RE DEFINING THE BLESSING PART TWO THE PURPOSE OF THE BLESSING LEICESTER

I see you, our Samer, praise the name of the Lord. Good morning, everybody, Awesome moments of prayer and worship. Already a lot of meetings like this where with dedicate time to just press into the things of God, to learn the ways of God and passa daily Thank you so very much, thank you for this opportunity. Let me appreciate and honor every man, woman of God and everyone who she represented. That includes those who are following online. Can we lift our hands to the heavens once again, asks the Lord to speak to our hearts. The Bible says the entrance of his word gives light, and it is understanding onto the simple John Chapter one and verse five. As the lights shine it in the darkness and the darkness. Comprehen that it not. With your faith lifted to the heavens, with you asking for an encounter this morning. They go from strength to strength, as many as appear before the Lord in Zion. You prayed it, you sang it that he will give you an evidence. Let it show that you met with him. Would you repeat that prayer again? Let your grace rest upon my life, Let your wisdom rest upon my life. Let it be evident beyond doubt that I have met with you. In Jesus' name, we pray, Father, we ask that you speak to our hearts again. Let your word come with power, Let it bring illumination, let it bring direction. With vow to give you all the glory. In Jesus' name, we pray, and then give Jesus a big hand. Club Hallelujah, place you may all be seated. May all be seated. The salmon said, I was glad when they said unto me. Let us go to the house of the Lord Allelujah. In his presence. We access wisdom in his presence, We access power. In his presence, we access light. Allelujah is the fountain of wisdom. And so we've been discussing around the theme of the conference. I renamed my topic redefining the Blessing. So if you just wrote the blessing last night, would you add Redefining the Blessing? I think is a shift that God is bringing tow ards. We looked at pat one yesternight examining a few fundamentals, and I'd like to just quickly recap and will connect to this morning session. Allelujah. We read a few portions of scripture yesterday night, just to establish the fact that the concept of the blessing or blessings generally is a biblical concept, and we find that scattered from Genesis chapter one. In fact, the first initiate of that concept himself was God. One twenty Genesis, the Bible says, and God blessed them and said unto them, be fruitful, multiply, et cetera. When we get to Genesis chapter twelve, the Bible says, he calls Abraham out of howe of the childy ends, and sends him to a land, and begins to propose a series of blessings to him. I will bless you, make your name great. I will bless them that bless you, curse him that curses you. And in thee he says verse three, shall all the families of the earth be blessed away together? And I did tell us that God can bless and men can also bless. Recall the portion of scripture when Rebecca was being released by her family, a blessing was spoken over her life, and the Bible also tells us in someone, he says, blessed is the man, so men can be blessed. Blessed is the man In. Some one or three, he says, bless the Lord, oh my soul and all that is within me, bless his holy name. So men can bless the Lord. For a foundation, we established a few things that blessing generally speaking, is connected to favor still remember, connected to advancement, connected to peace, connected to protection, preservation, and trial. So when you mention the word blessing, generally, these are the words that are related to or connected to the blessing. And we're examined a few Greek and Hebrew words just to put us in perspective. We examine the Hebrew word baraq that when we talk about blessing as the word barraq, it generally means to took down to bow. Now that's the expression of blessing when it's in relation to God. When you say bless the Lord, you don't mean giving money or make his life better away together, there's nothing we can add to improve on God's You know who he is, He feels all things you know in him, all things consist. So when we use the word bless is the word baraq it has to do with worship. To stoop down like the woman with the alabasta box. Remember that's exactly the portrait of what it means to bless the Lord, to cast your golden crown, to stoop down in worship, in obeysance, you know, just to acknowledge and to honor him. It's also the word blessed. And then we looked at the word your logier, remember elogia eu l ogia, and we said, it means a good word. So we generally saw that as a pronouncement that produces an effect of wealth, an effect of peace, and effect of protection. Now that's where the proclamation of the blessing comes. Like the priest was commanded to declare the blessing upon the people, like Isaac blessed Jacob, and like all kinds of blessings happen in the Bible. So when you make a decree, a prophetic pronouncement upon people, deposit grace upon their lives, that begins to guide them into several possibilities, from prosperity to favor. Are we together we're examined the. Life of Eso and Jacob yesterday as a case study. How that Isaac blessed Tacop instead of Iseso. And even though it was through the vehicle of deceit, it still happened that the blessing rested upon him to the point that he or cried as an adult, a hard working adult, and he still cried the value of the blessing, Allelujah. And I did tell us that another Greek word, and this one has to do with the portrait of a blessed man, is the Greek word macarios. And that does not just talk of a pronouncement. It is the portrait of the result of the blessing. It means to be fortunate, it means it's a portrait of one who's triumphed. Already, is a portrait of one who's prospered. Allelujah, praised the name. Of the Lord. I pointed a few things yesternight. If you recall that in the Old Testament, the concept of blessings, they were largely concerned with speakings. Remember, prophetic pronouncements that were backed up by the power of God, and if and when received by faith, produced certain effects like favor, preservation, protection. But in the New Testament the concepts. Began to change, particularly with the arrival of Jesus as the Christ. And we explained a few things now content three very important concepts. The blessing of Abraham, the blessing and then blessings. Still, remember you have to keep that as a rule of tomb. And we said the blessing of Abraham, we're examined from Isaac chapter fifty one and verse two. It says, to look onto Abraham, your father, and to Sarah that body. For I called him alone, and I blessed him, and I increased him. And we did agree that the blessing of Abraham. Unfortunately, unlike the narrative that is the popular narrative across the body of Christ, it has nothing to do with physical or material things. The blessing of Abraham is a mystery that is shrouded in the story of a man. Are we together blessing of Abraham tends. Within it the revelation of the formula to find salvation, to connect to the Christ. So in summary, yesterday we said, the blessing of Abraham is justification by faith. Abraham believed God even though it was impossible, and it was credited to him for righteousness. And so we like faithful Abraham, when he gives us a report that we have been saved, that we have been redeemed, Are we together that our sins have been forgiven, no matter how impossible it is. In his case, it was the issue of fertility and fruitfulness. In our case, it's an eatingy. Like faithful Abraham. If and when we believe, are we together that he believed that it was credited to him, So when we believe, it is credited to us in that similitude the blessing of Abraham. So the next time you say you are a partaker of the blessing of Abraham, you are right. But that does do not mean God actually to counter stars and all of that. We usually think of it from a material standpoint, And don't get me wrong, the material path comes later, but the foundation of it is faith, justification by faith, and then it gives room to the blessing. Remember, the blessing is the promise of the Spirit. So the Holy Spirit, among the many expressions, is also the blessing. It is not what he brings, it is who he is. And then alongside all the resources that come with him Galicians three from verse thirteen, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone who hangs upon the tree. There you go that blessing. Would you want to put your phones on silent, that the blessings of Abraham praise the name of the Lord will come upon gentiles through Christ or in Christ, to the end that we might receive the blessing, the promise of the Spirit true faith. Are we together? And remember when Peter preached his first salmon on the day Pentecost, he made a very profound statement. He said, for this promise, the same promise here, the promise of the Spirit, the blessing. The promise is unto you and to your children, your children's children, as many as. Are paro even them who the Lord will call. So when it has to do with the blessing, I told us that Jesus Christ came, and in his providing for us access to the blessing, he corrected the reason why he is or cried is so cried because there was no possibility of receiving the same thing with job again. But now the Spirit of God grands us access. So it doesn't matter whether you late come early, provided you come into Christ, you have access to the blessing. And I proved towards from scripture that the Holy Spirit. In resting upon the believer, he also comes as the blessing some one taty three. Remember how good and how pleasant it is when brethren dwell together in unity. It's like the oil that comes upon the head of Aaron the priests down to his garment Versus. He says, for there in that gathering God had commanded what the blessing, even life forevermore. And we saw that. And this was an adumbration of the Day of Pentecos at chapter two and verse one. Now, when the day of Pentacos was fully comed, they were gathered together. Like some one taty three says. And in that gathering, the Bible says, suddenly they saw cloven tongues as of fire. It sat upon everyone. And then these three the Bible says that you know they were filvers four. Now they were filled with the Holy ghost, and they began to speak. In or that tongues. He came as the blessing, because the Bible says, there the Lord hath commanded the blessing in this case the spirit. So to the believer, when you say you are blessed, it doesn't just mean you got a job. No, that's the effect of being blessed. A job is not the reason you are blessed, a ki is not the reason you are blessed. Do you understand what I'm saying now, Because if you base your understanding of the blessing to these things, then you are kindly minded. It then means there are many people without Christ who are blessed. There is no body without Jesus Christ who is blessed. No diligence, you can route some of the effects that are parallels of the blessing even without Christ. Through diligence, you can buy a car, you can buy a house. But when we talk of the blessing in the Kingdom, we're not connecting it to material things. Those are the effects, in fact, the latter effects. The only condition for an individual to be blessed is number one, that you have gone through the process that released upon you the blessing of Abraham justification by faith. Now that gives you access to the Spirit who is the blessing himself. And like you're going to be learning this morning and the evening, there is the kind of business you do with the Holy Spirit. As the blessing that brings you into blessings. So you can have the Holy Spirit, he is the blessing. And never have the evidence of His presence manifesting your life a well together. There are many people who have the Holy Spirit, and the only way you know they have the Holy Spirit is when they pray in tongues. You cannot find the evidence of the blessing in them. And I told you that there are many expressions of the blessings. In fact, primarily they. Are spiritual, like peace, like the fruit of the spirit, like the godlike character. You see, these are not things you can outsource outside of the Christ. You can try to tame the flesh using the mechanics, but it wouldn't work. Away together. Now, it is only to those who are in Christ and those who have received the promise of the Spirit by faith. They are the ones who say I am blessed. So you don't just abuse it and say I am blessed because you feel you have money. No no, no, no, You are rich, but you are not blessed. You can be prosperous in as much as we define financial prosperity, but you are not blessed. The concept of blessing is exclusive to those who. Are in Christ. It's someone learning already, right. So that being said, let's go to today's session. Let's see what's on the menu for today. Praying the Spirit for one minute, Thank you, Lord Jesus, blessed, favored in Jesus' much less name, we have prayed. So we're looking at redefining the blessing, and this will be part two, and for a subtopic will be considering the purpose of the blessing. The purpose for the blessing, I begin with reports from a daily revered mentor noun gone to be with the Lord. Doctor Miles Monroe made a very profound and popular statement that when the purpose of a thing is not known, it says, abuse becomes inevitable. Allelujah. The word abuse comes from two words abnormal use. Every time the purpose of a thing is not known, you will use it in an abnormal way, Allelujah. And it's called abuse. So the purpose of the blessing, Now that we've understood that the blessing talks about the Holy Spirit alongside all the resources that comes with him, providing an advantage for the believer in and through Christ. For a text again, let's consider Genesis twelve and these three. We're looking this morning at the purpose of the blessing. Genesis twelve, verse. Three, he's proposing a blessing to everyham now, and he says, I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curses the Just pause for a moment, and if you look carefully, this should already comfort someone that for every them or every hymn that causes you, there are them. The ratio should comfort you are way together. For every one person who looks down on you trivializes you, there are many many people who love you, who all know you would desire your good. It is the ratio of him to them. I will bless those who bless you, and I will cause him, So it's not that bad. You are loved all I said, Yeah, don't be frustrated. It's not that. But I don't mind the naysayers. They are a minority compared to many sincere people who love you. Hallelujah. It's only that you say. The psychology of men is such that even if you are a thousand people saying Josannah and there's one person looking, you seem to tilt towards. So you have to train your mind, and the way you train your mind is to think on these things. Philippians for one verse eight Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are honest, pure, true, noble, if there be any good, if there be any virtue, it says, think on these things. You can train your mind to think on these things. Allelujah. Back to our discussion. I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you. And it says in the I like this, in the shall all the families of the earth be blessed. The word families there go beyond just nuclear houses and homes. It also extends to people groups. In the Genesis twelfth anvers three, shall all the families? How many? All the families of the earth shall be blessed. I don't know what version this is in these shall all the families? Or he's just trying to give us some. Okay, beautiful world. Back to KJV in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Second scripture is found in Efficient chapter two and verse ten, Pa all the apostle mentoring the church. In Ephesus, he makes a very profound statement, I like for you to read with me. Read it believing ready want to go for we are His. Workmanship created in Christ Jesus. Uh huh stop for one more time for you take. Note of that. For so we are created in Christ for good works which God prepared beforehand, that we should work in them. Can we see any other version? Just give us any other version at all, and I the any modern version. Let's see what they say. Oh, I like this? What in the world? What version is that? Media? Help us? Can you start it? Nlthy, For we are God's I like that. We are God's. Don't mind social media. You are God's masterpiece. The Bible says He has created us and knew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. Not he is planning. He's not wondering what to make out of your life. There is a script already. Is someone learning now? Prays the name of the Lord God, bless you. But everything in the Kingdom I wrote here derives its value to the degree to which it is connected to purpose. Don't forget this profound statement. Everything in the king derives its value to the degree to which it is connected to purpose. The beauty of Esta meant nothing except and unless it became connected to purpose the moment it became a tool for the salvation of God's people. It found its value. There I go together. Now, the believer must sustain such an orientation that you don't celebrate things just for what they are. You only celebrate them because of their ability to boost to fulfill kingdom. Com together, whether it's a job, whether it's a promotion. So here's how I believer thinks. You don't come and say, wow, I have a promotion now, and then you rejoice I have a person because that's the language of the believer, because I have found a better expression or better influence through that promotion to be able to bless lives, to advance the program of God. Are we together? Nothing in itself exists for. Itself Nature to teach us that the orange tree does not eat its orange, the mango tree does not eat the mango. Are we together? Yes? Everything in creation finds fulfillment when it lives where it costs bigger than itself, bigger than itself. Allelujah. Now, the man who is not in Christ is largely about self, and so there's no purpose connected to the things that they want. Is the reason why the Bible says the prosperity of fools. You know why they are called fools. There are two expressions in the Bible that have distopted me. Pastor. Number one is the poor wise man. Because wisdom and poverty should not go handing. Unfortunately you find that in the Bible. And then the other one. Is the rich fool. I believe that what made the man a fool was the fact that he did not look at a bigger course beyond himself. He built bands field all his treasure. And yes, what it says, my soul find rest not knowing that the purpose of the Blessing in any expression whatsoever, is so that you can reach out to others? Are we learning? Already prays the. Name of the Lord? So this is very important. Everything in the Kingdom derives its value to the degree to which it is connected to purpose. Your job, your singing, your gifts, your abilities, they only derive their value to the degree to which they are connected to purpose. Now, what is the purpose of the Holy Spirit as the blessing in the life of the believer. It's important for us to know, not just to appreciate him as the blessing, but what exactly is he here in our lives to do? Knowing that he's the blessing. Allelujah, Very quickly, I'll give you a twofold assignment or purpose, that the Holy Spirit revealing himself in the life of the believer as the blessing. He comes for two reasons. Number one, to help the believer experience the reality of victory, dominion, and fulfillment while on earth. I'll give you the best reason. This is why the Holy Spirit comes as the blessing. The purpose of the blessing the life of the believer to help the believer. If you're writing, please write to help the believer experience the reality of victory, the reality of dominion, the reality of fulfillment whiles on earth. In Second Peter, Chapter one and verse four, the Bible says, whereby are giving to us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these we might be partakers of His divine nature. Havn't escaped the corruption that is in the world through lost so apart. So Peter was teaching us that it's. Important for us to have the experience if it is true that we have become one with Christ. Remember he that is joined to crisis one spirit, and that has happened by the Holy Ghost, And that when the Holy Ghost comes upon an individual, more so as the being, he has the singular assignment of guiding and helping that believer experience the reality. Take note of that word, the reality of victim, of dominion and fulfillment. Shout this after me. Say victory like it's your inheritance. Say victory, Say dominion, Say fulfillment. One last time, say victory, say dominion, Say fulfillment. How many of you believe in that victory? Dominion, fulfillment. It is impossible to walk in victory. It is impossible to work in dominion. It is impossible to be a fulfilled life. Are we together without the blessing? So the key truly living a. Life of victory, living a life of dominion and a life of. Fulfillment, is the blessing. You can go all around, you can't do anything navigate through any other route. You will never truly live a victorious life in Christ. You will never truly walk in dominion inexperience, and you will never truly find a fulfilled life or live a fulfilled life fine fulfillment. Accept and unless the blessing is upon you. The second amend ready to empower the believer to fulfill the mandate of being a global blessing. The second assignment of the Holy Spirit as the blessing in the believer's life to empower the believer to fulfill the mandate of being a global blessing Versus twelfth and the three in the shall all the families of the earth be blessed in the Are you seeing that the Holy Spirit is fair enough? He does the work in you so that you become an experiential beneficiary of the benevolence the victory of Christ. But then he reminds you that there is a mandate that is not all about you. It doesn't stop here. Now you will be on fair if he just focuses on the nations and then he leaves you. So he starts with you. The reason why a cop overflows is that it is first filled. Am I right? So you are feeled. Then when you are filled to the brim, you now begin to overflow to the nations. Remember he spoke about in John chapter nine, spoke about the Holy Spirit in that great day, the last day, finality of the past. He said, anyone who first let him come and drink, and out of your belly will flow rivers. Remember the Bible says this speak he of the Holy Ghost. He spake of the Holy Ghost that those. Who would receive He will be in them a well springing up. Are we together now praise the name of the Lord, so to. Empower the believer to fulfill the mandate of being a global blessing. Yesterday you said I am blessed. Now you shout I am a blessing. That's today's phrase. Again, say I am a blessing. It doesn't stop by saying I am blessed. It is true that you are blessed. Why are you blessed? Because you have received Jesus. You have been justified by faith. You have received the blessing of Abraham and is giving you access to receive the promise of the Spirit, true faith, the Holy Ghost. He is the reason, the foundation for your being blessed. So say I am blessed. And now, understanding the purpose of the blessing, you can boldly say I am a blessing. You don't need a job yet to say that, say I am a blessing. You don't need an award yet. To say that, say I am a blessing. That means the capacity the coming of the Holy Spirit in your life. Are we together? He also comes with the portine child. Now, whether you will actually be that blessing or not. Ah will be part of my teaching today will begin to take that. But it's important for you to know that He's gives you potential to be a blessing. I like that in THEE shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Say I'm a blessing. So he empowers the believer to fulfill the mandate of being a blessing. If you care to write some more, extending salvation, extending healing, extending wealth, extending victory to others. He empowers the believer. Second and more important assignment of the blessing to empower the believer to fulfill the mandates of being a global blessing, extending salvation, extending healing, extending wealth, extending victory, extending deliverance, extending preservation like Joseph. Remember, Joseph was an instrument of preservation not only for his family, but. It later affected the Jews. They would have died of hunger except that God raised Joseph not just as a deliverer, but as a prisoner and prophessigned over someone in the name of Jesus, that all who know you will thank God because you are alive. Again. That all who know you, they will thank God because you are alive. That in your lifetime, for those of you who still have your parents and your loved ones alive, they will get on their knees. One there and said, thank God for giving. Me a gift of your child. That Lester will thank God you are here. That the United Kingdom will thank God you are here. That the Body of Christ will thank God you are here. Please be seated, Please be seated. Do you know there are certain names we don't name our children part of the fact that you're in the Bible. I'm yet to hear someone name their child Lucifer. I wonder why. Sounds like a very beautiful name, except that there is a bad story behind it. I'm not sure if anyone name is child Belsable. The reason is because there is a story behind the name, and the story does not bring glory to God. And so I'm saying again that because of the extent of your impact and how much you are blessed, people will name their children after you, name their businesses after you. In the name of Jesus Christ. Please be seated. It is a powerful thing to be a blessing. You know, we live in a very selfish world. We live in a world that is all about ourselves. A level and equality of living you will never be able to understand until you are a blessing. If your life is all about yourself, all about your nuclear environment, your wealth, your health, your living, there you are fast shot of God's standard. There is a level. I can tell you with all humility, I think the greatest fulfillment in my life is not just preaching. It's not just the things that I do, but knowing that you are able to make that contribution significant and consistent enough. You can look at. Life, homes, cities, nations and you see that they have you are literally shaping cultures, discipling nations. Allelujah. Every time I have the opportunity to stand and bring the world of God, I am honored beyond imagination. Because there are nations connected. Someone literally depends on my spiritual efficiency for their growth. I take that as a profound honor. Hallelujah. Praise low. And so God is stretching us this morning and all through this session. That is time to begin to look away from yourself. But can I tell you the truth, it is going to be difficult to truly be a blessing until God soorts your own life too. It is such that I have is the reason why we most pray the prayer of the sam is. Satisfy me early with your goodness, hear me. The reason why Satan keeps preoccupying us, forcing us, and trying to make sure our life does not work is because he knows that when you are done with yourself, the next thing is to look out for the nations. So he will make sure you are never done with yourself. All through your. Lifetime, you will be about trying to make your own ends meet, and your head bowed down. By the time you will lift your eyes, you are days left on earth and you find out that you've lived a very selfish life, not because you're a selfish person. It's a manipulation from darkness, a way together. It is true every man gives according to his riches in glory. Every man gives. It is not just God. Every man gives. Paul said, such I mean, Peter said, such as I have. You'll need to have fest before you are able to give. Am I right on that prays the name of the Lord, and so by this I'm praying for someone in the name of Jesus everything needed for life and godliness that's been released in Christ and is yet to find expression in your life. I pray for you from the depth of my heart in this season. May the Lord bring you into that reality on time. The word is on time, in the name of Jesus. If it's finances, let it come to you on time, in the name of Jesus. Please be seated, Please be seated. I can tell you Sometan has. One of the ways it distracts from being blessings is to cause trouble around us, and we never find personal victories. You cannot go and save another nation when your own nation is in war. You will have to fight first. Are we together? When kings were confronted in ancient times, they called their allies who were already enjoying peace, come and join us because there's war. But when Satan preoccupies. You, your child is having some problem, your finance is going down, your papers, your health, you will not even have the time to be a blessing. It's a strategy. I say that so that when it's time to pray, you are going to cry onto the Lord. Are we together? Yes, that you step into that covenant of peace, nothing missing, nothing broken, so that you can have the time, the time, the time. There is a level of lifting that when God brings to your life in all honesty, it will sort you and give you. Peace and give you enough time to. Not only participate in kingdom com but even to fund it. I believe there are people who will rise from here and in the name of Jesus, you literally will set up organizations and you'll begin to fund God's program without manipulation. In the name of Jesus Christ. Do you believe that, please be seated. Say I'm blessed. Say I'm a blessing. One more time, say i am blessed. Say I'm a blessing. Yes you are, Yes you are, Yes you are. I am a. Blessed, not just so your spouse, I am. I'm a blessing. I believe that the Bible says, for I reckon that the sufferings of this present time Romans eight eighteen, they are not worthy to be compared with the group that shall be revealed in us. And then verse nineteen says for the est expectation of the creature are waited the manifestation of the sons, the sons of God, the sons of God. One version says creation is waiting earnestly for God to reveal those who his sons truly are truly. Ah, yeah, that's it. Creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. You don't look like it now, but keep walking, keep building. Let the blessing keeps doing it's work in you. Are we together now? It does not yet appear what we shall be like. And so when the Holy Spirit comes upon an individual as the blessing, or generally speaking, when the blessing rests upon a believer, it's for this. Twofold purpose number one. To help the believer experience the reality of victory, of dominion, and of fulfillment. Never forget that you should be able to defend the ministry of the blessing in your life, so that after this conference, when you boldly tell people I am blessed, when they say how, you can explain, When they say to what end you can explain? You see the missing link. So many believers say I am blessed. You say, what does that mean? Well, I just know that I'm blessed. No, No, it must become the things that are most surely believed that you are persuaded beyond being suayed Hallelujah to empower believers to fulfill the mandate of being a global blessing. Now I tell you this. Do you know that your results are important not only to you but to God? Have you been told and taught that it matters to God that you produce results? For many reasons you're producing results? Are we together? It validates many things upon the earth about God. Number one, It validates that his love, like Dr Monroe would say, it validates that the product he created is efficient. How many of you have seen companies recall thousands of cars simply because they found a widespread defect and they go through losing millions of dollars and billions of dollars, and they do that for the sake of their reputation. The Bible calls it his namesake. There is his logo on your life, and it matters that you. Are not proported as a fake product. Listen to me. I hope you know we're not doing a business seminar here. Maybe one day we'll do it. But in business, what you really buy you buy reputation, not just products. If I have an original maybe Gucci or livet On or whatever it is, and I simply peel off. I find a way of peeling off, and it's original, but only because I peeled off the logo away together, it's considered fake immediately. So what are you really buying when you get into when you want to buy McDonald or buy whatever. It is you are looking for that logo? And then you end up proudly and tell them I need this and that who told. You is real? You just trust their integrity. Let me tell you this, The integrity of the king is at take upon the earth until and unless the saints begin to manifest that life of dominion and victory. Are we together, your results producing results? And I'll show you a few scriptures. Now. My life changed when I realize that as mighty as God is, the preservation of his name, his reputation in the world of men depends on my efficiency. Yes it does, Yes it does. That's why He's gone that hard to invest all these resources in my life. He does that because he loves me, but he also does. It for his namesake. Namesake, namesake, namesake, Allelujah. It's amazing how nations can go to war because of one person, one person who is a citizen of that nation, and they can spend millions of dollars and all of that just to protect that one person. That's how it is. You are a defender of God's reputation. You are a defender of God's love away together, and it matters that you produce results. Someone, shall I produce results one more time? I produce results in ministry in business. So let's consider a few scripts. I'm one person who is I'll tell you about my nature. I'm a very self motivated person. I'm not one person who needs any encouragement, whether you encourage me or not. I mean, I just sit there and think, very well. I don't cry and say you are not encouraging me. Not for some reason it's worked out as an advantage in this apostolic ministry. But I need little or no encouragement, believe me. I mean, I just fire through and make sure. The reason is because my conviction as to producing results did not come from a canal desire to be great. I found out from the Bible that the more I produce results, I give evidence to the might, the love, the power, the wisdom of Jesus upon the earth, and that provided well enough to drive me to producing results. Are we together? So, whether it's investing time in prayer, in fasting, in learning, in wilding, in creativity, in productivity, in leadership, I am all about seeing that my life blossoms producing hundred. I don't have time for thirtyfold. I don't have time for sixtyfold. No, no, that's not You can have that if you want. But I mean in my world it is one hundredfold. I mean we press the trottle to the Yes. Are wea together? But this is what I've learned, that God can be glorified pastor in a man Galatians one twenty four. And they glorified God in me. This is powerful, and they glorified God. This is it, Ladies and gentlemen, This right here, right here, should be your object of pursuit, not just to be rich, not just to be intelligent, not just to rise to the zenith of your career. And they glorified God in need. That's the point of the believer's satisfaction. Until you hit this target, You're not yet there. You keep pressing that they glorify God in me. Are we together? In John seventeen from verse one, the Bible says Jesus lifted up his eyes to the heavens. He's about to pray. This is really the Lord's prayer. Now he lifts his eyes to the heavens and he says, Father, the hour is come. Let's star read with me. Glorify thy son, that. Thy son also may so. God glorifies the son to the end that the son, in being glorified, brings glory. To the Father. In theology, we ca the reflection principle. Are we together now? Yes, the reflection principle. The reflection principle. In interpreting the vision Joseph as his father, he says, I saw the son, meaning his father, I saw the moon. You see that the moon does not have any glory of itself. It derives its illumination from its alignment with the song. That's how it is. So. When you align yourself to God by his spirit, you begin to shine that light through you to the nations. They see the beauty that is of God through your life. You are the visible expression of His person, of his glory. They can't see him. One day we will see him, but for now, I except you are giving access to visionary encounters, you are not able to see him. But we are the ambassadors. We are the extensions of His wisdom, our his possibilities. Hour together efficients three tents says to the intent that now onto principalities and powers might be made known by the church, the manifold, multi layered wisdom of God, the blessing. Now I tell you why God desires that you produce results, John fifteen, Verse eight. So the whole of John Jesus is revealed there as the vine. I'm just trying to call it for sake of time. In fact, let's look from verse one, look from verse one. Who is learning this morning? John fifteen, And we begin our reading from verse one. I am the true vine, and my father is the horsebandman. So the father is not the vine. The father is the. Initiator of that program, the horsebandman, the one who planted it. Verse two. Every branch in me that beared not fruit, he takes away, and every branch that buried food projet that it may bring talk to me that it may bring more fruit. Verse three. Now he are clean through the world which I've spoken to you. Verse four, it says, abide in me, an eye in you, as the branch cannot be a foot of itself, except it abides in the vine. No more can ye except ye abide in me. Verse five, he says, the vine and ye are the branches. He that abides in me and eye in him, the same bring get forth much fruit, For without me ye can do nothing. Verse six. If a man abide not in me, he cast forth as a branch and is withered, and men gather them and cast them into fire, and they are burned. Seven he says, if he abide in me and. My words abided you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. Let's read verse eight together. One to go. Uhhuh hearing in other words, this is how my father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, that ye bear much fruit. Jump to verse sixteen Media John fifteen and now verse sixteen John chapter fifteen and verse sixteen. Let's ring together. Don't be tired. One to go. Ye have not. Chosen me, Aha, but I have chosen you and ordain you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain. Stop there, that your fruit should longevity of your impact, that your fruit should remain. Is someone learning say I'm fruitful or you didn't say that like you're convince. Say I'm fruitful. Yes, I'm fruitful because the blessing is upon me, fruitful in the name of Jesus Christ. Now in Matthew chapter five. This was an extension of his teachings. We know that to be the Beatitudes. Remember, by the time we get to verse thirteen, Jesus now begins to describe the church his body. Now, of course they were not yet saved. They were not really the church as it were, but they were the people he was teaching, because the church only came after Jesus had resurrected the body of believers now in Christ. But it says this, he had the salt of the earth. Do you believe that? And you know the assignment of salt number one to bring taste, value number two, to preserve, to preserve, to preserve, It says body. If the salt has lost its savo, where we'll shalid be salted, It is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden on the foot of men. Fourteen, it says you are the light. Now I tell you a few things about salt. It is never too late to add salt to food. Now for those of you who cook and don't mind me, just pres the name of the Lord. So I'm not speaking from experience. I'm speaking by revelation. Praise the name of the Lord. But now let me have your attention. How many of you know that, depending on what you're cooking, there are certain ingredients that are timing dependent. If you fail to. Add it at the right time, you can produce a disaster for failing. Are we together? One time? I think, not not too long. Somewhere sometime last year, I was microwaving something past and it was supposed to be for a few minutes. And you know there are things if you microwave beyond, it just uses something else. I think I got carried away. I don't know how. I was not there to monitor the thing. And when whatever happened happened inside the microwave as I opened it, I said, no, this can't be made. I mean, this is this. Is I reject this kind of testimony. There was a disaster it and don't it mean? So that's how it is. However, there are times that you may cook and the salt may not taste so much. It is never too late, even when the food is served there is still provision to as salt, and. So he says you are salt. In other words, there is always space for your relevance. It's someone learning now he doesn't that they announcing truly, truly, you are salt. Salt. Doesn't matter how long the system has been. There's room for my contribution. You are the salt of the earth. It's never too late, never too late, never too late for a believer to be relevant, to glorify the Lord. You are the salt of the earth. Never too late. Your relevance in that company, your relevance in Leicester, your relevance. In the UK. You are the salt of the earth. Someone learning. There are certain ingredients. Again I recot that if you didn't add them at certain times, you have to give up as first that meal is concerned is gone, but not salt, not salt. Even when you serve a meal. In fact, in many instances they now add salt and pepper. They put it in a separate what they call it, so you can add salt. Prays the name of the Lord. You add value to any system. I'm explaining to you what it is to be a blessing. You add value, your blessing is not in your acquiring, is in your addition. It's in your giving. Now, don't get me wrong. We soon talk about many of you in stretched when we talk about the money path, you just be patient. It's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming. There's a protocol to it. A wing together. Yes, when you say I am a blessing, what you said is not I have. What you said is I am a giver? Next time you say I am a blessing, think. Giving, not having. Now the kernel man, and sometimes sometimes. We preach us sincerely, so we engineer people's mind into believing that it's in the acquisition of things that they are the blessing. No, when you say I am a blessing, what you mean is I am a giver, not just I have, the fact that you have agreed that your giver already means you have. The nobler part of being a blessing is that you focus on being a giver, a giver, the one who riches, the one who extends. Are we together now, of what good is it? If the Bible describes Heaven tells us how wonderful the throne room is, and then leaves us in our sin and our inability to help ourself. God demonstrated indeed that it was a god of all flesh, and that it was a blessing, not just by creating the heavens and the earth, but giving. Jesus the greatest gift. Great and love had no man than this that a man lays down, it's always giving. No one has received a Nobel prize for receiving. It's always forgiving, forgiving, forgiving. Are we together? You must have that giving mentality. If I come into a system, I don't think what we'll like get. I've ringing in my mind now this this shifts in mentality. It's one of the things God wants to introduce in this conference. Are you seeing now that for the average person, the moment we talk about blessing, we're not thinking about the world, We're not thinking about our environment. Unfortunately, we're not even thinking about our children. All we're thinking is myself, my car ferrari houses. And that's wonderful. But the kingdom orientation I'm telling you is that when you say I am blessed, what you mean is that I am in Christ and I have the Holy Spirit resident within me, and it's given me access to all the resources that makes from my victory, from my dominion, and for my fulfillment. Now when you say I am a blessing, you mean I am a giver. I take advantage of the Holy Spirit and. The resources is put within me, and I extend salvation, I extend healing, I extend hope to someone learning. Now shout, I'm a blessing. Said it. I'm a blessing as a business man. I am a blessing as a doctor. I'm a blessing. I'm not just treated patience. I am a blessing as a lecturer. I'm a blessing as a pastor. I'm a blessing. Christmas heated allelujah. A man. So he says you are the salt of the earth. But if the salt is lost his savle. You know what that means. It's capacity to be a blessing. So salt can become salt just in name, but in impact it may not be there away together. And notice how powerful salt is. You don't need the same quantity of salt as the same quantity of rice. No, no, so your your sight. Don't don't tell me you're a few. That's it's about the presence and the effect the last time I cooked, the last time I cooked, And you have no idea how long that has been the last time I cooked. If I still recall, you don't add. Say three hands full of rice, say for instance, and three hands full of salt. That becomes too much. So when it has to do with impact, number is not. Listen, you are not disadvantage if you are few. God can send two people over letter and. He sends you assault, and he says, we bring you his capacity. To filtrate the system. But I see that we are more than two here. That means lesser. That means you pay. That means Europe I need to bather now. It means your territory should feel the effect of the glory, the power, the wisdom of God. Listen, I want you to see that. The Bible also shows us that there is a possibility for salt to lose its savole. That means you can have for whatever reason, you can have salt, and yet it does not taste like salt. Please be seated. Then he announ says verse fourteen, you are light. I like that. What discussing the blessing? You are the light? Everybody said the light one more time, say the light now hang on? Do you know light, just like salt, is a powerful mystery. Let's do an experiment. Let me work on your mind. Assume with me that a room has been dark for ten years. Assume with me a second room has been dark for one year. Still together, assume a room that has been dark for say one week, and as you may, fourth room that's been dark for a few hours. So ten years, what's the other? One year, one week and then a few hours. Now connect all of them. To the same source. When you switch on the light, which comes up first? Does it? Fact? Tod along? Give it to you of darkness. It doesn't matter that darkness has been there ten years, one year, one week. One's light. If it is true. Light, it comes up and drives darkness immediately. Number two. This light right here, we are all enjoying the effect. It does not have to be everywhere to be felt. From one point it shines. Are we together? Now? That means you necessarily have to be everywhere to be everywhere? Are we together? This is powerful? So when it says you are light, you know what that means. The definition of darkness in Leicester is not your life going off is your presence not there. If you are not their. Darkness means a territory without you. Darkness means a territory without the Church, a territory without God's people. It's someone learning now, Alena Scoper and Theata. I am the light. This is what it means to be a blessing. I am the light. So when I get into an aircraft traveling to a nation, I begin to rejoice. I feel sorry for darkness because I carry the blessing. I really feel sorry for darkness. Whether darkness as ignorance, darkness as causes darkness as yolks are we together? Yes that through my speaking, as I speak behind the scene, the Holy Ghost is lighting up every darkness. That's what is happening to you right now, whilst you are seated. Every area of darkness in your light is being enlightened. That's what Paul called it. He calls it being flowed. Dead with light efficient Chapter one. His prayer that I pray that the eyes of your understanding will be flooded with light. That you may know is a word epignosis, coming to oneness with that knowledge, not. Just awareness, not just awareness. You are the salt of the earth. You are light. Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen, you are not a source of inconvenience to people. Don't carry that mentality. You are not a burden to people. I know you don't have a job yet. I know you things are yet to be in peace. But it first s turns with a mentality. Hear me. I preached the message called rise up and walk, and if you have the time, you can listen to it. The mentality to rise up and walk is what attracts the grace to rise open walk. The man who was at gait beautiful. You know the reason why he was kept in front of the gate, so that he will see there was a reason. If the gate was beautiful, my life can be beautiful. So although he was crippled, he was kept there. He had the mindset to rise up and walk. So when the possibility to rise up and walk came, are we together? Now? There are many, many, many people who do not have the mentality of a winner. I'm not talking of a braggadosho's arrogant, you know, marketing of self. I'm talking about settled confidence. I don't need a job to convince me that I'm light. I don't need a job to convince me that I'm sold. The Word of God says, so I believe first the righteousness that is of faith. You see, you first believe, then you become. You don't become then believe afterwards say I'm the salt. Yeah, you bring value, you bring value. Baruka back blessed. You see who comes in the name of the Lord. You come into a family, you come into a territory. You come with greetings, you come with blessing. You come as a blessing in the name of Jesus. For the one two days that we've been in Leicester, I expect people and families who have been having angelic encounters. It's true. We came with a cloud. We came with a presence beyond this meeting. Listen, listen, listen, listen. I tell you my mentality at the. Risk of sounding proud, these are not the only people I'm speaking to. No, the graces to the territory. Me someone somewhere who did not even attend the comfort friends, does not even know that you know the left that blessing is happening all of a suddenly, his prayer life is coming in life because grace was supplied. Your presence, grace was supplied. I told you yesterday how many people prayed at pauland Silas? Is prison only two pauland Silas. But when the blessing came everyone. That's how it is again, tell me a blessing. I carry life, I carry health. Oh yes, yes. When you see me, I represent God's messy. I represent hope. It is true. It has nothing to do with being a preacher. It's a mentality. It's a mentality. It's a mentality. Are we together? You're not the one who is disadvantaged. No, refuse to believe that you're not the one who is this advantag Why we look not at the. Things that are seen, but. The things that are unseen, For the things that are seen are temperaw, temperow, temper hour. Take that mentality. I am a blessing. This is how I leave. It's my mindset. I don't have to come on pool pitch to be a blessing. No, My atmosphere is a blessing. My words are blessings. When you see me, I represent love, I represent hope, I represent grace. I shake hands with you. Good for your destiny. Something must change. Yessir, He's through he's through. Listen. If all believers carry this mentality, then when you come to church, you'll be receiving both vertically and horizontally, because your your attention will not just be the preacher alone. You now know that whoever it is that is sitting close so you must have been an orchestration of the wisdom of God. Are we together? And that the grace that may not directly flow from the Man of God can flow through someone who sited. Close to you. Take away that narrative that only a few people are blessings. No, no, no, I rest. Why not because there's some car party in my house. I am blessed, not because of some celebrity status. No, that's a poor education. If you say I'm blessed because of things, you are not mentored. Well. No, when believers. Become mature and become a stature, their justification is hinged to Christ and the Spirit, not the works of not just the works of the flesh. Given the efforts, your efforts, someone. Learning so as a preacher and you say I am blessed, they ask you why say? Because of abundance of revelation knows that you got it wrong. You got it wrong because there are so many people that have so many people following you got it wrong. Those are evidences of the blessing. Are we together? The reason why I'm blessed is because i have received the blessing of Abraham. I've been justified by faith, believing, even. Though not deserving, it's being imputed onto me as righteousness, and it's given me access to receive the blessing. The spirit of grace. He's come with all the resources as efficients one and the three says that I've been blessed with every spiritual resource in heavenly places in Christ, and now that I'm in Christ, access. Is a possibility. Hallelujah. I'm going to be teaching you how to activate the blessing, but for now I'm just drumming it. The purpose of the blessing and to convince you beyond any shadow of doubt, you must carry this mentality. I am a blessing. Imagine if a wife had this understanding to her husband, I. Am a blessing. I didn't come as a cost to you. No, imagine if a man had this to a woman. You know how many marriages will be fixed. I am a blessing. The reason for your joy the reason for your peace, the reason for fulfillment. Again, say I'm a blessing. Imagine if many employees carry this mentality to their jobs. It doesn't matter how manial or how noble the job is. Provided you are there, you are a factor. Jacob had this mentality when he went to the house of labor. He expected things to change. And even though labor manipulated him, Laban had to go and consult with divine ers, what is the reason for my prosperity? And they said, it's stressable to peace. Man. When Jacob said, you know what, I need to live in no way. For someone your corporation will double, triple, quadruple your salary. I'm telling you. To keep you because they would have learned that you are such an advantage. To the company. Hallelujah. And I'm not just talking because of your technical value. Some of them will go quietly and consult with spirits and they will say, among the many people to not drive, is this sister, you drive them? Your company goes down, one man becoming like a nation. Do you believe that against him a blessing? Yes you are, yes, you are, Yes, you are You are a blessing. To those who know you. To those who do not know you, you are blessing because you carried the blessing. Please be seated, Please be seated. If I have to preach to be a blessing, then I'm not really a blessing. I'm a blessing to my world because there is a mandate upon me. It's why the Holy Spirit came to make me a blessing to the world. And when i see people attest to the fact that. I'm a blessing, I'm humbled and I'm grateful that finally that which has been really in my life and in my spirit has become everyyfore men, I'm a blessing. I am God's masterpiece. I'm his workmanship created in Christ onto good works, not bad works, not evil works. Are we together? Do you know? The consciousness of being a blessing also transfers upon you the discipline to remain a blessing. So when the enemy comes to suggest to your mind to be involved in things that destroy people's lives, like gossiping, like all of that, the knowledge that you are blessing gives you this taking power to resist it. That means it's a demeaning experience to your status in Christ to be involved in the things that still and kill and destroy. Are you seeing that? Now? That's the correct that's the oriental plans within you, the discipline. You know you're a blessing. I can't go to bed knowing that someone is crying because of what you did. You woke up in the morning and invested your twenty four hours, bringing bleeding many hearts, and you go back to bed rejoicing. You can be a blessing that way. It's someone learning now. Unfortunately, and I tell you this unfortunately, unfortunately, and and don't look around, just look at me. Unfortunately. There are many people in the body of Christ who proport to be blessings, but all that they bring to themselves and those around them is spain and regret. Now, don't feel bad, but it's true. They are people who can never have friends. The validity of friendship is two weeks. They will say something, do something, and bring so much heart, then leave people, then go back again. It's time for you to make up your mind and say, Satan, that manipulation that keeps making me a disadvantage to people, I cosse it by the blood. I am a. Blessed, meaning that people should wake up in the morning and say, Father, thank you for your spirit, but thank you for Joshua Selman. That a husband should get up in the morning and look to his wife and say, my wife, thank you. It's been ten years, it's been twenty years. But if a're tall, I never had God on anything this one. Your presence in my life is an advantage. That children should be able to look at their parents and say, mommy, thank you and thank you. You are the most visible expression of the messy of God to me, allelujah to someone learning that your boss should be able to look at you. It doesn't matter if your boss is called Pharaoh on nebocard neezza, look at me. Please let me have your attention for one minute. I'm going ahead of your thoughts already. It doesn't matter if the name of your boss is Pharaoh on nebo Cardnezza or Cyrus or who else again. Herold, you can still thrive. Go and read your Bible. Daniel did not need to change his boss to be light, to be solved, to be a blessing. Are we together? There are times God would place you in Egypt, and unfortunately the head of Egypt is called the Pharaoh. He does not even serve your God nor regard all of that. But God can still make you a blessing. Pharaoh can recognize that you are blessing and exhorts you to become second in command. How about Daniel, The Bible tells us, Oh, I like Daniel, Chapter three. I mean, it's incredible what happened when you read from verse twenty four to the last verse. The Bible tells us that Nebuchadnezza gets these three Hebrew boys to the burning fiery funess. You know what happened there? The Bible says. At the end of everything, Nebuchadnezza had to pass a verdict and said, when you read from verse twenty eight, beautiful, the Bible says, Nebocarza said, blessed be who bless god, nebucard Nezza. Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshac and abet Nego, who had sent his angel and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and has changed the king's world and yielded their bodies that they might not save or worship any other god except their now. The verdict twenty nine. Therefore, I make a decree that every people, nation language which speak anything against the God of Shadrack Messha and a bed Nego shall be called in pieces, and their houses shall be made a downhill, because there is no other God that can. Deliver after this soul Allelujah prays the name of the Lord. The Bible says, one time the king went to bed, he had a dream for God. The dream. Imagine how wicked these kings were. A man goes to bed by himself, now has a dream and forgets the dream. He wakes up and calls on all the astrologers, the sorcerers, necromansas, and they are unable to reveal the dream. And he says, well, just to let you know you're all going to die. I would kill you because I'm angry. He did not punish himself for forgetting his own dream. Are we together? Then they called the attention of Daniel and he says, you know what, King, don't be hasty, give me time. And the Bible says, when he went and the secret was revealed on to him, and he shared the dream, you know, and so on and so forth. The Bible says, the king worshiped him. I mean, the king was so amazing, remembered everything he said, keep your gifts to yourself. I'm not here because of your gift, but just for you to know that there is a God in heaven. And he began to reveal to him the gifts. And at the end of it, you see the Bible says the king literally worshiped Daniel. There are people who look down you now. But very shortly as I teach you how to activate the blessing, I'm telling you nations. And kings, nobles, they will look for you. They will call you to their office, and for some of them, for the first time, they will swallow their pride and say, listen, I have to admit that you are a blessing. It took me a. Long time, but your consistency has tongued my ego to a point. I cannot deny your being a blessing. May that be your testimony. In the name of Jesus Christ prays. The name of the Lord. So write this down, please in the kingdom. When you say I am a blessing, it means number one. Write this down in the kingdom when you say I am a blessing, or the implication to being a blessing is that number one you are joined to the blessing. The only one who can be a blessing is the one who remains perpetually connected to their blessing. That's the first thing I needed to write. When you say I am a blessing, it's a declaration that I am joined to the blessing. Are we together because if it's of His fullness we have received. Number two, When you say I am a blessing, it means you are a giver. I'm not talking of money at all, a giver, a giver of life, a give of hope, away together, an extension of God's possibilities. When we say we are blessings in the. Kingdom, we are giver us, Give us, give us in the name of Jesus. Everything increases when it comes in touch with you. You are a giver, you are a blessing. I wanted to look at these things you just wrote. Is very important for a discussion this morning. So anytime you say I am a blessing. Number one, it is a declaration to everyone that I am connected to the blessing, the only one who can be a blessing. Truly, you find out in John fifteen I am the Vine. It says you are the branches. He says, it is in your abiding that you bear fruit. So everyone says I am a blessing. Again, say I'm a blas blessing because I am connected to their blessing. One more time, saying I am a blessing because I am connected to their blessing. Yes, You're not just connected to a pronouncement. You're connected to the living Spirit, the embodiment in whom I hid all the treasures of wisdom. Are we together? The reason why I'm a blessing is because I am connected to the blessing, connected to blessing. Number two, The reason why I am a blessing is because I have a determination within my heart to be a giver, a giver, a giver you must carry the giver mentality. Again. This is where, with all your respect, I challenge ministers of the Gospel. Now it's good to give, but when our feature of being a blessing ends only with just giving money is beyond money. You give of life, You give of hope. You can use words and change the transjectory of a man's life. And then, of course material blessings. You know, the Bible is God bless Isaac. But to the sons that came with his other wives, he gave them gifts, but to Isaac he gave nothing, But they. Truly gave everything the blessing hallelujah. Take away a donation mentality, and I'm sorry. I'm sorry, kay, Please don't don't be sad. I know that your system. Of course, when you're feeling your forms, they say, what's it for. It's good to write donation just because they didn't hear what you are hearing. But carry the mentality of a giver. When you give in the house of God, put together, when you give to a man of God, when you give to a cause, take away a donation mentality. You are a giver. You If you have a donation mentality, it's not a kingdom mentality. Don't get me wrong. If you're dealing with people who are not of faith, you have to use the terms they are used to. You're feeling your forms, you have to use the terms they are used to. You avoid conflict as much as possible. You become all things to all men. But when you come into the kingdom, you take away a donation mentality. God did not donate to us, He gave, and like him, we are givers. Say I'm a giver. Say it against a giver. What you are saying is that I have the benevolence to always release the ease, to release, to release life, to release comfort, to release resources. Do you know resources? Financial resources are the least in your giving list. When you intercede for people, you are a giver and intercessor. It's a giver. A comforter is a giver. Are we together? When you encourage someone who is downcast and crying, who's come to the end of his life, and you tell him, you know what the Bible says, all the days of my appointed. Time, you are a giver Thanksgiving. Every preacher should know he's a giver. You are giving, You are giving. I know you are paying a salary, but you are a giver when you go to work. Is it true that men can pay you for your time and your investment? Is that really how much you are worth? Know the salary is only a token, an expression to honor your value. But you must know that I am a giver beyond this. That means we're in expecting rewards. Expect beyond salary. Men can give you that token of appreciation, but God also. Has a package for you. But that package only comes to the one who has a giver mentality. Oh my glory, lift your my glory, the lift up you are, my glory. The lift up of my allelujah. Yesterday, when we're done with the session, just you know, to the green room, just to relax a bit and then be on my way. You know, Pastor, I remember a time when we spoke about, you know, a few books, you are so right, and I saw a number of books that is written, brilliant books. In fact, I kept two of them there read right now, one on the Apostolic ministry, the other on the thesis the theology of ministry, and a number of things. And I said, that's right, listen, I'm going to be teaching you. I leave that for evening. I've been trying to resist the temptation not to go into evenings teaching now else I'll keep you here until evening. Praise God, because evenings teaching is such that once you that you have to finish, Praise the Lord, allelujah, Amen. And then because I want us to pray for a few minutes, just speak over our lives, find somewhere to stop for the morning. But I'm saying there are many ways. You know, my phone is full of text messages from people around the world. Apostle, thank you. I just listened to your message. I was about to hang myself. I was about to commit suicide. I was about to do this when your message came. Now God is able to bless people because you have worked in partnership with him. You have provided the resources on earth that he can use. There is a message he can use. Since the man we cannot hear him. He just sends a message. He just sends a book. He just sends your organization, he sends your angel, he sends your value. Whatever it is, a way together. Yes, I want you to leave this place knowing that I am blessed number one, but number two I am, and I want you to leave this place with capacity to explain and defend why you are blessed, to defend and explain why you are a. Blessing who is learning. Yes, you failed my couse woefully if you cannot tell me why you are blessed, and you cannot tell me why you are a blessing, So. One last recap and then will be upstanding. To pray the believer based on the authority of God's word is blessed. And the basis for that is that you have been justified by faith, havevn't received the life of God and the free gift that came through Christ, And it's giving you access to receive the promise of the Spirit. And I told you that in the New Testament, the blessing goes beyond a pronunciation. The speakings of the blessing still stand, but the blessing now has been embodied in the person of the Holy Spirit, and that when he comes and is a resident in a believer's life, he becomes the basis for your being blessed. So if you say I am blessed, it is because I've been justified by faith and I have access to. The Spirit, who is the blessing. And that when the Holy Spirit comes, he comes along all the spiritual resources that help the believer to live a life of victory, a life of dominion, and a life of fulfillment away together, that being the first purpose of the blessing. It empowers the believer. The presence of the Holy Spirit in partnership with your will, in partnership with the world of God, in partnership with the teaching priest. They work together like the ingredients and making a meal to. Produce a believer who is victorious, a believer walks in dominion, and who lives a fulfilled life. The second purpose of the blessing is that it empowers you to be. A blessing, to fulfill. That mandate Genesis twelfth, verse three, to be a blessing to the entire creation. I went together and I told you that every time you say I am a blessing, the implication is, Number one, you are making a declaration that you are a blessing because you are connected to the blessing. That's the first basis. I am a blessing because I am connected to the Holy Spirit, the blessing. Number Two, when you say I am a blessing, you mean I am a giver. I always look forward to seeing the betterment of those in my world more than receiving. Here's how the Bible puts it. It is more blessed to it is say, it's more rewarding. It uses the word blessed. It is more blessed to be. And so in receiving, you are also blessed. And we'll talk of the receiving part of the blessing in the evening in the evening, we'll be looking at the blessings, and then we'll pray. We've discussed the blessings of Abraham, justification by faith, the. Blessing the spirit of all grace. Can we pray some prayers. Please rise upon your feet, bless it be the name of the Lord. Allelujah. Hold hands with someone by your left and right, and would you take a minute to just pray in the spirit and bless the Lord. Bless the Lord. Now you know the word, Bless the Lord. Barah, Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord. Someone in one minute, can you bless the Lord. Bless the Lord, Oh my soul and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, Oh my soul, for tet not his benefits. Someone, go ahead and bless his name. We bless you, We bless you, blessed because he's deserving. Barah to stoop down to worship to him. Honor that is doing his name. Thank him for everything you will see from yesternight. And this morning. Bless her. Pay the name of the Lord. In Jesus' name. We pray. In Jesus' much less name. We pray. Now you're going to take a minute to make declarations of faith that I am a blessing, I am a blessing. I'm not just blessed, but I am a blessing. And you will. Obtain grace Number one to respect the ministry of the blessing, the Holy Spirit within you, to walk ever conscious of that ministry. And number two, that you are a giver. You're going to make these declarations. Lord, I obtain grace to be a blessed, indeed, grace to be a blessing, to manifest as the blessing that I am. Please lift your voice and train one minute. Lift your voice and pray all over this auditorium and following online. W you lift your voice and pray. I am a blessing. I obtain grace, a blessing to my family, a blessing to Leicester, a blessing to the United Kingdom. A blessing to your place of work. And Tapa lagata, I am blessed. Now, I am a blessing. I am blessed. I am a blessing. In Jesus' name, we pray allelujah. Now please look at me everyone. The third prayer point I'm going to be giving us You're going to cast down every imagination, every high thing, every suggestions of darkness. Look at me place. Some of you have come from backgrounds where you are today, products of the ill speakings of people. They call you names in anger, and you may not know known to you those programmings. It's called the scourging tongues of men. Job said, you'll be delivered from it. There are some of you who right now, as it stands, your confidence is as fragile as whatever it is. Anyone who says whatever you just bend to it. When a social media were as whatever it is, and it's because of a backlog of suggestions. Words are powerful their spirit, and they can minister life or minister death. But right now I want you to pray every mentality, every speaking of darkness suggesting me otherwise trying to threaten this revelation, this mandate in my life, or being a blessing, either using your past, using whatever has happened in your life, your fellows of the past. Can you take authority of it right now, in the name of Jesus, go ahead and. Pray rebuke the spirit of share, rebuke, share rebuked, doubt, rebuke intimidation, rebuke envy, rebuke antropidness. Go ahead, rebuke jealousy. In the name of Jesus, I am ade blessing. This negative traits cannot be found within and around my life. I am a blessing. I am a blessing. Someone's praid. I am a. Blessing, A blessing to Lester, A blessing to UK, A blessing to Africa, a blessing to Europe, A blessing to whatever nation. I cast out every imagination, I passed down, every negative speaking. It may have come from your spouse to you. It may have come from your parents to you. It may have come from school to you. Check authory. You write in the name of Jesus, Man of God, you are blessing. Doesn't matter whether the ministry is thriving well or not. You are a blessing. My Yes, sister, you are blessing. Yes, you are blessing in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name, Allelujah, praise the name of the Lord. Yes, the world will bow down and say you wager. Every man will bow down and say you warky through your life. Now. So let's suh right now? Why waked. Me fee slips just Warta be with you. Just Warta be You're the keep s slips. Just wata be with you. Just warby. Now I want to encourage everyone or another sound of my voice. We're going to take the time in the evening to minis start to the needs of God's people, because the Bible says there the Lord hath commanded the blessing even life, life, life void of sickness, life void of diseases, away together, life void of curses, life void of poverty, life void of limitations, praise the name of the Lord. And so our request that as you come in the evening you can write your prayer requests. Come with your heart open. I'm going to be showing you in the evening how to activate and to release the blessing. It's not enough to know that you are a blessing. It's not enough to know that you're possessor of it. You must understand the spiritual dynamics responsible for releasing that blessing. Like a river, and I hope you'll have the time to look at it. Seven the river that flowed from the east side of the temple, and the Bible says as the river flowed, every fish that was dead when it came in contact with that river came alive, and that there is a river that flows from the Throne of God. And as that river flows, it brings healing to the nations. It brings for threes who leaves are healing to the nations. Go back with this mentality. That I am blessed, but I'm a blessing. Yes, it's true. Yes, with your bills piling up, don't change your confession. I am blessed, I'm a blessing. The reason why you know that those bills will change is because the blessing is on you. The blessing is indtructible. It programs a man to become indomitable. And while it may take time to manifest, I'll show you why many people, although they have the Holy Spirit, they are not able to manifest the riches of that life. That's for evening, but for. Now, I'm not sure it's out of place to give one person an opportunity to make it right with Jesus. I was so honored yesterday as I saw a number of our brothers. And sisters walk out. It means a lot. It's a burden like never before that God has placed in my heart knowing the true implication of salvation and the blessedness of one who encounters Christ. I'm in a hurry to let people encounter him. If you listen to everything I thought. This morning and this afternoon, I said, the blessing is only for those who are in Christ. It's a family word, it's a family affair. If you are outside of Christ, there's no possible to be blessed in the Bible's way, and even to be a blessing. So wherever you are, if. You're saying apostle, please give me a chance to make it right. I want to be connected to this Jesus. I thought him only to be a fan of a religious movement called Christianity. But now, on hearing you speak, I see. That he comes towards as love, a reflection of the Father's love. Wherever you are, I'm looking for just one sincere person. For the sake of that one, I will wait a minute or two. Wherever you are, Please, I like you to leave your seat on a shame. Come stand right before me. God, bless you, Thank you, darling, thank you, God, bless you. God, bless you, God, bless you. Is there someone courageous enough bold enough, determined enough. To make it right with Jesus. I say, some are precious people. Come on Leicester. Can we let this family of God know that we love them, Celebrate them, Celebrate them, Celebrate that I see our lovely children coming. Celebrate them. Any other person coming, make your way. You'll not be ashamed. So great as gifts, anyone can have access to the life of God. Alleluljah. I want to thank all of you, young and old altogether. Please lift your right hand and let me speak to those. Who have been following this conference from across the globe. We may not be able to see you, but the father of lights, the father of spirits, is aware that you are there. And perhaps you are responding to this call in your home, you're driving whilst listening, or perhaps you're watching later on by way of a rebroadcast. It's never too late to make it right with this Jesus. He's the way, He's the truth and the life. With your hands lifted to heaven, I like you to say this after me, as loud and as clear as you can't say, Lord Jesus, I love you with all my heart. I believe you are the Son of God. I believe you die for my king. Right now, I receive you into my heart. Be my Savior, be my Lord, and be my king. I declare from today that I'm a child of God. I leave for Jesus all the days of my life. I go forward ever and backward, never amen with your head and still lifted. Father, Thank you. The Bible declares, as many who will come to you, you will in no wise cast away. These ones have come declaring the lordship of Jesus over their lives with the creer, and declared that indeed it will be a new beginning for every one of them, and. The grace to walk in victory. I commend you to the Blessing himself the Holy Spirit, that you will be beat you will be established, and you will serve Jesus all the days of your life in Jesus' much less name. We pray in men and amen. All right, So please, may I request all of you who are here, would you look to my rights that will be all left from where you're standing. Please just file. Your ways and this way there are counselors who will have a word with you, and a quick prayer if you have any prayer, need you at liberty to communicate to them, and thereafter you'll be back to your seat. Let's all know them as they go. Thank you, thank you all, thank you. All, God bless you, Thank you all, God bless you. Keep clapping as they go. Celebrate them, celebrate them, celebrate them. Alle Lujah, Praise the name of the Lord. May the Lord bless you, May the Lord bless you. Means to be empower to prosper. I decree and declare in the name of Jesus. The blessing begins to work in your life, both as a pronouncement and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. You begin to enjoy the richness of the blessing. Some of you before evening you return with your testimonies in the name of Jesus Christ. And I pray that at the end of this conference, God would have shifted you to virgin dimensions. You will experience His hand is wisdom, is power, and unusual dimensions. In Jesus' much less name, we pray give Jesus a big handra