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Opening Destiny Doors Through Relationships Koinonia Abuja
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A place of enchangions in the polity, spirit. And transformation by the principles of God. Skin chapraan de ge Bala called Safraska the Colasapria. That we thank you, Mighty and majestic. It is in your light that we see lights. Someone lifts up your voice and give God quality thanks tonight. Lord, We thank you, Lord, We thank you. Someone gives thanks, give him thanks, give him thanks. I have searched and searched all the earth, searched and searched all the earth. Ten fave that baby, come truly. I have searched and searched. Ah, the searched and search Oh the ten that. If your hands, if you're voiced, unless worship into that, I'd come out. Shakra, come back to stuprand. Never lequis cappa stop, take as yours tost ever bo like you, I sash, just ask as the sun. Oh that time, come out. Foy astern ash stash, Oh. Gosh, sad to the Boddy, come. Ye by mable money, come out, come. Stop. Father. We declare that there is no one like you, There is none that can stand beside you. You stand as God all by yourself. We extol you, and we worship you tonight to him that doeth one does be all the praise. Thank you for tonight. Thank you for the spirit of grace, the spiri
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A place of enchangions in the polity, spirit. And transformation by the principles of God. Skin chapraan de ge Bala called Safraska the Colasapria. That we thank you, Mighty and majestic. It is in your light that we see lights. Someone lifts up your voice and give God quality thanks tonight. Lord, We thank you, Lord, We thank you. Someone gives thanks, give him thanks, give him thanks. I have searched and searched all the earth, searched and searched all the earth. Ten fave that baby, come truly. I have searched and searched. Ah, the searched and search Oh the ten that. If your hands, if you're voiced, unless worship into that, I'd come out. Shakra, come back to stuprand. Never lequis cappa stop, take as yours tost ever bo like you, I sash, just ask as the sun. Oh that time, come out. Foy astern ash stash, Oh. Gosh, sad to the Boddy, come. Ye by mable money, come out, come. Stop. Father. We declare that there is no one like you, There is none that can stand beside you. You stand as God all by yourself. We extol you, and we worship you tonight to him that doeth one does be all the praise. Thank you for tonight. Thank you for the spirit of grace, the spirit of wisdom that is in our midst. We thank you because we know that you will do us good. Tonight be glorified for in Jesus' mighty name. We pray, Amen and Amen. God, bless you good evening, and please be seated. Allelujah. Your life will never rem in the same in Jesus' name. The Bible says they go from strength to strength as many as appear before the Lord in Zion. Strength to strength is the heritage of anyone who takes God and his house seriously. Allelujah. I really want to salute. So many of us who are doggedly committed, especially over our spiritual growth. Spiritual growth is not a gift. You press with intention. You press with determination. You take advantage of the grace that has been given by God and from God, and you press. It says, this one thing I do forgetting the things that are behind, I press Allelujah, praise the name. Of the Lord. And the second thing I wanted to know is that the house of God is not a museum. The house of God is not a cinema center. The House of God is more than a recreation center. So when you come to the House of God, you will be enlightened, you will be inspired. I believe in joy and gladness and fun, but it's important for you to know that the. House of God is where God dwells. When you want to look for a man, you go to his house. Is that true? Yes, there is no guarantee that you will always find a man in his office. There is no guarantee that you will always find a man in another place, some institution. But there is every guarantee that if you are patient enough, no matter where that man would have gone to, you will eventually return home. Is that true? When you travel out of this nation For many of us who you know, your phone will show you different dates and timings. It will tell you. Details from your own time zone, and then it will tell you where you are and when you return home. It will let you know that you are back home. It knows when you come home. So the House of God is not just a place where believers converge. The House of God is where God has covenanted. He said, this is my The psam is said, now arise, o God, and come to your resting place. You want the aarc of your might that he covenant that he will be with them forever. Allelujah. The presence of God is what makes all the difference. Minors the presence of God. We're just making noise at best, just motivating and inspiring people. But the presence factor is what is responsible for life away together. And the Bible assures us, according to Some one thirty three that when we are gathered together, it says there the Lord hath commanded the blessing even life forevermore. That means in the presence of God, you expect to be healed, you expect to be lifted, you expect to be changed. Away together, that whilst you are seated and the world is coming, is more than mental transformation. There is something happening to your spirit. Man, may that be your portion tonight in Jesus' name. So we go straight to the business of the night. There is a lot to deal with, and as always I wur request that you pay rapt attention. Jesus spake a parable about the world, and he said the souler when to sow, And we understand from his own interpretation that the Word was and is the word of God seed. Now and as powerful as the world is. The Bible says it fell on four kinds of grounds. Do you know in studying the scripture the parable I just want to boat rest on something and will get to the world. I've studied it many times in my life, But in my recent study I became amazed as to. Why the soer will give even a rocky ground. Any farmer and any sower already knows that there are some soils that there is no need wasting your seed because they will not grow. Yet he gave every ground a chance. When you saw on rock and you sew on thorns, if you are truly a farmer, you should know nothing will come out. But so that you will not be charged with bias, he gave every soil a chance, even though it was clear that. Nothing would come out. That's God for you good ground, rocky ground, on tourns. And thistles, and gave all of them a chance. And the Bible clearly told us that some produced, others did not. And even among those that produced, there were three levels of harvest, thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and a hundred and speaking about the good ground. He said, they are those that here and understand. What makes your ground good is those that here. And understand that the ones that fell on good ground were the ones who heard the world, and then they understood. Allelujah. So we pray for the grace for the hearing here tonight. In the name of Jesus. God has declared to us that this is a year of open doors. I believe it with. All my heart, and I'm glad, and I rejoice exceedingly my spirit that many are already experiencing the wave of this prophetic world. The world most speak clearly in your life this year. If you believe that, shout a louder amen. So look. Chapter eleven will continue our. Discussion we're discussing we started last week discussing exceeding great and prescious promises. The goal was to open us up to the power of the promises that have been made available to the believer in Christ. And remember I taught you at the first service that when it has to do with opening doors, please pay attention that the Bible gives us three platforms for opening closed doors. Number one is the use of the right or the correct key, not just keys. You can use a wrong key, the door will still not open. And we understand from scripture that keys refer to knowledge. Are we together two the art of knocking Matthew seven, seven and eight, as it says, and you shall it shall be given to you sick, and you shall find knock, it says, and need shall be open onto you. For the law in verse eight says every one that knocked it shall be opened. So one of the ways that doors are open is through the art of knocking, and that you must understand what it takes to be able to knock a door away. Together, there are doors that you may not have the keys to. You will need to knock for that door to be open. And then number three we said, the use of force, the supernatural, and the power of God what I want to share with you tonight. I have watched it lift people from literally nothing and brought them to positions of grace and power. I have also watched the neglect of what you're about to learn take people from grace, as it were, to grasp the purpose of the teaching of the World of God is to give us wisdom at the end of any spiritual discussion. If you do not have wisdom, then it was not the world. Remember the Bible says that was the true light that lighted every man. That means there are false lights. They carry a zemblance of victory, they carry is zemblance of liberty, but you find out that upon engaging them in real life, they do not produce any results. May you not waste your time chasing shadows in the name of Jesus Christ. May you not waste your time acquiring a lot of useless spiritual information only to find out that they are impotent to deliver that the truths that you find and cheap, may they be truths indeed. And the only way you know the truth, or the only way you know what is real, is when you test it in real life situation. So pay attention tonight, and God is. Going to be showing us how to knock, because there are many doors that stand before us right now, and we must know how it is. That meant those who know how to knock doors will keep flipping doors open from one dimension. To the other. But those who do not understand this can stand. Stagnated in front of cheap doors, sometimes even for many years. Every door that has refused to open, perhaps the door that stands before you. You do not even have access to the key made the mystery you will be learning tonight, Cause that door to swing open for you. In the name of Jesus Christ. Opening destiny doors through relationships, Opening destiny doors through relationships, Opening destiny doors through relationships. Let's go to our text. Look eleven from verse five. Look eleven from verse five, Opening destiny doors through relationship. Add most sphere, Sheep, Nam change speed rock gray. Holy speed head, open. A most speed. I'm someone change credit and. For eleven and five. And he said, unto them, which of you shall have a friend? Pay attention now, and shall go on to him at midnight and say, unto him, friend, lend me three loaves, uh huh. For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, And I have nothing to set before him. Follow the story carefully now verse seven. And he from within shall answer him, and said, trouble me not. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give thee. Are you following the story right now? I say unto you that though he will not rise to give him, but because because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needed. And then verse nine says, in this simplitude, ask and it shall be given to you sick, and you shall find knock, and it shall be open onto you. Last verse for everyone. That asked receiveth he that's sickret find it, and to him that knock it, it shall be opened. Let's go back to verse five, and let's begin to observe a few things. Number one, the Bible says, which of you shall have a friend? Everybody say, have a friend. So this issue of opening doors is among friends, not strangers. Are we together? Now? When the guy was in trouble, he did not run around. He went straight to his friend. He said, which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight. That means only a friend can accommodate. That level of inconvenience. You do not go to a stranger by midnight, he will arrest you. It is not usual to go and bother and destop people at midnight. But that there is an advantage that friendship provides that even at uncomfortable situations or uncomfortable circumstances, rules. Can be burned over. And the secret is that a friend is which of you shall have a friend, and then go to that friend at midnight. Notice and say, unto him friend. The person in need did not call the one who he wanted him to help by his name. He invoked the relationship. He didn't say Joseph or Stephen, come out, He said friend. In other words, under normal circumstances, you should be offended. But I am reminding you that the platform of which I am making this demand is friendship. Lend me three loaves, I will learn him already. Verse six. Notice again that the purpose for his meeting his friend is to help honor another friend. Are we following now? There is the reason why the Bible is teaching us this. You know, when you read the Bible, you have to read by the spirit, otherwise you will not see anything there. It will be before you, yet you will not see it. A friend of mine. That means someone else too came to me. Is not my fault, ordinarily is thinking I should be sleepy, but someone else inconvenienced me, and I have to bend over because of relationship. And so also I have come to you. This friend came from a journey un prepare, and I don't have anything to give him but because it's my friend, I will not drive him away. I opened the door of my house to him. But now I am stranded as a person, so I must do the same thing he did too. Are will following now? And then he went to his friend and he said, friend, sorry for disturbing you this night. Can you open the door for me? Verse seven? The Bible says, and he from within. Shall answer and say, trouble me not. Notice the guy we did never call him friend. He didn't recay frocate and say, oh, my friend, you're outside. No, no, no, no. He was angry and said, no, please go away, trouble me not. The door is now shut, and my children are with me. I cannot rise and give you. Now. Hear what Jesus says verse eight, I say, unto you door. He will not rise and give him because he is his friend. Leave the other things that he's talking about. That means there are two possibilities here. One he can arise and give him because he is his friend. Is that true? And then number two he can arise because of importunity. The word importunity there is the word persistence, persistence. Almost to the point of annoyance. Are we together now? So that this dog can be opened through friendship, and because of friendship two more scriptures and then will. Begin to discourse. Relationships are very very powerful. In Proverabs starting and twenty Proverabs starting and twenty, the Bible says he that worked with wise men shall be wise. He never said he that is around wise men, he that wonk ut with them? Are we together that you move as they move, it shall be wise. That means when the man started the journey, he was not wise. His friends were wise, but he was yet to be wise. His secret was that he chose to work with them, and the Bible says he shall be wise. That means you can. Predict the future of that person, even though at the point of beginning that journey the person may not yet be wise. But because he has chosen to keep a wise relationship, the Bible guarantees that he shall be wise. But a companion of fools. Now we don't know whether that companion was wise before. We just know that the people around him were fools, and the Bible says he shall be destroyed because of it. Are wey together? Yes? In Matthew chapter four, verse nineteen, Jesus beckoned on the disciples. And he says, follow me, and I will make you. I will not make you when you stand from afar. I will not make you when you sit afar wishing. I will only make you when you follow me. Follow me says that is the price for your making. I've taught you here in this house that destiny fulfillment and you may want to write this down. Destiny fulfillment and. Advancement is practically impossible without relationships and strategic connections. Destiny fulfillment and advancement is practically impossible without relationships and strategic connections. Let me take it one more time. Destiny fulfillment and advancement. Is practically impossible without relationships and strategic connections. Allelujah. So it is. Impossible to actualize destiny and to make constructive progress in your life ignoring these deep spiritual mystery that is a mass tachy. To opening doors relationships. Write this down, please. Relationships are bridges to an exceptional life. Bridges from the world bridge be are id ges. Relationships are bridges to an exceptional life, and relationships are also bridges to a life of pain and regret. Oh, I just spoted first of all, King God bless you such an. Honor to have you around. Let's give him a big God bless you, dear friend and brother. God bless you, sir, Thank you, allelujah. Are we together? Relationships are bridges to an exceptional life. That means, from where you are looking at an exceptional life in Christ, a life of kingdom impact that the bridge that you have to cross. To that realm are relationships and standing before for you and a life of pain and regret and destruction. There are also relationships. Relationships are bridges. That lead to an exceptional life. Relationships are also bridges that. Lead to a life of pain and regrets. Someone learning. Very very important information about relationships. Remember we stay at first that destiny for fellments. And advancement is practically impossible accept and unless through relationships. And strategic connections. Now we're saying that. Relationships are bridges both to an exceptional life and. A life of pain and regret. The last information I'll give you here is that relationships are currencies. It's not new to us in this house, but please write it now with revelations. Relationships are currencies like you have dollars, you have pounds, you have nayra and so on. And so forth. Relationships are currencies. They can buy what money can buy, and they can buy what money cannot buy. Relationships are currencies. Please, in the name of Jesus Christ, listen. They can buy both what money can buy and where money stops, they can go further to buy what money cannot buy. For instance, money cannot buy you your salvation, but a relationship, in this case with the Lord Jesus can make salvation and reality in your life. Let me announce to you first and foremost, dear people of God. You know by now, but it bears repeating again that money does not solve every problem. Are we together? I'm not down playing the relevance of financial resources, but it is a you're racking for you to find. To believe it, Ellie, that money does not solve every problem. I wait together, Relationships are currencies. They are currencies, my goodness. They have high level purchasing power. They can buy what money can buy, and they can also buy what money cannot buy. I have prayed a prayer for you many times in Corinonia. Let me pray it again that may you never be so poor that all you have is money. Did you get the prayer that may you never be so poor that the only thing you have in your life is money. Men have reason to enviable destinies from very more dest and so sometimes shameful backgrounds using the leverage of relationships. The Bible, ancient and modern history is full of the autobiography of ordinary men and women who did not have any comeliness to be desired. But the meandered across this mystery, and through the ladder and the lift of relationships, they rose to enviable positions spiritually, economically, sociologically, politically, and. So on and so forth. And the Bible and even history is also full of. Men and women who neglected the power of this mystery of relationships. Some of them threw away relationships to look for money. Men like Judas is carry out and they lost boat. Judas had a relationship, and he threw away valuable relationship to pursue a lesser kind end of thing money. At the end of it, you've got the money, but now losing the relationship. The money did not benefit him, and he lost both. In fact, he lost everything, including his life. Are we together now? The easiest way to succeed in life and destiny is through relationships. This is a fact, the easiest way to succeed in life and destiny is through relationships. There are many factors that are there in the success equation, and all of them are useful and they have their place. But I can tell you shew of those factors come close to the excellency of understanding and engaging this mysterious key of relationships. Allelujah, are we learning already for someone? All that I've said alone has been the washing of the water, just delivering you. Because there are many people who all they see in their dreams while they're awake is money. Everything they see is money. They don't care who lives and who dies. The most important thing is let there be money. And we have this understanding that our entire life will magically be relevant when we have money. May not necessarily be so. Destinies are enhanced and glorified through relationships. My concern for tonight with. Respect to our discussion using relationships as tools to open doors. I want to discourse with you the tripathite dimension of relationships that must be. At work in your life for doors to be opened. This is a soft topic, this is the core point of discussion. There there are three three fold dimensions of really relationships that if you do not have in your life, there is no future for you. As far as open doors are concern Number one, your relationship with God. Let's go very quickly. We have a lot to discourse. The first dimension of relationship you must focus on if you desire relationships to be a tool that opened the doors of destiny is your relationship with God. Matthew chapter twenty two. Please give us from verse thirty seven, while reading to forty your relationship with God. In that order, Jesus said, unto them, thou shalt. Love the Lord thy God. Help me with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Next verse it says, then this is the first and great commandment. Thirty nine it says the second is like onto eat, thou shall love thy neighbor as yourself. Forty Now on this tool hang all the law and the prophets. That means, every Lord that ever came by the prophets the dictates for the nation of Israel was to get them to achieve these two things, the love for God and the love for men. Are we together now your relationship with God. Probabs Chapter twenty three and verse twenty six, a scripture that has become an. Anthem in my own life. My son, it says, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my waist. This is God asking not just for your tithes, asking not just for your offering. No, asking not just for your membership. He's looking for your heart. Are we together now? My son says, give me your heart, and then let my eyes observe your waist. Second Chronicles, fifteen, Second Chronicles, Chapter fifteen, from verse twelve, we're reading twelve to fifteen. The first dimension of. Relationship that makes for open doors. As far as life and destiny is concerned, is your relationship with God. The Bible says, and they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, God of your Father's with all your heart and with all your mind verse thirteen. That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. Fourteen. And they swear onto the Lord with a loud voice, and with shouting and trumpets and corners. The last verse. Now, and all. Judah rejoice at the oath. They bound themselves with an oath to seek the Lord for they have sworn with all their heart and shot him with their whole desire is that in. Your Bible, And he was fond of them. What was the result? And the Lord gave them rest round about? Not just because they were intellectually sound, not just because. They were. Educationally advantaged or sociologically. Advantage they had wealthy parents. The Bible says, they've found themselves corporately with an oath that. We will seek the Lord. And that anybody that violates this, who puts that person to. Death, whether child, whether adult, whether male or female. That when God saw the seriousness of your heart to seek him. With your everything, he gave them rest round about? Are we learning. Matthew nineteen twenty six. Very powerful scripture. I know you've read it, but I want you to look at it very carefully. But Jesus beheld them and said, unto them, with men, this is impossible. But with God, everybody said, with God, there are things that are only with God. With God, with God, all things are possible. This is the implication of a healthy relationship with God. It defines the extent of the possibilities that you experience. Do not make a mistake of believing that just because you are saved, it means. Every possibility will manifest in your life automatically. Know every possibility should. Manifest as far as the finished work of christis concerned, but entering into the experience of it depends on a functional, ever growing relationship with God. Let me tell you the truth. There is nothing in this life. There is no one in this life. Please listen very carefully that should sustain the ability to take the place of God in your life and to interrupt your work with God. The body that succeeds to do that is the person you should worship, because that person has become God. And the jealousy of God will fight anything and anyone that stands his way, even if. He is the one that gave you that blessing. I hope you know God can fight what he gave you. The moment what he gave you becomes an interruption to His place and his purposes in your life. It becomes his enemy, just like Satan. God created Satan, and he still grants us the grace to perpetually defeative. It is not forgotten that Satan is his creation. But because Satan has assumed a position where he perpetually cannot bring joy to God again. Even though God's creation, he does not secure God's support. Again, It's important for you to know that God does not. Just initiate processes. He vets them periodically to fight doubt that He's being glorified through them. And if he stops being glorified through. Those processes, he's back inseeses except by the mescy of God. So you will find many people being destroyed by what God gave them, and you'll be wondering, how could God give you a blessing. That becomes a destruction? So how could God make you a king and yet that position brings you shame and reproach again? How could you be the anointed shadow that covereth a position God gave you, and yet your Christ came as a result of that position. Just because God gave you does not mean to automatically glorify him. You have to be intentional about using everything around your life to see that Jesus is glorified. Are we together now? House shall love the Lord your God? Please look up. There are many believers today who ignore the issue of having a healthy relationship with God. When you say it like this, most believers thing it is. Just a press into fanatism, and they say, you know what the way me I save God. I'm not into all these jimsy Christianity, but my own God knows that me. I'm serious. You can never fake seriousness. Seriousness is so palpable it should be known and detected, whether from afar and near. I'm not, I'm prayerful. It's just that it's only God that knows where a liar immediately away together. Now, yes, sir, So many believers do not intend to take God seriously, don't. They don't plan to throw him out of their lives, but they just want to keep him just at the minimum level enough to hopefully secure life after death in case like an insurance while they go around doing everything they want to do with their lives. And let me tell you the truth, ladies and gentlemen, if. You want God to honor you, you want to command power and relevance in our world today in order of priority. This has nothing to do with vente costalism or whatever it is. You have to make up your mind, please listen, carefully, make up your mind that you are going to go all. Out for God. Some of firs. When we started, we did not start with a desire for ministry. We did not start with a desire for fame. In fact, we did not start with a desire for greatness. This journey started from a blind and sincere pursuit. Lord, I love you. It's an opportunity, and it's a privilege for me to be called your own. And while we pressed and gave God literally everything, he said, So this. Is how far you can go for me. Now let me show you how far I can go for you. Are we together do not convert the result of a genuine lover of God. If and when you are not. God, why are you doing this to so so so person, so so so, lady, so so so ministry. It is a reflection of the depth of your love for God. The Bible says, no eye has seen are wishing together, nor ear has heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man what God has in store for them that love Him, not them that use him, not them that use it life. There are many men of God who. Do not love God. Clearly so, there are many church members who do not love God. There are many business people who do not love God. There are many people with Christian names who do. Not love God. There are biblical and this is that show whether or not you love God. So it is not about blind assumption and saying I love him. He knows you are the first. You are the street, You are the hung leave and deep inside of me, you are the food. That's sad as fast. You are propreish the journey of my life. You are. Listen when you say God, I love you, you know what he's going to ask you. Let me see what you can give up for me. So be careful when you want to say God, I love you. We are used to fake loving this our can world that we think we can play that politics with God. You don't come to him just taking tears and say I love you. You can roll from left to right, from pillar to post. When you're done loving, he will tell you all right. Simon, but Jonah, love this down me more than this? Do you love me more than ministry? Do you love me more than titles? There are people who would throw God a way to protect ministry. There are people who would trug God a way to protect the ego I am a man of God a post to Joshua Selman. There are people who would throw God away if their money is falling down They would thrug God and hold the money and say, God, you are a miracle who work up right back, but this money. If it's false, I don't know if you to come back again. There are people who would throw God away and say my pedigree. I went to school, I read XYZ. Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, the men and the women that God would do mighty things within today's. World are people who are dead to every other thing. The prize for all of God is all of you. You've heard me say it. The price listen. The prize for all of God is more. You will need more than your brain for God to do business with you. The prize for God is more than English and preaching, Oh their one. It takes more than good English to put a generation at the command of Heaven. We're discussing relationships now, Allelujah. That are Valentini's two days now after now, there are many people whose lives are going to nose dive. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, but knows that they have not even stayed well with God. And they look forward. They are planning all kinds of things. Mine knows God They've got flowers, but. They paid for the venue that they will use, and there is no God in that factor. God, I'm used to you interrupting my joy. Stand back when I need you outcome this one. Now, look, let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, it is the foolishness of loving God that brought us this far. Never get to a point where you'll become too intelligent, too western, to become that baby. Are we together? There are many people right now. It's eddigree and prestige that has come to a point where it has replaced God and push God out of their lives. You know, when we started work, four people, no money, but now we're biloonaires. We are talking serious things. My phone can't fall down, my clothes you know the amount. And while you talk all that nonsense, the realm of the spirit is watching you. The rich fool in one day came down. His life was even demanded from him. Ladies and gentlemen, hear me. Your passion for God is not about fanatism, and it's not about. Being a preacher. Do not leave persion for God to just pass us and preachers and save me. God has called me to entrepreneurship. He knows that I can't love him the way who told you that. Go and find out the people who love. God as governmentality, God's like Daniel, as economists like Joseph. They were not preachers, yet you could not argue your love for God. The question God is asking you right now is Simon by Jonah. Love this down me modern days. Because the way many of us are pressing into life were ignoring God. Were just satisfied that at least I remember coming out for another call, and I don't care about anything spiritual. But if we begin to talk about money and business and rising, now you are speaking my language. Some of you. Your love language is money. Repent. Repent now listen, Please don't don't. I'm not being sarcastic. I'm serious. Here a teaching I went together. Now repent. You are the first. You are the straight, you are the hugly. Inside. You are the cool. That's side, it's hard. You are profish for the job of my life. You are all. I would keep saying it for as long as I am alife. I would give up corenonia and close it down a thousand times to maintain my relationship with God. Believe me, this is not just an empty top that I'm saying on stage, are we together. Something more than gold. I've got something more than something more than God. I've got something more than go. If all I have Jesus, I've got something more than God. I will tell it to the world. So the first dimension of relationship you want those who opened for you, It is with God. With God, the first dimension of relationship. And let me tell you this. You are here and you've not encountered the God of the Bible. When I make the altar call, I want you to run wherever you are. Just know that this is why Jesus brought you here. Give us John seventeen, verse three. He says, And this is eternal life that they may not d not that they may recite a prayer alone. This is eternal life that they may know the the only true God. I have searched and searched all there, searched and searched all there, and fam ha money high, searched and searched all the search, searched all the. Thana, until you get you a point in your life. Rea is a gentlemen where God means everything to you. Your love and your passion for Jesus, your love and your passion for the things of the spirit has consumed you, and it is a both every or that desire. Then you are not ready for the relationship that opens doors. There are men who will stand in an empty space, but because of their love for God, you will carry a door wherever it is, bring it in front of them and open it. That is how far he can go. Is that I have loved you with an everlasting love, and I have drawn you with my love and kindness. It's time to return back to your love life. Thank God that this is a period that is celebrated world over. It's a period of love. Your first love is not your husband. It's not your wife, it's not your children. It was because of Him that they all arrived. Don't let their presence drive him. I wait together now, Jesus, the lover of her soul. This is how we started blind, sincere, honest pursuit for him. Lord, if you never bless me, you still have my own. If you never lived me, you still have my own. Not Lord, I'm giving you two weeks. If you don't move, don't blame me all those kinds of things. No, I love you sincerely. It is not about preaching. It is not about all of that No, the song. We sing they are below to you and lieving me. I'm reading belongs to me. I like you to lay your hands on your head in one minute and repent from every kind of my dollar. Three. Lord, I don't know what has taken your place in my life. The pursuse for things, the pursus for shame, the person for. Money, the posus for positions. Cry to the Lord is knife, shall break, tea and brand take. Oh, I return, I report all lover of my soul, all lover of my destiny. I return. Charge stole my hat from you, marriage, stole my hat from you, and chop stole my hat from you. Same stole my hat from you. Nye round cavern dollars than house, stole my heart from you. But I return. Someone tried. I return. I return in the name of Teeson. I return. Shop pracatacos kati barus scati brands to dubraskiata. Ah, you can't sta bandos soto prakata leguitar. You're praying one more minute. Say call of me, ah of me, Lord, you have my everything. Say call of me, all of me, you have my everything? What all me? Lord you have? Love me? Annoys my everything. You louse my everything. I release my everything. You have my everything. Say God of me, all of me, Say God of me, ah me. Everything. Please open your mouth and pray how I love you more than ministry. I love you more than property. I love your more than marriage. I love you more than children. I love you more than a job. I love you more than business explance. I love your modan China shall test parry, see some bracket plan that gata. Someone prays, Someone pray no destruction her prayers? Say who's plans? Who's yourta Man of God. It's time for your love for ministry to go behind the cross and never replace your love for Jesus. It's time for your love for fame and power, even though carrying the remblance of spirituality, to go behind the cross and to see Jesus the Lord lifted as an expression of your love it is good to expel. It's time for your love and your desire for material things to move behind in the quete that nothing and no one should saften your ability to take His place in your life. Oh, if I perish, let me perish loving you. If I go forward, let me go forward loving you. If I'm mag time. Let me mag time, loving you. If I rise, let me rise loving you. Everything I will ever get that will demand my not loving you, mate, Never call. Sad my lac Brand records yatime, Hallelujah in the name of Jesus. Now listen carefully. When Jesus started with the disciples who would later the Apostles of the lad he called them and they became his disciples. But as intimacy grew, many things started happening to them. One day Jesus said, I no longer call you brethren, both friends. Is that in your Bible. She was telling them something that you have killed a height, You have demonstrated your love, You have survived a lot. Do you know what it means for God to give you a title called the friend of God? Who in the Bible had that name, and. What followed the destiny that had that name, Abraham was called more than a prayer warrior, more than a fasting giant. It is a noble title for God to call you. His friend, because in friendship there are no secrets. There is an opening of secrets. God, come back on on you. Shall I hide this from my friend Abraham? I can hide this from my creation, but not my friend Abraham, this is what I want to do. Let me give you a chance as a friend. And Abraham came not just as God's creation, but as a friend and said, hold on, since you have called me your friend, allow me to negotiate. I have an interest in Sodomon go Morah, someone who was my friend before, but allowed the question material things to drive him away. Because of that friendship. Remember, the guy in the. Room did not call him friend, but the one outside stillmself. For as long as there is one person still carrying that point of connection, he said, let me advocate for a lot. Perhaps if there are fifty people, Perhaps if there are forty people. That was a negotiation that was at the table of friendship. I am a friend. I am a friend. I am a friend of God. He calls me friend. I didn't call him. I am a friend. How can I dare call him friend? The creator of the ends of the earth a friend. He calls me friends. So do not be surprised when. You see the benefits of friendship following certain people do not. The Bible says, there is a friend that's sticked a loser like Hi, this I don't know who God is speaking to. But there are people here tonight. God is saying there is a deeper level of friendship. Come come this nominal Christianity, this surface thing herein dear dealing with God like an idol, like a stranger, as if he says, stone count somewhere inself God, as sim we are practicing idolatry. There is a functional relationship with proof. Come, come, Come, there is a river for you. Come. God is pushing someone. Come. There is a deeper dimension, more than just church, more than just nominal Christianity is a deeper dimension, like it's from this heaven. Oh, there is a river. God is calling a man of God. Hold on about ministry and come deeper. You will be more effected when you become my friend. Line up, dude, the lamb upon the brow. I hate you. Most time, shame us, say my nahe the lion, not you. The lam apart. I hate you most look. I I'm yea I my Whenever I call you. You will answer me because his friend always hands us. When I call you, you will answer me. Whenever I call you. Dear me, there are some of you have that is service. You may need to rush and go for a retreat. God is speaking to you the destiny you are seen and the level of relationship you are giving God. You can't arrive there. That is not how a prophetic man too will land on you. That is not how an apostolycol will call. It's not by buying suits and sharing cats. No, there there are revers ladies and gentlemen. You have to dive deep into the river. So said, there is a There is. A path that no. How has seen the wealths of the lion has not gotten. There very deep dimensions of intimacy with God. That is where power resides in the spirits. That is where rest resides in the spirit. Oh about the s. They must the public has the panda and the moody can lie. I know the Lion, I know the Lamb. I know the lie On. I know the Lamb. I worshiped a liar on, I worshiped the lad how worshiped the lie I worship the lion. I believe in the lion. I believe in the Lamb. I believe in the lion. Yeah, you're not wasting your time. Just one more minute, declare your desperation. Take me to the place, the place you are, the secret place. That's where I want to be. You are my sheep, you are my covering, You are my stability. And my foundation, taking me to the place. The place you are. Let's see. Let me you're not wasting your time. Many of you are wondering what we're doing. This is how intimacy is developed in the spirit. Press for one moment, h yes you a machine? Cominana, can. Yes you a machine? ConA nah lesten a machine. To let a machine listen. There is a rem in the spirit where you would have to. Rendered everything because you love him. When your hands are empty, not holding anything, then He can hold your hands and you will find out that you have everything. Ladies and gentlemen, please hear me our moundane. Pursuit of things is eroding our passion for God gradually, especially this generation. With all due respect, it is amazing how incredibly distracted we are in pursuit of many things. I have learned from scripture. I have learned from mentorship, from wisdom, and by experience that anything that claims to give you what only. God can give you, just know that you are dealing with troubulends. There any situation. Anyone who tells you he can give you what only God can give. There are things only God can give, He said, with God all things. No amount of publicity will bring increase to your ministry above and beyond the presence and your relationship with God. No amount of intellectual soundness will replace the impact of the world that comes at the instance of relationship. May God grant us grace to return in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Please be seated, Please be seated. So the first dimension of relationship is your relationship with God. Every increasing hunger, passion, hire, love for spiritual things. Number two, What is the second dimension of relationship that is responsible. For activating open doors as. Far as destiny and the purposes of God is concerned. Are you ready? Number two? Relationship with men? Relationship with God is number one. Number two, relationship with men. Some eight and verse one. The power of God is coming on four people. Some eight and verse one. Some eight and verse one. I saw the number four, and this is this is this is It is not just you receiving breakthrough or this this is it is the cry of the spirit crying from within your spirit. God is still telling you, I am still looking for you, I am still looking for you. That pursuit. Let's continue relationship with men. Some aides and Verse one, O Lord, our God, pay attention. Now here comes a very deep mystery. How excellent is thy name in all the earth? Is that who has sets thy glory above the heavens. Reading to verse six, out of the mouth of Babes and Suckling, thou hast ordained strength. Notice what is said, O Lord, our God, without any man, your name is already excellent. And yet as excellent as you are, there is something you are looking. For that only men can give you, it says, out of the mouth. Of Babes and Suckling, as excellent and powerful as you are, there is something that the ministry of men does to you. It says, thou has ordain in strength because of thine enemies, that thou might just. Still the enemy and the avenger. Verse three. When I consider the heavens, the psalm is speaking now the works of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained. Here is the part this scripture rattled me for many many years. What is man? Men never ask that question. They don't care what is in man? It a what is man that. Thou art mindful of? You are already God by yourself. You are already all excellent, needing no support, needing no encouragement. You are not threatened by another kingdom and another force anywhere. But what if the angels were perplexed and the psam is speaking true by the spirit? What is man? The whole the. Bible is about your relationship with man? Why do you run around man as though you were vulnerable? What is man that thou art mindful of him? Not the son of Man that. Thou visitest him? Is it not an inconvenience for you, oh God, to leave heaven and come to the earth. What benefits you created all you can create? And not a reality? And igno this man? But what is it about this man that, in spite of his sin and deterioration, his toughness. You see the patterns God's people will experience abundance and plenty. They will deviate from the part of God. They will now be given to the hands of your enemies, and they will become slaves for many years, and without them crying to God in many regards, God himself will now. Send their prophets to go and tell them I'm still intersted in you or you come back to me. The families. Word was contemplating and said, God, is it that there is something. In men that we don't know? What is it about man? You make it look like with that man you cannot be God? What is man? Here is how I read the scripture many times? What is in man that man himself does not know? Listen cheerfully, you are about to learn a very deep mystery. You want those to be opened. We have given God his place, but I must show you the mystery of men. That if you ignore this mystery, you can as. Well change yourself and remain there, because there will be no motion in your life. Is a guarantee that I give you what is Man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of Man that thou should visit. In verse five, it says thou hast made him a little lower than yello him the word angels. There is the word elo him. You have crowned him with glory and honor. The same man. Six it says that has made him to have dominion over the works of your hands. Is that in your bible thou has put how many things? Say all things? Thou has put all things under his feet isn't it amazing? You know, every time I have the opportunity of seeing. Great gadgets, aircraft, building materials, you see man building skyscrapers that are many, many times his height, and he's not threatened by it. Individuals who stand and say they want to build something that will almost reach the sky, and they will stop building it from one block and. One construction material, and they will actually do it. The wildness of animals on earth have been tamed by man. Allelujah. I once watched a video I can't even remember how I stumbled across it. A hungry and angry elephant just meandered around the road and some people were moving around, I think in a lot Zero's boss, and they didn't give him anything, and it just went that knows that looks like it's just is there's nothing there. When I saw what it did to that car, it flogged the car as though you. Are throwing a piece of paper, And I said, can you imagine how heavy this thing is? He stepped on water melon like paper and crossed it into pieces one time, and yet man cantain it. He said, what is man that you have put everything under his feet? Listen tearfully God shows so much passion. Around man, but men do not know what is in man. That's why we keep losing. If God himself, the creator of the ends of the head, did not did no man. God is not a shame to show his vulnerability towards men. She would say things like I have loved you with a ever lasting love, and I have drawn you with my loving kindness. God is in heaven. Yet it will tell you that there are many things I sought for a man. It's equal twenty two and verse thirty. You would hear God make statements like that, and I sought for a man. Why will God be seeking for a man? He didn't say I called for a man. I sought, meaning as God, I kept moving. From n looking for a man. If God is looking for men, you. Better look for men, because it means there is something in man. If the God of the heavens has not ignored men, I tell you, respectfully speaking, it is lack of wisdom for you to ignore men. We live in a world where we pride over self sufficiency. We live in a world where we are very embarrassed to. Acknowledge that we are incapacitated and that it will take the impute of other people to make us whole and to make constructive progress. But here is God, the one who is complete, el shaded, the mulchy breasted one whould declares his vulnerability over man, God all by himself, and yet he would reach down to man to an extent that Jesus came and died, not for himself for man, seinless God, are we together? Let's look at a few scriptures Psalms one, one five and verse sixteen. Someone is learning now one one five sixteen. Let's read together, Please, one to read the heaven. Even the heavens are the lords ahah. But the earth hath he given to the children of men. Let me request that were reading one more time, one to go the heaven. Even the heavens are the lords. He gave the earth to the children of men. So who are the stewards of the earth? Now, man, get this revelation that the. Stewards of earth? Right now? Certain, listen to me. Satan does not own the heath. Satan is all only the god of the systems, not the heath. The power of Satan is derived from his partnership with Man. Outside of man, Satan cannot wield dominion over the earth. It was not given to him. Are we together? Now? He controls the systems. The systems now control man, so it makes it look like he's controlling man. But he is the god of the systems. He designed an antichrist system that works upon the minds of man. But dominion was given to man. If you are not a man, you cannot have dominion on earth. Satan cannot have dominion on earth. Because is not a man. I've taught you here, remember let them have dominion. Make reference with it that the condition for being a man is number one, you must be a spirit. If you are not a spirit, you cannot be a man. Number two, that spirit must be hosted in a material body, and that body must be created from the elements. That are consistent with this ecosystem. So there are other spirits with other spirit bodies from other dimensions. They cannot be called men because their bodies were not source from the earth. Are we together now? That is why Satan and every other spirit has to depend on man. For as long as there is one man on earth who is under. The influence of this software a young the thinking pattern of this age. It now strengthens. Satan, and it can look like it has dominion over man. But you need to understand this. God gave the earth to man, the heaven of evans belonged to the Lord, and the head has he given to the sons of men. John chapter five. Please, God is speaking to us John chapter five, originer reading from verse one. Pay attention to this story and this. After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, followed closely. Now ver two give us us two. Please. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep by the ship market, a pool which is called in the Hebrew tongue bethesda, having five porchaes three. It says in this lay a great multitude of impotent. Folk of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the movement of the water. Notice what they're waiting for. The Bible says, for an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water whosoever. And then first after the troubling of the water, set in. Was made all of whatever disease he had. Isn't it amazing that this was not a parable It actually happened on earth. A certain man was there which had an infirmity, for how long thirty eight years? What was this man's problem? Verse six, When Jesus saw. Him lie and knew that he had been now a long time. In that case, he said, unto him, will now be made whole? He's asking him a question. Watch the man's reply. The important man answered and said to him, Sir, I have no man. He never said I have no energy. My limitation is I have potential to be healed, but I'm not connected to any man that can provide a leverage. Sah in this. Thirty eight years, I take responsibility. I am knowledgeably enough to know that I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool, he said, But while I am coming, and not a step back down before me, it is logical to assume that that hadn had a man to help him, because, based on this scripture, men. Could help men enter the water. If men could not help men, he would not say I have no man to help me. Somebody who had a man to help him gave him the leverage and the acceleration to enter the pool first. I have no man. This is the story of many people. Please look up. Why have you not risen till now? Why has your life not changed till now. And the correct answer for many people is I have no man. There is nobody I am not. I have not placed value on strategic relationships enough to provide a leverage from my home, my company, my ministry, my business. Jesus did not look at him and say. You're a liar and you are speaking nonsense. He knew that the man was right. Verse eight. Jesus now looks at him and says, you got it right. You have no man, but now here is a man. Rise on. Since you were attentive enough to understand the value of men, I have come as a man. Rise up, take off your bed and walk h I have no man. Why has Abuja not opened up for you for decades in spite of being born and bred here. I have gifts, I have degrees, but I have no man. Let me tell you this, ladies and gentlemen, May I remind you again that all blessings come from God, but they come through men to men. Please, everybody shouted, say from God through men through men. One more time, say from God through men to men. You can complete this sentence with anything from God through men to men. That means if God says yes, and a man to partner with him says no, Yes will remain in the realm of the spirit. It will not manifest. Yet, when God says yes the spirit, the bride must also say yes. For yes to manifest, the spirit and the bride say come. Not the spirit alone, not the bride alone. Please look up. There are many of us right now who are stranded in life and destiny. And the honest explanation is captured in the story of the Man at Bethesda. I have no man. If there was a man relationship that could provide a leverage, even though you were knocking by twelve midnight, a friend will come out and give you bread. Are we connecting to the story now? I have no man, I have no friend, I have no helper. Why is ministries stunted like this that easy things look difficult. I have no man who can mentor me and open me up and show me the dynamics of excelling with integrity. Why are you so financially incapacitated because of ten thousand someone is your. Family is about to lose his life. I have no man that has invested. You're interested in my family enough to erode this unnecessary pain? Why are you running around? How much is the rent five hundred thousand, two hundred thousand? Why have you not paid it then? And I don't have a job. That is not the right answer. I have no man. There is always a man who is behind the results that men produced by God. Listen, cheerfully. The nation of Israel had God for four hundred and thirty years. There were still slaves. God was there, but they were sill slaves. You thought that because God was there, they. Will magically go out four hundred and thirty years with God. And yet the man who will. Work in partnership with God had not showed up, and they remain slaves, even though there was prophecy to Abraham that their time lapse was four hundred years. Exactly thirty years was added because of the delay in training the man who would come. Until that man shut up, Moses stands before Pharaoh and sstors said, the Lord God of the. Hebrews, let my people go. God was saying, now is the time for their exodus. But the man had to stand before Pharaoh. It was not God that appeared before Pharaoh, but in that's the man that he said, Please look at me. Let me tell you the truth. Your life can be put in indefinite pain, regret, perpetual circles of defeat, and lack of fulfillment, simply because you have no man, no wonder. The Bible says, in the multitude of men is a king's honor. Not in the vastness of the palace, not in the dexterity of the treasury. When you read the Book of Esther, the Bible tells us that King Ahazaras was a great king. He was king over one hundred and twenty seven provinces. Watch this, The kingdom was about to split into two because one man, in this case a woman Vashti, was going to misbehave in the kingdom. There was no war, the treasuries were not looted, there was no disobedience from. The military man. But one woman was about to cause trouble in that kingdom. Men are powerful, more powerful than what you know. Most of us would choose many other things and leave men. Please look up. Do you know that everything you call business or commerce today only finds his value because there is a man. Take all the men on earth out of the earth. Leave all the bands open, including the atm that does not have money. Leave it with the atm card open up, Sybian, and the vaults open everything there? Will it profit you? Are we together? Now? Do you know why Caine cried and said, my course is too great? Something was put upon his life that would make no man to come near him again. That was the punishment. It was not that the beasts of the earth would eat him. Something was put upon him, and he said, every man that sees me will kill me. And God said, well, will put a mac upon you. In all of your punishment, I will still give you the benefit of relationship. And the Bible says kin beauty city, and named it after his son. He could have the benefit of relationship, and there was a future for him in spite of his rebellion and the cause of God upon him. Can I tell you. All hope is never lost for a man who has a man. Let me say it again, all hope is never lost for a man who has a man by his side. In addition to the God of Heaven, knowing that men are this important, why is it that men ignore men? Why God does not ignore men? It is because of arrogance and largely ignorance. These are the two. Major reasons why men have not maximized relationships. Please, ladies and gentlemen, pay attention every aspect of this ministry today. By the grace of God. It is credited to the messy and the grace of God. But true men to men. The job that you now have, if you are to be honest, it came from God. But true men to men. When you open the door of your company, your corporation, you're superior. Is not an angel or a spirit sitting down, There is a human being who has the power to fight you. When you pray for faivor, you pray with respect to that man sitting there is that true God faivor me. What is in this man that he cannot increase my pay? And God will do something to him, and the man will call you. You call it answer prayer because the answer was in the hand of a man. This leads me to the next discussion. You have heard me say it, and I will repeat it again. In this kingdom, who. Hates you does not matter. But ladies and gentlemen, please hear me. Knowing that this world is man dependent. Who loves you matters. When you say you need God alone with respect. To his sovereignty and power, like we discussed and worship earlier on. You are right. But when you say you need God alone with. Respect to the overall dynamics of the cosmos, you will spend your lifetime learning. A bitter and a painful lesson. Are we together? Jesus is on his way to God, got out as the. Word incarnate, bleeding literally from all the lacerations and the beatings and the wickedness that came from. All these people. He's on his way, and he's weak. Jesus falls on the way, And if there was no man for Jesus, he would have died there. I hope you know. If Jesus died on the ground, he could not be a cause, because it is written cost is every man that hangs on a tree, not dies on the ground. But there was one man, Simon of Siren, who came and lifted the cross for him. You thought Jesus, who said, no, this is redemption, none of your business. You are the sinner. I came to say, he would have died there. He allowed the man to help him while he regained the energy that was left for him to die. Jesus needed men when he resurrected after the coronation. Service in heaven. Guess what he did. He did not go to another planet to rejoice. He came back straight to the edge and gathered the men, one hundred and twenty of them, and said, even though I'm the glorified Christ, I still need you come together. After in fifty days ten days now, the Holy Ghost is going to be coming. I need to teach you certain things, and you taught them. When the Holy Ghost came, he came upon men. The Gospel of Jesus Christ today. Continues to advance from nation to nation, not just by the will of God alone, but two men. If you ignore men in your life, ladies and gentlemen, you will pay very serious price. Write this down. Please write this down. You must understand. The principles of sustainable relationships. You must understand the principles of sustainable relationships. You must understand the principles of sustainable relationships. In order to excel in your life and destiny. You must understand the principles of sustainable relationships. A few things about relationships. Have done several teachings, but then I'll still do them because I'm sharing a few things. Let's see how far we can go, because I need you to get the third dimension. We have to get it before we close tonight. Let me share a few things with you about relationships that are very, very very important. Are you ready praise God the first You already have it down that who hates you does not. Matter in this kingdom, but who likes you matters. Write this down. Men, men are ladders, and men can provide a leverage to your life. Men are ladders, and men can provide a leverage to your life and destiny. That means there are systems of advantage the ministry of men. Men are ladders like you climb the ladder and move from one face and one dimension to the other. And that men can provide a. Leverage to your life and your destiny. God will always use men for your eyes. Satan will always use men for your falling. God will always use men for your rising. Satan will always use men for your falling or for your destruction. Please do not forget this. God will always use men for your rising. The devil will always use men for your destruction. Write this down. Relationships are investments. Underline the word investments is one of the key points I want you to get as far as dealing with men is concerned. Relationships are investments. They are not like investments. They are investments. So the next time you are listening to all the investments you have, make sure you do not leave relationships outside. How many investments do you have? I have real estate, I have shares with this company. That is all. You made a big mistake. You are in trouble. If I'm the one interviewing you, I would just advise you. I said, you're in trouble. After this interview, roun quickly and go and start making the most superior investment. Men? Are we together? If you tell somebody that men are an investment and he laughs at you feel sorry for him. Not there so that you don't lose your job, but in your mind, are we together? Men are always a leverage that God will use. My life is full of stories at several points where God brought men strategic relationships that have made for my personal advancement and the advancement of this vision. And every great person. Here, without exception, can tell you that your lives changed because of the presence. Of a man. There are many people who. Are in pain here and across the globe. They can't trace their pain to the presence of men. They didn't have that pain except and unless men came into their lives. So you need to be very very careful, ladies and gentlemen, knowing that your victory and your defeat is not only God dependent, but it is men dependent. You have to obtain the intelligence to know how to peace to your life. The right team, the right sets of men. He that works with the wise. The Bible says that he shall be wise himself, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. There are many people who are well behaved, people of character, and they love God until they were introduced to certain men, and their lives just went bad. There were people who were bad, demonic, devilish, irresponsible, but they were introduced to certain men and certain circles. You may want to write this. No man will ever outgrow the influence that comes from men. You can never be so much held or too much held that men. Will stop influencing you is not true. You are only given the liberty to choose who influences you. But to say you will not be influenced. No man has immunity against the influence that comes from men. You only have the liberty to choose who influences you. At every given point in your life. There is somebody who is influencing you, and there is somebody you are influencing. Allelujah. Let me, as a way of just passing through it list for you four or five keys. I've given it to you before, but for the sake of this teaching keys to help you maintain relationships. We're not really talking about relationships with men extensively. I've done that teaching already. You can get it, and then there. Are other series on relationships coming in the future. But then, let me just quickly put this down. You will need it. Ladies and gentlemen. What I'm about to share with you will explain the reason why some of us are painfully lonely. We are alone even though we love God. Look at me, please. If you are alone and you say everybody hates me, it's an attack on your mind. Everybody cannot hate you like that. It is a sign that there is a negative energy. There is a pungency that comes out of you. And let me tell you the truth. People love you, but like look eleven, they love themselves too. The man said, I love you, but now your friendship is about to become an interruption to my children. So stay outside. Let me protect my children. People love you, but not when your relationship now becomes an interruption to their lives. Please pay attention. There are some of us who never find friends anywhere. There are some of us who find friends, But the life span of any friendship is not more than one month. At the end of one month, something most happened. Go. I don't care. I've always been by myself. That's why you see that everything continues to backfire. In the name of Jesus, as I share this, let it come as lights and deliverance for you. Shout the men, please, in the name of Jesus, Great potentials, great people. There are some of us. There is If you are in trouble today, God, for there is nobody you can call that the evening is by midnight. What happened? I'm in trouble and the person says not under my watch. You are too valuable. Let me tell you this. If there is nobody in your life who loves you and believes in you enough to be there for you are moments of pain. Your life is hanging on a very delicate balance. Before I begin to give you this list. I want you to think for one moment, and for those who are falling online, please participate. Let me walk with your mind now, mention in your mind live the little baby. Just guide her around. She's in the house of God. She will have people who protect her. And then there are many other people who unfortunately, unfortunately will lose opportunities and will never have you. Try to touch this little baby, for instance, in this example, and you'll find out that there are people who come to help her. She cannot talk. What is in the right environment here? That works with the wise will be wise, but a companion or fools will be destroyed. Are we together now? Is there anyone in your life right now? Look at me, everybody. Is there anyone in your life right now, honestly speaking, that you can call and asks for help, whether financial help. Spiritual health, and. You are sure that if the person has the means, the person will respond. Don't lift your hand, think about it. If your answer is. No, please listen twice because your life is in danger right now. Man of God, is there anybody you can call under God? Not by manipulation? And sincerely share your vision with them? And the person who say look, I'm in a position to provide support of all sorts. There are many people who have almost the cause of pain upon their lives. They move like fugitives in life. No body is interested in your life to. Invest their credibility, their reputation, their resources. Can I tell you if everybody hates you, the problem is you. It cannot be. Everybody cannot be stupid, demonic, or is. Because I love God, my way is different. You are lying. No, that would be an insult on the ministry of the Holy spirity. Human beings have mastered the art of avoiding trouble, and they can. Discern trouble from afar. And when your life becomes a capture of a plestor. Of troubles, allelujah away together. Let me share with you a few keys. Number one, if you want to. Maintain destiny relationships, there are few keys that you must learn. Number one, you must rise above what we call competitive jealousy. You will never be able to maintain strategic destiny relationships when you know. That you are prone to jealousy. And this is not just an issue of spiritualizing it alone. There is a psychology to this. I have taught you again and I will repeat it. It is not unusual to have this struggle around jealousy when you are in an atmosphere where you see results. And then you are alienated from it. But I advise you you can never maintain strategic relationships until you rise above competitive jealousy. There are people who can never be in any circle except they are the leaders there. If they are not going to lead and call the shots there, they cannot go and see quietly. It is a dangerous mentality. We got some of this mentality from culture. We got some of this mentality from our past demonic attacks. This is why when we come to the house of God, we allow the wash of the water, and by the world, are we together now avoid competitive jealousy. Let me just give you one scription on these proverbs fourteen thirty The Bible says, a sound heart is the life of the flesh, but envy the rottenness of the bones. Y is a terrible thing, jealousy. So are you the only one who is dressing like this? Why is it that. Everybody comes their greeting socials of person and leaving me. That's always how they are. I've faced these since I was born. It should be a reason to go for a retreat and say Lord, the same Lord is rich onto all. If they have done this to this person, I take responsibility. It means there is. Something I do not understand. My brother or my sister. What is the secret behind the favor of God in your life that I'm not seeing in my life? And five minutes of spiritual lecture can deliver you from years of ignorance. For someone, this is a prophetic word God is giving you. Making cheerless assumptions and working in competitive. Jealousy will always put you in trouble. You see this sadly with preachers. You see this with business people. You see this in the house of God. Shouldn't they In the sky there are no traffic. There's room for everybody. I wait together now Number two, let's hurry on. The second key to maintaining relationships avoid evil speaking slash back biting. You must avoid it. I'm teaching you this to empower you. You cannot maintain relationships living. In an atmosphere that is perpetually. About evil speaking and back biting. No body will accommodate you under that pungent atmosphere. For some of you, this is why nobody wants to come around your life. There is nothing else to say except to gossip. There is nothing else to say except to backbites. You see. I think it was Dr Mays Munro who said losers talk about people away together, mediocres talk about things, but great people talk about ideas. Never allow yourself to be the habitation of gossip and jealousy. People come around and say, hey, there is a gissu. You mean you've been in this Abuja, Nigeria and you've not heard. Do not allow your atmosphere to be the one that accommodates that pungent spirit. Say amen, you must avoid evil speaking, avoid by biting. Some of you will talk about every body, and when there is nobody, you will talk about yourself because you just have to say something be delivered from it. In the name of Jesus. I'm not being sarcastic. I'm helping you. Listen. Life will be so easy when you know how to attract and cheap strategic relationships. I told you relationships are investments. This is how to make the investment. When you're most fair, becomes conducive. You will be. Surprised that the kinds of people who will gravitate to your life, and with them will come every blessing that they carry in their hands. When the Magi came to Jesus, they all came together with what they were carrying. When a wise man comes, he comes with the benefits of his wisdom to your life. Are we learning now so avoid evil? Speaking a back biting number three? Very quickly? Practice forgiveness and tolerance. Practice forgiveness and tolerance. It will be impossible for you to maintain relationships all through your lifetime if you cannot practice forgiveness and tolerance. I've taught you here in Coinonia. The difference between forgiveness and tolerance. Let me say that forgiveness has to do with providing. Pardon to over a default. Tolerance means accommodating there sick weaknesses of people because it will happen again and again and again. For instance, if you talk active tells you sorry, I will not talk again. You don't have to forgive the person you are wasting your time. What you need is word its tolerance. Saymen, practice forgiveness. There are some of us. Are you are angry with everybody? Including God? You don't forgive anybody at all? Someone knocks your door four times instead of three times, and that becomes an offense that you carry. For ten years. Where do you know this guy in nineteen ninety one he knocked my door four times instead of three times. No, you have to deliver yourself. Listen, listen while you are laughing. I hope you are paying attention. You must be. When you carry the luggages of hate and bitterness, you are affecting. Your own life too. Are we together now? Yes, carrying offense. And unforgiveness is like swallowing poison and expecting another person to die. If you don't practice tolerance, you will hurt yourself many times, because even the best of people who come to your life will have their limitations. It is a reality with all men. Are we together now? Looking for perfection is a waste of time. You will never find it. Have you seen someone try to kill a mosquito that is around your face. You may miss the mosquito, but one thing you will never miss is the slap on your face. And then the. Mosquito comes again. Look for an effective way to kill it. You keep at the end of tense slaps, and yet the mosquito is not dead. That's what many be You will agree with their souls. Set yourself free tonight in the name of Jesus Christ. My brother did this, my mother did this, one cousin did this. Set yourself free, and it is Listen. It's a revelation of a superior way of living, a superior. Way of living. Are we together now? You want to maintain relationships, you must practice forgiveness and tolerance. Let me give you can I give you two more? What number were now? Number four? Be an active contributor to the growth of the relationship, seeing that your relationship is. Any kind of relationship. I spoke about Valentine and some of you think. I'm against it. I'm not against it. To go on with your plan as planned, provide that you agree with what you are bringing in wisdom, my Lord God, my not's wisdom, don't do it. Are we together now? Be an active contributor to the growth of the relationship. Please look at me. Relationships do not build themselves. They are bused by the parties involved. Are we together now? Yes? This is true for married couples. This is true for business relationships. This is true for parents and children. Anybody who does not become an active contributor. There's what they call parasitic relationships where there are people who don't bring anything at all. Are we together? Relationships must be a healthy balance between expectations and contributions. When your expectation in a relationship far outweghe. Your contribution, you are a selfish person. When your contribution far outwete your expectation, somebody is being unfair on you. There must be a healthy balance. Are weay together? You cannot contribute one thousand narra words of contribution and expect one million mirra work of expectation. That is fraud. Are we together now? It's like giving the bank one thousand mierra and expecting ten million tomorrow. It doesn't work that way. Unfortunately, there are people that's how their relationships are. You never can trace the benefit that they bring into the system. If they are workers in church, they will never pay anybody's transport. Even as a seed. They don't have anybody's birthday in mind, including their family members. They forget everything now. The only thing they remember is their needs. Who are something to say me, Well, I just want you to know that things. Are not really all right for me right now, and I will appreciate whatever it is that anybody can do because I know that God uses men. Have you seen people like that? The entire conversation is about them? And I love you with all my heart. Everybody, but particularly let me speak to you, our dear sisters in the Lord in the name of Jesus. Let me give you counsel. I don't talk so much about this, but let me give you an honest counsel. Throw away some of these garbages that come in from misguided maybe in social media. What did the things that you learn? Are we together the moment you are in any kind of relationship that makes it all about you, you are already in trouble. Not even our relationship with God is all about him. When we tell him God take everything, he says, No, I'm not so selfish. I will make sure that I attend to you also. Are we together now? Don't carry that narrative that is all about you. You find this happen all around. And people who refuse to be active contributors. So we have business partners. One is just there like a parasite. Are you awake now, May God bless you. God will help you for us here in Jesus' name, hear me. Where you do not have any definite value to offer. Let your value be gratitude. Where you do not have anything debtin it to offer, make sure you keep showering that relationship with a lavish expression of gratitude. You are a man and you are not doing anything, and your wife is working, bringing you money all. The time, and having the honor shamedness to look like a fool before you, my husband, I'm submitting to you, including this money. Children's coolie is She's paid it house French. She's paid it. And you say thanks, No, that's not wisdom. Don't be offended. I'm saying this because I love you. Let me tell you gratitude is a big contribution in any relationship. Gratitude can equilize given what your value cannot bring. I'm not able to do this, but I'm really grateful. I wouldn't have had the money to buy the well, but thank you for stepping in. I really want you to know that I am. I am thoughtful and thankful for what you have done. I think there there is. I think it's your obt. People that do it that they think twice. They do that one in the night and then by the next day they do it again. Very healthy practice. Do we do it three times? In fact, in this in this world you want, you want people to remember you. I hope someone is learning man of God. Someone gives you a one hundred million mill as a city ministry and you have access to know the first thing, it's not to worship people. But don't say I don't care. God provides it. No, No, don't speak like that. You will be poor and you will struggle in ministry. It's a very honest advice. Learn to appreciate people. Since cil your wife treats you well, tell her thank you. Don't say I've paid your dowry already. What is my No, don't act like that. You're a child of God. Your husband provides. And then, no matter how wealthy, you have trained your children to say thank you. This entitlement mentality that is destroying Africa. They pay your scoopies. They do this. Teach them to say thank you. Are we together now? Thank you to God and thank you to men. There are times you can just pick up your phone and begin to thank the people who have contributed greatly or significantly in your life. The corporate organizations understand this. This is why they keep excelling. We in the church are masters of taking. People for granted. Fast us. I say this respectfully speaking. When God gives you members and workers. Who love you and labored day and night, seeing that the work is advanced, don't take them for granted. Find every means within your power to say thank you and. Repeat it again and for Coinonia workers, thank you, thank you, And I really mean what I'm saying. Thank you, our global family. Thank you. For all of you who are here. Thank you. If you are not here. Whether I am anointed or not, that's not the issue. It's one thing to be valuable, but it's another thing for people to believe in you enough to invest their credibility, their attention, their resources. Their loyalty. Do not take them for granted. If someone learning, if somebody paints this kind of picture for you, will you, under normal circumstances run away from that person. No, my husband doesn't love me. If it's an attack, that's all right. This a miracle serve is coming. But under normal listen, listen, under normal circumstances, find out what is making your husband run away from you. You can come and yell from morning till night, shouting, calling the man's name, remembering in nineteen ninety nine it was twelfth knowon you. Were wearing white. I remember Plus said that shit you and you and the manners returned tired. He will go out of the house and got sleep in the office. I knew you were going to go out comeback. You will samit me here and for men, let's tame our arrogance. And say thank you and be there. Sometimes all this big many's them for nothing. Once you cannot help yourself, and people do for you what you cannot do for yourself. Be humble enough to acknowledge people. It does not take anything out of you. There are men who would rather say how are you. I hope you will find your dress is nice than to say thank you. Just say thank you. Men, say it one more time, say thank you. Callnonia. Men say it. Say thank you. In the name of Jesus Christ. Are well learning. So you must be an active contributor to every relationship. Some of you right now, let me tell you this after service practice what. You just learned. Now, think of people who have significantly contributed to your life, including your boss. That you may say you don't like. I just want to appreciate yourself. Learned something I came to church and I was greatly inspired. Transformation is happening, and I've decided to respond just to tell you I'm grateful. Let me tell you what to expect. Most of them will not reply. That does not mean the effect was not created. I'm giving you a kid. That's all. You don't from and say you see, that's how it works. They will not reply, But the effect has been created. The day promotion will come. That's when you know that text added up to your rising. There are many people who are grounded today. Because of ignorance. Become an active contributor someone else you gives you, say, a loan of one million mira, and you rise and now you're a big man. And then you are going to his house and you buy an orange of one hundred mirror. Ah, let's be the honest. You carry a hundred narra orange. That you got just at a Johnshon near his house. The letter is even turn and you rap tiight here tie it's here, and you just say sorry, no, no. Now politicians understand this, non Christians understanding. They are masters of investing into strategic relationship. But huge people because of the presence of the Holy Spirit. Another advantages like favor. These things are investment. Start making your investment now after service. Don't match people and push people and run around. You don't know that the person you just push is the doctor that will treat your child if he has malaria. No, treat people with honor and with dignity. Are we together now? Don't look at someone saying it came for Cononia is looking like he's dressed in Iraq. He may be wearing rats, but something is happening to his mind. And tomorrow, when you see the same sound of money in power and glory, you will bite your finger and regrets. Is someone learning Never be part of any kind of relationship where it is all about giving to you and you are not an active contributor. It doesn't have to be money, give love and support if someone decides to invest into your life, your children. I just called to say I'm honorable, just to greet you and to ask how you are doing. I hope everything is fine. My prayers and my blessings are with you. In Jesus' name, you have scheduled the season of continuous favor. There are many people. The day you get a. Text from them is because another request is coming Calvary greetings. Just to let you know that I am still here. Two minutes later, they sorry, just to let you know they one million again. They rent the way you know you don't act like that. Don't give people memories of pain when they think about you. If you're learning, shouting men, So, my dear brother and my dear sister. This may be one of the reasons why people run away from you. It may also be the reason why no kind of relationship seems to work for you, because you are always thinking about what people will give to you, or you have very lead to value and contribution, but you have a reasonably high expectation believing that everybody will come and give you heaven, and. That it doesn't work that way. You must become an active contributor to the growth of that relationship, your time, your resources, any kind of leverage. You can provide on that. God, let me give you the last key. Are you learning master kindness and hospitality? You want to. Maintain valuable relationships that translate to open doors. As simple as this sounds, you will be surprised how many people may not be able to make progress. Master kindness. What is kindness? The quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. That's what we call kindness, the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. And then master hospitality. Hospitality is not about cooking food. Hospitality is built upon an intrinsic desire to see people happy and welcomed. Let me repeat it again, the last key. You want to maintain relationships with men, Master kindness and hospitality. Please say kindness, say. Hospitality one more time. Say kindness, say hospitality. Kindness is the quality of being friendly, the quality of being generous, and the quality. Of being considerate. And then to be hospitable means, intrinsically, you desire to see people happy, You desire to see people welcomed. I give you a guarantee on that God, you cannot surround. Yourself with this kind of spiritual and psychological energy and have people run away from you. It will not happen on the normal circumstances. Many of us are not kind, Many of us are not hospitable. Are we together? Master kindness to your wife, to your husband, to your children, to your superiors, to your contemporaries, to your subordinates. Master kindness. A person in our family we don't really give. That's all right, Learn you can learn from today this night. Lend a way together master kindness, saying the name of Jesus. Say it as a confession. In the name of Jesus, I declare that kindness begins to work in my life. Say it again, in the name of Jesus, I declare that kindness begins to work in my life. To be kind means to be friendly. People should not look at you and say good afternoon, and you look at them, you size them from head to toe. Who is your father, who is your mother? What are you wearing? What kind of designer? Now? Just go don't do that, don't do that, don't do that. Be kind to people. Let me tell you something I wish I had the time to tell you stories in my life. Some of the great helpers in my life have been some of the most honest, assuming people. Based on the physical personal if you were to select people, you would not go close to those people. Yet they have profound and tremendous influence and by that discernment and. To be able to communicate or not, it. Provided a leverage that myself and even this ministry is still benefiting from today. Don't look down people because of financial status, because of educational, whatever you may have people that are that much or pedigree to deal with. I understand that, but make sure that you are kind to everybody. God has granted you a KR. I know you are driving a card one hundred million erra. Don't hit the guy walking on the road just because you are moving, because one day you will buy a kind in his company. Are we together? Yes? And let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen. When you are starting out in life, live your life with honor and dignity. Provided you are working the part of righteousness and integrity would be no shape. Don't fake your life. No one shirts that you have weighed with honor. Anybody that wants you to wear a designer clothes before they respect you does not deserve to be your friend. They are leaving you. Is it was God ordained to give you peace because you already see that that pathway will lead to destruction. It is selfishness personified. Are we together practice kindness? I pray even for myself every time that beyond being an anointed man of God, beyond being someone who God has trusted with revelation and leadership, that at a. New clean level, that character of kindness. Ah and hospitality will come from me, not because I'm a preacher. It is a beautiful way to live. Are we together now? Many of you are not kind. You've not done anything to anybody. There are clothes in your house today that has spoiling. You have outgrown them, you will never use them. Yet you will not give you the pain of giving out new clothes. That's what is paying you. You'd rather keep it there than to give it to someone. No, go back home after this meeting. Go and sort the clothes in your wardrobe, and course we they are too expensive. Really for who now, the. People Jesus died for. I'm giving you an assignment. And for those who are following our global family. They congest your life from a lot of things. Start with your clothes. Go and give somebody. Take ten thousand narror and say, look that woman that is always sitting. At the side. I'm always seeing her children jumping. Every time they see me, they say, good afternoon, mummy. Those children have been calling you for mommy, calling you mommy for one year. You've never done anything that justifies being called mommy. Do it after this service, give. Them something and say, look how much is your school? Fish? Ten thousand. Okay, I can only do two take, even if it's just one time. Giving is living. There can never be kindness. Listen, there can never be kindness without giving some of you. Valentine, right now, your spouse or your friend has bought all kinds of gifts and you don't plan to do anything. All you plan to do is amen, let me pray for you. Let me tell you if you're in this house, no body should buy you any gift to anything, and then you give them prayer. But you are selfish away together. People should not go out of your way to show you love and care and then you throw it away. It shouldn't be Some of you. Have never blessed any man of God that God used to bless your life. You are not kind at all. You receive, you grow, you increase. I'm not asking you to give me money. You know that, but I'm saying it is a practice in your heart. Never be part of any ministry, any church, any man of God, any organization where you are consistently being blessed and lifted, and you don't take it. As a responsibility to contribute. If you cannot give money, give prayers. If you cannot give prayers sow the seed of gratitude. Some of youman need to do this to your parents. Did you know that there are many wealthy people around who are millionnaires and miloonnaires. And sometimes you see your parents and your conditions back. Home, maybe in the village, and it's pathetic. Let people rejoice because you are alive. Let people rejoice because you are there. Let people make you a prayer point that God will draw you into your lives because you are such. You are a compendium of blessings. Let people not take you as a prayer point and say, Lord, when will you drive this man out of my life? You? Yeah, people prayer or can God will give me peace by your means? They are talking about human beings. Say I am a blessing. I'm not wasting your time saying say I am a blessing. So whatever you need to correct tonight. If it's an attitude problem, corrected. You are sarcastic, you hate on people, you misbehave correct it. Okay, of course we are like that in our family. I understand we don't judge you. But this is where the power of the world comes. Let me tell you, if you do not rise above culture, you may never prevail in certain dimensions. You have to exhort the world of God beyond some of these cultural things. Love the world of God, and rise beyond. The grip of culture and the limitations that they bring to your mind. Are we together now? God cannot trust you with the destinies of men at a global scale when you are limited in understanding and surrounded with all kinds. Of prejudices and biases. It doesn't work that way. God gave you five children. Three are your biological children, and two may not be your biological children. Maybe I may not say, okay. Three to everybody the same, but at least let the two be able to feel the love of genuine parents. Don't humiliate them simply because your parents are dead. No, I made up my mind that everybody. Under my watch, by the grace of God, will feel the love of a father without prejudice. With someone learning. At the end of your life, it's not how many things you have acquired that matters. It's who was able to know the Lord because of you, who was able to smile and find hope. Can I tell you, my dear sister, you cannot become this kind of person and not have one person in your life? Who loves you enough to be around you? My dear brother, you cannot be from this kind of person has described and not have one person who believes in you enough willing to invest their lives. I ask this question again as we finish up this second phase. Who in your life today, man of God, woman of God, business man, my dear sister, my. Dear brother, who in your life today have you chosen to invest your time, your resources, your credibility has a sincere way of. Contributing into relationships. The moment you find out that you are a parasite only receiving from people change because very soon you will find out that you are alone. No human being survives an atmosphere with that level of pongenousy. People want to know that you are an active contributor. Husband and wife, children to their parents, parents to their children, men of God to members, members to men of God, business men, CEOs to your staff, staff to CEOs. You know all kinds and all cads. Make sure that you become active contributors and your relationship will become magnetic. Your personal will be so inviting, even if people have nothing to tell you, they want to be around you because you become the closest expression of Jesus Christ. Spend me a few minutes and let me touch on the last dimension. Are you ready for it? So we spoke about your relationship with God number two, your relationship with men, and I spent a bit of time just stressing on a few things that will help us have effective relationships. Number three, and that will be the final consideration for tonight. Your relationship with things, your relationship with God number one, your relationship with men number two. And then the last dimension of relationship. This is very important, your relationship with things. Let's consider a few scriptures very quickly, and then we will pray. Firstimote Chapter six will begin our reading from verse seventeen. First Timote six. Please write and look very carefully, first Timot six and verse seventeen. Many of you do not know that there is a way to relate with things. You can relate with things wrongly, the same way you relate with God wrongly. You relate with men wrongly. You can relate with things things the mean all kinds of material possessions. There is an act. There is a technology to relating with things in a way that it benefits you and does not leave. You miserable charge them. It says that are rich in this world, Please look up. That they may not be high, are using the side effect of wealth and riches. Not trust in on certain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. That is already a beautiful scripture. So we're not in confusion as to the fact that God gives. Us all things to enjoy. Verse eighteen. That they do good. It's someone learning now that they use the things that have been given to them to do good, and they be rich in good walks, ready to distribute, willing to communicate nineteen, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against. The time to come. Make reference to my teaching the law of seasons, that they may lay hold on eternal life. Twenty It's a stimil thing. Keep that which is committed to that trust, avoiding profane and then babblings and oppositions of science falsely so called the last Verse twenty one, it says, which song professing have aired concerning the faith? Grace be with you, amen, Now please look up. He's teaching his son in. The Gospel Timothy, how to deal with things. He's saying, the moment to begin to have access to things influence material riches. There are certain things that begin to happen to you. And if you do not know how a spiritual man relates to material things, it can tear you into pieces that at the end of your life, Like Judas, the money that you have will not bless you. You will lose the money, lose your relationship with Jesus, and even lose your life. Are we learning one more scripture? First John Chapter two, a popular scripture from verse fifteen and sixteen. Love not the world. The word loved year is. The Greek word errors lost, And on godly affinity love not the world. Neither the things are you seeing there now? The things that are in the world. That means he's not saying, don't have cars and houses and things that make your life comfortable. The word love dear means do not develop. And on godly affinity an affinity that you can kill for money, you can kill for things. It does not matter if any man loved the world in that simplitude. The love of the Father is not in him. Are we learning verse sixteen. For all that is in the world, the loss of the flesh, the loss of the eyes. The pride of life is not of the father bodies of the world. Please look on. Something begins to happen to men when they start succeeding. I can't tell you that. It is easier to become successful than to remain successful. The dynamics of managing things is such that if God does not help you, you will lose your life, your character, your integrity, everything that makes you you intrinsically, you can lose. It in the presence of plenty. The misbehavior of the people in Jesus' crusade came after. They ate bread when they were hungry. They behave themselves is they let them sit down. They all sat down the moment they ate and they were full. They scattered bread all around the crusade ground and left. When they gathered it was twelve basketsful. Something happens to men in the midst of plenty. I understand your correct. Behavior right now, because you are probably owing or there's something happening. But when you get to a point where you have plenty, you are not limited by anything. That is, when you see the potential that is in the of men. Pride, a hoty spirit, and so on. And so forth. Please look up. Let me teach you something. The secret to managing things is to never exalt them above Jesus. Number two, Understand that every blessing that God gives you is for your comfort, for the revelation of. Jesus to help you become a blessing to humanity. Never exalt any material thing above Jesus. Don't have a garage for your car, a safe for your jewelries, and yet not have a place to meet with God. I'm not teaching you to be careless with things, but as God blesses you like he has done for many of us, and He is doing for many. The implication of open doors is that among the many blessings that come to you is plenty for a man of God. Here. Maybe you are at a prophetic point in your ministry right now, where God is about to. Expand you and increase. With increase comes the burden of management and correct relationship. You can relate wrongly with things by making them god in your life. That was the mistake of the rich fool. He made money his god. There are people money is their God today. There are people's certificates. Is their God. There are people their pedigree and whatever it is is their God. Some of the greatest people have met in my life are people who are extremely humble. Godly, very honoring in the midst of plenty. It is my prayer even for myself. That as God continues to help me and show me His messy, that all these things that distract people and produce. Pride, Great Man of God, great these, that those things will be fast from the corridors of my life. Say Amen for me, and I pray the same prayer for you too. Sincerely, let me tell you the truth. Many of you here have been blessed by God at different levels. Some of you have been extremely blessed to the glory of God. All together, we owe our selves a responsibility. You're a man of God, You're a business man. You're a millonnier, you're a biloonnere, you are watching from across the globe and owner of conglomerates. Thank God for your achievements with you not downplays. But let me tell you there is a healthy way with relate with things. The believer in Christ has rules of engagement. You don't engage with things as though they are your life, my money. That is the language of a nonbeliever, my house, my car, my business. I am a millonneer, I'm a biloonneer, not just as a confession of the world, but just to rob it into people. And you demand all kinds of human worship. Because of it. You are relating wrongly. If you are blessed, you are blessed. You don't have to rob it on the phasis of people. Most of the people who do that are just at their infancy into the wealthy place. I can tell you people who are established that you know it by the character of stability. They use others more superior parameters to command respect, not resources. I went together. It is my prayer. I'm saying it again, and I'm praying for everybody here sincerely. Some of us may need to tame our pride and our attitude towards things. Your life, your relationship with God changed. Many things went wrong in your life when the Blessing began to call while you were treking, you were moving, no nothing, you see. One of the ways that you manage things is to remember where he took you from. Always remember thou shall remember Cornonia. We're rapping up. Do not forget this man of God. Thou shall remember I still remember the days of in fancy of this ministry. Absolutely nothing, blind trust in Jesus, and that was it. I remember one of the major financial blessings. That came to this ministry that time was twenty thousand A lady gave so that we buy matt instead of sitting on the ground. Do not forget where God took you from apostle. I'm a billoonnere. You are not the first, you will not be the last, and don't be part. Of the many lessons that others are learning from. Negatively. If God has blessed you and has helped you, enjoy the blessings of God. But let your heart and your mind be on Jesus. That you can push that car, you can push all those things, the estates and everything. And people look at you as a man of God, as great as you are. It's as if you don't like good things have been run away from them. They may be since here, but they're leading you to the part of deception. You're the King of my life. That was why I wrote this song. It was around. A Valentine period, just around this period. That was when I wrote this song many years ago. Listen to it since King my life. You were mile. And nightly for you alone. You're the king of my life. You have my own. And nightly my life for you. My home. It's yours, My mom, it's yours. My week it's yours. You're the king of my love. You're the king of my love. My home, it's yours, my mom, it's yours. My it's You're the king of my love. You're the king of my love. My heart. It's yours. My mind. Is yours, My way is yours. You're the king of my life. You're the king of my life. Beyond cars and houses. You're the king of my life. Beyond ministry, businesses. You're the king of my life. Beyond prestige and pedigree. Listen, hear I mean, as the doors begin to open because of this key of relationships, make sure you sing this song that you walk through them. Let the doors here. You make your declaration as you walk through the doors of enviable prosperity. The blessings of the nation given to you in one day, somebody's prayer request of five years been given to you in a moment at the instance of relationship. Don't just collect it as these doors and the blessings come my final word and let it be my valentine give to you, my dear. People, is make sure you walk through those doors singing. Don't sing. I will sing it to you. Dedicated to you now, even though to Jesus. King my life, you were my own and nightly for you alone, you're the king my life. You have my own. And nightly my life for you, my. Heart, miss yours, my mom, it's your. My weeds, your You're the king of my life. You're the love of my life. Walk through the doors of prosperity singing this song. Walk through the doors of influence singing this song. Walk through the doors of lifting, singing this song. When men want to distract you by singing another song that makes you the god of the process, respectfully shot them and tell them I was mentored properly before the door opened. The song will always be about him. The lifting, and the accolades and the applause will always be about him. I am satisfied that He has made me a beneficiary of Please open doors, because I give you a guarantee by the integrity of God, you put what you have heard today. You will sit down and watch us door holding a charm. Doors open that you cannot begin to explain. I'm not teaching you callingly device fables, by. The privilege of God's chrace, and without any. Sense of sounding arrogant. I know what I'm telling you. What I am teaching you are not calling me device fables. You use the door of relationships with God, with men, and with things. You have mastered the art of knocking. You will knock on doors and men will open it, even if it is by twelve midnight. You will meet them and say. A friend has come, save me from shame. And they will say you are a friend. Indeed, here I come with your blessings. Many of you will have relationships. Give you houses you did not viewed. Many of you will have relationships, and so your children till university. Many of you will have relationships as a currency. Give you lands you did not buy. It is true. You don't have to be a Christian to believe the logic and intelligence of what I'm saying. It is not only a spiritual principle, it is a universal principle. Do not have money alone, use part of that money to buy relationships. Write this finally, and then will pray. Write this finally, and then will pray. Please make sure you write it. Everyone, please write this. This is my final word concluding on this teaching. Are you ready? Your relationship with God gives you access to wisdom and favor. Please write it down. Your relationship with God gives you access to wisdom and favor. Your relationship with God God gives you access to wisdom and favor. The second thing I. Want you to write, Please, Wisdom and favor gives you access. To men and systems. Your relationship with God will give you access to wisdom and favor. Wisdom and favor in your life as a twin combo will give you access to. Men and systems. Men number three now will give you access to resources and influence. I'm showing you how it works. I'm deconstructing the dynamics of open doors through relationships. That is that from God. Your relationship with God will give you access. To wisdom and favor. Wisdom and favor will give you access to men and systems. Men will now give you access to resources and influence. You see how it happens. God will give you true riches, wisdom and favor. You tread wisdom and favor and it gives you men access to the hearts of men with men in your life of common resources and influence. These are the two things you get from men. And then number four, You now use your resources and the influence to save God, to bless men, and to live. A successful life. That recycles the process again. You use your resources and your influence to save God, command bless men, and to live a successful life. The cycle continues. Your relationship with God gives you access. To wisdom and favor. Wisdom and favor gives you access to men and systems. Men will now. Give you access to resources and influence. When those resources come and the influence that comes through men, you now use it to serve God. You use it to bless men again. You use it to live a successful life. And part of living a successful life is to give you more room and accommodation to maintain and increase your relationship with God. In chemistry we have and biology and agriculture, we have all kinds of circles. Water cycle. Is that true? We have all kinds of things. This is a spiritual cycle that I've described for you. If you plunge yourself into this circle, there is no depletion for your life. It is God wisdom and favor men and influence resources. With those resources, you use them as tools to serve God. You use them as tools to bless men. Then you use them as tools to live a successful life. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you by God the art of knocking. This is how we knock. Those in life. Show me a man that pays attention to this, and I show you a man who has left this current level, regardless your background. This is one of the mysteries whose results show instantly. There are mysteries that the results may take time, but I guarantee. You this one can speak immediately in your life. Can we pray for two or three minutes, rise upon your feet? We are He for. Come and what you do We are He for. Come and do what you do? Said up. Slut what you read the move we We're only going to pray one prayer point, which would be a combination of everything. I just from a rise for you Lord, my relationship with you, and. Let wisdom and favor come from that relationship. And with wisdom and faith I obtain grace of God to be able to win the heart of men valuable relationships, and with valuable relationships. So God, let resources come, and with resources. Again the wisdom to serve you, the wisdom to bless my world, to live a successful life. And then it gives me an opportunity to spend time knowing. You and duising my relationship again. Lift your voice and begin to pray everywhere, inside, outside, all of the overflow. Open your mouths and begin to pray to Jesus. Doors of prosperity open through relationships, doors of increase, doors of ministry, magnificent, doors of the annoyting. Just one minute, go ahead and pray shape get. Better for you can tell about that. Yeah, by this station tonight, God has shown some of us where we need to make adjustments in our lives, opening destiny doors through relationships. It as for everyone that knocket, it shall be opened. You may not be the one to open it, but the other person behind will. Open the door for you. Pray that you will never have to confess like the Man of Bethesda, I have no man. God will bring men to your life. God will empower you relationships that speak for you. At the gates a brand de Gebrereto's Calibra hascademia. Obtain grace often grace Now that we know these things. Happy are you if you do them? Father? I obtain grace to invest in my relationship with you. I obtain grace to infest in my relationship with men. I obtain grace to carefully and spiritually. Relate to and with things in a way that it never takes your place in my life. For in jesus mighty name, we pray. For. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. I'm going to make another call right now, very quickly. Please, even if it's just to honor Jesus, let me plead that we minimized movement. You will not take more than two three minutes and we're out of here. You are here tonight, And whilst you heard me speak the first dimension of relationship, you know you are. Found wanting there in the order of priority. Relating with men will not matter much if your relationship with Jesus is found wanting, and then inevitably you will relate wrongly with. Things in a way that destroys you. You're here and you're saying, Apostle, in this season of love and relationship, I do not want to go back the way I came. I want to make it right with the Lord Jesus, perhaps you are here. You're saying, I really want to reddicate my life. I've been around church, but I really did not know what I was doing. But now I have heard your world and I want to make it right. Can I tell you, with every sense of love and passion in my heart and our heart as a family of faith across the globe and in this place, I want you to give me the honor to invite you to. Come and stand here. I'm going to count one to five. Wherever you are, the lover of your soul, the shepherd of your destiny, one who loves you regardless. And in spite of is giving you room to make it right. You can choose to reject him, but he's calling you. Come. I begin my accounting now. One. Come, don't be ashamed, don't be afraid, pick your bibles, your bands, everything. You came to chrust with, and come. Come. God bless your on you. Let's celebrate them. Come to Jesus. Nothing to be ashamed of at all. Keep clapping. Let's encourage them as they come, those who are connecting from across the globe. Jesus is calling you. It's giving you a new beginning. Come, Alleluiah. Please come. We're wrapping up already and we're standing. It's only because you may my brothers and my sisters listen. Let me tell you, when we come to. Jesus, sincerely, just as we are, he receives us, We receive of his life, and that begins a new journey. Some of you are rededicating your life to Jesus. Some of you are making this decision for the first time. There is absolutely nothing to be ashamed and afraid of. I don't know what your life may have been, but I wanted to know that He's able to give you a new beginning. And for someone who is following online watching my way of television as I lead them to prayer, I wanted to join them right where you are relience the love of Jesus. Genuinely and sincerely, thank you very much. For making this noble decision. May I request that you'll raise your right hand high above your head as a sign of surrender, and please say this from the depth of your heart, Say Lord Jesus, tonight. I have heard your word. I declare that I love you with all my heart. I believe that you died for me. I believe that you rose again for my justification. Right now I receive Jesus into my heart as my Savior, as my Lord, and as my King. I received the life of God. I receive the abundance of grace, even the gift of righteousness. And I declare that from tonight I go for whatever and backward never. The power of. Sin, saytan, Hell and the grave is broken over my life. I receive grace to live a victorious Christian life. Amen, please keep your dear hands lifted. Father, thank you for these precious people. They have come making declarations of faith, and the Bible declares that as many who will come to Him to you, you will in no wise cast away. I pray by the. Authority of Scripture that their sins are forgiven, and that tonight and forever they become bona fide recipients. Of your life. I declare over you that the power of. Sin says, and hell and the grave is broken over your lives. From tonight you walk in newness of life. You are the the righteousness of God in Christ, in Jesus' mighty name. I pray, Amen and Amen, Please, may I request that you follow our counselors. They will have a word with you very quickly, and then you'll be back to your seat. Let's honor them very quickly. Thank you, Thank you. Coynonia isay is the best you can do for our precious people. Allelujah. May the Lord bless you in the name of Jesus. May the hand of God rest upon you. I declare that this week will be a week of open doors for you in the name of Jesus. For you and for your loved ones, you will experience the grace of God. No weep on fashion the gainst you will prosper, and every tone that. Rises up against you will fall in judgment. In the name of Jesus. And for many who are here, I decree and declare that this week, may God give you uncommon testimonies. In Jesus' name, I pray God bless you and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Rests and abide with us non forevermore Amen, surely. All the days of our lives, as we dwell in the House of the Lord, forever and ever. Amen. God bless you, and believe you will mightily bless and connect with the ministry and get more from Posolution seven. Follow us and Fatuit at the. 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