LIVING A LIFE THAT COUNTS SPECIAL BIRTHDAY BROADCAST WITH APOSTLE (1)

Allelujah, Allelujah, praise the labor good of Amen. God bless you everybody. Good morning. Thank you so much for making the time to be here. Please be seated, Please be seated in Jesus' name, Please be seated. Allelujah. We bless the Lord for this day. It's a great day for me and it's an honor to be alive. And I thank the Lord for the privilege to be alive. Thank you for making the time. Those outside, my apologies if there are no seats and because of the sun, whatever it is, just make that sacrifice in the name of Jesus Christ. We're doing the best. I'm not sure there's any space anywhere else, but in the name of Jesus protocol everybody, let's make sure that there are no empty seats whilst we have people standing anywhere and everywhere, and particularly for those outside. Please let me request be orderly and be patient, no rowdiness, so that it doesn't bring any health hazard or any other issue whatsoever. The Lord will help us. In Jesus name. I'm truly grateful to everyone for making the time will be as brief as possible. Thank you, and the Lord bless you. It's always my culture to charge our hearts on a. Day like this. Pastor Godwin, thank you so much for taking the time to be with us. I really appreciate you. In the name of Jesus. Pastor Bujabrill, thank you so much. You're part of the family. But we do not take you and your dear wife for granted. The Lord honor you in Jesus' name, alle lujah. So I'm going to be talking very briefly on living a life that counts, living a life that counts. My discussion very quickly will be on living the life that counts. The Lord inspired me to just share this as a charge this morning. We live in a world where people desperately desire meaning to their lives. They want to see their lives count, They want. To see themselves great. They want to taste of success at least at one point or the other within the course of their lives. And for others, they eventually stumble into it at various levels. But many sadly never have the opportunity to live lives of meaning, lives of purpose, and lives that count. And so I thought, as inspired by the Holy Spirit, to just deposit something. Upon our hearts. For many of the things I'll be sharing their reminders, especially for those who are really connected in this house. But then all the same, it will build us and help us to be people of wisdom and people of power, living. A life that counts. I want to start by recapping on a statement that I made, I think it was last year or year before last, during the broadcast like this. It just occurred to me to pull that statement and read out, and. Then I'll begin to share a few keys. I wrote that our world is full of sad, depressed, frustrated, lonely, angry, suicidal people who have lost hope, who have lost joy and have lost meaning to life. This is a very sad but true statement that for the most part, when you look at our world today, you find people who. Are largely sad, largely. Depressed, frustrated, haven't tried and tried to make. Their lives work and failed. People who are lonely, people who are angry, angry at themselves and every other person with or without a cause, people who are suicidal, people who have lost the joy of living. They've lost hope, they've lost joy, many have lost meaning. To their lives. And yet the Bible is very clear as to the fact that when Jesus came, he said, I am come John ten ten, that ye may have life, and that you have that life more abundantly. It is God's desire. In his prophetic program for you and I and for all who are connected online, that we live lives of meaning. We live lives of purpose within the time given to us. We call it your lifetime. From the moment you are born up until the day you transit in glory, it is called your lifetime. And God gives you that opportunity to serve His purposes, taste of victory and dominion, live a life of meaning with joy and rest and peace. And I'm praying the name of Jesus that the words you're about to hear will inspire you. There are keys that can help any individual to leave a life that counts that at the end of your life, you look at yourself and you will be glad. You will be happy for the kind of life you have lived. I was teaching wrapping up a program in South Africa, I think two years ago or three, and it happened to be the youth expression of that meeting, and I sample three people. I asked one to stand at the extreme left one to stand at the middle, and then the order to stand at the extreme right. Please lend me your attention. And I said, the. One at the extreme left, let that be the youngest version of you. The one standing in the middle, let that be the current version of you. And the order one standing in the extreme left, let that be the future version of you. Are meant to say, then the current version of you. Then the wine behind, let that be the youngest version of you. And I wanted a. Discussion between these three people, So a discussion between the youngest. You, that now you, and the future you. I wanted to call three of them to a meeting because I was interested in hearing what they would say. Praise the name of the Lord. Allelujah, Praise the name of the Lord. Reverend Sam is here, God, bless you, sir, thank you, thank you so so much, hallelujah. He can't sit on my seat, that's fine, he shouldn't sit there. Please honor him. Let him sit. It doesn't make any difference. I'm on stage from stage. I'm leaving this place, so please sit your most welcome, sir. Please orshow him werehouse of honor, Please give him that honor. Let him sit. Allelujah, praise the name of the Lord, hallelujah. And so back to my illustration. A discussion between three people who happened to be the same. Person at different time ranges. So we have the younger version of you, the current version of you, and the future version of you. Listen to the conversation. The young you tells the whole you, how are you, sir, And he says, I'm fine, And he says, how are you a young man? He says, well, I don't know because my time is up already. And then. He looks at the old man and says, do you have any lesson for me? And he says, a lot of lessons. Unfortunately I don't have time to correct the mistakes I've made. But here's the lesson I was once you. I had the opportunity with ignorance what I had time and forsaw me to be that I wasted my time experimenting my life without knowledge, and now I have become this version that is speaking. He said, now you have an opportunity. Don't be like me, even though you are me. That's the older you talking to the younger you, and the current one is listening to the conversation between two time zones, and it's all the same person. And he's having an opportunity to hear his former self and his future self discussing, and he's given the opportunity to choose whether he will follow the advice of his yesterday's self or the future one who's now most likely living in regrets, and so on and so forth. And when I tauch those young people, I taught them that in life there are things if you do not know, I know on time, it would take the grace of God to have the wherewiout to correct any mistakes. There are mistakes you can correct, but there are some you cannot correct. Again, it becomes His car upon your life forever. And so I'm teaching about living a life that counts. And I'll be sharing with you a few keys by the message of God that can help anyone, anyone including you, to live a life of meaning, a life of purpose, and a life that counts. It's my design, my prayer, my hope, my wish for you that beginning from today, everyone will begin to live lives that are intentional and lives that are purpose driven. You receive that prayer, Shout amen, Key number one, key number one, and in order of priority, I do not believe anyone can live a life that counts outside of a genuine encounter and a genuine. Experience with the Lord Jesus. As simple as this sounds, please do not trivialize this statement. I am convinced, and I. Can only speak from the lens of my own experience, alongside that of people whose results I trust I have seen. I believe I've tasted of that. The life of meaning begins with an encounter and an. Experience with Jesus. John chapter ten ten. We read earlier on the thief comment not but for to still to kill and to destroy, it says, but I am come that ye might have life, and that you have it more abundantly. The starting point twenty one's journey of greatness is Jesus, Jesus. I know we teach on discovering yourself, and that's wonderful. I know we teach on being educated, and that's wonderful. But in order of spiritual priority, you officially start living not the day you are born, but the day you are saved. Allelujah. The day you are saved is when the time clock of life life abundant begins to read, and there are many things we receive when we come to Christ. Life. The Bible calls it first John five eleven and ten and eleventh verse John five, ten and eleven. The apostle was speaking, and he made a very profound statement. He that believes on the Son of God, you know, has life. There is a record. And then verse eleven he says, and this is the record that God had given us e taner life, and this life is in his son. Verse twelve now says he that had the Son hath life. The only way to have this kind of life we're talking about is to receive the Son. The Bible says, as. Many as received him, he gave them power to become. So we find life when we encounter Jesus. Number two, we find peace when we encounter Jesus John fourteen twenty seven, with this course that a few weeks ago in this house, John fourteen twenty seven. Peace, peace, Jesus is speaking. Peace. I live with you. My peace I give on to you. He says, not as the world give it. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. We read it earlier on again Philippians four and verse seven, it says that the peace of God that's so passed all understanding, let it keep or guard your hearts and guard your minds through Jesus Christ. What else do we find when we encounter Christ? Joy first bitter one. Verse eight calls it joy unspeakable and full of glory. Joy unspeakable and full of glory. We find joy when we encounter him. What else do we find when we encounter Jesus genuinely encounter him? We find a reason to leave, a reason to leave, A reason that will employ and deploy you for all your lifetime without exhaustion, A reason to leave. Jeremiah twenty ninety eleven. I know the thoughts that I think towards you, said the Lord. It calls it thoughts of peace and not of evil. To give you an expected end. There's always expected, and for everyone, especially everyone in Christ John fifteen sixteen. You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and I have ordained you that you should go forth and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should abide. So we find through I encounter and I experience of Jesus' life, we find their peace, We find their joy, We find their purples. And meaning. You believe that, say amen, anyone who desires to live a life that counts in all you're getting, in all your seeking, the strategies to make your life count, and in order of. Priority, it begins with Jesus. We have taught in this house that the formula must not be compromised in the beginning. God, you compromise on that formula, your life will go upside down. Number two, the second key to living a life of meaning and. Purpose is transformation. This is powerful. I will always emphasize this transformation. Contending for a superior belief system, a belief system greater than the context that brought you, a belief system greater than your current context. You see that you will only become great and make a mark in your life and in your generation to the degree to which you intentionally contend for a superior belief system. Let me say a few things about belief systems. I wrote something here that a superior belief system is beyond being more Western. So when I talk about having a superior belief system, I'm not just talking about being more Western. With all your respect, I'm not just talking of sounding like a white man for want of word, or just having secular enlightenment is beyond that it sustained. A superior belief system is beyond being more academic. Being more academic does not necessarily translate to having a superior belief system. It could help, but it doesn't own its own guarantee that a superior belief system. Does not mean being more logical. There are many people who are more logical and scientific, but it doesn't mean that they have a superior belief system. So when we talk about sustaining a superior belief system. We mean living by the word. We mean becoming more. Work compliant with your life are well together, We mean sustaining the mind the thinking of Christ. Every time we talk about belief systems, please. Let your mind go to the world of God. Don't just think tech, don't just think books, don't just think it. As wonderful as that is, you can be very enlightened and not be transformed. Transformation for the believer is with respect to the world of God. Allelujah. If transformation where with respect to westernization, then there would be a class of people. On earth that did not need transformation. But the Bible mandates all men is a be ye transformed, and that by the renewing of your mind, and that happens through the world of God to the degree to which your life and your mind is word compliant as a habit. That is the degree to which you are transformed. Consciously probe into your beliefs. I wrote here, Please listen, consciously probe into your beliefs and only retain superior word compliant belief systems. It is your. Responsibility, as a commitment to your desire to be in great to sample all the thoughts that make up your belief system and begin to on emotionally edit them. Unemotionally edit them consciously, probe into your belief systems, and only retain superior world compliant belief system Don't say we are all like that in our family. You can change. It's an ability God gave men. Don't say we're all like that in this country. You can change. The Bible says. Be transformed, be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Are we learning now? This is the second key. Your life will be a messless reflection of your belief systems. Your life never becomes a reflection. Of your desire. Your life never becomes a reflection of your intentions. It becomes a reflection of your belief system. You desire great and you think like a failure. Sadly, your life will be that of a failure. I've taught you in this house that there is what we call the willner's mentality, and in truth there is a loser's mentality. The individual does not have to be bad. You have just received a software that programs you like a beautiful laptop can have a terrible. Virus in it. You see, the virus does not affect the beauty of the laptop. It only affects delivery of results. So you can be. Well packaged, full of a lot of lives, well packaged full of a lot of inferior thoughts. It is your assignment. No body inherits transformation. In transformation is not an importation. It's a conscious work. You take advantage of the world of God. You take advantage of the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Fueled by your hunger, your hate, tread for a life of mediocrity. All these mixed together like ingredients, they propel you towards a transformed life. Say contend for trans information. Said like you're understanding my teaching, I contend for transformation. Allelujah. Yeah. Let me tell you the truth. The man who you cannot help is the man who refuses to change. Not the man who has a demonic problem. That's an easy one to solve. Not the man who is unsaved. That's an easy problem to solve. Not the man who is a failure. The man who is a failure is even more prepared to be a success than the one who has not failed. The one who has failed has an experience that will help him quickly. At least he's failed on time, so he can succeed. But the man who refuses to change. When you become loyal to an inferial belief system, you become married to it, and you stay there, you have defined your limitation. I pray for you, in the name of Jesus Christ, that every belief system that has become a an ally which satan to trap your life, to keep you down, to keep you medio care, and keep you weak in. Spite of your desire to be great. I declare an official divorce between you and that mindset. In the name of Jesus. Number three, the third key that you must engage. I thought this on Sunday. Let me repeat it again. Value and contribution. Please don't take these words likely. These are life changing principles. You want to live a life that counts. It is not without being valuable and being productive. Value and contribution, value and productivity. You have to be extremely valuable. Our world has standards to reward value. It must be extreme, extremely refined, and extremely useful. Let me recap on my message on Sunday. If you allow me, your value and your contribution in truth determines your reward. It determines your influence, and it determines your fulfillment. Your value and your contribution will determine your reward. It will determine your influence, It will determine your fulfillment. Allelujah. Value here talks about superior solutions. I said that relate to and solve human needs. Value. When we talk. About being valuable, we're talking about sustaining superior solutions that. Relate to and solve human needs. Recall I taught you on Sunday that being valuable demands skill. It demands training, It demands on learning and relearning, and then it also demands upgrading. If you recall to best practices, you cannot be valuable. You cannot be productive. If you're unwilling to be skillful. So if you're unwilling to be trained, if you're willing to unlearn and relearn, and if you're willing to upgrade to best practices, allelujah, And I told you if you recall that being valuable also demands a skillful and intelligent presentation of your solutions. It's one thing to have skill. It's one thing to have a solution that is needed and useful, whether spiritually, whether intellectually, and otherwise. But the presentation. You have to be able to present your value in a skillful way that makes it receivable and then rewardable. A great solution that is presented poorly will hardly be received and would hardly be rewarded. You still remember this, I'm reading as I wrote on Sunday. Let me repeat one statement that I'm hoping you've not forgotten. But if you've forgotten, let me remind you, hoping it will stick with you forever. I said, your value to men will define their perception of your importance. Your value to men will define. Their perception of your importance alongside your willingness to. Honor and reward you. Think about it for one moment that your value to men, not your value before God, everyone is valuable before God. But your value to men to the degree to which you are useful to me. That defines my perception of your importance. And it also defines my willingness to accord you honor and to reward you. This is a very uncomfortable but profound truth. Don't expect people to consider you honorable and to reward you just because you have a healthiest theme of yourself, a healthiest team of yourself means nothing to anybody around you. What defines means their honor to you, what defines they are rewarding you. It's not what you feel about yourself. What you feel about yourself is absolutely your business. Await together. Now, what they feel. About you depends on how useful they perceive. You to be to them. There are many people with a healthy self esteem who go around pulling. The psychology of orders, expecting people to accord them the honor they think they deserve. Life does not work that way. You can think you are a champion. Congratulations, so you're healthy mindset. But if you do not solve my problem the way a champion will solve, I cannot accord you the honor of a champion. A wait together, Now, this is very profound. So don't expect people to feel about you the way you feel about yourself. No, this is a world that is driven by real needs and interest. And to the degree to which they perceive you as useful to them, that is the degree to which they will accord you honor, and that is the degree to which they will reward you. Who is learning now this is very powerful because there are many people who are angry around and said, look, I believe in myself, I'm valuable, and I don't like people trivializing you. Unfortunately, you don't stop people from trivializing you. By asking them to stop. You stop people from trivializing you by becoming. Too useful, too useful, too. Important that it becomes impossible to ignore you. May that be a definition of your life from today, that, in the name of Jesus, you will be too important. Nobody will ignore you, not only because you believe in yourself and what God has made you, but your value is so exceptional it is needed. They will accord you importance and you will be greatly rewarded. You believe that, say amen, I wrote something. You are still connected to value. I hope you're learning. I said, be a giver more than a receiver. You want to be valuable, you must be more. Giving conscious than receiving conscious. And I tell you it's. A subtle cancer that is eating the church, particularly a generation. The word I receive is a very powerful prophetic world, but in the realm of champions, in the realm of those who understand dominion, I receive is the language of one who is a victim, not a victor. The one who is a victor is the one who gives. It's great to receive, but if you are more conscious of receiving than you are giving, the world will not celebrate you. At chapter twenty and verse thirty five, it says, it is more blessed to give than to receive. It is blessed to receive, but it is more blessed give it to us twenty thirty five. Did I get that right? Yes, it is more blessed to give than to receive. That means you keep. A receiver here, keep a giver here. The one who will be accorded greater attention is the one who is a giver. I learned this early in life. I lanted so well. That it became. Almost a disadvantage in my life. I'm still learning how to receive. Don't be like me and did that part as you learn me. Unfortunately, it's good to receive. If you don't receive, you will not have. A man can receive nothing. So you first received, to have. He gave on to one five talents. The ones who multiplied first received, So receive it multiply, but make sure you give. There are most many, many people who are more conscious of receiving. The moment you see a rich man, your first prayers, Lord, let him. Give me something. The moment you see you always want to receive. No body will be celebrated for receiving and receiving, and receiving and receiving. I'm not aware of anybody who's won a Nobel prize because. They kept receiving. People who over received and are receiving conscience are usually seen as a burden to the society. Allelujah. Sometimes when you are driving and someone stands at a junction, you're waiting for the green light, and the person is waving his hands, waving a plate, knocking your window. You are not a wicked person, but you just know that this person is a nuisance. Let the green light come so that I leave, because nobody wants to indefinitely be around the atmosphere of one whose hand. Is always stretched to receive. When you become a giver, indeed, then you are ready to command the attention of the world. I told you that the realm of greatness has two doors. Let me remind you still remember that the realm of greatness has two access points. Number one the door of need. Number two the door of value. If you step into the realm of greatness through the door of need, you will become a slave there, even though you're in the realm of greatness. But if you step in through the door of value, even those who are already great will give you a warm hand of fellowship, because, among other things, you came in as a giver. Someone say, I am a giver. I didn't hear you shout I'm a giver the name of Jesus. A giver does not just mean a giver of money. No, a giver of good things, a giver of ideas, a giver of superior information, a giver of love, a giver of positive energy. Say again, I'm a giver. Number four, the fourth key that will make your life to count in truth. You want to live a life that counts. You want to live a life of impact. The fourth key is to master relationships. By now you know, I repeated this on Sunday. You cannot live a life that counts without understanding relationships. Let me say this, This is the world of men. Settle it once and for all. This is the world of men. Some one, one, five, or sixteen. The heaven of heavens belong to the Lord, he says, But the earth has he given to the children of men, Ladies and gentlemen. This is the world of men. If you ignore men, and you. Ignore the dynamics that is required. In living in the world of men, you are you are going to. Live a very miserable life, a very defeated life, even if you are a Christian. This is the world of men. I have taught you in. This house that relationships are advantageous connections that should be mutually beneficial to the parties involved. I recap this again on Sunday. Relationships are advantageous connections. When an ambrober is close to you, when an ambroba is holding your hands, you can't say you're in a relationship with that Ambroba, it's not an advantageous connection. So relationship is not just proximity with another person. It must be advantageous. Are we together? And the real context of relationship is that it must be mutually beneficial to the parties involved. Another recarp over my Sunday teaching, I said, relationships are bridges. They lead to an exceptional life, and they can lead to a life of pain and regret. Between where you are right now and any pain that is scheduled for you by the devil. It's a relationship that will lead you there, between where you are right now and a life that is exceptional, a life that is enviable as designed by God, is still a relationship that will take you there. So your life from hence, whether it moves for the better or moves for the. Worst, will happen through the vehicle of relationships. Relationships are currencies. They can buy anything money can buy, I told you on Sunday. But they can also buy what money cannot buy. Allelujah. Relationships are currencies. They are not like currencies. They are real currencies. It's unfortunate we don't use them so much, but they are currencies. It's real currency. It can buy anything money can buy, but it can also buy what money cannot buy. Allelujah. If you think relationships can or money can buy everything, you're mistaken. Go to the hospital and watch beloonnaires and miloonnaires who will give up anything. But if you have a relationship with the Holy Spirit, for instance, you have a relationship with strategic people, it can speak. Do you know the basis of your eternal destiny is not even knowledge, is relationship relationship. The easiest way to succeed in life is through relationships and destiny connections. Let me recap on a very important statement I made on Sunday. I'm just doing a summary to all of this because I intend for us to live here on time. Lend people's skills. Still, remember, I'm literally reminding yous like you are listening to coin on message again, but this time around, I'm hoping it to enter your spirit in a very intentional way. Lend people's skills. You cannot thrive intoday's world and become great if you. Do not lend people's skills. I told you that real wealth is not measured in the amount in your bank account. Real wealth is having access to the hearts of men. Real wealth is the ability to secure the loyalty, the trust, and the confidence of men. I believe this with all my heart. I reminded you on Sunday again that there. Are auxiliary laws that support mastering relationships. Let's do a quick recap on them. I told you that you must understand the law of honor. You still remember. I told you must understand. The law of words. A word spoken in due season, the law of words. By your words, you are justified. By your words, you are condemned. I told you to understand the law of time. You cannot master relationships if you do not understand the law of timing. Every time is not convenient for everything. The Bible says there is a time for everything under the song. We don't know how it happens above the song, but under the song there. Is a time for everything. You can be well intentioned, but your motive, your approach can be ill timed, and it can cancel out on everything. You must understand the nature of men. Men are intrinsically selfish. Unfortunately, if you prayer, prayer and sayf I do stop everyone on it from being selfish. It's not a very mature prayer. Point. It's something that came with the falling nature of man. Men are intrinsically selfish. Most times. If they say I love you, what they mean is I love myself through you. Are we together? Yes, men are selfish. Get over it so that you will respect people who become selfless, because that was not the natural build up of people. Men are selfish. Men are driven by ego. Men are driven by all kinds of things. When you understand this about man, it gives you the wisdom in relating with the cosmos. In the name of Jesus, I pray for you that the relationships that you may have lost by not understanding the dynamics of relationships, you may have lost opportunities. You have lost relationships. May my God restore for you. Are you shouting him? And may my God restore for you? In the much less name of Jesus, I submit to you that one strategic relationship can bail you out. I know you've heard people say, but you believe me on that one strategic relationship. In fact, one of the ways God accelerates a man's life, particularly financially, is to bring you in proximity to someone who is already established. It's not a license for laziness. So God prepares you to be a blessing to that man, and then he prepares that man to be a blessing to you. For instance, let's call you the widow in. Zarah pat and let's call your destiny helper Elijah. You see how it works. Prays the name of the Lord. So he brings both of you together, and you help Elijah to cure his hunger problem. And then it works well for you because you are sustained all through the time of famine. That's how it works. That's how it works. One of the greatest law that I've learned in life, maybe second only to my encounter with God, is the law of honor, and connecting to that is the law of relationships. Relationships are powerful. Who hates you does not matter, but who likes you in this life, especially to this world, matters. Honored to have you around at one call. The reason is. Because you love Jesus. But I'm honored because you love me and you believe in what I represent. Don't take it for granted. Let me tell you the truth. While it is it's true that who hates you does not matter, let me give you a disclaimer. If too many people hate you, you will feel it. If too many people hate you, you will suffer. Hello, yes, Sam, too many people give us Genesis twelfth and verse two. I will make up THEE a great nation. I will bless THEE, and I will make your name great. You shall be a blessing. Now read verse three with me, everybody one to go verse three stop how many are available to bless you them? And then I will cause him. So the equation is that for every hymn who hates you, there should be enough then that bless you. A way together. If too many people hate you, you believe me, you will feel it. You feel it. Ask the devil is that there was a. Positive outlook about himself, but he's feeling it day and night. They are night. No man was designed to live perpetually from a psychological standpoint, under an atmosphere of hatred and negative energy away together. So it is true that who does not like you doesn't matter, provided that consolation comes from the person who likes you. But if too many people hate you, especially justifiably. So. You see that now, if you are being persecuted, that's all right. God will bail you out. Mastering relationships, learn to greet people, learn to be cautious away together. I sincerely appreciate every one of you. That's why I take the time to honor you. I take the time to appreciate you. I take the time to celebrate you. I don't do that as a ritual. It's the truth from my heart. Without vision, the people perish. But without people, the vision two will perish. The vision will never come to pass. You can be anointed all you can. The Lord gave the word. It says great was the company of them that published it. So let me use this opportunity to say thank you again. Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for everything that you have done, seeing and unseen. I'm grateful. Can we go to number five? Number five? You want to live a life that counts, write this down. You must live by values. You cannot afford to live your life carelessly. You must live by values. Probabs twenty five, twenty eight says, a man who does not have a watch over his spirit is like a city that is broken. Give us amplified, and let it give us a greater perspective. It's a he who has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. You must live by values. Values that control your words, value that values that control your conduct, your behavior. And the greatest of them that I'm proposing for you in this season is self control. Please write it down. You will never be great if you lack self control. Let me tell you this. Everything God gave man. No matter what it is, he also gives you the ability to manage and to control it. The moment you lose the ability to control what God gave you, the devil has hijacked. Whether it's a gift, whatever it is, self control is a very powerful management system. Don't just be gifted. Be gifted with self control. It's a terrible thing for you to have abilities without self control. It's like electricity with no way of regulating it. Can you imagine that? Or it's like a tab a dam with water with no way of channeling it. Very well, most people do not have self control. I'm proposing for you self control. Press for self control. The Bible calls it temperateness. Self control. Learn to have power over your body, power over your mind, power over your spirit. Are we together? That means when it's time to first obtain grace, the discipline. You can look at food and say, I desire you, but I'm going to turn that plate upside down because there is a no blast pursuit self control. Self control. You must have a moral creed that guides your life. Please write that down. You must have a moral creed that guides your life. What is permissible and what is not permissible. Use the word of God. And create a moral creed that guides your life. What kind of occasion will you not go to when it has to do with moral excellence? You should be very predictable. People should be able to say, don't waste your time. It's not going to show up for this program. Not because he hates it, but it's inconsistent with its values. Let me tell you the truth. When people cannot attest to you as touching issues of moral excellence, it means you cannot get to the top. You are a risk even to growth. You are a risk to influence. You are a risk to yourself. Someone should be able to say, if it's the matter of bribe, let me advise you don't waste your time. This man is not going to collect it. You should be that predictable. Yes, all men are human, but what then is the advantage of the Holy Spirit, What then is the advantage of the world of God. Don't get into this illusion. We are all human as though. Okay, let my life just run its cost anyhow. No, sir, no, sir, We are human, but we fly planes for hours and under normal circumstances they don't crash. You know why, because there is a code. There is a code. The captain does not fly planes at will. He is bound by certain laws, and provided he works in keeping with those laws, and under normal circumstances, the plane will fly. There are certain regions where ninety percent of the flight. You are literally over the sea. That means if anything happens, they won't even find you. And yet people have been flying like that for decades. That's the power of this laws. You must have a moral code that guides your life. I don't mean to insult you on a day like this, but some of you are everywhere. On every occasion in church we find you. Every other place, we find you around behind you. We come to Mount Zion, you are there, hallelujah. We go to Sodom and Gomorrah. You are there. We go before Bell. You are there. Even though you are not bowing. You are still there. What are you doing there? Someone learning? You must obtain grace in the name of Jesus. Obtain grace. Let me tell you this. The power to say no is proof you have grown. If your life is only full of the ability to say yes, get ready to fail. Anybody who wants. To become great, you must have the courage to say no. And I'm not talking of saying no to evil things alone. Let me tell you the truth. When Satan tries you with evil things and it does not work, he will try you. With good things. The most important thing is for you to fail. God can kill as much as evil. When Satan tries anything outside of the Bible and it does not destroy you, he will use it is written and still destroy you. Many of us cannot say no. You can't say no to people, no to things, no to ideas, sometimes good ideas. You're spending time with God and someone is calling you and said, look, can we go somewhere. The courage to say, you know what, I would like to go, but just allow me sometime. I've decided to take some time with God. If it's an emergency, that's understandable. Many of us our weakness is not seen. Our weakness is the inability to say no. I impatch that grace upon you today. You've gotten into a lot of trouble. Nor would I bail you. Out once and for all. And I pray for you in Jesus' name the grace to say no. Let it be. Released upon you your beliefs. Shout amen. So you must have a moral creed that guides your life. Let me give you an advice. If you host anybody in your house and that person will stay for a reasonable period of time, they should be prepared to serve your God. You can be under my roof and come with your idols. If my roof is that valuable, then respect the God that created it. My roof does not mean my house. My roof means anything that I've been given. Stee worship over away together. Don't let people carry their idols like Rachel and want to match into your life. They come into their life and redefine your life by their values. Have you seen people like that? They want to be your friend, but at their times with your values. No, Thank God for what you celebrate. Where you can choose two things. Either will become friends with very mutual time, the Bible being at the central focus. Some of us are best friends with own believers. Don't feel bad. I love everyone, but being a best friend with a non believer you are irist to me. I don't trust you. You can be friends with them, but a best friend that's a deeper level of emotional spiritual connection. What then, was the basis of the friendship? Who is learning? You don't like what we're saying. I'm sorry, it's my bad. They just give me the opportunity to let me just dram it. Yes, sir, Allelujah, Prace the. Name of the Lord. Let me tell you the truth. The ability to say no. Is the same with your ability to create a ladder. Every time you say no, it's like you have created another ladder to your destiny. There are many knows you will have to say if you want to be great, you will have to say more knows than you will say yes, because life will offer you use less things, sometimes things that are good, but they are not part of the script of your destiny. And if you can only say no to evil things, you are already deceived. You will have to say. No to many good things that are inconsistent with the blueprint of your destiny. If you're learning, say amen, praise the name of the Lord. There are times you will say no to food. Is food wrong? But because of what you are doing? There are times you will say no to sleep? Is sleep wrong? You see that. There are times you will say no to money. Someone is giving you money, but you know that that gift is you are selling your bethright. You can politely say no, no, no. I appreciate you, but not at this time. Allelujah, Praise the name of the Lord. You want to live a life that counts. These are the keys. Let me give you the next point, number six. I've given you five. Now a quick recap, and then we go to six. One you must have a genuine encounter and an experience with God. Number two transformation. You must contend for a superior belief system, a belief system meaning a word compliant mindset, a word compliant belief system. Number three you must be extremely valuable. Your value and contribution decides the perception of your reward, and I mean the perception of your importance and. The rewards that follow. Number four you must master relationships. Number five you must leave by values. You must have a moral code that guides your life. Number six, Always be guided by vision and. Purpose, not emotions. Always be guided by vision and purpose. Emotions are wonderful, but it is the weakest way to leadership. When you depend on emotions for your life to be led or to lead people, you will not leave them to a safe heaven. Always be guided by vision and purpose. This is very powerful. Again, I thank God for Dr Miles Munroe and for that investment in my life in the area of vision and purpose. Let me recall a statement I once made in this house. Here I said, desires and pursuits only become profitable to the degree to which they are connected to purpose. Long read, but please write desires and pursuits only become profitable. Under line profitable. Desires and pursuits only become profitable to the degree to which they are connected to purpose. That means your desire and your pursuit. What makes it good or bad is number one, whether it is consistent with the will of God, and then number two, the degree to which. It is connected to purpose. I've taught you in this house that purpose asks the question why why fame? Why wealth? Why increase? Why greatness? If you cannot answer the question why then you don't need whatever you desire. Always ask the question why a personal I want to become a millionaire great desire. Question why? Because I want to prove to somebody that I can't die of failure. Too small reasons are not in the economy of heaven, apostle. I want to become a champion. I want to become a world changer. Why. I've always admired great people and I want to be like them. Sincere reason, but too small a reason. If you cannot answer your why, then you are not ready to do business with God. I give you that as a secret. You must answer the question why have you read the scripture that says bring forth your say, present your cause? It says bring forth your strong reason when you come to God. Don't just think you just fold you, wrap your losts and your desires with the name of Jesus and stamp amen and present it to God and then have it delivered to you like a DHL. It doesn't work that way. Why do you want increase? Why do you want money? Why do you want fame? Why do you. Want a name? Many people have not had their prayers answered because they have not been able to stake the reason for their desires. It's very powerful asking the question why. It's a powerful secret that can help you tame our insachable appetites for vain living. If you cannot answer the question why, then you lose the ability to tame vain desires. Let me give you a reason. Let this be your why. For every time you desire anything from God. Let this be your reason. I refer you to my message, and they glorify God in me. Your reason must be us. We say in this house, to see Jesus revealed and Jesus glorified. It's not a cliche. Is the truth is a central theme for why we are alive. When your life becomes invested to see Jesus revealed, to see Jesus glorified in every form and in every fashion, then you are ready to do the business of greatness, the business of glory, the business. Of impact with God. John three thirty. We read it on Sunday that I may decrease so that He will increase. John seventeen and verse one. Jesus was praying, and he said, Father, the hour has come. He said, glorify thy son, that thy son will glorify thee first John, I mean John Chapter one, six and seven, a popular scripture. In this house, there was a man send from God. His name was John. Immediately tells us why he came. The same came for a weakness, to be a weakness of the light, that all men, through the efficiency of his weakness, might believe. If God. Can trust that you will use your wealth, your fame, your influence, the open doors, the greatness to draw many to Him, to be a contributor to the betterment of our world, and to reveal Jesus. Then I'm telling. You you have completed that backgain for a life of greatness. Again, I recall the statement, and I remind you of what the Lord said to. Me many years ago. Son, if you will let men see me, there is nothing I will not give you the truth this celebrity driven world where there is an obsession for fame. Don't get me wrong. God desires you glorified. But if all that is in your heart is to try to use value and use all of these things just to be famous for the sake of it, then you will not get it. By God. You must live a life of purpose. You must live a life of meaning. I thought through my life, especially this morning, and I was just thanking God, and one of my prayers for myself was I said, Lord, keep me focused on the mark. Paul said, this one thing I do forgetting the things that are behind me and reaching forth for the things that are before me. He says, I press, I press seven. We're almost there. The seventh key. You want to live a life that counts. I hope you're lending something this morning. The seventh key. This is a very important one, and please lend me your attention. You listen, and then right. Genuinely desire the good of all genuinely desire the good of all men. Genuinely desire the good of all men, especially the body of believers. Genuinely desire the good of all men, especially believers. Very simple statement, but very profound. I'm reminded of Look chapter two. I think that should be thirteen fourteen. Look chapter two, give us verse fourteen. It is thirteen or fourteen the salutation. Of the Angel Glory to God in the Highest. Read with Bill cooin Onia. And on earth, what peace and good will towards men? Glory to God in the Highest. But on earth, let there be peace and good will towards men. The Angel who was speaking knows that they are wicked men on earth, knows that they are wicked and unreasonable men, And yet he said peace and good will to men. Let me tell you the truth. You will never live an impactful life if you do not desire the good of all. Learn to have a positive disposition towards people as a first response to them. Learn to have a positive disposition towards people as a first response. Don't just antagon nice people without cause. There are people who are like that. They are called sadists. You see someone and you just suspect his. Wicked Give him a chance to show his wicked, But you just suspect. I don't like this person. Do you know him? No? Have you met him? No? Now, there are times God can place something in your heart and you can discern. But always have a positive disposition towards people as a first response. Don't look at people and you're already sizing them from head to toe. What burg are you carrying, what portfolio you carried? Who is your father? Who is your mother? That becomes the determinant for treating them favorably and with honor. The Bible says, honor all men. Then he says, honor the King. It's someone learning. Now let me make an honest admission. I wrote it down here and I wanted to listen. I hope you will believe it. Most men are not evil. In fact, most men who are used to do evil things are not evil. They are only desperately in need of salvation, desperately in need of deliverance, desperately in need of exposure, and desperately in need of growth and transformation. Most people are not evil intrinsically, it's a lot of work to be wicked. Most people are not evil. I'm telling you this. Most people are not evil. They are only in desperate need of salvation, desperate need of transformation. Are we together desperate need of exposure, desperate need of growth and of transformation. So when you look at people from that lens, it swels. Compassion, not hatred. There are people who behave because they're carrying their villages all over their head, and the issue is not demonic. What they need is just exposure. The prayer for them is Lord, lift them to a horizon in life beyond your context, and that will cure their misbehavior. Just exposure. And God can answer the prayer honestly by just giving them a visa one country. They just visit and see life beyond what they've known. They will come back and behave. And I'm not being sarcastic. It's the truth. There are people whose problem is a backlog of where they're coming from. It's not necessarily demonic. They don't know life any other way. So by the time you broaden your horizon through exposure, it tens some of those excesses. There are people who need Jesus. They don't need counseling, they don't need therapy. They need a translation from the kingdom of darkness. You will bind and cast. They will not change because what they need is a change of heart first before a change of mind. Listen to me. A change of mind without a change of heart is a useless pursuit. Your heart should change first, then your mind can change. The Bible says the peace. Of God Gods your heart, God's your mind. There are people who are in need of salvation. Provided they are not saved, you are not free. They will cause trouble again and again and again. There are people who are in need of deliverance. I'm telling you honestly what you see happening to them. They are on that strong demonic manipulation. They don't like what they're doing. I've seen people like that. I've building this business for a bit, so I can tell you firsthand. You see good people causing bad problems for people. They need some demons. Out of their minds, out of their lives. They don't know why, but they're being controlled and manipulated by demon spirits. Their break relationships, their break strategic people. They I mean, they cause all kinds of problems, but when you talk to them when they're alone, they are lovely people to be with, and you cannot understand why they keep causing trouble. They need deliverance. Bring them on Sunday. They need deliverance. Do the work of an evangelist. And I mean what I'm saying, you can't counsel someone who is. Possessed with a demon spirits. Who are you counseling now him or the spirits? The mad man in Godar right was not counseling. Jesus gave him look or place. He was delivered that when he was in his right mind, he now sat down with Jesus and land. You are teaching a demon spirit and wasting your time and advising the demon spirity to behave with, not to go to policeation, not to cause problem, and the person the pumpet is saying, I hear you, and five minutes later the police culture and say, come again, your child is there. Let me tell you the truth. What you need is deliverance. And for as long as you keep and doing left, right and center, you will continue the deliverance. When I said deliverance, I hope you understand you are enlightened enough to know what I mean. I'm not just limiting it to casting out demons away together. Yes, there are three levels of deliverance. There is a casting out of the spirit influence. There is deliverance through transformation by the world. There is the engracing that brings the discipline of conformity. That's what the person needs. There are people who just need to grow. No matter what they do, you can't solve their problem till they grow. What is happening to them is part of the reality that comes with either their age range, biologically, financially and otherwise. I hope you know it's not only biology that measures age. You can measure financially, you can measure age sociologically leadership. So there are certain people who behave like wicked people. You don't need to cast and bind anything just and you tolerate and let them grow. Allelujah, Prace the name of the Lord. But your own assignment as a believer is to desire the good of all men. Look at people's motives beyond their actions. Look at people's motives beyond their actions. Sometimes the actions can be wrong, but the individuals can be very sincere. Sometimes the actions can be wrong, but the individuals can be very, very sincere. Allelujah. Sometimes the actions can be wrong, I'm telling you, but the motives are very sincere. If you judge people only by their actions, you would drive. Many good people in your life, many good people. There are many good people whose actions who hurt you, but there are some of the greatest blessings. That will be in your life. You must learn and have the courage and stamina to look beyond actions and look at a person's heart. Someone can steal from you out of pressure, but that person is not a thief. He's told, but is not a thief. A thief is not the one who steals. There is a mentality that is called a tief. Are we together now so you can have a teeth. Around you, and he never steals what. He's a thief? Are we together? Yes? A thief is not one who picks something. No, the one who picks something has given evidence to stealing. But you can have a thief around you like you can have a wicked person who never has a chance to execute it. Yet, what is a wicked person? In my opinion, Judas was not a wicked person. He was just somebody who loved Jesus and wanted to make money quickly. There were many of the other disc disciples. If I'm to arrange, if I'm to arrange the disciples of Jesus according to wickedness, there are others who will be in front. Judas will not be part of them. You believe me on that. Do you know why? Because he was so he felt so much pain that he had betrayed his master. He hung himself. That was what he knew to do. I believe if Judas had gone to Jesus and answer for forgiveness, Jesus for forgive him. Because he's dying or not dying did not affect salvation. The betrayal was what was needed in prophecy. The killing himself was not part of the script. Write this down. Do not wish for, do not anticipate, do. Not even support the downfall or the destruction of anyone in the Body of Christ. Do not wish for, do not. Anticipate, and do not even support the downfall. Oh, there's a generation that needs to hear this. Let me take a moment and speak, especially to younger ministers. Do not wish for, do not anticipate, and do not even support the downfall of anyone in the body. No, leave the blood of Jesus to do its assignment, and leave the throne of judgment to do its assignment. Away together. Don't sit down and be wishing for the destruction of another person, another believer. No, that's not a Christian's approach. Let me wrap up with this. I took this. I was going through my notes for all the years, and I decided to take the concluding part of last year's discussion. I went through it and it impacted me, and I want to read it for you in case you were not here. This is the eight key understand the brevity of life. Powerful You want to live and in perhats through life. A life that makes a mark. You want to live a life that counts. You must understand as the eighth and final point, the brevity of life. Honestly, life is brief. You must understand the transcient nature of ours. So John here on earth reminded of some nineteen and verse twelve. So teach us to number our days. The Bible says that we may apply our hearts onto wisdom. I still remember my younger self. I'm not too old as to forget. I don't have dementia. I remember very very well. It is amazing today. You open your eyes and it's going to be next year my bed day again, and you'll still be gathered again. You close your eyes, you will be another bad day again. Are we together? It is incredible. I traveled not too long for a program back at my village, and I had the opportunity to look at my dad. Maybe they're following now, is possible. And I looked at him, and for the first time, I just realized that the man is old. I looked at him, very youthful. Man always wants to mean he has refused to be old. But I looked at him and. I said, Wow, this is amazing. I looked at myself in the mirror, and I said wow, divine life. Notwithstanding, if you live in denial, life will teach you a lesson, whether you like it or not, believe it or not. Thank God for life. But know that every second when you celebrate bird days, I've taught you in this house, you are not just celebrating the distance covered. You're also celebrating the distance left. Did you hear what I said? When you celebrate bad days, you are not celebrating the distance covered. You are celebrating the distance left. So if, for instance, you are to be eighty years or one hundred and you are celebrating sixty years, you are not just celebrating sixty years. You are celebrating twenty years left. And do you know it's an uncomfortable truth. But there are people who did not know that when they celebrated their bad days, they were celebrating the last year, just with a few months added, just with a few weeks added away together. Yes, so teach us to number our days. What kind of wisdom do you get from this orientation? I wrote something here. One day you will not be here, either because Jesus will comme and receive us, or one day you will transit in glory when your assignment is done. I hope by now you are not afraid of death. I look at your eyes. I know that some of you don't believe what you're saying. Possibly please pass this statement. We came to celebrate, no talk of death. Every dead body on earth today says salmon. I hope you're hearing what that preacher is telling you. Every dead body you come around, whether it's a dead body of your loved one, sadly, whether it's the dead body of someone you know, or the dead body of someone Maybe you're a doctor, a medical practitioner, you have to see a patient. Every dead body on earth today is a salmon. It is a constant reminder that this destiny clock is ticking and one day to stop. So what does this mean? Focus on the things that matter? And our wrap up by giving you three things you should invest your life in. Focus on the things that matter. They're at things in life that does not matter. I'm telling you, don't waste your time around it. As a man of God, I've been involved in the ministry of life, but sadly and unfortunately I've been involved around people and families, some close, some far, where there's been bereavements, and it's been very painful. I have met many dead bodies in my lifetime. I've tried to resurrect some. I've been left alone inside emutuary. You know my story. I tried to resurrect the dead body, tried, prayed. I didn't know what part of the body to touch because everything was as hard as a rock. And I just use my time to preach to myself. I said, everybody in this place was once alife. Life. If everybody had a chance to choose whether to die or not, the world will see before there are people who would not die. Unfortunately, when that thing comes knocking, it just transits people. Yours is to not be afraid of you, but to live a life so effective that when you are prepared, you will You will. Like a You know how a general retires with one honorable salute. He smiles at those he's mentored and raised. For those of you who do not know that years are counting, and don't deceive yourself and say I'm still twenty years old, unfortunately. There's no you see. That is not like employment where you retire at sixty five. Sometimes that thing retires you at eleven. It retired babies in the Bible is still retiring babies today. No adult is spared under normal circumstances. I will speak life to you, but I can tell you this, it's a wisdom key that you have to keep. God forbid bod. If I die today, my only pain will be that I did not finish my assignment. But it will not be that I leave they useless life. No. On my way to heaven, I ask the Lord, I say, Lord, raise somebody to raise a number of people to replicate this and finish that assignment on time. That would be my only pain, but not that I live there useless life. No. In truth, I would tell you for me now, to leave is Christ and to. Die is gain. It's true. It's not a preacher's talk. I didn't say I would die, but. It's the truth. It will be stupid for me, at this point in my life to still be fooling myself with childish thoughts. No, no, no, are we together? Make up your mind? Let me tell you this. Anyone who is in this place, please don't feel bad. Anyone who is in this. Place and you are from let's say you're between let's say fifteen and thirteen. I released grace upon you. To run away from the deception. Of feeling young. Really what I said, it's good to be. Youthful, heart, but there is such a deception. You find a lot of people forty. Fifty, sometimes fifty. Five, and the person says, you're a young man. In terms of your health, that's fine, but in terms of not getting off to do anything in life. And in Africa, we like calling people children. You know, I've cleared. My perspective on that issue. In my world, the moment you can. Think and take decisions and face consequences, you are adults. There's nothing like eighteen years in my world. Eighteen years does not exist. Once you can take decisions and you can understand the implication of your decisions, you are an adults immediately. Allelujah. So don't even deceive yourself and say I'm young. I'm going to take my time. There's no time to take anywhere. You give life the kind of aggression, a victor's aggression. I must walk the walks of him that sends me while. It is day. Listen, Jesus is speaking. He said for the night. Comment he didn't say, may come it? Comment, sir, when you woke up in this morning, did you say good afternoon. What did you say right now? Do you say good morning again? That morning is gone, And whether you like it or not, no matter how much of a prayer warrior you are, in the next four to five hours, you are going to. Say good evening. Is that true? And by the next seven or eight hours, whether you like it or not, what would be your response? Good night, good nights. For someone, life is still telling you good morning. The meaning of that is hurry up, hurry up. For someone is saying good Afternoon's saying you've done well, but keep pressing. For someone, life is beginning to say good evening. And for someone I hate to tell you this, but life has come as a messenger. Help me read the message. Good Night. Someone hearing me sing is fine. I'm not prophesying doom, but it's good night. Good Night does not mean die, It means wrap up. Listen. If you are, say twenty. Thirty, and then you are best friends with someone who is fifteen twenty, he has the time to be careless and forgive himself. You don't have that time. Are we together? Now? Let's assume you got born again at thirty five or forty. Thank God, you've met Jesus. But my brother, you did not meet himately enough. That means that you. Double your time of prayer. You'll double your time of fasting. You'll double your time of learning the world. You double your time of discovering your assignment. The person who is fifteen can use five years and waste their life, repent by twenty and still catch up by thirty forty fifty. You just gave your life to Christ. By the time you are done learning the principles of the Kingdom, you may not have the energy to go around the world again. While it is there for the comment when no man will walk again in the name of Jesus, I'm. Praying for you that in this season, let there be the courage to edit relationships, strategize your blueprint. Three things you should focus on. We're wrapping up Number one, your relationship with Jesus Christ. I once reached a message in. Zaria yes ago, called three most important things. I think your relationship with Jesus should be your highest pursuit and your highest priority. I know God that today here, especially because of the welfare that will be happening shortly. They are non Christians, Muslims, and there are people bank representatives here. Some of you are Christians, some of you are not. Don't mind my bias. I'm telling you that Jesus truly according to scripture. This is not some fanatism. He is truly the way, He is the truth, and he is alife. The Word of God declares it. And shortly before I'm done, I'm going to give you a chance. I will give you a chance. I've given things of less self value, your time and your life and your attention. Why don't you trust Jesus with the remaining part of your life and watch what it makes out of your life? So three most important things you want to live a life that is impactful. The reason why twenty four hours is not enough for you is because you are doing things that are not part of your script. Twenty four hours we're designed to only be enough if you invest them doing the things that matter to your destiny. You should be busy, But there's no such thing as there's not enough time. There is enough time based on the script of your destiny. If you spend your time wasting and investing it on other matters that don't have any profit as far as your destiny and the kingdom is. Concerned, your time will never be enough. Number one, your relationship with Jesus. Number two your earthly relationships. Family, strategic destiny, relationships. Invest more in relationships than you invest in making money. There are things relationships can do for you, like I said earlier on that money cannot do. Don't lose good people to find money. You made a bad back game with life. Don't lose people to build a house. You made a bad back game with life, because one atmospheric condition, God forbid, can wipe that house away. Was strategic relationships. There are many people in old age today who are rich, but they are lonely. You look at their lives and you are in pain. You are wondering did they have children. That mother or that father would tell you, I have twelve children. Where are they? Because they did not invest in relationships and it's not feeding them back. There's nothing feeding them back. There are people you see in old age. They will tell you I was once a principal, I was once. A commissioner, I was once this, And you say, did you not have subordinates? Didn't you impact anybody enough to remember you? In old age? One of the things I hear about another prophetess as much as I admire her part prophetically, I have a big question mark about her life relationally. No body visited her in the temple. What happened to her youth? Didn't she have friends? If it was part of her consecration? I understand, But how does a woman simply because she lost her houseband there was no mention of anyone coming to help her. Another person whose life is a lesson? Is the man a betest? He was not the only leopard in the Bible. There was a. Leperd in as chapter three, But that one understood relational principles, and there were men who carried him. How come this one did not have one man for thirty eight years. That's a message for someone. You are throwing away valuable relationships in your life because you are looking for money. There are some you betray anybody because of money. You can't take. Your friends to prison because of. One thousand era. And even when they're begging you mont no, no, no, no, no no. A tenant who is crying, I'm not saying people should be bad. A tenant who is crying, I'm telling you, please give me some time. No. All I want to hear is money. One day in old age. You'll find out that the only person available to help you was the person you look down. There are battle children are fighting today. They have no business fighting. That battle was created by the carelessness of their parents. Become like Gideon, who will blow the chauffeur and tatt it. Three thousand people will show up. I don't want my name to become a padlock. I told you that in your lifetime, your name can become a key that opens. Doors or a pad lock that closes doors. For someone whose name is already a pad lock. I pray for messy for you. Right now. There are people who have had to change your son names, change their names. Are we together? Others have had to deny identifying with certain people for the sake of your destinies. It's not only God's name that is great, he told Abraham, I will make your name great. A man's name can be great that on account of your knowing that man. They say, oh you know soan, so you mean it. Let this go. This gate's open for you. Invest in relationships. Invest in relationships, invest in relationships. Some of you are. Angry with yourself, angry with family members, angry with friends, angry with everyone You live in a world all by yourself. That world does not exist. Sooner or later you are going to need people. And I told you that one way the devil destroys people. When he wants to strike you, he will create two of fels so that you push away all the people who can help you when you're in trouble. When you are in alone, he now strikes you. When it strikes you, there will be nobody there to help you. Use this season for someone I'm speaking to you. Use this season as a season to realign strategic relationships, real line strategic relationships. And then number three, you assignment. These are the third the three things to invest your time and your energy in your relationship with Jesus, your earthly relationships, beginning from family extending to your children. Let me digress for a minute as I wrap up to say this, parents, please hear me. Let me give you a counsel in righteousness. Invest in the life of your children early, not money, Invest time, invest attention. Don't get into the life of an adult who you have no stake in making him become and suddenly claim his stake. There are many people making that mistake. It wouldn't work that way. Are we together now by the messy of God. And I say this not to brag. I have the honor of being involved in the. Life of many many people, many many people. School fish, scholarships, taking care of them every other thing a parent would do. And I'm sad to. Say this that there are people that have been taking care of for decades. Their parents are alive, their parents are. In this nation. They still do not know who paid their child's whol fe is from primary school till he finished. They don't know who pays the house rent. They don't know who feeds the child. Some of them, they don't know who feeds the wife, who feeds the children, And yet they are alive. One day, when that child now. Grows, they will now come and claim a stake and say it's my child. Would that not be a foolish parent. So God is giving you a chance. Make things right. Irresponsible fathers, their prodigal fathers, you can still come home. It's not only prodigal sons. Prodigald fathers come home. Prodigal mothers come home, Prodigal children come home. Aliduya closely connected to that. Please don't find an offense if you don't plan to be serious about family life, don't marry. You won't go to hell. Don't marry, it's a counsel. If you are not going to take care of your wife, don't marry. If you are not going to take care of your husband, don't marry. If you don't want the body of children, don't marry. You won't go to hell. But stop adding Lord to men of God, Lord to pastors. All kinds of people. You bring trouble, and the church is full of men of God focused on. The assignment and the assignment of another. Irresponsible father or irresponsible mother. If you can take care of only one child, have one. If you can take care of two, have two. If you can take care of three, have three. You can't get ten and take care of two. No, sir, any man who cannot cater for his family has denied the faith, And it's worse than an infidel. Trast the name of the Lord. Let me wrap up, Let me wrap up, Let me rap up. Thank you coin on your global for your honor on this day. It's one thing to be called by God. It's one thing to be anointed by him, to be shown mercy. But it's another thing to have a generation here you receive you and invest your time and attention, and I want to start first and foremost with a global family. Thank you for praying for me. Thank you for your love, your loyalty. I sincerely appreciate you. Thank you, Thank you so much. From Ghana to South Africa, to Malawi to Abuja, Zaria, UK, Canada, everywhere. Thank you for. Being true ambassadors of this vision. In the name of Jesus, I want you to help me appreciate our fathers in the Faith in this nation and across the globe. We thank the fathers in the Faith for helping. A number of them have called even this morning. I truly deeply honor you, every single one of you. I'm vocal about the honor to fathers and preserving the honors that comes to them. I want to thank every man of God who has played a role directly or indirectly in helping this ministry stand in helping us do the things that we do for Jesus. Thank you most sincerely in the name of Jesus Christ. I want to particularly appreciate the Body of Christ in Nigeria, the Body of Christ in Africa, the Body of Christ in Europe, North America, and across the globe. Thank you for receiving this grace. It is amazing the things people have done to promote the speakings the words that God has placed upon our heart, his wisdom, his power. Thank you very much for taking the time to do the things that you have done. Now, immediately after this prayer, I'm going to speak a blessing over your life, and immediately afterwards we are going to be distributing the welfare materials. I know that there are so many people, some of you have waited impatiently outside. To just receive that. Let me tell you why I do. This is not a show of whatever it is. Please don't misunderstand it at all. It is an opportunity to be able to give, and it is my seed. When I do that is from my heart. It is a communication of love because I believe that I speak over your life. Yes, you are receiving something, but I just thought that putting something together. These bags of rice, my God, Praise God. All right, those those outside, you don't need to show us. Just protocol regulate them. It was it was five thousand bags, but we've added to six thousand bags. So we're hoping that it should be able to. Go go around and praise the name of the Lord. I've instructed that the bags. Everybody gets it, including the workers in this house. We do. Charity begins at. Home, so everybody, it's not just those outside. Whether you need it or not, you have it. It's a seed with love from me. Praise the name of the Lord. So we thank those who have been patiently waiting outside. Okay, please, I'm told that I'm told that there's a stamped outside. Let me announce now. Please please don't kill anybody on my birthday. Please, those outside, I want you to listen. Jokes are partner. Let me make this announcement. Those outside, please, let's have the law enforcement agents please help us and let there be order. I know our security people. Please if aside. From some of our our dignitary here, if you're in this place and you're a law enforcement agent, you're a police, you're a military man, perhaps they may need your help outside. Perhaps there are more people than we have the hands. Please and please those outside, if we find you assaulting anyone, we may have to hand you over to the law. This is supposed to be an act of charity. Am I right on that? And we are believers. Am I right on that we. Have a culture, we have a system already put in place for a seamless flow. It's not We've done it before. So please let there be no stampeds whatsoever. Pregnant women and all of that. You can separate them. We don't want these kinds of issues. There are thousands of people. I'll soon be wrapping up now, and once I'm done, please organize yourself. Those of you who are in here. You are of this family, so there should be a more best behavior. Praise the name of the Lord. We have believers. We shouldn't pray in tongues and be organized, and then immediately after the grace, people start acting as if they kept Jesus away. So let's behave ourselves and trust God for grace. I believe there's there's even if there's not enough rights, I'm sure that God will help us. If it goes round and it's not enough. The workers and sacrifice, we'll get another one for them. But let's just do the best that we can do. Please, let's rise, Let's rise, let's rise. I like you to just pray in one minute, ask the Lord the one thing you desire to do him to do in your life at this point, the one thing you desire that He does in your life at this point, I want to speak over your life. I'm standing in. Faith with all the vessels of faith in this house, the men of God who have come just to join faith with me, and we're releasing our faith. I like you to pray, Father, I desire a life of meaning. I desire a life of purpose. Thank God for this opportunity that He's provided. To be a blessing. Shivalatos sprat brad Liatar racket tab ran to safraiscazashial life. At those Allelujah. I'd like you to pray one special prayer. Father, grant me wisdom for the next season of my life, Wisdom for the next season. Go ahead and pray wisdom to know what to do for the next season of your life. Wisdom. The Bible says, wisdom is the principal thing. He says, thereforeget wisdom in all you're getting. Get understanding. Someone, Go ahead and pray wisdom that drives your life to another level of wisdom by the power of the Holy Spirit, supernatural wisdom. With decree and we declare by the anoym of the Holy spirit wisdom. Hallelujah, Let me speak over your life. I received, I manifast your palm. And yourssdom till the la shance Cigsus lifted up. Exalted. I received, I'm manifest your power. And yours sun till the nacious Sigus lifted up. Glory, fast, prey, glory, pray, pree Lord, breathe, cree upon free, Lord, breath, breathe, Lord, breath, breath upon my life. I will see. I'm many fast, Your maw and lways. Start till the day. Shots Cegesus winter, and so then I ever see I'm many fast. Job man. And rby stand fill the day shots Cgesus lived. By. One of the things I heard in my place of prayer is the word ebniza. God can help men. Therefore I pray for you in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, on this special occasion. Receive help from God. Receive help from God, financial help, spiritual help, carryer help. I say it again, financial help, spiritual help, carryer help in the name of Jesus. May God raise men to help you. May God raise men to drive your visual Make God raise men to stand by you. May God raise men to stand with you. May God raise men to support you. You will not be left alone. You will not be without men. You will not be without help. Means will stand with you. Warriors will stand with you, Champions will stand with you, veterans will stand with you. Man of influence will stand with you. That keep us will stand with you. In the name of Jesus, I declar undeclared the wisdom required for the next season of your life, Wisdom that is connected to mighty works, Wisdom that is connected to undeniable, extra ordinary exploits. In the name of Jesus. May it rest on you now. May it rest on you now, wisdom for business exploits, wisdom for ministry exploits, wisdom for career exploits. You will know what to do. You will make superior decisions in the name of Jesus. Your works will speak of excellence. You will only speak of excellent things. In Jesus name, we pray Number three. I pray for you. My God will keep your body strong as you edge. Your body will not deplete as your days. As social your strength be. You will be fifty, and you will carry the body. Of a twenty five year old person. I say to you, you will be fifty sixty and you will carry a body half your age. In the name of. Jesus, I decree and declare you will not spend. Your days in the hospital. Everree organ will function optimally. A free organ will function optimally. Everye organ will function optimally. In the name of Jesus, I decree and declare every conspiracy of doubtness against your destiny, to abort your becoming, to frustrate the program of God over your life. We declare, cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel. I speak to you. Go forward, I speak to you, advance. I speak to you, increase by God, run through a troop by. My God, leap over a wall. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, I pray for your prayer, life, fresh fire, prayer, fire, the grace to pray, the grace to travail, the discipline to stay until you are changed, receive it, the discipline to stay until you receive receive it. I pray for your watch study life. May your appet time for the world be fun to flames now. May your ampect time for the word be found to flames now. In the name of Jesus. I pray for you. Where you have compromised on your values. May God grant you the grace to have a new creed, that substantial integrity. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, and I pray for you, Holy God's power. Let it rest on your life. Power for science and wonders. Let it rest upon your life. In the name of Jesus. Your life will stop being ordinary. From today. Nations will celebrate you. You have honored me. May shame be far from you. You have honored me. May reproach be far from you. In the name of Jesus, I call upon the God who has shown me messy. May you show you messy. May you show you messy. Anyone looking forward to your downfall, they will. Look forever as for you. You will go from glory to glory, chrace to grace, power to power. I decree and declare made. They hear you hum anointing. Let it rest on you the grace for visibility, the grace for influence. Those walk in Mandeta to hear you. May they hear you. Those walk in Mandeta to see you made, They see you. Those work in Mandeta to know you. May they know you. Those work in Mandetta to receive you, May they receive you. Those walk in Mandeta to reward you, May they reward you. In the name of Jesus, you will call on one man. Animation will answer. You will call on one man, Animation will answer. Nothing dies in your hands. I said again, nothing dies in your hands. I've cast the spirit of premature debt. I cast the spirit of untimely death. Coin Only I hear me, you will not die before your tied. Every covenant with that is yet by counsel, Every covenant with that is yet by your bothead. In the name of Jesus, every family represented here and connected online, I declae you will not go down. I pray for. Unity among families, unity among spouses, unity among siblings. You need to you among children in. The name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, where your parents went down, I pray that you rise up where your predecessors. Could not make it. I declared the record breaking annointing. Let it come on you. In the name of Jesus. You will do things that have never been done before. By the power of the Holy Spirit. I pray that your voice will not be silenced. Your world will not be silenced. A generation will receive you, They will receive your word. They will clorify God in your life. In the name of Jesus, let me pray for your finances. I forbid you from being in luck and want hey coidonia. I forbid you from being luck and want major va Chirah arise for you. May you surprise you, open up doors for you, give you ideas. You will not lack. Pray to eat. The Lord is your shepherd. You will not be want. My God will give you every day your daily bread. In the name of Jesus, and I pray for you. If Christ thearries twenty years, thirty years, forty years, fifty years. After now you ask the standing strong in the name of Jesus Christ. I leverage upon every grace that is here and the grace upon the fathers of faith in this nation. And I speak over you. Everything that was your challenge, it will not be your challenge. Everything that was your limitation, it will not be your limitation. Where it took them ten years, may it take you two years. Now. Let me say it by myself, what took me twenty years. May you achieve it in five years. What took me a long time. May my God accelerate your results. Accelerate your results. Accelerate your achievements. In the name of Jesus Christ. What answers to me made answer to you. The doors that opened for me made it open for you. The messy that pleas for me may speak for you. In the name of Jesus Christ. Wear your hands and give Jesus praise. Try I will glorify you and way, thank you, Thank you for this opportunity. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. Amen, just give me two minutes. We're out. I want to make an altar call. I want to make an auto call. Everyone stand. This is a very important moment. You came to celebrate me. But I am what I am today by the messy of God, because of Jesus, and today is an opportunity for someone to make it right. Those who are connected online, here's an opportunity to make Jesus lord of your life. You're in this place, all the overflows, and perhaps those outside as many who can hear me. I want to make an altar call. If you've seen. Anything that is good in this life that stands before you, I can tell you sincerely and without being political, it is because of Jesus. His grace is messy, his word, his wisdom, his power, his help. That's what he calls to the man you see that stands before you. And give me the honor of introducing this Jesus to you. You are in this place and you're saying, Apostle, I need Jesus, I need Jesus, I need to make my ways right, or you are saying I want to read dedicate my life to Jesus. On hearing you speak, I cannot say. I've been living a life of meaning, a life of purpose, a life that counts, and I want all that to change. I want to have a fresh start. Let this be a memoriable day that every time you remember my birthday, you will remember that it was the day you made it right with Jesus. I will count one to five. Wherever you are, I want to. Request that you leave your seat for those who can. Please make your way to the frontier. And once the front is exhausted, then we allow those book can follow by the early discrem or just come out as directed by the ushers. I'm counting one to five. If it's just one person. God bless you as you come. Cononia, less, celebrate them as they come. One come, come. He's able to give you a new beginning. Some of you came to collect rise, but let Jesus be your lord, and then you can collect the welfare. The welfare can be consumed, and in a moment, it's done. But this relationship is one that lasts forever. Keep clapping. Two, God bless you as you come. I see you, my sister, I see you, my brother. Three. Four, Cononi, are you clapping? They're still coming. God bless you, God bless you as just can you direct them? God bless you a person all. I want to come, but I'm ashamed. I don't know if I consider myself to be a good person. I don't do anything wrong, but I've not confessed the lordship of Jesus. You can join them. Come. There is such a thing as the assurance of salvation. You can settle it once and for all that you will belong to Jesus. The fifth and final count, and then we begin to pray. Five alee lujah. Thank you, my brothers and my sisters, thank you. This I consider is the biggest birthday gift to be able to present you as trophies to His majesty. Any other gift is greatly received, but is far inferial. The greatest gift is to be able to use this occasion of life that God has given me to present you as worthy souls before Jesus. And so I thank you so much for making this happen, and for those who are fallen online fallowing by television. I'm going to lead this our brothers and sisters in that prayer of. Salvation, and I like you to join them. If they are still persons who are coming, Please make haste, make your way quickly. You can indicate and the ushers can direct you so that you are in front. Here whilst we pray, let me request that you lift your right hand, that it be high above your head. Say this off time you as loud and as clear as you can. Say Lord Jesus. One more time, Say Lord Jesus. 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 Sain Satan hell, and the grave is broken over my life. From today I'm a child of God. I go from. Glory to glory and grace to grace. Amen, keep your beautiful hands lifted. Father, Thank you, Thank you for honoring this great occasion by drawing this many to yourself. The Word declares that as many who will come to you, you will in no wise cast away. They have come declaring your lordship over their lives. And by the authority of Scripture, I declare your sins forgiving. I call you bona fide, recipients of the life of God. The grace that keeps made keep you, and I decree and declare that from today you will go for whatever and backward, never loving Jesus and living for Him all the days of your life. In Jesus' muchless name. We pray, so please do me a favor. I like you to look to my rights. You see the counselors lifting the placard. Would you follow them? And they'll have a word and a prayer with you. Very quickly, very quickly, God bless you, very quickly, very quickly. Great is by faith, grati is thy faithfulness. Morning by morning, new mercies. I see all I happy that thy hands provided. Grat is thy faithfulness, Lord, onto me. I seem gratis thy faithfulness, gratis my faithfulness. Morning by morning new mercies. I see all my heavy that guy hands provide, and great is thy faithfulness. Load onto you, Father. This is my testimony. I stand before your people to say thank you for life, for grace, for messy, for help. You've shown yourself as a faithful god of a my life. And I declared before my dear people and before the nations, I am nothing without you. If there is anything to celebrate in my life today, it is all because of you, your faithfulness, your help. You're messy. It is of your fullness that I have received, and I honor shamedly bring that prayer of gratitude to you in the presence of your people. Lord, I thank you for the gift of these precious people, the pastors who have left their schedules to come, I invited guests, the people who have come from everywhere, the many who are connected online, the many who have wished well through their prayers, their texts, their givings. Many have left their jobs, took time out to be here. I thank you, Thank you for the privilege to be able to give this welfare material to the many who will be receiving. Thank you for the honor of bringing your word to the nations, supplying your wisdom, your power, your grace. Thank you for coin on your global Thank you for my life. Lord, with decree and declare that let this celebration spring all of us together to a higher level of love for you, a higher level of service for you, that we will spend our lives living for you. And Lord, I pray again, standing before your people, let my life be read dedicated afresh towards the service of the Kingdom, readdicated afresh, towards the preaching of the Gospel, rededicated afresh towards loving you and loving your people, and spending my days serving your purposes. Thank you for the privilege of life. And I pray that everyone who's connected online, and everyone who took the time to come here, and to the many who prayed in secret, many who gave, many who have done all that they have done to show honor, I pray that you will truly honor them for me in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen and Amen, Reverend Sam Thank you sincerely again, I appreciate you sir, thank you, passal, but you and your wife, I thank you sincerely, pass Godwin and honored. Thank you so so much in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you so much. And what do I say to missus I Googo and all that came with her, made the Lord bless you, made the Lord bless every single one of you. I'm sorry I cannot mention all the names, but just know that I love you and I honor you in the name of Jesus Christ. And at this point will share the grace. I see a big cake here. You are going to caught it for you all. Well, if you can't have a piece, that's fine. By the way. After now, once we are don't sharing the rise. There's no meeting happening here again. Any other gathering would be at do other venue. So you'll just with their hang around, player around, jump around. I'm sure the welfare may have something for you. Just take it there, enjoy it, and let that be a blessing for you. They praise the name of the Lord. Allelujah, allelujah. Don't forget our miracle service is on Sunday, and invite everyone, all those who came to collect rice. Make sure you're around on Sunday, whether there's space or not, so that you can collect what is greater and better than rice for your destiny in the name option. Okay, praise God. All right, so here's what we do. Please immediately after the grace, just listen to this instruction. There is a crowd of people, and we thank God for the DEPO and all those who are working. Thank you so much, the police, military, all who are helping. Now herees what. Please don't be in a hurry to jump out. You may hurt yourself. And you'll believe me when I say that. Praise the name of the Lord. Just sit quietly after. The grace. Just be patient. You will be advised from here. And now let me say this. If the stampede outside is going to create a zerous problem, we may have to discontinue the sharing of the rise. This is better to not share rice and have people alive. Then we carry both rice and blood back home. It shouldn't be that. Praise God. And you see once you have a mixed multitude, not everybody. Can you understand what I'm saying. People and they're doing their best, so let's see what happens. You will sit for too long. Please just be patient so that you allow the security to do their work and then they can advice how we can exis this place responsibly. Please remember Lot's wife, don't act in disobedience. Praise the name of the Lord. Once we're done, just be patient, and now let me speak to those outside. I don't know if they're hearing, but please allow me for one minute to speak to those outside. Please. I know that there are so many people, but I. Will be disappointed and you will discourage me from doing this the next time if you don't behave yourself prayse the name of the Lord, and I don't want a situation where we're going to have to pick any person to a station or whatever it is. We have got enough rise and it's for you to be patient. If you are patient and orderly, then we can filing people in a responsible way to pick their rise and live. I want you to have your welfare material immediately and leave. But if it becomes a security concern and deep you and other people advice otherwise, then we may have to cancel it sadly. And once we do that, it then means that will not be able to share the way we intend to praise the name of the Lord. There's only so much that the workers need, and we don't want a situation where the blessing is that people can receive this and go back home today, because it's also a means of evangelism. It's not just the rice itself. It's taking a message with the rise that Jesus loves and here is. The evidence of his love among many things. So don't discourage this mission. Please, those outside, I'm sorry that I'm having to say this on air when organized people. It's just what happens when you have, you know, a crowd of people beyond those you have trained. So it's nothing unusually, it's what happens when you're dealing with matters like this. So we're going to share the grace now. Please let me request that you'll be seated for a while, just a few minutes, and then you'll be advised on what to do. Just for us to clear the way, manage the people. We have multiple exits outside, so they would channel everything. Security department. Please walk quickly so that we don't keep people unnecessarily long. Here. Have you been blessed today? Again? Thank you very much, God, bless you, less you here 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 now and forever. Surely God's goodness and mercy follow us all the days of our lives. We dwell in the House of the Lord, forever and ever. Amen. God bless you all, Thank you very much, and see you on Sunday.