PASTOR POJU AYEMADE ANOINTED EYES POWERFUL SERMON AT KOINONIA GLOBAL

The eye salve parts. In Revelations three and verse eighteen, it says, so I can't sell thee to buy off my gold that is tried with fire, that dou mayors be rich and white raiment, that dow mays be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear. And to anoint thine eyes versatien still verse eighteen, with eye salve there that thou may see. So this afternoon, I want to speak about. Our eyes being anointed with I salf that we may see. If we go to Genesis, chapter nineteen and verse ten and verse eleven, this was a story of what happened in Sodom and Gobarrah. And I don't talk about five levels of scene, in other words, five levels at which you can have spiritual sight. And hence Solomon governor, the angels had come, so deliver the lots. And the Bible says the men had got together everybody in the town, and they wanted to. Take or right to themselves the angels. But these men put for their hands, there's the angels now, and pull the lots into the house. So then and shot the door. Now. The next verse. Says, and they smoot the men. That were at the door. Now where were the men? The men were at the door, and they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness both. Smaller and great. So they wearied themselves to find the door. When there is spiritual blindness, the blessing there is right before you. They were standing at the door, and from a morning till evening they were going around at the door and never saw the door. And they got tired and left the place because they were blinded spiritually. And somebody talks about this ice sleeve here, or I saw brother. Talking about the opening of our eyes. The eyes south is an ointment for. The eyes that causes you to see and have spiritual insights. And also clarity. And any blessing that God gives which brings a breakthrough. He always uses something. That is available to you, that is inside your house. It's just that you are not seeing it correctly. When Jesus wanted to feed the multitudes at the end of the day, they talked about the money, They talked about things. Jesus said, going. To the crowd, whatever you can find, bring it. The reason why they ate loaves and fish was because what they brought were five loaves and fish. And the person who brought it didn't see the thing correctly. He said, what is this among so many? In other words, without spiritual eyes, you will cast away things that God himself has designed to bring about multiplication and massive breakthroughs into your life. It's an issue of recognizing it spiritually. God never goes outside of you. To bring about what will bring that significant breakthrough in your life. Everybody that has worked with God with prophetic insight, they have always known that. That. When the woman came, Elijah asked her, what do you have in your house? The woman didn't see it correctly. She said, all that we have is just this oil here, cruise of oil, and this small muscle here, and when we eat that and die, And she did not recognize what was in her hands. Elijah said, what do you What should I do? Tell me? What do you have in your house? Thy handmen have not anything? In other words, she said, I don't have anything. She didn't consider it to be anything worthwhile. I'm done somewhere. But Elijah, people with prophetic insight, they know it is always in your house. When God met with Moses, he said to Moses, what do you have in your hand. And Moses looked at it and said it's just a rod. And God said, it's more than a rod. And so when the spiritual sight here, a person begins to see things that they have been calling casual, looking at. The job that they have, that they've been. Looking at this and saying, I'm just a front desk person. But with spiritual insight, and that's all I discussed this afternoon, with the eyes swve upon the eyes there, a person begins to see beyond that they ordinary, and so the true nature of things. And if from there stuff begins to come out, which means. This is more powerful. That's what he was said in revelations, through it than even reaches in a bank account, because what Peter said was two hundred penny, which means this amount of money is not enough to even feed these people. But Jesus had that insight into things and he understood it. So he said, go in. God always has the provision in that particular place. When the wine finished in the feast and. They came to Jesus, Jesus understood that the mirale qule must always be accessible. It is something. Before you that God is going to use and so he looked around and saw it and said. Feel these parts with water. There were empty parts that were right there. Nobody had ever seen anybody do that, And it's very frustrating when you don't have spiritual inside the same way those people were at the door, and they wear it themselves to find the door. Without this kind of insights, there real insight. What happens is you can be praying about God providing wine for you in that feast, and because you are not seen correctly, the empty pots he wants to use that look empty, and the water that he wants to use that looks like water that is common. You can even carry away the pots because we are praying, and because you know you're believing that the same way the wine came the first way is the way He's going to do it. And so you miss out on what God wants to do. So the first thing I came to do this afternoon is to understand, to make you understand you are empowered, and that to him that has it shall be given. But to him that says I have not even that which he has, shall be taken away from him. In other words, everybody has something, but some people look at themselves and say I have not I belonged, you know, to the people that have not, And so what happens is. Even that which they have is taken away from them. But the people that say that I have, and they're conscious of that, to them. Mind will be given. You know. Many years ago I was reading a book by an economist on the mystery of capital, and it was Hannanda DeSoto. It was a Chilean and I think Bill. Clinton describes him as the greatest mind economic mind all right in the developing world. And he says, if you combine all the foreign investments that have ever and enlisted all of them, all that I've come into Africa, he said, if you go into the savings of the people that consider themselves poor in Africa, and you gather together all their savings, you will find out that it exceeds every form of foreign investment that has come into the continent. That the wealth is actually with the people. The problem is they're holding that thin in a defective way. In other words, the scripture says the slotful man does not roast what he took hunting. In other words, he went to hunt, but he did not roast it, which means he didn't derive full value out of what he had in his hands. And so even though he had come and hunted and felt that the hunting, you know, the fiscal work he had done, was the real work, he said, the real work is actually, or right, the extraction from that particular thin, the full value there, which means the man who killed the cow and ate it some other person call us, extracted value from it. They have used the horns to make what we call China plates. They have used the hides and skin there to make exotic bads that are worth thousands of dollars. They have brought out a dairy industry with cheese, with butter, with milk out of that. They have gone into every single part of that cow that that man just killed and ate and brought out industries worth billions out of those things. So when we talk about eyes that see there, in other words, God has always made the provision. The issue is for us to have eyes, and eyes that sea is more important and significant than money that you have in your bank. You follow what I'm saying here, And so is this eye solved here, which means the pleasant goes into a territory and is able to look and they don't waste time. It has been said, a genius. Sees what other people don't see. A skillful man can hit a target, but the genius is the one that spots the target. And so even though he doesn't have as much skill as other people, he may not have as much resources as other people. But because he saw it first and entered into it first, he has that advantage, all right, and he enters into certain things. So I want us to understand this and embrace this, and understand the power of this eye solve. In other words, it is always in your house the place. It is always in your house. If you're a pastor, the people that will grow that charge. Multiply that church are inside of that church. You maybe by passing them you may consider them as being casual people. I are not putting enough attention on them. But the church, if it's going to grow organically, is gonna come by you recognizing the people that are within that particular place. Because to him that has more shall be given. But to him that goes around and says I have not even that which it has, shall be taken away from him. It is interesting in statistics of church today, eighty two percent of people that are moving into megachurches are coming from small churches. Only two percent are coming directly from the world. In other words, small churches are now becoming feeder programs for mega churches. But it's the small churches that are even riching people and getting them saved. And then after some time, and the reason is. Because a lot of the pastors hold their small churches and look themselves as being inferior to a person with a megachurch. Look at themselves then as though, what is this among so many preach to them with a sense of dissatisfaction, preach to them there with a sense of inferiority, and people pick that up in the spirit. And then the movie we are and say we're going to a place, all right, that is where we should. Actually go to. So it's important that we understand this if we're going to have true and genuine growth there, that everybody begins to recognize that the miracle is inside my house, that the thing that God is going to use to get me to the next level is available onto me. I just have to see this correctly. I have to open my eyes there and in prayer will see this and see what is around me. And see them correctly. These are not empty parts, are not just. This is not just what I used to wash my hands that I see in the realm of the spirit. How we can extract value out of these things. There's a story I'll tell often. It's a powerful story and alternative gaining. In Jeanesis chapter twenty one and verse eleven. Jeanesis twenty one and verse eleven. We have the story here, and I want also understand it because we have been blessed already with every spiritual blessing and heavenly places in Christ Jesus. God has done his part and he has given to us. And in Jealousis chapter twenty one and verse eleven, we see Abraham here. He had an issue within his family, and we'll talk about this. Abraham had tried to help God. And so what happened was Ishmael came forth, and so when it was time for Isaac, and Isaac now came there was a conflict. Between Isaac and Ishmael. But as far as Abraham was concerned emotionally, now Ishmael was his first son. Ishmael may have looked just like Abraham. Ishmael had grown up in the house for say, thirteen years just with Abraham. They had developed a bond. And then one day Sarah said, Ishmael has got to go. And God spoke to Abraham and said, Sarah is correct, Ishmael has. Got to go. Now. So what happened in Genesis or the scripture there twenty one eleven was that the thing was very grievous. It's really hot, Abraham, very grievous in Abraham's side because of his song. And then an ex verse tells us and God said to Abraham, let it not be grieve us in thy sight, which means it puts Abraham to make this decision because of the lad and because of the bond woman. And in the next phase I will talk about how we shouldn't give birth to Ishmael because if you give birth to an Ishmael, you you you can almost create a civil war within your church, or within your organization, or within your family them, and it becomes more difficult to do what God wants you to do. But God said on to him, let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of the bond woman. In all that Sarah said on today hecking to avoid for in Isaac, shall the scene be called? And in an x verse it. Now tells us and also the son of the bond woman, that's Ishmael, I will make a nation because he's diceved. So Abraham was going to make a decision now to let Ishmael go. The scripture has described Abraham in four chapters before these that Abraham was very rich in silver and in gold, and in kettle. Very He didn't say rich, very rich in silver, gold and kattu. Should you not think that if Abraham is gonna sign his first son out of the house, I should have some sense of guilt. It's not the fault of the boy. You are the one who gave birth to this boy. Here's your first son. And back then when they send you out, so you can say this, Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver and in gold. If they send you out, you are not coming back again. Which went when I said we send you, you are gone, and Ishmael wasn't going to come back. The next time Mishbel came into the area where Abraham was was for the funeral of Abraham. So he was going, don't you think that the father you are signing out. Your first son, you have silver, gold and cattle in abundance. Would you take some silver, some gold, and some cattle and give it to the boy and say you can go with this. This should be enough for you, you know, you know. So you have something, and this your inheritance from my house. You have something to start life with. And at least Abraham will have been pacified by that that I've done something good, and Ishmael will also have left you. At least you'll be glad in his heart that my father has left me with some inheritance. You know, I can go with this, But look at what. Abraham did in the next verse, very significant in Jersies twenty one, orright, let's go to verse fourteen. Jeresies twenty one, Verse fourteen, and Abraham rose up early in the morning, and he took bread, one loaf of bread. This is a man that is very rich in silver, gold and cattle. He took one loaf of bread and a bottle of water. And Ishmael was leaving his house looking at silver, gold and at cattle. And you are sending me out, and all you give me is a loaf of bread, and all you give me is a bottle of water. And we're going into the wilderness, into the desert. And it gave him that to Hegar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and he sent away, and she departed and won d in the wilderness of the Siva. And then the next verse, after some time the water was spent in the bottom. And what did Hegar do? She took her child, Ishmael. And cast the child under one of the shrubs. For she went and sat over against him a good way off. A said why a boshot, For she said, let me not see the death of my child. And she sat over against him, lifted up her voice and wept. So hergar began crying. She wasn't praying, And I will show you this. She was crying that this boy is going to die. This boy is going to die. And she put him far away from her because as a mother, she couldn't look at the son ditch your late, his skin and his flesh getting eaten up under the sun and die. She could not do it. So she put him away and started winding and crying. But I believe that Ishmael understood something. And I believed that a week before, so when God gave Abraham that instruction to let go of his That Abraham called Ishmael and taught him the covenant. He said, sit down, this is how great nations come out of people. This is how people become great. All right, what happens is and will see this. They may start off with little, but there is one quality. That they have. And he taught him and told him that once this bottle of what have finishes and this loaf of bread finishes, the covenant is going to kick in. And Ishmael, what you should do is to pray this onto God. This is your prayer. Points pray this single. Pray onto God, and my God will show up, because this is how it always happens. And so she went there and wept. The next verse, verse seventeen, the Bible tells us God had the voice of who the lad? He didn't hear the voice of hey guy, Hega was in praying the lad. Ishmael was the one that prayed. God heard the voice of the lad, and the angel called to Hegar and said, out of heaven onto her, what in let be? In other words, what's troubling you? What's the matter? Why are you trouble? Because as far as there were concerned, there's no trouble here. What left be Fear not, God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. In other words, where you drop that boy. He has prayed onto God, the prayer you should pray during this. Time when you come to a point where you have come to an end in yourself. He has prayed it, and God has had him. Therefore the next verse, he said, to arise, lift up the lad and hold him in the hand, for I will make him a great nation. In other words, there's a nation in what you threw away and said this is for death and all of that, there is a great nation on the inside of it. Listen, I hope you are hearing me in the spirit. What will make this continent Great's inside this continent? Are you following when I'm saying, there, what we need our eyes that see, eyes that see, eyes that see. Look at what it says, our eyes, I'll make it a great Next shall look at the next verse, the Bible says, and God opulled her eyes, and she saw a well of water. The well was always there, but our eyes were closed. If you are in any situation, and he said, God, why it's the provision. I am telling you it is there. And what he prayed was that, or pull my eyes or put our eyes that we may see. And she went and filled the bottle, which means this is no longer just a bottle of water. This is a continuous supply. They pulled them up to perpetral supply that they could use for farmine. They could use there for different things, not just drinking. That bottle of water was on it to drink. Now they had gotten a well there. From the well several things. What the well was all? Is there? They jaws did not see it. That's why David prayed in some fatin. This was his prayer Covenant. People understand this prayer, He says some that's in verse one, David some thirty. How long will that forget me? Your Lord forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me? Verse two he says, how long shall I take cancelling my soul having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? What was the prayer you prayed? Consider? And he your Lord lights in my eyes lest I slip the sleep of death? In other words, or pull my eyes, and if you open my eyes, this death cannot have control over me again. That was his prayer, and that's the prayer here, and that's why it says, I south here, the unement's there that will cause you to see that. You understand that. Listen, I'm not going on the outside. I'm not trying to meet this persion admit that. I want to recognize to him that has it shall be given to him that has not. Even on that which he has will be taken. Which means the person who says I have not actually has it, just doesn't see or she doesn't see it and recognize that. So when they're going to relationships there, they lose what they have because they don't see what they have on the inside of themselves. So it's important that we understand the power of this eyes off here. We'reches eyes that see. We just we stop looking down on things. I was telling Reverend Julia, and I think why in Nairobi together last week that I told him, you know how we invite people from here, invite people from here, you know, for admitting. And when day God stopped me and said, look what you are. In fact, somebody told me something and then after that it jeeged my consciousness and God said all those things we are looking for everywhere is in Africa. Entime to Africa, the treasures are there. There's enough resources in the continent, going to the continents there. So the second principle here about this scene, so never talking the way that you don't have. Uh, don't say that you know because I was born on the on the wrong side. I was born. Everybody was born on the wrong side. Jesus himself was born on the wrong side. You follow what I'm saying. By natural bath, he was born on the wrong side. He was born outside wed Look, you can be complained about things, all those things you can't find in people, but they didn't make noise about those things. They're on the s two and said, God, there's something inside this. So the second thing to see about this I solve here because not only does he give you insight into things, it also gives you clarity on issues. And the second thing is that must bean will get a clarity, insight and then clarity there. In John chapter nine and verse six, Jesus, when he had spoken his fat on the. Ground, made clay of the spital. And anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay. Now, in another rendition of his I think it's a look of mark. He's told the man to open your eyes and look. He anoint ending with clay, and the man said, I see men as trees. That I see men as trees. And Jesus now told him that second thing there in verse seven, he said, go and wash in the pool that is called John nine seven place, pool that is called sylum, which means set up. John ninety seventh place. All right, said to him, go wash in the pool of silum, which my interpret he means set. And when he went and washed, he said, he came back seeing clearly. Now the second thing. About this is that you're name it in order to have this sile serve on your eyes to see you're naed it. So pray, you say, is. More than being gifted, is more than being anointed. You have got to be set, and therefore you have to wash your eyes in the pool called set. A person can be called of God, a person can be gifted and anointed by God. But that person has not yet been sent by God. And a lot of problems that we have today is that there are many people that are called and they are gifted, and they are responding. So the calling and so the gifts in without washing their eyes in that pool called sylum, that they may be sent. I will confess to you when we started a church. Looking back now with hindsight, I was called and anointed, but I was not. Yet sent by God. But the circumstances under which I was, I knew that. Look, I had no choice. Something had to start, but I was not yet said, and once you get to that place of being sent, resources begin to come in. Jesus said, when I sent you, did you lack anything? Once you get into that place of being sent, there's a grace that comes into your life. Paul said, when they saw the grace that was given on to be the same, it says that I should preach this among the gentiles. You could see. It was said, when you are sense, there's clarity. You know who you are supposed to speak to, you know where you're supposed to go. There's clarity on it being sense, there is clarity when you are anointed. You see men as trees there all right, everything will be hazy. You won't know, you know, you any opportunity that comes your way, you go with it. You know you've see men as trees. People will know you anointed, but the really impact is not there because you have not yet been sent. And I'm sure what in what to do here so that a person gets sent by God. And so when you are sensed there Paul said, the one that was mighty in me towards the Gentiles, you could see he knew where he is calling was. He said, the same was mighty in Peter towards the circumcision. In other words, if Peter crossed and came to the to the right, it crossed and came to the to the to the Gentiles, that grace will have been withdrawn, and the might of God will not have been seen. If Paul moved to one pretty to the Jews, that grace will not have been seen. And you will see it in the book of Act. You will see in Galicians that when Peter crossed and came to the Gentile territory, you could see it became almost like an ordnary man that Paul had. To rebuke him. You would also see that when Paul also tried to go to Jerous, alleged to go and win people, in fact, you almost lost this entire ministry and all of that they had to carry in, you know, like a mere man and all of that because they went outside the areas of their grace. So what happens is we've got to understand that there's the calling and then there's being sent. Let's use Moses as an example. So if you believe, and I'm not just talking about ministry here, you can be an entrepreneur and you're working in the place and God has put it in your heart that one day you are going to start a business that. Is going to go global. You have to be sent so you don't give birth to an Ishmael. That when the time comes and you are now sent and you go with the Isaac, the Ishmael is fighting against the Isaac. And you are the conflict on your hands here because you stepped out prematurely and created something out there that is now meditating and working against you. All right, when you now get sent it. But there's something you do while you are there working in the office, all right, you know that God has called me to do that, and you're working there, and you're gonna see this. You will find out that if we have time we get into it, the ideas that you are going to use, the ideas you are going to use there you probably will come into contact with those ideas where you are working. You will see it. You will see the opportunity in that particular place as a reward for your faithfulness and your devotion to that particular thing, even when you knew on the inside of yourself that God has called me to start my own business. Because the Bible says, a man who is not faithful in the things of another man, who shall give him his own? And if a man is not faithful with your righteous Mammon, he says, who will give him the true riches. So you are faithful, you are doing. But there's something that you are doing the Moses failed to do that cost Moses all right, big time. And we're seeing actra to seven and verse twenty three. Now you're going to the pool that is called Saint where you're gonna get clarity. Now where a person knows in very clear terms, this is what I'm supposed to do. Please let me advise you. The Bible says, you shall go out with a joy, and you shall be led forth in peace. Don't ever live anywhere because you know you are just offended at people. Are you are angry? The Bible says, many shall be offended. The next verse it tells us and false prophet shall arise. A prophet is not just a prophet, is a seer in the scriptures, it's not a speaker's a seer. That's why when he came, he said, he said, I have not sent them. He says, for they have seen nothing. They have seen nothing. A prophet testifies of what they have seen. The real key to the prophetic ministry is not the speaking, but they have the ability to see. And so when he says for prophets will arise there, what he's saying is that people with wrong visions will arise. When you get offended, you see what you are not supposed to see, all right, and then you start running with something you're not supposed to run with. Let me give an example. There was a gentleman in church when we started church there, and what happened to him was working in a corporation, big corporation, and there was a promotion exercise. They didn't give him. The second one they didn't give him, and he got offended and resigned. But it just happened to come in for a midweek service and I was teaching on offense as the bit of satan, and I said, you go out with joy and you let fourth in peace. Always go out with joy and be let fourth in peace. Don't go out of a place with offense in your heart. And he scratched his head. He said, and as far as he was concerned, he was going to start a nail making factory in Legos, which meant they'll be making nails. And he said, from his who was working for one of the top consulting firms in Niger, from his working in that consulting on he had seen there was a deficiency alright back then, this was in the nineties in nails there in the country. Was going to do that, and he had put in his letter of resignation. He had the message, he said. He went back and told his boss, I'm sorry, could you give me back my letter of resignation? You know, I want to stay in here and he said he stayed there. Now. He didn't tell me this until about a year and a half after and then he told me, yeah and a half after he said, you know what, I heard that message and I went back. I sat down. He said, there was a next promotional exercise. I got it. There was another promotion exercise I got it, he said, and I was happy, and I was good, and I was in a place of joy. And then he said, and then God said you can go now. And he said, I had nothing. I just I didn't want to have an office. I am talking about the top consulting firm, not just in Nigeria globally at that particular point in time, he said, I had nothing. My office was going to be on the dining table. He said, my wife was pregnant with her first child. My father I lock him and said you are taking making a risk. Care how can you go out like this you are your wife And he said, he just knows this the time to go. So he WI, you know, left the place on Friday and was going to start on his dining table his business to it's still held onto it a mail manufacturing company. On Sunday. He got a phone call on Monday morning from his boss and his boss said, well, there is an oil company that has just come in oil servicing company and they want us to do their. Taxation for them. However, when we charge them and give them the invoice, they said this is too expensive for us, and so they said we'll brand look for somebody else. Then I said, wait a minute, hold it. The guy who have led the team to come and do and help you work on attacks has just resigned from here. But he has the mind, he knows the quality of work. If I called him Canning and he won't charge the way we charge, will you are a love with He said, do. You call him? Call him? Call him, call him all right. This was in nineteen nineteen six or so, and he he went to do that job. I think they paid him then twenty six thousand dollars. That mail factory has not started till now. It is that thing that he has been doing. You see, when you offend, then you don't see correctly in the spirit realm, and so it is important, all right that you take offense. That's what he's still doing. He built an entire world for a general hospital in Legos from that business. But you see, it was something. It was there, all right, But Satan wanted to push him out of that particular place there with offense in his heart. So what happened here and the actually after seven verse twenty three, let's look at Moses Acts twenty seven twenty seven Acts seven Versse twenty three. Rather, let's look at the life of Moses quickly all right, Act seven, verse twenty three. And when he was full of forty years old, he came to his heart this when Moses was called it then tied into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel, And seeing one of them so far wrong, he defended him and avenged him that all right, oppressed and squats the Egyptian for his suppose that his brethren would have understood how God by his own hand, that's by his hand Moses will deliver them. Body understood not. And the next day he showed himself onto them. He was responding to a column. The column was correct, showed them as they strophe, that he will have set them at one again, saying, sad you are brethren, why do you do wrong one to another? And that did he is never wrong, thrust him away, saying who made their ruler? And a judge over aught? Who made you a ruler? In George, wilt thou kill me as thou did to the Egyptian yesterday? Then fled Moses, as they said, and was a stranger in the land of media, and where. He begat two suns. And when forty year as who was expired. There appeared onto him in the wilderness in the mount of Sina, an angel of the Lord, in the flame of fire, in a bush. And when was he saw it? We saw it this years, they said the voice of God. Verse thirty two, it tells us that I am God of thy fathers and God of Isaac, God of Jacob. Then Moses tremble and does behold And verse thirty three, then is set to input off your shoes. This is your holy ground. And next verse I have seen. I have seen the affliction of my people, which is in Egypt. I have heard their groanings, and I hear what God said, I am calm down. God himself said, I have calmed down to deliver them. Now come and I will send thee here. Got that calling, and I believe. Well you can't. It's what I believe. Like Revengelia says an opinion, when I'm strong, I am correct on this opinion. When you will say that God told Abraham four hundred years they will come out. They came out on the four hundred and thirty eth year. Why didn't extend to thirty years after what God had said? What had happened was that on the three hundred and ninety eighth year. It entered into the heart of Moses. Moses should have spent that time praying to God about the calling, not stepping out into it. He should have taken the calling. And that's what some of you. Should be doing, praying to God and praying about what you feel on the inside, being faithful where you are bought. Praying and praying and praying. Even if you read the Bible and you have insight from the scripture, doesn't mean she can't start something. It means take this insight and go and pray. Daniel understood by books, all right, what was written the book of Jeremiah. He turned his face to prayer. Jesus knew he was called. The first they did was that he went on forty days of prayer. There you turn. Yourself to prayer, not to act on that call, because if you act, you are going to commit. That's what happened to Moses, the same thing Abraham did. He went in and caused problem. All right, go in and cost prom and I believe that to extend another thirty years until the tune of Israel began to cry on too God, and God said the condition for somebody to be sent is now here. And God said, I have come down, so I am There's a difference between you going to do something and God coming down and saying I've had the prayer. I am now sending you. And when he's sent him, there was clarity. He said, go to Peru. He gave him the message. Tell Pheruh, let my people go that they might solve me. This was Claire. When you are sent, there is clarity. These are the people you are sent to. This is the message you are sent to do. This is the product you are sent to. These are the homogeneous group or the groups of people you are sent to. With this particular thing, there is clarity there. You have washed in the pool called Sylum, and so it became clear. And he says, go to Pharaoh and tell him thirst Year the Lord, let my people go that they might serve me. He gave him the message. He told him who to send the message to another for the deliverance to be wrought. Signs one thats began to happen with the rod that was in the hands of Moses. Moses was correct forty years before that, but he didn't process it properly. He was anointed by God for it, but didn't process it properly. The time where you are anointed is not the time where you are sent. David was anointed as king in his bedroom. He had to go through in his father's living room. He had to go through a process for him to arrive at the point where he became king. There was a time where a person is anointed, and there's a time where a person is said. And one of the. Reasons why we're having a lot of failure is that many called people are stepping out. Many anointed people are stepping out, Many gifted people are stepping out. Many people are working that haven't developed within the corporate sectum or right the skill sets to be able to manage real businesses and all of that. This is why I'm saying this to a very great degree, women are getting more economically powerful than men are bad to guy today in this country. The reason is that the man says I want to be an entrepreneur, he resigns from the job. He doesn't yet have capacity. He has not yet been said. The woman stays there on the job. They are becoming managing directors of banks, are becoming enter into powerfully. But the men prematurely get out, and because they are not sense, they don't see anything cleaning. They are anointed. You talk to them. They have ideas, they have all. Of this board. They are not said. They can give you one hundred ideas, but none of those ideas are working. When you are sent, you have washed at the pool called asylum. You're not cleaning. And what happens the resources to come? He says, when I send it, did you like anything? Which means if you go into the house, you will find somebody who will invest in that thing. And give you peace. He says. You might go into some places and you know they won't give you the peace, They won't take you in. And all of that says, don't bother yourself, don't force yourself on anybody. When I send. You, I have prepared people that will receive you, give you peace, will help you to finance what you are doing without requiring that they take your soul in exchange for it. So it may be called and anointed or gifted, but it's not yet time. And so you had to spend time. With God in prayer. There. Jesus spoke about this while and start at his ministry. He said before your self, physician, heal yourself. He said, I answered this question first, he said, was Elijah, while there are not many widows in the whole of his and God is compassionate towards widows. So he went there. He said, there were many. Widows in Israel, but only to the widow at Zarapad was Elijah said. In other words, Elijah can be anointed, but the anointing will only walk where he is sent. And when he got there, he was sent to that place. So if you are anointed, are not sent, you may share the word of God and people will say, man, you are powerful, you anointed, But you know, because you are not sent, you may not answer the questions that are in their hearts. You may not solve the problems that are in their lives. They are impressed at your anointing, they are impressed at your gifting, but it's not transforming their lives. It's not actually making the kind of impact that is supposed to make. And so there's a waiting period between a time when the person is called and anointed and when a person is sent, and this waiting period. I'm telling you a lot of times right people have gone out they are correct all right, they are right, and what they do have done there. It's just like we had Bishop Forget saying you can carry the act, and you don't. You don't do it the right way. Your intent, what's correct and in the things of God, is more than intent. You have to do it right. You can't just say well, I meant right. You you may mean right, but at the end of the day people have lost their lives. What you meant right. You can't joine beyond meaning right. You have to have the wisdom on the inside of yourself or right to be able to get that particular thing. Don't. So there's the pool that is called scent, and all of us should go there as a second thing of scene, which when number one, there's the prayer where I pray, where I see what is in my environment. And you are walking and God begins to show you pockets you know, of opportunities that are there. You start seeing things. You say, well, the guys made me a reception. It's a front desk person. But if you're praying, God give me eyes to see things in this business. Here you begin to collate data. You know, let me say this here, uh a person mind you know, Jesus said. Jesus said, you have it told the people who said you've never heard his voice, neither have you ever seen his ship, but you. Search the scriptures, but I haven't seen it. You can see God in. Your environment, literally, if your eyes are open, you see Him in your environment. There. You know, they say story, This is not the story, and the actual fact is documented in a book by Peter Wagner of Blessed Memory. And he was talking about why. You know, you know, you know. He was talking about, you know, everything anybody tells you to do to succeed anything. If if I meet somebody and say, well, what do you do to succeed? This is why you have to see and it tells you I did one, two, three for five. I guarantee you you will see people who have done the one two, three for five on field. If one minute I say what do you do? I fast that I prayed, I read my Bible. I guarantee you you'll have ten people the first I prayed read their Bible. Nothing. This is the mystery of seeing. All right. Someone says, well, I mean, give I did this. I guarantee you you will see one to three and one of the things that is not helping us in the church is that we are not scientific about things. Scientific means that you. Look at if ten people said that, listen, you know we got blessed. You'll look into the lives of the ten people to identify the common trait within them, and then you begin to know exactly what is triggering all right that listen, if person can come out, let me tell you this and tell you. This is why I succeeded. And they are not lying, but what they're actually saying is not the correct thing, because they themselves may not have understood what was at play within the environment that actually made them better than command that said oh I did this, I did that, and yet speaking truly from their art. But you know, you know, you they don't understand it, and and you know. You just may not know, but you're being truthful. You know. He was talking about this church that was growing in a certain area in America, and it was in the northern part of America, and culturally, the southern part of America is different culture and from the northern part of America. So what happened that the church was growing, and so they went to meet the pastor and as said, so why is your church growing? And he said, because we preached on diluted word of God. We stick to these teach people do discipleship and people love that, and that's why our church is growing. So they took it down, Thank you very much. Then I went across the streets down the road to look at other churches not growing. So there's the persons why your church is not growing? I said, you know, people don't like the undiluted word of God. We preached on deluted word of God. We teaching this. They're exacting. The other man said that said he's making this church grow? Is the exacting this who said that? They said, I said, it's not making that church grew. So they knew that something is going on here that these men don't understand. So what did they do. They went and did the research, and then they found out that there was migration. That that pastor whose church was growing grew up in the South, and that there was a migration of people from the South into that particular area in. The northern part of America. And so they had been going to churches, but they just didn't connect culturally with those churches. So when they entered into the Church of this man who grew up in the South, that they didn't even know what was going on. I will give examples and love the jokes. They said, Aha, well connect with this. So what really what's going on was that there was a movement of people from the south, and once that movement stopped and people stop migrating into those areas there, what happened was that the charge stagnated at that particular point in time. So when God gives you eyes that see, you can even look into something and you will see clearly that this is what is actually going on in this place. You will look in as a front desk person and look at it and said, ten people come into this organization every day, only two of them bring great business. Every time ten come, and you will understand the kind of two people that actually the background the way they are. And you come out with data and you go out and go and meet your bosses and say, listen, I've discovered something. Let's start waste time with this set of people. These kind of people that come in this way. They said, what are you talking about. I have looked at this over six months, I have tracked it. These are the kind of people. If you focus our marketing and are advertising to this kind of people. You will see that they actually it's going to scale up. Use this particular thing. They use it the business scales up. They know that they have an asset in their hands. There it is not just the front desk person. Now, it's somebody who is there God doing data, somebody who is there interprinting things. This is what God is saying that your eyes are opened up. I tell the say in church, you are the only people. You are the only people that meet everybody that comes in this jod know what that group of people meet. Everybody that comes in, everybody that comes into the church meets with a Nasha. So you can get that got data for us. You are the ones that can know whether somebody was happy or not, whether somebody. At the end of the service. That position is. Not just Amasha. Are you following what I'm saying here? Have eyes that see. That's when you go to work and you're excited about what you are doing because you are processing things. You are thinking at a level. That's why David could say I have more understanding than my teachers. In other words, they teach, but I see things into what they are teaching that they themselves that are teaching it don't see it. So the third one I want to look at here of saying. So there's washing in the podcast Salem. If you have an idea, don't just jump out. Take time to. Pray and pray and ask God for clarity so that there's no guess work, so that you are not making mistakes that become an obstacle in the future, so that you get it right the first time, so that you meet with the rights people and things work out right. The third level of saying is when you see into scriptures. In other words, when God up punts up your eyes to see scriptures. And when you get to that level, you are no longer reading the Bible. The Bible is reading you. Once you start seeing into the scriptures. When you take up the Bible that you're reading it. Every character that is in your office that is playing politics. You are seeing those characters in the life of David. You are seeing the decisions that David made. You are seeing those characters in the life of Jacob. You are seeing that everything just keeps happening in cycles and seasons. You're going to the Book of Kings what you're calling politics. You see that this is how you see how you're supposed to approach your boss or approach your clients from what you have seen inside the world of God. They say, where did you get this idea? You say, I got it out of the book of Jeremiah. The other people are looking at Jeremiah. What what? What? What? What? Where? Where did you say this is? I brought it out of this place here. I saw things inside the scripture that compelled me to act this way, that compelled me to, you know, to go and make a decision here to know who I should call that we'll talk to this person that will actually get this particular door opened up onto me. That I saw that God was here, Man was here, and that God needed a mediator between him and man in order so you understand that there are certain things. If God needed the mediator, you also might need a mediator between you and somebody. And God tells you who that mediator is. And as you are studying, imitate and you recognize that person and you call him. Can you help me talk to this particular individual? They say, why did you get it? I saw it in the scripture the way God chose Jesus to mediate. I also have chosen this person to mediate. The scriptures begin to talk to you, which means it now becomes an book of instruction, a life. Manual for you, and you get practical. And so you can go into the book of Chronicles, the book of. You know, kings and begin to see how things. All right play out and how individuals and how decisions all right are made. Are you enter into a position and you look at Solomon Diminuity entered into that position where the warfare came from. And by you reading that, you can know now that I've been promoted to this position that Ceo. These are the angles where the warfare. These are the type of people you know that that will fire arrows. Admit, these are the decisions that I've got to make. You understand that you see every person in your life the role that they are supposed to play as you are reading the World of God. And how do we get to this particular point quickly? If you look a look chapter twenty four, verse eighteen and to verse nineteen. Look twenty four eighteen to nineteen. Now Jesus was raised from the dead. Jesus was raised from the. Dead, and you should pray this. This I believe is my personal opinion, this is the most important prayer in the New Testament, the most important prayer any Christian can pray is efficient Chapter one, verse sixteen to verse eighteen. He's the most improtact the Bible says, the God of this world say and blinds the minds of people. Sat And what he's doing is to blind the minds of people. His power is literally broken, not just legally now in Christ, but li trialing. Your life is broken when God opuns up the eyes of your understanding. And if he didn't need to or put up the eyes of your understanding, Paul will not have been praying that for the church at Ephesos. Paul knew that I've got to pray this for it to happen there. But if you look, I look twenty four all right, as we saw here and verse eighteen and verse nineteen. Look twenty four, eighteen and nineteen. Now Jesus was raised from the dead, and and this was cloppers here. So look, I won't stretch these thoughts. But if you don't see, if you don't see, then the woman who was at the well, who had had five husbands and was living with a sixth. Person who wasn't a husband. You will never think that such an unclean person will be the point of contact to opening up an entire city for the ministry of Jesus. In fact, the woman at that well told Jesus you are not permitted to even have conversations with me. So you obey the position where you even look at some people and say, I cannot have conversations with that. But people have eyes, eyes that see eyes. That's Josey. He saw that woman for what she is, and that's why Peter was struggling. God said, don't call on clean what I've called clean and what the people that God may bring into your life, the kind of people that God wants to bring in you. You might be doing, you know, human wisdom of networking and networking and networking, and you just may not realize that the people you're supposed to network with are people that are on the lower strata of humanity. That doors may be opened up onto you if you don't see, you might walk past that man who was there lying half dead, and you are going to battle confessing all right that you have victory in Jesus Christ and saying God has given me his prophetic world we're. Going to have victory. We're going there to overcome, to recover and take all as I told you. All right, but you walk past that man because you have no time. What They stopped to give him water and something to drink and food, and the life came back into that man and they held the conversation with him, a man that his own masters had said you are good for nothing and cast him aside. That was the man that told them exactly what to do. That reduced the casualty there, and they recovert everything with no casualty. It was somebody else that cast him aside, and somebody else picked him up, gave him life, and it gave strategic information. You may work past people who are in an organization. That have strategic information. You work past the driver, and it's the driver that has heard the conversation, that knows where the thing will swing to. But you don't greet them because you know, I'm a big man. I came here for some strategic thing, and I don't talk to people like this. Many people have discovered things by talking to people on the lower level. Many people have discovered things here. So I can't say some things, but there are many people that are influential. I have a friend, very influential, and he says, I eat where the drivers eat. I eat where he said. That's where the information is secling. That's where the real conversation are going on. They're giving us information as to what you walk past them. Because you don't believe that you can become the prime minister by any information you receive when you're in jail. Anybody in jail, it's not worth networking with. But that is where yourself got the contact to go. So God walks down while we are trying to go up, and then are trying to go up. This that's why I says to him, that has not you are trying to go up and say I'm working with big men and all of that, and you do not know all right that listen, they humilate you, they take you before cut of law, they do all this thing. And I say, well, were not treated. Me because you are gravitating towards, all right, the wrong set of people. So this is important. That's why I say you must have it is. That's see, you must have that is that's see. I switched on the television one day and let me just say this. I thought I'd preach about that, but that finishedly. Listen, it says, wherever the souls of your feet step, I have given it on to you. And some of us Christians, the reason why we're not in influential places is that we're trying to get into the inflential place from the top. And we don't know that Joseph was the brain behind Pharaoh. He wasn't Phero but everything. There are people that are influencing things that are not visible. And it costs you nothing, cost you nothing to enter into those positions, just loyalty and faithfulness, and you can enter into there and sit in those rooms. And have those conversations. And you didn't have to spend money on an election and spend money on this. And you are having. Those conversations because you have come to understand the principle that wherever the soul of my foot touches, that's what I'm going to give on to you. They open up. The door, or you think that the position they're given to you it's not the right position, but what they're giving. To you is access, and at whatever level the. Access is, you take that access because you know, once the soul of my foot enters into that place and we're able to dominate within this place. I was listening one day, I just switched on terms and I bombed on it and was I think God went to see It was the former President of South Africa, Tabot Becking, and he was talking and he said was He said yeth birthday and was giving a speech. I just tumbled on it. And he said, you know, we went to I think it was Mali. He said. When we got there, they took us to the place. He said, I just went first. We got in and then I went to visit it. You know where the history of Africa is, you know all that had happened in the past. And he said, they put it in the place, all the documents, the literature, all of that. And he said. The camera man. From SABC, that South African Broadcasting Corporation was there following him recording it. And the man lowered his camera and said, sir, I need to say something to you. And he said what he had access. He was a camera man. Body had access, a camera man bo. He had access that's people make key of for something. But he was always follow him. He had acted. He said, so I wanted to take. Something He said, the history of Africa I should not be placed in a building like this. It's not befitting of Africa. And he said, please, when you meet with the president of Mali, can you tell him to build a museum for us, so at least we'll have these documents in a place there. And Primant turburan egsaid, I woul discuss that with him. He was saying this himself. He said, so when they met the President of Mali, he went to him and said, I want to say one. Thing to you. Said what he said? That place where all those documents are, You know, it's not really good for Africa. This is the history of Africa. This is well these things are you know, things trade routes and that. The man looked at him and said, Prime Minister, you come from a rich country and from a poor country. He said, if you have an opportunity to build a museum or build barholes for your poor people, which will you do? And he said, I will build barholes instead of a museum. He said, yes, I'm going to use our money to build boarholes. And Prime Minister tabam Beg said, if you build the ballholes, we will build a museum for you there is a museum now set of art built by South Africa, but nobody knows it. Was the man from Message Busy that suggested. Did. I am telling you that there are many people suggesting things. You will be amazed how powerful people finally make the decision. You'll be amazed that they just. Turned around and asked somebody around them, what do you think about this particular thing? They asked here like Clinton, secretary, Like Clinton, They said, why was your husband so successful Bill Clinton? In economic policies? He said, we will sit down with strategies and we will debate, and I'm come to conclusion. He said, it will come out of this situation. And if walking down the corridor and said jarnitor and said, come here, come here, this is a this show we want to make. Here about it. If you were to make a dishion on your family as to how to spend money, and you would drop it in the man would say, this is exactly what I would do. He will call a one would have said it, He said, you would he would do the policy according to the common sense those people give you. That's why I said. You look at it and said what is this among so many? And you despise. You don't know how many. Listen if you get it back and get the book Misture of Capital by De Soto, where he spoke about the fact that Africa is a wealthy continent. Listen, people, a wealthy continent that is sitting on wealth. But the problem is it is held in defective ways. So God will open up the eyes. So these two men, it looked twenty four eighteen and nineteen. It says, look twenty four eighteen. So this finness was after the resurrection of Jesus. One of them clubbers was answering, said onto him. Now Jesus was after he was raised from that He was walking on the streets and he found two gentlemen who are discussing that just come from his his his tomb, and they were discussing. So Jesus met up with them, and so he asked them a question. And the Bible says they looked at Jesus, said why people sorrowful? What's going on? Why are you worried? And this is what they said to Jesus. Are thou only a stranger in Jerusalem? And hast thou not known the things which are to come to pass there? In these days? The next verse tels Us, And he said onto them what things? And they said onto him, Now they were telling Jesus that he is a stranger. This is Jesus you are talking to you know, when your eyes are not opened. This is a terrible thing. You are telling Jesus, telling him about the resurrection, that you're a stranger in this land. Did you just come to this line? This is Jesus. Now they said to him, what things? And he said on them concerning Jesus, they said, which was a prophet? My team died? And in what before God and all the people. And then the next verse tels Us, and how the chief prince and the rulers delivered him and condemned him to death and have cricified him. The next verse shelter Us. But we trusted that he had been, that you were redeemed from Israela, and bring forth all of these things. Now let's go to verse twenty seven. Because of time, verse twenty seven. Quickly, look twenty four twenty seven. So it says, look twenty four twenty seven, and beginning at Moses and all the prophets Jesus expounded to them in all the scriptures, the things concerning himself now verse thirty one. Because of time, so it was expounded, and their eyes all right now before all right, now before this, let's look at verse faty twenty nine. So from verse one nine. But they constrain him, said abide with us towards evening. And the day was first spent, and he went to talty with them. And then an x verse he tells hers. And it came to pass as they sat admit with them, it took bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it to them. And the Bible says their eyes were now opened, and they knew him, and he vanished out of their sight. Now here what they said, they said, one to another, did our hearts not born within us? While he talked with us by the way, and while he opened the scriptures. Towards So when the scriptures are being. Opened to you, your heart begins to burn. And it's a man that God sends to open the scriptures to you. That's what happened. When Danielle understood by books what was read seen in the Book of Jereba. Through the books it was written, the scriptures were opened onto him, and your heart begins to. Burn and it's a sensational. Feeling, but you have to go beyond the scriptures being opened. That is the foundation that has to happen. So the place where your own understanding is opened, which means. Your eyes are opened up. If we look at verse forty five, the Bible says that are close here verse forty five, it says, look twenty four and then he opened their understanding that they may understand the scriptures. You can open the scriptures to people, but it's only God that can open the understanding of the people so that when the scriptures are opened up, they're understand the scriptures, so that they are not always ever learning, but not. Coming to the knowledge of the truth in. Other worlds, always having this sensation of feeling inside, but it doesn't get to the place where you are. Transfer is this opening of your understanding that Paul called with an open face beholding, which means you go from hearing to a place of beholding. Your faith has been opened. And that's why Paul prayed in Efficiance chapter one and verse sixteen. And there's a prayer you should offer all efficians. One. He says, I cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers that the God of a log Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give onto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge, which means, as the knowledge is being passed, you have the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened, so that you may not the hope you come to that place of purples assignment you are sent. You're not the hope of his calling. You're not the rich of his glorious inheritance, which is the riches. There is the wisdom of God. And then from there you also come in contact with the power of God. So if we look at Peter, who went to catch fish caught nothing, three things happened. Wisdom is profitable to direct. He came in contact with the riches of the glorious inheritance, which is wisdom. He came in contact with it when Jesus said, cast your net on the right hand side and launchild into the deep. Direction was given. He came in contact with power when he began to bring the fish, and he saw it, and he called his partners, and both of them boats began to sink. He saw power that came from the wisdom, which was the direction of God. And he saw it and said, I may sin. And what it meant was, I'm not worthy of these things. You have done exceedingly, abondankly above what I can ask or think according to this power he saw it. But most importantly, like we said yesterday, he knew the hope of his calling. So even though he experienced all of this, he said, now we are going to catch men. So what happens is three things happened. You see purpose, You get the wisdom of God, which is what I am supposed to do in this situation. You experience the power of God, the same power that he wrot in Christ when he raised him. Up from the dead. But most importantly, you have your reason for being, your purpose, and so that is clearly defined, and you go after that completely. I believe there are people under the sound of my voice here that there is something that God has for you on this earth. In other words, we've come to this meeting and God wants to open up your eyes to see something. And in closing, I will tell this story which I found to be a remarkable story. And I had the experience at the beginning of this year, when Brother Copeland called Word of fifth ministers together in his run. She does it every year in January. So went for it. And there was a minister by the name who had been listening to you know, I'm young from time to time or right mc hammond, and he's eighty three years old now, but I didn't even know he was. It's three years old. But this man got up so just and he was preaching. He took one of the sessions, and in those sessions he said something that will remain with me for the rest. Of my life. He said, when I was eighty years old, God came to me and to tell me something about his assignment. I had not yet done eighty years old, and I'm telling everybody, listen, you are not too old. Listen. You may retire. I'm the at home, but God still has his purpose for your life. Eighty years old, he said, by all standards of ministry, and I like how it's he said. I was, by what we call standard of ministry, was successful. He said. One point eight million people in the He said, I passed on the one church in Minneapolis for fort five years. One point eight million people had walked up to our altar and given their lives to Christ. Fourteen thousand people had gone through our minister at training to become ministers, he said, And the income that we had gotten into the church had gone up to twenty billion dollars in those fort five. Years by the standards of ministry. Millions had gotten bod again trained for ministry and all of that. He said, you will have looked at me and said, you know it's time for you to retire your legates. You are, sir, he said. On my taed body. God came to me and told me. He said, you still have fifty he said. For fort five years I passed on one church. He said, you have to open fifty churches for me before you come home to be with me. At the age of eighteen, and those fifty churches in todd world nations, he said. And when I say. Raise those churches, I mean leave the church with a building and leave the church with a pastor that you have raised off. At the age of eighty, he is going into South Sudan, he is going into places remote places in Africa. He's going into eld Savado and all of that. At the age of eighty. Assignment assignment purpose life will come back and standing to you, you start looking young. Assignment purpose. And when he finished preaching it turned around, brought the coupla and he said, in thirty years I've been coming for this conference thirty years. I have never ever left. This conference without sitting through. But because of this assignment, I am sorry. Brought the coplin for the first time. I have to give you the microphone. I have to head my way right and Brolakoba said, I understand hogged in and a man walked away because of assignment and walked away. There are people under the sound of my voice now wh are saying there's an assignment. And I pray for you in the mighty name of Jesus that in this conference you will wash your eyes in that pool called asylum pool, where you will live this place seeing clearly what God has placed and what it has for you, and live this place with intercession, with prayers that God himself will come down and initiate things on this earth for the fulfillment of that call. In the Mighty name of Jesus Christ, God bless you all, coin Onia. It was wonderful being. Here and there has been massive UTRANs that I've had on this platform, a testimony to the quality of this ministry, a testimony to the quality of intercession that has gone. In the background for the fulfillment I statute. All Right, God bless you all.