one,
[15:13] Speaker 1: but I kept meditating on the things that God shared
[15:19] Speaker 1: to us on Sunday. And it stirred up another hunger
[15:24] Speaker 1: in me, quite honestly. Particularly the day before yesterday, yesterday,
[15:31] Speaker 1: and even this morning on my way returning back to Abuja,
[15:35] Speaker 1: I started thinking about the many people whose lives have
[15:40] Speaker 1: impacted me and this ministry. And I started to imagine
[15:44] Speaker 1: my life and imagine this ministry without them. Very profound people,
[15:50] Speaker 1: some dead, some alive. And we have stood by the
[15:56] Speaker 1: grace of God on the shoulder of veterans, great men
[16:00] Speaker 1: and women. They have instructed, they have guided directly or
[16:05] Speaker 1: through their materials. And they have brought us to places
[16:09] Speaker 1: today that we never dreamt possible. And the things that
[16:14] Speaker 1: I'm going to be sharing with you tonight is in
[16:17] Speaker 1: honor to one of these veterans. Even though he's gone
[16:21] Speaker 1: to be with the Lord, he still remains a profound
[16:26] Speaker 1: influence in my life. And his influence remains indelible in
[16:32] Speaker 1: my heart. And This is a tribute, really, if I
[16:37] Speaker 1: would call it, to him, even though he's not in
[16:41] Speaker 1: the earth again.
[16:43] Speaker 3: But I look at the extent of.
[16:44] Speaker 1: His impact, even on this wise, over my life, and
[16:48] Speaker 1: I thought it was important to one more time acknowledge
[16:52] Speaker 1: him and sincerely celebrate him, and then we go into
[16:56] Speaker 1: our discussion. I'm talking about none other than Dr. Myles Munro.
[17:01] Speaker 1: Thank you. Hallelujah. It was on a glorious morning on
[17:12] Speaker 1: this very day, I was in the city of Wari,
[17:16] Speaker 1: preaching at a conference when I woke up, I think
[17:21] Speaker 1: I woke up to pray. Early hours of the morning,
[17:26] Speaker 1: then I was told that he had died in a
[17:28] Speaker 1: plane crash. And I said, what happened? Why would such
[17:31] Speaker 1: a great man die alive? in a plane crash. But
[17:37] Speaker 1: then he died alongside his wife, his assistant, and I
[17:42] Speaker 1: think their wives also. And it was quite an impactful loss,
[17:48] Speaker 1: if I would call it, for the Bahamas Faith Ministry International.
[17:51] Speaker 1: But then he lives on today. We have become extensions
[17:56] Speaker 1: of his legacy. I kept meditating, even this morning, on
[18:00] Speaker 1: the many things I learned from him. It was from
[18:03] Speaker 1: this great man, Dr. Miles, that we learned the value
[18:06] Speaker 1: and the excellency of purpose. And that knowing your call
[18:10] Speaker 1: and your assignment on time is an advantage to your life.
[18:15] Speaker 1: It was from Dr. Miles Monroe I learned, for instance,
[18:18] Speaker 1: that leadership is not about looking for people to lead.
[18:21] Speaker 1: It's a very poor idea of leadership. Unfortunately, that is
[18:25] Speaker 1: largely the idea of leadership we have in Africa. Looking
[18:28] Speaker 1: for people called followers, then we lead them. He taught
[18:33] Speaker 1: us and mentored us into a superior understanding that leadership
[18:38] Speaker 1: is about discovering, refining, and developing your giftings and potential
[18:44] Speaker 1: and deploying them to serve so effectively that your influence
[18:49] Speaker 1: and your impact becomes noticed by the people within your
[18:52] Speaker 1: environment and they give you as a reward the gift
[18:57] Speaker 1: of loyalty. This was his definition of leadership. That leadership
[19:01] Speaker 1: is about deploying your giftings to serve, not looking for
[19:05] Speaker 1: men to lead.
[19:06] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[19:09] Speaker 1: Profound contributions. It was from him I understood the kingdom.
[19:15] Speaker 1: His book, Rediscovering the Kingdom, has remained a classic, bringing
[19:19] Speaker 1: superior ideas, taking us beyond the shores of religion and
[19:23] Speaker 1: adding to our understanding. And today, by the grace of God,
[19:27] Speaker 1: it is an honor to be making our own contributions
[19:31] Speaker 1: To the body of Christ and even to this generation.
[19:35] Speaker 1: We hope that someday if Christ tarries, someone will be
[19:38] Speaker 1: able to point to our lives too. And say we
[19:40] Speaker 1: live meaningful lives. I hope that will be true for you.
[19:45] Speaker 1: Anytime I talk about things that relate to death, everybody
[19:49] Speaker 1: keeps quiet. Why are you afraid of dying? You will
[19:51] Speaker 1: not die. I've told you this. Hallelujah. I'm sure someone
[19:57] Speaker 1: is saying no. I've not built. I've not married. No way.
[20:00] Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere. So God bless Dr. Miles Monroe.
[20:06] Speaker 1: God bless his works. God bless his legacy in Jesus name. Hallelujah.
[20:14] Speaker 1: Lamentations 1027. I'm teaching tonight on maximizing destiny, maximizing destiny.
[20:22] Speaker 1: You will want to listen to the things that I'm
[20:24] Speaker 1: teaching and the credit for these thoughts are directly connected
[20:29] Speaker 1: to this great man, uh, quite directly connected to him. Um,
[20:35] Speaker 1: I have done very little editing as far as the
[20:38] Speaker 1: knowledge that I've received on this wise. He helped me
[20:41] Speaker 1: understand the concept of destiny so thoroughly. And there are
[20:45] Speaker 1: a few questions we are going to ask and hopefully
[20:48] Speaker 1: answer tonight. And I guarantee you by the integrity of
[20:51] Speaker 1: scripture that the answers to this question will be for
[20:55] Speaker 1: you a compass to a new horizon in destiny. In
[20:59] Speaker 1: the name of Jesus Christ. Lamentations 10, 27. Media, are
[21:06] Speaker 1: we together? Lamentations, is it 10 or 327? Did I
[21:10] Speaker 1: miss that? It is good that a man bear his
[21:13] Speaker 1: yoke in his youth. If I omit any scripture, help me.
[21:18] Speaker 1: Thank you. Sometimes we just keep the verses or we
[21:21] Speaker 1: interchange them. It is good, the Bible says, for a
[21:25] Speaker 1: man that he bear his yoke in his youth. This
[21:29] Speaker 1: immediately suggests to us that timing matters in the kingdom. Hallelujah.
[21:34] Speaker 3: That not every time is convenient for everything.
[21:38] Speaker 1: Second scripture Ecclesiastes chapter 12 and verse 1. Ecclesiastes chapter
[21:44] Speaker 1: 12 and verse 1. Remember now it says thy creator
[21:48] Speaker 1: in the days of thy youth. While the evil days
[21:52] Speaker 1: come not nor the years draw nigh. When thou shalt
[21:56] Speaker 1: say I have no pleasure in them. The Bible is
[22:00] Speaker 1: charging us to remember the creator. That you must walk
[22:05] Speaker 1: with this understanding and with this awareness that God exists.
[22:11] Speaker 1: And that the reason why you exist is because he
[22:13] Speaker 1: is there. And that there is a mandate upon your life.
[22:17] Speaker 1: A precious worship people just sang and stared us into
[22:20] Speaker 1: understanding that there's prophecy upon our lives. And it's important
[22:24] Speaker 1: not just to sing it, but we must have a
[22:27] Speaker 1: profound understanding. Now, many people live lives that are empty
[22:33] Speaker 1: and void of meaning. Lives full of identity crisis. Lives
[22:39] Speaker 1: of purposelessness. Lives without meaning. The average person who is walking,
[22:45] Speaker 1: gallivanting the earth today cannot clearly articulate why they are here. Hallelujah.
[22:51] Speaker 3: For many people, they just live to exist.
[22:54] Speaker 1: So the trajectory for the average unenlightened person person is
[22:58] Speaker 1: to be born find yourself growing if you are fortunate
[23:03] Speaker 1: you attend a secular system of education eventually you transit
[23:08] Speaker 1: from childhood to teenage adolescence become an adult then hopefully
[23:13] Speaker 1: marry have a family and then struggle your way and
[23:18] Speaker 1: then at the end of your life if you are
[23:20] Speaker 1: fortunate to have good children and grandchildren lucky for you
[23:23] Speaker 1: if it's unfortunate for you You join the bandwagon of
[23:27] Speaker 1: people regretting their lives and then you die. Most likely
[23:30] Speaker 1: of some terrible ailment or some misuse of your body
[23:34] Speaker 1: and your life and your times. Do you think that
[23:37] Speaker 1: is a worthy template? That is not an effective template
[23:40] Speaker 1: for living. And yet many people today keep following that road.
[23:45] Speaker 1: And you would think because others have gone ahead making
[23:47] Speaker 1: the same mistakes.
[23:49] Speaker 3: Those who are coming would see, notice and correct it.
[23:53] Speaker 1: And yet it continues to be the same mistake from
[23:56] Speaker 1: person to person. This is true for Africans, true for Europeans,
[24:00] Speaker 1: true for people down west. And tonight God wants to
[24:04] Speaker 1: help us understand that destiny and life is a gift.
[24:08] Speaker 1: A gift that can be abused, but a gift that
[24:11] Speaker 1: can be maximized. The intent for this teaching is that
[24:15] Speaker 1: in the nearest future, not just at the end of
[24:17] Speaker 1: your life, That within the nearest future you can look
[24:21] Speaker 1: back and see that you have repositioned your life and
[24:25] Speaker 1: you are maximizing destiny. One of the factors that is
[24:29] Speaker 1: responsible for joy and happiness, even from a secular standpoint,
[24:34] Speaker 1: is progress. We feel happy and we feel fulfilled to
[24:38] Speaker 1: the degree to which we feel we are making constructive progress.
[24:43] Speaker 1: It is the reason why people frown at things like delay.
[24:46] Speaker 1: They frown at things like stagnation. If you're a man
[24:49] Speaker 1: of God, for instance, and you begin a ministry, and
[24:51] Speaker 1: after three, four, five years, the ministry is not growing.
[24:55] Speaker 1: Not just numerically, in terms of impact, in terms of membership, finances,
[25:00] Speaker 1: your influence.
[25:01] Speaker 3: It becomes a source of concern. Even biologically.
[25:06] Speaker 1: When a woman gives birth to a child, you expect
[25:08] Speaker 1: that after two, three, four years, the child would grow,
[25:11] Speaker 1: the child would be able to speak, the child would
[25:13] Speaker 1: be able to do things by himself or herself. And
[25:16] Speaker 1: if that child becomes incapacitated after two, three, four years,
[25:20] Speaker 1: it becomes a matter of concern. And the parents now
[25:23] Speaker 1: start focusing on seeing how they can get medical or
[25:26] Speaker 1: spiritual help. So God designed men to grow. God designed
[25:32] Speaker 1: men to advance. God designed men to excel. Are we together?
[25:37] Speaker 1: To excel in every ramification. The Bible says in Luke 2.52.
[25:42] Speaker 1: And Jesus increased in wisdom. He increased in stature. He
[25:48] Speaker 1: increased in favor with God and with men. Nobody wants
[25:54] Speaker 1: to remain stagnated indefinitely. In life and destiny. As a
[25:59] Speaker 1: man of God I am happy and encouraged. Even though
[26:01] Speaker 1: I love the Lord sincerely. Even beyond the results.
[26:04] Speaker 3: But I am encouraged that whilst I am teaching.
[26:07] Speaker 1: Week in week out. There are faithful people who are
[26:10] Speaker 1: coming to listen. And that the ministry is growing in
[26:12] Speaker 1: leap and bounds. If that is true for me. It
[26:16] Speaker 1: means it should be true for anyone. And everyone. Hallelujah.
[26:18] Speaker 5: Hallelujah.
[26:20] Speaker 1: And I'm praying for you, in the name of Jesus Christ,
[26:22] Speaker 1: that everything that has taunted your growth, that you will
[26:25] Speaker 1: not move forward, you will not go forward, and people
[26:28] Speaker 1: look at your life and say, what is wrong with you?
[26:30] Speaker 1: It looks like you are not making advancement. You are 40,
[26:33] Speaker 1: you are still with your parents. 50, you are still
[26:35] Speaker 1: with your parents. With your wife and children, but you
[26:38] Speaker 1: are still begging from your parents. May that cause come
[26:41] Speaker 1: to an end now. Shout it loud, Amen. In Matthew
[26:50] Speaker 1: chapter 16 from verse 13, Jesus asked a very profound question.
[26:55] Speaker 1: And this was a question that led to the revelation
[26:59] Speaker 1: of the church. The word church was first mentioned in
[27:02] Speaker 1: this discourse. When Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi,
[27:07] Speaker 1: the Bible says, he asked his disciples saying, who do
[27:11] Speaker 1: men say? Listen carefully. Not who do angels say? Not
[27:15] Speaker 1: who do demons say? Who do men say that I
[27:20] Speaker 1: the son of man am? This is a question probing
[27:23] Speaker 1: into an understanding of identity. This teaching tonight captures three areas. One, identity. Two, purpose.
[27:32] Speaker 3: Three, meaning.
[27:33] Speaker 1: The jurisdiction of tonight's teaching is to bring enlightenment across
[27:38] Speaker 1: these three areas.
[27:39] Speaker 3: Number one again, identity.
[27:41] Speaker 1: Number two, purpose. Number three, meaning. Verse fourteen. They said,
[27:48] Speaker 1: some say that you are John the Baptist. Some say
[27:52] Speaker 1: you are Elijah or Elias. Some say you are Jeremiah
[27:56] Speaker 1: or even one of the prophets.
[27:58] Speaker 3: Next verse. He says, but whom say ye that I am?
[28:04] Speaker 1: And like I've taught here many times, they were shocked
[28:07] Speaker 1: to know that even though they were in close proximity
[28:09] Speaker 1: with Jesus, they really did.
[28:11] Speaker 3: Not know who he was.
[28:12] Speaker 1: Next verse. And Peter spoke by the spirit and said,
[28:17] Speaker 1: thou art Christ, the son of the living God. I
[28:20] Speaker 1: know your identity. I'm walking with you, but I'm not confused.
[28:24] Speaker 1: You are not one of those prophets. Those prophets came
[28:27] Speaker 1: because you are here. Those prophets excel because you are here.
[28:31] Speaker 1: You are not just joining the queue. You are God himself, Christ,
[28:35] Speaker 1: the son of the living God. And he said flesh
[28:38] Speaker 1: and blood has not revealed this to you. But my
[28:41] Speaker 1: father who is in heaven. And he says upon this rock.
[28:45] Speaker 1: I will build my church. And the gates of hell
[28:49] Speaker 1: shall not prevail against it.
[28:53] Speaker 3: Dr. Miles Monroe taught very profoundly.
[28:57] Speaker 1: And I'm grateful to God that when he taught. Some
[29:00] Speaker 1: of us listened. There were people who heard. But did
[29:03] Speaker 1: not listen. There were others who did not even care
[29:06] Speaker 1: to listen. They were busy trying to figure their way
[29:10] Speaker 1: out through life. Recall my teaching last week. The truth
[29:14] Speaker 1: is that the easiest way to make constructive progress in life,
[29:18] Speaker 1: I taught you last week. Is when you partner with models.
[29:22] Speaker 1: Models who have been able to pay the price to
[29:25] Speaker 1: find a way for you. Eventually you may find other
[29:28] Speaker 1: paths they have not found.
[29:30] Speaker 3: But you will have to.
[29:31] Speaker 1: Leverage on the advantage of their presence. Their knowledge. Their experience.
[29:36] Speaker 3: To prime your advancement first.
[29:38] Speaker 2: Ignorance.
[29:40] Speaker 1: Every resource available for you, both human and material and spiritual,
[29:45] Speaker 1: in a quest to becoming, in a quest to making it,
[29:48] Speaker 1: will only leave you in defeat, in shame and disappointment.
[29:53] Speaker 3: And so Dr. Munro said very profoundly this.
[29:57] Speaker 1: That in his opinion, and I agree with him till date,
[30:01] Speaker 1: that there were certain questions that.
[30:04] Speaker 3: Every man would have to ask and answer if.
[30:09] Speaker 1: They desired destiny maximization. It was Dr.
[30:15] Speaker 3: Mike Mudok who said, a question is the seed.
[30:19] Speaker 1: For an answer. That means.
[30:22] Speaker 3: The difference between a madman talking.
[30:24] Speaker 1: Speaking gibberish. Is that he's not answering. He's just speaking.
[30:28] Speaker 1: Are we together now? An answer is a response. Not
[30:32] Speaker 1: just talking. Not just discussion. So when you want an answer.
[30:37] Speaker 1: The seed that you sow for the harvest of an answer.
[30:40] Speaker 1: Is a question.
[30:41] Speaker 3: And I want to challenge you.
[30:44] Speaker 1: The same way God used Dr. Miles to challenge me,
[30:48] Speaker 1: what you call koinonia global today, and by the privilege
[30:52] Speaker 1: of God's grace, if there is anything good that has
[30:54] Speaker 1: come out of this life that is speaking to you,
[30:57] Speaker 1: I credit it to the ability to answer, to know,
[31:02] Speaker 1: and to work with these questions. They have remained pillars.
[31:08] Speaker 1: During my retreat, I probed myself again.
[31:11] Speaker 3: Along these questions. And if for any reason.
[31:14] Speaker 1: I have difficulty answering any of them. That becomes my
[31:17] Speaker 1: next project. Are you ready? There are five questions he
[31:22] Speaker 1: taught us that every man must be able to ask
[31:26] Speaker 1: to live an effective life and to actualize destiny.
[31:30] Speaker 3: Don't assume. Don't pretend you know.
[31:33] Speaker 1: If you have gotten these questions and your answers are right,
[31:36] Speaker 1: your destiny should be speaking now. If for any reason,
[31:39] Speaker 1: even if you believe that you have got some knowledge
[31:43] Speaker 1: of this, perhaps from his materials, once your knowledge has
[31:47] Speaker 1: not produced results, keep listening and keep learning. It means
[31:51] Speaker 1: there is something wrong with your understanding. Because faith has
[31:54] Speaker 1: two layers. One is awareness. The second is comprehension. Faith
[32:00] Speaker 1: committed by hearing and hearing. The first hearing is on
[32:04] Speaker 1: to awareness. The second hearing is on to comprehension or understanding.
[32:10] Speaker 1: You are still with me? Shout Amen. The first question
[32:14] Speaker 1: that we are going to be asking and answering tonight
[32:16] Speaker 1: is a question of identity. It's a question, who am I?
[32:21] Speaker 1: Please write it down. Who am I? It's a profound
[32:24] Speaker 1: question that attempts to bring to your consciousness the concept and.
[32:29] Speaker 3: The value of identity.
[32:33] Speaker 1: Psychologists and religious leaders and even scientists agree at this
[32:38] Speaker 1: point that an individual who does not know himself or
[32:41] Speaker 1: herself is already on the path to doom and the
[32:45] Speaker 1: path to defeat. There are many people today who are
[32:49] Speaker 1: under the pressure to become several.
[32:51] Speaker 3: Things depending on who is putting the pressure on them.
[32:55] Speaker 1: And it is simply because they have not taken out
[32:58] Speaker 1: time to study their identity. Identity is a very powerful thing.
[33:05] Speaker 1: It's a very profound thing. Sadly, our world is gradually
[33:09] Speaker 1: losing the sense of identity. And it's resulting to all
[33:12] Speaker 1: kinds of pressure.
[33:14] Speaker 3: People trying to show that they are making it.
[33:16] Speaker 1: Preachers not being patient with process until they become preachers.
[33:20] Speaker 1: Business people, leaders and so on and so forth. Identity
[33:24] Speaker 1: crisis is a dangerous psychological cancer.
[33:27] Speaker 3: It can destroy a great destiny.
[33:30] Speaker 1: It is important that from the onset, these are not
[33:34] Speaker 1: questions you should ask at the end of your life.
[33:37] Speaker 1: These are the questions that guarantee you're reaching the end successfully.
[33:43] Speaker 3: Are we together now?
[33:44] Speaker 1: There are certain questions you have the liberty of asking
[33:47] Speaker 1: as you go. But these are questions that are best
[33:50] Speaker 1: answered before the journey or at the infancy of the journey.
[33:55] Speaker 1: So that if you have to turn back, you would
[33:58] Speaker 1: not have wasted years before making a U-turn. Are we
[34:02] Speaker 1: learning now? The thing about the school of the spirit
[34:05] Speaker 1: and the school of destiny is that even if you
[34:07] Speaker 1: are in error, moving in the wrong direction for 20 years,
[34:11] Speaker 1: by the time you find the right path, God will
[34:14] Speaker 1: mandate that you return back and start the journey afresh.
[34:18] Speaker 1: You would think you would just shift to a new lane.
[34:20] Speaker 1: It doesn't work like that in the spirit. Hallelujah. Imagine
[34:27] Speaker 1: spending 10, 15 years of your life following a path that.
[34:30] Speaker 3: Cement right onto you. Only to find out.
[34:33] Speaker 1: That it's a way of destruction, it's a way of failure.
[34:37] Speaker 1: And then you have to make that U-turn again. The
[34:41] Speaker 1: same distance you wasted arriving at your place of error
[34:44] Speaker 1: is the same distance you will spend to come back
[34:47] Speaker 1: to the point.
[34:47] Speaker 3: Where you will start again.
[34:52] Speaker 1: I'm praying that you pay attention to the things that
[34:55] Speaker 1: you are hearing. So that you will not have to
[34:57] Speaker 1: answer this question when your children are answering their own.
[35:01] Speaker 3: Did you hear what I said? There are many people
[35:03] Speaker 3: who will refuse to.
[35:04] Speaker 1: Answer this question. And they will be forced to repeat
[35:07] Speaker 1: the classes in the school of the spirit. And now
[35:10] Speaker 1: answer this question together with their children. Or answer this
[35:14] Speaker 1: question together with their grandchildren. And life has no respect
[35:19] Speaker 1: for time that was ill-invested. If you did not invest
[35:24] Speaker 1: in your time to maximize moments. Your children will join
[35:28] Speaker 1: you in the school of the spirit. Your grandchildren will
[35:31] Speaker 1: join you in the school of the spirit. And they
[35:33] Speaker 1: will ask you. Why are you answering this question at
[35:35] Speaker 1: this point? The question of identity. Psalm 49 and verse 20.
[35:48] Speaker 1: The Bible says a man that is in honor. And
[35:51] Speaker 1: understand that it not. Is like a beast in the field.
[35:56] Speaker 1: That perishes. Do you know what that means? Assuming you
[35:59] Speaker 1: are royalty for instance. Maybe you came from a royal family.
[36:03] Speaker 1: But you were never told for whatever reason. You will
[36:06] Speaker 1: act like a slave. And even be victimized by people
[36:09] Speaker 1: who you were supposed to be higher than.
[36:12] Speaker 3: In terms of the privilege that you have.
[36:14] Speaker 1: Many believers because they do not understand their identity. They
[36:19] Speaker 1: go through all kinds of psychological swings trying.
[36:23] Speaker 3: To become the kind of person.
[36:25] Speaker 1: Who will gain an applause from people. Let me tell
[36:28] Speaker 1: you this. One of the cardinal pillars for effective leadership
[36:33] Speaker 1: and becoming an influence is having a strong conviction of
[36:37] Speaker 1: your identity. Because as you sojourn through life and destiny,
[36:41] Speaker 1: hear me ladies and gentlemen, culture will try to redefine you.
[36:45] Speaker 1: The failure of people will try to redefine you. The
[36:48] Speaker 1: thinking of the time will try to redefine you. For instance,
[36:52] Speaker 1: in our world right now, when you see a young
[36:54] Speaker 1: man and perhaps pressing honorably to his life and destiny,
[37:00] Speaker 1: chances are excellent that he will feel like a failure
[37:03] Speaker 1: because he does not have a car. He does not
[37:06] Speaker 1: have maybe some house and so on and so forth.
[37:10] Speaker 3: And there are many people who are actually doing well.
[37:13] Speaker 1: But simply because society has given a wrong parameter to
[37:17] Speaker 1: measure masculinity, a wrong parameter to measure growth, a wrong
[37:22] Speaker 1: parameter to measure ministry, a wrong parameter to measure success.
[37:27] Speaker 3: The fake life that is.
[37:28] Speaker 1: Eating up the average young man in our society is
[37:32] Speaker 1: credited directly to identity crisis. Hallelujah.
[37:38] Speaker 3: So even if I'm a dummy, once I am.
[37:40] Speaker 1: In a car and I'm driving it, I immediately have
[37:44] Speaker 1: a sense of superiority to everybody thinking. That is the
[37:47] Speaker 1: reason why many young people today have found themselves in
[37:50] Speaker 1: all kinds of destructive vices.
[37:54] Speaker 3: Almost every week, the law enforcement.
[37:57] Speaker 1: Agents are apprehending someone who is involved in some kind
[38:01] Speaker 1: of shady practice, some kind of destructive practice. And you
[38:05] Speaker 1: ask the young man, what exactly are you looking for?
[38:10] Speaker 1: The cliche in our world today is I want to
[38:12] Speaker 1: make it. Who is the I? That is the question
[38:15] Speaker 1: we want to ask. Who is the I who wants
[38:17] Speaker 1: to make it? Society has told us that we are
[38:20] Speaker 1: failures when certain things does not happen, when certain.
[38:23] Speaker 3: Things does not add up. Are we together?
[38:26] Speaker 1: And some of you right now in this place, you literally,
[38:30] Speaker 1: you would have been better by far if you had
[38:34] Speaker 1: that sense of self-security for want of word upon the
[38:38] Speaker 1: strength of who God has made you. Some gentleman looked
[38:42] Speaker 1: at you and said you are not a beautiful lady
[38:45] Speaker 1: and that destroyed your sense of self-worth. And you started
[38:48] Speaker 1: acting and doing things, even stupid things, because you are
[38:51] Speaker 1: trying to fit. There is a cancer that is eating
[38:55] Speaker 1: up young people in our world today. It's the pressure
[38:58] Speaker 1: to belong. Have you heard such a statement? So they
[39:03] Speaker 1: create mundane parameters that you must qualify to join certain
[39:08] Speaker 1: groups or certain people. And they are not all wrong,
[39:12] Speaker 1: but there are some that are so destructive.
[39:17] Speaker 3: There are groups.
[39:18] Speaker 1: And people today that if you are a sound Christian
[39:21] Speaker 1: and you love the Lord, living a responsible life as
[39:24] Speaker 1: a young man and a young lady.
[39:26] Speaker 3: Those groups will send you away.
[39:28] Speaker 1: They will say you are too innocent to be part
[39:29] Speaker 1: of them. They want bad people. It's like a credit.
[39:34] Speaker 1: If you say you are a well behaved person. They
[39:35] Speaker 1: say no. You are too naive and you are too
[39:37] Speaker 1: stupid to work with us. We need people who are
[39:40] Speaker 1: prone to destruction. Prone to anger. Prone to rebellion. Are
[39:44] Speaker 1: we together? Someone who can beat anyone once you are angry.
[39:48] Speaker 1: And then they call it all kinds of names. And
[39:50] Speaker 1: some of us who were once well behaved. Are now
[39:53] Speaker 1: becoming something that we were not designed by God. Because
[39:57] Speaker 1: of the pressure to belong.
[40:01] Speaker 3: Dress him.
[40:03] Speaker 4: Speaking.
[40:05] Speaker 3: Social media.
[40:07] Speaker 1: There are people who were dressing well until they met
[40:09] Speaker 1: certain groups of people. And they told them if you
[40:11] Speaker 1: keep dressing like this you will not marry. Now that
[40:13] Speaker 1: you have changed, what has happened? Say deception. The basic
[40:22] Speaker 1: definition of witchcraft is to cause someone to err using
[40:25] Speaker 1: the tool of deception. Hallelujah. How about young men? with
[40:31] Speaker 1: the value of respect and dignity and honor. But then
[40:35] Speaker 1: here comes a group of very confused but arrogant people
[40:39] Speaker 1: who now begin to put pressure.
[40:41] Speaker 3: On your identity.
[40:42] Speaker 1: And they say, Mr. Man, at the rate at which
[40:45] Speaker 1: you are going, you will never get established. There is
[40:47] Speaker 1: a way we do things. And after two years of
[40:51] Speaker 1: foolish work, you find yourself in the prison. Perhaps for
[40:54] Speaker 1: the next 10 years. Perhaps for the next 15 years.
[40:57] Speaker 1: And the thing is that when you get into trouble,
[41:00] Speaker 1: all the people who motivated you into that trouble will
[41:02] Speaker 1: not come and own up and say.
[41:04] Speaker 3: We are here for you.
[41:09] Speaker 1: Who am I? It's a question that I had to
[41:12] Speaker 1: answer in my life. If you know who you are,
[41:15] Speaker 1: you will reject the pressure from men to become anything
[41:18] Speaker 1: God did not say about you. Hallelujah. For instance, I
[41:22] Speaker 1: learned from this revelation that having a car and having
[41:26] Speaker 1: a house is not what defines me.
[41:28] Speaker 3: I'm not saying those things are wrong.
[41:30] Speaker 1: But if I suddenly feel good about my life just
[41:33] Speaker 1: when I have a car and a house, it's a risk.
[41:36] Speaker 1: What then happens when the car spoils? Your value for
[41:40] Speaker 1: yourself also drops. So if I stand in the midst
[41:44] Speaker 1: of someone who has a better dressing than me, I
[41:47] Speaker 1: begin to feel like a failure. By what parameter? Who
[41:51] Speaker 1: brought these parameters? It's time for you to begin to
[41:54] Speaker 1: probe the things that represent the epicenter of your self-worth.
[41:59] Speaker 3: Now I'm not saying to not be challenged.
[42:02] Speaker 1: Because there are some of us who really need to
[42:03] Speaker 1: be challenged. If people don't challenge you, you will never
[42:06] Speaker 1: leave that psychological cocoon that you are in. So being
[42:10] Speaker 1: challenged is a good thing for many people.
[42:14] Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
[42:15] Speaker 1: Yes. There are people today, for instance, who are not
[42:20] Speaker 1: earning up to, say, 100,000 a month. But every great hotel,
[42:27] Speaker 1: maybe in this city, or restaurant, you will find them there.
[42:31] Speaker 1: You are here again, say yes. Who is paying for this? No,
[42:35] Speaker 1: by myself. 20,000 out of a salary of 100,000. You
[42:40] Speaker 1: didn't tithe, you didn't give, you didn't save, you didn't
[42:43] Speaker 1: do anything. And then, while the food is there, you
[42:47] Speaker 1: now take this thing you put there. And then you
[42:50] Speaker 1: send it and say, look, maybe God is good or
[42:53] Speaker 1: to God be the glory. And then the people you
[42:57] Speaker 1: hope to see, as always, you know I'm not being sarcastic,
[43:00] Speaker 1: I'm probing you. What you see today that you call koinonia,
[43:06] Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, is not just a journey of faith alone.
[43:10] Speaker 1: It's a journey of patience. Life challenges our identity in
[43:15] Speaker 1: various ways. But thanks be to God for the resilience
[43:19] Speaker 1: to remain. When you find out what God has said
[43:23] Speaker 1: about you, it doesn't matter who misunderstands. Many of us
[43:27] Speaker 1: today want great things. You want to lead ministries. You
[43:32] Speaker 1: want to lead businesses. And someone says stupid and you
[43:35] Speaker 1: are crying. Is this how I am? You mean this
[43:39] Speaker 1: sister just looks at me and says, but the question is,
[43:42] Speaker 1: are you stupid? Has the word of God ever told
[43:45] Speaker 1: you you are stupid? Those who mentor and lead you,
[43:47] Speaker 1: have they ever told you you are stupid? So someone
[43:50] Speaker 1: who has no investment whatsoever in your life wants to
[43:53] Speaker 1: come and claim a stake in your mind. And you
[43:56] Speaker 1: give them permission, you give them entrance into your mind.
[44:00] Speaker 1: Before I listen to you, I must see the contribution
[44:02] Speaker 1: you have made to my destiny. You don't come as
[44:06] Speaker 1: a stranger and want the seat of somebody who has
[44:10] Speaker 1: made meaningful investments.
[44:12] Speaker 3: Is someone learning now?
[44:15] Speaker 1: So you must know how to edit opinions and throw
[44:17] Speaker 1: rubbish to the bin and keep moving. Someone looks at
[44:21] Speaker 1: you and says, you look like you are not a
[44:22] Speaker 1: powerful Christian. I suspect that this lady, you will most
[44:28] Speaker 1: likely not be a great lady. Congratulations for your ignorance.
[44:32] Speaker 1: Watch as you learn and ask God for forgiveness for
[44:34] Speaker 1: the remaining part of your life. Because as for me,
[44:36] Speaker 1: I'm evolving. Because like our people sang, the word of
[44:40] Speaker 1: God is with me. The Holy Spirit is with me.
[44:43] Speaker 1: God has placed models before me and a determination to succeed. No,
[44:47] Speaker 1: there is no power in existence that.
[44:50] Speaker 3: Sustains what it takes to keep you down.
[44:55] Speaker 1: Are we together? I don't have the time to tell
[44:58] Speaker 1: you everything the Bible says you are. But I will
[45:00] Speaker 1: keep reminding you my dear people. Among the many things
[45:03] Speaker 1: the Bible says about you. Is that you are light.
[45:07] Speaker 1: You are salt.
[45:07] Speaker 3: Say I am light. Let the devil hear it. Say
[45:11] Speaker 3: I am salt.
[45:13] Speaker 1: Yes, he says you are wonderfully and fearfully made.
[45:16] Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
[45:17] Speaker 1: He says you are the apple of his eyes. If
[45:19] Speaker 1: God is that vulnerable about you, don't let some guy
[45:23] Speaker 1: who has not made any meaning to your life, he's
[45:25] Speaker 1: still figuring his left from his right, just comes and
[45:28] Speaker 1: uses his ignorance to define you. And you go back
[45:31] Speaker 1: crying and begin to live a life that is outside
[45:34] Speaker 1: the script of your destiny. Our world has gained mastery
[45:43] Speaker 1: in bullying people psychologically. Oh, look at this lady, she's
[45:48] Speaker 1: not fine. Look at this guy, his head is too big.
[45:51] Speaker 1: What kind of human being is this? Many of our
[45:59] Speaker 1: children today are joining occults and joining all kinds of
[46:02] Speaker 1: satanic things thanks to those kinds of negative statements. So
[46:08] Speaker 1: when you tell a lady she's not beautiful, enough. When
[46:11] Speaker 1: you tell a guy he's broke, he doesn't have money, enough.
[46:15] Speaker 1: You put pressure on them to.
[46:17] Speaker 3: Start doing a lot of things. But in the name
[46:20] Speaker 3: of Jesus, I'm.
[46:21] Speaker 1: Telling you now, everything Satan has been whispering to your
[46:25] Speaker 1: ears that did not come from scripture, we decree and declare, may.
[46:29] Speaker 3: Those sounds cease in your life.
[46:35] Speaker 1: Is someone learning? Sinai taught us powerfully. I live a
[46:41] Speaker 1: life of favor. I know I. There's a part of
[46:47] Speaker 1: the song I like. Take a look at me, I'm
[46:50] Speaker 1: a wonder. Listen, you've been singing it. Yes, listen. This
[46:55] Speaker 1: is how you people don't learn. You have been crying
[46:58] Speaker 1: with that song in your head. Now allow me to
[47:00] Speaker 1: teach you what the song means. You hear what that
[47:08] Speaker 1: song says? It says, take a look at me and wonder.
[47:11] Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what you see now. Sounds to me
[47:15] Speaker 1: like scripture. It doesn't matter what you see. Don't let
[47:22] Speaker 1: the 29er trouser deceive you. The person inside is a
[47:26] Speaker 1: company that is rising. Don't be deceived that after the grace,
[47:34] Speaker 1: while others are hopping into their cars, God bless them.
[47:38] Speaker 1: And you are walking after such a powerful message. And
[47:41] Speaker 1: you are asking, so what did I fall down for?
[47:43] Speaker 3: You are joking. You don't know what entered your spirit.
[47:46] Speaker 1: The Bible says, now are we the sons of God.
[47:49] Speaker 1: And it does not yet appear. If you had seen
[47:53] Speaker 1: some of us 15, 20 years ago.
[47:55] Speaker 3: And they told you.
[47:56] Speaker 1: This version of us exists in that version. You would
[47:59] Speaker 1: not believe it. Do you know the other versions that
[48:01] Speaker 1: are still in you? You have seen the weak one.
[48:05] Speaker 1: Thank God you have seen the weak one. Once and
[48:07] Speaker 1: for all. So that every other thing you see is
[48:10] Speaker 1: the strong one evolving. Yes sir.
[48:16] Speaker 3: Do you believe what you are hearing?
[48:19] Speaker 1: Man of God. I know you have not started ministry.
[48:22] Speaker 1: But it doesn't mean the call is not there. You
[48:25] Speaker 1: think we are always celebrated? No. I taught my dear
[48:28] Speaker 1: people in Zaria. You walk out your own salvation. It
[48:33] Speaker 1: does not start with doing. It starts with believing something
[48:36] Speaker 1: about yourself.
[48:38] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[48:44] Speaker 1: When people hang themselves, what do you think leads them
[48:47] Speaker 1: to go and get a rope? You know how painful
[48:50] Speaker 1: it is to hang yourself and watch yourself die? Yeah,
[48:53] Speaker 1: there are people who prefer that because life has told
[48:56] Speaker 1: them something. I was told this story. I think it's
[48:59] Speaker 1: just maybe some... fiction to illustrate a point that somebody
[49:04] Speaker 1: was angry with life and he was wearing some clothes
[49:07] Speaker 1: that were not really nice and he was on his
[49:09] Speaker 1: way to go and hang himself and there was a
[49:11] Speaker 1: beggar who was watching him when he saw him tying
[49:13] Speaker 1: the rope he said please sir since you are going
[49:16] Speaker 1: to die why don't you remove what you have and
[49:18] Speaker 1: just give me because at least if you die you'll
[49:20] Speaker 1: be naked and the man turned and said so what
[49:24] Speaker 1: i'm wearing that i think is a shame is somebody's
[49:27] Speaker 1: prayer request do you know how many people are secretly
[49:30] Speaker 1: praying to be you they have seen something in you
[49:34] Speaker 1: you have not seen Your focus is just beauty. Whereas
[49:38] Speaker 1: they've seen virtue and they are praying. They've seen character
[49:42] Speaker 1: and they are praying.
[49:43] Speaker 3: Is someone learning?
[49:46] Speaker 1: You are just looking at for want of what, six
[49:49] Speaker 1: pack or whatever number you are looking for. Whereas someone
[49:56] Speaker 1: is seeing a loyal, a trusted person.
[50:00] Speaker 3: If you are hearing, say amen.
[50:01] Speaker 1: Amen.
[50:06] Speaker 3: God used Dr.
[50:07] Speaker 1: Munro to train some of us to understand that the
[50:11] Speaker 1: world will only celebrate what you celebrate. If you hate
[50:15] Speaker 1: yourself and you do not celebrate yourself, it is fraud
[50:18] Speaker 1: to ask people to celebrate someone you hate yourself. Somebody
[50:26] Speaker 1: after this service, you need to go back and say, Lord,
[50:28] Speaker 1: you've done me well. Thank God for the gift of me.
[50:31] Speaker 1: Are we together? That there's somebody today with all due respect,
[50:38] Speaker 1: with no arms and no feet, and yet he's still
[50:41] Speaker 1: confident about his life. Have you seen people like that?
[50:45] Speaker 1: God left them, I believe, to be inspiration to us.
[50:48] Speaker 1: You have your hand, you have your feet, you have
[50:51] Speaker 1: everything complete, and you are still saying you are not
[50:53] Speaker 1: good enough. Who am I?
[51:01] Speaker 3: You need to answer that question now.
[51:04] Speaker 1: And you do not identify yourself with things. If you say,
[51:08] Speaker 1: I am a millionaire, that is not bad, but that
[51:11] Speaker 1: is not an intelligent answer. A millionaire means one who
[51:14] Speaker 1: has millions.
[51:15] Speaker 4: No.
[51:16] Speaker 1: There is a more superior understanding that produces such a person.
[51:21] Speaker 1: What happens to you if all the millions leave? What
[51:24] Speaker 1: happens to you if all the fame and everything leaves?
[51:28] Speaker 1: Most people have defined themselves with the things around them.
[51:31] Speaker 3: So you live a life.
[51:32] Speaker 1: That looks like a failure and a miserable person. Suddenly
[51:35] Speaker 1: you get a job with some oil and gas firm
[51:37] Speaker 1: and you square up immediately.
[51:39] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[51:45] Speaker 1: Sitting in front here does not change me. Truly, I
[51:49] Speaker 1: tell you, believe me when I tell you this. If
[51:51] Speaker 1: I sit at the back, I'm still Joshua Selman. Full
[51:55] Speaker 1: of everything God gave me. And if you doubt it,
[51:57] Speaker 1: you will give me time to prove it. Are we
[51:59] Speaker 1: together now? Many people because of identity crisis today have gathered.
[52:04] Speaker 3: All kinds of enemies.
[52:05] Speaker 1: I came to the occasion and they called me Joshua Selman.
[52:08] Speaker 1: Not Apostle Joshua Selman. Okay, they made a mistake.
[52:12] Speaker 3: Sorry, it's alright. No, I won't forgive them.
[52:18] Speaker 1: I went for a wedding and they started serving the
[52:20] Speaker 1: other people before me. Okay, sorry.
[52:22] Speaker 3: It was a mistake.
[52:24] Speaker 1: No, that means you are saying they are higher than me.
[52:26] Speaker 1: Who told you? Are we together?
[52:31] Speaker 3: You were introducing people and you.
[52:32] Speaker 1: Introduced brother A before brother B.
[52:35] Speaker 3: So you are trying to say brother A is more important.
[52:37] Speaker 1: Are you seeing how failure keeps suggesting things that is
[52:41] Speaker 1: not even in the minds of people? I have taught
[52:44] Speaker 1: you this. Someone can be looking at you like this.
[52:47] Speaker 1: And you say, this look looks like hatred. And the
[52:49] Speaker 1: person is thinking about his rent. Not you. The person
[52:54] Speaker 1: is just looking at you. But honestly, under God, what
[52:57] Speaker 1: he's thinking about is how to beg his landlord. My
[53:08] Speaker 1: dear people, hear me. This is not a call to
[53:11] Speaker 1: being pompous, being loud without reason, but it's a call
[53:16] Speaker 1: to a settled sense of confidence. No matter what you
[53:20] Speaker 1: say about me, provided you are not God and you
[53:23] Speaker 1: are not anyone in front of me that I respect,
[53:25] Speaker 1: you only wasted your energy and your sound. Do you
[53:29] Speaker 1: have that kind of courage? Because there are many times
[53:32] Speaker 1: as you'll be learning, you will have to walk alone.
[53:34] Speaker 5: Are we together now?
[53:41] Speaker 1: I believe everything God says he has made me. My
[53:45] Speaker 1: sufficiency is not of myself, but of Christ, who has
[53:48] Speaker 1: made me an able minister. Many years ago, I used
[53:52] Speaker 1: to share this humorously. Those days when we started and
[53:56] Speaker 1: I started traveling, I didn't used to wear all these
[53:58] Speaker 1: kinds of things. I would just wear a polo and
[54:00] Speaker 1: a jean and my palm just flying. And you see
[54:04] Speaker 1: the people waiting at the airport for the great man
[54:06] Speaker 1: of God, whose message they have listened to, largely audio.
[54:09] Speaker 1: So most of them have not seen me. Usually a
[54:11] Speaker 1: few people will recommend to the church, you need to
[54:13] Speaker 1: bring this man of God. Then I come down from
[54:16] Speaker 1: the plane and they're looking at me. They're wondering, is
[54:18] Speaker 1: it my protocol?
[54:20] Speaker 4: Is it this?
[54:20] Speaker 1: And when they see me, you can see the shock
[54:23] Speaker 1: and the disappointment. I mean, this is what we've been
[54:25] Speaker 1: waiting for? And then I greet them sometimes and they're like, okay,
[54:32] Speaker 1: that's the car. Please enter and let's go. Ah, it's
[54:37] Speaker 1: not my fault. God put the grace in me.
[54:45] Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
[54:49] Speaker 1: And then usually after the meeting, they are now saying, sir,
[54:52] Speaker 1: when again are you going to be, when will you
[54:55] Speaker 1: be free? It's such a privilege. And I'm saying, look
[54:58] Speaker 1: at the same people. Let me tell you the truth.
[55:01] Speaker 1: When you know who you are, you don't need to
[55:03] Speaker 1: waste time telling people who you are. If you find
[55:08] Speaker 1: yourself always trying to say who you are, it is
[55:11] Speaker 1: a mechanism to manage your not knowing who you are.
[55:15] Speaker 1: Does a lion tell you it's a lion? Lions roar
[55:19] Speaker 1: and it stops there. An eagle does not need to
[55:22] Speaker 1: tell you I'm an eagle. Keep watching the sky. Sooner
[55:24] Speaker 1: or later, you will see that there is only one
[55:27] Speaker 1: bird that is soaring with such level of mastery. That
[55:30] Speaker 1: bird is not.
[55:31] Speaker 3: Called a pigeon. It's called an eagle.
[55:34] Speaker 1: Are we together? The pressure to try to prove a
[55:37] Speaker 1: point is something that must die permanently. If anybody thinks
[55:42] Speaker 1: you are a failure, forgive their ignorance while they learn.
[55:46] Speaker 1: And if they insist that you are a failure, leave
[55:48] Speaker 1: them with God.
[55:49] Speaker 3: The one who called you to make you successful.
[55:51] Speaker 1: If a gentleman looks at you and says you are
[55:53] Speaker 1: not fine enough, thank God because you would have married
[55:55] Speaker 1: the wrong person. Let him carry his trouble and go.
[55:58] Speaker 1: Are we together now? Did you hear what I'm saying?
[56:02] Speaker 1: And if some lady tells you that she wants somebody
[56:04] Speaker 1: with all the money in the world, bless God for her.
[56:08] Speaker 1: And thank God for the one who will see you
[56:10] Speaker 1: while you are rising. So that you will not have
[56:12] Speaker 1: any fear when you rise. Identity crisis. My dear people,
[56:19] Speaker 1: hear me. There is more within you than you will
[56:22] Speaker 1: ever imagine. There is more within you. Yes, you can
[56:27] Speaker 1: be a work in progress. Don't let your limitations define you.
[56:32] Speaker 1: Did you hear what I said? Yes.
[56:36] Speaker 3: It does not.
[56:36] Speaker 1: Mean to embrace everything including what is destroying your life.
[56:41] Speaker 1: That's not what I'm advocating. Some of you have very
[56:43] Speaker 1: bad manners with all due respect. Some of you are
[56:45] Speaker 1: not people of character. Some of you are not visionary people.
[56:49] Speaker 1: I'm not saying embrace that part of you. But have
[56:51] Speaker 1: it that there is potential within your spirit.
[56:55] Speaker 3: The Bible says we.
[56:56] Speaker 1: Are born of the incorruptible seed of the word of God. Hallelujah.
[57:03] Speaker 1: I heard God's servant Bishop David Oedipus say that there's
[57:06] Speaker 1: nowhere he will go in the world. That the Lord
[57:08] Speaker 1: gave him something he calls a far above mentality. That
[57:12] Speaker 1: there is nowhere he will go in the world that
[57:14] Speaker 1: he will allow himself to be intimidated.
[57:17] Speaker 3: And he's proved it with his life.
[57:20] Speaker 1: There is a false sense of confidence where you abuse
[57:24] Speaker 1: and insult people. They say, lift your hand. You say, no,
[57:26] Speaker 1: I'm fearfully and wonderfully. No, you are rude and ill-trained.
[57:29] Speaker 1: That is not how fearfully and wonderfully made people behave.
[57:33] Speaker 1: This is not my advocacy. Are you getting me now? Yes.
[57:36] Speaker 1: Or you sound very sarcastic. You laugh at people. You
[57:39] Speaker 1: fight people and say, I'm like that. No, that's an attack.
[57:43] Speaker 1: Come next week so that your problem is solved once
[57:46] Speaker 1: and for all. But I am teaching someone here who
[57:51] Speaker 1: before the alert comes to your account, you are still confident.
[57:55] Speaker 1: You are in one room and you don't hide where
[57:56] Speaker 1: you are staying. You don't follow through a three bedroom
[57:59] Speaker 1: and turn around and go to your one bedroom. Because
[58:02] Speaker 1: you are trying to show what is there to be
[58:04] Speaker 1: afraid of. Are we together? You are not the first
[58:13] Speaker 1: to stay in one room. You are not the first
[58:15] Speaker 1: to have one cooking pot. Stay there with honor and
[58:18] Speaker 1: snap it while you are there. Because it will become
[58:21] Speaker 1: a monument tomorrow. That one room is not your house.
[58:27] Speaker 1: That one room is a retreat center.
[58:29] Speaker 3: Pray there. Know God there. Fast there. Build there.
[58:33] Speaker 1: Read books there. And emerge. When you become bigger than
[58:37] Speaker 1: that room, that room will run away from you.
[58:41] Speaker 4: It's true.
[58:45] Speaker 1: There is a level you get to in the spirit
[58:47] Speaker 1: where it becomes unfair to remain there. That room will
[58:51] Speaker 1: run away. Even if you don't leave it, it will
[58:53] Speaker 1: leave you. Who am I? I'm showing you the kind
[59:01] Speaker 1: of training that constructed our understanding. So that today by
[59:06] Speaker 1: the privilege of God's grace, things and people and achievements
[59:13] Speaker 1: is not what defines some of us by the grace
[59:15] Speaker 1: of God. Thank God for the crowns, the accolades and everything.
[59:23] Speaker 1: But my identity as the son of God supersedes my
[59:29] Speaker 1: identity as any other thing. I know that I'm the
[59:32] Speaker 1: son of God. I'm a child of God. Loved by him.
[59:36] Speaker 1: Jealously loved by him. Koinonia or otherwise. If you have
[59:41] Speaker 1: this mentality, believe me, there are many things you will
[59:44] Speaker 1: not cry about again. There are many things you will
[59:47] Speaker 1: not have to discuss about again. You will save yourself
[59:49] Speaker 1: wasteful times in prayer and invest in constructive prayer. Lord,
[59:55] Speaker 1: look at what people are saying about me.
[59:58] Speaker 2: No.
[1:00:01] Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Some gentleman who just came here now, you may
[1:00:07] Speaker 1: not look like it, but my goodness, God is doing
[1:00:09] Speaker 1: something in you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So we live fake lives.
[1:00:16] Speaker 1: Trying to buy a designer watch. I'm not saying anything
[1:00:19] Speaker 1: is wrong with that. Designer this, designer that. And claiming
[1:00:24] Speaker 1: all kinds of things. Running into debt. Getting into trouble.
[1:00:28] Speaker 1: Aligning with wrong people who bring wrong values to destroy us.
[1:00:33] Speaker 1: And many of us cannot be alone. One of the
[1:00:37] Speaker 1: ways that you have truly gained security is the power
[1:00:40] Speaker 1: to be alone. And yet, no, you are not alone.
[1:00:42] Speaker 2: Amen.
[1:00:46] Speaker 1: Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
[1:00:49] Speaker 1: I fear no evil. What's the revelation? For thou art
[1:00:53] Speaker 1: with me. Who am I? This is what we teach
[1:00:59] Speaker 1: and train the students in the school of ministry.
[1:01:01] Speaker 3: Among the many things. Listen, my life changed.
[1:01:05] Speaker 1: I don't know how insecure, maybe how, I don't know
[1:01:08] Speaker 1: what kind of life I would have been living today.
[1:01:10] Speaker 1: And with all due respect, I have watched people and
[1:01:13] Speaker 1: I continue to watch with shock and sympathy. Genuine sympathy.
[1:01:18] Speaker 1: I have seen the danger of identity crisis. When it
[1:01:21] Speaker 1: comes upon a leader, when it comes upon an individual,
[1:01:25] Speaker 1: it will make you do things you hate but you
[1:01:27] Speaker 1: will still keep doing it. Because you are trying to
[1:01:30] Speaker 1: gain the uploads of men.
[1:01:31] Speaker 6: 1 John chapter 3 and verse 1.
[1:01:44] Speaker 1: We need to hurry up. I sense that God is
[1:01:48] Speaker 1: speaking to someone. I sense that God brought someone to
[1:01:52] Speaker 1: church tonight to tell the person, the way you are going,
[1:01:55] Speaker 1: you will not make it that way.
[1:01:56] Speaker 3: The pressure to prove a point.
[1:01:58] Speaker 1: You borrow cars, you borrow clothes, you borrow everything. Are
[1:02:03] Speaker 1: we together? You want that obsession for visibility.
[1:02:08] Speaker 7: No.
[1:02:09] Speaker 1: God gives visibility, but not by manipulation. When you merit
[1:02:14] Speaker 1: it by growth, it comes naturally. I taught you here
[1:02:17] Speaker 1: in Koinonia two years or so ago that success is
[1:02:20] Speaker 1: not what you pursue. Success is what you attract by
[1:02:24] Speaker 1: who you become. If you steal tomorrow's bread today. You
[1:02:30] Speaker 1: will be hungry tomorrow.
[1:02:32] Speaker 3: You are stealing from tomorrow's kitchen.
[1:02:34] Speaker 1: To eat it today.
[1:02:41] Speaker 3: If all I have is Jesus. I've got something more
[1:02:45] Speaker 3: than gold.
[1:02:47] Speaker 1: I will tell it to my world. Jesus is more
[1:02:51] Speaker 1: than gold. If all I have is Jesus. I've got
[1:02:57] Speaker 1: something more than gold.
[1:03:00] Speaker 3: I will tell it to my world.
[1:03:03] Speaker 1: Sing it one more time. That if all I have
[1:03:08] Speaker 1: is Jesus, I've got something more than gold. I will tell.
[1:03:14] Speaker 3: It to the world.
[1:03:15] Speaker 4: Jesus is more than gold.
[1:03:19] Speaker 1: Let me tell you why I'm teaching you this. The
[1:03:22] Speaker 1: journey from where most people are until they become is
[1:03:26] Speaker 1: quite long. It will take time. And for the most
[1:03:31] Speaker 1: part of that journey, you'll be walking alone. You will
[1:03:33] Speaker 1: walk alone in the midst of noises that you will
[1:03:37] Speaker 1: be hearing. You will not make it. You can't go far.
[1:03:40] Speaker 1: I taught them in Zaria again. If you had looked
[1:03:43] Speaker 1: at Joseph, the one in the pit, not the one
[1:03:46] Speaker 1: in the palace, you would look at him and there
[1:03:47] Speaker 1: would be nothing that.
[1:03:48] Speaker 3: Looked like prophecy upon him.
[1:03:50] Speaker 1: But he had the self-security to continue. Such that even
[1:03:55] Speaker 1: when he was in the prison, he knew he was
[1:03:57] Speaker 1: not a prisoner. He was just in a prison. It's
[1:04:00] Speaker 1: one thing to be in a prison, but it's another
[1:04:02] Speaker 1: thing to identify yourself as a prisoner. If you call
[1:04:06] Speaker 1: yourself a prisoner, even if you are in a palace,
[1:04:09] Speaker 1: you are still a prisoner.
[1:04:10] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[1:04:13] Speaker 1: I can be in a condition that does not exactly...
[1:04:18] Speaker 1: Reflect prosperity. But in my mind that can be reached
[1:04:22] Speaker 1: unto God. And reached unto a sound mind. I will
[1:04:26] Speaker 1: not fake my life. But right where I am. I
[1:04:29] Speaker 1: know in my mind. That the nations. This is the
[1:04:33] Speaker 1: orientation that we had. You may be in the prison.
[1:04:38] Speaker 1: But never call yourself a prisoner. If you call yourself
[1:04:43] Speaker 1: a prisoner. Even if the door is open. You are
[1:04:45] Speaker 1: still in prison. Who am I? Question two. The second
[1:04:52] Speaker 1: question that we had to answer by the spirit of grace.
[1:04:58] Speaker 1: Did I give you references for this? Write for who
[1:05:01] Speaker 1: am I? First John 3 and verse 1. Then Matthew 5,
[1:05:05] Speaker 1: 13 to 16. First John 3 and verse 1. Then
[1:05:09] Speaker 1: Matthew chapter 5, 13 to 16. Very quickly, let me
[1:05:12] Speaker 1: give you the second question. Where am I from? This
[1:05:16] Speaker 1: is powerful. This question attempts to help you understand your
[1:05:22] Speaker 1: source and your connection. For many years I did not
[1:05:26] Speaker 1: understand the value of answering this question. Where am I from?
[1:05:31] Speaker 3: Because the Bible says.
[1:05:35] Speaker 1: In John chapter 3 and verse 31. John 3 31.
[1:05:40] Speaker 1: He that cometh from above. He that cometh from above.
[1:05:49] Speaker 1: He that comes from the West is most likely a Westerner.
[1:05:55] Speaker 1: He that comes from the East is most likely an Easterner.
[1:05:59] Speaker 1: He that comes from the North is a Northerner, a
[1:06:01] Speaker 1: Middle Belter, and so on and so forth. He that
[1:06:04] Speaker 1: comes from America is most likely an American, and so
[1:06:07] Speaker 1: on and so forth. And wherever you come from, you
[1:06:11] Speaker 1: will also be a victim of the limitations that are
[1:06:14] Speaker 1: domiciled there.
[1:06:15] Speaker 3: Did you get this?
[1:06:17] Speaker 1: So when the Bible says, heed that comment from above,
[1:06:20] Speaker 1: the revelation there is that even though I have a
[1:06:23] Speaker 1: natural descent, I come from a place. Plagued with advantages
[1:06:29] Speaker 1: and disadvantages like we all have. But that you sustain
[1:06:32] Speaker 1: an orientation. That even though I am from Lagos, Port Harcourt,
[1:06:37] Speaker 1: I am from America, I am from UK, I am
[1:06:40] Speaker 1: from Bauchi, wherever I am from. My real origins. Is
[1:06:45] Speaker 1: not the place that I filled in a form. My
[1:06:48] Speaker 1: real origin. Is that I come from above. And the
[1:06:51] Speaker 1: Bible says by reason of that source. There is something
[1:06:56] Speaker 1: within you. That is consistent with where you come from.
[1:06:59] Speaker 3: And eventually it will emerge.
[1:07:04] Speaker 1: Are we together?
[1:07:05] Speaker 3: John chapter 1. 6 and 7.
[1:07:08] Speaker 1: The Bible says there was a man. Sent from God.
[1:07:13] Speaker 3: Whose name was John.
[1:07:15] Speaker 1: I've taught you here whose name was Joshua Selman.
[1:07:18] Speaker 3: Verse 7. The same came for.
[1:07:21] Speaker 1: A witness to bear witness to the light that all
[1:07:25] Speaker 1: men through.
[1:07:25] Speaker 3: His witness might believe. Say, I come from above.
[1:07:29] Speaker 1: Listen, look at me.
[1:07:30] Speaker 3: When you say, I come from above.
[1:07:32] Speaker 1: I'd like you to see yourself rising above causes. Rising
[1:07:36] Speaker 1: above that thing that says women return back to their
[1:07:38] Speaker 1: husband's homes. Men return back to their.
[1:07:41] Speaker 3: Where did.
[1:07:41] Speaker 1: They return back to now? Their parents' homes. Are we together?
[1:07:50] Speaker 1: People rise and fall. Minus me. Oh, minus me. In
[1:07:54] Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. Anybody waiting for a worse tomorrow
[1:07:57] Speaker 1: is waiting forever.
[1:08:00] Speaker 3: There is an immunity.
[1:08:01] Speaker 1: There is a jealousy.
[1:08:03] Speaker 3: That holds and defends us.
[1:08:06] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[1:08:07] Speaker 3: Are we together?
[1:08:09] Speaker 1: He that cometh from above. Listen, I learned this mentality
[1:08:14] Speaker 1: not just from Dr. Miles Monroe but also from Smith Wigglesworth.
[1:08:17] Speaker 1: I read one of his books and it opened the
[1:08:21] Speaker 1: fountains of my faith.
[1:08:23] Speaker 3: He that cometh from above.
[1:08:25] Speaker 1: You cannot solve any problem thinking at the level of
[1:08:28] Speaker 1: that problem. You must believe you are higher than it
[1:08:31] Speaker 1: before you are able to solve it. He that cometh
[1:08:35] Speaker 1: from above is above all. He that cometh from above.
[1:08:39] Speaker 1: I'm a proud Nigerian. Very proud of my nation.
[1:08:42] Speaker 3: I tell you.
[1:08:43] Speaker 1: Unashamedly proud of my nation. But I can tell you
[1:08:47] Speaker 1: one thing. I come from above. The color of my
[1:08:52] Speaker 1: skin looks Nigerian. But watch the results. You will know
[1:08:56] Speaker 1: that it comes from a realm that is not even earthly.
[1:09:00] Speaker 1: Are we together? God is helping you solve something here.
[1:09:04] Speaker 1: So when people look at you and say you come
[1:09:07] Speaker 1: from this region. You people are angry people. You come
[1:09:11] Speaker 1: from this region. You are jealous people. You come from
[1:09:14] Speaker 1: this region. You don't live long. They may be right
[1:09:16] Speaker 1: by your natural descent. But remind yourself that I have
[1:09:20] Speaker 1: been called out of every tribe. Out of every tongue.
[1:09:23] Speaker 1: Out of every nation. Are we together now? Say I
[1:09:28] Speaker 1: come from above. Say it convincingly. I come from above.
[1:09:36] Speaker 1: Nathaniel looked at Jesus and said. Can anything good come
[1:09:39] Speaker 1: out of Nazareth? Jesus was not offended. Because from an
[1:09:43] Speaker 1: earth standpoint. Nathaniel was right. I've taught you here. Remember
[1:09:47] Speaker 1: Samson was a Nazarene. They didn't have longevity of impact.
[1:09:52] Speaker 1: Something would happen to them and bring them down. But
[1:09:55] Speaker 1: Jesus said minus me. In the name of Jesus Christ.
[1:10:00] Speaker 1: I come from above. That is why the power I
[1:10:03] Speaker 1: carry is from above. That is why when I speak
[1:10:06] Speaker 1: to you, the result comes from above. Because I come
[1:10:09] Speaker 1: from above. The Bible says, set your mind, your affection
[1:10:13] Speaker 1: on the things that are above. Listen, this revelation has
[1:10:16] Speaker 1: helped me in ministry. I have never, with all due
[1:10:19] Speaker 1: respect to my nation, I have never done ministry like
[1:10:22] Speaker 1: a Nigerian. I have never acted just with the mindset
[1:10:25] Speaker 1: of a limited mindset. When I hear people abuse Africa
[1:10:30] Speaker 1: and sell kinds of things, I respect them, but I
[1:10:32] Speaker 1: know that we are a superior breed. Here's what the
[1:10:35] Speaker 1: Bible says, you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,
[1:10:39] Speaker 1: a peculiar people. Say it again, I am from above.
[1:10:45] Speaker 1: You may not see that in my speaking. You may
[1:10:48] Speaker 1: not see that in the color of my skin perhaps.
[1:10:51] Speaker 1: You may not see that in my body, my size
[1:10:54] Speaker 1: and all of that. But there is a divine ability.
[1:10:57] Speaker 1: We are born of the spirit. Does a man lay
[1:11:05] Speaker 1: hand on a man and heal the person by his strength?
[1:11:07] Speaker 2: No.
[1:11:08] Speaker 1: No. It takes a man plus something divine. Nicodemus comes
[1:11:12] Speaker 1: to Jesus by night and says, Rabbi, we know that
[1:11:15] Speaker 1: thou art a teacher sent from God.
[1:11:18] Speaker 3: For no man can.
[1:11:19] Speaker 1: Do these miracles which thou doest except God be with him.
[1:11:24] Speaker 1: Except God be with him. Except God be with him.
[1:11:29] Speaker 1: We look like ordinary men. But we can speak to nations.
[1:11:33] Speaker 1: And speak to the gates of nations to be opened.
[1:11:35] Speaker 1: And if you ask why. It is not just the
[1:11:38] Speaker 1: size of my hand. The size of my mouth. What
[1:11:41] Speaker 1: I'm saying. It is because we come from above. If
[1:11:44] Speaker 1: you know that you come from above. You will know
[1:11:45] Speaker 1: that that business will not fail. You will know that
[1:11:48] Speaker 1: that destiny will not fail. That even though my beginning
[1:11:50] Speaker 1: is small. There is something from above that does not
[1:11:54] Speaker 1: allow me to be a failure. So when you fail
[1:11:57] Speaker 1: as an event. You dose yourself and square up.
[1:12:01] Speaker 3: And know that a champion is still emerging.
[1:12:05] Speaker 1: Hallelujah. This is a mindset we had. Right from the
[1:12:09] Speaker 1: days of infancy when we were organizing small crusades. With
[1:12:14] Speaker 1: small people, limited resources. Full of all kinds of troubles
[1:12:18] Speaker 1: that were evolving. Beyond our knowledge. From above. I knew
[1:12:23] Speaker 1: that one day I would give to nations. I knew
[1:12:25] Speaker 1: that one day I would lend to nations. I saw
[1:12:28] Speaker 1: it from scripture. I have no apology for being a blessing.
[1:12:33] Speaker 1: None whatsoever. In the name of Jesus Christ. Say, I
[1:12:41] Speaker 1: come from above. There is no power anywhere, whether from
[1:12:46] Speaker 1: whatever village, whatever, whatever. Thankfully, thank God for My traditional
[1:12:52] Speaker 1: rulers who came here and thank God for the efforts
[1:12:54] Speaker 1: that they are making dedicating my place to the Lord.
[1:12:57] Speaker 1: Make up your mind. If they say you come from
[1:12:59] Speaker 1: a place where your great grandfather was a priest and
[1:13:02] Speaker 1: the thing is now looking for you, you better say
[1:13:05] Speaker 1: I'm not available. I am not available. I am already
[1:13:09] Speaker 1: a priest unto God. Oh, it's looking for you and
[1:13:14] Speaker 1: if you don't come, it will kill you. Everything tying
[1:13:23] Speaker 1: you down. Connected to where you are coming from. Everything
[1:13:27] Speaker 1: tying your destiny down. You've seen it hold those who
[1:13:31] Speaker 1: went ahead of you.
[1:13:32] Speaker 3: You've seen it hold your father. Your mother.
[1:13:35] Speaker 1: Maybe untimely death. Maybe failure. Maybe rising and falling. In
[1:13:39] Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. With this above mentality. I curse
[1:13:43] Speaker 1: that spirit now. I curse that spirit now. I curse
[1:13:50] Speaker 1: that spirit now. I curse that spirit now. I curse
[1:13:55] Speaker 1: that spirit now. Everywhere God wants to take me, I
[1:14:04] Speaker 1: believe I can go. Everything he wants me to do,
[1:14:07] Speaker 1: I believe I can do. I respect everyone on earth.
[1:14:12] Speaker 1: But in the name of Jesus Christ, it will not
[1:14:15] Speaker 1: be at the expense of my self-confidence. That is not
[1:14:19] Speaker 1: a wise baguette. The noblest honor any man can be
[1:14:25] Speaker 1: given on earth is to be the son of God.
[1:14:30] Speaker 1: The only other position, in my opinion, that is greater
[1:14:33] Speaker 1: than that, or that is after that, is the position
[1:14:36] Speaker 1: of a monarch. Because if you're a monarch, you stay
[1:14:39] Speaker 1: there till you die. Presidents and prime ministers come and
[1:14:45] Speaker 1: go and they have eight years perhaps. Some have stretched
[1:14:48] Speaker 1: it to decades, but it's still ended. But this status,
[1:14:51] Speaker 1: there is no taking it from me.
[1:14:52] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[1:14:58] Speaker 1: Can't be a slave to fear. I come from above.
[1:15:01] Speaker 1: I'm living in Abuja. The geography of my witness is Abuja.
[1:15:06] Speaker 1: But in the name of Jesus, any spirit, you may
[1:15:09] Speaker 1: have heard me tell you this years ago. True story
[1:15:12] Speaker 1: and I want you to listen to me. Just to
[1:15:14] Speaker 1: buttress on this point. Then I was not in Abuja.
[1:15:18] Speaker 1: I remember coming and I boarded a cab and whilst
[1:15:22] Speaker 1: we were traveling, the man said something that blessed me.
[1:15:25] Speaker 1: He said, you know, he was speaking in Pidgin. And
[1:15:29] Speaker 1: here's what he told me. He said that I think
[1:15:31] Speaker 1: he went somewhere to consult with some medium. And they
[1:15:34] Speaker 1: told him that there was a spirit in this city.
[1:15:37] Speaker 1: That if you hold money in this city, it must
[1:15:39] Speaker 1: finish in this city. So he was advised that every
[1:15:42] Speaker 1: time he gets money, he will run out of the
[1:15:44] Speaker 1: city and go and start a project. He was about
[1:15:47] Speaker 1: to finish it. I was listening to him while he
[1:15:49] Speaker 1: was speaking. I think they consulted with some medium. And
[1:15:52] Speaker 1: the man was giving him his word of knowledge. And
[1:15:56] Speaker 1: you find out truly from an earth standpoint. It's true.
[1:15:59] Speaker 1: Many people earn so much. And after decades they do
[1:16:03] Speaker 1: not have even a piece of land. Something just drains
[1:16:06] Speaker 1: them completely. It's because you think that your supply comes
[1:16:10] Speaker 1: from here. The day you understand. That I come from above.
[1:16:17] Speaker 1: I come from above. I refuse to be limited by
[1:16:21] Speaker 1: what limits men. I come from above. As a man
[1:16:25] Speaker 1: of God, you must believe this. An above mentality is
[1:16:28] Speaker 1: a victorious mentality.
[1:16:30] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[1:16:34] Speaker 1: Now, it does not mean you ignore reality. For instance,
[1:16:38] Speaker 1: a bag of rice is still what it is now. Hello?
[1:16:41] Speaker 1: You are still from above. But a bag of rice
[1:16:44] Speaker 1: is still what it is now. Saying in my mind,
[1:16:48] Speaker 1: a bag of rice is five naira is not what
[1:16:49] Speaker 1: I'm teaching you to know.
[1:16:51] Speaker 3: A bag of rice is not five naira.
[1:16:54] Speaker 1: A superior thinking is that while we are praying for
[1:16:57] Speaker 1: it to go down so everybody can afford. For me,
[1:17:01] Speaker 1: an exemption has been designed in my life by reason
[1:17:04] Speaker 1: of where I come from. So your lamentation becomes a
[1:17:08] Speaker 1: national one, not a personal one. As for me, I
[1:17:13] Speaker 1: have defined my possibilities. Do you believe what you are hearing?
[1:17:19] Speaker 1: Koinonia will only keep rising by the spirit of the
[1:17:22] Speaker 1: Lord because this was not a man's idea. It was
[1:17:25] Speaker 1: a heavenly vision received by men, executed by grace, supervised
[1:17:30] Speaker 1: by his jealousy.
[1:17:32] Speaker 3: It will not fail. The defense is too much.
[1:17:37] Speaker 1: Is someone learning? Where are you from? You need to
[1:17:42] Speaker 1: know where you're from. You are not answering. Where are
[1:17:45] Speaker 1: you from? When you are feeling your form, feel your village.
[1:17:50] Speaker 1: But in your mind, say above. Above through my village.
[1:17:55] Speaker 1: Above through Kaduna State. Above through Plateau State. Above through Lagos.
[1:18:02] Speaker 1: Someone prophesy. Above through whatever your village is. Listen. Listen.
[1:18:09] Speaker 1: Many of you travel transcontinentally. And that's what they call
[1:18:13] Speaker 1: connecting flights. You go to a nation, you have no
[1:18:16] Speaker 1: business visiting the nation. But you just have to be
[1:18:18] Speaker 1: there as a stop point for a few hours to
[1:18:21] Speaker 1: get to your final destination.
[1:18:23] Speaker 3: Am I right on that?
[1:18:24] Speaker 4: Aha.
[1:18:25] Speaker 1: So, if you find me, say, if I'm traveling, say,
[1:18:28] Speaker 1: to America and you find me in UK.
[1:18:30] Speaker 3: You are asking, what are you doing here?
[1:18:32] Speaker 1: I tell you, I'm on transit. My final destination and
[1:18:37] Speaker 1: where I'm coming from are the two most important things.
[1:18:40] Speaker 1: Are we together now? You came from above. And by
[1:18:44] Speaker 1: his wisdom, God passed you through where he passed you.
[1:18:47] Speaker 3: So it doesn't matter. You are still on transit.
[1:18:52] Speaker 1: I come from above. The limitations of my territory will
[1:18:56] Speaker 1: never find expression in me. By faith, I rise above it.
[1:19:00] Speaker 1: If it's untimely death, it stops with me. If it's failure,
[1:19:04] Speaker 1: it stops with me. If it's people rising and then
[1:19:07] Speaker 1: after 10 years they come down minus me. I'm prophesying
[1:19:10] Speaker 1: for myself. Make sure you don't keep quiet. In the
[1:19:13] Speaker 1: name of Jesus. If it's people having a track record
[1:19:16] Speaker 1: of consistently burying their children minus me.
[1:19:19] Speaker 3: Are you still speaking?
[1:19:20] Speaker 1: If it's something where you give back to irresponsible children.
[1:19:24] Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, it dies with you. He
[1:19:27] Speaker 1: that cometh from above is above all. Above all. Above all.
[1:19:34] Speaker 3: Number three.
[1:19:35] Speaker 1: What is the third question that gives you stability to
[1:19:39] Speaker 1: maximize life? To maximize destiny? Are you ready? Why am
[1:19:44] Speaker 1: I here? Is a question of purpose. This is powerful.
[1:19:48] Speaker 1: Why am I here? John chapter 4 and verse 34.
[1:19:53] Speaker 1: Jesus spoke so profoundly. My meat he says. Is to
[1:19:57] Speaker 1: do the will of him that sent me. And to
[1:19:59] Speaker 1: finish it. John chapter 18 and verse 37.
[1:20:03] Speaker 3: John 18 37.
[1:20:04] Speaker 1: I like what Jesus said. Pilate therefore said unto him.
[1:20:09] Speaker 1: Are thou a king then? Jesus answered, thou sayest that
[1:20:15] Speaker 1: I am a king. Watch this.
[1:20:18] Speaker 3: To this end was I born.
[1:20:20] Speaker 1: And for this cause came I into the world that
[1:20:24] Speaker 1: I should bear witness.
[1:20:25] Speaker 3: Unto the truth.
[1:20:27] Speaker 1: Everyone that is of the truth, heareth my voice. Hebrews 10, 7. Lo,
[1:20:33] Speaker 1: I come in the volume 7 of the book as
[1:20:39] Speaker 1: it is written of me to do thy will, O Lord.
[1:20:48] Speaker 1: Why am I here? It is important to know why
[1:20:51] Speaker 1: you are here. I am not here to become a
[1:20:54] Speaker 1: victim of what happens around the economy of nations. I
[1:20:58] Speaker 1: am not here to just keep growing old.
[1:21:01] Speaker 3: And then one day die.
[1:21:02] Speaker 1: No. No. There is a purpose. What's that song?
[1:21:07] Speaker 3: No eye has seen.
[1:21:10] Speaker 1: No ear has heard what God has prepared for me.
[1:21:16] Speaker 1: So I submit to his work in me till Christ
[1:21:21] Speaker 1: be formed in me.
[1:21:24] Speaker 4: You have given me a destiny, a purpose to fulfill.
[1:21:32] Speaker 1: So with all I am, I'll spend my life to
[1:21:40] Speaker 1: see Jesus revealed.
[1:21:45] Speaker 4: And Jesus glorified, Jesus filled.
[1:21:52] Speaker 1: Very powerful song.
[1:21:54] Speaker 2: And Jesus glorified.
[1:21:57] Speaker 1: Listen.
[1:21:59] Speaker 3: You have given me.
[1:22:02] Speaker 1: A destiny, a purpose to fulfill. So with all I am,
[1:22:10] Speaker 1: every breath in me, I'll spend my life to see.
[1:22:17] Speaker 1: I'll spend my time to see. I'll spend my life
[1:22:23] Speaker 1: to see Jesus revealed. And Jesus glorified, Jesus revealed.
[1:22:38] Speaker 3: And Jesus glory.
[1:22:43] Speaker 1: I want you to shout it to the hearing of
[1:22:45] Speaker 1: your destiny and the devil. I was born for a reason.
[1:22:51] Speaker 1: Let failure hear you. Let defeat hear you. Don't think
[1:23:00] Speaker 1: you are being childish saying this. Help those under the anointing.
[1:23:03] Speaker 1: He said let the redeemed of the Lord say so.
[1:23:05] Speaker 1: This is how it happens. Born for a reason. It
[1:23:08] Speaker 1: doesn't matter how you arrived. Even if it was a
[1:23:12] Speaker 1: mistake between a man and a woman. That is their concern.
[1:23:17] Speaker 1: God was not surprised watching you upon the earth. Born
[1:23:21] Speaker 1: for a reason. There is a space for me in
[1:23:24] Speaker 1: life and destiny. No one else can occupy that vacuum.
[1:23:27] Speaker 1: No one can intimidate you. And bully you out of
[1:23:31] Speaker 1: your place.
[1:23:34] Speaker 4: Hear me.
[1:23:36] Speaker 1: There are many preachers. Great preachers. But there are still others.
[1:23:40] Speaker 1: Your space is there.
[1:23:43] Speaker 3: Say it again.
[1:23:43] Speaker 1: I was born for a reason.
[1:23:47] Speaker 3: Yes sir.
[1:23:48] Speaker 1: Born for a reason. If you don't have this mentality,
[1:23:53] Speaker 1: you will keep escorting people around the corridors of destiny.
[1:23:57] Speaker 3: Hating yourself every day.
[1:23:59] Speaker 1: Blaming those who gave birth to you. Come on now.
[1:24:02] Speaker 3: Go on for a reason.
[1:24:06] Speaker 1: You have given me a destiny and a purpose to fulfill.
[1:24:15] Speaker 1: With all I am, every breath in me.
[1:24:20] Speaker 4: I'll spend my life to see. You have given me
[1:24:26] Speaker 4: a destiny, a purpose to fulfill. With all I am,
[1:24:35] Speaker 4: every breath in me, I'll spend my life to see
[1:24:41] Speaker 4: Jesus with me. And Jesus glorified. Jesus revealed.
[1:24:54] Speaker 2: And Jesus glorified.
[1:25:01] Speaker 3: Listen.
[1:25:03] Speaker 1: Imagine the world without Baba Deboe. Imagine the world without
[1:25:11] Speaker 1: Bishop Oye Deboe. Imagine the world without the materials and
[1:25:16] Speaker 1: investment of Dr. Miles Monroe. Imagine the world without Joshua Selman.
[1:25:24] Speaker 1: Imagine the world without you. You are that valuable to God. Listen.
[1:25:32] Speaker 1: I sense an anointing as I'm saying this. I'm not
[1:25:35] Speaker 1: entertaining you. There is something God is killing.
[1:25:40] Speaker 3: Out of your life.
[1:25:41] Speaker 1: Because it's time for your destiny to emerge. He has
[1:25:45] Speaker 1: given you a destiny. A purpose to fulfill. With all
[1:25:54] Speaker 1: you want. Every breath in you. Please spend your life.
[1:26:00] Speaker 1: to see Jesus listen.
[1:26:03] Speaker 4: Imagine if the right brothers.
[1:26:10] Speaker 2: Were not born.
[1:26:26] Speaker 1: The idea for an aircraft that has helped us to
[1:26:29] Speaker 1: reach nations with the gospel today. Imagine the inventor of
[1:26:32] Speaker 1: this microphone if you were not born. Imagine the ones
[1:26:36] Speaker 1: who invented the automobile. Imagine the many, many tailors in
[1:26:43] Speaker 1: this place who dress us.
[1:26:46] Speaker 3: Imagine the great.
[1:26:47] Speaker 1: People who fix this place every week. Imagine that everyone
[1:26:51] Speaker 1: in the worship team was not born. Who will sing? Me?
[1:26:54] Speaker 1: That's not my assignment. Imagine all the mighty men and
[1:27:03] Speaker 1: women of God in this ministry. The mighty leaders. Imagine
[1:27:07] Speaker 1: they were not there. I would have been alone. Whoever
[1:27:11] Speaker 1: told you you are not that valuable. Whoever lied to
[1:27:14] Speaker 1: you that you are just a drop. Whoever lied to
[1:27:19] Speaker 1: you that the world can do without you. So they
[1:27:23] Speaker 1: arrogantly say. Then God would not have put you here.
[1:27:30] Speaker 4: No eye has seen, no ear has heard what God
[1:27:35] Speaker 4: has prepared for me.
[1:27:38] Speaker 3: Do you believe what you are hearing?
[1:27:43] Speaker 4: No eye has seen, no eye has seen. No, it
[1:27:51] Speaker 4: has hurt what God has prepared for me. So I
[1:27:57] Speaker 4: submit to His work in me till.
[1:28:01] Speaker 2: Christ be born.
[1:28:03] Speaker 4: You have given me a destiny and a.
[1:28:10] Speaker 3: Purpose to fulfill.
[1:28:14] Speaker 4: I'll spend my life to see Jesus and Jesus glory.
[1:28:31] Speaker 2: Jesus hallelujah.
[1:28:37] Speaker 1: Imagine the world without the architects who built this. Imagine
[1:28:43] Speaker 1: the world without doctors. Some of us would not even
[1:28:47] Speaker 1: leave to start the ministry. Imagine that the man who drove.
[1:28:54] Speaker 3: You here was not born.
[1:28:57] Speaker 1: Don't act like you can do without men. They are
[1:29:00] Speaker 1: that important. Jesus needed them. He even said in the
[1:29:04] Speaker 1: multitude of men is a king's honor. Look at all
[1:29:10] Speaker 1: the wonderful people today who have made the world know
[1:29:13] Speaker 1: about Koinonia. Who have made the world know about Joshua Selman.
[1:29:17] Speaker 1: What if they were not born? All of the churches
[1:29:20] Speaker 1: that extended warm invites to have brought us to a
[1:29:23] Speaker 1: point of visibility. What if they were not born? What
[1:29:27] Speaker 1: if they did not answer the call? Today in my
[1:29:32] Speaker 1: own little way and with all humility, I look at
[1:29:34] Speaker 1: the so many who have come to Jesus, including those
[1:29:38] Speaker 1: who will be coming tonight. What if we were not born?
[1:29:42] Speaker 1: Listen to me. You are that important. You are that important.
[1:29:47] Speaker 1: My brother, my sister. I know that your dad and
[1:29:50] Speaker 1: your mom forgive them. That they call you a black sheep.
[1:29:54] Speaker 1: They were just expressing anger and frustration. Don't take it serious.
[1:30:00] Speaker 1: Black sheep don't learn what you are learning. Are we together?
[1:30:09] Speaker 3: Can I tell you?
[1:30:10] Speaker 1: In this place. At the global financiers of Koinonia in
[1:30:14] Speaker 1: the making.
[1:30:15] Speaker 3: Apostles to the.
[1:30:17] Speaker 1: Billions people who will send resources and say let's go.
[1:30:20] Speaker 3: To the nations in this place are.
[1:30:23] Speaker 1: Other apostles and prophets greater than Joshua Selman's rising it
[1:30:27] Speaker 1: is true That someday when you emerge. We will be
[1:30:32] Speaker 1: taking notes from you. Saying my God we've read the Bible.
[1:30:36] Speaker 1: But we never saw it this way. Because of the excellency.
[1:30:39] Speaker 3: Of the walkings of the spirit. Someday. Maybe some lady
[1:30:42] Speaker 3: will rise from among us here.
[1:30:44] Speaker 1: And sing songs. That will take his praises to the nation.
[1:30:48] Speaker 1: Maybe some prophet is on his way rising. It does
[1:30:51] Speaker 1: not look like it. But hear me. Do not abort
[1:30:55] Speaker 1: that call of destiny. Born for a reason. Why am
[1:31:01] Speaker 1: I here?
[1:31:02] Speaker 3: Born for a reason. When you went to.
[1:31:05] Speaker 1: Bed like Joseph, you saw yourself as a businessman. Signing
[1:31:09] Speaker 1: checks to nations. Give this mission agency. Give this to Koinonia.
[1:31:13] Speaker 1: Give this to some place somewhere. And you got up
[1:31:16] Speaker 1: and the devil said you are joking. Listen, let me
[1:31:20] Speaker 1: tell you this. Dare to believe everything God has shown you.
[1:31:27] Speaker 1: That is rooted in his will. And is rooted in Christ.
[1:31:30] Speaker 1: Because it can come to pass. And it will come
[1:31:33] Speaker 1: to pass. If you listen to this preacher today. There
[1:31:37] Speaker 1: are many things that I saw. I started seeing miracles.
[1:31:40] Speaker 1: When a single headache. Was not healed.
[1:31:43] Speaker 3: In my visions.
[1:31:45] Speaker 1: I believed it. How it will happen I did not know.
[1:31:48] Speaker 1: But I knew that one day. We will not only
[1:31:50] Speaker 1: speak to nations. We will extend his life. His power
[1:31:54] Speaker 1: to nations. I used to see crusades in my dream.
[1:31:58] Speaker 1: Tens of thousands of people. Gathered across the nations. And
[1:32:02] Speaker 1: then I wake up like Joseph. A small mattress. Your room.
[1:32:07] Speaker 3: What is going on?
[1:32:09] Speaker 1: Destiny. Piecing together. Yes.
[1:32:14] Speaker 3: Destiny.
[1:32:15] Speaker 1: Piecing together. Let me remind you Esther. If you don't rise.
[1:32:22] Speaker 1: The nation of Israel will suffer. Let me remind you Ruth.
[1:32:27] Speaker 1: If you do not rise. And you become discouraged. You
[1:32:32] Speaker 1: will stop Boaz from having the children. From who Jesus
[1:32:35] Speaker 1: will come out from. Let me remind you, David, without you,
[1:32:41] Speaker 1: there will be no city called the city of David.
[1:32:45] Speaker 1: Let me remind you, Elijah, there is still a.
[1:32:49] Speaker 3: Room for fiery prophets like you.
[1:32:53] Speaker 1: Let me remind you, Abraham. Many people's destinies are connected
[1:32:57] Speaker 1: to your obedience. You cannot afford to give up now.
[1:33:01] Speaker 1: Let me remind you, honor the prophetess. Nobody has seen you,
[1:33:05] Speaker 1: but keep praying because Jesus needs to come. Remain that intercessor.
[1:33:10] Speaker 1: Pray in the morning. Pray in the afternoon. Pray in
[1:33:14] Speaker 1: the night. You may not be on social media, but
[1:33:17] Speaker 1: keep doing your duties. Keep praying. Listen, and let me
[1:33:21] Speaker 1: tell you something. Hear me. Our assignments are seasonal. And
[1:33:26] Speaker 1: our assignments evolve. So there are many of you right now.
[1:33:30] Speaker 1: Your real destiny is to be a prophet. But right
[1:33:33] Speaker 1: now you are in the media department. Or the worship team.
[1:33:37] Speaker 1: Don't graduate yourself. And bring yourself because you are seeing visions.
[1:33:41] Speaker 2: No.
[1:33:42] Speaker 3: Stay and serve. Until he blesses you. Until you emerge.
[1:33:53] Speaker 1: Philip was part of the people and Stephen were part
[1:33:58] Speaker 1: of the people who were anointed to serve tables. But
[1:34:03] Speaker 1: because of the openness of their hearts and their prophetic destinies,
[1:34:07] Speaker 1: there was more than a welfare grace on them.
[1:34:10] Speaker 3: Eventually they evolved.
[1:34:12] Speaker 1: Philip the evangelist from serving tables now went to Samaria
[1:34:17] Speaker 1: in Acts chapter 8 and verse 5 and preached Christ
[1:34:20] Speaker 1: unto them.
[1:34:21] Speaker 3: And was working miracles with power.
[1:34:24] Speaker 1: Let me tell you this. For some of you the
[1:34:27] Speaker 1: reason why your destiny has remained stunted. Is because you
[1:34:30] Speaker 1: are too big to start small. Too big to start small.
[1:34:38] Speaker 1: How can I be a member of prayer department. And
[1:34:41] Speaker 1: that's all I do every week. Whereas in my destiny,
[1:34:45] Speaker 1: I've seen that one day I will be praying even
[1:34:48] Speaker 1: with the fathers. You will never get there if you
[1:34:50] Speaker 1: cannot humble yourself to such small. How can I be
[1:34:54] Speaker 1: in the welfare department? Yet there is a mighty prophet
[1:34:57] Speaker 1: imagined for me. There is nobody who starts where you
[1:35:06] Speaker 1: meet them in glory. They start usually in darkness. And
[1:35:10] Speaker 1: they grow as they evolve. David starts from the wilderness.
[1:35:14] Speaker 1: Killing the bear, the lion. Feeding the sheep. And he's
[1:35:18] Speaker 1: trained to not just become the shepherd. But to become
[1:35:22] Speaker 1: the king.
[1:35:22] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[1:35:27] Speaker 1: I vowed to God many years ago and that still
[1:35:29] Speaker 1: remains my commitment. That everywhere he puts me. Per time
[1:35:34] Speaker 1: per season. I will serve with all my heart. Whether
[1:35:37] Speaker 1: I'm here in Abuja. Or in Zaria. Or anywhere around
[1:35:41] Speaker 1: the world. The stage is the same for me. The
[1:35:44] Speaker 1: assignment is the same. I will preach with as much
[1:35:47] Speaker 1: passion here. As I will preach in America. As I
[1:35:50] Speaker 1: will preach in Zaria. As I will preach in a
[1:35:52] Speaker 1: Bible study.
[1:35:54] Speaker 3: Of three people. I will still shout the truth to
[1:35:57] Speaker 3: their faces. Until they become.
[1:36:02] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[1:36:04] Speaker 3: God is speaking to someone.
[1:36:06] Speaker 1: You have not carried this consciousness of why you are
[1:36:09] Speaker 1: here and you are just getting old. Do you know,
[1:36:13] Speaker 1: in my opinion, you really do not have the legitimacy
[1:36:17] Speaker 1: to elaborately celebrate birthdays till you discover why you were born,
[1:36:22] Speaker 1: not that you were born. Many visionary people waste money
[1:36:28] Speaker 1: celebrating birthdays and they jump around with no definition as
[1:36:33] Speaker 1: to why they are here. And God has given you
[1:36:36] Speaker 1: the gift of time. I told you that when you
[1:36:38] Speaker 1: are celebrating birthdays, don't celebrate your current age. You are
[1:36:42] Speaker 1: celebrating the days left. Not the days you have spent.
[1:36:47] Speaker 1: You are celebrating the days left. That means if you
[1:36:50] Speaker 1: are X years old. And it's God's desire that you
[1:36:53] Speaker 1: live say up to 80. And let's say for instance
[1:36:57] Speaker 1: you are 40. You have not just covered. You are
[1:37:00] Speaker 1: halfway your journey. Whether you like it or not. So
[1:37:04] Speaker 1: don't just celebrate the past 40 years.
[1:37:06] Speaker 3: Be thankful.
[1:37:07] Speaker 1: But look at the next 40 years. What can I do?
[1:37:12] Speaker 1: At the infancy of this ministry we used to train people.
[1:37:15] Speaker 1: Three days to your birthday, you go for a retreat.
[1:37:18] Speaker 1: It's a culture that many still have till today. Three
[1:37:21] Speaker 1: days or one week to your birthday, you don't get
[1:37:24] Speaker 1: up and buy any cake or kill any chicken until
[1:37:27] Speaker 1: you are out of your retreat. You flog it out
[1:37:31] Speaker 1: with destiny, asking questions. Lord, at this juncture, what should
[1:37:35] Speaker 1: I do? What is the next step to take? Listen,
[1:37:38] Speaker 1: if your birthday is this month or around the corner,
[1:37:41] Speaker 1: adopt this principle. It doesn't matter who is celebrating. You
[1:37:44] Speaker 1: let them celebrate sincerely. Go and spend at least a
[1:37:48] Speaker 1: day or two. Lord, I'm tired of wasting time. What
[1:37:53] Speaker 1: is the next blueprint for my prophetic destiny?
[1:37:56] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[1:37:59] Speaker 1: But I want you to carry this song in your mind,
[1:38:02] Speaker 1: even as you sleep tonight, that he has given you
[1:38:05] Speaker 1: a destiny.
[1:38:07] Speaker 3: He's giving you prophecy.
[1:38:09] Speaker 1: There's something he said concerning you. The next Benny Hinn's,
[1:38:14] Speaker 1: the next Elon Musk's, the next son, senior advocates, the
[1:38:22] Speaker 1: next apostles, the next prophets. You see, if you refuse
[1:38:30] Speaker 1: to become you will stop others from becoming because life
[1:38:34] Speaker 1: is a relay other people are depending on your faithfulness
[1:38:38] Speaker 1: to emerge Today you are hearing, you are growing, you
[1:38:42] Speaker 1: are being trained, you are rising in the spirit and
[1:38:45] Speaker 1: in destiny. Because by the privilege of God's mercy, somebody's
[1:38:49] Speaker 1: obedience is contributing to your becoming. Your obedience also will
[1:38:54] Speaker 1: contribute to someone's becoming. We'll sing it one more time
[1:38:58] Speaker 1: and I'll go to number four. You have given me
[1:39:01] Speaker 1: a destiny and a purpose to fulfill.
[1:39:08] Speaker 4: With all I am, I'll spend my life to see
[1:39:16] Speaker 4: Jesus revealed. And Jesus glorified.
[1:39:25] Speaker 1: Jesus revealed.
[1:39:29] Speaker 3: And Jesus glorified. So question one. Identity.
[1:39:36] Speaker 2: Who am I?
[1:39:38] Speaker 3: Question two, please be seated.
[1:39:40] Speaker 1: Why am I here? A question of purpose. Question three,
[1:39:46] Speaker 1: what can I do? Question three, why am I here?
[1:39:53] Speaker 1: A question of purpose. Are you ready for question four?
[1:39:56] Speaker 3: What can I do? Your potential. Your potential.
[1:40:01] Speaker 1: Champions are champions because they live eternally aware of the
[1:40:06] Speaker 1: investments of the spirit within their persons.
[1:40:10] Speaker 3: Whether it's in sports.
[1:40:13] Speaker 1: Whether it's in music, whether it's in ministry, whether it's
[1:40:17] Speaker 1: in politics. All those who lead their field are people
[1:40:21] Speaker 1: who are full of confidence in God if they are believers.
[1:40:25] Speaker 1: And in the giftings that he's put in them. Philemon
[1:40:28] Speaker 1: chapter 1 and verse 6. Write that scripture down and
[1:40:31] Speaker 1: never forget it for the rest of your life. That
[1:40:33] Speaker 1: the communication of your faith. may become effectual by the
[1:40:41] Speaker 1: acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in
[1:40:45] Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. Worship team, what has God given you? Excellent voices.
[1:40:50] Speaker 3: Write it down.
[1:40:52] Speaker 1: What has God given you? The grace to receive songs supernaturally.
[1:40:56] Speaker 3: Write it down.
[1:40:58] Speaker 1: Listen, there is nobody here under the sound of my
[1:41:01] Speaker 1: voice who is void.
[1:41:02] Speaker 3: Of a gifting, an ability, a potential.
[1:41:07] Speaker 1: Potential means what can be if it is developed, if
[1:41:12] Speaker 1: it is deployed.
[1:41:14] Speaker 3: Are we together now?
[1:41:15] Speaker 1: A gentleman once met me and said he wants to
[1:41:22] Speaker 1: be able to preach. I said there are two things
[1:41:26] Speaker 1: that are needed for good preaching. Aside from your understanding
[1:41:30] Speaker 1: in terms of communication, you need oratory and you need utterance.
[1:41:34] Speaker 1: In order of priority, Ortrance is more superior to Oratory.
[1:41:38] Speaker 3: Oratory helps to make Ortrance effective.
[1:41:41] Speaker 1: Ortrance is an engracing from God that helps you articulate
[1:41:45] Speaker 1: your thoughts in such a way and a manner that
[1:41:48] Speaker 1: everybody educated or otherwise can understand. But Oratory helps you
[1:41:54] Speaker 1: to construct your ideas such that people can follow your
[1:41:58] Speaker 1: thinking and learn from it. You need both. But in
[1:42:02] Speaker 1: order of priority, Utterance supersedes oratory. Are we learning? What
[1:42:09] Speaker 1: do you have? I have been inspired by many people today.
[1:42:13] Speaker 1: And it is because of the vast resources that God
[1:42:16] Speaker 1: put within them.
[1:42:18] Speaker 3: I want you to beware.
[1:42:20] Speaker 1: Of the danger of despising what God has given you.
[1:42:24] Speaker 1: The woman in 2 Kings 4, when you read from
[1:42:28] Speaker 1: verse 1 to 4, the Bible says she was the
[1:42:31] Speaker 1: wife of one of the sons of the prophet. And
[1:42:34] Speaker 1: the Bible says, she came and said, my husband is dead.
[1:42:38] Speaker 1: And you know that he did fear the Lord. You
[1:42:40] Speaker 1: would think that because he feared the Lord, he should
[1:42:42] Speaker 1: not be in debt. Hallelujah. And the creditor is come
[1:42:47] Speaker 1: to take unto him my two sons to be slaves.
[1:42:51] Speaker 1: Verse 2. Watch what Elisha says. Elisha said unto her,
[1:42:55] Speaker 1: what shall I do for thee? Then he says, tell me,
[1:42:59] Speaker 1: what hast thou in the house? This is a question
[1:43:02] Speaker 1: God is asking someone. What do you have in your house?
[1:43:07] Speaker 1: For some of you, you have a unique grace to sing.
[1:43:11] Speaker 1: All you need to add is the understanding character and.
[1:43:15] Speaker 3: Anointing on that gift. But the gift is already there.
[1:43:18] Speaker 1: There are some of you who are master communicators even
[1:43:21] Speaker 1: without training. It's a grace God gave you. Imagine what
[1:43:25] Speaker 1: happens when you refine it. When you deploy it. You
[1:43:29] Speaker 1: don't know that charisma is a gift. The ability to
[1:43:33] Speaker 1: compel the attention of people. To have a courage that
[1:43:36] Speaker 1: makes you desirable.
[1:43:38] Speaker 4: It's a gift.
[1:43:39] Speaker 1: What have you ignored that God gave you while admiring others?
[1:43:44] Speaker 1: It's good to admire what God has given others. But
[1:43:46] Speaker 1: not to the detriment or the detriment of what God
[1:43:50] Speaker 1: has given you. Some of you here, you have never
[1:43:53] Speaker 1: gone to a catering school. But what your fingers can do.
[1:43:58] Speaker 1: Even the angels... I mean, not just men. They testify
[1:44:02] Speaker 1: that these fingers God.
[1:44:03] Speaker 3: Has placed grace on them.
[1:44:07] Speaker 1: Let me tell you this. One of the primary ways
[1:44:10] Speaker 1: that God blesses men is through the works of their hands.
[1:44:13] Speaker 1: I hope you know that. One of the primary ways
[1:44:17] Speaker 1: that God blesses men is by blessing the works of
[1:44:21] Speaker 1: their hands.
[1:44:23] Speaker 3: The fruits of your mind. Products of your creativity.
[1:44:26] Speaker 1: Creativity. I have met exceptional people. I remember one time
[1:44:31] Speaker 1: I went to preach somewhere and some gentleman, did you know,
[1:44:35] Speaker 1: I entered into the office, the rotunda, and while we
[1:44:37] Speaker 1: were having a discussion, unknown to me, that gentleman was
[1:44:41] Speaker 1: drawing me. True story. He was drawing me in an
[1:44:45] Speaker 1: inverted way. I didn't even know it was me. Later on,
[1:44:48] Speaker 1: they just called my attention. Then I turned around and
[1:44:51] Speaker 1: here is a beautiful photo of me. I mean, you
[1:44:54] Speaker 1: would think it's another me. And one of the graces
[1:45:00] Speaker 1: God has given Africa and even this country is the gift.
[1:45:03] Speaker 1: We are creative people. But we have not been trained
[1:45:07] Speaker 1: to appreciate our own and what we have. Hallelujah. There
[1:45:13] Speaker 1: are people who have constructed things here. Did you know
[1:45:16] Speaker 1: I got to find out that there are people who
[1:45:17] Speaker 1: have gotten international awards in this nation beyond 10, 11, 15.
[1:45:23] Speaker 3: And yet nobody knows them.
[1:45:26] Speaker 1: There are tech giants here. One time I was in
[1:45:30] Speaker 1: Kenya and then a group of gentlemen came and there
[1:45:34] Speaker 1: are some tech savvy guys, a few of them. And
[1:45:37] Speaker 1: they were just talking to me and I was looking
[1:45:39] Speaker 1: at them. I mean just, if you see how.
[1:45:41] Speaker 3: These guys were brilliant, they knew what they were doing.
[1:45:46] Speaker 1: All these guys who hack and steal money from banks
[1:45:48] Speaker 1: and the rest, that is a grace God gave them
[1:45:51] Speaker 1: that they perverted. The same energy it takes to steal
[1:45:55] Speaker 1: is the same energy it takes to build. Are we together?
[1:45:59] Speaker 1: Do you know what it means to stand on the
[1:46:01] Speaker 1: road and time a car that is coming? It's the
[1:46:04] Speaker 1: same principle of success. Why didn't they just convert it
[1:46:08] Speaker 1: to build something that works? Every one of you under
[1:46:14] Speaker 1: the sound of my voice, there is something God has
[1:46:17] Speaker 1: placed in your hand. And that thing God has placed
[1:46:19] Speaker 1: in your hand, among the many channels is where your
[1:46:22] Speaker 1: prosperity lies. Is where your increase lies. Is that true?
[1:46:29] Speaker 1: There are people today who have become millionaires. The purpose
[1:46:34] Speaker 1: of identifying your giftings is not just for money. But
[1:46:37] Speaker 1: I use that just to motivate you. They discovered something
[1:46:43] Speaker 1: about themselves. Let me challenge you. I want you to
[1:46:47] Speaker 1: take the time as an assignment. Identify three among the
[1:46:51] Speaker 1: many giftings God has put in your life.
[1:46:53] Speaker 3: Write them. Be conscious of them.
[1:46:56] Speaker 1: And then.
[1:46:57] Speaker 3: Develop, refine them.
[1:46:59] Speaker 1: If it means going to get an extra certification to
[1:47:02] Speaker 1: give you credence to serve that gift.
[1:47:04] Speaker 3: Go for it.
[1:47:05] Speaker 1: If it means having some informal training to build yourself,
[1:47:10] Speaker 1: don't celebrate the existence of potentials. Identify them. But develop
[1:47:17] Speaker 1: them until they are deployable. Nobody will pay you for
[1:47:21] Speaker 1: identifying your potential in a raw state. It must be
[1:47:25] Speaker 1: developed and then deployed to serve.
[1:47:27] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[1:47:34] Speaker 1: Some of you here have what it takes to start
[1:47:37] Speaker 1: hairdressing outfits. You have it. It's a grace God gave you.
[1:47:41] Speaker 1: You can be sleeping and still flat. And you will
[1:47:44] Speaker 1: not make mistakes. Grace that God gave you. But you
[1:47:48] Speaker 1: are there ignoring the gifting of God. Some of you
[1:47:51] Speaker 1: can make clothes. Some of you can cook. Some of you,
[1:47:55] Speaker 1: you just have the grace for leadership. You can train people.
[1:47:58] Speaker 1: You can set up an educational outfit. It's a grace
[1:48:02] Speaker 1: God gave you.
[1:48:02] Speaker 5: 20 children.
[1:48:06] Speaker 3: No more.
[1:48:08] Speaker 1: And you put the feast there. Whoever has a trouble
[1:48:11] Speaker 1: with their child understanding, they should come. By the time
[1:48:15] Speaker 1: all those children produce A1 in their exams, you will
[1:48:19] Speaker 1: not need to shout it. Now you can call the
[1:48:21] Speaker 1: shots by yourself. Repent from laziness in the name of
[1:48:27] Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Many people just believe that they will emerge
[1:48:30] Speaker 1: magically without identifying what God has given them. There are
[1:48:35] Speaker 1: people today who sing. They raise their voices and my
[1:48:38] Speaker 1: goodness is like you are hearing angels sing. Everything that
[1:48:45] Speaker 1: needs to be done, there is a man empowered by
[1:48:48] Speaker 1: God to be able to do it. Someone produce this.
[1:48:54] Speaker 1: This Bible. Someone produce this phone. Someone produce this mic.
[1:48:59] Speaker 1: What will the earth know you for? I want you
[1:49:02] Speaker 1: to go back and make up your mind. Don't be
[1:49:05] Speaker 1: marketing something you have not refined. Are we together? The
[1:49:09] Speaker 1: moment you market a gifting that is not refined, you
[1:49:12] Speaker 1: will be at the.
[1:49:13] Speaker 3: Mercy of those you are trying to sell it to.
[1:49:15] Speaker 1: But when you refine yourself, you cannot define the terms.
[1:49:21] Speaker 3: Because you are so gifted.
[1:49:25] Speaker 1: Be so gifted that no amount of money becomes worthy
[1:49:28] Speaker 1: to pay you.
[1:49:30] Speaker 3: Did you hear what I said? Be so gifted.
[1:49:32] Speaker 1: Refine your giftings. As a man of God. Stay with
[1:49:36] Speaker 1: the word. Build capacity. Such that no amount of money
[1:49:40] Speaker 1: in gratitude anybody gives you.
[1:49:42] Speaker 3: Looks like this is.
[1:49:44] Speaker 4: No.
[1:49:45] Speaker 1: You can celebrate God and say thank God. But they know.
[1:49:49] Speaker 1: That's what it means to be priceless. There are consultants
[1:49:56] Speaker 1: today that people leave Nigeria or leave any other nation
[1:50:00] Speaker 1: to go and meet them. There may be four or
[1:50:03] Speaker 1: five in the whole world who do the things that
[1:50:05] Speaker 1: they do. They were not born that way. They were
[1:50:07] Speaker 1: children who identified an area of grace and pressed towards it.
[1:50:12] Speaker 1: I am a fanatic of competence.
[1:50:16] Speaker 3: I detest incompetence.
[1:50:18] Speaker 1: Make up your mind that average, selling average will only
[1:50:22] Speaker 1: leave you a mediocre.
[1:50:24] Speaker 3: Challenge yourself by the spirit. You're a man of God.
[1:50:29] Speaker 1: You make up your mind that in the name of Jesus,
[1:50:32] Speaker 1: the son of the living God, I will not stand
[1:50:34] Speaker 1: on anybody's pulpit and preach. And while I'm preaching, they
[1:50:37] Speaker 1: are passing papers and say, please tell him to round up.
[1:50:40] Speaker 1: Our people are angry because he's just preaching nonsense. And
[1:50:45] Speaker 1: once you are done, they just say, okay, please, your
[1:50:47] Speaker 1: car is at this other side, go. And they meet
[1:50:50] Speaker 1: as a committee and say, never bring this person again.
[1:50:52] Speaker 1: You see how all our destiny helpers are frowning now
[1:50:55] Speaker 1: because this guy did not bring anything. Make up your
[1:51:01] Speaker 1: mind that when the light in the stage is on
[1:51:05] Speaker 1: for you, the moment you stand there, you don't stand
[1:51:08] Speaker 1: on to shame. Do your homework. labor in the spirit,
[1:51:13] Speaker 1: in prayer, acquire relevant knowledge, acquire relevant trainings, humble yourself
[1:51:19] Speaker 1: and learn. If a child has what will promote and
[1:51:22] Speaker 1: lift you and promote your mind and your understanding, humble
[1:51:26] Speaker 1: yourself and let that child teach you.
[1:51:28] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[1:51:31] Speaker 1: I challenge our leaders here every time that we must
[1:51:35] Speaker 1: continue to rise and to thrive. It is the same
[1:51:38] Speaker 1: challenge for me as a man of God. I don't
[1:51:41] Speaker 1: want to be at the same level. I don't want
[1:51:43] Speaker 1: you to see me and it looks like a plateau
[1:51:45] Speaker 1: at a level. No, it should be ever increasing glory.
[1:51:49] Speaker 1: The Bible calls it the glory that excels. That when
[1:51:52] Speaker 1: people see you at a level, by the next time
[1:51:55] Speaker 1: they see you, you have risen to an altitude in
[1:51:58] Speaker 1: the spirit that is clear, evident before men.
[1:52:02] Speaker 3: I'm praying for you. The kind of hunger.
[1:52:05] Speaker 1: That will not leave you a mediocre. The kind of
[1:52:08] Speaker 1: hunger that will drive you to buy books. The kind
[1:52:11] Speaker 1: of hunger that will drive you to watch videos. The
[1:52:13] Speaker 1: kind of hunger that will drive you to get trainings.
[1:52:17] Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus may that hunger rest upon you.
[1:52:19] Speaker 1: Can I tell you the truth? The cure for shame.
[1:52:26] Speaker 1: Among many other factors. Is competence. The cure for shame.
[1:52:32] Speaker 3: The cure for shame. Apostle, people seem to ignore me.
[1:52:37] Speaker 1: Nobody seems to pay attention to me.
[1:52:39] Speaker 3: Let me tell you the truth. Competence is your bailout.
[1:52:45] Speaker 1: I vowed before God. And that not from a competitive standpoint.
[1:52:49] Speaker 1: That there is no way I will stand on earth.
[1:52:52] Speaker 1: That I will be ashamed.
[1:52:53] Speaker 4: No.
[1:52:54] Speaker 1: I will admire people. I will be inspired.
[1:52:57] Speaker 3: I will be challenged.
[1:52:58] Speaker 1: But never to a point that I will return and
[1:53:00] Speaker 1: put my hand on my head. As though I were not, no, no, no.
[1:53:04] Speaker 1: Everybody was given one brain on earth, two eyes, two hands.
[1:53:10] Speaker 1: If I am mismanaging my own, I should challenge myself
[1:53:13] Speaker 1: to reinvent myself.
[1:53:15] Speaker 3: God is speaking to someone.
[1:53:17] Speaker 1: There are businesses that have been lying here and God
[1:53:20] Speaker 1: is saying, you better start doing something about it. There
[1:53:22] Speaker 1: are creative ideas. Do you know, some of you, you
[1:53:25] Speaker 1: can be consultants. What you know, with all humility, there
[1:53:29] Speaker 1: are few people who know it the way you know it.
[1:53:33] Speaker 1: What is stopping you from evolving? You can advise people.
[1:53:36] Speaker 1: If I were not a preacher, I would still not
[1:53:39] Speaker 1: be a failure. If all I do is to travel
[1:53:43] Speaker 1: around the world teaching people how to live effectively, I
[1:53:46] Speaker 1: would still be fulfilled doing it. Fixing people's minds and
[1:53:50] Speaker 1: helping them.
[1:53:50] Speaker 3: To think well.
[1:53:53] Speaker 1: Listen, this destiny race bar, if a door is closed,
[1:53:58] Speaker 1: force it to open. Don't sit down there and say,
[1:54:00] Speaker 1: who will open it for me? Force it to open.
[1:54:04] Speaker 1: How forcible are right words? Hallelujah. You get to a
[1:54:15] Speaker 1: place and it looks like there's nothing there. Father, you have.
[1:54:19] Speaker 3: Placed something in my hand. What can I do?
[1:54:22] Speaker 1: You gave me the ability to make hair. It's just
[1:54:25] Speaker 1: making hair. Just making hair? Don't royalties make hair? Don't
[1:54:31] Speaker 1: people make clothes? Why are you not the one doing
[1:54:34] Speaker 1: their own? I have told you, you are only competent
[1:54:37] Speaker 1: when kings invite you. And it's kings that really have
[1:54:41] Speaker 1: the reward system you are looking for. Other people may
[1:54:45] Speaker 1: just encourage you. The real reward comes when kings call you.
[1:54:51] Speaker 1: Joseph interpreted three people's dreams. Remember? He interpreted the dream
[1:54:55] Speaker 1: of the baker. They didn't have the power to reward him.
[1:54:58] Speaker 1: He interpreted the dream of the wine presser. He didn't
[1:55:00] Speaker 1: have the power to reward him. But when the king
[1:55:03] Speaker 1: dreamt and Joseph interpreted the king's dream, that was the
[1:55:07] Speaker 1: end of hardship. It matters whose dream you are interpreting.
[1:55:12] Speaker 1: God uses the baker and the wine presser to train you.
[1:55:16] Speaker 1: Maybe you're a man of God here. Some of the small,
[1:55:19] Speaker 1: small meetings God is giving you, don't worry, be faithful.
[1:55:21] Speaker 1: He's training you. When he's done with you, one day
[1:55:25] Speaker 1: he will sample your destiny helpers before you and give
[1:55:28] Speaker 1: you an opportunity to articulate his grace upon your life.
[1:55:33] Speaker 1: And that becomes a day there is no going back again.
[1:55:37] Speaker 1: Do you believe what you are hearing? Koinonia. You are
[1:55:42] Speaker 1: being trained to be a people of grace. A people
[1:55:45] Speaker 1: of kingdom influence. This ministry does not raise mediocre. By
[1:55:49] Speaker 1: the grace of God. Did you hear what I said?
[1:55:52] Speaker 1: Regardless where you are coming from. You come as you are.
[1:55:56] Speaker 1: But you do not stay as you are. Kings are
[1:55:59] Speaker 1: looking for you. They are calling you. And you see
[1:56:02] Speaker 1: when you become competent. Nobody will ask you where you
[1:56:04] Speaker 1: are coming from. All those questions are ways of managing
[1:56:07] Speaker 1: you out of the sin. When a patient is about
[1:56:14] Speaker 1: to die and a consultant comes, nobody will ask whether
[1:56:18] Speaker 1: he's a male consultant, female consultant, young consultant. If that
[1:56:23] Speaker 1: consultant is 29 years old, everybody will come and say, sir,
[1:56:27] Speaker 1: my wife or my husband is about to die. Can
[1:56:29] Speaker 1: you do something? Don't say people look at me like
[1:56:33] Speaker 1: I'm a small boy. It's a lie.
[1:56:34] Speaker 5: It's a lie.
[1:56:36] Speaker 1: It's a flimsy excuse. Your competence can add to your age.
[1:56:43] Speaker 1: And keep you in the midst of elders. And they
[1:56:46] Speaker 1: will call you an elder. Accredited by competence. I'm on
[1:56:51] Speaker 1: my way to better days. I'm on my way to
[1:56:59] Speaker 1: better days.
[1:57:01] Speaker 3: That's your prophecy.
[1:57:02] Speaker 1: I'm on my way to better days.
[1:57:07] Speaker 3: It won't be like yesterday again.
[1:57:09] Speaker 1: You're on your way to better.
[1:57:11] Speaker 7: Days Your status is changing There's no more decline You're on.
[1:57:22] Speaker 1: Your way to better days Status is changing No more
[1:57:31] Speaker 1: decline I'm on my way to better days Apostle, I
[1:57:40] Speaker 1: didn't have the opportunity to be born by rich parents.
[1:57:44] Speaker 1: All I have is just the ability to sow. When
[1:57:48] Speaker 1: the hand of God rests upon that, and you will
[1:57:52] Speaker 1: now begin to sow for kings, they will call you
[1:57:55] Speaker 1: and say, where did you learn this from? And you
[1:57:57] Speaker 1: will tell them.
[1:57:58] Speaker 3: It's by the hand of God.
[1:57:59] Speaker 1: I'm praying for someone. You may be gifted, but the
[1:58:04] Speaker 1: anointing that needs to come on your gift To now
[1:58:07] Speaker 1: start bringing you rewards.
[1:58:09] Speaker 3: I'm praying from this night. Let that anointing rest on
[1:58:12] Speaker 3: your gift.
[1:58:16] Speaker 1: Shout it believers. Amen. Let the anointing rest upon your gift.
[1:58:23] Speaker 1: Let the anointing rest upon your gift. What do you
[1:58:30] Speaker 1: do when you find your gifting? Identify it, refine it
[1:58:37] Speaker 1: and serve. Identify it, refine it and serve.
[1:58:43] Speaker 3: One last time.
[1:58:44] Speaker 1: Identify it, refine it or develop it and serve.
[1:58:50] Speaker 3: You serve with it. You serve with it.
[1:58:54] Speaker 1: You serve with it. Hallelujah. Every time you serve with
[1:59:02] Speaker 1: the gift that God has given you, there is someone
[1:59:05] Speaker 1: at the end who is looking at you, who needs you,
[1:59:09] Speaker 1: and will be willing to call you. Can I tell
[1:59:11] Speaker 1: you this? One of the prayers I want to pray
[1:59:13] Speaker 1: for you before we touch the last one. is if
[1:59:16] Speaker 1: you are with the wrong audience, sometimes you can be gifted,
[1:59:20] Speaker 1: but you are in the midst of people who don't
[1:59:21] Speaker 1: need what you carry. If you are in the midst
[1:59:24] Speaker 1: of people who don't need what you carry, you will
[1:59:25] Speaker 1: look weak. It will look like they are taking advantage
[1:59:28] Speaker 1: of you. But when God wants to help you, he
[1:59:31] Speaker 1: relocates you. And brings you in the presence of people
[1:59:34] Speaker 1: who have a desperate need for what you carry.
[1:59:36] Speaker 3: That's when you will see how valuable you are.
[1:59:39] Speaker 1: Can I pray for someone? By the anointing of the
[1:59:41] Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. This night, I relocate you to the place
[1:59:45] Speaker 1: where those who need you are.
[1:59:54] Speaker 4: Listen.
[1:59:56] Speaker 3: I remember.
[1:59:57] Speaker 1: I may not mention names. But I remember the very
[2:00:00] Speaker 1: first meeting I attended. Where I can say they honored
[2:00:04] Speaker 1: me sincerely and they honored me properly. Many years ago.
[2:00:09] Speaker 1: Until then, of course, all those who did, they did
[2:00:11] Speaker 1: their bid. I went for meetings as an anointed man.
[2:00:15] Speaker 1: And sometimes, those days, it was usually the youths in
[2:00:19] Speaker 1: the church who really wanted me to come. And then
[2:00:22] Speaker 1: they would pressure their pastors. So the people didn't have
[2:00:24] Speaker 1: an appreciation for who was coming. It was just to
[2:00:27] Speaker 1: honor the youth so that for some, so that they
[2:00:29] Speaker 1: don't leave. Since they've said they want this man. And
[2:00:33] Speaker 1: sometimes you come and with all due respect, not to
[2:00:35] Speaker 1: look down those days. I'm sure the people were sincere.
[2:00:39] Speaker 1: Sometimes they look with disdain. Sometimes they look with sarcasm.
[2:00:43] Speaker 1: Who is this guy? Where is he from? Oh yeah,
[2:00:46] Speaker 1: let's hear what he's saying. John 3. Uh-huh. We're listening.
[2:00:51] Speaker 1: Then later on, oh, this is serious. They're tapping him.
[2:00:53] Speaker 2: Okay.
[2:00:54] Speaker 1: Looks like there's something here.
[2:00:57] Speaker 3: Never forget a very touching story.
[2:00:59] Speaker 1: When I went to the house of someone to pray,
[2:01:01] Speaker 1: I was invited. And I remember the man sat down
[2:01:04] Speaker 1: with such sarcasm and he was looking at me. As
[2:01:06] Speaker 1: if these are all these guys who are just these
[2:01:08] Speaker 1: hungry people. And then when I began to speak, I
[2:01:13] Speaker 1: noticed at a point the man stopped eating. True story.
[2:01:16] Speaker 1: And he was looking. And then he started nodding in agreement.
[2:01:22] Speaker 1: That's it. Yes, that's it. At the end of it,
[2:01:24] Speaker 1: he escorted me out. I pray for you again, my
[2:01:27] Speaker 1: dear people. In the name of Jesus, may God position
[2:01:31] Speaker 1: you where you are needed.
[2:01:33] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[2:01:42] Speaker 1: There are many business people here. Where you are, you
[2:01:45] Speaker 1: are being underutilized. The people do not even know the
[2:01:48] Speaker 1: value you carry. They push you like a piece of rag.
[2:01:52] Speaker 1: Whereas there's somebody praying for half your potential and they
[2:01:55] Speaker 1: will pay the person 10 times what they pay you. Listen,
[2:01:59] Speaker 1: it is when demand and supply meet that there are rewards.
[2:02:03] Speaker 1: Are we together now? There are those who need you.
[2:02:06] Speaker 1: They have been praying for you. But you have not
[2:02:09] Speaker 1: been able to meet them. That's my own job now.
[2:02:11] Speaker 1: Yours is to train your skill. My own is to
[2:02:14] Speaker 1: relocate you by prophecy. And in the name of Jesus.
[2:02:17] Speaker 1: I say it again. May my God send you as
[2:02:20] Speaker 1: a gift. Send you as a gift. Send you as
[2:02:24] Speaker 1: a gift. In the name of Jesus. I submit to
[2:02:32] Speaker 1: you with every sense of humility. It is a beautiful
[2:02:36] Speaker 1: feeling to be in the midst of those who have
[2:02:38] Speaker 1: an appreciation for your value. They will honor you. They
[2:02:43] Speaker 1: will do everything within their power. I have gone to
[2:02:46] Speaker 1: places today where I was almost afraid at the treatment,
[2:02:51] Speaker 1: the show of honor. I was almost with my conservative self. Please,
[2:02:55] Speaker 1: let Jesus be the one who is seen.
[2:02:58] Speaker 3: They say, that's your concern there. Jesus has already seen.
[2:03:01] Speaker 1: Our own is to do this and you are wondering,
[2:03:03] Speaker 1: how do you do such a thing for a human being? Again,
[2:03:07] Speaker 1: I'm saying it all. Someone, where you are walking, you
[2:03:10] Speaker 1: are long overdue there. Long overdue. You have stayed there.
[2:03:15] Speaker 1: The truth is, with all humility, they don't have the
[2:03:17] Speaker 1: capacity to reward your value again. Therefore, rise to the
[2:03:21] Speaker 1: next level. Rise to the next level. If you have
[2:03:28] Speaker 1: the faith to receive, there are some of you, your
[2:03:31] Speaker 1: current level of development, you should be working with multinationals.
[2:03:35] Speaker 1: You should be working with NGOs at an international scale.
[2:03:39] Speaker 1: If you have the faith, I.
[2:03:40] Speaker 3: Push you there by the Spirit.
[2:03:49] Speaker 1: Something happened very recently that humbled me. And I'll save
[2:03:54] Speaker 1: all the details, but God did something that I said, God,
[2:03:57] Speaker 1: I fear you all. I fear you. I fear you.
[2:04:03] Speaker 1: Once upon a time, there were people who I would
[2:04:05] Speaker 1: pray from the sincerity of my heart to meet. It
[2:04:09] Speaker 1: was my sincere desire. It would be such an honor
[2:04:13] Speaker 1: to meet some of these people. With all due respect
[2:04:16] Speaker 1: and with every sense of humility and glory to God.
[2:04:20] Speaker 1: Some of these people today... They tried to reach me
[2:04:24] Speaker 1: and say, Apostle, do you know that I have tried
[2:04:27] Speaker 1: for two years to get your number? The person who
[2:04:31] Speaker 1: asked me to get, I had to be begging the person.
[2:04:33] Speaker 1: I said, and he finally gave me your number and
[2:04:35] Speaker 1: I'm watching. And I said, my God, look at this.
[2:04:44] Speaker 1: It's a dangerous thing to be where people cannot honor you.
[2:04:47] Speaker 1: I'm saying this again. There are pastors, I want to
[2:04:50] Speaker 1: pray for you. Not with any, there are certain people
[2:04:54] Speaker 1: who God must bring to your congregation that are called
[2:04:58] Speaker 1: sons of consolation. These are people who God positions. Don't
[2:05:03] Speaker 1: think what I'm saying is not important. Every man of
[2:05:06] Speaker 1: God needs such people in their lives. Men and women
[2:05:10] Speaker 1: sent by God with a revelation to hold your hands.
[2:05:14] Speaker 1: I'm not just saying it in terms of finances. These
[2:05:17] Speaker 1: are the kind of people if you cough they will
[2:05:19] Speaker 1: buy you a pharmacy. Their assignment is to see that
[2:05:23] Speaker 1: you remain. You are their ministry. By God. Ministry will
[2:05:31] Speaker 1: be frustrating for you if you don't have such people.
[2:05:34] Speaker 1: God has stationed some of these people in my life.
[2:05:36] Speaker 1: To the glory of God. I have seen many others
[2:05:39] Speaker 1: have these people. They make the burden of ministry easy.
[2:05:43] Speaker 1: They help you maintain integrity as yourself. And you don't
[2:05:47] Speaker 1: need to be a man of God to have these people.
[2:05:50] Speaker 1: By the privilege of God's grace. There are families here.
[2:05:54] Speaker 1: The children you gave birth to are not the only
[2:05:56] Speaker 1: children God ordained to bless you.
[2:05:58] Speaker 3: There are other children that did.
[2:06:00] Speaker 1: Not come from your womb. But simply because you have
[2:06:03] Speaker 1: not been located, a young man can look at you
[2:06:06] Speaker 1: and say, Mama, because of something your daughter did for
[2:06:09] Speaker 1: the rest of your life, I will put you on
[2:06:12] Speaker 1: salary till the day you see his face. You don't
[2:06:15] Speaker 1: believe that happens? When Joseph was with his brothers, what
[2:06:21] Speaker 1: did they do? They kicked him, threw him inside a well.
[2:06:24] Speaker 1: Potiphar's wife added her own. But the day Pharaoh saw him,
[2:06:29] Speaker 1: the first day became the only day he remained in
[2:06:32] Speaker 1: that captivity. When God wants to help a man, even financially,
[2:06:38] Speaker 1: he blesses the works of your hands. Then he connects
[2:06:41] Speaker 1: you to people who have entered their Rehoboth. If you
[2:06:46] Speaker 1: are Lot, he will connect you to Abraham. If you
[2:06:51] Speaker 1: are Ruth, he will connect you to Boaz. If you
[2:06:56] Speaker 1: are Esther, he will connect you to Ahasuerus. The pattern
[2:06:59] Speaker 1: is always the same. When God wants to accelerate your becoming,
[2:07:03] Speaker 1: he does not just bless the works of your hands.
[2:07:05] Speaker 1: He positions strategic people. Is it alright if I speak
[2:07:09] Speaker 1: one more time? In the name of Jesus Christ. You
[2:07:12] Speaker 1: are located in a place where your value is not appreciated.
[2:07:16] Speaker 1: Whether you are a man of God. Whether you are
[2:07:18] Speaker 1: a businessman. If it's a period of your training. May
[2:07:21] Speaker 1: grace be given for you to remain there. But if
[2:07:24] Speaker 1: it is that your time is up. And it's that
[2:07:27] Speaker 1: your grace is being despised. I relocate you to the
[2:07:30] Speaker 1: place of honor. You will hear marvelous testimonies from this.
[2:07:44] Speaker 1: Marvelous testimonies. Do you know, sometimes, these my dear people,
[2:07:51] Speaker 1: sometimes they go to minister somewhere. They will bless them
[2:07:55] Speaker 1: and give them an orarium and then they will package
[2:07:57] Speaker 1: something and.
[2:07:58] Speaker 3: Say, when you get back, give apostle to Adam.
[2:08:01] Speaker 1: Did I sing?
[2:08:02] Speaker 3: Did I preach?
[2:08:04] Speaker 1: Did I minister? I don't even know the church where
[2:08:06] Speaker 1: they went to. Hi. May God extend people from you.
[2:08:13] Speaker 1: Extend people from you that will keep bringing back blessings
[2:08:17] Speaker 1: to your life. There are some of you, someone will
[2:08:22] Speaker 1: look at you and say, so you are the mother
[2:08:25] Speaker 1: of this lady. Because of that, I'm moving you to
[2:08:28] Speaker 1: a house of your own. Some of you, someone will
[2:08:32] Speaker 1: look at you and say, so you.
[2:08:33] Speaker 3: Are the one they've been talking about.
[2:08:35] Speaker 1: I move you to, if you believe.
[2:08:37] Speaker 3: It, receive it in Jesus name. Please sit down.
[2:08:42] Speaker 1: Let me give you the final one. What can I do?
[2:08:48] Speaker 1: Is the question that wise men ask. If the desire
[2:08:51] Speaker 1: to maximize destiny. There is always something God puts in
[2:08:55] Speaker 1: your hand. You identify it. You refine it. You deploy it.
[2:09:01] Speaker 1: Not just to give you money. Money is not the
[2:09:04] Speaker 1: ultimate intent behind deploying your gifts. Being a blessing. Creating impact.
[2:09:10] Speaker 1: And rewards only become natural. Finally. What is the final question?
[2:09:17] Speaker 1: Where am I going? When this life.
[2:09:20] Speaker 2: It's over.
[2:09:22] Speaker 1: Where am I going? It's a question of destiny. Even
[2:09:26] Speaker 1: eternal destiny. The wise do not stop in celebrating their giftings.
[2:09:32] Speaker 1: The wise do not stop in celebrating all of the
[2:09:36] Speaker 1: things that they achieve here on the earth. As much
[2:09:40] Speaker 1: as we shouted amen and we celebrated all the things
[2:09:44] Speaker 1: that God was giving us to excel. The question, where
[2:09:48] Speaker 1: am I going? It's a very powerful question. 1 Corinthians 15, 19.
[2:09:54] Speaker 1: 1 Corinthians 15, 19. Koinonia, let's read together. Ready? One
[2:10:00] Speaker 1: to read. If in this life only we have hope
[2:10:03] Speaker 1: in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. One
[2:10:07] Speaker 1: more time. If in this life only we have hope
[2:10:10] Speaker 1: in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. You
[2:10:13] Speaker 1: know what this means? This means that as much as
[2:10:18] Speaker 1: it is to achieve things, buying cars, buying houses, strategic achievements,
[2:10:28] Speaker 1: all of these things are wonderful and they are part
[2:10:30] Speaker 1: of the elements that help you to maximize life and destiny.
[2:10:34] Speaker 1: But let me tell you the truth. One reality that
[2:10:39] Speaker 1: all men must come to terms with is that eventually
[2:10:44] Speaker 1: your time In the earth.
[2:10:46] Speaker 3: Would come to an end. Either by his return.
[2:10:51] Speaker 1: Or your exiting. Again let me finish the story. I
[2:10:56] Speaker 1: started with. So that glorious morning. I was in the
[2:11:01] Speaker 1: city of worry. Preparing. My notes for my session. That morning.
[2:11:07] Speaker 3: When I got to see. That the late Dr.
[2:11:10] Speaker 1: Miles. Had departed this earth. And sadly it was in
[2:11:16] Speaker 1: a plane crash. I was quite devastated. I asked a
[2:11:20] Speaker 1: lot of questions. Now I know better. Haven't grown a
[2:11:23] Speaker 1: lot more than I was then. You can imagine 2014.
[2:11:28] Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, I said, my God, how
[2:11:30] Speaker 1: brief life can be. You only need to be alive
[2:11:34] Speaker 1: for a few weeks to learn the vanity of acquiring
[2:11:38] Speaker 1: everything here and not having an eternal consolation. Our world
[2:11:43] Speaker 1: is full of people today. Who have passed on to glory.
[2:11:48] Speaker 1: It is in the matter of death. That both the
[2:11:52] Speaker 1: rich and the poor do not have any advantage against themselves.
[2:11:56] Speaker 1: And above themselves. When it has to do with the
[2:11:59] Speaker 1: issue of death and transition beyond this realm.
[2:12:02] Speaker 3: The rich is not greater than the poor.
[2:12:05] Speaker 1: The educated is not more advantageous than the uneducated. Male, female, young, old.
[2:12:11] Speaker 1: Death or transition as I would call it. Seems to
[2:12:15] Speaker 1: be a very ruthless equalizer. It can bring both the
[2:12:21] Speaker 1: rich and the poor to their knees. It can bring
[2:12:24] Speaker 1: both the learned and the unlearned to their knees. It
[2:12:27] Speaker 1: brings whites and blacks to their knees. It brings first
[2:12:31] Speaker 1: world nations and third world nations to their knees. You
[2:12:34] Speaker 1: would think because of the abundance of resources people should
[2:12:37] Speaker 1: not die.
[2:12:38] Speaker 3: You would think because of.
[2:12:39] Speaker 1: The vast extent of education people should not die. You
[2:12:42] Speaker 1: would think because of the excellency of.
[2:12:45] Speaker 3: Achievements people should not die.
[2:12:47] Speaker 1: You would think because of the dexterity of people's health
[2:12:50] Speaker 1: they should not die. There are people who die today
[2:12:53] Speaker 1: with no known medical cause. They just write something but
[2:12:56] Speaker 1: their health was impeccable and they still died. When it
[2:13:02] Speaker 1: has to do with the matters of rounding up your
[2:13:05] Speaker 1: life in the earth. Ladies and gentlemen, I want you
[2:13:08] Speaker 1: to listen to this preacher. If all that we have
[2:13:13] Speaker 1: only ends here, you do not have much. Thank God
[2:13:17] Speaker 1: for certificates. Press for them. Thank God for secular achievements
[2:13:23] Speaker 1: and achievements of any sort. Press for them.
[2:13:25] Speaker 3: Build the business. Expand the ministry.
[2:13:30] Speaker 1: But in all you're doing, have it at the back
[2:13:32] Speaker 1: of your mind. Nobody has gone out of the earth
[2:13:35] Speaker 1: with one dollar, one.
[2:13:37] Speaker 5: Naira, one pound.
[2:13:39] Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way. If you cannot carry your
[2:13:42] Speaker 1: physical body out, talk less whatever, you know, is physical there.
[2:13:50] Speaker 3: A quote from Dr.
[2:13:51] Speaker 1: Miles Monroe. Here's what he said. The richest place on earth.
[2:13:57] Speaker 3: Is not the gold mine's Congo.
[2:14:01] Speaker 1: Or South Africa or some part of Africa it's not
[2:14:05] Speaker 1: the oil mines in Nigeria and the Middle East he
[2:14:09] Speaker 1: said the wealthiest place on earth he called it the
[2:14:12] Speaker 1: symmetry why because books are lying there that were never
[2:14:19] Speaker 1: written businesses covered with sand That never came to the
[2:14:25] Speaker 1: light of day. Speeches that could alter the thinking of generations.
[2:14:30] Speaker 1: Like I have a dream. Imagine if he never said that.
[2:14:35] Speaker 1: The press for justice and equality. Captured in an intelligent
[2:14:39] Speaker 1: person's presentation. Has rewritten the liberation narrative. Of many many
[2:14:45] Speaker 1: territories today. What if these people never emerged? But my question.
[2:14:51] Speaker 3: Is now that they are gone.
[2:14:53] Speaker 1: What becomes of them. I hope you know that every
[2:14:56] Speaker 1: secular celebration ends on earth. The parameter for celebrating people
[2:15:01] Speaker 1: in heaven. And the life beyond. Works by a separate
[2:15:05] Speaker 1: set of rules. You would think that if you were
[2:15:08] Speaker 1: a billionaire or you were a CEO or you were
[2:15:12] Speaker 1: some man of God, by the time you stand before God,
[2:15:15] Speaker 1: they would arrange you based on that rating. Chances are
[2:15:19] Speaker 1: excellent that if I come into an occasion, perhaps for
[2:15:21] Speaker 1: the purpose of honor, you would say, Apostle Joshua Selman, please,
[2:15:25] Speaker 1: your seat is in front. It doesn't happen that way
[2:15:28] Speaker 1: after this life is done. You will join a very
[2:15:31] Speaker 1: ruthless queue where everybody stands and the works of men
[2:15:36] Speaker 1: will be tried. Among the many things that I'm grateful
[2:15:40] Speaker 1: to God for... For the mentorship of men like Dr.
[2:15:43] Speaker 3: Miles Monroe.
[2:15:44] Speaker 1: Extending to that of people like Billy Graham... Is the
[2:15:47] Speaker 1: consciousness of eternity. That if only in this life... This
[2:15:52] Speaker 1: koinonia you see... We are not carrying it to heaven.
[2:15:55] Speaker 1: It is a platform to help us serve the purposes
[2:15:57] Speaker 1: of the kingdom.
[2:15:58] Speaker 3: Whilst we are alive... And.
[2:16:00] Speaker 1: Within the time that is allotted. In this place right now...
[2:16:05] Speaker 1: There are weak old babies... In this place right now
[2:16:09] Speaker 1: are children under 10. In this place right now are
[2:16:14] Speaker 1: teenagers listening to me. In this place right now are
[2:16:18] Speaker 1: young adults stepping into their early 20s. In this place
[2:16:21] Speaker 1: right now are adults maximizing their life. In this place
[2:16:26] Speaker 1: right now are people who have crossed the 50-year mark.
[2:16:30] Speaker 1: In this place right now are people who are rounding
[2:16:33] Speaker 1: up their lives. Death is a strange equalizer. It can
[2:16:40] Speaker 1: bring the entire achievements of a man to naught in
[2:16:44] Speaker 1: one moment. By reason of what I do. When people die,
[2:16:49] Speaker 1: usually people try to inform me, either to pray for them,
[2:16:52] Speaker 1: attempting to raise them back, or just to help manage
[2:16:55] Speaker 1: the grief and all of that. You've heard me say
[2:16:57] Speaker 1: these things again and again. Let me tell you the truth.
[2:17:00] Speaker 1: If you've stood before many dead bodies, there is a
[2:17:03] Speaker 1: sermon only a dead body can preach. That body has
[2:17:07] Speaker 1: to be dead to preach that sermon. And I have
[2:17:11] Speaker 1: listened to the sermons that have come from many dead bodies.
[2:17:14] Speaker 1: Great bodies. But now dead bodies. Educated bodies. But now
[2:17:20] Speaker 1: dead bodies. Warrior bodies. Excellent in stature. Sickly bodies. Healthy
[2:17:27] Speaker 1: bodies that died. And all of them lie before life.
[2:17:32] Speaker 1: The end of the achievement of all men. Is provided
[2:17:35] Speaker 1: you are breathing. If you are not breathing.
[2:17:39] Speaker 3: The story is over.
[2:17:40] Speaker 1: As far as this realm is concerned. The only thing
[2:17:44] Speaker 1: you can transport out of this realm. Is one singular relationship.
[2:17:50] Speaker 1: backed up by your years of investment to the kingdom.
[2:17:54] Speaker 1: These are the only things that sustain the power to
[2:17:57] Speaker 1: have value beyond life.
[2:18:02] Speaker 5: Dr.
[2:18:03] Speaker 1: Miles taught us that in all our achievements... We should
[2:18:07] Speaker 1: not be carried away by mundane things. We will build
[2:18:11] Speaker 1: the houses. We will feed the poor. We will extend
[2:18:15] Speaker 1: the influence to the farthest points as God grants grace.
[2:18:18] Speaker 1: But in all that doing, we will not forget to
[2:18:21] Speaker 1: remind ourselves and remind all those who are within our care.
[2:18:25] Speaker 1: The Bible says in Acts chapter 20 and verse 28,
[2:18:28] Speaker 1: it says, take heed to yourself first. And then to
[2:18:32] Speaker 1: the flock over which the Holy Ghost had made you
[2:18:36] Speaker 1: overseers to feed the church of God, which he purchased
[2:18:40] Speaker 1: with his own blood.
[2:18:41] Speaker 3: Take heed to yourself. I've preached it.
[2:18:47] Speaker 1: Many times here. I wouldn't die young by the grace
[2:18:51] Speaker 1: of God. But I will never fear death. Never. It
[2:18:55] Speaker 1: is unnecessary to fear death. When Jesus is in your heart.
[2:19:00] Speaker 1: It is unnecessary to fear death. When you have found
[2:19:02] Speaker 1: your place in life. And you are spending your life.
[2:19:05] Speaker 1: Serving him.
[2:19:07] Speaker 3: For me like Paul.
[2:19:09] Speaker 1: I will emphasize again as I have done. To live
[2:19:11] Speaker 1: is Christ. And to die is gain. You don't run
[2:19:14] Speaker 1: away from profit. The reason why we contend for longevity.
[2:19:18] Speaker 1: Is not the fear of death. It is to allow
[2:19:20] Speaker 1: us ample time. To serve the purposes of the kingdom.
[2:19:24] Speaker 1: Within the script allotted for us. Listen to me. If
[2:19:28] Speaker 1: Christ tarries, a day will come, nobody looking at me
[2:19:32] Speaker 1: here will be in the earth. It will be another
[2:19:35] Speaker 1: set of people. The same way there were other sets
[2:19:37] Speaker 1: of people before our arrival. The wisdom here is that
[2:19:41] Speaker 1: in all your getting degrees, in all your pressing to
[2:19:47] Speaker 1: be an exceptional person, in all your passion to do
[2:19:51] Speaker 1: ministry and excel in ministry, in all your passion to
[2:19:54] Speaker 1: want to get financial resources as important as they are,
[2:19:58] Speaker 1: in all your desire to maximize destiny as we title
[2:20:02] Speaker 1: this talk, it is important for you to have it
[2:20:05] Speaker 1: at the back of your mind that anything without Jesus
[2:20:09] Speaker 1: only ends here. The continuation of your relevance is directly
[2:20:16] Speaker 1: connected to your being with Jesus and your receiving his life.
[2:20:23] Speaker 1: I have seen people die. I know they were not saved.
[2:20:27] Speaker 1: It was a painful feeling. Because based on the authority
[2:20:31] Speaker 1: of scripture. The destiny of all sinners and all believers. Unbelievers.
[2:20:36] Speaker 3: Is defined.
[2:20:37] Speaker 1: As painful as that may be. Maybe some of them
[2:20:40] Speaker 1: were your loved ones. Today right now. It's an uncomfortable truth.
[2:20:45] Speaker 1: But if we are to judge by the integrity of scripture.
[2:20:48] Speaker 1: We know where they are. And it is not a
[2:20:50] Speaker 1: good place. Some of them left this morning. Some of
[2:20:54] Speaker 1: them left last week. Some of them entered the new year.
[2:20:57] Speaker 1: We laughed together but they are gone today. Some of
[2:21:00] Speaker 1: them laughed when we preached. They mocked when we cried
[2:21:04] Speaker 1: calling the name of Jesus. They mocked to scorn as
[2:21:08] Speaker 1: we rolled before the king of kings. And for them
[2:21:10] Speaker 1: destiny has fallen. Someone came to church tonight. And in
[2:21:15] Speaker 1: the midst of all you have heard me teach, you
[2:21:17] Speaker 1: shouted amen for promotion. You shouted amen for increase. You
[2:21:22] Speaker 1: shouted amen for prophetic relocation. I hope you will shout
[2:21:26] Speaker 1: amen when I mention Jesus. I hope you will shout
[2:21:29] Speaker 1: amen when I mention the wisest question that all men
[2:21:34] Speaker 1: must ask and answer. Now listen. You can delay in
[2:21:40] Speaker 1: answering every other question I ask. Life will forgive you.
[2:21:45] Speaker 1: But there is one question that when you delay, the
[2:21:48] Speaker 1: consequence is eternal. There are people who discover and answer
[2:21:54] Speaker 1: the question, who am I, when.
[2:21:55] Speaker 3: They are 40 or 50.
[2:21:56] Speaker 1: It's not the best, but at least it's better than nothing.
[2:22:00] Speaker 1: There are others who will answer the question, where am
[2:22:03] Speaker 1: I coming from, late in life. There are others who
[2:22:06] Speaker 1: answer the question, why am I here? Late in life.
[2:22:10] Speaker 1: There are others who answer the question, what do I have?
[2:22:13] Speaker 1: Late in life. Life will forgive you. Even Abraham, he
[2:22:18] Speaker 1: started a major part of his journey from 75. Life
[2:22:21] Speaker 1: forgave him. But can I tell you the truth? There
[2:22:24] Speaker 1: is one question that even if you answer and you
[2:22:28] Speaker 1: do not answer properly, both life and eternity will not
[2:22:32] Speaker 1: forgive you. That is the question, where are you going
[2:22:34] Speaker 1: from here? You came to church because for some of you,
[2:22:43] Speaker 1: you've answered all four. Remain in the faith. You have
[2:22:48] Speaker 1: a healthy perception of yourself. Congratulations. You know where you
[2:22:53] Speaker 1: come from because you've hung around church. You understand instinctively
[2:22:59] Speaker 1: and by training why you are here. You have a
[2:23:04] Speaker 1: vast understanding of your potentials. You've attended all kinds of
[2:23:08] Speaker 1: leadership seminars. And they have trained you into piecing together
[2:23:12] Speaker 1: your value. You can articulate them with uncanny mastery. But
[2:23:17] Speaker 1: the one question the Lord is asking you tonight. And
[2:23:20] Speaker 1: this wraps up my contemplation with us today. And also
[2:23:23] Speaker 1: in honor to the late Dr. Miles Munro.
[2:23:26] Speaker 3: Where are you going? I'm not sure when Dr.
[2:23:29] Speaker 1: Miles Munro said that he knew that he would soon
[2:23:32] Speaker 1: be gone. I'm not sure. I never heard him say
[2:23:38] Speaker 1: that he was going to go early. Even though I
[2:23:40] Speaker 1: heard him say very confidently that even if he left early,
[2:23:44] Speaker 1: it didn't matter. Little did he know he was prophesying.
[2:23:48] Speaker 1: And truly he left. All of us will not go
[2:23:53] Speaker 1: the same day. Our times are in the hands of God.
[2:23:58] Speaker 1: There are those who started this year... You know some
[2:24:00] Speaker 1: of them... Today they've joined the cloud of witnesses... And
[2:24:03] Speaker 1: some painfully are in hell....
[2:24:07] Speaker 3: My final call to you.
[2:24:10] Speaker 1: Is that the greatest secret... Of your confidence in life...
[2:24:14] Speaker 1: Should not be the cars that are parked in your garage...
[2:24:18] Speaker 1: Not the amounts that are stashed in your account... Not
[2:24:21] Speaker 1: the certificates that you have... Not the jewelries that are
[2:24:25] Speaker 1: stashed in your box... Not the clothes that fill your room.
[2:24:29] Speaker 1: Not the awards that decorate your office. Not the paraphernalia
[2:24:33] Speaker 1: that life has brought around you. The greatest basis of
[2:24:36] Speaker 1: your confidence should be. That in all of this. If
[2:24:41] Speaker 1: all I have is Jesus. I've got something more than gold.
[2:24:48] Speaker 1: I will tell it to the world. Jesus is more
[2:24:53] Speaker 1: than gold. I don't know how true it is, but
[2:24:58] Speaker 1: I was told that one great giant of faith years
[2:25:00] Speaker 1: ago when he left, they went to search his accounts
[2:25:04] Speaker 1: and search other things, hoping that there would be so
[2:25:07] Speaker 1: much money there. And I don't know, they didn't find
[2:25:14] Speaker 1: as much as would be expected. And according to the story,
[2:25:18] Speaker 1: the people were surprised. This man was so wealthy, we
[2:25:22] Speaker 1: knew him to be wealthy while he served. What suddenly
[2:25:25] Speaker 1: happened that he's long gone? He was told that the
[2:25:27] Speaker 1: man would put a big table to eat and invite
[2:25:31] Speaker 1: everybody and say, come and dine and eat. Honestly, let
[2:25:35] Speaker 1: me tell you, don't wait till you are old before
[2:25:38] Speaker 1: you understand the vanity of life without Christ. No certificate
[2:25:46] Speaker 1: will replace... Your refusal of Jesus when life is done.
[2:25:52] Speaker 1: No amount of white travel across the globe. You may
[2:25:56] Speaker 1: be vast in learning. Vast in travels. It will not
[2:25:59] Speaker 1: replace your not knowing Jesus. Before we bow our heads
[2:26:03] Speaker 1: to pray. I just felt to do this right now.
[2:26:06] Speaker 1: And then we'll pray. On this Lord's day. The greatest
[2:26:12] Speaker 1: way to maximize destiny. And I want you to write it.
[2:26:15] Speaker 1: Is to do destiny. With Jesus in your heart. It
[2:26:21] Speaker 1: is better to not have money and have Jesus. It's
[2:26:24] Speaker 1: not the best. But at least it is better than
[2:26:26] Speaker 1: the worst. You may never have the privilege of travel
[2:26:31] Speaker 1: around the world. Perhaps not have the privilege to be
[2:26:34] Speaker 1: celebrated by your world and your generation. But if you
[2:26:38] Speaker 1: make this simple decision of making Jesus Lord of your
[2:26:41] Speaker 1: life and you mean it truthfully, then you have made
[2:26:44] Speaker 1: the wisest decision. No other decision stands close to this.
[2:26:49] Speaker 1: I want to extend an invitation to someone right now
[2:26:52] Speaker 1: while we're all seated. You would do your destiny a
[2:26:57] Speaker 1: great disservice to hear these kinds of teaching and answer
[2:27:02] Speaker 1: amen with joy to all the four questions excitedly so.
[2:27:06] Speaker 3: And then for this one final one.
[2:27:08] Speaker 1: Which perhaps may be the only question you are yet
[2:27:11] Speaker 1: to answer. You've answered the remaining four. It's time to
[2:27:15] Speaker 1: answer the final one. You are saying apostle. This is
[2:27:19] Speaker 1: the moment of destiny for me. I do not know
[2:27:22] Speaker 1: how many days I have left. All I know is
[2:27:25] Speaker 1: that I want to live my life loving Jesus. Serving Jesus.
[2:27:28] Speaker 1: Living for him. Spending my life for him. You are
[2:27:32] Speaker 1: in this place. And you are saying, I have never
[2:27:35] Speaker 1: consciously made a decision for Jesus. I've been to crusades.
[2:27:40] Speaker 1: where men of God preached. I've read books on salvation.
[2:27:43] Speaker 1: Perhaps you may be saying. I have watched on TV
[2:27:46] Speaker 1: salvation messages. But I've never really taken a conscious step.
[2:27:51] Speaker 1: To sort my eternal destiny and my eternal stand.
[2:27:56] Speaker 3: Tomorrow may be late.
[2:27:58] Speaker 4: It is true.
[2:27:59] Speaker 1: Jesus is giving you an opportunity right now. And you
[2:28:03] Speaker 1: are saying, Apostle, I know that the times are evil.
[2:28:05] Speaker 1: I want to redeem the time. I want to stop
[2:28:08] Speaker 1: wasting my life living anyhow. You are in this place.
[2:28:12] Speaker 1: You are rededicating your life to Jesus or making a
[2:28:15] Speaker 1: first call. Wherever you are, I want you to stand
[2:28:19] Speaker 1: up right now and come and stand right before me.
[2:28:22] Speaker 1: Don't be ashamed and don't be afraid. Don't wait for
[2:28:26] Speaker 1: anyone to come before you. Leave your seat. With the
[2:28:30] Speaker 1: boldness and the confidence of one who is determined to
[2:28:34] Speaker 1: maximize destiny. Come.
[2:28:37] Speaker 3: Koinonia let's celebrate them as they come.
[2:28:42] Speaker 1: Come. Please stand. Let me request that you stand so
[2:28:46] Speaker 1: there will be space.
[2:28:48] Speaker 3: Please come.
[2:28:50] Speaker 1: Jesus gathered us today even for your sake.
[2:29:02] Speaker 5: Come.
[2:29:12] Speaker 1: Oh, glorious one. We praise your name. We lay our ground.
[2:29:24] Speaker 1: Are you coming? If you're coming, please come quickly.
[2:29:29] Speaker 5: Oh glorious God.
[2:29:33] Speaker 4: We praise your name. We lay our ground in worship.
[2:29:44] Speaker 5: Oh glorious God.
[2:29:46] Speaker 2: Come to Jesus.
[2:29:50] Speaker 3: He's able to give you a new beginning.
[2:29:54] Speaker 4: Come to Jesus.
[2:30:05] Speaker 1: You're joining us from across the globe. I want you
[2:30:07] Speaker 1: to follow in this prayer. If you're joining them, please
[2:30:10] Speaker 1: come quickly. It's never too late to make it right
[2:30:14] Speaker 1: with Jesus. Thank you brothers and sisters for this noble decision.
[2:30:19] Speaker 1: Many made this decision. And today they are eternally grateful
[2:30:23] Speaker 1: for it. Many despise the call for this decision. And
[2:30:28] Speaker 1: unfortunately there may not be a chance again. Based on
[2:30:31] Speaker 1: what the Bible says. For you, you have hearkened to
[2:30:34] Speaker 1: this call. The Bible says as many who will come
[2:30:37] Speaker 1: to him he will in no wise despise. I salute
[2:30:40] Speaker 1: your courage. Please lift your right hand. And I want
[2:30:43] Speaker 1: you to say this after me as loud and as
[2:30:45] Speaker 1: clear as you can. Say Lord Jesus. Say one more
[2:30:49] Speaker 1: time Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus. Tonight, I have heard your word.
[2:30:55] Speaker 1: I declare that I love you with all my heart.
[2:31:01] Speaker 1: I declare that you are the son of God. I
[2:31:06] Speaker 1: believe that you died for my sin. I believe that
[2:31:12] Speaker 1: you rose again for my justification.
[2:31:16] Speaker 3: Right now, I receive Jesus into my heart.
[2:31:21] Speaker 1: As my Savior, my Lord, and my King, I declare
[2:31:28] Speaker 1: that the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave
[2:31:35] Speaker 1: is broken over my life. From tonight, I am a
[2:31:39] Speaker 1: child of God. I go forward ever and backward never. Amen.
[2:31:45] Speaker 1: Keep your hands lifted. Lord, we thank you. Eternally grateful.
[2:31:49] Speaker 1: For the privilege to extend your life, your love, your
[2:31:52] Speaker 1: message to these precious ones. And the many who have
[2:31:55] Speaker 1: made this call across the globe. Your word declares that
[2:31:59] Speaker 1: as many who will come to you, you will in
[2:32:00] Speaker 1: no wise cast away. We thank you for receiving these
[2:32:03] Speaker 1: ones and imparting upon them the life of God. I
[2:32:07] Speaker 1: pray by the authority of scripture that the grace to
[2:32:09] Speaker 1: live victorious Christian lives is imparted upon them right now.
[2:32:14] Speaker 1: That they will love you like never before. They will
[2:32:16] Speaker 1: serve you like never before. I pray for you all
[2:32:19] Speaker 1: that you will go from glory to glory and grace
[2:32:22] Speaker 1: to grace. And that when this life is over, together
[2:32:25] Speaker 1: we will rejoice in the presence of our King and Savior.
[2:32:29] Speaker 3: In the mighty and much less name of Jesus.
[2:32:32] Speaker 1: Amen and amen. Blessings to you.
[2:32:33] Speaker 3: Please, I want you to move to my right. That
[2:32:35] Speaker 3: will be your left.
[2:32:37] Speaker 1: A group of counselors will just have one quick word
[2:32:39] Speaker 1: with you just for a moment. And then you'll be back.
[2:32:42] Speaker 1: Let's honor them as they do that. Thank you. Thank
[2:32:44] Speaker 1: you so much. Thank you. I feel stirred in my
[2:32:58] Speaker 1: heart to say this before we wrap up the service.
[2:33:01] Speaker 1: Please make sure that someone gets saved through your life.
[2:33:07] Speaker 1: The rate at which believers are not concerned about the
[2:33:09] Speaker 1: salvation of others is very alarming. It is impossible to
[2:33:13] Speaker 1: say you love God and then you do not want
[2:33:16] Speaker 1: to see people come to him And to bring them
[2:33:20] Speaker 1: like trophies. To thank him for his substitutionary sacrifice. There
[2:33:25] Speaker 1: are preachers who do not care about the salvation of people.
[2:33:28] Speaker 1: At all. They are believers. Matured believers. Among the many
[2:33:36] Speaker 1: responsibilities of a believer. Whether you are called into the
[2:33:39] Speaker 1: five fold or not. You must see to it that
[2:33:41] Speaker 1: through your life. Through your prayer. Your evangelism. Your giving.
[2:33:47] Speaker 1: Your intercession. That someone comes to Jesus. Now while you
[2:33:51] Speaker 1: are seated in one minute. I want you to pray.
[2:33:54] Speaker 1: And say father. Help me maximize destiny. Help me maximize destiny.
[2:33:59] Speaker 1: Go ahead. Help me maximize destiny. We have discussed the question.
[2:34:07] Speaker 1: But you will go back and you will answer it.
[2:34:11] Speaker 3: Who am I?
[2:34:12] Speaker 1: The question of identity. Where am I from?
[2:34:16] Speaker 3: Your source and your connections.
[2:34:22] Speaker 1: Why am I here?
[2:34:24] Speaker 3: The question of purpose and destiny. What do I have?
[2:34:29] Speaker 1: The question of your giftings, your potentials, your ability. The
[2:34:33] Speaker 1: final question, where am I going when life is over? Pray.
[2:34:40] Speaker 1: Take a minute in this solemn assembly to pray.
[2:34:43] Speaker 3: Ask the Lord to help you maximize destiny.
[2:34:46] Speaker 1: That at the end of your life, it will not
[2:34:48] Speaker 1: be that you wasted time, you wasted moments. You wasted sermons.
[2:34:52] Speaker 1: You wasted relationships. You wasted opportunities. Life is a gift.
[2:34:59] Speaker 1: It must be cherished and it must be maximized. Now
[2:35:04] Speaker 1: let me pray for you. Father in the name of Jesus.
[2:35:07] Speaker 1: I stretch my hands over your blessed people. Here on ground.
[2:35:11] Speaker 1: And connecting across the globe. You have placed this as
[2:35:15] Speaker 1: a burden in my heart. And I have brought your
[2:35:17] Speaker 1: word to your people. Like the lake Dr.
[2:35:20] Speaker 2: Miles.
[2:35:21] Speaker 1: Like many others. Billy Graham. Those who have joined the
[2:35:25] Speaker 1: cloud of witnesses. Who stood as signposts. Models. References.
[2:35:32] Speaker 3: Patterns.
[2:35:33] Speaker 1: They have helped us to evolve. They have helped us
[2:35:36] Speaker 1: to become. They have modeled Christ so beautifully. And upon
[2:35:41] Speaker 1: the strength of their witnesses. We have become what we
[2:35:44] Speaker 1: are by grace today. They have set precedence. And now
[2:35:48] Speaker 1: we follow faithfully. I'm praying, oh God, in the name
[2:35:51] Speaker 1: of Jesus, that everyone under the sound of my.
[2:35:54] Speaker 3: Voice will maximize destiny.
[2:35:59] Speaker 1: Everyone under the sound of my voice will maximize destiny.
[2:36:04] Speaker 1: That from today you will walk conscious of your identity
[2:36:07] Speaker 1: in Christ.
[2:36:08] Speaker 3: That from today you.
[2:36:09] Speaker 1: Walk conscious of your supernatural origin. That from today you
[2:36:15] Speaker 1: walk conscious of your assignment, your purpose and your prophetic destiny.
[2:36:21] Speaker 1: That from today you walk conscious of the vast giftings.
[2:36:24] Speaker 1: The spiritual resources both inherent and imparted that God has
[2:36:29] Speaker 1: put upon you. In the name of Jesus. And finally
[2:36:33] Speaker 1: I pray for everyone under the sound of my voice.
[2:36:36] Speaker 1: By this teaching tonight let the fear of death die.
[2:36:40] Speaker 1: Let the fear of death die. And let the plague
[2:36:44] Speaker 1: of death die. You will live your life to its fullest.
[2:36:49] Speaker 1: And when your time is up to meet with Jesus.
[2:36:51] Speaker 1: It will be with galaxy and glory. In the name
[2:36:54] Speaker 1: of Jesus. Nobody under the sound of.
[2:36:57] Speaker 3: My voice will be in hell.
[2:37:00] Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. You will love Jesus and
[2:37:03] Speaker 1: you will serve him all the days of your life.
[2:37:06] Speaker 1: And for everyone here who's had your spiritual life go down.
[2:37:10] Speaker 3: And you are in a.
[2:37:10] Speaker 1: State where you need restoration, resurrection. We agree with you
[2:37:15] Speaker 1: before this service is done. That you will start a
[2:37:17] Speaker 1: journey afresh with the spirit. In the name of Jesus.
[2:37:23] Speaker 3: But now that you have Jesus in your heart. Go
[2:37:25] Speaker 3: and prosper. Go and excel. You will not fail.
[2:37:32] Speaker 1: Success and victory will be the theme of your life
[2:37:37] Speaker 1: all through this year. I say it again, success and
[2:37:40] Speaker 1: victory will be the theme of your.
[2:37:43] Speaker 3: Life all through this year. Help us arise in for you.
[2:37:47] Speaker 3: Help us arise in for you.
[2:37:50] Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. Everywhere you are trusting God
[2:37:54] Speaker 1: for a miracle. I release my faith right now. And
[2:37:57] Speaker 1: I call it done for your sake. Done for your sake.
[2:38:02] Speaker 1: For some of you you're coming for the miracle service.
[2:38:05] Speaker 1: It's just to come and dance in Thanksgiving. Because this
[2:38:08] Speaker 1: week all through will be your miracle service.
[2:38:12] Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus. The Lord bless you. The
[2:38:15] Speaker 3: Lord honor you. The Lord keep you. The Lord protect you.
[2:38:20] Speaker 1: The Lord preserve you. The Lord announce you. The Lord
[2:38:24] Speaker 1: glorify you. In the name of Jesus. One quick announcement.
[2:38:32] Speaker 1: The worship team. Is still open. I understand. You have
[2:38:39] Speaker 1: up until. Today.
[2:38:42] Speaker 7: Today.
[2:38:44] Speaker 1: Up until today is the final announcement for the worship team.
[2:38:47] Speaker 1: So for all of you who desire to be part
[2:38:50] Speaker 1: of the worship team. Do send your application to kwtabuja
[2:38:54] Speaker 1: koinoniaworshipteam at gmail.com Or after service you can just wait
[2:39:00] Speaker 1: at my right here the worship team stand. And you
[2:39:02] Speaker 1: have a word and they'll guide you on what to do.
[2:39:04] Speaker 1: Have you been blessed tonight? Now make sure you do
[2:39:07] Speaker 1: the work of an evangelist. We invite everyone around you.
[2:39:10] Speaker 1: Especially those who need the hand of God. It's going
[2:39:13] Speaker 1: to be a powerful time at the Miracle Service on Sunday.
[2:39:16] Speaker 1: And then, of course, do not forget again our time
[2:39:20] Speaker 1: with Pastor Nat and Terry McHalmond. Hallelujah. Please rise up
[2:39:25] Speaker 1: on your feet. Thank you again for your love and labor.
[2:39:31] Speaker 1: Reverend Akilah, thank you so much for you and your
[2:39:33] Speaker 1: dear wife taking the time all the way from Joss.
[2:39:35] Speaker 1: And for all who have come, particularly our international guests,
[2:39:40] Speaker 1: thank you. We love you. Keep loving Jesus. Keep serving Jesus.
[2:39:44] Speaker 1: Amen and amen. Let this week be a blessed one
[2:39:47] Speaker 1: for you. The lines fall for you in pleasant places.
[2:39:51] Speaker 1: In Jesus name. Together let's share the grace. The grace
[2:39:54] Speaker 1: of our Lord Jesus Christ. The love of God. The
[2:39:58] Speaker 1: sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Rest and abide with
[2:40:01] Speaker 1: us now and forever. Amen.
[2:40:03] Speaker 3: Surely God's goodness.
[2:40:06] Speaker 1: All the days of our lives. forever and ever and
[2:40:12] Speaker 1: ever amen god bless you see you on sunday

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