ONE ON ONE

Good morning. I know we have you out very early this morning, but I hope that you have come with hearts prepared to hear what the Lord has said and to give a little bit of recap of what we talked about last night. But we are going to move right into it in the interest of time. So, Apostle, how are you doing this morning? I'm doing great, God, this is messiful to me. Amen. So last night you gave us a great overview of who we should be. We should be overcomers, we should excel in the things of the Lord, and how to move forward. So the first question to you today is, as you have taken this journey over the course of these many years and seen what you've seen, the darkness and the land, and people losing their light and not being overcomers, how have you been able to maintain and steward your light and continue in the path of overcoming. You realized that before Jesus ascended into heaven, he set up a capacity building forum that is captured in the Book of Acts chapter one. And what the content of the Book of Acts is just the implementation of the things that they picked up in the capacity building exercise. The instructions that Jesus gave I expected to be. Transgenerational. It's not supposed to shift because of culture, because of politics, because of any variable in society. One of the things Jesus highlighted was that we need an empowerment of the Holy Spirit. And in the Greek the word that was used was dunamis, and dunamis has two implications. Dunamis means inherent power, something that is downloaded like a software into you, just like you downloaded software in your phone, and the responsibility of using that software is no longer in the hand of Google. Or Apple, It's in your hand. So Jesus was saying that there's an inherent capacity, inherent spiritual capital that was going to be made available in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The second thing about dunamis is that it is potential power you will need to just like crude oil is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons, and it's not useful in this crude state. You need to subject it to some form of refinement before you find the useful fractions. So in Jesus' presentation. In the Book of Act Chapter one, ver's eight, he says you chare receive power. After that the holy ghost has come upon you. Now, so the investment is a holy ghost. One of the products that is capable of this investment is power. But the process through which you can get the product is a refinery process. And that's what's speaking in tongues is about if a believer doesn't lose the ability to if your discouragement, your despair, your situation, your circumstances doesn't take away your courage to exercise your spirit. What you're doing is that you are bringing spiritual influence, divine influence into the situation. You're bringing divine influence into the circumstance. You are invoking the name and the hand of God into the situation. If you stay steadfast, it is suggestive of the fact that you have faith in God and you're going to see the manifestations of God. I want to give you two examples before I arrest my case. When we were employed into the oil industry in Nigeria, who were like one and twenty seven people in the oppressions department, and the guys in the oppressions department were either scientists or engineers as the case may be. And these guys supposedly are the most intelligent people that came out of our universities. They took us through a three months training and picked three of us. Havn't assessed us that we were the best, and I was among those three people. Suddenly there was a wave of political influence on the organization. So promotions designations was no longer according to Merit was according to who do you know in government? If you know any powerful person in the nation, you need to call your senator to put in a word. So and I only knew Jesus. So there were two waves of promotions that took place that I was not I was not involved in. So I went to Jesus. I went to a will that I went left my house, went to the bush. For forty eight hours, and I brought because Jesus told me you were not going to full time ministry. Now that of January two thousand and three, you were not going to full time ministry. Now I'll give you a job and you invest in many destinies and a great network shall be form. Then I did not know what a network was, so he now gave me the job. So I knew I had a helps ministry. So the way, he brought people that he wanted me to help. So I was paying people's school fees, sending people here, doing all of that. Thank God for my wife. She's not a materialistic kind of person, because she knows how much I end, and she knows how much I spent on the people that the Lord leads to us. So I took all the receipts of payments I made according to the instruction of investing in many destinies. I went to the bush and I led them out and opened the Bible. If you are there, please, with reference to the reason for which you gave me this job, these are the checks. These are the receipts of according to your instruction for me to invest in many destinies. These are the people I felt you sent to me, and I responded accordingly. Where did I go wrong that you have refused to use your sovereignty to intervene in my progression on my job? Forty eight hours? That was my prayer. After forty eight I was forty eight hours ended. On Sunday afternoon, I went back home sick because I was visited with mosquitoes. So I became a victim of my lay fever. On Monday, I received a signal from the headquarters that our chief executive is coming to visit my zone forty eight hours and when the guy showed up, and that guy was one of the most wicked men I've ever met in my life. Came to U zone, met me, We had some interaction, asked me a few questions. I responded. Then we went for the event that he came for. He was invited for a meeting for a conference. When this guy went back to the headquarters, he called the people in charge of promotions and asked them to bring my fire. And he saw that I've not been promoted for four years. The time we did it by merit, I was in the firstry. But when he became by politics, I don't know anybody. The man gave me double promotion. It's not consistent with the law of progression. So he gave me restored the promotions I missed, and they paid up all my allowances, salaries, every prayer, if the spirit is involved, it will overwhelm demonic and I tell you believe this, you practice it, it will overwhelm every demonic attempt and human attempts to derail your destiny. My secret is that God answers prayer. I'm a man of prayer, so maybe I'll just rest my case there. So that means that God prayer is strategy, that prayer is strategy. Yeah, So speaking about strategy, have you been able to utilize strategy in our seeing or to help in disciple sheep and as well to mobilize resources. Well, before we came into ministry, there was a set of ministers that invaded the African Church. Because that's my context, I don't know about what was obtainable in the United States at the time, and it was a wave of prosperity preaching, and every such prosperity conference ends up in big seed collection, give your Isaac something like that. So an extent that if you say you're a pastor, people believe you are just a fraud star. So the first challenge that we were confronted with was to prove that we had integrity. We were not attempting to plunder anybody, but we had a calling to provide service to the Body of Christ. Because of that orientation, we could not but trust God for supplies. I know that you know, we all went to school, so you know how to do the match. If they. Number of the disciples multiply. You know how to say okay with this, you know, no, no no, But we didn't do that. If there is a need, and we'll go to God. In fact, it took how many years before I could make a need known in the congregation. So many years I had a good job, and for eight years I and my wife were responsible for sponsoring arsia because that was why I was giving the job. From six to eight years. Then a few people started giving. But you need to understand the locality where you know, you've come to our place before. That's a very poor place. So how much can even if they are willing to give? Which day eventually began to give because we modeled the example of sacrificial living and everybody saw it all right, I've never been on salary, and I say and orders years, even when I resigned, I was not on salary. So all our leaders, everybody that was there knew that I was not doing this because I wanted to gain something. I had to prove that that I had a call from Jesus to provide service and that service was at no cost. The one that employed me is the one that would pay me. So it was at no cost. So we held that position for a long. Time until people began to trust that indeed we had a service delivery mission from the Lord Jesus, and they could now trust us by committing financi storms. So the first thing was we had to dwell in the brightest measures of integrity to convince the people we were sent to that Jesus had given us a mission of service delivery, and we were trusting in Jesus to make the resources available when we registered sufficiently our willingness to sacrifice all that we had to make sure that God's vision was accomplished. Then we saw the Lord touching the heads of people anytime we have the need, to say, oh, there's a need, and then. People begin to give. And then when we fill up that need, I come back again said, please stop giving. The need has been made. Even in the way we took contribution to achieve what God had called us to do, there was in fact, if you go to my CODEA and ask for financial records, you see it from the beginning till now, and everybody knew. I was not on salary. I was still living by faith. The first time I became a salaried staff of RCN is when I came to you. People made that happen. So that I could pay my taxes and I could be considered a responsible person enough to be offered citizenship eventually because I'm going to run on the blue passport. Amen. So you guys made that's the first time, and it was strange. So this is how people announced that they're trusting us with kingdom forms and as a ministry. And when some people became convinced that I was really going for the Lord, they began to give to me too. So I did not feel my absence from my job because the integrated matter was the integrited question was already answered. So in terms of resources, that is the journey. It takes time for people to trust a man and Christianity ministry is based on trust. Oil business is based on safety because you can bring in forty million liters of gas and someone comes to the cigarette and drops in somewhere and that's the end of five million dollars of investment. It's built on safety, and ministry is built on trust. So concerning the financial aspect and all of that, it took twelve years of working in financial integrity and responsibility in the kingdom to end that trust. If you're talking about discipleship, you know what my chief first gift is the teaching grace. That's my chief first gift. If we as we are talking now, I can take one scripture to support this matter will not live here. Now. So my chief first gift is the teaching gift. Because God wanted me to raise a new breed of Christians. If you don't mind, I can tell you the discussions I had with Jesus that made me the kind of person I am today. Now. The Lord said that there is a wave of this are you Are you with me? Twenty fifth of July two thousand and five, Jesus visited me, and that's why he spoke about the Remnant initiative as a strategy of preservation. That there was falsehood that had built so much across the generations, and his project is agenda, and the global Church was going to be influenced and probably halted by reason of that corruption. And so. He has recruited me as one of his agencies to raise a new breed without greed, to raise a people that dance to the bait of a different drama. Because in the body of Christ, it was at the time, there was a confusion. People confuse materialism for prosperity, so the sound was not accurate. Just like we saw in the lecture yesterday, prosperity was going to derail a nation from the covenants that founded it. This was the discussion that I had with Jesus, and Jesus said that I should build capacity in the body of Christ and appointment to Him as the source, as the sustainer, as the extent and the secondference of divine revelation. So if you check all our teachings, they are Christ. Centered, in keeping with the instructions and the conversation I had with Jesus. At the time, I began. To preach the Christ centered gospel, which is the Kingdom Gospel. And you know I told you that I did a summary of the Bible, and I found out that the subject of the Bible was about Christ and his kingdom. So the Bible is a. Book of Christ and the book of the administration of the Kingdom of God. That's what the book is about. And when Jesus rose from the dead and he was building capacity among his disciples, asked Tatter one the former treaties have I made all to your philosoph all that Jesus began both to do and to teach until the day in which he was taken up after that truth the Holy Goos, he had given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen, to whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many valuable proofs being seen of them forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. When Jesus was given capacity building to his disciples after his resurrection, he summarized his emphasis for forty days was about the Kingdom of God, because that's what the Bible is about. The Bible is not about prosperity. It was not Adam's post that God lost in the guardian of Eden. It was not his post. It was the possibility of him participating as an administrator in the Kingdom of God. What God of that man was kingdom. Yeah. So I began to teach that. The many people began, they were offended because you know, Jesus sentered gospel. It's not fallatable to a canal man. The scope of the canal man is me, myself I, but the scope of the kingdom man is Christ. For me to leave his Christ. So it's contrary to the disposition of the canon the first line of attacks, which that ever ha been, And I'm not saying we are delivered from all attacks. You know my case. Brethren believe us because they were used to a sound that was not accurate. So when we came with this sound, some people said, yeah, he wants to be popular, so he's trying to swim against the tide. We didn't bother about responding. Our ministry has been a case of waves, tidal waves of persecution, because there's no way you preach the Kingdom that you not experienced that. The perscution was. So intense at the point that I thought I was going to be a matter and God for a long time never told me about long life, proclaimed long life. I don't join them. Meanwhile, we never stopped praying. What the Holy Spray did was that he started creating a hunger for himself in the hearts of men. So these people were now becoming uncomfortable with the main the things that were available on most of the pulpits. That was when we made all our semons those days in Nigeria, messages were sold. If you finished preaching, tips would be made. Tips ministry was very powerful. It was our ministry that made messages free and we put it online for download. That stopped tap ministry in Nigeria. People started downloading and the more they began to drink of the Kingdom message, they lost appetite for glory. And then Satan also attacked us more because he was losing customers, the market share, he was losing his influence. So that's what the Bible means when he says so nially grew the world. The more people get enthused with the message of the Kingdom, they don't want anything else. So the people that Satan has to influence and manipults started becoming less and less and seturn for us with passion for the finances, our finances for oh my God, well that's another anyway. But we invested in releasing the World of God systematically and making it available for free, so people kept downloading, kept downloading. Then it was within have what it takes to get a camera, so it was audio. So we normally analyze our website and say how many downloads we've had, and when we hit one million, we celebrated, and that was how God now gave us a camp colder calmpcoder. So the first set of cameras we used were camp coders, and I was looking like an as victim in those videos because my stomach was flat from first. I'm even wondering how my wife accepted my pro proposal. So we majored in capacity building, opening the eyes of the believers to the truth about Christ and his kingdom, and we kept pushing that. This was the slogan that if that we normally chanted that if if truth fills the whole place, falsehood would die in natural debt. And we took that from the complain of the Sanhedrin about the apostles that they had filled Jerusalem with their doctrine. So when we got the cameras, we started we found YouTube, and we started putting stuff on YouTube. But I was those days. I don't know what was wrong. Okay, we didn't have lights, so I was black. Indeed in the videos. It was an affliction to watch those videos. But was past the Philip the one recording. So Philip was this spiritual song that God gave me. It's my my biological song. Now he moved, so he was the it man of those days. So there did a lot of tricks and put all those things social media. He was the guy, and. There was no money to buy anything, so we made all those messages available for free. And the Lord, I believe so that we were willing to fulfill the mandate he had called us to pursue. And then gradually resources began to come and we invested heavily in the media. Most of you. Remember once upon a time in your viewership, you just noticed that the pictures were clearer. Now, that was when we bought a video mixer, a digital one. The one we used before you need prayers for it to work, and since we're not lacking in prayers, it was working. So when I got the digital one, that was when everything shifted. The scope of viewership shifted, and the disciple reach, the extent of the disciples. Effort also increased. It was in that increase that I believe most of you sitting here also connected, also plugged in. We tried to finally, we tried. To sustain a data analytical system to give us an insight into our current reach, our current coverage. We could find no model to as attain that, but we tried as much as possible, because you know, we have. A cable TV now. And we were told that the estimate rich was forty million homes. All right, So our data may not be as correct as we may want it to be. But we've kept faith with our calling in pointing men to Jesus and establishing the doctrine of Christ and the doctrine of the Kingdom of God. We maintained the intercessory model as much as we could design it in terms of its practice in the Book of Acts. And if you ask me, I want to add something to you, ask me what we are doing an assn because it's a crystallization of the Book of Acts. This this is the closest, the closest approach. To what you find in the Book of Acts. What we're doing starting the Book of Acts. Saw what they did, saw the principles they observed. That's how we came up with ours here the closest replica of the pattern that is found in the Book of Acts. And this is a final aspect. When we began the traveling ministry, and it happens to be that the North American community was responsible for funding all our Apostolic. Travels for four years. And that is why I'm here, because you know, this is the philip Beyond Church. You know, the Philippine Church was the one that was responsible for partnering with Apostle Pause ministry. So that's the reason why I had to come to North America to save the people that believe in the calling that the Lord has given us. We began to invade nations influenced pastors, and we met people in all those nations we visited that were already implicated by our messages online and in whatever format, So it was easy. The physical campaigns were easy because the messages were already available. So we found pastors that had aligned their ministries through the things that were teaching, and they were practicing everything that we're doing. So as we speak now, I think I would not be lying if I say that what the Lord has committed to us is now a movement. It's a global movement. It's a global movement. So we've maintained the discipionship our My kind of teaching is equipment based, So every time I hold the microphone, I must give you one insight that will enable your work with God. That's the focus of the teaching. Okay, So a lot of people are able to listen to these things, and the model is do it to yourself because we cannot reach everybody personally. So you know, people still send me requests that is it possible for you to be my best non mentor there's nothing like that. They have four thousand sugest in the public space and the guys have not edited, and they're accent for personal mentorship. Everything you will learn as a personal mentee. The only product we may bring subsequently is the School of Ministry, which is an online school. We're still working on that. I'm studying trying to So the Lord gave us coverage. The Lord gave us rich We have people from all over the world, all over from Vietnam, from Pakistan, from They showed me a video of some believers in the Philippines and they were using our messages as past us training. So we've seen that we. Are catalysts like John the Baptist to prepare the way for the. Law before the law. Maybe I'll rest my kids at that point. Thank you, son, And that is a great segue into this final question that I have for you. I mean, you talked about about integrity and the integrity of RCN and your personal integrity and what you believe. So this is a partner's conference. So why should the people that you're looking at, the people online that are watching. What would be the benefits of partnering with RCN for this global missions? What is your vision for the partnership and how can you see us moving forward in partnership together? Okay, let's start with benefit. I have my wife. Well, the first partners this ministry where praying at home one of those days and the Lord asked forty three point three percent of my innings. You know, Titan the Law was a schoolmaster designed to lead us to Christ. So Titan is a schoolmaster that is designed to lead you into the era of consecration. Consecration is the equivalent of Titan in the New Testament. The reason why are you with me? Okay? The reason why there's a difference in the New Testament is because in the New Testament, Jesus paid for us. By the price of his blood. So we do not have property rights in a marriage situation. All right, So Jesus can ask you to empty your bank account. He did not ask me to enter my bank account. What he asked me to do was to give thirty three point three percent of my salary, and I was faithful to them. It's my obedience in those matters that reverse the sentence set and placed on me concerning my career prorogression. As much as I'm not a prosperity teacher, I need to teach you the Bible. There is no man that partners with an agenda of God. Because what you are doing is that you have enrolled for stewardship. You have accepted to steward the resources God has given you to move the Kingdom of God forward. And the law of stewardship is that if you are faithful in the little God will make your captain overmuch. And that is our story. By the time we're building that building, I was already retired, resigned. My contribution was the highest contribution any other person gave. The records are there, and I don't want to mentionure the amount because if we mention the amount, we would for you to understand the equivalent in dollars, we'll need to just you know the I don't. I don't remember what it was. So my contribution was about thirty percent of and then God increased me again. So I can tell you my own story. The benefit of being hooked up committed financially to a kingdom. Cause is that God gives you He can trust you with more resources. So this is the this is the thing. If you are plugged in to an agenda that God wants to accomplish upon the face of the earth, no matter how small your impute is, God will give you the opportunity to be able to influence the agenda of God in great way. That it's still watch ship. It's not something you give testimonies about. It's still watching. The time will come you will have much more resources, and we survive on the extras, and those extras will be extras enough to make you live a comfortable So the idea is sick you. First, the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and the things that the gentiles seek were navigating your direction. So that's one benefit. Second benefit is this. You know, Paul said something to the Philippian Church, and what he said because the Philippian Church was considered the church that partnered with him financially. In fact, he even took from the Philippian Church and met the needs of other churches. So the Philippin and Church was a church that understood financial partnership. It was only the Philippine. Church that he made this statement to my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory. Now that statement has a few implications. First of all, the call that was upon Apostle Paul was a call to the body of CHRISTI it was a corporate calling, still ordered by an individual. Are you with me and a lot of people. We're going to exercise their own ministry within the scope of that calling. Now, so when you make a commitment to that agenda, the second benefit is that they grace that God has released to accomplished that mission will function in your life. You become. Eligible to participate and to receive spiritual inheritance from the grace that God has made available to accomplish his agenda in that mission. Are the tad benefit. When Saturn comes to plunder you, comes to assault you, they that grace that is upon that commission is what we stand against him as a barricade because of your commitment to that commission. Abbit quite a. Number of examples of what I'm talking about. No need to trouble you with stories. So the benefits aspect, there is also a transgenerational implication of that level of commitment on your children, on your children's children. The Bible says that a good man lived an inheritance for his children's children. Do not interpret that scripture, Cannery, because the way the Prosperity which has interpreted it was that you should have a house for your child to inherit. The house my dad built in nineteen seventy eight. You need to see the architectural design right now. In fact, you not stay there. It's it. Should be demolished and a new one needs to be erected on that same ground. So let me explain it from the negative part. Maybe it will help us understand the positive part. In the deliverance ministry, we find out that one of the open doors that Satan has through which he sends demons to demonize people. Is the door of inheritance. So, just in case someone's dad was a witch doctor, the spiritual worshiped will trouble their children seeking them to worship him because of the contracts they are secured with their father. Are you there, so you see. Because of that man's activity, his interaction with the demonic dimension, his children were implicated. Because of your own commitment to God and your interaction with his purposes upon the face of your own children too will be implicated. So there's a transgenerational effect. For our own kids. For instance, it didn't take so much for them to be born again, It didn't take so much for them to be filled the Holy Goos, It didn't take so much for them to begin to love God. Didn't take so much. So there's a transgenerational effect. Your life of obedience and commitment to Jesus creates a greater possibility for your offspring to do better than you have done. So yeah, so this is the benefit part. And then you say benefit and. Why should they partner with you? And that'll be the roundup of why you believe that they should. Those that are here partner with our sin. Now, we started. This humble ministry in a very poor locality, and the Lord, you know, according to our scripture as art at the thirty seventh verse thirty one, the remnant that escaped out of Judah Shah yet take root downward and be a fruit upwards. So we were taking root for. Fourteen to sixteen years in the which period the Lord was assassin us to see if we were a product that he could export, and a lot of pruning chiseling. A lot of dealings took place, and Setain too was given the opportunity to administer his treachery of mind bending once and again in the midst of all the pressures. When God eventually approved of us, we began to spread. And I realized that it was easier when we were small, for well, little sanctuary, because the financial requirements to push it at that level was predictable. But when we became regional, we became national, we became sub Saharan in Africa, West Africa, South Africa, who now discovered that we did not have what it took to push things at that level, and suddenly we became we entered into the North American space. If you want somebody to have had attack in Nigeria, I just mentioned us dollar. Some of you in the congregation know what I'm talking about. Just mentioned dollar. So we have come to a point where there is obviously a need for participation to move the influence of our conviction and this mission to the next lab. And this is the reason for which. Meanwhile, this is the first is this, Philip, this is the first formal partnership. So this is the first formal partnership arrangement that we are making. Since we start, there was an informal partnership that was taking place the North American Brethren Alle Lawyer. There was an informal partnership that was taking place. Some of the North American Brethren felt they wanted to be part of our invasion campaigns, and I saluted those Bredren. Through the efforts of their contributions, we penetrated. I think Philip still has the report of the places we went and the things that have happened and what we left behind because we do not judge the impact of our effort by the numbers of people that attended the conference is the aftermath of the conference. What shifted in the climb because of what we did. That was when and I realized the impact of the fourteen sixteen years of taking root, because we now saw that the level of service delivery that was needed in the Body of Christ was for machure believers that knew the Lord, loved the Lord, and knew his world enough to communicate his council. So we began that campaign at that level, and the North American Brethren that were in that informal partnership, the resources that was made available was the reason why we were able to do that. Once upon a time my wife said she wants to come for our campaigns. By the time we did three nations in one month, she signed out. But there was no luxury in it. It was military. We move once you are still breathing, we move and in three years, please give us the statistics service they habit three years. How many cities, how many nations? We've known about ninety six cities. Ninety six cities. Back to the present later, okay, so you will see the presentation. So now this is the first time we're doing setting up a former partnership for if we have been able to come this far with the resources that the Lord has been available through his people. Now we want to be more intentional, more deliberate to see how we can influence Christianity in North America, Christianity in Canada, in the US, and also to influence Christianity in Europe. We've made. A few strikes, like in the UK. Now we have four centers. We have London, we have Glasgow, we have Cardiff, we have Bristol. No five centers now then we have the new centers Manchester. We have to send some of our strong hands from Nigeria to Europe so that we can bring Europe into focus, you know, so we move them with our families. You know, all the complications involved with that. It's just like chairs, we're playing chess, and some well trained functionaries had to be relocated to places where they were there was great need for a true witness. So we've done beild to. With the resources that we're available, and now we want to take the bull by the hole and see what we can do if we are very deliberate and intentional about colonizing the church and bringing the church back in focus with Jesus, and also efforts to reach the loss through campaigns or whatsoever, crusade, campus envisions or whatnot, so that we can fill the gap of missionary man power and give Jesus an opportunity at our generation one more time.