THE PRINCIPLES OF ADVANCEMENT Proverbs 4:18 31st Anniversary Special

Allelujah, give Jesus a big handcrap. Good morning, everybody. Glory to God is my joy and my honor to be here. Worship Him with us this morning and that for the first time. Second of all, I want to say congratulations to the christ Church. That one years is a very long time, very very long time. I think we should lift up our hands and say thank you to Jesus. Can you express your gratitude in one minute. Just find a way of saying thank you thirty one years of impact. I see a number of young people here. You probably were not borne by them. Just give him praise, Give him praise, give him. Thanks, honor him. Thirty one years of transformation. That if one years of going from glory to glory. Some people desired to see today, but unfortunately they passed on before this time. Can you thank him? Don't take his faithfulness for branded. Lord, we give you thanks, We give you thanks. We give you thanks, We give you thanks, we give you thanks, we give you thanks, we give you thanks. In the name of Jesus. We bless you. Lord, you are, ohly and forever you are God. We bless you, Oh Lord, We bless you, Lord you are, You are Holy. We bless you, Oh Lord, you are holy, and we shout Hallilu, yeah, alilu, Yeah, we shout aalilui. Elilua. Father. We want to say thank you. We are grateful people. We do not take your goodness, your mercies, your kindness were granted. It is of the Lord's messy that we are not consumed. And it is because your compassions they fail not. I joined this great assembly to thank you for that one years of your faithfulness, that one years of impact, that in one years of salvation, that in one years growing from glory to glory. And we ask o God, that your world will. Minister that deeply to our our hearts this morning to you be all the glory for in Jesus' name, we pray, Amen and Amen. Thank you so much, Paston and your. Dear wife and mother, thank you so much, honor you for this opportunity. Please, you may be gloriously seated. You may be gloriously seated. I'll be charging our hearts very briefly this morning along the theme of this celebration and this anniversary. And the Lord inspired it in my heart to charge us along the lines of advancement. And so I'm going to be teaching on the principles, the principles for advancement, the principles for advancement. I'll be showing you, by the word of God, what it takes for any man, for any church, for any organization, to move from where they are, no matter how glorious, to the next level. If I'm describing you, shout a loud Amen allelujah. In Probabs chapter four and verse eighteen, the Bible makes a profound statement. It says, but the part of the just is as a shining light that shines brighter and brighter, more and more onto the perfect day. That means, based on the way God works with men, which would never play two. Based on the way God works with men, you should never have a better yesterday. Your yesterday should never be better than your today. You know, we live in a world where sometimes we derive so much joy in celebrating yesterday, because there's nothing today that is what's celebrating. To find people who reminisce on yesterday, not just for the purpose of drawing from history, because their lives are so degenerated. The best of them looks like it's in the yesterday. Let me speak to someone already any attack on your life that is making your today look worse than your yesterday. By this morning service, we bring it to end in the name of Jesus. The Bible. Father Moore says, though your beginning be small, it says your latter end should greatly increase. That means no body should be at the same level. You can start where you are, or you should not stay where you are. Are we learning already in basic biology, growth is one of the characteristics of living things. If you are alive, it is a specter that you validate your being alive by growing. We have a lot of mothers here. When you give back to a baby, it's unfair to ask that baby to start walking from day one. No matter how healthy that baby is, that baby remains ever dependent on the mother. Am I right on that? But give some time after a year, maybe two years, and the baby does not grow, The baby cannot speak, the baby cannot work. That becomes a medical emergency. Am I right? Any responsible parent would take that childhood the hospital for examination because based on the principles of growth, the. Baby can start as a. Baby, but eventually you expect to see signs of growth. Eventually the baby tries to call the father tries to call the mother. One day the baby will attempt to walk and fall, and even though it's rising and falling, the parents are rejoicing. They don't see it as weakness. They see it as a sign of growth. I pray for you, every spirit of stagnation, whatever makes the year keep passing, moments keep passing. And then you don't rise, you don't grow. In the name of Jesus, I stand in partnership with the grace that is on this altar. I caused that stagnation forever, business tagnation. I cast you forever in the name of Jesus. So grow is a characteristic of living things. The Bible says in Exorros, chapter fourteen, Exceleras fourteen and verse fifteen. This was Moses with the nation of Israel standing at the Red Sea. Now you recall that the. Egyptians were behind them, coming with fierce anger to recover both the slaves. And the treasure that they were giving. And there was the Red Sea interrupting your progress. And for a while Moses encouraged the people like any responsible leader should do. In verse fourteen, he said, stand still, and you see the salvation of the Lord, the Egyptians should see today, you will see no more forever. When we go to verse fifteen, Moses now runs to the Lord and begins to cry and says, God, I don't know what to do with these people. I have encouraged them. What I'm stranded. Hear what the Lord said to Moses. Why do you cry to me? It says, Tell the children of Israel. That they go forward. Can I come in the spirit of Moses this morning to speak to someone. I don't hear the power that has kept you down, that has refused. That the years will keep passing, yet. You will not grow. In the name of he who died and rose from the dead, I speak to you. Go forward. Receive it as a prophetic word. Go forward in business, go forward in Korea. Go forward. Mothers, receive it for your children. Go forward, go forward, go forward, go forward, go forward, go forward, no stag nation, go forward, no limitations. Go forward in the name of Jesus. Go forward, go. Forward, out shine yesterday, go forward, out press today. Go forward as they charge, go forward as families. In the name of Jesus. Please me see that. Tell the people that they go forward first some well. Chapter twelfth and verse six. Please first Samwell twelfth and verse six. First Samwell chapter twelve, and then we read verse six, and some Well said to the people, it is the Lord who raised up Moses. Can you give us KJV I like the rendition in KJV. He said, it is the Lord who advanced Moses and Eron. It is the Lord that adfins Moses and Eron and brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt. Men do not just go forward. Organizations don't just make progress. When you find a man going from glory to glory, beloved people. There is an invisible hand pushing that man. Are we together now? The Bible says, our sufficiency is not of ourselves. When you find a business in righteousness going forward, when you find a destiny in righteousness going forward, I tell. You there's no mistakes about it. There is a hand pushing man. Men do not just rise. Men do not just image. Are we together? Even among unbelievers? When you find the nonbeliever who is making on usual on questionable growth, you may suspect that that person has fraternized with that powers. Nobody rises or assisted to them. My God will assist you your results. After this anniversary will be every tent before men that. You are not alone. Did you hear what I said? In the name of. Jesus, the God of Heaven will back you. He will pack your business. That everything that is dead or dying will jump back to life. In the name of Jesus. It is a lord that advanced Moses. It is a lord who has advanced these short for thirty one years. Thatty one years old. Anything is serious. This church is only seven years younger than the timeline of the trouble of the man in bed. Said that man was in that condition for thirty eight. Years thirty eight. When you have a thirty eight year old trouble, you need a miracle, not counseling. You need a miracle quickly thirty eight years. When Jesus met that man, he said, why are you. In this condition? And he said, I have no man to help me that when the water is there. To put me inside now very quickly. I want to share with you a few principles. You see, the beautiful thing about our work with God is that God's power is invested in our lives through the application of kingdom. Principles. Haven't appreciated the fact that behind everything that works. God is the man, the one making it work. But you see, the way God works is that he opens your mind to the principles He's put in place. And I tell you this with all your respect, that most times believe us. On the one hand, we know that God is able to do all things, including advancing us to the next level. But we do not pay attention to learn the principles that is put within this spiritual economy to help drive us to the next level. And so sometimes we find ourselves claiming dimensions that never become a manifestation in our lives. As I share with you these principles by the message of God, I pray and cry that you open up your heart to receive. These are irreest table Kingdom principles. They apply to persons as individuals, to families, to organizations. If you do understand and apply the principles I'm about to share, then I can tell you this. You can wave you yesterday goodbye. I need to wave you back in the name of Jesus Christ, hallelujah. So a few principles very quickly. This has come from Scripture. The principles have also come from learning at the feet of those who have mastered advancement, people who have made remarkable progress in life and destiny. And in the name of Jesus Christ, may you be enlisted among the next set of people going forward. Principle number one, what is responsible for the continual advancement of a man of a people of a church? That if Christ sarists, we should return back after thirty more years to celebrate sixty one years. If Christ tarist. And yusevia life, say amen, hallelujah. Some of you don't want to stay that long again. You are tired of everything happening on. Don't worry. You willn't run to heaven because of year. Hallelujah. If you want to die because things are not working, you don't need to die. God will grant you victory here on earth in the name of Jesus. So principle number one very quickly. You must have. A genuine desire to grow. You must have a genuine desire for increase. You must have a genuine desire to advance. This is the first principle. God cannot force upon you something you do not desire. The first principle for advancement is that you must have a genuine desire for growth, for increase and for advancement, a genuine desire, A genuine desire my cat, Chapter two, one, verse ten. There must be an intentional dissatisfaction from within your spirit, where you never become overly satisfied with where you are. The only persons who grow in life are those who know that there can be better tomorrow. Are we together, it says, Arise. And the path for this. Is not your rest someone receiving as a prophetic world. Financially, spiritually, you have done well. But my God sent me this morning to tell you a rise from that place of complacency. God does annoying tell you to be global, but you are national, and you are already resting this morning a rise and the path for this is not your rest. Our. Rise and the part I'm speaking to someone, maybe some tech giant, I'm speaking to a daughter of Abraham. You have done well, but compared to where God is taking you, you are only a step out of the cave. Let me plant this satisfaction in you. Don't clap for yourself to Eli. There is still more to be done. Don't clap for yourself to Eli. There are still lands to conquer. Are we together? The mindset of champion is that they never plan to. When you watch those who win, probably at Olympic or whatever, whilst they become victorious and they have their gold medal, they celebrate themselves just for a while and they get back to work. They begin to prepare for the next season. That's why they keep winning. Can I tell you this, I have landed my life that success destroys just like failure. There are many people who fail tomorrow because they succeeded today. Both failure and success can make you fail depending on how you're manage it. Failure can produce complacency, it can produce discouragement wei together. But success, on the other hand, can bring into an arrival mentality where you begin to compromise on the principles that brought you to that lavelighte. I pray for you the hunger to continue even when the world is celebrating you. I like what Paul says. It says this one thing I do forgetting the things that are behind. He didn't say the evil things. He didn't say the failures provide that it is in my yesterday. I thank God for it. But I make progress. My life by the message of God. I've received a number of awards to the glory of God. You never find those awards in front of me, No, they are their destruction. There can be a motivation if I keep them somewhere by the side, But if I put them in front of me, it means. I'll never get anyone again. Are we together now? I put them behind me or I put them somewhere by the side. My goal is what should be before me. That leads me to the next key. The second key that govern's advancement is vision. So number one desire, a genuine desire to advance, knowing that your advancement is good not just for you, but for the glory of God. Number two vision. What is vision? The ability to see things as they should be, not as they are. Vision the ability to see things as they should be, to see your life as it should be, to see the church as it should be, to see your children as it should be, and then forge the hell to manifest that which you see in the spirit. It's called vision. The Bible says, without vision, the people perish. Without vision, the people cast off restraint Prohaps twenty nine and verse eighteen. Without vision, the people cast up restraint Genesis thirteen. Say whether there is no revelation, the people castop restraint where there is no vision. Now let's go to Genesis thirteen, fourteen and fifteen. This was Abraham after he and. Lord had a little issue, and he told Lord, he say, you know what, we'll be brethren. We shouldn't fight. Go and choose anywhere you want. And the Bible says Lord settled near Sodom. Now Abraham was left alone. Abram now and the Lord said to Abraham, when lot are separated from him, lift p your eyes. The first part of your body that should rise before your life rises is your eyes. If your eyes stays down, your destiny will stay down. You may not be able to go there, but you can see where you're going. It says, liftop your eyes now and look from the place where thou art northwards, southwards, eastwards, westwards, Verse fifteen. It says, for all. The land which you see, the one you see is. The one I will give to you. The next level of the business you see is. The level you enter. The next level of your spiritual walk with God, your prayer life, your world life. In the name of Jesus, make especially young people. One of the reasons why we have a discourage people is because they lack vision. They cannot see beyonder now. A man who can see beyond the days of hunger and begging will endy. A vision gives you focus. Vision gives you the staying power. Vision gives you the credence to say no, even to good things, so that you can step into your destiny. I pray for you where God has ordained for you. May he open your eyes to see it. Someone shout, Amen, esther. You may be in shushan, but I pray God to open your eyes to see that your destinies for the palace greedion. You may be hiding the least from your father's house. But may God open you or I to see that you are a warrior. You are a mighty man of value in the name of Jesus. Number three, very quickly, what's the third principle that govern's advancement? It is called the power of correct perception? The power of correct perception. This one has to do with your belief system. It's good to have a great desire, it's good to have vision. But a loser's mentality cannot produce a victor's destiny. Write that down a loser's mentality cannot produce a victor's destiny. It will take a vic tos's mentality to produce a victor's destiny. Many people have a winner's destiny, a victor's destiny, but they have a loser's mentality. Losers mental The cost of correct perception Jeremiah, Chapter one, eleven and twelve amplified. Please. So God is discussing with the young. Boy Jeremiah, and when he told him about his prophetic destiny as a prophet, he asked him a question. Jeremiah one eleven and twelve. The word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? This is beyond vision. He's talking about perception. Is that I see the branch of an almond tree. Version who said now has seen correctly? It says, for I am actively watching over my word that you have seen to fulfill it. Hallelujah. Correct perception in numbers. Chapter one. We're not going to read the whole story. Numbers. You read the whole one to thirty three, but please give us verse thirty three numbers Chapter thirteen. And then to say numbers thirteen. Numbers thirteen, particularly verse thirty three. This was the story of the twelve Spies. If you remember Allelujah. The Bible says that twelve spies were sent to go and spy the land, and ten of them came and said, wow, we saw the land truly milk and only flows from there. But but but there's a problem. We saw the giants that descendants of the annas, and we were like grasshoppers. Shorts talk to me. Did God call them grassoppers? Did Satan call them grasshoppers? Who called themselves grasshoppers? God did not call them grasshoppers. Even Satan did not call them grass of ers. They called themselves. It matters what you call yourself. We were like grasshoppers in our. Own in our own side, and so we were in their side. Can you imagine that? I like Joshuan Kalm, he's still them At once he said, what. Kind of egal reports are you bringing? No, let us go up as once we are well able, someone say, I am well able, shouting, let the devil hear you. I am well able. I am able to build that business. I am able to bring my family out of poverty. I am able to rise, to be the lives, to be the soul I'm able to live it right, just life, by the grace of God. He then say, I am able. Let me give you counsel on this Lord's day. Be mindful of the company you keep. They are contributors to your perception. If you hang around people who do not see anything beyond where they are, they would trap you down with their limited understanding. The price of correct perception. It matters that you see things the way God sees Allelujah. In Second King, chapter four one to seven, remember the story of the wife of the sons of the Prophet. Now, her husband had gone to be with the Lord, and this woman was in debt. The creditors were about to take her two sons to serve as slaves. The woman had what will change her life. In her house. There was oil. There, but because her perception was wrong, she did not place value on it. She went to meet the prophet and the prophet said, are you sure there's nothing in your house? It said, nothing except a little crews of oil. And the prophet said, that's it. You are the one calling it small. The oil is not small, it says, go and borrow vessels. You know what borrow vessels means. The annointing is there to leave you. But the anointing assumes the shape of your mindset. If your mindset is small, it will make the anointing look small. You don't need to borrow more oil, just borrow more vessels and large expand your understanding. Allelujah, correct perception. My question for you is are you willing to see things the way God wants you to see? And are you willing to embrace the mind of a victim. I never think failure. Honestly speaking, I don't think failure. There are only two limitations in my life, one the voice of God. Two process. These are the only limitations I acknowledge in my life, the Voice of God and process. I don't see obstacles. I don't see mountains. I don't acknowledge them in my life and in my destiny. If God says go forward, all I need is is voice and is timing every other thing this way. I pray for you every mountain that your perception has created that is stopping you from going forward. May that mountain be lifted up and thrown to the sea. I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen again this morning, as a continent, as. A nation, we need to intentionally. They construct our mindsets from wrong belief systems. There are certain belief systems we hold. Particularly the continent of Africa that's translated to our. Destruction as a people. One of it is we celebrate lateness in this continent. When people make progress early, we suspect them. When a young boy knows God Elie, we say it is a small boy. When a young boy becomes a CEO by dignity, Ellie, we say it's too fast. We celebrate lateness. When you go to Asia and other parts of the world. You know how old Joseph was when he became prime minister. He was the age of this church, exactly the age of this church. When he became prime minister. With all your respect, you read the history of Nigeria. Most of our all parents. Who theyre as generals, they were leaders in this country in your twenties and thirties. I cast the spirit of lateness in the name of Jesus Christ. When your child knows God, Elisa advantage, when you receive messy Elisa advantage. Are we together now correct perception? One other perception we need to change. It's an uncomfortable one. But let me say to you clearly is embracing poverty as a mark of spirituality. It is not all. It is not. Let me give you sound counsel. There is a difference between materialism and prospering by righteousness. You may have heard me teach. That when God prospers you, it protects your integrity. Every time you are financially incapacitated, you stand the risk of falling to temptation. There are certain temptations that are dead on. A rival when God shows you messy. Am I right on that? Another mindset we must take out of our lives if we want to make progress is that illusion of one day go better? Have you heard people make that statement? One day nothing changes on his own. Both science and religion agree that if a body stays remains in one position, no matter how long, there's. No motion to it away Together it says everybody does it? Put it now? It says, you know a seisac Newton's law that a body will remain in that still position except compel by an external force to act otherwise. Am I right on that? That means if your life is that body and it remains, you will keep receiving prophetic words for every new year. But it will not change. There's something in physics called in nasha is. The reluctance of a body to move forward. And your most exactic force greater than that. Which is keeping it to go forward. In the name of Jesus, every force keeping you down by a wrong perception, so that you say one day, one day things you should do. Now you say, one day I pray for you. May this be the day to go forward. It's time to buy the book and change your mind. Don't say one day. Don't say one. Day it's time to register the company. Do it this week. Don't say one day it's time to grow your spiritual life. Create a robust prayer routine. Don't say one day what you call tomorrow was yesterday's version of today. The concept of tomorrow in truth is an illusion. The only gift you have is today. What you call tomorrow is relative to today and yesterday yesterday. You call today tomorrow, and you open your eyes and found out you are in that today. The only truth time you have is today. If you maximize it, you can guarantee tomorrow. The price of correct perception is someone learning already very quickly. Let me give you number four. What is the fourth key to advancement, are you ready light light? Light here means knowledge and understanding. Light here means high level spiritual illumination. Ladies and gentlemen, Advancement in life and destiny for a person, for an organization is light dependent. Light dependence. I give you an illustration. Please lend me your attention. How many of you know that, with respect to driving in the night, you're joining the night. One of the most important components is your headline. Once it is nighttime, particularly when it is raining and it's not clear, you need no matter the color of the car, whether you are driving a Rolls Royce, you're driving a BMW, you're driving a Lexus, it matters less with respect. To that condition. One of the most important components to arriving home safely is your light. You can have a Rose Royce, but if your headlamp and your light and the bob dies in the night, on a rainy, hazy night, you stand the risk of not arriving home. How many of you know that lights also control speed, because let's say your headlamp goes bad, you will have to reduce your speed. Lights. The Bible says in Isaac chapter sixty and verse one. It says, Arise. It says, shine, for your light is come. Arise. I like that, shine, for your light is come. Arise, Shine, for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord is written upon you. I always will like to quote the scripture from Amplify. It says, arise. From the depression and the prostration that circumstances have kept you, rise to. A new life. Life. Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge. You must be given to continuous learning First Corinthians eight and verse two. If you want to go forward, you will have to know more than you know now. What you know has brought you where you are. What you need to know is what will take you beyond here. Look what the Bible says in First Corinthians eight and verse two. And if any man think that he knowed anything, the Bible says, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. I don't know about you, but I am not ashamed when I find out I don't know. I don't waste my time in pride. The time it takes to manage pride. Pride is too expensive. Don't better and go for knowledge first. It is cheaper to apply the love, humility and meekness and gain knowledge those who will advance in life are those who must be willing to learn on lend and relearn, learn on lend and relearn. In fact, a. Wise man said that I coulte it's that the illiterates of the twenty first century will no longer be those who cannot read or write, but the illiterates of the twenty first century will be those who cannot learn on lend and relarn. That's the new definition of illiteracy. It's not just those who are unable to read and write, but the one who is considered illiterating our world today is the one who cannot lend, on lend and RELI then I pray for you the meekness to receive superior knowledge, superior knowledge in business, superior knowledge in your career, superior spiritual knowledge. That makes for your advancement. I agree with your pastor, and I agree with Jesus. I pray for you. May you receive it in Jesus nay. Allelujah. I will always say, when ignorance meets pride, it becomes a permanent pad lock to the door of your next level. When ignorance partners with pride. It will close your door of the next level perpetually. Our wall is full of people who know very little. Just because you know little for a long time does not mean you have grown. Allelujah. Contend for life, content for knowledge, buy books, Listen to your pastor, and I tell. You this, and I will that you don't feel insulted. Please listen. There are three levels of knowledge you must have if you want to excel in life. Number one, which is the highest level of knowledge, is the knowledge of God. The knowledge of God is the highest level of knowledge that any man can have. Number two the knowledge of the laws of the Kingdom. Please don't forget this three levels of knowledge. The highest level of knowledge a man can press into for your excelling in life is the knowledge of God John seventeen three. This is life everlasting, that they may know thee the only two God and Jesus, whom thou hast sent. Number two the knowledge of the laws of life, Job thirty eight and verse thirty three. Know denansis of heaven, and canst thou establish the dominion thereof upon it? Let's look at it from NLT. Let me show you what NLT says. Do you know the laws of the universe? New Living Translation? Do you know the laws of the universe, and can you use them to regulate the earth? NIV. Do you know the laws of heaven? Please give it to us NIV. Same scripture. Do you know the laws of the heavens, and can you set up God's dominion with those laws upon the earth? So the first level of knowledge and the highest the knowledge of God. And of his son Jesus. Number two the knowledge of the principles, the laws of life. And then number three knowledge as it pertains your field of end, devil, your career, your practice, whatever it is. Are you saying that if you are educated in. Terms of secular education is just one out of the three requirements of knowledge it takes to succeed. It's God helping someone. Now, Now all. Respect, we live in a world where a lot of educated people believe that they are enlightened. Being educated and being enlightened are similar but different concepts. That means you can go to school, wonderful, But with respect to the rankings of knowledge, you only have the lowest level of knowledge. A man can be educated along a field. And don't get me wrong, I am all for education. But if all you know is the technicalities and the concepts around your field. You will be very limited in life. There is a second and a higher level of knowledge. You must understand the laws of the universe. You can be very educated and not know the law of honor. Not knowing the law of honor alone can keep you grounded, and you may never be promoted in your corporation. It's not a lack of skill issue. It's that you do not understand the laws of the kingdom. It's someone learning very quickly. Let me go to the next. If God is blessing you, shout amen. Knowledge number five. What is the fifth key as far as advancement is concerned. Diligence and productivity. Diligence and productivity, diligence and productivity. Proverbs fourteen twenty three. Please proverabs chapter fourteen and verse twenty three. In all label there is profit, but the talk of the leaps tends to penury. In all label there is profit. If you want to go forward, you must be ready to walk forward. If you want to advance, you must be ready to invest time, energy, and resources. I tell you there is no future for a lazy man, and it has to do with laziness. Both God and Satan agree that there's no future for a lazy man. Whether it's Satan you want. To serve or God you want to serve, none of them will tolerate laziness. Is someone learning. Whether you want to selve Satan or serve God. One thing I can as show you off is that in. The presence of laziness you will. Not make progress anyway. The talk of the lips tends to penury. Show me the one who believes. God by his investment of energy and time, and I will show you a man with a great future. But show me a man who is idle, fall in his arms and just claiming a lot of scripture. I show you a man who will empydently be disappointed. Please receive grace to work. The Bible says, I must walk the walks of Him, not just talk the talks of him. Walk the works of him that sends me while it is day for the night. Comment when no man can work again. High flyers are hard workers. High flyers are diligent man. God cannot trust you with great things when you are idle. Diligence productivity diligence productivity proverabs twenty two and verse twenty nine. Proveraps twenty two and verse twenty nine. See us thou a man diligent in his business. The Bible says he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men. See yes, thou a man diligent in his business. Seeest thou a preacher, diligence in his business. Sayest thou a CEO, diligence in his business. Someone to me, not jokingly, the person said, Apostle, I'm tired of working for people. I want to be an entrepreneur. And I said, why, it's at my time? And I said, have you studied entrepreneurs? He said yes, I mean they have all kinds of liberty, they have things put in place. I'm tired of working for people. I told him. I said, if you really want to be an entrepreneur, get. Ready to crucify yourself on the altar of diligence for at least the next ten years. The people you. See today who can delegated not start by delegating the illusion of thinking. When you leave working for people and start. Your business in three months or six months, you will be a CEO. It's a joke. It's a very rude joke. And the man said, really, I said, yes, sir, so if you're not willing to invest, they are deploying only on nine to five. But once you become CEO, there's no time again. Every time is to be deployed. Which one you see that now? Diligence, truly, I tell you the truth on easy lies ahead that wears the crown. Next time you admire greatness. Also be willing to invest the diligence, the energy, the time and the resources that drive that level of breakthrough. Prays the name of the Lord, Allelujah, diligence, diligence. When I leave here this morning, there service in the evening again, and then there are people to counsel and all of that. Perhaps going back home completely to resolve for the day will be tomorrow, maybe tomorrow three am or tomorrow four am. Diligence, don't just celebrate greatness. There is a price behind it. And I'm praying for you the grace to partner with God in being diligent so that you drive your business to fruition. I pray that God himself will grant it to you in Jesus' name, Alan Lujah, Praise God. We're planning for a program one time. And we're told that the people were going to deploy to walk somewhere, that every three three hour we needed to give them break so that they will take tea. I said, we were joking. You know how much it's taking to put this down. They said, well, that's how it works. Every three hours they must go on break to take tea. I said, all right, that's serious, I said, doesn't work like that in Nigeria. In Nigeria, we walk, then we rest. You rest only on the seventh day. Why do you want to rest on day two and they three? Even God rested on the seventh day. You're already resting on day one. I said, tea for every three three hours. Now, I'm not pleased. Don't. Maybe that's your template. If it works for you, that's fine. But in this, my beloved country that I know, you don't go for break every three three hours. You treat yourself. Then when you achieve much enough than your rest, I am all for giving your best than your rest. Are we together now again? I pray for you the grateful diligence. Let it rest upon you. I'll give you two more that will end the next principle. Who is following so far? And who is receiving so far. The next principle for advancement, This one is a very important one. And let me plead with you in the name of Jesus Christ, that will lend me your attention the power of strategic relationships. If you want to make progress, if you want to go forward, you must understand the erect futable power of strategic relationships. Everything that advances advances because. Of strategic connections. Connections. Genesis chapter twelve, from verse one to four. So Abraham has been called of God from all of the Childians, and the Lord is proposing a blessing to Abraham. Get thee out of your country, your kindred, your father's house, onto a land that I will show you. Verse two, the Bible says, and I will make of thee a great nation. I will bless you, make your name great. You shall be a blessing. Verse three. I will bless them that bless you, curse him that curses you. And in these shall all the families of the earth be blessed. So Abraham departed as the Lord had spoken to him. My question is who did God speak to help me church? Who did God speak to But. The Bible says, and lot who God did not call, and Lot, who had no business, following him, and Lot went with him. In other words, Lot said, Abraham, where are you going? And Abraham said, God, that's spoken to me. Lord said, God did not speak to me, But since he spoke to you, I'm going with you. And Lot went with him. And Lot went with him. Now, let's go to chapter thirteen from verse five, Chapter thirteen, same Genesis thirteen from verse five. Take note of that statement. And Lot went with him, the Bible says verse five. Now, and Lot also, which went with Abraham, had flocks had heard had tens. Verse six, and. The land was not able to bear them that they might dwell together, for their substance was very great, so that they could not dwell together. Who did God call? Who prospered? Eventually Abraham and Lot to the point that you did not even know who? God called again and who followed? And Lot went with him? Can I tell you this Lot's been blessed was not a reflection of his wisdom. I don't have the time, But when you read down to verse fifteen, you will say that because they had plenty and it was creating trouble, He said, with your brethren, you know what choose any one of these lands. The first decision he made on his. Own was a foolish decision that took him near Sodom, meaning that he's been blessed was not really. A product of his wisdom. Every time lot they touched from Abraham watched. The decisions that came from him. There were self sabottaching decisions. The man who had plenty landed in Sodom and Gomorrah. My question is who came to rescue him? Again? It was still. Abraham that advocated with God that angels be sent to deliver. Can I tell you the truth. When God wants to help you in life, he will connect you to people and strategic relationships that can drive you to the next level. Some of you may have heard me make a very profound statement. Let me make it in this church. The Bible says he that works with the wise shall be wise himself, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. This is what I said, that if there are five wise people in your life you did not count, well, there are six. You are the six. And if there are five foolish people in your life you also did not count, well, there are six. You will always be a reflection of the wisdom or the folly of those who have embraced into your space. It is true he that works with the wise, he doesn't have to be wise. Just work with the wise. It will rub upon you. But when you become a companion of fools, the Bible says you will be destroyed. Relationships. I am a beneficiary of great relationships, strategic relationships. Matthew Chapter four, verse eighteen and nineteen. Matthew four, eighteen and nineteen. And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simeon called Peter and Andrew, his brother. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers. I like verse nineteen, and he said on to them, follow me. Follow me, and I will make you. Follow me and I will change you. Follow me and I will lift you. Follow me. You are made by who you follow. You are made by the company you choose to follow. Praise the name of the Lord. I remember Elien my life and ministry. As I listened very intently to a number of people, including the late doctr Miles Monroe, had. The privilege to be greatly mentored. My mind was recalibrated by the man I understood their Postonic order of ministry that your relevance. Should go beyond the pool ped As a. Man of God, he was advisor to precedence. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he was part of the delegation that were sent to go. And receive him. And I saw what it meant to be light and to be sought beyond the pool pit. Can I tell you the truth? Who you follow makes? It can make you, or it can break you. The first time I had the opportunity to go to the Redemption City, the Calmground. When I got there, I stood and looked at now. The old the old structure. When I looked at it, I said, how could God do this for a man? I mean that landmark. Someone can literally build an estate, and a man can build it. Is one thing to buy his face, but it's another. Thing to fill it up with hungry people. And I saw possibilities. Can I tell you the truth? Sometimes when God wants to help you, he brings you near people who have gone way ahead of you, so that pride dies immediately. You now see a reason to forge a head. If you are the best among the people around you, you are at risk you must be around it. People who make your. Best still found wanting so that you can press for hire. There are many people who will. Never be part of any association until they are the best. If you are the best among your company, then you're not going to go very far. You need to be stretched relationships with someone learning. Our lives are made by the relationships that we haven't kid. I don't want to spend all the time talking about relationship, but please understand this. Everything in life and everyone in life advances and multiplies through relationships. I define relationships as advantageous connections. Advantageous connections, and I teach that relationships are bridges. They can take you from where you are to the place of destiny, and they can take you from where you are to a terrible tomorrow. Either ways, whether you go forward or you go backward, the. Bridge that you follow is called relationships. Allelujah. A woman once cried to me, and she said that her son needed a miracle. She paid the price, as you know. A widow put things in place, sent this boy abroad for school, and one day she said her attention was called. And when her attention was called, he said, you need to come and see something in the internet. The boy had joined a group of people. You know what I'm talking about, And I mean, this woman was almost dying. And said, can you imagine I sent this boy? And this boy had joined a community of people holding all kinds of orientations that were poisonous, was flaunting himself. Online in a way that I mean, it was terrible. The woman was so broken. She said, I had all kinds of hope and expectation on this boy. And I said, Mama, the first prayer is not for his rehabilitation, is that God will separat him. Somebody introduced him to this. When Adam and e fell and God came in the cool of the day the sun, he told them, He said, Adam, where are you? He said, I heard your voice? What I hit? Because I was naked? He said, who told you? You've listened to someone who told you let. Me pray for you. You know, when it has to do with relationships, you never outgrow. The influence that comes from relationships. A man can be wise for fifty years, and from fifty to sixty make the worst decisions in his life because of a new relationship that was introduced. Almost everything that destroys a man was introduced by men. Almost everything that lives a man was introduced by man. I pray for you anyone selling you a wrong counsel about God, about life, about your children, about progress, to destroy you. They are used as voices from hell to manipulate you so that your testimony is destroyed some of you. You are at the final phase of your life, and you have done so well. But that he ever wants to put a question map on your integrity and your testimony, he is introducing wrong friends, wrong companies. I pray for you anyone who will destroy you, May God take them far from you, far from you, far from you, far from you. I pray for any family here, obedient children, loving children, anyone who will be introduced to your children that will start planting a seed of rebellion to send you to your grave. Elien. I stand on this altar. I pray for every. Parent the power that wants you to cry in old age, in the name of Jesus, we cast it out of your family. The Bible says, baptize the end of a thing. In fact, can we turn it into prayer? In one minute? Father, my children will be thought of the Lord. No, No, my testimony will not be destroyed in old age. Please lift your voice and pray. You have been a director for years. You have been a great man for years. At the end of your life, don't be like Solomon. Solomon started well, Samson started well. Samson started well, but they did not finish well. Every wrong association, wrong association to introduce you to practices, to principles that will destroy your testimony. May God take them far from you. In Jesus' name, we pray, please be see there, Please be seated, Christ Shoge, please listen to me this morning. Love is a command. Association is a choice. Don't say we were all classmates. If the person does not sustain your kingdom value. You can love from afar. You can love from afar. Allelujah. Very quickly, let me stay this before I give you the last one. There are four groups of or four kinds of relationships you needed your life. Allow me to state it for you very quickly. Number one, you need divine connectors. Divine connectors do not have the power or the wherew without to help. You, but they can introduce you to a man that has what it takes to help you. An example of a divine connector was. The slave girl. When Naaman went to fight and the conquered, remember the story they carried a slave girl. That little girl was a maid to his wife. She didn't have the power to heal him, but it was her who said, there is a prophet in Israel who can heal you. No man would have died Lepross but for the slave girl. Another example where the man who carried the creepple man and tore a roof and brought that man in. Do you know in all of that story. The man who needed the miracle, who never spoke himself. All the speaking were from other people. They took it upon themselves. In at chapter three, the Bible says a man was carried daily taw and throw to get beautiful taw and fro? Do you know what it means to stand up? And they could not heal him. But they were divine connectors that day. If Peter and John were there and the people were tired. And they did not take him there, he would not be healed. You need divine connectors, and the key to receiving from divine connectors is discernment and honor. They may not come in a firm. That is nice. Can I tell you this. Anybody God brings. To your life, whether I say house help, whether your driver, where that is your gates man, I tell you show them honor because God can use them to pass and information that can change your life. Divine collectors. They don't have the power to help you, but they know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who can bail you out. Number two, you need men of influence. Men of influence. These ones are gatekeepers. They have the credibility, they have the track record, They have the capacity to endorse you. Their endorsement can change your life. Listen, this is the world of men. There are many people to their prospering in. This nation, across the content of Africa. They are not necessarily a reflection of the best minds. They are just the minds that are being most helped by God. Someone recommended them and said it on my honor. Please. I don't know how it works in Legos here, but in our Bujah where I came from, most of the businesses strive on relationship. In fact, sometimes given up both competence relationships. Relationships not in a froudlylent way relationships. It matters who God consent to speak for you. Joseph, you can be gifted, but the person who is near the king is the one who must talk about you or the wise you would remain in the prison. Joseph was gifted, but he did not have the power to present himself before the king. You need somebody already in the palaces, someone learning. Now, let me tell you this. Don't show honor to only Christians. Open up your heart and show honor to all men. The Bible says honor all men, and he says honor the king. Because the one who lifted Joseph was not an unbeliever, he was called Pharaoh. The one who lifted Daniel was not a believer. I meant to say, it was never car Nzza. Sometimes God will use Cyrusis for your lifting themn. You don't compromise your stand, for you must saw the seed of honor. One thing they have ast where you did not sow is fraud. Invest in strategic relationships. And I tell you this, this is a church that is a connection of great influential and people helped by God. Let me have the liberty to say this, particularly. To young people who are emerging. When you cannot bring value to a relationship because the person is greater than you. Bring honor and gratitude. Gratitude. The way you maintain relationship with great men is gratitude. There are times the person you are relating with does not need anything. You can't give you a car, you can't give you me a house. You see that. Now the person has the kind of wealth and blessing and influence everything is needed at that point, communicate gratitude. I tell you why do shot? For many people we take the benevolence of the great for granted. You spend five hours ringing a person's phone that they miscalled. Then he answers you, and then you say thanks. You see that. Thanks after five hours of same, please help me pass my paper to the governor, and the person says, I say help me and the person all finally his excellency. Has received it. You say thanks, and they not you for that dishonnor gratitude must match the sacrifice that communicated it. The goal of gratitude is someone learning. Now. The goal of gratitude is to ensure the giver, the communicator of that benevolence. Acknowledges that you are grateful. You don't say thank you on your terms. It is up to you to invent. The strategies to show how lovish you are. Do you know every time you thank God and Man, well you can do the next season of hell. There are things you don't have to ask for. I'm praying that someone after this morning service will be able to turn to your pastor and say, sir, thank you. I came to church and I became wiser. I came to church and I saw the loopholes. I came to church and I left more confident. Don't take greatness for granted. Someone said thank you to Jesus. Let's start from there. Say thank you to Jesus. Don't receive life and wake up in the morning and jereously say thanks. I had you at the giver of life. Thanks, I say you in the evening. No, no, no, no. Even as a man, there are people God. Has helped me to help to provide whatever. Support to and sometimes they become grateful over little You do, something that is so small, and they keep thanking. You for days, for weeks. After one year they say, I still remember by this time you build me out. And sometimes, as a man, I'm tempted to call and say what else can I do for you, for someone God brought into truck to show you why those closed. Go back after savice. I'm telling you this, Go and send the text to strike taxing people who have helped you. As they CEO. You never would have gotten the contract, but someone. Was used by God. Don't ignore them. Sometimes it's not about giving gifts. It's about saying thank you. Saying thank you. Young people, go back and tell your parents thank you. Don't say you paid my schooling. No no no, no no no. Don't say I'm taking care of them. Say thank you. Spouses say thank you. A great time you say thank you you schedule. A new season. Babe, bye, thank you, I thank you, I thank you. One more time bye bye, thank. You, I thank you, I thank you. Please it up about to pray. Let me give you the remaining two. And then we touched the last one. Number one divine connectors relationships now Number two men of influence, you need them in your life. Number three gift ten people. This is particularly for those of you who run businesses and organizations. You must pray that God gives you the gift of skilled people. Can try an organization to its next destiny. I'm telling you. Sometimes you don't need many people. You just need resourceful people. Some of the global brands Apple, Google, you know, and so on and so forth, they inverse healthily in attracting resourceful people. They know the power. There are corporations. Today that have a tough structure. Of less than one hundred, but they are a billion. Dollar company because of those hundred, one person is like thirty people in terms of resourcefulness. Give tech people bring efficiency to your life. They make things happen. They are seamless. You can give them assignments and they have the intellectual wherewithal to deliver out without disappointing. You need such people. It's good to have sincere people, but you need productive people. You need resourceful people. Can I tell you the truth. There is a science to attractive resourceful people. But in my little walk with God, ultimately it is God that brings good, resourceful people to your life, because most resourceful people are rebellious, and a gifted rebel is not an asset. A gifted rebel. Is not an asset most resourceful people. When I speak to businessmen, this is what I tell them and show that if you are looking for an honest driver, find a driver first, then look for an honest one. You can find an honest. Man and compare the price for making a driver, or you can find a driver and then look for honesty in that driver. An honest man can sit with you. But if it's not a driver, you will see to kill you. Are we together? He will not kill you because of wickedness. He will kill you because of lack of capacity. It is good. Character is good. We just land that. But you must add competence to character. Number four the fourth group, as far as the relationships are concerned. And I'm praying for you like I pray for myself every time I teach this. Even if you don't find the first three, may you find this fourth group. They're called burden bearers. Oh, this one's barn. They cannot move you. Forward, but they stop you from going back. These are the people who love you beyond the greats and the glamour. These are the people who when you are going to the cross, they will go with you. Please look up. How many of you get surprised every time you read about the passion of Jesus on the cross. Where were the five thousand people he fed? Where was bland Artimios when Jesus was going to the cross. Where was the woman with the issue of blood? Are you not amazed that He's spent his life investing in these people? And there is Jesus on his way to the cross, and they all run away from him. Out of all the disciples. Only John and his mother Mary. Beware when people say Hosanna blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the same people who turn tomorrow. And say crucify him. If you don't know this about people as a leader, you would die of heart attack. There are so many people who call and say offers. So can we imagine people? I raised, look what they did, and I said, sorry, That's how the world is. It's not a unique attack on you. That's how men are. They change. When you find men who love you for who you are. When you find people. Who know everything about you, good, bad, and ugly. And yet they choose to love you, please treasure them. And I pray for you. May the person I just describe be your wife. May the person I just describe be your husband. May the person I. Just describe be your partner's In business, it's a risk if the only thing people love about you are your gifts. It's a race if the only thing people love about you are your chariots and your arsenals of royalty, because there are times life may strip you of every one of them, but the one who can say, you know what. Even though you are not a cego today, even though it looks. Like your count is frozen somewhere under my watch, you will not beg for food. There are people today who served and they went on to be with the Lord, and a few people they help got up and say, you know what, your father was good to me. Even though he's not here. You will your school fist will be on my bills until you are established. My prayer for your life and then number two, may God bring boden perers. To your life. Allelujah. I'll tell you this. Please listen. I'll tell you this. I know a governor in late's governor now, the wife was a first lady by morning, and before no she was no longer a first lady because something happened. The man passed on and that was the end of it. Do you know most of the people who were lobbying for contracts and lobbying for a lot of things, calling. The person as soon as the tithes changed. Immediately everybody to your tenth Holy Israel. There was no body to. Even some could not even have the time to grief to. Say, oh, and I heard that this happened. Everybody was who is the next person? Now? Ah, You're welcome, excellency. We knew it. I saw it. I knew this was coming. All kinds of things men for you. So when people say Ozanna, make sure you are not impressed just by the applauds of men. All great leaders know this. You celebrate people, but you know the transitry nature of people's emotions. While you're celebrating you, you're looking at your pocket. While you're celebrating you, they're looking at the contract. If it means them. Dancing around you, they're dancing for themselves, not for you. But you will find a few in your life. Sometimes you would doubt them for a while. Does this person this love? Is it really genuine? And then one day you will see them stand with you through the storm and you say, why are you doing this? He said, because I did not come for your money. I did not just come for the name. I came because I love you, and I'm praying for you from my heart that in your lifetime, may you find these kinds of people. May your children find these kinds of people. In the name of Jesus. The final g to advancement, the prophetic we're about to pray now. The final g. To advancement is called the prophetic advantage. Who see our twelve and verse thirteen. Let's that be the name of the Lord, who see chapter twelve and verse thirteen. And by a prophet, the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt. And by a prophet was he preserved when there was famine in the land of Samaria. Even the king could not help, the man in his cabinet could not help. And then they came and met Elisha, and Elisha gave a prophetic word. He said, by this time tomorrow. When he made that statement, the economic advisers and all the people around the king, they mocked the world of the Lord. They said, even if God opens the window of heaven, might this be? Can I tell you this respect intellect, I have taught you on knowledge what you must live space for God in your life. There is a part of the equation of advancement that science cannot explain. You must create room for the God factor in your becoming. Depending on intellect absolutely is. A recipe for disaster. The Bible says, the wisdom of the age comes to nought trusting the Lord with all your heart proverabs three five. And lean not onto your own understanding. It says, in all your ways, acknowledge Him, and he. Shall direct your power. Verse seven says be not wise in your own eyes. It says, shear the Lord and turn away from evil. Can I tell you this, When you become excessively learned, intelligent, skilled, and gifted, that is wonderful. But know this that accept the Lord built the house They labor in vain, that build it. Accept The Lord watches over a city christ Church. The watchman watched in vain. He said, it is vain to wake up early in the morning and to sleep late at night, only to eat the bread of sorrow. It is God who gives the beloved sleep. The race is not to the swift, the battle is not to the strong. Bread. Sometimes it's not even to the wise man. I recall John chapter twenty one, a scripture that has blessed me so much. When they were disappointed because Jesus died. The Bible says Peter said, I go a fishing I go back to my profession. The remaining said, we go with you. You know what happened. Peter was a professional fisherman. Peter had the right tools, the boat, the net, Peter had the skill correct. Peter was at the right place the sea. Everything was in place, but he did not catch fish. There are times all the variables are correct, your education correct, your integrity correct, your skin correct, you're a wherewithal correct, your business formation correct, but you will still not catch fish. At that point, only God can help you. And Jesus shows up by the sea and said, little children, have you any fish? He said no. He said, since you believe that I can be greater than your skill, cast your next to the right side. The Bible says when they cast out your nets, they had a great multitude of fish. I pray for someone in the name of Jesus Christ. I'm standing in faith with your pastor. In addition to all of these principles, I want to speak over your life that by the power that race Christs from the dead go forward, by the power that race Christs from the dead advance. In the name of Jesus, I pray for the elderly. In this short in old age, you will be fat and flourishing. You will not delay as you age. You will not decline as you age. You will not teach an arrector as you age. Now, in one minute, everywhere within. This shot, lift up your voice and begin to thank Him for everything you have heard. Thank Him for everything you have heard. Thank him for everything. You have heard. The principles that. Make for advancement, a genuine desire to grow, to advance, Go ahead and pray number two vision, thank him. Number three the costs the price of correct perception. Number four lights, illumination, Are you. Thanking in for it? Number five? Diligence productivity? Number six the power of strategic relationships. In Jesus's name, we pray. I joined one key, but hopefully another time when God grants grace. That one is a very important one, but hopefully we'll discuss it in another meeting. If God grants the grace, It's called spiritual warfare. I jumped it because if we take that one now, who have a davigil here allelujah. There are times you cannot go forward until the. Horns that fight you are brought down by the power of God. He said, I desire to come to you, even I Paul once and again, but say time hindered us, Son of Man, What's yes thou? He said? Four horns? These are the horns that have lifted themselves against Jerusalem, your peace, against Judah, your praise. Are we together now against Israel your promise? Lift tired of themselves? It said, But I have sent four carpenters to terrorize those horns. I want to speak over your life. I am a product of prophecy. I've had the honor of the fathers speaking over my life. I've had the honor of mothers speaking over my life. We have been helped by God. But it's not in violation to this system. Can I tell you the truth? Honestly, the prophetic works when you find the Great sent to you and a world comes by the spirit, it can program a climate of possibilities over your life and by the privilege of God's messy. This morning, I want to take a minute and speak over your life. All I want you. To do is to receive, look beyond the man and acknowledge God who has said the man some of you by this prophetic world, and ask her that has floated for years. It's floated in the sea of destiny. You've done everything to get it out, but it's not come out right now. In the name of Jesus, I pray for you everything you have lost for this patch in one years, any timeline from the start of this assembly to now. I decree and declare, May my God restore, May my God restore. I declare restoration of joy, restoration of peace, restorational progress, restoration of finances. In the name of Jesus, I pray for you every plague of sickness in your body by Satain, that you would die before your time and you will not fulfill your days. I command that stranger and your body to come out now forever, to come out now forever. Tear me the define strategy for the next season of your life by the messy of God. As you go to bed today, as you read books today, as you worship today, may God open your eyes. To see it. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray for. You what God will do in the next one year of your life. It will be equivalent to ten years. Comebine, ten years, comebine ten years, comebine, ten years, comebine ten years. Comebine every appointment with the spirit of death, that you will bury your parents before your time, or you. Will bury your children before your that time. I pray for you. Let the gates of the grave be closed. Now let them out of the grave be closed. Now you will not lose your children. You will not lose your parents. The Lord will keep you. In the name of Jesus, everyone ordained by God to hold your hands and introduce you to strategic relationships, whether you're in Legos, America, London, Asia, Abucha by prophecy, I gravit text them to your life in the name of Jesus. The Bible says, we see not our signs, and there is none who tells us how long. Let me cause the spirit of delay. Everything you have seen in prophecy but has refused to manifest physically the power that is behind it. In the name of He who died down rose again. I command delayed, give way, now lay give way now, delay give way now, delay give way now. One last time, I. Declared, go forward, make progress, increase advance, go forward, go forward, go forward, make progress. As a family, go forward, I said, charge, go forward, I said, spiles, go forward. Financially, go forward spiritually, go forward, carryer wise, go forward in the education. Go forward. You will not back, you will not borrow. Go forward in the name of Jesus. Shout e men seven times two, three, four, five six, Give Jesus a big hand cloud, Allelujah, please keep standing everybody. It begins and ends with Jesus. It begins and ends with Jesus. Alpha and Omega is not a concept, is a person. He's the alpha. He cannot become Omega over a destiny. He's not alpha in. He has to be alpha in order to be Omega. Whatever starts your destiny is what will finish it for you. I want you to give me an honor, the honor here and his celebration this anniversary, to give someone, perhaps following online, someone who came to church today, to make it right with Jesus. For God so loved the world. The Bible declares that heave is only begotten son, that who soever believed on him should not perish, but have life everlasting. It says in verse seventeen of John three. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. You are in this place tonight, and on hearing me speak, the Holy Spirit began to convict your heart to tell you there is need to make it right with Jesus. I'm not speaking to everybody, but I'm speaking to a sincere brother. I'm speaking to a sincere sister, a sincere mother, someone who is not a shamed Two calls in one. You are saying, Apostle, I really want. To make it right with Jesus right now. Or for someone who is saying, I'm re dedicating my life to Jesus. Wherever you are, I'm going to count one to five, and I just need one sincere person who is not ashamed. If you're off the balcony, may I please request that you come and stand here. I will count one to five. I need one. Sincere person who will win that war. Tonight, wherever you are, I begin my counting honors. Shamedly, leave your seat and come one. Celebrate them as they come. Two. I don't expect you to sit back to be thinking about it when the Holy Ghost is asking. You to come. Come. Let's keep clapping, Let's celebrate them. He's giving you a new beginning. Come, come, my dear sister, don't mind who is looking at you. It's like calling you to receive an award, the wisest decision you can make in this side of God's kingdom. Four are you still clapping? Christ Church? Celebrate salvation. Celebrate salvation. Celebrate salvation, Celebrate salvation. I say you, sir, I say you, man, God bless you. Keep coming. Don't stop clapping until they come. God bless you, God bless you. You can't start afresh again, you can start a new again. God bless you, my sister. Four final account and will pray. Five. Let's celebrate Jesus, who I havevest in Jesus' much less name. We pray. My brothers and my sisters. I want to thank you for the courage. Allelujah. Keep your phones down, darling, we're praying, and this is salvation. Allelujah. Praise the name of the Lord. I want to say thank you to everyone of you for the courage. Takes a lot of courage to come and stand before Jesus. But you see, don't look at it as if you're going for a funeral. Look at it as if you are being given an award. Only that there is no. Award compassed to this. Yes, it's true. Now I'm going to lead you to pray, and let me speak. To someone who connected with us this morning here at christ Church. Perhaps you're watching from your home, you're watching through the airwaves television, and you're saying a person you may not see. Me, but I need to make it right with Jesus. As I leave these precious once in prayer, please do join us. You are not reciting a poem. You're making a declaration that becomes for you the gateway to eternal life. For those of you who are here with me, thank you very much. Lift your right hand, lift it higher above your head, and say this as loud and as clear as you can. Say, Lord Jesus, today I have heard your word. I believe you are the son of God. I believe you died for my sin. I believe you rose again for my justification. Right now I receive Jesus into my heart as my savior, my Lord and my King. I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is broken. Over my life. From tonight, I'm a child of God. I go for whatever and backwardever. Amen, keep your beautiful hands lifted further. Thank you. On behalf of Pastor Ben We pray in the name of Jesus Christ, that this begins for you, a journey to eternal life, a journey to wisdom, a journey to greatness. In the name of. Jesus, I decree and declare that you will live for Jesus, loving him, serving him, and following him all the days of your life. The power of sin, satan, hell, and the grave indeed is broken over your life. The Lord bless you. In Jesus's name, we pray. Now, please do me a favor. There are counselors waving the placard who they follow you, all right, So please follow our mother and our auntie, every one of you less. Celebrate them as you go. There are counselors who have been trained to have a word and a quick prayer with you. Keep clapping for them, Keep clapping for them, keep clapping Aleelujah, Praise God. Thank you so much again for receiving me. I want to thank this church. I want to thank pastor your dear wife. It was an honor to bring you the word of the Lord, this money, and I pray the name of Jesus that the things you have heard will translate to your growth and your advancement. I'm truly grateful the Lord bless you, and again happy that the first anniversary in Jesus State