EL-EZER, GOD MY HELPER

And then to this most important theme. When I started, the theme of the conference struck my heart because it's a description of my life. For me, I'm not it's not a preacher's note. It's a testimony. I know what it means to be helped by God. Sharing are not necessarily just a preacher's note. Honestly, it is. It is me hoping to share my heart and I'm hoping in the name of Jesus that God will bless us. Amen and Amen and amen. Your confidence and your exploits in this kingdom is connected to your knowledge of God. The degree to which you reign, the degree to which you do exploit in this kingdom is connected to your knowledge of God. Danielle, Chapter eleven and verse statitude the be pard said, But the people that do know their God, he says, they shall be strong and they shall do exploits. So doing exploits in all its ramification in this kingdom is directly connected to the depth of your knowledge of God. Allelujah. The Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It says, the knowledge of the Holy that is understanding, to the degree to which you have a functional knowledge of God, not just a theoretical knowledge, a functional knowledge. And let me digress for one minute and just say word or two about knowing God. As mighty, as mysterious as God is, he can be known. He wants to be known. And He's created the platforms and the resources for the saints to be able to know Him. There are at least four channels, according to scripture, that can help you believe and know God. Let me just run through it. Number one is through the scripture. The first way we know God is through the study of the scripture. Allelujah, he said. He such the scripture, for in them you think you will find life, and you will not come to me. He said. The scripture testify of me. So when we search the scripture, it helps us to know God, particularly to understand his character. And you may have heard me say that Some one o three, in my personal opinion, contains the richest compendium of God's character in all of Scripture. When you read Some one o three from verse one to the end, it's a concise description of God's character. Number two, the second way we know God is by studying his names. We know God by studying his names. There was a reason why God allowed himself to carry multiple names as he related with men. So he's the God almighty. There are names that are personal to him, but there are names that are testaments of the various dimensions of himself that was revealed to his people, from Gyra to Ralpha, you know, and a Lesa. As we have hit here, it's a revelation of what God is able to do. In Exodus chapter six. Exodus chapter six, are we getting blessed already? Let me just do it. Give us Exodus chapter six and verse three. I like us to read it together. This is just the what they call it appetizer. What do you eat before the main cause? So what doing an appetizer? Let's read together? We read six one to go. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as but by my name, Yeahweh or Lord, I was not known to them. So one of the ways you know God is by. Learning his names. So his possibilities and his various dimensions are trapped in his name. When you study Jirah, it's an unveiling of a dimension of God you will not find in any other name. You will not find Jirah in Rapha. Yet is the same God, are we together? Number three. The third way we learn God, according to scripture, is to study the man Jesus. When you study the man Jesus, you find through the revelation of Jesus, or through the manifestation of Jesus, the revelation of God. Allelujah. The Bible says, God, who in sundry times and divers manners speak to us in time passed through the prophets, had in these last days spoken to us through his son, whom he had appointed heir of all things. And the Bible calls him the brightness of his image alilui, and so on and so forth, of holding all things by the word of his power. The Bible calls him the express image of the invisible God. So when you studied the man Jesus, you learn God. This is life eternal John seventeen three, that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus, whom thou hast sent, Allelujah. So when you study Jesus, you understand God. And what is very particular about learning God through Jesus is that Jesus also came as a verification system to every knowledge that had been proposed about God. That means everything the prophets, everything the patriarchs said about God. Jesus came as a marking script. He came as a verification system, so that whatever they said God was. If we did not find it in Jesus. We use Jesus as a marking script to correct our understanding of God as they gave it to us. You understand that now. So, for instance, when you read scriptures like a lying spirit came from the Lord, you know immediately that it was an error in judgment of the prophets. The prophets were human, because the Bible tells us that when he came, he was full of grace and truth. That statement already cancels out that possibility in God, because it's not a man that he should lie, not the son of God, or man that he should repent. So when the Bible says a lying spirit is either an heeror and the understanding of the prophets, or an error in translation. Usually that's where we get the error, either a limitation because we see imparts and we prophes are in parts, are we together? Or there was a problem in translation because the Old Testament was largely written in Hebrew, and then the New Testament was a combination of Greek and Aramaic. Here and there you'd find Latin too, and the words the Hebrew and Greek words. Are very strong pregnant words. One word can have. A variety of meeting of meanings, and so in selecting English is a very limited word. So in selecting the English word to will represent the Hebrew or Greek connotation. Many times those who did the translation did their best, but they were limited together. An example is using the word eternal or ever lasting for the word zoway. You see, it's a very limiting word, but they did the best that they could do. So eternal life, the word zoway is beyond eternal, is beyond everlasting. You see that. But that was the best English world that could capture as much as possible what zoway was represented. I hope you you're getting this over Praise God. So we learned God number one through the study of scripture number two, by studying his names, number three, by studying. The person Jesus number four. Experience the fourth way is the weakest way we know God, but it's also one of the ways we know God. Experience. Job said, I have heard of deal with the hearing of the ear, he says, But now my eyes see it. Be A man can experience God. Allelujah, you can understand God. Let the wise man not glory in his wisdom. Let the rich man not glory in his riches. Let the strong man not glory in his strength or might. But let him that gloria, glory in this that he understanded and knowed me. You can taste and see that the Lord is good. Not just hear someone about him. There is an experiences someone learning now. So I just started I said that so that because we're going to be discussing a name. Now, the whole discussion is about the name. So I just wanted to put that as a background. So when you say I want to know God, there's no superstition about it. These are the boundaries. If you go outside them, you will encounter familiar spirits. You will encounter all kinds of extra biblical phenomena. They may be spiritual, but they will not paint a picture of this. Maybe there might be more, but in my study of Scripture, these are the boundaries of a believer's learning God. When you go beyond these boundaries, you are prone to error away. Together you notice experience was the weakest, but it is still there because it's important. But the value of experience is that there is scripture. You understand His names, you understand Jesus, then your experience can support. So when you say I know God, I say how if you say I had a vision, I doubt you. I don't care that the vision is spiritual and authentic. Experience is the weakest way of knowing God, even though it is powerful. By experience, I don't mean encounter. There are two different similar words, but they are not the same, and encounter is different from an experience. Allelujah prays the name of the Lord. Okay, so let's go to our topic now. I'll be teaching along your team, and we're trusting that God will grant us grace in the name of Jesus. Hell Esa, God my helper. So let's explore the help of God. I can imagine what reverence Am has done in terms of establishing your understanding, and will just build on that as God grants grace in Jesus' name. So, like you know, the word el Esa is a Hebrew word has many expressions, but it literally means God my helper or God who has helped me. Allelujah. It's one of the expressions. It was very customary for the people to name God after their experience with him, or sometimes God himself will instruct them to build a monument around that name and then offer sacrifices around it, so that if their children ask them what happened why this, they would use the name and initiate a story that will plant or sustain the fear of God and the people. Are we together now, prays the name of the Lord. Now the idea of help. Please look up. I'm teaching now. When you hear the word el eza, the Greek or the English translation in simple terms just says help. But the word help there is very limiting because it's a very broad world. It doesn't just mean to assist a loan. There are three, there are three layers. Are we together? Now? They say tripartite understanding That equals that word help that is used there. Number one talks about support and assistance. So when it says ell eza and he uses the word help there number one, it talks about support and assistance. Number two it talks about strength and empowerment. I'm showing you the dimensions of help. As Captain so Number one talks of help, support, and assistance. Number two, it talks of helps, strength, providing strength, and empowerment. In the New. Testament, we call it the enabling grace a way together now, the grace that empowers men to do. And then number three we talk of rescue and deliverance. So let me take that slowly. It's important we get this foundation. So when we're talking about God, who is my help or my helper? I want you immediately to peg your understanding along these three layers of help. For the average person, you may just think assistance. That's the generic understanding of help a way together. So generally speaking, to help means to assist so that you are able to fulfillate task or accomplish the task. Am I right on that? If I say help. Me pit this, I will participate in the process, but I just need your assistance. And help has two major assignments. To make things possible and to make things easy. That's the whole assignment of help. When you help a man in whatever way you come in, you help, you make things possible and you make things easy. If I say you have helped me, that means you have provided strength or whatever to make things possible and to make things easy. Everybody say possible, Say easy. One more time, say possible, Say easy now. So I'm talking about the help of God is three dimensional. Number one. It talks of providing support and assistance. You have that down. Number two providing strength and empowerment. The Holy Goosu is called the helper. It's also the one who strengthens. Remember, and then number three providing rescue and deliverance. So every time you say I'm trusting God for help, you must talk intelligently as a believer. Your mind should be broad away together. Now you know why it's important to teach believers truth. It helps your prayer. Prayer is supported by understanding and intelligence. When you say I receive help, your mind can say I receive assistance and stop there, whereas what you need is deliverance. So when you are supported by this understanding and you say I receive help, you know what you are saying. You can mean I receive support, I receive assistance, I receive strengthening and empowerment, I will learning already, and then I receive what was the third one, rescue and deliverance. Any one of these three elements is translated help now you understand the word a leiser, right, So I just needed to put that introduction. God helps men settle it for effact. I don't think we need to drag and argue. God helps men. Isaiah chapter forty one, from verse ten to fourteen. Very profound scripture. I like us to read, and some along the line, I'll ask you to support me as we read. Is Thatt Chapter forty one. I'm reading ten to fourteen. Ready, let me read, and then you come in somewhere. But please look while I read. Fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your God. Now you read, I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with my right choice right hand. Verse eleven. It says, behold, all those who were incensed against you shall be ashamed and disgraced. They shall be as nothing, and those who strive with you shall perish. Is this a prophecy for someone? They say, you shall seek them and not find them those who contended with you. Those who are against you shall be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing. Verse thirteen. For I the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, fear not. I will help you. Verse fourteen. It says, fear not worm, Jacob, you men of Israel, I will help you, say the Lord and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. The Lord bless the reading of his word in Jesus' name. So God helps men. Second Chronicles, chapter twenty six. Let's read verse five. Then we jumped to verse fifteen. Verse five. He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God. And as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. Jump to verse fifteen. Please he made devices in Jerusalem, invented by skillful men to be on the towers and on the corners, to shoot arrows and large stones. Read the last sentence, with me one to go. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was velously helped till he became. Are you saying that this help now does not talk of deliverance? This one talks of empowerment. Is someone learning now? Ready for one last scripture? Let's go to the Book of Acts Asks chapter twenty six and verse twenty two. Acts twenty six, twenty two. Hallelujah, I like this one. Therefore, haven't obtained help from God. To this day I stand no, no, no, no, no, to live the other things. This we've got to what we're looking for. KJV says, haven't obtained help from the Lord. I continue, I continue the stamina to remain that when the doss settles you are still standing, and they say, by what means are you still standing? Haven't gone through fire, haven't gone through water? You tell them you were marvelously helped of God. I professy to someone in the name of Jesus, over your life, over your ministry. Twenty twenty six will be the most evident here of God's help in your life. Of a side to a believer at twenty twenty six will be the most evident, yea of God's help. Even the blind will know you are being carried on the wings of the spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ. Please be seated, Please be seated, Allelujah. Now take note of the following thoughts. Number one, every man succeeds in life and destiny to the degree to which they find help. I choose my words carefully. Every man succeeds in life and destiny to the degree to which they find help. There are many variables. That equal success, but among them, a major part of that success PI chat help is the variable that is needed there. I've seen very intelligent people, very articulate people, very resourceful people, but simply because they lack help, perhaps help as a leverage of endorsement, they can remain stunted. They can remain you know, in the dark. As far as destiny is concerned, every man succeeds in life and in destiny to the degree to which they find help. Second thought, God desires and is willing to help men. God desires and he is willing to help men some one twenty one and verse one. It's important for you to not just know. That God can help men, but that he desires to help men. It says, I will lift up my eyes onto the heels are way together. It says, from when's commet my help? When you read KJV, it presents this as a question. It says, from when's commet my help? And then it says my help? Verse two. I like that one. My help, not your help. I don't know where you get yours from. He says. A risk to generalize, s yeah, help because some trust in horses, some trust in chariot. But my help comment from the Lord which made heavens and the earth. It's God blessing you already. Let me send you. Let me give you one more scripture that just came into my spirit. Let's go to some twenty. I will read it, but let it be a prayer for you some twenty. Verse one. It just came strong into my spirit. The Lord he had in the day of trouble, the name of the God of Jacob, defend you. I say it again, The Lord he had in the day of trouble, the name of. The God of Jacob depend you. Verse two. Verse two, send the so help is send sendy from his sanctuary. Are you in his sanctuary tonight? That means you in the place of help, Sandy help from his sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Zion. Say I receive help. Turn it into pray. In one minute. I receive help. Help in ministry. Come on, someone is praying. I receive help in my finances. I receive help over my job. I receive help in the name of Jesus. Man can be helped. The Lord here in the day of trouble, the God of Jacob defend you. Send the help in twenty twenty six from his sanctuary Chagate twenty second, Send the help Sandy, hell, Sandy, support, Sandy, strength, Sandy, deliverance by his spirit. In Jesus' much less name, we pray please be seated. Have you understood me so far? Allelujah. I'm trying to rush because I want us to stay somewhere. Well, I'm hoping we'll be able to cover much tonight. Allelujah. So I said that the word elsa, describing the help of God, carries a threefold dimension. Help as support and assistance, help as empowerment and strengthening, and then help as a rescue or deliverance, and that it's important for you to know that every man succeeds in life and destiny to the degree to which they find help. There are people who may not be as gifted, they may not be as resourceful, but the edge in their life is that they found help, and like you'll be learning, they found help on time. When I describe the character of God's help, you will be learning that help has timing. Help can come late. There are two qualities that describe God's kind of help. You're making me go ahead of myself. I don't know what kind of hunger is in this place this night. But don't tempt me. Bible said we should resist temptations. Allelujah. But just asaid it Tea is, I wait for me till I get there. But just for you to know that help can come too late. That was the reason why the sister of Lazarus cried when Jesus arrived. She said, your comings is a waste. And Jesus said me, I'm the resurrection and the life. I'm not just a healer. Allelujah. Now, when help comes on time, it is called help in time of need? Have you read that in your scripture? Let us therefore come boldly before the throne of grace. I hope God is ministrying to someone that we might obtain grace ah and find help in time of need. Help can come after or beyond the time of need. So in profess, sign over your life tonight and tomorrow. I'm not just going to pray for help. I will pray that it comes. Helly, he says, satisfy me, Ellie. There are many people who if they had gotten help medically, help financially on time. Come on now. The man who stayed thirty eight years, it was not a possibility. Problem was that his help, even though his help was Jesus, he came after thirty eight years. The man who healed him was not thirty eight years old, so his trouble started before the arrival of Jesus. Please it, plasit, listit, please it. I've turned from a chef to a pilot, so I think we're ready to fly. Now, why do we need help? Samanda Crapersatu Theater. It's important for us to appreciate the necessity for help. Why do we need help? There are certain. Certain facts that will help to guide our desire for help. If you do not know why you need help, you may not appreciate it when it comes. Number one, The first reason why we need help is that all men, even at their best, are limited. Please write that down. The first reason why we need help is that all men, even at their best, are limited. Very uncomfortable but profound statement. All men, even at their best, are limited. Some one or three fourteen to sixteen. All men, even at their best, are limited. Read with me, the Bible says, for he know where our frame. He remembered that we are dosed. It's not an insult. It's an honest this scription. It says, as for man watch this, his days are as grass as the flower of the field. So he flourisheth verse sixteen. For the wind passed over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. That's the frailty of man unassisted by God. So when you find people who are proud in their own strength, you refer them to a scripture like this, that the best of man is still limited away together now in Jeremiah, chapter ten, I believe. In verse twenty three, heve us Jeremiah ten and verse twenty three, very quickly describing the state of man, it says, Oh Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man that workeet to direct his steps. K This statement is a very is a great deliverance, that it is not in man to. Direct his steps. No matter how visionary you are, there are some things about your destiny you will not know. It will come as a description of God's help, not a product of research, not a product of investigation, not a product of intelligence. I know that I will the sun, the moon, and eleven stars will bow. But that's how much I know how I will get There is a mystery only the help of God. When they threw that that, hunger alone would have destroyed. Can you imagine a vision that powerful? You can look at forty first wife. Those have major issues, But hunger would have killed him writing the dry well there, But the help of God caused his brother to say, you know what, Let's not kill him. Let's sell him. Let's sell him, let's sell him. Thank you Jesus. All men at their best are leaving. Number two, why do we need help? If you're learning, shout amen? The second reason why we need help? I wanted to listen, and then you're write. Human factors like sentiments and biases like injustice, like. Greed, like selfishness. Human factors can sometimes alter or negatively affect our results even when you follow the principles correctly. Human factors factors like injustice, factors like greed, factors like selfishness, factors like tribal sentiments. It can fit all your obedience of principles and still punish you even when you get things right. Someone can say you are deserving a promotion, but because you are Euroba, because you are houser, or because I thought with your father before he died. How is that your business? You see that now? The reality of human factors, it's what necessitates helps. It's vain to wake up in the morning. Does that sound like laziness, No, it sounds like diligious. When you wake up in the morning, you are a serious person. Where you sleep late at night, you are hard walking. But you can see it the bread of sorrow. Yeah. Wait, father of my See, I come to you. Yeah wait, father of Macye, I come to you, Father of See, I come to. You, Father of Let me tell you, Lise, don't wait until life teaches you a lesson to know how wicked men can be. There are times everything can be right on your own part, but a man just turns your way and says I don't like you, or I don't like your father, or I don't like where you come from. You can get one hundred percent in the promotion interview and somebody will keep human factors are. There are many people today who should not be in the prison, but they are there. There are many people who should be in the prison, and they're the ones taking those who should go to the prison. There see that help. There are people who have zero financial intelligence. Yet they have money, and they are wasteful while they're having it. But there is a system of help that replenishes. And there are diligent people who know what to do with money. They have the intelligence, they read every book. All they need is the leverage, and yet it is not there. Yeah way, father of my shie, I call on you. Yeah away, the father of my. I call on you. You're the father of my. Listen. Don't feel insulted. But how many of you know? There are many responsible people who are the US passport. It's not a product of diligence. They were born there and as as as much as it is painful, they can see go everywhere that passport can take them. But there are diligent people who were born somewhere else. And simply because please sit down, sit down, let's sit down, let's do this, let's discuss this thing. At the end of this meeting, you will cry for help with all your heart. You will learn from this teaching that the race is not to the swift, that the battle is not to the strong, nor bread to them who have understanding. Honestly is God that shows men messy. I have heard people preach and wondered why you're still at that level of ministry based on the level of insights they have. I've seen people one day. One time, I was returning somewhere from the east Reverend Sam, and I saw people gathered. I think it was a new world somewhere. I saw people gathered around just look like a you know, a tea junction, and I was wondering why they were gathered there. He was a young gentleman who had simulated a g wagon. He built it and he was just running it. But that gentleman may not go anywhere. There are many people today who are one hundred and thirty, one hundred and twenty. They are still alive, but simply because they don't know that. They're not in the Guinness Book of Record. The person who is there, he's not. It's not the truth, but he's the one they know. Oh, Father Macie. And a lawyer. Human factor, sir, Human factor, sir. Human factors. Number three. The reality of Satan and demonic forces. The third reason why you need help. Unfortunately, Satan is alive. He's still alive. Demons are still alive, and they're not alive lazy around. They are visionary with a project to tward everything God about your destiny, the reality of Satan and demonic forces alongside that determination to fight your destiny. It's an adversary, he says, I will build my church. Then he says, and the gates of Hell. The gates of Hell is and is a description of the infrastructure of Satan built beacefolk to destroy the destiny of the saints. Allelujah, did you The Bible talks about a young boy called Jabez. This starts that story with the end. Then it now tells us the context. He says, and Jeabees was more honorable than his brethn. But what happened? The Bible says, the mother bore him in sorrow, and she named him Jabeest. He was not a good name. He was a description of her pain, and it followed him. One day he got angry. He said, oh, that that would have blessed me. Reverend sam there's the story of the man who was crippled from bed, crippled from where. So it's not the issue of you didn't fight anybody. They even asked Jesus. They say, come on, this is not fair. Who's saying that this man was born blind? Was it him? Or his father. You have to explain to us why someone just arrives and arrives with blindness, arrives and arrives crippled. The man that gett beautiful was crippled from bed. I understand the man who maybe lived there Ryotus life like the prodigal song, then found himself feeding with swine. But what do you say about the person who was born that way? The monic forces are the monic forces? Did you hear in your Bible that when Jesus was born there was a cry in rama? Women lost their children because the Savior was born? Why should people die because they save you? Arright? I thought the arrival of the Savior should even redeem lives. And because the Savior arrived children his age mate two years and a ball, they died. So if you were Jesus his age mate, because you were his age mate, you would die. You didn't do anything wrong, You were just born together with a savior. I'm working your mind for a reason. Are were learning? Now? Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, when you look at this world, you see that many things don't balance. Am I right on? That? Some of you came to church angry you've been angry for the past two weeks. God sent me to give you perspective. What kind of father, what kind of mother? You see that now? And then demonic forces administer healing and minister deliverance to many people. Beautiful lady, handsome gentlemen. But because of where you come from or because of those connected to you, the money forces are real. So you need help, help as deliverance. Help as deliverance. It says, I have heard the cry of my people by reason of their taskmasters, and I am calmed down to deliver them for someone. In the name of Jesus. This is the knight. You will wave goodbye to certain calamities in the name of Jesus Christ. Every pattern insulting the grace of God, mocking the dignity of your life as a Christian, in the name of Jesus, it is buried tonight forever. There's nobody in African Nigeria. I know your parents or grandparents paid. The price before your arrival, but the average person when you are arrive, you will first deal with what was older than you first before you start living your life. And if you are not careful, you will finish that battle when you are fifty, that's where you. Will now start living your own life. Yes, sir, now you are arrive and the battle you are fighting is older than you. It was there. Your father could not fight it, and he was waiting for you. You arrive and you you are fighting. And if in ignorance you keep pushing and by the time maybe you are forty or fifty, then you are done with it. Then you now turn back and say, okay, let me live my life. And you find out there's no time. Again, I pray for you. May help, come on time. May help come on time? Or in the name of cheese, or say I receive help. Say it again, I receive help. Say I received help. Please be seated. We need help because men are limited. We need help because men are wicked. We need help because Satan is ever determined to fight the program of God. Can I tell you when God was revealing the blueprint of your destiny to you, you were not the only one hearing. There was an invisible audience paying attention to what God said concerning your life. Satan. The verdict that you are called to be esther. Satan also had the verdict that you are called to be a deliverer. Did you hear what I said when your mother was praying and said, Lord, I give you this my daughter for your glory. Satan had the conversation. And let me tell you, Satan is a patient spirit. He can wait thir tea yes, till you grow. So don't think you are not praying, you are not fascing. But I don't sense an your oppression. It's because you are not doing anything serious. Satan is dealing with cerous people while waiting for you to grow. The day you now give your life to Christ, that's the day you have a strange dream. And the spirit said, well, you have struck a chord in the spirit. I was there to stop your father, was there to stop your mother, and now we're here. And if you do not understand the appropriation system in the Kingdom to appropriate in your life what is finished in Christ, you will be surprised how your life just knows dives. That's why you hear a lot of people say, as I don't believe I was fine. Satan did not oppress me once I got born again. Of course you think he waste energy? Why will he attach you when you belong to him? He that does not have his spirit is none of his? Is someone learning so far. I'm provoking you tonight, and I'm praying for you that what happened to me will happen to you. You get angry, you look at your life and cry for help. I trust God that even if we stop wherever, I still have a session tomorrow. I want us to take. A few minutes later on to do some prayers, some prayers, some prayers, so you don't waste these two weeks. Allelujah, it's time for some doors to open. Let me tell you this, ladies and gentlemen, everything you tolerate, you have given it the authorization to remain in your life. As I'm speaking to you, I like it. Look at your life, Look at your parents, look at your family. Tonight's discussion is not just to sit down and feeling no, no, no, Look at things in your life. If it does not represent the glory of God, then brayshop so that when it's time to pray, you praise seriously, pray seriously, pretty seriously. People rise up just when they're about to celebrate their success, they go down. You watch those before you. Some of them were serious people, but they did not have intelligence. Most serious than you spiritually, and they still went down. What makes you believe that by default without understanding even the understanding of the help of God. Natanian looked at Jesus. He said, forget about this guy. You are calling me to follow Jesus. If he said, Nazarena will not follow him. They don't have longevity of impact. He said, can anything good come out of Nazareth? It was a curse upon them, act something. So when they said another celebrity, shorty, forget it. You will not last. There is something that follows them. They shine for a season and either a woman or whatever brings them down. He said, don't waste my time. And Jesus said, don't insult Nathaniel. He's an Israelite. Indeed, he's not telling lies. It's not telling lies. How long did Jesus last three and a half years in ministry? It's only that he died purposely. Take it half of me. You are my hiding place. You are always feel my heart. Watch songs of the liver ends. Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in you. I will trust. Any later week say strong in the strength. Allelujah. Please sit down, let's see what Let's see what else we can cover. Let's see what else we can cover. Glory be to God. Now there are two there. The help of God, even though he walks through men. But there are certain features that brand the help of God. When God is helping a man, you can verify that it is God helping that man using these parameters. Number one, God's help even though it may look late, but it is always timely. God's help is always timely Hebrews four and verse sixteen. He calls it help in time of need, help in time of need. Now let me tell you something. Let me just I'm just trying to cramp in so many things I told you earlier on that help can come too late. Still, remember it is true that help can come too late. If you're looking for say one or five million ERA or twenty or thirty million ERA, say for someone's kidney transplants speaking medically by the time the man it deteriorates, or someone who's been struggling battling cancer and no money for chemo and it's at stage four. Even if you give that person a million dollars and is dying the next day, help has come, but it came too late. If someone learning now help would have come or it came to late. Number two, help can come at a level that does not contribute significantly in providing solutions. Please look up, look up, look up before you write. So number one that help can come too late, But number two, help can come at a level that is insignificant. A way together. I'll give you an example. If you are looking for a house rent of five million and I give you one thousand, err and I said, just by richard card with it. And make calls. In truth, I helped you, but that help is not significant relative to the issue. So you don't just need help to come on time. It must come to the degree that makes an impact. It's someone learning. Now. Many people saw the man at at bet Es. Some said, how are user the fact that he could not move his leg and he lived thirty eight years. Man, someone was kind enough to give him food. Someone was kind enough to take him to the toilet. Remember the Bible said the man could not move, he was there thirty eight years. I am sure that someone was kind. He was customary those days to help the people. For instance, you see perspective of this in Acts chapter three. The man who was carried daily and brought back. So when the Bible says he was there, it didn't judge mean he was by the sea forever. It just meant that was his condition. They would carry him there. The man had to eat, the man had to go to toilets, the man had to bath. Someone helped him, but not enough to heal him. So you see him pray for help. You don't just pray for any kind of help. He must be significant enough to provide an impact in your life. It's someone learning now. Yes, so you're looking for in financial terms to help you ten million, or you are trusting God for someone to speak over your destiny, and someone. Just gives you. He just counsels you. You don't countsel demons out of people away together, but the person has helped. He did the best that he or she could do. Help must come on time, and he must come to the degree that provides a significant impact as fast your needs a concern Away together. You have five children you want to pay their school fees and someone says, well, I'm sorry, I can't help you with your school fees, but I can give you five kg bag of rice at least feed them. You will say thank you, because as far as that person's capacity is concerned. That is help, but it doesn't add anything so much. You now see the reason why the disciples fighted the young Lad's bread. There were five thousand people and they were looking for Remember when the young lad brought five love and four fift they say, well, thank you, but what is this compared to m among so many people? Five thousand men aside women and children, and you're bringing five loave and two feets. Sounds silly, isn't it. Jesus said, let them sit down. They will steal it. Oh your sees and has come. Oh allelujah. We have a few minutes. Let's let me just now. This is what I would do for sake of time. I would just list it for you and then tomorrow will deal with it. Would that be fine? I want to show you how God helps men. There in my study there's at least five chines else through which God helps men, and some of the channels have compressed together, and I will show you very quickly tomorrow hopefully will have the time, and then we'll discuss those channels, because it's important for you to know how God helps, not just that he helps. Are we together? So how God helps men? Number one. The first way God helps men is true supernatural intervention. It's an act of it's messy supernatural intervention. Deuteronomy chapter six. Please media, let's do it first, from verse six. Deuteronomy, chapter six. From verse six, supernatural intervention is the first way God helps men. And these words which I commanded this day, shall be in thy heart verse seven. And thou shalt teach them diligently to your children, and talk of them when thou sittest in your house, and when thy walk by the way, when you lie, and when you rise off verse eight. Ah no, no, no, that's not what I'm looking for. Give me Daniel, Give me Danielle chapter three, he said Deuteronomy sixteen. I omitted something. Give me Daniel chapter three, from verse twenty four. I want to show you the scripture I was looking for in the tounomy was the deliverance. I think it maybe sixteen. Maybe I omitted something now. Then net Bocatnza watched this. This was shed rag Messhak and a bet Nego. Remember the story. They were cast into the fiery furness. He was not a man that helped them. The bumble says, the likeness of the fourth was like the son of man. Remember, he says, fear not, for I've redeemed you have called you by name. When you walk through the fire, I will be there now. But Carnessa was astonished and rose up in haste and spick, and said to the counselors, did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? And they said, okay, that's true. Twenty five. He answered, Lo, I see four men lose walking in the midst of the fire. They have no heart, And the form of the fourth is like the son of God. Verse twenty six. Nebuchadnezza came and said, Shadruk Massa Ca and abet Nego, savants of the most high, come forth and come hither. Then they came out in the midst of the fire twenty seven. And the princes, the. Governors, and all those men they saw them, It says, men upon whose body the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their heads singed. Neither their courts change, nor the smell of the fire upon them Verse twenty eight. Then Nebuchadnezza said, blessed be the god of Shadrug Mashak and abet Nego, who had sent his Angel. The word angel there is literally the is God not just his angel, like an angel who came. Are we together now and delivered his savants that trusted in him? We don't trust in angels like that. Are we together their ministring spirits and have changed the King's word and yielded their body that they might not serve or worship God? And then the decree came in verse tween. The point is that God helps men by intervening supernaturally. The scripture was looking for in Deuteronomy says that God, by the breadth of his nostrils, he brought deliverance to the nation of Israel. So God brings help by supernatural intervention number two very quickly. The second way God helps men is through the ministry of angels Hebrews, chapter one and verse fourteen. The ministry of angels Hebrews, chapter one and verse fourteen. Are there not all ministring spirits? The Bible says they are sent forth to minister for them who shall be the heirs of salvation. The ministry of angels in Genesis chapter nineteen. We don't have the time to read it, but that was the story of Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah. Remember when rescue was coming to Lot, it was angels that were sent. Am I right. And when the angels they came in the form of men. And when the Sodomite saw them, they entered Lord's house to bring him out before calamity would strike. The Bible says, the men came and knocked the door. You see how crazy those guys were. They said, open the door, where are these angels that we may know them? And Lord said, don't bring this embarrassment up. I will even give you my daughter. As they said no, And the Bible says, the angels pull Lot in and strock the people with blindness, and they wearied themselves in front of the door. The Ministry of Angels. Acts Chapter twelve. When you read from verse one to eleven, the Bible tells us that Herald made up his mind to vex Satain of the Jews, and he caught James and beheaded James. And when he saw that it pleased the Jews. Is that true? The Bible says, he now caught Tita and kept him and with a quartanion of soldiers, waiting that after the passover he will hand him over to the Jews. The Bible says the night he was kept here, but prayer was made onto God by the church for Peter. And then the Bible says, in response to that prayer, angels came. Light was shone into the prison. The chains fell off, and the angel began to lead him out by angie. So tame ConA. Bas angie. God is sending his angel your way. ConA basinge so. Angiu. He led Peter through the first court, led him through the second court, and the Bible says he came to the iron gates that opens up to the city. And when he let Peter, Peter confess something that I want to pray for you, can I show you give us Act Chapter twelve and verse eleven. Let me turn it into prayer for someone. Everybody read, please, this is a powerful prayer. One to go. And when Peter was come to himself, he said, now I know of his shorting that the Lord had sent his angel listen and had delivered me number one out of the hand of Herold number two out of the expectation. He was delivered from two things, one out of the hand of Herald, number two out of the expectation. God does not just deliver you from trouble. He delivers you from the expectation of the wicked. They expect you to cry, they expect you to fail. It does not happen yet, But why do the people imagine it fainting? I know for a shoting He sent his angels to deliver me from herold and deliver me from the expectations. So there were those who were there. They looked harmless, but they had a desire, their wishes to see you cry. God can deliver you from the expectation the ministry of angels. How about Jesus himself in Matthew chapter four, the Bible tells us when he was done when Satan tempted him number one, number two, number three, he rebuked Satan, He left him for his season, and the angels came and ministered to him. Even Jesus was minister to buy the angels. Number three. What is the third way. God helps men? This one would deal with this one seriously tomorrow because it's a pregnant. It's like a woman carrying I. Don't know how many children now. The ministry of men, the ministry of men Ah. The third and very major way God helps sense is health to way Man is through the ministry of men. Some one one five and verse sixteen. The heaven of heavens belonged to the Lord, But the eath hath he given to the children of men. Ladies and gentlemen, This is the world of men. The heaven of heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth hath He given to the children of men. Now listen, please sit down. There are various categories of men in the Bible who represent different dimensions of help. Are we together now? When we talk about help through the ministry of men, it's a very complex dimension of God's help. There are many categories of men in the Bible who represent various aspects of the ministry of men. You can talk about the bizarre eels and the auheliables. Are we together now? Or holyaps and the bizire els, creativity they came in. Talk about the jet throws Moses, his father in law. Remember he counseled him. As anointed. As Moses was, he would have died before his time, even though he still died. I don't know if he was before his time, but at least he lived longer because Jet to advise him. I say, you're on your way to your grave. How about the wine presser. As annoying and gifted as Joseph was, he took someone to say, I remember my wrong this day, Oh King, there is a man you need to pay attention to. How about the slave girl, the little girl who was held captive and went to the house of Naman, and she said, oh, that my master would listen to me. She attended to Naman's wife. Thank God, no man listened to her, and that's how he got his healing. How about Aaron and Huw holding the hands of Moses so that victories are staying in battle. How about the Jonathans. How about the Rahabs who hid the spies? Are we together? How about Naomi who captelled Ruth. I'm not sure Ruth would have had the patience to wait till she met Boas, but I'm sure Naomi canceled that when she came and said a man treated me favorably. She said and her, I see those signs. Now behave yourself as you go there, this, this, this, and that. It didn't just happen because it was the will of God. If someone's counsel play the role, it's true God presents the opportunity. Counsel helps you to manage and maximize your opportunity. You can blow up an opportunity that was sent by God, and God says, I've done my best for you. You hurt me, but you did not hear counselors. It was you're hearing me that brought your opportunity. But counselors help you to manage the opportunity. Are we together now, now? Miss? How about Boas himself? Boas was a helper, He was a good man. When he saw the young lady, he said, make sure nobody harasses this lady. Leave some path for her to clean. This is without no issue. Would be his wife. Let me tell you this. If you are only good to the person you want to marry, you are not a good person. If your goodness is not lavish enough, then it has sentiments and biases in it. You hate everybody except the person you love. Something is wrong with your understanding of love. You give, you don't give to anybody, and then you zoom down one lady or one guy. You are not a giver. You are an investor. You're a businessman, and you will be a bad investment. Allelujah. Now, how about how about Joshuas, the Joshuas who stood with Moses. Now, strangely, how about cyrus Is and Pharaohs. Cyrus Is and Pharaoh's two men. You should never play with Cyrus and Pharaoh their endorsers. They are the kind of gate keepers who cannot cast away. God grants you favored to walk through them. Binding and casting them is a useless prayer, because God respects your position. Cyrus Is and Pharaohs. It took Pharaoh to prom Joseph, and there are Cyruses there. You see. God's ideal is not to work with own believers, but were believers are not ready, and if they are on readiness will fight his program, He will route through his wisdom and use cyrus Is. That's why the Bible says honor all men, because you don't know which cyrus is part of your program. If you honor only believers, you will be surprised that you're dishonored to the one person that's the one person that their nunting is on. Are we together now? Daniel did not serve nebok and Nessa's God, but he honored nebok at Nezza. Don't tell me your place of work is so pungent. Learned from Daniel. He had an excellent spirit, a stenless track record, and yet he was impactful. The very ministry of men Judas is Judas are Judas. When God is apportioning people to you. If it is God himself that sent Judas, don't drive him more. Remember I was not a demand that brought Judas. God selected the disciples and selected Judas. There are certain adversaries that are the initiation for glory, and if God were to leave you to choose yourself, you would drive it. So, Joseph, on your way to your brothers, you will see a well somewhere there. Don't close the well, although you will be in it. But it's necessary for your destiny. Can I tell you this, If I am to choose my past to life, I would not arrive. You know why, because many of the things that have carried me now in the spirit of Judases. I would have fought them spiritually, and God said, no, it's in my wish. I know how to work all things. Will Jesus ever manifest redemption without Judas. It is amazing that it was not Satan that selected Judas. Jesus firsted all night and saw Judas knew his name, the son of Perdition, and seccom join them. Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, it is a reason why that prayer that will be done is a powerful prayer, because if you are to select the variables for your own destiny the way we are as men, you will select people who love you too much to let you emerge. You rear what I said. Their love for you is why you will never manifest destiny. They love you too much. When you're about to first, they say again, nothing challenging you, whether you saw or not. They will bring a harvest to you, So you will not respect the love of say time and harvest. When God is positioning you for destiny. When you see John, receive him. When you see Peter receive him. When you see Judas receiving possible. I know he is Judas, Still keep him there. You don't drive every Judas. No, just because he's Judas does not mean you drive him. There is a purpose. Is someone learning? Now? This is very powerful? Now you understand why the Bible says, for we know that all things, all things, ladies and gentlemen, all things. Anybody who does not like me, I would drive him out of eh. Be careful, be careful. Many people who don't like you will be the reason why you rise, the reason why you pray, the reason why you watch your step. You know there's someone praying. He will get up in the morning and his leave. Something happened to her. I've been waiting. I thought by now something should have happened to her. They keep you in check. Look at me. The Holy Spirit comes or the. Angel comes from meet a woman and says you are highly favored, and yet nothing in her life look like favor. As soon as he was done announcing it was trouble first, the guy to marry her said, I'm going you have to explain to me. This is all this talk. You and God go and explain. I don't know what to tell the rabbi, the sann hendring and all of that. You say you're virgin, your stomach is protruding. I'm the closest man to you. I don't want stories. I've been a capital, I've been diligent. Then you now give back to the child and the guy. I don't know what she told him that I later agreed. Now, then because of census, an angel says, run away with the child. You see all the controversy around him. He said, this is too much bodying for a child that did not come from me. That's why Abraham just drove Ishmael said. Please go leave me, let me have my own. Are you getting the point now? And yet he called it favor? Look at me. Let me teach you something about favor. One of the ways God favors you sometimes is to let you have his car. Only you will have because that car becomes the only reason why they will listen to only you. There are certain platforms that you will not climb because of skill. You will climb because you are the only one who has that car. Your access to certain platforms will not be your brain. It will be your pain. It's true. I'm not just doing rhetorics with words. It's true. Have you suffered enough to teach me about success? Have you been oppressed enough? Else? I don't trust your compassion. No one that the Bible says we do not have a high priest that Jesus was in every way tempted. He submitted himself. I always wondered why he had to become a man and then go through I understand it. You would have just become a man. Died in two weeks, you would have become an adult. He's still a man dared in two weeks. I returned back quietly. If you know, you know. If you don't know, you don't know. But he came as a child, went through all those things. You take what the enemy men for it, and you turn it for the girl. You turn it for. That's your testimony. You take what the enemy man for a h Let me tell you this. There are two reasons why I respect people. One because of their crowns. It's a testament of diligence, endurance, discipline, adherence to principles. But the second reason why I respect them is because of their scars. When you are learning from great people, don't just learn from the crowns alone. Learn from the scars. There is a lesson only the scars can teach. The crown cannot teach it. Are we together? So when you look at Jesus, your eyes should not just go to his head alone. Make sure you look at his hands too. There is a reason why, even though he's in heaven glorified, the scar would not heal. The scar would remain there. It's a testament No one has it like him. There are Mattires in heaven, but not the one who was crucified for the scene of anyone. It's someone listening. Now. Let me tell you this. Many things you are ashamed of today will be the reason why men will respect you tomorrow. Don't rush seasons in your life. Rush seasons. God gives speed, but it does not rush men. You went through a season no school fish. You went through a season no house rent. In fact, let me tell you this. One of the ways God raises saviors is to allow them taste of the things they would deliver people. From that way, you will have compassion. God wants to raise you as a kingdom financier. I'm telling you you will go through seasons where you will do everything right and yet the heavens will be close financially. You will taste what it means to be at the rock bottom. When you rise there, that memory will be edged. You will become an anchor that sponsors compassion. Compassion can be theoretical. It's from your pain. Yourself have been there before. I know what it means. Away together now, Apostle, So are you saying that everything I've gone through I lost my father last year I lost my father this year. It may not have been the will of God, but God can still use it and birth his glory. Nothing in the life of a believer is a waste. If you can hand it over, put it in your Alabasta box. Don't just put the perfume, put the pain to put everything there and break it before him. Are we together now when you are serving the Alabasta box. Don't just carry your incense. No, no, carry everything, the pain, the tears. The woman worship with her tears. She waship with a hair, she waship with her past, she waship with her pain, she waship with her wealth. That's what made it through worship. The ministry of men. That time is up. Please give me five minutes. Can you give me five minutes? Allelujah, borrow me five minutes. I'll pay back tomorrow. Please it, please it, please it. Now. Generally speaking, we're still talking about the ministry of men. Men will minister to you at three levels. Let me teach you this before we pray. Men will minister to you at three level. Number one, there will be men who are above you. Coaches, mentors, endorsers. There will always be men who are above you. The ministry of men who are above you in receiving help. Now they come as coaches, they come as mentors. Are we together, they come as endorsers, men of influence. Number two, men who are at your level, they will come as allies. They will come as friends. They will come as encourageers. They will come as contemporaries. And then men who are below you there will come as aids. They will come as ordinary men. They will come as critics. All of them together create the formation for your receiving help from men. So help comes from men at three levels. Let me repeat that again. Men who are above you, your coaches, your mentors, your endorsers, there is a way to relate with them. There are men who are your contemporaries, your allies, your friends. There is a way to relate with them. Are we together. There are those who are below you, their ages who help you. There is a way to relate with them the way you relate with Pharaoh. It's not the way you relate with the slave girl, the way you relate with Jonathan. Are we together? You need to know how to relate with these people at the various levels. It's very important. Number four, The fourth way God helps men, are you ready the prophetic? Now? The prophetic is through the ministry of men too, but I isolated it differently, and I'll take time to still teach on dise things tomorrow and share some more. Wo's here twelve Mber thirteen. The Bible says, and by a prophet, the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was established the prophetic. The prophetic as a ministry is one of God's systems. The Bible says, we see not our signs. There is no prophet. There is none that knows how long. When God wants to send help, especially help as empowerment and help as deliverance, he will often use the prophetic. It is very very important. Let me give you number five and we'll just stay here and then we'll come back. The fifth way God helps men is through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the Helper himself. And this we can spend all night discussing the Holy Spirit. But let me give you just two scriptures, Psalm eighteen and verse twenty nine. God can help men to advance in life. It says, for by you I can run through a troop, and by my God I have leaped over a wall. There's no man who can run through a troop, Ladies and gentlemen. A troop represents the size of people in this place. The difference is that they are all armed, well armed, some with chariots and horses and weapons of war, veterans of war. What is the possibility of me beating everybody here? Even if you just lie down, I'm to beat you. I'm still be tired. Are we together now? And it says, by you I can run through a troop, and then, by my God, I can leap over a war. It's a metaphor to describe the extent of victory. That it does not matter how things are, you will still fish your way out. And it is by the help of God. Your pastor today is a testament of the help of God. The transforming church is a testament of the help of God. This man who stands before you say, of God's messy and help every man you have seen who has risen in righteousness and in truth. It is by the agency of God's help. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that God placed this body in the heart of reverence, Sam for your sake, for our sakes, Because you are stepping into a season where the reality that is befalling the world will necessitate your understanding of the help of God. This is the year when, if you understand this teaching, there will be a clear distinction, a clear demarcation between those who serve God and those who have true spiritual intelligence known how to access the help. Will take it from here tomorrow and then I will show you how to provoke help. There are keys. Help does not just committ is sent away together. Now, can we spend one minute to pray in the spirit and then we wrap up whole hands with someone and begin to give God thanks. If you got anything from this teaching tonight, shamamakatada alinda capranda, gadaba el eza, helped by God, helped by God, marvelously helped by God. Someone pray and thank you because you are stepping into a season way to not be you alone. The help is coming your way, showing you messy, showing you help. Chapranda Barratos, Capraski na caparando's yatah shaban dada branada press day by you. I have run through a troop by my God. I leap over a wall. Supernatural possibilities by the help of God. Haven't obtained help from the Lord. I continue this day. In Jesus' name. We pray in Jesus' name. We pray just one prayer point for tonight. Father, by your. Messy, send me help speedily, by your messy, send me help speedily. Hold someone's hand and pray personately, pray seriously, Send me help speedily. Shut back atraskiata. Send me help, O God. Send me help, O God. I am incapacitated. Send me help, O God. Someone go ahead and pray cry for help. Send me help by your spirit. Send me help by your spirit. Let help comm as divine our systems. Let help commas the strengthening in my ginnamad, so that I will not turn aside in the day of battle. Let's strength come. Let help come as the staying power, the stamina to stay to remain till I finish. Let help come as rescue timely deliver runs, deliver runs from calamities, deliver runs from expectations. Are you pray? Thank you for watching. We hope you were blessed and briefly transformed by this sermon. Join us on site and online in any of us globally as displayed on the screen. When we prayed saga who he is? Yeah, when we've prayed a saga to at Yeah, when we pray we free wails up. Follow us on all social media handles as shown on the screen. Also, don't forget to join Prophetic Prayer Hour with Reverend sam Oi with days Monday to Friday by five point fifty a m West African time. Join on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram at Rev sam Oi. Please invite your friends and family members for with our God, all things are possible. For more inquiries, visit www dot the Transforming Church dot org. We celebrate you. 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