Faithful And True Part 1 with Apostle Joshua Selman at Recharge (1)

Hallelulujah, praise the name of the Lord. Good evening, everybody past Yami, thank you, Thank you and your lovely wife, mister Bimbo, and the leadership this great church. Thank you for this opportunity. In the name of Jesus, I salute. Every man and woman of God made the Lord. Bless and honor you. I must find one. God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ. I'm just meeting the person who minised that before me for the first time. I was at the rotunda, the incredible, credible dispensing of the world. God bless you. Please less honor him. God bless you, sir, in the name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Maundered the shadow of your weis, your influences all over me. I am mander, the shadow of your wes, your influences all lowver me. I hey, I I am, I am Victorius. I have overcome. I am Victorius. I have overcome. I am Mander, the shadow of your Louise, your influences all over me. I amander, the shadow of your wings, your influences all over me. I chabas I I ay. Mantles are falling here tonight graces are falling here tonight. Annointings are falling here tonight. For the King needs to arise, for revival to return, for the. Kings to be bored for revive outer return. Yay ali alio hali. Hali aioba shaala baco sabra. Haliadi. Can you lift you a voice in one minute and ask the Lord for an encounter yet again? Even by his word, someone praying, declare by the spirit that your heart is opened and prepared. For an extra ordinary encounter tonight. Shabaka sobra chaperonde against shall escafriend da barattule. Goles for in Jesus Mighty name, we have prayed. Father, we pray that you will glorify your son in our midst Thank you for global impact Church, Thank you for the angel over this house. Thank you for charge conference. Bless our hearts yet again. And to Jesus be all the glory. Amen and Amen, God bless you please be seated. Allelujah, praise the name of the Lord. I want to teach on a very interesting. Subject that the Lord put in my heart in line with the theme of the conference. And I trust that in addition to all that has come from this alter to us. God will enrich us, He will empower us in the name of Jesus. God's method has always been his world. I would always like to emphasize this. The way he lived men is through his word. The way he empowers men is through his word. The way he heals is by his word. The way he lived is by his word. John one three. And without him, was not anything made that was made. That means, outside of his participation, there is nothing that can find itself as far as form or fashion or liberty is concerned. Without him, was not anything made that was made? Allelujah. Revelations Chapter nineteen will begin a reading from verse eleven. I am convinced that the believers exploit in this kingdom is predicated upon many factors. Among them is the. Depth of your conviction, your persuasion about who God is, Allelujah, and the integrity of his word. Your confidence is absolutely dependent on your knowledge, the depth of your encounter the antidoor to fear, the antido to doubt, the antidot to uncertainty. The key to stability of heart. The true sponsor of audacity in the kingdom is an encounter with the God of the Bible. There is nothing else that will impact the confidence that genuine encounterspring. So let's trust God to help our hearts tonight. I have a two part series I'll start tonight and then will wrap up tomorrow. Faithful and True Revelations nineteen from verse eleven, Allelujah. Okay, So let me turn just to read. Now. I saw heaven even open and behold a white horse. And he who sat on him was called faithful and true. And in righteousness he judges and makes war. Next verse, his eyes were a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. He had a name that no man knew except himself. Thirteen he was cloth with a robe dipped in blood. And his name is. Called the Word of God. So the one who is called the Word of God is also called faithful and true. The first thing I want to establish tonight is that God, as mighty as he is, as supposedly mysterious as he is, he desires to be known, and he desires to make himself known. This is the first reality I want to establish in this conference. That God wants his people to know him. He desires to be known in as much as there is no sution of his understanding the Bible says, in as much as through the span of eternity, we will still learn God, but He still desires that his people get to know him. You must settle this for a fact that God desires to be known. Generally speaking, as revealed from Scripture, there are four biblical platforms by which a believer gets to know God. It is important that anyone who seeks to know God genuinely must submit to the limits of the provisions that Scripture allows. In our pursuing the knowledge of God. We are not giving the liberty to invent our strategy. The strategies to knowing God accurately. Have been provided, and our assignment is to work in keeping with the platforms, four of them, just for your knowledge, very quickly. Number one. The first platform that the Bible provides to help any man get to know God is the Scripture. The Scripture very quickly, Second Timothy, Chapter three, from verse fifteen to seventeen. Second Timothe fifteen, it says, and that from a child can we have KJV. And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scripture, the Bible says, which is able to make you wise even onto salvation, Allelujah. Second Timot three fifteen to seventeen. Thank you. And then it says all. Scripture is given by inspiration of God, all scripture, and it is profitable for doctrine, reprove, correction, and instruction in righteousness. To what end. Next verse it says that the Man of God may be perfect, the word perfect. There is mutual, entire thoroughly furnished, even onto good works. So everyone who desires to know God, the Bible recommends scripture. In scripture, we find the character of God revealed. Are we together? The Bible contrasts the character of God as against other Gods, other deities, and all other platforms of faith communications, and the Bible leaves us with an instruction that scripture is profitable, that on the strength of scripture we can know the character of God, and we can know his modus operandi. The Bible calls it his Ways number two. The second way that the Bible recommends that we learn God is through the thirdy of his names. Please pay attention the thirdy of his names, the study of his names in Exodus chapter three from verse thirteen to fifteen. Exodus chapter three from verse thirteen down to fifteen, and Moses said unto God. Behold, when I come onto the children of Israel and shall say unto them, the God of your father has sent me onto you, and they shall say onto me, what is his name? He says, what shall I say onto them? Very intelligent question. Moses is saying, I will not have the audacity and the confidence to stand before the nation of Israel, people who had been in slavery at the time for four hundred and thirty years, and then to confront the Pharaoh, not knowing who has sent me. The problem is not the message. The problem is I need an encounter with the God of the Bible. And he said, next verse, the Lord said unto him, I am that I am. He said, thou shalt say onto the children. Of Israel, I Am had sent you. Hallelujah. So we can know God by studying his names. You see the names of God capture various dimensions of the possibilities contained in him. As you study the names of God, you learn God is so fast that he has to fragment himself told his names so that every believer who needs to learn him will pick. His name, and there his names are like a ladder into the knowledge of God. So every time, a manifestation of him is revealed in the people. He captures that dimension in a name, so that every time you want to learn and see that dimension, you study that name. So he calls. Himself Rapha Jirah see ken No, same god, different dimensions of operation. And then he even names himself. After the experiences that men had with him, like the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. Same god, but. His operation with these three people are very different. The God of Abraham talks about his portrait of a blessed man, how he calls a man and blesses him away together. The God of Isaac, how he is able to supply and keep a man even through farming. And unfavorable situations. The God of Jacob is the god of encounters, that he can turn a man who is a cheat and a supplanter. Even to become away together. Now he says, for us, a prince, you have had power with God, and you have prevailed. He touched the whole of his time, blessed him. The Bible says, the sun arose, and he called that place penny hell. For I have seen God face to. Face, and my life is preserved so every time you desire and encounter God recommends the God of Jacob or the experience of Jacob. As the template. He says, who shall ascend to the heel of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place? He that have what yes or swan deceitfully. He says that this is the generation of them that seek Him or Jacob. That means you seek Him in the similitude of Jacob. So I'm saying that you study the names of God. What Rapha will do is not the same thing as seeking or Gyrah. It's the same God, but the mode of operation as captured in these names differ altogether. So we can use the names of God as prophetic ladders to know God. Number three, The third way that we know God that's revealed in scripture is through the person Jesus. Jesus himself, according to scripture, came as a revelation of God. Collosians Chapter one, from verse twelve to seventeen, but the verse of emphasis is fifteen Collosians one. Please write for reference. It says, giving thanks on to the Father which had made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light thirteen. Now it says, who had delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His their son, the kingdom of his dear son, in whom we have redemption. The Bible says, through the blood, even the forgiveness of sins. Let's read fifteen together. If you can see, ready, one to read. Who is the image of the invisible God? Hold on? Who is the image of the invisible God? Jesus Christ. So the mysterious God that the prophets did not know, the mysterious God that many people just knew in types and shadows, Jesus came as the manifestation. He gave form and visibility to God. Are we together so that we use Jesus as a reference to correct our prior understanding about God. So whatever the prophet told us about God, whatever was told us about God prior to his appearance, he came as a marking script. To edit our understanding of God. So that whatever was not captured in the life of Jesus, we have a right to vet it. Even if the prophets proposed it, it didn't matter what they said about God. In light of Jesus. Now the presence of Jesus now gives us the authority to question everything they said about God that we do not find in him. For instance, the Bible says, the Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, and rich in love. We have a right to question that statement until we see that reality manifesting Jesus. It says, I have loved you with an lasting love, and I have drawn you with my loving kindness. We have to verify. If we do not. Find that at work in the life of Jesus, then we know that something was wrong with the perception of the prophets or those who documented anything they wrote about God. Are we together now, Yes, so, Jesus Christ. The Bible says in Hebrews Chapter one, God, who in saundry times and diverse manners speak to us in time past through the prophets, had in this last day spoken to us through his son, whom he had appointed. To be heir over all things. Verse three, he says, who is the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person. Upholding all things? The Bible says, by the word of His power? Do you believe that? So? The way that we learn God is. By studying Jesus, and the Gospels are a very fair compendium of the work of Jesus on Earth. The synoptic accounts Matthew, Mack and Luke and John document the experiences of those who were closest with him while he walked upon earth. Are we together now so that when we learn, we can learn his ways, and we can learn Him through the lens of the gospels. This is very important. The fourth way, very quickly that we know God, as revealed in scripture, is through our experiences. God so designed our work with him such that our experiences are not a waste, that there is something about our experiences that can help us learn God. Job chapter forty two and verse five. Let's read it together when we have it projected. Is God speaking to someone already? Job forty two and verse five. Want to read I have heard of THEE by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes seeing THEE. In other words, someone had told me about you, but now experience. There is something about the believer's experience. Are we together? God is able to grant you. Encounter Us through experience, and it sorely defies your knowledge of Him. So these are the four scriptural ways with which the believer. The believer is given the liberty to explore any and all of these four dimensions. Any other strategy that you invent to try to know God, you will find another kind of spirit that is not the God of Heaven. Are we together? If it is outside scripture, if it is outside the names of God, if it is outside the passing Jesus, and outside of your experiences, you will never truly know God. Are we learning? Now? This is very very important? Now let me pick the subject of names. Names are very very important. The Bible talks to us about names. We see that when Jesus walks upon the earth, he mandated Adam right from Genesis to name the animals. And names were so powerful that at a point where he encountered men, he would even change their names, like Abraham to Abraham, Sarah to Sarah see first to Peter. Are we together? Names are so important that God places emphasis emphasis on names. Generally, the name of a person reveals many things about that person. Number one, it is a means of identification. So if I say John, I don't expect everybody to stand up. There will be an individual or a group of people with that name. Am I right? And so it is a means of identification. Number two. Names try to communicate areas of specialty and expertise. For instance, if I say doctor immediately, it tells you. By mentioning doctor, it. Tells you that person is a specialists. In the area of medicine. Are we together? You cannot hear the word doctor and be thinking a capenter or some engineers somewhere. Most likely your mind will go to medicine. Are we together? If you hear barrista, you're not thinking a stethoscope and an injection. When you hear barrista, you are most likely thinking of a legal practitioner. So names help you to understand the area of expertise. Usually a man's expertise is captured in his name. Please follow carefully so that you understand what we're discussing. Allelujah. Names also revealed dimensions of specialty. So if I say you are a doctor, I'm saying that largely your knowledge has been limited to a particular field. Are we together now? Names describe the area you have dedicated your life to specialize in. This is the reason why when Moses asks God, he say what is your name? What you were saying, is what is your area of specialty? Because he was trained in Egypt and there were thousands of gods named after your specialty. The god of fertility would not double himself in another thing. So he said, God, I'm sure you are an expert in an area. And God said, how do I fragment myself? Now? He simply said, I am that I am. You see that was a very very thorough description. In other words, Moses, there is nothing you think about that it's not possible within me. I am not one of those gods that has been mandated to specialize in an area. No, when you talk of fertility, you talk of gods of agriculture. They have their specialty. So you were as powerful in those days to the degree to which. You encounter the various gods. If you encounter the god who prospers in agriculture and you don't encounter the god of war, you would have a problem in battle. And so he said, now, how do I add you to that list of gods? And God comes to Moses and says, no, I'm not one of them. I don't operate like that. I am that I am. Are we together? So when you talk of Jireh. You talk of Raphi, you talk of Sekeno. You are not talking of different gods. You are talking of the same God who fragmented himself in several dimensions to help you understand him. Allelujah, praise the name of the Lord. Now, the Bible gives. Us a very interesting name that he's called in Revelations chapter eleven, where we read he said he is called faithful and true. Please listen carefully. If you do not understand this, you will not even understand the Covenant, and you will not even understand. Faith faithful and true. It's not just what he does. The Bible says is who he is, and that same rideer upon the horse is called the word of God. So that you are not confused. So there is a dimension of God called faithful and true that the Bible mandates with study. Hallelujah. The word faithful is very important. To be faithful means, i wrote here, to be consistent. To be faithful means to be trustworthy. To be faithful means to be dependable. It means to be dedicated. When you say a person and God in this case is faithful, you are saying he's consistent. Are we together now. There is no variableness. He is trustworthy, he is dependable, He's dedicated to be true. As simple as that word is, you will be surprised how hard it to be to find a meaning for that word. You know what it means to be true. To be true means to be accurate. To be true means to be authentic. To be true means to be verifiable. That you will vet what your fate is standing upon. Are we together now? Bible fate is predicated upon an understanding. There is something about God you must know to be able to operate Bible faith. So we say that when God is true, we mean he's accurate, We mean he's authentic. No suspicion in dealing with him. You're not dealing with someone who is trying to play tricks with you. And then you are dealing with a God that can be verified. He's not afraid to be vetted. Are we together now? That the Bible is a compendium of his track record through dispensations, working with all kinds of people, so that it can help you see that He is worthy of your trust and your commitment. Are we together now? This is very important? Faithful and true a God that is verifiable one who is not. He does not shake. It does not depend you, see, it is one's Once God depends on another person. For his stability, it will be impossible for him to be faithful and true. The quality of being faithful and true demands that there is no other authority above you, as it is to God, because it then means everybody is subject to the way the authority above him behaves. Are we together now? I am a man under authority. I say onto one go and he goes, Come and he comes. Am I tom. If the authority above you mandates that you take a decision, even if it's against your conscience, loyalty demands that you obey. So when the Bible says God is faithful and true, it means that he does not submit to any other person who manipulates his character. Are we together now? There is no other authority, so nobody can tell God change. He is not obeying anybody. Are you understanding what I'm teaching you? Now? Yes? That when God the Bible says he's faithful and true, it means when he says yes, there is nobody who will threaten him into working against that which he has said I can say I want to bless you, but the company that I work for can change my decision because I. Submit to them. I will obey a will together. But for God, there is no other authority above him to manipul. If there was an authority above God, then we can suspect his statements because it means his statements will be subject to the authority faithful and true, faithful and true, faithful and true. I can tell one of the prodocol people meet me by five o'clock, and he may intend to come there, But pastor and give him another assignment. And you said, with respect to my dealings with him, he was unfaithful, But it was not because of an intrinsic deficiency. He had to submit to an authority above him. So when we say God is consistent, it means true all eternity what he has said. He has said, there is no government that will rise to threaten what it is that he has said. Listen, if you do not understand this, you will not understand the Covenant, and you will not understand faith. How do you stand confident upon something you have not seen? And you can have the audacity to tell people I know what I'm saying, there has to be an understanding something about God, not just what you want to obtain. You need to know God first, h. Consistent, trustworthy, dependable, accurate, verifiable. Now there are two attributes of God, very quickly, two attributes of God that make him faithful and true. Number one is called He's in integrity. A man is only faithful and true to the degree to which he has integrity. Don't assume you understand what I'm saying. Please pay attention Hebrews chapter six. Please from verse thirteen integrity Hebrews six thirteen, he says, for when God made a promise to Abraham, because he could not swear by any greater you understand what I'm saying. Now, the Bible says, he swore by himself, in other words, to show you his determination. He was willing to submit to a higher authority. In doing so, if there was, he took out time to such. And since there was no other authority higher than him, the Bible says, he swore by himself next verse, saying, surely in blessing, I will bless you to Abraham now and in multiplying, I will multiply. The next verse he says, and so when Abraham patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Uh huh, he says, for men verily swear by the Greater, and an aught of confirmation is an end to all strive. Next verse, it says wherein God willing more abundantly to show the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel. The Bible says he confirmed it by an oath read eighteen with me as loud as you can, if you're a Christian, want to read that by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie. Aha, stop we might have? What we might have? What one more time we might have what? A modern day translation here is guarantee. That by this too immutable put things. In other words, God is saying, I know you as men, You are frail, you vacillating your convictions. How can I convince you that I am trustworthy? And the Bible says he used a promise, In other words, he made a commitment. But he said, Abraham, I know you will doubt me because of the reality of the things that you see, So let me add something to it as my commitment. And the Bible says an oath an oath. That he said, if I told you that I will bless you, you. Can believe that I will do it. And in case doubt wants to creep up in your mind, remember that it was not only a promise that I made, but that there is an ought upon it. Do you know what an oath is? An oath is a self inflicting this advantage. You bring to yourself in case you do not keep your word. Are we together now that you make a commitment and you say, if for any reason I default, I met out these judgments upon myself or whoever it is that is making that oath. And the Bible says, by. The consciousness of that promise and that oath, the believer may find a consolation that when God speaks, when he says I am doing something, he has the integrity. Please say integrity. My Bible says God is not a man, that he should lie numbers twenty three nineteen. This is a very very interesting statement. God is not a man. God became a man, But God is not a man. He became a man. Are we together now for the purpose of redemption. Jesus is today seated at the right hand of the Father as man. The God, Man, are we together now? But God is not a man that he should lie. He's telling you that men have a weakness by real of wearingly a mortal body. They lie. To lie does not mean to say something untrue. To lie means that you cannot make true what you say. There are two dimensions to lie. Number one is and on true information, But the other one is lack of capacity to make what I say become. It is still a lie. So the Bible says God is not like men. In other words, I can say I want. To help you. My desire is sincere, but the where without to make it happen I do not have. With respect to that statement, I have become a liar. So the Bible says God is not a man that he should lie. In other words, before he speaks, he vets his ability to bring into past. Everything you see God say. Is a conclusion that he has come within himself, that it is within my power to make good what I have said, say integrity. One more, I'm saying integrity. I'm saying this because when a man works with God, God is going to give you instructions and tell you things that except you have this background knowledge, there is no basis of believing and working with God, you will take risks that do not make sense. The basis of your audacity is what I am sharing with you that while your optical eyes cannot see anything that is as at yet appearing, but your conviction is the fact. That God is not a man. And so when situations and circumstances try to threaten your confidence, you are reminded again that God is not a man. That you should lie. Do you know what that means? If for any reason, by mistake, God calls a shepherd a king, he becomes a king immediately. It's not that God. How do I explain this? Now? Listen, there is a system within the economy of God that makes sure that what. He says comes to pass. Are we together now? Yes? This is why, in making men become like him, he equipped us also with the agencies that make our words come to pass. He gave us a holy spirit. He gave us his name so that we will function like him. Are we together now? Integrity? Integrity. I do not know anyone who has worked with God and has commanded levels of exploits in life who has not taken giant lips of faith that does not make sense risks that you cannot explain. In the Kingdom, the spelling of faith is our iesk. One more time oursk. That is the correct spelling of faith. How do God move his servant to come to the good land? Here? And then? You see, when God talks to you, he does not talk as if he's talking to a man. He talks as if he's talking to. Himself, because it is his ability that will bring what he is said to pass. One of the ways you know it is God that is leading you is because the version of you hearing will not be the version that to produce that result. Every time God tells you what you can do, it was. Not God that you heard. Are we learning? So God looks at you and says, go and raise nations across the globe. Now he's speaking as if it's not aware you need a visa. He's speaking as if it's not aware you need partners. You see, He's saying that because there is something within him that sponsors what he says. Number one is his integrity. Someone shouted saying integrity. Let every doubt and every hear fear here you shout to say integrity. It comes from the word integer. Same within us without God does not make a statement, and then he goes back feeling insecure. Why did I do this? Now? His integrity that by these two immutable things, by. These two immutable things. Number two, the second attribute that makes God. Faithful and true is his power or his ability. This is very important. Exodus chapter fifteen, from verse six to eleven. His ability. Now, you can have the desire to be true, but you may not have the wherewiout. To make it happen. Are we together? Yes, I can tell you I want to pay your school fees, and I sincerely desire. The problem is not integrity. The problem is the way with all. I may have made that statement also expecting someone to give me money. Were together, So I failed not because I lacked integrity, but I. Like the power, the ability, the where with all. So integrity is powerful, but integrity is only complete when there is ability, The Bible says Exodus. Chapter fifteen, from verse six. The right hand, oh God, is what Let me read it from here. The right hand old Lord is to become glorious in power, it says. The right hand old Lord had dashed into pieces the enemy. Verse seven, it says, and in the greatness of the excellency, Thu hast overtrown them that rolls up against thee. Let's read thou settest fourth thy wrath ahah, reading to eleven verse eight. Now hold on, you've been breathing all your life? Will you not share a man who used the breath of his nostrils to cause this kind of thing, A man's breath that can part a flood heather and teether. What then can his hand do? What happens when he arises? Then so when the sammon says, arise, let God arise, Allelujah. Now glorious in power, he says, listen to me. God does not just have integrity. The Bible says power belongs to him. God's power was not outsourced. Your power was outsourced. You had to depend on the Holy gooes. You still depend eternally on the Holy goes. But God's power does not increase, It does not reduce. He does not grow. I hope you know that God does not lend. God does not grow. He is the perfection of all things, the Senate of all things. If God grows, who supervises his growth? If God lends, who is the mentor Listen? You need to understand this and your situation becomes small in light of his ability. So when God says, I'm giving you a land in Legos, you don't sit there wondering where we like get it. The earth is the Lord's, The earth is the Lord's. Everybody met land on earth. Nobody was born with it. So nobody can bully that prophecy. Out of you. Yours is? Did God say it? And listen? The Bible says, as for the earth, out of it comes bread. It says, the increase of the field is for all. That means there is your portion. This revelation already gives you confidence there is my portion somewhere, because God is the god of portions. The increase of the earth is for all, not for some, And. That even the King is fed by that which comes from the field. Are we together his integrity? So when he called faithful and true, notice what makes the word of God powerful is that he is faithful and true. That's why he told you that those two names go hand in hand. That the word of God is important. If there is no faithfulness and there is no truthfulness. Why do we believe God? Why do we believe his word? Because content within the world of God is his name, faithful and true. When you understand this, now you can begin to delve into the matters of the covenant and the matters of faith, having this at the back of your mind, that God is faithful and true. Now Daniel, Chapter eleven, place and verse thirty two p. The Bible says, for sake of time. But the people. That do know. Never said the people that do have never said. The people who come close to it says. The people that do know their God, two things will happen to them. Number one, capacity they shall be strong. They shall be strong. They shall be strong. Number two, they shall do not talk. It will start with speaking what it must end in doing. There are people who discuuse exploits. There are people who wish exploits. There are people who document wishes of exploits. But the people that do know their God, they shall be strong, and they shall two exploits. Two exploits, two exploits. The end of. The knowledge of God and the posits of the things of God is number one your conformity, but number two the manifestation of define possibilities that happen to you. So you may be frail by birth, but you have outsource and intelligence that has translated you that your life no longer becomes ordinary because there is an understanding. There is a consciousness and orientation about God that has swallowed up your limitations. You will dare things that ordinary men cannot do. And the reason is not because you just want to be bold. You are standing upon and understanding. He looked at him while he was working on water, and Peter wondered, is this man and not narry man at all? How could he be working on water? He's heavier than I mean this He should sink. And he said, this is a possibility that is also true for you. He says, if it be Dow, bid me come call me into that rem of reality. And he said, come if you believe that, come, and the Bible says he stepped out. And he began to walk on water. And because God asked him to come, even when he was going down, he took responsibility to preserve him because God is not a man. Listen carefully, that is how far he can go to defend, provide that you acted on his word. Even though he was sinking, he said, I can't let you sink. The problem is your understanding. What I have in integrity, I must still defend. For my namesake. Do you know if he left Peter and Peter got into the water and died away together, now the prior obedience would not matter. It will still prove the powerlessness of God. For instance, in that scenario and then his lack of integrity, God had to hold him to say, it was on account of your believing me that there is still a lot too correct about your understanding. But for now I will still have to defend you because it was based. On my word that you took that step. That is why you keep looking at champions as if they will fail, yet they never fail. As if they will fail, yet they never fail. Twenty years they are still standing. It looks like they will fail, but there is the jealousy of. God that defends their understanding. He says, look on to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah that body. He says, I called him alone. What a risk. You call a man out of all of the Childians. As an unbeliever, and you begin to propose certain blessings to him. In Genesis chapter twelve, you find that in two one three, I will bless you, I will make your name great. I will bless him that bless them that bless you him that curse, you will like curse. And then the last verse, verse three says, in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. You are talking to a man who has no child, and in that blessing. There was no mention. I told you, God does not talk to men like he's talking to men. He's talking to a man as if he's not even aware. This man. Was in a state where his passion was to have a son, and God is telling him there are nations that will be blessed because of you, and he stops there. The only time God ever responded about Isaac was when Abraham axim and said, what will you do to me seeing that I go childless? Oh, here is a lasa, here is this? And God said, no, you will have your own seed. In other words, God was saying, I am so responsible. Contain within this promise? Are we together? Now? For this promise to come to pass, you must certainly have a child, or the wise the promise will not come to pass. In other words, your anxiety is just your being a human being. You're just acting as a human being. But within this promise it mandates that you must have a child or the wise. It do not come to pass. Abraham come out. Counter stars, and he was lost, counter stars, and he was lost. Finally Abraham said God, so is this what you mean? That my children and my influence will be like the stars. Of the heaven. Finally God got the attention of Abraham. The Bible says Abraham believed God, and it was credited onto him for righteousness. Are we together? We live in a world today where it looks like God decided to isolate a few people and cause their lives to emit some levels of excellence and power and grace. But my Bible says the Lord, the same Lord is riched onto all inasmuch as there is the election of grace. But it is every believer's destiny in Christ to excel. It is every believer's destiny in Christ to rise to a level where your life becomes a testament that Jesus is alive. I want you to know that your producing results in the Kingdom brings glory to the name of the Lord. John chapter fifteen, from verse eight. It's a hearing. Is our Father glorified when you bear much fruit? So shall you be my disciples? John fifteen and verse sixteen. You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordain you. He says that you should go and bear much fruit, and that your fruit should remain. Are we together efficient Chapter two and verse ten. Paul puts it beautifully. He says, we are his workmanship. Allah course, yeah. His workmanship created in Christ Jesus onto good works. You know what that means. We are the tools that God uses to display his glory. That every time God wants to make Nigeria Africa know who he is, he brings you as his workmanship, the status called the injection, that is the workmanship of it dotr Are we together now? And then chapter three and verse ten Paul was speaking, and he said to the intent that now onto principalities and powers might be made known by the Church. The manifold multifastted wisdom of God. Something about the excellency of God and his person manifests. Through your life. It should compel all and saundry to bring glory to the name of the Lord. In Matthew chapter five, from versatin, it says you are the salt of the earth, but that if the salt has lost his saltiness, where which shall it be made salty again. It is good for nothing except to be thrown and trodden on their foot. But men, then, it says, you are the light of the world. You are a city that is set on a heel that cannot be hidden. Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, the Bible says, but they put it on a lampstand, so that it will give light to everybody within the building. Verse six Seed now says, permit your light. Let your light so shine, not before spirits, not before angels, before men, that they may see. He wants them to see your good walks. And by doing so, it says, they will glorify your Father, which is in heaven. There are dimensions of the glory of God. Your life will never command except you know that God is faithful and God is true. There's no time to begin to tell you stories. But you are seated right here in an auditorium and under the grace of a man. That is proof that the faithfulness of. God and the reality that he is true was not Is that when the Bible declares that God is faithful and true, he did not lie by making such statements apostle, How will the money from my house come from this. Revelation, not a business. Business only gives your revelation a room to find expression. Listen, listen to me. Business and what you do in itself by itself will not prosper you. You prosper of your understanding. First your understanding of God, then your understanding of yourself, then your understanding of the cosmos. So there are many people who are struggling to labor, and they have not constructed their understanding about God. They believe that arbituarily a man of God. Respectfully speaking, you cannot get up and be trusted with the graceful nations when you do not believe that God can do much with you. He is faithful. When God says, for instance, in Deuteronomy twenty eight and verse one, that it shall come to pass if doub shall diligently happen to the voice of the Lord, to do and to observe all that I command you this day. It says that you shall be exalted above all. Say all all the nations of the earth, not just Europe, not just American, not just the Caribbeans, not just Asia. He said, all ladies and gentlemen. All was not a parable all means. All that means there is no nation you step intwo that you should be rejected out of that nation. You are carrying something within you. The Word of God has mandated that all nations acknowledge you as a blessing, and that all these blessings shall come upon you and shall overtake you. Shall come upon you and shall overtake you. My question is who is speaking? Forget about what he's saying. Who is speaking? You need to vet the who first. Then you can believe the what. Most of us are focusing on what he's saying, and we forget about who is speaking. If I tell you I'm going to give you, say a millionaire, now, the first thing you do is not to doubt the statement. The first thing you do is to vet me as a person. Can this man bring out a millionaire? Now? You see that if you have a problem believing what God said, the real place of correction is not what It is an encounter with the one speaking. When you trust me, everything that comes out of me becomes believable. Am I right on that? Yes? If an ambassador or a councilor of an embassy looks at you and says, I like you come and have your visus stamped ten years whatever nation by tomorrow. Because you are aware of the status and the ability of that person, and the fact that he's too serious to be playing games with you, you start dancing without a visas stamp, and if people ask you. They say, look, most people have not gotten. The visus you love, and you don't know who spoke to me your own It was a nachurance that spoke to you. But I had the opportunity to speak with the Counselor so when you carry the Bible and say I am the head and not the tail, and you are acting as if God lies, the problem is not the statement. The problem is that you need an encounter with He who is called faithful and true, faithful and true, faithful and true. Three Hebrew boys caught up in the fire that at the sound of the timbrel and. Instruments of worship, they will bow to this ninety feet statue. And from the place of encounter they came and said, listen, we're not just young people who are intelligent or king. We respect you, but in this matter we will not bow. He said, our God will save us. There is something we know about him. Are we together. Now, yes, that I can rejoice in the God of my salvation, and that even if He does not save us, let it be known to you that will not bow. And the Bible says that the king was angry, and he made them to turn the fun the furnace seven times hotter, to a point that those who threw. Them were bond by the fire. But this gentleman stepped in, and the Bible says they saw the fourth man, faithful and true. And the king said he was like the sun. Listen to me. The Hebrew boys never said, please come and help us. They only made the more you would make your declarations of faith. You put pressure on his integrity. That God knows that you are saying it loud to the hearing of everybody, that God has said in twenty twenty three you will not fail, you will not go down. And whilst you are saying that, you are putting pressure on His integrity, fechful and true, allelujah. Genesis twenty one from verse one and two. Who find somewhere to. Pray Genesis twenty one one and two, someone who believes God. I want you to read this. As loud as you can one to read and the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did onto Sarah. Stop stop, stop, don't rush. You're going to replace Sarah with your name. And hold on, hold on. Something in your life needs to hear this confession. Now, are you ready? Now? One to go. And the Lord visited Joshua Salman as he has said, and the Lord did unto Joshua Salman. Hallelujah. Listen, listen, listen. God never does as you want. God never does as you wish. He only does what he says. So the only way to get him to do is to get him to say. God is bound to his word that even if God wants to move this way, he has to check whether he has said that movement should happen this way. So the only way to see the power of God is. To bring the word. That is why he matched the quality faithful and true. And he said that save, faithful and true. Is also the word of God. In other words, when the Bible says. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, they say so simply because they want God to do so, and they are not saying what they want. They are saying what he said that is consistent with what he wants, so it will look like God is answering you, But he's really answering himself. It is only that the person who said it is you, so it will look like your answer. And the Lord visited Sarah, not as she desired, not as she cried. He only visited her as he had said. And he did unto Sarah as he has spoken. The Lord visited the man of God as he has said. The Lord visited the family as he has The Lord didn't to the business man, as he has spoken. Don't expect it doing if you cannot show me what he has said. The basis for the doing of God in your life is a rich capture and the believing of what he has said. Allelujah. Do you believe this? Many years ago I read this scripture Deteronomy twenty eighth and verse one, and I saw that it said you will be exalted above all the nations of the earth. I was in one room, but I believed it because the person who spoke is called faithful and true. The dynamics of how it will happen is none of your business, the Bible says, just as you do not know the way of the wind, know how bones are formed in the womb of Her that is with child. So also you do not know the way of Lord. There are times you will not see wind. There are times you will not see rain. Yet the valley shall be filled with water. Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen. If you understand this revelation and you'll stay with God to allow it sink into your spirit, your life will become a mother, first to yourself and then to all around you. Hallelujah. So the Bible is. Full of the speakings of God, this Bible that you hold, and the ministry of the Holy Spirit to help you understand the things that He has said. Hallelujah. If he has called you blessed, you are blessed. If he has called you favored, you are favored. If he has called you lifted. Now, when you understand He's in integrity and you understand his ability, are we together? It now gives you the basis to obey, because faith. In one word, is obedience. Performance is not just at the instance of God saying it. Performance in your life is at the instance of your. Obeying what He has said. There is no doubt that God can do what you may never see his doings in your life until your obedience connects to his integrity, connect to his ability. Faith in one word, is obedience saying. What he has said, but in addition to that, obeying the conditions that are connected to what he has said. This is now where you begin to come to the realm of covenant. Who hopefully deal with that tomorrow. Because you see, there are three levels by which men can operate with the realm of the Spirit. That includes God, but any operates with the realm of the Spirit. The least level of operation is called emotions. You can operate with your world and with the realm of the Spirit from the realm of emotions. The trouble with emotions is that they vacillate, so it is the weakest platform for relating with anybody or anything. Are we together now I can say I will give you one million narre because I was so excited yesterday. Then somebody will say a pray for and you come to moro and I said, look, I'm not in the mood to talk. Emotions is the weakest basis for relationship between any two people. The second level, higher than emotion, is called reason, which is based on logic. So you are constrained to a model's operandi that is now higher than your emotions. Are we together? But even at that logic can fail you. The highest platform for relationships. When God wants to take her any man and anything, he operates on a remp called covenant. Because covenant is non emotional. Covenant is beyond logic. Are we together now? So, anything that God takes serious, he connects a covenant relationship to it. Covenant. If you meet a lawyer and says, sign, I will pay the school fees of this boy till university. You have signed that document. It does not matter whether the boy tells you you are stupid. You may be angry, but there is something that is binding and accepts you want to default on your integrity and then your ability? Are we together now? So? The Bible tells us listen carefully. It says, my covenant. Will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone forth out of my mouth? He does not just do that for your sake. He does it for his namesake. Another word correcility, reputation. Are we together now? Yes? Because his name God does not just protect his people, He also protects his name. It says, oh Lord, our God, how excellent is your name. Standing here tonight are people who are trusting to see the manifest power of God in their lives. Standing here tonight are people who are trusting God to turn all kinds of negative situations in their lives. And listen, ladies and gentlemen, with all humility, I can tell you I know what God can do with men who take him serious. I know what God can do with men who believe him. That He can turn your life into a sign and a wonder, that your life becomes a living epistle. You become a continuation of someone's Bible study. Your life becomes a compendium of possibilities that people look at your life and say, and God, go this file with men, they said, these are a day that. Turned the world upside down. But all of that, it does not happen just because of your pedigree. It does not happen just because of who you are, your name, whatever it is. It happens because you have come to a point of understanding. You have outsourced a superior orientation that the world of God is portent because He. Is faithful and true, faithful. The rider upon the horse and true. If it tells you I am coming to you to visit you. He told Abraham that God's people, the nation of Israel, will get into captivity and it will be for a period of four hundred years. And even though there was delay, I always found out why thirty years was added. Do you know why it was added? I believe that that time was added because of the lapse in preparing the vessel who will be the deliverer, not because of God's commitment. Because God will have to work. With the will of the person who he will use as a deliverer. So it is possible God can tell you that in January I will lift you, and the lifting comes November. It is not because God is slack. It is because your participatory role prolonged that situation up until your obedience was complete. So the day your obedience is complete is the date of your manifestation. When God speaks, every day is today. It is up to your obedience to make it today indeed, or to prolong it indefinitely. Eight thousand years a day before him. So if it says today, he is always right based on his calculation your miracle. If you postpone it to next year, it is still today in the mind of God. But the day your obedience is complete, that is the day manifestation happens. Are we together now? Now, there are three things I want you to leave this place with. Number one is that God desires to be known. God desires to be known. Listen. Most people do not press for encounter. They just press for verses in the Bible. As wonderful as that is, they will only they become empty historic materials with no power and potency to change you away together. You can read about me by following or reading my book, but you have to encounter me. All of the people who wrote what we call the Bible today, they wrote based. On your encounters. Their confidence was based on your encounters. Bible faith is not just based on recitation. Bible faith is based on an encounter with God, who is faithful and true, the one who has integrity, and the one who has all power. One story, and. Who pray my apologists for taking your time, listen carefully. Years ago I had a vision pastor. My eyes were opened and I saw like a giant door, like an ancient gate. And that gate was made of smaller doors, you know how a post office that you see those small small boxes, Yes, And I noticed that it was opening and closing all of them. They were opening and closing, and on every one of the tiny boxes were a scripture written, and it to open and then lights will come out, and then it to close. And I was wondering what kind of vision this was, And the Spirit of God began to teach me that every one of those scriptures have the power components attached to them, that the day you truly understand the revelation behind the scripture, the lights that comes out of it is the grace for performance. So every time you have a scripture that you have not received the light component, you may keep saying it as important as that is. You may keep, you know, just writing it and just saying I am believing it, but it will never find performance in your life until you truly believe it the lights that is part of it. In Act chapter four and verse thirty three, the Bible says, and with great power gave the apostle's weakness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And he says, great grace. Was upon them all, with great power, great power. They believe what he said. And he said, no, I will not only send you with a word and a message. There is a power component tarry in Jerusalem. You know the message, you know what. To tell people, but you need the power component to defend your speakings. Allelujah, Listen to me the reason and why a man of God will speak over your life and things begin to change, and respectfully speaking another man who speak, and you will still say amen to both and nothing will happen. It's not just that your amen is not loud enough. It is that many times we speak from the standpoint of our spiritual orientation. Are we together now? Your understanding is the trigger that releases the power of God. If you speak from a standpoint of ignorance or religion, you will only be making an empty noise with no potency. God designed the Kingdom to operate such that the power of God is released at the point of understanding. It takes more than desire to command power. It takes more than desire to command possibilities. You must take our time and invest in having a genuine encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ. You understand all of these dynamics from that standpoint. God never spoke until. The spirit of revelation began to hover. Most times we speak without the spirit being there. God himself was patient until the spirit over round. Then he spoke, and. God said, in the presence of the spirit and their wors, you don't just say because you found it as powerful as that is you're saying has power when it comes from the standpoint of revelation. Most believers, therefore, our bankruptcy of seeing the power and the possibilities of God, the inability to command genuine, consistent, ever increasing results in our lives, is not a reflection of God's inability. Is that we have not paid the price to label in the spirit, to have genuine encounters that now make the world of God puttend upon our lips and in our lives. Let God be true and every man a liar. That means, if my life and your life does not capture certain dimensions of different possibilities, it does not change the fact that God is almighty. It does not change the fact that God can do all things. But to see those all things work in your life, you must press for the revelation of Him. Who is faithful and true. I'm rapping up. Look at me. I do not know any man in a modern world today that keeps all his money cash in his house. Are we together you drop your money with the bank. Your money is with the bank right now. Many of you you have never seen the GMD or the CEO of that bank, and yet you can keep your money and keep adding to it. Do you know why? Because you have come to a point where you have been convinced. That that bank has integrity. Are we together? They have used your track record plus marketing to let you know that your money is safe with them, and you have tested it by going to the ATM and when you withdrew your ten thousand, it came out. You did it again, it came out. Are we together? They tested their own ability and created a system to limit your daily withdrawal so that they don't disappoint you. Are we together now? Is someone learning now? The day you go and use the ATM and it does not bring money, you have the right to go into the bank because the bank is not the ATM. The ATM is just an expression of the bank. You have confidence that you can enter the bank and you will not be denied access. Are we learning now? So you enter the bank with confidence and then. You tell them I have five million narra here the day you say I want it and they tell you stories what will happen. There is a compromise on integrity, which most likely may be a reflection of a compromise in their ability, and very quickly you may want to withdraw your money, or sue them, or do whatever it is. I'm using banking to help you understand how we work with God. It is. It's amazing that some of you have not withdrawn certain amounts for decades. It's been in that bank, yet you have never called it the bank's money. It is your money, but it is not with you. That is how powerful integrity can work for a man. You'll go to bed and you never afraid, regardless what you hear. My money is safe and safe with the bank. My money is safe and safe with the bank because when you need to withdraw twenty thousand and Narra say, you stay at the ATM and then you withdraw, or you give an instruction and. It is obeyed. Immediately, listen to me. The reason why most people do not believe God is because they have tried to put to work what the Word says should happen or what should be in their lives, and they have been disappointed again and again. Now they will not say it to the open. They will still speak Christian languages, but deep within their hearts they've come to an. Uncomfortable conclusion that this thing bad is just church. But in truth it does not work. So when you say I want to pray for the sick, the sick who stands, they don't expect to be healed. Honestly, they hope they will be healed. They will be surprised if they are. Oh, I want to speak over someone who is trusting God for a change of story. What most people call fate is actually hope. That is usually the final point of squeezing out from an atmosphere of despair. But let me tell you the truth Bible fate is predicated upon your knowledge of who God is. You can stand with certainty that looks like pride to say I know God will do this. I know that by the end of this year I will go from glory to glory, because I have found out in scripture that the Bible says the path of the jost is as a shining light that shines brighter and brighter. Even onto the perfect day. We're going to pray, and I want. You to cry out from your heart, clean me a revelation, give me a revelation of your name as faithful and true, a revelation of your integrity, a revelation of your ability. If someone praying a revelation of your integrity, the times that we live in will not afford you to be a casual Christian. You will find out eventually that your Christian experience will. Only lead to frustration. Please pray. I believe that this conference was put to raise believers that command genuine results, not once in a wild results, not assumed results, not exaggerated results. Genuine results, ever increasing consistent, because you are dealing with the God that is verifiable. He is accurate, He is consistent, faithful and true to lead me through ministry, faithful and true to help me raise my children, faithful and true to deliver me from every oppression of darkness, Faithful and true to see to it that I enjoy the blessings of the Lord all the days of my life. Someone praying one minute. I receive grace. I receive grace. I receive grace to catch genuinely a revelation of Him as faithful and true. Allelujah. Last prayer. Point from this understanding, I want you to cause everything that is not in line. With God's word. A were together now, he said, I profess sight as I was commanded, and there was a sound. You're going to speak. Be the priest of your life for the next one minute. I like you to stand with understanding that He has made us onto our God, kings and priests, and the Bible declares that will reign in this life. Begin to pray and declare over everything that must come into divine alignment in someone praying, make decrease by the power of the Holy Spirit, a new dimension in ministry. The Lord is my life and my salvation. In the name of Jesus Christ, I access speed. I accept hell from heaven. In the name of Jesus Christ. Declare by the Spirit. Declare by the Spirit. Declare by the Spirit. I have the mind of Christ. In the Mighty name of Jesus Christ. Unbelief is far from my life. By the power of the Holy Spirit, that which God has said to me, he will make it good. He will bring his word to pass. In the name of Jesus He is faithful and. He is true. Allelujah. Let me declare over your. Life for tonight in the name of Jesus Christ. I stand in faith with the grace upon. The Angel in this house, alongside every vessel. Of God in this place. And I decree and declare over someone that the season of shame and the season. Of reproach comes to one end. I decree and declare, like the prophet said over Samia. Maybe not for everybody, but for someone who is believing. By this time tomorrow, I decree and return with strange testimonies. Return with strange testimonies. Return with strange testimonies in the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Bible says, the world is quick and powerful. May these two dimensions speak in your life. May the word brings speed to your life. May the work powerful in your life. In the name of Jesus Christ. Finally, I decree and declare whatever has made you cry. You came to this conference crying, saying, Lord, this is the midst of the year. Visit me. May the God of our salvation, even the one who is called faithful and true, may he visit you supernaturally in the mighty and much less name of Jesus Christ. With your hands to Jesus gave him all the praise