The Making of a Useful Vessel: Secret to Becoming Effective in God's Kingdom | Apostle Joshua Selman

0:03Everyone is destined by Christ to rise.

0:07I have cried oh walking with God. Let me

0:09tell you the truth. If anybody tells you

0:11walking with God is just full of

0:13laughter, you are joking. It's not the

0:14God of the Bible. Every generation will

0:16not be confused. There is a generation

0:18that will get this thing

0:21from that day. The creative dimension of

0:25the prophetic

0:30You will never let me down.

0:34You never

0:36me down.

0:40[Music]

0:42Hallelujah.

0:44Clap your hands so you people and shout

0:48unto God with a voice of triumph.

0:51[Music]

0:52Hallelujah.

0:56How many of you believe that song? Lift

0:59your hands and turn it into prayer.

1:01Father, I believe you. You are

1:03dependable,

1:04the God of all flesh.

1:07Genesis 21 and verse one. The Lord

1:10visited Sarah as he has said he did unto

1:14Sarah

1:17as he has spoken.

1:22Gabel, we believe you even tonight that

1:25you will change our lives. Even tonight

1:28that you will bring your word to pass in

1:30our lives. Someone who is full of faith

1:33already prophesy, decree.

1:44Take a minute and pray in the spirit.

1:46Just build up capacity.

1:48Build up capacity as you receive from

1:50God tonight.

2:07Blessed Jesus,

2:09we trust in you. We believe in you

2:14to work wonders upon our spirits

2:16tonight.

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2:34in Jesus name we pray.

2:38I'd like you to cry one more time that

2:40at the end of this service it will be

2:42clear you met God. It will be clear you

2:45met God. Lift your voice and pray.

2:48Father, leave a token of your presence

2:50upon my life tonight, a token of your

2:53power. Let there be an evidence that I

2:58met God, the God of the Bible.

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3:03Let there be an evidence that I met the

3:05God of the Bible.

3:08[Music]

3:16Let there be a token of your presence, a

3:19token of your power over my life, over

3:24my destiny.

3:27Let it be clear that I met you

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3:37in Jesus mighty name we pray.

3:42Father, we are gathered tonight once

3:44again to receive. We're gathered tonight

3:48once again to learn your ways. We're

3:51gathered once again to encounter your

3:54power. We're gathered once again to bask

3:58in your glory. The Bible says, "Now the

4:00Lord is that spirit. And where the

4:03spirit of the Lord is, there is

4:05liberty." We are gathered tonight to

4:07experience the liberating power of your

4:10spirit. It says, "And we all with faces

4:13unveiled beholding him as in a mirror,

4:16we are changed. We're gathered tonight

4:18to be transformed.

4:21We lift our hands

4:24to the great I am

4:28who was and who is

4:32and is to come.

4:37I lift my hands

4:40to the great I am.

4:48Who can compare?

4:51One more time. Lift your hands to

4:53heaven. We lift our hands

4:58to the great I am.

5:03Who was and who is

5:07and is to come.

5:12We lift our hands

5:16to the great I am.

5:23Who can compare

5:26with you?

5:30So, Father, let your spirit find

5:32unrestrained access. Unrestrained

5:36access. Unrestrained access to bless.

5:41Unrestrained access to heal,

5:44unrestrained access to lift,

5:47unrestrained access to transform,

5:51unrestrained access to renew. We vow to

5:54give you the glory and we declare that

5:57this night is yours to the glory of the

5:59name of the Lord. In Jesus mighty name

6:03we pray. Amen and amen. Give Jesus a big

6:06hand clap. Greet someone by your left

6:09and right. And then please be seated.

6:14This is coonia

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6:17[Applause]

6:19in the name of Jesus.

6:21[Music]

6:23It is not the name of a ministry beyond

6:26that. It is a capture of everything God

6:29has in store for you tonight. You will

6:31encounter the Bible, encounter the God

6:35of the Bible, and encounter the results

6:38that come from his word.

6:42In the name of Jesus.

6:45Hallelujah. It's good to see everyone

6:47again. The Bible says, "I was glad when

6:50they said to me, let us go

6:53to the house of the Lord." What do you

6:56find in the house of God? God himself is

7:00in the midst of his people. It matters

7:02that you find God there. Even if you

7:05find good things and God is not there,

7:08it is not the house of God. You can find

7:11many good things even with the devil. It

7:15matters that the first person and the

7:17first thing you find in the house of God

7:20is God himself. That presence.

7:23Hallelujah. What do you find in the

7:25house of God? Wisdom.

7:28Wisdom that produces mighty works. Not

7:32assumed wisdom.

7:34not assumed light. That was the true

7:38light. You find wisdom in the house of

7:41God. How do you know that you have

7:43wisdom? By the mighty works that emanate

7:47from your life upon engaging the word.

7:51What do you find in the house of God?

7:53Hope and healing. As simple as this

7:56sounds, this is powerful. The house of

7:58God is a welcome place for bleeding

8:00people. People who have lost hope.

8:03people who you know are barely living.

8:05Can anything good come out of my life?

8:07Welcome to the house of God. You find

8:09hope. And the Bible says hope maketh not

8:12ashamed.

8:14What do you find in the house of God?

8:16His power. His power to change. His

8:20power to lift. His power to transform.

8:23His power to heal. His power to deliver.

8:28What do you find in the house of God?

8:30believers,

8:33vessels who are willing to be used by

8:36God to make his word come to pass in

8:38your life. Are we together? Now, the

8:40house of God has a re the richest

8:43capture of aligned believers, vessels

8:46who are yielded and available for God to

8:49use. That means possibilities can happen

8:52in your life vertically and horizontally

8:54because God is willing. And in the house

8:57of God, there are vessels who are

8:58willing to come into partnership with

9:00him.

9:01Hallelujah.

9:04What can you find in the house of God?

9:07The possibility for distraction. Because

9:10wherever God is, Satan is also there.

9:12That is how he finds what to steal,

9:14kill, and destroy.

9:17That means you have a responsibility.

9:20Just because you are in the presence of

9:21God does not guarantee receiving. Many

9:24people were around Jesus for many

9:27reasons. Others were there to make money

9:29out of him, Judas's chariot. Others were

9:32there to use him as a ladder just to

9:34find fame. They were not interested in

9:36growth at all. Others were there with

9:39hunger to learn. Others were there

9:42hoping he would touch them. I'm praying

9:45tonight in the name of Jesus that you

9:47will not waste his presence. Amen. and

9:49that your heart will be ever ready to

9:52listen, to learn, and to grow. You

9:55believe that? Shout a loud amen.

9:59Matters of the kingdom. Tonight, we're

10:02going to be having a series of

10:03discussions.

10:05Um, and the goal is to furnish us onto

10:08good works, matters of the kingdom. You

10:12find that in Acts chapter 1 and verse

10:15three. The Bible says when Jesus rose

10:17from the dead, he spent 40 more days. It

10:20would take 50 days after his

10:22resurrection for the Holy Spirit to come

10:25and begin a new dispensation. And the

10:27Bible says for 40 days he spent time

10:30with them speaking to them pertaining

10:34unto the kingdom. Other versions will

10:37say the matters of the kingdom or the

10:39things pertaining to the kingdom. So it

10:42was a series of discussions that he had

10:45with them and I trust tonight that we'll

10:48run a series of very important kingdom

10:51discussions that are made for our

10:54holistic furnishing. Second Timothy

10:57chapter 3 and verse 17

11:00verse 16 says to study to show yourself

11:04approved unto God. I hope that is right.

11:06Media give it to us. Second Timothy

11:08chapter 3 we read 16 and 17.

11:13Okay. And that from a child. Okay. All

11:15scripture is given by inspiration of

11:18God. That was the scripture. And is

11:20profitable for doctrine, reproof,

11:22correction, for instruction in

11:25righteousness. To what end? Verse 17.

11:27Let's read together. One to go. that the

11:30man of God may be perfect thoroughly

11:34furnished unto all good works.

11:37Thoroughly furnished unto all good

11:40works.

11:41Peter in second Peter chapter 1 and

11:45verse 8 I believe he said to grow in

11:47grace. It is a desire of every man of

11:51God who loves Jesus and loves his

11:53people. 2 Peter 1 and verse 8. Let's try

11:56it. I think that should be it. Okay. For

11:59if these things be in you and abound,

12:04they make that ye when you get this,

12:06please look for that scripture. Grow in

12:07grace for me. Thank you. Second Peter

12:103:18. Grow in grace and in the knowledge

12:13of our savior Jesus Christ. Grow in

12:17grace. Grow in grace. Grow in grace. He

12:21desires that we grow in grace and that

12:23comes through knowledge. The abundance

12:26of grace that you command in your faith

12:28adventure depends on the kind and the

12:31quality of spiritual information that

12:33you have. Hallelujah. Now we can go to

12:35second Peter 1:8. The scripture you

12:38skipped media. Let's go back there.

12:40Second Peter 1:8. It says, "For if these

12:42things be in you,

12:45if these things be in you," when you

12:48begin to read from context, it tells

12:50you, "According as his divine power has

12:53given us all things unto life and

12:55godliness," he reads down, then he says,

12:56"Add to your faith this, add to your

12:59faith virtue. Add to your faith all of

13:01that." When we get to verse 8, he now

13:03says, "If these things, all of these

13:06things, if they be in you and prevail

13:09and abound," he says, "they make you

13:11that ye neither be barren or unfruitful

13:15in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus

13:18Christ."

13:20God desires for all believers to be

13:22matured, to attain unto stature in the

13:25spirit, and to command good works. Um it

13:30is not new to you in this house that God

13:32is glorified when the saints produce

13:36mighty works, mighty results by the

13:38spirit of God. In fact, Paul turned it

13:41into a prayer in Colossians chapter 1 9

13:44and verse 10, particularly verse 10, but

13:46let's start from 9. Colossians 1 and 9.

13:49For this cause we also, he said, since

13:52the day we heard it, do not cease to

13:54pray for you, and to desire that ye be

13:57filled with the knowledge of his will in

14:00all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

14:02Shout verse 10 with me if you can see

14:04it. Ready? 1 to go. That ye might walk

14:07worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing.

14:10Uh-huh. being fruitful in every good

14:14work and increasing

14:18what great prayer that you might walk

14:21worthy

14:23of the Lord. This talks about your

14:25lifestyle, your faith work. And then in

14:28addition to walking worthy of the Lord,

14:30it says being fruitful in every good

14:33work, not some, every good work. and

14:38then increasing in the knowledge of our

14:40God. May tonight's teaching answer this

14:43prayer in your life in the name of Jesus

14:46Christ. Amen. Hallelujah. And so it's

14:49important for us to be furnished unto

14:52good works. And this is my assignment in

14:55righteousness to help us week after week

14:58to learn the ways of God in a way that

15:02profits our Christian experience. Let me

15:04repeat that again. in a way that profits

15:07your Christian experience.

15:10If knowledge does not profit you, then

15:13the knowledge is waste. Are we together?

15:16And the profit point of knowledge is

15:19when you understand it and you see the

15:21point of application. Every result in

15:25the kingdom is commanded by a body of

15:28spiritual information called light.

15:31Every result you desire right now while

15:34seated, while listening to me, while

15:36following online across the globe, every

15:38desire, every result you desire depends

15:42on a certain kind of spiritual

15:46information. And happy is the man who

15:48finds the information connected to the

15:51results you desire because that becomes

15:53your day of liberty. For someone, today

15:56is that day. I'm speaking to a believer.

16:00Today is that day. In the name of Jesus

16:03Christ. I found your word and I at it.

16:06It was a joy and a rejoicing unto me. I

16:10found it. I found it. Not as though it

16:12was missing, but it was a mystery. But

16:15when that mystery was unveiled to me, I

16:18found it. Hallelujah. Praise the name of

16:20the Lord. So, we're going to be

16:22discussing a few things. I have been

16:25especially in recent times, God has been

16:27doing a lot of work upon my spirit as I

16:31help serve his grace to the body of

16:33Christ here in the house and across the

16:35nations. I am getting increasingly

16:38passionate about accuracy in

16:41communicating spiritual things. My goal

16:45in this season is to take away a lot of

16:48nonsense from the believer's curriculum

16:50and to serve believers with truth that

16:54hit the nerve of their Christian

16:56experience. Are we together? That the

16:59burden of ignorance and the burden of

17:01useless knowledge be taken away from

17:03believers so that every kind of

17:06knowledge we find access to you know

17:09that this is an addition to your

17:11becoming victorious.

17:13The Bible says ever learning but never

17:16coming to the knowledge of the truth.

17:18That means it is possible to dance

17:20around a body of information that you

17:24may be convinced that because you are

17:26acquiring those information they

17:28necessarily translate to a victorious

17:30life. There are many information across

17:33the body many information are available

17:37to the believer in Christ that number

17:39one does not help you to know God more.

17:41Number two does not even help you to

17:43understand the ways of the kingdom.

17:45Number three is important in the face of

17:49real life situations

17:52and that kind of knowledge is not the

17:54kind of luggage you don't want to carry

17:56that kind of luggage especially as God's

17:59end time army. Are we together? There is

18:01a flight in the spirit and how many of

18:04you know that the lighter an aircraft is

18:06the more it can fly the altitude. There

18:08are times they have to drop certain

18:10luggages because once the weight is

18:12beyond the capacity of that model of the

18:16aircraft, it can cause trouble whilst in

18:18the air. And so there are some of you

18:20before you learn tonight, you need to be

18:22prepared to unlearn certain things.

18:24There are certain baggages that you have

18:26been loyal to for a long time. There is

18:28no evidence of it working in your life.

18:31No evidence whatsoever. That knowledge

18:33has not helped you to know God. It's not

18:36helped you to be victorious. is not

18:38connected you to strategic wisdom. It's

18:40a total waste.

18:43It's called false light. It carries a

18:45semblance of light but cannot deliver.

18:48If it is light, it must shine. What does

18:50it mean for light to shine? The shining

18:53of light, it is ability to drive away

18:55darkness. Are we together? Any light

18:57that does not shine is not light. No.

19:01When you on a phone, a touch light as

19:04simple as a touch light, uh, you know,

19:06or your phone light, you don't have to

19:09tell it to shine. If it is light,

19:11indeed, you expect darkness to leave any

19:13day and any time. John chapter 1 and

19:16verse 5. And the light shineth in the

19:19darkness, and the darkness comprehended

19:21it not. I'm saying this to you as a an

19:25expression of my burden. I'm examining

19:28what are the factors that really make

19:31the believer victorious.

19:34You will be amazed that many Christians

19:36in our passionate pursuit for spiritual

19:39things, we have not been able to distill

19:42the body of spiritual information that

19:45directly translates to growth in the

19:48knowledge of Jesus, growth in grace, and

19:53then commanding victory, dominion in

19:56experience.

19:58I'm not sure I want to live the kind of

20:00Christian life where I carry a baggage

20:02of spiritual information dumped by any

20:05and every voice and I keep driving

20:08myself in pain and after many years you

20:11find out you have been carrying

20:12something that God is not part of at

20:14all. For some of you what you are

20:17carrying is not even evil things. What

20:19you are carrying is ignorance and

20:21ignorance is heavy. There is something

20:24called the burden of ignorance.

20:27Are we together? There are those who are

20:30not carrying ignorance but they are

20:31carrying a semblance of light that is

20:34useless.

20:36There is no testimony connected to that

20:38light. There is no testimony connected

20:40to that body of spiritual information.

20:43It may be spiritual truly coming from a

20:46sincere heart but if it cannot serve

20:49your destiny, your knowledge of God and

20:52your commanding victory in this season,

20:54it is a total waste.

20:58Hallelujah.

21:00If these things be in you, it didn't say

21:02if all things. There are some things

21:04that don't have to be in you, but there

21:07are things that you must by every means

21:10in righteousness insist and ensure that

21:13they are captured in your life. Because

21:16like the ingredients that produce a

21:18lovely meal, if you miss out on certain

21:21ingredients, not every ingredient in

21:24making a delicious meal is engaged at

21:27the same level. I've I've taught you

21:29here that if you are making say fried

21:31rice or whatever it is, the quantity of

21:34rice cannot be the quantity of salt. No,

21:37but salt is important. You can't put one

21:40mud of rice and one mud of salt. Um you

21:43have produced poison.

21:45Are we together now? You've wrecked your

21:47own cooking by yourself. And some of us

21:50have even been eating salt as a singular

21:53ingredient and wondering why you are not

21:55healthy. Yet you check the kitchen, you

21:57see salt there. But the reason why it's

21:59killing you is because the only thing

22:01you've just carried salt in the spirit

22:03and you've been swallowing it saying

22:05because I found it in the kitchen, it

22:07means it is useful for me. There is a

22:09there is a measure of salt that if you

22:12go beyond what was supposed to bless you

22:14kills you. This is the reason why if you

22:17cannot cook there are restaurants, there

22:20are chefs. Are we together now? And it

22:23is now listen I I I mean what I'm

22:25saying. Rather than damaging your health

22:28and learning painfully, God leads you to

22:31a restaurant and all you need to do is

22:33to be patient. There are people who have

22:35been trained and as they serve you, it's

22:38almost as if they they studied your

22:40appetite to serve you

22:43and everything is just on point and you

22:46can eat and immediately know you are

22:48healthy.

22:50Immediately, not later, immediately. You

22:52can know that there is death in the pot

22:55immediately too. Are we together? How

22:57long does it take poison to kill? Not

23:00too long. Not too long.

23:03Are we together?

23:07I'm praying for you that if your

23:09Christian experience has not been

23:10exciting, it's time to honestly

23:13re-examine the foundation of your

23:16beliefs. If your Christian experience is

23:19a burden, you are barely getting by. You

23:21hate God, but you can't do without him.

23:23So, you just have to keep him there. Are

23:26we together? You are angry. Nothing.

23:28There's no there's no adventure. Your

23:30prayer life is dead or dying. Your word

23:33study life, you are confused. You don't

23:35know to what end this journey is. What

23:37you need, what you need is a complete uh

23:42what do they call it now?

23:44Like a structure. You need renovation.

23:49We need to examine the foundation upon

23:51which your conviction was built upon.

23:54Are we together? And then correct a few

23:56things, adjust a few things. Maybe with

23:59all due respect, you came from a

24:01Christian context that did not pay

24:03attention to the way you are built. You

24:06cannot carelessly pour brick and mortar

24:09on the ground and then as a foundation

24:11to build a skyscraper. It is a recipe

24:14for disaster. Are we together now? There

24:16are buildings in the world that are 200

24:18floors, 300 floors. And if you see the

24:21foundation for that building, it is as

24:23tall as a building itself. Yes, it is

24:25foundation because of the kind of

24:27structure that is going to rest upon it.

24:30So, some of you are trying to put a

24:3230story building on something that is

24:35just sand. You just mix mud together and

24:38you want to build a 30story building.

24:40So, it's collapsing everybody and

24:42everything. What you need to do is to be

24:44patient. You see, when you find yourself

24:47in a hole, the way out is to stop

24:49digging. If you keep digging, you will

24:52keep going deeper.

24:56This can't be it.

24:59God is so much

25:02bigger than this.

25:05Hey,

25:07this can't be it.

25:11My God is so much

25:14bigger than this. Bigger than what you

25:18call your Christian experience.

25:20This can't be it.

25:24God is so much bigger than this.

25:30So he's calling you deeper,

25:35deeper,

25:38deeper,

25:41deeper.

25:43It's calling you deeper,

25:48deeper,

25:51deeper.

25:56Hallelujah.

25:57Do you know, listen, do you know church

26:01is a very powerful place because it is

26:05one of the ways that God answers prayer.

26:08The Bible says, "The Lord hear thee in

26:12the day of trouble." It says, "The God

26:15of Jacob defend you." It says, "Send you

26:20help." Verse two, from his sanctuary.

26:24From where? Not from heaven. Send you

26:27help that when your destiny is battered

26:30and it looks like nothing is of beauty

26:33and color, God sends you to his

26:35sanctuary and then he strengthens you

26:38out of Zion. And I've taught you here

26:40perhaps I should start on that note that

26:43there is a there is a spiritual

26:48technology to answered prayer. There is

26:51how God answers prayers. Four channels

26:54for manifesting answered prayers. I'll

26:58give you three for tonight because this

26:59is not what I'm talking about. Number

27:01one, the first way God answers prayer is

27:04by supernatural manifestations.

27:07So a believer can pray and when God hits

27:11to that prayer, he responds by

27:14supernatural manifestations like instant

27:17healings, like deliverances, like a

27:19restoration of your peace, a restoration

27:22of your joy. God can answer prayers

27:24supernaturally and instantly. Take note

27:27of that so that when you pray, you

27:30position your heart to receive with

27:32intelligence. We may not understand the

27:34unique dynamics but you can know the

27:37channels that he will use. The channels

27:39that God uses to answer prayers are

27:41finite.

27:43They are finite. Number one,

27:45supernatural manifestations. So for

27:47instance, if I have a pain or some

27:50growth somewhere and I say in the name

27:52of Jesus, I release my faith to be

27:54healed. I expect a supernatural

27:57manifestation. Number two, the second

27:59way that God answers prayer. Are we

28:01learning? Is through the ministry of

28:04men. The ministry of men. You have

28:07learned this.

28:11So when you are praying for help, a job,

28:14praying for help, finances, you are

28:16praying for job, you know, strategic

28:18opportunities, some open door somewhere,

28:21maybe your document to be processed.

28:24Every of these things are men dependent.

28:26So God answers your prayer. Watch this.

28:28by placing favor upon you and connecting

28:32you to strategic men but not all kinds

28:35of men. Men who have the capacity to

28:38help you. I have taught you here it is

28:40useless to meet certain kinds of men

28:42when you are in trouble because they

28:44will sympathize with you but not solve

28:45your problem. So there are times you

28:48need men who can directly attend to the

28:52issues of concern.

28:54Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.

28:56God answers prayer by connecting you to

29:00the ministry of men. Never forget this.

29:02Number three, God answers prayer thirdly

29:07by causing you to grow

29:11and to attain onto a greater sense of

29:14enlightenment. God answers prayer by

29:17bringing growth and enlightenment to

29:20your life. Because there are many things

29:23that we pray for that were never

29:26designed originally to be prayer points.

29:29The fact that there are prayer points in

29:31your life is a revelation to you that

29:34you have not attained a stature in the

29:36spirit where those prayers should be

29:38made manifest. It's like a 5-year-old

29:40child praying that God will touch his

29:42father to give him a brand new 2024 SUV.

29:48You see that now? And the child actually

29:50believes that one day the father is

29:52going to buy him the car and hand it

29:54over as a five-year-old child. Now it

29:57will look like God did not answer that

29:59prayer for a long time. But God had

30:01answered the prayer from the time the

30:03child prayed. Is only that that answer

30:05depends on the child attaining a certain

30:09age. Are we together now? So there are

30:11many of you what you think is still

30:13pending was answered. The day God

30:15brought you here was the day he answered

30:17that prayer. And all you need to do is

30:19just to keep growing line upon line,

30:22precept upon precept, week in, week out.

30:25One day you will find out, you will not

30:26even know the day the answer arrived.

30:29Your hands were matured and strong

30:32enough to pick your answer without it

30:34even being a concern.

30:37Now, let me tell you the truth. There

30:38are many believers who do not want to

30:40grow, but they cry for request that that

30:44version of them cannot receive.

30:48Are we together now? Whether it is

30:50finances, whether it is relationships,

30:53whether it's certain positions, for

30:55instance, you can pray a sincere prayer

30:57that God will bring you promotion. But

31:00God knows that the attacks that come to

31:02the person having that office. You don't

31:05have the level of spiritual intelligence

31:07yet to protect yourself against those

31:09attacks. So the way God answers you is

31:12to suspend the answer and take you to a

31:15place where you are taught these levels

31:18of victory in the spirit. The day you

31:20attain onto that level of understanding,

31:22you may not even need to pray. It will

31:24come because it was designed to follow

31:26growth. The more you grow, you will know

31:29you are growing because your prayer

31:30request should reduce.

31:33If your prayer request keep increasing

31:36as you are growing, then you are not

31:38growing.

31:41You must get to a point in your lifetime

31:43and that must be your pursuit where you

31:46you attain a point where the only thing

31:49you write on your request is to know him

31:51more and to worship him because as far

31:54as life is concerned, dominion has

31:57happened to you in experience. Who

31:59believes that? If you don't believe

32:01that, then you have a long way to go.

32:04You must believe that you look left and

32:07right and all you see is the

32:08faithfulness of God. That if people meet

32:10you and say, "What can I pray for you

32:12about?" You say, "In all honesty, I

32:14don't want to sound arrogant, but my

32:16prayer right now is to know him more."

32:18They say, "What about all your

32:19situations?" You say, "Me? God has been

32:21merciful. He sorted my life round about

32:25roundabout."

32:27Do you know that was what happened to

32:28Job? To a point that Job did not pray

32:31for himself. His prayer was for his

32:33children because as for him he was

32:36sorted left right and Satan himself

32:39testified before God that I came around

32:41and there was a hedge of protection over

32:43this man. There was nothing I could do.

32:49May God help us to grow in the name of

32:51Jesus. So I just digress to help you

32:54know that God by this meeting is

32:56answering someone's prayer and

32:58supernaturally perhaps you are sick in

33:00your body. You don't need any

33:02counseling. You just need a supernatural

33:04intervention. And for others, you need

33:06God to connect you strategically to the

33:09ministry of men. The job you are looking

33:11for is not in heaven. Even if you see a

33:13vision of something coming on you is the

33:15grace that connects you to the job that

33:17is on earth here or the idea or the

33:20witty invention that translates to your

33:22prosperity.

33:24My prayer for you and my goal is that

33:27you become so furnished in spiritual

33:29things that when you stand before

33:31situations and circumstances for

33:33yourself or on behalf of others, you

33:35have sufficient intelligence to navigate

33:38your way that your life becomes void of

33:40foolishness. If it's discernment, you

33:43have it. If it's knowledge, you have it.

33:45If it's dominion, authority in

33:47experience, you have it for yourself and

33:50for others. You believe that? Shout

33:52amen. Amen.

33:54But it will require patience on your own

33:57part. You will never learn the things of

34:00the kingdom and gain mastery in one day.

34:02So be patient with God and be patient

34:05with yourself. Don't feel bad if for the

34:07first one month of your coming here, you

34:09honestly don't understand anything

34:11happening. Don't worry, it's not

34:13strange.

34:16There are people in the academia who are

34:18professors today who would tell you the

34:20first time they came to class, they

34:21thought it was Greek and Hebrew. They

34:22didn't understand anything. But with

34:24patience, with patience, you begin to

34:27understand there is a rhythm. Your

34:29spirit connects to that rhythm. And then

34:32your growth becomes more specific and

34:34methodical. Don't forget that beyond our

34:37speakings, the Holy Spirit is working in

34:39you. He knows what you need. He knows

34:41what is deficient.

34:46Thoroughly furnished by the power of

34:48God. you lay hold of eternal life. That

34:51when you walk, you walk tall because you

34:54know how to navigate your life. When you

34:56get to a place and people tell you

34:58there's darkness, you know how to help

35:00them. You don't just say, "God will help

35:02you." No, no, no. You know what to do.

35:04You know what to tell them. You know

35:05what is wrong. When they tell you

35:07someone is sick and there's nothing that

35:10can be done, you tell them, "Well,

35:12something can be done." The word of God

35:14says, "We shall lay hands on the sick."

35:15And you're not just speaking gibberish.

35:17You have the understanding that supports

35:19that grace.

35:22You get somewhere and you find people

35:24poor and broke. You don't just tell

35:26them, "Look, this is how life is." No,

35:27life is not like that. It's a lie. It's

35:29a lie. God works in systems. There is an

35:33economic system for the kingdom of God.

35:36Are we together now? Yes. You educate

35:39the people. You sew that seed of honor

35:41into their lives. And by the time you

35:43are leaving, you have become a blessing.

35:45Your life becomes a capture of Genesis

35:4712 from verse three. In these shall all

35:50the families of the earth be blessed

35:52everywhere you go. You are a blessing

35:54everywhere. Not just by saying I am a

35:57blessing. You exude blessings from your

35:59life. Your words are like gold. People

36:03look forward to hearing you because even

36:05if it's a 5 minutes conversation, they

36:07know foolishness is far from you. See,

36:09let me tell you this. One of the pillars

36:11of wisdom is excellence. Wisdom always

36:14speaks of excellent things. You know the

36:16presence of wisdom because excellence

36:19follows wisdom. It is impossible for

36:22wisdom to be in a life, at work, in a

36:25person, an organization and you don't

36:28find excellence. If it is wisdom, it

36:30must have a representation of

36:32excellence.

36:34I speak of excellent things. Hallelujah.

36:42This is this is my prayer for you. I'm

36:44praying that you see my burden tonight.

36:46I I I don't want to raise foolish

36:48Christians, people who are ignorant,

36:50just shouting, "Amen." Helplessly

36:52depending on a man of God like an idol.

36:54No, you can't become powerful that way.

36:58Yes, you honor the man of God, but that

37:01you have knowledge. For God's sake, when

37:03you leave church, you are not arrogant,

37:05but you are full of light. You know what

37:08to say. You look at life like a chess.

37:10You know you will win.

37:13[Applause]

37:16Are you learning now? You are not hoping

37:18to win. No. That is a waste of your

37:21coming here if you are still hoping.

37:24[Music]

37:26There are certain students that as they

37:27go to write the exam even the the exam

37:30is afraid of them. The students know

37:32it's not pride. You will see how hard

37:35that exam is. At the end of it, they

37:38just come out smiling and even their

37:40colleagues know that all that pain and

37:42trouble is minus this student because he

37:45would have dealt with that exam in a way

37:47and truly the result will come out while

37:49others are getting zero, 1, 5, 4, out of

37:53nowhere you will see someone getting

37:5598%.

37:56certain kinds of people, may that be

37:58you.

38:00May that be you that you will force life

38:03to bow and you would tame life like an

38:05animal in the name of Jesus Christ.

38:12Don't sit down and hope that your life

38:14will keep being just a mystery. If it

38:16works, let No. No. This is the goal of

38:19this teaching ministry to help you

38:21understand that as mysterious as life

38:24looks, there is a code. Truly, there is.

38:28There is. You can organize life like

38:31this and program yourself to victory.

38:36Like you put an alarm clock and tell it

38:38to beep by three and it will not miss by

38:421 second even if you are asleep because

38:44it was programmed.

38:47He won't stop. He won't stop till you

38:51look just like him. He won't stop. No,

38:55he won't stop till my life looks like

38:59him. He won't stop. He won't stop till I

39:04look just like him. He won't stop. He

39:08won't stop in my eyes. Hallelujah.

39:13You're a man of God here. Let me

39:14encourage you. Don't come out of this

39:17family and be a man of God who is a

39:19nuisance and not a blessing. You are

39:21teaching nonsense. You are disoriented.

39:23You are not sure you can raise members.

39:26No. No. A coach does not come and look

39:30at a team and then complain. Why is he a

39:33coach then? When he looks at the team,

39:36he knows this one is strong, this one is

39:38weak, and he builds a formidable army

39:41out of them. Are we together now? Yes

39:43sir. That God grants you the honor of

39:46pastoring a church in one year when they

39:49look at the people they see fire brand

39:51believers.

39:53Not believers with blind fanatism with

39:55no blessing to society.

39:59A certain software has been put inside

40:01you and the result is an enviable

40:04destiny. A destiny of grace and glory.

40:06You can go back to your family and they

40:08say, "What kind of person are you like

40:10this?" And you say, "Something happened

40:11to me. I met the God of the Bible. I met

40:14faith in an authentic way. I submitted

40:18myself to be taught. I looked like a

40:20fool for a while. But like a seed that

40:23was planted in the ground, I began to b

40:26first the ear, then the blade, and now I

40:29am a giant oak tree that nations can

40:31come and eat from. This is what God is

40:33doing in your life.

40:36What you are receiving

40:38is beyond that which maintains members.

40:41No, this is what produces champions.

40:44This is the meal of warriors, is the we

40:46the meal of champions. People who are

40:49trusted with the keys of gates and

40:51destinies, not just congregants. No.

40:55[Music]

40:57Are you learning?

40:59I want you to trust what God is teaching

41:01you. Trust the building. The Holy Spirit

41:04is doing something in your life. Just

41:06because the finances is not yet

41:08speaking, the healing anointing is not

41:10yet speaking, don't mind the devil.

41:12You'll be learning a lot tonight.

41:13Wherever we stop, we'll pray. But it's

41:15important I drum it in your head. When

41:18you come for coonia, you are coming to a

41:21school. The spirit of God is calling

41:23you. He's reminding you again. You are

41:25still that savior. You are still that

41:28warrior. You are still the answer to the

41:30prayers of those who have gone ahead of

41:32you. And if only you are patient with

41:35God, dear man of God, just be patient

41:38with God.

41:40Be patient. You will not always beg. Be

41:43patient.

41:45Be patient. You will not always be

41:47embarrassed in want for power. Just be

41:50patient.

41:52Many times, many times, many times we're

41:56not patient with God. You want to arrive

41:59as a man of God and after two teachings

42:02you want to access anointing. It is the

42:04way of fools. That is how they reverse

42:06back in shame because they see that the

42:09way of the spirit is not that way. Stay

42:12with God. Let him build you. Stay with

42:14God. Let him work on your spirit. My

42:17dear sister, you may be weak and

42:19confused. Don't worry. Just stay with

42:21God. Stay with him. Let the naysayers

42:24keep talking while you grow. Stay with

42:26God. Let those you have been sent to

42:28save keep insulting you while you grow.

42:32Soon they will know that it was for your

42:34sake, their sake that God called you.

42:38Don't be distracted. You are like an

42:40athlete that is about to run and there

42:43are people who are cheering, doing a lot

42:44of things and you are beginning to be

42:46distracted. Stay, stay, stay, stay,

42:50stay. Who is God speaking to? Stay. You

42:52are making progress already. You are not

42:55where you should be, but you are not

42:56where you were. Look back at January.

42:58See what he's taught you. Even if you

43:01did not know anything, at least you have

43:03learned something that light can drive

43:06darkness. It is a useful tool. is not

43:08one of those things you would dislodge

43:10later on. It is a tool that remains in

43:13your spiritual arsenal forever.

43:16Hallelujah.

43:18The great became great because they

43:21followed a certain path consistently.

43:25Consistently.

43:27Some of you had to try to come to

43:28church. I feel led in my spirit to tell

43:31you this. Don't worry. There's no point

43:33trying to live a fake life. Just stay

43:35and learn. One day you will come to

43:38church like every other day not knowing

43:41that is the last night Joseph will be a

43:43prisoner.

43:46You will hear something. You will access

43:49a grace. Prayer will be answered. That

43:52is the day a ministry will be born in

43:54your spirit. That is the day a vision

43:56will be born. That is the day an

43:58anointing will rest. That is the day a

44:00mantle will come. That is the day your

44:03eyes will finally open. That is the day

44:05you will finally sign out of certain

44:07realms in life. And when they ask you,

44:10you can put date on the 5th of this day.

44:14This is when this thing left.

44:21Do you believe what you are hearing?

44:23Some of you as you are listening to me

44:25like this, in a few years to come, you

44:27will be the one speaking to people like

44:28this.

44:30Oh yes.

44:33And I pray that those days when we look

44:35at you, you will bring pride to Jesus

44:38and pride to us.

44:40That we can say you were thoroughly

44:42furnished.

44:43Not that we watch you whether on

44:45television and you see a confused,

44:47disoriented man of God who as if he was

44:50not trained. You are just shouting and

44:52making noise and wasting people's time

44:54and destiny. No.

44:58So stay. This is a prophetic word for

45:01someone. Stay. The training is

45:04happening. Stay. Let him build you.

45:06Stay. No transport money. Stay.

45:11001 your meal description. Stay.

45:15You are not the first my brother. Thank

45:17God you even have one in the evening.

45:19Stay.

45:21Stay. You know something about royalty.

45:25It takes away everything that looks like

45:28the prison. And so you are beguiled to

45:30think that those who has helped to taste

45:32of royalty never went through the

45:34prison. All who get to the throne pass

45:37through the prison. I have taught you

45:39the prison is where both good and bad

45:41people meet.

45:44So if you are in the prison, don't

45:46worry. You are not all criminals. There

45:48is Joseph there too. If you are in the

45:50cross, you are not all thieves. There is

45:52Jesus there too. The prison and the

45:55cross are two places you have to be

45:57careful at. Because if you see people in

45:59the prison and call all of them

46:01criminals, when Joseph becomes king, I

46:05don't know what he will do with you.

46:09And when you call everybody on the cross

46:11a thief, I don't know if you will be

46:12saved because someone among those many

46:16thieves is dying for others.

46:22I've not started my teaching. Oh, this

46:24is going on here. Spirit of the

46:28sovereign Lord,

46:30come and make your presence known.

46:33Reveal

46:34the glory of the reason.

46:39[Music]

46:41Let the weight of your glory.

46:46Let the weight of your gloryy

46:51fall.

46:54Amen.

46:56Now,

46:58there are certain things that every

47:00believer must know if you want to live a

47:04victorious and a fruitful Christian

47:07life. There are nonnegotiable

47:10spiritual information that you must

47:12know. You must have the consciousness of

47:16the word conscious means to be alive

47:19onto an information. It means to be void

47:22of slumber and sleep.

47:26It means to incorporate that thought as

47:28part of your life. That is what it means

47:30to be conscious. And there are a number

47:33of things. There are many of them. But

47:35for our discussion tonight, I'll just

47:36pick four areas. We're discussing the

47:38matters of the kingdom. You're being

47:40furnished tonight as always unto good

47:42works. And so I want to pick four

47:44aspects of our Christian experience and

47:48to teach you some for the first time,

47:50some filing you the more to perfection

47:53so that you understand these rudiments

47:57and then with them you will be able to

47:59manifest the spirit life more perfectly.

48:03There are number of things you have to

48:05know. If you do not know these things,

48:08you're not going to be able to reign.

48:10Number one, the first of this series of

48:13discussions that we'll be having tonight

48:15is helping you to understand who the

48:19believer is in Christ. The believer in

48:23Christ. The believer in Christ. We're

48:27dealing with the matters of the kingdom.

48:30There is such a description of an

48:33individual as the believer in Christ.

48:37And I have taught you endlessly here

48:39that the process that leads you to being

48:41a believer is salvation. Full stop.

48:44Straight to the point. If you are not

48:46born again, if you have not accepted the

48:48lordship of Jesus Christ by confessing,

48:51believing his substitutionary sacrifice,

48:54there is no possibility of being a

48:56believer in Christ. You can be a

48:58believer. A believer to receive healing

49:01even as an unbeliever. A believer to

49:03receive miracles even as an unbeliever.

49:06There is such a thing as believing to

49:08receive miracles. But not the kind of

49:11believing that translates you from the

49:13kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of

49:16God's dear son. Are we together?

49:19So there is believing in Jesus and then

49:21you become a believer in Christ. But

49:24it's important for us to know what do we

49:27mean by being a believer in Christ. What

49:30is the implication? When I become saved,

49:33when I am translated in experience from

49:35the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom

49:37of God's dear son, does it have any

49:39implication to my life? Is there an

49:42advantage to being a believer as against

49:45being an unbeliever? Absolutely.

49:48There are certain things that you stand

49:50to enjoy when you are the believer in

49:53Christ. Are we together? Ultimately, it

49:56is dominion. Ultimately, it is victory.

49:59Ultimately, it is life. But it's

50:01important for you to understand that the

50:03Bible does tell us that people can

50:06translate from the kingdom of darkness

50:09into the kingdom of God. There's some

50:11three scriptures quickly. Romans chapter

50:138, please. We'll read 16-18. Romans

50:16chapter 8.

50:19The spirit itself beareth witness with

50:22our spirit that we are the children of

50:25God that we are the children of God.

50:29Hallelujah. Verse 17 the Bible says and

50:33if children indeed then heirs heirs

50:37partakers of an inheritance heirs of God

50:40then he calls us joint hes with Christ.

50:43Take note of these names. Take note of

50:45these descriptions. These descriptions

50:47are only for those who are in Christ,

50:49children of God, hes of God, joint hes

50:53with Christ, if so be that we suffer

50:55with him that we he might be glorified

50:57together and so on and so forth. Verse

50:5918, it says, "For I reckon that the

51:01sufferings of this present time." He's

51:03speaking to those heirs

51:05are not worthy to be compared not to

51:07everybody the glory that shall be

51:09revealed in those children of God. Are

51:12we together now? So the Bible tells us

51:14that we are joined hes that when you

51:17come into Christ there are certain

51:19descriptions you must be aware of and

51:21that you must carry that consciousness

51:24you are a joint heir. What does that

51:27mean? A joint he means that you are

51:29connected in spirit. You are a

51:32legitimate partaker of the life and the

51:35resources that comes from God through

51:38Christ.

51:40a legitimate partaker of all the

51:43spiritual resources that come from God

51:47through Christ. In fact, Ephesians 1

51:48and:3 puts it beautifully. Ephesians 1

51:51and:3, please give it to us. It says,

51:53"Blessed be God and the father of our

51:56Lord Jesus Christ who had blessed us."

51:58Who are the us believers?

52:01Believers, not inhabitants. Believers

52:04bless us with all spiritual blessings in

52:07heavenly places in Christ. Every time

52:10you hear the expression in Christ or

52:13with Christ, he's only speaking to

52:15people born again believers.

52:19Are we together now?

52:21So, we are jointed hes with Christ.

52:24Ephesians chapter 1, please. Let's start

52:26from verse 7. Ephesians 1:7.

52:30In whom we have redemption.

52:33Through his blood. How did we get

52:35redemption? Through his blood. The

52:37forgiveness of sin according to the

52:40riches of his grace. Let me digress for

52:43a moment.

52:45Uh I don't know if I've said it in this

52:47house, but I think I should have. The

52:49seven things that

52:52redemption in Christ purchased for man.

52:57The access to victory in seven areas.

53:01Dominion in seven areas. If you've not

53:04learned this, let me teach you now.

53:05Number one, the first area that the

53:08victory in Christ by reason of his death

53:10covers is sin. The sin problem was dealt

53:14with when Jesus died and rose again.

53:17Number two,

53:19death.

53:22Death was dealt with when Jesus died and

53:25rose again. Number three,

53:28Satan.

53:31Sin, death, Satan. Number four, hell. I

53:37hope you know that hell is a spirit, not

53:39just a location. The Bible says hell had

53:41enlarged itself in the book of Psalms.

53:44Hell.

53:46Hallelujah.

53:47Number five, the grave.

53:50The grave.

53:52That the victory in redemption covers

53:55seven areas. Number one, sin. Number

53:58two, death. Number three, Satan. Number

54:01four, hell. Number five, the grave.

54:04Number six, the world. The world system.

54:08Aon, the thinking pattern that comes

54:10with the world system. We have been

54:12given victory over the world. And then

54:15number seven, finally, the flesh.

54:19These are the seven areas that the

54:21victory in Christ covers for the

54:23believer. Victory over sin, Satan,

54:27death, hell, the grave, the world, and

54:31the flesh

54:32according to scripture. Are we together?

54:34So that when you say I am victorious in

54:37Christ, don't just think I'm victorious

54:39over sin alone. the dynamics. You can be

54:42free from sin and yet not free because

54:44all these other elements can hold on to

54:47people if you do not understand how to

54:49met out victory over the flesh, victory

54:51over the world, victory over the grave,

54:54victory over hell. Are we together now?

54:57Yes. All of these spirits and these

54:59elemental forces will seek to attack the

55:02believer at one point or the other. It

55:05is knowing that you have victory over

55:07them alongside the dynamics of

55:09appropriating them. I'll give you an

55:11instance. The sin problem is not solved

55:14by you doing anything in your own

55:16righteousness. None of us has the power

55:18to overcome the sin problem. You receive

55:20the nature of Christ as against that

55:23fallen nature. But the flesh, you don't

55:26cast out the flesh. Are we together now?

55:28You die daily through renewal and

55:31transformation. That's how you deal with

55:33the flesh. How do you deal with the

55:34world system? Do not be conformed to

55:37this world, this aon, but be ye

55:40transformed by the renewing of your

55:42mind. So you can be born again and yet

55:45the world and the flesh still has a hold

55:47upon you because you've not contended

55:49for transformation.

55:52Are we learning now? The believer in

55:54Christ. So the Bible says, let's go back

55:56to Ephesians chapter 1:7. in whom we

55:58have redemption through his blood, the

56:01forgiveness of sin according to the

56:04riches of his grace. So redemption is a

56:07function of God's mercy and God's grace

56:10over that the believer that by reason of

56:13Christ's substitutionary sacrifice you

56:16have been taken translated simply by

56:19believing that God loves you and he

56:21revealed the love as a father through

56:23Christ and you receive of that life. Do

56:26you know why it's important for you to

56:28know this? In theology, we call it the

56:31doctrine of identification. It's a

56:34description of everything you have

56:36become today on account of who Christ

56:38is. And then according to men like EW

56:42Kenyon, they teach that there is the

56:44legal side of redemption and there is

56:46the vital side of redemption. The legal

56:49side of redemption meaning realities

56:51that are finished as God sees them. The

56:54vital side meaning realities that have

56:56been made manifest in your life. Now for

56:59instance the legal side of redemption,

57:02no believer should be sick. The legal

57:04side of redemption, no believer should

57:06say, "I am poor." The legal side of

57:08redemption, we are totally victorious

57:10over sin, Satan, hell, the grave, all of

57:13these elemental forces. The legal side

57:15of redemption, we've been exalted. We've

57:17been made to sit with Christ. Ephesians

57:19chapter 2 and verse 6, I believe. Are we

57:21together? raised up with Christ 2 and

57:24verse 6. He has raised us up together.

57:27He has made us to sit, not will make.

57:30These are the legalities of redemption.

57:33So the starting point of the believer's

57:35consciousness is to believe in Christ.

57:38Those things are yay and amen. Are we

57:40together? Now it is in believing you

57:42re-engineer your understanding and then

57:44you begin to engage the forces were

57:47coming there to make them manifest in

57:49your life. But whether or not they are

57:51manifest at yet as yet in your life, it

57:55does not change the fact that these

57:56things are true.

57:58Let's assume that someone a very wealthy

58:01man say a millionaire or billionaire

58:03goes to the village and decides to pick

58:05a young boy there naive not knowing

58:08anything and decides to bring that

58:10gentleman and says from today you will

58:12grow in my house you will be accepted as

58:14a son in the house. How many of you know

58:16that upon arrival, the first thing that

58:19happens to that child is a a shock. The

58:22difference between his life back in the

58:24countryside or the village and now

58:26standing in a place that is laced with

58:28all kinds of royalty. It's too good to

58:30be true. But it doesn't stop the fact

58:32that the house owner has decided as an

58:35act of his compassion. It's not that the

58:38gentleman deserved it. Are we together

58:40now? Because there would have been many

58:41other people in the village, maybe a lot

58:44more yielded. But he decided as an act

58:46of his mercy, are you understanding me

58:48now? To pick that gentleman, bring him

58:51in the house. How many of you know that

58:52he will largely be confused in that

58:54house?

58:56The doors may usually use fingerprints

58:58or cards or iris or some kind of thing,

59:01smart doors. And my young man coming

59:04from the village will wrestle in front

59:06of a door forever wanting to ease

59:08himself, not knowing how it can open or

59:10close. He may even go to the restroom

59:12and be crying for help there because he

59:14absolutely does not know what to do

59:15there. Yet he has become an heir. But

59:19the experience of that victory is not

59:21yet in his life. Are we together now?

59:24Now you will see that gentleman from the

59:26village and even be angry. What is this

59:28smelly village boy doing here? He was

59:31called by grace.

59:35If you understand my illustration, then

59:36you understand how redemption works. Who

59:39is following me? You are called by

59:41grace. Everybody say by grace. One more

59:43time say by grace. By grace. That's

59:45right. That's how it works. So the

59:47gentleman will feel filthy. Sometimes he

59:50will even be afraid and say, "This life

59:52is too advanced for me. Take me back to

59:54the village. I'm used to putting things

59:56together, going to kill wild animals,

59:58and then coming to dance around fire and

1:00:00roast everything there with the blood on

1:00:02it and eat it. But now it looks like

1:00:04this life is too superior. They call him

1:00:06by 8:00. What would you want to have for

1:00:08breakfast? And he almost wants to cast

1:00:12that voice and say, "I've never heard

1:00:14such a thing that I don't go and hunt."

1:00:17And they calling me to say, you know,

1:00:18breakfast is ready for me. That is a new

1:00:21life. This is what has happened to us.

1:00:24Now whether that gentleman do you know

1:00:27that gentleman can live in defeat

1:00:29roaming around that palace it does not

1:00:31change the fact that the intention of

1:00:34the owner remains who is learning now

1:00:37this is how it is the Bible says in whom

1:00:39we have redemption through his blood

1:00:41that we have been raised up with Christ

1:00:43apost don't feel it let God be true and

1:00:46all men liars is it really true the

1:00:49Bible says be behold what manner of love

1:00:52the father has bes bestowed upon us. Do

1:00:54you know why I'm teaching you this? Um,

1:00:56when we get to one of the subjects I'm

1:00:59going to be dealing with, you will learn

1:01:00that there is a name that Satan is

1:01:02called, the accuser of the brethren, and

1:01:05that the cure for his accusation is the

1:01:08understanding of your position in

1:01:10Christ. If you do not understand your

1:01:13position in Christ, you will live a

1:01:15defeated Christian life forever.

1:01:19Are we together?

1:01:23The believer in Christ. Who is he? One

1:01:25who has been called by grace to be a

1:01:28partaker of the life of God. Who is the

1:01:30believer in Christ? One who has been

1:01:32shown mercy. He has received forgiveness

1:01:36on account of believing and confessing

1:01:38the lordship of Christ. Believing the

1:01:41substitutionary sacrifice of Christ as

1:01:44revealed in scripture. Are we together

1:01:46now? For God so loved the world that he

1:01:48gave his then only begotten son. Today

1:01:52we are safe to say the first begotten

1:01:54among we the brethren that whosoever

1:01:57believeth on him should not perish. It's

1:02:00a law not a suggestion that whoever

1:02:03believes on him spiritual death is over

1:02:06for such a one and that you have Zoe

1:02:09eternal life. It's a verdict. 17 says,

1:02:12"For God did not send his son to the

1:02:15world to condemn the world, but that the

1:02:17world through him might be saved." How

1:02:19is the world saved? Through him. Through

1:02:22him. Through him. You cannot receive

1:02:25salvation through an angel. You cannot

1:02:27receive salvation through a pastor. You

1:02:29cannot receive salvation through good

1:02:31works, acts of charity, and benevolence

1:02:34and piety. No matter the level of moral

1:02:37excellence, when it has to do with

1:02:39salvation. Now we are not saved by works

1:02:42but we are saved unto good works. Are we

1:02:46together? We are saved by grace. The

1:02:48Bible says and that through faith it is

1:02:50not of ourselves lest any man should

1:02:52boast when it has to do with being

1:02:55saved. There is none of us that has the

1:02:57righteousness enough.

1:03:00So the progression is that you must be

1:03:03void of sin. Then you have the nature of

1:03:07Christ that become righteousness. Then

1:03:09you have the life of God. And man lost

1:03:11all this in the garden of Eden. So in

1:03:14restoring man, the first thing that man

1:03:16received was the forgiveness of sin.

1:03:19Then he became the righteousness of God

1:03:21in Christ Jesus. A partaker of the

1:03:24righteousness of Jesus himself. That now

1:03:27qualified him by grace to be a recipient

1:03:30of the life of God even through the

1:03:32spirit. Are we learning now? So when we

1:03:34talk about the believer in Christ, we're

1:03:36not talking of one who comes for coonia

1:03:38alone. We're not talking of one who is

1:03:40saved, has a good name. We're not

1:03:42talking of a worker in church. The

1:03:45concept of a believer in Christ is

1:03:47rooted in the fact that you must have

1:03:50confessed the lordship of Jesus

1:03:53over your life. And then number two, you

1:03:56are aware of who and what the Bible now

1:04:00calls you in Christ. regardless what you

1:04:03feel, regardless the process. So

1:04:06sanctification is three-fold. There is

1:04:08what we call instant sanctification.

1:04:11There is what we call progressive

1:04:13sanctification. This is what the Bible

1:04:15calls the renewing of the mind. Instant

1:04:18sanctification happens to your spirit

1:04:20man. Instant. It's a replacement of

1:04:23nature. Are we together? But there is

1:04:26progressive sanctification. And then

1:04:28there is the culmination of it. Apostle

1:04:31Peter was teaching us. He says,

1:04:32"Receiving the end of your faith, even

1:04:34the salvation of your soul."

1:04:38Hallelujah. Now, most believers want to

1:04:41walk in victory. They want to walk in

1:04:43power. I I I tell you why I'm teaching

1:04:46you this. Please look up.

1:04:49by reason of our background and I don't

1:04:51say this to insult our background

1:04:54most men most humans most Africans most

1:04:59Nigerians I presume come from

1:05:01backgrounds where for some reason

1:05:06sincerely or otherwise your sense of

1:05:09confidence and selfworth has been eaten

1:05:12into by the realities of your

1:05:14background. Are we together? So the

1:05:16average person who is conscious, an

1:05:18adult,

1:05:19has already been wounded to a life of

1:05:22defeat, wounded to a life of mediocrity.

1:05:25Are we together? When the Holy Spirit

1:05:27wants to use you, he does not use you

1:05:30carrying the backlog of a defeated

1:05:32mentality, a defeated consciousness. He

1:05:35begins to re-engineer your mind. And

1:05:37while you are giving all the excuses

1:05:39like my illustration about my village

1:05:41son giving all kinds of excuses like

1:05:44Gideon I am the least in my father's

1:05:46house and my father's house is the list

1:05:48of all the tribes God still calls you a

1:05:50mighty man of

1:05:53hallelujah now you are never going to be

1:05:55able to serve the purposes of God at a

1:05:58global scale having a defeat mentality

1:06:01there is such a thing as a dominion

1:06:04consciousness there is such a thing as a

1:06:06victory consciousness. Are we together?

1:06:09There's something needs to happen to you

1:06:12by reason of your knowing what Christ

1:06:14has done. It does not produce pride and

1:06:18boasting, but it produces a healthy

1:06:21confidence that is able to squash

1:06:23through the limitations of your

1:06:24background. That if someone were to see

1:06:26you yesterday and say you, God is

1:06:29raising you to be a preacher. Rahab, how

1:06:32can you be a preacher? Gideon, how can

1:06:34you be a preacher? Paul, how can you be

1:06:36a preacher, a persecutor of the church

1:06:38once upon a time? You can tell them,

1:06:40I've been saved by grace. I've been

1:06:42called into a life of grace and glory.

1:06:44And if God has chosen to make me a great

1:06:47man of God, to make me a great

1:06:49businessman, then even though I don't

1:06:51feel I qualify, my qualification comes

1:06:54from Christ. My sufficiency comes from

1:06:56Christ. There are many who are not able

1:06:58to do much for the kingdom because they

1:07:01think they have to earn that status by

1:07:04the works of righteousness.

1:07:06The believer in Christ. Some of us today

1:07:08by the mercy of God are able to do the

1:07:10things that we do not necessarily

1:07:12because we are sufficient in ourselves.

1:07:14We carry the consciousness that I am one

1:07:17with Christ. Now theologically speaking,

1:07:19there are two aspects of the believer's

1:07:23position in Christ that you must never

1:07:25forget. Number one, we call it your

1:07:27positional advantage. The Bible says you

1:07:29are being raised up with Christ. It's a

1:07:32location in the spirit raised up with

1:07:34Christ together with Christ. Number two

1:07:36is your oneness. You are a joint air.

1:07:39You know what that means? That

1:07:41everything that is in Christ has been

1:07:43allowed to find legitimate access to my

1:07:46life. If it's wisdom, I have access to

1:07:48it.

1:07:50If it's power, I have access to it. So I

1:07:52can lay hands on the sick, ordinary

1:07:54hands. These are the hands I was born

1:07:56with. It's not like I came with it later

1:07:58on. It came out as I was born. But what

1:08:01is the difference now? My understanding

1:08:03has done something to give allowance to

1:08:06the power of God over these ordinary

1:08:09hands.

1:08:11Are we learning now? This life that I

1:08:15have is a life of Christ. This life that

1:08:22I have is the life of God in me. So way

1:08:29so.

1:08:33[Music]

1:08:41This life

1:08:43that I have is the life of Christ.

1:08:49This life that I have is the life of God

1:08:54in me. So,

1:09:00so

1:09:03[Music]

1:09:11what does it mean to be a believer in

1:09:13Christ? I have access to victory. I have

1:09:16access to dominion. I have access to

1:09:19wisdom beyond this realm. Are we

1:09:21together now? I have access to command

1:09:24authority over Satan principalities and

1:09:27powers. What does it mean to be a

1:09:29believer? That the life of God can find

1:09:31expression in me. I can define my own

1:09:34possibilities. I am no longer a victim

1:09:37of situations and circumstances. My God,

1:09:40as much as you hear something happens to

1:09:42you, when it becomes spirit and life,

1:09:47it may not be your fault that you were

1:09:50born in a certain way, but the day you

1:09:53find Christ, it has brought you the

1:09:55advantage. The advantage. Apostle, I

1:09:59came from a family where people die

1:10:00early. You are right. But the moment you

1:10:03come into Christ, there is a

1:10:04consciousness that begins to build. The

1:10:07vital side of redemption is at the mercy

1:10:09of the legal side of redemption. Don't

1:10:12be carried away by the fact that the

1:10:13result has not yet manifested. It is

1:10:16consciousness first then obedience next

1:10:19then results later. Consciousness first

1:10:22and while the consciousness is there

1:10:24nothing in your life it will look like

1:10:26you are a liar. You are believing things

1:10:29that are completely different from your

1:10:31reality. But you believe this. Why we

1:10:33look not at the things that are seen but

1:10:36the things that are unseen.

1:10:40They tell me I would die early because

1:10:42something you know what maybe some blood

1:10:45group or gen or genotype is it was not

1:10:48my fault. And while that is true I find

1:10:51this word and I believe it that I can

1:10:54redefine my possibilities. Let me tell

1:10:56you while you are doing that job of

1:10:59believing you will look like a fool for

1:11:02a long time because the way the mountain

1:11:04will look so high one day you say this

1:11:06church thing eh let me not be a fool

1:11:09don't stop when it is one more push

1:11:12don't stop it's like someone who has

1:11:15been trying to hit down a wall and it

1:11:18would take 40 hits and whilst you were

1:11:20on 38 you became so weary no he hold um

1:11:26the nan bath seven times. If nan had

1:11:30stopped at the fifth or the fifth time,

1:11:32he will go back a wet lepros person. He

1:11:36needed to complete it.

1:11:40Who is learning? Yes. I never I'm

1:11:44looking at the many many years ago

1:11:46version of me. How would I ever believe

1:11:48that one day I would stand to be

1:11:50speaking and the nations will be hearing

1:11:52me? It's a joke. No, my background would

1:11:56not have captured that possibility. But

1:11:58Jesus,

1:12:02this life that I have is a life of God

1:12:08in me. This life that I have is a life

1:12:15of Christ.

1:12:17This life that I have is a life of God

1:12:22in me.

1:12:24This life that I have is the life of

1:12:30Christ. So,

1:12:33so

1:12:34[Music]

1:12:46I remember those days when I would read

1:12:47the books of Kenneth Ehagen and EW

1:12:51Kenyon. I mean it was like these guys

1:12:53were speaking Greek. Is it true that I

1:12:56have been raised with Christ? Is it true

1:12:58that I can now live a life invincible, a

1:13:01life indomitable? Is it true that God

1:13:04can transit a man from a lowly estate

1:13:07and cause your voice to be heard? When

1:13:10you find it here, the believer in

1:13:13Christ, the believer in Christ. Ah, when

1:13:17I find it, I am no longer Jesus of

1:13:19Nazareth. I am Jesus Christ.

1:13:23There is a big difference between Jesus

1:13:25of Nazareth

1:13:27and Jesus Christ.

1:13:31Joshua Selman of Nazareth and Joshua

1:13:35Selman, a partaker of the life of the

1:13:38Christ. It is true that nothing good can

1:13:41come out of Nazareth, but everything

1:13:43good comes out of Christ.

1:13:46Who am I speaking to?

1:13:49Oh, apostle, they called me the black

1:13:51sheep of my family. Maybe they were

1:13:53right by the natural descent. They were

1:13:55right because you were under the yolks

1:13:57that turn men that way. But when you

1:14:00come into Christ, there is a translation

1:14:02in the spirit. Honestly, you have to

1:14:04believe this. If not, you cannot help

1:14:06people if you are like them. You have to

1:14:09be higher in understanding, higher in a

1:14:12command of reality. Are we together now?

1:14:15The consciousness of your oneness with

1:14:17Christ is something that the Holy Ghost

1:14:20did to me and I thank God for it. I

1:14:22never never carry the consciousness of

1:14:24walking alone.

1:14:27If I travel, it is me and God by the

1:14:30spirit. And I've taught you I can fail

1:14:32alone but not me and Jesus Christ, not

1:14:35me and the Holy Spirit.

1:14:38If it was not God working with I will be

1:14:40a total failure. A failure as a lesson

1:14:43for generations. But not when he holds

1:14:45your hand. Are we together? I don't know

1:14:48what lady is feeling. She's alone. I

1:14:50don't know what guy is feeling alone.

1:14:52Perhaps you are here and there is a call

1:14:54of God upon your life. You are you don't

1:14:56even know how you are going to start.

1:14:57Don't worry. You just ensure that you

1:15:00are the believer in Christ.

1:15:03In Christ you have access to wisdom. In

1:15:07Christ you have access to power. In

1:15:10Christ you have access to grace. In

1:15:13Christ you have access to dominion. Are

1:15:16we together now? This is a revelation

1:15:18you must have. And I'm praying for you

1:15:20in the name of Jesus that everything

1:15:22that has gained control of your life and

1:15:25your Christian experience that even

1:15:26though you are in Christ but you have

1:15:28not carried this consciousness, I

1:15:30declare that it loses hold over you

1:15:32tonight.

1:15:33[Applause]

1:15:35loses hold over you tonight.

1:15:38[Applause]

1:15:39Hallelujah.

1:15:41Praise the name of the Lord.

1:15:43Let me share with you a very humorous

1:15:45story. I remember many years ago one

1:15:48time I was seated back then in Zarya and

1:15:50I looked I had never entered an aircraft

1:15:53and I looked up and I saw an aircraft

1:15:55passing and the spirit of God spoke to

1:15:58me and he said the word of God will put

1:16:00you in that aircraft.

1:16:03many years ago.

1:16:06Never entered an aircraft in my life.

1:16:07Don't even know how you get there.

1:16:14When someone tells you he's in Christ,

1:16:16watch what you say. Did you hear what I

1:16:19said? The moment someone tells you I am

1:16:22in Christ, be careful what you say

1:16:24because you may spend your life saying

1:16:26sorry forever. The moment in Christ

1:16:29means I have a superior partnership.

1:16:32David Young of blessed memory will call

1:16:34it Holy Spirit my senior partner not

1:16:37jenior partner. If you make him your

1:16:39junior partner you will suffer because

1:16:40if you lead the way you will crash land

1:16:42by yourself. Holy Spirit my senior

1:16:45partner. He took an ordinary man and

1:16:49built a ministry of 750,000

1:16:53people. the first record in modern

1:16:56history of that level of breakthrough

1:16:58and advancement in the gospel. Our

1:17:01father in the Lord Baba Deboy would tell

1:17:03us that many years ago he had to go

1:17:05there to visit and to receive prayer

1:17:07from David Yongicho and then later on in

1:17:10the later years he would meet again with

1:17:11David Yongicho and he looks at him and

1:17:14says wow you have surpassed this

1:17:15standard and he says you now pray for

1:17:17me.

1:17:19What takes an ordinary person? Listen,

1:17:22don't watch others rise. Enlist

1:17:25yourself.

1:17:27Enlist yourself.

1:17:30I may come from a family that is

1:17:31begging. But in the name of Jesus, one

1:17:34day I will bring joy to the name of the

1:17:36Lord. I went through a school where we

1:17:38had to sit on stones. You may say for

1:17:40instance, for just for expression, but

1:17:42one day I will build many schools for

1:17:44Jesus,

1:17:46the believer in Christ. We're dealing

1:17:48with the matters of the kingdom. It

1:17:50doesn't matter what else you study. If

1:17:53the foundation of your identity is

1:17:56faulty, you will wound others because

1:17:58you have a a a bad perception of

1:18:02yourself. Do you know most

1:18:04organizational problems can be solved

1:18:06when the individuals have a healthy

1:18:09complex that is derived from scripture?

1:18:11Low self-esteem is a natural thing with

1:18:14all men. The cure is beyond counseling.

1:18:17The cure is finding what he said about

1:18:20you.

1:18:22Hallelujah. You may be a stammer like

1:18:25Moses, but find comfort. That stammer

1:18:28was sent to lead over 2.5 million people

1:18:31out of Egypt into a land flowing with

1:18:33milk and honey. No excuses. You may have

1:18:36gotten born again late. No excuses.

1:18:39Abraham started at 75.

1:18:42You may have lived your life in such a

1:18:44way that you are not even happy about it

1:18:46now. Rahab became one of the great

1:18:48grandmothers of Jesus. No excuses. The

1:18:51things that are written at four time

1:18:53they are for our learning. You may be

1:18:55weak like Gideon list in everything. No

1:18:58excuses.

1:19:00Are we together? Yes sir. There are

1:19:04things I believe about myself. There is

1:19:06no assignment God gives me that I

1:19:09believe cannot be done. No. My

1:19:11limitations in life is the voice of God

1:19:15and the law of process.

1:19:18That is the only thing that restricts me

1:19:19in my life. If God tells me I can give

1:19:23you this nation, as frail as I look, I

1:19:26believe him because he's speaking to the

1:19:29man in Christ.

1:19:32The man in Christ. If you live out your

1:19:35assignment as the believer in Christ,

1:19:37you will win. If you live your life as

1:19:39the believer in Christ, Satan always

1:19:42comes to verify whether that Christ

1:19:44consciousness is still in you. If you

1:19:47lose the Christ consciousness, you will

1:19:49live a defeated life. And sometimes he

1:19:52will allow you to lose the Christ

1:19:53consciousness, then get into

1:19:55self-consciousness.

1:19:58I have an uncle somewhere. It's

1:20:00impossible for me to fail. My uncle is

1:20:02now the chairman of this board. And you

1:20:03will find out that you will fail so

1:20:05wfully. But when you say it doesn't

1:20:08matter what human connection I have,

1:20:10Christ is my anchor. Now you understand

1:20:13the song that our precious worship team

1:20:14was singing. Christ

1:20:19coonia is rooted upon Christ. This is

1:20:21why it will not fail. Rooted upon

1:20:24Christ. Jesus Christ the chief

1:20:26cornerstone. There is a mysterious

1:20:29cornerstone that backs and defends this

1:20:32vision. The jealousy of God as an

1:20:35investment was made upon this project.

1:20:39Hallelujah. The believer in Christ.

1:20:42Well, I don't know about you, but as for

1:20:44me, I've chosen my reality. There are

1:20:47certain things I will fight the fight of

1:20:49faith to see that it never happens in my

1:20:51life. Number one, I will never die the

1:20:53death of a fool.

1:20:56It is a personal revelation I've had.

1:20:58Number two, that every mountain that

1:21:01stands before me in the name of Jesus,

1:21:02it must give way. Number three, I will

1:21:05not beg while I'm serving the purposes

1:21:07of God. No. Now, don't be angry at what

1:21:10I believe. You have a way of defining

1:21:12what you believe. So, if my list looks a

1:21:15bit stretchy for you, it's between me

1:21:17and God. It is unto you in this kingdom

1:21:20according to your faith. Are we together

1:21:22now? But the believer in Christ, yay, I

1:21:25walk, though I walk through the valley

1:21:26of the shadow of death, I shall help me.

1:21:30I shall no evil. There is evil, but I

1:21:33will fear no evil. Why? For thou art

1:21:36with me. Your rod and your staff, they

1:21:39comfort me. They comfort me. If I were

1:21:44not in Christ, maybe one enchantment of

1:21:46darkness would have just blown me off

1:21:49and one day you just wake up and start

1:21:51coughing my head. My head and that's the

1:21:53end of it. But not when I'm in Christ.

1:21:57When I'm asleep, he's awake. He doesn't

1:21:58sleep.

1:22:00Doesn't sleep. Doesn't sleep. Who is

1:22:03believing what I'm telling you? Yes. The

1:22:05next time you are shaking somebody,

1:22:07carry the consciousness. Don't just say

1:22:10I'm expecting a person to shake and

1:22:11fall. That's not what I'm talking about.

1:22:13You are a blessing. Your hands are if I

1:22:16ask you to give me five naira cash, you

1:22:18will not use your mouth to remove it.

1:22:20Your hand. So when you are shaking

1:22:21people, see to it that they are not just

1:22:24touching you. They are touching you and

1:22:26the Christ. Something should happen to

1:22:28them. Oh my friend, shake me. God bless

1:22:32you. And the person says, "Amen." And

1:22:34carries that hand, not idolizing it, but

1:22:36based on that consciousness, you

1:22:38deposited God. And the person may not

1:22:41know. He will just go somewhere and find

1:22:44out that he laid it on his document and

1:22:48because you see anywhere the ark is it

1:22:51works as designed and if it finds itself

1:22:54in the house of oed Adam even in 3

1:22:56months it can produce abundance

1:22:59[Music]

1:23:01the name of Jesus.

1:23:03Are we together? Someone tells you,

1:23:05"I've been having all kinds of dreams

1:23:07and these things are demonic."

1:23:10And then the Lord sends you to that

1:23:12house to visit. They just give you one

1:23:14room. You may not know why God brought

1:23:16you there. You thought you just went to

1:23:17greet your uncle. He knows that if you

1:23:20don't go there, the devil will destroy

1:23:21them because they are bankrupt of

1:23:23intelligence. And the night you lie down

1:23:25on that bed, those spirits will come as

1:23:27usual. But it will be like a shining

1:23:30light from that house.

1:23:32What has been introduced in this house

1:23:34again and you are sleeping? You are not

1:23:36even praying. But you have programmed

1:23:38your spirit to know that you and God

1:23:39cannot fail.

1:23:42Are we together now? And they wake up

1:23:45and tell you, look, we have a testimony.

1:23:47This is the first time in 10 years our

1:23:49father is sleeping sound. He wakes up

1:23:52fighting in the night. You wake up more

1:23:53tired.

1:23:55And you say, "Really?" They said,

1:23:57"Please tell us what happened." And you

1:23:59tell them, "I have it. I have the

1:24:01answer. Let's go to the Bible.

1:24:04The Bible tells me that if I am in

1:24:06Christ, I've been raised up with him.

1:24:09God's servant, Bishop Oedico, will call

1:24:11it a far above mentality. It is true.

1:24:15Far above.

1:24:18You've heard me and I say it humorously,

1:24:20but I really mean it that if God wants

1:24:22to bless 10 people in Coonia this night,

1:24:24my prayer is for the remaining nine.

1:24:28The remaining nine. The remaining nine.

1:24:31The remaining nine. He's jealous over

1:24:33me. I am God's investment.

1:24:40Carry your presence everywhere.

1:24:44Who am I? Your mind is so full. Love me.

1:24:49Mortal,

1:24:56awesome God. He will not suffer my fault

1:25:00to be moved. I carry your presence

1:25:05everywhere.

1:25:06You are mine. Your mind is so full of

1:25:10me.

1:25:14Awesome.

1:25:18Awesome.

1:25:20Lay your hands on your head in one

1:25:22minute and pray. I am victorious in

1:25:24Christ. victorious in Christ. Don't mind

1:25:28what the devil is telling you. Don't let

1:25:30the devil tell you, don't don't don't

1:25:32let this church gibberish. Ignore him

1:25:35and you declare. Hold on to your

1:25:37profession of faith. Your profession of

1:25:41faith. Your profession of faith.

1:25:48I reject a victim mentality.

1:25:51I reject limitation in Christ.

1:25:54victorious, helped by God. Access to

1:25:58mercy, access to victory, access to

1:26:01favor, access to dominion, access to

1:26:05power, access to the resources of

1:26:07heaven.

1:26:11One minute you are praying, Satan, you

1:26:14are a liar. Take away those negative

1:26:16thoughts from my mind. I cast down every

1:26:19imagination

1:26:23from a faulty background. I am still in

1:26:26Christ. Defeated in yesterday. I am

1:26:29still in Christ.

1:26:31Position for greatness. Position for

1:26:34greatness. Position for victory. An

1:26:38ambassador. A witness on fire for Jesus.

1:26:43commanding the resources of heaven

1:26:49in Jesus name we pray. Please sit down.

1:26:54Please sit down.

1:26:57Hallelujah.

1:26:59This revelation should not make you

1:27:01arrogant. Arrogance brings you in

1:27:03self-righteousness.

1:27:05But there must be a healthy

1:27:06dissatisfaction.

1:27:09Someone looks at you and says you are

1:27:10not fine enough. living with their

1:27:12ignorance and continue that process of

1:27:15healthy indoctrination. I am fearfully

1:27:18and wonderfully made.

1:27:22Are we together? Someone looks at you

1:27:24and calls you a dollar. Don't fight them

1:27:26back and insult them. But pray that one

1:27:30day when you are in power and glory,

1:27:32they will attend anything that requires

1:27:34your knowledge to see what God can do.

1:27:36When the spirit of God makes men of

1:27:38quick understanding,

1:27:40again I remind you, anytime you hear a

1:27:43believer tell you, I am in Christ,

1:27:45beware immediately.

1:27:48When a military man is passing and even

1:27:50if the police or the military put a

1:27:52barricade, there is a language when he

1:27:54speaks, they don't probe him again. Are

1:27:56we together now? He has demonstrated

1:27:58that look, I have been trained, we are

1:28:00allies. So immediately you don't look

1:28:02down on him because he may be a general

1:28:04in multi and while you are oppressing

1:28:07him and doing all he will just watch you

1:28:10and all he needs to do is look at your

1:28:12name and says all right you hear from me

1:28:14and you know that you've attracted

1:28:16results first

1:28:18colossians chapter 1 and verse 10.

1:28:23Many believers do not know how to obtain

1:28:26results. The Bible says that he might

1:28:28walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing.

1:28:30We read it earlier. Then he says, "Being

1:28:33fruitful in every good work." Please, I

1:28:35want you to listen to this one. Now,

1:28:38one of the things you must learn in this

1:28:40kingdom is how to produce and how to

1:28:45obtain promises, how to obtain results,

1:28:49how to obtain results. Results are an

1:28:53effect. There is a cause that leads to

1:28:55it. And if you do not know how to engage

1:28:59so as to produce results, you will live

1:29:01a very defeated Christian life. Are we

1:29:05together? Now this is very important.

1:29:07How do we obtain results in the kingdom?

1:29:10Watch this. Now the modus operandi

1:29:14for the pursuit of results

1:29:17foundationally is your access to the

1:29:20word of God.

1:29:22If you do not have access to the word of

1:29:24God, the raw material to manufacture the

1:29:27possibilities you require is not even

1:29:29there.

1:29:34John 1 and:3

1:29:38John 1 and:3 All things were made by

1:29:42him. Who is the him? The word. And

1:29:45without him, without means outside of

1:29:47his participation, was not anything made

1:29:51that was made. Colossians 1:16. The word

1:29:54of God. The word of God. The word of

1:29:57God. For by him were all things created.

1:30:00How many things that are in heaven and

1:30:04that are in the earth, visible and

1:30:06invisible, whether they be thrones or

1:30:09dominions or principalities or powers.

1:30:12All things were created by him and for

1:30:15him.

1:30:17This is the word for you. So when you

1:30:20want to produce results in the kingdom,

1:30:23your raw material is the word of God.

1:30:26The raw material is the word of God. The

1:30:30raw material is the word of God. Are we

1:30:33together now? For instance, when you

1:30:35want to make cloth, the raw material is

1:30:38either sheep skin or tree that you see.

1:30:41And yet that is where your cloth comes

1:30:44from. So when you see someone felling a

1:30:46tree or you know getting skin from an

1:30:49animal, you may look at them and laugh

1:30:51and say look what they doing. That is

1:30:53your cloth there.

1:30:55Are we together now? That the cotton

1:30:57will be woven to become a material that

1:30:59you will wear. But when you see it in

1:31:01the raw state, how about oil? oil that

1:31:04is later turned to gas and turned to

1:31:06diesel and whatever it is that you use

1:31:08both in your car, your gas cooker and so

1:31:10on and so forth. You go to a mine and

1:31:14watch oil being minded is is a dark

1:31:18smelly paste of choking substance and

1:31:22yet they mind that thing as smelly as it

1:31:24is but they subject it through a

1:31:27process. You don't just carry that oil

1:31:29and pour it like that from the earth to

1:31:32your car. Are we together? Or carry it

1:31:35from there to your stove. No,

1:31:39there is a process that you pass it

1:31:42through. And when you pass it, then you

1:31:44are able to bring out all of the

1:31:46components that come from it. This is

1:31:48what happens with the word of God. The

1:31:51raw material for anything. That means

1:31:54I'm trusting God for lifting. I'm in the

1:31:56kingdom now. I'm trusting God for the

1:31:58manifestation of victory. When God wants

1:32:01to help you, he brings you to his word.

1:32:06When you find his word, you have found

1:32:08the raw material. You have not found the

1:32:11answer, you have found access to the

1:32:13answer. You can say you found the answer

1:32:15and you are right. But I want to teach

1:32:17you very quickly how to use the word of

1:32:20God to actually produce results

1:32:25because God is going to give you

1:32:27instructions and after he gives you the

1:32:30instructions, the only thing he will

1:32:32give you is his word and you'll be

1:32:34complaining. God, how do you expect me

1:32:36to build a global ministry and all you

1:32:39gave me was your word? How do you expect

1:32:41me to raise five children plus the

1:32:44children of maybe my late siblings and

1:32:46the rest together making 15 people and

1:32:49all you gave me was the word of God.

1:32:51When God gives you his word, he gave you

1:32:53himself.

1:32:55[Music]

1:32:57Are we together now? But you need to

1:33:00know what to do with the word for it to

1:33:02produce. Please listen. The word of God

1:33:05answers to any matter in life. any

1:33:09matter in life. Now look up please.

1:33:13There is the word as a person. There is

1:33:16the word as a compendium of the

1:33:19speakings and the thoughts of God. Take

1:33:21note of that. There is the word as the

1:33:24name of a person, God himself. But there

1:33:28is the word as a compendium of the

1:33:31thoughts. Are we together? The thoughts

1:33:33and the speakings of God. It is called

1:33:35the logos of God. The word of God that

1:33:38I'm talking about here is not just the

1:33:40person Jesus. Are are we together now?

1:33:43I'm talking about the word of God as a

1:33:46compendium of the thoughts of God. The

1:33:49word of God as a compendium of the

1:33:51speakings of God. John I mean Matthew

1:33:544:4. Man shall not live by bread alone.

1:34:00Remember our teaching our daily bread.

1:34:04It says but by every word that help me

1:34:09that every word that proceeded from the

1:34:14mouth of God. So there is God the word

1:34:17you call him Jesus but there is the

1:34:19proceeding word that comes out of his

1:34:22mouth. The Bible says that is the word

1:34:23you live by. Now how do we produce

1:34:27results in the kingdom? Ultimately

1:34:30what guarantees results is the power of

1:34:33God. Listen carefully please. The power

1:34:36of God is the force responsible for

1:34:40compelling results. But the power of God

1:34:43never moves until the word of God

1:34:46instructs it. So the power of God never

1:34:50moves to your favor until the word of

1:34:53God instructs it. So in order of

1:34:56spiritual priority, the power of God

1:34:58submits to the word of God. Did you hear

1:35:01what I said? In order of spiritual

1:35:03priority, the power of God submits to

1:35:07the word of God.

1:35:09That means the power of God depends on

1:35:12the speakings of God, depends on your

1:35:15engaging the word of God for it to be

1:35:18active in your life.

1:35:20So if you choose the power of God or you

1:35:23get into a campaign of seeking the power

1:35:25of God and ignoring the word of God, you

1:35:28will be surprised that it will be a

1:35:30futile pursuit.

1:35:38Hallelujah. The word of God ultimately

1:35:41it is the power of God. So say for

1:35:44instance I am trusting God to rise.

1:35:47What is the basis for my rising? Number

1:35:51one, that I am in Christ. But number

1:35:53two, let me tell you how God helps me.

1:35:57So, brother XYZ coming from a very lowly

1:36:01estate and yet there is prophecy over

1:36:03that gentleman. There is a great destiny

1:36:06over that gentleman. How does God begin

1:36:08the journey? I will tell you. God

1:36:10exposes him to the word. One scripture

1:36:12for instance, Deuteronomy chapter 28

1:36:15from verse one. And this gentleman is

1:36:17reading now from a lowly estate, hungry,

1:36:21tired with bills in debt, relatives

1:36:24dying, curses walking,

1:36:27poor and bankrupt mentality. But he came

1:36:31for Coonia and he heard this man called

1:36:33Joshua Salman speaking and he challenged

1:36:36him to place value on the word of God.

1:36:38Watch the miracle now. Let me your

1:36:39attention. Deuteronomy 28 and verse one.

1:36:42And he's reading. This is him now having

1:36:45his quiet time in his room. Is it true?

1:36:47Does it work? He's not even sure, but he

1:36:50wants to give God a try. See how the

1:36:53word of God works.

1:36:56The Lord your God will set thee on high

1:36:59above all the nations of the earth. The

1:37:02person who is reading has never risen.

1:37:05The person who is who is reading this

1:37:07has never met kings. The person who is

1:37:10reading this maybe is the last born out

1:37:12of a family of 12 people with curses and

1:37:15all kinds of things and he's reading

1:37:17this kind of expensive commitment from

1:37:19God and he chooses to believe. Now at

1:37:23first he would not believe. His mind

1:37:25will fight it. The devil will tell him

1:37:26this is gibberish. This is nonsense. And

1:37:29yet he chooses to believe. Then he reads

1:37:32something like Genesis 17 and verse 6 a

1:37:35prophetic word over the kinds of people

1:37:37who will come out of him. I will make

1:37:39thee exceeding fruitful. I will make

1:37:42nations of you and kings shall come out

1:37:45of thee. He's reading from his womb. Now

1:37:48watch this. The real miracle has been

1:37:51delivered to him. What he does with the

1:37:54word of God because the Bible calls the

1:37:56word of God the incorruptible seed. And

1:37:59if you talk of fruitfulness, all fruits,

1:38:02all three starts with what? Seed. Am I

1:38:04right on that?

1:38:06There is no tree and there is no fruit

1:38:09without a seed. So when God wants to

1:38:12produce a tree and then an orchard and

1:38:14then a forest. He starts with the seed.

1:38:17The seed the Bible says in the parable

1:38:19of the swer is the word of God. That

1:38:21seed is planted by the spirit and you

1:38:24receive it. You nurture it. I will teach

1:38:26you how.

1:38:28And then it begins to grow and your

1:38:31convictions and your consciousness. He

1:38:33begins to have a dominion mindset as the

1:38:36word of God penetrates through his

1:38:38heart, breaking all the barriers of

1:38:40complexes and self-limiting beliefs. A

1:38:43miracle is happening to that gentleman.

1:38:45You see, the first thing God does is not

1:38:48to show him what to do. The first thing

1:38:51God does is to allow the word

1:38:53re-engineer him. This is where most

1:38:55believers miss it. We are more conscious

1:38:57on acting the word than being

1:38:59transformed by it. Listen, I want to

1:39:02tell you why many believers don't get

1:39:04results. We think that God is like a

1:39:06genie. Find the word, find the

1:39:09instruction, obey it, get results. It

1:39:12doesn't exactly work like that.

1:39:15When God sends his word to you, he's not

1:39:18thinking result. He's thinking your

1:39:20transformation first. Are we together

1:39:22now? Because something needs to happen

1:39:25to you for your result to last. If all

1:39:28you are conscious of is engaging the

1:39:31word to get result, your your journey

1:39:33will be poor and filled with a lot of

1:39:36pain and stagnation. So when the word of

1:39:38God comes, God wants to leave this

1:39:41gentleman according to Deuteronomy 28.

1:39:44But now the gentleman says, "Wow, I have

1:39:46found it in God's word. I declare and

1:39:48declare I am not small." And the next

1:39:50thing the guy wants is, "You know what?

1:39:52I will never fly economy again. I've

1:39:54read in the Bible. I will." You you see

1:39:56the you see how he's approaching it

1:39:57wrongly now. I will never eat in an

1:40:00ordinary restaurant somewhere again. I'm

1:40:02going to go to transport from today. I'm

1:40:04a king. I'm a priest. This gentleman is

1:40:06going to program defeat and the devil

1:40:08will help him because he knows he's

1:40:10already in a hurry. He will call it open

1:40:12door till they arrest him.

1:40:14[Music]

1:40:16You see how many believers put

1:40:17themselves in trouble. When God sends

1:40:20his word, please listen. The first goal

1:40:22of the word is not to walk for you. The

1:40:26first goal of the word is to walk in

1:40:28you. In you, in you. I have hidden your

1:40:33word in my heart. It is first an inner

1:40:35work of the spirit. Then it flows

1:40:38through you. Most believers today read

1:40:40the Bible every day, but they don't get

1:40:43lasting result because they are

1:40:44conscious of using the word to get

1:40:46result. They don't want to be connected

1:40:49to the word. the the transformation of

1:40:51the word is not their concern.

1:40:54So a preacher who is reading the word

1:40:57just to find a sermon, he will keep

1:40:59saying a lot of powerful things but you

1:41:01will not know why you are not being

1:41:02changed by it because it is not coming

1:41:04from within him. He says it is out of

1:41:07your belly that will flow. Is that not

1:41:09what Jesus said? Not that you will carry

1:41:11a fetcher and be channeling the it will

1:41:13come from you. Show me a person who

1:41:16stays with the word for the purpose of

1:41:19knowledge, growth, transformation versus

1:41:22somebody who just wants to use verses

1:41:25and tie the hands of God to get results.

1:41:27Their Christian experience will be

1:41:28different.

1:41:33So most believers are conscious of using

1:41:35the word not being transformed by it.

1:41:38When the Bible says all things were made

1:41:40by the word, the assignment is not just

1:41:42find a verse, speak it, act it, get

1:41:45result, there is a place for that. The

1:41:48primary assignment of the word is to

1:41:50change you. So it's changing your mind,

1:41:53re-engineering your orientation. Who is

1:41:55learning? This is what God is doing. You

1:41:57must know how to produce results by the

1:41:59word. That lasting result starts from

1:42:03God working on the vessel first before

1:42:06delivering things to your hands.

1:42:09So for the gentleman who wants to go to

1:42:11the nations, God is not going to start

1:42:14taking him to hotels, opening doors of

1:42:16ministrations. No, God will subject him

1:42:18to a season where he may never see any

1:42:21result. Please go and listen to my

1:42:23message.

1:42:26The other side of faith.

1:42:30The other side of faith. You find it on

1:42:32Coonia Global.

1:42:34Hallelujah. That there are times you may

1:42:37not obtain promises. What you will

1:42:39obtain is a testimonial of

1:42:41transformation. It is still faith. Faith

1:42:44is not always about obtaining promises.

1:42:47If your Christian experience is only

1:42:49tied to obtaining promises, even when

1:42:52you are excelling the spirit, you will

1:42:54think you are failing because for 2

1:42:56years you will not be able to pay your

1:42:58rent. For 3 years, no physical evidence

1:43:01will happen and so you will think you

1:43:03are not making progress. Whereas in the

1:43:05spirit there is an applaud for you

1:43:07because what is happening is a

1:43:08testimonial. The Bible says what made

1:43:11the men elders was not the it was the

1:43:14report not the promises. Some of them

1:43:17died without obtaining the promises. He

1:43:19still called it faith. But everybody

1:43:21obtained a good report. What was a good

1:43:23report? Righteousness. For some, they

1:43:26believed God even unto death. For

1:43:28others, they had an opportunity to be

1:43:30delivered, but they allowed themselves

1:43:31to die to obtain a better resurrection

1:43:34as proof that they believed in a more

1:43:36superior life.

1:43:38Let me encourage someone. Just because

1:43:40the word is not working for you yet does

1:43:44not mean the word is not working in you.

1:43:48The word is building that character yet

1:43:50there is still no job. The word is still

1:43:53building you building patience. Count it

1:43:56all joy my brethren when you go through

1:43:58diverse temptations. Apostle James was

1:44:01teaching us knowing this. So it's a

1:44:04knowledge issue. Joy is connected to

1:44:07knowledge. a knowing issue that the

1:44:10trying of your faith. Verse three,

1:44:13walketh patience, the trying of your

1:44:16faith, give us verse three, James 1 and

1:44:18verse three, walkth patience. And verse

1:44:21four says, let patience

1:44:24have its perfect work that he may be

1:44:28matured and entire, lacking nothing.

1:44:34There are times that you will be

1:44:36trusting God to open up doors of

1:44:37ministry for you and everybody seems to

1:44:40be ignoring you. You can sit down and

1:44:42hear a man of God preach and feel like,

1:44:45"Ah, but I can preach better than this.

1:44:47I think I'm more anointed than this."

1:44:49And you may be right. Yet God says, "Sit

1:44:51down there as an usher. Sit down. Keep

1:44:53scrubbing the toilet." The word of God

1:44:55is working in you. And the degree to

1:44:59which you let it work in you is the is

1:45:02the the access to the channel to work

1:45:05through you to others and for your

1:45:08results. Most people do not stay to

1:45:10allow the word of God work in them. Who

1:45:12is learning tonight?

1:45:14So the next time you open your Bible,

1:45:16don't just think results, think

1:45:18transformation. Even though the end will

1:45:20be results, but a nobler thing to

1:45:22receive from the word is your

1:45:24transformation. that you get to a point

1:45:26where whether your Bible is closed or

1:45:28opened, your Bible remains ever opened

1:45:30because it has transformed you. You have

1:45:32become a living epistle yourself, a

1:45:35living epistle yourself.

1:45:38Your your words have been cultured to be

1:45:41the word of God. Your thinking has been

1:45:43cultured. You have what the Bible calls

1:45:45the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ.

1:45:49The mind of Christ. Philippians 2:5.

1:45:51That you have the mind of Christ. But

1:45:53then when you allow that work of

1:45:56transformation to happen, let me just

1:45:58talk to you quickly about obtaining

1:45:59promises. Number one, you must find the

1:46:03promises connected to the results you

1:46:05desire. Please listen, I'm rushing very

1:46:07quickly. You must find from scripture

1:46:11the promises connected to the results

1:46:14you desire. Because there are rules to

1:46:17answered prayer. Your request must be

1:46:20consistent with the will of God. Don't

1:46:23forget the will of God is the boundary

1:46:26of your asking for the believer. You are

1:46:28not given liberty to ask anything and

1:46:31expect anything. The anything is within

1:46:34the boundary of the will of God. And

1:46:36this is the confidence we have in him.

1:46:39That when we ask anything according to

1:46:42his will, we know that he heareth us.

1:46:46It's an assurance if the will of God is

1:46:48there. Now, the scripture is the richest

1:46:53capture of the revealed will of God.

1:46:55Write that down. The scripture is the

1:46:59richest capture of the revealed will of

1:47:03God.

1:47:08The scripture is the most concise or the

1:47:12richest capture of the revealed will of

1:47:15God. Most of the things you will be

1:47:18asking God for answers from, the answers

1:47:20are already stated here. You can know.

1:47:23For instance, is it God's will to heal

1:47:26me? The revealed will of God as revealed

1:47:29in scripture says yes. But you must find

1:47:31the scripture. You must

1:47:35search the scripture. It says

1:47:38most believers are careless. So someone

1:47:40will say God now watch how most

1:47:42believers pray or watch how they want to

1:47:44produce results. Kind life said self is

1:47:46not God is not fair. Why is God acting

1:47:49this way towards me? Abuja that is full

1:47:52of all kinds of good people and one

1:47:54person cannot even look at me with

1:47:56kindness. This is bad including

1:47:58Christians. The person is talking to God

1:48:00now or talking to himself. Unfortunately

1:48:03you will never get results that way. Let

1:48:05me tell you how to get results. Where in

1:48:07the Bible did God assure you that favor

1:48:11is your portion? Because the Bible says

1:48:13the inheritance is for the saints in

1:48:15light. The inheritance is connected to

1:48:18light. Access to that inheritance is

1:48:21connected to light.

1:48:23Where in scripture have you found that

1:48:26God desires to favor you? Are we

1:48:29together now?

1:48:31Where have you found that God desires to

1:48:34heal you or keep you in health? Where

1:48:36have you found that God has delivered

1:48:38you and desires you to remain delivered?

1:48:41It is your own assignment by the spirit

1:48:44of grace to search until you find it.

1:48:48Let them shout for joy that plead my

1:48:50righteous cause. Yay. Let them say

1:48:53continually let the Lord be magnified

1:48:56which had pleasure in the prosperity of

1:48:59his servant. I have found it. Let me try

1:49:02one more. Because out of the mouth of

1:49:05two or three scriptures or two or three

1:49:07witnesses is a matter established. Are

1:49:09we together now? Yes. Ye know the grace

1:49:12of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians

1:49:148 and:9 that though he was rich yet for

1:49:17your sake he became poor that ye through

1:49:20his poverty might become rich. First

1:49:22spiritual but it extends to every part.

1:49:24I found it in the name of Jesus. And God

1:49:27is able to make all grace abound towards

1:49:29me, that me having sufficiency in

1:49:32everything, that I may abound unto every

1:49:34good work. I have learned from scripture

1:49:36that I am his workmanship, recreated in

1:49:39Christ Jesus unto all good works. God

1:49:41wants me to produce results. He is

1:49:43glorified when I produce results. John

1:49:46chapter 15 and verse 8, herein is our

1:49:49father glorified. When you bear much

1:49:51fruit, so shall you be my disciples.

1:49:53Uhhuh. I have been ordained. Verse 16,

1:49:56same chapter. To go and bear fruits and

1:49:58that the fruit will remain.

1:50:01Now I have found it. Watch this. Are you

1:50:04learning? Now remember, I have found the

1:50:07scripture and I know that it is

1:50:10consistent with the will of God. Number

1:50:13two, please listen. You have to ask

1:50:16yourself the question,

1:50:18will the Lord be revealed and glorified

1:50:20through the answers that come to this

1:50:23request? Most Christians miss this part

1:50:26of God being glorified because you can

1:50:30you can put together scriptures that

1:50:32reflect your lust. God will still not

1:50:35answer. You can twist him with scripture

1:50:38and say I have found it like a charm.

1:50:40God, you must answer it. There are two

1:50:42tests. One, it must be consistent with

1:50:45his will as revealed with the word.

1:50:48Number two, it must directly bring him

1:50:51glory.

1:50:53H

1:50:55who is learning tonight?

1:50:57Because this issue of scripture

1:50:59desperate believers also become

1:51:01intelligent believers. They will search

1:51:03from Genesis to Revelation till they

1:51:06find even if it's half of a verse. They

1:51:09will now write it and say half of a

1:51:10verse is still a verse. Lord I have

1:51:13found it here.

1:51:15You kill and you make alive. Oh yeah.

1:51:18Answer this thing. And God says no I

1:51:20don't work like that. The second test,

1:51:22how will it bring me glory?

1:51:26Ye ask and ye have not. You see,

1:51:29sometimes it is because you want to

1:51:31fulfill your lust. When God sees that in

1:51:34your request and your desire, Christ is

1:51:37going to be glorified and revealed like

1:51:39we say here, then you have answered the

1:51:41second test for obtaining results. If

1:51:44you say, "God, how will you be

1:51:46glorified?" Many of our prayer requests

1:51:48will be edited to what is truly kingdom

1:51:51because most of it is foiled by lust.

1:51:54Most of it is felled by desperation,

1:51:56jealousy, envy, sentiments. Lord, you

1:52:00did it for this brother. If you don't do

1:52:02it for me, then you are not God. He said

1:52:03you are joking. I'm God. I am God. If

1:52:05you feel angry, I am God, my son. I am

1:52:08God.

1:52:10Are we together? Yes, sir. If the reason

1:52:13why you think God would do it for you is

1:52:15because he did it for this sister. He

1:52:17did it for this person and he's obliged

1:52:19to do it just like that. No. Father, I

1:52:23desire my own miracle to celebrate your

1:52:26faithfulness. But so that through it you

1:52:28will find glory in my life. I've taught

1:52:30you. You are now speaking God's

1:52:32language. Someone say, "Be glorified."

1:52:34Be glorified through my results. God is

1:52:37hearing you. Say, "Be glorified." Be

1:52:39glorified through my results. Through my

1:52:41results. Yes. Be glorified through the

1:52:44job you will give me. Be glorified

1:52:47through the admission. Be glorified

1:52:51through the Canada visa. Huh? American

1:52:55visa. Not just that you run away there

1:52:57and run out of God. As soon as you get

1:52:59the visa, you thank God attend your last

1:53:01service in your life and say, "Lord, I

1:53:04finally I trapped you into stamping a

1:53:06visa. Now that I have it, don't come

1:53:08near me again. I'm leaving this country

1:53:11for good. And he says, you see the heart

1:53:12of men. And let me tell you, when you

1:53:15see men begging God b is because of

1:53:17desperation. God looks beyond the

1:53:20sentiments and say, I'm still finding

1:53:22guile within the heart. There is no

1:53:24purity within the heart.

1:53:28God, give me 1,000 members. And God

1:53:30says, no, I love you too much. It will

1:53:32destroy you. But Lord, I I will love

1:53:35them. I'm the one telling you. He says,

1:53:36no. No. Why are you telling me I can see

1:53:40all things? I am alpha omega. I've

1:53:42already seen what you will become. Lord,

1:53:45I will not do I will I will never

1:53:47manipulate them. One naira. I will not

1:53:49collect one naira unjustly from anybody.

1:53:51If I do it, kill me immediately on

1:53:53stage. Know all those stupid things that

1:53:55people say to God and he just looks with

1:53:57mercy. He's the one who knows our hearts

1:53:59that even we do not know.

1:54:03Is someone learning? Someone say be

1:54:05glorified. Be glorified. Now when you

1:54:08find the word of God and you found

1:54:12scripture and your heart is truly

1:54:14committed to bringing him glory, the

1:54:16next thing is find the conditions that

1:54:19the word of God says commits God to

1:54:22perform. There is always a condition

1:54:25connected to the promises of God. Do not

1:54:28forget this. There is always a

1:54:31condition. You don't create the

1:54:33condition yourself. The condition is

1:54:36there. That is where the spirit of

1:54:38understanding comes. The assignment of

1:54:40the spirit of understanding is to show

1:54:43you how to engage in a way that produces

1:54:47for you. Can I tell you if the only

1:54:49thing you see in scripture is what God

1:54:51can do for you and you've not found how

1:54:54to connect by faith, you don't yet have

1:54:56understanding.

1:54:58The spirit of understanding brings you

1:55:01to the responsibility dimension of

1:55:05receiving your result. Oh, I've seen it

1:55:07now. Okay. So, I would not just be

1:55:09exalted above all men. This is what I

1:55:12must do. Number one, study to show

1:55:14yourself approved because value is

1:55:16connected to growth. So, you have seen

1:55:18that there is prophecy that you will be

1:55:20great. But this version of you cannot be

1:55:22lifted like that. That the spirit of

1:55:24excellence and value the degree to which

1:55:27you solve people's problems is connected

1:55:29to influence too. And so, you now obtain

1:55:32grace. I will study to show myself

1:55:34approved as a man of God by the grace of

1:55:37God and by the mercy of God. You see

1:55:39that now? So that the day God brings me

1:55:41before my destiny helpers as I

1:55:44communicate my heart will be indicting a

1:55:46good matter. Yeah, I will speak of

1:55:48excellent things that my tongue will be

1:55:50the pen of a ready writer. When you

1:55:53speak and people listen and say no this

1:55:55is the kind of man I want to make my

1:55:56pastor. This is the kind of man I want

1:55:58to and God opens doors for you. Finally,

1:56:01you will see that you are in the

1:56:02manifestation of the prophecy. But how

1:56:04did it happen? Understanding brought you

1:56:07to a point.

1:56:10God tells you you are going to access

1:56:11power. Now you find out from scripture

1:56:14what are the dynamics of power. The word

1:56:16of God, the ministry of prayer, the

1:56:18ministry of fasting, intercession. Are

1:56:21we together? Service in the house of

1:56:23God. Impartation. And you obtain grace.

1:56:26You begin to engage this. You are

1:56:27praying. You are fasting. You are

1:56:29studying God's word. You are serving.

1:56:32You are honoring graces that carry what

1:56:34you need. Eventually, you will step into

1:56:36your prophecy.

1:56:40God, my own. I'm I'm healthy, but I'm

1:56:42poor. I'm poor. This thing is too bad.

1:56:45There is a solution.

1:56:48A diligent hand shall be made fat. He

1:56:51that does not sow by reason of the

1:56:53weather will beg in harvest. Are we

1:56:55together now? Father, in the name of

1:56:57Jesus, my family has the spirit of

1:57:00laziness. The men are careless. I take

1:57:02responsibility and I decree and declare

1:57:04I want change. I want to be a good

1:57:07husband, a good father, a good leader. I

1:57:10don't want my children roaming around

1:57:11the street begging for bread. You are

1:57:13father and you are responsible. I was

1:57:15created in your image. I also want to be

1:57:18aba a responsible man. Now you are

1:57:20praying

1:57:23and the holy spirit will direct you. All

1:57:25right. Go and buy three books. One, The

1:57:27Spirit of Fatherhood by Dr. Miles

1:57:30Monroe. Write it. Buy it. I'm not saying

1:57:33you. I'm saying the God is now talking

1:57:34to you. Maybe he's really talking to

1:57:37you. Go and buy it.

1:57:40Are we together?

1:57:45And then you write all of those things.

1:57:47While you are reading through those

1:57:49materials, you will find certain keys.

1:57:51Ah, this is it. Okay. God wants to lift