LITTLE FOXES THE KILLERS OF GREAT DESTINIES Songs of Solomon

Allelujah. Father, tonight, I read dedicate my life to you. Go ahead and pray. I read dedicate my life afresh. I'm yours. I belong to you, for your glory, for your name, to see your life, to see your grace, to see your wisdom, find expression upon the earth. I am available. Someone is praying. I am available. Someone praying Shelanto's Sabra katosia tabah. I am available. Whatever you want. To do, Lord, you can do through me. Whatever you want to say. Lord, you can say through me. Whatever you want to change. Lord you can change through me whatever you want to man you Lord. You can man. Are you still praying? Go ahead and pray channel caparatos via. I remain a vessel home too honor, coached by praise, coached by mercy. In Jesus' name. We pray asking for an encounter tonight in marvelous, an encounter that will change your life. Whether you're following online or you're here with us on site. Please go ahead and pray everywhere, including the overflows outside. Make sure you are praying. Father. Let the entrance of your word tonight give light. Let it give understanding to the same point. Take me to a higher level in the spirit. Let me access light and wisdom at a higher level, reposition me to manifest Victorian. Experience by your word. In Jesus' much less name, we pray God bless you good evening everybody. Please you may be gloriously seated. The Sami said, I was glad when they said unto me. Let us go to the house of the Lord. The Lord bless you and he will do you good. In Jesus' name. To all our international visitors, we take the time to honor them because knowing the distances that many of them left to travel to be here with us, they would have easily connected online, but for the sacrifice of reaching out all the way. I know that you were honored earlier on. But please accept my greetings and my salutations in Jesus' name. And I'm aware that there's a delegate from the International Visitors who came from the Transforming Church. They came for a conference and they decided to fellowship with us tonight. Courtsy, Reverend Sam May God bless all of you. Let's give them a big God bless you. Let them know we're a house of honor and we receive you. The Lord will do you good tonight in Jesus' name, Allelujah. The quality. Of believers that emerge from any ministry depend largely on the kind. Of training, spiritual training that they're so objected to. All believers are saved by the same blood, the same word, the same spirit, the same name, But the quality of their lives, the kind of believers that they eventually evolve into, will depend largely on the kind of training. That they submit themselves to. Allelujah. So when you find a believer who is not an accurate representation of the Word, an accurate representation of the victory of Christ, it is not the problem. Is not. From God's end as far as the resources to make that person wholesome is concerned. It's the same Lord who is rich onto all the same blood, the same name, the same cross. But the degree to which you submit to superior spiritual training, that is the degree to which you evolve to become a qualitative, wholesome believer. And like I've told us in this house, the training of a believer on the part of the man of God depends on his level of growth, depends on his level of understanding, and then the level of seriousness he gives to the assignment, Allelujah. So you can find the people whose hearts are open, ready to learn, hungry, ready to receive, passionate about growth. But unfortunately, if the Man of God, who has the responsibility of serving them wisdom and grace does not contend for growth enough, does not contend for understanding of the world and the ways of God enough, and does not invest a requisite level of seriousness to the assignment that can affect the stature of the people who are under his care. Allelujah. This is why I take the ministry of the world and all that we do in this house very seriously, because we're aware that someone's because someone's destiny prophetically depends on the things that we teach. We are discipling nations week after week, day in, day out. There are tens of thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands of people connected across the globe, seated with their pen, their paper, some in tears, neglecting their pain, some trying to make sense of their life. It's a very noble responsibility to disciple nations and to teach them the ways of God. And we're honored to have the abundance of His grace and. Wisdom, so that week in, week out, the time that you invest in this place, in this house under disgrace becomes a profitable investment yielding thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and like I will always pray for you, a hundredfold returns. If that's your desire, say amen. My assignment, as always in order of priority, is so number one, help you to encounter the Lord Jesus Christ genuinely and to cultivate a functional, provable relationship with Him, not the relationship that does not have the capacity to be demonstrated here and now you can know God. You can prove your union, your oneness, your intimacy with Him. Intimacy has parameters to validate it. The wisdom of God at work in you, the dexterity of your understanding, the character of Christ furnished in you. These are the indices that measure the genuineness of your intimacy with God. Are we learning already? And then, of course it extends into serving you truth that is spirit inspired, word, compliant, life, applicable and intelligently communicated for your understanding. Let me repeat that again that I have an assignment under God among the many things to serve you week in week out truth. That is Number one, spirit inspired, we submit to the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Number two word compliant, not conningly device fables, not assumed light, but light that is backed up by the integrity of scripture. Are we together? And then number three pragmatic enough and life applicable. The value of knowledge is that it is able to drive ignorance and produce victory. Knowledge that does not sustain the potency to drive ignorance and to command victory is useless knowledge. You don't have the time in your life to learn everything, so you must be very meticulous about choosing the information you allow into your spiritual and mental space. You don't have the labor. You don't need to go through the labor of the. Congesting your mind after many years of dumping truth or oppose truth, and then you find out that they are important in the face of real life situation. I like to be pragmatic. I like to be word applicable, life applicable, that the things you're learning, no matter how complicated, no matter how spiritually communicated it is, it must be able to leave you with a point of application. How do I apply the truths that I've heard so that it produces victory. The teaching ministry in this house is tailor made, regardless what topic, regardless what subject of emphasis, regardless what series. The end point of the teaching ministry in this house is to translate the hearer into a victorious believer. Did you hear that? Not just an informed believer. If we stop at informing you, I still wasted your time. It must go past the layer of enlightenment into empowering you to command victory other including today that you are seated on that disgrace. Have it at the back of your mind that you will be handed the keys by grace myself, in partnership with the Spirit of Grace, in partnership with the World of God, and in partnership with your focus, your determination, and your consecration. All of this together will push towards evolving you into a victorious believer. You will not fail in life. Are you receiving it as a prophecy? You will not fail in life. Your life will be so spectacular it will be clear before men that you've met God. It will be clear before men and. Before Spirit that God has invested wisdom upon your life. If you receive that, shout Amen, as always Your commitment is to listen. Your commitment is to trust the training, trust the process. Only a foolish student begins to argue in class when a teacher, any teacher who is a teacher indeed must have been employed and accredited by the institution teaching the students. Even when you don't trust the teacher, trust the integrity of the institution. Weay together the image of the institution is at stake, and should the teacher fail, there is a system within the institution to replace and find a better teacher. So if the institution leaves the teachers to teach you, it is because there is a supervisory system that is accrediting. There's what we call accreditation for teachers. Everyone's in a weld day themselves right promotion exams, you fine tune their knowledge away. Together they are sent for training so that they adopt best practices in producing world class students. As it is in a secular that's the way it is in the spiritual. So every once and again God will call us and say, let's see what you've done so far. Right, You've done well here, You've done well here. Let's evolve here, let's evolve here, and you return back a more refined communicator of his life. Grace, I pray for you from the depth of my heart. May you not waste your time tonight, and may the truth you hear tonight not stand against you. In the name of Jesus, that the light you receive tonight will be so bright you will not even see the darkness that threatened you. In the name of. Jesus, we pray Allelujah, lend me your attention. You're about to learn something tonight that I believe will change your life. You're about to. Learn truth by God's grace that will add to your working in victory. And those of you who are connected online, now is the time to minimize justin moving around. Pay attention with your writing materials. God is about to speak. Do well to invite as many who are within your reach tell them. God is about to speak. Wisdom is coming, a way out is coming, a way of escape for some, a way of deliverance. Enlightenment by the Word is coming, an answer to your prayer, perhaps of days, weeks, months, fasting is about to come to his world. It is in his light that we see light. May you find your own word tonight in Jesus' name tonight, God is going to weed our gardens by the power of the Holy Spirit. Every believer is a farmer, and when you farm and your crops begin to grow, then He comes in to help you weed your garden so that you produce thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and one hundredfold. The truths that I'm about to share with you have changed my life, many of them. They are truths that I have engaged in many regards, and I've been able to see them yield for me in various degrees. And I keep pressing even up until now, to see that I manifest the full benefit that come from knowing and learning this truth. Fasten your seat belts. Are you ready, little foxes? I'm teaching you tonight on the killers of great destinies, topic I titled Little Foxes. Go to the Book of Solomon. It's a book we've not consulted in a long time. For some you've never even read it. We think it's a. Love portion, or a love scripture, or a love formula. Most do you know that more unbelievers use the Book of Songs of Solomon than believers. Mostly they use it to conjure concoctions to force people to love people. You know, they bring all these demonic things and they make people read it. If you're being a victim of it, be delivered immediately, even before I start teaching. Songs of Solomon chapter two. Please from verse fifteen, blessed be the name of the Lord. Little foxes, it says, take us the foxes just one verse. The little foxes that spoil the vines, It says, for our vines have tender grapes. Can we read NIV NIV Songs of Solomon chapter two and verse fifteen. Is that catch for us as though to dismiss out of our presence the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards. That are in the bloom. They are beginning to speak, They are beginning to blossom. Allelujah. The Lord blessed the reading of his word in the name of Jesus Christ. A quick recap. I've taught you here that there are many layers to study in scripture number one. There is a historic and archaeological layer. When you study the Bible, you studied historically, you study archaeologically. It gives you a historic overview of things past. Number two, there is a doctrinal layer to the study of scripture. So you study scripture. As par the doctrines that have been arranged from the life of Jesus and the teachings of the Apostles number three. There is what we call a prophetic layer, a prophetic layer meaning that you are able to derive profit from scripture beyond its original contextual use away together, so beyond the contextual meaning of a verse and a scripture, because it was inspired by the Holy Ghost, it still sustains within it a prophetic ability to draw messages and to draw meanings beyond its original context. This is one of such scriptures. Contextually speaking, this is a scripture that has to do with relationships. Of course, he was talking ultimately about Christ and the Church, but he was relating it in a law form between a man. And a woman. So he uses a metaphor of foxes and vines. He was not necessarily talking about a fox like an animal, a wild animal, and a vine like a garden. But these are metaphors. It's not unusual for scripture to use metaphors. Even Jesus in his teachings, you find him use metaphors and similes to describe the believer, to describe situations, even to describe heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is likened onto this. He will say, he will call us light, he will call us salt. You will call us a city that is set on a hill. He will call us a tree. Bible calls us oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord. So it's not unusual. The Bible is full of metaphors that attempt to explain kingdom realities in a way that inhabitants upon the earth understand so very quickly. The idea behind this is to help master relationships, although that extends to every aspect of our lives. But I may want to zoom. My discussion to the killers of destiny as far as connecting with the relevant men and women that can make your becoming, make your manifesting destiny possible. Are we learning now praise the name of the Lord? So I told us that the word foxy and vines are metaphors. Foxes here speak of small. Seemingly insignificant factors that can create widespread damage to your destiny. So when the Bible talks of foxes in dis contexts, he's not just talking of a wild animal like a fox that you know. He's talking about small, seemingly insignificant factors, small seemingly insignificant factors that can cause great damage to relationships, can cause great damage to destiny. Overall, are we learning? And when we talk. About vines based on this scripture, we're talking of relationships, really, the health and the wellbeing of relationships. Just to make it very simple so that you understand as I begin to teach, So when he talks about little foxes that spoil the bride, he's talking about seemingly insignificant factors, insignificant things that are able to tamper with the health the vitality of relationships, and by extension, the health and the vitality of destiny. They are called killers of destiny. As subtle as they are, as insignificant as they are, they sustain the power to wreck such great havoc According to scripture. One rendition of this sort, as we find in the New Testament, was false teaching in Galations chapter five and verse nine. Let's see what he says in Galations chapter five and verse nine. He says, a little livnt give us amplified if we can find it. A little livnt, he says. So, he says, a. Little living now contextually, he was speaking with respect to false teachings, the effect of false teachings and how they can bring widespread damage to the church. It was part of its apostolic ministry to correct the growing errors and the false teachings that you know, the church was beginning to receive. But then it applies to what we are discussing tonight. So it says a little living a slight inclination to error, or a few false teachers, it says it livens the whole long it perverts the whole concept of our faith and misleads the whole church. You see that now, But then you can also give it this extended meaning, a little living back to KJV, something very small, something very insignificant, can have and pause a widespread threat to the strategic relationships that God would have brought to your life and then generally destroy your destiny. This is very powerful this portion of scripture. Both of them that we just read are a call to action. It's a call to becoming proactive and then a call to pay attention to the factors that make great destinies and the factors that make great relationships. Blessed be the name of the Lord, the worship team sank beautifully. How that reminding us really that everything that happens upon the earth, like you have been taught time and again, depends on men. The Bible says, the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth has he given to the sons of men. So to the degree to which you. Are connected to strategic men, that is the degree to which destiny would be. Actualized and on time. Most believers have not been structurally taught the value of relationships in manifesting destiny, in becoming a victorious believer, and in serving the purposes of the kingdom. If I have the privilege, should draw. A pie chat and apportion different allocations as to the factors that make for an excelling life. Aside from a relationship with God. The next, maybe second, or third portion significant portion in that pie chat will be dedicated to relationships and the roles that they play in a becoming great in life. One soiled relationship can cancel ten years from your life, can cancel twenty years for your life, can cancel forever from your life. One strategic relationship, well understood, well maintained, well invested in, can literally open up a new chapter in your life can help you scale up, speed up and naturalized destiny. Are we learning now right? The following some of them will be a quick recap, but then just to connect because we have a very serious discussion. Please make sure you listen prayer fully, You listen diligently. You listen with the attention of a student and one who truly wants who manifest the life and the power of God. Destiny fulfillment and destiny advancement is impossible without relationships, without associations, and without connections. Write that down, please, Destiny fulfillment and destiny advancement is impossible without relationships, associations, and connections. This is the first thing I want to establish now that in desiring to fulfill destiny, in desiring to advance, to make progress, constructive progress in your life, serving the purposes of God and living a life of meaning, it is impossible to omit the role that relationships, associations. And connections have to play. For instance, it is the relationship between. An employee and the employer. And the organization that will humor only speaking, determining whether that person will scale up from an entry level in that organization to a managerial level. Your skill, your certification can get you in there, but it will be largely a product of your relationships. As far as your scaling and your rising is concerned. There are people who will go for trainings improve themselves intellectually and never grow organizationally speaking, they don't scale to a managerial level simply because they do not understand how to engage in a way that is profitable. Another example, it is. Your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ that ushered you into a life of victory, into a life of dominion, into a life of power. It is your relationship with the world that. Sponsors your wisdom, the wisdom that keeps redefining your possibilities day by day. It is your relationship with the Holy Spirit that provides for you timing and stability of understanding, guidance and even empowerment. It is your relationship with fellow believers that help you to really understand and find your place in life and destiny. Relationships are very important. They cannot be over emphasized. Please write this down. You have been taught in this house that relationships are defined as advantageous connections. In one word, they are connections, but for the purpose of our discussion. They are advantageous connections which are mutually or should be mutually beneficial to all the parties involved. Read that, and you write that again. That relationships are advantageous connections which should be mutually beneficial to all the parties involved. Whether it's between man and God, whether it's between a man and his wife, whether it's between an employer and an employee. Any relationship, particularly God ordained relationships, are advantage just connections, and it should be mutually beneficial to the parties involved. Recall that I've taught you in this house that relationships are bridges. They literally are bridges. They are bridges that can help you cross from where you are into an excelling life. Unfortunately, there are also bridges that can help you decline from where you are into a life of failure and defeat. When you find decline in a man's life, you slide down to a life of defeat, a life of smallness, a life of failure. Usually you would have crossed a bridge backward called relationships, And when you scale heights in life and destiny, you also would have crossed the bridge called relationships. So at every point in your life you are standing between two bridges. They are all relationships. For the one bridge, it is ready to scale you so that you cross into a life of prophecy, a life of victory, a life of dominion. Let me understand that you're following me by a loud shout of amen, hey, thank you so for the other. You are on your way down. And it is true relationships. If you go down the ladder that takes you down. Our relationships. If you go up the ladder that takes you up, our relationships. They hold such profound value, and they control your rising and you're falling, among many other important factors. Alle lujah. I've also taught you in this house that relationships are currencies, or please believe this. Relationships are currencies. They can buy anything money can buy, but they can also buy what money cannot buy. Relationships are currencies. Do not forget this. They are currencies in our world today. It is safe to call them hard currencies, harder than the dollar, harder than the pound, more valuable than all the currencies, more valuable than gold. And this wonderful jewelry is that some of our precious ladies are wearing right now listening to me, Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, No matter what you have, if you do not have quality relationships, you're on your way down for sure. Even if Satan does not participate in your falling, your failing, or you're declining, if you lack the requisite relationships, you will still fail. I think I've taught it in this house, and I found myself teaching it over the weekend at a conference. That Satan is flattered at the credit we give him for every failure. There are many, many failure. Results in the life of believers that I can tell you sincerely. Satan has no hand in it, but he's flattered even or not at the credit we give him for every failure, and he receives it with joy. Since you say he's behind it, it helps to magnify his. Perception in your life. But there are many, many things, many many levels of decline that are not exactly caused by Satan. They are caused by the inaccurate understanding of the saints and their refusal to engage the laws of victory appropriately. You're still learning, say amen. So, relationships are currencies. They can buy anything money can buy, but they can buy other things that money cannot buy. Allelujah. Money can buy you a phone, it can buy you a same card, but it cannot buy you a man's attention. Money can buy you a home, a house, we call it. But it cannot buy you peace and serenity necessarily. Even though we have people contending now they say money can buy peace, so it can create the condition. For peace, or it cannot buy peace. No, peace is too expensive for money, too expensive for. Money, allelujah. Jesus himself is called the pre peace. You know what that means, the custodian and the administrator of it. How much will you give him to receive peace? How many dollars? How many pounds? There are things money can buy, but there are things money cannot buy, many of them in fact, allelujah. But relationships can buy what money can buy, and they can buy what money cannot buy. You say, your money perish with you, because this one is not bought with money. It's bought with a relationship. Men and bread, And what shall we do? It didn't say give me money, You say repent for. The remission of your sins. Your connection to. Jesus becomes your access to life. Write this down, please. You are as fortunate as the quality of relationships in your life. You are as fortunate. Believe me, these are not just statements. These are statements that were carefully put together. You know how a tailor's teaches. A handmade cloth or teaches a handmade shoe with that. Level of meticulousness. Some of these words that were written down were not just carelessly written. They were thoughtfully written by the spirit. Relationships. You are as fortunate, I said, as the quality of relationships in your life. That means the men that believe in you. That means the men willing to stand with you. That means the men and the women willing to invest their time, invest their credibility, invest their resources to enhancing your destiny. Now you understand better. You are as fortunate. So next time you look at someone and say unfortunate, don't say they are unfortunate simply because they lost their job. No, that's not enough to make them unfortunate. Don't say they're unfortunate simply because maybe some human sentiments, whatever it is, they really become unfortunate to the degree to which they cannot secure their attention, the loyalty of men. It is better to have men than to have a job. Listen, Listen, listen, don't be in a hurry to clap. It is better to have men than to have a job. I'm not downplaying productivity, not at all. What I'm saying, as far as the sequence of destiny actualization is in I will I will look for many thousand times in order of priority before I look for a job. If I give, on a scale of one to ten, a passion of four for a job, I will give a passion of nine or ten or even eleven to search for quality men. You are as fortunate in life as the quality of relationships. Listen, I'm not speaking about the number of men. I'm talking about the quality of relationships, because I'm telling you one relationship can equal the sucre of a whole nation to one man. There are many people. Their trouble is because they have too many people in their life away together. The more they keep inviting people into their lives, the more they begin to go down, because everybody that comes to their life does not hold their hand. His stands on their head, and so it keeps pushing them down, one trouble upon another. You have a lot to learn tonight, too. May God open up your heart to receive in the name of Jesus Christ. Write this down. You make progress in life at the pace of your relationships. You don't just make progress in life at the pace of knowledge. Knowledge is important, but I'm telling you you make progress in life at the pace of your relationship. A dog can open faster. Because of a relationship that supports opening it. A lord can be lifted faster because of a relationship that comes to assist you away together. This is very important. You make progress in life at the pace of your relationship. So imagine two athletes, for instance, and then the gun is shot on your mark, get set go and. You shoot the god. You find out that one can crawl his way through life and destiny, the other can arrive almost in no time. I'm telling you that the edge the. Uniqueness as far as their speed of arrival from the standpoint of the world of men, is the quality of relationships that can be used as vehicles. There are many people who do not know the idea of hardship relationships. Top life from being had for them. There is always somebody to show up and become the voice of messy, to become the voice of restoration, to become the voice of speed. Just when they want to cry. There's a handkerchief that says, I would not watch your tears. There are others who are left alone, allowed a loan, some of the men of God, some of them sincere people, some of them godly but ignorant people. You are as fortunate as the quality of relationships that are in your life, and you make progress in life at the pace of your relationship. The easiest way to succeed in life is through relationships and destiny connections. Write that down. The easiest way to succeed in life is through relationships and destiny connections. Unfortunately, it is also the easiest way to fail in life. The easiest way to succeed in. Life is through relationships and destiny connections, But the easiest way to fail to in life is through relationships and destiny connections or wrong connections. Are we learning so far? Now? We have several kinds of relationships. Please look up lend. Me your attention. Relationshipships are not linear in terms of engagements. We have several kinds of relationships, and at least for you if you, for instance, we have family relationships, allelujah. For instance, we have we have professional relationships. So relationships for instance, between family relationships siblings, loved ones, both nuclear and extended, and that the implication of those relationships can, in waghe both small and great, affect your life and affect your destiny. We have professional relationships, many of us your career people, business owners. You know top executives, and you know employees in many regards. And you know that if you can do well in terms of your family relationship and fail in your professional relationship, and it can peg your life. Are we together can peg your life? We have professional relationships. We have love relationships, from relationships to marriage, to relationship with spouses, children. You know love intimate relationships. We have. Mentor mentee relationships, for instance, such as one that is found in institutions, found in mentorship platforms. The purpose is simply connection for the purpose of transferring knowledge, transferring experience, and helping to grow, helping to evolve an individual from a weaker version to a more superior version. I'm listening for you the kinds of relationships. That we have. We have what we call community relationships. For instance. This represents the bond that is formed with people within your local area and your community. Everybody here lives within a neighborhood, and in most neighborhoods. Unfortunately it is not so now because of westernization and urban life. What most of us know that growing up, the average family had some neighbors, and because of that level of relationship, everything was everybody's business. When you hear a loud cry, everybody comes out to say what is wrong? You still remember. A neighbor can quickly spank a child from another house when they're following bad friends, and he says, your mother is not around, but I'm your other mother. Go back home. You know, everybody becomes responsible for helping building someone during salad, during Christmas, we have neighbors. It was almost an unwritten rule. I don't know if someone experienced that they knocked your house in the morning. Sometimes during Salah you are happy waiting for your. Own portion, you know. And then during Christmas is the same thing. You find. Mothers get up and they cook as if they're going to serve the whole world and allocate you. Go and serve this one, go and knock the door, give this one. Even for neighbors that don't necessarily live in peace, they just. Know that we need one another. And for regions that have faced any kind of crisis. You know that walking together becomes the key to remaining Allelujah. If you insult people too much, a day judgment is coming, the day you will need help. I remember one time when there was crisis, a man, very good man. He had to call all these rough voys, you know the voice. You think that because they are the ones who don't have homes, they're the ones who fight. Nobody will push his child to go and fight. God forbid during it, you know, religious crisis, and you gather the boys and just give them someone even though you know what they will do with it. That's your way of partnering with them so that they protect your house from damage and burns and all of those things. May God give us peace in the name of Jesus Christ. Community relationships you imagine. You know. I will not mention the name of the region, but I travel one time to a region where I could not see any kind of connection. As first neighborhood is concerned. Nobody's business is anybody's business. You don't know who your neighbor is. You greet someone passing, they don't answer you. They find the strange. Just live your life, do what you have to do and return to your country when you're done. And I said, what sort of life is this? And it's a subtle engineering. It's a corruption of our sociology because the time will come when, unfortunately, most people connect more to apps and their phones than they connect to men. You want to know how damaging this has become. I'm digressing for a reason. Go to the airport, or go to any program where maybe they're about to do a sound check before they start. Almost everyone's head is down. What do you think they're doing? Good? Afternoon? Okay, afternoon. They don't know who is speaking even It has destroyed the attention span of people. They are not able to understand, to comprehend anything. Again, there's some apps somewhere, twenty apps. There are phones that have over one hundred apps, and everybody, everyone trying to steal into your life and your time. Nothing wrong with them except that if they are not managed well, it can destroy this. And that's why many people they don't know who to call when you're in trouble, because their whole investment has been on their phones, not their community, not relevant strategic people. If someone learning tonight, praise the name of the Lord. So these among many others. We have these kinds of relationships, and God respects that we excel in every one of these relationships because there are allocations to these relationships, as far as the roles that they have to play in our life is concerned. One area of your relationships will go down, and you'll be surprised how it would destroy almost every area of your life. I'm praying for someone already. By this wisdom, in the name of Jesus, you will gain mastery. Over your relationships. You will gain mastery over your destiny. In Jesus' mighty and marvelous name, we pray. Let me teach you for this discussion tonight. Four levels of relationships. Anybody who must excel in life if you want to actualize destiny, do not forget what we're discussing. We're discussing little foxes, but I'm giving you a background so that you appreciate the role that relationship play is in our becoming, in our actualizing destiny, and even fulfilling our God ordained assignments. Four levels of relationships. Number one, the highest level of relational engagement that anyone, anyone on earth must have to succeed is your relationship with God. Perhaps I should be more detailed your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ God. Here, of course, I'm talking of God Jesus Christ too. Your relationship with God should be the highest level of relational engagement. You are involvement. Listen, If any kind of relationship takes a place. Higher and nobler than this. Level of relationship, there will be consequences in your life. I cast my crown before. The highest row yeality, I am undone before your glorious mageouesty. I cast my crown before. Your high soroality and man than before. Your highest relationship. Show me a man who will be a world changer. Show me a man who will live out his prophetic destiny to the fullest. I show you a man who has prioritized and properly reorganized your relationship levels. The highest that should be your highest possuit. That means it is better for every other level. Like I'll be listening to fail. If you fail in every other relationship level and you still have this one intact, it is the guarantee of restoration. But show me every other relationship you have intact if that relationshiationship was pursued. At the expiles of. Your relationship with God. Then something will eventually happen. There's someone learning. Please pay attention to what I'm teaching you, because we live in a world that believes all relationships are equal. No, they don't bring the same benefit to the tables. Are You can't compare your relationship with God with. Your relationship with your boss in the office. Boss should be honored, but there is only one who deserves worship. Let me sing that song again. I cast my crown before. Your highest royalty and nammndan before. The glorious majesty. You're the king of kings, and don't you are the king? You are the Lord. Oh your oyalty. There should be no man and no thing that sustains the ability to take still your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. He must be in a position in your life jealously guarded by your all. Unfortunately, we live in a world where we can give. Up Jesus for anything. Anything. Jesus is so cheap in the life of many people. They would throw him at the heart bait for money. They would throw him at their heart beat for marriage. They would throw him at the heart bait for a child. They would throw him at the heart bit for a job. They would throw him for promotion. He has little or no value. That was the mistake that is all made. He did not realize what he was selling because he was hungry. He said, what is my best rights to me? That that is no inheritance? No, please, I I give it to you, give me the portage of steel. Many have loved at is or what I've done worse than what disor did away together. Now, by the time you trade your prayer life to protect friendships, you trade your what study life, You trade your passion for God and for the House of. God, you have allowed the lead to foxes. We're getting there, but I'm just introducing to you right now that the highest relationship. Listen to me, Your highest. Level of relational engagement is not to a man of God, is not to. A business man. In fact, it is not given to your spouse. Jesus, Jesus the basis for every other thing. He is the centrial system that powers anything that works. Together. Not Jesus, no life, it is true, Not Jesus no possibilities. It is true. It will look like you lie till the day life decides to do its thing on you. Then you will now see that accept the Lord beauty house. Truly they label in things that built it, except the Lord watches. I'm speaking with all due respect to our arrogant world that things. Jesus is a new zance to civilization. Jesus is the answer for the world today. A loving there's no other Jesus is the way. Jesus is the answer for the world today. Loving There's no other. Jesus. Jesus is the answer to the question of life, the question of meaning, the question of relevance, the question of faith, the question of a. Man's hunger that no job can satisfy. There is a space that He designed for only his size to occupy in the life of a man. And I'm telling you nothing. Try it. You've tried it already. Nothing. This is not just about being fanatic, No, it is the way he designs his system, the highest level of relationship that directly. Controls your greatness. Anything that threatens your relationship with Jesus has partnered with Satan in the destruction of your destiny. Who is learning tonight? And don't say this does not matter. A post of my own is money that I want. I'm suffering where is that Jesus. When money becomes your idol, it cannot die for you. Money cannot say I love you. Money cannot leave heaven come and die for you. It didn't live where it is to come to you. On its own. Jesus left heaven on his own and came and died for you. Who is learning? So the highest level of relational engagement must be Jesus Christ. Your relationship with Jesus. To love him with all your heart, to love him with all your might, love him beyond church, love him just beyond the fanatism of Christianity, love him beyond the show, so that you would look like you're Christian. I love you Jesus Ourshipdad. You just want to tell you that I love you. More than. I love you Jesus, worship andatore you. I just want. To tell you that I love you more. Let me tell you this. If you're seated in this place and you know that something is wrong with your relationship with Jesus, used tonight to mend that relationship. To mend it. Mend it, and I'll be showing you how in the course of the service. Here's the way. He's the truth, He's the life He's the prince of peace in this big devil world. He's the life of God. No man comes to the Father, the Bible says, except by him. Allelujah. Number two. The second level of relationship. And I'm listening this in order of priority, second only to your relationship with Jesus. Are you ready your relationship with yourself? Write it down first, your relationship with yourself, sir, Your relationship with yourself, Matthew, twenty two and verse twenty nine. Let me show you how much you have hated yourself Matthew, twenty two and verse twenty nine, thirty nine, my apologies thirty nine, thirty nine, twenty two thirty nine. Let's do thirty eight, and then we do thirty nine, so that it makes sense. Thirty eight thirty nine Media Matthew, twenty two, thirty eight, thirty nine. And this is the first and great commandment. Jesus is speaking now now verse thirty nine. He said. The second is like onto it. Read with me. Believers, ready one to go? Read the last two words one more time. Shout it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor. But it gives you a standard, he says, before you start thinking. Of loving your neighbor. Leave your neighbor and do something with yourself, because if something goes wrong with that person called yourself, it will affect what happens between you and your neighbor. And if that neighbor is your spouse, if that neighbor is your boss, your neighbor is not just the one close to you. Your neighbor is anyone who can share from your pain, share from your energy. It says, as thyself, are we together? Many believers do not know that they have a responsibility of learning how to relate with themselves. We are not taught that the health of your relationship with yourself can have an effect on your life, an effect on your purpose. And effect on your destiny. Most times we talk about God like I so lavishly did. Then we jump ourselves and talk about others. Are we together now? Now? At the risk of trying to manage issues that relate to selfishness self centeredness, Most times we've swung the pendulum to the extreme end and people have hated themselves. They do not know how they have become the enemies of their own progress. In a bit to manage self centeredness, In a bit to manage selfishness, many people have been so unfair to themselves. There is someone you need to tell sorry at the end of my teaching tonight. Guess who that person is? Selfish people will like what I'm saying immediately. Don't mistaken what I'm saying. Some of you don't need to tell yourself. Sorry. Is God you need to tell sorry? Say amen? Your relationship with yourself, this defines working on your esteem. This defines working on what we call self love. If you hate yourself, don't blame anybody for joining you in that agenda. Don't blame people for hating what you already hate. Are we together now? There are spouses saying you don't like me, but do you like yourself? There are individuals saying people don't like me, but do you like yourself? The model after your hatred for yourself, You're only receiving a harvest of a seed you already planted. How about your contending for growth and improvement? These are all the elements that demonstrate in experience that you love. Yourself or you hate yourself. Please look up. Most believers do not know, with all due respect that as an African, do you know the afrage? African by default, by default already from a foundation that is plagued with low self esteem. Away together all kinds of emotional damages, and most believers do not know how wounded, how hot they are. With all due respect, some may have been. Hurt as a result of your backgrounds, the kinds of parents that raised them, or the abscience of the parents that raised them away together, Some because of the nasty experiences that happened in their past, maybe some experience they may not want to talk about. Orthers now the school system now collected. The button from poor parenthood and continue the journey. Individuals who bullied you in school told you you have big head, told you you are this, told you are that. You are an ugly lady. You didn't think that. Thing was is a programming, they were writing something. By the time you became a teenager, you became aware of yourself. Those things started pushing you into a lifestyle that was unnecessary. Because from ignorant guy called you an ugly lady, you thought it did matter. But now you look at the risk you have placed on your life because you are trying to. Manage and change that narrative. How about gentlemen, that's the major sponsor of joining or cult groups, joining or kinds of you know platforms that we have today that are self destructive. Loving yourself. Many, many believers are played in church with low self esteem justifiablyace so maybe because of the backgrounds, but they are not taught that you. Can be free from it. Like you heard me say, many will find. Themselves aggressive, hurting innocent people. And if you exempt what is wrong, they can't give language to what is wrong. What is wrong hasay history. They have not studied. They don't know why they easily hate people. They don't know why they cannot have two weeks structured friendship. They must say something, They must be angry, something in them. Real choice is when someone is crying. They are not necessarily evil. They are wounded people. They find consolation in the pain of one because it seems to give a picture that we are all the same. They hate exceptional people, They hate prosperous people, They hate people doing well. They hate people rejoicing something within them. Who is learning? Loving yourself? Amazing? How many people you are blamed for something you should take responsibility about. I am praying that God does. Not tempt me to digress, because what I want to say has to do with the issue of marriage. You know, I don't talk so much about marriage, not because I don't have what to say. My epistle is coming. Oh I have something to say. I certainly have something to say. But allow me steal from my file and teach you something tonight. So you know, ladies and gentlemen, I think it was in one the weddings of one of our people, I was saying. This. Marriage was not supposed to solve all your emotional problems. Please listen to me. There are many people who came into marriage. Because they failed in every other relationship, and they now decided to shame marriage and blame it. So they take the satisfaction that should come from knowing Jesus, the emptiness that comes from not knowing. Jesus, they blame it on marriage. The emptiness that comes from not living a purposeful. Life, they blame it on marriage. The emptiness that comes from not understanding human relation skills, they blame it on marriage. Marriage in today's world is carrying a load beyond its original allocation. Is the reason why marriages are failing. The load that has been put on marriage, which was not designed that way. Everybody fails and blames the spouse blames everybody. The man has always wanted to be like a champion. He's always wanted people to hear it, to call him yes, sir. And because he failed in being productive, he's not employed. It's not anything. And escapegoat he finds is his. Wife, and he transfers the aggression that you would have gotten and blames it on the poor girl. Are we together? Don't say yes? Listen, how about the ladies? They carried their baggages of low self esteem and all those kinds of things and bring it into you know, and after ten twenty years they. Look at the man. I said, do you know from the day we got married, I've never been happy? And the man is shocked. You loved when I took you for a vacation, You loved where, you said, all kinds of things during your birthday the best thing that what changed? And you said from the drama drama? Do you know why? Please look at me. There is a level of emotional satisfaction only knowing and loving. Jesus can give you. There is a level of emotional. Satisfaction only discovering purpose can give you. There is a level of emotional satisfaction only relating with family members can give you, not your wife, not your husband. There is a level of emotional satisfaction only being gainfully deployed, if not employed, can give you. If you are not gainfully employed, you can be gainfully deployed. Productivity controls that kind of passion and that satisfaction. There is a kind of emotional satisfaction. Only being a giver can give you. Now, if you failed in all this area, then you decide to I don't know if it's to reward now or punish yourself by getting married. And then you now blame your spouse. Is the reason why nothing for such a person, nothing the spouse does will ever be enough. And you're wondering. The man disappears for three hours. You are crying. You say that you don't want this marriage again. The man says, I'm busy. What is all this? The time you are using to cry, you should have been using to do something with your life, and because you are not doing anything with your life, you transfer your emotional luggages. Okay, let me return it back, Let me return it back, let me return it back. Zip it quietly. But I would say, right, there's a time for the vision to speak or have you learned something, so while you get and there are people like that. They call everybody getting angry, what is wrong with our relationship? You are not being serious again, you are not here. It's it that you are not my friend again. The person say, I'm busy. We were classmates in primary school. I'm now a senior executive. It's not pride. I am busy. Since you did not grow, that potential difference is too low. I don't hate you, but how do I announ start bending backwards? People don't go. But it's not a lie. Let me teach you something. Let me teach you something. And I'm not being sarcastic. There are many people who were so unfair to themselves when everybody within their CEC who was growing, they were assuming relationships. Who remain like that and now everybody has gone too far. It is a risk relating with them because everything you know is too classified. Their level of growth makes it a risk relating with them. It's not pride, it's the truth. If you sit with them, you can't discuss anything. They're still talking petty, childish gossip things. You are talking. About transcontinental impact. What do you now. Discuss with them? They have refused to grow. Do you know that can happen between his spouse? The level ten version of a husband is not looking for a level one version of the wife. They all started from level one, but the man. You see, That's why every man must invest in growing his wife. Don't say she should grow. You love her enough. That's what you told her parents before taking her. So invest in growing her so that as you rise, her growth is matching your level of growth. These are easy ways. Listen, this is true. The church may not have the courage to say this, but let me tell you the truth. This thing is not all spiritual or there is psychology to this thing. Are we together now? Don't get to a point where your wife becomes an interruption to a conversation because there's absolutely. Nothing she can contribute. And it's not her. It's not her fault. You didn't invest in growing her. By the way, I hope you know that. It's not because you should grow that you love her. That is not a loved thing. It's an efficiency thing. I'm talking about. Love should be at any level provided you marry hers stayed there. Are we together? Don't say if you grow, I will love you more than you never loved. True love does not have a reason. How did I get here? How did I get here? How did I get here? How did I get here? I repent, I repent with sulclots and ashes. I repent, but I said, do it again. Don't forgive me, to tolerate me. Awa learning. This also happens in organizations. The set man, the CEO grows alone and all the people who are around don't grow. A time will come where you will not be in touch with the people under you. Listen, if you're a senior executive, you're let me teach you. You are as fortified as the. Growth of those under you, not your growth alone. If those under you do not grow, they will become a nuisance to you, and they will hate the fact that you. Are not investing in their growth. On travel and go for the training alone and leave the people there. You are at level twenty, at level one, no growth, no increase. You see that now they will feel used and they will revolt. This is what happens to leaders everywhere. Is the same principle. Even in family. The man is dressing exceptionally well designers, and you look at his wife and he looks as if they just release. Her from jail. You look at the children, you see that kind of thing and really doesn't care driving his car. The wife and the children are tracking and it's the same church they're all going to, even if they're fighting. Ah, coy on you. I hope you are not doing that or this one is my jurisdiction. Stop it first if you are doing that. If for any reason you are, it's stay counseling if there's a marital problem, but don't treat your wife that way. And then sometimes it's the women that treat the men that way. Don't treat the men to that way. There are women who beat men. Allelujah. Back to my teaching. Relationship with yourself. I hope I've not lost you. That's why we digress from so we're back to a true not relationship with yourself. Everybody say I love myself. For many of you you don't believe it, but just take it gradually. It will work. Say I believe I love myself self love. Those who are selfish think they love themselves. No, they are using their self to hide from a. Healing away together. So they love this. It doesn't matter what is in it for me. If this is your mindset. You will be a. Loser in life because life rewards give us, not take us. However, you need to know when it is enough. There are people who will carry their whole life savings, not by prophetic instruction, give to everybody because they are trying to defend their name, and then. Be looking for the school fees of children. I love Jesus, I love you, my dear people, but I love myself. That's why I won't hang myself. That's why if I'm tired, I will sleep. If you are calling me and I'm sleeping, forgive me. If I wake up, I will call you back. It's an emergency called the police. That's why I'm not alone. There are law enforcement agents, there's military, there's police. And don't think you will blackmail me into thinking apostle God sent you to us, who told you I'm not effected in my work. Let me advise praachers. Don't let members love members with all your heart, but don't get into that. Don't let people blackmail you with all those things. They will finish their plan, finish the activity, be at peace with your family. Then come and wreck your own life, blackmailing you and say you were sent to us. The one who sent me to you told me what I should do and told me what he will do. I wouldn't do his work. Just because I'm praying for you does not mean you should not pray. Pray while I pray for you, Allelujah. Do you know many years ago true story and true confession. Many years ago, I didn't used to I thought collecting seeds from people. People want to bless. Me with seeds, and I guess it was because of the way pastors were manipulating people. I really felt bad. I didn't want something that someone will give me a seed and then it will look like I'm twisting them. But one day God rebuked me. He said, oh, that's received your seeds for you to be able to rise. If you keep rejecting the seeds of God's people, you will keep them down. If you are confident that you are not manipulating them. Receive it with gratitude. It's both a seed of honor and it's part of the principles that connect them to their next level. Allelujah. There are many people who damage themselves with all kinds of products that destroy your health is because you don't love yourself. You've not seen that you are part of the factors that count in making God's program happen. Listen to me, beloved brother and sister. There is nobody on earth who is like you. This is not motivation, It is a truth. Many may try to be like you, but there is none like you. You have to treasure yourself. You are God's gift to the world just because you've not manifested yet. Are we together. You don't need to join some gang. You don't need to join some online club that destroys your life because of belonging. Make reference to my teaching what seekest now? In that teaching I taught you. How that there are six psychological. Needs of every man. In case you've forgotten, let me remind you very quickly. Number one, the need for security number two, the need for newness or variety number three, the need for significance number four, the need for love, connection, and acceptance number five, the need for growth number six, the need for impact and contribution. These are the six psychological needs of every man, including the one talking to you, meaning behind the things that men do, behind those clubs people, behind the lies they tell, behind the fake life they leave. Behind all of those things are these sik psychological desires. Let me repeat it again one last time for your learning. The need for security, the need for newness or variety. Are we together? The need for significance, the need for love, connection and acceptance. That's the reason why if an. Ungodly guy is the first person to tell the lady I love you, because she did not hear her father tell her, she did not hear the mother tell her away together. The first person who told her I love you is some rough, ill trained guy. She does not like the guy, but she cannot deny the energy that came from that word, and so it delves them into a distorted life even as young children. The need for love, acceptance and connection. Then the need for growth, growth and contribution. It's the reason why we celebrate special moments, graduations, anniversaries, awards. We take them as say, a big deal, because it's an a time to show the world that we are growing, We're making wise intellectual investments, you know, of our lives and our time. And then of course impact and contribution. Do you know when people send me text messages and say, apostle you know this and that I'm happy. But the greatest you know ones are the ones that have to speak about the things that they believe God has used me to do in their lives. A personal I listening to this message. It's changed my life, It's changed my company, it's changed my church. And then I'm humbled because it's a psychological need. Are we learning? Say I love myself? Do you love yourself enough to work on your self esteem? And stop bleeding on innocent people? Stop wounding people out of your pain? Are we together now? You are not the only one who came from a poor background. While I sympathize with the reality of your condition, you need to grow out of it. Grow out of it. There are people today, It's a risk coming around them. The energy around your life is so pungent. There is a pile of pain like arrows waiting for anybody, including those they love. They wound those they love and keep feeling bad. When you ask them what is wrong, they will I solate issues and discuss it. It's not the issues, it is who you are. By the time everybody is complaining about you, the problem is not them. The problem is you. Who is learning. You must love yourself. I thought I loved myself until God began to train me on this world, not to be selfish, but to be grateful for who you are. Do you know when I thank God as I pray, I don't thank God because of. What He's done in my life today? Sincerely, this song. Is playing came from that, not an experiment, that program with God. My best Lord, say everything I have, my best Lord, I gave all I have to you. Listen, you made me great, you made me special, you made me great. I gave all I have to you. You made me you made me special, you made me great. I gave all to you. All time saying you made me great. You made me smash, you made me great. I gave all I have to you. You know, let me tell you when I wrote this song and when God began to work on me, what I'm teaching you now, the world did. Not know, Joshah Selman. The world will only love who you have first loved. Jesus loves you. And then you love yourself. When the world sees the way you love yourself enough to work on your esteem, see yourself enough to love yourself enough to develop yourself enough to mold out of the old version of you, they will respond by loving you. Don't hate yourself. And blame orders for hating you. They hate what was already hated. Allelujah, I love myself. Don't admire people at the detriment of yourself. I wish I was as fine as that guy. I wish I was as fine as that lady. I wish I was taller, short, and bigger. Unfortunately, if it will not happen. We teach people in the school of ministry that there are things you can change. Change it, like an ignorant person can become a knowledgeable person. Change it. There are things you can't change what you can adjust, but there are things. You can do anything about. Accept it with grace, while focusing on the many advantages that you have. You think you are not find enough cover up that that physical gap which such a rich display of virtue. Virtue makes people beautiful from inside. Don't buy into the deception that our today's world markets a foolish person in a good body. They call the person exception. Now and you'll buy into that kind of thing. How many demons have been trapped in human bodies promoted listen, listen, promoted to levels that they were not supposed to go, only because the only parameter was physical things. You think if certain appears to you, you see an ugly person. Allelujah, Please love yourself. Lay your hand on your your chest and begin to pray and say, Lord. Help me to love myself in a way. That is void of selfishness, but in a way that is healthy enough to produce a weakness out of me, in a way that is healthy enough to produce an inspiration out of me, in a way that is healthy enough. Come on, now, are you praying? You're not wasting your time. I'm staying here because I want to teach you little foxes. You must love yourself. Gif not. You can't believe in yourself. Someone pray. You've been fighting a battle of low self esteem. Let me tell you the truth. You are not alone. Many people live in false lives out there internal war. Don't take yours win an actual victory. Namely, you all are a Luyah. Prayse the name of the Lord. Do you know. There are multi billion industries today that were built on falsehood. Falsehood has become a product and businesses have been built around it. Allelujah. Everybody goes to toilet, everybody eats, everybody sleeps. Are we together now? When you find people who are exceptional and don't get me wrong, my God, there are some people with levels of godlike efficiency. It's because they've worked on themselves. When you hear the person speak in such an exceptional way, he was not born that way. When you see the person so healthy and strong, they were not born that way. They took responsibility over their lives. Don't hate yourself. If you hate yourself, you will hate everybody around you. You will speel your hatred to other people. This is solving a lot of problems now for some one. Immediately after this, you need to go back to God in prayer and say, Father. What is wrong with me? This big turnness, this hate, tred, this behavior? Why am I like this? Why can't I have joy? Why do I see all that successful? Why is it that when I see a very nice car, or I see a young person. Who is doing well, What is that. Negative energy that rises from me? Help me? I don't want to live like this. There are preachers like that. Once you see a man of God doing well, anointed God, immediately you try to look for something wrong. There are people today waiting for preachers to go down, waiting for wealthy people to go down, so that they can't say I said it. They are not that exceptional. I'm telling you is a wound in the heart, and Jesus can bring that healing for you who is learning now. He can come with that bombing Billiard. When you are healed, you will be an instrument of healing to others. When you see successful people, you can celebrate them genuinely. When you see a man of God doing well, when someone comes to testify, you don't say, oh, this person has come again. You were giving the same prayer. Points The way you pray your own is only you and God that knows the person prayed with all your heart. And God the testimony. We're living in a world that is so negative, so angry. I'm telling you. You hear that someone is getting married, you are angry. You hear that someone has got. In a child, Ah, someone got a landform ministry. You're hungry. God is lifting this man of God. You are angry. Hapah. Most of those things I'm telling you, regardless the issues. People hide behind issues to sell and breathe out their hatred about themselves. The prayer to walk upon your heart is a powerful prayer. Friends have been torn apart because of these things. Great people. Family members have been torn apart because of this thing. Blood brothers, blood siblings have carried themselves to court because of this thing. I hope God is healing someone tonight. It's time to let this emotional baggage go. God cannot use you as a great man. When you enter a place, who are looking, who is dressing. More than me? Whose watch is more than me? You are going to suffer for the rest. That kind of emotional torture will kill you. There are people like that whose shoe is this so that they know I'm the most and the riches and who cares? People have problems with their lives. Don't get too flattered like that. People love you, but not at the expense of themselves. My world is beautiful. The world I live in, the world I see is a world that is full of love and beauty. Allelujah. I don't allow hate to live in my world. You see me celebrate people. I celebrate preachers. I celebrate people. You can be secured in yourself, secured in who God has made you, grateful. For what He's made out of your life. Are we together? When you see. Something you desire, you can provoke yourself. Onto godliness to improve. But it does not mean that you sit back and you are walking in envy. Or two of that woman's children just graduated. Those ones, even that one that looks like a prostitute, is now a graduate, one that shall never end. And you start bringing these demonigies. What if the lady repented while she was in school. Come and make my heart your home. Come and be everything. I am a line search me to do. So my heart be comes. Oh for you, sing it one more time from the depth of your heart. Come and me, com and me everything. I'm a line search me, so my hearty comes. Oh, talk to your neighbor and say I love you, and I honor you. I know some of you feel like dying. Said, you've never been able to tell anybody apart from yourself. Alle Lujah, Praise the Lord. I remember many years ago a man who is a man of God but a professional, you know, counselor. He was speaking in the pastor's conference I once attended many years ago, and he was saying he told the husbands to turn to their wives and said I love you. And he said someone was angry, and I told her already on the day of wedding what is this embarrassment? We're not here for this kind of thing. You know. The man was revolting and said, what is this? You know, he felt he was an insult. Don't make us sound like children. Do that with your wife and leave us. Were here for cerroos business. And the man and sisters says say it. And when he said the word, did even believe him because she knew that. She just knew that I'm here to stay to make this thing work. But to that thing, you said, no, make your world the beautiful world. Take away anger from your world, take away jealousy from your world. Are we together? There are more people waiting to celebrate you than you know. Focus on working on you. Sooner or later you find out that there was a space for. You in destiny. Don't hate those God is lifting, Learn from them. Learn from them. Be secure enough to know that you are different does not mean you're a loser. And in truth, we will not all be at the same level in life. But get to know that the parts Paul was teaching, and he said, the parts that are hidden are even the parts that are more valuable. Do you know. Let's go to the third, the third level of relationship I decided to stay here a bit because I really wanted to press a few things. I hope you are learning so. Your relationship with God your highest relational engagement. Number two is your relationship with yourself. Out of the health of your relationship with yourself will come your relationship with your world, the world around you. That leads me to the third your relationship with men. Your relationship with men includes all kinds of men, your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your environment, believers in church. The health of your relationship with others will always be a reflection of the health of your relationship with Jesus and the health of your relationship with yourself. If you are a happy one, being happy with yourself, a grateful one, being grateful with yourself, a contented one, being contented with yourself, not contented with your inferiorself, but contented with the fact. That you can evolve. Are we together? It will reflect on how you greet others. Show me someone who is a very happy mother. Once in a while, in the midst of angry people moving around, you see a very happy and energetic, jovial person greeting hello, how are you? And you are you? Are you? Are literally sought in by ther energy. They are so positive, so happy, so vibrant. They are not complaining when they meet you. There are people the moment they meet you, just get ready, get a pen and a paper. They will tell you how negative. The world is. Have you seen people like that? There's something I've been wander told. Well, let's grey, how are you good? Good afternoon? But it's life. Why don't you choose one day that I will not complain. Today I shelf everything and I leave a joyful life. You go to work and they're saying it's hal half salary you're. Going to receive this month, and everybody is costing, everybody, from God to men to everybody, and you. Just say, well, let's thank god. It's because we're alive that we can't call like a pastor. Don't worry, don't mind them, don't mind them. Joy joy. You see someone good afternoon, sir, and the person is flattered because they know you are far higher than them. Wow, he called me, sir, And give them the benefit of feeling very happy because of your energy. You'll move on with your life. Don't say I said sir, doesn't mean you are not. You don't need to put all that point. We are too insecure in this our world. Listen, I hope you are learning, do you know, I say, pastor, If you are not secured, you cannot lead the people God gives you. They will Somebody will. Be looking at you, and you'll just be looking at it and say, this person hates me, whereas that person loves you passionately. He's thinking about the saone you are preaching. The thing is walking in his heart and your mindset. You are interpretting it from the lens of your esteem relationship with men. I love the people around me. If I have a problem with you, I keep you fast fair to not tamper with my life, my joy, and my energy. God does not have to hate to be on the throne. No, and yet he has enemies himself hatred. It's not the only way to deal with enemies. Your growth and your victory exalts you to a position where there's no basinis to meet again a way together. Now I think it was doctor Paul Entcho. So if I recall one time he was preaching many years ago, and he said, what business does a say Boing seven seven thirty seven have to do? That is thirty five forty thousand feet above sea level. What does it have to do with the backing of a dog on the ground. They can't even here. They are not compatible. There's no business for relationship. Allelujah. Many times we worry about the things around us, including the enemies around us, because we have not grown to an altitude that makes their effect unnecessary. There is a way you can be so exalted anything that happens around you. You laugh at it the way an adult laughs at a child. You know how an adud laughs at a child trying to beat him. That's how you laugh at them, and you just see, there's no it doesn't bring anger. You are too mature. You have evolved too much. God has helped you in such a way that makes fighting things around childish. You demean yourself if you have to go down. Are we together now? Listen to me, very careful, ladies and gentlemen. You must learn how to relate with men. This is the world of learn. I have taught you. To the degree to which you are able to relate with men, that is the degree to which you will rise. Sam one one five and verse sixteen. The heaven of heavens belong to the Lord the Bible says, what the earth hath he given to the children of men? Listen to me, excelling within. The cosmos demands understanding how to relate with men. Let me give you number four quickly. Your relationship with things. Your relationship with things. So I all of my teaching, in spite of all the digressions here and there, My intent is to show you these four levels of relationships. Relationship with Jesus Christ, relationship with yourself, relationship with men, your environment, those around you, and then relationship with things. There is a healthy way to relate with things, and there is an unhealthy. Way to relate with things. For instance, being materialistic, being obsessed with things. Deriving your confidence from your possessions, the abundance of the things you have. Is an unhealthy way to engage with things. If your confidence is based on the amounting your bank account or the car you're driving, the house, or your certificate and. All of those things. Now truth be told their contributors to your confidence, but should not be the basis of it. The rich fool was a fool because he placed his soul and his rest upon the you know, the treasures that he had put broke bands built bigger ones and set my soul find rest. Allelujah. Now, I want to recap a statement before we quickly go to our little Foxes discussion proper. I just had to pick out a statement I made one time when I was teaching here, and you may want to write it down. Maybe listen and write. Your relationship with God, I said, gives you access to wisdom and favor. Please write that down. I made mention of that whilst discussing a topic one time. Here. I'm recapping it because you need to understand this. Your relationship with God, among other things, it gives you access to wisdom and favor. The second thing I needed to write is that wisdom and favor gives you access to men and systems. So your relationship with God, among other things, gives you access to wisdom and favor. Wisdom and favor gives you access to men and gives you. Access to systems. Write this down. The third thing I wanted to write quickly, Your relationship with yourself gives you the confidence and the security. To engage profitably with men. Your relationship with yourself gives you the confidence and the security to engage profitably with men. You can have access to men. You can have access to systems. But like I taught you, if you do not have confidence in yourself low self esteem, you will engage in a way that will abort the process that. Is leading to your victory. Your relationship with yourself. Gives you the confidence and security to engage profitably with men. Number four, Men I have taught you here will in turn give. You access to resources and influence. I'm showing you how it works. Men will give you access to resources and give you access to influence. And then finally, number. Five, you now use the resources and you use the influence to serve God, to bless men and to live a successful life. This is a powerful equation. You now use the resources and the influence you have received to serve God, to be a blessing to your world, and then to live a successful life. Let me run through the point again. Number one, your relationship with God gives you access to wisdom and favor. Number two, wisdom and favor gives you access to men. It gives you access to systems. Number three, your relationship with yourself gives you the confidence and the security to engage profitably with men when they come. Number four, Men now in honor to your esteem, in honor to your Profitably relating with them will give you access to re resources, resources in all its ramification and influence. Now that you have influence and resources, you can use it to serve God. You can use it to be a blessing, and you can use it to live a successful life. You have that down, Please don't forget that equation. That is an equation there that leads to a successful life. It shows you. The straight connecting line from your relationship with God until you're manifesting victory. So with God, you find wisdom, you find favor. You find you know access to wisdom and favor. Wisdom and favor will naturally compel men and compel systems to come to you. Your confidence in yourself will help you to engage with those men in a way. That becomes profitable. Are we together? That engagement with men will give you. Access to resources and access to influence. Now, with influence and resources, you will be able to be a blessing to yourself, a blessing to the world, and a blessing. To God's program. Write this down, little foxes. These are the things you must be aware of, the things you must avoid across all these four levels of relationships. Little foxes are the things you must be aware of and the things you must avoid across these four levels of relationship. If you desire to excel. Now I begin to list for you some of them. I may not have the liberty to explain all of them, but I'm going to mention these four levels of relationships, and I will least for you some little foxes that you must weed out of your life and weed out of those levels of relationships. Training the spirit in one minute, as you prepare your. Heart to receive, go ahead, and you Jesus. The things you must be aware of. They are called little foxes. The things that you must avoid in order to keep and maintain your relationship with God for an excelling destiny, in order to keep and relate and maintain your relationship with yourself, to keep and maintain your relationship with men, and to keep and maintain your relationship with things. These things I'm about to show you, Amen. These things I am about to show you a killers of destiny. They are killers of destiny. If you don't avoid them, they will tear down your relationship at all four levels and reduce you to becoming a ninetity in life. I pray for you that, as I lest them in the name of Jesus, the Son of the Living God, pick. Up your whole in your mind, pick up your matchet. Are we together? It's time to wed you garden. As I mentioned them across the relationships they tend to. I pray for you in the name of Jesus, for the discipline to begin to with them, that at the end of this discussion you will have a garden that has been well known well, you know, manicured enough for what you planted to grow. You believe that shouted loud Amen. So number one, let's look at your relationship with God. What are the little. Foxes that spoiled that fine the health of your relationship with God? What are the little foxes? The ones that will list are not the only ones. I just picked out a few to represent the subtle things that destroy people's relationship with God and eventually spills over to your feeling. In life and destiny. Number one, the first little fox is ignoring your personal time of fellowship with God. Ignoring your personal time. Or fellowship with God is a little fox that can spoil your vine. You wake up in the morning. You're not interested in God the things of God. You pick up your phone. That's all you're interested in. You See, the thing. About little foxes is that the destruction is not seen immediately. Your consistent practice of them will begin to decline you away together until you degenerate to a point where by the time it's becoming of yours to you, the damage would have been done. Little foxes, your relationship with God, your personal time of fellowship with God. Let me tell you something, and with all due respect to Pentecostas and charismatics, I've made that observation here. For many of us year who came from Christian backgrounds, our parents and loved ones, did not have the level of enlightenment that we have now. But one thing they had was discipline of consistency. How many of you use devotionals? How many of you had devotionals given to you by parents or loved ones? Our daily our daily breaks. They remember those old ones. I can't remember the other ones again. You know, there was many some thirty day manuals. And although some of our parents did not have. That first knowledge of the kingdom, but they were able to introduce those things. Some of them would spend ten minutes a day and to. The average pent costle, we can break that. Ten minutes is too small, but. Our level of inconsistency will not match their results after ten twenty years. Have you seen like that some of us as. Children, for instance, you were having this devotional with your parents till you became an adult. Once they wake up in the morning, no come rain, come shine, they carried their little devotional and for ten minutes they read for five minutes, they pray for five minutes God or not their sincerity of heart that has been spread over thirty years. But you find a lot of Pendecostals. They pray for. Five hours in one day, read totty chapters in one day, emotionally repentance, and then their backslide, only to again after three months and after ten years they are work done is practically zero because there's no consistency. Little foxes who is learning, let me challenge you. Do not think morning devotion is for weak children or weak believers. It's not true. It plans in you the discipline. You are spiritualizing your mentality when you get up in the morning. If you've not attained a stage where you can read five ten chapters a day. Don't kill yourself, don't let social media bully you. Start from where you are. Are we together most of the devotionals. We have today, and thankfully many ministries have your own version with greater enlightenment, greater engagement. You see that they have a system where patiently you can read the Bible in one year, patiently you can read the Bible in two years. Some of us, since you were twelve years, we say it's too small. Till now, you've not read the Bible cover to cover. And yet our parents with that child likes to then patients, they've read the Bible again and again and again and again. We have revelation. But my God, they have knowledge, a theological framework. They know almost every story in the Bible. They may not be able to. Draw revelation out of it, but you can't lie to them about the story. Let's say I hear that story Jehu and who and you're saying Jehu Jehu. Ah, I've not been taught anything about Jehu. Who is Jehu in the Bible. All I know is that they see. That's cataract, and they're looking at you and saying, look at. The Bible. Knowledge of The average Pentecostal is very small. There is deep revelation, but there is small Bible knowledge. Because from one verse you can draw light. But the spread of your Bible knowledge. Is very small. You can't arrange the Bible sequentially. What happened afterwards, I don't know. Go and meet your reverend in your local assembly. He will run the Bible from Genesis to revelation with excellence. I hope some one is Lenny. They may not be able to draw the light from it, but they know it. You see some of our old folks. They'll be speaking and say, you see something happened in. The book of Second sam World chapter five. The averagement of Coursi is lost once you Second somewhere chronicles all those books. When you go to Sam's and head, there's something there. I can get something in SAMs The Lord is my life and my salvation, but Bible knowledge. There are believers today who cannot least the twelve Disciples. And if you think I'm lying, try it in your mind. List them now. Now, Yes, you'd say, how does that translate to my victory? I understand. I'm talking about the spread of your knowledge. Who betrayed Jesus will be surprised. People's answer, I damaged ignorance from your life. Let me challenge you, rogerts and sisters. Read your Bible. Don't get revelation from ministry. Open your Bible and read it. And if you cannot do it, follow those manuals, go back and buy them. Start from there. Are we learning? Pray the name of the Lord, little foxes, your relationship with God. Pray every day, not once in a while. Study the world every day, not once in a while. Spend time with God, not every day once in a while. And I've taught you here. It is your responsibility to work in partnership with the Holy Spirit to design a spiritual growth program for yourself. The model you use as a student cannot work today now that you're a married. Man with three children. Are we together? The model you use as a student cannot work now that you are a CEO and a pastor and a representative of a company somewhere. Your travels around the world, You travel every week. You travel every month. You can have that time to lock yourself in any room, lock yourself in the plane. Reinvent yourself. Allelujah. There are people today who have reinvented themselves by seven, they have to leave home. It's not your fault, it's the demands of their job. So they squeeze out time. They know there's break time, maybe one to two, and they've already covenanted with themselves. The break time one to two, they take twenty minutes. It's not the best, but it's not the worst either. At least you are still pushing. Allelujah. People go for vacation and they spend the time increasing in their health and their minds and degenerating spiritually. You can combine all you can do a vacation slash retreat. What is wrong with that? Retreat in the night, vacation. In the day, Praise the name of the Lord. And I mean what I'm saying. Little foxes number. Two, the second little fox that can destroy your relationship with God. I hope you are learning tonight. Not defining clear Christian values to live by. Not defining clear Christian values to live by, there are little foxes that spoil the vine, ploring the line between true spirituality, between being a believer and a nonbeliever, not defining clear Christian values. To live by. First Corinthians, Chapter fifteen and verse thirty three, let's hurry up very quickly. I'll just give you three here and then I leave. Be not deceived. The Bible says evil communication, corps good morals. You are in the midst of people. Now. This is not a call to hate people and to tear them down because of your faith or because they are not in Christ. Away together. God teaches us to love what you does, not teach us to confirm with evil. What society advocates is conformity with evil. Be like them so that you'll be in peace. No, no, you can be in the world, but not of the world. Who is learning. I'm telling you they are little foxes. It's important people know where you stand as a believer, not from a fanatical standpoint. How many of you here can people can vouch for you? Don't waste your time. You won't collect that bride. You know there are many believers. You can't say that for No, I said, just give it to him. We're all like that. Since this one is systemic, it's not personal stilling. It's is semi stilling. Defining clear Christian values Second Corinthian six fourteen. Second Corinthian six fourteen. Every believer must live by values. The Bible says, being not unequally your together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with on righteousness? And what communion has light with darkness? Look at me, believers. I know that it's a very difficult thing standing for Christ in our world today. I'm not ignoring that fact. It has consequences in many regards. But let me tell you the truth. The Bible encourages us to obtain grace and stand as light. Everybody shout, I'm a child of God. Notice I did say you should say you're a Christian. Say I'm a child of God. Do you know what that means? Your life cannot be anyhow, Your values must be defined in the name of Jesus Christ. Now, with all your respect, we must manage this. Our advocacy for secular humanism. We have to be very careful. Is destroying, especially the generation coming from gen Ess downwards, eating people up. It's my life. Have you heard people say that leave me alone is my life? Yes, it's true, it's your life. But whatever happens to that life, there are people it. To affect too. For instance, when you go to jail, it to affect other people too. It's not only you it's your life that has an effect. On other people too. For instance, if. You have an accident because you are drunk and you are driving, you will give your mother headache, give your father headache. Are we together now? Don't just say it's my life. You must draw the line. Who is a Christian to you? Who is a child of God? To you? Who is a believer? To you? Number three? Very quickly? What is the thirdly to fox? Church is quiet? I hope you are receiving ignoring the corporate gathering of believers Hebrews ten twenty five. For an instance, I'm showing you a few little foxes that destroy the health of your relationship with God. They spoil the vine, it says, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some. Is, but exhorting one another. So much more, as you see the day approaching, many people today have neglected the gathering of believers because of offense. They tell you every pastor is the same. They tell you every church is the same, and in truth, in terms of human nature, they are right. There's no church that will not make you angry at one point. There's no salmon that will not make you angry at one point, unfortunately. But some of those ches, those punings is for your good. There are many people who are very obsessed with seeker friendly salmons, seeker friendly behavior. Anything that challenges you makes. You love God more, prunes you so. You can bear ful people become angry as a kite. No, I don't like this. I'm not talking of insulting people, insulting their pedigree, tearing them down. But I'm also not talking. Of condoning people to leave them to continue to live their lives like that. No, sir, the church is called to be the killer and the ground of truth. Are we learning little foxes that spoiled the fire of this tree that I've shared the greatest? You must pay attention to tonight. It's your personal relationship with God when you get up in the morning. Let it be a culture. Are we together? That day should not end without you spending time with God. That day should not end without you praying, without you investing in your spirit. Whenever I see another breaking of day, I say thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Whenever I see another breaking of. Day, I say thank you Lord. You are preparing for work. Father, Thank you for this morning. It is by your message that I'm alive. You are praying the spirit. You are Russian. Albeit God understands. But while you are having your birth prepared, if you cannot have the time to start, you at least you are praying this. You are making sure that you are in touch with God. Oh, this is me saying I love you. You are driving someone wants to you know, the devil just wants to bring someone to spoil you. Instead of pointing your hand and insulting him from your mirror, why don't you use the time and say it doesn't matter. Nobody will spoil my day. I'm a child of God in the name of Jesus. I'm blessed in the city, blessed in the country. As I leave going for work, I decree and declare the lines fall for me in pleasant places. I have a godly heritage. Are we together? Yes? The joy of the Lord is that work in me. I'm a happy child of God, a successful child of God, a productive child of God. My mind functions optimally. Lord. I thank you. I engage the wisdom of the spirit. I'm not without help. This is a believer taking advantage of your work with God. Let's look at the second level of relationship. What are the little foxes that can destroy your relationship with yourself? Someone learning Number one very quickly, low self esteem Hebrews ten thirty five, low self esteem. The first little fox that can destroy your relationship. With yourself is low self esteem. The Bible says, cast not a wait there for your confidence. It says, which have a great recompense of reward. Low self esteem. Number two little fox that can destroy this fine called the health of relationship with yourself. It's called self hatred. Philippians, Chapter one or Philemon one and verse six. Self hatred. I discuss that already. I won't talk much about it. Hating yourself, hating your looks, Hating the way you are, hating your whatever it is, the complexion of your skin, Hating whatever you know, all those things, Hating where you come from, hating whatever your tribe, all of those self hatred. You have to lay it down FilmOn one, verse six. That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing. Shout every good thing one more time, Shout every good thing which is in you in Christ. Of course, what do I do about my big head? Absolutely nothing? Give thanks for what God has given you, and thank God that you are alive. What do I do about my low self esteem? I wish I were taller. I wish I were you know, bigger. I wish I were this. I hate the sound of my voice. Unfortunately, you are not alone. There are many people who regionally speaking, they don't speak well, yet they. Have confidence in themselves. You hear what I said, regionally said, deficiency that came across. Your region, and yet. They will speak and grant interviews with confidence. Is your business. If you don't understand what they're saying, it's your responsibility to translate and find out what they're saying. As much as you are laughing, and I hope you understand what I'm saying. You'll hate yourself like that. Somebody loves you. You are just too blind that hating. Yourself that you cannot see those who love you. Little foxes. Low self esteem, little foxes self hatred number three, little fox laziness prohaps twenty and verse four, Let's hurry up twenty and verse four. Proverbs twenty and verse four. The slow God will not plaw by reason of the cold, and the Bible says therefore he shall beg. In harvest and have nothing. Did you know that laziness is a little fox? It can destroy your vine? Romance, Chapter twelve and verse eleven twelve eleven Romans. The Bible says, not slot full in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. When you are lazy, it will pome around back to You're maintaining a low self esteem. So as far as the level of your relationship with yourself is concerned, the foxes you must walk on. I repeat one. Low self esteem, number two, self hatred, number three, laziness. Let me give you the last one. Carelessness, carelessness Hebrews two and US three. Carelessness, non challenge, non challenge with your health, non challenge with your body, non challenge. With everything around you. How shall we escape if we neglect speaking about salvation? But this applies to every area of your life. You can't escape if you are negligent, if you are careless, careless about your health, careless about whatever it is. Many believers are victims of carelessness. You're chereless with your hygiene, are careless with your health. They are careless with the food they eat. They are careless with money, They are careless with words, are we together. They're cheerless with anything and everything cherelessness. Sometimes you lie down, you lock your room, you lock your house, you lock your gate. Sometimes you forget, you forgive yourself. You don't care. There are people like that. They are generally less affair. They are non challenged. They are not They are not connected to anything in life. If it works, fine, fine for them. If it doesn't work, fine fine for them. Their wallet gets missing with all the ATM and everything, they don't care. Their certificate falls down somewhere. They never call anybody. They does. There is a care free life. It's a little fox little folks. Everything God gives you, he gives you responsibility over and with all due respect. That are pastors who are careless, even about your members. They've not taken time as much as it is to put systems that help to guarantee the wellbeing spiritually and otherwise of their members. Somebody dies, they don't know, and sometimes it may not be a very large assembly, not too. Large to not know. Are we together? Something is happening. They don't know. Good things are happening. They don't care bad things are happening. They can't step in, no receive grace. Tonight that in the areas where you are being careless with your life, I tray that you bring order back to your life. Shout Amen, bring order back to your life. Shout Aimen again, bring order back to your life. Carelessness. How much do you spend per week? I don't know. Once there's money, I just with drama, a thing like that. If he finishes, that's fine. If it's still they're fine. Do you know? There are people who cannot define how they leave. Money comes to them a hundred thousand, they spend one hundred thousand. Immediately they say it's finished. I'm trusting God for thing. That's how they live for the rest of their life. Its carelessness. There are fathers who don't know what time their children are in, whether first time, second time, carelessness. They don't know how much is the school is? Don't carry you? There's some money, carry five for it doesn't paid. The schoof is carelessness. Who is mentoring your child? You don't know what are they teaching your child? You don't know. Is their food in your house? You don't know are your members growing? You don't know? How shall we escape if we neglect? So great salvation? If someone learning say in the name of Jesus, I weed away the little foxes that want to spoil my vine. Say again, in the name of Jesus, I weed away the little foxes that want to spoil my vine. So walk on your low self esteem, work on self hatred, work on laziness, walk on carelessness. Yes, and you will find. Out you're evolving to become that version that gives glory to God, avoiding all those little foxes that are determined place by Satan to spoil your mind. Let me give you number three very quickly, your relationship with men. This is an important one. What are the little foxes that can affect your relationship with men? By the way two scriptures? Very quickly Amos three and verse three. Can two walk together? The Bible says, except they be agreed? Can any two people at all? A husband and a wife. Can any two people walk together? People within a company? Can any two walk together except they be agreed? Prohabs Chapter eighteen and verse twenty four. The Bible says, he that one's friends, he that hath friends, must show himself friendly. Then it says coinonia, listen, there is a friend that's stick it closer than a brother. Say I am that friend. I hope you mean it. Say I'm that friend. Praise the name of the Lord. There are little foxes that you must deal with, and this one, very quickly will be a recap. I have brought this before, but I will do a quick recap so that we get to the last one. Number one I taught you when I was teaching you about relationships. Let me do a quick recab for you. Rise above competitive jealousy. The first little fox that destroys relationships with men, any kind of relationship, is competitive jealousy. Fight it. Fight it proverabs for thirty. Fight it every manifestation of competitive jealousy in your life. Take it as a project and fight it in the name of Jesus. Number two, evil speaking or back biting. It's a little fox that can spoil your ye. Evil speaking or back biting. There are people who. Never speak well of peace who proverabs Chapter six. Sixteen to nineteen. Then Roman six seventeen. Just write for reference Proverabs six sixteen to nineteen, Roman sixteen seventeen. Avoid evil speaking, beloved people of God. Don't pride in bad biting speaking evil of people. You say, let me tell you something about evil speaking. You will tell somebody and say, don't tell anybody. Don't tell anybody, don't tell anybody. Unfortunately, I can guarantee you that out of the four people you have told, one person is still working on their minds and they don't care about your reputation. They would tell somebody. Not everybody protects what you are trying to protect. There are those who don't care about your name, they don't care about your lives, they don't care about your reputation. So the person would tell another person and say, don't tell anybody. Then another person tells, don't tell anybody. Are we together? And before you know it, one day, among all of that group, somebody is going to repent where your problem comes. The person who repents will now credit everything to you and said, this is the source of all this information. And then you find out that most times people will not come and tell you they've heard what you said about them, but their body language would change. From that day they mack you, and you are wondering why good people are running away from you. They don't have to tell you what you have said, but you will know. You can perceive that you have closed the door against yourself. Any door you may have closed as a result of wrong use of words. And praying for you now in the name of Jesus, May my God swing those doors open. May my God swing those doors open. Let me advise you in advance. This is a very small world. What goes around truly comes around because largely men. There are few men you can find that you can trust, very few. Most people are driven by interest, and in the presence of profits, they would betray you in a hatby lend that in advance? Are we together. Evil? Speaking very quickly, Little fox number three offense the is with which. You get angry and irritated. It's a fox that can spoil your relational vine. Work on it. The degree the is with which you get angry, with which you get resentful. Some of you can never have any relationship given a love relationship. You don't have the patience to allow people to grow. You live in an ideal world. Everything must be your way, and by your terms. Someone comes late, that person will pay for one month. You can't live in that kind of world. There are people like that. You are too ideal. Give people room to grow. There are ladies like that. There are guys like that. You put a dinner with someone who comes five minutes later. You get up and you say, I'm going too, I'm. To explain it. What that? Do you know? What happened? What if his mother was sick and you have to rush out to the hospital. We lose so many. Things because of false principles that we put. Let me tell you the truth. Living in the world of men demands positive compromises. Many times you can set the standard, but have the haves to be able to be flexible. That floodity of mind is a secret of working with people. Allelujah. Some of the best people in your life will not come as the best. They will have to grow, They will have to evolve. You have to babysit their emotions until they get to maturity, which together you have toby sit their understanding. There may be victims of their background. If you are not patient. To grow, you will never win with men offense. Can I give you one more. Parasitic practices in relationships? There are little foxes. Maybe I would just end for you on that. With the parasitic practices. That means every time you come to people, you are just looking for what is in need for you? What will I get you? Never try to do things to people. All you are looking for is what you will get, what. Is in need for me. And people have not tell you to be so self centered, not self loving, self centered. There are people like that. If you ever see. Their call, it's because they need you lose a love when they don't care. Things go bad, They don't care. It's not your business. But the moment that I need here they come again, and they come with such entire toment mentality. Are we together? There are husbands who never appreciate their wives. You know that marriage is one sided. The woman will do everything, work and bring food and pay, doing what the man should be doing, and there's no sense of gratitude. There's nothing. Same thing happens sometimes the women and the men. Relationships must be mutually beneficial, even if not equally beneficial, it should be mutually beneficial. Let me teach you something. No man will remain in any relationship indefinitely where one person becomes the beneficiary and another person becomes the slave. Human beings do not have that kind of patience. Eventually they will revolt. Make sure you become an active contributor to the growth of any relationship. Are we together? Even your relationship with Jesus. It's not one sided. Inasmuch as he died for you. He has a desire. The Bible calls it the hope of our. Calling, the hope of our calling, that we attaind maturity and sonship, and that by that we will be able to manifest this glory upon the earth. He has an interest. I have taught you here. Let me try again one time. If you cannot contribute value, what do you contribute? Honor and gratitude? Say that after me, honor and gratitude every time. You cannot contribute value, because there are people, quite honestly, there's nothing physical that you can add to them. God has sorted their lives left, right and center. In such cases, you contribute honor and you contribute gratitude. Gratitude is an equalizer. I cannot bring you up bringing one million. I don't have a job. I can contribute my own bod. I will always say thank you, and I will always say you are a good man, thank you for not leaving me and the children. This way, you see that now it becomes a worthy consolation. Don't be parasitic in your relationship. Don't be parasitic at all, the person is always giving you money. One day, get you a basket of fruits, no matter how small, Even if you know that the person will not take it, You'll bring it and say this is just to appreciate you sincerely. And go and practice this and see what happens to you. I've given you this as an assignment before, and many. People return with testimonies. Try doing that for your boss and see take away the sentiments and you are not just doing it to bait them. People know where you are faking it, but they know when it comes genuinely from your heart. If you can't do it with gifts, why don't you do it with the text. Compose a nice text or have someone help. You and compose it. That is a reflection of the depth of your gratitude. Appreciate strategic people in your life. Don't treat your life the contributions of people. I do it for the leaders, I do it for the workers. Many times I even say it to you, and. I'm not ashamed to say it. The reason why Coynonia is excelling, it's not because I'm annointed alone. It's also because you are here. If you are not here, they annoy thing will still be there, but there will be. No function for it. You simply take time to appreciate the international guests. I take time to appreciate our family online. It's what I do to the I'm not ashamed. It is because they believe in you enough to come and listen to you. Don't trivialize it. You trivialize it. They will leave you alone. And that's when you will see that as powerful as you are, you are only as effective as the ear is hearing you, the eyes seeing you, the hearts receiving. Of your grace. Allelujah. Talk to your neighbor and say thank you, Thank you for you. I may not know so much about you, but thank you. It is because of you. Church is happening. Thank you for coming. It is because of you. The seeds are not empty. Thank you for coming. Say on, behalf of Jesus and apostle. Thank you who is learning? Little foxes, Little foxes, Little foxes. There are many. Believers who have great prophecies on their heads. But I'm showing you this is what is destroying your destiny. They go left, there are buttos there, they go right, there are buttoos. There are we together your relationship with God is not healthy. The one with yourself is not healthy, the one with men is not healthy. And you find out that your life is tied down. For most people, they think is a job problem. So they say, I need to change the job and my life will magically change. I'm showing you that the focal point of your making progress in life is to understand. And deal with these little foxes. Let's go to the last one, your relationship with things. First Timote, Chapter six, sixteen and seventeen. What are the little foxes that can plague and affect your relationship with things? Media? Help us? First Timote six exteen and seventeen give us verse seventeen. Please, it says, charge them that are rich in this world. That they be not what that's the first little fox. You know what high minded means, pride, the pride of life. To be high minded and then to place your trust number two in on certain riches as. Wonderful as the riches there. Doesn't just mean money, anything that can can translate to value in your life, your certificates, your pedigree, whatever it is. Charge them that are rich in this life, this world, that they be. Not high minded. The first fox of an achiever. The first cancer that destroys great men, I tell you, is pride. The moment you believe that the world cannot do without you, the moment you think God cannot do without you, the moment you are aware of the degree of your importance and you let it shift you to a point where you become full of yourself. The Bible calls it being high minded. You are allowing foxes to spoil your vine. You know why because God gives grace. To the humble what he opposes the proud. So the first fox Number one is pride, being full of yourself vain glory. You most trust God for grace to tame pride, especially as. He lifts you. There are people who are arrogant over nothing. There are those who are arrogant over something. Both are wrong. Whether you are arrogant over something or arrogant over nothing, the Bible gives you a word of caution number two, placing your faith in things that means they become the basis of your confidence. I'm telling you is a fox. That spoils the vine, and I submit to you by the time God begins to increase you, and you see what increase can do, especially influence and finances. Is with subtilty. You wouldn't know how much you have rested your confidence on those things. Bragging about the houses you've had, bragging about the cars you have, bragging about the moneys in your account, all the investments across. Once you find yourself doing that, you're a victim of these foxes. You have allowed them to creep into your vibe and destroying you. Tonight, grace to weed pride out of your life and. Release that grace upon you, and grace to weed trust. There are people who don't seem confident in God. Accept they get a job, don't seem confident in God. Accept, they get a wife, Accept, they get a housband. Accept they get some material things. And that's why most times in the world we like to shine things around us. See my car, we say, see my house, we say I'm a rich man, See my bank account, see my salar, see my investments, because we're hoping that would derive respect from those things. Unfortunately, it will happen because we live in the world of men, that your perception will now be upgraded, but you will be to the detriment. Of your life. I need no other argument, I need no other. Please, It is enough that Jesus die and that he died for me. It is enough that Jesus die and that he died for me. I wouldn't tolerate poverty, but I would not worship money. I wouldn't tolerate mediocrity, but I will never allow any lifting He brings to my life get into my head. It is my prayer with God. It is how I engage with things. I have lots of awards in my home. I don't like keeping those things before me because they can be very deceptive. Of soldiers did something for me recently and it was very humbling. And when I saw the. Things that they did, I thought to myself, I said, my God, this is what people do that can get into your head. You know how they say that your head is swelling like a balloon. What happens to a balloon when you keep blowing and blowing, you blow and more and everything goes. That can happen to your head too. Honestly, it is wonderful to see people who are greatly accomplished and very honest, human and humble. Let me sell you this idea of humility. If you find yourself itching to tell people your achievements. You have low self esteem. That's the name. No matter what you call it, I'm giving you the official name. It is low self esteem. It's just I don't want to talk about as you're see me, that that car, that one's my own, and what is there? I mean, we're walking in billions? Where is it? I'm not. I'm not when it has to do with showing it. You are humble, but talking about it you have it, you won't have. It, you don't have a period. Just to let you know this material you're seeing it's not ship. There are only. Twelve of them in the world. I ordered one, and you know this is our world there. We're very funny people because once with this you mean it, tell me more, and the people saying tell you mar the ones who will kill you. And then you keep saying it, revealing things you should not reveal. In fact, just to let you know that, as there's a twelve bedroom flat I just built and I'll show you one day, someone you met for. The first time. Because the massage. Your ego in ten minutes, you showed how small your wisdom is. It is enough that Jesus died, and that he died for me. Thank God for the great cars. Whoever sees it, you see it. Whoever does not see it, save Johnny, thank God. Focus on Jesus. Don't be poor, don't be mediocre, but focus on Jesus. I like to see honors, you mean people, because the day you now see the extent of the. Splendor, sometimes you are left all struck. You mean, you are sitting in this much, you have this stretch of influence, and yet you are so humble. All those kind of. People and my respect a thousand times. I dislike being around noisemakers. It's not confidence, it's low self esteem. Confidence has an energy secured in yourself, completing him, grateful for what he's done. Whoever sees to clap, save Johnny, web does not see glory, be to God. The most important thing is Jesus glorified. Who is learning? Let me give you one more scripture and then we'll pray. I hope you are learning. Tonight, Someone say I weed away the little foxes around my life. Shouted again, say I weed away the little foxes around my destiny. First John, Chapter two, fifteen and sixteen. This hopefully will be our final scripture for tonight. First John two fifteen sixteen. Let's read together one to go love, not the world. I have taught you in this place is the word ros is where you get the word lost. An affinity that is on godly, an affinity that is dangerous, and attachment that is on godly love. Not the world, neither love in that manner the things that are in the world. What happens to your card today? God forbid if they still it or it disappears. Now it's good to call. The police and do that, but will it affect you. Our world is full of beep today, blood pressure with all you respect because of the things that are connected to us like strings. You can have. Things without them having you. It says if any man loved. The world, it is because the love of the Father is not in him. Verse sixteen. It says all that is in the world, the lost of the flesh, the lost of the eyes. The pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world. Allelujah, dress well, look well, build your great houses, increase, spread, be great, embrace. It is your destiny in Christ. But never allow your heart to be connected to those things. It's one of the greatest dreads of my life that I become connected to things that I become. So obsessed about them. Every once in a wild God who asks me to close certain chapters even though they are open intentionally, so that it just helps to balance that tendency, that affinity. Allelujah. You can become such a. Big man in court. You lose touch with the things that make men wise. You will live in a false world. False world, a world that only answers yes sir, a world where nobody can correct you. A world where you cannot grow, a world where even when they're burying you, they're saying yes sir. Sometimes you need to detach yourself. It's a go to those ants, use slogan and learn wisdom. Is someone learning this is very important. I know you have grown so big you can eat certain foods. Again, I know you can relate with certain people. They are too low a class for you. However, let me tell you this. There is danger in letting things on you, and I submit to you. In my small sojourn upon the earth, I have met successful people, quite successful people, and have met others who are victims of this cancer of being held by things. It is an ugly sight to behold. They lose their sanity, they lose everything. World, if not controlled, can make great people mad. I'm telling you wealth and riches. Can take away year and then introduce a certain kind of folly in the life of human. Lord, you are more precious than silver. Lord, you are more costly than gold. Lord, you are more beautiful than tim There is nothing. That is time compared to you. See one more time. Watch you're seeing everybody. Lord, you more precious, thanksiver. Lord, you are more costly than gold. Lord, mar beutiful. There is loving. Who is in this place tonight, who will vow before God and say, no matter. How high you linked me, it will not take your place in my life. Whether you make me a director, you make me a senior executive, Whether I become a billoonere in dollars, a billooneer in whatever currency, whether I become a name that is non globally. My covenant with you is that I will live in modest life, loving you and accurately representing you. Don't learn nonsense from social media, then don't learn. Nonsense from godless people. I'm showing you the way of winners. There is a requisite level of modesty you have to bring to your life. Excessism always leads to failure. Excessism would lead to a baggage of trouble that is to expensive for you to handle. Allelujah prays the name of the Lord. Now listen to me. I forgot to say this. Let me say this before we pray. I was to say this before we start teaching. Thank you, Holy Spirit, by God's grace. Media, please listen to this every week. In addition, I've told you listen to every teaching including this, but will begin it hopefully from this week. So I will do a selection, a monthly selection of our teachings, and every week the media will announce the teaching for the week that in addition to whatever teaching you listen to that when they can choose any day of the week, maybe Tuesday or Wednesday. And then I'll arrange a monthly schedule. You know why, because I want you to get the teachings for now. Let me give you the teaching for this week. Already, listen to the message e copboard obtaining the grace to last. This is adding to what you have learned tonight. Eat copboard. You find that on con on your global so media will be working together from hence, maybe on Tuesday or Wednesday. You advise me on. What bestdays and then will release the message for the week and the link. You don't need to premiere it again, just. The link and then coin on your global family. Please submit to this and all the believers who are part of these grace make sure you submit yourself. Even if you've listened to it again. It is for your training. I would take that responsibility and come up with a schedule of teachings. Every week, and then we line them up. Some of them I preach here, some of them in other external meetings, will schedule them according to what God is doing. It's my commitment to see that your growth becomes more constructive and that you accelerate your pace of becoming. Provided you submit yourself to this truth, there's no limit to what you can become away together we've started already this week, listen to this message as always the message that I preach for the week. You know that you owe yourself a commitment to listen to it again, and then this week, let's listen to itcaboard so the media will place it. Just take advantage of all our social media platforms. They will schedule it as part of their weekly online activities from now hands, so that we can have the message to listen for the week. You can listen with your family, Listen with your loved ones, and let it before your growth. Let it be for your nourishment. Are you happy about that? Praise the name of the Lord. Everybody, rise up on your feet. Please please hold hands with someone by your left and right. I just want you to do something in one minute. Whoever's hand you can reach, left and right one minute, please be upstanding if you can. Allelujam. Now you're going to sow a seed of prayer into your neighbor's life, whoever that neighbor is. It is a prayer from the of your heart. You're going to pray that every fox that has been engineered by Satan to affect his or her relationship with God, his or her relationship or perception about himself, his or her relationship with men, and the relationship with things. You're going to join them. In pray and intercede for the next two minutes for them. Lord, in the name of Jesus, I stand in partnership with my brother and my sister, and together we weed out this little foxes. Go ahead and pray I told you tonight, God is weeding your garden. These are killers of destiny, the things. That, if left on check, as subtle as they can be, they can grow to become. Can Cerus to your destiny, can Cerus to your work with God, can Cerus to your self wealth, can Cerus to your relationship with men, can Cerus to the way you engage with things. Someone is pray. One minute, you a pray. I will do your will, do your we do your old God Lord, I will do your dor me. To you. That's the part I like, no mad word have may come my way? Our fall, our fall, our fall, our fall? No mad? What have may come? Are you praying? Man? Our father, our fall, our fa no mad? What madd? How far? How far half humble times nod. Made? You will remain my priority? We are little faces for my life. Now fox is a dry thoss of flesh, focs of virtue and anger. And I'm forgiveness. What were late? How far? In the name of Jesus? Now you pray for yourself and beginning to declare my garden is free from foxes? Mention The ones you know affect you? What has the affect that your relationship with Jesus, perhaps your prayer life, your word study life, perhaps. Your consecration, your your love for Jesus and for his house. Go ahead and pray, then, shown these foxes in the name of Jesus and obtained grace online. Are you listening to it? List it and pray, List it and pray. You are a gardener, use your whole well, you are a gardener, Use your tools well, wait them from your life. Prayer lessness you die from my life, little foxes, wordlessness you die from my life. Canality you die. Are you praying now? Tella tost like a paratus, a paratos yatah pray low self esteem you die from my life. Self hatred you die from my life. Laziness you die from my life. Anger, bitterness you die from my life. Back, binding of friends, unforgiveness you die from my life. Are you praying now? Lost for things? Materialism and obsession for material things, and obsession for money, and obsession for titles and obsession. Say glory and on healthy attachment for things. Let it die from my life. One minute to a pray you're making this investment tonight, Destiny kill us, you die from my life. Destiny aport us you die from my life. I desire to rise to soar like the ego. I decid to be a wholesome believer, a wholesome Christian. Come on now, a wholesome man of God, a wholesome business, many alsome spouse, hey, wholesome parrots, so. That I can heal, transform, so that I can't bless In Jesus' name, we pray. So it says, to catch the little foxes that spoil the vine, to dam them, weed them with the patience. Of an intelligent gardener. Some of them, you need to weed them gradually. Because in the process of weeding them, you may innocently hurt other plants. But it's better to hurt one plant than to allow these foxes to overwhelm. When Sathing said the foxes and they entered the wilderness, they entered. The plant, the Philistines plantation. You know what they did with the fire that was lit. They burned down everything, tame it before it destroys you. I think it's one of the fathers of faith. That should be doctor Loco your so, I think he shared years ago in a Persos conference. He said, any weakness or addressed will eventually bring you down. He said. It is not weakness that bring people down, is that you leave it to continue. It will eventually bring you down. Lead to foxes that spoiled the mine. I give you an assignment this week. Go ahead and write everything you know that you need to work on. I'm telling you, don't be ashamed. Work on it. Work on it. You are not the only one. Find comfort that everybody is working on something. Obtain grace to work on it. If it's laziness, deal with it. If it's lack of being spiritual some of you. As a result of this teaching, you need to honestly send the text to certain relationship and certain friends and tell them. You know what. I love you, but our relationship will be from afar. I have looked at my life and you are not a healthy influence in my life. I have learned that I am a deciding fact talk in my manifesting glory, and since you have become a perpetual interruption to my growth, accept my kind apologies, but it will not be business as usual again. Allelujam prass the name of the Lord. Let me make the author call before I speak over your life, and then we're done. I want to give you a chance to come to Jesus. I will do this for as long as I leave, including today, there will always be someone who needs Jesus. Lend me your attention. Please. Why do we invite people to come to Jesus because he's the only one who supplies the grace to weed out all of these foxes. Because the Bible calls him the Way, the Truth, and the life. It says no man can come to the Father except by him. You've tried, You've done all you know to do your way. Why don't you hand over your life and everything concerning it to Jesus. He's a faithful, kear taker. The Bible calls him faithful and true. He will steward your life to victory. He will erode the past and give you hope for today and tomorrow. I'm going to count one five. I want a bold, honest person who has been touched by the spirit. We say an apostle, If you will give. Me a chance, I will come to stand right here declaring the lordship of Jesus. As I count one to five. I'm looking for the first honest person who is not ashamed. Leave your seat and you come and stand here. God bless you. I'm seeing my sister. Come. I know that there's another brother, and another sister, then another one, then another one. On their way coming. Please do take that pole step to come, your backs, your bible, everything you came to charge with. I count one to five for your sake, or large, a big so that you make your way to come. If you're coming from outside, please hurry up. One, come and on your lesson. Encourage them. We're talking Jesus here. They're not just coming to receive a man made award. They're coming to receive life, life everlasting. Two Apostle, I want to come, but I'm ashamed of who will look at me. Don't mind them, mind Jesus. He's stretching his hands. Come come, he will give you a new beginning free. If you're rushing, please rush from outside, come quickly. And for the one who is following online. I may not see you, but Jesus sees you. And as I lead these ones to make this declaration of faith, please make sure you participate. I'm seeing some of my sisters and brothers coming from outside. Let's encourage them as they hasten their steps. God bless you, God bless you. Come. Come, Come, four one last count, and I begin to pray your grace has found me. Just as I am. Empty hand betterlife in your hands. Forever I am changed by your love in the presence of your man. Lift your right hands. Those of you who have come someone who has fallen online, please lift your right hand also online, you're making Jesus. Lord of your life. Please join my brothers and my. Sisters as we make these declarations together. Say this confidently, knowing that he loves you and that he's ready to give you a new beginning. Say Lord Jesus, tonight I have heard your word. I love you with all my heart. I believe that you are the son of God. I believe that you died for my sin. Right now I receive Jesus into my heart as my savior, my Lord and my King. I declare that the power of saying Satan, hell and the grave is broken over my life. I'm a child of God. From tonight and forever, I work in the newness of life, from glory to glory in Jesus name. Keep your beautiful hands lifted. Father, Thank you for the ones they have come. I declare that the grace that saves will save them and the grace that keeps. Will keep them. I commend you to God and to the world of His grace that is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified. I call you the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, and that you keep going from glory to glory in Jesus Mighty and much less than we pray. Amen and Amen, please do me a favor. Look to my rights. There's a counselor leaving raising the placard. They will have a word with you very quickly, and then you'll return to your seat. Let's all know them as they go. Alleluia, Praise the name of the Lord. Allelujah. Amen. So two click announcements. Hopefully by let's say by next week or the Miracle Service will begin to pray for Sound of Revival UK. And we're just a little shy of a month and it's going to be an extra finary. Time of encounter. We're speaking to a UK family. If the lines, if the link for registration is still open, then media please make it available. Pr make it available so that as many who need to register. I know that we caught the registration a beat, but if we can open up a little quarter to have some people register, that will be find and then when we get into may would do same until. We exhaust. I understand the space is exhausted. But I'm sure not everybody will come, so you can stretch it a beat unless see who and who is able to join that chariot before we close. Finally, praise the name of the Lord. Ali Luis, I'm going to speak over your life. Please remember that you have an assignment to listen to this message as a faithful steward. And then the message e coboard for this week, and please do well to invite orders to listen to this be and evangelist. Don't just invite them to church, which is very profitable, but invite them to listen to the messages to The message is more important than the place. The message is more important than the man pray. Is the name of the Lord. Are you ready for the blessing? Let me speak over your life in the name that is above all names. Enjoy grace this week, Enjoy liftings this week. Enjoy faivor this week. I say it again, enjoy favor this week. Let help us come quickly this week, Let help arise quickly this week. Made this week announce the end to shame and reproach. Made this week announce the end to tears and languishing. In the name of Jesus. The wisdom needed to excel in your end of ors this week, receive it now. Let it manifes Us all through the week, Sunday to Sunday, full of laughter, Sunday to Sunday, full of testimonies, Sunday to Sunday. Full of good news. In the name of Jesus, You and all. Who are connected to you are blessed for your sake. I say that again, you and all who are connected to you are blessed for your sake. Let help come to you from Afar. Lift has come to you from Afar. Bless us come to you from Afar. In the name of Jesus. I decree and declare that the glory of the Lord is reason upon you. His favor shines from your face to the nations. In the name of Jesus Christ. God will give you wealth and riches. I say to you, God will give you wealth and riches. You will prostpine your prayer life. You will prostpine your wort study life. It will be clear this week that you are a child of God grace for signs and wonders. I place a mark of honor upon you. Men will honor you everywhere you go. You will be greatly preferred this week. In the name of Jesus Christ. Every plot of badness against you and yours are are bought. That this week it will not come to pass. In the name of Jesus. May your expectations become your testimony this week. May your expectations become your testimony. Is this week in the name of Jesus Christ. Shout a man seven times three, four, five, six seven. God bless you. The Lord, increase you in Jesus name. Together less you the grace and fellowship, the grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Rest and abide with us none forever a man. Surely God's goodness and mercies follow us all the days of our lives, as we dwell in the House of the Lord, forever and ever and ever. God bless you. See you next week