ENTERING INTO REST PART 2 FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH CONVENTION AJEBO (2)

Let's make welcome Apostle Joshua Smad allelujah. Let's give Jesus a big hand clap this morning. Is that how you're celebrating the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the Rose of Sharon, Alpha Omega beginning the end, the captain of our salvation, the healer, restorer, the giver of rest. Roundabout, is someone excited, Let's give Jesus a big, big, big hand clap this morning? Allelujah. The Sami said, I was glad when they said, unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord, because there are things you only find in his presence. The Bible says, in his presence there is fullness of joy and at his right hand pleasures even forevermore. I am honored again to be bringing the Word this morning, and while standing, I still want us to honor our father and our mother. Reverend sam aboy G thank you so much, sir, Thank you. I equally want to communicate my honor to all who are standing. Thank you so very much. Thank you for this opportunity. In the name of Jesus Christ. Can we pray, Father, we thank you again for this opportunity to hear your word the Bible declares that the entrance of your word gives light and understanding onto the simple. We have come this morning with hearts humble, meek open to receive. We pray that you will speak to us in the name of Jesus. And I pray that all it takes for us to step into the reality of rest on every side, release on towards this morning in Jesus' name. I decree and declare upon everyone hearing that there is the hearing of faith and the working of miracles. And we llow us always that you'll be glorified in our midst in Jesus' mighty name. We pray he say it all right? If I ask you to walk up to five people and profess I rest on every side for them, will that be fair enough. Look for a good neighbor, a smiling neighbor, a happy naghbor, this morning, and tell them I profess I rest on every side, Rest on every side, Rest on every side, Rest on every side. Did they reply you? If they didn't tell you anything, PROPHESSI to yourself, saying the name of Jesus, I experience rest on every side one more time, saying the name of Jesus, I experience rest on every side, So shall it be for you. In Jesus' name, Lord, we pray that you help us. Speak to us in Jesus' name, Please, you may be gloriously seated. You may be gloriously seated. I love to teach the Word of God because contained in the teaching of the Word of God is the wisdom of God. And the Bible, speaking about wisdom, says that wisdom is the principal thing. It says, therefore, get wish, and that in all your getting, it says, get understanding, exalt her, and she shall promote you. She shall put a crown of glory upon your head when doub does embrace her. Wisdom speaking says, by me king's reign and princess decreed justice, by me noble's rule. It says, with me our riches, wealth and honor, yet durable riches and righteousness. The wisdom of God is profound, because when we access his wisdom, even from his word, then we are able to do exploit. May that be your testimony. In Jesus' name. I'll take off from where we leftop yesternight. And for those of you who were not here or for the sake of those connecting by way of television, we began to discuss along the line of the team, first acknowledging yesterday that it is not unusual for men to be plagued with all kinds of calamities and challenges. The Bible did not leave us in the dark as to the fact that, as far as our sojourn on earth is concerned, there will be many, many, many afflictions. In fact, the Bible puts it this way, that many are the afflictions of the righteous, he says, but the Lord delivered him from them all. We examined a few examples of men and women, even righteous people, who went through seasons of pain, distress, discomfort, and afflictions. In the Bible, considered Abraham, the nation of Israel, the famine in Samaria, Naomi and Ruth. We looked at the life of Namman, the captain in Syria, the woman with the issue of blood, and so on and so forth. We also consider the life of Job as the clearest example of a man who had been troubled on every side. The Bible says that it is possible that a man can be troubled, not just in your finances, alone, not just in your marriage, not just in your health, not just in your career, but that it is possible that a man can be troubled on every side. But we also did establish the fact that in Christ there is a possibility for walking in total victory. The Bible says, now, thanks be to God, which causes us all ways to triumph. Are we still together? And then we agreed yesterday that to have rest means the following. Number One, it means security. Rest means security. Number two, that rest means freedom from and dominion over troubles and fears. Rest means freedom from and dominion over troubles and fears. Number three, we agreed that rest means peace. That in all your definitions of the word rest, if peace it is not captured, your definition is not whole. Rest means peace. Then we also agreed answering the question can a believer experience rest on every side? Is there a possibility that in a believer's work you can experience rest on every side? And we answered that question from Genesis chapter twenty four and verse one. The Bible says, and Abraham was old Genesis twenty four and verse one, Abraham was old and well stricken in age, and your Bible says, and the Lord had blessed him in all things, all things, not just some things. Once appointed time in his life he had tragedies around childbirth and several other things. But at the end of his life we are encouraged by the end of his state that the Lord had blessed him in all things. So, yes, it is possible for a believer to experience rest roundabout. And then we went further to discuss the keys. That experiencing rest on every side is predicated upon our understanding and walking in keeping with certain keys. Now, when we mentioned the word key to the believer and in the kingdom, a key represents access, that which gives you access to a realm, that which gives you access to a dimension, that which gives you access to a possibility. Jesus was speaking, and he said, and I will give you the keys of the Kingdom. I did point out yesterday that there is only one key to the kingdom, and that key is not a thing, it's not a principle, is a person. His name is Jesus. He is the key to the kingdom. But now that you are in the kingdom, there are the keys of the Kingdom. They represent the mysteries by which the Saints command results, the mysteries by which the Saints command exploit. In Matthew chapter thirteen and verse eleven, Jesus is speaking, and he says, it has been given onto you Matthew thirteen eleven to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. Allelujah. So you're excelling as a believer depends on your access to these keys, the mysteries of the kingdom. And as touching the issue of rest on every side, we examine the following keys. Number one that the first key to step into rest roundabout rest on every side is the decision to be spiritually minded. Please do not forget the decision to be spiritually minded. According to Romance, chapter eight and verse six, the Bible says for to be cannally minded is death, and to be spiritually minded is life and peace. And we further explain that being spiritually minded involves a number of things. First, your encounter with Jesus, the son of the Living God, who himself is called the Prince of Peace. To be spiritually minded begins with your encounter with Jesus. In Matthew chapter eleven and verse twenty eight. Jesus himself is speaking, and he says, come onto me, all ye that are weary and heavy. Leaden. He leaves you with an assurance, he says, and I will give you rest. He is able to give rest only to those who come to him, not just those who need rest, not just those who desire rest. You must come onto him like the prodigal son return back to his father, and he found rest. And I did say, in addition to your encounter with Jesus, you must have a rob boss and a healthy prayer life. Allelujah. These are the keys that altogether help a man to become spiritually minded. The strength of your prayer life. Look eighteen and verse one. You speak a parable to the end that men always ought to pray and not to faith. First Thessalonians five p. Seventeen, he says, pray without season James five p. Thirteen. Is any man afflicted, the Bible says, let him pray. Mark eleven twenty four. He says, what things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that thou receivest them, and thou shalt have them, allelujah. Jesus prayed the early Apostles prayed. It was customary for the church to pray. It was part of the apple Stolic model that was revealed and handed over by Jesus to the Apostles and then to the early Church. In Adds, Chapter two and verse forty two, the Bible says, and they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine, and in fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayer. That was the Apostolic model that was given to them. In Acts, chapter six and verse four, the Bible says, but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the world. The believer who does not pray habitually, who does not pray as a kingdom responsibility, will remain a victim of the vicissitudes of life. It is a fact allelujah. We pray for many reasons. One of them is for our growth and transformation. The primary assignment of prayer is for the believer growth and transformation. Luke chapter nine and verse twenty nine, the Bible says, and as he prayed, the heave in Jesus, the Bible says, the version of his countenance was altered, and his raymn became white. And glistering men can pray into superior versions of themselves. A weak you can become a strong you through prayer. A timid you can become a powerful, fearless you through prayer. A cannal flesh sensory you can become a spiritual version of you through prayer. Prayer is able to create evolution and transformation, that believers can become more superior versions of themselves when we pray. We did say yesterday again that in addition to prayer, we must become students of scripture. The Bible says, and that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scripture, which is able to make you wise even onto salvation. In Adds, Chapter twenty and verse thirty two, it says, I commend you to God and to the world of his grace, which is able to number one build you up, and then number two to give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified. When we study scripture, we become enlightened. Enlightened. To be enlightened means that the eyes of your understanding, like Paul prayed over the church and Ephisos, that the eyes of your understanding is flooded with light, so that you may know the hope of your calling and the exceeding greatness of His power to us. Word who believe believe us must become students of scripture. This kingdom, the life of God that we call eternal life, does so away. Life is only released experientially on the strength of knowledge. This life that we have received in Christ can only find expression in our lives when we access the riches in that life through knowledge. The Bible says, according as its divine power have given us all things that pertains onto life and godliness, than it says through the knowledge the knowledge of Jesus Christ, that means in ignorance, even if saved, your life will not become a beauty that will bring glory to God. In fact, the Bible puts it this way in Galatians, for it says an heir, for as long as he is a child, he differed nothing from a slave, a we together, or a servant, even though he be lord of all. And the characteristic future of children is ignorance. The Bible says, foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, or the lod of correction will drive it far from him. So when a believer is void of knowledge high level spiritual illumination, you will only wish things and never be able to work in that experience. Are we learning now? So to be spiritual in minded involves your encounter with Jesus Christ, involves the health of your prayer life, consistency in prayer, consistency in the ministry of the world, and of course your passion for the House of God. Learning. He says, I was glad when they said, unto me, let us go to the house of the Lord. It was Asamis who said, Oh Lord, you are my God. He said, early will I seek you? My heart longs for you, as in a dry and a wary land, It says, to see your power and your glory as I have seen in the sanctuary. There are things you only experience in the House of God. Number two can chaos with this cause yesterday that is responsible for accessing rest around about is that you must learn to leave by faith. The just shall leave by faith. Can someone say that, please, the just shall leave by faith one more time? Please, the just shall leave by faith. The Bible says in verse John five and verse four, this is the victory that overcome at the world. Even our faith whatsoever is born of God over come at the world, it says. And this is the victory that overcome at the world, even our faith. Allelujah. I told us yesterday that faith, in one word, is obedience. No matter what definition you bring to explain faith, if it does not capture orbeying God, you are not working by faith. Two definitions yesterday, we consider for faith. Number one, that faith is the confidence you have in God and the integrity of His word. The confidence that you have in God and the integrity of His word. Number two, that faith is the name given to the action of obedience that demonstrates that you believe, the name given to the action of obedience, not just the believing, the action of obedience that proves that you believe God. If it be thou bid me come, and he said, come, and Peter began to work on water. Allelujah, I did say yesterday. And it's important that we take note of this that God is only committed to what he said. God is only committed to what he said. He does not just do what we want. He does not just do what we desire. He does not just do what we pray for. He does what we desire and what we pray for that is consistent with what he has said. Are we together? God is not some slave or a robot or a machine that is just committed to doing anything fulfilling the loss of our desires. No, the Bible says, and this is the confidence that we have in Him that when we ask anything in our God dance to his will. That he heard us. There is a condition. The assignment of the power of God is to work within the jurisdiction of the will of God. In fact, the principle assignment of the power of God is to bring all things that are in disalignment to the will of God to become lined up with the will of God. So outside of the will of God, the power of God has no assignment. It's important that we understand this. God is only committed to what he has said. So if you can find what God has said, you have also found what God will do. Let me repeat it again. If you can find what God has said, you have also found what his power can do. Genesis chapter twenty one and verse one. And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said. And the Lord did onto Sarah as he has spoken. He did not just visit Sarah as she desired. He visited Sarah because he said he would, and he didn't do Sarah because he said he would. Genesis one and verse three, and God said, create only started the moment God said, recreation only started the moment God said. Nothing moves in the believer's life until God says, allelujah. I want you to believe that you're coming here in this conference and this convention is not just because of the routine, but that God has spoken already. And if God has spoken that it desires to bring rest round about, then it means that that must become your experience. It is your responsibility to insist by faith. Lord, you said it. I have come. I have come to the feast. Let me experience that rest. Take it down for me. Please. If you have said it, then you will do. You have a truck record of keeping your word. You're not about you know that song help me? You were mighty along on my guy, Oh Shad Baggy left food chorus, Show shall be Wall of Fu chorus, Showdah Listen, this is a part I wanted to get. There is nothing you cannot do help me. There's no monjake you can on more. You are said it then you will do it. You are a trock record of keeping your word. Show on about how to start doing it. There is nothing, there is nothing you do not Yes, you know me. You you are saying it, you will do it. You aren't sud You're not about to stop doing it. Is not God looks like an I don't wash it back. Called Abraham, coming from all of the Chaldians, and he begins to speak to him in Genesis chapter twelve. I will make your name great. You will be a great nation. I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that cursed you. And he says, in this shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Today. The three tom religions in the world have come out of that one man. Chris Eternity, Islam, Judaism all came out of that one man, simply because God said you shall be great. It didn't matter what happened. Again, God has spoken in the name of Jesus, I bring a world of hope for someone. If you have not yet seen what my Father has said concerning you, hold on His word does not fail it maintain time. But if he has spoken, I want you to believe in the God, who told you you will be proud of your children. Forget about what you are saying. Now. My Bible says, now are we the sons of God? And if not yet appear, what we shall be like? It says, for our light afflictions, which is but for a moment, that work can be not a far more exceeding way of glowing. While we look not at the things that are unseen or are seen, or for the things that are on seeing. For the things that are seen at death are out, and the things that I see are in turn out. Alle Lujah, Please be seated faith in God. I believe him, and I will stake my life obeying him. The Bible says, if you be willing and obedient, there is good in every land. Your portion only comes to you, not just by political connection. It comes by obedience. Because vain is the help of man. Thesami said, it is vain to wake up early in the morning and to sleep late at night, only to eat the bread of sorrow. He said, but he giveth his beloved sleep. Hey, war betides a man who tries to accomplish anything outside of the assistance of God. Now many have tried it, and it did not work. The help of man is truly vain. It is only God who can lift men. It is only God who can help men is called a beniza, the stone of help. Allelujah number three very quickly. So, all that I've said so far is a recap of yesternight's teaching. Now let's go to tonight's teaching or today this morning? Number three? What is the third key for experiencing rest on every side? Are you ready engaging praise with understanding? The third key that controls the manifestation of rest round about engaging praise The mystery of praise with understanding Talakabad praise with understanding, Psalm forty seven and verse seven. The Bible says, for God is the king of all the earth. Then it says singing praises, not as a tradition, not as a church ritual, singing with this understanding that God is the king of all the earth. You get that now that there is an understanding that sponsors praise. That when I'm singing, I'm not singing just to a political figure, not just some ambassador of the nation. I am singing to the King of the ages, the one who can manipulage all things. To my advantage. Let me declare over someone here, O Lord Borrow will turn your life around, a lor Borrow sturning things around, All Borrow turning things around in the name of Jesus. This will be the song you will be singing back more. You will sing it that people will say why are you dancing? And you will tell them I am praising the King who has turned my life around, who has given me right, and all the mothers rest round about when the Lord turning again. The captivity of Sion is sad way where like damn that dream, our mouths were sealed with love come and they said a long they hidden the Lord and don't great things for them? It says, the Lord has done great things for us. Where we are glad turn again our captivity like the strengths of the decad. My Bible says that there that solid yes that will read in charge I from bessycles somewhere, May my God did you rest round about? May my God did you rest round about? In the name of Jesus. It is true that God can tony man's life around. It is true that God can tony business around. It is true that God can tonic destiny, around. It is true that God can turn the entire trajedtory of a man. If you do not believe this, then you are not a Christian. Allelujah. The Bible says in Genesis chapter one, from verse one, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. It says, Then the Bible now brings a very tragic scenario. Verse two, it says, now the earth was without form, it was void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. It is from the Hebrew expression to who ah boho, confusion and chaos. My Bible says, and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Then verse three, it says, and God, the literal Hebrew remraction is and the talking spirit said light pea, And the Bible says, there was light. Now. I don't know about you, but I have learned a very powerful principle, and interestingly I lanted by my interaction with the West, particularly the Euroban nation. When you go for a wedding, there are people who beat drums and dance around you. I'm sure everyone has seen those kinds of people. They usually want you to do something for them, and usually you didn't plan to give them anything but the way they sing and call your name. They say all kinds of nice things about you. Who is that man who has taken care of children? And you feel guilty for leaving them without rewarding them When you want to get into the car, Then they dance again, Then they sing again, Then they call your name. They remind you that you are kind, They remind you that you are loving. They remind you that you are too blessed to live them in that condition. And even without planning, you will not know when you reach down and bring out something from your pocket and give them. Once they collect, they're done with you. They go to the next verson. If a man can be moved by praise, how much more the God of heaven, allelujah? Do you know? Listen? A prophet's head went as a reward because a young girl danns before a king, John the Baptist, the greatest of all prophets. That man could not kill this man. The Bible says, of all the prophets, there was none as great as John, not Elijah, not Moses, not easy Chirl, not Jeremiah. And a little girl dances before the king praising him. And the king said, what should I give you even not to half of my kingdom. Kings were not foolish people. This is what praise can do. Allelujah. Listen to me for someone. After this session and this convention, you may need to go back home, go and write everything that has mocked God. Lock the door and begin to dance and prays around it. It may not make sense, but listen to me when you begin to dance before the king. The Bible says, when the church listen, please. When the church prayed over Peter, it was an angel that came to the prison and lose his bands and brought him out. But your Bible says at midnight, Paul and silas in the same prison. The difference is that they did not only pray, they now sang. And this time it was not angels that came. God himself came. And the Bible says that the right to the foundation of the prison, because who can stand when he comes? What dog can stand when he comes? The door was it was rooted from his foundation, and the Bible says, and all doors open, say it up to me. All doors opened one more time. All doors open. That includes financial calls, that includes doors of fruitfulness, that includes doors of jobs. Can I prop aside to someone in your praise? May all doors offer in your praise? May all doors open? Listen, then listen. Don't you think I'm just shouting to entertain. Those who know this mystery have mastered the art of taming life like an animal. Bad reports from your office. Carry that report and drop it on the ground. You don't have to be a music shak Get some mess, get some music that someone has already done. Lock yourself in the room and says, say time. You will not see my tears. The Bible says it's glorious in holiness, he is fearful in praises. You want to see the Mighty God begin to praise him. You want to see the Mighty God begin to sing onto him. You want to see the God that is jealous over his says pray now hear me, hear me please. Many people dance in church, and that is wonderful. Many people sing in church. The reason why it does not produce power is because it is rather a ritual that is not supported by understanding. Are we together? There are an believers who can slip for every part of the is on too praise that they so dancing. You are wondering who are you dancing to. The secret to releasing the power of praise is not the act of singing and dancing. I tell you, I sense the power of God in this place. Let me professy again to someone. I don't know what door has refused to open. But in the name of Jesus, I stand upon the grace here and I say it again. In your praise, you will not try again. In your praise, you will not try again. Mama, in your praise, you will not try again. Sah, I speak to you as one sends by the Lord, that your tears comes to an end. Now the Bible says, got weeping and joe for a night, but joy comes with the money mail. All does open for you. In the name of Jesus, the Son of the Living God. May doors open for you in the name of Jesus, rife praise, mm hmm, Psalm sixty seven from US five to seven. From the rising of the sun to the setting of the same, your name is to me hallo Ah. From the rising of the sun to the setting of the same, jo name to be hallo. Ah. From the rising the sun to the setting of the same, Your name is to halloo. Please give it to once very quickly. Psalm sixty seven. Let the people praise thee O God. Let the people praise thee for six Then shall they add that means the ed has increased. But it will not just come because we desired. There is a mistering the spirit that forces the head to yield his increase, and that the head shall yield its increase. And even our God shall bless us, even our God. Next verse, please, it says God shall bless us as a result of our praise, and all the head, the ends of the head shall fear Him for the kind of thing you will do in your life. Let me speak to someone. Stop crying. You have cried from Januar region November. You have one more month left. Turn it into a month of praise. Turn it into a top praise cry. It does not help. It may comfort what it does not deliver. Allelujah praise. Let's consider the scripture where we got the anchor scripture for the convention. I like this Second Chronicles, chapter twenty from verse twenty one. May I please request for your attention as we read. We're reading twenty one down to thirty The Bible says, and when you have consulted with the people. This was in the days of Jehoshah pad Remember there were nations that had can doomp come against God's people. The Bible says, he have pointed, singers, there are battles that you do not need a sword, and is fair. You will be defeated under that condition. There are times where the challenges are bigger than you. At those points you need to keep your sword, and keep your spear, and carry your instruments of praise. The Bible says that should praise the beauty of His holiness. And they went out before the army and to say, praise the Lord for his mercies and your forever next verse please. And when they began to sing and to praise the Lord, to praise the Lord's set and pushment against the children of Ammon, Moab and Mountseer, which were against Judah, and they were smitten. Watch this, for the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mountseer to utterly destroy and to slay them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seer, everyone helped destroy another. Can you imagine these were intelligent warriors. What turned their minds around? That is what praise can do. Next verse, when Huldah came towards the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked onto the multitude and behold they were dead bodies falling to the earth, and none escaped. Next verse, And when Jehoshaphat and the people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in a pondance, both riches with the dead bodies. Do you go to war with riches? Do you carry your treasures to war? This is what praise can do. Which they stripped off for themselves more than they could carry away. And they were three days. Can you imagine in cathering the spoil, it was so much twenty six And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Baraka, for they were for there they blessed the Lord. Therefore the name of the place is called the valley of Veraka. Onto this day were reading to thirty twenty seven. And they return watch this every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphad in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy, for the Lord had made them to rejoice over their enemies twenty eight, and they came to Jerusalem with saltries and harps and trumpets, onto the house of the Lord. Two more verses. And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries when they had heard that the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel. Please read for staty if you believe already want to read. So the realm of Jehoshaphad was quiet for his God gave him rest roundabout. I want you to read that skipt joy day. This time around you will put your name. You already saw the realm of Joshua Salman, who was quiet for his God gave him rest roundabout. Shouted believing Amen, shouted other believing amen. Please be seated when the saints understand the power that is in praise. With understanding, the understanding there is that you are praising the king. There was one woman in the Bible who died barn and the reason for her barrenness was she loved to scorn a king who was dancing before the God who had made him king. The Bible says, he's dancing in such an undignified manner. She looked at him and said, you are compromising the ethics of royalty. Kings don't dance like this. And he said, I'm seen before the God who took the kingdom from your father and gave it onto me. My Bible says God heard her, and she died burrying allelujah. You can sing your way to victory. You can rejoice your way to victory. My Bible says the shouts of joy and victory shall not depart from the tent of the righteous. Show me a man who refused to stop his praise. I'll show you a man who victory cannot stand against. Number four. This will be the final point. So I've given you three keys. Number one being spiritually minded, Number two living by faith. Number three engaging praise with understanding. Are you ready for number four? Just a moment. I want you to get this one. The fourth and final principle that I will share with you. This is an irrefutable kingdom principle that commands rest on every side is called the covenant of service. The Covenant of service, the Covenant of Service. Exodus, chapter twenty three. Please, from verse twenty five to twenty six. I want to show you how believers find rest in this kingdom and ye shall serve the Lord. That is your part, and your God shall bless your bread and your water. Is that in your bible, And I will take sickness away From the midst of the next verse, Please, there shall nothing cast high young nor be buried in thy land. And then it says the number of your days I will for feel believe us. Please hear me. There is something called the Covenant of Service Job thirty six and verse eleven. May I request that we read it please when we find it projected Job thirty six eleven, ready want to read. Please. If they obey and serve him, Aha, they shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasure. What does it mean to serve God? To save God does not mean to come to church. No, coming to church does not necessarily mean serving God. Most believers come to church and they believe by coming to church they are serving God. Let me tell you what it means to serve the Lord. To serve the Lord means that your time, your energy, your resources, and your every I think most participate directly in this project called Kingdom com in this project of the revelation of Jesus and the glorification of the same. You are not serving the Lord. If your time, your energy, your resources, all kinds of resources, intellectual resources, financial resources, influence and access. If you're all does not contribute to making His program happen, you are not serving God. Even if you are in church. You can save a man and not serve God. You can save a church and not serve God. The reward is only for those who serve God. The Covenant of service. There was a woman in the Bible who was so benevolent and in her giving. She was so part of encouraging the move of the early Church that the Bible tells us that one time she died. And when she died, the Bible says, widows and other women came and they told the apostle, this woman cannot die. Who will be the one to continue this act of kindness and benevolence. The apostle was so touched, and that woman came back to life. Ladies and gentlemen, there are people who are on key label by reason of the extent of your contribution towards Kingdom. Come. Your Bible says, I shall not die, Then it says, but leave and declare the works of the Lord that means if your life is not participating directly in world evangelization, if your life is not participating directly in the maturity of the Saints, if your life is not participating directly in territorial transformation, you are not serving God. For this, the three facets of the Greek Commission, the Great Commission is divided into three. Number one is world evangelization. Number two the maturity of the Saints. Number three the transformation of territories and society. If your life is not involved in any of this, I hate to be a beer of bad news, but you are not serving God. There are people who the devil has no power over. These are men who have literally given themselves to the service of the King. In my definition of ministry, I don't define ministry with respect to your ability to stand behind a pulpit, holding a mic and speaking to an audience. That is not my definition of ministry. I define ministry as any activity that is motivated by your love for Jesus and intended to make Him known. It is called ministry. If that is business, it is ministry. If that is parenting, it is ministry. Provide that it is motivated by your love for Jesus, and the intention is to see Jesus revealed. It is called ministry. So I can be behind the pull pit a good preacher, but I may not be in ministry. Ministry is not vettered just by the spirituality of the activity. My motive. Do I love Jesus and do I love His people? And the goal for the singing, the goal for the teaching, the goal for the business is it to bring him glory and to advance the cause of His kingdom. If so, then you are serving, ladies and gentlemen. Please hear me. God is calling us into a covenant partnership through service. There are people who call upon the name of the Lord once and he will answer in a way by fire. Do you know why? Because their lives are too significant to the kingdom? Come project many of us, Yeah, our directors, many of us, Yeah, head our own businesses and our own companies, and help me for a moment. How many of you know that if you run a company, you had a company that has say a staff, a structure of five hundred or one thousand people, if there is need to downsize, what would be the principal basis for downsizing? Inefficiency? Am I right? On that inefficiency becomes the principal consideration for downsizing. You will sell them downsized. People who are the nerve the nerve center of that organization. Do you know that there are people today who, on account of the value and contribution that they bring to certain corporations, even when they tender their resignation, their superiors receive it and keep it and negotiate with them at dinner and launch and say listen, if he say pay raise, we will give you a salary lease, but do not leave this organization. Was that not what happened between Jacob and Laban. Jacob said leave me, I want to go. But Laban used divination to find out the reason behind his prosperity, and he was told that the presence of Jacob was the reason why he was blessed, and he kept manipulating, using all kinds of things to keep Jacob there. There are men who are the epictomy of blessings themselves, and that happens because of the degree of your contribution. Can I tell you there are people, because of their commitment to serving God when the devil wants who come to bring shame and reproach the jealousy of God will answer and said, who wants to touch this one who has been the principal financier behind my program? Who then will bring the finances? And God will arise. The Bible says, let God arise. Watch this, he says, and let not your enemies his enemies. I did a teaching back home. Let me define for you who God's enemy is. God's enemy may not necessarily be your definition. God's enemy is anyone, including a believer, who becomes a perpetual indrance to the manifestation of his purposes. It's called God's enemy. That's why when he appeared to Joshua, Joshua said, are you for us or against us? He said, neither. That's not how I work. Whoever is part of my program becomes an ally with me. So when the Bible says, let God arise, before you pray that prayer, make sure you are not God's enemy, because if it does arise, all his enemies will scatter. You become a friend of God when your life is committed to serving the Lord. I love him and I serve him today, not because I'm a preacher. Even if he never called me to the work of the ministry. I have given my life in total surrender to serving His purposes in whatever way I can. Not everybody will be a preacher. But let me tell you this. There are three categories of serving the Lord, and then we pray. As I begin to wrap up number one, in this end time, there will be three categories of people who will be called servants. Indeed, one those who are called prophetic intercessors. They have the mandate of praying his program over nations, over territories, over four square. The program of God is at the messy of prophetic intersear. When God does not find the people who can pray down his program, his purposes will be aborted again and again. Prophetic intercessors, men and women, in the simplitude of another prophetess, we must know how to pray the program of God. What is the next program of God? For four square? You must begin to pray Your kingdom come, Your will be done. Number two The second set of those who will be serving the Lord and those who will step into the system and represent Him as witnesses. Those who will step into the system, we call them the seven mountains, the mountain of religion, education, media, politics. I was so blessed listening to our father and uncle who was communicating his perspectives about believers participating in politics. Was such an intelligent presentation. Allelujah, I was so so blessed just listening to him. Yes, true, I think it deserves a round of applause for that, Allelujah. Believers must be active serving the Lord. Please watch this. You may be called an engineer, you may be called a medical doctor. You may be called an architect, a builder. You may be called, you know, a businessman. That is just a description of the geography of your weakness. There is one name that binds all of us in Christ, as far as our function and services concern, we are called witnesses. As one and verse eight, it says, but you shall receive power after that the Holy Goos has come upon you. Then it says you shall be witnesses. Never said you will be men of God, never said you'll be businessmen, never said you'll be politicians. What you call business, politics, career is simply a description of the geography of your weakness. But in Christ we are called witnesses. A preacher is a witness on the pulpit. The businessman is a witness in the marketplace. A politician is a witness in governance are we together? An academician is a weakness in the realm of the academia. A doctor is a witness in the hospital, and as fast medical practice is concerned, you must be more conscious of the description of your present from the lens of God's eternal perspective, not just the geography of your witness. That means when you are giving an employment or you set up a firm, beyond making money, you are there to represent the purposes of the kingdom. That must become your orientation. A terrorist knows is a terrorist. Even if the terrorist is called doctor so, so, so and so so, you can call it terrorist for you know, just for clarity of expression, as if you mean an individual is a terrorist. He may be a doctor, a medical doctor. He spent five years, six years, ten years in medical school, but from day one he knew he was a terrorist. He only became a doctor to give him access to the place where he would perform that role. So even though he's now a doctor, he knows that he's not a doctor to save lives. He's a terrorist who just became qualified. You are a witness who just found yourself in the business realm. Be more conscious of yourself being a witness than a money maker. Be more conscious of yourself being a witness than a politician acquiring all kinds of political credentials. The Bible consults witnesses. In fact, the Bible puts it beautifully. Mark Chapter five, from thirteen to sixteen. Here's what Jesus says. He had the salt of the earth. He says, but if the salt has lost its several Matthew matthiea Matthew, my apologist, Matthew five point thirteen is the salt has lost in several that it is good for nothing except to be thrown down and trample the foot of men. Then the next verse says, you are the light of the world. It says a city that is set on a hill which cannot be hidden. It says, neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but that it is kept on a candlestick, so that it would give light to all who are within that place. Then verse sixteen says, let your light so shine. The word let means permit, allowed to not withhold, do not restrain. Let your light so shine before men that they might see your good walks. It says, and glorify your father, which is in heaven. Allelujah. Please say after me, I am a witness one more time. Please shout say I am a witness. A witness is a validator of a claim. When you go to the court of law in making defense of your case, usually the judge will ask you to present a weakness, and the assignment of the weakness is to bring credence to your claim. Are we together? No witness is a true witness until he brings a token of truthfulness called an evidence. That's why God gave you power to go to the marketplace. He gave you power to do business. He gave you power to heal the sick. He gave you power to prosper. That power becomes your evidence that you are a witness indeed service. The meaning of that is that everyone who has contributed to making this convention and success through your prayers, through your finances, through your participation, through your love and label. My Bible says that God is a rewarder. There is a name he is called he Brews eleven and verse six. That without faith it's impossible to please him. For he that comment on to God must come believing that number one, he exists, and then number two. That is the reward God rewards. God rewards. I'm saying this to someone, God rewards. Do not be surprised. If someone gives you a house you did not buy. It is the reward God rewards. To not be surprised. If God gives your children scholarship anywhere to study without your bringing one nine one dollar, it is how God rewards. To not be surprised if you find out that that medical report of cancer or fibro cuddenly disappears. God rewards. It is called the convenant of service. You shall serve the Lord and he shall bless. You shall serve the Lord and he shall bless. You shall serve the Lord and he shall bless. You shall save the Lord and he shall bless. Ladies and gentlemen, Show me a man and a woman who has decided to be spiritually minded, accepting the lordship of Jesus, committing to the ministry of prayer, committing to the ministry of scripture. Show me a man and a woman who is determined to live by faith. Show me a man and a woman who is determined to engage praise as a lifestyle. Show me a man and a woman who is determined watch this now to work service as a covenant. My time is, oh, I would have given you one more? Can I just give you that one more? Let me make it the final key. The final g to entering rest roundabout is receiving the prophetic. The prophetic is a mystery that can bring men into rest and buy a prophet. The low God brought Israel out of Egypt and by a prophet where they established. Believe in the Lord your God, So shall you be established, believe his prophets, so shall you prosper. The prophetic has been sadly abused in our world, to the point that when you hear the name prophet now you become so irritated because it's been associated, unfortunately with falsehood, manipulation, and so on and so forth. I believe that God is working upon his church and curifying even the prophetic ministry. But let me tell you this, please do not, because of you unfortunate things that have plagued the prophetic reject the prophetic. Read through church history, Jesus himself, as the son of the Living God, depended on three prophets in his life to rise. Number one Simeon the prophet number two Anna the prophet number three shown, the prophet who you call the Baptist Jesus, the son of the Living God. Need that the prophetic ministry to rise. Without the prophetic, man cannot rise no matter your degree of encounter. That is how God designed his system. The prophetic does not necessarily mean working in the office of a prophet. There is the office of a prophet. Unbelievers, especially politicians, they are not said they don't love Jesus, but they understand. I don't know if you can just say, God bless you. They're not the power of the prophetic. As I speak over your life this morning, and as our Father would come maybe later on in the course of the convention to speak, do not be familiar with the prophetic, open up your heart and receive it. The prophetic can rey rites the narrative of the lives of men alas master, for it was borrowed and the problem. Don't assume that God knows mention every area. The Bible says, be answers for ansupplication. Let your someone, this blood disease, this cancer, this high blood pressure. Stand God visit my business, wipe my tears, turn my captivity like the streams of the negative. Pray over the trouble in your office, Pray over the issue in your nation. Pray for Nigeria. Go ahead and pray cause the spirit of untimely death. That ask me one more minute. You're praying shots take up? Can I give you one more prayer request. I'd like you to list all these five here. Let me list them for you. The grace to be spiritually minded, the grace to walk by faith, the grace to engage praise as a lifestyle, the grace to plunge yourself into service in the house of God especially, and finally one, go ahead and pray. Go ahead and pray. Now that you know these things, happy are you if you do them? You're talking to the Lord. You're talking to the Lord. You're maker, You're talking to the Lord. Alleluis. Yeah, prays the name of the Lord. Please. I want you to spend me the next five minutes. I just want to do something prophetic. This is my final session number one. I want to speak over you. But there are people here who have been under the yoke and the captivity of bondage. My Bible says upond Mount Zion, there shall be deliverance and then holiness and the sons of Jacob two minister to those who are sick. You don't have to come out or pray for you. Then I'll speak over our lives. And I'm done. God a Chance has won my patter from me. God of miracles has won my battle for me. I'm away a man away a man. Here's one my battle for me. I'm away a man away in a man. There's one my battle for me. God fain chances has one mine for me. God a miracle has one my ba for me. I'm awad the man away a man is one for me. I'm away the man away, the man is one me. Listen, there are many many people who have not enjoyed the liberty that is in Christ because of all kinds of demonic oppressions. I want to pray for you now, and as I speak over your life. I wanted to believe that those age long chains, that they must be broken forever. I wanted to believe this Father, in the name of Jesus, I stand upon the grace that is in this house, and I decreate declared for everyone who has been a victim of witchcraft, a victim of satanic manipulation, manipulations of ancestry, and every kind of Satanic manipulation. My Bible says, we are being called out of every tribe, and every tongue and every nation. My Bible says, blotting out every handwriting and the ordinances that spoke against us, that he nailed it to his cross. Therefore, I decree and declare, be set free this moment in the name of Jesus. Shout believing, Amen, be set free, this moment in the name of Jesus. Be set free, this moment, in the name of Jesus. Every manifestation in your life that is not of God. I bring it to end right now in the name of Jesus. Now, I like you to lay your hands anywhere you are trusting God for healing. Go ahead, let's use a minute or two to do this. Just lay your hands. If it's your head, lay your hands on your head. If it's your chest, lay your hands on your chest. If it's a part of your body you cannot touch, just make contact with your chest. Go ahead and believe. Go ahead and believe. Go ahead and believe. Jesus is a healing Jesus. He's able to Forgod that so highly exalted him, and giving him a name an office that is above every other name. It says that at the name of Jesus, every nee shall bow of things in heaven, things in the earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of the Father. Therefore I Declod's people in the name that is above all names. Let God's people go now, shouted loud aimen, Let God's people go now. I decree and declare, from the crown of your head to the souls of your feet, be healed in Jesus name. Be healed in Jesus name. Be healed in Jesus' name. Blood condition be healed in the name of Jesus, my grain headaches be healed in the name of Jesus. Born conditions behaled in the name of Jesus. Cancer be healed in the name of Jesus. Five roids be healed in the name of Jesus. Lumbus pondoluses be healed in the name of Jesus. Had conditions be corrected in the name of Jesus. Eye conditions behaled in Jesus' name. Here conditions be healed in Jesus' name. It doesn't matter what the sickness is, It doesn't matter what the infremity is. In the name of my God, who is also your God, behaled these moments. Anyone holding a medical report that represents it death sentence. Because of this convention, find rest in your health. Find rest in your health. I profess high ovalue. You will not die. You will not die. I close the grave, the gates of the grave on your behalf. You will not die. Be healed in Jesus name, behald in Jesus name. Behaled in Jesus name. Now I decree and declare over your finances the spirit of the wista, the spirit of poverty, luck and want that only keeps you begging and borrowing. By the power that raiscripts from the dead, I cost that spirit right now. I cast that spirit right now. I pray over your family everything that one should destroy your integrity, destroy your children, destroy your spouse. I commanded to give way right now. I commanded to give away right now, in the name of Jesus, for anyone yet trusting God for a job. I profers side to you. Between now and the end of twenty twenty three. May my God visits you. May my God surprise you make it. May you make a way for you where there is no way. In the name of Jesus, hear me. Any business that is in pact, anyone who is in that financial crisis, personally or corporately. I call upon the God of just un in the name of Jesus. May God arise and use man to wipe your tears. May God arise and use man to take you out of shame. In the name of Jesus, hear me. Everyone who has what it takes to help you, I call them help us of destiny. Wherever they are, I profer side to the north, the south, east, and the west. I gravitate your help us towards you in the name of Jesus Christ. The Bible says, and the King sent for Joseph, and they brought him out of his dungeon. Whoever more sent for you to bring you out of shame, to bring you out of calamity and misery. Nay, my God put it in their hearts to honor you. Exodus chapter three hundred twenty one. And I will give these people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. And it shall come to pass that as ye go, ye shall not go empty. I profer sign to you the days of emptiness has come to an end now by the faith of God in the name of Jesus Christ. Hear me, believe us. When men said there is a casting down, I profer sign to you. Let it be for you that there is a lifting off. Eight thousands shall fall by your side, at ten thousand by your right side. None shall hurt you with your eyes. Will you see and behold the reward of the wicked in the name of Jesus Christ. For someone here under the sound of my voice, what to shame? May God raise help for you in the name of Jesus Christ. And if there is anyone here, the spirit of death is roaming around your life, roaming around your family, to see that you don't survive and reach the end of this year. That people will say, this man was in this convention, but it did not enter twenty twenty four. I stand in the name of Jesus and I decree and declare you will live long. You will live long. I say it again, you will live long. You have not covenant with death. You have no covenant with the waste in the name of cheese. Finally, I pray for you whatever will bring your spiritual life down. The Bible says, blesses a man who does not work in the counsel of the wicked, no city the sins of the control. It says, what is delight is in the law of the Lord. And on that Lord that him meditated day and night. He shall be like a tree that is planted by the streams of water, which he uls fruits in season, and whose live does not with her. Then it says, whatsoever he do and prospers, I pray for you aned destructive relationship that the devil has brought around you to destroy your passion for God, to confuse you and make spirituality look like a waste. I separate you from those relationships forever. Receive help from the Lord. Receive messy from the Lord. Someone By this time next year, you return back ten dans better. You return back ten dans better, ten times wiser, ten times more prosperous, ten times healthier. In the name of Jesus. And in case I did not mention your desire, I release my faith with you, standing upon the grace of our Father and every man of God in this place we agree under the corporate anointing that every desire that brought you for this convention, you will never go back with it disappointed. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus, someone who help says, bless is a man that feared the Lord, that delighted greatly in his commands. He said, his seed shall be much upon earth. You will not give back to weak children. You will not give back to children who would kill you. In the name of Jesus, it says, wealth and riches shall be in his house, and his righteousness and yours forever. I hope you'll believe in the blessing of the Lord. I pray for you. You will not beg again, I said, from the depth of my heart. You will not beg again that mack of shame that is on your head, that is called it happened. Everyone has said, what is wrong with you? Where is the evidence of your saving God? From to della your results? Answer your enemies, Allelujah, And in all your getting. May nothing make you lose your relationship with Jesus. May nothing make you lose your fire for the House of God. So shall it be. Please wave your hands to Jesus. As a sign of gratitude. Are you waving to the king. You are also waving all your troubles goodbye. You are also waving every lenge goodbye. You have plagued me for long. Here is rest roundabout, Here is rest roundabout in the mighty and much less name of Jesus. We pray shout aloud, amen, Thank you so very much, sir for this opportunity. Thank you so much made the Lord honor you in Jesus' name.