LET THERE BE LIGHT

It is my joy and my honor to be here, and I want to thank the leadership of the Arts CG. Thank you so much for this honor. I want to specially thank our mother here present. Let's give up a big big God bless your mother. Thank you and our Father. Thanks to every pastor. Thank you for this opportunity. In the name of Jesus Christ, can we lift our hands to Heaven and ask him for and encounter even tonight. God's method has always been his word. Lift your voice and ask him that by his word, he will appear onto you. Tonight. Someone is praying, let it be from the depth of your heart. Appear onto me. Set me on fire tonight, let me become a light even to the nation's Indeed, aleelujah a man, Please be seated, and may the Lord bless you. I want to charge our hearts tonight, teaching along the theme, I trust that the word of God will bless our hearts in no small way. And I also pray that whilst you listen, that the power of God will rest upon you, and that everything that represents darkness in your life will give way. In the name of Jesus. For the Book of John chapter one, verse five says, the light shine it in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not, Allelujah. Matthew chapter five. I'll begin my reading from verse thirteen Matthew Chapter five. This is Jesus teaching what we know theologically to be the beatitude. So he's teaching them the principles of the kingdom. And when he gets to verse thirteen Matthew five, he says, ye are the salt of the earth. Allelujah. And he said, if the salt has lost its saltiness or its several where which shall it be salted? He said, it is good for nothing except to be thrown down and to be trodden under foot of men. Then he says, ye are the light of the world. He says, a city that is set on a heel that cannot be hidden, neither do men light a lamp, it says, and put it under a bushel, But that they put it on a lamp stand or a candlestick, and then it gives light to all who are in the room. Then he leaves us with a very strong instruction verse sixteen. He says, let your light the word, let their means permit allow, do not restrict let your light so shine before men. He says that they they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father with in heaven. Now, from a theological standpoint, believers are classified two fold. Please listen. Theologically speaking, the Bible classifies believer us number one based on identity and then number two based on function. Believer us are classified. Based on identity, so we have names like heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ. Jesus says, I am the. Vine, and ye are the branches you find that in John fifteen are we together? Now the Bible calls us the righteousness of God in Christ. These are all descriptions attempting to show our oneness with Christ as. A result of salvation. So believers are classified based on identification. But the second is classification based on function. Because remember, man was created in the image of God and the likeness of God. The image of God meaning his character, his glory, his likeness means to function like him, allelujah. And then classification based on function. Now the Bible begins to use words like light, words like salt, words like kings, words like priests, words like ambassadors. These are all active words that demand responsibility and action. Are we together now? And so he says in Matthew chapter five, that you are the salt of the earth. Now, salt essentially has two functions, as we generally know. Number one, it is to add taste and value. Allelujah. And it says you are that salt. And did you know that it is never too late to add salt in any male? There are ingredients that when you miss the timing, you've ruined that male, but not salt. Even if the food is already served, it is not too late to add salt. Allelujah. So he says you are the salt of the earth. The second assignment of salt is to preserve. It was an ancient strategy that was used to preserve things before advancement in technology opened up more doors for a more superior ways of advancement. He says you are the salt of the earth. Then he says you are the light of the world. He likens the believer. To a city that is set on a heel that cannot be hidden. In other words, visibility is the destiny of every believer. That on no account should any believer be locked up in mediocrity, be locked up in defeat. He says, you are a city, not like a city, a city that is set on an heel that cannot be hidden. Then it says, neither do men light a lamp. Provided that lamp is lit, it is not permitted to be under. Are we together now? It is that it is not proper to light a lamp and put it under. When you light a candle and put it under, it. Will become destructive. Am I right? Because it sustains the quality to burn. It will burn everything above it, because it is supposed to be above. So anything that is above that candle, it interprets it as an enemy. Even if it's your bed or your table, it begins to burn it. So the character of a candle is not supposed to be under that, provided there is light on that candle, it must be above. Does that look like what the Bible say about you, that you will be above only and not beneath? Shout aloud, amen. So it says, neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but that that lamp is put on a lamp. Stand, and that it gives light to everyone in the room. He says, in that simlitude, having this understanding, let your light, So shine before men. God wants them to see your good deeds, and by it they will glorify your father in heaven. Now it is important, ladies and gentlemen, to understand that your results are profiting for the kingdom. It's important to know that when believers bear fruit, that is how Jesus is glorified. In John chapter fifteen, when you begin to read from verse eight, the Bible says, herein is our father glorified when you bear much fruit, So shall you be my disciples. Fifteen and verse sixteen of the Saint John. It says, you have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bear fruits. Is that true? And it says that this fruit should abide or remain. So he desires that we go and we bear food. Jesus is glorified when his children are glorified. John chapter seventeen and verse one, the Bible says, Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and he prayed this prayer. He said, Father, the hour is come. He says, glorify thy son, that thy son may glorify thee Galatians one and verse twenty four. The Bible says, and they glorified God in me. God can be glorified in a man. If that man is you, shout aloud. Amen. That means a man. Can become a reason for God to be glorified across a territory. That when people look at you. And they see the excellency of the workings of the Spirit in your life, the kind and the quality of results that come from your Christian experience, it is able to bath glory that men will look at such an individual and say, indeed, God is good. May that be your testimony that from tonight, the results that begin to unfold from your life, they will cause that your life becomes a living epistle in the name of Jesus Christ. Efficient chapter two and verse ten. Paul says, it says we are his work manship. You know what that means. Workmanship means the tools that an artist or whoever uses. So if you're a. Carpenter, your workmanship talks of the hammer, the chisel, and all you need. The Bible says we are his workmanship. That means every time God wants to manifest the dimension of. His glory, the tools that he will use. Amen, you and I, we are his workmanship, Paul says. He says, created in Christ Jesus onto good walks, is that in your bible, which God had fore ordained that we should work him. That means God is not wondering what to do with your life and my life. That there is a prophetic script that has been written. Whether you work in that reality or not is a different thing altogether, but that it is in your prophetic destiny to be great. It is in your prophetic destiny to be the light. Do you believe that? Hallelujah? It's important you convince yourself. In blessing Abraham Genesis chapter twelve, when he called Abraham, who was at that time was an idol worshiper from all of the Childians, he began to propose certain blessings that would come upon him, and he said, I will bless you. I will make your name great. I will bless them that bless you. He that curses you, I will curse, it says, And in the shall all the families of the earth be blessed. That was a blessing onto Abraham. Galatians three twenty nine now says, if ye be Christ, it says, then I ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. That means everything he told Abraham is valid for you today through Christ. Hallelujah. Influence is the destiny of every believer. In Christ Genesis seventeen and verse six, it says, I will. Make you exceeding fruitful. It says that our kings will come out of you, nobles, out of your loins. He began to profess high that you are not supposed to be small. I'm showing you all these scriptures to convince you once and for all that the destiny of greatness is your heritage. In Christ, Deuteronomy, chapter twenty eight, from verse one, it says, if thou shalt diligently happen to the voice of the Lord to do and to observe all that I command you this day, that you shall be exalted above all the nations of the earth. And then he says, this blessing shall come upon you and overtake you. Then he begins to list the blessings. My question is, do you believe, because the Bible says, blessed is she that believes? For onto her there shall be a performance of the things that were spoken of the Lord. Say after me, I am the head and not the tale. Say I am a lights to the nations. Hallelujah. If you're getting blessed already, shout a loud amen. In Isaiah chapter eight and verse eighteen. Isaiah eight and verse eighteen, very powerful scripture. It says, I am the children. Oh, we have it projected here. I am the children whom the Lord has given me. That means this blessing is not just an individual. A family can step into it. That I and the children that the Lord has given me. We are for signs, and for one does in Israel look at me? Please? Is signe is a pointer. When you are headed a location. The moment you begin to see signs, they tell you are close to that location. That means your life should point men from any direction they are coming from. It should lead them to Jesus. Your life becomes a sign and then a wonder. May that be your testimony in the name of Jesus Christ. Add Chapter four and verse starty three. The Bible says, and with great power give the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it says great grace was upon them all. Great grace was upon them all. In other words, if my life and your life becomes barring of glory, barring of results, there is a dimension of glory. We are robbing God from receiving on earth if your life does not communicate excellence and victory and glory. This is why I know that everything that is not of God that has followed your life to this point. In the name of Jesus, standing upon the grace of our Father, I am declaring to you, by the power that raised Christ from the dead, that it leaves you once and for all. Let me give us three keys tonight that will help any man, and that includes you, to become a light, indeed, a light in the United States, a light across the nations. There are no prejudices and there are no biases. With God. The Kingdom operates based on patterns, and if you understand the patterns that are located for every result, you will command that result. Because the Bible says righteousness and justice are the foundations of His strawn, and it says the same Lord is reach on to all. You see, there are certain blessings in the Kingdom that the Bible will say he gave on to some. But when it has to do with victory and exaltation. It is the destiny of all men. We have been raised up with Christ, it says, and we have been made to sit at his right hand, that place. Of glory far above. And it begins to list them principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but even in the world to come. Allelujah. Three keys very quickly, and I want you to please pay attention as we discuss these keys. These are the keys that have turned ordinary men to become signs and wonders, ordinary men to become light, beacons of light to their communities in business, light in ministry, light in politics and governance, light in career, light in family. Regardless the geography of your. Assignment, if you understand, believe, and practice these principles that you are about to learn, there will be no limitation to your rise. Here. Isaiah chapter sixty and verse one says Arise, it says shine. It says, for your light is come. Notice. It never says arise and shine because you are tired of sitting down. In other words, time will not change any situation. It takes an active participation of light. Arise, Shine, It says, for thy light is come amplified, says, arise from the depression and the prostration that circumstances have kept you. It says, rise to a new light. Then it says, for your light is come. It says, and the glory of the Lord is reason upon you. Allelujah. Then it says, for darkness shall cover the earth is the Hebrew word to who confusion and chaos, the same darkness we see in Jenet chapter one and verse two. For darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people. It says that but upon you that light would rise. First three, I love First three, it says, gentiles shall come. You will not have to look for them. They will come. Gentiles shall come not to you. Gentiles will not come to you. They will come to your lights. That means, if you are not. Carrying lights, there is no reason why they should come to you. Gentiles will come to your light. And then the kings to the brightness of your rising. Gentiles. For someone, as a result of these conference, men you did not expect. They will hear about you. They will hear about the workings of the spirit. I'm prophesigned to you by the Spirit of the Living God. Strangers will call you and say, I have heard that your God is alive. I have heard that your God here. I have heard that your God gives children to the barry. I have heard that your God can't turn a man's life around. Show me that God. Listen down. The Bible says where the cacasis are. He says, there the eagles will gather. Allelujah. Was it not John Wesley who said, set yourself on fire? And it says the whole world will come to watch you burn. When there was a burning bush, provide that there was light on fire. Moses said, I will turn aside when you become a light, you become too notable to be ignored. I will turn aside and see this great sight. And when God saw that you have turned aside, he said, Moses, now I have used lights to get your attention. Take off your shoes from where thou still less. It's holy ground number one. The first key that can cause any believer to become the light to manifest as light is called an experience with God. Please write it down. The first biblical requirement to becoming a light, indeed, is to have an experience with God. The God you experience is the God you reveal to your world. The God you experience is the God you reveal to your world. The God you experience is the God you reveal. To your world. Allelujah. In Daniel chapter eleven and verse thirty two, Let's hurry for time Daniel eleven and verse thirty two, the bee part says both the people that do know their God. Notice it says their god God, the air God, whatever that means to him. The people that do know they are God. They shall be strong upon the strength of that knowledge, and they shall do exploits, not talk exploits. Exploits is not a discussion, it's a doing. The people that do know their God, they shall be strong capacity stamina, and they shall do exploits. Allelujah. An experience with God, I wrote. Here is the basis for your confidence in this kingdom. The believer's confidence is derived from his experience with God. When you see men and women stand with audacity and face life without fear, it is not because they are not human. It's because they have outsourced confidence from an experience that is greater than any circumstance. Why will you share when you have met the bonny bush who is Pharaoh. When you have met the God of the Bible, listen, share is proof that there is need for a higher encounter in your life, because the character of encounters, among the many things they produce, is that they he wrote here, confidence is not just He's not just a mechanical manifestation of a bold face. No. No, When you have seen the Lord, when you have encountered the Lord, when he speaks to you through his word and says you are the head, no matter what else sells you at the tail, you don't even worry because he has spoken. I have spoken once and twice. Have you heard that power belongs to God? Allelujah. So when God says I am lifting you and men say you will not rise, you watch them in shock and wonder, hoping they get to learn a lesson once again that there is a God that rules in the affairs of men. Listen, believe us. We are not a weak and a beggarly people. Our weaknesscessary report card is a proof that we have not encountered the God of the Bible. Read your Bible and watch ordinary men who had transited to a bold version of them at the instance of their encounters a stamara called Moses. With no leadership ability whatsoever, he meets the God of the Bible and receives a mandate. And with that boldness he stands before Pharaoh. He says, I came with a message. Let my people go. They have been for thirty four hundred and thirty years, the longevity of the captivity notwithstanding, I have come to advocate their exodus. A young boy called Gideon, who was hiding the least in his father's house. As soon as he encountered a mighty God, is you are a mighty man or fellow? He did not call him and describe him by his shear. Then he says, God, in this your might, something has come upon your spirit. And the Bible says, give you on blue trumpet, and tatty three thousand. People show up. When men encounter God, they start behaving like God. When men encounter God, they start behaving like God. How do I know that? The Bible says, as we. Behold him, we are changed into the same image we are looking at. It says, now the Lord is that spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. Then he says, we all with unveiled face beholding him as in a mirror. We are changed. You are changed to what you are beholding. When you behold weakness, you will become weakness. When you behold defeat, you will become defeating. Are we together the righteous as bold as a lion? Is that not what the Bible says. I'm not talking of destructive boldness that leads to law and order. I'm talking of confidence that is derived from. Knowing that He stands behind you like a mighty, terrible one. Allelujah. It is true that when God has vowed to lift a man up, war, betides the man who stands your way. Who can stand against the Lord? No one care, No one who can stand against sacking, no one care. Oh, victory belongs to Jesus. Hallelujah. Say in the name of Jesus, I am bold. I reject fear. Say it, I reject fear. Open your mouth in one minute and pray. I reject the spirit of fear, the fear of the future, the fel of my destiny, the film of my children, making it for God that's not given me the spirit of fear, but of love, of power and of his sound mind. Someone is praying, I reject fear. I reject fear, I say, students, pray, I reject fear. It's been five years without a child, but I reject fear. Ten years without a job, but I reject fear. Allelujah, allelujah, Please be. Seated an experience with God. Please listen to me. An experience with God will demand hunger and first. You are never going to find God if you are casual about him. It takes a desperation that is greater than looking for money, a desperation that is greater than looking for fame, a desperation that is greater. Than looking for titles. Jeremiah twenty nine and verse thirteen says, and ye shall seek me and find me only when you seek Me with all your heart, When you seek God as an extra advantage to be added to your life, after all you already have. Many more things. You will never find God that way. His jealousy demands that you seek Him above everything. If you're a man of God, here, respectfulist, we can let me backon on you to listen, because every time ministry demands an encounter beyond oratory, situations and circumstances will ask you who sent you. The sicknesses will ask you who sent you when you say the hell, don't you think Satan will just quietly go ah ah. They did not say who is the king of glory? When he said lift top your head, the death replied back. And then there was an answer, the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Hallelujah. The miraculous flows from a place of genuine hunger. Lord, I need you more than a job. I need you more than children. You are my life. You are not just a religious advantage to my life. I have learned the value of pursuing your presence. These are the kinds of people who will become light to the nations. Men and women who through hunger, they have used the currency of hunger to buy an encounter. Because hunger is a currency, you can use it to buy an encounter. In Genesis chapter thirty two, Jacob was so hungry for an encounter. The Bible says, when he was alone, then came this man. Ah, I send such a strong annointing in this place, such a strong annointing in this place, such a strong anointing. I believe that the Holy Spirit is doing something supernatural, supernatural, supernatural in someone's life. I believe that healings are. Happening as you are listening, in the name of Jesus, the Son of the Living God. The Bible says, while Peter yet speak these things, it says, the Holy Ghost fell on all day that hurt him. Allelujah, listen. Let me encourage you. I know that we live in a busy world today, and I know that responsibility demands that we are occupied trying to make ends meet. But let me bring you a word of encouragement. It says. Accept. The Lord builds a house, They labor in vain that build it. Accept. The Lord watches over a city. My Bible, I don't know about yours. My Bible says, the watchmen watch it. But in vain. It says. It is vain to wake up in the morning and to sleep late at night, only to eat the bread of sorrow. It says, But he giveth his beloved sleeve. Hear me, One counsel of the spirit in the place of encounter can redefine. The next twenty years of your life. We need to reawaken a generation to understand the value of his presence. The presence of God. And the pursuit of spiritual things is not an interruption to your becoming great. It is the reason why you become great. A great job mine knows God is only a circle of frustration coming intellectual prowess, Mine not an encounter. Eventually you will know. That the horse can be prepared for battle, but in truth, safety is of the Lord. By this first point, already I'm charging someone's heart that you need to be angry at the fact that other things that taken in the place of God in your life, and by this conference begin to redefine your priorities, the place of prayer, the place of the world, the place of fellowship, that when people say, are you not busy running around, you will tell them I have learned that running around without God will only waste my energy. I'd rather stay and ask Him should I pursue? Should I pursue? And one answer from His Majesty can say, pursue and overtake and without fail recover all. Allelujah. The Bible mandates that the believer walks sircumspectly. The word circumspect means accurately, because the unit of destiny is time. Whatever you give your time to, you are giving a portion of your life and your destiny to so You do not have the time to keep guessing and shadow boxing your life, only to find out after fifteen years you were in the wrong direction, then return back again. The Bible says that template is not a victorious template. This is why He gave us the Holy Spirit. This is why encounters our platforms for accuracy. With precision, you can know the next direction. For there is a way that seemed right onto a man, the Bible says. But the end thereof are the ways of death. Number two, please be seated. Theater Ali shaan de caparous theater M. I just saw like a veil, a veil, this is what I'm saying, A veil just lifted from someone. In the name of Jesus. I profess high over someone, that veil that has covered your glory so that no man can see Christ revealed in the name that is above all names. We hear that veil now, in the name of Jesus. We hear that fail now, that fail in your business, that fail in your family, that fail in your ministry. In the name of Jesus Christ. I hope you believe what you are hearing. Ladies and gentlemen, please hear me. There are men who here, God too much to give you conningly devised fables. The things that you hear, by the grace of God, are the things we have seen, the things we have heard, and by grace, the things that our hands have handled, even of the world of life. Number two, The second key to being a light, even a light to the nations, is faith. The law of faith. Faith is a prerequcite for manifesting the glory of God. What is faith? The name given to the action of obedience you take that is a reflex of your conviction. The name given to the action, not the believing. The believing is not faith. The action you take to support that believing is what the Bible calls faith. I am believing God, correct, but it's still a journey. You've not manifested faith. Faith is the name, I repeat, please, given to the action. We have a lovely protocol. People stationed across this beautiful auditorium, imagine with me for a moment that I called on one of them, Say the gentleman in front, and I say, sir, come, and he keeps saying I Am coming, and it does not come. Has he obeyed? Is he manifesting faith? So there are many people who keep saying my life is great, but they keep saying it in disobedience, and they keep recycling disappointments forever. Faith in one word is obedience. Faith in one word is obedience. No matter what you do that you call faith, if it does not call me nates to obedience, it is. Not Bible faith. God is only committed at the point of obedience. If it be dow bid. Me come, He said, come, and Peter began to walk. He was not working on water. You can't work on water. He was working on the word of God. The Word of God was defending him while he was working. It looked like he was working on water. You try working on water and see what happens. It couldn't have been water. He was working on the world. Allelujah. So you want the glory of God, for instance, to be revealed in your finances, just claiming the promises will leave you in disappointment. You have to. Understand the principles that God has put and obtained grace to work in keeping. Let me give you a few of them. Number one is called the law of diligence. He says that a diligent and shall be made fat. So if you are not diligent, you are going to be poor. It's as simple as that. Number two. He says, there is he that's cutterat, and yet withhold it more than his meat there is heat. And then he tends to poverty. Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Second Corinthians eight and verse nine, that even though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, that ye to his poverty might be rich. Second Corinthians, Chapter nine. From verse six, he says this, I say, he that sowed sparingly, he shall read sparingly. He that sowed bountifully, he shall reap bountifully. He says, every man as he has proposed in his heart, So let him give. Is that true, not grudgingly or of necessity, For God loves a cheerful giver. Verse nine says verse eight. Now he says, and God is able to make all grace a bound towards you, so that ye, having soiency in all things, that you will have bound to. Every good work. These are principles. So the believer who wants to see the glory of God revealed in his finances will not only claim the promises, but find the responsibility component of those promises, and now obtain grace to begin to work in keeping with them. I repeat one more time that faith is obedience. For instance, the Bible says the keys that control longevity. Number one, It says, I said before your life and death, blessing and cursing, and I advise that you choose life. How do you choose life? Number one by verbalizing it. Number two by working and keeping with the principles that lead to life. Then number two he says, honor your father and your mother in the Lord. It says that you may live long, and that it shall be well with you. So as you honor your parents, both physical and spiritual, you are programming longevity. Number three says I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord. That means, if you are alive and you are not declaring the works of the Lord, you do not qualify for another life. That your longevity is predicated upon your usefulness to the kingdom. If your life becomes such a plus to the kingdom, God's jealousy defends you that this kind of vessel. Needs to live long. Allelujah, He said, he suffered no man to do them wrong. He reproved kings for their sake, saying, touch not my anointed, and do my prophet no harm. Faith. It's important that we learn to walk by faith. And I hope you know that when it has to do it faith, you cannot take the Word of God out, because the Word of God is the basis for faith. At Chapter twenty and verse thirty two. And now, brethren, he says, I commend you to God and to the world of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among them that are scientified. John one and verse one. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Verse two says the same was in the beginning with God. These three says that by him or through him, all things were made, and without him was not anything made that was made. That means outside of the world nothing can be made. The Word of God is the maker, the maker of destinies, the maker of all kinds of good things. When you reject the word of God, and you do not have an appetite for the Word of God, there is no possibility for faith to be built in you. And according to scripture, there are four levels of faith. You may just write for your understanding, and then I talk about the last point and we wrap up. Number one. There is a realm of no faith, zero faith. It is possible that a man can have zero faith, no faith. That means no kingdom results whatsoever. Number two lead to faith, number three, great faith, number. Four exceeding great faith. All these four levels we are seen in the life and the ministry of Jesus. No faith lee to faith, great faith, exceeding great faith. So when our Father and the Lord stands here and says, can I bless you? And it says, may God bless you, and you begin to hear testimonies, I guarantee you those faith levels are like currency. One thousand dollars cannot buy a house of a million dollars. Am I right on that? So if your faith for use of expression, is just a thousand dollars worth, and what you want to purchase is ten million dollars worth, you will have to. Grow your faith. Many believers are claiming things and dimensions that a faith level cannot purchase. Allelujah. So the Bible says. Faith by hearing, hearing, hearing, hearing, and now. You grow to a realm of exceeding great faith. And you can command supernatural possibilities in the kingdom that leaves you becoming inexperience a light. Number three with someone learning tonight. So the first is an experience with God. The second is your faith, robust faith that is able to bring the manifestation of the Word of God to you. Number three. The third key that is responsible for becoming the light in experience is called the anointing. The anointing, Thank you Jesus. Jesus emphatically haven't mentored the disciples for a period of three and a half years. He emphatically forbade them from living until they were empowered. You would think that having the correct information was enough for them to be witnesses. He said, Tarry, I give you a precaution. If you live with just information, you will be disappointed. There is an engracing that must come to empower what you know. Tarry until he. Be endal with power. Then, the Bible says in Acts chapter one and verse eight, from verse seven, the disciples when Jesus rose again, you know the story, he gathered them and was together with them for a period of forty days, and then ten days after I was pentecostal, when the Holy Spirit came up on them, and they said, will you at this time restore the nation of Israel? He said, it is not for you to know the times that the Father has put within his care. Verse eight now says, but ye shall receive power after that the Holy goosis come upon you. And he says that power will make you weaknesses another expression for light. A weakness is a valid data of a claim. It says, it shall make you weaknesses in Jerusalem, he says, in Judea, Samiria, and to the outmost part of the earth. So they obeyed faith, and they waited patiently. At chapter two and verse one, he says, now, when the day of Pentecost was fully come, Heaven obeyed his voice and tarried. The Bible says they were together in one accord. Suddenly, ah, like it to happen to someone this night, like it to happen to someone this week. Suddenly, suddenly there was a sound from heaven came and filled the room, and the Bible says they saw cloven tongues as of fire. It came and rested upon every one of them. They were filled with the holy gooes and began to speak in other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance. The result of that encounter three thousand people coming to Jesus. When Peter was done with them teaching them, he said, this is that, and he began from Prophet Joel down to David, and then to the ministry of Jesus. He says, let it be known on to you that the same Jesus whom you have crucified. Has now been exalted as Lord and Christ. Scripture records that they were caught to the heart, and they said, men and brethren, what do we do? It says, repent for. The remission of your sins, and then you shall receive this promise for the promises onto you to your children, your children's children. Even as many as the Lord your God will call three thousand people poor as a result of empowerment. They never had that kind of result when he sent them two by two, When he sent them seven by seven, they only came and said, demons were subject towards in your name. But nobody could be translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of his dear son. But when the Holy Spirit came with. That power, three thousand people. You know what it means for three thousand souls to be open to receive Jesus. And that began the journey. In that chapter ten, the Salvation of the Gentiles, Peter beckoned by the spirit to come to the house of Cornelios. The Bible says, well, Peter, speak these things. The Holy goost fell upon all day that hurt him. That was where the salvation of the Gentiles began. When you ignore the anointing of the Holy Spirit, your life will never be supernatural. You will never, in truth. Be a sign and a wonder, and you will never manifest as light. Do you believe in the power of the Holy Spirit? Now, I tell you the truth. The annointing is not just for preachers. I think I said it in one of my teaching sessions that for most people, when we talk about empowerment and the annoying of the Holy Spirit, usually people who are not preachers just shut down on it and they say, no, you just leave that for pastors, And you know they're the ones who really needed I'm a businessman, what do I need the annointing for? I just need partners, I just need a policy that supports my growth. No, no, no, no, it takes power. Even wealth takes power. Is there not something called the power to get wealth? There is the wisdom to get wealth, but there is the power to get wealth. Wise men get wealth, Strong men retain wealth. It's in the Bible. Allelujah. There are two biblical ways to receive the anointing. Let me wrap up with this. You want to become the light, you want to manifest. That's light. Now watch this. The candle. That gives light has potential to continue to burn. But that candle remains burning and on footstool until you use a matchstick or whatever device to place light on it. But the moment light comes, it starts to burn, and it can burn for hours and hours, and you will think the candle should be tired. It will burn for hours. The light only stops when the candle itself dies. Am I right on that? So you are that light? Do you know? Light does not get tired? No, it is the bob that gets faulty. Light itself does not get tired. The sun that you see is older than everybody seated here. Yet the sun has never said I'm tired. I've tried, I've been shining for so long it is not in the character of light to be weak. Light does not become weak. Light does not become weary. There is a self sustaining strategy within light that. Keeps it shining. Empowerment number one. The first way we are empowered in the Kingdom is by a direct encounter from God. Very very important for us to know this, that a man can have an encounter with the God of the Bible, and from that encounter you can receive empowerment. And Chapter ten and verse thirty eight. I will always like people to read the first four verses. If we can see projected, please let's read together. Asks Chapter ten thirty eight, the first four words, first four wards, Ready one to read one more time, one more time? Who anointed Jesus? God can anoint men? How God anointed Jesus? How God anointed Solomon. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings, and the Bible would tell us that he had an encounter, and God asked him to make a wish, and he prayed for an understanding heart as against the life of his enemies. And he said, because you ask for this, I will. Give you an understanding heart, and with it will come riches, wealth, and honor as no man has had. He got up, you would think he was an not narry man, except that his life to change the excellency of wisdom, the manifestation of power. The order that followed his life. Were testaments that he had received from God and praying for someone in the name of Jesus Christ. There are dimensions of power that your destiny needs at this point, whether in business, whether in ministry, whether in family. May you have an encounter with God that translates to power in the name of Jesus Christ. When Jacob had an encounter with God, power was the result of that encounter. The impact of that power was so strong that his name was changed from Jacob the cheat and the supplanter even onto Israel Allelujah. So the first key is an encounter with God. If you desire power, the second and the final key that I would give us is true a mystery called impartation. Please write partition is a transference of grace. You can receive an impartition of power from those who truly carry that grace. When you study the parable of the ten virgins, the Bible says that the five they were all virgins, but the mistake was that all of them had the lamp, and the lamp was signifying the word of God. But a number of them did not face the issue of the ministry of the Holy Spirit and power. They did not contend for sufficient power. It took the oil for the lamp to keep burning. So for the other five when the lamp went off, the advice they received is go to them that sell and buy. That means there are those who sell. There are costodians of that oil ascarcet. As the oil looks, there are men who have it in abundance, it said, find them, take the responsible And we're so fortunate to have in our midst tonight men and women with proven graces. These are men that are coustodiance of the power of God. Let me admonish you in advance that as our mother and our father come and stand here to speak prophetic blessings. Please do not be familiar, open your heart and receive. They have proven through their lives that they are the them that you should go and buy. How do you buy? You buy with the currency of hunger, You buy with the currency of meekness, You buy with the currency of humility, You buy with the. Currency of discernment. Go to them that cell. I lack wisdom, go to them that cell with your results showing and buy. I lack favor, go to them that cell. The Bible not say follow them who true faith and patience. What is a prayer point for you? Has long been someone's manifest station. Every result is governed by graces. The house you want to buy, there are people who have bought hundreds of. Them, tens of them, there is a grace. Listen. Once the results are sustained, their sponsored by a grace. You cannot have sustainable results by luck. And I can tell you our parents in the Lord here, and this is not just some preacher trying to act political for want of world. I can tell you that your lives. Are testaments that by their covenant and your sacrifice with God, they have become themned that cell, them, that cell, them, that cell, allelujah. Nicodemus came to Jesus by night and said, Rabbi, we know that dou at a man sent from God. He says, for no man can do miracles. Accept God be with him. There are results that when you see, whether you use the lens of intellect or the lens of spirituality, you will arrive at the same conclusion. God has to be with you to produce some results. If God is not with you, there's no amount of gimmicks and manipulation. It can only go so far sustainable decades old results is proved that an annointing has come upon you. Let me stand upon your grace tonight to speak over someone in the name of Jesus, that barrenness of power, that barrenness of grace wallowing around in confusion, whereas you. Belong to a family of power. In the name of Jesus, Let grace come upon you, Let power come upon you. Let grace come upon you. Let power come upon you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Power in business, power, ministry, powai in career, in the name of Jesus. Listen down, we're wrapping up. Have about five minutes or so. Why do you need power? Because there are wicked forces that are determined that your destiny will not rise. I hope you know that the Bible. Tells us that we are of God, and the whole world lie yet in wickedness. A post of what I did not offend anybody. The condition to be attacked is that you are born once you are right here, you are candidates to an attack. What did Jesus do to be attacked? What did Moses do to be attacked? Just because Moses was born, many children lost their lives. Satan is that determined to find you. He is that determined to look for your destiny a person. I don't know why. It looks like the doors the gates of America has just been closed. I'm a sincere person. I love God, people who want to help me. But just when it's time to seal the deal, it looks like an invisible force comes. You are right, and who remain so? Except power comes into the scene. The language of victory is power. The language of victory is power. One more time, the language of victory is power. Listen Palm sixty six an US three. My Bible says, say unto God, how terrible art thou in thy works? It says, through the greatness of thy power, not the greatest of thy sampathy. Through the greatness of Thy power, shall thy enemies meets themselves? Allelujah, prays the name of the Lord. Now, very very quickly, I have the honor to make an at call. And then were set for the next session. There are people here who are truly yet to make Jesus lord of your life. Remember I told you that the foundation for being the light is a genuine encounter with Jesus Christ. I'm not talking about those who come to church, as wonderful as that is. I'm not just talking of those who have Christian names, as wonderful as that is. I'm not just talking about those who are born into Christian families, as wonderful as that is. I'm not even saying if you are a worker in church. I'm talking about a practical, functional relationship with Jesus. And you will be a very costly assumption that among these crowds of people gathered here tonight and the many more who are falling online, there has to be someone who is saying, apostle, if you will give me a chance, I want to truly make it right with Jesus. And then there's. Another group of people that I will call combined together those who are saying apostle. I recall making these decisions for Jesus, but for whatever reason, my life has gone haywire. I have drifted into all kinds of compromises. But I want to be restored home like the Prodigal song. If you belong to any one of those categories, I was standing the spirit of our Father, and make a call one to five. Wherever you are, with the boldness and the determination of an individual who truly wants to be the light, I want to backon on you too, boldly to leave your seat and come and stand right in front of the altar. Year. I don't know where you are, but I begin my call down one. Let's celebrate them as they come true. Are you celebrating salvation? Come, young and old, Come, Come, male and female. Come, Come to Jesus. The Bible says, as many who will come to him, he will in no wise cast away. Leave your friends, live, family. Come. This is a personal affair. There's room for you at the cross. Come three. I count five, and we begin to pray. Jesus has given you an opportunity to be the light, the light, indeed the light, indeed the light. Indeed, for some of you, the salvation of. Your loved ones is connected to the decision you are about to make. Four. Are you still coming a personal I want to come, but I'm ashamed. I'm afraid of my friends. Come. Do not be ashamed. Do not be afraid. Jesus beckons on you. He gives you. Life, even life ever lasted. Hallelujah. And for those who are following by way of television, by way of Internet, the Lord Jesus Christ is giving you an opportunity to make it right with him. The Bible says, as many who will come to him, keep coming. He says, you will in no wise cast away. Listen, I want you to minute from the depth of your heart as you make this decision. I'm going to to lead you to pray a prayer. You are not reciting a poem. Let this be from the depth of your heart. For the Bible says with the heart man believes onto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made onto salvation. Thank you. I salute your boldness and your courage to stand before Jesus. Yes, thank you. Now alen uya, let me make a request that you lift your right hand as a sign of surrender, high above your head, and please repeat this prayer after me, say Lord Jesus one more time. Lord Jesus, tonight I have heard your word. I believe that you are the son of God. I believe that you died for my sin. I believe you rose again for my justification. Right now, I. Received Jesus into my heart as my Savior, as my Lord, and as my King. I declare that the power of sin, satan, hell, and the grave is broken over my life. From tonight and forever, I am a child of God. Amen, keep your hands lifted Fatherway. Thank you for the many who have come to Jesus. The Bible declares that as many who will come to you, you will in no wise cast away. They have made declarations of faith, and by the authority of Scripture, I declare your sins forgiving in the name of Jesus. I call you bona fide, recipients of the life of God. I decree and declare that eternal life is yours here and now the power to live. The victorious Christian life. Receive it in the name of Jesus. And from today until forever, you child of God, watched by the blood of the Lamb in Jesus' matchless name. Way of prayed now very quickly. I just want to give you an instruction in righteousness. May I request someone direct me, Okay, pray the name of the Lord. Okay. I'm asked that you just remain there well, thank you. So I'm directed that you are going to be giving cards. There are counselors. Please do well to. Have the card. Just be patient before you reach back for your seat, they would direct you. But in any case you are going to get a card, that card would require. An information from you. Please do feel it legibly and that will be given to the counselor so that you can be prayed for. An intercession can be ongoing. You always hear your father say he will keep praying and praying and praying for you. He said, brethren, pray for us. Ali lujah. But I declare you blessed in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. And then for the entire congregation again, I stand one last time upon the grace of our father and our mother, and I declare over your life, indeed you will be the light. Indeed you will be the light. Everything that represents darkness in your life, let it give way. Right now. I call you blessed. I declare that you remain blessed in Jesus's mighty name. We pray. Let's give Jesus a big hand clap. God bless you.